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I think that most of them arrive on charter flights which would usually be a package of some sort including return fights,,,,so if they skip the return flight then what? Is Thai immigration going to attempt to round them all up? Could be a very big job. Once i recall the Russians credit cards were not accepted in Thailand...did that change? I suppose a lot of them arrived with a big stash of cash as maybe not so easy to transfer $$ from russian banks but i really do not know....overall seems that immigration would have a lot of questions for arriving Russians but so far what i see is Thai poitiicans doing special welcomes to LOS photo ops with flower garlands for Russian charter flights. Who knows but it sure seems that there could be a massive number of overstays or flat out don't leave til caught or war ends one of these years

So what kind of visa does the typical Russian get to visit Thailand? 45 days on arrival? tourist visa? or some sort of long term? Sure seems to me that there could well be a lot of Russians not anxious to go back to Putin land when their visa options all expire? Will Thailand round them up and deport them? Or maybe they move over to cambodia for a few years?

It's all about getting media coverage and their names out there for a shot at "fame" or at least a lot of invites on cable news , possible books, donations, etc....trump taught them well that the more batsxxt crazy stuff you say and do the more coverage and $$ you get....the bigger the nut the bigger the name recognition. Repub right wingers learned from trump as well as dems like joe manchin who got famous for obstructing dem plans...who the F ever even heard of Manchin before he started his campaign to be famous. The repub nut jobs have taken it to a new level.

You may win the battle but lose the war. If you have a buyer who is ready to buy and suddenly all goes sideways due to delays or some threats of lawyers/litigation the buyer may walk away...or i suppose buyer could sue you for not disclosing unpaid debt? Go outside and kick a tree to get rid of frustration. Then PAY THE MAN.

The clown car rolls on....how long will it take for republican voters to stop voting these self centered fools into office?

My guess: no helmet.

So what is the verdict on the quality of that oh so expensive gram of pot sold by lot of stores? 600 thb and up is a lot of baht to pay in my book but whatever floats your bong. I used to grow my own and was quite happy with it. I don't need zombie land gangja that is so strong that you forget your name...just a decent quality that goes with pink floyd etc. Bought few joints from a street vendor recently for 70 baht a joint and all in all it did the trick for me...

There has been no clarity on what happens if we stop paying the bills (obviously a hospital isn't going to tell you that it's "ok" to do that) or what happens if we try to transfer him elsewhere, or even how that would be logistically possible. Seems to me that the most viable option is to just tell hospital in no uncertain terms them there is no more $$ to pay the bill and then the hospital will do whatever it is they do in such a circumstance....i doubt it is the first time that they have had a critically ill farang in the hospital that had no $$....I think the hospital would likely contact his embassy and in meantime keep providing care. Hard to imagine any hospital would just dump him on the street to die. As long as the hospital thinks there is a chance that OP or someone will come up with the $$ they are not likely to offer any suggestions so need to be firm that there is NO $$. Tough move for OP, and kudos for going above and beyond call of duty but there are limits to what anyone can do....what if he hangs on for months and OP ends up bankrupt and then can't pay HIS future bills?

Speaking of conspiracies i just read this....you have got to be kidding me that grown adult people actually go down a rabbit hole so far to come up with such an absurd theory......seriously? Is there anything too "out there" for these people to buy into? No wonder the king of con men DJT has been able to fool so many for so long and suck millions of dollars out of their pockets....trump loves the "uneducated" so why not promote that the Easter Bunny is going to arrive in Santa's sleigh and name trump the ruler of the universe.? Send money to buy Reindeer food for the journey. The QAnon conspiracy theory is an anti-democratic, authoritarian fantasy that imagines a “globalist” or “deep state” cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles — many prominent Democrats among them — who will soon be arrested en masse, and possibly executed, by former President Donald Trump. During his presidency Trump more than played footsie with QAnon supporters, repeatedly refusing to denounce the movement. Since leaving the White House, however, Trump has openly embraced QAnon, often sharing the movement’s memes on Truth Social.

So you want to run an ILLEGAL business which is what 99 % of non hotel licensed condo rentals of less than 30 days are in Thailand. Do you care that people who buy or do long term leases in condos don't want to live in a building with tourists from all over the world checking in and out, clogging elevators, pools, lobby areas.....often coming home late at night drunk and loud? Is it ok if a one week rental has 8 people staying in a unit designed for 2 or 3? If you want to go into the hotel business than build or buy a hotel and follow the law.

A report that included witness after witness of lifelong republicans who testified under oath to what they saw and heard regarding the Jan 6 coup attempt. Go figure that.

Oh yes the kangaroo committee that was after trump.....would that be the same committee that called witness after witness who were lifetime republicans who under oath told what they saw and heard regarding the Jan 6 coup attempt? That kangaroo long ago left the barn.

300.000 Chinese to Thailand in next 3 months....what could possibly go wrong? How about covid and new variant rage through Thailand and all the business that are now open again have to shut down again? Maybe want to think about the economic and social cost of that to 60 million Thai people? So china requires test and 3 jabs before boarding a plane? Somehow I don't have a lot of confidence in those measures being very real if Thailand just has to "take their word' . Who pays hospital bills if a bunch of Chinese end up in Thai hospitals with tubes down their throats?

