Yep a big deadly shit sandwich is likely coming our way for the benifit of Scomo & co. When things go pear shaped, I wonder who they'll blame, migrants? young people? the Greens? Double dipping single mothers?
Imho it's already gone pear shaped. 12 people lost their lives yesterday. All the NSW numbers on a straight line upwards trajectory. Not all LNP voters have had the luxury of being vaxxed. The inevitable result of Morrriscumjelkian ideological based criminal negligence is increasing numbers of young adults and kids dying.
I've stopped watching even Vic updates to try to preserve my sanity. I saw 30 seconds of Scummy's presser. Kelly saying access to vax wasn't the issue for low vax rates in Indigenous communities. Blamed it on the invented narrative of "vaccine hesitancy", insisting "take up" was 6 problem!
As an atheist, for once I hope the Xtians are right: that Hell exists do these fkers can burn there for an eternity!
Yeah you are right things are pretty pear shaped. As I work for an India based company, I have seen from my Indian colleagues just how shit things can get, which of course is no consolation to the people here who are dealing with catastrophic events in their lives, which could and should have been avoided. The completely callous approach to our Indigenous neighbours, friends, colleagues and family considering the threat this poses to them has me stupefied with horror-history repeating itself.
I'm wondering if this horror show is defeating us by design. A feature of the Morrison era of LNP LNP shitfuckery is the constant barrage of scandals, cover ups, policy failures, deliberate bastardry, bare-faced easily proved lies, blatant corruption, $billions rorted to buy elections et fucking cetera.
All allowed to pass with zero accountability for those responsible, because the corrupted system starts at the top, and is consistently aided and abetted by a 4th estate run mostly by rich and powerful actions of the Liberal Party, and it's founder's progeny.
The only accurate assessment of the state of our democracy, in technical terms, is that it's well and truly fucked.
Poor Morrison doesn't have a clue about Indigenous communities: 'Sure, you blackfellas can get the jab - it's easy. Just book an appointment with your local GP. If you have any questions, discuss with your doctor.'
I am genuinely terrified due to the amount of propaganda pumping out by various media in Australia that this kakistocracy will manage to get elected AGAIN. I woke up this morning terrified after a nightmare where I and my family caught an even more lethal strain of Sars-CoV-2 than delta. The way our western capitalist system is dealing with corona gives me little confidence that Global Warming will be faced as the threat it is. FRAK.
Your column raises a smile JB, but it's a grimace in the face of unmitigated horror.
John: You've left me no room to try and interject a clever response or add some aspect I think missing - you have absolutely nailed it totally this week. This is too serious, now. So what can I do - Oh, I know...(In the Kindle way of things I can tell you that I am 39% of my way through one of THE great dystopian novels - it's called FAIL STATE. I followed your offer last week. You are setting up a number of groups in regions of the US - several of which are - to a degree - known to me. I see the landscape, I know the mountains or the other features - even to the commonality of names to those parts - and in one group I though that the "voice" of a character seemed familiar - and by George that meant you had captured perfectly the idiom of the others - as a variety of US English. Very, very impressive JB. So - it's filmic and believable - language is honest, polite, raw - right across the spectrum. And the characters themselves so damned flawed and uncertain and macho and not - and like little bits of me in them all - or how I might wish I could be - or not!
I am unsure whether to close up shop right now and head to the hills (that was my childhood fundamentalist vision of the last days) or to take a beetroot bath (which I throw in because a cousin of mine is doing just that as a help to beetroot farmers while drawing attention to workplace bullying through which he has so far come - thank goodness - because he is one of the finer human beings I have known). John: congratulations!
Yeah, seen the above up close and personal. It sucks. Everyone I know has had Corona, except for those lucky few who got vaccinated early and dodged the bullet. Gotta say, I've never been sicker. Get vaccinated ASAP.
I was thinking about this. Personally I suspect the politics of COVID 19 is about to get hard and personal. I had heard that the ALP% of the vote has hit 40 something percent in the latest newspoll. Slomo doesn't want this to become entrenched. So he is using anything that can help him be seen as bringing the country back to normal.
I get the feeling that the general public is getting worn out by "we are all in this together" and anything that can get people back to work or the shops and opens up boarders is going to sway the votes. This should not be this way.. if Gladys Berejiklian had gone for the short sharp lockdown that Qld and SA have had it might have been all done and dusted.
