Greetings and thank you for reading.
This is my first post. It’s of some thoughts about contemporary events. I try place my observations about the different things on the same foundation, while keeping in mind that my mind works in mysterious ways that sees connections where some claim they do not exist, this is a medium where I hope to present content that will hold the attention of and enrich minds like the one you have.
I shall be post more like this and other different ones. I hope you find them to be informative in their own way.
Here I go now.
Mind the gaps.
deciding what to see, say & hear
Here is an image of a video posted by MSNBC to Youtube, “17 States Say Texas Should Decide Swing States' Elections | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC”
More accurate title : "18 States say Texas is right about the constitution states legislatures should decide changes to" But Youtube has a character limit & maybe marketing said they must get Rachel Maddow's name into the title.
If X, Y, and Z agree to a contract; X assaults Y to controls their shared profits; Z files a lawsuit & I support Z with testimony. Doesn't mean I'm saying Z should decide if X keeps the profits. X may even not consider it assault but courts can see if the contract was violated.
I’m perplexed by some reactions to Texas’ decision to a “motion for leave to file a “Bill of Complaint” with the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin’s administration of the 2020 presidential election.” As of writing 19 states have joined in support.
Most people don’t feel they need to look into the laws, regulations, terms & conditions of things they perceive to just ‘work.’ I know from experience looking into some laws they can by necessity be complicated if not outright convoluted. But when it comes to specifics about this particular suit, there are many sources online that seem quite capable of breaking down the details if understanding from readily available document is challenging.
The Constitution of the United States of America however, does not seem complicated to me. I recently read it and the 27 amendments to confirm my observation that most US voters and for sure commentators on the election have not read it outside of possible school assignments.
If they did, and understood what was written, would they be the sort of person I assume MSNBC thinks would want to see that or this next example clip?
“‘Depressed’ Trump Ghosting Friends Who Admit He’s The 2020 Loser | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSBC”
Depressed had quotations around it, so did it come form an anonymous source familiar with Trump’s thinking? Unsure how they define friends, but I don’t ghost mine if and when I feel down anymore. More accurately they would not let me ghost them and more importantly, knowing the sort of person in my life that would see what was going on before it got that bad, reduces the chances ill be depressed to begin with.
I once used the term friendship for relationships that were at best acquaintanceships of mutual co-dependance. People with whom we’d agreed to tell certain lies to.
Trump taken Ls in 2020. As for the presidential election, according to the legally agreed process, the contest is ongoing. It may end up being a loss though. It is possible he has/had ‘friends’ that are now snitching about his depression after they pointed out his loserdom.
I do not know, however to get depressed, ghosting AND Loser in one title? Go MSNBC!
Projectors on full blast.
Know your demographics humanize Trump so they can embrace the coming “U.N.ity”™ messaging from a position of power with the magnanimity of pitying the sad orange man that has lived experiences just like theirs!
Speaking of “U.N.ity”™ here is some moar!
I first saw this individual while devouring the live streams of the various state hearings during which Mayor Giuliani (President Donald J Trump’s current Lawyer) and legal team had individuals present what they claim to have witnessed in relation to the recent US Presidential elections. The particular hearing was hours long, streamed from Michigan on the 2nd or 3rd of December.
Am in Nairobi, Kenya a the moment so the +7 or 8 hour time difference throws off my mental calendar.
I recall thinking she was coming off as a caricature of black, skrong, neurotic, female in position of influence trope. She began with claims that people should be sworn in, though was informed that affidavits hold the similar legal stipulations and most witnesses were simply laying out what was already in an affidavit. Once the Giulliani had given his opening statements, the first witness came out to give theirs.
The witness was an American of recent Indian descent. When it came time for the panel to ask her questions, the individual in the video I posted, asked the witness to state their name. The witness did and the individual proceeded to ask if that really was her real name, adding that she specifically wanted the witness to state her maiden(?)…less americanized(?) one…
Starts at 51:09 in the Rumble video found by clicking here.
