Walker88

trumpers are living in such a fantasyland. First, your silly picture is photoshopped. Second, trump is too fat and out of shape to walk more than 10 meters. As for the 'fed up with incompetent and corrupt' silliness....it's trump who: ---tried to overthrow the government ---stole highly classified documents ---took $millions in foreign money while POTUS ---tried to change the election results in Georgia ---appointed fake electors to change the vote ---is a convicted sex offender---is a convicted charity fraudster ---is a convicted bank and insurance fraudster trump inherited 4.8% unemployment and a growing economy. He left Biden 6.8% unemployment and a Recession. Hardly competent and most assuredly corrupt.

Despite the meager voter turnout in Iowa, a few trends did emerge. trump performed well in rural areas among the poorly educated and churchgoers who seem to view the convicted sex offender and convicted charity fraudster as some kind of messiah, but in urban areas and the suburbs, he pulled a mere 25% of votes, where voters are more likely to be better educated. If that is a national trend, 2024 is likely to turn out like 2020, with another trump loss. If that trend continues, he is also likely to hurt down ballot candidates from the R Party, as he did in 2020 and 2022. Of course all of that is dependent on whether the guy with 91 indictments and a collapsing business even stays out of jail.

As far as I know, Biden has yet to suggest nuking hurricanes, injecting Lysol to cure Covid, or used a Sharpie to put Alabama in the path of a hurricane that had no chance of getting there. I think also that either Biden or his staff check for stray toilet paper on his shoes when climbing the steps of Air Force 1. Of course on the downside, I don't think Biden can declassify with his mind. He lacks those Carnak the Magnificent powers trump claims to have, because trump is, as you know, "like, really really smart" and "a stable genius". Person Woman Man Camera TV.....I'm still in awe!.

Oh, you're being so UNFAIR to trump. SAD. (His favorites words and capitalization) Don't you know the Capitol was having a special sale on logo'd coffee mugs and key chains that day? Certainly you can appreciate that with such deals, folks might get just a touch rambunctious when trying to get inside. Still, I think we can safely say they remained in good form and were just 'typical tourists'. I do think it's unfair, however, that there were so many BLM people wearing White Face and stuffing pillows under their shirts to look obese, who were the source of all the police beating and vandalism.

Asking a trumper to think is like asking a shrimp to whistle.

555 You have deep personal experience with any of those "politicised" (sic) agencies, or are you just parroting talking points from your "research"? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the latter. The agencies you note as "politicised" have a duty to chase down intel and threats. You really have no clue about the genesis of the Russia investigation, so I guarantee you are speaking out of ignorance. You also conveniently ignore the Republican-issued report on it, put out by SSCI when Republicans still controlled the Senate. I suspect you get confused by the term "collusion", which is not a legal term. The SSCI report noted lots of "cooperation" between trump's campaign and russia; in other words, trump knew Russia was trying to help him, and they took clear advantage of it, even having the Campaign Manager travel to Spain to meet GRU asset Kilimnik and hand him internal polling data. Kilimnik passed it to the Internet Research gency (a GRU entity) who them microtargeted voters in key swing States with fake stories about Hillary. The SSCI report also noted 14 instances of trump obstructing justice, and more than 140 contacts between trump campaign people and Russians---not a one was reported by any of the campaign staff who subsequently became Administration officials and were required by law to disclose the contacts on their SF86 security clearance application. The agencies you mentioned would have been derelict in their duty to not investigate the intel passed from clandestine sources and liaison contacts. OTOH, now we have clown in the House claiming all sorts of malfeasance by Biden, but they can produce neither proof nor witnesses. One so-called witness has disappeared, as he was caught violating sanctions against Iran by trying to broker Iranian oil, and also trying to arrange arms sales to Iran. He is on the run from US authorities for his first crime, and from Mossad for the second crime. If he's lucky, US authorities will get him first, as Mossad takes no prisoners. As for what the DoJ and Special Counsel have done, you actually think trump committed no crime? He declassified those stolen documents with his mind? Note he also lied about returning what he stole. Do you think he really believed there were 11,780 missing votes in Georgia? Oh, and for what purpose did he call his goobers to DC for 6 Jan 2021, Tweeting "It'll be WILD!"? What could be WILD! about a pro forma certifivcation of an election? Why did he encourage the goobers to march to the Capitol, if not to cause trouble? Why would he say "You have to fight like hell or you'll never get your country back"? What does that mean when the day was only a pro form election certification? I think maybe you need to do a little more "research", and add some rational thinking to it.

