Walker88

You can fool some of the people all of the time. Jones either coined or popularized many of the moonbat conspiracies and conspiracy-related terms that now pepper the realm of the crazed and forlorn demographic. Not sure if he coined "Crisis Actors", but he certainly made it go mainstream. He pushed the silly 9-11 Truther thing. He once stood outside a Bilderberg Group meeting and screamed that the group's dinner was babies roasted in gold leaf. I would not be surprised if he was the inspiration behind "Q" and the entire QAnon silliness. No better example of how gullible and simply ignorant his followers are than his success selling supplements. Jones is a guy who looks 10-15 years older than he is, is a guy in horrible physical shape, and yet he can entice his goobers into buying snake oil that he claims will make them healthier and more virile. I don't know it for a fact, I just know it's true that he likely owns the entire Incel demographic. I will also guess he has among his followers exactly zero Biden supporters. He peddles the kind of physical and ideological nonsense that captures the kind of people who support the convicted felon. I'm a little surprised that he, too, hasn't yet schlepped NFTs of him as an astronaut or a fighter pilot.

We'll just have to suck it up and accept low unemployment, a vibrant stock market, improved infrastructure, highest growth rate since the late 1990s, and the continuation of both the US Constitution and democracy. Admittedly, it's a tough choice between democracy + free speech + press freedom + freedom of/from religion + growth + low UE vs fascism + suspension of the US Constitution + a dictatorship + mandatory whackadoodle KKKristianity, but lets go with the former and see.

What is interesting is that the Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. Why that can be is not known, but one theory has it that gravitons (the particles that impose gravity in the way the Higgs boson imposes mass) have limited range, so at extreme distances, masses do not interact. Maybe @Danderman123 has an answer, as he is a space expert. A peculiarity of light is that since the Earth is nowhere close to any edge of the Universe, our observable Universe is a sphere with us right in the dead center. That does not mean the earth is the center of the Universe, only that any light that reaches us can only come from distances whose coordinates would form the surface of a sphere. Anything farther away, it's light has not reached us yet; thus what Universe can be observed must be nearly spherical in form (If a massive Black Hole is in one direction, its pull could red shift light coming from there, which would create a dent in our observable Universe). While the Universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, its diameter is estimated to be around 96 billion light years, because at the edges it is expanding faster than the speed of light. General relativity breaks down at extreme distance as well as extremely minute size. Something that argues against aliens is the great distances between stars, plus the fact most everything in our neighborhood is roughly the same age. Unless a nearby civilization developed much faster than life on Earth, no one would be advanced enough to travel even regionally. Older regions of the Universe are so far away that unless light is not the limiting speed factor, nobody has had the time to come visit. It's quite exciting how many secrets have been revealed, as well as how many are still waiting to be discovered.

Personally, I laugh at people who think virologists and astrophysicists are one in the same, because maybe both sometimes wear white coats.

The world's oldest scam: religion. A little advice for those who need it: Guys who didn't even know the Earth was round, or especially what the Higgs Boson does, really don't know a goddamn thing about anything. All such miscreants, grifters, lunatics or clinically depressed are best avoided, including any revelations about anything they claim to know. You exist because at least one person was horny at the right time of a female's month. Perhaps that's cynical, but it is undeniably true. No other reason, no master plan, no nothing. Just somebody was horny. Sperm meets egg does not create some ethereal entity called a soul. When the brain shuts down due to lack of oxygen, all you ever were no longer exists, except as separate atoms and molecules that go their separate ways over time. Entropy wins in the end. Remember that and you'll never get grifted for money or sex or wasted time.

