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So the thumbnail for this video, we have got Dr. Evil on there from Austin Powers 1, and there's a scene in Austin Powers where Scott his son, played by Seth Green, Dr. Evil played by the great Mike Myers says something to Dr. Evil about "oh we should do it this way", and Doctor Evil just says, "You just don't get it, do you? You don't!" It's just so well put on, it's just so well delivered, the line, I just love it, and I really think it very accurately, in an English language context, conveys the issue with this suspended Prime Minister. She just doesn't get it. 

As I have discussed in other videos, I have serious issues and I will get into this here in a minute in further depth about her leaked call to the Cambodian Prime Minister which is the reason the Constitutional Court held in a 9-0 decision to take up the case involving her behaviour on that call, and in a 7 - 2 decision opted to suspend her from Office pending final adjudication in the matter. So understand, that is the underlying reason for her suspension. But we have talked about this. If she knew what she was doing at a deep level, and I mean I think she knew what she was doing insofar as she can get on the phone and talk, but if she knew the implications of what she was saying and things, it's really troubling, I mean to the point of as we have discussed in other videos, it's undermining of Thai Sovereignty; it's a real problem. If she didn't, it's another reason why she shouldn't be Prime Minister because as the thumbnail implies, you just don't get it, do you? This video was initially going to be two separate videos citing two separate things, because I want to do some background here. Quoting directly, Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Thaksin 'secret deal' with Cambodia suspected. Quoting directly: "Political activist Jatuporn Prompan has raised suspicions regarding former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's recent political activities, questioning whether a secret deal may be behind a series of events that all occurred on the same day." Quoting further: "He highlighted the promotion of the soft power initiative, which could be seen as a boost for Thaksin's daughter, suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in her new capacity as Culture Minister; and Thaksin's dramatic declaration of severing ties with Cambodian strongman Hun Sen, after more than 30 years, citing the damage done to Ms. Paetongtarn in the wake of their leaked telephone call." Well yeah, the damage done to her, but also damage done to him talking about the fact that he was showing up to a meeting in a fake neck brace and a fake arm brace. I made a video on that where I cited the movie Wild Things with Bill Murray, where Bill Murray is this shady lawyer and he is wearing this neck brace and Matt Dillon his client asking him, like, "what is that on your neck". "Oh, I don't need to wear it all the time. There was this insurance guy poking around here earlier." Then you see the photo of Thaksin and you read what Hun Sen said, it's just like "what are you doing?" We thought it was a heart condition; it looked like he fell down 20 flights of stairs, but was not bruised or anything, just in these braces and things. It was nuts and yeah, I am sure he is a little miffed at old Hun Sen for outing him on that kind of stuff. Meanwhile, this dramatic declaration of severing ties, well this is why I get really mad about this because you had pretty good ties when you were over there under Hun Sen's wing in 2010 exacerbating the problems that caused this city to burn. I was here for that. That came to my doorstep directly, and it was awful. I just can't stress enough how angry it makes me when I see this stuff involving Hun Sen and the relationships here and what's going on, because this has had dramatically negative implications for Thailand for a long time now. 

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But getting back into this again and note, this is Jatuporn bringing this up, okay? This is not somebody from the antithesis of the political spectrum of these people, at least “supposedly”. I am starting to think more and more, this “Shinawatra clique” has completely their own agenda, they don't really care much about the rank-and-file people of Thailand, they just are out for their own benefit and this him coming out because of the soft power initiative, well she was effectively suspended and then given this Culture Ministry portfolio, which looks to me like basically a placeholder portfolio. I'm not denigrating the Culture Ministry. It in and of itself is fine, but to go from PM to suspended PM holding that portfolio, it looks to me like she has been given it to just basically still be able to sit at the table if you will. Then he pops back up, and it's like, what do you who have to do with anything? I get into that directly in another video because he seems to be sticking his nose in all kinds of places it doesn't belong. Also when he came back, wasn't part of the deal that he wasn't going to be involved in all this political stuff, and then from the get-go he reneged on that. I don't think people outside, especially the anglosphere etc., really understands the extent to which everyone across the political spectrum, even the opposition, bent over backwards to accommodate this person coming back into Thailand, and coming up with a reconciliation. And at every turn we've seen, that has been sort of spit back in everybody's face. On top of it, as I have discussed in many other videos, prior to 2023 we didn't see anything about Digital Money; we didn't see anything about the World Economic Forum and since that time, we have been pushed relentlessly with their agendas and with their desires; the Casino Complex which the current draft of which they sort of shelved it, but the current draft says that foreigners can own the operation and it looks like they were pushing their guy into the Interior Ministry, probably because the Interior Ministry is the place where you can sign off on foreigners owning land. So I made a video asking the question, "is this being done so that foreigners can own both the operation and the underlying land?” Again I bring this stuff up because since this person has come back - and they came back under the pretext of “hey we are all going to kind of come back together and figure out how to work this through” - the opposite has really occurred. I think anybody that objectively looks at the facts in the last two years, can see that. That said, quoting further: "Jatuporn suggested the synchronization of these events appeared too calculated to be coincidental, speculating that they might have been orchestrated as part of a broader political performance." Yeah, he brings up a good point and that seems to be a running theme with these people. And my question is again, what does Thaksin have to do with any of this stuff? I thought he wasn't supposed to be involved in political issues. Wasn't that the terms of his parole, or whatever you want to call it? Like he's not supposed to be doing this stuff. I thought that was part of it. I thought part of the reconciliation was we were moving past all this old era. Also, it is really creepy this whole notion that, and I have also seen, by the way Bangkok Post hats off, you do your job, especially on following general politics and stuff, they really we do, but I do have to be honest, in the last like 3 or 4 days, how many subscriptions has the Shinawatra family purchased in the last week and a half because it's like there has been this whole PR blitz that is almost in favour of Thaksin. That's why I have used that same photo because I pulled up Bangkok Post online and then I saw it in the print edition. There's Thaksin with his smiling face on the cover, like it was, I am genuinely asking the question there, it's like “why the push behind this guy?” If anything, it looks like we are in a watershed moment where we are moving past all of that, but whatever.

