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August 22, 2023

Update on my wife and her Green Card - Documentarily Qualified

After five rejections by the NVC, she is now Documentarily Qualified, meaning the NVC and the consulate in Guangzhou are setting up a time and date for her IV interview.

Big hurdle overcome.

The rest is almost automatic now. She needs to prove in the interview that we are legitimately married and that she is going to move to the US permanently, which is a much lower bar than an NIV, which the applicant has to prove they aren't staying the US.

The physical will be easy as she is clean.

After that, the visa is issued. When we come back, we give the visa packet to the CBP officer at the port of entry. She is allowed into the country, and six weeks later, she gets her SSN and her actual 10 year green card.

August 21, 2023

洋垃圾。滚开。中国人讨厌你。回去你国家。

It isn't even 11:30AM here and on my wechat, I've gotten this message from ten people that want to add me:

“洋垃圾。滚开。中国人讨厌你。回去你国家。”

For those that don't speak Chinese, allow me to translate:

"Foreign garbage. Get the fuck out. Chinese people hate you. Go back to your country."

This is what Winnie the Flu has created.

The only differences between Mein Kampf and Xi Jinping Thought are the picture on the front and the language between the covers.

The Chinese communist party have gone full on Nazi.

On the street, I hear 洋垃圾, 白皮猪, 蠻子, and 洋鬼子 all the time. Amazing how people will say the nastiest, most racist things you can imagine when they convince themselves you're too stupid to understand their language, even though I speak it fluently.

I'll translate: Foreign trash, white skinned pig, foreign barbarian, and foreign devil.

DON'T FUCKING COME TO CHINA UNTIL WINNIE THE FLU IS DEAD! You are not welcome here.

August 17, 2023

The Pledge to the Flag is bullcrap. Line by line analysis.

I hate the pledge. Haven't said it since I was in 8th grade. Didn't force my students to say it. Didn't even stand for it. Didn't tell my students in the US to stand for it. WV v. Barnette and Tinker V. Des Moines says students don't need to and can silently protest.

Let's look at the brainwashing crap of The Pledge, followed by a Pledge I believe is more acceptable but still shouldn't be said.

Swear word warning. . .this will sound like a George Carlin-type rant.

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
First of all, I have to ask what the hell does this mean? I'm pledging myself to a flag? A fucking flag? It's a red white and blue piece of cloth. Guess what. . .so are my pants. And my underwear. Well, I wear boxers, but I have no problems having people say "I pledge allegiance to my boxer shorts." Especially if they are pretty women. Pledge all you want.

And don't give me that weak shit "well, it means that you pledge to the ideals the flag represents. Oh, that's nice. Why not say that instead? I pledge allegiance for the ideals that the flag of the United States represents. It doesn't say that. Stop implying shit to confirm nationalism ego bias.

And what ideals do we mean? Of course, the good ones. Racism, slavery, sexism, genocide of native American, discrimination, homophobia, xenophobia, islamophobia. . .as Rage Against the Machine stated, all of which are American Dreams. You want to know about the great ideals of the US. . .ask a Native American, if you can find one. We make them a bit scarce. Want current data? Ask a random black family if they feel the "ideals" of the United States.

And do the Republic for which it stands.

So, the country is an afterthought. The flag is what you pledge to and the country is second. It's like that duty, honor, country pledge in the armed forces. The country is THIRD! IT SHOULD BE FIRST! I pledge allegiance to the United States and the flag that represents it sound so much better. At least I'm not pledging to a fucking piece of cloth.

One Nation

With all due respect, the Civil War proved that is horse shit. And Texas still wants to secede. And Republicans want to bring back nullification which was part of the path to the Civil War. We aren't one nation. They only time we're one nation is when someone attacks us or there is a national tragedy. Remember a time when it didn't take a catastrophe to bring us all together as a nation? Guess what? Neither can I.

Under God

This wasn't even in the original pledge. It was added in 1954 to show the Sky Daddy loved "freedom loving" US and not Godless Communism. Even though we didn't give a rat's ass about freedom. Look at the people we supported during the Cold War:
Papa Doc
Rhee Syngmun
Suharto
Sukarno
Ferdinand Marcos
PW Boltha
Ngo Dinh Diem
Shah of Iran
Batista
Francisco Franco
Baby Doc
Saddam Hussein (until we didn't)
Chiang Kai Shek (who brutalized native Formosa)
Pinochet
Noriega
Guatemalan Death Squads
Daniel Ortega


We didn't give a shit about freedom. All we cared about is that you weren't a Communist. IF you slaughtered people, that's the price of doing business.

With liberty and justice for all.. . .that aren't minorities or can afford it. This last line is infuriating.
If you want know about this, go to wikipedia, go to the search bar, type in Japanese American 1942 and you'll learn all about liberty and justice for all. Just when they needed their rights, the government took them away. The only right they had: RIGHT THIS WAY, into the concentration camp.

