The Simon Says Podcast

Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard, observed in The New Yorker that there is a pronounced shift in the global landscape of dissent where people in more countries are using people's power than at any time in recorded history. The primary challenges to the government today are no longer the armed upheaval, but rather nonviolent mass movements. The former UMNO leader Khairy Jamalud...

This draws us to reference an incident when George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, was commissioned by British Council to write an article on British cookery in 1946, as part of the organisation’s efforts to promote British culture overseas, and subsequently being rejected due to reasons being “it was problematic to write about food in a time of strict rationing.” In ti...

Driven largely by woke ideology (and in this case, siege mentality), cancel culture is a form of modern banishment whereby the loudest voice tries to signal a public boycott based on certain ideas/perspectives. Comedy, a genre that fundamentally pushes boundaries and pokes fun at the status quo by drawing inspiration from familiar and general experiences to communicate, is no foreign to constant a...

Despite the PN17 issued by Bursa Malaysia (signifying the financial distress of a listed company), the Health Minister, Dr. Zaliha Mustafa, has nothing but high praises for Pharmaniaga Logistics Sdn Bhd, which was touted to have 98% KPI performance in its fulfillment. Now, the question is - When are we seeing the reforms that are so promised by the incumbent unity government when we are seeing tre...

The Great Never Trump Hope is finally throwing his boxing gloves into 2024 presidential ring, as how Peter Navarro who served in the Trump White House as manufacturing czar and, during the pandemic, as Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator, would describe Florida’s governor’s, Ron DeSantis, announcement of presidential campaign in Twitter Spaces. The event that “broke the Twitter system” or ho...

Agriculture and food security minister Mohamad Sabu has defended the recent appointments of Pakatan Harapan leaders to statutory bodies under his ministry. The political appointments in federal statutory bodies have drawn strong criticism from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih). "It's an abuse of public office and trust, bordering on hidden corruption, if the government s...

The radical left, fascists, Marxists, communists, and normal people — have said that the CNN town hall was a total complete victory for Trump. Former CNN employee, Brian Stelter noted that the event garnered 703,000 viewers in the 25-54-year-old key demographic – which is five times better than CNN’s usual performance in the 8:00 p.m. time slot. You'd definitely want to tune in to this episode...

On the day Singapore officially separated from Malaysia on 9 August 1965 SUPP Founder and then Chairman Ong Kee Hui made the following remarks in Sarawak Legislature. “…We have the feeling that Malaysia will only succeed, if we have a truly Malaysian Malaysia, where every Malaysian will have his rightful place under the sun … now that Singapore is out of Malaysia, what then is the justification fo...

In this episode, as a continuation to our last episode on big vs small government, we deep dive the concept of federal vs state powers as stated in Malaysia Constitution, Schedule 9. Questions that are answered are: 1. Is the Federal power supreme? 2. Jefferson vs Hamilton in the American model pertaining to federal vs state rights? 3. Should some of the Federal powers come under the state as we m...

Just last Monday, we saw the brazen power play by the Murdoch family with the abrupt departure of Tucker Carlson from the cable TV, Fox News. In this episode, we discuss why is Tucker Carlson important in this tussle with establishment. Do share your comment to simon.says.podcast@protonmail.com Find full episodes of The Simon Says Podcast for free on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

In this episode, we explore the concept of big vs small government. One of a tough questions that will be answered in this episode is that “is it fair to call a big government marxist and totalitarian?” Is it true that as government expands, liberty contracts?

On Feb 24, 2023, the Federal Court ruled that the investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) against Court of Appeal judge Mohd Nazlan Ghazali was done without regard for judicial independence and protocols. In this episode, we discuss our opinion on the involvement of the law minister in this case, and the independence of MACC and judiciary.

In this episode, we discussed contents that were discussed in "Keluar Sekejap" podcast hosted by our special virtual guests, former YB Khairy Jamaluddin and Shahril Hamdan. Three key points that were discussed were: (i) Stability of Unity Government (ii) Redistribution of wealth (iii) Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim - where would he stand in the Political Compass test?

In this podcast episode, we discuss the concept of wokeness which leads to affirmative policies.

In this episode of The Simon Says Podcast, we did The Political Compass test. The result will show where we stand in a quadrant of the matrix - Left, Right, Libertarian, and Authoritarian. Here's the link to the test for you to assess your values if you are leaning towards extremism or moderation - https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Many political pundits have considered Budget 2023 as a "state election budget". In this episode, we discuss if this budget is geared towards countering Green wave and if it's effective to address systemic issues, such as entitlement, victim mentality, and critical race theory.

Our Prime Minister started off his speech with a great diagnosis of the Malaysian economy. However, when we compare it with Tengku Zafrul's budget, it did not seem to differ much. In this episode, we discuss our take on the welfare budget and the lack of reform from a Prime Minister who is supposedly big on reform. Find full episodes of The Simon Says Podcast for free on: Apple Podcasts : https://...

Malaysian politics have always been dominated by Federal Power. With the change in government in GE15, are we finally seeing a fresh wind of change for decentralisation of federal power? Find full episodes of The Simon Says Podcast for free on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simon-says/id1532949645?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04Qhcp6ZrZf3q9CpRiAu3n?si=73f9f3d...

In an era that applauds Artificial Intelligence, are we trading logical thinking away in the name of convenience? A largescale of experiment was carried out worldwide during lockdown, but what if what comes next is an online mind woke virus?

Representative Matt Gaetz became the poster boy in the recent US House Speaker Election. After 15 rounds of voting, consensus was reached when Kevin McCarthy agreed to a whole list of demands by 20 representatives. It set in motion meaningful reforms that essentially make Congress less of a rubber stamping institution but actual ground for healthy policy government discussion, agreement, disagreem...

“The pharmaceutical industry is dangerous to health. Further proof with COVID-19.” reads the title of an article published by NIH, UK. In recent times, we have seen an alarming sharp rise in the sudden collapse of young healthy athletes, so much so that a name is been given to it - “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome”.   Many times in the show, we have talked about developing discernment to navigate...

Much like the frog in a slowly heating pan of water, history has demonstrated that societies often assume the roles of useful idiots when they are quick to ignore a slow descent into autocracy and fascism all for the “greater good”. In this episode, we see the true colours of a tyrannical leader who regards the unvaxxed with disdain, including his own citizens who are being threatened and blamed f...

George Orwell critised the manipulation of citizens by totalitarian regimes in his book “1984”. When the fourth estate failed to hold the present-day government accountable with its evolution into a mere echo chamber of the leftist regime, we see the rise of citizen journalism. For those of you interested to venture into citizen journalism, this is an episode to watch!

Governor DeSantis recently dropped the hammer on the biopharmaceutical medical state when he introduced mRNA accountability hearing. It was nothing short of epic — as he brought in renowned experts like doctors Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and others to testify against Fauci-ism.  Find out in this part 2 of the podcast where we explore the moves that Governor DeSantis takes in offering critical a...

The recent release of Twitter files by billionaire tech mogul, Elon Musk, has had the world dumbfounded by the lies that have been at play. In fact, Twitter was operating a giant political censorship machine applied with brute computer force. If you’re interested in the geeky side of the US political landscape, you won’t want to miss this first part of our podcast.