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‘Fire and brimstone’: Liberals alarmed as Steve Bannon calls for ‘shock troops’ from GOP for ‘sweeping’ victory in 2024

Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon has angered his critics by promising big ‘MAGA’ wins for the Republican Party, and saying “shock troops” needed to be ready to take over and “deconstruct” the state.

Bannon reportedly met with Trump political appointees this week and discussed both the president’s and the party’s future, insisting “shock troops” would be needed to secure conservative victories. 

“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” the political strategist and podcaster told NBC in an interview on Saturday, following his meeting. “I gave ’em fire and brimstone.” 

In his interview, Bannon dismissed “standard Republican policies” and promised more productive ‘MAGA’ wins in the upcoming midterm and presidential elections, as candidates would now be pre-prepared with teams to take over federal positions. The former White House official claimed that not having filled the approximately 4,000 open positions in the federal government with supporters was partly what had kept Trump from doing more during his four years as president.

Bannon was one of Trump’s closest and most controversial advocates during his 2016 presidential election campaign, and previously worked in both the conservative film and media fields. The political strategist’s latest fiery words trended on Sunday on Twitter, with critics piling on and denouncing his “shock troops” comment as heinous and some even claiming his recent Republican meeting was “seditionist.”

“He hasn’t forgotten January 6,” political pundit David Corn tweeted in reaction.

Bannon, who was pardoned by Trump earlier this year, spoke to approximately 200 members of the newly established Association of Republican Presidential Appointees (ARPA) at the Capitol Hill Club. The ARPA was formed to create a resource for future GOP officials tapped by a Republican president to fill a federal job. 

Bannon was one of multiple Trump associates to be subpoenaed earlier this week to appear before a House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. The subpoena cites his alleged insistence that members of Congress should not certify the 2020 presidential election results. 

Reps. Gohmert, Clyde to Newsmax: Milley’s Calls to Chinese General ‘Treason’

Gen. Mark Milley’s admission that he called his counterpart in China while President Donald Trump was in office and told him that he’d warn of any impending attack is equal to treason on his part, Reps. Louie Gohmert and Andrew Clyde said on Newsmax Saturday.

“We have no idea who is running this White House,” Clyde, R-Ga., said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.”

“We have no idea how decisions are being made about this country and our interest here at home and abroad. What Milley said was inexcusable. He needs to resign. He has been a dismal failure.” 

Clyde commented Saturday that when Milley, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Gen. Li Zuocheng, the chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, that he would warn him of an impending attack from Trump, that would have been like the United States getting a warning from Japan in World War II of the attack on Pearl Harbor. 

“Do you think we would have had ships on Battleship Row?” he said. “Do you think we’d have been caught by surprise on a Sunday morning? Do you think there would have been a different response? Heck yeah, there would have been a different response. “

And for Milley to say he’d give China advance notice, “that is treason. There is no question that is treason,” Clyde said. “He needs to be fired, but we don’t have an administration with the guts to do it. Neither do we have an administration that has any concept of a successful military mission.”

Meanwhile, Gohmert, R-Texas, noted that Milley both admitted under oath and to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, the writers of the book “Peril,” that he spoke with his Chinese counterpart twice to appease their concerns about Trump. 

“Words have meanings and the meaning of making the enemy comfortable under our constitutional definition of treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and that’s exactly what Milley did,” said Gohmert. “

He also said that “words have meaning” and that the generals were not clear on whether the generals warned President Joe Biden of the real dangers of withdrawing all troops when they recommended he leave 2,500 troops there, because he thinks “they were too gutless to do that.”

Wuhan Lab Journal Edited By U.S. Officials, Published Dozens Of Studies From China’s Military

The collusion between the U.S. deep state and Chinese military is far more entrenched than most recognize.

Virologica Sinica – the scientific journal affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – has published dozens of studies authored by Chinese researchers working for the Communist regime’s People’s Liberation Army.