Native Americans weren't full American citizens until 1978.
Black people weren't people until 1865.
Women couldn't vote until 1920.
And you were old enough to kill but not vote until 1972.
Interracial marriage was outlawed until 1967.
Our Apartheid lasted until 1954.
The Chinese were denied immigration rights from 1881 to 1943
Jesse Washington's killers still haven't been brought to justice
The Tulsa Race Riot is still ignored
Sand Creek is still called a battle
Little Big Horn is still called a massacre


Now, let's try it again.

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of American and the country it created, conceived in liberty, dedicated to establishing equality for all within its borders.

I still have issues with it, but at least I'm not pledging to a fucking piece of cloth.

August 17, 2023

Trump enjoys strong support among Republicans. The general election could be a different story

Source: AP via AOL News

After every new indictment, Donald Trump has boasted that his standing among Republicans only improves — and he has a point.

Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 63% — now say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's up slightly from the 55% who said the same in April when Trump began facing a series of criminal charges. Seven in 10 Republicans now have a favorable opinion of Trump, an uptick from the 60% who said so two months ago.

But in a crucial warning sign for the former president and his supporters, Trump faces glaring vulnerabilities heading into a general election, with many Americans strongly dug in against him. While most Republicans — 74% — say they would support him in November 2024, 53% of Americans say they would definitely not support him if he is the nominee. Another 11% say they would probably not support him in November 2024.

The findings bolster the arguments of some of Trump's rivals for the Republican nomination who laud his tenure as president, but warn that he can't win in a general election when he must compete for votes beyond the GOP base. Trump lost the popular vote in the 2016 campaign, attaining the presidency only by winning a majority in the Electoral College. He lost to Democrat Joe Biden by an even larger 7 million-vote margin in 2020, a defeat he has falsely attributed to widespread voter fraud.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-enjoys-strong-support-among-040345844.html



Republicans aren't a political party. . .they are a hate group.
August 17, 2023

Gym updates. . .smaller in waist, but larger in muscle

2019: 309 lbs
2021: 285 lbs
Today: 259 lbs

August 17, 2023

Greene speculates on political future as Georgia senator, Trump's VP

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has not made up her mind on whether she’ll run for Senate in 2026, but she did express interest in the vice presidency in an interview Wednesday with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I haven’t made up my mind whether I will do that or not. I have a lot of things to think about,” she said. “Am I going to be a part of President Trump’s cabinet if he wins? Is it possible that I’ll be VP?”

Greene, a bombastic congresswoman who has vehemently defended Trump since before she was elected in 2020, said she would be “honored” to share a ticket with the former president and would consider it “very, very heavily.”


More bullshit from Georgia's most annoying asshole


Can this horsefaced redneck barbie just slither back under its rock?

It wants to run for GA Senator. Everyone in and around Atlanta will vote against it. If it doesn't carry the countryside 80-20, it will go down in flames. Being a douche only works in small states without major metropolitan centers.

BTW, redneck barbie, Agent Orange doesn't like to be upstaged.
August 16, 2023

Quora.com is now CCP foreign shill, wu mao haven.

All these dumb "Xi Jinping. Good or Great" and wu mao defending the indefensible.

Without my VPN, Quora is blocked, but the CCP troll farm use it for propaganda, just like they use all non-Chinese social media that they block in China.

Fuck the CCP.

And fuck Winnie the Flu.

August 16, 2023

I'm going to quote Harry Chapin's song "Song Man" for this song I wrote for you

And I hope that my mean shines through.

"Leon wrote a song for his special girl
And Elton and Bernie did too!
But you've been mine for such a long time
Baby
It's my turn to write one for you
And this is the best
That this poor boy could do.

August 14, 2023

White House reporter sues Karine Jean-Pierre after losing press pass

Source: AOL News

A member of the White House press corps has filed a lawsuit against White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the Secret Service, alleging they wrongfully revoked his press badge.

In his suit filed Thursday, African journalist Simon Ateba argues that the White House policy for revoking press access violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution. President Biden's White House announced new rules in May that – for the first time – allowed for rescinding a press badge.

"Defendants violated Mr. Ateba’s First Amendment rights by changing the criteria for hard pass credentials to intentionally prevent Mr. Ateba from obtaining hard pass access," the lawsuit reads.

"Defendants did so by adopting credentialing criteria specifically designed to exclude Mr. Ateba from eligibility. Such discrimination amounts to a content-based regulation and viewpoint discrimination against Mr. Ateba in violation of the First Amendment," it continues.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/white-house-reporter-sues-karine-185418025.html



It's from Fox (unfortunately) but it's on AOL News, so I posted it.

Two things:

1: This is not a reporter. He is a propagandist
2: Fox with another hit piece on Biden.

This will get laughed out of court.

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Name: Aram Katz
Gender: Male
Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
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Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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