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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:44am On May 16
Exactly. Chinese want to live away from China ,yet it's the greatest country to some people herem


raumdeuter:
If given a choice 90% of China will be in America and never go back, how many Americans are dreaming of going to China and never go back

Chinese elites are sponsoring their wives to come and give birth in America, how many American are hustling to get Chinese citizenship

Who wants to live there and get $1 per hour, put 7yr Olds to work. Or critics of the govt disappear like Ali Baba guy

Ask the Moslems Ughyurs in China wetin their eye dey see

You can lie about everything but human traffic will tell the truth

To leftists, Every country is always better than America until its time to leave America and go live in that country permanently
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:35pm On May 15
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bayelsaowei:
Where is the evidence that this man was the organizer?

Has he been indicted and or prosecuted?

But come to think of it.. if you claim DAntuono was the organizer, then it means Trump was the ultimate organizer.. because he was the president of the USA when JAN 6th happened.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:26pm On May 15
Give some examples instead of saying there are glaring

DeepSight:
The prime beneficiary was obviously Trump and that famous photo with the flag and his fist upwards and the three SS agents around him deserves an Oscar Award.

I don't claim to know the ultimate truth about that incident but there are many glaring flags about it that are terribly suspicious. The far future will hopefully unveil the truth.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:37pm On May 15
DeepSight:
If Biden was behind it, they would have had a professional hitman.

How can you be so biased. You can say all this and yet conclude that as massive as Jan 6 was, it was staged by who again?
Ironic how you believe it was staged based on liberal logic .
When presented with who was prime beneficiary, you make up excuses.
Joe Biden didn't say he'd know over the weekend whether to step down depending on what happened then. Biden didn't say he'd put a cross hair over Trump. Jill Biden suddenly didn't get a function in PA ,hogging all available SS agents in PA leaving Trump with local police and his assigned SS agents.

I'm usually very specific with names. Stephen DAntuono the Head FBI Washington DC field office was the organizer.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:13pm On May 15
Staged to kill him by Biden .

DeepSight:
Gosh. You will believe anything.
Yet you cant imagine that anyone believes one assassination attempt on Trump Christ was staged.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:00pm On May 15
bayelsaowei:
You are a very sick person.

You need quick medical attention.
Keep track of this one. You can make a mental note too.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:59pm On May 15
bayelsaowei:
But this BYD has become more profitable in recent times than US vehicles such as FORD, Tesla and on an immense growth trajectory.

And you keep yapping about Chinese government pumping monies. What do you think the US government has done so far so good for its own companies like Tesla both directly and indirectly.. ? Government loans, consumer tax credits to boost demand, state and local incentives, and others..

You yammer here like US companies dont receive huge supports from the US government.
Their vehicles are cheaper for obvious reasons,there may be more.
You may want to find out why ,besides selling Zero (0) Mileage cars as second hand , they also sell carbon credits to their competitors.
EU has imposed aggressive emission standards , gas vehicle manufacturers simply buy catnom credits to offset hefty fines.
BYD sells them the Carbon credits . See how it works.
EU vehicle manufacturers are subsidizing BYD EVs to thanks to climate change nonsense.
Where does BYD get it's Carbon Credits from ? . It only sells EV and plug-in hybrids , when it enters a market and sells a single car it generates zero emission regulatory carbon credits

Some time ago I had done a long post on how to generate Carbon credits in Nigeria.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:52pm On May 15
DeepSight:
Are you seriously suggesting the permanent enslavement of a people?
Nothing like that at all. It's just that you need to liisten to what they say in Arabic if really want to know their end game.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:17pm On May 15
DeepSight:
The thing about freedom is that the cry and passion for it will never die.
The Palestinian freedom is not exactly what you think they want.
One day you'll understand.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:55pm On May 15
Palestinians have lost Iran who used to finance them The middle east countries who could be called upon to reenact the oil embargo are firmly on America side now. The Palestinians are on their own.
Khaled Meshal never lived in Gaza,he and top Hamas political leaders lived as billionaires in Qatar.
Right now Qatar has no time for those Arabs of Gaza who support Iran.
They have no international clout ,they better make a deal now before it's too late. They might have to relocate to Sinai after being declared unfit to live with as neighbors

DeepSight:
It is a vicious cycle. If you cage, imprison, oppress and occupy the land of a people, you have enslaved them. If you have enslaved them, they will continuously fight for their freedom.

Occupied peoples have the right to resist occupation.

