We are all waiting on this man. We are always waiting on this man. There is a too taut, apprehensive ill temper to everything as we tarry at his convenience. His own satraps and collaborators seem the worst tempered of us all with more of them turning on him every day. Which is fun. Still, everybody just wants it to be over, one way or another, but mostly one way. With him gone.
Remember also Hewsons spectacular fall.? I was in the Hilton foyer with some union mates the evening before. The place was overflowing with the press who all called the election for the Libs. What screwed labor last time was clive Palmer I reckon. My sources reckon that every time we lose a Labor voter the vote goes straight to One Nation or Palmer. This means that the Liberals get it. Also I'm not convinced that Albanese has brand recognition mainly due to him saying SFA for the last three years. People in my sphere seem to be impressed by the bullshit " freedom" cry on PUP. You're far more switched on than I am to these things but I do not trust the Australian electorate to do anything other than what suits their hip pocket.
How is this government even a contender? How is it their popularity ratings are so high? They were incompetent corrupt shits before the last election, the bushfires, plague and all other catastrophes. They sleepwalked through the last three years except when it came to helping their mates. Angus Taylor (HOW is he still in government and not in jail?) is so ideologically committed to coal he's opposing mining companies. Without Murdoch and Palmer, they'd be stuffed, but those insanely rich bastards are backing this corrupt bumbling gits to the hilt. Why are they so worried? It's not like modern-day Labor would dare do anything revolutionary - they will spend all their time cleaning up the Coalition's mess as per and being screamed at by Murdoch shills from every possible media source.
JB twice a week? Bring it on! was my first thought. Second thought was maybe do as many as you see fit. Albo saying he will set up a Royal Commission into Robodebt has put the heart back into me. ICACs are all well and good but a Royal Commission into how Morrison knowingly illegally robodebted over 750 000 ordinary people by targetting any who did casual work? That has to happen. have We need to get him elected, JB.
And you forget. Morrison has god on his side. Be careful. God doesn't muck around. Look what he's doing for the very Christian Vlad Putin against the devil worshipping Slavs!
I realized that I had no idea what the Australian population thought the day they voted John Howard in. I couldn't imagine that he had any chance in the world. So I'm crossing my fingers, but I'm also thinking about moving to Norway, perhaps. Can't stand to be associated with the conniving, amoral grifters any more.
"There is still more than forty percent of the adult population who look at this fucking guy and go, “Hell Yeah! Gimme some more” perhaps the most disheartening sentence I have read this week.
as a yank subscriber, i greatly treasure these looks into the scrummy deets of aussie domestic politics. it's almost heartening, coming from the blighted land that inflicted trump on the world, to see that other countries have to deal with the same gross rich dickhead media capture leading to characters like trump and scomo getting their chance at figureheading for Capital.
Like you JB I see a looming disaster - Labor's small target strategy is a sure way to lose an election to a Coalition-Murdoch Complex that is literally all PR and no substance. All you have to do is talk to an average punter and you realise the collective memory of the Australian electorate is about as long as the last promise of a handout. Wrecker Abbott put the country back 20 years and it's only been downhill from there. Labor will lose this election and we're fucked, because the Godboy from Engadine will take that as divine intervention on his behalf and continue to institute his church's "Health and Wealth (by praying a lot)" doctrine as national policy. Australia will be little-America by 2030, and all that goes along with that - guns, Jesus, broken social safety net, houseless people on every corner, rampant exploitative capitalism far worse than it is today (and it is already shitfucked). The Fucky Country, Scummo-style. Yipeee kai-yay.
The only hope Smugfartz has left is the Invisible Friend who extracted him from the merde last time and who’s being asked for another mercy call. As said IF is currently in Ukraine killing children it’s likely delegated this mission to a lesser angel Demokrashite, which doesn’t know arse from pinion. We’ve been thrown a life vest called Albowho that just spent a year dodging and having cosmetic touchuppery and looks like a meltdown seeking more heat. In the circumstances my big tip is hung parliament in a shitslide. And keep those sitreps of anguish and hope coming Thebetterbirmo. You’re all we have.
