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1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

no shortage of facemasks and they were readily available to the public for Bt2.5 apiece, Sira said.

 

The only ones I saw in Chiang Rai last week were going for B29 each in a local supermarket.

We know what has happened though don't we - virtually the entire stock pile of the damned things has been sold to China - allegedly in a scam involving government officials.

The tentacles of corruption...

8 minutes ago, Yinn said:

 

I know you will agree with your elected leader Yinn.

???

Umh, I rather thought that Poster of the Year was a recognition of the entertainment value of someones posts rather than any sort of election to a leadership post!

39 minutes ago, Yinn said:

I read worse about Thai on TVF 90% thread. Worse than he say.

Perhaps so, although I would dispute that percentage; however the bolshie old TVF posters being rude about Thais, and revealing their bigotry are neither identified as, nor demanding the respect due, to a deputy prime minister and the senior minister charged with the countries responses to the pandemic.

What does matter is that any Thai contribution to, involvement with, and possibly assistance with managing the outbreak here or internationally, is probably compromised by this chumps ranting. It is a global pandemic, and the Thai health minister has demonstrated that he is a buffoon, to the globe and on a global scale!

You are Thai, I live here, and perhaps we should both be concerned, if not despairing that this country has just made itself an international laughing stock, in and over events which probably demonstrate the greatest need for international co-operation in the last twenty years?

1 hour ago, zhounan said:

The judicial system is killing Thanathorn, and it won't even open an investigation against certain members of the government, this shows how corrupt this Country is from the inside out.

And, of course, these sorts of antics make it more obvious in the International arena!

The dinosaurs cannot control social media, which worries them. Now one of the leading dinosaurs has tried to use it and machine gunned his feet! Whilst everybody, worldwide, is watching. That dinosaur is the one in charge of the nations responses to the pandemic.

29 minutes ago, bangkokfrog said:

I hope this guy has good security. He is certainly painting a larger and larger target on his back.

I wonder, is he setting himself up to be jailed, to start his "movement", and gambling on his international exposure to ensure that he survives?

51 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Just because the Gulfstream has cones around it does not mean it was satisfactorily parked or that the Lao ground crew backing and guiding the airbus out enough to properly avoid interaction with the Gulfstream. My guess is on the ground crew screwup.

Yes, but the damage to the Thai aircraft was on the leading edge of the wing - so presumably it was being "driven" out forwards, not backed out.

1 minute ago, holy cow cm said:

And who would have thought it would be anything different coming from the cancerous regime. I called this from day one. Only problem is those top guys have self immunity and are untouchables or they would have been in prison a long long time ago.

 

Another truly sad day for Thailand. 

If (when) the "wheels come off" all the self granted immunity in the world will not help them. It will end in frantic convoys of limousines to the airport, or worse...

21 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

For me Thanathorn was tainted the moment he started to work together with Thaksin. That's an unforgivable sinn for anybody who wants to be seen as honest and not corrupt.

 

That does not mean Thanathorn doesn't have any good ideas. But simply I don't see how we can trust him with that Thaksin connection.

It is not for you to trust him, but for the Thai people to trust him. Thanathorn's support base are fully aware of what are perceived as Thaksin's faults , they also are aware of the  depth of the support for him which remains, especially  amongst a lot of older people. If you preach a philosophy  of harnessing and establishing a diverse population wide movement to replace the current authoritarian regime, then you must work with that group, and trust them.

Interesting  choice of venue and audience. Much harder to Trump up charges against him with the meeting "on the record" in this way - diplomatic presence their as well.

Of course everything that was said will be out on social media as well.

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why is it that in Thailand the poor need billionaires to fight for democracy - or at least what those billionaires call democracy?

And if one of those billionaires fails because he enriched himself but didn't do much for the people then another billionaire is ready to take over. Democracy - Thai billionaire style. Amazing Thailand!

 

A billionaire such as Thanathorn is not affected by the immense power of patronage wielded by those who call the shots in this society. Nor is he as vulnerable to any "sanctions " which they may choose to impose.

Therefore someone like him has greater freedom to voice his views, and lead others. That makes him both more effective,  a "natural leader" in the context of Thailand opposition  politics, and a threat/worry to the establishment. 

He has a long hard road ahead. I hope he succeeds,  his view of Thailand is the one  in which I want my daughter to live. 

20 minutes ago, SpanishExpat said:

The strategy of those morons is obvious! Basically all new cases infected themselves out of Thailand showing how great their measures within Thailand are. Even if the virus spreads much less with the climate here, Thailand would be the only country worldwide with just isolated cases not spreading further around the population. It`s close to impossible, that a person carrying the virus doesn`t spread it on plane, in the public transportation etc.

Don't forget Thailand has never been colonised, not even by a virus!