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August 26, 2023

Trump campaign promotes mug shot shirts, mugs and other merchandise

Not two hours after former President Donald Trump left the Fulton County, Georgia, jail, his joint fundraising committee was already selling merchandise featuring his booking photo.

The former president left the Fulton County Jail at 7:55 p.m. Thursday, and for the first time in his four indictments on felony charges, authorities took — and released — Trump's mug shot. By 9:22 p.m., the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee was selling T-shirts, mugs, beverage coolers, bumper stickers and other merchandise with Trump's face and the words "never surrender."

The mug shot products range from $12 for a bumper sticker to $36 for long-sleeve T-shirts.

The former president is also fundraising off his latest surrender. In a fundraising email, Trump said he "walked into the lion's den with one simple message on behalf of our entire movement: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER OUR MISSION TO SAVE AMERICA."



https://www.aol.com/trump-campaign-promotes-mug-shot-143800324.html


And the grift continues.
August 23, 2023

我宁愿在宝马里哭,也不愿在自行车上笑。

The above translates as "I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle." This right here explains dating and relationships in modern CCP China.

Love is a commodity. If you ask a girl (Chinese women like being called girls. To them, a woman is old and marriage with children, or a "leftover woman," which is an unmarried woman over 35 years old) out on a date, the first question she will ask will be "how much will you give me?"

Money is now the God in Communist China. It is worshiped here. I can't blame women here. . .men here think the more money they give to a woman, the more she will "love" him. Relationships are built on materialism and greed. Even marriages have a "bride price," because, as her parents will say "you are taking our daughter away from us and we're getting nothing for it?"

Communist China, thanks do the greed of the CCP, has turned in the 1980s "what's in it for me" generation and put it on cocaine and growth hormone.

"Let's out out for coffee."
"How much will you give me? You just want free things from me."

"Let's get dinner."
"Give me 红包 (red envelope) and I will. That will prove you're a good man."

Since talking face to face with people here is dead (because they have been indoctrinated that strangers, especially foreigners, are dangerous), the only interaction you have 90% of the time is through online methods (陌陌,探探,微信,etc [momo, tantan, wechat, etc]), it will take between 5-10 minutes before the "give me red envelope" statement comes.

I know this because I have these interactions even though I am married. When I add people, it's research for a screenplay about relationships I am going to write. When they add me, it's "you're so handsome. I like you. Give me money and I'll come find you." Of course, I respond by saying "I'm married" or "are you a hooker." The former will get "but I'm prettier" and the latter will get "no, I'm not. I just love money." When I tell them to go marry a bank, they call me 小气 (stingy), insult my manhood, tell me to get out of China, and then block and delete me.

I will repeat! DO NOT COME TO CHINA!!! You are not welcome here. Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam are much better places to do. Avoid Singapore too. And avoid Maledives. It is illegal in Maledvies for one of their citizens to even speak to a foreigner unless it is a business transaction.

August 22, 2023

Update on my wife and her Green Card - Documentarily Qualified

After five rejections by the NVC, she is now Documentarily Qualified, meaning the NVC and the consulate in Guangzhou are setting up a time and date for her IV interview.

Big hurdle overcome.

The rest is almost automatic now. She needs to prove in the interview that we are legitimately married and that she is going to move to the US permanently, which is a much lower bar than an NIV, which the applicant has to prove they aren't staying the US.

The physical will be easy as she is clean.

After that, the visa is issued. When we come back, we give the visa packet to the CBP officer at the port of entry. She is allowed into the country, and six weeks later, she gets her SSN and her actual 10 year green card.

August 21, 2023

洋垃圾。滚开。中国人讨厌你。回去你国家。

It isn't even 11:30AM here and on my wechat, I've gotten this message from ten people that want to add me:

“洋垃圾。滚开。中国人讨厌你。回去你国家。”

For those that don't speak Chinese, allow me to translate:

"Foreign garbage. Get the fuck out. Chinese people hate you. Go back to your country."

This is what Winnie the Flu has created.

The only differences between Mein Kampf and Xi Jinping Thought are the picture on the front and the language between the covers.

The Chinese communist party have gone full on Nazi.

On the street, I hear 洋垃圾, 白皮猪, 蠻子, and 洋鬼子 all the time. Amazing how people will say the nastiest, most racist things you can imagine when they convince themselves you're too stupid to understand their language, even though I speak it fluently.

I'll translate: Foreign trash, white skinned pig, foreign barbarian, and foreign devil.

DON'T FUCKING COME TO CHINA UNTIL WINNIE THE FLU IS DEAD! You are not welcome here.

August 17, 2023

The Pledge to the Flag is bullcrap. Line by line analysis.

I hate the pledge. Haven't said it since I was in 8th grade. Didn't force my students to say it. Didn't even stand for it. Didn't tell my students in the US to stand for it. WV v. Barnette and Tinker V. Des Moines says students don't need to and can silently protest.

