"Evidently China is farther along in its project than I realized, because Xi has reached the point where he no longer humors Trump. Which means that the Chinese believe America’s decline is terminal."
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Xi’s narcissism will add to China’s many problems. But I’d bet those soldiers are fiercely proud of their country, its deep culture, long history, & amazing progress of the last 40 years. They’re well-equipped. They would be formidable defenders of Chinese interests. Let’s not do something stupid.
sep 8, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
This is our VERY unfortunate reality.
sep 7, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
The American people are so in the dark. Your empire is crumbling. The world is moving on without you. You will die on the vine.
sep 7, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Nah, the Chinese know demento is pathetic n feckless.
sep 7, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
Xi does believe USA is gone! He has moved his market on to other greener pastures! He is not a stupid person and has little patience for stupid people! We the us consumers bought their products! Not only better but cheaper! China bought our soybeans and other crops!
sep 7, 2025, 11:10 am • 2 0 • view
Did the despots meeting in China agree to quit (or reduce) buying US TBills? Interest on TBills will rise causing the US to pay extra on servicing our own deficit/debt. Bad for the economy. IF Trump can artificially lower interest rates inflation will explode, like in Turkey. Worse for the economy.
sep 7, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
so sad…
sep 7, 2025, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
Trump is making America obsolete.
sep 7, 2025, 3:11 am • 11 0 • view
MAO? 😂
sep 7, 2025, 6:37 am • 4 0 • view
I wonder if Trump was wishing his troops were as well drilled as the Chinese? Unlike the USA troops that march for him. The difference is the USA troops have real jobs and are training for war not there to fluff a Child molesters feelings I wonder how they feel about the child molester?
sep 7, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
Honestly I think the Christian right really actually just would like to continue the Confederate ambition, which was to subjugate Mexico and Latin America once they won the Civil War. I think they would be happy just controlling the Southern states and enslaving Central America. No other ambitions.
sep 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They are not wrong. We elected a profoundly stupid, morally rudderless, felon. Twice.
sep 7, 2025, 2:19 am • 49 0 • view
Trump loves the uneducated and they overwhelmingly return the feeling by voting for him.
sep 7, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 2:45 am • 4 0 • view
I hope I am wrong, but get ready for a real life Man in the High Castle, except it will be China and Russia dividing up the U.S. instead of Japan and Germany.
sep 7, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
There is no way either launches a successful invasion of the US. Doing so would be the most costly invasion in history and neither has the military force to do so. Americas geography is simply too hostile to invasion to be worth it for any invader. China's power will be economic, not military.
sep 7, 2025, 4:43 am • 3 0 • view
Obviously.
sep 7, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
Not just China.
sep 7, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Xi is right. I remember watching a Sharks episode where they all were asking why the person didn't go to China or India to make their product. When the man said I want to make it here, they laughed at him. This is Oligarchy. They created 47 and now we will work directly for them all.
sep 7, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
For those of you who voted for Trump because you thought China was a threat, well guess what??
sep 7, 2025, 2:32 am • 11 0 • view
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. And now he gets the Big One: he gets to completely destroy and bankrupt the United States. It's just 9 months and he's doing a fantastic job. Another three years and they'll be nothing left but charred remains and ashes.
sep 7, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 1 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
They are right.
sep 7, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 3:01 am • 4 2 • view
China will string along trump a little in case they need him down the road.
sep 7, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
He is losing in the global spectrum so he is turning the military on US Citizens to stroke his ego.
sep 7, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems abundantly clear that it is.
sep 7, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
I was thinking we might lose a decade because of Trump, assuming we turn it around. Not terminal, but still very bad.
sep 7, 2025, 3:12 am • 1 0 • view
Look at dictator era Brazil. 20 years to return to democracy and that was only once all the population got involved. I expect 25-30 years for US to pull its head out of its ass. It’s why we are all moving away from them.
sep 7, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it will take longe than a decade. Empires decline.
sep 7, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view
sep 7, 2025, 2:09 am • 19 1 • view
But the idiots that voted for him will still be with us.
sep 7, 2025, 2:20 am • 31 1 • view
The idiots that voted for him also voted for The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. Even with a 100% reversal, it will take decades to unravel and prosecute the Insurrectionists. To do this, we need to organize. To organize, we need to secede now! This map is a talking point only.
sep 7, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 2:45 am • 3 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 3:43 am • 6 1 • view
And they'll wander around without a god to worship for a while, but they'll find a new one to replace him. Even when he's gone, his worshippers are still vile people. Their values won't change; only who they choose to follow will.
