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I predict the American knucklehead will cave in, he's a terrible negotiator, we've all seen that, and Xi by far has the winning hand in this game. From the NY Times editorial page. It really captures the stupidity of Trump and his goons. Think of what Trump; his chief knucklehead, Howard Lutnick (the commerce secretary); his assistant chief knucklehead, Scott Bessent (the Treasury secretary); and his deputy assistant chief knucklehead, Peter Navarro (the top trade adviser), have told us repeatedly for the past weeks: Trump won’t back off on these tariffs because — take your choice — he needs them to keep fentanyl from killing our kids, he needs them to raise revenue to pay for future tax cuts, and he needs them to pressure the world to buy more stuff from us. And he couldn’t care less what his rich pals on Wall Street say about their stock market losses. After creating havoc in the markets standing on these steadfast “principles” — undoubtedly prompting many Americans to sell low out of fear — Trump reversed much of it on Wednesday, announcing a 90-day pause on certain tariffs to most countries, excluding China. Message to the world — and to the Chinese: “I couldn’t take the heat.” If it were a book it would be called “The Art of the Squeal.” But when you have a country as big as China — 1.4 billion people — with the talent, infrastructure and savings it has, the only way to negotiate is with leverage on our side of the table. And the best way to get leverage would have been for Trump to enlist our allies in the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia and Indonesia into a united front. Make it a negotiation of the whole world versus China. But instead of making it the whole industrial world against China, Trump made it America against the whole industrial world and China. Now, Beijing knows that Trump not only blinked, but he so alienated our allies, so demonstrated that his word cannot be trusted for a second, that many of them may never align with us against China in the same way. They may, instead, see China as a better, more stable long-term partner than us. What a pathetic, shameful performance. Happy Liberation Day. Clearly the best president ever, folks. No U.S. leader has ever lost so much for no reason while regaining some of it and accomplishing nothing with such efficiency. The Art of the deal!

There's no need to do research to try to figure out what a woman is, we all know what a woman is. Just scan it ask any woman who has her head on straight, she's a biological female who has the capacity to reproduce, and hopefully she has some feminine energy. More like a Thai woman.

Yes we all know that criticism of Trump and his policies and criticism of Israel do not reflect American values. Be obedient.

I think it would be quite foolhardy for any of us to think that Thai officials are reading our comments, taking them to heart, and applying them to policy. We are just simply brainstorming here, venting and expressing our opinions, nothing more. So, why let that bother you? A bit irritated today?

Though this might be a reasonable requirement for normal tourists, it is inconvenient and it should not be required for those with long-term visas, at all.

I think there's no question that he has fascist tendencies, and that he wants to be a dictator, who's completely untethered to any sort of restrictions, laws, rules, or limitations. Allow him that power and the tears will flow, and the bitterness will grow.

If you'll notice from my previous post I absolutely despise Xi, however I also despise Trump. The imbecile has to understand that US companies have spent fortunes in infrastructure in China and there should be a measured approach, not a spastic retard type approach.

China's been very smart about this and they've been weaning their dependence on the US down over the years. Total Chinese exports to the US are down to just 14.7% and they're growing exports significantly with Southeast Asia and other nations. The exact opposite is true of the US there are tens of thousands of American companies that manufacture in China and they've spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to do so it will take them years to shift that infrastructure. In addition the Chinese hold a lot of US bonds which they could use to cripple the US economy, if Trump continues being as obnoxious and arrogant as he's been. If he keeps it up massive punishment is coming his way and it's going to be very bitter.

This is totally fake news and they are ignoring the biggest issue. In all the years I have been here, I have never seen anyone pulled over for speeding or recklessness. Get the useless highway patrol to actually patrol the highway. In other countries there's something very bizarre known as a deterrent, and when people know that they're going to get in trouble for behaving improperly they tend to be more likely to behave themselves. Here when you have a group that calls itself law enforcement and utterly refuses to uphold traffic laws, you have a population that knows it can get away with absolutely anything on the road, and it results in an awful lot of mayhem, deaths and bad behavior. There is a very simple solution to this, get the police to actually do their jobs.

The US, of course. Xi outclasses Trump by 60 IQ points. And he knows how to negotiate, something Trump is terrible at. China is in a far stronger position. The US has tens of thousands of companies that have spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to manufacture in China. They simply cannot afford to levy these tariffs long term, it would cripple the US economy. Trump is a dunce.

My guess is that he got so much pressure from Wall Street, billionaires and other people who are losing a fortune that he was forced to put a pause on all this. The upside is that hopefully it will give the lowly US a chance to negotiate deals with many nations and avoid this extreme level of economic sabotage that Trump's been engaged in.

