Ramai merindukan UMNO kembali.....ke rahmatullah. Devil's advocate series 59.

1. Sebab2 mengapa rakyat menolak UMNO dalam pru15, sekarang terserlah pada pembubaran DUN Johor 

2. Keangkuhan, kesombongan, cakap besar serta pekikan bergaduh, semuanya mendahului kemasukan UMNO dalam gelanggang. 

3. Internet serta sosmed dibanjiri dengan ampu2 dari algojo2 UMNO. 

4. Dibanjiri dengan alasan serta sebab2 kita meluat serta membenci UMNO sebermulanya 

5. Anjing2 ribaan UMNO mengibaratkan UMNO sebagai cakrawala dimana seluruh Dunia revolves around it. 

6. Seolah olah tanpa UMNO, orang melayu akan mati bergelimpangan. 

7. UMNO tidak berkuasa di Kelantan, Trengganu, nyawa2 ikan di Pahang, tidak berkuasa di Perlis ,Kedah, n9, tidak di Selangor, tidak di wp, tidak di Sabah serta tidak ada di Sarawak. 

8. Ada kita lihat orang melayu mati bergelimpangan? 

9. Ertinya, secara mutlaknya, orang melayu tidak memerlukan UMNO untuk hidup. 

10. Misalnya, saya melayu. Saya tidak memerlukan UMNO untuk mensertifikasikan saya orang melayu. Begitu juga dengan tuan2. 

11. UMNO hanyalah seekor harimau kertas. Yang mengkhayalkan hari2 kegemilangan nya yang telah hilang. 

12. Hari2 khayalan tersebut di gembar gemburkan oleh anjing2 ribaan UMNO di sosmed dan internet 

13. Naratif yang paling menjengkilkan kita ialah claim yang kata rakyat rindukan kembali nya UMNO ke pangkuan kuasa 

14. Cer beritahu teman, rakyat mana yang merindukan sang rembulan 

15. Katalah , UMNO ada 3 juta ahli. Tak semua gerenti sokong UMNO atas 1001sebab. Mungkin meluat tengok wajah wak J. 

16. Katalah , dalam keadaan sekarang, kebencian bukan kerinduan, UMNO dapat 1.5 juta nangoi2 yang sokong UMNO membabi buta kerana UMNO mainkan sentimen bangsa, agama serta tanah air(raja. 

17. Katalah pulà jumlah yang boleh mengundi ialah 70% dari population, yakni 21 juta orang 

18. Ertinya ada kira2 16 juta tolak UMNO. Atau lebih kurang, setiap 1 undi ke UMNO, ada 4 yang menolak. 

19. Maka teruskalah wok, claimlah bahawa rakyat mahu UMNO kembali.,...ke rahmatullah! 

20. Maka UMNO Johor masuk gelanggang bukan dengan keyakinan tapi dengan ancaman pupus. 

21. Bukannya Onn Hafiz tapi Onn habis! 

22. Ada orang lihat Onn mengistiharkan pembubaran DUN Johor? 23. Habis semua makhlul di rangkulnya 

24. Bangsa melayu, bangsa johor, Allah serta perkenan Tuanku Johor. 

25. Hello encik, Tuanku perkenankan pembubaran, bukannya perkenankan rakyat supaya sokong UMNO 

26. Tuanku itu, sultan kepada semua orang bukan sultan hanya pada orang UMNO. 

27. Allah pulà bukanya berada pihak UMNO je. God is not on the side of UMNO only 

28. Baik anta berjaga ya akhi Onn, kalu anta claim Allah berada pihak awak, anta akan di qunut nazilahkan oleh Ustaz pas! 

29. Maka biarlah keangkuhan serta kesombongan mendahului UMNO Johor dalam pertarungan 'Bila timbul cinta (untuk orang lain), pertarungan tidak berguna'. Ahmad + Daud normadiah. 

30. Orang akan lihat juga kerakusan UMNO mendapatkan kuasa. 

31. PRN ada tempoh 1 tahun lebih lagi. Tapi UMNO Johor nak juga. Kerana tamak serta haloba 

32. Kali ini saya kena setuju dengan lobakman, PRN Johor akan membawa malapetaka pada UMNO.

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Johor elections: A chance to bury UMNO not to restore it. Part 1. Devil's advocate series 58.

