Wingate

Only MAGAs can claim a 15% hike in everything they buy from the EU is a great deal. Hey, MAGAs....PSSSSST....wanna buy a Trump Fighter Pilot NFT? It's a steal at $1 billion.

They're rising even faster now. Beef is up 31% in price the last three months.

Yippee! I now get to pay 15% more than previously for everything I purchase from an EU member! I have the good fortune to now pay for that $10,000 bottle of '61 Petrus with $11,500. And that midlife crisis Ferrari? Add another $90,000 on top of the original sticker. What am I going to do with all that money I now won't have? Decisions, decisions!!!!!! WINNING! Toss in the WINNING I also get paying 15% more for everything I buy from Japan*, and I feel like the 1962 NY Mets and the 2024 Chicago White Sox. *The Japan deal is already breaking down, as there are major differences of opinion over what some of the terms mean. The good news is that it buys the current Japanese PM a few more weeks in office, before he has to resign to take responsibility for the election embarrassment.

If Thailand had a currently serving PM, she should tell Trump "We will consider a ceasefire when you release unredacted Epstein files". Why can't Thailand play god, telling the rest of the world what to do?

Let's not forget Trump has a checkered history regarding underage women. One of his partners in his Trump SOHO project was Tefvik Arif, a man already convicted at that time of trafficking underage boys and girls in Central Asia. Apparently such a conviction isn't enough to warrant exclusion from a business relationship and sole partner in a major project. Trump also was known to have stormed into the dressing room of girls participating in his Miss Teen Pageant. Former Trump ally and adviser during his 2016 campaign is George Nader, convicted of possessing "kiddie images". The long friendship between Trump and Epstein,ending only over a failed business deal, not any disgust about Epstein's behavior, is hanging over him like the Sword of Damocles. Very curious that the #2 in DoJ would go to meet with a woman serving a 20 year sentence for engaging in abuse of underage girls. Equally curious is Trump's inability to instantly dismiss talk of a pardon for Maxwell. Trump knows fully well what she was convicted of, and it is heinous, yet he can't instantly dismiss pardon talk.

Women? Any link to the DNA tests? I see lots of Y chromosomes in that gaggle of miscreants. Not sure if the worst thing about MAGA is Trump, or the specimens trotted out as female. One can almost understand why most MAGA girlymen are Incels.

According to Goldman Sachs, US beef prices are up 31% in the last 3 months. I bet Trump signs an EO removing beef from the inflation index. Maybe he'll add his Fighter Pilot NFTs to the index, as they would show inflation is tumbling. The best filet I've eaten in Thailand is grass fed Aussie Black Angus at El Gaucho. I much prefer it to Japanese beer-fed and massaged Wagyu or Kobe. Of course all beat the failed abomination that was Trump Steaks.

So if I ever move back to what was the US (I suspect a number of States will secede before 2028), how can I pretend to be a MAGA? I figure drop 50-75 IQ points, add 30-50 kg in adipose tissue, toss out my entire wardrobe and replace it with what I can get at Mike's Shopping Mall in Pattaya.....anything else? When I see MAGAs in Thailand, the look is always obese, dumb and dressed like a 5 year old Isaan schoolkid. They also seem to like flame tatts on their flabby arms, but I doubt any women are impressed. Most are drunk by noon, too. I guess in MAGAstan all that is called "livin' the dream".

Looking over your comment history, I'm not seeing Mensa Society, so you might want to pull back a little, as you might be speaking to the guy in the bathroom mirror.

No, it is not BS. Open your eyes, MAGA. A member of my staff has family in the US. The mother is naturalized, the children US born and raised. They were picked up by ICE because 'they looked different' and held for several days. The mother's phone was taken and she was questioned as to whether she ever posted anything critical of Trump on social media, as if the US now has lese majeste laws. I really don't think that was the only mistake ICE has made, and that it was just pure coincidence that I happen to employ a woman whose family experienced this outrage. That is fascism, pure and simple, and seems to be something MAGAboys like.

