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Headline this morning NY Times: Who Is Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s New Prime Minister? The political heir to an influential family is now leading Thailand with no governing experience in a tumultuous time. Sounds like Trump 2017

Well if the OP query is to name 5 reasons, other than she is not Trump, for voting for Harris, as someone who lived in NYC late 1970's when Donald Trump from Queens was trying to bluster his way into Manhattan's high society, I will say: Why do you need any other reason?

I didn't get much past when he said I am seriously thinking ...

OOPS

I think maybe the over-exuberance -- if that's what it is -- at TIME for Harris is because the pollical staff at TIME, who would be covering the Democratic side of the Presidential election, were otherwise only looking at a total slog from 3 weeks back until the November.

Any idea what the reason is? Because with a common vax like the flu vaccine, nobody goes around saying (or maybe bragging): I didn't get the vaccine and I DIDN'T DIE.

And my observation is that if what you suggest were feasible, it would be commonplace tactic.

No clue. Right. One firm states: "... if an expat sends money from overseas to their Thai spouse and it covers their living expenses, it is not considered a gift. Attempting to bypass the tax regulations in this way is likely to be considered tax evasion, potentially resulting in severe penalties." This seems to be what most every potential gifter on here is planning to do.

And not one Thai accounting or tax attorney firms including those staffed with prior Revenue Department employees has written in their guidelines that a gift with funds originating ex-Thailand can be remitted tax free up to 20 million baht.

Since the Gift Tax Ruling No. 40 went into effect FEB 2016, it seems nobody wealthy or otherwise since then has made it their business to find out.

As with Tax related issues most likely anywhere, if the Revenue folks think something is amiss, they do not have to prove that it is, you have to prove that it isn't.

The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash Former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator Nate Holden said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. 08/09/2024 10:56 PM EDT The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown. (NB Holden is 6'1" -Brown 5'6") It was Nate Holden, a former city councilman and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and others believe it happened sometime in 1990. ... Holden also connected with Brown on Thursday. “I said, ‘Willie, were you almost in a helicopter crash with Trump also?’ He said ‘No.’ I said, ‘I was the one, Willie.’” Before he hung up with POLITICO, Holden assured a reporter that nobody discussed—let alone criticized—Kamala Harris as Trump claimed Brown did. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/trump-plane-crash-california-00173487

One of the Thai law firms states: "Hence, gift tax is collected to prevent inheritance taxation avoidance." So while some on here are stating (rightly or wrongly) that WOW! they can transfer up to 20 million baht each year as a gift tax-free -- -- some of the persons to whom the FEB 2016 gift tax revision was intended then were saying: WOW! so now we can ONLY transfer up to 20 million baht each year tax-free..

The Thai Revenue Code No. 40 you reference went into effect 01 FEB 2016. If it were possible to bring in funds originating ex-Thailand into Thailand up to 20 million baht per year tax-free, you would think some of the high-flier clients of the Thai law and tax accounting firms would have utilized this capability as of 02 FEB 2016. But there are no indications anywhere that they have.

3 Trump execs, 2 pilots die as helicopter crashes in Parkway median Oct 10, 1989 LACEY TOWNSHIP -- Three of Donald Trump's top casino executives were killed when their helicopter plummeted into a wooded median of the Garden State Parkway in Ocean County Tuesday afternoon. Stephen F. Hyde, 43, who bore responsibility for Trump's three Atlantic City casino properties, Taj Mahal top executive Mark G. Etess, 38, and Jonathan Benanav, 33, executive vice president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, were killed along with the craft's two pilots. "I'm sick, just sick; it's unbelievable," repeated Trump several times, his voice cracking with emotion during an interview Tuesday. "When I first heard about it, I prayed it wasn't true ... then I found out what happened. I can't find the words," Trump said, his voice trailing off. https://pressofatlanticcity.com/3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median

Just for the record, Jerry Brown sitting next to Willie Brown:

Trump said he ‘went down’ in helicopter ‘emergency landing’ with former San Francisco mayor, who says it never happened = CNN Published 10:47 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2024 “I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing,” Trump told reporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for his first news conference since the Democratic ticket was announced. The New York Times reported Thursday that the former president apparently confused Willie Brown with former California Gov. Jerry Brown, with whom he toured wildfire damage by helicopter in November 2018. A spokesperson for Jerry Brown told the Times that “there was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also toured the wildfires in 2018 as governor-elect, said of Trump’s account, “I call complete B.S.,” according to the Times. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/trump-helicopter-story-willie-brown/index.html

In bank parlance that is sometimes called a 'mule account': A mule account refers to a bank account that is used to facilitate illegal activities such as money laundering and fraudulent transactions. It serves as an intermediary between the criminal organization and the illicit funds, making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to trace the money flow. https://www.tookitaki.com/glossary/mule-account I will guess some banks have internal controls to watch out for the above described in-&-out type activity.

I know where there is (or was when I still lived there about 2 years ago) a gate fabrication shop on a small soi near the King Kong restaurant. Details if you are still interested

Apparently GG has never taken to the O'Reilly sign-off: “No bloviating. That's my job.”

Mick Jagger presented the top ten list on Tuesday's (2012) edition of "Late Show with David Letterman" on CBS: "Top Ten Things I, Mick Jagger, Have Learned After 50 Years in Rock 'n' Roll." Number 8. "Before shouting 'Hi Seattle!' make sure you're in Seattle." Corollary: Before giving one's informed opinions as to why there is a memo, make sure there is a memo.

Have you noticed that 2 entire WrLife topics have been recently, not just locked, but entirely disappeared from view most likely because they contain words and opinions that might have legal implications?

As also noted above, the official response to CNN when asked whether the Harris campaign were disputing the substance of the Daily Mail article, the response was: No Comment.

As I posted page1 this topic: I think it is maybe quite the opposite: The NYT notes that the extra-marital affair by Emhoff prior to his marriage to Harris was noted in the vetting process for Harris as Biden's VP in 2020. If the affair was disclosed but NOT the pregnancy or baby, that would be no small deal.