Another Political Rant

My local "member" - Peter Dutton
[Click on image for the full horror]
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I should probably give up speculating on politics because I'm not very good at it.

It looks like I grossly overestimated Malcolm Turnbull. I had thought that the ingenious way he had destroyed the NBN, while at the same time spinning his sabotage as improvements, and his well-timed and efficiently executed knifing of Abbott, were marks of some supreme Machiavellian intellect.

It appears that in reality these were the pinnacle of his achievements and beyond that he is nothing more than a pompous windbag with a gigantic ego. He thinks he knows everything but in fact he has no skills beyond telling lies, and does not even realise that any more skills than this are needed. I though he had an evil plan and, with his Saruman-like skills (and a little help from Sauron aka Rupert Murdoch), would entice the population down the road to some horrible corporatist dystopia. In fact, he seems to have no plan at all and considers it beneath him to even devise a plan.

I take back what I said about him deliberately splitting the vote in the 1999 Republic Referendum. There is a saying that goes "Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.", which I think perfectly applies in this case.

He is no Lord Baelish. I can't think off-hand of any Game of Thrones character who combines such an inner feebleness and incompetence - a lack of both knowledge and skill that rivals even Tony Abbott - with the external veneer of a master manipulator.

I have also underestimated Peter Dutton. I had thought of him as being of the intellectual calibre of Hordor, with the difference that instead of being a good-natured giant fulfilling an important role, he was a nasty and useless weakling.

While this is all still true, I underestimated his sheer brutality. Maybe his extreme stupidity renders him insensitive to the suffering of others. If only he were merely useless, and didn't have the power of life and death over people!

Seriously! A refugee under his "care" attempts suicide by self-immolation - which is quite possibly the most painful way it's possible to die - and all he cares about is censoring an "unflattering" photo of himself. As if it's possible for a mere photo to make him look any worse than he actually is!

I will be doing everything I can to make sure this loathsome scumbag loses his seat in the forthcoming election, but I would really prefer to see him shipped off to rot in one of his own concentration camps.

And, yes, that most likely is the shadow of a swastika on his forehead in the photo.

Where the Mutton-head deserves to be.
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