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His feint toward Kiev was an attempt to end the war quickly by convincing Zelensky to take his money and flee to one of his mansions around the world. It would have worked if the US and then BoJo hadn't convinced Zelensky to stay and fight, to the last Ukrainian.

That one is too easy... I'll let someone else have it...

So is the Deep State: Government workers are reportedly in a state of panic over the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning another term in office, Bureaucrats up and down the federal hierarchy are concerned that a second Trump administration could cost them their jobs and put an end to liberal programs they worked to implement under President Joe Biden, https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/18/really-really-difficult-bureaucrats-worry-behind-closed-doors-theyll-be-sent-packing-under-trump/

You realize that it's not just about Powell. It's about the collective they refer to as the Borg Fed. The Fed gave Obama 8 great years of free money. Then they started raising rates when Trump got in. Of course Trump pushed back, and rightfully so.

The ones that bug me are those that glom onto me when I walk through the door and don't leave my side as I'm browsing. Happens more in higher end stores and IT shops. I can take that for about 2 minutes then I'm outa there. Sometimes, I just want to browse. Sometimes, I know exactly what I'm looking for but I don't know the Thai name, so I shrug and browse. And I rarely ask for a product because of the OP's phenomena. They'll say "finish" and I hate to risk making them lose face by finding it on my own, which happens so often.

Just a suggestion on my part... I won't visit any of those places if they don't publish a general price range. Or even better, an online menu. I've had too many sticker shocks over the years. If I'm alone, I'll just turn around and I've wasted a trip. If I'm with someone, I'll stay and eat, but in unexpressed resentment. Neither is a satisfying experience.

When my former co-workers are paying over $1,000 a month in Thailand for health insurance alone, color me skeptical of a travel policy that costs $150 a month and covers travel interruption and 50 other advertised benefits. I have never once been able to claim for the small stuff, in 25 years of international travel. There's always a small print exclusion. I have zero confidence they'd come through on a $500,000 claim. CBC Canada has a great YouTube called Travel Insurance Are you actually covered (CBC Marketplace) Sorry Youtube's blocked here, so I can't confirm a link. I downloaded it and that's the title.

I guess you missed all the posts wondering if it was a scooter or a bicycle, because of ambiguous translation common in Thailand. I read the list of injuries, and I'd bet it's a scooter accident. Starting a little early on a Friday, eh?

What are the odds that travel insurance would pay out in a scooter accident?

Another reason to carry some sweaty tourist cash. Like a troglodyte, according to a lot of posters here. But the cash carrying travelers probably didn't miss any meals.

A cautionary tale for anyone that thinks carrying cash is foolish. There seems to be a lot of them on AN. It can get mighty hungry waiting on a Microsoft fix.

Without knowing the relationship between Powell and Trump, I just look at that graph and I say the Fed was trying to sabotage Trump's presidency. They gave Obama free money through his entire term. People could afford a mortgage, so more homes would be built. Car loans were cheap, so people bought new cars. Startups got cheap funding, and businesses could afford to expand, using cheap money. It was "Let the good times roll" and Obama and the Dems looked like heroes. But it was really Fed manipulation. Trump gets in and the Fed raises the rates. People can't afford the same mortgage, slowing down housing demand. Fewer homes built and fewer construction jobs. Car loans cost more, so fewer new car customers. Fewer auto jobs. Business startup and expansions cost more, so fewer new jobs added. Trump looks like the guy who killed the golden goose, when it was really the Fed, sabotaging Trump. Of course, the MSM would blame Trump. And the Dems would ride that to victory in 2020. Anyone who believes the Fed is apolitical probably leaves carrots out on Easter morning. I image the "pressure" on Powell went something like this: "You SOB. For 8 years, you gave Obama and the Dems free money. Made 'em look like heroes, you did. Now that I'm in office, you're killing the housing market, you're killing the car market and you're killing new jobs. Are you for real, or are you just trying to make me look bad?

I'm afraid you're going to have to explain that one to me. I'm not seeing it... What am I missing?

I'm so looking forward to the DNC convention when the Stop Oil protestors cross paths with the Free Palestine protestors and the Drag Queen parade, and the BLM protestors, and... Well. You get the picture. I'm not sure Chicago has enough streets and parks to keep them away from each other. As I said above, I lived in Chicago during the 1968 Convention and it was surreal. I was only 11 years old, Mom and Dad didn't let me take the Elevated by myself, and they stayed the hell away that week. Fingers crossed that they can't get all the collusion they need done with Zoom calls. Just for the entertainment value.