Pure silliness. I remember once I referred to someone as being gay. They were very offended. I am not gay. I am non-binary. OK. How would I know that, and how can you be offended, due to me not knowing that? How is that my issue, on any level? I told him, her, who knows, to grow some thicker skin. I am a very open minded person. I have alot of gay friends, and they are all comfortable being called gay. Given that the number of genders differs across times, places, and cultures, it is clear that the gender categories are the result of the whimsy and will of the gender pluralists, who mean to foist their innovations on the majority at the latter’s expense. The transgender movement later turned gender into a matter of individual whimsy, treating gender choice like an ice-cream flavor preference. The female-male sex binary has since been buffeted by a tidal wave of proliferating gender identities and pronouns. As new gender identities debuted, the ratio of genders to sexes continued to rise. The judgment of the progressive herd, meanwhile, is always right, because the herd’s values are obvious, transparent, “natural,” and clearly “on the right side of history”—or as French structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser wrote, they are ideological.

Though I do expect the baht to dip, trade tensions are just a small part of the equation. The economy here is in tatters, and it is still suffering from 10 years of the Prayuth Decimation. The debt is higher than it's ever been, the banks are being very stingy with loans at this point because the default rates are so high, the new car market has stalled, property sales are very slow, and exports are dropping, so the problems are numerous. As if those problems weren't enough, though the tourist arrival numbers are high, the quality of tourists continues to drop, and the amount that the average tourist is spending continues to drop, so the total revenue being brought in from tourism is significantly less than it was pre-covid. I could go on. A message to the young PM. You might as well stop with the lies because nobody believes you anymore.

OK, attempted murder, at least?

As stated elsewhere, I am absolutely thrilled to see that Trump has put a pause on the tariffs, it might be an indication that he was not hellbent on worldwide destruction of the economy, and that he is actually sensible enough to be interested in negotiations. He would have been far wiser to have given the world notice and giving them a 90 or 180 day window to negotiate deals rather than act like a total spastic and levy these tariffs without warning. He still needs to work something out with China, without a China deal all bets are off for America

I am absolutely thrilled to see that Trump has put a pause on the tariffs, it might be an indication that he was not hellbent on worldwide destruction of the economy, and that he is actually sensible enough to be interested in negotiations. He would have been far wiser to have given the world notice and giving them a 90 or 180 day window to negotiate deals rather than act like a total spastic and levy these tariffs without warning. He still needs to work something out with China, without a China deal all bets are off for America.

Phuket and Pattaya are now the Dreg capitals. They seem to attract some real lowlife freaks. Yikes. Thrilled to not be living in either location.

Most everybody in Washington and on Wall Street, thinks the tariffs are ridiculous, except for the sycophantic republicans in Congress and the Senate. Trump is now in a death spiral and the recent retaliation of China and their 104% tariffs on the $143 billion in US exports to China, plus the trillions of dollars in goods made in China by US companies, will simply precipitate his downfall and that of MAGA along with him. Just watch and see, this didn't have to happen but he imposed this upon himself and the world, and he's going to pay a tremendous price for his arrogance, his stupidity, and his astonishing level of ignorance about world trade. Bye, bye Don.

Most everybody in Washington and on Wall Street, thinks the tariffs are ridiculous, except for the sycophantic republicans in Congress and the Senate. Trump is now in a death spiral and the recent retaliation of China and their 104% tariffs on the $143 billion in US exports to China, plus the trillions of dollars in goods made in China by US companies, will simply precipitate his downfall and that of MAGA along with him. Just watch and see, this didn't have to happen but he imposed this upon himself and the world, and he's going to pay a tremendous price for his arrogance, his stupidity, and his astonishing level of ignorance about world trade. Bye, bye Don.

That must be some very good kool-aid. Delusion can be a powerful force. Trump is a master of delusion.

What the simpleton Disaster Don does not seem to understand is that the lack of tariffs are what made America great, it's the reason why America became the world's largest economy. Tariffs do not work, and they slow down an economy they don't build It up. Just look at Thailand as an example of that. Trump is very dumb.

What he really means when he says these countries are robbing us, is that the US has a deficit with these nations, meaning that these nations are far more competitive and can manufacture things for less than we can in the US. The glory days of industrialization are over in the US, they will never return, and simpleton dinosaurs like Disaster Don just do not get that. Someone suggested that people could be replaced with robots, but robots are very costly and it takes years to ramp up factories like that. And then of course you have that very minor unemployment issue.

Yeah that's the thing that differentiates Fanytel apart from so many of these other systems, it's an independent standalone number just like Skype, and you can call any number anywhere in the world and you pay per minute, and the rates are fairly low, same applies to incoming calls and outgoing and incoming text messages.

A very very typical response of an uninformed, low information Trump supporter.

It works for me with a lot of various companies, some have a system that seem to detect that it's not a real cell phone number, so it doesn't work 100% of the time, but I have found it to be quite effective and it works great for calling and sending SMS messages back and forth.