Scanning the responses here, it seems that average Thai is much smarter and much more perceptive than the average right winger in the West. The far right in Thailand is the absolute elite, the monied-.1% who will support military coups because they keep the status quo where the elite still control the vast majority of the wealth. The average Thai knows the elite is purely out for themselves and couldn't care less about the common Thai. In the West, the far right at the highest levels is equally self-serving, but the goobers are not smart enough to know they are just pawns. Tax cuts and other measures are aimed squarely at the Donor Class. Guys like the felon have a club few of his cult could afford to join, and he likes it that way, because he has nothing but contempt for the "losers" who are struggling financially. He just wants their vote. As he famously said, "I love the poorly educated". Yes, he loves them because he knows they are so gullible they will buy whatever false promise he tosses at them. He even got some of the dumbest of them to try to block certification of his election loss, and many are now in jail because they were so stupid. He also has an inherent understanding of their inferiority complex and lifelong mediocrity, so he gives them the "own the libs" meme, which for those losers is good enough (so long as he also tosses in a false promise like, "In two weeks we'll be releasing our unbelievable plan to...blah blah blah. Two weeks never comes). Election demographics illustrate this in ways no thinking person can deny. The felon's supporters are largely as he wants them: poorly educated and on the lower end of the socio-economic ladder. The GDP statistics are so heavily skewed toward Blue areas that it verges on unbelievable (In 2016 Counties HRC carried produce per capita GDP at 9.25 times the level of Counties carried by the felon.) Thegoobers buy his lies because it allows them to believe the people who are better educated and more successful (i.e., the liberal left) are finally getting it at his hand. Of course they are not. Since Biden took over, the US economy is booming, experiencing its strongest growth since the late 1990s under Clinton, and saw 27 straight months of unemployment below 4%, the first time that has happened since the 1960s. In order to participate and benefit, however, one must have skills and talents the marketplace wants and needs. The felon's cult is beefing and moaning, and claiming things are bad, not because the overall economy is bad---it is strong---but because they lack the marketable skills needed in the modern world. The far right crazies now control the House in the US, that part of Congress where Bills should originate. Instead of legislating and doing what Congress is supposed to do, the (R) House members spend all them time either doing Performance Art (MTG, Gaetz, Comer, Jordan et al)or trying to find something/anything to get back at Biden. No legislation that could benefit the people is even considered. They purposely block a border Bill because they need migration as an issue. They even tried to stand in the way of the Infrastructure Bill that is rebuilding the US" bridges, roads, commo, airports, etc. (though the far right tries to take credit when they see benefits to their area). Stay dumb, gullible and pliant, just as the elite far right wants. The cult can't even see who their own worst enemy is. The average Thai knows who is keeping him or her down. The average far right goober in the US isn't clever enough to see they are being used.

Funny post. Got some Dunning-Kruger and Downing Effect showing. Just going to guess not tops in your class in school. The right wing types who are Thais are in the top .1%, and guaranteed they have nothing to do with the OP. They view guys like him as a varmint. Most average middle age Thais don't lean one way or the other, while the young are becoming much more liberal. Perhaps the OP missed the results in the most recent election. I see the same clowns who gripe constantly about migrants 'taking over the culture' back home (US, UK righties) see no hypocrisy in their moving to Thailand, where they in no way assimilate (except thinking paying for local women for a schtupping and drinking Chang or Singha is assimilating). Anyway, funny stuff there, OP.

Well, there are precious few places where one can use that degree in Whataboutism from the felon's fake university. Fake is what the felon does best, by the way. Fake university Fake billionaire Fake hair Fake 215 lbs Fake electors Fake innocence Fake 'like really stable genius' Fake golf championships Fake 'just a tiny loan from my father' But...you can fool some of the people all of the time.

