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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking, is there some kind of double standard associated with the Thai Prime Minister? Now the reason for the thumbnail, if anybody has ever watched the film Inglorious Bastards, a great Tarantino movie. Brad Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Raine and there is this great scene, they are getting ready to go in on this covert mission to basically liaise with this woman that is a spy behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France. And they have to rendezvous in a basement, and Lt. Aldo Raine just keeps going on and on about how, "you don't want to fight in a basement. Whatever you do, you don't want to fight in a basement." Finally, I don't remember the character's name, but it's played by Michael Fassbender, he is the Lieutenant there, Hicox I think was his name, he's standing there, and she says, "hey look, she's an actress, she's not a military strategist." And then he turns around and says, "well you don't got to be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't want to fight in the basement." And I just, the point of the thumbnail is look we are going to get this kind of double standard and this in my opinion, this attempt to spin on the part of if you will both maybe the Phue Thai Party or the Shinawatra faction within it, or just the Prime Minister's Office itself, to sort of spin this all as, "well, she didn't really know what she was doing", or, "it was a negotiation tactic", or whatever. And I have to ask, and again I don't want this to become some Battle Royale of the sexes, I'm not, I actually rather liked Yingluck for the most part when she was Prime Minister mostly because I am a fan of stability in Thailand. I think most political chicanery is exactly that. It's chicanery; it's basically, especially in this new era of politics where everybody is basically a celebrity, they are not even statesman anymore. I stated that in prior videos where it was like what are these people doing? Why don't they get into Parliament and actually pass laws, and do some things that are good for people? By the way that doesn't include just passing whole cloth stuff that the World Economic Forum hands you, that's not what I'm talking about, but figure out what the people need. That's the point of having representation in Parliament and then enacting legislation that helps the people, instead of acting like some kind of celebrity or red-carpet walker or something that then happens to hold a political office.

And then, so the reason for this though, I saw a recent article in the Nation, nationthailand.com, the article is titled: PM Paetongtarn deletes Instagram post and cancels advisory team meeting. Quoting directly: "Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra posted on her Instagram story in English before deleting it. She had cancelled a meeting with her advisory team at Phitsanulok Mansion made at 8.15am on Thursday, it read: "People don't fake depression. They fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind." 

Sorry sweetie. I mean this isn't a matter of your depression; this isn't a matter of kindness or decorum, okay? Was it kind to the Thai people to get on the phone with Hun Sen and call him "uncle" and say that our own Military Commander was the opponent? I mean my point here is and again I don't want this to be some big battle of the sexes thing, but I asked it in a prior video, if this was a man that did this, would they even be allowed to have made the apology and then kind of spin this up and still be nominally in the chair of the Prime Ministership? I doubt it. Why? Because men are expected to know, you don't get on the phone with your counterparty in a conflict of this nature and give him everything. You don't get on the phone and call him "Uncle"; you don't get on the phone and just, "oh hey we would like to open the Border simultaneously.” “No I want to do it later", and just kind of like cave on all that stuff. I am sorry, but that's just not the right move. And again, as I have discussed in other videos, I want to believe that there was no real intent here. I genuinely want to believe that. I really hope there wasn't although it's hard to see how, but whatever, especially when you are directly calling the Head of our Military Operation up there the “opponent”. But setting that aside, okay if you couldn't see that then how can it be right to stay in that job? And to my mind, if you're being honest with yourself, you would say "look I'm out of my depth, I need to step aside and let somebody who can handle this deal with it", because that would be the right move here. 

Going back to the thumbnail, "you don't got to be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't undermine your own Field Commander." I just, again, I don't want to get into this sort of battle of the sexes because that is not what this is about. I have seen very confident female leadership that is out there, but I really have to question the competence of anyone who in a circumstance like this, who would get on a phone call and operate the way that she did. So what I am hoping is that this all resolves peacefully; I hope it resolves peacefully along the border or as peacefully as it can. Put the past behind us, come to some kind of working resolution, de-escalate from there, and then try to build consensus as time moves forward. 

Meanwhile I have discussed in other videos, I have seen the way Thai partisanship can rip this city apart; I have seen it first-hand. I don't want to see any more of that. It doesn't look to me like virtually anybody wants to see that either; I have discussed that in other videos I've already made. That said, I am just really frankly down in the dumps about all of this, and I really question why this Prime Minister is continuing, based on what we saw transpire last week.