Thai Citizens to Pollsters: Prawit's performance 'underwhelms'

Sep 12, 2022

Wakey-wakey fellow kids. It's Monday September 12 and you know what that means:
Another week, another pittance

Anti-junta demonstrations continue, daily
Up until now: completely peaceful.
PHOTO: The top photo, below shows preparations for an evening protest by activists, at the Democracy Monument. The wrapped objects represent members of the junta's alleged "government".
NOTE that demonstrations at that site are banned.
Photo below: As the rally got into full swing, the effigies of the 'cabinet ministers' were burnt, as the protestors cheered. Riot police watched from a distance.

Prawit speaks
The new junta-approved "caretaker prime minister" and former army commander Prawit Wongsuwon took a walk and purposely made himself the target of a media ambush. Just a short one; the man's obese and doesn't navigate well.
The things he said, which everyone already knew, and quite conveniently all of them are the fault of his old bff Prayjut.
The Thai economy is fragile and there's too much inflation. The junta is running a deficit economy and non-performing debt is rising.
https://www.dailynews.co.th/

POLITICS POLLS
Prawit's performance 'underwhelms'
The weekly Nida Poll by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) showed Thais giving a huge 'MEH' to this question:
What do you think of the performance of 'caretaker prime minister' Prawit Wongsuwon in the wake of Prayut's setback?
Is it appropriate for Prawit to reshuffle the junta's so-called 'government cabinet'?
NO: 59%
Is it appropriate for Prawit to dissolve the House of Representatives and call a quick election?
YES: 80%
Are you satisfied with Prawit's performance as temporary acting prime minister?
NO: 22%
HELL, NO: 42%

SINK OR SWIM
And what do you think of the performance of Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt with all this heavy rain and flooding that's going on in Bangkok?

A portable TV so advanced that even a girl can carry one!

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY
That is not black humour or a pun, son.
Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/polio-declared-a-disaster-emergency-in-new-york-after-more-poliovirus-found/

The Department of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished reports:
North Taiwan woman trapped upside down in clothing recycling bin
It took search-and-rescue teams to get her out, but she's okay.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4654991

RAIN EAST DISASTER
Governor Channa Iamsaeng of Rayong province, just past Pattaya on the road to the East, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, declaimed a disaster in four of the province's districts - including Rayong town.
Just an estimate but "tens of thousands" of homes are damaged or destroyed. As of this morning, more than 100 homes have no electricity.
https://www.dailynews.co.th/news/1456319/

THAILAND POLITICS TOURISM
Poramase Ngampiches, mayor of Pattaya City, said out loud what everyone but hardcore prohibitionists already think:
The 1971 law against selling alcoholic beverages every afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. is unacceptable - arguably nonsensical.
Poramase The mayor said he was starting a campaign to wipe that regulation off the books, completely.
His quiet campaign will also demand that night spots be permitted to stay open until 4 a.m. - not the 1 a.m. currently permitted.
I fully support the two ideas. Pattaya is a world-class destination for tourism. Most venues are back to business now, and they are eager to service customers till 4 a.m. I am willing to let Pattaya pioneer the two policies.
PHOTO: To Be Clear: There are women in Pattaya but not in this photo.
More at: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/09/pattaya-mayor-backs-selling-alcohol-from-2-pm-to-5-pm-in-hotels-extending-legal-opening-hours-to-4-am/

TOURISM SKYWALK KANCHANABURI
The Skywalk Over The River Kwai
It's true: PPPPPP
The brand-new, 150-metre glass-bottomed Skywalk-Walking Street along the Kwae Yai riverbank had to close before it officially opened on Saturday, and closed on Sunday.
The glass surface requires everyone to wear covers over their shoes/sandals to prevent scuffs and dirt.
But the alleged "planners" forgot to install enough shoe-cover dispensers, so until new ones arrive you can look at the skywalk but you can't walk on it.
https://www.nationmultimedia.com/thailand/tourism/40019971

THAILAND POLITICS
They took a poll in Isan - the northeast of Thailand, asking one simple question: Who do you like for the next prime minister?
The clear winner was Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, who only announced her ambition 10 days ago.
Second was Paetongtarn Shinawatra, baby daughter of the fugitive Thaksin.
Flamboyant progressive leader and anti-junta activist came in just behind Paetongtarn.
Notable was 'tail-behind Charlie' Prayut, with a bare 12% of favourable replies.
PHOTO: From left: Khunying Sudarat, Paetongtarn, Pita and Prayut.
https://www.matichon.co.th/heading-news/news_3555878

