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Apparently (according to her statements) she had planned to give cash as gifts because her "entire family" was in town. The family Easter treat was at a place called Capital Burgerm where you can buy a Cheese burger for $20. This is her entire family from that weekend. $3000 on Easter gifts for 4 adults and 2 toddlers. Hate to think what the Noem Christmas bill is lile. I'm sure its something ordinary voters can relate to. One wonders where the family dog is? Oh, thats right, she shot it. Most normal people in the 21st Century might spend rather less on dinner, or at least pay using a card. There will be some who insist on cash everywhere. In some cases, its because they don't want their actions to be traced. Possible indication of corruption.

Have the good grace to actually read my post. That answers your question. As I stated, I am not going to debate this.

The Telegraph are a bit slow. The Guardian was pointing this out 4 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/28/good-anti-sinking-capacity-lifejacket-optional-journey-of-a-refugee-boat Or Turkey https://news.sky.com/story/a-people-smuggler-who-sends-migrants-across-the-channel-reveals-how-the-small-boats-trade-works-12806865 https://news.sky.com/story/people-smugglers-how-the-police-exposed-the-dark-world-of-small-boat-channel-crossings-12805980 Or Blighty https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggling-gang-tried-to-use-rundown-boats-for-cross-channel-migrant-journeys https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6q6wz765eo Note the footage from the BBC. Mercury Marine is an American make. SO are we now saying American outboard manufacturers are part of the people smuggling gig? Its organised crime. Most of the boats are stolen (because, criminals), or from the black maket (cash only, no questions asked).

A lot of you sozzled old soaks in Thailand probably follow the various youtubers still left online. Kev in thailand is dead. Another one with brain cancer is on his way out. Younger ones might follow that estate agent who set up and sold forums, or mymatenate, or Mark Wiens.

More likely Bessent will be picking up his P45 soon. Sure, ultimately China does need that 15% of GDP that is the value of Chinese exports to the US. But behind all those sales is an Amazon store, a small high street business (strip mall store), a department store, a distributor, all of which are American businesses, who pay taxes, employ staff. All of these, whether they import directly, or get from a distributor, buy for $x, the sell in price, sell for $y, the sell out price, or the retail price. If China is selling $400bn in goods in the US, then the marked up price of those goods could well be $1200-1600bn, and profit $500-800bn. The likes of Walmart, Target, you'd hope would have been talking to their Chinese suppliers a while back, getting that sell-in price reduced. They are already aggressive on pricing, because their warehousing/inventory costs are considerable. You don't want to go to Walmart and see that pair of Chinese hiking boots in your size out of stock until the next container arrives in 3 months time,. Your alternative will be the Target store selling the cheap Indian made boots. But you don't really want to go to that high end outdoors store and pay 5-6x as much for the US made Danners, Because that's why you were looking at the Chinese boots in the first place. Danner meanwhile have positioned themselves as a high end boot maker; you pay top money for a boot that comes with that famous 20 year warranty. But honestly, who keeps walking boots that long (some so). Which is why Danner have their Chinese made range; a lot cheaper, but more money than Walmart's Brahma boots, because Danner (in reality, Danner are making a ton of money importing boots from pretty much the same factory where Walmart get their stuff from). The big chains will be ok. Prices will go up a bit, shareholder dividend cut, but gross revenues maintained. The small stores though can't often ask their suppliers to cut prices. They have to pay the duty on everything they are getting through Alibaba. A whole business was built on the model, that they will sell pretty much the same boot at Walmart, but maybe for a little more, and their customers appreciate the personal service. But they sell $50 boots, and their regular customers are not in the market for $400 boots, so right now, switching to Danner would kill their business. There are about 30 million businesses in the US, out of which 1 million are bricks and morter retail stores. Most of these are not chains; the chains dominate in terms of volumes of goods sold. There are 10,000 Walmarts, 2000 Targets, 600 Costcos. Easily, there are 950,000 independent "Mom and Pop" retail stores, selling goods at non-premium prices. Sure, they could switch suppliers. Maybe one day there will be that US boot factory who can make a pair of boots for $10, that can retail for $40-50. But not this year, and probably not next. There are about 4 million online retailers in the US. I suspect most of those have little to no stock, and are effect drop shipping businesses. Which means they can be a lot cheaper than physical stores, who need to buy and sell stock. They are screwed. So, the tariff war is unsustainable. Ultimately, China has $400bn at stake, which it might make by dumping in other markets (great time for bargains in Europe). But there is a lot more at stake to US businesses. The idea of a small business might be blown away. The big chains will employ big lobbyists, to defend their businesses, but they have the benefit of much more buying power, and more diverse product ranges, with loss leaders.. Small businesses; they can appeal to their local Chamber of Commerces, who will get nowhere. Walmart won't be helping them.

