Trump is now in China with quite the retinue – including Musk. And he’s talking up Xi as if he’s the greatest guy, ever. Almost like there’s some big deal already worked out and this summit will merely announce it. We’ll have to wait and see, of course. But do keep in mind that Xi has to make nice with us right now.
A few days ago, two of Xi’s hand-picked military leaders were given suspended death sentences (which works out to life in prison) for corruption – and a host of other lower level military officials are being prosecuted. The Chinese government is corrupt – nothing gets done in China save via bribes, so convicting those two men of bribery merely means they fell out of favor. Why? Can’t say for certain, of course – but you gotta figure that the total failure of China’s weapons to protect Iran is playing a role here. Xi has spent vast sums to build a military capable of challenging the USA and the equipment is a complete bust. It might as well not be there as far as the US and Israeli air forces are concerned.
That, in turn, put a huge squeeze on China. For all the talk of China leading the way in green energy, they still massively rely on oil – cheap oil, provided at a deep discount from Iran. Said oil has not been forthcoming of late! And we still control the spigot…and will continue to control the spigot for a long time to come. At the moment, China can’t engage the USA in direct confrontation – until they manage to build a military force which can challenge us on the seas and in the air, they are entirely dependent upon our good will for survival. As I noted some years back, China is like Germany was back in 1910…very powerful, but still second rate because at the snap of fingers, the British could shut Germany out of the world’s markets. Makes sense for Xi to make a grand deal with Trump and hope that in later years another cowardly, traitorous Democrat will get into the White House and gift China world power.
Side note on this: while China ended the one child policy 11 years ago, Chinese couples still aren’t having a lot of kids…and at the moment the whole Chinese military is made up of the sons of one-child families. That is, the family line goes extinct whenever any Chinese soldier gets killed. This is very sensitive in Chinese culture. China has a military…but it is manned by men whom the Chinese are loath to sacrifice. Used to be, China could always count on endless waves of men for warfare…not so much any longer. Too many Chinese soldiers die and the families of the remainder might decide its time for a complete policy change before their sons – their family lines – are also wiped out.
The Ruling Class is trying to work up the hantavirus as the next Covid pandemic. Don’t know why they’re bothering – none of us are going to fall for it a second time. Until we start seeing people dropping dead right in front of us, we’re going to assume that any “pandemic” is a mere fraud designed to control us.
Democrat Senator Van Hollen tried to ambush FBI director Patel by bringing up the rumor that Patel drinks a lot – this rumor is, by the way, completely unsourced to named witnesses – and Patel responded by bringing up Van Hollen’s recent $7,128.00 bar tab. Van Hollen tried to get out of that by saying it was for 50 people, but that still works out to nearly $143.00 per person…and even in a DC bar with inflated prices, it means everyone pounded down at least 5 drinks. To be fair, that isn’t nearly what me and the shipmates used to do on a 72 hour liberty…but we also weren’t United States Senators…
Nolan’s upcoming Odyssey is rumored to be extremely woke – like woke on SSRI-strength steroids. If so – and it does appear to be the case – then I’ll be disappointed. Nolan has done some really good movies over the years and, in fact, over the past while has made about the only watchable movies. From what I understand, the problem isn’t just a Nolan thing here – in order for any film to get Oscar consideration, you have to check off lots of DEI boxes. If your cast and crew doesn’t, then it won’t matter how good the movie is, it can’t be Oscar nominated. There is a slight hope that Nolan just checked off the boxes and let the story alone, but the word is that he’s using a recent feminist re-write of the epic as his source material (it is claimed as a translation, but if you look into what this lady did, she re-wrote the story with modern Leftist ideology at its core). It looks as though we have another big-budget flop in the works here.
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And he’s talking up Xi as if he’s the greatest guy, ever.
They need not be friends, and likely never will be, but an economic adversary is far different than an enemy. The last thing the world needs right now is a knock-down, drag-out conflict between the US and China. And with the oil situation and the numerous, massive discoveries of rare earth minerals around the globe (some in the US), Trump sort of has Xi by the balls.
I believe so – and I think Xi is smart enough to know it: he knows it is time to crow small and get back to work on the whole “challenge the USA” thing as what’s been done so far hasn’t worked out. The real key for China – other than somehow dealing with their demographic crisis – is to build cheap and clean energy…look for them to go flat out on nuclear development.
There is an interesting analysis of Trump’s China visit here: It’s several minutes long but I think it makes excellent points, including explaining the diplomatic basis for being courteous to Xi.
