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Watching the left melt down over this is great fun. And this from the people who literally invited thieving ladyboys into the government! O, the delicious irony!

This. Let Europe pony up to fight their own battles... the need for which are largely due to the stupidity of the left. Propping Russia up by buying their oil and gas, for example. I'm tired of my taxes going to pay for the endless folly of trying to support and police the entire world.

The leftist Trump-hating “Russia Russia Russia” insanity is literally driving us to the edge of WW3. I hope humanity survives until Trump is sworn in.

Did he have a reason to be in Russia other than "annoy the locals while taking the unnecessary risk of being in Russia"?

What disingenuous nonsense are you peddling? Please point out where President Trump has ever suggested revoking green cards as a remedy for the USA's illegal immigrant problem. As for citizenship, definitely not. It's (purposefully) very difficult to revoke American citizenship. Unless a naturalized citizen is accused of something that rises to the level of a very serious crime, it basically Does. Not. Happen. (Think: lying about having been a murderous guard at a nazi concentration camp.) To suggest that a Trump administration would attempt mass green card or citizenship revocations is completely ridiculous, and you know it.

Really? Quote someone saying that so I can condemn that person loudly. (In case it wasn't clear, I think no one here is actually saying that, and you are making it up.) For the record: one *should* recruit the best candidate, including women and minorities.

There is not one single jurisdiction anywhere in the United States where homeowners are "free to shoot anyone" just for being on their property. [Cue the mental gymnastics required to justify such a statement in 5... 4... 3... 2...]

I really like this statement.

...and? Politics makes strange bedfellows.

That's quite a bold claim, and one for which there is no actual evidence. There's only the biased disinformation coming from the losing side.

I never wrote, nor do I believe, that everyone who doesn't like Trump is a marxist left-winger. ...and there is room for opposing viewpoints and dissent, contrary to what the hysterical over-reactions against Trump might seem to signal.

Indeed. Thuggery in the US is fairly unique to the left these days. Another difference? I see right-wing thugs, I denounce them -- loudly. Of course, we don't have a common understanding of the definition of "thug" any more. The left calls anyone it disagrees with "thugs". The right calls rioting criminal mobs "thugs". A bit different...

Let them. We'll wind up with some great case law and precedents that will help America resist left-wing garbage for decades.

The naïveté is breathtaking here.

There are still guardrails, the main one being the next vote in 2026, which can easily re-balance the House if the incoming administration makes a mess of things. (This is probably where you or someone brings up the insane talking point about this being "literally the last election we're ever going to have in the USA" etc. -- LOL!) There are several US states that have been effectively under one-party (D) rule for many years now. California, Washington, Hawaii, others. Are you complaining about the crazy ideas and impulses that come to fruition in those places? If not, this just boils down to you not liking the (R) agenda. Sorry about the sour grapes, but you'll have to suck it up! (FWIW there are I think several one-party rule states on the (R) side too. I don't live in one of them so I can't comment, but my instinct tells me I'd prefer a balance instead.) Drain the swamp! That said, Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025. Although large parts of the agenda are quite palatable to many moderate and conservative people. The marxist left-wingers have been engaged in a giant conspiracy to remake America for the past 50 years or so, and I've seen nary a (D) supporter have any problem with that. Now it's our turn to have an influence on America. Having a different opinion and world view from you doesn't make us "uninformed". It makes you pompous and arrogant, though. Congratulations! *YOU* are why we won the election and your side got spanked.

Ah — socialism… that explains the misery then!

Are you claiming no people live in those red-delineated areas, amongst the empty fields and wilderness? On the contrary, there are voters in literally every single one of them… And there are vacant lots inside cities also. What’s your point, really?

Unfortunately, this kind of rational thinking is rapidly being cast aside as “boomer” logic. The younger generation will be completely running the HR departments and corporate America in time, and theirs is a world in which social factors play an outsized role in perceptions of competence. We already see safe spaces (etc.) all over the place, and the coddling effect is directly related to how irrational social justice-related behavior won’t be an impediment to navigating a “real job” in the future (or even now). IOW I don’t think these people really fear repercussions on their futures. “Consequences” are (a) passé these days, and (b) becoming reserved for truly heinous skeletons in one’s closet such as having accidentally mis-pronouned someone on a long-forgotten social media post, or having made a mildly distasteful joke at an identity group’s expense 10 years ago.

Thanks for that. I can respect this analysis. I think, though, that there is a significant number of people on the left who truly do now believe that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actually are racist, sexist, transphobic, fascist, et al. They’ve spent big parts of their recent lives in their social media-driven ideologically leftist echo chambers, which has reinforced and amplified all their worst impluses and reduced their ability to think critically. The result is fragile, fearful, ignorant people who believe and act on all the worst victimization tropes circulating with gusto in their edenic bubbles.

If you’re responding to me, you could not be more wrong. I am 100% American, USA born and raised. My point was simply that Trump has unified the (R) party. Nothing wrong with that, or with admiring him for being able to pull it off.

That’s just a convenient rationalization. Living somewhere by choice for an extended period of time under a regime installed by a coup, which some people consider anti-democratic, etc. is somewhere between “endorsement” and “I don’t care about its negatives”. Most of us don’t care about either of those labels and people should just do what they need to do in their own lives! But if you are going to talk the talk about a Trump administration being bad for… all the reasons people are quick to jump on President Trump, then not walking the walk elsewhere in life is a wee bit hypocritical.

I’m not using word “conservative” here in some obscure pointy-headed way whose nuance would require me to post a reference to a PhD thesis as justification. I meant it in its plain, commonly understood facility as a synonym for “Republican”. So my post says that I’ve enjoyed meeting non-leftist Americans of all stripes in Thailand. Of course, I’ve also enjoyed meeting leftist ones too… Certain kinds of people — to their detriment and great experiential loss — assess the value of everything and everyone they encounter in life through a political lens. I am more open-minded, and thus am not such an experientially limited person.

Such is the power of a unified movement and party? That’s actually a good thing; dunno what to tell ya. Contrast with the Democrats, who are seemingly in disarray, practically a civil war even, because the ones least palatable to the electorate refuse to compromise in any way.

Don’t kid yourself. There are plenty of us MAGA types in Bangkok too… including Thai people with American citizenship. It’s been super-fun and awesome meeting conservative people of many stripes — including Trumpers — over the past months and years. It makes a nice break half the year for me and wife, who live in a strongly leftist part of the USA during the other half of the year.

I know right? I mean, the guy is still president for a couple more months.