FBI Arrests Chinese National Loyal to the Communist Chinese Party for Smuggling In an "Agroterrorism Agent" Capable of Wiping Out Billions of Dollars Worth of Foodcrops

This is a serious, serious escalation.

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash

New... I can confirm that the FBI arrested a Chinese national within the United States who allegedly smuggled a dangerous biological pathogen into the country.
The individual, Yunqing Jian, is alleged to have smuggled a dangerous fungus called "Fusarium graminearum," which is an agroterrorism agent, into the U.S. to research at the University of Michigan, where she works.
This fungus can cause a disease called "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.
Evidence also indicates Jian had expressed loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and had received funding from the Chinese government for similar work on this pathogen in China.
Jian's boyfriend, Zunyong Liu -- also charged in the complaint -- works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen. Liu is alleged to have first lied, then admitted, to also smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America--through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport--so that he too could conduct research the University of Michigan.
Both individuals have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud.
This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply, which would have grave consequences... putting American lives and our economy at serious risk.
Your FBI will continue working tirelessly to be on guard against it.
Our @FBIDetroit team did excellent work in this case partnering with @CBP.
Justice will be done.

I don't know if Trump blames China for this. It might be a case of another of these Frankenvirus maniacs just deciding to play dice with human existence. Trump said he had a "very good call" with Chinese tyrant Xi over trade terms.

President Trump on Thursday announced he held a lengthy and productive call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, focused "almost entirely on TRADE." Trump said both sides will soon send top officials to a follow-up meeting, location TBD.
Key Details:
Trump described the call with Xi as "a very good phone call...discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal," adding the conversation "resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries."
He named key U.S. representatives for the upcoming trade discussions: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Trump confirmed the discussion excluded any talk of Russia, Ukraine, or Iran, stating, "The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE."

Update: Last week, the State Department announced that it will begin revoking Chinese "student" visas.

One day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the U.S. would scale back visas to Chinese students, a department spokesperson emphasized that the Trump administration would fight back against China's "exploitation" of American research and intellectual property.
Spokesperson for the Department of State Tammy Bruce delivered her warning against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during a press briefing on Thursday.
[RELATED: Education Department launches investigation into UPenn over foreign donations]
"The United States, I further can say here, will not tolerate the CCP's exploitation of U.S. universities or theft of U.S. research, intellectual property, or technologies to grow its military power, conduct intelligence collection, or repress voices of opposition," Bruce said.
In her opening remarks, Bruce noted that initiatives like pulling visas from CCP-linked students are part of the department's updated "America First" reorganizing.
"Every visa adjudication is a national security decision - every single one of them," Bruce continued.
The spokesperson noted China's extensive role in "exploiting" American intellectual property and research, adding that the State Department's latest strategy is "one way that [the department] can certainly try to mitigate that issue."
In a brief press release on Wednesday, Secretary Rubio said that revoking student visas would place "America First, not China."
"I think everyone who's here on a visa has to recognize ... that America takes their visa seriously, that vetting is not a one-time process - it's continuing," Bruce said.

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1 e45ybrybvw4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:20 PM (H4vqY)

2 Nixon, Clinton, Obama and Biden have a lot to answer for.

Posted by: Death from within at June 05, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

3 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:20 PM (H4vqY)

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Exactly!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:21 PM (2UnvF)

4 It's like covid...for agriculture.
Next: animal flu...oh wait.
Paging Dr. Fauci...Dr. Fauci to the electric chair room.

Posted by: torabora at June 05, 2025 01:21 PM (KxXoK)

5 Before posting this “First!” I would like to acknowledge that this comment is on the unceded territory of the Ewoks.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 01:21 PM (l3YAf)

6 Hang her as a terrorist and spy.

Ban all Chinese from attending our schools. They are IP thieves anyway.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (ufFY8)

7 I wouldn't piss on that guy if he was on fire.

Posted by: torabora at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (KxXoK)

8 1 e45ybrybvw4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:20 PM (H4vqY)

I agree and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Farquad at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (NC/Fb)

9 e45ybrybvw4

XYZPDQ

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (/HDaX)

10 How much you wanna bet you and I paid for this "agent"?

And I do mean both of them.

Mortgage the fucking farm on it.

But do it soon.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (b6zgo)

11 Willowed:

339 Well... you might also want to put the period inside the quotation mark.

See, this just makes no sense to me. The Brits have it right.

In general, yes, the period typically goes inside the closing quotation mark in American English...Commas also follow the same rule and are placed inside the closing quotation mark. However, this rule is subject to some exceptions, particularly when dealing with citations or when the punctuation belongs to the entire sentence, not just the quoted material.

In most American writing styles, periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation marks.

British English has a different convention where periods and commas only go inside the quotation marks if they are part of the quoted text.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (s8j++)

12 Federal judge orders the head blight causing fungus to be released nationwide.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (2UnvF)

13 "This fungus can cause a disease called "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock."

How hard would it be to distribute this fungus across the wheat belt ... maybe leak it from a big balloon? China already did a test run, but Trump might shoot it down over Alaska instead of waiting.

Then there are all the "farms" China bought near military bases, but those are probably for drones.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (vbXSk)

14
I don't know if Trump blames China for this. It might be a case of another of these Frankenvirus maniacs just deciding to play dice with human existence.

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Why couldn't the Frankenvirus maniacs do their research in China instead of smuggling their bugs into America?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (H4vqY)

15 This is scary stuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

16 Every single PRC student abroad is required by Chinese law to spy. By law. And most if not all grad students have handlers, whether they know it or not.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (mlg/3)

17 Do you want The Last of Us? Because this is how you get The Last of Us.

Posted by: Biceps triceps cordyceps HARD! at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

18 cause a disease called "head blight,"

Peter North and Dirk Diggler hardest hit.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (ufFY8)

19 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (bXZz9)

20 17 Do you want The Last of Us? Because this is how you get The Last of Us.
Posted by: Biceps triceps cordyceps HARD! at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

Is that one about the gay zombie apocalypse?

Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2025 01:26 PM (bXZz9)

21 I'm thinking it's how you end up with a nuclear exchange.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (/HDaX)

22 Is she at least a Panda Express 4? If so, let me pump her for info.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (K8yUa)

23 Chinese nationals revealed themselves when they kept asking "where is Dr Fauci?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (lL4Sl)

24 Frankenvirus maniacs just deciding to play dice

Couldn't get a pangolin thru customs so just went with the old ziploc bag.

Posted by: davea at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (PMJuY)

25 > This fungus can cause a disease called "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.
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We're in an undeclared war with the ChiComs. I don't for a second believe this was "research related."

It was going to be released into the wild in an attempt to cripple the nation with a huge food shortage. Likely resulting in covid-like mandates on all sorts of shit.

Because we never, ever, fucking learn our lessons.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (Q4IgG)

26 I already have worked out a crackerjack legal defense for him: "But this is nothing! You should see what your government let Fauci smuggle into our country!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (uWKK8)

27
See, this just makes no sense to me. The Brits have it right.

Posted by: Archimedes

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When the royal family reverts to Catholicism because Anglicanism happened only because Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon, we'll talk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:28 PM (H4vqY)

28 LIMERICK TWP., Pa. - Three high school students were among three people killed in a crash that investigators say happened after a theft at a Target in Limerick Township. Owen J. Roberts School District Superintendent Will Stout delivered the tragic news about the students' deaths in a letter to families on Wednesday. A fourth person who was involved in the crash was taken to the hospital.

... they apparently stole a "water gun"

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 01:28 PM (RHGPo)

29 I wonder if this head blight disease is common in China. Communism is a great recipe for sloppy work and I think chinese agriculture is still mostly communism based.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 05, 2025 01:28 PM (CKOCg)

30 Good podcast on Youtube that discusses the state of China and it's machinations is called The China Show. The 2 hosts lived and rode cycles all over China for 2+ years and speak fluent mandarin/cantonese.

