John Drake

Yea, I'm getting access at times they were closed before. At least that's something. But why can't international addresses upload documents???? If we've gone through the same verification process as everyone else for My Social Security, why not accept our documents?

Put them in tent cities. Draft them into work gangs to build the Wall.

The largest US pork producer is Smithfield Foods. It is also the largest US exporter of pork products. The Chinese own Smithfield Foods.

You forgot the reason they sweat. Fat. They tend towards fatness. Beer and big bellies. Tattoos optional.

Yep. And it's making things hard to enjoy their tax cut.

Headline almost got it right. "Shifty Thailand"

I think the Thais made this up in order to soften the public perception of failure when they get loaded up first with 36 percent tariffs and then another 20 percent on top of that for applying for BRICS

I don't travel much, especially by plane. So I don't care.

Except Catturd apparently. Gives a whole new meaning to Catturd's signature: "The turd you can't flush."

Why does anyone expect consistency, instead of chaos, from Trump. He's been doing this sort of thing since his first term. Here's just a few. 1) Campaigned promising to cancel DACA first day in office. Then actually announced he wanted to expand it on his first day. 2) Spent 8 years of Obama's presidency demanding Obama end QE and tighten deficit spending. His first term expanded QE, devalued the dollar, and ran up huge deficits. 3) Claimed he would tariff China. Made a deal for soybeans. 4) Build the wall. Well, you know about that one. 5) Project Warp Speed. Never mentions that today. Second term. 1) Mass deportations. Now wants amnesty for farm and hotel workers. 2) No new wars. I actually supported his bombing Iran but a lot of his base felt betrayed. 3) Against H1Bs. Then for H1Bs. 4) Loves DOGE and Elon. Now, not so much. "Would have done it differently." 5) Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Now, Epstein. Why the surprise?

FreeTone. You get a US number. Cost 325 baht/month.

I don't want to mail in my passport renewal. I want to go in person to the embassy, like I did last time. There was a time, btw, when you could drop in on the embassy without an appointment and if you forgot something you could leave and come back and fix it in the same day. I want that sort of service back.

The World War II Saeculum is coming to an end. That's why things are falling apart.

Sooner or later, every sexpest makes its way to Thailand.

Imagine you own or run a domestic/international business and you're supposed to make investment plans for the next four or five years and you have to deal with this sort of unhinged chaotic thinking. Nobody can run a business in this environment.

Trump is an immoral person, with a degenerate attitude towards women. It's his own behavior and past that implicates him in the Epstein crimes.

I am never leaving my house again.

The US has already written off Malaysia, which says it stands with China. What did they expect? Thailand is almost in that same category. They just haven't publicly stated it, which is why they got someone decent.

This seems to be the best US ambassador since Kristie Kenney. Now, if only somebody would do something about making the consular section more friendly and available for in person things like passport renewals.

There is a good chance this dialog ends up making everybody angry.

Did he unfriend Hun Sen on Facebook?

There is no way Thailand gets a better deal than Vietnam (if Trump allowed that then his already shrinking credibility on tariffs would collapse utterly). And the deal Vietnam got, especially on transshipments is a no-go for Thailand's Chinese owned companies masquerading as Thai ones. Thailand is stuck. Trump needs to make an example out of someone and make it stick. Thailand may have drawn the black bean. Enjoy your Gripens RTAF.

Gee, wonder how they got into the country.

I'd like to see it go to Khamenei just to piss off Trump.

Jerry Jones.