I'm actually kinda feeling sorry for some Republicans...I understand why Ken Buck has had enough....If Rosanne Barr was speaking the crazy b.s. she says frequently and she claims to be someone that is "in the know" and then Trump is singing a crazy version of the national anthem with jailed r****rs from J** 6 that either were found guilty or pleaded guilty....and Trump calls them hostages ..and some of you call me a troll and I m a dumbass....call me wh**ever you want as once again I say everyone just open your eyes because the t***h is right in front of you....UNF**KINGBELIEVABLE.

I am not now nor have I been praising everything that Biden has done..we helped Ukraine because they wanted to join NATO and Putin did not like that..That war is a stalemate...You trumpers want to blame the inflation on Biden and that's entirely untrue...Here are the main reasons for inflation...the country was shut down and when everything started to open back up there was a huge depleted work force so many places had to hike the pay to fill positions.... anytime that fastfood starts offering 15-16 hourly to start when a year n half before they offered 10-11 hourly and same large increase everywhere...so that payroll hike has to get covered so BAM only one way....so also truckers began walking off the job because greedy companies and such decided to try and classify driver's as independent contractors and we had close to half of them say f**k you and quit..so in a capitalist society as you should know ....supply and demand is a big part of cost...prices were already going up from Trumps trade war to....no one wins a trade war when it's the two biggest economic players...you trumpers forget how electronics and appliances went up 25-30 percent back in 2018-19...you can say gas was cheap but that's because no one was buying much do to the shutdown...so you also had people sitting on more spending money then they had in awhile....there was many people that lost their jobs and made way more collecting unemployment thanks to the extra 600 every week on top of the regular amount they received....and cant forget those stimulus checks at 1200-2400xs two ...so of course the buisness in this country were very aware of the people sitting on that cash and absolutely more then willing to help them spend those bonus bucks....you trumpers have brain fog I think.... Trump first 2 years in office he did all he could to shut down the Mueller investigation because that's what innocent people do all the time...and how many of his cohorts pleaded guilty to felonies?.. Trump was also guilty but do to him being a sitting president he got off Scott free...I really could careless about the Stormy Daniels thing but we have laws in this country and no one can use campaign donations to buy silence and claim the money went to other expenses...if you get caught then to bad...so let's look at freedom of speech now....all you trumpers up in arms with all the lies you claim Biden says ...all politicians lie....but your boy Trump has taken the "alternative t***h branding" to a whole new level never before seen ....that is a fact and nothing but a fact.....he is telling people at his rallies how the e******n was s****n and v****g machines switched v**es and dead people v****g and more v**es than register v**ers.....ALL COMPLETE BULLS**T....the only attempts at fraud were by Trump and his enabling help.... across this country their was about 200 cases of fraudulent v****g and 3/4 of those were Republicans...what a crock of horses**t.... I m also sure that Rupert Murdock was so happy to hand over almost 800 million dollars to D******n for the backlash they suffered due to ???? LIES...and that is something that is next to impossible to hold a news company liable....now we got MTG... Jordan...Comer... Boeburt....Gaetz...and a few others just chomping at the chance to prove Biden is so dirty and they got whistleblowers and all the evidence to impeach J.B.......LMMFAO.what a fricken joke....and there is much more bulls**t to come ....open your eyes Trump people and see the t***h.... because it's right in front of you

You are mistaken on every front...First of all Trump ran up just over 8 trillion dollars in his 4 years that was equal to 25 percent of all debt from previous 50 years...Biden has kept his word with rebuilding our infrastructure and its going to take trillions of dollars to do it...I see roads and new safety forces vehicles and equipment in Ohio happening all over the state...you fricken ignorant jackass trumpers just got your heads so far up your own butts and your leaders that it's mind boggling...I'm not saying Biden is perfect or even the best however he is way better than the oompa loompa mumbled speech that's worse than J.B. sorry human being that ever before has you people totally brainwashed...There is a good reason that so many real conservative Republicans are walking away from D.C. and its because of the bulls**t...If by some chance Trump gets elected again you can bet your social security benefits are going to be cut ...the benefits that you paid for will be cut because the trust fund is running out and the rich don't want to refill the funding....Up until Obama got elected J.B. was well respected on both sides of the aisles...But unfortunately there was to much r****m still harboring deep inside many people in this country...I remember the one fanning the birther flames back then..... Donald Trump....open your eyes and see the t***h

