American Politics

Are they going to fire the new United States Secret Service director?

[B]If not, shows bias![/B]

I am waiting to hear from you know who of the usual crew. [B]LOL![/B].

[QUOTE=FFlintstone69;2945242][URL]https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-investigating-report-agent-left-trump-event-breastfeed-1939973[/URL][/QUOTE]This can't be true. There is no way.

I worked with a chick who used to pump milk on her break at work. Thats where women who just had a kid squeeze milk from their tits into a bottle for their baby to drink later. It was kinda weird to have that going on in the work place, but whatever. Pissed me off when she snapped on a guy who walked in on her doing it like he was supposed to know she is going to have her tits out pumping milk in her fucking office. It was very strange and awkward LOL.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2945173]Horrific for the middle class yes, the poor are doing better the DNC makes sure of that so they can get their votes, look at the rich / poor dichotomy in California.

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-republicans-have-become-the-party-of-the-common-man/[/URL]

I listened to RFK on his radio show Ring of Fire for several yrs, does anyone else think this endorsement isn't extremely significant if not to the outcome of the "election".

Than to the political zeitgeist?

[URL]https://grapevine.aspendiscovery.org/GroupedWork/38a74f87-81b0-67fd-7a94-23e07170e7ae-eng/Home[/URL]

From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.

Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by American corporations. The bestselling author team of Richard Belzer and David Wayne exposes the ways that the capitalist regime has got us under their thumbs-from the mainstream media and its control over us, to the trillions stolen by big banks and mortgage companies during the mortgage crisis, to the scams perpetrated by Big Oil and Big Pharma. The one common victim of all that corruption is the American public, and Corporate Conspiracies wants to do something about it.

Corporate Conspiracies takes dead aim at those who take advantage of us little guys. Probably most disturbing is the book's examination of politics and capitalism teaming up against us-how politicians and lobbyists all have their hands in each other's pockets while stabbing us in the back, and how the well-established energy lobby-which is petroleum, natural gas, and coal-has played a dominant role in the shaping of US foreign policy for decades.

Did you know that companies at times know that their products will kill people, but they do nothing, because it is actually cheaper to compensate the victims than it is to correct the problem? And did you know that the Pentagon is sending $1. 5 trillion of our tax dollars to their corporate buddies for a new fighter jet that is already superfluous? This book is guaranteed to make us all think twice about being enslaved and cheated by corporate America.[/QUOTE]And those big businesses are exactly the folks both parties serve because they provide the donor money.

Maybe they are all Swifties:

[B]Ronald Reagan's former staff back Harris-Walz ticket: "Today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery."[/B]

[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-former-staff-back-harris-walz-ticket/[/URL]

[QUOTE]Seventeen former staff members of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a joint statement first obtained by CBS News, the staff members wrote that Reagan, if alive, would have supported Harris.

"President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a 'Time for Choosing.' While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for him in the White House, in the administration, in campaigns and on his personal staff, know he would join us in supporting the Harris-Walz ticket," the group writes. "The time for choosing we face today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery, and the choice must be Harris-Walz," the group added.

"Our votes in this election are less about supporting the Democratic Party and more about our resounding support for democracy."[/QUOTE]I can't stomach watching more than 1-2 minutes of Fux News per month. But I would love to hear how Reagan ass-licker and professional government shut-down numbskull Repub Nude Grinbitch deals with this terrible news. Lololol.

[QUOTE=FFlintstone69;2945272]And Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

[URL]https://nypost.com/2023/12/26/news/vietnamese-restaurant-that-killed-300-cats-a-month-to-make-soup-closes/[/URL]

What, retire in Thailand for leisure, but this is a forum for mongering, not laying on a beach on below avg Asian beaches.

So how does mongering rank there, I haven't heard Thailand is amazing for mongering in at least a couple decades.[/QUOTE]In the 12 years I have lived in Thailand I have had BBFS+CIP and / or BBBJ+CIM (sometimes +Swallow) with well over 1,200 different 18-30 year old cute or attractive girls and women. Some for free. Most for easily affordable pay.

There are forums here devoted to Thailand mongering reports and discussion. I would say a nominal majority of international mongers posting in those forums cite Thailand, all things considered, as the overall best mongering destination on the planet. Which I suppose one might expect on forums devoted to Thailand mongering reports and discussion.

I also suspect a majority of the American (male) expats cited in that linked report, if asked off the record, would also rank mongering options as one of the main reasons they chose Thailand for retirement and not exactly the excellent healthcare system.

