Naturally, she has every reason to lick the hand that feeds her. Having recently praised the clueless and incompetent Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution, calling the backdoor minister the best and most compassionate Home Minister, Hannah appears to have upgraded her level in the game by sucking up to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The problem is her bootlicking is overkill.

Yeoh Tseow Suan shamelessly praised Anwar’s leadership at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Bukit Kiara permanent housing project in Kuala Lumpur. In return, the Premier acknowledged and praised Hannah for pushing for a resolution. Anwar also hailed the Bukit Kiara longhouse redevelopment as “historic”, saying it should serve as a model for how the country ought to be governed.

Then, came the comical part. As usual, the PM began his self-praised yapping – highlighting how the 98 families had waited more than four decades (44 years to be exact) for permanent housing, navigating a long and complex legal process. “This is not a small project in terms of its historical impact. Urban poor communities like this rarely succeed in defending their rights, especially when facing development pressures,” – he bragged.

Did both bootlicker Hannah and narcissist Anwar realize that after deducting 28 years Anwar was left in the political wilderness screaming “Reformasi” till foaming at the mouth, Mr Anwar was actually part of the previous Barisan Nasional ruling government for the remaining 16 years? Yes, 1982, the year the 98 families began waiting for their homes was also the same year Anwar Ibrahim officially joined UMNO.

In fact, Anwar held various ministerial portfolios, including Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Education from 1983 to 1991. Beginning in 1991, he was appointed the powerful Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He became Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 until September 1998, when he was sacked for sodomy and corruption.

So, exactly what was then-Deputy PM Anwar doing to help the Bukit Kiara longhouse people between 1993 and 1998, besides playing marbles, counting money, bullying Chinese, and promoting cronyism and nepotism? The con artist talked as if he had just discovered human civilization when he lectured that the country must change policies to prioritise the people, humanity, compassion, and shared responsibility.

Trying to claim credit now when he could clearly help the longhouse people 33 years ago speaks volumes about the chameleon’s hypocrisy, lies, inconsistencies, contradictions, and desperation. IfAnwar indeed cares about the people, why didn’t his Madani order the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to drop its appeal to reinstate the proposed Taman Rimba Kiara development project in the first place?

Under Mahathir-led Pakatan Harapan government (May 2018 – February 2020) and Anwar-led Madani Unity Government since November 2022, DBKL could be instructed to scrap the development of luxury service apartments – even though the proposed project was first introduced during Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor’s tenure as Federal Territories Minister in 2016.

Yet, the notorious corrupt DBKL was allowed to run its “business empire” like a drug cartel. Worse, Zaliha Mustafa, a senior member of Anwar’s People’s Justice Party (PKR), was appointed as Federal Territories Minister since December 2023 until a cabinet reshuffle in December 2025 with a job scope to grant pardon for crooked Najib Razak instead of fixing the long overdue Bukit Kiara problems.

Hannah and Anwar can praise each other till the kingdom comes. But people are not stupid and their intelligence should not be insulted as they can see how the Prime Minister could “suddenly solve” the 44-year problem – as claimed by Hannah Yeoh – only when the 16^th General Election is around the corner. Yeoh also can suck Anwar’s balls till the cows come home.

However, for a Christian like Yeoh to pray for a racist, hypocrite and corrupt prime minister like Anwar to return to power because power-hungry Yeoh thinks Anwar deserves a second term just by using the housing project for Bukit Kiara longhouse residents as an excuse is not only an insult to Christianity and ethnic Chinese, but is also a disgraceful scam, deception, and gimmick.

Yeoh has taken apple polishing to a new level – out of touch with the reality on the ground as she tries to secure her ministership for the second term, easily beating Democratic Action Party (DAP) chief Anthony Loke in the “Anwar-praising” contest. It was the Federal Court decision in April 2023 denying DBKL’s appeal to reinstate the project – not PM Anwar – that actually helped the 98 families, mind you.

Before the arrogant, tone-deaf, and clueless Yeoh blindly rains more praises on Anwar, who is set to cowardly run away from his Tambun constituency to avoid backlash from angry voters in the next national polls, she should realize that her own Segambut parliamentary seat won with almost 60,000 majority in the last election is not a guarantee of another landslide victory.

Where was Yeoh when her buddies in the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) unleashed a racist mobster – UMNO Youth Chief Akmal Saleh – to terrorize the Chinese business community? Did she conveniently forget how her husband’s ethnicity was insulted when her favourite Prime Minister happily bullied a female Indian student in August 2023?

To refresh her memory, during a dialogue session at Kolej Matrikulasi Penang a student of Indian ethnicity asked Anwar when the discriminatory “quota system” would be abolished and replaced by a meritocracy system. The PM rudely interrupted the student before criticizing her for asking a sensitive question.He even admitted thatabolishing the quota entirely would cause his government to lose all elections.

Has Hannah, trying to project her image as more Malay than the Malays, also forgotten how Anwar – playing race and religion cards in desperation for Malay votes – had purposely and provocatively declared “Victory” after bulldozing the construction of “Madani Mosque” in Kuala Lumpur? To make way for the mosque, the 130-year-old Dewi Sri Pathrakaliamman temple was forced to be relocated some 50-metre away.

Heck, the Premier had even openly admitted his racism and discrimination when he mocked and ridiculed the Indian community – don’t be “angry or jealous” about programmes his Madani launched specifically for the Bumiputeras. Yet, despite the continued marginalization of Malaysian Indians, Anwar has the cheek to tell people at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Bukit Kiara housing project to reject race-based politics.

Where was apple polisher Yeoh when ex-PM Najib Razak’s 12-year jail sentence was halved and RM210 million fines were given a 75% discount? Does she fully support Anwar’spardon for the crook despite Najib’s role in stealing billions of dollars belonging to the people in the 1MDB scandal? Her silence screams double standards, hypocrisy and treachery.

And it definitely screams betrayal when DAP leaders, who once perceived as fearless and outspoken against corruption, racism, extremism and injustice during the era of Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh, have now reduced to a church mouse – too terrified to even express its displeasure over crooked Najib Razak’s discounted jail sentence and dropping of corruption charges against UMNO crooks as well as Anwar’s cronies.

Let’s forget about reforms swept under the carpet once fake reformist Anwar became the 10^th Prime Minister in November 2022. It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Hannah Yeoh is a traitor for pushing Anwar for a second term even after the PM created economic havoc such as new taxes, e-invoice system, delayed tax refunds, scrapping fuel subsidies, escalating cost of living, corporate mafia scandal, and whatnot.

Her integrity and cowardice speak for itself when she, as then-Youth and Sports Minister, evaded responsibility in the humiliating Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) scandalover falsified ancestry documents involving seven “heritage players”. Like Anwar, who feared offending the Royal House from the southern state behind the FAM-FIFA fraud scandal, Yeoh had refused to take any action against FAM.

Worse, she kept her silence and pretended nothing had happened when Anwar cracked down on Hindu temples while the Selangor Chief Minister cracked down on pig farms. Hannah continued to play dumb even after the Selangor state government’s 2025 planning guidelines said non-Muslim houses of worship must not be taller than any mosque was exposed recently.

For the Segambut MP to blow Anwar’s trumpet, insisting that the PM deserves another term when he obviously does not, could only mean one thing – a desperate situation. Her political stunt could backfire, doing more harm than good by praising the Premier. Hannah Yeoh and Anthony Loke’s obsession with Anwar’s second term is the same as UMNO’s obsession with Najib – before Barisan Nasional lost power in May 2018.

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Washington is using economic benefits as carrot. Iran has reportedly demanded the release of US$12 billion in frozen funds in exchange for reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which Trump has started crowing day and night. The U.S. claims Iran’s sanctions relief is based on compliance, but Tehran has rubbished it. Iran’s nuclear program, however, will be in the second phase of negotiations.

While Trump said that “at the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust”, Iran argued that it has only agreed to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium – meaning Tehran will only weaken the near weapons-grade reserve. This also means Iran could – quietly – resume its nuclear weapon program at a later stage, even if it says it would not.

The so-called deal is actually a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) that would extend the ceasefire for 60 days, including in Lebanon, during which time nuclear negotiations would be held. Iran would be given temporary sanctions waivers to allow it to sell oil for 60 days. That would generate precious revenue for Tehran. The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would see the lifting of U.S. blockade on Iran ports.

However, on Sunday, Israel carried out an air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital, in an apparent attempt to disrupt or disapprove Trump’s deal. It’s unclear what Trump would do if Israel continues to bomb Lebanon after Washington and Tehran sign the MOU. But there’s one man in Iran who’s giving Trump more headache than Israel.

Ahmad Vahidi, commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), gave the order to fire ballistic missiles at Israel on June 7 – the first time in months in a show of power by the regime’s feared paramilitary force. More moderate voices in the Iranian leadership wanted to hold off on the strikes for fear of jeopardizing a deal with the U.S. that could save Iran’s economy.

Vahidi won the argument that striking Israel hard could stop attacks on Hezbollah in Beirut. He successfully persuaded Iran’s top security council to back the strikes and set off the first exchanges of fire between Iran and Israel since the ceasefire on April 8. The Israeli Air Force retaliated on June 8 by striking military targets in western and central Iran using air-launched ballistic missiles.

