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4 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

 

Source for the image? 😀

8 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Link, please, to Obama and Clinton personally engaging in a coverup of campaign finance violations.

Of course, he has no evidence they were personally engaged in a cover-up of campaign finance violations. That's why he has to resort to false equivalencies. 😅

30 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

You mean the Trump Administration vaccine that Biden said he would never take, but then took before he was inaugurated, and then later said never existed before he took office, that one? 

 

The same one that (allegedly)  delayed their announcement to benefit Biden in the election? 

And, of course, you can show a quote and a source about Biden stating he would never take the vaccine! 😁

5 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Are you taking the michael? If they did it hasn't been exposed. That doesn't mean they didn't do it, just better at hiding it than Trump.

So, asking for a link is just trolling, IMO.

Talking about trolling, that's rich! 😅

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How would you know if they did? Is your magic crystal ball telling you that?

 

In fact you don't actually know if they covered up illegal campaign contributions that haven't been exposed. I'm sure that as both are career politicians their careers have been full of crimes that were just not discovered.

 

I don't know if they did or not, and I'm not saying that I do, unlike you.

In other words, you have nothing as well! 😃

Gag! 😊

“I think [FBI officials] need to look at the root causes and find out if some of this was funded by, I don’t know, George Soros or overseas entities,”

Democrats knock Johnson for suggesting George Soros behind campus protests

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25 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

And of course, you're too busy to explain how it's a false equivalence again.... 😁

Not Obama or Clinton. Their campaign and DNC.

If you want to compare how Republican campaigns or the RNC have been unfairly fined, compared to the Dem campaigns and the DNC, feel free to do it! 😀

From looking at the posts and their authors in this thread, it seems It's quite a good choice of recipients. 😁

2 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Yeah, Hillary and Obama both got nabbed for campaign finance violations. Hillary for hiring a foreign national to influence the election, and then hiding the payments. She got a slap on the wrist. 

 

Obama for failure to report large foreign donations. The donations were to influence the election, and Obama did not report them, because to do so would have negatively influences the election. He got a slap on the wrist. 

 

What I think is hilarious, is that had Trump classified the payment as a campaign expense, that would be a campaign finance violation, and he would still be in court.

 

 

The same lame false equivalence again.... 😁

10 hours ago, dinsdale said:

This from what everyone knows to be a completely corrupt arm of the junta that has kept any opposition to the status quo of the military elite in power as will this joke of a psuedo election of a partly new Senate.

While I agree with you about the EC, it just applies the Junta's constitution. The way the consitution was written, the EC doesn't even need to be biased or corrupt. The constitution has been written in order to obtain the desired result.

Of course, they will dissolve it, but the real question is when? It's no use dissolving it now, as it can be reborn under another name. My guess is that it will be right before, or right after, the next election.

19 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

The army and elite will never accept a Government of the common people....In a next election and they have the majority ,,, the army will stage a coup again.. just to keep in power...Sadly situation for Thailand as there is more needed to stop these coups

The army can't make coups any more. The troops in Bangkok are now directly under royal command. If it happens, it won't be a decision by the army.

Note that I am not claiming that the 2014 coup was decided by the army, but officially, it was the army's decision. It cannot even be "officially" the case now.

53 minutes ago, johng said:

It was much more  "mostly peaceful" than the 

BLM summer of love riots.

But but.... false equivalence! 😃

7 hours ago, Walker88 said:

While I'm not a psychiatrist, I suspect Tucker is batsh!t crazy. He is on many YouTube videos discussing UFOs, claiming they are not "alien", but rather "demonic", and have always been here, apparently living in the ocean somewhere. He claims authorities have made a deal with these demons. He uses Biblical stories to back up his claims.

Nah... It's just targeted marketing. He gives his core target market what it wants.

27 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

BS. They didn't "cause" any deaths. The only person died of violence was an unarmed protester shot by a cop. Some deaths of natural causes if I remember correctly.

It was a peaceful protest! 😃

32 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

The point that I took away from the muslim scholar's interview is, not that all three religions can birth extremists or terrorists, it is that which I copied and pasted, i.e. "Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam."  Which happens a lot here in the U.S. of A. from one of it's major political parties!:
"

Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. There is a clear relationship between fundamentalism, terrorism, and the basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy. So long as we lack consensus regarding this matter, we cannot gain victory over fundamentalist violence within Islam.

Radical Islamic movements are nothing new. They’ve appeared again and again throughout our own history in Indonesia. The West must stop ascribing any and all discussion of these issues to “Islamophobia.” Or do people want to accuse me — an Islamic scholar — of being an Islamophobe too?""

It should be contextualized by the fact that Islam is not homogenous and that there are streams which are more extreme and more dangerous than others. That's particularly the case of the Salafi version of Islam, which has .brainwashed most Islamic terrorists. This is well observable in Africa. The African versions of Islam have traditionbaly been rather moderate. The recent rise of terrorism in Africa is rather well correlated with the expansion of Salafism, financed by S.A. Personnaly, I'm for banning Salafi mosques.

49 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I do actually but you haven't even read about the case so talking to you is a waste of time.

If it makes you feel any better I predict the jury will hang. 

Of course he knows it. It's just one of his favourite trolling tactics.

8 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the current employment level is about 3 million jobs higher than it was in January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

By contrast, the economy added 6.33 million jobs in Trump’s first three years in office, more than double Biden’s figure.

More importantly, there is a stark difference in the quality of the jobs added under both presidents.

Compared to pre-COVID-19 levels, a little over 2 million full-time jobs have been added under Biden, along with more than 1.18 million part-time jobs.

As I already noted, in Trump’s first three years, total employment rose by 6.33 million, but unlike with Biden, nearly all of those jobs were full-time positions. Part-time employment increased by just 17,000 jobs from January 2017 to January 2020, less than 1% of the total number of added jobs.

Who said It's easy and instantaneous to recover all jobs after an economic crisis?

It always takes time in any country for any major economic crisis.

11 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

yes... very peaceful... Guns confiscated from anti-Israel protesters at UT Austin, University of South Florida

How many protesters have been found with guns? One? 😃

38 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

Tourists who find 300 Baht a hindrance aren't worth having anyway. 

The problem is not the amount itself, but the way to collect it, I.e. if it means more time time lost at the airport.

And what would be the interest of the tourism industry in it?