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Airalee

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  1. 1 hour ago, impulse said:

    Steak ‘n Shake announced that they will switch completely from cooking in vegetable oil to “100% all-natural beef tallow” by the end of February.

     

    I remember how the taste of fast food fries took a nosedive when they went from real fat to faux oil.  Thirty or 40 years later, we've found out that most vegetable oil is horrible for you. 

     

    I switched back to real butter 20 years ago for cooking at home.  And it tastes so much better than margarine.  Can't wait to taste French Fries cooked right.

     

     

    https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/17/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-beef-tallow-steak-n-shake/

     

    Steak ‘n shake makes great burgers!

     

    Butter is one of my essentials.  Can’t live without it.

     

     

     

     

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Well pointed out.

     

    Whenever I see some fat frumpy short haired political woman on the tv I don't need to be told that they are leftist ( Democrat ) sort.

     

    Q How can you tell if a woman is liberal without asking her?

     

    A Tell her a joke and if she doesn't laugh, odds on that she is a liberal.

    It’s the same thing with the pronoun crowd.

     

    Even though I don’t vote and rarely get involved in any sort of political discussion, I am convinced that the left are fraught with personality disorders.

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  3. 46 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

     

    Yeah, the guidestones were taken out with military precision… To my knowledge we don't know who did it.

    Let me put on my tinfoil hat.
     

    What is interesting about the Deagel reports is that it states that the population of western countries would collapse by up to 77% in the UK 68% in the US…but for Thailand, only 3.7%

     

    On one of the old “pro-vaccine” threads had a comment where the poster stated that he went to get his MRNA shot and when inquiring about one for his girlfriend was told that “these vaccines are only for foreigners” or something to that effect.

     

    Things that make you go hmmmmm. 🤔

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  4. 3 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

     

    Interesting…

     

    Deagel predicted in 2020 that the world population would drop massively by 2025… which is most likely not happening (though there are concerning trends) and the report has since been removed.

     

    But when one looks at who is behind Deagel, it gets very interesting as those are some of the most powerful people in the world.

     

    The Exposé did a paper on it in 2023:

     

    Dark Secrets Exposed: CIA is behind Deagel’s Shocking 2025 Depopulation Forecast & Official Excess Death Figures in the Millions prove it’s on Target & not just an Estimation

     

    We can confirm that Dr. Edwin A. Deagle Jr., who passed away on February 16th 2021, is the confirmed figurehead authorities would like you to believe is solely behind Deagel.com.

     

    During his life, Dr Edwin served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was also the Director of International Relations for The Rockefeller Foundation, an influential global philanthropic organization.

     

    https://expose-news.com/2023/08/06/cia-deagel-2025-depopulation-on-target/

     

    Ahh…I’m going to have to read that article.  I only read tidbits here and there by commenters on other sites.  I never knew who Deagel was or his connections.

     

    I wonder if all those powerful people behind Deagel side with Malthusian economics.

     

    I also heard that the Georgia Guidestones were removed shortly after the pandemic started.

     

    🧐

     

     

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  5. 12 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

    You just can't be polite when someone disagrees with you. You also respond to factual posts with nothing but abuse. It's called argument ad hominem.

     

    The tax thing is way overblown. based on my own situation. I won't be paying taxes here for at least ten years. IMO many other retirees will find their situation is similar.

     

    My experience with Thai government hospitals has been better than I could expect in Australia.

     

    If you don't like it here, go back to whatever country you came from. I for one won't miss you at all.

    Lol

     

    pot, kettle

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  6. 1 hour ago, rattlesnake said:

    That's a pretty compelling speech she made there.

     

    There is no more stopping the truth at this point.

     

    What happened these past few years was terrible.

     

    I hope it will be possible to help all the injured people who are still alive, and hold the criminals accountable.

    The insults and gaslighting seems to be the same as it ever was here on the forum.  I expect it to be the same worldwide.

     

    I wonder how much this all ties in with that Deagel population projection report I read about.

  7. 47 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

    Don't know where you are getting 600k exemptions from.

     

    I did forget about the first 150k is exempt, so that would be 210k (150 + 60).

     

    Of course if 65 +, then another 190k exempt.

     

    My #s are for single person 50-64 on visa for retirement, with no deductions.  Most negative scenario. 

     

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    300k (150k) @ 5% = 7,500

    next 200 @ 10% = 20,000

    next 90k @ 15% = 13,500

    Total ฿41,000

     

    That's not worth leaving for.

     

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    Taxes definitely aren't an issue.

    Worse case scenario of ฿41,000 


    Now run those figures on double the amount (1.6 million) for not married, under 65 with half the income being from long term capital gains.  
     

    I thought about transferring $100k USD to use as an emergency fund for healthcare.  I would sell off a small amount of stocks to get part of that $100k so most of my income for that year would be long term capital gains back in the US (Nevada).

     

    Here is the chart showing the federal capital gains tax brackets for 2025

     

    Tell me that it’s not worth bouncing out of Thailand for 6 months when those amounts are involved.

     

    But there are a lot of people who seem to be angry about that and want to give me some kind of lecture about choosing to limit my time in Thailand.  
     

    Why should they care what I do?  Why should they even address what choices I make?   Jealousy perhaps?

     

     

     

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, marin said:

    You are being aggressively disingenuous right now, fact!  

     

    To have even brought this up shows something. We are discussing a Serbian immigrant to Canada and his trolling and you come up with "disingenuous."

     

    Who has an agenda? Only you.... 

    no.  Telling me that taxes are covering my healthcare is disingenuous.

     

    Telling me that I should pay taxes to pay for potholed roads that never get fixed, dangerous sidewalks that never get fixed, schools that can’t even provide decent educations, even bringing the “street food seller” into the argument is disingenuous.

     

    It’s leftist nonsense.

     

    If Thailand wants us to pay the same taxes as other Thais, then we should get the same benefits as other Thais.  Period.

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