Who shot Trump?
Just a jewish Boy who outwitted the Secret Service, the FBI, and the CIA. With a 16' ladder, a tracker, backpack, a sloped roof and an AR Rifle…
If it was made into a movie you wouldn't believe it was based on a true story. . Question that remains, is whether this was a badly botched assassination attempt or a giant World Wide Entertainment PSYOP with a huge budget starring a WWE reality actor. My education guess it was a real assassination attempt, from adding up more clues . I doubt Iran could stage something like this.
First, an insane amount of stuff being put out by the mainstream media, as usual.
There may have not been a bullet at all – a dot on a photograph (looking like a UFO picture taken on a Nokia N95) which which apparantly the path of the bullet flying toward Trump. The photo was taken by none other than Doug Mills, who, SURPRISE, was also the guy who shot Bush’s moment in the classroom when he got the news of the planes crashing into the World Trade Centre on 9/11. Another fine acting moment. The bullet angle and trajectory was impossible..
Plus, the blatant incompetence of the SS in securing the perimeter and all its dangerous, slopey rooftops and somehow being in all the wrong places at all the wrong times is just hilarious, especially when the DIE director giving the orders is named CHEATLE and the shooter is CROOKS.
It may seem ridiculous, but to both the left and right-camp’s mind-controlled NPC’s who believe everything they’re told, it’s dead serious. Down to Trumpeans bandaging their ears like a 60’s cult, worshipping their newly selected under-leader, Zionist J.D. Vance at his Republican National Convention bar mitzvah.
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.Disconnecting someone from the Matrix is the only true way of being able to show them. Just keep repeating lies and the narrative will just blindly follow along.
People hate to hear that their whole reality is just an illusion. I get that. The world is a digital simulation, a giant slave system ruled by robots or some evil super power?
And, even if you did believe it could you even begin to process what that truly meant?Caslepaloma, I enjoyed your description of "what if". Good job!
you forgot the lizard man.
no. it's simple.
a teenage boy with a big gun and no brains, all hyped up by fake news and social media.
Luckily Trump was not murdered otherwise there would have been a civil war. And also luckily the boy was not a democrat voter.
If the boy would have been a democrat, stories would still go along on social media. and a dangerous situation would have arisen for the whole country (and world)
Fact that he came from a Republican family made the story quickly disappear fro FOX news etc.
You can make the story more complicated, but fact is that it is incredibly easy to get a gun in the US and that social media is screwed up. a lethal combination for teenagers and other not grown ups with to much testosterone.Outside of a retail outlet, and perhaps a friend/relative, I wouldn't know where to get a gun. I don't have a lot of criminals on my "friend" list, and my friends/family are highly unlikely to simply give me their guns.
It isn't nearly as easy as you think to get a gun in the US. Certainly illegal activity is required in almost every case of someone getting one and then using it for murder (stolen gun, for instance). It's not like buying a car and running someone down, or buying rat poison to kill people with or even buying a baseball bat to use as a club (more people killed with a club than all long guns combined, including that scary "assault rifle").fact is that the boy had a sniper rifle.And if I'm correct he bought it legally in a shop.
There are far to many mass shootings in the US. Every day one!! Mostly done by kids/adolescent... Now. I think its not to difficult to say that you have to be 30+ to be allowed for a weapon licensee.
I'll bet there would be less mass shootings on schools and stupid boys thinking to save the world by murdering some pop star or politician.
But we all know that is all about money. the weapon industry is big business. And influencing the social debate about weapon possession.What it is about, is our still remembering and understanding our history.
We demand the right to bear arms so that our government can never become Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany.
They have been programming the younger generations now for decades, but they will have to wait until those of age 40 and up have passed and that belief that it is our right to own weapons has become a small minority.
The problem I believe is they don't have the patience to wait any longer... all these players, from Bill Gates and George Soros, to Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton... they are all about to die off... so patience and plans of letting things evolve more naturally over time are out-the-window.
The changes that started back with NAFTA and Glass Steagall being repealed need to be brought to fruition NOW... they cannot risk them being undone by an election, no matter how improbable that Trump may actually win and throw a monkey-wrench in their plans, again.