The academic journal counts the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s top bat coronavirus researcher Shi Zhengli – known as “bat woman” – as its Editor-in-Chief.

Nine additional researchers from the controversial lab, which many scientists and government officials believe is the source of COVID-19, serve on its editorial board.

The National Pulse now can reveal that the journal has published dozens of studies listing individuals employed by Chinese military-controlled institutions. For several years, the journal has enlisted researchers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Hospital 307, General Hospital, Third Military Medical University, and Fourth Military Medical University to even assist with its editorial and review process.

Studies published in Virologica Sinica, including those focused on COVID-19, also count Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers alongside researchers from the PLA’s General Hospital of Central and Southern Theater Command as authors.

AUTHOR PAGE.

Among the entities authors published in Virologica Sinica work for are the Institute of Military Medicine, First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Military Medical University – all of which are controlled by the PLA.

Several studies, including those constructing “recombined” viruses, counting authors from China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences have been published in the journal.

Researchers working for Wuhan-based institutes, such as Wuhan University, have seen their studies carried out in conjunction with the Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command of PLA published in Virologica Sinica.

VIROLOGICA SINICA.

Authors from the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) of the Southern, Central, and Northern Theatre Commands of the PLA are also among the authors published in Virologica Sinica. Additionally, researchers from several institutes part of a PLA-run hospital network such as the Department of Emergency at the 171st Hospital of the PLA and the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the 307th Hospital of the PLA have been published in the journal.

The National Pulse has previously reported that officials working at Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have served on the journal’s editorial board.

The journal has also repeatedly published studies carrying out gain-of-function research, supporting claims that Fauci lied about his National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency’s involvement with the risky form of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A 2017 article from Virologica Sinica notes:

“To identify the DENV entry factors, Amara’s group carried out a gain-of-function complementary DNA(cDNA) screen for host proteins that allow the minimally susceptible cell line 293T to be infectable by DENV (Carnec et al., 2015)”

“Simultaneous gain-of-function and loss-of-function assays were performed by transfecting cells with or without related miRNA inhibitors. After 24 h, Act-D was added into the culture medium,” another study notes. An additional study references the practice, commenting “two main approaches can be undertaken in such screens: gain-of-function, in which a library of overexpressed proteins is used in order to induce or amplify restriction.”

The unearthed ties between the Wuhan Institute of Virology-controlled journal and the PLA underscore the working relationship the lab, which has received millions in funding from Anthony Fauci, retains with China’s military.

UK Athletic Equality Group Deems Trans Sports Unsafe And Unfair

In a wide-ranging review, the U.K.’s Sports Council Equality Group (SCEG) concluded that in order to ensure safety and fairness, some sports should consider creating different categories of competition for trans athletes. 

“For many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model,” the group, which is composed of officers from all the Sports Councils and publishes recommendations for achieving athletic equality, said in its review. 

Published in September, the guidance is for all sports up to the national level but does not cover professional or elite sports. As potential remedies for the unsafe and unfair inclusion of men in women’s sports, the SCEG’s suggestions included creating separate “open” and “female” categories or adding additional versions of competitions. SCEG urged governing groups to “think in innovative and creative ways to ensure nobody is left out,” however, when making decisions about trans athletes. 

Dr. Nicola Williams, a spokeswoman for Fair Play for Women, found the guidance very telling. “This comprehensive review confirms what we all know: sex matters in sport. That’s why we have always needed a separate protected category for females and still do,” Williams said. “It’s good to see all the UK’s sports councils confirming that reserving a sport category for biological females is both lawful and necessary to guarantee the fair and safe inclusion of women in sport.”

Most sports in the U.K. follow the International Olympic Committee guidelines from 2015, which allow men purporting to be women to compete in the female category if they suppress their testosterone to below 10 nanomoles per liter for 12 months. The guidelines note that this approach is no longer considered fair due to research showing that males purporting to be females have a “retained advantage.” 