The word I have heard is that Jobkeeper and the increased rate of jobseeker isn't coming back because these made it easier for state premiers to lockdown their economies. Which would have been fine if the pandemic was all over. Except it's not...
We are now dealing with a more virulent form of the virus. One that knocks off children and young people off the perch and can lead to long term health issues. I am not sure if Smoko will bring on an early election. Not with Sydney and Melbourne being in lockdown til probably October. I was thinking he would go in May with an election budget sweetening things up. I might be wrong though.
Thanks JB, you always cut through to a place where human decency hides. Looking forward, with our last remnants aboard the stolen Boaty McBoatface, Morrijiklian hominculus the at the helm, throwing virus addled kiddies overboard, missing the icebergs that melted long ago.
A little optimism that the world might be that rational momentarily brightened my day.
But can't help backsliding into wondering three things:
1. Is anyone in politics in Australia today capable of such a sophisticated analysis as "dead children are bad, we must avoid any fallout"?
2. Is there sufficient ability to reflect on the consequences of actions so as to result in reflecting that consequences might be (i) bad and (ii) blamed on the Feds? As opposed to the business as usual, 'how dare you criticise us' followed by 'it was the fault of X' when it dawns on them that what happened actually was a Bad Thing.
3. Will sufficient Australians, when actually holding their Official Pencil, actually punish the Government for dead children given (i) it will turn out that a small boy did it and ran away (ii) Murdoch's flying monkeys have promised the Danbotpocalypse if they do not vote in the 'correct' manner?
I remain gobsmacked that anyone thinks one in five people vaccinated, let alone the actual one in three-four figure, is anything special. The Measles target FWIW is 95%.
Update: Keep an eye peeled on Cuba, as is first country to start vaccinating child cohort - unfortunately Cuba hasn't the access to developed world's Rolls Royce vaccines though.
Great piece JB.
How good is burying children!
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he tried this or a similar slogan.
Yep a big deadly shit sandwich is likely coming our way for the benifit of Scomo & co. When things go pear shaped, I wonder who they'll blame, migrants? young people? the Greens? Double dipping single mothers?
Imho it's already gone pear shaped. 12 people lost their lives yesterday. All the NSW numbers on a straight line upwards trajectory. Not all LNP voters have had the luxury of being vaxxed. The inevitable result of Morrriscumjelkian ideological based criminal negligence is increasing numbers of young adults and kids dying.
I've stopped watching even Vic updates to try to preserve my sanity. I saw 30 seconds of Scummy's presser. Kelly saying access to vax wasn't the issue for low vax rates in Indigenous communities. Blamed it on the invented narrative of "vaccine hesitancy", insisting "take up" was 6 problem!
As an atheist, for once I hope the Xtians are right: that Hell exists do these fkers can burn there for an eternity!
Yeah you are right things are pretty pear shaped. As I work for an India based company, I have seen from my Indian colleagues just how shit things can get, which of course is no consolation to the people here who are dealing with catastrophic events in their lives, which could and should have been avoided. The completely callous approach to our Indigenous neighbours, friends, colleagues and family considering the threat this poses to them has me stupefied with horror-history repeating itself.
I'm wondering if this horror show is defeating us by design. A feature of the Morrison era of LNP LNP shitfuckery is the constant barrage of scandals, cover ups, policy failures, deliberate bastardry, bare-faced easily proved lies, blatant corruption, $billions rorted to buy elections et fucking cetera.
All allowed to pass with zero accountability for those responsible, because the corrupted system starts at the top, and is consistently aided and abetted by a 4th estate run mostly by rich and powerful actions of the Liberal Party, and it's founder's progeny.
The only accurate assessment of the state of our democracy, in technical terms, is that it's well and truly fucked.
IWell said, and you managed to both depress me and make chuckle at the same time.
It’s my core competency
Fk autocorrect
*scions not "actions" 🤦🏻♀️
Both work for me!
Poor Morrison doesn't have a clue about Indigenous communities: 'Sure, you blackfellas can get the jab - it's easy. Just book an appointment with your local GP. If you have any questions, discuss with your doctor.'
Sorry, saw that as soon as I pressed Post - replace 'have a clue' with 'give a shit'.
