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Don't you mean your nose bleeds?

Because Putin has something on Trump that keeps Trump subservient. Maybe sex, more likely financial. It's the only logical explanation for the behavior of both.

Exactly. "It does not matter if it is true or not". Then you wonder why the world's a mess.

Supporting Trump and Sanders sounds to me like a recipe for schizophrenia.

You will care soon enough when we tell you to close down your spy bases in Australia, and stick your submarine deal where the sun does not shine. America has a positive trade balance with Australia. The stuff we buy from you, we can easily buy elsewhere. There was a time America dominated the automotive market in Australia. Now, your sales are embarrassing. Rightly so, because your cars are crap.

We get it, another Putin doormat.

You obviously missed the bit when Trump claimed immigrants were eating neighborhood pets in Springfield. She baited him, he was hooked repeatedly.

Bernie has socialist ideas, such as a medical system that is not a profit machine. That's heresy.

A Tesla Model 3 in Thailand has an RRP of 1, 769,000 baht. That is the cheapest model on offer. BYD sells a range of EV's, RRP base model 700,000 baht, top of the line AWD is 1, 600,000 baht, still cheaper than the RWD Tesla Model 3. Teslas also have acquired a reputation for inconsistent build quality. Musk doesn't need tariffs? He needs them like I need my partial denture. As for cheaper, try doing some research.

Yes, it's quite sane to engage in a trade war that props up inefficient sectors, and increases the cost of living for your poorest citizens. It's quite sane to appoint a recovered heroin addict and anti-vaxxer as the health czar. It's quite sane to talk about taking over the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada. It's sane to be trying to return to the days when gasoline was cheaper than bottled water, when the rest of the world has embraced renewable energy. It is totally sane to appoint officials on the basis of loyalty only, with no consideration of competence and experience. It's very democratic to align yourself with a designated war criminal. I guess you have no idea how utterly ridiculous your post is.

Musk is getting a treasury of free data, courtesy of DOGE. Perhaps you have heard the Greek saying, Hubris is always followed by Nemesis. Thank heavens I am not American.

She sliced Trump up like sushi in the one presidential debate. The propaganda campaign launched by right-wing media to portray her as dumb worked, it did not mean it was true. So when that leftie Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch calls it the dumbest trade/tariff war in history, that's propaganda too?

The general world-wide revulsion against Musk and Trump is growing. Have you looked at how Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff? Musk gets a lot of his money from the US taxpayer, more fool them. There are plenty of non-Americans saying if it has a label "Made in the USA", they are not buying it. Better get used to it.

Which lie was that? The one about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, or reducing the cost of living for all Americans?

Thanks for admitting you don't care where material is sourced, as long as it supports your point of view. How's NZ doing in the face of Trump tariffs on your wine and meat exports to the US?

At best, the US military uses less than 5% of America's current steel production. It's not bread and butter steel going into cars, washing machines and roofing either. It's specialty steels for ships, submarines and tanks. 70% of American steel is produced by electric arc furnaces, which mainly use scrap steel as a feedstock. As far as cars and washing machines go, the Japanese and Koreans beat US producers into a cocked hat decades ago, better quality and lower prices. Now it's the Chinese. Attempts to revive the US steel industry with tariffs is like feeding a diabetic sugar. It won't end well.

There are very complex body chemistry, psychological and social factors behind doing good, helping others. The Thais call it "making merit". Normal people feel good when they do good. Sociopaths and psychopaths don't, they are wired differently.

IMO it is failing already. Most of the countries hit with across the board tariffs have responded in kind. When you have a country like Canada actually taking American products off supermarket shelves, that's not a blip. It's a major shift in attitude.

The US imports most of its bauxite. A country also needs cheap power, aluminium production is an electricity glutton. With steel, the US can either use its 30% iron ore from the Mesabi Range, or buy it at 60% Fe from Canada or Brazil. In both cases, it's an attempt to prop up industries that are inherently inefficient. As you say, dumb as.

I have moved on.

Sorry, you are probably wrong. In Australia, after one year of marriage, assets are split evenly in the event of divorce. In a defacto relationship, living together for 2 years is sufficient for a 50:50 split. It's called palimony in America. Thailand does not recognize defacto relationships.

I am worth more to my Thai GF alive and together, than separated or dead. Maybe I am a bit smarter than them.

I am wondering if Trump has the same problem. He's flip-flopping on tariffs like a fresh-caught fish.

Butter is mainly milkfat triglycerides, a small percentage of milkfat solids, salt and water. More salt in the salted version. If you want to kid yourself so-called crud is any worse than the premium stuff you pay more for, it's no skin off my nose. It's like people who buy Perrier water, it's still water.

A trade war also means large swathes of Americans losing jobs, and potential civil unrest. DOGE is lending a hand as well. The difference is, Americans have the Second Amendment.