This is written by that financetwitter guy (Thank you). I have edited and adapted it some.
Babi, Temple & Commissioner – Dumb Recipe To Losing Selangor
February 21st, 2026 by financetwitter
Politics is all about perception, and the public perception now isn’t positive for the Pakatoons. The Pakatoons are perceived as increasingly untrustworthy, r@cist, radical, double-faced, double-standard, hypocritical and worse – even @nti-Chinese and @nti-Indian. That’s really bad for their alliance, which depends on ethnic Chinese and Indian votes.
Shortly after taking office MGR's approval rating was 68%. Even then, Pakatoon won only 82 seats in the 222-seat parliament, insufficient to form a simple-majority on its own. They were 27% short of the 112 seats to form a simple majority.
A year later, his ratings dropped to 50% in 2023. Then plunged to 33% before climbing to 46% by the end of 2025, but remains below the 50% halfway point.
The cost of living, corruption, expansion of SST, tax refunds delay, new electricity tariff structure, inflation, job opportunities, and ethnic rights were some of the dissatisfactions with MGR's performance. If another survey is to be done now, chances are his approval rating would have dropped again due to three new factors – babi farming, Hindu temples and the Commissioner issue.
It’s not hard to see how the babi farming crisis in Selangor, the most developed state and the crown jewel of MGR's own political party, would cost Pakatoon so many Chinese votes that its component parties could lose the state in the next election. Phasing out all babi farms in the state will be disaster at the polls.
Sure, hardcore supporters could argue whilst foaming at the mouth that the total ban on babi farming was due to environmental issues. But what about chicken farms? Ahh, non-Malays eat pork, whilst chicken do not stand a chance against all the races combined.
It doesn’t matter that Selangor is cracking down on babi farming under the pretext of complying with 'decree'. The Chinese community knows only one thing – even the previous "racist" BN gomen did not end babi farming in the state.
The state gomen simply cannot explain satisfactorily why after decades of babi farming, it has become a toxic issue now. At best, the gomen was deep frying Chinese dietary preferences. At worst, the gomen was working silently behind the scenes to systematically burn to a crisp Chinese culinary choices. It was a salami-cessation agenda.
Either way, the demoralized ethnic Chinese have little incentive to continue voting for the Pakatoons. The developers action party was handed 40 parliamentary seats by 95% of Chinese voters in the 2022 General Election to defend and protect their interests. Yet, under the spineless and c#w@rdly leadership of Loco the Chinese continue to be shoved around.
The fact that Loco had to reassure the community that there would be enough pork to go around for the current Chinese New Year speaks volumes about the Chinese anger. After the party was annihilated in the Sabah polls last year, it is now another calm before the storm which could see a Chinese tsunami hitting the Pakatoons in the Peninsula.
The Chinese, making up 22% of the country’s 34 million population, sent 40 party MPs to the Parliament not to play with or scratch their nuts. If they choose to keep silent while even Chinese cuisine is affected, then the Chinese voters have no reason to vote exclusively for the party. To teach Pakatoon a lesson the Chinese can vote for MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association), Gerakan, or even the opposition.
As the largest party in the Pakatoon coalition, it’s both pathetic and deplorable that Loco had to beg the community, which his party claims to represent, to believe that there is sufficient pork. If Loco can’t even stop a low-ranking dumbno racist from terrorizing Chinese businesses, what guarantee can he offer that roast pork would be available at every yearly reunion dinner?
Selangor, supposedly a progressive state, could set a bad precedent for other states.
While Selangor state is busy cracking down on babi farms, the federales happily issued an executive order to crack down on Hindu temples. Stating that they will not tolerate the construction of temples or shrines on land that is not legally owned.
Again, like the babi farming issue, the Indian voters will remember it’s the Pakatoons who declared war on the Hindu houses of worship, potentially threatening 687 unauthorized Hindu temples in Selangor alone. Adding salt to the wound, MGR appears to be mocking the Hindus, lecturing them to obey the law when building temples but in reality, the enforcement of law and gomen policies give better treatment to others.
MGR's holier-than-thou lecture is a repeat of how he mocked the Indian community in May 2024, telling them not to be “jealous” of the gomen's double-standard efforts to assist the Bumiputera (Malay and indigenous) community. He bragged about RM100 million allocated for the Indians, but gave away RM2.6 billion for the notorious JAKIM and even RM200 million for Hamas-Palestine.
He claimed that the temple issue was about equal application of the law, not denying religious rights. However, when applications are made for houses of worship for Buddhists, Christians and Hindus, most of the time they meet obstacles.
Rather than tactically relocating decades-old temples, MGR recklessly agreed to demolish them. What a hero. Last year, he provocatively declared “Victory” after he arrogantly bulldozed the construction of that mosque. To make way for the mosque, the 130-year-old temple was forced to be relocated some 50-metres away.
In 2012 the same temple actually applied to convert the land title to that of land reserve for a non-Muslim place of worship, but as expected, the application was rejected. Having been conned by MGR’s dancing for Indian votes, the Hindus will now think twice about voting for Pakatoon.
It was already bad that banning babi farming and demolishing temples has made Chinese and Indians furious. It becomes worse when MGR is fighting tooth and nail to defend his indefensible Commissioner. Despite Bloomberg’s reports of the irregular stock buying and involvement in “corporate mafia”, MGR insisted that the agency is clean.
Even the King disagrees, warning that the agency is on his radar. The matter has sparked displeasure from ethnic Malays, the same community who had abandoned the previous ruling gomen over the infamous 1MDB scandal.
The scandal could blow up, the same way Najib lost power in the May 2018 General Election. MGR shares Najib’s ignorance and arrogance of power. More importantly, MGR's astonishing stubbornness in not suspending the Commissioner has raised suspicion that he is as corrupt as Najib, and creates a perception that he has some dirty laundry in his closet (err..skeletons?)
What is so special about the Commissioner that he enjoys the special privilege of not having to take leave during the investigation into his scandal, but other heads of agencies must? Every Tom, Dick and Harry can predict the outcome of the so-called special committee.
The distrust in the committee has led to a public protest on February 15, calling for the arrest of the Commissioner. The demonstration was the biggest since Malaysians rallied to demand action against Israel over the Gaza war in October.
With the Malays, Chinese and Indians stacked against the Pakatoons, it’s not hard to predict that they will lose Selangor. It’s worth noting that the coalition already lost 11 seats in the 2023 Selangor state election, winning only 34 seats from 45 previously. A swing of 17.8% Malay votes saw the Pakatoon's popular vote plunge to 1,621,820 votes in 2023.
And MGR's party was the biggest loser, losing 9 seats to the opposition Perikatan Nasional coalition. In the next election, a swing of only 10% could see the Pakatoons losing at least 10 more seats in Selangor – effectively sending them to the opposition. Clearly, you don’t need so many disgruntled Chinese or Indians to boycott Pakatoon.
No amount of censorship by Goebbels to block critical websites would help reverse the protest votes. Its too late. MGR and Loco have done a marvelous job in making the Chinese and Indians super angry. The worst part is Pakatoon is still in denial even after it was wiped out in Sabah.
My Comments:
Time is their greatest enemy. The more time passes the more they screw up. And the less time left until the next elections the more they will panic. And fumble. And bungle.
Lets see what the cat drags in tomorrow.