You know... thinking about it... I wouldn't be surprised if they are starting to suffer from TDS for real, themselves... they couldn't destroy his reputation, more than 45% of the country still believe in the guy to some degree... they couldn't destroy him through the Courts, couldn't get him off the ballots... now the guy is dodging bullets...TDS is a curious thing. I would say people affected by it have deep psychological and spiritual issues. For one thing, they are very critical, refusing see and acknowledge Donald Trump's positive traits and deeds. They won't admit his policies during his presidency were effective and will be effective again if he wins in November. They can't be objective about the man, instead they hold subjective viewpoints based on personal preferences of personality-type and behavior. They exaggerate his human foibles, which we all have.
It is my wish that they get a grip on the objective reality of former President Trump. Objectively speaking, he has a great heart and cares about the country/the people of all walks of life, race and etc.. He has a vision of accomplishing nation-wide prosperity with a vigorous and robust economy. Yes, success and greatness of the nation is is good for HIM, but he knows it is good for ALL.
After all:
The highest good is that which is for the sake of itself AND something else.
A lesser good is that which is good only for the sake of itself.
Another lesser good is that which is good only for the sake of something else.Every country is different and has a different history. And you are right to look at the history of a country to understand the present a bit better.
I follow a podcast called. "How to invent a country". where they look into the past and beginning of countries. They covered, China, the US, Russia, Turkey..Spain... really interesting.
The programming has always been done. "Another brick in the wall..." Religions are extremely good at it.
That's why a democracy is so important. As you have to build an open society where all different life views can have a place. I think a two party system ends up in the end in a yes/no vote black/white. Not much of a choice and more a choice of who you are against than who you are for.
About NAFTA and Glass Steagall. I can't say much about it as I don't know anything about it. It's a UUS thing I guess.
About Trump, well. He's morally bankrupt.
That's odd - the reports I've seen was that it was an AR style rifle. The dreaded "assault rifle" of America. Not a sniper rifle at all. Wonder which is right?
Your bet is predicated on the concept that without a gun, a killer will not kill. That is a failed concept; there is no correlation between the number of guns in a society and the number of homicides. More guns does NOT mean more murders, less guns does NOT mean fewer murders.
It's a little hard to tell some 18 year old kid that he may (and may be forced to enter the military and die for his/her country, but may not have the gun guaranteed by our Constitution. That it is too dangerous to have a gun, but not to take a bullet in some misbegotten war somewhere.I trust your information wilderness. You know more about rifles than I do, so forgive me for when I say sniper rifle instead of AR style.
Of course there will be more murders when murdering is made more easy (more guns in the society.) Like if there where no consequences/punishments for if you kill someone, people will kill more.
If unstable people can get there hands on guns more easily more accidents will happen.
It's not hard to tell the law to an 18 year old. The laws outside and inside the army are different. You are allowed to kill a person when in the army. Outside the army you are not allowed too."Of course there will be more murders when murdering is made more easy (more guns in the society.)"
It's common sense, right? More guns = more murders. Everone knows that!
Except it isn't true. A thorough study of the nations of the world, their gun ownership rate and their homicide rate, and presto! The fact becomes apparent that "common sense" is not right - that this time it is false to fact.
"If unstable people can get there hands on guns more easily more accidents will happen."
Probably true, although I don't quite understand the "unstable" part. More guns = more accidents, but can't that be said of every tool man has ever made? More knives means more accidents. More cars equals more accidents. More planes, more accidents. More baseballs, more accidents. But in any case the key is murders, not "accidents".
You missed the point on the military; when a person is old enough and mature enough to be expected to die for their country it is completely unreasonable to then tell them that the rights granted everyone else don't apply to them because they are not mature enough.When you look at the gun ban in Australia you see that in the 18 years before the gun law reforms, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia, and none in the 10.5 years afterwards.
Coincidence... I think not.
Spoken like someone with no background in security/protection and no experience in taking 'long distance' shots under extreme stress.
I was not talking about the shot Ken. I was talking about the why people act crazy and go to extreme behaviour, killling people.
You are talking about how tragic it is that our society produces crazy young people, some of whom want to kill people... and they have access to guns.
I would say a great many things are attributing to that, the two primary ones being the ongoing effort right now to deconstruct everything that society and civilization is (aka DEI/Progressivism), the other being the impact of technology and social media.
This is an excellent video that explains/debates this and this moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TY_2OIPcl0Thanks for the video.
There's a lot to unpack here.
My opinion.
