Politics

From the Thai Enquirer The Chinese government will continue to try and increase their control over Thai media, the founder of a Thai student publishing house which said that a Chinese businessman tried to buy them out told Thai Enquirer. “China has been influencing Thailand for a long time now and their attempt to try and buy our small publication made me think how many news agencies in Thailand have already been supported by China which is why they do not dare to speak about Chinese issues,” said Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a pro-democracy activist and founder of the Sam Yan Press. “We thought about staying silence on the matter because it was risky but if…

On Saturday, The Daily Beast reported that "just one day after several municipal deputies in Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg called on the State Duma to try the Russian leader for treason, their colleagues in Moscow joined in and demanded he steps down because his views are 'hopelessly outdated.'" In an open letter to Putin, deputies from Moscow's Lomonosovsky district recalled that Putin's leadership began with "good reforms" but that as time marched onward, “everything went wrong.” While the deepening quagmire in Ukraine was not specifically mentioned, the authors stressed that the status quo under Putin is untenable. “The rhetoric that you and your su…

Pete Buttigieg Comes Across Like A Tin Man The new Pete Buttigieg documentary reveals a gifted politician struggling with how much to reveal of himself. Two and a half years after his run for president, Pete Buttigieg has managed to hold America’s attention and fascination. | Courtesy of Amazon Studios By RUBY CRAMER 11/08/2021 12:35 PM EST Ruby Crame…

I loathe Trump. I loathe Piers Morgan. I loathe Rupert Murdoch. That said, though, the following teaser for a new Murdoch channel starting to air on Monday seems fun.

From MSN The Central Tax Court has ruled in favour of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra by revoking the Revenue Department’s order for him to pay about 17 billion baht in tax over the 2006 sale of a stake in Shin Corp. The ruling was issued by the court on Monday. On July 18, the court ruled that the department’s summoning of Thaksin’s children, Panthongtae and Pintongta, for a tax assessment under Section 19 of the Revenue Code was unlawful as both siblings were only proxies holding shares for him, it said. The Revenue Department should have summoned Thaksin for the tax appraisal, but it failed to do so before a deadline, the court said. M…

Donald Trump is often his own worst enemy. But sometimes, he gets competition from his lawyers. Perhaps no better example of that can be found than in Wednesday’s order from the Supreme Court, which summarily rejected the former president’s “emergency” request to block, on grounds of executive privilege, the release of documents to the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The court’s decision was a brutal, and personally stinging, loss for Trump. And the arguments his own lawyers advanced may have made the defeat worse. Trump lost the case in virtually record time. He sued the committee and the National Archives on O…

Died: December 28, 2021 Born: December 2, 1939 I'm hearing so many accolades about Reid I was not aware of, and that he was also a street fighter and quite brusque at times. He was Mormon. He is credited with Obama running for President and ensuring the ACA passed. He was a strong LGBTQ ally. Years after calling President Bush a loser, he admitted regretting saying that, that Bush was a patriot, that Reid missed him, how he was the Babe Ruth of presidents compared t…

Maureen Dowd today writes a kickass column about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. He has his faults, but he sure looks to be a better candidate than Joe Biden. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/cuomo-new-york-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepagehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/cuomo-new-york-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

How many are trolls, how many are grifters, and how many are dumbfucks too stupid to read the constitution?

From Channel News Asia Commentary: Why is former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra still so popular on social media? SINGAPORE: On Aug 8, former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra reached out to the Thai people on social media, saying that “pi (brother) Tony” is “ready to talk to young people”. The message, which was conveyed via his son and daughters, signals Thaksin’s return to Thai politics. The politician, who has been in self-imposed exile since 2007, looks certain to play a role in the country’s next elections. Years after his departure from the political stage, Thaksin still holds some cachet in Thailand. Thaksin is a founder of the Thai Rak Thai Par…

Congress is willing to give us $600 bucks each and he's saying "no, give them more money" at a time when congress has already gone home? Fuck me. We aren't getting any money are we?

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials. In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous, the Justice Department wrote they were “hereby notified that pursuant to legal process the United States Department of Justice received toll records associated with the following telephone numbers for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 20…

So President Biden has announced the ending of the USA's 20 year war in the blighted country of Afghanistan. Whether this is a good or a bad decision only time will tell. But there are plenty of pointers to what is likely to happen - and this is not a good omen for both women and members of the fragile LGBTQ community. Factually, to call Afghanistan a 20 year war is a misnomer. The USA has been fighting in Afghanistan virtually since a massive Soviet airlift dropped troops into the country in 1979. Not officially of course. That's not the US way. Clandestinely as it had in Vietnam and Laos, it used the CIA. So pissed off was the rest of the civilized world at the Sov…

I don't quiet get why anyone who disclosed they used marijuana in the past is an issue? Do they want people to lie? Why is this even an issue today? Biden's camp needs to move into 2021. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/19/jen-psaki-says-5-staffers-no-longer-employed-over-marijuana-use-policy/4764283001/

Columbia University professor and famed historian Eric Foner writes that instead of impeachment for which there likely is no time, Congress should instead invoke Article 3 of the 14th Amendment barring from office anyone who took an oath to defend the Constitution and who, subsequently, engaged in or encouraged rebellion or insurrection. A simple majority vote. Add to the list: Cruz, Hawley, Johnson, Gaetz, Gohmert... and the list can go on and on. Thoughts?

It feels so good to say! Congrats to the USA.

Finally.

YES, there's a new lady in waiting to take over the Retrumplican party and unseat King Donald. Ruthless, slimy, arrogant and corrupt Josh Hawley, making his debut as potential 2024 GOP Presidential nominee.... And he will start with a grand performance at the Jan 6th Electoral College certification for Biden, where HE will create Chaos by interupting and disputing the proceedings.... supposedly in support of Trump but actually to STAB him in he back for 2024 and get the nom. He knows how to hook the Trump base ! Watch out for Josh..... (he even knows how to make a TRUMP face)..

The usually xenophobic Bolsonaro wooing India for vaccine supplies, but at least he did not pull a tone-deaf Trudeau ...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/27/upshot/biden-trump-poll-quiz.html?action=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage This is fun.... I scored pretty high!

So after months of deliberation and infighting OUR government has decided that we are only worth $600..... While our first stimulus check was $1200 per individual, now that the pandemic has raged on, more and more people unemployed, hungry and on the brink of homelessness, THEY think that $600 will fix it for us. Its a FUCKING INSULT, and clearly shows us our worth to our leaders... I am certain NONE of them ever needed financial assistance for basic living needs so how can THEY be tasked with deciding what WE need to survive ? Its a joke !!!! And it further shows how tone deaf and detached from the general public they are... While they continue to be l…

Joe Biden will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

It's clear that there's a growing consensus that the road to victory for President Toxic goes right through the growing public reaction against violence, looting, and rioting. Support for Black Lives Matter may have returned to where it was before George Floyd was killed. There's no evidence yet that how people feel about BLM and the protests, or about the rioting and looting, is impacting how they feel about the underlying police reform and racial justice issues involved. 538 says there's no evidence - yet - that the growing backlash is changing how voters view Biden and Harris. Most of this "backlash" is expressed by Republicans. This cohort of Republicans was…

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