https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenHeadline should read: GOP has Polyp Removed 😊Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:58:37 +0000Don't know if it is related but BBC News channel has disappeared from my AIS/3BB TV box. Replaced by the Animal Channel in Thai.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:58:36 +0000Oh! Bernie Madoff was Nigerian? I did not know that!Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:58:21 +0000I wouldn't know. Never been to Walking Street, never gone looking for a ladyboy. Different perspectives...Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:58:18 +0000Yes, not honest. When you take a walk down Walking Street looking for a companion for the night, do you not try to size up whether you're looking at a woman or a ladyboy? But in this case, you pay no attention to someone pointing out that she has masculine features. It's not just a question of honesty. It's a question of brainwashing. Everyone expects to encounter ladyboys on Walking Street, but no one expects to encounter one in the White House.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:56:05 +0000That photograph in the OP looks like a Central Cssting NAZI villain from a 1960s film!Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:56:01 +0000I know a Thai photojournalist personally who had a Thai cop throw a bottle at her face which broke and almost blinded her. You want the truth? Attend some of the meetings at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. Listen to the vice president of human rights watch talk about the false arrests of journalists for alleged les majeste violations. There is genuine fear among journalists trying to report the truth here when that truth is inconvenient.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:53:41 +0000Perhaps your deflection from Reform UK Ltd’s women problem deserved a down vote.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:53:23 +0000For those unaware, the Reflecting Pool is part of the National Mall, running from in front of the Lincoln Memorial to near the Washington Monument. Trump decided---while ostensibly trying to run both a country and a war (into the ground)---that he would turn it into "American Flag Blue" as part of the 250th Anniversary of the United States. Trump seems obsessed with the Reflecting Pool. He even displayed graphics comparing its horizontal length to the vertical height of major buildings like the Empire State Building, as if that means anything. (Note: he did not compare it to China's Great Wall, so we're saved that absurdity, while substituting another.) Anyway, Trump seems to have an obsession with making sure people think things are bigger than they actually are, if you know what I mean. The manner in which this pool cleaning unfolded is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with both Trump and his tenure as the supposed leader of a major democracy. First, it is yet another vanity project, part of how his woeful personal insecurity drives him. Everything has to be about him, from trying to share glory with a beloved former President by installing his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to his Trumpian Arch, to his giant banner displaying his mug on the supposedly independent Dept of Justice, to his celebratory concert that has morphed into another Trump rally for the 4th of July. (One wonders how prominent will be the mention of Arnold Palmer's junk?). Second, the $14.2 million contract to clean the pool and make it blue was dealt in a no-bid manner to a 2 major Trump donors, people who evidenced no ability to carry out the required pool changes. Third, the contractor did a very poor job. He drained the pool, supposedly cleaned it, and then laid down a blue tarp all the way along its bottom with what he thought was the right kind of glue to withstand years under water. Next he refilled the pool with unfiltered water from the Potomac River, instead supposedly utilizing some procedure called nanobubbler technology. The Potomac, being a natural waterway, contained algae. Now present in a shallow pool during a hot spring and summer in DC, the algae did what algae are wont to do: reproduce. Algae tends more toward a green color than blue, so the hoped-for American Flag Blue wasn't going to happen. The contractor decided the algae could not stand up to hydrogen peroxide, so he had crew pour hundreds of gallons of it into the pool. The liquid did wipe out some of the algae, albeit along the edges of the pool. The inner rectangle remained algae green. It's possible the hydrogen peroxide also interacted with the glue used to hold down the blue tarp, or perhaps the glue was just not meant to be soaked by water, or never properly set. In any event, the tarp began to separate from the bottom, with large pieces floating on top of the water. Unable to accept failure or blame, nor to be questioned as to why he awarded the contract in a no-bid manner to a donor, Trump made up excuses. He tried to find people to blame. Proof of involvement is not something necessary in MAGA and Trump's world; accusation equals guilt. Trump instantly "concluded" the pool had been sabotaged by "deranged radical leftists and Dumocrats", though obviously he made this accusation without evidence. An unfortunate visitor to the pool, who happened to be a former US Olympian, reached into the pool to examine a piece of the floating blue tarp. He was instantly arrested and charged with the vandalization of Trump's vanity project. Trump raged in a series of bizarre Tweets, and the Dept of the Interior issued an obviously false statement claiming the Reflecting Pool was "crystal clear", and using its statement both to disparage the rent-free resident residing in Trump's addled brain (Obama) and boast about Trump's war prowess. Yes, don't believe you lying eyes. So what can be done now? The entire $14.2 million was wasted. It's a total loss. To get the pool "American Flag Blue", the entire pool would have to be drained again and dried, so that a new and better blue tarp could be laid, and then something better than "nonobubbler technology" would have to be used to make sure algae did not reappear. So it's all a mess now. McArthur's Park has melted in the rain, so to speak. This is all so Trumpian: vanity, corruption, incompetence, US Taxpayer money wasted, failure to accept responsibility, blame of others, prosecution without evidence of a crime, and manufacturing of an alternate reality.