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Reputation? Really Steven? Where have you been? Most people in NYC who have worked with Trump know he is bat-shit crazy. Several close ex-Trumpers have stated publicly that the man has long been unstable. It's very easy to read between the lines of ex-Cabinet members, who are not mincing words, even in public. Never forget that Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn, one of the most devious and despicable lawyers to ever walk the face of the earth. A self-hating Jewish FAG who built a solid career running from or distorting "truth." Cohn firmly believed that all bad publicity could be manipulated and made "good." I believe he coined the term "spin." On top of that, Trump is pathological, with serious family issues. He is a serial narcissist. In his mind, nothing survives but Trump. The Trump mind is going to be studied by the therapy industry for a very long time. General Barry McCaffrey, among others, are very worried about the damage Trump can do in the next 60+ days. Others don't believe Trump will be permitted to go too far. Our system has guard rails and bi-partisan people in leadership positions who are watching with care. No one that I've seen believes the military would ever follow Trump into HELL. No matter what Trump does, he's built a formidable cult following. With nearly 70 million votes, the highest in history, during a pandemic, with the worst publicity for a sitting president imaginable, Trump has proven he can kill someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. Bring down a Democracy? No big deal as long as the media keeps printing my NAME (and shitting bricks "live" on camera). Now that LOSER status is knocking on Trump's door, Trump is expected to behave like a caged animal. How long people in the Cabinet and Congress tolerate his mania remains to be seen. The country is being tested, and, unfortunately, we're all spectators in this reality shit-show, whether we like it or not.

From South China Morning Post / MSN Thailand’s erotic Boys Love TV dramas are a hit with Indonesians, gay and straight Six years ago, Jakarta resident Reza Pahlevi, 36, had sunk into a depression, believing he had no prospects of finding love as a gay man in conservative Muslim-majority Indonesia. But watching a subgenre of Thai romance dramas depicting erotic relationships between male characters, known as Boys Love (BL), helped the urban professional find acceptance. "My first ever Thai series was Coz You're My Tee, which was a corny teenage drama but it somehow made me feel better," said Pahlevi. "For the first time, I felt it was OK not to have anyone in my life. The rest is history. I started watching What the Duck 1 and 2. These TV series provided comfort food for my mental well-being." Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China. The BL subgenre is inspired by yaoi, a Japanese form of homoerotic fiction featuring a romance between a masculine and feminine boy, which are often created and enjoyed by heterosexual women. Between 2014 and 2020, around 57 series were produced and released in Thailand under the BL genre. LINE TV, the free streaming platform which has been broadcasting BL dramas since 2016, has more than 30 series stockpiled for future release. The platform's figures show its BL audience share has risen from 5 per cent to 34 per cent since 2019. These shows are screened on mainstream TV stations during prime-time evening slots in Thailand and later streamed on YouTube, reflecting the Southeast Asian nation's relative tolerance towards the LGBT community. Earlier this year, Thailand approved a draft bill which, if passed by parliament, will recognise same-sex "civil partnerships". While the bill avoids the term "marriage", it will ensure many of the benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. Across Asia, attitudes towards LGBT issues range from liberal to harsh. Same-sex marriage is legal in Taiwan, while Singapore has a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality (although it is not enforced) and Malaysia's LGBT community has faced persecution by religious authorities. In Indonesia, gay sex is punishable by caning in the conservative province of Aceh. Although the country's criminal code - written during the Dutch colonial period─- makes no mention of homosexuality, a new draft bill is currently being debated in parliament which would impose draconian clauses outlawing same-sex relations and premarital sex, among other things. Against this backdrop, the country's LGBT community - and even some straight women - have sought escapism and comfort in BL dramas. The Twitter account @thaiifess has over 44,000 followers. The Facebook group BL Fans Indo has more than 3,700 members. On Instagram, thaioverdose boasts more than 4,700 followers. BL fans are a diverse group. Sultan, from Jambi, is new to Thai BL dramas but is smitten. "I started watching four months ago but now I'm a hardcore fan. Initially, I kept seeing photos of Brightwin (Thai actor Vachirawit Chiva-aree) on my friends' social media and got curious about him. I think he is hot. That's how I got started." Benny Prawira, a psychologist who works in suicide prevention, said works of art such as films and TV shows can evoke positive reinforcement for people undergoing emotional stress. "Members of sexual minorities can find comfort in seeing their kind portrayed as normal people who have beautiful relationships and are loved by their families and friends. I believe this is how Thai BL dramas impact their gay fans in Indonesia," he said. I feel like I have idols who understand me and who don't judge me for who I am.

