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https://twitter.com/IvanTheK/status/1648844052861681664?s=20

@ForeignSubstance @johnserwach @rubecube12

You don’t want some crank like Bobby debating Biden - allow some real prospects to come through please. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1648745205414125575?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw

@johnserwach @rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance

That's the point - crack-pots don't care about respect or precedence and have no qualms getting in and revealing Joe's obvious weaknesses. Bobby is just the start, there will be other eminently more qualified.
Hang up the boots now Joe.

@ForeignSubstance @plutus @rubecube12

Bobby ain’t gonna get any play on tv etc. ain’t heard boo from him yet and the crazy anti maskers are all in for trump- so where’s his base ?

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @plutus

Who in their right mind with a d next to there name is going to challenge the Messiah - Joe Biden ?

@johnserwach @rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance

If I didn't think the rank and file were not so deferential to the office of the presidency - I would not be hitting on this point so much.
It is the very idea that there is no competition to Joe unless he/dem leadership allows it - I find troubling.

@plutus @rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance

There could be competition- there certainly was in 2020 - and he destroyed them all! No one wants to put their privates in a meat grinder - what would they argue ? Unemployment is too high? He’s too old (that will play well) ? I clarion is too high? Stagflation? Hostages in Iran ? Ukraine ? What? The cupboard is bare.

The country wants a workhorse not a show horse.

@johnserwach @rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance

Sorry, but The country ain’t practical - models > moms

@johnserwach @ForeignSubstance @plutus

Raising taxes is the only way to bring inflation down. Monetary policy is ineffective https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqoo_fHrAl6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

@johnserwach @plutus @ForeignSubstance

How much does an abandoned house cost?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPK1uYM7xo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Not Wong Danny not Wong
https://youtu.be/QGP1O38ynns

@rubecube12 @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

What magas/Danny’s don’t get is that Macron needs the Chinese wealthy to buy French luxury-goods as that’s a mainstay of his economy. To deduce macron is pivoting is beyond insanity. https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1649155305400352772?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw

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France needs china to manufacture its goods for cheep

@ForeignSubstance @johnserwach @plutus

China pivoting from US manufacturing to European manufacturing

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

You can't be that... and still call yourself a dem (that's just a play on the margins).

@plutus @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

I'm just describing what's happening. France and Germany are getting flows from china reducing their borrowing cost and are increasing their outsourcing to china

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

2 years of lockdowns + 1 billion ppl - they have to eat at some point

* Yes, the country isn't blowing up tomorrow or next 5 years
* They have insurmountable demographics issues
* They have no fookin dollars to buy anything that's why every single billionaire has majority of assets outside the country

- not everything is binary

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

Texture nuance/push pull
China may do better next year than now.
The dye is cast in terms of longer-term travails as Xi has been the dumbest chair in 50 years.

@ForeignSubstance @johnserwach @plutus

That's pretty priced. Even Song said Mao 2.0. Everyone agrees

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

Geezus H - Japan in 30 years of retrenchment - but everyone knew... doesn't mean it doesn't follow thru

China will suffer a much worse fate for its citizenry

@ForeignSubstance @johnserwach @plutus

Mao 2.0 wont live more than 8 years. He's morbidly obease and chinese medicine is way behind. He's already 70

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

The goal of every Matthew Pines Will DeCotiis is to (use clickbait type tweets) to build a following to start their own Youtube Biz

@plutus @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

I don't even know what they are thinking. Who cares

@rubecube12 @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

Do you understand the mindset of the CCP cult is 100 times more entrenched and insidious versus say the Russian leadership or any other authoritarian state.
There has been a caste system installed since Deng - where sons/daughters of the revolutionaries are provided the only pathway to any type of serious leadership position.
Everyone is defined by their specific background and everyone know where everyone else stands.

@rubecube12 @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

This is shit is even more refined than the state model described in 1984 - you have no idea.
The point being, the structure is maintained regardless if Xi is at the head of it.
It's very much like North Korea.

Eastern European or Middle Eastern autocracies have nothing like this.

@plutus @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

Except north korea isnt a market economy which actually prioritizes competition. Its actually quite the opposite. The thing that let the US win the cold war is that we broke up the monopolies and allowed the market to work. We didnt have the trebant we had 30 different companies. Peter Thiel wants to make us the USSR. The only way we win is if we break up thes behemoths https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536

@rubecube12 @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

Market economy - I can't...

@rubecube12 @johnserwach @ForeignSubstance

Do not confuse Zero rule of law with economic liberalism

@plutus @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

99% of cases here are decided administratively too. We don't have rule of law either. When was the last time a monopoly admitted guilt or fault in a settlement with government

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

Stop with this trite...

Democracies are by their very nature corrupt (to an extent) - it;s a system of checks and balances - and those with more resources can tip the scale.
There isn't a state directed imbalance.

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

Humans are flawed, you me - that leads to corruption 24/7 - our system has a mechanism for self-cleansing - it's never perfect or even close but there's a system

@ForeignSubstance @johnserwach @plutus

We just need a president who actually enforces the laws and takes these bastards to court. Maybe breaks some monopolies up. Would that be so bad? We used to have leaders who had balls

@rubecube12 @ForeignSubstance @johnserwach

Secondarily, there are ppl who are more equipped to be rocket scientists, to be leaders or to be basketball players. Until, democrats can come to terms with this instead of woke ideology then we fall pray to teh same culture war trap that magas...

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Cenk is slimy but he ain't wrong
https://youtu.be/DhC35z6Ru8w

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Yeah, I see the dilemma. I am hoping moderates come to their senses and bring forward a PeteB/Gavin Newsom.

TBTF, it's all about appeasing the black caucus and getting Clyburn's buy-in, which will be exceedingly hard.

@ForeignSubstance @rubecube12 @johnserwach

Just between friends, Clyburn is what you'd call an old school democratic machine created politician - think Tip O'Neil; think how do we wield power even if it's at the expense of broader Democratic interests.

@ForeignSubstance @rubecube12 @johnserwach

They’ll like stay democrat for the first 20 yrs - the kids not so sure https://twitter.com/specialsitsnews/status/1650316583963619329?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw

@ForeignSubstance @rubecube12 @johnserwach

It’s just a racist plot to stymie China’s growth and Xi’s brilliance Danny - keep believing that. https://twitter.com/specialsitsnews/status/1650507654215741446?s=46&t=myUg8E_NfUxKRXrtk0UUnw