Walker88

The President swears an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The President has some leeway in determining what constitutes a threat. For example, it is the President who authorizes drone strikes against suspected terrorists in the tribal regions of Pakistan. The convicted felon, per the 'reasonable man' standard, engaged in Sedition against the US. The felon represents a much greater threat to the homeland than some jihadi in Quetta. The conservative Supreme Court justices have effectively obviated the Founders by making a President somewhere between a monarch and a pontiff. They are also a threat to the intent of the Founders and to US ideals. Biden might as well use the ruling and have the felon and the conservative justices executed. He would be defending the Constitution and the nation as the Founders intended. Immune.

Because he tells you.

It's Versace, and they are nothing special. If you want to play the bon vivant, learn the names of real quality things. Brioni, Stefano Ricci, not big chain store, wildly marked up stuff like Versace, who goes after the nouveau riche and posseurs.. You end up coming across more of a troll than you are.

Bob, I wouldn't wear the Rolex. Roleks, maybe, but not Rolex. Even the ladies in 7-11 know what they are. Three of them could gang up and beat the tar out of you. If you want understated elegance at around the same price point, wear the Audemars Piguet. Or opt for the Piaget or Richard Mille. Not as pedestrian as a Rolex, so you'll feel better about your wealth, and no one will be the wiser. Quiet luxury is the way old money goes about life. No logos, nothing too ostentatious. You know how much you've got; no need for anyone else to know.

I've resided in numerous countries. Thailand does draw more than its fair share of miscreants, as does a place like the Philippines, but they are still in the minority. Miscreants, however, tend to be more visible. I would attribute much of it to two things: the easy availability of female company, and a very flexible enforcement of laws. For the former, hormones drive lots of guys to believe a 20 year old Isaan farm girl is attracted to a grossly overweight, fairly unsuccessful older geezer of quite modest financial means. Those guys come to 'live the dream'. They think women get weak in the knees over them, and many add a tatt or ten, thinking that increases their babe magnet-ness. If slighted by a street smart young lass, they get bitter and come to dislike all things Thai. For the latter, Thailand draws the lo-so petty criminals, whereas the more upscale criminal types head to Monaco or Dubai or the Caymens or Bora Bora or Geneva. The vast majority of expats taking up residence, retired or working, cause no trouble.

In a world where technology is becoming more critical to national success, it's a huge mistake to disparage science by attributing any power to some superstition. Of course Oklahoma is unlikely to produce any important brains or advances, so maybe let them have their fantasies. The argument that the Bible or any fantasy text creates morality is silly. Civilization creates morality, as non-psychopathic people inherently understand what behaviors lead to success and survival. Superstitions are only left with creating silly rules, like not eating pork, dressing females like giant eggplants, praising and thanking some very needy skydaddy, etc. There won't be any more nor less murder and stealing if people absolutely accepted there are no deities, no souls or spirits, no afterlife. I don't try to behave because I fear some eternal punishment or reward, but rather because it's simply the right thing to do. Do unto others....is not Biblical; it's common sense.

Yes, I would say I abstain from casual sex out of fear of catching an STD, but I prefer to think I abstain because of my deep sense of moral rectitude. That being said (facetiously), people should know that STDs are not limited to the major ones (HIV, Hep-C, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia) but also all sorts of mycoplasma bacteria. These can be passed even from oral sex...you on her, she on you. Some women get their lady bits checked, few get a mouth swab, so if shakuhatchi (a kind of Japanese flute) is your thing, and if she does it regularly, you can get things. Some of the mycoplasma, as well as gonorrhea, is drug resistant. Some mycoplasma might require powerful antibiotics like moxifloxicin, which can have nasty and unusual side effects, such as tendon damage. At the very least, all antibiotics are bad for your gut microbiome, so best avoided. Avoid STDs and that limits the odds of one needing antibiotics. Best to be "moral", which is to say carry a decent bit of fear. If a casual acquaintance 'does it' with you, you're unlikely to be her first.

I think the Dems might have just won the White House. They will have an open convention now, and whomever they pick will be young and vibrant and a believer in democracy. Their candidate (e.g., Newsome or Michelle Obama) will face off against a convicted felon. The Dem age will no longer be a factor. Also, the R war machine won't have as much time to come up with negative memes, while everybody already has all the ammunition they needs against the felon. It's quite possible the Repubs now will also hold an open convention, and neither current candidate will be on the ballot. Repubs would have go with a moderate, so when there are two new candidates on the ballot, it will be a win-win for the US. Bye Biden, bye felon.

