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Führerbunker (“Leader’s bunker” in German) or Reich Chancellery. MAGA minions should change their name to Citizens Under Nazi Tutelage. 😏

I did the phone call option on Sept 2nd. I never got the form and if they sent a second one I didn't get that either or... hopefully... the phone call verified that I'm alive and therefore didn't need the second form mails. I 'trust' that all is good. 🤞🤞🤞

Great info, Scorecard... thanks for the explanation and personal experience info. 🙏

Thanks for the link. 🙏 So, they want to expand, not contract... get more folks enrolled would help the system. It's such a great program and very affordable. Very few of my Thai friends outside of my company buy into it, unfortunately.

Thanks. I haven't heard anything about changes at all. What potential changes have you heard about?

I just turned 70 and I'm still working (with a Work Permit). I have Thai Social Security... been paying into it for 30 years. A buddy said two things: I could be forced to retire due to my age AND, more importantly, the option of choosing healthcare for life might not be available for foreigners due to recent changes. I do marketing for a tour company that I started. My age doesn't affect my work. I've had a Work Permit for 30 years. My accountant said (a while ago) that getting a Work Permit when elderly is an issue, but keeping one going usually isn't. I'm more concerned about losing my healthcare. I can't find any info online about that. The Thai SS site makes no mention. Does anyone else have any insight into this?

"It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be - it will be near it, but not touching it. And pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite." ---- Trump

Wow! 🤯 Everything costs more. Tariffs are paid by the buyer. His tax cuts disproportionately benefited the wealthy, rapidly increasing national debt while gains for the "average American" largely followed existing trends. BTW, China just made a 20-year soybean deal with Brazil. Ya boy plans on bailing out the farmers who are affected with our tax dollars.

The loyalty is sad and a bit baffling. The following is seemingly not about a platform; it's about weaponizing grievance and spite. His base sees his felony conviction, policy failures (like healthcare/trade), and sheer chaos not as flaws, but as badges of honor proving he’s the ultimate outsider fighting "the system." His appeal is: - "Owning the Libs": Making opponents miserable is the main policy. - Martyrdom/Indictments: including the civil jury finding of sexual abuse against E. Jean Carroll and the two dozen plus other claims of sexual misconduct, just make him a persecuted hero. - Cultural Vengeance: He champions their anger, with any allegation, including a past, dropped lawsuit alleging he raped a 13-year-old with Jeffrey Epstein, being dismissed as a political attack. - Absurd pardons: releasing felons and commuting the sentences of convicted criminals who are on his team. Morality is outsourced for the satisfaction of pure spite. Am I correct in assuming that you're fine with him building his own army and buying weapons used for war instead of crowd control/protesting? Alas, this is a rhetorical question.

This is the same map of every state where ya boy is a convicted felon and twice impeached president.

One thing I noticed was the lack of young people is most crowd images. They are, however, all over the Palestine groups at the march. Dems probably aren't paying enough attention to this... unfortunately.

You're not wrong, but that's why the GOP is busy trying to redistrict key states. As much as I don't like them, they play the long game. I'm guessing the Dems are focusing on playing fair and assuming they'll sweep the midterms not because of what they (Dems) offer, but on how much people dislike the GOP. In other words, they didn't learn 💩 from the last election and another recent one. Alas, I have lost faith in the Dems. I hope I'm wrong, but history is on my side. 😔

Oh my, where's my burn ointment? 🔥 Seriously, “go play with your teddy bears” ?? That’s the kind of comeback you give when the GED fairy skipped your house. It’s basically “I ran out of brain cells, so here’s something I heard on Xbox Live in 2008.

It's my guess that ASEAN Now is eating all of this activity up... attention = clicks. ASEAN allows blatantly hateful post that obviously add nothing to our general knowledge of a subject. 💩-stirring is a lot of social media platforms' goal.

Wow, that's deep. You should make this the topic of your next TED Talk.

Oh yeah, nine months of 'winning' is sweet 🙄 , but it came with a 'Trump Turbulence Tax' for your wallet, trading global alliances for transactional grudges, and bloating the national debt to an Olympic level. The 'legal action' is just his personal retribution service, and the reports of shadowy, unaccountable federal agents operating like a private police force are straight out of the Authoritarian Playbook. It's just sad that so many folks are so deeply invested in this expensive, deeply unhappy cult. You forgot to add how much you love him not releasing the Epstein files. You must love the fact that he said he'd release the files, but is seemingly doing everything under the sun to distract us away from it. Will you still be kissing his ring if it's ever revealed that he had illegal relationships with underage girls or is that something you accept, because he's the king?

Oh yes, Biden trying to ease student debt is exactly like Trump pressuring officials to “find votes,” hoarding classified documents, and staging a coup. It's totally the same. 🫤 One helps students, the other tried to overthrow democracy... but sure, let’s call them both kings. 👑 FYI, not everyone who is on the 'left' is a huge Biden supporter. I've voted Democrat all of my life and I can't stand Biden, Harris, and most of the Democrats. I view them as less harmful. They are weak and ineffective and marketing. Their focus on wokeness catapulted the GOP's popularity. The Dems are why the world is stuck with a megalomaniac.

