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He likely has the power to change it for US maps, schoolbooks, etc. But the public and the rest of the world can ignore the looney convicted felon.

That I would insane washing.

Trump is queer bird. He threatens America's closest allies but sucks up to our enemies. Americans really wanted this MADNESS? People should really stop trying to SANE WASH this man.

Ditto. Aloha.

More rights than you do? Garbage lie. Come back when you've digested basic facts.

Sounds like you're active in the Thai economy. My perspective is non-working retired expats. Before now very few would have had a TIN or even known what a TIN is.

I would guess well over half probably much higher because any expat that consumes any expat targetted media whatsoever (especially youtube channels) could not have avoided hearing about the subject. As far as understanding it all yet probably very few. I wish I could say that I was one that did, but I'm still struggling to get a clear definitive answer on U.S. retirement accounts.

No. That was vile fear mongering.

A very good point which I've thought of myself. We do know that rule was changed which can be called a loophole as wide as the Holland Tunnel. We also know certainly that a significant percentage of foreigners did remit accessible income the same year so technically that should have been filed and tax paid if due. But I've not heard of a typical retired expat that ever did file about remittances. Perhaps some expats with economic activity in Thailand AND remittances and getting tax advice might have dealt with this issue. As far as the number of expats audited just over investigating this matter? I would guess ZERO. So in practical reality that was a SUPER LOOPHOLE which most expats didn't even know about and if they did could be confident it didn't matter anyway as it was fair to assume they would never be challenged. As I've said before, we DO know this rule has changed. But we don't know what that will mean as far as audits and investigations. Time will tell. Not sure if that means a lot of time or a little. If I had to predict, I do think because of all this media attention including pronouncements from Thai authorities, that's it's fair to assume some level of enforcement though up from nothing to something possible even a lot.

Civil rights are non-productive? It's not surprising that the rhetoric of maga republican Americans mirrors autocracies such as Z Putin Russians in most every way.

The Kremlin is loving it!

Oh no. LGBTQ civil rights. So nonproductive. Do you consider yourself SUPERIOR to such minority groups? In general maga people do.

That's obviously a total crock.

Mainstream beliefs such as there aren't Jewish space lasers.

I'm happy to hear that has worked out for you, mate.

All the "evidence" they need is that the white nationalist maga movement hates seeing any minorities in positions of power and falsely conflates them as all being incompetent. They do accept TOKEN minority people as long as these TOKEN people express support for the overall maga movement which is at its core white nationalist. They are particularly very obsessed with fomenting ignorant violence inciting hatred towards transgender people. Authoritarian movements do need their scapegoats. The truth is there are both competent and incompetent people in important positions of all kinds of descriptions. You can't generalize.

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Nobody said it was new. But as in Australia, Greece, Portugal, etc. things are now very much worse. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ewe4p9128o

He isn't even president yet. What a mustard suck.

Maga doesn't want to talk about climate change. So we get this kind of idiocy.

The fact that he did indeed win landslide or not (in this case -- NOT) does not in any way whatsoever indicate he was a good choice. He was a shockingly bad choice.

He will be the president again. That's all.

That's your answer.

Here is something people can do to test how Thailand will deal with US retirement accounts but I would suggest waiting a long time to give them time to develop their policy. Only at offices in expat havens with lots of retired Americans. Only for people without a TIN. Offices are supposed to turn away people seeking a TIN with no accessable income. So go in there if all your other Income is excluded but you've got a IRA withdrawal. Ask. Do I need a TiN? Have you remitted any accessable income? Well I'm not sure. Please help I withdrew 300k baht from my U.S. IRA and remitted that to Thailand but the value of my IRA was 3 million baht end of 2023. Answer: ?????

No dude. Post on the topics. Not the members.