billd766

Please hold your breath while you are waiting, You won't get a response anyway. I try to read a thread one post at a time, however it will be quicker now, as I don't need to read and respond to your posts anymore.

Just like me? he rather see pot heads in jail for something that should be legal the way it is in many countries in the west... I am confused that you put your words in my mouth. Please show my post where I said put the potheads in jail? Why should I bother to tell you anything. You will only twist my words anyway.

Are you willing to pay the entire cost of a referendum from your own pocket? IMHO it should be paid for by Anutin and the BJP

Why should he stay out of it? he has exactly the same rights to post as you do. Unless you only like posters that agree with you, on topics that you rant about.

Nice rant. How about some figure to back it up. I quite believe that it is your opinion, but that does not mean it is the majority of the Thai peoples opinion. You also claim the the polls against weed are all BS, If you don't like the results of them, then why not commission your own poll? Only include Thais in it, as they are the ones with the votes and who may possibly be able to exert some pressure on the government. Good luck with that.

Try doing a search for yourself as many people do. As I usually do I have provided a link and an excerpt but the whole item is 12 pages long and this is just the first page to give you an idea. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf When he came into office, President Biden believed the right thing for the country was to end the longest war in American history and bring American troops home. As he laid out to the American people, after twenty years, the United States had accomplished its mission in Afghanistan: to remove from the battlefield the terrorists who attacked the United States on 9/11, including Osama bin Laden, and degrade the terrorist threat to the United States. Over two decades, the United States had also—along with our NATO allies and partners—spent hundreds of billions of dollars training and equipping the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and supporting successive Afghan governments. At the outset, America’s goal was never to nation-build. But, over time, this is what America drifted into doing. Two decades after the war had started, America had become bogged down in a war in Afghanistan with unclear objectives and no end in sight and was underinvesting in today’s and tomorrow’s national security challenges. President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor. When President Trump took office in 2017, there were more than 10,000 troops in Afghanistan. Eighteen months later, after introducing more than 3,000 additional troops just to maintain the stalemate, President Trump ordered direct talks with the Taliban without consulting with our allies and partners or allowing the Afghan government at the negotiating table. In September 2019, President Trump emboldened the Taliban by publicly considering inviting them to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11. In February 2020, the United States and the Taliban reached a deal, known as the Doha Agreement, under which the United States agreed to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 2021. In return, the Taliban agreed to participate in a peace process and refrain from attacking U.S. troops and threatening Afghanistan’s major cities—but only as long as the United States remained committed to withdraw by the agreement’s deadline. As part of the deal, President Trump also pressured the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison, including senior war commanders, without securing the release of the only American hostage known to be held by the Taliban. Over his last 11 months in office, President Trump ordered a series of drawdowns of U.S. troops. By June 2020, President Trump reduced U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 8,600. In September 2020, he directed a further draw down to 4,500. A month later, President Trump tweeted, to the surprise of military advisors, that the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be “home by Christmas!” On September 28, 2021, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley testified that, on November 11, he had received an unclassified signed order directing the U.S. military to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan no later than January 15, 2021. One week later, that order was rescinded and replaced with one to draw down to 2,500 troops by the same date. During the transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration, the outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. Indeed, there were no such plans in place when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal just over three months away. There are another 11 pages in the link.

Kari Lake lost by over 17,000 votes. It is time to grow up, accept the result as any normal person would and try again next time. As my form master told me decades ago. You must try harder. Whining and moaning doesn't change the result. Only harder work can do that.

Instead of just ditching the albatross, why not ditch the gop as well. They are the ones holding the USA back. Perhaps they will at the next election, who knows?

Perhaps that lie is to big for even them to swallow and regurgitate.

IIRC in Thailand nobody actually votes for the PM. Unless the winning party gets the majority of seats in Parliament they need to form a coalition with other parties to gain the majority. If they cannot form a coalition within a certain time period, then the party who came second get a chance to form a coalition. If they are successful then that coalition becomes the government. Unfortunately under the last military coup government rewrote the Thai constitution (they usually do) and gave the power to select the PM to the senate, who do as they are told. Hence, of the 3 candidates submitted, Srettha was selected. The Thai people had no voice, choice or power in the matter. I may have missed out or forgotten things but I am sure that somebody will correct me if I have.

