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My #Tedtalk speech about #China is now live on #YouTube š In this speech I share 5 life lessons I learned from living in China for 10 years. My was a speech given to a group of young adults to help inspire them!
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Between 1998 and 2021, China experienced the biggest property boom in history.
Hundreds of millions of people moved into modern, spacious urban housing, millions of construction and manufacturing jobs were created, and in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, property prices multiplied several times over.
At its peak, in the third quarter of 2021, Chinaās Real Residential Property Prices Index reached 113 points.
But then, seemingly, everything changed.
The story of Chinaās supposed ātotal collapseā has been told a thousand times. So I wonāt repeat it. Instead, let's examine a deeper question:
Did China ever experience a true meltdown at all?
Property prices fell, and yes, some of the damage that followed was real. But at the same time, the rest of Chinaās economy kept moving.
Real GDP has grown every year since 2022, including 5% in 2025.
Chinese AI labs are producing models that easily compete with American ones at a fraction of the cost.
China leads the world in electric vehicles, batteries, and solar.
That doesnāt look like an economy that just went through what hedge fund manager Kyle Bass called āthe US financial crisis on steroids.ā
Western analysts, like Kyle, often miss two important nuances in this story: perspective and policy and I break down what REALLY happened in China's real estate industry in my latest article:
cyrusjanssen.substack.com/p/ā¦
No wonder the United States continues
to make idiotic foreign policy decisions.
If US government officials are ābriefingā comedians on Iran, then we are completely screwed in this conflict š
You canāt make up how ridiculous this sounds
This is genuinely hilarious. Robin has been preaching for months that the United States has effectively won the war and the Iranian regime is on its last legs with very little chance of survival
Have we not learned anything about Iran over the past 8 months? Trump didnāt lose the midterms because of his decision to attack Iran. Trump lost the midterms because of Iranās ability to fight back
Robin now pivots and says the US should just cut its losses and pull out, and ājust let the Gulf countries figure it outā.
You just canāt make up how ridiculous this pivot is. Once again Iran is NOT Venezuela and everyone who has underestimated Iranās ability to survive has been completely flawed in their analysis
It's time to cut our losses on Iran. Even the efficacy of the blockade is fading, because Iran now see the light at the end of the tunnel. There's no need for a peace deal to reopen the SoH. The Gulf countries can figure that out. We should just walk away.
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/ā¦
The entire world is celebrating the official end of MAGA and its remarkable how wrong the āexpertsā from the right were on these indeterminate elections. It doesnāt take a genius to predict Trump would get steamrolled in the elections.
But Democrats canāt be complacent. Donāt screw this up! They have to start delivering to the American people and not just focus on impeaching Trump. Trump is politically dead. He is now a lame duck and the MAGA movement is over. This is a win for the entire world
Your belief that Trumpās war on Iran was some brilliant strategy to contain China shows how little you understand about geopolitics. Letās break this down š
1. IRAN: Who actually depends on whom?
You correctly point out that China purchases the overwhelming majority of Iranās exported oil.
But youāve conveniently ignored the most important question: How much does China actually depend on Iran?
Iran accounts for roughly 7% of Chinaās crude oil imports.
Think about that. China is absolutely critical to Iranās oil industry. But Iran is NOT critical to Chinaās energy security.
Thereās a massive difference.
And hereās what you completely missed.
For years, China has been systematically building enormous strategic and commercial oil stockpiles, taking advantage of discounted Russian and Iranian crude while Washington pursued sanctions and confrontation.
China was preparing for precisely the kind of energy crisis that Trumpās war unleashed.
And when the crisis arrived, China had the flexibility to reduce imports and rely more heavily on its inventories, potentially easing competition for scarce oil supplies.
Rather than bringing China to its knees, Washington demonstrated exactly why Beijing has spent years preparing for American geopolitical instability.
2. VENEZUELA: Another spectacular American failure.
You seriously believe Venezuela was some brilliant strategic move to cut off Chinaās energy supplies?
Give me a break.
Venezuelaās oil infrastructure has suffered from decades of underinvestment and deterioration. Restoring large-scale production requires enormous capital, technical expertise, and years of investment.
