Abbotts foot in mouth thread...

[AN_Inkling]

[Wokko]

I don't know, calling the Chinese delegation 'ratfuckers' was a slightly more horrendous gaffe than not knowing a soccer player's preferred method of shortening the name "Michael".

[HAL]

That is interesting.

[AN_Inkling]

[The Prototype]

I suppose it's an easy gaffe to make when Mile is close to Mike, still a little embarrassing for Tony to get the preferred name of the Socceroos captain wrong. Probably excusable considering he's probably not got much knowledge of the sport, would be more embarrassing for a seasoned commentator you'd think.

[stui magpie]

[pietillidie]

It's the George W. pattern, based on the same George W. elitist aloofness, extremist conservative ideology, complete ignorance of the wider world, and economic fundamentalism that is the worry.

You give such an unaware dill that much influence, you take an enormous risk with everyone's lives and livelihoods.

And, as with the George W. era, no one believed things could really get so bad. Well, they did and they are threatening to again. It's the same error conservatives make time and time again: Oh, but how could someone who iterates such right conservative ideas that make me feel so warm and right and safe be such a destructive lying idiot? And then, it's too late.

As I say, it was gross negligence and an extremely irresponsible action to elect someone with a 30-year track record of nuttery and extremism to high office. Once again, the "conservative" "reputation" for "responsibility" is a complete fiction and a laughing stock at everyone else's expense.

The bloke is a tool of capital and far right quackery, and just a total tool in general. What a shocking risk to have taken with one of the luckiest citizenships in human history.

[3.14159]

Maybe he was wishing Fifa’s chief investigator Michael J Garcia luck when he examines 'evidence of corruption' surrounding the Qatar 2022 vote.

[AN_Inkling]

[Tannin]

[Tannin]

By the way, I have often been accused by some notorious posters here of being blind to Abbott's good points. That is not so! I readily recognise and respect Abbott's good points wherever I can find them. For example:

[stui magpie]

[1061]

Read More >UNESCO rejects Coalition's bid to delist Tasmanian World Heritage forest

[pietillidie]

What deranged fool could look in a mirror and feel good about himself for trying to open up forest for logging, even at the less pristine margins?

Honestly, people often talk about the extreme idealism of the Greens, and so on, but the extremist ideology it must take to con yourself into thinking such a thing would be a worthwhile life achievement is beyond me.

These are not knowledgeable, insightful and decent people. They're literally brainwashed members of an ugly capital cult, kept sheltered from the wider world by in-group bum-slappers and favour-doers. Much more Waco than mainstream liberal democracy.

[Wokko]