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After dying of myocarditis, no less.

Not to mention Corvettes.

You're saying that if the MSM didn't report it, it didn't happen before?

I agree, and that's been the case at least since 2000 when I started traveling international. Ramped up to supercharge level after 9/11. The disingenuous thing is insinuating that it's connected to Trump's term. That's the only reason it's being reported now. Until Trump, the MSM ignored it.

There's a good, albeit preliminary, YouTube from a guy that did a lot of follow-up on the Florida condo collapse a few years back. I can't link because YouTube is blocked here in China. I downloaded it last week when I was in Thailand. This isn't the complete title, but it can be used to search for the YouTube. I'll be following the guy for updates on my monthly visits to LOS. He goes pretty deep as the information becomes available. Why Did Bangkok 33-Story Building COLLAPSE

+1 I don't think the average outsider realizes just how tolerant the average American is. I always figure that's the way it is around the world. But it's not.

It doesn't matter which hoards. It's a fact that heavy industrial capacity has been key to winning wars. Full stop. Americans have conceded that capacity in the pursuit of cheap prices. A lot of that on stuff that we don't even need. I'm as guilty as most. I upgrade my goodies when something newer and zoomier hits the shelves. Big screen TVs and entertainment gizmos are perfect examples. I have closets full of perfectly good stuff that I upgraded when the next thing came along. We've been conditioned by adverts to believe that consumerism is the key to happiness.

Maybe, but that was at family gatherings. We had Pollocks, Russkies, WOPs, Micks and others, all married up to each other. Nobody got their panties in a wad back then.

Hosers? I thought that was a compliment.

Russian Teacher to Thais: Drop ‘Farang’ if 'Ni Hao' Offends Here's a thought. Quit being a snowflake. What happened to the good old days when we jokingly referred to each other as Pollocks, Guineas, WOPs, Rednecks and a hundred other familiar greetings that would trigger a lefty tantrum today? Back then, we could take a joke.

Europeans better hope Trump succeeds, in case they need another bail out when the German Russkie hoards descend on the continent. Again. Trump looked at recent history and figured out that American industrial capacity was key to winning WW2. That transcends economic (P&L) considerations and takes it into national security concerns. What's that worth?

Sorry I didn't bother to go too far down the rabbit hole. I figured it was intuitively obvious that a 10 year backlog wouldn't have been cleared after 2 years. So here's a January, 2025 update. 45 deliveries against a backlog of 6,236 planes. That's a 138 month backlog. Airbus, BTW, has a 29 year backlog. Make of that what you will... Edit: Oops. Here's my link: Airbus and Boeing Report January 2025 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries - Flight Plan

From investors.boeing.com: Full Year 2023 Delivered 528 commercial airplanes and recorded 1,576 net orders Total company backlog grew to $520 billion, including over 5,600 commercial airplanes For the arithmetic challenged, that means they have a 10+ year backlog. If someone cancels an order today, they won't feel it for years. They'll just deliver someone else's order that much sooner. And by that time, the "trade war" will have settled into a "new normal". As far as Boeing "absorbing it or passing it on to their customers", I predict they'll start buying more stuff from US sources, using US capacity with US labor to get around the tariffs. And that's the goal. Edit: And I'd add that anyone who thinks Airbus will be the big winner hasn't been following the C919 and C929 and CXXX.

Sounds like what the US lefties are doing to TESLAs. On an aside, I like his shirt.

They have a backlog of thousands of unfilled orders. If any one customer refuses delivery, someone else on their years long backlog will just get their's earlier.

Not to mention that crap like this has happened under every administration since 9/11. (And probably even before that). But when it wasn't Trump's term, it was widely ignored.

Perhaps ICE would have kept hands off had the school officers done their jobs instead of standing by and watching protestors make it dangerous, if not impossible for the students who were there for an education.

I wonder if anyone has calculated the costs of the health care they'll need over their lifetime, whether or not they change their mind later.

My problem with the freeware was that I spent so much time fixing the formatting of spreadsheets and word processing documents that even free, they weren't worth it for me. If you're in a personal environment and you start documents from scratch, they're probably great. But not if you're in an office setting and you have to open (and edit) other people's work.

I keep seeing offers for legitimate lifetime licenses for ridiculously low prices. On legitimate websites. I'm an Office (365) subscriber, but I may go ahead and get one of them because I'm so disappointed with Teams displacing Skype. They're definitely not equal. And I no longer use Office for work so I really don't get the value for the annual subscription any more. So I'm going to vote with my pennies... Maybe someone else can chime in with a link. I'm back in China and Googling is a PITA here.

I'd challenge characterizing it as "surprising". Disturbing, sure. But other than Iqbal, I don't think anyone else is surprised.

I wonder if that's one of the routes where they banned double deckers for this year's Songkran season? Anyone know?

Is double clutching a thing since they invented the synchro? I learned to drive our 1957 Ford firetruck, and that's the last time I recall double clutching.

Americans fed up with Trump Funny. Politico (that bastion of all things right wing and MAGA) says even Californians are tired of the anti-Trumpers. California voters have Trump-resistance fatigue, poll finds Ignore them at your peril, Dems. But, paraphrasing Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, they just can't. It's in their nature. Which is another way of saying that's all they have. No plan at all to address the debt, the border or anything. Just Orange Man Bad. Which worked so well in November. California voters have Trump-resistance fatigue, poll finds - POLITICO

And the sad thing is that even if all that was true, he was STILL better than the other choice.