spidermike007

I was not a follower nor a believer in the covid narrative, on so many levels, some lock downs were Justified, many were not, some should have been stronger, some should not have taken place. And the vaccines were obviously of limited efficacy, especially in regard to the subsequent variants. There were so many aspects of the narrative that were questionable. So are the dictates of the CDC, the WHO and the FDA. And Fauci.

Anyone who asks such a question has not been paying attention, does not know the man's history, and has not been following his career.

Please show me the quote where I said that. I never said that, I never even insinuated that they were not compelled to respond. You're just simply (desperately) resorting to making things up and creating fiction out of thin air. At least try to remain credible, try to stick with the facts. I've spent a lifetime opposed to a lot of extreme Israeli government policy and it hasn't been easy as a centrist and moderate American Jew. I'm constantly accused of being anti-Semitic, a Jew hater, anti-American, and the traitor, which is all nonsense. Criticism is the very foundation of democracy, however that's not a concept that Israel agrees with. They are very think skinned and so are alot of American Jews and Trump supporters, and both are very intolerant of criticism.

I find the opposite to be true. His lifetime of crime is out there for anyone to see. It is both lazy and revisionist to deny it. Support the guy all you want, but don't try to make him into a fake saint. You can support his policies, yet admit he is a deeply flawed man.

I agree Israel has over played their hand, and is engaged in genocide. The long term blowback will likely be horrendous, for Israel. But, protests have to remain peaceful, or they become a criminal act.

Your obligation is to the landlord, not the broker. Keep the landlord happy, that is all that matters.

I hope he is convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to at least two or three years in a Thai prison, where he will learn the true meaning of intimacy, one can almost guarantee he will never again be the same man.

I certainly understand the concept and I've said that myself, however when you're 17, 18, or 19 years old, and you're abroad for the first time, and someone offers you a cocktail or someone serves you from a punch bowl or something like that, it's very common just to drink it. We've all done that before, this was just a very freakish accident and somebody either accidentally or deliberately caused a lot of pain and a lot of mayhem. I seriously doubt that it will be possible to track them down. But if they do, let us hope they are severely punished. This was such a bizarre waste of promising young lives.

I vividly remember those triples in Phnom Penh. $30 plus $3 for the room. Those were the days.

All right do agree with you about maintaining some perspective on time. I'm counting my remaining days in months not years, as I find that 240 months sounds more urgent than 20 years, but I get what you're saying and I really enjoyed your post, thanks for that.

Great one. Keep it up. This forum needs more wise old farts like you on it.

Some of my favorites quotes about getting older. Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas 30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame 60s is too soon 70s a good run 80s a life well lived 90s - a fricking hell of a ride Ya' know what though, I don't mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad Ben. Getting old, that's earned.

That's not the case with me, I happen to like the Thai people and I would love to have some close Thai male friends, but it's nearly impossible. I'm not sure why you devoted so much effort to this argument, when it turns out you've never made an effort so you have no knowledge of this. You're speaking from standpoint of pure speculation which is the opposite of knowledge, experience and wisdom.

Okay so from a standpoint of pure objectivity assuming you're not fluent in Thai, how many close male friends do you have who are Thais?

I just provided two links it might be helpful to do a web search asking the correct questions such as "Donald Trump's history of defrauding contractors". Or "how much profit did Donald Trump make from Trump University without giving anything in return?

That might be the little surprise but the big surprise is that the man that they think they elected is not that man at all. Remember? He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T. He promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most of it was repair or replacement, not new. He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn't. We did. He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist. He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million. He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did. He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did. He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not helped them, and it may have started a massive inflationary trend that led to years of inflation recently. He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks. He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency. I could go on and on all day long about the failures of his presidency.

People easily forget. He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T. He promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most of it was repair or replacement, not new. He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn't. We did. He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist. He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million. He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did. He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did. He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not help them. He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit Workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks. He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency.

The information is out there for anyone interested in finding out who the real Donald Trump is. Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. The terrible tale of Trump casinos in Atlantic City illustrates his relationship with money, workers and small business. His casino companies went to bankruptcy court four times. Tradesmen, small businesses and creditors weren’t paid. But Trump made out like a bandit. And he’s mighty proud of it. https://m.usw.org/blog/2016/billionaire-trump-fleeces-workers-small-businesses Of all the troubling accusations that have followed Trump into the White House, there is little talk these days of the trail of unpaid bills he left behind from his days as an Atlantic City casino mogul. But for the carpenters, electricians, plumbers, window installers and other contractors who built Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City three decades ago, the wounds from not being paid still fester. “It’s terrible,” said Jenkins, who runs Triad Building Specialties. “I can’t stand Trump. I think he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman.” I do too. Always have, always will. As I said before you can dress up a creep and a criminal in royal garments, but he is still a creep and a criminal. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/ I could go on and on all day, it's all out there for anyone who cares to look and embrace a little bit of objectivity in their life. Historical revisionism has no effect on reality nor history. In fact it's rather dangerous.

What a completely ridiculous, unnecessary, and unhelpful reply. Perhaps you can try harder next time. In the past two years since this election cycle does it feel like this forum is getting dumbed down with more venom, or is it just my perception?

There you go again, it's just this blatant denial that Trump is a fraudster, or a criminal, or a felon, or a serial sexual assaulter, or has engaged in corporate malfeasance for decades. All of this is on the record and yet somehow a percentage of his followers feel that if they admit the truth it somehow takes something away from them, and their decision to support him. I'm a Centrist Democrat and I'm constantly criticizing Democrats. I don't know why Trump supporters are so reluctant to criticize him, it's almost as if it shows a lack of fealty to the master.

I have a lot of friends and I've had a lot of friends all over the world in my travels, and when I've lived elsewhere overseas. That has not been the case in Thailand. Other than men who have had the ability to meet Thai men at an University or professional setting overseas, or and unusual situation like that, I know very few foreign men here who have good Thai male friends. It is cultural it's not me. And it's my belief that in addition to the language barrier it's also due to a stunning lack of curiosity about us, and about the outside world.

Very good points, and a lot of mongers come to Thailand and they don't realize that the women that they're interacting with commercially represent maybe one or two percent of the population. The other 98% are civilians and they do not appreciate being harassed or being touched by strangers, it's a pretty offensive crime. I always encourage all women to carry a very sharp pencil in their purse, a tremendous amount of damage can be accomplished with that and it's something that the perpetrator will never forget for the rest of his lifetime.

His followers are always asking for a link, all this information is out there for anyone to find, it's all over the internet, his lifetime of crime, his thousands of fraudulent transactions, the billions of dollars that he stole from unsuspecting contractors. It's all out there, it's all online. You know you can dress a pig up in royal garments, but it's still a pig.

One can make an argument that any relationship anywhere on the world is about the money, the vast majority of women on this planet want financial security, and there's nothing wrong with that. Here they're just a lot more open about it.

This man committed several heinous errors, first of all dowries are not paid long in advance they're paid just prior to the wedding, second of all if you stand a chance of a successful relationship here especially with somebody 36 years your junior you need to take a lot of time to get to know them. 2 to 5 years maybe, if it's good it's only going to get better, if there are problems are going to manifest themselves over time. I don't know why guys are so consistently impatient. I know a lot of times the women push the timeline and as men we need to push back. No, that's not happening! We're waiting. I need to get to know you some more, you don't like that, no problem I'm very happy to walk away, it's that simple. Desperados tend to lose their money, men with high self-esteem don't tend to fall into that trap.