ROK Drop Open Thread – July 18, 2025

After decades of abuse by the adoption industry led by the for-profit private businesses, South Korea’s government will finally and fully take over the country’s adoption system, which was set up by the Park Chung Hee regime starting in the 1960s. The for-profit private companies like Holt International that trafficked many Korean children (many of them not even true orphans) abroad can no longer be allowed to be involved in the adoption trade.

South Korea to end private adoptions after landmark probe: South Korea is set to overhaul its adoption system on Saturday by ending the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, which has led to widespread allegations of abuse.


https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250718-south-korea-to-end-private-adoptions-after-landmark-probe

The funniest thing now is that they’re trying to blame the Epstein list (you know, the one that doesn’t exist 😉 ) on Hillary, Obama, and Biden. At this point, they’re throwing everything at the wall to see what will stick and what their base will believe.

LA woman and her family staged a fake ICE “kidnapping” and held a press conference that made headline news.

What is your point? It still doesn’t mean kidnappings by ICE aren’t true. In fact, this is ICE’s fault. They leave themselves to these types of exploitations that are shown in this story. That’s their fault.

Furthermore, they don’t show their IDs, they cover their faces, and they don’t have any arrest warrants. Anyone can get an ICE uniform from Amazon and pretend they are ICE. In fact, there have been numerous cases of these men, going around pretending to be ICE. Any criminal can use this to commit crimes like rape and robbery. It is “kidnapping” because they have no legal authority – it’s all illegal and unconstitutional.

How do you know they’re all illegals? They are not.

Why arrest and deport Native Indians?

‘Fear’ in Navajo Nation as Trump’s Immigration Raids Reach Native Americans
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fear-in-navajo-nation-as-trump-s-immigration-raids-reach-native-americans/ar-AA1xYcFb?ocid=a2hs

So let me see. You mass ethnic cleanse them, put them into reservations, and you steal their land. Now you want to deport them too?

What looks like a nazi, acts like one, then it is one.

So I’ll tell you what the reason is. Nobody likes you nazis.

“Why arrest and deport Native Indians?

‘Fear’ in Navajo Nation as Trump’s Immigration Raids Reach Native Americans”

It is hard to know what is stupider… the MSM articles or the people who buy into it.

Let’s look at some facts:

– there have been at least 15 incidents of ICE questioning American indians and making them show identification

– none of these have been on a reservation and have all been in urban areas

– these events have all been in conjunction with legal immigration enforcement based on previous investigations

Conclusions:

– If you don’t want to be questioned, don’t hang out with illegal aliens. Report them instead of participating in a criminal conspiracy.

– Anybody of any ethnicity in close association with criminals will be questioned and asked to demonstrate their non-criminality. This is a standard law enforcement situation.

– Indians can be drama queens. Like all populations sponging off the state, there is a perverse incentive to generate outrage to show how disadvantaged they are.

– Nobody is going to “deport Native Indians”. There is no place to deport them to. Nothing in the immigration enforcement system is even designed to manage such a situation.

Further thoughts:

– Tribes fought tribes over control of land for thousands of years, with most tribes controlling this land for less than a century at a time. A stronger tribe now controls it. The end.

– Pueblo indians, with a long connection to their land, still possess it.

Why are you all so hot in the ass for illegal aliens?

And why do you hate the illegals? Most of the violent criminals in America are natively born white Americans. We’re not seeing any white immigrants being stripped of their green cards or even citizenship and being deported.

These are the violent crime rates based on race, from ChatGPT:

Black / African American – 37%
White (non-Hispanic) 55%
Hispanic 27%
Asian / Pacific Islander / NH Native 2%

Based on these numbers, you’re blaming all your societal and economic problems on the brown people. As you can see, both Hispanics and Asians are well underrepresented in violent crime rates. The irrationality that illegals commit all the violent crimes has no basis.

Why don’t you show this same level of support for Americans?

Why should I support anyone that are acting like nazis? So I must support Americans despite they’re building concentration death camps in Florida?

Why don’t you want big business to pay a living wage?

