Eric Loh

Don't look at the courts, look at the man and his history of legal cases over 3 decades. Trump and his businesses had involved in 3,500 legal cases in US Federal and state courts. Of the 3,500 legal cases, Trump or one of his companies were plintiffs in 1,900, defendents in 1,450 and bankruptcy third party or other in 150. This conviction is just the progression of his history of corruption.

If your assumption is right, this election lawsuit will go the Republican way. Didn't even make it to the court consideration stage. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/11/texas-lawsuit-supreme-court-election-results/

It does tell me that the laptop was probably a nondescript item that Hunter can afford to forget to pick up. Maybe that's what it is. Nondescript and nothing really incriminating which could explain why the FBI in previous adminstration didn't see much evidence for prosecution.

If you read the 10 points plan put forward by PTP, the minimum wage in stages by 2027 is palatable. To attain the wage target, PTP pledge that the economy will grow by at least 5% annually in the next 4 years. I wouldn't bet against that as they have shown in the past under various party names that they can achieved more than 5% GPD growth. Thailand has a chronic consumer debt problem accumlated for a long time mainly due to low wages and weighed heavily on the domestic economy. In the plan, PTP pledged to break up monopolies particularly in the liqour industry to open opportunities for small craft brewers and distilleries and land reclamation along the Gulf of Thailand to prevent flooding in Bangkok. Bold manifesto and progressive.

It has already been +10 years since the Yellow Shirts were strong to oppose Thaksin's return. The situation now is totally different. The yellow shirts no longer have a strong enough platform to stand on, to shout and scream from and their passion subsided, funds depleted and the movement has waned. It's even rumored that Sondhi Limthongkul has make peace with Thaksin in the interest of good business, The Army has also fallen out with the yellow shirts and denied them the use of the Army Club for political rally in 2012. The anti-monarchy sentiments and the fear that Thaksin planned to turn Thailand into a Republic with him as President has long gone. 10 years under military government has not improved the lives of Thais and corruption has gone worse. This time Thaksin's return will be facing less resistance and my feeling is that he will be back soon.

Difference being the nudity and drug use are prima facie evidence for censorship while shady business has no prima facie evidence.

Starting to make sense as to why Mingkwan Saengsuwan, an ally of Thaksin is joining PPRP. High profile reporting of Prawit personally welcoming him to the party and announced that he will be considered party candidate for next premiership. IMO Prawit will not take up the premiership if the rumour of horse trading between Pheu Thai and PPRP is true. He will always like the position of being the shadow power broker.

I am waiting for furious tweets from the loser in chief and who he will be blaming. Previous the blame was on Melania following Dr Oz lost. Who’s next?

Forest teak and plantation teak are very different in terms of durablity and dimensional stability. Forest teak is extremely stable and durable, on the other hand plantation teak is more rapidily grown and harvested resulting in lesser quality and density and have the tendency to crack and warp due to fast growth. Just something you may perhaps keep that in mind deciding on the contractor and the source of teak.

Probably true. He is so predictable. The man is devoid of strategy further than his moods and whims. He just react to what's right in front of him. He is not playing a complicated four dimensional game of chess but more like a simple game of checkers. He is certainly not Presidential quality. US wasted 4 years under him.

Trump is looking like a modern day Hamlet. A case of getting away with something for long and not learning any lessons and letting anger and revenge get the better of him.

Not that long ago, Republicans thought they found the golden key in Kanye to unlock the party's standing with the black voters. All that came about when Kanye signalled his support for Trump. The unfortunate fact is that the party still beholdened to Trump to find losers like Mehmet Oz, Kari Lake, Herschel Walker.

Can conclusion be drawn based on one assumption from the KKP, one month of export decline and comment from one foreign tourism industry leader. We are smarter than that.

Ukraine surrender hotline for Russian soldiers gets 100 callers per day since September. Some calls were from individual while some from groups. Officials said that they had over 3,500 contacts. This is no small number wanting to surrender. Adds up to a Brigade size. https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/ukraines-surrender-hotline-for-russian-soldiers-gets-100-enquiries-a-day

This is good day for Justice against far-right groups charged for seditious conspiracy. Looking at history, seditious charges have been brought several times against far-right groups including white nationalists as far back as 1940 and have never been successful. All were dismissed with one citing the First Amendment grounds. We can expect more guilty verdicts now that precedent has been set leading all way to the top.

That increase in signups probably came from his verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check. However it came with a heavy costs. Half of twitters' top advertisers appear to no longer advertising. Big names like Chevolet, Ford, Merck, Novartis spent USD750 million in advertisement just in 2022. That kind of revenue lost is not sustainable for Twitters in the long run. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk

I think this winter may be the turning point of the war and it will need the West to continue to supply weapons, equipments and training to inflict more dead soldiers that will exert growing pressure that even the quiet mass of Russians who are still supporting Putin will relent. Losing thousands of soldiers with no hope of winning the war, combined with a growing economic crisis in Russia will increase the pressure from the society and the elites on Putin to step down.

Calm down mate. No one in USA are losing their voices even if their narratives are incendiary, conspiratorial, asinine or down right lies. There will always be a welcoming alternative media or friendly cable channel for those who indulge in gaslighting and disseminating their twisted narratives. Just ask Greene and her likes and even the most controversial former POTUS who consistently gaslight. No one are forced to accept those kind of nonsense non credible narratives. Most will just display their displeasures at the ballot boxes.

A good example of gaslighting without legitimate evidence.

Lacking any legal nor smoking gun evidence, gaslighting by Trump and his allies with their shameless bullying, rumour mongering, conspiracy peddling and silly hashtags spread confusion, consumed some with speculation and sucked many into a story. It actually work with the minority low educated rednecks and not most of the voting population.

I don’t disagree with your points. However this is Putin’s war and he will not relent on his aggression. At the same time, Zelensky will not negotiate with Russia as long as Putin is in power. There is a better chance for peace negotiation without Putin in power.

You looks like someone who will believe that Putin shares the soldiers' mothers pain.

Putin and his hawkish Generals thought that the invasion will be over in weeks with President Zelenskyy fleeing the country and the Ukrainians succumbing timidly. They didn't count on the resolve of the President and Ukrainian nationalist pride. Putin also didn't think that the Western powers have to gumption to confront Russia by arming Ukraine. They were lucky that Biden was POTUS as he rallied the NATO countries to stand firm and confront Russia. Now it's too late for Putin as his soldiers are dying in the fields and their southern supply lines are harassed by Ukrainian's artillery. Putin is in a no win situation on the war fronts and at home.

It's an unpopular war just like in Afghanistan or US in Vietnam and history tell us that it is unwinnable.

Less fear with so many safe and effective vaccines.