Vahidi has emerged as a key power broker in Iran who is pushing a hard line at the negotiating table with Washington, giving Trump a run for his money. That explains why Iran pushed back on the timing after Trump and mediators signaled on Saturday that they were on the brink of a preliminary deal with Tehran, with a signing possible as soon as Sunday.

As Trump badly wants a deal and trumpets that the two sides were close enough that he would call off further strikes, Iran warns that it hadn’t yet signed off on the draft agreement. And Vahidi is seen as the most influential and strongest voice among hard-liners pushing for Tehran to hold out until its demands are met.

For months, Vahidi, an enigmatic commander whose predecessor was killed on the first day of the war, has tussled with more public-facing, political figures in the Iranian leadership. Each time, he has come out on top. In Iran, the IRGC and those close to it have stood as the biggest obstacle to an agreement.

The 67-year-old Vahidi, who is sanctioned by the U.S. for helping oversee a crackdown on protests over women’s rights in 2022 and wanted by Interpol for a deadly attack on Jews in Argentina, insists that Iran must re-establish military deterrence to increase its leverage at the negotiating table. Vahidi’s position at the top of the regime’s most powerful armed force means his perspective is now shaping Iran’s stance in negotiations to end the war.

His forces are in charge of imposing Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, the regime’s strongest card in negotiations. Throughout the war, Vahidi has frequently overruled Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and President Masoud Pezeshkian. Both have pushed for a swift, preliminary deal with the U.S. to avoid an economic implosion under pressure from the U.S. blockade of Iran’s oil industry.

Mr Vahidi, by contrast, has given priority to re-establishing Iran’s deterrence and defending Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group backed by Tehran. It was Vahidi who hitched the fighting in Lebanon to the war in Iran, making a deal with the U.S. dependent on Israel’s ending its conflict with Hezbollah, according to Arab mediators.

Vahidi, a founding member of the Revolutionary Guard after the Islamic revolution in 1979, and took charge of its intelligence branch in 1982 at age 23, has also pushed negotiators to protect Iran’s missile stockpile and gain access to its frozen funds. And he has argued that those funds shouldn’t be barred from military spending.

He helped establish the Quds Force, an elite unit of the Revolutionary Guard, which specialized in training foreign militias to attack Iran’s enemies, and rose to become its first commander in 1988. As head of that force in the 1990s, he helped develop Hezbollah into the dominant military force in Lebanon.

Argentina, through Interpol, issued an arrest warrant for Vahidi in 2007, accusing him of helping orchestrate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured hundreds more. The Islamic Republic has repeatedly denied that Vahidi or any other Iranian official was involved in the attack.

He has served in a range of roles that have given him deep knowledge of Iran’s defense and security apparatus, including defense minister, interior minister and a deputy commander in the Revolutionary Guard. As defense minister in 2009, he played a key role in procurement for Iran’s missile, drone and nuclear programs, according to the U.S. Treasury, which placed sanctions on him the following year.

In 2022, as interior minister, he oversaw the deadly crackdown on protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman killed in police custody after allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress codes. Yet, despite holding various roles in the regime, Vahidi doesn’t have extensive experience as a wartime commander.

“This is almost unprecedented for someone at this position,” – said Saeid Golkar, an expert on Iran’s security services who teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, adding that his ascent was a result of more competent and less controversial commanders being killed in wars with the U.S. and Israel. Most of Vahidi’s background has been in intelligence.

After assuming control of the 200,000-member Revolutionary Guard, Vahidi was quick to assert himself. An early example of that came when President Pezeshkian, a moderate, said that Tehran would halt its strikes against its Gulf neighbors. The IRGC swiftly contradicted him – suggesting that not even Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, believed to have been incapicitated, calls the shot.

Vahidi had given the top security council what he said was evidence showing how the Gulf states had assisted strikes on Iran, according to Arab mediators, some of whom were briefed by Iranian negotiators while others spoke to Vahidi directly. That pattern has continued to play out, with the Revolutionary Guard and more moderate figures in Iran sometimes issuing contradictory messages.

On April 18, when Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said the Strait of Hormuz was open, the Revolutionary Guard told mediators otherwise. Shortly after, media affiliated with the paramilitary force dismissed Araghchi’s remarks, calling them inaccurate or incomplete. That gives Trump a terrible headache, who has repeatedly stated that the U.S. does not know who is currently in charge in Iran

However, despite his clout in Tehran, Vahidi now holds a perilous crown. U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have killed a string of Revolutionary Guard commanders – including his predecessor and General Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force, who was killed in a strike ordered by Trump in his first term. It’s not rocket science that he’s on top of the assassination list.

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But on Monday night (June 8), the political marriage was over when PAS supremo Hadi Awang formally announced the party’s split from Bersatu, bringing to an end a six-year partnership. Effectively, the break-up also ends their six-year alliance within the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, where both Bersatu and PAS were the two biggest Malay-centric parties.

While Muhyiddin expressed regret over the “divorce”, Hadi has badmouthed Bersatu – accusing the party of opportunism, internal rot, betrayal such as the ousting of the PAS Menteri Besar in Perlis, and Bersatu’s resistance to admitting new Malay-Muslim parties (such as Berjasa, Pejuang, Iman, Petra and MIC) into PN. But that was just the appetizer.

Hadi also complained about internal power struggle within Bersatu, leading to dismissals, suspensions and defections. Worse, he accused Bersatu of being greedy for seat allocations for the polls by providing false information about its membership size and organisational machinery. As a result, PAS roots and machinery have to do all the dirty work like slaves for Bersatu.

Not only Bersatu had been using PAS resources like a parasite, but it also lied, betrayed, backstabbed, and even resisted plans to admit new Malay-Muslim parties into PN because Muhyiddin was afraid his position as de facto PN leader could be diluted or challenged. In short, Bersatu is weak and small, but acted like the Big Boss giving orders to PAS on what to do and what not to do..

Worse, Hadi was upset that most of the Bersatu MPs who were PAS-friendly were either removed, suspended, or fired – obviously referring to a breakaway Bersatu faction led by former opposition leader Hamzah Zainuddin, who happens to be the former Bersatu deputy president whose plan to topple party president Muhyiddin failed and was subsequently sacked.

Ironically, Muhyiddin and Hamzah too were great friends after they formed a backdoor government. Their despicable “Sheraton Move” saw the collapse of the legitimate and democratically voted Pakatan Harapan government in February 2020 when Muhyiddin’s faction in Bersatu left the government. Hamzah himself quit UMNO to join Bersatu in December 2018 after the ruling government Barisan Nasional lost power for the first time.

All hell broke loose after Perikatan Nasional failed to form a government after the November 2022 national polls. It was only after they lost power that Hamzah started a secret coup to overthrow Muhyiddin and criticized his leadership style, which led to Muhyiddin decisively and promptly fired Hamzah, who in turn declared his former boss as his “number one enemy”.

And it was only after former Prime Minister Muhyiddin miscalculated his political move by arrogantly rejecting former King Sultan Abdullah’s royal proposition of a unity government that Hadi started distancing and despising Muhyiddin for driving Perikatan Nasional into the opposition camp. So, the bad blood actually started upon failure to grab power in the 15^th General Election in Nov 2022.

While Muhyiddin is indeed a well-known traitor, Hadi is the last person on the planet qualified to condemn him. PAS under Hadi’s leadership has not only become more radical and racist, but also is an “opportunist”party due to its history of shifting alliances and prioritizing power grabs over consistent ideology. There’s a reason why veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah branded PAS a “political prostitute“.

Once an ally of now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat (2008-2015), PAS under the corrupt Mr Hadi took RM90 million bribes from then-PM Najib Razak to break up the “rising star” Pakatan Rakyat coalition. The sensitive issue of hudud was deliberately manipulated by Hadi to provoke DAP, with DAP telling PAS to leave the coalition while at the same time PAS told DAP to quit instead.

After betraying and leaving Pakatan Rakyat, the fake holy man formed a new alliance with long-time rival UMNO to challenge the Pakatan Harapan government in 2019. The national cooperation between UMNO and PAS, glorified as “Muafakat Nasional” under the pretext of Malay-unity, died a natural death when it took merely 1 year for Hadi to betray UMNO in favour of Bersatu in 2020.

After Muhyiddin became the country’s first backdoor Prime Minister in March 2020, PAS immediately backstabbed and betrayed UMNO – secretly working with Bersatu to push for Perikatan Nasional (PN) to be registered as a coalition “months after” the Islamic party signed a political pact with UMNO (UMNO and PAS formed the Muafakat Nasional alliance in September 2019, while PN was officially registered as a coalition in August 2020).

Yes, PAS is the undisputed champion when it comes to a party that is highly irresponsible, unprincipled, hypocritical and opportunistic. It had betrayed almost every political party and alliance. For RM90 million, Hadi betrayed Pakatan Rakyat but blamed DAP for hudud. For power, Hadi then betrayed Barisan Nasional but blamed UMNO for refusing to accept Bersatu into Muafakat Nasional.

