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The quintessential definition of psychotic: Thai government yesterday - "Gambling is a blight on Thai society and all gambling dens should be found and the people running them throw in prison!!!" Thai government today - "Gambling casinos are good for Thailand and Thai society!"

Anyone wearing gold bling-bling in public deserves to lose it. With the price of gold now, I'm surprised that more people wearing gold aren't just murdered in board daylight.

By the way, if "preemptive pardons" are allowed to stand legally, then every president from here on out will use them. The only difference? If a Republican president uses them the media will scream bloody murder. If a Democrat president uses them the media will call it "sound judgement." The blatant hypocrisy of the Left is simply over the freaking top. I seriously hope the courts strike this abominable use of "preemptive pardons" down forever. No president should be allowed to use them. Pardons for convicted criminals? That's within the scope of the Constitution.

You hit the nail squarely on the head.

A World Redefined: The Global Rise of the Right As translated by the progressive liberal left1: "The world is about to be controlled by "Far-Right Extremists." As translated by the conservative right: "By will of the majority who are tired of the policies of the progression liberal left, the social pendulum is swinging back toward conservatism." Up next (as in Romania): "We must overturn elections and ban parties where "Far-Right Extremists2" are running for office, or worse, are elected to office by the majority in order to "Save Our Democracy!" "How do you plan on accomplishing that?" "We'll claim Russian interference and overturn the elections. It works every time!" 1Progressive liberal left defined: "Far-Left Extremists." 2Far-Right Extremists defined: "Anyone to the right of the progressive liberal left."

"A pardon carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance, a confession of it." Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)

And equally as good, he's pardoning pro-lifers thrown into prison by the Biden regime.

Excellent

My guess is that preemptive pardons will see their day in court on the grounds that they are not what the author's of the US Constitution had in mind. Pardoning people who have not been convicted of a crime? I don't see how that flies legally, but I do expect to see those preemptive pardons contested right up to the SCOTUS by USAG Pam Bondi. BTW, Biden expressly stated that he would never issue preemptive pardons when Trump was exiting office in 2021 and the media was floating the notion that he would use preemptive pardons. In the meanwhile - assume that everyone who was granted a preemptive pardon is guilty of a crime. It is a tacit admission of criminal acts and guilt. If it was me and I had not committed a crime, I'd be screaming to get the pardon revoked as the preemptive pardons are an implicit testament of crimes committed as well as guilt.

Good. The J6 convictions have been a literal witch-hunt. It's time to roll that back.

People make mistakes. I've been given too much change on occasion at 7/11 and then return it as I don't want these kids having there paychecks docked. But as far as being scammed. No.

Good.

America is Empire in Decline. If Trump can rescue it I'll be amazed.

In my neck of rural Northern Thailand, the local government has a strict burn ban. No farmers burn their fields as they would get immediate attention for the authorities. That's for real. Nobody is burning fields where I live. Instead? They go up into the mountains and set arson fires to clear underbrush for mushrooms. That forest arson causes the majority of the local PM 2.5 and haze. In another 45 days all the forests in the mountains around us will be on fire and nobody will see anything. Why? Everyone drops they day jobs to go mushroom hunting in the rainy season.

In typical Thai fashion my wife blames it all on Myanmar. <laughs>

So they are throwing the equivalent of $13 million USD at the problem? They aren't serious at all.

Chiang Mai Tackles PM2.5 Pollution with Ambitious Five-Year Strategy Year 1: Enthusiasm Year 2: Disillusionment Year 3: Panic Year 4: Search for the guilty Year 5: Punishment of the innocent Year 6: Praise and honors for the non-participants - Photo Ops

I've never read it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I'll put it into my "To Read" list.

For christsakes. Taken out of context, everyone is a Nazi. Catch a wave or a gesture at the right moment and you can claim that <enter the person you hate here> is a Nazi. And I don't particularly like any of these people, but like Elon Musk, they ARE NOT shooting Nazi salutes. It's a camera moment taken completely out of context.

Have you been scammed/overcharged at 7-11? No.

I imagine that the preemptive pardons will find their way to the SCOTUS. If preemptive pardons are allowed to stand then government officials are basically given a "get out of jail free" card for committing illegal acts during the tenure of an administration if the administration covers their illegal acts during and then post-administration via preemptive pardons. That is a slippery slope and not what the author's of the Constitution had in mind. That will be taken to court.

Actually many of us aren't "MAGA fanboys" but conservatives who are just tired of rampant progressiveness which seeks to undermine the social fabric of the West. I agree with some of Trump's policies; I disagree with some of Trump's policies. And although I didn't vote for either of the primary candidates, I did prefer to see him win over Harris. I do see his term in office pushing the social pendulum back toward the right and back toward conservatism, and I applaud that. "You're a MAGA fanboy for sure!" Nah - just an old Classical Leftie.

Sam Husseini's parting words: "You belong in the Hague." Time will tell.

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I saw that too. Too funny.