Back To Lockdown Basics
So what are we supposed to call it now? MCO²? MCO 3.0 SE? MCO 4.0? In all honesty, we don’t really give a rat’s behind. The nation’s in the worst grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it’s taken the daily case count to rise past the 8,000s for PM Muhyiddin Yassin’ and his brainless band of blundering, blathering, BS-ing buffoons in Putrajaya […]
The Old And The Restless
This past week has been a trying one, but, arguably, nowhere has it been worse than in Penang. Amidst all the concerns that our great ‘let’s-vaccinate-80%-of-the-population’ campaign is moving at a snail’s pace, that lovely DAP utopia dropped a bombshell earlier this week: our evil federales were cruelly (allegedly! allegedly!) blocking a generous benefactor’s offer to supply 2 million doses of vaccine […]
MCO = More Confusing Orders
Fahmi’s back! First up, we’d like to welcome back our artist-in-residence, Fahmi Reza. We weren’t sure he’d be able to continue working with us following his arrest and seizure of all his equipment (read all about that royal mess here). Heck, cops even seized his Twitter account (you can follow his backup account @fahmirezakl). But they can take away the man’s computer, but […]
Satire Is NOT A Crime
Sorry folks. There’s no new Fahmi Reza art to see here today. We had intended to talk about PM Muhyiddin Yassin’s latest approval ratings (it’s “stable” at 67% BT-Dubs, despite most respondents thinking Malaysia’s heading in the wrong direction). But that’s become a story for another day. In case you haven’t been clued in yet, Fahmi seems to have rankled some royal nerves and, […]
Getting Crapped On
Move aside #SiBodohKauDengarSini. There’s a new top trending hashtag in town, and it’s a doozy. Take a bow #KerajaanGagal. At the time of writing this, the hashtag — which, for non-Malay speakers, means #GovernmentFail or #FailedGovernment in Malay — has notched over 151,000 tweets and climbing. But what sparked this eloquent catchphrase that’s burning up Twitterjaya? Well, take your pick. We’re […]
Hello, Is It Me You’re Looking For?
Under normal circumstances, there isn’t anything wrong with Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, two old friends, getting on the phone for a lil’ catch up sesh. Nothing wrong, that is, unless you’re the leader of the country’s m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶g̶u̶l̶l̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ biggest opposition coalition, and the “old friend” you’re calling is the head of your supposed […]
😍 I choose you 😍
Though it may have started out with a kiss tender hugs and wide smiles back in 2019, the Umno-PAS love affair appears to have come to an end all ’cos of the younger and kononnya far more fetching Bersatu. Umno, PAS and Bersatu were the prime movers of the Sheraton Move that saw the Pakatan Harapan gomen dumped for the Muhyiddin Yassin-led Perikatan Nasional. But that particular three-way […]
Denying Our Young
Former US el presidente Barack Obama once made an impassioned plea to American voters, saying: “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters.” He said this in 2016, but he wouldn’t be remiss if he repeated this to the currently not-so-popular folks at the Malaysian Election Commission (EC), who’ve just announced they’ll not be able to […]
In The Name Of God
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me’. Sadly, while true and even empowering in many cases, recent events in Malaysia will tell you the above adage is most certainly not applicable when it comes to one word in particular –– “Allah”. Now no one has been physically harmed by the […]
What’s The Great Big Emergency?
What’s the great big emergency? Well, “fake news”, apparently, according to the powers that be – because of that big, bad Covid-19 situation and ensuing emergency proclamation. And unless you’ve been living in a pineapple under the sea, you would/should be aware that the Perikatan Nasional gomen has dropped a bombshell in the form of a freshly […]