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Insulting and ridiculing Jerome Powell will not change the negative impact of the Trump initiated trade war with the world and tariffs applied in a willy nilly manner.

Wishing someone dies of cancer is not very nice. It is really mean. Come on. She is an effective Congress person. At 58, she has a way to go before she runs out of pep.

In fairness, they are only there to provide financial resources, not technical expertise. They can vote for the board members who the ones who are supposed to provide oversight.

One would hope. Trump gives people a chance and backs them, and then cuts them loose when they screw up.

Poverty takes another victim.

Didn't Leavitt and Trump insist that these claims were a fabrication, all lies? They would not lie would they? Trump should do himself a favour and get rid of the menace Hegseth before the other damage leaks out.

Change is happening. I saw an interview with David Hogg. He is a deputy chair of the DNC and a survivor of the Parkland mass shooting in Florida. He graduated from Harvard in 2023 and has been cutting a remarkable path of constructive change. He is leading the effort to rejuvenate by focusing on older party representatives who have had safe seats and taken that as an opportunity to limit their engagement. He wants people who will present the party policies and be more energetic in their duties as Congressional delegates. He has $20 million form the party to help bring in new candidates, to primary duds, and to support the more effective candidates. Some of the people he intends to have a primary are; 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) 84-year-old House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)) and 79 year old Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.). Many of the people on his list are infirm, or sick or just haven't been showing up to work as they should. At 80 years of age, it is time to vacate the position and step aside to let someone with more energy do the job. Congress should not be a seniors daycare facility.

Probably worse.

Instructional videos. As you can see from the many threads listing complaints and general malaise, there is a need for the assistance. You could provide a personal instructional on how to complete TDAC. Use simple words, and understand that your audience is of low intelligence and of limited attention span. There are online videos for the normal people. You would be focused on the Asean Now complaining angry demographic, the type of person who sees everything as a conspiracy, so you would need to speak very slowly. Enemas. They need help. As you know, many are really constipated. Perhaps you can show how it is done,. each week you can use a different cleansing formula. One week it can be tea, another week, apricot juice, and another week Leo Beer. How to meet Kathoeys for a romantic interlude. Perhaps you could show some of your razzle dazzle and charm in action.

Thank you for providing a rational response the unfair claims. The independent auditors are indeed Deloite Touche, However, the key person who is responsible for the turnaround is the court-appointed debt administrator Piyasvasti Amranand. He was called out of a well earned retirement to do this. See the answer above. There was no creative accounting. There were however, expenses and financial burdens placed on the company that other airlines don't have to take on. As I stated earlier, the airline made an operational profit. The problem lay with the its treatment as a resource for some other entities. I suggest you look at the obligations the airline has. There was only one major shareholder; The Ministry of Finance 36%. Everyone else was a shareholder with little influence; Bangkok Bank 8.5% EGAT Savings Co-Operative 5.43% krungthai Bank 4.69% Thanachart Bank 2.05% The Thai Government in turn has some additional interest because of its investments in some of the investors. I estimate this adds another 5%

Thank you. In one of my previous positions, I did profile people. 🙃

This type of fluff piece is called running for cover.

really? So regulators and Big Pharma executives are the same people. OK. How many FDA regulators are there? And just who are these regulators who are Big Pharma executives. Since you are such an expert and so knowledgeable, can you name 100 of them? 50? 10? How about 5? You cannot. Too bad you cannot be held liable for the false claim you made. It would be nice if people like you could be sued.

The airline is doing rather well and over the past year has been remarkably well managed. Thai Airways International Reported an Operating Profit of THB41.5 Billion in 2024. Contrary to what you claim the airline has typically had an operations profit. The airline has some additional expenses over which it has no control and that it is expected to assume. The problem isn't with the airline's operational management.

It is not about whataboutism. I am pointing out the inconsistency of some arguments. All of a sudden there is a concern for nazis, a concern that was not expressed when the MAGA crowd was marching with its torches chanting rather vile statements. There was no concern when protestors were being labeled by some very hateful terms, primarily based upon their ethnic backgrounds. The use of the term nazi and the attempt to apply it to people and groups who are not, is a bastardization of history and a dumbing down of reality. Mr. Trump is not a nazi. The GOP is not a nazi party. However, some supporters may hold neo nazi sentiments and some policies may echo some past discredited political and social policies.