The cult on the right takes a fringe issue and projects it or extrapolates it across the entire liberal spectrum, when many of the fringe beliefs are held by a tiny minority. Contrast that with the nearly ubiquitous beliefs of the right, which are the antithesis of patriotism: ---The theft of highly classified documents by the felon has not been condemned by any Republican ---Around 140 House Republicans voted to NOT certify the 2020 election, though each was perfectly happy to accept the results of his or her own re-election on the same ballot. That is evidence of a hatred of democracy as well as abject hypocrisy. ---While a few Republicans initially condemned the 6 January 2021 terrorist attack against the US Capitol, none now criticize it and many---especially those vying for the VP on the (R) ticket---refer to the convicted and jailed terrorists as 'hostages' and 'political prisoners'. ---No Republicans have come out and criticized the fake elector scheme, which means they hate democracy and US ideals, and approve of cheating. ---A sizeable majority of Republicans now believe a their President should have total immunity and be above the law. That is against the specific wishes and intent of the Founders, which means it is the polar opposite of patriotic. It is absolutely un-American. ---Far too many Republicans now want some fictitious deity and books claimed to be written or dictated by some deity, to be the guiding principles of the USA. That, too, is in stark contrast to what the Founders intended, which is that no religion should have any say in how the nation is run and governed. The number of actual patriots on the right can be counted on one hand...Larry Hogan, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and a few others. The rest are either full fledged Cultists or else cowards afraid of a mean Tweet.

I will help clarify. The folks in that image are naive gullible idiots who believe the lies spewing from the rabid mouth of the most infamous recently convicted felon. They hate democracy, law enforcement, and they are prone to violence. They confuse being members of a Cult with patriotism. They are absolute scum. They are not 'hostages' nor 'political prisoners', just low life losers. The FBI director appointed by the felon himself called them "terrorists". They all should have been shot.

As technology and customers preferences change, old plants become obsolete. Corporate Chieftains and location managers are then free to choose new countries for their next factory. Tax incentives, bureaucracy, political stability, education level of the workforce, general cost structure, etc. all factor into the decision. Thailand is losing out, and the authorities don't seem to know how to address it. Somewhat surprisingly, even the pampered elite seem to be missing the plot. The departure of major businesses will impact the value of all assets in Thailand, which the one half of one percent own to the degree of 75%. As Japanese and other nation's entities depart, Thailand also risks becoming a vassal state of China. Some elite of that ethnicity may like that, but the majority of Thais will not. That hasn't been good for neighboring Myanmar, as the Chicom-supported junta there is now facing a nationwide uprising bordering on civil war, and really only controls the major cities. Thailand should pay attention.

The author is delusional. While both sides of the political spectrum have their extremists, the far left is a vocal, albeit distinct minority. The right is almost exclusively anti-American in every actual way that makes a difference. The rank and file of the right is easily fooled and thinks a few words about a goal of returning to some past perfect time, or overt nonsense like dry-schtupping a flag, is proof of patriotism, when it is just cynical, self-serving performance art and theater. A side of the spectrum that once---theoretically---stood for some ill-defined and claimed values, now stands for everything the US was intended NOT to be. A slogan from the time of the Founders went "We bow to no Earthly king". Put in writing, that slogan said "All are equal under the law". The right now believes the US is something between a dictatorship and a monarchy (which is why I believe some non-US members here, whose lands still have the silly anachronism of monarchs, support a convicted felon who believes he is like the monarch as outlined in the Magna Carta). The felon who pretends he's enjoying carnal pleasures with the flag says he wants to erase some parts of the US Constitution, and those parts he wants gone were so important to the Founders that they put them in the very 1st Amendment to the Constitution. THAT is not just un-patriotic, it is 100% anti-American. That same felon supports people he elicited to try to overthrow a free and fair election and the peaceful transfer of power. His disciples beat and bear-sprayed 140 police officers defending the US' elected officials and the very concept of democracy, yet after they went through the legal system fairly and squarely, and were punished for their crimes, the felon calls them 'hostages' and 'political prisoners', and claims if re-elected, he will pardon them. That same felon also claims he will jail the elected officials who investigated the terrorist attack on the US Capitol. That is back asswards and as un-patriotic as can possibly be. While the majority of those on the left roll their eyes at the silliness of the extreme left, the felon who thinks he knows better than Thomas Jefferson and James Madison is supported by almost the entire right. When the felon recently earned that moniker, only 3 Republicans said it was legitimate and represents how the justice system is supposed to work. One of those Republicans was told by the felon's staff his career is dead, because he dared to believe in the US as the Founders intended. Let us not forget that the felon prefers dictators and strongmen over democratic leaders, praising miscreants like Putin, Kim and Orban. He stole highly classified documents that threaten the security of the nation and people he claims to love...and for what purpose? What does a country club owner and wedding planner intend to do with such sensitive documents? The rational conclusion is monetize them, which is treasonous. His sycophants offer no excuse for his heinous actions. The vast majority of the political left still believe in the founding principles of the US, such as democracy, rule of law, free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power. The vast majority of the political right no longer believes in any of those. They don't even believe in the basic rights detailed in the 1st Amendment, such as freedom of speech, a free press, and freedom of/from religion. The right now ties America to their chosen superstition/deity, despite the Founders being vehemently against any connected between the nation and any particular deity. There is zero mention of any deity in the US Constitution, and that was not by erroneous omission; it was specific intent. For the right, the order goes: felon, Party, self, some deity. Country---the United States of America under its founding principles---is far down the list, if even on it. You do not make America great again by a massive deviation from its core principles. That is self-serving nonsense. The right is the side that has lost the plot.