1. The reasons for which you handed UMNO its most devastating defeat at the federal level are being played out in the dissolution of DUN Johor 

2. The arrogance, conceit, bellicose rants etc are there 

3. The very reasons we abhor and reject UMNO. 

4. The Johor state elections is preceded by the thuggish and bellicose rants, fighting talks, hate speech and so on. 

5. They underlie the preposterous claim by UMNO stooges(frisky women and men) that people longed for the return of UMNO 

6. Just who are the people who longed for the return of the prodigal party and the kleptocratic party? 

7. Maybe the 3 million UMNO members plus 2 million other servile people. Not 29 million other people. 

8. The social media is replete with adulatory praises from UMNO sycophants 

9. Did you hear and see what the Onn fellow does when pompously announcing the dissolution of the Johor assembly? 

10. He cites God, the sultan, race and bangsa Johor etc 

11. Giving the impression God is on UMNO's side and has the sultans consent 

12. God is on everybody's side and the ruler gave his consent on the dissolution of the Johor assembly. Not giving consent for the people to support UMNO. 

13. People despise UMNO and to the implied claim that God is on UMNO's side,it's fake and swashbuckling talk . 

14. If you asked Ramanan and fuzzy fuziah, they will say God is a PKR member! 

15. The people or rakyat the Onn feller is referring to must be the kong kali-kong people( group of monkeys) who in turn elect apes to the local Kong -ress(DUN) to talk themselves silly. 

16. Real people want intelligent people to represent them and the country. To articulate intelligently on matters of common interest to the rakyat and talk on important matters to the country. 

17. So if you don't want to be labelled as Kong kali Kong crowd, stay away from UMNO. Run! 

18. The UMNO stooges and lackeys are always dumbing down people, believing they can be herded into blindly supporting UMNO. Especially when race religion and king are mentioned. 

19..people may be quiet, but they are constantly evaluating, assessing and analysing the candidates 

20. They are not going after ape-ish looking people, looking and behaving as Stupids . 

21. The Johor elections is a chance for people to annihilate UMNO not restore it, to its lost glory days of free looting.

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The errors of the PM, part 3. Devil's advocate series 57.

1. Another error the PM makes is his refusal or reluctance to gradually scale down central command economics institutions 

2. This is a belief that central command centres made up of politicians and bureaucratic can drive economic development. 

3. The concept was coined famously by American economist, Milton Friedman 

4. Our own obsession with command centres of economics, stems perhaps from the influence of Fabian socialism 

5. Tun Razak, our bapa pembangunan was greatly influenced by Fabian socialism. 

6. The beliefs of Fabian socialism maybe good and served it's functions in the 50s and 60s, but it never imagined it will grow into grotesque command centres controlled by bureaucratic brahmins. 

7. The beliefs of Fabian socialism run counter to the teachings of Adam Smith, the idea of free market economics. 

8. The ideas of Smith were expanded by people like von mises, Hayek and most famously by Milton Friedman. And countless other free market economic adherents . 

9. It's from each according to his ability and areas that interest him, to society what they want secured through price signals 

10. I am not going to use the term capitalism in lieu of free market economics 

11. That term carries much evil connotations, wrong most of the time . 

12. A group of people, the evil capitalists owned and controlled means of production 

13. The ordinary people, the proletariat have nothing to sell but their labour 

14. The proletariat are paid just enough for their upkeep but the value they created is very much more 

15. The evil capitalists appreciate the surplus value and this is the source of much exploitation 

16. The central command economic centres often drive the economy the wrong way. 

17. This is because they are driven by such factors as political expediencies and other policy factors. 

18. Not by price signals and therefore not,( economically) rational 

19. We can in fact call these central command economic centres as centres of economic irrationalities. 

20. These centres will need troops in the form of middle and lower ranking government officers to 'police', monitor and nursemaid the chosen economic activities 

21. This may lead to a big problem. Civil service corruption. 

21a. Upon retiring these people can buy 15-20 million houses at county heights kajang, taman tun or damasara heights. Houses with big land, high ' shilling ' and with 'water featured'. 

