SunnyinBangrak

As usual it looks like another storm in a teacup and major distraction from the numerous politically inconvenient disasters and calamities currently in play. Can any of the forum's left contingent explain which Supreme court decisions and rulings this billionaire bought by being pals with Thomas - and hence the uproar? I am thinking the billionaire is not the smartest guy around, if he was corrupting a regular judge that presides over criminal cases he could possible have bought some unfair advantage, but the Supreme court?

Scum? Remind who said they didn't want their kids growing up in a racial jungle? The problem with false assertions is that you will always get called up on them. Your "fine people on both sides" was a classic disinformation stunt by the dishonest left. I believe there is not a creature on earth that does not know this statement was taken completely out of context for leftist propaganda purposes. I thought blatant disinformation was frowned upon here, or is it that Trump is the victim of your nonsense so it's cool. Like mocking a bone spur disability for years? I hope this poor man is pardoned asap, as I know what happened. Justice should be blind.

What is this "maggot party" you speak of? Funny I was just reading some guidance on another thread, clearly it does not apply to you or other woke posters after reading thousands of abusive posts calling political rivals scumbags and morons. "15. You will not discriminate or post slurs, degrading or overly negative comments on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, medical history, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, paternity, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other irrelevant factor." If you believe you are correct, you should be able to debate and offer reasoned argument. Sadly you guys can't do that, and it has been noticed.

You are wrong about almost everything here. Who said anything about being "poor"? Only you. Can you accept being educated to a low level and living in a rural area is not a guarantee of poverty. Plenty of rural folk became very rich from land sales for example, or in his case being a very successful barramundi farmer. Didn't need to learn algebra or have fancy degrees to know how best to care for his fish, and the many fellow fish farmers coming to him for advise and help on their own operations says much. He is not wanting or expecting me to pay him a dime. It would be very offensive for me to make such an offer. I started this thread off my own bat trying to understand how this all happened, and to make sure it really was a lost cause. That it seemed (and still does) too incredible for words, is not an excuse to mock and insult. Thanks for the genuine replies here guys, sorry I could not bring much more detail to how the scam worked exactly. Briefing the farang in the family on this most embarrassing episode is not top priority for him.

Sorry I can't understand the full details of how it happened. He is embarrassed and emotional it's difficult to work out exactly what happened. Best I can understand is "customs" phoned his mobile and said they caught him sending too many boxes to Burma without declaring(he never sent any single box of anything anywhere) and that he must pay a fine, they then started supposedly transferring him to different "departments" such as police, the bank and even the government where the demands and consequences of not paying were increased. Not sure what the threat was. I suspect he was worried his position as a respected village elder would be threatened and wanted this issue to go away. Then after he started paying... As for those having trouble understanding how somebody could be so stupid, remember the family are rural folk in a very remote area earning livings from agriculture and fisheries. They are just not living in the same world that educated tech and scam savvy westerners are. He only got his first phone recently. Will update the tread with the full story if I ever learn it completely.

"London beats rivals with world’s best-performing major stock market FTSE 100 is only top index to deliver a gain for investors in miserable year" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/30/london-beats-rivals-worlds-best-performing-major-stock-market/ Surprising to read after all the doom and gloom brexit threads over the same period the UK was enjoying the world's best performing stock market! Added to my UK investments yesterday after reading this guff.

Exactly. Got him a new phone number already. Just beggars belief how he fell for it, and we don't know how much he lost yet. Thanks for the replies guys. Seems he isn't the only one that fell for this. Too bad.

Just heard yesterday my brother-in-law(bIL) has been scammed out of a large sum of money. I believe he answered a phone call in which a fake bank employee persuaded him to transfer 400k baht to the scammer's bank account and then tried for much more(we are not sure if BIL paid the 2nd amount but suspect so). So after realizing he just lost all his money he went to the bank to see what happened, they said too bad but can't help. He went to the police, sorry that's just too bad but we can't help, the scammer will be in a border region and will have gotten some uneducated person to open a dummy bank account for the scammer to use. And that's it!! I find it hard to believe in this day and age electronic money transfers can't be traced? There must be cctv footage from when they opened this bank account? Is it really a hopeless case? This is most unfortunate as the victim is niave beyond words and spends his whole life helping people in difficulty at the local temple, we are very concerned about his wellbeing. It would be a huge help if some or all of his money could be returned.

I would like to see a return to verifiable voting, so if an event like the Fulton county water leak results in counting to stop and observers sent home and then cctv shows boxes of ballots pulled out from under the table and rammed through the tabulators it will be super easy to prove it's all above board and legitimate by doing a forensic recount making sure signatures matches, the vote was cast be a registered voter, everything as the voter intended etc. A simple audit would have lessened the insecurity over the win. I do not think either side will be happy, but it has been amusing after the left spent 4 years calling Trump illegitimate(falsely and without evidence) and claiming he cheated by colluding with Putin(without any evidence) to see them shocked that Republicans cast doubts on their win. BTW election denier Nancy Pelosi is STILL claiming Trump was illegitimate as of last week and spreading conspiracy theories. No wonder the right raise eyebrows when the left accuse only the right of being election deniers - and then rush to censor the predictable fact checks and reality checks. A proper mess. “It was her clarity and position to [Mr Putin] that made him turn around and ensure in an illegal way come out against her in her campaign,” Ms Pelosi said. “Interference in our democracy by Vladimir Putin, because Hillary Clinton was the person he feared most in terms of his lack of democracy in Russia.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/putin-fearing-hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-b2313628.html

nothing happens after registering, my wife tried several times. the old site which worked great did not look like this? thank you anyway

Can somebody please post the correct link to apply for the 90 day report online. I have bookmarked the old ones I used which do not seem working now. Thanks

Nicely put. Whenever something literally makes no sense - assume you do not have al the relevant information. Good luck to the OP's friend.

