A potpourri of political faux pas. Sontoloyo series no 40.

1. This time I am writing about incidences which I regard as a potpourri of political faux pas.

2. In the sense of a series of tactless acts.

3. Which actually reflect the incompetence of their authors

4. Whose moronic idea was it to lock down kl city center for the forthcoming ASEAN summit?

5. The idea must have come from a person accustomed to controlling others.

6. The usual suspects for moronic ideas like that can come only from-umno people.

7. Only UMNO people enjoy controlling others. Gaslighting them most of the time.

8. That habit is now extended to measures of providing security blanket for the ASEAN luminaries.

9. Instead of lockdown of certain selective ares in the city, why not mobilise all security personnel and para security personnel?

10. Call in the police, the army, the RELA people, pemuda UMNO, pas's unit Amal, have all JPJ vehicles lined up the streets.

11. Yeah, burn the mosquito net to get rid of the mosquitoes.

12. It's the idiot's and the thicky's guide for security measures.

13. Those selected ares locked down are probably the most commercialized.

14. Has the idiot foreign minister calculated the economic loss from the lockdown? most likely not .

15 . Earlier on, we had the furor over the citizenship naturalization of the 7 footballers.

16. I have a few friends, all Malaysia born or have stayed in Malaysia for 30 years still waiting for their citizenship.

17. Unfortunately, they tak tahu score goals. They know how to make babies .

18. It would be interesting to have an impromptu interview with these 7 in BM! See, if they can mount up some decent BM

19. I hear they can execute vigorous mount ups in the bukit bintang-like areas .

20. The citizenship naturalization of the 7, may have inadvertently uncovered the submerged part of the iceberg.

21. It may inadvertently indicate the presence of a deep state within the home ministry.

22. I had reports alleging of a very lucrative business of the sale of not only naturalised citizenship but also of working permits for non Malaysians.

23. The frontline operations are carried out by operatives at the behest of the brethren of the deep state.

24. The deep state, as I mentioned in a number of articles I wrote about the rice problem and the MOA, refer to the collusion between the business mandarins and high government officials.

25. The deep state exists in all ministries. All KSUs are probably members of this brethren.

26. A business friend doing business with the government, said all KSUs are corrupt. Probably this is true

27. The high government officials pakat with the business mandarins to corner the lucrative businesses issued by the government.

28. The sale of naturalised citizenship and the issuance of working permits for foreign workers are probably included in this category.

29. That's where the whirlpool of corruption is .

30. To go after the big sharks for corruption, let's do a lifestyle and bank account audit on all these big government officials including members of the uniformed staff .

31. Then, they will know whether the sky is high or not.

32. The education minister seems to be always in the limelight - for the wrong reasons.

33. Aaw, please don't give me the sockeye salmon eye treatment.

34. I might be shaking in my sneakers. Others may suffer worse. They may experience their balls shrinking.

35 . Have some 'humanity' on us . Please be gentle, puan .

36. Long time ago, when mat taib was hounded by the press, Zahid told them to have some 'humanity' on him.

37. The education minister acted with pearl clutching horror at being blamed for the bad things happening in schools.

38. You know the expression pearl clutching, don't you?

39. Bad things like bullying, murder, rape and the latest, the fatal stabbing and mutilation of a school girl.

40. Schools are premises under the control of teachers. They owe a duty of care who enter the premises officially. Namely, pupils.

41. Teachers are responsible for them. Teachers are ultimately responsible for to the minister.

42. So blaming the minister ultimately, is justifiable.

43. The bad things are happening during school hours. No parents are involved. The responsibility is with teachers.

44. You cannot escape responsibility in moulding the character by saying it starts at home. Yes, but the moulding of character is more effective at schools

45. Because at school there is the authority figure with teachers as there is also peer environment.

46. That cannot be sufficiently and effectively provided for in homes .

47. There is now a very poorly done social media rehabilitation of the education minister.

48. Social media carry reports of teachers saying fadhlina is so far the 'best' education minister.

49. Is that fairy tale spinning or what? You ingat these fantasy stories can erase the incompetence of the minister?

50. Either there is huge spending on social media blitz or these people got the sockeye salmon eye treatment.

51. In the end, the PM must decide whether the sockeye salmon lady is a liability or an asset.

52. The test of a leader's intelligence is to look at the people surrounding him.

53. Not encouraging, my dear fellow.

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To invite or not to invite Trump.that is the question. Sontoloyo series no 34.

1. The question is to invite or not to invite trump.

2. Trump's presence will be discomfiting to many .

3. Trump's presence is reaffirming the notion of one power or bloc dictating the destiny of the global south.

4. It's a notion that the global south benefits the mothership country .

5. Helping trump affirm this notion will only make him more cocky and insensitive to the aspirations of the global south.

6. Let's not be a political accomplice. It's as though we need his validation to be relevant.

7. Notwithstanding Trump's 'unpresence' tell the world that trumps wet-dream world of America and its allies determining the destiny of others is fading .

8. Trump's Dreamworld is being replaced by world where there are multiple centres of strength. They are in the Arab world, Africa, India , ASEAN, china, Japan and Korea.

9. They compete not to seek dominance but to offer shared prosperity and a readiness to shape the destiny of the world together.

10. The old model in which the many benefit the few and one bloc progresses at the expense of others is fading.

11. Trump will bring that kind of zero sum mentality to ASEAN.

12. Listening to Anwar letting of steam and giving concessions, will be regarded as depriving America and it allies, the ability to impose it's will. That will erode it's dominance.

13. No way Jose, says the Donald.

14. Tell the world, not Trump alone how Malaysia and ASEAN think about USA protecting the star of David country.

15. For all you know, USA is abetting israel in committing the genocide in Gaza.

16. Gaza is the present day neo Nazi concentration camp and the present day killing field.

17. Probably orchestrated by fuhrer trump and executed by bibi netanyahu.

18. Under these circumstances, not inviting Trump seems a more sensible option. Or in the language of diplomacy, more strategic.

19. Ignoring rather than engaging Trump is a more sensible option .

20. Talking on behalf of ASEAN despite the absence of Trump, signals a number of things.

21. ASEAN is ready to play it's part , as a member of the global south in shaping the destiny of world.

22. Not leaving the script to be written entirely by USA and its allies.

23. Talking to the world, without trump will say clearly that you don't need his validation and his approval. The destiny of countries is not an American monopoly.

24. You are also saying unequivocally, that ASEAN too no longer accepts the notion that one power determines the pathways of other nations.

25. You don't need to talk to Trump about the evil and atrocities USA supports.

26. Inviting leaders from china, Japan's new pm, president of Korea, pm of India, representative leader of Africa and the Arab world is a more powerful message that you USA can no longer determine what's good or bad for the global south.

27. Not inviting Trump is the sweetest of diplomatic insult.

28. Securing the allegiance of the global south countries is more important than grovelling at the feet of Trump.

29. Anwar doesn't have to play uncle Tom saying, but suh, we think your support to Israel is not right.

30. Trump with a bunker mentality will not budge. Talking to him is fruitless.

31. Talking to the world sans trump at the ASEAN meet would demonstrate to USA that the responsibility to shape the destiny of nations is not the monopoly of America alone. It's a shared responsibility among equals.

32. That responsibility is not a function of economic and military might but of dignity. And dignity is not solely owned by USA but by all.

33. In the language of economics we say, while the inclusion of America is necessary, it's not sufficient. That responsibility must now be shared.

34. Provided of course trump has the smarts. At the moment, he can only understand the language of a SNUB.

35. Right now the patron of MAGA and the Proud Boys understands only about newtons (unspoken) 4th law of motion . Newton has only 3 law of motion, by the way

36. The unspoken 4th law reads:-

37. The angle of the dangle of the balls is equivalent to the thrust of the pole at the hole,provided pressure at the breasts is kept constant.

38. A Robert Mugabe will say that.

39. Anwar must look past beyond desiring the presence of Trump.

40. We are not advocating total exclusion of USA from the responsibility of shaping the destiny of the world .

41. But it must abandon the idea that the responsibility is theirs alone but that it must work equally with others to discharge that responsibility.

