Trump’s BRIBE to the, VOTERS…

This is what the, mother FUCKING (your point being???) TYRANT that RUNS the DIVIDED STATES of Trump is doing…

He’s, stating that he will be paying, ALL adult American voters, $5,000US IF the Republicans maintain control of the Congress, because he knows that with his abuse of power, he’d lost favorites of the American voters, combined with how the tariffs he’d BYPASSED Congress to levy (he’d STRIPPED the power of levying taxes FROM the Congress!), along with starting the WAR in IRAN (that was also, ANOTHER right of the Congress’s, that he’d, STOLEN!), and, a whole lot of other, IMMORAL, BAD behaviors he’d done, and he KNOWS that as he’d lost “crowd favorite”, it will, show up at the midterms this year, and he’s, totally, FREAKED out right now, which is why he’d come up with this, BRIBERY plan, to BUY the supports of the voters…

and, here’s a, cartoon, found online, and the voters are still, MORE than likely, to ENABLE his, ABUSE of THEIR, sound judgments…

And, if you let the tyrant manipulate you with YOUR own TAX DOLLARS (and you DO realize, how you ARE, paying for the BRIBES that Trump will be, “passing along” to the people, right???), and, still believed in his bullshits of vote for me, and I shall, MAKE Americah (the new spelling???) GREAT again.

Then, you’re way too, FUCKING, STUPID, and you would’ve, RUINED what was once (long, long, long ago???) called a, DEMOCRACY…

And once you head down that road, there ain’t, NO turnin’, back, because you the SLAVES are, too easily, manipulated, and Trump is, excellent in, MANIPULATING people, that, is how he got where he is.

The Houthis Had Occupied the Port of Mocha, Taking Over the Red Sea Ports, the U.S. Chose to Stand by & Watch

The chain reaction of war, with the “dynamite vault” of Iran getting lit up first, then, the fire is currently spreading, throughout the entire Middle East, and now, it got to Saudi Arabia, and it will, spread even farther, until the ENTIRE Middle East goes UP in smokes, and this will cause HUGE impacts on the entire global economy, with the Strait of Hormuz, and other major water transportation routes becoming, weaponized, getting the costs of shipping higher than ever before, which means, the costs of everything will keep on rising higher still, and the inflation rate?  Yeah, don’t even go there, the global economy will CRASH, because of this “tiny war” that Trump think he can go in, and out in a “second’s” time, but wars are never as easy as in and out!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Takeover Poses a Threat to the Provision of Energy, Saudi Arabia Asked Trump for Help, But Trump Refused, the U.S. Doesn’t Have the Intentions of Starting Another Front of War, Iran Demanded Saudi Arabia to Negotiate

The Houthis, the Yemeni armed group supported by Iran took the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Mocha on the tenth, and followed the coast of the Red Sea, took the Hanish Islands too, threatening the global energy provision chain further.  The foreign minister of Iran demanded Saudi Arabia that had long-term intervened into the Yemeni civil war to end the embargo on Yemen, and to immediately restart the negotiations with the Houthis, this is the very first public statement from Iran since the Houthis took the Port of Mocha.

The U.S.: We Don’t Have Plans to Intervene Right Now

Axios quoted ten American government officials on the tenth, that the Sultan of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Salman called the U.S. President, Trump twice on the same day, asked him to order the American military to attack the Houthis, but Trump denied the Sultan’s request.  The U.S. officials stated, that the U.S. has no intentions currently, to directly intervene into the youth movement’s attacks.

