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1 hour ago, stoner said:

 

go troll somewhere else. bored with your type. 

Laughable you accusing someone of trolling. Projecting much?

21 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

no cheap shot. speech impediment has nothing to do with what i'm talking about.  but good try. i suppose falling and stumbling quite often comes from speech too eh. 

 

also in the quote i quoted from him. when he says WE can't be trusted. that has nothing to do with speech impediment at all. that has everything to do with cognitive ability. 

Another amateur gerontologist shares their learned opinion with us.

9 hours ago, placeholder said:

When you coupe this statement with the fact that Trump believes that a President has absolute license to commit any crime, it's clear that the threat of tyranny that he poses is a real one.

Oops! Here's what I meant to write:

"When you couple this statement with the fact that Trump believes that a President has absolute license to commit any crime, it's clear that the threat of tyranny that he poses is a real one."

On 4/27/2024 at 1:12 PM, Hanaguma said:

I am a bit puzzled. Why are protesters, who are protesting the illegal occupation of Palestine, themselves illegally occupying university campuses? Seems more than a bit hypocritical to me. 

 

TBH, I think the question in the OP isn't that important. The more important thing to ask is "WHAT is behind the anti-Israel protests?".  IMHO it is rooted in Marxism, with a narrative that the Jews are colonials/settlers and the Palestinians are the innocent victims.

 

As in most of these situations, the left assumes that the group with lighter skin is the bad guy and the dark people are the good guys. That's why they don't get too excited when Africans kill Africans (like in Congo) or when Arabs kill Arabs (like in Yemen). But when they see a possible racial difference, they get all stimulated and rise to the occasion. 

You really want to run with your dishonest B.S? Who do you think it was protesting the Saudi invasion of Yemen and the consequent famine? We have only to remember how Obama was treated by the Saudis when he began to pull back on support of their venture in Yemen. And his tepid support of the Saudis was criticized by progressives.

As for your Pavlovian Marxism nonsense...the Israelis have established what even an ex-head of Mossad called an apartheid-like system of government in the West Bank. And in Gaza when they ruled it.  Can you identify these Marxists and show us where they support the State taking over the means of production?

By the way, I remember back when you were calling Senator John Fetterman a vegetable. Would his current strong support for Israel qualify as a symptom in your estimation?

6 hours ago, placeholder said:

Average temperature for bangkkok april 2024 and april 2023

 

What really stands out more then the difference between daily high temperatures of the 2 months, is the daily lows. Only 2 days in April of 2023 had a low of more than 85 degrees. Whereas, so far in April 2024, there have been 18. Public health officials know that it's harmful to health if people, animals and plants don't have a chance to cool down during the evening. 

 

 

I forgot to put link into post: Here it is:

https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/th/bangkok/VTBD/date/2024-4

On 4/26/2024 at 10:35 AM, JonnyF said:

Why does Biden always have to talk like some uneducated trailer park trash?

 

Is it some kind of "salt of the earth" schtick he has going on?

 

He's supposed to be Presidential. 

 

Was he raised in some backwater or something? Oh, wait a minute...

 

Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds

President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of "being, like, really smart"—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.

The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169

On 4/26/2024 at 3:00 PM, Robert Paulson said:

Bro, typical highs in April 36 degrees C.

Current temp: 37 degrees C.

 

its just normal. I have no idea why people blather on and on about nothing. Thailand is hot, it’s always this hot, give or take. You have no point. You’re wrong. Numbers don’t lie. 

Average temperature for bangkkok april 2024 and april 2023

What really stands out more then the difference between daily high temperatures of the 2 months, is the daily lows. Only 2 days in April of 2023 had a low of more than 85 degrees. Whereas, so far in April 2024, there have been 18. Public health officials know that it's harmful to health if people, animals and plants don't have a chance to cool down during the evening. 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

Here's a selection from a speech by Trump that RFK might have missed:

And today, especially in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible — they’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.

The real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left. 

https://archive.ph/w8S9F

When you coupe this statement with the fact that Trump believes that a President has absolute license to commit any crime, it's clear that the threat of tyranny that he poses is a real one.

32 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

If people re saying "vote for Biden, no matter how bad we think he is, because he's better than our perceived judgement of Trump", they're not making the best choices.

I'm sure you think you're scoring some ikind of point. What is the salient difference between thinking and perceiving in your comments. How is this different from choosing the lesser of 2 evils?

Here's a selection from a speech by Trump that RFK might have missed:

And today, especially in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible — they’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.

The real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left. 

https://archive.ph/w8S9F

9 hours ago, illisdean said:

Rock on Joe, down the toilet.

 

 

How unpopular is Joe Biden?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/?ex_cid=abcpromo

28 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

In other words, ignore the stats and hand over your cash to big state anyway 😄.

 

 

Or, in other other words, you've got nothing.

9 hours ago, G_Money said:

Immigration is the key word.  The American people have been paying for his time in America so yes it affects the economy as in higher taxes so Biden can continue the free medical, housing and topping off their debit cards.

 

I realize my post upset a liberal but try to get over it.

 

Of course you are free to post wherever you want but are you American?

 

If not, perhaps you can offer your advice on your country’s issues.  I’m sure they will appreciate it.

 

I guess if you have trouble dealing with issues consisting of more than one word, your comment would make sense. At least, to you. For those of us who understand issues that are defined by more than one word, your comment makes no sense at all.

4 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Another day in Bidens America.  If anyone lives in Virginia, BOLO!

