Your favorite (the only?) Deputy Home Minister, slash Cathay conspiracy theorist, Nur Jazlan bin Tan Sri Mohamed is back on Twitter again, with what one might describe as Trumpian levels of both candor and rationale.
Yesterday, he suggested that Hong Kong-based Cathay’s policy of waiving rebooking fees for Malaysian passengers traveling on their airline on the, as of yet, unknown date of the general election, was not just “good marketing” but also part of their “regime change” business plan for 2018.
OK. Kind of a stretch for a commercial airline, no?
The carrier denied it, and simply responded to his Twitter fury saying that their waiving of fees for Malaysian travelers was merely good customer service.
Pro tip: Cathay, when dealing with Twitter-loving politicians, it’s best just to ignore it and hope they type “covfefe” as they fall asleep, phone clutched in hand.
Nur Jazlan, of course, has responded to Cathay’s denial of “regime change” with this:
A quick bit of couch psychology, from a totally unqualified team of non-psychologists:
Wow. A reply from CP – Validation. Cathay, you have heard his cries, you SEE him.
Malaysians should look forward to CNY, Hari Raya, Deepavali and Christmas waivers too and not just a one-off thing – An interesting conflation of holiday celebrations from a breadth of religious and cultural groups, with the country’s general election – a non-religious, non-celebratory day of civic duty. Does that mean that election day is more holiday to the deputy minister, or are holidays a civic duty? Hmmm *bites on pen
What about offers to other voters in other countries during their GEs? – Questioning self-worth. Why me? What makes us special? Defensive, yet inquisitive.
Jokes aside, Malaysian Twitter did not let us down, and responded swiftly to the deputy minister with a fair amount of pointing out that the waiving of fees is especially generous since – unlike every holiday he mentioned – we have no idea when this election is going to happen.
Guys, take it away:
