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You mean that uninhabited country that did $1.4 million in exports to the US in 2022? Lumping them into the same 10% tariff category puts a stop to any possibility that'll ever happen again, whether that was deceit or an honest error on the paperwork. Anyone who understands how tariffs work and the US HTC know exactly why it was done. This is from the World Bank, 2022.

I don't think they thought that. But they were hijacked by leftists and globalists to atone for "colonial guilt". Which isn't a real thing since that's just the way the world worked back then. Even the colonized were abusing and enslaving each other, long before the Europeans landed on their shores. Letting all the dinghies in and giving them food, lodging, money and health care is their way of extracting reparations from the innocent taxpayers without calling them reparations.

The constitutional crisis is local federal judges trying to dictate national policy. They're only allowed to rule on the specific issues brought on behalf of specific plaintiffs. They're trying to write law, not rule on it.

Was it hubris, or cognitive decline? I don't blame Biden. He was an old guy with a poor memory and not enough on the ball to even know he wasn't on the ball. In his state, the people around him should have 25th'ed him. If he hadn't chosen Harris as VP (best insurance he could have possibly had against an impeachment), they probably would have. The Dems defeated themselves by being too clever by half.

Pick nits with someone else. I'm not playing that game.

Do you honestly believe these deals could have been negotiated and approved through a country's legal process in the month or so since Trump started making tariff waves (this round of them)? Over 70 countries have come to the negotiating table. It may be months before any agreements are finalized. I watched a UK interview with Sebastion Gorka and though it was contentious, he did a great job explaining that Trump has just reset the baseline negotiating situation after decades of unequal trade deals for the US. Nothing is cast in stone. It's just a starting point for negotiations. And the guys on the other side of the table have 90 days to think about it. He also claimed that Trump 45 raised tariffs and studies showed that retail prices went up by less than 1% as a result. The sky isn't falling. But America won't be doing unequal trading any more.

Is reducing demand for imported stuff a bad thing in a country that imports about $1 Trillion more than we export a year? Especially a country that's $35 Trillion in debt already. I'm as guilty as anyone, always looking for a good deal on a big screen that's 5" bigger than the perfectly good one I already own. But it's not like the quality of my life will go in the toilet if the price of a 5" upgrade increases. I'll keep watching the one that's 20x the square area of what I grew up with and I'll be okay. And that's even more true if we replace imported stuff with stuff that's made in the USA.

Pennsylvania. Say no more. Of all the states I've lived in, they had the most intrusive fish and game laws. I was a kid too young to buy a gun back then.

That must be in lefty states. I've never paid for any background checks on over a dozen guns I've bought.

I don't care what you're protesting. If you block traffic, you should get egged.

I dated a lady that made more than me. My position scored more Hay Points, but she worked for the oil company and I worked for a suppler. Life's not fair...

Generally, only women are allowed to get away with hypergamy.

When banks find vulnerabilities, they're a bug and they patch 'em. When election officials find one, "It'll be fine". Almost as it they're a feature and not a bug. That CNN article came out in mid 2023. A year and a half before the November election. With DEFCON revelations and the Georgia court case (as if that was a surprise to anyone following Haldeman's work), you'd think they'd demand an upgrade if they found vulnerabilities. But they just crossed their fingers that nobody else found them and exploited them.

He offered them. (Suggested... Recommended...) The people (Pelosi, et al) responsible for Capitol security declined. So he didn't order them. Imagine the absolute stink had he ordered them after being told by Pelosi not to.

Of course I read it. How can they acknowledge vulnerabilities and still keep a straight face when they insist it's safe? They must be lefties.

A little trivia from wikipedia: I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) edited by Arthur Sheekman (uncredited). The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga. I thought it was Rodney Dangerfield, but it was Groucho.

Kudos to the idiot for saving someone from that line of work. Who the hell goes out in public with no shirt on? He deserved to be decked just for that.

Google harder. They're already flying in the domestic market.

Who was it that said he'd never join a club with such low standards that even he could get in? It's the same with dating.

If you want to know what's really going on, Google C919.

Resurrecting here... Is there a shop in the Bangkok area that does a nice e-bike conversion? Or sell a complete conversion kit? I see the kits on Amazon, EBay, AliExpress, etc. But I like to see the goodies before I drop a few hundred $$$USD on a kit. And with the cost of Thai labor, I wouldn't mind paying someone else to deal with the Jesus clips. (Those are the parts where you're always saying Jesus when you drop one, or they don't fit). Plus, I like the freedom to choose from a lot more bikes than are available as E-Bikes.

I can't vouch for the accuracy, but this one says 65,000 have citizenship and 400,000 Indians "have settled" in Thailand. Make of that what you will... Thai Indians are Thai people with full or partial Indian ancestry. About 65,000 Indian Thais have full Thai citizenship, and around 400,000 persons of Indian origin settled in Thailand mainly in urban cities. When did Indians come to Thailand? - Geographic FAQ Hub: Answers to Your Global Questions https://www.ncesc.com/ Edit: I just figured the Thai news would refer to them as "Thai". Apparently, not so.

Trump admin 'thumbs its nose' at Supreme Court You mean like Biden thumbed his nose when the Supreme Court told him he can't forgive student loan debt? Show me a president that hasn't pushed back against the courts. If it wasn't Trump doing it, it would be fine... Then tell me how Trump's going to take a citizen of El Salvador out of that country when President Bukele politely declined Bondi's offer to send a plane to pick him up. Okay, I fudged a little with the "politely" thing. He was pretty hilarious about it.

You mean the well off tourists that don't leave their A/C rooms, their A/C cars and their A/C eateries and bars? Tough to establish a relationship when there's a pane of glass (and a 20 degree deltaT) between you and the unwashed masses. Backpackers, by their nature (and budget) ride the same transit as the locals. They eat in the same eateries. They share a few of the same miseries (obviously, not all of them- they get to go home to the nanny states eventually). I'd say that gives them a leg up. BTW, in that respect, I'm in the A/C class. But respect to the backpackers.

Who's ignoring a court order? The court ordered Trump administration to "facilitate" his return. Bondi offered to send a plane to pick him up. Bukele said, no thanks. What would you have them do, invade a sovereign nation to bring back a terrorist so he can be deported again? That would just be dumb. And, not to go down the whataboutism rabbit hole, what president hasn't defied the courts? None in my lifetime.