JCauto

2 hours ago, Excogitator said:

I used to think: 

What level of crazy do you have to be, to support a man like Trump, now a convicted felon, and to actually want him as your president?

 

I got it all wrong...

I would say it is the logical outcome of many years of deliberate strategy to obfuscate the truth, to radicalize the Right and to push false narratives such as "both sides" and "whataboutism". How else could you take the "law and order" people who are fundamentalist Christian and have them slavishly devoted to someone who represents literally the diametric opposite of those values - lust, hatred for strangers, avarice, excess, self-glorification. Mind you, those Evangelical mega-churches so little resemble the origins and meanings of Christianity that they function instead as unintentional parody. 

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

and De-NIAL is a river in Egypt. Ask Gamma if you don't believe me.

 

https://people.com/politics/people-explains-all-about-chappaquiddick-the-shocking-kennedy-scandal-that-left-one-woman-dead/

girl died in car crash caused by Ted Kennedy. His pals got him off the hook. 

no autopsy was performed on the girl. 

Sigh. De-Nile. The river is called the "Nile River". It's one of the largest rivers in the world and played a major part in the Judeo-Christian religion along with the Tigris and Euphrates.

I shudder to think of how you might spell "Euphrates". 

Just a helpful hint - your misspelled rants and "whataboutism" going all the way back to Ted Kennedy (LOL! FYI, he dead) aren't exactly demonstrating your mental acuity.

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Haven’t lost syndrome 

Its a process!

No shock , No Awe 
It was always Dem party politics ,

played out by a dem prosecutor,& dem corrupt judge.

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth?"

Donald J. Trump

4 hours ago, Digitalbanana said:

So video footage, witness statements, global viral news coverage about the tourism impact for the country not enough to get them going eh?

And you might perhaps be under the impression that this would thereby provide the lubricant for the wheels of justice to turn? Afraid we're in Thailand - the wheels have been welded in place.

The only possible outcome that would cause police to do anything about this would be for the person in the ICU to recover, make the charges, and then the men would be reluctantly arrested and charged. They would be subsequently released on bail, with an eventual notification that they should show up quietly at court. Unless the ICU fella decides he loves it here so much that he's willing to stay indefinitely and assign someone to sit daily inside the Pattaya courts, they'll whisk the lads out the back door with the case dismissed before it's even brought in front of a judge, with brown paper envelopes passing from bar to plod and all happy about the outcome. Oh, other than the poor fella in the ICU. But then again, stupid to argue bills in girly bars, only one likely result and this is it.

The usual climate change denial by the armchair scientists of ASEAN Now. If only their love of beer and poxy ho's hadn't gotten in the way of their ground-breaking research, then they'd have disproven in long ago...

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Be fair, Trump has about as much chance of getting off as a black man in KKK county, with a KKK judge and a KKK jury !

 

Political lawfare is not justice. The judge is a Biden donor, and his daughter works for the Biden's !! I mean come on.

 

A case that can be convicted in one state and not another due to political biases is just wrong.

 

One things for sure, if Trump gets in, i foresee hundreds of these election interferers going to prison or taking plea deals

 

 

And how do you know he would not be convicted in another state? He's already on trial in other states.

The case is clear, the criminal conduct obvious, the evidence compelling. If you are going to disparage judges for their political affiliation, then remove the politics from the appointment of judges. In Canada the judges are appointed by the legal system based on jurisprudence and knowledge of the law, there is no political interference and judges, public prosecutors, district attorneys and the like are not elected, they're career professionals assessed by their peers as being worthy of elevation to judge.

Americans love to lecture us about their "freedoms" - having lived there on a couple of occasions, I would say in many respects Canada is a much better place in terms of basic freedom. Much of what Americans tout as being "free" is anything but. 

31 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You are either Jewish, or not. Nothing self proclaimed about it. 

 

Whether you label it genocide or not, the extremely disproportionate response, and the percentage of women and children killed is an abomination. Especially for a nation that came out of the survival of the holocaust. 

I don't know you, you don't know me, all we have is your statement, hence it is self-proclaimed as it is with myself. Can't be any other way, nor would I expect anyone to demand proof, nor would I supply it if asked. We define who we are on anonymous internet fora.