Senate Advances Bill to Withhold Lawmakers’ Pay During Government Shutdowns
Thank you Senator Kennedy. I think they should include a provision that says congress may not go on recess until such time they fulfill their obligation to fund the government.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/14/senate-advances-bill-to-withhold-lawmakers-pay-during-government-shutdowns/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=
From what I read, 17 CEO’s from several of the largest corporations accompanied President Trump on Air Force One to China. Apparently, Xi sent his Vice Premier to South Korea to talk to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the day prior to Trump going to China, a quick, last minute decision made by Xi. Typically, such a meeting in China with world head of states is preceded by preparations and itinerary announcements made far in advance. For this meeting, many things were done in a far more secretive and last minute manner. This meeting is unprecedented on many levels, considering the situation in Iran and the numerous CEO’s attending.
On a side note, several people who’ve traveled with Trump on Air Force One for long trips have said these trips can be exhausting as it seems, Trump never sleeps and will often interact with little notice, keeping them on their toes the whole time. I pray God continues to grace Trump with his endless energy and forethought, correcting course and cleaning the corruption.
The man is an energizer bunny, isn’t he? He’s older than me by a lot and there’s no way I could match his schedule.
One significant disappointment of the first Trump administration was Pence. While he appeared to do his job as VP quietly with little distraction or disagreement with Trump, his true colors surfaced showing him to the exact problem we’ve had with many so called, right-side conservatives / republicans. Trump is in the position he is precisely because he has followed through on promises made while campaigning, a rare trait for those who aspire to higher office. Trump is a most unusual creature such that the left (and even many on the right) has no idea how to counter him. He is way ahead of them on so many fronts and is brilliant at lighting their fuse, exposing them for their rampant ineptitude.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/14/mike-pence-pretend-lifeguard-of-conservatism-voters-already-left-his-pool/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=
Another person who has strangely appeared to turn against Trump is Tucker Carlson. During his days on Fox as the highest rated news reported, and subsequently when Fox removed him from the network when he created his own podcast, Tucker was always in the front of being knowledgeable and relevant, exposing all kinds of behind the scene evils. Now… not so much. In fact, it appears he has become lost in a fog, steering without a rudder, contradicting himself on several topics.
In more good news…
As Trump allies work to redistrict states in a continued effort to weaken the demoncrats illegal clench on power, another country has made significant moves in removing leftist control.
The UK’s Labour Party of PM Keir Starmer LOST some 1,493 Council seats and 38 Councils during the UK’s most recent election. His Labour Party lost WALES for the first time in 100 years. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s Reform party, just a few years old, SURGED with winning 1,453 seats. They gained control of 14 councils, all previously Labour strongholds. There are approximately 5,000 Council seats across 136 Councils (good Lord, I can’t imagine the US having 5,000 critters in congress). There’s another party, called Restore Britain, who contested 10 seats and won all 10. This election is the UK’s version of the midterms, a referendum of the party in power. This is not just a bad night for the party in control or a pendulum swing between a 2-party system, it’s a massive move away from the leftist establishments and the takedown of the entrenched 2-party system. The movement appears in large part, a vote against the current destructive immigration crisis.
Also…
During the recently “celebrated” European Days, thousands of French citizens gathered in Paris to demand Frexit, France’s version of the UK’s Brexit, to leave the European Union. This is the same civilizational wakeup that put Trump back in office, where citizens mobilize to take back control of their own immigration crisis and other sovereignty damaging mandates the European bureaucrats in Brussels push.
It’s amazing to see the Lord’s hand at play, using some of the most unsuspecting people to fulfill His will. It appears Trump has become a front end catalyst to inspire other countries to unseat entrenched evil. Europe, Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Ukraine / Russia… Trump is working in so many different arenas that many see as individual pieces. However, they are actually all interconnected and few have the foresight to understand the direction or impact. We are witnessing something never seen before.
It all comes down to whether or not the people of Europe have the courage to really battle it out – that is, when the Ruling Class simply steals elections to keep themselves in power, will the people revolt? Because it will take revolt.
For some reason Facebook has started sending me “notifications” every day, consisting of reels of various posts. Most are ads but there was a spate recently of black opinion pieces supporting Trump, a couple of which were scathing about ghetto culture in very blunt terms. One black man said when he wants to go to some event he checks it out and if there are a lot of “n*ggers” there he won’t go. Another complained that the Houston rodeo had been ruined by ghetto behavior and “n*ggers” and praised Houston for implementing a dress code, which changes the whole dynamic of the crowd. There have been several such posts of black men and a couple of women about the degeneration of what was once a proud culture into trash and crudity and general ghetto behavior and values. If these messages start to get traction I think they will change a lot of minds in the “black community”.
