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China being "toast", a decade or so back on the diner, wasn't really presented as a narrow statement, it tended to more inclusive of overall economic decline/demise.

My "China is TOAST" tag line is a broad statement that goes beyond just economics to environmental, ecological and social problems as well.



In China, the water you drink is as dangerous as the air you breathe.

These findings come from our new water quality report, which found water pollution levels in China's other major cities are also extremely high. In Beijing, 39.9% of water was so polluted that it was essentially functionless. In Tianjin, northern China's principal port city and home to 15 million people, a mere 4.9% of water is usable as a drinking water source.
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Across China, access to drinkable water is not just a quality of life issue, it's about survival. There have been reports of local authorities digging deeper wells to reach drinkable water, which has become harder to come by as 80% of groundwater from major river basins is "unsuitable for human contact".


The problems with the water have knock on effects extend to the food supply and energy production.   

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/how-chinas-water-challenges-could-lead-global-food-and-supply-chain-crisis

China is on the brink of a water catastrophe that could have devastating consequences for global food security, energy markets and supply chains. The 2022 drought, which mainly impacted China's Sichuan province, offered an uncomfortable preview of what the future could bring if water supplies continue to run dry: Low reservoir levels slashed hydroelectricity output, which in turn forced power rationing to major industrial consumers such as metals and battery producers and electronics assemblers
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Beijing has the dubious distinction of being the capital of the world's second-largest economy, while having per capita water supplies that have fallen to a level on par with those of cities near Chile's Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth

Besides the water pollution issues, the air quality problems are legendary.  Pictures are better than words on this one.







While all the industrial countries have demographic problems due to falling birthrates, China's are particularly severe due to the ageing population and the years of the one-child policy, which resulted in a preponderance of male children.

China is far from alone in facing the problem of too many old people and too few young workers to support them. But unlike western nations, it is getting old before it has got rich. The scale of the challenge and the speed at which it is arriving are extraordinary, thanks in large part to the decades of birth restrictions known as the one-child policy. It also means that fewer retirees are able to count on their kids supporting them.

Unlike Western countries which are making up for falling birth rates with immigration, China's population is already shrinking.  This means more retirees and fewer people of working age, for whom there are no jobs anyhow.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/the-guardian-view-on-chinas-ageing-population-an-economic-and-social-conundrum

Like the west China has played the extend & pretend game issuing vast quantities of debt much of which doesn't appear on the books because it's contained in the shadow banking system.  Combined with their real estate problem, it lurks in the background and with the global problems being created by Trump's tariff war could jump out of the closet if economic growth stalls.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/business/china-economy-trusts-zhongrong-zhongzhi.html

Now, given the arrival of the Trumperator on the scene in Amerika, in the race to the bottom of the burnt toaster bin, the FSoA may have now edged ahead of China as toast.  The prognosis is not too good for anyone these days.  A grass hut on the beach of Bora Bora has real appeal.



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Last time I checked, it was poor Chinese who were flying across the Pacific and crossing the jungle on foot in the Darien Gap to migrate to Amerika and not poor Amerikans flying to Tibet to crosss the Himalayas on fooot to migrate into China.  It's also rich Chinese buying McMansions to live  as expats in Seattle, not rich Americans buying condos to live as expats in Beijing.  So I'm not sure the Chinese themsellves are quite as impressed by life in China as you seem to be.

I will grant you though that the family structure in China hasn't collapsed as thoroughly as is the case here in the land of good and plenty, and their socialized medical system and care for the elderly is probably better, since it would be hard to do worse on this than here, besides Nigeria and Sudan anyhow.

It's tough to say which side of the pond the toast is smoking more, since the spin down is being handled by such disparate systems.  Solely on the economic level, both countries are so interdependent that it doesn't matter much who toasts first, the other will shortly follow.

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It's also rich Chinese buying McMansions to live as expats in Seattle, not rich Americans buying condos to live as expats in Beijing.

I am in their preferred zip code.  As you know.  You have been here.

Citizenship has been for sale for years.

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I am in their preferred zip code.  As you know.  You have been here.

That's why I chose Seattle to use in my example.

