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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">What have we
learned from the Trump era?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">Which truth is
true?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">What lessons have we learned from the Trump era?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Lesson number one: truth counts.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in">If you repeat
a claim often enough, it becomes a truth.
Especially when it becomes a
badge of identity for a group. That’s
what’s happened in the cult of Donald trump and in the Trump supporters’ high
octane cousin, the cult of QAnon.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in">According
to the Trump supporters, Covid is a conspiracy, A hoax by democrats to attack Donald
Trump. What’s worse, covid is a bioweapon launched by child-raping Satanists
from a vast globalist conspiracy that includes George Soros, the Clintons, and Nancy
Pelosi.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in"> According to the Trump
supporters, Masks make you sick. They
are an attempt to steal your liberty.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> According to the Trump
supporters, lockdowns are an attempt to turn us into our own jailers. Lockdowns are preparation for a totalitarian
communist new world order.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> According to the Trump
supporters, vaccines are an attempt by Bill Gates to insert microchips into our
bloodstream to track our every move.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> According to the Trump
supporters, all of this is preparation for the great reset, the new, global,
totalitarian, communist world order.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> What’s more, according to
the Trump supporters, Donald Trump won the November 3rd election in a
landslide. But democrats rigged the
election, jiggered the dominion voting machines,
and slipped over seven million fraudulent and illegal votes into the system,
producing a phony win for Joe Biden.
According to the Trump supporters, the democrats have stolen the
election.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> According to the Trump
supporters, this means a Biden administration
will be illegitimate. Biden will be a
phony president.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> Also according to the Trump
supporters, Biden, his brother James,
and his son hunter have made a ton of money being on the take for the Chinese
and the Ukrainians.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> Topping it all off, according
to the Trump supporters, only one man can save us from the satanic new world
order. Only one man was sent by god to
liberate us. His name is Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in">All of this
is false.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in"> But millions of Trumpers
believe in it passionately. It has
become their truth. Their hard and fast
reality. Their faith, their catechism,
and their creed. Anything else, they
say, is a lie. Anything else is Orwellian
newspeak straight out of the novel 1984.
It’s fake news from the fake media and from radical left wing communist conspirators.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.0in">How do the
members of the Trump tribe know that all of these bizarre allegations are
true? Because people they know and trust
agree with them. Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, the
Washington Times, and a host of other media outlets agree with them. To members
of the Trump tribe these fantasies are truths and anyone who presents evidence
against them is a liar.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Collective
agreement on a truth is a powerful truth in itself. It is social glue. It welds a group together. It makes a group strong against rival groups. It can even propel a group like the Trump
supporters to the top of the pecking order. The national pecking order. As it did in 2016
when Donald Trump lost the popular vote
but won in the electoral college. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">But collective
agreement, consensual validation, is not enough—<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">Collective agreement can
establish a shared reality in the collective mind. but then the pictures of the
invisible world in that collective mind have to pass the test of reality.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">How do they do that? How do you determine whose truth is correct?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"> From
results—<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.0in"> For example, America’s
Covid crisis began in February 2020.
That month, Donald Trump predicted that Covid would disappear in April
“with the heat.” Two weeks later, he
said, “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> On March 31, he said “It’s going to go away,
hopefully at the end of the month.” On March 25th, he said, by Easter “you'll
have packed churches all over our country."<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> In
April, he said, “it did go away. It will go away.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> On September 4th, he said, ““We’re rounding
the corner. We’re rounding the corner on the virus,”<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> And on September 4th he said that aside from
the elderly, “It affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.” In fact, according to the Washington Post,
Trump said the coronavirus would disappear over 40 times by October 31st.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.0in"> But Covid did not
disappear at Easter. It did not
disappear over the summer. And it did
not go away like a miracle. It got worse.
Today it is killing 3,500 people a day, more than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Donald Trump’s truths were wrong. And the consequences were deadly. In fact, they were criminal. They amounted to negligent homicide.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in">Today Covid has
killed a total of over 315,000 people in the United States alone. That’s more people than died in seven of the
biggest wars of the twentieth century combined.