As always, YMMV.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2945300]Are they going to fire the new United States Secret Service director?

[B]If not, shows bias![/B]

I am waiting to hear from you know who of the usual crew. [B]LOL![/B].[/QUOTE]Trump was not shot. The perp got caught before anything happened, as that's how it's supposed to be. Asking them to be the PreCrime Division is not realistic. First director got fired, deservedly, because they didn't prevent the shooter from firing the shot.

Local report said that the shot that was fired was from the Secret Service. Will wait to see more details from the event.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2945186]This is a very good time for Warmongering Donald Trump to go to war against a prized Red State of Ohio:

[B]Republican Ohio Gov. Condemns Trump-Vance false immigrant pet-eating conspiracy.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/republican-ohio-gov-mike-dewine-trump-vance-false-immigrant-pets-conspiracy.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

It's always about economy-damaging closures and threats of violence with these Repubs.

Disgraceful.

Meanwhile, in the midst of all this trashing of Red States by Repubs Trump and Vance, it turns out 7-8 of the Top 10 USA cities that provide the Best Quality of Life For Retirees are in Blue States, none in Florida or Ohio:

[B]These 10 U.S. cities offer the highest quality of life for retirees[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/us-cities-that-offer-the-highest-quality-of-life-for-retirees.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

Nice to see that 4 of the Top 10 Cities are right there in the Blue State of California, including the general area where I could easily retire in an established property if I ever get bored with my high quality of life as a retiree in Thailand:

[B]This Country Was Named the Best Place to Retire in Southeast Asia for Health Care, Housing, and Cost of Living.
Thailand also boasts over a thousand picture-perfect islands.
Sept. 6, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.travelandleisure.com/thailand-best-country-to-retire-in-southeast-asia-8686659[/URL]

As always, I have found the best advice for a comfortable, fun and pleasurable domestic or foreign retirement is to get thee to a Blue State ASAP to live, work, earn and invest and vote Dem straight down the ballot in every election.

Unless you want to see your retirement plans and investments go poof in a flurry of Repub lies about house pet barbecues, real bomb and death threats, closures and economic chaos.[/QUOTE][URL]https://local12.com/news/nation-world/ohio-killed-cat-ate-eat-consume-witness-public-arrest-animal-abuse-murder-charged-jail-prison-woman-allegedly-and-it-in-front-of-neighbors[/URL]

[QUOTE=CheckMate1;2945452]Trump was not shot. The perp got caught before anything happened, as that's how it's supposed to be. Asking them to be the PreCrime Division is not realistic. First director got fired, deservedly, because they didn't prevent the shooter from firing the shot.

Local report said that the shot that was fired was from the Secret Service. Will wait to see more details from the event.[/QUOTE]No one with a firearm is ever allowed to get within shooting range of a President, former Pres. , etc. Accountability needs to be upheld.

This is bizarre.

Too much unnecessary hate for Trump. He's an asshole at times, but he and the people he represents don't deserve this.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2944991]Do you really need to ask questions you already know the answer to LOL?

Both in 2000 and 2016 the results of the elections were challenged. It was no big deal in 2000 and everyone supported double checking Florida just to be safe. Then when Republicans want to challenge election results in 2020, we get labled "a racist conspiracy incel proud boy qnon weirdo and how dare you ever question the results of an election"! It should always be ok to check to make sure elections are legit.

Even in 2016, Democrats ran a months long fake conspiracy that Russia rigged the election for Trump. BTW, it makes absolutely no sense what so ever for Russia to conspire with Trump to rig an Election. What would Russia even have to gain by doing that. It just sounded so stupid the whole time.

Both impeachments are total and complete garbage bullshit. His felony convictions are as well. I am not explaining it because you and anyone who follows politics already know that Republicans believe its a joke Democrats went after him like they did.

Now 2000 and 2020 are a [b]little different[/b] because of Jan. 6, and I have stated many times anyone who participated in that is a moron and should be criminally charged.

Again my point is, that both sides play dirty. I believe Democrats have been playing much dirtier since 2016 which was in part a retaliation for how Republicans treated Obama and the shit he had to deal with the birther conspiracy and making it almost impossible for him to get anything done as a President.[/QUOTE]Oh I was just curious what delusional spin, version or revisionist recall of events, you were going to conjure up. Or how far down your [i][b]"rabbit hole of delusions"[/b][/i], you were willing to go.