Ok. And how does that justify the elimination of medical research, engineering R&D,preservation of the USA's historical record and literature, and chemical and physical R&D ?

Don't clutch your pearls too tight as you might pass out. Your concern for the well being of children is laudable, however I think the more important concern would be why unaccompanied children would be out and about at 23:30 hours on a dark street. The man is is most likely emotionally disturbed, but it not likely to present as a physical threat, provided one does not get too close, i.e. stay out of the splatter zone. Yes, I get it, no one should not have to be exposed to this. Mind you, I expect that there are some foreigners salivating over the possibility that they might come across a young man fully exposed in a state of excitement.

When a new passport is issued, the previous passport, if it still had a valid term, is cancelled. The common procedure is to issue only one national passport per person.

Can we please put this in perspective. These are Boeing 737- Max models. The return of an aircraft or even a few hundred is not going to bankrupt Boeing. The company reports Boeing's a production backlog of 4,759 737 MAXs. It is not as if Airbus will replace Boeing in China either. The writing has been on the wall for at least a decade that China wanted to replace foreign sourced aircraft with its own. Aerospace is a very profitable sector and China like any other country, wants to keep its money in house. Any country should try to do that. That's what the USA is trying to do too. The aircraft are delivered to China with bare interiors. This actually can make it easier to deliver to another customer (with maybe a small discount). They will easily be snapped up by the other carriers waiting for deliveries.

Trump currently does not have the authority to terminate Chairman Powell on the basis of a policy disagreement.

If only you showed such a moral compass in respect to the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr. to a US cabinet position. His grandfather was a nazi sympathizer, or the appointment of Elon Musk to a position of authority. His grandfather and father had some rather abhorrent views of black africans. You don't seem to concerned by that.

You are projecting. There is nothing wrong with a person who wishes to see Asia on a shoestring budget. If someone has 12 hours to spend riding a stinky inter city bus, and stay in bug infested fan only rooms, that is their choice. However, the Thai tourism market isn't particularly interested in them and no longer caters to them. Yes, there are some low cost dining options and bars where Leo can be had for 100 baht. It is not much of an enriching experience, unless you consider explosive diarrhea, or sitting on cheap plastic chairs , in a filthy seedy bar surrounded by extras from a Dawn of the Living Dead film a great experience. Living hand to mouth isn't fun. The expression 2 week millionaires is over used. Maybe an excited visitor might spend 5,000 - 10,000 baht in a night. What you think are high paying short time visitors are chump change charlies compared to Japanese, Singapore and South Korean visitors, who can easily drop 50,000-100,000 a night at some of their clubs. A cocktail in a higher end London,Milan, Copenhagen restaurant or bar can easily hit £15 or 20€. A modest meal for one at the Cheesecake factory in Miami can easily be $75, so some lonely ugly guy spending a few thousand baht is nothing special. A good meal with wine at some of the better quality restaurants in Hua Hin easily costs 5,000-10,000 Baht for 2 (if one doesn't want the cheap wine). Thai people don't have much use for the older backpacker or cheap charlie tourist and they treat them accordingly. That's the reality. If you don't mind being treated like crap, fine, go for it.

Or, the Chinese vessels will bypass US port and just head to a port in Canada or Mexico. Not the ideal solution, but just a small diversion would hurt the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The intent of charging the fees on any ship built in China will hurt US commerce. Alot of the smaller mid level cargo vessels are Chinese built now because the profitability wasn't there for domestic ship builders. Trump really doesn't consider the consequences of his actions.

1. The Republicans are not nazis. Not even close. I get it that some of their actions are unacceptable to some and maybe even illegal in some cases, but that does not make them nazis. 2. The people who did this were making a point, and did not vandalize as there was no physical damage. What they did was not nice, but they were thoughtful and considerate enough not to cause damage to the property. The taped items can be removed in minutes with no harm to the building. Certainly more respectful than arson or graffiti painting the building.

Ok, Songkran is over. Put the cheap water guns away (if they didn't break after day 1) and let's put a cork in the bottle, and let the annoyance, resentment, anger, and frustration ferment for another year. See you all in 2569. Same time. 😗 And remember; Songkran - April 13 Wan Klang - April 14 Wan Taleung - April 15