Played for patsies, by the Red Dragon

"What is our future with the Chinese? Bleak. As I have said in the past, I have studied this crew since 1970. Back then, they had an agenda. They still have an agenda. They are not to be trusted. Only fools would trust these guys. Hear that Sleepy Joe? Pass that on to your people." 

This is almost worth a laugh. It just seems like yesterday Treasury Secretary Yellen was over in China doing her bidding. Now today, we have Blinken over in China. Why? Talks. We talk, and China just does stuff. Our administration tells us that "productive" talks were held about Fentanyl, trade, and general relations. Deja vu all over again. Oh - one more thing. At one time, we had tens of thousands of exchange students in China. Today, just in the hundreds. China said they will fix that. Right...

I wonder if President Xi said anything to Blinken about the $8B (recently approved) going to Taiwan. I wonder if President Xi said anything to Blinken about our new bases in the PI. I wonder if President Xi said anything to Blinken about the submarine deal with Australia. Finally, I wonder if Blinken believed a word that Xi said. 

Here is the cold, hard truth. China uses us and hates us at the same time. Biden, the globalist, has people working for him that are from the same ilk he is. The globalists refuse to accept reality. They hold on to fantasy. They see China as la-la land. In reality, China is preparing for war with us. They know we will jump in the fray to help Taiwan once China makes its play for Taiwan. China's plan? Damage or sink at least one of our aircraft carriers. The loss of thousands of American sailors should send the American public to the streets, demanding we pull out of that conflict.

One more thing. We found out that despite warning China about supplying Russia with military equipment they can use in Ukraine, they are still doing it. Only to get around the ban demanded by the Americans; China is sending "dual use" items to Russia. What are dual use items? Things (as an example) which could be used on a tank and a dishwasher. Clever for the Chinese, naive for our administration.

What is our future with the Chinese? Bleak. As I have said in the past, I have studied this crew since 1970. Back then, they had an agenda. They still have an agenda. They are not to be trusted. Only fools would trust these guys. Hear that Sleepy Joe? Pass that on to your people. 

 

Is the caged animal ready to strike again?

"The bad boys are in alignment. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. But on the flip side, the good guys are also in alignment. NATO, Japan, South Korea, Australia and the PI. The world's stage is set for another world war if we are not careful."

The rumor mills are now working overtime. Is this bluster, faux reporting, or is there really something there? As the endless war in Ukraine drags on, recently given a transfusion of new arms by the US Congress, Vladimir Putin might have decided to take his game elsewhere. Up a notch. How so? It is no secret that Putin has no time for NATO. Especially now, since NATO has become more and more embolden in their support for Ukraine. 

Putin is still seething over the entrance of Finland and Norway into the NATO organization. This is a huge thorn in his side. But Poland - oh, how he hates Poland. He would love to take another swing at this NATO country. And Polish President Duda - how dare he! Saying Poland would host NATO nuclear weapons should Russia move nukes into Kaliningrad. Putting Article 5 of NATO aside for a minute, Russia would be fools to take a run at Poland. Why? Poland is rough and ready and prepared. 

Putin is also pretty steamed at Macron of France. Ever since Macron said, "There is no limits to how France will support Kiev in the Ukraine War", Putin feels slighted. Is Putin afraid of France? No, but he should be. France is no pushover, like Moldavia might be should Putin take a run at that country also. Why? France has a good military, plus - France also has nukes, and subs to launch them with.

Putin also knows this war with Ukraine has been a fool's errand. What he thought would happen, and what is really happening - are not even close to being related. Putin may be putting the hurt on Ukraine by destroying infrastructure, and killing many of their young men, but Putin's Army is also getting chewed up. He hates the fact the US is behind Ukraine getting F-16's and HIMARS. And the drones? They are really hitting Putin hard on his energy business. 

Is Russia ready to strike again? Maybe he sees Biden for how weak he is. It might be the time and the place to take a run at NATO. What about this scenario? A coordinated attack by Russia against NATO, with China at the same time taking a run at Taiwan. Possible? Yes. Probable? I sure hope not. 

