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Oh, but it does. Do you know it's illegal to hire undocumented workers in the US? How many white company owners have been stalked, grabbed and arrested by the stormtroopers of ICE? There's a guy who has employed undocumented workers going all the way back to the early 1980s. He hired undocumentwed Poles to build his eponymous tower in NYC. He hired undocumented Central and South Americans for his wedding planning facility and golf clubs in Florida and New Jersey up to 2017. That was illegal in 1080 and all the way through 2017. Should ICE stormtroopers raid 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and grabbed the lawbreaker? "Breaking the law does not become OK just because a few years have passed". MAGA=hypocrites.

Speaking of "illegal aliens", how many white employers has ICE rounded up? They should be driving their unmarked vans filled with masked stormtroopers through the tony neighborhoods of Dallas and Atlanta and Birmingham and Phoenix and other cities where the owners of companies employing undocumented aliens live. They should be raiding Sunday afternoon garden parties or smashing through the doors of Country Clubs. There's a hypocrite who began employing undocumented aliens way back in the early 1980s, when he was building an eponymous tower in NYC (using hundreds of undocumented Poles). He continued to employ undocumented workers at his wedding planner facility and golf courses in FL and NJ up until 2017. He faced zero charges for doing that, just as no one owning a farm or textile factory or abattoir or cleaning company or landscape company, who knowingly employs undocumented aliens, is ever held accountable. But as you know, the "border issue" is just a cudgel to scare MAGAs into thinking there will be a rapist or murdering Brown person hiding under their bed. The MAGAs could have done much more effective border control if they simply began arresting those who employ undocumented workers. But since the white business owners are part of the Donor Class, they are exempt from the law.

I guess I can understand why you think that way, coming from a land where---to some extent---your fellow citizens still revere people for the "great accomplishment" of simply being born. You seem to accept your inherent inferiority. Good for you. Other people don't feel that way, and hold their leaders to accountability. The US is not a monarchy. Elected officials serve the people. The US also---at least for the time being---still enjoys a free press. Obviously that rubs the thin skin crybaby Trump the wrong way. If ANY question is less than groveling sycophancy, the whining Trump objects. He considers anything that doesn't praise him as the Second Coming out of bounds. He's incredibly weak, pretending he's a tough guy, when in reality he's just a bloated blubberbutt bone spurs coward. The job of the press is to ask questions about which people want to know answers. It is not about bowing to a crybaby dictator wannabe. If Trump doesn't like it, he should resign and go hang around with the members of his Cabinet (who would also resign), where they can worship his fragile ego with their unctuous drivel until Trump finally passes.

That's so 1950s! Somewhere along the way in the last 60-70 years, women realized they have every right to test themselves and be the best they can be in whatever they decide to do. Imagine that! Equality. The wives of the uber wealthy work. It's not Leave it to Beaver anymore. Former female colleagues of mine made 7-8 $figure incomes. I think that qualifies as "wealthy". When they chose to get together with a man, they planned their future life together---if she would work, if they would raise a family, etc. She did not need her spouse for his money, but for his love and emotional support. Weak man have trouble accepting that. They prefer a dependent partner whose dependency is his source of pride and self-respect. Equality scares him, because he's actually insecure. Such men ought to try real love and support, and try embarking on a journey together of true respect and equality. Now could it happen with a bargirl? I don't see why not. She probably has dreams, too, and wants to be the best "her" her skills and talents allow. Maybe she just needs a boost to be able to get the education or training she needs to become what she wants to be. No, I do not have a bargirl partner. I would not be against it, however, if I met someone, shared similar goals, and vetted her enough to know she both has ambition and can be believed. Every fully functioning human being, male or female, bargirl or normie, wants to live a rewarding life. The most interesting people---which is to say potential partners---want to challenge themselves and find out just how far their skills and talents can take them in this short life. Yes, that attitude might even exist is a bargirl.