The plot thickens.... Newly unearthed video of a deposition of Epstein shows him being asked---in 2010---if Epstein ever socialized with Trump in the presence of underage girls. Epstein took the 5th. It has also been reported by the WSJ that AG Bondi notified Trump in May 2025 about his name appearing in many of the documents in the Epstein file, which certainly suggests why she never released them, and is now in a position to filter them and release what the Administration decides, being the opaque regime that they are when it suits them. Sen Ron Wyden (D-OR) and author Barry Levine have both uncovered copious information about Epstein and both his money and behavior. Financial records show over 4000 bank wires run through Russian banks, amounting to almost a billion dollars, as well as reports of children as young as 12 being flown from Russia to the US and subsequently ferried on boats to Epstein's island. The mess is not getting any prettier. Just speculation, but I bet one could find poor Russian 12 year olds who bear a striking resemblance to a female about whom Trump has both shown creepy physical contact and expressed words toward that are inappropriate. Speculation is not out of line in a world where one can speculate, for example, with absolutely nothing to back it up, about the country of birth of a former President. Turnabout is fair play. Let's bring the harsh light of day on everything. Of course, no matter how sordid things are subsequently revealed about Trump's long association with Epstein, MAGA will not only forgive Trump, but find a convoluted way to justify his actions. Incidentally, the Trump-Epstein bromance did not stop because Trump learned of Epstein's proclivities, but ended over a joint business venture that went sour. Flying at least 7 times on what was already called The Lolita Express is acceptable, but get the upper hand in a business deal...well, that's unacceptable to a man of Trump's situational morality..

The beauty of that sport others call football (soccer), is that nothing can put me to sleep faster than the dullness of that claimed 'beautiful game'. Three seconds of action hidden in 3 hours of abject boredom. Yawn and you miss it. Watching the grass grow as the ennui goes on above is far more entertaining than the supposed action. I played American football through university. Lots of variety in the plays, and multiple skills required by the differing type of players. As a speedster, I played wide receiver. Great fun.

Macron should just fire back by asking if Owens is related to a popular cookie brand in the US....O-something...... Oh yea, Oreo.

MAGAnistas always find a way to justify or explain away everything Trump does or says. They start with Whataboutism, then shift to "he's just trolling the libs" to some Rube Goldberg-esque convoluted justification. Let me try to outrun them here..... Trump's obvious lust for his daughter when she was Epstein-level young, backed up not only by words but also many pre-AI videos of him fondling her backside, would be justified by his Christian Nationalist base by quoting about Job in the Bible, who produced children with his own biological daughters. Trump was just displaying his Biblical roots. Trump's a man of deep fakes faith, you know.

Poor little Nazi Youth..... The guy Connor in the video, who admitted he's a fascist, supports autocracy, and didn't mind being called a Nazi sympathizer, has paid a price for his opinion. He was fired from his job,whatever it was (I'm going to guess he was a truck driver or worked in a carwash). His only plus was that he did admit there was some "mistreatment" of Jews in Nazi Germany. In his wing of MAGAstan, genocide only qualifies as "mistreatment". The obvious Incel, in the wake of his firing, has turned all Socialist and started online funding pleas. (How else is he going to chip in for his Mom's Basement accommodation and afford his Spaghettios for dinner?) It has been revealed that his online moniker---on Twitter and other platforms---is "pinesap". He is followed by many Republican officials. He is also a friend of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. pinesap is known for being a virulent antisemite. His fellow MAGAnistas in the video complained that they can't get a girlfriend in today's climate. Gee, Incelboys, maybe if you bring something to the table besides misogyny and idiocy, you might develop some game. I guess he and his ilk---such as the other clowns who told US citizen Mehdi Hasan to "get out of the US" (5 of the 20 said that to him)---represent the MAGA version of DEI. In the MAGA tent are all the racists, fascists, QAnons, Incels, Christian Nationalists, misogynists and other assorted dregs of society and affronts to all that is good and decent.

WSJ: We'll take your $10 billion lawsuit and publish another bombshell report. Incidentally, the name "The Lolita Express" wasn't coined after Epstein's arrest, but was in use back when Trump was a passenger on it. Trump might try to claim that since he's never read a book, he would have no idea about Nobokov and his book, and maybe Trump was not a fan of James Mason, but that's weak. I do expect Trump to also claim---if asked about Nabokov and the aircraft's moniker---"It's always 'Russia Russia Russia' with you radical leftists!". As a sidenote, I think Obama should sue the Trump Administration for $1 trillion for the claims of a "coup", as Gabbard is now fantasizing.

Another excuse Trump might use, when it's shown again that he was a regular passenger on The Lolita Express, will be: "I've never read a book, so how would I know this Nabokov guy and what Lolita means? With you radical leftist Democrats it's always 'Russia Russia Russia'!"

