While Vegans Go Without Meat, Albo’s Dog Gets It Regularly!
Hopefully that won’t be picked up by someone on Sky and become the story of the week… Or given that the Liberals are going to great lengths to paint Albanese as such, the story of the weak…
Whatever one thinks of the current government, one would have to say that there’s a concerted effort by certain sections of the media to attack them with whatever they can find no matter how ridiculous the beat-up.
So Samantha Maiden breaks the story that Albanese’s dog, Toto, travels with the PM on overseas trips. Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with that no matter who the leader was. I think it’s good that politicians have pets to calm them down and – even if they’re prepared to go to war and kill people who are less than human in their eyes – remind them that in any war the pets will suffer too, so I have no problem with anything that might encourage empathy… In fact, I’d have a bigger problem with Toto getting his own VIP jet or being bunged up in some fancy kennel that charges more than some hotels.
Next we have the story about Albanese tasting a $500 wine while on holiday in WA. This has somehow morphed into suggestions that he’s drinking $500 bottles of wine, and this is all paid for by the taxpayer. While I don’t know the actual circumstances of his tasting, I do know that people are often given wine tasting by winemakers at minimal or no cost. Amazingly, I once tasted a bottle of wine that was $85 about twenty five years ago… and in those days, that was enough for a deposit on a house… ok, not a very large deposit but I’m writing this story to make a point and anything misleading I can do to make my point is just good journalism!!!
I get it. The media want to make the point that politicians are out of touch and it’s only by listening to down-to-earth people like Gina and Rupert that we’ll fix this country and that people will be happy to be earning $2 a day because it’s all about getting enough experience that you can work your way to the top by kissing their bottom.
But, honestly!
If you want to attack the Labor government, then pick on them for their inability to simply say to Peter Dutton that they’re not playing his racist games when it comes to immigration policy. Or their approval of coal and gas mines. Or attack them for not raising the payments to the unemployed by enough.
Not things that are just absurd, such as when Labor were accused by the Coalition of covering up when they knew about the cover up that the Liberals did with Brittany Higgins. In the end, in much the same way that I don’t care what a surgeon does in his spare time. I don’t care if politicians are wearing Gucci or drinking expensive wines. What matters is how well they operate and whether the operation makes things better.
If the media were attacking Labor for improving relations with China when we should be doing everything possible to ensure that they stop importing our goods and sending students here, then I could understand it. If they were to suggest that their economic management was terrible because they’ve delivered the first surplus in fifteen years, then it would make sense. Or if they suggested Labor have an unemployment rate so low that it’s putting pressure on the RBA to raise rates, then there’s some logic to it.
But focusing on wine tasting makes no sense unless you compare it to every other politician’s wine tasting habits. Strangely they didn’t criticise Senator Price for actually drinking $300 bottles of champagne on the Voice was defeated.
I know it’s a lot to ask for consistency from people. Just this morning I read something on social media where a climate change denier was suggesting that Cyclone Jasper was being “manipulated” by those people that are trying to push the climate scam… The climate scam being that there is no climate change because nothing we do can affect the climate… The weather is – apparently – a different story.
Just like all those people who are suddenly concerned about marine life and how offshore wind turbines will upset whales when they’ve never worried about such things in the past. Just like people who complain that solar panels and wind farms are “eyesores” but open cut mines and the smoke from coal-fired power stations are things of beauty. Just like those pushing for nuclear power are quite ok with storing the waste while they tell us that there’ll be a problem with storing the solar panels and wind turbines once they’ve reached their use by date.
