Is the Commonwealth Games just another target of the Culture Wars?
The Commonwealth is the largest cultural union of nations across the globe. It includes one third of the world’s population in a group of 56 nations with 2.4 billion people. It could also be the largest trading block in the world, if only member nations wanted it to be that way. And who wouldn’t — well, obviously the EU and the Chinese Communist Party wouldn’t. For them, The Commonwealth is a threat, a club they can’t control, a sleeping giant. It’s kind of an inverse “Belt and Road” — but one that spread democracy and human rights.
Maybe its nothing, but Dan Andrews (premier of Victoria) who signed up to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, then abruptly sank it, also once signed the state up for the Belt and Road program, which the Federal government blocked.
So we have to ask — who benefits from the shock announcement to cancel the Commonwealth Games?
Why suddenly was an athletic carnival not worth doing for anything less than $7 billion dollars? As The Australian points out, The Gold Coast hosted the Games in 2018 for $1.8 billion dollars, and Birmingham managed it in 2022 for meager $1.5 billion. Yet suddenly Victoria can’t afford it?
Damaging the Commonwealth Games is a salvo in the culture war that seeks to destroy the heritage events that remind us of our natural allegiances, shared values and history. These are our friends and allies, and while it may seem a distant claim, as many as 1.7 million people died defending Commonwealth nations in World War I and II. The history is rich.
The same culture war that destroys our statues and heroes is coming for our sport. The Commonwealth Games is a free market in athletic ability, a merit based competition. People can’t buy medals, or schmooze their way onto the podium, and the winners may use their fame to question authority.
The beneficiaries potentially include both domestic and foreign interests that do better when the old pillars of free markets, free speech, patriotism and competition are erased. So add local status seeking bureaucrats as well as the WEF and UN.
The Commonwealth Games is another public town square where ideas get put on trial.
We need these shared experiences. Far from being irrelevant entertainment, these kinds of public competitions are exactly the kind of tests that ruin fashionable but silly ideologies, like for example the idea that men can become women by thinking it to be so. Sporting codes are waking up as people see the absurdity of former male athletes winning the women’s gold medals. Just in the last few days, the Worlds Cycling body banned people who have been through male puberty from competing against women. That came after a transgender athlete became the first openly transgender woman to win an official cycling event in January this year.
Strange ideas get tested in open competitions. Not just weird diets and training routines, but mental truths too.
We didn’t ask for this test, but the test is here — do we care about The Commonwealth?
The Commonwealth is hardly perfect, but it is competition. It is a dormant foil for EU and CCP power, and especially if it ever had a leader willing to connect the dots, there is the threat it could revive a trading empire.
It may surprise people to find out that in theory, any nation can apply to join the Commonwealth now. Membership of the modern Commonwealth “does not depend on formerly being part of the British Empire”, even though nearly all the members are. King Charles is “the head” of the Commonwealth but he is only king of 15 member states, 36 others are Republics and another 5 even have their own Monarch.
Something to think about.
I wonder whether Danistan signed up for the games with every intent of dropping them. His plan to run the games was never going to be viable with events everywhere bar Melbourne, building expensive white elephants in regional towns that had no infrastructure to host events.
Had he done it in Melbourne using its existing world class stadiums and sporting facilities it could have been done for much less than Birmingham.
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*best to read the following with a Play School presenter’s voice in mind*
A group of friends liked to have a big party every four years. They would invite people from all over the world to attend. As they started planning for the next party they realised that none of the group had a house big enough to host it.
Their friend Daniel heard about their dilemma and offered to host the party at his house. “Have the party at my place,” he said “I’m about to do some renovations- I’m adding on a rumpus room and new barbecue area. There’ll be plenty of room for all your friends and I’ll supply all the drinks and food”.
The group of friends were delighted with Daniel’s offer. With the knowledge they had a place to host the party, they set about preparations. Invites were sent to all their friends the following day.