Remember also Hewsons spectacular fall.? I was in the Hilton foyer with some union mates the evening before. The place was overflowing with the press who all called the election for the Libs. What screwed labor last time was clive Palmer I reckon. My sources reckon that every time we lose a Labor voter the vote goes straight to One Nation or Palmer. This means that the Liberals get it. Also I'm not convinced that Albanese has brand recognition mainly due to him saying SFA for the last three years. People in my sphere seem to be impressed by the bullshit " freedom" cry on PUP. You're far more switched on than I am to these things but I do not trust the Australian electorate to do anything other than what suits their hip pocket.
How is this government even a contender? How is it their popularity ratings are so high? They were incompetent corrupt shits before the last election, the bushfires, plague and all other catastrophes. They sleepwalked through the last three years except when it came to helping their mates. Angus Taylor (HOW is he still in government and not in jail?) is so ideologically committed to coal he's opposing mining companies. Without Murdoch and Palmer, they'd be stuffed, but those insanely rich bastards are backing this corrupt bumbling gits to the hilt. Why are they so worried? It's not like modern-day Labor would dare do anything revolutionary - they will spend all their time cleaning up the Coalition's mess as per and being screamed at by Murdoch shills from every possible media source.
Deadlines are only an artificial construct anyway.
I totally clicked the unclickable "Yes, JB, I would be all over that like a cheap suit."
JB twice a week? Bring it on! was my first thought. Second thought was maybe do as many as you see fit. Albo saying he will set up a Royal Commission into Robodebt has put the heart back into me. ICACs are all well and good but a Royal Commission into how Morrison knowingly illegally robodebted over 750 000 ordinary people by targetting any who did casual work? That has to happen. have We need to get him elected, JB.
And you forget. Morrison has god on his side. Be careful. God doesn't muck around. Look what he's doing for the very Christian Vlad Putin against the devil worshipping Slavs!
I realized that I had no idea what the Australian population thought the day they voted John Howard in. I couldn't imagine that he had any chance in the world. So I'm crossing my fingers, but I'm also thinking about moving to Norway, perhaps. Can't stand to be associated with the conniving, amoral grifters any more.
"There is still more than forty percent of the adult population who look at this fucking guy and go, “Hell Yeah! Gimme some more” perhaps the most disheartening sentence I have read this week.
I callously clicked "Yes, JB, I would be all over that like a cheap suit", even though I know you have deadlines.
Don't judge me, I'm being no more callous than you when wrote,
"...right up until the moment we all got trapped in that toilet at Engadine Maccas for three
years."
which simultaneously traumatised me, and made me laugh out loud,
as a yank subscriber, i greatly treasure these looks into the scrummy deets of aussie domestic politics. it's almost heartening, coming from the blighted land that inflicted trump on the world, to see that other countries have to deal with the same gross rich dickhead media capture leading to characters like trump and scomo getting their chance at figureheading for Capital.
bring on the bi-weekly column!
Where’s the “are you fucking high and can I have some to get me through this shit” box?
Like you JB I see a looming disaster - Labor's small target strategy is a sure way to lose an election to a Coalition-Murdoch Complex that is literally all PR and no substance. All you have to do is talk to an average punter and you realise the collective memory of the Australian electorate is about as long as the last promise of a handout. Wrecker Abbott put the country back 20 years and it's only been downhill from there. Labor will lose this election and we're fucked, because the Godboy from Engadine will take that as divine intervention on his behalf and continue to institute his church's "Health and Wealth (by praying a lot)" doctrine as national policy. Australia will be little-America by 2030, and all that goes along with that - guns, Jesus, broken social safety net, houseless people on every corner, rampant exploitative capitalism far worse than it is today (and it is already shitfucked). The Fucky Country, Scummo-style. Yipeee kai-yay.
The only hope Smugfartz has left is the Invisible Friend who extracted him from the merde last time and who’s being asked for another mercy call. As said IF is currently in Ukraine killing children it’s likely delegated this mission to a lesser angel Demokrashite, which doesn’t know arse from pinion. We’ve been thrown a life vest called Albowho that just spent a year dodging and having cosmetic touchuppery and looks like a meltdown seeking more heat. In the circumstances my big tip is hung parliament in a shitslide. And keep those sitreps of anguish and hope coming Thebetterbirmo. You’re all we have.
You have Morrison, we still have the specter of Trump ghosting about. Good times were had by all, I suppose.