Comments by RonJax2 (page 2)

> Since I'm staying there, there's really no point venturing to the Chicago Club. There are a lot of CC fans here, but I agree. It's a short walk but you risk bandits with badges and then you have to pay for a shitty room. If you're looking to check out smaller bars while you're there, these are better options: * Gold Palace: lower talent but you can barfine a chica to bring to Cas * Dulce & Gabanna: Located across the street from Senda Norte, it's much closer to Cascadas than CC, about the same size, and has some talent. You can also, unlike CC, you can barfine a girl here to come back to Cas. * Bar Tropical: owned by the owners of HK, this is where they send the lesser talent, but also girls who get punished for missing shifts, so you can find both bargains diamonds in the rough here. Of course, none of these smaller bars will have the talent or selection that HK will have! > Traveling solo, any concerns about walking around the neighborhood? Yeah, your biggest concern is the bandits with badges, the municipal police. If you go exploring, don't carry much or any cash on you. See @PutaTester's recent post. Getting mugged or harmed in the streets actually feels unlikely. There's always a huge presence of mexican army in La Zona, so I'm never worried about real bandits, just the type with badges. ¡Esos pinche cabrones! > grab stuff at the pharmacy, etc If you come in through PedWest there's a Roma Farmacía right across the street as you exist the turnstiles from customs that is very convenient. You could just stop in there, before catching either the Zona shuttle or a cab to Cascadas. The nearest farmacia to Cascadas is maybe a block and half away.

Thanks for sharing. And yikes, this makes me nervous to even be out on foot in LZN. Where were you exactly? In the alley behind hong kong (primer callejón coahulia) turning on Av Niños Héroes? That worries me because that block around Hong Kong should be immune to police corruption. You've now got me worried that simply crossing the street from Rizo to HK risks an encounter.

"Anyone who so often quotes Thomas Sowell instead of responding to the actual question probably needs to get off Twitter and Facebook." - RonJax2

@puddy > He's been called a fascist, like every Republican candidate since Eisenhower, since the day he descended the escalator. It's true that some raving leftists has called every republican since Eisenhower a fascist, many democrats too. But I legitimately can't tell if you're being willfully or ignorantly obtuse here. Trump is not being called a fascist just by raving left wingers. He's being called a fascist by: * His Chief of Staff, John Kelly who said he "fits the definition of a fascist." * His Joint Chiefs Chair, Mark Milley, who called him "fascist to the core" * Another 13 Trump administration officials who wrote in a letter: > “We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly,” the letter said. “We are all lifelong Republicans who served our country. However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/13-former-trump-administration-officials-125310694.html These are conservative republicans who served in Trump's own administration. They're sounding the warning alarm, BELIEVE THEM. Your comparison to other republicans is complete daft. Which former republican candidate had hordes of their own staffers calling them a fascist? It's notable that Trump doesn't have the endorsement of any of the GOP's old standard bearers. > But more than anything, the fascism charges don't matter because Trump had 4 years to implement fascism and didn't. But he did do a bunch of fascisty shit. He banned Muslims from entering the country. He cruelly separated immigrant parents from their children. AND HE TRIED TO OVERTURN THE FUCKING ELECTION TO STAY IN POWER.

Wish I could join you! I'll be back next in December to spread some holiday cheer to the chicas. My favorite trick for deflecting meseros, botaneros, flower boys, and even the weird dude who comes around with that antique electrical device: "Ahorita", with a wave of the hand.

> Is it worth staying in Tijuana or getting a hotel in the US. Stay in Tijuana. Since you're just now getting a passport, I assume you don't have global entry, and without global entry, you could be facing 3, 4 hour lines to get back in to the US. You definitely don't want to be doing that every night. I recommend if it's your first time, stay at Hotel Cascadas. It's easy and straightforward. The Rizo is also an option. You upside of either of those hotels is you can take bar girls from HK and BT to your room and don't have to pay for a short term room rental. If you stay elsewhere in Tijuana it's unlikely (although is possible) that you can get a Bar Girl to come back to your room. You'll be stuck paying $40 / 40 minutes for a short term room rental in that case, and if you do a few arribas, it would be cheaper (and more convenient) just to rent a small single room at Cas or Rizo. Hope that helps, let us know what other questions you have. > I will use @Jax guide on common Spanish phrases Thanks for the shout out. I need to drop a version 3 of that thing, I keep learning new phrases and bedroom jargon that would be useful there!

