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I love that...solid-arity rules!

I've known him for over 5 years. I use him every time I'm in Bangkok.  He's had a tough time.  

I have been, not impressed. I was the oldest, and smallest in the room (and that's pretty hard with my build)... the problem is that they were not big in a good way. Basically a bar full of young overweight guys... I'll stick with the bulked muscle guys at Tawan and Atlas  You are not alone!...Solid-arity!

No shit! And I agree that I don't know they have it in them. I know I may sound like I am all AMLO, all the time.  But implicit in what I am saying is that shit has to change in a really big way.  Like AMLO literally created a new political party.  Which now basically has a lock on power that the global elites worry is .............. wait for it .................... too authoritarian.  But the Mexican working class sure love it. Part of my optimism, which my Dad and siblings share but not most of my nieces and nephews don't, is that leaders can actually make a difference.  There was of course Obama and "hope and change."  And now Mandani is a local version of the same thing.  Trump is a version of the same thing for Republicans.  Generally, they love him.  Their problem is Republicans account for nowhere near 50 % of the vote.  Nor do Democrats, for that matter.  My larger point is that Republicans were kind of fucked until Trump came along.  McCain lost.  Romney lost.  So it makes sense that they can't live without him, so they live with him.  Did it really have to be this way?  That's for historians to fight over.  For now we just have to live through it.  Assuming we can, and do. I think it is the same with Democrats.  Some leader has to come along to change the party.  Clinton did that, for both better and worse, in 1992. I'm not sure I would say the same with Obama.  In 2000, the Democratic President was from Arkansas and the Senate Democratic Leader was from South Dakota.  That could not happen today.  The Democratic Congressional leaders are from places like New York and San Francisco.  Obama rose to power in Chicago.  That kind of sums up the problem, I think.  Clinton's party still appealed to the working class.  Including in states that we now think of as ruby red. Ruy Teixeira's big thing is the working class.  He and John Judis, who know the area well because they forecast it a generation ago with The Emerging Democratic Majority, view the problem at core as being that Democrats lost touch with the working class.  So the 30,000 foot level solution is to elevate leaders who will fight for the working class.  It is working in Mexico. The thing that scares me the most is the rise of billionaires and autocrats.  And that is where both parties are just as much to blame.  Working class people got a few crumbs with "no tax for tips".  But basically Trump's party is breaking the budget to give billionaires whatever the hell they want.  When Democrats had power they could not agree to raise taxes on these people one penny, even though the idea is wildly popular, to fund things that help the working class.  That is in part because lots of Democrats either are very rich, or they are afraid of pissing off their rich donors.  Who they constantly suck at the tit of.  And every attempt to make Democrats not dependent on sucking the tits of the rich has failed.  So I get why all my nieces and nephews are cynical.  Or, they are the rich ones who like Trump and his tax cuts. What is certain is that by empowering the autocrats and cutting their taxes and fucking the working class and poor on health care cuts and basic things like food,  Republicans are NOT giving Americans the change they want.  But whether Democrats will ever be able to do it is a very good question.  A lot of young people feel that when the Democrats rejected Bernie, that was game over.  The rich now control both parties.  I don't blame them for feeling that way.  

It is too complicated for to be true. There are a lot of untraceable poisons, which can't be detected in one hour after death. Death will looks like heart attack or stroke after such poisons.  Also 2-components poisons are easy to use: each component is harmless and poisoning starts only when components have chemical reaction in blood. Example: one component in food, second one on the cell door. Poison will decompose in 30 minutes because it is unstable.  So, if hanging was murder, then it was intended to be warning for someone else. Only then using of such complicated method has sense.