Aren't all these memos written by the Deep State seeking to undermine constitutionally elected governments. Or is it only Democrat governments who can actually get anything done. Someone will probably know when they startled shackling tourists. It might have been done going back years. But something has changed to cause the UK Foreign Office to make significant changes to their advice to visitors to the US. Border Patrol has better kit than they had in Iraq

This post tells me more about you, than them. This is low.

There are two accounts being given. So you can be arrested and put in chains for responding to an email from a client in Japan while sipping a coffee in the US. I expect content on Youtube to take a nose dive. You think Mark Wiens gets a work visa for all the places where he does his restaurant reviews. I bet he doesn't even have a journalist pass. I think I might dob in Kalani Smith, aka the Ghosthunter, and his dad, for all those Youtube videos of them eating Gregg's sausage rolls. Pretty sure they are not getting the correct visas. Obviously Brits on holiday livestreaming their rides in Florida can forget about that.

So I suppose don't respond to work related email on your phone while in the US? Don't stop off in the US for a cheeky holiday while returning from corporate management meetings in Toronto.

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Why did she have $3000 in her purse? Buying a used car?

He's making it up.

No its not, and yes I have.

To be fair he (isn't MTG a trannie?) is expressing a belief commonly held in the Deep South about Roman Catholics. Bob Jones was kind of revered around those parts, and he paled up with Ian Paisley to go to Rome and protest against the Anti-Christ, when the Archbishop of Canterbury met with the Pope.

I'm afraid there is no point debating with this lot. I've worked 20+ years in infectious disease, in BSL2 through BSL4 labs. The very first Chinese vaccine was Sinovac. This was a conventional inactivated virus that had been propagated through a chimpanzee sell line. As a result, the manufactured virus contained Chimp RNA, not Human RNA. Chimps, while closely related to Men, are not Men. So the vaccine didn't work. As vaccines go, that was one of the easiet to make. For any virus, if you can propoagate it in bulk, the rest is relatively a piece of cake and the risks well understood. I've said repeatedly, there are not 3 possibilities, but at least 4 possibilities, in order of decreasing likelihood 1. Zoonitic transmission on the local wet market, or some other place. 2. Accidental leakage from the institute reference lab. The Wuhan Lab wasn't just a research lab. Its a reference lab as well. That means it received hundreds of samples a week from hospital labs in the surrounding area. There is a major trade in bat guano; locals are digging holes to mine deposits themselves, for extra money. We are finding a ton of new coronaviruses as this activity increases. The reference labs are BSL-2. For those who know what that means, its significant. 3. Accidental leakages from the institute research lab. Coronavirus research was carried out in BSL-4 labs. Again, anyone familiar with BSL-4 will know the physical controls in place. 4. Deliberate release. Every city on the planet will have at least 1 hospital. And that hospital will have at least one pathology laboratory. And in those labs, lab techs will be deliberately growing, or attempting to grow, extremely infectious agents, some more virulant than other, but all of them disease causing in humans, Hence the diagnostic tests in a hospital. At the end of testing, waste is supposed to be autoclaved (steam sterilised) before entering general waste. But that doesn't always happen. Sometimes the plates get dropped straight into the black bags. Sometimes the autoclave breaks down. Sometimes the cycle doesn't complete, and there is no indicator tape, All this happens every day around the world. Outbreaks are not occuring. Hospital acquired infections tend to be infections one patient gets from another, and is not an infection acquired from the hospital per se. The last Foot and Mouth Virus outbreak in the UK, in 2007, was due to an accidental lab release. Pretty much the entire herd had to be culled. What confused scientists was that the strain found was identical to a 1968 strain, which ought not be possible. There were fears that carcasses from the 1968 outbreak, which had been buried, were now contaminating the water table. But the penny dropped. The source of the outbreak was the main veterinary research lab at Pirbright. The facility consists of the DEFRA labs, and lab accomodation rented to a range of companies manufacturing veterinary medicines.. One of the tenants manufacturers FMV vaccine for export. That means they propagated vast quantities of virus, to inactivate to become vaccine. So there was a lot of virus rich effluent, which was pumped via a pipe to an onsite treatment works, before the slurry was discharged into the municipal sewer. For months he tenant had been in argument with the landlord, DEFRA, over a cracked pipe, and who was going to pay for it. In the meantime, vets came and went from the lab carpark, and the virus was introduced onto the farms. Probably hundreds of contamination events occurred before the outbreak happened. Not surprising, when one considers that lab outbreaks are rare, because the infection itself is difficult.

