Walker88

Heterosexual males have a different view than yours.....not that there's anything wrong with your preferences.

I recall in his one and only term the guy ranted about immigrants from what he called 's-hole' countries and asked why we couldn't get more immigrants from Norway. Has he no concern for Siamese fighting fish, Neon Tetras and Angel Fish? You know how those Scandinavians like their fermented fish. Oh, the humanity!

That candidate certainly has captured a few 'key' demographics, Incels being one of them, along with QAnons, bitter, fat, old white men, misogynists, and the mailing list for the Nigerian 419 scammers. He also has a few billionaires who think they are entitled to not pay any taxes, but I would bet the house the fellow to whom you responded isn't even a billionaire in Myanmar kyat or pre-1917 Tsarist Bonds.

If that's true, get used to saying President Harris. He entered office with 4.8% UE and a positive GDP. He left office with 6.8% UE and a Recession. Oh, and the "Commander-in-Chief" claimed (actually, lied) that he wasn't responsible for dealing with the Insurrection on 6 January. He sat on his fat arse for 187 minutes when he was asked to send National Guard troops to the Capitol. He oft says the lie that the Speaker is responsible, or the Mayor of DC, when for a Federal Building it is the President. She, OTOH, entered office with a Recession and 6.8% UE, and currently US GDP is outperforming all OECD nations and UE is ~4%. Of course he 'has a plan', or at least 'a concept of a plan', which 'we will release shortly'.....just like his health plan when he had 4 years in office and an (R) House and Senate for the first 2 years. And 'next week' is probably Infrastructure Week.

If I may attempt to put a positive spin on what was quite obviously a train wreck for the (R) opponent..... I believe he did wrap up the old, bitter, angry white male curmudgeon demographic.

How very "Presidential" ! Add to this his calls for "military tribunals" to target people like Barack Obama and Liz Cheney simply because they criticized him, and it's time to toss that clown into the dustbin of history....plus Leavenworth.

Lots of never served losers like their messiah offering criticism of the withdrawal... Okay, experts...how would you have withdrawn from a pointless 20 year war initiated by Bush II and advised AGAINST by the CIA? Do any of you have any idea what removing 20 years worth of equipment entails? How many service people and contractors would have been killed if the withdrawal had taken months or even a year or more? Anybody think the Taliban would sit idly and just watch everyone go home? The former President ordered the release of 5000 Taliban jihadis from prison. Many of them now run the government, and it is quite possible among them were the folks who orchestrated and carried out the airport attack.

The OP noting short times is likely speaking of the part of the industry engaged in by tourists and expats. At top agogos, I have come to know some of the economics. Let's contrast....a woman working a factory job in the Bangkok-Pattaya corridor is likely making around 12,000 baht per month. I have asked 7-11 workers and have been told 350 baht per day, some a bit higher. Service staff in restaurants pull in maybe 12,000 a month. Hotel workers in areas such as Reception might see 15,000-20,000 per month. Upscale shop sales staff maybe 25,000. At major agogos, 100,000 baht a month is common. Multiples of that are also not uncommon. I met a woman at a major agogo who not only told me what she made, but opened her mobile bank app and showed me just the cash inflows to her account, saying she kept other cash for daily expenses. Her one year take---backed up by her phone app---between 4.5 and 5 million baht. I don't think she feels abused nor trafficked nor morally bankrupt by local standards, and certainly not financially bankrupt. I'm going to guess her earnings---which absolutely dwarf her 'normal job' peers---also exceed the earnings of most of her customers. A few of her customers are very high rollers, hence her high income. I would guess for her, short times are succulent. She also told me her backstory. It's typical Isaan, with the exception she did not have a child at 16 via a boy who subsequently did a runner and left her alone with a child for whom she had to care. Sure, she could have tried to get work at the local Big-C in her area of Isaan and lived off the 10,000 baht per month, but that 400,000 she makes in Bangkok is pretty enticing. It built a family home in Isaan and bought her a Rama 9 condo in BKK and a car. She's all of 23 years old. Who am I to give her a score on anyone's morality scale? I didn't grow up as a poor Isaan girl struggling to pay school fees plus eat. She has made a decision to use her body to provide a particular service to customers, and she chose that over stacking bags and boxes of Mami Instant Noodles or M-150 at a Big-C in Isaan. Her body, her life....her choice. She's happy, and her customers are likely happy, too. The OP did not state whether he meant 'shallow' or 'succulent' for the customer or the service provider, but I would say one service provider would vote 'succulent'.

You've stated you've been married many times, plus had many other relationships with women. Pardon me for assuming, but that revelation does not suggest you are particularly skilled at forming long term relationships. It kind of sounds like your entire life has been a series of "short times", so perhaps you can answer the OP's question: shallow or succulent?