> How inconvenient is it to walk a girl from Bar Tropical over to Cascadas? It's a piece of cake, you just cross the street. Same for taking a HK girl to hotel Rizo, that's easy too. If it's your first time staying there, I'd recommend just staying at Cascadas for simplicity's sake. But Rizo is a really good option because it's generally quieter.

> I did begin by feeling a bit disappointed in the service level of the chicas (again maybe RonJax is to blame, maybe my experience at HK started off too strong with a chica all over me a year ago) Haha, sorry for setting your expectations so high! But yeah, HK can be hit or miss sometimes, especially if you're looking for a GFE. My second to last trip, I had a few bad arribas, including a muchacha borracha who passed out during our freaking session. Also went with a young chica who didn't DFK and had all kinds of other rules. This most recent trip though, I really lucked out. It really only takes one or two. I'm glad you at least had a good experience on your last arriba!

The news developments in this past week, that have yet to be included in the polls include numerous top military officials, under Trump like Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley, who have come forward and outright called Trump a fascist. These are are republican appointees, and their words should be compelling to anyone who values our republic. The other important development over the weekend was the comedian a the NYC Trump rally who called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage." There's roughly 300,000 American voters with Puerto Rican heritage in Pennsylvania. I think that, coupled with a renewed scrutiny of his immigration policy (the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States) might well damage him in an area he's very vulnerable: Latino voters. Last I saw, Kamala was only beating Trump in national polls by 10 points, whereas Joe Biden carried that demographic by 30 points. In a close race with a divided and decided electorate, Latino turnout could matter, and being called garbage could stir up some angry voters at the polls.

^ We're in agreement there @Puddy. We should pass the NPVIC to amend the constitution to elect the president by popular vote. OP, here's some current probabilities via Nate Silver's model on this race, as of today: * Harris wins the popular vote: 72.3% * Trump wins the electoral college: 52.9% * Harris wins the electoral college: 46.8% * Harris wins popular vote but loses the electoral college: 26% Another way to look at this is from Nate's chart on the size of the EC bias: If the popular vote is R +0 to +1, Harris has a 5.3% chance of winning the EC. If the popular vote is D +0 to +1, Harris has a 14% chance of winning the EC. If the popular vote is D +1 to +2, Harris has a 33.1% chance of winning the EC. If the popular vote is D +2 to +3, Harris has a 58.2% chance of winning the EC. If the popular vote is D +3 to +4, Harris has a 80.2% chance of winning the EC. If the popular vote is D +4 to +5, Harris has a 92.7% chance of winning the EC. So pretty much, she needs to win nationally by +4 points to win the EC. The bias is astounding. I'd quibble with the idea that that the EC favors the 1%. By all accounts, right now, the EC just favors the state of Pennsylvania, where the Voter Power Index is 7.2, compared to literally, a 0.0 VPI in California. If you're lucky enough to live in Pennsylvania, you get to decide this election. We're not going to get a constitutional amendment passed to get rid of the EC before this election. So the best thing you can do right now, rather than doom scroll and doom post on the internet, is to get out and be part Harris's GOTV effort. Go to NV and door to door an encourage voters to vote. Help give rides to people to get to the polls. And donate.

> The main reason I don't like Trump is because of the Christian Fundamentalists. That in a nutshell is the problem with Project 2025. Yes it's true that it's not an official campaign document. Yes it's true that Trump has disavowed it. But fundamentally, at it's core, P2025 is a document written by the very same Christian Fundamentalists who will govern the country should Trump take office again. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html The project had 40 different primary authors. 18 of them worked in the first Trump administration, 1 on his transition team, another 12 worked on his campaign. Of the 267 additional contributors to P2025, 144 worked for the Trump administration. And all of the policies in it go hand in hand with Trump's rhetoric on the campaign trail. For example: > Ken Cuccinelli wrote the chapter on the Homeland Security Department. He served as acting deputy secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration and in another role led legal immigration efforts. In his chapter, Mr. Cuccinelli details aggressive immigration plans, including militarizing the Southern border and completing the border wall, the latter of which was a cornerstone of Mr. Trump’s first campaign. This election cycle, Mr. Trump has promised to lead the biggest deportation operation in American history and to use the military to secure the border. Anyone who wants to pretend that Trump won't be putting millions in concentration camps will have no one to blame but themselves should Trump be elected. If you vote for Trump, when you're CF cubana is disappeared into the night, there will blame but yourself. Anyone who wants to pretend they aren't coming after your porn, well, you can blame yourself once you lose access. I understand that sometimes it's a challenge to see what's in front of one's own nose, but the ignorance about the right-wings plan for a second Trump term at this point is inexcusable.

