Not to borrow from our accursed American cousins, but I’m going to miss Barnaby Joyce when he’s gone, so I’d like to give thanks, while he’s still with us, for all the years of entertainment he’s provided.
I met the Bananaby shortly after he was elected to the Senate and have to say I was impressed. He was svelt, bright-eyed, eloquent and interesting. I happened to be studying a Masters in Sustainability at the time, and when I brought up climate change and renewable energy technologies there were no denials of the science, nor even an uncomfortable twitch around the eyes suggesting he thought my rhetoric to be nonsense. Quite to the contrary he engaged with the topic enthusiastically.
Flash forward to today and what do we see: a bitter, corpulent man with an obvious drinking problem who openly denies the scientifically obvious and delights in spewing only bile and vitriol towards anyone who disagrees with him about anything. A sell-out to mining interests, a betrayer of his farming constituency. A man so twisted by Federal politics that he is basically unrecognisable when side by side with my memory of him 18 years ago. A man who has clearly given up on achieving anything of worth beyond enriching himself. A fallen man.
Fuck off to One Nation, Bananaby, complete your demise. Go hang out with Mal Roberts and howl at the moon, you sad POS.
PS Who the fuck wastes high quality steak by cooking it in a sandwich press? Doesn't Pauline have a residence where she could presumably grill, fry or BBQ it appropriately? What was the point of carrying out the stunt in the Senate kitchenette?
Also, who has bloody pasta salad with a steak? That's to be had with chicken. No roasted parsnip or crispy cottage fries, no garlic sauteed mushrooms, no lightly steamed asparagus or broccolini, not even a skerrick of horseradish cream or hot English mustard... Pauline has no clue how to do a high quality steak properly. For shame!
Look, if you cook it on the sanwitch press, it comes just as good as that soo viday thingy. Cooked all the way through and chewy so you know it's good kwality. It's just as good. It's just as good. Cos we're not fancy.
Watching the Red Rattler pulling on her burqa again was initially like watching a washed up actor playing for one more starring role by auditioning in full drag. Sadly, seeing her triumpant maw as she whipped the thing off for the cameras and prepped Barn some grub felt more like watching a villain daubing the inside of their cell with shit so the screws wouldn't be able find the murder weapon and save the bus load of harp seals.
Although it hurts to say so, with the Beetrooter at her side, I am sure they'll be able to tap into and nurture an even wider audience of ignorance and cultivate it like a political bubo chock full of festering stupidity.
But how long before the Barnaby / Pauline pair explodes in our collective faces, like an unwanted piece of UXO dating from the DMZ?
Anybody with any familiarity with One Nation is how often the current iteration of the party disintegrates into Hanson versus everyone else. Remember the 1998 Queensland state election? 11 people elected for One Nation into Parliament. The same 11 people left the party for one reason or another before the term was over. (Malcolm Roberts is actually an outlier because he's stayed in the tent for at least two terms.)
That's an unspoken rebuke to the innumerable people on the net who say "Pauline for PM" or "She's the one to save the nation". If you can't govern yourself, how can you govern the country?
Ahhh Barnaby. Caaaaaaarp man! Gina’s pet - remember the giant novelty cheque? Never disappoints in disappointing. If you made him up no one would believe you. Pity he’s not fictional.
Take his heroic effort in ruining the APVMA while agriculture minister, cheered on by multinational agricultural chemical companies, a mere footnote in his tale of vanity, incompetence, and chaos.
I almost, I said almost, want to warn Barnaby, that no one, and Ido mean no one (unless they have an IQ OF 70 or less) survives long within the orbit our dear Pauline.
Por-loin gastro politicking, wooing Barnyard in backyard hi steak shenanigans. Two people who've caused a great deal of harm to many. And it continues .....
Do you think Porlean is savvy enough to know the difference? Do you think Bananaboy would be sober enough to care? These people are part of Orstrayan leadership, nonchalant know?
I met the Bananaby shortly after he was elected to the Senate and have to say I was impressed. He was svelt, bright-eyed, eloquent and interesting. I happened to be studying a Masters in Sustainability at the time, and when I brought up climate change and renewable energy technologies there were no denials of the science, nor even an uncomfortable twitch around the eyes suggesting he thought my rhetoric to be nonsense. Quite to the contrary he engaged with the topic enthusiastically.
Flash forward to today and what do we see: a bitter, corpulent man with an obvious drinking problem who openly denies the scientifically obvious and delights in spewing only bile and vitriol towards anyone who disagrees with him about anything. A sell-out to mining interests, a betrayer of his farming constituency. A man so twisted by Federal politics that he is basically unrecognisable when side by side with my memory of him 18 years ago. A man who has clearly given up on achieving anything of worth beyond enriching himself. A fallen man.
