The more the pond strays from the reptiles, the more the pond is rewarded, and so the pond is tempted to stray, and so the pond is rewarded, with The Weekly Beast, as noted by pond correspondents, running particularly hot ...
Not only was there this ...
...but the pond was especially delighted by a link to a Cameron Wilson tweet about a piece by Sarah Buckley, and even better was astonished that someone had the foresight and decency to archive it, so that we all might read those pars selected by the venerable Meade:
A few of the most puzzling paragraphs: “Funnily enough, that same culture indoctrinates social mores the Howard government helped posture. Indeed, it was gun control under his guise whereby removing guns after Port Arthur was Leftists’ most distinguishable political tool from far-rights in America as of recent times.
“The same holiday to New York where Australian Leftists’ were all the more happy to complain about having holidayed, tipped their workers 10 per cent of the bill plus GST – Australians have had only GST, also introduced by the Coalition.
“When I’m in a pub finding my modern life not all too dissimilar from Parliament House, therein lies the question – At what point must you choose morality over winning? For, if you argue with a Leftist, you are simply arguing with a child.”
“The same holiday to New York where Australian Leftists’ were all the more happy to complain about having holidayed, tipped their workers 10 per cent of the bill plus GST – Australians have had only GST, also introduced by the Coalition.
“When I’m in a pub finding my modern life not all too dissimilar from Parliament House, therein lies the question – At what point must you choose morality over winning? For, if you argue with a Leftist, you are simply arguing with a child.”
It’s not clear whether the piece went through the opinion section or subeditors before it was published.
We asked Buckley what she meant but she didn’t get back to us by deadline.
It went way beyond the valley of the illiterate:
Extrapolating the Australian studies we do have on voting patterns, Nicholas Biddle and Ian McAllister came up with their summarisation of the 2022 Australian Federal Election Result.
“Coalition voters tended to be older, non-Indigenous, with low education, living outside of the capital cities, and with a household income that puts them outside of the bottom income quintile.
“Labor voters tended to have high levels of education and lived in capital cities.
“Greens voters tended to be female, young, born in Australia or another English speaking country, and without a trade qualification.”
These biased studies are actually inundated by the very falsehoods they seemingly deem to detest. One of the data-prone flaws being the Coalition’s demographic.
According to The Daily Telegraph’s approximate 4.6 million readers, nearly a quarter of our readership have undergraduate degrees, live in metropolitan cities and have assets.
The approximation that those who are Right-leaning are somehow less educated, conspiratorial or ‘dumb’, are viewed much like their opponent. Evidence on both sides “view political opponents as more unintelligent than immoral. Perceiving the other side as “more stupid than evil” (which) occurs both in general judgments,” according to a 2022 study in SAGE journals.
So what might drive a negative perception of the Right from the Left, is really no different than what might drive the Right to inherently dislike the Left. The only defining difference is reaction.
And as much as that might not stereotypically play into the Lefts’ hands, it’s also not too far from the truth. When I’m in a pub finding my modern life not all too dissimilar from Parliament House, therein lies the question – At what point must you choose morality over winning? For, if you argue with a Leftist, you are simply arguing with a child.
“Coalition voters tended to be older, non-Indigenous, with low education, living outside of the capital cities, and with a household income that puts them outside of the bottom income quintile.
“Labor voters tended to have high levels of education and lived in capital cities.
“Greens voters tended to be female, young, born in Australia or another English speaking country, and without a trade qualification.”
These biased studies are actually inundated by the very falsehoods they seemingly deem to detest. One of the data-prone flaws being the Coalition’s demographic.
According to The Daily Telegraph’s approximate 4.6 million readers, nearly a quarter of our readership have undergraduate degrees, live in metropolitan cities and have assets.
The approximation that those who are Right-leaning are somehow less educated, conspiratorial or ‘dumb’, are viewed much like their opponent. Evidence on both sides “view political opponents as more unintelligent than immoral. Perceiving the other side as “more stupid than evil” (which) occurs both in general judgments,” according to a 2022 study in SAGE journals.
So what might drive a negative perception of the Right from the Left, is really no different than what might drive the Right to inherently dislike the Left. The only defining difference is reaction.
And as much as that might not stereotypically play into the Lefts’ hands, it’s also not too far from the truth. When I’m in a pub finding my modern life not all too dissimilar from Parliament House, therein lies the question – At what point must you choose morality over winning? For, if you argue with a Leftist, you are simply arguing with a child.