Lol
Funny how that happens
I am genuinely terrified due to the amount of propaganda pumping out by various media in Australia that this kakistocracy will manage to get elected AGAIN. I woke up this morning terrified after a nightmare where I and my family caught an even more lethal strain of Sars-CoV-2 than delta. The way our western capitalist system is dealing with corona gives me little confidence that Global Warming will be faced as the threat it is. FRAK.
Your column raises a smile JB, but it's a grimace in the face of unmitigated horror.
John: You've left me no room to try and interject a clever response or add some aspect I think missing - you have absolutely nailed it totally this week. This is too serious, now. So what can I do - Oh, I know...(In the Kindle way of things I can tell you that I am 39% of my way through one of THE great dystopian novels - it's called FAIL STATE. I followed your offer last week. You are setting up a number of groups in regions of the US - several of which are - to a degree - known to me. I see the landscape, I know the mountains or the other features - even to the commonality of names to those parts - and in one group I though that the "voice" of a character seemed familiar - and by George that meant you had captured perfectly the idiom of the others - as a variety of US English. Very, very impressive JB. So - it's filmic and believable - language is honest, polite, raw - right across the spectrum. And the characters themselves so damned flawed and uncertain and macho and not - and like little bits of me in them all - or how I might wish I could be - or not!
I am unsure whether to close up shop right now and head to the hills (that was my childhood fundamentalist vision of the last days) or to take a beetroot bath (which I throw in because a cousin of mine is doing just that as a help to beetroot farmers while drawing attention to workplace bullying through which he has so far come - thank goodness - because he is one of the finer human beings I have known). John: congratulations!
"I thought that the "voice" of a character seemed familiar (OZ) - and by George...etc"
Yeah, seen the above up close and personal. It sucks. Everyone I know has had Corona, except for those lucky few who got vaccinated early and dodged the bullet. Gotta say, I've never been sicker. Get vaccinated ASAP.
I was thinking about this. Personally I suspect the politics of COVID 19 is about to get hard and personal. I had heard that the ALP% of the vote has hit 40 something percent in the latest newspoll. Slomo doesn't want this to become entrenched. So he is using anything that can help him be seen as bringing the country back to normal.
I get the feeling that the general public is getting worn out by "we are all in this together" and anything that can get people back to work or the shops and opens up boarders is going to sway the votes. This should not be this way.. if Gladys Berejiklian had gone for the short sharp lockdown that Qld and SA have had it might have been all done and dusted.
The word I have heard is that Jobkeeper and the increased rate of jobseeker isn't coming back because these made it easier for state premiers to lockdown their economies. Which would have been fine if the pandemic was all over. Except it's not...
We are now dealing with a more virulent form of the virus. One that knocks off children and young people off the perch and can lead to long term health issues. I am not sure if Smoko will bring on an early election. Not with Sydney and Melbourne being in lockdown til probably October. I was thinking he would go in May with an election budget sweetening things up. I might be wrong though.
Thanks JB, you always cut through to a place where human decency hides. Looking forward, with our last remnants aboard the stolen Boaty McBoatface, Morrijiklian hominculus the at the helm, throwing virus addled kiddies overboard, missing the icebergs that melted long ago.
A little optimism that the world might be that rational momentarily brightened my day.
But can't help backsliding into wondering three things:
1. Is anyone in politics in Australia today capable of such a sophisticated analysis as "dead children are bad, we must avoid any fallout"?
2. Is there sufficient ability to reflect on the consequences of actions so as to result in reflecting that consequences might be (i) bad and (ii) blamed on the Feds? As opposed to the business as usual, 'how dare you criticise us' followed by 'it was the fault of X' when it dawns on them that what happened actually was a Bad Thing.
3. Will sufficient Australians, when actually holding their Official Pencil, actually punish the Government for dead children given (i) it will turn out that a small boy did it and ran away (ii) Murdoch's flying monkeys have promised the Danbotpocalypse if they do not vote in the 'correct' manner?
I remain gobsmacked that anyone thinks one in five people vaccinated, let alone the actual one in three-four figure, is anything special. The Measles target FWIW is 95%.
If you have been annointed by News Corp even Richard Pusey will win in a landslide.
Update: Keep an eye peeled on Cuba, as is first country to start vaccinating child cohort - unfortunately Cuba hasn't the access to developed world's Rolls Royce vaccines though.
If it helps. KarlettaA, i don't think you're going to die from covid.