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Last Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, NBC published an article titled, “Why the defunct South Vietnam flag was flown at the Capitol riot.” Despite their careful efforts to obscure it, that article was undoubtedly a hit piece on the Vietnamese American community, as revenge for our enthusiastic and unapologetic support for President Donald J. Trump.
Like all of the leftist writings about Trump supporters, the NBC portrayed Vietnamese American Trump supporters in its hit piece as gullible, simplistic, and somehow associated with the “far right.” Furthermore, consistent with the leftist tactic of using children as political human shields, the article tried to suggest that young Vietnamese Americans are somehow sick and tired of their South Vietnamese roots, and that these young people have wholeheartedly embraced socialism as the path forward. While that may be true for some dumb “woke” college students and graduates, it is not the overarching view of young Vietnamese Americans or the Vietnamese American community as a whole. More on this generational issue later.
Overall, the NBC article aimed to create a divide among the Vietnamese American community. The article praised and venerated leftist Vietnamese Americans who subscribe to Marxism, and it shamed and denigrated Vietnamese Americans who support Trump and reject the socialist agenda. While I doubt this coordinated leftist attack on the Vietnamese American community (the radical leftist Washington Post and other pro-communist outlets also threw jabs at us) will phase us by any stretch, I do believe that it is worth talking about, for the sake of our children and our identities as freedom-loving Vietnamese Americans.
Right off the bat, the NBC article opened its narrative with neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the Confederacy, in order to paint a dark and distorted picture of the Make America Great Again movement. Though the author Claire Wang did not explicitly compare South Vietnam’s flag to the symbols of hate mentioned above, she set the tone of her article with these symbols. From that dark tone, the reader would go on to read her article while, at the back of their mind, thinking of South Vietnam and the Confederacy in separate but parallel thoughts. The reader will subliminally associate our democratic South Vietnam with the racist and slave-holding Confederacy, and they will not even realize that they are doing it.
This is one tactic that the “tolerant” and “brave” leftists often use in their “journalism.” Instead of risking getting called out for explicitly making an inaccurate and inflammatory point, the leftists simply imply it, so that if they need to, they can deny it. It is a nasty, low, cowardly, sleazy, and passive-aggressive trick, and one that very much sums up the leftist media and elites today. The tactic is used daily to denigrate Trump and his supporters, and it was used against the Vietnamese American community in that NBC article.
In addition to falsely associating Vietnamese Americans with white supremacists, Wang employed the common liberal tactic of painting Trump supporters as fanatical, emotional, and dumb. Her dishonest tactic here is also consistent with the behavior and conduct of the leftist media.
Throughout her article, while initially paying lip service to the true meaning of our South Vietnam flag, Wang went on to utilize statements from communist-leaning Vietnamese Americans to undermine the true and noble ideals that the flag represents.
Wang quoted Tung Nguyen, president of the “Progressive Vietnamese American Organization, or PIVOT,” to make her point. An ex-Obama employee (so, a Democrat), Nguyen said that “Trump is not someone you can be free under,” that supporting Trump was automatically “white supremacy,” “authoritarianism,” and an “overturning of the people’s will.”
Furthermore, Wang quoted Thuy Vo Dang, “an ethnic studies professor” at the University of California, Irvine, saying that there is a “can of worms” to be faced with regard to the South Vietnam flag. According to the author Wang, in tandem with bits and pieces of Dang’s comments, there is an alleged rising concern for the South Vietnamese flag’s “growing visibility on the far right.”
Remember earlier in this article, when I mentioned Wang’s use of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the Confederacy to set the overarching tone of her article? Well, this is what it was meant to do. She causally invoked these symbols of hate at the start of an article centered around South Vietnam’s flag, so that later in the article, she can quietly associate the South Vietnam flag with the “far right,” without the reader noticing what she was trying to do.
What Wang pulled is a dirty, sleazy, and cowardly writing tactic, and illustrative of every fake news media article about Trump and his supporters for the last four years and beyond. This dirty trick, this manipulation of words, is also the only skill that young people walk out of college with, after spending $150K to be taught for four years that it is “brave” and “enlightened” to embrace socialism and hate their own country, but I digress.
