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Post by walnut on Aug 24, 2019 14:49:44 GMT
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Post by walnut on Aug 24, 2019 16:53:22 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 25, 2019 21:50:23 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Aug 27, 2019 4:31:18 GMT
Something written by a friend on an Aussie site:
Ummm, back to the G7 chatfest.
Anyone notice that Trump pulled off 2 of the 'greatest' feats of diplomacy in recent history?
The delusional Dems are flagging his remarks about the Iranian land mine introduced by the idiot extraordinare Macron, and about Uncle Xi as diplomatic brainfarts. But the upshot of both has clocked up a win for Trump that is being ignored by the trogs.
Firstly, he praised Xi for his 'understanding' of how things operate in trade deals, and inferred that Xi was on the verge of accommodating the rules governing world trade which shows how smart Xi is and how well he is doing at looking out for his people.
We in the West may read that as backhandedly/sarcastically insulting, but in China it is seen as giving 'face' to Xi. That may "wrankle the arse" of many in America, but it would be a colossal win in the trade war if goes as planned.
Trump is not as stupid as the Dems so desperately want to believe that he is. He's not too proudly nationalistic/jingoistic to leave wriggle room and a way out in 'deal' negotiations.
Xi can now cave in and pretend that he's doing it out of kindness to America or better yet "for the good of the Chinese people." Donny has allowed him to be the 'hero'. Always a tempting prize for an 'emperor'. Donny isn't the only narcissist in world politics.
..wait and see, but the light is glimmering in the tunnel at least and that outcome would beat the hell out of Hillary's tactic of flinging the entire US Fleet into the South China Sea.
2nd was a double header! He managed to plant Macron back on his tiny arse, by ignoring the Iranian Foreign Minister that he invited to the conference to embarrass Donny and then delivering the coup de gras by totally derailing the main topic of the conference, climate change.
Just brushed it off as trivial in light of other more pressing issues and left Macron standing there with his knife in the gunfight. beeyoodiful.
But Donny turned the Iranian ring-in into an opportunity in a later Tweet by offering a chance for Iran to take the door to a new deal negotiation that Trump has now left ajar. Contrary to all expectations, Iran jumped at it! There were murmurs from their head despot that there may indeed be room for more 'negotiations'.... and they've stopped hijacking oil tankers for a few days.
I'll tell ya what ... if Trump pulls off the trade war, and pulls Iran and N.K. into line without firing a shot then I for one will nominate the "stoopid" bastard for a Peace Prize! .. more deserved, even so far, than the one Bammy got!
The trick to Trump's version of diplomacy is to ignore the hubris of personal "pride" in negotiations.
He's shameless. That lack of self consciousness makes him the slipperiest diplomat there ever was. They can't get a handle on him. He keeps them on the back foot and lets them think they're winning by giving him what he wants.
Either he is a brilliant manipulator, or I'm getting too old for this shit and reading more into his tactics than I should. Time will tell....
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Post by walnut on Aug 27, 2019 4:45:15 GMT
He was at his best at the G7 meeting. And the joint press conference with Macron was insightful. Trump is on his game right now. It is frustrating to hear the dullards in the media mischaracterize his various moves, motives, and statements. They simply lack the smarts to follow along.
BTW- even today, after the US markets strongly rebounded up over 1%, the Hang Seng is down a half a percent. They are getting killed and they know it. Late last night, some China trade rep more or less caved in a prepared statement. Then they seemed to have somewhat backtracked by morning. But they are on the ropes..
