The First Wave…

Shane with election results

G’day Petals,

“Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves, with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "internal wave train".”… (Wicki)

I believe Victorians have this past weekend, just experienced “the first wave.” and unless an unlikely turnaround occurs very quickly in the culture of The Ruling Rabble a Tsunami on a scale rarely seen is likely to swamp the entire nation next May.

Has a Ruling Rabble campaign ever been so sloppy, so full of gaffes, faux pas, misstatements, dirty pool and outright lies and dodgy robo-calls?

Shadow ministers failing to “front” media opportunities, candidates not understanding their supposed policy's, unseemly point-scoring, inappropriate politicisation of tragedy, dog-whistling and race-baiting and the now standard right-wing religious assaults on gender issues it was apparent that things were not well in the ruling rabble cabal.

 

Entrance

It has been alleged that The Ruling rabble were so desperate for people to hand out “how-to-vote” cards at pre-poll stations that students were being offered $20.00 p.h. “brown-envelope-cash-in-hand” to cover what volunteers normally assist with and that students in Indonesia were employed to produce “attack-ad” videos, all of which which gives a flavour of a 1945 Fuhrer-Bunker mentality prevailing.

Party President Mick, Bruiser Kroger managed to set off brush fires whenever his pugnacious presence ventured too far from his native tribal areas of a merchant bank or Toorak and he was the butt of some very entertaining television when Ruling Rabble ex-premier, Bully-Boy , Foot-in-Mouth Kennett publicly told him on election night to resign by midnight over the electoral debacle unfolding.

I might add Petals, that it is Kennett’s disastrous reign and wholesale selling off of the state from1992-99 from which Victorian infrastructure is still recovering and which makes his call on Kroger all the more piquant.

 

Entrance

Kroger for his part is unrepentant of his divisive presidency, the fiscal malfunctions and his promotion of ultra right-wing religious nutters to control essential committees at the expense of a more balanced centrist policy. He also arrogantly thinks that Victorian voters “got-it-wrong” on election day and in the company of some of his deluded federal colleagues sees nothing wrong in the direction his party is travelling in.

Federal Ruling Rabble Money-lender, Fictions Frydenberg oddly, and perversely persisted that there was nothing in the federal Ruling Rabble civil war that had an effect on the Victorian result and that Potato-Head Dutton’s race-baiting wasn’t a factor, that neither was the loss of Truffles to the factional assassin’s knives or that his replacement turning into a Trump-Lite fake in the incompetent Scummo Morrison was not a problem either.

And of course, a Ruling Rabble branch in NSW wanting Truffles ritually de-frocked is an indication of sanity prevailing, isn’t it?

Sarah Henderson (federal, Corangamite) opining on the fact that only five women remain in the state parliamentary branch said that if people wanted more women in the Ruling Rabble then Labor members should vote for her!

This quaintly bizarre political notion was possibly induced by her utter distraction at her parlous electoral margin of 0.3% ....meaning she is “gone” as soon as the polling booths open!

Tommy Silly-Boy, Switzer (Centre for Independent Studies, right-wing echo chamber) and Danny Pussy, Wild (IPA propagandist) both ranted their penny worth on the shellacking and of course deliberately missed the whole point. A point being, that implemetation of their theories have caused this  reversal.

People rejected trickle down economics. People rejected race-baiting. People rejected Matty Thug Guy’s appropriation of their right wing cant of rampant individualism and “market forces” which have  in the energy market as in education and services, shown not to be in the community interest but against it. That cutting wages, penalty rates and medical services creates dissension not stability.

This is perhaps a seminal moment when people realised that acting in building a positive future for the majority, developing broad based inclusive programs and providing essential infrastructure across the state is preferable to carping criticism, jobs for the boys and wholesale rorting by a select few bankers. That building is better than tearing down, that owning is better than renting, that looking forward is better than seeking the past, acceptance  better than rejection and collegiality is more productive than divisive fear-mongering.

Some zoologists think that some animal species have an ability to sense subsonic Rayleigh waves from an earthquake or a tsunami heralding its arrival. …. it is fairly apparent that the Federal Ruling Rabble lack this capacity and talent, too!

