spidermike007

Well I certainly agree with you that he's offering youth in those two fools, but certainly not offering any vision, nor any sort of quality leadership. Both of them have made absolute fools of themselves in the last 3 months and it looks as if the ignorance will just continue. Vance in particular is just an absolute abomination of a human being, he feels like an artifice, almost someone who is created by AI.

Do we have a pastor, or a puritanical man passing judgment here? Or simply a well doctrinated, well behaved American husband?

At least in Bali I found that if you stay away from the southwest third of the island it can be a pretty enjoyable experience, the whole area from Ubud to the north, the Northeast Coast and the Northwest coast are absolutely charming and not overcrowded. But anything in the region of Kuta, Legan and Seminyak is just a blight zone, that i would never want to return to under any circumstances.

That is normal operational procedure for an ambulance that is rushing a victim to a hospital, do we need more technical data than that?

They have a completely insane genocidal maniac leading the country, who practices serial killing and the slaughter of women and children as a sport. He seems to be so demented that normal thrills the kind of which we would recognize, do not work for him anymore, so he has to exercise his Godlike control over the dominion of mankind practicing a bizarre hobby of unnecessarily taking innocent lives. What does this tell us about Trump's good buddy? And what does this tell us about Trump's judgment?

Well if you want to avoid extremists who are racist freaks, then it's best to avoid racist leaders like Trump and Musk. They do not exactly set an example, do they?

Biden should simply just retire and write off into the sunset he's a very old man and he has no place representing the Democratic party at this point. Having said that Trump is also a very old man, is at least semi senile, and is quite insane and extremely dangerous. He has no business being president and I think quite a few of the people who elected him are starting to understand that he is the polar opposite of the man that he represented himself to be during the campaign. Modern day politics needs youth and it needs a forward-looking vision, totally unlike anything that Biden or Trump are capable of offering.

I wonder if the same corner did an autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein and decided that the sheets that had the consistency of toilet paper we used to hang himself from a bed that was two feet off the ground? Talk about not passing the smell test. I smell some very stinky and rotten fish. There's about a 0% chance that Epstein died of suicide and my guess is that the same number applies to poor Joe.

It is a 95% certainty that this ambulance had its lights flashing and it's sirens blaring and yet this absolute numskull still managed to smash into it. Nowhere in the world have I seen less regard paid to ambulances and people on the verge of death. In most civilized nations ambulances are given a very wide berth so that people have a decent chance at survival. Parents slhere simply have to try harder to educate their children and give them some sense of what reasonable priorities are in life. You can't ignore your kids and you can't get away with not teaching them anything, and expect them to become decent human beings.

Thailand does have some very creative and innovative youth, who could really be a major tribute to the country if they were allowed to truly have a voice, and if they were given a platform to express themselves. My guess is that the dinosaurs designed this entire thing and all they have to lean on is historical culture, which gets a bit boring and very tired after a while. The youth look toward the future while the dinosaurs cling to the past, we see that all over the world with creepy out of touch leadership.

Of course. Combine Phuket with Bangla Road, and it is close to hell on earth. I was first in 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. Went back in 1986. Had developed alot, but was still very nice. Again in 1993. Far more development. Still amazing. Azure seas. Spectacular women everywhere. Great food. Did not return until around 2008. It was degraded, for the most part. But, still decent. Good nightlife. Again around 2014. Nowhere near the place it used to be, with a greatly diminished nightlife, but not awful. 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. The over development is stunning. The prices were crazy. Phuket is now worse than Bali. Yikes.

Russia needs the hydropower and Putin loves the Latvian furniture for his various chateaus and palaces.

Yes. Absolutely. Trump is a pathological liar, and anyone who does not believe that is self deluded or is simply not well versed in recent American history. He would say or do anything to achieve an end and his complete lack of ethics, coupled with his total moral bankruptcy allows him to do so without inhibition.

The name of this article should be "Trump fails once again to deliver on one of his primary campaign promises". Don is really tearing things up and solving very little.