Yea, what's to worry when a Supreme Court Justice accepts $4 million in gifts? Frankly, I have to wonder about the morality, or lack thereof, of anyone who doesn't get the potential harm or conflict of interest. One also has to question the intellect of anyone who doesn't get it.

Why do people like you not actually find out why he's going to jail? He grifted off people like you who buy into whatever guys like him say. He aided the 6 January terrorist attack on the US Capitol. In the Cult of the Felon, I guess it's okay to beat and bear spray police and seek out the Vice President to hang him. Save the USA? His own 'belief' is that he is above the law. Not sure any comment could be any less intelligent.

Somehow the cult always delivers absurdity. Bannon grifted off of the low IQ goobers, raising money to ostensibly 'build the wall' but pocketing it instead. So the bloated drunk low life stood up to an 80 year old woman, by shunning his duty as a citizen? That must make him a real Alpha Man in Felonistan.

Pray tell how should the withdrawal have been handled? Are you a logistics expert? You know how to remove 20 years worth of military equipment, and do it without the Taliban taking endless potshots at troops and contractors removing broken down and maybe even obsolete gear? Do you know where the current leadership of Afghanistan was during the last Administration? 5000 jihadis were being held in jail. Guess who released them? (Hint: he has 34 felony convictions). The last guy also set the timetable for withdrawal. How many American soldiers would you be willing to sacrifice to carry out a withdrawal according to your ideals? 100? 1000? Nobody is easier to kill than a retreating force.

The moralism and sanctimony is thick in this thread. Lots of beliefs that I suspect cannot be backed up, too. Lots of jobs available so that a women never need go into the trade? The average salary in Thailand is not high, and most working women barely make ends meet. Also, the cost of youthful indiscretion falls 99% on females. Daddies do a runner, while the woman accepts years of personal responsibility. Few 7-11 clerks or Big-C shelf stackers can pay for the child's upkeep, plus cover for her mother or grandma taking care of the child, plus the unemployed drunk brothers and uncles. Filial piety runs deep, and females in Thailand suffer for that. Having never been a 16 year old female who made an instant, albeit poor decision, I cannot state with confidence that I would refrain from trying my luck in a BKK or Pattaya agogo. As for Thais disparaging women in the trade, I think they are a dying breed. The youth of Thailand are less judgemental and more understanding. And if 'the dregs' are all the foreigners get, maybe I need to have my eyes checked, but I see some "stunners" with foreign men, just as I see some "faces for radio" with Thai men. Both style of women can be good or bad; their job only defines them for the sanctimonious. Each of them, as each of us, is doing this life thing for the first time. Women suffer more consequences for errors than men, so maybe cut them some slack? Again I ask those members married to Thai women: Why did she choose you over a Thai man?

The CV said after the D-Day remembrance, "Only a psycho would call soldiers suckers and losers". as Gen Kelly confirmed the CV said. It's nice to see...FINALLY...some honest self-assessment and introspection by the CV. Psycho it is. That's also a 'dog bites man' story, as it comes as no news to anyone. That he added the frothing at the mouth bit is a nice touch. Maybe a bit of overkill, but nice nonetheless.

In the back assward world of felonious punks, the terrorists who attacked the US Capitol, beat and bear sprayed 140 police, defecated on the floor and wiped it on the walls, and set up a gallows to hang the VP, are 'hostages' and 'political prisoners' who will get pardons from the felon, while the men and women who investigated the madness and found obvious fault, are going to be jailed for doing their job. How do MAGAs square that idiocy?

Perhaps the difference is too subtle for you to understand, but the felon committed crimes, while he states his intention to go after people who committed no crime other than violating the lese majeste law the convicted felon and bloated snowflake wants to impose on the United States. You see, he is such a little crybaby he wants to do away with the 1st Amendment that guarantees the right of Free Speech and a Free Press, because those nasty Dems and media types like Joe and Mika say such bad (100% true) things about the little wimp. Alpha Male he is not. Of course with his new frothing-at-the-mouth bit he is doing, I bet all his MAGA Incels are jumping the line hoping for a DFK.

Lots of members here are married to Thai women. Why did they choose you, and not a Thai guy? Or another Asian? (I am of the view that an attractive person is attractive anywhere, with attractive being a combo of looks, personality, build, degree of success, maturity. I also refuse to believe it is just the bottom of the barrel Thai women who choose a foreign man. That sounds like an unfair stereotype. And no, I'm not married to a Thai woman, 'cashier' or otherwise.)

Where do these generalizations come from? Are you suggesting this is particular to Asian women? Western men can find a wide range of women beautiful, from Asian to South Asian to African to Middle Eastern to Latin. Somehow Asian women don't have similar open interest? Watch a movie with some Asian women. They go crazy over young Leo di Caprio, Cillian Murphy, young Richard Gere and many others. I think beauty is beauty and we're all attracted to it, no matter its source.

While I might be wrong again here, I disagree with your statement about despised. It's not my morality here. It seems wealth and success are admired no matter how it was achieved. Some uber wealthy are corrupt as all get out, yet they are respected and admired members of Thai society. On more than a few occasions I have had it explained to me that the mere existence of wealth is proof of a past life well lived. How can one argue with that (especially a non-believer like me who sees zero correlation between success and goodness)?

I’m going to play a little Bill Maher here, as in his, “I don’t know it for a fact; I just know it’s true”. The % of Thai females who marry foreign men is likely 10-20-30 times higher than, say, American women who marry non-US citizens. I don’t know if that makes any Thai men angry or not. Most all males are tribal, but I don’t think one nationality more than any other. Given the large number of Thai-foreigner marriages, it would seem many Thai women are attracted to foreign men, and there can be a variety of reasons for that. In the past the reasons might have been different, such as poverty and a chance at a more comfortable life. Lots of members here seem to have married Thai ‘cashiers’, office workers, and even a few professionals (doctors, lawyers). Why did those Thai women choose you, other than you being an absolute stud muffin? They could have had a nice Thai man, so why? These marriages are still happening, though I don’t know if the percentages have changed. Any data out there? I’m not sure Thai and foreign men are attracted to different Thai women, either. I know that’s what many like to say, but in my travels out and about in the country, I see no difference. I see Thai men with women whose skin is the classic Isaan brown, and foreign men with Thai women who look like they’ve never seen the sun. I think at the top socio-economic level of Thai society, marriages might be more business relationships than love and attraction. Obviously, that could be dead wrong, but Family X might want to tie in with Family Y, so their marrying age kids team up/suffer the consequences. Middle class Thai men just fall in love, and she could be alabaster shade or mocha. Mia nois are also quite common here, and I would guess more so than in, say, the US (affairs or GFs). We’ve even seen a re-emergence of a word we all might have thought had been retired to the pages of history: consort. Most mia noi relationships are for sex. I think I have stumbled on to a few (I won’t mention by name a particular upscale hotel where these trysts often take place). Maybe I’m wrong again, but when I see a 50-60 year old Thai man climb out of a Ferrari with a 20 year old lovely woman, I don’t think he’s her uncle. The women I have seen in this regard would be attractive to the vast majority of foreign males. I’m also going to guess that if some well-heeled foreigner offered the woman more than an afternoon of sex and room service, and she took it, the Thai fellow would be angry.