Yes, Covid has killed more than died in World War I, the Korean War, the
Viet Nam War, Operation Desert Storm, the Bosnian war, the second Iraq War, and
the War in Afghanistan combined. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in">Donald Trump’s
claims that covid would go away were a powerful form of social glue. But they were poisonously wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.0in"> Then there’s the claim
that Donald Trump would make America great again. That claim, too, has been a powerful social
glue. But it has failed the reality
test. Rather than becoming great again,
under Trump America’s greatness is disappearing. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">We have lost the mighty force
that allowed us to face down the Axis of Evil.
The Axis of Evil is the alliance between Russia, China, Iran, Syria,
North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba. The
fist of global might with which we kept the axis of evil in check was NATO and
the western alliance. We led this
awesome alliance up until 2016. And the
world looked up to us. We were known as
the leaders of the free world.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">Then Donald Trump turned the
Western Alliance and Neto into a shambles.
And today, our Western allies laugh at us. Why? They
laugh at us for Donald Trump’s clearly phony tweets. They laugh at us for His behavior at international
meetings as the boor and the clown, the sixth grader who deliberately disrupts
the class in order to get attention. And
they laugh at us for Trump’s suggestions like injecting bleach to kill the
coronavirus that causes covid. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">Our allies have another, more
concrete reason to despise us and to distrust any attempt at leadership we may
make. Donald Trump’s attempt to flee the
Covid crisis rather than lead our way out of it has had a simple, highly
visible consequence. Our policies have
caused the death of more Americans from Covid than the Covid deaths of England,
France, Germany, Spain, and Italy combined.
Yes, more Americans have been killed by Donald Trump’s bumbling than
have died in all the nations of western Europe. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">Yet Trump supporters claim that
their Donald was the first to shut down air travel between the USA and China
and that in the process Trump saved millions of lives. Those millions are hypothetical. But Trump’s real victims are in body bags and
coffins. They are not hypothetical. And, again, we have more deaths than any
other nation in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:1.0in">Our allies see what we don’t. They see just how ghastly Donald Trump’s
judgements have been. And they no longer
want to follow our lead. They do not
want to follow us into folly. To repeat,
they no longer look up to us as the leader of the free world.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">That’s measuring a shared reality, a consensual view of
the invisible world, against reality itself.
Covid denialism has been great social glue. That makes it a social truth. But it has failed the objective reality test.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Then
there’s yet another reality test. A
reality test for the claim that Donald Trump would make America great
again. In fact thanks to Donald trump,
our greatness is not just in decline, it is in a nose dive.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"> We’ve
just discovered that in March, The Russians pulled off what may be the biggest
governmental computer hack in history. The Cozy Bear team of the Kremlin’s foreign
intelligence service, the SVR, has created backdoors into the computers of
vital government agencies from the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland
Security to the Commerce Department, the United States Treasury, the Postal
Service, the National Institutes of Health, and scariest of all, the agency
that handles our nuclear weapons. The Russians have apparently also breached
the computers of thousands of American companies. Explains former National Security Agency general
counsel Glenn Gerstell, "It's as if you wake up one morning and suddenly
realize that a burglar has been going in and out of your house for the last six
months," When Richard Blumenthal, the democratic senator from
Connecticut, was given a top secret briefing on the details of the Russian
cyber-assault he said, "Russia's
cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact downright scared." <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Under Donald Trump, our multi-billion dollar cyber
defense operations were so asleep at the wheel that they had to be notified
about the invasion by a private company, Milpitas, California’s, FireEye.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> This is the form of warfare without bullets
the Russians call active measures. And
in this bulletless war, the Russians are winning. Big time.
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Like Covid, Donald Trump is in denial about Russia. He calls the entire Russia investigation of
2016 a hoax. And he cowers and simpers
in front of Vladimir Putin, looking for Putin’s approval like a little boy. The idea that the Russia thing is a hoax has
proven a powerful social glue. But it
has failed the reality test.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Then
there’s China. Donald Trump says in his
mailings begging for your money and mine that he “puts AMERICA FIRST and is
TOUGH on China, Biden,” the Trump mailers go on to say, “is WEAK on China and
will allow their COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT to COMPROMISE the United States.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
But Donald Trump’s alleged toughness is a pitiful weakness. Despite the Covid crisis, China’s economy is growing again while ours is still a wreck. Why?
