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13 minutes ago, gargamon said:

So why is there no national guard deployed? Or marines? Trump had them in LA within hours for non-existent riots.

The National Guard was deployed.

liar

As I understand it, the owner has the right to inspect the property, but they have to notify the tenant. 

Is the water and power in your name? 

Only people in the West believe "love is all you need". 

Everyone else know you need food and shelter as well. 

On 7/5/2025 at 2:39 PM, CanadaSam said:

I am an Indian food fan, but not in Pattaya, because none taste authentic, or even tasty!

 

The ONLY place in Pattaya that IMHO is authentic Indian, and really worth dining at, is Patiaala House, inside Jomtien Palm Beach Hotel, on Jomtien 2nd Road, near the turning to the beach (it is fairly new, and not well-known, but their Bangkok Branch has been doing well for years).

Apparently, they had two branches in Bangkok, one at the Amari and one on Suk 11 that both seem to be permanently closed. Is there another? 

I love Indian food. 

10 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Sadly, a lot of non-Western people really want the West to fail.  It hardly surprises me to see a group saying "We don't want Americans here, they're making things financially difficult for us" while at the same time, they're in America saying "You should allow us to stay here, even though it is financially difficult for you."

 

They've been turned into perpetual victims with a resulting sense of entitlement by years of leftist "White man bad; Brown people good" campaigns.

That non-Western people want the West to fail does not surprise me.

That so many Western people, including many in the US seem to want the US to fail, does surprise me. 

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Really ... it was damn tasty.   Are you Muslim, Vegan, or simply need a life.  I'm leaning towards the latter 

Haters gonna hate

10 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

Thanks.  I MIGHT try to wade through that but honestly I am not expert in economics.  Lot of it probably goes right over my head.  Which is probably true of most of us discussing it in this thread.

 

I suspect a true unbiased source will be difficult to find.  Betting the Trump side has an argument that his bill will spur the economy to much that poor people will actually gain better employment and medical coverage and the income increase will cover the lower tax rates.  And of course his detractors will find anything they can to prove he is starving women, children and aged while increasing the debt.

 

<deleted> up world we live in when you can't trust any resource to actually net it out reasonably.

 

 

 

I'm not going to wade through it either, but you do not need to be any kind of expert to understand it. 

Listen to people you think you can trust, and do not believe cr*p that makes no sense. 

11 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Some flights from London to BKK arrive in Mumbai and depart from Bombay and you need an India visa to make the connecting flight from Mumbai to Bombay .

   I was on the same flight as someone  who get refused boarding because they didn't have an India visa for the internal connecting flight 

I got a tour of floor below baggage claim at the "new" Terminal before it opened when they were testing the baggage system, it was amazing. 

Is it just me, or are the Indian women in the brown military uniforms pretty hot? 

10 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Many years working as a motor trader.... car salesman for 5 manufacturers.... owner of garage business with car sales, body shop and workshop..... plus prices in ads for used Chinese cars in Thailand. ..... That enough for you?

No, that's not enough to convince me that I could buy a used Chinese car less than a year old in Thailand for 50% off. 

Please post a few of the ads, I'm in the market. 

11 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Thanks for your polite answer.

Do you know anyone that believes it? 

6 hours ago, bendejo said:

Maybe all this MAGA double/triple-talk will shake things up, but in the post-WWII era in the US a third party serves as none other than a spoiler.

1968  (?)

1992

2000

 

In the 1990s word started going around that Gene McCarthy's 1968 run as "the 'stop the war' candidate was a set-up by the GOP.  

In 1992 Ross Perot got 19% of the popular vote but carried 0 states.  Personally, I thought he would start a new party for future, but he seemed to disappear from politics.

In 2000 Nader got less than a million votes but was effective.

 

DT's approval rating has never gone below the 30-35% range.  Don't count on any news knocking those numbers down.  But MAGA without DT might just might.  

But maybe EM can cause such a schism in the GOP that the sitting invertebrates will stand up to DT's threats of being primaried out and this new party becomes new guise of the GOP.  I doubt it.

 

Elon has about as much pull with MAGA as Liz Cheney. The only difference it, they like Elon. 