The USCENTCOM commander, Cooper went to Saudi Arabia to an emergency conference.  The U.S. military and officials told the Saudi officials, that trump had ordered the U.S. military to hold the line of the Strait of Hormuz, to ensure the safety of the ship passage, to not start another front of, war.

how the chain reaction worked…map from online

At the end of February, after Israel and U.S. entered into war with Iran jointly, the U.S. and Iran had embargoed the Strait of Hormuz, as this major global energy transportation route got blocked, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf Countries turned to Red Sea as their passages for shipping, to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, this elevated the tactical importance of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

In the close decades of Yemeni civil war, Saudi Arabia had been supportive of the military government of Yemen, on the eleventh, it’d employed the Houthis to occupy the airports of Mocha, and started more than one air raid.  Mocha is only roughly seventy-five kilometers away from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.  On this, the Associated Press and other foreign presses reported on the same day, that there hadn’t been any news of those who were killed or injured in the raid.  An official of the Houthis stated, that the group also took down a volcanic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Perim Island, this uninhibited island is only roughly 3.5 kilometers away from the western coast of Yemen.

The Houthis: We are on the Defensive Arming Up

Abdulsalam, the Houthi spokesperson claimed on the tenth, that the current military actions of the group is defensive, that this particular operation has a “set target”, so long as the opposition stops attacking, the arms group will also stop; the international ships that are sailing across the Red Sea and the Strait of bab el-Mandeb “aren’t threatened, the Strait is still safe, and operating normally”, that the Red Sea and the Strait of bab el-Mandeb are still free sailing and safe for international trading, and orderly for now.

from three days ago, off of YouTube

Houthis Attack Saudi Oil as Iran War Widens – YouTube

The British Thinktank, the Royal United Services Institute military expert, Baraa Shiban said, where the city of Mocha is located, gives the city a view of the western coastline of Yemen, offering the Houthis a tactile, advantage.  The Houthis may model after the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz, and set up the torpedoes in the Red Sea.

And so, there’s, this other war front, that’s begun in the Arabian Peninsula too, due to the spilling effect, because this IS like how the fuse getting lit, and it continues to run all the way, into the, dynamite vault, then, that loud and gigantic, KA-BOOM, that blows this chunk of the Middle East into, bits and pieces, and there’s no ending this SHIT, because the fuses are lit over there, because this is still a CHAIN reaction of the war that the DST started with Iran.

The Taiwanese Government Fears China So Much it Disallowed a Harmless Cup of Coffee from Luckin

Because we must all, PROHIBIT, ALL things CHINESE from entering into this, “country” (stopped being one already…), otherwise, the COMMIES will take us over, right?  And see how STUPID the DDP is, because it’s a brand from CHINA, and the DDP fears CHINA, and want to cause us all to go into that downward spiral with them…and we are still, CONSENT to this, SHIT here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Maturity in Governing, Shouldn’t be the Two Limited Options of For or Again, but Instead, Using the Risk Levels, to Decide on the Means

“Luckin Coffee” that’s at the top of the coffee brands from China wants to move in on Taiwan, before the very first store opened, it’d caused great disputes, the Department of Economics denied the import applications, demanded that the coffee chain store go through the same means as the Chinese businesses had.  Some worried that the Chinese funded will bypass the evaluations through the surrogate, and collecting the data, send it back to China, and some worried that the low price of the coffee brand will impact the coffee shop brands here; on the argument for Luckin Coffee: Starbucks, Louisa, 85°C and the coffees from the super convenience stores competing already, so why can’t Taiwan withstand the competition from Luckin too?

On the surfaces, this was the market for coffee brands, but, in reality, it’d, reflected the tug-of-war of Taiwan between national security, market competition, and “fear of China”.

The reasons against Luckin Coffee include: the funding comes from China, China is in control of the brand’s operations, setting the pricing, and the policies of running the chains, that it may hollow out the supervision process; secondly, data safety, the business module that is highly reliant on App and the payment systems, the personal data, and the consumers’ behavioral patterns may get passed back to China; thirdly, fairness of competition, based off of capital, and assistive funding, this will cause the prices of coffee to get sold at a very low, cost, it may distort the order of the market economy.

from a SOLID DDP-promoting news station, so this IS, BIASED! Off of YouTube, from just two days ago

China cries foul as Taiwan reviews ‘Starbucks killer’ Taipei expansion｜Taiwan News – YouTube

Taiwan prided itself on a free market economy, so long as there’s transparency of capital, fitted to regulations of investment, and the data management is fitting to law, and following the fair trade, and related laws, there should NOT be ruling out a business from getting set up in the country because where it originated, from, otherwise, what is protected won’t be national security, but, the rejection of proper competition.

