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Hello, Don: Hete is a good primer site ViaHero for you. I find this blogger / website to be quite reasonable, especially for newbies. This one section on “safety” is good, but I also recommend reading the whole site. “Here are some more tips to keep you safe in Rio: Don’t... leave your bag unattended. put your wallet in your back pocket or the outside pocket of a bag. walk alone on the beach at dusk or at night. take out and/or use your cell phone more than absolutely necessary. wear jewelry in the street. openly carry a camera. take more than you need to the beach. Do... put your money, credit cards, passport and ticket in the safe deposit box of your hotel. take cabs rather than buses. roll up the windows of your car or taxi if you are stuck in a traffic jam. ask the police for help if you need it. Don't travel blindly. Work with one of our locals” https://www.viahero.com/travel-to-rio-de-janeiro/is-rio-de-janeiro-safe

My opinion is NOT to have you camera around your neck. It is too tempting and you run a high risk if having it stolen right off of you. I was with a Brazilian friend in his 20's less than a year ago in Rio, and while we were stopped at a corner, a young guy came up to and asked a question and then proceeded to rip cheap gold chain right from off of his neck and started running. SP and Rio are well worth visiting, but are cities where you need to be extra cautious on your initial visits.

I find that way of thinking very reasonable and applicable to all countries. There's still possibility that virus will not give up , vaccine will not be found or will be ineffective and even that people will be re-infected. Scary but not impossible. And nations will need to face it the same way they face other calamities like earthquakes, floods, volcano eruptions, Trump elections, syphilis and malaria. People affected will invariably suffer and others, carefully watching their back , must carry on as always. Otherwise governments will run out of money and their populaces out of patience. People generally are not suicidal so let them to take a risk and decide if they want to work , shop, send kids to school, pray, party or travel.After almost a year living with Covid most of us have some idea about prevention.

