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……I just found it! After YEARS of reading this forum, I had never looked at BKK business section🤯. 

I have been wondering why the mindless barking dog is suddenly barking incessantly again. By the way, here's a treat, pup.  Good doggy.  Good pup. In fairness, the fact that a mindless dog is mindless is more than enough reason to explain the barking.  But that's unfair.  Our special pup has also proven again and again that he is a smart impulsive dog. He responds well to Pavlovian prompts.  As well as a cruel doggy who likes it when people experience pain.  So I wondered if perhaps there is some cause to this.  What would excite him and his love of being a smart and cruel and obedient pup? I thought the answer might be obvious:  the Big Beautiful Bill.  There is certainly a lot of activity that would make an obedient MAGA pup bark.  And it is literally joyous.  And it keeps getting better.    Elon Musk will get his massive tax cuts.  That's worth a chorus of barking alone.  Better yet, it almost certainly comes at the cost of millions of Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, losing their affordable health care.  What could be better?  Or course, this is being said by moderate Republicans.  Who knows if those traitors can be trusted? The best part is Republican Senator Thom Tillis.  I mean, the man is a traitor and a worthless piece of shit.  He opposed Trump and lost.  So now he is going to quit.  The fucking loser.  Our dog loves cruelty.  So this is no doubt worth a lot of very loud barking. Even better, Tillis is quitting because he says Trump and Republicans are betraying their promise to millions of Americans who entrusted them with power.  And this will badly hurt the health care of working class people.  I'm not even a dog.  And I would bark in joy at that!   Tillis says over 600,000 people will be kicked off their health care plan in North Carolina alone.  Think of how awesome this is.  Is it too much to hope that tens of millions of working class Americans will lose health care?  Think of the tax benefits to Elon Musk.  Not to mention Donald Trump.  Even though it is unpatriotic to think Trump would do anything for himself! The only thing that could make this better is if Trump could find a way to deport Tillis to South Sudan.  Is that possible?  Come to think of it, Trump was publicly floating the idea of assassinating the leaders of Iran.  Would it really be a problem for Trump to gently float the idea of assassinating Tillis?  He is a traitor, after all. So all of this more than explains why a good and loyal and true and obedient and cruel MAGA puppy like @Barknaway would be barking up a storm. Good puppy!  Here's another treat.  Go bite Thom Tillis!   But come to find out there may be an even better explanation for this loud endless barking:   patriotism, and cruelty.  All wrapped into a beautiful puppy treat!   American Pride Slips to New Low Pride among Democrats tumbles, while independents also hit new low, more than offsetting increase among Republicans   Now, I have to admit.  I am not an expert in dog psychology.  Let alone the unique brand of loyal cruel Trump-like MAGA dogs @Barkaway aspires to be the very best of. But even the dumbest dog could understand this.  It is awesome.  Doesn't get better. A loyal dog conditioned to obey Trump will immediately know that he is good and loyal and patriotic.  In fact, he is more patriotic than ever.  Woof! Now, it is true that maybe a lot of Democrats and Independents are less proud to be American than ever.  You can see on the chart that Trump's first and second Presidencies are precisely when pride among Independents fell hard.   And maybe in their mind they are like Thom Tillis.  Maybe they think this is not what America should stand for.  Maybe they think this is a betrayal of the trust and health care of millions of good working class Americans.  Maybe they think it wasn't the goal of The Founders to promote oligarchy and tax cuts for Elon Musk and Trump's other ultrarich donors. In other words, what I am really trying to say is these Independents and Democrats are losers.  And traitors.  They really should be deported to South Sudan or somewhere.  Is it legal to do that?  Can we find a way to make it legal to deport them? At the very least, these people should be surveilled by DOGE or Palantir or whoever is putting together all this private information and dossiers on every US citizen.  Can't we at least take their Medicaid or SNAP away? This all has to be like fentanyl for a loyal and true and good and cruel MAGA dog.  He knows he is being patriotic.  And he knows most people who are not MAGA are stupid, and deserve to suffer.  And will, thank God. America is awesome.  Thank you Donald Trump.  How could America ever be better?  This is OUR GOLDEN AGE.

I can’t find any “Patpong comings and goings” thread…?🙈

On my early visits to the USA, I could never understand the appeal of televangelism. If I turned on the television on a Sunday morning, I could not escape channel after channel of seemingly rabid men all but screaming about God - and of course the need to give God money. Many ran their own 'ministries' and most of that cash flowed into their own pockets, one way or another. One of the most outpoken was Jimmy Swaggart. He was once confronted by a gay man. He then said if ever he was looked at again "like that - I will kill the man and tell God he died!" But like many of them, Swaggart was a total hypocrite lining his own pockets. In 1986 alone, that ministry business made US$146 million. In 1988 he was discovered in a hotel wth a prostitute. Both alleged they did not have sex (!) He only paid her to pose nude! And if you believe that, then in 1991 police in California caught him with another prostitute in his car. He had been driving on the wrong side of the road. The prostitute said he had not been in full control of the car as he was stuffing pornographic magazines under the seat. Swaggart died yesterday. His son Donnie, perhaps unsurprisingly, has followed in his footsteps and is also an evangelist. In a radio message he said of his father, "There's been no greater example of a good and faithful servant than my father. No ifs, ands and buts about it. A man who lived his life for the cause of Christ." And if you believe that . . . .