jerrymahoney

Again so that is water under the bridge. What do they do now?

Yes. A prodigious set of knockers.

I think a lot of people after the strong 2022 election showing were willing to go along. But whether they chose to overlook the physical then, that's where it is now.

Maybe so. But sometimes it just takes a tipping point.

So the best thing about this debate happening in June is that the editorial staffs of 3 left-leaning big city newspapers -- The NY Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution -- have all said on record that Biden would best be serving the Party and the Nation by withdrawing his nomination. Now instead of in September.

The best thing about the first Biden-Trump debate is that it happened in June and not September

Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Sept. 18 After Immunity Claim Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star. July 2, 2024 Updated 4:54 p.m. ET The judge in Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal case delayed his sentencing until Sept. 18 to weigh whether a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling might imperil the former president’s conviction, the judge said Tuesday in a letter to prosecutors and defense lawyers. The judge, Juan M. Merchan, may ultimately find no basis to overturn the jury’s verdict, but the delay was a surprising turn of events in a case that had led to the first conviction of an American president. With the election on the horizon, the sentencing might be the only moment of criminal accountability for the twice-impeached and four-time-indicted former president whose other cases are mired in delay. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/nyregion/trump-sentencing-hush-money-trial.html

From The Manchurian Candidate 1962 version: Iselin: [to her husband] I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them.

So the OP has to make his choice from non-group policies.

Group policy.

That's nice. I only replied to suggest that the OP checks that what ever insurance he might choose, make sure that there is direct pay to his hospital choice although in Bangkok that shouldn't be a problem.

As you said, this is what you had. Past tense. Group policy.

Yours was a work sponsored coverage -- I was paying the annual premium myself. And I wasn't interested in being told just pay the 25,000 USD hospital bill and we will reimburse you.

That's OK for the small stuff but I was wasn't paying their monthly premiums and still have to have the cash for the big stuff.

I had CIGNA Global out of UK for 5 years with no claims. Then I moved to an area where they had no direct payment hospital. They said that's OK and then gave me some Rube Goldberg alternative that maybe they can pay the hospital and then move me to a hospital where they do have direct pay which would be about a 5 hour drive away. I canceled and went elsewhere.

The Democrats’ SOS Candidate Keeps His Options Open Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has maintained his political organization, built a progressive record and is open about his ambitions. For now, he says, they don’t include the White House. NB: Updated March 6, 2023 before Biden officially declared his candidacy April 23, 2023 Four months after winning a second term by 12.5 percentage points, Jay Robert Pritzker, 58, has maintained his political operation and his ambition. His influence and money reach far beyond state lines, and a string of progressive victories in the last year has raised his stature. “He would run for two good reasons,” said Ray LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Peoria who served as a transportation secretary in the Obama administration. “He’s a billionaire * who’s not afraid to spend his own money, and he’s very progressive, which is where the Democratic Party is today.” What they (Republicans) really admire, though, is the political instinct for the jugular under that jovial shell. * Hyatt Hotels https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/us/politics/jb-pritzker-democrats-biden.html

Well there is a Buddhism Forum but no Christ Forum.

There is a Gay People in Thailand Forum -- maybe you'd get some more meaningful and helpful responses' there.

July 15, 1973 per NY Times: “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.

You asked of me a question and I responded. If you want to get into some policy wonk discussion fine but do it with someone else.

I haven't been to the US since before COVID AUG 2019. But I'll take this (2564 is 2021)

Didn't he already have 4 years to do that?

Again from the AJC editorial: Biden’s (2024) candidacy was grounded in his incumbency and the belief of Democratic leaders and pollsters that he stood the best chance of defeating Trump in November. That is no longer the case.

This is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial linked: This wasn’t a bad night; it was confirmation of the worst fears of some of Biden’s most ardent supporters — that after 36 years in the U.S. Senate, eight more as vice president and a term in the White House, age has finally caught up to him. This moment was contemplated by Democrats and by Biden advisers when he was seeking the party’s nomination for president in 2020. There was serious and public discussion of Biden, then 77, pledging to serve only one term. That discussion acknowledged the obvious. If reelected, Biden would be 86 years old at the end of his presidency in January 2029. There is no historical precedent for this. And now there are signs of decline, which were clear Thursday.