I'm going to invoke, or violate, Godwin's Law here...not being sure which verb is the correct one. The recent remembrance of D-Day shows how difficult it is to confront and put down evil. Biden did the right thing traveling to Normandy, and it was moving to see Zelenskyy connect with a veteran who actually stormed the beach on that morning 80 years ago. In stark contrast is the guy who called the fallen "suckers and losers", and the only thing he ever stormed was a pornstar named Ms Daniels. Last night, perhaps driven by the D-Day remembrance, I watched Schindler's List again. The slide into abject evil, as Germany did during that dark period, always made me wonder how such a thing could happen in a supposedly civilized and technologically advanced nation. I now understand better, after the last 8 years, just how close any nation is to embracing evil, even championing it. The Republican party has called itself many things over the years, though none is true. They claim to be for 'small government', but cannot stay out of bedrooms or women's bodies. They are supposed fiscal conservatives, but they run up deficits much faster than Democrats. They are the Party of law and order and American ideals, at least they could pretend to claim that, until the convicted felon came along and took over their soul. They ignore his stolen documents, apparently unconcerned about the threat to national security in the felon's reckless and cavalier actions. They seemingly hate democracy, as it's heads we win, tails you lose for them. Law and order went out the window on 6 January 2021, when the mob sent by the felon beat and bear sprayed 140 police. Repubs have no problem calling the indicted and jailed terrorists "hostages" and "political prisoners", when they are just gullible low-life scum. Repubs are all on board pardons for the worst of them. A detailed indictment and a trial whose verdict came from a 12 person jury of his peers---the same thing afforded all arrested individuals in the US legal system---was judged unfair because "if they can do that to him they can do that to anyone". How is that new? Commit the crime, face a trial, and a jury decides. Apparently Repubs forget what the Founders put into the Constitution: all are equal under the law. Nobody is above the law. That offends today's Republicans. Their guy is as infallible as a Middle Ages pope. Steal classified documents and lie about it? Okay to today's Republicans. Try to overthrow democracy? Also okay. Pressure State officials to commit voter fraud? If it's in our favor, it's okay. Try to block the peaceful transfer of power? Our guy can do that. He's even entitled to his own fake electors, despite the will of the people. Now, they want revenge. They have no crimes under which to indict, but it's arrest, jail and find crimes later. Vindictiveness is now key, revenge the goal. Legislation? No time for that. The path from decency to evil is a slope, and a slippery one at that. As one begins to fall, there is acceleration. The Republicans are speeding up, leaving everything the US is supposed to be behind. Country is a distant third or fourth, behind Party, and as Number One, behind the cult leader. Guaranteed if the felon is re-elected, there will be show trials, convictions for crimes as yet undefined, and jail. The felon says he will lock HRC up. He has said he would look into arresting the head of MSNBC, and even two of their talking heads, Mika and Joe. He claims he will suspend or change the Constitution, as the concept of Free Press created---in his words---'the enemy of the people', and Free Speech gives too much say to people who will say bad things about him. One of his more vile acolytes--Stephen Miller---has said his leader wants to make it criminal to criticize or insult the President, kind of a lese majeste law in the supposed land of the free. That's the choice the US has in November: fascism or democracy? The existing US Constitution, or something closer to the Magna Carta with a lese majeste kicker? While I lack confidence in a plurality of Americans, I do think when they enter the voting booth in November, especially after what surely will be much more madness and threatened terror coming from the felon's lips, I think the win goes to Biden, who for all his flaws, still represents the continuation of the great American experiment. The felon represents the end of everything the Founders intended the US to be. He doesn't even represent Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil'; he wears it on his sleeve and it shows from his frothing of the mouth (as in his recent grifting ad the RNC Posted last week).