Everything posted by Patong2021
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Elon Musk Urges US to 'delete' Federal Agencies in Government Overhaul
Ok. However, weren't you previously saying that the Trump collective would change all that? And no there isn't any evidence to support your claim that the 3 presidents you mention profited from their activity while in office. Trump obliges his secret service detail and white house workers to pay for accommodation and meals at Trump owned facilities when he makes his near weekly return to his home in Florida. Why is Musk allowed access to business competitors' files and contracts? Why was he meeting with Modi at the White House to discuss his projects in India? The MAGA collective would be the first to scream and claim criminal conspiracies if it was anyone other than the Trump cabal.
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Elon Musk Urges US to 'delete' Federal Agencies in Government Overhaul
looks more like the Trump family is profiting as is Musk. Conflicts of interest are of no concern amongst the MAGA collective.
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Australian Nurses Suspended Over Hate Speech Antisemitic Video as Investigation Unfolds
You missed your calling. Goebbels could have used you almost a century ago.
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Tourist’s Hands Bitten Off by Shark in Photo Stunt Gone Wrong!
No one deserves it, but one can easily avoid the tragedy. It takes a special kind of stupid to approach an apex predator and offer oneself up as prey.
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Munich Car Ramming: 24 Year old Afghan Asylum Seeker. 28 Injured Some Critical
That system didn't seem to work with the Afghan nurses who claimed to be doctors and were boasting how they killed Israelis, then jews at the hospital in NSW Australia. The disgusting aspect of this event is that no one in the muslim community or the Afghan community has condemned the event. no unequivocal condemnations. Just excuses. The Imams are quick to claim Islamophobia whenever one of their own says there has been an offence, but they never step up when there is an attack like this.
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Historic Drop in Illegal Border Crossings Following Trump’s Crackdown
The field workers were more likely to be legal than illegal, coming in on farm worker visas. They will still come to work the fields.
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Sinn Fein’s Snub: Michelle O’Neill Declines King’s Invitation to Stay at Windsor Castle
The man was being polite with the invite. Nothing in wrong in not staying. Windsor guest rooms are described as a throwback to the 1970's, so it is understandable why someone might not want to stay. She is being civil in attending the dinner. It is not unreasonable that she not stay for the pajama party.
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Chinese Tourists Choose Japan Over Thailand for New Year
Not mentioned are the demographics of the Chinese tourists. Japan is attracting the quality tourists. No buffet attacking savages. No spitters. Just big spenders. The sources from which the article is taken, state that Chinese tourists in Japan spent about 1.73 trillion yen (US$11 billion). A lot of that spend used to be done in Thailand. Safe roads, clean air, quality food, reliable policing, potable water make even a low cost Japan visit a luxury experience compared to a visit to Thailand. And it is a good thing to as it helps normalize relations between the two and will allow a made in Asia solution to the psychopath in North Korea.
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Trump Signals Potential Meeting with Putin in Saudi Arabia Amid Ukraine War Talks
The G7 member economies that the USA has declared financial hostilities with, will indeed step up to look after themselves and that will come with a pivot to China as you mention. Canada will be forced into selling more oil to China, and perhaps an eventual switch away from the USA. It will move to normalize relations with China and build stronger economic ties to latin america. The EU will normalize with China as well and look to replace USA trade with Chinese and Asian trade growth. The end result is that China's influence will grow, while the USA's shrinks. The USA is alienating both Canada and the EU. The impact will be seen in the decades to come as the USA's largest trading partners turn away from the USA. It won't matter to most Trump voters, because a large number will be dead by then. The influence of the USA will be like a fireworks that launches, explodes with great force and then comes crashing down in a puff of smoke.
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Thai Baht Set to Weaken as US Tariff Tensions Escalate
It will most certainly damage the Thai economy and some of the most economically vulnerable of Thais will suffer when they can't sell their products into the USA. The US agriculture and seafood lobby has been lobbying against Thai food products (seafood, rice) for years. Tariffs will be applied to Thai products. The assumption/hope that Trump and his plan sponsors have is that the foreign currencies exchange rate with the USD will crash and that the increased costs consumers will pay, will be offset by the depreciation of the exporter currencies. The Trump plan requires foreign currencies to depreciate, otherwise the tariffs will hurt US consumers and will cause inflation to increase. It is a gamble. The Trump plan does not take into account that the USA will be taking on multiple foreign economies at once. It might have had a chance to work if it was 1 or 2 weak economies at a time, but the Trump tariffs will attack G7 member economies at the same time it hits Thailand and India. Thailand to USA 2023 Exports In USD Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers $10.32B Rubbers $4.62B Vehicles other than railway, tramway $2.60B Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins $1.70B Articles of iron or stee l$1.43B Plastics $1.10B Optical, photo, technical, medical apparatus $925.23M Meat, fish and seafood preparations $857.25M Furniture, lighting signs, prefabricated buildings $773.42M Vegetable, fruit, nut food preparations $674.24M Cereals $661.31M https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/exports/united-states
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Donald......and the rest of the world.
