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53 minutes ago, Guderian said:

I went down to Jomtien Beach for an hour on Saturday afternoon and you'd never know there was a tourist crisis. Loads of traffic, including coaches. The deck chair vendors were doing a roaring trade (there seem to be more umbrellas around on the beach now than there were back at the start of the year), it was hard to find anywhere to park, and the beach and sea were full of people. I was in the area between Wat Bun and Chaiyapruek and saw all of three other farangs down there. I'm beginning to feel like a novelty, Thai parents will be pointing at me and telling their kids, "Look, Lek, it's a farang! Once there were many of them here in Pattaya, but they all died of the virus." I don't know what Pattaya Beach was like, but Jomtien Beach was just about normal in terms of numbers of people.

Yesterday I was sitting in the bar corner of soi 7 and beach rd around noon time.  3 customers in the open bar and across street could see the beach chairs with maybe a few chairs taken. Mighty quiet where I was.

14 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Rubbish, he could have murdered a hundred people and its still irrelevant.

 

The only thing relevant is were the police in imminent danger when he was shot.

It's troubling when the entire story isn't given to the public. Only the bits and pieces needed to tell a biased narrative. Why not tell the entire story and let the public decide for themselves.

6 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Its irrelevant to why he was shot.

A story starts at the beginning, unless of course you have an agenda on how the story is to be perceived. So, yes it is relevant.

8 hours ago, stevenl said:

I just don't understand this. The Republicans are showing videos of how bad it will be under Biden. Videos which are happening under Trump (with exception of images taken elsewhere). Should be encouragement to vote Biden.

Except for the fact his VP marched with blm and during the DNC biden was quiet about the violence crippling our cities across America. 

Don't understand the "why" Blake was there is such a secret. The why is what a story should start with.

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

did you heard about the 17 year guy, Trump supporter, had a front row seat at some of Trump's rallies and claiming to be part of a militia.... the wolf tickets are on their way, where you want them to be delivered

You said -

he's the one currently in charge and the militias keep doing/following his instructions to create unrest "only" on democrats run states. He has no agenda and no class to hold a proper dialogue during the campaign, the only thing he knows how to do is to scream and insult anyone not agreeing with him

Now prove Trump is giving instructions for the unrest, more than folks attending a rally.

On 8/27/2020 at 6:41 PM, BritManToo said:

The Klan have always operated under the protection and with the approval of the local police.  This is the way America is, and always has been

 

I doubt the 17 year old has ever owned any property, and any 'protecting my property' claims he makes are clearly bogus, his only reason to be there was his joy of killing unarmed black folk.

What race were the victims?

Rode it hard and put it away wet.

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

What's to attack? No indication Rittenhouse was shot AT by anyone. Yes he was in confrontation with protesters. And yes he was the one who ended up shooting and killing two people and wounding a third. He, from all indications, wasn't injured to any significant extent.

 

Except for an account from a right-wing (Tucker Carlson-founded) Daily Caller writer at the scene, no other indication in the report as to what transpired that led to the original chase/confrontation between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum that preceded the first shooting.

 

Ultimately, if the prosecutors thought he had a legitimate self defense claim, they more than likely would not have announced the whole set of homicide charges they're planning to file.

 

As for your article claiming the court documents "appear to suggest" he acted in self defense, that's the similarly right-wing Daily Wire site's opinion.

 

They have to file charges against the shooter to minimize the violence, regardless of their ultimate objective.

5 hours ago, Mavideol said:

he's the one currently in charge and the militias keep doing/following his instructions to create unrest "only" on democrats run states. He has no agenda and no class to hold a proper dialogue during the campaign, the only thing he knows how to do is to scream and insult anyone not agreeing with him

Please prove your post, the part about the militias creating unrest in dem states. Or perhaps you're selling wolf tickets.

12 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Background on one of the shooting fatalities:

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/us/kenosha-wisconsin-protest-shooting-victims/index.html
 

 

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/27/21404905/anthony-huber-kenosha-protester-jacob-blake

 

 

 

You're not making much of a case. 

