Posted on 09/17/2023 7:24:24 AM PDT by ransomnote
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If global warming doesn't get us, or the current biowarfare environment, or economic collapse, or solar discharge destroying civilization with an EMP that even exceeds the worst fears of the Y2K bug, or A.I. finally renders most of us obsolete, then we'll need this as a plausible explanation for the Idiocracy of the near future brought to you by TikTok.
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Item One:
In late June Foreign Minister Qin Gang disappeared from public view and was later dismissed. We now have an official reason. The CCP announced that he was dismissed for 'lifestyle issues', a common euphemism for adultery. He had a rather public affair with a TV star who gave birth to a child in the US. This would mean that former minister Qin could claim asylum in the US as the child is a US citizen. The CCP in general and Xi Jinping in particular can't allow this uncertainty in the Foreign Minister.
Item Two:
The political infighting within the CCP is intensifying. The situation is VERY convoluted and I will endeavor to explain as best I can. The infighting is taking place among a group known as the "Second Generation Reds". This refers to the children of the founders of the PRC and born in the late 50s and early 60s, before the Cultural Revolution. This includes CCP Chairman Xi Jinping.
Xi is fighting with a group referred to as the "Crown Prince Faction". These are the children and other relatives of previous CCP leaders in and out of the military. They have become very wealthy and powerful based primarily on their family connections. This is the very antithesis of the founding tenets of the CCP. Much of the power of the CPF is based in the military equipment procurement department. I know, big surprise (NOT).
The Crown Prince Faction has been targeted by Xi as part of his 'Anti-corruption Initiative'. They are now using that initiative to target Xi loyalists and bring them down. This includes former Foreign Minister Qin Gang and former Defense Minister General Li Shangfu.
Xi may have to sacrifice General Li and other supporters in order to further strike at the Crown Prince Faction. I have seen estimates from two separate retired PLA and PLAN officers that this infighting might well turn bloody, literally. We shall see if Xi goes full Stalin or not.
Item Three:
The new iPhone 15 outperforms Huawei and sells out on TaoBao in ONE minute. TaoBao is the Chinese version of Amazon and is NOT Bezos owned.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
OT, but....
Looks like we’ll have our eighth great-grandchild by morning.
Found a note from Grandma when I got home that said she’d gone to help and would call whenever there was news.
I’ll let y’all know when I know.
A VERY good night.
You are looking good stars & stripes forever.
Glad you had a great day!!
Saving that one!
Who is your master?
Anyone who has control over things
upon which you’ve set your heart,
or over things which you seek to avoid.
Epictetus
Congratulations!!!!
Yes I thought that was timely but credit today’s Epoch’s News Blast for choosing it.
Congratulations!
wonderful news.....be fruitful and multiply!
I was wrong... kinda of...thanks for doing what i should have done in the first place.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4182999/posts?page=799#799
I was wrong. kudos... chuck allen did the correct research on this.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4182999/posts?page=799#799
cripes...i still haven’t gotten all the way thru Galts’s speech...
Congratulations on the kid!
When/if that comes you’ll need to be using cash/trade/barter and growing/raising yourself.
If someone comes to force you into it they need to be made not a problem by any means necessary…
ThankQ. They keep their voices so conversational!
Re Explaining TikTok:
It explains a lot!
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