Thursday, September 10, 2020

What Is Happening To America Needs To Stop Or Our Republic Is Finished. Another Rant. Questions The Mass Media Will Never/Can't Ask


I hope some of my memo readers caught Tucker Carlson's introduction tonight and his guest -Victor Hanson.  It was chilling. Carlson discussed 1908 and the attacks on police, clergy, normal citizens' homes and the chaos caused by anarchists and the similarities of that radical period with today. Hanson gave his explanation of what the rioters were seeking and why and then there were pictures of Pittsburgh diners being attacked and harassed by Antifa and BLM thugs.  Finally,  Carlson showed the leader and a pro America group being attacked in Dallas in front of a police station and nothing was done to protect them against physical attacks.

We, at The Landings, live in a cocoon. Unless you watch FOX, we are unlikely to know what is going on because the mass media cannot show rioting when they are busy talking about protests. The thugs,  focusing  on  black causes, are busy telling us how abused they are because of white privilege. Yet, these same anarchists want to bring more of their kind to America. Why?  Either they need more numbers which, in our society, means more power or they believe being in America collates with betterment which, of course, they must  deny. Again why?  Because they have to deny the truth in order to maintain a basis for creating chaos.  Why chaos?  Because they want to destroy that which they hate yet, have no rational/defendable basis, in fact, as to what there is they hate. You can't sit down and have a discussion with them because they need to remain angry because they are intellectual frauds

What has happened is America has allowed two viruses to take over. One came from China and the other came from within our own country.  Medical professionals and the drug industry will eventually get control of Covid 19. Perhaps it may take longer than necessary because Americans are less responsible and patriotic than we used to be and we want our independence and think less of our fellow persons.

As for what has happened from within,  we have allowed the mob to rule because we are afraid to take them on fearing we will be branded racists, lose our job become socially ostracized. and you know the rest. When I think  of America, I think of what Holland would be without dikes. Major cities are being flooded with anarchists, fascists and chaos seekers.

There better come a time when the majority will have had enough and will rise and recapture our streets. However,  until this occurs our nation will continue to tear itself apart.

The feckless have brought racial division to professional sports, even our local Club changed it's name, you can't go anywhere wearing something in support of Trump without endangering your own freedoms like your safety, your free speech etc. Police are under attack and if you live in certain cities you are on your own and if you protect yourself and property  you are likely to become the victim of enforcing your rights. America has become two nations split along political lines and the hatred for the president is off the charts not because of his failures but because he is unorthodox and is doing what we elected him to do, ie. rid us of what/who have been destroying our nation, killing our middle class, weakening our military,  looking the other way when elites  break our laws and, again, you know the rest.

When all of this is behind us, and it better happen soon  or our republic is over,  I believe we will come to realize Obama turned out to be the equivalent of a black McCarthy and perhaps even more dangerous. He laid the foundation of racial division, apologized to the world for our "badness" and
corrupted many federal agencies and now continues his subtle attacks like no other former president except Carter who is mild by comparison.
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Another Ross Rant:

I believe we will get a good upside surprise Oct 29 when the Q3 GDP is released along with unemployment numbers. After the labor report this past week, it is clear with the end of the $600, people are returning to work, and some travel is happening, even if just by road. Manufacturing is doing well, as pent up demand is now showing up in manufacturing and imports, and as the $600 plus the $1200 subsidy has been getting spent. While the unemployment picture is still bad, and the Dems are doing all they can to keep it bad, it is, and will continue to be, improving rapidly. We could easily be down to 7%, or maybe even 6.5% by end of October. It now depends a lot on how fast things reopen, if there is no new surge after Labor Day, and very importantly,  how fast schools reopen so moms can go back to work. 

The teachers unions are doing their best to keep schools closed and to harm the recovery by spreading fear among the teachers and parents, or just claiming the schools are unsafe. The teachers unions are very closely tied to the Dems to give them bigger pensions and healthcare.  This has nothing to do with the virus. In many parts of the world, including Europe, schools are fully reopened with no problems. The damage to the kids by not reopening is vastly worse than whatever might happen with a few kids getting sick. The unions don’t care about the kids.