"Tonhon Chonlatee" New charming BL comedy premiered today !

In a perfect world you would be right . However the US is far from perfect with Trump controlling the levers of government.Trump put someone with no expertise in charge of the Post Office . The first thing he did is trash Million Dollar sorters ( essentially new) to the garbage heap. That immediately backed up the time for delivery of mail. We still have no idea how many Votes by Mail never got counted because they are in trash piles or still sitting in post offices. This same person stopped all over time during this critical time of voting. Of course it is undeniable that Democrats were encouraged to vote by mail which would lessen their chances of contracting the virus by standing for hours in lines to vote. Democrats heeded this while Trump told his Voters don't worry about the Virus. It is going away and really no problem. Mail in Ballots can't be trusted . Well now we are seeing how dangerous this Virus is when you have a Moron like Trump running the government. All these idiot Republican Governors who danced to Trumps Flute now see their states overrun with the Virus with no beds in Hospitals and Hospitals forced to allow medical personal who have tested positive but have no symptoms to continue to provide care. We are now on track for 500,000 deaths by the time any vaccine can be widely distributed. All of this because of millions of stupid citizens who danced to Trumps lies and refused to wear masks etc . Of course we have a lot of company around the world who also did not do what the Doctors suggested to help stop the spread of the Virus while waiting both for a vaccine and the ability to distribute it to an increasing % of the public that does not trust anything said . As someone who has travelled around the world since my 18th Birthday , I was always suspicious of the USA and the supposed great Democracy. Yes we have done some great things and we have failed miserably in other instances. But not until now have I had to question whether a large % of our politicians don't care about our citizens but only power . Likewise I am disappointed how many citizens of Democracies around the world have failed to do the simplest things in order to protect themselves and others from contracting this Virus. There is plenty of shame to go around and likewise there is praise to go around for countries who took the hard steps to protect their citizens despite the economic pain!

I'm not surprised as I found that watching those BL series helps me to soothe longing for Thailand. This is only good thing I can thank Covid for