Fuck off to One Nation, Bananaby, complete your demise. Go hang out with Mal Roberts and howl at the moon, you sad POS.
PS Who the fuck wastes high quality steak by cooking it in a sandwich press? Doesn't Pauline have a residence where she could presumably grill, fry or BBQ it appropriately? What was the point of carrying out the stunt in the Senate kitchenette?
Also, who has bloody pasta salad with a steak? That's to be had with chicken. No roasted parsnip or crispy cottage fries, no garlic sauteed mushrooms, no lightly steamed asparagus or broccolini, not even a skerrick of horseradish cream or hot English mustard... Pauline has no clue how to do a high quality steak properly. For shame!
Look, if you cook it on the sanwitch press, it comes just as good as that soo viday thingy. Cooked all the way through and chewy so you know it's good kwality. It's just as good. It's just as good. Cos we're not fancy.
Hilarious! I almost took you seriously, then I did a double take at the spelling of "sanwitch"...
I hope they both get catastrophic gastro but like all my other wishes that won’t come true.
Watching the Red Rattler pulling on her burqa again was initially like watching a washed up actor playing for one more starring role by auditioning in full drag. Sadly, seeing her triumpant maw as she whipped the thing off for the cameras and prepped Barn some grub felt more like watching a villain daubing the inside of their cell with shit so the screws wouldn't be able find the murder weapon and save the bus load of harp seals.
Although it hurts to say so, with the Beetrooter at her side, I am sure they'll be able to tap into and nurture an even wider audience of ignorance and cultivate it like a political bubo chock full of festering stupidity.
Man, I hadn't watched that video and now I wish you hadn't either.
Prepared, plated up, and served to us by a master of culinary/literary art.
*chef kiss*
But how long before the Barnaby / Pauline pair explodes in our collective faces, like an unwanted piece of UXO dating from the DMZ?
Anybody with any familiarity with One Nation is how often the current iteration of the party disintegrates into Hanson versus everyone else. Remember the 1998 Queensland state election? 11 people elected for One Nation into Parliament. The same 11 people left the party for one reason or another before the term was over. (Malcolm Roberts is actually an outlier because he's stayed in the tent for at least two terms.)
That's an unspoken rebuke to the innumerable people on the net who say "Pauline for PM" or "She's the one to save the nation". If you can't govern yourself, how can you govern the country?
I’d be much more concerned if they were an item rather than a pair. Bananaby is irresistible to all the ladies, isn’t he?
Turning the steak with a fucking fork? Jesus fuck! That really does not respect the food.
Not only turning it but giving it several pokes to boot. I can hear every chef I ever worked with screaming in rage
Ahhh Barnaby. Caaaaaaarp man! Gina’s pet - remember the giant novelty cheque? Never disappoints in disappointing. If you made him up no one would believe you. Pity he’s not fictional.
Take his heroic effort in ruining the APVMA while agriculture minister, cheered on by multinational agricultural chemical companies, a mere footnote in his tale of vanity, incompetence, and chaos.
Oh god, I really re-alllllllly do not want to watch that video.
exactly my sentiment.
I confess its an unusual response for me to reading a piece describing Australian politicians to find myself hungry.
My usual response is nausea and rage, so something different this week.
I wonder if there were any mushrooms in the meal
We live in hope.
I almost, I said almost, want to warn Barnaby, that no one, and Ido mean no one (unless they have an IQ OF 70 or less) survives long within the orbit our dear Pauline.
Por-loin gastro politicking, wooing Barnyard in backyard hi steak shenanigans. Two people who've caused a great deal of harm to many. And it continues .....
Is there a theme developing in Canberra where politicians with 1950s culinary tastes and ideologies morph into vegetables (beetroot, potato)?
Just a small quibble John. Wagyu ≠Angus. They're different breeds of beef cattle. Otherwise 9/10. I'm stocking up on popcorn today.
You make a good point!
Do you think Porlean is savvy enough to know the difference? Do you think Bananaboy would be sober enough to care? These people are part of Orstrayan leadership, nonchalant know?
nonchalant = doncha
A Well never looked so good after you spew out a burqa with under done meat beetroot and letters after it.
His ever lovng new england would vote for him in a heart beat.
Onp has a bargin, obviously beetrooter will have to compete with latham to be more useless.
The pity you didn't do time review body display of ex