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The role of EACH of Trumps unqualified, incompetent and buffoonish cabinet members is to DESTROY their part of the Federal govt while defending Trump for EVERYTHING he does. .... I would say they are all off to a Great start !

Yes, always fuck him with "maximum lethality".....He LOVES that ! And BTW Sis, your OTHER lover Robert is getting jealous......

And THIS is the guy that Trump THINKS the Iranians FEAR ???? " Sleepy Donald "

Is this a genuine photo?

When I was in Siem Reap, travelling to the new, ludicrous, airport, built with Chinese money, the area even given a Chinese name, my driver said, "we are part of China now". It was not a compliment!

Qatar has just sent an email offering considerably reduced price tickets ex-Bangkok (about 20%-25% off from what I recall) to various destinations including London and New York. No idea if they work in the opposite direction.

Any thoughts on what seems to be an imminent crisis caused by jet-fuel shortages? I've booked flights for June; and I'm becoming anxious.

Go downstairs to the skytrain level. Walk to the left of the skytrain office where we buy tickets. On your right are some change booths which give a better rate than all the upstairs change places at bkk. When I was there earlier this month the rate there wasn't that far below the best in the city.

At the airport where is a good money exchange store to exchange A SMALL AMOUNT of money to hold one over until arriving in the city itself?

Don't they always have to have someone to blame? It's a reason Trump may want to stay barricaded in his ballroom after 2028. There's probably a good chance a Democrat will succeed him. And when they start detailing all the grifting that is occurring it will make Trump Media look small ball.

I know I shouldn't reveal client secrets. But here goes. I actually have to role play this with Patriot Pete when he pays me to be my submissive. I tie him up, whip his pretty tattoos, and dress up like an Ayatollah and rant at him in unintelligible ways that is supposed to be Farsi. Then as I fuck him I chant, "Whose your Daddy? Whose your Daddy? Donald's your Daddy, isn't he?" Works every time. Makes Patriot Pete cum. Better that than alcoholism. I'm always happy to do the dirty work, Sis.

Rant incoming. I found that interview so depressing. It's a brief interview. But you don't have to watch it to get my point. Most of the interviews I watch - and i watch lots of them - are of critics of Trump and the bombing. So they are talking about why it's going badly. And how this is empowering Iran's theocrats in ways that will hurt American interests. This includes people like John Bolton. Who would love to see regime change in Iran. And would be even harder ass than Trump to achieve it. Even the presumably independent business-oriented experts on CNBC say it's now just a given that the Iranian regime Trump said he wanted to change will forever more have a level of influence over the Strait of Hormuz and the global flow of oil they never had before. Recession, anyone? Robert Pape goes a lot further and says Trump is turning Iran into a regional hegemon and fourth global power. Who will ally with China and Russia against America and the West. Although increasingly "Western" nations don't even want to associate themselves with what Trump's America wants or values. They're all saying, "Let's go talk to China." Walid Phares is a Lebanese-American conservative who was a paid consultant on Romney's 2012 campaign and Trump's 2016 campaign. What's depressing about the interview to me is he keeps bringing it back to one thing: the Iranian people. As Bolton will say, they are the ones who don't like this regime. And they are the ones who smart conservatives say we should have spent huge amounts of time and resources with, to lay the groundwork for change. If we had any hope of seriously making things better for the Iranian people. Which is not what Donald Trump gives a shit about. He keeps saying, "We should take the oil." Phares is less blunt than Bolton. But he's saying the same thing, in my mind. Instead of that, we have Donald Trump's impulses. So the strategy to work with Iran's opposition or people is to get the brilliant idea of threatening to nuke them all. Or blow up their power plants so they can starve to death. Or so the theocrats retaliate by blowing up infrastructure all over the region so that Muslim people can't live there anymore. This is what it is about today. Pape argues that even the pro-democracy movement will be on the side of the regime now, simply because they don't want to get nuked or starve to death. It's truly remarkable that Donald Trump has somehow managed to make George W. Bush and Dick Cheney look like master war strategists. 😱 And I think Mark Halperin got under my skin more than anything. I truly respect him as one of a small group of very smart and well connected people who try very hard to look at it both ways. But in this context, he basically gets to be the Ugly American. Weeks after a war was started that we are losing, or at least that is empowering the theocrats in Iran we all despise, he asks what we can do to arm and train Iran's people. Which of course even George W. Bush would have been planning to do months ago. Halperin often comes off as a Trump lackey these days. A good and honest journalist who wasn't just trying to operate in Donald Trump's good graces might have asked, "Isn't it too late for organizing the opposition? Isn't that precisely why Donald Trump really fucked this up badly?" I'm glad Trump didn't even think of that, given his narcissism and lack of impulse control. I'm pretty sure the generals told every other POTUS, including Bush and Trump 1.0, that if we try this it's just going to end very badly. Including for the people of Iran. So now what has to be delicately managed is how Trump can gracefully lose while he brags about winning. If we are all lucky. I hope Trump burns in hell forever. He has unleashed hell on Iran, America, and the world. He is a stupid, evil, and dangerous man. And listening to smart people like these guys, who want to understand Trump and support him, just reinforces this to me.