Michigan voters file federal lawsuit seeking to toss 1.2M ballots Rudy Giuliani claims 650,000 votes were counted unlawfully in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Those headlines speak for themselves. It is just surreal. Call me stupid. But as much as I feel Trump has proven he is racist, deplorable, go through the whole list of negative adjectives, this is going way past where I thought he'd go. If only because I really didn't think he was willing to hurt America this much. Or, more important, destroy his own reputation further. Both in the history books, and right now. I have to assume he has some calculation in his mind that somehow this helps him in some way. Even if it is with a post-White House career. But it really makes no sense. Some partisan part of me is just hoping he does more of this. The message could not be more clear. This is supposed to be the least racist guy in America. And now what they are saying is that the votes of Blacks in Detroit are not legal, and should just be thrown out. The votes of White progressives in Philly or Pittsburgh are not legal, and should be thrown out. It's the most outrageous claim I've ever heard in my lifetime in the US. That hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes are unlawful. And yet there is still not any proof. I have to imagine that every headline like this just loses Trump and the Republicans more future votes. I guess losing by over 5 million votes wasn't enough. It goes without saying, but I'll say it. I'm assuming Trump will win by about 75,000 votes in North Carolina. That's about half of Biden's winning margin in Michigan and maybe double Biden's final winning margin in Pennsylvania right now. I'm quite sure Democratic lawyers could whip up a nice shit list of similarly baseless claims about White voters in North Carolina. I don't have a clue why Democrats would WANT to do that, since it would alienate Whites in North Carolina. Why would Democrats do that? I also assume that right-of-center suburban Republicans who are just groaning right now could forget all this in 4 years and switch back to voting for a John Kasich. IF the Republicans nominated someone like him in 2024. I get the idea that maybe this is a play so that Trump or Trump, Jr. or Ivanka or maybe a Trumpy Nikki Haley/Ivanka Trump ticket are the Trump Party nominees in 2024. It just seems to me like even if this helps you get 70 % of the shrinking Republican Party on your side, that's a losing proposition. Both in 2020, and moreso in 2024. Again, some partisan part of me is saying, go ahead Trumpians. Burn the bitch down if you must. If the goal is to drive out any remaining Kasich Republicans and consolidate control of the Republican Party for the Trumps, that's a winning ticket for Democrats. If you didn't get that in 2020, we can do it again in 2022 and 2024. Please. Go ahead. Make my decade. This is where I'll keep repeating the excellent question Ron Brownstein is asking. Do Republicans not think that Millennials have memories? Do Republicans not think Blacks have memories? If the exit polls are right, 60 % of Latinos in Michigan and Wisconsin and 70 % in Pennsylvania voted for Biden. In the specific urban areas where Trump is saying the votes should be tossed out, it was probably more like 3 in 4 Hispanics, I'd guess. Do you think those Latinos will forget this? So what Republicans are teaching entire generations and races of Americans is that if we don't win, you don't count. Your vote doesn't count. Whatever small gains the Republicans made - and all the exit polls suggest they were small - with Blacks and Latinos, this wipes it out. Telling them their vote does not count, because they somehow cheated, just wipes away any pretense of caring about them. Or their votes. Outside of the ones that are committed Trumpians, I can't see how this could possibly help with alienated suburban centrists, as well. It will just alienate more of them. I've posted endless dorky data over on Daddy's. But I am going to do a brief summary here. I actually hope this stuff is debated. Because the facts underscore how totally ignorant Trump is. And that he is willing to tear down democratic norms based on completely baseless bullshit. The data I will refer is not polling guesses. This is based on actual vote totals in 2016 and 2020, based on current vote totals - which I think include like 99 % of all votes cast. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, statewide voter turnout is up about 10 % from 2016 statewide. In Michigan, it's close to 15 %. For the most part, the urban parts of those states closely reflect the state trend. In Milwaukee County, turnout is up 10 % - same percentage as all Wisconsin. In Wayne County (Detroit) - turnout is up 15 %, just like in all of Michigan. in both counties I just mentioned, Biden managed to boost Clinton's winning margin as well. So, for example, Clinton's win of 65.48 % in 2016 became Biden's win of 69.1 % in Milwaukee County. Blacks and Berniecrat Whites and to a lesser degree Latinos (since they are not a huge population group there) ran up big vote totals for Biden in all three states. So what happened in the urban areas Trump wants to focus on