Now, Hadi is betraying Bersatu but blames Muhyiddin for internal crisis, betrayal, greed, lies, and whatnot. Every betrayal and treachery committed by the PAS president was justified by pointing fingers at others except himself. He had befriended Lim Kit Siang, Anwar Ibrahim, Zahid Hamidi, and Muhyiddin Yassin before backstabbing each and every one of them.

In truth, with the exception of former PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz, all the so-called Malay leaders with a drop of UMNO DNA are untrustworthy and traitors, including Mahathir, Muhyiddin, Hadi, Najib, and even Anwar. Yes, politically and historically, PAS is an offshoot or splinter of UMNO – founded in 1951 by a group of conservative Muslim clerics (ulama) who were members of UMNO.

Naturally, they would betray each other over time. And it’s a matter of time before they would shamelessly rub shoulders and become friends or allies again. Malay unity my foot – there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. The unilateral decision by Hadi to sever ties with its coalition partner Bersatu is because both Muhyiddin and Bersatu have no more use for PAS.

Without power, ex-PM Muhyiddin can no longer plunder national coffers to fund PAS’s political agendas. Likewise, Muhyiddin can no longer reward Hamzah and his boys with position, power, and perks. The PAS-Bersatu split does not mean the end of one partnership, but is actually the beginning of a broader realignment in preparation for the next 16^th General Election.

Plagued with corruption charges, not only Muhyiddin is toxic, but Bersatu is a damaged product that is dragging PAS from moving forward. PAS currently holds 43 seats in Malaysia’s lower house of parliament – the single biggest party. With “poster boy” Dr. Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, PAS is seeking greater strategic autonomy and wants to reposition itself as the main player ahead of upcoming state elections and the next general election.

It’s public knowledge that PAS’s short-term priority is to form a pact with a breakaway Bersatu faction led by former opposition leader Hamzah Zainuddin, who is believed to command “two-thirds” loyalty of Bersatu party members. Crucially, unlike Muhyiddin, Hamzah is PAS-friendly, obedient, subservient and ready to ask how high when Hadi asks him to jump.

On Saturday, all eyes will be on the “Reset” convention in Tanah Merah, Kelantan – an event widely seen as the launching pad for a new political party led by Hamzah. It’s not a coincidence that Hadi personally kicked Bersatu out before the convention. And it’s not a coincidence that the convention is being held in Kelantan, a true-blue PAS state. It was to clear the path for a new partnership with Hamzah’s movement.

Even though the Islamist party is the biggest party, there is still one huge problem. While popular in the Malay heartlands, PAS has failed to appeal to non-Malay community or address non-Muslim fears of an Islamic theocracy, in part due to its leaders’ radical comments on race and religion. Therefore, on its own, PAS cannot capture the federal government.

PAS desperately requires a bridge to make it more acceptable to the electorate, especially the political powerhouses in the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak. Thus, a pro-PAS puppet Hamzah could be Muhyiddin’s replacement to help project a more moderate and inclusive image, making the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition more palatable to non-Muslim and non-Malay voters.

In the November 2022 national polls, PN won 74 seats (PAS secured 43 seats, whilst Bersatu captured 31 seats) in the 222-seat parliament, establishing itself as the second-largest bloc behind Pakatan Harapan (PH), which won 82 seats. Yet, despite securing majority of the Malay-Muslim votes, PN was still very far away from forming a simple-majority government on its own.

There’s another very important reason why Hadi told Muhyiddin to fly a kite. Kicking Bersatu out of the equation and replace the vacuum with Hamzah’s new party is just the beginning. The game plan – or rather the long shot – is to prepare the Islamist party for an alliance with the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) – either under Muafakat Nasional 2.0 or other platforms.

UMNO has repetitively said Bersatu must be kicked out before any talks of cooperation between PAS and UMNO could even begin – “you are either with us, or against us”. PAS has to choose either Bersatu or UMNO, not both. And Hadi had chosen UMNO for obvious reasons. To hell with Malay-Muslim unity. Power and money are more important.

Despite UMNO president Zahid Hamidi’s denial that recent meetings between UMNO and PAS were meant to revive the former Muafakat Nasional political alliance, there’s no guarantee that both parties would not form the next government together after the 16^th General Election. After all, Zahid had screamed “No Anwar, No DAP” before the 15^th General Election.

With Hadi readies to surrender the Prime Minister post to UMNO, a carrot that would attract Sabah and Sarawak into the bandwagon, it would be foolish for Zahid to reject such an offer. Make no mistake – UMNO leaders are trained to say one thing and do another behind closed doors. Malaysian forked-tongue politicians have demonstrated a high degree of hypocrisy and untrustworthy, mind you. 

The burning question now is who will own the Perikatan Nasional banner. Both PAS and Bersatu have refused to quit the alliance and have claimed ownership to use the brand for the upcoming state elections in Johor and Negeri Sembilan, as well as next national elections. Bersatu could return to Pakatan Harapan despite Muhyiddin’s betrayal. Politics – especially Malay politics – is the art of the impossible. 

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Trump’s statement came just a day after he said that a deal could be reached in “two or three days” and that the critical Strait of Hormuz would reopen “immediately” after such a deal. Some said either Trump is delusional, trying to calm the financial markets or being played by the Iranian regime. Of course, if he keeps repeating about a “good deal”, sooner or later, a deal will be made.

Just when everyone thought Trump was bluffing again, the U.S. suddenly began a fresh wave of attacks on Iran on the same Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 953.33 points. The major stock indexes dropped after the U.S. president pledged more Iran attacks, saying that “we’re going to be attacking them very hard”. Both WTI and Brent Crude oil rose above US$90 a barrel.

The latest clashes show the Iran War is far from over. In fact, the recent days of hostilities showed how close the two foes are to crossing each other’s red lines – potentially triggering a dangerous escalation. But on Wednesday, Trump lost his patience. The attack came hours after Trump said Iran was “playing us for suckers” because it hadn’t accepted U.S. terms for a nuclear deal.

The Pentagon said the attacks was an act of coercive diplomacy designed to force Iranian concessions at the negotiating table. “If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs. And we’re very good at it. Nobody better in the world,” – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday afternoon. U.S. military forces launched attacks on dozens of targets, including air defenses and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz.

The assault is the latest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington this week, which the U.S. military described as “additional self-defense strikes” in response to Iran’s “unwarranted and continued aggression.” Earlier, Iran struck directly at Israel, triggering an escalatory spiral that President Trump struggled to rein in.

On Tuesday, the U.S. military launched three waves of attacks against Iranian radar sites, air defenses and ground control stations after an Iranian drone a day earlier downed a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz. But Iranian officials tried to portray the downing as an accident, then launched missile and drone strikes on U.S. allies in the Gulf and Jordan in response to the American attacks.

Before Wednesday’s new fresh of U.S. attacks, the three days of fighting marked the most serious escalation in the conflict since Trump declared a ceasefire in the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign against Iran in April, ending nearly 40 days of strikes that began on February 28. It followed a series of skirmishes centred on U.S. efforts to enforce its blockade of Iranian ports and Iran’s blockade to keep shipping through the Strait of Hormuz shut.

The military standoff around the strategic waterway – the transit point for much of the world’s oil and a key lifeline for Gulf Arab states – has brought U.S. military aircraft flying near Iranian drones and speedboats, creating a high risk of conflict. Despite the fact that neither side wants to continue the war, which enters its 100 days, both sides are prepared to continue it at the same time in order not to look weak.

The U.S. Apache helicopter that crashed while on patrol off the coast of Oman on Monday evening was likely hit by an Iranian drone, U.S. officials said. Iranian officials said Tehran didn’t deliberately target the helicopter, though it has been firing drones at commercial vessels that are coordinating with the U.S. to transit the waterway.

The incident came very close to the threshold for escalation articulated by Trump in private conversations with aides, in which he said he would consider ending the ceasefire with Iran if Tehran kills American troops. Fortunately, the helicopter’s two crew members were rescued by a sea drone, after hours in the water – a first-of-its-kind mission.

The incident demonstrates the risks of Iran’s defense doctrine in which the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), the paramilitary group responsible for protecting the Iranian regime and enforcing the chokehold on the strait, delegates a high degree of freedom of action to commanders on the ground who can then operate without orders from Tehran in an approach known as the “Mosaic” defense strategy.

Interestingly, Iran’s regime, having emerged from the initial war militarily and economically damaged, revealed some limits in the past few days. As much as Tehran wishes to reassert deterrence with the U.S. and Israel, it cannot afford to return to full-scale war. Even hard-line leaders within Iran’s political power structure understood the risk of miscalculation and unwanted escalation.

It’s not a coincidence that Tehran was first to publicly announce an end to the exchange with Israel and avoided crowing about the downing of the Apache as it had previously when other American aircraft were shot down. It also has avoided highly sensitive targets like Israeli population centers and Saudi Arabia, and has used relatively limited volleys of missiles and drones to make its point.

Even Iran’s missile attack on Israel appeared calibrated to avoid a wider escalation in the conflict. “I think that, yes, there was a kind of risk taken by the Iranians, but it doesn’t seem that Iran really wanted to be engaged in a full-scale confrontation with Israel,” – said Raz Zimmt, director of the Iran research program at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.

