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AZLD4Candidate

AZLD4Candidate's Journal
AZLD4Candidate's Journal
March 26, 2024

RWer are already blaming Mayor Pete, Biden, and UKR funding on the FSK Bridge.

Never mind bridges are not built normally to withstand collisions with huge freighters.

March 18, 2024

Snide, nasty statements only made on social media to people online and never face to face

01. "You might want to educate yourself" - This smacks of aloof elitist. I disagree with you, so you must be a stupid, ignorant, worthless little troll that is completely beneath me. When you think the way I do, then you'll be at my level.

02: "You're entitled to your opinion" - Thank you. I wasn't asking if I was or wasn't.

03: "Tell us how you really feel" - I just did. You're rude.

04: "That's never happened to me" - That's great. So discount my experiences because it's never happened to you.

05: "If that's how you feel, I pity your spouse" - You wouldn't know me if you tripped over me. BTW, nice swipe and saying I'm a bad spouse because you disagree with me.

06: "I see your education failed" - At least I got one, buddy.

07: "Maybe you need to look at yourself if those things happen to you" - Yes, it's the victim of racism's fault. I wonder it people would say that to a rape victim face to face

08: (any statement with expletives made to insult you) - I was told to consider the source, not the comment. Online fool with a keyboard being rude = scumbag.

Can you think of others? My uncle says all social media is a cesspool. Where else can a person be as rude, snide, and haughty has possible without fear of getting what they deserve?

March 16, 2024

I got this from John Fetterman (it's just a screen cap of it)

The paper copy is waiting for us in PA when we get back.



I am Jewish, and if he ran for commandant of Auschwitz, I'd vote for this man.

I love Big John and owe him everything for getting involved and getting us over the hump. I am assuming he went through the same shit with Gizelle's green card.

March 16, 2024

Saying what they are doing in Congress, Re: tik tok, plays right into the CCP's propaganda campaign.

BTW, the bill doesn't ban tik tok. It forces a foreign company with ties to a communist regime that spies on people to either sell to an American company so it can be regulated by American auditors (which the Chinese government refuses to allow if they want to bring one of their companies to the US) or the foreign company loses the privilege of doing business in the US. Its the same as saying "follow the laws we have or we revoke your business license."

Saying banning tik tok is Communist party propaganda. It's all over my wife's Chinese version of Tik Tok, douyin, with them saying "see, Americans hate us."

It's an interstate commerce issue which the Constitution says Congress can regulate. Byte Dance is a foreign company being allowed to do business here. To be honest, has anyone read the actual bill? I have.

Here it is.:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text

I have WeChat, which is owned by Tencent. Anything I post from Thailand or say on it FROM Thailand goes through Chinese censors. I changed my name on there to "I dislike XJP" and got a message telling me I was breaking Chinese law before it changed my name.

Tencent is a foreign entity that does business in the US.

The CCP and its toads love telling foreigners about China: "when in Rome, do as Romans," meaning "This is China." Well, this is the US. When it Rome. . .nope, when in China, we have to bend to them. When they are here, we need to bend to them.

Either divest from a Communist Party controlled company or lose your privilege of doing business here. The Bill DOES NOT BAN TIK TOK unless Byte Dance divests. They do, sell to a company that the US can regulate under its laws, and those young people addicted to Tik Tok keep their idiotic app. Byte Dance doesn't and it's bye bye.

Stop doing the CCP's work for it by calling it a ban. The "ban" happens only if Byte Dance refuses to comply to the law

March 13, 2024

Update on my wife's Green Card - All plans are finalized

We have our tickets home. We leave Asia for the final time as residents of Thailand April 8th and arrive to go through immigration at Logan in Boston the next day, then sit there and take Southwest to Pittsburgh.

Our house has passed inspection so we will be ready to move into it when we are ready so will live with my parents until then. The old owners kept most of the furniture so it is nearly fully furnished.