I recognize the writing style, but can't quite figure who you are/were. Here's some advice if your attempt at boasting isn't tongue-in-cheek: $900 for a suit is rather pedestrian. A discerning eye, as most 18-20 year old Isaan maidens have, will not be impressed. A nice Brioni will set you back $5500, but you'll look the part. Match it with a Stefano Ricci shirt ($750) and tie ($200), and you'll scream ATM catch. 18-20 year olds looking for a 'deep and meaningful' relationship with an aging foreigner will be all over themselves. If that doesn't put you over the top, I have found that keeping a Gulfstream at Don Mueang FBO is the kicker. That also makes you a 'quality tourist', even if you're a habitue of agogos and ST Hotels.

Let's see....."10% tariffs and elimination of Income Tax" Okay, then just add a straight up $4,000,000,000,000 to the National Debt each year, plus the vig on that plus existing debt, and in 4 years (provided the felon doesn't declare himself Your Favorite President for Life), the bloated one will have rung up at least an additional $20,000,000,000,000 in his term. Alternatively, if he wanted to have tariffs make up 100% of existing tax revenues, the rate (based on import totals) would have to be tariffs of about 130%. Imports are everywhere, but in some places (e.g., Walmart), imports are just about all there is. Who shops at Walmart? MAGAs mostly, so their Favorite President" will be killing them in the pocketbook or manbag. They won't even be able to afford the Chinese dog food or baby formula loaded with melamine. Those who might dispute this can go to government websites, collect all the import data and parse it against income tax revenues. Set up an equation and adjust the tariff rate until income tax goes to zero. Enjoy Felonomics!

Nothing screams 'man made god' louder than the Judeo 10 Commandments. Apparently the creator (sic) of 200 billion galaxies each with up to a trillion stars, is really insecure if he insisted the first 3 Commandments be all about it. On an obscure planet around a nothing star in one of those 200 billion galaxies, this omnipotent being insists on no competitors, no graven images, and set aside a day just to tell it how great it is. Sounds very human, and not the good kind of human. And who needed to be told that killing and stealing are wrong? Maybe MAGA types, but absent the psychopathic demographic, people know it's a no-no to kill. Oddly, no mention of slavery. In fact neither the Bible nor the great Hay Zeus himself, who had 33 years to say something about it, never said owning other humans is wrong. No, there's no morality in the Bible, and nothing anyone wouldn't innately know in the Commandments that discuss actual moral subjects, rather than the "hey, look at me!" first three. Totally unnecessary drivel. As has been noted, the Constitution mentions deities exactly zero times. The fact a good many of the Founders were not believers, plus they knew the dangers of forced faith, explains why they left out the superstition. I wonder if at some future date when US demographics could conceivably shift toward majority Moslem, will we have Shari'a enforced upon us and daily sura readings in schools?

Civilization itself provides ethics and moral direction. Otherwise, nobody would choose to live around others. Moses did not come down from the mountain, gather folks around, and say: "Bad news, folks. We can't murder or steal or fool around with others except our spouse."

Looks like some of the felon's "best people" are something less than superlative. The felon's "Spiritual Adviser", a megachurch grifter pastor named Robert Morris, just had to step down because it was revealed he dallied 'inappropriately' with a 12 year old girl. The statutory rape occurred several years ago, and 'Rev' Morris swears she was the only child he assaulted. One and done? There's a pattern here in the felon's life: Jeffrey Epstein, campaign adviser George Nader (kiddie porn conviction), business partner Arif Tevfik (trafficking of children), and now Morris. Either the felon approves of such behavior, or he's a really poor judge of character. Neither is good. Morris is the fellow on the left:

Is that 'advanced degree from an accredited university' you have in Virology or Epidemiology? Just curious about your particular area of expertise, since apparently you know better than Dr. Fauci.

What this debate will do is showcase the cognitive decline of the felon as well as show how absolutely weird he has become as his brain fizzles and deteriorates and turns to mush. Right wing media has spent lots of time splicing together every gaffe or stutter of Biden, creating a false impression of his cognitive state. One could do the same to Taylor Swift and make her look as if she has dementia. It's editing vs reality. If one watches the speech Biden delivered in Normandy on 6 June, two things are apparent. He has great focus and can still deliver, whether those are his words or the words of a speechwriter. Also, Biden's entire speech was about honoring the sacrifice of those who fought and praising/thanking them for what they did. The felon is totally incapable of giving credit to others nor honoring the great sacrifice others have made. For the felon, all glory, honor and credit goes to him for everything. Even his spawn suffer from the same, as the second son posted on Memorial Day last month of the "great sacrifice" (sic) his Never Served family has made for the US. If not for those bone spurs, eh? While editing to disparage Biden, right wing media also selectively edits to hide all of the felon's gaffes. They ignored the 'sinking electric boat and shark' idiocy, as well as not reminding us how great the felon thinks Hannibal Lecter was. There will be no hiding in the debate, no real time editing. Sharks and Hannibal Lecter will be there for all the world to see....live. There will also be instant fact checking, so the usual lies and hyperbole spewing from the felon's frothing maw will be laid bare instantly for the absurdity that they are. Neither man is what they once were, but the felon has been able to hide, because his base only watches a highly edited version of his declining grasp of reality. The felon is going to look bad. In fact, his team is likely well aware of how bad he is going to look, so it will come as no surprise if the felon cancels out between now and debate day. Maybe the felon will say his son is graduating from school again and he has to attend, or perhaps cite the gag order of Judge Merchan and say if he can't say what he wants, he won't play.

