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VDH: China is starting a trade war it is doomed to lose, possibly catastrophically.

No one wants a "trade war" with China, or for that matter with any nation. Nonetheless, China has been waging one for years and is now locked in a tariff recalibration with the Trump administration.

In this American effort to find trade parity and equity, China can do some short-term damage to the U.S., especially in terms of ceasing exports of some pharmaceuticals, phones, and computers. But ultimately, it cannot win--and will eventually lose catastrophically. It will likely accept that reality sooner rather than later.

We are only in the first week of the escalating rhetoric and tariffs. But already China is appealing to its Asian rivals, Australia, and the EU to join in fighting the supposed American bully.

But so far, there are understandably few takers.

An exasperated China is now also running vintage Korean War-era propaganda videos of Mao Zedong bragging about how he was standing up to then-President Dwight Eisenhower.

Does Beijing really believe that airing ossified threats from decades ago--issued by the greatest mass killer in human history to the one U.S. president who warned of the military-industrial complex--is going to win over neutral nations?

Or maybe China thinks calls to Western nations to stop American trade "bullying" will resonate--this, from the greatest trade bully, cheat, and rogue commercial nation in history.

China is running a nearly $1-trillion trade surplus with the world. Its mercantilism is the result of market manipulations, product dumping, asymmetrical tariffs, patent, copyright and technology theft, a corrupt Chinese judicial system, and Western laxity--or what might be mildly called "bullying." The U.S. accounts for about a third of China's trade surplus, with most of the EU and Asian nations accounting for the other two-thirds.

In the past, third-party nations did not appreciate the ends to which China has gone to warp the international trading system. In one sense, unable to address their deficits with China, our friends and neutrals turned to America, where they sought to make up their trade asymmetries by going China-light and running surpluses with the U.S.

However much they criticize the United States, it is unlikely that European and Asian nations will join China--which imposes high tariffs and steals from them--in order to gang up on the U.S., which has tolerated massive trade deficits for decades.

To the degree that the world accepts China as an international commercial rogue nation, it does so out of fear --or, again, on the assumption it can recycle its deficits with Beijing by running surpluses with the vast open American market.

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The complexities of trade and tariffs present all sorts of minefields. But the Trump administration is beginning to navigate them, and its trajectory is rather simple. In the next 90 days, it will likely conclude trade deals with our allies and third parties that bring either tariff parity or no tariffs at all that will reduce the U.S. trade deficit.

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For now, Trump should persuade our allies that if they were not so subject to Chinese mercantilism, they would have more flexibility to ensure fair trade with the U.S.

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If China really does reduce most of its exports to the U.S., America will have to scramble for a year or so to establish new supply chains and some alternate importers of U.S. products. But after a year of gradual dislocation, China will begin to hemorrhage, and then quite suddenly, given the U.S. has almost all the advantages--if it chooses to use them.

One, if it ever comes to a real trade war, remember that nations with the higher tariffs and larger trade surpluses usually lose, given that their economies are far more dependent on mercantile exports and trade imbalances. Psychologically, it is far harder to convince the world of victimhood when tariffs and surpluses illustrate contrived trade aggression.

Two, consensual societies are far more flexible in dealing with external pressures and volatile public opinion. True, Trump must face a midterm election in 18 months. However, Xi Jinping may soon face a third of his export factory workforce unemployed--in a society that has no mechanism for them to vent tensions and objections peacefully.


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In terms of self-sufficiency, the U.S. is the world's largest oil and gas producer. China has four times America's population but only a third of its oil and gas production. China is desperately trying to catch the U.S. militarily but remains behind in both the quality and quantity of its manpower and munitions. It will take a decade or more to match the U.S. all-nuclear submarine fleet, eleven huge nuclear aircraft carriers, the sophistication and number of 4,000 fighters, bombers, and support aircraft, and the 5,000-6,000 nuclear weapons and the American nuclear triad delivery system.

More Cruel Analysis at the link.

VDH's point about China being susceptible to an energy embargo is interesting. Trump signed an executive order to boost US consumption of the huge amounts of coal it produces.

China is a major purchaser of US coal. To the extent US plants begin burning it for domestic energy production, it hurts China.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that aim to boost coal production in his latest action that runs counter to global efforts to curb carbon emissions.

Coal-burning plants generate less than 20% of U.S. electricity, a drop from 50% in 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration, as fracking and other drilling techniques have hiked production of natural gas. Growth in solar and wind power has also cut coal use.

"We're bringing back an industry that was abandoned," Trump said at the White House, standing in front of about three dozen mostly male coal miners wearing hard hats.

"We're going to put the miners back to work," Trump said about a workforce that has sunk to about 40,000 from 70,000 ten years ago.

U.S. electricity demand is rising for the first time in two decades on growth in power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and cryptocurrencies.

EPA Director Lee Zeldin: Democrats must stop normalizing political violence.

Spoiler alert: They won't. They are prisoners to their most extremist fringes and their most extremist fringes are violent radical paramilitaries like antifa.

And AWFL women who fantasize about political violence and promote it like cowards while keeping their own lily-white hands clean of blood.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin appeared on Fox News Monday to urge "Democrats out of power" to condemn and distance themselves from a growing wave of politically motivated threats and violence.

In 2022, then-Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Zeldin experienced political violence when a shooting occurred just outside his Long Island home while his teenage daughters were inside. During an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle," Zeldin said the climate of political hatred is becoming dangerously normalized.

"There's an attempt right now to try to figure out how to oppose President Trump and the right. There are people out of power right now, and they're flailing. They can't figure out the right names to call, the right tactics to use, and they're getting more and more extreme," Zeldin said. "There's not a more important moment than right now for these Democrats who are out of power to be sending that message that this is from the fringe, zero tolerance, it won't be normalized, and if you are following me, that leader, you make it very clear that this is not welcome in this society in this moment."

Zeldin also urged leaders to reject fringe influences.

"This needs to be treated as the fringe. And there are people who are in politics who have individuals across the country who follow them," Zeldin told host Laura Ingraham when asked about his reaction to the ramped-up violence. "And these people in office have been following those people instead of leading them. This comes from the fringe. It needs to be treated as from the fringe, and it needs to be treated with zero tolerance."

The media is beginning to understand that they are no longer immune to defamation suits.

MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin was forced to scramble Sunday evening to correct a guest's claims that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was a "Russian agent."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed in 2019 Gabbard was being "groomed" to run as a third-party candidate by Russia, but offered no evidence to back up the assertions. Danielle Moodie-Mills, host of the "Woke AF" podcast, and Mohyeldin had discussed the nomination of former Green Beret Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. (RELATED: Former Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Trump)

"I really hope that alternate universe me is really enjoying, like, a life that is nicer than where we are right now in this hellhole. You know, why are we shocked? She's -- you know, we learned that she was a Russian agent. They celebrated her, you know. So why do we think that?" Moodie-Mills said, prompting Mohyeldin to ask, "We learned that she was a Russian agent?"

"Yes," Moodie-Mills responded, with Mohyeldin asking, "Where did we learn that?"

Gabbard and the former first lady have feuded over foreign policy since 2019, when Gabbard launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election.

"From Russia. We had it mentioned by Hillary Clinton during her debate. Like, should we look into Tulsi Gabbard?" Moodie-Mills said, with Mohyeldin cutting in with, "Unproven."

"Unproven. Okay, okay," Moodie-Mills said, before Mohyeldin added, "Unproven. Allegation? No, I'm serious. I mean, 'agent' is a very strong word, of a foreign state."

Multiple hosts on the left-leaning corporate network in March had to issue corrections after The Associated Press retracted an article claiming Gabbard described President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as "very good friends."

MSNBC hosts and guests routinely hyped the claims that Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Clinton and repeatedly had then-Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who often made claims about alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, on the air.

"Very strong allegations. And I don't know anybody else that gets celebrated on Russian television other than, I don't know, Tucker Carlson. Right? Right. And Donald Trump. Right?" Moodie-Mills said. "So, people who don't have allegations about them don't get celebrated in this way."

"But why are we surprised that she would bring in a conspiracy theorist to lead one of the most important jobs and agencies?" Moodie-Mills continued. "But I -- you know, so it a shock? No, it's not. It's just -- it continues to make America dangerous to the world."

Gabbard, deployed to Iraq with the Hawaii National Guard, currently serves in an Army Reserve Civil Affairs unit, according to the Army Times.


A trans "athlete" is now the "women's" world champion in darts for the second year in a row.

Just recently, a transgender athlete (biological male) was "victorious" in a women's darts event that took place in the Netherlands, bringing a second straight championship to Noa-Lynn van Leuven. The competition happened in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), and to make this situation worse, the entity is celebrating van Leuven's "win."

What's funny about the celebration from PDC is the fact that they have comments disabled on their Twitter account, pretty much admitting what they're doing is wrong. They knew they were going to get hit with criticism.

Per the official website of PDC, "the 28-year-old conceded just five legs on her way to Event Nine glory at the Autotron, closing out an emphatic 5-0 victory over Stefanie Lueck to clinch a first Women's Series crown of 2025."

PDC also notes that the "victory marked van Leuven's sixth Women's Series title, which equals the tally of Japanese star Mikuru Suzuki."

What an accomplishment. It's almost as if he is doping with testosterone or something.

Children's skulls found at Aztec pyramid -- and the skeletons of many adult victims -- proving that they practiced child sacrifice en masse, but because "scientists" are just political propagandists and can never say that any non-white race ever committed a single historical sin, they label the practice of beheading children in a blood sacrifice to pagan gods "non-violent."


You and I may look at the practice of human sacrifice to appease the gods as barbaric, but apparently, these archaeologists see the temple as an example of a sophisticated culture whose influence was interwoven with other societies to build a vibrant, kinda, transnationalist community with a rich spiritual life.

[CBS "News:"]

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies, Guatemala's Culture and Sports Ministry announced this week.

The enormous city-state of Tikal, whose towering temples still stand in the jungle, battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for dominance of the Maya world.

Far to the north in Mexico, just outside present day Mexico City, Teotihuacan -- "the city of the gods" or "the place where men become gods" -- is best known for its twin Temples of the Sun and Moon. It was actually a large city that housed over 100,000 inhabitants and covered around 8 square miles.