There have been several of one black preacher in particular who has preached that God sent Trump because we need him at this point in our national history. If I can find his name I will post it. He has preached this in his church and discussed it in interviews.
One thing that has rattled around in my brain for years now is a theme from a CS Lewis book, “That Hideous Strength”. I can’t read it. It freaks me out. The first time I read it I felt an almost tangible evil surrounding me, like a fog that touched my skin. Years later I tried again, in different circumstances, with the same effect. But I did get deep enough into the book to get the main theme.
That is, that Britain—not the official geographic nation we now think of as England, but the historic and spiritual entity of true Britain—has several times been threatened with an existential threat, and each time a force has come forth to save it. He calls this force of good against evil the Pendragon, and two of his examples were King Arthur and Winston Churchill.
Call it fantasy, call it woo-woo, but since 2016 I have thought of Donald Trump as the Pendragon of the United States. Not just the geographically defined country, but the heart and soul and spiritual essence of the nation, which we see when we examine the miraculous formation of the country and the characters and courage of its founding.
(Lewis was a theologian as well as a novelist and use allegories for religious messaging.)
Not sure if it’s the same one but this is a powerful piece by a black preacher advocating Trump.
That’s the one—-and he is only one black man supporting Trump. There was a period when several such clips would appear in a day, black men furious at the disintegration of their culture and understanding the cultural warfare and that Trump is on their side.
I love how liberals make shit up to get mad about. “Xi told Trump to his face that the US is in decline” LOL. Of course liberals get mad about everything; the weather, girls sports, white men, etc.
Democrats are not exactly fully functioning adults.
I caught a comment last night by one of our trolls about Trump nodding off during cabinet meetings, but didn’t have time to respond. I see the comment is gone, but it illustrates just how intellectually bankrupt the Left is. With everything that’s going on in the world, they dwell on a something that on the scale of importance (0 being of no importance to 100 being critically important) is about a 1 or a 2. I think that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the intellectual level of folks who, I’m sure, call themselves intellectuals.
Yep – and the stories of Trump’s declining energy are just ridiculous: the man is clearly still energetic. It isn’t such a huge shock: there are plenty of examples of very vigorous older people in history. Churchill was running his much younger aids ragged, for instance.
The theme of the day is making fun of Trump’s height. Suddenly posts are popping up with photos of him standing next to other world leaders and looking either shorter than they are or at least no taller. This is part of the body shaming (which is part sheer desperation on their part and part a reflection of the shallowness of how they evaluate people) that will, no doubt, appeal to the superficial nature of the base. (And in an era of very convincing AI not a single such photo can be taken at face value anyway, except maybe by people convinced that Marco Rubio dressed up as an astronaut and posed holding a toilet plunger, and that apex predators are now bringing sick baby animals to hospitals begging for treatment).
The thing is, Trump has been a national figure for at least 30 years. There are literally thousands of photos of him from the age of (approximately) 30 onward. And he has always been tall. He is listed as being 6’1″ and that is not extremely tall, just above average. Almost every man I know is that tall or close to it. I’m a woman, and only three inches shorter than that. But for “some reason” the flying monkeys have decided to ridicule his height and claim he has been lying about it.
Then there is the squealing about his weight. Again, go back a few decades to look at Younger Trump. He has always been a mesomorph, never particularly lean, and has added a few pounds to a body always on the heavier side. When he was booked, in his infamous arrest, the official booking information had him at 240 pounds. Bill Clinton, one inch taller, weighed about 225 pounds in his later years in office, at an earlier age than Trump is now. Trump’s weight is almost identical to that of Theodore Roosevelt. IOW, it’s just a frantic grasp at something—anything—they think they can blow up into something significant.
Another theme they seem to find compelling is their claims of his physical condition. The man is 80 years old, so he uses a golf cart—big deal. But then a movement based on applying arbitrary standards to other people is going to do the same here, conveying the alleged belief that golf only counts if the golfer walks the course. They seem outraged that he prefers to act as the chief executive officer of the United States instead of spending hours in what is now offered as important and even virtuous physical exercise, but which of course would then be cast as egomania, ignoring the demands of his office, etc.
And THIS is what they’ve got. His body type, whether or not he should use a golf cart, and in diplomatic negotiations he was diplomatic.
Anyways, look at Baron – the genetics of a tall mom and dad are on display there!