14% of the electorate turned out, and trump got 56,000 votes. Yes, it was a "landslide", but on an ant hill. The historical record of Iowa's predictive ability is interesting. Past R winners of its caucus include: Ted Cruz Mike Huckabee Rick Santorum John McCain George W Bush Bush and McCain did become the R candidates, but only Bush won POTUS. Iowa's record is pretty poor, and 14% of them voting tells observers next to nothing. I di suspect trump will keep a lead in other primaries, but I also think his odds of staying out of jail are growing increasingly slim.

Perhaps apropos of nothing, but a few years ago I was visiting a temple near Bangkok. Like a good, culturally-sensitive---or is that "quality"---tourist, I had on long slacks and a sleeved and collared shirt. Inside the temple I saw a young Thai woman kneeling near an icon, apparently deep in prayer. She was quite well endowed, or should I say so obviously well endowed that despite my own appropriately pious manner, I could not help but notice. She had on a t-shirt with some sort of writing on it. When she stood up from her prayer and turned toward me, I could read the large letters: "Stop Staring at My Tits" I took that as a sign from gawd, like an 11th Commandment. I began to wonder if, in his descent from the mountaintop, perhaps Moses had dropped a third stone tablet.

I predict trump will be dead by November. He is going to lose a majority of his assets when Judge Engoron assesses his fraud penalty and be laid bare as the corrupt loser he is. He is likely to lose the Georgia case, which carries a mandatory 5 year sentence that even the governor of Georgia cannot issue a pardon. If the FL judge is recused and the stolen documents case comes to trial, trump is looking at a long sentence in Leavenworth. Jan 6 is frosting on the cake. Combined with his miserable diet and his woefully out of shape body---plus a genetic predisposition toward Alzheimers and mental illness (his mother was committed several times in an asylum)---I think his mind and body will give out by November. Of course his goobers will claim "Deep State" did it.

Another Birth Lottery loser who thinks trump can make his life something other than abject mediocrity and failure. His cult consists of Incels, fascists, racists misogynists, poorly educated, QAnon, and the average, garden variety loser. Some of us tend to forget that there is a left of the mean on the IQ Bell Curve, because we've been lucky enough to live our lives among people with brains, successful people, etc. trump's trick is he gives losers false hope.

The cult needs de-programming. Maybe you like your boys with giant bubble butts, but that fantasy image you posted is as far from reality as can be.

I've lived in many different countries, and been exposed to the major faiths of the world in addition to numerous cultures. I have learned a number of languages along the way, both speaking and reading/writing. I find Chinese culture rather ...meh. I've eaten most of its different cuisines, and would never choose any of them if I was given a choice for a last meal---or even one of my last 100 meals. It's architecture I find butt ugly. The only thing the so-called Great Wall means to me is "we've always had way too many people". It's a pile of rocks that is dwarfed by what the Romans built, or the Byzantines. I continually used to hear about "5000 years ago we were wearing silks and your ancestors were wearing bear skins", which is silly as well as meaningless. Few Chinese were wearing silks 5000 years ago, as most were peasants. Anyway, what have they done lately? Even though Japan borrowed much from China, I find Japan does everything better than China. From "National Treasures" to pride in even the most menial task, to the astonishing joinery used in its temples, to its much more subtle design style...just better. India has been the fount of much modern philosophy, from religious to non-violence to the ethical treatment of animals. I also much prefer Indian food and spicing, and its architecture is infinitely more appealing than Chinese. The music is more interesting, too, especially its percussion. (For what it's worth, few women anywhere can hold a candle to a beautiful Indian woman.) Arab culture---not Islamic, but Arab---gave the world enormous scientific and mathematical knowledge. The Greeks produced great literary works, philosophy and architecture, even if that culture faded over time. The Romans were a living dichotomy...gladiator games that were vicious, but incredible science and building....such as the Pont du Gard, part of an aqueduct that crosses the Gard River in France with a 900 yard span and a slope that differs by a couple of centimeters from one side to the other----since gravity alone could move the water on its long path to Nimes from the water source 35+ miles away. Italian style carries over to today, passing through Michelangelo and Da Vinci, to opera, and even today to Ferrari/Lamborghini/Pininfarina to Brioni/StefanoRicci/Armani to wine like Solaia or Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino. Heck, even the Mayans might have beaten the Chinese. Of course it's all a matter of opinion, but I say "meh" to China.

magas tend toward weakness and failure in life, but they are incapable of accepting responsibility for what their life is. So many of them fear women, as their 'manliness' is threatened when women enter the marketplace and show far superior skills and ability to earn money. Like any autocrat wannabe, trump tells these losers what they want to hear. He gives them 'others' to blame. They also live vicariously through his nouveau riche garish lifestyle. It's hardly any wonder that trump owns the Incels, QAnon believers, racists, misogynists, Tikitorch marchers, the poorly educated, Conspiracy Theorists, and so many who have been obviated by technological advancement getting in the way of their mediocrity and the lack of skills and talents they bring to the workplace. His cult know full well in the back of their minds they are losers, but along came trump who performs their retribution against the "cool kids" from school and people who are successful in life.