A father who is saying that his son is dead, while his son is alive, is a piece of shit of a father.
Elon Musk is not a man with much empathy.
For years I find that the Americans use the word communism as a boogie man, without any reference towards theory.
We live in a completely different landscape than in 1900.
And it is always during US elections that the communist hunt of McCarthy is used.
If you do not trust students to have different ideas you live in a dictatorship. Even if does ideas are different than your own.
I think the ideas from many students and left wing people regarding Israel and the so called genocide is completely nuts. But they have and need the freedom to explore politics. And it is the teachers/university task to broaden the debate and look at it from different sides.
The comparisons the man in the video makes are completely warped. And capitalism simply does not work when unchecked.
That's what happend in Chili under Pinochet who was good friends with Milton Friedman who directed his economic experiment with his Chicago Boys.
To me the most socialistic countries on earth are the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, The Netherlands and Germany.
You have a capitalistic system but at the same time you take care of the people who need help. A good healthcare system, with a base free for all. A good educational system that everybody can effort.
Those countries do well, and are far from communism. In fact the last 20 years the Netherlands had a right wing/conservative government. Still there is a socialistic structure underneath it all
Communism is a not going to happen. Unless a dictatorship happens in the US. And as far as I can see it is Trump who is looking and hinting at a one man show. (vote once, and you never have to vote again....)
You can be worried about gender fluidity. But to be honest I'm more worried about all those girls who want breast implants, nose surgeries and other surgeries because they do not look like pornstars or other influences.
But thanks for the Video Ken. Although I think it's a lot of mumbo-jumbo it is interesting to listen to people I normally not listen to.
I knew Erik Weinstein from an debate with Sam Harris about the war in Israel and found him pretty sound. But this tweet is a bit weird."But to be honest I'm more worried about all those girls who want breast implants, nose surgeries and other surgeries because they do not look like pornstars or other influences."
Peter, I've been concerned about this for a long time. As a culture it seems that we have decided that if we don't like what we are, it can be changed by a little time under the knife. At the same time is a growing discontent with who/what we are.
The result is that a huge percentage of people end up in the surgeons office, trying to become, or at least pretend, that they are what they are not, and that definitely includes the "gender fluidity" craze. It is not healthy, not at all.I can not really comment on the gender fluidity topic in the US.
But in my opinion everybody has the right to express themselves how they want to be. And it is good that there is less a taboo on homosexuality then 50 years ago. The '80 was a real breakthrough for the gay scene in some respect.. (and a tragic time because of AIDS as well)
You can dress whatever you want. But yes, to change yourself psychically is a huge leap and should only be done in special circumstances, it should not be a craze. And not done with kids.
(Same thing I think circumcision should not be done with babies...but only with adults..but hé tell that to the Jewish community....)
Neverteless. If you want to draw a tattoo on your body, that's your business. If you want to change physically gender that's a private matter too.
But these operation cases is a very small percentage. Most gay, lesbian, trans people live with the body they were born with.
And I don't think we should tell others how they want to live their lives."But in my opinion everybody has the right to express themselves how they want to be."
I agree 100%. But a meme I've come across recently comes into play here: "You have the right to your opinion. You do NOT have the right to demand that I share that opinion."
You can decide you aren't the male (or female) you were born as, but instead the opposite sex. You have the right. You do NOT have the right to demand that I agree with you, that I behave as if it were true.
"If you want to change physically gender that's a private matter too."
You can change gender without any physical changes. You cannot change your sex at all: we do not have that capability at this time and for many years in the future. You cannot, for instance, remove all of your Y chromosomes and replace them with an X. You cannot widen the shape of your pelvis to that of a female if you are male. You cannot change all the differences in your skeleton that are a part of your sex. You certainly cannot change the makeup of your brain, which is partially determined by your sex.
So don't demand I accept your delusions, your pretenses, your desires, as actually real and true. They very often are not, starting with the so called "trans" group that think they are they are the opposite sex."You have the right to your opinion. You do NOT have the right to demand that I share that opinion."
100%
But it's a strange sentence...
I've never come across somebody who demands that I should share the same opinion. That is basically a dictator. Some religious nutters do and will only stop until the whole world think like them.My opinion is that, although born a man I now consider myself to be a woman. And I demand that you agree and allow me to compete in sports against women. I demand that you agree, letting me use the bathroom and dressing with other women rather than use the rooms society designates for my birth sex. I demand that you allow me to help your child, who faces the same problem as I did, "overcome" their problem.
