TallGuyJohninBKK

I got no TM6 on my return to Thailand in May. (But I'm still keeping my last old one stapled in my passport until told otherwise.) I kept waiting (from force of habit) for the airline cabin crew to start passing them out as we neared landing, but none were forthcoming, and none asked for at the Immigration counter upon arrival.

You'd think with all their supposed fancy technology, they could get their email notifications system to recognize when someone has left and returned to the country, and thus triggered a new and different 90 day reporting deadline.... But apparently, no, not that sophisticated or advanced. ???? PS - when I left on my outbound trip in May, at the airport's Immigration checkpoint, they wanted digital scans of all 10 fingers plus of course the digital photo of my face..... And yet, even with their 90-day reporting system, they can't seem to regularly find and track down the loads of foreigners who have overstayed their permissions to stay year by hundreds of days to multiple years.

I got an email reminder from Immigration BKK last week for an upcoming 90 day report due date, even though a month-old international trip had already rendered that prior 90-day reporting deadline invalid.

The scary part is, the Thai police locally there apparently believe they can get away with making these kinds of rubbish public statements/claims, and people are supposed to believe them? It's a farce. The Japanese lady here needs to go the Japanese version of Charlene An, and not let them get away with it... But I'm guessing, the victim here will just disappear as will the case at hand (so to speak....)

It seems like there have been about a half dozen of these same kinds of news reports posted here lately... each being announced by the Immigration division in a different province, with Bangkok now being the latest one here..... Obviously some edict has come down from on high, and all the different divisions are trying to show they're all the ball and following orders -- even while most of the time, dodgy criminal ventures are rampant in their areas by foreigners and Thais alike, both before and after their so-called sweeps. The one place that really needs a good sweeping is the RTP.

Sure like to hear..... just what kind of legitimate "traditional" Thai massage technique of a woman customer is going involve, as the article recounts, the masseur "putting his finger into her vagina"? Just as bad, the police are actually publicly parroting that nonsense? And before even being able to speak directly with the victim, because they couldn't seem to readily come up with a Japanese interpreter? All in all, it sounds like a thoroughly shoddy failure of law enforcement...not surprisingly.

And if you are older in age as many posters here are, considerably less likely to die or become seriously ill from COVID should the person become infected. These days, as the latest COVID variants have become more contagious and more vaccine evasive, the vaccines' protection against serious illness and death is stronger than the protection against mere infection.

Per the US CDC: All vaccinated groups had overall lower risk of dying from COVID-19 and testing positive for COVID-19 compared with people who were unvaccinated. People who were vaccinated with an updated (bivalent) booster dose had lower rates of dying from COVID-19 and slightly lower rates of testing positive for COVID-19 compared with people who were vaccinated but had not received an updated booster dose. "In March 2023, people 18 years and older and vaccinated with an updated (bivalent) booster had: 5.3X lower risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated people." Incidence per 100,000 population: Source link:

Actually, CIMB abandoned their online banking via website before either of those two last year, and went app only.. And now, re this thread, I found this in my email last night:

No... not from a wealthy family during the years Biden was growing up, unlike some other presidential candidates we know. "Biden's father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946,[12] but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old,[13][14][15] and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton.[16] Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.[17] Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten,[18] the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.[19][20][14][16] Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Early_life_(1942–1965)

If you have some actual proof (not unsubstantiated claims) from credible sources (not disreputable conspiracy theorists), present it... Otherwise, you'll just be in the same boat as the right-wing GOP lawmakers who've been crying wolf for years without any actual proof.

Got this today via SMS from CIMB:

He's also been the beneficiary, like many others, of the rising prices of US real estate over the decades... "Biden bought the five-bedroom, 2.5-bath former DuPont mansion at 6 Montchan Drive, Wilmington, Delaware, in 1974. He bought the 10,012-square-foot home in disrepair for $185,000.... He spent two decades renovating and living in it before selling it for $1.2 million in February 1996." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/22/fact-check-joe-biden-owns-2-homes-pictured-viral-meme/3720570001/

In part because he made a good amount of money during his time in the private sector from January 2017 to 2020 after ending his tenure as vice president, as has been well documented: Trump’s False Claims About Biden Wealth... "But over the next 23 months, according to Forbes, citing tax filings, the couple made $15 million. Forbes said Joe Biden received $2.4 million in speaking fees and $1.8 million from book tour events. It also said he brought in $775,000 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Benjamin Franklin professor of practice and where he heads the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement. It said Jill Biden added $700,000 in speaking fees. ... While Trump is right that Biden spent many years on a government salary, the former vice president has had some very lucrative years in the private sector. ... And there is no evidence he earned money through any kind of corruption." https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trumps-false-claims-about-biden-wealth-recovery-wishes/

Indeed.. But it equally would be more useful and productive if people posting their personal experiences also provided the pertinent details, such as what Immigration office was involved, and what kind of transaction triggered the TM30 request. Without that, readers really have no way of clearly knowing what actually transpired and why.