The following year, a few months before the party, the group of friends received a phone call. “Hi guys, it’s Daniel. Look, I know l promised to host your party but I’m afraid l have to cancel. I had some other building projects that went over budget which means my house renovations weren’t completed. l also can’t afford the catering or drinks that l promised. I’m afraid you’ll have to find someone else to host your party”.
The group of friends were aghast. One of them spoke up- “Daniel, if you weren’t in a position to host the party, why didn’t you just tell us in the first place?”
There was no reply, just a dial tone. Daniel had hung up the phone.
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The way I read it, Dan planned a massive gravy train which would get him votes in the regions. But investors told him they weren’t going to let him spend Commonwealth Games money on his own advancement.
Things might not be that bad for the Games. There’s time for another city to step forward with a no-frills offer, and there would surely be a lot of public goodwill if things weren’t perfect. Hopefully that city will be Australian, to reduce the damage caused to Australia’s reputation by this arrogant teflon-coated corrupt mongrel.
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Dan did seem pretty happy at the press conference.
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Invite China to the Comm Games.
Danistan problem fixed.
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China might have already been invited.
It looks a bit fishy to me. But so does everything Dan Andrews does.
The story isn’t finished yet.
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London might host the games if Victoria are incapable of doing so after spending all their money on Covid and empowering their robust police forces
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12312783/London-step-host-Commonwealth-Games-Australian-state-Victoria-pulled-hosting-2026-3-5bn-cost.html
Mind you, the cost of these sporting events has become absurd. They are way over the top what with their opening and closing ceremonies Athletes villages, transportation etc.
It would be good to scale it all back and, what with media rights and extra tourists, the whole thing should turn a profit.
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We’re the Commonwealth Games part of the agenda for discussion at China Dan’s latest meeting in China. I have more than just a suspicion on that probability!
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55 days in Peking?
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You’d think Dictator Dan would have all the facilities. There are plenty of world-class stadia already built for previous events.
But politicians only want excuses to spend vast amounts of borrowed taxpayer money.
In Vicdanistan’s case the money gets spent on Dan’s beloved vastly overpaid CFMEU union thugs and with Chinese owned construction companies like John Holland Group (owned by China Communications Construction Company).
I agree with Jo’s comments that a reason for cancelling it may be to do with globalist objectives of cancelling cultural uniqueness and identity of the Commonwealth event.
Because when has Dan or any Australian Government restrained themselves from spending or overspending borrowed taxpayer money?
And what was Dan doing in China recently whereby he refused the media to attend? Why would he do that? The media fully support him and never ask him tough questions anyway. What was Xi instructing him?
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Oh well, or is it Ah! well, 🙂 our TV progs won’t be disrupted, …. But but, and since I am not an Athletics Sportsperson ( get enough exercise climbing in/out of machines and running after stupit Sheep & Cows ( or the dog!! ), It is still a great shame, or is it really a veiled INSULT, now that our queen is away?
Yes, indeed, revive a trading empire, but now UK has joined that other one with loads of C’s n P’s in it, what ever it means again From the other halfway around the world …. great for Product miles …. Who Writes these things ?
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Bread and circuses without the circus, what are we going to do for entertainment now in 26.
Do we get the money back we spent training the clowns to run in circles?
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Oh, there’ll be plenty of entertainment, panem et circenses.
I can’t wait for the next plandemic, in which case the Games would have to be cancelled anyway.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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“New Variations” of the Kung Flu?
Who ‘da thunk that a cultured bio-weapon could be “re-tuned”?
See also the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear”
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Bread and circuses?
Without the circuses there won’t be much bread. Not enough to go around.
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Just need enough for the remaining.