I'm seeing the Walter Huston character in the classic movie "Rain", based on the Somerset Maugham story. Joan Crawford thought her performance was poor, and she thinks she benefited from the movie being largely banned for decades, but it's actually a tremendous performance. Good film. Various superstitions keep rearing they're judgemental head in this thread. So far most are from one superstition, so as yet we've not seen anyone claiming that a deity that supposedly created 200 billion galaxies, most with a trillion stars, cares so much about one gender of one species on one planet circling one star in one galaxy that this gender must be covered head to toe in black, save for an eye slit. Phew! To the best I can figure, 'sin' comes up if body parts that have a slew of official and slang names come in contact. Elbows have pretty much one name, but males' appendages have dozens. Females also have a body part or two or three with a dozen names. If I parse comments correctly, never the twain shall meet, unless there is love, and perhaps even an official state sanction of the relationship involved. If contact happens outside of that restricted manner, apparently there is some eternal punishment in that Universe of so many stars and galaxies. Not sure the words I would want to use in the equation would pass censorship, but if I just use the official names' first letter, it might go like this: P + V - Love + $ = Eternal damnation. Some equations from physics and cosmology are literally universal, but that equation seems limited to the one species, one planet, one star, etc., and that among the superstitious, morally sanctimonious, or whose Moms caught them diddling themselves as teens. It always struck me as odd that a guy who supposedly issued admonitions against such body part contact did not also take the time to state unequivocally that humans owning other human beings was wrong. In his famous book, believers are just advised to treat their slaves well, but if they treat a woman well with whom they touch special body parts, eternal damnation follows. One of the more virulent posters on this thread stated he's had 'many girlfriends and a few wives'.....imagine the pain of all those breakups! A guy who does short time with a woman trying to earn a living could hardly cause more pain. The guy sounds like he's 'loved up' more women than the most prolific sekspat. Of course, he's on solid ground, because he only talks with and follows an officially sanctioned imaginary friend, who no doubt condones his various marriages and relationships, even if there have been dozens. Choose an imaginary friends outside of the officially-sanctioned few, and all Hell breaks loose.

Lots of funny ‘morality’ here, mostly an offshoot of Judeo-Christian ideology. Someone asked if a guy cares if he has sex with a woman who doesn’t like him. Well, how about getting a massage from a woman who doesn’t like you? How about getting a dinner order filled by a chef that doesn’t like you? Is it only if particular body parts touch does it become reprehensible and immoral? By whose philosophy? Does one get bonus points at death for never engaging in any form---sex, massage, food, a tailor shop, car dealer, plumber---with someone who doesn’t like you? How are those bonus points cashed in the hereafter? Some guys like a massage. Some like a ‘special massage’. One is okay, but the other is evil? Says who? So a woman sells a service---her body as some say---for money. Maybe she enjoys her work, maybe not. To reduce to the ridiculous, how about the guy who goes to sewers and sucks out all the literal crap people have blown out their backside? He likes his work? He has sold his body for money, and gotten a bad smell for it. A women in P4P might sometimes have a good day at work. I seriously doubt the guy who sucks out sewers for a living ever has a good day at work. I used to live in Japan. I dated many Japanese women, some from my office, some I met through friends. They seemed to have a very different view of sex than the guys lambasting short timers here. The women expected sex at the end of a date. It was considered fun…you know…a physical pleasure. I got used to it. I didn’t complain. I went local, so to speak. I did not feel used, as I could consent or not. Of course, if I asked a woman out, I tended to be attracted to her, so if she expected a nightcap, I was game for it. The other evening I visited an agogo. I watched a number of men purchase the services of women and go out the door together. Some of the men were old and chubby. Others were young, fit and handsome…the kind of guy who has no problem getting dates. Both types just wanted some physical pleasure, or a special massage. But massage is only bad if special body parts are touched? A lovely young woman came and sat with me. I bought her a few drinks. She was a university graduate, quite attractive, obviously intelligent, and quite fit from the gym. No tatts, no kids. She told me she likes sex. She said she sometimes went to clubs like Sugar or Levels, and if a guy hit on her she liked, she often went home with him. She said she realized she could make money doing that in an agogo. Her choice. I don’t impose my morality on her, and she won’t impose hers on me. She isn’t going to kill anybody, nor steal anything, so what harm is done? She says she chooses with whom she goes, so is under no pressure to do anything she doesn’t want. Faux moralists will likely see a problem with her. I see a woman who has chosen her own path, damn what anyone else thinks. In 100 years she, her customers, and all the moralists looking down on her will be dead, so in the overall scheme of things it means nothing….except she enjoys it and gets paid. The negative mindset stems from lugging Western morality to a place nobody asked for it. If someone thinks themselves morally superior because they only touch particular body parts with women they believe love them, good for them. They can knock themselves silly. They can cash their bonus points for their self-perceived good behavior at the checkout window upon death. Treat people with kindness and respect, and there is little wrong in that. A woman offers a service and is willing to provide it in exchange for cash. Moralists have no problem if the service is a massage or cooking a meal or doing a company’s accounting, but woe to those who purchase the service of particular body parts touching. Up to you. Just don’t impose your morality on others, and perhaps others won’t impose theirs on you.

