Tariffs for Everyone

  Back to 10% for the Philippines for 90 days. And the beat goes on. - @mugtech
The instability and lack of any obvious policy cause even more problems.
The markets have no idea which side of bed Trump is going to get out of, so they are understandably worried.
I have set up a new account for my cash - it pays about 30% less, but is far safer and has government insurance.
Unfortunatly, my bank is dragging its feet and not answering messages at the moment.
I will be most displeased if I have to go down there because they can't answer a ruddy WhatsApp. - @Fred

I cannot wait. Textiles returning back to my beloved home state of North Carolina! Thank God for tariffs. My neighbor's kids can find jobs again. Indonesia? Nice run for the globalists but the party is over for textiles. Furniture too. Making North Carolina great again!

The funny thing is that the US is exporting the apparent illegals that will gladly work on farms and in factories for a better life and do the work that is apparently beneath the expectations of the average US citizen. Ask yourself why and again why the US has a 36T debt.

- @bigpearl

It's funny that you called "deporting" as "exporting." The US, under President Trump has started deporting illegal aliens who have been allowed to enter the US without vetting them, and then housed, fed, given healthcare, and free money, costing American tax payers billions.

The US has a $36 trillion because the government had uncontrolled spending, a significant part of which are due to fraud, waste and abuse, of which Trump is trying to put a stop to by creating DOGE. One incurs debt if they spend more than they earn. Here are the lies of the previous administration published in June 2024.

https://budget.house.gov/press-release/ … presidency

In USAID alone,  DOGE found hundreds of millions of dollars spent on programs overseas that do not benefit Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmZfXjnXr_o

Sadly, USAID funding in the Philippines for treatments such as tuberculosis, AIDS, etc.  has been paused or maybe even permanently cancelled. One can't blame the US stoppage of funding for what the press secretary referred to as "crap." And what DOGE found is just the tip of the iceberg. A friend of mine whose father has a high position in one of the government health organizations here in the Philippines, said the USAID has funded not just LGBTQ comic books, but a whole building to stage silly activities for just a handful of people, the funding for which could have been used instead for critical medical treatments.

Perhaps Dan the brains trust that drafted these tariffs need to sharpen their pencils? Do a little homework instead of rip tear bust?
The 25% tariff on steel and aluminium and the 10% tariffs on everything else encompasses Australia and all its territories and include some 8,222 islands including the 2 colonised by communist penguins.
As for the stupid tariffs? Australia cares little as the US is a small trading partner and we actually purchase twice the amount of goods from the US compared to what we export to Uncle Sam.
No need to ruffle feathers with a spoilt child as we are clever enough to know that if you want our products the extra costs are simply passed onto the US consumer and if you don't want them there are plenty of other markets.

I foresee the sufferers will be the US public and the many that can least afford increased prices.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl

I think you forsee only what the financial globalists want you to forsee. Trump knows that a country without its own manufacturing base is unsustainable. This has nothing to do with wall street and prices of consumer goods; the US needs to make it's own vehicles, it's own steel, aluminum, pharmaceuticals and many other strategic industries that it ignored in the past. If there is a war and cannot build our own ships or tanks, that is a problem. Yes I understand Australia does not care what they are paying for tariffs as you are likely quite used to high prices.

What I mention here is not the only concern, Additionally there is a need for good manufacturing jobs to increase the standard of living for our working class rather than allow global corporations to profit from cheap Asian and Mexican labor in places that have no concern for environmental impact or slave labor laws. I know Trump will eventually get this right; if he doesn't the USA will go 2nd rate and I fully understand there are many foreigners would love to see that happen Too bad.

Donald Trump is the new Liz Truss, wolf-warrior tamed to pussy cat by the reality that investors not voters rule the world. Liz’s austerity budget crashed and burned on the bond markets, Trump’s tariffs have just done the same. I was watching the markets the other night and when it became apparent that the price of US government debt was going to approach the level of Greece in its post COVID fiscal crisis unless something was done, sure enough Trump’s announcement on the 90-day ‘pause’ came out. I don’t know where he goes from here - try and salvage something by negotiation I guess. Right now I imagine he wishes he’d tried that first - @Brojeslov

Trump is getting it right. Representing the largest Customer on the globe that no ecpoteing country can ignore, he will not lose. He cannot lose.

