Prelude to an election: Voters beware (Part 2)

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• From Abbott the anality to Morrison the Madman, we had dogshit days, long days of dismal distraction, deviation, disillusionment, denials, darkness for the progressve soul. Peter Duckwit-Futton is so low that a slug or slime would seem elevated. B. Joyce, the spine bashing drunken fornicating incompetent, supported this rabble of rubbish and now, we have Someone Littletobeproudof, who mouths inanity, stupidity, paid donordriven dribble and gives foreigners further hopes of leaching out the nation's minerals, money, wealth and sense in political awareness. What SHIT is this, AUKUS friends?? Do we want a nation, a substation, an ovation for Trumpian stupidity and lies? Well? The local stupidos who research nought and watch T V shit, do not know...the strident dopiness of resentful dills and dopes is killing our sovereignty.

• Well, Tone the Botty was a Luddite, and an arrogant, ignorant one at that. Nuclear power is Potty Boy Dutton's attempt at a "direct action" moment. Potty Boy Dutton is unwilling to compromise.

• Dutton would be applauding the move by right-wing social media platforms not to moderate or fact check material published on their sites : it fits right into his gameplan of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

  Hopefully Australians will see right through this charlatan !

• Dutton holds Dickson with a 1.7% lead. If ever there was a time to get rid of him, it is the 2025 election. If people don't want to vote labor, and for some strange reason many don't, then they need to vote for the community independent. Dutton knows that he is hanging by a thread and this next federal election will be nasty and full of mis and dis information from the LNP. In the words of another liberal politician whose electorate voted him in long after he should have gone, the people of Dickson need to heed those words. "He must go". Australia cannot afford a federal government led by Peter Dutton.

• Quiz question :

  Who said "I don't even know what street Canada is on."

  Clue : it wasn't Donald Trump but somebody with similar business principles !

• "Such a tangled web we weave, go ‘round with circumstance.
  Some one show me how to tell, the dancer from the dance"
  The Eagles : Whatever happened to Saturday Night

  Another election already. I haven’t cleared up everything from the Black Christmas fires yet, and that was 2 elections ago.
  So much has happened during the meanwhilst. There have been two erections in the useless states of amerkin. And another revolution. Vlad the invader has been doing a job on his ex comrade neighbour for nearly three years. The Palestinians are facing extinction after over a year of, ummm, precision annihilation of women and children and elderly in an attempt to destroy a rebel force by a neighbouring country with dreams of beachfront real estate. “They started it” has been the justification used to completely remove any trace of a population with (illegal) 2000lb “bunker busters”, aided and abetted by the usofa and most of the “civilised” world. The land of the lying dragon has been expanding its global tentacles and flexing its economic might. Planert Earth is copping a beating from every quarter at every opportunity anyone with more beans than they can ever consume dreams up a new source of revenue.
  And that is just the headlines. You should see Page 3.
  Down here in the land of the long weekend, things are diff’r’nt. We don’t give a crap about world events, because there are beach cabana wars on the news. Holy Shit, batman, Someone stole MY SPOT. Me and mine have been on that grain of sand since forever. Give it back, you bastard.
  However, I digress.
  Up there in the capit’l, the Baldyman has got a Planne. Not as Cunninge as anything Baldric ever conceived, but it is a planne, and he has a willing bunch of mental cases to help him sell it.
  While We the Voter are stewing over the decision to pay for either house or food, or maybe meds for grandma, derSpud has got Nucular. That’s going to save us. Timeframe, Pete? Costs? Tech skills in the workforce even? “Look. You guys keep trying to put details in the way of my election platform, and this is not a quick fix, but we must do something about the cost of running a bath and cooking a sausage”.
  When once details were demanded with a vigour that bordered on pathological, der Spud has been waving his ides around like a flyswat. Just like the contract for FAWKUS submarines.
  We the voter have at the most, five months to get our heads around what is coming at us. The X-Man used his considerable social influence, and munny, to buy his chose septic president the seat at that desk they all carry on about. Septic is a pretty accurate descriptor for the trumpster really. The scary thing is not that the amerkins now have donny back at the wheel, but that x-man has promised to use his skills in any (every) election that takes his fancy, and with Aus being as special to the amerkin military as it is we can be sure that Elon will be here too, At least in AI.
  One would hope that the “average” Australian voter would have a longer memory than just who won the AFL/NRL, but again, we are diffr’n’t, and many are susceptible to alternative realities. Things have changed since 2022, by the way. The Australian Electoral Commission has deleted Ms Tink’s Teal seat in NSW, and has made it a lot harder for the current holder of Kooyong to retain her seat in VIC. It’s not rigging the game, that is called balance. We can’t have “outsiders” getting in on our two-party system, it’s unconstitutional. Or at least bad for politics. (Our Poorleen is ok because she asks for explanations first, and the Fatman is rich so he’s ok too.)
  The interest rates we have now are not because Labor won the last election. Neither are the current prices of food, power, petrol, alcohol. Even fun in general. But that reality is a very easy sell. Donny proved that over the other side of the Pacific on Cup Day.
  As you say, Mr Lord. (HNY to you, too)
  Voters, Beware. Voters Be Aware.
  We the Voter… BE VERY AWARE.