So the guy unilaterally imposes tariffs on imported goods, claiming "China will pay", when in reality those tariffs just get tacked on to what US consumers, not China, pays.....and then when China retaliates by sourcing agricultural products from South American nations, the guy had to dole out tens of billions of dollars to US Farmers in what can only be described as Socialism/Communism. The phrase best describing what the guy did: "Full on Incompetent"

And you would have done what differently, warrior boy? The last guy released 5000 Taliban jihadi prisoners from jail. They both fought for the final takeover as well as the top ones now run the country. How many more soldiers were you willing to lose trying to remove 20 years of weapons and equipment, because the Taliban would have taken pot shots at anyone still in country. The entire Afghanistan War was unnecessary. Bush II committed the US to it, while the agency produced a white paper in 2001 arguing that doing anything other than taking out the al Qaeda training bases and then leaving, would end up EXACTLY as it did. I can't remember who wrote the paper, but I believe it might have been Greg Vogle or Cofer Black. They were spot on. Of course, they knew the region's history and had read books like The Great Game, so they knew Afghanistan was a sink hole and money pit. So Mr Warrior and Global Strategist, how would you have handled the withdrawal?

The Harris campaign knows what the best testimonial is for her candidacy: Her opponent. Knowing he has a tendency---nay, an obsession---with putting his foot in his mouth, the Harris campaign actually posted on social media the time and place of his upcoming "news conference' he held in NJ. They knew he would say something idiotic and hurtful, and do himself more harm, so they wanted to make sure everybody knew when he was going to do it. And on cue, he did. He put the Presidential Medal of Freedom above the Congressional Medal of Honor, as if recipients of the former (Limbaugh, Jim Jordan, Ms. Adelson) are greater than those who sacrificed for fellow soldiers and for their country. Lest we forget 'succkers and losers", or when---after seeing the Bastille Day parade in Paris, he wanted one in DC, albeit without anyone with missing limbs or visible severe injuries received in battle, because "that wouldn't look good for me"---there he goes again disparaging those who are true patriots.

When one's opponent keeps shooting himself in the foot, while the foot is in his mouth, and his head is up his own behind, no need to do anything but watch the poll numbers rise in your favor and against his. The guy just elevated the award given to the wife of a cruise ship owner above the Congressional Medal of Honor, saying her Presidential Medal of Freedom is the equivalent for civilians of the MoH, and 'actually, it's much better', because "they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead". You know, "suckers and losers", not rich cruise ship owners and donors to his campaign. That guy thinks he should be Commander in Chief? Better he's the Capt of the Loveboat, or maybe the Minnow and be stranded with Gilligan.

The guy keeps shooting himself in the foot. His M-a-L presser was a dumpster fire, his glitch-filled X "interview" had him slurring worse than a guy 40 beers into his night, and he has no message except nicknames and complaints. I wouldn't be surprised if his campaign staff is hoping Judge Merchan sentences him to time for the 34 felony convictions, as that will button up the guy's month at least until after the election. As it is now, he loses votes every time he speaks. The polls are shifting faster than a F-1 driver.

The latest polls show Harris with a 4 point lead over the felon in each of the key swing States of WI, MI and PA. If he loses those, he does not carry the EC. Also worrying is that in massive Dade County, FL, the felon is 15 points behind Harris. Suddenly FL is a swing State. It could well be a Harris landslide come November.

Harris' team has a really effective strategy. They call out the felon's lies every time he spews one, which is to say every time he opens his mouth. They post facts, and he looks more and more weird and silly. His presser at M-a-L was an absolute dumpster fire. He sounded like an idiot, and looked insane. The felon only knows how to appeal to his cult, but they aren't enough to get him the EC. In just the last week, there was a massive change in the polls in WI, MI and PA, with Harris jumping out to a 4 point lead in each of those key States. Yes, it's still early, but the more Harris' campaign keeps hammering the felon on his lies and weirdness, the more bizarre and desperate he is going to become. More people at his Insurrection Rally than MLK's "I have a Dream Speech"? D E L U S I O N A L By October he'll be in a straight jacket, drooling. disgracing his Depends, and being carted off to the Funny Farm. This is getting really entertaining.