The bad boys are in alignment. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. But on the flip side, the good guys are also in alignment. NATO, Japan, South Korea, Australia and the PI. The world's stage is set for another world war if we are not careful. How bad could a World War III be? End of the world bad. Putin needs to understand this. There is no winning the next global war - only losers.    

The death of the universities

I am not worried about a future of robots loaded with AI being a danger to us. That is not the threat. We already have mind-numbed robots, which are not loaded with any kind of AI or even plain natural intelligence. These robots are called college students. And that is the current threat.    

Funny - I though the demise of the universities would be dying under their own weight. Meaning what? Outlandish tuition. Worthless degrees. Social promotions. Never did I think the universities would die of self-inflicted wounds. And what is happening right now on many of the nation's colleges and universities - are definitely self-inflicted wounds.

There was a time, when young folk went to college to learn how to become critical thinkers. Where there were always two sides (or more) to every argument (or discussion), and then empirical evidence and research led to correct answers. Sometimes, even consensus. Today, colleges and universities don't teach students HOW to think - the professors tell the students WHAT to think. And what the students cannot learn from in-class brainwashing, they pick up listening to Chinese Tic Toc.

By the way, not to digress, but this point about Chinese Tic Toc needs to be brought up. Despite the FBI recently coming out and saying Chinese Tic Toc is about as evil as evil gets, and it is just a tool for the CCP, Congress is letting Chinese Tic Toc off the hook. How so? When Slow Joe signs the Chinese Tic Toc bill today, it is not a cease-and-desist bill - we are giving Chinese Tic Toc ONE YEAR to divest from China! Why a year? Much damage can be done by the CCP in 12 months.

The protests which are going on at some of our once premier colleges and universities - is a head scratcher. Like - hello? Don't colleges and universities teach world history anymore? Like, what happened to the Jews during WWII? Why the United Nations granted Israel their homeland in 1948? Do students ever read the Bible anymore? To learn about the generations of misery Jews had to endure prior to getting their homeland. Our colleges and universities are nothing more than a witch's brew of garbage. Truth takes a back door to hyperbole and the social redefinition of history.

A couple of these spoiled rich kids who are protesting were questioned by Fox News yesterday. The question was asked if the students considered what happened on October 7th. Why was that horrific day not addressed? The butchery, the rape, the beheading of babies. How did Israel become the villain when they were the victim of a Hamas invasion? What was the answer by these two young darlings gave? October 7th never happened. It was made up. Instead, they wanted to talk about the stolen land that Israel took from Palestine. I guess you can't cure stupid.

One final thing that Director Wray of the FBI had to say about Chinese Tic Toc. He thinks the information Chinese Tic Toc is gleaming from the American youth will go into Chinese AI technology. To be used against us.

I am not worried about a future of robots loaded with AI being a danger to us. That is not the threat. We already have mind-numbed robots, which are not loaded with any kind of AI or even plain natural intelligence. These robots are called college students. And that is the current threat.    

The Raider - greatest bomber ever?

 

"The Air Force might have something up their sleeve which is very hush-hush. The Secretary of the Air Force recently hinted that maybe 100 is the total number of B-21 Raiders which will be built. Period. Why? There might be something in the offing which is even a shinier penny." 

Even though I am a Navy guy, I am fascinated by our USAF platforms. Does not matter if they are fighter jets or bombers. Love them all. It is no secret that America leads the world in the exotic technologies which go into making some of our real bad a** airplanes. We know it, and the world knows it. That being said, the B-21 Raider is just coming online this year. At first glance, it looks like the B-2 Spirit. But it is the Spirit, and a whole lot more. 

With the Spirit, we still have the B-1 Bone and the B-52 BUFFs in service. Both are still of use, but nowhere near as stealthy as the B-2 and B-21 are (or going to be). The Air Force brass is so excited about the B-21 Raider, the build plan was to build a minimum of 100 of them. Maybe even 200. But that was yesterday. Today, there is a new message coming from the Air Force.

