Carney’s my man – No-one in Australia has the balls or presence of mind to behave like a gentleman and statesman, since the Howard years, on either side of the house or across the political spectrum. They are all sycophants and arse lickers pandering to Trump, USA, Israel, war criminals, billionaires, mining, big tech, gambling giants and global corporations.
Even Albanese wanders aimlessly through the woods leaping over imaginary rabbit proof fences instead of just once taking aim on a single critical issue and grabbing it by the horns. We are drowning in our own Trumpian quagmire of Hanson-Joyce bother boots and frilly knickers, pissing in casino toilets, pretending fake antisemitism is the antidote to white Australian policy, racial prejudice and stone age political oblivion.
Cooing softly like a dove in Trump’s bullet proof ear is a fate worse than death for Australia, and we have the death knell of a rapidly fading phantom AUKUS, bullying trade tariffs, and being cannon fodder for Trump’s deranged mind and MAGA Republican barbarism like a Pacific atoll in the Cold War inviting China to take a shot across our bow, while Trump ducks for cover in the chicken house after he’s laid his mines at sea to roost on the other side of the planet – Alas our side. And what do we have to offer in current space-time other than diapers and diarrhoea at a shitfest… Question time?
Ghosts from the past – Where’s Gough when we needed him? Call it a spade, bury the crap and stand up to the bully – Australians will stand right behind you.
Reference
‘You’re at war when you get attacked’: Mark Carney shows combative nature in face-off with Trump, The Guardian, 30/08/2026
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Alas it is so. If only we could get Carney cloned for Australia – I see no other option in our duopoly.
“Since the Howard years”.
Are you saying Howard was a gentleman and statesman?
I believe Murdoch has a vacancy for you at The Daily Telegraph and Peta Credlin is looking for another “Your right there, Peta” and “Well Said Peta” nodding Yes Man for her Sky Lies-24 No News show.
A wonderful call to arms!! Thank you.
Robert Reich today (310826) comments:
”Since the late 1970s, some $80 trillion has been siphoned from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent.”
The reason, I think, started several decades ago when those who had accumulated a great deal of power and wealth began to change America.
They destroyed the basic bargain at the heart of our economy: that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you’d do well and your children would do even better.
Yet they got us to blame each other for our struggles rather than look upward and see where all the power and wealth had gone.
Trump gave voice to the scapegoating — blaming undocumented workers, the “deep state,” transgender people, Latinos, Black people, “communists,” Muslims, and Democrats. Now even Canada! All along, he’s been the mainstay of big money, the tribune of the wealthy and powerful.
But his power is now waning. Americans are seeing where he and the dark side have led us — to another unending war, to higher prices and lower wages, to cruel and brutal mass deportations.
We are finally looking upward and realizing where the power and wealth have gone.
We will have an election in just over nine weeks. It will give us a chance to correct some of this — not just constrain him but also start the long and difficult process of rebuilding the nation toward the ideals we’re most proud of, and which she exemplified.”
I think Robert Reich is a very experienced and well meaning optimist.
@Sully of Tuross – read again before hurling threats and insults. Howard seeded the rot. I don’t have time for pedestrian interpretations that ignore context and pedantic excuses. But thanks for the unsolicited advice… Binned where it belongs.
@NEC – good comment, never lose hope. He is an optimist but how many chances have the USA missed now? I’m more concerned with ones we have missed. They can’t be trusted and in my view the US is a train wreck beyond repair. Should have been called a long time ago by our government, same as Israel – double standards and pissing in the wind. We don’t have to leap over the same cliff as much as I’m sure the Trump administration would have us do so. There’s a mighty updraft.
Very good article, but I’m yet to be convinced about Carney.
He’s a product of the Big Bank lobby — worked for Goldman Sachs, ran the Bank of England, came to there from a background in Big Finance.
His liberal world order credentials could not be more … well… liberal.
And despite having made some worthwhile comments about the fiasco currently consuming Europe, his liberal ideology showed an ugly side with his endorsement of the illegal attack on Iran.
His tangling with Trump might not be based entirely on worthwhile principles.
It could be based on a fear of Trump upsetting the liberal gravy train.
Fair comment there Steve, you may be right. Ironic isn’t it though that Gough was not just a victim of the bully boy Liberals and Governor General at the time while doing Australia’s bidding, but a target of attack and foreign manipulation in our internal politics and domestic affairs by the malicious foreign affairs of USA – our so called ally… ho hum. Over and over again here we are like Hogwart’s day and no voice on behalf of the Australian people. We know the stats on Australian public opinion when it comes to Trump USA and Israeli genocide – across the board in the 80% margin of horror-zombie zone on both.
