He was running the show. This is a big strike. Bajaj commander Gholamreza Soleimani also taken out. Two very high value targets. Senior leader after senior leader taken out. Who's running the country and the war now? Whoever it is they too might not be around much longer.

1 minute ago, johnnybangkok said:

And what is a also fact is it's happening all over America but you and Trump/Vance are only interested in the blue states. That's called bias and especially egressious coming from a President who is supposed to represent ALL Americans.

I didn't say it wasn't happening all over America. I'm just saying in Cali it's going to be big. Fraud will be looked for in both blue and red states. Be interesting to see where the most is.

1 minute ago, johnnybangkok said:

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

Your posts are the very definition of Brandolini's Law.

It's now clear that you don't know what I'll make something up means. Somewhat the opposite of factual. What is a fact though is that there is fraud in California concerning hospice/homecare/childcare.

55 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

So as I suspected, you don't actually know and are relying on a crystal ball to help you out.

I'll make something up. Fraud in Cali alone will be around $200 billion. Pretty clear I'd say. Mind you IMO 10x more than Minnesota might be around the mark which would be around $200 billion.

4 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

From the very article you quoted 'Hospice fraud is a nationwide problem. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General reported in 2023 that suspected hospice fraud amounts totaled an estimated $198.1 million.'

So where is this $200 billion you are talking about?

The surface has only just been scratched. You wait and see. Minnesota is huge as far as fraud goes so Cali will be a lot bigger.

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

This is just part of the ongoing MAGA Civil War.

This tells a different story.

CNN Data Guru Reports War in Iran ‘Tremendously Popular’ With Trump’s MAGA Base: ‘Tucker Carlson Be Darned’

Some right-wing media figures have bashed President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, but CNN data guru Harry Enten said don’t let them fool you into believing that’s how most Make America Great Again voters feel.

Enten on Tuesday morning reported the polling shows MAGA overwhelmingly backs Operation Epic Fury.

“Look at this! Nearly 9 in 10, 89% approve of the U.S. military action in Iran. That is the MAGA GOP base,” Enten said during a segment on CNN News Central. “Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base.”

His data came from recent NBC and CNN polls.

Some right-wing media figures have bashed President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, but CNN data guru Harry Enten said don’t let them fool you into believing that’s how most Make America Great Again voters feel.

Yahoo News

13 hours ago, bannork said:

Traffic queues in north east Thailand for diesel .

Panic buying. Good way to deplete stocks.

5 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

And I'm sure you have a trustworthy link to share with us confirming this rather than just what is being fed to you by Trump, Vance and Fox News?

We await with baited breath.

We visited “ground zero” for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, California

https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/hospice-fraud/

2 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

Well if he doesn't find anything he can simply make up the numbers just like Musk did.

How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US government spending? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4j33klz33o

I'll make something up. Fraud in Cali alone will be around $200 billion. This might be an underestimate when you look at the fraud in Minnesota. Child educational care centres (aka learing centres and people's houses) and hospice/home health care seems to be the popular avenues of gaining federal funds in Cali.

4 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Imminent is not the same as unavoidable. wikidiff.com/unavoidable/imminent

Just because something is unavoidable does not mean it is imminent. Rather easy to understand for most people.

Unavoidable is part of the definition of imminent as I pointed out above. Impending threat, credible threat and unavoidable threat along with immediate threat are all parts of the definition of imminent. So, saying there's an imminent threat doesn't by definition necessarily mean immediate threat.

19 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

Notice how quiet JD Vance has been since the Iran attack began?

He's busy finding fraud and my guess is he'll find a lot.

What a good idea. Let AI do the test for you.

51 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Nonsense. How is a "significant threat of instant harm" not immediate? If anything, "instant" is even more extreme than "immediate".

Impending or unavoidable. Both part of the definition with neither being instant or immediate. Rather easy to understand.

4 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Funny. You found my recent comment unintelligible, yet you offer this:

On the one hand you claim that "It all depends on what is considered imminent." In your first 2 sentence yet you offer a definition that clearly defines what imminent is. And that agrees with how Chatgpt and GeminiAI define "imminent". And then you go off on some jag that means what exactly? That the threat isn't imminent? Or that somehow imminent doesn't mean immediate threat but does mean impending threat or unavoidable threat? The definition clearly state that an imminent threat poses "a significant risk of instant harm or injury, requiring urgent action to address it."

Seems you didn't read past my first two sentences or are ignoring the second two of the three points of the definition. I clearly stated there was no immediate threat but this by definition does not mean there was no "imminent" threat.

27 minutes ago, JimCM said:

You missed the important point that you've been trying to deny on other threads,

Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed the administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby".

It all depends on what is considered imminent.

AI Overview

An imminent threat is an immediate, impending, and unavoidable danger that poses a significant risk of instant harm or injury, requiring urgent action to address it. It differs from future danger by being instantly actionable, with a present ability and opportunity to cause injury. It is a critical concept in safety and self-defense cases.

Immediate threat? No, Impending threat? Yes. Unavoidable threat? Arguably yes. Iran was building ICBM's and was enriching uranium to weapons grade levels. Assessment was they had no intention of stopping this.

22 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

In other words, until some time after Trump's reelection he was MAGA. But since MAGA is Trump, now that Trump has done a U-turn, Kent hasn't reversed himself likewise and is clinging to a discarded principle.

MAGA is not homogenous. Apart from that your post is unintelligible.

Kent's a non-interventionist MAGA and a known leaker to the press and has now handed a bit of gift to the Dems. How much he was privy to in relation to Iran's ballistic missiles and nuclear programme is another thing.

Iran's security chief Ali Larijani may also have been blown up according to breaking news coming out of Israel. This is a very significant strike. In another significant strike the commander of the Basij militia Gholamreza Soleimani is also reported as being taken out. Two very high level hardliners.

Reports coming out of Israel that the head of Iran's security force Ari Larijani has been killed. A very significant take out if true. As of yet not confirmed by Iran.

A rapid step back when he saw the nurses weren't having it. Same old captain of the ship mentality here. You must do what I tell you to because I'm in charge. No thought just policy on the run expecting no complaints.

Happens everywhere. Taxes are too high so the black market has a market to move into.

Having had the unfortunate experience of smelling death of human body and being that the body was already in a state of decomposition, plus it's been hot, I'm surprised this wasn't reported earlier. The stink of a decaying body in this weather would be present well before 3 or 4 days. Hopefully it was a quick death. Seems like it might have been.

4 minutes ago, FlorC said:

I know the OP is about Thailand , but this is in all countries.

Yes corruption is in all countries but in some it's endemic. Here it's endemic. Thailand has corruption top to bottom.