Walker88

Lots of "heck of a cult" things out there. Size does not equate to veracity. There are around 2.5 billion Christians, maybe 2 billion Moslems, 1.2 billion Hindus, 500 million Buddhists.....obviously they cannot all be right (in fact, all CAN be wrong), so size of a cult just shows how susceptible or needy some are to believe they have some sort of messiah or path to salvation.

Here's something I can't quite grasp... Under the Administration of the now-convicted felon, Michael Cohen was judged guilty by a jury of his peers and sent to prison---for the same crime that this newly minted felon was just convicted of, also by a "JURY OF HIS PEERS". It was perfectly okay under the R White House and the Repub-appointed Attorney General...so much so that the guy who handed out pardons like Halloween Candy (Manafort, Bannon, etc.) chose NOT to pardon his former 'fixer'...but when the actual leader in the crime was similarly convicted, it's somehow the worst day in human history, the "end of our Republic" (Tucker & Hannity), "Communist, like China and North Korea" (Ingraham) and "will be remembered like the day JFK was assassinated" (Jr).

American citizens are allowed to own 100% of a business per the Treaty of Amity. The Treaty was first signed in 1833, and extended again in 1966. Most law firms in Thailand know how to register a company under the Treaty. Elsewhere, the numbers as they appear in the article seem odd. 270 companies would provide 'shelter' for more than 68 Russians, so likely there is more to come. Also, any company employing a non-Thai/non-ASEAN (who has a registered/legal Work Permit) must employ 4 Thai nationals for every foreigner with a Work Permit. I'm not sure this is related, but the renewal application for my own Work Permit has blossomed in size in the last year, with numerous onerous requirements. What used to be a simple couple of forms is now a 100 page tome, listing every employee, the most recent company tax return, proof of VAT payments, proof of Social Security payments for Thai employees, a copy of the DBD registration, shareholder list, bank statements...even the transcript from the last year of my highest university degree. Oh, and a Certificate of health from a hospital stating a long list of diseases I do not have. Similarly, the Non B Business Visa renewal application has similarly blossomed in size, now topping 150 pages, including 'action photos' of the applicant pretending to issue orders, mull over key business decisions, etc. Perhaps the additional requirements relate back to this ongoing "Operation Nominee Sweep".

The Dems have no bench, while the Repubs lack both a bench and starters.

I'm not as certain as some he will not be given a prison sentence. I believe it's up to the convicted felon and how he behaves between now and the sentencing date. If he mouths off, continues to violate the gag order (in effect until the sentencing date, I believe), doxxes jurors, or other nasty things of which he is not only capable, but prone to do, I think a prison sentence is possible. On his side he has 'no previous record' of criminal, though not civil, convictions, and the victims of his crime are somewhat amorphous (the entire United States of America). Working against him is his continual violation of the gag order, a total absence of remorse, and the fact an underling served time for doing his bidding in the carrying out of the crime for which he was convicted. If Michael Cohen had to serve 13 months and 51 days in solitary for the crime, it seems only fair the ringleader should also have to pay the price. As a side note, the old geezer looks to have aged 10 years in the last year. I don't think he's been hitting the gym and the salad bar. He looks like death warmed over. It would come as no surprise if he passed between now and November. Of course that would lead to another conspiracy theory about "Biden operatives" taking him out. Then again, maybe the Supreme Court will rule before November that Presidents are totally immune from prosecution, which means Biden would be free to do the needful.

The convicted felon added $8,400,000,000,000 in new National Debt. In Biden's first year he dropped $350 billion off the convicted felon's last year of debt, and $1.3 trillion in FY 2022. Because of the convicted felon's profligacy, inflation sprang up and required the Fed to raise rates ~380 pips. On the convicted felon's debt alone, that adds nearly $1 billion per year in servicing costs, and thus the yearly deficit.

Dem owned? Can I see the copy of the sales receipt, maybe the deed? LOL...trumpers!

Wrong. First, it's pure speculation on your part his felony convictions (34) will be overturned. Elsewhere, he is a convicted sex offender (civil case) He is a convicted charity fraudster and is barred from starting a charity, as are his children He is a convicted bank fraudster (civil) He is a convicted insurance fraudster (civil) Yesterday's felony convictions involved fraud, too, so he is owner of lots of fraud convictions, civil and now criminal.

Your opinion has no basis in fact. The SS has one job: to offer protection to their charge wherever he is. They have zero control over where law enforcement might send him. They have zero authority to dictate where he can or cannot go. Should Judge Merchan sentence the convicted felon to prison, room would be made for SS agents to live in the same facility, though unlike the criminal, the agents would be free to come and go.

