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Danderman123

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  1. They always talk about doing this, but never do. The idea is to scare manufacturers into lowering prices, but it never works. The laws of supply and demand are inexorable.
  2. One of the quirks of the Pattaya bar biz is that the bar lease must be under the name of a Thai national. This is often the Thai girlfriend of the owner, no idea what happens when they break up, since the Thai lady normally doesn't have the cash liquidity to operate the bar by herself.
  3. When did they close? Were they replaced?
  4. There already have been Chinese owned hotels in Pattaya for a long time.
  5. Any idea which bars on Walking Street are Chinese owned? A lady told me last year that there was a Chinese owned gogo on WS, but I don't remember the name. What's for sure is that Chinese don't participate in the small bar business very much.
  6. From your examples: Those who intentionally take or possess classified documents get prosecuted. Those who had them accidentally don't get classified. Trump refused to give back classified documents, and thus was prosecuted. His trial will probably take place in 2025. By then, he may already be in prison, so this trial may not be widely reported.
  7. Trump is a crazy old man with 91 felony charges.
  8. If Biden's polls are bad next August, yeah, that would be a real indicator that he's in trouble.
  9. The UAW and Biden won the strike. As usual, the Democrats fought to raise wages for working people, and the Republicans resisted. The Democrats want billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes, but the Republicans resist. It's like the Republicsns only care about billionaires.
  10. I took an antibody test early on, before vaccines were available, none detected. If I was infected, it would have been after I was vaccinated. But some people seem to be naturally resistant to Covid. There has been some discussion about genetic susceptibility to Covid, based on genes passed down from other races, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. So.... consider this: the Covid virus made the jump from animals to humans in China, so perhaps the virus evolved to better infect people of Chinese heritage, and not so much for others. That would explain why Africans were not so impacted early on, since they are the farthest from Chinese genetically. Europeans are almost as far, so may have had more resistance to infection (since people are not 100% any ethnic group, and Chinese have been in Europe since Roman times). It is possible that the virus evolved to take advantage of chunks of the Denisovan genome in Chinese DNA. Fortunately for Thai people, their Denisovan DNA is from a different flavor of Denisovan.
  11. It certainly explains why Rudy Guiliani was the Republican frontrunner in 2007. I understand that you are desperate for Trump to win in 2024, but you are embarrassing yourself by taking current polls seriously.
  12. Trump is ahead in the polls now because the electorate isn't paying attention so far away from the election. It's all name recognition now. This is typical for early polls. I guess you are new to this.
  13. No one has even charged Trump with sedition.
  14. The Shan state is where there is great resistance to the current government. Unlike the rest of Myanmar, the majority language in the Shan state is Tai (as opposed to Thai), and for a brief period during WWII, was part of Thailand. It's possible that the Shan state will rejoin Thailand if it splits from Myanmar.
  15. Unless someone has been convicted of sedition, they should not be barred from the ballot.
  16. I agree with the Trump lawyers on this issue.
  17. because polls a year before the election are accurate. Say, you must be new to this.
  18. Watch and learn. And prepare your excuses.
  19. Yep, Trump sent in the troops, withdrew from part of Syria, but kept troops in other parts. Yet another Republican forever war.
  20. Will you post the polls when Biden inevitably improves?
  21. The US economy is booming, but your internet masters haven't told you yet.
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