spidermike007

Thank you. 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? You can make an argument that the space program was something that had some benefit for mankind, but beyond that i can't think of a single thing. One may ask why has Putin chosen this moment 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.” Putin’s problem with Ukraine, starting with the Maidan uprising of 2014, is that 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.

I think you are lost in space to make a statement like that. I don't see you making any effort whatsoever to move to Russia, nor do I see any expats making any effort to move to that God forsaken land.

I don't think Trump or Thaksin hate their country, but I do think that they hate citizens within their country that are worth less than 5 million dollars, frankly I think they despise all people who are not wealthy, including their supporters.

Let us all take the knee to King Vlad. Give him whatever he wants. Never resist. After all, he is very noble. Just look at what he's done to improve the world in the last 20 years.

I completely agree, Trump would not be where he is without the deep state or a similarly sinister organization or group of very powerful people who put him in that place, and are allowing him to conduct these extremely destructive economic policies. As reckless and as poorly thought out as all this seems, I think it's actually deliberate economic sabotage. Unfortunately the average American and the average person without wealth throughout the world will end up being the victims. Tens of millions of Trump supporters will be very surprised at the end result, and it won't be a pleasant surprise. Very few people truly understand just how sinister both Trump and Musk are.

Have you noticed that poster is nearly always panicked?

Forgive me for thinking this way, but somehow I don't expect an American president to be wearing Halloween type makeup on a daily basis.

Don the Destroyer is hard at work bringing the America to its knees, this has to be intentional, it has to be part of the plan. Won't his supporters be astonished if it actually happens, and then Don and his billionaire buddies swoop in and buy America on the cheap? I think that in the second Trump term he is not only taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people (USAID) and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way. I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience or a semblance of morality. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face. It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees.

There is absolutely no new obligation on our parts, to engage the system. Period. No new laws. No passed legislation. It appears to be a huge nothing burger.

They all lie. Dems and Republicans. Name a republican who does not lie. Cite one day Trump has not lied.

Of course. Both sides lie all the time. At the national level there is little difference. Both parties are morally bankrupt. Few Republicans can admit that.

He is an absolutely dreadful man, and a nasty piece of work.

No. I have been visiting 3rd world, and poorer countries since I was 17. So, I accept the fact that this world has alot of poverty. 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. About 3.4 bn people – just over 70% of the global adult population – have wealth of less than $10,000.

He is barely a white man. His obsession with tanning creams or tanning booths gives him an orange hue. Also, he wears alot of makeup, so that might contribute to his odd skin color. A white man cannot be called a racist for calling another white man with orange skin the orange man. Perhaps your high level of sensitivity towards criticism of your boy is showing?

Sorry but when you voted for the orange guy you revoked your right to discuss lying. It is that simple, he wouldn't know truth if it bit him on the ankles. Moral bankruptcy the sale of one's soul denies any possible encounter with truth.

We don't really know what the facts are, I was saying if the facts are as stated, then I might be tempted to act as I suggested. I seriously doubt I would just let something like that go. Very serious retribution would be called for. And not the legal kind.

This is a very odd phenomena and it's not characteristic of the air quality this time of year in HH or south of that area. It's some kind of strange front, the wind seems to be blowing in from the northeast and it will likely pass soon.

Trump is a man who does not have a single kind or benevolent bone in his entire toxic body, there's no doubt he has Biden Derangement Syndrome, and he just can't forget the man, he just can't let it go. This tiny man just can't pass on an opportunity to insult others, or a fellow president. Trump is a true deplorable. He re-defines the definition of a lowlife.

Definitely a huge load of butt kissing toward a man who set the nation back perhaps two decades. Prayut and Orawit were incredibly destructive forces, and nobody really knows what took place behind the scenes but I think at the very minimum a forensic investigation of their finances should take place, as it is likely he and his cronies walked away with billions.

Quite an incredible and if true quite a horrific story. If I was subject to that kind of treatment and then finally released, I think I would be very tempted to dedicate the rest of my life to go after that prison warden and those guards that were responsible. And I am not talking of legal remedies. For me that would feel like a very worthy way to spend the remainder of my lifetime.

It seems at this point that anyone who doesn't like or approve of Trump is now considered a terrorist. They are designating the people who are lighting Teslas on fire as terrorists, though they are practicing anarchy, they are definitely not terrorists, only in the tiny mind of Don.

Though that is sad in China Tesla sales are dropping like a brick which is a great thing, considering the fact that they've invested billions in gigafactories in China. Musk deserves the downfall.

Three shows I did not enjoy were the Madness, 1923 and Zero Days. They were silly. In the Madness the main character wears the dazed and confused look the entire series. And rarely ever dresses in disguise. In Zero days something is happening to the Deniro character, but what? Too many questions, and not enough answers. Anotjer dud is 1923. Sheridan pours on the tragedy to such an extent the desire to watch just dissapates. Like a melodrama. The tragedy is not in the story, but in the wasted opportunity.

Anora was amazing. This was an astonishing film, with performances that were written by adults for adults, which is so refreshing in today's world of American film. They actually showed nudity, they actually showed people having sex, they showed that not everybody in America is prudish, which was so wonderful and it's something that Hollywood just can't wrap its tiny little mind around. You knew this had to be a an independent production, you knew that this wasn't financed by a big studio, because the content was simply too mature, and too adult like. The interaction between Mikey Madison and Paul Weissman was precious. He played this gentle, kind-hearted thug, stuck working for a junk family, who did a great job of displaying the moral bankruptcy of the average billionaire, much less Russian oligarch. Mikey Madison was pitch perfect and absolutely deserved the Academy Award. It was a brilliant performance, the entire film had this pitch and intensity that just never let up and it was both tragic and beyond belief for many many sustained moments. Sean Baker likewise deserved his Oscar as the direction was flawless. This was an utterly enjoyable film to watch. Baker’s subtly brilliant film knows how difficult it is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, especially when those bootstraps are constantly being cut off by the people at the top.

Never, ever mess with the dentists. They are some bad ass folks. He did not live to regret his actions. And he likely won't be missed.