Nice review, these smaller bars in LZN need more of 'em!

> that's it.. I am doing a 39 minute lapdance for skibum... to ava maria... except I am just going to stand there, swaying side to side... drooling a little bit... Fucking LOL. MAGA dances for MAGA types... can we make this a national trend this week? Definitely make sure to toss the "I'm jerking off two dudes at once" dance in the mix every once in a while.

> Are you saying Russia was playing both sides? Yes, dude. 100% that is the point I was trying to make. Take a look at some examples here: https://medium.com/arc-digital/russian-propaganda-on-reddit-7945dc04eb7b There's definitely a ton of divisive right wing content, and as you can see, tons of left wing content. The broader point I'm trying to make is what radicalizes you isn't the content on "your side". The dystopian divisiveness of the left-wing propaganda is meant to radicalize conservatives. And the extremist right-wing content is designed to inflame liberals. People get this backwards always. Stated another way: in 2016, you weren't the target audience for all the Clinton Cash posts. The posts that targeted you were the ones complaining about inequality or the posts made to r/occupywallstreet.

> Russia Russia Russia is the left's all purpose excuse for failure and avoiding introspection. $150,000 worth of Facebook ads didn't tip the balance over Hollary's utterly butt-brained campaign. @puddy: Russian interference in the 2016 election amounted to substantially more than $150k in ads. They had an army of fake social media accounts across numerous platforms, from 4Chan to Reddit to Facebook, spreading extremist left and right propaganda and an entire agency devoted to these operations. Their attack included sophisticated successful hacking operations of the DNC and subsequent dump of the documents. Read the fucking facts man, it's all in the Muller report: https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/dl Whether you would choose to see it or not Russia had a significant effect on 2016, and they continue to this day to attempt to meddle in our elections by dividing us with propaganda. > Perhaps, instead of Russia, it's your own ideas and attempts to divide the country by race, sex, gender identity, and any other demographic characteristic that are the cause for strife, and not Russia??? No one in this thread, except you, has attempted to divide the conversation over any kind of identity politics. And in any case, this is exactly what I'm talking about with how propaganda works. It seems like you're a sucker for it, because you believe in this terrible strawman of a leftist, and stereotype everyone who leans left accordingly. You've done it to me numerous times, attributed to me beliefs I don't hold because you've bought into propaganda and the fake leftist spam on social media.

@JamesSD The problem we have no is we have malign influence operations that are domestic and doing the same thing as the Russian propagandists. And given that propaganda operations are all using AI now, it's increasingly difficult to spot organized inauthentic behavior. What I wish everyone would understand better is that it's not the influence campaigns on "your side" that radicalize and divide people. It's the opposite. Russian or domestic propagandists will cook up fake radical left accounts in order to polarize conservative voters and vice versa. People end up going off the polarization deep end because they're convinced the "other side" is just as radical.

There's a subset of people who will patronize the Zona Norte. Then within that subset of people, there's another subset who are not just patrons but are willing to go on record in public about their patronage. That second subset of dudes is absolutely crazy IMHO. Like if someone tried to interview me in LZN, I am noping the fuck out of there.

> Yes I know it’s three times the price, but I don’t have to worry about getting picked up by Police, standing in customs line or running into other kinds of trouble with locals. @Buck, I think you put it very well. To me these hassles and risks are worth the 3x cost. Or accurately, I might get 4-6x the value out of trips to TJ. At HK I might spend the same as on a trip to SoFla, but the difference might be more lapdances at HK, and a much longer arriba (2 or 3 hours, versus 15-30 minutes). There's also something to be said for fucking in a hotel room with a shower and sink available versus in a cramped noisy club VIP room. I'd also point out that the standing in line a customs problem can be solved by getting Global Entry. I haven't waited in line at customs since then, usually it only takes me 1 hour from downtown San Diego to La Zona, in both directions. > There are so few customers that they hardly ever open up the other side of the club by the Miami Room. @Diez Pesos, you were there on a Saturday night and Miami wasn't open?