Ah yes, because it was the leftists who gutted public funding for universities, turned education into a profit center, and let private lenders run wild. Next, you'll tell me vegans are responsible for factory farming. REALITY: Several Republican-led policies and priorities have contributed to rising college costs over the past few decades. Key examples include: Cuts to Public Funding: Starting in the 1980s under Reagan, the federal government shifted higher education from a public investment model to a personal responsibility model. States, encouraged by federal tax-cut policies, reduced university funding, which forced schools to raise tuition. Expansion of Federal Loans Over Grants: Reagan and later GOP administrations reduced Pell Grant growth while expanding student loan programs. This shifted the burden from government support to individual debt, allowing colleges to raise prices knowing students could borrow more. Privatization and Deregulation: Bush-era deregulation of the student loan industry (and strong GOP lobbying support for for-profit colleges) led to predatory lending, higher tuition, and skyrocketing default rates. Tax Cuts Reducing State Revenues: Repeated GOP-led tax cuts (especially at the state level) reduced education budgets, pushing more costs onto students and families. In short: Republican fiscal policy treated college like a business, not a public good... so we started getting business-sized bills. However, both parties have screwed over the general population. Still, the overall downfall of the middle-class start with Reagan and his trickle-down malarky. OK, over to you to show your evidence that this was all the responsibility of the 'lefties'. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🙏

The Sackler family didn’t just start the opioid epidemic — they branded it, complete with glossy brochures, junk science, and a sales pitch smoother than a Wall Street bailout. Their company, Purdue Pharma, pushed OxyContin like it was aspirin, assuring doctors it was “non-addictive” while the country quietly drowned in pills. And despite causing more American deaths than most wars, the Sacklers didn’t face drone strikes, SWAT raids, or a new militarized agency to “protect freedom.” No, they got art museums named after them and a slap-on-the-wrist settlement. Turns out, you don’t need tanks or ICE to destroy America — just good PR, political donations, and a family crest embossed on a bottle of lies.

Sure, every president talks about cutting the debt, but Trump isn’t talking anymore, he’s doing, and by “doing” I mean lighting the national credit card on fire while bragging he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for not starting WWIII... yet. Scale matters: he’s not competing with history, he’s rewriting it in bold, unpaid invoices. Oh wait, the tariffs that other governments pay will cover this. What was I thinking? 🤦

Oh please. The mental gymnastics in that screed could qualify for the Olympics. 🫤 So let me get this straight: a bunch of retired hippies waving cardboard signs and singing “Let the Sunshine In” are somehow one Molotov cocktail away from an insurrection—but an armed mob storming the U.S. Capitol to overturn an election was just “tourists taking selfies”? Seriously? 🤦 The guy is describing a Woodstock-themed nostalgia walk, not the Bolshevik Revolution. “No Kings” literally means they don’t want a wannabe dictator running the show. That’s not rebellion, it’s civics. And the pearl-clutching over “under-employed, debt-oppressed younger gen folk” is rich. Maybe if the system these right-wing sages defend wasn’t crushing them with student debt and $20/hour rent, they wouldn’t be “acting out their discontent.” In short: this isn’t an insurrection. It’s the sound of democracy creaking back to life after being held hostage by people who think freedom means worshiping billionaires and banning books. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🙏

Oh boy, this reply is a dumpster fire of bad arguments. First, your correspondent initiates a classic Red Herring distraction: the bizarre leap from criticizing budget-busting B-52s to whether you "approve of Fentanyl use." That's not a counter-argument; it's a desperate attempt to swap your fiscal criticism for a low-effort moral panic. Second, your defense of ICE would be fine, if it didn't stink of being a very expensive, silly private army of masked goons who are seemingly not focused on illegal immigrants, but notably of anyone who is of a certain pigmentation. You defend the agency's mission instead of addressing the massive, unaccounted-for spending... not to mention the methodology: masked men, no ID, no due process, no accountability. I'm 100% behind deporting illegal immigrants in a manner befitting of the self-proclaimed greatest country on earth. ICE makes us look the opposite. Most hilariously, you attempt to normalize deficit spending as "what all politicians do," which is pure political amnesia. Trump explicitly campaigned on eliminating the entire national debt. Every high-spending, non-standard action, from those costly B-52s to the privatized border enforcement, is an immediate, direct, and objectively verifiable betrayal of his one core fiscal promise. The argument is both logically flawed and politically illiterate. Thank you for your attention to the matter. 🙏

More Nobel Peace Prize material. 🤦 He's spending OUR money like crazy with his silly private (and very expensive) ICE army and unprovoked military actions at home and abroad. It's almost as it he really doesn't prioritize lowering the deficit... hmm. 🧐

Crickey! You really cracked the code on that one. Using those links as 'proof' that Antifa is a centralized organization is like trying to prove all restaurants belong to a single global corporation because there's a local diner and a blog about international food. joinantifa.org / atlantaantifa.org: The existence of local, specific-city groups or generic informational domains actually confirms the exact opposite of a unified organization. Antifa is a decentralized movement, a coalition of autonomous local groups and unaffiliated activists united by a shared anti-fascist ideology. Think of it like arguing that all people who believe in democracy belong to one single, formal "Democracy Organization" with a CEO. antifainternational.tumblr.com: Yes, a highly secretive, paramilitary international network is clearly running its sensitive global operations via a Tumblr blog. That’s some top-tier operational security. The chain of command must report directly to the 're-blog' button. The Fact: Leading historians and law enforcement analysts consistently describe Antifa as a leaderless, non-hierarchical, decentralized movement or a collection of autonomous local cells. The websites simply belong to some of those independent local groups, proving that the movement is spread out, not centrally controlled.

Probably because too many congressmen are members. You generally don't put your own voting bloc on a watch list. It's tough to designate an organization as a threat when, for much of its history, it was merely the caucus that elected the Governor, or, as their hierarchy dictates, was led by a 'Grand Wizard' who understood state politics better than half of D.C.