I’m A Littleproud Of ICEland…

You’ve really got to hand it to Karoline Leavitt. She has all the skills of that guy in Baghdad who assured us that it was all under control and the Iraqi forces were repelling the invasion, as the window behind him looked out on US tanks…

No, no, you’re the one who’s confused, she told a reporter, El Presidente Trump never confused Greenland with Iceland even though there’s a video circulating of him saying Iceland at least three times when he what he was saying only made sense if he was talking about Greenland… Then again, making sense isn’t one of Donald’s strong suits when it comes to public speaking… Leavitt tried to pretend that he was calling Greenland and “mountain of ice” and you only have to read what he wrote to see that… never mind, that the reporter was talking about what he said.

It must be hard to be his spokesperson where you have to be on top of, not just what he said, but what he meant to say, as well as what he didn’t say even though there’s recordings of him saying the very thing that he neither meant nor said and anyone who reports that sort of thing is just writing fake news and ignoring the alternating facts which are just as valid as anything and in some cases, more valid because it was Mr Trump who didn’t say them.

Anyway, as Senator McKenzie told the people of Australia, Sussan Ley should have expected this chaos because of Einstein whose law told us that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction… Which is interesting because that used to be Newton’s Third Law, but I guess it got repealed in time for Einstein to claim it as his. I guess she’d argue that these things are all relative…

We’ve reached the very interesting situation where you’d have to be a fool to try to predict what happens next. Of course, that won’t stop anyone but I’d have to say that if you pick ten unlikely things you’ll probably get at least one right over the coming months. Let’s look at what’s actually happening and see if we can tentatively suggest what it may mean.

• Trump has withdrawn his threats about Greenland and/or Iceland and said that there’s now a framework for his takeover. Bold prediction: Because nobody else is saying this, it really means that he’s backed down but trying to make the whole thing go away until the next time someone says the magic words: Epstein files.
• David Littleproud has said that they won’t work with Ley as leader. This is interesting because I would have thought that if he’d just waited a couple of weeks she’d be gone anyway. Bold prediction: He’s probably bought her an extra few weeks because the Liberals may delay sacking She of the Double S because the Nationals seem to be demanding it.
• The few remaining Liberals who have a concept of how elections work and how while achieving leadership of your party may give you a chance to become the PM, if you need to make yourself unelectable in order to do it, you might as well announce that you’ve become a TEAL and that you’ll be standing on doing something about climate change as an Independent next time. Bold prediction: The TEALs will give up trying to explain that they’re not a political party and that they’re all independents and use this high profile defection to create an alternative Opposition which will outpoll the leftover of the leftovers.
• Michael McCormack will move a spill motion against Littleproud. Bold prediction: Barnaby will attempt to join the party room to vote against Littleproud, arguing that he hasn’t actually left the party yet. When he gets barred, three Nationals will defect to One Nation prompting someone to suggest that it should adopt the name One National.
• Josh Frydenberg will write a column about how the turmoil in the Coalition is preventing them from emphasising how badly the government has failed on antisemitism. Bold prediction: He will call a news conference telling everyone that he intends to stand for the leadership even though he is not in Parliament. He will use Campbell Newman as the precedent, completely ignoring how that turned out.
• An opinion poll will suddenly suggest that Labor will increase their current number of seats and that the Greens will be their main threat. Bold prediction: Murdoch headline will be Labor growing complacent after Liberal misfortune.
• Every past Liberal leader from Howard to Dutton will say that the current trouble stems from not listening to them. Bold prediction: One of them will say that they’re really sorry for not paying more attention to running the country, instead of the leadership spills.

I could go on, but I’m afraid that I’ll get too many right!

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