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Well, the contrast between the two is rather striking, isn’t it? I mean, Taylor Swift donates 5 million, the Donald probably not a single dollar. But what would one expect from a tight fisted scrooge like Trump, who refused to pay his workers overtime. Trump and his minions also spread all kinds of misinformation about the Biden administration making a mess of helping those who were affected by the storms, and FEMA money being used on immigrants instead of disaster relief. I wonder why they (Trump and his minions) would intentionally stoke the fire of chaos? Any ideas?

I would also bet good money that quite of a few of the employees at his golf resorts and private homes are immigrants. With Trump it’s all ‘do as I say, don’t do as I do’.

In his mind, Trump has probably been to the moon, maybe even to Mars with his new BFF Elon Musk. Apparently there’s a lot of things going on in his mind that make no sense at all. And this guy is supposed to be the president of America?

I don’t look at maps while driving or riding. I look at a map before going on a ride or drive, and then stop when I need to look at the map again. And I really don’t like the satnav voice guiding me, I find that quite annoying. Like I said, I’m an old fashioned kind of guy. I grew up with paper maps, learned how to read them, and learned to appreciate a good map. Call it a fetish if you will.

Thanks for the links. I’m aware there’s such a thing as Google Earth, and Bing has very good satellite maps as well, and I do enjoy browsing those maps. But I’m a bit of an old fashioned kind of guy, I just love me my paper maps, especially when I go on hikes or motor bike rides. That’s why I was asking if anyone knows where to get the RTSD maps.

The Royal Thai Survey Department used to make very good and detailed cartographic maps of Thailand, scale 1:50,000 if I’m not mistaken. And there were several bookshops in Bangkok and Chiang Mai where you could buy those maps. The website of the RTSD has been unavailable for many months, though, and I’m not sure you can still buy RTSD maps in any book shop. Does anyone know where/how I can get my hands on the RTSD maps of Koh Chang? I believe one map covers most of the island, and the other one covers the southernmost strip plus most of the islands south of Koh Chang. I’m a bit of a map aficionado, to put it mildly, and I especially love good and very detailed cartographic maps. I’m thinking of spending next winter (2025/26) on Koh Chang, and having a good map of the island would be quite essential for me. Any and all help/advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

That’s putting it very nicely. I was thinking of another word, though. Starts with gold, ends with digger.

On the other hand…. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/community?lb=UgkxvUDbKd4rIchUYEyUdb-Rs9OyVIdSpZZV

It’s what Republicans/MAGA do: when they win, everything is hunky-dory, but when they lose, the election surely must have been rigged. Go figure. What happened to taking your loss like a man/woman, congratulating the winner and moving on?

Then why are you getting so worked up about people warning us against Trump? Free speech…..

If you think Hitler could have been trusted making that peace offer, you’re deluded. Hitler had been building a war machine and a propaganda machine for years, and the only thing he was interested in was going to war, creating a huge German empire and getting revenge for ‘Versailles’. That, and killing all the Jews. And everyone else he viewed as his enemy. Which was pretty much everyone who didn’t agree with him. Hitler was a horribly evil man, who was willing to destroy everyone and everything by all means possible to achieve his goals. As for peace treaties and if Hitler could be trusted: remember the German - Soviet non aggression pact of 1939? And remember who broke that, less than two years later, by invading Russia?

This is what you posted in another thread, about Alex Jones: ”Alex Jones did not kill anyone or call for anyone to be killed....all he did/does is voice his opinions...despite despots as per yourself calling for the removal of his (everyones) free speech...not realizing that once his free speech is removed yours will be too...” So what happened to free speech? Or does that only apply to right wing loonies like Alex Jones?

So people warning against Trump because they see him as a threat to democracy (have you read ‘project 2025’?) or just as a vile human being (he’s a convicted felon, among other things) is rhetoric now? Since when is telling the truth rhetoric? Trump and Vance, on the other hand, push all kind of crazy conspiracy theories, like Haitians eating cats and dogs, and all immigrants coming into the US being rapists and murderers. Now that is hateful rhetoric.

Now you’re being disingenuous. Read my post again and pay attention this time. Here’s what I said: “I’m pretty sure the rhetoric that leads to violence, political or otherwise, comes from Trump and Vance and their acolytes.”

How do you know that has lead to those assassination attempts?

No, I’m pretty sure the rhetoric that leads to violence, political or otherwise, comes from Trump and Vance and their acolytes.

Trump and especially Vance keep pushing the fairy tale of Haitians eating pets, despite it having been conclusively debunked. They also keep calling them ‘illegal immigrants’, which is not true either, since the Haitians in Springfield are there legally. Smells like hate and fear mongering from the Republicans.

You couldn’t resist, could you. Misogynistic BS, that’s all you have. Strong women with differing opinions seem to scare the MAGA crowd no end.

Just one of many (MANY!) of Trump’s nasty narcissistic traits: never take responsibility for anything, because it is always somebody else’s fault. He’s been doing that to death for decades.

They’re just following their dear leader’s example, who endlessly keeps harping on it.

He did admit that he lost, but he’s also still claiming the elections were rigged and he should have won. How’s that for crazy?

Here’s all the proof you need. Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories. https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-voter-fraud-claims-headless-time-travel-dominion-fox-2023-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T At center of Fox News lawsuit, Sidney Powell and a ‘wackadoodle’ email. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/16/sidney-powell-fox-news-dominion/ It is astonishing to me how many millions of people buy into this kind of ludicrous BS. You really can not make sh!t like this up. Although quite a few posters here have gone down the rabbit hole and have swallowed the election fraud lies wholesale. Apparently two-thirds of Republican voters (still) believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Unbelievable.

What message and values would that be? Talk a big game and pretend to be a tough guy, but instead act like a thin-skinned crybaby every time someone (or you think someone) says something bad about you? Staging an insurrection because you can’t take your loss like a man? Saying “I hire only the best people”, and then firing them left and right? Going bankrupt five or six times and screwing tens of thousands of small businesses out of millions (billions?) of dollars? Not paying your bills? Lie and cheat every chance you get? Cheat on every one of your three wives? Having sex with a porn star while your wife is giving birth to your son? Treating women like objects and telling a reporter you should just grab them by the p*ssy? Make fun of a disabled reporter? I’m sure I could come up with a couple more doozies, but I think you catch my drift. Donald Trump is a miserable excuse for a man who should never be allowed anywhere near a position of power again. But what really worries me is how some 70 million Americans buy into this guy’s lies, that he is God’s gift to mankind, and America’s last and only chance to be rescued from those evil Dems.

A sh!thole country?

Trump doesn’t do jokes, not good ones anyway, as he has no sense of humor whatsoever. His attempts at making jokes are always in very poor taste.