Competition is the motivations of elevating the industries.  The manufacturing of Taiwan is known in the world, because it’d faced the challenges of global competition long-term; same for the service industries.  Looking back through history, when McDonald’s and Starbucks first entered Taiwan, it also caused the local businessowners to have doubts, but the two brough the standardized procedures of operations, the quality of services, and brand management, and ultimately, it’d helped elevate the traditional Taiwanese restaurants, brought the Taiwanese local restaurants to a higher level of meal provision; the super convenience store also had long-term competitions from the various brands, and now, the stores are all over the island, and with the diversities of the services provided, became a model for all.  This showed, the open competitions, isn’t building up that protective fortress, but which helps elevate the scale of which the local businesses are, operating, on.

What’s worth noting isn’t this, solitary, case, but how the society is slowly viewing all things from China as a major risk.  The differences of “banning China” and “fearing China” is only in one word, with the former, in the risk management of the systematic differences, the latter, presets the brands from China as threat, taking the country and its people toward, the defensive of the psychological, sort.

The more mature way of governing is not just the “allow” or “prohibit”, but with the level systems of risks: those related to the key fundamental facilities, and sensitive data with a higher evaluation guidelines, while that which is related to everyday consumerism, employing the actual management of fitted risk, with the differences of evaluations of funding, data, using the risk to set the levels of management in supervision, and not just based off of the places of origin where these businesses came from.

The real test of this particular case, is not whether or not the coffee industry in this country can withstand the competition, but whether or not Taiwan has the systems of evaluations, to find that balance between opening the market and safeguarding the security of personal data.  A mature society, doesn’t choose one over the other, what we need to guard over more closely, we check thoroughly over; so long as the regulations had been applied and found fitting, then, must let the market decide for itself.

here’s another news report on the same “subject” but from the news station that the NCC took off air from awhile ago…off of YouTube

Mainland Enterprise Storms Taiwan! Luckin Coffee Sounds the Charge! Ministry of Economic Affairs …

Whether or not Luckin Coffee can enter the Taiwanese market isn’t where the company is from, but if it followed the rules of the laws of Taiwan.  What we need to be alerted over isn’t the data of how many people here drink coffee, but how if we’d, lost the ability to differentiate between “risk” and “fear”, in overtly defending of the country from anything Chinese.

So, this is, stupid, because the DDP is letting a cup of coffee, scare the SHIT out of it, because this brand is from China, and this also showed how the DDP lacked confidence of the brands that are here, that it FEARED competition, and DDP’s banning this particular brand of coffee chain from operating in this SHITHOLE, will only, cause the entire island to fall prey to the, RED SCARE, until all of the people in this SHITHOLE started freaking out when we see anything related to China!

Trump Worries that if the U.S. Doesn’t Win the A.I. Competitions, the U.S. will be in a Bad Position

The A.I. races, like the Space Race of the mid-fifties between Russia and the DST?  And, maybe Trump’s FEARS are, validated, maybe it isn’t, who knows???  But he’s using FEAR TACTICS, to SPREAD his ideals all across the “land” in this, again…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

As the U.S. President finished up on the Republican Convention for the Midterms Elections, he’d answered to the press media’s inquiries, that he was worried that if the U.S. “doesn’t surpass all other countries in A.I. advancements, we will be in a very bad disposition”.

Trump claimed, that the U.S. is way ahead of China in the technologies of A.I., roughly a year ahead, “if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position.”

see how the FUCKING (so???) TYRANT that RUNS the DIVIDED STATES of Trump (no longer the “United States of America”!) spreads fear across the DST, to attempt to MANIPULATE the voters??? Video from YouTube, from just SIX DAYS ago…

TRUMP AI WARNING: ‘Whoever Wins AI Wins’ As U.S. Leads China & Cyber Attack Fears Take Center Stage! – YouTube

Trump also stated, that in the technological development, that the U.S. is “way ahead of China”, roughly a year, “this is a huge difference”.

