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I found his one and only expression to be a bit disconcerting. He always looked a bit puzzled about something. I liked his show on Fox though. He had some good guests.

and if he was against Putin would you think the same thing?

Cuba was joining a defensive alliance. The US was Cuba's enemy, or have you forgotten the bay of Pigs? If they were in NATO you think the US would not have put nukes on the Russian border? Did the master planner Putin not see this coming? IMO he thought it would be over before that would happen. I think he didn't realise how effective the Ukrainian resistance would be, or how long they would hold on for. I suspect a few advisors are in a colder place now. You think Putin plans everything himself, seriously? He hasn't lasted this long by being stupid.

I said that a while back. I suggested they made him do it to try and make him withdraw after failing ( they must know how bad he is now, and don't want to lose the election ). Doesn't appear to have worked though.

The most interesting part of the debate on CNN was the after analysis, when all the Dem guys were agreeing that Biden was toast, and has to go. Say that again "the DEMOCRAT guys were saying that Biden has to go" WOW. Never thought I'd hear that on CNN, the home of Biden lovers, or did I get that wrong and it's the home of Trump haters? I don't remember them actually saying much if anything about Trump. It was all about Biden. It must hurt when one comes prepared to gloat how Biden owned Trump and he visibly fell apart right in front of them. Such is life.

Trump disappointing? Say it ain't so! Seriously, Trump was classic Trump on the night, blathering on about loads of stuff except on the question. Trump gold! That's why his base loves him- he doesn't play by Washington rules, just charges head first through them and leaves his opponents wondering "what the heck just happened"? Let's face it, when someone like Biden is actually a candidate for leader of the free world- say that again "leader of the free world, the inmates must have taken over the asylum, and in that case, the best response is to put a clown up for the top job, ergo Trump.

It has indeed. Back in the 70s I was up the top of the Golden Mount and mostly shophouses to be seen. I assure you traffic was just as bad in Bkk in the 70s. I got on a bus and 10 minutes later got off as we had moved not a millimeter. Quicker to walk. The Skytrain has made Bkk far more livable than in the 70s. IMO the smile died last century. It all changed when Thaksin was PM. Corruption became out of control, the farang night scene was destroyed and never recovered. All things considered I would rather be here, in my old age, than anywhere else. As would I. It's the greatest tragedy of my life that my dream of living there till I die never came to pass.

Thanks for that. Have to say I'm a bit surprised that you were still alive after 2 weeks though, or at least robbed of everything you owned and dumped in a canal. I walked through it once and that was enough for me. I didn't see any other farangs while there.

True, but most of us put it down to experience and moved on. Unless someone that believed the myth and bought her a house, a car, and paid for multiple sick buffaloes, then found themselves living alone in a very small airless room in a grotty soi off Buakahao.

Rubbish. Plenty of places in Bkk that don't have farangs. You have to look for them though, which is why they don't have farangs. How many farangs live in Klong Toey, or China Town? Even been up river far as the river bus goes, or to the end of one of the big canals? I had a GF that lived at the end of a canal and you wouldn't find any farangs up there either.

What happened to you, Thailand? Simples, it became westernised. Perhaps you didn't notice but the west is <deleted> now and Thailand is just following the same path to despair, misery and tragedy as our civilization is rightly consigned to the dustbin of history. Politicians too busy encouraging multiple genders, illegal immigrant "rights" and "climate change" malarky to give the people who pay their bloated wages a decent life. Yes Thailand used to be a wonderful country, and then Thaksin happened and it became full on greed. Can the trend to doom be reversed? Not IMO. Too far down the rabbit hole to climb out now. Soooo, what's to be done about it? Fornication is one way to avoid thinking about the end of life as we knew it, and LOS is just the place to end with a "bang", if you know what I mean.

I have no idea what was actually said, but It's obvious to me that they are being used as a weapon against the party. Typical lefty activity IMO. People still think the way we did 50 years ago, they just don't say it in public any more. BTW, I think Sunak is a creep and should be consigned to the dustbin of history. I can understand someone rubbishing him.

That's the point about AI ( the real AI, not what they call computers now ). It will be autonomous.

I always thought that <deleted> was a rip off merchant with his awful windows rubbish OS, but now I know he is. Thanks for that post.

Can we believe anything a man that uses a private jet says about climate change? Hypocrisy writ large. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-private-jet-doesnt-make-him-hypocrite-because-he-invests-billions-into-climate-change/ Bill Gates, one of the world's richest people, is a staunch advocate for the fight against climate change – but he also frequently uses a private jet, which has led to questions about authenticity when it comes to his activism.

Excellent news. Those lefties that weaponised the justice system got rightly admonished.

The solution is to require people with a penis to stay out of female changing rooms.

I think a lot of people around Biden are saying that, but apparently he ain't listening.

IMO all politically motivated to try and stop him. If he hadn't tried to do so i doubt any of them would have eventuated. It's like the show trials in Russia. Anyway, they have just given him more support as people can see the charade for what it is. 4 years of stability, LOL. You must live in an alternate reality if you think the last 3 years have been stable, Whoever wins it's likely to be more of the same.

There is indeed a solution and Australia found it. Keeps them out a treat.

Useful in what sense? Unless the electorate has became as demented as Rayner they will not elect Labour if they intend to do that sort of thing.

A NATO aligned Ukraine would mean the other NATO members would be obliged to support Ukraine if (when) Russia attacked and THAT is the reason Putin could not let it happen. It had nothing to do with a threat to the Russia that already was. By that logic Kennedy should have let the Russians put nukes into Cuba. If Putin waited till Ukraine was in NATO it would be a bit late to do anything about it- surely you can see that?

I never realised till I came on this thread how many western people believe in the Russians bad bad boogyman, western allied good good saviours of humanity. If Russia didn't exist the neocons would have to invent one to scare the children with.

Actually I am aware of that, and also of the hundreds if not thousands of men that lost their lives transporting the equipment to Russia while under attack by Germans, but in a similar though reversed situation to the present conflict, it was the Russians that died in their millions to defeat Germany. Without lend lease to Russia Germany might still have been defeated by the Allies but at a far greater cost in lives. So, lend lease was worth the money to save American lives.

and when they finally negotiate from a position of weakness, rather from one of strength, before people started dying, I'm sure your admiration will cheer the widows and fatherless children of Ukraine. I just made up the friend- I couldn't possibly have any of those if I don't toe the sheeple conformist line, could I? 🙂