Y'know the strange thing that no-one seems to be talking about though - Orange Cthulhu is actually just a PUPPET. He has no fucking clue about any of the policies he's enacting, no grasp of subject matter whatsoever. The moron think tariffs are paid by foreign governments!
He's just signing his name to the same self-hating, government-destroying nonsense the Randians/Thatcher-Reaganites/etc have been pursuing since the 1950s. He's a puppet of Bannon's Alt-truth movement, and the RWNJ thinktanks led by the Heritage Foundation, and the end-of-days Doom Cult that is Evangelical Christiany in the United States of Dysphoria. They all envision an isolationist Gilead-style autocracy controlled by Big Money and Big Christianity, and he likes that idea too because he gets to be "Emperor", although one ultimately bereft of any real clothes.
As the dissatisfaction of the general populace skyrockets from these miserably stupid policies - ie. "How to Destroy your Empire in 5 Short Steps" - and any semblance of safety regulation disappears, some time in the next year we'll see either a big, avoidable disaster (probably an exploding pipeline or refinery) that kills hundreds, or a demand from the Naked Emporer that the military invade either Canada or Greenland. That will send millions of average Murican peons onto the streets to protest. And Cthulhu's inevitable response will be National Guardsmen told to fire at will. At that point the future of the US will be decided by the Boomer Generals who still run the actual military and overwhelmingly believe in their duty to the Constitution. If they cave, Dictatorship complete, Gilead on the way. If they don't, precision guided missile into the White House and then who knows what.
I can't believe it's only been 7 1/2 weeks & the orange lunatic & First Felon & his #1 henchman muskolini have turned the world upside down !! How much more can there be? 😳😳😳
Looks like it will be Panama that he is going after.
Said to a mate only a week ago, that I expect China to go after Taiwan in a year or so. I've had to revise that to less than 6 months. The day the US goes into Panama, China will invade Taiwan.
Though China would not be invading - Taiwan is its offshore province. It might be interested in protecting it, however from the warmongering US, though - using it as its own aircraft carrier for menacing China as it does...Anyway we should be using these Trumpian times to ridding ourselves from US bases and drone directing/surveillance facilities here on Australian soil (on First Australians land especially) - and withdrawing from AUKUS and any other unequal treaties/agreements. Yanquí - Go Home! As a retired electricity worker cleared out from Yallourn by the whole privatisation move from 25 years ago suggested we might well be doing soon. Met by the Old Jetty here where I am currently staying - in Coffs Harbour - earlier this afternoon. Both of us marvelling at the circularity of life - having lived long enough to make such observations. I think you are absolutely right about Dutton, JB. He's done his dash with his buddyhood/bromance with Trump.
"a semi-sentient root vegetable that learned to mimic two or three basic human emotions from watching VHS tapes of 1980s action villains"... NAILED IT!!
Well yes...Did you happen to see MCash's glowing support for the Melon Felon? I'm fairly certain its not the vote winner she thinks it is. I mean who the hell looks at what's going down in the US and think, "Hell yeah! Gimme some o' that!"? And on a more scary note, it has been suggested to me that teh Felon's pulling of Biden's security clearance was done for the sole reason that its just possible he's going to want to pull some really bad martial law type crap and he doesn't want Biden spilling the beans before it happens...Food for thought.
Hmm. We in Australia have been watching from a until-recently-safe distance for the past couple of months the fucking upheaval of a place we used to perhaps love to grumble about, but was always just ‘there’ - big and annoying and gun-crazy etc etc - but the source of so much …whatever… (including its own beauty, culture etc.). So us Aussies have had the chance to watch the denial / disbelief ‘stages of grieving’ that the many many good normal Americans have been going through. We have been relatively emotionally insulated (relatively being an important proviso - I cried at the recent last hurrah of the Wharf Revue when they performed their serious song ‘Goodbye America’). My point is that I liked, John, how you described the Canadian response of “full Canadian beaver” mode. Made me think that with the tariffs now hitting us (well, slapping us a little) we can go straight into righteous indignation / pissed off mode, without having to go through the initial messy and numbing stage of grieving of denial. Straight to anger for us, thank you very much. Canada too didn’t have to go much through denial - watching it right across the border and just waiting until the eye of Sauron turned fully onto them.
I’m giving a talk on AUKUS, Australia’s role in the pacific, and the Australian Democrats’ defence policy platform at their national convention tomorrow (tickets are still on sale! Search Australian Democrats on humanitix.com.au).
Even six weeks ago talking about our defence platform, which argues for an independent self defence posture, was an interesting intellectual exercise. And then the last 2 weeks happened 😳
It’s just as well I’m a procrastinator that hadn’t got around to writing my talk until this week since if I’d been more organised and done it early I’d have to toss it out and start again now 😅
Good luck with that! Right now I'd sum up our defence platform as "sitting on a large rock near the ocean staring at a giant tsunami wave on the horizon, but moving rapidly in our direction".
