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Armas Weekend Reader

29-30 October 2022

Joshua Treviño
Oct 28, 2022
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CPT Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell, USAF, inspects combat damage on her A-10, 8 April 2003.

This week: here comes the Red Wave, the death spiral of the US-Saudi relationship, war is coming in Taiwan, General Winter on the Ukrainian front, no one trusts the Germans, the Ace of Spies, and nursing a crippled A-10 home from wartime Baghdad. Let’s go — 

1) “Assume the polls are wrong. In fact, the polling bottom line numbers probably are. The trends are what matters. The trends have been shifting in the GOP’s direction for several weeks. Forget all the polling. Assume there is no polling. How do you know the GOP is winning big?”

Erick Erickson Show Notes
Forget the Polls. Here Are the Signs of the Red Wave.
The evidence that a wave is growing transcends the polling. Take a moment and listen below. But let me explain it to you in writing as well. Assume the polls are wrong. In fact, the polling bottom line numbers probably are. The trends are what matters. The trends have been shifting in the GOP’s direction for several weeks…
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7 months ago · 40 likes · 8 comments · Erick-Woods Erickson

2) “China has developed a vast network of overlapping institutions on campus designed to silence its critics, enhance its reputation abroad, and use the strengths of the American university system—particularly its research prowess—for its own benefit, often in a manner that directly undermines American national security. Simply put, no foreign government has ever had both the resources and the resolve necessary to override academic firewalls against malign foreign influence in the way China does today.”

Persuasion
How China Exerts Its Power
By Seth Kaplan and John Metz Shortly before the Winter Olympics in Beijing this past February, students at George Washington University put up posters criticizing the Chinese government’s policies. The posters decried the internment and execution of Uyghurs, the crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong, and China’s lack of transparency during the early weeks o…
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7 months ago · 36 likes · 9 comments · Seth Kaplan and John Metz

3) “Consider one of the sharpest contrasts in our national life right now, the difference between Gov. Ron DeSantis and Gov. Gavin Newsom, Florida and California.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/opinion/newsom-desantis-culture-war.html

4) “Americans clearly and overwhelmingly support a foreign policy that maintains the United States’ superpower status.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/american-voters-should-not-be-mistaken-for-doves/

5) “Last night’s debate was an unmitigated disaster. A disaster for Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor—who appeared confused and could barely manage a coherent sentence, let alone a complete paragraph.”

Common Sense
The Media’s Cover-Up of John Fetterman
It should now be crystal clear why Democrat John Fetterman refused to take part in more than a single debate with his Republican Senate rival, Mehmet Oz, and why Fetterman insisted on pushing that debate to just two weeks before Election Day—after at least…
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7 months ago · 988 likes · 782 comments · Peter Savodnik

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