@ryangrim My conservative immigrant parents who still live in the county & never discuss politics made sure I knew this morning they voted Democrat all the way down. Just speaking anecdotally I think Texas GOP might be cooked but then my parents aren't white racists lol. Still hard to say.
I have lived in China since 1995.
I saw the poverty with my own eyes. Then I watched it disappear.
This chart going viral today tells the story > China extreme poverty: 91.3% in 1984.
Zero by 2022. No colour revolution.
No IMF lectures. No NGOs.
Planning, roads, factories, schools. And the West still calls it a "failed system"….
@NobleQAli Came to this realization around when Tiger Woods was in the news for his own infidelity. Very weird social convention when you stop and think about it for more than a few minutes. With this one, it's even easier to just not engage bc I barely know who any of these ppl are lol
@Logo_Daedalus LLMs have proven by now that, for a significant contingent of the general public, its easier to fake authenticity than it is to just be it
Cornel West: Now Brother Barney is purple AND green. And even Brother Barney knows class struggle is not a struggle BETWEEN classes, but rather a struggle to eliminate class altogether.
Norm Finklestein: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You would call this reptilian imbecile your brother?
Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
It has been now over 15 years since Gaddafi was killed. There has not been a parliamentary election in over 12 years. There has never been a presidential election, having been delayed for almost 10 years. There is still no legal definition defining the powers of that presidency.
BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own defense, signalling the end of the U.S. security umbrella in the Middle East, per the Wall Street Journal.
Barrack said the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, pointing to regional defense partnerships as the way forward. The warning comes as Gulf states face Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington’s future military commitment to the region.
"In Mao’s China women were told that there was no difference btw them & men. We were taught to dress & act like men. During the Cultural Revolution the first killing by the Red Guards were committed by young girls. We were to prove that we could outdo men in anything."
BREAKING: Iran has reportedly activated its "dead hand" doctrine as Iranian officials now believe a joint U.S.-Israeli attack is imminent and have instructed the country’s armed forces to directly activate the decentralized “Mosaic Defense” doctrine, with commanders reportedly receiving extensive lists of U.S. economic and political targets to strike if war erupts, per Fars News.
The activation shifts Iran's military to 31 autonomous provincial commands, designed to ensure devastating retaliatory strikes can be launched even if central leadership is decapitated in a first wave of attacks. Tehran is pre-authorizing field commanders to fire without waiting for orders from the top.
It comes as Trump says the U.S. is "not negotiating" and "something will happen soon," Washington orders the complete evacuation of its embassy staff from the Gulf, and the IRGC claims to have struck seven vessels in a single night. The region is now on a hair trigger for total war.
Jaime West tells Piers Morgan that her next door neighbor just graduated high school and enlisted in the Marines and may get shipped off to die in an illegal war so people need to get off her nuts about drinking a few Coor’s Lights before an interview
If the Dems win either/both chambers, they're sure to spend much of their political capital on centering the Ukraine war cause and holding Trump to account for not supporting Ukraine enough/"helping Putin". The Dem base's top concern is cost of living; for Dem elites it's Ukraine
This makes sense when you realize that Acton's estranged mother represents a major demographic cohort -- parents who covered up horrific family secrets and are puzzled why their kids don't talk to them. This cohort is becoming politically organized.
The man standing next to Randy Fine and Ron DeSantis, in Israel, is Mike Caruso, currently on trial for forcing his penis into his 3 year old grandson’s mouth and peeing in it. Randy Fine’s political committee donated to him.