Time for tired old boxers to leave the ring
From Clement Stanley
Here we go again. The never-ending love-hate story of two feuding larger than life politicians who should actually be spending their sunset years educating Malaysians on how to become better citizens.
Instead of sharing their years of experience as elder statesmen, for the benefit of our country and the future generations, both have decided once again to enter the boxing ring.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad vs Lim Kit Siang. This repetitive dance between the two is too tiring to watch, not to mention boring.
We have lived through the 1970s, 80s, 90s and into the new millennium. The two of them have done more than their fair share for the nation. Why not just retire?
There is no need for them to take the nation down with them in their squabbles. The nation is already down, largely due to the antics of our longest-serving prime minister.
Now the blame game starts again just because former attorney-general Tommy Thomas spoke from his heart in his tell-all book “My Story: Justice in the Wilderness”.
Yet it was not so long ago when these gentlemen heaped praises on each other like there was no tomorrow. It was a charade and a show like no other from the very beginning.
The Pakatan Harapan marriage of convenience has come to a bitter end. And that is just as well because there has never been a greater show of hypocrisy displayed by the main characters.
The audience was fooled. Make no mistake about that. And now that Thomas has the courage and guts to expose what needs to be exposed, suddenly fingers are being pointed in all directions.
The mistrust was there for all to see. One cannot help but wonder what really transpired on Feb 23, 2020, when Mahathir, then prime minister and head of the PH coalition, gathered all the Malay political leaders at his home.
Among them were Muhyiddin Yassin, Azmin Ali, Abdul Hadi Awang, Shafie Apdal, Fadillah Yusuf, Abang Johari Openg and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Conspicuously absent was Anwar Ibrahim. If there was an agreement reached between them on that fateful morning, it has never come out in the open. If there were plans afoot for the things to come, it stayed behind closed doors.
That being the case, the days of DAP and PKR were already numbered. Just five days later, Mahathir, the country’s seventh prime minister, shockingly resigned. And with it, his credibility and the respect of those who held Mahathir in high esteem went down the drain.
What he has to say these days amounts to nothing more than the sound of a broken gramophone record stuck in its groove. It is humbug and meaningless. Besides, the people have bigger concerns at the moment.
There is no need to recap what we already know. But as Malaysians, we must be resilient and believe in ourselves. There will be better days ahead.
And it will be better once we have seen the backs of dinosaur politicians. It will be better when politicians stop thinking of themselves and their lust and greed for power, and focus instead on the needs of the rakyat.
And it will be a lot better without the likes of two squabbling elderly politicians.
Instead of sharing their years of experience as elder statesmen, for the benefit of our country and the future generations, both have decided once again to enter the boxing ring.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad vs Lim Kit Siang. This repetitive dance between the two is too tiring to watch, not to mention boring.
We have lived through the 1970s, 80s, 90s and into the new millennium. The two of them have done more than their fair share for the nation. Why not just retire?
There is no need for them to take the nation down with them in their squabbles. The nation is already down, largely due to the antics of our longest-serving prime minister.
Now the blame game starts again just because former attorney-general Tommy Thomas spoke from his heart in his tell-all book “My Story: Justice in the Wilderness”.
Yet it was not so long ago when these gentlemen heaped praises on each other like there was no tomorrow. It was a charade and a show like no other from the very beginning.
The Pakatan Harapan marriage of convenience has come to a bitter end. And that is just as well because there has never been a greater show of hypocrisy displayed by the main characters.
The audience was fooled. Make no mistake about that. And now that Thomas has the courage and guts to expose what needs to be exposed, suddenly fingers are being pointed in all directions.
The mistrust was there for all to see. One cannot help but wonder what really transpired on Feb 23, 2020, when Mahathir, then prime minister and head of the PH coalition, gathered all the Malay political leaders at his home.
Among them were Muhyiddin Yassin, Azmin Ali, Abdul Hadi Awang, Shafie Apdal, Fadillah Yusuf, Abang Johari Openg and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Conspicuously absent was Anwar Ibrahim. If there was an agreement reached between them on that fateful morning, it has never come out in the open. If there were plans afoot for the things to come, it stayed behind closed doors.
That being the case, the days of DAP and PKR were already numbered. Just five days later, Mahathir, the country’s seventh prime minister, shockingly resigned. And with it, his credibility and the respect of those who held Mahathir in high esteem went down the drain.
