spidermike007

This guy is as clueless and out of touch as ever, and he obviously wasn't paying attention to the fact that his ridiculous and useless party lost the last election and is only in power due to a stolen election that was done in a non-democratic fashion, no doubt with the support of the spectacularly toxic Thai Army. And let us not even address the PM. Jeez. Could they have possibly selected from lower down into the bottom of the barrel? Long live Pita. May the youth eventually prevail, and overrun the corrupt, inept, dinosaur numskulls.

While I think tariffs on highly subsidized commodities like steel and aluminum are likely a good idea, I question how wise it is to impose such horrendously high tariffs on EV's from China. As far as I'm concerned one of the most dangerous, reckless, and poorly thought out policies that Trump is engaging in, are even higher tariffs on many classes of imported products. Who ends up paying for this? American companies who are manufacturing in China, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere, and the consumer, that's who. In the end huge tariffs may encourage companies to pull out of China, which is a good thing, but how long will that process take, and what will the economic consequences be in the interim? These tariffs could spell disaster for the American economy. It is nothing but a massive tax hike on the American people, and could have a very negative impact on thousands of American companies that manufacturer overseas, without any true understanding of why they manufacture overseas. Trump manufactures overseas, every opportunity he gets, to save money. Bibles, baseball caps, and likely countless other things. So, calling him very disingenuous would be an understatement. He is not a socialist. He is a failed capitalist. It is fairly easy to get wealthy if you are willing to steal most of your fortune from unsuspecting small contractors. Yet he still went bankrupt. That requires a special kind of skill. Or another form of grifting.

Trump started this inane dialogue by making this incident political rather than expressing the normal emotion of compassion and sympathy. Many of us know he doesn't experience these kind of emotions being the heartless soul that he is. I've been doing a little bit of research and apparently this is one of the most difficult airports to fly into under the best conditions and it's very crowded airspace. There's a multitude of factors that could be a play here including simple pilot error on the part of the helicopter pilot which appears to be the most likely. If they were wearing night vision goggles it would have reduced their visibility in an area as dense as that urban environment, and could have been one of the causes of this crash, but to just assume that it had anything to do with unfair hiring practices is not only inane, but infantile from a political point of view. Here is a good analysis from an armed forces helo pilot.

Personally I think the death penalty is a good thing under certain circumstances, and I think that he's on to something when he says that the penalty should be carried out within 90 days, but it should be applied toward far more serious crimes like dealing in heinous drugs like Fentanyl perhaps, but more appropriately for serial rapists, serial killers, and people who engage in truly horrific crimes. Not peddling drugs, the war on drugs has failed miserably, and this absolute nitwit apparently hasn't been clued in.

Thaksin seems to be a very toxic and useless man at this stage of his life, and virtually everything he says is inane and not useful. All Phuket needs is more tourism. On my recent visit there I would have to declare it as a dead zone, a horrific destination, and some place that I truly hope I never have to go back to. Even a decade ago when I visited, it still had some redeeming qualities, especially the Andaman, which is amazing. But now, it's just gone baby gone. It was chock full of very low end tourists and expats from Russia, India, Malaysia and the Arab world.

Everybody is just assuming he got involved with some girl, but that would not explain him totally disappearing and completely losing contact with his family. It is more likely something far more sinister and far more serious took place. People disappearing is never a good thing, but when they aren't heard from for quite some time afterwards, that's a sign that something serious is going on or something serious has already taken place. Neither of which is a what any family wants to hear about their loved ones.

I would say more than 95% of what's online is garbage, lies and disinformation so we simply have to increase the quality of our nonsense meters to the point where we can see nonsense from a distance, and just ignore it completely. The problem is when people give nonsense credence, and when people start quoting nonsense and if it is truth.

And why would those with Danish citizenship give up free Healthcare, and a safety net for seniors? In Denmark, the welfare state is characterised by an extensive social security system and a high degree of income equality. All Danish citizens have equal access to education and health care regardless of their social and financial background. Similarly, every citizen is entitled to a limited compensation for loss of income due to unemployment, disability, or illness – just to name a few of the public services that the welfare system provides. The welfare system does indeed benefit each individual citizen but the main purpose of the Danish welfare model is to ensure healthcare and education for all citizens in order to provide high quality human capital/first class employees of great benefit to the taxpaying companies and hence to the Danish economy. https://denmark.dk/society-and-business/the-danish-welfare-state In other words, the polar opposite of the US, where if an older couple does not have hugely expensive health care, they could lose everything with one illness. So, why would any Dane choose to be American? A land owned and controlled by Big pharma, corrupt lobbyists, greedy out of control corporations and a highly dysfunctional government. They would have to be insane.

Only historic for Trump, as he has far more that dislike him than most. And give it some time. Alot of his policies are inane and foolish and four years is a long time.

If the police took their work seriously, they could simply set up dragnets on those streets, and impose a stiff fine and confiscate the bikes for a month. Word would get around and the problem would be solved. People can be thick, but not entirely unteachable. There has to be a deterrent. It is a weird concept known as law enforcement.