Who exactly is going to pay for that?
American oil companies? With Trumpās political future increasingly uncertain and no guarantee of long-term stability?
Good luck.
And letās not forget how Washington sold its intervention to the American public: democracy, freedom, and helping the Venezuelan people.
Now youāre telling us it was actually about denying China access to oil?
3. GREENLAND: Perhaps your weakest argument of all.
The idea that America needed to seize Greenland to prevent China or Russia from taking control is absurd.
Greenlandās mineral resources are real. But having minerals buried underground and possessing the infrastructure, economics, and technical capabilities to extract and process them are two completely different things.
Greenland faces extraordinary logistical challenges, limited infrastructure, harsh environmental conditions, and enormous development costs.
Meanwhile, China spent DECADES building the worldās most sophisticated rare-earth processing ecosystem.
You donāt magically recreate that industrial capacity by planting an American flag on Greenland.
And you certainly donāt solve Americaās decades-long industrial decline by threatening the territory of a NATO ally.
HEREāS THE BIGGER PICTURE.
You think Trump is playing some brilliant geopolitical chess game against China.
I would argue the exact opposite.
His war on Iran was one of the greatest strategic gifts Washington could have handed Beijing.
It exposed Americaās willingness to destabilize global energy markets, undermined confidence in American leadership, and gave countries another reason to diversify their economic and diplomatic relationships.
Meanwhile, China continues investing in infrastructure, manufacturing, energy security, and long-term industrial capacity.
Thatās the fundamental difference.
China is planning for the next 20 years while Washington keeps creating the next crisis.
And now American voters are delivering their verdict on Trumpās leadership.
You call this āAmerica First.ā
I call it a spectacular misunderstanding of how geopolitical power actually works.
You donāt defeat China by destroying other countries. You compete with China by rebuilding your own.
And until Washington understands that distinction, Beijing will keep benefiting from Americaās strategic mistakes.
I've always liked you, Matt, but as a Korean, in a country where China's influence runs deep, I find this point very disturbing.
āPointless war"? Follow the oil.
China buys more than 80% of Iran's shipped oil.
That's 1.38 million barrels a day in 2025, per Kpler.
Nearly every barrel Tehran sells under sanctions goes to Beijing.
Add Venezuela.
More than half of its oil exports went to China too.
Together, Iran and Venezuela supplied about 15-17% of China's crude imports.
Much of it was cheap, sanctioned oil, relabeled "Malaysian" to hide where it came from.
Now Greenland.
China controls about 60% of the world's rare earth mining and over 90% of the processing.
Those minerals go into missiles, fighter jets, EVs and chips. Greenland sits on the Arctic shipping routes Beijing calls the "Polar Silk Road."
So what connects Iran, Venezuela and Greenland?
They're three pillars of China's cheap energy and supply chain. Cut them and you raise the cost of Beijing's military buildup without firing a shot at China.
That is America First.
China is the only rival big enough to replace the U.S.
Letting it fuel up on discount oil from America's enemies is not "restraint."
It's surrender on the installment plan.
Gas prices hurt.
I get it.
But if Beijing runs the world's energy and minerals, groceries won't be the worst thing you can't afford.
Think one move ahead.
Yesterday, Donald Trump asked the American people āto pretend that Iām on the ballot.ā
It looks like the American voters did exactly that š
Tremendous victory for the Democrats tonight.
Turns out letting the President make billions through corruption, funding endless wars in the Middle East, letting Israel dictate our foreign policy, and starting an idiotic tariff war are NOT what Americans want
Absolutely embarrassing for Trump and the Republicansā¦they controlled the Presidency, House and Senate and failed completely
Turns out Americans donāt want to fund wars in Iran, give billions to Israel, and donāt want their President making billions off corruption
āChina doesn't have elections! Every Election Day proves America is better than China!ā
Does holding elections automatically make the United States a better country than China? I don't believe so. And today's midterm elections are a perfect example of whyš
Today, millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote. If Democrats win both the House and Senate, they'll control Congress and have the power to block much of Trump's legislative agenda for the next two years.
