Pay No Attention To That Terrorist Behind The Curtain

A day before the Paris attack by Muslim death squads, Canadian defense minister Harjit Sajjan insists Canadians have nothing to fear from ISIS

The “No True Muslim” Fallacy

Shot:

Chaser:

Heh:

UPDATE (November 26, 2015):

U.S. Kills Jihadi John; JV Team Strikes Back

Maybe it's about time King Putt supplied the Kurds with heavy weapons.

Barack Obama sends a subtle message to his subordinates to fuck off during a meeting by extending his middle finger.

You know where you can shove that finger, asshole.

UPDATE: A break in the case:

"Hillary just came on TV and said this was all due to a Julia Ormond movie released in 1995."

UPDATE (November 14 / 2015): King Putt brags he's contained ISIS. Did he reiterate that empty boast during his condolence call to François Hollande?

Barack Obama (November 12, 2015):'ISIS is contained.' November 13, 2015: ISIS carries out worst attack in Paris since World War II.

Good call there, Sparky.

UPDATE (November 16 / 2015): Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) calls President Obama out on his falsehoods:

"I have never been more concerned…I read the intelligence faithfully. ISIL is not contained, ISIL is expanding."

You mean Barack Obama's a liar? No, that's not true! That's impossible!

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Once Is Happenstance. Twice Is Circumstance. 80,000 Times Is Enemy Action.

People's Liberation Army 32nd Troll Division attacks Facebook page of Tsai Ying-wen (the woman most likely to be elected to the Taiwanese presidency in 2016) — leaving behind 80,000 hate mail comments.

The Foreigner has always maintained that website (or Facebook page) owners have the absolute right to treat comments as leniently or as strictly as they see fit.

Now in general, I see no earthly reason why the average site owner would allow their site to be hijacked by 80,000 anti-democratic messages from the Chinese Communist Party apparatus. But in this case, Tsai's decision to leave their anti-democratic screeds online is no doubt the correct one.

After all, it reminds Taiwanese voters who their enemies are.

UPDATE (November 12 / 2015): In the interests of accuracy, it should be noted that the comment swarming was conducted by People's Liberation Army Cyberwarfare Unit 61398, and not (as satirically postulated), the 32nd Troll Division of the People's Liberation Army.

Xi Jinping’s Utter Contempt For Ma Ying-jeou

A revealing exchange from the meeting between the presidents of China & Taiwan:

During the meeting, Ma raised the issue of Taiwanese concern over China’s military deployment against Taiwan…

According to Ma, Xi said that “the [PLA] deployments do not target Taiwan.” [Emphasis added]

UPDATE (November 12 / 2015): From today's Taipei Times:

Ma said nothing in response [to Xi's contention that China's missiles were not targeted against Taiwan]. He did not point out the obvious: Taiwan is the only nation in sight in the direction and range of China’s nearly 1,600 short-range missiles along its coast across the Taiwan Strait.

If, as Xi claims, the missiles are not aimed at Taiwan, what are they aimed at? Xi cannot possibly be suggesting that the missiles are targeting bluefin tuna off the coast of Pingtung County or humpback dolphins of the coast of Changhua County, can he?

Supreme Communist Leader Campaigns For Taiwan’s KMT At Ma Ying-jeou’s Request

My first reaction to the recent meeting between President Mister Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan and President Mister Xi Jinping of China:

Over the past 10-15 years, other observers have noticed the similarity between Taiwan's KMT and cargo cultists — particularly as the KMT touted economic relations with China as a panacea for curing all of Taiwan's woes.

After nearly 8 years with Ma in the presidency, voters don't believe Chinese manna's going to fall from heaven anymore, so the KMT's cargo cult has morphed from the economic to the political realm.

Got a tough election coming up?

The correct response isn't to fight a tough campaign or even prepare to retrench in the face of potentially-large losses at the polls.

No, the correct response is to go crawling to Beijing for a contentless photo-op with China's Communist dictator.

'Cause remember those 500,000 people who marched last year against closer trade relations with China? Well, when they see Ma shaking hands with Xi, they're gonna have a complete change of heart and demand MOAR ONE CHINA.

Or so the theory goes.

Ma Ying-jeou shaking hands with Xi Jinping

(Image from CBS News)

Now personally, I would be inclined to vote against the KMT for pulling a stunt like this to influence the outcome of an election only 2 months away. (Recall how bitterly the KMT bitched and moaned for 4 years about "sympathy votes" after an assassination attempt prior to the presidential election of 2004. Now however, the party seems positively smug about DELIBERATELY manufacturing a "November Surprise".)

But that's just me. I very much want to see how Taiwanese voters react.

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Shadowy Chinese-American Bund Delivers Communist Party Propaganda On U.S. Airwaves

Sounds like the CCP is circumventing few laws, if not violating them outright:

Su declined to describe how he makes money when most of the U.S. stations [delivering his Chinese Communist Party propaganda] air virtually no commercials. He also declined to say how he got the money to finance his radio leases and acquisitions.

UPDATE (Nov 6 / 2015): Some commentary from Forbes.

Worst.Historian.Ever.

Joe Hung of Taiwan’s China Post explains how the West LOST the Cold War:

The United States tried to contain the Soviet Union in vain. [Emphasis added]

Joe Hung wearing tin foil hat: 'Containment of the Soviet Union failed in 1962, when Joseph Stalin hurled waves of Red Army tanks through Fulda Gap. You can read all about it in my new book: Joe Hung’s True Imaginary History Of The Cold War.'

Nice tin foil hat. Really goes with the suit.

In the same paragraph, Comrade Historian also rewrites the history of Asia to better suit his Zhongnanhai-directed Communist narrative:

Uncle Sam continued to contain Mao Zedong’s China after the chairman had sent his army to fight the Korean War. The containment did not work, of course, and it took President Richard Nixon ending it to pave the way for concluding the normalization of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic in 1979. [Emphasis added]

Joe Hung wearing tin foil hat: 'Containment of Communist China failed in 1953, when Mao Tse-tung washed Taiwan in a ocean of blood after teleporting PLA troops there with alien technology stolen from Area 51. --Joe Hung’s True Imaginary History Of The Cold War.'

Now, I’m no doctor of history, but I DO know multiple sources confirm that no Soviet army overran Western Europe in 1963. Nor did any Chinese Communist army step foot in Taiwan.

So whaddya know? Maybe containment DID kinda work after all, huh?

UPDATE: Perhaps credentialed (but uneducated) Comrade Historian Joe Hung confuses the strategy of Containment with that of Rollback?

Because they are two very different things, you know. Not that a PhD-holder from Georgetown University could ever understand such highly-advanced concepts…

UPDATE (Nov 3 / 2015): Apparently, 33 U.S. servicemen were killed protecting Taiwan from Communist China.

A great pity a worthless Communist lickspittle like Joe Hung benefited from their sacrifice.

UPDATE (Nov 4 / 2015): Like most liars, Joe Hung struggles to keep his stories straight:

It took U.S. President Harry S. Truman — who had written off Chiang — to neutralize the Taiwan Strait right after the Korean War broke out in 1950 to prevent Mao Zedong from “washing Taiwan with blood.” With American military and economic assistance, Chiang was able to reorganize his defeated armies into a defense force strong enough to deny Mao a takeover of Taiwan by force…

That sounds suspiciously like saying Mao Tse-tung was successfully contained to me.

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