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Oil and gas, Canada supplies 50% of America's needs. If they sell it to the Europeans and Chinese instead, the US has queues forming at every gas station.

Meaningless to me, I don't buy American foodstuffs. I do buy Kindle books, don't know how tariffs would affect them.

I shower daily, use deodorant, have a normal BMI. How's the price of eggs going for you?

Was it not Trump who got fined $2 million for misusing charity funds?

The laws of physics and thermodynamics don't change because the people who formulated them are dead. If Australia told you to go p!ss up a rope, what would you do, invade? IMO we would be better off without you, and there are plenty of other markets for what we mine and grow.

Give aid and comfort to dictators, and make enemies out of your allies. Genius.

Data. Treasury, Social Security, Defense - every government department is a jackpot of data, and Musk is harvesting it. How do you think Zuckerberg and Bezos made their billions? They reap data from every person that signs into their platforms. Forget about getting the keys to Fort Knox, data is much more valuable.

I am wondering when he will get around to electric boats, and windmills.

I am just gobsmacked so many people voted for someone who is going to throw them under a bus. It's like the turkeys voted for Christmas, and that's what 50% of Americans are.

You mean I should use Trump as a role model for those qualities?

You are a masochist?

There's a saying with age comes wisdom. In your case, you'll need 300-400 years.

I have cans of soup in my larder that are smarter than you.

You are obviously not well educated enough to know what a non sequitur is.

I don't even buy green bananas.

LOL, Trump will be increasing living costs, after promising he would reduce them. Economics 101. If that's what you signed up for, you're a fool.

Trump has pulled out of the WHO. Polio is still endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa is a witches' cauldron of diseases. COVID killed 7 million people, over 1 million in the US. It had a quite low death rate compared to Ebola, which is 50% on average. It's not hyberbolic to point out viruses don't care about borders.

I said tariffs. What do you think China is doing in response to Trump's tariffs?

IMO after your little bout of electoral insanity, the rest of the world doesn't care much for America either. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Physics. Trump is going to find out the law applies to tariffs too.

Easily fixed, pull out of the deal. There will probably be underwater drones costing a few thousand dollars to take them out by the time we get them anyway. The current US trade surplus with Australia is $14.4 billion. America has had a trade surplus with Australia for many years. That means if our government has the balls to respond with a 25% tariff on all American imports, it will hurt the USA worse than it hurts Australia. We can always buy aircraft from Airbus, and French submarines. Without Pine Gap, North West Cape, and Darwin, America loses half its surveillance capability. Trump is a bully. The only way to deal with bullies is a good smack in the mouth.

I asked you for a link. Obviously you don't have one. I've only flown over Russia once, Tokyo to Schiphol. I remember thinking if something goes wrong. help is a long way away, and it looked really cold.

Do you have a link for that, or is it just wishful thinking? Given the paranoia of the Russian government, I would not want to be on an aircraft in Russian airspace anyway. Perhaps you have forgotten MH17 and KAL007.

You are well acquainted with cops in various jurisdictions? Figures.

Whether you are wrong or right is immaterial. Unless an Immigration officer tells me I have to have a Thai tax number and/or tax return to obtain an extension of stay, I won't be going anywhere near a tax office. They will have to come to me. If they do, I have documented proof every baht transferred is from pre-2024 savings. IMO your best course of action is to try at another office. It's very likely different offices have different understanding of the legislation, several posters have been told they don't need a Thai tax number. OTOH, a friend in Khon Khaen is telling me the TRD is making life difficult, to the point he will exploit the 180 day rule.