There were 10.5 million private jobs added in the past 4 months. That is almost half of all lost jobs. After 2009 it took 3 years to add the same number of jobs, and the unemployment rate now is just a little more than in 2012. Labor participation is up to 61.7% For five years after 2009 the rate declined because there were so many entitlement programs and unemployment was 99 weeks. All were incentives not to work. Social security disability which was a major program in 2009 is now 1 million fewer than in 2012. Note that after the $600 ended July 31,  employment took a nice rise and the world did not end. The $300 per week now starting to go out will allow many to catch up on rent and other bills. The lower end of workers saw a big increase in August and wages are up 4.65% on average from last year and up 4.9% for production workers.

The savings rate in July was 17.8%-a very high number. Home prices up 12% from last year,  and stock prices are at near new highs, making the wealth effect more impactful, especially with historic low interest rates and low gas prices. The ISM manufacturing index is at a 21 month high. Take all of this together and the trend going the right direction, and the economy could be in relatively good shape by election day. Biden can say whatever, but the economy now is in as good shape as it was in 2012-4 years into the Obama recovery. It may be a long time to get back to 3.5% unemployment but we are headed in the right direction assuming no  major surge in virus form Labor Day. Expect lots of stories in the press about how bad it is and anecdotes of people who can’t pay rent or buy food, but reality is things are doing pretty well for now in terms of rate of recovery.  That is why Pelosi will not agree to a new stimulus program.  She wants to kill the progress.  Voters will get that message soon and blame her more than Trump.

One hitch in the jobs numbers is the public unions, including teachers, plan to hold nationwide strikes soon supposedly to get political ends met like defund police. If they do this, it will just infuriate voters and likely give Trump another thing to batter Biden with. What is Joe going to say- he thinks these strikes are a good thing, or that he supports the strikers? Meanwhile Trump will say the Dems and unions are intentionally sabotaging the jobs recovery and wanting to defund police, and keeping your kids out of school, so keeping you from working.

Oil prices are lower again as the US summer driving season ends and as China reduces purchases. Refiners apparently have more than adequate supply of crude. The Saudis just announced another cut in production, but prices dropped anyway. Good for consumers, not good for the oil patch. Venezuela is now about to have almost no oil production since they let their equipment go with no maintenance and now Chevron is pulling out as the last oil co there. The oil service companies are also pulling out. Result is there is no cooking gas or fuel for vehicles. The economy is in total collapse and basic life functions like cooking and driving are coming to a stop. There is not even fuel for trucks to deliver food to markets. We apparently have prevented tankers from going from Iran to Venezuela. The regime will collapse one of these days and Iran has no ability to sell oil to them now, further damaging their economy. The Iranian currency has dropped 85% since sanctions, but Boden wants to end the sanctions and let Iran off the hook again just as they are in full collapse. Just like last time. He even has Wendy Herman and Kerry lined up to go back to Iran to reestablish the nuke deal, just as the Arabs are making peace deals with Israel and teaming up against Iran.   

One of the interesting  things to note is due to the Fed buying muni bonds, that market is holding up better than it should given the poor financial condition of cities and municipal institutions and agencies. If you are a holder of quality munis you will probably be OK thanks to the Fed. That does not mean you should chase yield.  The Fed is only buying better quality bonds. For example, don’t buy bonds that depend on stadium attendance, tourism or hotel revenues and hotel taxes to pay interest. The same goes for hospitals and universities. Be careful what bonds you invest in. The defaults are yet to happen.

The blip in the stock market was not unexpected as we now know the last part of the runup was powered by a combination of Softbank buying $4 billion of out of the money calls, a rush of amateur money into FANG stocks and options by Robinhood investors, and general momentum investors. The $4 billion calls controlled $50 billion of stock so that the sellers of the calls most likely bought $50 billion of shares to cover their position. While I still believe the big stocks are not over priced on a long term view, their prices had gone up too fast to be sustainable, and a correction was inevitable. However, as the economy continues to recover, and as the vaccine news continues to be very promising, we will continue to have a sustainable stock market. Not the continued big options driven run up we just saw, but now a slower, more sustainable rise over time.

When there is a rush into out of money call options such as we saw this past couple of weeks in Apple and Tesla, then the seller of the call buys the stock to cover his position on the sale of the call. With Softbank and the amateurs flooding the option market for these stocks, the share prices were forced higher too fast. Now those options are valueless and possibly the call sellers were dumping their shares.  In any event, the drop in the market was not due to any economic or company specific issue.  It was purely due to market speculators and algos following along. Things may be ugly and volatile for a couple of days, but should settle down later this week as some of the sideline investors with all that cash start to come in to buy at the lower share prices. We can expect many more of these blips up and down as the election nears. If the economic news I mention above does come to pass, and if Trump rises in the polls, as he is apparently doing, then the markets will probably move up for the next few weeks. Just be prepared for some more stomach churning days.

