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The Collapse of Communist China

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Finally, someone writes what I have been saying for decades. China is now on the edge of disaster. And Trump has their number, but Trump wants as little pain for the USA as possible in our transition away from China.

Q: What does a billion+ hungry and pissed off people look like?
A: China

All communist countries fail and they fail bigly. Communists murder by the tens of thousands millions to stay in power and still they will fail. They always fail and they always lie, always and right up to the end.

I’ve been to China many times and have seen the empty ghost cities and the monumental train stations that are mostly empty. If that wasted investment were written-off, Chinese GDP would drop from 5.0% to 3.6%.

I have also been to China many times and seen the same ghost cities. I have been on four lane concrete super highways where a three hour trip resulted in seeing one car – the one I was in. On the return I did see one other car. Six hours, leaving from Canton (Guangzhou), and two cars total. Second trip on the same highway IIRC we saw two vehicles, a car and a truck.
When I went for the first ride in my friends new Buick out of Shanghai we saw overpasses with no highways on either side. Several. Ten years later there were still no highways. Don’t know what is there now as I have not been since end of 2019 and will never go back.

Civil War…

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in Britain perhaps. Might notice some similarities to the USA.

Using academic studies on social cohesion, civil war causation theory and social attitudes surveys, he argues that the following preconditions are in place: elite overreach, factional polarisation, a collapse in trust, economic pressures, and the perceived downgrading of the majority population in a previously homogeneous society, are all present in contemporary Britain.

Perhaps what black leftists in America interpret as “racism” is actually cultural burnout

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Yes, mostly that’s it. As my few* remaining black friends have also noticed, it’s not racism, it’s the culture. Most people are tired of the culture of crime, the theft in the stores, the drug use, the children born without fathers in the home, the rate of incarceration due to criminal activity, murder, shootings. It’s the welfare city syndrome – every democrat run city has a culture problem and an education problem to go with the destruction of the city in general.

Tune it out. That’s what most of us do. More murder in inner city Baltimore/Detroit/Chicago/New Orleans/DC/etc? No young person in Baltimore city schools can read or do basic math when they “graduate” high school? Local store gets robbed, again?
I don’t care. The democrats that run the city sure don’t give a damn. No one else does either.

Black Leftist Moves to Africa and Discovers That America Isn’t So Bad After All

Real shocker, ain’t it?
What do you think would happen if you eliminated welfare? Short term/long term…

*smaller circle of close friends as you get older, for me at least. Lose touch by time and distance, or they just get old and die…

Tariffs are going to KILL us ALL

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According to the anti-Trump pro-China “media”, republican rino’s, and everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News.

In spite of the fact that during term one Trump put tariffs in place and the effect was exceptional – American prosperity rose rather than declining as it had been – the China enablers (bought and paid) continue to push the old business school canard that tariffs are bad.

And here we are, April has ended with the market going ballistic and up, not down as predicted. Jobs, real ones not government fakes, continue to defy expectations. Billions of new investment is on the way. Countries are at the table now to work out deals for access to the American market, deals that will save their economy while bolstering ours and ridding us of the China problem. There will be announcements soon.

Between DOGE finding and eliminating the theft of your money, Trump cutting other federal funding, and tariffs replacing other taxation (your income tax) the goal is to eliminate income tax for the vast majority of American citizens.

The border is closed – no more budget dwindling illegals crossing, and the worst are being sent home with the remainder to come. The big drain on the budget will get eliminated.

We are still alive, and the plans are in place to make our lives considerably better and far wealthier, while enhancing freedom and liberty, the true underpinning of prosperity.

They said I would be homeless, begging for soup, and regretting my vote for Donald Trump.

Trump’s economic punchline is simple: relief for the middle class, deregulation of markets, and a rollback of the bloated federal bureaucracy.

Trump added that another facet he’d like to avoid connected to trade is allowing China to “make hundreds of billions of dollars and build more ships and more Army tanks and more airplanes,” when we could be making those dollars to benefit the U.S’ relationships with foreign nations.