4 minutes ago, transam said:

Yes, in the right-hand corner of a post, move your mouse pointer to it and it will appear like magic..????

All these years and never knew, thanks.

Is there such an animal? How to report (snitch) on posters memes and improper posts using offensive language. 

9 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

And IF he did discover a vaccine, do you think that he would share it with everyone else ?

No, he would just give the vaccine to his family and friends and leave us all to die ????

 

5 minutes ago, Sujo said:

There is no logic to trump supporters. Saying how bad it will be under biden when this is all happening under trump.

 

He has the tools available to him but one can only conclude that he wont do anything because he thinks the violence is beneficial to him.

 

Not the move of a president.

Please provide a list of tools at the POTUS's disposal. Please do.

3 minutes ago, Sujo said:

if trump has nothing to do with it why did he promise to stop the violence 4 years ago, its got worse.

 

If its nothing to do with him then he cannot do anything if re elected, and its certainly nothing to do with biden.

 

Btw, there is something he can do about it, he is just too weak to do it, or he wants it.

Do what? Send in Federal Troops and be labeled a dictator. JHChrist, at some point folks have to be honest with themselves. 

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Yes I do know that, but do you know where they are, what condition they are in, what their loads are, are they fully crewed and can up anchor at a moments notice. Are the right loads in the right order.

 

It is very expensive for any country to maintain a standing fleet to sit around and do nothing.

 

The USA does seem to have a lot of ships at its disposal according to this link. They also have a lot of oceans to cover.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy#:~:text=The United States Navy has,Vessel Register and published reports.

Google Military Sealift Command, fully crewed, they don't do nothing, they supply the USNavy 24-7. I just retired 31-12-2019 from this company. 5000 plus crew, plus you have the commercial (union) ships which are also worldwide.

Right now the crews are being pushed to their limits with covid-19, can't go ashore, reliefs every 120 days aren't happening. It's a mess.

1 hour ago, Saint Nick said:

It's not a "boycott"- it's a strike!

Looks the same, but is very different!

Either way, who cares.

1 hour ago, Saint Nick said:

Then what is the relevance of him, reaching into the car?

Did he have a second, bigger knife there?

Also: if he dropped the knife, when he was shot, he posed no threat at all, because -as you may remember - he was shot FROM BEHIND!

Waiting for mor bogus theories!

Please- entertain me!

Reaching for a gun perhaps.

On 8/26/2020 at 5:28 AM, billd766 said:

Unfortunately under Trump's auspices (nounARCHAIC
plural noun: auspices
a divine or prophetic token) he has p1ssed off many of Americas allies around the world so not so many will be willing to side with him.

 

The island of Taiwan, governed by the Republic of China (ROC), lies about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait.Oct 8, 2015.

 

The island of Taiwan, governed by the Republic of China (ROC), lies about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan also administers a number of smaller islands known as the Kinmen archipelago, or Kinmen County. Great Kinmen Island and its neighbor islets are on the other side of the strait, in a harbor just east of the port city of Xiamen, practically surrounded by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—in some places barely more than a mile apart.

 

That gives China a very short logistic chain of about 160 km and the USA a very long one of 

 

Distance from United States to Taiwan is 12,261 kilometers.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between United States and Taiwan is 12,261 km= 7,619 miles.

 

That basically means that every litre of fuel, round of ammunition, food rations etc which takes China a couple of hours to deliver might take the USA weeks to deliver assuming that they they have enough ships and crews to man them.

 

Yes it is possible to resupply by air transport but the cost will be horrendous and will involve in-flight refuelling, a large number of close support and distant air defence fighters ( which will also need refuelling).

 

Where are the nearest US friendly country to China? Japan, S Korea, Australia all of which are a fair distance from Taiwan.

 

I see that some of the keyboard warriors are onto this already.

 

Do you realize the US has a fleet of civilian run US Navy ships constantly standing by with supplies - bullets, food and fuel and that's not to mention the ships anchored in strategic locations loaded with war supplies.