The Air Force might have something up their sleeve which is very hush-hush. The Secretary of the Air Force recently hinted that maybe 100 is the total number of B-21 Raiders which will be built. Period. Why? There might be something in the offing which is even a shinier penny. What? Wait - better than the Raider? The most feared bomber in the world? 

For those paying attention, the race for the next generation (6th generation) of fighter jets is fast and furious. The race for the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter jets is going at a blinding speed. I guess the same is also true for our strategic bombers. But here is the side benefit. Our civilian aircraft are also taking advantage of some of these new technologies. Like super-sonic travel without the sonic booms. So what? Here is the so what - New York to Tokyo in a fraction of what today's travel time is.

By the way, an interesting contest is going on right now within the Air Force. The F-35 Lightening is thought by many to be our best plane. Better than the F-22 Raptor. But - the F-35 is starting to get the long-awaited Block Four upgrade, which will make this plane even more awesome. But the F-22 is also getting an upgrade, which will make it just as awesome as the F-35. Since they both belong to us, this is a race in which nobody loses.

I wish I could write a glowing tale about our shipbuilding these days, but I can't. As good as the USAF is with introducing their new stuff, is as bad as the Navy is these days. News flash - we need a strong Navy just as much as we need a strong Air Force. I guess first, we need a strong Commander-in-Chief. We can address that in November.  

  

Living in the past and thinking about today

"After seeing what has been going on at Columbia, Harvard, and so forth - here is my recommendation. Shut them down. They are a waste of space. At one time they were the treasure of the Ivy League. Today, they are as some call them - poison ivy."

I went to a "Big 10" University right in my back yard. Went there from 1973 to 1975 and graduated with a BS degree (my wife thought that was appropriate). What was college life like back then? Nothing like today. First off, it was much more affordable. Next, I never had a nut case professor who tried to make Marxists out of the class. There was no vendetta against Jewish students. Two of my best friends in upper division were Jewish. Young folk went to class, listened, studied, graduated as soon as they could, and then found employment. I was employed withing a week of graduation.

When I went to the "U", things were tranquil. Maybe not so much in the 60's. But that was not my worry back then - in the 1960's, I was serving my country. By the time I got out, Viet Nam was about done, and most of the young folks were focused on what they should be focused on - living the American dream.

Fast forward to today. Kids go to college not really knowing what they want to do. They major in something exotic, rather than something which is going to land them a job. They sign papers to go deeply into debt, without thinking how to repay this enormous debt. The thought of maybe doing PSEO while in high school and then doing their first two years in a community college was absolutely abhorrent. Many would much prefer going to a private four-year school and majoring in Art History, Woman's Studies, or World Without Genocide. 

While in school, they might end up with a professor like Ward Churchill (remember him?). If so, they become radicalized. They skip class to protest. Based on a class they took on Gender Studies, they pick a new pronoun. No worry about grades - the college has decided grades are racist, so everybody gets a "participation degree". The college does not care how long you stay there, so long as you keep paying their sky-high tuition with student loan money. After six or seven years, they graduate with a four-year degree, broke, deeply in debt, and are proud owners of a degree which will never get them a decent job.

After seeing what has been going on at Columbia, Harvard, and so forth - here is my recommendation. Shut them down. They are a waste of space. At one time they were the treasure of the Ivy League. Today, they are as some call them - poison ivy.

Mike Rowe might be right. For many, forget about college these days. That season might be over for a while. Focus on the trades. Many good paying jobs are just waiting to be filled out there. But what about the sciences? We still need people to get degrees which will advance society. True. But those schools need to go into the "way back" machine so they can be like the colleges of the 1970's. Why? Those colleges worked - today's colleges, not so much.       
 

Decoupling from the tyrant

"Here is the bottom line. Many experts, much smarter than I, believe that war with Red China is inevitable. Like, it might happen this decade. Meanwhile, the globalists are tripping down life's highway, fat, dumb and happy. But this is serious stuff. We need to decouple from these guys, like yesterday."

