2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

The definition of a criminal is a person with a criminal conviction.

Thaksin was convicted several times.

Prayut was, as far as I know, never convicted. So by definition he is no criminal.

If Prayut will ever be convicted of a crime then he is a criminal.

It's not really that difficult. 

Only when the justice system is unbiased and laws are fair, which is not the case in Thailand.

Following your logic, Stalin, Mao or Kim should not be considered as criminals.

5 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

I think both sides got what they wanted.  CNN got ratings- nearly 10 times their normal for that time slot.  Trump got exposure and showed that he can still stand up to a hostile journalist.  The audience got to see that "The Trump Show" still has a few episodes left.  

 

Couple interesting points to me. First, CNN spent a lot of time and effort to set up the Town Hall.Then in the segment following it there were legions of CNN personalities crying and rending their garments, decrying THEIR OWN EMPLOYER for doing so!  A sight to behold.

 

Second, they need a better moderator and format next time. Kaitlyn (sp) was not up to the job, and as is normal with modern journalists tried to make the show about HER.  A Town Hall is to let the candidate and the people interact, not for the moderator to constantly interject and debate with the candidate. They spent more than 20 minutes talking about January 6, and about 3 minutes on the economy.  

 

Third, Trump is still an entertainer. He was also more disciplined in his answers than I saw in 2016.  I don't want him to be the candidate, but he is going to be hard to unseat.  Perhaps in the end, that is what CNN is hoping for.

Well, it depends what is considered as being "hostile". If you consider that recalling Trump that elections were not rigged when he claimed it, was being "hostile", then the journalist was hostile. Other people would think she was just doing her job properly.

1 hour ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Well, when there's nothing to investigate all he's got is gum flappin' I guess. Lots of pro trump posters are oddly silent after having a bit of a glee fest in the "Is it Joe Bidens turn to face JAIL?" thread. Not gonna lie, I find that quite satisfying.

It seems they are unable to learn from experience.

How many times have we observed similar patterns? The Kraken and other election fraud lawsuits and audits, the GOP Senate investigation into Biden, the Durham probe, etc....they all failed to substantiate initial claims.

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

There is a glimmer of hope that the army chief will keep his pledge for no coup after this election. The trouble making 3Ps from the Burapha Payak military factions have been losing influence and power. This new army chief is not from Burapha faction that has dominated the military establishment and politics for the last 2 decades. The junta parties are rejected by the majority of voters and will probably not secured enough seats to form the government.  Some of the appointed senators may not even support them. The new regime will also not wish his reign to begin with unrest and another coup. I will be positive that the EC will apolitical. Finger crossed with a reminder that this is Thailand.

The army has also been put under tighter control.

"Bangkok-based diplomats have taken note of the emerging axis within the influential military, the guarantor of political power in the country, under Vajiralongkorn, himself a military veteran of the King's Guard. The monarch set this tone by unveiling plans to redeploy troops in the capital to come under his personal royal security force 904, a well-trained Praetorian Guard of some 7,000 soldiers. Brought under this new security architecture for exclusive royal service are squads from the 1st Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Regiment and the 4th Cavalry Battalion -- previously the frontline troops to stage coups."

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Turbulent-Thailand/Thailand-king-s-elite-Red-Rim-officers-enter-the-spotlight

An interesting consequence....????

Former President Donald Trump’s comments Wednesday night about his handling of classified documents appeared to contradict statements by his lawyers, and provide potentially important evidence for federal prosecutors investigating whether to charge him with a crime, legal experts say.

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-comments-mar-lago-documents-205929399.html

54 minutes ago, h90 said:

hmm Shinawatra win elections...yellow shirts demonstrate, government change, red shirts, military coup.....I think I have seen that film already

There are three big differences:

- the first is that the yellow-green network doesn't need to make a military coup. They have put mechanisms in the constitution which may allow them to oust a government on any pretext (ex the strategic plan),

- the second is that it will likely not be the red shirts from the NE, but the new democracy protesters (the children of the Bangkok Sino-Thai middle class),

- last but not least, Prayut/Prawit's army Corp has been sent back to the Eastern provinces. All the military forces present in Bangkok are now directly supervised by someone who cannot be discussed. Nothing can happen without his approval. In this respect, It may be useful to know about his history around  20 years ago.

