Sloths, Slugs, and Dirty Laundry

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Apparently, I am some kind of a masochist because I watch the local TV news every morning; and every morning for the past two weeks I have heard the story of the dying sloths, and every morning I have been subjected to watching Ana Eskamani comment on the travesty that 4 dozen sloths dying from an exotic sloth disease is.

Now I certainly have sympathy for the dying sloths, but this sure seems like a naked, albeit sneaky, attempt to give Eskamani airtime and boost her profile ahead of the coming Orlando mayoral election. So, shame on you local Fox affiliate, for wasting the viewers' time and my time on such a trivial thing. Maybe just once, and I know this is asking a lot, but just one freaking time maybe ask Ana Eskamani why she seems to care so much more for a bunch of diseased sloths than she does about innocent human children being ripped from their mothers' wombs, aborted, murdered, and falsely claiming it is healthcare.

Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" was right and it hasn't changed 40 years later.

On April 10, I opined in this space that Trump has never been in a stronger position regarding China, because of his chokepoint strategy and the Greater North American strategy, and this week we saw it play out. Trump rolled into Beijing on Air Force One flanked by his all-star cabinet and 30 of the heaviest hitter CEO's in the world.

China is dealing from a reduced position relative to the first summit with Trump in 2017, despite the bumbling, fumbling Biden foreign policy and perhaps the weakest secretary of state in our history, Antony Blinken letting China and the rest of our adversaries up for air for four years.

At the beginning of 2017, China was experiencing double digit GDP growth, it had achieved over 30% of the world's manufacturing capability, it's belt and road strategy was moving ahead full speed, China was making strategic gains in the western hemisphere and militarizing the South China Sea. China's port strategy of building over 90 ports worldwide in strategic locales was proceeding unabated. China was on the move and their hundred-year plan was full speed ahead while America had just emerged from its financial crisis and spent the previous 8 years capitulating to the globalists and becoming weaker under Obama.

Since then, China has experienced the Evergreen real estate crisis, its GDP has been cut by about 60%, it faces a demographic death spiral due to the one child policy, poverty is rampant especially in its rural areas, and there are whispers that China is actually overstating their population.

Local governments in China are bankrupt, and China has been isolated by our tech sector and reshoring of production, especially as it relates to strategic goods. Trump's chokepoint strategy- first the Panama Canal, then Venezuela, then Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, has caused an energy crisis for the Chinese. They are depleting their strategic reserves as Trump's policies have cut China's oil imports by about 20%, and made the acquisition and transportation of the oil they do have access to much more expensive.

Trump now has strategic alliances with countries furnishing over 60% of China's energy. Add in economic sanctions, the tariffs, the destruction of the BRICS alliance, and our hardened alliances with Japan, the Philippines, and escalating arms sales to Taiwan, and Trump has completely flipped the script.

Now China needs us from a tech standpoint. The best and brightest tech minds in the world are in the US and in the companies whose CEO's Trump took to China. China has the manufacturing capability but we have the brainpower advantage, tech advantage, and most importantly we have the capital. China's food production is in a crisis, and they need American agricultural goods, and they need American energy.

In 2016, we needed China more than they needed us. In 2026, China needs us more than we need them. And that doesn't even begin to factor in what China has seen and experienced from the US military going back to last summer with Operation Midnight Hammer, the capture of Maduro and toppling of his government, and Operation Epic Fury.

For decades there was a one-way transfer of power, wealth, and technology out of the US- not exclusively to China, but especially to China. Those days are now over, and the same goes for Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. What President Trump has done laying the groundwork in his first term, then executing the plan in his second term, represents a historic shift of global power back to the US and we emerge as the greatest economic power, the greatest technological power, the greatest energy power, and the greatest military power on earth in the 21st century.

Despite what the democrats, media, and academia have been ramming down our throats- and shame on the sellouts like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the rest of the turncoats- freedom, capitalism, meritocracy, Christianity, and conservatism always achieves the best results for mankind and lifts more people, making them healthier, freer, richer, and safer.

The only thing that can stop it is the ignorance of some American voters and a corrupt electoral and justice system. Is paying a dollar more for gas for a short while worth changing the world for a century? Or are we so stupid, so soft, and such slugs that we will throw out a brilliant long-term plan for short term convenience? Do we want a bigger government, or a better government? American hegemony or capitulation to socialists and communists? Freedom or subjugation to a nameless, faceless, unaccountable elite in some faraway land? A moral nation or an immoral nation? Christianity or Islam? Obama's dreams of his father or the American Dream of our founding fathers?

What we are being asked to sacrifice for American greatness in the 21st century pales in comparison to what the greatest generation was asked to sacrifice for American greatness in the 20th century, but somehow many of us can't seem to be inconvenienced. We as Americans have the chance to see this through, and while some of us may have the desire, do enough of us have the will? It is within our grasp; will we hold on?

Winston Churchill put it this way, "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to a moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be an even worse fate; you might have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."

Or as Don Henley sang, "People love it when you lose, give us dirty laundry."