A woke reader was upset at my tongue-in-cheek translation of the Chinese logograms for Biden … and sent the following actual translation for the three symbols for Trump:
Special, unique, distinguished
Clear, bright, distinct
Universal, general, widespread
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China’s Belt and Road initiative is out to own the world. It lends countries and companies money at exorbitant rates … then when default occurs, China owns them.
This strategy is especially directed toward Africa where China is in a neo-colonalistic grab for Its vast spread of natural resources.
So, how does the Biden administration counter this very serious strategic threat? Why, they have sent Kamala Harris, being a WOC, on a nine day African tour … see: BBC story … to teach them about Venn diagrams and the proper use of pronouns.
China is quaking in its tai chis.
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Above are the Mandarin Chinese logograms for the word “Biden.”
These two characters originally represented someone stabbing an opponent … and an open purse spilling out a flood of money.
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The answer: Pile driver
The question: What is the name of the drink made with vodka and prune juice?
(Admittedly, an old joke.)
SIT DOWN FOR PRUNE JUICE!
The campaign to save TIKTOK has been years in the making
Russia detains WSJ reporter, alleging espionage, the Journal demands his release
Marathon [NYC] Trump grand jury to recess for a month
Poll: Majority oppose laws restricting drag …
United Kingdom goes light-touch on A.I. as Elon Musk sounds the alarm
EU regulators distance themselves from Credit Suisse bond write downs
Biden laughs when he is asked if he believes Christians were targeted in Nashville shooting
Nashville shooter texted friend: ‘I’m planning to die today’
Fox poll shows Trump’s lead over DeSantis is growing
Several deaths reported after two Blackhawk helicopters crash in Kentucky
Soros invests $1 million backing leftist Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate
Pope hospitalized for Easter? Difficulty breathing …
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has crossed the Rubicon and persuaded a Grand Juty to indict ex-President Trump for yet-unknown reasons … a historic moment. IMHO an attempt to goad the right into a violent reaction.
Now is the moment for all Americans to either stand with Bragg/Biden/Obama or with Trump … no other choice … doesn’t mean you want his re-election … bit there is no going back. A decision of a lifetime … hopefully a peacefully measured but consequential one.
How about it Pilgrim?
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Afterward — see: A good lawyer’s opinion.
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European Union chiefs flew to U.N. climate talks in private jet
Russia flexes its muscle with intercontinental ballistic missiles; Kyiv waits for call from China’s Xi
House Republicans to subpoena Antony Blinken to turn over classified cables on disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal
Trans movement pushed hostile rhetoric in lead up to school shooting
Video shows guards walking away during fire that killed 38 at migrant detention facility
Lucid to cut 1,300 workers amid flagging demand for its EV
Manhattan DA Bragg’s chief prosecutor said criminals ‘aren’t bad dudes’
Christie the Don slayer? Downloads on the Don …
Garland looks to hand off security duty for SupremeCourt justices
Dominion wants Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, other FoxNews hosts to testify at trial
White House slams McCarthy’s call for jumpstarting talks on debt ceiling
American tourist shot at resort in Puerto Rico …
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Pilgrim, the real menace from the A.I. tools …like ChatGPT … is that they are subjectivity masquerading as objectivity. Don’t be fooled by the hype. — Fletcher
We have seen in the last twenty years how the tech giants have manipulated search engines, social media, news feeds and jiggered still and even moving images effectively to push their special agendas. We all sense how we have been so abused.
The advent of “A.I.” and the faith that the general public will be putting in this technology … will only compound the power of its purveyors … for good or evil. But, I can only extrapolate from experience that it will mostly be the latter.
No, this flavor of A.I. by itself won’t destroy us … but its deity-like creators and overseers might.
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Good Policies … Good Personality: Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good Policies … Poor Personality: Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman
Poor Policies … Good Personality Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Poor Policies … Poor Personality: Joe Biden. Lyndon B. Johnson
Afterward: Yes, historians have studied these men more than I … but, unlike most of them, I have lived under all these presidents.
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U.S. wants allies to line up against China. Europe is starting to listen.
Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares pop 7%
Suspected shooter in Christian Nashville school identified as 28-year-old transgender ‘male’
Elizabeth Warren announces bid for third Senate term
California Democrats pass Newsom’s proposal that could penalize oil company profits
Elon Musk says only verified users will show up in Twitter’s recommendation feed in further shakeup
Biden begins comments on Nashville school shooting by joking about ice cream
France braces for violence … Pension reform … Macron defiant …
Former National Enquirer publisher testifies before Trump grand jury
German and British tanks show up in Ukraine; Russia fires supersonic missile off Japan’s coast
House Republicans say SVB bank rescue shouldn’t benefit China
IRS makes strange house call on Matt Taibbi …
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I’ve never had an expensive Starbucks coffee, with any fu-fu name, any silly size, any woke flavor, any calorie-cheating topping ,,,
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My granddaughters are visiting a German concentration camp in Poland today. I intend to show them this picture when they get back to the USA. — Fletcher
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It is obvious to me why this is happening … we’ve had it too good for too long. Biden is doing his best to fix this!