So now I have a pretty good idea of the depths to which the bothsidersism delusion "rabbit hole" extends, as you provide your conflated versions, of two pivotal historical elections, where Repubs cannot win the EC (or popular vote) via the ballot-box and either need SCOTUS or violence, to bring home the win.

One a contested (2000), but nonetheless a peaceful transfer of power and the other also contested (2020), but tries to resolve the matter, with [B]a bloody attempted coup[/B] and violent transfer of power, resulting in [B]a deadly insurrection[/B] and sacking and vandalism of the capital, with the deaths of several police officers and several hundred more injured.

Yeah, Thanks, for clearing up that...[i][b]"little difference"![/b][/i]

[QUOTE=Spidy;2945481]Oh I was just curious what delusional spin, version or revisionist recall of events, you were going to conjure up. Or how far down your [i][b]"rabbit hole of delusions"[/b][/i], you were willing to go.

So now I have a pretty good idea of the depths to which the bothsidersism delusion "rabbit hole" extends, as you provide your conflated versions, of two pivotal historical elections, where Repubs cannot win the EC (or popular vote) via the ballot-box and either need SCOTUS or violence, to bring home the win.

One a contested (2000), but nonetheless a peaceful transfer of power and the other also contested (2020), but tries to resolve the matter, with [B]a bloody attempted coup[/B] and violent transfer of power, resulting in [B]a deadly insurrection[/B] and sacking and vandalism of the capital, with the deaths of several police officers and several hundred more injured.

Yeah, Thanks, for clearing up that...[i][b]"little difference"![/b][/i][/QUOTE]Democrats are so weird. Anyone who disagrees with them is going down a rabbit hole LOL and is suffering from delusions of reality haha. It's just so fucking bizarre at this point all you can do is laugh.

Next line will be about how I don't understand my country because of post-neo-liberalism-socialist-apartheid history of the Haitian modern Revolution of 1846. And if you ask someone to explain that they will call you looney tunes and a historical revisionist LOL.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945001]Not since Obama's 2008 recession and Biden's inflation since he took office.[/QUOTE]

I do love a good fairy tale, based in Trumpland storybook lore! (...kkkk!)

Still waiting for the one where Trump:
• builds the border wall and the Mexico pays for it;
• Or where Trump finally has infrastructure week to address his $1 trillion dollar plan;
• Or when Trump magically solves the Ukraine/Russia war in one phone call and a day!

And everybody's recent favorite, where Trump solves Obama Care, with "I have concepts of a plan" (...kkkk!)

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2945423]In the 12 years I have lived in Thailand I have had BBFS+CIP and / or BBBJ+CIM (sometimes +Swallow) with well over 1,200 different 18-30 year old cute or attractive girls and women. Some for free. Most for easily affordable pay.

There are forums here devoted to Thailand mongering reports and discussion. I would say a nominal majority of international mongers posting in those forums cite Thailand, all things considered, as the overall best mongering destination on the planet. Which I suppose one might expect on forums devoted to Thailand mongering reports and discussion.

I also suspect a majority of the American (male) expats cited in that linked report, if asked off the record, would also rank mongering options as one of the main reasons they chose Thailand for retirement and not exactly the excellent healthcare system.

As always, YMMV.[/QUOTE]Certainly not everywhere but more places than most, I will say unequivocally Thailand is not at the top of my list.

I know several awesome places that smoke Thailand on every single metric.

To me Thailand especially Pattaya is a place for beta simps (not you of course you are one of the better mongers out there, but you could do much much better somewhere else).

Its no place for me.

Thailand is for rookies with zero skills, which makes it an ideal place to price gouge for everything from A to Z.

Will I ever return? If I'm in the area of SEA maybe? But certainly I would never ever dedicate a special trip, and certainly never ever to retire.

Two months mother fucker! [B]Thats why Checkmate?[/B].

The current acting director has been in charge the agency for two months. You think the current acting director has changed a government agency in 2 months? If you do then you have never worked in a large government or corporate entity. You talk like a low level wage slave.

The Director of the Secret Service has no line responsibilities. The very nature of the position is keep an eye on policy and the big picture. The first assassination attempt was a failure of the line. Period. [B]Full Stop[/B].

So get the fuck out of here with your bullshit fantasy talk. Did you watch the hearings in front of Congress? They had decided that they wanted the Director out. The former Director knew it and played along with the Republican mother fuckers wanted to put her on display so they could have their 15 minutes of fame on national TV. The former director collected her pension as she went out the door. [B]Holla[/B]. Politics in Washington the. See at its best or worst depending upon your perspective.