I don't believe that having been the victims of anti-semitism for millenia and the particular horror of the Shoah imposes upon us an additional obligation that others do not have. That's actually part of the EU definition of anti-semitism that I have posted on other threads. 

The lesson of the Shoah for many Jews, including myself, was "Never Again". Part of that means you respond to violence with even more violence, because we observed what happened when we didn't. I do not support Netanyahu and his idiots on the Right who are culpable for any actions that happened under their watch that step over boundaries. I agree they made a mess of the response, as Hamas and Putin were expecting and hoping that they would. But once you start singing harmony on the Hamas chorus, you might as well turn in your Jewish ID and join the death cult because that's what happens to the passive Jews. 

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

War is a very degrading act, and I think it's safe to say that these kind of offenses have taken place throughout the course of history, and still take place on a regular basis. 

 

Though I am sure many soldiers behave in a noble  and righteous fashion, there are likely many who have no moral compass whatsoever, and simply do as they please. 

 

What about the IDF? Any crimes committed on their side, besides genocide? 

Genocide? Even if we accept Hamas casualty figures (and why you would do that for an organization who have been found to lie repeatedly and habitually and who are actively spamming misinformation worldwide in an operation supported by the Russians and Chinese) of around 35,000 people killed, there were approximately 2,000,000 people in Gaza. So that's around 1.75% of the population. Jews in WWII? There were 6,000,000 out of a pre-war Jewish population in Europe of around 9,000,000 so around 2/3 of the people. Armenia? Anywhere from 660,000 to 1,200,000 out of around 1.5 million total. Rwanda's massacre of the Tutsi took out around 75% of the population and was about 500,000 to 800,000 people. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge killed around 2,000,000 out of 6,000,000. You see where I'm going with this.

I find it astonishing that this is even considered as a marginal case of genocide. The IDF have protocols in place that go well beyond most armies in terms of avoiding civilian casualties, they're not gathering up survivors and shooting them dead, there are no death camps, incidences of soldiers behaving badly are investigated. The emphasis on "genocide" is simply a part of the propaganda and is designed not only to give people the impression of things being far worse than they are, but also serves to minimize the impact of the previous genocides, pretty much every one of which exceeds what is happening to the Palestinian people by several orders of magnitude and in practically every other aspect.

This is not to say that Netanyahu and the Israeli Right don't have a lot to answer for, and I'm all for they and the Hamas leadership being strung up. But to downplay the deliberate brutality of 7 July which was specifically done to ensure a particularly violent response from the Israelis is downright bizarre. You're really going to do whataboutism with Hamas, who don't act in any way like an army in a direct comparison with national militaries? How far down the rabbit hole did you have to go to get to that place as a self-proclaimed Jew? 

So, where are all the Hamas dupes to recant their numerous previous statements that there was no proof of sexual violence, that the events of 7 July were exaggerated or a false flag, that this was a justifiable act of resistance? Come on, show us your integrity and how you're actually NOT anti-semites who actively are promoting the propaganda of the death cultists.

7 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Lot's of Thais I talk to call him a traitor for getting into bed with the enemy something PTP said would never happen.

Yes, indeed. And there's the rub - Thaksin was popular because of his policies which basically spread the money from the public purse around via the Tambon Councils and other means. This is why he was a threat to the powers-that-be and had to be turned into the Thai Beelzebub and exiled so that things could return to business as usual. Now, after his exile, he's returned to become just another one of the dinosaurs, and the fact that he's joined with his persecutors leaves nobody in doubt as to where his fealty lies and what his objectives are. Purely tawdry. They always knew he was a liar - but who cares when he was doing things that were wildly popular to the majority of the people who happen to live in the Northeast and North of the country. Now he's just another piggy at the trough.

On top of that, the Thai people have found a couple of much younger politicians who appear to be much more serious about change. It's no wonder they both won the election and were both subsequently dispossessed of power through dubious means and the entrenched senate and other old power structures. There's only one way this system ends, and that's with fresh young blood in the streets, but this time none of that country plonk, let's get some fine Bangkok claret if we wish to see real change.