And, as you point out, there are more than few religious folks that would be very, very happy if they can force you into their beliefs. In the US, prohibition, blue laws (preventing commerce on Sunday), laws against nudity and now abortion, attempts to prevent use of contraception, using our tax money to fund religious icons on our land requirements to use religious texts as classroom tools to brainwash our children...the list is endless of religious control and attempted control over our lives.yes the demand stuff reminds me of spoiled brats. I wanna icecream, and I wanit now...buy me an icecream!
And do it in the middle of the Sahara dessert, 500 miles from the next person. That it is impossible is irrelevant; I want it anyway and your have to do it!
Here is the big difference...
Our society, nation, its laws, its norms, were built on Judeo/Christian beliefs.
As we are leaving many of those norms behind... we have a NEW faith trying to fill the gap
The DEI/Social-Justice ideology... Big Government being the new decider of what is right or wrong, what is moral and just and what is not.
That is NOT better.
Legalizing Pedophelia... not better. Making it illegal to call someone out for predatory actions because it contradicts their beliefs is not better.
Having to pretend that a man is a woman is not better.
Having children mutilate themselves or destroy themselves with hormone blockers is not better.
Choosing to base things on Race... not Merit, or because of Equity quotas... not Equality and Ability, is NOT better.
The rules and the pillars of our society everyone is in such a hurry to do away with... down with Christianity... down with the Patriarchy.
What is it being replaced with?
Nero fiddling as Rome burns."Choosing to base things on Race... not Merit, or because of Equity quotas.."
Within any racial category, there are equally qualified candidates...should Caucasian be the defacto choice?No.
Should black be the defacto choice? No.
Should Asian be the defacto choice? No.
Should AmerIndian be the defacto choice? No.
Should Eskimo be the defacto choice? No.
Should Australian aborigine be the defacto chice? No.
Should men be the defacto choice? No.
Should female be the defacto choice? No.
Should Hispanic be the defacto choice? No.
Is there any race, color, religion, sex or anything but merit that should be the defacto choice? NO. What is so terribly difficult to understand here? That ONLY merit is to be used in choosing in very nearly all matters? That it is discrimination to base a choice on anything else? That discrimination against any group, whether race, sex, religion, etc. etc. is distasteful, unethical, immoral and not to be tolerated?
The world is changing constantly.
Women have voting rights now.
Slavery is illegal
Coloured people don't have to sit on the back of the bus anymore.
The society of today is completely different than that of 50 years ago. Homosexuality is more excepted than 50 years ago and gay couples can merry now with the same rights and have kids.
Women have the right of abortion
People can commit euthanasia
The US had a black president. not thinkable in the '50.
People can practice their own believes at home or at their sacred place if they want to.
That is all is a freedom of choice. The most precious thing.
People should have the opportunity to express themselves, even if you don't agree with them. That's essential for freedom.
And so far the United States has this freedom of speech, more than any European country if I'm correct.
(That certain schools prohibit certain books because of complaints from parents is narrow minded and against the spirit of the USA.)Yeah, we attained all that good stuff... somewhere between the 80s and the 2010s we really found a nice balance.
Since that time, we are now pushing it into areas that are detrimental to society, to cohesion, to sanity.
As I listed out, we have gone past what was good and just, and we are sliding into the despicable, detrimental, and dishonest.
Or as I like to say, we are in a race to evolve past this point, before the insanity being forced upon us detours civilization into collapse.I think with social media we got more than we bargained for.
It disrupted the normal upbringing/development of kids.
Especially the social behaviour.
I know a couple of boys. (15 year) who are depressed and have difficulty with communication.
Not even talking about the content of social media. But watching day in day out on a screen and finding calling someone on the phone weird, You text somebody to say I love you, instead of doing the most freighting thing to say it out load. Emotions should be shared face to face, problems, feelings, and not through text of voice message.
social media change us all. Our generation. 50+ learned to handle it step by step. But the younger generation got the full blast. It's not easy growing up today.
At hindsight, yes 80-2000 was a much better time.There happened a lot at that time. and not everything was nice. Wars, AIDS, strikes, dictatorships etc.But people were more social then today. People played board games together instead of FortNite or Minecraft (although I did do the early text adventure games...where I learned a lot of English from...)
