This is a poignant commentary to what is taking place, I just didnât ever think I would live long enough to witness it.
I just donât think itâs coming back. Just my .02.
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Yeah, when VDH is saying the quiet part out loud, a deep breath is taken before facing reality that is between a Nicotine and caffeine buzz during such contemplative moments are consumed with grief.
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Besides Trump he might become the next leader in Trumpâs administration?
He categorically refused the position of Secretary of State. But thatâs not the sole position of importance.
Elon may be changing horses in the middle of the stream, and it could be fortuitous event for him. CCP will be put on notice by Trump. He should throw them off the US stock exchanges as being thieves and liars who do not follow GAAP reporting rules required of everyone else in order to be listed. They would retaliate by seizing US owned assets in China, whereupon Trump could reciprocate and use CCPâs US assets in settlement; exchanging like-valued US assets for Chinese-seized assets for US investors. CCP has large food-processing holdings and lots of prime farm land. Elon could get sizable chunk in exchange for Tesla holdings in China and get the better part of that because EVs are a dying fad with more makers than buyers already. The world needs efficiently produced food and American farmers are among the most productive in the world. Elon has already proven himself a businessman par execellence.
The US has financial problems right now due to Bidenschlomincs which too, shall come to pass. The US still has the right system to foster business, large and small and small will be back in spades alongside Trump. A good federal house cleaning will free-up a lot of federal spending that we could do without, and thatâs the kind of stimulus any economy needs to spike activity. Big business evolving to AI-dependent just means more small businesses will be needed to do the detail work that the big companies will cast aside in favor of tightening operations. Yes, they will become more profitable, but as always, at the expense of the workforce. Thatâs not all bad, As the Big 3 automakers have gotten smaller, they now support lots of suppliers making what they used to make in-house, but gave up because they paid their workforce too much to do it themselves and can get it done cheaper by others who are happy to do the work. There will be a difference: The Big 3 outsourced a lot out of country, but Trump will institute tariffs on a lot of providers of goods & services that will return that work to our shores. The American market is worth having; we need all the basic industries to be here and healthy and Trump will guide us and the world will take note that itâs up to each country to protect themselves; their own supply lines; the health of the workforce and preserve their own future with tariffs because we have all seen what happens when businessmen act strictly in their own interest and are allowed to ship jobs elsewhere and still pocket the profits as an American in an American market. Those days are over, and if the world is smart, theyâll just insert their own moniker in the tag-line worth stealing; âMake American Great Againâ. (Watch Argentina âMake Argentina Great Againâ right alongside the USA)
The US Dollar is the worldâs best means of exchange because it is generally always accepted. That hasnât changed yet and wonât if Trump wins because we can get our house back in order before the BRICs can muster enough naysers to assume that mantel. Having China as the guy you depend on as the worldsâ central bank is scary as hell to anyone with a brain. Yes, the US can be high handed and we should rein in our CIA to interfere less in the world but if anyone thinks China will be a kinder, gentler Mommy, I got big news.
You donât know what the fk you are talking about and its clear you are both out of touch with todayâs world and still living in the past while blowing hot air and talking out of your ass at the same time!
You know nothing about China, its mindset nor its culture to be able to formulate a cogent understanding on what motivates them as a nation, as a people, or as a collective on the world stage. For example, I noticed you mentioning that China is going to invade Taiwan if Trump doesnât win in November. That is hilarious on face value alone. That is you propagating the old hegemonic view of fear mongering such as what the US has been good at for the past 200 years seeing its been in a perpetual state of war since, and continues to be the worlds bully when countries decide they donât want to play by the USâs double standards any longer. How many wars has China been in or started in the last 200 years?
One thing you also donât understand is China doesnât think in 8 year cycles like the US or the West does, they think and plan in 100 year blocks and simply can afford to wait things out while the US implodes from the inside which is what its doing now. China doesnât need to invade Taiwan, they simply can wait until the politics of Taiwan to which they infiltrate with money and promises turns to their favor. The only ones that China needs to worry about is the United States as the aggressors.
