You can almost taste Mayor's desperation

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It was a quiet Sunday morning in the Cat/Squirrel household with both proofreading ahead of this month's book launch...

Then the Cat went berserk.

When this happens I know with around 90 percent certainty who is at the bottom of it…yep, it’s that whacky knockabout dude, the man with a blender in his brain…Mayor Malfunction.

As the end of his reign as Mayor comes to an end, his desperate attempts to remain in the public eye seem to have reached a level where meaningless gibberings now pass off as comment to the media, who are having even more fun than usual baiting him. 

He is a gift of laughter which keeps on giving in terms of entertainment, and he appears to crave attention so badly his next move might well be to strut into the centre of the Taipei Main Station surrounded by his band of girlies… and drop his trousers. It would get attention, and mean nothing…pretty much like most of his antics. 

His latest half-hearted attempt at gaslighting the public he is saying Taiwan’s top epidemiologist doesn’t write his own Facebook posts. An accusation apparently pulled out of his ass with not a shred of evidence. He plays shameless and pathetic political games. The joke is he seems to misguidedly thinks he would make a good leader. 

His other meaningless utterance was “knowledge in the books is one thing, execution is another”. Which is a bit rich coming from someone who has constantly flaunted his paper qualifications from the first day he started campaigning as Mayor back in 2014 and has constantly harped on about ever since. 

So I guess he also means we can ignore Einstein because he never actually executed on any of his theories to prove them.  

I don’t remember any Covid policy moves by him other than to complain about what the Health Minister was doing and failing to put forward viable alternatives. I also seem to remember him standing back and expecting the Government to do everything for him on Covid, and also his second in command actually refusing to pick up the phone when the Health Minister called. 

Is he really now saying he did a good job during Covid? This is gaslighting in the first, second and third degree. He is guilty of nothing ie. doing nothing except carrying out what the Government told him to. 

I have a strong feeling we can soon forget about this buffoon. Once he stops being Mayor the media will be too busy with the new one to bother with him and he, his ragtag party and motley band of followers will wander off into the political sunset…hopefully never to be seen again.

Then maybe some peace can return to the Cat/Squirrel household.     

Tinkerty tonk… 

這是個安靜的星期天早上，本月即將上市的孟買春秋增訂版正在八里淡水河畔進行最後的校對，忽然之間那頭總是衝上去黏在天花板的貓又發瘋了。

這種情況發生時，我大約有 90% 的把握知道是誰在作怪……是的，就是那個奇奇怪怪腦子裡裝著攪拌器的人，故障的市長先生。

隨著他的任期即將結束，他想要讓自己留在公眾視線中的企圖似乎越來越絕望了，絕望到他開始提供媒體毫無意義胡言亂語的評論，而媒體似乎也找樂子般地引誘他開口。

其實他是天上掉下來提供娛樂的禮物，他好像非常渴望受到矚目，他的下一步可能是昂首闊步地進入台北車站的中心，圍繞在他周圍的是那些年輕的女性,，然後他讓他的褲子掉下來引起旁人的注意。但這一切都毫無意義，就像他的大多數滑稽言行一樣，毫無意義。

他繼續對民眾操弄煤氣燈效應(Gaslighting)，影響他們的認知。他今天說台灣頂尖流行病科學家的臉書發文不是自己寫的，這個指控在沒有一絲證據的情況下憑空生出，他以為自己很擅長此類無恥和可悲的政治遊戲。

另一句評論台灣第一名的醫學科學家，毫無意義的話是：書上知識是一回事，實際作戰是一回事。這從他嘴裡說出實在有點厚顏，因為就我所知從 2014 年他開始競選市長的第一天起，他就一直在炫耀他的學歷，並且從那以後還一直在不斷地喋喋不休。

果真如他所說，我們應該可以忽略愛因斯坦，因為他從未真正透過執行他的任何理論來證明它們。

除了不斷抱怨衛福部長的所作所為，卻沒有提出他自己可行的替代方案外，我不記得他採取了任何有建設性的 Covid 政策舉措。我似乎還記得他的副市長在 Covid 期間，拒絕接衛福部長打來電話時。

所以他現在真的是在說他在 Covid 期間什麼都做得很好嗎？這根本就是一級、二級和三級的煤氣燈效應。我不知道他做了什麼，除了一些政府已經在做的事。

我有個強烈的感覺，那就是我們很快就會忘記這個小丑。當他不再是市長，媒體將忙於跟隨新人而無暇顧慮他。而他，他雜亂無章的政黨和追隨者，也將朝政治落日邁進，希望再也見不到他們了。

那個時候，或許貓與松鼠之家，會重獲平靜。

Tinkerty Tonk… 掰掰。