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.

 

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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.

 

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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

Spring is Sprung and the Nation is Bung

G'day Possums,

Many are, like me, expressing surprise that the implosion of The Ruling Rabble has taken 5 years.

Policy and ethically bereft, the only thing they have excelled at  is hate and vilification and finding that a unified and cohesive Labor Party seems immune from their sheer nastiness, to survive in the only way they know, they have turned on themselves..... with a vengeance.

And this week in the Parliament Circus:

Roaming Quisling dumps on Potato-head, who dumps back on him suggesting he's a paedophile followed by Horseshite Corman dumping on Quisling who then dumps on Potato-head ...again...deuce:  and  then Scummo dumps on them all and sermonizes that, hallelujah,  it's a new generation, hallelujah,  and dumps on Truffles who, from NY dumps on Potatohead, who is maybe dumped on by Asbestos Bishop!  Meanwhile all the women in the Ruling Rabble who claimed they were bullied by their "colleagues," blame Labor and accept bribes for their silence over the antics of Senator and possible Hitler Youth fantasist, Pasty Paterson which is music to the ears of The Ugly American, Murdoch shill, C.Overington who reports that Labor is as bad, notwithstanding having nearly 50% female representation compared to the Ruling Rabbles15% all of which causes The Greens, firebrand Sarah Hansen-Young fresh from snotting LoopyLibertarian  Leyonhjelm for slut-shaming her, to flummox Scummo mid homily at the mid-winter ball by interjecting "Bring Back Truffles!"

Feeling upstaged by this, Scummo  (and telling all those asking for a reason for Truffles assassination to "get over it") has a video clip made of "Put-Your-Right-Hand- In, Put your-Right-Hand -Out"  to Fatman Scoop's "Be Faithful," forgetting parliamentary rules and that the song has naughty lyrics and is possibly copyright so pulls it.... but not before it is copied by the masses and adulterated. It was not stated whether the choice of song was a homage to back-handers or developer contributions to Ruling Rabble coffers.

Earlier in the week as this shambles was unfolding "Insiders" was fascinating.

Farr and Murphy were having a delightful time and The Sydney Geriatric Institute's Henderson  seemed hunched over in mortal pain as the panel surveyed the utter wreck with bits still falling off  the Ruling Rabble....although his attempt to blame Truffles' demand to see the 43 mutineers names being the cause of the bullying of female members was vintage straw-man comedy stuff straight out of the IPA handbook.

In comparison Petals, was this piece of info from our cousins across the way:

"Political momentum is usually driven by ministers, but in New Zealand it came from the backbench.
In 2016, a cross-party group of 35 representatives came together to form Globe-NZ.
These representatives spanned all major parties, including the Nationals, Labour, Greens and the populist New Zealand First.
Globe-NZ's mandate was to build a shared evidence base, and they commissioned us to evaluate the feasibility of transitioning to a low-emissions economy.
This research was buttressed by a country-wide series of workshops, presentations and meetings to collect evidence, test assumptions and socialise findings amongst a growing network of supporters."

It seems that the "Adults are in Charge" over there.... but here ? 

Well, another example of how this country has been "done-over" by the rabble ... Malcolm Gunning eschewing his role as Prez of the REIA  auditioned as a new comedian for the IPA by denying there was any crisis with rental affordability and that those finding it hard to make ends meet should just vacate major cities, find a second job and negotiate their rent.

He didn't say where he had left his heart or whether he really needed it.

May this rabble soon be an historical blip..... a bad dream that has taught the electorate a severe lesson.

Hooroo  Possums,

Shane

Like Our Standards..The Autumn Leaves are Falling.

 

Shane in Autumn Leaves

G'day Possums,

It's been an extraordinary week in which right-wing parties various, have eloquently demonstrated the nadir of their pathetic moral standards and as well as their utter contempt for a civil society.

Starting with the Royal Commission into the finance sector … very much "The Magic Pudding" (it just keeps on giving) we discovered  that "celebratory Financial Guru"  Sam Henderson dismissed a complaint made by a potential client that his advice was "risible," painting her to the Financial Planning Association to whom she complained  as "…nitpicking and inflammatory…"  and asking them to keep it all a bit quiet as his reputation and business might suffer from advising someone to lose half a mill of their superannuation. 

