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Well that will help the "poorly educated" trump fans!!! Maybe trump should read it because he doesn't understand what causes a trade deficit either!!

MTG is an out and out nutjob........and of course a staunch Republican!

He was the boss of the "Absolute group", the timeshare outfit of old, esp in Phuket/Patong.

You are wasting your time with this nut job.....I quoted viruses that are known to exist and which are capable of killing humans, but to no avail. As my dear old Mum used to say, "he isn't the full quid" and that is why I put him on ignore some time ago as I have no time for his nonsense.

Putin is still in charge despite trump saying he would bring the war to an end on day one of his presidency. This is how its going.......Vlad is holding the winning cards. LoL

Picking up on that point, or at least one related to it, I read an article regarding China seeking to reduce the amount of rare earths which were previously exported to the USA, which are vital to the electrical and electronics industries and came across this little piece of information relating to a factory which was built in the USA to produce rare earth magnets...... "After the embargo in 2010, the Japanese company Hitachi Metals, which changed its name in 2023 to Proterial, responding to concern from the administration of former President Barack Obama, built a rare earth magnets factory in North Carolina from 2011 to 2013. The Hitachi Metals factory, with several dozen employees, had higher costs than the giant complexes being built in Ganzhou. American companies proved unwilling to pay extra for magnets produced in the United States and switched to Chinese suppliers. Hitachi closed the factory in 2020 and the equipment went into storage". So in effect, the American companies switched their buying to China because it was cheaper to do so, NOW the orange buffoon thinks he can quite easily bring back the manufacturing to the USA and all will be well – – yeah right. The American companies wouldn't pay back then, and there's no reason to suspect they will now either, especially with the cost of labour and other essentials being higher at the moment than they were then. The poor American public were promised that manufacturing etc would come back to the US and all would be hunky-dory, but in the real world, NOT Magaland, the reality is quite different.

Keep drinking the Kool Aid as I have never posted a "conspiracy theory" about the convicted felon, compulsive liar, multi bankrupt, charity thief, University scammer and grifter (still wearing your gold sneakers?) because the truth is out there and is plain to see. Touche.

Well I am not a Biden bro/supporter and if you really think that trump would give that much money away without some form of recompense from elsewhere then you truly are one of trump's poorly educated Maga goobers. LOL!

With trump it is all about money....and his foray into crypto speaks volumes esp as he had previouly called it a scam before bringing David Sacks on to his team. Trump had previously called crypto a “scam” but at a US$50,000-a-ticket event, a handful of crypto executives convinced trump to get behind it and he changed his mind. I wonder why!!? "Amid economic uncertainty, critics fear that David Sacks, who was heavily invested in crypto before divesting for his White House role, will usher in an industry-led free-for-all, leaving consumers vulnerable to scams and volatility. Customers lost more than US$8 billion in deposits when the crypto exchange FTX imploded in 2022". “There’s no reason to think that he won’t be bringing a view that is ‘corporations first’ as opposed to America or Americans first,” said Rick Claypool, research director of Public Citizen, a money-in-politics watchdog group. “It’s a tragedy for the American people who rely on the federal Government to protect them.”

All that proves is that there are more dumb people in America than was previously thought. Compulsive liars will lie and dumb followers will follow – – sad but true. And the very same poorly educated dumb followers will be hardest hit by he dumb decisions of this clown.

And the sad thing is that even if all that was true..........ah another fan of the felon/compulsive liar/charity funds stealer/pu$$y grabber and trump university con man. All proven!! And of course he has reneged on his promises, is being played by Putin and is dumb, and not knowing just how dumb he is, is a fatal flaw, but Magas cannot/will not see it, so perhaps this will help.....

Yes I agree, it was very good and I watched it over the previous two nights and can only hope that I can find more high class series like that one. IMO the series was very cleverly put together and the acting was superb.

Yeah right.....it will be the first in his life!!! But hold on, maybe it was his plan to buy the casinos and make them go bankrupt, as it was his other businesses – – a grand bankruptcy plan. Nailed it!!