I watch the Padres and that means I get California political ads: they’re all just saying they’ll fight Trump. Now we’re starting to get Nevada political ads – they’re all saying they’ll fight Trump. These people are insane. They live and breath Trump, 24/7. Me? I watch the Padres. Hope for a miracle in the Western Conference Finals for my Knights. Write on Book X. Work. Argue mildly with the Mrs about how much to trim from the palm tree. And I’ll think about Trump from time to time. He’s a major figure in the world – and will be recognized among the central figures of history (IMO, he’s sort of Pitt the Younger…the man called in to shake up a malfunctioning Britain so it could successfully prosecute the war against Napoleon…he didn’t live to see the triumph, but it was his Britain which got the job done). But he’s also just a normal man – and a normal 80 year old man in some respects…so, yeah, he can’t walk 18 holes.
The Altas World News clips focus on the worldwide reset being accomplished by Trump, connecting dots all across the globe.
I know what you mean, though, about the calmer atmosphere on the Right and the sense of just sitting back and letting Trump do his thing. Emotionally, the temperature has been dialed way down, in spite of the Left’s frantic efforts to keep the pots boiling. Even anti-ICE efforts have been moved from the street to the media and politicians, and are losing steam. (The growing awareness that people can be arrested, prosecuted and jailed for these actions is starting to grow, I think.)
The media reactions to what Trump is doing are so measured, and so carefully explained, by the likes of Jeff Childs and Altas, the contrast between the shrill hysteria of blue-haired harridans and professional rioters is increasingly obvious.
From this morning’s Coffee and Covid: emphasis mine
” We’re not just cracking down on domestic crime at home, we are policing the whole hemisphere. When you combine that with the President’s approach to Russia and China, you begin to see something immense emerging.
Trump has been very firm with Beijing and Moscow in our part of the world. He’s rudely evicted them from South and Central America, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean. But at the same time, he is also softening our positions on Ukraine and Taiwan, retreating from NATO expansionism in Europe, seeking trade deals with them, and courting both Putin and Xi with high-profile diplomatic outreach.
Wait— this is where it gets really good. Every bit of all that geoplitical reorganization is happening completely outside the United Nations’ “rules-based international order.” And we could add Trump’s remaking the Middle East in real time, the end of OPEC, and the Board of Peace.
Trump doesn’t have to “end the UN,” he is making it irrelevant. He’s not attacking the UN head-on. He’s building an expressway around the UN and strip‑mining its relevance.”
I think a lot of Americans, when they start to understand this, will cheer it—-and maybe want to take it to the next step and suggest to the UN that they evacuate their fancy building and pack up their freeloading diplomats and find another place to land.
In the meantime, FAFO is breaking out all over. We saw the disgraceful temper tantrums thrown in two statehouses about the redistricting ruling by SCOTUS, but now we learn that one state, at least, is taking it seriously. In the Tennessee legislature:
” It was hard to hear anything over the raucous protests by cherry-picked activists, who were yelling from the balcony of the visitors’ gallery, chanting slogans against the new map, and sounding air horns. Meanwhile, black lawmakers stood at the front of the chamber blocking access to the dais with linked arms “in prayer.”
Two business days later on Monday, Republican House Speaker, Cameron Sexton, dispatched a stinker of a letter to House Democratic leader Karen Camper. (That’s right. Her first name is Karen.) Anyway, the letter informed Ms. Camper that House Democrats were being stripped from all standing committees and subcommittees as discipline, for “instigating and encouraging disorder on the House floor” during Thursday’s vote.
Mr. Sexton chided Democrat lawmakers for “interlocking arms in the well of the House,” “blocking aisles on the House floor,” and for using “prohibited props and noisemakers.”
The Republican supermajority (75 of 99 seats) can already pass whatever it wants, but stripping Democrats off committees means they lose all internal leverage where most real lawmaking happens. In most cases, committees write, amend, and often quietly kill bills before they ever reach the floor.
Also, and maybe more importantly, committee assignments are a prestige lever.”
And Dems are losing billions—literally billions—as scams and frauds are shut down, not to mention facing the deportation of much of their voting base in Minnesota and the crackdowns on “non-profits” which have been funneling money into the party.
I do believe that the UN and NATO will go away – Americans already don’t really want them and as they become irrelevant to America’s position they’ll want them even less.
And Trump is holding to true American policy:
1. Air Force and Navy second to none. This allows us to project power around the world. As Jacky Fisher put it when he rebuilt the Royal Navy: “it allows us to fight where we want, when we want and how we want”. This is the purpose of military policy. The old exchange from Roman times said it all: “If you are a general, come out and fight!”. “If you are a general, make me fight against my will.”
2. The Monroe to Donroe Doctrine – America is for the Americans. Foreign powers must not be allowed a foothold in our hemisphere. This is true even if an American nation wants foreign interference. Doesn’t matter: we can’t allow it. We must never be in a position where a foreign power can compel us to fight in our hemisphere.