7 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

The United States desperately needs more mainstream national political parties to create a proper multi-party democracy, so this is a good start. The best part, provided it takes off, is it will split the conservative/republican vote. While I'm no fan of the democrats either (who abandoned their working class base during Bill Clinton's time in exchange for promoting hollywood weirdos, pop stars and others with no connection to how most people live), there needs to be a further creation - a Progressive Party of America or something like that. Call it a Bernie Sanders or OAC style of social democracy, that would represent the views of millions of Americans.

 

It would be a bit like France, where there are a few mainstream leaders running for presidency and ultimately a run-off second ballot to get the final winner. In my view, that would be a much better system than the military-industrial-political K-Street dominance of deep pocket lobbyists and money politics that dominates the U.S. system at the expense of ordinary, common sense thinking voters.

Why does the United States desperately need more mainstream national political parties?

All the sudden we need a new system because the left did not get their way. 

I think we have a great political system. 

11 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The maga party is ruling on a thin margin.

A third party won't be viable but if done cleverly they can be a power broker to spoil either of the two major parties.

The democrats are in rebuild mode so I reckon the maga party is more worried about that than the democrats.

I doubt very much MAGA is worried about Musk.

5 hours ago, Purdey said:

Maybe cut the military budget as Mr. T is a man of peace.

Peace through strength.

"No better friend, no worse enemy."  

2 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Who agrees he will actually get a shoy at a third?  Why?

No one that is not a moron believes he will attempt to run for a third term. 

16 minutes ago, Sophon said:

 

It varies way more than that from summer to winter.

 

I believe the difference in sun angle (altitude) during one year is the same no matter where in the world you are at +/- 23.45 degrees from the equinox elevation at that location. The difference in sun angle during one year is due to the tilt of the Earth, and we all live on the same earth. 

So, what is the equinox elevation of Bangkok?

25 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Who would you rather have come to the US, Mexicans or endless H1B Indians? I think I opt for Mexicans. I could easily live in a Mexican neighborhood. Don't know what  Indian/Pakistan one would be like.

I would take a legal, English-speaking Indian engineer in the country to over no-skilled often illiterate non-English speaking people that come illegally, and end up on the public teat for life. 

I managed a few plants in India and generally liked the people. 

18 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Name 1

Ricky 

1 minute ago, angryguy said:

The media has already used all their ammunition on him. Calling trump hitler and wearing eyeliner, theyre gonna need to do better than that

And fortunately, everyone that is not a moron knows that the legacy media are liars, leftists, Trump haters and they are in the bag for Democrats. 

The last election proved that. 

20 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

With many people, once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They’d screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook, multiple fraud convictions, and Jan. 6th truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what. There was no such thing as a bridge too far.

 

Like you and the Trump is a moron nonsense. 

23 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

US voting system allows for people like Musk to influence outcomes through largescale interventions. Musk is going to come back to  haunt trump like an ex hooker, and Musk has the money to be able to hold off Trump 's retaliation until he is out of office. 

The US voting system allows for people like Elon Musk, Jeff Zuckerburg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Reid Hoffman, James Pritzker etc. to influence outcomes through largescale interventions.

11 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Project 2025 laid out much of the Trump administration agenda. He disavowed the plan and said it would not reflect his administration policies. The reality is that most of the executive orders are a direct enactment of the Project 2025 agenda. The US public was warned this would happen. Paul Dans, the lead author of Project 2025, said Trump would enact the Plan. Many US voters ignored the warnings, and some agreed with the Project 2025 objectives.

I think you are wrong about Trump saying he disavowed Project 25 and that he said it would not reflect his administration's policies

As I recall, Trump said he knew nothing about it, and that he had nothing to do with Project 2025. He could hardly say it would not reflect his administration's policies, while at the same time saying he knew nothing about it. Now you can say Trump lied, or that he is stupid and whatnot, but your claim does not make sense. 

In any event, I like most of what I know of Project 25, as do I believe most of Trump voters. 

7 minutes ago, transam said:

I have no hero Kier or Kire, and you seem to have an affliction for making stories up because you have nothing.

And don't forget, you have had a 'warning' for the Kier thing, eh.........

If you want to behave like Hf, up to you, I will follow it up......

You brought up Kire & Kier, brother, why all the hate now? 

2 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

I think he was a more convincing liar than she was.

Yeah, she was not at all convincing when she lied, but then there was her record as well.