Stephen L. Wilmeth Aug 12Liked by Roger Simon Holy cow! The Walz pick is no longer shrouded in mystery. He is exactly the pick recruited long before America had any idea! And, yes, Roger, welcome back! A bunch of us ran searches checking on your health and wellbeing! Expand full comment |
Sebastian’s Substack Aug 13 According to legal documents disclosed Tuesday, Sharon Bush's lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years. Marshall Davis Brown, lawyer for Sharon Bush, expressed bewilderment at why Grace would want Bush and at such a high price since he knew little about the semiconductor business. "You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?" asked Brown. "That's correct," Bush, 48, responded in the March 4 deposition, a transcript of which was read by Reuters after the Houston Chronicle first reported on the documents. Expand full comment |
If your point is that there is corruption and "elite capture" on both side of the aisle, I wholeheartedly concur. Certainly, the Chinese don't care about the party allegiance of the people they're buying. But now that we know more about it, we'd better stop it in its tracks before it eats our country alive. Expand full comment |
Sebastian’s Substack Aug 13 Bush sr was the UN ambassador in 1971 when China was given a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Bush did not recall Ambassador Lilly after Tiananmen Square! And then he sent Scowcroft to grovel in secret to Deng!! And you care about a teacher staying in China?!? And then Bush’s lackey in Congress was the Republican sponsor for PNTR with China. And then Bush jr finished negotiating China into the WTO in the aftermath of 9/11. And then Bush’s final foreign trip was to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. The Bush family’s goal over multiple generations and multiple decades was to make China great again…MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! Expand full comment |
Now do the Bidens. Only, over here on the Right, we don't pretend to see the Bushes as anything more than another dysfunctional team of successful political grifters enriching themselves at the expense of truth and freedom. I've been courted by some of these grifts as a nobody academic and political worker, and Roger explains it well. You start with some mysterious invitation to a cultural event, and then you get another, and another. They feed you lobster and filet mignon in a fancy hotel. There's some weird cultural performance and seemingly no politics, unless you know how to do your homework, which nobody bothers to do. Some of your colleagues know why they're there; most just feel flattered and think they've had an exotic "cultural exchange." The ones who know what they're doing and keep the relationship going can really get ahead, and some of the willfully naive find themselves moving up the ladder too. How do you think a nobody high school coach gets 30 trips to China and ends up in Washington and then plucked to be VP? All you have to do is close your eyes tightly and give away or sell your soul. Expand full comment |
Sebastian’s Substack Aug 20 Did you even know Neal Bush helped China develop a semiconductor industry?? You are clueless. Walz is anti-CCP! The Bushes are pro-CCP! Understand the difference!! Expand full comment |
Here in America, we prefer that children of elected officials do not use our resources to enrich themselves with foreign totalitarian governments. But we are discussing entirely different things anyway. Expand full comment |
This information should be available to everyone. This connection is very dangerous! Expand full comment |
Great flashback to So. Cal. and that period. Always the compelling story teller as you air your own foibles and biases freely. Can't be a journalist that way, thank god. Citizen Free Press (aggregator) ought to pick up your work, like Don Surber's. Big audience. Epoch Time's loss here. Expand full comment |
Sebastian’s Substack Aug 13 Neil Bush is the founder and chair of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations. He is the third of five children of President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush. He and his wife Maria live in Houston, Texas and have six children. Mr. Bush has been involved with energy, real estate and international business development for four decades beginning in 1980. For the past 25 years, Mr. Bush has engaged in various international business development activities with a focus on China. He first visited China in 1975 when his father was the chief liaison officer representing the United States in Beijing. His business and personal interests have allowed for many return trips over the years. Since 1975, Mr. Bush has traveled to China over 140 times and has visited over 40 cities. Expand full comment |
M.’s Substack Aug 12 I wondered what happened to your brilliant columns at ET but glad to see you're still contributing to the dialogue through this Substack. Godspeed Roger and Sheryl! Expand full comment |
Loved starting my morning again with a Roger Simon piece!! I even read it aloud to my husband, and he, too, enjoyed hearing the truths, especially the personal experiences you use as proof. With your permission, I would like to quote a part of this that deals with Walz, giving you full credit. Again, I find we have something in common. Back in the late 1970’s-early 1980’s, as a World Literature teacher of gifted 10th graders, along with my colleague, a World History teacher of these same classes, we were contacted by the US-China Friendship Association and asked if we would like to have a teacher from communist China come visit our classrooms. Having had a thorough and profound classroom experience on the evils of communism in high school, I had no illusions about the CCP. We received permission to have the visit. “Showing is better than telling.” My students enjoyed the visit, liked seeing the beautiful kimonos the teacher brought, accepted her “gifts” of pens and little trinkets, but they couldn’t wait until she left to ask me questions about what they saw. Who were the three mysterious men, all dressed in black pants, white shirts, and dark jackets who stood watch over her in our classroom? Why did you pretend to give her a copy of our World Lit. book but slip one of our resources, your old American Lit. book, into her bag? (She whispered to me asking if I would give her an American Lit. book.), and, Why was she so quiet and seemingly shy when we asked her about her students in her classrooms? Of course I let them ask all the questions they had. But I then asked them what had they learned through their observations that would give them answers to most of their questions. This became an honest and open discussion about communism. A few days later, one of my students brought back the pen he had been given. On its own, the pen had broken into many pieces. This resulted in another in-depth discussion on communism. Expand full comment |
