Trump just raised tariffs on China to 145%
I keep getting that "Western oil embargo causing the Imperial Japan to attack Pearl Harbor" feeling.
Chairman Xi has read his Sun Tzu.
"On desperate ground, fight."
-Sun Tzu, chapter 11, paragraph 1.3
Right now, the U.S. Is seasing to be a Democracy!
#MangoMussolini is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.
https://i.fluwatue.com/Democracy
Social media is a machine designed to stimulate the reptilian parts of your brain that otherwise beg you to go outside.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHqawwVs7p6/
A series of things that pissing me off.
I don't have pet peeves
I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.
George Carlin - You Are All Diseased (Full special, 1999)
https://youtu.be/12g7t4i11rI
That made me laugh and gringe at the same time
https://t.me/radbulls/69
According to a report at CTV news U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year so dar. #Roflmao
People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
One of the reasons why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
If you don't stick to your principles when they're being tested they're not values.
They're hobbies!
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
You think it’s so easy to change yourself - but it’s not. True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, girls leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred.
And with each of these moments you change and change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor.
Because throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn’t that - just you - enough?
Effect that isolation can have on human behavior - when something bad happens in enforced isolation, is that it's often the small things, tiny things that can blow up into conflict, flare up to become something much larger than they typically are.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself.
Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir
"The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia and Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin." - French Senator Claude Malhuret made an excellent speech.
David Brooks' speech was challenging and thought provoking, calling for us to reassess what we think cultural renewal looks like and to reconnect to our spiritual roots.