Gilligan In Drag

Pattaya is the kind of place you are just going to get abused at least once a day.  Someone,

whether its the guest house, a stresstaurant, an aggressive tourist or local, or someone who's gonna run

you over with a car, motosigh, or jetski. You're just a piece of meat to the Pattayaños.

And you can feel sheer hate in just the attitudes coming your way at least several times a day.

And the place is as empty as it's ever been. Bangkok is a much more pleasant and interesting

place for me, Pattaya is so ghetto.

Most fo the world has the same kinds of problems. Glad to see they wont give in. In the US we have Tusi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy, both of whom enjoy much popular support, but they don't support the status quo so they get marginalized and virtually eliminated as candidates we could vote for, which liek Thailand doesnt make any sense anymore either, you will have Chuckles Harris as the new presidnt whether no one votes for her or not, deep state calls the shots not voters now.

Even if you got Pita on a silver platter he is going to have to do the bidding of globalist interests. Still its a shame people voted for him twice and they denied him twice. Wouldnt it be lovely if there was such a thing as democracy? But you don't get to see his true colors util you have him as head of state and I'm skeptical about him, Thailand has been so corrupt for so long and hes just another politician at the end of the day.

8 minutes ago, jas007 said:

For what it’s worth, Palantir doesn’t work the way you apparently think it does.  They don’t know “everything about everyone.”  That’s a common misconception.  
 

Palantir does not retain data. They make software that is supplied to customers. The customers are the only ones with access to the data.  Anyway, the company was initially founded with money from the CIA, and much of what they do is classified.  Let just say that they make the tools necessary for the government to know everything about everyone.  Palantir now has a commercial side of its business and that segment is growing quickly because the world is waking up to the importance of AI and the use of large language models. They have no real competition and they’ve been working in the space for years. 

 

Fortunately, Wall Street does not understand the company, so the stock is still “cheap.”   I picked up a bunch in the $6 to $10 range, and lately, it’s been approaching $30, so I’m happy.  

Oh thanks dfor the reassurance about Palantir I feel so much better about having a vice president who owrks for someone who makes his fortune on spying on an dviolating people's privacy. Cheers and I'm done here, 007.

Oh and lets just pretend Kennedy doesn't exist. he would be a great alternative, but Americans

have a blind spot if it isn't republican or democrat, we're like trained pavlovian dogs in that way.

Coke or Pepsi? Burger King or McDonalds? And we'd rather fight than switch dad gum it! In and Out Burger?!

Say what?! Whats wrong with you! Get out of here man! We going to Mac Donalds!

No it won't happen despite Kennedy being an honest and very well informed and experienced

leader already at cleaning up the pollution and problems with corporate capture and corrupt agencies and corporations.

This to do with aour problems in a big way but nobody wants to talk about that. Most people hate kennedy, the hippie needss to get a job with tha mess, grow up already bothering our mega corps with lawsuits. You can get a real education just listening  to a Kennedy interview.

Not so with Trump or Biden, its just bluster and fluff and dishonesty but no matter Americans don't want hear about corporate corruption thats biting the hand that feeds so people like Biden or whoever the Dems want to put up there they'll get away with it so you are left with getting outraged about Trump's character and personal style.

yeah I know you'll just laugh or yell at me go ahead I don't care it doesn't matter

very few will be able to overcome their indoctrination enough to be able to vote for an independent

and one who doesnt constantly lie to them or deflect to fluff-oh and stuff you've heard for decades from presidential candidates, "And with that I'll balance the budget." Yeah right.

So yeah how enthralling, its Trump or Kamala man, but Trumps' freakin Quwazy mahn Krazy Koo Koo and Kamalas a ding dong lights on but no ones home-muh jig  who thinks she freakin Socrates talkin about, "Ya, so whatever is gonna be on the way to becomiiiiiing...becoming who you already are.... .... thats what it is ya know, its just what it is baby like that, and thats alright."  Yeah on the edge of my seat, who's gonna win wow its so significant our lives could change for the better or something doyou think we could handle something like that no.

More importantly than whether or not according to your professional psychologist opinion Trump is insane

is to look at how he is actually just a figurehead for puppetry and entertainment. For example look at

how the Trump show serves as a distraction and subterfuge from who is

going to possibly be head of the Treasury Larry effing Fink. What could go wrong with that? Oh nothing, we'll just blame Trump.

Look at who has his puppet hands up Trump's

Vice President JD Vance's butt: Peter Thiel who controls Palantir the surveillance company that knows everything about everyone.

Tgrumps friendliness with Israel will probably end up inspiring a major conflict with iran

And we're just getting started, who else is going to be appointed to trump's cabinet. Its like they said

before, Trump drained the swamp so he could pick his cabinet members from the very bottom of it.

