11 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

Ha! Thanks, I do enjoy a good laugh. 41 years teaching middle school, high school and the last 27 years before retiring, American and European History. Those were the undergraduate history courses that come into requirements for anyone seeking a well rounded higher education. PBS Newshour recently had a segment on the need for liberal arts coursework for those seeking any subject of subject matter concentration. I was attempting to educate first, American citizens, only secondly trying to impart how the lessons of history applied to the present in whatever field of endeavor they were pursuing. Ah, yes … the point … I taught such things in history as communism, I studied and imparted my learning from seven countries … including China. Say what? You think that makes me questionable as an American, rather than an educated person? Ignorance is not a friend to any citizen in a participatory democracy. As currently being demonstrated.

Yeah, bet you (like Walz) taught them how great communism is and what a POC the United States is, yes? 

 

Teachers (and most everyone on the public teat) will do great in a Harris Administration. I don't blame you for supporting open borders, mass illegal immigration, more DEI, higher taxes, more giveaways, men in girls’ showers, path to citizenship, free health care and tuition for illegals, housing subsidies for illegals, men in women’s sports and prisons, defunding the police, supporting rioters, and free transition surgery for prison inmates. These are FACTS that the data support.

22 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

Ha! Thanks, I do enjoy a good laugh. 41 years teaching middle school, high school and the last 27 years before retiring, American and European History. Those were the undergraduate history courses that come into requirements for anyone seeking a well rounded higher education. PBS Newshour recently had a segment on the need for liberal arts coursework for those seeking any subject of subject matter concentration. I was attempting to educate first, American citizens, only secondly trying to impart how the lessons of history applied to the present in whatever field of endeavor they were pursuing. Ah, yes … the point … I taught such things in history as communism, I studied and imparted my learning from seven countries … including China. Say what? You think that makes me questionable as an American, rather than an educated person? Ignorance is not a friend to any citizen in a participatory democracy. As currently being demonstrated.

 

IIRC voting rights were. only for men and landowning men at that - guys with skin in the game.

Maybe it's time to go back to that system.

 

Many of the people on here having an equal vote to a person who actually lives in & *contributes* (present tense) to their country is a crazy system imho.

 

Helps explains the mess though.

 

PS. I'm a Brit - do you think, if I hoped the southern US border I'd be given free board and a full debit card?

Are white skinned illegals also encouraged /. allowed or is it just for browns ?

Asking for a friend ; )

 

 

7 hours ago, Tom Parkinson said:

The US has always had stupid people. But now the internet has given them a voice. And Donald Trump has given them a champion. 

I know of 81 million stupid Americans.

6 minutes ago, G_Money said:

I know of 81 million stupid Americans.

Hey, that's no way to talk about Biden voters!  I am sure at least a few are reasonably sentient.

18 minutes ago, G_Money said:

I know of 81 million stupid Americans.

And all your friends and associates I assume!

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

10 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

And all your friends and associates I assume!

 
Nope.  Biden voters .  Your friends.

12 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

And they are doing all they can to get the McDonald's that facilitated one of the most successful campaign stuns in history shut down. 

 

Most all hate comes from the left. I hate Harris's policies, but I am indifferent to her. They have a seething hatred of Trump, and care nothing about his policies, It's baffling. 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I just returned from one month in the US. Though I have some great friends back there, who are leading fulfilling lives, most people are utterly humorless, and seem to be live to work, eat, and sleep. The cost of living has skyrocketed to the point where only those who own their homes, that are paid for, or those earning over $400,000 per year, seem to be in decent shape. It feels like a relatively joyless place, these days.

 

So thrilled to be living here. The quality of life is higher on so many levels. At least for me. 

So the HUGE amount of people in your long one month visit who were making $200,000 a year ( half your whopper of a lie $ amount) were struggling to get by? Then you also say if your home is paid off. Ok no problem. No need to make your 400k made up foolish amount! I mean really. Do you think even one poster here believes you know how much of your " friends" that you met with on your massive 30 day visit make over 400k a year? Do you think anyone reading your post thinks you know exactly which friends have a mortgage or not and how much is left of it? Really the anecdotal evidence on your post is so underwhelming that I almost expect you to come back here and say " well it's true , I have only 2 friends , one who makes 450k and the other one works at the massage shop and makes 35k a year and has a mortgage. " Oi. 

11 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

So the HUGE amount of people in your long one month visit who were making $200,000 a year ( half your whopper of a lie $ amount) were struggling to get by? Then you also say if your home is paid off. Ok no problem. No need to make your 400k made up foolish amount! I mean really. Do you think even one poster here believes you know how much of your " friends" that you met with on your massive 30 day visit make over 400k a year? Do you think anyone reading your post thinks you know exactly which friends have a mortgage or not and how much is left of it? Really the anecdotal evidence on your post is so underwhelming that I almost expect you to come back here and say " well it's true , I have only 2 friends , one who makes 450k and the other one works at the massage shop and makes 35k a year and has a mortgage. " Oi. 

