Isn’t any war with a nuclear power an instant lose/lose war? Like yeah! We leveled Beijing and they only got Portland! Woohoo we win!
They spend a fuck ton of resources on PLA spies and “Confucius Centers” at universities in the US. There are hundreds of Chinese nationals in US weapons labs (who TF let that happen btw?) I wouldn’t be surprised if some of our weapons systems didn’t fail when we pushed the big red button.
Economically they’re looking really bad. Like 300% debt to GDP bad. That’s if you don’t subtract out all the GDP that goes to fake infrastructure projects. It’s been estimated 45 to 80 percent of their loans aren’t performing. Nobody on earth wants RMB as payment. For now they need dollars. That doesn’t stop them fro. Putting nuclear bombers on their little fake islands.
Chinese are just lucky they had similar “advantages” as the Russians did vs. the Germans.
add: the respective martial arts are a perfect example -Karate kills you with an immediate punch to the throat; Kung Fu takes 5 minutes to hit you multiple times…then the other guy still has to take 5 steps before his heart explodes.
“Perhaps most detrimental for Bolton, officials said, Trump blamed him for a public narrative that the national security adviser was shaping Iran policy, not the president”.
"The president’s view is: “I run Iran. John may think he runs Iran, but I run Iran,” a former White House official said.
The last thing Trump wants anyone thinking is he would listen to the people picked to do jobs for him. I’m not sure why he has anyone working for him. Maybe someone to run to McDonalds or something and keep the tweet box from getting a virus.
Reports are that Trump has “consulted” (not sure what that means in Trump-World) McMaster on some National Security Matters…the man Trump “fired”? and replaced with Bolton.
If the rally in Fayette-Nam is any indication…the DEMS have seen only a fraction of what most likely will be unleashed as the election gets closer,
Hell…Trump had me wanting to get on my knees inside a bunker in order to protect myself from all of the plague, disease, pestilence, immigrant hoards and rampant baby killing that will be unleashed if the DEMS win the Presidency…
On a more serious note…Trump has been in the Public Spotlight virtually all of his Life.
What is so chilling (to me…all of you think what you want)…is that Trump has never lived…nor ever proven by his Life and actions…that he truly believes or supports 99.9% of what he says. All of this…years in the Public Eye leading to the Presidency…is all about him and feeding his insatiable Beast of an ego…
In the civilized part of America, the Northeast, people know the real Trump. In the backwoods of America, which is basically almost everywhere else, they only know him from his TV show.
I know it’s early in the process…but if I didn’t know better…I could swear the DEMS are trying as hard as they can to snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory…
Trump would love…I mean LOVE to be able to run against Mayor Pete, Bernie or Warren.
This was my prediction at the beginning of the thread (for what it’s worth!):
Biden is the DEM nominee…Trump and the Conservative machine unleash hell when it is official that it is between Biden and Trump.
I don’t disagree with much here. I’m not sure if who he is running against is nearly as important as the economy. I’ve said many times that with the economy that looks like this he should crush the election and it not be close.
Trumps a buffoon who shoots himself in the foot enough to make it close and excite the opposition to turn out. Short of something major he shouldn’t lose though I wouldn’t be shocked if he wins electoral and loses popular again. If the polls aren’t close and he looks inevitable it will probably drop turnout from Dems to make that happen.
If something would happen to tank the economy before the election it would flip everything upside down. However in its current state even if people don’t like him he should win. He will have a massive cash advantage and despite all the things people can easily hammer him on he can point to that and win.
True. His approval ratings with Republicans are sky high which has moved his overall up a bit last I checked. I don’t foresee anything he could do (because he has already done most things that would violate their “principles”) that would cause Republican support to waver at all.
I still think Biden is the one person he would be most vulnerable against but at this point I’m not sure Biden excites anyone. And if the Iowa issue is any indication Democrats seem poised to fuck up all ideas about rallying around a single person. I still think their turnout will be fine simply because how despised Trump is. Like I said though I expect it to drop off a bit if Trump looks inevitable.
This shouldn’t even be a race but it will likely end up being one simply because Trump can’t help himself and will continue to hurt himself to most non Republicans and even some moderate ones. I just can’t see him losing with the economy like this.
Always forget you’re a KC guy right? Did you go to the parade?
I haven’t read too much about the Iowa stuff just know that getting the caucus information has been a clusterfuck. Something to do with an app or something.
It only gets worse the more you read about it. The DNC recruited a company called Shadow inc, whose chief is called ‘Acornym’ on the documentation.
This company received about 60k from the Buttigieg campaign, who made a victory lap before the results were in, and this company has quite a lot of former Clinton campaign staff.
The company develops said app and then gives it to NPR to test, NPR report that it’s total shite, but they push ahead regardless.
So now we are left several days after the vote and we still don’t have the full tally. The GOP used traditional paper and had it counted days before now.
Utterly clownish, especially given that the big ticket dem items (green new deal, healthcare etc) rely on being massive programs being executed by the same people that this week couldn’t manage an election for a state of 3 million people.
All in all, it’s a shit show, and the Bernie fans are miffed most of all.
I have to say, it’s a stellar result for folks like me, who think electronic voting is an idiotic idea.
Addendum: my friend is a New Hampshire democrat and I asked him which states were using this app. He thinks Nevada as well, but it definitely isn’t just one state.
Nevada was supposed to use the same app, but due to the failure in Iowa, will use a different system. I’d expect other states to follow suit.
Traditionally, phone Banks were used in Iowa. Also, caucusing is essentially multiple votes in a single night, so it’s a little more complicated than a standard vote.