Regardless of treaties and Petater's stance on anything, Australia has the interesting conundrum of China being in control of the Port of Darwin while the USA have the Pine Gap facility.
I note that Trump himself said nothing about the Chinese war-games 500km off-shore from where I live (and same approximate distance from the big Australian naval ammo dump near Twofold Bay), although apparently they'd monitored it. And then they sailed just in international water past the coastline of South Australia (hello, Pine Gap) and WA.
Lots of shirt-fronting going on, I suspect, but whose shirt is it that's about to pop buttons?
My gut feeling is the we're not simply in a US vs China scenario.
Xi is an authoritarian ruler. Trump is staging an emulation. They - and Putin - are carving up the world into spheres of influence and Australia is strategically of interest to both if not all three (let's not forget that Russia has a Pacific sea port).
Yes indeed. Orwell's 3 Superstates are on the way, closely following on the heels of the US Govt switching entirely to Doublethink/Doublespeak. He will soon take the place of Nostradamus as our #1 "Humanity Forecaster."
Still waiting to hear back from my federal representative on the plan if The USA attacked Canada/Greenland and the Canadians or EU attacked the invaders are we required under the ANZUS treaty to come to the defence of the US. I mean morally no, but ethically ..FUCK NO. Still waiting the for big brained policy heads to get back to me on that one.
Hell's bells, I forgot about ANZUS - if war breaks out between Canada and the US are we obliged to help defend the US? Or does the new Trump doctrine of fuck everyone overrule?
Love the rave, as usual, JB. And, also as usual, I fear you're right and hope you're wrong. Nice hat-tip to one of our other great satirists as well, with the ''sporting'' reference ;-)
"Temu Hitler." Perfect.
Y'know the strange thing that no-one seems to be talking about though - Orange Cthulhu is actually just a PUPPET. He has no fucking clue about any of the policies he's enacting, no grasp of subject matter whatsoever. The moron think tariffs are paid by foreign governments!
He's just signing his name to the same self-hating, government-destroying nonsense the Randians/Thatcher-Reaganites/etc have been pursuing since the 1950s. He's a puppet of Bannon's Alt-truth movement, and the RWNJ thinktanks led by the Heritage Foundation, and the end-of-days Doom Cult that is Evangelical Christiany in the United States of Dysphoria. They all envision an isolationist Gilead-style autocracy controlled by Big Money and Big Christianity, and he likes that idea too because he gets to be "Emperor", although one ultimately bereft of any real clothes.
As the dissatisfaction of the general populace skyrockets from these miserably stupid policies - ie. "How to Destroy your Empire in 5 Short Steps" - and any semblance of safety regulation disappears, some time in the next year we'll see either a big, avoidable disaster (probably an exploding pipeline or refinery) that kills hundreds, or a demand from the Naked Emporer that the military invade either Canada or Greenland. That will send millions of average Murican peons onto the streets to protest. And Cthulhu's inevitable response will be National Guardsmen told to fire at will. At that point the future of the US will be decided by the Boomer Generals who still run the actual military and overwhelmingly believe in their duty to the Constitution. If they cave, Dictatorship complete, Gilead on the way. If they don't, precision guided missile into the White House and then who knows what.
We live in interesting times.
Actually, I got a whole 'nother essay coming about this.
I eagerly await it, Cassian.
I can't believe it's only been 7 1/2 weeks & the orange lunatic & First Felon & his #1 henchman muskolini have turned the world upside down !! How much more can there be? 😳😳😳
“Muskolini” oh that’s perfect 😘🤌
I'm quite surprised Trump and Musk haven't had their inevitable falling-out yet.
Unfortunately, lots more! How’s Agenda 25 stacking up so far?
Looks like it will be Panama that he is going after.
Said to a mate only a week ago, that I expect China to go after Taiwan in a year or so. I've had to revise that to less than 6 months. The day the US goes into Panama, China will invade Taiwan.
And the US won't do anything to stop them.
Though China would not be invading - Taiwan is its offshore province. It might be interested in protecting it, however from the warmongering US, though - using it as its own aircraft carrier for menacing China as it does...Anyway we should be using these Trumpian times to ridding ourselves from US bases and drone directing/surveillance facilities here on Australian soil (on First Australians land especially) - and withdrawing from AUKUS and any other unequal treaties/agreements. Yanquí - Go Home! As a retired electricity worker cleared out from Yallourn by the whole privatisation move from 25 years ago suggested we might well be doing soon. Met by the Old Jetty here where I am currently staying - in Coffs Harbour - earlier this afternoon. Both of us marvelling at the circularity of life - having lived long enough to make such observations. I think you are absolutely right about Dutton, JB. He's done his dash with his buddyhood/bromance with Trump.
