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23 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:Reading this off topic rant, I realize the left will again not accept the election results when Trump wins. Refusing to accept the results twice in a row, and considering how close a full on civil war is thanks to how divisive the hysterical reaction to his victory was, I suggest Facebook ignore Trump's well meant posts. Instead it is vital to crack down with an iron fist on people trying to end democracy because they are so overcome with hatred for Trump.
And who is the hysterical party in this rant? True, I do despise Trump. Well meaning posts on FB? Do you honestly think he cares about the masses? The children he refers to in the post, and reasonable sacrificial lambs, in his quest for re-election. Except the parents are not willing to make those sacrifices.
The real question for people of your pursuasion is, will your Master be willing to accept defeat, in November? Because it is coming just as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow morning.
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Dream on. He has lost 20% of his super loyal base in the last few months. His "recent performances" have been horrendously bad, and he looks feeble, stressed, and in decline. His physical and mental health appears poor. This latest Axios interview was an utter disaster.
He is completely out of touch, and is a dinosaur. The world has changed and evolved, and that is something he is incapable of. He is cascading toward the most humiliating defeat of his lifetime, and he will likely take a portion of the GOP with him. And that is deserved. He, McConnell, Graham and others are overdue for retirement. The American people will speak in November. Gone, baby gone. The planet will rejoice.
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His shtick is no longer working. The BS, and insincerity is now costing him dearly. Trump will say or do anything for a vote. But, over 66% of the public does not trust want he says, for good reason. He is a pathological liar.
He has lost 20% of his super loyal base in the last few months. His "recent performances" have been horrendously bad, and he looks feeble, stressed, and in decline. His physical and mental health appears poor. This latest Axios interview was an utter disaster.
He is completely out of touch, and is a dinosaur. The world has changed and evolved, and that is something he is incapable of. He is cascading toward the most humiliating defeat of his lifetime, and he will likely take a portion of the GOP with him. And that is deserved. He, McConnell, Graham and others are overdue for retirement. The American people will speak in November. Gone, baby gone. The planet will rejoice.
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There are millions without work right now. It is more apparent in some places than others. I know of many buninesses that have failed in Samui, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Bangkok. I hear Phuket is in real trouble.
In the provinces, it is likely a mixed bag. Some families are likely doing just fine. Other are hurting. There are enough middle class, with jobs, to keep some of the restaurants full. The malls are busy. But, are people buying?
I know car and home (and condo) sales are way down. The lower end of the rental market is down too, and I am hearing the higher end of the rental market is decimated.
The longer this shutdown of international tourism goes on, the more pain will be felt, as this administration has been doing next to nothing, to help the little guy. And one wonders how much the brilliant minds in charge, are able to help the big hotel owners, in any meaningful way. Hundreds, if not thousands of major resorts, small hotels and guest houses remain closed.
Also, exports and some manufacturing are down too. In addition you have the ongoing drought (hopefully the current storms are helping with that, though the winters are more of an issue) and the effect that is having on several crops, and the ongoing rice crisis (highest prices within Asean). So, Thailand has some serious long term issues it needs to deal with, and the cumulative effects of this crisis will be felt over time.
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A small, loose, cheap safe with that amount of cash and valuables in it, is inane and reckless behavior. Why not spend 10,000 or more on a good safe, that is bolted to the floor, like many of us do? Safes are inexpensive here.
We have the same maid we have been using for years. As far as I know, she is entirely trustworthy. But, we still keep valuables locked up in a good safe, when she is around, and do the same with all workers who come into our home. Seems like a basic common sense precaution. Why create a temptation like that? Two million baht is a fortune for someone making a few hundred baht a day.
Complacency is a disease. Some simply have no perspective of their station in life, relative to the masses.
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True. But there is enormous risk in keeping millions of Thais out of work. Great risk to the army. Change is coming. Rid the country of the toxic army. Let Thailand move forward.
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What do your recommend we do?
Admit you are despised by the masses.
Admit how toxic your army is.
How about resigning within the next 24 hours? And withdrawing the extremely incompetent army from government?
And giving the nation an assurance that there will never be another coup.
And reforming the fixed senate.
Allow the nation to move forward. That is all we want. Give Thailand a fair chance.
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21 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
The bizarre part is, right now today, foreign tourists CAN enter the U.S. from many countries with nothing more than a recommended 14 day stay-at-home period... with no enforcement of that whatsoever AFAIK.