42. We want USA included and work with us together.

43. We don't want to be accused as trouble makers with anger management issues and always quarrel with uncle Sam.

44. But for now,ignore trump with his coiffed hair and pouffe. Just to tell USA and the west, the destiny of nations is not theirs alone to shape .

45. For these reasons, I think Anwar should ' disinvite' fuhrer Trump.

To be continued .....

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Invitation to Trump and a new world order. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 31.

1. Call it however you want. Face-to-face, eyeball to eyeball, toe to toe, head to head, Mano a Mano etc.

2. There are more cons than pros asking here trump to attend the ASEAN summit in KL.

3. We all know the PM is a brave fellow. His bravery is not disputed. He has history of being defiant . He is willing to endure physical hardships.

4. His haters may beg to differ. They say he is chicken livered. They say he is scared to face Dr Mahathir in court. He has asked immunity against the charges mounted by one Yusuf rawther.

5. The PM mustn't allow his haters dictate his actions. We all know , he marches to his own drumbeat. It's an asset and a liability. Depends on how you look at it.

6 . But if only to prove his detractors wrong, he cancells inviting herr Trump, well that sucks.

7. I think there are a few reasons why he should cancel the invitation to Trump, other than the childish challenges of his haters .

7b. Call it face to face, toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, Mano a Mano, they are all attempts to straighten the wet thread. To admit that you are wrong in inviting Trump .

8. You have prematurely said you will invite trump. You cannot take back your words like being able to tarik the perahu.

9. Having made the bed, you must now lie on it .

10. It's going to be an exercise in futility. Like bringing coals to Newcastle, pissing up the ropes, be spitting into the winds, selling sand to the desert or selling ice to the Eskimos.

11. Needless to say, the Donald has heard it all. From the world. Each time, it's met with renewed belligerence and arrogance.

12. So, even if Anwar gets into his constipation mode and painfully delivers his protest Mano a Mano in the most diplomatic of language, Trump will be unmoved.

13. Possibly when Trump boards air force one to return to USA, he says this Malaysian PM must be El loco.

14. So the futility of it all and avoiding belaboring the obvious, the PM should cancel the invitation.

15. What happened in front of the US embassy in KL and the detention of the sumud volunteers and how they were treated by the IDF, is a lesson to the PM.

16. The spontaneous action by some people of Malaysia was a reflection of the sentiments of ALL Muslims in Malaysia.

18. That would catapult into a general erosion of support for Anwar Ibrahim. Self preservation is of utmost importance.

19. To avoid the risks of offending all Muslims and others because of their humanitarian sentiments, it's better for Anwar to cancel the invitation.

20. The way our volunteers were treated, which according to some volunteers like animals, show that Israels cruelty and hostility know no bounds .

21. If Anwar persists in inviting Trump his actions amounted to insulting the dignity and self worth of our volunteers. Hardly ingratiating .

22. The inescapable fact is, Israel behaved and will continue to behave that way, because the state is protected and will continue to be protected by USA.

23. Cancelling the invitation expresses our revulsion to USA policies.

24. Under cocky-rich, racist, bigoted and anti Palestine Trump, that protection will continue .

25. A more suitable invitee is china's xi jinping. That would likely deter any adverse economic repercussions from USA.

26. In fact, invite Putin, leader of the EC, Japan and Korea.

27. It will signal Malaysia's and ASEAN nations' readiness and willingness to move away from a world order in which one state or block determines the destiny of us .

28. ASEAN is willing to move to areas of strength which can also provide stability and economic prosperity.

29. It's an old world order vs a new world order. In the old, we are vassal states serving the interest of 1 patron state(USA).

30. Under the new, we can work together with multiple centres of strength determining our future. These centres worked for cooperation instead of for dominance .

31. Perhaps this would allay fears that USA will unleash adverse economic repercussions. It dares not.

32. To put it crudely, if got time , invite Xi, Putin, leader of EC, Japan and Korea

33. It will also show aseans readiness to play a major role in shaping the new world order.

34. Not to mention about Anwar vision. Stop thinking of a bipolar world consistíng of USA and the rest

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