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Brexit, global warming, cow farts.... how come no one has mentioned Trump yet? Is he becoming more respectable now that he is so strongly up in the polls?

Ok, Joe: flight from Afghanistan? highest inflation in decades? 10 am - 4pm presidency? over $100 billion to Ukraine with no tangible result? Forgiving student loans to buy votes (thus enraging all those people who paid off their loans as required)? and (the worst IMO): Leaving southern border wide open? (No person, no matter what their political leaning, can forgive a leader who does not make every effort to know who is in fact entering their country.)

Piers Moron (according to Private Eye).

A more suitable name-change would be to Artificial Intelligence latest. How many of us thread-followers are sick and tired of these tiresomely loooooong introductions from the Daily Algorithm????

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of the very few areas (perhaps the only area) in Canada that still shows minuscule support for Trudeau's Liberal government. The last two years have seen immigration of a million per year to Canada, all too many from a part of the world whose name cannot be mentioned whenever crimes like this are committed.

Good for you. Your decision to abstain will help abate the inevitable deterioration of your liver.

Do you have a screw loose????

A leading reason for a drop in crime figures is that a lot of crime now goes unreported. Police are tired of arresting criminals, only to have them released within hours. Also, to become a bona fide shop-lifter you now have to abscond with $900 + of goods to qualify as a felon. How many millions of shop-lifters have gotten off scot-free because they only lifted $800?

Not sure about "fly", but you could taxi from the Gate at Suvarnaphumi to the runway....

Been with Agoda for 15 years. Their points accumulation thingy was a good idea, but somewhere along the line they changed (as noted on this thread) and now, when I book, they never mention the points. Sneaky, but you have to be a cheapo to really care about something so trivial. What Agoda is good about is the ability not to pay until a day or three before your booking starts. I recently had to cancel several bookings....nice 'n clean, never have to worry that their computer has actually done the work of cancelling. (Mind you, you do have to search for the cancel booking site.) Their assistants, when something goes wrong, are very helpful and speak good (Singapore??) English.

Imagine any of this lot trying to rule the country after a "revolution". First item of business would be where to locate the gulag. How about the North of Scotland.....

Biden/Harris should be held personally liable for the horrendous in-pouring of millions of illegals through the southern border. Trump at least made an attempt at lessening the illegal entries, but Biden has spent more than 3 years putting out the welcome mat, not knowing who they were and where they were going, as long as they were out of sight of the White House.

Much ado about nothing as usual. Par for the course in all political parties. The real problem, no matter who wins the election, will be dealing with the financial collapse which is almost upon us. Whether it's Biden/Harris or Trump/MiniTrump, the Deep State will have to attempt a rescue by the time-honoured method of throwing money at it, as they did in 1997/98, 2008/9, and throughout the last decade of money-printing, right up to date with the Silicon Valley bailouts of March 2023. Good luck, voters!

A timely reminder that crypto currencies are tolerated by Western governments because they allow security agencies to maintain surveillance of the money-laundering that supports terrorist activities.

Trudeau has had four years since that plane, with nearly 200 Canadians on board, was shot down by the Iranians. It's laughable that somehow Canada deserves commendation for finally waking up and labelling this group as a terrorist organization. The Iranians have also been using Canada for vast money laundering supporting terrorist groups. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michael-higgins-liberals-realize-irgc-is-a-terrorist-group-now-that-its-politically-convenient

No harm in a plan, I suppose. The present PM will be long gone before the PM of the day has to explain why Thailand is not yet the hub of hubs....

What on earth do you mean by this weird phrase? What do I have to do while walking around Pattaya to avoid looking "counter-cultural"?

Trump had every right to be pi$$ed off with Fauci. Fauci gave conflicting evidence re the efficacy of masks. In February of 2020 Fauci gaily asserted that masks would have little effect in combating the virus. In April he was urging every one to get masked. It is now clear that Fauci's advice re masks was incorrect.

Any chance Aunty BBC will sack this pundidiot?

Wasn't he there just a few weeks back on a similar trip to something something tourism opportunities for Hua Hin????

What a horror show. Pity the poor taxpayer in California ( although huge numbers are fleeing the state anyway). On the other hand, the numbers involved are minuscule and so will not be too too expensive. So the "sanctuary" declaration is merely an excellent example of virtue signalling. Btw, why does AN publish what is basically a religious tract under the pretence of "journalism"?

Clearly, you have absolutely no idea what is going on in the US under the Biden regime. Estimates vary from 8 to 15 million illegals have just crossed the southern border with little or no hindrance. Have you not heard Eric Adams, Mayor of NY, appealing for help from the feds because of all the city-owned spaces that have been turned over to all the illegals (or international beggars, might be a suitable term). Have you not noted that nearly every so-called "sanctuary city" has found how inconvenient it can be to be offering sanctuary! Your arrogance needs to be tempered by some intelligence.

Come to think of it, Obama did not exactly emerge from a deprived background.

I watch both CNN and Fox frequently, and would assert that Fox is the nearest the US has to what is known in many countries as "the opposition". (For ex, Fox has been lamenting the open border during the whole of Biden's regime, whereas CNN and MSNBC have been virtually silent until just recently and even now do their best to ignore the fact that anywhere between 9 and 14 million illegals have invaded the United States under the Biden/Harris "watch".) A responsible press would be hammering away at this issue insistently for the last 3 years. Not surprisingly, the invasion by illegals is supposedly the #1 issue with voters.

I suspect that most high-school papers have higher standards than CNN, America's version of Pravda.