The findings come after an 18-month consultation and review of the existing research by Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales, and U.K. Sport. 

“Our work exploring the latest research, evidence and studies made clear that there are retained differences in strength, stamina and physique between the average woman compared with the average transgender woman or non-binary person registered male at birth, with or without testosterone suppression,” the review said. 

The guidance also noted that evidence suggests it is “fair and safe” in most sports for transgender-identifying people to be included within the male category, but decisions must be made on a case-by-case basis. 

SCEG’s review mirrors the findings of Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” which investigates the sudden spike in transgender identification and the social and physical dangers that accompany it. The book has come under criticism, but SCEG’s report reinforces many of Shrier’s conclusions.

In response to the review, the trans charity and advocacy group Mermaids said in a press release, “We are disappointed to read this review, which rather than focussing on bettering its existing guidance for trans people in sport, yet again ignores the lived experiences of trans people, and misinterprets the Equality Act and academic literature.”

The Obedient, the Brainless, and the Woking Dead

Being “woke” must be exhausting.

If I had worn a t-shirt five years ago that read “All Lives Matter,” I would have taken first place at the Mark Ruffalo “Enlightened White Guy” Contest. Janeane Garofalo would have slept with me (eww) and then made me a tofu sandwich. Today, such a shirt would get me fired for being a bigot.

The left moves the goalposts of what’s politically correct at will. The initial “LGB” acronym has been extended with so many letters that it looks like someone regurgitated a handful of Scrabble squares.  If you miss the new incantation, Like Justin Trudeau did below, you’d better have back up.

When wokemeister Trudeau can’t remember the code, the rest of us are doomed. I wish his assistant had whispered to remind him to stop wearing blackface.

Woke Up THis Morning, Got Myself an X

And just when you think you’ve got it down, some liberal woke-tard adds an “X” to the word “Latin.” Imagine the arrogance needed to be a white, woke name-changer for POC: “We, the liberal elite, with apparently a LOT of time on our pasty white, guilt-ridden hands, have decided THOSE brown people need a new, more politically correct moniker.”

Apparently, these people booked themselves a white guilt trip, held a symposium, and came up with “Latinx.”

Dutifully, the leftists scooped up the new brand and now apply it liberally (see what I did there) even though Latinos themselves largely abhor the label, and hate being told by condescending liberal white people that they need a new name. Ask my gun-toting, Trump-loving, 100% Puerto Rican fiancee. Actually, don’t. She has a temper about these things. And, as I said, a gun.

Cult of Leftists

How do you know a cult is successful? When you don’t even know you’re in one.

Today’s enlightened lefties don’t question, they do as they’re told. When some liberal, restroom-confused, West Coast, participation-trophy wife decided pronouns were necessary for straight people, leftist zombies dutifully added “he/him” and she/her” to their to their Facebook pages and outgoing emails.

I want to sneak into the leftists’ headquarters and declare black coffee is racist so I can hear libs in Starbucks ask for their moring java “oppressed.”

Who Killed Aunt Jemima?

Aunt Jemima, a former slave and one of America’s most enduring marketing icons, was dashed into the history books. Why? Let me guess: an angry white Karen, whose childhood soccer team never “lost” because they didn’t keep score, decided she needed to out-lib her White Claw-slurping friends from group therapy and took it upon herself to claim it was a bad look. The other white libs went along because virtue-signaling is EVERYTHING to the Prozac-gulping lefty cult members who sit around praying, to a God they won’t accept, that their little Emory grows up to be gay, and maybe even trans (BOOM! Lefty jillpot and no name change necessary!).

It had to be white people. Why in the Lord’s name would black people cancel a slave-turned successful business mogul, whose image is still relevant 155 years after the Emancipation Proclamation? We all know BLM likes to wave the slavery/victim banner every time a CNN camera is rolling. My hunch is that Aunt Jemima was killed in the grocery store by Mrs. White with a gun. Wait, lefties hate guns. With a rope. No, that’s racist… I know, with a candlestick from Etsy.

