Alan Zweibel

Disrespecting service members who are in compliance with regulations? In the Trump administration personal whims take priority over laws and regs.

Or maybe you might try to join the modern world and understand that your little piece of it have very little significance on a larger scale.

Well, if that's true, and since Trump is practicing socialism now, I guess we can conclude that Trump is essentially a socialist/communist/fascist. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth won’t meet with any “beardos” serving in South Korea. Service members stationed in the Pacific recently received notice that enlistees with shaving waivers will not be allowed to attend Hegseth’s upcoming Camp Humphreys rally, according to military site Task & Purpose. https://archive.ph/50aUq#selection-1613.0-1625.44 Well, that's one way to lower morale.

Really? Other presidents have had the US take shares in company and then invoked their right based on that business deal to block the owners from taking action? And thanks for your homegrown definition of Socialism. Got any reputable source to back you up on that?

It may be irrelevant to your comments about the relation of ihflation to wealth, but that has nothing to do about either its irrelevance to the topic or to the false point you raised about the relation of unit of currency inflation to wealth.

What don't you understand about the fact that this forum is specifically about worldwide issues. Why do you believe that someone's alleged place of residence invalidates that specification?

What don't you understand that the political soapbox is supposed to be about worldwide issues? How is where someone allegedly lives relevant to that?

Thanks once again for your reflexive use of the word Socialists to mean anyone you disagree with. The core of Socialism is the belief that government should control the means of production. Maybe like taking shares in a corporatio and ordering a corporation not to close down a manufacturing site. Trump invokes 'golden share' to block U.S. Steel plans for Illinois plant, WSJ reports The Trump administration blocked U.S. Steel's plan to shut down production at one of its plants in Illinois, flexing its so-called golden share authority, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. U.S. Steel, now owned by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel(5401.T) , opens new tab, said in a statement on Friday that it has reversed its decision to shut down the plant, which employs nearly 800 workers. https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-invokes-golden-share-block-us-steel-plans-illinois-plant-wsj-reports-2025-09-19/

Even if that was the case, the alleged bot has pointed out repeatedly the obvious flaws in your reasoning. Which makes me suspect that you are an earlier and inferior version of a bot. Maybe I should call you Bot 1.0?

What don't you understand about the simple fact that this forum is actually not supposed to be about Thai issues?

What don't you understand about the simple fact that this forum is actually not supposed to be about Thai issues?

Making personal comments shows just how resourceless you are. No matter what my skills may be, are you claiming that the scientists who offer such conclusions are also ignorant?

A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president’s trade war. The Senate on Tuesday voted to terminate the 50 percent tariffs that President Trump has imposed on Brazil, with a handful of Republicans crossing party lines to help push through a measure rejecting the emergency declaration used to justify them. While the resolution faces long odds in the House, where Republicans have taken extraordinary steps to make it more difficult to bring up such measures, the vote signaled bipartisan frustration with the president’s tariffs on most goods from Brazil, a country with which the United States has a multibillion-dollar trade surplus. https://archive.ph/ex85G#selection-675.0-687.1 Just as in the case of Argentina, Trump puts the welfare of his admirers ahead of that of Americans. In this case it's all about Bolsonaro who was recently convicted by a Brazilian court. His vanity and neediness know no bounds. He imposed these tariffs despite the fact that the US actually runs a trade surplus with Brazil.

And there is a separate section of this website that deals with Thai issues. https://aseannow.com/forum/18-thailand-news/ Make your points there.

Another case of a right winger who believes that invoking the future is some kind of valid argument and not the recourse of those who are incapable of formulating valid arguments.

Which is why science has ground to a halt.

If that's what you call using citing sound econometric data instead of someone's alleged personal experience, you've made an excellent point. Or maybe you're just allergic to real data.

So, if I were to cite reputable scientific sources as the source of my data, you wouldn't reject that as being politically motivated hogwash?

You know, I forgot all about the prestigious Go Wholesale price index.

what cut of pork?

Another ignorant comment about climatology

I actually thought about that. But I don't think pleasing him catties much political weight.

It's clear you don't understand how categories work. Nor where the science of climatology stands on the issues.

A performance for an audience of one.