The still mysterious city was one of the largest in the world at its peak between 100 B.C. and A.D. 750. But it was abandoned before the rise of the Aztecs in the 14th century.

It's not mere speculation that the temple was used for the sacrifice of children. Skeletons have been unearthed along with the temple, and the practice of human sacrifice survived in the Americas until the evil Christian colonizers wiped it out along with the "civilizations" that practiced it.


Edwin Román, who leads the South Tikal Archaeological Project within the park, said the discovery shows the sociopolitical and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D.

Román said the discovery also reinforces the idea that Tikal was a cosmopolitan center at that time, a place where people visited from other cultures, affirming its importance as a center of cultural convergence.

María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms "that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like."

"We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies," she said.


A lot of people are calling out CBS, and this "scientist," for claiming that murdering children is mostly peaceful.

"First it was 'nonviolent, peaceful rioting' and now it's "peaceful child sacrifices." What planet did these people come from?" Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins asked on X.

"I guess that makes it OK. Since they were connecting with their 'celestial bodies,'" WikiPedia co-founder Larry Sanger tweeted, adding "'it's not that they were violent' when they... slaughtered children."


The media has only two ways to describe Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

No, not "alleged MS-13 gang member."

No, not "illegal alien."

The media refer to him exclusively as either "Maryland man" or better still "Maryland father."


Whoopi Goldberg concedes that maybe it's a good idea to end the Department of Education, and the producers cut hard to a commercial break.

The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox

HOLY SMOKES: Whoopi Goldberg just did the unthinkable--she backed one of Trump's fiercest ideas live on The View.

Dismantling the Department of Education.

The panel was stunned. ABC producers quickly cut to commercial.

And no, this isn't satire.

"I don't have to wait for the government to do it," Whoopi said. "We can do it."

Then came the bombshell: she said maybe tearing down the Department of Education is exactly what America needs.

"Maybe that is a good thing," she said. "Because maybe it will force us to make sure our kids actually get what they need."

She unleashed--calling on parents to step up and demand better from local leaders.

"I want to make sure, since you're taking all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly what they need."

And she wasn't finished.

"This is now in our hands," she said. "It's going to be tough, and nobody wants to do it, because it's a bitch--but you know what, if it comes down to your survival, this is what you got to do."

Then she ended the segment by glancing off camera and saying:

"They're telling me that we're going to be right back."

Cut to commercial.

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM




Comments

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1 Yay!

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:35 PM (pMi6S)

2 If Trump causes China to collapse over the Tariff Wars, he'll be the greatest president in history.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:35 PM (pMi6S)

3 Once you lose Whoopi, there's nothing left to lose.

Woke is dead.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:36 PM (pMi6S)

4 It's worth remembering that Chinese military / government officials outright stated that they were actively at war with the United States somewhere around 2012 or so.

Everyone nervously laughed it off because Obama, but it didn't make it any less true.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The majority of women shouldn't weigh more than 140 pounds at April 15, 2025 06:37 PM (X2Rtx)

5 Trump has taken a big-ass rock and SMASHED the Overton Window.

Now it is perfectly acceptable discourse, even for liberals like Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Maher, to discuss dismantling the DoE and rejecting tramsgenderism.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:38 PM (pMi6S)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 15, 2025 06:38 PM (GYt5+)

7 "non-violent human sacrifice."

Similar to "just a little bit pregnant."

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:39 PM (pMi6S)

8 "But ultimately, it cannot win--and will eventually lose catastrophically."

They can buy enough of our politicians to spend us into oblivion by 2030. Our politicians may not need the help, but Xi could easily give a really hard push to make certain.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 15, 2025 06:39 PM (pIfcn)

9 Democrats must stop normalizing political violence.

In other news, human demand that cheetahs stop chasing gazelles.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:40 PM (pMi6S)

10 "non-violent human sacrifice."

Similar to "just a little bit pregnant."
Posted by: zombie

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We can't make fun of them.

This is how America views abortion.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The majority of women shouldn't weigh more than 140 pounds at April 15, 2025 06:41 PM (X2Rtx)

11 Maryland man, Georgia man, Florida man.

The genericizing of masculinity.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:42 PM (pMi6S)

12
Whoppie be hittin' the bong again.

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 06:42 PM (j4U/Z)

13 7 out of 11 -- not bad.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:42 PM (pMi6S)

14 I even read the content.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:43 PM (pMi6S)

15 so when is Bribem going to try to speak today? did he already blow it?

Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 06:44 PM (8uzBS)

16 I'd like to mention one thing about the Metcalf murder. Frisco TX is somewhat of the soccer capital in the US. They have a hall of fame at Toyota Stadium and various US Soccer facilities. The Hunt family was on eof the leaders in bringing soccer to the US. This trial will be happening as the city prepares to host a lot of soccer events...this trial is already turning into a circus, and I'm afraid the attention from the world cup will only make it worse.

Posted by: mishdog at April 15, 2025 06:44 PM (Hzymx)

17 HOLY SMOKES: Whoopi Goldberg just did the unthinkable--she backed one of Trump's fiercest ideas live on The View.
.......

She still looks like she smells bad.

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (v0R5T)

18 10 "non-violent human sacrifice."

Similar to "just a little bit pregnant."
Posted by: zombie


I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

19 the Department of Education, Education?

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (v0R5T)

20 "Maybe that is a good thing," she said. "Because maybe it will force us to make sure our kids actually get what they need."
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Our kids, Whoopie?

Really, after 7 abortions you speak of such? You're right about the Dept. of Ed., but an appeal, by you, for the wellbeing of kids is vacuous

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (XeU6L)

21 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: President Trump set to sign an executive order prohibiting illegal immigrants from accessing any form of social security benefits.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 44m
PRESS SEC: "The President will be signing a Presidential memorandum aimed at stopping illegal aliens & other ineligible people from obtaining Social Security Act benefits."

Leading Report @LeadingReport 14m
BREAKING: President Trump officially signs executive order banning illegal aliens from getting Social Security.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (mZtdJ)

22 The whole China is failing is hard to discern. I see plenty of people saying they are self sufficient and others showing videos of companies complaining that they are going under because US sales have been canceled. I do know they are trying to open more companies in Vietnam, which I assume is to bypass US tariffs.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (GYHsz)

23 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

The war prisoners sacrificed were rolled down the pyramid where the soldier who caught them took the body home and barbequed it and ate it with his buddies.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 06:48 PM (n7h9X)

24 Democrats must stop normalizing political violence.

They're legalizing it under the "you can't arrest your political opponent" clause.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2025 06:48 PM (Ex9V+)

25 23 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

Sacrificed not scarified though I'm sure they were scared

Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

26 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
BREAKING: One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense - Reuters

Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: Top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Dan Caldwell has been escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in an investigation into internal leaks.

http://tiny.cc/rsog001
photo; young guy

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:49 PM (mZtdJ)

27 it's not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies."

And it's not that Jeffrey Dahmer was violent -- it was just his wayo f making sure his sexual partners wouldn't move around too much.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:50 PM (pMi6S)

28 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna

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It's worth looking up how adrenochrome is harvested.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The majority of women shouldn't weigh more than 140 pounds at April 15, 2025 06:50 PM (X2Rtx)

29 The whole China is failing is hard to discern. I see plenty of people saying they are self sufficient and others showing videos of companies complaining that they are going under because US sales have been canceled. I do know they are trying to open more companies in Vietnam, which I assume is to bypass US tariffs.
Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (GYHsz)

Jokes on them since Viet Tariffs were even higher than China's was

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 06:50 PM (n7h9X)

30 Leading Report @LeadingReport 28s
BREAKING: Approximately 20,000 IRS agents have accepted the Trump administration’s buyout offer to resign.

AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 9m
About 22,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. - NYT

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:50 PM (mZtdJ)

31 22 The whole China is failing is hard to discern. I see plenty of people saying they are self sufficient and others showing videos of companies complaining that they are going under because US sales have been canceled. I do know they are trying to open more companies in Vietnam, which I assume is to bypass US tariffs.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (GYHsz)

It'll hit their employment at a time where things aren't going well because of their real estate collapse.

Their economy has been in a weak state for a few years, but had some positive signs more recently. This might tip them back in a negative direction.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (okun6)

32 >> they label the practice of beheading children in a blood sacrifice to pagan gods "non-violent."


This is true, it was non-violent.
First they rip off the arms and legs with a forceps.
Then they suck the brains out of the skull, and..

Oh wait, that's non-violent abortion. sorry, I get them confused.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (P5Ay9)

33 Sacrificed not scarified though I'm sure they were scared


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Ha. We were just talking about this over the weekend. There's a type of lawnmower called a scarifier that is designed to remove thatch and moss.

It's a great name for any type of power tool.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The majority of women shouldn't weigh more than 140 pounds at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (X2Rtx)

34 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: China has stated that it will only engage in trade talks with the United States if American leaders demonstrate respect for Beijing.
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Something about kissing ass or something.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (mZtdJ)

35
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 9m
About 22,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. - NYT


Good..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (VE6XX)

36 15 so when is Bribem going to try to speak today? did he already blow it?
Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 06:44 PM (8uzBS)

It just ended.
It'll be archived at C-SPAN.
https://www.c-span.org

Posted by: m at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (CQE5S)

37 Time for Fauci and Xi to release another virus!

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 06:52 PM (E0p3T)

38 "Does Beijing really believe that airing ossified threats from decades ago--issued by the greatest mass killer in human history to the one U.S. president who warned of the military-industrial complex--is going to win over neutral nations?"

That is a great paragraph.

BTW-,I would not call this essay "Quick Hits", Ace. It was lengthy but quite good. Thanks. Glad you are feeling better as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 15, 2025 06:52 PM (l1qoA)

39 photo; young guy

there was a video of him being interviewed by Hegseth from Trump's first term, he's prolly ten years older than that picture...still young if so

Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 06:52 PM (8uzBS)

40
I haven't watched Temple of Doom in over 30 years. I think I'll still like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 06:53 PM (fRB6z)

41 Not only was this altar for child sacrifice, but it was a colonialist altar. Teotihuacan is a fairly short drive from Mexico City; the Maya lands are either in other countries or, like Yucatan / east Chiapas, may as well be.
Striking-Owl was a conqueror and he set that altar up in Motul ("Tikal") so he could terrify the locals by murdering their kids.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:53 PM (gKWVE)

42 That quick hits reads like war and peace.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 06:53 PM (s8sOe)

43 Last Minute Leak @LastMinuteLeak 1h
TRUMP: THE ADMINISTRATION IS RESTOCKING THE MILITARY.
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But I thought Trump had banned trannies??

