John Drake

Sounds like the wallet will be spent mostly in places like 7 Eleven. CP must be happy with this cash transfer from the treasury to their pocket. Should allow people to pay for medical bills and medicine out of this. Better than them buying junk food in 7.

Gee, sure hope this doesn't get circulated on Chinese social media and hurt Chinese tourism numbers to Thailand.

This the way it is supposed to be. Government jobs give you security but should come with a much lower salary than the private sector. Too many Western countries do it the other way around these days, which explains why they're going broke.

I don't know what their driving practices are like. So I assume there is truth in what you're saying. I'm just wondering what 8 million more drivers (for arguments sake) would do to crowding on the roads.

That would be the US Defense Secretary.

Has criticism of the opening had an impact on television audiences watching these games? Viewership up to expectations or below? I have no idea. I haven't watched anything. All the events with judges need to be scrapped anyway. If you can't measure it, time it, or determine it through events where the last man standing wins, then it doesn't need to be part of the games.

So the goal is 8 million Chinese drivers on the roads.

No idea how Chinafication is going on the ground in Thailand, now that Chuwit is no longer around.

There must be another camera angle that catches their faces. Thai police can be very quick to find offenders--when they want to.

Definitely weird.

Biggest blunder? Trump removing the US from the TPP, an organization the US started, advocated for, and had begun to build into an effective counter to China in East Asia and the Pacific.

How many people attend or watch on tv track and field events, weightlifting, or even gymnastics outside the Olympics. Who won the decathlon two Olympics ago? Anybody know? Anybody care?

Most of these sports at the Olympics don't get an audience of more than a few hundred people when they are divorced from the games. Basketball is an exception, and I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now. But the point is nobody cares about these sports per se. They're only interested in how their countries rank in the medal standings. I'm not. So I'll not be watching any of it--or any of the clumsy "ceremonies." Now, if they thought about putting on a games with real gladiators and the literal last man standing, I might give it a go. Make the drama real.

There are no more boundaries to push.

Watched it. In particular, combining high tariffs and dollar devaluation will destroy the standard of living. What's left of the middle class will evaporate.

I believe it was a bullet. But what is so damning for Trump is his response to it. He couldn't wait to try and turn himself into a martyr, as OP shows. This, despite someone being killed, which is made to seem incidental to "taking a bullet for democracy." it's simply graceless. Better men, such as Reagan, would have come up with a humorous quip. Or TR who kept an even tone in response and merged his assassination attempt into his already existing public identity. Not Trump. He ends up posing and bellowing. He would have gained a hundred percent more had he handled this with some degree of dignity. But he has none--dignity that is.

Trump needs to give up the nomination. The US needs something better than this. Trump needs to move his fat butt to the sidelines permanently. I think there will be a landslide vote against him. Americans were exhausted from just hearing him speak in 2020. The prospect of bringing him back for another four years means I would need to put political news stories on mute. And don't forget! Save the US dollar! Trump will devalue it and make expat lives impoverished.

They were better than what's here now.

Don't vote for Trump. He states he will devalue the dollar and destroy our exchange rate. Vote against Trump = more baht in your bank account when you transfer dollars to Thailand.

He was a permanent resident, then? Don't you need to go through a very thorough check for those, and aren't they extremely limited in number?

Correct. The King of Debt stiffed a long list of cities, failing to pay for rallies from the previous campaign. Surprise. Surprise.

Truth is that when Trump accepted the early debate, that is when he lost everything. Had Biden done well, then all questions about Biden would have been put to rest and everyone would have been reassured about Biden's capacity to govern. But the opposite happened. Biden debated and looked frail, weak, and disoriented, resulting in a groundswell for him to drop out of the presidential race, which is the last thing Trump wanted--even if Trump didn't realize it himself. Once he accepted the early debate, Trump was going to lose one way or the other. Nothing to do with conspiracies.

Prawit by far the best choice

Just logged into my account on the website. No red banner and no message in the notices requiring the photo ID. I don't have the app. Don't want it. Just use the website. I only transfer money from my US bank account to my Thai bank. And btw no email that I noticed. But it could have been lost in spam.

It will be much closer. Kamala Harris is not all that appealing herself. And most of the country doesn't know what she stands for. But I suspect she will still beat Trump. He just generates hate. People are motivated to vote against him, with a significant minority equally motivated to vote for him. Imagine had the Republicans nominated DeSantis. It would take a Newsom to match up against him. The rest would be wiped out. But, no, the Republicans insisted on Trump. And they were bellowing with triumphalism just a week or so ago. Now, pffft.