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Do you have any hard, and supporting, evidence for your claims? Idiocracy. Just watch the first 10 minutes, because it's downhill from there. With an occasion laugh, but still not worth it. First 10 minutes is genius, though.

Here's my data. Texas has the highest rate of illegal immigration. People who enter the country with nada. Zip. Just the clothes on their back. Coincidentally (?) Texas also has the highest rate of larceny. Some would call that a slam-dunk. Anyone claiming it was ever Trump's DOJ just hasn't been following along. He won't make the same mistake in 2025. BTW, any response to my other theory that people just don't bother reporting larceny in California because it's futile?

Would you wait in a 20 minute queue to get into a shopping mall? Because that's probably a minimal estimate of what it would take to search bags at every entrance. Imagine airport style security just to get into a shopping mall, especially in Thailand where multiple stops in one shopping trip have people carting bags and bags into and out of each mall. (Compared to the USA where everyone dumps their goodies into their car between stops). As I recall, they tried that after the temple bombing in that same area. It didn't go well, or last very long.

3 comments... 1) That study was done in 2020, just before Biden opened the floodgates. The Larceny data is from 2021, after the floodgates opened. 2) The clearance rate on property crime runs about 15%. Not hard to believe that criminals who live in the area are arrested more often than the ones just passin' through. And that data is just about arrests. 3) The study is based on Texas DPS arrests. Texas state cops don't really focus on property crime. Mostly, that's local police. And do you really trust data from a gub'ment that claims the border is closed, nothing to see here? I've been in enough sales calls and management presentations to know that data can be sliced and diced to say pretty much whatever you want it to say. Or not say, if you leave out the bad parts.

Japan vs USA... Is it the culture that keeps the murder rate low or the laws? Example, my neighborhood in Texas probably has as many guns per household as any in the USA. Yet no shootings in over 30 years, if ever. A neighborhood across town that, due to economics, has a much lower rate of gun ownership has shootings every week or so. So it's not the prevalence of guns, it's the culture.

You're right. He didn't shout me down. He called me a liar. Hardly a debate.

I don't know how he does in real estate, but he's proven a genius at getting rent free space in lefties' heads.

So, you don't think there may be other reasons to prevent the SSA from entering the names of mental health care recipients into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System? Things like patient privacy? Issues like preventing people from seeking mental health care for fear of losing their rights? How about people seeking an FBI criminal background check to live overseas?

You mean the credible sources that they've tried so hard to sweep from view? Edit: Great to see there's a court case making its way up the appeals process, discussing limits on gub'ment behavior when it comes to violating 1st Amendment rights to discuss things like Covid.

Key words there... REPORTED Larceny. You don't figure that's because nobody in California bothers reporting thefts, because it's futile? Or that the vast majority of illegal immigrants cross over into Texas, with just the clothes on their backs and need to go "shopping" when they get there?

Doesn't he have a daughter he used to shower with?

I wish I could say I've never stepped out of a car, leaving it in neutral on a slight incline and had to jump back in to set the brake harder. Doesn't even take much of an incline. The argument could have been the distraction that created the lapse in judgment. Or the guy may have deliberately driven it off the pier. Hard to tell from the details presented.

Could be the title on the link: election interference, he'll do it again. Could be this statement: "Part of the reason he worked so hard against me is because he didn’t think that he wanted me in the White House. Or this one: "I don’t think, despite all of the deniers, there is any doubt that he interfered in our election, The deniers, BTW, include the FBI agents who investigated and found nothing there. After nearly two years, Mueller’s more-than $30 million investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election. "The country has a right to know the answer to this question, ‘How is it that after $30 million, the fact that the Clinton campaign falsely initiated the investigation was omitted from their report?’" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/despite-acquittal-durham-trial-of-sussmann-added-to-evidence-clinton-campaign-plotted-to-tie-trump-to-russia

It's a twofer. You get to bash Russkies and racism.

Maybe in mirror image land.

Hell, I'm still waiting for Hillary's evidence that 2016 was stolen. And she's still out there claiming it was. Saw her last week in an interview with Psaki... Maybe 2 weeks ago.

Thanks. I'll put that on my list o' stuff to watch next week when I'm in Thailand. It's blocked here in China.

So you're not concerned at all about the UK DefMin announcing plans to put NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine? No chance of deliberate escalation or some kind of tragic error? I see Sunak has walked him back. Soon to fire him, I hope.

True, but there's wet seasons and there's WET SEASONs. I still remember my first Thai WET SEASON in 2011.

Got a chuckle out of the headline: Thai GDP revised, 2 dead bodies found in container. I wonder what GDP was before they revised it to just 2 dead bodies?

I'll see if I can find them. It's been years since I linked to them on TVF (even before AN), and my ability to search is limited using bing.cn where I'm staying. Meantime you can get a head start searching for "Crimea Conundrum".

Today, the fastest growing gun toting demographic is Blacks, especially black women. Gun sales to Blacks up 58% in just one year. https://www.essence.com/news/black-women-gun-ownership-rise/ The MSM would have you believe it's fear of hate crime and (how stupid is this?) fear of police violence. As if pulling a gun on the cops is going to make you safer... But if you listen to the guys doing the firearms training, it's a rational reaction to crime out of control.

The 1930's called. They want their rental copy of Reefer Madness back. Between weed and sunshine, I'd recommend sunshine any day of the week. But if it's a choice between weed and booze, I'd steer any loved one of mine toward the weed. A lot less deleterious effects. Though I haven't done either one in over 30 years.

My forecast was, and still is, that Thai weed will have to be sold with a tax stamp eventually. And only the hiso families will be able to buy the tax stamps. So they'll make all the real money, and the farmers and dispensaries will scratch out a meager living.

The 4 oblasts and Crimea have always been largely Russky ethnically. 2 separate western surveys were conducted in Crimea after the annexation, where the vast majority of residents indicated they want to stay with Russia. I doubt the west will conduct such surveys in the 4 oblasts, because they didn't like the answer last time.