basically reflects very closely what happened in the entire state. Turnout was up, across the board. Second important point. If you are decent at math, you will understand that Trump could have won all three states if he pulled off exactly the same thing in the predominantly White parts of the state he won in 2016. But he did the opposite. He lost vote share in predominantly White suburbs, as well as in some predominantly White working class areas like Erie County, Pennsylvania (88 % White). So here's a specific example. Biden's winning vote share in Wayne County. Michigan was 322,925 votes, compared to Hillary's 290,451 winning vote margin in 2016. Meanwhile, Biden cut Trump's winning vote share in Macomb County, Michigan from 48,348 votes in 2016 to 38,974 votes in 2020 - even though turnout in Macomb County was up about 22 %, higher than the statewide increase. Overall, Biden turned Hillary's roughly 10,000 vote loss into his roughly 150,000 vote win in Michigan. So do the math. If we're talking about fraud in Michigan, you really have to go after how White voters (often in Republican areas) fraudulently tipped the vote to Biden. That's where he ran up most of those 150,000 votes. Trump needs to be talking about, and proving, White voter fraud. Even if Biden implausibly had gotten 30,000 FEWER votes in Wayne County, he STILL would have won Michigan. Because of White voters. Trump can't say that. In a state Biden won by 150,000 votes, the only mathematically tenable position he can take is literally to say just take all those Black votes in Detroit away. They just don't count. How racist is that? Thank you. I thought so, too. If there is some logic in Trump exposing himself to be the racist, erratic, ignorant, democracy-hating monster he has always been, I don't see it. Third important point. There were outliers. I just mentioned one. Turnout in Macomb County was up 22 %, which beat Michigan's 15 % overall increase. In Dane County (Madison), White Berniecrats drove turnout up 17 %, much higher than the 10 % statewide increase. So if we are looking for outliers were there were unusual vote totals, those places could make more sense. Or you could just decide that educated voters in Dane and Macomb County were highly motivated to vote. As I said above, Milwaukee and Detroit conformed almost exactly to the overall statewide increase in turnout. Here's an outlier I can't figure out, other to say it is what it is. In Philadelphia County, turnout was only up 1 %, compared to 10 % in Pennsylvania as a hole. And for reasons social scientists or activists will have to figure out, Trump's winning vote share in Philadelphia actually INCREASED. Since it undercuts any theory of fraud in Philadelphia, I'll spell out the details as of yesterday. Clinton got 584,025 votes in Philadelphia County in 2016, which went DOWN to 573,785 for Biden in 2020. Meanwhile, votes for Trump went from 108,748 in 2016 to 128, 123 in 2020. Net impact: Clinton's winning 2016 vote share of 475,277 in Philadelphia County was shaved to Biden's 445,662 vote share. So if everything else in the state stayed exactly the same as 2016, Trump would have won Pennsylvania by 30,000 votes more than he did in 2016 - BECAUSE OF PHILADELPHIA. If there was farud in Philadelphia, which I don't believe there was, the vote totals suggest it helped Trump. Why did Biden win? In Bucks County (suburbs), he boosted Hillary's victory of 2,699 votes in 2016 to his victory of 16,395 in 2020. In Alleghany County (Pittsburgh), Clinton's winning margin of 108,317 votes in 2016 climbed to a 146,706 winning margin for Biden. For whatever reason, in Pennsylvania Biden's win was irrefutably grounded in White voters in suburbs and working class areas like Erie County. He actually had to make ground he lost in Philadelphia County. (This may have something to do with slow vote counting. But the vote seems likes it's mostly counted. And turnout and votes for Biden in every other blue part of Pennsylvania - like Pittsburgh - did increase a lot.) I have no explanation for why Philadelphia sticks out like a sore thumb, compared to all the other big cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. But it does. It actually looks like somehow Trump cheated to reduce the number of votes Biden got. Basing an argument about fraud on the actual vote totals in Philadelphia makes this more a comedy than a tragedy. It's absurd. Trump has no proof. And it makes no fucking sense. Other than to prove Trump is an ignorant monster who feels winning is more important than democracy. Ron Brownstein often comes back to the same question. Do you think Millennials have no memories? Do you think Gen Z has no memories? Do you think Blacks have no memories? Those groups in particular turned out in droves to fire Trump. So if the message back is that your vote just doesn't count, I am with Brownstein. They are teaching entire generations and races to view them as deplorable for the rest of their lives. Republicans just paid a huge price for letting Trump degrade, corrupt, and pollute their party. The verdict is out. But I think the price they just paid may look like a small down payment of the full cost from the vantage point of history.