sep 7, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
We will still have to contend with the idiots that he put in power & got voted in at the National, State and local levels.
sep 7, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
😢
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sep 7, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
Trump is no match for Xi. Never has been, never will be. Thanks to Trump we have the new evil axis of Russia, China and NK. Instead of uniting with our allies, he has united our enemies.
sep 7, 2025, 4:51 am • 13 2 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
We need blue states to move on from trump as well. Just dump the states that follow him and band together against him.
sep 7, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
There are no fully blue or red states. All states are populated by Americans of both parties. And we aren't seeing enough "blue" pushback from those we elected against the atrocities (with very few exceptions.) Divide the country arbitrarily and the monsters win.
sep 7, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
Obviously there are people of both parties in all states but we consider “Blue states” the ones with Dem leadership. States with Dem leaders need to do these things to fight trump.
sep 7, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe Xi is right…the US seems too divided on a fundamental level to get big things done & there’s no end in sight in terms of an emerging consensus that will last beyond an election cycle or two.
sep 7, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
The worst part about our demise is that it’s self inflicted.
sep 8, 2025, 12:06 am • 1 0 • view
I fear they may not be wrong. And I hate that it’s happening in my time. I certainly didn’t vote for this.
sep 7, 2025, 5:22 am • 0 0 • view
China has shown the world that Trump does not have the cards himself.
sep 7, 2025, 5:41 am • 1 0 • view
Wow
sep 7, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
Good job maga
sep 7, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
Hopefully the dicktators won't pursue their enemies in America!
sep 7, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
No doubt..
sep 7, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
Because the GOP, SCOTUS, etc. enable him and love the power they gain by supporting him. Our democracy is flatlining with one party destroying everyone and everything except the 1% while the other writes letters and look down at the few fighters among them. Xi isn't dumb. It's bigger than Trump.
sep 7, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
Le problème n'est pas ce qu'ils pensent mais la réalité et la réalité est que malgré ses progrès spectaculaire la Chine est encore très loin des USA en matière de PIB et de PIB/H et que sa démographie la tire vers le bas, mais surtout qu'ils ne font que copier sans innover! Harvard est aux USA.
sep 7, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
Well that’s dangerous
sep 7, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
This is what happens when orange numbnuts is the head of the country
sep 7, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
China has partnered with India which tells you everything you need to know about what China thinks about the US.
sep 7, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Xi regards the US as I would a pain-in-the-rear little gnat that you can't really see, continuously swat at and finally go get the spray that kills.
sep 7, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
His greed for money, power, and attention (and he’s compromised, of course) will bring down the US and many (most?) countries (yay for us). The real dictators are publicly mocking him and they’re not longer holding back. Why? They know now and can rejoice.
sep 7, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
Does Trump actually realize that Putin and Xi are making a fool out of him, or does he have enough yes men and personal delusion to think he’s doing a great job?
sep 7, 2025, 2:13 am • 12 0 • view
Probably the latter. But being the Narc that he is, even if he realizes just how badly he's fucking up, he will never admit it publicly and is likely to double-down to "prove" that he's right. This is why you never vote for a malevolent narcissist for any office. Americans had to learn the hard way.
sep 7, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
The latter.
sep 7, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Does trump actually have the capacity to think?
sep 7, 2025, 3:00 am • 5 0 • view
Have you heard his cabinet praise him? Have you seen him fire people who didn't have positive news and reports for him? He's in his own special world.
sep 7, 2025, 5:05 am • 0 0 • view
Which means he can now torment him.
sep 7, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
Trump is their useful idiot
sep 7, 2025, 3:09 am • 4 0 • view
All empires end. Some faster than others.
sep 7, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Joe Biden said it’s never a good bet to bet against America. Voters said hold my beer. Worst of all it was self inflicted.
sep 7, 2025, 2:10 am • 44 0 • view
Your assessment is right on. I work with Chinese companies. Up until about 2 months ago most employees of these companies were Trump fans. Now they are staunch critics of Trump and America. Something has changed internally. Their leadership has sent down a new directive.
sep 7, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I actually think they are all playing the same tough war leader game to normalize more hypermasculine authoritarian fascism. And the US becoming authoritarian keeps the citizens of other authoritarian feeling helpless to withstand.... But Trump is not in the league and he is putting us in danger.
sep 7, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
He wasn’t interested in helping America in the first place. It was always only about benefiting himself. He does not care what happens to Americans. Full stop. 🛑
sep 7, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
China believes it because it's true. We all do. We love America but it's off it's meds and needs an intervention.
