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6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I'd put it down mostly under the Trump "repressive" category!

 

Question I've been wondering -- when is the U.S. going to start revoking student visas deporting international students who speak publicly or demonstrate in favor of Russia and their illegal invasion of Ukraine?  Nope, that's not gonna happen.

 

All of this is simply blatant partisan politics-inspired repression.

 

Actually a lot of stuff is insignifiant like minor traffic infractions. Just excuses to go after foreign students for reasons that seem to be mainly xenophobic.

23 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

All he has to do is write a letter to the President of El Salvador that says "Please, pretty please with sugar on top, return this Maryland Father to the USA>" Then he replies "I have considered it. No."

One more instance to show that among Trump fans, in the Maga movement cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

2 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

China and it's awful dictorship led by the CCP is in huge trouble... I hope they drown in their communism and intolerance, regardless of the cost. The West made this monster, and will just have to swallow the consequences of starving it out of existence... well worth it, even if it costs people more. This reset has been a long tome coming and way overdue... awful regimes like this need to meet awful ends.

Is the West a "we" anymore. Ya think all the countries in the west that Trump now treats like adversaries are going to cooperate with him?

1 hour ago, frank83628 said:

 

And here you are defending government waste of your own tax dollar, do you not care, or fight against it because its Musk exposing it?  I expect you also are one that defends illegal immigrants being deported😷🤡🤡

 

And because Musk says that's what he's doing then he must really be doing it? Because he's a model of honesty?

As noted in another topic, foreign students are a big plus for the US as far as the trade balance goes. The reasons that they are going after these students are mostly trivial or repressive.

4 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Why should anyone remember this on a forum called ASEANNOW? You are baiting the wrong audience. Tell someone who gives a monkeys.

I  hate to defend riclag about anything but this is the political soapbox which is a subforum of the world forum where it would be Thai stories that didn't belong.

He's a product of the corrupt Republican party machine in Nassau County, NY.

4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Lol, outed again.

By denying the easily certifiable facts via reports from these sources it certainly does look like you're an anti-semite. If it walks like a duck...

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

You gave me isolated thieves, I gave you examples of concerted organizations replete with corruption for power. Study up America hater.

Ya want some links to about different corrupt Republican political machines? Here ya go:

Nassau County Republican Political Machine:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/nassau-county-gop-corrupt-party-machine-crushes-challengers/

https://museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/conkling-platt-machine/

https://museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/barnes-machine/

https://seventy.org/our-history/republican-bosses-and-machines?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Ring?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://seventy.org/our-history/republican-bosses-and-machines?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kuehnle?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kuehnle?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/31/holy-toledo-3?utm_source=chatgpt.com

4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I gave you examples. Want more?

You claimed it was the always the fount of corruption and that it couldn't be shown otherwise I offered you a a very strong piece of counter-evidence and a link to a huge amount of evidence.

I don't understand how you could be so ignorant of American history.

28 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I Wriggle? You denying existence of those folks? Got it

 

 

"The Democratic Party has always been the fount of corruption in US history and I defy any of the Trump deranged to debate that with me lol. They will just leave emojis "

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Lots of "repaying" in the Biden clan.

What makes it worse is all the evidence that backs up those claims. Almost too perfect, if you know what I mean.

11 minutes ago, jas007 said:

 If that makes you happy, so be it.  Just be aware that all you're doing is making yourself look silly.

 

 

Sure, I'm the one making myself look silly by believing against all actual evidence that Trump understands what deficits really signify.

And you're the one making yourself look serious by invoking evidence that's invisible. And that's why no one ever ridiculed Donald Rumsfeld for claiming that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

10 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

As always gracious of you to concede your error.

 

Well, yes, it would take time to develop the infrastructure, but there are US companies that specialise in extracting materials during recycling. It can be done. Until then the US would have to rely on its own mines, and those which it sponsoered in Africa in assoication with Australian companies. 

These mines don't provide much. As I understand it Australia's output is exported to customers elsewhere. And China still controls most refining. In the meantime that leaves the USA in a very poor position.

14 minutes ago, jas007 said:

 It's basic stuff.  Sort of like the air we breathe containing oxygen. Trump knows. How can he not know?  

What concerns Trump, as I've said, is the excessively large trade deficit with China. Business as usual didn't work for a number of reasons. Corruption, currency manipulation, the Chinese government support of entire industries, and so on. The system was broken. 

 

And if you look up Navarro, the tariff idea was obviously his. He's studied the matter extensively and he's, written books.  He's long advocated for tariffs as a means of dealing with China. One of Navarro's books, Death by China, co-authored by Navarro and published in 2011, is supposedly one of Trump's favorite books on the China trade problem.  So, well before he was even inaugurated for his first term, Trump must have known how things work.  

 

Trhe idea and here we are.  You can argue all day as to whether or not tariffs are good idea, but that's beside the point. 

How can you not be aware of Trump's fabled and capacious ignorance?  As for Navarro's work being one of Trump's favorites...as his aides have repeatedly said, Trump doesn't like to read. For issues he wants short pithy summaries and lots of graph,. Just because he likes Navarro's conclusions, doesn't mean he has actually read the book.

