Trump has been openly lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course he will never get one. But if the Nobel organization ever initiates a prize in Masochism, there are thousands of self-degraded Republicans who would be top contenders for years to come.

17 Such [things] are only the shadow of things that are to come, and they have only a symbolic value. But the reality (the substance, the solid fact of what is foreshadowed, the body of it) belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions [he claims] he has seen, vainly puffed up by his sensuous notions and inflated by his unspiritual thoughts and fleshly conceit, 19 And not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by means of its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. - Colossians 2:17-19 | Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Amplified Bible, Classic Edition Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation.

Paul Washer

By Stanley Collymore     White-owned, discernibly western in   context; and generally, exclusively   controlled, global corporations   that in a distinctly profitable, business   enterprise on their part, which literally   essentially entails, really aggregating   as well as quite distinctly overseeing   billions of US dollars’ worth generally   of revenue obviously really acquired   by them globally, through irrefutably   crucially successfully targeting and   massively financially, exploiting the   actually prevalent and sycophantic   mind-set of considerable numbers   of Blacks and other non-whites, as   such corporations obviously profit   massively, from the evidently rank   stupidity and obviously, pervasive   conditioning crucially of basically   quite self-centred, purportedly on   their part literally one upmanship   advantage, but essentially in real   terms; still the actions of gullible   intellectually challenged morons.       Black females and other women of   colour who're quite conditioned   or else easily persuaded that   the actual or near eradication of their   authentic skin colour simply through   the very expensive purchase as well   as the comprehensively continuous   use of these respective companies,   skin bleaching creams to eradicate   or else significantly, really diminish   their own really natural skin colour,   simply in order to only emulate the   appearance of themselves literally   fittingly, actually looking like white   women is not only asinine in itself   to rational minds, looking on quite   incredulously, at these undeniably   stupendously, truly idiotic actions   by actually supposedly intelligent   human beings, that self-evidently   they clearly are not! Undoubtedly   and quite clearly, unquestionably   so however; decidedly, obviously   and very crucially too, dim-witted   clowns, who then see and rather   stupidly see and likewise regard   themselves, not only as obvious   innovators essentially societally   an enormous boost all round to   their authority - psychologically!       (C) Stanley V. Collymore   15 October 2023.           Author's Remarks:   I concur wholeheartedly with the solidly prescient minded and highly informative sentiments of the late, great Malcolm X - God's Blessing be eternally upon him - regarding these distinctively pathetic, repulsively treacherous, nauseatingly sycophantic, totally lacking in respect, discernibly Useful Idiots to their dimwittedly perceived as master race, white Caucasians; while embarking fulsomely and injuriously on any and everything they can undertake or involve themselves in to consciously and quite egregiously to undermine, threaten and destroy the legitimacy and moral progress of Black men, women and children, asininely believing that by bleaching their skins and aping the white man, woman and even their delinquent children, they too, along with their similarly indoctrinated offspring, will undoubtedly, pleasurably and highly beneficially, inevitably and credibly morph into desirable and worthy white Caucasians; and wholly, satisfactorily dissimilar, from what being what Black persons are!       The discernibly elucidatory writings and statements of Malcolm can be attained by Googling them on the internet.

Do not compare yourself with others to never be tormented with either self-abasement or arrogance. Compare yourself at present with the one you were the day before.

Ma's strategy has been clever, knowing full well Taiwanese inclinations to economic insecurity, pessimism and short-term thinking. Taiwanese have not been slow to get the message.  Many now believe that if they can appease Beijing and avoid ‘upsetting the Chinese people‘ they too can strike gold.  So it is that NTNU have dropped the ‘N’ to gain a few more students and increase income.  I suggest that since they are changing their name, perhaps they should just go all the way and now call themselves Taiwan Province Subjugated University.