OK, I have a major crush on Lil Nas X and that was even before he came out and is open about being gay. I find him sexy! I like the video or maybe just like seeing him. I do wonder why all American songs now have vulgar words. I just get tired of hearing the N word as well as fucker, etc. in all songs from USA.

Now that Biden has taken Georgia, for a total 306 electoral votes, watch the Trump train come to a slow halt. In the latest legal defeat, a Michigan judge rejected the request to halt vote certifications. The Republicans can demand recounts all they like, and they can pay for them, but it doesn't look like any substantive changes will be forthcoming. The numbers just aren't close enough to cause anyone concern. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result," the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees said. Trump's obnoxious, insecure, childish behavior is remarkably sad for a 74-year-old asshole millionaire. The longer he takes to concede or acknowledge his defeat, the more petty and small he looks. IMO, if he truly believes there's no such thing as bad publicity, then let him keep up his insane behavior and continue to bury his brand in slime and disgrace. I don't see any of his sycophant voters buying memberships at Mar-a-Lago. And if Trump thinks he wants to compete with the Murdoch assholes, then let's see how that funding, talent, and executive search goes. Maybe Trump can ask Oprah how easy it is to build a successful network.

I agree for the second half of the series (from E7 on)! First part was ok (or I had too high expectations...) Together With Me: The Next Chapter (2018) One main topic is Korn and Knocks coming out (or not) to their parents. Something we all know about a little bit ... First episodes are ok, but then from E7 on the series is really great - something that often happens in Thai series imo. From E7 on also some tissues are needed (noone did warn me!). My favorites: Korn & Knock: great as usual, but I still love Knock more than Korn Farm: He was somewhat unlucky in "Together With Me", but now he seems to be enjoying life. Even looking cute with his "micro"-moustache. I personally would prefer if he stayed with Rit. Rit (Yimkey Kamolwacharathum Suvitayawat): Lovely and smart guy with an incredible smile! Unfortunately no other BL series with this actor. Cho: I found his role a bit boring and too submissive. In "Bad Romance" at least their was some action while waiting for Yihwa. I had the impression that he looked more muscular in "Bad Romance".

Thank you! The amount of Thai BL series is absolutely incredible. What is wrong with Thai school girls that they all prefer romanticizing BL couples instead of having a boyfriend?

From the Thai Enquirer A look back at the Trump presidency and Thailand Many Thais would have been asleep when the election results in Pennsylvania were finally called at nearly midnight, Bangkok time. Some of those who were awake greeted the news that former vice president Joe Biden had won the state, and with it the American presidency, with relief. President Donald Trump will not receive a second term. That is unsurprising, perhaps. After four years of Trumpian turmoil, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pew Center found that those around the world with favorable views of the United States are at record lows, and there is little confidence in the president himself. Many Thais were amused at times by slips such as when Trump referred to the nonexistent country “Thighland,” but on the whole more would have simply felt repelled by presidential behavior that was unpresidential far too often. Indeed, many had feared for the worst when Trump was elected. I still remember election day in 2016, friends gathered around a projector screen showing a map of the United States, watching as state after state turned red. Lunch was eaten with a sense of disbelief: what, exactly, were Americans thinking? And what would it mean for the world? It was easy to predict all sorts of mayhem. What else could one have thought when such a loose cannon was to be handed the nuclear codes? In the end, the simple truth was that no one had much inkling of how a Trump administration might actually govern. So now that Joe Biden is president-elect and the Trump presidency will wrap up, barring any unexpected success in the challenges being mounted by a president unwilling to admit defeat, it would be fruitful to look back and cut through all the sound and chaos. What did Trump mean for Thailand? The image that emerges was that it was quite a mixed bag. It could have been worse, but it still wasn’t great. Continues with photos https://www.thaienquirer.com/20685/a-look-back-at-the-trump-presidency-and-thailand/

