Is it just me, or did Ted Cruz start getting a lot cooler after he grew the beard?
If you’ve happened to see a high-budget CG filled movie in the past 20 years or so, than you might have noticed that China often gets sucked-off at some point in said movie. The Jaeger HQ in Pacific Rim, the Arks in 2012, the critical technology needed to save Matt Damon in The Martian, all things that couldn’t be done without the glorious People’s Republic of Ironically Named Nations. Not to mention the edits of black people out of movie promos, but we went over that already.
This kind of shit is so prolific in Hollywood that it can just as much be called a secret as the fact that Hollywood is run, largely, buy sex-slavers – easily their worst kept secret that’s been joked about for decades. Openly joked about.
So why does Hollywood do this? Is it because the gated-off actors are sympathetic to the Chinese model of governance and what to be Aristocrats, not just in practice but in name as well? Well, yes, there is that. But it’s mainly for market access. The Chinese government, being the Hell-on-Earth giga-bureaucracy that it is, is very choosy about what the worker ants get to watch back at their pod apartment. If a film isn’t at least sprinkled with communist masturbation, it’s probably not going to be shown in many Chinese theaters, if any at all.
Why then would we in the US expend our military assets to help make these movies? In a saner world, we wouldn’t. But there happen to be a number of Chinese plants in our midst that say it’s okay. Hence the insipient doom facing this legislation.
But while it’s passage would be a landmark accomplishment that I wouldn’t go so far to deem impossible, passage might not be the goal here. As has been remarked upon numerous times in past News Corners, public opinion of China is…in the red, shall we say? This puts any House and Senate members on China’s payroll in a very precarious position and forces a degree of mental gymnastics often sidelined and dismissed by politicians. What this is, I think, is a very shrewd and inescapable trap set by the Texas Senator to mark vulnerable incumbents for replacement come November.
The deciding factor as to whether or not it’s successful is, like most things, publicity. If Cruz and his marry men can put and keep this bill in the spotlight before, during, and after voting, it will succeed even if it fails. We’ll have a fresh shit-list of Chinese agents either way.
As for how this bill could be enforced if it does pass? That I’m actually not too sure on. All the more reason it’s probably meant to be a finger-trap.
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