There's a secret to being over six feet: Choose your parents well. Yes, a bit facetious, as I'm responding to the silly trolling OP post where the OP is pretending he is doing "libs" a favor by sharing his great knowledge of what Thai women want, as if he knows. I suspect he is short, chubby, zero definition and barely scrapping by....and a failure at building a relationship with women he hasn't purchased by the hour. The typical 'rightist' is like their current messiah: a butterball whining crybaby who tries to pretend he's an Alpha Male, when he's actually better defined by the word the orange-face butterball used for where he likes to grab women. The righties I see in Thailand tend toward obesity and drunkenness, and hang out primarily with those like themselves, holding court and spouting fantasies of how 'manly' they are. Maybe they've got some Mauri Warrior tatts, which are how righties express midlife crisis, because they cannot afford a Porsche. Fresh tatts on flabby, wrinkled skin are not babe magnets. Somebody should tell them before the ink dries. I do think my post which you quoted does have some, perhaps inconvenient, truth in it. Confidence and wealth are subtle, but obvious. Women---Thai women and others---are drawn toward men who are confident, friendly, tend to be taller, don't carry the proverbial expat beer gut, don't need to blurt out their social or political views every second, plus seem quite happy in their own skin. Righties tend toward having way too much skin, needed to contain all the blubber, so it cannot be comfortable to be them. Righties live a fantasy life, just like their messiah who schlepps NFTs of things he is way too cowardly to be, like a fighter pilot or astronaut. Libs have quiet confidence, so they are not obsessed with trying to dominate and 'put women in their place'. Libs are manly in all the ways that actually count with women, so no need to pretend. They don't fear Western women and do well everywhere, whereas righties cannot score at home, so think maybe they have a shot with farm women in a developing country (failing to see the inherent street smarts even the women from the back of beyond have in Thailand).

Maybe the felon will introduce his new tax and tariff plan, where he says he will impose tariffs on all imported goods and do away with income tax entirely. Sounds juicy, eh? That plan might appeal to those of us in the millionaire class, but for 99% of Americans, it spells INFLATION. He notes a 10-15% tariff, but that would not only cause inflation, but create a massive Federal Deficit of an additional $4 trillion per year. Imagine what that would do to interest rates. Also, it seems the batteries on the felon's calculator were eaten by a shark, because replacing $4.2 trillion in tax revenue would require tariffs of between 120-130% on all imports (based on import figures). Not sure his demographic would enjoy that, as they're already beefing about what the felon's $8,400,000,000,000 in new National Debt did to inflation after his election defeat. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-tariff-income-tax-rcna157199

Perhaps your old man eyes and ears missed this: (Aside: I didn't hear 'suckers and losers', nor do I think Biden gave a flying eff about messing his hair.) The felon is totally incapable of even reading such a speech, nor would he ever read a speech where he isn't the main subject and where all glory and credit doesn't fall on the him.

Biden is really going to be handicapped in this debate. I mean, I doubt he is up to speed on the dangers of sharks when one's electric boat sinks, or the merits of the great Hannibal Lecter, or the cancer dangers caused by windmills (one really has to feel for the Dutch). Question for the experts: Can a participant speak in all CAPS? LIke most of his holiday well wishes, what the felon put out on Father's Day really has to bring a tear to one's eye. It made me think of all those old Norman Rockwell paintings, or maybe Currier & Ives. His heartfelt joy was expressed so well in this part of his message: “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES THAT ARE RAPIDLY BRINGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THIRD WORLD NATION STATUS WITH THEIR MANY ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR SACRED COURT SYSTEM INTO BREAKING TO THEIR VERY SICK AND DANGEROUS WILL."

TAT and various government officials have proposed making Thailand the Hub of Everything, from the new Hollywood/Bollywood to the IT capital of Asia to the Snowbird Paradise to the Land of Digital Nomads and many more dreams, but it seems somebody is admitting what Thailand truly does best: vice. Steve Miller might have sung...You're a drinker, you're a toker, you're a lover, you play poker....come play your roulette in the sun Endless bars and weed shops, agogos and 'massage' parlors, ladyboys if that's one predilection, and now gambling. Accept nobody is really coming for the temples. Admit what you do best, which is cater to the darker side of life. There's plenty of dosh to be made having all these things, as well as pretending you don't.

