spidermike007

Thanks, I appreciate that. I'm actually not a pessimistic guy but I guess I use this forum to vent a bit! I do believe that 20 years ago there were alot more high-end tourists. I personally know some very wealthy people who came here and said they would never return. The primary reasons? 1. It was too difficult to get around. No private helicopter service and very few private planes and jets available. No high speed trains, and the highways are too clogged and dangerous. 2. The wife couldn't shop because luxury goods were too overpriced. 3. They couldn't get their favorite bottles of wine with dinner and if they could find them they were five times what they were used to paying at home. They said that was enough reason to never come back. And the authorities have done nothing to improve the experience for this type of tourist.

Seeing him locked up would be a lot of fun and very gratifying, but seeing some members of his family locked up, the subordinate crime sons, would be even more fun.

Top ranked RTP. Guilty until proven innocent!

As if these goons do not already siphon enough of the annual budget. And what do the people get in return? Where are the regional threats? Why such an inordinate level of power? If anything, the Armed Forces here need to be denied access to more funds.

Well, that is what his well oiled PR machine wants you to believe. I recall constant press conferences, an obsessive hogging of the limelight, and alot of highly ignorant statements coming from this goon. It continued as deputy police chief. That is just who he is.

The government's tourism goals include 80 million tourists by 2027. Wow. At 40 million over crowding, misbehavior of low end tourists, and a myriad of other problems are seemingly beyond control. Double that? Yikes. The quality of life would diminish for everyone. And how do you expand an airport like Swampy? It is already enormous. The walk to and from the gates feels like 2 km. or longer. Quantity over quality. A hallmark of an inept administration without any vision. PM Srettha in a nutshell.

It would be such a beautiful thing to witness this goon being locked up, because he could not control himself. He believes himself to be above any and all laws. This is a "witch hunt", after all. Hoping and dreaming of this fantasy.

People just don't realize the kind of money involved, for the top clowns in the RTP pyramid scheme, like Torsak and the Joke. It would sure be nice to see some of them convicted. It would demonstrate a true step forward. As the wife of a crook, she should pay a heavy price for his crimes. Same applies to their kids. They benefitted from the ill gotten wealth. At a minimum they should be subject to great humiliation and outed.

These increasing events are an indication of the lower end tourists Thailand is now attracting. There are many reasons for this, which we have gone over, time and again. Violence is rarely ever called for, especially over small sums is money. What a creep.

Well one never knows with this guy, he was chief of immigration until he got canned for making frequent and ridiculous remarks about foreigners, and was exiled for years. He mysteriously reappeared as the deputy National Police Chief, was able to develop a reputation as Mr. Clean (which I believe to be totally fake), and now he's being accused of being anything but clean. I guess since they're used to promoting guys that should have remained in exile, in the convoluted and nonsensical world of Thai politics, the only place for him to go at this point, is to become the next PM.

Everyone seems to be commenting on the photo but who cares? The story itself is pretty bizarre and if it's true, oh the tangled webs that we weave. This one is pretty out there. Talk about a twisted and perverted scenario.

I was recently in the US and I needed an international driver's license for a trip to Europe in the near future, and it was as simple as walking into AAA and asking for it. However, as we know things are often not quite that simple here.

A lot of Thais seem to be considerably less sophisticated when it comes to customer service and warranties than in a lot of other countries. When I return something to a store or demand customer satisfaction Thais are often quite surprised that I would make the effort, and they're also often quite surprised when I get a positive result. You don't get anything in this world unless you ask for it.

I have, he's a very good writer, unfortunately it's fiction though it's probably closer to reality than one would presume. I would really like to see a true expose, but then again since there's no investigative journalism being done in Thailand, that's not going to happen.

I think polling would show that the level of confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court is probably on par with the integrity of Congress, and the approval rating of Congress. Way down there in the low teens.

And those are the legal business interests, we really don't know the extent of the illegal business interests that these generals are involved in. Drug running, human trafficking, prostitution, gambling, etc. The list likely goes on and on. The Thai army is not exactly a paragon of integrity, and there is no question about the fact that they're not sufficiently policed!

Where would one even start? By agreeing that presidential immunity allows murder? What we are left with now is a court so out of sync with the attitudes and preferences of the American people, with the way of life in the 21st century, that it is boldly risking its own legitimacy in decision-making each and every time they overturn set law. This week it was 45 years of precedent on race-conscious affirmative action programs in college admissions. And a year ago June the John Roberts Court made a historic and far-reaching decision, officially reversing Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists. https://news.yahoo.com/compromised-court-nations-worst-ever-035900067.html This court's conservatives have been compromised and the receipts of their tenure speak clearly and without shame. So much for judicial restraint. The Roberts Court will go down as once of the nation's worst ever.

I don't think it's a particularly strange position, I think politics in America have degenerated the point where we'll likely never see another high quality candidate, who has some decency, nobility, integrity, and a high level of intelligence. It's pretty much gotten to the point where only megalomaniacs and low quality dregs are interested in the office.

The Supreme Court seems to be thoroughly compromised at this point, somewhat corrupt, and morally bankrupt at a minimum.

There are now a hundred people in Congress who identify as being Progressive left, which is a real shame. The extremist wing of the party has exerted a tremendous amount of control, and they don't bode well for the future of the dems. I don't like alot of their policy, as a centrist dem.

To each his own, I certainly honor your choices. I have dated women who are very successful and very smart and with one exception they were nothing but problems, difficult, lot of arguments, chock-full of big-headedness, and stubbornness, and they had to have it their way. Plus I found that they weren't particularly open-minded and they some of them were not much fun to be around.

To some extent I agree, though I'm not going to vote for Trump. As a centrist Dem I think Harris is the worst possible choice. I think not only should the party have lobbied Biden to let a younger candidate run, but in lieu of that they should have at least convinced him to replace Harris. She is dreadful.

His number? 44th worst in history, after Buchanan.

Well Biden did not have five deferrments, plus five huge bankruptcies. Those are honors reserves for the true dregs of society.

Always fun to see the huge man roasted. He does not have a sense of humor, so he cannot laugh at himself. His comment about Trump facing Stormy weather was classic. Trump richly deserves all the jokes directed at him.