The Assembly line of fucks I got another opportunity to check out Espaco Lagoa before heading to southern Brazil with the BF. It was a somewhat chilly day in Sao Paulo, but I was lucky to have skipped the cold temps that visited the city days before. Still, it was still cool weather, so I decided to visit the Frei Caneca shopping mall to have a cup of coffee. The good thing about the Frei Caneca shopping mall is that it is pretty close to Espaco Lagoa. There is probably a reason for the closeness. The walk from the mall to the sauna, you will encounter the unofficial gay street of Rua Frei Caneca, the gay hotel, and other gay locations. So its always an interesting time to see the patrons of this mall. You will see various gay people loitering, checking each other out. No surprise that when I open Grindr, it lit up like a Christmas tree with hits. I settled with my cup of coffee, subtly checking out a guy across from me, who I saw on Grindr (51 feet away!) while enjoying my cup of coffee: After my coffee, I let @floridarob know that I was going to the sauna. It was almost 6 PM, so I would think it was prime time to wrap it up and head to Lagoa. At the sauna, I see @floridarob already seated and enjoying his drinks. I get another cup of coffee, and I remarked that this was the 3rd continent that I’ve seen him in. After some gossip, and acknowledging what big world-traveling sluts we both were, I start my hunt in earnest. It was pretty busy in the main bar area. The public showers were opened up and all the tables were occupied. It was Sunday, karaoke night, so it was hard to have a decent conversation from all the loud singing, unless if you were up close and personal with the person you were talking to. So I had to leave the area if I was going to catch anything I wanted. At first, I was not finding anything, or I was hesitant in approaching with all the activity in the bar. Programa #1: The Wily Veteran But in the corner of my eye, by the entrance near the stage, was an interesting blonde and blue eyed guy, as white as can be, that stood out from everyone. No one was in towels (COVID), but he went one better: he was wearing a nice shirt and pants. I quickly excuse myself and chase after the guy. I go to the hallway to assess his hotness. Paulistano. 26 years old. He took off his mask while he was talking, which helped because it sealed the deal. He looked more German than Brazilian, but his Paulista accent gave him away. We get a suite (always) and got to our room. Wow, this place is so clean and more put together than Point 202. It is not hard to do. And they had towels and flip flops carefully packed in plastic for use. So hygienic. He quickly disrobes and plops himself on the bed. I join him clothed, and he quickly disrobes me. With me naked, he tells me “much better,” and gives me a kiss. That was when I realized that I forgot to ask him the requisite questions: does he kiss? Top or bottom? How much? That never happens to me, I usually do my due diligence before commiting, but no time like the present to ask. I know he does kiss, he says he is versatile, and the usual 150 for the programa, or 200 with cum. He delivered in all respects. Fairly passionate, and had an amazing ass. I had him pose for me, squatting with his ass in the air. Perfect. I’m not a super top, but this guy did it for me in the moment. The pale, smooth skin helped, and it came with a smooth ass. He sat on me, and I came really quickly. It took a while for him to cum tho, as he said it was hard to cum after getting fucked. Afterwards we talked for a bit. He has been doing sauna work for a while, and even did a stint in European saunas. Took a break and was back in the business. Saving up money for a trip back to Europe, when it opens up, and beefing up in the process for more exacting European clientele. He certainly knows what he’s got. No doubt he earns a lot of money. I don’t know how long I was away, but going back to @floridarob, it seemed like an eternity. He told me I act fast, just disappearing and doing the programa. “I know what I like and I go for it,” I say. I get a cocktail. I think I was seated in the perfect spot in the bar area at Espaco Lagoa. We were seated close to the door, and my seat was angled such that I was facing the door and can see who came and went, while having a view of the stage. Understandably I would miss some of the public shower guys who would entice customers with their third legs, but until I grow a third eye in the back of my head, I’d choose to be facing where the guys came and went. Programa #2: The Casual Passers-by The current location of Espaco Lagoa is both a blessing and a curse. It is so much more central, located in the Frei Caneca, and close enough to Paulista and Bela Vista. The bad thing about it is, any casual guy can just stop by and try to sell their wares. In the old location, it was more or less more residential, and you actually had to want to be there in order to be at the sauna, and not just casually drop by on the way somewhere else. So I find that there are more casual GPs than the usual, career quality GPs, in this location, that in the old location. I noticed a fresh batch of guys come in, milling about. They were just in the periphery and not going in the main area. They were fully dressed, like everyone, but not smartly as to accentuate any of their body parts, like the career GPs. They probably just wandered off from the street over to see if they can score a few reais. Two of them were nice looking. The shorter one was more muscular, was looking more like a brute, and his biceps were bulging out of his shirt. The taller one was tall indeed, more lanky, but had a very pretty face. I’ve never seen them before. Probably their first time here. After trading more gossip with @floridarob, I see the shorter one making eyes with me. I made eyes back. He took off his mask and smiled at me. I