IT's a bit crude/gross at times, their sense of humor takes a bit of getting used to, but the info and video they manage to scrape off the Chinese internet is wild.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (mlg/3)

31 Is that one about the gay zombie apocalypse?

maybe the fungus turns you gay!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

32 Taco Trump called Xi, not the other way around. Probably begging for tariff relief!

Posted by: Sid at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (rLgZk)

33 His Boyfriend: Sum Yung Guy

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (hJb7m)

34 I guess the Chinese haven’t figured out, or don’t care all that much, that plague doesn’t care who or what it kills, and can bite them in the ass all the same.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (2Rbgs)

35 The British need to stop screwing up our language and learn to speak proper American English.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 01:30 PM (l3YAf)

36 Asymmetrical warfare.

Posted by: Eromero at June 05, 2025 01:30 PM (jgmnb)

37 6 Hang her as a terrorist and spy.

Ban all Chinese from attending our schools. They are IP thieves anyway.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 05, 2025 01:22 PM (ufFY

Unless from the ROC.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 05, 2025 01:30 PM (2Rbgs)

38 Assumes facts not in evidence, Skid.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:30 PM (/HDaX)

39

The Wild Wild West S 3 E 17 "The Night of the Headless Woman"

West and Gordon intercept a stagecoach whose driver and passenger are involved in the smuggling of boll weevils, hidden inside mannequins.

Their investigations lead to a sinister Arab and a plan to take complete control of the United States' wheat, corn and barley production.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2025 01:31 PM (63Dwl)

40 ... they apparently stole a "water gun"

oh I know ALL about this. ugh. was nearby at the time of the accident.

they stole more stuff than just water guns but they were "having fun" I guess. people at the Target were like "WTF."

basically 3 OJR students - the eldest kid was a graduate of OJR - and one Spring-Ford student. I think last I heard the injured kid died? that might be a rumor.

they stole toys and video games and ran out, then they took OFF in their car with the lights off, seriously unsafe driving, then crashed themselves.

everyone here is blaming the cops that followed them out of Target but come ON. the kid driving with NO LIGHTS and almost hitting people all over Ridge was AT FAULT.

ugh the whole thing is a mess

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

41 I don't know if Trump blames China for this
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If Trump has a brain he will know damn well that just like covid, the call is coming from inside the house.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (b6zgo)

42 When the royal family reverts to Catholicism because Anglicanism happened only because Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon, we'll talk.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:28 PM (H4vqY)

James II tried that, didn't work out so well for him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (uWKK8)

43 maybe the defense/homeland security should take a look at this instead of trying to deport undocumented people who pay taxes and help the economy.

"According to FBI Director Kash Patel..." I hope I am not the only one skeptical about this. There would be no need to bring this fungus species to the US, it has long been here and probably originated here...coming from the people who are shutting down research, attacking universities, antagonizing China, and whipping up racist fears

Completely agree. The fact that they are associated with a university -- plausible it's for scientific reasons. Kash Patel lies all the time, blaring blowhard. It’s probably an excuse they will give the base, for crop failures attributable to weather.

Red scare! Yellow peril! Wuhan flu redux! They're eating the cats and dogs!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 05, 2025 01:33 PM (JCZqz)

44 Then there are all the "farms" China bought near military bases, but those are probably for drones.
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Totally ok in Arizona. huānyíng nín China!
- Katie Hobbs

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

45 Posted by: Sid at June 05, 2025 01:29 PM (rLgZk)

Oh, you mean "Totally authentic courageous outsider " Trump made the first move?

Leftists lost on the whole Taco thing. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (3RU/T)

46 Maybe a bat shit the agent out and it landed on a Chinaman's head two blocks away from a weapon lab. You never know.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (b6zgo)

47 James II tried that, didn't work out so well for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo

His fate was sealed when his mother became public enemy no1.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (mlg/3)

48 43 maybe the defense/homeland security should take a look at this instead of trying to deport undocumented people who pay taxes and help the economy.

btw on this note, we have big big ICE raids throughout Norristown FINALLY

heh heh heh

there was much weeping in the Inky today. Norristown is a place which should be a really nice small city/town but it is full of welfare addicts. apparently it's about a third illegals. I don't think anyone in norristown works so...

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)

49 ugh the whole thing is a mess
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

And it's pretty much guaranteed that this will show up on Youtube in the police videos section.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (/HDaX)

50 25 > This fungus can cause a disease called "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, causing significant health issues in both humans and livestock. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.
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I think Sid is already infected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK8)

51 Elsewhere I saw that this fungus-smuggling case might be directly connected to the previous (thus far unsolved) mystery of why Chinese nationals and front companies have been buying up huge tracts of land near US military installations.

Turns out we might have been looking at that mystery the wrong way -- the fact that the huge tracs of land were near military installations may have been irrelevant -- because those same huge tracts of land were also near or in farm/agriculture areas. Could be that the Chinese were going to infect the land that they owned so that the fungus would then spread to surrounding land and eventually spread nationwide, crippling our economy.

Posted by: zombie at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (pMi6S)

52 39

The Wild Wild West S 3 E 17 "The Night of the Headless Woman"

West and Gordon intercept a stagecoach whose driver and passenger are involved in the smuggling of boll weevils, hidden inside mannequins.

Their investigations lead to a sinister Arab and a plan to take complete control of the United States' wheat, corn and barley production.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2025 01:31 PM (63Dwl
Then boll weevils is the wrong tool.

Posted by: Eromero at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (jgmnb)

53 Trial, and immediately a death sentence, carried out for both students..
Wevhave to be ruthless about this

Posted by: Mo at June 05, 2025 01:35 PM (Uye6B)

54 dealing with fungus in the tomatoes and basil rn it is a PAIN

all that rain we had

OR WAS IT?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:35 PM (Pv3Rg)

55 Whatever happened to the ChiComm BioLab found in Fresno?

Likely one of Faucistein's pet projects (SWIDT?) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Hunter Biden Wrote And AutoPen-Signed His Own Pardon at June 05, 2025 01:35 PM (cAQa5)

56 Ooooh, I have a Chinese classmate. I wonder if his visa will get revoked (I don't know details about his situation). It would allow him to save face if he got sent back, though. He can only do "rote" math and he's flailing a bit in these upper level courses. He might be better off in engineering or data analysis.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (rF2iL)

57 There's a fungus among us!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (2UnvF)

58 Talk about a good example of piss poor grammar and writing in a news article. 3 students were among the 3 people killed? They were the only people killed, idiot journalist. Also doesn't state that it was a single car crash, like rollover or hit a tree or something, yada yada.

"Three high school students were among three people killed in a crash that investigators say happened after a theft at a Target in Limerick Township. Owen J. Roberts School District Superintendent Will Stout delivered the tragic news about the students' deaths in a letter to families on Wednesday. A fourth person who was involved in the crash was taken to the hospital."

Posted by: PaleRider at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (CKOCg)

59 Red scare! Yellow peril! Wuhan flu redux! They're eating the cats and dogs!
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Is DU saying covid was overblown? Huh.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (b6zgo)

60 It's an op.

If the op is to gin up a reason to deport and ban entry Chinese people, great.

If the op is to gin up a reason to go to war over Taiwan, then it sucks.

But about you kajillion packages and cargo shipments come from China, if they wanted to send mold over here, it'd be over here and not in some retards bookbag.

Posted by: Chinese TACO at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (9iPPy)

61 all that rain we had

OR WAS IT?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:35 PM (Pv3Rg)

It was the rain.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (/HDaX)

62 DJT's steel and aluminum tariff hikes took effect this week. 50% increases on imports of both metals.

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)

63 So…intended to be a parting gift from the CCPs whose visas were suspended?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2025 01:38 PM (Hkcdp)

64 22 Is she at least a Panda Express 4? If so, let me pump her for info.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell at June 05, 2025 01:27 PM (K8yUa)

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hhahahahahahah

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 05, 2025 01:38 PM (PMtkd)

65 Red scare! Yellow peril! Wuhan flu redux! They're eating the cats and dogs!
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Is DU saying covid was overblown? Huh.
Posted by: ...

