Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

 

Whatever you are reading and thinking now, he is 2 steps ahead of you.

27 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

Who will he issue orders to?

 

Big Joke, the next national police chief?

 

Judiciary?

 

RTA?

 

ISOC?

 

Those are the organizations that will be needed to push back against the Monarchy reform trends.

 

 

 

 

And that brings a key question "does the paymaster personally want such reforms?"

 

Seems to me his focus will be on 'cash'.

27 minutes ago, DLock said:

Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

 

Whatever you are reading and thinking now, he is 2 steps ahead of you.

That doesn't mean he's a nice man, a fair man.

 

You might recall years back many times folks attributed his business success and his political success to the strategies of his now ex wife.

 

 

1 hour ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Exactly.

 

How stupid the pro junta foreigners must feel, they swallowed all the nonsense hook, line and sinker and now have been left high and dry.

 

The biggest dupes in this whole fiasco aren’t PT voters, it’s the moronic “but, but Thaksin” neophytes.

what hogwash are you babbling on about ... it's pretty obvious that Thaksin did a deal with the devil ...

Just shows what a joke their process is ....

you think anyone outside with half a brain will believe any of this theatrical theater show.

 

 

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by steven100

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

Why? Foreigners have NO vested interest! For most, it is all a sad sideshow!

Vested interests or not, they look like idiots now.

11 minutes ago, steven100 said:

what hogwash are you babbling on about ... it's pretty obvious that Thaksin did a deal with the devil ...

Just shows what a joke their process is ....

you think anyone outside with half a brain will believe any of this theatrical theater show.

 

 

Not surprising that you’ve replied to this particular post.

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<Sob!> Brave Thaksin, sacrificing his health to help form a government to serve the people while his sister carries on her business in London where Thai criminality has no meaning. 

5 hours ago, 1duckyboy said:

A prisoner has access to a cell phone? Only in Mexico (cartels) and Thailand (politician/billionaire). 

Surely that was the whole point of getting him moved to a hospital in the first place, though? So he'd no longer be treated like a prisoner, but more like a celebrity hospital patient.

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by GroveHillWanderer

Thai doctors are a unique breed. Here is a medically fit to fly 24hrs ago patient, who we are being told now needs to be hospitalised. Other very high profile patients are clinically dead for over 9 months but magically we are told are still alive.

5 hours ago, bradiston said:

"A SICKLY THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, the de facto Pheu Thai boss, has managed to virtually put his hands on the business of compromising and allocating cabinet portfolios among varied coalition partners, a partisan source said today (Aug.23)."

 

What the heck does this mean? I find TNR a highly dubious source. Their reporting is badly written and usually badly researched. Their use of "partisan sources" is bizarre. What do they mean? How do you "virtually put your hands" on "compromising... cabinet portfolios"?

It is pathetic. They should report the truth. Corrections Dept and Police hospital doctors paid off to pretend he is sick.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

 

A SICKLY THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, the de facto Pheu Thai boss, has managed to virtually put his hands on the business of compromising and allocating cabinet portfolios among varied coalition partners, a partisan source said today (Aug.23).

 

Having been transferred from Bangkok Remand Prison to the Police Hospital for illnesses reported by prison officials in the middle of the night, the deposed prime minister now literally has access to a cellphone with which he could play his part in the allocating of the cabinet portfolios, most of which are proportionately given to his own party. No cellphone is allowed for use by inmates at Bangkok Remand Prison or any other prisons.

 

The de facto Pheu Thai boss yesterday returned from 17 years of self-exile abroad, was almost immediately brought to the Supreme Court to formally hear of his earlier convicted eight-year jail term due to a few separate cases of misconduct and was then brought to Bangkok Remand Prison where he barely stayed for half a day at a nursing unit in the premises of the prison.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

TOP: Thai de facto boss/ former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Photo: Matichon

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/08/23/sickly-thaksin-involved-hands-on-in-allocation-of-cabinet-portfolios/

 

-- THAI NEWSROOM 2023-08-24

 

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Let’s say it like it really is shall we? Ole square head a corrupt criminal on the run - now bought in to stop democracy!!! How people can support this murdering mafia boss above the democratically elected choice of the people shows all Thaksin supporters whove been crowing on about juntas and coups can never play the democracy card again - sad!!!

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by bizboi

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by bizboi

2 hours ago, DLock said:

Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

Meh.

 

Why did it take him 17 years to return, if he's so masterfully brilliant?

 

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2 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Surely that was the whole point of getting him moved to a hospital in the first place, though? So he'd no longer be treated like a prisoner, but more like a celebrity hospital patient.

And to move him one step closer to 'qualifying' for 'home detention'.

 

No doubt with numerous scaly calleres/visitors, regular meetings and his own chef etc. 

4 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Yep. She'll not be back until they can engineer a way for her to come back and not serve any time.

