Sunday, August 22, 2021

Meep, Meep (DPP)

Watching the opposition parties going up against the DPP is reminding me more and more of the Road Runner cartoon where the hapless Wile E. Coyote is forever trying to best the Road Runner, but constantly failing. 

His dogged persistence is to be admired, but he is clearly up against a superior intellect, coupled with which the Road Runner seems to have luck on its side. 

The other thing Wile E. keeps doing is trying the same thing over and over, and failing over and over, and in most attempts he ends up falling a huge distance off a mountain or smashing face first into a rock and getting badly hurt in the process.

Take the latest from Mr Wannabe who has suggested the government offer 1,000 Afghan women asylum in Taiwan. Why just women, you ask? So did I, and I’m still a little puzzled.

This had my own ‘woman’ with her claws firmly embedded in a slowly revolving ceiling fan yesterday, and was only tempted down later in the day by the promise of an out-of-season Hot Pot. 

My best guess is that somewhere in his addled brain is the idea that women in Afghanistan will suffer under the Taliban regime, which is a correct assumption. Ah-ha, he thinks, this will go down well with the voters as I’m championing women’s rights and suggesting saving 1,000 of them, that will make me look good.

Particularly as he won’t have to be the one arranging for EVA Air flight to a chaotic Kabul airport where shots are being fired and and chose 1000 women from the panicked masses, presumably only with girl children and who are willing to be separated from sons and husbands, and bring them back to Taiwan. I’m assuming there would be a second flight with fully armed Taiwanese soldiers to help make all this happen.  

Or to go to another country who has offered to take in Afghan refugees and separate women from husbands and sons, get them all in one place and fly them back here. 

Oh yes, let’s bring 1,000 frightened women to Taiwan where they don’t speak the language and won’t have the support of a husband or male family members. Does he think Afghans are like chicks in the hands of a chicken sexer where males are tossed in one box and females in another. If nothing else it displays a massive lack of respect for Afghan women, and women in general come to that, to think they will just walk away from husbands and sons to save themselves.  

It is a Wile E. moment where what he thought was a good idea, is in fact a spectacularly stupid one and he has just run off a cliff. How could he not think this through for just one minute and see it is all but impossible to achieve. No, the first thought is ‘I can score a political point’ The stupidity of it leaves me speechless, and unless the opposition gets its collective brain into gear they will continue to let the DPP have an easy ride. 

A similar thing is the TMD pathetically pointing out that the policy of asking only families to gather for meals is flawed. How, they ask, can you police that friends and not family will attend. Answer, you can’t, and it is a guideline they hope people will follow. It’s happening all over the world and many Covid policies are unenforceable and rely on the majority of the public to do the right thing. Taiwan is no different in that regard. 

This is obvious to everyone but the TMD, I guess, who will pick on the tiny issues because overall the government is doing such a good job they find it difficult to criticise. I feel sorry for them as it is tough, but they surely need to sharpen up their act and start thinking more analytically if they want the majority to start taking them seriously.      

One of the other issues with the TMD is that Ko is a budding Autocrat, which you can tell by the way he talks about “rooting out” Covid carriers and “closing the doors and beating the dogs” that he thinks he can talk about people without respect. Autocrats typically don’t think much of the general population over which they have power. He may say it was just a figure of speech, but his almost total lack of political acumen shines through at times like these. A sensible politician would choose their words more carefully and never refer to Covid victims as “dogs.” 

Ko’s constant trashing of the domestically produced vaccine is also worrying. Why would someone with supposedly the county’s best interests at heart be so down on something he has zero involvement in. He sets himself up as an expert, but he’s not, he’s a specialist in one medical field. He says he is a scientist, he isn’t, and he is certainly not an epidemiologist, nor an expert on public health. It’s all smoke and mirrors, and frankly, bullshit. Worryingly, some people are actually taken in by his self-aggrandisement.

But as long as he and the other opposition parties keep making themselves look ridiculous, or dangerously inept, they will keep running full-tilt off cliffs, or face-first into large rocks...long may it continue.  

 Tinkerty tonk...