It gave me pause, both figuratively and in literally pausing the stream, in which I checked my friend was watching. He said he was and indeed seemed to hear what i thought I heard. The witness caught onto the implications that I, my friend, some attending the hearing and many watching the stream did and declared she would not be cowed, she’d seen worse where she came from. She is now an American and would brave this ‘I’m-not-technically-doxing-you’ tactic out of love for her adopted country.
I thought, maybe this individual wanted to be sure the witness had not previously given testimony that had been ‘debunked.’ When I resumed watching I continued chatting with my friend who was now ahead of me by an hour or so. He’d occasionally mention that the individual in question continued to have more ‘keeping it real moments’ during the opportunities she chose to use her allotted time to make herself heard.
I have low expectations of the sort of person that would choose politics in addition to what the appointment process actually selects for. Adding that to the deluge of information going on at the time I had mostly forgotten about the individual when this showed up on my twitter feed few days back:
I realized that Cynthia A. Johnson, was the very same individual from the Michigan hearings. Once again I was apprehensive to believe she could have said what I thought i just saw and heard her say so looked for the source before sharing it with this comment:
“Initial source may be a facebook live video that is now down.
If real I can see her & co. claiming she meant 'soldiers' should keep in order & 'make them pay' in a legal means vs being disorderly... I'm as certain of them claiming this as they would say a similar vid from 'the right' would be evidence of order for violence against & hunting of X Y Z.
This is what happens when cultures mix & use the same words words they dont realize mean different things to others”
It’s authenticity has been confirmed in addition to several other clips including the first one I posted above. She may not think what I would have to think before saying the words she says but if this was a book, 3 examples would would be more than enough to make her character known to the readers.
Knowing what to expect from someone is different than knowing what someone expects to accomplish. What could she have been thinking to act that way in public on those 3 occasions?
She has been relieved of her positions on various committees.
"Rep. Johnson has been removed from her committee assignments, and we are looking into further disciplinary action as the proper authorities conduct their own investigations," Chatfield and Wentworth added.
In addition to being vice chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, she was a member of the Agriculture Committee and Families, Children and Seniors Committee. - The Detroit News
Is this enough?
Ionno.
As with the initial MSNBC posts, Johnson wasn’t talking to me, likely not to you, but good chance was to at least one person you do know. The sort of person that may say her statements were nothing compared to what some unidentified or quoted Republicans said about contesting the Arizona elections.
Now that she has been censured for the statements, an individual such as this, may say ‘look at least our side took some disciplinary action, whereas yours just pretended no call to a bloody violent nation destroying civil war was not being made!’
As I shall attempt to learn how to better communicate with you, it pays to know your audience.
Johnson likely knows what she can say and get away with it to an extent. Doubt it’s the first time she has said similar things. We may have been surprised, but if I had to wager, I’d place at most $13.27 that those who know, associate, vote for & otherwise support her were not shocked that this is something she would say.
“Mmmm-hmmm Boss-lady, you tell ‘em like it is Cynthia. We WILL be heard!”
She may think it’s end of days so let’s put it all on the line, damn who hears! But she doesn’t have to be the sort that buys into the ‘Trump is Hitler and we must stop him T.O.D.A.Y. like we were allied soldiers on D-Day.’
Beach head is taken.
Foothold solid.
Reinforcements and main body already en route, full-steam ahead.
All you first wavers have to do is finish off and/or convince the straggler opponents that don’t realize they lost, that it’s actually futile to resist.
At the very least she’s aware of how rhetoric works on people as your average politician and is confident of its utility. I expect she also things she, and her allies, are on the winning side of some battle that has been had.
How else do you explain this:
“Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation,” Di says. “Who helped him build the foundation? Got it?”
The crowd did get it, as chuckles rippled through the audience. In fact, watching the whole video makes it clear the audience found Di’s entire speech hilarious. To wealthy and connected Chinese, that’s America: A joke country whose elites are bought off by the rising Chinese superpower.
