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[Guest]

Biden is China’s US President; bought and paid for.The front-page heading in the Financial Times stating the EU is going against President elect Biden in its deal with China is laughable.

[Guest]

You just proved eveyone's point but your own. The hypocrisy that pours out of you is beyond belief. This makes me wonder if your posts are sincere or are you just trolling us?

A few things to consider:

1) The "rural folk" grow food and raise livstock: they feed you urban types.

2) The cities have already become ungovernable. Crime is already out of control and it is getting worse by the day.

3) The blue states and the cities are bankrupt and with the top 10% largely fleeing to red states, the tax base has already collapsded or is about to. The makers are fleeing; only the takers remain in hellholes like NYC, Chicago, SF, and LA. The outflux of high earners is being replaced by an influx illegals and others dependent on welfare and the disappearing American taxpayer.

4) the US dollar is heading for implosion which means plenty of cash for takers, but no real speanding power.

America is heading for catastrophe. You will get your socialist utopia and all the hell that goes with it.

The only thing worse about 2020 than Covid-19 is that the news media is so overtly phony that they don't mind keeping folks in the dark about whether or not the election in November was truly representative of the actual way people voted. The most sacred tenet of our democracy has been called into question. And we cannot be confident of its veracity. Now THAT is actually worse than COVID-19.

These shows are in the entertainment business. They see the election as a way to cause mass confusion and by using cognitive dissonance, they are succeeding. The end result will be a further dumbing-down of the masses. (if thats still possible). And finally- we'll wish we lived somewhere else. Anywhere else.

[Bob Butler]

The only thing worse about 2020 than Covid-19 is that the news media is so overtly phony that they don't mind keeping folks in the dark about whether or not the election in November was truly representative of the actual way people voted. The most sacred tenet of our democracy has been called into question. And we cannot be confident of its veracity. Now THAT is actually worse than COVID-19.

These shows are in the entertainment business. They see the election as a way to cause mass confusion and by using cognitive dissonance, they are succeeding. The end result will be a further dumbing-down of the masses. (if thats still possible). And finally- we'll wish we lived somewhere else. Anywhere else.

The coastal media, the courts and the security agencies are in agreement that this was a largely secure election. The often repeated arguments that there was fraud is not repeated in court, as a lawyer lying to a judge is apt to get him or her disbarred. The only cognitive dissonance is among the Trump believers. I personally agree with the evaluation that the lawsuits filed by Trump and a few of his people are part of a scam, an attempt to keep the Republican base sending in money in hopes that the election might be reversed. Instead, only a small fraction of the money winds up pushing that cause. Most of the money is just going into Trump's pockets to spend as he will.

The most dedicated red ideologues convincing themselves that it is best they leave the country? No lose there. It would be nice if they went through with it.

[Guest]

The most dedicated red ideologues convincing themselves that it is best they leave the country? No lose there. It would be nice if they went through with it.

And take their work ethic, skills, and tax base with them...

[Burner Prime]

Biden is China’s US President; bought and paid for.The front-page heading in the Financial Times stating the EU is going against President elect Biden in its deal with China is laughable.

Not sure what this is trying to say. It's laughable that the EU would go against Biden? I have to say pretty much everything going on is laughable. I don't see the EU as beholden to Biden in any way, only inasmuch as they want to play him and feed on the US corpse like everyone else.

While the West wasted every end-of-year moment working feverishly to discredit Trump until his last day, China has been working overtime to maneuver chess pieces in order to outflank the incoming administration. You'd think people would start to focus on the future but they do so only to attack Trump.

What is a laughable joke is how every news story about the new Biden Admin tries to contrast Biden, the more 'seasoned and reasonable diplomat' (megalol), against the 'unpredictable and contentious' Trump. But every time the story concludes Biden ain't gonna change things much or reverse Trump's policies much... MEGAlololol hahahahaha... Instead he gonna pretty much do the exact same thing. You. Got. To. Be Kidding. Me.

While Biden hid in his basement for the New Year, China made an agreement with the EU. Though not yet ratified, it is laughable that Slow Joe Biden, miles behind the 8-ball, can put the brakes on it.

Merkel and Whinnie the Pooh spearheaded this agreement with little opposition, and none from feckless Macron. Merkel is a product of Soviet East Germany and all her nonsense about human rights is also laughable, and just window dressing for the gullible masses. Most EU leaders really don't care about human rights as seen by their ruthless Covid crackdowns. They pretend so to mollify the credulous public and maintain support.

What is a puzzle is why the EU would make this agreement at this time. Apparently China made concessions which must have made the deal too good to pass up. The greedy EU bastards didn't even think this through. Their actions make Biden and his team look like complete morons. I don't see the EU consciously wanting to do this, instead would try to make him look good and superior when contrasted with Trump. They want to return to the good ol' days of getting the prosperity of commerce, while their defense is carried by the easily-manipulated US - that they have always perceived as a child. Publicly humiliating Biden would not further that goal.

