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Take the young and dumb, throw them into a caldron created by politicians who will never risk a hair on their own heads, and collect your "campaign contributions" from the corporations manufacturing weapons system which you've just made $1,000,000 from front-running the stocks of those corporations slated to receive billions in government funding from legislation you helped pass. Sound about right? Most 70+ year old veterans have already seen this show played over and over and over again - sorta like the 20th reboot of Beau Geste. As General Smedley Butler so aptly stated, "War's A Racket." That it is. Provoked by the West for the benefit of Western corporations, stakeholders, and arms manufacturers. The West doesn't have a clue how to make a profit though peaceful trade and non-military intervention into the domestic affairs of targeted countries. So up next: War with China. If you can't compete with them economically, well start a war with them. Then rake in the profits until the nukes fly. Which they will this time around. Pretty freaking sad imho.

Of course - wealthy, connect people would lose investment capital. They can still legalize it for "medical use" and throw other common "users" into prison as well as to shut down all of the small retail businesses.

Amazing that I'm one of the few on this forum with a well crafted sense of satire. It helps keep me sane in an insane world.

Probably 50 former and current heads of "alphabet" agencies signing a letter in full support of the stellar performance of the USSS under Director Kim Cheatles which states that Trump set the whole assassination attempt up himself and all the video footage is "Cheap-Fakes" circulated by Putin and the Kremlin - and "that's the God's honest truth!," and a Grand Jury should be set up to bring Donald Trump to justice for faking his own assassination, and short-range nuclear weapons should be stationed in Ukraine in order to "teach Putin a lesson about interfering in US elections once and for all!" That sound about right?

Now she needs to worry about perjury charges based on that fiasco of a testimony Monday. Time to lawyer up. She should have taken one with her to the Congressional hearing. After this I doubt she'll be able to get a job guarding a bowl of Doritos.

US Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle's has resigned. And she may have perjured herself during her congressional hearing on Monday. Stay tuned.

I figured that question came from a sub-100 post AN user. Yep.

If your interested in trying out Win11 just do this. Download a Windows 11 ISO and Rufus and buy a 32GB USB if you don't have one handy. Then create a "Windows To Go" bootable "Live" USB using Rufus which you can run Windows 11 from to test it out. Probably the most difficult steps is figuring out how to boot from a USB on your computer if you haven't done it before. Like I said in my review, not much difference between Win10 and WIn11 other than Win11 has a cleaner user interface that is a bit more intuitive. And Win11 will probably run more efficiently on modern hardware then Win10. Go check it out. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-a-windows-to-go-version-of-windows-11

I can make a laundry list like that one Biden or pretty much any politician with perhaps that handful who actually have morals and the interests of the American people before themselves. And come on Mike - really. How many politicians care about the American people first as opposed to 1. Themselves and their own power and pocketbook, 2) their corporate sponsors who provide the PAC and Super-PAC funding which keeps them in power and then the insider trades which makes them millionaires on a Congressional salary, and 3) their foreign sponsors who provide PAC and Super-PAC funding which keeps them in power so they can transfer the wealth of America to weapons manufacturers and send those countries shiitloads of foreign aid which in turn gets kicked back as dark crypto funds, offshore accounts, and the same corporate handouts for the family's "brother-in-laws" and connected friends. And whether Democrat or Republican - they all do it. 99% of politicians lie, have no moral backbone, care less about Americans or America, and only have one goal - stay in power at any cost. And at the end of the day everybody hates everyone: foreign and domestic. Which will basically end in a pile of ashes: regionally or globally or both - unless people begin to start talking, negotiating their differences, and seeking common ground. I was 10 years old during the Cuban missile crisis. I lived on a Strategic Air Command (SAC) airbase. We were ground zero and knew it. I old man was an AF pilot and even at that young age I understood the gravity of the situation. Now - hell, things are worse both globally and domestically then they ever were i 1962. And given the fact that everyone hates everyone else and no one gives an inch. That bodes not well for the future of anyone. In the meanwhile? Let the hate-fest continue unabated. What a cluster-foxtrot the world is currently in. "But Trump is Hilter! So's Putin and Xi and they all need to be taught a lesson! " And there ya'll have it. <BOOM>

Racist? I mean Harris is of Central Asian Indian descent and yesterday we established that you have issues with Indians. Perhaps you should do some introspection about your dislike of Indians.

Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 but NY Judge Juan Merchan said the former president will now be sentenced on September 18. So for those Trump haters who repeat over and over again that Trump is "a convicted felon" - the November elections will be a sealed deal for Trump if Merchan sentences him to even a day in prison. "Convicted Felon." Be careful what you wish for. Like I said - the Lawfare Genie is out of the bottle and Democrats will be "in the bullseye" for judicial proceedings when President Trump takes office.