看著台灣反對黨與執政黨對抗,讓我越來越想起《威利狼與嗶嗶鳥》(The Road Runner) 那部卡通片,其中不幸的威力狼永遠在試圖擊敗嗶嗶鳥,卻不斷失敗。

威力狼頑強的毅力值得欽佩,但他顯然沒有超群的智力,加上運氣也似乎總是站在嗶嗶鳥這邊。

威力狼一遍又一遍地嘗試同樣的事情,然後一次又一次地失敗。在大多數的例子裡,他都是從懸崖上墜落,直直頭先落地撞上岩石滿臉豆花,當然在這個過程中他總是滿身是傷。

以 Mr Wannabe 肖想先生為例,他最近建議台灣接納 1,000 名阿富汗女性難民。你應該會問,為什麼只有女性?我也是,而且我真的有點疑惑。

如果我以那些人的心態來說話,「我的女人」聽到他這樣說的時候,立刻又怒不可遏衝上天花板黏在緩慢旋轉的吊扇上了,直到我說我們還有一包不合時令的冷凍麻辣鍋可以當晚餐,才把她引誘下來。

我合理猜測,在他迷迷糊糊的大腦裡某個角落有這麼一個念頭,就是阿富汗的婦女將在塔利班政權下受苦,這是正確的。啊哈,他興奮地想,這將會受到選民的歡迎,因為我支持女性權利並建議拯救其中的 1,000 人,這會讓我看起來很棒。

當然很棒,特別是他不必安排長榮航空飛往子彈亂飛混亂的喀布爾機場,從恐慌的群眾中挑選 1,000 名婦女,這只有女童,還有願意與兒子和丈夫分開的已婚婦女,然後把他們帶回台灣。我假設會有全副武裝的台灣士兵進行第二次任務,才能拯救1,000 名阿富汗女性。

再不然台灣必須去另一個已經接納阿富汗難民的國家,把婦女與男性家人分開,把她們全部集中在一個地方,然後再把她們載回台灣。

哦,是的,讓我們把 1,000 名受驚的阿富汗女性帶到台灣,她們不會說當地語言,不會得到男性家庭成員或是丈夫的支持。請記住,這些是來自阿富汗的女性,其中有許多這輩子出門都必須要有男性家人陪同。

肖想先生是否認為阿富汗人就像那些在養雞場裡等著被挑選性別的小雞,雄性被扔在一個盒子裡,雌性被扔在另一個盒子裡?其他的就先別說了,這顯示對阿富汗婦女甚至所有的女性嚴重缺乏尊重,認為她們會離開家人來拯救自己。

這是一個威力狼時刻,肖想先生認為是個好主意,實際上卻是一個非常愚蠢的主意,於是他就這麼直直地從懸崖邊墜落了。即使花一分鐘思考一下就可以發現這幾乎是不可能實現的,但是他連花一分鐘想一想都辦不到。他的第一個念頭應該是是「此事可以讓我在政治上得分」,這種愚蠢讓我無語。除非反對黨集思廣益,否則他們將繼續讓執政黨一路輕鬆。

類似的例子還有 TMD 可悲地指出,政府打算開放同住家人餐廳內用規定是有問題的。他們提出質疑:你如何能確定他們是家人而不是朋友?答案是沒錯,你不能從表面上分辨,但這是政府希望人們遵循的準則。類似的規範在世界各地發生,許多 Covid 的政策無法強制執行,只能依靠大多數民眾來做正確的事情,台灣在這方面也不例外。

這對每個人來說都是顯而易見的,除了 TMD。我猜他們會選擇小問題來攻擊批評,是因為總體而言政府做得很好,他們發現很難批評。我為他們感到難過,因為這的確很艱難,但如果他們希望大多數人開始認真看待他們,他們一定要聰明點辦事並開始更具分析性地思考問題。

TMD 的另一個問題是黨主席看起來似乎是個初露頭角的獨裁者 (autocrat),這可以從「被我消滅掉」知道感染源的確診者,或是「關門打狗」等等言論中看出端倪,他認為他可以毫不尊重地談論他人,獨裁者通常不會過多考慮在他們權力統治之下的普通民眾。

當然他可能會說這只是一種修辭手法,但是可以很清楚看見他幾乎完全缺乏政治敏銳性。一個明智的政治家會更謹慎地遣詞用句,永遠不會將 Covid 受害者和狗相提並論。

台北市長對台灣國產疫苗的持續輕蔑批評也令人擔憂。為什麼一個寄望坐上全國最高位,理應心存全民最大利益的人,會在他零參與的​​事情上如此輕蔑?他自詡為專家,但他不是,他的專業只是在某一個特定醫學領域。他說他是科學家,他不是。他不是流行病學家,也不是公共衛生專家。

這都是霧裡看花,坦率地說,都是胡說八道。令人擔憂的是,有些人居然被他的自負所吸引。

但只要他和其他反對黨繼續讓自己看起來很可笑,或者無能到一個危險的地步,他們就會繼續全力衝下懸崖,或者頭朝地衝向岩石滿臉豆花……讓我們希望這個情形一直持續下去。

Tinkerty tonk… 掰掰。




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