So what happens if OP just tells current hospital that he has no more $$. Will the hospital throw the patient out onto the streets, call US embassy or ?? Very kind of OP to do what he has already done but seems that getting involved in moving to private hospital doesn't really solve the problem as even then more $$ required. Maybe just tell current hospital sorry i have done all i can, his family has no $$, he has no money and OP has no $$. Somehow I think/hope that the hospital will have to either keep him or move him but it has to be their decision and their cost.

Pattaya has way fewer pretentious two week millionaires trying to impress someone/anyone/everyone with their hi so mojitos and $50 lobsters. What you see in Pattaya are mostly real people enjoying themselves at bargain prices and having fun whether other people like their choices or not.

just more of same old tired republican garbage of sitting in the bleachers and booing the quarterback which is much easier to do than actually run the plays....biden has scored with several big bills passed in two years while the republicans fumble the ball over and over...meantime old senile joe just keeps getting major bills passed, and behaving like a civil human being in spite of republicans constant booing and pulling for him to fail.. .repubs have no plays to run as evidenced by no platform no policy other than if biden/dems and usually majority of voters are for something they are against it....

Just when Thailand is recovering from several years of covid....let's roll the dice and let 300,000 Chinese come for a visit in the first quarter. What could go wrong? If it all backfires and covid goes wild in Thailand and the economy takes two steps backward there will be a lot of finger pointing but of course no one will accept an ounce of blame.

You got it. The repubs who have publicly whined and moaned about how unfair the biased witch hunt of jan 6 committee was to dear leader sat and watched republican after republican testify under oath as to what a shxxshow the events around Jan 6 truly were. It took a 26 y.o. lifelong republican gal named cassidy hutchinson to demonstrate what it is like to have the gonads to simply tell what she saw and heard under oath to open the floodgates. Meantime the republican leadership mostly sat on their hands and acted like they didn't have time to watch the hearings or that it was all a big dem witch hunt and insist that hunter Biden's laptop is more important than an attempted coup. Now the republicans only hope is that DOJ will indict and a jury will convict trump and remove him from running as a 3rd party grifter and guarantee the dems will win big time. But for sure no matter what may happen the republicans will blame dems for what they themselves could have stopped if they had the gonads of a 26 y.o. gal. Of course as someone already said there are several republicans who were active participants in the attempted coup who should also be indicted and convicted so maybe they are clinging to some obscure hope that dear leader will win POTUS again and then pardon them and all those "fine patriots" who stormed the capitol. Maybe doj will drag out the indictments long enough to let trump run third party and destroy what is left of the pre donnie republican party that once upon a time actually had a platform and some policies. Desantis is likely the biggest cheerleader of all that DOJ will move quickly to indict and convict trump so he can assume the minnie me roll of a new dear leader. But will the MAGA bunch take to the streets to riot if/when trump goes to jail? Or will they throw their former messiah under the bus and jump into the new Desantis clown car? It would only take a small % of MAGA to refuse to vote for Desantis to absolutely insure a dem win and my bet is that there are enough hard core kool aide drinkers who will never vote for anyone but trump. They have refused from day one to accept that their emperor had no clothes and it is doubtful that they will ever be able to admit they got conned by one of the best con men ever to live. We shall see.

True dat. And donnie will try and dangle pardons for the entire sorid bunch if only they will let him be potus again.

spineless coward republicans ....Two chances to get rid of him via impeachment and another by standing up after Jan 6....almost all repubs except a handful were terrified of the monster they helped create ...bit late to try and grow a spine now...too bad, so sad. assuming trump is not in jail he will run a revenge campaign to absolutely insure that repubs can nt and will not win.......he never ever cared a whit for either party as it was and always has been all about him ,...he is indeed one of the best conmen ever to live and maga and the thugs bought the bs hook line and sinker....,,if he is able to brag that he and he alone brought down the republican party he will revel in the destruction of the wimps.......plus of course he wants to keep that maga money rolling in... if repubs had a brain they would support the jan 6 committee and the doj and demand that donnie boy not be allowed to skate....instead they want to investigate hunter biden...stupid is as stupid does.

Look forward to donnie trying to run as 3rd party to absolutely insure that dems will win no matter who they run.....T never ever gave a hoot about republicans other than how he could use them to further his own ego. Now that the spineless repubs are finally starting to admit they got conned he will seek revenge and try to destroy whatever is left of the republican party. Plus of course T will continue the con and suck a few more hundred million out of the delusional MAGA bunch that wouldn't know a conman if he bit them on the butt. The only hope the repubs have is that he will be in jail and unable to run but even if that happens he will no doubt call on his MAGA bunch to not vote at all. Repubs had their chance to be rid of him via impeachment but blew it. Well done donnie, well done spineless republicans.

Such a fine Christian thing to do on Christmas eve....JC would really be proud of the hypocrisy of the evangelicals. Why not just round them all up and dump them at churches where all the so called Christians could practice what they love to preach.

Stand in front of a mirror, look yourself in the eye and say "bye bye baht"....then try and learn from your mistake and never do it again...EVER.

you mean like no evidence of massive voter fraud that MAGA has been pushing for two years as fact? got it.

100,000 Chinese a month with no testing.....what could possibly go wrong? Open door, release horse, close door. Giddy up