I am on an email group that includes some of the most well-known and sophisticated fund manager/investors in the market. Almost none has any more certain idea what the market may do over the next few weeks, months or year than you do, although they have a slight bias to the down side. Estimates are S&P 3100-3600 +-.  We are all just guessing which way to go in the dense fog right now.  Too many variables. Anybody could be correct. I have my view, which is slightly more positive, and some others have a different view. We will know a lot more by October 7 when a lot more information will be available and you can make a decision what to do before the election.

Here is what it all comes down to. If there is a new stimulus package in the order of $1.5 Trillion in the next few weeks, then the GDP increase in Q4 will follow on to a very good 30% or so increase in Q3. If Trump is then reelected, and the Senate stays Republican, then the stock market in 2021 will be very good. If there is no stimulus package, which Pelosi wants to prevent, then GDP in Q4 will be flat, and if Biden wins and the Senate goes Dem, the stock market in early, and maybe in all of 2021, goes down. That is why Pelosi refuses to come to the table on a new package, and why the teachers refuse to go back to work.  They want to keep GDP and unemployment looking bad for the election. It is that simple. The fact that the people, and kids in particular, will be badly hurt is irrelevant to them. It is all about power.

Here are the options:  Biden wins and Dems take Senate  -market goes down 30%;  Biden wins and R’s keep Senate by slim margin  market goes down 10%; Trump wins and R’s hold Senate by slim margin,  market ends year at 3400-3600 on the S&P, and in 2021 it rises to 3800 , Trump wins and Dems take Senate, market drops to 3000 and in 2021 stays flat or maybe up a little. We will know a lot more by Oct 5 after the first debate and Durham, and the Sept jobs report. All of this assumes the vaccines remain on track and by Nov 1 there is approval for emergency use with distribution by Jan 1. Also assumes no new virus surge in September, October, and death rate continues to drop.

The big US tech companies are now a target of the EU for their source of a bailout by imposing big taxes on them. The head of taxation for the EU just said the big tech companies were big winners during the virus so they need to pay more taxes.  In short, the big American companies were the most successful, so let’s tax them instead of our own companies. Classic socialistic view of taxing success. The same politics of the Dems now. Instead of letting the successful job creators use their profits in an efficient way, the government thinks they should take it and spend it in inefficient ways.

There is possibly a black swan circling on October 15.  That is the deadline set by UK for a draft agreement with the EU related to Brexit. As of today it appears there is a strong chance there will be no agreement. It needs to happen by then to meet the Dec 31 deadline to have legislation done. If there is no agreement, Boris says he is willing to walk away and make amendments to the agreements already signed as it related to Ireland. He is probably bluffing, but we don’t know. If so, the pound will decline and financial markets could have a big hiccup. It is completely unclear where this one goes from here.

In addition, the EU says US tech companies are making a lot of profit so must pay new added taxes to the EU. Trump is defending these US companies, and said such taxes would bring new tariffs and other retaliation for the EU. It is possible the EU will have no deal with the UK, and be in a tax trade war with the US. That would really harm the EU economy. It would not help the US if the EU goes into a major recession and the pound and Euro drop materially. Keep your eye on these events as they will affect the US economy and stock market. It is a massive game of chicken.

The US appears to have had worse unemployment numbers than the EU at the peak, but this is because in the EU you can’t just fire or layoff people. In Germany the government gives companies money to continue to pay salaries so people not really working appear to be working in the data. However, in the US, the greater flexibility to hire and fire means recovery is faster because employers do not have to worry about cutting again quickly in case things go bad again. You can’t do that in Europe so easily. So don’t try to compare the US to other countries when it comes to employment data.  They are on a very different system, and do not count the same. Industrial production and GDP are much better measures of what is happening, and even those are not always so accurate.

Many large box stores turned their locations into a combination of fulfillment centers and curbside pickup, allowing them to still do good business. As reopening is occurring, retail in some locations is again hiring. Total retail spend in July was 5.8% above same period last year, so consumers are spending and business is rebuilding quickly. Retail hired 248,000 in August. This does not mean malls and closed stores will reopen and solve the huge over stored problem we have in the US.  It just means online shopping is now possibly 30% of retail, and even groceries are being bought online in large quantity.

