ROK Drop Open Thread – May 09, 2025

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Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

The US is facing capital flight, a mass exodus of foreign investors, and a collapse in US financial markets, which will also crash the global economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1WQzqzaao

Don’t just blame Trump. Blame the dumb Americans who are mostly of grade-school-level intelligence.

setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

I really do wonder where the Korean Things get all the fertilizer they post.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

So the globe is doing something that will crash the global economy but let’s blame dumb Americans.

To manage a problem, you must first be honest with yourself.

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

Global collapse is needed to realign the world. The best outcome of this disaster will be the end of US exceptionalism. No more world funding the America’s lifestyle, like the way the farmer keeps feeding the fat pig.

When your shelves become empty, you have no jobs, with runaway stagflation, and Americans go hungry, what foreign investor would be crazy enough to invest in a hostile, angry, poor country that’s walled itself in, North Korea style? You won’t be able to print your paper dollars infinitely anymore to fund your living standard. Go ahead, keep on building those golden statues of Trump, see if that will help to solve all your problems.

Like I keep saying over and over, if the global community cannot sell their products to the US, in return for the “I owe you” promissory notes, the attractiveness of the US paper notes becomes zero, no different from any other non-market corrupt third world country’s currency. And the globe doesn’t need your cars, oil, airplanes, or your military ware. The global alternatives can easily replace all those.

American Governors Beg Canadians To Come Visit in Video Messages[No Thanks]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbvyu5dCVdk

Last edited 11 months ago by Korean Man
Liz
Liz
11 months ago

Babylon bee.
Actual Nazi Struggling To Stand Out Now That Everyone’s A Nazi”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8UwMCeD6jU

Liz
Liz
11 months ago

My son just bought a ticket to Milan for 250 dollars.
There are some incentives to vacation outside the US these days.

That said, I read that last year there were 3.5 million Canadians that visited Florida. And that was 2 percent of their tourism total. I’m sure Canadians are still visiting Florida.

Last edited 11 months ago by Liz
Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

That was last year idiot.

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

The US is in panic mode. China doesn’t even need the US, as its exports are up by 8%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-qJWDiWG0

Liz
Liz
11 months ago

The number is down about 10 percent this year. That would mean the number is still over 3 million. Since the number of Canadians visiting Florida is only 2 percent of the total (that is an astoundingly high number of visitors), that’s barely a dent. No, the number isn’t 80 percent less (reported mostly by liberal rags and probably that stupid video you provided).
Side note: I was the one who provided the date, followed by “I’m sure Canadians are still visiting Florida”, which would indicate I know my information is from last year. I know I’m just wresting with a pig here.

Last edited 11 months ago by Liz
Liz
Liz
11 months ago

Just to add (looked it up):
OAG Chief Analyst John Grant said in early March, there were 698,000 scheduled airline seats, or seats made available by airlines, between Canada and Florida from May to August. “That now stands at 628,000, so a reduction of 10 percent”. He noted that his firm’s data includes anyone booked on a flight between Canada and the US, so a traveller could be a connecting passenger from China travelling via Vancouver to Denver, for instance.
Courtney Miller, founder of aviation data firm Visual Approach Analytics, said that Canadian airline seats to Florida are down by 13 percent for May and 10 percent for June compared with the same periods in 2024.
(but it isn’t June yet, and seats might be booked, so 10 percent less is conservative and doesn’t include people who might drive).

Liz
Liz
11 months ago

“US is in panic mode. China doesn’t even need the US, as its exports are up by 8%.”

You used to at least pretend not to be a China bot.
Now you’re openly peddling Chinese propaganda.

Last edited 11 months ago by Liz
Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

How is that Chinese propaganda? The channel is in Singapore. If you haven’t gotten the message yet, Maggot, the world hates you. The new number one pariah despot nation is the US, replacing China. Everyone is now routing against the US, which has 192 countries as its enemy.

Canada’s air bookings to the US, down by 70% for 2025:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_boycott?utm_source=chatgpt.com

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

“If you haven’t gotten the message yet, Maggot, the world hates you. The new number one pariah despot nation is the US, replacing China. Everyone is now routing against the US, which has 192 countries as its enemy.”

Outstanding.

1. It is out in the open instead of sneaky 3rd world childish jealous gossip slinking around behind America’s back like normal.

2. That should ensure all the illegaltards self-deport.

Now tell me the bad part.

