Vance is one of America’s top-notch morons, but I doubt he actually said this, as even he understands that China’s government and Chinese business interest own about 1% of all foreign-owned U.S. farmland. It’s negligible, and it’s not getting any larger, as shown in the Cornell University study linked above.
It should not come as a surprise that the only people concerned about this are those who know nothing about it.
Trump isn’t the only pathological liar I’ve known in my life, and I’m sure most people can say that as well.
What makes them “pathological?” They lie when there is no reason to, when there is nothing to be gained. Does anybody care how much Trump actually weighs? I sure don’t.
Apparently, liars get a charge out of “pulling one over.” Here’s a Ted Talk on the subject that I found quite informative:
Sure, both world leaders:
Did their damndest to achieve world leadership through grossly illegal and authoritarian means.
Went about achieving their means via sewing hatred and divisiveness into their citizens.
Tried to shut down the free press to prevent the world’s people from learning about who they truly were.
But whatever you do, don’t compare the two.
At left we see a few of the folks who will be fighting in the civil war that will erupt if Trump is deposed for any reason, e.g., impeachment.
They will be opposed by virtually all law enforcement and military personnel, each one armed with the world’s most advanced weaponry, but that shouldn’t be a problem, should it?
If I were asked to make the prediction posed below, I would say none of the above, and suggest that some combination of environmental collapse, certainly including climate change, will wipe out many, but not all human beings. There is no reason to believe that those who can afford scarce resources will die.
I also find the concept of space migration to be fanciful; I see no reason to absorb the huge expense.
So many things in the U.S. are up in the air at this point. If Trump gets his way, there will be no limits on his power, and this country will be an authoritarian state like Russia and China. Obviously, there are many millions of political activists who are working hard to ensure this doesn’t happen, but there are no guarantees.
Americans caught their first glimpse of this 50 years ago when Nixon said, “If the president does something, that means that it’s not illegal.” We withstood that challenge, but what’s happening here represents a far greater threat to the core of our democratic republic.
Let’s hope we don’t find ourselves in the position of the little boy in the illustration.
This guy doesn’t seem to remember that:
Trump was the U.S. president for the first year of the COVID pandemic, and
The United States is one of 206 sovereign nations on Earth, each of which had its own response. He seems to think that the governments of countries like Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Israel took orders from the Democrats. Does that seem reasonable?
It is true that Donald Trump said in 2012: “I find that I do better in bad markets. I buy things in bad markets.” Thus, Robert Reich’s speculation here makes sense. As someone on social media put it: I was in prison with a few arsonists. One lad’s comment, “I started fires only for profit…Trump?
But there are other possible motives, e.g., that a suffering and desperate U.S. population will be much easier to control when it comes to a third term for Trump.
Nobody knows.
At left is a reminder that:
It’s a good idea to have a federal government that is strong enough to override the states when it comes to certain matters, and
just because something’s not explicitly written into the original Constitution doesn’t mean it’s an acceptable American institution.
These people say:
A groundbreaking study from Florida Atlantic University reveals that ocean currents can generate 2.5 times more power than wind farms, offering an untapped, constant energy source. Unlike wind and solar, which depend on unpredictable weather, ocean currents flow steadily—day and night.
So, what does this really mean? Not much.
Ocean current energy, as it’s called, is not theoretically impossible. In fact, until about a decade ago, there were dozens–possibly even hundreds–of teams all around the world experimenting with different approaches of extracting some of the kinetic energy from moving water.
But then came the plummeting prices of both solar and wind, leaving this and all the other flavors of hydrokinetics far behind in the competition for cost-effective sources of energy.