But think about the incredible irony here.
For millions of Americans, the BEST possible outcome of this election is simply preventing the other side from accomplishing anything.
That's it.
Not building better infrastructure. Not improving healthcare. Not investing in education. Not fixing America's crumbling public transportation systems.
Just stopping the other party.
We've reached a point where political gridlock is celebrated as a victory.
And somehow, we're supposed to believe this automatically makes our political system superior to China's?
Let's look at the other side.
China doesn't have competitive national elections where citizens can vote the Communist Party out of power. That's a fact. China is governed by the CPC, although eight other legally recognized political parties also exist.
But here's the fundamental difference I see between these two systems:
In America, you CAN change the party, but you often CAN'T change the policy.
In China, you CAN'T change the ruling party, but you CAN change the policy.
For decades, Americans have elected Republicans and Democrats who promise change. Yet Washington continues pouring enormous resources into overseas military operations while Americans struggle with healthcare costs, aging infrastructure, and an increasingly unaffordable cost of living.
Meanwhile, China has spent decades investing heavily in high-speed rail, highways, airports, hospitals, schools, and modern metro systems.
The infrastructure that millions of ordinary people actually use every single day.
China has built the world's largest high-speed rail network. Entire cities have been transformed. Hundreds of millions of people have escaped extreme poverty over the past several decades.
These are tangible improvements in people's lives.
I think we should judge a government by what it actually DELIVERS to its citizens?
Now, I'm grateful to have the right to vote as an American. I value that right enormously.
But I'm also deeply frustrated that the best outcome many Americans can realistically hope for today is two more years of political paralysis.
Two more years of Republicans and Democrats fighting each other while the country's biggest problems remain unresolved.
Meanwhile, China will continue pursuing its long-term development priorities, investing in infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, and economic growth.
Democracy should be judged by more than the ability to cast a ballot. Government should also be judged by its ability to improve people's lives.
I'll let you decide which system is delivering better results.
This is how propaganda works in America. Take a Muslim running for public office, accuse him of being connected to terrorists, and hope nobody bothers to check the facts.
There is no credible evidence that Abdul El-Sayed belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood. He has publicly rejected those accusations.
Iām a Christian. I believe in God. But I also believe in the United States Constitution. Freedom of religion means exactly that. You can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, or whatever you choose.
Being Muslim doesnāt make you a threat to America. And having a different religion doesnāt make you any less American.
I support Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. I respect his commitment to putting American interests first and his position on refusing AIPAC money.
You can disagree with his politics all you want. But if youāre going to accuse an American citizen of supporting terrorism, you better have some actual evidence.
Thatās not a complicated concept. Thatās America.
Sayed supports the Muslim brotherhood. His true feelings were said in 2012 before he got into politics. And his whole family is tied in with terrorists
Country over party. Dems need to stop endorsing terrorist supporters. Is it really that hard to find someone with no ties to the Muslim brotherhood?
The chances of escalation is now 100%, and itās not a matter of if but when Trump unleashes his next level of attack against Iran š®š·
Trump and Netanyahu have failed so miserably in this war and both of them are about to lose power over their respective countries, this could be the final card they have left to play.
Itās sickening and potentially a catastrophic mistake for the entire world
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. āBibi calls Trump about it every day,ā says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last weekās election results, he canāt form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, heās applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war theyāve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahuās lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of Americaās longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They wonāt recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
Weāve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten Americaās nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called ābattlefield nukesā easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now weāre on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, heās hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
Theyāre right, though it wonāt be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasnāt been consulted so far is the global population ā the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
You just can't believe how low the United States has fallen under the leadership of Trump. It's absolutely embarrassing.
Trump claims he could have ended the Vietnam War in one week but yet what about his current war with Iran? 8 months and no solution? Only thing he has achieved is sky high gas prices and the highest diesel prices in American history
What about the Russia Ukraine War? Trump claimed he would end it in a day. Not a chance.
But the worst part of this clip is how little Trump actually knows about US history.