They should know, they were cheerleading the overblow.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (K8yUa)

66 the kids crashed themselves

it's fortunate they only killed themselves

ok that's unfair - for all I know the three non-drivers were screaming at their psycho friend to stop what he was doing

but it's a busy section of Ridge - could have been really bad. the Brusters is right near where they went off the road, loads of people were out.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

67 Elon and Trump need to knock it off with the fighting back and forth. Annoying and immature. There needs to be no daylight between them.

Posted by: jmel at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (bVhJi)

68 WE MUST VACCINATE ALL CROPS NOW!!

Posted by: Bill Gates at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (Hkcdp)

69 "It had occurred to me the media and Democrats had taken their 2024 loss to Trump rather lightly..."

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:40 PM (b6zgo)

70 A distraction from politics

https://is.gd/z90fva

Should be suitable for work - photo was shot in a restaurant.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 05, 2025 01:40 PM (VNX3d)

71 Elon and Trump need to knock it off with the fighting back and forth.

I dunno. I kind of find it funny that Trump called Mr. DoGE out on his EV tax breaks.

I guess that wasn't part of the wasteful spending he wanted removed.

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 01:41 PM (9iPPy)

72 67 Elon and Trump need to knock it off with the fighting back and forth. Annoying and immature. There needs to be no daylight between them.
Posted by: jmel at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (bVhJi)

Trump held off for a while but I think when Elon said Trump wouldn't have won PA without him his ego got the better of him...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

73 So…intended to be a parting gift from the CCPs whose visas were suspended?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2025 01:38 PM (Hkcdp)

I think you'll find it's an opening salvo from the deep state.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:41 PM (b6zgo)

74 Oxford is a silly place.

Posted by: Reforger at June 05, 2025 01:42 PM (xcIvR)

75 This judge that blocked the deportation of the Egyptian terrorist has quite the look:

https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)

I haven't seen a jaw like that outside of comic books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 01:42 PM (6ydKt)

76 67 Elon and Trump need to knock it off with the fighting back and forth. Annoying and immature. There needs to be no daylight between them.

Posted by: jmel at June 05, 2025 01:39 PM (bVhJi)

Both guys are risking everything for the greater good of the country.

I think one sees things a bit clearer than the other.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (KbCG3)

77 I think Sid is already infected.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK

But enough about AIDS...

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (b6zgo)

78 It is safe for a Russian to smuggle frog embryos, though, right?

Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (n2swS)

79 everyone here is blaming the cops that followed them out of Target but come ON. the kid driving with NO LIGHTS and almost hitting people all over Ridge was AT FAULT.

ugh the whole thing is a mess
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (S2JDa)

80 "Liu is alleged to have first lied, then admitted, to also smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America--through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport--so that he too could conduct research the University of Michigan."

Where was the "funding" sourced? UM? US Government? The PRC? Private funding?

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (rj6Yv)

81 elon has been acting the fool tbh

he spends too much time on X lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Pv3Rg)

82 Oxford is a silly place.
Posted by: Reforger at June 05, 2025 01:42 PM (xcIvR)

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It's only a model.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (2UnvF)

83 81 elon has been acting the fool tbh

he spends too much time on X lol
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Pv3Rg)

And Trump on Truth Social LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (VE6XX)

84
WE MUST VACCINATE ALL CROPS NOW!!
Posted by: Bill Gates

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No, let's be safe. Destroy them!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (H4vqY)

85 Like this hasn't been going on a while. Asymmetrical warfare in action. How did the Asian citrus psyllid that is wrecking our citrus industry get here? Or the Asian carp that are threatening the Great Lakes?
Curious as to how NOBODY looks into it.

Posted by: Tom at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (8J80s)

86 Is Dr. Fauci stir receiving kickbacks from drug companies? He’s a crafty little devil like those Chinese agents.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (RdWZy)

87 🚨 PETER DOOCY on Karine Jean Pierre’s new book: “You know, it's like I had a dream, and I opened up the first page of her book about the ‘broken White House’ and the first sentence says, ‘Peter Doocy told me, and I didn't listen to him’.”

“The thing about this book is that she, towards the end, after Biden dropped out, would say that legitimate questions were misinformation. And I told her once: you can't just call something that you don't like misinformation.”

“So I don't know how she is going to square being the public face of saying things that we now know were not true about the president and about policies.”

“I don't know how she's now gonna come out and say, ‘you know what, just because I swore on camera that things were okay, actually here's what was really going on,” adds @pdoocy
.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

88 I wonder what the fungus was transported in. Is there a chance it got released?

Posted by: Reforger at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (xcIvR)

89 https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)

I haven't seen a jaw like that outside of comic books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 01:42 PM (6ydKt)

The late Robert Z'Dar's brother by another mother...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:45 PM (/HDaX)

90 88 I wonder what the fungus was transported in. Is there a chance it got released?
Posted by: Reforger at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (xcIvR)

his underwear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (uWKK8)

91
This judge that blocked the deportation of the Egyptian terrorist has quite the look:

https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)

I haven't seen a jaw like that outside of comic books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Cube top
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90-degree angles
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Stares straight ahead
Snake eyes
Blockhead

Posted by: DEVO at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

92 British English has a different convention where periods and commas only go inside the quotation marks if they are part of the quoted text.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 01:24 PM (s8j++)

Thanks for the explanation, Archimedes. It always looks wrong to me to put punctuation inside quotes for certain phrases just because they are at the end of a sentence. It looks correct if the punctuation is part of the quoted phrase, though.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rF2iL)

93 ugh the whole thing is a mess
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 05, 2025 01:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

Sounds like justice was served. Reckless thieves died. No innocents killed.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 01:47 PM (l3YAf)

94 Thanks for doing this one ace. I saw it the other day and wanted to see more on it because it seems pretty insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:47 PM (2HvAK)

95 Oxford is a silly place.
Posted by: Reforger at June 05, 2025 01:42 PM (xcIvR)

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It's only a model.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (2UnvF)

It's a weave.

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:48 PM (rj6Yv)

96 That judge, with the jaw, looks like a Rockum Sockum robot from the 70s

Posted by: Mo at June 05, 2025 01:48 PM (Uye6B)

97 Trump and Elon need to put their big boy pants on. This looks embarrassing. Trump did not need to spend time making digs at Elon, he is president. He needs to explain why the bill does what he is looking for it to do. And Elon needs to understand, as frustrating as it may be, we do not have 60 votes.

Posted by: Piper at June 05, 2025 01:48 PM (aT5K/)

98 The individual, Yunqing Jian, is alleged to have smuggled a dangerous fungus called "Fusarium graminearum,"

_________________________________

Fusarium graminearum? Isn't that #27 on the menu? It comes with fried rice and dumplings.

Posted by: Orson at June 05, 2025 01:49 PM (dIske)

99 Cube top
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Snake eyes
Blockhead
Posted by: DEVO at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

Rock'm Sock'm Robot

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 01:49 PM (uWKK8)

100 Z'dar?

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:49 PM (2HvAK)

101 Since our cheating operation is only the second biggest current scandal at the University, shouldn't the NCAA drop their investigation?

Posted by: University of Michigan Football Team at June 05, 2025 01:50 PM (pa4Fc)

102 Cube top
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Posted by: DEVO at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

The regeneration of Dick Tracy!

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rj6Yv)

103 The regeneration of Dick Tracy!
Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rj6Yv)

Or the villain in Dick Tracy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:51 PM (2HvAK)

104 Same game plan as Covid but an escalation. Covid demonstrated how easily a country can become unraveled by fear. Why wouldn't China try it again?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 05, 2025 01:51 PM (vsTPo)

105 O/T, "Star Wars reveals Kathleen Kennedy replacement will be Dave Filoni and Carrie Beck". Carrie who ??

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)

106 No rice for Roundeye.

Posted by: wth at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (v0R5T)

107 ACEo Sp Hq is like a slot machine. Today I hit three cherry's and got that Vital babe wit the fine pair od ladies!!!! woo hoo I downloaded her stat!!

AND

Xi Saw.....
IKYMI:
Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth made a speech for the ages in Singapore on Saturday.... for the ages !!!!!
https://tinyurl.com/86mpd7we

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (wxO3z)

108 *looks at linkbof judge*

Damn, that looks shopped.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (2HvAK)

109 Or the villain in Dick Tracy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:51 PM (2HvAK)

Chester Gould's characters in that strip were all pretty bizarre looking, heroes and villains alike.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (S2JDa)

110 "Liu is alleged to have first lied, then admitted, to also smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America--through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport--so that he too could conduct research the University of Michigan."