22. Economic actors respond to market signals not to directives from central command economic centres. They don't need EPUs or ICUs 

23. They have their own. Internal EPUs and ICUs. 

24. I am constantly amazed at the ingenuity of our petty traders such as restaurant operators 

25. They come out with novelty dishes and premises with good ambiance. 

26. Certainly they do not respond to the dictates of the central command centres but to free market signals. 

27. Like Friedman said, greater economic achievements are gotten when economic actors respond to free market signals 

28. The refusal and reluctance of the PM to scale down gradually the size of the central command economics, I believe is more due to ignorance and not giving much thought to this edifice from the previous UMNO regime. 

29. I see this as an an error on the part of the PM. 

30. May I suggest the PM reads ,von Mises, Hayek and Friedman?

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The errors of the PM. Part 2. Devil's advocate series 56.

1. The biggest economic misstep is continuing the pick-and -choose-winners economic strategy. 

2. A cabal of crony carpetbeggars will be chosen to spearhead economic growth. Especially for the Malay economy. 

3. A number of people will be given contacts exclusive licences to carry out government business. 

4. A variant of voodoo economics, where it is hoped the economic prosperity so created will produce the desired trickle down effects. 

5. They have not produced that but more of drip down effects 

6. It's a situation like the Malay says, bagaikan enau dalam belukar melepaskan pucuk masing2. 

7. But as Robert Kuok says, the higher the tree top, the more violent the hail and wind you attract. 

8. People don't envy you are rich but they will start asking how did you get rich? 

9. And they will find out you get to be that because of government patronage, lots of it . 

10. We now have bestinet, NexG, monopolistic importer of beras impot, the man who rents out helicopters to the government when it's better for the government to buy and form a company of technicians, companies patronized by khazanah, the companies earmarked for IPOs, GLCs mollycoddled by the government and the list goes on. 

11. The pick and choose winners economic model is here to stay. 

12. This kind of economic strategy creates favorites and a coterie of crony carpetbeggars. 

13. Their prosperity will depend on continued government assists. 

14. The PM has got the basic building block bringing up the economy wrong 

15. Instead of democratizing the economy , he's elitizing the economy 

16. That's the UMNO way of bringing up the economy, especially Malay economy by creating an economic nobility, economic bangsawans. 

17. A variant of voodoo economics. 

18. If our dear PM perpetuates this economic way forward, where is the reformasi? 

19. Where? Where?

20. We must employ the Zaaba way. Build endogenous competencies compete freely on a level playing field.

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The errors of the PM part 1. Devil's advocate 55

1. I'll try to show where I think the PM has erred. Like I said many times I don't want him a one hit wonder. 

2. Even though I see him as a pasembur raconteur, pretending to be irascible at times, I see him also as the man who could pull Malaysia together. 

3. That's more than I can say of the nincompoops surrounding him 

4. And God have mercy on us, when he gets into constipation or child giving birth mode when speaking to us 

5. His 1st political mistake which could lead to a nasty fall, as I see it, is to bring UMNO into the fold of the unity government n. 

6. I detect a bit of impatience perhaps a bit of over enthusiasm , typical of a man who walks with gait of a trotting dog. 

7. In a flurry fast and furious. Also chiefly because I can't keep up with such energetic pace . 

8. With a little bit of patience and circumspect, Anwar could have discussed more on the subject of coalition partners with Sarawak and Sabah based parties and pliable individuals in Malaya. 

9. That would ostracize UMNO completely and keep it out of the corridors of power 

10. Which is what UMNO wants- power by any means necessary. Even if it has to prostitute itself. 

11. UMNO where got moral scruples one, it has only its interests to look after . 

12. Bringing UMNO into the fold of the unity government has allowed UMNO to spread it's wings-giving it a respiratory machine as it were . 

13. UMNO obtained ministerial and deputy ministerial posts and opportunities to place UMNO appointees in various GLCS. 

14. Especially in GLCs dealing with the Malay heartland. 

15. MARA, Felda, Fecra, Risda and others have UMNO appointees.

16. That's tantamount to giving UMNO chances to cultivate Malay support which is its power base . 

17. Isn't that like PH shooting itself in the foot? 

18. With time remaining for the next GE, revoke the appointment of UMNO appointees and downsize the number of UMNO ministerial positions. 