This NY Times article continues the joke, claiming the China-EU agreement is a "stinging rebuke" of Trump's efforts to isolate China. Of course this is just more time wasted trying to smash Trump into the dirt on his way out and has no basis in reality. Why didn't they make this "stinging rebuke" a year ago? Why wait until Trump is out and the poor dementia patient is in? Did Trump have that much power over the EU? I doubt it. In the same paragraph it says Biden's, "... new administration’s plan to compete with Beijing and check its rising power..." WAIT Wasn't that what Trump was trying to do for the past four years? What. A. Fricken. Joke.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/worl ... biden.html

The article begins the hilarity claiming China aims to reduce Global Warming. OMG LMFAO, I think that façade is easy to see through; China loves agreements that amount to binding the hands of her competition while she violates them with impunity. As part of China's Belt and Road infrastructure developments, they are building numerous coal-fired power plants that will belch out massive tons of carbon and soot. Do the NYT writers really believe what they write or are they just trying to dupe the gullible Millennials?

When I think of the great strategists in human history, Sun Tzu or Kuroda Yoshitaka, western strategists look like high-schoolers. We're in peak clown world, but while China may be stupid, they are deadly serious about their intentions. The West is not serious, but wallows in her luxuries.

The only "stinging rebuke" I see is what just happened to Biden over this deal. He looks like a complete chump and his team's scramble to try to fix things and assert power make him look even more pathetic. While John thinks Brexit will be a disaster for GB, their exclusion from this deal may be a good thing. It appears like both China and the EU see the US as a weak, sick, declining superpower - complete with Caligula as leader - and are moving their chess pieces accordingly.

Biden is compromised with China, but his team does not have the 4D strategy mind to play it like he is in "fake opposition" to her. That is giving them too much credit.

[John]

** 03-Jan-2021 World View: Electoral College certification

On Wednesday, when the Congress votes to certify the electoral votes
of each of the states, there will be a challenge to six states by 12
senators.

The Senators are: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.;
James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.;
Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as
Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill
Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. Separately Josh Hawley
of Missouri.

Vice President Mike Pence, who chairs the Senate, also supports
the certification challenge.

CNN and the other mainstream media are massively contemptuous of this
calling it a symbolic gesture, a threat to democracy, and a cause for
impeachment of Senator Cruz for leading the effort.

Before you believe anything from the sewer mainstream media, it's
worthwhile to list some things that happened in the last four years:

• Democrats and the media lied every day about having explosive
  evidence of Trump's guilt, when such evidence was nonexistent.
• The Mueller report was hugely embarrasing to the Democrats and the
  media because, after three years, they couldn't find a scintilla of
  evidence to charge Trump with, indirectly proving that Trump, unlike
  the Democrats and the media, is completely free of corruption.
• Adam Schiff, who lied on a daily basis, made up a phony transcript
  of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine's president. Trump was then
  able to release the actual transcript, making Schiff look like a piece
  of garbage, but that never stopped him.
• During the Ukraine hearings, every witness was forced to recant
  his testimony under cross examination by the Republicans. But the
  mainstream media lied about that every day, reporting "explosive
  testimony."
• Ambassador Gordon Sondland was forced to change his testimony to
  lie for Adam Schiff when Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer called
  on antifa-blm and other activists to riot and threaten Sondland's
  family and businesses. This was censored by the Democrats and
  media.
• Jonathan Turley's family was also threatened with violence by
  Democrats when he testified that the impeachment couldn't be
  justified. This was censored by the Democrats and media.
• The Democrats and mainstream media were embarrassed again when the
  whole impeachment effort flopped -- because there was no evidence to
  support the charges.
• Throughout 2020, when antifa-blm fascists were rioting and burning
  down cities across the country, the Democrats and media censored it.
  It was really laughable when the Democrat National Convention didn't
  even mention the ongoing antifa-blm fascist violence.
• As evidence grew of Hunter and Joe Biden's involvement in
  influence peddling, money laundering and tax evasion in Ukraine,
  Russia and China, the Democrats censored the news. The most
  ridiculous example occurred when the NY Post's story about the laptop
  was completely censored by the media, and even linking to the story
  was censored.
• During the initial investigations of voter fraud by Trump
  supporters, a number of poll workers and Republican poll watchers were
  threatened and intimidated by Democrats, sometimes putting their
  families in danger. The Democrats and media censored this. Trump
  supporters claim that judges were acutely aware of these threats and
  to the similar threats to Sondland and others, and refused to put
  their lives or families in danger by scheduling a trial on the fraud
  charges. As a result of the threats of violence, all the charges were
  simply thrown out, according to Trump supporters.

All of this censored information was reported on Fox News, which has
been consistently fair and balanced, and has fairly presented both
sides of every issue. But the sewer CNN, NYT, Wapost, MSNBC, BBC and
other left-wing media outlets have been flooding their reports with
censorship, lies and misinformation. These media simply report
Democrat talking points.