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:54 PM (mZtdJ)

44 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: China has stated that it will only engage in trade talks with the United States if American leaders demonstrate respect for Beijing.
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Something about kissing ass or something.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (mZtdJ)

Would they accept Mr. and Mrs. Fauci as test subjects?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 06:54 PM (VNX3d)

45 Willowed:

Meanwhile, in the People's Republic of Theft and Tyranny, 30 million unemployed Chinese workers are leaving their export factories and are heading back to their hometowns. Shipping containers by the millions are sitting in the dockyards because US customers cancelled their orders. Chinese Tik-Tokers are making political statements by posting tree bark recipes for their viewers. Business execs are abandoning their factories and absconding with the cash.
Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (rj6Yv)

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (rj6Yv)

46 *yax mutal. (I was going by memory)

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

47 photo; young guy

there was a video of him being interviewed by Hegseth from Trump's first term, he's prolly ten years older than that picture...still young if so
Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 06:52 PM (8uzBS)

Off goes another traitor. Deep State or Dems?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (n7h9X)

48 25 23 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

Sacrificed not scarified though I'm sure they were scared
Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

scarify
verb

make shallow incisions in (the skin), especially as a medical procedure or traditional cosmetic practice: she scarified the snakebite with a paring knife.

Posted by: m at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (CQE5S)

49 You and I may look at the practice of human sacrifice to appease the gods as barbaric, but apparently, these archaeologists see the temple as an example of a sophisticated culture whose influence was interwoven with other societies to build a vibrant, kinda, transnationalist community with a rich spiritual life.
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I've been saying human sacrifice is the very next hurdle the Left wants to bring us over.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (E0p3T)

50 Business execs are abandoning their factories and absconding with the cash.

Russia early90s vibes.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

51 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 3h
The Justice Department says a man has been arrested and charged after threatening to kill Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family. - Scripps News

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:56 PM (mZtdJ)

52 That quick hits reads like war and peace.
Posted by: rickb223

Ahh... going for the cardboard membership WITH extra fluoride?

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 06:56 PM (cPGH3)

53
Interesting. So PDT will sign order to prevent illegals and ineligibles from receiving SS benefits.

Democrats say illegals don't receive benefits, and there are no ineligible recipients gaming the system.

That means Democrats won't oppose this Order, right? Democrats should have no problem at all with this order. Right? We'll see...

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 06:56 PM (fRB6z)

54 I don't fucking know why Beten Mendez inserted her dumb takes into this story since she wasn't even involved in the project. All she's done is attract the attention of DOGE.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

55 I've been saying human sacrifice is the very next hurdle the Left wants to bring us over.
Posted by: ...



I'm all for it. I have a list of leftists. I'd like to submit. Just left the prohibition and give me a greenlight.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (s8sOe)

56 "First it was 'nonviolent, peaceful rioting' and now it's "peaceful child sacrifices."

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

57 The Justice Department says a man has been arrested and charged after threatening to kill Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family. - Scripps News
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:56 PM (mZtdJ)

"A man"

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (E0p3T)

58 55 I've been saying human sacrifice is the very next hurdle the Left wants to bring us over.
Posted by: ...

Already have it... Abortion

Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (VE6XX)

59 You and I may look at the practice of human sacrifice to appease the gods as barbaric, but apparently, these archaeologists see the temple as an example of a sophisticated culture whose influence was interwoven with other societies to build a vibrant, kinda, transnationalist community with a rich spiritual life.
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I've been saying human sacrifice is the very next hurdle the Left wants to bring us over.
Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 06:55 PM (E0p3T)

It started 55 years ago more or less.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (n7h9X)

60 Gender affirming child sacrifice.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 06:58 PM (LkLld)

61 Ahh... going for the cardboard membership WITH extra fluoride?
Posted by: MkY


*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 06:59 PM (s8sOe)

62
I just think it's cruel to use women like chimps.

Treating women like chimps is not cool, jeef bezos.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 06:59 PM (fRB6z)

63 I've been saying human sacrifice is the very next hurdle the Left wants to bring us over.
Posted by: ...
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Super easy, barely an inconvenience

Posted by: Canada Health at April 15, 2025 06:59 PM (P5Ay9)

64 Already have it... Abortion
Posted by: It's me donna

I vaguely remember a genetic test on Carthage. They weren't Punic. Closer to Sicily, North Africa of course, southern Italy. But very little from Lebanon where the language and, presumably, elite came from.
Almost as if sacrificing one's own kids makes difficult to propagate one's lineage into the next generation.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

65 "First it was 'nonviolent, peaceful rioting' and now it's "peaceful child sacrifices." What planet did these people come from?" Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins asked on X.

"I guess that makes it OK. Since they were connecting with their 'celestial bodies,'" WikiPedia co-founder Larry Sanger tweeted, adding "'it's not that they were violent' when they... slaughtered children."


Well, surprise, surprise, surprise. The same crowd that insists we must must apply present day 'precious norms' to every 'evil act' they claim white people have committed for the past 200,000 years, says we must not apply current norms about human sacrifice to Central American natives who lived 500-to-1000 years ago. You can't despise that bunch of h@teful people enough.

Posted by: Gref at April 15, 2025 07:00 PM (aBgBM)

66 Just recently, a transgender athlete (biological male) was "victorious" in a women's darts"


Butt darts is more like it

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:00 PM (NtVYv)

67 I find the most interesting is that US exports to the PRC include such necessities as soybeans, which make up 11.6% of the overall export value, and chemicals+pharmaceuticals. The agricultural products alone will have a direct impact on the Chinese government's ability to feed its people.

I've noticed that US pork products have held steady or have dropped in price in my neighborhood supermarkets.

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:00 PM (rj6Yv)

68 The scuttlebutt was that Whoopie was slated to be pushed off the view and replaced, so I wonder if this is her bid to be loved and supported by the audience.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:00 PM (D7oie)

69 If anything, the copycat terrorism is growing, maybe from the top but who knows?

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 07:01 PM (ypFCm)

70 Predictions of a catastrophe in China are very #twoweeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2025 07:01 PM (RIvkX)

71 okay I scanned Biden's warble. About 75% build up of how repubs are going to take away SS and then a slow wind down of how we need stick together...as Americans man...I mean it...fades away

Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 07:01 PM (8uzBS)

72 34 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: China has stated that it will only engage in trade talks with the United States if American leaders demonstrate respect for Beijing.
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Something about kissing ass or something.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (mZtdJ)

And now it's officially Peking again. You want to keep going?

Posted by: The Goldenest Scalp Weasel that ever scalped a weasel at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (pIfcn)

73 Coal! Coal! Red China's burning coal! The earth is on fire and Red China is burning coal! Oh...The Party says it is ok for China to burn coal. Whew! It's all Trumpfs fault!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (R/m4+)

74 Already have it... Abortion
Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:57 PM (VE6XX)

Indeed, but this will be one on from that. However horrifying you think the Left is, they always go worse.

Imagine imagining ten years ago they were going to intentionally activate an army of tranny mass murderers, and then continue ratcheting them up even after multiple ones kill children.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (E0p3T)

75
A friend visited China a month ago and was startled at how empty Shanghai and Guangzhou were. Looking at imported food items and construction brings up an interesting theory:

China has nowhere near 1.4 billion people and may be as low as 500 million, skewed to middle age.

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (j4U/Z)

76 I vaguely remember a genetic test on Carthage. They weren't Punic. Closer to Sicily, North Africa of course, southern Italy. But very little from Lebanon where the language and, presumably, elite came from.
Almost as if sacrificing one's own kids makes difficult to propagate one's lineage into the next generation.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

They'd been there about 800 years by their own traditions, and there were too few of them to avoid mixing with the locals. Look at Dido mixing with Aeneas.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (n7h9X)

77 Imma going to listen to VDH... he's smarter than me and much better educated....

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 07:03 PM (PCK5/)

78 Leftest thought reminds me of those plate spinning guys that used to be on the Ed Sullivan Show.

They have all these crazy beliefs, and they are like plates on the top of poles. It must be a lot of work to keep thinking things so unnatural.
Why not just put the plates on the table and accept reality?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 15, 2025 07:03 PM (P5Ay9)

79 ***their way of connecting with the celestial bodies
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It's a good thing Conservatives don't think that way about terrorist collaborators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:03 PM (AneyV)

80 A friend visited China a month ago and was startled at how empty Shanghai and Guangzhou were. Looking at imported food items and construction brings up an interesting theory:

China has nowhere near 1.4 billion people and may be as low as 500 million, skewed to middle age.
Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (j4U/Z)

I've heard that on YT vid titles but didn't look into it. If it were true you'd think they'd be better off with fewer to feed.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (n7h9X)

81 TOP 3 Best Selling Books if the Tikal Mayans were still around:

3) Bring Me the Heads of Calvin and Hobbs

2) Little Women, Little Heads

1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn's Head As It Rolled Down the Pyramid Steps



Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (iJfKG)

82 Already have it... Abortion

as I recall it was Obama as an Illinois senator that endorsed killing babies that survived abortions

Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (8uzBS)

83 The tariffs are going to affect a lot of small businesses. I am sure the Donald is going to start hearing some real screaming. Moving supply chains is not easy. There is not a ton of excess manufacturing capacity in The US.

It will take money and time to bring it back, if and when it happens.

Then there are the environmental laws/rules that are a huge burden.

We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (NtVYv)

84 82 Already have it... Abortion

as I recall it was Obama as an Illinois senator that endorsed killing babies that survived abortions
Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (8uzBS)

Yes.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (PCK5/)

85 The Maya looked at time differently than we do today. The order of progression that dictates the distinction between pre and post-natal abortion was unknown to them.

Posted by: An Expert at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

86 Trump has taken a big-ass rock and SMASHED the Overton Window.

Now it is perfectly acceptable discourse, even for liberals like Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Maher, to discuss dismantling the DoE and rejecting tramsgenderism.
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:38 PM (pMi6S)

The pendulum stopped moving left a while ago. Biden used the force of government to forestall the correction... and even to push it a little further. Now it's started to swing back. It'll pick up speed (and over-correct, sadly, but such is life) and anyone caught in it's path will be crushed.

