Why Is Mahathir Stating What Seems Like A Distraction? What Is He Going To Do Return The People's Trust In Pakatan?

The Great One is only stating what seems like  a distraction 

That is a waste of time. But what is he going to do to convince Bolehanders that it is better to stay with Pakatan?

What is the Great One doing on bread and butter issues in the first place?

What is he going to do to reduce the cost of living so as not to further burden the poor rakyat who had rejected the previous toxic dUMNo government on the promise of the Pakatan coalition to bring down the cost of living and in the hope that their lives would become better?

Continue to tell the rakyat that the Pakatan government cannot fulfill the election pledges because the Pakatan coalition had not expected to win and therefore didn't think that it had to fulfill them?  What kind of BS is that?

That even if the government tries, it would be hard to fulfill them if ever?

And how will it choose to deal with the increasingly bold and incendiary racial and religious baiting and fear mongering by the opposition to gain support? Or will it even bother to do that but would rather allow it to continue in the name of freedom of speech because the new Pakatan government now believes in freedom of speech as an absolute?

Wasn't it the Great One himself who was vehemently against freedom of speech as an absolute? Why the sudden quiet? Why not crack down on the dangerous and divisive politics of race and religion and scare mongering?

Or is the Great One admitting that he and Pakatan coalition really don't have a better narrative than to play along in the hope of retaining Malay support come what may? Isn't this a dangerous game to play along with?

It is hard to see why people claim that it was the Great One himself who was the one who had won GE 14 for Pakatan. Not the other way around, that it was the other partners in the coalition that helped him return to power and kick out Ah Jib.

For, for all the vaunted claims of the Great One's personal magic and pulling power, his own party Bersatu, despite contesting the most number of parliamentary seats among the coalition partners, had won only 13! Whereas Anwar's Keadilan and DAP had each won triple the number by comparison despite contesting in fewer seats.

Even Pas's offshoot and mosquito Pakatan partner Amanah had won 11 seats despite contesting in 3 times fewer the number of seats to the Great One's Bersatu!

Perhaps the Great One is a master strategist in the sense that he had used the other partners in the Pakatan coalition to kick out his one time protege Ah Jib whom he calls a kleptocrat and to return to power. But not a master strategist when it comes to countering the Pas and dUMno's narrative of race and religion and the fear mongering.

In fact, the Great One is fast becoming a liability to the Pakatan coalition instead of its strength.

Mahathir needs to step down gracefully and pass the baton to Anwar now rather than later (or not at all) to give Pakatan a new direction that will help convince the people to stay with the new government.

Or the nation be damned.