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ADDENDUM: OPINION Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is His Most Dangerous Yet it’s the focus of Georgia law that’s truly dangerous to Trump. The beating heart of the case is the 22 counts focused on false statements, false documents and forgery, with a particular emphasis on a key statute: Georgia Code Section 16-10-20, which prohibits false statements and writings on matters “within jurisdiction of state or political subdivisions.” The statute is a state analogue to a federal law, 18 U.S.C. Section 1001, which also prohibits false statements to federal officials on matters within their jurisdiction, but the Georgia statute is even broader. Simply put, while you might be able to lie to the public in Georgia — or even lie to public officials on matters outside the scope of their duties — when you lie to state officials about important or meaningful facts in matters they directly oversee, you’re going to risk prosecution. That’s exactly what the indictment claims Trump and his confederates did, time and time again, throughout the election challenge. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/opinion/georgia-donald-trump-indictment-case.html https://archive.is/rkPdF#selection-339.0-339.48

This is a headline from NY Times a few days back: China's Stalling Economy Puts the World on Notice So if the PRC domestic market is cratering, they have to unload the goods somewhere.

Atlanta Rhythm Section (ARS)

This issue has been discussed before as Watergate contention in 1973 by Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr.: “I think a President is entitled to have kept secret confidential communications had between him and an aide or had among his aides, which were had for the purpose of assisting the President to perform in lawful manner one of his constitutional or legal duties,” Senator Ervin told former Attorney General John N. Mitchell at the committee hearing Thursday. “And I think also that is the full scope and effect of executive privilege. Since there is nothing in the Constitution requiring the President to run for re‐election, I don't think that executive privilege covers any political activities whatsoever. They are not official and have no relation to his office. “I also take the position that executive privilege does not entitle a President to have kept secret information concerning criminal activities of his aides or anybody else, because there is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a President to have anything to do with criminal activity.’ https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/15/archives/nixon-and-ervin-will-quote-each-other-as-precedents-on.html (from 1973 not archived)

Plausible deniability.

As mentioned in my previous post, I consider the whole set-up a bribe if the IMM guy receives more than 1900 baht for an extension. 'Plausible deniability' makes no difference. I can't help how other people choose to look at it and I am on no crusade to make things any different.

So as in the OP, the agent receives 35000 baht and his take is less the 1900 baht the Immigration officer receives for exercising his discretion as on page 38 of the Immigration Act: (3) Application for extension of temporary stay in the Kingdom under Section 35, per person, each time 2,000 baht http://web.krisdika.go.th/data/outsitedata/outsite21/file/Immigration_Act_B.E._2522.pdf

I will admit to being a bit of that. Around 2012 or so after about 5 years on extension via retirement, I told folks at my neighbors that I had just come back from Bangkok and getting an income letter at the US Embassy and then going to Suan Phlu for an extension. Several of them looked at me like I was the dumbest thing that ever walked and one haughtily said " Oh -- I just use an agent".

The extension of stay received through the agent without the 800k in the bank and stamped by an authorized IMM official is legit for immigrration and any other purpose -- until it isn't.

Is it possible she turns in her sleep at night and ends up -- one at a time -- sleeping on her hands?

... or in other words, it is legit until it isn't.

This was my plan if I were to be still single in advanced age: This is Khon Kaen Ram hospital. The tall building at the right is the hospital. The two lower buildings to the left are nurses and staff dormitories. You can see one tall condominium building in the background and there is one just across the street from the hospital. I would plan to get a rental condo in one of those buildings and contract with off-duty nurses for whatever assistance I would need. ... but now I am not still single.

Fani is not nimble and Fani is not quick. But in my opinion, she has a criminal case with far less wiggle room than any of the other 3.

Some long-time friends of mine were in the salad dressing business and one time they considered doing mayonnaise. They said all the machines that make the fluffy-type mayonnaise like Hellman's/Best are propietqry.

I once asked my no-English Thai girlfriend who would say fa-ma-LEE what the word family meant and she said: No

Posted July 24 (JM) However maybe the more incriminating part of the coversation just precedes the 11,780 vote request: And you are going to find that they are — which is totally illegal, it is more illegal for you than it is for them because, you know what they did and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. ... You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. https://aseannow.com/topic/1300947-georgia-supreme-court-denies-trump-bid-to-quash-fulton-county-investigation/?do=findComment&comment=18223776

'Assisted living' is the term often used in the US. My brother for a while sold long-term care insurance at a Prudential broker. He said that most of the people who bought such insurance had a relative or close friend who should have had such insurance, but didn't.

Yes -- I remeber JFK ... and when Nixon won, Reagan won and 2 Bush's won. But as someone who lived in mid-town Manhattan in the 1970's when Donald J.Trump from the outer-boroughs tried to ingratiate himself with the Manhattan elite by being famous-for-being- famous, the notion that this guy was now President was unfathomable.

On the evening of NOV 08, 2016, I went to bed early evening in Thailand with the NYTimes political writers claiming that Ms. Hillary Clinton had a 90+% chance of being elected President. When I woke up early the next morning Thai time around 6 PM Eastern US time, the same NYTimes writers were saying that Donald J. Trump had a 90+% chance of being elected President. I never want to have that wind-knocked-out feeling again after realizing just how many people had underestimated DJT. So when I read all the slam-dunk sure-thing type postings on here regarding the three and possibly four criminal indictments, I just say: Maybe.

From the NY times article I cited earlier: “There are many ways that this could become a lawsuit presenting a vital constitutional issue that potentially the Supreme Court would want to hear and decide,” Professor Paulsen (one of the authors) said.

Well if Judge Chuktan decides that Trump has violated terms of his bail release orderand revokes bail, I guess she can send out a US Marshall squad to find him and return DJT to the Judge's venue.

I would like nothing better than see Trump red-carded but the quote I put in above is from someone who had to try these charges in Court and he says: Not so fast.

Sure but as I have linked before, there are some hard core backers who see Trump as the vessel for their re-workings of the government: Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 The agenda being pursued has deep roots in the decades-long effort by conservative legal thinkers to undercut what has become known as the administrative state — agencies that enact regulations aimed at keeping the air and water clean and food, drugs and consumer products safe, but that cut into business profits. “It would be chaotic,” said John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s second White House chief of staff. “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d continually be trying to exceed his authority but the sycophants would go along with it. It would be a nonstop gunfight with the Congress and the courts.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

They also had a big Wurlitzer theater organ for silent movies the one I remember was von Stroheim's Greed. Carnegie Hall Cinema (c.1959-1997) ► II/5 "Style 150" Wurlitzer, Op. 2095 (1931)

To the above: Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6 Published Aug. 10, 2023 Updated Aug. 11, 2023 But James Bopp Jr., who has represented House members whose candidacies were challenged under the provision, said the authors “have adopted a ridiculously broad view” of it, adding that the article’s analysis “is completely anti-historical.” (Mr. Bopp’s clients have had mixed success in cases brought under the provision. A state judge, assuming that the Jan. 6 attacks were an insurrection and that participating in them barred candidates from office, ruled that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, had not taken part in or encouraged the attacks after she took an oath to support the Constitution on Jan 3.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/trump-jan-6-insurrection-conservatives.html https://archive.is/9NgbX