China continues its press to take over Taiwan by flying over the Taiwan Straits and the country itself. The CCP also declared it will shoot at any ships crossing its waters. Will Biden and the Democrats offer more substantial help to this free country or are they too invested in the CCP?
Brad Johnson retired as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations. Having served domestically and abroad, many assignments included areas of armed conflict. He served overseas in direct support of the War Against Terrorism and he took multiple assignments overseas as Chief of Station.
A certified senior expert in counterintelligence, surveillance and surveillance detection, his proven expertise in dangerous operational environments included the highest level of training available in the USG and globally. His tradecraft expertise was honed in dangerous, difficult, and restrictive operational environments.
Brad is an enrolled member of The Cherokee Nation, a Federally Recognized Tribe.
In the summer of 2017, he founded the non-profit organization Americans for Intelligence Reform to create awareness of political corruption and the resulting diminished capabilities within the intelligence community. Serving as President, he brings you his unique perspective from deep, international experience and conservative, Christian values.
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brad johnson it is again january the
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24th of 2021
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and uh i’m just looking at the stuff
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that goes that all my great readers send
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in every morning to the comments
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and there seems to be a lot of stuff
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going on with china they overflew
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taiwanese airspace with
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multiple bombers and fighter uh there’s
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a lot of activity on their fake
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and natural islands in the south china
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sea i think it is
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um it almost looks i mean if you were
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to an untrained observer it almost looks
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like china is taking advantage of this
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new administration
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to up uptick its aggression against its
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traditional
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sort of enemies quite a bit can you give
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us any insight into what’s going on
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there yeah i mean that’s precisely right
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they’re doing as many as say five
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overflights over the taiwan straits and
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over the island and things like that
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they have become uh exceptionally
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aggressive towards taiwan
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they’re even making threats at their
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coast guard now one of the things that
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the us navy does
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is they’ll go up and down the taiwan
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straits which is essentially
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going between china mainland communist
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china
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and taiwan and they will go they’ll sail
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through those areas the chinese navy has
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now said
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that their coast guard will fire on
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ships now they don’t say we’re gonna
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fire the us navy they just say we’re
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gonna fire on ships going through these
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so they’re
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they’re drawing lines in the sand
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becoming very aggressive
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quite territorial about this there’s
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always been this
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i gotta say it’s gotten to the point
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where it’s getting pretty freaking
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stupid
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there’s always been this one china rule
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where for many years in the national
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security council of the united nations
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all of china was represented by taiwan
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the
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nationalist chinese and a democratic
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china and that finally got overturned in
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communist china then took that seat at
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the united nations but both have always
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said there’s one china well
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you know the fact is there’s two china’s
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in that sense so maybe what we should do
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is all grow up and put on our big boy
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pants and just say
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look there’s two chinas we recognize
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taiwan as an independent country
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they do have their own passports and all
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those things already and it’s something
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that i
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you know i think we should do now china
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would would would pitch an enormous fit
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but then that allows us to have
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a kind of separate relationship with
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taiwan where we can actually give them
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the military aid they need uh quite a
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little bit went to
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uh for their aging air force
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uh in upgrading their aircraft no new
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aircraft
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you know better models were sold to them
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but they did
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get quite a few of the electronic
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packages and things like that for
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targeting and
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you know all those sorts of things you’d
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expect that made those aircraft
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way more dangerous you know air
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superiority and all of that so
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there was progress made under the trump
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years but
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now that’s all dead and gone i mean
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let’s just face it the democratic party
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is in the pocket of china and these guys
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a lot of them are making a lot of money
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off of it
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you can see they declare it and i mean
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this isn’t stuff i’m making up you can
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go research it
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and see that you know their spouses have
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contracts and china and
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millions and millions of dollars are
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coming and pouring into their into their
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pockets so
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this is one of those things where uh
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you know certainly the what we’ve seen
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this hunter biden fiasco
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there was that information out there off
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of his laptop that said he was taking
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that
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10 million dollar bribe from the chinese
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which is
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implied in there that he was splitting
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with his dad and his uncle the
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president biden’s brother all of that
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stuff is implied
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which by the way now that biden has been
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inaugurated you have these occasional
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republicans
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that are coming up and mentioning all
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that stuff that
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that kind of frost me i look at those
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guys as traders because
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where were they when when we needed them
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back when when
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trump was still president when they
