John Drake

From the people who know Walz best, his fellow Minnesotans.

People called up from the Guard who were in their mid 50s went to Iraq and Afghanistan. There was a shortage of troops. This became one of the scandals of the Bush era deployments. Guard units began to be mobilized in 2005. Everybody knew what was coming, even before that.

PTP will bag a fair amount of them.

Thaksin has already demonstrated that he has a political apparatus in place that can run rings around his opponents. He is without doubt the most masterful political strategist in Thailand. Unfortunately.

The person with the most to gain from this court decision is Thaksin and his PTP.

A perfect illustration of what I have mentioned above. You're someone so filled with rage, you had to rush out an incoherent reply to me. The anger on the Democrat side, frankly, is worse than the upset on the Republican one. The Republicans at least reply decently, without the venom and hostility of Harris-Walz supporters. You, however, like many of your fellow hardliners cannot tolerate the existence of someone who disagrees with you. You're very frightening people who I suspect wish violence on their opponents.

Who?

A US senator just the other day threatened Thailand over this issue. A dumb move, as it probably only reinforced the court's determination to display their independence from foreign influence.

MFP failed because they didn't know what they were, a political party or a radical movement. They ran their campaign as the latter but once in office they went on a purge to purify their own membership, instead of advancing (through advocacy and public awareness) their issues. They've barely maintained a presence since then. In fact, the only thing that gave them any sense of being in the news was this court case. Without it they would have disappeared. They built no new coalitions or allies. They made no appeals to the public. They were amateur hour at its worst.

The country does not need more rage filled politicians. Need people with an even, cool demeanor who don't get flustered and take out their anger on the citizenry.

Yes, this should be in the Thai news section, not hidden away here where I only accidentally saw it.

Walz is incredibly off putting for me. He looks <removed> And I don't like shouters who take extreme positions. That's why I don't like Trump either.

He is the most fundamentally honest of all the candidates out there. He said from the very beginning that there was a lot of baggage in his background. He didn't shy away from it or try to hide it. Just an honest man, who has several positions I disagree with, yet too many others I support him on. In addition, he is not some raging, nasty person like Trump and Walz.

You're just another cult member. From the other side. Just can't stand the fact that somebody disagrees with you. So you attack and resort to childish name calling. You have a basic intolerance for disagreement that is inherent in the very nature of democracy. You are a totalitarian.

Wavered a bit for a couple of weeks. But I'm now fully back on board with RFKjr. There is no alternative. Trump is insane. Harris is low IQ. Walz welcomed the burning of his own state's cities.

So you think the impact is relatively few people being displaced? I don't know. I am just asking a question. I sincerely would like to get an idea of what impact this has on people. I've used ChatGPT and, yes, for what I need it's near useless. Gemini was another issue. It actually worked quite well--aside from the DEI image fiasco they experienced. But Gemini has been getting worse. Both Gemini and Chat GPT suffered from an inability to "learn." I could correct their mistakes--and they would admit to it--but the next session they were back to the same starting point. That and the fact they write off sites they can't access without paying. That was a lack in my view, because sites such as JSTOR supply public access to abstracts and no need of payment. But I would need to provide a link to each separate abstract for the AI to add to a particular session's discussion. Then, next session another tabula rasa.

"If you seek his monument, look around."

The international response to this story likely has embarrassed this man so much that he'll be in hiding for months hoping it disappears.

How many will soon lose all their work to AI?

I doubt that the vast majority of them even know about the tax law changes.

They steal them in order to acquire benefits and work.

Oddly enough, it would have helped some people who didn't get to login today. I hold many oil and gas stocks. They rebounded somewhat after the initial selloff. I hold most of them, because they also pay good dividends. Might have bought more today had I been able to login. So I'll just wait now and how much more there is to come and buy some time this week or next.

Just a note: I too had a TD Ameritrade account. And Datek before Ameritrade bought that company. Now, I'm stuck with Schwab. For the second time on a big market crash, Schwab was down and you could not login tonight. I just got into my account, after continuing to try over and over again for 50 minutes. Phones were down too. I hate Schwab and I wish I had TD Ameritrade back. I NEVER had a problem with them or Datek.

Police are the politicized enforcement arm of radical ideologies. No policeman is your friend. He's only loyal to his paycheck and pension. In the US, the only still (barely) reliable law enforcement official is your county sheriff, who is directly responsible to the people for his actions.

So this response is only against one side. Now, I know what all these posts mean that talk about Two Tier policing. Starmer is guarding mosques, which apparently now operate like military barracks with an arsenal. This is an occupying force, protected by a colonial governor masquerading as a prime minister, who is enforcing alien ideologies on the natives through the use of force and terror.