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I'm kind of tired of dishwashers that take 2 hours a cycle and don't get the dishes clean, and washing machines with similar performance. And showers where the water kinda pees out of the nozzle instead of a good flow.

Suggesting that the next guy spend more time at the target range isn't the same as hurting his feelings.

Look at your own graph. US oil exports boomed during Trump 1 and stagnated under Biden. As for evidence that Biden promised to wean us off fossil fuels, that was a campaign promise, and yet another failure on his part.

Or maybe they're denying entry to tourists advocating assassinating the President (and Musk) on social media. There's a lot of that going on in the Left side of things.

He did try. He failed miserably, just like the rest of his tenure.

Wasn't that the administration that promised to wean us off fossil fuels?

Bureau of Labor Statistics figures said the Consumer Price Index fell a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in March. That led to a 12-month inflation rate of 2.4 percent down from the February rate of 2.8 percent, according to CNBC. The core inflation rate, which excludes food and energy prices, was at 2.8 percent, the lowest core inflation rate since March 2021. In case you missed it...

FWIW, NX996 is from Macau, not the Mainland.

They sent a few hundred and have to take one back. Still winning bigly. It's on the Daily Caller landing page, including the removal of the deadline imposed by the lower court. Fox is blocked here do I can't tell if they've reported it.

If you believe that, you have no clue about cross border business and fair access to unbiased courts in the countries you do business in. Tariffs are just a lever to negotiate fair access to the courts (among 100 other factors that levels the playing field) For years, I've been reading about the ridiculous tariffs on imported wine and imported cars and the shabby, biased way foreign companies are treated in Thai courts. But nobody had a plan to address them. Until the Bad Orange Man.

Songkran 2023, from Sala Daeng BTS station. About 75% foreign tourists, spending their sweaty tourist money (right after Covid). That crowd went all up and down Silom and over to Lumpini Park. I don't participate, but I enjoy the heck out of watching people having fun.

And they rag on Trump for trying to end that kind of fooknuttery. One more example of countries wanting things one way.

Neither are Christmas sales in September. But things change.

Good cautionary tale, and also a good reason to always have some extra cash with you when you travel. I'm also a little easier on noobs who may not know the ins and outs (and the difference between a visa on arrival and an entry stamp). That's something you usually figure out after crossing multiple borders.

Imagine the tragedy if they gave the patient a drug that's not recommended for someone with those chromosomes, because someone wasn't clear about who they were treating. The sad thing is that, like the Covid mandates, you can't object on scientific grounds or based on personal freedoms and choice. Because those have been thrown out the window. You have to object on religious grounds.

It's the collective guilt of all the colonial powers, and it's not just Israel that's in a forever war. They're letting immigrants in from all over to atone for the perceived sins of colonialism. Forgetting that those sins were just the way of life at that point in history, and that the "oppressed" peoples probably kidnapped and enslaved as many Europeans as Africans. But they didn't advance like the West so they lost.

The yips? He just postponed. Now he's bringing a sledgehammer to every negotiation. They call that "strategic ambiguity".

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: Doh.

The US economy has been on a debt driven sugar buzz from all the Bidenbucks being dumped into it. The real numbers aren't as great as the hype.

That's a feature of employment in the USA. Very few Americans with a job need a 60 day entry because if the company can spare you for more than 2 weeks, chances are they'll decide they didn't need you anyway. As much as I love Thailand and would love my friends and family to meet me there, I tell them the R/T is brutal, and jet lag will steal a few days of your holiday so best to stay closer to home.

I'd like Israel to quit lying, quit building illegal settlements and quit violating international laws with impunity. The USS Liberty incident is just one more example of a pattern of their impunity and thumbing their nose. And yes, I would like them to answer for deliberately killing a bunch of Americans. They're still dead 60 years later, and nobody has been held to account.

Are there nukes in play? Is the USA spending my tax money to fund one side or the other (or both)? Is it likely to go on for another 80 years? And did the Sudanese sink an American ship, kill dozens of American sailors then claim that they didn't see the bigass American flag during the many hours that they flew surveillance over it before attacking?

The national debt is absolutely related to trade imbalances. And directly related to the OP, which is, "What's the plan?" I don't refer to it as a tariff crisis. It's an opportunity.

Good question. I'm only replying to the post.

I don't know about him, but I'm interested in Israel because I don't see a way out of the morass that the UK put that region in after the World Wars. I can see an end to Ukraine war this year. But I fear Israel will still be fighting in 50 or 75 or 100 years, barring a complete ethnic cleanse of the disputed areas. They're in an intractable situation, and it could all go tits up if Iran gets a bunch of nukes.