Wang tried to play that trick on our Vietnamese American community in her NBC hit piece. This should be brought to light. Our community needs to be aware of how white liberals and their obedient colored subordinates treat regular everyday colored people who disagree with them. It’s nasty, it’s sniveling, it’s pathetic, it’s demeaning, and it’s evil. But, like I said, it’s what liberals do today. It’s a staple, incremental, and dearly embraced strategy of the leftist playbook. I will go one step further, and dare say that in the leftist circle, this attitude and behavior is systemic.
The weaselly tactics do not end there. Wang also cited the leftist PIVOT leader in claiming that the “younger generation” of Vietnamese Americans is “strongly progressive,” and suggesting that following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, that “many young people started questioning the elders’ unyielding loyalty” to what South Vietnams’ flag stands for. The “evidence” for this so-called youthful questioning came from a tweet by some run-of-the-mill Democrat, who was merely tweeting run-of-the-mill Democrat things (outrage, pretentious art, righteous victimhood, canceling things, hate America, etc.).
Addressing the supposed “strongly progressive” tendencies of “younger people,” I will simply reiterate that the modern college campus is extremely skewed towards socialism. Leftists usually cite campus communists as their measure for “young people,” and pretend that the silent majority does not exist. This is what the NBC article is built on, and this is what the entire media narrative has been built on for the last four years and beyond. There are many young Vietnamese Americans who are proud of their South Vietnamese roots, who know that the Democrats are liars and thieves, and who reject and defy the creeping socialism that is threatening the U.S.
People like Tung Nguyen, Claire Wang, and Democrats as a whole, know of the silent majority, but they purposefully pretend not to know of the silent majority. They write fiction and fantasy about an increasingly progressive world, pass it off as “news reports,” and, in these writings, paint themselves as the supposed future leaders of this communist utopia. Regular folks like you and me read this leftist “news” and wonder what the hell is wrong with them, how sick and mutated leftist brains have truly become, and feel sad at what continues to happen to our society as a result of the direction that this corrupt, rotten elitist group is steering towards.
In addition to the passive-aggressive and subliminal attacks already mentioned, there are numerous other examples peppered throughout Wang’s article.
Another instance is the leftist PIVOT leader Nguyen’s statement that South Vietnamese elders in the Vietnamese American community, which includes a large population of military veterans, have suffered greatly and “associate that suffering with things like communism.” The crux of Nguyen’s point is that the elders’ “emotions are so strong they don’t always see what’s the real cause of their suffering.”
To that point by Nguyen, I wonder, then: If communism, the ideology that destroyed the elders’ entire country, families, homes, livelihoods, sense of self and existence, and created mass deaths of tens of millions of Vietnamese people, is not the source of the suffering, then what is? Is it Capitalism? Toxic masculinity? White privilege? Male privilege? Systemic racism? Gendered norms? Lack of abortions? Not enough free shit from the government? What, in Nguyen’s opinion is the source of the elders’, the war heroes’, suffering?
I’m sure he can bring up a lot of pretentious and tone-deaf Democrat talking points as a possible source of the elders’ suffering, and I am even more certain that no matter what the ailments, the leftist Nguyen’s solution is socialism. With the leftists, the answer is always socialism.
Along with this tactic, the author Wang in her article tries to associate us with terms like “hypernationalism” and “alignment with right-wing causes.” From what I have established so far, Wang’s use of these dirty leftist tricks, which are consistent with the playbook of the powerful fake news media empire, should not be surprising.
I can go on and on about the passive-aggressiveness of this NBC article and their dirty and cowardly tactics, such as that of quietly trying to paint the Vietnamese American community as allies of white supremacists. However, I think I did my job on that front quite well by now.
In 2018, I quipped that leftists might associate us with white supremacists for supporting President Trump. The fact that it is actually happening today is both hilarious and disturbing. The saddest part is that I am not the least bit surprised that this is how low leftists will go. And it’s not even their lowest. Not by a long shot.
