If you’re looking to get a bet on to pick the date of the next federal election, put your money on it being earlier rather than later. Because nothing sours a politician’s chances like killing babies instead of kissing them. Having utterly bungle-fucked pretty much everything in the Delta phase of Coronapalooza, there’s a diminishing number of things for the Morrijiklian homunculus to fuck up now. But it looks like they’re gonna give it a red hot go and kill an unknown number of adorable little Vegemiters. (Along with their vaccine hesitant, Ivermectin-curious, Facebook-addled grandparents).
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?
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!
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?
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%.
If you have been annointed by News Corp even Richard Pusey will win in a landslide.
Oh man. Yeah.
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.