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane

Hanging Out to Dry

Being hung out to Dry

G’day Possums,

The centenary of the 1918 Armistice has passed in appropriate solemnity with French President Macron reminding world visitors and particularly the Septic-Tank Pussy-Grabber, Frump that rampant nationalism requires an absence of morals. 

The sort of nationalism backlash-spawned by the end of a war begun for economic and trade dominance, one requiring authoritarian colonialism and abject racism.

Unfortunately this became abundantly clear here in Melbourne when a loose-minded man deliberately crashed a car loaded with gas bottles, set it alight and proceeded to stab at those who came to his assistance or were just bystanders until cornered and eventually shot by police.

With two seriously wounded and one killed, Ruling Rabble state representative in election mode Matty, Thug Guy (who enjoys Lobster with mobsters) and visiting prime miniature du jour, Scummo (in survival mode) both, we hope secretly, “praised the lord” for such a gifted opportunity and repeatedly declared ”..see, see... black gangs, black gangs ...it’s Muslim terrorism. Terrorism I tell you....." fear and loathing, fear and loathing..."it’s all out of control.. we need more punitive measures, bring back the lash"… deport them all.. "it's nothing to do with that tosh called mental health” etc, etc!

Ballan Memorial 1918 Armistice

Sisto Malaspina, the man killed was a well known and liked co-owner of Melbourne’s Pellegrini’s pasta and coffee bistro: an icon of Melbourne living that has been in Bourke St since the 60’s and would have likely been on the blunt end of overt Oz racism as a migrant here, and would probably have demurred from such attentions as Thug and Scummo were delivering, particularly their spectacularly bad taste visit a day later to offer condolences whilst politicising his murder.

What rankled me Petals, was that Scummo in his usual insensitive “in-your-face” advertorial ranting style was praising a man he’d never met, let alone savoured Pellegrini’s food and coffee as I had on countless occasions... and way back, when you could eat in the kitchen at the public trestle tables.

Scummo’s genuine alright, authentic, too.. A genuine, authentic fake!

Warbuton Landscape

Scoring more “own goals”, Scummo unbelievably announced that commercial TV stations could now beam their tawdry home-grown content into New Guinea and other parts of Asia to “spread Australian soft diplomacy” to counter millions of Chinese Renimbi in the South Pacific.

Only five years ago The Ugly American, Murdoch complained that Radio Australia was broadcasting into Asia and that there had been no competitive tender. Tenders were called and the ABC won… but the contract was given by Rabid-the-Hun’s Ruling Rabble to the The Ugly American. Who subsequently ran the service down till after three years it is no more and soft diplomacy is all on the Chinese side!

Warbuton Landscape

Is it co-incidental that The Ugly American was in the process of divorcing Wendy Deng at the time and the Frumps were being warned against associating with her as a possible Chinese spy?

Scummo’s foreign affairs skills being commensurate with his empathy with refugees has Indonesia not “laughing up their sleeves” at us any more ... it's easier on the haberdashery to do it in plain sight. 

Even the dictator on Fiji is having a go, telling SBS journo’s to bugger off!

“But we are an independent nation...” melodramatically thunders Scummo as even the barnacles are leaving the wreck of the sunken SS Ruling Rabble.

Then there was the truncated Truffles fielding what must have been heavily vetted questions on QandA! 

None on why he made such a mess of the NBN, nearly destroyed the ABC, mangled Medicare, prostituted penalty rates / workers rights, decapitated defence manufacturing, eviscerated education, parched the Murray / Darling and promoted climate change deniers?

All they had to ask in different forms, as if he was wanted back, was, “Why are you no longer PM?”

Pathetic.

Have these Ruling Rabble incompetents wrought anything other than destruction to this country?

Warbuton Landscape

The French military casualties in WW1 were 1,385,300 soldiers. We lost, perhaps 70,000.

Why then do we spend five times more on memorials than the French?

Is it because we are so culturally and creatively bereft that glorifying militarism is all that the white-right-wing have to promote as a national identity is harking back to Federation's “White Australia Policy”?