And when they fight for freedom, you then call them terrorists and say you have a right to suppress them and cage them.

This will go on forever if you dont free them.

It was the same in South Africa AND that is exactly why that country has a historic empathetic and psychological bond with Palestine.

Needless to say, the oppressors, including the USA and Britain, branded the ANC and Mandela terrorists.
Sound familiar?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:35pm On May 15
When Israel pulled out Gaza then those Arabs there in voted for Hamas,attacks started m When they were not firing rockets they were digging tunnels to infiltrate Israel. They were getting armed by Iran mostly.
The blockade is to prevent arms smuggling shipments by sea. They havea 20 nautical mile range for fishing shrimp ,prawns etc .
On Oct 7 Hamas Seal Team Six infiltrated Israel via the sea.

I'm shocked you didn't know all that .


DeepSight:
I said why must they block them from access to the world by even the sea, which is not owned by Israel?
Why must they block their efforts at international recognition and sovereignty?

Why must they police what and who goes in and out of Gaza, are they slaves?
Why are they expanding settlements in the West Bank?

So long as all this continues, Israel will never know peace.
Free those people, period. They are not your slaves.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:08pm On May 15
Palestinians are just Arabs from the neighbouring nations.They became Palestinians in 1964.



Before 1948 Jews were also Palestinian.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:43pm On May 15
Trump willing to drop $10 B lawsuit for $1.7 Billion to establish a fund for those targeted by Joe Biden.

https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661

I expect the usual suspects to ignore that Joe Biden admin attempted to bankrupt every Trump ally they could not jail.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:33pm On May 15


I've always asked . Why so many liberals support unbridled immigration.
Feeding crocodiles hoping you'll be the last to be eaten.
Benalvino3

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:05pm On May 15
Im very clear I don't support child marriage.
My feeling was that you should not jump to call all epublicans paedophiles for not supporting marriages of 18.
My immediate thoughts on democrats banning that is to immortalize abortions.
My children won't get married before they are 20 ,if they get babies before I'll raise their kids.

I've always said people who are religious are less likely to commit crimes as opposed to those who are not. There are hypocrites of course I refute the statistics put out that there are more republican than democrats who are paedophiles, something you believe.



cococandy:
There’s something seriously wrong with the mindset that somehow tries to justify childhood marriage. The solution to kids having sex is not marriage .

“Oh look a child is engaging in sexual activity before they are mature enough to understand the consequences. Let’s make things worse by forcing them into marriage which further seals their premature sexual behavior and further complicate their lives with all the strains that come with marriage”.

You simply don’t have to respond to everything on this thread. It’s okay to be like “wow that is terrible” and move on. You don’t have to twist yourself into unreasonable shapes in order to find something ridiculous to say.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:23am On May 15
The point I was making is that South Africans have a higher per Capita income than the rest of Africa. A black owned business should thrive better than in other African countries.
South Africans need incentives to grow their own business and stop waiting for " reparations'.
Leadership failure always puts the blame on their colonizers.





tctrills:
Look, anyone who says 30 years is enough to make black South Africa Great and powerful after so many years of bondage may not be honest.
But we are only asking if black South Africa is on the right path.
We are asking about the choices they have made as a people these 30 years of freedom.
30 years is long enough to look back and ask questions.

How come youth unemployment has doubled instead of reduced? How come crime is exploding? How come the economy under the control of blacks is failing everyone?

30 years may not be enough to build the greatest nation on earth but what foundation are they building so far?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:14am On May 15
DeepSight:
Be specific, have you signed the treaty.
I'll abide. Don't take this place too seriously though.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:56am On May 15
No worries.

DeepSight:
Now Know ye all men that this TREATY OF SOBER PEACE AND REASON is herewith signed this 15th day of May 2026 Anno Domini.
Wherefore it is agreed as follows.

1. A serious, balanced sober and rational attempt shall be made to convey points of view on general issues under discussion on this thread.

2. Extremist positions shall be avoided

3. Racist posts, race baiting, race triggering insults, shall be avoided

4. A moratorium on adopted entrenched perceptions of one another being expressed in order to aid focus and reasoning.

5. A commitment to honestly answer simple questions rather than deflect or ignore them.

6. Mutual respect and humility.

7. Discussants shall strive to be studious, thoughtful and scholarly in their output.

This Treaty to remain in force for one week only and if not renewed maximum hostilities of the most childish, irrational and belligerent nature shall at once resume ( . . grin . . )

Who else is amenable to joining this treaty?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:44am On May 15
Once the left gets into power ...

