Trump again! What is he and what will he do?

Let’s start with a look at the traits of a sociopath!

  • Lack of empathy for others.
  • Impulsive behavior.
  • Attempting to control others with threats or aggression.
  • Using intelligence, charm, or charisma to manipulate others.
  • Not learning from mistakes or punishment.
  • Lying for personal gain.
  • Showing a tendency toward physical violence and fights.

Is this Trump? Sounds like it to me, but the only certainty when it comes to Trump, is that there is no certainty!

I would rather be writing about almost anything else, rather than giving time to Trump, but I’ve just read an article about him, in The Conversation, an excellent universities based publication. The article was wholly about what might be expected in a second Trump presidency.

What a waste of words! He might do this, he could decide that, he will get revenge on blah, blah, blah! I suspect that no-one, not even the orange bozo himself, knows what he will do if there are enough misinformed voters to let the inmates run the asylum.

Maybe I will offer my opinion to the author of the article in The Conversation? All I would need is the following lyrics by Metallica!

Enter Sandman

Say your prayers, little one
Don’t forget, my son
To include everyone

I tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the Sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to Never—, Neverland

Something’s wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren’t of Snow White

Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon’s fire
And of things that will bite

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to Never—, Neverland

Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the Lord my soul to take

Hush little baby, don’t say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It’s just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to Never—, Neverland

We’re off to Never—, Neverland
Take my hand
We’re off to Never—, Neverland
Take my hand
We’re off to Never—, Neverland
We’re off to Never—, Neverland
We’re off to Never—, Neverland
We’re off to Never—, Neverland

Choice

Joe Biden was called “an elderly man with a poor memory”, by Special Counsel Robert Hur yesterday. Clearly, Bob Hur thinks he’s Ben Hur!

Of course Biden is elderly! It’s usually the case when you are born in 1942! He has a poor memory! I’m nowhere near 81, and I can not remember when Beau Biden died either! At least Hur was accurate about the “man” part.

Trump, on the other hand, was called “a dangerously recidivistic, misogynistic and deranged psychopath, who if elected President again, will destroy anyone who doesn’t believe he is Jesus”, by me one second ago.

There is no need to trawl through my words, because they are true. I said so.

I like Joe Biden, but the polls seem to indicate that he will struggle against Trump. Is Joe the best choice to keep Toxic T away from a nuclear arsenal? I think not.

My solution? Kamala Harris versus Nikki Haley. I think that a contest between two intelligent, thoughtful and respectful women, would mean that the stupid games that men play would be avoided. Maybe I’m just a misguided optimist?

The likelihood of my choice happening? Somewhere between zero and impossible.

Good luck USA! You will certainly need it!

Is the Voice doomed?

More surveys and polls indicate that a ‘Yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum is looking less and less likely.

The conservatives support a ‘No’ vote, of course, and their stand is not about politics, point scoring, or wanting to stick it up the Labor Government rather than progressing First Australians lives, of course! And the sky is green and the moon is made of cheese!

The naysayers’ arguments can be refuted easily, but the bottom line of their stand is not about logic or thoughtful consideration. It’s this: once again, non Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, will decide what’s best for them!

Argue about the legalities, the Constitutional niceties, or why it’s all too complicated however much you like, but the reality is that it’s about racism.

The Voice is getting laryngitis

Support in Australia for the proposed indigenous Voice to Parliament is waning – now less than 50% in the last survey and heading south!

It may be early days in the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ campaigns, but at this point the likelihood of the yes side securing a majority of votes in a majority of States is a bit bleak.

Conservative forces have been successful in sowing doubt in people’s minds. For example: not enough detail about how it would work; the Voice will interfere in the day to day minutiae of government; Indigenous Australians only want a treaty.

The vast majority of those conservatives are not Indigenous Australians, but that’s ok because it is right and proper and normal that IAs get told what is best for them by people who know.

NO, it’s not right and it’s not proper! If this referendum is lost it will be a shining beacon on just how racist Australia really is.

More Americans killing other Americans

Another day, another slaughter of little children and adults. This time it’s at a school in Nashville.

More, “oh, it’s terrible, what a tragedy, shock, horror, etc etc etc.”. BUT NOTHING EVER CHANGES! YES, I’M SHOUTING! IT’S WORTH SHOUTING ABOUT!

But it’s too late, of course. If the impossible happened and the USA banned personal weapon ownership today, there would still be millions of guns and rifles in millions of households. There would be civil war if an American government tried to ban guns and rifles and/or said these weapons must be handed in. Add Trumpian rhetoric and other ultra right insanity, and extraordinary problems lie ahead for the land of the free!