Perhaps wisely, The Terror decided not to allow reader feedback, so the pond will never know what summarisation might have resulted in an inundation that was seemingly deemed to produce a detestation.
In a previous outing, about so called wokeism in fashion, the Buckley scribbling was just as weird and incoherent:
...In that sense, the good-willed gesture of inclusivity through fashion’s woke rhetoric actually became the straw that broke the camel’s back.
And not because I believe D&G is innocent, or that political correctness is inherently insidious, but because wokeness is simply one dogma replacing another.
Food for thought: Without being at liberty to push boundaries, political correctness itself wouldn’t exist.
And not because I believe D&G is innocent, or that political correctness is inherently insidious, but because wokeness is simply one dogma replacing another.
Food for thought: Without being at liberty to push boundaries, political correctness itself wouldn’t exist.
Food for thought? Is that what they call food for clichés at the Terror these days? Talk about breaking the turtle's shell.
That time the Terror made the mistake of allowing in a horde of comments, all five of them, with one deviant trading as Front Line Worker:
Interesting how "woke" is used as some sort of insult. Look up the definition and then tell me if you're not. Otherwise you are completely ignorant to what is going on in the world.
But wait, there was more from FLW ...
These "half truths" as you call them are based on actual evidence, not what some right wing commentator thinks. If you think unis aren't teaching correctly, I would advise not seeking treatment from a doctor who has been trained by these unis.
There were two pages of links to Buckley stories - the unwise tend to be prolific in reptile la la land - but the pond got bored.
Buckley presented as a “digital journalist”, which presumably is one step up from a mere journalist and perhaps represents a binary solution to vulgar youff who don’t have the first clue about the English language.
In the pond’s day, a cadet journo was required to tend to the shipping news until they could produce a sentence with a beginning, a middling thought, and an end.
Could someone explain to the poor thing that trying to appease Akker Dakker isn’t the way to enlightenment?
The pond was also delighted that Cam Wilson coughed up ninety bucks to report for Crikey on ‘Us versus them’: Australia’s freedom movement wants a parallel Christian society (paywall).
The setting: The remnants of Australia's anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown movement gathered in a glitzy wedding venue in Sydney's south-west to plan their next move.
A sample: If you weren’t paying attention, you could be forgiven for forgetting it was a night organised by anti-vaccine campaigners for like-minded people. Every now and again, however, their fringe beliefs slipped out.
During a surprisingly rousing speech about hope, self-described “income acceleration coach” Pat Mesiti asked: “How can you not be angry when they’re trying to microchip your children?”
Steiner school teacher Roger Richards cited a study claiming water changes its behaviour based on human thoughts and emotions.
Lyn McLean said electromagnetic radiation from 5G, 4G, even Bluetooth connections from wireless headphones like AirPods is making people sick, particularly those without thick skulls.
There were some who explicitly spoke about vaccines, but the two major themes of the evening were the hardship of failing to comply with COVID-19 health restrictions, and planning for the future.
Dr Robyn Cosford regaled the audience about her decision to give up her medical licence rather than face disciplinary action over prescribing disproven COVID-19 treatment ivermectin and handing out vaccine exemptions. Firefighter Jan Hausoul complained about being stood down over vaccine mandates, which prompted him to create anti-vaccine group Australian Firefighters Alliance. Tony Nikolic of NSW law firm AFL Solicitors was upbeat about the unsuccessful legal challenges to vaccine mandates and dismissals. For figures like Dr William Bay, who had recently been suspended from practising, the consequences they faced had transformed them into martyrs for the movement in the eyes of attendees.
The foes mentioned throughout the evening included — take a breath — governments, politicians, chief health officers, the media, experts, police, teachers, universities, big tech, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA), communist regimes, energy companies, QR codes, central banks, Klaus Schwab, and the World Economic Forum.
However, no enemy was mentioned more than Dan Andrews, even though the event was in NSW ...
During a surprisingly rousing speech about hope, self-described “income acceleration coach” Pat Mesiti asked: “How can you not be angry when they’re trying to microchip your children?”
Steiner school teacher Roger Richards cited a study claiming water changes its behaviour based on human thoughts and emotions.