Let's see, the New York statute of limitations was amended to allow E Jean Carroll to make Trump the seventh man she has accused of raping her. This rape, which follows the story line of an episode of Law and Order SVU supposedly happened in the same store as the fictional TV episode whose story line her story mimics. She was raped for about 3 minutes, although she cannot remember what year it happened, in a busy store in a flimsy walled dressing room and there was no evidence and no witnesses.
Trump's over valuation of his property... He was charged under New York law 63(12), and in seventy years and more than one hundred fifty suits filed, his is the only one with no concrete victims and no specifically enumerated financial losses from specific parties. Judge Engoron stated publicly BEFORE the trial started that he thought Trump was guilty, and stated he would not allow a jury trial in the matter which is why Trump's attorneys didn't ask for one. Deutsche Bank, who provided most of the loan, stated under oath that their own appraisers agreed with Trump's valuation, that he repaid the loans on time with interest, and they suffered no damage.
Trump's classified documents case in Mar-a- Lago, where FBI agents took Melania Trump's underwear as a "trophy" is a crime, but Biden removing classified documents when he had no legal right to do so while he was a Senator or Vice President is okay because "he would be seen as a forgetful old man. He wasn't one when he took the documents.
While we are on the subject of stacked decks, let us not forget the appointment of David Weiss as "Special Prosecutor" for H****r B***n, (aka Daddy's Little Dopehead).The guy who slow walked H****r's prosecution until the statute of limitations expired, when he had been appointed in DIRECT VIOLATION of Federal law, namely 28 CFR 600.3(a) which plainly states that a Special Prosecutor may not be an employee of the Federal Government. I guess Joe Biden who is from Delaware, and US Attorney General Merrick Garland who serves at the pleasure of said Biden, were not aware that Weiss was Delaware State Attorney General, answering to Merrick Garland, when he was appointed.
Let's talk about deck-stacking.

What's unbelievable is how trumpers refuse to see the lies that their boy spews daily and has since way back in the eighties..If he lost any kind of contest that was v**ed on by either New Yorkers or TV person's or executives...always he claimed that it was fixed or c***ting occurred...I agree that all politicians lie and it would be great if even one could step up and claim they haven't told a lie and be able to back it up with proof...There used to be a time when c***ting on ones spouse was enough to get a person blackballed from the e******n let alone c***ting on all 3...there used to be a time when trying to speak against families of fallen heroes was off limits ...the list is very long for the trumpers to turn a blind eye to now..Is there no honor with you people now...I already can anticipate how they will attack me for this post and i don't care...t***h is Biden has more honor than Trump and the many of the things you put up as proof of Biden wrongs are hearsays...What is put up as proof of Trump wrongs is bonafide actual proof

T*********rism is not an American thing regardless of how you view it.

It is a COURAGEOUS Decision to seek inner peace with one’s body.


Mindanao, Philippines and Bangkok, Thailand —


By 8:30am on April 27, 2023, the Pratunam Polyclinic in Bangkok was already full. Women sitting in rows of plastic chairs occupied most of the already cramped reception area. An empty fish tank with dirty water stood in one corner of the room and a receptionist snapped instructions in broken English in the other.

It is here, according to the owner of the clinic, that hundreds of t*********r women, from across Asia and further afield, come every year, hoping to get an anatomy that better reflects their g****r identity – at a fraction of what it costs elsewhere.

On that Thursday, 29-year-old Bianca Balala from the Philippines was one of them. After years of “being trapped in a wrong body,” and working to save up the money for a g****r affirming vaginoplasty, Balala finally took what she called the “longest journey of my life.”

The 12-hour trip started when she took a bus from her rural hometown in southern Philippines to Pagadian City, where she caught a flight to Manila. The next day, she boarded another plane to Bangkok. Balala checked into a hostel once she arrived, and four days later, she walked a short distance to the Pratunam Polyclinic, feeling nervous but determined.

A staff member handed her a dressing gown and gestured for her to get changed in an adjacent room with yellowed newspaper clippings of women in lingerie and before-and-after breast surgery pictures were taped to the walls. Then she was led up three flights of narrow stairs to a windowless operating room. After she lay down on an old operating table, her arms were strapped by the wrists to a narrow wooden plank placed horizontally under her upper back.



