Finally, Americans can be corrupt again in Thailand - with Trumps approval

[OneMoreFarang]

I guess that is what they call "conservative values":

 

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-order-foreign-bribery-act

[impulse]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess that is what they call "conservative values":

 

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-order-foreign-bribery-act

 

Don't you mean a welcome acknowledgement that there are places in the world where it's virtually impossible to do business without greasing a few gub'ment palms? 

 

Why should Americans concede that business to other countries that are less prudish in their FCPA laws?  Which is most of them...

 

MAGA.  Let Thailand (et al) deal with Thai (et al) corruption.  Not our job.

 

[Jingthing]

This isn't about expats.

It's about trashing the rule of law back home done by maga for the purposes of maga.

[Purdey]

I doubt the law was halted to allow corruption. Corruption is endemic in many countries.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Ok, but then require publicly traded US companies disclose these payments, including names of recipients and amounts, in their 10k filings and annual reports to shareholders.

[EVENKEEL]

31 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

This isn't about expats.

It's about trashing the rule of law back home done by maga for the purposes of maga.

According to the White House, the law puts US firms at a disadvantage to foreign competitors because they cannot engage in practices that are “common among international competitors, creating an uneven playing field”.

 

try reading before you go to the usual maga bs

[OneMoreFarang]

Americans often pretend they want to be the shining example how the world should be.

Is bribing something the world should learn from the USA. Should we all say the USA is allowing it, then it must be good?

 

And if Trump doesn't like it, then please go to congress and tell them to get rid of that law, officially, and for the world to see. 

[TimBKK]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess that is what they call "conservative values":

 

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-order-foreign-bribery-act

Elon needs to build a few factories overseas, easier to pay than to deal with pesky “regulations.”

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

According to the White House, the law puts US firms at a disadvantage to foreign competitors because they cannot engage in practices that are “common among international competitors, creating an uneven playing field”.

 

try reading before you go to the usual maga bs

You actually believe that? Hilarious. 

[Walker88]

15 hours ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Ok, but then require publicly traded US companies disclose these payments, including names of recipients and amounts, in their 10k filings and annual reports to shareholders.

Absolutely. Make it mandatory on 10Ks. Let's see how good CEOs are at bribery, as that will be a new required skill set.

 

Also, full disclosure will make it more difficult to hide kickbacks, as folks can question the recipient of a bribe to ask him if he kicked back to the US CEO.

 

Foreign tax revenue departments will also want to see these corporate 10Ks to make sure the bribery recipient accounts on his taxes.

 

When the US has a convicted felon and civilly convicted sex offender at President, it has to be expected that morality goes out the window.

 

Next move will be threats. When bribes don't work to secure foreign business, corporates can threaten the families of those standing in the way of business. That happens now, but US firms are left out of such 'modern business practices'. So UNFAIR!

 

Climb aboard the toboggan, because the slope is quite slippery.

[Presnock]

4 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Absolutely. Make it mandatory on 10Ks. Let's see how good CEOs are at bribery, as that will be a new required skill set.

 

Also, full disclosure will make it more difficult to hide kickbacks, as folks can question the recipient of a bribe to ask him if he kicked back to the US CEO.

 

Foreign tax revenue departments will also want to see these corporate 10Ks to make sure the bribery recipient accounts on his taxes.

 

When the US has a convicted felon and civilly convicted sex offender at President, it has to be expected that morality goes out the window.

 

Next move will be threats. When bribes don't work to secure foreign business, corporates can threaten the families of those standing in the way of business. That happens now, but US firms are left out of such 'modern business practices'. So UNFAIR!

 

Climb aboard the toboggan, because the slope is quite slippery.

Also as a first step in stopping corruption outlaw lobbyists in the US as they are the 1st step in corruption IMHO.

[Yagoda]

16 hours ago, Jingthing said:

This isn't about expats.

It's about trashing the rule of law back home done by maga for the purposes of maga.

No its about deranged obsessive foreigner terrorist supporting Trump haters venting their frustrated spleens that their hopes for the destruction of the USA have been thwarted.

 

And of course, joined by the usual lying, rascist, Socialist and National Socialist Americans.

[OneMoreFarang]

3 minutes ago, Presnock said:

Also as a first step in stopping corruption outlaw lobbyists in the US as they are the 1st step in corruption IMHO.

This goes too far. Next thing you suggest all those politicians should pay for their own lunch. Come on, that would be soooooo unfair. 

[Presnock]

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

This goes too far. Next thing you suggest all those politicians should pay for their own lunch. Come on, that would be soooooo unfair. 

Yesdsir agree!  note, lst year the US Congress refused to even floor a non-insider-trading bill for a vote since so many of them have gotten rich over the past!

[hotsun]

Think of how dead this forum would be if trump lost. All the news headlines would be about climate change and trans people and covid boosters. Only people left would be those that get sick satisfaction from their home countries being toast

[NoDisplayName]

I said, “Nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars.” They said, “You have no authority. You’re not the president.” The president said—I said, “Call him.” I said, “I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.” I said, “You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.” I looked at them and said, “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

[OneMoreFarang]

32 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Think of how dead this forum would be if trump lost.