Still it's tricky to say:...in the good ol' days...The next generation will probably say the same thing...;-)I think you hit on the major issue... the internet. And then really the Cell phone was where it took off... because it made the internet accessible to even the most uneducated and poorest of us.
Specifically when the Apple Iphone and Android alternatives became normalized for everyone to have... that's been about 15 years?
That was when the real disconnect began. The people under the age of 20 have grown up completely in that world.
And it brings us to the point where we are now... here in America where we a have a choice between two extreme choices for President.
Neither side sees themselves as the extreme...
DEI is nothing if not racist and discriminatory, its a terrible idea that if allowed to run its course will cause immense turmoil, far more than we've seen so far.
Christianity is not going to be the core from which we can govern. The attempt to go too far in this direction, by Trump, which may occur, would result in another Democratic President in 2028.
Right now the Democrats are pushing too far with DEI, their efforts seen as extreme by many, and their support of two wars is also unpopular.
Crazy things going on... and I have a feeling we haven't seen the worst of it.The change that the mobile phone made world wide is phenomenal.
It changed the speed of how we did things. From the stock exchange to news coverage to personal life.
Politics in a way is walking behind in many ways.
The next disruption of life will be AI. (transgender, abortion, immigration etc. are all details.)
The question is how will we absorb the impact of this next fast social change?
Who needs a lawyer if you have Chat GPT10 to help you out.
How can I make a portable bomb
How can I make a deadly virus...
AI can and will be used in all kind of things. And governmental bodies all around the world have to address this to keep it under controll.
Crazy things will happen. But not from the far left or the far right but from technology. Just as the mobile phone was not a far left or far right thing.
In a democracy politics shift from right to left and back again. But science and its impact on society goes on and does not care about politics.
The other huge impact on the world is climate crisis. which brings refugees, small conflicts about resources, food production problems, air pollution (healthcare problems) extreme weather and more.
This is something politics has to address and not neglect. How they address it is a matter of political preferences, but it has to be addressed.
I have not heard anything from Donald Trump that addresses these issues. But maybe I missed something.Good insight.
Yeah, Trump may not seem wonderful, and certainly is portrayed by the media in the worst light possible, always... that in itself is a sign of extremism that people may not recognize as such.
But... as concerning as Trump and his platform may be... how can you argue that what we are seeing is the better alternative?
Refusing to negotiate with Russia... escalating the conflict in Ukraine?
Allowing hundreds of billions to go to Iran... who we are about to go to war with?
Forcing DEI everywhere it can be forced, a clear sign that merit and capability are NOT the priority, at a time when war, economic hardship, social unrest are becoming ever greater problems.
The problem with those "in charge" right now, Biden, Harris, and beyond, they are literally the worst collection, the worst Administration ever assembled, its like the blind leading the blind, the incapable leading the incoherent.
So... we have one Administration/Party clearly leading America (and its allies) to its demise, economically, internationally, internally, doing harm with almost every act they take.
Four years ago Saudi Arabia and the UAE were allies who were reinvesting trillions into the American economy... now they treat America like a leper.
Four years ago, there was a growing sense of calm coming over the Middle East and a negotiated peace agreement with Russia (Minsk Agreements)... today both those regions are escalating to the point where the wars are about to spiral out of control... past the point of no return.
Trump may seem bad... ... but Biden has been proven to be irreparably bad and Harris will be a continuation of those failures, the Party will remain firmly in control and keep us on the same path.I can not react on everything. As I can not see clearly the society of the US as I do not live there.
What I think is this.
About Ukraine.
What I heard on a podcast with Sam Harris and Anne Applebaum.
on democracies.made sense to me.
The reason why Putin invaded Ukraine was because the country became to democratic. It had just elected a new leader that was not under control of Putin. And as many families in the Ukraine have ties with Russia, Putin was afraid that the democracy virus would infect Russia.
Dictators are afraid for neighbouring democracies.
If Ukraie falls. It will be a sign for other dictators to invaded neigbouring countries. If the US stops backing Ukraine China will see it as a weakness and an opportunity to invade Taiwan. (and so grabbing the computer chip industry.)
podcast link:
How Democracies Fail, A Conversation with Anne Applebaum
Iran (actually the islamic state that controls Iran) is the enemy number one. which is in proxy war with Isreal (and the west) through terror groups like Hezbohla, Hamas, Boko Harem, Al Quida....
