DONALD TRUMP: The Great American Scapegoat.

Reacting on a commondreams.org article: “How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline.” Posted on Facebook. 

I SAY, 25-year timeline. From 2000, Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin's game-changing trade pact that paved the way for China's entry to the WTO the following year. The Democratic Party called it "globalization." Next, the U.S. 1 Percent got magnificently richer but (probably) they didn't foresee that that Washington template would make China's global trade expansionism more real. 

       Looking back, China quietly started its “new journey” right after Mao Zedong died (1976). Deng Xiaoping took over. The CCP’s “open door” policy snuck off the Great Wall, late-1970s. At that point, China started buying lands all over the globe (not in the U.S. where they own only below 1 percent of foreign-owned land). 

And then in 2009, BRIC(S) was born to challenge G7; already, China's 4 state-owned banks "balanced" the loans scale that the IMF and World Bank used to monopolize. Etc etcetera. 

       The Dems (politics or corporate) didn't make Donald Trump. The “new” Left of America failed to see China's ascent but it is Mr Trump who knows how to keep the swing to favor the U.S. How? By playing China's trade game, not "counter-playing" Beijing's very fluid playbook. All this as Europe insists on a stubborn hawkish agenda via NATO expansion, which is clearly countered by BRICS' trade expansion. The narrative says The D weakens America yet he only took over and had to improvise from the Democratic Party's blunder in miscalculating the Chinese. 🏛🗽🏛

Compilation of my short MORNING THOUGHTS.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

Political/economic memes are angled at influencing the narrative. Yet we need to dig up the veracity of data. Truths and facts. Example: Unemployment at 3.6 percent or recent addition of 7.9 million jobs, which could be a 1st year record. Check as well that at least 4 million workers resigned each month in the second half of 2021. They are returning to work due to the obvious 8.6 percent inflation rate. Hence the spike in job numbers. Still, the economy is in crisis. ⚒🧰🛠

Avid watcher of sports, me. Knew the #1s. These days, due to politics, #1 is “Who?!?” Tennis: Ex #1 Novak Djokovic was barred from the Australian Open. So #1 is Daniil Medvedev. Novak just won Wimbledon but may be banned again for the U.S. Open. Unvaxxed. Russian Daniil wasn’t in Wimby. Without the best from the world, why call it world’s #1? But MLB is called the World Series. The only “other people” that I see there are Japanese, Koreans, and South Americans? 🎾🥇🎾

The algorithm doesn’t analyze “facts.” Such as two massively shared memes that deal with gasoline prices in the U.S. and Europe, and another that talks about U.S. GDP etcetera—to justify that President Biden is doing fine managing the economy. Nope. For starters: Inflation rate at 8.6 percent is the largest 12-month increase since 1981. Public debt is $30.49 trillion, up from last year's $2.3 trillion. Foreign debt: $7.7 trillion, up by $1.5 trillion from last year. 🇺🇸👀🗽

A “globalized” universe means economics has been balanced between West and East. Political affairs and trade leverages aren't the exclusive power base of Europe and the U.S. anymore. Higher education has been spread out. Asians and Arabs don’t need to leave their comfort zone to study Western capitalism. What I learned in Manila’s schools are no different from what is taught in New York. Interfaces between cultures have blurred the “supreme race” narcissism.☮️💝☯️

First Amendment: Speak up against those who spoke on the contrary. But things don’t end with Social Media disparagement. People lose jobs, stripped of achievements, outed forever. Words that they said/wrote 10 years or 100 years ago are “recalled” to shame their memory. This is a New Morality that far exceeds the boundaries of any religious good or bad, political bad or good. Shinzo Abe, ex PM of “gun-less” Japan, wasn’t killed by a gun; he was assassinated by hate.☮️💝☯️

Only when you are a years-long BFF, I talk and talk and talk. But I am not a talker per se. I don’t dig talking at all. I’d rather write all my thoughts down. Always. While in a family/kin gathering or friends in a crowd, I am the quiet clam in a corner. Watching, listening. Not a good responder unless it is one on one conversation, in person. Not a telephone guy either. I don’t stop on the street to talk stuff like you got awesome hair or how’s your Brandon? Nope. 🗣👥👀

President Biden refuses to play China’s trade game. Yet he engages Russia via Vladimir Putin’ arena, military. Yet as Russia controls armed hostilities in Ukraine, Putin wins globally on economics. Kremlin’s Elvira Nabiullina pummels White House economic team. Meanwhile, Xi Jinping keeps on beating Joe Biden: RCEP/Asia Pacific, Nov 2020; Iran $400 oil deal, March 2021; Solomon Islands pact, May 2022. Etcetera. Joe needs to redo his foreign policy playbook. 

       Already, the American public is paying too much for the costly war. Almost $50 billion in aid to Kyiv, mostly military, since Feb this year. Etcetera. Fantastic gas pump prices + 8.6 percent inflation. War as rationale for economic ruin--so 1 Percent corporations assure profit margins--ain't gonna fool the world this long. 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳

Fascinating that many (in America) are so protective of their dogs from fireworks or thunder. I understand. The manner in which dogs are petted here is similar to how children are guarded. In the Pacific islands where I emanated from, dogs are also integral members of the family—although they mostly stay outdoors, inside a gated house, as guard dogs. They warn of intruders and strangers, and since they could “feel” a coming storm—they remind us to prepare. 🌬🐕💨

Happy July 4th to Americans who love their country! A week or so before today, the majority of what I read on my Homepage are scorn, displeasure, and hate of America. Which I fail to find sense. I grew up or evolved as a Leftist activist back home in the Philippines because I love my country. So I protested leadership corruption and foreign intervention. Hence I don’t get it that Americans who disapprove of how the United States is governed by politicians also hate the country.☮️🇺🇸🗽

Superpower #1 is all geopolitical narcissism. Already, the United States of America is the world’s #1 corporation. Number 1 economy, #1 consumer market, #1 oil producer/consumer, #1 prescription drug taker, #1 in military spending, #1 in drug industry, #1 in kickass sports shoes, and many others at #1. America loves being #1, so any perceived #1 threat from China or Russia is taken seriously. Fact is, Beijing and Moscow just want to stay #1 in noodles and vodka. 🇺🇸🥇🇺🇸