1) In the next few days, a new PM-designate will be named. Based on what’s been circulating on mainstream and social media, it will very likely be BN's (i.e., UMNO’s) candidate, Ismail Sabri.
As I type this, a contingent of UMNO MPs are on their way to an audience with the YDPA
2) This is for the YDPA to confirm the SD of support that each has submitted
I suspect this process may also be done with those MPs who submitted Anwar Ibrahim as their nominee. Maybe, or maybe not. We’ll have to wait and see.
But this thread is not about the process
3) If Ismail Sabri becomes PM9, what we’ll get is UMNO Regime 2.0, or more likely, PN Regime 2.0?
The latter, because UMNO alone doesn’t have the numbers. It needs PPBM, the Sabah/Sarawak, and as many independent MPs.
This time around, SD support alone isn’t going to cut it tho
4) HRH has made it clear the PM-designate will have to prove his claim of support with a vote in Parliament at its next sitting, scheduled for Sept.
This is what *should* have been done after the Feb 2020 Sheraton Coup, but there was no royal decree to do so then. No excuse now.
5) Assuming Ismail Sabri is nominated what wd we get? Practically PN 2.0 (and likely the very same dicktard politicians shuffled around), which brought us to 2day's inglorious situation.
Propping up this sock puppet? None other than UMNO, the main culprit behind our mess & woes
6) Call it UMNO-bashing if you must, but it’s a bashing that’s well deserved.
Who colluded with Bersatu behind the scenes to bring the elected PH govt down?
And which party had been the loudest disruptive voice of endless politicking once PN was in govt?
You know, I know: UMNO
7) And now UMNO, without an iota of shame, wants to behave all noble and waltz in to emerge as a “savior" to rescue this country?
My response: FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.
What UMNO has been doing since GE14, it has been doing for one reason, and one reason alone: UMNO
8) Sure, UMNO can hide behind the thin veneer of religious hypocrisy all they want, but their actions thus far speak louder. THEY are the ones that have been the main disruptive force behind the political instability this nation has been suffering from since February 2020
9) Has Malaysia not suffered enough from UMNO’s putrid vileness, realized with Bersatu and PAS’s combined ineptitude? And I’m not just talking about the 13,000+ lost souls (already bad enough) to-date.
And now Malaysia is likely to get MORE OF THE SAME, at least until mid-2022?
10) Angry despair doesn’t even begin to describe how I fee right now.
At this point - of practically no return - we can only hope HRH YDPA and his brother rulers will do the right thing. Less than ideal that we have to rely on the monarchy for hope, but it is what it is.
11) And as some of the royal houses have stated with unambiguous clarity, now is not the time for self-interest (which is No. 1 on UMNO’s vile agenda), but for the immediate future of this nation.
Malaysia hasn’t demonstrated the political will to do the right thing for a while.
12) But to hand the nation'S fate to the very hands that've been the key wrecking force responsible for the carnage of a FUBAR situation we see ourselves in today will be nothing short of SUICIDE.
NEVER FORGET: the only thing UMNO cares about is not you, not me, but UMNO
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1/ Tomorrow, 31st August 2021, we commemorate the 64th year of “Merdeka”.
“Merdeka” simply means ‘independence’. In our case, the independence of the Federated and Unfederated Malay States, plus the Straits Settlements of Penang and Melaka, from the British.
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2/ And this “Merdeka”, which happened in 1957, led to the formation of the Federation of Malaya. It wouldn’t be until 6 years later, with the addition of Sabah, Sarawak and (for 2 years) Singapore, that Malaysia was born, in 1963 on 16th September.
3/ This independence in 1957 also eventually led to us trying to erase anything and everything “British”, or as much of it as we could.
But there is one very important aspect of British rule that has never gone away. In fact, it has been adapted & has continues to this day.
Truth be told, what PM8 offered as last-ditch desperate attempt to stay in power wasn’t a bad deal. Granted politics is about compromise, the PROBLEM with it was *when* PM8 offered the deal, making his gesture seem to completely lack any genuine sincerity.
Lest we forget, it wasn’t just rejected by PH, but also by Pejuang and even UMNO.
Now that UMNO is pretty much in the driver’s seat, there is little doubt that “the deal” will completely be out of the question.
Reform is the *LAST* thing UMNO wants.
UMNO is about status quo. THEIR status quo, crafted in THEIR image, and maintained for THEIR benefit.
What I would like to know: when PH’s top guns met with PM9 prior to the recycled cabinet announcement, did Anwar/MatSabu/GuanEng *know* what the cabinet would look like?
This is a short thread, partly to thank @TuanSahib for the recommendation, and partly to express my own takeaways from a miniseries called “Our Boys”.
So, first things first - thanks for the recommendation - certainly 10 hours (almost) well-spent ❤️
@TuanSahib 1/n - If you’re unfamiliar with “Our Boys”, it’s based on what happened in Israel, Summer 2014, a grisly murder of an Arab youth, linked to retribution over the abduction & murder of three Jewish kids.
The 10-episode series is an uncomfortable watch. And I’ll share why.
@TuanSahib 2/n - In any conflict seen from afar, it’s not uncommon for observers to take sides. That’s certainly true of the Israel/Palestine strife that’s been ongoing for over 7 decades.
And often it’s taking sides purely due to an instilled affiliation, in this case, religious
The next few tweets in this thread replicates what you’ll find on that page
(1) *Back to harassment, intimidation and censorship*
When Malaysia experienced its first-ever transfer of power through elections in May 2018, the environment for journalists became much more favourable and the country rose dramatically in RSF’s Press Freedom Index. (cont.)