spidermike007

Trump just dishonored his country in a major way by firing four-star general Brown, a man with thousands of hours of experience as a fighter pilot, a man with nothing but honors and decorations during his entire career and only the second black man to ever serve as a four-star general. He also fired the two highest ranking women in the armed forces showing his misogyny in addition to his racism. Trump is really starting to show his true colors and the degree of racism and hatred that the man holds deep in his heart, and can't seem to shake. On a certain level my heart goes out to him as it must be very difficult to live inside his head on a daily basis, very painful.

No amount of dribble can justify the terror and the destruction that Trump has rained down upon America in just one month's time.

Truth, integrity and honor in politics? I don't see much of that here, and I don't see much of that anywhere in the world right now, especially in America.

This is not surprising at all, if the supporters of Trump realized the extent of the corruption and the moral decay of both Trump and Musk, they would be utterly appalled and my guess is that within a year or two they will begin to realize just who they supported. 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. I'm a Democrat but during the Obama presidency and the Biden presidency I was very willing to criticize some of their very ignorant policies. Very, very few Republicans seem to be willing to engage in that sort of intelligent banter. Only fealty, with absolutely no criticism allowed, it would appear. 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.

Based on his extreme lack of charity, he appears to be the stingiest and least charitable person in the history of mankind, if you take into account his vast wealth. For him to be stiffing one of his children is nothing short of an abomination, and it's truly representative of the man that he really is. And the extent to which he has decimated the agencies that help very poor people in a great deal of need shows how little heart and soul this tiny man has.

If these allegations are proven to be true Prasert Klinbancheun, the abbot of Nong Chaeng temple in Suphan Buri should be executed within 30 days. The clergy in any country should be held to a higher standard than the average person, people look up to them, people trust them, and they're put in positions of great authority, especially a high-ranking person like an abbot. A different standard should be applied, a far stricter with a far harsher standard. The death penalty sounds like it would be appropriate for a man like this and it should be carried out quickly without the possibility of appeal.

This sounds quite horrific, a fast moving bouncing truck tire coming out of nowhere is everybody's worst nightmare. If only those lugs were tightened properly.

Thailand desperately wants tourism, but does not seem to care about the consequences of the numbers, or the quality of tourists. It's all about jacking those numbers up to the highest level possible. When you do that you have to pay for it, and if you're too cheap to be willing to pay for the correct systems, the correct procedures, the correct software, and the correct experts you're going to pay a price for that negligence and oversight.

Trump does not like pushback. He prefers absolute fealty and total obedience. He is not getting that. So, he is a petulant, angry child.

I think the same can be said about the US, and America's leadership crisis at a time of global peril. Donald Trump is making the world an infinitely more dangerous place. Time will bear that out. He is not a man of peace he is a man of hatred, discord, irrationality, and venom.

My guess is that a lot of grandparents don't really want to take on this responsibility, but Thai society somehow does not give them the ability to say NO! This is your child you deal with them! Instead they end up engaging in a form of martyrdom in their golden years. Especially in Issan, where the absentee mother issue is rampant.

These days I will only drive into Bangkok if it's after 10:00 p.m. And I will only leave Bangkok prior to 5:30 a.m. That's how bad I found traffic to be on Rama II, getting in and out of Bangkok. I just will not take a chance of being in traffic for 2 hours or more to go 10 or 15 km, which has happened to me on multiple occasions. I do consider the lack of high-speed transport options to be an abomination, and highly representative of the level of sloth that Thailand has experienced on a governmental level for the past 30 or 40 years.

Trump is an absolutely horrific negotiator, and one can see that fully on display now. When you give away the talking points of a negotiation prior to sitting down at the table you have failed. There is a 0% chance of success once you do that, and any decent negotiator knows that. The man could negotiate his way out of a paper bag to save his own life. The United States is now dependent upon this creep for to defend itself. Prior to the election all of his supporters knew that he adored dictators and despots and he had a lack of affection for democratically elected leaders, but did anybody guess that it would be this bad, so soon? Trump is a clear and present danger to the security of both the United States and the Free World and he must be stopped. The Senators and Congress members of his own party and the Democratic party must stand up and defend freedom and rational thinking, against this insane goon.