Listen to this woman who says she risked it all for g****r affirming surgery
The small operating room was stuffed with random items, including a VCR, and empty boxes of breast implants were stacked up to the ceiling, Balala told CNN. The sight “shocked” her because it didn’t look like anything like an operating room.

Despite being told to leave all her belongings at the reception desk, she said she snuck in a pink rosary in her dressing gown pocket. Her mother had pressed it into her hands as they waited for the bus that would take her on a trip that would mark the end of one chapter of her life and the beginning of another.

“My heartbeat was so fast,” Balala told CNN. “I was just thinking, what if bad things happen to me?” Balala began to pray.


The reception area of Pratunam Polyclinic, Bangkok, in July 2023. Watsamon Tri-yasakda for CNN

Pratunam Polyclinic, opened in 1988 by Dr. Thep Vechavisit, has built a reputation, according to media reports, as a low-cost destination for g****r affirming and cosmetic procedures including breast augmentation, nose jobs, and vaginoplasty, which involves rearranging g*****l tissue to create a vagina and vulva.

Balala told CNN that she was quoted $7,300 for a vaginoplasty by a clinic in the Philippines. In Thailand, few clinics publicly disclose their pricing. But one plastic surgeon in Bangkok charges between $6,500 and $12,000, depending on the surgical technique, according to his website. Another clinic in the Thai capital says the cost can vary from $10,000 to $17,000. But Pratunam Polyclinic offers vaginoplasty using the penile inversion technique for just $2,065.

Dr. Thep, as everyone calls him, said he performs roughly 350 vaginoplasties every year. Most of his patients are from Thailand but about 20% travel to the clinic from other Asian countries, including: India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. They come despite the discrimination they face and the lack of healthcare support for t*********r people in their home countries.


“People come to see me for my sk**ls, not because of what my clinic looks like,” said Dr. Thep Vechavisit, 71, who founded and runs Pratunam Polyclinic. Watsamon Tri-yasakda for CNN

In the case of the Philippines, the national health insurance program, PhilHealth, does not currently cover g****r affirmation surgeries for t*********r people, said Dr. Albert Domingo, deputy spokesperson for the Philippine Department of Health.

Balala had known about the Pratunam Polyclinic’s low-cost surgeries for some time but said she had initially been reluctant to go to Dr. Thep. She told CNN that she’d heard mixed reviews. Some of his patients had been happy with their operations, but others said they’d experienced medical complications or been unhappy with the results of their surgeries, because they weren’t aesthetically pleasing. There were also complaints about the rudeness of the clinic’s staff.

But Balala would soon change her mind.

“I risked everything to go”
Balala was assigned male at birth. When she was around five years old, she remembers wrapping a handkerchief around her head to mimic long hair and telling her grandmother, “This is my hair. I am a woman.”

Her mother, Juhanna Balala, told CNN that she let Balala be. “She has always been my daughter.” Despite their strong Catholic faith, family members helped Balala accept her g****r identity as she grew up.


Having heard mixed reviews about Dr.Thep, Balala held on to her faith as she underwent surgery at his clinic in Bangkok. Mailee Osten-Tan for CNN

As a teenager, she started to participate in local t***s beauty pageants. Exposure to older t***s beauty queens, who had undergone surgical t***sitions, made Balala think about getting g****r affirming surgeries herself. “I wanted to have the surgery to become more confident in my body. It was really hard for me to have the male part.”

Not all people who identify as t***s or non-binary feel they need surgery, but for some, the g****r dysphoria or discomfort caused by the incongruence between their physical bodies and g****r identity, can take a heavy mental and emotional toll. Globally, according to a 2023 review and meta-analysis of 65 selected studies, the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide among t*********r people over their lifetime was 50%, and 29% respectively, and nearly half of the t*********r people who had suicidal thoughts did end up taking their own lives.

Despite the distress Balala’s body caused her, the cost of a vaginoplasty was much more than she could afford. She said a clinic in Manila had quoted her $7,300 for the procedure.

But Balala lives hundreds of miles away in the southern Philippines, where the incidence of poverty among families in the province was estimated at around 44% in the first part of 2023, according to official government statistics. Most people in her rural hometown support themselves through farming or run small businesses. Balala sold husky puppies and, occasionally, sex online. “I h**e to say it but it’s part of survival,” she told CNN.