spidermike007

No. Just look at the history of American wars and interventions the last war America won was 81 years ago. There have been over a hundred incursions, bombings, invasions and wars since then, and guess what? Other than the incredibly inconsequential war in Panama and Grenada, all have been lost. That kind of History seems to be lost on dunces like Trump and Hegseth, and they seem to be desperate to somehow prove their manhood by invading nation after nation. This is not going to work out well for them and invading Iran was a mistake of historic proportions. The Iranians are used to suffering and they will hold out until the end of the world. America on the other hand is very impatient, the average American is very soft and totally unprepared to make personal sacrifices, This war was a huge miscalculation and this is going to come back to haunt Trump and this will be his demise. And billions of people will be celebrating in the streets for weeks once Trump is either gone from office, or rotting in the ground.

Very few billionaires and very few American corporations pay their fair share of taxes. A very clever CPA that I use told me that his wealthiest clients rarely ever pay taxes. The system is totally rigged against the common man, and is set up to favor the very rich and Corporate America, and Trump is the biggest defender of that policy we've ever seen, despite his fake rhetoric about representing blue collar America. They are the ones who are getting decimated along with tens of thousands of farmers who are losing their generational farms due to his policies.

Israel is inching closer and closer to its own Holocaust, and it does seem as if the lessons of the Holocaust have been long forgotten on the idiotic and extremist leadership within that sorry and forlorn nation.

We should refer to the massive inflation caused by this dumb and unnecessary war as the "Trump Tax".

Israelis were dislike here for many many years going back into the past for so many different reasons. For some reason the Thais have always had an affection for Americans, but though that affection may remain, the respect and envy won't.

It's not just Asean thing, this is a worldwide phenomenon. Trump is despised to an enormous degree around the world and the vast majority of people have no respect for this vicious and corrupt circus clown. I don't think that they will take it out on Americans in general. Often times someone will ask me where I come from, and the first thing I'll say is I'm an American but I despise my president, and people will laugh and say okay good, at least now we know that you're a reasonable person. He is inflicting so much unnecessary hardship on nearly everybody in the world, of course he is despised.

I don't know whether or not Californians bite, some do some don't, but California has become an increasingly more dangerous place, crime is fairly high there, are there are a lot of hostile people around, and one needs to always watch your back there.

Of course I agree with that, but the topic is about the dangers of sidewalks here, obviously if we concentrate on everything we do in this life we're going to live a safer existence, but that's just not the reality that we live in. We're distracted by a hundred different things, and that's what makes the sidewalks here so perilous, and that's why we need to be conscious and focus when we're out walking here.

We have all changed no doubt, but the place has changed dramatically. From a standpoint of nightlife Thailand is a pale shadow of what it once was, for single men the quality of available women is a pale shadow of what it once was, and the bar scene it's nothing like what a once was. It seems part of the problem now is that beautiful young women have way too many options online, and men seem to be more emotionally vulnerable than they have ever been, so they seem to be willing to spill all kinds of money, in many instances without having even met the woman. Oh well. At least we can say we were there to see it in the glory days.

Well the difference here is that I feel a lot less safe walking in Thailand due to the surfaces, but a lot more safe than walking in California due to the people.

I walked like an 89 year old grandmother here, constantly scanning the sidewalk and road surface in front of me for potholes, rocks, uneven surfaces cracks, or anything else that might cause me to lose my balance, sprain my ankles, or fall down. Unfortunately at our age a fall can be can have horrendous consequences. A friend of mine was recently walking on a sidewalk fooling around with his phone and he lost his balance and fell down, and he seems to have screwed up his shoulder and at least three different locations. Months later he is still in great pain with limited range of movement. It's just not worth a fall.