Donald Trump is the new Liz Truss, wolf-warrior tamed to pussy cat by the reality that investors not voters rule the world. Liz’s austerity budget crashed and burned on the bond markets, Trump’s tariffs have just done the same. I was watching the markets the other night and when it became apparent that the price of US government debt was going to approach the level of Greece in its post COVID fiscal crisis unless something was done, sure enough Trump’s announcement on the 90-day ‘pause’ came out. I don’t know where he goes from here - try and salvage something by negotiation I guess. Right now I imagine he wishes he’d tried that first - @Brojeslov

Trump is getting it right. Representing the largest Customer on the globe that no ecpoteing country can ignore, he will not lose. He cannot lose.

Donald Trump is the new Liz Truss, wolf-warrior tamed to pussy cat by the reality that investors not voters rule the world. Liz’s austerity budget crashed and burned on the bond markets, Trump’s tariffs have just done the same. I was watching the markets the other night and when it became apparent that the price of US government debt was going to approach the level of Greece in its post COVID fiscal crisis unless something was done, sure enough Trump’s announcement on the 90-day ‘pause’ came out. I don’t know where he goes from here - try and salvage something by negotiation I guess. Right now I imagine he wishes he’d tried that first - @Brojeslov

Trump is getting it right. Representing the largest Customer on the globe that no ecpoteing country can ignore, he will not lose. He cannot lose.

  Back to 10% for the Philippines for 90 days. And the beat goes on. - @mugtech
That's less than the Phils charges us. Have you ever tried buying anything shipped from America here? 50000 peso dryers, 150 dollar tariff on a DHL shipment declared at $300.00? The US stopped shipping laptops here because laptops worth $400 were selling for $800.00. 10 percent is nothing compared to what they charge us. But we are America so I suppose the world deserves low tariffs from us.
- @danfinn

          I bring stuff with me or ship it tariff free in a balikbayan box.

Donald Trump is the new Liz Truss, wolf-warrior tamed to pussy cat by the reality that investors not voters rule the world. Liz’s austerity budget crashed and burned on the bond markets, Trump’s tariffs have just done the same. I was watching the markets the other night and when it became apparent that the price of US government debt was going to approach the level of Greece in its post COVID fiscal crisis unless something was done, sure enough Trump’s announcement on the 90-day ‘pause’ came out. I don’t know where he goes from here - try and salvage something by negotiation I guess. Right now I imagine he wishes he’d tried that first - @Brojeslov

Trump is getting it right. Representing the largest Customer on the globe that no ecpoteing country can ignore, he will not lose. He cannot lose.

Could change tomorrow mugtech, perhaps this afternoon, who knows when a clown is running a country.
What I can't understand is I thought these tariffs were supposed to be imposed on countries that the US had deficits with yet Australia is the other way around and still slugged, probably many other countries.
All this crap is more fun than a decent movie.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl
Come on Steve, "clown"? Many of us voted for Trump and you are insulting 53% of us by saying that. When was the last time your leadership did anything for the sake of your workers rather than your elites in the financial industry? That is what Trump is doing and the globalist leaders absolutely hate it and are spreading propaganda that most ww globalist suckups like Fred buy in to. What would Australians think if US expats called your leaders "clowns"? We may not like their WEF style globalism and fascism (ref recent pandemic) but we respect their intelligence. Trump is not a clown.
- @danfinn

Exactly! Would one call a "clown" someone who has banned biological men from playing in women's sports, and entering women's lockers and other private spaces naked with their genitalia fully exposed to women who may also be naked, some of whom had been sexually assaulted in these private spaces? Or securing borders and deporting criminals who have raped and murdered young women, engaged in drug and human trafficking, using illegal aliens as recruits in their criminal organization, killed and burned American citizens? The clowns are the ones who want to push the opposite. 