looked at his friend and his friend was being felt up by another customer. A few more minutes roll by, and the guy kept making eyes, but would never approach or even enter the bar area. After finishing my drink, I make a decision, and tell @floridarob I will be back. I lock eyes on the shorter one, and we congregate in the hall. I motion to the taller one to also come so I can inspect both. After introductions, the shorter one was trying to sell himself, with descriptions of what we would do together and such. The taller one was way more shy, just standing there. He was gorgeous tho, brown hair and green eyes. Such a killer combo. I ask them if they were friends and went here together. They both said yes. I asked them how much. 150 for each. I ask them what they did. Only tops but passionate. I can work with that. I told them I want to get a room. The shorter one asks: “which one?” I tell them, both of you, of course. The taller one smiles, as if to say: “really?” Is that OK? The shorter one says, “of course!” So we get a suite and the two tail me as I lock the door behind me. We started with just standing there. Obviously this was a bit manufactured, nothing organic about it. I started to break the ice by asking a few questions. They’ve been friends for a long time. It was the taller guy’s first time here, and didn’t really know what to do here. It was the shorter one’s second time, and I was his second customer as well. The taller one was nervous, maybe unsure he wanted to do it. I ask if they have seen each other naked before. “Not totally,” the shorter one answers. I laugh. Everyone laughs. “So what will we do now?” I ask. The shorter one takes command, and asks the taller one to undress. He takes off his shirt. The shorter one unbuttons the taller one’s pants. His briefs appear through his opened zipper. I take it further by pulling down his pants. He is just in his underwear. The shorter one disrobes to his briefs as well. I do as well. And then the shorter instructs the other to start kissing me. After some hesitation, he does. I take a hand to his groin. Big boy. He make it grow. We were off to the races. The shorter one turned to be fairly dominant, and the taller one passionate. It worked out, somehow weirdly. Both came on my chest, while towering over me on the bed. It was somewhat an awkward encounter. It’s kind of what you expect from just casual passers-by I guess. Programa #3: The Reason Why I’m Here Getting back to @floridarob, I realized that I’ve already came with three different people in a span of 1.5 hours, and floridarob was just getting started. I guess my speed is really fast. We both notice a nice looking moreno in the public shower, and he had the perfect pair of (1) giant cock and (2) nice round ass. @floridarobnoticed him too and commented on him being nice looking. When the toweled off and got out of the shower, I quickly motion to him to sit down with us so at least @floridarob had some company. All three of us soon got to laughing and joking, mostly about how much of a slut I was. Fair enough. I see someone in the corner of my eye again. Uh oh. He was a beautiful moreno. Nice facial hair. Prerry face. Wearing a tight t-shirt and tight jeans. He filled those nicely. There was something about him that just draws one to him. Something magnetic. Of course I acted fast, as I do. I bid both goodbye for now and headed for him. When we were in the hallway, he takes of his mask and smiles this million watt smile. He introduces himself. A Carioca, of course. I journey all this way to Sao Paulo to be hooked by another Carioca. He talks to me in a whisper, and he draws me close so he can hear me. I press my hands on his shoulders, and his back. Big broad shoulders, hard sinewy back. We settle on 150, or 200 if he cums. I couldn’t say no. I was impressed by how he carried himself. In the room we both sit on the bed and he takes my hand and caresses it. We talk for a minute. His deep voice was soothing. He takes off his clothes, even underwear. He wanted me to see. Big thighs, big plump ass, and of course, hung like no other. He kisses me deeply. And soon I was naked myself. Damn, this was a good start. After some hot foreplay he asks me what I liked. I said since he was just a top, that I couldn’t take his length and girth, since he was pretty big. He said fine, and we did more foreplay. After getting hot and heavy and him rimming me, he takes the condom and lube and started to sheath himself. I laughed. I reminded him that I didn’t want to take him. He said he understood, but he was just going to “show me something.” Fine. What could happen, right? We did more foreplay. He got me really warmed up. And then he started to put it in. Slow. While working on me. Got me relaxed. Put it in more. More working on me. I got even more relaxed. Until he was all in. Until he was able to get a rhythm in. Until he pulled out and fed me his cock to explode in my mouth. Well that was amazing and unexpected, and simply mesmerizing. When you hire someone, they will do what you tell them to do, since you are paying and you callall the shots. It’s something else when you pay someone to do what you want, but they know what you actually want more than you did. I am rarely surprised anymore in these situations, sadly, but this programa was indeed a surprise. We shower together. We get dressed. Before we left, I tell him that he had something unique, something that was hard to come by in the sauna, and he had something that just can’t be replicated anywhere. He smiles that million watt smile again, and told me he has heard this from others before. I give him my phone, to get his Whatsapp. I’ve met 4 guys in the sauna today, and this was the first guy I wanted to get a second meeting. I emerge from the programa. I tell @floridarobI had to run, as the BF was awake and waiting for me. Not bad for a 3 hour stay in Espaco Lagoa.