I wonder how the passengers were even aware of this issue? It does not sound like anyone was ever in much danger. Perhaps the engine caught on fire, or was blowing out alot of smoke, easily visible to passengers? Glad everyone arrived safely.

Well he should have been detained on the spot, brought into a room and beaten up, at a minimum. That might have showed him that ridiculous behavior will not be tolerated. As far as the so-called netizens moaning about Thais being treated differently than foreigners that's someone questionable. I see a lot of Thais getting away with a lot of nonsense especially when it comes to traffic. Though they very rarely ever urinate openly in airport terminals. We can leave that to the low life foreigners that Thailand seems to be attracting these days, with their open legs visa policy.

He could, but he won't. It will cripple the US economy, those tariffs are not something that a foreign nation pays for, those tariffs are a huge tax hike on the American people. I know that, he knows that and this is nothing more than a bargaining chip by a man who thinks he's a good negotiator, although many of us know that's absolutely not the case.

There was no reason whatsoever for them to have been in the flight path to begin with, especially with an approaching commercial jet full of passengers. That makes absolutely no sense and it had to have been pilot error on the part of the fool who was flying this chopper, or a serious breach on the part of air traffic control.

The Blackhawk was totally responsible and it was an astonishing and horrific mistake. Hegseth should answer for this. The buck now stops with this incompetent.

With regard to the cancelation of all aid assistance, this is such a misguided move. The amounts involved are tiny, when compared to defense or his massive tax cuts to the super wealthy. Take from the poor, and give to the rich. That is just who Trump is. We bombed them. Now, we reject our responsibilities. Trump is NOT a man of the people, on any level. It is one huge charade. On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for clearing land mines have been furloughed. The U.S. State Department on Friday announced a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, followed one day later by a suspension of global demining programs, according to the New York Times. Japan provides more to those countries, but the U.S. has gradually increased aid to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar from $380 million in 2015 to almost $520 million in 2022, according to Grace Stanhope, a research associate at the Lowy Center who works on its Southeast Asia Aid Map. The pause has also already impacted a number of exile media newsrooms, which rely on small U.S. grants to provide open information in a country where journalists are routinely imprisoned, forcing a number of them to suspend staffers. U.S.-funded programs in Laos range from maternal health to demining operations, a critical need in a country that remains the most heavily bombed in the world, per capita, as a result of U.S. aerial attacks in the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War. Less than 10 percent of land in Laos has been cleared of unexploded ordnance, according to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War, which works on education and advocacy around removal of landmines in Southeast Asia. “It is absolutely essential that we hold ourselves accountable for the devastation we caused,” she said. “Just this month in Laos, a 36-year-old man was killed while simply cooking, an innocent victim of an American war that continues to plague the country.”

With regard to the cancelation of all aid assistance, this is such a misguided move. The amounts involved are tiny, when compared to defense or his massive tax cuts to the super wealthy. Take from the poor, and give to the rich. That is just who Trump is. NOT a man of the people, on any level. A huge charade. On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for clearing land mines have been furloughed. The U.S. State Department on Friday announced a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, followed one day later by a suspension of global demining programs, according to the New York Times. Japan provides more to those countries, but the U.S. has gradually increased aid to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar from $380 million in 2015 to almost $520 million in 2022, according to Grace Stanhope, a research associate at the Lowy Center who works on its Southeast Asia Aid Map. The pause has also already impacted a number of exile media newsrooms, which rely on small U.S. grants to provide open information in a country where journalists are routinely imprisoned, forcing a number of them to suspend staffers. U.S.-funded programs in Laos range from maternal health to demining operations, a critical need in a country that remains the most heavily bombed in the world, per capita, as a result of U.S. aerial attacks in the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War. Less than 10 percent of land in Laos has been cleared of unexploded ordnance, according to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War, which works on education and advocacy around removal of landmines in Southeast Asia. “It is absolutely essential that we hold ourselves accountable for the devastation we caused,” she said. “Just this month in Laos, a 36-year-old man was killed while simply cooking, an innocent victim of an American war that continues to plague the country.”

Russian friends tell me ANY Russian earning over 60,000 euros a year is involved in crime, with very few exceptions. They may look respectable, but?

I now bow down to the new king. Just like Zuck, Musk and the others.

When someone has nothing to offer, and is an empty suit, they engage in PR stunts like this, to try to convince naive people they are actually doing something.

Add the most important blacklist of them all. The Russians. Stop the Bratva from operating in Thailand. Don't invite in crime families.

Isn't it a bizarre thing to witness when three different members completely take over a thread like this one, with petty arguments back and forth? Yikes.

You really seem to have DDS (democrat derangement syndrome). Can't just let something go, you have to respond to every single statement that doesn't agree in lockstep with your own personal beliefs? Wow. That must be painful.

Of course they do, would someone deliberately choose to spend thousands of dollars taking care of a minor illness instead of having free healthcare? Who in their right mind would do that? There are elderly Americans who lose their homes due to a hospital bill that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody would choose to be part of that, instead of a very good socialized healthcare system.

It was likely some sort of lizard. It was huge. And it hated the insect spray I liberally doused it with. It sort of passed out. I then removed it from our bedroom ceiling eve, where it was making a real nuisance of itself.