John Drake

I support most of Trump's immigration policies, except for the new amnesty he wants for ag and hospitality workers. But none of them will stick. And the $37 trillion dollar debt will. And even the implementation of his immigration laws have been so hamfisted and the gloating so offputting that I feel he will engender a backlash because of it. Trump cannot resist posing as a tough guy. And the truth is he is soft. TACO is real. Look at his fat doughy belly and face. And the younger Trump was maybe not as fat but just as gooey as the about to be octogenarian version. He's had soft all his life. Tough guy poseur. And the only people he got really tough with, actually, ended up being his rural voters who will lose on his tax cuts and see their medicaid facilities closed or cut back. Trump is all NDWD--Nothing Done With Dignity.

Teaching at an exclusive private school, which is why we didn't get the name of it?

Imagine how I feel. I listen to Al Bowlly.

No. But Grok has.

Yep. Remember the Covid stimulus checks he insisted go out with his name on them? Every lowlife move possible.

Yea, I got that, too. It's unnerving.

Nut stuff.

Yea, wait until Chinese social media gets on this. Make sure you don't tell them.

Billionaires now get huge tax cuts that are permanent. Lower and working class people lose. And middle class people get a small tax cut that is temporary, unlike the one for the billionaires.

We can only compare the present to the past. Here's another smarter and better move by Prayuth: during his time as PM he balanced Thai foreign policy far more effectively between the US and China. He knew how to navigate, from the broader situation to fine detail. Even details such as sending congratulations from the Thai Embassy to the US for July the Fourth Independence Day. The pro-Beijing Shins of course didn't bother to do so.

Returning soldiers will be imprisoned or killed. That's what Stalin did to Russians overly exposed to the West after World War II.

1950s and 1980s

A sound dollar policy has always been at the heart of good economic policy. The dollar was strongest when America was strongest. Trump wants to make the dollar and America weaker. And he's doing it.

And Covid, of course, didn't affect Thailand or Asia.

Yes, compared to Trump's first term where he also tried to gut the dollar, it is up. It is up from where Trump had it down to. And now he wants to make go back down and even further depreciate it. He wants increasing debt and dollar devaluation, which will hurt everyone.

These guys are going to need to get in line behind the Caribbean folks who are demanding their trillions first.

Never heard of this. One more thing out there ready to get me, I guess. At least no hantavirus, here. Right?

People go on vacation and really seem to let their guard down. You would think it would be the opposite. But I wonder how often, if ever, this guy got falling down drunk back in Austria.

So if you use Wise to withdraw from your US bank and deposit in your Thai bank, you get the 1 percent tax and can't get a refund on it when you file your taxes???

That's what happened to Mel Gibson at the end of Air America.

Mine is just buying "song soon" until the big one hits.

So station ICE agents strategically in a designated area and have them file reports that herd the illegals to a collection point.

If that is the case, then I would expect that quite soon those opposed to the app can simply hijack it and flood it with false sightings. Pretty soon, you'll have illegals scurrying around afraid to go and afraid to stay. It'll be turned against them.

After encountering the headwinds I gave my ticket to my housekeeper

My wife does.