Trump, Hegseth, Graham, and every member of his cabinet are CINO. Christian in name only. Have any of them spent 15 minutes in prayer outside of a church in the last decade? I seriously doubt it. Being able to call yourself a Christian can be incredibly convenient when it comes to politics, as the average Christian buys it hook, line and sinker. It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

I wrote this about the time Trump got elected. Many of us agree that the country needed change and it is quite obvious that the Democratic party was broken. The big question, is Trump the change that we needed? Is Trump the man that he says he is? Is Trump the man that his supporters think he is? Is Trump sincere about the well-being of the nation and its people? Will Trump put the well-being of the nation above himself? Will he destroy alliances and will he coddle dictators? Will he golf less than 150 times a year on the nation's dime? Now all those questions are answered and we can add to the list that he created economic chaos around the world with his tariffs, and now he's creating massive Trump Taxes with his stupid war, and he has done absolutely nothing to improve the quality of life for the average American. His supporters got duped huuuugely, and many of them don't even realize it. Even now.

Whatever prestige or dignity the members of his cabinet had prior to joining the circus, it is long gone by now, and they have all got used to where I knee pads and sucking up to the toxic monster. Reptiles. All of them. Trump didn't drain the swamp, he replaced the creatures in the swamp with 14 ft. crocodiles.

Ha! How many active soldiers have you spoken to lately? How about high ranking officers? Do you think there was a reason why very few of them stood for Trump when he made that ridiculous speech? Do you have any idea the degree to which Little Pete is despised and disrespected within the military ranks?

If his IQ was around 100, he would out class Trump by at least 10 points.

I am definitely for real and being a follower you don't understand how many billions of people around the world despise this man, consider him to be a ridiculous clown, and have absolutely no respect for him. And that disdain is richly deserved.

Yes. It is a very handy thing to have. I never carry my passport unless I'm going to do some serious banking, or I am going in and out of the country, and since I use an agent I never have to go to immigration anymore which is a joy of joys. Plus it gives you some leverage with the police, a pink card and a tire driver's license gives you the ultimate level of legitimacy in their eyes. It also makes it easier to check into hotels and things of that nature.

This Fool's name should not be on a plastic outhouse much less a unit of American currency. Those bills will hang over the nation in great shame for decades to come, once this reptilian leader is ousted, shamed, humiliated, and sent into oblivion and obscurity.

Pete Hegseth, who now serves as Secretary of Defense in the second Trump administration, is often presented as a “combat veteran” and military expert. He is both — but only in the most generous, shallow sense. Hegseth served in the Army National Guard after graduating from Princeton, and he did deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), having served in civil-affairs operations and as an adviser in Afghanistan. But let’s be clear: Hegseth was not a front-line leader of combat troops under sustained fire. He did not command an infantry company in protracted combat or lead exhausted soldiers through night patrols and firefights. He served honorably — but his service is not what he markets. What he sells is the image of the modern American warrior as loud, aggressive, and built for Instagram, not endurance or humility. It’s a dangerous distortion. And it shows. Any real combat veteran knows that physical size does not determine effectiveness under fire. Stamina, discipline, intelligence, composure, and unit loyalty matter far more than how many pounds a soldier can bench press. A 120-pound Vietnamese rifleman who knew the terrain and fought with purpose could be worth more in combat than a 200-pounder who had to lug a lot of unnecessary muscle mass through flooded paddies and sucking mud. I don’t say this lightly, but a soldier like Pete Hegseth — someone who prioritizes optics over substance, and showmanship over steadiness — would have had a hard time serving under me in Vietnam. I didn’t have the luxury of indulging ego. His glorification of hyper-masculinity and disdain for inclusion sends a chilling message: that strength matters more than ability, image matters more than dependability, and ideology matters more than truth. This kind of thinking doesn’t just exclude many qualified service members — it gets people killed. https://share.google/y1pCrXVWUsFZZbctj

He is completely and totally transactional and everything's about money, favors or leverage. The US used to use those commodities as a way to gain favor throughout the world, now Trump is using them as a bludgeon and a sledgehammer. He cares not one I iota for the common man, the economic pain and hardship that he's causing throughout the world right now is amble proof of that. It's just one more reason why billionaires should never be allowed to run for president, nor should they be allowed to be cabinet members, they have absolutely no clue what's going on in the rest of our lives. Trump is street trash with a huge ego, the goon is very fragile and emotionally driven, and he treats the world like we are all inferior subjects to him.