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:42am On May 15
She hates conservatives.

benalvino3:
But I said it. Everyone hate her but she is their leader.

You hate her more than those white people you claimed are racists
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:54am On May 15
I'm.game.
I have some long held positions that I will not change unless I'm really convinced . The same should apply to you.
Shoot.
DeepSight:
Since you said "a penny for your thoughts" I will seize upon this to propose a treaty with you. A treaty of sober peace and reason. Are you open to such a treaty? If so, then we should make efforts to eschew extremist positions and reason as lucidly and objectively as possible, with the openness and humility of mind to concede to superior argument and that which we do not know, and the willingness to change views and adapt. Is this something you can see yourself doing? If it is, then let us begin to reason together under such a treaty. If you are game, I will propose further terms of such a treaty.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:08am On May 15
North Korea trajectory is unlike any other country in modern history The founder is a deity,his son is a deity and the present grandson one is the holy priest.

A contradiction. If a homogeneous society is more likely to develop than one which is not. Why then do you support immigration?

The Uber wealthy in the society ,this is my theory. All get their wealth from the poor downtrodden in the society. Manufactured goods are consumed by the majority of the population. You can extrapolate this to luxury goods. Make money selling Lamborghinis ,your buyers sell indomie, rice ,sugar and toothpaste.

If the white South Africa produce everything, majority of their customers are the black . That's the area govt needs to look at. The mass population is the economic driver.
South Africans have a higher income per Capita than the rest of Africa, they found systems and structures in place . Are they destroying these systems. For example the judiciary.
There is absolutely no reason black owned businesses and should not be doing well.
A penny for your thoughts.
DeepSight:
Apples for apples. Korea didn't have a majority society broken by apartheid. It is literally a small homogenous place

And even then, what about North Korea?

The way people make comparisons are just shocking. Every day I see people use Singapore as an example against Nigeria for example. Singapore is literally one city. Nigeria is a nation cobbled together from over three hundred distinct ethnic groups of very disparate world views.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:50am On May 15
I may be wrong .
Democrats want to ban marriages in total before 18.
We know a lot of teens get children before 18. What happens in such cases. Democrats provide them with abortion options , govt funded abortions.
I may mention religious cultures that betroth their children when young.
Strictly what would encourage paedophilia. Abortions or bans in under 18 marriages.
There are those who insist on their 17 year olds who are already sexually active to get married instead of aborting. Many democrats and republican children are sexually active by 18 , especially those with absentee parents.

Personally I would never let my children get married before at least 20 years. I have said it , reluctantly I would raise any child they bring home, Let's face it , .It's a problem no parent wants to face at all .
I think it's a stretch calling those who voted no paedophiles.

cococandy:
We need to check the hard drives of the 36 republican law makers who voted no.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:35am On May 15
Korea didn't take 30 years to radically develop their country.


DeepSight:
I don't know what to say to them. They literally expect black people to succeed in a vacuum, by that I mean, as though they exist in a state where nothing affects their presents tense from the past. As though they were just dropped from heaven in 1994 without any baggage, without any massive economic and social disadvantage and bias, without any educational, housing bias and expected to succeed immediately even when it took centuries for those they compare them with to achieve what they did.

In the life of a nation thirty years is tiny. Even Nigeria which we condemn so much has had 66 years and that is still tiny in relative terms. Every nation MUST fight it's internal contradictions and even itself out psychology to assert a sense of peaceful identity before it can meaningfully develop. This is a process that took European nations many centuries. In Africa with the forced unities and divisions bestowed by colonialism we are expected to magically arrive at that place of peaceful and patriotic identify over night and copy and paste the progress which took the west centuries of blood.

Of course human societies don't work that way, they are not a sheet of paper which can be photocopied, they are living, energetic things with a psychology with emotions, with biases, with needs of every kind and even with insecurities and weaknesses of course. And when we state the obvious that such requires time to mature, we are badly misquoted as saying that it will take forever, and saying that blacks cannot develop of their own or make and effort or be responsible.

Overall what is most telling in this matter is that consistently, they make excuses for the worst atrocities of white people and jump down on even the most basic and normal facts concerning black people.

It is sheer madness not to know that a traumatized society like black south Africa would require serious time to even out its contradictions and assert itself into growth and development at an event pace.

What sane adult will claim not to know that?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:34am On May 15
I'd consider this as a form of reparations.
Once university staffers get to decide who enrols as a result of their racially acquired Ivy league certificates ,it will take momentous efforts to get rid of the practice.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-investigation-determines-yales-medical-school-discriminated-based-race


Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has completed a year-long investigation into the admissions policies and practices at the Yale School of Medicine.

