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Apr 1, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

Brilliant, JB. and yeah being in agreement in CFW...wonders will never cease. The one thing she always wanted was to be Minister for Aged Care, and for all her RWNJ failings she would have made a good one. Which is why she was denied it. Abbott knew she would be a thorn in his side. And then Morrison booted her out of her Ministerial role as soon as he became PM. Her revenge is acute, white hot and accurate, and a delight to watch.

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Apr 1, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

OMG JB! Cunctation! What an amazing word! SO stealing this! :-D

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Apr 1, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

You've summed up our bio hazard in charge beautifully. Great Mrs Lincoln meme.

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"cunctation"? ffs JB!

Fever-headached & confundled, I go to google, start to type "cuntation", & by "cunt" realise it's a classic JB invention, meaning "cunty" haha

Death edges closer as I choke on my herbal tea - I've read the word wrong! omfg hahahaha

Paracetamol, back to bed, read the rest.

Unlike Scummo, CFW didn't wait too long to act, bless her!

True to form he, and Hawke, finally concluded their cuntatious (sorry, I prefer it) drawn out, preselection fuckover last weekend, at the 11th hour before the election must be called. No doubt thinking this was a fait accompli, a Machiavellian manouvre that stymied any further legal challenges.

How fitting that this awesome arrogance handed Connie the perfectly timed opportunity to prove that revenge is indeed a dish best served late, stone cold, and on a skewer.

The "Master manipulator" has (🤞, touch wood) committed his most successful back-stabbing yet! On himself. An accidental reverse hari-kari, with a twist.

After a lifetime of self-service, in all senses of the word, it seems he's finally committed an act of altruism.

(I really hope this is not another fever dream 🤒)

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Apr 1, 2022·edited Apr 1, 2022

I'm loath to admit that Morrison's time in office has made me do something I never thought possible: be nostalgic for the PMship of Anthony John Abbott. Oh how far this country has plunged!

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I listened to Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells deliver her character assessment of the current PM and thought - I reckon she's lifted one of my sprays about the man - it was so good! And comprehensive - and as you say, too, John - you could not really fault or better her conciseness! I noted Scott's condescension and patronising reference to her as merely Connie upset because she'd missed out on preselection. Connie! Not Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Connie! As Ms Higgins was always Brittany. Or Leigh Sales always Leigh. The familiarity is all bullshit! I might have made just a little more out the Senator's attacks on his fraud of a faith because it is not actually christian - it is a cult with a Jesus-cloak - but no action in any way within its structure that is Christ-like. All war and misogyny and fear-and-loathing mongering and divisiveness and punitive actions against these the least - as Jesus saw it. I am not a Christian - let's be clear - but I was raised within a Protestant sect - I can smell a hypocrite at a thousand paces - the Senator had him perfectly tagged (even when she herself found it difficult to see that Jesus himself sat down with the tax-gatherers and the sex-workers and did not run from them - nor the Mary and Martha's either! Great piece, John. Whither to now for Scott and "Jen and the girls" - Alex Hawke - Holly somebody who thinks him a great guy - is she a Pentecultist too?

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A truly abhorrent human being. Its 1640 hr in Plaguetown so I assume he hasn’t called the election yet? The hard deadline for the half senate must be approching with prescribed times for writs, returns available saturdays so it must get to a point where there is a last day he can call it?

I am terrified that inspite of all the corroption, incompetentence and distain for, you know, people and either due to complicit and compromised media, the influence of medacious oligarchs and exhausted population this kakistocracy will get back in with the support of teal independents that still vote support for the LNP to form a government (maybe without Morrision, like he is the casue rather than a symptom of the problem).

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101% accurate.

In good news, I have learned a new word, "cunctation".

Psst to others -it's not a JBism, it's an actual official word you could use in Scrabble!

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"It's not a lie if you believe it". He borrowed that off Seinfeld I think.

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The poster boy for News Corp, that half man half saint, ScoMo, who rules over us, as he receives government policy from his favourite diety, whilst talking in tongues. It's a novel way to run a country by forming policy whilst ululating. The prosperity gospel budget doesn't apply to the poor and poweless, but its largesse is lavished on the phairsees, money changers and those who, when they read the bible, interpret the words, 'in the begining god created the heavens and the earth', as an endorsement to go ahead and rape, ravish, poison, devastate and debase the earth and the heavens, in a frenzied orgy of mamouth desecration in the pursuit of Mammon. The mammon goes both ways, one to the flow of billions of dollars, of our money, to mega corporations, who should really be obtaining their finances from the lending institusions, like every one else. This results in a trickle of donation dollars flowing back into the bullion vault in the basement of Parakeela. Old Joe's budget emergency could have been avoided, if those behemoths had paid even a little more than the smidgen of tax that they begrudging pay from their far off tax havens.

The smug smile, that's the trade mark of one who only answers to a higher power, will be an image that will be retained till our end, both us and the planet. The Liar from the Shire, and his mortal godfather, Baron Rupert has mustered the full force of the fear and loathing philosophy that has served his tabloids across the planet so well, they will smite the forces of evil with a fervent zeal. The national daily broadsheet, Pravda, will continue to write blatant falsehoods across our fair land. The metro arms of the Hydra, Izvestia, will rampage across its pages unfetered by the the Sword of Damocles, aka, ACMA.

Scroto and his alter ego, the Cronulla gollum, Craig Kelly have asked Scrotomustuses bestie, Tim Stewart, aka, Burnedspy34 to supply the cabal of News Corp staff in the PMO's office, with some really juicy conspiracy theories that will make the Labor Party look like Karl Marx, Charles Manson and The Boston Strangler all rolled into one. The divine Miranda Divine will give us her American version of, that old fox, Tucker Carlson. The old fossil, Alan Jones may even pop up on Sky's nightly hate fest, After Dark.

That's all folks.

I've discovered that home brewed Gin is better that Prozac.

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I loved his line yesterday " We're not just sending prayers to Ukraine. We're sending guns and ammunition " Gold !

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I reckon that you just described the majority of Australians. We get the government we deserve and I'm afraid that, in my workplace at least, stopping the boats was what they wanted. The majority of Australians are dumb, greedy and couldn't give a stuff about refugees. I now think that Albanese will sneak in. I desperately hope that we'll finally stop torturing the Biloela tamils.

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The only good nihilists are those played by Peter Stormare, Flea and that other guy.

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Love this & I love that you know how to use the word bereft in a sentence

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