MrMojoRisin

6 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Do you believe that........or it is just enthusiasm? I would be surprised if he was second!

He is the leader of a motivated mass movement that will only grow in numbers as the demography shifts towards younger generations.

Who, right now in Thailand, could call the people to the streets and have that call answered by perhaps a million souls?

1 hour ago, cncltd1973 said:

I seriously doubt Pita will be allowed the seat, and I like the guy a lot. it really doesn't matter what the people think here. the system is designed here to the benefit of a few,  and there is enough to deny Pita if they want. they had tanks rolled in to overthrow an elected government. if they want to pull the rug under Pita on technicalities, then it's even easier this time. sorry to say

Times change.

Pita has been drawing large crowds nearly everyday AFTER the election.

He is already the most powerful person in Thailand.

Not sorry to say - he will be PM in short order.

On 5/17/2023 at 7:46 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

I hope he retires and has a happy life.

I think he was one of the best politicians Thailand ever had. And certainly the best PM from the last decades.

But until now the majority of Thais clearly didn't want a smart and honest leader.

Let's see what will happen now.

 

You’re endorsement of this sad, inept, complicit and cowardly man is a savage indictment against him.

3 hours ago, h90 said:

2010: Was that the red shirt protests....
Where the military lost several people due to gunfire from your civilians...had to fall back and get weapons.
The last 2 coups were without blood....but yes 30 or 50 years earlier it was a different world......But 1976 even Prayuth was young boy

Military lost 6 people.

Civilians lost 80+ people with over 2100 wounded

The 2008 coup led directly to the 2010 bloodshed.

There has only been 1 “bloodless” coup after 2010 (how surprising you once again get a simple fact wrong).

51 minutes ago, h90 said:

They did not win enough to rule alone so they must compromise with others. They got like 36% (don't have the number) at a 75% turnout. So 73% did not vote for them. Means they must compromise and try to unite people.

How are they acting like spoilt brats?
 

They are getting on perfectly fine with their coalition partners, the only issue is the UNELECTED Senators. Why should anyone compromise with unrepresentative swill?

Given that the MF coalition controls nearly 2/3s of the lower house seats, I’d say the people are pretty well united.

What percentage of people did not vote for Prayuth? (Hint, starts with a 9)

2 hours ago, anchadian said:

Ousted & fugitive former premier Yingluck Shinwatra tweeted Mon, 9 yrs after May 22, 2014 coup led by Gen Prayut, that Thais have spoken during last week's election that "they won't put up with those who illegitimately came to power any longer"

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1660478748045762563

 

She is correct.

2 hours ago, Purdey said:

Woe, woe and thrice woe.

There appear those who believe the people are to be listened to... And if not, that they shall rise against the oppressor with pitchforks and small arms.

While the oppressor has tanks. 

What good are tanks that cannot be used.

The junta has been checkmated.

It is over.

11 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Yes, the people have enough tanks and airplanes of course to rise against the military. Not.

The military has never backed down from a fight against unarmed young people. Thammasart 1976 for instance. 

Thai troops crushed a demonstration against the country's new military-backed prime minister in 1992 after opening fire on crowds protesting the arrest of a key opposition leader.

At least 24 people died in Bangkok as government troops shot civilians in 2010.

Yes, nonsense indeed.

Watch…., and learn.

8 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

The old guard will somehow ferment riots, mercilessly crush the 'uprising', saving the Thai people, and then allow the military back into power......guaranteed.

Nope.

5 minutes ago, h90 said:

a) There is no "my side"

b) how does the private sector want higher minimum salary and left leaning politics?

a) pro junta is your side - if you are unsure, just go and read your posting history.

b) The private sector, like nearly every other Thai, simply want the incompetent, inept and corrupt junta gone - at any price.

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

Timing couldn't be worse. MF hasn't been rejected as a government. Senators are concerned an MF government will lead to street protests. Now they will be proven correct.

Waiting to allow the MF party to get support from the Senate before these rash provocations. Demonstrations are hardly likely to convince that MF can lead. 

Nonsense.

The people finally have their foot on the throat of the elites - time to ram the victory home.

2 hours ago, h90 said:

There are 60+ year old people who still believe that this time if only this party wins everything will change to the better
But maybe, maybe this time it is real a good guy

D-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n.

You have lost.

The quicker you get through the denial phase, the better off you will be.

Time to enjoy life in a democracy.

On 5/18/2023 at 7:04 PM, LogicThai said:

I am not sure that the Lèse Majesté law is so big of a problem, honestly.

It is quite reasonable for a country to have a law specifically protecting the constitutional head of state against slander and personal attack. Many democratic countries have such laws in place, and not just monarchies, actually, some republics have it too.

 

Nonsense.

The law has been written in such a way to allow it to be easily abused.

3 hours ago, sidneybear said:

Money, as you correctly alluded to in your first post to me. So called green energy, and the technology that surrounds it, requires more investment, and it's more expensive. 

 

So 99% of the worlds scientists and experts in climate related fields are all conspiring against science and facts to hopefully turn a buck in green energy?

Ultracrepidarian springs to mind.

3 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

Net Zero is all about replacing affordable and reliable energy with unaffordable and unreliable energy, with one or another industry profiting regardless. After all, neither the fossil fuel nor the wind/solar energy indutries are charities, both having shareholders who expect dividends and capital growth. Among the paying public, though, there will be a backlash, as we're seeing elsewhere. 

The fossil fuel and clean(er) energy industries each have different externalities.

What do you think is the motivation of wanting to move away from fossil fuels to clean(er) energy?

1 hour ago, sidneybear said:

That's right. Net Zero policies mean that energy costs increase drastically, and with that comes the prospect of civil unrest, or intervention to boot out the government of the kind we've seen before. Net Zero is an industry with very compelling PR and lobbying, but it doesn't benefit Thai people one bit.

Destroying the planet benefits who? Oil profits can <deleted> off - I’d rather not have any extinction level climate catastrophes… seems to me to be slightly more important than Exxons quarterly report numbers.

1 hour ago, Roadman said:

Prayut is probably happy that MF has come out on top in the civilian parties lolly scramble.

Personally think he will be ensuring that MF leadership and party are not kneecapped in their bid to form the lower house. That then keeps the corrupt Shinawatra mafia clan under control and gives MF this election cycle to gain a stronger following and gain a stronger poll result next election.

The opposite of that is if MF leadership is knee capped then the Shinawatra mafia trash gets their hands on leadership and Thailand then stays in the constant cycle of the last 25 years of Shinawatra corruption and Army incompetence. 

For Thailand's sake MF needs to lead the civilian government with Prayut's acceptance. 

You could not be more wrong, which, to be honest, is par for the course with you Thaksin obsessives.

Prayuth and the military are extremely conservative - they want all things to stay as they are, the rich getting richer and remaining above the law whilst the poor continue to wallow in misery in silence.

MF are the most progressive party - they are at the opposite end of the spectrum to the conservatives and unlike Thaksin, they have no interest in coexisting with the “establishment”. MF is terminal to the elites way of life, PT is not.

BTW - Prayuth is now irrelevant, as such, his acceptance or non acceptance of anything is irrelevant.

5 hours ago, NanLaew said:

So you missed the Eton and Oxford-educated Abhisit's brief flight as leader before he flew too close to the sun?

Abhisit is where he belongs - lost in irrelevancy due to his ineptness and treachery to Thai democracy.