[B]Your post is naive at best, ignorant at worst.[/B]

[QUOTE=CheckMate1;2945452]Trump was not shot. The perp got caught before anything happened, as that's how it's supposed to be. Asking them to be the PreCrime Division is not realistic. First director got fired, deservedly, because they didn't prevent the shooter from firing the shot.

Local report said that the shot that was fired was from the Secret Service. Will wait to see more details from the event.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Spidy;2945492]I do love a good fairy tale, based in Trumpland storybook lore! (...kkkk!)

Still waiting for the one where Trump: builds the border wall and the Mexico pays for it.[/QUOTE]I don't know what the problem is here. I mean everybody saw where Mexico delivered the check. Did it bounce or what? Should have demanded it through Western Union! Hahahaha!

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UgOv62xOiQ&ab_channel=AssociatedPress[/URL]

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]As for the USA contributing to the poverty of Mexico. Well there was the Mexican American War and they did play a role in the Mexican Revolution so there is no denying history, [b]but it is more complicated than it appears[/b].[/QUOTE]No it is not. It is very simple: [B]The United States of America uses its military to enforce its economic interests[/B]. Period. Full Stop.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]I don't want to get into a history lesson as I don't get paid for this, but here is my general thoughts on the USA and the role it plays in the Western Hemisphere. The USA is kind of like an economic whirlpool. It sucks wealth, resources, skilled and unskilled workers from both North and South America. This has been true of the richest societies and cities throughout history. People go where the money and opportunity is. Look how Elon musk was attracted to immigrate to the USA and start a 100 billion dollar company like Tesla which now contributes to America's economy. I don't think America's dominant share of the pie is as deliberate as many liberals would like to believe. Meaning, I don't think politicians sit around and plot how can we keep all other countries poor and make sure we stay rich? I mean, not to a higher degree than any other country does. What does the USA have to gain purposely keeping other societies, especially Mexico poor? Cheap source of foreign labor? From what I understand, the only time the USA really threw its weight around was when countries didn't want to be Capitalistic and Democratic. This happened in various different Latin American nations, but Cuba and Venezuela are the most recent. I am not saying I agree with the embargoes and the CIA / USA backed planted governments, but I think it was for the right reasons. We are all one world, and we are all experiencing the human condition. If a nation has a vital resource, it should be made available on the open market for trade. People should have the right to pursue happiness through private business. People should have a democratic say in their government. If a fucking canal needs to be dug across Colombia / Panama so shit costs less to ship, then get the fucking canal dug. I am not saying the USA was always squeaky clean either. No one or any large organization ever is, not even the glorious catholic church LOL.[/QUOTE][U]Mexico[/U]

[URL]https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-mexico-relations[/URL]

[U]Colombia[/U]

[URL]https://colombiareports.com/50-years-us-intervention-colombia/[/URL]

We can go country by country if you would like.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]My main point to be clear is the USA is not the evil overlord many liberals, Democrats, and people of foreign nations would like to believe. But don't forget all nations are technically competing with each other in these markets, it's just the way the global market economy evolved. So when the USA is successful, it takes up a larger share of the pie and that does indirectly contribute to higher poverty in other countries..[/QUOTE]It has nothing to do with liberal thinking. It has everything to do with the facts of the case. I have not even touched into the CIA operations classified or unclassified.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]BTW, I also know from my experience traveling Mexico that they love those American automobile and tractor factories providing tens of thousands of Mexicans jobs.[/QUOTE]We love them gringo crumbs that fall off the table boss. We get down and lick them up boss. Please keep them coming boss. Thank you Uncle Sam. [B]GTF![/B].

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]I don't like to comment on things I am not familiar with, so I can't comment to much about bitcoin other than obviously a massive amount of money has been made money in it which is great. [/QUOTE]It is about a lot more than money. If you wish to educate yourself I suggest: [I]The Bitcoin Standard[/I] available on Amazon.

[U]On a personal note[/U]

I am very intelligent. In fact there have been only about a half dozen people I have met on this earth are more intelligent that I am.

Compare and contrast that with:

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945001]I am a well traveled individual.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;2945298]why you were referring to me as Mr. Well Traveled SMH?[/QUOTE]You made the statement about yourself, not I.

I consider myself well traveled too. But what exactly does that mean? I have been to over 40 countries on this earth. I have a friend that laughs at me and tells me he wants to show me around. He has been to 90.

[B]The Defense Rests![/B]