Xi Says World Order ‘Crumbling Into Disarray’ as War Takes Toll

> Hillary had it right when she said democrats are the party of “incremental change”, not a party of leaders with a bold vision for America. The DNC had a supermajority for 41 days and managed to pass one of the largest healthcare reform acts in US history, giving 10s of millions of people access to affordable healthcare. Like, I get that they aren't perfect, but the left has ALWAYS been operating with one arm tied behind it's back.

Honestly, as a CDN I was against walls at the border, now they can't build one fast enough!

The fact that he actually said "nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen" still astounds me. I know he's produced endless dumb statements, but damn

LOL. Thank you for this.

Literally thought you were quoting Michael Scott for a second before remembered where it's actually from. Goodness.

"Break your enemy's blockade by blockading their blockade and then celebrate by going to a UFC event." -Don Tzu

Shih-Tzu

Liquid swords are drawn.

You’re correct and I agree on the second point too

Larger reserves than rest of Asia. But spend more so when reserves are out its gonna start hurting. Is what I have gathered from my rectangle shaped crystal ball that sometimes tells me lies. Sometimes its telling the truth but people in here tries to convince me its lying.

As long as oil is freely traded internationally, the prices will rise for the whole world.

delusional. china is hurt a lot less than europe and other asian countries that are supposedly allies to the US. Rising prices hurts everyone of course, including China. But China has all of the tools to weather this storm, unlike most other countries. China benefits indirectly when american alliances are weakened. The Philippines for example, is signing up with China for oil exploration in the south china sea. china is the 6th largest oil producer in the world. China also has a land border with russia, which means a secure oil supply. china has a huge strategic oil reserve. China has large coal resources. And even has tech to convert coal to petrochemicals. china is the biggest source of clean energy technology, everything from vehicles to solar to wind and hydro. This can only increase demand for chinese technology. The chinese economy is also already increasingly transitioning to these technologies for energy, more so than most countries. This also hurts the US a lot more than you let on. Americans are paying higher energy costs directly. And indirectly, Americans will be hurt by increased costs of goods (whether they're domestic or imported, say, from China).

Point taken, but I feel like there's a case to be made that Trump and crew have been emboldened by the ruling, at least if any of them think they might ever lose their power.

Was going to also say both hemispheres of his brain working together would be bipartisan.

We can only hope. Will humility get to them ?

Except, perhaps, the example of 9/11 as THE example of a failure of that insulation.

I think it is changing right now. At the gas pumps. At farms. Now we just need to hope that some of those MAGAs can start connecting the dots.

In my personal experience, having told them for a decade…they no longer want to discuss politics.

I'm gonna give you one guess...

> And the outcome is really decided by just tens of thousands of voters in swing states. > Outdated system in the modern age. The w***** takes it all system also does not help. A multi-round system (like France), or ranked choice voting, combined with actual multi-party governments is not perfect, but works better than the two parties the US ended up with.

The Republicans never sell their own bad policies or trash candidates. They convince everyone their opposition is just as bad if not worse. They don't even bother to tell the truth, they look you straight in the eyes and tell you Somalis are eating the dogs and cats.

Stupid s*** coal.

It’s clean because we say it is!

Yeah some of the utilization rates are approaching 50%, but it's uneconomical to run coal much below 70%. Most of what they're building is contingency planning to keep the lights on "just in case". Their green tech revolution is the actual plan, even with the coal plant construction.

They're mostly to move pollution far away from city centers because the cities have grown to encompass the old coal plants.

But the existing UK high speed rail is already so far ahead compared to the US.

Three times\*

Lol they already are pushing for trump to run in 28 wether thats don “small hands” trump or one of his cretin children.

If I was financial viable, I’d leave this country.

Those people think being a strongman is all that matters

The people who voted for Trump do not posses the intelligence to understand something like global standing and how it benefits them. They legitimately think the US can just strong-man its way into getting whatever it wants for free because they're just that f****** stupid.

Don’t think they care about global standing. They see a white majority shrinking and want to reverse the tide. That’s the “in group” and core to everything you see.

To be fair (ugh), they don't give a shit about American's standing globally. They're too brain dead to think beyond "we're the best, we shouldn't involve ourselves in any other countries. Except when I feel like it, and then they should all do exactly what I want" And this is literally what Trump does. He's burned down all of our credibility and goodwill and tried to strongarm every ally into doing dumb shit until they've had to publicly stand up to the USA and say "no". Then he throws a tantrum about it.

The people who claw their way to the top are not morons. They are selfish, greedy, manipulative, psychopathic narcissists, but they’re not morons. They just lie about everything which obfuscates their true motives for doing things.

Ha, yeah. There's little strategy and reasoning. It's the perverse feeding, gluttony of a malignant narcissistic ego.

I cant help but think they are all Fox news addicts, and believe the nonsense it peddles. Trump watches it constantly apparently, Hegseth was a presenter, and Noem, Bondi and the rest of that inept mob are surely also addicted to Fox and Twitter. They truly believe that the rest of the world has been taking advantage of the US, rather than the US benefitting from 80 years of building up its hegemony and trading partnerships. They threw it all away because they fell for fake news.

100%. It’s why everything seems bonkers-coocoo lately too. All of these “institutions” are collapsing and *consooming* themselves in almost absurd fashion. Because the inevitable end of taking advantage of people is always consooming your self.

It’s like a private equity firm bought the US!

China learnt it from Valve 😭

That's also how the US and UK started before they became global powers. A country may start this way, but resources are in far flung places with dodgy governments, vulnerable trade routes, nearby geopolitical rivals etc., etc., to secure those suddenly they're being "forced" to project power all over the place.

No question, but China is very uneven. GDP is a measure of consumption, and certain things can maintain quality of life but not increase consumption. For example in China apartments and public transport are more common, which are extremely efficient relative to suburban sprawl and car culture. That drops consumption but maintains standard of living. In China goods and services are also drastically cheaper, making the calculations difficult. I am not arguing that people in China have the same discretionary income as people do in the US. They do not. They probably will not, for various reasons. The gulf in the emerging middle class in urban centers isn’t as different though.

Another way of looking at it is the US would only need to halve its GDP...