You have been watching too many US war movies which present an historically incorrect version of events. The initial comment was made in respect to the USA saving Europe. The war with Japan is not germane. The battle of the atlantic was won in large part because of three factors; Air Superiority, Intelligence, and large numbers of vessels. The RCAF coastal command and RCAF Ferry Command deployed longer range aircraft after 1942. By 1944, every convoy had permanent air capability with the introduction of the MAC- merchant air capability that had 1 convoy include a vessel equipped with 4-6 submarine hunters. The pilots who flew off of these vessels were some of the most skilled pilots in the war, taking off from small decked vessels and flying in harsh conditions. The Allied Signals intelligence group broke the Enigma code. The Signals group was populated by some of the best and brightest British and Commonwealth sourced minds. The large numbers of merchant vessels that were organized into convoys were crewed primarily by British, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Canadian and Polish merchant seamen on mostly British and Canadian vessels. Norway had the 4th largest merchant marine capability in the world at the outbreak of WWII. Many brave Norwegians went with their vessels to Great Britain where they worked the convoys, with thousands dying in the process. Yes, the USA made a tremendous contribution and Europeans should be grateful, but the USA has a bad habit of claiming that it did everything on its own for the greater good, and that just isn't true.
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Thailand Tops LGBTQ Tourism; Spending Soars by 38%
If you were sincere, you would have gone to your browser and entered lbgtq. A response would have been generated in milliseconds.
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Donald......and the rest of the world.
You are right. However, once the Europeans and Canadians start avoiding US products and traveling to the USA, it will impact the US economy and US citizens will get a jolt. Australia entered into the purchase when the USA was a reliable ally and its signature on a treaty or trade agreement could be respected. As the US attempt to bully Canada and to annex Greenland demonstrates, the USA can no longer be trusted and is not a reliable ally. Do not be surprised if Australia withdraws from the purchase agreement. Canada is shopping for new submarines too and Australia helps train Canadian submarine personnel. The two them might revisit the Europeans to source the new submarines. How incredibly arrogant. The USA did not enter WWII until Pearl Harbor and even then it took months to undertake direct action against Germany in November 1942. Until that time, the UK may have been on life support, but Canada was arguably the saviour of Europe. Canada and Newfoundland had 1 million people in uniform. It was Canadian munitions and food that sustained the UK for years, sent on European and Canadian ships protected by the 4th largest navy, the Royal Canadian Navy. Norwegian and Danish merchantmen were putting their lives at risk for freedom years before the USA joined the fight. Commonwealth nations Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia contributed significant amounts of manpower and resources too. Commonwealth air crews were flying back to back sorties in bad weather and thick anti aircraft blankets over Germany in RAF and RCAF aircraft while US servicemen were complaining about the travails of basic training in sunny Miami. The USA entered the war because of Pearl Harbor and was content to bleed the British dry with lend lease and to watch the world disintegrate in hopes that it could one day dominate. Trump has picked a fight with the very nations that the USA needs and will need. the wake up call to the USA is on the way.
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Thailand Tops LGBTQ Tourism; Spending Soars by 38%
You know what it means. What's your point? Trying to get a rise out people?
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Outdated 2-5pm Alcohol Ban Faces Renewed Criticism in Thailand
Pain the backside law. When I am shopping for my groceries, it is idiotic that I cannot purchase a bottle of wine at 3 pm. If there is a concern that young people are drinking, then age check them when they purchase.