Retail real estate is never going back where it was and there will be a lot of repurposing of retail locations. If you own retail sites you need to be rethinking alternative uses. There will also be a substantial number of NYC hotels that never reopen.  There were far too many rooms in NY before the virus and the business was having trouble then. Like with retail, the virus will just accelerate the rationalization of the hotel business. The vaccine will not be the sudden savior of many big hotels.  It will just take too long for there to be major conferences and a lot of business travel again. Hotels are now going back to lenders in increasing numbers.

Adam Schiff on CNN now claims Barr is lying that China is a bigger threat to the election interference, more so than Russia. He is still on his Russia conspiracy crap.  Biden also chimed in on Friday to say similar things. Do they really expect anyone with a brain to believe them. It makes you wonder about Biden and China given his son got $1.5 billion from the Chinese government, and Joe said China is not a competitor. Meantime China is building a massive navy and attack force to invade Taiwan if Joe is elected. This could get very ugly fast in 2021.

The lunatic snowflake fringe is at it again. At USC a professor teaching communications used an example of a Mandarin word that is commonly used in China to prove a point. It is pronounced Nay Guh, and is commonly used in China like we use um when speaking. So of course the black kids failed to understand the point he was making about language and communication, which had zero to do with ethnic issues, they got insulted, and demanded he be removed,  which he was. The university, instead of explaining reality to the kiddies, dumped the professor and just empowered the cancel culture that much more. His use of the term had to do with how various languages use filler words when speaking, which is what the Chinese do with that word which has zero to do with blacks or anything. The school should have said, if you are not mature enough to understand what the professor was talking about, then you do not belong in business school. So things are going to be even worse than ever on campus now.

For those who do not live in the Hamptons, this time of year is died and went to heaven. Every day is clear sunny skies, temperature, 75-80, no humidity, and perfect tennis weather, perfect boating weather. Perfect to just sit outside and say this is as good as it gets.
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Sandman is a young man who needs to be watched  because I believe he is going places.


Nick Sandmann Torches ACLU Associate, Professor Who Called Him ‘Dangerous’: ‘I Will Not Be Canceled’


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As I  noted in a previous memo, I am a very small contributor to Tom Fitton's organization which really does a great job of pursuing the crooks.  Interestingly, he seems to come up only with Democrats but he is willing to go after anyone.

He not only investigates but he also prosecutes.  His type of investigations are what the mass media used to do but no longer if it boils down to being neutral.

Secret Service Admits To Destroying Records In Alleged Biden Breast-Grabbing Incident By Tyler Durden
In 2017, the Gateway Pundit's Cassandra Fairbanks published a claim from an anonymous former Secret Service agent who said that they had to protect female agents from Joe Biden due to "Weinstein level stuff," referring to notable rapist and Democrat, Harvey Weinstein.
"We had to cancel the VP Christmas get together at the Vice President’s house because Biden would grope all of our wives and girlfriend’s asses," said the former agent, adding "He would mess with every single woman or teen. It was horrible."
The agent also claimed Biden would walk around naked in the VP residence.

And:

Tom Fitton: Leftists Want to BREAK Voting System Through Mail-in-Voting Push!

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the risks of mail-in-voting for the upcoming election, how we may not know the actual results, & more!

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John Durham, FBI Haven't DONE ANYTHING on #ObamaGate Investigation--What's Going On?

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss Judicial Watch filing an opposition to a request to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit against Mayor Bowser; Attorney General Barr stating there may not be a report from U.S. Attorney Durham concerning the FBI and intelligence agencies; Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stating he has had to coordinate with Durham's review into the possible links of Russian interference in Trump's 2016 campaign; an intelligence report showing that Russia is seeking to amplify concerns of mail-in voter fraud; North Carolina experiencing a high level of mail-in ballot requests; and more!
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Questions the mass media will never ask but should:

QUESTIONS FOR JOE BIDEN:

1. Why did members of your family keep getting lucrative business opportunities overseas while you were vice president?
2. How did your brother, Frank, secure $45,000,000 in taxpayer loans from the Obama administration for his Caribbean projects?
3. How did a newly-minted firm employing your other brother, James, receive a $15 billion contract to build homes in Iraq despite having no experience in construction or international development?
4. Why did your son Hunter accompany you on your official trip to Beijing in December 2013? What did he do on that trip? Who did he meet with? What should the American public make of the fact that just 10 days after this trip, your son’s boutique private equity firm secured a $1 billion investment deal from the state-owned bank of China (later expanded to $1.5 billion) despite having no prior experience in China, and with this deal, the Chinese government granted your son’s firm a first-of-its-kind arrangement to operate in the the recently formed Shanghai Free-Trade Zone—a perk not granted to any of the large established financial institutions?
5. Should the American public be concerned that your son’s private equity firm partnered with a Chinese government-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate to facilitate the purchase of an American company that produced strategically sensitive dual-use military technology that the Chinese government wanted?
6. Does your “Build Back Better” proposal contain any provisions to ensure that American taxpayer-funded technology is not bought off by Chinese state-backed enterprises working with private equity firms like your son’s?
7. Back in 2000, you voted in favor of giving permanent Normal Trade Relations (NTR) to China. At the time, you said that this would not lead to “the collapse of the American manufacturing economy” because China is “about the size of the Netherlands” and could not possibly become “our major economic competitor.” Furthermore, you predicted that free trade with China would establish “a path toward ever greater political and economic freedom” for the people of China. Do you still stand by these statements today after 3.4 million American jobs have been lost to China and millions of China’s citizens have been imprisonedsurveilleddisappeared, and used as slave labor by an increasingly authoritarian regime enriched by 20 years of record trade imbalances from flagrant trade violations?
8. The People’s Republic of China has a bold plan called “Made in China 2025” to dominate the key technologies of the future in order to overtake the United States militarily and economically. Do you still contend that China is “not competition for us”?
9. Why did you promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to financial special interest groups when research was clear that the deal would make it easier for corporations to move U.S. jobs overseas?
10. Do you believe Xi Jinping kept his promise to Barack Obama to end cyber-espionage against the United States? If not, what are you prepared to do about it?
11. Do you accept that the coronavirus originated in China? Do you think China was honest with the world in its handling of the coronavirus? Are you satisfied with China’s explanations for how it spread? Do you believe their claims about the number of cases and fatalities in China?
12. Do you think China should be held responsible in any way for its handling of the coronavirus? If not, why not? What, if any, repercussions should there be for China in its handling of the coronavirus?
13. Did you suggest investigating Michael Flynn under the Logan Act, as Peter Strzok’s notes suggest?
14. You said in your DNC acceptance speech that America is ready to “do the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism.” What did you do in your 36 years as a U.S. senator and 8 years as vice president to root out systemic racism? Why didn’t it work?
15. You have called for “revolutionary institutional changes.” What does that mean in practice?
16. You have vowed to rescind the Trump tax cuts. Can you think of a single example of a country that recovered from a recession by raising taxes?

QUESTIONS FOR KAMALA HARRIS:

17. Why did you refuse to prosecute even one sexual abuse case involving the Catholic Church in San Francisco when you were attorney general, despite the pleas of victims’ groups?
18. Also, why did your attorney general’s office refuse to release the documents obtained from the San Francisco archdiocese with all the information about priests accused of sexual abuse? Victims’ rights groups have criticized your office for deliberately burying these documents and thereby covering up the crimes and leaving the public unprotected. Why did you do this? The San Francisco district attorney’s office claimed in 2019 that they no longer have these documents in their possession. What happened to them? How can you claim to be a defender of children when you declined to prosecute the abusers of children?
19. Why did your office decline to investigate the health supplement fraud cases involving companies your husband’s law firm represented? Did you, as California’s attorney general, ever purposefully decline investigating or prosecuting clients of your husband’s law firm?
20. You said you believed the women accusing Joe Biden of inappropriate touching. Do you believe Tara Reade? If not, why not? If so, how do you justify supporting him now?
21. You once attacked a judicial nominee on the basis of his membership in the Catholic fraternal organization the Knights of Columbus, which is the largest fraternal organization in the world and includes among its past and present members many prominent Americans like President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA), and Vince Lombardi. Do you believe that being a member of the Knights of Columbus disqualifies a person from holding public office? Would you refuse to hire someone on the basis of their membership in the Knights of Columbus or any other Catholic organization? In your questioning of this Catholic judicial nominee, you singled out the issue of the Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life. Would you disqualify a job applicant on the basis of their Catholic beliefs, including their beliefs about abortion? Do you believe that being pro-life disqualifies someone from employment?
22. Why did you single out journalist David Daleiden for prosecution for undercover journalism that others do without penalty?
23. Your chief-of-staff, Karine Jean-Pierre, wrote an op-ed last year attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Americans who associate with it, stating “You cannot call yourself a progressive while continuing to associate yourself with an organization like AIPAC that has often been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive.” Do you believe that pro-Israel activism is incompatible with progressive values?
24. The Biden campaign has adopted a version of the Green New Deal that calls for 100 percent renewable electricity generation by 2035. California has adopted similar “green” goals, but now it can’t keep the lights on due to the state’s reliance on wind and solar energy. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newson admitted this week that the Golden State needs a “backup” plan for energy because the current blackouts caused by lack of wind and overcast skies have shown the danger of relying solely on “green” energy. Why would the nation fare any better than sunny breezy California in keeping the lights on if we adopt 100 percent renewable energy?
25. You said in the past that we “need to hold China accountable” for trade violations, but you are against the use of tariffs. How do you intend to hold China accountable? You also said that “we need to export American products, not American jobs.” How do you intend to make sure we don’t export more American jobs to China? How would your policy differ significantly from the same policies that led to the loss of 3.4 million jobs to China?

QUESTIONS FOR BIDEN OR HARRIS:

26. You both supported the George Floyd protests, which you claimed were peaceful. Have you spoken to any victims of the riots — people who lost loved ones or businesses?
27. Do you believe that the looting of the Magnificent Mile in Chicago was a “form of reparations,” as one Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer claimed? Is looting an appropriate form of protest as a means of reparations?
28. Seattle Black Lives Matter protesters stormed a neighborhood last week, demanding that residents “get the f*** out” and “give black people back their homes” as reparations. Do you support that style of protest?
29. If elected, would you object if protesters decided to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square across from the White House? What about statues to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington? Would you be willing to sign a written pledge to protect our national monuments and statues?
30. What is the maximum number of illegal immigrants you would allow into the country before securing the border to stop more from entering?
31. The Obama administration deported an estimated 3 million illegal aliens. Was that a bad thing?
32. With 30 million Americans unemployed due to the coronavirus, would you support a halt on work visas for foreign workers competing with Americans for jobs?
33. Do you still support a ban on fracking? If so, what do you say to the estimated 7.5 million American jobs that will be lost due to such a ban, which includes an estimated 550,000 jobs lost in Pennsylvania, 500,000 jobs lost in Ohio, 363,000 jobs lost in North Carolina, 353,000 jobs lost in Colorado, and 233,000 jobs lost in Michigan?
34. Wall Street has praised the choice of Kamala Harris as VP. Why do you think financial special interests support her so much?
35. Will you be following the advice of your Wall Street and Silicon Valley donors in negotiating with China? If not, whose advice would you seek out in negotiating with China?
36. Do you support China’s actions in Hong Kong?
37. Do you support China’s actions in Xinjiang province where an estimated 3 million predominantly Uyghur Muslims are imprisoned in what the Pentagon has described as “concentration camps”? Are you concerned about the fact that Hunter Biden’s China-backed private equity firm invested heavily in the surveillance technology used to spy on the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province?
38. Do you disagree with how the Trump administration is handling Huawei? Do you think Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou should be extradited to the United States for trial?
39. Do you believe China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a form of colonialism or is it a good program that Third World nations should sign up for?
40. What are you prepared to do if China invades Taiwan or uses military force to assert its claims in the South China Sea?
41. Do you believe the US. should return to the Iran nuclear deal? Would you make further concessions to Iran to secure that? Do you believe the Iranian regime should be allowed to buy weapons again?
42. Are you pleased with the results of the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya?
43. Why did the Islamic State fold up so much more quickly under Trump than the Obama administration predicted?
44. Would you advise Arab nations to follow the UAE’s lead and make peace with Israel, or should they hold out for big concessions to the Palestinians?
45. Should the United States apologize for demanding NATO partners meet their financial commitments? If not, why didn’t the Obama administration ever do that?

Rebecca Mansour is a Senior Editor-at-Large for Breitbart News. Follow her on Twitter at @RAMansour.
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