I will never understand the leftists’ willingness to obey every ridiculous woke command from commie-central. All I know is I’m getting a dog and calling him “Anagram” so the Ewokes won’t go near him.

Backlogged Cargo Ships Off New York, California Coasts Face 4-Week Wait

Beyond the Southern border, another looming crisis for the Biden administration is the backlogged container ships anchored off the coasts of California and New York that now have to wait up to 4 weeks to unload their shipments.

“Dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of Los Angeles and New York face shocking wait times of up to four weeks and railyards and trucking routes are hopelessly clogged due to the lack of manpower to unload goods,” reported the Daily Mail.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 20: In an aerial view, container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California. Amid a record-high demand for imported goods and a shortage of shipping containers and truckers, the twin ports are currently seeing unprecedented congestion. On September 17, there were a record total of 147 ships, 95 of which were container ships, in the twin ports, which move about 40 percent of all cargo containers entering the U.S. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Due to the pandemic, American consumer demands have never been higher, with people spending less money on travel and entertainment and more on toys, clothing, electronics, and a whole range of goods. However, due to lack of manpower in conjunction with intense coronavirus restrictions, American ports have simply been unable to unload the shipments in a timely manner.

“Global infrastructure was not designed to handle goods at such a rate,” one expert on the situation told the Daily Mail. “Supply chains are the artery who feeds our entire ecosystem. The government needs to intervene to stop this crisis immediately, or face increased inflation and unemployment, and economic breakdown – or face an end to global trade.’

Footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows the scale of the problem on the seas with more than a dozen cargo ships and oil tankers anchored outside New York’s harbor, waiting to unload their goods.

Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach – two of the most popular shipping destinations in the US – are currently housing vessels that have been left anchored for four weeks.

The ports saw as many as 73 vessels waiting to unload earlier in September, and 66 container ships this week, according to Marine Exchange of Southern California data cited by The Wall Street Journal.

According to CBS Los Angeles, up to 500,000 shipping containers are floating off the Southern California coast, with truck drivers waiting in line for hours to transport their scheduled shipments.

“I’ve got friends right now that are in line… from nine o’clock in the morning and they can’t pull the load yet,” truck driver Walter Martinez told CBS. “The people inside, they get paid by the hour, but not the drivers.”

Truck driver Oscar Ovalle confirmed that he waited from 8 p.m to 3 a.m. in the morning, with one crane lifting containers for 60 trucks.

“They kicked me out because they leave at three o’clock,” said Ovalle. “There’s one crane for 60 trucks and it’s ridiculous! They have two other cranes sitting.”

Gene Seroka, the Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, has called upon the Federal Reserve System to aid in the crisis.

“Over the last 10 years, the federal government and Congress have out-invested West Coast ports at a rate 11 to one. That’s got to change, and with an infrastructure bill pending vote in Congress this week, we need all eyes on Los Angeles,” said Seroka. “This is what 10 years of under-investment looks like, and we need to move forward.”

According to the Daily Mail, “Consumer experts have warned Americans to begin doing their Christmas shopping now, to ensure goods arrive on time, and to ensure there’s time to try and find an alternative if a desired gift is one of the products that is currently scarce.”

Fauci gets hammered for saying it is ‘too soon to tell’ if American families can gather for Christmas: ‘We are living in two different realities right now’

Dr. Anthony Fauci incensed people on Sunday with his comments about American families gathering for Christmas.

“Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Fauci, “But we can gather for Christmas, or it’s just too soon to tell?”

“You know, Margaret it’s just too soon to tell,” Fauci responded. “We’ve just got to concentrating on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time.”

“Let’s focus like a laser on continuing to get those- those cases down,” the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden continued. “And we can do it by people getting vaccinated and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate to get people boosted because we know that they can help greatly in diminishing infection and diminishing advanced disease, the kinds of data that are now accumulating in real-time.”