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Michigan State Rep sterilized herself to protest Trump
Congatulations for being the first logical comment. No one bothered to look into the reasons why she did this and what her background was. State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky’s is 36 years old.. She states that she had been considering this for a few years and was finalized by Trump’s election. She says this announcement was to highlight the concerns women have about the restrictions on access to contraception that Trump's administration has said it will implement. She had no desire to create a larger family at age 36. How is she an extremist? At age 36 do you believe iut is a good idea that she keep producing offspring? As women age, the likelihood of a defective fetus increases. Autism, cognitive impairments are more in the children of older parents. Yes she did. She was doing this to draw attention to the difficulties that women have in accessing birth control including. termoination of pregnancy. The concern is that some state governments wish to reduce access to birth control. At age 36, it is best if she stops having kids.
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Bars in Thailand Set to Close This Week for Buddhist Holiday
No it does not. The majority of tourists are from China, Malaysia and India and understand the restrictions. 5 days without alcohol in a year are hardly deal breakers. Yes, some western and north Asian tourists get annoyed. The smart visitors will stock up if they need alcohol. They are allowed to consume during the. holidays. So what if the sex tourists are annoyed? It is not like they are going anywhere else. They are in Thailand because it is all they can afford.
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Bars in Thailand Set to Close This Week for Buddhist Holiday
No one is being punished, unless you are an alcoholic addicted to the drug and need to consume it a tacky bar. You can still drink at home or with your friends at your homes. Nope. It is pathetic that some elderly foreigners are up in arms because the crappy bars won't be open for a few days. Get real. No one goes for a cocktail at the crappy beer bars. Those places wouldn't know how to make a decent cocktail if their lives depended on it. My experience has been that the major hotels will still be discretely serving cocktails and some of the private clubs which cater to the discerning Asians will be serving alcohol. The crappy beer bar/brothels with their uncomfortable plastic chairs and filthy tables will have to stop. It will give some of the staff a much needed chance to rest and maybe get treated for their STIs.
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Farage’s Reform UK Surges as Tory Voters Defect in Droves
Don't count them out. Sometimes a bit of time in the wilderness does wonders for politicians. Learn from Churchill. In 1997 PM John Major was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 419 seats. The Tories were assumed to have been wiped out then too.
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To all you Trump fans - Do you wear your MAGA hats with pride in Thailand?
Really? A great many US citizens are offended when they see protestors wearing Hezbollah and Hamas attire. There are even hats worn by some with sickening slogans on them. I believe that there is a propasal from some of the more vocal MAGA congressional members to sanction people wearing attire.
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To all you Trump fans - Do you wear your MAGA hats with pride in Thailand?
Perhaps, but one certainly needs markets to sell products and suppliers who will sell critical raw materials. Do not under estimate the Chinese. They can sustian long term pain. US nationals are chronic complainers. They riot when Popeye's runs out of chicken. The US is picking fights with everyone and it cannopt go it alone. Are you He did not win by a landslide. He did not even receive a majority of votes cast. Are you intentionally wrong or are you really this ignorant of the vote result?
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Colombian President Suggests Cocaine Should Be Legalized Like Whisky
Have you been in some US cities like Philadelphia where the zombies walk? Or rural towns in in West Virginia and Kentucky ravaged by Hillbilly Heroin? Druggies rob and steal and kill to get their fix.
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Panama Caves
75%+ of the. Panama canal workforce came from The majority of the workers on the Panama Canal came from the West Indies, including Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, Martinique, and Trinidad. 90%+ of deaths were these people. Your logic holds that their homelands can lay claim to the canal. Panama exists as a nation because it gained its independence in 1821 from Spain. It then joined with other states to form a greater Columbian Republic under the great Simon de Bolivar. Panama then split from Columbia The USA was involved because it sought to act as a colonial power. The USA has no right to meddle in Latin America. The USA is not in charge. All that the USA is doing is to force the world to look away from purchasing US products and to become more self reliant.
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Kanye West Declares Himself a Nazi, Sparks Outrage with Anti-Semitic and Offensive Tirade
Nope. Recent illustrations; Britney Spears, Wendy Williams, Amanda Bynes , Brian Wilson (Beachboys), and Michael Oher (a dead wringer for Kanye). There has to be someone who cares, and right now, Kanye is being exploited by his entouragem, who need him free so they can earn their money. Maybe not full fledged members of the party, but most certainly encouraged to be affiliates and supporters. In the past the German Nazis were supported by the Grand Mullah of Jerusalem who sent his muslim militia to fight for the nazis. Iran currently funds extemist right wing groups with the intent of causing civil disorder.
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Colombian President Suggests Cocaine Should Be Legalized Like Whisky
Cocaine is a deadly addictive drug. The people laughing off the legalization are not prepared for the tens of thosuands of zombies that would be created.