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And what is equally clear is that you are part of the cadre of trolls spewing Russian propaganda in favor of a highly flawed candidate.

My biggest fear. Trump wins, then steps aside leaving the country to a smart person in the pocket of the oligarchs. The man that wrote the preface to 2025. Trump can lie about the manifesto but Vance literally was one of the authors.

False equivalence. The argument would be that the pro-Trump posts are of Russian origin. Though China has no reason to favor Harris. None of this affects the argument over Trumps competence.

Waiting for the tariffs to be pulled. Thailand will never be a place to get really good wine at fair prices but if they lose the tariffs we will be able to get a lot of drinkable juice from Australia, South America and California. Probably Italy and Spain too. The shippers will need to be big enough to offer full containers at first. It will take a few years to sort the French stuff because they will be dumping the plonk on the rubes. I saw this first hand in Mexico and China. Some great bargains though like Chateau LaFite gran Cru du Bordeaux for 800 baht a bottle. Never had the guts to pull the trigger. 😬 Hopefully it will motivate the locals but they are growing the wrong grapes. There are a few drinkable wines made locally but they are sheltered by crazy tariffs and the quality is not there yet. They need to take a page from Banyon Tree in India, where they recruited a bunch of students from the wine university in Barcelona and let them make the wine. It worked, the best wine in India.

The fourth reich.

It does not matter, Trump is a convicted felon, fraudster, liar and sexual predator. He is in no way qualified for high office.

You didn't mention Eddie, thank you. Might mention Carlos though.

Happy to revisit his work. I saw him quite a while ago and he was mostly shredding.

I am confident we could make it worse.

I have been playing guitar for over 40 years. I still suck. It is still fun.

Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin are still around. Bonamassa is good but nope.

Whatever, the slaves were freed, like the should have been 90 years earlier and the South lost the war. All of it should be history by now except for the hate filled hillbillies.

The source is irrelevant, it was adopted as the song for the rebels and has been used to stoke racist views ever since. Lincoln may have been a racist but he did the right thing anyway.

The question was about influence. We started with a jazz classic that molded all following music, then followed up with one of the best songs of the swing era, the music that won the war. Several other iconic songs have been mentioned as well. New songs have not been around long enough to influence anything but we might have to give a nod to Tay Tay this year.

More likely Dixie. The North won and forgot about it but the South is still butt-hurt and still promoting their racist nonsense.

They seem to go to Disney every two years or so. LA I think. They played the Rose Bowl a few years ago. There has to be a schedule available. They changed the arrangement on Sing, Sing, Sing two years ago but it is familiar.

The Tachibana Green band is amazing.

Apparently they all moved to Thailand, so no worries.

Slipping support? Not slipping for her. Nothing wrong with discussing any topic. There is nothing on the table so far.

None of the Harris bashing makes a compelling argument for electing a convicted felon and sexual predator to the presidency. We should be willing to talk about anything. She has not said anything about supporting reparations, just as there have been no plans for implementation. That does not mean it cannot be discussed. We should talk about the Native Americans at the same time.

If you are going to try and insult people, check your grammar first.

"and" English as a first language

Russian grammar police

More likely a 7.62 AK but yes, like that. And think about the teachers that would put it in the drawer for the kids to take it. I would not want to carry it all day while herding children.

I think it is the overwhelming need for prosthetic genitalia. Somehow it supports fragile egos and short tempers.