Hooray for FREEDOM! Doxx every last one of the stormtroopers. Beat police wear name tags and badges. They face everything from bank robbers to gang members to international drug gangs to lunatics with a gun. If they can do it, so can Trump's fascist stormtroopers. Here's a scenario even a truck driver might be able to understand..... An unmarked, windowless van pulls up near you. Five guys wearing face masks jump out. They have no name tags, no badges. They do not identify themselves. They grab you and throw you into the van. That scenario is neither Moscow, nor a hypothetical. It is happening today in many US cities. When I am home, I avail myself of my Second Amendment right, and I have a concealed carry permit. If such a thing happened to me, I would assume I'm dead anyway, so my Sig P229 has 15 rounds, including one in the chamber. I was well trained in firearm use when I served, and also know how I react when faced with a threat. I'll double tap as many of those face masks as I can before they shoot me. Let their kids grow up without a fascist daddy. I'm no Rambo (none exist), but if I'm going down, I'm taking as many of those fascist scum with me as my skill and time allows. Let "Two Corinthians" sort'em out. THAT ^ is how a real American behaves...ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. You fat old never-served MAGAs have no clue, because not a one of you has a friggin clue what America means.

There have been a few leaks about the upcoming star officer gathering the drunkard SecWAR has called for this week. As it develops, I am sure webfact or others will post articles here. The confab is about redirecting the US Military away from preparing for war with China, and towards domestic control.....i.e., how to keep the sheeple under the boot of their masters. The police state is almost here. Bill Maher joked "we’re past the muzzling dissident phase, and we’re into the prosecuting political enemy space. I think Trump could be in the general’s uniform by Christmas.” The anti-American MAGAs like this collapse of the US. Let's see how they like it when even they become targets, because in Trump's mind they're all losers anyway, as they're not rich and successful like his "which way is the wind blowing" fake sycophants like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Griffin et al.

Aaahhh! Yet another Bone Spurs Rambo. Never served, right? You and your messiah.....blubberbutt cowards who insist others do the fighting for them.

You do seem excited about all these folks you fantasize about being "in full panic mode". I bet you're getting a micro-woody just thinking about it, but best you stop the self abuse/onanism and calm down.

You have to make up a crime to indict Schiff. Maybe you cult members can try some form of lese majeste? You're all anti-American, so that might fit. What we do know is that stealing classified documents with an obvious intent to monetize them (why would Trump steal HCS, which have real names of foreign human clandestine sources?) is not a crime in MAGAStan, trying to overthrow an election ("Just find me 11,780 votes) is not a crime in MAGAstan, and Insurrection and Sedition are not crimes in MAGAstan. We also know that conspiracy to hang the Vice President of the United States in a pardonable offense...kind of like stealing a pack of gum from a 7-11 (unless you're black), and beating and bear spraying 140 Capitol police officers is "just typical tourists" in MAGAstan, and if anyone takes exception to the beatings, and does their job like investigate or prosecute, those officials must be fired. That is the America you created. It was not the America I served. Of course you never served so you never had any skin in the game. Bone spurs?

Go ahead, cricket Chirp away I know it's Autumn -------Basho Got a question for you, mikey. Did you ever serve? Have you ever gone into harm's way for the US? Have you ever done anything to protect the homeland? Have you ever had to keep your cool when an enemy is firing at you? You're an armchair bone spurs MAGA, trying to live vicariously through Trump, trying to get back at all the cool kids who dissed you since birth. Just admit it. It's abundantly clear even from your screen name what kind of a person you are, and what kind of a man you are not.

MAGAs pay rent to live up the alimentary canal of their messiah Trump. Really, can you not be any more original than with a tired line about "rent free"? There are those of us who not only understand American ideals, but who served to defend the US and those ideals. It is not "living rent free" when we are critical of someone who stands against every US ideal, it's called "patriotism".

