spidermike007

Well if they had real allies at the beginning of this sad, forlorn, destructive administration, they are disappearing fast. When astonishing levels of ignorance prevail at the highest levels of government and you have a man who spends every waking moment trying to think of creative ways to insult and belittle friends and allies, it's just not a good formula for maintaining alliances. Picking fights with Mexico, Canada and Europe are just not smart. I get standing up to Russia, I get standing up to China, but instead of standing up to Russia this goon is doing just the opposite and allying himself with an enemy and a genocidal maniac. Can anyone explain to me where the reasoning is in that kind of behavior and hostility? Or are we witnessing such poor policy, that there is very little reason being applied?

I am a lifelong Democrat and during the 20 years that Clinton, Obama, and Biden were in office I regularly criticized some of their policies that I did not agree with. We are never going to agree with everything that a president does. Having said that I am wondering why Republicans are so unwilling to criticize anything that Trump does. It seems like the even the most ignorant things that he does are not open to criticism from his supporters. I hear a few people here and there saying they're unhappy about this they're unhappy about that, but it appears to be very tiny numbers of people. Where is the courage in that? How does independent thinking come into an equation where no criticism seems to be acceptable? I understand his administration members lying over things like classified information to try to cover him, but I don't understand his supporters accepting the mistakes that he's making, and they appear to be quite numerous, to a reasonable mind.

MAGA. Magnifying American Games Abroad. Diminishing America by the day. Driving up inflation and increasing unemployment, while making America a lesser version of itself. The ruin of the economy is just beginning. Give Trump some time, he has spent his entire lifetime destroying businesses, now he's busy destroying a nation.

I do have some friends that will come right out and say the man is a butthead, he's an idiot, and he's an absolute clown, but I like his policies. Those are the Republicans I admire. 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.

I do have some friends that will come right out and say the man is a butthead, he's an idiot, and he's an absolute clown, but I like his policies. Those are the Republicans I admire. 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.

I agree. I have considered Trump insane for many years now, but I don't think any of us knew how completely unhinged he was, nor how incredibly diabolical his plans were. His supporters will very soon find out just what the man is up to, and just how phony and false his promised agenda was.

That is completely false information, there were a number of countries that stepped up and very publicly stated that they would be willing to take these refugees.

No I do not think that they do, however they should be feeling some embarrassment and shame over the lack of progress with this highway project, it is the main highway in and out of Bangkok after all. Anybody with some pride would be feeling shame over this massive construction failure.

Well they may have been making some plans, but the reality is he should have announced by early 2023 that he would not run again, and he did the party and all democrats a huge disservice by not doing that.

These super corrupt creeps are likely taking in billions, not millions of baht. During the Prayut Administration I can't even imagine the hundreds of billions of baht that exchanged hands, and nobody is ever held accountable, as they are all above any and all laws. There is never any political will to investigate any of these allegations in a serious manner.

I hope they see a massive increase in sales due to this publicity, people have the right to express themselves however they want if other people choose to be victims and be offended that's on them. These people are likely overly sensitive Russians, or loyal Trump devotees, who object to the great leader being characterized in an ugly fashion. Well the fact of the matter is he's a very ugly man who continues to perpetrate genocide and who seems to make a sport out of killing women, children and political adversaries. So he deserves whatever kind of shame and humiliation the world can heap upon his ugly mug.

Vance much like his boss is a completely ridiculous man and the US is overstepping their bounds to a rather insane extent. They need to be stopped, there needs to be huge pushback and nations around the world simply need to say no to America's zany and ridiculous policies. All he is doing is precipitating the decline, and making America less influential by the day. A friend of mine from Holland just recently put his mother in a rather luxurious nursing home, he said it's the equivalent of many five-star hotels that he's been to. She has a large, luxurious room with a private balcony overlooking the river. His total outlay is 900 euros monthly. A trashy facility in the US is $9,000 a month and a nice facility is $15,000 a month and up. I know couples who spend $2000 to $3,000 a month on health insurance alone, in the US. It is an unregulated mafia. Just another reason why Greenland and Canada would never choose to be a part of the US. In the process their quality of life would diminished dramatically. In Denmark, the welfare state is characterised by an extensive social security system and a high degree of income equality. All Danish citizens have equal access to education and health care regardless of their social and financial background. Similarly, every citizen is entitled to a limited compensation for loss of income due to unemployment, disability, or illness – just to name a few of the public services that the welfare system provides. The welfare system does indeed benefit each individual citizen but the main purpose of the Danish welfare model is to ensure healthcare and education for all citizens in order to provide high quality human capital/first class employees of great benefit to the taxpaying companies and hence to the Danish economy. https://denmark.dk/society-and-business/the-danish-welfare-state In other words, the polar opposite of the US, where if an older couple does not have hugely expensive health care, they could lose everything with one illness. So, why would any Dane choose to be American? A land owned and controlled by Big pharma, corrupt lobbyists, greedy out of control corporations and a highly dysfunctional government. They would have to be insane.