This is the behavior of a half man. An undeveloped mind, a lost soul. Absolutely nothing there. He seems to have never been taught any values, and possesses no sense of ethics, like a wild forest animal. Where were his parents when he was growing up, and why did they fail so miserably? As a man, I can accept blame, apologize for an offense caused and take responsibility for my actions. No big deal. I care not one iota if I "lose face". Means less than zero to me what others think of me. Some will say it is a cultural difference. True. But, what about the deeper aspects of self esteem and having enough of it to be able to act like a man? A real man accepts responsibility for problems he has caused. When that is being constantly deflected due to a pathological fear of looking bad in the eyes of others, that creates enormous problems for society. I despise the practice of face, and think it is the single greatest weakness of many Thai people.

I think you're reading way too much into it, there's no question that the entire thing was staged, Zelensky was set up, Vance was told to act like a pit bull, instead he embarrassed himself in front of the entire planet and made himself look like an utter and completely ignorant fool, puffing his chest and trying to do a Tarzan look alike, which failed miserably. You can't make a emasculated wimp look like Tarzan, it's impossible, it just can't happen. He is a nobody, play acting the role of VP, and doing it very poorly. Dan Quayle was the last VP I can recall who was as embarrassing, and as incompetent.

Well a few things come to mind. Number one Trump is as far from a diplomat as any president has ever been, number two he has appointed nothing but low quality officials from the absolute bottom of the barrel with no diplomatic skills whatsoever, rather they are very skillful at insulting and bullying our allies and coddling up to our enemies, and number three we know that everything that comes out of Trump's mouth is a lie and is completely insincere. So when he said he would resolve the Ukraine issue many of us knew that was an outright lie, a political talking point that his followers believed along with a huge basket of other nonsense, such as lowering prices and bringing manufacturing back to America. Lies and more lies, just like everything else that comes out of his foul mouth.

Wow. Talk about missing the plot.

A 2 m long bamboo staff can be very effective at warding them off or punishing them if necessary, and though awkward, a can of insect spray can work wonders, all animals are petrified of the stuff.

He is nothing if not consistent with his dogma and partisan hatred.

Perhaps the community should take it upon themselves to do a good deed for society at large. Take the beast out.

Judging by his overall disapproval numbers on the economy there are likely a lot of Republican voters who are feeling a sense of regret and a great deal of betrayal. In addition they're probably feeling quite a bit of confusion as they're realizing that the man that they thought they voted for is not even close to being the man he truly is. Many of us have known for decades that the man is just a pure huckster, and everything about him is an act but some people really need to be convinced. With many people, once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They’d screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook, multiple fraud convictions, and Jan. 6th truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what. There was no such thing as a bridge too far.

Well, those kind of stats are likely something that UNFPA's (ultra nationalist fake patriot Americans) are not going to want to hear, as they have to show fealty to their master by showing a dislike of Canada, despite the fact that Canada has been a loyal and faithful friend and ally to the US for at least a century now.

Clooney was one of the few that was bold enough to say what needed to be said, at a time that it needed to be said. 2 years prior somebody should have been bold enough to have slapped Biden around and made him aware that he was not fit for another run, and a high quality candidate and needed to be vetted. Trump tapped into the popular sentiment, people don't want to be told how to think, how to talk and how to behave, and that in and of itself is something that the Democrats have to learn. Yet to date I've seen no indication that they've expressed any sincere interest in reform. With Trump's utterly insane policies and the likelihood of him failing miserable with his economics, the presidency in 2028 is going to be fairly easy for the Democrats if they pick a high quality candidate like Beshears or Shapiro.

Any dog who bites any human being in a serious manner should be put down within 24 hours no questions asked and no appeals possible. Dogs should never be given priority over humans and doing so is a sign of a broken society. Not only that but the owner should face a massive fine. There's just no excuse to have a poorly behaved dog who's aggressive toward others, especially defenseless children.