Shane Wombat's Droppings: Hanging by a Thread...

G'day Possums,

Ever wanted to know what the Last Days of Pompeii or the Roman Empire were like, or the manic reality of the Berlin Bunker?

Well... we're in it.

The current Ruling Rabble have cunningly, I think given real form to Little Johnnies rather ill-defined 80's notion of "relaxed and comfortable".

What was then seen as a nostalgic hankering for the 50's of Ming Menzies but was in fact an artful illusion of the brutalism inherent in Joh Bjelke-Peterson's paternalistic arrogance of "Don't you worry about that....," a place where the Ruling Rabble could be left free to plunder the nation's wealth for their own and donors benefit and then convince enough of us it was really for our benefit.

With a then recognizable and stable future, the nation's "problems" not being excessive and solvable, with the criminality not being made too obvious, it worked for them.

Since Little Johnnie had lost his seat and taking their cue from "The Tea Party" of right-wing Republicans in America because they were intellectually moribund and suffering policy stagnation, "culture wars", union and ABC bashing, personal vilification and wholesale negativity became the apparatus by which they would implement the corporate world's wish-list via the IPA's 100 point plan and they did so with what appeared all the arrogant confidence in the rightness of their "plan".

Except conditions had changed and as things went belly-up, their confidence was seen more clearly as that of the trickster.

Thinking that Rabid-the-Hun had got-away-with bludgeoning the carbon pricing scheme for their allies in the coal and gas business they then suffered a setback when their promise not to touch medibank was shown to be a lie and the mess they made of the NBN to satisfy the business interests of The Ugly American was greeted with the derision it so amply deserved.

They were widely being seen as incredibly incompetent but as they still had the support of most of the press their hubris led them to overdo their parliamentary entitlements, a $30,000.00 airfare there, a "chopper- ride" here, booze bills, fornicating with staff, lying about nationality, forgetting the niceties of public disclosure of "gifts" and pecuniary interests, and attending sports events at public expense happened all too frequently.

People may have thought that Hawke was a narcissist but he was regarded well because he demonstrated that he really loved his country... this Ruling Rabble has, en masse, only shown concern for themselves and their own well-being .......there's nary a one you could point to and say, they love Australia.

In the midst of IPA promoted climate-denialism and the treasonous actions of Barnyard Joyce and others with the Murray-Darling disaster, the farce of spending millions on pointless Cook cruises and statues and private ventures on the Barrier Reef, there's the madness of an hysterical dream playing out as Scummo, Prime Miniature de Jour, happy-claps his way to oblivion and idiotically nominates an ex Labor President for a very, very marginal seat whilst hypocritically telling the real candidate that bullying will get you nowhere.. mate.... which is precisely the way this faux xtian got his.

Relaxed and comfortable yet? This is what a perceived truth is in reality.

As the end draws near for this miserable cabal there are still those who haven't understood their reality as Shadd-uppa-ya-Face O' Dwyer has and is shirking her duty and deserting, like Senator Hume: "The coalition has done more to progress the causes of women in the last five years than I think, any govt, in the last 40 ...."

Really? Like opposing female parliamentary quotas, cutting penalty rates, diminishing maternity leave, buggering the NDIS ...this woman would be more at home in the bunker in Berlin in May '45.

The lies just get bigger and bigger and bigger.