Where can I find this movie? Thanks.

If a company spokesperson is happy to tell and repeat lies then that says much about their integrity and honesty.........the job obviously suits her.

Yes as long as she keeps repeating his lies and defending them.....sad sack, and some!

It took nearly 50 years to achieve reasonable trade policy stability, from the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1947 to the World Trade Organisation in 1995. Why assume it will not take as long to clean up Trump’s mess? In the meantime, the uncertainty he has created cannot be undone, even if he backs down completely. Not even his removal from office or the election of a President in 2028 committed to the old Washington Consensus will entirely reverse the harm he has caused in two weeks since his “Liberation Day” — April 2. No one can be confident investing when the antics of the world’s most powerful individual can move financial markets 10% on any given day and with the US delivering such sudden, radical and irrational policy swings and appearing at risk of autocracy.

Following on from the headline, this is great news and IMHO sanity has prevailed........... "The decision by the Supreme Court that laws against sex-based discrimination should only apply to biological women will lead to a raft of changes. They are expected to include who can access single-sex NHS wards, which police officers can carry out strip searches, and who can join female teams in elite sport. Previously, trans women were given the same rights as biological women, allowing them access to female-only spaces and groups. Although the judges said that trans women could not be discriminated against, the ruling means they will no longer be treated the same as people born female. Judges unanimously ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not the gender with which a person identifies. The justices said that for the purpose of equality laws, transgender women were not legally women, even if they have a gender recognition certificate".

It is to laugh!

I'm confused @Crossy (not hard these days) but the red wine is labelled sauvignon blanc, which as we all know is a white wine, so what am I missing here?? I have visited the Brancott Estate winery near Blenheim in the South Island of New Zealand and I enjoyed the visit as well as the wine tasting.

Decided to watch the movie, "The Life of David Gale" the other night and was very pleased that I did as I couldn't remember if I had seen it before, so nothing lost there. What did strike me was the acting of Kevin Spacey, because it was excellent, and I know he has fallen from grace with the various "accusations" against him, but watching this movie showed me how much he has been missed. Having said that, I did think his role in "The Usual Suspects" was also excellent – – if you haven't seen "The Life of David Gale" then I can highly recommend it.

Many of the exempted products, including hard drives and computer processors, are not generally made in the United States and Trump argues tariffs are a way to bring domestic manufacturing back. And I can just see the American working man assembling printed circuit boards for a couple of dollars an hour....yeah right! Get real you Maga goobers cos there was a reason that these computer parts were manufactured in China And this blonde bimbo supports the felon's every word and yet said she wouldn't lie!! Lied again!!!!!!!

Agree and way back in the early days of Thai Visa I also posted about this ruse, stating that it was not legal and to back this up, a contract signed using this "pretense" could be ruled as null and void if it came down to the wire. On the subject of using a Thai nominee to buy/build a house, a friend of mine had bought a villa using this route and when his lawyer sold it in the absence of my friend, he took it to court, expecting a favourable outcome, however the ruling was that the original contract/agreement was illegal anyway, so he had no comeback whatsoever and lost everything. A hard and expensive lesson to learn.

During a lull at a White House dinner, Melania Trump leaned over to chat with Elon Musk. "I bought Donald a parrot for his birthday. That bird is so smart, Donald has already taught him to say over two hundred words!" “That’s very impressive," said Musk “but you do realize he just speaks the words. He doesn't really understand what they all mean.” "Oh, I know", replied Melania, “but neither does the parrot!”

Please go and educate yourself about BSE, but then again your post already shows that you don't know what you are talking about....ignorance is bliss, they say!!! Prions: BSE is caused by a prion, a misfolded protein that can cause other proteins to misfold, leading to a build-up of these abnormal proteins in the brain and spinal cord. Contaminated Feed: Cattle become infected by eating feed contaminated with prion-infected material, such as meat and bone meal from other infected animals. Classical BSE: Classical BSE is caused by feeding cattle protein products from other cattle, which may carry BSE prions.