And he's Hitler.

Any Democrat who doesn't back Harris as the rightful heir of the presidential candidacy is a racist and a misogynist.

If Trump wins the Presidency and restaffs the Department of Justice, my guess is you are going to see a whole bunch of "convicted felons" running as Democrats for various offices in the Administration, Congress, and the Judiciary. Well - once they are out of prison. Why not? Turnaround is fair play and now that the genie is out of the bottle - lawfare will rule the day.

You forgot. And he's Hitler. There - fixed it.

Well - yeah! He could have labeled the DNC the worst party for putting this geriatric basket-case into office instead of backing a compos mentis candidate plus a VP who actually had a chance of taking the parties nomination after the POTUS's end of term. Instead that ran the Biden/Harris disaster and the rest is history.

I wrote this yesterday regarding Windows 11.

Democrats: Democrat Good; Republican Bad. Republican: Republican Good; Democrat Bad. Independents: You all suck.

Which is why we used .223 instead of .22 to hunt "varmints" popping up out of the ground at 200 yard. .22s are good for shooting tin cans and plinking. Just saying.

Ya'll really don't know anything about guns and ammo do you? Do you know the difference between a 22 and a 5.56x45mm or the Remington .223? Big scary bullets huh? But the 22 has a .223" diameter bullet. That big scary looking 5.56x45mm that the dead would-be-assassin fired at Trump? It has a .224" diameter bullet. Yeah - a whole scary 0.001" difference. I mean, these would only cause "a little graze" right. The primary difference is the muzzle volatility, muzzle energy, and the weight of the bullet with a 22-LR about half the weight as the 5.56x45mm which is similar to a Remington .223 which are fired out of an AR-15. But as far as bullet size? They are essentially the same diameter kids. "But it's a big scary bullet and the 22 is a little bullet!" 😎 No - a .338 Lapua is a "big scary bullet." So is the (probably) .308 that the USSS sniper took the kid out with. Really scary. However, any of the above will turn your brains into "pink mist."

My exwife took a shiit right on the road one time. It was that or disaster-pants and a messed up car seat. She had sudden, serious stomach issues and there was no time for her to do the doo without soling herself. it was an emergency. And she was quite embarrassed. Now I can just imagine an Indian couple driving down the highway that day. "Well look at those American white folk. Just shiiting anywhere they please. Look there, right on the side of the road! <tsk tsk tsk> Can't wait to tell the folks back home of these uncivilized Americans." Of course no doubt they published that on social media like you did. I hate to say it, and the pun is intended, but we are animals and sometimes shiit just happens.

Dissolving the party is typical third-world lawfare. Unfortunately, the third-world mentality is beginning to creep into the West, so perhaps I should say that it is indicative of countries which embrace a totalitarian mentality. Considering Thailand this country has been run via coups since the 1930s, i.e., totalitarianism. Anyway - the MFP shouldn't be dissolved. All it does is disenfranchise the voters and p*ss them off. If you can't let the population vent at the ballot box then they'll vent on the street. Better to allow new parties to compete or run the risk of domestic discord at best and actual revolution at worse.

No. But I did simply transfer the funds from my bank to the car dealership's bank account. However - let us know when and where you'll be taking that ฿2.5 Million THB to the showroom and we'll meet you on the way to provide, errrr, security.

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I started working with MS Windows back in the Win 3.1 and NT 3.1 days (and DOS before that) so I've been around including running Windows-based server farms back before I said, "Ok - Freaking Enough" to the thankless grind of systems administration back in my IT days and bailing completely and taking early retirement. In my humble opinion, each iteration of Windows came with a Graphical User Interface and "bloat" problems that were significantly worse then the preceding versions. As I caveat, I run Linux and have been since getting out of IT, but generally dual-booted (in the past) and more currently running in a Virtual Machine that keeps it sandboxes from my Linux OS. But I've been setting up a laptop for my son to use for some legacy application. Today I downloaded Win11 and installed it on a Windows_To_Go USB configuration just to take a look. I'm pleasantly surprised. The GUI is actually better than Win10. It's cleaner and actually is more intuitive although you can find the tools and apps that come with Win10, just with a hell of a lot less clutter. And from my understanding, if you have the hardware, it actually runs more efficiently. I thinks I'll go ahead and set up a Win11 VM to run on my primary desktop because I actually like it better than Windows 10 - now over the last 30 years, that's a first with me and Microsoft. I'd be interested to know how their server products stack up nowadays, but? I gave that up and really don't want to go down that path again. Linux it is until I check out. Anyway - kudos MS. You did something right for a change. Did you actually listen to your users for a change? <laughs>