Can’t wait to see what the next exciting offering from Samantha Maiden will be. Which of the following seems most likely:
- ALBO REJECTS TRADITIONAL PUDDING ON CHRISTMAS DAY
- TOTO DOES NOT DENY RUMOURS ABOUT HUMPING CUSHION
- DUTTON ACCUSES LABOR OF BEING WEAK FOR DOING WHAT HE SUGGESTED
- DUTTON ACCUSES LABOR OF BEING WEAK FOR NOT DOING WHAT HE SUGGESTED
- ALBO IN SECRET TALKS WITH PRINCE HARRY ABOUT BECOMING GOVERNOR-GENERAL
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Return to home pageI think it is common knowledge that to become a COALition politician requires a complete absence of imagination, foresight and empathy combined with a genuine dedication to do whatever is directed by the unelected political hacks who control pre-selection & promotions within the LIARBRAL$ party.
There is a pre-requisite in the NOtional$ party for proven adultery, or willingness to practice adultery under the Canberra Bubble while having champagne bubbles going up their nose as they stick their snouts into the trough of public funding through the Parliamentary Allowances Scheme.
Naturally foreign owned multinational corporations can make ”political donations” to the LIARBRAL$ party funds to insure that Australian taxation legislation remains very much in their favour while the fossil fuel lobby destroys the economic future of agriculture over the Great Artesian Basin, the financially disastrous Northern Inland Railway is built with public funds for the benefit of SANTOS exporting out of the CSG Port Gladestone …. at about $1500 MILLION cost ….. without the payment of annual taxation o the Australian people.
But my favourite headlines for 2024 will be:
Albo only drinks ”ALBO” brand beer made in his electorate.
Albo attends local school fete in his electorate.
Albo happy that Rozelle rolling car park has cleared the streets of Marrickville of out of suburb vehicles.
Albo goes overseas on national business
Albo hoses down garden during heat wave.
Merry Christmas Albo …..
Point of order, Rossleigh. Toto is a female dog. Thus, unlikely to be seen humping a cushion
Maiden has a valid point though, albeit unvoiced in her article. One rule for the pollies, another for the plebs. Albanese’s mutt Toto gets a trip to England as a comfort critter to help assuage the PM’s grief on the death of Lizzy, whilst Amber Heard’s dogs faced death threats from Barnaby Joyce for their illegal entry into Oz.
Canguro, female dogs still hump, it is not only a sexual activity, it is a dominance activity. My poodle, who is at the bottom on the pecking order in a household of cats, tried to hump my smallest cat, she needed someone to dominate, she soon understood that this behaviour was not acceptable and settled down and accepted her place as the lowest in the pecking order.
Onto the subject at hand.
My understanding is that the PM paid for his own trip to the wine regions of WA and that if I had rocked up at a cellar door I too would have been given a taste of their wine, maybe not a $500 bottle but he is the PM after all, and is able to refresh the cellars at the official residences and what wine maker wouldn’t take the opportunity to promote what they think is their best wine to the PM.
I don’t read, listen to or watch any if the garbage that the Murdoch media spews out, but many do and this kind of rubbish will be accepted as gospel by them. Not only do we need truth in political advertising but we need truth in media reporting, not that any government is going to touch that, the LNP because it suits them to have their own media company that has 85% media coverage, or the ALP because they would be roasted alive for, something.
Canguro, please note that I didn’t say Toto was guilty of humping; I simply suggested that there may be a story about her refusal to deny it because, after all, I can’t see how she could…
Sort of like when Cory Bernardi suggested that marriage equality would lead to people marrying their dogs, I did say that if there was any dog who could say “I do”, then I had no problem with someone marrying them…
They must be cunning buggers to “manipulate” an entire cyclone. Are they doing this with special death-rays?
There has been some excellent forensic work here from Canguro and Patricia.
Bewdy, Albo!
Where was the media outrage when Morrison sampled a $750 bottle of whiskey from a Tasmanian distillery, was offered one for himself and then gave them an $18million grant of taxpayers money?
Then there are the host of travel abuse rorts undertaken by the previous government now somehow forgotten.
All the media coverage of the coalition has to offer is hypocrisy and plain old nastiness – like the ridiculously biassed GOP coverage in the USA – and it will certainly be an ugly year ahead.