thaibeachlovers

Why blame Biden? Perhaps because he had no functioning brain and was an imbecile.

That's an interesting post. Perhaps you can do a follow up sometime.

While I'm no longer a supporter, I think he's doing a great job domestically. Unfortunately everything he does in the middle east is appalling and dangerous for all of us. He should stay in the US and keep his sticky beak out of the M E.

Out of interest were you a steward on board flights? I often think I should have done that or worked on a cruise ship for the travel. A lot of things changed for me after I discovered Thailand. I wanted to see the world, but that all ended the day I landed in Thailand many years ago. LOS was my paradise, my heaven on earth.

Yes but the US isn't in the ICC.

I've been trying to make the point that NOBODY has total control over their lives. Don't believe me - go hang out in an emergency room for a while- that'll change your mind. None of them chose to be there. Actually, the best decision I made in my entire life was to join the military. I loved it till it changed and then I didn't. However, everything good about my life followed on from that lucky decision. It was a lucky decision. I never grew up even imagining that- I was going to be a farmer- and it was pure luck I worked with a guy that made me consider it. Had I not joined up my life would have been boring and disappointing. Nursing may have been paid sod all, but it was never boring, and I got to see a lot more of the world than I would have milking cows. All of it pure luck.

I guess that after leaving the military it was a mistake to choose to become a nurse and get SFA money for looking after the sick and lame of the world. Lucky for them though. I should have followed my friends to Australia and driven a truck in the mines. I'd have got rich just sitting on my ass. Even being a London Tube driver would have been of more benefit to me than being a nurse. Oh well, you better hope someone else chose to work for SFA to be a nurse and look after you when you get sick. We are just such losers, aren't we?

Of course it did. You were lucky that you didn't get some disease that crippled you, didn't have an accident that crippled you etc. You think you can control a situation where a friend sticks a pencil in your eye by accident, or stop a drunk moron driving into you? I've seen things as a nurse that you have no concept of. Life is precarious.

Musk was an unknown to me till the twitter shambles. Previously he was just some rude rich man with stupid ideas about submarines in a cave rescue that a half wit knew wouldn't work. Trump far as I know has no friends, just means to an end, so I'm not surprised he and Musk got along- two friendless guys with a common goal, and I'm not surprised that it seems that they have a disagreement. Musk apparently wants to populate Mars on his own and make a lot of money, while Trump actually does want to make America great ( though his idea of great is not necessarily the same as anyone else's ). I say that because he is rich and could just have played golf and talked BS with the "friend of the moment". He didn't have to become POTUS and get half the world hating him ( even the Clintons were pals with him before ). No one chooses to have the <deleted> he has had if one has the choice. IMO Musk's problem is that he actually believes his own BS, and thinks he is more clever than anyone else. He is, after all, someone that called a real hero a paedo because he disagreed with Musk's bonkers submarine idea. Musk should stay home and be a father to all the unfortunate children he sired.

On that post I congratulate you. So factual and devoid of BS that should it even be on this forum? As for politicians lying- how did the system become so broken that we assume politicians lie every time they speak?

Ain't that the truth. Even worse, the worse off ones are being exploited to make western lives better than theirs.

IMO you are being unfair. I haven't quoted your entire post or I'd be replying to it for far too long. Be honest, you were lucky. No one has a crystal ball and no one knows if what they choose is the right path. Only looking back will we know that. Of course you rely on other people and government. You didn't invent or create everything you use to have a good life. You didn't make your EV, or the electricity that makes it work- other people did that, and it was by companies. Not everyone has their retirement plan work. I had one, till the rules got changed. I'll never believe anything any government official says ever again. There are no guarantees- you were just lucky you were not conscripted and left disabled ( I'm assuming you are American of an age to be conscripted for Vietnam- apologies if that is wrong. OR disabled in a car accident or disabled after being hit by a bus etc etc. We all live a life that was given to us- no one makes everything that happens around us, so if one is lucky, one should rejoice in one's good fortune, but one should not assume that it was because of one's choices, or be critical of those less fortunate. Had you been born in a Brazilian slum, would you have the life you have? My life ain't great now, but getting here was amazing. I had a fantastic life, interspersed with crappy bits, but it was all down to luck and being in the right place at the right time. Had I had the life I chose when in school, I'd have milked cows for 50 years, be divorced with children that hate me, and no great memories. Just lucky it didn't turn out like that.

Just as well the US wasn't as pathetic in late 30s when they geared up to support Britain and Russia in the war against Germany. Had they taken your "more than a decade" the war would have been long over before the first tank rolled off the production lines. Time for all the sheeple to wake up and realise that this is a war, an economic war, and either China or the US is going to win it. If the sheeple want a world run by China, they are going the right way to get there. Seems sad to say so, but it's looking like the west just lacks a spine to man up and win this. I'll be long gone, but those born now will either live in an imperfect world run by the west, or under Chinese dictatorship. That's up to western leaders- either put on the big boy pants, or bend over and kiss Xi's butt. As always, the above is my opinion.

Ooh, does Bill Ackman think he might lose a few $ because of Trump? Seems like he was only a Trump supporter because he thought he'd make more money under a Trump presidency. Just another rich nobody out for himself, IMO.

Starmer is a moron IMO. I know that he was elected because the Tories were so rotten, but didn't Labour have anyone better than that ignoramous?