As an American I am hopeful that nations around the world will retaliate in a severe manner. Trump richly deserves this for his ridiculously dumb trade policies, deportation of folks who have been legally living within the US for decades, and the locking up of folks who have legal visas and we're locked up for simply trying to enter the US. He's pushing too hard, he's moving too fast, and he's becoming extremely reckless in the process, and diminishing American influence by the day. This fool has to be stopped. The US deserves this for electing that absolute fool. The pushback will be long-term and America will diminish in the eyes of the world. Trump is a goon, let's all start admitting that truth.

My heart really goes out to the Burmese people who are already suffering so much under that horrific regime, and now this? What did those poor souls do to deserve all this suffering? I just hope miraculously that the death toll is not well into the thousands.

It was centered around 19 km from Mandalay in Burma, it was a big one, a 7.7 and apparently at it rocked areas in Thailand, but I haven't gotten any confirmation yet of any significant damage in Bangkok, nor any injuries. It does look like there was one building collapse in Burma and the building was under construction. There will likely be alot of damage and fatalities in Burma as the construction standards are quite shoddy and it was a big quake.

Many of us knew this Administration was weak and that these selections were terrible, but now we have written proof. How about that?

Though an implant takes a lot more time and cost a lot more money, it is certainly worth it in the long run if you can afford it.

I don't hate America, I simply hate its leadership and I despise Trump more than I could ever express on these pages. I'm going back for a family reunion, going back to see friends and to have a little fun. There's no point in us getting her citizenship, we never plan on living there, and the only way I would ever consider living there at this point would be if some sponsor offered me $3 million dollars a year, and then I do it for 3 years and leave.

There is no question that the dems are going to turn the house very soon, and Trump's poll numbers are already dropping. 61% of people who voted for Trump disapprove of the way he is handling the Hesgeth military leak corruption affair, the lack of security protocols and the absolute recklessness that's being demonstrated here by people in top positions is scary. Also Trump's lifelong habit of denial, obfuscation, disinformation, and lying simply does not work once he's been outed to this extent. So for him to continue defending Hesgeth makes him look like a fool and a goon. And for his cronies to continue defending these guys it's just simply not working. The American people are saying you guys screwed up, we need competence, somebody has to pay. Hesgeth the minor should be looking at either a prison term or firing squad.

Extreme cowardice and total moral bankruptcy has a price, being outed as a coward has a price, perhaps Thailand will be called to account and perhaps their lack of morality will begin to cause them enough embarrassment, enough humiliation, and enough shame, to force them into doing the right thing.

Plenty of examples. President Trump is wrongly criminalizing anyone his administration suspects lacks legal status, leaving them susceptible to arrest by law enforcement. These cruel immigration enforcement actions have already resulted in reports of veterans and U.S citizens being detained, Native American Tribal members’ identities being questioned, deportations of pregnant women and children, and the detention of a father of U.S. citizen children who may now lose their home, to give just a few examples. The Trump administration’s approach rejects a commonsense prioritization of enforcement resources, directing the time and resources of law enforcement away from public safety threats to instead carry out “collateral arrests” of hardworking people who pose no danger to American communities. This ineffective immigration enforcement strategy is tearing families apart while making the country less safe. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-rash-immigration-actions-place-cruelty-and-spectacle-above-security/

Not yet, anyway. Just wait until they get in the way of Trump's multi-billion dollar resort development on the Gaza Coast.

Did you forget that he's defense secretary? Doesn't the buck have to stop somewhere, or does that not apply to this administration? Wouldn't he be essentially the overseer for this type of communication? Many of his communications were included in these messages, don't you think that he has some responsibility for this massive breach of security?

Though I agree with you fundamentally, and I do despise woke and PC policy, Trump's press secretary kicking members of the media out of the room because they don't ask nice questions is not exactly how I would define free speech, would you?

I disagree I think the greatest risk to the US dollar right now is a man named Donald Trump, and his hugely ignorant policies.