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I'm waiting to hear from maga dude saying they know it's criminally corrupt, but dear leader deserves to have grifts to earn billions of dollars from the presidency because he is sacrificing himself like Jesus for the nation.

It's not even money.

First of all, flippin' learn how to spell COLOMBIA. Even the official white house communications spelled it wrong which is kind of a hint at the level of idiots working there under Trump. I am no fan of Petro from the left or Trump for outer space. Petro had a right to be offended by the use of military planes (unnecessary fascism theater) which is a big change and also the reports of inhumane treatment of the deportees were valid points of diplomatic discussion. You're right Petro overplayed his hand as he can't afford to have his economy ruined. So agreed Trump won this hand. But the world is watching Trump acted the ugly Yanqui bully when just talking first without threats would have gotten the same result, so Trump degrades the American brand internationally. Trump in no way represents sanity. Humiliating Colombia, a proud nation, when it wasn't even necessary in the first place, is going to plant poison anti-American seeds there and all over Latin America. How will they react? They'll pivot even more to China.

No I am talking about all kinds of madness beyond immigration policies such as threatening friendly nations with military force. If you don't think that's insane, we have zero basis for any discussion.

Denmark and Greenland were already very friendly. If the U.S. wanted more cooperation, that could have easily happened with normal diplomacy instead of threatening to invade! So incredibly stupid.

As usual, you entirely missed the point.

You're wrong about who they're picking up. You bought the trump propaganda.

Lies.

Simply keep your mouth firmly shut to repel any unwanted shoving.

That's crazy and dangerous.

Thanks for sharing Rambo.

This has only just begun. Colombia caved to Trump's threats but not every country is going to cave as easily. I heard that Trump was going to order that Colombian's US bank accounts be frozen. If he did outrageous stuff like that surely tit for tat against Americans could happen. Stay tuned.

Troll bait ignored.

Those sessions are about punching in numbers. I already know what they'll say about IRAs. That they confirmed their opinion with TRD.

I forgot to mention Americans in countries he has already directly threatened. Panama, Denmark and Canada. It's a fact that there has been backlash against American expats before but mostly about gentrification and ugly American arrogant behavior. For examples in Mexico City and Lisbon.

Maga is for free speech only if it's pro maga speech.

I think that's an excellent question. I'm far from an expert but it seems to me that what you're suggesting might work. Why does it need to be LONG TERM gains? Why not a few days? Answering that -- going fast would be easy to see an intention of evasion. If it's an outside a retirement account chunk of money when remitted that's what it is, yeah? BTW -- if you take a loss on that play, there is no tax in Thailand but you can't write off the loss in Thailand. What's the flaw? Well, intention I guess. If that's your pattern if they have info about that then it's an attempt at evasion I suppose. But I don't see how what you do with your own money OUTSIDE of Thailand is any of their business at all. Perhaps that idea is too good to be true.

It would take a full direct effort from Iran but those two forces would be on board with such an effort, if it ever comes to pass. The state of Israel works very hard for it to never come to pass. But they are a small minority in a very hostile neighborhood. Don't forget how close Iran is to having weaponized nukes and also how they have directly allied with Russia who of course is chock full of nukes. Israel isn't paranoid. It's not paranoia if they're realiy out to get you. They're realistic.

He's only been back in office for a few days, and the madness has already started. Not talking about specific cases yet, but in nations hurt by punitive Trump trade war tariffs or barbaric treatment of their nationals by U.S. immigration, do you think things may get ugly in certain countries for U.S. expats? For example say he hits a country with 50 or 100 percent tariffs and the local economy crashes because of it. The people will know the pain comes from America. Wouldn't it be natural in such cases for the people or even governments to take out their anger on the Americans they see, the ones that live there? Even if ironically, those Americans may be very anti-Trump.

Iran does. Iran supports Hamas and Hezbollah.

That's a Grade A snarky generalization.

That's not what I was talking about. Obviously if you have remitted accessable income over the threshold, then you are required to file, so that's a matter of compliance. Filing when you know you don't need to is defensive.

I will add one of the TIN pushing to f-rangs firms which shall remain unnamed is employing scaremongering rhetoric to push people to file (using their expensive services of course) who don't need to file or pay tax defensively. Their line is if you don't file in that situation years later if audited (which they seem to color as more likely than not) it will cost you MUCHO MUCHO DINERO to handle that (presumably with their massively costly assistance), so much cheaper to file defensively. Well to that I say, I've quite skeptical about that. If your case is simple such as showing money in the bank on December 31, 2023 or showing the source bank accounts as exempt social security, why in heck would you need to shell out for any help at all (if you plan on keeping records going back years). Or perhaps you might need just to bring in a translator if language is an issue.

I don't really believe that you don't know why transitioning people require hormone therapy. If you really don't know, I would suggest you're not in an informed position to debate these topics. That is so basic! If you're saying you don't want health care systems to pay, that's a position to take, but unless you're a Thai citizen you really don't have standing there either.

My thinking is that if your case would be very complicated and difficult to prove if audited, then maybe be defensive and file when you shouldn't need to. But if you know you'll have the records and that it will be elementary to prove that you didn't need to file (or pay tax) then I wouldn't get a TIN or file. I have the latter situation for now.