Saigon was the capital of the US allied South Vietnam. After the US lost the war and retreated (which is exactly what we will eventually do in Iran) Northern Vietnam united the country and changed the name from Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City.
Shocking a US President makes this basic of a mistake but then again, nothing is shocking with the amount of sheer nonsense coming out of Trump's mouth every day š¤¦āāļø
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the Vietnam War and was the capital of US-allied South Vietnam; North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi.
britannica.com/place/Ho-Chi-Mā¦
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Sā¦
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The United States has loads of independent journalists, civic activists, prosecutors and judges and yet Trump has proven to the world he is THE most corrupt politician in the world š
Meanwhile China has significantly cleaned up its corruption since Xi Jinping became President, in fact itās probably been the #1 thing Xi has focused on since coming to power and it has fundamentally changed Chinaās government
Itās incredible how someone can be so ignorant about China but yet talk with such confidence. Kenneth is an absolute clown š¤”
Chinaās Xi Jinping has a problem. He claims to be against corruption but doesn't dare allow the best ways to combat it -- independent journalists, civic activists, prosecutors and judges. trib.al/9WAywFE
The entire world now believes Trump and Netanyahu will strike Iran in the coming days, with an attack most likely coming right before the midterms
Trump and Bibi are both in trouble in their respective elections. Bibi canāt form a majority government and Trump is about to lose the House and Senate, a fresh attack on Iran will be a last desperate attempt to distract the people
8 months of fighting in Iran and the United States has been exposed as a paper tiger. No ability to win this war and it has backfired on not only the US economy but the world economy!
Breaking this all down on YouTube tomorrow with the only and only @s_m_marandi who always shares the truth love from Tehran!
Wow the so called āChina Expertā @niubi is willing to put his entire reputation on the line by going after @RnaudBertrand and accusing him of being paid by Chinaās government to visit Xinjiang earlier this summer.
The problem? Arnaud funded the entire trip for his family this summer himself and kept the actual receipts of everything!
You would think Bill Bishop, who runs a China focused Substack with well over 200k followers, would do some basic research before jumping to conclusions.
Heck if he was smart, Bill would reach out to Arnaud who also runs a fantastic Substack page and ask for an interview
But this is nothing more than a cheap shot at a foreigner who has spent considerable time traveling across Xinjiang and wrote THE most comprehensive article about Xinjiang written in recent years
Shame on you @niubi youāve opened a can of worms here and you should immediately retract your statements and apologize
Talk about one of the dumbest ways to ruin your reputation as a source of reliable information on China
The full truth š
I long knew that Bill Bishop was the high priest of these so-called "China experts" who systematically promote a negative image of the country.
What I didn't know is that he was a straight-up conspiracy theorist, I thought he was a tad more subtle than this.
This article he's pushing - written by an anonymous account (these people are always so courageous) - says my trip to Xinjiang this summer was part of a promotion campaign by the Chinese government.
Which is of course completely false, and I can prove it: I personally paid for everything and I have the receipts.
My two biggest expenses, given this was an RV trip and we were sleeping in the RV (as everyone who followed the trip here on X knows) were:
A) the RV rental fee
B) the plane tickets to travel to Xinjiang from Malaysia and back
All four receipts are attached. The RV cost us RMB 18,000 (about US$2,650) for the month, paid in two installments: a RMB 3,000 down payment to the rental company in May to reserve it, and the RMB 15,000 balance when we picked it up.
The plane tickets for the four of us cost RM 8,164 (about US$2,050): RM 3,915 to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Urumqi and RM 4,249 to fly back.
Except for these, all our other expenses were relatively small: mostly restaurants, snacks, attraction fees and a hotel in Urumqi for the last 10 days, during which our daughters were at a holiday camp to perfect their Chinese with local kids. I also, unfortunately, had some medical fees because, as followers know, I ended up having health issues during the trip. Happy to show receipts for all of these too...
The supposed "proofs" that this was a promotional trip in Bishop's promoted article are 1) that I got interviewed by Chinese media at some point towards the end of my trip, and 2) that I met up with my friend Daniel Dumbrill and his family.
