thaibeachlovers

Thank you. Despite what many think I am not a Trump lover ( I'd tax every $ over 2 million at 95% ), but your posts offend even me. I support him only as long as Biden is the candidate ( or Harris ) as I consider them to be a threat to world peace, and he seems to be the only GOP candidate that could defeat Biden. Q Why would I support a man that is all that you say about him? A Because he didn't start any wars last time. All the boys that might have died otherwise thank him. Biden has prolonged one that should never have started, IMO, and seems to be escalating us all the way to MAD, while the other conflict he has been stoking with lots and lots of US bombs looks like turning into a full blown M E war. We've had enough warmongers in the past 50,000 years of human existence, and it's about time we grew up as a species and started talking instead of killing.

Ya reckon Trump can change the constitution?

How about the ones followed by over a billion in India, the many millions that follow a different one in Asia, and the one followed by a very few million in the Middle East. You wouldn't be being selective in your opposition to religion would you? Tell me it isn't so.

Good luck with that. I attended the Thames parades every year I was in London and of all the floats and groups not a single one celebrated British ( or English ) culture. I repeat not a single one to be seen. I was wondering if I'd been transported to Africa or the Caribbean- Beam me up Scotty.

Perhaps an end to allowing illegal immigrants to stay at taxpayer expense. Don't have to be a rabid right winger to want that. I'm hardly right wing, but I think that would be common sense, something seemingly lacking in Westminster these sad days. If they "have to let them" because of some law or other, cancel the law- it's obviously no longer fit for purpose.

Probably be dancing in the street, and having celebrations.

Good post, The bleating from the flock is becoming deafening. Baaaaah.

No point talking sense. IMO too many people on here grew up with John Wayne winning the war single handedly to believe that the west will fail, never mind the real life examples of failures eg Vietnam and Afghanistan, and other examples of fiascos that sort of fizzled out like Iraq, or the draws like Korea.

Probably with a majority of the planet's countries, and even in the west it's mainly the leaders and their cronies, IMO. I doubt most western citizens agree with blowing women and children to bits in so called "safe zones".

The Dems have Harris, and let's hope that Haley isn't the pick for the GOP VP candidate. Both as bad as each other IMO.

Wouldn't that be just peachy for netanyahu? It would deflect all the attention away from Gaza. He did try and start something with Iran by the attack on the consulate, but that only deflected attention for a short time, and then returned even more so because of the attack on the "safe zone". He needs something bigger, like an invasion of Lebanon to really deflect attention away what he is doing in Gaza.

Given that his objective is for all Hamas fighters to die, or be captured alive ( a fate worse than death ), netanyahu has guaranteed that the conflict will continue. The idea that as long as the illegal israeli blockade of Gaza and the illegal oppression and land theft in the West Bank continue October 7 will never be repeated is a myth. Oppression always brings resistance. It may not be called Hamas, but it will be out to kill israelis. There are now probably over a million potential recruits in Gaza. Many of them will be young children now, just waiting till they get old enough.

Sure, and then netanyahu takes the gloves off and finishes the jobs of totally destroying Gaza. IMO the only reason they have not already done so is the hostages. That idea would only work if the israelis could be trusted................... need I say anything about that?

A senior administration official said yesterday the four-and-a-half-page proposal had been endorsed by the Israeli government and had been presented to Hamas on Friday. But it was unclear how enthusiastically Netanyahu had embraced the proposal, which Hamas said it had responded to “positively” (see earlier post at 08.31). https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/01/israel-gaza-war-live-netanhayu-biden-hamas-ceasefire-plan-rafah-aid-middle-east#top-of-blog Like the prior proposal that Hamas accepted, this one is probably dead in the water because it's in netanyahu's interest to continue the conflict, and his right wing probably won't accept any agreement that leaves Gaza as an in independent territory. At least that is what I've been reading.

Who is going to guarantee that once the hostages have been released israel doesn't claim that Hamas has reneged and goes back to flattening Gaza? Without an external force to guarantee hostilities do not recommence once israel has the hostages it's all dependent on israel to keep it's side of the agreement and I do not trust netanyahu. He has too much to lose by ending the conflict to be trusted, and there are the ultra right in his government that have apparently said they will never accept such an agreement. Wherever the peacekeeping comes from it should not be Americans. Gazans know that the US supplies the hardware and bombs that have killed so many of them, so they will probably not trust any US force to be unbiased.

I'll admit that I missed the one word indicating that it was a link. When I post a link I quote something from the quoted link and I put the link address above it. That way everyone knows it is a link.

Along with most of the life on the planet within the time it takes for the radiation to travel around the planet. They tell me nuclear winter isn't much fun either. Hopefully the next dominant species is a better guest on Planet earth that we were.

Thank you.

You sure got me there. Well done sir!

They are nice people, which is why they recognise Palestine.

Perhaps you can quote the Koran where it documents the destiny of infidels?

In a free society everyone has a choice of what they do, even if others think it's stupid. If we don't it's not a free society. You can't have it both ways.

NATO needs an enemy or they have no reason to exist. Of course they didn't let Russia join the club.

Oh dear I wrote a long reply to that but it just vanished, and I ain't writing it again. The jist was that we are not as free in the west as some think we are. Ask Julian Assange if he thinks he can publish whatever he likes in our "free" society.

Yeah, we get that you hate Trump. You don't need to keep repeating the same thing over and over- gets boring and I don't want to put you on ignore as your non Trump posts are worth reading.