In MAGAstan, that's called WINNING! Remember, this is an Administration whose players coined the term "Alternative Facts" and the phrase "Truth isn't truth". Reality = Fake News, and Lies = The Gospel According to DJT.

Eventually Trump will make it go away by signing an Executive Order lowering the age of consent to 10 years old, and he'll grandfather it back to when he was buddies with Epstein and flying on what was already known as The Lolita Express. Once he does that, his lapdog Speaker can recall the House and get back to doing the nation's business, which is pulling the citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell and schlepping Trump's crypto meme coin. Oh, and changing sports teams' names back to things the King likes.

So your $60,000 Toyota Landcruiser is going to cost you $69,000 now. But hey, no inflation!

If you're in need of more "lunatics", watch this video. These are your people, OP. Your MAGAs. Self-proclaimed fascists, in favor of autocracy, supportive of Naziism, quoting Carl Schmitt, etc. I see Incels and losers. Oh, and the guy who proudly states he's in favor of autocracy and a fan of Naziism is followed on Twitter by, inter alia, the leading Republican candidate for AG of Texas. Rational people see the threat posed by MAGA. These are not a fringe part of MAGAstan; they are its bread and butter (or large extra crispy KFC bucket). These are the people who attend Trump's rallies, chanted "Lock her up" (despite no charges) at the 2016 RNC Convention, who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. They're the type who shoot judges kids, hit the House Speaker's spouse with a hammer, and erect gallows to hang the Vice President.

Depending on how serious one wants to take this video, it sits somewhere on a broad spectrum of infuriating to hilarious. This shows MAGA in its full glory absurdity. These clowns are as far from the founding principles of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton et al as can be. The self-proclaimed ‘far righties’ are full of hypocrisy and entitlement. They also, in my opinion, reek of Incel-ness. If there is a “syndrome” existing in the US today, it is arguably what possesses these guys. One suspects these mutants would champion someone like Andrew Tate as the philosophical equal of Plato or Aristotle. Note the applause among their fellows when one of them proudly announces his belief in fascism, autocracy, alignment with Naziism, and outright racism. These bozos exhibit all the darkest qualities of human nature. Watch it and one can see clearly how human horrors such as the Holocaust could arise. The danger of the MAGA movement is undeniable. An AN member posted in this Soapbox a thread entitled “The Face of Dem Lunatics”. Well, here is your mirror, fella. These are your people. This is your team. If you like and support racism, fascism, even genocide, then you are full on MAGA. One participant, when asked about Hitler’s treatment of the Jews, said, “Well, some people were mistreated”. I guess in the MAGA dictionary, “some” equals 6 million killed and millions more abused, and genocide falls under the large umbrella of “mistreated”. Even if the views of these people are not the exact views of Trump, this is what he created. This is the beast he has unleashed. He gave the all-clear to racism, sexism, misogyny and contempt for the US Constitution and rule of law. This is also what his legacy will be.

Yes, because there are absolutely no decent human beings in any of the 160 countries, such as Thailand, not covered by the Visa Waiver Program, right? If your opinion of Thai people is so negative, perhaps you should go back to the paradise of the UK.

Let me try to MAGA'splain this.... His willful disregard for children, in that he'd rather destroy food than feed them, shows he has no interest in kids, which means he's innocent of diddling them with his buddy Jeff Epstein. Now what I can't MAGA'splain, however, is why he has decided to interfere in the names of US Professional sports teams, demanding the Cleveland Guardians become the Indians again, and the Washington Commanders become the Redskins again. How does that make America great again?

I disagree with your statement, and here's why: Many of my Thai staff are females from Isaan. I suspect they would qualify as "old hands", despite being local. At least 50% of the time when they eat either seafood som tam or go to a moo ka ta place, they get bad diarrhea. Not only do they get it, but in pure Thai style they inform me of that fact (hence my statistics of 50% of the time). They also eat both seafood som tam and moo ka ta a lot, so decent and clean bathrooms are a must in my business. In fact, I've learned that when they are eating seafood som tam, they're fantasizing about their next plate of seafood som tam. In other cultures we tend to have different rules regarding what intimate info we share with others. I'm not an "old hand", but I do know Thai women feel no embarrassment telling you things like when they are suffering diarrhea or when it's a "Lady Day".