chotto_2 comments

Your orange felon friend - his stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it.

He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower.

If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock.

If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.

If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn’t want him to run under color of their party.

If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”

What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it. And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy.

And bass - the GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would LOVE to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude – a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.

Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.

BlacklabelToday  07:38 am JST

It was a mistake to remove Russia.

look what has happened since that could have been discussed and resolved had they been at the table.

It's called the UN.

That stupid bigboy handshake.

bass4funkToday  06:52 am JST

Troops on the public streets are never a good look and are not expected in democratic countries.

Nope, and neither are mobs, agitators, looters, and rioters.

Bass, you're finally condeming Jan 6?

I'd trust Iran and US in equal measure on nuke policy nowadays.

A telegenic lawmaker who has represented his father's former seat 

This is the state of Japanese politics.

Land of the Free lol

Would that include Civil War 'mongers'?

So glad that Carney got in. I hope Canada will replace US as a reliable ally.

Lucky those countries, I'd say.

Not sending anyone into the red states, is he?

Didn';t send any to sort out the insurrection on Jan 6th, 2021, did he?

America is finished. Just 'how' finished it can be remains to be seen.

Americans have lost their country of old, for good.

It may 'recover' but it won't be the same.

The contortions that MAGA-cultists must be going through....

I wish he'd block all countries so we don't have to worry that we might end up transiting there.

Mr KiplingToday  06:41 am JST

Fight on until the end of day one?

I shouldn't laugh, but this made me...

But isn't Trump just such the Diplomat and Leader of the former Free World? Let them "fight for a while" - let those children be obliterated in front of their parents for a while. Let the bloodshed continue for a while.

Noone ever saw such a huge bigly tremendeous man.

This is a long Day 1.

For a country that is so obsessed with banning things - why not just ban it in public? Noone wants smoke blown over their food and family in restaurants or bars.

My Trump bingo card has gone well.

Just waiting for 'Degenerate Art' and 'ordering the firing of live rounds into protests'.

The prize is the total loss of America.

 saying rules are rules.

There it is.

The Alien Registration Law under the Ministry of Justice says, in Article. 3, paragraph 1,2 and 3, 

(Receipt, Carrying and Presentation of the Registration Certificate)

Article 13(1)A foreign national must receive the registration certificate issued or returned to them by the head of a municipality, and carry it at all times; provided, however, a foreign national under the age of sixteen years is not required to carry their registration certificate.

(2)A foreign national must present their registration certificate to the immigration inspector, immigration control officer (meaning the immigration control officer provided for in the Immigration Control Act), police official, coast guard officer or any other official of the State or local public entity prescribed by the Ministry of Justice Order, if the official requests the presentation of the registration certificate in the performance of their duties.

(3)In cases where the official provided in the preceding paragraph requests the presentation of the registration certificate in a place other than their office, the official must carry an identification card showing their official status and present it upon request.

ENDS

Point being - hotel staff are not government officials. Therefore, hotel staff do not have the right to request or ask for Alien Registration cards 

The law is here and is unequivocal: https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3778/en - Please read it. 

So unless you can show in writing, any ordinance that a) overrides national law and b) explicitly says that you can demand to see, take and photocopy a zairyu card, what hotels and their staff are doing is illegal.

Do it, you moron. And let your dingalings pay for it.

The remaining intelligent part of the population will be minorly inconvenienced, but it won't hurt them.

"The abnormal surge in prices that we're seeing now could accelerate the shift away from domestically produced rice in Japan," Shinjiro Koizumi told a press conference. "We're already seeing supermarkets buying directly from the United States despite having to pay tariffs... We have to quash this abnormal situation and speed is of the essence."

Now they're just saying the quiet bits out loud

Puerile nepotism.

Weak and stupid.

Call our these Brex8t morons for what they are and beg to rejoin.

Millions of (especially young ) people denied the right to live and work abroad in freedom.

It's embarrassing and disgusting in equal measure.

Who are these 27.4%?

Before Saudi, I suggest they focus on US, except in America, it's less of an 'oversight' more of outright Gestapo tactics...

Hey Citeh, stay humble, eh?

Gulf states use opulence and flattery to win Trump's heart

Of COURSE THEY DID. He's a thin-skinned whining man-baby.

It should be paid for with our taxes, not 'subsidised'.

The mere fact that Chronic condition meds (insulin, inhalers etc.) and cancer drugs are CHARGED is an absolute disgrace.

They are so scared of Ref*rn. FGS, stop pussy-footing around, Starmer. He is so desperate for approval from those that hate him, and his not calling out Brexit supporters for what they are and what Brexit is a wasted chance. He needs to fight fire with fire. He is fast becoming inept, despite the good stuff his government is doing and has done.

I hope UK public continues to boycott US goods whilst Trump is in office.

Apart from anything else, we don't want hormone-fed beef.

I look forward to the second installment about the persecution of the Uyghurs.