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I suppose it depends where you keep your mobile phone...

Well certainly his umh, defence, in this civil case, will hardly be helped by his "locker room" boasts of "grabbing pussy" and his habit of roaming the dressing rooms at various beauty pageants! Still, live by the sword and all that...

He lived and worked (?) in New York for most of his life. Go figure!

No, diplomats are not elected. The governments these diplomats represent however are.

She accused him long before he launched his "run". Prior to his Presidency he used his lawyers, his perceived status and his wealth to prevent it going to court. While he was in the White House last time the courts would not touch it. If he is proven to be a rapist then that should have some bearing on 2024. Or do you dismiss it as "Aw shucks, just Donald being Donald"?

One cannot but sympathise with the poor chap and his noble followers. The cost of keeping the cold drinks on ice, ready for distribution for the spontaneous demonstration of support to the military must have skyrocketed. And let us not even consider the cost of the bulk refrigeration of the cut flowers to hand out to the soldiers!

They might raise their eyebrows if that party was predicted to win. Especially if that party had already been prevented from winning by coups and interventions in three previous elections. Perhaps they don't share your utter contempt for democracy, and the expressed political choice of the electorate. And don't waste bandwidth by bleating pathetically about how you really just wish that the Thai people would vote for responsible politicians. There can be very few here that fail to understand that what you really mean is that they should only vote for the candidate you favour. Why don't you trot along and arrange the flowers and cool boxes full of soft drinks, so you can pay your impromptu and spontaneous homage to the neofascists when they make their move?

I don't agree with the death penalty. I think that this man was convicted and executed on weak, circumstantial evidence. However it is in no way comparable with the medieval savagery of filling barrels with the decapitated heads of your political opponents or of those that you regard as apostates, nor with the slaughter, mass rape and enslavement of the Yasidi people.

That is what happens ( on both sides of the political divide) when you get a gerontocracy dominated by big financial donors.

Bullseye. It extends all the way down through the legal system. I personally am starting to think that the US judicial system is fatally politically compromised.

Well yes, but then the Philippines are a far more "outward looking" society, and their education reflects that. I suspect that the same applies to Malaysia and Singapore.

Why? I ask because as an "outside observer" I know little about her, so it is a genuine question. I must assume that your fears are not based on the two indisputable facts that she is mixed race and female, so why is she so frightening?

Perhaps not so much a Presidential "run" as a "dodder"! Have the Democrats really got nobody else? What a mess - across the board!

It does read as if these 100 seats will be doled out by the EC with no regard to the votes cast: so if a party has a clear majority of the popular vote it gets one seat, but half a dozen parties, each with a small share of the popular vote ( low single figure %), in coalition will get half a dozen seats! It does look that gerrymandered party list seats will be an important tool in the plan to steal the election.

When Suthep Thausugban unleashed his very carefully planned comprehensive plan to destroy the election and prepare the ground for the coup, he also issued a number of not so subtle threats to the state owned banks to ensure that the pledges would never be met.

Oh I hope you are right.

A hub?

Equal healthcare? No one gets any - very equal.

Since the coup which started the close down of the Shinewatra political clan was 16 years ago, and the older generations are in exile, it is inevitable that Paetongtarn has little in the way of political experience. Mind you, few if any of the others have experience of actually fighting and winning elections on policies or past performance - Prawit and Prayut anyone?

If there are other suites pending (as we understand there are) will "Tucker Carlson said it but we have fired him" be an effective defence? I thought that is what editors are for.

Very altruistic of you to "be fair". Fairness is however not a virtue which as far as I can see Carlson preaches or practices - in fact I doubt he would recognise it if it fell on his head! Still, a noble gesture. I'll stick to taking the piss if you don't mind!????

It is nothing but a cacophobic and perhaps even a Cacomorphobic knee jerk reaction!

"English style fish and chips"? No need to look any further to see that the man is a total liar!

I wonder what will happen to all that video footage from the "peaceful protest by concerned citizens" on January 6th last year, which was made available to Carlson and Carlson only? Will it go with him, stay with Fox or now be made available to all?

A gobby <deleted> who likes stating the obvious?