Lyn McLean said electromagnetic radiation from 5G, 4G, even Bluetooth connections from wireless headphones like AirPods is making people sick, particularly those without thick skulls.
There were some who explicitly spoke about vaccines, but the two major themes of the evening were the hardship of failing to comply with COVID-19 health restrictions, and planning for the future.
Dr Robyn Cosford regaled the audience about her decision to give up her medical licence rather than face disciplinary action over prescribing disproven COVID-19 treatment ivermectin and handing out vaccine exemptions. Firefighter Jan Hausoul complained about being stood down over vaccine mandates, which prompted him to create anti-vaccine group Australian Firefighters Alliance. Tony Nikolic of NSW law firm AFL Solicitors was upbeat about the unsuccessful legal challenges to vaccine mandates and dismissals. For figures like Dr William Bay, who had recently been suspended from practising, the consequences they faced had transformed them into martyrs for the movement in the eyes of attendees.
The foes mentioned throughout the evening included — take a breath — governments, politicians, chief health officers, the media, experts, police, teachers, universities, big tech, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA), communist regimes, energy companies, QR codes, central banks, Klaus Schwab, and the World Economic Forum.
However, no enemy was mentioned more than Dan Andrews, even though the event was in NSW ...
Rich, fruity stuff, and the pond promises more on Comrade Dan anon, courtesy Dame Slap, but first to a little investigation by the pond.
You see, this day there was the usual Bjorn-again nonsense ...
A quick and dirty and not comprehensive search revealed that it had appeared in the "Financial Post" and thereby surfaced in Yahoo Finance on 31st August...the same blather about global 'leets and the chattering class from an endless chatterer who never knows how to shut the fuck up ...
Oral Roberts.
Why do the reptiles bother? Why does the pond bother? Well it is fresh meat for the pond's correspondents ... with the faux statistics at the end of this gobbet likely to set off a feeding frenzy ...
Now at this point the pond feels it's done more than enough for the general readership, and would like to have a quiet moment with Victorians ...
Yes there's nothing like crashing while pissed as a parrot except perhaps looking at Tarcutta's fine and noble cricket ground and kiosk ...
But more intriguing was that the piece had previously appeared a couple of days earlier on 29th August at Inside Sources ...
Inside Sources pitches itself this way ...
Tired of “conventional wisdom”?
Academic research has found political pundits are worse at predicting the future than if they were randomly guessing.
The media elite’s echo chamber thinks half-truths, bad predictions, and “conventional wisdom” qualify as news. Good thing we don’t.
At the helm was one Michael Graham, featured at LinkedIn this way ...
Graham was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Pelion, South Carolina. A graduate of Oral Roberts University, he worked as a stand-up comedian before beginning his political career as a statewide coordinator for Pat Buchanan's Primary campaign in 1992. This experience led to his working in various Republican campaigns over the next few years. One of his candidates included Harold Worley, a Republican challenger to Senator Strom Thurmond in 1996.
In 1998, Graham moved to the talk radio circuit. Living up to his self-proclaimed description of being "loud, obnoxious and frequently fired,"[2] Graham held positions at seven stations in seven years, including stints in South Carolina, WRVA in Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, DC, as well as Rightalk.com[citation needed], an Internet radio outlet previously hosted by Accuracy in Media.
Oral Roberts.
Stand-up comic, not that there's anything wrong with being a stand-up comic if you're running the Bjorn-again one ...
And so another loon came home and settled down on the pond.
Anyhoo, there's the reptiles' comrade publisher. Just think ... the lizard Oz and Inside Sources are one, and how soon before an Oral Roberts graduate starts running stories about climate science in the Catholic Boys' Daily ...
And now back to Bjorn-again bullshit, with bonus fully neutered click-bait video...
Going all the way with Bjorn would likely triple all the mind-fucking or at least double the insanity. Only "likely" mind, because the pond only works with "likely" statistics and a final gobbet ...
You see, this morning Dame Slap sobbed into her breakfast cereals about Comrade Dan and the valiant chums up against him, and it was simply too delicious for the pond to ignore ...
Sure it meant tossing the dog botherer over to the Sunday, but where's the harm in that?
And for those who don't have the first clue about Victorian politics, all you need to know is that Tim Smith is a notorious dickhead, perhaps even a bigger dickhead than Matthew Guy, though the pond will concede you might have to count a squillion angels on the head of a pin (or a pond) before you can arrive at the nicety of the difference ...
