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On 7/1/2025 at 10:26 AM, KhunLA said:

as long as they keep banning cars from CH via tariffs

Tariffs do not ban imports.

But irrational tariffs like Trump's 50%-400% tariffs will  discourage imports because the import country cannot sell the inflated priced products due to tariff charge addition and thus will not order imported products.

14 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The debt was only a problem when the President was a Democrat.

 

 

 

 

"Since World War II, according to many economic metrics including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits, the United States economy has performed significantly better on average under the administrations of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents."

Many sources.

On 7/1/2025 at 3:16 PM, John Drake said:

I wish Prayuth was back. 

Well, he did take the country backwards.

Both in terms of democracy and economy.

On 7/2/2025 at 12:54 PM, KhunBENQ said:

I have shown Bangkok Bank statements printed, stamped and signed at the branch.

When I was on the 12 monthly foreign deposits method, in addition to the KB summary of the 12 monthly deposits 65k (usually greater), I went to the KB once a month to collect the twelve associated Credit Account Reports (CAR) that will match with each of the twelve foreign transfer deposits coded in your passbook.

I now have a LTR visa so no longer need to prove foreign transfers.

2 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

Chinese are the second largest (legal) immigrant group to Mexico

Probably true in Panama

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

then leaving someone else to pick up the bill in 2028.

"Someone" not being the top 1 percent whose tax cuts will total $1.02 trillion over the next decade. 

10 hours ago, Yagoda said:

god bless America!!!!!!

Gold bless Trump!!!!

10 hours ago, Social Media said:

including the recent prisoner and body exchanges that took place last month.

But excluding mention of Russian execution of Ukraine's POWs, attacks directly against Ukrainian civilians and kidnapping of Ukraine children.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pham underscored that any research or survey operations by foreign powers in these areas without Vietnam's consent are breaches of its sovereign rights and jurisdiction.

Incorrect with regard to breach of sovereign rights and jurisdiction beyond 12 nautical miles from the baseline, wherein the coastal state has absolute sovereignty. 

24 nautical miles from the baseline, the coastal state has limited sovereignty to enforce laws related to customs, taxation, immigration, and sanitation, according to the International Maritime Organization. But not outright blanket sovereignty, ie., prevent foreign intrusion.

200 nautical miles from the baseline, where the coastal state has sovereign rights only over natural resources (e.g., fishing, oil, gas). But cannot deny freedom of travel to the extent of conducting survey lines of sight; however, a survey of seabed and/or beneath seabed for potential resource extraction would not be (I believe) considered legal freedom of travel. 

(1 nautical mile = 1.852 Km = 1.15 miles)

2 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

I guess it can only apply to people holding dual citizenship.

Still unconstitutional unless US citizenship was obtained illegally or through fraud in their original application. 

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the military's current commitment to reform, rather than interference, marks a significant shift in Thailand's governance landscape.

Then require a permanent 100% elected Senate. Will the military commit to having no military appointed to the Senate nor military selected in the Senate?

That would be a "significant shift in Thailand's governance landscape."

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra

Who now is the Minister of Culture. 

House waiting for the new PM.

8 hours ago, save the frogs said:

I know in this case it's Twitter.

Prosecution has also gone after private OnlyFans accounts. 

The law is apparently not limited to public access.

10 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

protected wildlife without authorisation

He had a lot of balls smuggling this wildlife.

Lame I know.

7 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Dissolve both houses. Fresh national elections for both houses. CC and EC remains a problem as they are clearly are  arm of the military establishment. A coup is looking more and more likely IMO.

The "Thai Senate cannot be dissolved. It has a fixed, non-renewable, five-year term. The Senate members are appointed, not elected, and serve their full term regardless of the political climate." (Google)

Incidentally, the Senate members have been selected by pro-military committees.

The House can be dissolved by a House majority no-confidence vote or by the PM. Then a national election must be held (apart from a military coup in 2014).

But as we've seen twice now since 2023 (I believe) the CC can unilaterally remove the PM without dissolving the House (thus preserving present House majority) and the House majority then selects the PM. No messy national election results that otherwise might give the People's Party a majority coalition.

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Business operators are reminded that while cannabis offers new commercial avenues

Isn't that what the government originally offered when it decriminalized cannabis? 

Reversing the law doesn't "offer new commercial avenues." It restricts avenues.

When the flood reaches your waistline, you probably don't need an alert.

1 hour ago, Zakhar said:

Insurgents? Can't say it loud as Muslim Separatists?

Correct, can't call them Muslim Separatists.

An insurgency is a rebellion. 

They are Malay Muslims who seek to REGAIN their former nation's sovereignty the Kingdom of Patani that was forcefully annexed by Buddhist Thailand in violation of a Peace Treaty to become a Thailand Province. Since 2014 the Thai government has allegedly sought peace negotiations but to date - nothing.

They are not separatists seeking to create a new Muslim state.

22 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

The real question is why this required an executive order to begin with?! It’s pathetic! It should’ve been obvious from the get-go!

Blame it on the Constitution that does not allow discrimination based on gender.

But then Trump and his attorneys tell the courts F*** the Constitution.

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

 $16 million to Trump... pocket change for him.

Doesn't come close to the $83.3 million Trump must pay to the writer E. Jean Carroll over defamatory remarks he made about her while he was president in response to her rape accusation. 

11 hours ago, Social Media said:

Indigenous Australians

They are not Australians but Aboriginal Natives.

Much like the American Indian is not American but one of the many indigenous natives such as the Black Foot, Apache and Mohawks. 

They were and are "nations" with their own languages, histories, and cultural traditions. 

In Thailand they were Malay Muslims of the Kingdom of Patani but after forced annexation into the Kingdom of Siam they became Thai Malay Muslims. 

8 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Please tell us all why, then we can possibly follow suit. I take it you use an iPhone.

I use Brave as my browser, and ChatGPT or Co-Pilot for searching everything else, sometimes Leo, Perplexity, and have been known to utilise Gemini. 

Did Google Earth get it right that the Gulf of Mexico should become the Gulf of America?

1 hour ago, Thumbs said:

Good God are those thai police giants or are those balcony railings dangerously low! Any hotel advertising for western guests should have the balcony railings examined for safety 

In this case balcony railings are irrelevant. Read again.

4 hours ago, Emdog said:

too many envelopes already distributed and spent. Chinese engines should be good enough.

Substantial down payment was paid years ago under the Prayut regime and his "arranged" Parliament approved an installment plan to payoff the balance of the acquisition. That plan cannot be altered nor delayed without agreement from China.

So whatever the current Parliament decides now is already committed.

The so-called "Chinese engine" is actually Chinese generator that will be modified to operate as a propulsion engine. China will certify the "engine" as functional (?) but note that China does not use the generator on any of its submarines as an engine!  So what is a certification really worth?