The Awakening

Fascism at bay.

A friend rang on election night and advised not to get too excited. Well, at that early stage The Ruling Rabble-Hellsong-IPA cabal had five seats to Labor's none and I was more concerned the polls were again wrong and a country on the very edge of the abyss was about to fall into a death spiral of a confected neo-liberal, capitalist, Pentecostal theocracy.

An inexorable climb then began in Labor's vote with the Greens and "Teal" Indies also demonstrating that Ruling Rabble bloodletting was the night's sport... and a smiling Anthony Green's, "I can definitely tell you that Craig Kelly will not be the next PM of Australia.", followed by a dour Liberal staffer's, "The wheel's still turning but the Hamster's dead." being the best quips of the night's rout.

Waking and feeling more relaxed than usual on May 22nd, as I was dressing an image manifested: of looking backward down a long, featurelessly grey, smoggy tunnel, a dully dead, lifeless place of no clarity or future. I realised that the end, or rather, the beginning of that tunnel was 2013 and that a real psychic burden had been lifted the previous night. 

London Underground 2015

Seeking to enhance this levity of mood by indulging in a little schadenfreude I decided for once to watch "Insiders." Samantha Maiden's sour, bitterly negative anti-labor mien was on predictable display but it was almost like an "Insiders" of old, with the Liberal Loving apparatchik The Specious One, Speers interrupting less frequently than usual and where discursive analysis took place between Crowe and Murphy instead of the usual recitation of PMO talking points... was it just me or was the mood of that program really lighter and more informative?

Seems not an aberration, as conversations during subsequent days and online comments bore witness to a general lift in people's spirits, ".. people are smiling at each other in the street", "... feel a great weight has been lifted..." "... we know there's a future..."

..but and there's always a but!

The Murdochracy and its ABC fellow travellers like Poesy Probyn, Frantic Kelly, Little Janey Norman, Dickie Willingham, Jeering Jennett, Hissy-Fits Sales and of course The Specious One, Speers have all retreated to their parallel universes, bleating their angst at having three solid years of mis-information and biased reporting count for little that was taken notice of and that their collective egos are bruised for not being seen as the "real" players in this political drama but just second or third rate scribes and commentators of little account.

How could Labor form a legitimate government with only 34% of the vote? 

Poesy Probyn: " Albo isn't appealing to the smart end of the street. He is appealing to the people who clean the street" 

 "Morrison will be fondly remembered" 

"Gone from a candidate to a world leader on 1/3 of the vote" 

" a colourful parliament." (referring to its diversity...)

This Petals, dog help us, is supposed to be the taxpayer funded, Chief Political Reporter for the National Broadcaster!

And on election night Hissy-Fits Sales badgering Tanya Plibersek with "What went wrong with Labor...?" 

"Aahh, we won!" replied, TP.

Annabel Crabb's spitting unseemly venom in the direction of Holmes aCourt about "... billionaires throwing their money around.." because he assisted with the independents. 

Having every news program taken up with Liberal hand-wringing, self justification  and virtual advertising is showing us that the ABC can no longer be assured of the population's trust as an impartial and unbiased reporter and not only needs investigation but that heads should roll from the board through the MD and heads of programming.

Let's not end on the farcical issuing's from the rump of the Ruling Rabble Hellsong-IPA cabal on how wrong / uninformed / blind the electorate is but concentrate instead on how to make a better community now that there is a chance at equality and fairness, and also look forward to the ultimate pleasures of a federal ICAC, where I doubt there is not one of the Rabble who will not be implicated and some possibly jailed for their abuse of public funds.... after their nine years of what...? Just divisiveness and rorting.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane 

The Business of Killing Australia.

G'day fellow victims, How the hell did we get here?....Easy. Federally, a total lack of leadership: corruption from the highest to the lowest levels: sheer incompetence and: a supportive, biased and compliantly Murdochratized and corrupted media. Sounds Trumpian?... you bet!

So the Goya etchings from his Los Caprichos are more than suitable illustrations for our time and more of Shane's colourful transport later. 

Scummo the Liar from Marketing Announcements is still regaling us with his curry photos and now has joined TikTok to distract and groom gullible youth' attempting to influence their vote....he's forgotten calling said platform a Chinese propaganda unit but then he lies so often, even he can't keep up.  Grace Tame nailed him so early in her progress that Scummo-the-Liar decided that the Australian of the Year award had to be more politically controlled' which I think spurred her on to make the best use of her time in the role. A part of which was supporting ex-Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in her quest for justice in pursuing rape charges against another Liberal staffer... no , not the one who masturbated on a female ministers desk... no, not the one inviting prostitutes into parliament... no, not the ones having sex in the parliamentary prayer room (boys will be boys wont they darls...), but the one allegedly with, shall we say, a "reputation" for drink spiking prior to carnal activities? Yes, that one. Scummo the Liar's backgrounding against Higgins probably brought a wry smile to Michael Towke's face; and the Liberal women who attended the Higgen's &Tame's rather large rally for women at parliament house looked quite uncomfortable, understanding for once that they were, generally, not amongst their normal milieu of Pru's & Tru's.

 Aided and abetted by the Mudochracy, a "turned" ABC and promoting Scummo the Liar's politicking over covid that "Labor premiers bad, Liberal premiers good" the tin-foil hatted, anti-vax , fascists literally hit the streets, particularly in Melbourne where Dan-the Man had stopped Covid but was being hounded as Dictator Dan for his success. Sydney's, St Gladys of Binchicken (Saviour of the Nation according to Clueless Coorey of the fin revue) soon reversed that as she did in every other state successfully tackling the virus, by sending forth tainted emissaries to join her crusade of "living-with-the-virus-your-lives-are-not-as-important-as-the-economy-peasant." Those who died and will die in the future from Covid can depart this life satisfied that they are part of Scummo's "gold standard."
 Unfortunately St Gladys did a bunk when NSW ICAC told her they were investigating her and her dealings with a certain feckless chap, McGuire who was selling visa's to would-be citizens when Scummo was immigration Minister... so it's no wonder he thought ICAC a Kangaroo court of monumental proportions and railed and railed and railed about the unfairness of it all. 

Michael Towke, no doubt, smiling still! 

Anyhow, St Gladys of Binchicken will keep all her parliamentary goodies even if she's found against... as she has left the room. 

 Omicron Dom, a religiously unfunny terrorist has taken her place and taking the reins very loosely in NSW has proceeded to make sure we all live-with-the-virus, at least until we're dead. 

 Business isn't really booming like they said it would ....to many have the virus, too many aren't going to unsafe work places for peanut-pay, too many are really pissed off that business' who received huge handouts when not entitled and are now being told to fork out inflated prices for an Australian designed Rapid-Antigen-Test that Scummo the Liar pissed off to be manufactured overseas. 

Too many are now aware that the IPA / Hellsong model of running an economy precludes fairness and equity...the natives are restless.

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Moo got her car.... aluminium body, chassis frame steel, lights, brakes, leather seat.... genuine BMC colour from the 70's (I had one just this colour)... happy to say it went down a treat. 

Next projects... a Thames Steam Boat, a Fokker DXX1 and a new group of pics for a children's book.... and a secret (for the time being) project for someone else....all to help staying sane inside whilst the Ruling Rabble-Hellsong-IPA cabal trash the country even further....that the place is falling apart around us is all too visible.

 Hoo-roo Possums, stay strong and keep left! 

Shane