On 5/20/2024 at 8:46 AM, JCauto said:

So did you watch the State of the Union? That was a powerful speech and it lasted one hour and seven minutes! That sure is a long time to drag out two sentences. 

 

Here's the link so you can observe within seconds that he's got quite the ability to speechify. https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/

 

As with the drug testing, every accusation is a confession with you people. You are seriously trying to make a cognitive impairment argument with the guy who bicycles around and gives polished hours-long speeches with detailed policy and nuanced understanding and the guy who wears diapers and falls asleep at his own trial and who STILL keeps referring to Barack Obama when he means his actual political opponent who beat him in the last election and who has been president these last four years. Why do you have to lie and state obvious mistruths? Just because your hero does it and you accept it doesn't mean that you can emulate him and have us slavering over your blatant untruths.

This was in response to Ultrathai's claim that "Biden is sick 😫 with dementia and can't put two sentences together.  Is that the idiot that you are talking about?" 

Check out this link in comparison - https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trumps-35-second-long-freeze-during-speech-sparks-concerns-rebuke-netizens-debate-long-glitch-or-unfit-to-serve-101716200059982.html

Trump has a brain freeze that lasts 35 seconds! Now it's probably just that the teleprompter broke or the guy operating it fell asleep or something, but regardless, Trump couldn't ad-lib a word, just stood there staring and waiting for whatever he was supposed to say. Remember when he always claimed Obama would be lost without his teleprompter? 

Every accusation is a confession. Every. Single. One.

13 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Echocholic is mispelled not made up. Better hit Google, not that congenital Trumpophobics care about reality.

This is an excellent example. You castigated another poster for a spelling error, and IN THAT ACTUAL POST, there's a spelling error ("thats"). Every accusation is a confession. You literally can't even correctly spell a riposte about another person's poor spelling!

Now you come back and tell me that you misspelled "ecocholic" and expected me to accept your misspelling since "echocholic" is a real word and to hit up Google. So I did. I presume you were meaning "echolalia"? That means "the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person".  This is too easy. Are you day-drinking? Do send us the link to the definition of "echocholic" won't you? LOLOLOL!

Just now, Yagoda said:

Oh dude thats fabulous, you should apply for work at CNN. If you could spell, you might become somebody

Did you spell "ecocholic" correctly in your last post? How about "that's" in this post? The hypocrisy is mind-boggling! LOL!

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

As illustrated above, Congential Trumphobics share many of the same characteristics, among others: lack of humour, lack of sense of proportion, inability to process sarcasm and irony, ignorance and ecocholic parroting.

 

Just wanted to toss that in, you can go back to the frothing hysteria now. Make sure you leave plenty of nasty smilies so you can reinforece your personal sense of outraged righteousness that anyone would dare to contradict your narrative in any fashion.

How about making up words from thin air? Like "ecocholic", or "stollen" or "smocking" or "hamberders" or "covfefe". How about calling your wife Melania "Melanie" (I mean I may have to give Incontinent Don a break on that one, I only have to remember one not three).

Every accusation a confession, every post a demonstration. I would start researching ways to slow dementia if I were you guys, seems quite advanced.

9 minutes ago, Ultrathai said:

Biden is sick 😫 with dementia and can't put two sentences together.  Is that the idiot that you are talking about?

So did you watch the State of the Union? That was a powerful speech and it lasted one hour and seven minutes! That sure is a long time to drag out two sentences. 

Here's the link so you can observe within seconds that he's got quite the ability to speechify. https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/

As with the drug testing, every accusation is a confession with you people. You are seriously trying to make a cognitive impairment argument with the guy who bicycles around and gives polished hours-long speeches with detailed policy and nuanced understanding and the guy who wears diapers and falls asleep at his own trial and who STILL keeps referring to Barack Obama when he means his actual political opponent who beat him in the last election and who has been president these last four years. Why do you have to lie and state obvious mistruths? Just because your hero does it and you accept it doesn't mean that you can emulate him and have us slavering over your blatant untruths.

Every accusation is a confession. Ever wonder why Diaper Donnie is the Incontinent Imbecile that he is? A LOT of it has to do with a lifetime of cocaine and adderall use. Addiction is not just a bad thing for one's mind, but it really messes with the body.