For all the Obama/Kerry globalists out there, this article should bring a smile to your face. However, for those patriots out there, this is a very disturbing trend. If you are on any kind of med, or use any kind of pain reliever, or bandages when hurt - here is the bad news. Our dependence on the Chicoms, the land which makes much of the fentanyl which is killing our young folk - is growing. 

Let's pretend for a minute that Xi has decided it is time. Time to bring Taiwan back into the evil empire of Red China. Then war breaks out. The United States jumps in to protect Taiwan's interests. Then all hell breaks loose in the Pacific. Trade stops, and the killing begins. The globalist dream of having symbiotic trade with Red China has just gone up in flames. Any manufacturing of anything we needed - has also gone up in flames.

As of 2023, our reliance on China to send us our needed meds has more than doubled. It is now at 6%. It does not sound like much, unless you look at the charts of what they make for us. With certain cardiovascular medications, they supply 45% of what we need. If all of a sudden, China stops sending us those meds, what are the people who need those meds going to do?

Here is the bottom line. Many experts, much smarter than I, believe that war with Red China is inevitable. Like, it might happen this decade. Meanwhile, the globalists are tripping down life's highway, fat, dumb and happy. But this is serious stuff. We need to decouple from these guys, like yesterday.

And by the way, back to fentanyl for a second. It has been reported that this heinous drug, which is made in China and then sent to the cartels in Mexico for delivery to the US, is the leading cause of death from Americans ages 18 to 44. And what is Biden doing about this genocide on our young people? Nada. Just give him another ice cream cone.

This is our bed that Obama/Kerry/Biden have made for us. They have put us in grave danger. Do they care? Not about America. But they all seem to have an affinity for Red China. Go figure.   

The student loan fiasco

"Remember one thing. Many kids who go to college do it the right way. On the other hand, there are elitest kids who go to private colleges like Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and others, who run up all kinds of debt while becoming America haters. Then once graduated, they pee and moan about their debt (and their worthless degree), and how it is not fair. Well, cry me a river."

The Minneapolis Fed Chief was on one of the business channels yesterday. Topic? Why, the economy of course. What part of the economy? Rate hikes (or rate reductions). Seems the Administration has been spreading some Garp that rate cuts are on the horizon. Really? With the inflation rate still above 3%? That was news to the Fed Chief from Minneapolis. Biden's henchmen (and Yellen), may want the new norm for inflation to be 3%, but the Fed is saying "Not so fast."

The stubborn question was then asked by the host. How can we bring the inflation rate down another point? The Fed Chief from Minneapolis was very clear. To get inflation down to an acceptable rate (2% or less), we need to cut back on government spending. THAT is what has fueled much of our inflation.

Hold on to your hats. Since taking office, Joe Biden has forgiven $144 billion in student loans. That was kind of him to make that money go away for our hard-working students. But wait - it did not go away. It was only transferred to the taxpayers. And since none the taxpayers needed to write out a check on the spot - it was just put on the tab. In other words - added to our enormous debt. 

Come on Bird! Are you that cold hearted? Nope. But the Supreme Court already told Uncle Joe this was illegal. And Biden did it anyway. Why? Votes. And he does not care about this Trump manufactured Supreme Court. So, he gave the "Trump court" his middle finger and did it anyhow. Drove the debt up more. Drove the inflation up more. Kept interest rates high.

Remember one thing. Many kids who go to college do it the right way. On the other hand, there are elitest kids who go to private colleges like Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and others, who run up all kinds of debt while becoming America haters. Then once graduated, they pee and moan about their debt (and their worthless degree), and how it is not fair. Well, cry me a river. It is only a vote selling dolt like Biden who would fall for this crap. Now we, the America lovers, are stuck with the bill. 

Nice going Joe. You have really screwed things up (again). Now just go back to your beach house, take a long nap, and let Donald Trump fix your mess.