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It was written in Feb, 2025, discussing the upcoming 2024 election? That's AI gone berserk. Or is it a time warp?

And they call us the "low information" voters.

I've been having good luck with HOCO brand products recently (Post-Covid). That may be dumb luck and I may have just jinxed it. I've been buying their earbuds, chargers, power banks and USB cables and have been very satisfied. So far. A few years back, I was wandering around some back alleys in Bangkok and stumbled across a group in a doorway with a crate full of bulk USB cables and a big pile of the small boxes they come in. The small packaging had all kinds of different well known brands and logos. The workers were taking the same USB cables and packaging them into whatever boxes they had orders for. So I'm afraid there's some luck of the draw in there. At least there was a few years back. I can't imagine it's magically different today. I suspect HOCO has been working out okay because nobody's bothering to pirate them, yet. But that's a guess. They advertise being out of Hong Kong, but who really knows? Fingers crossed, they've been good for me. On a related topic, I recommend buying a couple of USB cable testers to see if your cables are charging at full amperage and your chargers are putting out the right voltage. I identified quite a few component problems with them. I like the Uni-T brand, but there are many others, some dirt cheap. I can't seem to post a clickable link but you can search Lazada for UNI-T UT658A or something similar. Get the USB cable testers, not the network cable testers that come up when searching for USB Cable Testers on Lazada. I'd buy 2 so you can always test them against each other to see if they're still working right.

As I understand it, if you pick up the call at all, your number goes into a database of live numbers that they can sell on.

I kinda like the pigeon laws. 20,000 baht fine if you're caught feeding them. (At least that's what the sign said). And I've never been attacked by a pigeon like I have by feral dogs, on several occasions. Maybe double that 20K fine to account for the danger. Donate the fine money to the local temples so the feeders can really make merit.

I don't know that one. I'll look into that. Thanks.

Nobody deserves that. She deserved to be dumped. Not beaten.

Is too. But thanks for your insightful contribution.

Harris was just a symptom.

We were paying attention. Come back when you can explain the legal issues behind the judge's instructions to the jury related to the charges underlying the felonies. You don't have to agree with the issues. Just prove to us that you understand what they are. Otherwise, you're just parroting the lefty MSM. Edit: And if you want bonus points, explain to us why the judge was right...

That's like a supervisor in the company mailroom dictating policy to the CEO. I don't see how the judge can let the political appointees (like Bessent) see the Treasury data without allowing someone to query the data for him. It's not as if he's a database guy who will spend hours at the keyboard slicing and dicing the data. He's got to delegate that to someone who knows how. The whole Dem resistance thing is Alice in Wonderland.

I thought it was trash So you guys agree...

Aren't those the same pollsters that said Kamala's got this one in the bag? Sorry, I don't believe them. They're pushing a narrative. Just like before.

It's scattered over half a dozen threads today alone.

So being a systems genius (and the singular guy who put electric cars on the US map) should disqualify him from gub'ment audit work? And his Twitter purchase shows he's pretty much incorruptible by mere money. He's exactly who and what we need. I'm not a big fan of his ego, but I can live with that if he identifies $trillions of waste and fraud. And he's well down that path in the limited time and access that he's had. BTW, the projects you've named add up to a few percent of his net worth. I don't believe he'd piss away his legacy for another few percent.

Take away the baby blood and you've pretty accurately described the Diddy sex parties. Which is why they probably dreamed up and spread Pizzagate. So anyone who mentioned the Diddy sex parties would be scoffed at and ridiculed.

Maybe that's because he can deliver when the old standards like Boeing can't. Or won't. The US would be much weaker if Space X (and Starlink) weren't getting $ billions from the US gub'ment to do amazing things. And no telling what other secret squirrel projects his companies are working on.

Did that stop China (or Thailand or SEA) bound US flights from the west coast from overflying Russia? I can't count the number of times I've flown over Russia on the way from LA, SF, Seattle, Vancouver and Anchorage. Not any more... Euro airlines are also screaming bloody murder because they're being undercut by airlines that can overfly Russia to SEA. That cuts the flight time and fuel use.

Yet you're screaming bloody murder when DOGE gets in, audits and reveals that corruption. That's the beauty of Trump. He's an outsider. He can't be blamed for decades of rot like, for example, Biden. Had the Biden administration revealed decades of corruption, Biden would have been smack dab in the middle of it, after 40+ years in various offices. To answer the OP question, neither. Musk and DOGE have been hired to audit the books. Then the elected leaders with the legal authority will either dismantle the swamp, or not. Either way, the corruption will be a festering sore that the public will finally see.

That's when anyone does anything he disagrees with.

My biggest question is which of the lefties just hate Trump so bad they'll do anything to damage him, regardless of how much it hurts the USA and the American people, and which of them are so balls deep in the corruption that they can't afford to have it come out lest they lose their livelihood and maybe even end up in prison. And in a nod to Kamala, the Venn diagram where those 2 groups intersect. I'll betcha that's a big overlap.

Don't you mean a welcome acknowledgement that there are places in the world where it's virtually impossible to do business without greasing a few gub'ment palms? Why should Americans concede that business to other countries that are less prudish in their FCPA laws? Which is most of them... MAGA. Let Thailand (et al) deal with Thai (et al) corruption. Not our job.

Is that the same as an American nooner?

I'm sure Trump is getting a lot of pressure from US airlines who are losing business because they can't fly over Russkie airspace. That costs time and fuel that Russkie friendly countries' airlines don't have to spend. Trump's not big on conceding business to competitor nations.

I wish I could say that's the stoopidist thing I ever did at that age.