candide

22 hours ago, h90 said:

they were legally ousted from power.....as the winner writes the book of history and in this case they wrote that into the constitution.
But beside that: Thailand was on the brink of a civil war with already injured and death people + massive economic damage.
Specially in the coup against his sister, Prayut tried till the last minute to negotiate a peaceful solution. Which would have been the PM to visit the king and telling that she is unable to govern the country and ask for an emergency government. They hoped that than the king would call in a temporary government from bureaucracy and retired respected people which pacify the country and call for new elections.
The government rejected that. The alternative would have been civil war with all the tourism goes down to nothing. There was already talks that the complete South declares itself an independend country, under the king but not under Bangkok rule.
There was also already a tax boycott many companies didn't pay taxes anymore and revenue department did not enforce anything anymore.

Are you really buying this fairy tale?

There was no brink of civil war. Suthep's mob was spreading thin as money was getting short. He failed.

Yingluck was already ousted by the judiciary and the government was already in caretaker mode since January. New elections were scheduled by the EC for July. That was the objective of the coup: prevent the Thai people from electing a government.

The protest coup failed, the judicial coup failed (they had no ground to oust the whole government), so the only way to avoid elections was a military coup.

42 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

No, I am merely acknowledging that putting a lot of time and effort into gathering up the information would be a waste of time.

 

The biggest would be that (I think) mail-in ballots overwhelming favored President Biden, which is not a surprise, but that the rejection rate plummeted. 

 

 

This has been debunked, same as the other irregularities you did not have time to gather.

24 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Oh the sheer privilege, NYT having a tantrum because it lost the blue tick it felt entitled too. Would have been easier to just pay the $8. As we have repeatedly been told over the years, Twitter is a private company, if you don't like its terms and conditions you can stop using it. Simple.

You should read the news more carefully. It's Musk having a tantrum, not the NYT

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

It’s a good question, here’s my take.

 

Outside the USA, a lot of people in the western world see no real problems caused by Trump's policies over 4 years.

 

However, that same group can see the damage caused by Biden's policies over only 2+ years.

 

Most of these people recognize that as the USA loses global influence, then their own countries become more vulnerable. So, if you remove the character assassinations, political bias and hatred, you might see why Trump still has so much support, at home and abroad....whatever the media says!

     

Nice fairy tale!

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Does anyone take a man that wears horns seriously?

 

Did he actually do anything bad other than run around shouting? If he did it must have been off camera, as I didn't see it.

He was convicted for obstructing an official proceeding. Isn't it what he did?

2 hours ago, 2009 said:

Which part of what I said is BS?

Here's what I said: 

 

"He's getting done for an accounting error, because he didn't account for the hush money he allegedly paid."

 

This is true, right? 

 

'While the previous presidents got away with war crimes."

 

Maybe you disagree with this part? 

 

"And they can't seem to arrest anyone in the Biden family even though they have Hunter Biden's laptop with evidence of hundreds of serious crimes. I wonder why? Maybe cos his dad is acting as the president. Yet, they can arrest Trump with just a testimony from a porn star"

 

Are you aware of the contents of Hunter Biden laptop and who in the Biden Family is criminally implicated? If they had this much dirt on Trump, they'd have a field day.

The only accurate statement is the one about war crimes (to some extent).

- Accounting error: not can error

- Hundreds of crimes: not true, and irrelevant as Hunter is not a politician. And there is not much incriminating matter in the laptop.

- Arrest with just a testimony from a prostitute: also not true.

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Don’t you think you have that backwards? Because you might start by asking the question why Russia took his kids in the first place. And where all the other tens of thousands of Ukrainian children are that they took, and why Russia feels it needs to kidnap so many children from Ukraine. 
And FYI, the Russian authorities did make the Ukrainian father jump through many hoops before he was allowed to take his children back to Ukraine. 

And the reason is well-known!

Quotes From the article:

"The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 is currently at the same level as those in Haiti."

"Meanwhile in 2021, there were approximately 1.04 million more deaths than births recorded in Russia, according to Statistica."

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/russia-population-drop/

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

And Jared Kushner did not get Millions from the Saudis? Your out on a tiny limb that's going to break....

Actually, it was billions.  So about 1000 times what Hunter received.

That's a reasonable amount for corruption at the WH level. The MAGA folks don't even realise that a few millions are absolutely peanuts and not worth becoming corrupt for it

20 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

You're almost funny - almost. 

The red shirts have been created in reaction to the yellow shirts. That's fact. No yellow shirts, no red shirts.

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

BRICS = population 3.238 Billion = 40% of world population/economic markets, not counting control of precious elements/mineral resources needing for just about everything.

 

RU friends with India + China, who controls the economies of most ASEAN countries.

 

NATO ... please, don't make me laugh ????

 

 

 

 

 

The BRICS are not constituting an alliance and may have diverging or even conflicting interests (ex. India and China). 

Moreover, because of Putin's incompetence and corruption, Russia is an economic dwarf. The BRICS make most of their trade with NATO countries and their allies (SK, Japan, OZ,)

Meanwhile....

2 hours ago, heybruce said:

There were recounts, audits, and rulings by Republican and Trump appointed judges.  All reached the same conclusion, the election was fair and the result legitimate.  No allegation of fraud stood up to any kind of scrutiny.  What will a "proper, independent investigation" investigate?

It's pathetic that we already discussed it extensively long time ago, and some people still come up with the same election fraud B.S.

It's hopeless.....

The least but not the last one.....????

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

And who was it that allowed Putin to take Donbass and Crimea to start with, who never supplied arms to Ukraine and who dismantled part of missile defense? 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

And who was it that allowed Putin to take Donbass and Crimea to start with, who never supplied arms to Ukraine and who dismantled part of missile defense? 

 

 

 

Obama has been too cautious about Russia  and did not perceive the extent of the threat. It was a big mistake.

At least, unlike Trump, he did not approve the invasion of Crimea.

"Within weeks, Trump praised Putin for how he handled the takeover of Crimea and predicted that “the rest of Ukraine will fall … fairly quickly.” Echoing Kremlin propaganda, Trump said in a TV interview that the Crimean people “would rather be with Russia,” a position he also pushed in private. One of his 2016 campaign aides falsely claimed that “Russia did not seize Crimea.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/26/politics/trump-putin-ukraine/index.html