spidermike007

This has to be part of an intentional plan orchestrated by the deep state using Trump as a puppet. Trump simply cannot be as ignorant, or as stupid as he appears to be, it's just not possible. Nobody is that clueless. Folks, it would appear that they are intentionally trying to collapse the world economy, for what diabolical reason, that is entirely open to speculation. But no doubt Trump is a puppet in all this.

Well not only Trump but Musk too, it's amazing how just a couple of years ago Musk was greatly admired around the world, and now he's despised by hundreds of millions of folks. Yes, I would never consider buying a Tesla and I sincerely hope that the company ends up folding, due to the spectacular level of his ignorance, and arrogance.

The thing that truly astounds me about guys like Brand is that when you're rich and you're famous and good looking on top of that, you can pretty much have whoever you want. Women are literally lining up to get naked for you and to provide sexual favors, so why on earth would a man push himself on someone who didn't want him, when they're in that position? That's the kind of psychologically bent mind I simply cannot comprehend or understand on any level, and I think that a man who engages in sexual assault or rape should be put to death. Punishment and jail time is not enough, a death sentence is more appropriate and it should be carried out quickly. The world simply has no use for them once they cross that line.

In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal and because it’s so flagrantly immoral and utterly self-destructive. During the first Trump term, I would sometimes have to catch myself because even though I thought and think that Trump is uniquely despicable and dangerous, the fact remains that if you just want to look at the number of lives lost and global damage done, George W. Bush really outstripped him. Trump is maybe a worse person, but the damage that he did in his first term was much more contained. I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way. I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face. It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees. Trump’s idea of power. If I can destroy, if I can defile and march on relatively unscathed and unpunished, that makes me powerful. Other people can’t get away with it, but that’s how dominant and superior I am. Trump would not be where he is without the deep state or a similarly sinister organization or group of very powerful people who put him in that place, and are allowing him to conduct these extremely destructive economic policies. As reckless and as poorly thought out as all this seems, I think it's actually deliberate economic sabotage. Unfortunately the average American and the average person without wealth throughout the world will end up being the victims. Tens of millions of Trump supporters will be very surprised at the end result, and it won't be a pleasant surprise.

In a statement, USA Fencing said, “USA Fencing enacted our current transgender and non-binary athlete policy in 2023. The policy was designed to expand access to the sport of fencing and create inclusive, safe spaces. What an absolutely weak and pathetic organization. The US and perhaps the UK are by far the most tolerant countries in the world when it comes to the whole trans, non-binary, amorosexual, decide whatever you want today, if it fits mentality. No other country is as loose, driftless, and as silly as the US. When a woman devotes her entire youth to a sport, and becomes one of the best in that particular area, and then a man comes along who decides to identify as a woman, and steals all the awards, all the victories, and all the accolades, something is not right in society. Something is broken, society has become morally bankrupt, and there has to be a pause, there has to be an interruption of the nonsense. No woman would survive more than 30 minutes in the NFL. Women will not participate in men's sports because they won't be able to handle the physical endurance required, nor the brutality, nor the talent level. A woman ranked #5 on the WTA could not beat a #758 man on the ATP as John McEnroe so truthfully stated. Hopefully all this craziness will pass and we'll return to some form of normalcy and indecency.

Well thank you Donald for taking this meeting, first of all I would like to start off by saying that your are clinically insane, and we have offered to sponsor psychiatric treatment to help you to deal with all the issues that you've been carrying with you since you were a child. It might really help with negotiations, because if we were dealing with a sane and rational human being it would really help to establish some sort of rational consensus here. And we would be doing a good deed because we could end up saving the world in the process.

The metrics that Trump and his band of goons are using are beyond inane, completely unscientific, and wouldn't pass a very simple Junior High School math test. He does appear to be hellbent on destroying the US and the world economy, why that is is certainly open to speculation.

The cuts have been fast and sweeping. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk posted on February 3 on X (formerly Twitter), the social media site he owns. The effects of these actions immediately ricocheted around the world, and they will continue to be felt for years to come. They will especially threaten young children and women, for whom USAID funding has been providing lifesaving basic medical services that have ranged from vaccines to treatments for diarrheal diseases to maternal health care. Studies show this funding has helped save the lives of nearly three million children under age five and at least one million women of reproductive age in recent decades, experts say. Dismantling USAID endangers all of these gains. “This is like trying to pause an airplane in midflight and then subsequently firing the crew,” says Atul Gawande, former head of global health at USAID. USAID has provided health funding and staff support to numerous countries worldwide. But measuring the effects of that aid—or the sudden lack of it—is a challenge. To do so, William Weiss, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who served as an advisor in the global health bureau at USAID until his agreement was recently suspended, and his colleagues created a model to quantify the effect of USAID funding from 2000 to 2016 on under-five childhood mortality for low- and middle-income countries. The study was published in January 2022 in Population Health Metrics. In a related preprint study posted online last August, Weiss, Gawande and their colleagues modeled the effects of USAID funding on mortality among women of reproductive age between 2005 and 2019. That study, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Health, found that for the years 2009 through 2019, countries that received a sustained high level of USAID funding saw a mortality rate reduction of 0.8 death per 1,000 women of reproductive age. This translates to about one million to 1.3 million deaths prevented, or four extra years of life expectancy, says Gawande, who is a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as a writer and public health researcher. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/usaid-funding-saved-millions-of-childrens-lives-recent-cuts-put-it-in/

