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Are you rich? Because if you are not, Trump will screw you over irrespective of your political allegiances. Inflation, SS and Medicare cuts all heading your way. Perhaps you lack the intelligence to understand that, which comes as no surprise.

Quote: "It does not remove heavy metals, which are as likely as winning Tattslotto". Where do I mention Bangkok water? What is defamatory about inferring the probability of heavy metals in water is very low? I suggest you do a remedial course in reading.

The last president to reduce American debt was Calvin Coolidge. Irrespective of political stripe, every leader has kicked the can down the road since. Trump is no exception. When it does shake out, America will be a nation consisting of gated communities, trailer parks and tent cities. There won't be a middle class.

How's strong-arming China working? Farmers are going broke. Tariffs are inflationary, period. What influx of investment? Haven't you noticed Treasury Bond yields are increasing? The dollar is devaluing? Biden increased jobs by 16 billion during his presidency. The stock market hit record levels. Explaining economic facts to the likes of you is like trying to teach Hindi to a beagle.

Part of the MAGA mythology - China, Mexico, Vietnam etc. stole American jobs. Fact is, American companies moved their operations to China and Mexico in search of cheaper labor costs and higher profits. While China may have lost some of those companies, they have not moved back to the USA - Mexico is preferred. General Motors, Ford, Whirlpool, Honeywell, John Deere,Medtronic, Intel, Caterpillar and Proctor and Gamble all have established manufacturing operations in Mexico.

I have to smile at people who spend up big on water purification equipment. Boiling water distills off chlorine and chloramines. Boiling kills bacteria, viruses and oocysts such as giardia and cryptosporidia. It does not remove heavy metals, which are as likely as winning Tattslotto. I have been boiling water for 60 years, and have never contracted any illness from the water I drink. Short answer to OP -I would trust a public RO as far as I could throw one.

Good move. Buying KY might be pushing it.

As long as the OP bears in mind every relationship in Thailand is transactional, he'll be fine. Enjoy.

Trying to educate you is a lost cause, it's like teaching Japanese to a rottweiler. Do you need one or two hands when you are eating spaghetti?

You have a crystal ball that tells you how many cards Ukraine has? Or are you a fly on the wall at their meetings?

Trump will do nothing, he's a big bag of wind. Putin plays him like a fiddle. He tried to browbeat Zelensky into giving in, that didn't work either.

Trump's first presidency resulted in a net decline of employment for Americans. During the Biden presidency, 16 million jobs were added. The stock market reached record levels. Serious question - with such a distorted view of reality, shouldn't the OP be taking anti-psychotic meds?

False hope. US Steel has about the same chance of reviving as a patient with terminal cancer. What else would you expect from a company using ropes instead of hydraulics on its shear line? Take profits, the American financial system is about to implode.

Drove from Port Hedland to Melbourne, 4300 km. Took 5 days, there was a lot of dirt road back in 1972.

The launch point for far more tourist spots than Chiang Mai.

72 holes of golf over a weekend tournament, in 40 C temperature.

Medical insurance is expensive in America because of the eye-watering payouts to patients who are successful in malpractice claims. The doctors have to have costly professional indemnity insurance, which then gets passed on to their patients. In the period 2013 - 2023, medical malpractice payouts in the US totaled $34 billion. Lawyers took 33%, they have a vested interest in maximizing payouts. One solution is obvious. As Shakespeare said, first kill all the lawyers.

If that is your response to a simple question, obviously you were not brought up, but dragged up. Goodbye.

The farming sector in the US has major political influence, via lobby groups and the Farm Bill. Without bailouts, farmers would be marching on Washington, mad as hell. In Trump's last term, bailouts were necessary because China stopped importing a range of farm products from America. Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly, and expecting a different result.

How long did you stay in Chiang Rai, to form this opinion?

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.