The Crazy Years

Your colleague went to a Thai hospital by choice?

Was he already in Thailand for business or leisure?

I have not heard anything good or bad about hospitals in Thailand.

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Clintons own a lot of Boeing stock

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You might have been horrified by the dead baby photos from Gaza. The good news is - they might have been fake:

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The charity backing this special fx work is real and they often sponsor “humanitarian” photo competitions, with an agenda:

There are creators on social media with huge portfolios of injured kids receiving chartalan-level medical care… or a studio torturing children for greater “humanitarian” goals: nahed_hajjaj99@IG

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Yes. It was an elective surgery, and so he had time to check out his options. He had previously worked in Thailand, and was aware of the high standard of some of the hospitals. Even including the costs of flying from the US to Bangkok, it was significantly cheaper than having the surgery in the US.

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Elective surgery in the US, absent insurance, is always preceded by a wallet biopsy.

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Ah, okay…it’s all starting to make sense now.

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Boeing donated to Hillary campaign in 2016 and to the Clinton Foundation when she was Secretary of State

Washington Post and Atlantic wrote articles about the close ties between her and Boeing in 2014.

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I bet the plane :airplane: crashes

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Jared Bernstein has two degrees in social work, zero in economics

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… experts in the cucumber field…

{Snicker}

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The book of knowledge throws shade at Mr. Bernstein’s credentials (source)

Leaving the screenshot here just in case…

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Perhaps those were regular experts, just out for a stroll in a cucumber field …

Who, among experts, never felt compelled to frolic in among the luxuriant foliage of ripe cucumbers glistening with the morning dew ?

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Perhaps those were regular experts…

Either way, we can be sure they are outstanding in their field.

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The Mayor of London is Muslim …

https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1786809682574586151

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Warren Buffett on paying taxes:

“If we send a check like we did last year… and if 800 other companies had done the same thing, no other person in the United States would have had to pay a dime in federal taxes.”

@WatcherGuru

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