Of course, your staff impersonating clients on the phone and not having the       qualifications you claim, is also not a good look either. 

Other peccadillos from financial advisors were signing documents for the client and creating clients initials  to approve modifications. 

"The banking industry royal commission hasn't uncovered bad behaviour that the government didn't know about, Piggy-Bank Controller Scummo Morrison said, raising doubts about the usefulness of an inquiry that could cost the economy half a billion dollars and said government agencies had already started dealing with the problems identified by commissioner Kenneth Hayne, which include low-level corruption, kick backs and poor lending standards."

Which begs the question, "Were you Scummo, complicit in their corruption because of their election funding?"

Daniel Wild-One a shill from the Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, (IPA) in supporting the ruling rabble's insanity of tax cuts to big businesses who don't pay tax (including the banks presently being eviscerated at the RC) opined that the reason they, the banks, should get a tax cut is because it would help halt their present "nefarious practices."

Now, with that logic Danny-Boy has told you all you need to know about the ethical levels at the IPA....and the sort of intelligence you need to become a "research fellow".

But then, his boss Le Jongleur, Roskam put on a show as a panellist on QandA Monday last.  And what a display it was !

If a face (like Dorian Gray's) can expose in its meanness, eye-flickering attention- seeking, pinched lips and dull eyes what lies beneath in what he thinks is his Catlic soul, Le Jongleur fully displayed his threadbare social and political consciousness in a Mr Bumble-ish hand wringing parody of Dicken's Beadle from David Copperfield... an economic state he wishes us all to exist in…. ."....hard work makes you free…" he intoned seriously. Indeed!

As soon as Le Jongleur uttered those words I saw them in a German Gothic font....Arbeit Macht Frei. And now you don't have to wonder why Danny Boy is such a prat!
Rosakm is a devious rodent, blaming the ruling rabble for its policy's... policy they have adopted from the IPA's wish list... he really is evil.

A recording done secretly in 2016 apparently has another rat-brained ruling rabble oddball living in another universe. Mickey Sukkar had warned back then that the Vic branch of the ruling rabble was being infiltrated by "socialists" saying, “The last bastion, the last vestige of conservatism, which is the Liberal Party, is the last institution that they’re trying to get their way into.

“And, like termites, they’ll get in and they’ll eat us from the inside out unless we do something,” he told the meeting.

Hmmm... too many communion wafers?

What is it with these right-wing catlics who don't see their saviour's life lesson as "socialism" and seem to prefer the money-lenders of a fascist state.

Then came Anzac Day and dawn service at Gallipoli. There, Dodo Dutton, Commandant of Australia's concentration camps for refugees  farted to the assembly remembering the Anzac landings "… that the Turks, just like us, stopped the boats, too!"

No-one is quite sure why he left his little bit of brain at home.

At Villers Brettoneaux  Prime Miniature Truffles officially opened the Sir John Monash Centre (all $100,000,000.00 of it and started by Rabid -the-Hun when he was telling us Labor had broken the economy ) with a very prosaic speech.

Better was to come with the French Prime Minister Eduoard Philippe delivering a very moving eulogy to the Australian fallen.

I recommend a read here:   https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2018/apr/25/the-earth-is-his-only-friend-french-prime-ministers-anzac-speech-in-full

Well there ya go, Petals, standards all over the place even Dipsy Mandy Devine, an Ugly American Murdoch shill  blaming the banking corruption for their "inclusiveness" of LBGTI  agenda... what a bloody fruit - cake. Off living in the IPA's parallel universe as well. 
And I almost forgot...there's a move afoot to create a monument at the War Memorial in Canberra to the navy personnel involved in "stopping-the-boats"! When you feel you have to honour actions against refugees fleeing wars and strife mostly created by your actions then you know that your sense of humanity is so diminished as to be non-existent.
Lest we Forget... what Australia used to be.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

Teaching Ravens to Fly Underwater.

