jerrymahoney

Until you turn your back to walk away and they dump a bucket of water on you from behind -- my experience after I just wanted to go out for a walk during SongKran following knee surgery. That was my experience one year. Broke my glasses.

It goes down or not goes down -- any time anyone mentions a wife in Thailand you go into your fake-wife, cuckold , just her brother, shafted, dragging the wife around routine.

REDUX From Sir Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) -- Cary Grant as Thornhill: Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake. Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

OR ... The Apprentice was created by British television producer Mark Burnett, and co-produced with Donald Trump, who was the show's host for the first fourteen seasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series)

I lived 6 months 2005 on KlangSan pre-Skytrain and know the Minburi area well. So there are non-tourist areas. But really I was only replying regards the OP claim that: I doubt after all my study I will NOT retire to Thailand I have been locked up there, assaulted etc so it becomes too traumatic for me So maybe now just OT.

AP Headline this morning: Trump goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride

Big cities vs small. There are big cities esp. in Isaan that are still non-Tourist.

As I see it, there are 2 parts to Thailand: Tourist Thailand and non-Tourist Thailand. Living in the latter is different from living in the former.

'don't have to look it up -- it is referenced in the case: First, the China Executive Orders are ultra vires because the IEEPA does not authorize a president to impose tariffs. Basic tools of statutory construction dictate this conclusion. The Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine confirms it. Because the Executive Orders present a question of “vast economic and political significance,” the major questions doctrine requires the President to show that the IEEPA “clearly” authorizes him to impose tariffs. The President cannot make that showing.

How wuz Trump supposed to know water doesn't flow uphill?

https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2025/04/filing_simplified-v.-trump_complaint-for-injunctive-and-declaratory-relief_04032025.pdf BTW 'Simplified' is the name of the plaintiff company

Thanks. It's just part of a coping mechanism for me. But the most prescient thing I have read is this from the 23 Nobel economics Prize winners even though, yeah, I know they lost: Among the most important determinants of economic success are the rule of law and economic and political certainty, and Trump threatens all of these.

Current POTUS only has the power to enact tariffs because he declared a bogus wartime Emergency. And even the bogus emergency doesn't give him the power to enact tariffs -- it only specifies embargoes. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security The White House April 2, 2025 Using his IEEPA authority, President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries. This will take effect April 5, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. EDT.

Song from 1963 courtesy Frank Sinatra: Call me irresponsible Call me unreliable Throw in undependable too Do my foolish alibis Bother you? Call me unpredictable Tell me I'm impractical Rainbows I'm inclined to pursue

WASHINGTON/WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, April 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech companies like Apple that rely on imported products. The U.S. CBP listed 20 product categories, including the broad 8471 code for all computers, laptops, disc drives and automatic data processing. It also included semiconductor devices, equipment, memory chips and flat panel displays. Trump's action also excludes the specified electronics from his 10% "baseline" tariffs on goods from most countries other than China, easing import costs for semiconductors from Taiwan and Apple iPhones produced in India. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-excludes-smartphones-computers-reciprocal-tariffs-2025-04-12/ OR You put your right foot in You put your right foot out You put your right foot in And you shake it all about You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around That's what it's all about!

This is from the 2017 Court ruling against the NCA for providing info from the late Mr. Miller's phone. Note b. and c.:

From Senator Johnson's website: PSI Chairman Johnson Requests COVID-19 Vaccine Records and Communications from Moderna, Pfizer, BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson From the letter to Pfizer: I expect you to fully comply with this request, but I am mindful that your company may choose to mimic the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) past efforts to conceal records about the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Any attempt to obstruct or delay responses to this request will result in compulsory process. <SKIP> Please provide the information and records requested by April 16, 2025.

You poisoned them??? These folks were not the usual locals at a late nite/early morning drinking. Let's just say that being a high-end group, when I came back at them bloody and wet with a bucket, when they ran away they left behind some high-end stuff that shouldn't get wet but that got very wet.

Actually, I did retaliate -- let's just put it that I was able to start the motor bike and ride away before they realized what I had done.

Sparing the details I was out early one SongKran morning when the coast was usually clear, and a guy stood out from behind a car and walloped me point blank with a bucket of water and knocked me off the motorbike. ... very bloody and the motorbike damaged. And the Thai party was laughing 'cause they thought it was funny.

From a post above: We do know the majority of Supreme Cou(r)t were appointed by trump Ixnay. 3 of 9 appointed by Mr. Trump 1st term.

I posted Mr. Cook's original comment in 2017.

I just wanted to identify the propaganda outlet that was the source of that quote.

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-is-number-1-reason-we-make-iphones-in-china-its-not-what-you-think.html DEC 21, 2017 The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.

Note that Mr. Cook's reference to filling 2 football fields with Chinese tooling engineers was first made in 2017.