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We don't clean up the homeless problem for America. We only clean it when Chinese dictators come to visit.

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We don't clean up the homeless problem for America. We only clean it when Chinese dictators come to visit.

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There is no "we". In any place in America, if the mayor and city council want to do something about homelessness, it gets done. When the mayor and city council are tired of doing something, it gets undone. There is no "we" until the Congress in DC decides that the USA will permanently and dependably continue to provide money to those mayors and city councils who are doing something. But the Republicans in Congress don't want to pay to end homelessness. Until they change, there is no "we".

San Francisco ‘Cleaned Up’ Streets Ahead of APEC. But How and What, Exactly, Did It Do?
https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/city-clears-homeless-encampments-ape
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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They get PLENTY OF FUCKING MONEY and the problem doesn't get fixed because it's big business and they're all skimming off the top.

And now we're giving them money for homeless illegal invaders too instead of booting them the fuck out of the country and keeping anymore from coming in.

We treat hostile foreign invaders better than we treat our own homeless population.

But they clean up the all the piss and shit and used drug paraphernalia off the streets and hide all the homeless people in California every time a 3rd World Dictator visits or major sporting event pops up.

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Xi Outmaneuvers Biden In San Francisco
Friday, Nov 17, 2023 - 08:40 PM

Authored by Pepe Escobar,

On one side of the table, a Global South leader at the top of his game. On the other side, a mummy selling the illusion he’s the “leader of the free world.”

That was bound for a cliffhanger – before, during or after the crucial bilateral involving the world’s top two powers. Already during the introductory remarks, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken, sitting on the right side of the mummy, was as terrified as James Stewart afraid of heights in Hitchcock's "Vertigo" - sensing doom would dawn at any second.

Then it did - at the final presser. Joe Biden, the actor playing The Mummy, following a proverbial smirk, said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “a dictator”. Because he is the leader of a communist country.

All those previous elaborate plans unraveled, in a flash. A tentatively rosy scenario turned into a film noir. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s response was as sharp as a Dashiell Hammett one-liner – and contextualized: this was not only “extremely wrong” but “an irresponsible political manipulation”.

All of the above of course assumed The Mummy knew where he was and what he was talking about, “off the cuff”, and not dictated by his ubiquitous earpiece.

The White House gives away the plot

The Xi-Biden drama, lasting a little over two hours, was not exactly a remake of “Vertigo”. Washington and Beijing seemed quite cozy jointly promising the proverbial promotion and strengthening of “dialogue and cooperation in various fields”; an intergovernmental dialogue on AI; drug control cooperation; back to high-level military-to-military talking; a “maritime security consultation mechanism”; significantly increasing flights by early 2024; and “expanding exchanges” in education, international students, culture, sports, and business circles.

The Hegemon was far from having a priceless Maltese Falcon (“the stuff dreams are made of”) to offer Beijing. China is already solidified as the world’s top trading economy by PPP. China is advancing at breakneck speed on the tech race even under nasty US sanctions. China’s soft power across the Global South/Global Majority increases by the day. China is co-organizing with Russia the concerted drive towards multipolarity.

The White House readout , as bland as it might seem, actually gives away the key part of the plot.

Biden – actually his earpiece - underscored “support for a free and open Indo-Pacific”; the defense of “our Indo-Pacific allies”; the “commitment to freedom of navigation and overflight”; “adherence to international law”; “maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea and East China Sea”; “support to “Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression”; and “support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism”.

Beijing understands in detail the context and the geopolitical overtones of each of these pledges.

What the readout does not say is that Biden’s handlers also tried to convince the Chinese to stop buying oil from their strategic partner Iran.

That’s not gonna happen. China imported an average of 1.05 million barrels of oil a day from Iran over the first 10 months of 2023 - and rising.

US Think Tankland, always excelling in misinformation and disinformation, believed in their own childish projection of Xi playing tough guy against the US in Asia, knowing that Washington can’t afford a third love affair, sorry, war front on top of Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.

The fact is Xi knows all there is to know about imperial, rotating Hybrid War fronts, plus others that can be powered on at the flick of a switch. The Hegemon continues to provoke disturbance not only in Taiwan but in the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, India, and continues to flirt with possible color revolutions in Central Asia.

There has been no direct US-China confrontation yet thanks to millenary Chinese diplomatic expertise and long term vision. Beijing knows in detail how Washington is simultaneously in Full Hybrid War mode against BRI (the Belt and Road Initiative) and BRICS – soon to become BRICS 11.
Only two options for China and the US

A Sino-American reporter, after the introductory remarks, asked Xi, in Mandarin, if he trusted Biden. The Chinese President perfectly understood the question, looked at her, and did not answer.