Casting doubt as to whether families could gather for Christmas was immediately met with resistance. Online commentators hammered Fauci for even considering the possibility of restricting Americans from freely gathering with loved ones on the cherished holiday.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham commented on Twitter, “That anyone would seek Fauci’s advice about whether they can be with their friends and family is deeply disturbing.”

Outkick founder Clay Travis reacted by saying, “Dr. Fauci said today it’s too soon to know whether people will be able to gather for Christmas. Insanity. Who in the world is still listening to this dude?”

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh advised, “If you have family members who are still waiting for Fauci’s permission to live their lives, they aren’t worth inviting to your Christmas celebration anyway.”

Entrepreneur Joe Pompliano pointed out the packed college football stadiums in recent weeks, “Alabama, Penn State, and LSU all had 100,000 fans packed into their stadium yesterday… Yet Dr. Fauci still says it’s ‘too soon to tell’ if we can gather for Christmas this year. We are living in two different realities right now.”

Rep Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) remarked, “I don’t know what Fauci would do without COVID.”

Radio host Buck Sexton wrote, “Anyone who still believes this evil megalomaniacal bureaucrat deserves a life of endless boosters and masking up between bites.”

Conservative podcast host Liz Wheeler couldn’t help but laugh, “Hahahahahah who listens to this guy?! I will be gathering with my family for Christmas, period. Fauci isn’t my boss. If you obey this dimwit… I don’t know a more diplomatic way to say this… is he really the dimwit then?”

Townhall writer Scott Morefield declared, “Fauci tripling down on the tyranny. You know, for our health (or something).”

Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross tweeted, “It’s bad enough that Fauci says these ridiculous things, but it’s worse that journos keep framing questions to him as if he has any say over whether we get together for Christmas.”

National Review contributor Pradheep J. Shanker asked, “Does he believe he has ANY control over this at this point?”

The Spectator contributor Stephen L. Miller requested a comment from Fauci about the mostly maskless Emmy’s award show and maskless Met Gala, “Has Fauci weighed in at all on the indoor maskless award shows? If not why not?”

U.S. Senate candidate Sean Parnell referred to the incident involving Dr. Deborah Birx — former member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force — flouting her own COVID-19 guidance to visit with extended family on Thanksgiving week last year, “Someone tell this guy that we celebrated Christmas together with our families last year & are going to do it again this year. Even Dr. Birx, at the height of the pandemic, blew him off & traveled to celebrate Thanksgiving with her family. Dr. Fauci, please just go away.”

Newsmax host Steve Cortes joked, “Someone needs to tell Fauci that elves don’t get to cancel Christmas, only Santa can.”

Even liberal CNN host Brian Stelter knocked Fauci, “This seems unhelpful from a public health messaging POV.”

Also during the “Face the Nation” interview, Fauci said that he completely agreed with the vaccine mandate ordered by California Gov. Gavin Newsom requiring students over the age of 12 to be vaccinated to attend school.

“People need to realize that having a vaccine requirement for schools is not a new, novel thing that is very peculiar or specific to COVID-19. We’ve been doing this for decades,” Fauci said. “My own children could not have gone to school if they had not gotten vaccinated with the measles, mumps and rubella. So when we see pushback on that, it’s as if this never happened before. It’s actually ongoing with other vaccines. So, let’s do it with a virus that’s very, very serious.”

While grilling Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) noted a vast difference between the measles vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Even the CDC does not recommend measles vaccine if you have measles immunity. The same was true for smallpox,” Paul said, highlighting that there is no COVID-19 vaccine exemption for those with natural immunity.

Rapper’s Redpilled Anthem About America Goes Viral

Pro-America track by Tom MacDonald hits 2 million views in 48 hours.

Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald dropped a new track praising America and her principles of freedom that went viral over the weekend.