You seem to be living in yesteryear, yes you can argue that the 50s to the 70s were a good time for America, but a lot has changed since then and there's a multitude of reasons why many products are not being made in the US anymore. That's not going to change, the tariffs are not going to change that, nothing's going to change. Have you ever heard of the concept of economic ecosystems? It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.” Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it. Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.” The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head. Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies. As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.” Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said. Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars. But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. And if you are not part of these ecosystems, your country will not thrive.”

Not to sound like a prophet of doom, but there are many signs that are pointing toward a long-term recession leading to a depression, with unemployment rates in the range of 20 to 30% and inflation at 15% or higher, collapsing property prices, and the Dow dropping to 8, 000 to 10,000. And Disaster Don could be the trigger. Wonder how his supporters will feel about him at that point?

One would certainly think that that's the case, but these current policies are not a reflection of that on any level. Never forget, one of the reasons why America became the world's leading economy was due to low tariffs which sparked a very dynamic economy. Trump appears to be putting out that fire with a vengeance.

That area between the river and the end of Samut Sakhon is probably one of the most dangerous stretches of highway in Asia. The extent of the failure of this highway project is an abomimation. Heads should be rolling, people should be jailed, and officials should be exiled.

All nations must consider ways to insulate themselves from the insane trade policies of the US, only two times in the past has the US engaged in the kind of trade policies they are now engaged in. Both times in 1828 and1930 it resulted in a pretty severe depression. Trump has no idea what he's doing, he's totally out of his league, he's being poorly advised, and the world is paying the price for his arrogance. So will the US. The baht very well could climb higher against the dollar, as I expect the dollar to start weakening.

Trump knows nothing about the economy, nor globalization. There are many homeless people that are considerably more knowledgeable than he is. Even a Ford Ranger is made of parts from 24 different countries. Trump has absolutely zero understanding of a global ecosystem. Zero. He is a simplistic imbecile, and will have to back off, or republicans will withdraw their support, once inflation spikes at unprecedented levels. Get ready for an economic tsunami and a major recession, caused by the goombah. https://youtu.be/jLpUEACVBlE?si=xH-M84ICmSMOeFXk

Show me some evidence that he's actually saving money and not simply cutting jobs for people who were supervising the treatment of Alzheimer patients, and providing medicine for the poorest kids in the world, resulting in their deaths. Show me some evidence of cuts in divisions that deserve to be cut. I don't care about jingos I don't care about slogans. I want some hard evidence provide me some links please.

Musk says that his website is very transparent. Have you been able to find out exactly where this money's been saved? So far all I'm hearing is yak yak and absolutely no transparency, am I wrong? And cutting 100% of the federal employees that dealt with Alzheimer related issues I don't think was particularly smart, do you?

Well I think that the death penalty is an absolutely wonderful thing in certain instances, when a truly heinous crime has been committed and there is absolutely positive evidence, or witness testimony. Why not put them to death? It's good for society and it avoids clogging up the jail system and saves nations the huge expense of incarcerating them. As I've said before there are certain acts that you commit in this life that are essentially a self-revocation of the right to consume oxygen. So see you, byebye, you're no longer of use to us.

Good. Excellent. Musk is a total social misfit, and is not wearing his wealth, nor his power lightly. Musk appears to have extremist tendencies. I am hoping he goes on one of his Mars missions, but we all know he does not have nearly enough courage for something like that. I have respect for his achievements, but zero respect for the small man. He's a completely ridiculous man, the more wealthy he's become the more obnoxious he's become, the more arrogant he's become, the more self-righteous and the more insufferable. Trump made a tremendous mistake by giving him more power than he already had, and time will reveal what a tragic decision that was. Boycott Tesla, don't buy anything that he is associated with, knock him off his pedestal, bring him back down to earth, try to knock some sense into his absolutely foolish head, and take some pride in doing the right thing and helping America.