Goodness. You really subscribe to the fringe conspiracies. Snowden is always good for a laugh. As soon as he loses his propaganda value to putin, he'll be given the Edward Lee Howard treatment, which is an at-home tumble down the stairs resulting in his death. I always laugh at people who think the NSA cares they exist or keeps watch on them. The same people willingly give their life's details away on social media, or algorithms are run on their shopping and credit card use to create a picture of them for advertisers. SOme people actually drive Chnese-made cars, totally oblivious to the fact every conversation they have inside their car is recorded and forwarded to the MSS via the manufacturer. It is aimed at domestic dissidents so the CCP can monitor its own people, but it also exists in every Chinese vehicle shipped anywhere in thre world. But the NSA !!!!! Blah Blah Blah.

Wrong. President's do not have any security clearance. They are allowed access to classified information at the discretion of agency chiefs because of the vote of the public. In his case, there was much denied him, especially after he exposed a Mossad penetration of ISIS when he blabbed to Lavrov and Kislyak and their FSB "cameraman" in the Oval Office. Presidents are rarely, if ever, provided with the identities of foreign clandestine assets, as they have no need to know. In the PDB, the intel is usually given a rating and an asset described as, for example, "a long term asset whose previous reporting has been found to be highly reliable". The US maintains liaison relationships with many nations' intelligence services, and after that exposure, intel was only passed to US intel officials under a guarantee it would not be shared with him. Many of the documents he stole upon defeat were only in his possession because his two hand-picked lackeys at DNI---Grenell and Ratcliffe---gave then to him. Dan Coats and Gina Haspel were too smart to do that. An actual security clearance requires a lengthy background investigation, depending on the level of clearance required. Since no investigation of a Presidential candidate is undertaken, no winning President is ever given an actual clearance. The day a President leaves office, he no longer has any right to view or be told anything classified. He is a private citizen. Traditionally, some intel is shared with former Presidents, but not with him, as he was not trusted, besides being under indictment for his massive document theft. It will be interesting, should he win in November, what will happen. Yes, he can appoint his own lackeys as DCI or DNI or DirNSA, but unless the workforce provides intel, the agency chief would have nothing to share. Liaison relationships would likely cease, and a good many skilled and talented field officers in the different agencies would likely resign or retire. Finding skills among his cult would be like finding a basketball center for the Yemen Olympic team who could compete with Wembanyama or Jokic. In any event, when he was POTUS he did not like the intel community, because they told him the truth, not what he wanted to hear. Many Presidents have had trouble with that, but they come to understand that the intel community's job is to collect and then assess intel, not manufacture it or cherry pick according to what the President wants to believe.

Curious what the official cult line is about Stormy and Karen McDougal....did he have sex with them or not? As Bill Maher says, "I don't know it for a fact; I just know it's true". As I have posted previously, it was a HUGE mistake for defense to deny the Stormy tryst. The convicted felon could have gotten all weepy saying how worried he was that public knowledge would hurt his 3rd wife. The jury might have bought that (probable) lie and it might have resulted in acquittal or a hung jury. Instead, it seems the jury found her so believable that prosecution did not even need to call Karen McDougal. You should really lay off the continual "TDS" epithets and accusations. Those of us who oppose the convicted felon have quite good reasons for disliking him, both for his convictions and his alleged crimes, which on the surface look like slam dunks. Try to subvert democracy? Bad guy. Foment a terrorist attack on the US Capitol? Bad guy. Steal highly classified documents that jeopardize national security and the identities of foreign clandestine intelligence assets? Bad guy. Those are concrete reasons why I do not like him. Toss in his constant whining and his everyday childishness, and he is never going to win my favor nor support. His constant hyperbole and overuse of superlatives is just irritating, but the crimes and willful ignorance of what the US is meant to stand for is what sets me against him.

No, I did not miss that. Deservedly convicted. If your IQ is as superior as I have seen you claim, surely you know it's a lot easier for a rich white guy to get off than a Black man.

Your comment is too generous. Likely some still believe Hugo Chavez rose from the grave, wrote code to upload to an Italian satellite, and had that satellite alter votes on Dominion voting machines, as one of the convicted felon's crack lawyers---Sidney Powell---stated. When you are dealing with that level of gullibility and idiocy, you know things like "proof" are, to them, an alien and unnecessary concept.