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Hating Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League universities is as core to the MAGA credo as being anti-abortion, anti gun control, anti-welfare and anti-queer.  As every good gun toting redneck with the Stars & Bars decorating his pickup truck knows, they are stuffed with elite liberal intellectual commie pinko nigger loving faggots and pedophiles.  Harvard will have a tough time bringing these folks in to support academic freedom with a PR campaign. lol.

Despite the fact that bringing beer swilling Billy Bob 6 Pack on board is unlikely, it is true that Harvard can bring a whole lot of pressure to bear, particularly on the business & legal end.  The bar association would be one place to start, litigating to have Trumps lawyers disbarred for systemic  corruption.  Harvard hedge fund traders could short the living shit out of Trump biznesses, along with a dozen or so Harvard B-school grads running private equity firms.  I'm sure they could get a few theoretical physicists to work up some nasty trading algorithms to predict his market manipulations, he's using tricks that are as old as JP Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt to juice and kill stocks.

Anyhow, the big fight is definitely coming.  He's apparently going to try to have Powell sacked as head of Da Fed.  This will not sit well with the Illuminati.  The fun begins.

If Harvard, armor-plated by history and padded with funds, can't beat Trump, no one can

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/trump-harvard-university-endowment

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Anyhow, the big fight is definitely coming.  He's apparently going to try to have Powell sacked as head of Da Fed.  This will not sit well with the Illuminati.  The fun begins.

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I completely agree. And find it ironic. After all these decades of waiting around for something (lack of resources, climate change, China collapsing, chemtrails, a US draft and all the cool LATOC originated stuff) that might bump the status quo of American life off its axis, even a little, the one that really COULD cause some of the outcomes we've breathlessly hyperventilated endlessly about over those decades, current politics arguably has a far better chance of actually CREATING one.

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I completely agree.

Hell just froze over.  lol.

I've always looked at collapse wholistically, having all sorts of social, economic and political repercussions that spin out along the way, and the descent into fascism and the rise of a populist wannabe dictator is one of them.  It's not so simple as the lights just flicking off one day.

Real chaos at some point takes a match to light the dry tinder, and in this case the matchstick is a corpulent septugenarian with an orange head.  The man is walking, talking, tweeting chaos in anthropomorphic form.

Not gonna jump the gun here and gloat too much though, because we still have quite a ways to go before we get real mayhem out of this, how that will manifest itself remains to be seen.  Where will the metaphorical (or literal) bullet come from that pushes this over the cliff?

For you conspiracy theorists out there, of all the agencies in the Federal goobermint, which are the two that El Trumpo has NOT touched?  You guessed it, the CIA and the NSA.  Both agencies are loaded with the Skull & Bones boys from Yale, as you know Bush1 was head of the CIA.  Plenty of Harvard alumni recruited as well.  I can just about guarantee the responses coming won't strictly be reported in the media and ocurring in the courthouse.  The Black Bag Boys will be enlisted for some sort of dirty tricks.

The gloves are off.  You don't bring a knife to a gunfight, and these folks have not played fair for generations.  Trump is a rookie in this game.  He's a PeeWee football quarterback against a NFL front line.  The Purple People Eaters are on the other side.



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I haven't checked the newz for almost 2 weeks, and upon my return to reality I think I'll go back to fantasy world.  Reality is utterly PATHETIC.   Having read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I read enough about guys like Caligula and Nero to know psycho leaders were to be expected in collapse, and I haven't been disppointed.  However, living while it's happening is unpleasant to watch.  I fully expect Trumpolini to start a big war in his final year to suspend elections.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-dictator-doubling-down_n_68ae0981e4b07bd4ac5eb904

Trump Suggests People Might Want A Dictator For The Second Day In A Row

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A showdown is in the works.

There are great speeches and there are speeches.  This one is a home run.

Amid the chaos and insanity, occasional glimpses of greatness.

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Pritzker does a good job laying out what is goibg on, but I don't see how he's going to stop it, besides vague promises of using the legal system with more lawsuits.   Court injunctions haven't been very successful thusfar, I see no reason they'll be any more effective going forward.

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I haven't checked the newz for almost 2 weeks, and upon my return to reality I think I'll go back to fantasy world.  Reality is utterly PATHETIC.

Did it take that long to binge watch the TV show you were interested in? It's a good series, we all watched it when it came out and all, but almost 2 weeks?