This morning, Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge outdid even himself in the stupidity stakes when he admitted that he had released the private data of a Centrelink client to “a small number of journalists,” and that the information “was not released more widely” than that “small number of journalists.”
One hardly knows where to begin unpacking this utterly facile statement, and perhaps one won’t bother wasting one’s valuable life trying.
Perhaps it is more useful to reflect on the fact that it issued forth from the mouth of a Minister of the Crown and a member of our government, not that old wag One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, from whom one might more likely expect such codswallop.
Then we have Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who yesterday took to the airwaves to lacerate Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews for “permitting the closure of the Hazelwood power station.”
.@TurnbullMalcolm has lashed the state government for letting the Hazelwood Power Station close down. #7News https://t.co/rjQGNztDd1
— 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) April 1, 2017
Everybody knows Hazelwood was closed by its owners Engie and Mitsui & Co (who bought it from the Kennett government, by the way). Turnbull is cogniscent of this minor detail, as he demonstrated just a few days ago with this observation:
This is what @TurnbullMalcolm said on 3aw 8 days ago, contradicting his ridiculous rant today. Clearly a very desperate man #springst pic.twitter.com/UPdb1TOvTY
— Lily D'Ambrosio MP (@LilyDAmbrosioMP) April 1, 2017
Perhaps one ought not to blame the government for assuming its citizens are equals in stupidity: after all, it was elected, albeit with a majority of one.
I can’t decide if Turnbull and his gang of foot-shooters are attempting bad imitations of US President Donald Trump, or if they’ve attained a state of collective desperation in which they no longer care what they say because the swamp water has risen to their necks & there’s nothing left for them to lose: they’re going under.
If the former, someone should tell them it is not possible to do a bad imitation of President Trump. President Trump has the market cornered. Unless you’re Alec Baldwin, you should leave imitating Trump alone because you can only ever sound like a loser wannabe.
Oh, wait! It’s the Turnbull government I’m talking about (laughs like Samantha Bee).
Meanwhile, it was revealed this morning that the proposed Adani coal mine intends to send only high ash/low quality coal to India,and that’s fine, according to Minister for Resources, Matt Canavan, as the Indians are used to crap coal and anyway, if we don’t sell it to them somebody else will. Plus, our soot is superior to the soot India currently breathes so what’s the problem?
We are a wonderful country. It’s a tribute to us that we keep on keeping on, despite our farcical overlords.
But wait. I understand British Prime Minister Theresa May today threatened to start a war with Spain, so take heart. It could be worse.
This article was originally published on No Place For Sheep.