Speaking of hate, there’s an interesting book released this month by actor/comedian John Fugelsang called: “Separation of Church and Hate” He goes after Trump a little, but more against all the supposed right wing “Christians”, noting that not a single thing they espouse is in any way connected to the teachings of Jesus. He’s kind of an amateur Biblical scholar, being the product of a former Carmelite Nun and former Franciscan Brother. He notes that the far right hides behind Jesus, but in fact hates everything for which Jesus supposedly stood. Jesus was all about humility, uplifting the marginalized and the poor, eschewing material goods, and service to one’s fellow man. Evangelicals are all about hate, being against the poor and downtrodden, cutting foreign aid, the “prosperity gospel”, racism and misogyny. Their Jesus is white and a warrior, when Jesus was brown and non-violent. Fugelsang notes Matthew 25, where Jesus gives marching orders to both individuals and nations, telling them they will be judged by how they: ---take care of the poor ---take care of the sick ---welcome the stranger ---be kind to those in prison Trump and MAGA cut foreign aid that fed men, women and children, stopped programs that provided vaccines and medical care. Trump deports “strangers”, though the white bosses who hired the undocumented workers get off scot free (Trump has a long history, going back to the early 1980s, of employing undocumented workers. Undocumented Poles built Trump Tower, and both Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster had undocumented workers even into Trump’s first term.) As for prisoners, Trump sends folks to hellholes in El Salvador and Uganda. Jesus also taught “forgive thy enemies” and “turn the other cheek”. Clearly Jesus is a threat to autocratic power and dictator wannabes, whose life is consumed with going after critics and perceived enemies. Trump may not be the antichrist, but Christ is most definitely the antiTrump. The far right likes to chime in with “we’re against abortion”, when Fugelsang points out not only did Jesus never speak of abortion, the Old Testament says the mother’s life is more important than a fetus, and in Leviticus it instructs how to abort a fetus. Again, what Jesus teaching does Trump and MAGA fight for? None. Now I’m not the least bit religious. I believe in what the Founders espoused about keeping religion out of government. The MAGA movement, however, is a hypocritical movement that claims to be on Jesus side and wants the US to be a kind of theocratic Christian state, albeit in Jesus name only, not even close to Jesus teachings. For MAGA, Jesus is a sword, a means of justifying power and control, and is totally self-serving. Hate is their message, That’s abundantly clear here, as MAGAs love when Trump goes after critics, even when the critics broke no law. MAGAs applauded the cuts in foreign aid, and they love watching kids separated from parents and sent to hellholes.

LOL! I don't have bone spurs, MAGA boy. I went into harm's way for the US. Neither do I fear Code Pink protests like Trump, who not only ran into the White House bunker when a small group of post-menopausal grandmas of Code Pink showed up on Pennsylvania Ave, but also when a White House insider noted that Trump went and hid, Trump said that insider was a traitor who should be executed. Now THAT ^ sounds like a crying sniveling coward.

Well, Rambo, you better hope Trump doesn't run again, because if he can, both Obama and Dubya can. Dubya will split the Repub vote, and Obama would crush Trump anyway. Neither man thinks Trump is qualified, so both men will do what is right for America. But Newsom is most like to crush Vance in what will be the real election.

Nota bene: "if you start it" BTW, I noticed you ignored the violence of the Terrorists for Trump on 6 January 2021.

Wouldn't it be funny if you got your wish, the guy was charged, convicted and imprisoned, and on 20 January 2029 President Newsom pardoned him. The guy did not attack Capitol police officers. He did not look for the Vice President to hang him for doing his job. MAGAs are nothing if not snowflake hypocrites.

Okay, Rambo. No doubt you're going to slip your cams over your bloated gut, grab your M4 and go make America like North Korea. LOL! On my side, I see Trumpers as threats to the Constitution to which I took an oath. Should I see those silly red hats the same way I saw jihadis in the tribal regions of Pakistan? I'm game for that, if you start it. If that is the world you want, I suggest you get your affairs in order, because you lack the skill, courage, fitness and experience to be a warrior. (I edited this to bold face the key line.) Yo, Rambo, best you not start what you cannot finish.

Release everything. Trump and his minions are playing this worse than Hitler played his invasion of Russia. Watch Patel at his recent disastrous Senate Hearing. He was so obviously hiding something, as he dodged direct questions about how many times Trump's name appeared in the files. If Trump is truly innocent, release everything. Otherwise, it's never going to be gone, no matter how many distractions Trump tries to float. Oh, and if it gets Bill Clinton or anyone on the left, so be it. If Trump and his people keep doing as they're doing, the Epstein File saga will last longer than the JFK conspiracies. If there is nothing to hide, just do it. Delay tactics just create more doubt that Trump is innocent. Besides, even if Trump violated a 12 year old Ivanka lookalike, his cult would offer up an excuse, likely a Biblical one like the story of Lot.

Goodness! I fear the Apocalypse is upon us, as I find myself in agreement with KhunLA. I'm a professional expat. Thailand is hardly my first foreign port of call. I can adapt anywhere, but feel no need to assimilate. I'm an individual among 8.5 billion. I have learned a number of languages along the way, but that was out of need. I do not necessarily need fluent Thai. Enough to get by has been adequate. Every country has good points and every country has bad points. An expat relishes the good and endures the bad. It's not hard. An expat's life tends to be better than locals everywhere, save perhaps for Monaco and Lichtenstein, where it might be on par, if not still better. An expat's life is blessed. I acknowledge that reality. What works anywhere and everywhere is "be nice". Be polite. Be respectful. Learn enough culture so you don't make a gaffe, which could be unintended. Life is short and there are many interesting places in this world to visit or live. Thailand is one such place. Some folks come, fall in love, and choose to stay for the duration. Personally, I have wanderlust, and like to get my fill of a place until someplace new captures my attention and has me moving there. My good fortune has given me the chance to experience many major cultures and live in places where all the world's major faiths took turns being predominant, from Christianity to Buddhism to Judaism to Islam to Hinduism. Each of those belief systems has shaped its culture. That has been an interesting study and quite entertaining. The only complaints I have relate to the country of my birth, because it should be a lot better than it currently is. It's supposed predominant faith is Christianity, but current leaderships promotes a sum total of zero of the teachings of the Christian prophet (love, empathy & service). Instead it's "ME" or "MINE FIRST". They are "Christian" in name only, but are the polar opposite of everything Christ supposedly taught. I'm not religious, but I know hypocrisy when I see it, which is why I permanently left my home country.

BREAKING NEWS! Trump told (a) truth! In the last week, in a speech, Trump said this: "Smart people don't like me". How many times have non-Trumpers on this site said the same thing in many ways? And now, Trump himself speaks truth. On that Trump and anti-Trumpers are on the same page. (It also says a lot about what he really thinks of his cult.) I think that Trumpian truth is reflected in the data. Here's an example: Trump won 85% of all US Counties in both wins, 2016 and 2024. Combined those 85% of all US Counties contribute only 38% of total US GDP. The other 15% of US Counties---the wildly successful ones relative to places Trump won---contribute 62% of total US GDP. Blue=winner. Blue = smart. Ergo, smart people don't like Trump. I don't think the left hates western civilization, but maybe the left is just tired of having to carry the Red areas, who are slackers. Also, righties are valor stealers. Despite accomplishing nothing and having to be carried by productive Blue areas, righties try to latch on to inventions and discoveries made by people of similar ethnic background. "We invented the airplane and computer and went to the moon, etc.". No, it wasn't "we". Perhaps it's already been mentioned, but Mahatma Gandhi had a funny quip when asked what he thought of western civilization. He said, "I think that would be a very good idea."

White guys who are anti-western civilization? Is that a confession? Don't you live in Thailand? As far as I know from my geography days, Thailand is not considered part of western civilization.

Bananamerica! Of course it doesn't chant as well during things like the Olympics.

As I said, you've got nothing. Saying something is false should be backed up by some alternate fact. You didn't. You cannot. You've got nothing but the vapors from Trump's fever swamps.

Kimmel Day 2 was funny also. He made jokes about Escalatorgate, where the UN escalator stopped just as some fat guy and his former softcore porn model wife were getting on. Kimmel showed the AG Bondi on Fox, with some goofball talking head named Watters, who was almost crying, because "It could have injured the most beautiful First Lady in history" (Wow! The Cult is totally captured.) Bondi insisted she will get to the bottom of whoever stopped the escalator. Trump says they should be arrested. Well, it turns out one of Trump's own videographers accidentally tripped the Emergency Stop button while trying to get a better shot. The Border Czar can take a bag with $50,000 and promise to grant contracts once he takes over the position, and the DoJ drops investigation of that obvious corruption, but Escalatorgate gets the AG's full attention. Carnival People.

So you're good with his lying or hyperbole or dementia? And let us not forget Rwanda. Two weeks ago, despite "machetes machetes everywhere" he ended the 1994 genocide, or so he claimed. The guy whose brain is that addled has the nuclear codes. MAGAnistas might be okay with that, but sane people are not. And while Biden's faculties were fading, he had folks around him who were competent. Trump has only Carnival People like Hegseth. A little reminder......the nuclear triad undergoes several tests each day. The ICBM and Trident operators have no idea if it's real or a drill. They obviously assume it's a drill, but the point of the daily exercises is that they will simply act when ordered to fire 7000 nuclear warheads. Only the POTUS can send the actual current codes, and there is no one in his Administration to stop him. He opens the "football", selects the strike plan, and electronically issues the order to fire. The nuke operators will assume it's just another drill, until they, too, are vaporized. A demented and likely batsh!t crazy felon like Trump shouldn't be anywhere near the codes that could end all life on Earth.