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.

The Authentic Magical Mystery Tour

Shane's Bus

G'day Possums,

We are so lucky in this luckiest of a lucky country. We have been belled oops, bountifully appointed with anointed political officers who are ever ready to make themselves available to meet the people they so blessed to serve.... no matter how far out of sight and/or mind  they really are.

Prime Miniature du Jour, Scummo,  for instance has just completed what could be likened to a truncated Oral Roberts tour to the natives of The Deep North, spreading the word of his prosperity gospel and demonstrating at every moment his genuine suburban authenticity as a counterpoint to the evils of The Red Terror, Hanson's Noe Notion Party.

In the same vein as the late Roberts and using, in lieu, The "I Ching," as my copy of the Bible evaporated many years ago: I opened it at a random page to seek guidance as to Scummo's progress:  Hexagram 39.  Obstruction.  "Difficulties and obstructions throw a man back on himself. While the inferior man seeks to put the blame on other persons, bewailing his fate, the superior man seek the error within himself, and through this introspection the external obstacle becomes for him an occasion for inner enrichment and education."

Window, Footscray.

How serendipitously apt... for remember how Scummo's first pre-selection went "pear shaped"  at 82-8 and was then miraculously reversed:  and how earlier on being sacked from Tourism Australia he is afforded a generous payout, and more recently how his unalloyed support of the besieged Truffles, again, miraculously lands him in the Top-Job?  

Even as Commandant of our regional concentration camps it wasn't Scummo's fault that people were suicidal but Labor's, and it wasn't his fault that all around him were telling lies about the camp's conditions. 

Why, even his rival for the Top-Job, Rabid-the-Hun is on the record as noting these places are a wonderful place  for a holiday!

Spilt Milk or Putting Your Foot in It.

Scummo's  commitment to has flock is such that ever mindful of reaching his people his empty tour bus is over-flown by his RAAF flight so that next morning the bus can be utilized as a temporary pulpit from which to descend and spread the word that salvation is nigh.... as long as you're not LGBTQQIA, Labor, Green, want penalty rates , Medicare, honest banks, a genuine public service, a proper NBN, a funded NDIS not a "kitty" for farmers, a funded CSIRO  and a funded ABC!

 

Another Tourist Train.

Having spent quite some energy lambasting Labor's Willie Shortstuff  traveling all over the country during the past 12 months for his old fashioned Town Hall meet and greets, the Ruling Rabble has decided that actually talking to disparate plebians might provide some advantageous publicity.... but knowing their utter disdain for "the great unwashed" who are not IPA members they will probably go to the central casting bureau they used last election to provide some Types: "working", safety vest, overalls, boots (sans Rolex and manicured nails)  nurse, uniform, just-do-it 1/2 smile, "pensioner": Unlined, semi-attractive, slim (Julie Bishop), "Busy Working Mum" 30-ish, 21/2 children (optional 1/2) middle-class, with small 4WD in mock Georgian house, to attend their vetted meeting with vetted questions and "canned" applause. 

It's happening already Petals:  Sabra Lane today on ABC's nobbled "AM" spent the last 10 minutes of the program sounding like she was reading a prepared set of questions for Ozone-Hole Hunt's (now the deliriously incompetent minister of sickness)  factotum Trenty Zimmerframe, who announced yet another enquiry to further the pretence of caring and looking active, not their usual moribund selves. 

This one is allegedly about sleep patterns for workers . 

Possibly to find a way around penalty rates for shift workers, particularly nurses and "fireys."

Factory, Footscray.

One thing that is certain in all this. It is that The Ruling Rabble's mendacity, cupidity and corruption IS authentic and all fatuous variations on a theme of care for the suburban plight has as much truthfulness as Arbiet Macht Frei had for the souls that passed beneath its falsehood.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

Trick or Treat

Shane driving the Tumbril

G'day Possums,

Well, it's been a fortnight since the Ruling Rabble had its nose bloodied at the  bye-election stoush in Wentworth and, doing what they do best, have scattered off in all directions, each proclaiming "the truth" of their own personal salvation and thereby the world's but really, all in their personal Tricking or Treating they are just doubling-down and digging deeper into the hole to the oblivion they have created for themselves.