... and that's why all this was so delicious ...
Okay, okay, the snaps are just a way of making Victorian readers feel good about themselves, because otherwise reading about a couple of incomparable dickheads turning up on planet Janet for a sympathetic hearing might otherwise be depressing ....
Now back to planet Janet for more tears ...what a splendid cocktail they make ...
Why is the pond refusing to comment? Because the pond is beset by alternating fits of hysterical laughter and manic braying ...
Indeed, indeed, things get pretty weird, what with Lord Downer called in to say a word, but all that tells the pond is that the Victoria Liberals are about as straight as a plaque on a stone in Tarcutta ...
Almost as crooked as having a lobster with a mobster ... and so the pond has made it to the penultimate gobbet ...
That's how it goes in Victoria, a comedy far richer than the two stooges ... if only they'd paid attention to that famous Tarcutta sign about horses ...
However, no enemy was mentioned more than Dan Andrews, even though the event was in NSW ...
The pond realises that all this has already turned the read into an Everest, and that snaps of Tarcutta are not a sufficient comfort, but still there's an Everest to climb ...
No, not the immortal Rowe Everest ... the "Ned" Everest ...the usual pontification by an exceptionally tedious and dull pundit ... where even getting out of base camp is a struggle ...
The pond only does it because it's become a pond tradition, rather like putting a lump of coal in a retrenched reptile Xmas stocking ... but look at it this way.
For a "Ned" natter, it's remarkably restrained, with only six gobbets, and if you've made it here, you're a sixth of the way through and if you read the next one, you'll have done a third ...
Looking back the irony is so rich, so redolent ...truly vintage cartoons do age like vintage port, what a pity the same can't be said about "Ned's" soaking in their verbal juices in their ponderous, pompous, pontificating vats ...
Half way! And just three gobbets to go, and the most exciting thing is that "Ned" has suddenly learned to pivot and ask pivotal questions, and the pond was swept down memory lane to ancient pivots ...
What have you got to lose? Pivot the pivotal question ...
The summit was a modest start? No, no, no, if you made it to the top of "Ned's" summit, consider yourself a champion.
As for the magnitude of problems, how sweet of "Ned" not to mention climate science, but the pond guesses the reptiles already consider that sorted thanks to the Bjorn-again one ...and informed sources ...
And so to the reward, a badly framed infallible Pope, but a great singalong ... (and the pond recommends the three part doc Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 though not if it involves actually subscribing to Netflix) ...
"However, no enemy was mentioned more than Dan Andrews, even though the event was in NSW ..." Indeed, but so then is Tarcutta, with its verdant pastures and all (any ?) of its 446 residents from way back in the 2016 census.
ReplyDeleteBut one must interject that the LNP's great hope, before and into the 2018 Victorian election, the man who was going to win this year and become Premier, didn't even rate a mention: John Pesutto who lost the unlosable Hawthorn seat while he was actually live on TV commenting about it. Now, he might as well have never existed. A bit like Tim Smith, actually.
Planet has taken on a big task trying to put some polish on Dim Tim but we should remember that turd polishing is a big part of her mission. Remember Georgina Downer - “smart as a whip” or maybe it should have been “dumb as a plough in an attic”? Remember the conservative thought leaders who disappear into benzo-induced madness or get exposed as a tobacco industry Shills.
DeleteAnyway, political parties seem to descend into a cycle of farce building on farce when they get to the point where the Vic Libs are now. Never strong on any sort of useful policy they find themselves backing the cookers as their main policy difference.
As an example, here’s a thread about a now deleted Facebook post by Louise Staley where she calls for a royal commission into the police shooting of an innocent protester. Trouble is, he wasn’t shot, isn’t dead and, according to sources linked in this thread, was injured in a fight with a bottle shop employee.
https://twitter.com/PRGuy17/status/1564963279071752193?s=20&t=E-VJp-qgggSZo2JbRo-BkQ
Having said all that, Jeff Kennett got elected
Multiple times even, Bef: well, 1992 and 1996 anyway. But I reckon it was the huge turnaround involved in Kennett's loss to Bracks in 1999 that really turned Victoria from "the jewel in the Liberal crown" to a mostly Labor state.