As one of those "midwit liberals", albeit old school liberal before the left developed its own overly vocal fringe, what I despise about trump is that 1) he is willfully ignorant and 100% self-centered, and 2) he says exactly what he is going to do. I take his idiocy and fascism seriously. I knew full well he never intended to leave office when he was soundly beaten. He stated his intent all too clearly before he actually went about trying to overthrow the government. Only idiots, which is to say his supporters and cult, thought his intent in calling his goobers to DC on 6 January (It'll be WILD! was his Tweet) and his speech that told them to march to the Capitol, "fight like hell or you'll never get your country back", and his sitting idle on his fat a$$ while his goobers went about trying to find and hang the VP and kill the Speaker, was anything but his evil chidl's attempt to stay in power and not be a "loser". As I wrote in another post, and which I know both from published media and grand jury testimony, as well as from friends who were in meetings with trump, the guy actually had the Dept of Defense draw up plans to attack Iran before the Nov 2020 election, in the hope it would help him in the polls. After Biden defeated him, he actually tabled the idea of nuking China, believing he could then declare a State of Emergency and remain in power. He and his disgraced former NatSec Adviser Flynn discussed a plan to have the military seize voting machines and then have trump invoke the ancient (by US standards) Insurrection Act and put troops in the street to quash protests is people took exception to trump declar5ing the vote a fraud. See, some of us who served our country and who took an oath to the Constitution have this quaint notion that the oath means something and that anyone who tries to overthrow or subvert the country and the system that has served the US well for 250 years is a threat. trump is that threat, far more of a threat than the jihadis in the tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan that the agency or JSOC is given authority to eradicate.

Gee, gimp, don't take this the wrong way, but you are in dire need of adult perspective. A guy that acts like the typical grandfather is hardly a major threat to the world. OTOH, a loser who actually thought about starting two nuclear wars*---I suspect you worship his bloated fat a$$---would seem, to rational people at least, slightly more dangerous. *trump thought if he nuked Iran before Nov 2020, it would help him get re-elected. He had the Dept of Defense draw up plans, which he subsequently stole when he left the White House, and even showed members of his golf club in NJ---and it's on tape. After he lost, he actually said in Cabinet meetings that he wanted to nuke China, believing he could then declare a State of Emergency and remain in office, despite his loss. That so scared Joint Chief Gen Milley that Milley contacted his counterpart in China and told him not to listen to trump's ramblings, should anything be stated publicly or Tweeted. trump subsequently called Gen Milley a "traitor" and said the general should be executed for treason.

That is another national pastime.

Maybe I'm not old, but I don't think weed is the end of the world (though I have zero interest in using it), I don't smoke tobacco, I'm in top shape, I'm no booze hound, my diet is great, and I've never had a prescription. Best not to generalize.

I can appreciate the opinions on both sides. Shopowners were kind of hoodwinked into jumping into the business, despite the admonitions against 'recreational use'. Of course the explosion of shops never made sense to me...I assume the owners got high rather than doing a proper business plan. I can also see the new government's position that it's kind of an embarrassing view, as the shops are anything but subtle. Many sprung up in a major tourists and entertainment area (Soi 4 to Asoke)....I counted 25 shops in that stretch or just off Sukhumvit, and most champion the whole "pothead" motif. Turbocharged Cheech and Chong might not be the image Thailand wants. (It may not want the agogo image either, but at least in Bangkok those venues are fairly restricted to certain parts of town, while weed shops are everywhere.) From a business perspective, I cannot imagine many---maybe any---of the shops are turning a profit. They are mostly in prime (aka expensive) locations, and a lot of money was spent renovating former Family Marts/Lawson 108s/etc. to try to differentiate themselves from the weed shop next door....and next door...and next door...and across the street. I don't know the margin on the product itself, but I do have a pretty good idea of the costs for rent, electricity, staff, etc., so unless weed margins are massive---which is highly unlikely given the saturation of the market---I really doubt many owners are happy they jumped in. Personally---something that matters little to anyone else---I'm not fond of altered states of consciousness, no matter its source. I do enjoy a cold beer or a glass or two of wine with dinner, but that's because of the taste, not the effect. If I begin to feel the slightest buzz, I switch to water. Booze can be just for flavor, though I accept many or most people chase a buzz. With weed, the sole recreational point is a buzz. Others can make that choice; I choose not to have a buzz, as I find life interesting and exciting enough without it. I also find both drunks and potheads to be unbelievably boring. Most think every erratic or stray thought entering their noggins, while under the influence, is as profound as a cosmic revelation, when in fact it's banal if not downright stupid. Among their fellow drunks and potheads maybe it's "Wow!", but for those whose state is not altered, it's just irritating and dull. If weed has a leg up on booze, it's that a pothead is less likely to go looking for a fight. As for the benefits another poster listed earlier (e.g., blood pressure, inflammation, anxiety, cancer), one can get the same benefits from, of all things, an industrial dye: methylene blue, albeit with zero negative side effects and no altered consciousness.