The convicted felon will likely be calling on his cult members to rise up and commit violence on his behalf, just as he did on 6 January 2021. Being his goober has already landed around 480 of his cult in prison, with more to follow. One wonders if any of his non-incarcerated cult recognizes that reality, and will now say, "after you, oh messiah". It takes very little imagination to think that right now there are folks trying to find the names and addresses of the 12 jurors in order to make that info public and encourage violence by the convicted felon's supporters. There is even a Forum member who posted a puffed up warning, saying his side has the guns, and those who oppose the felon should be afraid. Violence or its threat is what they think gives them power, when they are just becoming increasingly impotent.

He might have been acquitted, or at least won a hung jury, if he had taken an entirely different approach. He should have admitted to the tryst with Stormy, and then claimed he was worried how it would affect his 3rd wife. Yes, if even 1% of the reason was fear how it would impact voters, the jury might have been more sympathetic if he played the contrite husband, thusly ignoring the election impact. He chose not to present that defense, and it certainly seems the jury believed everything Stormy said, despite the crime not being the affair, but the fraudulent accounting of the payoff. He lost credibility by denying something that even his 3rd wife likely believes happened. I had thought Karen McDougal would have been an important witness, since she alleges a year long affair plus a payoff, and she has messages and phone records that corroborate her claims. The prosecution knew better, and knew they did not need McDougal. They had documents detailing the fraud, so had no need for additional sordid details. The prosecution really did not even need Michael Cohen, and defense made a huge mistake trying to pin everything on him. The documents, along with Pecker and Hope Hicks, were enough to prove the case. I suspect defense had to go along with what the convicted felon wanted, ignoring their own better judgement regarding what would be more likely to lead to acquittal or a hung jury. No doubt his cult will dig in their heels, but they are a minority, and even were in 2016. It's swing voters and independents who will now be faced with voting for, or voting against, a convicted felon. If the guy was smart---unlikely---he would refrain from his usual whining on social media, as that is only singing to the choir. If he could somehow grow up 75 years in a few minutes, he might not alienate the undecideds. He cannot and he will not. Interesting to see the first (R) who sees the writing on the wall and hangs him out to dry. Those still squatting on Veepstakes Island will stay with him until he makes a choice for running/cell mate.

I don't know. I mean how much money can Melania give him? Certainly not enough to cover his $465 million bank and insurance fraud judgement, nor the $88 million for E Jean Carroll.

Funny how we all have our preferences. Anyone who supports a guy who steals highly classified documents that can threaten national security and foreign clandestine intelligence assets is an enemy to me, my family and my country. Anyone who tries to subvert the will of the people in a fair and democratic election is an enemy to me, my family and my country. Anyone who incited an insurrection against the US Capitol in order to stop the official certification of a free and fair election is an enemy to me, my family and my country.

What are their crimes? Did HRC try to overthrow the 2016 election? DId she engage in a fake elector scheme? Did she send her supporters to stop the official VP certification of the election? And what is/are Pelosi's crimes? The convicted felon's crimes and alleged crimes (pending the end of his delays) are patently obvious.

besides Incels, QAnons and the Charlottesville tikitorchers, the convicted felon probably owns 99-100% of the Neo Nazi demographic.

When you lose the election by around 8 million votes, but pressure Raffensperger, send your goobers to the Capitol to disrupt the official certification, and engage in a fake elector scheme, I believe THAT is trying to subvert the will of the people in a democracy. Biden did not due that, nor did HRC in 2016, nor any of the 44 Presidents before 2016. Only one defeated person did that. The convicted felon has carried his Stop the Steal lie for several years now.

"Fascist" in the convicted felon's world means those who favor democracy and rule of law. And TDS---which I thought was a word no grata on this site---is quite clearly something the fans of the convicted felon see every day in their bathroom mirror.

What are you rambling about? If you know of a crime Biden committed, give a call to the Repub House. They will welcome you with open arms. The convicted felon committed crimes. He is alleged to have committed many more, for which he has been indicted. You cannot explain his theft of classified docs, nor his lying to the FBI about returning them. You cannot explain away his pressuring the GA SecState to "just find me...11,780 votes". You cannot explain why he called his goobers to DC and told them to go to the Capitol. Now, you cannot accept that a jury of his peers found him to have committed 34 felonies.

I don't mind laughing---even at myself---if something is funny. Don't quit your retirement to try the Vaudeville Circuit of summer in the Catskills.

So facts are gibberish (that you edited out). Got it. I'm beginning to support the Thai govt backtracking on weed. It seems it does do damage.