You’ve let the big business exploit, abuse, and mistreat the migrant workers; that’s your fault – not the fault of the migrant workers.

KM, your brain, like your muscles, needs to be used otherwise it atrophies. The recent outsourcing of your thinking to ChatGPT has been rotting your already limited ‘muscle’.

Conversly, I’m plesently supprised to see you are asking questions and posting statistics which come dangerously close to politically incorrect thought crimes… ironically you don’t seem to realize that.

Just another data point that shows most people these days gobble up slop. Likely it has alway been so.

Perhaps Musk/Trump should seize control of the means of (AI content) production. 😉

@Chickenhead and company, I’ve started to sympatize with Stalin. Imagine being surrounded by folks like Lenin and Trotsky. I’d get purge happy too. He brought an end to the “permanent revolution” (a large percentage of people he killed were the true marxist believers based on first hand accounts of many of the “victims”, at least in Moscow and other major cities), and he was starting to recognize the need for markets.

“Further, I think that we must also discard certain other concepts taken from Marx’s Capital”

That’s a pretty dangerous line of thought in USSR if one were not Stalin. Reading his later writings, it seems like he was on the verge of a Deng style break from Marxism, but then he promtly died. Hard core leftist screeches that Stalinism was “not true communism” appear to be partly true.

Had Stalin not come along, we can saw what permanent revolution looked like under Pol Pot, it would’ve been autogenocide to the last. Scary thought, Stalin was the sanest mind in the entire politburo at the time. Can one of history’s greatest villians actually be a dark hero?

I am being partly, if not mostly, tongue in cheek about this.

I’m old enough to remember when nearly half of Democrats wanted to throw people in concentration camps for failing to get vaccines. And they maneuvered to find a way to label parents protesting their school board as domestic terrorists. 
And the “president” stood up and called 74 million Americans a threat to the Republic. All while allowing mass unchecked migration from foreigners into the country (simultaneously claiming it was “uncontrollable” yet recent evidence would indicate it was very controllable, and even the leftists have since admitted it…hence the quotes around the title “president” above).

Many US companies, including Ford, GM, and Tesla, are fleeing the US, to Mexico and Canada.

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

Meanwhile, those companies that made a mistake opening new US production bases, like the Korean companies, like Samsung Semiconductor and LG Energy Solutions, are still shuttered, unable to open their new multi-billion dollar facilities. They’re finding out that the high tariffed input costs(like steel, aluminum, copper, rare earth, etc etc) make their products unaffordable and uncompetitive. They’re going to lose hundreds of billions that they’ve invested so far. But good riddance.

“Many US companies, including Ford, GM, and Tesla, are fleeing the US, to Mexico and Canada.”

No they aren’t.

They are reshoring due to tariffs. Thank Trump.

Over half of robot sales in America is to the car companies and their new production lines.

So it won’t mean a lot of jobs.

If there is no greedflation, it might mean cheaper cars without additional costs like shipping. It also might mean better quality cars with more robots and fewer people involved.

“Meanwhile, those companies that made a mistake opening new US production bases…”

No mistake. Nothing is shuttered. Some things are delayed, but that is due to decisions of the individual companies. Domestic supply chains are replacing foreign supplies and are greatly improving every month, as is the plan. America wants the foreign companies to succeed and are assisting them with many incentives that offset costs.

Everything is happening as intended.

I think I found an image that illustrates the Korea Things and 99.44% of all leftists (since they profess “gender is fluid”):

Remember, the communist is more robot than human. They plug into the hive mind and get a programming update with all the words they’re supposed to use. Then they march forward like army ants deploying those words. “Racist” has been part of their programming for a long time.

Lame and predictable. Sad that they’re repeating their 1930s dogma verbatim.

They never bothered understanding Orwell was mocking them.

“Troops QUIT IN DROVES as Trump’s Military Stunt FAILS”

‘In fiscal year 2025, the US military branches are generally experiencing strong retention, with some exceeding their goals. The Army, in particular, has seen significant success in reenlistments, surpassing its target. The Air Force is also experiencing high retention rates, leading to the closure of its selective retention bonus program.’

