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"The government have the convening power of the King and they have used it in a very transactional way, for example the brandishing of the King's letter in the Oval Office," said one royal source.

Bhumjaithai is famously unideological and transactional, and in the past has been allied with conservative, military-backed groups and, more recently, with Pheu Thai.

Brown was indicted Wednesday on 21 counts of wire fraud, transactional money laundering and aggravated identity theft.

The transactional nature of his political philosophy will eventually outweigh his flair for the moment, and I can’t imagine ever voting for someone who seems seconds away from selling me out.

Not every interaction between a celebrity and their fan is so unsettling, but there is, typically, a transactional nature to these brief encounters.