The trade war is entertaining to me because I am tired of hearing all the China hype over the last 10 years, how they could "sell their treasuries" and all that other nonsense. China per capita GDP is lower than Mexico's. There's just a lot of them
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 27, 2019 8:13:31 GMT
He was at his best at the G7 meeting. And the joint press conference with Macron was insightful. Trump is on his game right now. It is frustrating to hear the dullards in the media mischaracterize his various moves, motives, and statements. They simply lack the smarts to follow along. BTW- even today, after the US markets strongly rebounded up over 1%, the Hang Seng is down a half a percent. They are getting killed and they know it. Late last night, some China trade rep more or less caved in a prepared statement. Then they seemed to have somewhat backtracked by morning. But they are on the ropes.. The trade war is entertaining to me because I am tired of hearing all the China hype over the last 10 years, how they could "sell their treasuries" and all that other nonsense. China per capita GDP is lower than Mexico's. There's just a lot of them The media - or more correctly the people pulling their strings - cannot allow Trump to 'win' and the media and talking heads appear to be in a competition to come up with the best Trump 'insult du jour' which is then repeated ad nauseam on each other's channels a demonstration of the media group think bubble. There is a battle on though the never Trump billionaires who are pulling strings worldwide from Bloomberg offering/providing biased attorney general 'assistants' to every state to Soros funding 'open borders' globalists throughout Europe and the 'remain' faction in UK. These billionaires had all bet on globalism green deals and the transpacific and transatlantic partnerships to become supranational organizers of the world economy and Trump has walked in just as their hands were about to grasp the prize presented by Hillary and screwed it up - Tom Steyer is the most transparently anti-Trump of this group. But what Trump is doing with China, Japan, India and for that matter to the WTO could if successful be the biggest impetus to world trade and world economies since Bretton Woods after WW2. And all the democrats can do is try to invent impeachment? We had better hope that Trump wins this battle the alternatives are not too nice.
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 29, 2019 8:44:59 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Aug 31, 2019 6:10:05 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 31, 2019 23:24:55 GMT
"There’s a reason why Dave Chappelle’s brilliant new Netflix special is titled Sticks & Stones, and even though it has only been out a few days, the Woke Fascists are about one hot take away from declaring Chappelle a black white-supremacist.
Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em. — Easy Rider (1969)
My issue is with those in the Woke Stasi telling Chappelle to shut up and doing so with lies on top of emotional blackmail on top of lies on top of threats on top of lies…"www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/08/31/nolte-debunking-the-joke-police-attacks-on-dave-chappelle/
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 7, 2019 21:32:57 GMT
"Consider Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics from 2017, the most recent year of complete data. The total number of firearm-related deaths was 39,773. Roughly two-thirds of that figure, 23,854, were firearm-related suicides, with the remaining 15,919 being a combination of the approximately 500 accidental gun deaths that occur annually coupled with just over 15,000 firearm-related homicides. If we break down the firearm-related homicides via FBI crime statistics, we see that handguns were far and away the common firearm for murder. The FBI reported 7,032 murders with a handgun verses 403 murders with a rifle, and 264 with a shotgun, in cases where the firearm was identifiable. If we take the 403 rifle murders a year and divide by 365 it comes out to 1.1, which means 1.1 Americans die in a rifle-related murder each day. We must not overlook the fact that the 403 murders with a rifle are murders with rifles of all kinds, i.e., bolt action, lever action, breech action, pump, and semiautomatic. If we narrowed the category to only include AR-15s, AK-47s, or similar semiautomatics, the number of Americans killed daily would be even lower than 1.1. ..........."continued here: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/06/18-daily-causes-death-americans/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 21, 2019 16:13:31 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 21, 2019 20:46:07 GMT
Same but not behind paywall summit.news/2019/09/21/googles-quantum-supremacy-to-render-all-cryptocurrency-military-secrets-breakable/"Google’s announcement that it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit quantum computer greases the skids for all cryptocurrency and military secrets protected by cryptography to be breakable in a stunning new development that will change the world. The Big Tech corporation’s new quantum processor took a mere 200 seconds to complete a computing task that would normally require 10,000 years on a supercomputer. The 53-qubit quantum computer can break any 53-bit cryptography in seconds, meaning Bitcoin’s 256-bit encryption is vulnerable once Google scales its quantum computing to 256 qubits, something their own scientists say will be possible by 2022. Modern military cryptography will also eventually be rendered obsolete given that the number of qubits in Google’s quantum computers will double at least every year, according to the report, growing at “double exponential rate,” which is even faster than Moore’s Law. At this rate, Google will be able to break all military encryption by 2024, a frightening prospect given the company’s close ties to China."This secret method has almost certainly been given to China already as Google like Apple is really a Chinese company with some offices in the US - all their IP will have been shared with the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 28, 2019 14:41:29 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Sept 28, 2019 22:43:51 GMT
I see dead people.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 29, 2019 3:22:28 GMT
You might consider a new ophthalmologist.
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