Where was the "funding" sourced? UM? US Government? The PRC? Private funding?
Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (rj6Yv)

Liu gets sent home for psychopathic stupidity, his supervisor at UM gets brought up on charges of being stupid and reckless, the directors of his lab and the college get brought up on charges of running a plant pathogen biosecurity lab without clearance or proper equipment, and all the USDA idiots who failed to read the grant applications before signing off on them get canned without pensions.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (D7oie)

111 Has a judge halted Trump's travel ban yet? You know it's coming.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (2UnvF)

112 My head be light.

Posted by: Snoop Dogg at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (7XQp2)

113
“So I don't know how she is going to square being the public face of saying things that we now know were not true about the president and about policies.”

“I don't know how she's now gonna come out and say, ‘you know what, just because I swore on camera that things were okay, actually here's what was really going on,” adds @pdoocy
.
Posted by: SMOD

===============

It seems like she's blaming the press for "misinformation" about Biden, which led to the Dems "betraying" him. How she will pull this off is hard to imagine.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (H4vqY)

114 There is zero reason for ANY student visas for Chinese to be issued. We're inviting known spies and agents of a hostile foreign power into our country and giving them access to sensitive materials and jobs. That's a suicidal policy.

If we need smart Asians in the college pipeline, then get more from Korea, Japan, or Taiwan.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

115 It's an op.

If the op is to gin up a reason to deport and ban entry Chinese people, great.

If the op is to gin up a reason to go to war over Taiwan, then it sucks.

But about you kajillion packages and cargo shipments come from China, if they wanted to send mold over here, it'd be over here and not in some retards bookbag.
Posted by: Chinese TACO at June 05, 2025 01:36 PM (9iPPy)

Agreed on all accounts. It was probably was for research. Still fine with deporting these people; they have no business being here. But I doubt it was some nefarious CCP plot, as there are dozens of ways to screw up our food supply much more easily than this.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (l3YAf)

116 Elon and Trump need to knock it off with the fighting back and forth. Annoying and immature. There needs to be no daylight between them.

This fight might be staged. Elon has lost his soy customer base and who else buys EV's?
Trump may have agreed to be the bad cop and take some shots from Elon. This would pour some water on Musk hate and what does it cost PDT? Nothing, not one Elon hater would ever vote for him.

Posted by: LUIS PULLER at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (R6Hhu)

117 KK clone. great!

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (g47mK)

118 In case you needed confirmation, which you probably didn't, the teenagers that were just having fun robbing Target and evading the cops in an high speed chase are named and pictured here.

Three dead, one hospitalized.

https://tinyurl.com/rrdwcbep

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (9iPPy)

119 >>Same game plan as Covid but an escalation. Covid demonstrated how easily a country can become unraveled by fear. Why wouldn't China try it again?

The biggest problem I see with the idea this was planned is that we export a shit ton of Ag Products to China.

Of course, if you plan on losing a sizeable population to War, not as much of an issue.

But, China can't feed itself.

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (hJb7m)

120 But muh cheap amazon purchases!!!!

Posted by: the media at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (jGJov)

121 >> In case you needed confirmation, which you probably didn't, the teenagers that were just having fun robbing Target and evading the cops in an high speed chase are named and pictured here.

>Three dead, one hospitalized.

Such a shame...

anyway.

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2025 01:54 PM (hJb7m)

122 There's a fungus among us!
Posted by: Duke Lowell
......

Cover your toes!

Posted by: wth at June 05, 2025 01:54 PM (v0R5T)

123 Z'dar?
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:49 PM (2HvAK)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120494/

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 01:54 PM (/HDaX)

124 Liu gets sent home for psychopathic stupidity, his supervisor at UM gets brought up on charges of being stupid and reckless, the directors of his lab and the college get brought up on charges of running a plant pathogen biosecurity lab without clearance or proper equipment, and all the USDA idiots who failed to read the grant applications before signing off on them get canned without pensions.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (D7oie)

I need a cigarette.

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 01:55 PM (rj6Yv)

125 Cube top
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Stares straight ahead
Snake eyes
Blockhead
Posted by: DEVO

Any pre-"Whip It" Devo reference gets my Seal of Approval.

Posted by: zombie at June 05, 2025 01:55 PM (pMi6S)

126 I know, I thought someone called him Z'bar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 05, 2025 01:55 PM (2HvAK)

127 Reminds me a bit of an apocalyptic 1970 movie called No Blade of Grass, the plot of which centered on a fungus of some sort that wiped out the world's grain crops, leading to famine.

Naturally, in the movie, the cause was pollution.

Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (mADJX)

128 My head be light.
Posted by: Snoop Dogg at June 05, 2025 01:52 PM (7XQp2)

Still more aware and decisive than POTATUS.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (VNX3d)

129 “I don't know how she's now gonna come out and say, ‘you know what, just because I swore on camera that things were okay, actually here's what was really going on,” adds @pdoocy
.
Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

He doesn't realize how COURAGEOUS and BRAVE it is to sell out your country to vicious thieves, profit off it, and then when you and they are roundly rejected by the public in an election embarrassment for the ages, to come out and say you akshually want nothing to do with them? So stunning and brave!!

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (b6zgo)

130 cause a disease called "head blight,"

Peter North and Dirk Diggler hardest hit.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 05, 2025 01:25 PM (ufFY

Uh...don't forget Kami. Go long on Listerine futures.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (144I4)

131 I would not be surprised if Elon is frustrated that the GOPe is ignoring the Trump mandate, winning 80/20 on vital issues and the obviously atrocious levels of fraud and abuse his team uncovered in the face of an impending economic crisis.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (wBaIH)

132
>Three dead, one hospitalized.
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You can't with them all.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:57 PM (b6zgo)

133 Do the Chinese have an equivalent ritual to seppuku?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 05, 2025 01:57 PM (RdWZy)

134 >Three dead, one hospitalized.
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You can't win them all.

FYAC

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:57 PM (b6zgo)

135 >> And Elon needs to understand, as frustrating as it may be, we do not have 60 votes.

Then just shut it down and pass individual spending bills for the things we actually voted for.

Not a massive, budget-busting bill that cuts little of what we were promised. Why do I care if most of the FedGov shuts down for a few months while this is sorted out?

Oh, and no backpay for Fed workers this time. You don’t work, you don’t get paid.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (l3YAf)

136 I would like to remind you all that KJP is both black and a lesbian.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (2UnvF)

137 PETE HEGSETH made a speech in Singapore on Sat..
serious as a tick on a fat ladies clit!

https://tinyurl.com/86mpd7we

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (wxO3z)

138
According to the Montgomery County DA's office, the deceased have been identified as Gabriel M. Cooper, 17, Nasir Youk, 17, and Saniyah Newsuan, 17.

https://6abc.com/post/police-chase-ends-deadly- montgomery-county-crash-ridge-pike/16650144/

Remove space after "deadly-"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (uz6ub)

139 It seems like she's blaming the press for "misinformation" about Biden, which led to the Dems "betraying" him. How she will pull this off is hard to imagine.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (H4vqY)

Is that her story??? 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (b6zgo)

140 Lots of ripple effects from Chinese students being here if that tuition/tourism gravy train ends. But if they're coming here to steal our tech and do bioterrorism with our crops, eff that! Ban away. Schools and national parks will just have to deal.
The universities will do whatever they can to fight a ban of Chinese students. Because Chinese students are good, good money because they pay the highest tuition prices as international students, and are the upper tier of Chinese society.

I remember staying in a hotel near the SLC airport, huge buses of Chinese tourists pulled up and filled up the hotel. I helped one of the Chinese tourists figure out how to use the coin operated laundry machines. The shuttle driver to the airport said a lot of the students, when they graduate, do a massive tour of the US with their parents, and pass through SLC on their way to Yellowstone. And I know someone in a college town that rented to Chinese grad students. Polite, nice, quiet. But their parents paid for everything. They didn't know how to clean, they probably had servants do it, and they'd pour whole pans of grease down the drain. Plumber fixed it but it wasn't cheap or easy!