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There is a circus in Canberra as we speak. It is called the ALP. A number of clowns perform daily but it seems that they are rejects from real circuses since none are funny and they are far from competent. There is snarky Chris who failed 1st year Maths and dropped out. There is Tanya who always says No. There is Albo who denies his own words. There is Jim who thinks raising wages is the same as raising productivity. Maybe his girlfriend is that ABC bimbo who thought income was the same as profit. There is the Education Minister who believes Aboriginal kids will gain more degrees if he (we) pays tuition. Oh the circus is well and truly with us.
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Iwhilst I don’t read too much into the cancelation of the games I find it disturbing that he cancel things that don’t really matter but continues with programs that have blow outs way more critical and larger than the games such as tens of billions on a suburban rail loop, and tens of billions on an energy transition. Add to that the economic cost of worlds longest lockdown and removal of cheap power and gas exploration one could not have done a worse job in charge. Ironically he’s been the longest serving premier which says as much about the competence of the opposition and the mental competence of the voters.
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Not just OUCH, just DEAD-on already. deceased.
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Spending vast amounts of borrowed taxpayer money Australia doesn’t have is now so routine that very few even bother questioning it.
And yet Australia has massive plus growing debt, over $1.7 trillion for federal, state and local government debt and rapidly increasing with no restraint and no political opposition whatsoever from any member of the Uniparty.
See https://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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A great post.
Could it be that the best action might be to organise a pushback on so many fronts that eventually “He” must carry through with the games.
That would be the best humiliation possible.
He effectively made a promise, and He should be held to it.
One small step for Dan, a giant leap for mankind.
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Did you mean to capitalise the ‘He’? Dan might think he is God but I don’t subscribe to that.
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Dan is certainly not God, he works for the other side.
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And, he did NOT “FALL”>
He jumped in, willingly.
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It wasn’t meant as a compliment, just to positively identify the perpetrator of this insult given to all and sundry.
It’s hard to confront the CFMEU but if a strong public rebellion to this cancellation was to occur; maybe, perhaps the games could be reinstated.
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Hey Keith, better drop the “F” out of the CFMEU. Dan also managed to destroy all forestry jobs in Victoria to, you know, save the planet.
Interesting how a Labour goverment is so happy to get rid of jobs. Put out of work the very people that they are supposed to represent. Of course alternative employment will be offered, except these jobs never materialise. In my area we are surounded by state and national parks, these were going to bring in international tourists by the 1,000’s and the local economy was going to boom. Well the local economy certainly has gone BOOM!
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Keith’
Please NO . Sorry Jo , but I live in the “glorious” city of Melbourne and are already being raided to pay for his largess. Although it would be “nice” to have the commonwealth games , The UK and the commonwealth by extension is now a bastion of wokeness and would insist on “equality” . Thats one circus I don’t want to pay for . One disaster at a time please.
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I completely understand.
My POV was to take the points raised in Jo’s writing and use them against the CFMDANEU colossus.
The actual games are another matter. Once very keen on athletics I looked forward to the games.
Now, fast forward, they seem to be a competition to see who can work out the best “body building” supplements, government support programmes etc that will get the gold medal.
The personal striving seems to be downplayed.
Years ago I watched the Tour de France several years running mainly because of Lance Armstrong.
I admired what he did and had a feeling that many cyclists used “body supplements” that would get you banned in athletics.
It was annoying to see how he was rubbished and made to look like the only person in cycling who was supplementing.
I suspect it might have been difficult to find riders who were not actually boosting.
I think what happened to L.A. was more than a bit hypocritical and pointless.
At the moment I have no real need to see either the Olympics or Commonwealth games but would like to see community pushback against unpleasant politicians and public serpents.
As Jo says, the games have a positive vibe in that they bring nations together.
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I have long believed that the time has arrived for the establishment of a dual Olympic games system – we could hold the ‘Clean Games’ and the ‘Drug Games’. The drug games would involve athletes stuffing themselves as full as possible with chemical additives and supplements and the countries with the best pharmacists win. The clean games would be a return to original values as envisaged by the good Baron.
