robbie36 Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 Well the election is a little over a month a way... Wonder who is going to be the next PM? I assume the coup leaders have done their homework. So that the democrats will win and Abhisit will be PM. That would round the year off rather nicely. Still things have a habit of not going according to script in Thailand.... so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loburt Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 You mean you're not rooting for Prachai? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave40 Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 Not knowing alot about Thai Politics!!! Will a new Govt make any difference to the average thai person? or same same as the last democratic govt? Hopefully not as corrupt!! Allegedly!!!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 You mean you're not rooting for Prachai? prachai is a real joke. k. samak (someone who sells himself to k. taksin) said that if k.aphisit became our pm. we would see snow in thailand. now. i will definitely vote for democrat party not that i am a real big fan of k. aphisit. but he seems to be the best one between those. so, am going to give him a chance to prove if he could be our good pm. ban-harn ? no. samak? no way. prachai? ... give me a break. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loburt Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 My question to robbie36 was meant as a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayle Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 I hope the democrat party will win. I would like to give K.Aphisit a chance like Venus said. He seems to be the best choice for PM right now. I am sick of politic where all they do is talking **** about other parties. So far I haven't heard Samhak said anything about his party's policy, the only thing he said is only if you agreed with the coup then go for the Democrat party, but if you don't vote for Palung Prachachon, what a load of crap!!! I don't understand how a person who has lived this long and somewhat educated can just say something to accuse others without any responsiblity to his words. And why nobody can just not shut his mouth up and put in to jail or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beej Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 It all feels quite calm at the moment for some reason but I can see two weeks from now the REAL back stabbing and fire works will start. Did they sort out the foreign body that was going to over see the election? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeusbheld Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 I don't understand how a person who has lived this long and somewhat educated can just say something to accuse others without any responsiblity to his words. it's called.... democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babyoiy Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 I see none whom is really qualified but the only one choice I can see now is.... yeah Abisith, in the past few years back he was not the one but right now he is. Still, the best I can choose doesn't mean it's good enough for Thailand. Nothing can be worse (I hope as I think it's worst already), another time to give it a try with new government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibel Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 I hope they do it better then the Belgian politicians. We're now 160 days after the elections and still we don't have a government or prime minister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 I don't understand how a person who has lived this long and somewhat educated can just say something to accuse others without any responsiblity to his words. one word : money. he is probably broke or very greedy or something in between. thats why he has sold himself to k. taksin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie36 Posted November 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2007 Amazing how little interest the average thai takes in politics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loburt Posted November 30, 2007 Report Share Posted November 30, 2007 ...and so they will end up with Chalerm as Interior Minister. I can't wait until he replaces Seripisuth with Duangchalerm. You can thank "the Londoner." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted November 30, 2007 Report Share Posted November 30, 2007 Amazing how little interest the average thai takes in politics.... toyboy darling what do you expect from tf ? here, people would go for boobs, bar or bed talk. :roll: anyway, i kind of disagree with you. if thai people didn't care much about politic, k. taksin would probably still be here smiling and be an arse who thinks that nobody in this country is smarter than him. dont forget who caused him a big problem in the first place. (the coup came later - actually they caused the coup.) the thing is thai people take politic seriously but they dont take much of actions (ignorance is probably in our nature). due to the serious lack of education, the lack of understanding the importance/the value of democracy, and due to the poverty, (the majority of us are poor) so, the majority of thai seems to be easily manipulated/used. take k. banharn case - everybody knows that he cant be able to rule our country. but why people in suphanburi love, support and admire him by heart?? geez... he was once our pm, he knows nothing about ruling the country still he doesn't learn. it would probably be more fun for him to spend more time ruling/managing his mai noi-s rather than being a pm. still he doesn't get it that the pm position is a one time prove. it doesn't offer a 2nd chance for a greedy & two-faced mug who is totally incapable. take navin chidchop - a real arse who would do anything he possibly could to ruin my country. totally lack of common sense and total lack of real responsibility being a thai. let alone being patriotic. i really want to ask him - are you thai? do you love you own country at all, navin ? geez ... the thickest skin in this county. somehow the whole thing reflects that we are very young in term of democracy. hopefully, little by little , with the right leader - a high moral pm with vision, ability to manage people & ability to rule our country. we will finally learn to appreciate/understand real democracy and truly love our country, without the help of the military off course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted November 30, 2007 Report Share Posted November 30, 2007 ...and so they will end up with Chalerm as Interior Minister.I can't wait until he replaces Seripisuth with Duangchalerm. You can thank "the Londoner." even if the "pralang prachachon" won this election. chalerm will never get to be the interior minister. even k. samak said so. he is dreaming. let him... thats all he has got. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steevolution Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 so, the majority of thai seems to be easily manipulated/used. my take is that this comes from this being a feudal, very controlled society for a long long time. almost no social mobility. so people are willing to take whatever deal is offered to them... selling their vote for a few bangles and beads is better than no bangles and beads. and they are willing to accept what the masters tell them with little question (maybe a little grumbling and jawing, but nothing serious) the people that liked to think for themselves, outside of the system, think about changing the system... they were eliminated pretty regularly by some fairly harsh methods. an easily controlled, malleable populace has been an ideal here for a long long time. just look at the school system. it is geared to turning out obedient workers... DEFINITELY NOT a thinking, sceptical public. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS ANYKIND OF A PUTDOWN... because where i come from holds itself up as some kind of a democratic ideal, and i don't believe it is. good government isn't achieved very often. we just all have to keep striving for it. seeing things for what they really are is a first, essential step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loburt Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 ...and so they will end up with Chalerm as Interior Minister.I can't wait until he replaces Seripisuth with Duangchalerm. You can thank "the Londoner." even if the "pralang prachachon" won this election. chalerm will never get to be the interior minister. even k. samak said so. he is dreaming. let him... thats all he has got. :roll: i don't think it's up to samak. he's just taking orders from the londoner, newin and sudaRAT. they will decide. anyway, considering samak's support for murdering students in 1976, and shooting people in the streets of bangkok in 1992, i guess the ppp cabinet will already have its great statesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie36 Posted December 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Interesting article in todays Bangkok Post predicting that PPP will win 219 seats in the forthcoming election compared to 120 for the Democrats. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/03Dec2007_news03.php The thought of Samak running this country and the potential for more political chaos is pretty depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Interesting article in todays Bangkok Post predicting that PPP will win 219 seats in the forthcoming election compared to 120 for the Democrats.http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/03Dec2007_news03.php The thought of Samak running this country and the potential for more political chaos is pretty depressing. i have a funny thought that k. samak might secretly vote for democrat. he is paid to do the job but its not necessarily that he has to vote for himself. you know it could happen... :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 ...and so they will end up with Chalerm as Interior Minister.I can't wait until he replaces Seripisuth with Duangchalerm. You can thank "the Londoner." even if the "pralang prachachon" won this election. chalerm will never get to be the interior minister. even k. samak said so. he is dreaming. let him... thats all he has got. :roll: i don't think it's up to samak. he's just taking orders from the londoner, newin and sudaRAT. they will decide. anyway, considering samak's support for murdering students in 1976, and shooting people in the streets of bangkok in 1992, i guess the ppp cabinet will already have its great statesman. as we know that "power & money" are very dangerous. people could betray each other because of them... we will see... seem that banharn is the key person at the moment. let's hope for the best that democrat will be the next government... eh ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie36 Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Samak Vows to Double Per Capita Wealth by Killing Half of Population Playing up his reputation as a 'man of action', former governor outlines bold but polarizing intiative which will give half the population twice as much. In the first detailed presentation of the economic platform of the People?s Power Party, appointed party leader and former Bangkok governer Samak Sunaravej announced a bold initiative to double the average wealth of each Thai by killing half of the Thai population. ?It?s easy math? Samak explained at a news conference today. ?If we divide the same assets among half as many people, each will be twice as rich.? When pressed for details of which half of the population would be eliminated and in what method, Samak responded that he would favor ?whoever voted for us and endorsed this policy? and that he was more than willing to carry out the executions personally. Opposition Democrats were quick to attack the policy as ?short-sighted economics? as well as ?possibly unconstitutional.? A statement released to the press from party headquarters read in part that ?the People?s Power Party continues to show itself as an opportunistic group determined to continue the failure of Thaksinomics.? However, a member of Chart Thai commented off-record that it was a possibly clever tactic, playing up Samak?s strengths as a ?man of action.? With years of police experience, including overseeing the extrajudicial slaughter of dozens of unarmed leftist university students during the October 1976 uprising, Samak?s fascist disregard for human life could play well with voters tired of ?stagnant political impasse,? the source concluded. Political analysts and economics experts were quick to highlight flaws in the plan, citing both the severe downturn in GDP that would follow the massacre of half the country?s workforce, as well as the political risks of threatening voters with death immediately before the election. ?Thais don?t respond well to confrontation,? explained Jiriporn Siriyathohin, a political academic at Chulalongkorn University. ?It?s considered impolite and reflects badly on the populist ideals of the former TRT.? However, an ABAC poll of likely voters in Isaan revealed a generally positive response among PPP faithful, with 74% of respondents certain that Samak would be killing ?someone else.? In additional statements made at the same press conference, Samak also outlined his foreign policy of eating the puppies of nations that he did not like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigKus Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 an ABAC poll of likely voters in Isaan revealed a generally