You can’t eat submarines

Hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent on a few nuclear powered subs by Australia’s governments over the next several decades. Absolutely inevitably, this obscene figure will blow out, as will the finish date of all of the boats!

As the not so serious but regularly accurate online newspaper ‘The Betoota Advocate’ said, having these subs will delay a Chinese invasion by about 14 hours!

China will have about 70 nuclear powered subs by the time we have 5! The whole scenario around these grossly expensive tin cans is bazaar. Paul Keating is correct, the Australian Labor Party has made a serious mistake with this decision, and the fact that the far right federal Opposition fully supports the ALP government proves this point.

Bonkers!

Dutton’s cringy backflip

Peter Dutton, Leader of The Oppose Everything, has said in Parliament, that he was wrong to walk out of former PM Kevin Rudd’s apology to The Stolen Generation in 2008.

Genuine anguish or political expediency? The forthcoming Aston by-election may have something to do with it, but then again, the man who looks more like Lord Voldemort than Ralph Fiennes did, regularly reinforces his hard Right credentials, so I have to conclude that he was not genuine. I cannot be certain of course, but the idea of a warm and cuddly Dutton is quite freaky!

Don’t believe you Pete!

Pell mell to hell?

Cardinal Pell was released from jail after the divine intervention of the Australian High Court, blessed be their name. He is, therefore, completely innocent of the fictitious slurs made by that clearly demented and manipulated chap who made it all up, including his alleged lifetime of mental devastation!

I suppose that sort of crap is what conservative Christians choose to believe, but that’s up there with Santa Claus, the killing of 6 million Jews in WW2 never happened, Trump won the last election and Scott Morrison is just misunderstood.

I hope that Pell truly believed in the punishment of the wicked and evil, and hell, because that’s where he is and that’s what he deserves.

RIP – ie Rot Intensely Pell.

Leave Peter Dutton alone!

“We have to replace ideology and idiocy with engineering and economics.”

So spoke former PM Malcolm Turnbull recently at an event at the Australia Institute. He was referring to statements by Peter Dutton, Leader of the Opposition.

I agree with Turnbull, but his comments are those of a gutless former PM who (as PM) was captive to very conservative forces in the Liberal and National Parties and who achieved nothing that was meaningful for the survival of the planet.

Turnbull also said that the Liberal Party has become unelectable, has “… lost its way on climate …”, and that Dutton’s stance on renewable energy is based on “… complete and utter nonsense.” All true and good on you Turnbull, clap, clap, clap! Lecturing your own party about its policies, when you were too scared to do anything yourself!

The Australian Labor Party and Australia generally, need Dutton to stay as the Leader of the Opposition as long as he possibly can, because while he is in the job it is unlikely that The Coalition will return to Government! Leave him alone and let him sprout his ideological drivel! Although, when I think about it, Angus Taylor might be even better as a long-term Opposition Leader!

Yes, I’m still alive!

My last post was June 2018! Jeez, time flies when you are having fun and there has been so much ‘fun’ since then!

Donald Trump has gone (but is it temporary), Boris Johnson has come and gone (like a fart in a lift), Malcolm Turnbull* has gone (promised so much, delivered so little), and Scott Morrison has gone (thank you God, you got that one right). And talking of infectious diseases that negatively impact on peoples’ lives, or possibly kill you, COVID came – but didn’t go away.

Then there’s Russia’s brutal and disgusting invasion of Ukraine! I said “Russia’s”, but I should have said “Putin’s”. It is possible of course, that a majority of the Russian people will eventually get sick of his dictatorship, but as of now, it is a shame that I cannot add Putin’s name to the list of the vanquished in the previous paragraph.

I have been on the anti-Putin side of things since the invasion commenced, but have I considered the other side of the ruble? Well, of course I have, because I would not have posed that question if I hadn’t! I have looked at videos, read documents and listened to a friend who thinks the USA (et al) is Satan’s child. There are some valid arguments on the Russian side of things, eg broken promises about the non-expansion of NATO eastwards, but in the end what I saw or read was peoples’ opinions and whether or not the reader/viewer had the same values. My values do not include condoning the destruction of an independent country, its infrastructure and its people!

*I read his book (“A Bigger Picture”) and found it to be boring, forgettable and implausible. In addition, his constant references to his wife made we wonder who was PM, Malcolm or Lucy?