“Mr Speaker, This Is Coalvid, Don’t Be Afraid, Embrace It, Step Toward The Light!”
Thankfully the playgrounds are opening again in Victoria. Over dinner, I told my son that I’d be able to take him there again tomorrow and hopefully that would improve his mental health. He pointed out that I hadn’t taken him there since he was in Grade 4 and – apart from the fact that he can now take himself because he’s already graduated university and that you only need to have passed Year 12 to go to the playground by yourself. I was about to point out that I was usually busy at work but he interrupted to say that he was going to bed because he has an early shift tomorrow.
>sigh< His generation is never grateful.
Anyway, I wasn’t going to write about Victoria because I was more concerned about the epiphany I had when I realised that Scott Morrison’s message never changes no matter what he’s talking about… Actually, his message changes all the time… but it is consistent. What I mean is that he has a particular way with words, Mr Speaker, and that way is the way that words only work when they are used to mean something, Mr Speaker, and that is sometimes the way that leads people to think that he has said something when, Mr Speaker, he has not – in fact – said that very thing that people, Mr Speaker, think he has said, Mr Speaker, but has instead, Mr Speaker, said nothing at all. And, Mr Speaker, to quote Harvey Dent aka Two-Face from The Dark Knight, “It’s always darkest before the dawn comes and it hits you that the sun is up and it’s time that we were also looking forward with hope because there’s a new dawn and it’s better than the one we just had because that was today’s dawn and tomorrow’s dawn is the future and we must move forward, because moving backward could mean that you bump into something…”
However…
Ok, I’m a bit slow sometimes, but I suddenly remembered his coal speech and I put it together with his Covid speech.
“This is coal,” he said, bringing a prop into Parliament in spite of the convention forbidding it. “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared.”
Compare this with his Covid speech: “We should not fear it. We should embrace it. And we should move forward together.”
Just lately, he’s been demanding that the Premiers stick to the Doherty plan and not keep locking down which sounds all right until you remember that only one state is anywhere near 80% vaccinated, and that’s because they got the lion’s share of the vaccines… Why was that again? Oh, that’s right, they needed them desperately and the other states weren’t going to miss out, NSW was just going to get the extra ones that didn’t exist. Whatever, the Doherty plan kicks in when the population is 70% vaccinated, not when NSW is ok.
I’d say that I’m starting to notice a pattern here, except I’m not. When it came to lockdowns, the same people who were telling us that we needed to “live with Covid” and not be scared, were the ones who suddenly grew concerned about people’s mental health. Yep, when people get depressed looking for jobs or dealing with Centrelink, the response is “Harden up, princess!” but Covid lockdowns are responsible for every mental health problem in the country and we need to open up businesses for the sake of mental health… mainly the mental health of the people who weren’t earning enough to double their donation to the Liberal Party.
As a Victorian whose been locked down more times than Scott Morrison says “Mr Speaker” in a sentence when answering a question, I have to say that lockdowns can be hard on your mental health and it’s very tempting some days to just move to NSW where Golden Gladys has managed a wonderful impersonation of Schrodinger’s Cat.
In the famous thought experiment, the cat was both alive and dead at the same time. Now, I’m not suggesting that Gladys is both alive and dead, but it does seem strange that she is both having the “harshest lockdown Australia has seen” and showing us how to live with the virus without the need for locking down.
Like the people who seem to be able to embrace the idea that we need to worry about mental health while not actually doing much to help people with mental health issues, as well as feeling like the budget has to get back to surplus but we need to give high-income earnings tax cuts, as well as telling us that we can’t afford the NDIS but franking credits refunds to people who don’t earn a taxable income are no problem*, Gladys seems to be able to hold two seemingly contradictory positions at the same time. Yes, she was unlucky in love and that Maguire guy pulled the wool over her eyes, but she should stay Premier because she’s very astute and makes good decisions.
Yes, it’s going to be a difficult month or so until the Federal election. I said October at the start of the year and I’m going to call it a win if it’s in November because, like Scotty’s approach to the vaccines, what difference does a month or two make?
*I should point out yet again that Labor weren’t going to abolish franking credits. People were never going to be taxed twice. They were simply going to stop the practice of giving a franking credit refund to the people who paid no tax which meant that this tax wasn’t even paid once. Generally speaking, the people who benefited from this had little or no TAXABLE income, which meant they could be earning large amounts from their superannuation if they were over sixty or had a clever negative gearing arrangement with several properties.
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Return to home pageRossleigh, Thank you for reminding me that “There is nothing so constant as change”. Perhaps Scummo makes mockery of that statement by his regular back-flipping and denial of responsibility. There is a constant here ….. Scummo is never wrong … you ask him, he’ll tell you … in as a circumloquatous way as possible using much air to say nothing, just to keep his record confused.