Most of the recent sources cited above in this thread by various Trump supporters here are deemed "questionable sources" by MediaBiasFactCheck.com -- which supposedly are not allowed as legitimate news sources on the forum. For example: "Overall, we rate Just the News Questionable and Right Biased based on story selection that mostly favors a conservative perspective. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks and the promotion of conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-the-news/

More Fox News source rubbish, recycled by the Daily Mail, similar to the debunked claims by Rep. Jordan involving Anthony Blinken... "Brennan, the CIA chief during Obama's administration made the admission during his four-hour testimony to House Judiciary Committee investigators behind closed doors last week', Fox News reports."

Further: https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5150 Judiciary Committee Democrats Respond to Baseless Claims about Secretary Blinken Washington, April 21, 2023 "From a Judiciary Committee Spokesman: "To be clear, no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. ... "At no point during his interview did Mr. Morell testify that Secretary Blinken directed or asked him to write any letters. Instead, Mr. Morell testified that Mr. Blinken sought his advice, as many others have. In response to questions posed by Chairman Jordan’s own lawyers, he testified that Mr. Blinken did not “direct, suggest, or insinuate in any way” that he should write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop."

Your link ties to another Fox news report... predictably... The letter was legitimate and was voluntarily signed by all those who signed it, including multiple former officials from the Trump admin. Regardless of whether a Biden campaign official at the time had any role in the origins of the letter.

Either your memory is failing, or your attention to accuracy is... There were no "fifty FBI agents." There was a group of former federal intelligence officials, including multiple ones from the Trump admin, who correctly said in a public letter that the election season claims involving Hunter Biden back in 2020 had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The list was composed mostly of former CIA and NSA types, and few if any former FBI folks (none that I can find), relative to the false claim of your post above. And, they didn't claim they knew for a fact or had proof the laptop disclosures were Russian disinformation. They said the disclosures had "the classic earmarks" of Russian disinfo, which they did. From their letter at the time: "“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement,” the letter reads. But, it continues, “there are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement.” POLITICO thus explained the reasons for the suspicion of Russian involvement at that time: "But the release of the material...has drawn comparisons to 2016, when Russian hackers dumped troves of emails from Democrats onto the internet — producing few damaging revelations but fueling accusations of corruption by Trump." https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276

The Republicans have been pursuing the Joe Biden-Burisma-Ukraine claims since at least 2019, nearly 4 years now... And in all that time, they've produced nothing credible / substantiated of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden.... Is this latest round likely to be any different?..... https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/graham-launches-probe-into-bidens-burisma-and-ukraine/ Graham launches probe into Bidens, Burisma and Ukraine Nov. 21, 2019 at 2:42 pm ----------------------------------- Meanwhile, we see the Faux political propaganda machine continuing its relentless march... https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/

The spawn of Giuliani.... More unsubstantiated nonsense. "In a statement Wednesday, Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the member of the Oversight Committee, said the FBI team that briefed him and Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Monday said “that the Department of Justice team of prosecutors and FBI agents under U.S. Attorney Scott Brady determined that there were no grounds to escalate their probe from an initial assessment of the allegations surfaced by Rudy Giuliani to a preliminary or full-blown investigation and that it was therefore closed down.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-attack-biden-family-viewing-fbi-document-rcna88413

I'm on a retirement extension of stay. And I did my last two 90 day reports online to BKK CW, and those both followed several domestic trips with hotel stays inside Thailand. The two online reports were in early January and late March of this year. Both were routinely approved, and in neither case was there any issue about needing to update my TM30 (which was last filed in 2019 or so). Of course, had the same home residence for the entire period of years here. Also had a certificate of residence done in person at BKK CW earlier this spring, and no demand then about updating my TM30. My last extension of stay was last fall at BKK CW, and likewise, no demand about updating my TM30 then.

I'm guessing you meant to say.... "When I submitted my TM47 [90-day report] online, I received an automatically generated reply telling me to update the TM30." ???

Indeed, that's WHY there is a prevailing culture of vigilantism here, because the common Thai citizen full well knows that the police here have a long pattern of excusing and abetting misconduct / illegal acts by those with wealth and/or influence, because they financially benefit by doing so. Heck, the police did exactly that involving the rich, hi-so low-life who struck and killed one of their own officers (the Red Bull case). So what chance for justice does a win motorcycle taxi driver have against some rich, entitled punk driving around in a Mercedes while intoxicated?