How The Chinese Work Through Donald Trump

caff coke (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Do you know how advertising works?

You see a Coke commercial on TV. Then you pick up a magazine, and you see another ad for Coke. You go for a drive, and you see Coke on a billboard. You go online, and there is a banner ad for Coke. Experts say a brand needs to get you seven times, and at that point they got you. The brand plants itself in your subconscious.

So then when you go to the corner store, and you see Coke and Pepsi side by side, you are going to pick Coke, out of "free will."

Advertising is a trillion dollar industry, because it works.

Look at what the Chinese did. They bought over 100 million dollars in real estate from Trump Inc. over the years. There were over seven transactions, all of them legitimate, all of them personally carried out by Donald Trump. He prides himself in sales and negotiations.

The Chinese, over the years, have taken both sides on the abortion issue. They used to have a one child policy. They don't anymore. Donald Trump is also all over the map on the abortion issue.

That is just one example. Experts could come up with the entire list. I am no expert.

The Chinese know better than to outright buy a candidate. They are way too sophisticated to do something so stupid. Although, with a hundred million dollars, you could run for president. That's there.

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In Singapore they cane your ass if you spit on the sidewalk. At least Mike Bloomberg did not go that far.

I got frisked once, by this most beautiful police officer young woman. She went straight for the pocket.

Putin And Russia

English: AGRA. Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin visiting the Taj Mahal. Русский: АГРА. Владимир и Людмила Путины во время посещения мавзолея Тадж-Махал. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Vladimir Putin with his mother, Maria Ivanovna Putina, in July 1958. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Vladimir Putin at school age (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Russia has seen three fundamental political paradigms in just the past 150 years. There was the Tsar, then the Lenin monarchy, and now a Putin monarchy. But the country's geopolitical pull has remained constant. Even if Russia were to become a western style democracy, I believe that pull will stay, likely even expand. My point being, we can't blame Putin for Russia's geopolitical pull. It is the country exuding the force.

No two democracy is alike. America is not like Canada is not like Britain is not like France is not like Germany, and so on. Which means perhaps countries are like fingerprints. Each country is going to end up with a slightly unique political system and culture. Russia is not waiting to photocopy any other country politically. Maybe Russia is a little too different.

I believe in democracy and human rights like no American I have ever met. I believe democracy is good for every country. And I am not exactly America inspired. Although it is obvious that America is the loudest example today. The world's first republic was birthed by the Buddha. We also recently found out Iraqis came up with calculus over a thousand years before Newton.

I do want to see a more western Europe style democracy in Russia. I very much want Russia to become a more robust economy. I want Russia to do double digit growth rates. But I don't believe in military intervention. Except in Russia's case that is not even an option. The species should survive.

My prescription would be the deepest possible engagement with the country. If you want a western Europe style democracy in Russia, you want  the deepest possible engagement with the country. That is the best option, that is the only option. Which means sanctions are a bad idea, and not sustainable over the long term. I understand the circumstances that brought them about. But at some point down the line they will have to be rolled back.

One mistake America made early on was while it expanded NATO right to Russia's borders, it did not at the same time respectfully engage Russia. Russia joining NATO might be an outlandish thought, but America could have offered to carry out joint naval exercises in the Pacific, for example. This is one more thing we can blame on Bush. (The list is long.) Looks like not only W messed up the War On Terror, he rekindled the Cold War too.

The Russia India friendship does not have a parallel. This is not like the friendship between America and England. India and Russia are not shared cultures. There are no shared languages. There is not even a shared border. It is almost like a friendship between two human beings, only it is between two peoples. It is not a military alliance. And business is not the primary motive. It is just friendship.

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Jawaharlal Nehru 1949 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Barack Obama And Race And Blacks

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just getting a black guy in there as the first black president has been a monumental achievement. The self-esteem effects on black children is beyond the clock. But the substantial work has been on education, health care, job creation, and criminal justice system reform. And he has taken huge leaps on each. The impact will play out over a generation.

The first black president has done right by the black people. Why are people wearing wigs offended?

The Great Recession was harder on the black population than on the population at large. And the unemployment rate among young black folks is still too high. And that is a prescription for continued good work. Too bad we have term limits.

America is less than 5% unemployed.

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