Mental health has never been important to Nazional$ politicians because they do very little to get support services to country centres where the lack o opportunities only happen to Labor voters whereas the grazier class are thrown another subsidy to keep them in the manner to which they wish to remain accustomed.
Well, nothing like supporting the 4% of the Australian population who have made an art-form of extracting payments from every COALiiton government in power while stifling the manufacturing sector to reduce the number of Labor voters.
The NSW State Premier used the excuse that modelling could not be trusted for her to answer the question of what was the worse case scenario for Covid-19 cases in NSW. If the NSW Premier does not trust Covid-19 modelling then the glaring question must be WHY the Morrison government, after institute shopping, has the Doherty institute Covid-19 modelling written in stone.
It is very ironic as much as it is suspicious that a government and a party that prides itself on being the party whose ideology revolves around that the premise of choice is good, has only offered one plan or strategy for Australias Covid-19 future, the Doherty Institute plan. People could reasonably assume that the Morrison government went institute shopping and found an institute that came up with modelling that fitted the governments needs for a plan and strategy that fitted their ideology rather then offering a few alternative plans and strategies from other reputable institutes.
His continuous “Mr. Speaker” drives me insane!
My name Mr Speaker, is Morrison Mr Speaker, Australia’s PM Mr Speaker, the epitome of an oxymoron Mr Speaker, it’s my very inner essence Mr Speaker, a genuine hypocrite Mr Speaker, and Mr Speaker, I reject the premise Mr Speaker, of any objections to my premise Mr Speaker, Jen told me I am her kids idiotic Daggy Dad Mr Speaker, I rest my case Mr Speaker.
The’Pattern’ you noticed Rossleigh,has been there from the day this pig first drew breath.His history and form sheet would embarrass the most hardened of criminals,and he is relentless in adding to it’s bloated carcass.It is common knowledge that he has a tin ear and glass jaw(David Tyler),but there is so much more to this cretinous creature:Bully,vindictive,authoritarian,secretive,scheming,manipulative,hypocritical,gaslighter.backgrounder,coward,arrogant,superior,entitled,LIAR, and on it goes.
In fact, we could descibe him as the consummate arsehole.Let’s vote him back in,and we can warm ourselves around the burning wreckage of our country, as he completes the destruction.
Good read, Mr Writer.
Funny that my multimillion dollar self-funded retiree mates were convinced that they would be losing thousands that boosted their bank balance because, without their racehorses and with debt free houses, boats, SUVs, they struggled to spend their allocated weekly retirement allowance. So they twisted the words of billy and added to the working poor’s fear of the loonies’ takeover and the loss of their jobs. QED
Harry Lime………in shor,t he is a thug with all that that implies, and Gladys is the useful idiot. I was going to refer to her as less useful than a tea lady But I then respect the tea ladies who earned the respect and appreciation of everyone, and would not dare put them in same frame as useless feckless Gladys.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/03/scott-morrison-unveils-dose-swap-deal-with-uk-to-provide-extra-4m-pfizer-vaccines
Here we go again with more of Scott Morrison’s I’m the greatest PM bullshit. How to pull a whitewashed rabbit out of a hat!
NOT FORGETTING MORRISON STUFFED UP THE 40 MILLION ORIGINAL PFIZER DEAL IN FAVOUR OF CHEAPER AZ!
Which is why Australia’s now scrambling & begging for more Pfizer doses, but Morrison doesn’t really care, it’s all showtime.
Older people, senior citizens, in this new covid world are expendable, hurry up & die, you bunch of geriatric oxygen thieves.
And now we have Morrison, the consummate duplicitous disingenuous bastard that he is, making out he actually cares, FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-02/letters-prime-minister-scott-morrison-covid-vaccine-astrazeneca/100428564
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-03/pfizer-over-60s-covid-19-vaccination/100430324
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The vomit inducing treatment for Saint Scotty of the Marketing –
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/06/scott-morrison-granted-covid-lockdown-exemption-to-visit-sydney-for-fathers-day-weekend
And the, “Oh sorry, you aren’t Saint Scotty of the Marketing. ” style treatment.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/07/patient-stuck-in-nsw-faces-bureaucratic-nightmare-to-cross-queensland-border-for-cancer-treatment
Aye GL……….
Morrison’s disgusting dismissive double standards, his rejection of equality for women shows us Morrison is unfit to be PM..
Morrison thinks women belong in kitchens, washing babies bottoms, and keeping the bed warm for his holiness’s “comfort”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/06/platitudes-and-sentiment-at-womens-safety-summit-wont-cut-it-when-will-pm-learn
Scotty of the Marketing is our best living example of a quote from an old Three Stooges short, “Every time you speak you weaken the nation.”
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/how-much-scott-morrisons-fathers-day-trip-to-sydney-will-cost/news-story/7d535ce1858f9f8ad67cfcf01a47ece0