It'll be interesting to see which leftists are smart enough to understand that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (ExV1e)

87 A friend visited China a month ago and was startled at how empty Shanghai and Guangzhou were. Looking at imported food items and construction brings up an interesting theory:

China has nowhere near 1.4 billion people and may be as low as 500 million, skewed to middle age.
Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (j4U/Z)

Trump never had a problem talking up China as long as he gets what he wants.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (n7h9X)

88
If Trump causes China to collapse over the Tariff Wars, he'll be the greatest president in history.
Posted by: zombie

Hopefully he can help China to connect with their celestial bodies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (63Dwl)

89 And now it's officially Peking again. You want to keep going?
Posted by: The Goldenest Scalp Weasel that ever scalped a weasel at April 15, 2025 07:02 PM (pIfcn)

heh

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (NtVYv)

90 71 okay I scanned Biden's warble. About 75% build up of how repubs are going to take away SS and then a slow wind down of how we need stick together...as Americans man...I mean it...fades away

Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 07:01 PM (8uzBS)


It was the same basic speech he has given since summer of 2020. Today's plug-in topic was Social Security. Other plug-in topics have been ray-cism, Our Precious Democracy, humble immigrants seeking safety who must be welcomed by ALL Americans, existential climate change, restoring NATO, and on and on.

Posted by: Gref at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (aBgBM)

91 President Trump should call for an embargo on China and canada until they renounce communism and have free and fair elections!

Posted by: UN Human Rights Council at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (R/m4+)

92 Why not just put the plates on the table and accept reality?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 15, 2025 07:03 PM (P5Ay9)

Because they stole the plates and don't care what happens to them or the people who starve when they break.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (E0p3T)

93 in 5 or 6 years when they start sacrificing us on their altars, that will be non-violent, too; this is just prepping the space for it

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (/Ghsb)

94 Now it is perfectly acceptable discourse, even for liberals like Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Maher, to discuss dismantling the DoE and rejecting tramsgenderism.
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 06:38 PM (pMi6S)

Newsome's recall was driven by liberals angry that the expensive education their kids got for 100 K was the same has the hoi polloi in the inner city. Sounds like Whoopi is tapping into that.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (n7h9X)

95 in 5 or 6 years when they start sacrificing us on their altars, that will be non-violent, too; this is just prepping the space for it
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:07 PM (/Ghsb)

If they were do-ers we'd be in the camps...as it is we would have to build them and run them to have them made.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:08 PM (n7h9X)

96 Chinese definition of a "win-win": we win twice, you die. China is a thug nation!

If Trump forgets this, he will go from a hero to a zero!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 15, 2025 07:08 PM (SNL33)

97 as I recall it was Obama as an Illinois senator that endorsed killing babies that survived abortions
Posted by: DanMan at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (8uzBS)

He was the ONLY state senator to vote "present". Everyone else voted to protect them.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 07:08 PM (E0p3T)

98 Had an interesting discussion with a pharmacist yesterday about eye drops. I was concerned because it seemed like the drops made my eyes worse not better -dry eye relief.. major national brand.

I commented about the recall last year because some brands were causing blindness. ..


He paused and said while the pharmaceuticals might be made in America, the ingredients aren't. That the FDA. Does not monitor this. Erg yuk.

It would be so easy to kill us round eyes all off.

Trump is right to declare war.

Posted by: Derak at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (cuCXj)

99 The tariffs are going to affect a lot of small businesses. I am sure the Donald is going to start hearing some real screaming. Moving supply chains is not easy. There is not a ton of excess manufacturing capacity in The US.

It will take money and time to bring it back, if and when it happens.

Then there are the environmental laws/rules that are a huge burden.

We'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (NtVYv)


One of the things I learned recently is that the Chinese government was assisting their textile/clothing manufacturers with 17% subsidies, and the video narrators were stating that even the state subsidies were insufficient to defeat the US 100%+ tariffs. LOL

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (rj6Yv)

100 The whole China is failing is hard to discern. I see plenty of people saying they are self sufficient and others showing videos of companies complaining that they are going under because US sales have been canceled. I do know they are trying to open more companies in Vietnam, which I assume is to bypass US tariffs.
Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (GYHsz)
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China is dependent on exports to buy the calories to feed its people. It is that simple.

If the export sales fall, China has to dig into its reserves, and food prices will rise. Because their per capital income is so low, this is an immediate hardship.

Someone should write a book about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

101 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 9m
About 22,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. - NYT
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:50 PM (mZtdJ)

I'm fully 29 so I've been paying taxes for a bit now and, to the best of my knowledge, I've never spoken to an IRS agent. Pretty sure taxes will still be paid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (ExV1e)

102 @30

>>Leading Report @LeadingReport 28s
BREAKING: Approximately 20,000 IRS agents have accepted the Trump administration’s buyout offer to resign.

My schwanzentucker is getting so hard that it's forming a crystalline structure of at least 10 Mohs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2025 07:10 PM (XV/Pl)

103
Predictions of a catastrophe in China are very #twoweeks.

Gordon Chang

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (63Dwl)

104 VDH's point about China being susceptible to an energy embargo is interesting. Trump signed an executive order to boost US consumption of the huge amounts of coal it produces.

I'd like to see him have the military start building coal plants to power the bases that could be used for the civilian infrastructure as well - the goal should be 100% of all power the US government uses come from domestic sources.

Make the blue states choose brown outs or coal power.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (t0Rmr)

105 >>The tariffs are going to affect a lot of small businesses. I am sure the Donald is going to start hearing some real screaming.


This can be addressed through Tax Policy, if it gets costly (politically).

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (F30Ty)

106 maybe if the Utah Jazz sacrificed their head coach at the Mormon Temple, they might put in a better season next time

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (gKWVE)

107 >>>Then there are the environmental laws/rules that are a huge burden.

We'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
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Those are going, some already have.
Must turn the heat up slowly.
Frogs are getting jumpy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (AneyV)

108 China is dependent on exports to buy the calories to feed its people. It is that simple.

If the export sales fall, China has to dig into its reserves, and food prices will rise. Because their per capital income is so low, this is an immediate hardship.

Someone should write a book about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (ZOv7s)

They also are not loaded with raw materials. They have quite a bit, not like England and Japan in that way but to spread finished product around the world they have to import raw materials.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (n7h9X)

109 One of the things I learned recently is that the Chinese government was assisting their textile/clothing manufacturers with 17% subsidies, and the video narrators were stating that even the state subsidies were insufficient to defeat the US 100%+ tariffs. LOL
Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:09 PM (rj6Yv)
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While all this is going on, the UK is struggling to keep its last steel furnaces going. A Chinese firm bought it (of course) and gosh, now they want to shut it down. The UK government offered subsidies but yeah, no, let's just deprive the UK of domestic steel.

This is how they operate. This is why "free trade" is a lie. A foreign power dumps goods below cost, destroys your domestic industry, and now you work for them. Trump figured it out, just in the nick of time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

110 https://instapundit.com/714606/

Is he hot?(putting fresh batteries in the vibrator)
Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (KQk9m)

111 an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes.

I voted for that!

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2025 07:12 PM (6XkbN)

112 LOL "weaken their ability to collect taxes" get fucked

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:12 PM (KQk9m)

113 >>The tariffs are going to affect a lot of small businesses. I am sure the Donald is going to start hearing some real screaming.


This can be addressed through Tax Policy, if it gets costly (politically).

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (F30Ty)

If your small business relies on foreign imports, get them locally or from friendly nations.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (n7h9X)

114 The purpose of the military is to protect us. They are not a private enterprise construction crew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (AneyV)

115 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

Tlaloc was the god of rain, and crying children were sacrificed to return the rains. FWIHH the majority of the child sacrifice victims at Teotihuacan had deep infections, dental problems or inflammation that would have been chronically painful and caused a fussy or crying child. Some, of course, did not.

The religious practices of the Southwest and Central American pre-columbian civilizations were incredibly violent and warped, and I have heard the explanation that the corn based agriculture led to a priesthood that ate corn exclusively, without the elements used to make the Niacin available, leading to Pellagra-like conditions which can include violent paranoia and delusions.
As far as I know it is only a speculation, but based on enough fact to be interesting.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (D7oie)

116 Predictions of a catastrophe in China are very #twoweeks.

Gordon Chang
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (63Dwl)
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They said the same thing about Churchill.

"Oh Winston, Hitler wants PEACE! Stop being a warmonger and worrying about his growing air force."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

117 https://instapundit.com/714606/

Is he hot?(putting fresh batteries in the vibrator)
Taylor Lorenz
Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (KQk9m)

Doesn't TL need a Blue Origin rocket to excite her nowadays?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (VNX3d)

118 >>I've heard that on YT vid titles but didn't look into it. If it were true you'd think they'd be better off with fewer to feed.

The contrast between places like Shanghai and Beijing and the countryside a few miles outside the cities is pretty stark. The cities are fairly modern, the countryside is like something out of the 1800s.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (LkLld)

119 I dimly recall a section of Robert Heinlein's book Expanded Universe in which he discussed a trip he and his wife had taken to Russia. From their observations and a later discussion with someone he knew at one of the service academies, he concluded that Russia's population was a lot lower than the estimates out there for public consumption.

Ditto China, maybe?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (q3u5l)

120 lol @ 33; I've got a few scars from power tools, I endorse this message!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (/Ghsb)

121 I saw a meme making the rounds in lefty land that no one cares about your mental illness until you get violent.

And...yeah...if you have no friends or family that probably is true. Government certainty doesn't and can't.

But here's the thing, those other people do care when you get violent because they are already dealing with their own problems and now you've added to the list - it seems that leftists just cannot understand that other people have their own problems, wants, and needs completely independent from them.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (t0Rmr)

122 Haha, Whoopi just did her tax return and had to pay way more than she expected.

Posted by: Giant Bigass Turtle at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (vZa8q)

123 If your small business relies on foreign imports, get them locally or from friendly nations.
Posted by: Oldcat
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That presumes an availability.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (AneyV)

124 If Trump causes China to collapse over the Tariff Wars, he'll be the greatest president in history.
Posted by: zombie

Hopefully he can help China to connect with their celestial bodies.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.



