spidermike007

Very few American products are made in the US. Trump and most of his gullible supporters don't seem to understand why. They all seem to possess very little knowledge or understanding about the issue, nor have many educated themselves on the extraordinary beauty of global economic ecosystems. Even if an effort is made it would take a decade or longer to change. You can't bring back manufacturing to a nation that is not competitive. Period. It won't work and it won't happen. Nothing but hapless slogans, wishful thinking and massive economic destruction. Just like the 17 major businesses Trump destroyed, he is very busy wrecking the US economy and the world in the process.

The US was already on the decline. Trump is simply making the US less relevant and diminishing it's standing throughout the world. His tariffs will either be eliminated, or the US economy will go into a very deep dive. The utter simplicity of his mind is scary. One thing is clear. He is NOT the man most Americans think they voted for, and his intentions are most foul.

1. Imposing massive tariffs on nations worldwide, and ignoring the fact that the US became the world's largest economy specifically because of very low tariffs. Duh! 2. Insulting and alienating close allies and friends. 3. Demonizing opposing political parties. 4. Taking advice from unhinged extremists, who know nothing about anything, because you think they are cute. 5. Siding with dictators who are genocidal and untrustworthy, and making them the exception to the tariffs. 6. Spending as much time as possible on the golf courses. 7. Threatening sovereign nations with a takeover. 8. Appointing neopytes with no experience and no management skills to head massive departments. 9. Pretending it is all a big success.

The greatest hedge against Trump could be major pushback from all nations of the world, making America incredibly irrelevant. The nation richly deserves that, the arrogance under this administration is stunning, and so is the ignorance. The second possibility is just getting rid of Trump, whatever it takes. Impeachment comes to mind.

Mr Prasong, a 40-year-old man from Chanthaburi province is obviously an unhinged and violent super freak. So glad to see that they're outing perpetrators now by name. Shame and embarrassment can be great motivators here in Thailand. Might I suggest 10 or 15 years in a labor camp or some sort of penal colony where he's forced to manufacture license plates or be of some benefit to society?

I guess sometimes the truth really hurts. I think a lot Trump supporters are having a hard time coming to terms with the massive failures of the second administration. Most of us knows that Vance was a horrific pick, the man simply cannot string together a coherent sentence without looking like a dogmatic and blazing fool, and an absolute ignoramus. He is the very definition of an empty suit, and Trump's failures will continue to the point where his supporters will begin to wonder was he truly the man that we thought he was? I guess not.

The baht is not that weak, it's dropped a little bit and a few percentage points is not going to make a difference as far as tourism is concerned. First of all we're getting into the low season, and second this administration like the horrific Prayuth administration has done absolutely nothing to address the issues that plague the nation and plagued tourism. They are truly a do-nothing administration. Air quality, traffic safety, addressing the scams, addressing public safety issues, improving public transport options, these are all infinitely more important than the after effects of the earthquake, which were marginal in Thailand. Excuses and deflection are the popular tools of the weaklings, and the incompetents.

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.