Why would professor Di Dongsheng, prepare this speech, have it recorded, edited and posted like this? He did not lie but they did make attempts to take it down once it began to spread.
I don’t consider the Chinese Communist Party leadership to be dumb.
As I have been filtering folk that claim Trump is a low IQ buffoon, ignoring his background, rather than discuss topical policy and actions; those making the choice to call CCP members and their associates unintelligent will be similarly met with a reduction in my desire to continue any conversation we may be having.
If you accept my assumption that CCP leadership are in general not idiots, consider they have been tested by a cut-throat environment that at the very least selects for some high level risk assessment and situational awareness.
One that is far more literal in China and other places than is in the more non Epstien didn’t Kill himself, Oh the FBI just released more info on Seth Rich during this oh so placid post election news cycle or memory-holed largest shooting in the USA in one of the most surveilled places in the USA Mandalay-Bay shooting with its ties to Saudi Royals all leading to all sorts of conspiracy theory fuel.
Nothing like that.
In Chinese Communist Party China conspiracy theories are more of the, did Disney use the Muslims they admittedly keep in re-educ(concentr)ation camps for among other things relatively well documented organ harvesting as extras for the recent filming or Disney’s live action Mulan?
It’s out in the open. They don’t claim those who lost to the party are depressed and ghosting friends. They just make it so is anyone see’s you again it would be your ghost. It’s essentially all the authoritarian things the Trump administration has been accused of being.
No hand-in-hand mutually beneficial social programming with tech industry giants like you have in the revolving public-private door environment of the west. You run your tech in China as a party member that answer to the bureaucracy.
If you are a foreign company you need to make space on your Chinese department for a fully fledged party member that see that the party’s wants are satisfied.
No, sure we will file suit against you Facebook. But does it really matter what happens at the end of it all?
If Trump succeeds in his challenges, and constitutionally gets a second term, those that filed suit can say they did something that would likely be happening anyway.
If Biden get’s in with his proposed tech industry related appointees the filees say to their constituents who somehow still believe that Facebook and related online spaces are dens of the Alt-Right Literally Nazis that admins should have done more to purge! that not only did the bad orange man lose despite the vile filth emanating form those dark corners, the new administration will work with tech leaders to alter the way things work.
Either way Facebook has the ability to manage any likely regulations.
During the process these politicos can expect lobbyists and others to funnel money towards them for favorable outcomes expecting that they too may be under the same scrutiny in short order.
This could explain some of the more recent moves places like YouTube have made in announcing the new terms of monetizing any video they choose and nebulous plans to remove and strike down questions about ‘widespread fraud’ in the election.
In China, the government can just pull the largest IPO ever announced from a tech-billionaire that has been an open party member due to reasons…
I’ve seen reports that the deal itself was financially shaky but another reason could have been a reminder of where the power truly lays as the since March 2018, president for life Xi Jinping, continues to mark his territory. Jinping literally can be the party leader until he feels like stepping down.
Literally.
Not in the God Emperor Of The United States (GEOTUS) meme that must be REEEsisted as they are supported by significant numbers of the most wealthy Americans from various industries who openly deride, agitate against and declare themselves existential opposition to all that is Trump.
China has existed as a political entity for arguable 4,000 years. That’s a rich history, of the good and bad you’d expect from any limited human animal, to form ones socio-political identity.
I can realistically only envision, understand and care for a certain number of people at once. Beginning with myself and spreading out. I expect this of Xi Jinping to some random Chinese villager that has never heard of any country outside of China, let alone been on the internet to possibly see me try and wind down this post that I am thankful you are reading.
I expect Di Dongsheng to be doing what he’s done to the benefit of primarily ‘Chinese’ interests. I believe he has the blessing of significant people in the CCP leadership and underneath it all, he cares for his personal well being and that of any immediate family members he holds dear.