As we now seem to have a need for a third category – ‘Trans Games’, where people of indeterminate sex would compete in a shambolic free for all, I’m starting to think this just might be all becoming unworkable. The fall of empires seems to be in the wind.
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There already is a dual system, the Paralympics, so you could potentially end up with six systems.
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Didn’t want to overcomplicate. Many of those people are already medicated.
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Old goat,
Friendly pedant trigger.
“Largesse” is the only correct spelling, but it is under attack. Cheers. Geoff S
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I c your pedant lol. Did you know you can apparently get them, pedants, on ebay?
(Check the url wording when you click link which comes up “ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=pedants&norover”).
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There, their, they’re…calm down now. 😆
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I see the Holy See by the sea, si?
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After the billions flushed down the gurgler during his dictatorship, now he is concerned about diverting funds from hospitals, schools and roads…the guy is a bold faced liar.
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Has anyone recorded the “spillage”, and lived?
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I think we have better things to push back against.
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Reply to KK at #8
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Sorry you feel that way; I’ll be more careful in future.
Reply to MP #10.
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Yes I am offended, I have feelings as well, and I am ending the # thing right here.
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I have trouble believing the reasons are so convoluted. Andrews has long ago run out of OPM and at State level has run out of affordable borrowing power. He has an opportunity to cut something substantial (and after all it was just an Andrews promise , not something existing) and the “damage” is mostly in non Labor electorates. All the while he gets to clothe a gigantic stuff up and U turn in an aura of fiscal responsibility, which is a joke if you look at many of the other programs his government continues to plow on with.
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At first news of this I applauded the economic rationalism (remember that term?). Victoria is broke, Andrews spent all the money in a display of anti-rationalism. But I find constant lust for hosting these sporting events infantile and expensive. The Australian bid for the World Cup a few years ago being the best example of profligate spending and possible bribery attempts.
But it’s a good point the anti-Commonwealth nature of it. I personally am pro colonialist, pro British Empire. I consider myself British living in the colony. The UK turning its back on Australia in 1973 was a disaster, one that only Doug Anthony fought passionately against. So I need no convincing of the importance of the Commonwealth. By the way, was it Cromwell who first used the word commonwealth once chopping off the King’s head? Irony if so.
Whatever the case, it doesn’t look like a popular decision. Aussies like their sport. Especially the Commonwealth Games as it’s the one where we win all the medals.
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Jo, just a small(ish) point – traditionally the colour of Commonwealth countries on maps is pink, not blue as you have it.
The colour has its origins in red being the traditional colour of British military uniforms 16th-19th centuries (redcoats) but pink being a compromise of printers to allow overprinted black characters to be more visible on maps.
Back in the day, “the sun never set on the British Empire”.
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Time for the Empire to strike back. On many fronts.
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Yes, we may rebrand it as The Commonwealth but it is and was the British Empire, set up to exploit other countries and rob their assets in the name of trade. ‘Spreading democracy’ just another way of saying ‘this is how we shall manage you’ – exactly the same lies used by the U$A. There is no common wealth, it just means your wealth belongs to us – there are very few advantages to being a member of this club unless you are some inbred royal or CEO of BP, for example. Surely Oz remembers Gough Whitlam ?
In a sane world Australia would be looking to work and trade with it’s neighbours not some banana republic based in London, England.
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This was a very good analysis of the sudden Commonwealth Games cancellation by Jo Nova. We know who pulls Dan Andrew’s strings and who whispers in his ear.
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Dan has all the signs of being a clinical psychopath.
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DM,
Ouch, David, that description fits me well.
But I do not align with Dan Andrews in any significant way. I have my own grandiose thoughts of self-worth, thank you.
(Reasoning. Psychologists often write dumb crap.)
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Psychiatry and psychology have no basis in real science, just like Chiropractic.
Even Freud admitted he was pushing his own mental conditions onto patients.
Another fake degree in worthlessness…
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There are significant areas of psychiatry and psychology that are very real: the biologically based activity.