Back to 10% for the Philippines for 90 days. And the beat goes on. - @mugtech
That's less than the Phils charges us. Have you ever tried buying anything shipped from America here? 50000 peso dryers, 150 dollar tariff on a DHL shipment declared at $300.00? The US stopped shipping laptops here because laptops worth $400 were selling for $800.00. 10 percent is nothing compared to what they charge us. But we are America so I suppose the world deserves low tariffs from us.
- @danfinn
     I bring stuff with me or ship it tariff free in a balikbayan box.
- @mugtech

Me too but sometimes I have to order from Amazon.com or have my son or daughter ship me a package by DHL. Sometimes Amazon can ship without a tariff deposit for some reason, perhaps they add to the price or perhaps the item us not subject to tariffs.  My son should never have declared the $300 on that last shipment but he didn't know about phils tariffs at customs and he wanted to make sure insurance  covered the value. So DHL called me from thei Cebu hub and I had to pay them $150 (DHL as import agent) by credit card to pay the tariff. Balikbayan boxes are great and we do that often. Check out Johnny Air Cargo for low cost shipping with no customs tariffs, it works really well. It could be that the success of the BB box forwarders and Johnny air cargo is actually due to thd high Philippines tariffs.

@Fred
He listed every country in the world with a tariff figure next to each one.......... but no tariffs on Russia hahaha - @FindlayMacD

Kind of hard to tariff a country on which there are economic sanctions hahaha @FindlayMacD

Could change tomorrow mugtech, perhaps this afternoon, who knows when a clown is running a country.
What I can't understand is I thought these tariffs were supposed to be imposed on countries that the US had deficits with yet Australia is the other way around and still slugged, probably many other countries.
All this crap is more fun than a decent movie.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl
Come on Steve, "clown"? Many of us voted for Trump and you are insulting 53% of us by saying that. When was the last time your leadership did anything for the sake of your workers rather than your elites in the financial industry? That is what Trump is doing and the globalist leaders absolutely hate it and are spreading propaganda that most ww globalist suckups like Fred buy in to. What would Australians think if US expats called your leaders "clowns"? We may not like their WEF style globalism and fascism (ref recent pandemic) but we respect their intelligence. Trump is not a clown.
- @danfinn
Exactly! Would one call a "clown" someone who has banned biological men from playing in women's sports, and entering women's lockers and other private spaces naked with their genitalia fully exposed to women who may also be naked, some of whom had been sexually assaulted in these private spaces? Or securing borders and deporting criminals who have raped and murdered young women, engaged in drug and human trafficking, using illegal aliens as recruits in their criminal organization, killed and burned American citizens? The clowns are the ones who want to push the opposite.
- @FilAmericanMom

And those clowns are doubling down on their insanity which may be a good thing as it may ensure a loss in the midterms. Many people who call themselves democrats have been shocked by this nonsense.

@Fred
He listed every country in the world with a tariff figure next to each one.......... but no tariffs on Russia hahaha  - @FindlayMacD
Kind of hard to tariff a country on which there are economic sanctions hahaha @FindlayMacD
- @danfinn

         Probably more likely than an island of penguins.

It seems there is a distinct lack of supporting posts on this website lately from the normally extreme MAGA supporters who usually want to tell us that Trump knows what he's doing and it's all part of a very clever plan that Scrotus the Potus has devised in in his extremely small and defective brain. Hahaha

It seems there is a distinct lack of supporting posts on this website lately from the normally extreme MAGA supporters who usually want to tell us that Trump knows what he's doing and it's all part of a very clever plan that Scrotus the Potus has devised in in his extremely small and defective brain. Hahaha - @FindlayMacD

  Yes I've noticed that too Findlay. Bob presumably has joined Coach 53 in the Sanatorium. Bless them both. It's like the Titanic. Many passengers have abandoned ship although Captain Trump is still at the helm

Of a sinking ship?

Cheers, Steve.

It seems there is a distinct lack of supporting posts on this website lately from the normally extreme MAGA supporters who usually want to tell us that Trump knows what he's doing and it's all part of a very clever plan that Scrotus the Potus has devised in in his extremely small and defective brain. Hahaha - @FindlayMacD
Yes I've noticed that too Findlay. Bob presumably has joined Coach 53 in the Sanatorium. Bless them both. It's like the Titanic. Many passengers have abandoned ship although Captain Trump is still at the helm - @Lotus Eater

           Bob was naughty and got banned.

