As you know, I live here again. We're still trying for the Green Card but we have pretty much lost hope.

With that said:

For those in the states, let me explain something. the Chinese don't care about masking. they wear masks all the time even before this BS with covid. they have masks to warm their faces, for bad pollution days, for house cleaning, for cooking and serving food, etc.

What they are protesting are arbitrary never ending quarantined that they need to pay for and people are dying and starving in them. they are protesting with blank white printer paper being symbolic that their government doesn't care about them yet alone listen to them.

here are current conditions here:
-youth unemployment at 40%
-internet completely restricted to things the CCP can regulate and wipe clean - intranet
-Quarantining and testing now having financial incentive with accounts for 1.3% of the Chinese GDP
-restricting travel throughout China by changing covid QR codes from green to red for no reason
-restricting travel out of China but making getting and renewing passports nearly impossible
-a housing market near complete collapse which most people put their life savings in and accounts for 39% of the GDP
-a banking system low on funds due to an extra low reserve requirement, mortgage people have given up paying for because their house will never be built, and has become one gigantic Ponzi scheme
-the drums.of war against Taiwan that only the CCP, their members, the kool aid drinkers, and Xi Jinping want
-an aging population where the youth will need to take care of their parents and grandparents as well as their families
-being the only country on earth where there are 100M more men than women in a culture where married men with children are viewed as mature and responsible enough for promoting
-inflation at nearly 12%

these are the traditional signs that a Chinese government has lost the mandate of heaven, something the CCP claimed in 1949.

why am I saying this? we just had an election where 43% of eligible voting age Americans did not even bother to show up. We live in a place we take whatever rights we have left for granted and don't care that our government is doing its best to choose away even more. And the protestors in China are risking arrest, long term detention in horrid jail conditions, beating, torture, a life destroyed if they get out or death while in jail for a fraction of what we take for granted or don't care when it's destroyed.

our apathy will destroy us and give us a tyrant like Ron DeSantis, who nothing more than that Trump with a nice paint job. the world's apathy to brutal regimes like Kim, Putin, Iran's Ayatollah, Eritrea, Egypt, Bolsanaro, Burma's military junta, and Xi's revival of Mao era policies will lead us all down the path of acceptance of authoritarianism.

Thank you for reading.

and say something to the effect of "this holds the content of Hunter Biden's laptop and you'll all see the contents really soon?"

I'm wondering why no one called him on it. . .I think it was Matt Gaetz. . .and said "listen skeezix, why not show us the contents of that laptop now, rather than making us wait? Come on, tough guy!"

Personally, I see this going the way Clinton went. . .we go from "investigating" a property deal to investigating the denial of a blowjob.

This time, we'll go from “investigating" a laptop to "investigating" a drug habit and making PJB look bad for not disowning his son for it. It will be called "Daddygate" by the "liberal" media and every carnival barking head on TV will either insinuate or flat out scream for Biden to resign “for the good of the nation."

Again, people like Donnie Dumbass can do whatever he likes and no one cares about the "good of the nation." Imply that a Democrat had a bad hair day or wore an off color suit and SCANDAL！！！！

With all the things happening here, I will try to give a on the ground update.

Anyone with any questions, please ask me. I will answer to the best of my ability.

This is a nervous time now. I have job offers in Beijing and Changzhou. My wife is terrified to go to beijing now.

BTW, my wife and her small community in the rural part of Jiangsu support the protestors.

Mass shootings. Car attacks. School shootings. Increased suicide rate. What is wrong with this country?

BTW. . .don't read the comments. For some reason, whenever articles allow comments, they are inundated with right wing trolls. It seems like wingnuts have nothing better to do with their lives than post comments on articles.

Source: USA Today VIA AOL

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy served further notice Sunday that his potential speakership will be politically volatile, saying he will try to keep three high-profile Democrats off of certain committees.

Democrats said McCarthy will do whatever his right wing wants him to do because he still lacks the votes to land the speaker's job.

In stumping for the position, McCarthy has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., members of the House Intelligence Committee.

McCarthy and other Republicans have for months said these members' past statements and actions regarding issues like Israel, China and Russia should keep them off these committees.

"I'll keep that promise" to remove them, McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Read more: https://www.aol.com/kevin-mccarthy-wants-block-three-173905931.html

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It's about revenge and retribution, not governing.

Ugh!

I was cramped into a coffee house pew
Two dollar coke in my hand
Listening to the music run
Through and out of a drowning man
Ten years ago I first heard him singing
To a screaming crazy crowd
Now there's thirteen loyal people
Trying to sound that loud
And I wonder as I watch him now
Why his songs don't turn me on
He got me into music
Where has the fragile magic gone?

And all the changes
Keep on changing
And the good old days
They say they're gone
Only wise men
And some new born fools
Say they know what's going on
But I sometimes think the difference is
Just in how I think and see
And the only changes going on
Are going on in me

Being overseas, I can avoid them.

But I have morbid curiosity as to what Hannity, Beck, Levin, Hewitt, Prager, Savage, Medved, and the rest of that ilk are saying about getting their asses handed to them with both hands.