Some of the labeling of things like sociopath, psychopath etc may be very vague, but in talking about stuff like this you need a starting point.
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Don’t believe a word of it, aside from the dumb crap bit.
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I was going to write a long erudite comment about Dan Andrews regarding this topic, but I think for the sake of my mental well- being I will abstain. Maybe a short comment only – Dan Andrews is a #%*&^%$ !!!!
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Not like Dan to be too concerned about the price tag? And if it’s a get square then there might be a resignation coming as well?
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Good post Jo, a lot to think about.
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Victoria has made a hames,
Of hosting the Commonwealth Games,
Could it be perchance,
That some choose to dance,
To other world groups and their aims?
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Probably part of the T&Cs of the cop-out he had to sign with China on his recent secret trip to save Victorias finances. Much like the “deal” between FNN and Dominion that included the neutering of Tucker Carlson until after the next election in the US.
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Well this is a fun article.
The Victorian Government could have achieved all that is intimated by not putting up its hand as host in the first place.
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No.
The pain is increased if you first give, and then take away.
His propensity to insult and abuse Victorians and Australians is obvious.
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Its political economy, Dan cannot see further than the next election.
He put his hand up because it was only $2.5 billion, it would be politically inadvisable to push ahead with the Games at this point in time.
Hospitals and houses in the regions, without hubs, is a vote winner.
Any suggestion that Brussels and Beijing are happy with the news is a little over the top.
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just a little.
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“The Victorian Government could have achieved all that is intimated by not putting up its hand as host in the first place.”
Could it have achieved the election promise?
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How does that work?
You’ve never done any project management, have you?
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Dare I say this is analogous to circling wagons?
Well I agree it might be wise. We have too many agencies and NGO actors in our lives.
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Couldn’t give a rat’s about the Games, Commonwealth or Olympic, F1 or other such circuses for the masses. Hopefully we won’t have the Olympics in Brisbane either if sanity breaks out.
This is not a serious country.
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Good. The money earmarked for fun and games can help finance a vital new coal fired power station in Victoria.
Avoidance of killing people is a suitable criterion for spending taxpayer money. Geoff S
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Can anyone link to the times that Dan has gone to China, the purposes of the visits and the locations where taxpayers can read about the results?
Thanks. Geoff S
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Here’s a link Mainly on Albosleazies voice policies but contains many pages on Stairman Dans frequent visits and results to the mother land.
I bought two so the wife could read one.
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If you unknowingly bid too much at the Auction – you don’t get to decline the outcome if you win.
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The Commonwealth games
has gone down in flames,
it’s all a fine mess
despite labors largesse,
Dictator Dan
has kicked the can
down the road agin,
much to the Kings chagrin.
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It’s of extreme concern that Vicdanistanis have voted for and elected this creep three times so far. How can they be that stupid?
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Stupid? Possibly.
However, in the words of that memorable Georgian chap, Josef Djugashvili / Stalin:
“It;s not who votes, that counts, but WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.”
They have “Dominion” over the process.
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Did they.
There are some new systems in the world that have dominion over more than palm and pine.
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Did they?
Perhaps they were domin ated
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The dodgy bit.
“Did they.
There are some new systems in the world that have “########” over more than palm and pine.
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Now take that (taxpayer) money saved from not hosting the games and spend it on repairing, or trying to, the massive and ongoing damage to the people in GaffDANistan from the past 3 years.
Priorities…
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Another drive by the left towards a Republic!
Probably premeditated by Dictator Dan, temporarily a bribe to take votes away from the National Party.
Dan loves using public money to use for his electoral advantage. Wasn’t this the sin of Gladys?
Now with Victoria a bankrupt state the perfect alibi to abandon the Commonwealth and send us closer to Dan’s masters the CCP.
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Cry me an Amazon, because Victorian “Dan” voters get no sympathy from me. And when the state collapses we should have new laws that prevent migration to other states as part of the learning exercise.
