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All hail John Roberts, the best SCOTUS chief justice money can buy. But what if the current admin exercises this new interpretation to take action to save the WH from a notorious scofflaw before Election Day? Ooohh, I don't think the ones cheering today will be happy with that!

I had a German mother-in-law who went through WWII over there, came to the US when the war was over. If someone was being too pushy or obstinate she would call them a brown shirt. It made me proud of her.

All these young people so passionate about stopping oil! Let's see how they do ten years from now when they need to take tablets to stop them from getting gas.

Because in this country traffic laws are a joke, it would take several policemen and a tire-destroyer at every possible entry on the route to keep other vehicles out. It's monkey-see monkey-do. Kuala Lumpur has F1. Hong Kong built a tennis stadium and nearly every week there is a "big tennis tournament," maybe that's a better idea for LOS.

Generally speaking, and on my own witnessing, the Thai street stalls seem to be more conscious of hygiene than those of other countries in the region. This might not be saying much, especially if the seller doesn't like farang. I once saw, in a neighboring country known for its hawker stalls, the person running the stall lifted a street sewer cap to dispose of something. He put the cap back down and went back to handling the food, no hand cleansing. Is that scary enough? That same country is also known for rice meals of assorted items that are served off of a steam table. Most of the food is set out around 11am. If you go out for dinner at 7pm, in most cases the stuff on offer has been sitting there all day. There will be some places that do a brisk business in evenings and will have fresher offerings, it is up to you to figure out which.

Let's see, there's Tennessee, Transylvania, and Wyoming (W counts as T because it so close to it). Proof of averagness! A very good brain, everyone is saying . . .

The next debate may not involve either of these two.

Did anyone ever tell you that you had a sense of humor? I didn't think so. She's not even running.

Marianne Williamson!

Looks like DT was the one worthy of a drug test.

Which was the HOPPED UP one?

These days cashiers may not have to enter many numbers because there is a key for most of the items. Maybe they can't sell it when there is no key for it.

Pinocchio and Gepetto.

I think he'll pick Burgum. He has that somewhat nebbishy, empty-suit presence like Pence did. DT doesn't like to be upstaged. Now if he picked Rubio or Vance I think he would make them his b_tch, tell them what to say and do, etc. His knows first-hand how spineless and hollow they are. In 2008 I was saying Hillary won't be picked as VP because if she is one heartbeat away from the presidency she just might do something about that heartbeat. These 2 guys don't have the guts to even fantasize about it. But let's see how the conviction and the convention goes.

"Projection of intellect." C'mon, the guy can't tell a socialist from a social worker. Jerzy Kosinski wrote a book called "Being There" about a simpleton who people mistook for a brilliant philosopher.

Man, this is jihad/crusade stuff!

An Indian couple in Berkeley, California (sometimes referred to as The People's Republic Berkeley) were taken to court for abusing their Asian housemaid, did things like torture her with a laundry iron when they were displeased, and so on. The sentence was severe, can't recall exactly, but it was around 20 years for each of them. No sympathy from me. More countries need to step up. You hear that Malaysia? Very common to hear of Indonesian domestic workers being treated as described in the OP over there. This confiscating of passports is one of the pillars of human trafficking operations, even for the Asian massagee parlors in the US, one of which is in Jupiter, Florida and is supposedly popular with patrons of a notorious, nearby golf course. Jupiter spa owner arrested in prostitution, human-trafficking bust

I sure hope he doesn't have to go back to providing services in truck stop parking lots. Maybe he should expatriate. A place where the bread is cheap and the shopping carts are better. https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-shopping-cart-russia-2024-2?op=1

So, did it work? Has oil stopped?

He always does this: he pulls something out of his butt in public and then someone over-intellectualizes and he is credited with making novel socio-economic suggestions. Sometimes satire writes itself. Does this with the press, too: he tosses out some numbers and nonsense, the fact checkers have to go work on it. He knows the less press is looking at his workings the better his chances of getting away with his shenanigans. Not a brilliant strategy, but it is clever. He tosses the stick and is saying "Go, fetch!" when he does stuff like this.

US election 2016: Trump says election 'rigged at polling places' Trump ratchets up ‘rigged election’ claims, which Pence downplays

Yes, that is the event depicted in the film.

Is this a reference to something depicted in Visconti's "The Damned"? if so, bravo!

Whatever happens at the DNC convention will be reported by Fox, Russia Today, Sinclair and OAN as a disaster. Their reporting doesn't get any more predictable than that. Try some other news sources, then tell us which party is in a shambles.

I'm expecting some heated, possibly violent, confrontations at the GOP convention next month. For the past 2 years or so Flynn has been touring the US with a road show that is a combination Christian revival and a brand of patriotic zeal that goes beyond extreme right-wing. Michael Flynn: From Government Insider to Holy Warrior Strictly my opinion: if DT manages to get back into the WH in January, and he doesn't put Flynn in prison or drive him out of the country (one way or another) there will eventually be something of a palace coup, with DT confined to his golf course and the US gets a true Christian nationalist dictatorship. The GOP members in gov't that are licking DT's shoes will no longer be afraid of the MAGA loonies but rather Flynn's soldiers, and will have some different boots to slobber over. Should this come to be, anticipate a Pentagon-based military coup. This just out today: Michael Flynn Has Turned His Trump-World Celebrity Into a Family Business