That’s a key plot twist. After all, Xi knew from the beginning he was talking to the handlers controlling an earpiece. Moreover, he was fully aware of Biden, actually his handlers, qualifying Beijing as a threat to the “rules based international order,” not to mention relentless accusations of “Xinjiang genocide” plus the containment tsunami.

Not by accident, last March, in a speech to Communist Party notables, Xi explicitly stated that the US is engaged in “comprehensive containment, encirclement and suppression against us.”

Shanghai-based scholar Chen Dongxiao suggests that China and US should engage in “ambitious pragmatism”. That happened to be exactly the tone of Xi’s key takeaway in San Francisco:

“There are two options for China and the US in the era of global transformations unseen in a century: One is to enhance solidarity and cooperation and join hands to meet global challenges and promote global security and prosperity; and the other is to cling to the zero-sum mentality, provoke rivalry and confrontation, and drive the world towards turmoil and division. The two choices point to two different directions that will decide the future of humanity and Planet Earth."

That is as serious as it gets. Xi added context. China is not engaged in colonial plunder; is not interested in ideological confrontation; it does not export ideology; and it has no plans to surpass or replace the US. So the US should not attempt to suppress or contain China.

Biden’s handlers may have told Xi that Washington still follows the One China policy – even as it continues to weaponize Taiwan under the twisted logic that Beijing might “invade”. Xi, once again, provided the concise clincher: “China will eventually, inevitably be reunified” with Taiwan.
$40,000 for dinner with Xi

Amid all the barely concealed tension, relief in San Francisco came in the form of business. Everyone and his corporate neighbor – Microsoft, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, Apple – was dying to meet with leaders from several APEC nations. And especially from China.

APEC after all accounts for nearly 40% of the global population and nearly 50% of global trade. This is all about Asia-Pacific – not “Indo-Pacific”, an empty “rules-based international order” gambit that no one knows anything about, much less uses anywhere across Asia. Asia-Pacific will account for at least two-thirds of global growth in 2023 – and counting.

Hence the sterling success of a business dinner at the Hyatt Regency, with tickets costing between $2,000 and $40,000, hosted by the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) and the US-China Business Council (USCBC). Xi, inevitably, was the star of the show.

Corporate honchos well knew in advance that the US opted out of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); and that the new trade gambit, the so-called Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) is basically D.O.A. IPEF may deal with supply chain issues but it does not hit the heart of the matter: lower tariffs and wide market access.

So Xi was there to “sell” to investors not only China but a great deal of Asia-Pacific as well.

One day after San Francisco, the heart of the action moved to Shanghai and a high-level Russia-China conference; that’s the kind of meeting where the strategic partnership formulates paths ahead in the Long March to Multipolarity.

In San Francisco, Xi made a point to stress that China respects the “historical, cultural and geographical position” of the US, while hoping that the US would respect the “path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”

And here’s where the film noir plot approaches the final shootout. What Xi hopes will never happen with Straussian neocon psychos running US foreign policy. And that was starkly confirmed by The Mummy, a.k.a. Joe “Dictator” Biden.

So much for realpolitik practitioner Joseph “soft power” Nye, one of the few realists that believe China and the US, like James Stewart and Kim Novak in “Vertigo”, need each other, and should not be separated.

Well, unfortunately, in “Vertigo” the heroine plunges into the void and dies

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They get PLENTY OF FUCKING MONEY and the problem doesn't get fixed because it's big business and they're all skimming off the top.

And now we're giving them money for homeless illegal invaders too instead of booting them the fuck out of the country and keeping anymore from coming in.

We treat hostile foreign invaders better than we treat our own homeless population.

But they clean up the all the piss and shit and used drug paraphernalia off the streets and hide all the homeless people in California every time a 3rd World Dictator visits or major sporting event pops up.

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All those problems exist because, literally, nobody cares enough to pay to fix those problems permanently, systematically, across all of the USA. Somebody might care for a little while, but they soon run out of empathy, energy, or money. Maybe all three. When a problem permanently gets solved, such as what to do about old people living in poverty with no health care, there is a Federal program (Medicare, Social Security). Both those programs are constantly being attacked by Republicans as too expensive.

6ixStringJack, all these other problems that bother you will not be permanently solved because Republicans won't pay to solve them. Solutions are too expensive for Republicans. By the way, it is Congress that solves problems permanently, not the President because those guys come and go, wax and wane, but legislation stays around forever once passed into law.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Take your constant gaslighting and shove it up your ass and go bounce on it.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

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"$24 Million From Foreign Nationals": House GOP Formalizes Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Releases Resolution Ahead Of Planned Vote

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Venezuela Votes to Annex Guyana: What Next?