I'm not an anti-Trumper and it is appalling what they have been doing to him the attacks stink to high heaven,

but they just serve as a distraction for the Deep State/Uni Party who are the real psychopaths at the mad tea party.

I don't get it. Seems like if you have the money, the elite visa is still a much better visa to be on.

If i had the money I'd probably go that route. You dont have hardly any of the

freaking hassles of having to re-new evry year and keeping  money in the bank, running to the border

I mean they really want tyou to question what the hell are you doing in their country

as many ask me when they fin dout the hoops I have to jump through to stay here.

That said I'm glad there's  now a back door if just staying here on extensions of non-O married

become problematic. I struggle financially to keep the 400k in and if they up that amount I'm schlitz out of luck.

Now its a real relief that I could just do the border hop thing and if they limit your time to 6 months in Thailand

per year of doing that only, oh well, India beckons I guess.

Anutin is just one of many fighting over this. I would guess that very soon the Pheua Thai camp will

push back with more about tough prison sentences and criminalization. If you were here in the early 2000's

 you know Thaksin gets homocidally maniacal when you want to talk about drugs in "his" country. Yes his country not the Thai peoples or yours farang.

He ordered police to shoot to kill anyone they thought was using possessing or selling drugs.

Whether they actually were doing those things was no importance to Thaksin and he made that a point that he didn't care whwtehr or not people were actually doing it or not just creating that impression was enough. No questions asked just shoot anyone.

And I would guess still that "the United Nations is not (his) father," ( an infamous quote of his when the issue of extrajudicial killings 

in Thaksin's drug war was raised by the UN, who threatened to send teams to Thailand to investigate, which seems rather quaint in hindsight, like the UN actually cares, any excuse for them as well i suppose) but he probably still thinks he's your your father.

Cui bono? I too won't be booking with Indi-Go, or Indi-No, Stop. Disgusting.

If people don't have any money, how can you steal it from them

by opening casinos all over the place?

38 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

So what are all the recipients (of the one million free plants handed out by Anutin in 2002) supposed to do now?

Presumably, a lot of the people now have flourishing plants in their possession. If Anutin wasn't giving them out for recreational use, then what was it intended for? Medical use when none of these people receiving the plants were examined for medical conditions?
 

You give people free plants, tell them to grow them at home, and then accuse them of using it for recreational use? How does that work?

Well those plants they gave away two years ago mostly would not be alive. But I think you are right and I had the same reaction once the re-illegalization uproar began, it almost seems like entrapment on a mass scale to give away plants and then turn around several months down the road and say, "Oh and by the way, if you use those plants for fun you'll go to prison!" and getting to people to register as well, not too far away from reporting yourself as a suspect. As Phuea Thai had nothing to do with any of it I don't think they can be trusted to take responsibility and if it suits them they'd do anything regardless of how it affects anyone.

I'm not paying one satang, even if that means becoming a non-resident, I cannot live on what they leave for me, 14,000 dollars a year for a family of 3 and others in family who are "living" on 500 baht a month disability. Speaks to how interested they are in people's welfare doesn't it, getting more money out of foreign resdients is hardly going to change that.

If you earn less than $70,000/year as a US citizen residing abroad you don't owe any taxes. Another reason all of this looks not very well thought through, how many actually owe what the Thai government thinks they are going to get. When they announced all of this initially somebody or the article linked to a translation of the proposed law, if you are making a mere 20,000 per year you are already in the revenue department's 30 percent taxation bracket as I recall and as I also think I recall, many would be asked to pay over half of their income and if the Revenue department  sticks with that and tax you regardless of whether you brought the money in, that is just flat out robbery and i don't know who would stay here, very few. So it really looks like Thailand is trying to flush out the permanent foreign residents, turn us into tourists and/or its the globalists whom they seem to be in line with talking about universal taxation throughout the world, they don't want people living abroad unless they are the migrants who will serve in the police force and military of the US and Europe and do all the work people don't want to do anymore because it doesn't pay a living wage.

That Dutch ex-cannabis cafe owner got stuck with 50 years and without breaking any laws

in Thailand. These gangsters only get 10 years? Sounds like they are pretty friendly

with the locals already. Should be out in a few months their watches

and sports cars returned to them, or some of them anyway, just as soon as this blows over.