(Is it a coincidence that the fast majority of terror groups are Muslim? I think not. But that's another discussion.)
Israel has to eliminate Hamas. As Hamas will not stop with sacrificing its own people until there is no Jew left between the river and the sea.
And if all the Jews left Israel and gave it to Hamas, Hamas would not be satisfied and demand a full eradication of the Jews in the world. Extreme Islamic groups are only satisfied when the whole world thinks like them. Therefore the war Israel is fighting, is a war fighting for freedom and democracy.
Both countries. Ukraine and Israel have to get the full support of the west.
Nevertheless, both are incredibly tragic wars, and with wars it is always the common people that loose.
Ukraine is a war of Geopolitics and Gaza is a religious war. But both have in common that democracy is attacked.
And both with consequences on a world scale.I recognize those arguments.
In 2020 there was an agreement to de-escalate and avoid war with Russia, the Minsk Agreement(s), approved by the UN, backed by Germany and France.
With the change to the Biden Administration, how we approached Ukraine and Russia changed... with Trump out, the war option was back on the table and that is what the Biden Administration wanted.
It is the US/UK/France that wanted war then and wants war now. It is part of a bigger war ongoing that these nations have pursued for decades.
It is the reason why Libya, Syria, Iraq are destroyed shells of their former selves. They were former allies to the USSR and they were targeted as such.
That Russia is defending its interests, forced by the fact that we have pushed Russia's very borders... missiles now reach Moscow itself... how can anyone objectively look at the body of work done by America and its allies over the last 20+ years and not conclude that it is the US that went looking for this fight?
And then Biden reverses course on Iran, releasing tens of billions in frozen funds to them due to Trump's sanctions, giving them billions for hostages, allowing everyone to buy their oil allowing them to make hundreds of billions of dollars... and they in turn fund the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah and give them weapons the same way we give weapons to Ukraine.
How has that worked out for us?
Geopolitics... Foreign Affairs... that is what the Presidency is all about.
The Biden Administration has done a horrible job, in addition to the above they alienated long standing allies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they have panicked our global trade partners by freezing and then threatening to confiscate Russia's assets.
Why would you want to partner with a nation that is clearly losing its mind... instead of negotiating a peace it prefers to instigate and escalate war... tries to strong arm allies and steal from those it turns into enemies?Ken, you may be right, you may not be right. But it is simply not an argument to accuse and blame the US for the war in Ukraine.
Simply because Ukraine is a democratic country with an democratically chosen president. Of course this is what we want in the west.
But is that a bad thing to want? Is it a bad thing to support countries with their struggle for democracy.
Do you prefer countries with a dictatorship?
The fact is simply that Russia invaded an independent democratic country. Not the other way around. Ukraine did not invade Russia.
Now if the US was supporting a dictatorship, what they have done and do, I would have reacted differently. But in this case the US and Europe are supporting a democracy. And if we stop supporting democracies in this world, bit by bit the countries will fall into the hands of bigger countries with authoritarian regimes, like China and Russia.
That's why it is super important the the US and Europe keep supporting Ukraine for their fight for an independent democracy.
Because if not, which country will be next. Taiwan?
There is a lot to reply to:
You have no context, you do not understand how his son is currently dealing with the transition... his son can never have children, once done these harms cannot be undone.
Under his explanation of events, it appears Musk is carrying around a significant amount of guilt over not understanding the extent that the drugs would impact his son. It sounds as if what was allowed was discovered to be irreversible after the fact.
Communism is enslavement of the masses to a tiny controlling minority. You lose your individual rights, the priority in theory is the community, in reality it is to a tyrannical elite that consider other humans their property to do with what they want.
Marxism/Communism was created by people who loathed humanity, society, civilization and loathed themselves most of all, while thinking themselves superior to everyone else.
These nations, especially those noted above, have benefited from American largesse.
They have not had to worry about defending their nations, or their interests internationally... America protected them from their neighbors, protected trade all over the globe, etc.
That time is quickly nearing its end, international trade routes will be contested, America will not be supplying you with an Army to protect you in the future.
Those nations, and the EU at large, is going to find without those cheap energy resources (coming from Russia) and materials (Russia and Africa) their economies are going to struggle more than they are now.