The Chinese were in denial about Covid in December of 2019, then they admitted
they had a coronavirus problem in January.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
They went into drastic lockdown. People were locked in their homes in Wuhan or
taken away and locked in mass quarantine centers.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> According to the BBC, “Meituan,” a Chinese
food delivery service, even adapted its food delivery app so riders and
customers didn't have to meet face-to-face.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The
Chinese stomped the coronavirus back into the hole it came from. Now the Chinese are going to clubs and
attending concerts again. They are
working, making things, and buying things.
Their economy is running at full steam ahead. Ours is not.
And ours is not because of covid-denial.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">But that’s not all.
Under George Bush in 2005, we began negotiations with seven pacific rim
countries for a joint trade deal. Under
Barack Obama the number of countries expanded to twelve, twelve countries
responsible for 40% of the world’s trade.
The new deal was designed to sustain our status as the leading power in
the Pacific. The new trade deal was the
heart of Obama’s pivot to Asia. It was designed to pull all of our Asian allies
together in a single bloc to face off with China.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn11" name="_ednref11" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> An alliance in which we would be the leader. The alliance took eight years to put
together. Then Donald Trump entered the
White House and trashed the TPP. Now the
Chinese have put together a new Pacific trade agreement of their own, the Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the RCP.
The new agreement includes fifteen countries—three more than our
abandoned TPP. And the Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership excludes the United States. Meanwhile, our Trans Pacific Partnership
agreement partners have held the TPP together on their own. Without us.
And China is now asking to join.
If they join, they will dominate.
And our TPP will be turned against us.
But even if the Chinese are turned down for membership, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
gives China the dominant role that we had angled to hold onto. And it’s made us far less of a power in the
Pacific. Or, as one writer put it,
“forget it, Jake, it’s China’s town.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">China, in fact, is working slowly but steadily to become
the central force around which the entire world turns. It is working inch by inch to become the
world’s leading superpower. And Beijing
is doing a good job of making us a has been.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">China is moving forward on its belt and road initiative,
a string of ports and high speed railways uniting 138 nations<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn12" name="_ednref12" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> “including
65% of the world's population and 40% of the global gross domestic product.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn13" name="_ednref13" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
China has bought up ports all over the world, at least 36 ports,<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn14" name="_ednref14" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
ports in south America,<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn15" name="_ednref15" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Europe, Africa, Asia, and even the United States.. Beijing calls its system of
ports surrounding the Indian ocean its string of pearls.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn16" name="_ednref16" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xvi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> And strings of pearls can be used to
choke. Meanwhile, the Pakistanis have
just announced a military alliance with China to face off against the united
states and India.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn17" name="_ednref17" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xvii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> And the Pakistanis have fenced off an entire port,
the port of Gwadar,<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn18" name="_ednref18" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
apparently for China’s military use. Pakistan is the only Islamic nation with
nuclear weapons. So there are now four
nuclear nations in the axis of evil. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Meanwhile, China has completed its BeiDou satellite
navigation system,<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn19" name="_ednref19" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
the system it calls its digital silk road.
The BeiDou system is designed to put America’s Gps out of business. America’s Gps satellites are 27 years old
and are built with technology that is now antique.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn20" name="_ednref20" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Chinese BeiDou satellite chain is far
more precise than Gps. 130<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn21" name="_ednref21" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xxi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> nations
now use the BeiDou system more than they use America’s Gps. In other words, China is inching toward a
possible chokehold on the communications and wi fi systems of 130 of the world’s
195 nations.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">Then there’s China’s plan to own the solar system by
2049. If the Chinese own space, they
will own the earth. What indications are
there that China can achieve what Xi Jinping calls China’s space dream? Just look at the Chang-e 5 spacecraft that
brought back the first samples of rock from the moon on Thursday December 17th. Meanwhile, NASA is putting its chips on a
rocket called the Space Launch System.
The Space Launch System was supposed to fly in 2016,<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_edn22" name="_ednref22" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xxii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
is still being assembled, and is too expensive to fly. Fortunately, we have Elon Musk, who has flown
a prototype of his hundred-passenger space liner the Starship, and who intends
to use the Starship not just to build the first human city on mars and to help
build a human outpost on the moon, but for what’s called point to point
travel. Point to point travel means
going twelve thousand miles from city to city.
