China Is Literally The Worst
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Seriously, China?
Peng Shuai is a Chinese tennis superstar who formally accused a senior Chinese party official of rape on a major social media platform in early November. If you follow current events, what happened next was no surprise. The post was deleted and Peng Shuai disappeared. Gone without a trace.
Fellow tennis stars demanded answers from the Chinese government but received nothing for weeks. Peng Shuai “resurfaced” under the control of state authorities and gave an interview saying she is “fine.” What does that even mean? However, the Women's Tennis Association is fed up and late yesterday announced the immediate suspension of tournaments in China and Hong Kong over the matter.
Good for the WTA. This is the epitome of government abuse and needs to be called out. China is famous for this kind of behavior. Check out this piece on seven other celebrities that China disappeared after speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party.
That’s not all
In case I haven’t sold you on the perils of China, The Wall Street Journal has a damning piece that details leaked documents directly connecting top Chinese party officials with the coordinated persecution of the Uyghurs in northwestern China.
A panel of lawyers and activists in the U.K. has published what it describes as leaked Chinese government documents that shed additional light on the role leader Xi Jinping played in directing the Communist Party’s campaign of forcible assimilation against religious minorities in the country’s northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Copies of the documents, some marked top secret, describe internal speeches delivered by Mr. Xi and other senior party leaders regarding circumstances in Xinjiang between 2014 and 2017, the period when the assimilation campaign was conceived and launched.
The documents show Mr. Xi warning about the dangers of religious influence and unemployment among minorities, and emphasizing the importance of “population proportion,” or the balance between minorities and Han Chinese, for maintaining control in the region.
Essentially, we’ve known the Chinese were committing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs for years. Now we are learning just how coordinated the operation is. The persecution of the Uyghurs, the disappearance of Peng Shuai, and the Chinese treatment of Taiwan are just some of the reasons there is a growing movement to boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Back to the states: Sotomayor said what???
A Barack Obama Supreme Court appointee compared the physiological reaction of a corpse to that of an unborn child’s reaction to pain. This is one of the most infuriating things you will read today.
This is from Fox News:
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the idea that a fetus that has the ability to move and react to pain is a human life that should be protected from abortion.
"Virtually every state defines a brain death as death," Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during oral arguments in a potential landmark abortion rights case Wednesday, as the state of Mississippi defended an abortion restriction law that directly challenges Roe v. Wade.
"Yet, the literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli," Sotomayor continued. "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. So I don't think that a response to -- by a fetus necessarily proves that there's a sensation of pain or that there's consciousness."
These are talking points from Planned Parenthood. It’s that simple. The ultimate government abuse is the refusal to protect the unborn. Listen to the audio for yourself.
Disaster in San Francisco
Did you catch Fox & Friends yesterday morning? No, I wasn’t on but my friend Steve Doocy interviewed Danielle Rabkin who owns a crossfit gym in San Francisco. In case you haven’t heard, San Fran is kind of a mess on multiple fronts. The situation is so bad that there is an app dedicated to tracking human poop in the streets. Nope, I’m not kidding.
Back to Danielle. San Francisco is refusing to enforce many laws and is (shocker) experiencing a crime wave. Danielle has clients who refuse to come to her gym after dark due to safety concerns. The city is considering a proposal that would allow police officers to work as security officers for private businesses on the side. The problem that Danielle points out is this is an incredibly expensive alternative that most small businesses can’t afford. What if the city just did their job and let the police arrest the bad guys? This is literally government abuse by inaction and the interview will make your blood boil. Watch the video here. Did I mention I’m glad to be from Texas?
California still doesn’t want you to have big guns
In 2016 the state of California banned magazines that hold 10 rounds or more. A lower court reversed the decision and many of us naively thought sanity had returned. Well, we were wrong. The case was brought up to the infamously progressive 9th Circuit Court and they did what they do. They reversed the decision and the ban stands.
In a 7-4 decision today from an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, California's 2016 ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds was found constitutional, despite earlier conclusions from a lower court and a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit that the ban violated the Second Amendment.
"Under the Second Amendment, intermediate scrutiny applies, and [the ban] is a reasonable fit for the important government interest of reducing gun violence," Judge Susan Graber wrote for the majority today in Duncan v. Bonta. "The statute outlaws no weapon, but only limits the size of the magazine that may be used with firearms, and the record demonstrates (a) that the limitation interferes only minimally with the core right of self-defense, as there is no evidence that anyone ever has been unable to defend his or her home and family due to the lack of a large-capacity magazine; and (b) that the limitation saves lives."
In case anyone needs a refresher, the second amendment reads as follows: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I’m not sure which part of “shall not be infringed” the 9th Circuit does not understand.
Thanks for reading, fam. See y’all tomorrow morning.
China literally is the worst. As is the #metoo movement that is conveniently silent right now. I guess they only care about women who are victims of sexual crimes if they enhance their message that conservatives are bad and liberals are good. Funny, I would think their message should be that universally silencing any female victim of sexual crimes is bad.
Frustrating what China is getting away with. My city in the San Francisco bay area has been hit 3 times with smash and grab. The last time the cops caught 3 guys and found automatic weapons with drum magazine. Yesterday in Penryn the sheriff caught two felons with weapons. One weapon could pierce a bullet proof vest . These guys were at a concert! These weapons are illegal so where are they coming from? Who is selling them?