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Sunday, July 09, 2017 - 22:30 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Domestic Matters

"But the accused has already declared his own case closed after getting his party members to praise him, in a session where the accusers were not present.
Where got conflict of interest?"

- the usual pithy roundup from r/singapore
[slightly longer TLDR]


The hottest local political saga in a long while has concluded with a whimper, with the PM's younger siblings agreeing to take their feud private, after the standard ownself check ownself. However, for once, I do concur with the incumbent party, in that this is much ado about next to nothing (unlike, it goes without saying, AH[PE]TC). Like a tired Hollywood sequel, this had everything on the surface: imperial intrigue, tension between official and private roles (and not in the adorable Ivanka manner) and property deed horseplay, leading into once-verboten dynastic accusations, hard talk on its impact on our founding PM's legacy, a broad appeal to gauge and rustle support from the loyal court eunuchs, and even some sentiment analysis on the PM's Facebook posts by a CS student.

As so cleanly summarized by the opening quote, the incumbent party has defended its head by old-fashioned acclamation and faulty statistics (as is becoming distressingly common), but as previously stated, it's understandable if the PM is reluctant to start legal proceedings against his siblings.

There would be one last eyebrow-raising moment, though, when Dr. Lee Wei Ling complained in her parting statement (for now) that [the PM's] subordinates are beholden to him and cannot be impartial, that the incumbent party is not subject to independent investigation, and that The State's Times is a party mouthpiece. To this, not a few informed citizens were like, hello, where have you been since 1959 or thereabouts?

But frankly, this plotline got old quickly, and one supposes that our embattled PM was happy to put it all behind him, and get back to his day job of representing Singapore internationally...


He may be a firm and very close friend of Eastasia,
but TRUMP is also a big-picture kinda guy
[N.B. Mahbubani redeemed on his view about Indopore?]
(Source: r/singapore)


Which brings us to - if you're a connoisseur of political entertainment, our indie MIW productions sadly can't hold a candle to the walking blockbuster series that is America; in the latest episode, TRUMP has arrived to an emperor's welcome in Poland because, let's face it, after being f**ked up from both directions in the world wars, the badass Polish people know very well that they can't afford to be the stupid people when it comes to national sovereignty and border integrity... which, ironically, the implacable Merkelreich appears to be having more success in insidiously undermining, than their unloved predecessors.

[N.B. France had their chance to get woke, but really, their historical track record of supporting brave homegrown female champions seeking to preserve them against Saxon division and foreign invasion is embarassingly poor, to say the least.]

Anyway, it appears another roaring diplomatic success for the President of the United States, as he founded authentic personal relationships based on genuine mutual respect, while pencil-pushing bureaucrats were informed in no uncertain terms that this POTUS is no pushover. No, other "leaders" may have their balls shrink at the slightest hint of censure from the pompous opinion-slingers of the corrupt globalist press (CNN has for one been reduced to blackmailing private citizens and seeing their ratings sink beneath those of Yogi Bear reruns), but TRUMP has backbone to spare, in securing The Best Deal for America.

Speaking of media control, our incumbents' latest push for more censorship by another name has resulted in one of the most inventive imprecations that I've heard for awhile; on the bright side, there are encouraging signs that The State's Times might be hocked off to less-uptight outside interests, so there's that.

Continuing to the filler programming that is the local version of Who Wants To Be The President (you do get what you pay for), Dr. Tan Cheng Bock's constitutional challenge has been unceremoniously thrown out by the High Court, to a general lack of surprise (and really, it's best to get this farce done with). Fine, let the "longstanding* imperative for multiracial representation" be safeguarded, just don't expect people to be eager to turn out for it...

[*where "longstanding" is defined as "ever since the incumbents realised that their handpicked candidate might actually lose"]

But then again, we may have dodged a bullet with the former NTUC Income CEO; okay, so he might have been purely trolling, but sad to say, he would have remained completely outclassed by the GOD-EMPEROR in that department.



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