FYI: Chinese Trump Doesn’t Give a Fuck

Contra Trump 佯裝川賊 Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real. 無為有處有還無
假作真時真亦假 — The Story of the Stone 石頭記, trans. David Hawkes) Trump imitators have flourished in the United States since the late 1990s and from Trump Year Zero (aka 2016), Saturday Night Live has featured a bevy of them: Shane Gillis, Phil Hartman, Darrell Hammond, Jason Sudeikis, Taran Killam, Alec Baldwin and James Austin Johnson.… Read

‘I envy clouds their freedom.’ — Lao Shu

The Other China 最羨雲彩自由   We marked Good Friday 2025 with a somber meditation — A static hiss in the algorithm’s perfect hum. In accord with the very different mood of Easter Monday, we join Lao Shu to celebrate the spring (autumn where we are in the southern hemisphere).… Read

A static hiss in the algorithm’s perfect hum.

Intersecting with Eternity Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem,
factórem cæli et terræ, visibílium ómnium et invisibílium. … The Nicene Creed, from which these sentences are taken, is a Christian profession of faith adopted at the First Council of Nicaea in 325.… Read

‘Go fuck yourself. With a French press, Bill.’

Contra Trump 牟取暴利 You are not the voice of Main Street.
You are not a steward of small business.
You are a fuckin MEGA rich man crying in his coffee because the golden pipeline of cheap imports just coughed.… Read