John Drake

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.

Trump and Biden's Covid stimuli and loans created massive inflation. It started under Trump; it continued under Biden

He's not only reducing influence (nobody likes to be publicly put down in front of their own people and the world, he's also wrecking the dollar, creating inflation, and turning the world over to China. All because of his own petty personal dislikes and anger. This is what having a teenager in charge of government is like.

She is using it for engagement farming?

What it will do is cause massive inflation, just like Trump's and Biden's Covid stimuli did.

Musk is a degenerate hood rat.

This says they do:

Okay. I see you're correct. I thought I remembered them using it 25 years or so ago. But I guess I was wrong. I did just find this. So how is the child tax credit different from EITC and its availability.

Question: how does the amount going into social security compare to the amounts being paid out to illegals using ITINS who then turn around and claim EITC?

Without looking it up, my light reading on social security shows that contributions closely match benefits rendered. It was something like one percent or so, with there being a positive balance in some recent years. The problem is with medicare and medicaid, which outstrip contribution by 85 percent.

You think it's a scam? A fake? How do you account for the photo of the woman in the hospital?

Give them some money. Or don't give them anything. That's all that is required. No need to put them in this digital version of a pillory so everyone can throw the equivalent of electronic rotten vegetables at them.

If everybody else is getting it, I certainly intend to get mine. Absolutely. But I can recognize that this will go down just like the Covid stimulus and fuel inflation three times as much as then. If we have an emergency to reduce the debt, this money should be applied to that.

So far, one of my banks says the same as yours and insisted I sign a form disavowing any recourse to fraud. My other bank had my photo requirement on the phone app working, but it stopped. I then had to in a few weeks ago and reregister the photograph and passport information. The latter bank still allows for online banking, however, which I prefer. The first bank mention cancelled that service, along with bank branches and ATMs in my area, all but making use of the phone app mandatory for anything outside of a visit to the bank.

Funny to see Trump Republicans now taking the stance that Democrats did in the 1970s. They want a "pure" leader for Ukraine or they'll cut him off. This is exactly the attitude towards the Shah of Iran that created Khoumeini and the Iranian theocracy.

It's probably all been put in Peter Schiff's basement.