3. Winding up the Cold War, which was a mistake from the get-go. But even if it wasn’t, it has become a mistake as time has gone on. This means alliance with Japan as a Great Power. We should never have fought Japan. We are natural allies. It was a compendium of mistakes on both sides which brought us Pearl Harbor. This means a termination of our alliances in Europe as they serve no American strategic interests. This means a much more hands-off approach long term to the world outside the Americas.
What I am seeing is a restructuring of power which leaves most of Europe out in the cold–though if the long-overdue rebellion in England doesn’t fizzle out the UK might get back in the running. Germany’s arrogance isn’t doing that country any good but Poland is coming up as a good ally and a much stronger country.
But the effort to build up South and Central America by helping those countries fight the cartels and improve their economies, as well as simply respecting them, is going to have a huge impact on global politics. Trump has been building alliances in the Middle East. And, of course, there is Japan.
(Speaking of respect for South and Central America, we are going to bump up against some deeply held cultural artifacts. The recent fuss about the Kentucky Derby jockeys being involved in cock fighting is one of them. Cockfighting is a national pastime in South America, where the elites vie for the “prestige” of breeding the best fighting cocks. A friend and I were once talking with a well-educated Peruvian man who was amazed to hear that Americans find cockfighting low-class, brutal and offensive—he was bragging about his boss, one of the richest men in the country, having the best cockfighting stable in the country, and our reactions of disgust truly stunned him. This is the kind of thing that is going to have to be worked around in some way if we are going to form deep ties with these countries.)
There are just not too many legitimate things that they can criticize Trump for other than policy disagreements. And policies either work or they don’t. Most of his have worked pretty well, especially compared to his predecessor. The fact that their most common response is to call him names is very telling.
The thing is, the Left doesn’t HAVE anything of substance, and they never have. There have been some incidences they could try to spin against Trump but basically it has all been Identity Politics, all the way, all the time.
Now they think they have something a little more substantive than skin color, but for one thing they are merely interpreting body language as being asleep and for another basing an entire grievance against a president, his cabinet, his supporters and his agenda on whether or not he dozes off as people drone on about information he has already read in written reports is nothing but telegraphing the message that they really don’t have anything.
Look at what they whinge about. “He uses a golf cart”. Yeah, so what? “He has bruises on his hands!” And….again, so what? (BTW, 80-year-olds tend to bruise easily. I am of essentially the same phenotype as Trump: Light skin, light blue eyes, light hair. And I’m not 80. One day when I raked the back of my hand on the mechanisms under my car seat, looking for something, the entire back of my hand turned black and blue.) “He is ‘clinically obese'”. Again, what does his weight have to do with anything? And there is the claim that his doctors have DEMANDED repeated testing for cognitive decline—as if doctors can order the president of the United States to do anything, as if doctors treating the president of the United States would discuss private medical concerns with rabid mouthbreathing Liberals, AS IF…
Not a word about the complex strategy of leveraging tariffs, much less any commentary on how no previous president either understood tariffs, grasped the problem of the trade imbalance eroding American industry, or had the ability to address the issue. Not a word about the complex calculations and negotiations the man routinely uses to achieve goals no other president has even considerer.
No, the massive intellect of the Left seems to be limited to wordplay like calling us “MAGAts” and calling the president a Cheeto.
and calling the president a Cheeto.
While remaining completely silent about the serious health problems of his predecessor who actually had the intellectual capacity OF A CHEETO.
The thing is, the Left doesn’t HAVE anything of substance, and they never have.
Plus most of what they do have is wrong: either immoral, unethical, illegal, unconstitutional, or unworkable.
“Nolan’s upcoming Odyssey is rumored to be extremely woke”
Yesterday I heard that “Elliot” Page (Ellen Page before she decided she would rather be a man) has been cast as Achilles, the greatest warrior in the known world. Elliot Page is 5’1″tall and would have to be the greatest actor of “his” time to convey the impression of being the most fearsome warrior in his time.
But then, I might be making an assumption—for example, perhaps Nolan is also planning to have Achilles portrayed as the most fearsome elf warrior of his time.
The viewing public also has the option of not going to see it, in which case it will lose tons of money, but not MY money. There are still lots of things in life where we have a choice, and, fortunately, what movies we watch is one of them.
We just have to look at the Disney disaster about Sleeping Beauty to see how the public reacts to information identifying a movie as a DEI lecture—it’s not that people went to the movie and didn’t like it, they heard enough about to decide to skip it entirely.
People like Nolan are desperately trying to make bank on a movement that is already sputtering and stumbling and becoming a source of ridicule.
OK, this is pretty funny.