Liz
Liz
11 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI7uWedIfU0&t=350s

Explanation of the power grid collapse in Spain (also Portugal, and part of France) by Peter Zeihan.

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

Good find, Maggess. Here’s the same Peter Zeihan on Trump’s incompetence, DOSE failure, and the entirely man-made economic disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcWSh-yKe9I

You have a big problem when the same man who had predicted the US would be going into a golden age of self-reliance and prosperity while every other country collapses, is now admitting all his predictions were completely sabotaged by the laughably incompetent and horribly corrupt amateurs in Washington.

Last edited 11 months ago by Korean Man
setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

Chinese fa tories are burning down because frustrated and workers have no other voice.

Every day a new fire or three.

They’re getting desperate. Xi is going to lose his job over this.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
11 months ago

Korea descends into communism:

The left-wing DP party in South Korea has passed legislation to remove the election law violation the DP party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung was recently found guilty for.

A court packing bill was introduced to increase Supreme Court justices from 14 to 30

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

European countries + Canada issue Travel Warnings about the US with risks of arbitrary detentions.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D72i6hUEfKo

Preston Tucker
Preston Tucker
11 months ago

In recent months, South Korea has been mired in political turmoil — two presidential impeachments, snap elections, a revolving door of acting presidents, and economic uncertainty. While these events have deeply shaken a key U.S. ally, one regional power has been quietly benefiting from the instability: China. Far from being a passive observer, Beijing appears to be actively leveraging — and possibly encouraging — South Korea’s disorder to expand its influence on the peninsula.

First and foremost, political chaos in Seoul weakens the U.S.–South Korea alliance, which has long been a strategic barrier to Chinese ambitions in East Asia. With no stable leadership and internal divisions dominating the headlines, Korea finds it harder to coordinate with Washington on military, intelligence, and trade policy. The power vacuum gives China room to step in diplomatically and portray itself as a more reliable or responsive partner.

This instability also creates economic leverage for Beijing. South Korea’s export-reliant economy is already under pressure from U.S. tariffs and declining demand. China’s recent threats to retaliate against Korean companies exporting rare-earth materials to the U.S. have added another layer of stress. When a country is politically fragmented and economically cornered, even subtle threats from a major trade partner like China carry far more weight — and can steer policy decisions behind the scenes.

Meanwhile, repeated impeachments and leadership crises chip away at public faith in democratic governance. China exploits this erosion of confidence to boost its soft power, both regionally and globally. State-backed Chinese media often frame Korean protests and political dysfunction as evidence that Western-style democracy is chaotic and fragile, especially compared to China’s “orderly” one-party system. The message is subtle but clear: while Korea flounders, China remains stable.

Beijing also sees political division in South Korea as a chance to influence future leadership. By promoting narratives critical of U.S. military presence — including the 29,000 American troops stationed in the country — China seeks to amplify public sentiment that could support a more neutral or even pro-China government. Whether through direct influence operations or by amplifying anti-American voices on social media, Beijing works to push Seoul away from Washington.

This is not just theory — China actively moves to exploit moments of chaos. President Xi Jinping’s recent hint that he may attend the APEC summit in Gyeongju is more than just diplomacy; it’s a well-timed gesture designed to signal Beijing’s readiness to engage Korea on its own terms, without U.S. mediation. This tactic creates internal debate within Korea: should the nation lean west toward Washington, or pivot slightly east toward its dominant regional neighbor?

China also pressures Korea militarily. During moments of leadership crisis or diplomatic distraction, Beijing increases naval activity around the peninsula, reminding Korea who dominates the region’s waters. These maneuvers aren’t just for show — they generate unease in Seoul, raise questions about regional stability, and force Korean defense officials to split their attention between domestic politics and external threats.

Adding to the pressure is China’s aggressive economic behavior, particularly threats related to critical materials. Korea plays a key role in the global supply chain for high-tech goods, and Chinese threats to weaponize its access to rare-earth metals — crucial for semiconductors and batteries — put South Korea in a bind. The more unstable the government, the harder it is to respond decisively to economic coercion.

In all of this, China isn’t necessarily creating the crisis, but it is seizing the opportunity — and possibly nudging it along when convenient. By turning Korea’s internal strife into diplomatic and economic openings, Beijing gains ground in what has always been a high-stakes competition for influence on the Korean Peninsula. As one policy analyst put it, “Beijing doesn’t need to invade to win — it just needs Seoul to trip over itself.”