Hopefully, he can help China connect with their Celestial Seasonings.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (s8sOe)

125 Field exercises that include building camps along the border are not exactly a bad idea. Nor id patrolling the border to keep out aliens a posse comitatus issue.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:15 PM (KQk9m)

126 This is how they operate. This is why "free trade" is a lie. A foreign power dumps goods below cost, destroys your domestic industry, and now you work for them. Trump figured it out, just in the nick of time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

True.

I would add that, despite the best efforts of a host of traitors, the American People, by the grace of God, elected Donald J. Trump president of the United States, just in the nick of time.

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:15 PM (rj6Yv)

127 these archaeologists see the temple as an example of a sophisticated culture whose influence was interwoven with other societies to build a vibrant, kinda, transnationalist community with a rich spiritual life.

There's apparently been a recent push within the "professional archeology elite" to censored any photos, drawings or other representations of dead people. I saw (i think) a YouTube video by a woman trying to get research published, and the woke peer review people wouldn't publish anything until the photos of bones in graves and such were removed, because they were insensitive, degrading, against the burial practices and beliefs of the culture, etc.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 15, 2025 07:15 PM (ycI94)

128 What a sunset.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:15 PM (LkLld)

129 I've heard that on YT vid titles but didn't look into it. If it were true you'd think they'd be better off with fewer to feed.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:04 PM (n7h9X)

Their young are either in the military or in factories making geegaws for the west. They killed off a significant portion of the girls from an entire generation over their one-child stuff.

I think they've got problems but I don't know how bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (ExV1e)

130 Those kids were annoying and misbehaved. They were scaring off the tourists. Something had to be done.

Posted by: Tikal National Park in Guatemala at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (mH6SG)

131 From their observations and a later discussion with someone he knew at one of the service academies, he concluded that Russia's population was a lot lower than the estimates out there for public consumption.


WWII killed an absurd percentage of their male population, but since the female death rate was low they were able to rebound quickly. I suspect what Heinlein missed is there were fewer middle aged adults and more kids/teens then he was looking for...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (t0Rmr)

132 This is how they operate. This is why "free trade" is a lie. A foreign power dumps goods below cost, destroys your domestic industry, and now you work for them. Trump figured it out, just in the nick of time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

Just resell the below cost items and keep your industry humming yourself. If they are selling at a loss you can keep it up as long as they can.

If they aren't free trading, then you instantly stop buying their stuff without a tariff.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (n7h9X)

133 @115

>>As far as I know it is only a speculation, but based on enough fact to be interesting.

It is my core belief that a lot of the violence we see throughout history can be explained by extreme hunger, effects of poisoning both intentional and environmental and the habitual use of drugs and alcohol.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)

134 They also are not loaded with raw materials. They have quite a bit, not like England and Japan in that way but to spread finished product around the world they have to import raw materials.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (n7h9X)
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This exposes the lie that the Chinese think on a longer timeline than we do. Really? Mao was all about speed-running the industrial revolution and didn't care how many people he killed to get there.

What? Income isn't rising fast enough? Have less babies! Yes, that's it!

So China is now getting old before it gets rich, and went from having mass armies with incredible pain thresholds to an entire nation of Only Child boys whose families will do anything to keep them from being cannon fodder.

And this on top of a society that historically has denigrated military service. What was the name of that book?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

135 Cool post!!! I remember back in the day one of Sicilians favorite sayings to Homo's, Junkies and Negros was 'I'll blow your brains out'.
Good times

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! but not anymore at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (KjELq)

136 If your small business relies on foreign imports, get them locally or from friendly nations.
Posted by: Oldcat
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That presumes an availability.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:14 PM (AneyV)


Yes, really hard to find foundries in the US, many have closed and the lead times are very long for parts.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM (NtVYv)

137 China are asshoe

Fuck them. Bigry.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM (RUMEY)

138 The religious practices of the Southwest and Central American pre-columbian civilizations were incredibly violent and warped, and I have heard the explanation that the corn based agriculture led to a priesthood that ate corn exclusively, without the elements used to make the Niacin available, leading to Pellagra-like conditions which can include violent paranoia and delusions.
As far as I know it is only a speculation, but based on enough fact to be interesting.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (D7oie)


Maybe Insane Leftism is caused by Niacin deficiency? Call RFK Jr, STAT!

Posted by: Gref at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM (aBgBM)

139 >>f your small business relies on foreign imports, get them locally or from friendly nations.


Sure.

But. If you have a unique situation where you are directly impacted, and can show it, I see no reason why the Gov can't allow you some beneficial write off structure to ease the impact.

You don't won't to destroy business or goodwill. We NEED this. It is going to have negative impacts on some markets and business. If you can lessen that through targeted Tax Policy, do it.

It's not like we run a tight budget slaved to IRS Revenue.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM (F30Ty)

140 I've also heard the opposite that the one child policy was widely ignored and their population is higher. Idk I never counted tyem.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:18 PM (KQk9m)

141 The government intentionally destroyed 50% of small businesses in America with an excuse of COVID.

I don't see Trump's tariffs as even a fraction of that sort of problem.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:18 PM (t0Rmr)

142 If your small business relies on foreign imports, get them locally or from friendly nations.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah. Bad business model and no foresight? Dunno.
I expect t-shirt joints, et al, are gonna be in trouble.
US has no textile industry, I expect.
Wally World may have to go back to advertising Made in Murca.

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:18 PM (cPGH3)

143 It is my core belief that a lot of the violence we see throughout history can be explained by extreme hunger, effects of poisoning both intentional and environmental and the habitual use of drugs and alcohol.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)
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People make war because it is fun and easier than growing food for yourself.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:19 PM (ZOv7s)

144 We all talked about how ridiculous it was that China controlled the materials WE use to wage war.

Like whose bright idea was that?

And they sell us damn near everything else we need as a country.

This shit was planned since Clinton. 100%. China was a nothing burger until Most Favorable Trade Nation and Clinton giving them tons of technology.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:19 PM (RUMEY)

145 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: China has stated that it will only engage in trade talks with the United States if American leaders demonstrate respect for Beijing.
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Something about kissing ass or something.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 06:51 PM (mZtdJ)

We got your "respect" right here:

.|.. ..|.

- American Manufacturers

Posted by: pookysgirl, former factory worker at April 15, 2025 07:19 PM (Wt5PA)

146 The contrast between places like Shanghai and Beijing and the countryside a few miles outside the cities is pretty stark. The cities are fairly modern, the countryside is like something out of the 1800s.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (LkLld)

I remember seeing a video somewhere where all the Chinese hillbillies and corn pones were heading to the cities and no one was home at the farms except granny and PopPop Chinamen. Ergo, their farms are not doing so well. Hope they all starve.

Posted by: The 3rd Horseman at April 15, 2025 07:19 PM (R/m4+)

147 China are asshoe

Fuck them. Bigry.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Har. You funny man.

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (cPGH3)

148 I'd like to see him have the military start building coal plants to power the bases that could be used for the civilian infrastructure as well - the goal should be 100% of all power the US government uses come from domestic sources.

Make the blue states choose brown outs or coal power.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (t0Rmr)

If'n you're going to have the military build/run power plants, do nuclear. You'd need fewer of them and it'd give the Navy guys some place to have shore duty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (ExV1e)

149 @ 133, all that , plus psychosis, sociopathy, and routine, endemic sexual abuse of children

(birm?)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (/Ghsb)

150 CHina is too thin skinned to be in the WTO - kick them out.

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (g47mK)

151 They are asking to be kow towed to again. The British told them to fuck off back when they tried it earlier...

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (KQk9m)

152 My understanding is China saw their coming demographic collapse a few years ago and not only got rid of the one child policy but has taken to some incentives to get women to have more children which are not working.

Turns out making women think a corporate job is more important then having kids really is a memetic danger.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (t0Rmr)

153 I saw a meme making the rounds in lefty land that no one cares about your mental illness until you get violent.
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These people are sick puppies.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (E0p3T)

154 I'm not clear if Whoopi wants local "educators" to give parents what they "need", if that means teaching kids about anal gay sex and transgenderism.

As with abortion, returning rights to the states means a lot of states now allow abortion till the moment before birth. Or has Whoopi actually acquired a degree of sanity?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (Cus5s)

155 >>Yes, really hard to find foundries in the US, many have closed and the lead times are very long for parts.

Timing is the issue not the tariffs themselves. Look how many countries are already rushing to make a deal and are moving away from China. Trump put a warning out to the EU today, choose one for telecom gear, the US or China.

China doesn't have the means to hang out without foreign trade for long. Saving face will take some overcoming but they need a deal more than we do even if we have some short-term pain.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (LkLld)

156 I've also heard the opposite that the one child policy was widely ignored and their population is higher. Idk I never counted tyem.
Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:18 PM (KQk9m)
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It was for many years, but decades of government pressure and propaganda have convinced people not to bother with kids. The proof is that the Chicoms relaxed it, and the birth rate continued to go down. Now they're trying to encourage more babies, without much success.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

157 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is not optimistic -
x.com/TheStalwart/status/1912127353465020597
The issue is that "bring back manufacturing" means building or restoring factories, training new people, and generally doing long-term planning. The "smart money" could invest in that...
...or, they could wait out for 2026, watch DJT resign in disgrace in early 2027 in the face of impeachment, and let the Deep State kowtow to Xi.
One hopes DJT has a plan for the "smart money" (Vanguard, Black Rock, etc etc) simply not investing.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (gKWVE)

158 China are asshoe

Fuck them. Bigry.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM

Shouldn't that be "Fruck them."?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (TTO0Z)

159 If'n you're going to have the military build/run power plants, do nuclear. You'd need fewer of them and it'd give the Navy guys some place to have shore duty.

We have more coal then we can ever use. I suspect that isn't as true of Uranium.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (t0Rmr)

160 From their observations and a later discussion with someone he knew at one of the service academies, he concluded that Russia's population was a lot lower than the estimates out there for public consumption.


WWII killed an absurd percentage of their male population, but since the female death rate was low they were able to rebound quickly. I suspect what Heinlein missed is there were fewer middle aged adults and more kids/teens then he was looking for...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (t0Rmr)

Russia has always had a less dense population, and Communism did not help in any post war recovery, and trying to be strong all over the world costs money even to the moderate level they did to match the US.

