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It goes back to Dr. Samuel Johnson's aphorism: " Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

Your belief in the righteousness of Trump is touching. It has me wondering why, after saying only mobsters take the Fifth, he would exercise that right himself. And why that would remain unquestioned by you. Opinions differ. Garland wedged the Republicans and Trump beautifully, the warrant and what was found with the warrant is out there for the world to see. Top Secret documents in the possession of a private citizen. Spare me the argument Trump won, that's been tossed out by every judiciary in America. I am looking forward to the truth coming out too. Perhaps you won't be able to handle it.

I would suggest the OP has a setting on his computer which is timing out after ten minutes. I stay logged into ASEAN even when I am switched off, because I am back in as soon as I boot up again, without a password in sight. As for disinformation, my only source is the more deranged posters on ASEAN. I refuse to be on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok because I don't see the point of it, apart from allowing the site owners to harvest my personal information for free.

Retirees only register with Thais at the local level, the vast majority of Thais don't even know we exist. The money we spend may help one family, not more.

It's an individual decision. I have had Sinovac and Astra Zeneca, COVID after that. Then Pfizer as a booster. I intend to get a Moderna next year, or a more up to date vaccine as they become available. Flu mutates from year to year, COVID is the same. I don't always subscribe to the notion more is better.

I fulfill my obligations as a tenant. I pay on time, and look after a landlord's place as if it were my own. I have had landlords express regret when I moved out. As to the OP's question, no. Any landlord wanting worship would not get me for a tenant.

We were in the middle of a pandemic, health systems worldwide were pushed past breaking point, vaccinations and masks were the only lights at the end of the tunnel. Only natural medicos, politicians and the majority of the population should regard anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers as selfish idiots.

I have no involvement in medicine, although it has always interested me. I am a retired research scientist.

Vaccines work, climate change is real, gravity is not just a theory. No vaccine has a perfect safety record. Having said that, the vanishingly small number of deaths that MIGHT have been partly caused by vaccination, and trumpeted in social media as if Armageddon has arrived, pale into insignificance against the millions who have been protected from death or serious incapacitation. One doesn't get to choose with science. People that accept the good bits, such as smartphones and travel in aircraft, are irrational when they reject what they think are the bad bits, such as vaccination and climate change.

I feel sorry for people who have no scientific training who get most of their information from internet websites. They have almost zero capacity to understand topics such as probability, statistics and experimental design. Their principal focus is on outliers, such as 19 nuns who allegedly died after Astra-Zeneca vaccination, and they pride themselves on being educated in the school of hard knocks. Those hard knocks are fertile ground for developing conspiracy theorists. It does not occur to them the hard knocks result from poor decisions. As only 1% of the world's population has tertiary qualifications in science and medicine, there's quite a few people to be sorry for.

Who is "they"? Having had possibly the most deadly form of COVID, delta, with little effect after vaccinations, I figure my immune system has enough antibodies to last that long.

This thread is a rich source of wild guesses.

Trump must have been so disappointed when the Supreme Court, stacked with his nominees, refused to touch the 2020 election lawsuits with the proverbial barge pole.

Er - your first sentence makes no sense. They are claiming a conviction rate of 95%, that means they either won, or the accused plea bargained to get a lower sentence. The relevance of cases they declined to prosecute escapes me. When Trump was in power, was the DOJ and FBI witch-hunting for him? You betcha. IIRC, Trump came to Washington promising to drain the swamp. As far as I can make out, he got rid of the alligators, and restocked the swamp with crocodiles. Putting an oil industry executive in charge of the Environment portfolio, how corrupt and incompetent is that?

They have acknowledged that was a mistake, and what they should have said was vaccination will keep you out of an ICU, and also minimize the chances of long COVID. All the data coming in from every country in the world confirms that. Personally, I had COVID after two jabs. 3 days of runny nose and sore throat, back in my normal exercise routine after 5 days. My unvaccinated GF had COVID for 10-12 days, with extra symptoms of loss of taste and smell, and headaches. A friend of mine in Chiang Rai, unvaccinated, had fatigue for several months after infection, typical of long COVID. The science and data is saying COVID vaccination works. As it has with a slew of other diseases. If people who choose not to be vaccinated want to play dice with COVID, their choice, but don't come asking me for crowdfunding as you are heading into an ICU, or a prolonged rehabilitation program. I had my Pfizer booster in February. My strategy is to treat COVID vaccination as an annual event, just like flu, and continue with diet and exercise to keep my immune system strong.

Federal prosecutors claim a conviction rate of 95%. They may be slow, but I'd call that quite efficient.

When Trump says save America, he really means save me. He can hear those prison doors starting to clang shut.

Because executing a search warrant is the last resort, when you are negotiating with a former President who lies and obfuscates when asked to return official documents. He's been doing that for 18 months. IMO the search warrant was only issued after the FBI produced iron-clad evidence Trump still had documents, Garland is a cautious person and would not have signed off on anything less.

I am wondering how many posters there will be on this thread whose awareness only encompasses the missionary position.

He needs money from anywhere he can get it, which is why he is sending out millions of begging emails. Can you imagine what his legal bills are? So you believe in Trump, but not enough to send him money. Doesn't that make you a RINO? I agree, Schiller said against stupidity the gods themselves strive in vain.

Have you donated to Trump's campaign fund yet? Strange, I have yet to find a Trump believer on any thread who is willing to answer this question.

As Garland has gone on national television to say he did, I'd say this is just another salvo in the disinformation peddled by Trump allies. Note Trump himself is saying nothing about Garland, when his usual strategy is to hurl abuse at anyone who he regards as acting against him. One thing I am confident of, Trump is NOT loving this. He is fighting legal actions all over America, any one of which could land him in jail. The only thing he is loving is the donations that are rolling in from meatheads, which are being used to pay the legal teams defending him. None of those lawyers are accepting Trump's promises of paying later. All are demanding their money up front. Many have walked away already. IMO the FBI raid could be the straw that breaks the camel's back, because if he has taken top secret documents, that is jail time big time. A defense of declassifying won't cut it, because other people have to sign off as well..

I got it right the first time, no idea what I did. OTOH, the Mor Prom app refuses to acknowledge my existence.

I'd say the probability is quite high every FBI agent that entered the property was wearing a body camera. Just in case a plate of pizza was thrown at them.

My guess was wrong, fair enough. As Trump has a copy of the warrant himself, I suppose sensible people might ask why he does not release it himself, as he made the raid public. Running up the white flag, or doubling down? My bet is on the latter, Trump hates losing.