In the modern struggle for influence in Asia, instability is a weapon, and China is proving adept at wielding it.

setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

Sad news today: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3305965/china-slang-term-rat-people-those-who-shun-success-attracts-2-billion-views

Young people in China who shy away from success and embrace low-energy lifestyles are calling themselves “rat people”, a slang term that has gained widespread attention online.

Unlike the hyper-disciplined crowd that usually gets up at 5am, goes to the gym, and powers through packed schedules, so-called rat people live in the slow lane.

They spend their days in bed, live on takeaway food, avoid socialising, and have no clear goals in life.

The term is also used to describe people in Beijing, often migrant workers, living in underground spaces due to housing difficulties and lack of permits.

Workers are protesting across China. I mean, you’d be big mad, too, if you lost your job, and no one else is hiring, and the government has basically no social safety net. If only they would “do communism right!” A lot of people blame/credit the Trump tariffs. Maybe tariffs are playing a role. But a lot of these protests are because of pre-existing grievances with the CCP’s economic failures—and those date back many years.

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Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

This is really pathetic, America. Really?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O-Zupp6Uksk

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

Shouldn’t these immigrant US people self-deport themselves? Yet they insist they don’t want to go back to their dystopia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJavd3ZpS4M

setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

Beijing “Rat Tribe”:

In Beijing, “rat people” or “rat tribe” refers to individuals, particularly migrant workers, who live in underground spaces like basements and air raid shelters because they cannot afford private housing or obtain official resident permits, says CNN. They are often young and have aspirations to improve their social standing, says CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/asia/china-beijing-rat-tribe

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

Korea Thing, nobody is going to click your video link and sit through whatever silliness it is promoting. You have let us down EVERY time before.

If you list the key points in a compelling way, someone might click it. If you just explain what it says, and leave the link as pseudo evidence, people might engage you over the ideas.

Otherwise, you are wasting your time.

But you are not wasting our time because it is so easy to ignore some spaz-tinged statement followed by what is statistically some retard going on about imaginary retard stuff.

But if your only purpose is to contribute to global warming by giving the coal powered electrical plants more work to do in transmitting and storing your meaningless data, have fun killing the planet.

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

Rightwing reporter undercover exposes Pam Bondi covering up for Donald Trump’s Epstein file containing a list of child sex abuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YomgDEl1k

Lol, oh man… this can’t get any better. The Maggot world is in total confusion mode. The uncomfortable truth that the President of the US is a child sex abuser.

Last edited 11 months ago by Korean Man
ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

Korea Thing, its the wrong interpretation.

The reality is that Trump abandoned Epstein when his misdeeds were exposed the first time.

There is zero evidence Trump was involved in any of this… not just in public, but in existence.

How do we know?

Because if there was, it would be scrolling across the bottom of CNN 24/7, and Trump would be in jail.

But since 10 years of detailed investigation into all things Trump only came up with catchup on steak and two… TWO scoops of ice cream…

…and a lot of made up stuff like Russian pìss hookers, giving nuclear codes to Russia, and bank fraud where the bankers testified they weren’t defrauded… etc… he appears to be the cleanest politician ever.

The correct interpretation of what is going on with the Epstein files (or videos) is that so many important people in government and society are involved, America would cease to function if this came out.

The magnitude was not clear when the promise was made by the incoming Trump administration to release everything the FBI had been hiding.

Now, it is understood why they were hiding it.

What is happening now is that it is being reviewed and documented. This takes time.

The real question is what will happen once this process is complete?

Will the Trump administration start sending people to jail?

Or will we see RINOs suddenly support the conservative agenda with a big plastic smile. Will rabid never-Trumpers suddenly find excuses to support things Trump is trying to accomplish. Will certain judges and politicians stop sabotaging America in favor of the globalist agenda? Will Bill Gates shut up about forced vaccines and global warming?

Perhaps moving America forward for 300 million Americans is better than “justice” on some old guys who like young girls that stuck around for the money and attention.

setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

CH, I admit that I had not thought about the ammunition the Epstein files could give Trump, if he decided to weaponize them.

There is certainly some room for hope in the scenario you posited.

I imagine the bargaining is, and has been, going on for how much support can be provided and the timing to maximize impact.

Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

There is zero evidence Trump was involved in any of this

Then he shouldn’t be afraid to reveal the file, instead of playing games.

so many important people in government and society are involved, America would cease to function if this came out.

