My attempt at serious comment, probably my one and only attempt

 I have been watching, with some amusement, the happenings in the USA; particularly the start of the Presidential election cycle.

The amusement has dissipated slightly.

The Dems appear stuck with a brain-dead (at best) old man a- there simply are no credible alternatives - and the GOP, adept at turning victory into defeat at every opportunity are, once again, stuck with Trump.

Trump, of course has already won twice - I doubt anyone with a functioning brain believes those thousands of election swinging votes came in in the dead of the night after counting originally confirmed Trump.

He will struggle to win a third time but the prospect of Joe or Kamala in the Whitehouse for four more years will probably swing it his way defeating even the corruption.

I won't vote either way. 

I can't. I ain't a Seppo.

Trump will be a good thing for the USA but not particularly good for the rest of the free World.

Trump will make NATO stand on it's own feet, he'll adjust trade deals so the USA is not disadvantaged, particularly by adversaries, and he'll once again be a peacemaker. His first Presidency seemed to be based on the idea that you don't trade with enemies so if any country (e.g. N Korea) was offered a chance at trade they would/could become non-threatening if not friends.

Trump, incidentally also recognised that the Middle-east and parts East of there had nothing to offer that would mitigate their mysticism and ignored them.

Not an idiot internationally was Trump.

But....................... there had to be a "but'

Wandering around NZ you can't avoid them, given the space they take up.

I diverge, But, not Butt.

But .....I would prefer to see Trump withdraw. 

Withdraw, naming De Santis as his preference.

Trump, will always be divisive. The Dems will never forgive him for seeing the Light. Becoming the real enemy - GOP.

DeSantis is today's man. Smart, a proven leader, particularly when his people needed a leader and an overall Good Guy.

To this non-voter DeSantis is the perfect Man (Note the capital) to lead the Free World for the next eight years.

I hope Trump finally sees sense and does the right thing by his country. I believe that he is a big enough man to do so.

May the Gods prove me right!

China. Why the aggro?

 More stories about China and it's military might, this morning in The Sun from UK.

These Chinese must be nasty, greedy people, wanting to take over the World - except I can't remember a single time in Chinese history they've done anything other than defend themselves.

They helped out North Korea and Vietnam against the easy-beat Seppos but even then they simply lent a hand and then moved back whence they had come. (A pity GW didn't learn from them.)

Except for some sabre rattling around Formosa, which is traditionally Chinese, and the odd fist/club fight on the India border the whole history of China is one of non-aggression.

Their main form of influence is spreading money where it can do the best for China and it's trade. Basically creating customers not enemies.

So why the continued anti-China rhetoric from Western pollies?

Is it because too little of that Chinese money has come into Western pollies' hands?

The only seriously wrong thing they have done was, when China, via Taiwanese explorers, transported a bunch of illiterate, nasty, pig-ignorant savages from where they had been kicked out of in the central Pacific to a group of islands that you needed brains (which they didn't have) to produce food - hence promoting cannibalism.

For that they can never be forgiven but, that aside, maybe it's time to give China a break.

Concentrate instead on the Middle East to North Africa to India scum who are openly trying to destroy civilisation and drag humanity backwards.

THEY need stopping!