A good summary of Comers lies and fake claims over time.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-goes-on-offense-against-gops-biden-attack-dog-james-comer

It's just an appetizer.... ????

When they lose, they will have a try at getting rid of the winners. It won't be a military coup, because they don't need it with their constitution. The constitution has been designed to this end: to "legally" get rid of elected governments the yellow/green elite doesn't like. 

Then of course, they will be protests. This time it won't be the red shirts, because they know (by experience) they can be killed.

It will be the new democracy protest. This is a big problem for the elite because they are the children of the core supporters of the elite. They cannot just open fire on them as they did on the NE "buffaloes" in 2010.

The sweet music if closing arguments! ????

"According to Kaplan, Trump and his lawyers want the jury to believe Carroll and the other witnesses in her case are a part of a huge “hoax” to take down the former president. “The big lie,” Kaplan called it.

“There is only one person here who is lying and that person is Donald Trump,” Kaplan said.

In order to side with Trump’s defense, “You’d need to conclude that Donald Trump, the nonstop liar, is the only person in this room telling the truth.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/08/politics/trump-carroll-closing-arguments/index.html

27 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Somehow, aside from the usual government hand wringing and fear mongering, I can only imagine what would have happened had the Previous Occupant of the White House been in a similar situation. Son with a drug habit, an expensive hooker habit, dated his brother's widow,  impregnated a stripper... I am sure the press would have been sympathetic and not seen any connection whatsoever with the father's administration. 

A very significant difference: unlike Trump, Biden did not employ his familly at the WH.

4 hours ago, Trippy said:

The evidence is that nothing happens to them no matter what they do. 

Here he talks about getting a prosecutor in Ukraine fired for investigating Hunter:

 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=797504800724150

You are not up to date. Keep up with 2020 news! 

It has already been investigated by a GOP led Senate committee, and they found nothing, as usual.

Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden

https://www.nytimes.com/

4 minutes ago, dotcalm said:

Can ANYONE say they can trust the various Intel and law enforcement agencies's now in America with all the underhanded and corrupt practices of the FBI, DOJ, and others since the fake Russian dossier debacle, fully endorsed by a corrupt and culpable co-conspiring FB!

 

This is the problem, the 2 tiered justice system is getting caught in it's own web of deceit and corruption and if the recent whistleblower disclosure re the pay for policy bribery report the the FBI bears out on Wednesday as per the subpoena to FBI Wray to produce the report

Laughable, her, and on the global stage. The evidence is growing, including whistleblower accounts, bank records (emphasis on corruption). Standby, Comer will give a presser updating the status WRT to Biden crime family oversight investigations and the evidence to date. Either Comer is delusional or Biden is going to get nuked real soon.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/comer-subpoenas-wray-fbi-form-biden

 

The subpoena seeks all so-called FD-1023 forms and accompanying attachments and documents.

 

"The White House said it was the latest example in the years-long series of “unfounded, unproven” political attacks against Biden by Republicans ”floating anonymous innuendo.”

 

Well, if it is innuendo, then the WH, Biden, the FBI can either produce to document and show how the FBI investigated this repot and their conclusions. Easy-peasy, unless you're hiding something.

 

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-subpoena-biden-family-republicans-whistleblower-allegations-add7012e9076e546d62d250e3ba33fd0

So they have nothing again.

8 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

sorry, can you explain the relevance your misleading comments on election denialism (which both parties are guilty of) to this thread about biden finally getting his turn to face jail? Who are you talking about that "only accept results that they like regardless of the truth" is that the democrat election deniers, the republican election deniers or both? And again, relevance?

You can post it as many times as you want, it will not make it true. The Dems never claimed the 2016 elections were rigged, that there was massive fraud, etc... as Trump and a GOP politicians did.