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:53:21 +0000Everyone lies. Reform UK Ltd, and Farage in particular, are better at it than most.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:52:33 +0000Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:52:31 +0000Are waves of tourists literally spinning on their heels and turning away? Where can we see this? Are there videos of these hordes of people storming out of ticket agencies? Everywhere I go in the US people are jealous of me and wish they could get away from their lives and come here. I have NEVER personally heard anyone complain or say they won't come here because of fees. The only complainers are you and all the rest of the armchair quarterbacks here. So nobody owes you any reasons for anything, you're absurd. You already have your own reasons. So leave already and give the rest of us a break from your whining.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:47:36 +0000Not honest? You are taking the piss - once again, there is no evidence apart from the whispering of those who live under the flat stones at the bottom of the stagnant pool of American racial bigotry! So she has broad shoulders when photographed from certain angles, so what?Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:47:34 +0000Such a poem couldn't have been written by an Israeli. This bleeding heart "Silverwoman" diasporiarific drama queen doesn't have a clue about the Israeli experience of living in a tiny country surrounding by people who don't think you have the right to exist.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:43:02 +0000You only see what you want to see!Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:41:24 +0000Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:40:29 +0000No problem at all traveling to any country other than Thailand. I'm not even sure you can transit thru if you are on an overstay ban, so I wouldn't route any flights thru ThailandTue, 23 Jun 2026 00:39:36 +0000Interesting contrast in the articles chosen to support this piece on England fans and the piece on the so-called "Tartan Army". The Scottish headline was "Tartan Army get a heroes' goodbye in Boston as world's best fans arrive in Miami", and among other things, the article celebrated apocryphal tales of the Scottish fans drinking all the alcohol (they didn't). The article selected (out of all the possible articles that could be found on England football fans) was a begrudging "The awkward truth about England fans at the World Cup". The Scottish article uses martial language in a positive way (referring to the Scottish fans as "heroes"), the article on English fans uses the slightly threatening "booze-fuelled invasion of up to 15,000 England fan...". Both English and Scottish football have had a history of crowd violence. This past season was marred by the disgraceful behaviour at Celtic Park and Trongate, following the match against Hearts, leading to two officers being hospitalised, and damage across the city. I don't remember anything like this in England this past season. I've been to matches at Parkhead, and heard the sectarian language from both sides (Orange b**t**ds, Fenian c**ts), and no one does anything about it. I lived in Glasgow for many years, and in Belfast. When the Scottish go on tour, they are all cheeky chappies in ginger wigs and stupid kilts, but knocking 10 bells out of each other at an Old Firm match. I don't think they will find Miami as friendly as Boston.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:38:49 +0000Hilarious! There are actually maga facist cult members who think Michelle Obama could be a man! THe same type of American bogans who bought Trump's racist birther lie.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:38:26 +0000Its you on the not so elite pub forum as usual! Upgrade to avoid us Strayans goatie and in future respond at a reasonable hour for Thailand members. 🔮Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:36:10 +0000It could be what you said -- political bigotry and a cheap shot. But to completely dismiss and deny that it's a possibility with those massive wide shoulders, massive traps, and man hands is also not entirely honest.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:29:21 +0000Except the country he puts above is actually RUSSIA. www.theconservativetoday.com/tucker-carlson-putin/ It sounds like he might be setting up himself for a third party run.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:28:48 +0000TurkeyTue, 23 Jun 2026 00:27:18 +0000It sounds like this guy should be in line for a promotion .....Come on, corruption is every where in Thailand...I sure there are countless more current cases....2010 was 16 years ago..Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:27:00 +0000It is indeed impossible to prove, there is no evidence whatsoever! And why did the "fighter" bring it up, well a combination of being hit about the head too often, an opportunity to air his personal political bigotry and the chance to curry favour with the gross, crass, wannabe Caesar for whom the "games" were being staged. Beware the Ides of November Oh Caesar!Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:25:01 +0000