Remember Vietnam? A war that the US contrived and sacrificed 58,220 US lives for? The deathbed confession of Robert McNamara confirmed that the US lost its moral footing by engaging in such deceptions and hasnât looked back since.
I also have news for you, the US dollar is already lost its status and will continue to do so! Trump is not going to save America like you hope he will. You thinking as such is wishful thinking and reduces you to being a dreamer.
No it is not, and its already being replaced with Ripplenet, Brics, and XRP and other forms for conducting economic transactions without losing value. Using the US dollar is a scam that only benefits the private banking industries such as the FED, ECB, Rothschild and more and more their fiat currency are being bypassed with newer systems that helps facilitate larger volumes of monetary transactions especially when it comes to commodities trading that is instantaneous and more efficient that allows trades to happen in real time. Apparently you are clueless to think otherwise but the US dollar is dying and will continue to do so as the old empire to which they inherited from Great Britain continues to die (the old Hegemonic guard). I am laughing at the absurdity of your statement and it only goes to show how much you are living in the past old man.
The damage that is being done, such as unfettered immigration in the millions, George Soros elected judges both on the local and state levels, the stacking of thousands of leftists Bureaucrats at the DOJ, thousands of lefty IRS employees, and the hiring of Federal employees at other agencies, the bankrupting of the US treasury by giving our wealth away in the billions to fund a foreign war we have no interest in, while Politicians are getting obscene with laundering its money from the deep state and Weapons industry will take more than one generation to fix. If you think Trump being elected in November is going fix all these problems in a 4 year term then you are dumber than I would have thought to be.
The only way Trump is going to be able to reverse what damage has been done in 4 years is if he goes full total fascist and removes thousands of the career bureaucrats, strips the deep state such as the lettered agencies, and systematically remove Judges and hold tribunals (Nuremberg like trials) for the COVID death and destruction it has caused world wide as well as put on trial elected officials for their corruption and for conspiring for stolen elections both on the state and Federal levels. Removing Governors like Newscum, Hochul. Whitmer, and Hobbs would also have to happen and not short of public executions.
Basically we saw how well Trump was hampered in his first term by the deep state and the leftâs tactics of impeachment and causing distractions such as BLM riots. Thinking its going to be different this time around without having a bold plan to counter the deep state is more of the same and a recipe for failure. The left plays dirty, like street fighter dirty while the Right plays with boxing gloves on. The reality is, they both play for the same team and thus the game is lost altogether. Thinking you are going to vote your way out of this mess is akin to asking a fox to guard a hen house. The game is rigged and only aggressive violent measures are going to be able to seize power back from the black hats!
Get real! You havenât made a convincing argument yet to suggest that there is hope for saving America. The only way we as people are saved is accepting God back into our lives and winning the culture war. We are way past that time to think such things are possible but social media has allowed all the horses to leave the barn! Good luck luck with that too is what I will say because as Einstein once said, âproblems canât be solved by using the same methods that created them in the first placeâ is truer today than when it was first said. In other words, we are still standing still and its by design we continue to do so!
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Chinaâs main concern for thousands of years is to maintain order and keep its people fed. For this reason alone, wars and rebllions are to be avoided to the best of its rulerâs ability.
China may have prime farm land, but there are too many people at the same time.
We discussed this before. The Chinese empire has its origin in the north, and it gradually expanded south, gobbling up various ethnicities and civilizations. At the same time, some ethnic groups moved on south to avoid expanding China, and it gave rise to such countries as Vietnam and Thailand while some minorities were scattered throughout Indochina.
Chinese leaders always knew the essence in governance; they knew long before James Carville that itâs the economy, stupid.
The balance between food production and population control was tantamount to the success and longevity of the ruling dynasty. Some lasted a few hundred years and prospered, while others disappeared after a few decades.
Kubilai Khan invaded Japan twice late 13th century not to expand his territory; he was more interersted in reducing the size of the the Chinese, Sung Dynasty military which fell into his hands, and thus was not loyal to its Mongol rulers.
These ethnic Chinese troops were given seeds and agricultural tools and were told to stay in conquered Japan and not to come back. Kubilai Khan was a student of geography and thus was familiar with the climate of the Far East. He knew that early autumn always brough typhoons in and around East China Sea, and yet he sent the troops to Japan exactly in this season.
