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candide

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  1. To call it a recession or not at this stage is much like splitting hairs. What matters is how it will evolve during next semester. If growth starts again nobody will care whether the first semester could be called a technical recession or not. If it's negative there will be no doubt about the U.S. experiencing a recession. Obviously, economists are observing mixed signals and are considering that a further recession trend is not certain.
  2. Faux news! Lol! You can check Biden's speech, he never talked about China. This was all made up by Trump. The rieason Biden and Pelosi called Trump xenophobic was about the so-called "Muslim ban" announced a few days before, just like they did for the previous Muslim bans, I.e. Pelosi speech on 27 January 2020 https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/12720
  3. It's a lie. He wasn't accused of being racist for (partially) stopping flights from China!
  4. Well, I guess one doesn't care about being assimilated when dead....
  5. 2 major parties. One sore loser lost elections by a landslide. The other won and painfully tries to fix the mess left by the sore (+liar, cheat and traitor) loser.
  6. Why did they stop (not suddenly as you claim, it was during the Covid 19 pandemic) job searching?
  7. Not legal? The national guard has been deployed at the Capitol during nearly 5 month! https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/05/23/national-guard-mission-to-provide-security-ending-at-capitol/
  8. That's the essence of Brexitism: wanting to have it both ways. When it's not possible (which is always the case), blame the EU, the French (in particular Macron), or nazi Germany.
  9. I am thinking of someone else who has lost all credibility......
  10. Aren't you tired of posting the same debunked B.S. over and over? This is ridiculous!
  11. You made a claim, It's your job to back it with numbers, but I doubt you will.
  12. Ahem...don't you know that he has been asked to do it?
  13. I have always wondered why some people are still blaming Thaksin for the poor level of education as he was ousted 15 years ago. Haven't you noticed which political colour has been mainly governing the country since 2006?
  14. The question was about Spain, not France. Anyway, as you are raising attention to travelling to France by train, what is the usual passport check waiting time for Eurostar,?
  15. As far as I remember, there was the same problem in Spain in summer 2020. From where do you expect queues in Spain? There are no land border checks between Shengen countries and I doubt many UK tourists sail directly to Spain.
  16. This act could be called the "blue collars" act. It was time a President cared about them and about the real economy. A big change from Trump who only cared about financial markets, as examplified by his tax cuts for the rich and for businesses, which have been mainly used for buying stocks.
  17. Thaksin needed to be smart, because he was under threat of being held accountable. Either by being voted out, or by courts (which ultimately happened to him). Prayut could afford to be as dumb as he was, and rape the country in an as obvious way as he wanted, because he was 100% unaccountable. No risk of being voted out and no risk of being convicted.
  18. Well, at least with Thaksin, people had no doubt for whom they were voting.
  19. Again, definitive assertion without much backing "Spain has a method to solve its problems". I hope so, considering that other checks: Covid document, money, proof of accommodation, still must be checked manually. + many UK flights cancelled (that was one of the reasons evoked to explain why more people used their car instead) "France has not". Obviously, it has after last Saturday, so how do you know it hasn't? Let's wait to see how a few week-ends are going.
  20. Happened one day in Dover, during at least two months in Spain.
  21. As usual, you don't show anything to back your assertion. Anyway, if Majorca eventually solved its problems after two months of nightmare for UK travellers, I am glad about it. 1. What about Dover now? Any report of long queues? It seems the French have solved thei problems after 2 days.compared to 2 months for Spain. 2. Do you know how Spanish airports claimed they would solve the queue problem? By using e-gates. Now as you consider that passing through sea port checks by car is comparable to airport checks, please explain how to pass cars through e-gates?
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