Ah, the old BRICS and petrodollar argument. Brazilian growth rate and its standard of living is the envy of which country? Russia is doing rather poorly and losing both money and young men at a rapid rate. India is trying to become a Hindu Republic, but the BJP and Modi didn't fare so well recently. Expect some social disruption over the next few years. Modi couldn't even carry Uttar Pradesh, a province that population-wise is the world's 5th largest country. China has growth problems, debt problems and RE problems. Oh, and gender issues, such as 30+ million extra marrying age males. Generally, countries prefer not to join a group of losers. They pretend for possible trade, but that's it. As for the petrodollar....a quick search has the coming demise of the dollar going back to around 1967. Maybe someday, as in the old saying "Brazil is the country of tomorrow, and always will be". The dollar's strength stems from a combination of factors, the primary one being rule of law/access to capital markets. Anybody can place, or withdraw, billions of dollars into and out of US capital markets in an instant. There is liquidity and freedom. The same cannot be said of any other market, and certainly not China or India. On top of that the US economy is as robust as any nation right now, remains Ground Zero of innovation and invention, and its military remains the strongest in the world. The election could screw that up if the felon wins, but absent that, the next decade or more belongs to the US. If AI truly changes the world, the main thing it will change is the price and availability of energy. Oil is one technological breakthrough away from being obviated (e.g, thorium reactors, better battery storage), which means Russia even loses its 'gas station with nukes' status, and the entire Middle East can go back to camel schtupping and Shi'a vs Sunni conflict. Putin might be smart enough to see the writing on the wall, and this 'peace plan' is just desperation.

They are guys who couldn't make it back home. Incels. They are insecure and think that domination makes them a 'man', when all it does is make them onanists. The description of 'women back home' that I see coming from the rightists here is not what I experienced. Maybe I just come from a vastly different socio-economic level. My former colleagues back home want a man for love and companionship. They already have career success and wealth. In my second of two careers (hedge fund management) everybody is well set, so even the women are not looking to scam a guy out of his pickup truck or bass boat. The women are already driving Mercs or Porsches, or---as a very dear friend drives---a Bentley Continental Speed and an Audi R8. She's also drop dead gorgeous, but would never give the time of day to some guy who thinks women should be kept barefoot and pregnant and make his morning Maypo. I happen to live in Thailand now, so odds are that the women I date are going to be Thai. Owing to the web and social media, Thai women are quite similar to Western women in attitude and what they seek in life. Guys who are insecure and have some weak need to dominate are targets for the more manipulative Thai women, who know how to make some self-proclaimed manly man think he is winning. The joke is on him. I suspect the OP gets suckered nine ways from Sunday by Thai women who can spot a true weakling a mile away.

Thai women like their men tall, fit and wealthy. They don't much care about ideology or 'mentality'. Be over six feet, be under 15% body fat plus have definition, and have a ten plus million dollars in the bank (liquid), and she doesn't care if you support Attila the Hun. Here's a secret: learn to listen. All women love a man who listens more than talks. Confidence and wealth are quiet. They are obvious. In fact, that profile works anywhere in the world, Thailand, the rest of Asia, or the West. Try it, OP. You'll do a lot better and stop having to take matters into your own hand.

Obviously, Bob’s post is a windup, but Bob…be careful…a reader might get confused as to whether you’re jealous of the guy’s wealth or the woman’s luck. Also, being dropped off in a Merc is kind of low rent. It’s Rolls or Bentley or she might as well just take the BTS or a motorcycle taxi. Also, real wealth is when the Senior Salesman for Harry Winston flies into Thailand and motors up to the family hovel in Buriram to show her a new necklace with a string of painstakingly-sourced Kashmir sapphires, Mogok rubies or Muzo emeralds. Dressing her in Chanel or Valentino is a must. I mean, how silly does it look if I’m wearing Brioni and Stefano Ricci, and she’s wearing what she bought at the sidewalk shop on the corner of Sukhumvit and Soi 4? Also, while Chanel is a giveaway simply by its look, ideally no logos are showing on anything. Logos are so wealthy-wannabe. Real wealth is more subtle. The beauty of being uber wealthy is that not only can you do whatever you wish to whatever extent you want, you don’t give a flying eff what anyone else thinks. With a Gulfstream 800 you can land the most hi-so almost-a-virgin in all of Thailand. In fact, her mother forces the daughter upon you. Sadly, some of those hi-so types you really don’t want, as the gods often held back on the looks and physique. Lots of uber wealthy are short and pear-shaped Sino-Thai elites. Good guys of modest means want a maid and cook in their partner. Bad guys with money want a sexual dynamo, because they’ve already got maids and cooks. You can’t take it with you, but you can take her with you…..and her…..and her….

Be careful, fella. Your post screams Incel.