The only thing that would surprise me about those two and the military would be if there were no more military coups.

Maybe he didn't pay taxes and maybe he did. I have no idea, but if he didn't perhaps you have the links to prove it. I have no idea if taxes would have to be paid or not. It would be down to the Stock Exchange of Thailand and the Thai IRD to sort out.

I am in favour of anybody who was legally elected and removed from power by an illegal military coup. Do you support a military coup over that of a legally elected government? I don't demand anything, and in case you are unsure, anything that is posted on a public forum can be answered by anybody else, whether you agree and like it or not. I gave my own opinion which is not the one you gave when you used the word "we". You do NOT speak for everyone, only for yourself, and perhaps others who may agree with you. You certainly DO NOT speak for me.

I am awake and have been since 6am. YOU are the one that brought the USA and Afghanistan into the topic. Instead of blaming the USA, do a search to find out who pulled the US troops out of Afghanistan and set the time limits. Who negotiated with the Taliban and did NOT bother to talk to the elected Afghan government, but it wasn't President Biden. Try his predecessor for size and you will be much closer.

Who is "we"? If you are including everybody in the word "we", then only speak for yourself because you are certainly NOT speaking for me. Perhaps when you say "we", you only mean you and the people who agree with you, which is not everybody.

FYI try doing a little research first. https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/cold-war/soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan/#:~:text=The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,%2C nine-year civil war. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began on 24 December 1979. Within days, Soviet troops had been air-dropped into Afghan cities, heavy artillery had breached the border, and the KGB had poisoned the Afghan president and his ministers. The invasion sparked a bloody, nine-year civil war. The conflict would see approximately one million citizens lose their lives, the country razed to ruins, and ultimately contribute to the downfall of the Soviet Union. https://www.britannica.com/event/Soviet-invasion-of-Afghanistan The war in Afghanistan became a quagmire for what by the late 1980s was a disintegrating Soviet Union. (The Soviets suffered some 15,000 dead and many more injured.) Despite having failed to implement a sympathetic regime in Afghanistan, in 1988 the Soviet Union signed an accord with the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and agreed to withdraw its troops. The Soviet withdrawal was completed on February 15, 1989, and Afghanistan returned to nonaligned status. There is more in the link, and there are more links if you wish to look for them.

I don't think that it is all Thais pleading for yet another military coup. If it is anybody then it will probably be elder yellow shirts and elder ultra-royalists, and they are dying off and not being replaced.

I wonder where these protesters were when Thaksin was overthrown in an illegal military coup back in 2006. If they supported the coup, then IMO they should have been in jail for life for treasonous acts against the elected government along with every general and senior officers.

Of course. That is why I do an internet search for topics, but only if I am interested in the subject, Otherwise with no links it is only my opinion, which if it is unsupported, isn't worth more than anybody else's.

Firstly I am not a comrade oy yours and never would be. Secondly, I did not claim that the reference from Britannia was the first reference. Thirdly in your earlier post you that Palestine has never existed claimed, so how, according to you did it exist in AD. Fourthly you claim that the Quran states that Allah gave the land to Muslims. Are Palestinians not Muslims? If you want to follow that up, according to the Jewish holy book, their god promised them Israel over 5,000 years ago. I have no idea what the Quran says as I have never read it, nor have I read the Jewish holy book or even the Christian bible. Have you read all 3 cover to cover?

Do you ever do any research or read up history before you spout rubbish? https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Palestine Try reading and doing some research on Palestine which dates back to 636CE and older. More BS from you.

Which terrorists would that be?

From the way that I read the thread, Suzuki will stop making ICE small cars and trucks. From the OP Despite the factory closure, Suzuki plans to maintain its presence in Thailand by importing vehicles, including new electric and hybrid models, from other ASEAN member countries, Japan, and India. So it appears that the Suzuki company will not be leaving Thailand, but they will be concentrating on a different segment of the market in the future. So it appears that the Suzuki company will not be leaving Thailand, but they will be concentrating on a different segment of the market in the future.

It is a problem that is world wide, especially against older people.

Proof once again, in the face of unsubstantiated allegations.