John Drake

I just read that Vietnam today announced it is cutting its tariffs on US goods to zero. I don't think "negotiations" are what the US has in mind. https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-cuts-import-taxes-on-key-goods-ahead-of-us-tariff-announcement-post312690.vnp

The horse has already bolted from the barn, and the train is off the track.

Wasn't Schimel anti-abortion? The more of these people Republicans put up, the more they'll lose. I see the voter ID law passed easily. So it was the anti-abortion stance that got him.

Should have gone to a cash heavy position. That's what Warren Buffet did. Everybody knew Trump would make a catastrophe out of this. He did the last time, too.

Musk was likely a negative influence on his candidate for the court. People are not only sick of him, they're beginning to be fearful of him. His narcissism wouldn't allow him to try and affect the election behind the scenes. He had to be up front and in the eye of the camera, just like his partner in the White House.

The thing is I don't know if I can last. I'm already exhausted from the non-stop craziness, and I haven't even been back to the US in 13 years. Since December, I've been saying that Trump will screw up things so badly that AOC will be elected president in 2028.

Yes. It's one of the first things you're advised to cut if you have inner ear problems.

Better than an increase or no change. I'll take it.

It's the domestic policies that got him elected, not Ukraine, not threatening Canada, not occupying Greenland. The worst thing will be that all these wacky war and blanket tariffs policies will discredit the domestic issues that got him in the White House. The man is an utter fool, an incompetent.

So the law is a suicide pact?

He still doesn't know what he's going to do. Talking up 20 percent "blanket tariff" now, which would be the worst of all worlds.

He'll fold on the tariffs tomorrow. It'll be a squeak, not a roar.

No, I just feel 125

It does make me wonder. This wasn't the Immigration building, I gather, but had it been . . . ? What if an emergency evacuation had occurred in the Immigration building while you were waiting for Immigration to return your bank book and passport???

Was this then a pilot project, with many more Chinese projects to come? Or are there several completed already?

I realize you haven't got much to do with your life other than hang out on this forum and try to pick fights, but be aware at least that the term, "tofu" applied to Chinese construction, comes from the Chinese themselves. In fact, it was a former Chinese premier who coined it.

Oh, and Mr. Genius, how many high rises in Bangkok have been built by the Chinese? Maybe the other buildings are still standing because the Chinese didn't have a hand in their construction.

Trying to sell your condos, eh?

Tofu building techniques have now come to Thailand.

Saw lots of hospital evacuations on Twitter/X with patients rolled out into the 38 degree streets. My house only got hit by rolling waves of tremors for maybe 45 seconds to a minute. Maybe it was more. Don't know. But no damage and no damage in my village. This is out on Phutthamonthon Sai 3. So it looks like the really bad stuff was among the big towers and condos. Keep thinking that someone could have been washed over the side of the building in one of those condo/hotel pools I saw that were turned into waterfalls.

I think we're about to find out just how well built are all these new condos put up in the past ten years.

First did the flood in 2011 and now this pretty big earthquake in far western Bangkok.

China will probably endorse this idea. I doubt the PRC likes too many of their people spending too much time and money abroad. BTW, didn't I read a year or two ago that Chinese visas for Thailand, extensions and such, had to be passed through the PRC embassy first?

Elon Musk putting a chip in your brain.

I hope the Chinese embassy doesn't demand this guy get kicked out of Thailand.