Ukraine Minerals R US

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Ukraine has signed a minerals deal with the US. A deal which has three primary components:
1) Secure “rare” earth minerals for the US
2) Pressure Putin to make a deal to end the war
3) Tell the chinese to stuff it with their wish to be the sole provider of certain rare earth minerals

Time will tell, but I expect a peace deal will follow soon enough.
While they deny it, the Chinese have been negotiating for a better tariff position, while backing down on certain tariffs at the same time. They really have no choice, but we do. Our problems from a trade war are short term economic pain, for china they may be regime and life ending.

Ukraine signs deal to give US access to rare minerals

Promises made, promises kept

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That sums up the first 100 days of the Trump Administration, Term Two.

Since I became aware (age 12, 1965*) of the roll the federal government plays in our freedom and liberty, the protection of freedom for Americans, I have been waiting for a president that gave a damn about the ordinary every day average American. That is a span of 60 years. We got that man in 2016, but the deep state forces are entrenched, they are large, they are well armed, and they succeeded in derailing some of the Trump agenda. Even then Trump found a way…

So, my opinion, they loosed a virus on the world, one they knew was similar to the flu in effect, and ginned up their campaign to destroy an economic miracle** because they could not let people find out how easy it was to have a growing economy that produces wealth for all Americans. They cannot control happy wealthy Americans… From that flowed the ability to rig the next election and eliminate Trump. Recall, that both parties were involved…

And they put in the office a vegetable while they controlled everything, hidden, unaccountable – they had an auto pen, and they used it.

Americans figured this out and 2024 was “to big to rig”, close scrutiny was the rule of the day this time around, and president TRUMP was ready. The first 100 days reflect this, the most significant 100 days in American history save the period of 1776, December 1941, the events of Midway in ’42, and “D” Day in ’45. There has certainly never been anything like this. And in the media, crickets or bitching.

Secretary Bessent echoed that sentiment, stating, “We are laying the economic and moral foundation for America’s next great century.”

*Summer of 1965, my Dad’s youngest brother (20) is on the way for a visit as he travels from Ft Benning to a posting northwest. My father was very worried that he would get sent to a country in SE Asia. It’s my first recollection of that kind of worry, and he was clearly relieved when we found out where he was being sent. Later I would discover just how worried he and his military brothers were about their kids being sent to a war that is not being fought. My father and his 6 brothers (3 career Military) did not want their children to be used in a political war, one that the USA had no intention of actually winning. They made efforts to keep that from happening, but in the end it was just the luck of the draw (draft) and a promise to go to school first…

**not really a miracle, just common sense and America first attitude

DOGE

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You just were not aware that to get rich you needed to do nothing more than send a bill to the treasury.

Need a couple million, just send the bill.

Now, if you and I did that we would be in jail faster than the check could clear the bank. So who do you think was getting all this money? Not millions, rather billions, perhaps trillions…

DOGE just keeps finding the crooked methods. Time for Trump DOJ to start charging the criminals.

Elon finds the corruption

HUGE in NC, Appeals Court Ruling Favors Republican for Supreme Court

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For those of us in the great state of North Carolina, there is news on the battle for the Supreme Court. In case you missed it, the republican “lost” by about 750 “votes” but claims some 60,000 ballots are illegitimate (they are). It’s been working it’s way through the courts and will eventually wind up in the state Supreme Court where republicans hold a 6-2 advantage. If Judge Griffins appeal is upheld it will become a 7-1 advantage and this just before statewide reapportionment lines are drawn.

Huge: Appeals Court Ruling in Undecided NC Supreme Court Race Favors GOP Candidate, Has Dems Scrambling

Some days are just better than others…

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Trump’s deportation of the criminals is occurring daily. Here is the video of the El Salvador reception of nearly 300 of them, to be housed in the El Salvador terrorist prison, CECOT.

Nayib Bukele

238 Tren de Aragua and 23 MS 13 reception

Update:
Direct From the White House

Here is our current status after one month:

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– mortgage rates are down – egg prices are down – gas prices are down – overall inflation dropping – illegal immigration stopped at the border – wages going up – foreign aid shut down – woke initiatives being removed – massive manufacturing investments ongoing.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Outlines Global Impact and Response from USA Tariff Hammer

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