On the Chair of the National Chinese Communist Party, Xi’s upcoming visit to the U.S., Trump expects that this will be an “amazing conference”, but he’d not disclosed if the two will be discussing the subject of A.I. or not.

The researcher from the Hudson Research Institute, Walters spoke on the CSIS online forum held on the tenth “the U.S. Trade Policy Direction & the Influences on the Indo-Asian allies and Taiwan” stated, the demands of A.I. had turned Taiwan into the “most important” trade partner of the U.S., that the U.S. policies in A.I. must include, Taiwan.

let the competition, BEGIN!!! Image from online

Walters also stated, that A.I. is a matter of national security, that the Trump government viewed A.I. as the “new space race”, that the U.S. needs to be ahead, that it can’t lag behind China, this is the priority in policy of the U.S.’s

On the tenth, Reuters reported that the A.I. company, Anthropic claimed, that it had intercepted many malicious user actions using the Claude module behaviors including the online spying related to Russia, and the A.I. developers in China’s attempt to duplicate the American modules.

the latest, from SIXTEEN HOURS ago…from YouTube

Trump fears U.S. Losing to China in A.I. Race – YouTube

So, this is the game of I spy started with A.I., like the space race of 1955 at the start of the Cold War with Russia, between U.S. and China, and the two are competing, to outdo one another in developments of A.I. technologies, and, Trump see this as the primary goal of the D.S.T. right now, to NOT get beaten by China, but, is China even competing with the DST right now on that?  Or, did Trump “make up” another, enemy, due to his PERSECUTORY DELUSION again???

President, LIAR…

He who ruled OVER our lives, kept, yoyoing, on his, policies, he’d, promised all voters a $10,000 (was that how much!) check into our accounts, IF he’d, won, to ALL citizens, and now, as he got on the throne (he’s OUR king!!!), he’d, gone back on his, promises, and, to those of us (who are STUPID???), who actually EXPECT that he was going to make good on his, promises, we’d felt, very, BETRAYED…

President LIAR, he SWORE he was NEVER going to get the DST (no longer the U.S.A.!) into another FOREIGN war, which was why we’d, voted for him, because that LAST guy, got us involved in a war, and boy oh boy, were we, FOOLED!

the PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT! Photo from online

And on top of that, he’s a, CONVICTED FELON, he’d, ROBBED the taxpayers, to fill up his own (and his family members too???) pockets, while those of us who are, working hard to keep our lives, intact, we are all, struggling, and he’d promised that electing him into office will give the god DAMN economy a BOOST, and we believed him!!!

And now, as the midterms approach fast, he suddenly felt, worried (‘bout time!!!), he now FEARS, his own fall, as the people are, slowly, coming to, realizing, that he’s a, SLY, businessman, and, all businesses care about is, making the big bucks, with NO sense of, morality, no sense of, right or wrong.

And, are we all, WOKE enough, yet?  Perhaps, perhaps, not, we’ll have to see, won’t we?  IF the people are, finally, with a, STRONG ‘nough, SPINE……………

photo from online, and this says it all, don’t you think???

Trump’s WH Staff Members are Completely Strained, & Decided to Just Let Trump “Go”

See how the advisors to the KING, they all, flown that white flag in trying to, persuade him to NOT veer off that, cliff, and yet, he still strutted around, NUDE onstage!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Staff Members of the White House Stopped Talking, “He’s the Boss”

The U.S. news website, Axios reported on the ninth, that the WH officials and the elected Republican officials stated plainly, that they’d stopped attempting to persuade Trump to do or not do something, including the GOP Convention which the commentators called “Trumpapalooza”.  A Trump consultant stated it straight, “why?  He’s the, boss!”

Since his first term, the Republicans had chosen to obey every order that Trump gave to them, without any objections, and they’d all rationalized this as his instincts, had “proven repeatedly to be, sound, sane, and reasonable”.

and he still thinks that ALL Republicans are, worshipping him like, this…photo from online, from back when he’d accepted the nomination to run for TYRANT!!!