The second one is particularly hilarious. They write "One foreigner spending weeks touring Xinjiang in an RV with his young family is odd. Two is odder." That's it, that's the extent of the proof: it's "odd" š¤· Yes, super odd indeed that two friends would meet up on holiday, completely unheard of! What a joke...
Plus, it's anything but "odd" for me to travel in China in an RV with my family: as people who follow me are (maybe painfully) aware, it's the third summer we've done this. Before Xinjiang we'd toured Dongbei in an RV in 2023 (China's northeast) and some of the central provinces like Gansu in the summer of 2021.
It's even less odd for my friend Daniel who owns his RV and lives in China: he travels in his RV with his family all the time.
And it's actually the third time our 2 families have met during trips to China: friends, oddly, have this strange habit of wanting to see each other. Deeply suspicious behavior, I know.
As for the first "proof", the fact I got interviewed by Chinese media, it's such a stupid accusation. For better or worse (I'd argue for worse, and because of people like Bill Bishop), a foreign family travelling to Xinjiang is indeed news in China. It shouldn't be, it should be normal, but the geopolitical climate is such that it is.
I agreed to meet up with @FriedaLi3 from Beijing Review by the end of our trip because we already knew each other and I like her work, which I find nuanced and thoughtful.
It's basically the equivalent of, say, a Uyghur family from Xinjiang doing an RV trip in France: it's a good story and I'm sure French media would want to interview them. I don't see how it'd be scandalous, unless of course you're Bill Bishop, in which case it'd be irrefutable proof of an Orwellian French influence operation.
Bishop's promoted article also points out the Substack post that I wrote at the end of my trip (substack.com/@arnaudbertrandā¦) as some sort of propaganda piece, cherry-picking one line and the title. And the one line they "quote" isnāt even my wording: they apparently took a Chinese translation of my article, ran it back into English, and passed the result off as a direct quote from my Substack, grammar mistakes included. Thatās the level of rigor weāre dealing with here...
Also, anyone who actually read my Substack post knows how intellectually dishonest this framing of it is, given how I wrote at length about the heavy-handed security we encountered in Xinjiang, the climate of "institutional paranoia" that I describe alongside the resentment some Uyghurs feel toward Beijing. Believe me, no censor in China would read those paragraphs and think "great job, Arnaud, exactly what we ordered", and that's an understatement š
Last point: that's not to say that sponsored trips in China don't exist, there are plenty but they look nothing like what we did. You travel as part of a group - never individually - and are accompanied all the time by official minders, with an itinerary fixed weeks in advance and every hotel, meal and visit arranged for you. We were alone as a family in a rented RV, with two kids fighting in the back...
I've been offered actual sponsored trips many times and I've always refused them with one exception: when I was with an official French delegation with the French minister of the interior (Christophe Castaner) and other French officials. Precisely because in that instance there was zero ambiguity and I couldn't be accused of being a Chinese agent or a traitor to France: hard argument to make when you're traveling alongside the minister in charge of its counterintelligence...
The fact that Bill Bishop and this anonymous writer want to push the narrative that any travel to Xinjiang is inherently suspicious is, of course, no accident and exactly why you too should go.
See it for yourself, film whatever you want, talk to whoever you meet. The more "odd" foreigners driving around Xinjiang, the less odd it becomes, and the harder it gets for people like Bishop to sell their "open-air prison" story. If the witnesses are few, you can always discredit them one by one. When there are thousands of them, what they describe has a name: reality.
This clip right here is why many countries around the world hate the United States.
It is absolutely baffling to me that someone could sit up on stage with a stupid grin and laugh about violating international law and pass it off as "we can do whatever we want because we Americans are exceptional" š¤¦āāļø
There is nothing exceptional about the United States. It is one of many great countries in the world. I could make arguments that Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Australia, and many other are also "exceptional" in many metrics.
So where is the United States "exceptional" here are a few metrics:
- Obesity: We have one of the highest adult obesity rates among wealthy countries
- Child poverty: We have one of the highest child-poverty rate among affluent nations
- Healthcare spending: We spend substantially more per person on healthcare than any other wealthy countries, and yet are one of the most unhealthy nations
- Incarceration: We rank near the top for the highest incarceration rates
- Gun deaths: We have an exceptionally high firearm-death rate compared with other high-income countries.