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fairfax-county-va-repeatedly-released-honduran-charged-sex-crimes-ignored-ice-detainer-request-feds

What's this got to do with the topic of this thread which is: 

The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Colonna stressed that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed the independent review panel to review UNRWA’s neutrality — not to investigate Israeli allegations that 12 UNRWA staffers participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. Guterres ordered the U.N. internal watchdog, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, known as OIOS, to conduct a separate investigation into those Israeli allegations.

“It is a separate mission. And it is not in our mandate,” Colonna said. She also said it is not surprising that Israel did not provide evidence of its allegations to the refugee agency “because it doesn’t owe this evidence during the investigation to UNRWA but to the OIOS.”

 

 

 

In a wide-ranging 48-page report released Monday, the independent panel said UNRWA has “robust” procedures to uphold the U.N. principle of neutrality, but it cited serious gaps in implementation, including staff publicly expressing political views, textbooks used in schools the agency runs with “problematic content” and staff unions disrupting operations. It makes 50 recommendations to improve UNRWA’s neutrality.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-unrwa-united-nations-28a63ddef23efdc4b050b0bcbdb587ff

 

Full report pdf download link

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2024/04/unrwa_independent_review_on_neutrality.pdf

 

And how does this address the issue of Israel's lack of proof for its allegation that a large proportion of UNRWA workers are actively working with Hanas?

On 4/21/2024 at 8:23 PM, Bkk Brian said:

About UNRWA AND Oct 7th, from the OP:

 

"October 7 has highlighted some of these concerns with Israel’s specific allegations that staff members were involved in acts of terrorism."

U.S. Finds Some Israeli Claims on U.N. Staff Likely, Others Not
Intelligence report says Washington can’t verify Israeli assertions about widespread links to militant groups

A new U.S. intelligence assessment found it is likely that some employees of a United Nations agency that distributes aid to Palestinians took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel, but says the U.S. can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of U.N. workers have links to militant groups, people familiar with the report said.

Washington and other Western capitals last month suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which supplies aid to Palestinians, after Israel shared findings that at least 12 Unrwa employees were connected to the series of Hamas killings and kidnappings during an attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.

https://archive.ph/UWsp4

Israel Hasn’t Offered Evidence Tying U.N. Workers to Terrorism, Review Says

Israel has not provided evidence to support its allegations that many employees of the main U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees are members of terrorist organizations, according to an independent review commissioned by the United Nations that was released on Monday.

The review was announced in January, before Israel circulated claims that significant numbers of employees of the agency, known as UNRWA, were members of terrorist groups.

But by the time investigators started working on the review in early February, it had taken on additional significance: Israel had accused about a dozen employees of the agency, which employs about 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza, of involvement in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel or their aftermath. 

https://archive.ph/5eyLf

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/world/middleeast/unrwa-israel-hamas-report.html

US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says

A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible, though could not be independently verified, while also casting doubt on claims of wider links to militant groups.

The assault precipitated a full-scale invasion by Israel of Gaza that has killed upwards of 30,000 Palestinians. Earlier this year, Israel accused 12 employees of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency (UNRWA) of participating in the 7 October attacks alongside Hamas. It also said 10% of all UNRWA workers were affiliated with Hamas.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas

Israel yet to provide evidence to back UNRWA 7 October attack claims – UN

A month after Israeli allegations that a dozen United Nations staff were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack, UN investigators have yet to receive any evidence from Israel to support the claims, though they expect some material to be forthcoming “shortly”.

The allegations against the 12 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) led 16 major donors to suspend contributions totalling $450m at a time when more than 2 million Gazans are facing famine. UNRWA says it is approaching “breaking point” and only has sufficient funds to continue functioning for the next month at most.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/unrwa-funding-pause-employees-october-7-hamas-attack-claims-no-evidence-un

I wish all the British right-wingers who posted in support of the decision would share their beliefs with their American right wing counterparts who overwhelmingly favor prayer in schools.

7 hours ago, G_Money said:

In what way Mr. Know It All?

It doesn't need a Mr. Know it all to see why this comment of yours is personal.

"How about sticking with your own countries politics instead of putting your nose where it doesn’t belong."

In fact even a Mr. Know Very Little should be able to see why.  I'll try to keep the explanation short and sweet for you. Borders have nothing to do with one's knowledge or ignorance. Chomper Higgot's nationality is utterly irrelevant. Attacking him for that rather than for his statements is blatantly personal. Sad you don't seem to understand that.

18 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

I just looked at the interplay between myself and Danderman on the Florida poll and I woulddn't change a thing.

I have no doubt that you wouldn't. The question is whether you have any rational justifications for that stance. So far, you have offered nothing but a misleadingly truncated quote and borrowed insults. Which suggests that in the way of rational support for your position, you've got nothing

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

No -- I've got the WHOLE quote:

 

You got nothing in court, you don't got the bookkeeper, you got NOTHING! NOTHING! And if you were a man, you would've done it now! You don't got a thing, you punk!

 

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Untouchables

Now you've descended into irrationality and borrowed insults. An understandable, if pitiable, reaction to having your blatant dishonesty exposed.

Here is your excerpted quote

"Anyone like you"

And here it is in its entirety.

"Anyone like you who believes that prognostications about political outcomes can be factual must either believe in time travel or the infallibility of crystal balls. Any source that asserts such an outcome is a future fact is inherently not credible. Making a prediction is inherently a matter of opinion."