By GHK Lall- After five years, the vice president still has to carry the entire PPP machinery. Take Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo out of the PPP machinery and it is scrap iron, junkyard material, regardless of its stock of PhDs, and other divinities that are all reek of the rancidness of rustiness. That’s a new one for Guyanese to ponder -the rancidness of rust. It’s the first contradiction of the PPP war machine. There are more of these intriguing existential contradictions, of which only a couple will be mentioned today.
Boss Bharrat went high and then he started to lose altitude, a plane on the way down. The PPP is missing a wing, swinging around. From the heights of “massive” victory to “big” victory all the way down to the shakiness of “outright” victory. Outright has all the power of one seat. It is “outright” alright, with the last five years proving that in parliament and elsewhere. Who needs an additional half seat, though one was had, compliments of another political group and those who dabble in such adventures? Whether massive or big or merely outright, get ready for PPP and BJ contradiction number two.
There is neither time nor interest in what the Carter Center reports. Or anyone else. The margin of victory guarantees such disdain. Reality indicates that that same margin that was once unbeatable, has now withered to a crisis for the PPP. It explains why El Jefe Jagdeo rushes forward to disparage all developments, to confront whatever reveals the poor state of PPP prospects.
The Carter Center said so and so are happening. In turn, Jagdeo let out a full belly snarl: you so and so (expletives deleted). First, it was Mohamed who went from a friend to a fiend. Now, it is the Carter Center that fell in the path of the wrath of the PPP strongman. Challenge and risk reputation. I shall try to be reasonable, and appeal to all thinking Guyanese (those who are still capable) to give the logical a genuine try.
If I am so confident of victory and by margins that extend beyond the page (or spreadsheet, a memory from 2020, if I may), then there is not a whit of care about what the Carter Center, or the EU, or the OAS, or the Chinese, Africans, and Mongolians have to deposit against the PPP account. If I am Dr. Jagdeo (a cold sweat springs), who gives a damn about misuse of State assets. They are mine, so there. Deal with it, bozos. And nothing is gonna change that sweet setup.
And, now that I have worked up a righteous lather, there’s that other one about unfair advantage through denial of access to State media to opposition parties. It is what it is; too bad. Get used to it, interlopers and meddlers. If that sounds like Cheddi and Ramotar and Rohee, collect the prize: a second voter ID. What do the opposition have to say, anyway? The Guyanese people are better off, without having to absorb their bilge, whitewash, and aspirin, on an empty stomach. Now that that entered my mind, get the Minister of Food on the line. Something must be done about hunger in this country. Get to it, but wait until after September 2nd. Or September 22nd
Here is the bottom line that I would have made my own: with victory in the bag, the Carter Center could write and report. There’s no need for any spite (political organization) or any retort. Fancy that two-headed contradiction. Before and forever, the Carter Center was Mother Teresa to the PPP; today it is the Mafia. I’m afraid to ask, but must: American mafia? What happened to the special relationship? Or is the Carter Center that abomination of abominations, a political organization now in the clutches of the Venezuelans. This country has descended into madness, and I know that I have been immunized against that kind of absolute lunacy.
PPP contradiction number three has Big Bhai Bharrat looking low and looking ole. His new favorite Guyanese is a citizen with a national ID card that reads: Doggie. Mi lawd, mi gawd! Is this what Dr. Jagdeo, a former president has deteriorated to, a decline into the doghouse. Careful, bruddah, fleas don’t discriminate, have no regard for power or position or prestige. I gift the VP the first two, and keep the third for myself. Okay, okay, Stabroek News wins. Ah, bad word choice.
The contradiction is this and it’s an ugly, dirty beauty: Bharrat suddenly know and jump on Mr. Doggie, but he is totally ignorant of the existence of the PPP-backed and PPP-protected Live in Guyana. The kings and queens of mudslinging and mudwrestling now pointing to Dr. Doggie and barking woof, woof. What about he? This is not a country; this is a leprosy colony. How the Carter Center could have missed Doggie? Then again, political organizations have their built-in biases.
Man, since I am riding on the wings of a magnificent and unparalleled victory, who could get me to whisper a word about Doggie, the Duke of Alladin aka Azruddin? Or, give a you-know-what about the Carter Center? It’s the shrillness of a man who protests too much. Contradiction number three. Something is rotten in Demerara and the interior and the smell surrounds the PPP (and Jagdeo).