In any event now, if I'm going to put something up on screen – in fact, I will put it up right now -the Trace Buster buster buster, from the movie The Big Hit. I'll put a link in the description below to get some context for that. But there is this movie with Mark Wahlberg years ago, where the running joke was they were calling people on the phone. It was in the old days, kind of before cell phones, although they had cell phones, but before caller ID really, and they were trying to trace each other's phone calls, it's really comical, kind of silly, this "oh we have a Trace Buster." Now we have the Trace Buster buster, now we have the Trace buster buster, buster. In any event quoting directly: "Thaksin said his daughter was waiting for a call from Hun Sen for three hours at a hotel with some key government figures, but he did not call her. "He later called her private mobile. I started to wonder -- was he really asleep, or was he preparing to record the conversation?" Well one, it doesn't take three hours in the modern era to record a conversation. We're not in 1999 with the Trace Buster buster, buster, okay? That's the first thing to understand. Secondly is a key thing that keeps coming up and coming up with regard to this woman. Does she have to be on training wheels to talk to a foreign leader? Her dad has to be in the same room? I am serious about this because if he does, that raises serious questions. I thought he wasn't supposed to be involved in politics. Secondly, can she not talk to somebody without like a handler present? It's a genuine question. If she didn't intend for the negative ramifications and didn't understand the negative implications of her communication to Hun Sen, then it begs the question, is she competent enough to hold the job? 

Moving over to further on this, and again along the theme of, "you just don't get it, do you?" To provide some background here to this. There was a recent I guess whatever you would call a back and forth within the Thai Parliament apparently, where one of the leaders of one of the now opposition parties I should say, Anutin Charnvirakul from Bhumjaithai Thai, made kind of a slick political move, candidly where he said, "hey the Chinese aren't coming to Thailand right now as tourists because they are put off by our trying to pass laws to create casinos here. And the leader of China, Xi Jinping, doesn't like casinos.” Now look, I think I have made my views on undue influence of China in Thailand very clear. I don't want to see any undue influence. I had issues before I discussed in a video. There was this Chinese influencer in the sense of social media, Chinese influencer who came down here - I don't remember when it was, a year and a half two years ago - saying, "Oh, Thailand is dangerous” and was stirring up all this trouble about how Thailand was dangerous, and the Chinese don't want to come to Thailand because it's dangerous." And I said at the time, if you think it's so dangerous, don't come. Because Thailand isn't dangerous in any objective sense of the term, okay? Okay, maybe it's dangerous compared to a totalitarian state. We are not totalitarian down here, but it's not objectively dangerous. It is a very, very safe country, so that is the first thing to understand. I made my views on that known at the time. I said look, if you don't like it, don't come here. I'm not saying I don't want Chinese tourists, let me be very clear. All tourism is good for Thailand. All tourists that come here and spend money, act politely, see the sites and go home, that's a good thing for Thailand. We love to see Chinese tourists, that would be great. But there is this constantly running theme that seems to come from the organs of the PR apparat of China, that Thailand is “unsafe” and it just bugs me when I hear that. So moving into this Anutin thing, he brought up the fact, and it was kind of a slick little political “gotcha” in the Parliament where he said, "hey maybe the Chinese aren't coming down here because you guys are pushing this casino agenda." So it was an opposition leader kind of needling the government party, basically. Her retort and quoting from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: "Safety fears, not casinos, keeping Chinese away, argues Paetongtarn. And this is where I get into the, "you just don't get it, do you?" on multiple levels here. Quoting directly: "Suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has denied Chinese President Xi Jinping discouraged Chinese from visiting Thailand because of her Party's plan for legal casinos, saying that people's safety was the prime concern." Quoting further: "Ms. Paetongtarn on Wednesday responded to Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul's allegation that the sharp decline in Chinese visitors resulted from her ignorance of Chinese President Xi's repeated advice against the legalization of casinos in Thailand." So her response is, "nu uh, they said it's because we are not safe." You just don't get it, do you? You're now a suspended PM, so ostensibly you are thinking you are going to be the PM again. You don't want to make us look worse by even bringing that up. I'm sorry, I don't mean to keep coming at this over and over, but we just keep propping this woman up like she's some kind of normal politician, which I did that prior video, where I had the thumb, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills", that's what I feel like here. When I see the person that is supposed to be speaking for the country, okay she got a political zinger thrown at her by, let’s be clear, a pretty astute political operator, and her retort is, "uh, uh, it's because we are not safe." You just don't get it, do you? I keep coming back to that. That's what it comes down to.

And look, China can think what they want about Thailand. I personally think that their offer to mediate the Border dispute rankles me no end. There is no Chinese sphere of influence in Southeast Asia. Matters between Thailand and Cambodia should stay between those two Sovereign Nations. Meanwhile, at the end of the day the leaked phone call is what it is, but the evidence just keeps mounting up that we need new leadership. We do not need somebody who really doesn't get that the retort to "hey maybe one of our policies wasn't a good idea", "No, no. It's our safety problems, that's the problem!" It needs to stop; that's my only point. I would really, and I have discussed this in other videos, there's another option from the Core Coalition Party, from the governing party. There is another option, there is a third person on the list who is waiting in the wings. Let's pull that person up because to continue to keep rehashing bad policy and bad political moves, I don't think it's doing this country any good at all.