So I've made a list of all of all the above to make the point that
nothing that the mainstream media says is to be believed. They'll
make things up, lie or censor information as their Democrat party
masters demand.

So when the mainstream media starts becoming hysterical about the
electoral college certification vote on Wednesday, it's quite
reasonable to assume that they're lying and that they're panicking.

There is, in fact, massive evidence of voter fraud by the Democrats,
as reported on Fox News over the last few weeks, amounting to millions
of illegal votes by Democrats in the six states. It's quite possible
that there was enough voter fraud that one of the six states in
question might have to flip. Whether there is enough to do this,
however, is in question.

At the very least, the Trump supporters hope that the certification
objections will break through the media censorship.

So keep this in mind if you hear any mainstream media reports about
the electoral college certification vote. They're reporting
Democratic talking points, and you have no reason to believe anything
they say.

Another thing to keep in mind is that it's frustrating to talk to
Democrats because they have no idea what's going on. This was really
apparent last summer, during the antifa-blm riots. I was absolutely
astonished how Democrats knew nothing about what was happening. They
simply believed with the censored media told them. The same thing is
true today. They have no idea what's actually going on. Keep this
in mind when you're talking to Democrats. They appear to be idiots,
but they're really just ignorant and clueless.

I'm reminded of the Soviet days, when the Soviet government declared
someone to be an "unperson," and he no longer existed or ever existed.

An important fact to remember is that 37% of the population, including
many Democrats and most Republicans, believe that the Democrats won
the election fraudulently. So when Democrats claim that the
certification challenge will cause people to doubt the legitimacy of
the election, that's actually a lie since the opposite is true. The
best thing that can happen to the Democrats is a thorough
investigation of the election fraud charges and prove them false.

In the meantime, there are 74 million people who voted for Trump who
are overwhelmingly extremely angry about what's going on, especially
since the Democrats block every investigation, thereby showing
consciousness of guilt. If every investigation is blocked, these 74
million people are going to be really furious, and they will look to a
new political movement by Trump to lead them.

---- Sources:

-- GOP senators, led by Cruz, to object to Electoral College
certification, demand emergency audit
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-se ... tion-audit
(Fox News, 2-Jan-2021)

-- GOP senators say they will reject election results unless
commission is formed
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-r ... on-formed/
(CBS News, 3-Jan-2021)

[DaKardii]

Second, my conclusion is that the American foreign policy establishment prioritizes controlling the Heartland countries in its grand strategy. It accepts the premise (first introduced by Mackinder in 1904 and updated by Brzezinski in 1997) that the key to global domination lies in the control of Heartland, which is supposedly the global center of both population and natural resources. This mentality, combined with the petrodollar situation, explains why the establishment always cites the same three countries (China, Iran, and Russia) as being our three main enemies. For it is those three countries that are the largest obstacles to the establishment's goal.

Thanks for explaining. Great thought, very helpful and insightful to see how they view it; seems likely the case.

You're welcome.

And to further elaborate, Mackinder's development of Heartland Theory is considered to be one of, if not the most important founding moment of geopolitics as a field of study. While the theory itself was initially developed in the context of geography and not foreign policy, it would have great influence over the foreign policies of, among others: Pre-WWII Britain; Nazi Germany; Post-WWII America; Post-Soviet Russia; and post-Cold War China.

In 1919, Mackinder expanded upon his theory by identifying four countries as being critical factors in determining who controlled the Heartland. Those countries were China, Germany, Japan, and Russia. Seventy-eight years later, Brzezinski would revise this list by removing Germany and Japan and replacing them with Iran and Turkey.

[Guest]

Why does George Friedman think Poland will be a world power and fight Turkey this century?

[DaKardii]

Why does George Friedman think Poland will be a world power and fight Turkey this century?

Because he believes both countries will expand their influence into the European part of the former USSR once Russia collapses again. They will jointly displace Russia as the great Eastern European power, and will turn on each other from there.

[Bob Butler]

On Wednesday, when the Congress votes to certify the electoral votes of each of the states, there will be a challenge to six states by 12 senators.

The Senators are: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.: John Kennedy, R-La.;
Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. Separately Josh Hawley of Missouri...

While I don't doubt the above list of senators, most people will be aware that this is one of the places where there is a huge gap between the coastal media and those who have bought into what Trump and his people have claimed. The lawyers have not put it to a judge as lying to a judge will get them disbarred. Most of the Fox reporting was repudiated by Fox when they were warned of a possible defamation law suit. The coastal media is projecting Trump is not serious about injecting this stuff into court or the congressional proceedings, but just wants the Republican base to keep sending him money.

Waiting a little bit will tell us which version of reality has been accurately portrayed by who. Still, this is an example of an ideological prejudice. While in most areas the judgements are not so significantly off, anywhere where understanding of what the blue people are thinking requires a double check of alternate news sources. If judgements is way off here, you have to wonder about some of his other judgements involving other people he doesn't like.