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    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    I'd say maybe 10 million on either side actually care about anything that you have listed above.
    Once again proving you know fuck all about whats going on in your own country. When was the last time you have even been here?

    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    People care about their own economic situation. People care about their own/family safety/healthcare. That's all.
    Of course they care about that but to claim that that is all the care about shows just how detached from reality you are. Clearly you live in a bubble.

    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    Don't be to hard on the people who voted for Trump. They really don't care about the stuff you mentioned above nor do most of the people who voted for Mrs. Clinton.
    See above comment. You like to act like you are speaking for all of America when you have no idea what you are talking about.

    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    You got the same amount of bad folks on either side. One side has racists, fascists and the other side has anarchists who want the country to support them.
    What crock of shit and you are just parroting the presidents comments made after he attempted to draw false equivalence between Nazi's and those protesting them. Disgusting.

    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    Try looking for things that unite us instead of divide us.
    You can start by not parroting Trumps talking points.

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    I just read a small news byline, tested it out, and it's true.
    Type "idiot" into google and select "images", Trump's face is what comes up first, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Anyone especially after today that thinks that is a full stop idiot.



    As an American I can say that you have no idea what you are blathering on about.
    OK,,,so who do you think would've been better,,, mention their names,,,this will be interesting,,bet you dont answer,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Team Trump are determined to create a catastrophe one way or another so they can push through privatisation, welfare cuts and more militarisation of the police, and wreak havoc on the environment.

    The only thing that can stop Trump is the American public.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Congratulations on the 2 extra beans in your pot at the end of the month! I hope it won't get used up too quickly on the higher prices you will be paying on consumer goods manufactured in China due to the trade war. Maybe you can use what's left to buy some terrific new derivatives from of the unregulated investment houses? Not a bad trade off now that you have put a con man in office who has filled his cabinet up with corrupt grifters and sold the country and NATO out to Putin. Not to mention jobs in coal mines. Good job!
    I try to buy things made in Thailand because I live in Thailand. I think the USA should get out of NATO and let them defend themselves. I think Republican and Democratic people should work together to get rid of the politicians and impose term limits. You want to kill me, insult me, start a fight. I want to talk to you. Find our common ground and change things for the better. I would have voted for anyone who was not part of the system. You are angry and confrontational. I'm calm and cooperative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neo View Post
    Team Trump are determined to create a catastrophe one way or another so they can push through privatisation, welfare cuts and more militarisation of the police, and wreak havoc on the environment.

    The only thing that can stop Trump is the American public.
    America was privatized the last time I looked. Maybe you are confusing it with another country. What's wrong with welfare cuts? The police have guns, uniforms and bad leadership - seems pretty much like the military already unless you know something I don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    You are angry and confrontational
    Damn right. Playing nice with the right is what got us into this mess. It's time for the left to fight back hard using any and every means necessary.

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    CRUNCH TIME!

    Will he release her or will he stand up to his new BFF.

    Russia tells US to release alleged spy Maria Butina after 'fabricated charges'Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov addresses Butina’s detention in call with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo


    Reuters in Moscow


    Sat 21 Jul 2018 11.51 EDT


    Russia’s foreign minister told his American counterpart on Saturday a woman arrested in the US on accusations she was a Russian agent was detained on “fabricated charges” and should be released.


    Sergei Lavrov made the comments about Maria Butina in a phone call to the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, that was aimed at improving bilateral relations, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement in the wake of the recent summit in Helsinki.
    On Wednesday, a US judge ordered Butina jailed until her trial after prosecutors argued she had ties to Russian intelligence and could flee the country.
    Butina has been accused of working with a high-powered Russian official and two unidentified US citizens, trying to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and influence US policy toward Russia.


    Lavrov said the actions of the American authorities, who arrested Butina “on the basis of fabricated charges”, were unacceptable and called for her release as soon as possible.

    What if Putin personally asks Trump?