Yep. They aren’t building these for nothing: https://www.twz.com/sea/our-best-look-yet-at-chinas-new-invasion-barges
Tourist transport, Deano. Heavily armoured tourist transports.
love your metaphors!
"a semi-sentient root vegetable that learned to mimic two or three basic human emotions from watching VHS tapes of 1980s action villains"... NAILED IT!!
Thanks for the cheery, Friday arvo pick-me up....😎
Cant even head up the bowlo anymore to drown my sorrows :(
Temu Hitler is a nice accompaniment to Amy Remeikis’ painting of Spud as Temu Trump. Great minds.
Well yes...Did you happen to see MCash's glowing support for the Melon Felon? I'm fairly certain its not the vote winner she thinks it is. I mean who the hell looks at what's going down in the US and think, "Hell yeah! Gimme some o' that!"? And on a more scary note, it has been suggested to me that teh Felon's pulling of Biden's security clearance was done for the sole reason that its just possible he's going to want to pull some really bad martial law type crap and he doesn't want Biden spilling the beans before it happens...Food for thought.
The single best article I've read on Substack. Better than my work, you effin' bastard - haha
Just imagine being represented on the world stage by a man who resembles nothing so much as a factory-second sex toy.
Good to have the reassurance from our defence minister that we will still get a nuclear sub in 20 years, so no wukkers. Marles is a plonker!!
When it comes to foreign policy, both Liberal and Labor are plonkers.
Hmm. We in Australia have been watching from a until-recently-safe distance for the past couple of months the fucking upheaval of a place we used to perhaps love to grumble about, but was always just ‘there’ - big and annoying and gun-crazy etc etc - but the source of so much …whatever… (including its own beauty, culture etc.). So us Aussies have had the chance to watch the denial / disbelief ‘stages of grieving’ that the many many good normal Americans have been going through. We have been relatively emotionally insulated (relatively being an important proviso - I cried at the recent last hurrah of the Wharf Revue when they performed their serious song ‘Goodbye America’). My point is that I liked, John, how you described the Canadian response of “full Canadian beaver” mode. Made me think that with the tariffs now hitting us (well, slapping us a little) we can go straight into righteous indignation / pissed off mode, without having to go through the initial messy and numbing stage of grieving of denial. Straight to anger for us, thank you very much. Canada too didn’t have to go much through denial - watching it right across the border and just waiting until the eye of Sauron turned fully onto them.
I’m giving a talk on AUKUS, Australia’s role in the pacific, and the Australian Democrats’ defence policy platform at their national convention tomorrow (tickets are still on sale! Search Australian Democrats on humanitix.com.au).
Even six weeks ago talking about our defence platform, which argues for an independent self defence posture, was an interesting intellectual exercise. And then the last 2 weeks happened 😳
It’s just as well I’m a procrastinator that hadn’t got around to writing my talk until this week since if I’d been more organised and done it early I’d have to toss it out and start again now 😅
Good luck with that! Right now I'd sum up our defence platform as "sitting on a large rock near the ocean staring at a giant tsunami wave on the horizon, but moving rapidly in our direction".
Yeah that pretty much sums up AUKUS and the current state of Australian strategic policy 🤷🏼♀️
Regardless of treaties and Petater's stance on anything, Australia has the interesting conundrum of China being in control of the Port of Darwin while the USA have the Pine Gap facility.
I note that Trump himself said nothing about the Chinese war-games 500km off-shore from where I live (and same approximate distance from the big Australian naval ammo dump near Twofold Bay), although apparently they'd monitored it. And then they sailed just in international water past the coastline of South Australia (hello, Pine Gap) and WA.
Lots of shirt-fronting going on, I suspect, but whose shirt is it that's about to pop buttons?
My gut feeling is the we're not simply in a US vs China scenario.
Xi is an authoritarian ruler. Trump is staging an emulation. They - and Putin - are carving up the world into spheres of influence and Australia is strategically of interest to both if not all three (let's not forget that Russia has a Pacific sea port).
Where might they draw the dividing line?
Yes indeed. Orwell's 3 Superstates are on the way, closely following on the heels of the US Govt switching entirely to Doublethink/Doublespeak. He will soon take the place of Nostradamus as our #1 "Humanity Forecaster."
Still waiting to hear back from my federal representative on the plan if The USA attacked Canada/Greenland and the Canadians or EU attacked the invaders are we required under the ANZUS treaty to come to the defence of the US. I mean morally no, but ethically ..FUCK NO. Still waiting the for big brained policy heads to get back to me on that one.
Hell's bells, I forgot about ANZUS - if war breaks out between Canada and the US are we obliged to help defend the US? Or does the new Trump doctrine of fuck everyone overrule?
Love the rave, as usual, JB. And, also as usual, I fear you're right and hope you're wrong. Nice hat-tip to one of our other great satirists as well, with the ''sporting'' reference ;-)