charmonman

A simple google search will show that many elected Democrat politicians have been violently threatened by MAGA types. I guess you’ve only got Foxnews in your cable package?

I really don’t think cannabis is the problem. Alcohol and other drugs are widely available and are much more commonly associated with this kind of stupid behaviour. The other problem is simply that every idiot in the world now has it in their head that Thailand is a place where you can come and behave like a complete a-hole. I’ve been here a long, long time and the quality of tourists coming here just seems to decline every year ( aside from 2020/2021 when there were none - fantastic!)

Once again the corruption and/or incompetence is out in the open for everyone too see, but tens of millions of Republican voters are too brainwashed to see it and Republican politicians are too cowardly to call it out.

There’s no use arguing with these people BLM. They can only respond with their silly macho man insults about safe spaces or “making the libs cry”. Pathetic really.

Right, of course everything Trump does is the Democrats or Biden’s or George Soros’ or Bill Gates’ fault. The good Christian, Jesus praising Republicans would never be involved in any corruption, would they?

The new Secretary of State when Trump throws Rubio under the bus.

Another premonition?

It is indeed perplexing but people get dragged into all kinds of irrational cults, Islam, Scientology, Q-anon, MAGA. It seems many people have trouble thinking for themselves and just want to follow a simplistic ideology or a charismatic leader who relieves them of the difficult task of thinking about reality.

They probably used the word because the silly woman they were interviewing used the word. They should have explained it, that’s all. I had no idea about the use of this word by Muslims and it is just one more example of the utter arrogance at the heart of the religion. You can of course say that about any religion claiming to be the one true religion but Islam often seems to take it to a whole new level.

My ancestors in Canada go back several generations so I consider myself “native” if not exactly “indigenous”. I would not mind a British or European passport but, my now distant ancestry doesn’t qualify me for one.

He doesn’t have the right to tell the owner what she can or cannot sell but he also has the perfect right to tell her that he finds the products she sells objectionable.

Curiosity?

What’s love got to do, got to do with it?

I expect that if a different employee had posted some pro-Hamas statement claiming that most of their colleagues agreed on the company website they would have been similarly disciplined. At least I hope they would have.

You know little to nothing about the guy and you come up with that comment? Who do you think you are, Elon Musk?

And Trump is one of them.

If he’s actually using tariff threats to get other countries to eliminate their tariffs on US goods, why is he picking on Canada which has no tariffs or very low tariffs on US goods under the USMCA agreement that Trump himself negotiated and signed in his first term?

Not sure, but you could take a two week holiday to Thailand in 1913 (not counting the time it took to travel there) and you could buy an EV in 1913 - they were actually quite common.

I agree. It looks pathetic and stupid.

The best time I’ve experienced in recent years in Thailand was the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, when staying in or entering Thailand required some dedication and motivation to be here beyond getting drunk and acting like an a$$hole. Now it’s just free for all, they let anybody in. I realize it was economically tough for a lot of locals who depend on the tourism industry but there’s got to be a happy medium. The first year I came here there were 3 million tourists and I’ve personally witnessed over almost 4 decades how over tourism has degraded so many things in this country as they driven the numbers up to 40 million. Just my opinion.

The US already has a military base in Greenland which is, of course, a NATO ally of the US. Does President Prima Donna know that? He claims Greenland is essential to the US defence. Fair enough, but the US military is already there so what’s his problem?

Yeah ok. The party whose leader loses an selection, concedes to the winner and conducts an orderly transition is the problem, as opposed to the party whose leader never concedes, does everything in his power to deny the winner, including inciting an insurrection that very well could have ended with his own VP being hanged by a mob. I see,

I get by with a little help from my friends. I really don’t care about Christmas though I did have a couple of video calls my brother and his wife over the period. I am also in my sixties and never wanted to be tied down by a wife and kids. Maybe that’s why I was able to retire early and enjoy life. I almost never feel lonely, but don’t look down on those who do. Everyone is different.

He doesn’t look or sound like he is from a “western country” to me. There are idiots and <deleted>holes all over the world and Thailand seems intent on admitting as many of them as possible as tourists. This particular one, wherever he is from, should be deported and blacklisted.

I hope Trump includes the government of Ukraine in these negotiations, unlike what he did in Afghanistan where he cut the Afghanistan government out completely and negotiated directly with the Taliban.