Understanding The 2020 Electorate: AP VoteCast Survey CNN Exit Polls There ya go. The first link is to the AP VoteCast, the second to the CNN exit polls. We all know now to take polls with a gain of salt. Which is partly why I included two different ones. That said, I think the results are in the ballpark. We know Blacks overwhelmingly supported Biden. Whether it's 90 % (AP) or 87 % (CNN) makes a difference. A close election could turn on that. But it does tell you about 9 out of 10 Blacks supported Biden. The cool thing about the CNN polls is that you can toggle through various state exit polls from swing states, as well. On education, there are no surprises. Both AP and CNN show Trump overwhelmingly won the White non-college vote. Biden won the White college vote. How that shakes out in various states helped determine the outcome. The Blue Wall states are important because Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (plus Ohio, which is now solid red) have a treasure trove of White non college voters. Georgia had just enough college Whites to add to non-Whites to produce a razor thin Biden win. AP started their data base in 2018. But with CNN you can compare 2020 to the state-level CNN polls from 2016. It indicates that both non college White men and women shifted back to Democrats a bit in 2020. We've heard a lot about suburban women and working class White women fed up with Trump. The state polls suggest that the shift among White suburban and working class men may have been just as important in getting Biden enough votes to win the electoral college as well as a 5 million + popular vote lead. AP says Trump won White non college men 64/34, and White non college women 60/39. Trump also won White college men 52/46, but Biden won White college women 59/39. Net it out, and Trump won White America. Biden offset it with Black, Latino, Asian, etc. voters. I'll wait to hear from the experts. But I'm pretty sure in Michigan Biden would have won if if he won ZERO more White votes, based on the increased turnout from Blacks in Detroit alone. The fact that he won back a lot of suburban Whites and at least a sliver of non college Whites helped him rack up a pretty decent win that fell a bit short of 4 %. In Wisconsin White Berniecrats in Madison and Blacks in Milwaukee produced enough votes to turn a 20,000 loss in 2016 into a 20,000 vote win in 2020. But small gains among Whites in the suburbs helped offset higher Trump margins in the core red meat rural areas. In Pennsylvania I am almost certain that Biden absolutely needed to win more White suburban voters and a sliver of White working class voters to win. Which he did. That's one of my go-to charts that I post a lot, because I think it explains so many things. It's already clear that Biden reversed the trend from Clinton's R + 39 wipeout with non college Whites in 2016. I'm pretty sure that Biden did not quite get back to Obama's R +25 outcome in 2012. My guess, or at least hope, is that we'll look back at 2020 as the peak of Trumpism - much like McCarthyism had a peak. Trump had The White House. He spent $1 billion or so (not his money) and four years building an army to legitimately overwhelm the field in one election on one day. If true, Trump volunteers were knocking on 1 million doors a week while Biden volunteers knocked on zero doors. So they put a lot of effort into this. And they failed. And at the end of the day Trump lost at least a sliver of his White non college base. And his racist and mean antics alienated a treasure trove of suburban college Whites that delivered Arizona and Georgia to Biden. Bill Clinton is the only Democrat to split the non-college White vote 50/50 - two times in a row. And there's a rumor I heard that Barack Obama was actually Black. Some people even describe Bill Clinton as "America's first Black President". (Don't tell Trump.) My point is I think you are right to not jump to conclusions about racism. What we still don't know is how many of these non-college Whites are driven by these "cultural" drivers (racism, sexism, Gays, feeling like America is being lost). Versus how many feel the Democrats betrayed them and their communities by either helping to give their jobs to robots or Chinese, or at least acquiescing to it on behalf of their corporate and Wall Street donors. Trump obviously played on that in 2016. My guess, or at least my hope, is that with Trump gone or at least reduced to Trump TV there will be an opportunity to move some of those Whites back to the Democrats. But that will depend on Biden persuading them that he got the message, Democrats got the message, and we are now doing specific and clear things to make it right. That is a huge fight yet to be fought, I think.

Sadly you are right but hopefully when there are some competent people back in the Executive Branch , more attention will be paid, but it sure would help if the Dems won both the Ga Senate Seats.

Like Lagoa it is In a néw building, 4 levels with a bar/stage on the lower level which has a pool and is open to the outside! I was there there. opening night, it was packed and there were no room rentals that night, just a open house! the rooms appeared nice and of course the whole place is brand new! i liked the bar area better then Lagoa, although both are new, i can’t comment on the quality of the guys working there as none were working opening night! i didn’t go back the next two nights as i had commitments at lagoa.

Trip Advisor has some balls when they allow anyone to post reviews whether or not they have ever actually spent time at the Business.