Scummo Morrison, Prime Miniature du jour, ever the faithful but insensitive to reality has decided that Tricking a full frontal assault; a tactic that has won him position at other times, was the strategy to employ. Unfortunately a wider public than a pre-selection panel of dubious ken were little impressed with his shilly-shallying over churchmen wanting to have "the right" to sack gay teachers from their schools particularly as it came not long after he offered an apology in parliament to victims of sexual abuse by similar churchmen. Rightly heckled by some of the gathering for his Pentacostalist  hypocrisy in voting against this Royal Commission he had to chagrin and bear it as the RC's originator, Julia Gillard was warmly received by the same congregation and in front of those "xtians" who did most to revile her during her Prime Ministership.

Big Red Gillard having also been presented with her PM portrait had a Treat spending time with parliamentary cleaners and having photographs taken  showing  judgment and grace in only briefly accepting the cynical congratulations of her misogynistic foe, Rabid-the-Hun whom she left like a stranded Goldfish till she was ready for him.

Full moon.

Bronnie Chopper Bishop got her Speakers portrait in parliament house, too…memorialising a life of service to herself and her Ruling Rabble.

Her claims to fame were that she made Kerosene the de rigueur medical treatment for the elderly in nursing homes... which is almost as notable as her overtly biased rulings and throwing only Labor pollies “out of the house” when Speaker!

Chopper’s portrait is rumoured to have bullet-proof glass and to be easily cleaned of spittle.

"We'll go the full course," bellowed Scummo, smugly (...as some wit likened him to the Captain of the Titanic explaining to the passengers that he had only stopped to take on ice...) as more of his crew fell into formation with their Tricks as their life preservers.

Dan, Minister for Everything, Tehan proved he had imbibed Orwell's "1984" by announcing his support of the previous un-education minister, Simple Simon Birmingham's Fatwah of ministerial prerogative in what academics are allowed to research.  Preaching that if it wasn't in "the National Interest" the research wouldn't get a grant and to that end he has instituted a "Ministry of Middle-Class Banality and Truthiness and Relevance."  "We want to make sure that what the academics put forward as part of their research proposals will benefit Australia over the coming years," Mr Tehan said. Research like: "How to Clean Coal for Opera House Sails Advertising", "The Problems Posed by Female Influence in the Liberal Party",  "Ten variations of the Sieg Heil Salute for Young Nationals in The Deep North",  "Are relaxed Gun Laws Just the Shot?" and "Why is, David Loopy, Leyonhjelm?" Research shall be presented in 25 words or less and they shall be no more than two syllables each and in large print without distracting serifs, with explanations and definitions for Senators McDonald, Abetz, Leyonhjelm.... and a picture version, in colour, for The Red Terror, Hanson!

 

Warped View

David, Patterson's Curse, Littleproud  Minister Land-clearing and Sheep Slaughter has provided a perfect demonstration of Ruling Rabble operational tactics by loquaciously reversing the cuts made by his lush  predecessor Barnyard Joyce to live sheep trade operations by  instituting an independent oversight officer who will busily make sure that nothing will change.

 

Warped View 2

Treating, as a result of the Wentworth slaughter, Craig Boozer Laundy and Julia I-Could-Live-On-$40.00-A-Day, Banks have both made offerings to the national discourse.

Boozer has decided that his colleagues are too much in the thrall of geriatric right-wing shock jocks with predilections for London Toilet Trolling and have lost the concept of being a leaders and prefer to be led by the nose to the fringes of relevance.

Their silence was deafening.

I-Could-Live-On-$40.00-A-Day, Banks has decided that the trauma of being bullied by her Ruling Rabble colleagues was so severe that she is considering standing as an independent. Which in other situations might be called masochism. 

If Banks does contest, she will be standing against the woman who engineered her narrow victory with a Chinese language dis-information campaign...

 那會很有趣

 
The Sleep of Reason

Interesting how these two have found their Road to Damascus, redemption as they stare into the abyss...

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.