If you look into this, you will see those who wish to become serious warriors are attracted to an organization which supports serious warriors rather than queers, trannies, minorities, and other social experiments which are force dividers. Serious warriors want training on war rather than diversity and global warming.

Now that the military is focused on warfighting under its new sensible leadership with sensible priorities designed to strengthen America rather than undermine it, both retention and recruiting have been up since Trumps election.

And the recruits are those who want America to have military success rather thannfor the taxpayer to pay for their transition.

Korea Thing, your “facts” are almost always wrong and your analysis is wrong no matter what the facts are.

Your birthstone is clearly a crack rock.

Actually, Korea Thing’s “facts” sound precisely like what Beijing is pumping.

America, in spite of the long road ahead, is stronger now than at any time in my 67 years.

And when the criminal aliens are removed, many issues with healthcare, jobs, and housing will be solved. Not to mention the drug gangs sent to CECOT or Sudan or Rwanda.

I hope we all live to see it.

I just learned an ex-girlfriend’s late-20s son died of a heart attack brought on by heart inflamation 2 days after his third covid shot (at the dinner table).

Bonus: His last social media post was the usual “Anti-vaxxers are anti science and are endangering me and should be put in camps.”

I have zero pity.

I want to take this moment to remind all the stupid people who ran out to become the subject of a medical experiment, while ridiculing those who did not, that a large percentage of you had undiagnosed heart inflamation which caused scar tissue which reduced your heart function. When added to age-related heart function reduction, some of you will die before you would have without the vaccine.

This is good because:

– They learned nothing and will do something similarly stupid when offered the chance again… and will try to push it off on me again

– They will be more angry at me for pointing this out than the companies/government/media that did this to them

– They will never take responsibility for their decisions and the world needs fewer of these people

– Almost none of them will get a medical checkup to look for reduced heart function and then take the steps necessary to reduce their risk… becasue people so stupid they beg to be medically experimented on are also too stupid to understand risk evaluation and management.

It appears the covid vaccine, intentionally or unintentionally, will be somewhat of a mild eugenics program to reduce the number of stupid people.

Sadly, it will be after breeding age for most of them.

I’m sick of the arguement that guns prevent genocide.

The Boars had guns. They still ended up in concentration camps with conditions so bad they were arguably de facto death camps. Guns do make a group harder targets, but an organized group of armed men will almost always beat a group of unorganized armed men should the will exist.

Gun rights did not save California from being overrun by quasi state backed gangs, nor any other major American city. White Americans got pushed out in what is colloquially known as “White flight”. It was ethnic (and class) cleansing with plausible deniability, though the deniability has grown thin. One merely need look at how the left talks about Whites (and now increasingly everyone else on their list) to see the intent was, and still is, there.

Gun rights advocats (and conservatives in general), with their strong streak of individualism and live and let live attitude, have been on the losing side since the progressive era. Trump is reversing a lot of things, but in many ways, he is still a 1980s liberal.

It turns out the maggots put a child molester and child sex trafficker who sex trafficked hundreds of children as their president.

Had the Setnaffarians and the MAGA listened to the more smarter Koreans, they would have voted for Kamala and be enjoying peace, calm, and prosperity.

Instead they had to let their inner demons who are more concerned and scared about non-existing threats from immigrants, liberals, and LGBTQ community take hold of them and vote for a person who has bought them misery, chaos, and poverty.

The hillbilly Setnaffarians and MAGA are being punished for not listening to the smarter Koreans and not making the smarter and better choice.

As we have discussed many times, Trump has used the same negotiation tactic since, at least, the 1980s. He has even written books about it.

Yet everyone treats it like it is something new.

The steps:

– Trump asks for something ridiculous

– Everyone hyperventilates that Trump is eratic and crazy and has no plan

– If he doesn’t get it (sometimes he does), he asks for what he wants

– The other side agrees to it and declares victory

– Everyone says Trump is a loser who has caved

A soon-to-be-fired journalist at CNN has noticed this and a soon-to-be-fired censor was too busy looking at kiddy pr0n to stop it before publication.

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/07/23/business/trump-trade-deals