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Nothing surprising about that. The Trump era parallel will be when all anti-genocide protestors are labeled the same: "Domestic Violent Extremists." That's already in the works. First: US visa holders. Next: US citizens. Coming during Trump's term. Stay tuned... I keep saying, their really isn't any difference between the Democrats and Republicans. Different sides of the same coin. When things don't go their way, the leadership will revert to calling people they don't like "terrorists."

I've read all of Connelly's books and watched all of his shows. Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer. Ballard should be a good show. They are all well done.

There's an old saying. Money talks; 🐂💩 walks. My wife keeps me informed on how the local elections actually work. Cha-Ching.

Study history: Shin dynasty leadership. Coup. Shin dynasty leadership. Coup. Shin dynasty leadership. (Fill in the blank) 🤔 As much as I hate to say it, but military coups are the counter-balance to family dynasty which usurp control of Thai leadership. If they really did work for the benefit of the average Thai they might get away with it, but instead they create power cartels which only benefit a small subset of Thais. At the end of the day, Thailand is just one big badminton court and the average Thais are naught but the shuttlecocks being slammed back and forth. Eventually they'll be a generational shift that might change that.

And it worked!!! "Penalties?" Never in a million years. But should that happen no doubt their will be a Dubai bound private jet waiting a short helicopter ride away. I see we have some comedy on AN today! No! You don't say. Really? Up Next? Bring the sick Yingluck - who on her deathbed and only wants to see her family once last time - home as a state act of compassion! No no no, she'd never consider politics again. 😢 Just warm up a bed in the penthouse of the prison hospital.

I thought Teflon Tony was here to spend his last days in the comfort of his grandchildren's company considering that he was on his death-bed, right? Yet? I guess that was a lie. Here he is 110% back into politics and as healthy as ever.

Money, connections, favors.

For that much, you can probably just make it while sleeping rough on the streets.

It's not a "first world country" anymore. It's well on its way to third-world s***-hole status.

Just in time for the summer!

I fully expect Trump to blow up the US economy after which the Democrats will have their turn. Neither side works in the interest of US citizens. Just their donors.

Did you write that? It's not sourced to any newspaper. I believe Asean Now has a rule about sourcing quotes.

Tomorrow we'll have an Op-Ed whinging about the loss of tourism in Pattaya followed by new articles about "Pattaya - The Safest City In The World." Within the next month they'll be a news articles about some farang being macheted on the Beach Road by "angry ladyboys" and a farang beat by 10 Thais for "not paying his bill" followed by a score on AN regulars OP'ing about how all bad farangs no doubt deserved it. Wash, rinse, repeat.

History: A Shin runs the country. Coup. A Shin runs the country. Coup A Shin runs the country... _____ ?

Just make Tony "Fearless Leader For Life" and all will be well in the Land of Smiles.

Dating 22-Year-Old Thai Bubble Tea Girl - She Just Asked for 30K/Month – Am I Being Played? Not at all. My 20 year old GF gets 50,000 per month. Get with the game and stop being stingy.

I was going to mention that. "I can't castrate this man and treat him with estrogen. It's it's it's - unethical!" "You want me to cut your Johnson and his two friends off and give you estrogen and refer to you a she/her so you can be sent to a women's prison. Sure! Hop up on the table ma'am!" The paradox 👆

"Do No Harm." No doctor should be forced to castrate anyone, chemically or physically. However, in hiring medical staff, the prisons should screen for doctors will to do what their employers mandate them to do. Hire willing staff. For those who don't want to do it - well, I'd think being a medical professional working for the prison system would end up being a dead-end profession.

Here's reality. As Trump Makes America Unaffordable Again, all of us living here should enjoy the benefit of increased domestic, ASEAN, and Eurasian trade. Apple has always been a product for people with more disposal income than the average pleb. I'd consider buying one if they ever became competitively priced with Android-based phones and x86-based computers as opposed to being a status symbol like Mercedes, BMW, and Rolex. The concept of building proprietary operating systems ($$$Cha-Ching$$$) that runs on proprietary hardware ($$$Cha-Ching$$$) is eventually going to bite them in the ass. Personally I could care less if Apple tanks. Then they may be forced to sell their products at competitive prices to folks in the Global South and developing world at prices average people can afford.

I love it when both the Left and the Right show their true colors: All of them are intolerant.

They'll throw their white ethnic Swede and ethnic Anglo/Saxon/Celtic citizens who complain about it into prisons for hate crimes like pointing out grooming gangs and gang rape. Me? I don't live there anymore. I don't care. The entire West can turn into a third-world s***-hole for all I care. Anyone with eyes can see that it won't happen here as long as the local continue to embrace their ethnocentric xenophobia. They tolerate farangs here, but they aren't going to allow their country to become a Islamic backwater for those illegally "immigrating" from Africa and the Middle East. Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.

This is exactly what his he and his friends in the WEF worked so hard to achieve. They must have thought they could control it. Well, convert to Islam and you'll have it under control again, 'eh?

It's called "Democracy" until it isn't. If the majority of the French (considering that France is now a extension of North and sub-Saharan Africa) want to vote candidates who belong to the Muslin Brotherhood into office as their representatives - that's how democracy works. I mean heck, look - the head of ISIS in Syria is now president of Syria and most EU leaders go to get they pictures taken with they guy. What's a terrorist? It's irrelevant in the name of political expediency. The EU's new concept of "Democracy" is to label all political opponents as belonging to "terrorist groups" and then banning them from running in elections, often my just arresting them. At the same time as they recognize actual terrorists as "fellow politicians and world leaders." You can't make this s**t up. It reads better than fiction. The EU, including France, is crumbling into its own footprint. It's an own goal, they did it to themselves. So don't b**** Macron. The pile of 💩 your sitting in is your own.

Manchild who is president of the US throws his pacificier out of the pram again. Don't worry. The Republicans will lose in the Congressional mid-terms, and at this rate AOC or Gavin Newsom will be your next president in 2028. Different children; different prams (baby buggies in American English). The same stinky mess when you pick the baby up 💩 Yeah, I know I know. DJT makes you go crazy. Your not the only one. But here's reality: both parties work for the benefit of their donors and special interests who fund them. As George Carlin aptly stated, "It's A Big Club And You Ain't In It!" They collectively urinate on the smiling, upturned faces of the working class and what use to be the middle class - whether they be waving MAGA red or LGBT+100 rainbow flags - before hitting them right between the eyes with the "money shot" (if you don't understand that vernacular, there is no money in a "money-shot," well, unless you are Bonnie Blue). The only groups getting paid are the mega-rich regardless of their party affiliation, and those who come to America through the back-door which gets propped open every time the Democrats rule the roost. As the years go by, what's left of the middle class and working class is more likely to be found living rough on the streets sans government assistance or medical care. One thing for sure - Trump is not an economist and he quite obviously doesn't have competent economists in his administration. This tariff war will blow-back on the US economy (monetary and fiscal). And who will get screwed? Average Americans. Which is why there will be shake ups in the next elections, not that it will make any difference, it won't. Just like the Democrats did with Biden's cognitive mess, the Republicans will do with the economy: "Don't believe your eyes!!! Joe's as sharp as a tack and the US economy under DJT is the biggest and bestest and most beautiful economy ever." Blah blah blah.

Both Shinawatra's and a Red Bull kid didn't have any problems leaving the country either. For the rich, exile is an option it seems.