5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

3.8% minus 0.6% is 3.2%.

You forgot to divide by 2! 🙂

 

2 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

I don't think too many Americans would be eager to pay the 70% tax rate in Scandanavian countries. Or $8 a gallon for gas. Or 40 bucks for a bottle of hooch. 

 

Not to mention that smaller countries with less diverse population and geography have an easier time of it. 

70% tax rate?

 

Here's what Grok said was the average personal tax rate:

 

2 minutes ago, candide said:

You forgot to divide by 2! 🙂

 

Why? The figures are annualised every quarter. Anyway giggles lost. Vance 2028. Get your graphs ready lol

17 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

Why do people on here have to be so nasty?

 

 

The MAGA fanboys and girls are having a cry fest. They got stomped on Tuesday and are only now coming out of the shock phase, hence the anger today.

Love it!😆

4 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

The MAGA fanboys and girls are having a cry fest. They got stomped on Tuesday and are only now coming out of the shock phase, hence the anger today.

Love it!😆

Trump is in for 3 more years then Vance then Rubio. Nobody cares about minor stuff except lefties 

3 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Why? The figures are annualised every quarter. Anyway giggles lost. Vance 2028. Get your graphs ready lol

Yes there are annualised rates, not quarter growth rates, so you need to calculate the average.

 

Actually the accurate way is GDP level at the end of q2 2025/GDP level  at the end of 2024.

1 minute ago, candide said:

Yes there are annualised rates, not quarter growth rates, so you need to calculate the average.

 

Actually the accurate way is GDP level at the end of q2 2025/GDP level  at the end of 2024.

Vance 2028

Just now, Harrisfan said:

Trump is in for 3 more years then Vance then Rubio. Nobody cares about minor stuff except lefties 

 

Yeah, we really saw that on Tuesday, didn't we, hon?!🤣

 

 

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

 

Yeah, we really saw that on Tuesday, didn't we, hon?!🤣

 

 

Half Yours won on Tuesday.

2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Vance 2028

In other words, you still have nothing....

Just now, candide said:

In other words, you still have nothing....

Trump for 3 more years then Vance. Enjoy!

8 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

There is no truth to your hate filled post.  

It seems to have hit a raw nerve.

2 hours ago, Wingate said:

I think the joke is on you, but you lack the self perception to see it. You are part of a cult whose brand is hate and willful ignorance.

 

What in my post, which you didn't and won't read, is incorrect? Have you ever listened to Nick Fuentes, the Young Republicans, even Charlie Kirk (who had a gentle, albeit still misogynistic and racist tone). Ever visited the fever swamps of Telegram or Truth Social? Those voices are the youth of MAGA, and they will assume the mantle of the Party when Trump kicks the bucket.

 

If I am a joke to you, the system allows you to put me on ignore. I suggest you do that, and go back to your life of buying young Isaan women who wouldn't give you the time of day if you didn't pay them. But don't forget to give a reacharound to your compatriot who rides the red Vespa in Pattaya, now under another moniker after his old one was banned.

 

 

Better wrap that bonnet a little tighter, JHC you're all over the place today. 

 

Ignore? No, too much entertainment with the many pompous members here. 

 

Perhaps you should dust off the Zimmer and get some fresh air, clear the head and all that.

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, novacova said:

He probably illegally entered th or is on overstay.

There are people here, allowed to stay permanently, legally. No visas, no overstay, no 800k in the bank, no paperwork, no drama.

 

Probably completely foreign concept to you.

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

That’s a very odd image to have conjured up.

 

I wonder what was the root cause?!

Projections, repressed feelings, guys in the closet. There are an astounding number of them here on AN!

6 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Copy and pasting editorials and opinion pieces now, without any references.

 

Trump was elected, deal with it. It's his last term, so worry about who is coming next...

 

 

Copy and paste? From where?

 

Cite the source of any copy or paste.

 

As for "dealing with Trump", I believe America took a big step Tuesday doing just that.

 

Next November the Dems will retake the House, possibly also the Senate. Trump will be impeached, and even if Dems fail to retake the Senate, there are likely a sufficient number of Republicans who want him gone and---maybe even for selfish reasons of wanting to distance themselves from anything MAGA---will vote to convict. McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, maybe even Thune could vote to convict.