“It matters not if China runs the world … as long as I can make more and keep my money.” — Typical American Plutocrat
We have damn few American patriotic plutocrats besides Elon Musk. — Fletcher
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If everyone was of a like mind, then let us hope it’s not Joe Biden’s!
VIVA LA DIFFERENCE!
German Christian Democrats rewrite Merkel’s China playbook
First Citizens to buy large chunk of failed Silicon Valley Bank
Biden FAA nominee who struggled to answer basic questions withdraws after Sen. Sinema voices opposition
Hawley unveils ‘Worker’s Agenda’ to end U.S. free trade with China
Daunting recovery underway in tornado-devastated Mississippi
Russia stirs outrage with plan for tactical nukes in Belarus; Ukraine town ‘post-apocalyptic’
James O’Keene suggests he has insiders on Trump grand jury
Nugent attacks Zelensky as ‘homosexual weirdo’ …
Netanyahu fires defense minister, sparking mass protests in Israel
Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.
Nearly 100 of The Babylon Bee’s joke stories have now come true
Poll: Americans pull back from values that once defined USA … patriotism, religion and hard work less important …
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President Biden came to the White House Bruefing Room shortly after the horrific shooting in Nashville where 3 adults and 3 children were killed. Instead of offering his condolences, he started making jokes about ice cream and his marriage.
These inappropriate comments got laughs from the room full of stenographers so, taking his leash, Biden decided to light some farts.
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Like in Germany (and some other countries), could the woke United States ever have a political party called the “Christian Democrats?”
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The Democrats are driving the wrong way on just about every roadway … energy independence, China’s new world order, guarding our borders, climate science, crime prevention, economic growth, fiscal sanity, forest and water management, race relations, free speech, deep state corruption, the Second Amendment, the woke agenda … you finish the list Pilgrim … there are too many more of these screwups!
Can our Libs no longer read the obvious road signs?
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I like Mike Pompeo. I like Ron DeSantis. I like Marco Rubio. I like Donald Trump. All for different reasons.
But a caller to the Dan Bongino show last Friday made an interesting point … if you think that the deep state is a bigger threat than China, Russia, Iran or North Korea, then the only possible president … who has a chance of draining the swamp … because he has been up to his neck in it for the past seven years … and knows who and where the creatures are … is the Orangeman.
(And a lot of protected civil servants may end up working in Nome, Alaska!)
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Believing what John Kerry asserts about global warming is akin to asking him how to milk a cow or change a tire. — Fletcher
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Trump’s first ‘24 rally has a familiar feel: anger and attacks on his tormentors
Deposit drain from smaller banks into financial giants like JP Morgan Chase has slowed, sources say
At least 25 killed as tornado rips through Mississippi
U.N. accuses both Russia and Ukraine of potential war crimes
Israeli defense minister calls for a halt to judicial overhaul
U.S. is considering more support for banks while giving First Republic time to shore up its balance sheet
Even disgraced creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti raises doubt about Trump indictment
Ex-NYC judge moonlighting as porn star …
Reports: Putin says Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus
Awaiting possible indictment, Trump rallies in Waco and vows to ‘destroy the deep state’
Where the heck is John Fetterman?
Bolsonaro return poses risks for former president — and Brazil …
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Paraphrasing Dean Wormer in “AnImal House”:
“Joey, stupid, senile and corrupt is no way to run a country!”
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Much of my family is in Gdańsk, Poland where they saw a hopeful sign for developments in that region.
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The anticipated grand jury indictment of Donald Trump is just one more in a series of relentless attempts to neutralize him … see: Red Herrings … which I compare to virtual assassination attempts … if you will.
Or, as I heard a conservative radio commentator say recently, with a modicum more discretion — trying to put Trump’s head on the trophy wall.
Afterward: Dan Bongino, who was a former Secret Service agent, is very concerned about an actual assassination attempt on Trump.
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How many trans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
At least two, since “they” do it ,,,
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Trump screams into void as Manhattan DA probe goes quiet
Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from banks; officials call system ‘sound and resilient’
Blue states side with Mexico in anti-gun lawsuit
Trump warns of ‘death and distrustion’ if charged
McCarthy calls Parents’ Bull of Rights a ‘win’ for America
Biden says federal deposit insurance could be tapped further if banks fail
Crazy Nancy lashes out at Archbishop who won’t let her take communion
Death threat: White powder mailed to Alvin Bragg’s office
Jeffries: Trump’s Truth Social posts could ‘get someone killed’
Apple CEO Tim Cook praises China’s innovation, long history of cooperation on Beijing visit
Biden’s federal vaccine mandate blocked by same federal appeals court that first upheld it
Psycho Don! Threatens Manhattan District Attorney … Deletes …
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Being text based, Pilgrim, I wonder how ChatGPT works, if at all, with Chinese logograms?
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Perhaps a bit of residual autism … an inability to read social cues … that has plagued him his entire life.
Certainly, anger brought on by the constant onslaught by his enemies trying to destroy him by any means, legal or often illegal.