> What reputable news sources exist? You just named a bunch of them below. Just because a publication has editorial bias doesn't mean it's not reputable, and standards based. I reject the idea that we have to reject crime stats or economic statistics. These are exactly the kind of evidence we should all embrace in informing ourselves. To me what you're saying sounds like regular old confirmation bias: you're rejecting these things because they challenge your prior opinions. > That makes me a conservative 90% of the time. I'd argue for you or I or anyone else there's much more at work than "I read the news and here's what my opinions are." Your upbringing, social circles, geographical region, even your breeding pattern (r versus K for science nerds) all play a role in whether you view the world conservatively or liberally. And what's more, there's a time and a place for conservative policy, and the same goes for liberal policy. I think it's foolish to think either perspective has a lockdown on the right proscriptions to every set of problems.

> the new police chief wants them to dress more modestly - whatever the heck that means. They also said police are starting to make arrests on those street girls who don’t comply. The Tijuana Taliban! WTF!

@wiggum I went to FC once on a Saturday and showed up promptly at 1PM. They were literally just opening the doors and they warned me they wouldn't have dancers until 2PM. I had nothing else to do so I went in anyway. They sat me at a booth (where I stayed a few hours) but they didn't charge me for it. So if the thought enrages you could always just show up early one day.

And as an aside, I'm not sure which user, but I have someone in this thread blocked for sure. I see a lot of people arguing with themselves and it's hilarious.

> So, my question is, how do we start finding that unity again? The key thing we're lacking right now is a shared set of facts. What's responsible, IMHO, for the asymmetric hyperpolarization of our politics is in the last two decades, is in short, disinformation on social media. In most of post-WWII America, most people got their facts from reputable TV journalists and news publications. Since the dawn of the millennium our information diets have slowly been polluted by personally tailored social media feeds and algorithms that seek to amplify outrageous content because outrageous content gets more engagement. Take the immigration sidebar you're having as en example. I doubt most participants here could agree on answers to any of these factually verifiable questions: - How many undocumented immigrants exist currently in the US? - What net impact does immigration have on our economy? - Are immigrants eligible for welfare in the US? - From which countries are we seeing the biggest surge in immigration? Reasonable people can agree or disagree healthily over which policies should be drawn based on the facts. But you can't have a reasonable discussion with someone on the topic of immigration if you don't start with a common understanding of the facts. What do we do about this problem is tough. I think at a minimum, we need to repeal Section 230, which shields big tech companies from liability. I think if someone posts your intimate photos without consent, if they defame you, if a defamatory post sparks stochastic terror on a school or a church, these situations should be grounds for torts against the carrier, especially if they can be shown to be negligent in some way. I also think we need to take a 'bootstraps' approach to the problem of information diets, and demand more from ourselves and each other. We should be asking ourselves and each other: What reputable news sources do you subscribe to? What are you doing to reduce your social media intake?

To get back to the root of this question, I have one other point to make. My CF stripper, who works/worked at Hong Kong club Tijuana is passionate about the issue of human trafficking. We had a recent conversation where I was asking her whether she thought there was women being trafficked at Hong Kong. Her answer, "By the club, no, but by their boyfriends, all the time." To hear her tell it, lots of girls are in this game because they've got a controlling significant other. I'm certain this is true of strippers in the US too. I'm sure we can assume these are the minority of dancers with boyfriends, but they exist, and what's more, I don't know how you'd tell one from the other that easily. Either way, for me, as soon of the topic of her boyfriend comes up, it brings out my own obnoxious inner white knight (who I recognize needs to be beat down.) This is yet another reason to avoid the topic entirely.

I think the underwear choice is every bit as important as the pants. IMHO boxer briefs are the way to go, and additionally, you want a stretchy soft fabric like a microfiber. Plain cotton is no bueno, you want something like these bad boys: https://a.co/d/6JVVDFw