Thanks Jon, yes, I agree.
The weird thing about the Dismissal is that Fraser later became a supporter of the dissenting voices re the US alliance.
He and Gough became mates.
Poor old Gough, we’ll never see his like again.
Albanese, instead of being inspired by the saga, has been cowed by it, hence your comments.
Consider this comment about the Venezuela Oil Deal from Meidas+ 310826:
”… NYT: “The Trump admin’s highly unusual deal to develop Venezuela’s vast oil resources would have the US govt collaborate with an influential and polarizing Venezuelan businessman. Under the deal, the US would work with Alejandro Betancourt López, whose family controls Venezuela’s second largest private oil producer, North American Blue Energy Partners.”
… “The federal govt is expected to back the development of a significant portion of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves through the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital, while Betancourt’s company would lead operations. Trump described the deal as giving the US ‘majority control’ over a large portion of the country’s reserves, though many of the details of the highly unorthodox arrangement remain unclear and were expected to change as the project gets going.”
… “Any meaningful new production from Venezuela will take years to materialize. As a result, the effort will have little immediate impact on global commodity prices, which in turn determine what US consumers pay at the pump.”
… It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
… This is what Trump said during the 2024 campaign: “We’re buying tar from Venezuela and we’re refining it in Houston. It’s the dirtiest, worst oil anywhere in the world. And we’re refining it – so you can imagine what’s going up in the air.”
… Ronald Reagan’s former budget director David Stockman posted: “Trumpy scores another own goal. The all-in economic cost of Venezuelan heavy crude is $70 per barrel compared to the 56 year constant dollar average price of global crude at $71/barrel, less 15% discount for low quality Venezuelan crude or $60 per barrel. That is to say, a $10/barrel loss on 65 billion barrels of crude under the Donald’s latest deal. The Art of the Deal strikes again!!!”
… Republican commentator and consultant Emmanuel Rincon, who is based in Miami and specializes in Latin American issues:
“Trump could have called for elections, negotiated with legitimate leadership in Venezuela, and secured the country’s oil concessions with the legitimacy and backing of 90% of the Venezuelan population. Instead, he chose to negotiate a deal with Delcy Rodríguez behind the backs of the Venezuelan people—one that I believe will have an enormous negative impact on the US for decades to come.
In doing so, he has handed the anti-imperialist Latin American left a powerful weapon that they will use to win elections for decades, turn populations against the US, and, in turn, once again push the majority of Venezuelans against the US.
For decades, many people, myself included, argued that the US was a better strategic and economic partner for our countries than China, Russia, or Iran because it respected the rule of law, institutions, and democracy. Today, given what has just happened, it will be extremely difficult to make that case.
After January 3, Trump was seen as a hero by the vast majority of Venezuelans and by a large portion of Latin Americans. That image has changed dramatically over the past few months, and the way this deal has been handled will only make the situation worse.
It is deeply unfortunate, because Trump could have achieved an equally favorable outcome for the US while also having the backing of the Venezuelan people. He only needed to change the interlocutor. Now, I don’t see how this can be fixed, and I believe that, politically, this will greatly benefit communists and socialists—the true enemies of the US—across the region.”
… Trump posted this claim today: “One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied. The ‘topping out’ process will begin very shortly, and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the US.”
… This will never happen. Trump will leave the SPR far lower than he found it. When Joe Biden left office there were 394 million barrels of oil in the SPR. Right now there are 289 million barrels of oil in the SPR.
NEC’s comment is brilliant!
Thx, mate.
@ Paul Walter: Not my writing efforts but rather from Ron Filipkowski in Meidas+ (310826) This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 451.
“No-one in Australia has the balls or presence of mind to behave like a gentleman and statesman, since the Howard years, on either side of the house or across the political spectrum. They are all sycophants and arse lickers pandering to Trump, USA, Israel, war criminals, billionaires, mining, big tech, gambling giants and global corporations.”
Exactly!
Does the meaning of “since” include the specified time?
I tried looking it up in various dictionaries and found plenty of ‘from a point in time’ but those ones didn’t say whether or not the specified time was included.
A couple, Britannica dictionary and, I think it’s bing, defined it as being between the specified and time and, in this case, now:
“in the intervening period between (the time mentioned) and the time under consideration, typically the present:”
Has anyone got a definition where the specified time is definitely included in the time period?