While Tehran is trying very hard not to accidentally kill American soldiers and personnel during the ceasefire, the U.S. has sought to pressure Iran into a deal by imposing a naval blockade on its ports and vessels. According to analysts at JPMorgan Chase, “more oil” may be going through Hormuz than is publicly visible. Some 2 million barrels per day might be getting out on tankers that have switched off their transponders.

It’s not a coincidence that the fresh wave of attacks on Iran on Wednesday happened when Trump said on the same day that the U.S. military has secretly helped 200 commercial ships and more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. He credited the clandestine exports with keeping oil prices around US$90 per barrel instead of surging above US$200.

However, ship traffic through Hormuz is still well below pre-war levels. About 20% of global petroleum supplies, or 20 million barrels per day, passed through Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. The effective closure of Hormuz has led to the loss of more than 1 billion barrels of oil, the largest supply disruption in history.

In May, Trump announced and then abruptly halted a mission called “Project Freedom” that sought to escort tankers stranded in the Persian Gulf. U.S. officials subsequently hinted that the Navy was quietly assisting ships through Hormuz but did not disclose the scale of the operation. U.S. Central Command had indicated the military was protecting ships from attack.

Clashes between U.S. and Iran last week began when Tehran launched drones toward “civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters.” Iran’s drone attacks on American Apache helicopter provides a good reason or excuse for the U.S. to weaken Iran’s control of the strait, which the U.S. military described as “additional self-defense strikes” in response to Iran’s “unwarranted and continued aggression.”

While Trump is using military pressure to force Iran to cede to his terms, an escalating fight between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy in Lebanon, further threatens peace talks. Worse, whenever Israel thinks Trump is about to make a bad deal, it will bomb Hezbollah in Lebanon. Likewise, whenever Tehran wants to disrupt the negotiation without resuming the war, it would order its proxy to attack Israel, who in turn would retaliate.

Another critical sticking point is the sequencing of an agreement. Iran wants billions in economic relief, through the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets held abroad, before entering serious negotiations about limiting its nuclear program. Washington disagrees and wants to see Iran commit to some nuclear-work rollback in an initial framework deal rather than providing Tehran with funds up front.

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“This is not arrogance. This is not about race. This is about principles, mandates and responsibilities to the people of Johor. This is Johor UMNO. This is Johor BN. This is Bangsa Johor,” – exclaimed Onn Hafiz till foaming at the mouth. Depending on who you ask, his statement could be seen as stunningly arrogant and racist, or incredibly brilliant and strategic.

In response, lame Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – without mentioning Onn Hafiz – said it would be arrogant to deny any race or political party a role in government, especially after they had contested and won support through the democratic process. But why is the most powerful man so afraid that he dares not openly name and shame the Johor Chief Minister?

If the United States has TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), it appears Malaysia too has its own version – NACO (Nuar Always Chickens Out). But at least Mr. Donald Trump fights first before chickens out when he is about to lose. Mr. Anwar Ibrahim, on the other hand, chickens out before he even starts fighting – a humiliation to not only his party PKR, but also Pakatan Harapan (PH) alliance.

DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook – forced to retaliate after Onn’s unexpected attack – could only dismiss Onn Hafiz’s stance, reminding him that his own UMNO president (Zahid Hamidi) and DAP leaders collaborate at the same table during weekly federal Cabinet meetings. Zahid must be struggling very hard not to fall off his chair laughing at Loke’s naivety.

Did weakling Loke realize that Onn would not be so daring, racist and arrogant without the green light from Zahid? Did Mr Loke also realize that Mr Zahid would similarly reject DAP the same way Onn does in the next 16^th General Election, which could happen any time? Has Loke suddenly been infected with selective amnesia when Zahid furiously screamed “No Anwar, No DAP” not many moons ago?

In the same breath, did both Anwar and Loke also realize that Zahid had obviously given his blessing to Johor UMNO to “go solo”, contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and leave no space for cooperation or negotiation with Premier Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition – Pakatan Harapan? That’s why despite Anwar’s begging, he failed to convince Zahid to avoid a clash between BN and PH in Johor.

The Johor CEO’s remarks may smell horribly arrogant and racist, but it is also a necessary tactical and strategic political move to rally Malays to vote for UMNO by making DAP a punching bag – again. Either Anthony Loke is retarded or fabulously stupid to think UMNO has suddenly become DAP’s BFF after the Malay conservative party had been demonizing its traditional enemy for over 60 years.  

After all, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), especially its Johor chapter, has always considered Pakatan Harapan its bitter enemy, even though UMNO president Zahid and PKR president Anwar sit next to each other in the Cabinet, whilst Loke and Zahid share silly jokes together. Just because BN and PH are part of the unity government at federal level does not mean UMNO treats PH as a friend in Johor.

From the beginning, it was PM-obsessed Anwar and power-hungry Loke who tried to appease, mollify, and assuage UMNO warlords out of fear of losing power at the federal level to the extent of turning a blind eye over UMNO’s bullying. This has emboldened and encouraged notorious racists and mobsters like UMNO Youth Chief Akmal Saleh to terrorize, bully, and threaten ethnic Chinese and Indians.

Now, it’s merely Onn Hafiz’s turn to insult DAP, knowing very well that neither the indecisive PM nor the coward DAP chief have the balls to escalate the hostility between BN and PH. In fact, the disgraced PM Anwar orders Pakatan Harapan leaders to “not burn bridges” as doing so may provoke UMNO to withdraw support for the Madani government.

DAP under the weak leadership of Loke should be grateful that Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who is the nephew of UMNO veteran Hishammuddin Hussein, did not threaten the Chinese community by unsheathing, kissing, and brandishing a “keris” (a traditional Malay dagger) the same way his uncle did. Such provocation would make Anthony Loke, who’s trying to be more Malay than UMNO-Malay, extremely panic and runs around like a headless chicken.

Worse, Onn Hafiz is just a “third-tier” UMNO leader. He was not UMNO’s poster boy, but rather the preferred choice of the Johor Palace for the position of Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) following the March 2022 state elections. His appointment was a surprise development as UMNO-led BN had campaigned with former incumbent Hasni Mohammad as their designated candidate for the top post.

His lack of political credentials is one of the reasons why he, the great-grandson of UMNO founder Onn Jaafar and the grandson of Malaysia’s third Prime Minister Hussein Onn, has taken a page from UMNO playbook with a “declaration of war” on DAP-Chinese to project himself as a “Malay champion”. It was a deliberate move to force“first-tier” PKR and DAP leaders to bend down and respond to his attacks.

Exactly what type of message Pakatan Harapan is sending when the Prime Minister and the Transport Minister fail to demonstrate courage in reprimanding a “third-tier” arrogant UMNO leader? Clearly, it leads to a stronger belief that both PKR and DAP are toothless tigers that could be pushed around, insulted, mocked, ridiculed, belittled, and disrespected even by a junior UMNO leader. 

After DAP was insulted as an inferior second-class party that has no right to share the same table as UMNO, blind lemmings went berserk. Hilariously, these propagandists, bloggers, cyber troopers, YouTubers, and TikTokers are the same bunch of morons who had previously praised UMNO and Onn Hafiz Ghazi in the Mahkota by-election back in October 2024.

Yes, we previously published why the Chinese voters should boycott Mahkota by-election because a vote for BN is a vote for Akmal. However, some blind pro-Anwar and pro-DAP supporters who believed UMNO had turned a new leaf had chosen to not only campaign for UMNO, but also argued that it was sufficient to boycott only Akmal in Melaka. The idiots fantasized that UMNO-Malays would transfer their votes for PH.

Worse, under the pretext that Bangsa Johor are ideologically different and “intellectually superior”, some Chinese social media influencers even praised Onn Hafiz leadership for championing the multi-party unity coalition machinery for the Mahkota campaign – even though the Chief Minister has historically downplayed federal DAP partnerships within the state’s official administration.

Laughably, even till today, silly DAP is still trying very hard to convince the leopard that never changes its spots to be grateful and appreciate DAP’s hard work that allowed UMNO candidate Syed Hussien Syed Abdullah won the Mahkota seat with a landslide majority of 20,648 votes, capturing roughly 79% of the total valid ballots against opposition Perikatan Nasional candidate.

Had DAP mobilized its machinery to boycott UMNO in the Mahkota by-election, using the notorious Akmal as an excuse to teach UMNO a lesson, perhaps the Johor Chief Minister would think twice about insulting the Democratic Action Party today. Therefore, it’s not a heavy statement to say DAP under Loke leadership deserves to be mocked and ridiculed by UMNO.

Anthony Loke and his lieutenants are still in denial – badly wanted to believe that UMNO today is no longer the same UMNO that used to be racist, extremist, corrupted, arrogant, hypocrite, double-speak, treachery, untrustworthy, and whatnot. Until Onn’s latest outburst, DAP had believed he was of different breed and a non-racist, humble, and progressive UMNO-Malay leader.

It appears DAP has found a new favourite pastime – “Kao Beh Kao Boo” – wailing, complaining, and bitching over spilt milk. It still hasn’t a clue that while Anwar Ibrahim risks losing both the conservatives he courts and the reformists who brought him to power, Anthony Loke faces growing disillusionment among its core Chinese electorate due to his weak leadership and cowardice.