 

I get the impression that she is not too bothered about coming back to Thailand ever. Time will tell I guess.

 

 

Yes, possibly so. For reference (january 2019):-

 

This week, Caixin discovered her (Yingluk) in a less-expected place — working as the chairwoman of a Guangdong-based port operator.  Sources at Shantou International Container Terminals Ltd. confirmed that Yingluck, 51, began serving as the company’s chairwoman and its legal representative on Dec. 12. (2018) .............. Shantou International operates in the Shantou Port area, a key transit point for goods flowing to eastern Guangdong, a rich industrial province in China’s south. The company is 70% owned by Hutchison Port Group Co. Ltd., itself a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd., the sprawling conglomerate built by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-Shing .................... Yingluck is a fourth-generation Thai-Chinese and her family is rumored to have high-level connections within the Chinese government.................. Yingluck and Thaksin were reported to have visited relatives at their ancestral home in the city of Meizhou in eastern Guangdong.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-01-07/former-thai-leader-serving-as-chairwoman-of-chinese-port-operator-101367311.html

 

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Yep. She'll not be back until they can engineer a way for her to come back and not serve any time.

 

I get the impression that she is not too bothered about coming back to Thailand ever. Time will tell I guess.

 

 

Fake Gucci bags are not her thing

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Meh.

 

Why did it take him 17 years to return, if he's so masterfully brilliant?

 

.

 

 

He can’t return as his arch enemy was still alive and pulling the military strings for most of the 17 years.

Didn't expect anything else from the shifty snake! 

6 hours ago, steven100 said:

I guess no Thais really cares anymore as it makes no difference anyway. 

Someone once said: "Oftentimes a people deserves its governments." - In the case of Thailand this is probably true...

There seem to be a lot of de facto bosses around. It makes it all seem a bit shady. Aren't there rules about convicted criminals becoming what I suppose could be called the de facto PM?

5 hours ago, DLock said:

Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

 

Whatever you are reading and thinking now, he is 2 steps ahead of you.

Well I think several people on here suggested something along these lines was going to happen some time ago.

The only people he's 2 steps ahead of are those who aren't all that bright.

4 hours ago, bizboi said:

Let’s say it like it really is shall we? Ole square head a corrupt criminal on the run - now bought in to stop democracy!!! How people can support this murdering mafia boss above the democratically elected choice of the people shows all Thaksin supporters whove been crowing on about juntas and coups can never play the democracy card again - sad!!!

The Champion of Democracy thing was only invented by him for the consumption of naive Western media after he got the boot. While he was in office he used to say things like, "Democracy is only a means to an end." and "The UN is not my father", criticised by the UN Rapporteur on human rights for murdering thousands of alleged drug dealers, who were mainly just on police hit lists for not paying protection money or not involved with drugs at all.

What a hero this man is, and a martyr. He's badly sick but still working hard tirelessly for the benefit of the country. He should get an award for being such a great citizen.

6 hours ago, DLock said:

Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

 

Whatever you are reading and thinking now, he is 2 steps ahead of you.

 

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6 hours ago, DLock said:

Thaksin is an absolute master manipulator. Brilliant strategist.

 

Whatever you are reading and thinking now, he is 2 steps ahead of you.

And this so called medical stay at the prison hospital is another bit of trickery, satisfying those who think he's gonna be surviving time.....he won't be. Guaranteed. A deal was brokered some time ago. 

 

If one truly gives it some deeper consideration, wouldn't surprise some if he had a significant hand in the manipulation of the supposed election/post-election malfeasance of the last few months where the outcome, and eventual control, was clearly in their favour. 

 

Perhaps the folks behind the curtain have something else in mind. All this was a clearly a round about twisted coup......and passed right by most observers. 

 

Oh well. It is what it is. No harm, no foul. 

Onward with our lives. 

9 hours ago, soalbundy said:

So the new PM is Thaksin and Srettha is the straw man or am I missing something.

I wouldn't think you're missing anything. 

(2/2) Tawee Sodsong, Prachachat Party sec-gen as Justice Minister, UTN Party leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga as Energy Minister, Suriya Juangrungruangkit, senior Phalang Pracharath Party member and MP as Transport Minister and more.

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by anchadian

10 minutes ago, anchadian said:

(2/2) Tawee Sodsong, Prachachat Party sec-gen as Justice Minister, UTN Party leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga as Energy Minister, Suriya Juangrungruangkit, senior Phalang Pracharath Party member and MP as Transport Minister and more.

Interestingly nothing as yet for ING UNG, nor Chonlanan, who is by his own words, due to resign. Who's getting PH? Education?

2 hours ago, kimamey said:

There seem to be a lot of de facto bosses around. It makes it all seem a bit shady. Aren't there rules about convicted criminals becoming what I suppose could be called the de facto PM?

I think it depends if one is pardoned .....or got/ demanded  amnesty in the proven case of General Prayut ????