Posted by: LizLem at June 05, 2025 01:59 PM (gWBY1)

141 The Chinese government's code name for this operation is The Great Leap Backward.

Posted by: zombie at June 05, 2025 01:59 PM (pMi6S)

142 Reminds me a bit of an apocalyptic 1970 movie called No Blade of Grass, the plot of which centered on a fungus of some sort that wiped out the world's grain crops, leading to famine.

Naturally, in the movie, the cause was pollution.
Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 01:56 PM (mADJX)
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This was also the plot of Season 4 of The Last Ship. The entire world's food supply was contaminated.

The plan was for a giant agro company to have the only "resistant" strain of the grain, of course, for massive profits.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2025 02:00 PM (7fElN)

143 James II tried that, didn't work out so well for him. - Tom Servo

Well, definitely not in the political context, but with respect to his own soul, who knows?

Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 02:00 PM (mADJX)

144 1 e45ybrybvw4

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 01:20 PM (H4vqY)

My decoder ring says it is: chicomsucks

Posted by: Gref at June 05, 2025 02:00 PM (aBgBM)

145
133 Do the Chinese have an equivalent ritual to seppuku?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 05, 2025 01:57 PM

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"Denouncing the CCP."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 05, 2025 02:00 PM (uz6ub)

146 It is safe for a Russian to smuggle frog embryos, though, right?
Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2025 01:43 PM (n2swS)
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*shifty look*

Posted by: Paul Kammerer at June 05, 2025 02:01 PM (6YdsJ)

147 136 I would like to remind you all that KJP is both black and a lesbian.

I'd like to remind you of Rule 34.

No accounting for taste.

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 02:01 PM (9iPPy)

148 This fight might be staged. Elon has lost his soy customer base and who else buys EV's?
Trump may have agreed to be the bad cop and take some shots from Elon. This would pour some water on Musk hate and what does it cost PDT? Nothing, not one Elon hater would ever vote for him.
Posted by: LUIS PULLER

How many other instances can you think of when the Left labels someone a Nazi, attempts to destroy him and his businesses, openly hope for his death....and then accept them back, even WITH a groveling apology (which hasn't happened this time)?

If that's the plan, it looks pretty retarded. It may get him out of the news and stop the burning of dealerships, but won't get people to buy his crap for many, many years.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 05, 2025 02:01 PM (JCZqz)

149 According to the Montgomery County DA's office, the deceased have been identified as Gabriel M. Cooper, 17, Nasir Youk, 17, and Saniyah Newsuan, 17.

https://6abc.com/post/police-chase-ends-deadly- montgomery-county-crash-ridge-pike/16650144/

Remove space after "deadly-"
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (uz6ub)
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Trendy Muslim names but the pics look like typical black kids. Fucking idiots robbed a Target, get into a high-speed chase with police, then crash the car and 3 are dead. So very very very sad. I'm all broken up.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

150 People who didn't grow up around farms don't realize how fragile our agriculture system is. I have been to more than one "pray for rain" service.

Posted by: pookysgirl, child of the corn at June 05, 2025 02:02 PM (Wt5PA)

151 No Blade of Grass was a John Christopher YA novel, and I read it because I had finished the White Mountan trilogy.
It was very English.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:03 PM (D7oie)

152 The plan was for a giant agro company to have the only "resistant" strain of the grain, of course, for massive profits. - "Perfessor" Squirrel

It would be nice, for a change, to see an actual commie villain motivated purely by ideology, rather than these cartoon capitalists.

Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

153 You know, this is probably the similar process of how we keep getting all these annoying insects inundating the US from China, like the Spotted Lantern Fly. Some Chinese national studying entomology somewhere in the states brings a sample over with the approval of the idiot professors, and oops, a couple get out.

Next thing you know you are hitting them from your patio with a tennis racket (which works by the way).

Posted by: Orson at June 05, 2025 02:03 PM (dIske)

154 #140

Lots of ripple effects from Chinese students being here if that tuition/tourism gravy train ends. But if they're coming here to steal our tech and do bioterrorism with our crops, eff that! Ban away. Schools and national parks will just have to deal.
The universities will do whatever they can to fight a ban of Chinese students. Because Chinese students are good, good money because they pay the highest tuition prices as international students, and are the upper tier of Chinese society.

I suspect that the ROI from an espionage POV makes out-of-country tuition+living expenses quite a deal for the PRC. I bet it's mandatory that students have family members in China to keep the youngsters square.

Posted by: mrp at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (rj6Yv)

155 I'm not sure here - I had thought that Chinese citizens can't just leave the country with no questions asked and certainly with no official permissions.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if not then China is definitely culpable.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (Mmf4/)

156 somebody mediate between Trump and Musk; tow big babies...

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)

157 two not tow !

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)

158 Since America's intelligence agencies are enemies of America, we have nothing to lose if foreigners were to retaliate against us by executing our spies in their custody... so, the answer is clear: kill all foreign spies in our own custody.

Smert' shpionam.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (BI5O2)

159 The plan was for a giant agro company to have the only "resistant" strain of the grain, of course, for massive profits. - "Perfessor" Squirrel

It would be nice, for a change, to see an actual commie villain motivated purely by ideology, rather than these cartoon capitalists.
Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

They're the same picture.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:05 PM (b6zgo)

160 I know a Chinese kid who was an exchange student in my town and is now enrolled at a public university here in the States. He went home to visit his parents this Spring and probably won't get to come back to graduate.

He came as an exchange student at age 13.

The kids from Europe who come here on exchange do it for one year and then go back home. I don't know why Chinese kids need to study here for 10 years.

It's possible he and his family are innocent of any kind of wrongdoing in the US. But I'm not sure I care that he's being inconvenienced by US-Sino relations.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 05, 2025 02:05 PM (dQfJF)

161 The thing that needs to come to screeching halt is universities' over-reliance on foreign grad students. The leftist argument against this over-reliance is that they are overworked and underpaid. The conservative argument is 'what the fuck are we doing ????'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 05, 2025 02:06 PM (mlg/3)

162 91
This judge that blocked the deportation of the Egyptian terrorist has quite the look:

https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)

I haven't seen a jaw like that outside of comic books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Cube top
Squared off
Eight corners
90-degree angles
Flat top
Stares straight ahead
Snake eyes
Blockhead

Posted by: DEVO at June 05, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

Booji Boy!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at June 05, 2025 02:06 PM (wtvvX)

163 The shuttle driver to the airport said a lot of the students, when they graduate, do a massive tour of the US with their parents, and pass through SLC on their way to Yellowstone. And I know someone in a college town that rented to Chinese grad students. Polite, nice, quiet. But their parents paid for everything.
Posted by: LizLem at June 05, 2025 01:59 PM (gWBY1)
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I live in a college town. Chinese students are everywhere. And Chinese tourists have a curious ritual: they roll up in busses most mornings about 6:30. The bus opens the door and the tourists get out and start snapping photos of the school front gate. It all is over with in 15 minutes or so, and then they march back on the bus and move on down the road.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 05, 2025 02:06 PM (i3AlN)

164 Having your EV keyed is worse than having your tires slashed.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 05, 2025 02:07 PM (RdWZy)

165 Aspiring rappers on their way to Grandma's house. Neighbors say "they was good boys"

Posted by: the media at June 05, 2025 02:07 PM (jGJov)

166 Damn Chinamen. They're always up to something sneaky. DO NOT TRUST CHINA! China is...you know the rest.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at June 05, 2025 02:07 PM (TaWok)

167 The plan was for a giant agro company to have the only "resistant" strain of the grain, of course, for massive profits. - "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'm sure millions of acres of crops would have been ordered to be destroyed to contain Chinese Wheat Flu.

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 02:07 PM (9iPPy)

168 China is asshole.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 05, 2025 02:07 PM (ZmEVT)

169 And Elon needs to understand, as frustrating as it may be, we do not have 60 votes.
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With all due respect, if "we" had 70 votes and 50 of them were the ones "we" have now, there would still be nothing that would change.

