Kitsch Und Cabernet: Shelly Claws Shows What Politicians Are Like At Home

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1. ‘Adolph’ reminiscent of the character name/usage in tv film version of Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ i.e. ‘Adolph Rockefeller’, representing fossil fuel oligarchs’ propensity for authoritarian leaders, oligopolies, autarky and WASP exceptionalism; manifested in fossil fuel and auto owners’ approval of 1930s Germany and Italy.

   As the article suggests, it’s done differently post WWII with the help of consolidated RW media and PR…..

2. I forced myself to see glimpses of that ABC horseshit,whilst resisting the urge to vomit…My opinion of that fuckhead has only hardened…a blinkered ,heartless bigot,whose unsuitability as a leader of this country screamed around the country like a nuclear alarm siren.Can anyone imagine the holocaust in this country were he to stumble into the Lodge? He’d make Abbott the Mad Monk,and Scotty the Liar,look like Hare Krishnas.
   And Shelley Claws needs to disappear into a kelp forest.

3. Needless to say I lolled out loud as I read your parody of the Dutton episode of Kitchen Cabinet. But I also appreciated the episode itself. Anyone who gets Annabel Crabb – what she does – would have been on the lookout for the way she uses visuals to say what she wouldn’t sol. There was SO MUCH footage of Dutton cutting vegetables, for example. What was she showing us? Dutton is clearly not someone who knows how to use an actual knife. He was utterly out of his depth as he laboriously fumbled the job of cutting vegetables. It was a filmic metaphor of Dutton the “leader”.

4. The plane died from a sudden illness or it fell out of a window?

   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-on-private-jet-that-crashed-near-moscow-russia-wagner

5. What a horrible, contrived, disillusioning, bent, propagandising, distorted try at “entertainment” this crap is. We saw a little cut, long ago, of Morrison the Merdey when it was “news”, but as with this, it exposed the flattened superficiality of the deficient subject matter and the keen vanity of those who thought they might benefit from brainless self exposure, e g, Mme Crabb a lightweight surpassing hydrogen. Peter Duckwit-Futton is not very human, or approachable by normal standards. Even Freud migh shiver at the task of tolerating it for the “good” of the needy patient, but, his (Dutton’s) past utterances and behaviour patterns are there.., he is not decent, a leader, a pleasant chap, a kitchen type, just a nothing much and entirely forgettable. So many quiet conservative types, tertiary trained, experienced, qualified, balanced and wise enough, find themselves looking at the chosen political leader of the likely party of functional conservatism, and find a tendency to gag, chuck, bile up and feel dismayed, betrayed. A dark and ugly cartoon is our Dutton…

6. HarryLime:

   “And Shelley Claws needs to disappear into a kelp forest.”

   Sorry, the kelp forests are all dying (or already dead), thanks to climate change.

7. i havent watched any episodes. The ABC angle on exposing the human side makes me sick. But look i get it, the ABC needs to stay relevant by broadcasting some entertainment. In a perfect world we would see the human side and Dutton would act like a human. You know, even handed reporting, just like climate change debates, even handed……..got to give the shit heads equal time. But we have experienced the unsuitability of Dutton ever joining the human race first hand over the last 12 yrs.
   WTF? wake up man. He is a cultural worrior, he sees the war as his way back into government.

   So everyone is using everyone on this show, how strange, hahahahaha.
   Adolf is such a good nick name.

   Importantly, the ABC needs to get out of the “relevance ” game and get back to good old fashioned hard hitting news and education. Leave the entertainment to the expert clowns.

8. Yes Rossleigh, love it.

   I couldn’t watch it. The trailers were enough; banality brings me out in a rash.

   Revelation ABC-style, themed on Play School, because they can’t tune their news bias, nor imbue literacy or take the stammering screech outa their terrified reporters. The old guard rendered to glib cheshire cats, puppet-gloves to the board and back-room manipulators hired in from NewsCorpse. As for entertainment, gone are the halcyon days of Oz written, produced and acted features and series. Why do it when you can trash our talent, and as often as affordable, steal trashy US acculturation from the commercial stations, or show endless repeats of British also-rans and old war stories.

   Speaking of war stories, it is apparent that Adolf’s mantra really is “kill, Kill, Kill … ” (he was obviously under instructions to keep it quiet), he did after all say he’d decided on going in hard as opposed to playing touch. We have learned that his monotone is not to be mistaken for fair-minded gravitas, but the constant and convenient output of an automaton / drone replete with PTSD (Programmed Tone-Supressed Didact).

   The twittery bird’s-eye view from inside the ABC’s carapace only zoomed us into the seafood chowder entrained with smeg, like some facsimile of second-hand bird’s nest soup. Perhaps we need Julian and his mob to promulgate the unadulterated images, the instructions of the controllers, and the collateral damage; the real story of Adolf & Co.