Now, addressing the Capitol riot itself: It was a few hundred idiots who trespassed, broke stuff, stole stuff, and went on a moronic selfie-laced crime spree that lasted for a few hours. President Trump condemned the violence and stupidity, and the rest of the MAGA movement as a whole has denounced these dumbasses for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
There were tens, possibly over a hundred thousand Trump supporters in Washington, D.C. on the day of the Capitol breach. The overall majority of these people were law-abiding, legitimately peaceful protesters. The few hundred morons who breached the Capitol were but a tiny percentage of Trump supporters in D.C.
We were all angry and embarrassed by this small group of troublemakers. Their actions do not represent MAGA in any respect. Oh, and I know leftists will love this: Antifa and anarchists were among the rioters, posing as Trump supporters to encourage and facilitate the destruction. Not sure how many brave liberals know about that, but here it is.
Compare this brief incident to the hundreds of thousands of Antifa and BLM thugs and criminals, who spent the entire summer of 2020 rioting, looting, cop-killing, creating “autonomous zones,” destroying black-owned businesses, and burning America’s cities to the ground. The Democrats, fake news media, and RINOs had zero problem encouraging the violence and destruction during that “summer of love.” Now they want to act “outraged” and “concerned” about the few hours of mischief by a few hundred morons?
Give me a break.
As for the question of why the Vietnamese American community supports Trump, the answer is very simple: Trump is a very good president.
Leftists choose not to understand this agonizingly simple point, but yet, here it is.
President Trump’s policies are excellent. He follows through on his promises, he has intuition and common sense that 4-6 years of college, five PhDs, and a lifetime of brown-nosing can’t give, and he tells you exactly what he is thinking without “pivoting” or hiding behind fake, pretentious “scholarly language” like some soft, arrogant, corrupted academic or political scumbag.
Leftists pretend not to understand why so many Americans support Trump, and they will continue to do it here. I am sure that leftists will not read this article, and even if some do, they will pretend it doesn’t exist.
The entire leftist source of self-esteem and self-worth is dependent on not knowing how good of a president Trump truly is. They will continue to shelter themselves from the facts of Trump’s accomplishments, and continue to shelter themselves with lies about how bad Trump and his supporters are.
Under Trump, the economy achieved the lowest unemployment for Women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, White Americans, and the list goes on, in decades.
Furthermore, under Trump, China’s expansionism, global military aggression, and malicious targeting of U.S. intellectual property and economy were condemned and brought to light for the world to see. Trump forced China to cease its building of artificial islands in the Pacific, and called China out on its Uyghur genocide, and its exploitation of slave labor to produce many of its goods and products.
Where Obama was too much of a coward to substantively challenge China on its human rights abuses, Trump exceled in this respect. Trump openly tweeted support for the pro-democracy protesters of Hong Kong in late 2019. In addition, Trump signed an executive order and passed legislation sanctioning China for its suppression of free speech in Hong Kong.
In the Middle East, during the protests in Iran, Trump tweeted in Farsi in support of the Iranian people and their fight for freedom, while at the same time condemning the authoritarian Iranian government. Trump also ordered the airstrike that killed the Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani. Prior to this airstrike, Soleimani orchestrated the deaths of hundreds of Americans.
Speaking of the Middle East, in four years, President Trump achieved peace in the Middle East. As president, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and brokered normalized relations between Israel and four other countries in the region. Past presidents have pledged to recognize Jerusalem but were either insincere or too cowardly to follow through.
And Trump built the wall. 450 miles at least, within the course of less than four years. He helped curb illegal immigration substantially, deported thousands of gang members from the U.S., and liberated towns and cities along the U.S. border that were strongholds for organized crime.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of Trump’s accomplishments, and it’s more than the average leftist “academic” or “expert” can tell you about the President.
Donald Trump is simply a very good president. Like I said before, the leftists’ self-esteem and self-worth hinge on suppressing, erasing, whitewashing the fact that Trump is a bold, courageous, transparent, and exceptional president, who is not racist, not homophobic, not sexist, and is smarter than all of Congress combined. Trump’s accomplishments in four years are ten-fold that of Barack Obama’s in eight years, and even more than Joe Biden’s 47 years in politics.