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could have been out fighting this fight
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and making all those points out there
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about how it looks like
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a very serious case of corruption by the
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biden family it certainly
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appears to be the case they could have
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made that argument publicly but
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now that trump is gone now they’re
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standing up and going gee i’m that i you
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know this effective republican arguing
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for the people you know what
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you know so i i i really look down on
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those guys and view them as town amount
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10 amount to traders not
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traders in the legal sense to the united
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states of america but traders
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based on their ideals that they’re
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supposed to represent and how they’re
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supposed to represent the american
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people
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they’re traitors to the to the ideals in
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that sense
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so what we’ve got now is this case where
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the democrats are now letting china get
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back to business as usual
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taiwan is taiwan i mean uh communist
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china
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and communist china has already stepped
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in been hugely aggressive
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they’re doing a lot of things like in
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canada they were going to train until
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they got caught
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they were going to do mountain cold
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weather training in canada
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the chinese military with the canadian
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military why you know that would be so
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that they
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could they would have effective trained
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troops that they could use in these
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mountainous areas that they’re
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fighting over with india so i mean
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they’re planning
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and looking for a very aggressive
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strategy to expand
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uh their you know their their country
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they’re going to try to expand the areas
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under their direct control
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certainly india’s got this figured out
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there they have you know they are afraid
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of this situation
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and they’re seeing these these
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combinations of pakistan also long time
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enemy
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uh and china hooking up the two of them
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in cooperation
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and india is worried so we’ve seen this
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in the south
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china sea these areas there’s been law
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cases and people are running afraid
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and now we’ve got the united states of
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america backing down and letting china
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go
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run rome free again
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and again where are the republicans
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where are they we see all of these
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things all of this aggression towards
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taiwan
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we saw hong kong just absorbed and
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basically uh you know all freedoms
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stamped out under this
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iron boot heel of communism and where
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are the republicans in all this what are
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they doing
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and they’re not even that you don’t even
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stand up to be counted and at least
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point out that this is all wrong and
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that we should be doing more we should
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be supplying you know advanced fighter
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aircraft to taiwan
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to give those poor guys a chance to
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defend themselves
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and nobody’s doing anything the
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republican party has turned into the
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loyal opposition who are completely
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ineffective the democrats have gone over
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to china
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and now you know if you want to vote for
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china you got plenty of people to vote
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for here in the united states but if you
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want to vote for
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the u.s constitution and american values
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and
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freedom and all of those things who do
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you vote for anymore it’s just it’s
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really turned into a goat rope and
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uh under the democrats china it’s going
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to be very aggressive worldwide and i
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think they’re going to make big advances
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over the next four years
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just to bring us back to trudeau for a
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second it’s worth noting
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that while he even recently has but from
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the beginning has been coming out and
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saying everybody
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has to basically stay in their own homes
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and isolate themselves
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uh he hasn’t stopped a single flight at
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any time from coming in from china to
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canada
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so and you’ve got to ask yourself
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is you know trudeau you know are
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the canadian people really such big
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supporters of china that you want to
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help them again in a war against india
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is that where canada is at these days i
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mean trudeau maybe you know
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and his cronies and all that but i i
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just cannot believe
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that the canadian people would get
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behind the idea of training chinese
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troops to go to war
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with india i just i cannot believe that
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that’s the case i
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this must be i i i know all this is
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being suppressed by cbc and all of that
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in canada you don’t see this reporting
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there either it’s
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we’re all in the same pile of doo-doo
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together
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trying to get the actual accurate
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information out there for people to look
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at and act on and it’s a
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it’s an uphill battle but uh no reason
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not to fight and
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at least here at air we’re in it to the
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end and i know you are there doing these
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so
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uh we gotta do
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