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Another funny not ha ha type funny aspect of this and related forum topics facing the dark reality of Trump is about is that they always inspire a torrent of toxic noise trying to shut it down. With the usual ad hominem attacks and other low value arguments. In other words, they want to crush free speech. You hear rhetoric from the maga cult that they are very free speech but in reality they are only for pro maga speech. They want to crush all opposition speech.

You could be talking about Thais with the exact same argument.

Yes of course. Which basically means in the context of this topic any responses from those in the maga cult are worthless. Now it does happen that sometimes cult members begin to emerge from the cult and start to face reality. Those voices though rare can be very interesting and valuable.

Seems like a bit of an overreaction. If they did that to every tourist who behaved like an A-hole in Thailand, there would be a heck of a lot more vacancies at hotels. Being an A-hole is not a crime.

That's a common narrative which you're free to believe in but in my view it's overly simplistic.

Trump is in power now! Your attempts at deflection are pathetic.

Like this.

Plenty of attempts by maga types to derail this topic Sorry but this is a very legitimate and deeply important topic going forward as Trump as mentally addled as he is now ain't ever getting better! Only worse. As said WATCH THIS SPACE. Please post Information about the actual topic for as long as Trump is potus.

With a little help from Hamas and Iran.

A very stupid comment. Israelis refuse to be victims. Been there Done that.

Yeah she was definitely very obnoxious in that clip.

Chosen one used as a slur. So predictable.

I'm not qualified to be president. But neither is Trump. If by some magic I found myself president, I would appoint the most amazingly competent experts possible for my cabinet and staff as opposed to moronic incompetent loyalists. I would probably even hire a "shadow president" to propose final decisions to me which of course only I would have the power to listen to or not. Awareness of your capabilities or lack thereof is key. Trump thinks he's a God. He's so the opposite of a God. Also of course I would never confuse tariffs with trade deficits and I would never irrationally attack traditional democratic allied nations while sucking up to enemy dictatorships. So in a sense, yes, I think I could do better. I think a random Uber drive could do better. He's really as bad as anyone could imagine.

That clip does show her as very obnoxious in that clip. However, if it is true that she did get permission from the staff to keep her shoes on, it really isn't about Thai culture. It's about a specific conflict that happened in the shop perhaps with other Karen like customers. To me that's the key. As I've implied before the shoes off thing in businesses is actually much more flexible in real life than many may realize. When you live here you become expert in seeing when it's a very serious no exceptions thing vs. actually the business not really caring much at all either way.

I already didn't want to go to a casino. More restrictions please.

There is massive EVIDENCE of this. But I get it. Cult members are not interested and will always defend no matter what, even when his actions hurt them personally.

Not about Biden. Now that Trump is in power, trying to play act that it doesn't matter that the most powerful man in the world has lost complete contact with reality is simply not objectively defensible. It will be a CULT thing of course

Yeah I enjoy using colorful language. Anyway, all I'm saying here is that we do have some direct evidence that the shoe wearing lady was being obnoxious. However, what we don't really know is how others in the shop behaved.

This NEEDS to become a much more front and center issue as the world suffers through however long the Trump regime lasts, Hopefully not the full four years. Former Trump insiders see mental decline in his recent tweets and interviews - masslive.com www.masslive.com/politics/2025/05/former-trump-insiders-see-mental-decline-in-his-recent-tweets-and-interviews.html On Sunday, Republican former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh wrote on X that there must be more coverage of what he sees as “cognitive decline” from Trump. Walsh, a former representative from Illinois, said he voted for Trump in 2016 but has since become a “Never Trumper, calling the president a “jackass” and a “dictator” in 2024, according to WTTW. “There should be coverage of Trump’s cognitive decline,” Walsh wrote on X. “Massive coverage. Because it’s an issue. A huge issue.”

Stop being so transparently disingenuous! You know perfectly well Trump has surrounded himself with low grade sycophants who would never use Article 25! Also, of course it matters.

Whatever you think or was real about Biden is not relevant now. Biden is out of power. IF that's all you've got to defend Trump as competent, you've lost this exchange.

That's illogical. We do see an awful lot of him and and awful lot of what we see is very awful and reveals that hs's really not in touch with reality, or even a "concept" of reality. Like in the white house presser today, he's still bragging about releasing water in California AFTER the fires were under control and into areas that didn't need it that caused damage, wasting a vital future reserve for agriculture. That in the context of meeting with the new leader of Canada over mutual trade and relations which he has irrationally trashed. Not California. Canada. Recently he confused Harlem with Harvard and went on a full rant about Harlem. The list of examples of his should be shocking mental incompetence occurs daily and is really too long to list. I think that's part of his game, To flood the zone with such garbage so people see his incompetence as normal and also to exhaust people. This topic is about PAYING ATTENTION to it!