[Thai Families Can Grow Six Pots of Cannabis Each as Rules Eased]

6 hours ago, Don Chance said:

Marijuana is hardly a medicine. Even if it is, why would you want random locals supplying it to hospitals? They are sending out a mixed message, it's legal, it's not legal, it's medicine, it's not.

 

The fact is marijuana is an addictive drug that people use to get high. Smoking weed every day is not a solution to life. If you've got cancer or aids and want to smoke weed, then who are we to deny you that.

There are many medical benefits from Cannabis. And the notion that people who smoke weed daily are looking for a solution to life is straight out of Reefer Madness. 

[U.S. conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has died: Fox News]

I liked his TV show in the 90s. He was funny. I viewed all that stuff at the time as light hearted humor, political for sure but amusing. I feel like over the years he became much more of an actual political figure and his inciteful rhetoric was harmful. 

[Poll finds 47% of Americans favor Trump conviction in impeachment trial]

6 hours ago, ricklev said:

Trump is a good, decent, moral, honest, hard working, smart  man who was sacrificing his own fortune for the good of the American people and is being forced to suffer  horrible indignities by power hungry corrupt democrats.  Hopwever,  he accepts their hatred with grace and style.  How could anyone not admire Donald Trump and the fine men in the Sentate who support him?

Trump is a con man and you have obviously been conned.

[Graphic video of Capitol attack opens Trump's historic impeachment trial]

8 minutes ago, ExpatOK said:

That President Trump did nothing wrong has something to do with it, too. ????

He did nothing wrong... Aside from:

• Lying about the election being stolen and voter fraud.
• Instilling the basis of that lie months in advance of the election.
• Refusing to concede the election after it was clear that he lost.
• Allowing Rudy to call it a trial by combat.
• While the mob was stirring up and it was obvious there could be violence he riled them up and told them to fight like hell or they would have no country.
• His lawyers are going to try to argue it was a known issue before the riots, which they claim prove he didn't cause it. But the fact is he knew good and well about that before he went out and gave his speech. 
• He lied and told the mob he was going with them.
• While the riots raged he tweeted negatively about Pence, further riling up the mob.
• He refused to call the national guard for hours, and reportedly they were eventually called by Mike Pence rather than Trump.
• It took hours for him to give his video asking people to disperse and even then he softened it.
• Even now he wanted to go with the election fraud thing at his trial prompting his defense team to quit and be replaced at the last minute.

 

 

[Graphic video of Capitol attack opens Trump's historic impeachment trial]

Just now, JonnyF said:

A really bad move by the Democrats. I am no Trump fan but this move shows just how vindictive they really are once you remove their mask of fake Woke politics. It also gives Trump tons of publicity and unites his supporter base. And all for nothing because he won't be convicted anyway. 

 

Poor politics from the Democrat party. Very poor.

Yeah, let's just let the guy who incited an insurrection go and blame the people trying to hold him into account. What kind of logic is that?

[Trump's impeachment trial lawyers aim to shift blame; Democrats say he has no defense]

You can view the impeachment presentation video from today on Youtube. 

[Republicans press Biden to downsize $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan]

Adding to what JohnnyBangkok said another fact on the economy is that every republican president in the past century caused a recession. Every single one. There have been 17 recessions in that time, 12 of them were with the GOP in charge. It's time to end the fallacy that the GOP is the fiscally responsible party. They are the opposite. 

[China sharpens language, warns Taiwan that independence 'means war']

While it is true that the [U.S.] military budget jumped from $611B (36% of the spending in the world) in 2016 to $732B in 2020 (38% of the spending in the world) it's not as though the U.S. military's status was diminished with that $611B. They spend spend more money than the other top ten countries combined year after year. 

 

China meanwhile is #2 by a long shot but its a distant second. In 2016 they spend $215B (13%) and while that went up to $261B last year, it wasn't that significant of a gain in relation to the U.S. Does the U.S. military really need to be spending 250+% more than the second country? 

Military should be the first thing cut when the U.S. needs money, and I'm sure it will be. But it never gets cut by all that much.

[China sharpens language, warns Taiwan that independence 'means war']

On 1/29/2021 at 8:23 AM, BKKBike09 said:

There will be no appetite in the USA to engage in a military conflict with China to protect Taiwan.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I think everyone recognizes that China is a rising superpower, and one that has a long history of human rights violations. As they grow in power their behavior will likely worsen rather than improving. I think Taiwan could be a rallying call for the new administration to try to repair the alliances with Europe and to make a stand against what's happening in the South China Sea. I can see it escalating.

[As he leaves office, Trump pardons former top strategist Bannon]

All part of draining the swamp though, right?

[Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account, cites 'incitement of violence' risk]

Social Media has every right to ban anyone they want. You are using a service. You accept the End User License Agreement when you sign up for an account. If you violate their terms of service they can remove you. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech. They have the right to refuse you service if you violated those agreements, so long as they aren't unfairly discriminating. Banning a madman from using his platform to incite insurrection (which is a crime) is perfectly within their rights. The truth is Trump had violated so many of their policies for so long that any other person would have been banned years ago.

[Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account, cites 'incitement of violence' risk]

1 minute ago, Ventenio said:

i hope he doesn't create a "twitter-like" platform and get 70,000,000 nutjobs on there

They already have that in Parler, though Google just removed it from their app store, and Apple has threatened they might do the same. 

The problem though with a right or left wing centered service like that though is you would just be talking in an echo chamber. A lot of the political discord on social media is people wanting to argue their points or to troll those who disagree with them. You don't have anyone to troll or argue with though if everyone agrees with you.

['It's insurrection,' Biden says, as Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol]

13 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

Is this the America that Trump wants to make great again?