Just among friends in Rio. They reminded me that Monique has not added any improvements to the place during all those years of ownership. The place is shabby in many parts. Unnamed friends say that she gives off the feeling that she is tired of the place but likes the money, then reminds them that more than twenty years of ownership have been difficult. Maybe it is all conjecture or assumption on the part of my friends who believe that she is planning a shutdown or sale of the place. All things eventually come to an end. Think of all the wonderful saunas in Brazil that once were but are no more. Think also of Sao Paulo, a huge city with only one sauna. Junior might soon be the symbolic Rodolfo of Rio (only one sauna in a huge city).

Certainly China is one of the largest investors in Thailand, and it looks like Thailand is coming to the realization that some of that investment is to the detriment of Thai businesses, such as the coconut industry, highlighted in the video. Investing is one thing, but monopolizing entire industries through ruthless and unethical tactics is another issue, not unlike the robber barons that operated in the US during the late 19th century. One positive action was taken this past January 1st, when Thailand imposed a 10% duty on all imports valued at 1,500 baht or less, as Chinese companies such as Temu and Alibaba were squeezing small Thai companies, to the point they could no longer compete with the cheap imports that were flooding into the country. The Thai government is pushing back in some areas, but for some like the coconut farmers and processors, it looks like too little, too late.

There have been several cases just like this one where the authorities have finally withdrawn the airline's operating llicence. I used to travel regularly to Taipei on V Air which was a very pleasant low cost carrier. After two crashes, one just after take-off in Taipei by a Trans Asia aircraft (V Air was a subsidiary of Trans Air), the licence was withdrawn and the carrier ceased operations. In the Taipei incident, one engine was playing up on take off. The first officer then shut off the wrong engine leaving the aircraft with no power.

likely it was me. It was 2nd hand recommendation as I don't have personal experience with X but got him recommended by very trusted source. From guys in current roster I was very happy with Ken2 and Ball

Let's note that it is not all one-way traffic - at least not yet. Yes, China is expanding its influence not only in Thailand but in most parts of the world. According to an article in The Nation in September 2024, though, from January to June that year Chinese nationals purchased 39.5% of all condo units transferred to foreigners in Bangkok. This represented 40.1% of the value of condo units sold. It did represent a downturn since in 2020 when the percentage of units transferred to Chinese owners was 61% according to the Bangkok Post. But then 2024 was when covid was slowly winding down. Bangkok developers made a considerable amount after building very small condo units of around 25-35 sq.m. This enabled Chinese to use the funds they could export annually from China by parking it in what was regarded as a safer country. The less good news for Thailand is that the Chinese are becoming fed up of Thailand as their preferred foreign tourist destination. It is now being overtaken by countries like Vietnam and South Korea. But the bureaucracy and paperwork make purchasing condos in those countries more complicated. So Thai developers with their tiny apartments may well find continuuing sales to Chinese. Let's also not forget that China is now one of the biggest investors in Thailand along with Japan. This graph from CEIC illustrates the level of Chinese investment in the country in the last reported 12 years - https://www.nationthailand.com/business/property/40041666 https://www.bangkokpost.com/property/2997234/chinese-condo-purchases-likely-depressed-this-year

Trust built up over a long period of time and communication. Many relationships are open ones at the outset or become open ones after a period of years. I realise that. But the suggestion throughout this thread that all Thai men are unfaithful pretty regularly is not always the truth. (My partner is not Thai!)

KASH PATEL GOT ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC URINATION AFTER A NIGHT OF DRINKING The FBI director was arrested twice in his youth for alcohol-related incidents that he said were “not representative of my usual conduct.” FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2026. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images FBI DIRECTOR KASH Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination after leaving a bar, he admitted in a 2005 letter about disclosures on his Florida Bar application. The letter obtained by The Intercept was part of Patel’s personnel file at the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, where he once worked. The document, written “per instructions of my employer,” describes incidents of alcohol-related indiscretions not uncommon for those in their teens and twenties. Two decades later, as Patel pushes back against allegations that drinking is impairing his leadership of the nation’s top law enforcement agency, these arrests show how Patel’s alcohol use has been subjected to scrutiny before in his professional life.

It is interesting, but i think it would rather belong to the beer bar. but anyway. china is expanding it's influence all over south east asia. laos is basically a chinese vasall state. thailand may be moving slow on this, but they are moving steady. so it will repell this, as they did with chinese zero dollar tours. and they will eventually deal with indians sleeping on the beach in pattaya.

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