MacDonald’s song, called “America,” hit 2 million views within 48 hours.

***WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT***

The song criticizes open borders, cancel culture, identity politics, and the left’s communist takeover of America.

The track also reminds listeners that America is the greatest country in the world thanks to the men and women who fight to protect the freedoms the nation is founded upon.

Lyrics below:

Lately, USA is gettin’ scarier
Half of the Americans I see all hate America
They hate the cops doin’ they best to take care of us
And kneel for the flag, insult the soldiers that we’re buryin’
I’m tired of the pissin’ and complainin’
Why you living in America if all you do is hate it?
You think it’s brave to take a stand against the nation
Real bravery is dying for the right so you could say it
Dear America, what happened to Americans?
Apparently, no one’s aware or cares that it’s embarrassin’, it’s arrogance
Our greatest enemy was always slavery and terrorists
And now it’s people in the country tryna burn the heritage
I can’t help it, I just seem to see the world different
It ain’t Republicans or Liberals, it’s mental illness
The Internet is only interested in left opinions
Cancel culture’s got more power lately than the First Amendment
If you don’t like it, leave, we will not defund police
We don’t want no riots in our neighborhoods or in the streets
We respect freedom of speech, we protect what we believe
We don’t want nobody dead, so please, do not tread on me

In America, the freedom ain’t free
In America, got soldiers dyin’ overseas
So America, we say what we believe
My America, I won’t ever take a knee
Our freedom is the reason you can’t disrespect our flag
If my stars and stripes offend you, then I’ll help you pack your bags
America

Does anybody know what the hell happened to the patriots?
Lately, this nation is so ashamed and hatin’ itself
Did everyone forget that people died to pay for this ungratefulness?
United States gave everything to you just to help
I just wanna celebrate Thanksgiving with my family
I don’t need your help to understand it was a tragedy
Can’t I just be thankful for my country eating happily
Without you tryna guilt me for the genocide and casualties?
I can’t help it, I just seem to see the world different
It ain’t black or white, it’s conflict designed by the system
I don’t need your pronouns, all I see is men and women
Kids are takin’ pills for fun while people can’t afford prescriptions
If you don’t like it, go hate it, then don’t call it home
We don’t need no violence, got no time for all you radicals
Screw your status quo, we’re not animals
I won’t kneel for the anthem ’cause the flag is what I’m standin’ for

In America, the freedom ain’t free
In America, got soldiers dyin’ overseas
So America, we say what we believe
My America, I won’t ever take a knee
Our freedom is the reason you can’t disrespect our flag
If my stars and stripes offend you, then I’ll help you pack your bags
America

You can hate the government and still love the country
The fundamental values of America are concrete
Republicans and Liberals are dumb, to put it bluntly
They’re labels that they use to create chaos and corruption
You can know the history and still be proud of where you’re from
Every flag around the world is covered in a little blood
We started out United States, divided is what we’ve become
If home is where the heart is, you should show America some love

In America, the freedom ain’t free
In America, got soldiers dyin’ overseas
So America, we say what we believe
My America, I won’t ever take a knee
Our freedom is the reason you can’t disrespect our flag
If my stars and stripes offend you, then I’ll help you pack your bags
America

China Breaks Dark Warplane Record for Second Day in a Row

Taunting Taiwan with the power of its arsenal and its potential to close its fist upon the island, Chinese military jets have entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone for three straight days.

On Friday, China sent 38 planes into the zone, which was a record for the number of planes sent to provoke Taiwan. China followed that up on Saturday with 39 planes, according to CNN.

On Sunday, Taiwan reported 16 planes entered the zone, according to U.S. News and World Report.

In recent months, China has stepped up its antagonistic rhetoric and actions toward Taiwan, which it considers to be its territory. Taiwan became a separate nation in 1949 when the former nationalist government took refuge there after losing the civil war to the Communist government.