I came of age in the late 80's, during the height of the AIDS crisis. Therefore, I've never experienced truly carefree, live-for-the-moment sex. I did my fair share of cruising in Los Angeles in the 90's, but it was all rather tame. What was life like in the 70's? Was sex easy to come by? What was the cruising scene like? I'd love to hear about your wild adventures!

Have you seen this anywhere? A right-wing form of government that opposes liberal democracy, Marxism, socialism, and anarchism, and attempts to forge national unity under an autocratic leader with a totalitarian program advocating stability, law and order, and more and more centralized power, claiming all of this is necessary in order to defend the homeland from internal as well as external enemies, and to respond effectively to economic instability. The mobilization of a mass base through deliberately constructed fear and hatred as preparation for armed conflict and permanent war. An appeal to patriotic nationalism. The supremacy of military and police power, and the militarizing of all aspects of society. The agitation of “popular” movements in the streets, apparently spontaneous (but in reality well-funded and highly organized) based on bigotry, intolerance, and the threat of violence, all of it fueled by the demonization of targeted, distinct racial, religious, or gendered vulnerable populations and the creation of convenient sacrificial scapegoats who are repeatedly blamed for every social or economic problem people experience. Disdain for the arts, for intellectual life, for science, for reason and evidence, as well as deep contempt for the necessary back and forth of serious argument or discussion. The suppression of labor and the protection of corporate power. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Protectionist and interventionist economic policies as corporations are entangled with the state. You have? It's the textbook definition of fascism.

All spring and summer Trumpsters have had 1000+ boat flotilla parades off Florida, New Jersey, and other states. Today they tried it on a lake outside Austin and many ran into each other or got swamped and sank. (The police said it was too much alcohol). Dumbkirk

You never know what they are doing with your personal data. So no prepaid cards or virtual currencies, no business from me!

Never wear jewelry, watches or cameras in the streets, and keep your smart phones tucked away in your pockets. Wallets should never be in the back pocket. I would also advise against any headphones and Bluetooth ear pieces as well as AirPods. A camera is a definite NO. The savvier malandros will carry a sharp knife with them to cut the cord From your neck, arm or ear and just keep running with your items. The others might just rip it from you with their bare hand strength or sometimes, hold you up for it with a weapon. Although foreigners (no matter how often they visit and start to feel “comfortable” or “blended in”, and no matter how intimidating they may think they are) should not do any of these things, even a local brasileiro would say that it’s a bad idea for them to carry these things on the street as well. Just because you’ve been doing these things and you haven’t yet “gotten got”, that doesn’t mean you’re immune to it. It just means that your time hasn’t come up yet. Why tempt fate? Anyone (here or in the real world) who advises you otherwise is not your friend, your pal, or your amigo, and does not have your best interests at heart.

