While most of us agree that voting for Harris was not a solution to fix our elections via the ballot box, we should still explore this option. Or rather explore how this happened and how to fix it.

The obvious solution is the SAVE act as the most logical first step. But we know that John Thune will not allow this popular legislation to be allowed to come for a floor vote. So if the first step is blocked by our selected leaders, the next most obvious solution is self-evident.

h/t WRSA

From Vox Popoli

China has a less-corrupt government system than any government in the West these days.

A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking more than 2.2bn yuan ($325m; £243m) in bribes over 30 years.

Yang Youlin, who served in various positions in Nanjing city from 1993 to 2023, was also convicted of embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering, with his ill-gotten gains amounting to one of the highest in recent years.

The 69-year-old exploited his roles to help others secure engineering contracts, land transfers and financing, in exchange for money and valuables, said state media.

Yang was investigated as part of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crackdown which has cut through military ranks and high-level banking, among other sectors.

Yang, who spent much of his career working on economic and technological development in Nanjing, had committed offences “of an extremely serious nature” and “caused exceptionally heavy losses to the interests of the state and the people”, a court in Changzhou city said on Monday.

Since coming to power, President Xi has launched waves of anti-corruption drives, which critics say have also been used as a tool to purge political rivals.

Death sentences for white collar crimes however remain rare, though they are meted out occasionally, typically if the cases involve large sums exceeding 1bn yuan.

For instance, former finance chief Lai Xiaomin was executed in 2021 for taking 1.8bn yuan in bribes over a 10-year period.

Li Jianping, a former Inner Mongolia official, was executed in 2024 for embezzling and taking bribes totaling more than 3bn yuan.

In many other cases, the courts handed out jail terms or suspended death sentences, which get commuted to life imprisonment after a specified duration.

If your political rivals are corrupt, then obviously an anti-corruption campaign will purge them. That’s a feature, not a bug. The difference between Xi and the ineffectual Trump could not be more obvious than the former’s massively successful war on corruption and Trump’s total failure to arrest or convict, let alone execute, a single traitorous and corrupt government pedophile.

There’s no excuse for that. Waging a stupid and disastrous war on Iran while failing to make peace with Russia is always going to be a major stain on his legacy. But that’s how things go for big-talking cowards. Sooner or later, the rhetoric has to become real, or it just looks ridiculous.

Trump isn’t a terrible president. But he had a real opportunity for greatness, and for one reason or another, he failed to seize his moment. Now, barring the possibility that there are things going on that we can’t presently see, it appears he’ll go down with his friends in Clown World.

Roth Note: Our system? Corporate CEO and CFO defraud customers for billions (talking to you Wells Fargo). Government prosecutes and fines a few million. CEO and CFO go to jail? Oh no. They’re individuals. The corporation was responsible, not them. Yeah. Right. So the corporation puts big dollars in shareholders pockets and the government gets a payday, too. Execs get bonuses. Oh, and did I mention that the CCP has fewer laws on the books than the Land of the Free?

It’s not white supremacy that is going to cause massive violence across the West. It’s diversity doing victory laps:

Xbox Indian CEO Asha Sharma just announced firing 3,200 Americans.

She filed for 5,000 H-1B visa hires this year.

Asha was appointed CEO of Xbox in February by Indian Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

How is this not a matter of national security? Why are any corporations being permitted any H-1B visa hires?

What happened to the real Donald Trump?

From Vox Popoli

Roth Note: Playing God will not end well. Just sayin’.

How much longer can Trump use war to cover up the fall of the Republic?

    This tweet, the product of an AI, has impressed me more than anything else I’ve seen from such a source:

     I asked Anthropic’s most expensive and intelligent model, Fable 5, to write a response to Mamdani’s speech as if it were George Washington…

To the Mayor of the City of New-York
Mount Vernon, 3d of July, 2026.

Sir,

     Intelligence has reached me that you have lately seated yourself at my desk in the City Hall of New-York, with its face turned toward the publick eye, and that from this station, upon the eve of the 250th anniversary of our Independence, you delivered an address to the Citizens of that City. I have read it with attention. I confess I did not expect that these memorials would be employed in the service of principles so opposite to those by which I endeavoured to govern my publick life; and he who makes use of the memorials of the dead assumes an obligation to the principles for which they are remembered. It is upon that obligation, Sir, that I now address you, with a plainness the occasion demands.

     Let me first render what justice requires. Your account of the retreat from Brooklyn is correct in its facts; I was the last to leave that shore, and the deliverance was as providential as you describe. Nor shall I quarrel with your praise of those who have passed through the Narrows in hope of beginning anew; I have myself written that the bosom of America is open to receive not the opulent and respectable stranger only, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions. Had you stopped there, I should have had no cause to write. You did not stop there.

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