Bad Man Rising

[izmeina]

The weather is slowly cooling down here in the Wild West of Oz so I may finally get back to the odd squiggle or two

Aside from the usual Dementor problem, it looks like some of them have flown over to Canberra to keep slimy Scomo company, it has also been a month of many distrsctions

February began with an unexpected 5 day lockdown but then it got back to business as usual. Both the Fringe World and the yuppie art festivals were on during the month.

So when I wasn't going to shows (to make up for that lost week) I was watching the drama over in Washington.
I caught snippets of the impeachment proceedings which was badly timed not to be on during the first week of February. But then I went for a YUUUUGE binge on the final stretch. I went to bed early on the evening of Saturday 13th February and set my alarm clock for 11pm, 2am, 3am and 4am (to wake me up just in case I fell asleep during the shit show)
The proceedings started at 11pm local time. Most of the time I wasn't actually watching the screen but just had the phone near the pillow and listened to the lawyers.

I did eventually fall asleep when the crazy Philadelphia cheese cracker was carrying on but woke up just in time for the final count. Of course the acquittal was a forgone conclusion but I was there for the theatre of it all.

I most definitely thought I was hallucinating when just after the vote, Mitch McTurtle delivered an astonishing rant about trump provoking but not inciting the riots followed by the big BUT... he did it but is no longer President so case dismissed. In spite of the fact that they started with a discussion and a vote about whether impeaching an ex president is constitutional. If the vote had failed, then the whole proceedings would have been terminated.
But more importantly, in spite of the fact that it was Mr Mitch himself who deliberately delayed proceedings so that trump would in fact no longer be president when the case got to the Senate

I thought I was hallucinating listening to him tearing strips off trump while having most definitely voted to acquit.
Probably the most blatant bit of gaslighting that I have ever witnessed


Lucky I could sleep in late on Sunday but still suspected that losing so much sleep would make me a zombie for most of the week.

But just when I thought that politics was about to get boring again, the shit hit the fan closer to home.

It's a long and sordid story. Disgusting and despicable actually. The simplest way to describe it is that the current Cabinet are a creepy bunch of Brett Kavanaughs. Quite literally.

Adding fire to the flames was the recent first anniversary of the murder of Hannah Clarke and her 3 children at the hands of her ex. A nasty control freak who stalked her to her parents' place where he set her and her children on fire in their car as she was about to do the morning school run



The first scandal began when a staffer came public about having been raped by an older co-worker in the office of the Minister of Defence. This happened 2 years ago and there was all sorts of cover ups going on. The simple act of lurking around such a sensitive office late at night after an office party is a serious security breach in its own right even without being the scene of a sexual assault.

The government ministers got busy passing the buck including the minister with the Federal Police in his portfolio claiming that it was just a case of "He said. She said"
In reality, it is more like "He said. She said. She said. She said. She said. And the CCTV cameras said" because this guttersnipe is a serial offender

But things got even worse. In the last few days, the PM and several Opposition members received a letter from friends of a woman who has since died. She had been raped at the age of 16 by a man who went on to become a member of the current Cabinet

The resemblance to the Brett Kavanaugh case is uncanny with the major difference that this case will never come to court.

Last November the ABC had an investigative journalism story about sleazy male politicians in Canberra and the government went ape shit. They tried to get the whole story shut down and discredited. I suspect the guilty party was featured in that story. He has the creepiest General Flynn vibe dripping off him.

So basically, all 16 men of the current Cabinet are under suspicion until one of them is either named or fesses up. Fat chance of that from such a self serving narcissistic bunch

So it is scary to think that across the continents, such predators start young while still in school and make life hell for young girls ruining their lives while just shrugging it off as a bunch of beers with the boys.

It is the anger and entitlement that is so damned frightening.


I do hope that the worthless worm is squirming now. He will never face justice in a court of law because most rape cases die with the plaintiff. But in the court of public opinion, I do hope that he becomes a pariah and drags the whole damned government with him.

I bet smug Scotty from marketing now wishes that he never took that selfie with Grace Tame - the Australian of the year. She won the award for campaigning for the rights of women who have been sexually assaulted and to put the shame back where it belonged in the first place - on the perpetrators.

Apparently, it was seeing those photos that was the last straw for Brittany Higgins - the staffer who blew the whistle on the whole predator culture

I am hoping that some great White Shark has seen the latest Scomo happy family on the beach photo ops

You would think that he would have learnt after Hawaii




Today was the day I finally managed to visit the zoo after an absence of at least a year. The highlight of the day was feeding time in the sneke pit where the pretty little pythons were offered little mouse and rat snacks.
Personally, I would have preferred to see some of the squealing kids on the menu instead.