It IS against the law to engage in violence because of a silly opinion. Courts that had judges appointed by both Dems and Repubs---and even trump-appointed judges---viewed the so-called 'evidence' and found it spurious. Recounts in several States found no evidence of fraud (save for a guy in PA who voted for his dead mother---and he had her vote for trump). Even the silly "Cyberninjas" who did the investigation in Arizona, found out that trump lost AZ. These 1/3 of Americans are the kind of people who believed the absurdity---spouted by the obviously insane Sydney Powell---that the dead Hugo Chavez programmed (from the grave) an Italian satellite that altered Dominion voting machines. The Onion could not produce a more absurd story, yet trumpers bought into it. That smacks of 60-70 IQ.

It should be noted that almost a third of all Americans believe Tom Hanks and Hillary Clinton are part of an international cabal that kidnaps, rapes, roasts and eats babies (QAnon). Look at the IQ Bell Curve. There's a huge area left of the mean, by definition. Go a standard deviation or two left of the mean, and you arrive in the heart of trumpistan. trumpers are not the brightest lights. They lost the Birth Lottery. They are the reason the Nigerian 419 Scam is still going strong.

Silly. They were sent there by a crybaby traitor and intended to both stop the certification of a legitimate election, plus hang the Vice President and kill the Speaker of the House. They assaulted cops, injuring 147 of them. Sadly, only one of the terrorists was shot. All should have been napalmed. Those terrorists represented a much greater threat to the US than all the jihadis in the tribal areas of Pakistan, in Afghanistan, or the Iranian general trump ordered killed.

None is so blind as he who has eyes but refuses to see. It WAS an insurrection...an attempt to overthrow the government. Those goobers and terrorists were not heading to the Capitol---at traitor trump's request---to buy souvenirs. They weren't beating cops with metal pipes, flagpoles and stick, nor shooting bear spray at them, because they just heard about a big discount on Capitol Coffee Mugs. They fully intended to stop the certification of the election. Many of them were hellbent on hanging the Vice President (because he refused to break the law) and killing the Speaker of the House. That you cannot see nor accept that says a lot about your mental stability, or lack thereof. There is no other explanation for that degree of idiocy.

True that ^ Speaking from a US perspective, he'd better have a 4.0 GPA and Medcats in the top 1%. Then there's all those prerequisites: Biology Human Biology Organic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Biochemistry Physics Advanced Calculus Of course I know he's not serious, but if he has a grandkid who is hellbent on med school.......

It's a bit unrealistic to think about med school at your age, though I suspect you know that. Two hours of sleep a night is the norm for several years. Better one is 22 years old and still full of piss and vinegar. The term 'pallor' was coined to describe the facial skin of med students and interns. (Oh, and your "six years" may well be unrealistic, unless your math, organic and inorganic chem, physics, biochem, etc., is still fresh in your mind.) Years ago I was on that path, saved only because someone offered me a paying job (and I was already up to my pallor in debt from undergrad). I would also suggest that before even thinking about med school, go visit a med school dissection lab. It can be jolting, both because of what you see and that smell which will never leave your nostrils. Table after table replete with a donated body, opened up in all sorts of gory ways, and the stench of preservative chemicals filling the air, even getting into your white lab coat. Lots of gallows humor, too, as everyone tries to get accustomed to the sights and enure themselves to what will be their own future, both in work and 'after'. Better you buy a bar than think about psychiatry.

She's actually a lovely young woman, perhaps a bit too trusting of her environment. Hopefully she gets her necklace back. If not, maybe a generous member here could be so kind as to replace it for her.