Liberals will pretend, or actively choose not to know, of the facts mentioned above. No one should expect a leftist to engage in a conversation with good faith and balanced information. This situation is no exception.
In offering a brief recap of Trump’s accomplishments here, I am simply providing easy access to the facts. That way, if a leftist tries to pretend not to know of these accomplishments, they will have to work extra hard at playing stupid. Somehow, I’m sure they’ll still manage to pull it off.
As far as getting attacked by leftists, should we be worried about it? No. This is not the first time that leftists have attacked the Vietnamese American community, and we are more than capable of fighting back. And we should, unapologetically.
Now then, should we take the leftists’ attacks seriously? Yes. We should always be paying attention to what leftists and other detractors say about our community. To be complacent is to be weak, and to be unprepared is to be foolish. To reiterate, we should always be ready and willing to fight back and defend our community.
To my fellow Vietnamese Americans, young and old: Be proud of who you are and where you came from, and continue fighting to keep our South Vietnamese legacy alive and strong. Keep learning, teaching, and passing on our history and culture to the new generations. Let the young know that resilience and liberty are part of, and will always be part of, our DNA as freedom-loving Vietnamese people, and Vietnamese Americans.
Also, have yourself a good laugh, because hey, we pissed off the leftist media. We fought so hard for President Trump, and were so well-represented in the MAGA movement, that the fake news media couldn’t ignore us any longer. So, the leftists did what they do best: Lash out, get nasty, and try to distort, slander, and denigrate us with smears and lies. If the media goes out of their way to smear you by name, then you must be doing something right – just ask our favorite president Donald J. Trump.
Anyone who is not a self-denying, self-important, and self-conscious leftist coward knows that the MAGA movement is an inclusive movement, built on love of country, family, friends, and neighbor, regardless of the color of their skin, what they believe, who they love, where they came from, or how much money they make. It is an honor to be a part of this movement, and it is an honor to have supported President Trump in his fight to Make America Great Again.
Moreover, it is a great honor to be a part of the Vietnamese American community, who has done so much to represent the MAGA movement. 75 million Americans voted for Trump, and unlike Joe Biden, the ballots for Trump were casted in person, by real, living, breathing people, who are actually Americans. If you know anything about Stop the Steal (the leftists sure don’t, and purposely so), then you know that this is actually a big deal.
The silent majority has seen us and now know who we are. At the countless rallies for Trump, it is not only Vietnamese Americans, but also African Americans, White Americans, and so many others, who are seen proudly waving or golden South Vietnam flag alongside Old Glory. This is all thanks to you. To every single patriot in the Vietnamese American community, both old and young, who played their part in the MAGA movement, we have made our distinguished and indelible mark in this incredible movement. And that is something to be very proud of.
To everyone in the MAGA movement, not just in the Vietnamese American community, but everywhere: It has been an honor to fight alongside you. The election didn’t go our way, due to the sadly successful election heist by the fraudulent Democrats and their network of thugs, bums, criminals, Wall Street, mega corporations, Hollywood, RINO slaves, fake news media, and big tech. With that said, the fight is not over.
The MAGA movement started with President Trump, but it will finish with We the People. America First is not going anywhere, and neither is MAGA.
Wish Joe Biden a successful presidency, because, unlike the leftists, We the People still believe that a successful president makes a successful nation. If he does well, give him credit. If he does poorly, then we will bury him with our voice and our vote. With that said, keep speaking up, keep fighting to protect the country, and keep holding our elected officials accountable.
We are all watching and waiting to see what President Trump will do once he officially leaves office. If he is still anything like the Trump we know, big things will be happening, and we should be excited. Will he run again in 2024? If yes, will he be running as a Republican or as a leader of his own party? What will he do to fight big tech censorship of his rights to free speech?
These are just a few of the questions that I have for Mr. Trump, the greatest American president since the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. Whatever he decides to do, I’m sure it will be substantial.
In the meantime, it has been a pleasure and an honor.
As always, #MAGA.