The fact that all the votes have not been counted in the USA 8 days after the election shows what a total mess the entire system is. I’m not sure if any country has got it right but I agree with z909 that having all votes counted within hours of polls closing and then the new government being installed just hours later seems vastly better than the long drawn out affair across the pond. There is so much I don’t understand. First the idiocy of the electoral college. Yes, I know it may have seemed a good idea at the time, but only to about half the framers. There was intense debate and many did not like it. Second, why is a system devised centuries ago when the USA was a totally different country remain acceptable today? It is a total anachronism and extremely anti-democratic. I realise that voters are not only voting for a President and each state has therefore adopted different systems. But the Presidential vote is for a national office. The others for a local office - even including senators. So why is it so difficult to have one nationwide system for electing Presidents that is the same nationwide and another for local candidates where each can be as different as chalk and cheese. It is surely not out with the capabilities of the US computer companies to come up with an easy to use system that is fully backed up. The mail-in system seems to work but each state having different systems seems again nuts! Why permit the counting of any vote whatever that is not received by the end of polling day? OK. The armed forces mail may take longer. So give them the ballot papers further in advance. That is surely so obvious. Same with ordinary mail in voters. Why do those who leave it to the last possible minute deserve to have a vote counted 4 or 5 days after the election? Then why do those who voted early have to wait to be counted last? They probably arrived first! Then there is the weirdest part of all - a 10 week or so interregnum between the result of the election when, as we are now seeing, an outgoing President can play havoc with the government. What sort of wacky system is that? Again, centuries ago it was probably necessary. Today it most definitely is not. It can all be done in a matter of days as long as the senior civil servants remain in their positions. it sometimes beats me why the US berates the world for not being more democratic. The USA needs to look at its own form of democracy and reform it first before it tells the rest of us what to do IMHO.

Yea thank you for shared me the information. Maybe I just back from Chiang Mai and circle bar all boys looks 25++ haha Those dancers have good muscle but only those boys are twinky Might visit again next month.

A-Bomb open but no show.

"I am your President of........." Sure you motherfucking piece of Shit.... You cant even concede an election when you clearly LOST ! Thusly, you are throwing this country into turmoil, leaving it confused and vulnerable, just so YOU can stay in the spotlight. You cant comprehend future life as a "hasbeen".... That's YOUR problem, not OURS..... However, none of this is a surprise. THIS was your plan all along, to contest the election THAT YOU LOST, and you told us you were gonna do it. The only thing this is accomplishing is humiliating you and your supporters even more that the past 4 years has. My suggestion is that we IGNORE Trump in the press and on social media, and focus on Biden, giving HIM all the airtime. Not only will this enrage Trump, but he will begin to wither away... Its the ATTENTION that keeps him going !

For years no bars that I know of anywhere in Thailand, including bars in the infamous Sunee Plaza, have had under age boys for years. That is a thing of the past and it is becoming a thing of the distant past. If some of them look under age, that doesn't mean they are under age. If in doubt, check their ID card or take a different boy who you are certain is not under age. Between the bars and the hookup apps, there is no shortage of choices.

As they say, kind sir, "It's NOT over till the Fat Lady sings !"

And hopefully many more bitches ? I had great time in Salvador for boys, tourism, food, ... (see report on BT). I wish I could go back to Brazil this year but now in lockdown until ? Have fun !

One constant is that Thai Boys almost always look younger than their actual age. We should be so lucky!

I agree. As I recall the boys from my last visits in early March they don't look underage. Some of them are twinky but others ar quite manly. In particular one of the more mature guys have a very nice lean muscular body - with a large tattoo covering his right chest and shoulder. He is far from looking underage (but very attractive IMO).

I have been to Freshboys weekly for months and never seen anyone looking underage. I think they are twinky for sure. Also, knowing at least 10 of them well, all of them are well over 20 and most over 23-25. Hope your trip was a success!

Odd how today’s politics make one reevaluate some past pols. Before going into politics Reagan was a business lobbyist/ negotiator, and a good one. (A Democrat at that, originally, before Nancy hijacked his brain ) So he knew how to horse-trade with Tip O’Neil to get stuff done.

I am going back to Rio and SP December 2nd for 12 days! i met a couple i really like a lot and also met 2 new guys in Rio i also had a amazing time with! plus there were a number of guys i had met in the past that also were a lot of fun. i only did a few guys at the saunas because i met most either at my apt. or left the sauna with them to go to the apt for a overnight!. overall i did not notice a big difference pre covid and now in availability or type of guys(but i did do a majority of the guys who do not work at the saunas anymore but are more then willing to come to your place to meet up)

one can drink wine with mixers, for example with more wine