 

Then again, Trump may well be dead by the midterms.

2 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Copy and paste? From where?

 

Cite the source of any copy or paste.

 

As for "dealing with Trump", I believe America took a big step Tuesday doing just that.

 

Next November the Dems will retake the House, possibly also the Senate. Trump will be impeached, and even if Dems fail to retake the Senate, there are likely a sufficient number of Republicans who want him gone and---maybe even for selfish reasons of wanting to distance themselves from anything MAGA---will vote to convict. McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, maybe even Thune could vote to convict.

 

Then again, Trump may well be dead by the midterms.

You said that last time lol

3 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Better wrap that bonnet a little tighter, JHC you're all over the place today. 

 

Ignore? No, too much entertainment with the many pompous members here. 

 

Perhaps you should dust off the Zimmer and get some fresh air, clear the head and all that.

 

 

 

 

Glad to be a source of entertainment to the forlorn and lonely.

 

If I had an ounce of respect for fat, old, fascist MAGAnistas, I might take criticism to heart, but I don't, so I won't.

2 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Glad to be a source of entertainment to the forlorn and lonely.

 

If I had an ounce of respect for fat, old, fascist MAGAnistas, I might take criticism to heart, but I don't, so I won't.

Vance is 28% fav for 2028. You are a wacko.

1 minute ago, Wingate said:

Glad to be a source of entertainment to the forlorn and lonely.

 

If I had an ounce of respect for fat, old, fascist MAGAnistas, I might take criticism to heart, but I don't, so I won't.

Keep it up, you're killing me......555555 

2016 Trump cant win

2017 Trump will be impeached

Etc

 

You lefties can't pick your nose without error. Give it away!

3 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Copy and paste? From where?

 

Cite the source of any copy or paste.

 

As for "dealing with Trump", I believe America took a big step Tuesday doing just that.

 

Next November the Dems will retake the House, possibly also the Senate. Trump will be impeached, and even if Dems fail to retake the Senate, there are likely a sufficient number of Republicans who want him gone and---maybe even for selfish reasons of wanting to distance themselves from anything MAGA---will vote to convict. McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, maybe even Thune could vote to convict.

 

Then again, Trump may well be dead by the midterms.

I am not so sure Trump would be dead by then. Seems White House chefs are making something other than junk food for him, and physically he seems in better shape than he was in his previous term.

I'm also not overly sure that Democrats would be able to retake anything. And that's not because of all that Republicans are doing, or even what Trump is doing, but because as a party, they have completely lost touch with their base, both in policies and communications. The old hats at the helm of the party are just as exciting as a wet rug. Until that changes, they will suffer. But they could take a lesson from the campaigns of those who won the state elections in past couple of days, and how they could mobilize the crowd. Look at these people, how energized they are. Now look at the leadership, and you see where the problem is. Democrats need new, energetic leadership and both policies and messaging to start appealing to the people, so they don't only vote for them not to vote for Trump. 

 

That's actually the saddest part of elections not only in US but in several countries lately. People often don't vote for a candidate. They are voting against a candidate. Whoever, just not him/her.

5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Vance is 28% fav for 2028. You are a wacko.

Please explain what that is supposed to mean.  You do have a proclivity to make things up. 

 

I will make one guess, he is in the top 28% of males using mascara. 

20 hours ago, Wingate said:

Trump built his brand by courting and appealing to two types of white males. Together, these two are his bread and butter---or extra crispy and fries---and propelled him to his two wins.

 

One group is old white males, guys who are reflecting back on a life of mediocrity and minimal accomplishment, bitter at what they failed to achieve in life, and wanting somebody---anybody---to feel pain for their own lack of success. Trump won them by not only telling them their failure wasn’t their fault, but he gave them people to blame, whether that is immigrants or minorities or women. They can take that to their graves, but it doesn’t change the reality of their own inferiority.

 

The second group is the new young white male, a grossly underachieving guy whom society has left behind, but for whom tech bros and the social media tycoons have a ready product.

