spidermike007

The more egg on the face of an unelected, non-democratic, morally bankrupt government, the better.

At least once a day. There are two of us. Do the math.

Trump would not have the guts to do anything against Putin. Not sure what kind of Kompromat Putin has on him, but he does display an extraordinary sense of loyalty to a filthy, serial killing dictator. Of course, it could just be that Trump adores dictators and despots, that is certainly his nature.

On occasion when I've been questioned about bringing my own bottle of water to a restaurant, I asked them if they served water using glass bottles which can be recycled. When they say no we only have plastic, I tell them that's exactly why I brought my own water. Go away and get my food.

The government here will never do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, but occasionally they can be forced to do the right thing due to shame and humiliation. So this is a good technique to use to compel them to do something that's above and beyond their level of total moral bankruptcy.

At one point a few years back the Chinese were the largest body of tourists around the world, all that has changed, as they have been instructed by their overlords to travel domestically, and obedient they are. Also the Chinese tend to be one of the most timid people on earth, aggressive yes, but also very timid, and they scare very easily.

No, I do not. Just like last time around his tax cuts will benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations, and very little will trickle down to the common person.

This does not come as a surprise, why would this warmongering genocidal super freak voluntarily commit to stop the killing for the next month? He would be absolutely bored without a war. This puts Trump in a difficult position since he always kisses up to King Vlad, and now we get to see whether or not the man has any courage at all .

A lot of airlines are getting stingy with luggage, getting stingy with carry-on, and it just ties into increasingly greedy corporate culture, and it feels like it's a generational opportunity to engage in gouging, since Covid, and these companies are not showing their better nature.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-threatens-200-tariff-on-european-wine-champagne-191201568.html Psst, Trump, the US doesn't have a champagne business, since champagne is produced in France only. At best the US has some mediocre sparkling wine. This is just another way that Trump could damage the American economy. Liquor imports into the US generate billions of dollars in retail sales within the US. The man is blazing idiot and an absolute disaster.

That used to be the definition of a liberal, these days it's the progressive left, the woke agenda, Uber PC, and all kinds of other nonsense.

Considerably better than the $7.1 trillion that Trump added to the national deficit in his first four years in office.

In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal and because it’s so flagrantly immoral and utterly self-destructive. During the first Trump term, I would sometimes have to catch myself because even though I thought and think that Trump is uniquely despicable and dangerous, the fact remains that if you just want to look at the number of lives lost and global damage done, George W. Bush really outstripped him. Trump is maybe a worse person, but the damage that he did in his first term was much more contained. I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way. I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face. It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees. You see Trump’s approval rating, which was positive for the first couple of weeks of his administration, is already underwater, although only slightly. His numbers in polls on the economy are pretty bad. But the information environment is so bad that it’s not clear to me how much people are making the connection between, say, Trump saying that he can’t rule out a recession and the value of their retirement portfolio crashing. I thought it was a remarkable moment when Trump retweeted — or retruthed —— Trump’s idea of power. If I can destroy, if I can defile and march on relatively unscathed and unpunished, that makes me powerful. Other people can’t get away with it, but that’s how dominant and superior I am.

Every single one of my friends who's making money in the markets is doing short-term trading. I don't think long-term trading applies anymore in this day and age, in and out, in and out. 6 months, a year, or 2 years max. And of course nobody could have anticipated a blazing idiot sabotaging the market deliberately.

A change in consciousness must start at the most basic level. Most Thais think plastic is the best thing ever invented, and the percentage of Thais that even consider the negative ramifications of plastic is incredibly small. This requires some education. I always do two things to avoid the consumption of plastic. 1. I bring re-usable bags with me every time I go shopping. I use the larger shopping bags I buy in the US, which are made of recycled materials. Most of the clerks have to be dealt with. Even when they see my bag, they still start putting the stuff in plastic. I always mai sai toom. No plastic! Then they start loading up my bag. Most look at me like I am from Mars. Do I care? Not one iota. About 1% thank me, and get it. Not many do. My Thai wife never used to like bringing the bags to the store. By now, she expects it, and sometimes even asks if I have any bags in the car, or on the motorbike. Same with the water bottles. It used to embarrass her. Now, it is second nature, as I have been doing this for so long, she expects it. So, if a Thai can be conditioned to follow these simple principals, then anyone can. 2. I bring a bottle of water with me, every time I go to a restaurant. I refill my plastic bottles from the 20 liter bottles at home. It is easy. I never buy bottled water at a restaurant. This saves 300-600 bottles a year. I use a plastic bottle dozens of times. I never get any flack from the restaurants. Only once did someone say something to me. She said you cannot bring you own water. My response was if you serve the water in a glass bottle, and I do not have to consume a plastic bottle, I am happy to pay for that. She was lost. I told her to leave and get me my food. She went away. We simply cannot say we are concerned about the environment, and then do nothing about it. Action demonstrates commitment. Lack of action demonstrates nothing. Lastly, restaurants can demonstrate their commitment, by serving drinking water from the 20 liter bottles. It saves alot of plastic. They lose a small amount of revenue, by not selling thousands of bottles of water. But, their operation is still profitable, and they are making a real difference. There really is not need to be consuming water in plastic bottles. At least not often. There are alternatives. Those damn bottles are a real culprit, when it comes to fouling the environment. What can we do, if we say we care?