From Coconuts Bangkok The long Septemberkran weekend may have spread some spending love, but the dire outlook for tourism has officials upping their pitches to both Thais and foreign residents. While an estimated THB8.8 billion (US$280 million) was spent throughout the realm, the specter of COVID’s return saw tourism officials pledge to consider abolishing higher entry fees for foreigners and easier access to a government travel subsidy. On Friday, tourism authority governor Yuthasak Supasorn said they would discuss an end to dual-pricing at national parks and other travel destinations where foreigners are charged exponentially higher entry fees. One idea quickly proposed was issuing travel cards to foreign residents to distinguish them from tourists and entitle them to local prices. On the eve of the long weekend, health officials announced the first local transmission of COVID-19 following a 100-day streak involving a recently incarcerated Bangkok DJ. That led to murmurs that plans to reopen Phuket to some incoming tourists would be delayed. While the weekend saw the heaviest travel in areas near the capital and cities such as Pattaya, Cha-am, Hua Hin and Khao Yai, operators have complained that taxpayer-backed travel rebates are too complicated for many people to use. Supawan Thanomkietiphum of the national hotel association on Monday said many middle-aged and elderly travelers felt the conditions were too complicated and technical. She suggested that the government should ease access to the subsidy for all ages.

Yes, BBB, open Fri, Sat, Sunday.

Oh, one trick I used to not appear as a tourist was to wear a Bluetooth ear bud to listen to Google maps give me directions while walking to places I was unfamiliar with, and to tell me info on my subway trips.

On my first trip, I've met guys from online at my Airbnb, went to a guy's place in Gloria near club 117 and had fun with guys at the sauna. I think after day one i didn't feel like a fish out of water any longer.

Why are you always trying to pick a fight.? I did not accuse anyone of making that comparison. In fact I apologized for not realizing his post about 0.01% was about Thailand . ( Sometimes at 2am the brain does not operate at 100%) This thread is about tourists returning to Thailand . So since I am from the US as are many posters am I not allowed to state my beliefs that US citizens will be at the end of the line when it comes to returning to Thailand . That they are 1 of the 2 worst countries in the world in handling the Virus . That their % of citizens with the Virus is disgusting . Truth is Thailand did one of the best jobs and they will decide who gets to return and in what order. And anyone who would criticize Thailand for the lock down , they better come from a country that did an equal or better job. ( may not be any) . Whether I might have assumed Vinapu was from the US has no meaning , because I once guessed he was from Canada and he corrected me and for all I know he is from Venezuela.

Good point. What I decided several months back is that I was tired of the mind-numbing experience of these yammering online back and forths with conservatives. As in this instance, no matter what President Toxic says, they will defend it. So there's no point. I like intellectual masturbation more than almost anyone. But the yammering is more like using a catheter to induce mild pain, rather than using a well-oiled hand to induce pleasure. You and I mostly see things similarly. And this one I just don't get. I'll go with "neanderthal NeoLibs" or "warmongers" and leave it at that. There is some thread of logic with you and Baby Glenn and Matt Taibbi, among others, that seems to say that if it's coming from the NeoLibs or warmonger class, it must be wrong. It's not the same as President Toxic's Deep State. And I certainly agree with you that warmongers and the military industrial complex and the corporate media are all powerful interest groups that are healthy to fear and keep a close eye on. To me, though, Baby Glenn and Taibbi have done a lot to discredit the particular forms of journalism they claim to represent. Their arguments don't hold together. And they are both sloppy with facts. Let's just agree to disagree on this one. We've both made our points. So I'll take it in another direction. The military itself seems to have already weighed in on this. You were the one who pointed out that for a very right-of-center group of people, support for Biden is off the charts. In theory, that could be because they love The Green New Deal. In fact, the logical explanation is that many, maybe most of them believe what we're hearing now. If you believe the story, they've been hearing and talking about this for years. Watergate itself was, as break-ins go, a relatively petty crime that Nixon was not personally involved in as a burglar. Not going to a cemetery is not even a crime. And if you isolate it to that one thing (either the cemetery in France, or the cemetery in the US where anonymous people think President Toxic dishonored his son to Gen. Kelly's face), this is arguably not a big deal. If you believe the anonymous sources, Gen. Kelly himself took President Toxic's words about his dead son to be an awkward comment about the volunteer nature of the military. Like Watergate, this seems to have become a big fucking deal because it speaks to something much bigger and seriously wrong with the President of the United States. And I say it's a big fucking deal because before The Atlantic broke the news, the attitudes described seem to have impacted the way members of the military and veterans are voting. If they saw President Toxic the way he sees himself, he'd probably be pulling as much support as any other Republican President - if not more. This article from 2004 does not give clear poll data on active military. But it does state that support for W. was strong among active troops. And that they viewed W. himself more favorably than his conduct of the Iraq War, which the military itself was starting to sour on. The closest I could get to seeing how the military voted is a CNN exit poll saying veterans favored W. 57/41, whereas people who hadn't served were a toss up: Kerry 50/W. 49. A Gallup poll from June 2008 shows McCain slaughtering Obama among people who served in the military, 56 to 34. That actually exceeded the partisan registration split among veterans, which was 47 % Republican/39 % Democrat at that time. So this data suggests that, not surprisingly, military voters and veterans probably tend to support one of their own, or leaders who they feel have their back like W. What's happening now strongly suggests the troops do not "love" President Toxic, as he seems to feel they do. Wonder why? Desperately Derailing Donald The effort to stop President Trump is growing comical. I find that article from Trumpian American Greatness comical. It's all well and good for Trump propagandists to hammer Biden, the corporate media, and various other segments of the vast left-wing conspiracy. But last time I checked, the military was not a part of the vast left-wing conspiracy. What's interesting as a liberal outsider looking into the so-called "conservative" tent is that the MAGA types really don't seem to give a shit about the military, or their sentiments, at all. Large chunks of the article above could have been written by Baby Glenn, who is certainly NOT a fan of the US military. There's similar shitty reporting. The article above, just like Baby Glenn, cites Bolton as a primary source who "denied" the story. He actually confirmed some elements of the story (mostly about McCain), said the President is not credible, said he did not hear Trump use the alleged words "losers" and "suckers" in the meeting he was in, and offered that if President Toxic did say those words, it was "despicable". That's not a denial. It's understandable to me that Baby Glenn's sympathies don't go out to the military. But what about MAGA conservatives? Isn't a strong military supposed to be what they are about? This military story is an octopus that covers the entire Toxic Trump Presidency in all kinds of facets. Including, for example, the allegation that President Toxic hasn't lifted a bone spur to object that Putin put bounties on American soldiers. So for American Greatness to dismiss all this as a desperate and comical lie seems to be a slap in the face to the military, which conservatives are supposed to respect - I thought, at least. Again, these people suck at facts and actual journalism. But if they want to talk about "Trump's current polling trajectory", they might want to note that he is deep in the shitter with the military. And that is unprecedented. Neither the tone nor content of this article will help. It goes along for the ride with the idea that all this concern about President Toxic's disregard for military lives and disrespect for military service is just comical. Try explaining that to the military, if the journalists and the polls are right. They may not see it as very funny at all. Again, I'm just a liberal looking into the conservative tent. It seems like there's a war going on in there. If they are this busy throwing bombs and barbs at each other, how do they plan to win?