Let's look at the brainwashing crap of The Pledge, followed by a Pledge I believe is more acceptable but still shouldn't be said.

Swear word warning. . .this will sound like a George Carlin-type rant.

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
First of all, I have to ask what the hell does this mean? I'm pledging myself to a flag? A fucking flag? It's a red white and blue piece of cloth. Guess what. . .so are my pants. And my underwear. Well, I wear boxers, but I have no problems having people say "I pledge allegiance to my boxer shorts." Especially if they are pretty women. Pledge all you want.

And don't give me that weak shit "well, it means that you pledge to the ideals the flag represents. Oh, that's nice. Why not say that instead? I pledge allegiance for the ideals that the flag of the United States represents. It doesn't say that. Stop implying shit to confirm nationalism ego bias.

And what ideals do we mean? Of course, the good ones. Racism, slavery, sexism, genocide of native American, discrimination, homophobia, xenophobia, islamophobia. . .as Rage Against the Machine stated, all of which are American Dreams. You want to know about the great ideals of the US. . .ask a Native American, if you can find one. We make them a bit scarce. Want current data? Ask a random black family if they feel the "ideals" of the United States.

And do the Republic for which it stands.

So, the country is an afterthought. The flag is what you pledge to and the country is second. It's like that duty, honor, country pledge in the armed forces. The country is THIRD! IT SHOULD BE FIRST! I pledge allegiance to the United States and the flag that represents it sound so much better. At least I'm not pledging to a fucking piece of cloth.

One Nation

With all due respect, the Civil War proved that is horse shit. And Texas still wants to secede. And Republicans want to bring back nullification which was part of the path to the Civil War. We aren't one nation. They only time we're one nation is when someone attacks us or there is a national tragedy. Remember a time when it didn't take a catastrophe to bring us all together as a nation? Guess what? Neither can I.

Under God

This wasn't even in the original pledge. It was added in 1954 to show the Sky Daddy loved "freedom loving" US and not Godless Communism. Even though we didn't give a rat's ass about freedom. Look at the people we supported during the Cold War:
Papa Doc
Rhee Syngmun
Suharto
Sukarno
Ferdinand Marcos
PW Boltha
Ngo Dinh Diem
Shah of Iran
Batista
Francisco Franco
Baby Doc
Saddam Hussein (until we didn't)
Chiang Kai Shek (who brutalized native Formosa)
Pinochet
Noriega
Guatemalan Death Squads
Daniel Ortega


We didn't give a shit about freedom. All we cared about is that you weren't a Communist. IF you slaughtered people, that's the price of doing business.

With liberty and justice for all.. . .that aren't minorities or can afford it. This last line is infuriating.
If you want know about this, go to wikipedia, go to the search bar, type in Japanese American 1942 and you'll learn all about liberty and justice for all. Just when they needed their rights, the government took them away. The only right they had: RIGHT THIS WAY, into the concentration camp.

Native Americans weren't full American citizens until 1978.
Black people weren't people until 1865.
Women couldn't vote until 1920.
And you were old enough to kill but not vote until 1972.
Interracial marriage was outlawed until 1967.
Our Apartheid lasted until 1954.
The Chinese were denied immigration rights from 1881 to 1943
Jesse Washington's killers still haven't been brought to justice
The Tulsa Race Riot is still ignored
Sand Creek is still called a battle
Little Big Horn is still called a massacre


Now, let's try it again.

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of American and the country it created, conceived in liberty, dedicated to establishing equality for all within its borders.

I still have issues with it, but at least I'm not pledging to a fucking piece of cloth.

August 17, 2023

Trump enjoys strong support among Republicans. The general election could be a different story

Source: AP via AOL News

After every new indictment, Donald Trump has boasted that his standing among Republicans only improves — and he has a point.

Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 63% — now say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's up slightly from the 55% who said the same in April when Trump began facing a series of criminal charges. Seven in 10 Republicans now have a favorable opinion of Trump, an uptick from the 60% who said so two months ago.

But in a crucial warning sign for the former president and his supporters, Trump faces glaring vulnerabilities heading into a general election, with many Americans strongly dug in against him. While most Republicans — 74% — say they would support him in November 2024, 53% of Americans say they would definitely not support him if he is the nominee. Another 11% say they would probably not support him in November 2024.

The findings bolster the arguments of some of Trump's rivals for the Republican nomination who laud his tenure as president, but warn that he can't win in a general election when he must compete for votes beyond the GOP base. Trump lost the popular vote in the 2016 campaign, attaining the presidency only by winning a majority in the Electoral College. He lost to Democrat Joe Biden by an even larger 7 million-vote margin in 2020, a defeat he has falsely attributed to widespread voter fraud.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-enjoys-strong-support-among-040345844.html



Republicans aren't a political party. . .they are a hate group.

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Name: Aram Katz
Gender: Male
Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
Member since: Tue Mar 23, 2021, 11:44 AM
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Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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