Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

[hollodero]

(12-15-2020, 01:39 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I don't think Biden is in China's pocket, but he will absolutely be friendlier towards them than Trump was.  Trump being friendlier to Russia than Obama was all many needed to put him in Putin's pocket.  This is exactly why I stated originally that these types of tropes are banal, and they cut both ways.

Now for me, that is not quite true. Trump's uber-friendly politics towards Putin and his oligarchs were just one of many signs. There was Manafort giving private briefings, there is the whole suspicious Deutsche Bank issue, of course there was a massive influence campaign in favor of Trump in 2016, there were Trump tower meetings, there was Roger Stone's connection to Wikileaks, there was Trump lieing to the people on Putin's behalf, and the Russian foreign minister getting a secret meeting in the WH, handing out classified information included, there was a concealed Trump tower Moscow deal, there was Eric Prince backchanneling, Flynn and Sessions kind of backchanneling and lieing about it, Felix Sater backchanneling (or whatever that was), Russian infiltration of the NRA (Maria Butina, countering this Chinese spy admirably), there is a whole lot of issues (and there is more to mention than I did).

And the Chinese? They placed someone on Swalwell's team and he was not aware for some time. Apparently Hunter did business with them. I don't see much more on this side of the story, and it seems to be way less at this point. When Biden starts believing Xi over his own intelligence, I will start to see the argument made.