But now, a lot of people stopped trusting Trump’s, instincts, but found that it is pointless to object, whether it be of the U.S.-Iranian War that he’d started since the end of February with no end in sight, or how he’d posted himself standing with a hockey stick with the PM of Canada, Carney fallen to the, ground.

Trump had, destroyed the minds and hearts of many of his chiefs of staff, they knew they couldn’t stop him, and so, they’d stopped, preventing him from doing what he wanted, and went along with his, more and more, absurd, ideas.  One of Trump’s donors stated, that “President Trump is in his eighties already, he had always just, ‘been himself’.  Whatever he wanted, he would, get.”

The Republicans are pessimistic over if the Republicans will maintain the majority of the House in the November midterms, and worried of losing the seats in the, Senate too.  But a consultant of Trump’s stressed, that Trump will not be crippled, that those who underestimated Trump will have hell to pay; Trump holds a lot of power in the Republican Party, the political spheres of the U.S., as well as in the society too, anyone who thinks that he will become reserved after the midterms are either foolish, or delusional.

The advisor predicted, that even after Trump steps down, he will become the most notable politician, and everybody knows that.

And still, some members of the Republican Party selected to sit out of this Republican Convention, which showed, the internal conflicts within the Republican Party toward Trump, although candidates needed Trump and the MAGA fans’ supports, the members of the Republican Party also worried about being too associated with Trump, the won’t win the support of the undecided, voters.

Compared to the Republican Convention from two years ago that lasted four days, the first day (on the ninth) seemed, a bit, lacking.  There were the empty seats when Trump gave his speech.

a cartoon of his, “public perception” right now…found online

So, this is, how the party members feel, that their KING is, losing his popularity, but they can’t do nothing (so???) ‘bout the FACT that his BAD reputation will CAUSE the separate electors seeking office locally to LOSE “crowd favorites”, while the DUNCE (guess who???), is still wearing HIS “new cloth” (note: that’s, public INDECENCY charge right there!), showing off how he’s still the KING of the world, when all signs points to the Republicans, losing BIG in the midterms this year…but hey, who are we, to RAIN on the KING’s, parade???

Trump Claimed He will DESERT the War in Iran after the Mid-Terms Elections

How the war in Iran is likely to DRAG on, until even AFTER Trump’s current, term…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The WH Warned that the War in Iran Will Last Until 2029 AFTER Trump is Out of Office, the Pentagon is Discussing Lengthening the Military Deployment in the Middle East

The U.S. President Trump claimed on the ninth, that he expects Iran to desert the war after the November midterms elections, and by then, the U.S.-Iranian War would be, “over immediately”.  But he’d stated it bluntly, before the date, the gas prices of the entire U.S. won’t drop.

SHIT is still coming out of his, mouth here, video from YouTube

President Trump says he thinks war with Iran will end after midterm elections – YouTube

As Trump headed over to the Republican Convention in Dallas, Texas, he’d claimed to the news media press, that Iran will continue to battle until November, to attempt to destroy him politically.  As for the gas prices, “I think, the rises in costs will last longer than the mid-terms.   Iran is too eager to influence the results of the midterms, so a bunch of softies get elected, then, the U.S. will be unbothered by them, so they can possess the nuclear weapon capabilities.”

Trump believes, that Iran is close to being destroyed, that after the midterms this year, the gas prices will drop massively, “the costs will be below two dollars per gallon; they can’t hold the line anymore!”  He stressed, although he’d not ruled out the negotiations with Iran, “but this isn’t what we’re considering right now.”