We were born because someone was horny. We dress it up and pretend there is some great cosmic significance, some even thinking a deity who 'created' 200 billion galaxies, most with a trillion stars, would take time out from its busy day to install a 'soul' in the microscopic zygote in one place on one planet in one solar system in one galaxy, that resulted from nothing more than somebody or two somebodies being horny, and the man firing his gun at just the right time of his partner's month. The sole purpose of life is more life. Being horny evolved as an instinct toward that end of 'more life'. It has worked maybe 125 billion times since homo sapiens emerged, and accounts for 8 billion plus of us now. Pretending there's more to it allows us to feel special. Plus, since we have the ability to enjoy what the senses provide, we can have a good time and be thankful for horni-ness. In fact, we can feel that (horny) ourselves and do our part to add 'more life'. Call your favorite deity! Let the celestial factory churn out another soul. A fertilized egg, trying to attach itself to a uterine wall, awaits.

Go long popcorn shares. This is going to be epic. The felon will lie and bluster, engage in silly hyperbole, call Harris names, probably try to stalk up behind her if she leaves the podium to speak. She will cut him down, laugh at him, maybe even give him the cackle his cult thinks is a negative, and his junk will shrink smaller than even Stormy said it was. The felon only has his base of maybe 40% secure. The rest is in play. Picking the weirdo JD for his VP hurt him, his silly attacks against "Kamabla" hurt him, his NABJ performance hurt him with both women and minorities, his Hannibal Lecter and 'sharks circling sinking electric boats' make rational people see he is deranged, and after Harris emasculates him in the debate, his poll numbers will sink even farther. I really wonder if he will debate, or if he'll suddenly have a flare up of bone spurs, or his handlers will know how poorly he will do and advise against facing Harris in person.

Do you mean like "Shifty"? "Crooked"? "Low IQ"? Kamabla? A million other nicknames meant to disparage anyone who doesn't sniff the felon's flatulence? The felon single-handedly lowered the level of political discourse to below festering sewer level.

Weirder and weirder......the felon is batsh!t crazy. Here are his Truth Social posts from 6 August. If Harris' surge in two weeks has made the felon this apoplectic, imagine how badly he'll be drooling come October. He may not lose his low IQ, QAnon-believing cult, but rational swing voters are going to look at this drivel and see a bloated, insane, dementia-afflicted 3 year old in a rapidly declining 78 year old bundle of blubber and say, "No thanks"

This pick seems to worry the Felonistas. Sparktrader has his usual projectile vomiting of posts. Harris has adopted a solid strategy of being upbeat and positive about the future, while the felon not only has no policies (except deport anyone who doesn't adore him, and jail those he cannot deport) but always paints the darkest picture possible. People are tired of anger and bitterness, so the felon's appeal will fade and fade. Also, the self-proclaimed Alpha Male is afraid to get on a stage with Harris, knowing full well she will rip him a new one. He says he'd debate her on Fox, but unless the mods will be Hannity and someone else who lives deep up the felon's bloated backside, he will come up with some lame excuse why he doesn't have to debate her. Maybe it'll be bone spurs. Harris would call out his lies, and all he'd have left is racism, which is something that only appeals to his sycophantic goobers. Harris is going to continue to climb in the polls, and the felon will get weirder and weirder, as the prospect of not only losing, but facing trial and incarceration for the rest of his miserable life loom larger and larger. The felon has peaked. He's only circling the toilet bowl now as history flushes him away. It's going to be entertaining to see just how weird and desperate the felon gets as November approaches. Also, Judge Chutkan is preparing to start criminal proceedings, which will upset the felon even more.

Not sure I've seen a worse political move---the felon's gaffe at the Black Journalist confab---since Mike Dukakis tried to play Rambo in 1988. The convicted felon doesn't seem to realize he has to expand his appeal, not fine-tune it by courting his already captured brain-addled goobers. Victory comes at the margin, and Senor Felonista just alienated a sizable chunk of Independents, swing voters, women and minorities with his racism and misogyny. As weird as the felon (watch out for sharks if you're piloting an electric boat, especially anywhere near those cancer-causing windmills) and his soon-to-be 'Never met the guy; maybe he was a coffee boy' JD have been, it will only get worse. As Harris climbs in the polls and rakes in the campaign cash from true patriots, the prospect of dying in jail looms ever larger than the felon's own blubberbutt. Delay delay delay has an expiration date of 20 January 2025, when DC will experience a massively-attended Inauguration of the first woman President. The Godot Trials will actually arrive, the felon will lengthen his already-long rapsheet, and a couple of unlucky Secret Service agents will be tasked with trying to smuggle KFC buckets into Leavenworth. The very prospect of that coming harsh reality will elicit even weirder things from Sr Felonista. In fact, we might see him trying to swim the Rio Grande to start his own miscreant caravan of civilly convicted rapists, albeit moving away from the US Border toward non-extradition status in Venezuela, where he will try to find dead Hugo Chavez and have him write code for those Italian satellites that can alter Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines. Again I raise the words of Hunter S Thompson: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"