The only travel ban countries are those that the U.S. adopted very early in the pandemic, and AFAIK, that list hasn't changed for a long time, even after the CV exploded in South and Central America and elsewhere. And the excluded countries ban below only applies to their foreign nationals, and excludes U.S. citizens and permanent resident status folks returning from those countries.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/map-and-travel-notices.html
Perhaps the U.S. is figuring, we're so BAD already, that pretty much nowhere else is going to have anything worse than what we already have among our own citizens... But still, you'd think they wouldn't want to be voluntarily importing added new CV cases under any circumstance. No ASQ in the U.S.
Utter and gross mismanagement at the federal level. The US is on a sort of moronic cruise control, with regard to Covid. That will change in January, once an intelligent leader steps in.
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If they were serious, they would have been dispatched by helicopter, within two hours of this tragedy. The fact that a day or two later they are springing into action, inspires considerably less than awe. For marginal swimmers to survive in stormy seas for more that a couple of hours, is likely too much to hope for.
Raja operates very old rust buckets. Best to stick with Seatran.
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On 8/2/2020 at 9:18 PM, rabas said:
Thank you China, more COVID-19. A recent study analysed the pandemic and concluded that air travel was a major cause of the virus spreading world wide.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-reveals-cases-covid-china-based.html
Amazing, since China/WHO also suggested is was not very contagious until they had to, as China was buying the world's supply of masks. The daily infection rate is about to hit 300,000 confirmed cases per day.
No question about that. And so was the administrations willingness to let both Chinese green card holders, and Americans continue to travel back and forth, after the restrictions were put into place, without any screening whatsoever. That was brainless, moronic, dangerous, reckless, bad policy, and resulted in who knows how many thousands of deaths. Therefore, the American version, and what we are seeing now, could realistically be referred to as the Covid Trump version.
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What the autopsy did not even attempt to answer, is if it was a deliberately planned accident, or not. Accidents come in all shapes and forms. Some are caused, some are due to recklessness, and some are just accidents. As usual, these incompetents have told us nothing.
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3 hours ago, hotandsticky said:
Millions out of work ?
Nonsense.................. evidence to back up your statement ?
Exclude the black economy please. Life is largely back to normal in the Boonies most people (apart from bar workers and some dependent on international tourism), the Thais have been out spending money on domestic tourism and shops are as busy as before Coronavirus.
International tourism made up around 15% of the total economy, if all related Industries are accounted for. Or around 6 million jobs. Most of those souls are unemployed.
You are dreaming if you think most Thais are "back to normal". Unfortunately, outside of your bubble there is a world of hurt.
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The army's current bunker mentality is not helping. Something must be done to resuscitate the economy and bring millions back into the work force. A cautious approach. But some approach. Something. Anything.
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Chinese or otherwise Thailand must open itself up to at least limited International tourism which can be very done very safely with the Chula test kits administered at the airport or another form of instant or quick testing, Sure there is some risk, but it's a much bigger risk to allow millions of Thai people to remain unemployed for the long-term especially for the Army, which is teetering on the brink of maintaining power considering how despised they are by the masses. Not that I care, I'd love to see them go, but I'm more concerned about the Thai people. Doing nothing is tragic and dumb.
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4 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:
Thailand began testing all people who entered from China from the middle of January
And even once the US imposed its ban on travel from China is early February, it continued to allow Americans and Chinese with green cards to freely travel back and forth, with no testing! Who knows how many deaths can be attributed to that one brain dead policy alone.
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22 hours ago, Sumarianson said:It just means that Thailand have not been lying their hats off like other countries. In fact there has not been a single patient that died in Thailand whose death can be solely attributed to the Coronavirus Covid 19! They all had underlying problems. In other countries, every patient that appeared in the hospital or even died at home of known causes was logged as having COVID 19, whether tested or not. Oc course this attributed to the exaggerated figures. While I admire the Thai authorities for collating truthful information I do believe that the danger was and still is overstated. I do not believe we should be wearing masks and creating fear in the population
(which is the main theme here)! I further believe that the lockdown with the restrictions it imposed has done unnecessary long lasting damage to the Thai economy, its businesses and people a majority of which will never recover.
