spidermike007

Well again we agree on something, I think they are both terrible candidates, I think the American people are faced with two bad choices, and I think that in the future of America we will never see another worthy candidate. The office of the President has become so toxic, that serious people have no interested in pursuing it. Only freaks and megalomaniacs need apply.

The moral to this story is either don't move into an apartment on the 5th floor if you're a sleep walker, or make sure the windows are secured. Seems fairly simple.

Ever notice how 99% of the people who get arrested or charged here are ex officials? I never see current officials of the army, the administration, customs, immigration or the police charged with a crime. Perhaps one exception being the big joke, and we haven't actually seen him go to trial yet have we?

I was very confident he was going to win up until the time Biden dropped out, but the efficiency with which Harris has picked up the torch and run with it, is astonishing. The depths to which Trump has sunk since his great tragedy is also astonishing. He can't pivot. He can't improvise. He is disintegrating before our very eyes, and it's an absolute beautiful thing to witness. And yes, I will be cheering when she wins by 13 million votes. I have a question for you, when Trump gets defeated do you think he will concede?

Well I definitely feel for his kids and his relatives. I don't feel anything for his wife, she had a choice and she had to have known what a monster he was when she married him. I'm sure she would deny it just like mobster wives say, oh, I had no idea he was whacking people for a living.

The man does not have a creative bone in his body, and he's 78 going on 88, so he's highly inflexible. He won't listen to his advisors, and he does not know how to pivot, nor improvise, so he's stuck on the same old harping, whining, moaning, and crying, day in and day out and people are just getting sick of it. He is an ugly, broken record, no policy, just all moaning and groaning like a teenage girl who has been grounded. He is imploding and it is fun to watch.

Any Chief Financial Officer of a company that is considering investing in a casino in Thailand should be subjected to many hours of therapy with a psychiatrist, to determine if they have any level of sanity. Look at the ganja industry and the billions of baht that stand to be lost over policy flip flops. Nobody should have any trust in the Thai government and their ability to maintain consistent policy. Just look at Cambodia next door. Look at what that happened after their government changed their minds when it comes to gambling.

He is having a hard time wrapping his small head around the fact that he is not only NOT the most important person in the world, he is not even the most important person in this election, anymore. Bye bye Don!

He seems to enjoy killing women and children. And we know from his days at the KGB, that he is a serial killer.

True. I just don't see Trump as a savior, nor a solution. I thought he was a terrible president. And he has declined significantly. So, we would be getting a lesser version of whatever he is.

Yes. Absolutely. And I don't like Newsom. I like the GOP even less.

Meanwhile his disapproval rate amongst the Israeli public stands at 70%. Nearly three-quarters of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign over his government’s failures during the October 7 Hamas attack, according to a poll published by Israel’s Channel 12 on Friday. Out of the 72% of respondents who said that the prime minister should step down, 44% believe he should leave office immediately, while 28% suggested he should resign after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conclude their military operation in Gaza.

Yes, hard for a died in the wool Trump supporter such as yourself to even imagine the possibility of not being 100% behind your candidate or having any doubts. I can see that. I am pro dem, because I despise Trump, for three dozen valid reasons, not ever worth stating. Why bother?

And of course, there is the utter failure of their leader. This is a clear case of psychological projection: Putin dreamt and failed to create a dollar-free world and establish Russia as an “energy superpower.” He allowed corruption to metastasize through the state’s fabric, undermining its security capabilities. With its mass emigration, skyrocketing divorce rate, and low fertility, Russia, more than the West, demonstrates an immense collapse of family and social values, and near total moral bankruptcy.

No. The monument was erected in 1941 as a tribute to 160 soldiers, policemen and civilians who fought for the kingdom during the border conflict in Indochina between Thailand and France. France insisted on moving the Thai border and Thailand resisted. Thailand somehow prevailed.

So, in reality Putin is not a genocidal, thieving multi billionaire, despot serial killer?

The DNC was a huge success. TV ratings were nearly double that of the RNC. Kudos to all involved. The Obama speeches were amazing. After Trump, they seem like elegant royalty. I am a Democrat but I'm not a Harris fan and I would prefer to see somebody else, however I would pick Miley Cyrus over Trump. I would pick Pauly Shore over Trump. I would pick Shia LaBeouf over Trump. Anyone but Trump. His pic of JD Vance as VP was a wet dream for most Democrats, he's now running at a negative 6% in polling, and I think it's only going to get worse. The man is an empty suit, he has zero charisma, and very little to say. Even the donut shop appearance was cringe worthy. Is this guy even human? Picking him was a monumental mistake by Trump, and listening to anything that Trump's offspring has to say is always going to backfire. They are all subpar intellects, just like he is.

See ya Don. In my opinion he started to fade in the last year of his presidency. He may have had a minor stroke. Since then, it has been a steady downhill path. Far less coherent than in the past, very hard for him to continue a sentence for more than 15 seconds, alot of rambling, whining, complaining, playing the victim card, and juvenile name calling as usual. Even most of the CEO's he met with a month ago were shocked at how lacking his message was. He is in the beginning stages of severe cognitive decline and it's a horrific thing to watch, he's an increasingly dangerous man and having him as the oldest elected president in history would not be a good thing. He rambles on and on, and it is easy to discern that he has a very hard time maintaining a thought. He is, and has always been the master of slogans, and memes, but the public is just getting tired of the same game, day in and day out. He does not possess the creative juice to adapt, and that is absolutely killing his campaign, at this point. He is headed for the greatest humiliation of his lifetime. He's old, he's tired, he's now the oldest person to ever run for president, he's feels like he's 85 or 90 right now, he seems to be losing interest, he seems to be losing the plot, his message is getting tired, he has no ability to dance on his feet and be creative, and adapt, and he just seems to be disintegrating before our eyes, which is a beautiful thing to watch. He won't listen to advice, as he always thinks he knows better. And now, he seems to regret his choice of Vance, and seems very stressed out over Harris. Harris is getting free rent in his head. She scares him. Can't blame him for that. He does seem to be imploding. And it is fun to watch. I predict Harris/Walz by 13 million votes, and 40-70 delegates.

Thailand was occupied by the Japanese in the early 1940's. It was never colonized, as the Japanese gave them a choice, and they chose the far less heinous route. The Japanese were thrown out in late 1944, as they were getting slaughtered in Burma and elsewhere, and were weak, and broke, due to their stupidity and recklessness. Some bold senators are responsible for that. Japanese troops arrived in Bangkok on the afternoon of December 8, 1941, apparently by road from French Indochina, and by the following day the occupation of Bangkok by Japanese troops was complete. Throughout the duration of the Malayan and Burma campaigns large numbers of Japanese troops and quantities of military supplies passed through Bangkok from French Indochina to points south and north by rail, but it is impossible to estimate the numbers or quantities involved. To what extent the Thais cooperated with the Japanese in these movements is unknown. Thailand declared war against the United States and Great Britain as of noon, January 25, 1942. And most do not seem to know that the allies bombed Bangkok on several occasions.

Don't blame the Chinese. The Thais are building this. If the Chinese were, the entire Bangkok to Nong Khai corridor would have been completed years ago. Instead they trudge along with the first stage, many years into the project. On 11 July 2017, the Thai Cabinet approved the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to execute the Project on Bangkok–Nong Khai HSR Development for Regional Connectivity (Section 1: Bangkok–Nakhon Ratchasima). The project is an international joint development at the government level between Thailand and China. In this regard, the Thai government is responsible for entire project investment, civil works construction, and application of Chinese construction technologies and railway systems.

Hello! I was referring to American politics. Wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? I hope you evening is better than your morning!

One may ask why has Putin chosen this moment to make his move on Ukraine? As many have pointed out, Russia is an objectively weak state — “Upper Volta with nuclear weapons,” as someone once quipped — with a nominal G.D.P. smaller than that of South Korea. Outside of energy, minerals and second-rate military equipment, it produces almost nothing that outsiders want: no Russian iPhone, Lexus or “Fauda.” If it were not for the minerals, oil and natural gas, I believe Russia would be a highly irrelevant state. Sure, it had alot of culture. Had. What have it's contributions been since the middle of the 20th century? Putin’s problem with Ukraine, starting with the Maidan uprising of 2014, is that Ukrainians want nothing to do with him. He is despised. And for good reason. If he were a Disney character, he’d be Rapunzel’s mother. But, he is not a Disney character, which makes him a pathetic, aggressive, serial killing despot dictator, who appears to be targeting women and children in his latest escapade, and further walk into the world of darkness.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has become quite a horrifying event, its butchery in plain view via saturation coverage for anyone with a video screen. But Americans may not yet have absorbed this disturbing reality: The American president who left office just 14 months ago sided with the butcher. That's right: In the struggle now uniting the free world against an autocrat's lawless aggression, America's most recent ex-President sided with the autocrat. His administration implemented some new sanctions on Russia at the insistence of national security officials and Congress. Trump himself objected. "In almost every case, the sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it and saying we were being too hard," his former national security adviser John Bolton said on Newsmax recently. He fomented discord at home, advancing Putin's objective of sapping American resolve. "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people," his former Defense Secretary James Mattis said in 2020.

I don't know about spending a little extra, every time I look into business class it's three times the cost of economy, and at least double the cost of premium economy.

I have long been an advocate of limiting candidates for president to people who have only served in the military, and I would go a step further they must have children that would be of age to serve, and they would have to sign a pledge that their children would be on the front lines if they ever got involved in a war. How's that for a deterrent? How is that for commitment?