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Here we go. Rah rah rah, or as Graham's good buddy John McCain loved to sing to the Beach Boys hit "Barbara Ann," "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!" So the benefactors of the million$ and million$ of U$D dumped into the personal campaign finances and $uperPAC$ of guys like Graham are now going to pay off for the Corporate War Industry referred to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Military Industry Complex, is now going to drag us into a multi-front world war with the Middle East as it's catalyst. I guess all my Christian friends with their eschatological ("I can't wait for the Rapture") world-view regarding Armageddon might actually have hit the nail on the head. Back in the day the trope was that the forces of Good & Evil would fight it out on the Palestinian lands claimed by Israel as "The Promise Lands." Of course the line-up was something like this years ago, like back in the 1960s: Forces Of Good: Christian White Americans, Christian White Europeans, Other White Christian Colonists, Israeli Jews Forces Of Evil: Atheist Commie Ruskies and Atheist Commie Chinese Plus the Rest of the Commies, as well as the Commie Muslim Arabs and all the rest of the Commies Now that line-up has changed just a bit. Sorta looks like this: Forces Of Good: Americans, Europeans, NATO, What's Left Of Their Colonies, Western Christians except for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Israeli Zionists, Atheists Who Love War, The WEF and the Billionaire-class, Globo-Capitalist including Wall Street, the "Defense Industry," and the MIC. Forces Of Evil: Russia, Chinese, Iranians, DPRK, Cubans, Venezuelans, Muslim Arabs, Persians, Turks, Chechans, All Shia Muslims, Slavic Orthodox Christians, All Muslims Not Aligned With The West, BRICS Nations and potential BRICS+ nations who won't take to knee to the West including the Global South and ex-colonial nations who won't sign off on the Zelinsky Peace Plan or calling genocide "Self-Defense" So when the bovine excrement hits the spinning blades in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yeman and the first hypersonic missile hits the deck of a US aircraft carrier in the Med, that will drag in everyone else into the cosmic commode <cue flushing sounds> especially if Israel nukes Southern Lebanon. Once that happens, global restraint is off the table and I doubt that any of the "Forces Of Evil" will see any point in not dragging the US, EU, UK, AU, and NZ into a multi-front World War on their own turf. But the Western Christians will be baking unleavened bread, marking their doors with lamb's blood, and making animal sacrifices to show their obeisance to their supernatural Creator-in-the-Sky who will "smite" their enemies, the "Forces Of Evil," and throw them into pools of hell-fire and brimstone forever and ever and ever, while giving their worshipers wings to fly to "Rapture" out of harms way and avoid the slaughter on the ground where the Middle East used to be. Prologue: The Forces Of Good win, the Forces Of Evil Lose as a beautiful multi-color sun sets over a burning cider where thermonuclear "global-warming" has just taken place. And the future "Morlocks" as as snug as a bug in a rug in their Continuity Of Goverance bunkers a mile or so underground, all waiting for the day when they can reemerge and fire off what is left in their nuclear arsenals. So have at it. The human race are war-like and always have been. Nuclear weapons in the hands of humans is like a box of locked and loaded SAW M249's in the hands of a pack of chimpanzees. What possibly could go wrong. Thermonuclear BBQ anyone? Graham has firing up the grill! https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-812801

Op is even going after the mods too, in this case Rimmer. Arnold Judas Rimmer - Red Dwarf

👇👇👇 👇👇 👇👇 👇👇 👇 ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ "The proliferation of trolls is due to the relaxed rules this forum now follows." Perfect example @BritManToo. A member makes a kind assessment of the state of the forum, then his post is trolled by the Op who is on a fishing expedition in the first place.

Nailed it!

Philip K Dick bot.

HAL bot. "HAL - open the pod bay doors."

State Department Bot.

Ok. gargamon is a CIA bot. There - we're done.

But trust me. Any Thai living in the Thai enclaves around North Hollywood would be screaming bloody murder if Los Angles Metro ran a "senior discount" and Thai were told, "Sorry. American citizen only." Oh people would be screaming, "RACISM", and the entire fiasco would end up in US Federal Court as discrimination. In Thailand? Racism is institutionalized and approved by the government and society. "Solly farang."

A lot of Thais are to the point where they wish the Prayut would return to "over-power" them all.

She has the entirety of the Obama Chicago Democrat Machine behind her now. She doesn't have to think, all she needs to do is to remember the script she is given to her. Lies and all.

That's criminal.

You people keep missing option 3 - None of the above.

I believe this was posted by Elon Musk on X, but it captures my own experience since the late 1960s. I was a classical liberal then, I'm a classical liberal now. What moved was that both the Left and the Right moved left. That move is wayyyyy more pronounced over the last 50 years back when I was marching in anti-war protests and voting Democrat.

I'd see the average Trump supporter fitting in well here. Thailand espouse traditional values; Trump conservatives espouse traditional values. Thailand is anti-abortion; Trump conservatives or anti-abortion. Thais are spiritually inclined although Buddhist and Animist; Trump conservatives are spiritually inclined albeit Christian. I could go on. Thailand is conservative and traditional; Trump conservatives are conservative and traditional. So are most people in SE Asia and ASEAN.

I love this buyer's remorse as prices come down. What the clowns on the cutting edge of EV purchases failed to grasp is what happens during all new technological innovation. Take a simple calculator back in 1971 cost about $375. A few years later $100. A few years later $50. Now you can buy the simple calculator for less than $10 buck. Scientific innovation and economy of scale. We could do this same exercise for PCs and laptop computers. So it makes perfect sense that the first EVs rolling of the assembly line cost more than the next generation. And they should keep getting cheaper - at least in Asia. Products in the West are different animals as the capitalists in the West are highly predatory. Asia and The BRICS will understand that you can't sell products like cars at an economy of scale if the cars are priced beyond the reach of most consumers. I believe that world-wide EV prices have to keep coming down, and for the same reason as the simple calculator's price came down.

I do agree.

Btw: Thailand is about to find out how "The Most Advanced 4th Generation Fighter In The World" (F16 Block 70/72) compares against a peer adversary in Ukraine. $$$Cha-Ching$$$ Hope they don't end up with buyer's remorse.

A US plane that's been around since the 1970s vs a plane rolled out by Sweden in 1996. Personally if the Thais were smart they'd go for the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker which is a 4th Gen jet created as a counter to these NATO variety. They are all older designs but like submarines? What does Thailand really need them for. Really.

Headline News Brit Vapers Beware: Tobacco Monopolies Have SE Asian Government's By The Cajones

He is not only an embarrassment to Thailand but reflect the sad state of weak Thai laws where a Wealthy and Politically Connected Thai convicted felony can evade serving full jail time In Thailand's Two-Tiered Justice System and who now want to travel abroad during his GPS Ankle Braclet Free parole... There - fixed it!

Not much difference as all are in on the joke

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh well, charter a helicopter to take him to a private airfield and use one of his multiple passports to escape the new charges. Heck - won't the penthouse remand prison hospital be waiting once "dying Tony" comes back? They ain't never tossing Teflon Tony into Gen-Pop. Yep - Tony is sooooo sick that he's constantly seen in public rubbing elbows and press the flesh. 🐂💩 I'm coming Edith!!! It's the Big One this time!!!

When one side seeks an ethnically pure State for itself? Conflict will never end.

Different rules depending on the Immigration Office. Within the same Immigration Office, different rules depending on the mood of the Immigration Officer. Perhaps yours was OTR.