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And you know PM Anwar also lies when he desperately distracts attention, insisting that his unity government’s focus is to continue its duties in governing the country. After all, it was him who opened his big mouth and declared that he would consider calling for snap polls if tensions within his ruling alliance got worse. Now that Johor UMNO has called for a state election, he plays dumb and chickens out.

It’s hard to imagine how the Premier could still stubbornly refuse to dissolve the parliament when even Sarawak has started beating the war drum – hinting that the next state election could be called within the next 100 days. With Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Sarawak, and possibly Melaka going for early local elections, Anwar is facing pressure not only from once dominant UMNO in Peninsular, but also Borneo.

Last week, veteran MP Hassan Abdul Karim painted a grim picture of the future for the PKR, describing the party as “wounded, injured, severely battered, and losing a lot of blood”. It’s not hard to understand why the outspoken PKR MP has “spoken ill” about his own party under the leadership of Anwar. The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR or People’s Justice Party) is indeed in a deplorable state.

First, Johor UMNO announced that Barisan Nasional alliance will “go solo”, will contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and will leave no space for cooperation or negotiation with Premier Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition – Pakatan Harapan. A poor poker player, Anwar threatened to hold elections for the whole country on May 17 at the national convention of Pakatan Harapan in Johor.

But even after 10 days later, Mr Anwar, who is also the Pakatan Harapan chairman, said he has yet to meet Zahid Hamidi, UMNO president and Deputy Prime Minister, over the Johor polls. It’s absolutely hilarious that a Prime Minister has to take a number for an appointment with his own deputy. Either the PM was terrified to meet his deputy, or Zahid did not want to see his boss Anwar.

Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi called Premier Anwar’s bluff – decisively dissolved the state legislative assembly on June 1, a public holiday. Onn Hafiz again insisted that UMNO-led Barisan Nasional will contest all 56 seats as announced on May 17. The PM pretended nothing happened and said his focus was to run the country, conveniently forgetting his earlier threat to retaliate with a national election.

Then, it was Zahid’s turn to call Anwar’s bluff. Barisan Nasional is not changing course from its plans to contest all seats in the upcoming Johor state election, despite Pakatan Harapan chief Anwar Ibrahim’s desire to work out a deal to avoid clashes, announced Zahid. In fact, the Barisan Nasional chief said he is in the midst of finalising the list of candidates for all 56 seats.

Of course, Anwar can’t look weak by crying like DAP Youth, begging the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) not to go solo. So, the PM keeps quiet and dares not criticize UMNO openly. In truth, there’s nothing much Anwar or his loyal subservient ally Democratic Action Party (DAP) could do even after being played, manipulated, exploited, backstabbed and betrayed by UMNO.

UMNO was much cleverer and cunning in politicking than both Anwar and DAP chief Anthony Loke combined. While UMNO said it will not share power with Pakatan Harapan in Johor, UMNO president Zahid said Barisan Nasional is open to forming a unity government with Pakatan Harapan in Negeri Sembilan after the polls. UMNO’s strategy is both simple and selfish.

In states where it is strong, UMNO wants to rule on its own. But in states where it is weak, UMNO wants to tag with Pakatan Harapan (or whoever is dumb enough to share power with the power-crazy UMNO). On the contrary, in states where it is strong, Pakatan Harapan idiotically invites UMNO to tag along. But in states where it is weak, Pakatan Harapan whines and occasionally asks for crumbs from UMNO.

To prevent from being labelled a traitor, forked-tongue UMNO leaders have stated that the unity government will remain intact “until the end of its term”. Barisan Nasional supremo Zahid Hamidi has been more equivocal, affirming that his coalition is comfortable working with unity government members while also stating it is “almost certain” to contest the next general election alone.

Yes, UMNO-led Barisan Nasional is showing its courage, dignity and strength even though it has won only 30 parliamentary seats in the 15^th General Election. On the other hand, PKR-led Pakatan Harapan is showing its cowardice, disgrace, and weakness even though it had captured 82 seats in the same November 2022 national polls. This is why UMNO continues to bully PKR, DAP and Amanah.

It was already bad that narcissist Anwar is indecisive, incompetent, racist, untrustworthy, yet shamelessly demands blind obedience, credit and respect. The emperor who wears no clothes wanted everyone to kiss his ring despite poor leadership. It now becomes worse when the PM-obsessed Anwar is trapped with no good options as UMNO finally makes its move to checkmate him.

If he dissolves the parliament now to hold concurrent state and federal elections in order to encourage higher voter turnout, an early election could benefit Anwar’s coalition, with the country’s opposition ​in disarray. Still, his coalition – Pakatan Harapan – is unlikely to retain its 82 seats won in 2022, whilst at the same time cut short Anwar’s five-year term to about four years.

However, if the national election is dragged till next year to stretch his 5-year term to the maximum, Anwar may potentially lead Pakatan Harapan to a bigger loss due to domestic economic factors, external political uncertainties, and the strengthening of Bersama. Giving more time and space for Bersama to grow would be the biggest mistake that could destroy Anwar’s party PKR.

Anwar is having sleepless nights largely due to Bersama rather than UMNO or opposition parties. Parti Bersama Malaysia (BERSAMA) or Malaysian United Party (MU), a smaller party launched by Rafizi Ramli and Nik ​Nazmi Nik Ahmad, who left the ruling coalition after disagreements and disputes with Anwar’s leadership and lack of reforms, would directly challenge Anwar’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

MU’s appeal is to new, undecided voters. But it is also an alternative choice to disgruntled voters in Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Harapan, as well as opposition Perikatan Nasional camps. Malaysia’s recent elections have each been shaped by multi-cornered contests and splits in the Malay vote, in which younger, less partisan voters could swing the outcome. 

Splitting the urban vote in PH strongholds does not guarantee victories for Bersama, but it surely will give PKR a run for its money. It’s not rocket science that Rafizi’s immediate target is to convert PKR’s voters to Bersama’s voters – slowly but surely replacing PKR as the new reformist party. It would be a disaster to Anwar if Bersama manages to snatch away some of Pakatan Harapan seats in the upcoming Johor election.

There are 56 seats in Johor state assembly, with 40 (two-thirds majority) currently held by Barisan Nasional (BN), 12 by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, three by Perikatan Nasional (PN) and one by Malaysian United Democratic Alliance. Although BN is aligned with PH at the federal level, they are rivals at the state level in Johor and Melaka.

In 2022, out of the 20 seats PKR contested, the party managed to secure only the Bukit Batu constituency, won by their candidate Arthur Chiong Sen Sern. That’s a success rate of only 5%. Even then, Arthur won with a razor thin majority of only “137 votes”. With Chinese voters increasingly disillusioned with DAP, even the Democratic Action Party is facing difficulty retaining the 10 seats it captured in 2022.

It doesn’t help that UMNO and PAS are – openly and actively – holding talks to revive the national cooperation between the Malay nationalist party and the Islamist party, glorified as “Muafakat Nasional” under the pretext of Malay-unity. While UMNO is playing Pakatan Harapan like a yo-yo, it is also preparing “Plan B” to form the next federal government with PAS.

Anwar risks losing both the conservatives he courts and the reformists who brought him to power. The fake reformist brilliantly schemed to make his daughter the Deputy President, only to see his incompetent daughter drove PKR to annihilation in Sabah, sinking not only PKR but also DAP, while at the same time causing sidelined Rafizi to quit and form Bersama to create troubles for PKR.

Heck, PKR may lose even its crown jewel – Selangor – thanks to Anwar’s racism and obsession to Islamize the non-Malays, especially the Chinese community. From cracking down on Hindu temples to demolishing pig farming, the Pakatan Harapan government in Selangor has quietly prepared guidelines that says new non-Muslim houses of worship must not be taller than any mosque in the same or neighboring development area.

Adding salt to the wound, the weak and cowardly leadership of Anthony Loke saw DAP working hand-in-glove with PKR and Amanah to restrict, undermine, bully and destroy non-Muslim houses of worship in Selangor. With friends like Anwar Ibrahim and Chinese traitors like DAP, it doesn’t matter whether the despicable Madani government calls for a snap polls this year or 2027. A surprise is awaiting Pakatan Harapan.

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In fact, Gates was so wealthy that there was a popular joke which went viral in the 1990s (before the invention of social media) through emails – if he somehow dropped a US$100 bill, he would not bother to stop and bend over to pick up the note because he made between US$100 and US$120 a second. Doing so would “technically” lose more than U$100.

But while Bill Gates used to be the planet’s richest man for 13 consecutive years, he was just a billionaire. Till today, he cannot realistically become a trillionaire because he sold and donated the vast majority of his Microsoft equity. He could have been the world’s first trillionaire if he hadn’t sold his original 45% stake in Microsoft and dedicated billions to philanthropy.

The man highly anticipated to become the world’s first trillionaire is Elon Musk. His fortune now stands at roughly US$970 billion, mostly in stock, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The initial public offering (IPO) for SpaceX could push Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire. Even without SpaceX, he is way ahead of the other billionaires behind him.

