spidermike007

You mean if Trump capitulates totally, to every one of Putin's demands, gives up all Ukrainian territory that Russian has gained, and Russia makes no reparations whatsoever for the hundreds of billions in damage that it has caused. If you call that peace just go ahead and continue living in your Fairyland.

Spoken like a true devotee of the fake master. Absolute fealty is being complied with.

I think you have a tremendous lack of understanding in regard to what it's like to be born into a poor family in a poor country, without any resources at your disposal. Many countries have very strong inherent classes systems, and it is extremely difficult for a person from a poor family without connections to get an education, much less get ahead. Your statement could only be made by a white European or American man.

Outstanding news, they're just don't seem to be enough people and politicians standing up to this potentially disastrous so-called leader.

I used to hitchhike back on the late 60s and early 70s, and it was considered to be a pretty normal thing back then. But in this day and age I think people are just too leery of strangers to pick one up, generally speaking. It feels like the earth is a meaner and nastier place than it used to be.

I'm certainly not justifying the actions of this guy, but he was likely provoked in some manner. I think very few of us have ever been chased by a Thai with a machete. I normally find most Thais to be quite decent people, as long as they are treated with kindness and respect. But it would seem that the worst of the worst seem to be found in Pattaya, and I think next in line would be Phuket and Samui. These are areas where the local people become quite jaded with tourists, and are exposed to a lot of tourists who were unruly and obnoxious.

You are correct in your assessment. Trump's foreign policy will embolden dictators and autocrats all over the world, and that in and of itself makes the world a far less stable, and a far more dangerous place. All this started by an insane, and highly unstable man clown.

Very refreshing to see an expression of contentment here. Thank you for that. Sometimes just sitting still and taking stock of all the wonderful things that we have in our life can be quite fulfilling.

You don't end a war by telling your adversary all the talking points of the negotiations before the meeting. You don't end a war by excluding one of the two parties of the war. With the way that Trump has been conducting himself lately, the end of the war will only happen by Trump helping to get a complete capitulation from Ukraine. That is the opposite of a successful negotiation. And it will likely be just one more, in a vast and long series of Trump failures. And it will embolden the genocidal Russian maniac to no end.

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 watched portions of the speech and it was just an unbelievably incoherent rant. He even talked about the greatest level of prosperity the US has ever had during the Gilded Age, for God's sake. Everybody knows it was the 50s and 60s, even a school child knows that but our president doesn't because he doesn't read, and because he refuses to learn because he's a blazing fool. Despite the US president attesting to the fact he finished “top of his class” at Wharton business school of the University of Pennsylvania, his former professor college professor William T. Kelley had another view. After Kelley’s death, Frank DiPrima a close friend of Kelley revealed that the professor felt the president was a fool. “Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had,'” DiPrima wrote for the Daily Kos. DiPrima explained that Kelley told him this after Trump became a celebrity, but “long before” he was deemed a political figure. "Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything,” Di Prima added. DiPrima’s revelation is the latest in the series of question over the US President’s academic record. According to The Daily Pennsylvania, Trump’s name was not on the Wharton Dean’s List in 1968, the year he graduated despite him allowing media to report for years that he graduated first in his class at Wharton. If he had performed as exceptionally well as is commonly believed, his name would be present. https://studyinternational.com/news/trump-student-wharton/

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 has sided with the genocidal butcher. That's right: In the struggle now uniting the free world against an autocrat's lawless aggression, America's President has sided with the autocrat. One may ask why has Putin chosen 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 most 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.

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 not 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? The death and destruction is only beginning, give Trump another year or two and those who supported him will begin to understand the very nature of the man, and the staggering extent of his deception, malice, evil and corruption. 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.

Thank you, always refreshing to see a voice of reason in the wilderness of spectacular levels of delusion. 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. In my opinion that was an incredibly diplomatic understatement.

Correct. The massive wealth inequality in the world is underpinned by this chart: While just above one percent of the world's population had fortunes of more than one million U.S. dollars in 2022, more than half of the global population had a total wealth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars. 648 million people in the world, about eight percent of the global population, live in extreme poverty, which means they subsist on less than US$2.15 per day. Almost a quarter of the global population, 23 percent, lived below the US$3.65 poverty line, and almost half, 47 percent, lived below the US$6.85 poverty line, as reported in the 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity report. This also means that the global median income (US$7.60 per person per day) is very close to the UMIC line. Global inequality is growing, with half the world’s wealth now in the hands of just 1% of the population, according to a new report. The report shows that a person needs only $3,210 (£2,100) to be in the wealthiest 50% of world citizens. About $68,800 secures a place in the top 10%, while the top 1% have more than $759,900. The report defines wealth as the value of assets including property and stock market investments, but excludes debt. About 3.4 bn people – just over 70% of the global adult population – have wealth of less than $10,000. A further 1bn – a fifth of the world’s population – are in the $10,000-$100,000 range. Each of the remaining 383m adults – 8% of the population – has wealth of more than $100,000. This number includes about 34m US dollar millionaires. About 123,800 individuals of these have more than $50m, and nearly 45,000 have more than $100m. The UK has the third-highest number of these “ultra-high net worth” individuals. The Credit Suisse survey calculates that there are now 2.4 million dollar millionaires in the UK , up 68,000 on a year earlier. In the US the number of millionaires is now more than 15m – up 903,000.