Di nor Xi are inherently villainous to me. Neither are the unnamed Wall Street power brokers that some may accuse of selling out their country to Chinese interests. If it was theirs would they want to sell it? If it truly is theirs then why should you object to them selling it?
The USA is far younger, diverse and open than China. CCP power brokers make up a similar percent of the Chinese population as Wall Street and top politicians do of Americans. The life and interests of your average Wall Street mover and shaker is as atypically “American” as Di Dongsheng’s is “Chinese.” They’d both likely say they loved their nation, but the genes of a nation are more than the genetics of the people that biologically make up the citizenry. How far removed from the actual people made each country are the current citizens?
How does one show their love of whatever they define as their nation compared to that of their family? What do they see in its past, present and future that engenders that emotion?
Stories help.
All narratives are fictional. Some were, are or may be factual.
Here is one as I enter the last part of this post.
I mentioned Disney’s live-action Mulan.
May be a bit tin foil-hat-coaster-of-dafuquery here but come along with me
Disney studios has been quintessentially Americana for the last 100 years or so, but is now globalizing. It’s now Disney no longer Walt’s under new management and vision. China has been making attempts to message more of what China is to the rest of the world. It’s now the People's Republic of China. Different interests brought the parties together for the same reasons of profiting by creating something they wanted people to see.
Consider this.
The lead of Mulan, Yifei Liu, is so down with the CCP, Yeah you know me! that she came out so bravely and stunningly in defense of the police that were protecting the governing body from the the ungrateful people of Hong Kong, who would not just accept an early imposition of the CCPs ways onto them going against the contractually agreed timeline and stipulations outlined in the way China was to take stewardship over the territory form the United Kingdom.
The Chinese people, like other peoples on this spaceship earth of ours, love their country, governments, culture, families and more that they happened to be born into. Think of the people and things you love. What would you do for them?
Check your seatbelts, make sure you are secure and try to keep an open mind to see if you can see what i’m getting at here.
Some of you, like Liu and I, were born outside of your current country of citizenship and/or residency. You may have tried to integrate into the places your parents had chosen to reside when they had you. Regardless of how objectively successful that was, you subjectively found things you liked about the culture and others you did not. After some time you returned to the country you and/or your parents were a citizen of. You have now grown to consider this ‘country of origin,’ home.
As you discovered your new home, you nurture a burning desire to dive deep into the culture and do what you can for this unknown culture and community. In Liu’s case imagine the thousands of year history you can now mine. You feel you can surely contribute in a way that you’d be able to say ‘that part of the tapestry was mine.’
You want to be productive, like most typical people do.
You understand that in your home culture, from billionaire tech moguls to every day farmers, a prerequisite for productive participation in society is loyalty to and connections within the CCP. This is how it is. It’s not a simple optional benefit but a requirement. Your parents have told you about it. This isn’t the country where you were born, you don’t have some right to object to it.
Who are you to judge this result of antiquity.
It is what it is.
You’ve been back in China less than a year and some CCP officials have reached out to you. There may have been a relative that has been working their way up in a branch of the party that had their eye on your family in case you ever came back to China. The apparatus takes note and recognizes your talents, appearance and unique background. You get into an agency with bit parts in local advertisements and productions with a promise for more in the near future.
You now have a budding career and are integrating into your home. You are being embraced by it. Becoming part of messaging what it means to be Chinese in this new global society.
The CCP knows that there are Americans who come to China that would be amenable to being around English speaking Chinese as they relax with between time spend making heady deals worth hundreds of thousand to billions of dollars. This is a basic reality.
You know how it is to feel foreign and meet someone with something familiar can be comforting. So when the CCP liaison that is part of your agency’s management team suggests you could make some extra money this weekend, by hanging out in a certain hip location that some expats and foreigners frequent, it piques your interest. You are still young and have been told by your local cousins how high class the area being mentioned actually is, and have wanted to check it out when you had time off and saved up some money. You were going to hang out for a few drinks at some local spot by your apartment anyway, so why not actually earn money to go somewhere fresh.