Well the highway patrol certainly appreciates your willingness to do free PR for them, but the bottom line is that the only time I've ever seen highway patrol cars on the highway, is if they are approaching an accident site, and that applies to decades of highway driving here. In 20 years I've never seen anybody get pulled over for reckless driving. And worldwide that is one of the primary functions of the highway patrol. But not here. Ever.

That is a load of misinformation, typically any nation during wartime will not be capable of conducting elections, so if he's unelected that is the fault of the serial killing, genocidal madman Vladimir Putin.

See my response below. It is utterly shameful for a parent to leave their child with the grandparents for extended periods of time, and it's a sign of some sort of breakdown of contemporary society when this happens.

I completely agree with that, and I find that embarrassment and shame is one of the truly great motivators in Thailand. When I'm looking to get any kind of service or achieve some customer service I will oftentimes be forced to resort to those tactics, and most of the time it works. Nothing like massive amounts of egg on the face for someone who's absolutely obsessed with shameful and useless practice of saving face.

They may be well versed, but that doesn't mean they actually practice it. I think worldwide the art of parenting is a vastly eroding art, and very few parents seem to know it anymore, much less grandparents. It takes a lot of effort. A lot of older farts just don't seem to have that kind of energy.

That is very true. I remember those long time encounters, however one can negotiate for time. When they ask how long I always say a minimum of 2 hours, and negotiate for that. When we get back into the room I show them the clock. There are ways to control anxiety levels and create a level of comfort in spending some time and not being rushed.

I wish I could wrap my mind around the possibility that Musk is actually engaging in work that will benefit the American people, however I can't see it, he is simply too self-serving and so is his creepy boss. I expect that the only dividend that will come from this will be the further decline of America and that will be great news for both Russia and China.

Well I think the same could be said for Phuket, Samui, and Chiang Mai. There is a different element here these days, there's a far lower quality of tourists, they're not spending as much and the nightlife has diminished dramatically from what it used to be. There are still plenty of bars but they're loaded up with older and considerably larger women than back in the day! From my point of view the only exception to that is Bangkok, as you can still find very hot women there. You just have to pay a whole lot more than you used to!

There is no doubt and that life here is dramatically less expensive than in the US or in Europe. I know many people that pay 10,000 baht per month for nice three bedroom homes in smaller towns. On the average I would say between 50,000 and 100,000 baht per month is required for a couple to live comfortably here. Of course there's a huge variation depending on how spartan you are, or how well you're living. But many of us spend at least 100,000 baht per month. Which is reasonable to live well these days.

New routes are a decent thing to have, but Thailand absolutely has to get its act together and create some high-speed ways to move people around. There should be High-Speed Rail from Bangkok to Hua Hin, which there is not. There should be commuter flights from Bangkok to Hua Hin Airport, which there is not. There should be flights from Hua Hin airport to Pattaya, which there is not, since Hua Hin airport is one of the least utilized airports in all of Southeast Asia. This hapless administration has to at least make an attempt to get their act together, and they need to stop pretending that they are competent and that they are representing the Thai people. They are not competent, and they are not representing anyone here in Thailand, other than their own self-interests, and the interests of the elites. Period. The current situation with Rama II a decade behind schedule, and moving at a snail's pace is an absolute abomination and a boil on the face of Thailand.

These kind of picks are wet dreams for our rivals like Russia and China, cannot believe the extent to which Trump is weakening the fabric of American society with his downward, highly incompetent, and horrific selections to head very important divisions of the government. Hegseth, Patel, Vance? Really Don? Donald Trump, weakening America every day of the week. Just wait. If you voted for in him you're in for a big surprise over the next year or two, and it won't be a pleasant one.

Bad news for America, and very typical of Trump picking another highly unqualified, bottom of the barrel pick, but then again his primary qualification is fealty, so qualifications don't really matter to this goon. Jamie Raskin's statement kind of says it all. “Kash Patel’s unrepentant enthusiasm for violent J6 insurrectionists, his cartoon comic books about how ‘Hillary Queenton’ ‘spread lies’ to stop King Donald from becoming our King, and his comically evasive and petulant answers to Members of the Senate refusing to acknowledge plain facts about his own statements, now tell us everything we need to know. This political operative’s wavering commitment to the rule of law and spectacular disrespect for the truth disqualify him as a candidate to lead the nation’s premiere law enforcement organization. He is a dangerous and cartoonish choice for the job.