Let me be quite clear here. I suspect that Anthony Albanese has been a useful idiot to many in the media over the past dozen or so years…
I probably should define “useful idiot” so that you don’t automatically think that I think that I’m somehow brighter than Albo who, after all, did actually make it the office of PM.
Then again I could just use the definition from Wikipedia which is a useful tool for tools who want to do their own research but can’t be bothered to find more than one or two things on the Internet…
Here we go:
“A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being manipulated by the cause’s leaders or by other political players.”
Now, I’m not as hostile as this may sound. Normally, I actually will give credit where credit is due, but I don’t have time for that now because I’ve already “personsplained” useful idiot… I would have said “mansplained” but I’m not the sort of person who uses sexist language where I can help it…
Anyway, I suspect that Albo had the odd catch-up with the odd journalist and gave them the odd titbit and they were thankful and he thought that they were on his side and when they wrote the odd story about the odd thing or two that was hostile to his government, he thought that they were just doing their job and deep down they still liked him and they were still going to basically support him because, well, he’s not Scottnofriends Morrison…
And yes, well, we did run that story about you buying a house and how dare you buy a house when people like Peter Dutton are struggling to buy another one for their investment portfolio and… any tips for a journalist like me? But we’re still friends, aren’t we?
So when it was leaked that he told the Cabinet that he thought that News Corp was out to get Labor, we can only consider three possible scenarios:
It was a shot across the bows and a warning to his mates in the media that this would be the last leak they’d get from him.
Someone else leaked it in the hope that it would make him sound out of touch and he’d be guaranteed to lose the next election, leaving the Deputy to take over the task of leaking to the media.
It was a surprise to him which means that he is no longer a useful idiot because anyone that stupid couldn’t be relied upon to be useful.
Whichever, that’s not all that important. The basic problem is that no matter which of those scenarios is true, we’re still at the point where we need to stop reacting emotionally and start thinking about what we want to happen…
All of which brings me to the bleedin’ obvious…
Now there’s a lot of stuff out there on what’s wrong and what’s right and who’s independent and who’s doing stuff for free because that just shows how independent one is and how government bodies can’t be considered independent and my modelling is better than you’re modelling and…
I’m just going to put this out there and ask a couple of simple questions…
If I were going to go to an election and try to establish nuclear in this country, I’d try to stick with something simple. I mean, the Liberals have said that they’re “agnostic” when it comes to energy, but I guess that’s a religion and it means we can’t protest when they go to pray at the shrine of Gina…
Notwithstanding that, I think I’d say that I think that nuclear is a great option and what I’ll do – if elected – is repeal the ban and let the market take over… If it seems a little too risky for them, then I’ll underwrite any sensible proposals as I’d do for any sensible proposal and we need to look at everything…
Question 1: Why not do this instead of committing to a proposal that is so controversial?
Question 2: Why are Labor trying to argue against such a proposal instead of simply saying this seems reasonable in the long term, but in the short term we need to do what we’re doing because nothing that P.Duddy is going to bring down prices before 2035 even if we accept all they’re most optimistic scenarios and presume that it’ll be built sooner than the carpark in Josh’s electorate…
Of course, when I say “Josh’s electorate” I mean that one that he used to own before it was stolen and for some reason, the police couldn’t press charges, even though the thief was flaunting her ill-gotten gain in Parliament…
>sigh<
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wtf?
Why has this been reposted? It was up yesterday and now it’s all new and shiny but without the comments that we posted and you haven’t even fixed the typos I pointed out …
Same with the latest whinge from ITECA.
leefe, some of yesterday’s posts are being republished because our web host accidentally erased all of the posts and the comments.
Efforts to have them ‘returned’ have not been successful. It must have been a widespread issue as their switchboard has been jammed all day.
I don’t know, Rossleigh. I did not vote for the party of the Wet Lettuces.
As far as I know, tools live in the shed, and I think neither Kirribilli nor the Lodge qualify as sheds because they are not built fronm Colorbond or other sheetmetal. Useful idiots, on the other hand, live with my partners daughter, and Albo doesn’t live in that house either, although there is a mysterious tennant….
With an election on the fast approaching horizon, and der Spud and RetardsofOz putting Operation Overthrow into high gear, beginning their campaign with a nucular launch that is supposed to fuel our barbies (and ignite our kens)
I reckon a post Chrissie “Non Binding Plebiscite” on the matter of energy sourcing would be a real cracker. Spread some holiday season bullshit and facts around, including CSIRO spreadsheets as giftwrapping, for a couple of months ofand let the masses come to our own conclusion in about March.
Obviously a full blown referrendum would just blow up in Albo’s face, but something that was really just a mass marketing excercise might work. It was brilliant when the Mad Monk wouldn’t put his own budgie smugglers on the line to back his own dogmatic principles and thus let We the Voter decide on who could marry who.
I mean, it could even be the lying roden’t’s method with a Yes/No and a three way split at the final box.
Reading the headlines over the last few days though, the guvvm’nt is in too much of a spin over whether to open coal mines or gas fields to bother about the next election, and so this will all have to wait untill early May.
On the matter of elections and electorates though, the AEC has come th the lnp’s aid by deleting ms Tinks gig in Sydney because NSW didn’t breed fast enough. Apparently, it was easier toscrap aan inner seat and spread a lot of folk thicker than scrap a country seat, like …. aaaah… that clown in the hat who trips over pot plants and things…. , anyway, and spread a few folk thinner.
Victoria is in a similar situation, but the teals scraped through and now the majors have to battle for some crumbs.
Have a great Christmas, Everyone, and a Safe and Happy New Year.
the Rabbottg had useful idiots who neglect to poop on him then the elected little billy on his beaconsfield efforts but he was useless then they went to albo who also has no stomach for controversy noir the common sense to dump on dutton now some complete idiot gives dutton a clear nu clear look at PM
Albo think or fuck off
Ahhhh ….. a too long missed good dose of Rossleigh commonsense.
WAM is correct ….. too little spine & no enough effort, despite the many successes ignored by the Murdoch media Monopoly (MMM)that have made the life of working people better, well anyway, until the bankers wanted their twenty plus (20+) points of undeserved interest rises.
There is no chance that Albo will be replaced before the 2025 election. So we must work to displace and dispossess Boofhead Duddo from the Parliament.