All humor aside, our Canadian friends have done one of two things:
Voted like fools for a socialist government headed by a fascist who will have them all in chains; or
Tolerated fraud of historic proportions (and as a friend noted, since they do all paper ballots, it would have to be analog fraud, not digital as we had in 2020).
Then, of course, there’s always
With any luck, Alberta will leave the Confederation and apply for statehood.
And all because they took offense at Donald Trump telling their communist former PM Castreau that Canada would be better off as the 51st State. This cartoon, depicting their new PM facing off against Trump, is apropos:
The problem is, this is Fucking Around on a grand scale. And now, undoubtedly, America’s Hat Canada will Find Out what … I won’t say “defying” the United States, but perhaps “ignoring” the United States … will get them going forward.
Because this is what they’ve already done:
Don’t get me wrong; I love Canada…at least some of their people are great, even if their country sucks…but at least one of those people I know of has already said this morning that he’s leaving for the US. And he lives in Alberta…
Pray for Canadians, y’all. Because Canada? Canada is toast.
It’s Chinese after all, but…you know how the Chinese have millions more young marriageable men than they do young marriageable women? You’d think women could have their choice of those young marriageable men, wouldn’t you?
Apparently, according to this video, you’d be wrong.
Zero in on the sections where the very eligible bachelors say why they’re not interested in the girls they’re set up with. And yes, this is Shanghai, so not Beijing or Guangzhou or anyplace else, and the video suggests this is a Shanghai problem more than elsewhere…but why do I doubt that?
So, yes, they have some stunningly beautiful women walking around loose over there, but that “stunningly beautiful” part comes with big-time baggage. The conclusion of the video (and I’m going to spoil it, but you should watch it anyway, it’s interesting to see the slice of life it shows) is that the young (and starting to age and get desperate) beautiful women of Shanghai are a bunch of spoiled little twits who are mercenary little golddiggers at best. They seem to think marriage is about the man keeping them in the style to which they’ve become accustomed, even though they’ve probably gone into debt and can barely house and feed themselves on what pittances they make in their department store or office jobs.
Note the one fellow who very practically points out that the girl only makes 8,000 yuan a month [ETA: 8,000 yuan is about US$1,100] but has fancy clothing and a very expensive name-brand handbag that’s either been gifted to her (probably by another boyfriend) or is a fake. And yet she’s the one badgering him about his job, and his pay, and his car, and his apartment, and his general lifestyle. He shuts her down pretty hard, but you know she learned nothing from his blunt assessment.
I will say that the men, for their part, have unrealistic expectations of these citified farm girls. A couple of them make the point that their families expect them to marry “pure” women. I.e., they don’t have a trail of ex-boyfriends, they are modest, they don’t go out clubbing, they don’t waste money on expensive cosmetics and gym memberships, they don’t have tattoos (and check out the chick they flash on the screen at that point — wow, honey, what a waste of money that must have been), they can cook and clean for themselves, and so forth. Oh, and the one guy made it clear that they had to have filial respect for their parents, which yeah, that’s a big thing in Asian culture, so you go guy.
What kills me is the matchmakers they talk to who are trying to fix these girls up know exactly what the problem is, but they can’t seem to convince the girls that they need to fix themselves and quit being such little bitches who only look at marriage as a way to be “kept” by a man who will be so appreciative that he’ll keep spoiling them for the rest of their lives.
Now, that all said, the real reason I’m posting about this is because it ties directly into the demographic decline the Chinese find themselves dogged by. It’s not just that there aren’t enough babies being born. And it’s not a factor of “too few women, too many men” though that is in fact an actual problem.
The problem (and I can’t believe it’s confined to Shanghai) is that the women are acting like they live in a society that’s the other way around — in other words, a shortage of men rather than a surplus. And the video hints at why that may be the case in the cities — the men come to the city, look at city life, say “no thanks,” and go back to jobs in the countryside. While the girls stay in the city, fighting grimly to keep up the facade of the good life while competing for the dwindling number of men who have the money to keep them spoiled.
Take THAT problem, add it to the “not enough babies” problem they already have due to the old One Child policies, and watch as the Chinese population ages out and craters. As if it hasn’t cratered already — there are plenty of demographers out there who think the Chinese population is a lot smaller than the official numbers would lead you to think.
I feel somewhat sorry for these girls, but in the end the problem is one of their own making. It’s not like there aren’t a potload more men than girls in China, and it’s not like it would be impossible for them to find husbands…except for their spoiled rotten attitude about what they want out of marriage. And the guys are very sensibly walking away from that bullshit.
Again, I don’t know how much credence to put into this video; it’s Chinese, so automatically suspect, but I don’t see why it would be necessary to lie about how critical the situation is — I’d be more likely to expect a coverup, so perhaps there’s more truth here than one would normally expect out of China.
I was pretty sure we were OK after a couple of hours Tuesday night, especially after Lara Trump’s vote purity brigade threatened to sue to start the counting again in a PA county that had stopped, ostensibly for the night, and they backed down immediately and started counting again…
…but I had made this up a couple of weeks ago and really didn’t want it to go to waste. Enjoy!
If this were a Republican administration, the party would have no hope of re-election given the recent FEMA disclosures. Everyone from the top down would be indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.
FEMA’s out of money? Hmm. Hey Congress, you’re not averse to increasing debt by the tonload, why aren’t you voting for emergency disaster relief right now?
