'The vulgar people are always taken in by appearances and the world is full of them.' Signore Machiavelli. Part 1

1. Two things that Machiavelli said, remained fresh in my mind all the time.

2. The first was that ' the vulgar people are always taken in by appearance and the world is full of them .

3. Translated into more current terms, it would read as the idiotic people are taken in by appearances and the world is full of them.

4. Hence, the idiots would typically say, hey the pm kuat kerja gila. They would say this in such forceful manner, as though the manner in which they say it, would suggest that's it's an uncontestable truth

5. Perhaps they are taken in when the pm appears to working maddeningly hard when eating at warungs here and there, praying here there and everywhere, escorted by a phalanx of bodyguards including now, security details in dark glasses running alongside his car all of which convinced the idiots, PM kuaat kerja gila woi .

6. We have never seen security details running alongside the PM's official car before. The present PM must indeed be working kuat gila! To the point that his own personal safety is compromised .

7. The seriousness of the compromised security issue is sufficient to prompt the IGP to say, the PM's personal safety is top security. Don't play play!

8. So he puts security details running alongside the PM's official car. Like the American President. The Malaysian El presidente!

9. Maybe the threats against the PM are real. Who are we to question matters of security? Only mahiadin and Hamzah will dispute it. But we must also not dismiss the possibility the PM enjoys big burly and sweaty big asses running infront of him . Waduuh!

10. But like Walter Mondale said, following ms Clara Peller in the Wendy commercial said, where's the beef!!!!

11. The whirlwind assertion that the PM kuat kerja gila, must be evidenced by the results that matter, produced. And the results are dismal.

12. Where are the results of the PM's kuat kerja gila my bigmouth friend? There are shortages of rice, cooking oil and other food items. The ringgit is very down. Inflation despite the yearbook explanation by the senator minister, is high. The economy overall, has bombed. The result of kuat kerja gila?

13. The shortage of rice, poultry and other foodstuff is very depressing. This reflects the buffoonery of the said minister.

14. Although he is my friend, his incompetence in terms of work, won't insulate him from my usual strident criticisms.

15. When he replied a question in parliament by asking the questioner, why he eats more expensive imported rice, I thought that was a 'Poh Kee Mak' answer. I am not swearing ya, that's a name of a character in Pak Sako's novel, in case you don't know.

16. It didn't occur to him, some of us buy more expensive imported rice is because we can't buy locally produced rice.

17. So, the myth about the PM kerja kuat gila, is made worse by having incompetent fools in his cabinet.

18. Because vulgar people are taken in by appearances, it remains for Anwar to manage his appearance, image and perception .

19. There will always be useful idiots like the mp from Hulu Langat,who will amplify, embellish and perpetuate the farcical image.

20. In truth, Anwar maybe far removed from the appearances his image want us to believe. He actually maybe an obnoxious fellow, develish and imperial and Mandarin like. He surrounds himself with lackeys who will work overtime to preserve his imperial self. And there will always be useful idiots who will chorus the farce .

21. Meanwhile, Pak Nana will capitalise on the idiocy of the majority.

Part 2. The other thing Machiavelli said.