Richard’s Substack Aug 12 Roger Simon is like a rare diamond. And his contributions to Substack will be a precious. His common sense observations are powerful…and well, full of obvious but (usually) ignored sensibilities by our media industrial complex. Welcome to Substack! Expand full comment |
Steve’s Substack Aug 12·edited Aug 12 Welcome back, Mr Simon! Expand full comment |
Roger, ten years before When Roger Met Deng, twenty before Ten Thousand Martyrs to Mao, I convinced my poli sci chair to credit me for a trip to the Nixon Counterinaugural. January, 1969 I filmed, photographed, and taped the permitted parade of America's Left in their Rebel-Rebel post-Chicago caterwauling. Mark Rudd's red armbanded Maoists jogged past the Department of Justice chanting Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, The NLF Is Gonna Win when one of their number peeled off to bang the now-removed iron knocker on the big steel doors. In the windows above, the shirtsleeved lawyers flashed rictus grins and double birds--but now those windows are filled with smarmy Marxists. You were tied to a mast of common sense and heard the sirens singing--and can now report the hidden danger. Kamo Kamala and her Tampon Rambo are the puppets of a wider menace. Maintain your lighthouse--lest America wreck on seductive rocks. Expand full comment |
Mitchell’s Substack Aug 12 Excellent piece. One minor correction, though. By best estimates, only 2% of Chinese belong to the Comminist Party and they are recruited. Apparently, you don’t just apply. (I could be wrong.) Expand full comment |
I have heard similar, Mitchell. Perhaps the word "apply" is too specific. The process is probably more like making sure the CCP officials see your hand is raised. Expand full comment |
Great to have your “pen to paper” back, Roger, as missed your weekly article in EpochTimes! This article both reminds me of the first days I visited China for business and the fact that our mainstream media is a part of the efforts to kill democracy in America. My first visit was in 1995, a time when major cities were used to seeing foreigners; however, outside of those cities, foreigners were rare. I remember visiting a factory in a small town (about a million) and taking a walk before dinner with my hosts and being followed by a few dozen people. One woman brought her son out to meet us and touch his head, interesting. I was also in the Beijing area, actually stuck on a highway when the CCP leader Deng Xiaoping made the declaration that China could become a great communist nation after they became the world’s greatest capitalist. This led to Chinese manufacturers being freed up to pursue global business which they successfully did. While many of these companies were highly successful and “free” to pursue their capitalist dream, most eventually were controlled/influenced by the CCP when their size and wealth grew; so much for the capitalist dream. Imagine if we had real journalists working in our MSM, including Fox, who would actually expose politicians like Walz for who and what they are and want to move the US to. It would in fact be a Red Wave in November if people had real knowledge of what is going on - we can only pray for a good outcome; if not achieved, we will be praying for other reasons. Look forward to hearing from you on a regular basis! Expand full comment |
So thankful to you for sharing your insight. Expand full comment |
What's bizarre? A cloistered young, small-town man has his eyes opened to the world on a one-year teaching trip and is able to turn it into a second job, taking others like him to China for study programs. Like practically the entire rest of the world, he thought engagement with China would liberalize the country. He has spoken out repeatedly against Chinese government repression and authoritarianism. It's this article that's bizarre. Expand full comment |
So they replaced their Communist puppet and his deranged idiot sidekick with the same deranged idiot and a new communist puppet as the side kick? That's truly alarming, the Chinese are serious outplaying us as a nation, they are going to win. Expand full comment |
Sebastian’s Substack Aug 13·edited Aug 13 We just had the Olympics…guess what Olympics had America losing the gold medal count by a significant margin?? 2008 Beijing Olympics!! Guess which American president attended that Olympics to bend the knee to our inevitable superiors?? Bush! And yet thanks to Obama and Trump and Biden China never surpassed America as the Bush family desired!! Expand full comment |
The Best Revenge Aug 13 That was a sobering read. Signs of an American Cultural Revolution are everywhere. It’s ominous to put it lightly. Expand full comment |
Points And Figures Aug 12 Congrats on the new gig. Say hello to Sheryl. When it comes to core beliefs, is Walz that different from Gavin Newsome? Senator Markey? Gov Gretchen Whitmer? Expand full comment |
You write well. But you are a vandal. You use words to start fires. Not to shed light. Shame on you. I realize it’s a whole lot easier and the flesh is weak. I’d be interested in knowing why you left Epoch Times. I have some motorcycle acquaintances who read it. They pronounce it Epic Times and I’m quite sure they think epoch is how epic is spelled. They don’t know it’s Chinese connection. They also believe Bill Gates is trying to depopulate the world and there are locator RFIDs in the Covid vaccines. Oh. Hillary kills babies, cuts off the faces, and wears them as masks. Oh. Michele Obama is a tranny. As I recall, you can learn more than one of these things in Epoch Times. You’re slumming. Expand full comment |
