spidermike007

There you go again. You just can't help yourself.

You are correct and I think it's safe to say that Trump is the most thin skinned, sensitive, revengeful, and reactionary president America has ever seen. Hopefully, looking towards the future a mistake of this proportion will never happen again.

Thank you, that is very kind of you. I've always considered it to be an enormous compliment when people have asked me if I was gay.

No what is really pathetic and very predictable is the right coming to the defense of people who have committed egregious errors, compromised the nation's security and done far worse than what Hillary did with her email servers, and yet nobody is willing to hold anyone to task for this. This is so typical of Trump and his groupies, it is truly getting to the point where it's a pathetic level of fealty, on a daily basis. Anyone will now say anything to excuse the mistakes, the confusion, and the bad behavior. Where is the dignity in that, and why the complete unwillingness to be critical?

Well if you're insinuating the Elon is Trump's boss, you very well might be correct.

A rather fascinating phenomena is taking place right now. I'm a lifelong Democrat and during the 20 years of the Clinton, Obama and Biden Administrations I was openly critical of a multitude of their policies. Right now that does not seem to be possible with the average Republican, criticism is out the window, total support, absolute fealty, and complete obedience to the most ridiculous policies imaginable are now the M.O. for the average Trump supporter. It is a spectacularly pathetic thing to witness and it's downright embarrassing as an American.

That was definitely, 100% classified information, in many countries Hapless Hesgeth would now be facing a firing squad, at the very minimum he should be fired and imprisoned. Of course that won't happen because Trump truly believes that he's above any and all laws.

Hundreds of millions of people will never have a positive attitude about this absolute creep and lifelong criminal, yes he did win the election and time is bearing out the fact that this was an enormous tragedy for both the US and the world. He is definitely not the man that you thought he was.

In my opinion successive administrations have spent 75 years avoiding any sort of plan that included the proper movement of cargo, they should have had rail systems in place with major cargo transport for decades now, and instead you have trucks of all sizes plying a very limited number of highways and causing massive amounts of congestion and very slow moving traffic. This is an abomination and falls on the tiny shoulders of many successive PMs. The only solution I can see would be to build double decker highways throughout the entire nation with toll roads on the top and free roads on the bottom, but it's quite likely Thailand simply does not have the money for this. One solution would be to accept help from the Chinese, get a massive Belt and Road initiative loan, have the Chinese solve the problem within a year or two, and then default on the loan, like every other country in that program.

Heads should be rolling and the top officers of this construction company should be in jail. This project is a decade behind schedule and was not only an badly planned, but continues to be an embarrassment to the Thai nation. This is the main artery in and out of Bangkok for God's sake, get your act together people! the fact that this project has been so poorly managed and is so far behind schedule is an abomination.

This is a very bad idea for a number of reasons, and I don't have anything against casinos in general. Number one the Chinese government has explicitly warmed Thailand, and the small gal that they will and discourage their citizens from visiting the country if there are casinos. Number two successive governments tend to change and there is a chance that this plan will be withdrawn later with a successive administration, leaving many casinos completely abandoned, which happened in next door Sihanoukville, and it was absolutely tragic.

Well thank you for that reply, that was most helpful. She has no tattoos and she presents very well. But she is Asian.

If you're running a booming business I suppose you can get away with raising prices a bit, but it's never good idea to cut the portion sizes. Thais are very sensitive to this kind of thing, they love to eat and everybody notices a smaller portion. It's bad behavior and it's a good way to lose customers permanently. If your business is already struggling the last thing in the world you should be doing is raising your prices. There is no doubt the economy here is hurting and a lot of people are struggling to get by.

No. Trump has been incredibly careless, his policies are very misguided, his arrogance knows no bounds, and it's very possible that he will run the US economy into the ground. The US is becoming less relevant by the day, and though that has been happening for a long time, he is a major architect of the further demise. Contrary to the reasoning of many Trump supporters this is not a negotiating tactic, this is absolute insanity, and friends and allies around the world are reacting with both horror and defiance. The defiance will simply build and the US will come become increasingly more isolated, which they richly deserve due to the fact that they elected this absolutely reckless goombah. This is a wet dream for China. My guess is that the top dogs in China are busting open bottles of 1982 Lafite, celebrating Trump's mistakes, and America's demise. Talk about low intelligence goons playing right into their hands .

Hesgeth and Waltz should both be fired, and they should quite possibly face prison sentences for this rather reckless breach of security. In some countries they would be facing a firing squad. Neither of them are even close to being qualified for their positions and this is simply a reflection that they are completely out of their league.

I'm scheduled to go back to the US next month with my Thai wife she has a 10-year multiple entry visa, and she's been to the US several times. We've never had any problems before, however now that the goon is showing his racist and isolationist tendencies and discriminating against people from many nations and randomly denying them entry into the US, I wonder how concerned I should be? Has anybody had any experience with this in regard to their Thai spouse gaining entry into the US within the last month or two?

It's becoming increasingly apparent just how incredibly sloppy and hugely ignorant this sorry administration is. Generally when you hire from the bottom of the barrel this is the kind of result you get. Will somebody please share the contact information of these officials many of us would like to give them a piece of our mind. Especially Hegseth. He was the worst appointment for his position, in history. He should have stuck with his lower level Fox News position.