19. With that, announce that PH will contest all seats solo in N9,fat Albert state and Johor. 

20. In a few weeks, UMNO will have it's PAU . We will hear the normal bragodocious , big and fighting talks. 

21. Let's see after the revoke and downsize, UMNO can still talk big. 

22. Or it's just a paper tiger a shell of it's previous self. 

23. It can only cover its deficiencies with big talks. 

24. I have said this many times, it bores you, but it is a fatal mistake to invite the enemy to share political power with you.

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Bersama. The transitory and proletarian crowd. Devil's advocate series 54.

1. I want to talk about what I see and believe to be the chink in Bersama's armour.

2. The leadership is already solid and it will be augmented by other reputables soon.

3. Within a few weeks, it's membership has grown to thousands. It grows further

4. Already it says it will contest all 56 seats in Johor. Very likely will do so also in N9 and melaka.

5. It will contest in other states as it will have 'convincing' numbers.

6. I have mixed feelings about its membership drive though

7. At the moment, as reported its membership drive relies primarily on voluntary applications

8. People send in their applications to HQ, they get processed and approved

9. That passive membership drive will attract the transitory crowd, mostly middle class impatient to transition into the elite class

10. Bersama risks becoming an elite grouping of the. BMW, Volvo and Vellfire driving crowd .

11. The values shaped will be middle class and. Bourgeois.

12. To counter the edifying effects which the middle class brings, Bersama has to go on an active membership drive.

13. Go to malls, pasar malam, shops, gathering places,solicit members

14. Bersama for all except the chair throwing crowd

15. Unless of course, Bersama wants to remain as an elitist grouping

16. If it chooses to be a broad based political organization, Bersama will become a formidable force

17. It's unwise to belittle Bersama for it's present small. In history more often, the smaller force defeats the bigger one

18. At the battle of Badr, 313 Muslim troops defeated thousand of unbelievers.

19. Whether we like Rafizi and Nik or not, Bersama is a threat to ALL old school political parties.

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Missing the trees for the woods. Devil's advocate series 53.

1. When PKR cyber troopers want to elevate Anwar to extraordinary status, please do so with some intellectual heft and coherence

2. Some of us , many even feel like throwing up when you people come up with single sentence monologues.

3. Since Anwar took over, our tax revenue is such, our investment is X and so on

4. If I were to make an analogy to a car, this is what we get

5. You have explained the camshaft, cylinder head , spark plug , timing belt etc

6. You have not explained to us the engine block and piston.

7. You have discussed the Opex not the Capex .

8. By doing so, you haven't Showed us Anwar as a reformer but only as a jobber .

9. Doing so you are building on the inconsequentials and building a cultish figure.

10. Why don't you discuss the engine block and piston?

11. What is reformasi? What does it entail?

12. In my opinion, it must be the clinical overthrow of the status quo.

13. Next, which specific areas do you want reformasi carried out?

14. In the area of economics, politics, the law, culture etc?

15. Instead you discuss the inconsequentials . You are missing the trees for the woods .

16. You have discussed things like crankshaft, camshaft,cylinder head, timing belt ,spark plug. Not the engine block and piston.

17. Those to things are indeed important but have limited appeal .

18. These appeal to the unthinking crowd, the type cultivated by UMNO , seen as digits and driven by sentiments.

19. But we can got to appeal to millineals, gen z and k pop generations

20. Let's take the bull by its horns and discuss really important issues and readiness of the PM to confront those. That would elevate the stature of the PM .

21. Discuss for example, how the PM wants to tackle the constitutional monarchy status.

22. We are not living in an age where the ruler can cut open the tummy of a heavily pregnant lady to retrieve jackfruit taken from his orchard. If the story is indeed true. I don't think a ruler can be that heartless .

23. Let's discuss the creation of an economic model that can withstand shocks and other 'stochastic' variables

24. Let's discuss the elephant in the room issue. The separation of the post of PM from FM .

25. Let's talk about your proclivity to talk about a current kichi mayung issue. How you handle the Rafizi Bersama issue.

26. I think it's a bloody waste of time to demonise him , call him all sorts of names. Kuat nerajuk, sotong, khianat etc

27. You look at him, he's not someone easily intimidated or cowed

28. The die is already cast and he has crossed the Rubicon.

29. PKR has to live with the fact that it has Bersama to contend with.

30. The better approach is not to attack him ad hominem but to focus in carrying out your reformasi agenda ignoring side issues .

31. Don't miss the trees for the woods brother!

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