Oh cum on, wouldnt seeing Jared in stripes on his knees getting butt fucked TIT-Tillate you just a bit ? I am leaking just thinking about it ! And Ivanka with her head shaved munching on muff ? And DJT, in a solitary cell mumbling "Obama did this".....

I keep reading stories like this one in conservative rags, thinking there might be something that signals a shift away from Biden. But this is a good example of a disease that seems easy to catch these days: right-wing logic that basically amounts to wishful thinking. The Inevitable Implosion of Biden’s Campaign It is doomed by a strategy based on a progressive myth about Trump’s base. I guess the idea is that even though Biden has led President Toxic by 5+ % in the horse race poll averages and favorability polls all year, at some future point - but before November - he is going to implode. Sounds like wishful thinking. The whole argument doesn't quite make sense. If we assume that President Toxic's base is "only" 25 % working class, that's actually a lot. So if 2.5 % of that base peels off, that's the end of President Toxic. I'm pretty sure that since 2016 some of the older White men in that 25 % are no longer with us. And based on 2018, we know some switched to Democrats. There's also a lot of young voters of every race that are now aged roughly 18 to 22. Meaning they can vote for President for the first time. I'm not sure there's a lot of new older White men who weren't around in 2016. Meanwhile, North Carolina is saying requests for absentee ballots are through the roof. I read it's something like a 5-fold increase for Republicans, and a 30-fold increase for Blacks. Nobody knows what it means. But it doesn't sound like good news for Republicans. So there may be an argument about how President Toxic's base is going to sneak out of nowhere and expand rapidly, much like COVID-19 has. But this is not that argument. Biden's positions on all the issues cited above have been the same all year. So I assume the people that prefer President Toxic's views have been the people that are with him all year. That's not an argument for the "collapse" in Biden's poll numbers, which have actually not collapsed. Take a look at 538's generic Congressional ballot poll averages. I suppose if poorly educated Trumpians want something to think wishfully about, they can say that the lead Democrats have over Republicans has "collapsed" from a little over 9 % in July to a little over 8 % today. Then again, the Democrats have had a solid lead over Republicans for the roughly year and a half those polls cover. Not good news for Trumpians. And the lead has actually been slowly but steadily widening for the last year and a half. Again, not good news for Trumpians. There may have been a progressive myth that imploded. But, if so, that was during the primary. I think I was right to think all last year it was a good thing the Democratic primary race would be settled in the Rust Belt. That isn't quite true, because it surprisingly got settled early in March on Super Tuesday. But Michigan and then Wisconsin confirmed that the progressive/democratic socialist dream was not to be in 2020. I think why that's so is a question for lots of analysis after the dust settles. I'm intrigued with the idea that Bernie beat Hillary among non-urban Whites without colleges degrees in 2016 mostly because they couldn't stomach Hillary. And man of them may have viewed Bernie as more conservative - not less. So in 2020 when they had the chance to vote for an old White guy that is definitely more conservative for Bernie, they jumped at it. What's yet to be seen is whether Biden can keep them in the general, or even peel off more. It's probably best to just bag the concept "working class" altogether, I think. The objective descriptor that seems to be more useful in understanding things is "Whites without college degrees". The label speaks to education, and the importance of education in driving employment and good incomes. These were the people at the core of Bill Clinton's two victories. And at the core of Hillary's loss. Mostly, all indications are that Biden will do significantly better with this group than Hillary did. So much for "implosions". Biden outlines post-Labor Day strategy to win White House That sums it up nicely for me. Until proven wrong, I will continue to think that the most important things Biden needs to do to close the deal is focus on the economy, stupid. I suspect the kernel of truth in that Spectator article is that Whites and Hispanics and a small number of Blacks without college degrees who are in the "working class" bucket do worry about jobs, guns, and Democrats going too far. November will tell us the parameters for how many of these folks want to be in the Democratic tent. And how many are now the core of the Donald Trump (Sr. or Jr.) Republican Party. I'm not sure it's not a good thing for many of them to populate the Toxic Trump Party. If they love guns and fear The Green New Deal, and will vote for any old White man like Bernie or Biden over Hillary or Elizabeth every time, Democrats are arguably better off without them. Until proven wrong, I thing Rahm's "metropolitan alliances" are the thing to focus on. And I actually think Democrats have a better chance of building a progressive party that can win majorities if we go that route. I read an interesting article recently I can't relocate by an academic who said that in 2020 Democrats are lucky, because President Toxic is alienating suburban "housewives" he doesn't understand. She argued soon enough the Democrats' luck will run out. And we'll have to face our own ignorance of the suburbs as they actually exist today. She focused on zoning and housing. Her point is Millennials are - who'd a thunk? - making the same housing choices as their parents. They want to live in single family homes that are safer, and have more space. To them, The Green New Deal apparently includes aspirations to own a home. So this multi-family housing/high density push is an argument Democrats can't win, she thinks. People who left cities and moved to suburbs simply can't be convinced it would be better for those suburbs to be like the cities they left. This makes sense to me. Every year or two there's some Big Lie the media persuades us is the truth. 2006: Home prices never go down. 2008: Frugality is in and the rich will stop flaunting their wealth. 2010: Home prices will never recover to 2006 levels. So this stuff about Millennials being into a "sharing culture" and not wanting to own things like homes has never been an idea I've believed. I figured growing older and having kids would straighten that out. So I agree this is, as the author describes, a "time bomb" for Democrats. But that's a battle (or bomb) for another day. Zoning is of course typically a local issue. But I'd be happy if the 20's is when we bring back Clinton's homeownership strategies from the 90's. And this time toughen the laws to make sure the predatory lenders and Wall Street derivatives peddlers can't fuck it up again the next time a Republican wins. Speaking of Big Business, two more tidbits that are good news, and related to all this at the margins. Pro-business Chamber of Commerce is backing 23 vulnerable House Democratic freshmen for reelection I usually don't agree with the Chamber of Commerce. This cycle, we're strange bedfellows. Most of the Democrats on that list were freshly minted in 2018, and won in districts President Toxic carried in 2016. I don't know about the American Spectator. But it seems like the Chamber of Commerce sees the handwriting on the wall. As do I, hopefully. The ones on that list in California are the ones I've been sending money to. And on the flip side, there's this: How New York City’s Democratic Socialists Swept the Competition All this suggests that after the dust settles, the Democratic tent is going to be bigger, and messier. Good for us Democrats! If there was a notion that there was a latent democratic socialist majority in the farms and broken factory towns of Michigan or Wisconsin, that's what imploded this Spring. One of the reasons I feel better about Biden is that governing a tent full of urban progressives on the left and Chamber types on the right will be difficult, and perhaps impossible. Biden's unique skill and reason for survival has always been that he is good at feeling and negotiating his way toward the center. And usually he has done that by coming from the left. (I know, I know. For some he is a right-wing fascist war monger.) The best case scenario is he does what Bill Clinton did. By making things better for most people, he could end up nudging the center to the left, like Clinton did. Like Clinton, that will mean that lots of his party is to his left. If we're going to have an implosion, that's the one I'm most worried about. An implosion of governing, not campaigning. But that's a worry for another year. After President Toxic is flushed back down into the sewer.

In Brazil, if you go to a sauna, your time is about 30'/40' in the cabins. The prices I have paid for that are between 80 and 150 Rials. Every time I took a boy to my place the deal was 200 Rials, supposedly for one hour. In most cases, that hour became many. If the boys like you and are having a good time around you, they tend to stick with you. By the way, the one hour standard is not only Brazilian. I do not know Germany or SE Asia, but in Argentina, Mexico, the USA, and Brazil, you usually make a deal based in a one hour rate. I have never made an open ended arrangement, although many if my arrangements turned into open ended without any extra investment.