But on the ninth, The Wall Street Journal quoted the American government officials, that including the vice president, Vance and the Secretary of State, Rubio and other higher up officials of the Trump government had told Trump that Iran may continue to resist under American embargo and other military advances, that this war may get dragged all the way out to 2029, after he’d stepped down, and the new president takes, office.  If this is true, then, the global oil market will be under the influences of the war in the Middle East long-term, and it may become a catalyst to the 2028 U.S. Presidential elections as well.

this is, what’s, happened to, Uncle, Sam under these, presidents who DESPERATE for, war, cartoon from online

The Pentagon also began discussing the lengthening of the deployments of the U.S. military in the Middle East long-term.  For instance, the secretary of defense, Hegseth already extended some of the troops’ deployment to next year, with some of the aerial defense Air Force services staying in the Middle East indefinitely; the third MEU is also scheduled to get deployed to the Middle East this autumn.  The related deployments are for the purpose of keeping Trump’s options in war open.

In his Sixty-Minute Interview on CBS, Hegseth claimed, that the Iranian military had been under never-before destruction since the end of February when the U.S.-Iranian War began.

Analysts think, the Trump government is going to fight an everlasting war, and that’s why this is, the U.S. government’s, plans.  Maloney, the Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy with a focus on Iran Energy and Persian Gulf sated, that the short-term to mid-length embargo of U.S. against Iran in the Straits will have no desired efficacy, if the embargoes are to be used continually, then, the U.S. would have to think in long-term, but the efficacy is still, unknown, and it may cause Iran to target the U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.

Long-term embargo, and deployment of U.S. military also takes away the military resources the U.S. have in Europe and Asia.  The Trump government is also worried that Iran may adjust its tactics, and refuel on the missiles, drones, radars, and other military assets.

this is from a day ago, from the EXPERTS! Off of YouTube, and they all have CREDENTIALS to comment, unlike Trump…off of YouTube

How Will the Iran War End?

The manager of the ICG stated, that U.S. can keep on using the controlled costs to continue to deplete Iran’s resources, but Iran can also, transfer the pressures to the citizens, and keep the core facilities of its authorities, intact; “everyone is paying a price, but it still isn’t enough for the higher up government officials of the U.S. and Iran to accept one another’s deals.”

And so, this is, how the war in Iran is going to, DRAG, all the way, out, until maybe, after Trump steps down, because this is a war that Trump thought is a quick and easy in and out, but he’d underestimated his opponent, and now, the DST gets, DEADLOCKED in this, eternal (b/c that’s how it feels???) war in the Middle East, with NO exit strategies, and besides, why the FUCK would whoever the HELL that is that gets elected the President of the DST next term, want to, WIPE up the ASS of Trump, so covered in, CRAP???

The Yemeni Rebels Took Down a Tactical Port in the Red Sea

How the Yemeni rebels learned from the embargo of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran, causing the prices of shipping to get even higher, and there’s no going back to before, because Trump started this SHIT, and despite how he’s too eager to wrap this war up in a bow, he can’t, and this will surely HURT the Republican Party during the Mid-Terms elections this year, and I think this is, the ENDGAME of these embargoes in the Middle East, to have the Republicans LOSE control over the American Congress!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The intel of Yemeni Military told on the tenth, that one the regional surrogate of Iran, the “Axis of Resistance”, the Houthis on the same day, took the tactical harbor city of Mocha, with the goals of controlling the routes southbound of the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb. 

Foreign news media quoted the witnesses, that they saw the Houthis entered into Mocha, screaming, “U.S. and Israel DIE!”, after the crossfires between the Yemeni military and the Axis of Resistance had engaged in crossfire for hours, the Yemeni military was forced to, retreat.

with Iran now, targeting the Persian Gulf oil rigs passing through too! Photo from online

Before this, Mocha was internationally acknowledged as controlled by Yemen long term, the port city getting invaded by the Axis of Resistance was a major fallback for the Yemeni government’s military.

In the past few weeks, the Axis of Resistance had been repeatedly attacking the ships from Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea.  After the U.S. started in war with Iran at the end of February, Iran had embargoed the Strait of Hormuz, causing the crude oil shipments to not get through in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea became an alternative shipping route for Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries that produced the crude oil.  The Associated Press stated, if this is truth, then, the development on this front of the war will be, meaningful and important, that it will allow the Axis of Resistance to get a step closer to the group’s end goal of controlling the Bab el-Mandeb.