I only time I carry my original passport if I am going to immigration, if I have a significant bank transaction or if I'm entering or leaving the country. Otherwise I carry a color copy of my passport with a color copy of my current visa page on the back, in my wallet and that's always sufficient along with a Thai driver's license or a pink card for hotels and such. Never been an issue.

There seem to be a lot of mentions of the fact that the women are not as beautiful as they used to be, the reality is that women have gotten bigger and they have gotten older when it comes to the massage parlors and the bars. But there are still a ridiculous number of super fine women in Thailand. The big difference is that nowadays the 9's that we used to pick up in the bars are working as escorts making 20,000 to 70,000 baht for a few hours of their time, when they used to earn 1,500 baht for an evening. They now have infinitely more options if they're young and super fine than they used to have, and they're no longer selling themselves for paltry amounts of money. In general there are more wealthy guys out there and I've talked to guys who travel the world and are accustomed to spending $2,000 every time they hire an escorts, whether it's New York, Paris, London or Bangkok. So, things have changed alot. For us, and for the really fine gals.

This is a man who feels tremendous anxiety, very low self-esteem, and is very insecure. He feels the constant need to build himself up, to build up the crowd size, to build up the size of everything surrounding him, to make himself look like a bigger. Most psychologist would agree that this comes from very deep-seated inadequacies. Sizeness, hugeness, everything in his life has always been exaggerated. Frankly I think people are just getting tired of it, his schtick is getting very old. So is he.

Maybe I am old fashioned. I have many gay and lesbian friends, and most I know are really wonderful people. And I have met a number of ladyboys over the years, casually. Cannot really relate to that culture, but to each his own. It is a huge and highly accepted culture here. All good. It is the other ones I am having an increasingly hard time comprehending. And not only all of the myriad of designations, but the whole PC culture surrounding the designation, the insistence on us using the right terminology, and all the rest that goes along with the uber PC acceptance stuff. When I grew up if you liked guys you were either gay or bisexual. Now? The US is by far the most tolerant country in the world when it comes to the whole trans, non-binary, amorosexual, decide whatever you want today, if it fits mentality. No other country is as loose, driftless, and as silly as the US, except maybe the UK. Maybe. When a woman devotes her entire youth to a sport, and becomes one of the best in that particular area, and then a man comes along who decides to identify as a woman, and steals all the awards, all the victories, and all the accolades, something is not right in society. Something is broken, society has become morally bankrupt, and there has to be a pause, there has to be an interruption of the nonsense. No woman would survive more than 30 minutes in the NFL. Women will not participate in men's sports because they won't be able to handle the physical endurance required, nor the brutality, nor the talent level. A woman ranked #5 on the WTA could not beat a #758 man on the ATP as John McEnroe so truthfully stated. Hopefully all this craziness will pass and we'll return to some form of normalcy and indecency.

I know that's the general concept and I know that's what most Trump supporters believe to be the case, but I question if it is the reality, and I seriously question if Trump and his absolute bottom of the barrel pics have enough skill to pull this off. I don't think so. I think they're just going to end up greatly diminishing American influence, increasing the hatred for America around the world, dramatically reducing tourism to America, and destroying the American economy in the process. And taking with it perhaps millions upon millions of jobs that were previously occupied by people who voted for Trump. Once they lose their jobs, once they see inflation spike, once they see that the tariffs aren't working, and once they see that Trump is an absolute fool, I think they're going to change their tune. The reckoning is coming.

The important thing to consider is that the whole world has changed so dramatically in the last decade. Thailand has changed a lot in the last 10 years, if you're a single man there's far less to work with than there used to be. In the bars and the massage shops the women are 15 kilos heavier and 20 years older than they used to be. And in this day and age the really hot young ones have too many options, and there are plenty of desperados with money, that are offering them way too much cash. Specifically Phuket, and Samui are very very pale shadows of their former selves. The nightlife is a mere fraction of what it used to be, however if you're patient and you're a good prospector there is some talent to be found, though in my opinion that doesn't really apply to Samui or Phuket anymore, they're both pretty much wastelands as far as talent goes. Pattaya still has some talent, and so does Bangkok. You can find a cute girl here and there in Hua Hin, but nothing like in the past. Otherwise Thailand's still pretty great, it's just a bit more expensive than it used to be, but it's still a great place to spend time.

This is exactly why I go there Monday through Thursday, it's absolutely delightful, uncrowded, plenty to do, a lot of great food and nice people, in addition to a few good looking birds here and there. And it's very safe as long as you keep your nose clean, the biggest hazard is driving or getting mowed down by a car or motorbike as a pedestrian. You have to always keep your eyes open, but that applies to anywhere in Thailand.

That is simply not true, it applies to to a lesser extent on Phuket and Samui and areas where the locals are jaded and deal with a lot of butthead foreigners (Pattaya), but for the most part I find the Thai people as delightful as ever, they're still very light-hearted, it's very easy to get them to smile and laugh, and they're great fun. People, please don't listen to this nonsense. The other aspect of this is that the Thai people are fairly intuitive so what you get back is often times a reflection of what you bring to the table. If you're grouchy and ornery and overly serious, they're not going to respond to you. But if you're lighthearted with a nice smile, kind-hearted and respectful, you get all of that back in abundance. Most Thai people are quite lovely. And I love to be around them, and I love it here.