Was considering to buy the elite visa in 2020. Walked in and asked the senior staff at Samui immigration if they could arrange/help me to buy it. They said they never heard of an elite visa and no. Sounded like it would be more hassle than it's worth unless living in Bkk or Phuket.

PEA did the same with us. Sank 2 giant electric poles on our land and then over the next year there became many many wires, looks a proper mess and due to some wires being low it is restricting access to our land on the road frontage. I was advised they will never be moved so don't waste the effort and emotion to try!

How is this off topic conspiracy theory (and an incredibly hypocritical false claim too in mind of your President's family and the desperate and sustained efforts to hide evidence of the same crime) relevant in a thread about democrat possible presidential runners? If democrats were angry about cocaine users they have a funny way of showing it. I'd favor Gabbard as a democrat president. IMO she is the only sane democrat left that understands the concepts of proportionality and honesty.

I read the OP as a "settled science" not being as settled as was claimed - no surprise to me yet a shock to the author, not sure why you bring conspiracy theorists into this - is it lacking metadata?

Are you a doctor? How did you diagnose Trump's mental illness? How does his cognitive ability and unscripted stage performances compare with his peers? I suspect you are peddling conspiracy theories again(recently definds as any statement of fact not backed up by a credible link.).

Some 35 years ago with nothing to read on a Thai island I pulled out the travel insurance package from my backpack and had a read. Turned out any accident involving anything with an engine was not covered. $1,000 down the drain and never bought travel insurance again - apart from when forced during the pandemic.

Any comment on this leak debunking the left's repeated false claim that this war is 100% madman Putin's fault and the west were and are angels and never played any role whatsoever in the build-up to this war? I'm not convinced your normal deflection blaming the orange fella yet again is appropriate or helpful - particularly in light that the invasion paused during Trump's term to resume after biden took over - blowing out of the water another popular conspiracy theory that Trump is Putin's "puppet" and servant. As I have said from the beginning. These wars are always a grey area in terms of who started it, who is right or wrong etc and the left's stance on this was flat out bonkers. Good to see them getting faced with reality even if its a year (and many thousands of souls lost) too late.

Could it be considered ironic that supporters of a man that has a long long history of making racist and bigoted comments calling someone else a racist and bigot? I still didn't see any solid examples of Loomer being racist, at least nowhere near as appalling as saying she doesn't want her kids to grow up in a "racial jungle"(1) or that Obama was the first "bright", "clean" and "articulate" mainstream African American(2). (1)https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-worried-1977-certain-182631643.html (2)https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16911044 People can only pretend to be shocked and saddened by Loomer if they are ignorant(or uninformed) of their own top boy's racism. Anywhere a sense of perspective and reality is allowed Loomer is clearly not a racist or bigot compared to other much more important figures, which is puzzling me why this article was written in the first place. I suspect the audience for this article will not have been informed about key democrats' history of making racist comments and so lacking the ability to make fair comparisons some democrats could plausibly feel angry toward Loomer - at least until they are properly informed.

"His remarks echoed those Wednesday of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, who told reporters nobody predicted the Afghan government and army would collapse in 11 days. Milley said intelligence indicated it could take weeks, months or years for such a collapse after the U.S." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/19/biden-said-no-one-predicted-afghanistans-quick-fall-not-even-close/8191588002/ Sounds like everybody knew the Afghan govt would fall, and posters are playing with semantics. What difference 11 days or "weeks"? 4 days if my maths are correct. Trump said he would keep a small peacekeeping force there, and called Milley an idiot for saying its cheaper to gift the failing Aghan govt all the planes and equipment rather than fly it out. So not what biden did. Sadly, looks like biden will have to accept blame for this disaster, even if his fans are putting on a brave face and trying to weasel out of taking any responsibility(standard MO) for the moment - aided by activist msm.

So much for no provocation then. Imagine if Russia started building up the Cuban military. Just going to have to wait for Trump to negotiate peace, if the war hasn't already gone nukey by then.

Can you point out the lies in the OP? Or are they uncomfortable truths and hence the anger?

exactly why "the distraction" was so desperately needed

MSM, big tech and their censors who falsely claimed for 2 YEARS that Hunter's lappy was "Russian disinformation" and are completely unable after this 2 year hoax to explain why the bidens were getting paid all these millions by Ukrainians, Russians and Chinese calling others "conspiracy theorists" and pretending to be baffled by their destroyed credibility and viewer ratings (see CNN's disastrous crash in viewers after being on the wrong side of just about every conspiracy) is actually quite amusing. It's a simple matter of credibility. If one side tells hundreds of self serving lies and literally bans factual rebuttal of the lies, well of course they are just not credible and do not deserve to be believed. It is really quite simple.