From, let’s say, London to Singapore.
But not traveling from city to city in the usual thirteen Hours. Doing it in an hour or less. In other words, Elon Musk is single handedly
building our answer to China’s belt and road.
He is building highways in the sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">What’s the value of these highways? When we sent up our first humans to space in
1961, we did it in answer to Russia’s launch of
the very first satellite, Sputnik. We wanted to prove that we were
superior to Russia. We had no practical
goals in mind. And practical goals in
space looked impossible. But in 1962, America’s
monopoly telephone company AT&T launched the first commercial
communications satellite, Telstar. And
since then, using the inhospitable emptiness of space has become a third of a
trillion dollar a year business. That’s
what a space economy can do. It can take
the dust and rock of the moon and of asteroids and mine them for everything
from platinum to the raw material for concrete.
Concrete to build the new homes that will house life and humans in
space. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">China’s new trade agreements and its belt and road are
designed to make china what it was before 1800: the greatest exporting nation
on earth. And the center around which
the world turns. How do we beat that
competition? By building the new silk
roads of space.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">There are two tests of the value of a shared
perception. Of a shared reality. Test number one is whether it provides a
social glue. Test number two is whether
it helps advance the group in its struggle with other human groups and in its
struggle with the natural world. Donald
Trump’s ideas have proven to be great social glue. They have passed truth test number one with
flying colors. But Donald Trump’s ideas have
failed truth test number two—the ability to advance our group among competing
groups and to confront the natural world.
Natural world facts like a mass onslaught from something too small to
see, a virus. We are losing greatness to
china. We are losing the cyber war to
Russia. And we are losing our war with
the coronavirus. We are killing 3,500 Americans a day with
Trump’s approach to covid. What does
that tell you about the Trump cult’s sense of reality?<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://green-bri.org/countries-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative-bri#:~:text=As%20of%20March%202020%2C%20the,)%20with%20China%20is%20138*.&text=The%20countries%20of%20the%20Belt,are%20in%20Sub%2DSaharan%20Africa<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_ednref13" name="_edn13" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xiii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_ednref14" name="_edn14" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xiv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/02/06/china-is-making-substantial-investment-in-ports-and-pipelines-worldwide<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://theglobalamericans.org/2019/02/beijing-seeks-to-rapidly-solidify-its-position-in-latin-america-amidst-spat-with-washington/<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/string-of-pearls-redux-china-india-and-a-cambodian-base/<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-and-Pakistan-ink-military-MOU-to-counter-US-India-pact<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_ednref18" name="_edn18" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xviii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Belt-and-Road/Pakistan-to-fence-off-Gwadar-to-shield-China-s-Belt-and-Road-port#:~:text=Pakistan%20to%20fence%20off%20Gwadar%20to%20shield%20China's%20Belt%20and%20Road%20port,-Separating%20part%20of<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/newpara/What%20have%20we%20learned%20from%20theTrump%20%20era%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2012-17-2020.docx#_ednref20" name="_edn20" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[xx]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20government%20created,24%20satellites%20operational%20in%201993.<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://rntfnd.org/2019/08/22/more-beidou-than-gps-in-130-of-195-countries/<o:p></o:p></div>
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https://www.planetary.org/articles/20170515-anatomy-of-delay-sls-orion<o:p></o:p></div>
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Herewith the customary Nativity Scene of El Pilar Basilica in
Zaragoza. <br>
This strange year everything has been different, although we have
kept our discussion business almost as usual, <br>
and seemingly nobody from our community has been seriously affected.
Let us hope we all will continue with good health. <br>
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<b>The IS4SI Virtual Meeting </b>will take place on September
12-19. See <a class="yiv1696232904moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021</a><br>
<b>The FIS New Year Lecture </b>will be announced soon--on an
exciting theme. <br>
There are also good prospects for organizing a couple more
discussion sessions next year.
<div>Enjoy the Festivities: Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, Joyeux
Noël, 圣诞快乐 .<br>
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