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Tourism Tourism Shock: Thailand's Visitor Numbers See Alarming Plunge
It's pretty simple, Thailand used to be exceptional value for money, now it's only good value for money. It also seemed as if they lost some of their world class service during covid. The awful face masks changed something. -
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One Big Beautiful Bill? More Like One Big Bloody Oversized Stich-Up, Bruv
So, I just clocked this headline and thought I’d misread it. “One Big Beautiful Bill,” yeah? That’s what they’re callin’ it. Sounds more like a dodgy new ripoff bar in Pattaya than a new bit of legislation. But no, turns out it’s Trump’s shiny new scheme to make rich people richer and leave the rest of the Yanks fightin’ over a few tins of Chef Boyardee and expired acetaminophen. So here’s the gist, yeah. Give this a butchers, mates. Trump reckons he’s gonna scrap taxes on overtime, tips, and Social Security. Sounds good, yeah? You’re thinkin’ maybe he’s finally doin’ somethin’ for the little guy. But then he drops the other shoe like a clumsy giraffe in stilettos, he’s payin’ for all that by gutting Medicaid and food stamps. Classic Trump. “Here’s a lollipop, now give me your house.” So around 8.6 million Yanks are set to lose their health cover by 2034. Yeah, you heard right. Nearly 9 million. And it ain’t just a rounding error. About 7.7 million of ’em get the boot straight off the Medicaid cliff, while another 900,000 get shafted by fiddly new rules to the Obamacare sign up circus. Basically, if you’re poor, sick, or just not minted enough to be chums with a hedge fund manager, you’re gettin’ screwed like a date on prom night. They’re slashin’ Medicaid by nearly 900 billion quid, lads. That’s not a budget cut, that’s a Mexican mugging. Millions gettin’ chucked off their health cover like it’s Survivor final round eliminations. “Sorry Sheila, your kidneys still don’t work, and no more dialysis for you, but at least you ain’t gettin’ taxed on your nonexistent overtime.” And food stamps? Gone. Or close to it. Another few hundred billion shaved off that. Because apparently in Trumpworld, the solution to poverty is just makin’ it hungrier, again. Starvin’ builds character. More winnin' innit. This bill is a proper magic trick, you’re sayin’. Look over here Lewie, no taxes on your fry up tips and weekend shifts. But don’t look over there, where your nan’s dyin’ in a hallway ‘cos the clinic shut down and your mate’s three year old’s eatin’ dry cereal out the box ‘cos SNAP’s gone snap. They’re sellin’ it like a Robin Hood job, givin’ back to the working man. But Robin Hood didn’t steal from the poor to build golf courses, buy Teslas and hand tax breaks to blokes who think “empathy” is a skin condition. And the best part? It’s all built on vibes. No numbers add up, no plan for how it actually works. “It’ll pay for itself,” they say, like it’s a magic fackin’ beanstalk. Mate, the last time Trump said something would pay for itself, another one of his Atlantic City casinos went tits up and the only thing growin’ was his legal bills. So yeah, “One Big Beautiful Bill”? More like one big beautiful bag of bell-ends. You can put glitter on a turd, but it’s still gonna stink to high hell when you slice it in half. You know what this is? It’s a billionaire with a gold bog tellin’ a bloke workin’ two jobs and struggling to put nappies in his Tesco bag that he’s finally winnin’. While quietly sellin’ off the NHS equivalent, lockin’ the fridge, and nickin’ your last packet of crisps. But don’t worry mate, your tips are tax free now. Assuming you’ve still got a job. Or a stomach. Or teeth. https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-cuts-trump-tax-cuts-bill-1e2b12a91a3d12ceb0420ce7053de58e -
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Trump Only Picks the “Best People”? Pull the Other One, Mates, It’s Got Bells On
How he’s qualified to wear a replica of a 4 star Admiral’s uniform, is despicable. As if he’s the equivalent of a 4 star. Bulldhi-. -
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New passport in UK
Yeah, but at least Peterborough is only 1 hour by train from Kings Cross. Takes an awful lot longer than that to travel from somewhere a similar distance from Bangkok as Peterborough is from London to the VFS offices in Bangkok on the complete and utter shambolic joke that is the public transport system in LOS!
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