Never saw the guy or the video before the other day, I happened to think of it when I read your post... we are definitely in a break down of social norms and civil pillars.
This is across the spectrum of Western Nations, pay some attention to what the UN keeps putting out for its goals and Agenda 2030 efforts, and its International Corporate sponsored support of the WEF and it becomes pretty clear what the goals are.
It is important to understand what their goals are and who is really making the decisions... telling the Biden Administration and the EU, UK, Ireland, etc. what to do:
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/sta … 2169900432
It was interesting to see someone else recognize what is going on, without seemingly having the awareness of the efforts of the UN, WEF, and their timelines. He hit the bullseye between minute 8 and 12.
I didn't know anything about him (still don't) so it was fun to listen to not knowing his bias. He could be a Liberal, a Conservative, not knowing made me assess what he said without injecting bias on it.About Musk. It´s a matter of choosing different words.
Enslavement of the masses is something I connect with capitalism. Where you have a rich 1% controlling a poor 99%.
Yes communism can work in small communities like the Amish, or the Kibbutz. but not on a national scale, it becomes a dictatorship. (A friend of mine grew up in a Kibbutz in Israel and was not really enthusiastic about it as he never really had parents.)
True, Western Europe was given the Marshall help for the reconstruction.
This was also in benefit of the US itself. You want trading partners. Poor countries won't buy products. And of course the threat of the domination of the USSR.
Europe will have an economic problem. Not because of the energy. But because of workforces. People are getting older and less people are being born. More maintenance, less labour force. So they will need people from outside the EU. and this against the wish of many voters who think that there are to many foreigners. A political knot.
If the US stops with defending trade routes, the world will see more wars. If Ukrain falls, Taiwan will be next (the big chip factory.) And more powerfull nations see an opertunity to invade smaller neighbours.
When the US stops with protecting the world, it will fall too. As it needs trade and stability in the world.
Now with the UK gone from the EU, it is probable that the EU will start with an European army.
But the thing that will change our world most the next years will be AI. It will change our world just as drastically as the internet and the mobile phone has done. It will change the efficiency of energy usage, making cheaper drugs for healthcare, transportation, education, programming, law enforcement, entertainment etc.
It is a real game changer. more than anything else."Europe will have an economic problem. Not because of the energy. But because of workforces. People are getting older and less people are being born."
Are you so sure of that? People 100 years ago, or even 50, would be absolutely astounded at the pace of production today, whether it is grain, cars or silly putty. I visited a cigarette factory some 30 years ago; it was so fast you couldn't even see individual cigarettes. Only packs of 20 flying around.
And the rate that we can produce something, anything, is growing by leaps and bounds and the pace of that growth will increase as AI comes into its own.
"Poor countries won't buy products."
Of course they do! The just pay in something besides dollars. Oil, perhaps, or lithium. Labor, or land. There are thousands of ways a person, or country, can make payments if they have no dollars to spend.No I'm not sure. It`s in the end looking into a crustal ball. It is difficult to tell how AI will change world. But an AI robot to repair the plumbing or electricity will be not replaced first. There will still be a lot of labour needed. All that faster production through machines did not create less jobs, only different ones. The internet gave us more jobs online. not less.
AI will have a huge influence on "intelectual" jobs. Who needs a lawyer if you have Chatt GPT you can ask all questions and do the research that used to be done by a person?
It is hard to predict, but the jobs will shift. new jobs will come that never existed before and old jobs will become obsolete.
Yes you are right, you can extract resources from poor countries if they have some. And it is done in abundance with the African countries. But this is power politics to keep Africa under control of the IMF.
Much profitable is a population that has the money to spent on IPhones, Xboxes, cars, 30 flavours of crisps and other stuff you not really need...
The African continent is a huge market. Which China is discovering now. As the west only saw it as land with resources."All that faster production through machines did not create less jobs, only different ones."
Not true, or at least you are ignoring other factors. I was an electrician before retiring - I cannot tell you how much more gets done because of simple, everyday things like power drills, powered conduit benders, power tools to pull wire, powered man-lifts, etc. The list just goes on and on and on. Just the one thing - power drills - nearly halves the time to wire a house, and that's the simples of things. The we have things like armored cable, manufactured with "conduit" already installed on the wire so the electrician does not need to run conduit and then pull wire through it
Found the video interesting. There are far too many people into their head, rather than leading their lives with their hearts, then shortly followed by the mind.
