The chickens are now coming to roost. (Its not Sal).

It is China or it is Biden. I feel sorry for the farmers because if I had to take the decision now to take what I had and plant a harvest, I will feel not very good.

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Trump on his Truth Social: Our farmers are GREAT, but because of their GREATNESS, they are always put on the Front Line with our adversaries, such as China, whenever there is a Trade negotiation or, in this case, a Trade War. The same thing happened in my First Term. China was brutal to our Farmers, I these Patriots to just hold on, and a great trade deal was made. I rewarded our farmers with a payment of $28 Billion Dollars, all through the China deal. It was a great transaction for the USA, until Crooked Joe Biden came in and didn’t enforce it. China largely reneged on the deal (although they behaved during the Trump Administration), only buying a portion of what they agreed to buy. They had ZERO respect for the Crooked Biden Administration, and who can blame them for that? Interestingly, they just reneged on the big Boeing deal, saying that they will “not take possession” of fully committed to aircraft. The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!
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I don’t know if this man realizes what he has done. China is playing for keeps. I saw somewhere that there are 40 ships loading grains in Brazil right now.

I don’t know what is true and what is not but this is a very interesting interview .. it isTucker Carlson.  There are some very interesting stories, like the falcon trainer who contacted this congressman and said Osama Bin Laden is in Iran and he can trace him because his falcons are flying in Iran.  That deal was arranged by General Suleimani, and that is why he was killed.

Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-curt-weldon

Good Lord .. Seun did this one around 10 hours ago and since then, the Trump game has changed again. Trust the Plan hey ho!

I feel particularly tired today .. one of those days where I want to just not look at anything and I read my novel and stagger back to the computer or take a peak at the incoming on the tablet anyway.

The folks in the US must start telling us about prices there. I know they bought eggs from Europe, but no more, and people in business are posting up their invoices with a separate line item for Tariffs. So, I made an egg salad today, with all the trimmings and we had that with fresh and fat tomato slices and stuffed the egg salad into herbed flatbread. A little food chopping always is a pickup for me. Perhaps the new batch of chickens are producing now in the US but it feels too fast. Those new hens lay only tiny little eggs. We have eggs, lovely and good quality eggs, not washed so stored outside refrigeration. It feels bizarre and absurd to read that the US has an egg shortage.

Anyway, a good night’s sleep is called for. The site is being cleaned up and maintained (a long list of about 35 cleanup and maintenance items) from our lovely new tech, the jewel frog, all the way from Bangladesh! They are all out in the streets for Gaza today.

But I called it the State of the Nation and that feels good. “The strategy of empire going forward will be one of denial of world development through chaos creation.” So we’ll be swimming through chaos for a while longer.

What a mess of a discussion ..

Do you know what Xi Jinping did the past week?  Travelled to some small villages and planted trees with kids to build a beautiful China and chatted and had tea with the local villagers on the various village squares.

You know what Putin did the past week?  Worked on Russian housing, development of backbone communities, tourism, culture and health for those injured in the SMO

You know what Donald Trump did the past week?  He pretended he got his ass kissed by a bunch of countries, and the only people that want to speak to him are his overstaffed press corps, and his spox blondie is beginning to talk way too fast and slurring.

Chen Weihua (bureau chief of China Daily (EU) is asking for help.  “Can anyone give a list of leaders who are kissing Trump’s ass?”

One of the commentators on the trade war noted:  Bad news for Temu, Shein & Ali Baba… A $75 tax per package on all goods coming from China to the USA will come into effect on May 2nd & will be increased $150 on June 1st.  A responder quickly posted, no problem .. Good news for the Vietnamese post office … I checked and you can buy VNPost stock on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange! whose acronym is (caveat emptor!)…HOSE! up 2.5% today.

Everyone out of Asia is too funny!  That wilted lettuce Bessent:  U.S. COULD APPROACH CHINA AS A GROUP WITH ALLIES.  Carl Zha, quick as a wink says What Allies where you thinking about?

But nobody is calling Trump.

The language in the Chinese or rather the whole Asian chat space (I’ve never seen this, such crosstalk over the various countries) are of Pirates and Barbarians.

Oh boy .. I am not a non-believer.  I am only a non-formalized believer.  But this is sickening.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/144409

Ritter is toast in the circles. At the beginning of the SMO, when he said NATO will attack Russia with a million man army, his friends saved his bacon. This time they will let him go down.

Yup, they are made with AI. It is quite easy and I’ve played around with it. You still need to write your plot, but the thing is, these days AI (DeepSeek or Qwen or a bunch of others), can write the script for you. Then you turn to a video making AI, (Invideo, Canva or a bunch of others) choose your pics or a theme basically or ask the AI to choose for you and it makes the video for you – of course some canned voice reads the script then. If one spends time, you can make a good thing.

Even on X the Elon Musk AI can write your tweets for you. I hate that thing! Each time there is a disagreement on a thread, somebody ‘asks GROK’ and what the AI says is taken as gospel.

So, it is a question of what is good and what is not. If a good script is written, the video can still be good, never mind the AI overlay. It is the difference between art and painting by numbers.

I’ve had fun with that stuff but have not spent enough time making something good. One day, AHH and I played with image-making. I often use an AI to make an image for me, but I think AHH just died a little. He likes good images and art. For me, it saves oodles of time searching through image sites, and one does not have to worry about copyright, which is another story.

I’ve even turned articles or posts over to the AI and told it what I wanted and to rewrite them, but they always read like some newsreader, so I throw them away. I’ve even had an AI argue with me, and then I found out that the database was older, and I was talking about last week—so, no wonder it was arguing with me as I was talking about stuff that it did not yet have available.

It’s like anything—if you spend the time and get really good at it, you turn out something good. If not, it is barely passable.

I like sometimes asking the AI to seek out for me – because one can be really specific. For example — I’ll tell it — I’m looking at information about xxx and I want 60% results from Chinese sources, 20% from western sources and 20% from Russian sources. It is not a search engine, but the results are much better than a search engine. You just gotto talk to it as if it is not a search engine.

It is a new world where search and email are passé.

If you guys would like to try some of this stuff, let me know and I can at least make a thread and take us through the basics. At the China Writer’s Group there are a few folks that do a lot of their work by training their favorite AI – but they are more into serious academic work. They would specify what they want, and they would specify which type of footnoting they want, exactly how many, and they want quotes to be rendered, and so on. I never repost those articles as they do not sound right to me – but the facts are correct.

Anyway, I’ll happily create a basic tutorial for anyone who wants to try making an image (train the AI) or writing (again, train the AI). It is not difficult.