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Perhaps you have miscalculated. If as you suggest they are banned the day before the election then a very large number of people will care very much. Even the most ardent of democracy hating neo fascists would think twice about pulling a stroke like that! Even one as committed as you surely? I'd stock up on lots of cool soft drinks and roses for your favourite soldiers if I were you! Although I doubt if it would stop your favourite bus stop being torched again!

Probably not. However, we may also consider whether there have been any who have received such threats as the result of such public instigation by a defendant who is a former President, and candidate for the next Presidency? I suspect not - and that is the difference.

Hours of entertainment to come - especially with the catfights over his vice presidential slot!

I see his masterplan now - go through the swamp turning over all the large flat stones on the bottom, never mind what creatures come scuttling out, he may find a drain valve!

That last point, "Not attempt to persuade voters to vote or not to vote for candidates", rather removes the point of having an election campaign. Still I suppose it will come in handy when the disqualifications start flying around.

Yeehah! Bang bang, oops! The reality of course is that the argument put forward by "Charlie Kirk" is so disgusting, disgraceful and foul as to be obscene!

The (large) number of protesters marching in Tennessee pretty much hit the nail on the head with their chant: " You ban votes, You ban drag, Kids are still in body bags."

Makes a change from becoming a monk. Needs a tighter uniform.

Did you ever see the "Wizard of Oz"? You know what they discovered when they actually dared to do the unthinkable and looked behind the curtain?

Impressive declaration, but peel away the layers; watch your constant stream of posts belittling the Thai voters, ranting wildly about Thaksin and his party, and even lately repeatedly calling for the death of Thaksin and his family (!) and it is quite obvious, as @pegmanquite rightly points out that you really do hate democracy. You simply cannot accept that people may not follow the same political trajectory as you, and have nothing but contempt for the consistently expressed wish of the Thai people.

Well he certainly seems to expect special treatment - just perhaps not the sort he is getting!

They will try, no doubt. I am less than convinced that it will work this time, certainly without serious opposition. A number of "dynamics" have changed. In particular one very specific "dynamic" which exercised immense control over popular reaction, has changed dramatically.

Probably will be jolly busy - 3 weeks after he lost the election, he will be well into "coup mode" by then. I wonder what Orwellian title the Junta will give themselves this time? "National Council for maintaining the quality of condensed milk on coconut ice-cream"?

I bought a 2TB thumbdrive for very little money on Lazada. I thought at the time it was surprisingly cheap. Imagine my surprise when it didn't work properly - once it gets to 150 GB or so everything is corrupted!

I wonder if he is using the word in it's medieval English sense - hotdogs do make my dog fart! Although to be honest, and of course one should never stereotype, but he does look and sound like an unlikely Chaucerian scholar!

Umh, where to start? It can only been determined that Trump ( or anyone else) has broken the law, if an investigation finds evidence. The evidence is then used in a prosecution to attempt to prove that the law has been broken. Now, an investigation to try and find such evidence is, by definition, somewhat one sided. Where impartiality comes into the process is when the evidence is presented before a court. As for "going full socialist" I would suggest that the USA is more likely to end up more like a dystopian "thugocracy" in the vein of the "Mad Max" movie franchise than it is to become a socialist state. Neither is particularly likely, but there are certainly those on the right who would wish to dismantle or pervert the checks and balances, and agencies, which serve to prevent society from breaking down. Maybe, like the Bolsheviks of old, they see the opportunity of power in chaos?

Please tell me you are taking the Mickey? I mean, if you really think that there are communists on the supreme court you are so divorced from reality that you must be living in a parrallel universe!

Should fit the mould for his previous legal teams then...

Both of whom have no interest in collective security, but see it as leverage for their own political advantage. Both countries have leaders, of dubious democratic provenance, who wish to strengthen their own internal positions.

And no doubt a whole new set of "aqua- diverse pronouns" to choose from!

Was the "rice pledge scheme" anything like the recently introduced scheme for the sugar cane farmers? I just thought I would ask?

There goes Richard Branson's favourite bus stop again!

And people wonder why the Thais think - oh never mind! If I was sitting next to you on an airplane and you were coughing and hawking catarrh I would ask you to wear a mask. If you refused I would be tempted to suggest to you that you were a dirty, self centered, self entitled so and so!

Registration is a vital precursor to the "election process". Once a candidate is registered with the electoral commission they are basically controlled by a "government agency", which hugely assists in the at times necessary business of "sifting" a candidates background to ensure he or she is acceptable. The actual voting bit is often peripheral to a candidate's prospects of election. Candidates can have their candidacy blocked, or be barred, disqualified and or banned from political activity both before and after voting once registered.

So who has got it now then?