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May I ask which conservative state you inhabit? Please don’t say Tasmania because it isn’t – conservatively run I mean. WA, hardly, Qld, don’t make me laugh. NSW – meh, too early to gauge Minns, seems inconsequential. SA, Malinauskas is probably the most conservative – in a social sense – leader right now. That leaves our territories, both of which are led by hard left lunatics. I’d suggest if we adopt your approach nobody could migrate to anywhere – except maybe the few conservatives in Melbourne to the countryside.
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I agree that all states lean left, but to continue voting for a guy who fired rubber bullets on his people, locked them down for a record period during COVID after causing it’s release, increased debt levels 5x since taking office, hits a cyclist whilst driving and then blames them, uses public funds to run his election campaign, gets police to raid a pregnant women who posts anti-Dan comments on social media, blocks all gas projects and wood chip industry in his state, and now what appears to be a fake commitment on the games to win votes in the bush. This takes things to a whole new level.
The old saying:
Vote for him once – blame on him
Vote for him twice – blame on you
Vote for him a 3rd time – ???
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Lets not forget that 45% of Victorians didn’t vote for Dan. https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/results/state-election-results/2022-state-election-results
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I didn’t forget Jo. You’ll notice my comment was referencing “Dan” voters. For those non-Dan voters I do indeed have sympathy 🙂
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Thanks Jo. I get so fed up with comments from non-Victorians that we deserve what has happened here. So many of us in Victoria most certainly did not vote for Andrews.
I don’t know how many times I have seen comments in The Aus blaming us for Dan; I get fed up with pointing out that we are not all to blame.
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Melbourne has always been called the “Sporting Capital of the World”.
This week’s AFL round will surely bring out some interesting signs!
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Dan made a recent trip to China.
I wonder whether the cancallation of the games was under the instruction of the CCP during that trip as a quid pro quo for something else to Dans advantage?
You never can tell with that mob.
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Andrews and Bowen. What a pair to have open access to the public bank accounts to squander. Dan doesn’t mind shedding a $B here and there by breaking contracts, so I would worry more about what he aims to do with the last few dollars left in the State’s bank accounts. No wonder he wanted the belt and braces of China; imagine where the Victorian bank debts would have been right now had he not had that avenue shut down. China would now be in financial control of the State.
Then there’s Bowen for whom irrational expenditures – probably such a remark would be forcibly cancelled by the new censorship laws when they come in – and economic hardship of the citizens means nothing! He says he reads about what is happening overseas as countries race away from the same nationally damaging policies he is steadfastly glued to, but he obviously hasn’t a financial clue in his body that suggests he better have a look for the future of Australians. This bloke has been sacked from a Ministry before but obviously Albo never read his history. There’s something about ones mental competence when one keeps repeating the same failed actions.
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He used the hosting plan to win an election. Mission accomplished. Dan is not at all the Commonwealth type so I’m not surprised he killed it when he no longer needed it and wouldn’t apologise. But I suspect there would be those who would argue that such suspicion isn’t absolutely essential because his infinite arrogance would be more than enough to account for his refusal to say sorry.
The toxic tentacles of Daniel Andrews don’t just reach out past the borders of Victoria; they now extend across the globe. He’s now known internationally and is probably pleased with himself.
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“He used the hosting plan to win an election. ”
I reckon- then just dump it once in power, he never planned to run it. He reminds me of Turdeau in Canada, the epitome of the sort of person who should not be allowed near power.
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Say sorry for what, words cannot undo what they have done.
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The new name for Victoria is “The Peoples’ Democratic Socialist Republic of Danistan”, and its’ capital city is Naarm.
We must be politically-correct, you know ….
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We’ll accept the USA back into the Commonwealth.
The name ‘commonwealth’ comes from the Cromwell era; after Charles I was (deservedly) beheaded, Cromwell wished neither to call England a Republic nor claim the crown for himself. Indeed, he melted it down, and Charles II had to have new crown jewels made.
