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Tough talk Sunday, followed by TACO Tuesday, followed by pump and dump Friday.

Marjorie Jo is keeping her brand going. From what it was to who knows.

Another dated, but very good movie is City of God released in 2002 about young men growing up in the slums of Rio. I remember the DVD at the time included a short documentary about young men growing up in the favelas and the government deliberately putting political prisoners in prisons with gang members with the expectation the intelllectuals would be tormented and murdered by the gangs. Unexpectedly the political prisoners educated the gang members on how government policies created their extreme poverty. But the biggest takeaway for me was a line about how teenagers could never earn enough money to buy brand name runners like Nike and Addidas without turning to crime. I tried to find the name of the doc on google, but couldn't.

The Incompetent has reached his lowest level of approval in this regime's 2nd term. 63% disapprove, with 37% approving. Big question for me who are the 37% who support corruption, incompetence, forever wars, higher inflation, no job growth and hateful behavior?

Arena never disappoints

Just on a personal level, person to person, I am glad that MTG has had some epiphany on her road to Damascus, Georgia (yes, it's a real town with 212 people as of the 2020 census). Whatever personal demons she has dealt with, you go girl, life long learning. And, would I vote for her. No.

Getting back to the point of perceptions matter. You may be set in your opinion, a lot of Americans are not. We do need their bullhorn and acknowledgement. We do need them banging on about this regime of corruption, to the point where FOX and Newsmax can't only exist in some fantasy world purporting the nonsense that things are getting better and not down the toilet.

The Bangkok Post ran a story about Thai infidelity three months ago. The article was entitled "Thailand tops global infidelity rates people admit to". So no, to answer your question, the Thais themselves admit they are not very faithful. And as @mima_bk said, that rate of infidelity would likely be multiplied amongst single Thai gay men, since the surveyed individuals were married adults. From the article: "In Thailand, just over half of married adults surveyed, 51%, admitted they had engaged in extramarital sex at least once, placing the Southeast Asian nation ahead of its global peers in this particular measure of relationship behaviour." https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/3184524/thailand-tops-global-infidelity-rates-people-admit-to.

The Mechanism on Netflix first aired in 2018, two seasons. Corruption police investigating government contract fixing right up to the president's office (Lulu, who is president again despite the scandal). Great show.

Profeta is so fine 🤤

What happened to "we've already won!"?

Ive seen profiles with Babe pics from Moonlight.

MTG is a woman scorned, by Trump, and is therefore on a redemption tour to insure she has some shot at an ongoing political career.... I DO NOT think she is wrong in here claims against Trump, but sorry girl "too little too late !"..... But the question remains if she still has substantial PULL with the MAGA crowd, and if that will make any difference in their support of Trump going forward ? YES she is still a racist clown and election denier, but as far as her claim about the Trump assassination attempt in PA being a staged set-up, I said that very thing for the moment that rubber bullet "appeared" to hit his face, but apparently as we see today, it did absolutely NO damage. As for the civilian that apparently was "murdered" I bet he and his family are living happily in witness protection with the millions of dollars they were given by Trump to aid him in pulling off the STUNT ?

Marjorie Taylor Greene Stokes Trump Assassination Plot Rumors https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-stokes-trump-023814378.html

The problem here is that Everyone is "allowing" him to get away with EVERYTHING in his Trump 2.0 rampage..... The GOP supports him, and the Dems keep telling us what is illegal about the things he does, yet there is never and accountability or consequences..... The talk is tired and cheap from the Dems..... We KNOW Trumps actions are corrupt and illegal. We dont need their bullhorn or acknowledgement. We see and FEEL what Trump is doing. At least those of us that source our news from places other than Fox and Newsmax do. Until someone actually stands up and DOES something, or unless Trump dies, this will be a very long and torturous 3 more years of his Crazy ! Trump is not the only one "incompetent"..... Seems the GOP and the Dems are too ? Its just one big circle-jerk and fuck-fest.

Mocking the simplistic rantings of neo-populist conservatives can be effective. Years ago Stockwell Day was the leader of the emerging neo-populist rightwing party of the Canadian Alliance. The Canadian, sort of equivalent, of SNL, This Hour has 22 Minutes, started a petition to have Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day change his name to Doris Day. With 370,000 signatures it reached the threshold to trigger a national referendum. Effectively making the point that referendums are no way to govern. (I really want a reporter to ask The Incompetent why, with his biblical Trooth Social post, did he chose to be represented as Fat Jesus - but I digress). 'Doris Day' petition hits the mark | CBC News Even though there was mocking involved, the mocking was about an idea, and came across as humorous and not mean-spirited. I think that is still largely true of Canadian politics versus American politics. Public financing of election campaigns and controls of campaign spending also help in Canada.

Someone start an on-line petition to have him change the spelling of his first name to "Cash" Patel.

This is largely my point. The Incompetent was handed a growing economy by Obama. The economy that was doing well during the Incompetent's 1st term was handed to him, until he eventually fucked it up, like he always does, with his catastrophic mishandling of the COVID pandemic. The only success he had in his first term was taking credit for someone else's work on the economy - until he eventually fucked it up. And, as you say, perceptions matter. Lots of people have a notion that the Incompetent is responsible for any economic successes - not a fact based notion. Don't let him get away with this in his second term. He was again handed a growing economy, drug prices coming down, gas prices coming down, inflation decreasing, job growth rapidly expanding, non-nuclear Iran (which John Kerry had already achieved through negotiations in 2016, but I digress), supports for new manufacturing in the USA, infrastructure investments (which Republicans voted against and now enjoy cutting ribbons for - but I again digress). I know this is an old story. The GOP paints Obama and Biden presidencies as economic failures, when in both cases they were cleaning up GOP economic disasters (financial crisis of 2008 and pandemic crisis of 2020) and left the Incompetent-in-Chief growing economies marked particularly by job growth, which he is going to eventually fuck up again. With this term, the incompetency is blatantly obvious. The corruption is blatantly obvious. I think these are the simple, concise messages that would be winners for the 2/3rds of Americans who are opposed to this regime that is for, by and about enriching billionaires. Also the megalomania and bat shit crazy of the Incompetent pairs nicely with the blatant corruption messaging.

Well, the perception really ISNT that good either, now is it ? 😏 Someone OR something NEEDS to knock Trump off his arrogant, racist, hateful, warmongering pedestal.

Perception matters more than reality.

The Trump train has left the tracks. In the last six weeks his behavior has been erratic , bizarre, delusional, and downright mean. Then there’s the whole thing about wanting to run away from a war he started that destabilized the entire middle east. Trump is carrying on the tradition of starting wars we won’t finish. ALL Americans should be concerned with the Presidents very troubling remarks & posts in recent weeks. He has compared himself to Jesus, threatened the Pope, vowed to destroy Iranian civilization, claimed he will take over Cuba, and then there’s walking away from NATO. That’s just the last two weeks.

I weirdly got lucky at Arena. One of the guys is a Thai Boxer. I asked him if he gets into rough roleplay and he said yes, so i gave him my Line. I’ll see how it works out

Of course they do.

Fake profile pictures is a huge problem in Myanmar as well. We had a similar situation in another thread. You (mauRICE) cast some general aspersions on me based on what people you know, who have seen me, told you about me. When I ask for details, you remain silent. That says more about your character than about mine. Forum members who have met have only good things to say about me.