Wise as serpents and innocent as doves

Mark Lewis, over at Townhall.com has an article that at first glance claims that Germany To Put Pictures of Hitler on the Deutschmark!. Great click bait, right?

As it turns out, it is not happening, and nobody, but nobody wants to do it. Why? Well, because Hitler led a regime that killed some 6 million Jews. If Germany were to propose it, everyone would immediately distance themselves from Germany. The German government would be diplomatically isolated.

But can you imagine the world-wide outcry if Germany did put Hitler’s face on the Deutschmark? First, the world would be in total shock. Then, immediately, there would be a non-stop cacophony of denunciation, recrimination, abuse, condemnation, and, no doubt, sanctions--and perhaps even threats of war--against the German government. Germany would be out of the European Union and NATO (perhaps the best arguments for Hitler on the Deutschmark). Such an action would be headline news every night until Germany rescinded the insane proposition. And rightly so. To exalt a criminal ogre like Hitler would be an offense of the highest magnitude, an insult to the entire world, a hideous, despicable action by crazed, degenerate human waste.

But we all know that the German government, thankfully, has no intention of ever doing such a thing.

But as it turns out, Hitler was a piker, and number 3 on the top ten list of mass murderers. Number 2 on that list of mass murderers was Joseph Stalin. But coming in at number 1 is none other than China's Mao. Yet whose face is on every bill? You guessed it: Mao Zedong. Yet no outcry. Why? Why isn't China treated as Germany would be in Lewis's mental experiment?

As I have noted elsewhere on TownhalI, I lived in the People’s Republic of China for almost ten years of my life, having only recently escaped that prison. The common people there, the slaves (for that’s what they are), like most such people in the world, are decent folk, just trying to survive and live a happy, prosperous life. They're masters, the Chinese Communist Party, are thugs. Human garbage. Power-hungry, murdering, oppressive thieves, liars, cheats, monsters, and a few other things I would like to call them that Townhall probably wouldn’t permit. You have heard this, of course, from other conservative pundits in America. They tell the truth. I’ve lived it.

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A government that puts a picture of the greatest mass murderer in human history on all their money. What does that tell you about that government? And a world that says nothing about it. What does that tell you about our world? That so many people on this planet suck up to that country, buying its slave-labor produced products with hardly a whimper of protest, and slobbering over a regime that has killed more innocent people than any in human history is at the top of the most nauseating, revolting, and inexcusable facts imaginable. Yes, I’m talking to YOU, Joe Biden!

But, the Left controls the world narrative now--from China, to the Wuhan virus, to sexual immorality, to climate change and other pseudo-scientific theories. And the Left is wrong about 99.9% of what it believes (though I couldn’t tell you what the .1% is they are right about). That narrative-control isn’t going to change soon. And it takes a wise person with courage to see through it and stand up against it.

Yes, it does take a wise person. "Wise as serpents and innocent as doves." This what we must all be.

Update: Meanwhile at the Congressional Post we find that the New York Times is extolling the fashion sense of Xi Jinping. As it turns out, the author is a former propaganda writer for the Chinese Communist Party.

The National Pulse revealed that many prominent news organizations, including the New York Times, CNN, and Reuters, took part in what is described as a “Marxism journalism school.” This was reportedly done in collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party.

It also came to light last year that China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid for trips to the country by several U.S. journalists — on the surface as a way to better understand the country. Is there any doubt they were financed to gain favorable coverage?

Nevermind the well-chronicled cultural and some believe physical genocide ongoing in the country’s west. And overlook the iron-fisted reaction to dissent and even questioning authority in the mildest manner. What’s important is a sense of fashion, and that’s what Xi Jinping portrays.