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Just now, stevenl said:

He may end up with the result you indicate, but he's not attempting to do this.

I'll grant you that Trump doesn't have the knowledge or intelligence to even recognize the problem let alone to find a solution, there are adults in the background force feeding Trump and his team with colourful charts. Trump's job was to make painful solutions palatable to an American public who thought 1929 couldn't ever happen again. Unfortunately Trump is being Trump.

3 hours ago, novacova said:

Pull out a lawn chair, grab some popcorn, sit back and watch.

Exactly, last time I sat on the veranda with my daughter who was visiting me from quiet safe Germany and we listened enthralled to the artillery firing a few kilometers away.

19 minutes ago, novacova said:

Oh my, you seem bothered. Didn’t mean for you to take it so personally, though as entertaining as it is, who really gives a frik’n hoot about idioms or typos unless one ain’t capable of deciphering one of them there descriptives here isn’t there now later.

No, I'm not overly bothered, I wrote it tongue in cheek but as Oscar Wilde once wrote, "A man who calls a spade a spade should be made to use one". Form and presentation do matter if one is to be taken seriously, you presumably choose your clothes, matching colour with care to represent yourself to the world at large, speech is just, if not more, important.

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Pedantic native speaker. 

 

Because you are unable to formulate an argument, you nitpick. 

There are no arguments here, only subjective opinions.  Trump is doing what has to be done, the out of control national and fiscal debt can only be solved by a huge dollar devaluation and a gradual loss of the reserve currency status. Trump is attempting to do this through chaos, by blaming other sovereign states for producing quality affordable goods that Americans want to buy with debt supplied by these same sovereign countries. It has become clear to most economists that this state of affairs can't continue.

A well educated president with a competent cabinet could have explained this in a dignified coherent manner but Trump isn't an intelligent man and lacks honesty and dignity while he has surrounded himself with an incompetent team of sycophants, so instead he uses chaos and threats while attempting to water down the constitution. His MAGA base aren't the sharpest knives in the draw, flag saluting, hand on heart credit card holders who believe it is their God given  right to consume what others produce using borrowed money.

It is understandable that Trump (and many others) see the only solution ist to bring back America's industrial base and start exporting to the world and to produce goods for the American market, first step has to be to debase the Dollar (which he is doing). This wont work, even with a debased currency American workers earn too much, how could a Chinese worker earning just a few Dollars an hour buy an American car? Where will America find cheap labor to produce mass quantities of Iphones at an affordable price? American companies already invested in Asia with secure supply lines aren't going to up sticks and invest billions in the chaos that is America, there is a whole world to sell their products too, America will just be left behind. 

The solution......I have no idea but America could start with humility.

11 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

English major? 

Native speaker, although for some, proper use of the native tongue requires extra tuition.

2 hours ago, novacova said:

 

 

 

 

Some serious dirtbag antisocial characters here isn’t there.

If you start with a plural you shouldn't end with a singular, but I'm sure we will overlook this mistake bigly

11 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Trumps wining election  speech was the huge turning point , when he proclaimed that there were only two genders . 

   That empowered people to speak out and oppose the numerous gender policies .

   Trumps election win changed everything 

It sure did, now America has changed into a world wide comic number.

2 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

You are forgetting about the graffiti on the walls of public toilets.  

or the aids clinic

2 hours ago, UWEB said:

What for a BBL Debit Card do you have, Union Pay or Master Card? I have a Master Card and can do national and International Online Payments.

Master card. Do you have to ring up the number on the back first?

5 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

You can call the number on the back of the Thai debit card to enable online payments.

 

It also helps just before traveling to call them and let them know where you are going, and the dates.

5 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

You can call the number on the back of the Thai debit card to enable online payments.

 

It also helps just before traveling to call them and let them know where you are going, and the dates.

Oh! so that actually works? I'll give it a try. Thanks.

11 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

I got a credit card sent to Thailand. You just have to give an EU address when you open.

 

 

He would need to use an EU address to open, but the card can then be sent to Thailand. It is a credit card, not a debit card, VISA to be precise.

Anyway my German bank knows me well, I've been with them for 35 years and of course Wise knows where I live, telling porkies can lead to loss of service.

14 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Ring up your German bank and ask them to switch whatever on so you can do internet payments and foreign payments, my UK bank i can personally switch these things on and off. Try their app or website

Unfortunately when I ordered the card from Germany they sent me a debit card without even ATM ability even though I specifically asked them for it. They apologized of course and offered to send me the correct card but this means they (the factory that makes them) would instantly cancel the card I have, it can take 6 to 8 weeks before a new card arrives so I'm staying with what I have, it's good enough for wise. The last time I waited for a card it took so long that I filled out an online form for international bank transfers..... "We cant do that, you have to sign it in front of us". I rang them up and spoke to the bank manager, who knew me, "Just this once but not again". My German friends are not very flexible.

1 minute ago, fredwiggy said:

I sometimes have a little trouble ordering things online out of country, but a call to the bank usually helps. You can also get a prepaid card as this link shows.........https://www.mastercard.co.th/en-th/personal/find-a-card/standard-prepaid-card.html.

Thanks for that.

Being old and old fashioned I have always paid cash and never thought to buy online, so I know nothing. 6 months ago I tried buying an anti-virus program online using my Bangkok bank debit card, it was refused. I tried using my German debit card, this was also refused. My German bank told me that I can't use the card to buy online outside of Europe. My Bangkok bank lady said that to use the Bangkok bank debit card online I have to ring up the number on the back of the card but on reading it the number was just to report finding a lost card. I was thinking of taking a holiday in Cambodia but saw on the website that I should buy a e visa online for 30 dollars, I haven't tried yet (dollars is an increase in the difficulties perhaps.

I can't apply for a German credit card because I'm outside of Europe, to apply I must have an address there. It seems unlikely that I could get a Thai credit card and anyway I would rarely use it. Paypal seems out of the question NDID doesn't like our ID number. People seem to buy online all the time, how do you do it?

2 hours ago, JAG said:

Absolutely, replace him with Newin Chidlob, who is absolutely squeaky clean, presents an impenetrable front to corrupt practices, and absolutely has no ambitions in the line of family or clan political dynasties!

Who knows what's in a mans heart.

3 hours ago, Magictoad said:

Can we PLEASE have an explanation of which is which? The current display is most unhelpful. 

And can people please show a modicum of respect for the image in question. Please remember there are a lot of Catholics who may be offended by your silly comments. 

What, sex pat Catholics in Thailand? Blessed are the cheese makers.

Looks like the priest has been at her.........again, no wonder she's crying.

1 hour ago, DaveBart said:

Eventually the people of England will say enough is enough and take the law into their own hands like they did in Ireland 

The best will just leave.