Yale’s documents show that its leadership intentionally selected applicants based on their race. Yale’s documents reveal that they studied how to use racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using race to select students. Yale’s admissions data demonstrate that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to Yale than White or Asian students with the same test scores.

“Yale has continued its race-based admissions program despite the Supreme Court and the public’s clear mandate for reform.” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:00am On May 15
In the United Kingdom, fewer than 1% of the population owns approximately 50% of the land, while in the United States, the top 1% of households own roughly 40% of the total land value. Though America is much larger .


If all white South Africams gave Africans their land ,South Africa GDP per Capita would approach EU countries?

GracieX3:
Lol......
1. apartheid lasted 42 years (1948 to 1990) far longer than the 30 years that you expect free blacks to do miracles.

2. The effects of apartheid are still felt today. Just imagine the fact that whites own 72% of individually owned farmland.

3. Even the world bank points out the income disparity amongst racial lines. This is a legacy of segregation.


As usual, you expect blacks to excell in hardship and never blame whites for their enjoyment of blood money.
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:52am On May 15
Depends on when one saw the light and I don't mean getting filled with the spirit.
Everyone has a past .

cococandy:
What do you call a man who argues for conservatism aka the party of “family values”, criticizes black men for not being in their children’s lives, yet is buddy buddy with a man who does exactly what he pretends to be against?

And is himself unsure if he has any kids loitering around somewhere in the world that he may be unaware of? A prudent man would ensure he doesn’t engage in relationships that might lead to such situations if he’s indeed sincere about holding such values.

You guys are walking talking bill boards of hypocrisy and contradiction.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:28am On May 14
Deepsight and Co.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-670dd7ed241e22c52bd16e82a9febf69
The payment of $83 million to E Jean Carroll is blocked depending on whether SCOTUS will take up the case. I hope it does .

In the case and subsequent appeals most judges were appointed by Democrat presidents.

Lewis A. Kaplan . Presided over both main civil trials and key rulings. Appointed by President Bill Clinton (1994).

**Magistrate Judge (S.D.N.Y.) James L. Cott: Handled some preliminary or discovery matters. Magistrate judges are appointed by the district court (not by the President).

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Appellate Panels)
Key judges from panels that heard appeals (panels typically consist of 3 judges; multiple panels involved across cases):
1.Denny Chin: Appointed by President Barack Obama
2. Susan Carney: Appointed by President Barack Obama.
3. Myrna Pérez: Appointed by President Joe Biden.
4.Sarah A.L. Merriam: Appointed by President Joe Biden
Maria Araújo Kahn: Appointed by President Joe Biden.

Other judges involved in en banc proceedings or dissents/concurrences (full court review requests):
Steven Menashi and Michael H. Park (dissented on some en banc denials): Appointed by President Donald Trump.

Debra Ann Livingston (Chief Judge, partial involvement): Appointed by President George W. Bush.

Additional Biden appointees (e.g., Beth Robinson) joined concurrences on en banc denials.


U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Appellate Panels)

had 7 judges appointed by Democrats vs 6 by Republicans.
Cases emanating from New York against Trump are still stalled or denied.
The democrat judges at the appeal blocked the en banc review of the case.
The case was an injustice.
Cococandy.
Democrat framed him in order to tag him a rapist.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:48am On May 14
Exactly..China has been having 3-4 mbpd of discounted oil every day. Saves them roughly $40-50 million a day .

benalvino3:
They don't understand that actions speak louder than words. Trump has killed every avenue China gets cheap energy from, and Ukraine is decimating Russian energy exports.

The Chinese economy is in a shock-hold.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:45am On May 14
The reception given to Obama was utterly disrespectful. Any other person would have gotten back into the plane and flown back.

benalvino3:
How they welcomed a weak leader.

Trump is respected compared to Obama



Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:38am On May 14
GracieX3:
That Iran is backing Hamas, how is that USAs problem? Other presidents after Bush were smart enough not to fight Israels war. Why must Trump do so.

Trump has not proven in court that the elections were stolen. Even so, lawlessness is not corrected by lawlessness. No legal justification for a 3rd term
You are utterly ignorant about Iran frequent attacks on America and it's interests. Totally ignorant

About elections, let's believe he will never prove it was stolen. I'm not an investigator, I read the signs like an astrologer and the Zodiacs are lining up .

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