She has interviews waiting for her when we get here as do I, and my publisher is waiting for me to come back to start prompting my novel and doing book tours. My screenplay is getting prepped for production later this year.

My father will start training my wife to take over his business when we arrive.

99% done.

BTW, Sen. Fetterman really stepped up for us to get us over the hump and sent a letter to my parents for my wife welcoming her to the US. I believe he went through the same crap with Gizelle I went through with mine.

John Fetterman is an amazing man and has three lifelong voters from now on. When my wife goes for her citizenship, she will vote for him too.

Oh, and she is a solid Democrat too but didn't know it until we quizzed her on her political ideas.

March 12, 2024

A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter. A 'male' hu

A 'male' humanoid robot appeared to inappropriately touch a female reporter during a presentation.
Named 'Muhammad,' it is Saudi Arabia's first humanoid male robot.
Muhammad is "fully autonomous" and did not deviate from his "expected behavior," the makers said.

A Saudi robotics company's unveiling of a "male" humanoid robot didn't go as planned after it appeared to inappropriately touch a female reporter.

Saudi robotics company QSS debuted "Muhammad the Humanoid Robot" at DeepFest in Riyadh last week. The robot, dressed in traditional Saudi attire, spoke Arabic and English.

In a DeepFest post on X , Muhammad was described as "the first Saudi robot in the form of a man," as well as a national project to highlight Saudi Arabia's AI achievements.


https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3363569757265-a-male-humanoid-robot-was-unveiled-in-saudi-arabia-it-then-inappropriately-touched-a-female-reporter?_f=app_share&s=a8&share_destination_id=MjU3MDkxOTcyLTE3MTAyMTE1MDU1ODA%3D&pd=0HOjMikF&hl=en_US&send_time=1710211505&actBtn=null&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A1%2C%22cv%22%3A%2224.5.2%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D


Even AI robots get too handsy. Christ!
March 9, 2024

Update on my wife's Green Card - It has arrived.

We'll be back home flying into Logan and then on to Pittsburgh on April 8th, arriving home April 9th.

March 8, 2024

Republican Justice - If you're the son of a Super Winning coach, you get shortened DUI sentences

Real headline: Former Chiefs assistant Britt Reid cut the line into the NFL, now he cut the line out of prison

On Feb. 4, 2021, Britt Reid was a 35-year-old assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs, where his dad, Andy, was and is the head coach.

On that day, Britt got drunk while working in the team facility. He then attempted a half hour commute home.

He didn’t make it a mile before slamming his pickup truck, traveling 84 miles an hour, into two cars parked on the side of an interstate on-ramp. One car was having trouble and the other came to help.

Britt Reid injured six that day, including himself. Four were initially hospitalized in serious condition, including a then 4-year-old girl.

The fifth victim was then 5-year-old Ariel Young, who Reid sent into an 11-day coma and a lifetime of challenges.

https://sports.yahoo.com/former-chiefs-assistant-britt-reid-cut-the-line-into-the-nfl-now-he-cut-the-line-out-of-prison-180036459.html


And Agent Orange claims two tiered because he is being held to account. Yet look what this drunk did to this poor little girl and how the REPUBLICAN governor of Missouri, and the NFL, and the Kansas City Chiefs, have pretty much ignored it, sidestepped it, and done practically nothing.
March 5, 2024

Trump compares migrants to Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Former President Donald Trump compared migrants Monday to the character Hannibal Lecter in the film "The Silence of the Lambs" as he ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become a mainstay of his campaign remarks.

"They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums," he said of migrants who enter the country unlawfully. "You know, insane asylums, that’s 'Silence of the Lambs' stuff."

“Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter?" he added to audience laughter during a lengthy interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. "We don’t want ’em in this country.”

https://www.aol.com/news/trump-compares-migrants-hannibal-lecter-031306678.html


WTF???

Profile Information

Name: Aram Katz
Gender: Male
Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
Member since: Tue Mar 23, 2021, 11:44 AM
Number of posts: 6,505

About AZLD4Candidate

Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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