How These Things Work....

 1.  Student visas

As long as you are granted the visa...your primary focus is education....NOT work, protests, or criminal behaviors.  The minute you cross the line, your student visa is at risk to being revoked.

2.  Green Cards

If arrested, charged, and convicted....you have a requirement in the fine-print....to report all 'events' to the Green Card authority.  If you fail....your Green Card is at risk.

If you move, you have 10 days to report your new address.  Failure?  Your Green Card is at risk.  

3.  People hyping a war against fascism

Typically, if you asked them to define it....they gave a response that sounds like what a 5th grade kid would utter.

4.  If you walked around your house, and selected everything that is made in a crappy way (barely works).....the made-in label says China.

5.  People explaining Trump's book....the 'Art of the Deal'

In 90-percent of these interviews....it's obvious they never read the book.

Phantom Students?

 Yesterday....I was reading a piece.....they now believe....around 34-percent of applicants to California's Community College system....were 'phantom-students'....mean they were faked-up....registered in the system (for 2024).

This an effort to 'scam' millions of dollars in state and federal financial aid? Well....it's not explained too well by anyone.

A number of California residents commented after this came out....over the past decade, they'd all seen improvements in theaters, sports facilities, and libraries (massive construction projects).  The odds of the scam going on for an entire decade?  Well....it makes you wonder.

What I find odd?  Well....UC acceptance rates for California community college transfer students (potentially, phantom-students as well) to UCLA, Berkeley and other UC campuses in 2024 and 2025....soared.  The 'bump'?  28-to-41 percent UP.  

So you can imagine yourself.....junior instructor for such-and-such community college....22 students on your list, and average showing up for class....12 of them.  So you reference this to the 'staff', and they tell you to accept this.  Or maybe you have a at-home class....with homework done by chat-AI....with one guy covering five fake students.

An investigation?  Well....normally....no.  But if fed-money fed into this....yeah, there will be an investigation, and some 'Oswald' will be the fall-guy.

The real blame here?  I hate to suggest it....but you can find people exiting California even a decade ago.....so the population shift has occurred, and the community college system should have shrunk by 10-to-20 percent....but they could not bear to admit this.  

How I Think Five Things Will Turn Out

 1.  Tariffs and China.

It'll reach a stage where nothing is moving from China (ship-wise) by early May.  Then talk will start up....that tens of thousands of Chinese are exiting the country.

By mid-May....a lot of production is going to move to India, Mexico, Vietnam and Argentina. Their actions to zeroize tariffs?  It'll pay off.

China by mid-July is crippled in the massive sense.  

2.  Governor Newsom of California? 

I just have this feeling....he ends up in a status of 'failed-cult-leader'.  

3.  California and it's future?

I think within a decade.....all gas refineries in the state of California will shut down, and a state gas-crisis will occur....with people unable to purchase fuel on a steady basis.

4.  California and homelessness.

The day will come when fed-money dissolves, and the state goes through a year-long period of massive decay (even worse than what you see today), and the Nat'l Guard is directed to pick up folks and deliver them to secure compounds.

5.  Visiting college kids in the US (non-American) on being deported out without a degree.

The 'kids' will return to their country....feel drawn to riot and demonstrate like they did in the US, and find that their own country has no sympathy for their behavior.

Modern-Day Version Of Our Town?

 I am a fan of the TV series 'Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage'.  Along about the 10th episode....I came to realize....it's an attempt to run a modern-day 'Our Town' play (by Thornton Wilder).

A bit of humor,  human reactions, successful failures, and a taste of drama.