Brazil urges Venezuela not to attack Guyana

https://www.stvincenttimes.com/brazil-urges-venezuela-not-to-attack-gu
yana/

'Venezuela Prepares To INVADE Neighboring Guyana, US May Be Dragged Into ANOTHER WAR, WW3 Feared'

https://www.bitchute.com/video/e9XHKof9Rh0/

Brazil sends troops to Venezuela border as tensions rise over oil-rich region

https://rumble.com/v405avi-brazil-sends-troops-to-venezuela-border-as-
tensions-rise-over-oil-rich-regi.html

Venezuela Brands US-Guyana Military Drills 'Provocation'

https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-brands-us-guyana-military-drill
s-provocation-fbd5599b

U.S. to conduct flight operations in Guyana as concerns mount over border spat

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-conduct-flight-operations-gu
yana-concerns-mount-over-border-spat-2023-12-07/

Antony Blinken offers 'unwavering support' for Guyana amid Venezuelan annexation plan

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/12/07/Blinken-Guyana-Vene
zuela-Essequibo/7051701954496/

US military Southern Command conducting flight operations over Guyana

https://newssourcegy.com/news/breaking-us-military-southern-command-co
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He Who Must Not Be Named: The Hunter Biden Indictment is Itself a Model of Evasion

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second indictment of Hunter Biden. The tax evasion charges were brought in a type of Voldemort indictment, skillfully detailing millions acquired from influence peddling without mentioning “he who must not be named.” Indeed, it says nothing of how or why millions were sent to Hunter.

Here is the column:

The 56-page indictment of Hunter Biden for tax evasion makes for racy reading, with the special counsel describing a four-year criminal pattern directed at maintaining Biden’s “extravagant lifestyle.”

That lifestyle included massive expenses for strippers, sex clubs, fast cars and other distractions.

The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any direct implications for his father, President Biden.

In that sense, the indictment itself is a marvel of evasion.

There are three glaring omissions in the indictment that tend to shield critical payments and conduct that implicate the president.

The Burisma-Ukrainian money

First, the special counsel only indicts tax evasion that occurred in recent years.

That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments starting around 2014 from Ukraine gas company Burisma.

Recent testimony from IRS whistleblowers suggests that wasn’t an accident. Investigators were stonewalled, they claimed, and the Justice Department was previously moving to reject any charges against Hunter Biden.

Exploring those earlier Ukrainian payments opens up questions about Hunter’s influence peddling and would have highlighted the conflict in his father’s extraordinary move to force the Ukrainians to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma by holding back a billion dollars in aid for the country.

There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.

But this recent indictment keeps the focus squarely on taxes not paid, not how the money was “earned” in the first place.

Hunter the foreign agent

Also missing in the indictment is any charge against Hunter Biden as an unregistered foreign agent.

Recently, the Justice Department added a charge to the indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) that he ran afoul of FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. FARA also was used to go after Donald Trump associates such as Paul Manafort.

The problem with charging Hunter with FARA is obvious.

It opens up questions about the millions of dollars going to the Biden family from foreign sources, a topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland has spent years avoiding.

In the second indictment, Weiss spends more time detailing the salacious use of this money rather than how and why it was given to the Bidens.

He just matter-of-factly describes millions flowing through these accounts from China, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and other countries.

The unindicted co-conspirator

By focusing on tax evasion alone, Weiss again avoids any direct reference to the focus of the influence-peddling used to raise these millions of dollars.

Even without mentioning the president, the implications of the indictment are devastating for the narrative and denials of Joe Biden.

The president has continued to maintain that he had no knowledge or interaction with these dealings. Those statements are clearly and knowingly false.

The president also maintained that his son has “never done anything wrong” and never accepted any money from China.

That is also untrue, according to the Justice Department and Hunter himself.

Yet Weiss continues to avoid any need to address the person who was the selling point of the influence peddling.

It was the same person who repeatedly called in to dinners and meetings, repeatedly attended events, and held meetings and photo shots for these clients.

Instead, Weiss indicts the failure to pay taxes on the proceeds of these dealings without addressing that underlying corruption.

It is akin to arresting a bank robber for speeding away from the crime scene without mentioning the reason for his flight.

In a scandal with dozens of references to the president and millions sent for influence and access, it took a steady hand for Weiss to avoid ever touching on President Biden’s role.

This was a truly Homeric feat — unseen since the Greek hero Odysseus won a competition by shooting an arrow through the tiny hole in a dozen ax heads.

It takes perfect aim to avoid any contact. It is itself the very model of evasion.

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Lawmakers stuffed a provision into the Pentagon funding bill that makes it all but impossible for Trump to leave NATO

Trump is not mentioned directly in the provision. He has also not explicitly promised to withdraw from what was originally a Cold War-era alliance. Nonetheless, there are persistent fears that if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, he will withdraw the US from NATO. As The New York Times pointed out recently,

Trump's campaign website does include this vague sentence, "We have to finish the process we began under my administration of fundamentally re-evaluating NATO's purpose and NATO's mission."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmakers-stuffed-a-provision-
into-the-pentagon-funding-bill-that-makes-it-all-but-impossible-for-trump-to-leave-nato/ar-AA1lvB2I?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=67a45383e64d4d06adb8ab448d8ddb6c&ei=10

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Joe Biden is scheduled to sigh the bill. Sorry Trump, too bad Putty.