positive response among PPP faithful, with 74% of respondents certain that Samak would be killing ?someone else.? :x Oh.. that is got me worried of nation embarrassing if our next PM was Khun Samak.. Imagine he was at the international presses conference, and the press asked him question which he found it annoyed and offensive then he asked the question back before answer to the question that.. Did you f*ck someone last night ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venus Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Samak Vows to Double Per Capita Wealth by Killing Half of PopulationPlaying up his reputation as a 'man of action', former governor outlines bold but polarizing intiative which will give half the population twice as much. In the first detailed presentation of the economic platform of the People?s Power Party, appointed party leader and former Bangkok governer Samak Sunaravej announced a bold initiative to double the average wealth of each Thai by killing half of the Thai population. ?It?s easy math? Samak explained at a news conference today. ?If we divide the same assets among half as many people, each will be twice as rich.? When pressed for details of which half of the population would be eliminated and in what method, Samak responded that he would favor ?whoever voted for us and endorsed this policy? and that he was more than willing to carry out the executions personally. Opposition Democrats were quick to attack the policy as ?short-sighted economics? as well as ?possibly unconstitutional.? A statement released to the press from party headquarters read in part that ?the People?s Power Party continues to show itself as an opportunistic group determined to continue the failure of Thaksinomics.? However, a member of Chart Thai commented off-record that it was a possibly clever tactic, playing up Samak?s strengths as a ?man of action.? With years of police experience, including overseeing the extrajudicial slaughter of dozens of unarmed leftist university students during the October 1976 uprising, Samak?s fascist disregard for human life could play well with voters tired of ?stagnant political impasse,? the source concluded. Political analysts and economics experts were quick to highlight flaws in the plan, citing both the severe downturn in GDP that would follow the massacre of half the country?s workforce, as well as the political risks of threatening voters with death immediately before the election. ?Thais don?t respond well to confrontation,? explained Jiriporn Siriyathohin, a political academic at Chulalongkorn University. ?It?s considered impolite and reflects badly on the populist ideals of the former TRT.? However, an ABAC poll of likely voters in Isaan revealed a generally positive response among PPP faithful, with 74% of respondents certain that Samak would be killing ?someone else.? In additional statements made at the same press conference, Samak also outlined his foreign policy of eating the puppies of nations that he did not like. a few mates called my best mate today and asked "who should we vote for".. my very best mate told them - you vote anyone but not samak... i laugh so hard today... and then one mate asked "what should we do if "samak" get to be our pm? she answered "tam jai sii" :roll: anyway, loads of people get bored of /annoyed by samak. he really knows how to ruin his name and everything he once had.. if he became our pm - it wouldn't be too long. i wonder if he could last for a week.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeusbheld Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Samak Vows to Double Per Capita Wealth by Killing Half of PopulationPlaying up his reputation as a 'man of action', former governor outlines bold but polarizing intiative which will give half the population twice as much. In the first detailed presentation of the economic platform of the People?s Power Party, appointed party leader and former Bangkok governer Samak Sunaravej announced a bold initiative to double the average wealth of each Thai by killing half of the Thai population. ?It?s easy math? Samak explained at a news conference today. ?If we divide the same assets among half as many people, each will be twice as rich.? When pressed for details of which half of the population would be eliminated and in what method, Samak responded that he would favor ?whoever voted for us and endorsed this policy? and that he was more than willing to carry out the executions personally. Opposition Democrats were quick to attack the policy as ?short-sighted economics? as well as ?possibly unconstitutional.? A statement released to the press from party headquarters read in part that ?the People?s Power Party continues to show itself as an opportunistic group determined to continue the failure of Thaksinomics.? However, a member of Chart Thai commented off-record that it was a possibly clever tactic, playing up Samak?s strengths as a ?man of action.? With years of police experience, including overseeing the extrajudicial slaughter of dozens of unarmed leftist university students during the October 1976 uprising, Samak?s fascist disregard for human life could play well with voters tired of ?stagnant political impasse,? the source concluded. Political analysts and economics experts were quick to highlight flaws in the plan, citing both the severe downturn in GDP that would follow the massacre of half the country?s workforce, as well as the political risks of threatening voters with death immediately before the election. ?Thais don?t respond well to confrontation,? explained Jiriporn Siriyathohin, a political academic at Chulalongkorn University. ?It?s considered impolite and reflects badly on the populist ideals of the former TRT.? However, an ABAC poll of likely voters in Isaan revealed a generally positive response among PPP faithful, with 74% of respondents certain that Samak would be killing ?someone else.? In additional statements made at the same press conference, Samak also outlined his foreign policy of eating the puppies of nations that he did not like. a few mates called my best mate today and asked "who should we vote for".. my very best mate told them - you vote anyone but not samak... i laugh so hard today... and then one mate asked "what should we do if "samak" get to be our pm? she answered "tam jai sii" :roll: anyway, loads of people get bored of /annoyed by samak. he really knows how to ruin his name and everything he once had.. if he became our pm - it wouldn't be too long. i wonder if he could last for a week.. are you saying, this ain't a pisstake? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbie36 Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Hmmmm.... what a mess? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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