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New Leadership...again.
10 years ago
Seems like the best way to become Prime Minister of Australia is to join a ruling party and wait until the person running the country screws up so much you just tap them on the shoulder and take over. Former government it happened twice and now the current government, one who boasted on the stability of it's leadership, has seen it occur.
Am I surprised? Only by the fact it took so long to kick Tony Abbott out. I really was expecting this six months after he took office. I guess he screwed up so bad no one wanted to step in and try to make things right ... well not right for the Australian people mind you. Things got to the point where people I knew were certain Indonesia would declare war on us simply because the Mr Bean attitude that Tony Abbott displayed wasn't as funny as he, or his puppeteers thought.
Yeah, was always my belief that Abbott was a pawn who was told what to do and say from behind the scenes, hell just look at some of his speeches. He would pause, repeat some things , get confused and say something that didn't make sense. And if you were lucky afterwards you would see footage of him wandering off to stand alone pretending he was the only one around.
But the thing is even though he is now gone we still have the same party who are trying to put the screws on the poor, still have the same party who will do their best to suppress bad news stories about them, who will still sneer arrogantly at those who don't agree with their way of thinking.
So yeah, while some are dancing around singing "Ding dong the witch is dead" I am reminded of a line from another movie.
"Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place."
Am I surprised? Only by the fact it took so long to kick Tony Abbott out. I really was expecting this six months after he took office. I guess he screwed up so bad no one wanted to step in and try to make things right ... well not right for the Australian people mind you. Things got to the point where people I knew were certain Indonesia would declare war on us simply because the Mr Bean attitude that Tony Abbott displayed wasn't as funny as he, or his puppeteers thought.
Yeah, was always my belief that Abbott was a pawn who was told what to do and say from behind the scenes, hell just look at some of his speeches. He would pause, repeat some things , get confused and say something that didn't make sense. And if you were lucky afterwards you would see footage of him wandering off to stand alone pretending he was the only one around.
But the thing is even though he is now gone we still have the same party who are trying to put the screws on the poor, still have the same party who will do their best to suppress bad news stories about them, who will still sneer arrogantly at those who don't agree with their way of thinking.
So yeah, while some are dancing around singing "Ding dong the witch is dead" I am reminded of a line from another movie.
"Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place."
Seems to be a a lot of that kind of politics going around in the world right now. I know either of the U.S.'s major parties would be ecstatic to be able to play it that way, but they have to at least make it look like the popular vote means something.
"Yeah, guys? The barrel has no bottom."
If I had 10 bucks for every time I banked on that these days, I'd be commissioning everyone on this site for $1000 USD porn pics for shits and giggles. because I would have that much dosh to burn through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6STjaonPEWw
Since this is a soundtrack, you miss out on some of the commentary that the crowd is making that really sells this, however I couldn't find a good quality video clip of the movie itself. Suffice to say, there's commentary such as:
"So, is that a yes or a no?"
"It's a definite maybe..."