This is what happens when you allow people to believe the lies they tell themselves
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, last night in parliament, as quoted in The Times:
It was with a heavy heart, he declared, that he was choosing not to contest the next election for the party he had stood for all his life. But he had been forced into it by Mr Cachia Caruana, who used his media influence that stretched over 25 years to attack him.
Can you believe this?
The man is so deluded he actually thinks that standing for election was his choice to make. As if the Nationalist Party was going to be mad enough to present him to the electorate on its ticket, and have that electorate tap its temple collectively and say ‘Well, if they chose him again, then their judgement is not to be trusted. Next.’
Pullicino Orlando’s decision not to stand for election coincided with a Malta Today survey which found – as though we needed a survey for this – that he has lost the trust of his constituents, and that the chances of his re-election are practically nonexistent.
Now he’s turned everything about in his mind already.
1. The choice is his.
2. His heart is heavy.
3. Cachia Caruana, and not the Malta Today survey results, forced him to make his choice to bow out, because Cachia Caruana uses his media influence to attack him (what my philosophy teacher would have called a gross non sequitur).
And as usual, he fails to mention that Mrs Pullicino Orlando No. 2 is now firmly engaged with the Labour Party and trying to get Joseph elected prime minister.
Please don’t tell us that wasn’t a consideration, Jeffrey. What were you thinking of, otherwise – you standing for election on the PN ticket, she standing for election on the Labour ticket (or canvassing), then meeting in the kitchen at night to compare notes over a bottle?
U hallina.
I hereby declare that the only person who inspires and informs my criticism and mockery of Pulcinello Orlando is he himself, and he alone.
But you can see the narcissistic thought patterns at work here: “There’s nothing wrong with me. If journalists laugh at me or criticise me, then it’s because they have been deliberately organised to do so. It’s not what they really think about me.”
Sorry, Jeffrey, but it really is what people think about you. The others just want something from you. You know, like Joseph Muscat, and Consuelo Herrera and – why not? – Carmen Camilleri Ciantar.
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Payback time…
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“It was with a heavy heart, he declared, that he was choosing not to contest the next election FOR THE PARTY he had stood for all his life.”
Is Mr. Payback Orlando contesting the general elections for the other party?
Lei, lui, la moglie e l’amante.
Jeffrey forgot to mention that when, some months ago, he visited a few PN clubs in his district to test the waters and seek canvasser support, he received the cold shoulder. This occured before the Malta Today survey.
This is not a case of BAD politics but of BED politics.
I think it’s only natural with us humans who BELIEVED they have been wronged by this man, to wait for the day when they can take revenge.
[Daphne – Really it’s not natural at all, Silvio, or rather, normal. Normal, stable, well-balanced people have a sense of perspective and of proportion and their egos are healthy, not fragile. The really shocking thing about all this, to NORMAL PEOPLE, is that grown men in their 40s and 50s are not too ashamed to say that they have the emotional development of a 13-year-old girl (not even boy). They think that they are justified and expect other people to think they are justified, too. Let’s put it this way: a NORMAL MAN would not stand up in parliament and say that he is going to vote against somebody not because of the issues at hand, but to pay them back. Even a slightly unstable man, who can bear a grudge for so long, would at least have some understanding of how this would make him look to others, and not do it or at least pretend that it was all about the issue at hand. Yes, it was to be expected from Mugliett and Pullicino, but not because they thought they were wronged. It was to be expected because of their personality issues.]
What Pullicino and Mugliett did had to be expected, and I don’t see why Gonzi was so surprised.
Who of us would have acted otherwise?
[Daphne – Practically everyone would have acted otherwise, Silvio. This is abnormal thinking and behaviour we are discussing, a form of paranoia. Now if in your experience most people are paranoid and vengeful, that’s another matter. In my experience, they are not, though I must asy that the peculiarities of this island society seem to have bred a disproportionate number of warped people.]
The action of these two made Franco look just like what he really is, Lots of bark and no bite. It is men like him who are to be despised and not those who stick to their beliefs, come what may.
[Daphne – The other day, Silvio, I pointed you in the direction of a book (I can’t remember which) and synthesised for you the gist of a particularly relevant chapter, all about how ‘to thine own self be true’ is the most abused and misquoted line from Shakespeare, held as the highest principle of behaviour. As the author poined out, Hitler was true to himself, and so was Pol Pot. There is no virtue in being true to yourself, unless you yourself are innately virtuous. With most people, life is a constant struggle between right and wrong. Problems occur where people have been raised in situations of moral relativism, or with their concepts of right and wrong anchored to something they can dump later on in life, like religion. Then right and wrong become a matter of legal and illegal, which is different. You are speaking here of two individuals with moral boundaries that are, to say the least, unusual. If they are your moral boundaries too, then have reason to be worried. This is what is classed, quite categorically and without quibbling, as ignoble behaviour. But yes, I agree – though for different reasons – that no better or different could be expected. And no, unlike the prime minister, I wasn’t in the least surprised.]
Will we now blame Gonzi if he sees that these two pay for what they did?
Will we call it PayBack Time?
[Daphne – I see you really do have problems with these issues I wrote about above, Silvio. When you sacked that employee for stealing, it was not ‘payback’.]
When somebody takes action against someone for robbing him, most of the time he knows perfectly well that he won’t be getting back what was stolen.
He doesn’t do it to reform the thief and make him change his ways, unless, of course if one is not some kind of Dun Gorg.
So tell me, what does he do it for?
[Daphne – Because it is the right thing to do.]
With a heavy heart, Jeffrey, I say this to you: “Rot in hell, sewer rat.”
I may be wrong but the time has come for us to stop talking about Franco Debono, JPO and the rest of the back-stabbers.
They are only being given the publicity that they crave and which cannot live without.
Once we have had our say about them what we think of them and seeing through them, we should now stop mentioning them. We could do so again once the date of the elections is announced, otherwise, just ignore the twerps Just my opinion.
I get the feeling that if Joseph Muscat gets into government, we will have a nightclub in Mistra.
It probably is one of the compromises that will have to be done by environmentalists in Malta in order to achieve a socialist economic growth and provide a work guarantee to the young generation.
Not exactly. Pulcinello and his clique will have the nightclub, but we will certainly have a nightmare.
JPO has been meeting with Joseph Muscat for a long time socially. And at social meetings, you can talk business.
Mhux se jikkontesta l-elezzjoni li jmiss ghax jaf li m’ghandux cans jerga’ jitla’.
Allura qed jipprova jkisser dak li ma jistax ikollu, bit-tama li subajh (jew xi haga ohra) se jkun qed ibillu fil-parlament xorta wahda, anke jekk b’mod indirett.
A lot has been said about the PN’s failure to weed out people like JPO, Jesmond Mugliett and Franco Debono from its candidate list.
I suppose one claim that this is said with the wisdom of hindsight.
What we forget is that our political system, particularly the fact that we vote for individual candidates rather than for a party list, attracts these kind of people like moths to a bright light.
Many of them choose the party they contest for rarely on principle but rather on convenience or because of personal connections or family political affiliation. This is the sad truth and our political parties have no desire in changing the system.
We will therefore have to accept that we will always be saddled with inept and self-centered MPs.