GroveHillWanderer

Well, that's the thing. Based on all the first-person accounts of people who have been asked for proof of funds, it has always been people with a years-long history of spending long and/or frequently repeated periods of time in Thailand such that it appeared that were living or working here (to all intents and purposes) but without having the appropriate visa. I personally can't recall a single example being reported of it happening to anyone coming in only on the occasional visa exempt entry.

True, but why would that have any influence on the outcome of a jury trial deciding on his guilt or innocence and/or the length of his sentence (as was implied in the post starting this particular part of the discussion)?

I'm still surprised that more isn't being made in the media about the revelations in the article linked to by @ozimoronearlier. The fact that Crow served on the boards of not one, but two groups (AEI and CCI) that filed briefs in the US Supreme Court is surely a clear conflict of interest.

Where are you getting this ridiculous claim from? Kamala Harris' stepdaughter is 23 years old, only graduated from university two years ago and works as a model. How and why would a New York State Supreme Court justice have worked for her? Anyway, as stated in this forum's rules: So please provide a source for this.

He's currently being investigated for that, the investigation is still ongoing.

And guess who paid for the documentary. The same mega-rich Republican donor, Harlan Crow. Clarence Thomas said he loves RVs and Walmarts in a documentary financed by the GOP megadonor who was taking him on luxury vacations

Did you not read the very first line of the OP? It says: (Emphasis mine).

You seem to have forgotten the multiple pieces of evidence that show Trump knew about the payments and what they were for. Firstly, there are recordings of phone calls between Trump and Michael Cohen that were used in Cohen's trial where they discussed the payments and their purpose. Then, Trump himself admitted to the payments (but claimed they weren't compaign expenses) both in Tweets in May 2018 and in an interview with Fox News in December 2018. Trump admits to Stormy Daniels payment Also, as I mentioned previously, they have evidence from emails and text messages that Trump talked about delaying the hush money payments until after the election, by which time it wouldn't matter. This proves that a) he knew what the payments were for and b) that they were election-related.

As others have pointed out, the electoral fraud charges apply to Trump, not Daniels, so where she lives is immaterial.

As Alvin Bragg specifically pointed out in his press conference after the arraignment though, the link making this a felony is not to a federal crime, it is to a New York State crime. He stated as follows: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg accuses Donald Trump of ‘catch and kill’ scheme

Have you read the "statement of facts" issued by Bragg's office in support of the indictment? It contains evidence that the payment was linked to the election. Donald J. Trump - Statement of Facts As it states: As the statement goes on to say, there are emails and text messages between Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels' lawyer, and the AMI Editor-in-Chief, David Pecker that attest to this. So they have the words of Trump himself linking it to the election, supported by documentary evidence of communications between the involved parties.

Not sure where the idea of an arranged marriage comes from. According to all the previous (and current) reporting on this it was a kidnap for ransom gone wrong.

Most areas are fairly quiet in the middle of the night, though.

That article also states:

However, if you ask a more straightforward question: How many people has Dick Cheney shot? You get a perfectly normal answer.

Are you sure? I can only find articles saying that at one point, school staff in Italy had to be vaccinated. I searched and couldn't find a link with a story about vaccinations for school children being required. Do you have a source I could look at?

I'm not aware of any countries that made Covid vaccinations mandatory for children to access schooling. Can you name any that did?

"The people" in the Hague are judges and prosecutors. They are not the people who actually go to a crime scene and gather evidence, interview witnesses etc. They rely on information gathered by others and forwarded to them, as do virtually all prosecutors and judges in almost every country in the world. The UN commission of inquiry found ample evidence of war crimes having been committed, however. As did Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, in their investigations. UN-backed inquiry accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine

Anyone know what these "many attractions" might be? I know they have a golf course but I hadn't heard anything else mentioned, even by people who play there regularly.

Again, the question was not whether it could theoretically occur, it was whether there is any evidence of it ever having happened. And there isn't.

Which article is false? The one I linked to, that has quotes from verifiable sources? And it was only one of several articles I could have linked to, that say the same thing. Here's another one, from the UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA). Mobile phones on filling station forecourts I can give you about a dozen more links, if you'd like, from multiple different sources, all saying the same thing - that no evidence of mobile phones causing fires in petrol stations has ever been found.

You honestly believe that the mobile phone industry can somehow suppress reports from every single fire department and accident reporting authority in every country throughout the entire world? I'll have some of what you're smoking.

It's not a question of what I believe. The facts show (as stated in that article) that no fire or explosion caused by a phone at a petrol station has ever been documented. I didn't say that it's 100% impossible that it ever could happen, but the urban myth that you quoted (which I was countering) was saying that an explosion had been caused by a person simply receiving a phone call - something that has never been known to have happened.

That's an urban myth. No such explosion has ever occurred. As the "How Stuff Works" article below states: Will using a cell phone at a gas pump make it explode?