Lacessit

I'm not concerned about VP Harris. I am concerned about the mental health of some posters on this thread.

Do you know the hours for psychiatrists?

Trump as a rat in trouble is less dangerous IMO than someone with a fistful of nuclear codes; however,you may be right.

Leftist? Moi? I'm just a rational non-American, wondering how Trump has managed to con a rump of Americans into accepting his alternative facts as gospel. IMO it would be a fascinating social experiment to compare the average IQ of Trump supporters who believe Trump won or was cheated, against that of the people who voted for Biden. Putin feared Trump? You must have missed Trump kissing Putin's butt in Helsinki.

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Health_Defense VAERS is a voluntary health reporting system on vaccine adverse reactions, it can hardly be taken as objective data. That requires peer review, the stuff responsible scientists and medicos do. An aching arm for a couple of days would be reported as an adverse event, and VAERS would count all deaths with co-morbidities as caused by vaccination. How many people have been saved from death or incapacitation? Those numbers are totally ignored by conspiracy theorists, with their focus on anything adverse about vaccination. Or fluoride, or climate change. I wish I had fluoride given to me as a child. It would have denied a succession of dentists a gold mine.

All you need is one in thirty-two of your forebears.

Your speculations are far more outlandish than mine. It's not speculation anymore that Trump has retained Top Secret documents in an unsecure location despite repeated requests to return them. While it may be speculation what he intended to do with them, there's no speculation about what the Espionage Act says in the circumstances.

Billions of dollars have been shovelled into welfare for them, the woke term is Kooris. I don't know what the answer is, but what is being done for them now is not working. Anyone who thinks Aboriginals are victims should pay a visit to Bourke, Murrum Bridge, Wentworth, or Fitzroy Crossing. It's like being in a war zone, or a white man taking a walk through Harlem. The smarter or more gifted ones make it in mainstream Australian society, but they always seem to go back to their roots. The ones who don't get out of the settlements sit on their bums with their hands out.

The population of Australia is getting close to 27 million, not 40 million. About 80% of Australians live not more than 3 km from a coast. Get into the back blocks, the next house may be 10 km away. Or 100. Non-Australians have no idea how vast and empty Australia is. My retirement to Thailand was based on a number of factors: 1/ Experience. Having worked as a consultant in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, I had been exposed to different environments than that prevailing in Australia. 2/ Boredom. While Australia is a very safe place to be, it is also constrained by many rules and regulations, which became stifling to me. Having a house in suburbia requiring constant upkeep was not on my list of exciting things I could do. 3/ Cost of living. I maintain two abodes, two cars, and two scooters here. On my income, in Australia I would only have one place to live. My car. 4/ Women. I could continue living with a woman in my age bracket who was becoming ever more demanding and irritating, and regarded my support as some kind of right. Or I could come to Thailand, where the only requirement for connection with women much younger than me was the size of my wallet. 5/ Medical and dental facilities. Thailand's medical infrastructure is probably one of the best in South-East Asia. 6/ Freedom. Within the bounds of the law here, I can do exactly as I want. There are no bigots or prudes to disapprove of my conduct. Not that I would care. I did about 6 months of research before retiring here, one of my better decisions in life. I suspect proximity is another reason, it's a 8-9 hour flight from Bangkok to the main Australian cities. Spain, Mexico, South Africa and South America are a bridge too far for most Aussies.

Separations are fairly pointless when a couple have been in close proximity during the infection phase. I've found it helpful to get a COVID antibody test done, it tells me where my immune system is at for 500 baht.

I guess you are in for a rude awakening, then. Forked over $45 to the great man yet?

It goes back to Dr. Samuel Johnson's aphorism: " Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

Your belief in the righteousness of Trump is touching. It has me wondering why, after saying only mobsters take the Fifth, he would exercise that right himself. And why that would remain unquestioned by you. Opinions differ. Garland wedged the Republicans and Trump beautifully, the warrant and what was found with the warrant is out there for the world to see. Top Secret documents in the possession of a private citizen. Spare me the argument Trump won, that's been tossed out by every judiciary in America. I am looking forward to the truth coming out too. Perhaps you won't be able to handle it.

I would suggest the OP has a setting on his computer which is timing out after ten minutes. I stay logged into ASEAN even when I am switched off, because I am back in as soon as I boot up again, without a password in sight. As for disinformation, my only source is the more deranged posters on ASEAN. I refuse to be on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok because I don't see the point of it, apart from allowing the site owners to harvest my personal information for free.

Retirees only register with Thais at the local level, the vast majority of Thais don't even know we exist. The money we spend may help one family, not more.

It's an individual decision. I have had Sinovac and Astra Zeneca, COVID after that. Then Pfizer as a booster. I intend to get a Moderna next year, or a more up to date vaccine as they become available. Flu mutates from year to year, COVID is the same. I don't always subscribe to the notion more is better.

I fulfill my obligations as a tenant. I pay on time, and look after a landlord's place as if it were my own. I have had landlords express regret when I moved out. As to the OP's question, no. Any landlord wanting worship would not get me for a tenant.

We were in the middle of a pandemic, health systems worldwide were pushed past breaking point, vaccinations and masks were the only lights at the end of the tunnel. Only natural medicos, politicians and the majority of the population should regard anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers as selfish idiots.

I have no involvement in medicine, although it has always interested me. I am a retired research scientist.

Vaccines work, climate change is real, gravity is not just a theory. No vaccine has a perfect safety record. Having said that, the vanishingly small number of deaths that MIGHT have been partly caused by vaccination, and trumpeted in social media as if Armageddon has arrived, pale into insignificance against the millions who have been protected from death or serious incapacitation. One doesn't get to choose with science. People that accept the good bits, such as smartphones and travel in aircraft, are irrational when they reject what they think are the bad bits, such as vaccination and climate change.

I feel sorry for people who have no scientific training who get most of their information from internet websites. They have almost zero capacity to understand topics such as probability, statistics and experimental design. Their principal focus is on outliers, such as 19 nuns who allegedly died after Astra-Zeneca vaccination, and they pride themselves on being educated in the school of hard knocks. Those hard knocks are fertile ground for developing conspiracy theorists. It does not occur to them the hard knocks result from poor decisions. As only 1% of the world's population has tertiary qualifications in science and medicine, there's quite a few people to be sorry for.

Who is "they"? Having had possibly the most deadly form of COVID, delta, with little effect after vaccinations, I figure my immune system has enough antibodies to last that long.

This thread is a rich source of wild guesses.

Trump must have been so disappointed when the Supreme Court, stacked with his nominees, refused to touch the 2020 election lawsuits with the proverbial barge pole.

Er - your first sentence makes no sense. They are claiming a conviction rate of 95%, that means they either won, or the accused plea bargained to get a lower sentence. The relevance of cases they declined to prosecute escapes me. When Trump was in power, was the DOJ and FBI witch-hunting for him? You betcha. IIRC, Trump came to Washington promising to drain the swamp. As far as I can make out, he got rid of the alligators, and restocked the swamp with crocodiles. Putting an oil industry executive in charge of the Environment portfolio, how corrupt and incompetent is that?