Popular Post baboon Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, neeray said: Talking with a friend in Thailand today, she said "the poor and the disabled get 500 baht from the government each month so they voted accordingly". As I told her, where I come from, we call 500 baht "chicken feed". You might want to point out that the government lost... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30la Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Ups, the Thai government and Senate are becoming more and more militarized (even the policemen are military), where does democracy remain ??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 5 hours ago, webfact said: THE junta has spent Bt1.3 billion to handpick 250 names for the Senate, most of whom helped create the ruling National Council for Peace and Order. I'd love to see a breakdown of the accounts! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yokat Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 C'mon people you can't fool me, at this point the only surprise is that the number is not 250. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thaiguzzi Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 50 minutes ago, jesimps said: Be nice to see what the junta fans on here have to say in response. The usual twaddle I should imagine. But but but Thaksin.... 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiguzzi Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Eligius said: Totally agree with you, Enoon (above). But what 'has to come' will not come yet. The Thais will need to hurt a lot, lot, LOT more first before they actually DO anything - in numbers that matter. It's so very sad to see a beautiful and (generally) friendly people who have been so ground down and terrorised that they have actually (nearly all) lost their backbone ... All well and good, but if you were Thai, which you are not, would you want to be the first parent to grieve over his dead student/martyr? And there will be many. And hopefully the last. It is the only way fwd. Unfortunately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcpattaya Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 6 hours ago, webfact said: "To cleanse the country of corruption" And my name is Frank Sinatra. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPKANKAN Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 6 hours ago, webfact said: pm and his deputy mum He has a deputy mum as well!!!???!!!55554???????????????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post outsider Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 Sad to see Thailand and her people, who are generally very nice, go down like this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 28 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said: would you want to be the first parent to grieve over his dead student/martyr? Better to die than as a military conscript? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Forgive me for being a cynic but I agree with someone who once said, many decades ago, "If voting changed anything it would be banned" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PerkinsCuthbert Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 Coming soon to a country very near you - universal surveillance, behaviour control through social credit score, and lockdown with militarised police force, Chinese-style. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Just now, PerkinsCuthbert said: Coming soon to a country very near you - universal surveillance, behaviour control through social credit score, and lockdown with militarised police force, Chinese-style. I'm a good boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy723 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 look how brown their nose is and it is not from the sun or being Thai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazykopite Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 What was the point of holding elections no doubt it was down to pressure from other countries because nothing has changed as they say Same Same but different . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 hour ago, M71 said: Don't be surprised if the most corrupt countries on the planet, the USA and Israel, now condemn Thailand for being corrupt You mean when Trump said this (October 2017): "It’s a great honor to have Prime Minister Prayut of Thailand and Mrs. Prayut. This is a very great honor for us." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-prayut-chan-o-cha-thailand-bilateral-meeting/ At the White House: https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hosts-thailand-prime-minister-prayuth-chan-ocha/4053069.html I wouldn't be surprised to see PM Prayut back at the White House after his formal endorsement as PM. Especially after the Army's recent $80 million purchase of 37 Stryker armored cars from the United States. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy723 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 6 hours ago, unamazedloso said: All future hopes of democracy and a better future for Thailands now gone. A sad time indeed. The Thai people only have themselves to blame. NO it is not the Thai people to blame they voted for someone other than the now PM but EC was hand picked by the PM and they are the ones who corrupted the election for him. Every Thai person I have ask said they would no way vote for the now PM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 In other words, gross incompetence will continue throughout the nation. And now the nation is forced to suffer another five years under these hapless fools. My guess is that we will barely recognize Thailand five years from now. After ten straight years of army rule, with the fabulously non visionary Prayuth at the helm, this country will be a pale shadow of it's former self, the entire tourism industry will be decimated, the ex-pat population will continue to shrink, due to their racism, xenophobia, and fear mongering, and the economy will decline. Too bad. Do the Thai people deserve this? Well, yes for allowing the 2017 constitutional charter to pass. And no. In reality nobody deserves the Thai army as a ruler. They benefit nobody other than themselves. They care not one iota for the common man. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 A disgrace, but not a surprise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwill Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Everyone already knew this was going to happen. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest1 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 hour ago, PerkinsCuthbert said: Coming soon to a country very near you - universal surveillance, behaviour control through social credit score, and lockdown with militarised police force, Chinese-style. Well if you got nothing to hide....lol All for your safety of course..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave moir Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Surprise surprise! I would never have guest it!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fforest1 Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 13 minutes ago, spidermike007 said: In other words, gross incompetence will continue throughout the nation. And now the nation is forced to suffer another five years under these hapless fools. My guess is that we will barely recognize Thailand five years from now. After ten straight years of army rule, with the fabulously non visionary Prayuth at the helm, this country will be a pale shadow of it's former self, the entire tourism industry will be decimated, the ex-pat population will continue to shrink, due to their racism, xenophobia, and fear mongering, and the economy will decline. Too bad. Do the Thai people deserve this? Well, yes for allowing the 2017 constitutional charter to pass. And no. In reality nobody deserves the Thai army as a ruler. They benefit nobody other than themselves. They care not one iota for the common man. After another 5-10 years of visa tightening.....The majority of posters here will be gone....Thats for sure.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baerboxer Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 27 minutes ago, randy723 said: NO it is not the Thai people to blame they voted for someone other than the now PM but EC was hand picked by the PM and they are the ones who corrupted the election for him. Every Thai person I have ask said they would no way vote for the now PM That's not totally true. The PP Junta and current PM supporting party received the largest number of votes of any party. 7-8 million voted for them. So you've been asking the one's who didn't. Whether those who voted to support PP and the Junta fully understood all the implications of having a Junta party probably forming the next government, with a Junta appointed senate is debatable. They will soon understand now they've got what they voted for. It seems a decision was taken to stop one faction ever gaining control again, stop the musical chairs and the alternating of power between factions. One group has come out on top and will do everything to stay there. As for the 90% of the population who don't control the wealth - no one really cares what they think or want. Which sadly is in line with most countries these days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eric Loh Posted May 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2019 I personally don't think that democracy is doomed with this crony senate house. We have a bicameral system and both houses must agree when new laws are made. With only a tiny majority in the lower house, the junta may not have things all their ways. Fortunately we still have strong anti junta pro democracy MPs who will block any abuses of power. The situation is not doomed but certainly chaotic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shocked farang Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 3 hours ago, Eligius said: Many of us on these threads warned - months, if not years, ago - not to legitimise a fake 'election'. But the people did not listen (including the politicians). The whole sorry and blatantly obvious pretence of a restoration of democracy should have been opposed and voiced down, over and over again, by the mass of the Thai people. Instead - they let all of it happen - and are still letting it happen. They stood by, watched the plotters plotting the people's undoing - and then hurried off to support that wicked scheme in their millions - instead of saying 'NO TO LIES AND DECEPTION' in their MILLIONS. Well, when you make your own bed - you then have little choice but to lie on it ... There´s no legal way to be opposition in Thailand at the moment. Anyone who protests against the junta will be arrested and then who knows what might happen to the person. Thailand is now a full fledged dictatorship and protest (at least in the meantime) will not bring any change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy723 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 yhanks to the PM Thailand will now become a real third world country and the peole will suffer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavideol Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 8 hours ago, webfact said: Six military /police members were named as senators based solely on their position, namely Defence Ministry’s permanent secretary-general General Natt Intrachroen, Supreme Commander General Pornpipat Benyasri, Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong, Navy chief Admiral Luechai Ruddit, Air Force chief Air Chief Marshall Chaiyapruk Didyasarin and National Police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda. and all were elected/select by their professional merits/acomplishements 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavideol Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 8 hours ago, webfact said: He refused to explain why so many of the Senate nominees were military and police officers and snapped on the selection of a number of his close aides. “What are you talking about?” the general said, apparently upset by the question. But when reporters started naming several officers, including his brother, Prawit dodged past the media throng, got in his car, and left Government House. how can a government spend so much money and time, go through a mock election just to make a mockery out of the all process not to mention mocking the people as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy723 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 if he is still PM then good bye Thailand because me and my 7 expats friends are moving to Vietnam before the fighting start 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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