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Did they blur the insignia on the pickup door, or is that just faded?

I'm watching it in uncurated snippets. Eventually, I'll get through it all, but I take breaks when I get that sour taste that tells me I'm going to puke in my mouth.

Thanks for that, and I apologize for being rude and getting off on the wrong foot. But YouTube is blocked here, so I found the Fox News version... https://www.foxnews.com/video/6357664139112 My quote comes from an "unapproved source": “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” Looks like that may (or may not) have been accurate, the ambiguity being rather disturbing. He mumbled enough that I'm sure the official White House transcript will be interesting.

I used to pull cooked lizards out of mine in Texas. They made a sad and awful noise when they got zapped. Thai lizards must have learned to stay away from the light...

My concern is that it seems like we're only in the first few innings of a tragic game, related to the amount of free money, and sheer numbers of recipients of free money. With white and Asian, working, native born, family men getting the smelly end of the stick.

Have they banned the practice yet? Climate change and all... On a more serious note, I use the tennis racket type to kill them indoors, and the mounted bugzappers outdoors for that satisfying Zzzzt sound. But away from any doors. They attract a lot more than they kill.

But did you, really? I asked a very specific question.

I was thinking Dylan Mulvaney.

I no longer trust transcripts, especially the official ones. Speaking of the MSM and carrying water for Biden, here's an interesting story from Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle: “As a result, viewers of Fox News understood the president’s condition better than our (WaPo) audiences, which ought to be a huge wake-up call for us. Never thought I'd be reading that in a WaPo column. Suck on that, MSM. https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/11/wapo-columnist-left-wing-bias-biden-age-mental-acuity/

Interesting placement of the quotation marks... Do you have the exact quote? NYT is known for carrying Biden's water.

Twitter and YouTube are blocked here. Can someone confirm (or deny) this quote and then unpack it? If it's accurate, Biden seems to claim he chose Kamala because she was not qualified... “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” Biden said after a reporter asked him about Kamala Harris being at the top of the ticket. I still contend she was chosen as insurance against impeachment. In which case, that would have been an accurate (and accidentally profound) statement, if you can overlook calling her VP Trump...

That first sentence had me choking on my corn flakes, I laughed so hard. That may have been the origin and lofty founding goal of Wikipedia, but it hasn't sought the truth in many years.

Give Putin what he's already got? Look at the battle map from over a year ago, and look at the map today. Tell me what all the death has accomplished. Zip. Zero. Nada. Just a bunch of grieving families.

5 is just enough to give them false hope, and perpetuate the dying. Zero brings them to the bargaining table (with realistic expectations), the dying stops and the rebuilding starts.

I'm going to offer a counterpoint. In 2015, I had bypass surgery in Bangkok. As a result, I had CT scans, x-rays and MRI's out the wazoo. Recently, I went in for a cancer screening. They found some questionable spots on my lung and on my liver, but referred to my previous scans and saw no change. Had I not had the previous scans, they would have probably looked deeper. Also had a neurological checkup in June, related to my Pfizer injury of 2.5 years ago. Found some "spots" on my MRI/MRA, but once again, there was no change from my 2017 MRI/MRA. I was pleased to have the baselines in my file. Probably saved me a bunch of poking and prodding...

But isn't it nice to read a polite thread where nobody's getting called an idiot? I miss that...

Obama may not have been the worst president ever, but he was the most disappointing. I was thrilled when he won his first term, promising transparency and unity. Failing to deliver on his promises, I was disappointed he was given a 2nd term. During which, he disappointed even more. I've never seen a less transparent gub'ment nor a more divided country. (But I only go back to JFK was the first president I remember) Biden has just been a redux of broken Obama promises. With a side of senility. Covered up by the MSM and Dem elite.

A sleaze bucket unhinged wannabe fascist dictator who presided over a pretty good economy and relative peace around the world. "Please, sir, may I have some more please?"

I think you're underestimating the American voters' anger at "seasoned politicians". That's what gave us Trump. I'm not sure Clooney's the guy, but Newsom has dragged California down the crapper, from a budget surplus to a deficit, with people fleeing in droves because it's not safe and impossible for SME's to make money. And aside from Michelle, he's the only insider they have that has a chance. Their best bet is an outsider.

They're doin' even better under Biden than they did under Trump: Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed to March 18, 2020. On that day, the United States had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $2.947 trillion. Four years later, on March 18, 2024, the country has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion, an 87.6 percent increase of $2.58 trillion, according to Institute for Policy Studies calculations of Forbes Real Time Billionaire Data. (Thank you, Forbes!) Those dates don't match exactly the Biden years, but the gist is there... https://inequality.org/great-divide/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/

You can't talk about grifters, swindlers and frauds hijacking conservatives without including a discussion of W's watch. While I think he's an honorable man, he made the mistake of trusting his father's neocons who he really didn't understand like Bush the elder did. They bamboozled him into Afghanistan to punish the Saudi terrorists (???) and into Iraq to go after WMD's that weren't there (and the neocons knew it). His Father was a product of the CIA, so he knew how dangerous they were. W was a lamb to slaughter, taking the USA down with him. It's been 20 years of war and $Trillions of wealth transfer as a result. Clinton left with a budget surplus. (And need I remind you that he was a lying monger?). But a pretty good president, if you base your judgment on results and not feewings.

Tied to the civil rights movement, emboldened and funded by the Welfare State, voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury. And politicians figured out that keeping the economy in a constant state of turmoil and decline would scare the voters into doing whatever the state wanted. Then, they decided that Corporations are people, too and opened the floodgates to massive donations to curry favor. It's pretty well hooped unless someone comes in and cleans it up.

Is it really that simple? Not a loaded question, because I haven't smoked since high school, before nicotine patches were a thing. I took it up one winter, and gave it up next spring when the snow melted and I was sucking wind on my bicycle runs through the mountains... Are nicotine patches available in Thailand, especially in the airports? And any observations about Zyn Nicotine pouches? Again, just curious... Edit: I'd add that years ago, I started carrying caffeine tablets for those times when a coffee was hard to arrange. Also, because that plus aspirin eased my frequent migraines. Haven't had more than one migraine a year in decades, but I still carry the caffeine.

I think that the guy wouldn't be in the hot seat if he leaned liberal. He'd be a useful tool, like so many other corrupt officials. Like the guy in the White House, for example.

By the time this passes through the news cycle, I'll know what the American left, the American right, the Indians, the Qataris, the Brits, the Russkies, and probably the Chinese think of it. Maybe even more, depending on how the search of terms goes. You'll know what some registered Democrats posing as "journalists" want you to know. Who do you think will be easier to manipulate?