Political debates aren't really that big a deal as long as insults don't fly.

Well thought out,  evidenced, arguments are nothing to worry about.

Throwing insults and posting unthinking fanboi rubbish is just a waste of time.

I have just popped to the bank and dropped a sell order on my investment at no loss.

The New account is ready so, if all goes well, everything should be done by Tuesday afternoon.

The old investment plan was pretty good and, in normal markets, pretty safe.

Trump has badly upset the markets so I feel safety from his silliness is a good mone.

Ho hum, there goes my priority banking card.

Tuesday afternoon.
- @Fred

         Moody Blues

It seems there is a distinct lack of supporting posts on this website lately from the normally extreme MAGA supporters who usually want to tell us that Trump knows what he's doing and it's all part of a very clever plan that Scrotus the Potus has devised in in his extremely small and defective brain. Hahaha - @FindlayMacD

Trump knows what he's doing, especially when he created DOGE. Recently, DOGE found the following fraud in social security:

People collecting unemployment insurance:

$59 million - by 24.5K people aged 115 and up

$254 million - by 28K people aged 1-5

$69 million - by 97.4 people to be born 15 year into the future

not to mention millions of people over 100 years old receiving retirement benefits, with thousands over 120. There's even one who was 350 years old.

Someone mentioned the $37k debt. There are thousand of government employees not reporting for work. And most likely, there are also fake employees (which here in the Philippines are called "ghost employees"). US really needs to clean up fraud, waste and abuse, and Trump is doing that.

Extremely small and defective brain? The US dodged a bullet with word salad Kamala losing and Mr. "We beat Medicare!" stepping down. If Kamala had a reliable brain on her shoulders, why did she have to stage and edit her interviews. Without a teleprompter or a script, she's lost. In one interview, she said, “Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment. And we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy, because as you know, it comes in the morning. (Cackle, cackle, cackle) We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way too.” (huh? Is she drunk?)

Sometimes it takes months before we hear anything from Biden. It was said that he had good and bad days, and he can only make a public appearance on good days. This reminded me of my late grandmother who had dementia.

The clown and the chainsaw wielding court jester are doing a great job apparently,,,,,,,,, all this fraud and lies? Has anyone been charged? No. The 350 Y/O? The US was still a British colony.

Regardless "I  have a Plan" but it changes daily.

Cheers, Steve.

Trump knows what he's doing, especially when he created DOGE. Recently, DOGE found the following fraud in social security:People collecting unemployment insurance:$59 million - by 24.5K people aged 115 and up$254 million - by 28K people aged 1-5$69 million - by 97.4 people to be born 15 year into the futurenot to mention millions of people over 100 years old receiving retirement benefits, with thousands over 120. There's even one who was 350 years old. - @FilAmericanMom

Please post your source so we can confirm the above as fact.

Thank you.

Has anyone been charged? No.

         Takes time, they just started the investigation.  Give them 4 years or more.

No one will ever be charged mugtech as it's all simply numbers and dreaming. The thousands that are now claiming benefits instead of paying taxes and contributing to the economy?

I was under the impression that the current administration was trying to create more jobs, this seems contrary and can you see an office professional working in a factory that is 3 or 4 years away? Putting together products in a sweat shop? Low wages and no direction.

The ones that could do those menial tasks gladly are being deported to save those factory jobs for US citizens that won't work in a boring factory assembly line nor pick the vegetables that go on your tables.

One step forward and a dozen back.

As I've said many times, time will reveal all.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve.

Has anyone been charged? No.
    Takes time, they just started the investigation. Give them 4 years or more. - @mugtech

Globalist liberals with not a speck of the IQ that these two leaders have. So pathetic watching them attempt to lower Trump and Musk to their intellectual standing with no self-awareness as to how ridiculous this looks like to normal people.

Normal people? Interesting analogy Dan.

Cheers, Steve.