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-sergei-lavrov

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    That's the problem with electronic data, you can never be assured that it has been completely destroyed when being blackmailed. The peepee tapes will forever be held as ransom over what Trump does for Russia.
    If he had given the finger to Putin right from the start, all he would have suffered would have been humiliation and perhaps an end to his bid for the presidency. Now, if the tapes were released, Trump will face serious gaol time as it will be abundantly clear he's been committing treason for fear of the tapes being released.
    He's got no choice but to do Putin's bidding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y
    I'm calm and cooperative
    That's patently and demonstrably untrue.

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    I'm trying to remember who was responsible for this quote. Perhaps one of my TD chums can help me out?


    “James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    When I was in the Army they had regular Army that enlisted and draftees. There was a lot of conflict between the two. I believe that the draftees kept the regular Army from going off the deep end on a regular basis. I think term limits and some form of citizen oversight of the "Intelligence community" is necessary. We must get rid of the professional politicians and replace them with citizen politicians who serve for a short time and leave. Civil servants can train and administer but there should be civilian oversight.
    Indeed intelligence agencies have what amount to lifetime jobs. Same as all civil servant positions but giving them some sort of term limit is impractical. Politicians come and go as do the heads of the various agencies. Under the current system, both the House and the Senate have oversight of intel agencies. As elected politicians these folks are supposed to make sure intel agencies behave in a non political manner.

    Suppose there may be a better system but escapes me what it would be under the powers granted to our politicians in the constitution.

    End of the day the US like any other nation needs a strong intel capability. They have made some big mistakes but poopooing the entire lot as Trump has done is out of order and an indication of Trump's ignorance of his now own intel agencies.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Something you won't see elsewhere ...



    The FBI has released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page
    as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian Government to undermine the 2016 US election.


    Key points:
    • The documents show that in 2016 the FBI believed Mr Page was 'conspiring' with Russia
    • Democrat head Nancy Pelosi said the documents provide clear evidence of Russian coordination with a high-ranking Trump campaign official
    • The redacted documents were released after the New York Times and others filed a law suit


    The 412 pages, mostly heavily redacted and made public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late Saturday, included surveillance
    applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and warrants surrounding the investigation into Mr Page.
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    ^ Interviewer:"Is there any justification for a special prosecutor to look at if there was collusion between the Trump campaig and Russia?"
    Page; "I can only speak for myself...."
    Not denying the collusion, only his part in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mozzbie47 View Post
    OK,,,so who do you think would've been better,,, mention their names,,,this will be interesting,,bet you dont answer,,
    Anybody would have been better that Trump. Anybody. My dog would have been better. He will go down as the worst president in American history with not even a close second. I supported Bernie Sanders in the primary that was my pick for president. He got screwed and so I voted for anyone but Trump because I knew he would do massive damage to this country and its standing in the world. So far it is worse than I even imagined.

    Quote Originally Posted by mark45y View Post
    What's wrong with welfare cuts?
    So you like throwing poor people out of their homes and taking food from the mouths of babies and children? Of course you do you are a right wing asshole. Give the rich and corporations the biggest tax cuts in history and make the poor pay for it. Typical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Indeed intelligence agencies have what amount to lifetime jobs. Same as all civil servant positions but giving them some sort of term limit is impractical. Politicians come and go as do the heads of the various agencies. Under the current system, both the House and the Senate have oversight of intel agencies. As elected politicians these folks are supposed to make sure intel agencies behave in a non political manner.

    Suppose there may be a better system but escapes me what it would be under the powers granted to our politicians in the constitution.

    End of the day the US like any other nation needs a strong intel capability. They have made some big mistakes but poopooing the entire lot as Trump has done is out of order and an indication of Trump's ignorance of his now own intel agencies.
    I disagree, giving too much importance to intelligence agencies is the sure way to self-destruction, it will install a parallel power system, that will abuse and manipulate society to protect itself or promote their own agenda

    we have seen the effects of such agencies during the cold war years, all soviet satellites and the soviets themselves had very very strong intelligence agencies and "special" police forces that literally destroy the system from within.