“Coming on Oct. 1, China’s National Day, it sends a message about Beijing’s determination to claim Taiwan, by force if necessary,” said Adam Ni, an analyst of Chinese military policy, according to The New York Times. “The aim of this is to assert Beijing’s power and show military muscle.”

That claim was underscored by the Global Times, a state-run newspaper, which praised the flights in an editorial.

The flights “clearly and unmistakably displayed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan,” it wrote, adding, “The greater the number of combat planes gathering together, the more it shows that our military is forming a powerful wartime aerial assault force.”

Although China was able to nudge the U.S. into removing formal diplomatic recognition from Taiwan, the United States has maintained strong support of Taiwan through arms sales and economic ties.

On Sunday, the State Department issued a statement deploring China’s hostile maneuvers.

“The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability. We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure and coercion against Taiwan,” said the statement, posted on the State Department’s website.

“We have an abiding interest in peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. We will continue to assist Taiwan in maintaining a sufficient self-defense capability, and we will maintain our commitments,” the statement continued.

“The U.S. commitment to Taiwan is rock solid and contributes to the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and within the region. We will continue to stand with friends and allies to advance our shared prosperity, security, and values and deepen our ties with democratic Taiwan.”

Although China’s incursions did not reach Taiwan’s national airspace, a 12 nautical mile limit around the island, it was a significant escalation, leading to concerns of an incident.

“It is very worrying,” said Chieh Chung, a security analyst with the National Policy Foundation in Taipei, according to the Times. “This puts a lot more pressure on our military, and the more they reach into our airspace, the greater the risk of some kind of accident.”

One Taiwanese legislator said China is trying to intimidate its way into getting what it wants.

“The Chinese government is trying to draw a red line for the international community warning them not to support Taiwan,” legislator Wang Ting-yu said, according to the Times.

China is a major threat to the U.S., as well as to Taiwan, according to a recent report by the Rand Corporation.

“China represents the greatest potential risk to U.S. interests if geopolitical dynamics or shifting national interests were to change its military intervention policy,” the report said.

The report said China “has greater resources and, in some areas, capabilities than Russia or any other U.S. adversary. It also has an expanding set of strategic interests and ambitions outside its home region.”

“There are many scenarios that could lead to an increased frequency of Chinese military interventions,” the report warned.

“Such a shift in Chinese decision-making could occur following a sharp deterioration in U.S.-Chinese relations, which would place the two states on opposite sides of an intense militarized rivalry,” the report concluded.

Biden Supporters Chase Sen. Kirsten Sinema Into Bathroom Stall, Threaten Her For Alleged Disloyalty To The Regime

Biden supporters scream “We need a Build Back Better plan right now!” at Sinema while she uses the public bathroom.

Video footage from Arizona shows angry left-wing insurrectionist harassing Sen. Kirsten Sinema for not being sufficiently devoted to President Joe Biden and open borders policies, going so far as to chase her into a bathroom stall while obsessively filming her with camera phones.

“Right now is a real moment that our people need in order to talk about what’s really happening,” one male demands in the footage. “We need a Build Back Better plan right now.” As Sinema heads into the women’s bathroom, female members of the mob follow her inside, screaming “We need solutions and the Build Back Better plan has the solutions that we need.”

The activists stand directly outside of Sinema’s bathroom stall in the footage, continuing to hold their phone cameras outstretched. “We knocked on doors for you to get you elected, and just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us.”

“We need the Build Back Better plan right now,” another individual demands as Sinema can be heard flushing the toilet. The activists continue to scream and berate Sinema for the duration of the video, which lasts nearly two minutes.

“The failure of the U.S. House to hold a vote on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is inexcusable, and deeply disappointing for communities across our country,” Sinema had said in a statement on Saturday. “Denying Americans millions of good-paying jobs, safer roads, cleaner water, more reliable electricity, and better broadband only hurts everyday families.”

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