This is the cruel truth of the history of the Far East and things have not changed much since.
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China was an occupied colony state controlled by Europeans for 120 of those 200 years; then WWII and the Japanese for another 15 years. That leaves the last 80 as their own masters and murders of 50 million Chinese citizens, making the Japanese & Europeans look like poor seconds. You are attributing EU dominance to USA, slightly out of line?
While you and your EU buddies picked fights with each other for WWI & WWII the US looked on until it had to join in to help defeat the Germans; did you want to withdraw the invitations? Your Spanish buddies have not been exactly helpful in world affairs in the 20th Century; they were at civil war between commies & Kings for a bunch of those years, but you seem to fit in there, above it all cleaning your fingernails. The US & Allies kept the USSR at bay for 70 years; which of those years should the US have hung back and let the chips fall where they may? Korea cost us 50k lives, too, along with other allies who also paid the piper to keep South Korea free. Was that an error? Ask the next Korean you bump into. Were we protecting a vassal or colony? Oh yeah, there was the sinking of the USS Maine where we responded and chased the Spaniards out of several colonies that we keep in our portfolio until they were ready for Independence; Philippines, Cuba, Guam & Puerto Rico are all better off and might argue with you about where that freedom came from.
Robert MacNamara was speaking for himself. He was a lousy Sec. of Defense and did the same thing that loses a large percentage of wars in the 20th Century: He and other civilians ran the war. Right into the ground I might add. The TV News fiction about how the NVA was doing well after the âvictoryâ of the Tet Offensive was never corrected in that era. The truth was it was a NVA disaster. The US never lost a major battle to them. Never. Generals run wars differently. They make ready and overwhelming force and execute a battle plan when and if they are thoroughly prepared to win. Wars run by timid civilians one jeep at a time always canât finish with a win. Thank God Hitler and the Kaiser did the same thing. Timid people, -like you.
Bin Ladin was hiding in Afghanistan and we went after him. If he had been hiding in Spain, we would have gone there. Saddam Insane made the mistake of threatening the Great Satan and seizing Kuwait was his warning shot. That hasnât ended well for the same reason the Middle East is a mess: the people are not really ready to rule themselves with western-type govts in many, many cases. When we leave them alone they come and attack vis-a-vis 9-11. Or now with the campus problems. The Middle East should be quaking in its boots because we know what comes next. If you, -or anyone else, thinks that Islam can shit on our doorstep with impunity, look at recent history. We shit back. Biden is bought & paid for, but heâs not forever. Civilians wonât always be running our wars. Remember Kuwait & how badly our Generals executed that? Weâre not always right, but weâre always heavily armed. See if you can find some more lint in that bellybutton of yours. Iâm busy right now, but Iâll be back to address your other crap.
Great! You are a fking apologist for the war mongering state and you only confirm my previous statements as being correct that you continue to be aloof and ignorant at the same time! Spare me your regurgitated STATE sanctioned propaganda that you consumed in the news and what was taught to you in that wonderful public education you received. Next I suppose you will probably tell me that the Civil War war fought over slavery right?
Your response is a total joke and tells you bought into the lies and continue to promote them. This is me laughing at your ignorance!
GTFOH!
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I am an admirer of Chinese history and people. The bonsai hobby I practice is closer to the penjing of China which is a reflection of its landscape as opposed to the more rigid discipline of bonsai of Japan. The Chinese have dealt with floods that dwarfed those of elsewhere as an annual killer of thousands, from time-to time hundreds of thousands, and even millions. Rivers that collect snow melt & spring rains from mountain ranges that coalesce into larger and larger rivers like the Yangtze, Yellow and Pearl in some years killed millions. They have great power stations on them now and they are great assets instead of killers now. The Three Gorges Dam is the largest power generator in the world and paid for itself by the 4th year of operating. It contains so much concrete it took longer than 6 years for the concrete to cool. Thatâs impressive. Unfortunately, communists are running the country and wonât leave quietly, so the people are stuck with that regardless how un-Chinese they run the country. People like me are unimpressed when commies use history of a people as a crutch whenever useful in political arguments. They use it as a cudgel or a crutch depending on their need at the moment, and really donât care one way or the other for maintaining the traditions which usually get in the way that they rail against. I donât confuse the Chinese with the commies, I know the difference, even when I fail to differentiate when I should in conversation and so on.