DeleteBut yeah, Louise Staley is really a one, isn't she. Just about on a par with Sarah Buckley I reckon. And maybe Rita Panihi, Peta Credlin and Miranda Devine.
Ms Staley had not entered my field of view until this day, so I went to the 'Wiki' for some background. Amongst other achievements, it seems she has been in the employ of the IPA - Director of the Food and Environment Unit, no less. It seems she has not the ultimate talent for self-promotion of the other people you mention; I always think of Rita Panahi as the living embodiment of the Mencken adage that for every complex problem there is at least one solution that is simple, obvious and wrong.
DeleteNot sure that Rita can see even the obvious simple, Chad.
DeleteGB - I have just tried to acknowledge your link with 'Pew' in discussion for Thursday, but I guess that has gone to 'moderation'. Not that there is anything wrong with being moderate. Anyway, the gist of it was that, at least Pew had disclosed its total sample size - 24,525 adults in 19 nations, but, if that is apportioned per capita - it will be way less than the 'Newspoll' sample size, so subject to greater sampling error. Still - interesting 'findings' - thank you.
DeleteThe Bjorn yawn ‘we should increase R&D into better seeds to deliver more food with a lower environmental footprint.’
ReplyDeleteOf course - how simple. OK - setting aside the effects of Borlaug’s previous ‘green revolution’, where increased yields in worthy countries depending greatly on paying for patented seed and refined synthetic fertilizer produced by the public-spirited corporations of the land of the free, home of the brave, we might consider the brief for the teams who would carry out that ‘R&D into better seeds.’
The better seeds would need to be better able to grow under floodwaters, but also thrive at ever-higher temperatures, perhaps include new structures for retaining water through sustained heatwaves and droughts, but - hey - we have ways to swap DNA across genera and every other artificial division of plants. Could even be a few animal characteristics worth considering; Triffids had a lot going for them, if you docked them regularly.
In fairness to Borlaug, later in his life he did warn that even his methods depended on being applied to ‘good’ agricultural land, and he did not see a lot more of that being available to an ever-expanding population of humans. He also, quite naively, thought that his methods would reduce de-forestation, because more production on the same, good, land should reduce any demand to remove established forest. In the 13 years since he died, forest clearance in the Amazon, AND Australia, amongst others, simply point up his naivety.
But, over to you, Bjorn, mate, because you are the one claiming a ‘consensus’. Admittedly, it is a bit difficult to determine how many constitute your ‘consensus’ - the website of Copenhagen Consensus Center is a bit shy even on telling us that that organisation is now registered in the USA.
Other information is so sparse we need a loon center to find numbers of people regularly employed by your center. Given that its most recent available declared expenses (from 2014) did not reach $2 million, that is unlikely to be a large number.
Now be fair to Borlaug, Chad: when he was born (1914) the world's entire population was about 1.7 billion. When he died (2009) it was about 6.87 billion and it is now about 7.9 billion. Even a 'green revolution' can't handle that kind of population growth rate. But with the world population significantly declining from (many) fewer births, heat deaths, cold deaths, floods, fires, sea/ocean rises and drownings and starvation who knows ? Maybe a Bjorn-again 'green revolution' might be enough. But I for one won't care.
DeleteDorothy - my thanks for the picture of the plaque in Tarcutta. Even with its minor problem with alignment, it should stand for many years yet, mainly to show that, just over 30 years ago, Tarcutta had a 'Town Clerk'.
ReplyDeleteI have long maintained that the steady, and general, deterioration in performance of our third level of government can be dated to the period when Town Clerks, with delusions of grandeur, and the sniff of increases in salary, out of all proportion to their skills and functions, nagged the councils they were supposed to serve, into granting them titles such as 'Chief Executive Officer',
No doubt successors to the worthy Mr Andrews, of that time in Tarcutta, have achieved the same elevation. I would suggest your pictures of 'sporting facilities' could bear witness to the effects of council 'Chief Executive Officers'
Ah, the glorious paradox of the Tears of a Dame -bitter, yet simultaneously so, so sweet…..
ReplyDeleteI may have to reassess my views on Dim Tim Smith. After all who amongst us hasn’t reacted to news that a good friend is terminally ill (which is indeed genuinely sad) by immediately jumping into our car, despite being extremely pissed, driving off into the distance and crashing into an innocent stranger’s house?