From a major Trump supporter. Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is on the right. He’s a contributing editor at Claremont Review of Books. Caldwell has been trying to define and, even, craft a coherent Trumpism. But in a recent piece in The Spectator titled “The End of Trumpism,” he seems pretty dispirited. He writes: “The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base, so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national interest, that it is likely to mark the end of Trumpism as a project.” It wasn’t just Iran that led Caldwell to that point. It was also Trump’s brazen self-dealing, the waves of influence peddling, the sense that this man who was supposed to represent the will of the people in some way was doing something very different. The real question is: How big is MAGA? If you look at polls that measure it, or the people who have been asking that question for quite a while, like NBC has, it kind of peaked after the election at around 36 percent. So I think that gives him a lot less leeway to, let’s just say, feel that his base will follow him anywhere. Here you have a billionaire whose major, signature legislative achievements are very unpopular tax cuts that redistributed money upward; who was elected with the help of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk; who seems to be, you note this in your piece, enriching himself, rapidly, to the tune of billions of dollars, since being in office — and who also seems to exist to many as a response to efforts at equality. I think that the promise of no wars was a kind of ruling out. And Trump has a particular need to make this a campaign promise. There are certain things that you have to commit to not doing. So I think that people thought: Yes, he’s going to do a lot of crazy stuff — I think people know him — but he’s not going to do that. He’s not going to bring the country into a war lasting years. There are limits somewhere. But once he does that, once he turns around and does that, your sense of the limits is gone. Then suddenly, being a Trump supporter is a whole different proposition. I don’t think people are willing to pay a cost for Trump’s impulse here. And to have him create a surge of inflation and scarcity, I’m not sure is survivable for a war that very, very few people were asking for. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-christopher-caldwell.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

I agree. It will be an unmitigated disaster if Trump lands troops on the ground. And it is likely the Persians have been planning an invasion by the US for 250 years now.

The American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology defines pedophilia as “a paraphilia in which sexual acts or fantasies involving pre-pubertal children are the persistently preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.” I think it's very dangerous to call somebody a pedophile, since technically that word means something other than a man who is a predator and targets underage girls. It refers more to totally perverted men who get off on abusing young kids. I think it would be safer to call Donald Trump a likely serial statutory rapist. We know he was best friends with Epstein for 20 years, we know they hung out together a lot, and it's impossible knowing Trump's true nature that they didn't participate and share the young girls. Trump is on record saying that he likes them very young, what exactly does that mean? The man is morally depraved and ethically bankrupt, so why wouldn't he have gotten with a lot of young girls who were underaged, and why wouldn't he have forced himself on them? There are multiple federal agencies doing everything in their power to hide any evidence of that, but that doesn't change the reality of his history, does it?

There have been so many instances where this man has denied promotions to very high ranking and very accomplished women and men of color. He seems to be on a crusade to rid the Armed Forces of high-ranking women and black officers in particular. “Hegseth, in my opinion, is the kind of white guy who has a small personality but wants to seem big, strong, and tough,” Marks said. “People like that can be very dangerous. That’s evident in some of the actions they’ve taken. I never thought that I would see the National Guard being deployed outside of a national disaster or emergency.” https://share.google/m1kW0pruGRwAr1bUe Hegseth recently shifted his views on women serving in combat. In November, he said he opposed women in combat, and used gender stereotypes to make his case. He stated, “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated.” But after meeting with several women senators in December, he said “we support all women in our military today, . . . combat included.” https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/who-is-pete-hegseth Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender. Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, senior military officials said. Mr. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused. Earlier this month, Mr. Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to send it to the Senate for final approval. The frustrations with Mr. Hegseth’s approach came to a boil last summer during a heated exchange between Ricky Buria, Mr. Hegseth’s chief of staff, and Mr. Driscoll about a separate promotion. Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said. Today, about 43 percent of the 1.3 million troops on active duty are people of color. But those leading the military are overwhelmingly white and male. Mr. Austin pressed promotion boards to look deeper into the ranks to ensure qualified women and minorities were considered for senior positions. Senior military officials said they could not recall any previous instance of a defense secretary seeking to remove individual officers from a military board’s list. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html?smid=nytcore-android-share