You agree to go.
Your agency’s CCP liaison is pleased and is considerate enough to say they will pay for your transportation and a room at a posh hotel by the certain club you will be attending in case you feel you’ve had too much to drink and can’t do the few hour return trip to your place. They assure you a few actresses and models you know met from your and other agencies will also be in attendance.
You tell your friends that you’ll reschedule for the following weekend and excitedly notify your cousin who currently enrolled in a top university thanks to the kind recommendation letter your manager sent on their behalf.
The weekend arrives. It’s Saturday night and you put on the dress that the agency sent on friday, Must have gotten your sizes from their files. At the agreed upon time you get a buzz form below saying your transport has arrived. Outside a European luxury car is parked ready to drive you in comfort to meet up with your associates at a table reserved for you at a top authentic Szechuan restaurant by the club.
You arrive to greetings and introductions as you take your seat. The ambitious young, and conspicuously attractive men and women at the table are welcoming as the appetizers arrive and orders are taken. Some you’ve met before, a few you’ve seen and others heard of. Small competitive industry and all. In friendly discussion you mention that it was suggested to you in no uncertain terms, that if any of the foreigners you meet that night were to tell you things about their personal life or private business dealings, relaying that to the CCP official whose number the manager gave to you may be in your interest.
You laugh it off like some sort of joke, what are you, some sort of spy?
The rest laugh but a few respond that you are actually correct, you are not a spy. One of the older ones you’d never met, says that the profit is for sure a real thing. After all they got cast for international advertising campaign you had mentioned having seen them them in after relaying some tidbit from a night quite like the one you were about to have.
You think about it more.
It’s just relaying things someone may say to you. Simple gossip. I mean if you shared it with your all girlfriends group chat in the WeChat App on the latest Huawei phone your agency just gifted you for accepting this fun night out, the CCP would be able to see it anyway, so why not just relay it to them directly?
It’s not like anyone will be saying things in confidence or any realistic expectation of keeping anything secret. It’s a night club, no non-disclosure statements signed when you meet. Its in public, not a conference room in a news agency under some off the record journalistic integrity let alone some sort of interrogation to get to any company secrets. It’d just be in the moment, cordial discussion among people enjoying a night out with a few drinks!
Diner ends, tension forgotten. Soon you are off to the club.
The group is mingling, there are locals, foreigners from abroad and locals foreign to the area. Above all it’s young, chic and exhilarating. This is a part of China the rest of the world should see! You’ve talked to a few people but none kept your interest long. You go up to the bar and notice someone else waiting for a drink. You look over realizing they look familiar. This isn’t just some random foreigner in China that’s taking a break from the neo-imperialist taking advantage of low wages to turn a simple profit. You heard some rumors earlier but it’s true. Could this actually the child of one of the most powerful men in the world?
Even if you had not been born in that country he is from, the general attraction to a power, and the way those with it carry themselves, is something most women have and most men give notice and deference to. They are looking at you with their even in this club lighting striking eyes, snapping you out of your momentary recollections and calculations.
Yes, you’ll have a drink you say. As you take the seat he offers you while telling him your drink of choice. Hendricks gin with the skins of a strain of cucumber from the region.
You begins to take interest in you, the feeling is mutual. He isn’t horrible to look at and has an amenable way about him. May seem a bit troubled but hey we are young! Who really has it all together anyway? We all try to live our best life.
You spend the rest of the night together as friends of his and yours come in and out of your orbit. You’re both getting more intoxicated whilst sharing stories of similarities and differences form your childhoods feeling uncommon in a place you were supposedly born as part of. You notice the time, and slowly dwindling number of mutual friends and tell him you may have to call to confirm the hotel room you’d been promised and head over.