But what can one expect when, as Dame Slap notes, those Lefties in the Victorian media overwhelmingly support Dictator Dan? A pity that she didn’t elaborate on that support, because it certainly isn’t coming from the Murdoch and Fairfax rags, commercial TV or shoutback radio.
Do you think the highly partisan reporting actually works in Andrews’ favour? Day after day he batted back the dumb questions (let’s call them Baxendales) and it all just made him look more like a leader.
DeleteThere’s plenty of thing you could criticise him for, they are just things that the Libs would approve of like premature loosening of Covid restrictions or anti protest laws. The impression I get is that the majority of people (at least the ones I meet) don’t have a problem with masks in certain venues or vaccine mandates. To play it as a widespread backlash the reptiles need to pretend that the mad sovereign citizens, 5g conspiracists and deep state nutters are somehow mainstream. The fact that so much humour is derived from their actions indicates it won’t fly. Oh, hang on - - - Dame Slap!
Good points, fellow-Anon. The more barking mad media critics of Dictator Dan seem to have assumed that the average voter’s dislike of mask-wearing, lockdowns and other COVID-related restrictions equated to opposition to both the restrictions and the government that opposed them. The likelihood that most people’s dislike of such impositions was outweighed by their reluctant acceptance of their necessity seems to have evaded them. Similarly, they’ve failed to realise that a lot of the public saw Dan’s daily media conferences as public information sessions, rather than showcases for certain reptiles screeching endless attempted “ gotchas”. Of course, Dan’s reputation also hasn’t been hurt by an Opposition whose best days barely reached “grossly incompetent” and which went out of its way at the peak of the pandemic to make it clear they had little concern for public health and safety. I occasionally wonder whether the like of Matthew Guy, Dim Tim and the staff of 3AW are actually Labor Party plants.
Delete"reluctant acceptance of their necessity" Any semblance of rational belief and action is completely beyong their comprehension it seems, Anony.
DeleteNodoff Neddy: "He [Albo] seeks to seduce business, reward the trade unions, elevate women, champion a better skilled workforce, promote a more caring and inclusive society, cloak policy in the ethic of fairness and back a more decarbonised, more hi-tech economy." Oh wau, that just about makes Albo a saint, doesn't it ? And does it mean that nobody until now (not even Menzies or Howard) was anywhere near that level of divinity ?
ReplyDeleteBut then: "The results are modest." Aww shucks, not quite so saintly after all. Though: "Having waged a relentless campaign to destroy Scott Morrison's standing ..." Maybe just a tad devilish after all.
Though also: "The union movement should be well pleased with several markers it has laid down and its ability to exploit differences among the employer bodies." And "[Albo] told the summit he became PM because the people [that's you, me and them, mate] were [are ?] sick of 'conflict fatigue'." Do we think that Neddles has any idea what he's actually saying ?
So then: "Bob Hawke revealed that this ['delivering' for both sides] can become a brilliant political strategy but it depends on a policy structure that actually delivers for both constituencies." And would anybody want to swear on their choice of holy book that the Hawke/Keating/Kelty "policy structure" actually did deliver to both constituencies ? If so, would you please explain [tm Pauline Hanson] just what exactly it did deliver.
A summit ? Well "The incremental progress it represents is dwarfed by the magnitude of the problems Australia faces - rising inflation, negative real wages and weak productivity." But not climate change/global heating - oh no, let nobody, especially Neddles, say that that might just be a problem. But what's this about "rising inflation"? What's wrong with that ? Every time inflation stops or -shudder- falls, it's called a recession and that's even worse than an inflation ... isn't it ?
Now I'll just put on my champion's ribbon if you don't mind.
I think we’re at the stage where it’s pointless to attempt to analyse Ned’s pontifications, GB. I suspect that like Polonius droning on about the ABC, these days Ned practices automatic writing. I can imagine him sitting down at the computer (or possibly his trusty Smith-Corona) and just allowing the ponderous phrases to flow. As such logic, coherence and any semblance of genuine analysis is sheer fluke.
ReplyDeleteStill, I raised an eyebrow at the suggestion that Albo “seduced” big business. I’ve seen Albo described as a lot of things, but gigolo isn’t one of them.
Don't really disagree, Anony, but old habits die hard and Ned is a very old habit. And at least Ned has a veneer of 'professionalism' unlike the newer ones (eg Killer Creighton and Peta Credlin).
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