Donald Trump is the new Liz Truss, wolf-warrior tamed to pussy cat by the reality that investors not voters rule the world. Liz’s austerity budget crashed and burned on the bond markets, Trump’s tariffs have just done the same. I was watching the markets the other night and when it became apparent that the price of US government debt was going to approach the level of Greece in its post COVID fiscal crisis unless something was done, sure enough Trump’s announcement on the 90-day ‘pause’ came out. I don’t know where he goes from here - try and salvage something by negotiation I guess. Right now I imagine he wishes he’d tried that first  - @Brojeslov
Trump is getting it right. Representing the largest Customer on the globe that no ecpoteing country can ignore, he will not lose. He cannot lose.
- @danfinn

Well, I believe we will see an east/west split, but the west will be the US and a few foolish holdouts.

The new powers will be the EU, but they have little by way of guts, and less by way of clues, and China.

The EU will crack, starting with France moving towards BRICS, then Germany.

The US will end up sidelined. If they bug China just a little more, there's the possibility the Chinese will dump US debt onto the open market.

That will force yields up so they find a market, and bankrupt the US economy.

Another forum I use, a non-political space, many members are already complaining of shortages and higher prices on their hobby purchases.

That's all well and good, but there is no US made products to fill the gap, so they are left paying more for the same stuff with zero gain for US manufacturers.

Normal people? Interesting analogy Dan.
Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl

This thread is dipping into insults and rubbish.

Perhaps it's time to lock it.

Go or it Fred, different views create different opinions, Whilst I don't think my comment to post #146 were derogatory nor insulting but a simple opinion.

I simply think we are all individuals and offer our thoughts/beliefs on what is supposed to be an open forum, regardless time will reveal all.

Cheers, Steve.

Globalist liberals with not a speck of the IQ that these two leaders have. So pathetic watching them attempt to lower Trump and Musk to their intellectual standing with no self-awareness as to how ridiculous this looks like to normal people. - @danfinn

That's rather inflammatory, and it serves no purpose.

@bigpearl

Normal people = man on the street, not woke people who advocate for grown men playing in girls sports and being naked their locker rooms, or for sex change operations for 12 year olds who aren't even allowed to get tattoos. Normal people as opposed to elite globalists who advance this nonsense to basically crater our regular common sense society. Normal people, gay or straight, who reject the globalist concept of regular people "owning nothing" but "being happy".

Where did that come from Dan? What does your comments have to do with the topic let alone sensibilities.

Cheers, Steve.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl
Come on Steve, "clown"? Many of us voted for Trump and you are insulting 53% of us by saying
- @danfinn

            Trump got less than 50% of the votes.  Crusty the Clown is the one being insulted.

~

"US tariffs on Philippines could affect weapons deal, ambassador says"

By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina, Friday 11 April 2025

https://au.news.yahoo.com/us-tariffs-philippines-could-affect-202654820.html

[Photo caption: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Manila]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Imposing tariffs on U.S. imports from the Philippines could affect the U.S. ally's ability to afford U.S. weapons systems and a long-discussed $5.58 billion plan to acquire F-16 fighter jets, Manila's ambassador to Washington told Reuters.

The Philippines faced levies of 17% on its exports to America after President Donald Trump announced global tariffs last week.

On Thursday, Trump announced a 90-day pause on the "reciprocal tariffs" except those on goods from China, but the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries still face a 10% levy for the next three months.

Philippine ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez said Manila was keen to negotiate.

"Like most countries … we're trying to arrange for our minister of trade, for our presidential assistant on international investments and trade, to be able to come here to Washington and have a serious discussion on how we can go through this whole process … on the basis of what is mutually beneficial for both our countries," he said in an interview.

He referred to Washington's approval this month of the potential sale of F-16 aircraft made by Lockheed Martin for an estimated cost of $5.58 billion and said tariffs could affect the Philippines economy and its ability to afford them.

"These F-16s ... are very expensive for us ... and we won't be able to afford it if, obviously, we won't have the resources to be able to buy them," he said.

Romuladez noted that the Philippines trade surplus with the U.S. was about $4.8 billion.

"The F-16 (deal) is $5.8 billion," he said. "So that's a $1 billion surplus in favor of the United States, if we do get to that point that we'll be able to buy that.

"It's a quid pro quo. And I think that President Trump has made it clear that tariffs are to balance it off … So if that's the policy, then we will do it."

