Biden and the Two-Foot Wall

 Right now....President Biden needs two to three months of absolute silence on people crossing the border.  He needs the networks to shutdown on the topic.  He needs zero questions posed at the White House press conference.  He needs the radio people to just shut up on the situation.

For better or worse, the US has a two-foot wall, and even a horse could jump it and head off into Texas if he felt like it. 

The fact that we are only in mid-March, with warmer weather coming?  It wouldn't surprise me by mid-May if you had forty-thousand every two days crossing the border...with a quarter of them juveniles.

How the border patrol would handle this, or the juveniles?  Unknown.

The idea that ABC news or the Washington Post would just fail to cover the story?  The idea that the AP would just skip telling the story?  

So that's the whole bulk of this 'opera'....it needs silence, to the maximum degree.  There ought to be Greyhound buses waiting there at the border and quickly disperse the migrants within minutes after they cross....to keep this all silent. 

Baizuo Isn't a Kind Descriptive Word

 If you hang around Chinese folks.....and they get asked to describe Americans...somewhere in the description will be the Chinese word 'baizuo'.

The literal translation?  'Blessed mother'.

It's a 5-star sarcastic term to show people of opinions or emotions....lacking empathy and mostly promoting one's self of selflessness.

Around a decade ago, it started to be thrown around....mostly pointed at fakeness  or the lack of morality within western media (bluntly pointed at Twitter and Facebook).

All of this leads to destructive behavior naturally....where you might destroy a 20-year friendship with a school-friend, or dissolve a 10-year marriage, or screw over some church members because they didn't follow your preferred social doctrine. 

So here's the thing....all the way up and down Chinese levels....they perceive this same behavioral problem.  They don't respect you for it, and they certain won't sit at a table and let you dish out fake chatter leading back to baizuo.  You saw that this week with the Chinese folks invited to a discussion with the State Department idiots in Alaska.  

The key problem here....once they assign you with the tag of baizuo....you are regarded as naive and stupid....a country bumpkin.  It doesn't matter what you degree you profess, or if you carry a PhD level on your shoulder....your respect is chopped off.  You are in their mind....a fifth-grade kid.

So the LGBT stuff, the hyper behavior about refugees, the BLM chatter?  Yes, it all leads back to baizuo.  

The 2020 election?  The arrival of the Biden-team?  The Twitter idiots?  The Washington Post marginalized news?  The Greta crowd?  Baizuo.  

Divorce Story

 The problem here....you really don't know how much is true, and how much is fake.

China says....at least from the Wuhan City numbers.....that sixty percent of the folks who did have divorce paperwork generated in January of 2021.....decided something 'clicked' and dumped the paperwork....(staying with their perceived loser-husband or loser-wife).

So, this odd thing occurred.....China made up this law that said when you file for a divorce, you have to go through a 60-day cooling-off period.

During this cooling-off period, you have to go to marriage counseling, period.  No waivers....no exemptions.

So they say in Wuhan, in January of this year....just over 3,000 couple filed for divorce.  

It should have been final in March.

Just over 1,300 went final in March.  The rest?  The situations were dropped.

Now, it would be interesting to gather up the 1,700 couples who dissolved the paperwork to divorce, and ask some more direct questions.  But no one went that far.

Current Impressions of Ten People

 1/2: Prince Harry and Meghan.  I see two no-talent people who need to be given a clear job....like caretakers of a camp-ground, or mattress sales shop, or running a dog-grooming shop.  They need real work to keep themselves occupied.  I'd also suggest that Harry take up drinking to lessen his stress levels.  

3.  Pelosi.  I doubt that she's ever gone a day in thirty years without three cocktails.  At her weight-level, 95 pounds....that's about two cocktails too many.

4.  Kanye West is living the American dream, and doing something right.  He is supposedly the richest black guy in America now....even if he is 50-percent crazy.

5.  This Psaki gal who is the White House press-person....is probably the most miserable member of the Biden-team.  I actually feel sorry for her as she grapples around with questions each day.

6.  I don't think the current governor of California (Newsom) has the qualifications to even run a sports bar or muffler shop. 

7.  I think Joe Biden is the best spokesperson for the NRA ever....all he has to do is stand and make a 60-second comment, and tomorrow.....40k guns will be sold across America.

8.  I think Putin could actually arrive in California, and within six weeks....convince more than half the state that he deserves a chance as governor of California.  