You mean like he did on his first term?

So far, I haven't seen any reports of how many spent 5.56 shells they found on the roof, or how many were left in the magazine. (Assuming he loaded it full, having been to the ammo store that morning.) Nor have I seen whether it was a 10 round magazine (max legal capacity in some states), a 20 round (probably the most common AR15 magazine) or a 30 round (what most gun nuts buy.) Has anyone seen such info?

Or even to have a look at the data they refer to. Whether it's a righty or a lefty news source, I start there, and go to the root data. Then I look for weasel words like "Has all the earmarks of Russian propaganda." Weasel words that will give them plausible deniability in a defamation or even a perjury trial. "I didn't say it was Russian propaganda, I just said it had the earmarks" Or, "15 million jobs have been added during Biden's term". None of them were created by Biden or his policies, they just came back from the Covid shutdowns during his term. But weasel words sure make it sound like he walks on water when he's not tripping on the lawn.. That's why it's so important to go to the root data, instead of the partisan analysis. And both sides are guilty. There's just more Dems in journalism, so their lies are more numerous. And if you can't read the graphs, it's best to stay quiet.

I'd even order a couple if they had one with Biden sniffing her hair. That would be priceless. And probably worth big bucks on EBay in 20 or 30 years.

Trump's Covid stimulus was to address millions of workers and businesses thrown out of work by a disaster. Largely caused by gub'ment over-reach. Biden's deceptively named Inflation Reduction Act was socialist engineering of the most pandering type. Designed to buy votes and donations, while re-crafting the entire economy of the USA into a Green, DEI, socialist utopia.

Graph those out and tell me what percentage that you're crediting to Biden is actually just recovery from Covid. I've done that in half a dozen previous threads so I'm gonna let someone else do the work this time. Spoiler alert, it doesn't look pretty for Team Biden, in spite of what the MSM claim. Here's a start for you. Job growth. Not 15 million as the MSM claim, more like zero for native born Americans. And around 3 million for foreign born. Here's another. Biden's "historically low unemployment rate": Higher than Trump's, pre-Covid. And they haven't started counting the "newcomers" in the labor pool. When they add 5-10 million newcomers with no skills and no job, enjoying 3 hots and a cot on the taxpayer dime... But, by then they'll be blaming the jump in unemployment on Trump. If you choose your definitions, and carefully choose your weasel words, you can make a stinky pile of dung sound like valuable organic fertilizer. If you really want to singe your eyebrows, look up how many of those "new Biden jobs" are gub'ment jobs and social services (code for "taking care of newcomers"). Let us know what you find.

You can't shame me. I'm in good company. Only 61% of voters think that Biden won legitimately. As early as December, 2020, 126 congressmen and 18 states agreed with Paxton of Texas that there was enough voting irregularities to delay the confirmation until they could be litigated. Overall, 61% of Americans say Biden did legitimately win enough votes to win the presidency, and 38% believe that he did not. Among registered voters who say they cast a ballot for Trump in 2020, 75% say they have doubts about Biden’s legitimacy. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_062023.pdf/ It's quite possible to run a country where 30% disagree with the majority. But you can't run a legitimate country when 30-38% think the election was stolen. That's a recipe for disaster.

Could that be because the market makers have increased confidence that the Biden clan will be voted out in November?

All kidding aside, it will be interesting to see how they cobbled together the team on the ground at the rally. It's coming out now that many of them weren't Secret Service, but DHS employees on loan because other events that day depleted the SS ranks. Including a last minute event called by Dr Jill. I'm not claiming any of that is confirmed, just that it's being investigated. By the Biden FBI, who will no doubt figure out how Trump screwed up to cause this. Or blame the local cops.

They have plenty of choices, but none of them can win without BIC pens, the dead demographic, and the illegals that the NGOs registered on their way up from Darien Gap. Even then, they'll be counting truckloads of post dated mail in ballots for days.

So if I rob a bank today, and cooperate with the authorities 7 years later, I get a pass too? That is among the most idiotic explanations ever. But typical of a Dem cover up.