Philippine officials say Manila is also interested in purchasing the Typhon missile system, which the U.S. has deployed in the Philippines for exercises and which experts say could have an important role in the event of a Chinese attack on the self-governed but Chinese-claimed island of Taiwan.

Romualdez, ambassador in Washington since 2017 during Trump's first term and a cousin of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, said Manila's U.S. relationship was different to those of other countries given shared losses in World War Two.

He said a U.S. visit by Marcos to meet Trump that had been envisaged for the spring depended on their respective schedules, but could take place "any time between … April, May, June."

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina; Editing by Don Durfee and Chizu Nomiyama)

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Trump knows what he's doing, especially when he created DOGE. Recently, DOGE found the following fraud in social security:People collecting unemployment insurance:$59 million - by 24.5K people aged 115 and up$254 million - by 28K people aged 1-5$69 million - by 97.4 people to be born 15 year into the futurenot to mention millions of people over 100 years old receiving retirement benefits, with thousands over 120. There's even one who was 350 years old. - @FilAmericanMom
Please post your source so we can confirm the above as fact.
Thank you. - @Fred

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/do … ent-claims

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/d … ez-deremer

It seems there is a distinct lack of supporting posts on this website lately from the normally extreme MAGA supporters who usually want to tell us that Trump knows what he's doing and it's all part of a very clever plan that Scrotus the Potus has devised in in his extremely small and defective brain. Hahaha - @FindlayMacD

Trump knows what he's doing, especially when he created DOGE. Recently, DOGE found the following fraud in social security:
People collecting unemployment insurance:
$59 million - by 24.5K people aged 115 and up
$254 million - by 28K people aged 1-5
$69 million - by 97.4 people to be born 15 year into the future

not to mention millions of people over 100 years old receiving retirement benefits, with thousands over 120. There's even one who was 350 years old.

Someone mentioned the $37k debt. There are thousand of government employees not reporting for work. And most likely, there are also fake employees (which here in the Philippines are called "ghost employees"). US really needs to clean up fraud, waste and abuse, and Trump is doing that.

Extremely small and defective brain? The US dodged a bullet with word salad Kamala losing and Mr. "We beat Medicare!" stepping down. If Kamala had a reliable brain on her shoulders, why did she have to stage and edit her interviews. Without a teleprompter or a script, she's lost. In one interview, she said, “Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment. And we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy, because as you know, it comes in the morning. (Cackle, cackle, cackle) We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way too.” (huh? Is she drunk?)

Sometimes it takes months before we hear anything from Biden. It was said that he had good and bad days, and he can only make a public appearance on good days. This reminded me of my late grandmother who had dementia. - @FilAmericanMom

How come no one has been arrested or indicted for these crimes, I'm sure Faux News would be all over those kind of stories if they existed.

Trump knows what he's doing, especially when he created DOGE. Recently, DOGE found the following fraud in social security:People collecting unemployment insurance:$59 million - by 24.5K people aged 115 and up$254 million - by 28K people aged 1-5$69 million - by 97.4 people to be born 15 year into the futurenot to mention millions of people over 100 years old receiving retirement benefits, with thousands over 120. There's even one who was 350 years old. - @FilAmericanMom
Please post your source so we can confirm the above as fact.
Thank you. - @Fred
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/do … ent-claimshttps://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/d … ez-deremer - @FilAmericanMom

Just because Faux News makes up a story doesn't make it true.

Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl
Come on Steve, "clown"? Many of us voted for Trump and you are insulting 53% of us by saying
- @danfinn
      Trump got less than 50% of the votes. Crusty the Clown is the one being insulted.
- @mugtech

Why the obsession of calling Trump a clown? Kamala Harris got 48%, by the way.  She won in 12 out of 14 states that did not require ID's to vote because asking for ID's was deemed racist and discriminatory.

Around a year ago, I requested that my expat.com account be cancelled. Despite many requests, it wasn't cancelled. At that time, I decided to take a break because I was saddened by the loss of my beloved cat. I lost her to CKD despite the treatments. After 100 days, we had to put her to sleep.

When I gained some free time from work and taking care of my kids, I decided to post again in the forum. But I think it's just stressful and a waste of time. Thus, I'd like to request again the admins that my account be cancelled asap, and my user name be changed to a generic one.