That particular area is not about saving money, it's about making sure that Musk is able to get away with paying less in the way of taxes, and it's about protecting Trump's corporate buddies so that they can save tens of billions of dollars in taxes while using loopholes and not being policed by the IRS. It's a stunning level of ignorant and corruption, on the part of Musk and Trump but it's not surprising, since they're both incredibly ignorant and morally bankrupt men.

From some of his speeches during the campaign: I will address inflation, I will bring the price of food down, I will make America affordable again. False. He has not even made the slightest effort to address inflation. I will solve the Ukraine crisis. I will get both parties to the table and I will get this resolved prior to my inauguration, if I am president elect it will happen quickly. False. The opposite has occurred. He is bowing down to Putin's dictates and making Zelensky into enemy number one. Now Trump is insisting that the U.S have access to 50% of the revenue from Ukrainian resources, and the right of first refusal on the sale of all Ukrainian resources. That's the equivalent of asking Ukraine to pay for war reparations from the damage inflicted by Russia. Ukraine is the victim, and Russia is the aggressor here, and Russia's being supported by China, and yet Trump is siding with Russia. Just another evidentiary point about Trump being one of the world's most dangerous men. I rest my case, your honor. Trump lied about his representative trying to meet Zelensky, while Zelensky was sleeping, when the media was covering the meeting that Zelensky was having with the representative. Just more fake news coming from the disinformation creep. Trump even went as far as to say to our European allies that if Russia attacked them he would not defend them according to the laws of the NATO alliance but rather he would encourage Russia to attack them if they were behind on their bills to NATO. That's the kind of ally you don't want to and you don't really need to have isn't it? He is essentially making America less relevant by the day. Bizarre, insane, highly arrogant, inappropriate, unhinged and blatantly ignorant policy.

My daily outfit is shorts and a t-shirt, granted they are high quality shorts they're newer t-shirts and they are high quality sandals that look good, so I'm not dressed like a bum. But I'm dressed very casually on a daily basis. If I'm going out at night with the woman to a nice restaurant I might put on a pair of pants, if I'm in Bangkok going out at night I might put on a pair of pants and might even put on a button down shirt, bit 90% of the time I dress for comfort. I'm not dressing to impress anybody, that's something I did when I was much younger. And I'm not sure where the implication of high society is in regard to clothing. High Society is a word to describe the very rich in Thailand, who are not a particularly impressive group of people in any level, other than their cash.

After 4 years of Trump policy it is very likely that the world would be an infinitely more dangerous place than it is now, in my mind that is a certainty.

For certain we will be less evolved than we are now. I think it's been about 30 years since civilization started to move in a backwards manner, and human evolution stopped in its tracks. We are now devolving as a species, and that will continue to happen as long as social media and reality TV exist.

It is not just his economic policoes that's are causing people to lose faith, it's his chaotic style, his bull in a china closet actions, and his absolute recklessness when it comes to established policies that have been carefully orchestrated over an 80 year period, to help maintain order in the world. Here's a one-man wrecking ball, and we will be paying the price for his utter carelessness and is inability to think these things through before acting, for many years to come.

Whatever you do don't focus on corrupt police within your ranks, don't focus on corrupt immigration officers, don't focus on corrupt Customs officers, nor corrupt officials within the amphor, the state government and the Federal Government. And leave the local mafia's alone. Focus on foreigners, we are the bad people, we are the ones creating all the chaos, and causing the moral fabric of Thailand to disintegrate sand unravel.

I was very critical of Biden. I was also very critical of Obama during both of his terms, and Clinton. Though I liked and admired Obama I disagreed with a lot of his policy and the same applies to Clinton. I never really liked the Biden very much. I think that that's the nature of discourse and the nature of intelligent thought is to be critical of people across the board. Absolute obedience and total agreement is fairly lame and simple minded, don't you think?

That's a very refreshing thing to hear you saying, and I honor and respect you for saying it. Perhaps more of his followers will take your lead.

What a lot of his supporters don't seem to realize is that the US simply could not function without Canada, Mexico and China. It would cease to exist as a nation and a functioning economy. But simple-minded slogans seem to be very popular these days.