Putin is now putting in incentives to have larger families, join the armed forces. When giving awards to men killed and getting medals, he always asks about and gets settled the children getting spots in schools for the future.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (n7h9X)

161 It is my core belief that a lot of the violence we see throughout history can be explained by extreme hunger, effects of poisoning both intentional and environmental and the habitual use of drugs and alcohol.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)
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People make war because it is fun and easier than growing food for yourself.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:19 PM (ZOv7s)

One more reason - they've grown tired of the local women, and want new ones. Ye olde The Grass Is Greener idea.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (VNX3d)

162 Make Mental Institutions Great Again!

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:22 PM (cPGH3)

163 Okay bro

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:22 PM (KQk9m)

164 We can have all the coal we want but no new plants to burn it. Duke has demolished two coal fired power plants in Indiana in the past 12 years and nothing to replace them. Nobody will attempt to build new ones if the next administration will kill the deal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2025 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

165 115
The religious practices of the Southwest and Central American pre-columbian civilizations were incredibly violent and warped, and I have heard the explanation that the corn based agriculture led to a priesthood that ate corn exclusively, without the elements used to make the Niacin available, leading to Pellagra-like conditions which can include violent paranoia and delusions.
As far as I know it is only a speculation, but based on enough fact to be interesting.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (D7oie)

The presence of human sacrifice in any given region or culture seems mostly to be a matter of advancement. It's not that the Romans never had it, it was a rarity by the time they go to war with Carthage. It's in the historical memory of China when they get united by Qin(as well as suicides to accompany the deaths of major leaders), with things like the Terracota Army fulfilling the practice symbolically.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 15, 2025 07:22 PM (okun6)

166 Nobody will attempt to build new ones if the next administration will kill the deal.

You need to get creative, but this can get worked around.

Front load 10 years of subsidies in year one and again, make a potential future Dem president choose brownouts over coal if he wants.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:23 PM (t0Rmr)

167 Why is the effluvia that oozes from Whoopi Goldberg's suppurating piehole "news"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2025 07:23 PM (aaHPe)

168 There was a reason that so many sided with the alien invaders(to them) Spanish

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:23 PM (KQk9m)

169 Then there are the environmental laws/rules that are a huge burden.

We'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:05 PM (NtVYv)

There was an EO on that, for the Agencies to review their rules to make sure they are in line with the 10 recent Supreme Court decisions that say "agencies can't make up laws or rules that act like laws, Congress has to do that"
And Lee Zeldin and the other Secretaries seem willing and eager to follow up on that.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:24 PM (D7oie)

170 >>>Yes, really hard to find foundries in the US, many have closed and the lead times are very long for parts.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
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Liberals love to shut down mining, refining and fabrication.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:24 PM (AneyV)

171 164 We can have all the coal we want but no new plants to burn it. Duke has demolished two coal fired power plants in Indiana in the past 12 years and nothing to replace them. Nobody will attempt to build new ones if the next administration will kill the deal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2025 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

You illustrate a great point.... the management in DC is feckless, in practice... big liability for long term goals.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 07:24 PM (PCK5/)

172 A lot of anti-China websites have been censored, by YouTube or others. But at least a few of them think China is failing, or collapsing. Hard to get any true info out of the Republic of China that buys control of ALL entities that offer info.

I think they may be more paper tiger than inevitable force ... but hopefully we have a military that knows the facts and is not totally on the take. time will tell?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2025 07:24 PM (Cus5s)

173 US has no textile industry, I expect.
Wally World may have to go back to advertising Made in Murca.
Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:18 PM (cPGH3)

I'm pretty sure North Carolina still has a textile industry. We could/should expand that. I'd like to see more hemp grown for textiles and paper.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 15, 2025 07:25 PM (h7ZuX)

174 'maybe China thinks calls to Western nations to stop American trade "bullying" will resonate'

That might work with butt hurt European nations but countries within China's reach like Australia and Japan are counting on America to bail them out if China ever goes on the warpath.
I can't imagine them burning up goodwill that they might need later.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2025 07:25 PM (3wi/L)

175 Kindltot, what about the "milpa" crop rotation? Traditional Mesoamerican farming was: corn one year, beans one year, squash one year. Don't beans have niacin?
I think Watson's theory in "Great Divide" is better: that the New World just had angrier gods. Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes. Also a lot of excellent hallucinogens like peyote, not available in the Old World.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

176 Yeah. Bad business model and no foresight? Dunno.
I expect t-shirt joints, et al, are gonna be in trouble.

Surely, we can reach a compromise to support just enough child slave labor to keep our bottom lines unchanged, can't we?

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2025 07:25 PM (MyGJ0)

177 We also have enormous amounts of natural gas .It's more a question of abandoning the disastrous green energy policies which the blue states will never do.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:26 PM (KQk9m)

178 6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 3h
‘Home Alone 2’ director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo from the movie removed
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Will Sex and the City be next?!?!

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 15, 2025 07:26 PM (mZtdJ)

179 He paused and said while the pharmaceuticals might be made in America, the ingredients aren't. That the FDA. Does not monitor this. Erg yuk.

Posted by: Derak

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It is much worse. In theory, all foreign plants have to be certified and inspected. In practice, the FDA has offices in these countries but the people sent over just take bribes, put whores on their expense accounts, and make double salaries.

The *reason* so much of this has been offshored is *because* of the FDA and the massive regulatory burden.
Same with semiconductors - the cost of compliance consultants and OSHA and all the BS in the US is why it is cheap to do this stuff overseas.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 15, 2025 07:26 PM (P5Ay9)

180 167 Why is the effluvia that oozes from Whoopi Goldberg's suppurating piehole "news"?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2025 07:23 PM (aaHPe)

Looks at dictionary

Looks at Cicero.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:26 PM (RUMEY)

181 By the way Trump putting this sort of pressure on with a threat to just end foreign imports sends an important lesson.

Irrespective of the current trade regime every company in America should have some domestic production and a plan to quickly expand it - or lose market share to companies that do.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (t0Rmr)

182 "We are only in the first week of the escalating rhetoric and tariffs. But already China is appealing to its Asian rivals, Australia, and the EU to join in fighting the supposed American bully." (OP)


Australia. Never mind the US-Oz significant military and naval buildup in NW Australia ...

The PRC, in all its strategic stupidity, sent a three-ship naval detachment recently to circumnavigate Australia in a flag-waving, middle-finger thrusting demonstration of its military prowess. Bad timing, Middle Kingdom.


Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (rj6Yv)

183 It was for many years, but decades of government pressure and propaganda have convinced people not to bother with kids. The proof is that the Chicoms relaxed it, and the birth rate continued to go down. Now they're trying to encourage more babies, without much success.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

Demographics is a big problem, socially as well as physically, plus to uplift the country one increment they need to spend 1+ billion units versus our 400 million. And man for man they are less effective, except for our woman's studies departments. That's why I am less worried as much about China, or their scrambling to get resources in Africa. We never gave a shit about Africa's resources before.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (n7h9X)

184 Eric July has stated he sourced almost everything in the US except toys and statues , there is simply no US manufacturers of those. Tee shirts, hats , posters and books all from the US.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (KQk9m)

185 @136, yeah, no kidding; some years ago I was ordering a big stainless steel check valve (don't ask, still under NDA) ;
18 weeks lead time
15 of which was waiting for the casting-on-demand to arrive from china. 2 for machining, 1 to ship

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (/Ghsb)

186 Yes, really hard to find foundries in the US, many have closed and the lead times are very long for parts.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:17 PM (NtVYv)

Trump made mention that what he was doing for the economy was basically medicine. It's probably more akin to chemotherapy.

Between incompetence, maliciousness, and treason, the government has fucked things up pretty badly. He only has a short time to get us headed in the right direction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:28 PM (ExV1e)

187 I'd like to see him have the military start building coal plants to power the bases that could be used for the civilian infrastructure as well - the goal should be 100% of all power the US government uses come from domestic sources.

Make the blue states choose brown outs or coal power.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (t0Rmr)

The Military is going to be busy building small modular nuclear reactors soon, the DoD is contracting with about 8 SMR (small Modular reactors, not Slavic Master Race) developers.

Coal plants are fairly easy to build, and I wish I knew which companies have the experience to build them. The nice thing is that it is just boiling water and catching the pollution from the stacks.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:28 PM (D7oie)

188 POWER Magazine
https://www.powermag . com › u-s-coal-pla…

U.S. Coal Plants Get Reprieve as Market and Policies …
Feb 6, 2025 · Several U.S. utilities in recent months have said they plan to keep coal-fired units in their generation fleets operating past their scheduled retirement dates, in most cases citing increased...
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US Wants To Restart Shuttered Coal-Fired Generating Stations
1 month ago
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Coal's coming back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:28 PM (AneyV)

189 The PRC, in all its strategic stupidity, sent a three-ship naval detachment recently to circumnavigate Australia in a flag-waving, middle-finger thrusting demonstration of its military prowess. Bad timing, Middle Kingdom.


Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (rj6Yv)

Australia is hoping we will give them a sub to fill with Koalas and Wallabys. They are only important because China is strip mining their resources.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (n7h9X)

190 Home Alone 2’ director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo from the movie removed
Yeah he said he wants it removed but being a typical lefty posits that he will be thrown out of the country for doing so.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (KQk9m)

191
Fentanyl is payback for the opium wars.

Yeah, we're not Brits, but spite, malice and revenge is what the CCP lives for.

Speaking of which, it was years ago but I vaguely remember someone writing that the whole of China could be blown up but if the Politburo was safe in the bunker and the enemy wiped out it would be called a win.

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (j4U/Z)

192 It is much worse. In theory, all foreign plants have to be certified and inspected. In practice, the FDA has offices in these countries but the people sent over just take bribes, put whores on their expense accounts, and make double salaries.