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The only thing holding the Commonwealth together is the game of cricket.
Lets face it, Africa and India have more in common with China than the UK, for the simple reason that they share a heritage of being victims of British colonialism – hence the reason they are in BRICS! I suppose now that any country can join the Commonwealth, they would probably support China joining.
And the other problem is that Britain is hardly a democracy these days. Britain may soon be back in the EU. The Remainers engineered their puppet, Rishi Sunak, into Number 10, and in the meantime are cancelling all who oppose them – just ask Nigel Farage, who cant get a bank account in Britain anymore.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/nigel-farage-politics-uk-latest-news-coutts-bank
Finally, you’ve got to ask, who would want Australia to be in an organization headed by a climate change fanatic who is a tool of the WEF?
https://za.pinterest.com/pin/300263500147144281/
Alas poor Empire, I knew it well..
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I’m just waiting for China to step in and save Dan’s arse!
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Never can understand the fear of China: commies, Reds under the beds – smells of McCarthyism. All the ills and evils supposedly associated with China’s threat to Australia all come back to the corruption of the crappy Australian government. China cannot do anything unless it’s approved and signed off by the government, so why not put the blame where it belongs ?
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So if China acts like a coercive bully, runs slave camps, imprisons editors, and lies about infectious diseases it’s Albo’s fault?
Good luck with that one.
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If the guy down the street acts like a tw*t it doesn’t bother me, as long as he doesn’t affect me or mine. It’s called minding your own business.
Same as: “if Australia acts like a coercive bully, runs slave camps, imprisons editors, and lies about infectious diseases it’s Xi’s fault?”
Not trying to defend them, just considering the hypocrisy and deflection techniques applied by the West.
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You have a large dose of wrong think spreading many threads.
Reds under the bed, not any more, they are in your lounge room, in your government, in your schools.
That’s the thing with communists, everything they do is to affect you and yours, and there is no other point to what they do.
If you think about it Morrison did all those things, Elbows yet to have a crack.
“coercive bully, (can’t sit in the park, can’t stand in the pub, mandates) runs slave camps, (home detention and hotel quarantine) imprisons editors, (cancel culture)) and lies about infectious diseases” everything we were told was a lie with COVID, they invented the science we must follow.
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So if the USA acts like a coercive bully, illegally invades countries (Iraq) illegally occupies countries (Syria, still), overthrows governments (many), does nothing about child prostitution rings (Epstein), rigs elections (2020), censors social media (via CIA and FBI), and lies about infectious diseases and vaccines and ivermectin (Fauci etc), China is the bad guy?
Whether your accusations about China are true or false is kind of irrelevant. The point is, it is all part of a psyop – we are being psychologically prepared for war with China. Or at best, handing over $368B to the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) for e.g. nuclear submarines. This is how it works:
https://media2.locals.com/images/posts/originals/2023-07-18/1461955/1461955_t7ujiks7micjg5s.jpeg
You know, we have just been subject to a big vaccine psyop, we are still being subjected to a climate change psyop, and now the USA/MIC wants to get its snout in the trough with another war. Please dont fall for it Jo.
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China plays a long game.
No intent of cutting up rough in the short term, when they can steal intellectual property; influence elections; impose Confucian Institutes on Universities, notably those with many Chinese students, who might be tempted by ‘freedom’ or ‘democracy’ [such as we still have]; ally with some regimes we consider unsavoury [Iran, Russia as examples]; seek to destroy heavy industry outside China with price wars [not only on slave labour costs, but governmental subsidies] – with the deleterious effects on other nations’ ability to make and field heavy armour, modern naval ships [ref. “Prince of Wales” and her stern-tube problem], even ammunition; and influence International bodies – like the UN.
Whys hould they worry?
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Jo? you never mentioned the WOMEN’S football WORLD CUP about to take place this now ?
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Nobody ever mentions Womens football!
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