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Admirer of Chinese history? Taught to you by who? Books youâve read from other peopleâs perspective but not your own? Books written from the old hegemonic order?
Have you ever lived in China? Can you speak and read Mandarin fluently?
Sounds like a public school text book! Blah blah blah!
I struggle to sound intelligent in English. There are those that say I should throw in the towel. In my next life I may try others, but not in this life. Iâve never studied China, just picked up interesting tidbits here and there, so I know nothing.
Yeah you donât know much about China so spare us your propaganda bullshit and stop derailing this thread with your verbose responses!
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So⊠English is not your first language? Are you American, or other?
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It was along the Yellow River that ancient Dynasties emerged: the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties along with numerous kingdoms which failed to last as long. One thing ordinary historians overlook, though, is that the founders of these dynasties had some western, pastoral roots of Central Asia.
The Chinese archaeologists know where the First Emperor is buried and his coffin interred in Xi-an (former Chang-an), and yet they will never reveal his remains. How embarrassing it will be to prove to the entire world that the First Emperor of China was a Caucasian (Indo-European).
It is only in recent years that older civilizations were discovered along the Yangze River which also gave rise to various kingdoms and civilizations, but they were eventually defeated and incorporated into âChina.â
While the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties had nomadic, Indo-European roots of Central Asia, and the Yuan was Mongolian and the Chin Manchurian, there were dynasties which were more Chinese, ethnically speaking: Sung and Ming.
Such differences in the origins of dynasties are often reflected in the behaviors and characteristics of each dynasty.
What about the CCP?
Mao was financed by the Rothschilds and the whole notion of communism is 100% Jooish. Therefore it is no wonder how the CCP mistreated its population and destroyed Chinaâs culture and civilization.
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The problem youâll continue to have with blaming Jews for as much as you do is there are manipulative people of every race, creed, color, etc., that do the same bad things. So, nobody is safe from blame because they share a native this or that. Geo Soros is Hungarian and Jewish, which group shall we blame along with Soros? Both would disown him in a flash. Heâs a bad man on more levels than an elevator. The Rothschildâs were notorious bankers for a long time thru Franceâs heyday. At the same time there were thousands of poor Jews throughout Europe, some French, some in every country and they considered themselves Jews, but loyal citizens of each of the countries they lived in. Iâm an American of Slovak, German and Italian ancestry, so I could be lumped into both sides of WWII. I think youâd find it more productive sticking with individually named culprits and let the Jewish thing go. But, what do I know?
Most are harmless. But it becomes a big, big problem if they have a lot of money and own central banks such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve.
In early 19th century Maier Amschel (if Iâm not mistaken) branched out from London to Paris, Rome and Vienna by sending his sons to these capitals.
Today, they have intermarried with the Rockefellers (a crypto-Jooish dynasty in America) and have agents and branch banks all over the world.
It was one of the Rothschild banks that financed Hitlerâs Germany in order to create a Jooish state in Palestine. Needless to say, Hitlerâs âfinal solutionâ was to transfer as many East European Joos to Palestine as possible to enable the creation of Israel.
Project Zion started in the previous century with Theodore Herzl being its well-known mouth piece, but the driving force was the Rothschild money.
For what purpose?
To make state-sponsored terrorism possible.
Thus Israel succeeded in removing JFK (who opposed nuke bombs for Israel), 911 and blowing up Fukushima in 2011.
If we all had to have degrees in what we address here, not many would be able to say anything and the forum would have very little traffic, -if any. And Dr. Manhattan would have to call himself something else. What sort of title does a dishwasher have? Iâm thinking your moniker should be closer to Soda Jerk Poughkeepsie. Has nice ring to it, doesnât it? If the shoe fitsâŠ
I should add that the Palestinian rioters have or are working on degrees. Would you like them and their postings better than mine? How many can find New York on a map?