I think Mike is from New York City, and $400K a year is just not that much there. 

 

$200K and you're in a dump. 

 

I have no reason to think what he says is not true, but I am surprised he supports a continuance of the same policies that got us there, 

 

On 10/24/2024 at 10:17 PM, riclag said:

DEI is Marxist!

Its all you here from the extreme left!

the conquest of the oppressed vs the oppressor!

The Cultural Marxist want to rewrite humanity by eliminating Traditional values of merit based achievements and replace it with vibe identity based ideals.

I'm willing to bet that you have no idea what you're talking about.  If you can please put it into language that people can understand 

1 hour ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

It seems that you're the one consumed with hate.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it 

4 minutes ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

I'm willing to bet that you have no idea what you're talking about.  If you can please put it into language that people can understand 

DEI replaces meritocracy and divides everyone into oppressors and the oppressed. Whites, heterosexual men in particular, but white heterosexual women to a lesser degree are the oppressors, and everyone else are the oppressed. It is Marxism but using race rather than class as to divide the citizenry, and it started under President Obama.

 

The problem with Marxism getting a solid hold in the US, was because people that work, save, abide the law, and stay diligent do not stay in the same class. Not the same with race. With race, we can have Oprah, a black, female billionaire be the oppressed, and Joe Bagadoughnuts, a white forklift driver in Ohio is the oppressor, forever. 

 

It truly is brilliant, 

49 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

DEI replaces meritocracy and divides everyone into oppressors and the oppressed. Whites, heterosexual men in particular, but white heterosexual women to a lesser degree are the oppressors, and everyone else are the oppressed. It is Marxism but using race rather than class as to divide the citizenry, and it started under President Obama.

 

The problem with Marxism getting a solid hold in the US, was because people that work, save, abide the law, and stay diligent do not stay in the same class. Not the same with race. With race, we can have Oprah, a black, female billionaire be the oppressed, and Joe Bagadoughnuts, a white forklift driver in Ohio is the oppressor, forever. 

 

It truly is brilliant, 

 

Same tribe pushing it in the US were at the forefront of the Russian Revolution too.

 

Another poster on here is a self proclaimed marxist but also cries at every opportunity at how his (presumably oppressed) wife rose up and dumped him + relieved him of his £600K house 😂

Also he's such a 'man of the proletariat that he brags about fiddling his state pension.

 

TBH I think this 'I'm a marxist' (impossible above LARPing in a capitalist society)  nonsense is just virtue signalling or a life (of jealousy for producers and providers ) spent sucking on the state's teat & hating on life's 'winners'.

 

These 'marxist' are nuts - delusional at best.

 

Least they could do is keep sponging off the state and keep their BS to themselves - obvs that's too much to ask for though!

 

Removed some troll posts and antisemitism.

8 hours ago, BruceWayne said:

 

You didn't answer the question so that's telling in itself and makes me wonder which dump you're from (admittedly there are many in the US but far more in LOS imho)

 

If the locals "lead lives full of fulfilment" large swathes of them wouldn't have to rent their bodies and/or themselves to foreigners to get by.

Exhibit B:  https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/country_result.jsp?country=Thailand

"Thailand Quality of Life Index:104.77  Low"

 

What celebrities do may mean nothing to you but where the rich choose to spend their time is an indicator of the best places in the world to be (ie NOT Thailand).

 

I'm NOT a yank but too many on here (many delusionally smug boomers admittedly) unfairly denigrate their home countries imho which are the real paradises compared to LOS - though their pockets can';t stretch to enjoying the good life (or good or bad wimmin) there.

Bit of honesty sometimes surely wouldn't hurt would it?

 

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

 

Delusion is NOT a river in Egypt.

Oh well. At least I tried.  

 

 

I could list 20 reasons why my life here is something I am grateful for every day of my life. But, it wouldn't even register for you. You obviously need to justify why the US is so great. If I was making millions a year, I would live there too. At least long enough to retire, and then leave. I was just there. Not like I am making this stuff up. The day I leave is always the best day of my trip to the US! 

 

First hand always beats the junk you read. 

On 10/25/2024 at 3:55 PM, chiang mai said:

I'm not surprised at all and I think the US is/was a great country with some great people.

Most people think the country they live in is great and has some great people. Doesn't mean it's true.

On 10/25/2024 at 4:54 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess sometimes it's great to be stupid. Stupid people don't know how stupid they are. And they "think" everybody else is stupid.

Problem is that stupid people expect other people to give them money to live on, have children they don't bring up properly, have a chip on their shoulder, and believe in stupid things like driving an ICE car is melting the icecaps, or being an illegal immigrant is OK as they work for peanuts.

9 hours ago, G_Money said:

 
Nope.  Biden voters .  Your friends.

I don't know anyone who is voting for Biden in this election!

The thing about Trump is that he has the rhetorical style of a pathological liar on the junior high playground.

 

"A big strong man came up to me and said..."

"People tell me..."

"My friends who are college professors say..."

"They're eating the pets, I saw it on TV..."