For example, world’s second-richest man – Larry Page of Google – is worth only US$308 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Larry Ellison is ranked third with net worth of about US$299 billion from his roughly 40% ownership stake in Oracle Corporation. Bill Gates today is in 19^th place, worth about US$104 billion, behind many billionaires not heard of in the 1990s.

Musk’s wealth includes US$538 billion for his pre-IPO stake in SpaceX, US$167 billion for his stake in Tesla, and another US$150 billion or so for stock options in those companies he could exercise just about any time. Accumulating that amount over his career averages out to US$992 a second. That’s almost 10 times Gates made during his peak time when he did not bother to pick up a dropped US$100 note.

Then there is US$5 billion apiece for The Boring Company, which drills tunnels, and Neuralink, the brain-implant firm he founded, and US$104 billion in property, aircraft and other investments and assets as estimated by Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. Musk actually co-founded the first of his many U.S. tech and engineering-oriented companies in 1995, 31 years ago.

The 54-year-old born in South Africa made his initial fortune by co-founding the online payments company X.com in 1999, which later merged with Confinity to become PayPal. When eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, Musk – as the company’s largest shareholder – walked away with approximately US$180 million. He immediately reinvested nearly all of this capital into founding SpaceX and funding Tesla.

Interestingly, two richest men – Elon Musk (born in 1971) and Bill Gates (born in 1955) – represent two different technological eras. Gates defined the personal computing revolution of the 1970s and 1980s with Microsoft, while Musk defines the modern era of space exploration, electric vehicles, and artificial intelligence. And while Gates’ wealth grew steadily, Musk’s exploded exponentially.

Amassing a jaw-dropping US$970 billion meant accumulating roughly US$59,492 a minute, US$3.6 million an hour, US$85.7 million a day, US$602 million a week, US$2.6 billion a month or US$31.3 billion a year. To put that in perspective, an American household earning the median U.S. income (US$83,730 in 2024) would have to work more than 11 million years to make Musk’s wealth.

To be sure, the success of Tesla and SpaceX also has made billions of dollars for investors who bet on Musk and made millionaires of employees who got shares in the businesses. Ingrid Robeyns, a philosopher and economist, has written that the wealth of the world’s richest has soared so much it is nearly incomprehensible for laypeople to grasp.

She recently estimated that Musk would make about US$4.2 million an hour in his career if he worked 70 hours a week without vacations until he is 75 years old. Musk, of course, is known for sleeping on factory floors and rarely taking vacations. After buying Twitter, he said his work exploded to more than 120 hours a week from about 80 hours before.

Musk’s net worth eclipses the GDP (gross domestic product) of more than 125 countries, including Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and South Africa. His self-made fortune, built on electric vehicles, rocket ships and artificial-intelligence ambitions, amounts to about 3% of U.S. gross domestic product today. On that basis, he easily surpasses John D. Rockefeller, the richest American who ever lived before Musk.

A century ago, Rockefeller rode the wave of industrialization by building Standard Oil into a behemoth, wielding influence over railroads and pipelines. The monopoly was ultimately broken up by the federal government. Rockefeller amassed a fortune of about US$1.4 billion by 1937 – roughly 1.5% of U.S. GDP at the time. His estimated inflation-adjusted net worth is widely cited financial publications at around US$340 billion in modern value.

However, most of his wealth is tied up in his companies. He famously said in 2020 that he would “own no house” and sold off several California properties, only to later buy homes in Texas. Musk can borrow billions against his holdings in SpaceX and Tesla, but much of his wealth is on paper – not cash he can easily spend.

Still, many have argued that Elon Musk becomes super rich for utilizing personal loans secured by his corporate shares to fund his lifestyle and investments. Critics argue this practice is a massive tax loophole, allowing him to live luxuriously and acquire companies like X (formerly Twitter) without paying income taxes, as borrowed money is not considered taxable income.

Interestingly, Musk, who had US$200 million in cash at one point, invested “his last cent in his businesses” and said in a 2010 divorce proceeding, – “About four months ago, I ran out of cash.” Musk told the New York Times’ DealBook at that time, “I could have either done a rushed private stock sale or borrowed money from friends.”

Of course, Musk was able to live on US$200,000 a month in loans from billionaire friends – while still flying in a private jet – rather than sell any of his Tesla stake. Unlike ordinary Joes and Janes’, that’s a “good problem” for a business owner like Elon Musk who is “asset rich” and “cash poor.” 

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A public holiday did not stop the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) from seeking the consent of Johor Regent Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim on the morning of June 1 to pave the way for the state’s 16th state elections. Onn Hafiz said the dissolution would allow the people of Johor to elect a new state government and obtain a fresh mandate to continue the state’s development agenda.

Now that the state assembly has been dissolved, the election must be called within 60 days at the discretion of the Election Commission. This means the 16th Johor state polls have to be held by July 31. Johor’s state election is only due by mid-2027, while Melaka’s is due by early 2027. But the fact that UMNO-led Barisan Nasional has decided to call for Johor polls ahead of Melaka polls shows UMNO’s confidence.

There are 56 seats in Johor state assembly, with 40 (two-thirds majority) currently held by Barisan Nasional (BN), 12 by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, three by Perikatan Nasional (PN) and one by Malaysian United Democratic Alliance. Although BN is aligned with PH at the federal level, they are rivals at the state level in Johor and Melaka.

Following Onn Hafiz’s announcement, PH Johor claimed that it had anticipated that BN would dissolve the state assembly. Yet, at the same time, Anwar-led PH also complained that a one-day special assembly sitting that BN had recently announced for June 22 was “completely nonsensical“. The burning question is why Johor UMNO has moved forward the date from June 22 to June 1.

Call UMNO a traitor, backstabber, opportunistic, untrustworthy or whatever you  like, but the Malay nationalist political party is playing a clever game compared to all its rivals, including Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan, which is made up of Anwar’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR or People’s Justice Party), the Democratic Action Party (DAP), and Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah).

Not only is PN still in turmoil with its coalition partners having disagreements and attacking each other, but the PH is facing internal issues. While PN’s biggest coalition parties – PAS Islamist party and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) – are having an increasingly public spat, which is pushing their relationship to the brink, PH’s popularity is plunging thanks to PM Anwar.

Anwar’s PKR is incredibly weak in Johor, whilst DAP is fast losing the support of 95% Chinese voters it previously enjoyed. Four years ago (2022), DAP won only 10 seats, down from 14 previously. Anwar’s PKR and Amanah won only 1 seat each, down from 7 seats and 6 seats respectively. In the historic May 2018 General Election, Mahathir stunningly led PH to topple BN for the first time in history.

Worse, DAP has come under fire recently after it emerged that state assemblyman for the Skudai constituency – Marina Ibrahim – was asked by Johor DAP chairman Teo Nie Ching to contest in a different seat (Tiram) currently held by BN in the next elections, and that she would be offered chairmanship of a statutory body or GLC even if she lost.   

Marina has since announced that she would not be contesting in the next polls and will be retiring from politics, but the issue has sparked anger from PH supporters who are of the view that incumbents should be given priority to defend their constituencies. DAP is also accused of hypocrisy as it used to strongly oppose politicians and unqualified individuals taking up chairmanships in Government-Linked Companies (GLCs).

Adding salt to the wound is the newly launched Parti Bersama Malaysia (Bersama) or Malaysian United Party (MU) – led by former PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli and his comrade Nik Nazmi. Rafizi calls his move a kamikaze mission, but Bersama is actually targeting PKR’s traditional multiracial and reformist base to chip away supporters who feel the Anwar government has strayed from its original reform agenda.

Several regional PKR leaders and local members have already announced their immediate departure to align with Bersama, leaving PKR “wounded” ahead of future elections. At least 10 PKR MPs aligned to Rafizi are waiting for the “right time” to join MU due to the RM10 million bond stopping them from defecting. Bersama or MU is also one of the reasons why Johor UMNO decided to fast-forward its state polls.

Even though PKR is trying very hard to put up a brave face, pretending it is not afraid of either UMNO or Bersama, in reality, both PH and BN are concerned about the new kid on the block. Besides his capacity to strategize and execute campaigns within a short period of time, Rafizi brings rich experience in data analysis, social media machinery and communication platforms that channel tailored content to targeted voters. 

Before Bersama could consolidate its support base and grow its membership organically, Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz decisively moved forward an earlier plan to dissolve the Johor state legislative assembly from June 22 to June 1. The difference of three weeks might sound insignificant, but is enough for Rafizi to do tonnes of harm, especially in fielding candidates in Johor just to test the water.

MU’s appeal is to new, undecided voters. But it is also an alternative choice to disgruntled voters in BN, PH, and PN camps. Malaysia’s recent elections have each been shaped by multi-cornered contests and splits in the Malay vote, in which younger, less partisan voters could swing the outcome. Splitting the urban vote in PH strongholds does not guarantee victories for Bersama, but it surely will give PKR a run for its money.

If Sabah state election in Nov 2025 is any indicator, it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Anwar’s PKR is set to be wiped out in Johor too. In 2022, out of the 20 seats they contested, the party managed to secure only the Bukit Batu constituency, won by their candidate Arthur Chiong Sen Sern. That’s a success rate of only 5%. Even then, Arthur won with a razor thin majority of only “137 votes”.

