John Drake

And this is why Thailand will never get the F35s

We know who wrote this.

Ought to target Germans who otherwise this winter are going to be desperately looking for firewood to keep warm.

From 36.73 on July 26 to 35.34 today.

Why doesn't he go to China? That is who he sold out his country to.

What do monkeys have to do with F 35s? . . . Never mind.

No foreigner (and I think you mean Westerner) is a threat to Thailand. It isn't as if planeloads of Aristotles, John Lockes and Thomas Jeffersons are pouring in. And, besides, no Thai would take notice if there were.

Aside from Tiger Balm Gardens, which isn't even on that list, there is nothing there I would want to make a special journey for. The Botanical Gardens are like a ship in a bottle. Everything else is overly antiseptic, like being in a hospital.

BTW, looks like there is a new bruiser at the embassy. Heath is leaving.

Thought they made it a 5000 baht fine about 5 or 6 years ago. There were signs draped over the seats in taxis.

Those people are not "whites." They are British.

Populations don't just have to suck it up. They can tear it all down. See Sri Lanka. That is why controlling electricity prices is important and the right thing to do.

Don't care who is responsible. I'm always happy to see my electricity rates restrained. And this will help a lot of Thai people who live on the edge.

And perhaps a failure to spot the big winner in all this. Perhaps. That would be Ron DeSantis who just might get Trump cleared out of his path to the nomination by this investigation and/or any resulting indictment. He gets Trump moved out of the way and simultaneously inherits a super energized base. All this goes to show, btw, just what a lazy incompetent man Trump really was. Too lazy to supervise these 15 boxes and their remnants, which apparently were not returned. Too lazy in his appointments of Wray, Milley, and even some unsteady Supreme Court justices. Trump is just a bad executive. DeSantis does not seem to share any of his weaknesses.

The interesting thing politically is that this cancels out the supreme court abortion ruling as far as energizing voter bases. The abortion ruling was set to bring Democrats out of the woodwork, although the Kansas vote may have mollified some. Now, with the Mar a Lago raid, I would imagine Trump supporters would crawl over broken glass to get to the polls. I'm really interested to see which of these two motivations wins out.

He tried to overthrow the government by doing nothing, you say?

At one point, I remember reading about a Chinese-only city to be constructed in the Eastern Economic Corridor. That was six or seven years ago.

Look at someone the wrong way and you'll get Covid. Now transmitted by line of sight.

I'll take your word for it. But I always thought of welfare as something that was means tested. Thus Medicaid would be welfare, but Medicare would not. But okay.

Has the branch re-opened this week?

Food out. Chinese construction gangs in.

Another topic says there is a shortage of Thai workers for hotels and tourist spots in Thailand. So there should at least be some work for them, even if it pays a pittance compared to S. Korea.

I looked several years (14) ago and I thought it was $1000. Could easily have been wrong. I think Mexico is a good place to live.

Where are retirees living outside their own countries eligible for welfare?