There are a few things about this that I don't understand. I kind of have a sense of the level of desperation that one must feel to try to take one's own life, but if you're going to fail at anything don't fail it suicide, for God's sake! Do it right, jump off a major building, there's just so many different ways that you can easily kill yourself and die for sure. What was this idiot thinking? The worst possible result in an effort to try to kill yourself would be to continue living with horrific lifelong injuries.

The conservatives and the Trump sympathizers on this page will go on and on about how Thailand needs to level the playing field, and Thailand needs to reduce their tariffs. I agree that would be smart on their part. Intelligent people who understand the economy know is that low tariffs lead to a very dynamic economy and one of the reasons why the US has been the strongest economy in the world for quite some time is that they've had very low import tariffs, which have resulted in a massive economy. Trump doesn't understand any of that, he doesn't understand anything about globalization nor the ecosystems involved with globalization, he doesn't get the fact that a Ford Ranger has major parts that are manufactured in 24 different countries, and all of that's just way over his head. He is a simplistic man, and will have to back off, or republicans will withdraw their support, once inflation spikes at unprecedented levels. Get ready for an economic tsunami and a major recession, caused by the goombah. https://youtu.be/jLpUEACVBlE?si=xH-M84ICmSMOeFXk

Rungnapha Kanbut needs to be put to death within the next 30 days. The justice system should be designed so that in cases this heinous, if there is sufficient proof the death penalty should be applied quickly, and without the possibility of appeal. A certain level of decency is required of us as human beings within a functional society, and there are certain acts when committed, are essentially a self-revocation of the right to consume oxygen.

Most people don't seem to understand just how delicate the skull is, if it cracks open it can lead to all sorts of problems. Even if your skull doesn't crack open from an accident just hitting your head in the wrong place can result in either instant death or lifelong incapacities of multiple sorts. So prior to getting on your bike without a good, solid helmet, just ask yourself one thing. Is my life complicated enough without a brain injury? Riding a motorcycle without a very good helmet is the height of insanity, in my opinion. Especially in Thailand and even more so on the Southern Islands, which likely have the highest fatality rate in the world for motorcycle accidents.

I am generally a fairly patient and tolerant person, but there does come a point where somebody 's behavior is so far over the line action needs to be taken. I would have asked my son if it was okay if I kicked out the woman and her son, and assuming my son was okay with that I would have asked her to politely leave and take her son with her. She had revoked her right to be in the room . Leave now, your level of obnoxiousness is beyond tolerable, goodbye. Glad you only paid for the cake that was the right thing to do, sometimes shame and shock is the only thing numskulls respond to.

As posted elsewhere: Many of us drive motorcycles or scooters here, and it is dangerous getting on the roads with some of these other drivers. Getting on a scooter, or a motorcycle anywhere in Thailand, much less Phuket, Phangan, Dark Tao, or Samui without a very good helmet, or alot of riding experience, is like playing Russian Roulette with three or four bullets in the chamber. It is absolutely asking for problems. The degree of recklessness here is astounding. And many foreigners come here thinking "how much trouble could I get in on a little scooter, on a tropical island"? Well, the answer is alot. The amount of foreigners who are killed on the Southern islands is staggering. Most are not reported in the media. I had a friend who worked for Samui rescue for many years, and said the numbers were about 30-60 a month, on Samui, Phangan Phuket and Dark Tao. The official number is about 3 a month. Rider beware. Use as good a helmet as you can afford, and do not use these eggshells pieces of crap. They crack at the first impact, and what lies underneath them? Your skull, which is very delicate. I have been riding bikes for 49 years. Without any serious accidents. A few minor ones over the years. Riding a bike here is very dangerous. If not the highest, one of the highest fatality rates in the world. And an accident here can be very costly, to your person. Just ask yourself- do I have enough problems already, without a broken skull, or smashed head, or face injury, or lost eye? I have three friends who have been in motorbike accidents on Samui. One still cannot walk, or talk or function on her own, from a motorbike accident, where she hit her head on the pavement going only 20 kph. The other one has lost alot of his mental capacity after hitting his head. He insisted for years he would never wear a helmet. Now, he seems 15 years older. The third one is a close friend, who was hit by a sidecar, and nearly lost his leg. 11 operations later and after spending many millions of baht, he can walk, but with a limp, and the leg has caused him constant problems, many years later.

While I agree that conceptually the idea is good and makes sense, the implementation is an entirely different story. Many of these companies as you stated simply cannot afford to manufacture in the US. So many aspects of Trump's policies are just an abstract dream, and a talking point, turned into a nightmare reality, and so far detached from real life, and so ignorant of international manufacturing ecosystems, that it truly boggles the rational mind. Many of us thought that Trump was ignorant and quite dim, these policies will bear that out in a disastrous manner. The world is about to isolate America like never before, and show them that they are becoming less relevant by the day. Which is probably a good thing in the long run.