spidermike007

We dismiss election results, we bomb our people at random slaughtering tens of thousands, but our economy is booming. Everybody wants to do business with us, tourists are flooding into the country, and investors are lining up, everybody wants a piece of Burma.

If this is a Golden age I would dread seeing what an Iron Age looks like. Rogue capitalism is what we have with Trump & his Project 2025 band of robber barrons. They will feed on the people, robbing them of even life’s essentials and then they will turn on each other because they are predators and don’t know any other way to be in the world. Why? Because they are ruled by ego and it’s greed. We will NOT forget how they voted to throw grandma out of the nursing home, deny a newborn and it’s mother any health care under Medicaid, rip away health insurance from up to 17 million Americans and put the burden of paying for their health care needs on us! the payees of employment health care benefits because our premiums WILL go up. That’s not even to mention the $3.3 TRILLION the OMB has calculated this horrendous monstrosity will swell the national debt.

A friend of mine just spent a week in Pattaya, and the stories that he told me were quite astonishing. First of all he told me that prices have doubled in the last 18 months, so if business is slow it makes me wonder why? Secondarily he said that he's never seen a larger group of fat, ugly and old women at the bars and massage shops in his entire life, and he's been going to Pattaya at least once a year for the last 15 years. And thirdly, he said it was very slow, and he saw a few foreigners here and there drinking beers in the bars, but he said there was very little business anywhere he went. Wonder why?

There are so many doctors in this world that really have no idea what they're talking about, and though they've spent quite a few years at University they just don't seem to know much about medicine, other than how to write a prescription. This sounds like quite a lot of nonsense to me. I've been to very simple massage shops and they always have clean towels, they never use reused oil. How do you reuse an oil, do you scrape it off somebody's skin and put it back on the bottle? This numskull needs to go back to school, or quit medicine, or just keep his ridiculous mouth shut.

First of all anyone who promotes underage gals or who engages in any sort of sex trafficking in my opinion deserves the death penalty and I think it should be carried out within 30 days without possibility of appeal if there's sufficient evidence. Secondly, Pattaya’s local police chief, Thanapong Phothi, asserted at the time of the raid that the arrests were intended to bolster Pattaya’s image among tourists. Is this guy kidding? Is he auditioning for a stand-up comedy routine? Does he really think that there's a single tourist that comes to Pattaya that doesn't know about the reputation of the town and doesn't see what's going on? And how many billions of baht annually do the police make from that trade? And how much is funneled up in the direction of the chief who is at the top of the franchisee pyramid?

If this is true a half a million people out of a population of 68 million is a staggering number. There are a lot of medications that make life with HIV a lot easier than it used to be, I wonder if there's any government assistance for something like that.

No thanks. Was first in a Phuket in 1976. No resorts. A few bungalows on the beaches. Beachfront land was 1,000 baht a rai. They could not give it away. Quite a lovely place. Went back in 1986. Had developed alot. Still very nice. Again in 1993. Far more development. Still amazing. Azure seas. The gorgeous Andaman. Spectacular women everywhere. Great food. Did not return until around 2008. It was degraded, for the most part. But, still decent. Good nightlife. But not as good. Again around 2014. Nowhere near the place it used to be, with a diminished nightlife, but not awful. Prices had gone up quite a bit but I guess that's to be expected. Back again in 2023 and there was absolutely no charm left, very few attractive gals and Bangla Road was absolutely horrific, with barely a good looking girl to be found with the exception of just a couple of Go-Go's, charging truly stupid money. The primary population of tourists were Arabs, Malaysians, Indians and Russians, and most of them felt like low end tourists and expats. The proliferation of Russians was too much to bear. They are SO obnoxious. No need to ever return. The charm is lost. Traffic was crazy. The over development is stunning. The prices were crazy. Yikes.

If the cheapo's at the TAT had spent more than 5,000 baht designing this website they likely wouldn't be having these issues right now, but they always seem to be cutting corners in the wrong places. Spend 100 million baht promoting the scheme but then limit the budget for the website to 5,000 baht, smart, very smart.

No. All forms of AI, at least at this point, are a poor and a very sad substitute for human interaction. And I consider AI to be a huge threat. My guess is that the negative effects of it are going to far outweigh any positive things that will come from it, especially when we are referring to regenerative AI.

It takes a certain a very special level of unconsciousness to enter a highway using an exit. My guess is that this is the last time he will ever make that mistake.

It takes a certain level of desperation to place snakes in your pants right next to your own anaconda. Quite bizarre. I'm sure it's going to be one of the stranger stories that we will hear today.

Genocide and the serial killing of women and children seem to be a sport for Putin. My guess is that he actually enjoys it.

That's a good looking car certainly much more handsome than either an MG, or the super ugly Teslas.

Who would want white goods when black is so beautiful?

Build quality on Tesla's these days is pretty poor, the interiors and exteriors seem to get uglier and cheaper looking each year, while China continues to improve their design. In addition at this point in time it's kind of fun to support China over the US. And I say that as an American who never thought he would be saying such a thing. I too hate the CCP. But, less than I hate the Trump administration. Some forces in the world are so dark and so repellent, that it just drives the planet in another direction. Let's go China!

I think anarchy, and public resistance can be a beautiful thing, when the government is completely out of control, as is the case right now with ICE.

It is an incredibly rude thing to do, and I always seem to resent my friends when they buy the farm and depart this world.

Well not only the fluency in English but the fact that they're highly educated means that they're likely more open-minded and the exposure to higher education has encouraged them to be more curious about people and about the world.

I watched that video a few days ago and though I think the guy is well spoken and has a lot to say, I didn't find anything particularly revealing when it comes to making friends with Thai men. I've been here a long time, I'm a friendly guy, I'm open and easy to be around and though I've made quite a few acquaintances I've made very few Thai friends over the years. I think a lot of that has to do with a dramatically low level of curosity on the part of Thais, when it comes to foreigners. And perhaps a sense that we don't have much in common. I could see where some sort of club or professional affiliation might help with that.

He is the epitome of a bully, he always has been, and unfortunate now he has a position where he can use his power in a toxic and nonproductive manner.

He won't, because he can't. The intellectual capacity is missing. He loves slogans and one liners. That all he has.

Not needed. I can assure you that I'm quite healthy psychologically, but I do use every opportunity I can get to criticize the circus clown, and his ridiculous regressive policies. That's what open-minded, independent thinkers do. A critical mind can be a wonderful thing. Total obedience and fealty is not.

The police nor the highway patrol have ever been particularly concerned with traffic safety. I only see them after the scene of an accident or at a traffic stop. I very rarely ever see anyone pulled over while driving and doing something reckless. It is almost unheard of.

They are both insane so trying to figure out which one is more unhinged is a rather difficult task, the issue with Trump is that in addition to being insane he's also semi senile, relatively incoherent, and seems to represent the deep state, with rather heinous intentions. The last group in the world that he represents are the American people, he cares not one iota for people without great wealth.

And the economic destruction from his insane policies is just starting.