Obviously those important people in government doesn’t include Biden and/or the Democrats….. because if it was, he wouldn’t be playing this game, and he would reveal the file in a heartbeat.

So pick your answer:

a) Trump is in the sex file.
b) Trump’s people in the Maggot world are in the sex file.
c) Both a and b.

Last edited 11 months ago by Korean Man
Korean Man
Korean Man
11 months ago

PEW Research results out, on the world’s opinion of the US.

EU – 20% favorable, 70% unfavorable
Canada – 19% favorable, 80% unfavorable
South Korea – 48% favorable, 50% unfavorable
Japan – 45% favorable, 48% unfavorable

The views of the US by its allies have deteriorated to an all-time low, and are worse than the negative views on China. Consider that over 78% of Koreans viewed the US with favorable ratings just last year, yet the numbers this year look pretty negative. I should not have said “US allies”, my bad. A rogue nation with pathetic human rights that is waging a propaganda and economic war on the world has no allies.

Last edited 11 months ago by Korean Man
ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

“The views of the US by its allies have deteriorated to an all-time low”

The purpose of your repeated yapping about this is unclear.

It’s like the spaz kid complaining the cool kid dresses too well, has too much fun, gets too good of grades, and gets too much pùssy.

The cool kid doesn’t care what the spaz kid thinks.

In fact, it gives him a bit of pleasure to see the spaz kid so bent out of shape at his success.

There might be something you can bring up that would hurt American feelings but it certainly isn’t what whiny Canadians and Eurotards think.

Most Americans live in blissful ignorance of their existence.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
11 months ago

It is also unclear how you can have a misconception about the Epstein files, have the situation explained to you, and then come up with another similar misconception that is invalidated by the previous explanation.

Do you live your life with every aspect demonstrating this degree of recursive failure?

Let’s recap:

– Trump has been president for ~100 days and the files where hidden from his administration for most of that. It seems much is still being hidden and possibly deleted. There is an ongoing investigation.

– It appears the Trump administration now has some of this and is working to document it. This detailed analysis is important for both legal cases or blackmail so it must be done correctly.

– There may be some MAGA people in those files, but maybe not. Despite this coming out during the Biden administration, which would have every motivation to expose anybody against the left, it didn’t happen. The names most closely associated in leaked documents and media reports lean left. This would be people like Gates, Clinton, and Dershowits, who oddly became a big Trump supporter quite suddenly in a way that has raised some eyebrows.

Something is clearly quietly happening but the details are unknown.

As we see with high-profile cases that are public, it may take several years of meticulous investigation to ensure there are no precedural errors. Expecting something in ~100 days is foolishness.

Since we know Trump neither forgets nor forgives, we will likely see some action before his term is over.

Be careful what you complain about if you don’t really want the result in question.

setnaffa
setnaffa
11 months ago

Inside nightmarish Chinese ‘mega-town’ with 20,000 crammed into one gigantic 675ft-high apartment block

Standing at the foot of the Regent International Apartment Complex, in China’s Qianjiang Century City, it’d be hard not to be totally overwhelmed.

39 floors tower over visitors and residents of the dense urban high-rise that more than 20,000 people call home.

But having the watchful eye of the Chinese state forever scrutinising you and your family raises serious questions about how good living in the city-building would be.

Having little to no real privacy, with neighbours on all sides and CCTV cameras on every corner, would drive anyone mad.

Much more at the link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-14679829/Inside-nightmarish-Chinese-mega-town-20-000-crammed-one-gigantic-675ft-high-apartment-block.html

Imagine trying to escape if there was a fire. Or if the Central Government decided to lock down the whole building as done elsewhere during COVID-19…

Last edited 11 months ago by setnaffa
Liz
Liz
11 months ago

This morning’s headline:
Dow jumps 900 and S&P 500 climbs 2.4% following a 90-day truce in the US-China trade war

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
11 months ago

https://n.news.naver.com/article/056/0011949561

Chinese Spy Indictment news! The recent Chinese national who got caught filming at the airbase was found to have been instructed by a Chinese Military Intelligence Agent. Surprised?

And LJM and Minjoo still fail to speak to any of this or acknowledge it, cause it doesn’t fit their narrative.

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
11 months ago

And… what in the actual F?

Chinese government buys a large chunk of land in Itaewon.

https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0134_202505131346007092

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