The simplest question to ask anyone who still supports Trump is just that, do you honestly believe the country is in a better place now than it was 4 years ago? You'd have to be insane to think that was the case. The economy is in shambles, we've are the poster child for poor  handling of Covid with thousands of people dying a day while their fearless leader mocks wearing masks... There have been protests for years, half of republicans seem to think the election was stolen without any evidence whatsoever, we've had a wedge placed between us and our allies, been condemned by the U.N. for human rights violations, America's approval world wide is in the tank, and we have his supporters storming the capitol only to have him tell them he loves them and they are very special... That is Trump's America.

['We have to be remembered for what's been done,' Trump says on early return to Washington]

They don't have to worry about being remembered... It will just be for all the wrong reasons. When you look back on this presidency it will be measured in tombstones and broken alliances.

[In recorded call, Trump pressures Georgia election official to change results - Washington Post]

2 minutes ago, TKDfella said:

Nearly??...do you know something others don't? According to what I've seen today Pres. Trump lost by a large margin...EC 306 to 232, 81x10⁶ to 74x10⁶ votes (From the Associated Press election map)

He lost by more than 7 million votes. 

[Barr says no sign of major U.S. vote fraud as Trump keeps up struggling legal fight]

On 12/24/2020 at 6:45 PM, Kelsall said:

Barr can say what he wants, but this from the Washington Post:  "Biden will start his presidency with nearly half the country believing he is not the legitimate occupant of the White House."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-voter-trust/2020/12/20/00282aa6-407a-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html

83% of the country believes in an invisible man in the sky is listening to their hopes and dreams... 

[Trump and 17 states back Texas bid to undo his election loss at Supreme Court]

50 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

The man is truly deluded, he cannot even do basic data analysis, no wonder he does not do balance sheets and know what his losses are

It's him speaking as he always does in half truths or outright lies.

 

Yes, he got a ton of votes... But he also lost by more than 7 million votes. He lost in the electoral college by the same amount he boasted was one of the largest margins in presidential election history... It being one of the largest or even one of the larger victories of course was a lie, but if he claimed that 4 years ago, how can he honestly dispute it is true now? He lost that last election by more than 3 million votes in the popular vote, and it was more than 7 million this go round. Or the fact hat his margin of victory in the last election in those battleground states was slimmer than Biden's this year... But nobody contested the election, demanded recounts, and screamed fraud.

[Rudy Giuliani, diagnosed with COVID-19, says will leave hospital soon]

And the scary bit there is that the more than 3200 deaths the U.S. had yesterday is the largest daily toll to date... It's also the fourth time that the daily death toll number was broken in the past week. 

 

That's well more than Pearl Harbor or 9/11 and both of those led the country to war. In this case it won't even lead many people to wear masks to protect their fellow citizens. And why? Because one party decided to make masks a political issue.

[Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election in long-shot lawsuit]

6 hours ago, Thailand Forever said:

Sixteen other States have joined the Texas lawsuit.

US election drama has entered the second act.

Popcorn at the ready for third act and dramatic conclusion to the "greatest show on earth."

This is what happens when one party has only won the presidential popular vote once in the past 32 years (which was during the middle of a war), and just lost the last election by more than 7 million votes despite them doing everything they could to suppress votes.

 

The GOP is the minority, and the demographics of their base don't look good for them moving forward. It's a shrinking party and they now showing that they are willing to cheat if it allows them to stay in power. That's really what it is. At this point they've lost every legal battle over voter fraud. It's over. This latest incident is not about voter fraud its about trying to get the court to overturn a lawful election. That is the most un-democratic act they could do, and one might even consider these GOP AGs to be traitors at this point.

[Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election in long-shot lawsuit]

There is no floor for these guys. Just a bottomless pit of lies and conspiracy theories as they attempt to claw and cheat their way out of it.

[Half of Republicans say Biden won because of a 'rigged' election: Reuters/Ipsos poll]

1 hour ago, vandeventer said:

He just want's what is  right for the American people. He doesn't even want to be President but the way everything is going he feels he has to be. He is not a dark force but a light ,and real Americans know this.

Mitt Romney said it best: 
 

 

[Trump files new election challenge, Georgia announces recount]

With not much in the way of voter fraud, Lindsey Graham tried to put his finger on the scale...

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/lindsey-graham-georgia-2020-election-436910

 

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Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday evening, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the South Carolina Republican asked whether he could check signatures on mail-in ballots during Georgia’s recount and use a high frequency of mismatches to justify throwing away mail-in ballots in certain counties. Raffensperger said he took Graham’s comments as “an implication of look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out.”

 

[Single Entry Tourist Visa to Thailand now requires foreigners to show funds of 500k THB]

That is such a ridiculous requirement. Say goodbye to the tourism market.

[Nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won White House, ignoring Trump's refusal to concede: Reuters/Ipsos poll]

12 minutes ago, pomchop said:

and 20% of americans are delusional hard core trumpers cult members that wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on their behind

I think most of those guys even know the truth. They just think they are at a WWE match and somehow Trump is the good guy wrestler. They just want to boo, and spit, and convince themselves that their Heroes' words are true. Though I could be wrong and maybe they still believe in Santa Claus.

[Nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won White House, ignoring Trump's refusal to concede: Reuters/Ipsos poll]

11 hours ago, polpott said:

Not if the Democrats win the 2 senatorial run offs in Georgia. Senate tied, Harris takes the seat.

 

Democrats won the state, can they win the senate?

They've got a shot to tie it up and then have the VP as the tie-breaker. But it's an uphill climb for them in the senate. Middle America is deep red. And while you could gather up most of those states together and they might equate to California population wise (not sure how accurate that is but it seems about correct) they'll result in many times more seats. I get why it was done that way when the government was formed, they were trying to keep smaller states in the union, but as population has grown it just becomes more and more archaic.