"Did you hear Japan elected their first woman prime minister?"
"That's amazing! A huge win for women's rights!"
"She supports re-arming the Japanese military for offensive purposes, acquiring nukes, further restricting immigration, and wrote a blog admiring Hitler"
"..."
Also remember when Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl solved the 200 year unsolved "mystery" of the moai statues on the Easter Islands by literally interviewing a random local Rapa Nui native who explained the oral tradition to him of how they "walked" them
Trump is floating Sid Miller for Secretary of Agriculture, a former rodeo cowboy who threatens to "hunt" moderate RINO republicans for sport and called Hillary Clinton a cunt.
Friendly reminder that the Founding Fathers wrote explicitly that any immigrant must "absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whateverโฆbe of good moral character and disposed to good order."
Thinking about the couple who hosted me in rural Japan.
They made me dinner and we communicated entirely with Google Translate.
We began talking about Mishima over drinks (he visited his grave) and after a few too many he blurted "JAPAN IS BECOMING WEAK!!" before apologizing.
Believe it or not, the US used to require immigrants to not only undergo a medical exam, but required an affidavit of support, an American citizen sponsor held legally liable for their conduct, a literacy test, vetted for intelligence and productivity, and a moral character test!
Chinese officials have stopped publishing hundreds of data points once used Wall Street analysts.
Ask yourself, why would China stop publishing economic data?
I was always confused why ancient societies would randomly let the emperor's son ascend to the throne or why the praetorian guard or military elite would cheer and hail the son of the dead king, now I understand.