9.  I think this Marvel Comics effort to 'remake' Captain America into some gay activist....will last for about six months, and then they will admit the humiliation comments by readers is way too much.  A two-year silence on Captain America will then occur.

10.  I think Brian Stelter of CNN needs a year off, and probably is suffering from PTTS (Post-Traumatic-Trump-Syndrome).  I know of an excellent hotel down in Florida where he could recover.  

Just an Odd Point

 With the George Floyd case about to start up....one curious point.

If you go back six years ago...way before Floyd’s death...the club that the accused cop worked at...had this reputation as a money-laundering operation. What was said in 2015, on some bust of the club...Mexican drug-cartel members were active and this was their operation. 

I think if you asked the question, where did this counterfeit $20-bill come from that triggered the call from the grocery that morning, it’d open up a lot more discussions about the club connection. I don’t think Chauvin wants to open that discussion. 

My humble guess is that when Chauvin got the call to go over to the grocery about a counterfeit $20 situation...then came to face Floyd, this was a totally messed-up situation. This was all going to come back to the El Nuevo Ranch Club, and it’s ‘owners’. 

One other thing to bring up. Floyd had only worked at the club for roughly a year. He’d been brought in as a bouncer for ‘black-events’, and stayed on. Chauvin? He’d been there for 17 years. Even after the money-laundering business in 2015...he never left.  You would think that the police department would have gazed over at this part-time job business and told Chauvin....isn't it odd that you'd been employed at a money-laundering operation....for several years?  Yet, no one says anything?

Decline

 I'd like to strongly encourage folks to watch this 7-minute video of Patrick Bet-David having a discussion with Adam Stokes on the topic of the decline of America.

The point here that Patrick makes....the nation is headed toward a messy situation where people expect 'X' and the mechanism we are built upon....simply can't deliver 'X'.

If you gaze around at kids finishing college, and having a debt of $80k over student loans....things are pretty screwed up.

If you gaze around California and look at restaurants and pubs shutdown, with dismal recovery in the works....things are screwed up.

If you gaze at President Biden's tax chatter....things are pretty screwed up.

If you look at the hotel and airline industry, things are screwed up.

I would suggest for the next three or four years....it's a pretty dark period to emerge, and our patience will be tested to last the period.  

A Little Story

 Somewhere around the ninth-grade, I picked up Mary Shelly's book 'Frankenstein'.  After finishing it....I sat for about a week...off and on, thinking over the writing, the story, the good doctor's efforts, and the conclusion.

There's one single bit over the book and Shelly, that I didn't realize until the 1990s when reading through an article.  The book goes back to 1818.  A British gal....Shelly, then roughly 21 years....had a 'contest' brewing between her boyfriend (Shelley), and his buddy (Lord Byron).  

The 'contest'?  Who could write the better horror story?  During the contest period, she was traveling through Germany, and was in the region of the Odenwald Forest, near Darmstadt. Something 'clicked'.  

Amusingly enough....no one rarely mentions the two guys in this contest or what they wrote as a 'horror' story.  What Lord Byron attempted to write, was 'Fragment of a Novel', which was supposed to be a vampire story....but the manuscript was never finished.  As for Percy Shelly?  He made an effort but never got anywhere on the story business (remember, he was a poet at heart).

What can be said about the German landscape and Darmstadt?  This was the period where the Brothers Grimm were busy, and there were literally millions of tales or home-spun stories which were being told at pubs and homes.  Some were about enchanted women....some about demons....some about magical unicorns, and some related to crazed beasts.  

It was an era where travel was going on....a lot more people were engaged in idle chatter in roadside inns in the evening hours, and they were sharing stories they'd heard weeks or months prior.  Yes of course....a bit of booze probably helped to relax the mind, and the story being told was probably more 'gripping'.

The end result with 'Frankenstein'?  No matter how good the doctor's intent was....what emerged was some creature that could not be controlled or guided.  From the moment of creation....the creature was absolutely a threat.  Consequences?  You could write an entire book over this story, and the consequences that were laid out.  

It's an odd challenge that was laid out, and you to wonder.....why get into a competition about scary horror things?  Why not write a romance piece, or some unsolvable murder?  So this is the consequence of that one single evening....the challenge over a year to lead onto the creation of 'Frankenstein'.