He stops you and says he already has a suite on one of the floors right above the club if you want to continue talking and drinking paid for through to Monday morning when he has to fly to another part of china to finalize another part of a multi million dollar deal. Says you may as well join him for the night, he offers to let you have the bed and he’d crash on the couch. You think why not?
His friends and your companions know where you are. Forget what’s the worst that could happen you are starting to think of some of the better things that maybe could happen.
He has said a lot here in the club, what would he say in private in his room?
You accept the invite. It’s worth it. More is imbibed. Drugs are taken, some kinda-sorta illegal. Various sorts of other activities of adult sort are engaged in. He mentioned many things over the night. You wake up next morning in bed together. It’s not too awkward and you decide to spend the day together inside sharing more about each other. It’s nice. You contact your Agency’s CCP liaison and they accept to give you Monday off if you want to spend one more night there. You’d forgotten how natural it was was reminiscing in person without the rigamarole stopping to answer questions about trivialities about your time before China. At night more sex, drugs and sharing your mutual love of rock and roll. You get to introduce him to some underground Chinese Bands and he tells you stories of meeting with members of foreign bands you’ve been a fan of since your early teens.
Monday morning he leaves and you return to your apartment. Your agancy’s CCP liaison calls once you arrive, curious, did the driver call to say you were back. The doorman? No big deal. They remind about having agreed to talk with the CCP official about any points of interest your latest ‘friend’ mentioned, and transfer you over to them.
The CCP official turns out to be female (that was considerate of them). After perfunctory introductions she professionally receives all the details you could remember. Only occasionally asking for clarifications and was thankfully understanding enough to not pry into the more lascivious activities that transpired the few times the recollections carelessly stumbled into hints of them.
Your career took off after that night.
You attended more of these nights out but never met your weekend friend again. You would occasionally recall the time with some apprehensive endorphin rushes. Nothing that happened was really your first time, well actually taking pictures of while doing those things was new.
But no way he’d let them out.
He put them on his personal laptop just for personal use. He would have far more to loose than you would after all…
Fast forward a few years. Your affinity for your country has grown along your status. You are now well established thanks to the CCP opening doors to rooms you did not even imagine existed. You now are the lead in a reimagining of a heroic story about some of the roots of your culture that will be presented to the people of your birthplace.
Your one weekend stand on the other hand, has some ups and downs. That’s the norm though, and you’ve heard he is now married, sure it is to the wife of his deceased brother, but his father is now running for president. The events of that weekend are likely relegated deep in his and your memories, never to be spoken of again.
Wait, what’s this? His laptop was supposedly left in some repair shop, surely it can’t be THAT laptop?
It was.
And now randoms are online trying to see if those blurry pics that leaked are really are of him and that one Mulan actress chick.
And there you have it. Ride over.
Thank you for reading.
I’m not sure about the things in that last story. Thats just something I thought up as a scenario after being asked if i thought the rumors of one of the people in the leaked images was Liu. Even if it was actually Liu or some other female in some Eric Swalwellesque honeypot spook CCP covert intelligence gathering operation.
Not important.
I believe that the contents reported to be from the laptop are genuine, but what willing adults choose to do together with or to each other is not of my concern.
As for the political corruption that does have a more direct effect on me, whether I want to know about it or not, supposedly it is now main stream media allowable to report on that in the post election time.
I made this meme to summarize my expectations.
Good chance this'll be an open & shut case to assuage those who heard anything about the Laptop through the pre suppression...
Would be glad to be wrong but if its a Biden administration a 'look i'm telling you we looked & there is nothing there. Hunter is good to go!" Is what I would do if writing about the characters that seem to inhabit the reality tunnel I’ve been navigating, and figurative “U.N.ity”™ forehead-stamping shall continue for the forseeable future.
If this is part of the prelude to Trump getting to complete his second term starting in January, then unprecedented things shall ensue.
Thank you for reading.
Will develop this over time as I learn more and get input from readers.