That article appears to have been deleted. But indeed, the Tweet is still appearing on his account (I'm making assumptions about birth gender).

Pension funds own stocks.

I'm not comparing. You are. You said the Australian taxpayer wasn't contributing anything, and the US was putting in trillions. On both counts you are incorrect. Go back to your beer, grandad. Happily you have googled and found the US President has been lying.

Is that because of his tattoos? I see "M-16" (ok, I know some call it AR15) Stars 13 Stripes But honestly, these are not cool tats. Mark him out as a bit of a tit. Who but a little kid gets a gun stuck on their arm. Not enough stars on the flag. It used to be that a right ear pierced on a man indicated he was a homosexua. Not sure the rule extends to tatoos. The strange thing is Hegseth is right handed, but got his right arm only marked.

The point is to say TikTok does not exist in China is disengenuous. No one is worried whether or not the Chinese can view TikTok or not. This red herring on the thread was created by a Putin apologist to distract.. The Chinese can and do access Tiktok using a VPN, but most don't, because the same content is shared on Douyin. And Zelensky didn't say the Russians are recruiting Chinese via Tiktok. He said recruitment is via Tiktok and other Chinese social networks. The Russian defending dimwits skip over this bit, as they do their master's bidding. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-china-prisoners-tiktok-2057790 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/russia-social-media-ads-videos-recruiting-china-mercenaries https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-pow-wang-guangjun-videos-join-russia-social-media-ukraine-2025-4 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/posts-on-chinese-social-media-lure-men-to-russian-army/105168610 https://www.2cr.com.au/俄軍招募廣告現身中國社群平台引發對中國公民參/ https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/04/12/youre-a-man-repke-fished-out-a-chinese-recruitment-video-in-the-russian-army https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3307106/chinese-fighters-ukraine-and-global-pipeline-feeding-russias-war-machine

They are. https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/australian-government-response-to-inquiry-into-support-for-ukraine/introduction No one is "divvying out trillions".

Too much now.

Someone needs to remind him that "mentally insane" is an absurd phrase. Plus he does this everytime, deliberately pening a hypocritical message. And you wonder about all the other terrible people he doesnt include. Why were they left out?

My point is Boebert is either an idiot, a sexual deviant (carries out sexual acts in public) who is not fit for office, but seems to be representative of the quality of person being elected these days, or do you agree with her that Wall Street is plotting against the President as part of a communist plot, and that any one who sells thair shares is basically a traitor. Its a Yes/No qustion. You seem to seriously entertain the notion that the "Markets" are colluding against your glorious Leader, and that the fate of your Country and your Leader are inextricably linked. Your Leader is your Country. Otherwise, you are unconsciously resorting to adopting Whataboutism. Whataboutism was term forst used to describe those who defended Irish Republican terrorism. Are you a What About? As a card carrying member of the Conservative and Unionist Party, I have no issue in so-called "Democrats", so try your WhatAbout retort with someone else. I have interest in events that impact me and my American friends.

You might be shocked about some of the so-called classes that American universities offer to earn degree credit. eg going to the gym., watching a slasher movie in the library. Mstly taken up by Americans from what I observed. Of course, they were being educated in doing all these things, in a way that their peers in a British university aren't. When you go to university, much of what makes you the person you are when you leave isn't the classes you attend. I think for most people it does open their eyes not only to different ideas, opinions, but a wider world. ICE are basically cops who failed the exam for the local sheriffs office. There have been so many reported cases that show they seem to lack basic common sense. Most ICE agent roles only require a high school leaving certificate and a clean record, ie, can you read and write.