  It just occurred to me. I met someone last year, who has been living here for at least 10 years. She owns a house. She has no interest in Australian politics, and is NOT registered to vote. She does not understand the bi-cameral system, and has no interest in working it out. (She is a biochemist who works out safe levels of toxins in peoples food and water for big corporations)
  Just a thought, but should becoming a Resident and being Registered toVote be mandatory for anyone who is not a Citizen who wants to buy realestate here?

• Terence Mills (and New Bruce), you are on the right track about “game-plans”.

  When the Dutton “Nuclear Plan” was first unveiled, it didn’t take long for some to recognise the whole thing was bulldust - at best a delaying tactic in favour of the fossil-fuel lobby.

  But, bulldust or not, the plan so far has worked remarkably well. For starters it prompted all manner of technical, commercial and other responses as to why the plan would not work, and of course it didn’t take long to demolish the Coalition’s assumptions and mathematics – but that was part of the plan – get opponents thoroughly occupied on the technical and environmental stuff.

  Unfortunately the Albanese Government took the bait and started talking about things like detailed analyses to incorporate things like costings, time-frames, future unknown events, and so on, instead of saying at the outset that Dutton was talking bulldust, and refusing to engage with him and ignore the critical press by hinting at the adverse consequences of media concentration in Australia, meanwhile talking up the benefits of renewables in the context of climate change.

  All Dutton had to do was keep quiet on providing any substantial detail, make sure he commanded the conversation (with the help of a compliant media) and talk up the ‘benefits’ to climate, to reliable electricity supply, to cost of living and let the ‘unbelievers’ get more and more frustrated over what they perceived to be a totally bad policy.

  With the recent disclosure of some “inside” information, we now know a bit more. According to Christopher Pyne, former Coalition Minister and now Consultant:
  “Dutton’s nuclear plan will never happen, but it’s still a gem of a policy”.
  [ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-s-nuclear-plan-will-never-happen-but-it-s-still-a-gem-of-a-policy-20250102-p5l1qv.html ]

  Essentially the ‘policy’ is a distraction. Some of Pyne’s comments are worth quoting:

  In other words, even if Dutton and his energetic spokesman for climate change and energy, Ted O’Brien, give it a “red-hot go”, as they say, there is no guarantee that the minor parties, crossbenchers or any government across the country will co-operate.

  But in more good news for Dutton, by the time anyone has worked out that the likelihood of a nuclear power plant actually being commissioned in Australia is, let’s be generous and say, limited, the election cycle will well and truly have clicked over.

  If nuclear power never happens, the Coalition can hardly turn back the clock. This is a seismic shift that has been achieved with almost no animus.

  In many ways, Dutton has already won – he has united the Liberal party room, navigated the debate about future energy policy away from coal and moved the Coalition to an acceptance of action on climate change that eluded former opposition leader Brendan Nelson and prime ministers Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, without losing any skin

• Related, while RW MSM and ecosystem has an obsessive focus on 'the other' inc. refugees, NOM, temporary resident students, 'immigrants' and population growth as causes of any ill, without any evidence, but lapped up most Australians.

  Infamous image of Musk and Murdoch at '23 or '24 SuperBowl, now old legacy RW media joined up with social media, esp. X and Facebook; and a metaphor to explain.

  For example, X algorithms promote preferred RW MSM, grifters & influencers, alt right etc. and disinfo accounts vs. any normal account is limited, comments or links have 'reduced visibility' for no reason or simply blocked, to recreate old solid state media; it has become a static billboard.

  Billboard metaphor is, approved players esp. influential, are permanent fixtures with similar small ones given visibility, but the normal and centrist media and/or influencers are kicked into the long grass behind the bill board to preclude visibility.

  Many middle aged and older dominate elections, while many retirees have time on their hands to be online, influenced and promote talking points without possessing media or critical literacies.

  Leads to pensioner populism and collective narcissism for the GenX, boomer ('bomb) and silents gens, an often monocultural or 'skip' and low info, but influential (see Brexit, Trump & The Voice) cohort of 8 million ie. 40% of electorate, lower in cities, but higher in the bush.

  Outnumbered younger generations and working age are being encouraged to be asleep at the wheel (& too busy working), as the RWNJ powers that be have their way.....