PKR can talk big till the kingdom comes, even fantasizing about PH retaking the Johor states like in 2018. But the fact remains that unlike in 2018, there isn’t any 1MDB scandal that had mobilized Chinese voters or the 6% Goods and Services Tax (GST) unpopular tax that had angered Malay voters. And unlike Mahathir – seen as saviour in 2018 – who managed to unite Malay, Chinese and Indian in an anti-Najib movement, Anwar today is seen as a con artist.

Heck, even DAP under the weak and cowardly leadership of Anthony Loke Siew Fook could be annihilated in Johor. Out of the 10 seats the party had secured in 2022, a staggering 7 seats are considered marginal, with percentage votes ranging from 40% to 53.67%. Two seats are fairly safe – Mengkibol (57.5% votes) and Skudai (58.53% votes). There is only 1 safe seat in Bentayan, won with 64.53% votes.

In comparison, BN has at least 9 safe seats with more than 60% votes secured in 2022. With 4 fairly safe seats and 27 other marginal seats, it’s not hard to understand why UMNO is calling for an early poll at a time when Anwar is leading PH to oblivion. If the Chinese voters stay at home or vote Bersama to teach PKR and DAP a lesson, it would be game over for PH in Johor. 

With intensifying PKR-Bersama rivalry and a potential Bersatu-PAS fallout, Johoreans may see UMNO as a “stabilising force”, not to mention that unlike other states, Johor is UMNO’s birthplace and still its bastion, enjoying voter goodwill compared to other states. Additionally, state elections usually see lower voter turnout, particularly among minority groups, which would benefit incumbents.

Crucially, UMNO is betting that Anwar Ibrahim – highly intoxicated with power – does not have the balls to dissolve the Parliament for a general election. Caught with his pants down, the Prime Minister would not make it even if he wanted to. Anwar would consider calling snap polls only after the tabling and passing of the upcoming national budget in October, where he could dish out candies to fish for votes.

UMNO knew that combining state and general elections could weaken its chances, as Pakatan Harapan voters were likely to “come out in full force” for parliamentary seat contests. It still remembers how BN did really well in the March 2022 state election, but underperformed in the general election later that year (November 2022) – another reason why Onn Hafiz rushed to call for Johor polls.  

An early call for elections could also give UMNO a strategic advantage as voters would focus more on local issues rather than anger towards the federal government. With a historic RM110 billion in total approved investments – positioning Johor as the top investment destination in Malaysia – Johor UMNO is also cleverly banking on the economic achievements to win the elections.

In the same breath, UMNO wanted to test whether DAP would chicken out following DAP secretary general Anthony Loke’s bold threat – “If Johor assembly is dissolved, we will dissolve Negeri Sembilan state assembly tomorrow”. Mr Loke would be under pressure to convince Mr Anwar to similarly mirror Johor’s political move, failing which would subject DAP to humiliation for its empty threat.  

Likewise, it would also test whether PM Anwar too would chicken out or make good on his warnings and threats – made during his fiery speech at the Pakatan Harapan Convention 2026 in Johor Bahru after UMNO announced its decision to contest all 56 seats – that if unity pacts are compromised, he would not hesitate to return the mandate to the people.

Over the past three years, Anwar – through his own self-inflicting policies such as racism and hate politics – has faced criticism from both within and outside his coalition for failing to deliver the meaningful reforms promised to the people. But even on bread-and-butter issues, the odds are stacked against Pakatan Harapan over escalating cost of living. Even fuel subsidies may suffer a cut if scammer Anwar is given another term.

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The 2005 book Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, by Brass, Moser, and Pach, calls it “possibly the best known (and simplest to explain) problem in combinatorial geometry.” Noga Alon, a leading combinatorialist at Princeton, describes it as “one of Erdős’ favorite problems.” The Hungarian mathematician Erdős even offered a monetary prize for resolving this problem.

On May 20, 2026, that very famous math problem that stumped humans for the better part of a century has finally been cracked – by none other than AI (Artificial Intelligence). But even mathematicians were astonished when OpenAI announced that one of its models resolved the unit distance problem without the help of any humans scribbling a bunch of equations on chalkboards.

Not long ago, the most advanced AI models couldn’t do basic math. By last year, they were performing at gold-medal levels at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Now they are solving classic problems in combinatorial geometry using algebraic number theory. In no time at all, artificial intelligence has gone from stupid to frighteningly smart. 

The AI model was fed with this prompt:

Then the AI spit out this proof:

And everyone in the math kingdom lost their minds. For those who aren’t fluent in numbers, OpenAI helped translate its findings by presenting them alongside 19 pages of companion remarks from prominent mathematicians. As a rule, mathematicians demand proof – hot hype – before they are willing to accept elementary facts.

Fields medalist Tim Gowers, writing in the companion paper, calls the result “a milestone in AI mathematics.” According to leading number theorist Arul Shankar, “In my opinion this paper demonstrates that current AI models go beyond just helpers to human mathematicians – they are capable of having original ingenious ideas, and then carrying them out to fruition”.

News that large language models (LLM) have made major advances in solving Erdős problems has created an uproar and interest amongst mathematicians. While previous LLM solutions to Erdős problems used standard techniques, this one took an entirely different approach. Rather than starting from Erdős’ original probability-theory-based framing of the problem, as human mathematicians had, the LLM found an alternative route.

“Paul Erdős had a concept of ‘Proofs from The Book’, meaning that the argument is so compact and elegant that this is the proof God would’ve written down in ‘The Book,’” Jared Lichtman, a mathematician at Stanford University in the US, wrote on the social media site X after the proof was announced.

Erdős thought the limit was n^{1+C/log log(n)} where C is a positive constant, but OpenAI’s model identified a higher bound. But as it turned out, AI showed Erdős was wrong. OpenAI’s announcement shows that the new proof “demonstrates that current AI models go beyond just helpers to human mathematicians – they are capable of having original ingenious ideas, and then carrying them out to fruition”.

OpenAI employees said this result would have sounded completely bananas one year ago. “Forget one year ago,” researcher Sebastien Bubeck said. “A month ago.” So imagine how unimaginable it was 80 years ago, when the unit distance problem was posed by Paul Erdős, known as the most prolific mathematician in history. 

Erdős was also known as an eccentric, nomadic genius who lived out of a suitcase, worked around the clock and traveled all over the world, true to his personal motto: “Another roof, another proof.” In addition to his research, he left behind a sprawling collection of questions known as Erdős problems, which have become a benchmark for measuring progress in math. 

You can tell how much he liked any given problem by the amount of money he offered for its solution. The unit distance problem was among his favorites: It originally came with a US$300 bounty, which Erdős later bumped up to US$500. When he wasn’t assigning monetary values to math problems, Erdős divided them in two categories: marshmallows (“a tasty tidbit supplying a few moments of fleeting enjoyment”) and acorns (“requiring deep and subtle new insights from which a mighty oak can develop”). 

After the AI disprove Erdős’ planar unit distance conjecture, even OpenAI’s researchers were stunned. “I initially didn’t believe it,” said Mehtaab Sawhney, a Columbia mathematician at OpenAI. So they searched for errors, verified the results with outsiders and checked the AI’s work using the company’s AI coding agent. “With enough reading and enough Codexing,” Sawhney said, “it seemed believable – and pretty remarkable.”

Long before AI, mathematicians who solved Erdős problems often framed their checks instead of cashing them. For them, the money was worth less than the glory. When OpenAI researchers were asked about their plans for the prize, they hadn’t given it much thought. But they did have lots of thoughts about a question – “Why did AI succeed where humans failed?” 

The first explanation is that this particular solution happens to be highly counterintuitive. Most people who tackled this problem tried to prove Erdős’s conjecture, rather than disprove it. Only by defying conventional wisdom and experimenting with seemingly improbable strategies did the model find an unexpected path forward.

The second is that humans specialize while AI synthesizes. While mathematicians tend to focus on their specific areas of expertise, AI models use their vast knowledge to spot connections that we couldn’t possibly see ourselves. In this case, that meant pulling from both algebraic number theory and discrete geometry, which have about as much in common as the marathon and pole vault.

The third explanation is that AI has time, attention, patience, focus and the persistence to stick with methods that humans might abandon – and the solution to this Erdős problem demanded it. “It’s the kind of idea that you try for a bit, it doesn’t work, and you think maybe you were just too hopeful,” said Mark Sellke, a Harvard statistician at OpenAI. “So you give up and move on.”

Unlike humans, AI doesn’t move on. It keeps plugging away without taking breaks to eat, sleep, answer emails, pick the kids up from school and watch the Knicks. And it can think coherently for so long that even an abridged version of the model’s “chain of thought” ran more than 75,000 words – the length of the first “Harry Potter” book.

The best part is this – a former OpenAI researcher did some back-of-the-envelope math and estimated it took less than 32 hours and US$1,000 in tokens, a bargain for a result of this caliber. The researchers wouldn’t confirm the exact amount of time and compute, but Bubeck described the costs as “really nothing crazy at all.”

OpenAI says this result marks an important moment in the interaction between AI and mathematics – an AI system has autonomously resolved a longstanding open problem at the center of an active field. It also offers an early glimpse of a new kind of collaboration between AI and human mathematicians. 