Maybe I'm just delusional but it seems a bit thin on the ground stuff to claim. This is something that the Prime Minister said, its not his job is it, to declare taxes and tax schedules and so on.  Where is the revenue department on all of this? If its the Prime Minister's idea, he could be outta here, he's facing problems is he not? It could well be just an idea.  Also, something I ask myself is what was the context of the PMs statement? You don't get any idea of how serious he is about this. And TIT, even if they are serious, the government branches do not communicate or cooperate well, they don't like each other and resent each others authority. My Thai wife who pays attention to the news says it seems they are putting on a lot of airs right now to save face  as the military coup government begins to step back into the shadows, they don't want to look like theye were ineffectual and of little impact. There's also all the Lazada Shoppe taxation brouhaha, my wife commented tha t they don't appear together at all or even serious on that stuff. Its just them trying to appear as though they are in control and in charge. I don't know if thats true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me. It would be a real first if they began actually cooperating  with Immigration or even the foreign embassies well enough to say deny people visas for not paying tax. You go to foreign embassies for visas, they are not the type to want to slog through a bunch stuff from the tax department for each visa that they issue. Embassies are just there to sort of hang out and go to cocktail parties and engage in a little espionage from time to time not grunt work like sorting through everyone's taxes.  They probably depend quite heavily on our visa application money and they know if they start denying people visas it cuts into their cut. It doesnt make sense to me that they would play along with this. Immigration doesn't strike me as the kind of outfit that is going to want to do the bidding of the revenue department or anyone, they are really a don't-tell-me-what-to-do bunch, they are police after all. How do you think the police would like being asked to sort through peoples tax junk  in your home country?  I used to work at a government university and immigration really did not like being told to give foreign profs visas. We were in there all day every year they were on the hone to my univeristy for hours and arms crossed and no, no, no! They are jealous of other government branches authority. Just by myself getting a marriage visa is no problem but if government university asks they were like, "Take a hike Mike! Who do you think you are!" I can imagine it would not be much different with the tax authority trying to tell them, "This guy clear that guy no, don't give him! Thsi one, yes, that one no way, go to his house and arrest him!"

It could have been something said to boost support for the PM or his party to get something done that perhaps opposition was saying Thailand couldn't afford like climate change compliance or whatever it is Hans Swab and Greta Toonsermuhgoochie and the globalist gestapo in Geneva want, so why not say you'll have nothing to eat and you'll be happy and that is supposed to mean something.

Or otherwise this whole tax thing is not yet  really here or there. The PM said it a long time ago as well. Why hasn't anyone at a more concrete level like say in the actual tax wing of the government said anything or even sketched out a few more details since? I remember looking at so-called translations of what you will have to pay, probably cooked up at some tax law or accounting firm over a case of Sang Som it was quite outrageous as I recall. I'd be paying 30 percent of something that is poverty level income, they seemed to clearly be doing a first run to see the reaction and we've heard nothing concrete since.  Then again I depend on this website alone for news about such stuff, so maybe the real enchilada has not been served up to us, but then again most of you don't like Mexican food, so there ya go.

It really disappoints me when everything goes just as my pessimistic mind

thinks it will, all I ask is for a few surprises, even if they are nasty ones!

The whole decriminalization fiasco was almost certainly the product of complete incompetence

and utter lack forthought. Of course they will eventually get back around to fixing

such a mistake and they will make it a criminal offense again.

I don't undersatnd the assertion

you hear again and again, "Ya can't put toothpaste back in in the tube!"

Yes you can put toothpaste back tube. Period.

Think about it. You put it back in the tube the same 

way you put it in the first time. Maybe you personally cannot put toothpaste back

in a tube, and i cannot, but thats only because we are not willing to invest say 10,000,000 bhat

in a toothpaste tube filling machine. These people are in the toothpaste business,

they not only have that machine, they have a whole damn factory.

The other completely predictable one is that now that you have Thaksin

back in charge as police state commisioner, grabbing people's milk and cookie money

as he needs it, with him as your guy,  his drug wars and vice crack downs come as part of the package,

his drug war was an important piece of his whole

modus in the early 2000's, I'm sure he was quite pleased with it as he took it to outrageous lengths,

I can't imagine you can have a Thaksin government without a drug war

or other crusade on some other minority group like the Muslims in the south,

its like his hobby to do those kinds of things

and he can;t very well start attacking gay people or something in this day and age as much as I can imagine he'd like to, so

might as well start attacking potheads as the appetizer, before you go after maybe say the entire Thai middle class.

haul off an order the police to shoot any middle management type for being an alcoholic or drunk in the office something

and then as the main course put the workers in prison camps and blame them as being a health hazard to tourists 

as they had the lowest rate of vaccination against latest covid strain. "Sorry we'll have to send them to the ovens."

That MOve Forward guy seemed to have a boyscouts attitude, "Potheads bad! Go to prison! Not to the ovens though..."

But you feel sorry for him they wouldnt let him be the guy to do that.