There is a fine line between what is necessary to control such a virus and creating unwarranted fear and damage to an economy. I honestly believe (with a great deal of research I might add) that the world overreacted, politicians, doctors and officials of hospitals and government were complicit in exaggerating the danger, the figures, the lockdown they said was required and much more. To add to that they have now introduced draconian unrealistic measures on travel which will destroy tourism. The previous measures that were in place in airports, lining up, invasive searches, bottles of liquid no more than 100ml, no water? These measures had already convinced me not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Your holiday from your stressful year at work became even more stressful, so much so, that you were glad to be back home. I just don't go and stay home now or travel locally by car. These newest measures will not encourage travellers. Thai people may say now that they don't want foreigners, but when their pockets are squeesed and the prices of items go up they may have a change of heart. I fear it will be all too late then as foreigners just like most, don't want to go where they are told they are not wanted ( thanks to leaders like Anutin the mouth with his racist dirty Farang rant) unless of course you are a millionaire for whom there is always a false smile and a Sawatdee Ka.
Good points. And the part about Thai people not wanting foreigners is total BS. A fake army survey, no doubt. They want us, and need us.
The economy here is on its knees. Millions are out of work. The restrictions on travel are based on extreme paranoia.
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16 hours ago, Surelynot said:
Read it was to do with being (something like) 120th in the world for the number of tests being carried out.
And that is irrelevant. They beat it. If it was still here, people would be dropping like flies, like in the heart of Zombieland, #1. The US.
It is gone. Let it go. Hanging on to a threat of a disaster is not healthy. There will be no Zombie apocalypse in Thailand.
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Now, that he is met with utter humiliation, international scorn, and much opposition from the people of Thailand, he decides that law and order are important. For six years now, Prayuth could not possibly have been more indifferent to law and order, the stunning incompetence and corruption plaguing the nation's cops, and the inequity within the system.
It seems, the only way for any progress to take place, with this toxic army, is through shame and the public unmasking of their objective to protect the rich and those that are connected, and in power, at all costs.
Now he acts. Will anything come of this besides some lower ranked guys getting transferred at full pay? Nobody in power ever gets prosecuted under his watch.
NMWYDIWPY. No matter what you do, I will protect you. The army code of dishonor.
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Those are still abusive and ridiculous rates. Considering what the banks are paying for the money they are using.
This should be considered a felony. Lock up the bankers!
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6 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:Could you explain a few of the ways in which tourists could safely be allowed into Thailand ?
Bearing in mind we would be talking about 50-100 000 tourists per day , who would be coming to Thailand for 2,3, 4 weeks at a time
Yes. All the authorities have to do is to use a quick testing kit, like the Chula Covid 19 strip test, or a rapid antigen testing kit. Tourists get tested at the airport, at their expense. They could create more stringent testing or regulations for those coming from Zombie nations, such as the US and Brazil.
Doing nothing at this point means financial devastation for millions. And what is the hapless army doing to offset that financial ruin?
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I guess someone goofed up. Yes, this has nothing to do with Triumph motorbikes, which has three factories here.
According to what I have read Triumph International started moving out of Thailand back in 2009. At that time they employed over 4,000 people here.
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8 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:trump’s response to Fauci’s well thought through and balanced testimony
Trump simply cannot handle dissension or someone contradicting his story line. He is not man enough. His pathological lack of self esteem, masked by extreme grandiosity, means skin thinner than a pimple faced 9 year old. He cannot let stuff go. And every time he does that, he diminishes himself, makes a fool of himself and demonstrates to the planet how ill equipped he is for the job of president.
Not to worry. Only three months to go, till he gets beaten senseless, and exits DC with the most radioactive name on the planet.
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Many accurate sentiments on this thread. Times are tough now. Alot of hardship. Many thefts are acts of desperation. The Thai people are generally not predisposed to this kind of thing. Not like in the PI or Cambodia. But, why not exercise some discretion? Why create the temptation?
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I do not know about Phuket, but I am getting great deals in many other locations right now. Stunningly low prices at great hotels. Perhaps it is time to shun Phuket, if this is what you are finding.
Senior met police chief, station chief transferred in wake of casino shootout
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Prayuth again makes an utter fool of himself. Every time he declares nobody will be spared, if found guilty, the nation laughs in unison. And cries at the same time. At the utter indifference.
The chances of an active, high ranking policeman here being charged with a crime, prosecuted and jailed, are about the same as Thailand reopening to international tourism tomorrow.
What he does not seem to understand, is that we are on to his game. He is there, to do everything in his power to do the opposite, of what he is preaching. He is there to protect every corrupt policeman, customs officer and immigration officer in the land, in addition to every bad apple in his administration and the army. You can try to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. But, after six years of the same old game, nobody is buying the nonsense. Sheer protectionism. Sheer hubris. Moving Thailand backwards, on a daily basis.