John Drake

He's folded again. Of course it's "costly" because Trump's people are letting illegals escape through the net, so the planes are half full. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-suspends-costly-deportation-flights-using-military-aircraft/ar-AA1AjY7o?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

So does this mean SCB will be reopening branches and ATMs?

He's innately clever. But he is ignorant beyond imagination. This entire presidency seems to be about nothing but Trump's personal, petty revenge. The entire Canada debacle is because of his dislike of Trudeau. Just compare to the relatively light treatment he's given to the president of Mexico, which causes infinitely more problems than Canada. Ukraine, too, seems nothing more than Trump's revenge for hurt to his ego. If you're looking for the motivation behind his presidency, his hurt pride and ego accounts for 90 percent of it.

Just tax the endowments. That's what Trump promised to do.

Cut out payments to the King, confiscate his property, and make him do real work for his health benefits.

Trump really is clueless. There is a divide it seems between Alberta and the rest of Canada, with energy resource rich Alberta seemingly more aligned in policy with the US. The gap seems big enough to easily allow a savvy and smart American leader to divide them and even bring in Alberta as a partner. So what does Trump do: screw you too Alberta.

Bombs dropping on UK, French, and German cities would decimate the muslim population in those countries.

CHIPs Act not only kicked off the TSMC American buildout, but Micron, too.

CHIPs is responsible.

So Trump wants to repeal the CHIPs Act. Great. And in its place, what? Lemme guess: tax cuts. Trump and Elon: Making China Dominate.

Musk and his pals are just bumbling around. Smash. Exaggerate. Preen. And now hide.

Tattoos.

Down goes Frazier.

I'm not so sure South American and African countries would cease trading with China. And I'm sure that Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore would continue as though nothing had happened. The question is: does the US intervene and blockade/sink every cargo and tanker going to and from China? How much has Russia to China pipelines foreseen and prepared for this scenario?

Who is talking about the US? I am talking about a retaliatory strike from Taiwan that takes out Three Gorges. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/kills-tens-of-millions-taiwans-chilling-message-for-china/news-story/820c97614a7452299f068fac99d71eb6

China has a massive weak spot: Three Gorges and other large dams. It should be made clear to them that these industrial/military dual use sites are on the target list in case of an invasion of Taiwan.

The UK could make everyone resident in the UK automatically eligible for conscription. This might solve at least one problem. Take everyone of those guys coming across in a dinghy, put him in an army suit, and ship him to Ukraine. From dinghy to foxhole in 48 hours.

I've said repeatedly on this forum that Musk saved America's space capability. He's good at that. Maybe less so with the cars--and I don't care about them. But Musk is arrogant thinking that wealth equals immediate expertise in every subject. On Twitter/X he exaggerates and gets things often time incredibly wrong. But he has no shame about it and still insists on being right. I didn't even oppose his DOGE initiative. I just wanted him to do it in a quiet and professional manner. He's going to blow this thing. Watch him. Just like on the H1Bs, which he is now trying to hide from.

There is a certain type of American that is dumb and proud of it. Those people are the ones most happy with Musk.

Now for payback it's time for China to frogmarch its tourists back to Thailand.

Funny it seems, that ever since Musk bought Trump last month, that Trump has turned around on all his core issues of the last term: no tik tok ban, no serious tariffs, no controls introduced to ban Chinese ownership of US strategic land areas. How long before he gives the Huawei girl the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

It's virtue signaling white women who are always the most fanatical about it.

Why the uproar? It's the government that people voted for that is doing this.

He is importing a caste of overlords.

Not so scary. The Chinese come to Thailand in order to get relatively inexpensive credentials for use back in China.