This week’s column is full of angst and anger – so what’s new? – so our Xcreta-of-the-Week judges thought it best to lead with a short, funny piece of Xcrement flung by Dave Donovan (top and below).
Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately, more on Dutton later.
Late in the week’s cycle came the news that Australia had abstained in a United Nations vote calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire of hostilities in Gaza.
Coalition Tea Lady, Dr Sheep Person Podge and Joan didn’t pull any punches…
We at The Bug know fuck all about the wacky world of geo-politics but think the reason given as to why Australia couldn’t vote for that motion – it didn’t mention the October 7 murderous attacks by Hamas – was wishy-washy at best. Unless of course Albanese knows as well as anyone that Australia really is both racist and zionist. Or as Coalition Tea Lady has opined, was the wine and the tucker on the White House lawn that good? And are our US nuclear subs that vital? Perhaps we should just be grateful that we have a left-wing prime minister (insert loud and prolonged canned laughter here) or we might have voted no!
And as we compile this column, our radio in the background is telling us that Israel has demanded that a major hospital in Gaza that is also sheltering a very large number of misplaced civilians must be vacated immediately. Supposedly there might be some Hamas fighters hiding in their tunnels under that hospital so the rockets are on their way.
Anyone else heartily sick of the argument that Israel has the right to defend itself and it is operating within the rules of war these past three weeks?
Rhys Muldoon had fulsome praise for senior minister Tony Burke for defending a pro-Palestinian stance taken within his Sydney electorate…
… while Quentin Dempster and Michael Springer tackled Peter Dutton, his focus always on opportunities for division, for his totally expected demands that Australia should have voted no at the UN and that Albanese should fly immediately to Tel Aviv, strap a safety retrieval rope to at least one of his legs and crawl up the arse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Our once greatly admired Australian Broadcasting Corporation got plenty of stick this past week, with Norman David responding to Miss Polly’s X post reflecting on some polling that has shown Aunty slipping badly in terms of public trust over recent years.
Don Wilson also reacted to Miss Polly, while Maurice Billi armitage*shanks lined up Insiders in particular.
Also on the subject of ABC news programs, let’s share Brown Dirt Cowboy’s comments above a moving meme on former Australian and very Dirty Digger Rupert Murdoch.
Let’s end with a hodge-podge of general Xcrement flung about this past week. Take it away, Michael J. Wyllie, Grant Curran. Angry Sewer Rat, Phillip Adams, MFW and Richard Denniss!
We’ll leave it to you BUGgers out there to decide whether Phillip Adams has used “root” on purpose.
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