spidermike007

Stop trying to make the monkeys as useless as the politicians! It was a big mistake to get the Monkey Union involved. They are unfair negotiators.

This sums him up perfectly: Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of bull<deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

He does not care one iota for the average American.

That's a good start. Now, let see if they can down 200 generals. That would likely win the war against the vermins. Victory to the people!

These lowlifes are likely responsible for countless crimes and breaches of social norms. They simply have too much power and it is likely that the law rarely pursues them. Hope this creep gets locked up.

This is the reply from the smartest and most articulate man in the world when asked about the 90 deals in 90 days that he promised. “Oh, we’ve spoken to everybody. We know every. It’s all done. I told you. I told you we’ll make some deals, but for the most part we’re gonna send a letter. We’re gonna say, ‘Welcome to the United States. If you’d like to participate in the greatest, most successful country ever.’ I mean, we’re doing better than ever. We have. I don’t think. And you’re gonna see these numbers soon. We’ve never had numbers like this. We’ve never had investment like this. Uh, we have more than 90. We’re gonna have much more than 90. But most of those are gonna be sent a letter. This is exactly what I said. Now, we’ve made a deal with United Kingdom. We’ve made a deal with China. We’ve made a deal. We’re close to making a deal with India. Others, we’ve met with, and we don’t think we’re gonna be able to make a deal. So, we just send them a letter. ‘Do you wanna, do you wanna play ball? This is what you have to pay.’ So, we’re, as far as I’m concerned, we’re done. We’re sending out letters to various countries, telling them how much tariffs they have to pay. Some will maybe adjust a little bit depending if they have a, you know, cause. We’re not gonna be unfair about it. And actually, it’s a small fraction compared to what we should be getting. We should be. We could be asking for much more. But for the sake of relationships that we’ve had with a lot of really good countries, we’re doing the way I do it. But we could be getting a lot more. We could ask for a lot more than what we’re asking for.” America is sure in good hands.

We must maintain hope and the good youth of Thailand must maintain hope. It will happen, it's just a matter of time. Same applies to Burma and Cambodia.

Well if the Department of Justice and the FBI say it, it must be untrue. How are they to be trusted, especially when they're being politicized to the extent that they are right now? Trump has a lot to answer for, he had a decade long friendship with Epstein, who said on record Don was his closest friend in the world. There's countless amounts of information about Trump having spent an inordinate amount of time at the mansion, and there are flight records showing that Trump flew to Orgy Island at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know what his penchant was for "very young women". There has been sufficient evidence that point towards the impossibility of committing suicide in one of those cells, you cannot hang yourself from a bunk that's 2 ft off the ground with tissue thin sheets, and high quality video equipment does not simply stop working on its own. There's virtually no chance that Epstein killed himself, just like there was no chance that Kenneth Lay died of a heart attack just before his trial.

Absolutely awful. Though they are a solid bike they're certainly not made for long distance travel, unless you are a very hardcore type, who does not mind punishing your body. If budget is the issue, I would step up to a Honda ATV 160, it's a far better bike, much better suspension, and a more comfortable ride, with a lot more power. Otherwise, the smallest bike I would consider touring with is a 350cc. Either a Forza or an ADV. While we're on the topic does anybody own a Zontes 368? I was wondering about them. Been hearirg good things.

I wonder if this had anything to do with the competition next door? What really happened? Sam Rainsy, the exiled former leader of Cambodia’s opposition party, has accused Hun Sen of exacerbating the conflict with Thailand because of its crackdown on the cyber scam operations as well as the criminal networks that run the casinos mostly for Thai visitors in Cambodia. Hun Sen’s outburst has nothing to do with protecting Cambodia’s sovereignty. It is about preserving the corrupt financial networks that keep his regime afloat,” Rainsy said on Facebook. Hun Sen purposely shared his recording of the phone call with Paetongtarn with around 80 officials under a Cambodian media law, knowing it would be further disseminated. https://tomorrowsaffairs.com/might-leaked-calls-and-protests-lead-to-another-coup-in-thailand

Wow that's quite an assumption. I wonder if it's founded upon anything even bordering on factual? It's not easy running a retail business, I see an awful lot of these cannabis shops that are not busy, overhead is high, upfront costs are high, and you can't just assume that most shops are making a lot of money.

One can only hope that this nation rises up and shows it's disapproval of terrible leadership one day soon. If the goons attempt to steal another election, hopefully millions upon millions will take to the streets and just shut this nation down until the toxic and spectacularly immoral elites step aside. There won't be another coup. There is no moral authority to condone one.

I feel the same way, the past is the past, we all have a past, some are truthful about it, most are not, and one just never knows. It barely matters if they are kind, well adjusted and seem to carry very little baggage.

Well of course it's an opinion, 99% of what's on this forum are just opinions. Every time I post something it's just my opinion. I never consider it to be an absolute fact, it's just an opinion. Most man equate a woman with a lot of sexual experience with someone who is somehow unpure or spoiled goods. I just don't see it like that. But then again I apply the same standards to them as they do to myself, and I've been around, baby.

And you have to be pretty bad to be worse than Trump, they should almost issue prizes for that. Dummy of the Year.

