Rob Browder

Sure - need to read what the questions were (wording), and how the sample was selected. The best source are the "meta polls" - though all the left/right polling companies have "unparty" biases, so even those have big holes in them. What information do you use to gauge public-opinion? Rallies can / are often astro-turfed. But, more importantly, most people can be FOOLED, whether they are "left" or "right." When enough are not being fooled (discontent with both parties), expect big fake "wedge issue" and hyped-up "events" to be utilized, to get them bleating for their assigned "side," again.

Oh, here we go. "Polls are only valid when MY SIDE comes out on-top - at which time, MY SIDE party candidates re-post them."

You might have noticed the "other side" of the Uniparty basically threw the election-fight. Biden managed to be even worse than Trump on policy. He opened the southern border more than Trump had, after Trump was even weaker than Obama had been. Biden also didn't deliver anything significant to his "base" - on healthcare, wages, etc. The main reason for the elites passing the baton back to Trump, IMO, was that the left-base was fed an ideology not consistent with the wars Israel had planned - and in recruiting Americans into the military to fight in them - and with their ongoing war-crimes in Gaza. The flip to "anti-woke" was due to this.

Anyone who cared about the policies he promised in 2016 was sick of him by mid-2017, after he threw all that in the trash. Polls mid 2020 showed MOST Americans did not want Trump OR Biden - wanted another option. Kamala was even more hated among the Democratic-Party base, as well as from the Right, so no help, there. Most Republicans wanted another option on their side of the ticket - but they were cleverly split, as billionaires (including Democrat-donors) poured millions into Haley's coffers, to split the anti-Trump vote - effectively blocking DeSantis. As well, Trump avoided a Republican Party debate thanks to the "indictments" eating all the news-cycles, and fooling people he was "against the system." Never mind he did everything "the system" wanted, throughout his 1st term. Funny how "Trump's Enemies" kept doing the EXACT THING which increased his poll-numbers and fund-raising, over and over, isn't it? It was sad to see how many Trump "fans" would cheer for a guy who stabbed them in the back for 4 years, the last time. They are literally just "sports fans" cheering a "team" - have no clue about ANY significant policy decisions made - just like the "other side" they laugh at.

Replied to your other post with the interview links here (for others curious): https://aseannow.com/topic/1328518-thailand-visa-exemption-60-days-and-visa-on-arrival-voa-15-days/page/14/#findComment-19746446 Money-quote: "I have to stress, the final decision depends on the discretion of the immigration officer." (... who accept agent-payoffs for unlimited entries)

Yes, you can get a 60-day extension to "visit your wife" from immigration. No financials are required for this extension. There is no 30-day option (only for tourist-type entries).

The MFA spokesmen did several interviews. Here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goyZSHfJlc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfy6zvvekkE Bangkok Post interview podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thailands-new-visas/id1656654945?i=1000663277504 I remember the 24-hour-out discussion in one of the interviews, but it was related to DTV re-entries. Edit: On the "how many times" visa-exempt - he talks about it at ~9:20 in the podcast, above - have to be out for "at least a day." (yet some borders now demanding 2 days) ... "I have to stress, the final decision depends on the discretion of the immigration officer." Removing the 2-per-calendar-year land-border limit on Visa-Exempt is not the same as "unlimited." There was never a hard-limit by air, but plenty of folks got locked-up in airport-detention and forced to fly back where they came from. You CAN get "unlimited," but have to pay off immigration for each entry, after some vague, non-defined "too much time in Thailand as a tourist" period. They keep it vague, and randomly / inconsistently enforced, to maximize agent-partner revenue.

Yes - have heard a MFA spokesperson quote this for DTV border-bounces, required every 6 months. Unfortunately, there is no defined "safe" amount of time out-of-country between tourist-type entries. The policy varies by your past history over years, the entry point, the IO you get at the entry-point, and/or whatever marching-orders they were given for their work-shift.

Unlimited use of visa-exempt? Agree, unless you pay for it via Immigration's agent-partners, in which case it is unlimited, as long as you pay each time. By land, if willing to spend a couple nights out, one can repeat-entry at several crossings - even without the "van agents" - per existing reports. But, the only way to rest assured re-entering on visa-exempts or TR-Visas will be "no problem" is to pay for agent-service. If under 50, the best option is the DTV - both in terms of trouble and cost. If over 50, a retirement-based Non-O extension is the winner hands-down.

Yes, and the only reason immigration would block entry, is if coming / staying often / longer. Even then, it's just a small "fee" through an agent, to buy them off for repeated tourist-entries. There is no "insurance requirement" for tourist-entries - though not having insurance at all is not wise.

I haven't seen any recent reports about the Nakon Phanom / Laos crossing. I also doubt any border-run agents do that route. It is possible that due to not many foreigners using that crossing, they have not instituted a multi-night stay rule - but no way to know without a recent report. You would be looking at a fairly long trip to get to where agent-assisted same-day runs would be guaranteed - Cambodia probably the closest. Unless a 2-night stay in Laos be a deal-breaker, it might be the easiest way to go. You can ask on your way out of Thailand if it is OK to return that evening - see what they say.

The politicians lie, people vote for the lying promises, then they betray us. It's the same for both the right and left flavors of the Uniparty. All the "outrages" created for both "sides" seem manufactured, fake, and designed to keep people's attention off of the things that actually affect the quality of their lives. J6 - you mean the honeypot-sting riot Trump helped arrange for his "fans?" Where his "enemy" (sic), the speaker of the house, refused the required personnel for an event of that size? Where the guy caught on-video inciting illegal-activity to the crowd got a slap on the wrist, while people who walked in used the bathroom, and left, got a felony-charge and prison-time? And, where Trump could have pardoned them all on his way out, but didn't? And, yes, there is court-precedent for the latter.

If it were me, I'd buy safe-entry, if that much - even if the "odds" of denied-entry were low. This is the lowest quote on it I've seen: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336926-setv-metv-still-around-now-that-visa-exempts-are-now-60-days/?do=findComment&comment=19217493

They "learned" it was very profitable for Raytheon, Bechtel, Halliburton, etc. It's wrecking OUR future with massive-debt and lost / broken lives, but they don't care about us lowly types.

Folks love to make these pronouncements - but always leave out AT WHAT WAGE? They "forget" that when America was booming, a construction-worker made the equivalent of ~$40/hr, in today's dollars. Factory workers made significantly more. Even food-packers were sold middle-class, in the Great America days, before illegal-alien employment laws stopped being enforced on employers. Labor-cost is a TINY FRACTION of the Retail-Cost of most manufactured-goods. it only "adds up" at-scale - to create board-room bonus money - not significantly cheaper products. Technology advancements are the primary reason why TVs and such are cheaper now - not "labor cost savings." Lastly, Trump wants CHEAP imported workers - not well-paid Americans - and has said this clearly - along with his buddies Musk and Vivek. Musk fired American Tesla workers to hire cheaper foreign workers. Trump uses H1Bs, etc - and has a history of hiring Illegal-Aliens for his golf resorts.