I remember when clot shot plant in Spain was shut down when they found out the clot shot it was producing was contaminated. Never did hear what the containment actually was or how it went months before it was caught with all those "rigorous" safety inspections.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (t0Rmr)

193 The contrast between places like Shanghai and Beijing and the countryside a few miles outside the cities is pretty stark. The cities are fairly modern, the countryside is like something out of the 1800s.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (LkLld)

We flew in to a beautiful modern airport in the middle of nowhere. Rode in a van to the city Fuzhou. City was modern and nice but the ride in to the city.... The guide said this is the suburbs. No. That was a slum. Those buildings were holding each other up. And the street was mostly dirt.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (2J/Lj)

194 Coal's coming back.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:28 PM (AneyV)

in HS I wrote a term paper for Ecology day on Coal, Energy for the future.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (n7h9X)

195 Turns out making women think a corporate job is more important then having kids really is a memetic danger.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:20 PM (t0Rmr)

Thank goodness we didn't fall into that trap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (ExV1e)

196 >>>Coal plants are fairly easy to build, and I wish I knew which companies have the experience to build them. The nice thing is that it is just boiling water and catching the pollution from the stacks.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Posted yesterday, there are several hundred thousand btu's in one pound of anthracite coal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (AneyV)

197 This is how they operate. This is why "free trade" is a lie. A foreign power dumps goods below cost, destroys your domestic industry, and now you work for them. Trump figured it out, just in the nick of time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

China is busy buying Farmland in Central Calif... especially between Bakersfield and Fresno... add in how much land is still owned by the State and Feds, and I'm wondering how much productive land Californians actually own and work.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (QAkQ3)

198 Recall about 10 years ago how China-made IAMS dog food poisoned many American puppies.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (wBaIH)

199 OT, rip 4chan youtu.be/LWvSbaZ3Oz0

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (gKWVE)

200 Just let me run the numbers.

Posted by: Phil Knight, Go Ducks! at April 15, 2025 07:31 PM (4DY5T)

201 Home Alone 2’ director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo from the movie removed



Dude, you're only a director. Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 07:31 PM (s8sOe)

202 "Spoiler alert: They won't. They are prisoners to their most extremist fringes and their most extremist fringes are violent radical paramilitaries like antifa."

And once again I have to notice the amazing parallels to woke Hollywood.

People who think Hollywood can break away from this are wishing up a tree.

Posted by: eleven at April 15, 2025 07:31 PM (0HaGk)

203 Pretty sure tv networks like TBS have already shown Home Alone 2 with Trump cut out.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:32 PM (KQk9m)

204 How more thug life can you get?

Family of accused murderer plans to use the $400k raised for his legal defense fund to buy a house so they are safer.

Well that is the reports about Kharmelo's family

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 07:32 PM (x/V3P)

205 They won't use his first name. Instead they use his middle and last name.

K I L M A R

With The Kenyan they wouldn't use HIS middle name.
Nope no HUSSAIN.

Posted by: torabora at April 15, 2025 07:32 PM (fM6ZG)

206 198 Recall about 10 years ago how China-made IAMS dog food poisoned many American puppies.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (wBaIH)

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You would think a little formaldehyde would be good for a shiny coat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (aaHPe)

207 204 How more thug life can you get?

Family of accused murderer plans to use the $400k raised for his legal defense fund to buy a house so they are safer.

Well that is the reports about Kharmelo's family
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 07:32 PM (x/V3P


Reminds me of BLM.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (RUMEY)

208 within my memory VDH was an Imperial Valley raisin farmer

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (/Ghsb)

209 It is my core belief that a lot of the violence we see throughout history can be explained by extreme hunger, effects of poisoning both intentional and environmental and the habitual use of drugs and alcohol.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)

The death of the princess of Culhuacan disputes that.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (GYHsz)

210 The Soviet Union collapsed, Communist China is a bit younger but ripe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (6TePA)

211 The media refer to him exclusively as either "Maryland man" or better still "Maryland father."

I had the misfortune to tune into CBS News tonight and it's "Mistakenly deported Maryland father".

I nearly blew chow.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (/HDaX)

212 206 198 Recall about 10 years ago how China-made IAMS dog food poisoned many American puppies.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (wBaIH)

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You would think a little formaldehyde would be good for a shiny coat.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (aaHPe)


It is. When you stuff them. Not while they are alive.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (s8sOe)

213 Movin' on up to the West Side.
Gonna get de partment in da sky.

Posted by: Hey you ded. at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (fM6ZG)

214 We have more coal then we can ever use. I suspect that isn't as true of Uranium.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 07:21 PM (t0Rmr)

The US has a bit over 100K tons of known reserves. We're 17th in the world. Interestingly, Greenland is 16th. Canada is 3rd and Australia is 1st with over 2M tons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (ExV1e)

215 mrp at April 15, 2025 07:27 PM (rj6Yv)

Australia is hoping we will give them a sub to fill with Koalas and Wallabys. They are only important because China is strip mining their resources.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Australia is an excellent example of being China's serf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (AneyV)

216 Still waiting for the left to produce one example of Trump being whatever it is they are accusing him of being this week.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (RUMEY)

217 204 Very much a BLM tradition. Probably a white neighborhood too...

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:34 PM (KQk9m)

218 We flew in to a beautiful modern airport in the middle of nowhere. Rode in a van to the city Fuzhou. City was modern and nice but the ride in to the city.... The guide said this is the suburbs. No. That was a slum. Those buildings were holding each other up. And the street was mostly dirt.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 15, 2025 07:29 PM (2J/Lj)

There has been a huge scam of overbuilding cities for investments for elderly peoples retirements. Then they build the next segment and the first area's communication gets cut back. Then the buildings start to crumble because of dodging construction costs.

I remember this in my own suburban area in Ohio, building huge malls in places where there was a good mall just a mile or two down the highway. I said "how can all these shopping areas all survive"...well they didnt.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (n7h9X)

219 I've seen people discussing and showing their reasoning that China has overestimated both their population growth and under-counted the number of deaths from COVID over the past five years.

The estimates range from 400 million to 800 million.
China claims they have 1.4 billion people.

What the truth is, I don't know.

But I'm also seeing estimates that the true unemployment rate in China is 30 - 40%.

It could all be propaganda and click bait, but from the social media videos I'm seeing coming from China lately, I would not doubt if they are really hurting, before the tariffs it was bad, and now it's skipped worse and went straight to devastating.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (6ydKt)

220 204, lol, I saw that!

hope his PD is incompetent and pleads him into death sentence!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (/Ghsb)

221 The dog food was boosted with Melamine as I recall..

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (PCK5/)

222 Turns out making women think a corporate job is more important then having kids really is a memetic danger.

-

Uh oh, now you've done it

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Men don't care about your money or career, just your looks and attitude at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (UsReL)

223 I dimly recall a section of Robert Heinlein's book Expanded Universe in which he discussed a trip he and his wife had taken to Russia. From their observations and a later discussion with someone he knew at one of the service academies, he concluded that Russia's population was a lot lower than the estimates out there for public consumption.

Ditto China, maybe?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 15, 2025 07:13 PM (q3u5l)

It was in his 'round-the-world travel book, tramp Royale.
Heinlein's calculation was based on shipping he observed on the river coming into Moscow, which with his Navy background and his engineering experience let him come up with tonnage shipped. The problem is that he did not take into consideration the black market effect - a very large amount of the foodstuffs beyond basic bread was brought in clandestinely by black marketeers to evade the state system of quotas and fixed prices. Black markets don't bring stuff in on riverboats.
To quote Gorbachev, "what is long and green and smells like kielbasa" and the answer was the trains, everyone brought meats back from the countryside because the black market was the only place you could guarantee to get it.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:35 PM (D7oie)

224 ho lee fuk, some of the 4chan janny applications got leaked and they were from .gov accounts
LOL be funny to see 4chan mods doing that "work" from a government box

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

225 Known reserves are probably a deal less than the actual reserves. I bet we have not been looking too hard.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:36 PM (KQk9m)

226 Coal plants are fairly easy to build, and I wish I knew which companies have the experience to build them. The nice thing is that it is just boiling water and catching the pollution from the stacks.
Posted by: Kindltot

All electric generation is that. What builds the fastest? Probably NG. Then coal. Nukes slowest only cause we were all taught to fear it.

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:36 PM (cPGH3)

227 Yes never forget China poisoned our pets.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (KQk9m)

228 within my memory VDH was an Imperial Valley raisin farmer
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM (/Ghsb)


Central Valley. He watched a lot of it go to shit

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (NtVYv)

229 >>We flew in to a beautiful modern airport in the middle of nowhere. Rode in a van to the city Fuzhou. City was modern and nice but the ride in to the city.... The guide said this is the suburbs. No. That was a slum. Those buildings were holding each other up. And the street was mostly dirt.

My last trip to Hong Kong which was a few years before the takeover Hong Kong authorities were limiting the number of mainland Chinese coming to the territory because they were cleaning the place out of things like baby formula and toilet paper. This wasn't any sort of pandemic induced problem, normal people just couldn't get basics in China in normal times.

The myth of China is a lot different than the reality.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (LkLld)

230 Can someone explain the 4chan thing?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (RUMEY)

231 On the eye drops, I forgot to mention that this was a very big scandal.

With many cases around the world. They were banned in a lot of countries, so they sold them to 3rd world countries. That was all before USA had a problem and it was in the news.

Here't the thing though - eyes are very sensitive to infection because they have (necessarily) a limited blood supply. It is a good bet that all medicines and food coming out of India are just as bad, only the cause and effect (eye drops = blindness ) is less obvious and the symptoms less serious. I don't keep track, but my understanding is that a lot of generics and supplements come out of India.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (P5Ay9)

232 LOOOL

https://youtu.be/OwmyK0L7z4g?si=xpjB8rTj4G59UK84

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (KQk9m)

233 Probably already mentioned:

Columbia student arrested by ICE was one step from citizenship, lawyer says

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested by immigration authorities Monday, was taking the last step in the process for him to become a U.S. citizen, his attorney told ABC News.

Mahdawi, a permanent United States resident, was arrested during his naturalization interview and detained in Vermont, Luna Droubi, one of his attorneys, told ABC News.

U.S. District Judge William Sessions subsequently granted Mahdawi's attorneys a temporary restraining order barring the government from moving Mahdawi out of the District of Vermont "pending further order" from the court.

Mahdawi, who founded a university organization called the Palestinian Student Union with Mahmoud Khalil, was an activist in student protests on Columbia's campus until March 2024, according to a habeas petition obtained by ABC News.

