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Sole searching: Foreign man’s shoes stolen from Thai beach - video
I once had a very nice and nearly new pair of Merrell sandals stolen while visiting a temple in Chiang Mai. I was shocked to say the least, as was my wife. -
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Since when does military service have to include wars? Are all the ex-army, navy and air force servicemen who were fortunate enough not to have to go to war denied the honour of their military service being recognised? -
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Latest developments and discussion of recent events in the Ukraine War
Wow. Ruble continues to drop throughout the day, This was an hour ago. The rate of fall is unprecedented for a currency. -
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The Covers (musical, you idiot) Thread - Great. Good. Indifferent. So bad they're good!!
Ima just goona leave this here -
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When Willful Ignorance is a Way of Life
None of them are really seriously stupid... they're just seriously selfish and arrogant. -
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Trump picks former Soros money manager for Treasury Secretary
Well, he's not a "Christian" (viz Freudian slip when speaking at Turning Point Action on July 24th. He doesn't have an ideology, just populism, which means, for him, Ratings. He bends with the wind, looking for acceptance among his peers as you indicate. For instance, as Trumpf the Celebrity, he mixed with all kinds of people. He went to Elton John's wedding, and probably had a good time there with some unusual characters (and Trumpf, as number 45, put on a screening of "Rocketman" at the Whitehouse, which included the first representation of gay sex in a mainstream film (Trump and Elton have a long relationship, with Trumpf being like a puppy dog when around the singer). Maybe Trumpf has some latent homosexual tendancies, repressed for decades, symbolised by his shakey marriages, I see another dysfunctional cabinet, like last time. Last time, at least at first, he assembled a reasonable group of technocrats, who would probably take a fresh look at the business of governance, from a non-ideological perspective. These were men, women, in their own fields, considered leaders, and very capable people. But that's not the sort of people Trumpf employed before. The Trump Organisation employees seems to be a bunch of second raters, considering what they went on to do. Which is fine in an essentially family business, when its the family that really runs the business. And when you start with a fortune (inheritance), generally its very hard to turn that into not a fortune. These guys seem to make a lot of money through not actually doing a lot. But now the cabinet is full of people that publicly love Trump, and publicly, he loves them. But they won't love each other. And certainly won't like DOGE when their budgets are cut, yet they, and the boss, want to do all this stuff. So MTG will be working with Musk. Which is a guarantee he will flounce. If she had some Thatcherite laser focus on detail, you might think that the US budget will come under some serious control. But in reality, she's not even a second rate politican, probably more like Angela Rayner in UK terms, another politician with little education, but a loud mouth, that does attract sympathy. And who is now getting found out. The dog murderer who will be head of homeland security; got a big budget and hundreds of thousands of agents ripe for cutting. She will argue its some other department that needs cutting, she needs more money if anything. RFK jr, when pictured holding a big Mac and full fat HFCS Coke on Trump's plain genuinely looked like he had been kidnapped. He's going to want to ban fast food, sodas et. Trump is going to push back say the Big Mac is a healthy meal, and that he's evidence of that healthiness. He will also be expected to support the FDA's request to Congress to expands its ability to access private citizens' medical records, to they can check if this AI stuff actually works, the same AI stuff the boss is a big fan of. I sense there could be some ideological resistance there. The groper cum Defence Secretary will probably go a bit quiet on dropping the Geneva Convention, when surrounded by all those Westpointers, pointing out the ethics training that the US Military wrote the book on at Nuremburg, and being a mere Colonel, he will know his place The new head of the VA is promising to get Vets the money "they deserve", but faced with big cuts in his budget, will probably turn that to mean some will be more deserving of others, which might be bad news for those who might have gained some seniority while in service. In someways, comparable to the UK "Brexit Cabinet" from Boris onwards; people appointed because they either supported Brexit, or were willing to shift their opinion (Jenrick) out of sheer opportunism. Never actually got that much done. The interesting dynamic is Vance. 15 VPs have become President. Of those only 4 sitting Vice Presidents have become elected President. 9 became President intraterm, because the boss died or resigned. Vance has a good chance at that. Normally VPs melt into the background, and play the role of the literal "spare". Vance is a young guy, and ambitious; does he have the strength of character to dominate Trumpf, particularly as Trumpf won't be seeking re-election. I will assume that Vance, privately, thinks Trumpf is like Hitler, but without the intellect. The last really ambitious VP (I don't count Biden or Harris) was Al Gore, who, as VPs go, was fairly headline grabbing (and in someways, ideology aside, quite comparable to Vance). As Trumpf ages, does he become more belliconse, and his power become more centralised with him. and America becomes ruled by EO, or do the cabinet do their own thing, he rubber stamps everything and let the boss rant? Vance has a very good chance of being 48, because either Trumpf croaks, or, as long as he doesn't totally feck things up, he'll get a very good GOP candidate in 2028, knowing enough to say moderate things to win from the center, and finally marginalise the extremists, who have been given too much voice, like they have in the UK. -
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Dismiss "Wokeness" - Stop doing business with people who hate you and your traditional values
Lack of healthcare, lack of education… -
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Military service ?? He started with the army as some sort of high rank commander, so what military experience or knowledge did he ever have?? Yes, military service. Six years in the RAF, initially as a flight lieutenant.
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