What he has to say these days amounts to nothing more than the sound of a broken gramophone record stuck in its groove. It is humbug and meaningless. Besides, the people have bigger concerns at the moment.
There is no need to recap what we already know. But as Malaysians, we must be resilient and believe in ourselves. There will be better days ahead.
And it will be better once we have seen the backs of dinosaur politicians. It will be better when politicians stop thinking of themselves and their lust and greed for power, and focus instead on the needs of the rakyat.
And it will be a lot better without the likes of two squabbling elderly politicians.
Ya , Ya , replace them with energetic youngsters like Azmin Ali, Nik Amar, Tu Lan Ker, Saravanan MIC,
ReplyDeleteboth old idiot kene conned.
ReplyDelete40+yrs of ketuanan indoctrination, using all excuses & sophism tools, have meme-ed a large group (>80%) of the melayu crowd into only thinking of melayu first.
ReplyDeleteM'sia first?
Not once in a blue moon! Thus the slogan of melayu first, m'sian second coming out from dickheaded ketuanan freak like moo cow.
It's in that f*cked constitutional & singular definition of the melayu race.
Melayu first also indirectly emphasizes ummat melayu then ummat others, then the Nons. See the f*cked classifications even amongst their 'pious & righteousness' peers?
Negotiating that treacherous race rapids by the Nons isn't for the faint-hearted. & many a time unsavory, unpopular, one-sided & short-term compromises, mainly socia-political, have to make to achieve just a 5% breathing space for the Nons amongst the long accumulated & casted-in-stone ketuanan narratives.
Keyboard warriors, breeding-heartish Samaritans & pure one minded chauvinists r having a field days to chant & chorus every which ways possible about their presumed egregious conditions.
Yet, what have they done in actions, except words!
Definitely NOT putting their farts into action to change anything. Pen us mightier than sword has a full meaning to defense their hypocrisy.
The fights r done by the others, the brave & sinister one, while they sing their psuedo-altruistic songs to justify their minute existence of inconsequential lives!
Anwar is 73.....should he leave too? Guanee is only 60 - spring chicken so he should stay for another decade at least.
ReplyDeleteThis dear country will always need such a visionary person to save the nation from the ungrateful descendents of immigrants of strange mother tongues and cultural norms.
ReplyDelete"the ungrateful descendents of immigrants of strange mother tongues and cultural norms."
DeleteWakakakakakaka…
Do u know that yr fart is flying in our face?
Guess not!
Hate brained & arrogantly misplaced f*ck.
If Father Lim must retire it is also time for MCA and MIC to disband after 60 years of FAILURE. After all even the Chinese and Indians don’t vote for them any more, so why are they so thick skinned to hang around?
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A Result Of 60 Years Of Racist Policy – A SOP That Can’t Tell Between A Family Dinner And A Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner
February 6th, 2021 by financetwitter
The “Reunion Dinner” takes place on Chinese New Year’s Eve, which falls on Feb 11 this year. This is the most important day in the 16 days of the festival. The Chinese community looks forward very serious to this day. Even if they have to work on this particular day, they will rush for the dinner – the annual feast – for a very important reason.
While the reunion dinner gives elders the opportunity to catch up on how their children and grandchildren are doing, the most important aspect of the get-together meal of the entire year has everything to do with culture.
There’s a reason why this Chinese tradition has been observed for generations. This is the day where family members reaffirm the love and respect that bind them together.
Therefore, family reunions, such as the Chinese New Year reunion dinner, are important for those who work elsewhere and are far away from their families. Not only the reunion dinner typically consists of many symbolic “lucky” dishes for a better fortune of the year, the spirits of the ancestors are invited to join the celebration as a sign of respect before the reunion dinner started.
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner
Whether the meal is cooked and eaten at home or enjoyed at a restaurant, all members of the family, old and young, poor and rich, male and female, attend the feast. Dated back more than 4,000 years in the history of Chinese culture and civilization, the family reunion dinner is indeed an indispensable dinner. In China, people will travel for days just for this dinner.
Nobody expects a non-Chinese to understand the significance of the Chinese New Year reunion dinner, especially a minister like “Turtle Egg” Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who has been a member of the racist and corrupt political party UMNO. For more than 60 years under the previous Barisan Nasional, and now Perikatan Nasional coalition, the Malaysian Chinese are treated as second-class citizens.
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If Father Lim is a dinosaur politician after 50 years then MCA and MIC must be dinosaur political parties after 60.
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