Yeah, no. We don't need to import protesters. GO HOME.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2025 07:38 PM (Cki93)

234 As an aside, I texted my virulently anti-CCP Chinese xpat about Chinese population.
Between 8 hundred mil and 1 billion. Nowhere near the 1.4 B advertised (her opinion).

Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:38 PM (cPGH3)

235 218, yeah, back when Dayton Hamvention was in Englewood OH, the mass offsite parking for Hara Arena was in an abandoned mall about a mile away, served by a fleet of (no doubt leased) city buses

yuge, yuge, totally vacant parking lots.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:39 PM (/Ghsb)

236 The PRC is never going to get the cooperation of the Republic of South Korea with bragging how they stopped the Americans

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:39 PM (D7oie)

237 One thing for sure , there are more rapey Indians than Chinese...

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:39 PM (KQk9m)

238 Nood Cafe

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:40 PM (RUMEY)

239 China is busy buying Farmland in Central Calif... especially between Bakersfield and Fresno... add in how much land is still owned by the State and Feds, and I'm wondering how much productive land Californians actually own and work.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2025 07:30 PM (QAkQ3)

I remember Japan buying up lots of CA stuff. They don't seem to be here anymore.

I am at the edge of the west border of Urban/Suburban CA. Every flat piece of land is covered with fruit farms to the next city, and many hill sides with wine grapes. They get many crops in per year.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:40 PM (n7h9X)

240 Who gives a fuck if he was "one step away"? Thankfully we caught him in time and can ship his ass back to his cesspool country of origin.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 07:40 PM (KQk9m)

241 Cafe is open!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (h7ZuX)

242 The neat part?

Pause for a moment to appreciate how the earlier conversation / argument regarding Harvard "research" involves China and Chinese students.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Men don't care about your money or career, just your looks and attitude at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (UsReL)

243 Can someone explain the 4chan thing?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2025 07:37 PM (RUMEY)

The quick explanation I found was that the original owner/administrator sold out to a new, squish owner. Dunno if it's true, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason.

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (rj6Yv)

244 >>Home Alone 2’ director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo from the movie removed


"Ha ha!"
-- Milan Kundera

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (Cki93)

245 John Spencer slapping the sh*t out of Dave Smith on the twatters...

John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
I’m not sidestepping anything @ComicDaveSmith
I’m taking your “I’m just saying” comment and applying logic, facts, law, and centuries of established frameworks that govern how war is conducted. The laws of armed conflict—international humanitarian law—are not theories. They are codified rules that societies have agreed upon to regulate warfare.

Your analogy fails because it ignores one of the most critical distinctions: the concept of intent. In war, intent is defined and applied very differently than in domestic criminal law. That difference matters.

What you call sidestepping is actually your own misunderstanding. You're trying to apply what you know from one domain to a completely different legal and moral framework—without knowing the rules of that framework.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (RIvkX)

246 For those who think Whoopi and Maher have seen the light.

Bless Your Hearts

Posted by: Otto Pen at April 15, 2025 07:42 PM (sJHOI)

247 thx Hatari, knew it was somewhere like that ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:42 PM (/Ghsb)

248 A few more fun China facts:

The CCP did not do much against Japan. The brunt of the war was born by the NRA, which was much weakened by the end of the war. Even so, they could have wiped out the CCP if the US hadn't insisted on a power-sharing agreement, as if we could get Mao and Chiang Kai-shek to be buddies again.

The PLA has a miserable combat record. In Korea it used surrendered NRA soldiers to make human wave attacks. It got its butt kicked by both the Soviets and Vietnam.

The PLA is not loyal to the state, only the Party. Yes-men predominate.

The PLA runs the entire defense establishment, so the People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is their maritime component. China has no real history or doctrine of naval combat, so they are starting from scratch, with a little boost from Russia, whose own naval history indicates why it is a land power.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)

249 I read that when they scarified children to their rain God they had to make them cry so they tortured them...
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Posted by: It's me donna

They would pull their fingernails out, and the priests would were the skin of the sacrificed, the Conquistadors must have thought they were seeing Hell on Earth

also the SMELL

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 15, 2025 07:42 PM (FCrpy)

250 Coal plants are fairly easy to build, and I wish I knew which companies have the experience to build them. The nice thing is that it is just boiling water and catching the pollution from the stacks.
Posted by: Kindltot

All electric generation is that. What builds the fastest? Probably NG. Then coal. Nukes slowest only cause we were all taught to fear it.
Posted by: MkY at April 15, 2025 07:36 PM (cPGH3)

Yup nukes are just run a nuclear reactor to heat water and cool it in the big tower. Then use the heat to make electricity.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

251 Columbia student arrested by ICE was one step from citizenship, lawyer says

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*POOF*

His American Dream gone like a stinky fart in the wind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2025 07:43 PM (aaHPe)

252 The PLA runs the entire defense establishment, so the People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is their maritime component. China has no real history or doctrine of naval combat, so they are starting from scratch, with a little boost from Russia, whose own naval history indicates why it is a land power.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 15, 2025 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)

The CCP aircraft carrier is a massive flop, because of corruption

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 15, 2025 07:45 PM (FCrpy)

253 The neat part?

Pause for a moment to appreciate how the earlier conversation / argument regarding Harvard "research" involves China and Chinese students.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Men don't care about your money or career, just your looks and attitude at April 15, 2025 07:41 PM (UsReL)

A lot of the utility of these kids is to buy up 'boltholes' for rich families to use if they can escape the next purge.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:45 PM (n7h9X)

254
The song, "Kumbya" was a soothing Aztec paean to their Sun God and much like George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun".

True historical fact!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2025 07:46 PM (xG4kz)

255 I love how China has an "Army Navy."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 15, 2025 07:46 PM (dg+HA)

256 A lot of the utility of these kids is to buy up 'boltholes' for rich families to use if they can escape the next purge.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:45 PM (n7h9X)


That also explains why Vancouver, BC real estate is sky-high.

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 07:47 PM (rj6Yv)

257
"Big Ol' Stainless Steel Check Valve" was the progenitor song for the Steve Miller Band's "Big Ol' Jet Airliner".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2025 07:49 PM (xG4kz)

258 Kindltot, what about the "milpa" crop rotation? Traditional Mesoamerican farming was: corn one year, beans one year, squash one year. Don't beans have niacin?
I think Watson's theory in "Great Divide" is better: that the New World just had angrier gods. Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes. Also a lot of excellent hallucinogens like peyote, not available in the Old World.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

The three sisters and Milpa rotations that include other crops are essential, as is the treatment of the corn with alkali or ash to release the niacin, but if you have a religious elite that eats nothing but corn and meat, then you risk pellagra.
I find it interesting that the Kahokia (Cahokia?) mounds near St. Louis have massive graves of apparent women sacrifices who seem to have only eaten corn as a diet, which for that time would have been the diet of the elite, not the farmers who were still trying to adopt to the squash, corn, bean and sunflower crops from the earlier woodlands' crop suite. Once again, I don't know if this is anything but speculation, and I am not an archaeologist.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 07:49 PM (D7oie)

259 Dude, you're only a director. Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 07:31 PM (s8sOe)

Hahahaha...this is how it's done. Sit down and shut the fuck up "director" man. Hahahaha!

Posted by: The Truth at April 15, 2025 07:49 PM (R/m4+)

260 The CCP aircraft carrier is a massive flop, because of corruption
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 15, 2025 07:45 PM (FCrpy)

Making a carrier is a lot harder than just building a boat and planes. Look at the issues we are having with our new carriers with all our experiences.

But never stop your rival when making a mistake. They don't need a carrier, they can use missiles and land based to cover their coast. If a war comes their trade is dead meat anyhow. Sending a putt putt carrier out for our carriers to sink, or subs is a fools game.

Now we could screw up by sailing a carrier or two too close and have them transfixed by a big missile. Most likely we would use the mid pacific as a moat.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:49 PM (n7h9X)

261 I love how China has an "Army Navy."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 15, 2025 07:46 PM (dg+HA)

The US did in WWII, pretty close. for Transport and invasions the Army units had their own fleets of transports and borrowed escorts. Just like the Navy had the Marines to be the Navy Army.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 15, 2025 07:52 PM (n7h9X)

262 >>>She still looks like she smells bad.

Posted by: wth

>Whoopi looks like she reeks of witch-hazel and coco butter.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 15, 2025 08:08 PM (fY84s)

263 Coal. 13000 btu per pound
Gasoline 20000 btu per pound

Coal can be gassified in a pressure cooker and get real clean burning. Burning raw coal has trouble with uncombusitable material in the Coal. And ASH disposal issues are a PITA.

Posted by: torabora at April 15, 2025 08:13 PM (fM6ZG)

264
22 The whole China is failing is hard to discern. I see plenty of people saying they are self sufficient and others showing videos of companies complaining that they are going under because US sales have been canceled. I do know they are trying to open more companies in Vietnam, which I assume is to bypass US tariffs.
Posted by: ryukyu at April 15, 2025 06:47 PM (GYHsz)

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Part of the Trump administration trade policy is to crack down on attempts to bypass tariffs and treaties by trans-shipment.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 15, 2025 08:15 PM (Ijbq0)

265 17th?

Um, no. The USA is the “Saudi Arabia” of Coal. Hundreds of years of proven reserves, high quality coal.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 15, 2025 08:28 PM (+oiHq)

266 Melamine poisoning. - what that does, is fool devices that check protein content in wheat and things like that. Spot checks on big cargo containers. Makes low protein commodities test higher, to garner a better price. Adulterated.

It wasn’t just causing kidney failure in dogs. It caused baby formula recalls.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 15, 2025 08:32 PM (+oiHq)

267 The Aztecs were just practicing post-term abortions ... lighten up ... racist. /sarc

Posted by: The Dark Lord at April 15, 2025 08:56 PM (DBAaD)

268 Corrected name of darts winner: Noa-Lynn van Fallus

Posted by: Hal Dall at April 15, 2025 09:08 PM (mPak/)

269 🌹

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 15, 2025 09:39 PM (FZs2o)

270 sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 07:33 PM

VDH moved from the San Joaquin Valley to the Imperial Valley?

Posted by: KT at April 15, 2025 10:02 PM (xekrU)

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