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Biden to jump-start 2024 campaign by highlighting sharp contrast with Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/biden-harris-2024-pres
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Democrats have been reassuring themselves that President Biden’s cognitive decline is no obstacle to his re-election, but perhaps this week will be a tipping point. Special counsel Robert Hur’s report about the President’s failure to recall basic facts of his life and Mr. Biden’s multiplying public lapses are ample reason for urging him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
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Mr. Hur’s account of his five-hour interview with Mr. Biden opened a rare window on the President in private. His account exposed what many Americans have suspected based on Mr. Biden’s many public misstatements and faltering physical presence. He couldn’t recall which years he was Vice President or even when his son Beau died. He said an ally in the Obama Administration’s debate over Afghanistan was on the opposite side.

Democrats are raging against Mr. Hur, but they should be grateful. Mr. Biden’s mental frailty is one reason Mr. Hur offered for not presenting the President’s document-mishandling as a criminal offense before a jury. His report is also forcing Democrats to confront the political reality that Mr. Biden’s decline could re-elect Donald Trump.

Mr. Biden compounded the damage with his performance in a rare 13-minute press appearance at the White House on Thursday night. He was angry and snappish. Worse, he confused Egypt’s President with Mexico’s in relation to Gaza, of all places.

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We can close the border right now.

Joe Biden* just needs to shut the fuck up and keep doing nothing like he's done for 3 years now.

Texas has it covered.

Fuck Joe Biden*. Fuck Democrats. Fuck traitors who vote Democrat.

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I don't give a shit that Biden* is 81 years old. I've never once mentioned his age.

He's a fuckin' meat popsicle. He's said on no less than 10 occasions that he wasn't going to answer any questions because he'd "get in trouble". He can't find his way off the stage. He extends his hand to shake the hands of phantoms. He fucks up nearly every speech he's allowed to do by misnaming everyone, claiming we're at war with countries who are actually our allies, or simply losing whatever point he was trying to make while rambling on and then looking at the cameras like a deer in headlights while saying "never mind".

The problem with Biden* is that he's not actually our President. He's a pinch hitter for Obama's 3rd term, and they only cart him out in front of the cameras when they absolutely have to, and they've got to get him all pilled up on Adderall before they even dare risk it. They probably have to put the drugs in his ice cream to fool him into taking them and feed it to him like he's a fucking dog.

And trust me... Barack Obama is the most disappointed out of all Democrats that it had to be Joe*. Even more so now that we're looking forward to his possible 2nd term and the prospect of an 85 year old Joe Biden* that will be borderline catatonic by 2028.

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It was the exact opposite of a slam dunk. Those two words, "slam dunk" is exactly the verbiage used by MSNBC to describe it, and here you are continually parroting them because your brain has been hollowed out by cable News.

Joe Biden* is NEVER going to be reelected.

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I'm good. I'm right.

Joe Biden* is a meat-puppet who reads anything the teleprompter tells him to read, and poorly.

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I'm good. I'm right.

Joe Biden* is a meat-puppet who reads anything the teleprompter tells him to read, and poorly.

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The US needs to invest $2.6 trillion in infrastructure over the next decade, civil engineers say.

President Joe Biden has signed three laws aiming to fund infrastructure projects nationwide.

Biden's laws are pouring billions into new infrastructure and it could be a rare opportunity to make communities safer and more sustainable

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-s-laws-are-pouring-billi
ons-into-new-infrastructure-and-it-could-be-a-rare-opportunity-to-make-communities-safer-and-more-sustainable/ar-BB1jHZzv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4a07961556aa43588c898eb710529303&ei=36

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tick tock dummy, tick tock

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I'm good. I'm right.

Joe Biden* is a meat-puppet who reads anything the teleprompter tells him to read, and poorly.

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The US needs to invest $2.6 trillion in infrastructure over the next decade, civil engineers say.

President Joe Biden has signed three laws aiming to fund infrastructure projects nationwide.

Biden's laws are pouring billions into new infrastructure and it could be a rare opportunity to make communities safer and more sustainable

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-s-laws-are-pouring-billi
ons-into-new-infrastructure-and-it-could-be-a-rare-opportunity-to-make-communities-safer-and-more-sustainable/ar-BB1jHZzv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4a07961556aa43588c898eb710529303&ei=36

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tick tock dummy, tick tock

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Now yr toking sens!

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

The real solution: https://fundrazr.com/71jIY1?ref=ab_f9ZUS0]

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Sad he's no longer here. Sad indeed...

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