I would guess an IQ of about 89, but he does have one area where he's an absolute genius, and that is when it comes to being a huckster, a charlatan, a scam artist, and someone who has the kind of pathology that allows him to say or do absolutely anything to convince somebody of a twisted version of "his truth".

You can take it as a yes, you can take it as a no, you can take it as a maybe. It means nothing to me. I care not one iota what you think about me, truly less than zero. Fortunately my self-esteem is not based on oddball comments from netizens.

Tragic oddball. I would consider that a bit of a classic. I think I'm going to start using it myself. It applies to many.

I have one. She is amazing.

I could not disagree more adamantly. I think you would be absolutely shocked at the percentage of women that have had a hundred guys, and believe me it's no big deal at all. It's just your puritanical mind that can embrace that concept.

My guess is that Thailand has been contacting the White House and they have been totally unprepared for negotiations, and have been putting Thailand off until they have some semblance of a cohesive strategy. Trump has no idea what he's doing from one day to the next and my guess is that he's quite senile at this point. If not senile, most certainly insane.

You are correct, compared to most Europeans and even many Latinos, Americans are incredibly unsophisticated about the world, just look at Donald Trump, he's a great example of that. All that America First nonsense gets pretty tiring to listen to after a while. I think the vast majority of the world at this point just doesn't want to hear it.

I think you're bringing a very puritanical attitude to the table along with a lot of fake polls. You certainly can't expect women to be honest about the number of sexual partners they have, in this day and age a lot of girls in America start having sex at 13, but they don't call it sex because it's anal, and they still consider themselves virgins. But by the time they are in college they've already had a hundred boys. I think in Thailand if anything the girls might be less promiscuous than in America, if they're not professionals. A woman who's had over 50 men is not damaged goods on any level. I would not hesitate to go out with or even marry a woman who's had a hundred men, no big deal at all. I don't have double standards when it comes to women and their sexual experience. The last woman in the world I would want to go out with is one who's either a virgin or who has had very little sexual experience. I'll leave that for the fake Puritan Arabs .

His whipsaw approach to the tariffs has been driving the economy crazy for quite some time, there's so much uncertainty in the world, he whips up a frenzy with more tariff talk just as things are starting to settle down and he threatens to impose an additional 10% tax on any nation that has anything to do with BRICS. That organization cannot be stopped, it already represents more than half the world's population, it's only going to grow bigger and stronger, if nothing else just as a counterpoint to Trump's stunning level of arrogance and stupidity. He's in so far over his head with China, and he has no idea how to deal with them. His policies have allowed them to promote themselves as the new moral authority, something I never thought I would see in this life. It is indisputable at this point that the United States is disengaging from global leadership. While America’s retreat has so far been largely a choice – spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s “America First” administration – it may well become irreversible. And if the Communist Party of China (CPC) has its way, the People’s Republic will emerge as the new global hegemon. China’s recently published white paper on national security, its first ever, offers a glimpse into the CPC’s plans. Reflecting President Xi Jinping’s “holistic national security concept,” the document articulates an expansive, integrated approach, encompassing political, economic, military, technological, cultural, and societal domains. And unlike previous defense-focused white papers, it establishes political security – specifically, the CPC’s leadership – as the foundation of national stability, essential to enable China to act as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world. Trump’s willingness to leverage American power to shape global affairs according to his whims is another incitement to instability, with his unilateral decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites being the most obvious example. In fact, the Trump administration has scaled back cultural diplomacy and slashed development aid – hallmarks of America’s post-Cold War influence. This has provided a critical opening for China to position itself as a stable and certain actor in regional and global affairs, a champion of multilateralism, an investor in and defender of the Global South, and a just peacemaker. That chaos begins with the Trump administration’s embrace of economic nationalism and continues through Trump’s rejection of decades of US foreign-policy principles. This appears to matter little to the Trump administration, which seems convinced that national security depends not on global outreach, but on military deterrence, advances in cybersecurity, and economic protectionism, exemplified by high tariffs, efforts to secure critical-mineral supply chains, and limits on the export of advanced technology to China. Within Asia, this vision has materialized in “treaties of good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation” between China and nine countries, and in China’s promotion of greater regional security cooperation, including with the ASEAN countries. More broadly, China is touting Xi’s Global Security Initiative (GSI), which was launched in 2022 as an alternative to Western-led security frameworks that can support broad-based, “win-win” cooperation on “complex and intertwined security challenges.” For instance, Taiwan poses no threat whatsoever to China or its neighbors. But for many countries in the Global South, America’s history of double standards, including its inconsistent human-rights advocacy, has so decimated its moral authority that its interventions stand out as uniquely problematic, especially as it turns its back on soft power. But as Trump’s America abandons that approach and alienates more of the world, China’s vision, focused on fortifying CPC control and building alternative frameworks for global engagement, has gained greater appeal. Some excerpts are from this article: https://tomorrowsaffairs.com/new-chinese-security-vision-and-american-retreat-from-global-leadership

My guess is that he was so accustomed to the unattractive cows from Australia that he had a heart attack when he saw the site of an attractive Thai body.