The advice to go to a Provider’s location instead of having him come to yours was incredibly wrong headed. If you do not know the garoto well, DO NOT do an “in call” (at their place) — especially if you are new to Brazil / the area, or are unfamiliar with the people and the language. There is a lot of really bad advice given at this forum — often by those who portray themselves as experts. But this — recommending visiting a garoto for a programa at his location or apartment — is absolutely one of the worst. If you (understandably) can’t or don’t want to do the programa at your apartment or hotel, then get a room at one of the many “love motels” in the area. It’s what almodt every brasileiro who has a quickie or an affair does with their tricks and mistresses. It’s why the love motels are so common and so popular. They are usually by the hour. And they are much safer.

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Speaking of which, Mayor Pete is on the transition team, and he'll very likely be a Cabinet Secretary. Pete and Chasten are among the stars of 2020. That makes me proud to be an American, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There goes Joe being all touchy again. If you don't ask about it, I won't tell.

That's the interesting question. What kind of a nation do we want to be? I've been saying for years that we are headed to a Moral Awakening. Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and the growing awareness of income inequality, the Sanders campaign, the Warren campaign. To me those were all signs of what may be coming. Now I would not say an Awakening is coming. I's say it's here. By Awakening I mean eras like the 1960's and civil rights. You could also throw in the explicitly religious Great Awakenings in US history, although that fuzzes it up more. They are periods of social renewal and a focus on the "soul" of the nation. As opposed to what might be called "greed is good" values. And one sign that we've arrived is that suddenly people see things that they were slumbering or passive about previously. BLM is certainly a good example of that. There was protest, including violence and looting, after Ferguson. But not like this. What goes along with the new tide, which President Toxic is missing entirely, is that part of the movement is around personal morality. That was true in the religious Great Awakenings. It was also true in the Civil Rights Era, when MLK asked us to look into our own hearts. Is this the nation we aspire to be? Any leader who thinks the simple and one-dimensional answer is bulldogs or water hoses or federal troops or assault rifles is missing a huge part of what's really going on. Of course, why am I not surprised that President Toxic is not the kind of guy who gets this? I was impressed with a new Biden ad running which I will post below that fits into this theme. I went to find that "Jobs Not Mobs" tweet President Toxic sent out. When I Googled "Jobs Not Mobs Trump", this ad from 2018 came up, which I'd never seen. I thought the first part of the ad, about the economy, was powerful. This is clearly the campaign President Toxic was hoping to run in 2020 as well. And the little kick at Hillary at the end was a nice touch. So you have to wonder. If this didn't work in 2018, what makes them think it will work better in 2020? One number that pops up in this ad refers to 4.1 % GDP growth in the second quarter of 2018. In the second quarter of 2020 it was - 9.5 %. In 2018 they said "the core economy is on fire". In 2020 Coronavirus is spreading and killing like wildfire. I'm going to keep using Charlie Cook's 2018 phrase: "color intensifier". Ads like this probably did work in states like Indiana and Missouri and North Dakota in 2018, where Democratic Senators got their asses kicked to the curb. But they didn't work in most places. If it was just the economy stupid, the Republicans probably should have done better in 2018. So some part of this is that voters, particularly women, just aren't sold by this. This 2018 ad proves that this has nothing in particular to do with any of the riots or looting that happened when the BLM protests really took hold of the nation. This shouldn't be any surprise. It's the same President Toxic that was just Donald Toxic back in the Central Park 5 days, when he said this: Same hate, different century. So he got his wish. He's had three years to preach hate. My sense is that this is partly why things didn't go so well for Republicans in 2018, despite a good economy. I can't imagine the 2020 tweet is going to work much better, since it doubles down on the fear and hate without mentioning a thing about the economy, or COVID-19. Wonder why? Here's one of the Biden/Harris ads that is being blanketed all over about 15 swing states. I can't think of a clearer distinction between campaigning on fear, and campaigning on hope. I'd take it further and say it's the difference between offering up hope, and offering up hate. And that ad is Moral Awakening territory to me. Biden is gambling on the idea that the nation is ready to talk about racial justice. And the question, "Who do we want to be?" I used the word gambling. But if I'm reading the polls right, it's a pretty solid beat. I don't think the Democrats could have run an ad like this to rebut "law and order" in 1968. The fact that this is what Democrats are selling today is itself a small sign of progress, at least to me. Ron Brownstein has delivered yet another great analysis relevant to this, full of both good data and good insights. The Huge Snag in Trump’s Reelection Pitch The president’s own volatility complicates his effort to convince Americans that he can stabilize their lives. He's coming at it from a somewhat different angle, which I think compliments what I'm saying. It's a bit hard to sell "law and order" when even your supporters equate your Presidency with chaos. It's hard for President Toxic to say he'll calm down this situation when he's the one saying he hates "these people", and we should, too. The one thing he's got going for him is the idea that hating people gets something done. Although even the majority of Independents seem to think what it actually gets done is more violence, not less. This is where I wish Elizabeth Warren was our nominee. I think Biden is probably a bit more of a calming presence than her, actually. But he's not the guy I would put forward as the poster child to fidelity to the law. Which is not to say he's broken any law. But Team Toxic will keep arguing he did. As well as his family. All they had against Warren was "fake recipes" in a cookbook called Pow Wow Chow. She's the one that could have said "Really? President Law And Order? Really? I know you don't read, Donald. But the polls say people see you as President Chaos, and President Corruption. You want us to buy President Law And Order? Come on. Give the viewers a break!" That said, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this issue of race/crime/safety does not hurt Biden, and probably mostly works in his favor. The polls certainly suggest that. There is zero evidence it's hurting him in Wisconsin. And my gut feeling is that President Toxic is making sure Black turnout will go through the roof. And not, of course, to vote for him. Biden is simply giving Blacks who think America has racial justice problems - meaning almost all Blacks - a positive reason to vote. If there's a problem with the ads above, it's not what it says but what it doesn't say. As Brownstein says in that article, for a lot of people it's not about race. And if it's about safety, it's COVID-19. But the biggest thing for most people is still the economy, stupid. PENNSYLVANIA: PRESIDENTIAL RACE TIGHTENS That poll is worth digging through a little. It's the only "bad news" for Democrats. And with bad news like this, who needs good news? The scary headline is that Biden dropped from a 13 point lead in July, 53/40 to a 4 point lead today, 49/45, in Pennsylvania. There was no change in support for Democrats in general. The partisan lean question went from favoring Democratic Congressional candidates 49/45 in July to 48/45 today. Biden's favorability rating actually went up, from 45 % in July to 48 % today. My read of those numbers is that Democrats are solidifying a lead that is close to 50 %, but not quite. Monmouth says this about the people who shifted away from Biden: My guess is this shift is more about the economy than anything else. The slice of President Toxic's supporters that think like the McCloskeys, and own lots of guns that they feel okay pointing at Black people, are never going to consider voting for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. There's no reference to geography in the polls. But I'd also guess that a lot of these men under 50 live in the parts of Pennsylvania Jim Carville refers to as "Pennsyltucky". Or the ailing old factory towns, like Scranton. I'd also guess that some of these men under 50 are Black. And probably a big chunk of them are Hispanic. The 2018 version of "Jobs Not Mobs" didn't cut nationally, and it certainly would cut less well today. But it's the best thing President Toxic still has going for him. As an article I posted in a different thread argued, it's the last strength of President Toxic Biden has to go after. The good news in the bad news is that if Biden had these folks seriously thinking about him in July, there is no particular reason he can't close the deal with them by November. No one is talking yet about all the factory jobs NOT CREATED in President Toxic's three "good" years, before the plague started. Or about that fact that Pennsylvania now has fewer factory jobs than when President Toxic was elected. When I say we have arrived at Moral Awakening, that is a statement of hope as well as what I think is a statement of fact. I'm fine with Biden winning by asking, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Or by asking, "Are you safer than you were four years ago?" But he is definitely adding a moral dimension here, which is clearly targeted at Blacks. But not just Blacks. "Are we a better nation than we were four years ago?" I do find that genuinely hopeful. It is an invitation to move forward, into a new and better era.

