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"Some offices even suggest expats declare income based on the 800,000 baht needed annually for retirement extensions, adjusting tax dues accordingly." My SCB account already takes taxes out... shows as a line 'tx" in my passbook

Just imagine if Thailand had police patrolling in police cars. All we can do is just imagine.... "it's dangerous out there! better to stay in cop shop.'

There has never been a country named "America" either, if you want to take that sort of non sequitur a bit further.... Trump too frickin cheap and/or stupid to not hire security to watch his property in what is clearly hostile territory (Scotland)...? It would take time, numbers and coordination to pull off that amount of vandalism.

"During his campaign, Trump vowed to end “wokeness” and “leftist indoctrination” in education. He pledged to dismantle diversity programs that he says amount to discrimination, and to impose fines on colleges "up to the entire amount of their endowment.”"https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2025-01-09/trump-wants-to-change-colleges-nationwide-gop-led-states-offer-a-preview goes beyond mere liberalism: any race other than white; any gender other than male, any orientation other than straight. Witness the dumb moves to remove photos from Armed forces archives of atomic bomb dropping B29 because was named "Enola Gay" after pilots mother. You don't get much more stupid than that without working at it 24/7. "Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education," Trump said. "Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/10/trump-accuses-colleges-radical-left-indoctrination-threatens-tax-exemption/5415908002/ Does this bust thru your wall of voluntary ignorance? Happy now?

Morons. Steal a pickup truck first Then go for appliances...

I thought pilfering money, corruption, theft etc was the "raison d'être" for getting into Thai politics, political parties, etc

Trump slurring Schumer https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rights-groups-say-trump-used-term-palestinian-slur-reference-schumer-2025-03-12/ "9. “I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.” (USA Today, May 20, 1991)" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/the-absolute-trumpest-121328/#ixzz3ntnAt2SR So here are the links... Not "made up in my head" nor pulled out of my backside like so many maga 'facts'

Meanwhile, today Trump said Chuck Shumer is "now a Palestinian, not Jewish anymore.." which includes the implied insult that being a Palestinian is a bad thing to be... Trump is the guy that remarked he didn't want black guys counting his money, he wanted "short guys with yarmulkes"... Trump doesn't care if someone is antisemitic.... he is using this to go after higher education which he sees as chock full of liberals

Why did report stating his love of football have anything to do with it? When I die, will obit say "Long time Beatles fan"? well, maybe

"Should the project developers fail to act, the city will undertake the demolition itself and charge the costs to the owners." Fat chance of collecting even a satang in that case

In theory, sounds good... but many instances of injection not working... besides you have all that time spent being checked if health enough to kill (?), strap down, various cocktails... "Death is pronounced after cardiac activity stops. Death usually occurs within seven minutes, although, due to complications in finding a suitable vein, the whole procedure can take up to two hours, as was the case with the execution of Christopher Newton on May 24, 2007." per google search Advantage of firing squad is that it is quick and time tested

Well, there were no complaints.... good point ya had there... gave me a good laugh

"Ukraine doesn't have the cards" says Mr. "Art of the deal". Trump has handed the entire deck to Mr Putin... "Just tell me what to kiss and how much" is how Trump deals with Putin

Never ask "How thick can you get?"... they will consider it a challenge to their manhood and seek to amaze with their even more dense thickness

"Dead men tell no tales"

It only hurts for a very brief time I have heard. As Gary Gilmore famously said prior to his firing squad execution in 1977 "Let's do it" It is unclear if Nike ad motto "Just do it" was a spin off of Gilmore's last words

Maybe 9 years ago I was at Central Pattaya and took a few discrete photos, sent them off to a Bangkok based animal protection NGO. Nothing was done....

smooth move X Lax (That was a phrase we used as kids when someone did something really stupid and/or clumsily. ExLax would help you have a bowel movement, take a crap... laxative...)

hmm why did they change the name of the festival? What is wrong with "Song Kran"?

"...Chinese government has consented to monitoring the Palestinians once they are returned.." Huh? Say what? Does the AI that writes these stories consider all Muslim refugees to be Palestinians? Does anyone proof read these?

That might cover one hospitalization event, if not too complex. And who would pay the million dollars? Not Trump... guess who?

"A Growing Legal Dilemma" what dilemma? Here is the definition: "a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones" Is enforcing the law seen as an undesirable alternative? hmm maybe it is here in Thailand.... never mind

just once I would like to see you deal with facts rather than "sounds like...", "sort of thing they would do" And what is this degenerate crime family trolling? I assume you are for Trump, 34 felony convictions... Jared's father convicted of jury tampering etc, pardoned (why?) by Donald; his children who were using Trump charity as their loose change box and were ordered to have no more charities and take classes on what a non profit is.... Donald would have been assigned, but he was Pres at the time... Biden's son broke the law. No argument. But no where near the generations wide Trump crime family

Trump is a traitor to US interests. He just "paused" arms shipments, he is ordering stopping all aid to Ukraine; his defense stooge has order a stop to cyber warfare against Russia; he is in process of ending all economic sanctions against Russia. If that isn't "aiding an abetting the enemy", I don't know what is And don't you dare say Russia is not US enemy

Just to remind Trump backers, the trade deal Trump complains about that is robbing and destroying US is the one his administration put in effect during DJT Part 1. The deal that was the "envy of the world, that would make all 3 economies grow at an unprecedented rate." as he said boasting of the deal back then Trump tends to blame all on Biden.... why not this time? oh, this was 100% his deal, his baby to replace NAFTA... and I suppose it fitting that this moron shoots himself & US with his stupidity regarding tariffs