sep 7, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
China also bet big on Communism a few decades ago; they had to walk that back, so Im thinking theyre not always "with it."
sep 7, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Disinterest. The worst. Wait for Trump to up the ante. He won’t be able to tolerate being ignored.
sep 7, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
I thought he knew about having no cards 😂
sep 7, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
Putin and Xi made a fool out of trump
sep 7, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 0 • view
Simple minded money- sick fuck of a primate.
sep 7, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
Xi knows trump is putin’s bitch America is done for (for now)
sep 7, 2025, 8:58 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe he realizes that Trump is already collapsing whether he takes America with him or not, & honestly, the sooner Trump & his regime finish collapsing, the more beneficial that should be for everyone in the world...
sep 7, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
He also probably recognizes that not giving him his way easily might result in Trump attacking America more viciously to feed his addiction to narcissistic abuse to feed his addiction to narcissistic devaluing...
sep 7, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
Trump kicked the house of cards over, but a few decades of dropping infrastructure on places instead of bombs seems to have worked out pretty well for the Chinese and badly for us
sep 7, 2025, 5:03 am • 2 0 • view
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sep 7, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
Trumps first 100 days - destroying world economy w tariffs - isolating America attacking our allies - recites war criminal Putin’s talking points - signs executive orders destroy democracy -released Jan 6th insurrectionist who beat Capitol Police - exporting people without due process #resist
sep 7, 2025, 2:05 am • 7 2 • view
Many Americans do too
sep 7, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
The man is a complete moron. Dumber than a fucking doorknob. Of course he didn't realize it. He doesn't realize anything.
sep 7, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
Or at least our current government’s decline is.
sep 7, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
China planned for Trump after his first tariffs in his first term. Why would any country waste time trying to make deals with Trump--who breaks his own deals and fabricates imaginary phone conversations!
sep 7, 2025, 5:11 am • 1 0 • view
Literally every single thing Trump has done this year has strengthened China’s hand.
sep 7, 2025, 2:03 am • 95 3 • view
I saw your handle and my entire train of thought was replaced by the airwolf theme…
sep 7, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re welcome 😄
sep 7, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
He's terrible at negotiating. Killing things like USAID and doing random tariffs greatly weakened his position. He's the worst dealmaker in the history of the presidency.
sep 7, 2025, 9:00 am • 18 1 • view
True. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg
sep 7, 2025, 9:33 am • 9 0 • view
Yeah. I obviously don't think he's a Chinese operative, but I'm not sure he could have done much more if he was to strengthen their hand.
sep 7, 2025, 6:51 am • 4 0 • view
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
sep 7, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, but I’m not wasting my time reading that crap. What I KNOW: From his treatment of our allies, to his tariffs (both the legal and illegal ones), to the dismantling of our foreign service corps, to the USAID catastrophe, to his anti-renewables fuckery—it ALL strengthen’s China’s hand.
sep 7, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Good President Xi, fire when ready
sep 7, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, we are a B movie and the world knows it.
sep 8, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
💯 this is important. The Chinese believe America's decline is terminal... Oof.
sep 7, 2025, 6:01 am • 0 0 • view
Dippy Poison has terminalized the whole of Earth Got Heart?
sep 7, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
Trump’s only response to Xi Putin Modi was to sound like a weak, angry 5th grade bully who’d been called out.
sep 7, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
At present, the only reason the United States even exists to Trump is to keep him out of jail. Nothing else matters.
sep 7, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
The decline of America can be traced directly to Reagan, Bush 1 and 2, and to Trump, who is a Russian asset if not an outright agent. And, our demise is the fault of Fox, the Republican Party, and Republican voters. All of which begs the question, why do Republicans hate America so much?
sep 7, 2025, 11:58 am • 7 1 • view
Only a fool would sell the first position for last… But Taco sold-out America’s standing among world leaders for personal gain… it’s the ultimate act of betrayal in civilized cultures.
sep 7, 2025, 2:20 am • 21 0 • view
Absolutely, always about Don seeking vengeance for perceived slights and making money, the only things He cares about, he’s made millions from his tariff, stock market manipulation, he believed countries would pay him for the privilege of importing, like paying for pardons or dinner or young girls
sep 7, 2025, 12:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Unlike America where millions can't discern truth and principles mean nothing, China plans long term based on their beliefs. America is sacrificing its greatest asset, unity in division. As extremist drive us further apart, our country will weaken into the pathetic Divided States of America.
sep 10, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
He and Vlad must be so proud of their handiwork.