Many of us would have thought something like: Good luck Americans are not so f@##$# stupid that they voted for that guy a second time.

But then, now we have different thoughts... 

[hotsun]

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Many of us would have thought something like: Good luck Americans are not so f@##$# stupid that they voted for that guy a second time.

But then, now we have different thoughts... 

you dont even agree with the lefties on this forum you have them on ignore dont you? You are just an anti american plain and simple. You dont want trump because life is better for you when you can make jokes about americans. I sincerely hope that trump passes a policy that affects you negatively. Euros are the absolute worst

[OneMoreFarang]

6 minutes ago, hotsun said:

you dont even agree with the lefties on this forum you have them on ignore dont you? You are just an anti american plain and simple. You dont want trump because life is better for you when you can make jokes about americans. I sincerely hope that trump passes a policy that affects you negatively. Euros are the absolute worst

 

I know it's difficult for you to understand. There are not just lefties and MAGA fanboys.

Some of us actually use our brains and look at each individual topic. Some of us are even able to spell words correctly and use capital letters.

Obviously, all of that is difficult for you to comprehend. Maybe just watch TikTok videos, that is more suitable for your little brain.

[hotsun]

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

I know it's difficult for you to understand. There are not just lefties and MAGA fanboys.

Some of us actually use our brains and look at each individual topic. Some of us are even able to spell words correctly and use capital letters.

Obviously, all of that is difficult for you to comprehend. Maybe just watch TikTok videos, that is more suitable for your little brain.

Maybe youre obsessed about intelligence because you live in a country with an average IQ of 80 something? Youve been living there long enough youve probably lost quite a few brain cells yourself

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

I know it's difficult for you to understand. There are not just lefties and MAGA fanboys.

Some of us actually use our brains and look at each individual topic. Some of us are even able to spell words correctly and use capital letters.

Obviously, all of that is difficult for you to comprehend. Maybe just watch TikTok videos, that is more suitable for your little brain.

Another Maga troll reappearing with new knickname. Not even Two weeks on forum HOT sunny boy

[OneMoreFarang]

2 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Maybe youre obsessed about intelligence because you live in a country with an average IQ of 80 something? Youve been living there long enough youve probably lost quite a few brain cells yourself

I could lose half of my brain cells, and I am sure I would still be smarter than the average American. 

[hotsun]

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

I could lose half of my brain cells, and I am sure I would still be smarter than the average American. 

Euros might be dumber than thais. Definitely your politicians are for letting muslims in. I pray for the conservative euros to get their countries back, euros like you not so much

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, hotsun said:

Euros might be dumber than thais. Definitely your politicians are for letting muslims in. I pray for the conservative euros to get their countries back, euros like you not so much

Might well be. A lot of Euro countries are stuffed.

[Harrisfan]

6 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I could lose half of my brain cells, and I am sure I would still be smarter than the average American. 

That's not true. The average American is the same as the average European. 

[OneMoreFarang]

5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

That's not true. The average American is the same as the average European. 

Just that statement shows that you are not the smartest cookie in the jar.

Because some of us Europeans are way smarter than the average.

In theory that should also be the case with Americans, unfortunately most of the smart Americans seem to hide somewhere.

[hotsun]

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Just that statement shows that you are not the smartest cookie in the jar.

Because some of us Europeans are way smarter than the average.

In theory that should also be the case with Americans, unfortunately most of the smart Americans seem to hide somewhere.

An example of how stupid thailand has made you become-

 

theres a huge pothole on a busy road in sukhumvit, a guy runs over it and kills himself. You blame the victim for not being careful, not thai police for reporting the pothole which would end up kill someone eventually. You have lived there long enough, you have absorbed thai logic

[OneMoreFarang]

4 minutes ago, hotsun said:

An example of how stupid thailand has made you become-

 

theres a huge pothole on a busy road in sukhumvit, a guy runs over it and kills himself. You blame the victim for not being careful, not thai police for reporting the pothole which would end up kill someone eventually. You have lived there long enough, you have absorbed thai logic

 

Please have a look at the following picture and estimate how many people will die on this road.

Many, because there are so many potholes and obviously people die on roads with potholes?

Or many nobody dies because they see potholes and drive accordingly?

 

 

[hotsun]

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

Please have a look at the following picture and estimate how many people will die on this road.

Many, because there are so many potholes and obviously people die on roads with potholes?

Or many nobody dies because they see potholes and drive accordingly?

 

 

Im talking about a busy road in the heart of the capital with one dangerous pothole. You post an image of some road in the sticks

[Harrisfan]

19 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Just that statement shows that you are not the smartest cookie in the jar.

Because some of us Europeans are way smarter than the average.

In theory that should also be the case with Americans, unfortunately most of the smart Americans seem to hide somewhere.

Not liberals and smart people knew Trump would win in October. You still can't work it out.