G'day Petals,

I was watching "Insiders" last week (5-11-17) and observing panellist Geriatric Gargoyle Henderson of the Sydney Geriatric Institute's school-boyish mumblings, floor searchings and hand-wringing attempts at every oblique reference, straw man, selective observation and misrepresentation to avoid facing the obvious fact that the ruling rabble he supports is now a terminal shambles. 

He provided at least, much benign amusement to journalists Laura Tingle and Mark Kenny and also to host Barrie Cassidy in the process.

Then, on the same program another ruling rabble apparatchik Kelly, Shadduppa-ya-Face O' Dwyer whose predictable rote practise of spitting forth her unblinking, flat-earth, loud, "in-your-face" refutations of any question put was again confidently performed.

Shadduppa-ya-Face is such an assured liar that I really think she thinks she almost believes what she says.

As both the Geriatric Gargoyle and Shadduppa-Ya-Face live in the parallel universe manufactured by the IPA and promulgated by The Ugly American, Murdoch's media, it's no wonder you cannot but draw reference to other forms of satire and it occurred to me there was not only a similarity in this Insiders program's content with both of these ruling rabble "guest's" comments but also a curious relevance to a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "interview" about "Teaching Ravens to Fly Underwater."

Five minutes into the "interview" Moore, as Interviewer asks Cook as Interviewee who had spent some twenty years in his activity:

"Have you ever managed, in all your years, to teach a Raven to fly underwater?"

"Err...... no!"

"Then you could say that your whole life has been a miserable failure."

"Err.... yes..... you could  say that."

Having "gone-to-ground" in the vastness of Western Australia apparently to avoid compounding her less than sound rationale for the mangled AFP  witch-hunt of Willie Shortstuff, serial parliamentary liar The Harpy, Cash popped up at an industry talk-fest with that well known Aussie car-maker, BMW extolling the virtues of the manufacturing business. Hmmm... pity about the thousands of jobs in manufacturing her ruling rabble associates have recently destroyed at both Holden and Ford.

Ruling rabble apparatchik Nola, Madam Lash Marino has discovered she's ineligible to sit in parliament at the same time as ex tennis player, Backhander Alexander also revealed that after five months cogitation that he's also an illegal member due to citizenship malfeasance.

Bingo... minority government!  And irony of ironies, on the same day Gough Whitlam was sacked by the Governor General in 1975.

This Governor General though, is taking a lead from Harpy Cash and is nowhere to be seen or heard, lest he not only play his role in dealing with so much unlawful constitutional activity promulgated but being ignored by the ruling rabble but also brooking the anger of his conservative fan base in working to prorogue an unworkable parliament and calling an general election!

Rumour has it that IPA apparatchik, Gorgon Downer is being touted as a potential candidate for the SA seat of Mayo...and even though, the incumbent has fallen foul of citizenship sloppiness too, this "challenge" must provide her some wry amusement.

Downer presents as seemingly imbued with all the simpering personality of a stale rice pudding and with an intellectual acuity to match. Master of the bleeding obvious but a mediocre practitioner of Straw-Man argument, (an IPA favourite.. must remember to send them a new bale for xmas) Gorgon has during her frequent but boringly lacklustre TV outings given every appearance of not only enjoying but celebrating the most banal of ideas. This scion is probably being touted as either a continuation of a tired family political dynasty of utter mediocrity or as a sop to ruling rabble faction ploys.

Psst.. her father was once a ruling rabble, mesh stocking wearing, opposition leader (haw, nudge, nudge, haw, haw) but one gaffe too many (making light of domestic violence), saw him eventually removed to London as High Commissioner where his faux accent better suits this expensive but mostly ceremonial sinecure.

And then there was ANNE!  Henderson, that is. A fiercely in-your-face talk down, over, through, brooking no facts to counter to the "truths" of her fantastical right wing polemic! Golly, no wonder the Gargoyle of the Sydney Geriatric Institute looks so trodden ... dinner conversation must be interestingly mono-directional !

Well the ruling rabble is now a definite shambles, terminal and all but destroyed but in its hubristic arrogance is refusing to lie down....  perhaps they're teaching Ravens to fly underwater.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.