sep 7, 2025, 5:54 am • 0 0 • view
President Xi Jinping is a dictator no question about it. But China 🇨🇳 is further ahead in its projects than many realized. Its military and tech already outpace the U.S. under Dotard, and China doesn’t care about the USA or their tariffs.
sep 7, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump’s deep weakness isn’t unseen by shrewd leaders. The despots among them see numerous opportunities to fuck us over. And over. And, they don’t do lube.
sep 7, 2025, 2:31 am • 18 0 • view
JVL is right. It may not be too late, but it appears to be 11:59 and the clock is ticking. What will you do America? Be quick.
sep 7, 2025, 3:48 am • 2 0 • view
Yup
sep 7, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
That’s because it is . The US is heading for a fall . People have not realized that china is the new world leader like it or not . They have started beating everyone in tech . It was only a matter of time .
sep 7, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably not that America is terminal, but that anything trump tries to do will be short lived. No reason to humor a lame duck.
sep 7, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
Xi knows things we don’t. Vance will not be a lame duck.
sep 7, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
That’s obvious to anyone outside of this failed state.
sep 7, 2025, 2:53 am • 3 0 • view
I imagine he is privy to all of the orchestration and successful maneuvering of Putin, Netanyahu, MBS et. al.
sep 7, 2025, 4:30 am • 3 0 • view
More likely it Means they think MAGA’s decline is terminal, ànd Ds won’t hold disrespect for Trump against them in 2029.
sep 7, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Well.....that's depressing. Is that a JVL Take? Sounds like JVL.
sep 7, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
I agree. It’s all about China if we are talking about most powerful nation on earth. Root for the decline to of the fascist US empire to continue.
sep 7, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
You can blame Trump -- but blaming the 77 million people that voted for him makes more sense.
sep 7, 2025, 2:05 am • 65 2 • view
i blame trump and MITCH MCCONNELL AND JOHN ROBERTS and the republican members of congress. they all took oaths to protect and defend the constitution and FAILED to uphold that oath. the idiotic trump voters took no oath.
sep 7, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
If you believe we have anything like a "democracy"then blaming all those people is just a distraction from the responsibility of the people that voted for them. Robert's confirmation is only once-removed from "we the people." Voters need to own their votes.
sep 7, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
No it doesn't. Blaming the people in Washington who are enabling him makes more sense. In both parties.
sep 7, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
89 million didn't vote, blame them too.
sep 7, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
I agree with you. We can not forget that 77 million of us who thought Trump was a superior candidate to a well qualified woman. These people think right-wing media tells them the truth. They are the gullible who have destroyed their own country. Their ignorance matches that of Trump's cabinet.
sep 7, 2025, 9:50 am • 0 0 • view
I blame your whole shithole country for being comfortable as the boot on the neck of the world
sep 7, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
That would involve the bulwark blaming their family, friends, and those that most resemble them…
sep 7, 2025, 2:34 am • 11 1 • view
TBF they’d be blaming half of all of our families, friends, coworkers, etc. also, JVL constantly does this.
sep 7, 2025, 3:21 am • 9 0 • view
Yes, exactly. Good.
sep 7, 2025, 3:24 am • 3 0 • view
sep 7, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
Yup. I am laser focused on making the red states (aka the United States) to pay dearly for what they have done.
sep 7, 2025, 2:09 am • 4 0 • view
We need to secede. They are not our country anymore. This map is a talking point only!
sep 7, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump didn't carry all the states.
sep 7, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
Are there people who think he did?
sep 7, 2025, 2:20 am • 4 0 • view
Bleak…. BUT NO KINGS October 18 near you Indivisible, 50501, NoKings,…
sep 7, 2025, 3:07 am • 7 2 • view
Omg you *know* Trump watched it and cried a tantrum of jealous tears
sep 7, 2025, 3:38 am • 2 0 • view
Hopefully, our military gets fed up with being used like a mad man's toy soldiers.
sep 7, 2025, 4:42 am • 3 0 • view
...or at least that trump is terminal.
sep 7, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
If Putin owned Trump and wanted to destroy the US...it would be hard to see a different set of actions from Trump then what has occurred...won the Cold War by appealing to stupidity...and it worked...PS no vaccine controversy in Russia
sep 7, 2025, 2:47 am • 9 0 • view
He's the laughing stock of the world.
sep 7, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
And Putin scared the hell out of all of rump’s party in Alaska, and rump has pissed off modi. And there they all were along in China with Kim, all are nuclear powers. Wanna make a bet about Ukraine? Then how about US? Rump has screwed us so badly. And all the magas are just reveling in his pigpen.
sep 7, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, and Xi isn't the only one.
sep 7, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view