[dp0622]

So stay home and panic if that works for you :)

Trump has been in office for 6 weeks. Chill :)

[BobL]

The problem was that China was ‘good business’ while they were rocketing past us economically - they were cheap, high quality, and reliable. The Republicans LOVED that.

We had labor unions, and the people they enabled, the Democrats, who always HATED the idea that we were king of the hill. They succeeded.

We never had a chance.

[Socon-Econ]

In a mandatory 1-party government, DEI doesn’t get the elites more votes.

[Celtic Conservative]

China appears to have passed us. And appearances can be deceiving. Almost nothing you hear about China is true, if it’s being said by the Chinese themselves. China only cares about appearances, not substance. This can be seen in the lack of quality in their products. It can also be seen in their “tofu dreg” construction, which looks great...for about 5 minutes. Much of what you see or hear about China is a lie.

CC

[GOPJ]

While we were focused on DEI and other WOKE crap this is what happened - democrat 'elites' were stealing us blind: Treasury payments worth nearly $5 trillion annually had no categorization codes or descriptions - essentially blank, untraceable checks. A change as simple as making payment codes mandatory could save $100 billion yearly. Elon Musk

[pierrem15]

Pretty much true. In PPP, China's GDP is probably about 20% larger than ours, their scientific research, especially research having practical application in industry is outstanding. Their nuke, naval and aircraft programs will soon give them military superiority as well.

Since the end of the Cold War, our elite has focused on padding their wallets at public expense and making money via labor arbitrage impoverishing Americans while strangling US resource extraction and industry with taxes and regulation.

It's hard to think how we would have suffered more economically at least than if we had been occupied by a hostile foreign power.

[GOPJ]

While we were focused on DEI and other WOKE crap this is what happened - democrat 'elites' were stealing us blind: Treasury payments worth nearly $5 trillion annually had no categorization codes or descriptions - essentially blank, untraceable checks. A change as simple as making payment codes mandatory could save $100 billion yearly. Elon Musk

Anyone who thinks DEI was only for the benefit of incompetent people is missing how democrat 'elites' operate. Let's just say 'smoke screen and useful idiot diversion'....

[fuzzylogic]

Where did they get their:

- Microprocessors?
- Operating systems?
- Networking equipment?
- Knowledge of computer science?
- Knowledge of AI?
- Foundation for their AI work?
- etc.

Sure, they borrow and copy to catch up....then do a +1. I’m still yet to see anything fundamentally new coming from China.

Their propaganda is also at full throttle. I just saw a claim of them creating a jet engine capable of Mach 16....where the photo showed a technician 3 feet from the intake. I saw another about a fusion reactor being ‘way ahead’...turned out to be nothing new.

Anything about China should be met with scrutiny.