Many people don't know the difference between socialism and communism. Or with capitalism and Corporationism.
I remember Michael Moore movie, called :Capitalism the love story:. It should have been called ,:Corporationism the love story.: Corporationism and Communism have very little love for the mass majority. And that tiny few are full of BS, selfnterest all for
themselves. Rather than one for all and all for one.
Love makes ultimate good sense, Any kind of Centroism unbalance the Yin and Yang of nature and humanity.
" In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he "became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true [...] and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way", further describing Catholic theology's influence on his political views.[159]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_VanceVance is a mix bag,can't figure out.
Vance recently excused Trump after he repeatedly accused American Jews of disloyalty to Israel and suggested they hate their religion by voting for Democrats. He called it a “reasonable” argument to make in courting Jewish voters. In a speech earlier this year, appearing before a mostly Hasidic and Orthodox audience, Vance said, “In America, we love Jews.”
RelatedUh, yeah, and Trump has accused Kamala of hating Jews. Really! Her husband is Jewish and they seem pretty lovey dovey to me. In fact, he recently made some nice remarks about her on CNN and the anchor, I believe it was Abby Philip, said that every woman deserves a husband like him.
Because most professional women don't change their names once they establish themselves under a name. She established herself as Kamala Harris and it was years later that she married Doug Emhoff, who is her first and only husband. It is too confusing. I remember my days in radio in the 1970s when one female dj changed her name. She started as Jane Doe (not her real name, of course) She got married to Tom Smith (not his either), so to make a smooth transition, she called herself Jane D. Smith, then a year or two later she became Jane Smith. A few years later they divorced, and all of a sudden she found herself Jane Doe again. That was the law in our state, so she couldn't transition back. See how ridiculous it can get.
Anyway, most professional women are not chained to the good ole boy mores and rules like certain religions demand. Her husband is Jewish, whom by the way, don't subscribe to the Pauline rules of the Bible Belt, so it is fine with him.
By the way, Hillary was First Lady Hillary Rodham the 12 years that Bill was governor of Arkansas. She changed her name later.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar … me/418029/
Jews, for only 2% of the American population, it seem they got their bigs hands on everything.
Running with the Jews.Here is the future
https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1 … 7510345834
We are the last generation that will remember and know a world before the Internet.We are also the last generation likely to hear or see honest, unbiased news reporting. The likes of Walter Cronkite and Paul Harvey are gone, probably forever. Unless a reporter is in thrall to the politicians (s)he will not have a job.
Walter once said "The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print". No longer; now the goal is to get those biases and prejudices accepted as truth by repeating them as often as possible, with whatever spin or exaggeration is necessary to accomplish that goal.
America is changing for the worse. The attempt on the life of Donald Trump is a picture of what will happen in the future. I have a gut feeling that democracy in America will be snuffed out. Perhaps Donald Trump may be the last president of the United States before America gets into a Civil War, this is something the Vedic Astrologers in India have concluded. I hope it doesn't turn out to be true.
Well, it has been said that most democracies fall after 200 years. We are past due.
I'm glad I have enjoyed the golden years of America.
It is still a pretty happy place because we have a lot of personal freedom.
As soon as this personal freedom is gone we all be depressed.
I hope the astrologers are wrong.I'd say to same, I'm very lucky to live a life in the 50s happy days , the 60s good times. The 70s and 80s was my amazing adventuresist times. It's been like 2 life times of enjoyment. Making an optimistic decision to make it out of this matrix apocalypse well enough
Caselpaloma, you mention "like 2 lifetimes of enjoyment." Well put. Those of us older folks, well, I speak for myself, but I've gone from being born in a farmhouse and living in a real antebellum log cabin of my grandparents to using computers and now seeing the use of AIs. That really is like living two lifetimes, or living in two different dimensions, the mechanical age and the digital age.
(Please don't anyone misinterpret something I said. I was born in a farmhouse and two months later we moved into the large antebellum log house on the same farm. I was not born in the log house, but it would be neat if I could say that I was.)Growing up in the country sounds healthier than much of the sickness of the city lifestyle. More of the money is in the city, so living in the country and working the city, feels just right. Like the 3 Bear and Goldilocks story. Only you would know how much joys you would have had in life over the toys in the end.
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