"My wealth friend couldn't get in to a restaurant..."

"I showed Abdul a picture of his house..."

 

Followed by a ridiculous lie that would get him laughed off the junior high playground.

Just like with those lying young people the constant lying reveals that something is wrong: profound immaturity or a deeper problem with his mind.

I'm not a psychologist, I don't know exactly what his problem is, but I can clearly see that he is mentally disturbed.

Should not be president again.

 

On 10/25/2024 at 3:37 PM, Hanaguma said:

Really? Calling your opponent a fascist, and an existential threat to the country, and literally Hitler?   Geez, what is worse than that? And this about a guy who has already had 2 assassination attempts made on him. So much for "toning down the political rhetoric". 

 

I guess she is just that desperate  to win. 

If he was a Hitler why didnt Kelly quit his post in opposition !

If he was a fascist why did he wait to tell the world , what the world has been so use to hearing, a fairy Tale. Designed to make people not vote for him!

More election interference from the cry wolf party that interviewed him.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Problem is that stupid people expect other people to give them money to live on, have children they don't bring up properly, have a chip on their shoulder, and believe in stupid things like driving an ICE car is melting the icecaps, or being an illegal immigrant is OK as they work for peanuts.

Progressives & cultural Marxist mentality!

12 hours ago, BruceWayne said:

 

Says he who will be voting for this...

 

PS. IYKYK 🍚👃 🥃 = 

 

 

a) I am not American, and I obviously don't vote in that country

b) I don't care about some badly edited something which someone put together.

c) If I want to see someone talking with no sense, I can just look at any speech from Trump. Nothing has to be edited; he just talks like an idiot. 

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Problem is that stupid people expect other people to give them money to live on, have children they don't bring up properly, have a chip on their shoulder, and believe in stupid things like driving an ICE car is melting the icecaps, or being an illegal immigrant is OK as they work for peanuts.

Really? Is that what all stupid people do?

Yes! And this is the most disappointing thing for me about Trump - it's that he has so many supporters, maybe about 45% of the registered voters. And I don't think Trump created them. I think they were always there, hiding under rocks, and Trump has given them the encouragement and permission to crawl out from under those rocks. No matter who wins the upcoming election, I'm sure the other side will not accept defeat, and there will be "blood in the streets." 

And I'll be watching it all on CNN while sitting in my easy chair here in my house in the jungle-filled mountains of Thailand.

10 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

Its called burn it all down! These are the BLM, antifa, pro Hamas crowd  sympathizers we see in and around college campuses all around the world , predominately in the USA , it seems they have the right to burn the flag and in some states like Minnesota, Tim Walz state ,they  were allowed to riot and burn city streets  , police precincts , commt 500 million in damages just in Minneapolis.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-burn-it-all-down-crowd-deserves-to-be-defeated/

2 hours ago, riclag said:

If he was a Hitler why didnt Kelly quit his post in opposition !

If he was a fascist why did he wait to tell the world , what the world has been so use to hearing, a fairy Tale. Designed to make people not vote for him!

More election interference from the cry wolf party that interviewed him.

"election interference"

 

“But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument',” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

2 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Yes! And this is the most disappointing thing for me about Trump - it's that he has so many supporters, maybe about 45% of the registered voters. And I don't think Trump created them. I think they were always there, hiding under rocks, and Trump has given them the encouragement and permission to crawl out from under those rocks. No matter who wins the upcoming election, I'm sure the other side will not accept defeat, and there will be "blood in the streets." 

And I'll be watching it all on CNN while sitting in my easy chair here in my house in the jungle-filled mountains of Thailand.

 

Do you really expect "blood in the streets" is the official result shows that Trump won?

I am sure some DEMs supporters would complain. But more with words than actions.

The other way around is obviously a very different thing. Let's hope for the best.

12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I just returned from one month in the US. Though I have some great friends back there, who are leading fulfilling lives, most people are utterly humorless, and seem to be live to work, eat, and sleep. The cost of living has skyrocketed to the point where only those who own their homes, that are paid for, or those earning over $400,000 per year, seem to be in decent shape. It feels like a relatively joyless place, these days.

 

So thrilled to be living here. The quality of life is higher on so many levels. At least for me. 

I don't know about the whole post but the observation that Americans " live to work, eat, and sleep" seems to me to be true.

In my opinion the much praised "work ethic" is propaganda to keep workers grinding away.

11 minutes ago, riclag said:

Its called burn it all down! These are the BLM, antifa, pro Hamas crowd  sympathizers we see in and around college campuses all around the world , predominately in the USA , it seems they have the right to burn the flag and in some states like Minnesota, Tim Walz state ,they  were allowed to riot and burn city streets  , police precincts , commt 500 million in damages just in Minneapolis.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-burn-it-all-down-crowd-deserves-to-be-defeated/

This is my America !

Dems turned the party of JFk ,Martin Luther King into Sanctuary For deviants, zombies drug addicts, snatch & grab hoodlums , crime riddled havens .