I would not trust Thai doctors with my eyes, in fact my cataract is as a result of using medication prescribed

by a Thai government university hospital doctor/opthamologist. I was alerted to the problem and warned off the medication by a third party by a pharmacist in Bangkok who was aghast regarding the medication

I was asking to have refilled. He told me it was a ridiculously strong and dangerous medication to be using for my

problem, he asked me with visble concern in his tone,"Who asked you to take this medicine? is this your idea or something? I said no I was given it for blepharitis by an eye doctor and due to go back to see her in a few weeks. His widened, "how long have you been using it, two weeks, three weeks?" I said "Four months." he nearly jumped out of his skin, "Oh my god man! STOP! DO YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR EYESIGHT!"

He kept asking me, "Are you sure you are still under the doctor's care and advice  I said yes she keeps having me come back again and again, he

said sounds like shes running an experiment on you and you need to stop using this medication and never go back to her office, Stop now!"

My eyesight indeed was quickly degeneratingand I told him about it and he said surely its the medication. "That is the most disgusting thing i hjave heard all day, nobody uses that medication except for very serious conditions that won't clear up otherwise.

i went to check with another specialist a Bangkok Hospital opthamologist who told me I now had a cataract and that the medication was a good cadidate for what caused the cartaract. She did want to get involved I don;t think and said she had never heard of the medication I was given and recommended I get surgery.

The husband of a friend of my wife, has had his lenses in his eyes  replaced and advised me "Don't do it.

You'll be going in and out of the clinic to fix this fix that for the rest of your life, they trashed my eyes.

They did a terrible job with the surgery and there's has been on and off complications for years"

I think I'd rather go blind, utterly fed up with the medical profession.

And Merry Poppins is just the tip of the iceberg. Your just getting started with yer Merry Poppins and Dick Van Dyke and his top o' the morning to ya atrocities, and so It starts there and proceeds and before you know it you're in Shark bar on Soi Cowboy where the unspoken rule till after the fact of having ordered a drink is that a drink is actually two drinks, buy two and get only  one  and you have 15 minutes to drink it and get out or be charged for two more drinks and so on every fifteen minutes, but you didn't know that until you read about it 6 months later on Stickman. So what am I now, buying lady drinks for myself? Is that why I've  come all the way from my turnip patch in Nova Scotia so that i can buy myself lady drinks? And then do something else they don't like, the first one being showing up anywhere near the bar in the first place, you should just leave them alone at the gogo bars in Thailand, theres plenty of supermarkets and great socks selections in the department stores in Thailand to spend your time on than to have to go to Soi Cowboy and they also have temples you can go to so leave the, alone stop imposing your culture and privilidge on them they want to be left in peace and quiet. So where was I? Oh yeah, do something else they don't like at Shark bar  such as reject the two Pillsbury Dough girls who invited themselves to sit down  with you initially and call someone else over who at least doesn't look angry and like they got run over by with the ugly rolling pin stick twice two many times for a drink logically leaving the only thing left to do with you is  charge you for nine drinks,

buy 9 get one and you can't drink it till you cough up the 3000 baht. We don't have any change and Throw 2 thousand more baht at them as a tip and the bouncers put you in  a head lock and drag you out and you're good to go. But its OK, that happens to everyone now its just a misunderstanding that happens repeatedly fo 6 months to everyone who goes in there a failure of the bar staff to communicate, to learn quickly  and they'll soon be putting it on the menus that you're under the gun as soon as you step in or so they tell me on Stickman!

I would guess the real intention is to help the big alcohol makers in Thailand create more barriers for smaller producers and importers of alcohol.

As an importer you'd have to slap a label on the imports yourself. The upshot is people with little money to

spend on alcohol are left the lowest quality stuff which is even more of a health hazard and encourages drinking for

the sake of getting drunk only because it isn't enjoyable in any other way. But that is win for the alcohol companies because

they likely invest in pharma and health care industries and piuck up more big money that way.

What complete crap the op is. Hey Wanchai, why don't you get a  job!

Or hey why don't you become a politician, you sound like one! Or here's a modest proposal, stop the thumb sucking and bed wetting and why don't write next week about how Thai people should vote for you because you are here to save them from these racist mysogynist draft dodgers! Draft dodgers?!  Oh, I suppose they should just go and be slaughtered on the battlefields of Ukraine to help the Black Rock Investment group up their 13% direct control of the Ukrainian economy, right?! As MP and leader of the new Wanchai Hates Foreigners party you propose to Thai people   just round up the scumbag draft dodger foreigners and put them in re-education prison workcamps, just like in North Korea that'll learn 'em! Out of the draft dodging frying pan and into Wanchais's Infierno!