ChicagoExpat

You seem to totally misunderstand the issues here. 1) You're apparently unaware that Thailand already has a large indigenous Muslim population. 2) The issue wasn't whether or not Thailand would grant them residency -- they wouldn't -- but to send them to a country that would accept them -- several offered. 3) Thailand has signed international agreements that prevent this -- it's called "refoulement." Stupid word but there it is. 4) The larger question of malign Chinese influence hangs over this -- Thailand has tons of refugees from all over the world (e.g. lots of Pakistani Christians, Burmese) but why are these few Uighurs suddenly a problem? 5) You parrot Russian/Chinese propaganda on your human rights comment.

I hope so, if they can do it smarter, with less malice, and less corruption. But I doubt it. Also, there's no way Trump and Musk remain allies for long. Two gigantic megalomaniacs can't remain friends, and Musk will get bored soon enough with it.

So how would an election in only part of the country be valid? Can the U.S. hold an election with only 40 states participating?

With the great difference that a chunk of the country wasn't being held by the Nazis. Do you really think they would have held elections if the Nazis held Scotland, and had annexed Wales? How do you cast votes under daily bombardment?

DOGE is a great example. OK in concept, horrible in execution -- firing thousands of people while having no idea what they actually do and then having to recall them when someone tells DOGE that we need nuclear inspectors, the cooked website of alleged savings that's off by billions of dollars, the absurd emails to Federal employees, storing classified data on unclassified servers manned by people without security clearances, gutting the National Park Service, cutting the staff of the agency that regulates Tesla, acting while having no legal authority, et al. There are smarter ways to get this done -- and either way it's going to be brutal as lots of people are losing their livelihoods -- but ignorance, corruption, and malice are a toxic brew.

Seems to depend on how you'd define "maga". I'd probably define it as someone who supports President Trump, but does so in a totally unthinking, unnuanced way, that is unfortunately so characteristic of so many Trump supporters. So when is one NOT maga? When someone supports him or his goals but is also willing to concede that there are a lot of problems with the way Trump's administration gets things done, or that he himself can be an enormous hypocrite, etc.

Again, my comment didn't say that -- your opinion, not mine.

I'm not sure that comment said that. But, OK, in what scenario would a Trump supporter NOT be maga? I am in favor of some of Trump's stated goals (e.g. control immigration, lower government spending) but have very little hope that he is capable of achieving some of those goals. Or for some of them (e.g. controlling alleged corruption) even intends to.

Wow. Just wow.

His green shirt -- $20 on Temu -- was bought with "blood money"? Wow.

And the Right used to view Russia -- a state that is malignant to its very core and absolutely opposed to everything the MAGAheads supposedly value -- for what it was but now is lining up to give Russian soldiers bj's. The world is a weird place.

So, again, while you may not mean it to be so, this aligns perfectly with pro-Kremlin agitprop. So you're saying that if one is against Russia's latest invasion, and think that Western governments should continue to assist Ukraine resist its destruction, you have to be willing to go there and fight personally? I hear this over and over again from pro-Russian Westerners.

I just cannot understand how so many commenters here are pro-Putin. Especially when so many of them complain about stuff... that's SO MUCH WORSE for the side they support, whether it's what Putin does or what Trump does. Moral bankruptcy, yes, but the hypocrisy is really disgusting.

He literally invaded to take all of Ukraine. What world are you living in? Did you totally miss the first month of the war?

He set out to have all of Ukraine, he set out to have a quick and dirty war that cost him nothing and gained him much, he set out to burnish his reputation. Settling for what he already had... hardly seems like a victory. And "If we had only listened to the bad guy and given in to his demands, bad things wouldn't have happened" is a curious approach to life, history, foreign policy, etc.

This didn't age well. And his villa was bought pre-presidency. One of the things I love about Russian shills is that their criticisms of Ukraine/Zelensky/etc -- when not outright lies -- are always1000 times more applicable to Putin and/or Russia. Zelenskiy stole some money! Ukraine didn't have a fair election! There's corruption in the Ukrainian MoD! Of course, if these things REALLY bothered the Putin fanboys... they wouldn't be Putin fanboys.

Well, it's better than the hilarious shots of shirtless Vlad, Vlad "finding" ancient underwater artifacts, etc, and even weirder -- pre-plastic surgery Vlad, who looks uncomfortably like Dobby the House Elf. What kind of man is so insecure as to continually get plastic surgery over the years? Oh, I know, the same kind of man who will condemn hundreds of thousands to death for his own ego and ability to stay in power.

Shhhhhh, if the Slavaboos and vatniks hear stuff like this their heads explode. Remember, comrade, Russia has never done anything bad. Ever. And Tucker Carlson is a very smart man.

Please back up the Mossad allegation. That's interesting.

Trump is a disaster but I'm not going to call for the murder of the elected President. Sorry, but you're the traitor if you call for that.

There were Russians as well.

Edit: During the years I lived in Moscow (until 2022) I went to the WW2 museum several times. In a gigantic museum, there is literally almost no mention (I saw one) that the SU had allies in the fight against the Axis. One mention. One.

He is literally using Kremlin talking points, so the the confusion is understandable. When the Steele dossier was discredited I thought "Good, glad to see a (probably Russian) attempt at election interference fail." I never then thought that the Dem narrative would turn out to be true, but it is. He really is a Russian asset.

I loved the Bee but in the past two years or so they have become not only full MAGA but unfunny, in the same way Colbert, SNL, Trevor Noah etc are unfunny on the Left. When you try to push a political narrative using humor as the vehicle, rather than just try to be funny, you're not funny. And they've also lost their distinctive Christian edge, the more MAGA they become.

You're saying Russia is so stupid they were duped by the CIA into a disastrous invasion of their neighbor? That despite 2 previous invasions of Ukraine, this third one was one they wouldn't have done on their own had they not been bamboozled by the nefarious spooks at Langley? You really have a low opinion of Russian intelligence.