So, this is how this war is fought, with the embargoes, just like how Iran had, set up the torpedoes in the Strait of Hormuz, and fired missiles into the Strait, to DETER the ships from passing, same for this second front of the war in Iran, and the Axis of Resistance will be in control of the major sea ports of the Red Sea, to keep the western world, OUT, and they didn’t even need to, waste a single, torpedo, just make the world know, that it will be DANGEROUS, to pass through these, waters, then, the insurances of the ships, skyrocket, with the cost of energy on the rise, everything that’s shipped from out of the country will become, too costly to afford to the, ordinary citizens, and surely, that’s going to hurt the Republican Party in the midterms!

Turning the Persian Gulf into a huge, POWDER KEG! Image found online

Another PROOF of the KING’s Mental Decapacity to RULE…

Demented Trump Claims He Survived 9/11 Attacks

The Expiration Dates of the Guided Tour Books

All you have, were your, photos of the trips you took with your, families when you were a child, then, those photos, got lost through time, and all you can rely on, were your own, memories, to remember all the best times you’d ever had, with your, families on your, vacations in your, childhood days…translated…

When I was renovating my, home, we’d, conducted a never-before, declutter session, the mildly rusted wok, the somewhat clogged up showerhead, we’d, tossed, not to mention, those books left on the shelves with the pages turned yellow, that nobody’s flipped through for a whole of, three, decades’, time, I’d, gritted my teeth down, fare thee, well!  Just let them all, go.

“What are you still keeping this, tour guide, for?  We don’t need these anymore!”, my mother, wiping away her sweat, picked up the fluffed up book with the pages, carelessly, jolted the volume, the down came the maple leaves, the ticket for the lighthouse at Erluanbi, the grains of sand from Ludao, with the two bookworms that loosened and fell, out, with their tails, escaped.

Back in the time when there wasn’t the GPS nor the cellphone networks, the tour guides were a part of, every family’s, collection of volumes.  Back in my childhood years, my father focused on driving, with my mother on the passenger side, staring into the tour guides, worried, that she might cause him to miss the ramp, then, we may be headed to Taidong, from our original destination of, Taichung.  The three of us kids, were only, responsible for watching the mountains, the seas, the trees with the macaques, leaping on them.

how we were all, so young, so, carefree then…photo from online

Sometimes, we’d heard our parents, argued about which way to turn, like how my father missed, two left, turns, that we should’ve gotten on Freeway 3 instead of Freeway 1, then, my mother would take that red pen, and make a note of it for the next time we traveled; the evening breezes on our returns, always had that hypnotic feel to it, the snores came from within the car, we could barely keep on eyes opened at the rest stops, with my father, still lucid, under that dimmed light, studying the routes to take.

As we grew older, that old car that could no longer fit us all, got tossed, and the tent we’d gone camping in, we’d pulled out of storage, and gifted to the relatives, the friends; our parents who’d, done their best, to ensure we had an enriched childhood, they are both, with their, reading glasses on, having a hard time, seeing things, clearly now, they’d become what the news warned the people of, unsafe elderly drivers now.  And traveling within the country also seemed to lose, popularity too, especially the Lushan Warm Springs Hotel, and the majestic Taroko Canyon, these had lost, their former, glories already too.

Do these tour guides have an expiration to them?  Looking at the pictures of the family, it’d reminded me of how we’d lain on the track field of the Chingjing Elementary School in Nantou, when the city lights hadn’t invaded in yet, the glowing Milky Way Galaxy, I seemed to remember to have sighted a shooting star, but, what wish had I, made?  Already, forgotten………I’d, put that tour guide back on the shelves in my silence, again, allowing those two bookworms, to carry on the beautiful memories I once, made in the lines.

And so, there’s nothing else that remained, of your, past trips with your families, the photos don’t even work anymore, they’d turned, yellow, gotten lost through, the tramples of, time, but, you still, recalled every moment of all of these trips you took with your families when you were a young, child, because those were your, most, innocent, days of youth, and now, they’re, gone…

family vacation during childhood…image from online