The investigation into FEMA money going to pay for illegal immigrants can wait till the new administration. But people need to go to jail. All the way to the top. And that’s not persecution of political opponents — that’s prosecution of actual illegal actions by people in high office.
At minimum, Joe should be sent to a nursing home for the rest of his life. Kamala should be breaking rocks in Leavenworth for the rest of hers. And down the line it should go.
We have the worst politicians in our history. And probably in all of history. Everything they do is intended to harm the people of this country and this country’s image in the rest of the world. Hang them or Pinochet them all. They don’t deserve to breathe the air of freedom.
The odds were stacked in favor of Kamala. People are saying today that she must have known the questions in advance. Well, duh. Everyone involved in the production was doing anything they could to ensure a “win” for her. And the fact is, she’s so ridiculously, simperingly stupid, there’s no way she could stand in front of a panel and answer substantive questions about the last four years and the four years ahead. She was probably lucky to answer what she’d been prepped for.
The man who has been asking those questions, and putting forth solid policy ideas, was in the crosshairs last night.
People are also complaining that he didn’t ask until the last few minutes why Kamala hasn’t already done the things she’s saying she’ll do for the past 3-1/2 years. (She was Vice President, you know. I realize it was difficult to tell.) But I don’t think waiting till the end of the program was wrong for that question to be asked. Every great entertainer knows you always leave ’em laughing. And every great politician knows you unload your heaviest artillery at the end, so it makes a big splash on impact.
The one good thing about last night is it will likely be the death knell for presidential debates, unless the people who run them smarten up and understand they are literally doing the country an injury by their lopsided concept of “fairness”. But they won’t do that, because they’re all in for the United Communist States of America under the Uniparty represented last night by Kamala.
Thing is, the smart people are already ignoring them. It wasn’t even worth watching for the popcorn and shots every time Kamala lied. (I wouldn’t be at work this morning, and probably would be dead from alcohol poisoning; I don’t know how people like Stephen Green and Tony Katz do it. Stainless-steel livers, I suppose…)
Trump is saying he’s not going to do another debate. I agree. There’s no point. They’re nothing but 100% all-in political ads for his opponent. Take the modern incarnation of political debates out behind the barn and kill them with an axe, as P.J. O’Rourke would likely have said.
Here’s a good one for you, straight from the fever dreams of the lovely and talented Sarah A. Hoyt, the Beautiful But Evil Space Princess who commands her Hordes of Huns.
(All sales final. No money back. Buyer beware. Your mileage may vary. Offer good only in the State of Inebriation. Etc.)
Seriously, folks, your sexual preferences have absolutely nothing to do with pride. Frankly, it’s a Flag Day for people to start waking up and smelling the coffee.*
The thing to be proud of is your country. Yeah. It’s a little tough to do right now, with the worthless sacks of shit that are running it, right up to the Commander of Pantloads of Shit himself, but I had a sort of an epiphany today while thinking about the Masonic Ceremony of Seven Toasts.
I’m sure you are all sitting there thinking, “WTF has that got to do with pride in one’s country?” Hang on a mo’, I’ll tell ya.
You see, the Ceremony of Seven Toasts came to us in the States from the British Freemasons. One of their toasts was, of course, to the King or Queen. Which makes sense. Because British folks are subjects and they owe fealty and allegiance to the monarch, which is sort of the same as saying to the country, because the monarch is the country. Sort of. Even if the monarch is only a constitutional figurehead.
So we took that on in the US and since we don’t have a monarch, we substituted the President (or sometimes, the President and the Congress). However — that’s wrong. Because the toast is supposed to be to the entity to whom (or which) you actually owe that fealty and allegiance.
And I got news for you. In the US, that ain’t the President, and it ain’t the Congress, either. They’re functionaries We The People sent to Washington DC to do our bidding. That they don’t is pretty sad, and probably rises to treason, and thus deserves hanging by neck until dead, but that’s not what I’m here to discuss.
Growing up as a kid in this still-great nation, I was taught my allegiance was to the Flag Of The United States Of America, and to the Republic For Which It Stands. Because we don’t pledge allegiance to anything else. It would be silly to do so — because in the United States, every person is a sovereign. We The People govern ourselves, and for the things we can’t do every day, we elect and appoint other people to do them for us. But we don’t pledge allegiance to them, we expect them to do as We The People tell them to do.
In other words, nobody told Crusty Joe Biden to sell out to the fucking Chinese. But he did and we’re stuck with him for a bit till we sort that shit out.
This is something we need to remember as this fraught season of electoral hi-jinks is forced upon us. We declared independence from a king who was being an asshole to us (the same king the Brits toast today, just a newer version of him). We’re never going to toast that guy, just like (even as much as we thought of his mother) we never toasted his predecessor. And we should not be toasting the President, or the Congress, or any other piece of government we’ve set up to do our will and which has subsequently turned on us to force us to do its will. Screw that.
We should be toasting the Flag and the Republic. And then we can all come together again as citizens of a great nation and tell our political functionaries to start doing as they’re told, or get the fuck out.
Rainbow flags, feh. Toss ’em in the trash along with the U.N. flag.
On this Flag Day, be PROUD of the AMERICAN FLAG, and what it stands for. Long may it wave; and long may we continue to water the Tree of Liberty.
PS: Happy Birthday, President Trump!
* Did you like how I worked that in? I was kind of proud of it. Speaking of pride and all.
