It's such a relief to have a distraction from the Donald that the pond felt the urge to do a late final Sunday extra ...
The onion muncher has sent everyone into a tizz, including Peta, who has to preface her pandering with the notion that she is not the onion muncher's keeper ...
That's the sort of disclaimer that immediately makes the pond suspicious ... and sure enough little Sir Echo Bolter immediately knew what the dog whistler really meant ...
Toil and trouble and keep the pot bubbling ... though it's a pity even amongst the columns of his keepers and minders and extollers that they can't find a better photo than some simpering mug shot.
Perhaps it's impossible ...
Frankly the pond almost broke into tears at the thought of all the ordinary average Joes and Jills and perhaps the odd Jack who make up the grassroots Liberal party ...
That must explain why the Liberal party in NSW has absolutely nothing to do with developers, and at the federal level why it launched a Royal Commission inquiring into the behaviour of the banks.
It took a little while for the pond to reconcile this insight with Peta mocking Mr Harbourside Mansions, and to understand that the onion muncher himself was just an ordinary Joe as opposed to a north shore type ...
But they are all ordinary, humble folk, as so many lawyers are, much like the poodle, Julie "won't someone save the asbestos" Bishop, and other legal eagles in the ranks of average ordinary folk ... why they all get up at four to work in coal mine before doing bedraggled and begrimed hard yards speech-making in parliament ...
But they are all ordinary, humble folk, as so many lawyers are, much like the poodle, Julie "won't someone save the asbestos" Bishop, and other legal eagles in the ranks of average ordinary folk ... why they all get up at four to work in coal mine before doing bedraggled and begrimed hard yards speech-making in parliament ...
And so, preliminaries done, it's time to get rid of the dissembling nonsense and instead to get down to a good old head-kicking ...
Some might think it a tad unfair to blame Malware for the NSW Liberal government, but truth to tell, he's clearly responsible for everything that's wrong in the country - including the WA Liberal government - and Tony Abbott is responsible for everything that's right in the Liberal party, and if only he was put back in charge, he'd fix everything in a trice ... like he and Peta did last time.
Oh such a good job they did, such a great team they made, and remember, he's just a decent ordinary average Joe who charms the socks off the kids ... and listens to the people, perhaps in the way that Uncle Joe once did ...
About the only thing the pond can see as a downside in all this is ... Bill Shorten ...
Otherwise it's a fine old fuss, and it's sublimely comic to read how the onion muncher isn't a backstabber...
Mebbe ...mebbe he prefers to stab from the front, aiming straight for the heart, but dang, he's a great wrecker, underminer and sniper ...
Who'd have thought he'd be as bitter and as rancourous and as able to hold a grudge as the very weird and deeply neurotic former Chairman Rudd ...
Clearly it sticks in the craw, and it sticks deep in Peta's craw too ...
That's here, along with idle chatter by the ABC's Anna Henderson about the onion muncher promising no wrecking, no undermining, no sniping ...
And so to just a little more sniping ...
Actually the onion muncher is desperate to degut Malware, it's plain as a Liberal Joe day, and it's been obvious since the first day he took his tumble out of power.
Perhaps he recognises he'll never get to be leader again, but damned if he's going to allow Malware that pleasure. Better to get anyone in his place, even if it's someone as useless as the mutton Dutton.
This capacity for spleen and self-destruction, and for the defence of the onion muncher by his pets and acolytes, still hoping for the return of lost glories ... and perhaps even knighthoods ... is a wonderful distraction, and full of pleasure ... except for that one downside ... the onion muncher and his few remaining supporters seem to be so desperate and determined and spiteful that they'd prefer to hand the government on a platter to ... Bill Shorten ...
Well it's vive la révolution comrades as Peta pours a little more petrol on the flames to keep the sniping burning, and as a man down there with Harold Holt, Billy McMahon, Joseph Cook and George Reid keeps yabbering away, even managing to alienate former supporters of the Matthias Corman kind ...
There's no point mocking the onion muncher or ravaging his five point plan, or attempting to introduce a little sanity into the discussion ... as Dom Knight did today in that alternative Murdochian location here, which, spoiler alert, concluded this way ...
Steady., that's not quite right. Peta and the Bolter have stood up and saluted the bugler ... and that deserves a huzzah, even if they're not so much colleagues as enemies of the people ...
Let's keep it going ... the Nightmare on Elm Street scored at least nine outings, Police Academy managed at least seven, and the Carry On franchise got up to 31 outings ...
Who knows how long the onion muncher can keep the franchise going before terminal boredom sets in ...
Besides, someone has to think of the cartoonists. After all, there's only so many times they can draw a spiteful Donald Trump boycotting dinners and attacking the media like a larger than life Goebbels, without feeling jaded ...
So Peta says: "Look at the circus when a Sydney government school allowed Muslim boys to refuse to shake the hand of female teachers."
ReplyDeleteThis 'handshake' thing really is turning into a crusade, isn't it. Can we think of anything less important - unless perhaps it's the 18C crusade - in the present world ?