    The Americans love to think that they destroyed the Soviets, but in reality the Soviets self destruct on their own weight, and that weight was accelerated by an overpresence of intelligent services that created paranoia and an unlimited supply of pointless and expensive spy games.

    The US and the UK will suffer eventually from the self internal destruction, and will take the entire world down with them, unless we start to raise up and reject the "US model" of world democracy and absolute dominance.

    An independent EU and Russia is our only way out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Anybody would have been better that Trump. Anybody. My dog would have been better. He will go down as the worst president in American history with not even a close second. I supported Bernie Sanders in the primary that was my pick for president. He got screwed and so I voted for anyone but Trump because I knew he would do massive damage to this country and its standing in the world. So far it is worse than I even imagined.
    actually Hillary would have been far worse, it would be a full scale world war now with Russia

    at least we have peace and a DOW at 25,000

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    I disagree, giving too much importance to intelligence agencies is the sure way to self-destruction, it will install a parallel power system, that will abuse and manipulate society to protect itself or promote their own agenda

    we have seen the effects of such agencies during the cold war years, all soviet satellites and the soviets themselves had very very strong intelligence agencies and "special" police forces that literally destroy the system from within.

    The Americans love to think that they destroyed the Soviets, but in reality the Soviets self destruct on their own weight, and that weight was accelerated by an overpresence of intelligent services that created paranoia and an unlimited supply of pointless and expensive spy games.
    I take your point but it is not the point here. For Trump to very publically side with Putin over the information Trump's own intelligence agencies gave him, and to side with Putin when the information was damning to Putin, was a disgraceful and cowardly travesty of presidential incompetance.
    Trump needs to take a tictac and grab himself because he's a pussy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    I take your point but it is not the point here. For Trump to very publically side with Putin over the information Trump's own intelligence agencies gave him, and to side with Putin when the information was damning to Putin, was a disgraceful and cowardly travesty of presidential incompetance.
    Trump needs to take a tictac and grab himself because he's a pussy.
    Trump knows what he is doing, and knows the power of his own intelligence agencies, a power he can't accept and shouldn't accept. What he is doing is that he is sending a clear message to those agencies, a big "fuck you, I can do what I want, I am the POTUS, lalala"

    this is the only thing those agencies can respect, not a carpet like GW Bush Jr or even Obama

    it's a power struggle, the Russians are not even the question, the real question is the independence of the POTUS and the power of Intelligence agencies in our democracy. This is the real war going on now.

    The CIA/Pentagon/NSA won the battle in 2001, but they may lose the war in 2018 with Trump

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    actually Hillary would have been far worse, it would be a full scale world war now with Russia
    Bullshit. You really need to fuck off and maybe start a thread on Belgian politics because you know fuck all about American politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    Trump knows what he is doing
    He most certainly does not know what he is doing. This excerpt is tame but spot on.
    ""At the press conference in Helsinki, Donald Trump proved himself, at best, a heedless amateur, blind to the bogus arguments and offers being made by a shrewd adversary," David Remnick writes."

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    he knows what he is doing, it's simply YOU guys who don't know why he is doing it

    he is a manipulator and a predator, not as smooth as Obama, another big predator, but at least he gets real results

    see how the Intelligence Agencies are squealing over this, they are probably planning a way to kill him as we speak, and blame it all on Russia and Putin

    the real enemy is the NSA/Pentagon, not Trump, you freaking snowflakes

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Bullshit. You really need to fuck off and maybe start a thread on Belgian politics because you know fuck all about American politics.
    Go back to your Clash of Clans on your stupid iPhone, you silly little fraud

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    look at all the Cyberwars going on now, it's real, and it's all piloted by spying agencies, US, Chinese, Russia, British, EU

    They are wanking all over PornTube with their silly expensive toys to play spy games,

    it will bankrupt our democracy, like traditional warfare did with Rome

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    Buttplug had a bite of lunch and got done fisting himself. You sad Belgian retard.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    it will bankrupt our democracy
    Just what democracy are you talking about? You are a facist moron.

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