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It's difficult to explain to someone who thinks a word of three letters is too big.

He is also more damaging to the people who voted for him, they just don't have the wit to realize it. His tariff walls and deportations of low paid workers are going to drive up prices, that's a given. Prices are like viruses, they don't care who you voted for. When Trump gave Musk and his DOGE Musk rats free access to Treasury and other departments, he probably did not know or care what he was doing. Data is money to tech billionaires. Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos all thrive on it. It's how they got to be billionaires. The Musk rats are now mining one of the richest mother lodes of data on the planet, for free, courtesy of Trump. Treasury, Social Security, Defense - it's a treasure house. I feel sorry for Americans, and very pleased I am not one. They just don't realize what they have got themselves into.

Porridge has just as much carbohydrate as bread. The OP has to reduce his carbohydrate intake further. Beer is loaded with it. He should also avoid anything with sugar in it. If he still wants to drink alcohol, gin and tonic or whisky/rum with or without a zero sugar mixer. My diet consists of eating as much protein and cheese as I feel like. Fish, beef, chicken, pork, eggs. Yoghurt is OK. Low carbohydrate vegetables, such as cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage. Salad vegetables. Low sugar fruit, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. Bananas are high carb. My standard breakfast is poached eggs, or an omelet. Bacon occasionally. Coffee with stevia, a zero carb/calorie sugar substitute. For the doubters, I am normal BMI, having gone from 93 kg to 78 kg.

Guess how much it would have exported if Canada was not supplying 50%. Canadian crude is heavy, processed by Mid-western refineries. The shale oil crude produced in America is lighter fractions. Shale oil is a Red Queen's race, producers have to keep drilling. The average well life is 20 - 30 years, but production rates decline rapidly after 2-3 years. Hence the drill baby drill slogan.

Manned by you?

A copy and paste from when Bob Smith went on the wagon. I recommend a month's worth of Clozapine.

SCOTUS is irretrievably corrupted by Trump stacking it with conservative judges in his last term. The overturning of Roe vs Wade plus the ruling on Presidential immunity destroyed its credibility.

Newton's Third Law of Physics states every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The same law applies to geopolitics. Trump puts tariffs on China, it responds by freezing imports of American farm produce, and embargoing the export of strategic critical elements. Well done Trump, just put your farmers to the sword, and crippled your defense industry. Canada has a positive trade balance with the USA. It also supplies 50% of America's oil and gas. If it decides to sell those raw materials to China and India instead, the US is up the proverbial creek in a barbed wire canoe without a paddle. A real man does not dodge the draft by faking bone spurs, disrespect fallen soldiers, sexually assault women, or cheat the contractors he employs for cents on the dollars he owes. If that's what you think makes a real man, you are as big a moral imbecile as he is.

A flat tax of 1.5 - 2% on revenue would probably fix every nation's budget. Multinationals, corporations and billionaires can hide profits in a plethora of ways, they get a free ride compared to the average wage earner. Example: Transurban in Australia had a net profit of $46 million. It paid $136,000 in corporate tax. Its revenue was $4.6 billion. At a 2% tax rate, it would have paid $92 million. Revenue can't be hidden, fudged, or shuffled off to a low tax environment. One thing for sure, I would have been delighted to be paying only 2% tax in my peak earning years.

You may need to temper your expectations of any coffee chain that cares more about its bottom line than its customers. Personally, I search out and try small non-chain coffee shops which look like they know what they are doing. If what I get is good coffee, reasonable in price and quantity, they have a repeat customer. Starbucks, Amazon, Black Canyon etc. - I don't bother anymore.

The Thai demographic is shrinking. It would collapse if Thais took to the skies.

Tell someone who gives a FF for your opinion.

I did preface my post with IMO. Didn't your education stretch to understanding what acronyms and abbreviations are?

Nobody is going to think you are a <deleted> if you wear a Nike or Adidas hat.

They are made in both countries, what part of the statement don't you understand?

So you can tell the difference between a person wearing a MAGA hat made in California, and a person wearing a MAGA copy made in China? It's a hole you dug yourself, perhaps you'll get all the way there.

Want to bet the knockoffs made in China are more expensive than the official version? Your post is inaccurate, MAGA hats/caps are made in both places. The AP article itself says that. Where are Trump gold sneakers and Trump bibles produced?

The irony of wearing a hat made in China is lost on them.

Internet in Australia is 2-3 times slower than in Thailand, and 3-4 times as expensive. In the capital cities and suburbs. Where I used to camp, I got ABC broadcasts at 6 pm. The nearest landline phone was 20 km away, at a homestead. The lousy internet in Australia is courtesy of a conservative government, who thought they could save money by relying on an ageing copper network. It's cost more instead.

How about emu burgers, and corned kangaroo?

Agree, that's another indicator.

Wearing a suit designed to look like a wall only proves the guy is as thick as one of the bricks in it. Who is he trying to look like, Tom Selleck?

Most of the larger towns in the region boast a Chinese restaurant. Before calcivirus, when I ordered a chicken chow mein, it was short odds I was getting rabbit instead. But you're right, it's no country for old men.

They probably were not before I posted.

By making things that people want cheaper and better? The ship has already sailed as far as electric cars are concerned.