spidermike007

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.

Trump is a moron. 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.” So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, 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. 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.” And trust is the essential ingredient that makes these ecosystems work and grow, Beinhocker adds. Trust acts as both glue and grease. It glues together bonds of cooperation, while at the same time it greases the flows of people, products, capital and ideas from one country to the next. Remove trust and the ecosystems start to collapse. Trust, though, is built by good rules and healthy relationships, and Trump is trampling on both. The result: If he goes down this road, Trump will make America and the world poorer. Mr. President, do your homework.

So last October, when Scott Bessent, soon to become Treasury secretary, said that Trump was really a free trader who used tariffs as a negotiating tactic, Wall Street was eager to believe him. “It’s escalate to de-escalate,” Bessent told The Financial Times. This claim was obviously absurd. Trump has been obsessed with tariffs, which he called “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” for decades. In his 2018 book “Fear,” Bob Woodward reported that Trump scrawled “TRADE IS BAD” in the margin of a speech he gave after the G20 summit. It makes sense that Trump would see things this way. When he makes sales, whether of Trump University courses or Trump-branded cryptocurrency, he is usually taking advantage of the buyer, and he views global trade through the same zero-sum lens. It’s widely known that during his first term, the so-called adults in the room thwarted some of Trump’s most destructive whims. There have been far fewer such figures in the Trump sequel, resulting in the wholesale degradation of American governance. The conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer just directed a purge of the National Security Council. Thanks to Elon Musk’s haphazard cuts, employees who once worked to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola are gone, as are nuclear safety experts. There’s no one in the executive branch willing to publicly push back on Trump’s threats to take over Canada. Somehow, traders failed to recognize that there would eventually be economic fallout from such profound misrule. “The markets should have put two and two together that if you’re talking about annexing Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, you’re probably going to be more radical on trade as well,” said Berezin. But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos. Usually, if stocks go down, so do yields on U.S. Treasuries, because they become more desirable to people looking for a safe place to park money. At least right now, that’s not happening, which he thinks could signal a crisis of confidence in the stability of the U.S. government and the debt it issues. “If we’re moving to this new world where the U.S. just can’t be trusted, then do we really want to hold a lot of Treasuries?” he said as he sketched out investors’ thinking. “Do we really want to use the dollar as a reserve?” It turns out that there’s a price for taking all the soft power America has accrued since World War II and setting it on fire. Who knew.

Let's face the reality here, Trump is threatening the well-being of the entire planet, with his ridiculously dumb policies, causing untold amounts of fear and concern, and it's all for nothing. America's never going to become the industrial might that it used to be, Trump and his goons dare busy dreaming about returning manufacturing to America, it's just never going to happen. It's just too expensive to manufacture in America these days and there are a dozen good reasons why those companies left in the first place. Trump is not bringing them back, this is pie in the sky nonsense and with it is coming a tremendous amount of fear and destruction. The man needs to be stopped. He needs to be put on medication.

Everything sparks debate these days, everything seems to offend the snowflakes, everything seems to cause "netizen outrage". Who cares, it means nothing, it is less than zero. Outrage is simply a manifestation of weak victim culture.

If you don't have a routine here it's because you either don't want a routine, or you're not disciplined enough to have a routine. Mistake number one, getting up and going to a bar at 9:00 a.m. You revealed everything about yourself that we all need to know. Australia sounds like a good fit for ya.

So I assume you must have researched this and come to this conclusion? I was going to look into switching over to teams but if it's business only then it's nearly useless. That would be very typical of Microsoft. I loved Skype. I had a dedicated number for incoming and outgoing calls and I was able to call the US unlimited for $60 a year which was great. The only thing that's always been missing from Skype was voicemail.

That is simply not a helpful reply for the question the OP had. It is very difficult to get through to Wells Fargo customer service using Whatsapp. I use Fanytel. Their prices are reasonable for incoming and outgoing calls internationally, and they also have incoming and outgoing SMS which can be very convenient. Plus you're able to get a dedicated phone number.

Unfortunately there are some on this forum who are either incapable of an articulate reply, or just think themselves very clever.

I am above the law, I've always been above the law, I've been committing crimes and fraud for 50 years and nobody's ever caught up with me. I can do anything I want as I've stated in the past I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and nobody would do anything. So I think I'm just going to start disappearing my enemies like my buddy Vlad does. Why not? They don't like me, they dare to criticize the king, and they disappear. So simple, I'm just going to use the recipe that my old friends in the New York mafia used to. Since I have absolutely nothing in the way of Integrity nor a moral compass, I just can't think of any reasons why not to do this. Fun, fun.

Stalin, And Putin we're really good guys, they never had any bad intentions, they just wanted to help the world in whatever way they could, and contribute whatever they could to mankind, and make the world a better place. That's why Russia has such an enormous budget for foreign aid. Dream on.

How on earth is this not considered murder? I react very badly when there are ropes in front of my windows and sometimes I even try to kill the person at the end of the rope. It is especially convenient knowing that I won't be charged with murder.

Many crimes are of an opportunistic nature. I seriously doubt that this guy hotwired the bike, so it is very likely that the keys were left in the bike. You wonder what these foreigners are thinking committing an act like this, it seems like such a ridiculous level of desperation or was the guy high? I was he just looking for a thrill, hopefully he'll get a nice thrill in the slammer when some of the locals warmly welcome him.

There are a multitude of reasons why very few around the world have sympathy for the Russians. Those reasons are not limited to their serial killing, despot, thieving multi billionaire dictator for life. It is more about their nature, their history as ruthless, homicidal Cossack warriors, and their total lack of manners, and class. Not to mention the dignity, class, decency, civility, and social skills decades of Leninism, Stalinism, and now Putinism has stripped them of. And of course, the utter failure of their leader. This is a clear case of psychological projection: Putin dreamt and failed to create a dollar-free world and establish Russia as an “energy superpower.” He allowed corruption to metastasize through the state’s fabric, undermining its security capabilities. With its mass emigration, skyrocketing divorce rate, and low fertility, Russia, more than the West, demonstrates an immense collapse of family and social values. Russia has nothing but malicious intentions. They are a terrorist state, run by a serial killing desperado. This is a nation so lacking in redeeming qualities. They contributed alot culturally, in past centuries. Now? What are they bringing to the table? How are they of any benefit to mankind? They offer nothing but misery, death, destruction and bad will.

People don't understand how dangerous and incredibly toxic excessive alcohol consumption is. He could have had done sort of liver ailment. It could have been spiked. Or he could have mixed many different alcohols and simply went way past his limit.