He will very likely be known as the 46th worst president in the history of the United States.

I think that's completely false, the reality is that most people agree with the idea of cutting government waste and a program to do so is long overdue. It's the mishmash, seesaw, and extremely reckless approach that Trump and Musk are taking that is pissing people off and making even many republican supporters of Trump increasingly more angry. Trump voters do not like the idea of losing their jobs, there's just something about that, that annoys them. And they also don't like the idea of seeing their pensions shrinking by the day.

The Republican Party is all too often effective at campaigning and winning elections, but there’s another fact about it that a lot of Americans forget: The Republican Party flat out sucks at governing. Even Tucker Carlson agrees with this. For all the huffing and puffing on the campaign trail in 2016, the first Trump administration largely amounted to tax cuts for the wealthy, 500 miles of a border wall and a destructive pandemic gone viral. George W. Bush got us into a harebrained war in Iraq and then tried to privatize Social Security while letting our financial system drive smack into the Great Recession. And George H.W. Bush governed his way into a one-term presidency because of the economy. For round two in office, instead of prioritizing the problems he campaigned on — public safety, immigration and the border, and most of all the economy — President Trump is hellbent on dismantling the federal government and crashing the economy. To accomplish this, he has put his faith in the most incompetent cabinet in modern history: a health and human services secretary who is already targeting federal vaccination efforts and dumped a bear carcass in Central Park as a fun prank at age 60; a director of national intelligence who was devoted to an allegedly abusive yoga-centered cult; a former WWE tycoon turned head of Department of Education; and a former cable news talking head as defense secretary. Which will result in one clear thing: disorder. There will probably be more enormous tax cuts for the wealthy and Medicaid cuts hitting a lot of other people, but there is nothing the American public despises more than disorder and a broken economy.

He is an embarrassment to the nation. Way worse than Harris was. A bit of an abomination.

Protectionism can be a pretty pathetic thing, and we're seeing it both here and in America right now. It usually does not benefit the economy and oftentimes it has a very adverse effect. The Thai economy would be so much more dynamic if it was open to market forces, import taxes were lower dramatically, wine taxes were lowered, and luxury taxes were dropped down to 20%. But since the country is still being run by dinosaurs that is not going to happen an our lifetime, unless the dream takes place and the youth take over.

This kind of thing is just so incredibly pathetic, if a relationship is not working out a guy with emotional development is going to do what he can to try to see if things can be fixed, and if they can't be fixed you just simply walk away. There's no reason that a person with high self-esteem should not just be able to say thank you and have a good life and take care of yourself and that's it. The people who inflict pain on women due to the relationship not working out are not real men, these are pathetic little creatures that are 13-year-old boys disguised as men.

There are a huge number of people that will not take any responsibility for their animals, whether their dogs are barking non-stop, biting people or just creating an absolute nuisance. They simply will not take responsibility and they refuse to discipline their dog on any level, or train their dog. To me that represents a lack of personal discipline on the part of the owner. Alot of people are the same way with their kids, you could say the art of parenting is lost, and so is the art of raising a dog. I used to have a neighbor who had an incredibly obnoxious dog and we complained about it a couple times and the guy went ballistic. He just could not handle anybody criticizing his precious pet. So sad. So pathetic.

I would like to believe that's true, however from multiple sources I keep hearing that the runway is sufficient to accommodate smaller Jets, which are perfect for regional flights. They've been using a variety of different excuses from the size of the runway to the size of the terminal for 15 years now. The bottom line is the airport as it stands now could accommodate at least 20 incoming and outgoing flight per day, with smaller Jets.

All prophets are multilingual!

Exactly so why would Greenlanders volunteer to become part of the US system, when their healthcare cost would skyrocket, a hospital visit could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a crummy nursing home is $9, 000 and a gone one is $15,000 a month? Why I ask? Why opt for a diminished quality of life?