Thai Progressives React to Trump’s Shocking Victory

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Thai Progressives React to Trump’s Shocking Victory

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, gestures while walking Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo: Molly Riley / Associated Press

 

BANGKOK — This year hasn’t been kind to the brand of liberal democracy championed by progressives and internationalists.

 

First came the election of populist strongman Rodrigo Duterte as president of the Philippines, which led to mass extrajudicial killings that enraged civil rights activists. Then came the referendum vote to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union, a victory that rode on waves of nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiments.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2016/11/13/thai-progressives-react-trumps-shocking-victory/

 

 

 

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[Somtamnication]

No one will learn anything in Thailand about the elections. Just idiot falangs  voting.

[trogers]

When one is too open-minded, the brains fall off.

 

The brains of these countries have fallen off and rotted a few decades ago. Time for suturing and getting new brains...

[ratcatcher]

Donald Trump won the election by connecting with the ordinary people, the working people, the disenfranchised.He promised more employment and a better standard of living. . He took on the establishment, Wall St and the media. And he won.

Thaksin Shinawatra ought  to have tried that..........................................................................Oh.............

 

[rkidlad]

You don't meet many Thai progressives. Thai culture is quite conservative on face value. 

 

Donald Trump is a numpty. He will try to lead similar to how the PM here does. That makes people here nervous because US doesn't need Thailand. 

[ratcatcher]

12 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

You don't meet many Thai progressives. Thai culture is quite conservative on face value. 

 

Donald Trump is a numpty. He will try to lead similar to how the PM here does. That makes people here nervous because US doesn't need Thailand. 

For a numpty billionaire to have built a real estate and hotel empire like his, he must be a really smart numpty who will surround himself with the finest numpties in the U.S.A.

[FlorC]

Clinton clan = Thasin clan X 1000

Maybe now the Thai will get it.

[LomSak27]

21 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

For a numpty billionaire to have built a real estate and hotel empire like his, he must be a really smart numpty who will surround himself with the finest numpties in the U.S.A.

 

His hotel and real estate empire is actually owned by the banks, they use his name and he gets a kickback on it. It was either that or foreclose on the whole squalid mess  back in 92.  That was a decision made at his 2nd Bankruptcy, not the first one; (Taj Mahal,) it was his 2nd The Plaza where the banks thought it was better to have his name and take it over. It's how he has done business ever since. Heh All those Trump hotels are NOT owned by him, and or Trump towers like the ones the Canadians are busy protesting at in Vancouver. Theya re owned by Banks, using the Trump name.

[coma]

I guess portions of the world populace have finally had a gut full of apologist leaders, ruling with their hearts instead of their brains, and are now voting in the opposite direction. A good thing in my opinion. Look what apologist leaders like David Cameron, Francois Holland and Angela Merkel  have done to their countries and respective constituents. The face of democracy is evolving at last.

[ratcatcher]

4 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

 

His hotel and real estate empire is actually owned by the banks, they use his name and he gets a kickback on it. It was either that or foreclose on the whole squalid mess  back in 92.  That was a decision made at his 2nd Bankruptcy, not the first one; (Taj Mahal,) it was his 2nd The Plaza where the banks thought it was better to have his name and take it over. It's how he has done business ever since. Heh

And in 2 months, he'll be the most powerful man in the world (with a little help from his friends) Heh.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/us/elections/donald-trump-owns-and-owes-debt-properties.html?_r=0

http://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/

[LomSak27]

Hey he is smart, he has already been backtracking on things he promised his faithful, and that in the last three days.  He doesn't need them anymore so .....

[ratcatcher]

11 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Clinton clan = Thasin clan X 1000

Maybe now the Thai will get it.

Just to clarify:

Clintons, Bill & H. $111 million

Thaksin Shinawatra;$1.67 billion.

[ratcatcher]

1 minute ago, LomSak27 said:

Hey he is smart, he has already been backtracking on things he promised his faithful, and that in the last three days.  He doesn't need them anymore so .....

Report back next year, he's just POTUS elect for the next couple months.

[rkidlad]

34 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

For a numpty billionaire to have built a real estate and hotel empire like his, he must be a really smart numpty who will surround himself with the finest numpties in the U.S.A.

He bankrupted a casino. 

 

I didn't even know that was possible. 

[LomSak27]

He promised his faithful to cut Obamacare (the Obamanation) immediatly and replace it with something 'so gooood sooo great' that he never got around to saying what the heck it was and what he would do with the 12 to 20 million people who would lose health insurance.

 

Today he is going to keep some parts of Obamacare  Heh Oh Ya

 

HooYah!!

[wow64]

Its called voting.. or is it better to force your way into government?

[Sandy Freckle]

We'll see what he does within the tenure of his first quarter...., I know that not much can be expected from anyone.., but his first quarter should give us an idea if he really is a bit of a crank handle or not.

[Sandy Freckle]

28 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

He promised his faithful to cut Obamacare (the Obamanation) immediatly and replace it with something 'so gooood sooo great' that he never got around to saying what the heck it was and what he would do with the 12 to 20 million people who would lose health insurance.

 

Today he is going to keep some parts of Obamacare  Heh Oh Ya

 

HooYah!!

When did he (or Mrs. Clinton for that matter) ever explain the nuts n bolts of anything he proposes. Things certainly are done(or not done) differently in the US.

[FlorC]

31 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Just to clarify:

Clintons, Bill & H. $111 million

Thaksin Shinawatra;$1.67 billion.

I wasn't refering to their net worth but corruption . Her connections to wallstreet , big corp's , foreign governments, ....dwarfs little man thaksin.

But if you're talking money : the clinton foundation is worth 2 billion USD.

Of course that is a "charitable" fund , not their property , yeah right , wink , wink.

Only money for dirty deals .

[canthai55]

Joseph de Maistre

Every nation gets the government it deserves.

Letter 76, on the topic of Russia's new constitutional laws (27 August 1811); published in Lettres et Opuscules. The English translation has several variations, including "Every country has the government it deserves" and "In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." The quote is popularly misattributed to better-known commentators such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln.

 

 

[Wilsonandson]

Trump and Thaksin have so much in common.

[DM07]

WHO reacted....???

[Wilsonandson]

6 minutes ago, DM07 said:

WHO reacted....???

As far as I know the World Health Orgainsation hasn't given their reactions to the U.S Presidential Election results.

[KhonKaenKowboy]

[maewang99]

ratcatcher.... 

Trump is president. most of the things a "POTUS" gets into are much longer than one or two month things... eh????? 

and that starts going downhill very quickly... and ****that**** is why he will start backpedaling even before he makes the big speech in January.

that's why he ****already**** has.

he don't get more "powerful".... and he ain't now and won't ever get any where near as "powerful" as you seem to think... it's the folks on the ****other**** end of the phone calls and emails that are your real "POTUS's".... and there's a lot more than one of them. 

and don't forget that even with the black box.... there are folks on the other end of ****that**** thing too... with less "power" but in the chain for a very simple reason.
 

[KhonKaenKowboy]

not surprising...

[Wilsonandson]

This picture posted on an article by Coconuts Bangkok is one of my favourites to come out recently.

[nottocus]

2 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Trump and Thaksin have so much in common.

Doesn't say much about his opposition does it.

[nottocus]

Hilary lost and the pathetic hypocritical liberals can't handle it.It is very funny.

[Brer Fox]

Any democratic election in any country is heaps better than than a military coup.