Lacessit

The image of Bangkok as an inferred hub of intellectuals was enough to have me choking on my coffee. For me, it's a one night stopover traveling between Melbourne and Chiang Rai, not even that going the other way.

The gyrations in the share and bond markets are directly related to the flip-flops on tariffs. That affects the savings of Americans, and the interest the US has to pay on its debt. Supply chains don't know whether to bring in goods to beat the tariffs, or hold off and put operations on care and maintenance. Capricious actions of an semi-senile person with no knowledge of economics and science is no way to run a country. He doesn't even have the competent advisers Biden did. The White House should be renamed Toady Temple. Are you trying to pretend Trump is good? On current actions and results, he is only good for himself and the very wealthy.

The view from my balcony is the condo swimming pool. At about 6 am , my view was from the first tee at Kham Nara golf course. The view posted is Kananaskis golf course, in the heart of the Rockies in Canada. The most visually stunning golf course I have ever played.

Truth does not matter to the Kremlin shills. If anything, this event illustrates how badly Putin miscalculated the will of Ukrainians to resist invasion.

Tires in the Thai climate are subject to tread cracking. Looks like the OP hit something. I always put Michelins on my vehicles, touch wood I have never had a blowout here. I somehow doubt Thais are trained in how to react when they do have a blowout.

If you are taking a beta-blocker, psoriasis is a well-known side effect. A biopsy for something clearly visible as a skin condition - are you OCD? The combination I used to cure my psoriasis was: Clinoderm ( Clobetasol propionate ) twice a day. Fah Talai Jhon cream twice a day. Cleared the psoriasis in about a week. I did stop the beta-blocker as well. By all means get a second opinion. Good luck.

As I understand it, Thai women reject Indian men due to their dark skin, and preference for anal sex. IMO Indian women are ugly. I worked with one Indian who was a pretty bright guy, started off with me low on the totem pole, ended up as a president of a division of a big multinational. I don't have any sentiment for or against them, although that might change if I encountered them en masse.

You'd be grumpy too, reading some of the tripe that gets posted on ASEAN.

I have yet to see any conservative movement anywhere in the world that does not try to tear down public health systems by stealth. It's in their DNA. When they try it in Australia, they get a bloody nose from voters. In the new world of Trumponomics, it was more like they got hit by a truck.

He went looking for trouble. He went armed in anticipation of it. The term is premeditation. It's convenient the dead people aren't around to testify who attacked whom. He's only a hero to mentally warped people. He's a coward who would run a mile if he was deprived of his penis extension.

Trump is very good at manipulation. Most sociopaths are. He is a dunce when it comes to economics, science or law. For him, law is just a inconvenience. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Putin and Netanyahu play him like a fiddle, because their sociopathy is even greater.

So where is your money?

IMO inflammatory titles should be strangled at birth, intended to provoke. Fat chance of any intelligent debate. Hello and goodbye.

Kyle Rittenhouse ring any bells with you? Perhaps you prefer the Ku Klux Klan, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

A bank fails, depositors lose their savings. 571 banks have failed in America in the last 25 years. In Australia, HIH Insurance collapsed in 2001. Should the depositors blame themselves for not being clairvoyant?

Ukraine was trying to join the EU, not NATO. Your memory is faulty. The Ukrainian popular revolution of 2013 came about because Putin's puppet leader, Yanukovych, stalled an agreement for closer economic ties with the EU. Putin wanted to keep Ukraine in the Russian economic bloc. Every former Soviet bloc country knows being in the Russian economic system is a recipe for stagnation or worse. Putin invaded Crimea in 2014. He thought he could get away with it again in 2022. What were the Ukrainians supposed to do, sit on their hands? Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1996, in return for guarantees of national sovereignty. Frankly, people who try to dress up Russia as a victim are the lowest form of pond scum.

I would like the Australian government to hit the USA with reciprocal tariffs. The USA has a positive trade balance with Australia. That means America suffers more. IMO there is not anything America can supply which we can't get elsewhere without tariffs.

I'm sorry statistics and their import are beyond your comprehension. It kills the chance of having an intelligent conversation with you.

Trump added $7.8 trillion to American debt in his first term. Fact is, every President since Calvin Coolidge has been kicking the can of American debt down the road, with F D Roosevelt as the biggest contributor. https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and-percentage-7371225 You talk about blaming Trump. Did I mention him in my first post?

Of course we are all going to die. How long our lives are extended by medical help is a different question. The average life span of an American is 77.4 years. In Australia, it is 83.2 years. Draw your own conclusions.

I look forward to the end of the month. I keep track of all my expenses, put them into a spreadsheet on the final day. When my cash kitty drops below 40K baht, I visit the bank for more, usually once every two months. It's also the time I get paid interest on savings. Every six months, I get share dividends, also the occasional opportunistic trading gain. In Australia, I spend more than I get in income. In Thailand, it's the reverse.

US weapons did not go into Ukraine until after Russia invaded. You are a liar. The proposition Putin did not want to invade Ukraine is contradicted by his invasion of Crimea in 2014, and the fact he thought the West was weak and divided. He thought he could get away with it again. Another lie. But then, lying is as easy as breathing to a Moscow shill.

Let's see: Debt $ 36 trillion, another $2.6 trillion over 10 years with the Big Beautiful Bill. Then add $1.8 trillion a year, just in interest rates. 750 military bases across the world, being augmented at taxpayer expense. Tariffs that increase costs for all Americans. A health system that resembles dog vomit, being cut. A repeat of Star Wars. Against an economy which is not sclerotic, as the Soviet Union was. What's your version of reality?

On January 6, 2021, about 2000 Americans rioted at the Capitol. On December 8, 2013, about 1 million Ukrainians marched in Kyiv. That followed a protest of between 400,000 to 800,000 on December 1. Smaller crowds of 10,000 - 50,000 protested at Ternopil, Cherkasy and Lviv. False equivalence.

Trump is trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear. American steel is 70% recycled, in electric arc furnaces. The 19 blast furnaces that remain are decrepit. EAF's are expensive to run, in terms of electricity costs. China has over 200 steel mills. 19 of its blast furnaces are less than 12 months old. It makes steel from iron ore which is over 60% iron content. Unless it imports iron ore from other countries, America has to use Mesabi iron ore, which is only 30% Fe content. Quite simply, US steel mills are uncompetitive, and a 50% tariff is only going to hike prices of a wide range of goods that need steel, for all American consumers.