Posted by: Crusader at June 05, 2025 02:08 PM (TN0g+)

170 159 They're the same picture. - ...

Yes, I see your point.

Posted by: Paco at June 05, 2025 02:08 PM (mADJX)

171
Is that her story??? 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: ...

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That's what I make of this PR word salad from yesterday:

>>According to a statement from Legacy Lit, Jean-Pierre's book will take readers "through the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision."

"She presents clear arguments and provocative evidence as an insider about the importance of dismantling the torrent of disinformation and misinformation that has been rampant in recent elections and provides passionate insight for moving forward," the announcement said.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:09 PM (H4vqY)

172 The crash that killed the knuckleheads in Penn was so nasty parts of the car went into the second floor of a building across the street

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 05, 2025 02:09 PM (lL4Sl)

173 If you think changing the number of GOP legislators will make them more conservative... ah, fuck it. No math on the blog.

I'll just say you can't make up for it on volume.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2025 02:10 PM (BI5O2)

174 See David Strom at Hot Air for BBB analysis -

https://tinyurl.com/2jd55uxb

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 02:10 PM (Dv3i1)

175 I understand Musk's frustrations. He knows, as well as anyone, what needs to be done. We all do. Yet, when politics gets in the way what needs to be done, doesn't get done. At least as we wish.

He's a smart guy. Also wears his emotions on his sleeve. He'll be back. Or not. I don't think it would have made a bit of difference either way how things shook out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 02:10 PM (Q4IgG)

176 >>>The plan was for a giant agro company to have the only "resistant" strain of the grain, of course, for massive profits. - "Perfessor" Squirrel

this is misinformation and needs to be banned

Posted by: Bayer Crop Science at June 05, 2025 02:11 PM (jGJov)

177 So...was Covid release was an accident.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 05, 2025 02:11 PM (IifOV)

178 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:09 PM (H4vqY)

You are a genius because I don't think I would have parsed that. It also could be that I don't care enough to do. But I will say it's a better cover story than "I'm a cowardly piece of shit weathervane". But then again not a lot of daylight there.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:12 PM (b6zgo)

179 >> It would be nice, for a change, to see an actual commie villain motivated purely by ideology, rather than these cartoon capitalists.

Villain: Ve vill take over ze schools and teach the imperialists’ children dialectical materialism!

Henchman: But sir, that’s Englesist, it’s not true Marxism!

Villain: Guards! Take ze traitor away.

Henchman: Nooo! Bakunin was right; you’ve gone mad with power!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 02:12 PM (l3YAf)

180 This judge that blocked the deportation of the Egyptian terrorist has quite the look:

https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)

I haven't seen a jaw like that outside of comic books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

________

Something I didn't notice about that decision -- and I don't think anyone else did -- is that the petition for TRO isn't even in the name of the terrorist. It's in the name of what appears to be a white lady as a "friend" to the terrorist. This lady is almost certainly a Democrap activist. So we have corrupt judges issuing corrupt TROs to corrupt Democrap activists, when the actual person to benefit from the TRO isn't even before the court.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

181
I'm not sure I care that he's being inconvenienced by US-Sino relations.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

==============

You come from a politically shithole country, you lose out on a few opportunities. The US is under no obligation to host "the innocent."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:13 PM (H4vqY)

182 This judge that blocked the deportation of the Egyptian terrorist has quite the look:

https://tinyurl.com/ymf89hfc
(Oilfield Rando on X)
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Judge Gallagher was confirmed with 53 "Yea" votes. Included were three Republicans, Murkowski, Collins, and Graham.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 05, 2025 02:15 PM (/YCWm)

183 They were using a research lab at the state university to create bioweapons and no professor or the army of administrators were aware of what they were doing?

"Here, use this lab and all this equipment. No need to tell is what your doing. Have at it and good luck."

Sorry, but they had to know. Which means, what the hell is going on at these universities.

Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (qXqZm)

184 136 I would like to remind you all that KJP is both black and a lesbian.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 05, 2025 01:58 PM (2UnvF)

You forgot to mention how historic that is. She told us that herself...so. many. times.

Posted by: Nelly at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (cHLus)

185 But, China can't feed itself.

Posted by: garrett at June 05, 2025 01:53 PM (hJb7m)

They import a lot from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and other countries.

China might grow all of their own rice, but I'm not even sure about that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

186 The real difference between the Dims and GOP: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P-bCs1cxdzc

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 05, 2025 02:17 PM (V362x)

187 That's a nice 3 gorges dam ya got. Shame if anything happened to it.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 05, 2025 02:17 PM (HTa/G)

188 Elric I'm not sure but saw it said by many who should know, this particular TRO (leave aside the bizarre issues of standing, the "friend" who filed the claim, no time given to admin to respond, etc) is a pretty hilarious Platonic ideal of a lawless court action. Existing law specifically excludes this kind of court from this kind of action on this kind of matter. If true things have reached a new high/low point of lawlessness.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2025 02:17 PM (1m82a)

189
I have to agree with the point that was made above: The CCP has an infinity of ways to smuggle pathogens into the country. No need to use a single bird-brained graduate student on an airliner. So what was this actually about?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (uz6ub)

190 They import a lot from Brazil, Chile, Argentina and other countries.

China might grow all of their own rice, but I'm not even sure about that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

China grows a lot of their own food. They import a lot, too, but so does America. They’re not nearly as reliant on American ag exports as a lot of people seem to think.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (l3YAf)

191
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

==============

This lady is a lawyer who was suspended from practicing law for “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.” She was also fired by ICE for lying on a form. "Dvortsin failed to disclose that her daughter’s father was an illegal alien. She also failed to disclose that she had been prescribed psychiatric medication over the previous seven years."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (H4vqY)

192 Legal Insurrection quotes John Podhoretz saying the woman who filed the petition stopping the deportation of the terrorist family was barred from previously practicing law
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Susanna Dvortsin, who petitioned the court to stay the deportation of the firebomber's wife and children–called the "Next Friend"–was barred from the practice of law owing to misconduct in an immigration matter in South Dakota in 2019. https://t.co/AddTjJfQMP

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 4, 2025

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 05, 2025 02:19 PM (/YCWm)

193 Elric I'm not sure but saw it said by many who should know, this particular TRO (leave aside the bizarre issues of standing, the "friend" who filed the claim, no time given to admin to respond, etc) is a pretty hilarious Platonic ideal of a lawless court action. Existing law specifically excludes this kind of court from this kind of action on this kind of matter. If true things have reached a new high/low point of lawlessness.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2025 02:17 PM (1m82a)
__________

There is no more law any more. There is only power.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

194 Something I didn't notice about that decision -- and I don't think anyone else did -- is that the petition for TRO isn't even in the name of the terrorist. It's in the name of what appears to be a white lady as a "friend" to the terrorist. This lady is almost certainly a Democrap activist. So we have corrupt judges issuing corrupt TROs to corrupt Democrap activists, when the actual person to benefit from the TRO isn't even before the court.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

---

It's a lawyer, Susanna Dvortsin, who's got a shady past, who is 'a friend' of the perp's wife.

All explained here:

Another Biden Judge Slithers Out of Boulder

https://tinyurl.com/mszfcsbc
(PJ Media)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 02:20 PM (6ydKt)

195 You forgot to mention how historic that is. She told us that herself...so. many. times.
Posted by: Nelly at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (cHLus)

You know who else was historic?

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:20 PM (b6zgo)

196 Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

==============

This lady is a lawyer who was suspended from practicing law for “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.” She was also fired by ICE for lying on a form. "Dvortsin failed to disclose that her daughter’s father was an illegal alien. She also failed to disclose that she had been prescribed psychiatric medication over the previous seven years."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (H4vqY)
_________

I shan't believe it. I just shan't!

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

197 156 somebody mediate between Trump and Musk; tow big babies...
Posted by: runner at June 05, 2025 02:04 PM (g47mK)

It's so stupid and pointless. I blame both. But the greater fallout will be on Trump. To say that Musk reneged on supporting the bill because of the EV issue ignores that Musk knew all along about this, and moreover that he, Musk, is entirely motivated by self-interest over national interest. I can see how Musk finds this appallingly offensive after what he's gone through with DOGE.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 05, 2025 02:20 PM (vsTPo)

198 I rather think this is hubris, believing that stupid laws are not meant to restrain smart individuals like them. I really don't think they meant to release that fungus in the wild.