- Life expectancy: The U.S. trails many similarly wealthy nations despite spending the most on healthcare
We also are a failing democracy with politicians who don't serve the people and only work to enrich themselves (no better example than Trump)
We start useless wars across the globe and let foreigner countries (Israel) control and influence our foreign policy decisions.
The best thing about the United States is the people and the diversity of our nation. But the US is failing more every day and our reputation has been destroyed on the world stage because of Trump and his idiotic policies
The United States need to wake up. This clip exposes just how lost many Americans are
Iāll just leave this fun fact for @JamieMetzl to consider. Anyone supporting Republican candidates (Jamie has openly endorsed Mike Rogers for Senate) needs to be called out for their toxic rhetoric.
Trump started another disastrous war in the Middle East that the US cannot win. It has resulted in the highest diesel prices in recorded history, record inflation, and a broken US economy. There will be a massive blue wave incoming and El-Sayad is one of the few American politicians who actually give a damn about the country and can potentially make meaningful change in the country
Unfortunately for Trump he doesnāt understand basic economics š¤¦š»āāļø
Gas prices donāt trade on the āfeelingsā of the President. Tanker shipping costs before the war was $30k a day, right now the DAILY rate for a tanker to go through the Strait of Hormuz is over $1 milllion dollars!
Trump is not factoring in shipping costs, insurance costs, and geopolitical risks which have all caused gas prices to skyrocket. Gas prices will be high for many months to come and there is not a single thing Trump can do about it.
FAFO - Trump did it in Iran and 8 months later he canāt deliver anything to the American people other than empty promises. Democrats will now sweep both House and Senate and Trump will officially become a lame duck President on Nov 4 xitter-newx.xyz-mikolabs.workers.dev/real_jfk_jr_/status/21ā¦
Lmao š¤£ Netanyahu is going to lose his election and this is his only card left to play! āIran is just weeks away from having a nuclear bombā š¤¦š»āāļø
We have literally heard this line from Netanyahu for over 30 years and itās complete nonsense. But waitā¦did Trump proudly announce the US won the war and Iranās nuclear capability has been completely obliterated? š¤
BREAKING: Netanyahu says Iran has now restarted its nuclear program and intends to destroy Israel within a short time.
"Iran has restarted its nuclear program, and it wants to destroy us within a short time," Netanyahu said an hour ago.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has warned that resuming the war this close to Tuesday's election will force the vote to be postponed indefinitely.
Netanyahu said on Wednesday that toppling the Iranian regime is now his directive to the IDF and Mossad.
This is why I argue the United States has the most powerful propaganda machine in the world. And frankly, I donāt think thereās another country that even comes close.
A perfect example is this Vietnamese immigrant family proudly announcing that theyāre voting Republican because they believe in freedom, democracy, and the need to defeat the evils of communism.
Letās examine the irony here.
First, communism is not a threat to the United States. The Democratic Party is not communist. Supporting universal healthcare, something virtually every other developed country provides, does not make someone a communist.
But Republicans have spent decades convincing Americans that any policy designed to help ordinary working people is somehow a step toward communism. Itās one of the oldest scare tactics in American politics, and remarkably, it still works.
Second, youāre celebrating freedom and democracy while supporting Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly attacked democratic institutions, entertained the idea of a third presidential term, undermined Americaās international alliances, and dragged the country into a disastrous war with Iran.
This is the same man who promised to end Americaās endless wars.
And hereās the greatest irony of all.
Youāve been convinced that voting Republican means defending freedom from communism, when the far more immediate threat to American democracy comes from politicians who believe the Constitution should only apply when itās convenient for them.
Thatās what makes American propaganda so extraordinarily effective. It convinces ordinary people to fear an imaginary communist takeover while ignoring the very real erosion of democratic institutions happening right in front of their eyes.
And the people who have been most successfully manipulated are often the ones most convinced theyāre thinking for themselves.
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