'Elite Capture,' Tim Walz and How I Met Deng Xiaoping (2024)

Holy cow! The Walz pick is no longer shrouded in mystery. He is exactly the pick recruited long before America had any idea! And, yes, Roger, welcome back! A bunch of us ran searches checking on your health and wellbeing!

This information should be available to everyone. This connection is very dangerous!

Great flashback to So. Cal. and that period. Always the compelling story teller as you air your own foibles and biases freely. Can't be a journalist that way, thank god. Citizen Free Press (aggregator)

ought to pick up your work, like Don Surber's. Big audience. Epoch Time's loss here.

Aug 12

I wondered what happened to your brilliant columns at ET but glad to see you're still contributing to the dialogue through this Substack. Godspeed Roger and Sheryl!

Loved starting my morning again with a Roger Simon piece!! I even read it aloud to my husband, and he, too, enjoyed hearing the truths, especially the personal experiences you use as proof. With your permission, I would like to quote a part of this that deals with Walz, giving you full credit. Again, I find we have something in common. Back in the late 1970’s-early 1980’s, as a World Literature teacher of gifted 10th graders, along with my colleague, a World History teacher of these same classes, we were contacted by the US-China Friendship Association and asked if we would like to have a teacher from communist China come visit our classrooms. Having had a thorough and profound classroom experience on the evils of communism in high school, I had no illusions about the CCP. We received permission to have the visit. “Showing is better than telling.” My students enjoyed the visit, liked seeing the beautiful kimonos the teacher brought, accepted her “gifts” of pens and little trinkets, but they couldn’t wait until she left to ask me questions about what they saw. Who were the three mysterious men, all dressed in black pants, white shirts, and dark jackets who stood watch over her in our classroom? Why did you pretend to give her a copy of our World Lit. book but slip one of our resources, your old American Lit. book, into her bag? (She whispered to me asking if I would give her an American Lit. book.), and, Why was she so quiet and seemingly shy when we asked her about her students in her classrooms? Of course I let them ask all the questions they had. But I then asked them what had they learned through their observations that would give them answers to most of their questions. This became an honest and open discussion about communism. A few days later, one of my students brought back the pen he had been given. On its own, the pen had broken into many pieces. This resulted in another in-depth discussion on communism.

Aug 12

Roger Simon is like a rare diamond. And his contributions to Substack will be a precious.

His common sense observations are powerful…and well, full of obvious but (usually) ignored sensibilities by our media industrial complex. Welcome to Substack!

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Welcome back, Mr Simon!

Roger, ten years before When Roger Met Deng, twenty before Ten Thousand Martyrs to Mao, I convinced my poli sci chair to credit me for a trip to the Nixon Counterinaugural. January, 1969 I filmed, photographed, and taped the permitted parade of America's Left in their Rebel-Rebel post-Chicago caterwauling. Mark Rudd's red armbanded Maoists jogged past the Department of Justice chanting Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, The NLF Is Gonna Win when one of their number peeled off to bang the now-removed iron knocker on the big steel doors. In the windows above, the shirtsleeved lawyers flashed rictus grins and double birds--but now those windows are filled with smarmy Marxists. You were tied to a mast of common sense and heard the sirens singing--and can now report the hidden danger. Kamo Kamala and her Tampon Rambo are the puppets of a wider menace. Maintain your lighthouse--lest America wreck on seductive rocks.

Aug 12

Excellent piece. One minor correction, though. By best estimates, only 2% of Chinese belong to the Comminist Party and they are recruited. Apparently, you don’t just apply. (I could be wrong.)

Great to have your “pen to paper” back, Roger, as missed your weekly article in EpochTimes! This article both reminds me of the first days I visited China for business and the fact that our mainstream media is a part of the efforts to kill democracy in America. My first visit was in 1995, a time when major cities were used to seeing foreigners; however, outside of those cities, foreigners were rare. I remember visiting a factory in a small town (about a million) and taking a walk before dinner with my hosts and being followed by a few dozen people. One woman brought her son out to meet us and touch his head, interesting. I was also in the Beijing area, actually stuck on a highway when the CCP leader Deng Xiaoping made the declaration that China could become a great communist nation after they became the world’s greatest capitalist. This led to Chinese manufacturers being freed up to pursue global business which they successfully did. While many of these companies were highly successful and “free” to pursue their capitalist dream, most eventually were controlled/influenced by the CCP when their size and wealth grew; so much for the capitalist dream. Imagine if we had real journalists working in our MSM, including Fox, who would actually expose politicians like Walz for who and what they are and want to move the US to. It would in fact be a Red Wave in November if people had real knowledge of what is going on - we can only pray for a good outcome; if not achieved, we will be praying for other reasons. Look forward to hearing from you on a regular basis!

So thankful to you for sharing your insight.

What's bizarre? A cloistered young, small-town man has his eyes opened to the world on a one-year teaching trip and is able to turn it into a second job, taking others like him to China for study programs. Like practically the entire rest of the world, he thought engagement with China would liberalize the country. He has spoken out repeatedly against Chinese government repression and authoritarianism. It's this article that's bizarre.

So they replaced their Communist puppet and his deranged idiot sidekick with the same deranged idiot and a new communist puppet as the side kick? That's truly alarming, the Chinese are serious outplaying us as a nation, they are going to win.

Aug 13

That was a sobering read. Signs of an American Cultural Revolution are everywhere. It’s ominous to put it lightly.

Aug 12

Congrats on the new gig. Say hello to Sheryl. When it comes to core beliefs, is Walz that different from Gavin Newsome? Senator Markey? Gov Gretchen Whitmer?

You write well. But you are a vandal. You use words to start fires. Not to shed light. Shame on you. I realize it’s a whole lot easier and the flesh is weak. I’d be interested in knowing why you left Epoch Times. I have some motorcycle acquaintances who read it. They pronounce it Epic Times and I’m quite sure they think epoch is how epic is spelled. They don’t know it’s Chinese connection. They also believe Bill Gates is trying to depopulate the world and there are locator RFIDs in the Covid vaccines. Oh. Hillary kills babies, cuts off the faces, and wears them as masks. Oh. Michele Obama is a tranny. As I recall, you can learn more than one of these things in Epoch Times.

You’re slumming.