Posted by: PG at June 05, 2025 02:21 PM (afPT4)

199 *(Hot Air) d'oh.

Too many news tabs open...

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 05, 2025 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

200 ... but I'm sure the many Chinese H1B employees at that company I worked for would never *dream* of sharing any information in appropriately.

Even if Xi said 'pretty please'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2025 02:22 PM (QRFVs)

201 Hey! That was our avian- and swine-flu courier service! How are we supposed to protect you from meat?!

Posted by: The USDA at June 05, 2025 02:22 PM (fL/bX)

202 On top of giving impetus for the banning of Chinese students, this op also helps push the agenda to seize all that Chinese-owned farmland in the US as well.

Suits me fine.

Throw all immigrants out and take all the foreign holdings here too. That includes all the land those filthy Canucks have, as well.

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 02:22 PM (9iPPy)

203 I shan't believe it. I just shan't!
Posted by: Elric Blade

*throws flag*

AOSHQ style guide.

I shannot believe it, I simply shannot.

Please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 05, 2025 02:23 PM (hTSkD)

204 THIS WAS NO BOATING ACCIDENT!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 05, 2025 02:23 PM (XV/Pl)

205 I have to agree with the point that was made above: The CCP has an infinity of ways to smuggle pathogens into the country. No need to use a single bird-brained graduate student on an airliner. So what was this actually about?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (uz6ub)

Provide plausible cover for the Chinese claiming that it was an "accident" if it got released from a research setting?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 05, 2025 02:24 PM (/HDaX)

206 I really don't think they meant to release that fungus in the wild.
Posted by: PG at June 05, 2025 02:21 PM (afPT4)

Whatever the truth is, the media will halfway admit it in about three years.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:24 PM (b6zgo)

207 Oh, hey, nothing is happening

From Coffeandcovid.com

"Yesterday, the Department of Education formally notified Columbia University’s accrediting agency that the university may be out of compliance with federal antidiscrimination law —specifically, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act— due to its mishandling of antisemitic harassment on campus.

"If Columbia loses its accreditation, it will no longer be eligible for federal student aid, including loans and Pell Grants. This piles on previous punishments for the Ivy League school, such as a $400 million cut in federal funding in March."

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:24 PM (D7oie)

208 The fungi were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at June 05, 2025 02:25 PM (hpQri)

209 I simply shannot.

Lunch is over. Time to put the shannots back in the CRISPR.

Posted by: davea at June 05, 2025 02:25 PM (PMJuY)

210 >> Yesterday, the Department of Education formally notified Columbia University’s accrediting agency that the university may be out of compliance with federal antidiscrimination law

Ahh, finally, the sternly-worded memo. Now things are happening!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 02:26 PM (l3YAf)

211 No need to use a single bird-brained graduate student on an airliner. So what was this actually about?

People are - get this - crazy. In or out of academia. Could have been a "rown srant eye".

Keep in mind - St Fauci ran his game even though Obama expressly instructed it be shot down. Scientists have been doing shit like this as far back as Openheimer.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 05, 2025 02:26 PM (jQTUu)

212 Sorry, but they had to know. Which means, what the hell is going on at these universities.

Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (qXqZm)

There is evidence that the current "bird flu" was enhanced by serial passage through mallard ducks at USDA research arms, and the ducks have been spreading it since it escaped containment, the chances are that this has been official policy.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (D7oie)

213 >>> 207 Oh, hey, nothing is happening

From Coffeandcovid.com

"Yesterday, the Department of Education formally notified Columbia University’s accrediting agency that the university may be out of compliance with federal antidiscrimination law —specifically, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act— due to its mishandling of antisemitic harassment on campus.

"If Columbia loses its accreditation, it will no longer be eligible for federal student aid, including loans and Pell Grants. This piles on previous punishments for the Ivy League school, such as a $400 million cut in federal funding in March."
Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:24 PM (D7oie)

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (QRFVs)

214 > Musk, is entirely motivated by self-interest over national interest.
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Maybe not "entirely." Certainly from a business perspective, yes. But I think he did feel like he was making a difference, for the better, and believed as many do that his work at DOGE should have mattered more than it apparently did.

That being said, I have read that some (maybe) of the waste, fraud and abuse uncovered by DOGE is going to be codified by Congress. Perhaps not in the amounts Musk (and we) would like, but if true, it's better than nothing. And Trump's slash and burn earlier in the year over some of the findings, while tied up in the ongoing judicial coup, should still end up in his favor. Eventually.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (Q4IgG)

215 Keep in mind - St Fauci ran his game even though Obama expressly instructed it be shut down
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LOL

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (b6zgo)

216
I have to agree with the point that was made above: The CCP has an infinity of ways to smuggle pathogens into the country. No need to use a single bird-brained graduate student on an airliner. So what was this actually about?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

===============

Like ace said, a case of another of these Frankenvirus maniacs just deciding to play dice with human existence? But I still don't get why they couldn't do their research in the country where they got the samples.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (H4vqY)

217 It's those damn Canada geese.

Posted by: And we all know it! at June 05, 2025 02:28 PM (hpQri)

218 Out: Me make you 'orney long time

In: me make you 'ungry long time

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2025 02:28 PM (t0Rmr)

219 218 Out: Me make you 'orney long time

In: me make you 'ungry long time
Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2025 02:28 PM (t0Rmr)

That's it.. This thread is officially dead...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 02:29 PM (VE6XX)

220 Can we start executing people involved in the creation/GOF for diseases?

There is no excuse for this crap and as we saw with COVID they can and will kill millions of people with their "experiments"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Rmr)

221 "Yesterday, the Department of Education formally notified Columbia University’s accrediting agency that the university may be out of compliance with federal antidiscrimination law —specifically, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act— due to its mishandling of antisemitic harassment on campus.

"If Columbia loses its accreditation, it will no longer be eligible for federal student aid, including loans and Pell Grants. This piles on previous punishments for the Ivy League school, such as a $400 million cut in federal funding in March."
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I wonder what an impartial (no, really) poll would reveal about average Americans awareness that any of their taxes were sent to elite colleges, and as a follow-up average Americans approval of such tax policy?

Its my impression that its hardly mentioned in most msm.

Posted by: Crusader at June 05, 2025 02:29 PM (TN0g+)

222 1 e45ybrybvw4
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lsmft

Posted by: Light 'em if you got 'em at June 05, 2025 02:30 PM (XeU6L)

223 Yunqing Jian

He sounds like a fun guy!

Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 02:30 PM (/iMjX)

224 But I still don't get why they couldn't do their research in the country where they got the samples.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (H4vqY)

Because they’re employed here. I’m not defending it, but academia and biotech research is nuts. They’ve learned nothing from covid except how to lie better.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 02:30 PM (l3YAf)

225 I was lectured that the commies would never be able to starve *this* country. Seems they have other ideas and I don't just mean the chinese.

Posted by: ... at June 05, 2025 02:30 PM (b6zgo)

226 I wonder what an impartial (no, really) poll would reveal about average Americans awareness that any of their taxes were sent to elite colleges, and as a follow-up average Americans approval of such tax policy?

Of course we tax the kids of plumbers so the kids of Chicom and Oil State elites can get a "top notch" education in hating America.

I mean we are civilized aren't we?

Posted by: Your average education bureaucrat at June 05, 2025 02:31 PM (t0Rmr)

227
Trump probably needs to make clear to Xi that if any new strain of that fungus or any virus or bacteria that threatens US Food production or the population of the US in any way shape or form, including genetic damage or damage to fertility.

just happens to show up on our soil, that there

won't be dam left standing anywhere in China and that's just for starters.

But, for starters probably all Chinese with even the smell of a military or gov't connection, need to be given the heave-ho back to Beijing. Scientists and researchers as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 05, 2025 02:32 PM (iJfKG)

228 Because they’re employed here. I’m not defending it, but academia and biotech research is nuts. They’ve learned nothing from covid except how to lie better.

