Showmanship
Showmanship. A skill that’s very useful to a politician. Some have it, some don’t. And you can tell right away from the way they speak. The ones that have it speak with a lot of drama and are so convincing, even when they lie. The ones who don’t are bland and unconvincing, even when they tell the truth. But what I saw in the State of the Union speech was truly orchestrated showmanship, beginning with the men’s Olympic team and chants of USA, USA, USA. And metals of honor and other metals as well hyping nationalism. The whole thing was orchestrated by a pure showman — Trump. He definitely knows how to put on a show. That’s very very clear from this performance — not only his speaking but also how he orchestrated the whole program to produce a particular response. Trump the showman. No one can deny this.
NATO
It would be in US interest to pull out of NATO. Let Europe defend itself. The proxy war in Ukraine against Russia would come to an end very quickly, which would be a good thing. The proxy war against Russia was just a stealth invasion of Russia by Europe encouraged by the US. A fiasco from the get go. The world will be a much safer place if that proxy war comes to an end.
Liberalism
The liberalism of Robert Kennedy in the 60s was worthy of deep respect and admiration. But the liberalism of the Democratic Party today is more concerned with protecting illegal immigrants than American citizens, bent on exploiting voting fraud through those illegal immigrants, used to the suppression of any free speech that they simply don’t agree with, accustomed to distorting the truth through the left-wing press, promoting a soft attitude toward crime and underfunding law enforcement — all of which massively increases crime, prone to socialist and even communist economics with lavish spending on social programs that bankrupt cities and drive out business, which undermines the tax structure of those cities, prone to severe demagoguery by appealing to the common man through appeals to soak the rich, even though the rich already pay for most of the taxes already. It is just a cesspool that “liberalism” has become. While there is a lot of idle talking comparing Trump to Hitler because he wants to enforce our immigration laws, the truth is that this Democratic Party is the one much much closer to fascism and repression. The party really needs a new leader that can steer it back to more rational policies that are actually in the best interest of the country.
Hand Talk
People who “speak” with their hands. Do the hands actually say anything at all?
Value of Money?
You have to ask yourself if it is normal for a professional baseball player to have a 2-digit, multi-million dollar salary each year.
What does that tell you about the measly value of the money in your wallet or the actual impact on the value of money that the Federal Reserve has had with their trillion-dollar money printing program?
Do you know what happened in the Weimar Republic with hyperinflation?
new to me. So naturally I Googled “intermittent fasting” to find out what on earth she was talking about.
Intermittent Fasting
Iran
Trump should engineer regime change in Iran right now. This is the opportunity. It won’t come again.
Oxidative Stress
Edible plants suffer from oxidative stress from UV light just like humans. The polyphenols they create to protect themselves we take advantage of when we eat them.
What Are Polyphenols?
Autophagy
I’m wondering whether a 48-hour fast once a month, forever, would keep you safe from all the major diseases. My reasoning is that all the major diseases — heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. — start with oxidative stress that damages cell DNA with a free radical searching for missing electrons. The 48-hour fast would induce a very intense autophagy that would pretty much put a halt to oxidative stress and any chronic inflammation. The fast would also strengthen one’s immune cells.
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