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4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

It's an Asian thing... burning is their go-to method.

Exactly. I truly believe that most Thai are pyromaniacs at heart, they just enjoy burning things. When I lived in CM, all my neighbors burned their waste, even when the air quality was already abysmal. One neighbor would rake the dead leaves and everything in his garden every day and then burn whatever he had raked together. And this was a professor at CMU. Either they don’t see the damage they’re doing, or they just don’t a give a damn. My money is on the latter.

1 hour ago, Seppius said:

America screwed whichever way they vote this time

Beg to differ. Joe Biden is not a strong president by any stretch of the imagination, but at least he has never professed any interest in becoming a dictator, pulling out of NATO, becoming best mates with Putin, Kim and suchlike, overturning the result of an election, going after everyone who has ever slighted him in the least, giving huge tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, letting corporate America rule (i.e. destroy) the country or becoming the almighty sun king of the entire universe.

Give me a few minutes and I’m sure I can come up with at least 10 more very good reasons why it’s always better NOT to vote for Trump.

56 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Bloody locals don't give a rats about the environment or the effect they have on other people.

It’s time for some harsh penalties, so that these a-holes stop burning. Same with people burning their waste. I am in a condo in Hua Hin right now, and every morning the neighbor burns his waste, covering the whole condo building in smoke. What’s amazing to me is that nobody says anything about it, apparently it’s totally fine to burn your waste and let dozens of people choke on the smoke that causes. Completely ridiculous. 

Oh goody, I see all the resident climate experts (i.e. climate deniers), who think they know what they’re talking about, are chiming in, as per usual. I always wonder how these people can think they actually know better than the vast majority of climate scientists who have often been studying this for decades. 

Taylor Swift just won her 13th and 14th Grammy, by the way, and makes Grammy history with her fourth ‘album of the year’ win. That’s gotta p!ss off some of those MAGA conspiracy theory believers. Not to mention a couple of members on this forum. But I’m sure they’ll find a way to spin it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/02/04/taylor-swift-wins-grammys-2024-midnights/72425158007/

I’m currently in Hua Hin, in a condo near the airport. I ride my motorbike into town nearly every day, and then of course back to my condo. There are so many cars, mainly old diesel pickups, belching out enormous black clouds of smoke.
But the RTP apparently have different things on their mind. Last time I was here there were frequent roadblocks/checkpoints, where they collected ‘tea money’ from motorbike riders not wearing helmets, but they don’t even seem to do that anymore. My guess is they probably found a more profitable - and less conspicuous- racket, because I hardly see them around anymore.

Anyway, they can make all the laws, rules and regulations they want: if they’re not going to be enforced, what’s the point? But that’s Thailand for you: all talk, promises,  committees, crackdowns and whatnot, but at the end of the day, nothing really changes. 

1 hour ago, charleskerins said:

"woke "     Taylor Swift is woke?      

Of course. Everything MAGA doesn’t like (which there is a lot of) or more likely doesn’t understand, is now labeled ‘woke’. When asked what woke was, though, Ron DeSantis couldn’t even define woke. Even though his goal for when he was to become president was ‘to destroy the left and the woke ideology’. Talk about your Don Quixote fighting the windmills.

7 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

 Problem is the crazies on both sides go to far, you're a perfect example.

Always with the ‘both sides are equally bad’. I’m quite sure the crazies are pretty much concentrated on one side of the aisle. MAGA minds seem to have a real knack for coming up with the most outrageous lies and conspiracy theories. Case in point: this insane MAGA conspiracy theory involving Taylor Swift.

31 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I did see them being advertised on Facebook about doing some concert up around the Bang Tao area a few weeks back maybe they were brought over by some agent who promised them everything would be ok, It looks a big band so lots of equipment needed, I looked at their channel on YT over a million subscribers, something has gone wrong here, normally in the past these musicians just get a fine for no WP, 

Thailand is getting awfully chummy with Russia, strengthening ties and whatnot. The Thai powers that be probably don’t want to rock that boat and decided to just get rid of them. Out of sight, out of mind, or something to that effect….

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Sadly, brain dead people listen to entertainment celebrities, and think they actually know what they are talking about.

 

He, she, it, is a musical, acting, entertainment genius, so they have to be as smart about everything they state, outside of their work environment.

 

Sadly elections & policy are won on the best PR.

You mean the entertainment celebrity Donald Trump, who thinks he actually knows what he’s talking about?

43 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

I can read.

So can I. But if you don’t provide a link as to who these very competent attorneys are you say Trump now has, who apparently work on an upfront retainer basis, I’m just supposed to take your work for it?

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

He now has some very competent attorneys who only work for him on upfront retainer basis

And you know that how?

Trump always says he hires only the best people. Until a few days/weeks/months after he hired them, he fires them (or they quit) and he publicly torches and crucifies them as being the worst ever at their job. Yet somehow that doesn’t seem to register with the MAGA folk. 

1 hour ago, G_Money said:

And then you woke up!

Maybe you should wake up and smell the roses….

2 hours ago, riclag said:

He gets a lot of help from other Republic lovers! Patriots who despise 

the Marxist, Communist, Socialist attempts to bring down the Constitution and the values of the founding fathers.

 

imop

You guys crack me up. Calling Democrats marxist, communist, socialist just demonstrates that you have absolutely no idea what marxist, communist and socialist mean, and you’re just repeating the moronic talking points provided to you by Trump and his minions.

It is really beyond me how someone can support Trump and at the same time claim to be a patriot, a defender of democracy and the constitution. Those two things are simply incompatible.

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

My bet’s on Trump not being able to keep his trap shut and it’s going to be more than $86.3 million. Someone probably took his phone and computer away from him (or tied his hands behind his back), otherwise I suspect he would have already posted dozens of slanderous posts on Truth Social.