You know you've always wanted this...
Live from New York, it's the U.N. General Assembly!
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly is about to begin, in all of its politicking, speechmaking, and midtown Manhattan traffic-snarling glory. Quartz will be there, with correspondents in person in New York and via livestream from Africa and Asia. Supported and financed by Bill Gates! And Melinda but heaven knows where she is.
An informative, entertaining email with news, context, and inside scoops from the world’s biggest political summit live from New York.
Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8stye3

U.S. and Japan to discuss the Chinese, North Korean threats
PHOTO shows Biden (in white hair) and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in Tokyo last May.
The two are certain to discuss the security of Taiwan when they next meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly around September 20.
Also on the table for certain discussion: North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/09/97719f8c3edb-us-japan-plan-to-hold-summit-on-un-assembly-sidelines-in-sept.html

There is nothing but America.
Nothing else exists but America.
I don't care that America is exceptional which it is but I care about the crap.

MATT MARGOLIS and 9/11 and how Biden is destroying America's Soul.
America no longer stands united. We are two different countries repeatedly proving we can't coexist peacefully.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/matt-margolis/2022/09/11/9-11-and-bidens-destruction-of-americas-soul-n1628485

AMERICA
Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever
The Director of Diversity and Inclusion in a Baltimore school said that 'BIPOC students' must be protected, and thus separated, from white people.
Repeat:
Kalea Selmon, the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Maryvale Preparatory School, announced that non-white students must be given spaces away from white students.
BIPOC spaces are sacred.
https://www.maryvale.com/about-maryvale/faculty-and-staff/leadership-team

Past performance is no guarantee of future TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE:
● Shot: Biden Demeans MAGA Voters in Vile Labor Day Speech, Including Recycled Lies About January 6.
Legal Insurrection, Tuesday.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/biden-demeans-maga-voters-in-vile-labor-day-speech-including-recycled-lies-abut-january-6/

● Chaser: Call for unity. Biden says Americans have 'duty' to stand up for democracy at 9/11 Pentagon ceremony.
The New York Post, Sunday.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/biden-says-americans-have-duty-to-stand-up-for-democracy-at-9-11-pentagon-ceremony/

Guldammit, who put that question mark there?
I have told you over and over that anything you type, Ron Burgundy will read!
https://www.outkick.com/biden-teleprompter-ron-burgundy/

and QUESTION ASKED:
The Forgetting of 9/11: How did this coordinated mass murder become so irrelevant?
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-forgetting-of-9-11/

Economics in the new age of national security, and claims that
The trade-offs between economic efficiency and national security are enormous.
Russia has weaponised its energy and food exports to divide Europeans and has sought to stoke anti-Western sentiment in developing countries. China has sided with Russia and affirmed its support for the Kremlin's security concerns.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/will-global-fragmentation-produce-new-economic-thinking-by-rabah-arezki-2022-08
The article is by Rabah Arezki, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
Before that, he was the chief economist and vice president at the African Development Bank and chief economist of the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region. He is currently paid to be a 'Google scholar'.

Also at Project Syndicate, a true think piece by Jorge G. Castañeda
Chile Says No to Revolution
Voters in Chile have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed new constitution.
Nearly 62% of the 13 million voters who turned out said no to the draft, which was to replace the constitution written during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-chile-rejected-proposed-progressive-constitution-by-jorge-g-castaneda-2022-09
Now do Thailand

TECHNOLOGY
WiFi 7 is coming, with transfer rates up to 5Gbps. Sort of. (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-broadcom-wifi-7

Get ready to switch browsers by January. (The Register)
If you haven't already.
Google will be killing Chrome support for fully functional ad blockers - the ones that let you select exactly what you want blocked and where. This is ostensibly because this requires the ad blocked to be able to inspect the contents of all web pages, and the internet requests they make.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/ad_blockers_chrome_manifest_v3/

A swastika had been spray-painted in a rainbow flag crosswalk.
Obviously a White Supremacist Semi-Fascist Ultra-MAGA was responsible for the outrage.
PHOTO of artist 30-year-old Jonah Jade Sampson on your right. He has been doing this over and over and OVER, seems to have a love-thing about the swastika. It took a SWAT Team and a 60-minute standoff to arrest him!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2022/09/09/white-supremacist-vandalism-atlanta-rainbow-crosswalk-swastikas-n2612642