And since all the actual existing evidence supports the belief that Trump hasn't a clue about trade deficits (it's not clear the most Trump supporters here do either), basically all you're offering is a statement of faith. The faith of a true believer.

3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

I said very clearly that little is recycled at the moment. That is why the upside of doing it so great of course. with millions of devices that contain rare earths.

My mistake. I can see that you did.

But of course, that makes your case worse. As I've noted before you don't note the element of Time. How long before these crucial resources can be developed or acquired from elsewhere in sufficient quantities? What is the USA going to do in the meantime while other economies enjoy access? How much will it be left behind?

2 minutes ago, jas007 said:

You're embarrassing yourself. Repeating the same nonsense over and over doesn't prove your case.

 

Even if we assume, arguendo, that Trump at one time in his life may have believed otherwise, you can be sure that he has now been  instructed and knows how it works. 

 

We can be sure why? Because there is still no evidence to support that belief? And a huge amount of current evidence to the contrary? And you claim not to be in the bag for Trump. It is to laugh.

17 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

And overlook the billions given by Democratic donors?

Of course, the reason that all these billions are being donated to the political parties is that the conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled that giving money is just a form of free speech and should be protected. Roberts said he didn't believe it would make much difference to the political scene in America. Roberts is either a fool or very disingenuous. Republicans applauded the decision. Hmmm...I wonder why...

18 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

In other words the usual Socialist authoritarian propaganda. As usual, no facts, just fantasy. Tell the forum what this Naziism is LOL, I love it. The Guardian is the best. Fine people LOL.

 

Bet you love that Gun and Knife rhetoric from your Chinese masters.

 

Are you claiming that the Guardian story is false? What's your point?

To tell you the truth, my Chinese masters aren't too happy with me lately. They found out I called out  the Chinese for their disgraceful treatment of Muslim citizens. I'm sure you are as upset about that as I am.

I have also condemned their Belt & Road program.,

And pointed out how the government has hurt the economy by favoring government enterprises over private one.

And the damage wrought by their massive over-reliance on real estate.

And their aggressive claims and actions re the South China Sea

And their aggressive towards other neighbors

And their mishandling of the Covid pandemic

And there's other stuff too.

In fact, I want to thank you. I send them comments of yours like the one I'm replying to and because of them  they think I'm still doing God's work...make that Mao's work.

You're the best!

I expect a big "thank you" emoji in return.

15 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Teapot Dome. OK Ill raise you:

 

Hinky Dink Kenna, Bathhouse John Coughlin, The Outfit, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, Frank Costello, Bill Dwyer, Bill ODwyer, Sidney Hillman, Harry Truman, the Prendergasts, Huey Long,  JFK, LBJ, Bobby Baker, Joe Kennedy, Richard Croaker, Carmine DeSapio, Richard Daly....want more?

Here's what you wrote

"The Democratic Party has always been the fount of corruption in US history and I defy any of the Trump deranged to debate that with me lol. They will just leave emojis "

And now you're trying to wriggle out of your claim.

Here for a start is a list of scandals in the federal govt. It doesn't look to me like it's only or mainly composed of democrat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States

And what is it with your weird obsession with emojis? I can't recall anyone else in this forum showing any concern about emojis targeting them.

34 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I don't see Biden as being classed as mentally fit by any legal authority after the year 2020.

He appeared to just be a sock puppet for other players.

 

About the $4,000 repayments, would Biden have even known he had a bank account at that time, let alone who paid what into it.

More nonsense from you. The fact is that those payments were repayments for a loan. What does alleged senility have to do with that?

2 hours ago, jas007 said:

You really are embarrassing yourself and you really should just stop.  Now you're trying to pretend you didn't say what you said? 

"Trump may not want that but he doesn't betray much understanding of how the trade works. For instance, he has the crazy notion that if your trade balance runs a deficit, that means you're losing and it's the fault of tariffs."

 

Anybody who wants to know where this is coming from should read this comment from jas007. 

"How am I supposed to find evidence of something that's so fundamental that it goes without saying?  It's  like asking me for evidence that Trump is well aware that 2 + 2 =4.  Everyone who knows anything about world trade and the world reserve currency knows how it works."

In it, and I'm not making this up, he asserts that the proof that Donald Trump understands the real reason why trade deficits exist and that they aren't necessarily a bad thing  is that he never ever talks about those reasons. jas007 completely ignores the fact there is copious evidence from Trump's own mouth and tweets that he ardently believes quite the opposite. jas007 goes even farther than Donald Rumsfeld did when he wrote that "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". In this case we have huge quantities of evidence to the contrary and yet jas007 ignores it. Actually what we have in this case is the equivalent of Trump denying that 2+2=4.

And I'm the one who should be embarrassed? Actually, you have the advantage of me here. Anyone who writes the kind of tripe you did defending Trump most likely is shameless.

18 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Well, you have ICE and police roaming in the US, also much criticised. And the 1930s were a turbulent time as socialism was just emerging, the world war had happened. Much more precarious than now.

Are you saying that Kristallnacht wasn't about attacking Jewish business and Jewish people by the SS and SA but rather about attacking socialism?

And thanks for likening ICE and police activity to the practices of the SS and SA.