 

Young white males have fallen far behind their female peers. Females now greatly outnumber males earning college degrees. The pay gap has closed dramatically. Social media and addiction to phones and laptops has prevented young males from developing any sort of social skills. Young males are much more likely to live with their parents, be unemployed, and according to NYU Professor Scott Galloway, four times more likely to take their own lives. Fully a third of young white males are now reaching age 30 as virgins. They have no game, and because women are, on average, better educated and more likely to be gainfully employed, these males have nothing to offer women. The women don’t want them.

 

Young males tend to blame immigrants for their economic failure and women for their relationship and romantic failure. They’re incapable of accepting responsibility. The tech bros recognize this and produce algorithms that direct these guys to content that will feed their frustration, whether it’s on Reddit, Telegram, Truth Social, Facebook or Twitter. As Galloway, a former marketing tycoon said, the tech bros realized advertisers long got things wrong: they thought sex sells, while the tech bros know rage sells better. They feed young males content that enrages.

 

There are a large percentage of young white males who live in Mom’s basement, spend their days playing video games or scrolling social media targeted to their needs, and getting any carnal satisfaction by fapping to online porn. They think sex is pulling hair, choking, butt-to-mouth and other means of domination. No wonder women don’t want them. If they have a job, it’s being a crypto or meme stock trader. Online has become their life. They lack the motivation to improve themselves, get educated and learn job skills, get in shape, develop a personality, and learn how to build relationships with women. It’s much easier just to do nothing but blame others. They’re content to have Mom provide dinner, porn to provide “relationships”, and the fever swamps of the far right to provide “news” and outrage. They get into online echo chambers where one guy reinforces the misogyny and racism of another, until they become a hive of hate and anger. They think “Bros before hoes” is some clarion call of masculinity.

 

Trump’s “gift” was that he knew this anger and frustration was out there, and inherently knew such people were just like him----always looking for others to blame for what they failed to achieve. Of course the average young male lacks a daddy who will fund and back his life, allowing him to manufacture a false persona.

 

If Trump could possibly be honest, and admit the cause for his woeful insecurity, he would admit the only thing that kept him from a dead end job pouring Slurpies at a 7-11 or driving a truck was his daddy’s money and co-signed loans. On his own, Trump’s record is one of continual failure. Six bankruptcies---and for casinos of all things---says what his skill level as a businessman is, or isn’t. He took his father’s money, got loans co-signed, regularly stiffed contractors….and still failed in a real estate bull market. What finally saved him and got him where he is today is that Mark Burnett saw Trump’s self-created fantasy of a “dealmaker” and a business success, along with the constant hyperbole, could sell to a naïve and clueless audience. Burnett thus created “The Apprentice”, a TV game show that became a ratings winner and put hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s pocket. Trump additionally benefited when his successful father passed and left him almost half a billion dollars. Not so surprisingly, Trump then proceeded to fritter away that enormous wealth on money-losing projects such as golf courses and a myriad of failed businesses, from a fake university to steaks. (His domestic golf courses, being privately held, need not issue P&Ls, but his international properties such as Turnberry must issue P&Ls, and they show losses.)

 

Just how poorly Trump handled his own finances came to light when he said he did not have the ability to pay the fines and penalties imposed on him due to court cases he lost.

 

As a man who understood failure and his own tendency to need to blame others, Trump inherently knew how to appeal to similarly incompetent young males. He was vocal about all those people who should be hated and scorned. Immigrants were destroying the fabric of America, even “spoiling the blood”. Women and minorities were taking jobs because of DEI programs. Trump could fix that and give these loser males what was “rightfully” theirs. He couched his hatred in patriotic terms, even with his tag line about making America great “again”, with “again” a transparent call to a time when women and minorities “knew their place”, and white men were supreme simply by virtue of their birth, gender and skin color.

 

Certainly Trump’s siren song of “It’s not your fault you’re a failure” resonated, at least with white males. The problem is that rage and ability to blame takes on a life of its own and is moving out of Trump’s control.

