John Drake

It's not about me. It's about his own commitment. Stop trying to offload Walz's lies and exaggerations on those of us simply reading his record.

Walz could have hit the beach near Naples.

Tulsi Gabbard stepped down from office in order to deploy in a war zone. Tim Walz did the opposite. Tells me everything I need to know about the integrity of these two people. https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/meet-our-guests/tulsi-gabbard

China controls the Mekong and thus China controls Vietnam. Malaysia has already declared for China. Singapore is leaning that way. Only the Philippines stand as a loyal American ally in ASEAN. All of Indochina, Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia have declared for China.

He'll be too embarrassed to ever leave home again.

Pictures look like the afterwards of an attack of locusts.

This is precisely what happened in Laos starting about 8 or 9 years ago. Chinese just moved in en masse, around 800,000 in a country of 7.5 million people. Ignored any legal or visa requirements. Crossed the border, set up shops, businesses, schools, and that was it for Laos.

Walz is an EEL. Exaggerates, Embellishes, Lies. This issue isn't going away, because it gets to the heart of Walz's character. He is inauthentic, a faker.

There's something else in there that is sort of dodgy. All these stories about Walz as a football coach. When I hear that phrase, "football coach," I automatically think "head coach." Somebody like Tom Landry, Don Shula. I don't think "assistant" head coach, Which is what Walz was, apparently. https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walz-minnesota-coach-mankato-west-1936599

Did Vance receive combat pay? Did Walz? That's how you determine who was in combat. Their pay stubs will tell you.

I didn't make claims. I asked questions.

Easy to settle whether Walz was lying about being deployed to a war zone or not. Did he receive combat pay? Did Vance? If both did, okay. If only one of them did, then somebody is lying.

The timing of Walz's retirement is debatable and conceivably defendable. What cannot be defended are: *He lied about his retired rank *He lied about carrying a rifle in war *For more than two decades he allowed his immediate friends and allies to lie about his service record without correcting them. He should have put out the facts straight from the horse's mouth.

I taught at a German university in the late 1980s. One of my students was an about to be middle aged woman, an English physician who had been in charge of a London hospital. I thought she was extremely nice and intelligent. Followed her husband to Germany and quickly became fluent in the language. Was back in school partly because not only did the Germans refuse to hire her as hospital staff, they wouldn't even let her practice. Both Germany and the UK I suppose are very different places these days. But back then at least the Germans were the biggest sticklers you could find for access to professional positions. The latter in particular may have changed. An old colleague some years ago told German universities were trying to reform the Habilitation, making professorships easier to acquire.

Might want to look around and determine if any small children or other people went missing around this guy.

My wife's old village only has a 7 Eleven that can be used. It will be similar elsewhere. This is going to be a huge money transfer from the Thai treasury to CP.

Is Thailand prepared for a US/EU trade embargo? Wonder what they would do with that $42 billion annual trade surplus with the US going pfffft?

This is pretty much the case. There aren't any more dominoes left to fall in the region. Philippines is the only reliable US ally in ASEAN. So I'd hope the US would redirect all its investments and developmental ties to a country that already speaks English and has existing cultural ties with the US.

All that abstaining on Ukraine and the South China Sea is about to come back and bite them in the butt.

I agree. It's all because of the baked beans.

What? That 3 percent is on top of what has already occurred. Inflation is not down. It's still going up. It was 5.8 percent, then 8 percent, then 3.4 percent. And each of those percentage increases also include the base total of the previous increase.

Snippets, yes. The younger ones don't have the patience to watch even a five minute video. Less than a minute or they're outta there.

I did see a post on Twitter that claimed the UK government was counting on the beginning of soccer season to kill the protests. I don't know. When does soccer begin? Seems to me it's hardly ever stopped.

I do wonder how much influence the cable news networks still have. The average age of their (Fox, MSNBC, CNN) viewers I have seen put up on Twitter/X is 69 or 70. Nobody that old changes their minds. That means the true influence is elsewhere. And their must be an extensive system to support, whether it's Tik Tok, Instagram, X, Telegram, others of that nature. One thing I'm pretty sure of is that most of us on AN aren't seeing much of it. I see a fair amount on X. But even X is a minor player compared to the likes of Tik Tok.

These two political campaigns, Harris and Trump, have no resemblance to the campaigns I experienced over my lifetime. The press not only cheerleads for its favorite candidate. It not only covers up for its favorite candidate. But it now invents stories and pushes outright lies to help its favorite candidate. Everything is orchestrated.