The takeaway is bigger than this particular result. Better mathematical reasoning can make AI a stronger research partner – something that can hold together difficult lines of thought, connect ideas across distant areas of knowledge, surface promising paths experts may not have prioritized, and help researchers make progress on problems that would otherwise be too complex or time-intensive to tackle.

Others, however, are more cautious. David Bessis, a mathematician-turned-science writer who previously worked on algebra, geometry and topology, claims that even such apparent successes stem from a misconception of mathematics as a logically direct process of churning out theorems, given some rules. Bessis argues that the method used to verify AI-generated proofs, which involves a computer program called Lean, may reduce the benefit the mathematics community gains from proofs. 

Another challenge is that with AI systems churning out new proofs at scale, there are simply not enough people with the skills needed to check them. A process called autoformalization could solve this problem by turning human proofs into what Bessis calls “bulletproof, machine-verifiable logical derivations” expressed in Lean or other specialized languages. At that point, AI-generated proofs could be checked automatically. The question is, what knowledge will humans gain in the process?

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Exactly which part of UMNO’s decision to go independently that Pakatan Harapan does not understand? Yesterday, DAP Youth – obviously under instruction from its top leadership – tried very hard to remind UMNO about the support the Malay nationalist party received from Pakatan Harapan after UMNO led Barisan Nasional to its worst-ever performance in the November 2022 General Election.

DAP Youth recalls how UMNO, after winning just 26 parliamentary seats in the 15^th General Election, had relied on Pakatan Harapan to fight back against the Opposition Perikatan Nasional coalition’s green wave to ensure UMNO does not diminish further. Clearly, telling the sobbing story was DAP’s desperate attempt to solicit appreciation, hoping UMNO would make a U-turn out of gratitude.

Shifting to higher gear hoping the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) would be grateful and return the favour, DAP Youth pointed to the six state elections in August 2023, where UMNO was given “safe seats” to contest due to the alliance of Pakatan-Barisan, and how UMNO assemblymen were roped into the Pakatan-led Selangor and Penang state governments.

“In 2023, the alliance between PH and BN as well as the seat allocations prevented seat clashes and revived UMNO to ensure it remains relevant in Malaysia’s political arena. However, some in UMNO have forgotten our help. With the unity government facing global economic challenges, there are those who chose to destabilise the Negeri Sembilan government,” – complained DAP Youth.

“There are even those who want an ‘all-out war’ in Johor, as though they do not hold senior positions in the unity government. If some parties are inclined to become backstabbers and to undermine the spirit of the unity government, then DAP Youth urges the prime minister to dissolve Parliament immediately and hold 16^th General Election concurrently with the other state elections,” – said the youth wing of Democratic Action Party.

In retaliation, UMNO notorious mobster – Youth Chief Akmal Saleh – has immediately challenged DAP Youth to withdraw support for state governments led by Barisan Nasional and to push its leaders to dissolve Parliament to prove its political strength. Akmal also reminded DAP not to forget that without BN’s support, Pakatan Harapan might not have been able to form the federal government.

Akmal even mocked DAP, and Pakatan Harapan for that matter, not to be terribly “panic and nervous” over Johor UMNO’s intention to go solo. Like it or not, Akmal was right to insult DAP Youth under the leadership of Woo Kah Leong for not only being spineless, but for annoyingly whining, yapping, and bitching rather than decisively withdrawing support for Barisan Nasional.

Yes, it was already bad that PM-obsessed Anwar Ibrahim chose to keep quiet for the past three years despite being bullied by UMNO. To cling to power, the fake reformist and president of PKR (People’s Justice Party) had shamelessly pardoned crooked ex-PM Najib Razak and thrown away corruption charges for every single UMNO corrupt leader, including party president Zahid Hamidi.

It becomes worse when the Democratic Action Party (DAP), the biggest party in not only Pakatan Harapan but also the entire Madani government, behaves as if it has only 4 parliamentary seats when it actually has 40. It was DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook’s cowardice that encourages Akmal’s persistent bullying, mocking and insulting on DAP and the Chinese community.

In terms of politicking, the DAP-Chinese are no match for UMNO-Malays. If DAPSY – DAP Socialist Youth – thinks by telling a sobbing story of how Pakatan Harapan had saved UMNO from total destruction, and hopes UMNO would repent and become the good guy, then Mr Loke and Mr Woo are stupider than they look. Nobody asked PH to save the corrupted BN back in 2022.

On the contrary, the DAP Youth’s pathetic move is seen more like begging UMNO not to abandon DAP, PKR and Amanah than a tactical warning to put UMNO in its place. The more PH beats around the bush without meaningful actions, the more BN calls its bluff. In fact, the more DAP cries and whines with empty threats, the more UMNO wants to insult DAP and go solo.

Mr Akmal did not lie when he said both PH and BN were using each other. And it’s true that after the 2022 general election that produced a hung parliament, neither Pakatan Harapan (82 MPs) nor Perikatan Nasional (73 MPs) could form a government without Barisan Nasional’s 30 MPs in the 222-seat Parliament. It was PKR and DAP’s own foolishness to ask how high whenever UMNO told them to jump after forming the unity government.

Nobody asked PKR and DAP to give “safe seats” to UMNO to contest in the 2023’s six state elections. Again, it was purely PKR and DAP’s stupidity at its finest, knowing very well that a leopard never changes its spots. Begging UMNO to be grateful and don’t go solo is like lecturing a carnivorous lion to eat salad and not meat. UMNO is born to control, dominate, corrupt, racist, bully, betray and whatnot.

Just because Pakatan Harapan was dumb enough to invite UMNO into the Selangor and Penang state governments does not mean UMNO must be equally dumb to invite PKR and DAP into the Johor state government. Instead of repetitively issuing empty threats like a broken record, why don’t Pakatan Harapan grow a spine and withdraw support for UMNO governments in Perak and Pahang?

And it’s not UMNO-Malays’ fault that Anthony Loke almost orgasm when he made national headlines by becoming the first DAP leader in history to attend the UMNO annual assembly in 2023. The DAP moron thought he was incredibly popular among UMNO-Malays and was absolutely cocksure that BN and PH would continue to cooperate in future elections like two intimate partners.

To UMNO, it was just a flirting game or a one-night stand, but DAP took it too seriously and emotionally and appears to have fallen in love with UMNO. Now UMNO wants to break up, DAP Youth is wailing in great sorrow and accused UMNO of being an unfaithful and ungrateful partner. UMNO has been playing DAP like a yo-yo without Loke realizing it.

Even if silly Loke sacrificed his most treasured asset and converted to Islam, UMNO-Malays would still reject him and refuse to transfer votes to DAP. Not sure what Loke has been smoking for the past 3 years, but the delusional DAP chief has been wasting valuable time and resources trying to impress Malay voters who would never trust DAP after 60 years of UMNO’s demonization.

Worse, Mr Loke, who thinks highly of himself, made the wrong bet by ordering DAP to keep silent and pretend nothing happens whenever Akmal terrorizes, bullies and threatens the ethnic Chinese. He thought by hiding, DAP could win more Malay votes than losing Chinese votes due to the popular mantra – “If the Chinese community doesn’t vote for DAP or Anwar, who else can they vote?”

Today, DAP is like a cat on hot bricks as it has failed to win over Malays whilst at the same time keep losing Chinese support. The November 2025 Sabah state elections saw DAP suffer a major setback after it lost all the seats contested. Even then, Loke and his band of warlords were still in denial and arrogantly believed the Sabah tsunami would not happen in Peninsular.

DAP has itself to blame if it still hasn’t the clue that UMNO cannot play second fiddle as its sole existence is to dominate and control the government, allowing them to plunder and steal. The only reason why BN had agreed to partner with PH in November 2022 is because UMNO hated Bersatu-PAS more than it despised DAP. Besides, UMNO cannot survive as opposition.

Make no mistake – UMNO agreed to work with Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan not because it wanted to make new friends. It just wanted power and to leverage on DAP to enjoy free Chinese votes. It needed a temporary shelter to lick its wound, rejuvenate and rebuild. Mistook UMNO for BFF, DAP under Loke’s leadership foolishly swallows the hook, line and sinker.

Having tasted power, perks and positions, DAP has become complacent and arrogant in just three years. It has forgotten its roots and lost touch with its original purpose, history and founding principles. Its leaders are blinded by power, and would rather “kow tow” and beg UMNO than go back to being the opposition. For the sake of a second term, they are willing to lose dignity and principle.

Now that UMNO has grown from strength to strength, at least that’s what the party thinks, it has no more use for DAP, PKR or Amanah. DAP Youth can cry, moan, and bitch till foaming at the mouth. But UMNO must go solo to test the water that it could win two-thirds majority again in Johor – a vital indicator to rally UMNO-Malays to return to power in the driver seat at the federal level.    

Instead of babbling, yapping, and crying like a baby losing a candy, DAP should show not only courage to face UMNO heads on, but also decisively leave the toxic PKR under the treachery, racist, corrupt, hypocrisy, fake, and untrustworthy Anwar leadership. Doing none of these would see the Democratic Action Party lose more seats than it could imagine. Time is running out.

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