Through a tangled web of pride, vanity, moral superiority, Nietzschean negativity, Faustian promises and pseudo-Jedi cool, the junta keeps to its playbook by blaming everyone except themselves. The media are trying to drive a wedge between the two Ps, the PM said. "But if parties campaign, they should talk like me [on what they will do for the country]." Again, it's the sin of politicians, the species created from the dark depths of some ancient constitution who should be strung to a post and whipped. Gen Prawit's bling-bling fiasco at first sounded like another meme-friendly scandal that would peter out in a few days.

Source: Bangkok Post December 15, 2017 23:48 UTC