The people involved with COVID paid no price, and in many cases got rich. Why wouldn't they continue?

You get more of what you incentivize.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 05, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Rmr)

229 Can we start executing people involved in the creation/GOF for diseases?

I'm genuinely surprised the rest of the world - and I do mean every other nation on the face of the Earth - isn't collectively on our asses as well as China.

We know - which means their govts damn sure know - that Covid was created by the Chinese using funding from the USA. So where is the outrage ? There should be much. Bigly.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 05, 2025 02:32 PM (jQTUu)

230 i]why they couldn't do their research in the country where

We have better facilities, amenities, and rarely just shoot people in the parking lot (Chicago and Gary excepted) for errors.

Posted by: davea at June 05, 2025 02:32 PM (PMJuY)

231 This is an interesting article, if not a rather long read.

It posits that the Trump team is using the complete capture Palantir system now to identify the inner workings behind the destruction of the country.

It gives me so Q vibes, but it also is oddly plausible. Certainly the recent leftist and even rightest freak out over Palantir makes me think there might perhaps be something to it.

If you are into such conspiratorial thinking, might be worth your time.

https://tinyurl.com/46zyrtbt

Posted by: Casual Observer at June 05, 2025 02:32 PM (9iPPy)

232 The fungi were angry that day, my friends...
Posted by: George Costanza
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The fungible assets were angry...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 05, 2025 02:33 PM (XeU6L)

233 >> Can we start executing people involved in the creation/GOF for diseases?

Best I can do is a firmly-worded memo. That is if a Federal judge gives me permission, of course.

Posted by: Pam Bondi at June 05, 2025 02:33 PM (l3YAf)

234 Apparently, they're remaking 2001.

https://shorturl.at/diQd5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 02:33 PM (L/fGl)

235
But about you kajillion packages and cargo shipments come from China, if they wanted to send mold over here, it'd be over here and not in some retards bookbag.
Posted by: Chinese TACO

===============

So as for agrotoxins, you would ship them over in cargo, cross your fingers that it's not intercepted, and some Chinese person or agent takes delivery and -- or does the mold just go around on its own? I don't know how this would work, but then my knowledge is limited.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:34 PM (H4vqY)

236 "If Columbia loses its accreditation, it will no longer be eligible for federal student aid, including loans and Pell Grants. This piles on previous punishments for the Ivy League school, such as a $400 million cut in federal funding in March."
Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:24 PM (D7oie)

Oh no!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 05, 2025 02:27 PM (QRFVs)
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Losing accreditation is a HUGE deal for a university. It affects their reputation, which is the real coin of the realm in higher education. Depending on which programs are accredited by which agency, it can even affect which courses are allowed to be taught.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2025 02:34 PM (7fElN)

237 Sorry, but they had to know. Which means, what the hell is going on at these universities.

Posted by: Vasco de Gamasutra at June 05, 2025 02:16 PM (qXqZm)
______________________

Nah, most of these profs are lazy f*cks. It's why they are in academia and not in the real world. I had a photography class in college where I watched a guy use all the equipment and lab to put together his own porno mag (which he sold on campus). Prof had no idea.

Posted by: Orson at June 05, 2025 02:35 PM (dIske)

238 Apparently, they're remaking 2001.

https://shorturl.at/diQd5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 02:33 PM (L/fGl)

The Monolith is a Giant Tampon.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 05, 2025 02:35 PM (iJfKG)

239 Nood. Lover's Tiff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 02:36 PM (ExV1e)

240
This is an interesting article, if not a rather long read.

It posits that the Trump team is using the complete capture Palantir system now to identify the inner workings behind the destruction of the country.

If you are into such conspiratorial thinking, might be worth your time.

https://tinyurl.com/46zyrtbt
Posted by: Casual Observer

===============

Does it end with a plan to stop the destruction?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:36 PM (H4vqY)

241 NOOD Elon

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 02:37 PM (VE6XX)

242 Apparently, they're remaking 2001.

***********

But but but...that's so far off in the future!

Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 02:37 PM (/iMjX)

243 >> Losing accreditation is a HUGE deal for a university. It affects their reputation, which is the real coin of the realm in higher education.

Ahh, but to lose accreditation (probably only briefly, until reinstated by a Hawaiian judge) for #resisting Orangemanbad? That’s a big feather in their cap.

Posted by: Pam Bondi at June 05, 2025 02:37 PM (l3YAf)

244 She also failed to disclose that she had been prescribed psychiatric medication over the previous seven years."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 05, 2025 02:18 PM (H4vqY)

We already knew she was a Democrat.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 05, 2025 02:38 PM (rF2iL)

245 133 Do the Chinese have an equivalent ritual to seppuku?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 05, 2025 01:57 PM

Archie Bunker was arguing with Meathead once about if the chinese say "buddha bless you" after sneezing. Archie said the chinese said something like "sayonara" and Meathead said that was japanese. Archie said the chinese and japs were the same thing.
Archie explained that if you met a jap and a chink standing next to each other the way to tell who was who was to ask one of them "Which one of you is the chink?".

Posted by: All In The Family at June 05, 2025 02:38 PM (PxmHT)

246 I thought it was tractor seats you had to worry about.

Posted by: Oblique Seinfeld reference at June 05, 2025 02:39 PM (hpQri)

247 Apparently, they're remaking 2001.

***********

But but but...that's so far off in the future!
Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 02:37 PM (/iMjX)

Every time I watch 2001, it pisses me off.

I feel like the Democrats and their allies, the lame-ass Republicicants-

stole my Glorious Space Future that I should be living through right now.

Space Fie on them all!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 05, 2025 02:40 PM (iJfKG)

248 Ahh, finally, the sternly-worded memo. Now things are happening!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 05, 2025 02:26 PM (l3YAf)

That's OK Honey, sneering means you have no responsibility for your failure to act in any way whatsoever.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 05, 2025 02:41 PM (D7oie)

249 > It posits that the Trump team is using the complete capture Palantir system now to identify the inner workings behind the destruction of the country.
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Using AI to game out every possible Democrat reaction to every Trump admin action.

I've read a bunch of these "Q-like" missives. I guess everyone's got some sort of coping mechanism and writing "fan fiction" is one.

Or it's true. Either way, I'm dubious.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Q4IgG)

250 ike this hasn't been going on a while. Asymmetrical warfare in action. How did the Asian citrus psyllid that is wrecking our citrus industry get here? Or the Asian carp that are threatening the Great Lakes?
Curious as to how NOBODY looks into it.
Posted by: Tom at June 05, 2025 01:44 PM

The Asian carp came from a boneheaded idea to use them in retaining ponds to keep them clean. They didn't take into account river flooding, which overcame the ponds and allowed the carp to swim free.

The perfect storm is a completely asshole Chinese-Canadian who kept importing them into Canada from the US. He was caught multiple times at the Detroit-Windsor border but the fines weren't big enough to overcome the profit from selling them for Chinese New Year. The craziest thing is that the Toronto community had a tradition of eat on fish... release the other. So who knows how many are in Ontario waters?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 05, 2025 02:52 PM (fxCK2)

251 So after effecting us with a Virus now they want to starve us into submission by destroying our Crops with a Fungus sounds like something out of a Movie

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 05, 2025 05:07 PM (wGqjj)

252 Can't wait for the rogue Lefturd judges to order the usual midnight special diktats.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at June 06, 2025 12:32 PM (bXvrr)

253 'Your FBI will continue working tirelessly to be on guard against it.'
You've got to be kidding (gaslighting) me!
The FBI is not monochromatic (and I am beginning to doubt Kash Patel). Part of it is the Deep State (Socialist). It has been since the 60's. Think Lee Harvey Oswald (CIA Bay of Pigs). Yes it was an dichotomy, but dig deaper.
We do not have a Republic, nor a Democracy. We have a Deep State that promotes ignorant POTUSs (Trump excluded. That is why 2 assassination attempts were made) such that 'The Collective' control our (unrepresentative) government in the background.

Posted by: john at June 06, 2025 02:20 PM (nEWxZ)

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