And clearly his oversized ego also played a factor too … in Donald Trump’s lashing out on social media at DA Alvin Bragg for his obvious extra-judicial persecution in search of a grand jury prosecution of our ex-president.
It might even be a taunt trying to goad Bragg into even more irrationality in what Trump wants to be a handcuffed arrest that will outrage his base.
Probably all four caused Trump to issue an all-to-obvious juxtaposed-imaged threat to bash Bragg in the head with a baseball bat … which caused leagions of pearl-clutches to predict his certain and final political demise.
Trump did take down this taunt … but not before the damage was done. This image will be justification for even greater polarization of the American public into the Trump bifurcation … a plot for a Greek tragedy.
The rub is: neither I nor any of you Pilgrims really yet know who will prevail in this melodrama.
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No wonder the Donner party was reduced to cannibalism … or were things a little less severely cold back then?
Afterward: Admittedly anecdotal … but isn’t most of the touted evidence for global warming also anecdotal?
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The surreal post-Trump embrace of Mark Milley
Deutsche Bank shares slides 13% after sudden spike in the cost of insuring against its default
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Chip Roy introduce bill to eliminate Dr. Fauci’s NIAID
Biden admin spins China-Russia ‘marriage’ as good for USA
Drone strike kills U.S. contractor in Syria; U.S. retaliates
Russian strikes overnight kill civilians; Estonia calls China peace plan ‘extremely unfair’
TIKTOK CEO grilled on Capitol Hill
Grand jury drama continues … another witness …
Florida Republicans hand DeSantis first major legislative win
Yellen says Treasury is ready to take ‘additional actions’ if warranted’ to stabilize banks
Sec of State Blinken admits Americans still detained by Taliban nearly two years after withdrawal
Utah first state to require parental consent for socials …
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18% of Americans felt in 2008 … before Obama was elected … that we had a serious problem with racism. Today, 15 years years later … over 10 of which have been under the wing of the Democrat party … the number is 73%.
Can someone tell me why?
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Are President Biden, his administration, much of the media, our higher education system, the entertainment industry and most of the Democratic Party … purposely trying to destroy America?
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And steaming! An anomous phantom deposited a pile of poo near Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at their Broadway show … so appropriately named. See: Business Insider.
That person deserves a Tony for Staging! (Maybe Harvey Weinstein’s spirit?)
Afterward:
Violets are blue,
Roses are red.
Bill’s up in Chappaqua
Getting some head.
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Arizona court declines most of Kari Lake’s appeal over governor’s race
Ford’s EV business lost $2 billion in 2022, offset by big profits in fleet and legacy units
Federal Reserve hikes rates 0.25%, forecasts just one more rate hike this year
Poll, Trump sees another boost amid rumors of looming arrest
The end of Boris Johnson …
Yellen’s comments rattled the market, not the Fed rate hike, Jim Cramer says
Biden admin spending $130k per day to store unused border wall panels after halting construction
Trump grand jury reconvenes … Mystery surrounds indictment …
It’s not just TIKTOK, French warn against WhatsApp, Instagram
European lawmakers are quietly miffed at U.S. regulators over SVB collapse
Dershowitz: ‘Game changer’ Robert Costello testimony may have sunk Manhattan DA’s case against Trump
Showdown: Disney to hold big LGBTQ event in Orlando …
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Here are the amount of times devoted to two news stories on this past Sunday’s talk shows:
Impending Trump indictment
and arrest: Over 44 minutes
China energy company’s
million dollar payment to
4 members of the Biden family: Zero minutes
Afterward: Chris Plante calls it information dominance.
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Powerline has published a dubbed version of an old Mont Python skit that is worth a laugh. It makes fun of Alvin Bragg and his attempted takedown of Trump. If you do nothing else, just watch this video in Monty Python on Trump .
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“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin
Presidents Putin and Zelensky could not possibly oversee up-close the killing of tens of thousands of their soldiers who have been slaughtered on the battlefields of Ukraine … their moral revulsion would prohibit it … even Putin.
Yet, from afar, they can send them to the grave using justifications that are most important to them and those sitting in relative safety around them. Thus is the bothersome truth of kinetic conflict.
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National Republicans are looking for candidates who are filthy rich
Fed hikes rates by a quarter percentage point, indicates increases are near an end
CNN has smallest weekly prime time audience in key demo in over 30 years
Moody’s warning: Another year of economic woes
DeSantis dismisses Trump nicknames, ‘Call me a winner’
JP Morgan Chase buys data platform for startups in push to serve venture capital
Study finds Red States use taxpayer funds more effectively, provide superior services
More storms slam Cali … Winds 118 mph!
Trump denounces ‘crime-fraud’ ruling forcing attorney to testify in documents probe
DirectTV reaches deal to distribute right wing network Newsmax after long dispute
Sen. Rand Paul calls for jailing DA Bragg for abuse of power
Grand jury told to stay home today …
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Contrary to that old adage … a DA can get a grand jury to induct a ham sandwich … Alvin Bragg has run into a grand jury that may be bailking at indicting Donald Trump … particularly after they found out that Bragg has withheld substantial exculpatory evidence from them.
Stay tuned Pilgrim. This is getting interesting.
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