A little bit of a blast from my past. There was a time when the Chinese admired Donald Trump (to the point that a car company named themselves after him!¹). Then he went more openly insane to the point that even through cultural lenses it was obvious, started spouting a whole bunch of anti-China rhetoric, and generally lost all favour here.
That's when all kinds of interesting things showed up. Trump toilet paper, for example.²
And, given his very public love affair with the lunatic in Pyongyang, these figures who I call "Cashman and Rocket Lad". Which I naturally bought. (They still feature prominently on my desk's shelf at home.)
When our democracy was attacked on January 6, Andy Kim was there picking up the trash left by Trump’s mob.
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“He thought #Putin was an OK guy & #Kim was an OK guy — that we had pushed #NorthKorea into a corner,” retired Gen #JohnKelly, who served as #Trump’s chief of staff, told me. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have #NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’”
Trump’s lavish praise for Hungarian PM #Orbán while hosting him at MarALago on Fri, just days after all but sealing the #Republican nom…, shows it’s a worldview he’s doubling down on.
Die allerbesten Freunde sind sie nicht. Doch für Russlands Präsident Putin und Nordkoreas Machthaber Kim könne bei einem Treffen einiges herausspringen, sagen Experten. Sie warnen vor einer gefährlichen Kooperation. Von K. Erdmann.
MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and others slammed ex-President Donald Trump over his “racist” and “violent” language — including the use of a term many see as a coded stand-in for the n-word — amid recent violent episodes involving Trump fans.
That campaign continues against a backdrop that includes one Trump supporter being gunned down by FBI agents after he threatened President Joe Biden and another being arrested for threatening Judge Tanya Chutkan.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced the military's top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons production, and expansion of military drills, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
Nordkorea: Kim und Schoigu nehmen Militärparade ab
Machtdemonstration im nächtlichen Pjöngjang: Zum 70. Jahrestag des Waffenstillstands im Koreakrieg hat Nordkorea Raketen und Drohnen präsentiert. Neben Machthaber Kim schaute sich der russische Verteidigungsminister Schoigu die Parade an.
AP: Kim Jong-Un has departed for Russia (kyivindependent.com)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia, where he is expected to hold a rare meeting with Vladimir Putin, AP reported on Sept. 11.
Kim Jong-un reportedly heading to Russia to meet Putin (www.theguardian.com)
West fears North Korea plans to supply Moscow with weapons to use in war against Ukraine
Putin hopes for closer ties with North Korea in message to Kim Jong Un (www.politico.eu)
Kim may travel to Moscow this month as the Kremlin seeks military equipment for Ukraine war.
North Korea's Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations (www.reuters.com)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced the military's top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons production, and expansion of military drills, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
Kim Kaphwan
In this Korean name, the family name is "Kim". The given name of this character is "Kaphwan"....
The KIM-1 that sounds like Stephen Hawking (or: "jitbanging" DECtalk) (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
My 1976 briefcase Commodore/MOS KIM-1, a 1 MHz single-board computer with a 6502 CPU and 1K of RAM, has learned to talk