The future

[happy daze john in oz]

A very sobering message, especially to our politicians (Republicans
and Democrats) in Washington.

"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by sounding
the alarm on China's growing dominance over the United States. Why are
Americans sleeping?...We aren't sleeping, we are spending our time
teaching and assisting little boys how to become little girls!!! And,
if we aren't busy doing that we have the Sec of Defense, responding to
an order from the 'commander' in chief, designing stylish new uniforms
for pregnant 'soldiers'.

"You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are
such silly people. And Americans are all silly people," Maher began
the monologue, alluding to a "Lawrence of Arabia" quote.

Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese
man in a Dr. Seuss book? China," he said. "All 1.4 billion of them
couldn't give a crouching tiger flying f--- because they're not silly
people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight."

Maher acknowledged that China does "bad stuff" from the concentration
camps of Uyghur ******s to its treatment of Hong Kong. But he
stressed, "There's got to be something between an authoritarian
government that tells everyone what to do and a representative
government that can't do anything at all."

"In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch,
moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle
class, and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals. Oh,
and they bought Africa," Maher said, pointing to China's global Silk
Road infrastructure initiative.

He continued: "In China alone, they have 40,000 kilometers of
high-speed rail. America has none. ... We've been having
Infrastructure Week every week since 2009 but we never do anything.
Half the country is having a never-ending woke competition deciding
whether Mr. Potato Head has a dick and the other half believes we have
to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies. We are such
silly people.

"Nothing ever moves in this impacted colon of a country. We see a
problem and we ignore it, lie about it, fight about it with each
other, endlessly litigate it, sunset clause it, kick it down the road,
and then write a bill where a half-assed solution doesn't kick in for
10 years," Maher explained. Then the half-assed bill is forgotten.

"China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate
what to rename it."

The HBO star cited how it took "ten years" for a bus line in San
Francisco to pass its environmental review and how it took "16 years"
to build the Big Dig tunnel in Boston, comparing that to a 57-story
skyscraper that China built in "19 days" and Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge,
which was demolished and rebuilt in "43 hours."

"We binge-watch, they binge-build. When COVID hit Wuhan, the city
built a quarantine center with 4,000 rooms in 10 days and they barely
had to use it because they quickly arrested the rest of the disease,"
Maher said. "They were back to throwing raves in swimming pools while
we were stuck at home surfing the dark web for black market Charmin.
We're not losing to China, we LOST. The returns just haven't all come
in yet. They've made robots that check a kid's temperature and got
their asses back in school. Most of our kids are still pretending to
take Zoom classes while they watch TikTok and their brain cells fully
commit ritual suicide." Our teacher's unions are finding every single
way to keep themselves on the payroll, but keep students out of the
classrooms. WAKE UP AMERICANS!! That means ALL of YOU.

Maher then blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, accusing him of
degrading school standards by eliminating merit and substituting a
lottery system for admittance to schools for advanced learners. Our
country is going down the toilet.

"Do you think China's doing that, letting political correctness get in
the way of nurturing their best and brightest?" Maher continued. "Do
you think Chinese colleges and universities are offering courses in
'The Philosophy of Star Trek, 'The Sociology of Seinfeld,' and
'Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse'? Can this be real? Well, let
me tell you, China is real. And they are eating our lunch. And believe
me, in an hour, they'll be hungry again."

[Ivan Cloherty]

Once the Taliban get their hands on the nuclear weapons in Pakistan then there will not be a future, we'll all be heading for paradise.

[John Gill]

Paradise I could handle- not sure about all those virgins.