Hong Kong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China from a podium overlooking Tiananmen Square 70 years ago today, October 1, 1949. This year’s celebrations, including in Hong Kong, were meant to pay tribute to Mao’s successor Xi Jinping.

But the people of Hong Kong have stood up. Millions have marched in protest of Beijing’s undemocratic control.  China is not as strong as it pretends. What the Communist Party calls its “socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics” has run its course.

On this 70th anniversary of communism’s ascendance in China, the irony is that the only legitimacy the Party has left comes from a growing economy. If China’s economy implodes, so does the regime’s legitimacy.

The China-U.S. trade war is an epochal event that can push China to the brink of collapse, especially if the U.S. links its values and human rights to its dealings with China.

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Little notice has been given to a Justice Department press release issued the day the Trump-Zelensky conversation transcript became public.

That Justice Department statement makes explicit that the president never spoke with Attorney General William Barr “about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former Vice President Biden or his son” or asked him to contact Ukraine “on this or any other matter,” and that the attorney general has not communicated at all with Ukraine.

It also contains the following morsel:

“A Department of Justice team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”

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Seems the mainstream media are desperate to keep President Trump's stellar United Nations speech out of the news.

On Tuesday (9/24), Trump articulated to the UN General Assembly of world leaders the vision of the voters who elected him, speaking of nationalism, globalism, and socialism, along with an added rundown of problem nations to condemn and props for others.

Above is the full video, and here is the full White House transcript.  Watching and/or reading it entire is a very good use of your time.

For starters, it was a Zero Apologies for America speech, which was a breath of fresh air, given the previous administration.  There were plenty of Wow! moments – here are some examples.

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Here’s a quick history quiz: Regarding which investigation did former FBI attorney Lisa Page write the following text message: “[X] might be our next president. The last thing you need is us going in there loaded for bear”?

Was it, (a) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to hide evidence she used her position to take special care of people who gave cash to her family foundation; or (b) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating Vice President Joe Biden for using his influence to end investigation into his son’s work in Ukraine?

If you guessed (b)...

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In a Slate article -- "Democrat Candidates Are Misrepresenting Michael Brown's Death"-- the reliably-liberal William Saletan exposes their lies.

Let’s examine why the candidates are promulgating such a well-proven lie (Saletan does a good job demonstrating its extent), not even correcting it when confronted by the press, in Warren's case most egregiously so.

The obvious is that they are fishing for votes.  But beneath this are more disturbing beliefs, one of which is on the edge of disgusting and actually racist.  It is that African Americans prefer to be lied to than told the truth. The corollary to this is that they are easily lied to if you stir them up. The level of disrespect in this is off the charts.

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It remains to be seen if the latest incarnation of Rambo will attract audiences.  Most of those who go to movie theaters these days are likely unfamiliar with all the earlier incarnations of Stallone's Rambo films.  The first was in 1982, First Blood.  It dealt, in exaggerated form, with the anger and resentment toward the returning vets from Vietnam.

The Left's intolerance for our military was as egregious then as it is now.  For inexplicable reasons, leftists loathe our first line of defense against our enemies, whom they always seem to revere or defend.  "It was ever thus," to quote Una Merkel in the original Parent Trap.

So for those of us who revere those who served, who gave their lives to defeat communism, First Blood was welcome revenge porn.  The young man being hunted by law enforcement was the good guy, trained by our own government.  Without cause, he was deemed an enemy of the people, which, of course he was not, in any way, shape, or form.  But he did know how to defend himself.  He had a particular set of skills.

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The tiny Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez impersonator, Ava Martinez, who had been driven off the internet due to threats and harassment is back with a brand new hilarious parody video posted yesterday (9/25 – see above) — saying:

“Looks like politics are no longer off limits for children thanks to Greta. Wish someone would’ve made that clear a few months back. Comedy is much better than scare tactics and fear-mongering anyway.”

“Like, I want to tell you about the most amazing science book I just finished reading on climate change. It’s called Chicken Little,” Martinez continued.

The hilarious youngster continued on to claim that “when the sky is falling, our sea levels are rising… then the oceans will spill over the sides of the Earth and we’ll all drown in Outer Space. Did you know that?” Mini AOC asks.

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President Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf (“culture struggle”).

As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at President Trump. For most of his time in office, Mr. Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and constantly attacked.

Certainly, Mr. Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans, aka RINOs.

Yet, the real source of Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS – is his desire to wage a multifront pushback — politically, socially, economically and culturally — against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world.  Let’s count the ways.

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A Canadian publication, The Star, has printed an unintentionally hilarious editorial, “Chick-fil-A Is Ideologically Opposed to My Existence,” by a very disgruntled LGBTQWTF writer, Andrew Wheeler (no relation whatever to Jack Wheeler!).

Mr. Wheeler is very upset. His outrage and dismay have been caused by your love of delicious chicken from Chick-fil-A. How dare you???  In his rant, Wheeler rails against the insensitivity of people who love chicken and waffle fries because it hurts his feelings, or something.

But his rant is more than laughable.  It contains the whole reason why the LGBTQWTF mafia is never going to win over rational people.

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