It’s difficult to find things not “made” in China and not for lack of trying, but I get excoriated now and again for the mugs in the GrokStore. They are printed by a US company in America, by Americans, but the mug itself is from China.
That’s what the sticker says.
China gets small change for the mug, the US vendor gets more for their added value and service, and then we – if you buy one – make a few bucks too. The fact that there is a made in china sticker is, however, a hill to die on for some -which I get – but it made me wonder.
Is the device you just used to scold me free of Chinese products? How about the network infrastructure that carried the message? The offices and equipment of the company that made and maintains the messaging platform. Your ISP or Telecommunications provider? The trucks they send out to repair equipment in the field. The devices they use.
We can probably bet that the college many of the professionals working for these companies graduated from was compromised in some way by China – UNH certainly is.
So, what does that mean?
China had a plan and executed it, and we’re standing here wondering what to do. Part of the response was to elect Donald Trump. He single-handedly made it more desirable to make things in other places, including America but the Global Ruling Class took him and that from us.
But Trump or not, the problem of Chinese influence or products is a lot like the Left’s green energy utopia. Even if it were greener (it’s not) and better (nope) or desirable (ehhhh…), it can’t happen overnight or even in several years.
I am investing some time weekly to find alternatives, but that’s time I’m not using to blog or run GraniteGrok.com, so is that the best way to address the problem? Both the American company and GraniteGrok make more money on the mug than China. TeeSpring is employing Americans, and we’re blogging about political corruption and who is bought and paid for by globalists influencers, including China (among other things). So, who is using who?
If I said hey, I found a way to use China to finance a transparency project to uncover political corruption, including Chinese influence, folks might cheer. They might even buy more GrokGear from the GrokStore to support us.
At least until they got the mug with the sticker that said Made in China.
And as I have said more than once, I’m still looking, but please do not punish us for the lack of options if at all possible. At least until you can be certain the devices and networks you are using are equally free of Chinese products and influence.
In other words, we all have a lot of work to do, and the first order of business is replacing the Chinese Product in the Oval Office which we’d like to think we do daily.
And if you’d like to help without the mug, you can donate or subscribe – but I can’t promise you the infrastructure used for that isn’t muddied up with Chinese products as well.