 

It comes as no surprise that when hatred and blame are policy, platform and ideology, it will seep into the darkest corners of human thought and behavior. It’s no wonder young white males are into misogyny, following such miscreants as Andrew Tate. It’s no wonder they are embracing fascism, just hoping they’re on the right side of it. It’s no wonder they get glee watching masked and badgeless stormtroopers rough up people who “look different”, even when some of these people being roughed up are US Citizens. It’s no wonder there is a growing movement to not only embrace, but voice public admiration for Hitler, Naziism and antisemitism.

 

Trump gave the all clear to the worst of humanity in many ways. He called white males who marched with Tikitorches chanting “Jews will not replace us”, and males who attended a protest against the removal of statues of men who supported slavery, “some very fine people”.

 

When he called his cult to DC for 6 January 2021 and told them to “fight” and march to the Capitol as Trump’s election loss was being certified, he told them “We love you very much”, even after they beat 140 cops and set up a gallows to hang the Vice President. That isn’t tough love, it’s pandering to the worst human instincts.

 

Trump further shouted the “all clear” to hate and antisemitism when he invited Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes to a private dinner at Mar-a-Lago along with antisemite Kanye West. Fuentes has now even been platformed by far right icon Tucker Carlson. Also, the recently leaked transcript of an online chat of Young Republicans (many of whom are in their 30s and some are running for public office) showed such absurdity as “I love Hitler”, and “I’m ready to watch people burn”, and “Rape is epic”.

 

Trump opened Pandora’s Box and let these miscreants out. He encouraged their hatred and rage, and it has now become the bedrock ideology of the MAGA movement. MAGA now equals fascism, racism, misogyny and antisemitism. Never has that been more clear than in the last month, with everything from Young Republicans to the MAGA-ly conservative Heritage Foundation coming to the aid of Nick Fuentes, preventing Fuentes from being “cancelled”.

 

The bitter old white male demographic is dying off, but the up and coming leadership of the MAGA movement are these angry white males who love Hitler, blame women for their own romantic failures, and blame immigrants and minorities for their lack of economic success.

 

MAGA increasingly is the Party of hate, Hitler, racism and misogyny.

 

All of that got Trump elected, but the damage it wrought has only just begun. Ideally, real conservatives will retake the Party from MAGA and give Americans a fair choice. Ideally, there will be a role model emerging who will teach young males what it really means to be a man, not a misogynistic self-serving psychopathic crybaby like Trump. Trump is certainly the farthest thing from a real man, but sadly, he influenced a large segment of the young male population, while he appealed to the loser old men. The old guys are dinosaurs, on their last gasp of existence, but the young ones remain a threat to all that is good and decent and truly American.

 

 

You have everything but the kitchen sink in here.

Old farang losers who have to pay for sex in SEA because they can't get laid back home.

Young guys who prefer choke porn to real sex.

And for some reason, this is all connected to Trump only running a successful empire because his daddy gave him a head start.

 

I agree choke porn is a problem. 

 

11 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

There are people here, allowed to stay permanently, legally. No visas, no overstay, no 800k in the bank, no paperwork, no drama.

 

Probably completely foreign concept to you.

Yes, that would be approximately 92.4% of the population here which leaves about 7.6% of the foreign concept here in th.

2 minutes ago, marin said:

Please explain what that is supposed to mean.  You do have a proclivity to make things up. 

 

I will make one guess, he is in the top 28% of males using mascara. 

28% chance of winning

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

You have everything but the kitchen sink in here.

Old farang losers who have to pay for sex in SEA because they can't get laid back home.

Young guys who prefer choke porn to real sex.

And for some reason, this is all connected to Trump only running a successful empire because his daddy gave him a head start.

 

I agree choke porn is a problem. 

 

How does he know so much about young males? 

9 hours ago, Wingate said:

but voice public admiration for Hitler, Naziism and antisemitism.

Lefties hate Israel. Trump likes them. You're seriously messed up in the head. I think you are a skinny gay dude with issues. You hate straight white men who like Trump. Go see a therapist.

27 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Vance is 28% fav for 2028. You are a wacko.

Perhaps if he had a white Christian wife, and then only maybe.

 

oh!

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Lefties hate Israel. Trump likes them. You're seriously messed up in the head. I think you are a skinny gay dude with issues. You hate straight white men who like Trump. Go see a therapist.

What caused you to think of ‘skinny gay men’ ?