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I find this whole thing to be an embarrassment. I can't look at pics/vids of him in the news. Who was it that inspired him to go into politics, and what do they have in mind? The guy is obviously a little slow and slightly out of it, and I truly feel sorry for him. I feel he just doesn't really get it. Another poor sob caught in the gears of the Georgia GOP.

I am still of the opinion that all this stuff associated with the Mueller Report is buried away, like Godzilla at the bottom of the sea, and at some point will re-emerge, much to the chagrin of Bill Barr and the rest of the orange cadre. Of all the legal charges piling up against the former president, this could emerge as the gasoline on the embers. Do bear in mind that the two impeachments offered no vindication, merely that his party did not punish him. The DOJ could still bring cases for those things.

It could be that there was another baksheesh fine paid, quite larger and not to be spoken of. "No need to put on a performance, we (literally) paid our dues." To a CNN reporter 5k baht is probably per diem.

My own 2 cents, sure to rankle some sat-upons: I think (adult) people should see pictures of things like this. It should be driven home just what the carnage is. The damage of not showing these things is that it becomes normalized, as is happening in the US just now. "Oh, another school shooting today? Change the channel and let's see what else is on." In an age where news, politics and other current events have become entertainment people need to be reminded of what it really is. Pictures of dead bodies etc are not there to amuse, but to be sickening. It's like taking a bitter medicine. I think when people call for war they they should not think of the heroes doing victorious poses with their flag, but rather of the piles of rotting corpses, and realizing that could be themselves and their own children. Teddy Roosevelt had a noble perspective on war, "the measure of a man" etc but after losing all his sons in WWI his perspective on this was very much humbled. I am not a pacifist nor against gun ownership (though I would prefer that my raving alcoholic wife-beating neighbor did not own one), but I think when people call for violent solutions they should be cognizant of what exactly they are supporting. With so many people cramming the media with "don't believe what you see, believe my words" these graphic images are necessary.

Is that 5k baht a "processing fee"? As always, "falang hap to gib munnee."

Looks like things are not going swimmingly for Vlad with the CSTO, Russia's post-Soviet answer to NATO. Kyrgyzstan cancels Russian-led military drill on its land My guess is the leaders of these countries look at what is happening in Ukraine and are thinking "there but for the grace of god . . . ." Even within its own ranks Russia is having a morale problem, whereas a few days ago I came across a vid of two young Ukrani women soldiers singing a song of resistance while they sat in a trench loading their ammo clips. Meanwhile, the Russian troops are hoping for a border to escape over.

Biden’s nuclear warning not based on new intelligence So Big Man Vlad is rattling the nuclear sabre, and Ol' Joe puts out the word the US defenses are going back to Cuban Missile Crisis alert. Perhaps Vlad was expecting panic in the US, and this is Joe's way of saying "we're not going to be hiding under our beds." Perhaps the looming threat this time is that a certain former president of the US (the orange one) has supplied the Russians with what was supposed to be confidential military information that will compromise the country's defenses. Putin has an "America First" plan that is quite different than the GOP one. I'm curious if DT has some sort of fallout shelter (bunker) somewhere. It's pretty obvious DT will not stand up to Vlad.

A triumph for the conservatives who always want to go back to the old days.

Looks like word is getting around, this from Thursday's L.A. Times This country wants to become the new king of weed