It must be election time since my old fashioned snail mail box has never been so full of junk.
Today I got yet another tiresome love letter from the local Liberal member who of course has the advantage of incumbency with all the attendant perks.
Mr Irons very kindly enclosed a Liberal Party "How to vote" card amidst the usual dribble. The fact that there are ten candidates rather than the usual boring six is most interesting indeed. That means that a bunch of crack pot parties are in the game.
It was hardly surprising to see that his second preference goes to the candidate from the Clive Palmer party. Clive Palmer is a sad and pathetic Trump wannabee who even steals his slogans and most definitely the Don's pathological lying. But he is a poor imitation with a string of bankruptcies and failed ventures including a mining company, assorted resorts, a dinosaur park and even a replica of the Titanic to be built in China in spite of his endless rants and conspiracies about China. I guess China is Clive Palmer's Mexico
But most entertaining of all is one Tshung-Hui Chang the candidate standing for the One Nation Party. This is a party where the founder became famous for a maiden speech declaring that Australia was being taken over by horde of ASIANS! Somewhere on the road to Beijing, she must have seen the light because now it is not the Chinese but the Muslims who are taking over the country. Wnich reminds me that Ramadan starts on Sunday. And how do I know this? Aside from the new moon being on that day, the local Woolworths supermarket is full of big boxes of dates, dried fruit, nuts and bottles of pomegranate juice. Poor old Pauline would have a fit if she seen it.
Having no television and listening only to the ABC or reading the papers as my main source of information, only today have I realized just how much I have been missing out on.
At work this morning, the radio was tuned to some commercial channel and every second advert was throwing dirt at the Labor party. Most of it is likely made up because whining and shifty as their leader is, he cannot hold a candle to the present mob in Canberra for sheer corruption, incompetence and cruelty.
I must admit I do think that the adverts portraying the opposition leader as some sort of Frankenstein's monster are quite clever because he sure does look that way and sounds it too with the endless droning and whining. Problem is, it is likely he acts like that because he decided that imitation is the best form of flattery. A certain mad monk and liberal leader did very well out of decades of relentless negativity and a whole bunch of people jumped on that band wagon.
It is such a pity that politics nearly always resorts to encouraging fear and greed in the electorate because it has worked so well in the past. They get rewarded for bad behaviour so they keep doing it.
In the meantime, I did download the very juicy Mueller report in its 400 something page redacted entirety but still have not managed to get a good gawk at it. I guess it is more fun getting the official version from the very honest, impartial and authoritative Attorney General William Barr
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