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I'm somewhat conflicted on this questiom. Decent pro-democracy, anti imperialism, anti Putin, anti oligarchy/autocracy people across the world are now boycotting USA products, tariffs or no tariffs. Should decent Americans do the same? Should we be actively buying NOT American? This gets into the government vs. the people. Is Russia Putin? I think largely so. Is the USA Trump? I think much less than Russia Putin. Even though Trump won, I think only a tiny minority voted for such insanity as helping Russia murder Ukrainian civilians and threatening to annex Canada.

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He doesn't really care about them either. As things melt down, except even more ridiculous diversions.

The democrats plan brought us the best economy in the first world. Trump has managed with his chaotic idiocy no plan to blow that up in a matter of weeks.

He doesn't have a plan.

Why? Because of the massive "chain saw" style firings, encouraged resignations, loss of normal transition training mechanisms, and loss of institutional knowledge held by long term staff. Be clear -- he is not predicting PERMANENT CUT OFF of benefits. So no fear mongering here. He's WARNING that a delay could happen because of the chaos that has indeed been caused. IF this interruption happens it would be the first time in social security history. Why am I posting this here? Because I know many American retirees use the income method, importing 65K baht of more monthly to meet their annual retirement extension financial requirements. So what happens if the payment is delayed for just one month (it could be much longer) so that your next payment is double covering the missed month? Will Thai immigration accept that? My understanding is that they require monthly remits and missed months even just one are not allowed. On top of the immigration issue of course the former head is warning people to save up their money to weather a delay. Hopefully not too many expats are living that close to the bone, but clearly some are. The news story. Social Security payments could be interrupted as DOGE causes 'system collapse' | Fortune www.fortune.com/2025/03/03/social-security-payments-benefits-interruption-doge-cuts-system-collapse-retirement-disability/ Social Security payments could suffer interruption soon as DOGE causes ‘system collapse,’ former commissioner warns—‘start saving now’ The snopes analysis. Ex-head of Social Security claimed DOGE actions could cause payment interruptions. Here's context | Snopes.com www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/07/social-security-collapse-doge/

Trump isn't scared of Putin. He literally loves Putin and they share the same (heinous) goals.

I have an automatic deduction from a Thai bank account set up that's been working seamlessly for many years. However recently it didn't and without warning my power was cut off because of some glitch months earlier. I managed to get help to get an online account set up and fixed the problem quickly to get the power back on same day. I want to continue with the autopay but I'm not confident yet it will continue to work well.

Well not quite so cleanly. Trump is Putin's poodle for sure, but Xi's not so much, Iran is a weird one. A close ally of Russia, but Trump is correctly hostile to them. Strange bedfellows. On the other hand with moronic actions like killing USAID Trump is handing big wins to China on a platter.

Trump is only offering a surrender plan to Ukraine.

You clearly don't watch Russian state t.v. Putin will be fine with a PAUSE if it leaves him in an advantageous position for later actions. Putin is on clear record as not believing Ukraine even exists as a separate nation. So the minimum goal for him is a puppet government. Not neutral. A puppet of Russia. Ideally Putin wants to swallow Ukraine entirely. If you think Moldova and the Baltics aren't at risk, you've been hopelessly inflected with propaganda. Also some of the stans and even Poland and beyond if Europe lets its guard down. WW3 is much at risk by NOT defending Ukraine than to cave to Putin,

Another weak tea attempt at sane washing an unhinged madman.

How is it dreaming to face up to the horrific reality that under Trump the USA is now actively helping war criminal dictator Putin and actively attacking western democracies such as Canada? When talking to magical thinking Trump worshipping magas on such matters, there are multiple layers. Do they REALIZE yet this disgusting anti-American realignment has happened? If so, do they actually SUPPORT it? Tucker Carlson has openly come out as supporting it. I consider such people as well as Trump to be traitors.

That all you've got? Dude, if you deny that Trump is on Putin's side in this war, you're not living in a reality based world.

I wouldn't agree with him that it's certain, but he's correct that history shows that refusing to surrender and fighting on against all odds, is quite often successful. It does take a lot of time though. Trump wants total surrender of Ukraine. The question is will Ukraine do that. I don't think so.

I don't know who "you guys" are but I definitely did care back then. I've been critical of both Obama and Trump on Ukraine policy, but the evil that Trump is doing openly siding with Putin and helping him murder Ukrainian civilians would have been hard to even imagine from any U.S. president, but then it happened.

Worthless reply.

This video from a decent traditional conservative republican and his channel explains this dark situation to people who have yet to realize that this historic realignment (the USA to Russia and global autocracies and against traditional democratic allies) is very very real.

Completely different. The USA and Russia were both fighting the Nazis. Now the USA and Russia are fascists fighting democracies.

In a very dark time, it's a positive that Europe is realizing that the USA now is not their ally any more and can't be counted on for anything. The USA under wannabe autocratic God/King/Dictator Trump is clearly on the side of Russia now, actively helping Putin murder Ukrainian civilians. It's definitely a hard pill for decent Americans to swallow but swallow it we all must.

So it's OK with you and "positive" that Trump is now helping Putin murder Ukrainian civilians?

CNN has actually shifted to the right. Pay attention.

Stop with your cheap sleaze. You attacked George Conway and that was a lie. The video was about what George Conway said about Trump getting his jollies destroying the world. You have no interest in addressing what Conway said, so you resort to your sleaxeball tactics defending it just so happens an adjudicated rapist president. Again -- pathetic.

In general there is no point in sending back a dish here. Exceptions might be at higher end European food places. Just don't go back. I did have one successful send back at a Thai restaurant and that was only because they sent me a completely different dish than what I ordered. Other times I learned that their "fix its" generally were lazy efforts that made things worse and they never recooked the dish.