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Brazil is amazing and lots of fun. No need to speak the language fluently. Google translate will help. There are many here that know the country like the back of their.. hand. Hopefully, some will chime in. I know we have some members there now.

Don't we all owe a debt of gratitude to actor Christopher Atkins, who was willing to challenge the double standard of movie nudity? And looking good all the while!

From NYTimes Myanmar soldiers tell of Rohingya slaughter By Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons The two soldiers confess their crimes in a monotone, a few blinks of the eye their only betrayal of emotion: executions, mass burials, village obliterations and rape. The August 2017 order from his commanding officer was clear, Pvt. Myo Win Tun said in video testimony. “Shoot all you see and all you hear.” He said he obeyed, taking part in the massacre of 30 Rohingya Muslims and burying them in a mass grave near a cell tower and a military base. Around the same time, in a neighboring township, Pvt. Zaw Naing Tun said he and his comrades in another battalion followed a nearly identical directive from his superior: “Kill all you see, whether children or adults.” “We wiped out about 20 villages,” Private Zaw Naing Tun said, adding that he, too, dumped bodies in a mass grave. The video testimony from the two soldiers, which was shared with international prosecutors, is the first time that members of the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is known, have openly confessed to taking part in what United Nations officials say was a genocidal campaign against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. On Monday, the two men, who fled Myanmar last month, were transported to The Hague, where the International Criminal Court has opened a case examining whether Tatmadaw leaders committed large-scale crimes against the Rohingya. The atrocities described by the two men echo evidence of serious human rights abuses gathered from among the more than one million Rohingya refugees now sheltering in neighboring Bangladesh. What distinguishes their testimony is that it comes from perpetrators, not victims. “This is a monumental moment for Rohingya and the people of Myanmar in their ongoing struggle for justice,” said Matthew Smith, chief executive officer at Fortify Rights, a human rights watchdog. “These men could be the first perpetrators from Myanmar tried at the I.C.C., and the first insider witnesses in the custody of the court.” Continues with photos https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-genocide.html