Here’s a solid tip for anyone aspiring to be selected as The Bug‘s Xcrement of the Week Winner. Our competition’s judges are so old they actually attended the premier of Flying High back in another millennium and can spend days around a coffee table sprouting the film’s famous lines to their roars of laughter and disapproval from all those around.

They even know, without the need to look it up, that the automatic pilot in the greatest spoof movie ever made was Otto so when Pup Fiction used the meme (at top and below) to have a dig at Peter Dutton’s allegedly taxpayer-funded flight to Tamworth for a love-in with Gina Rinehart and Newscorpse and to talk about the cost of living crisis, well, then, shirley there was no other choice?

Peter Dutton was all over last week’s news for other reasons as well, particularly his seemingly almost off-the-cuff comments that he would be ditching the Paris climate-change targets for 2030 and would not be announcing new short-term targets on the way to a promised net zero by 2050 until after the next election and only, naturally enough, if he won office.

Another of The Bug’s all-time favourite memeists is Tom Red, so we’ll happily give him a double dip as to why Dutts will always love Paris. But then again, maybe not. He thought he knew but maybe he didn’t. If you don’t knowment, vote nonment, right? Sorry for all that fancy Frog talk.

At the very least, you’ve got to give Dutton chutzpah for going down what would have been a very dangerous path when Morrison and the LNP were losing a swag of seats to teals, other indies, Labor and the Greens for a decade of climate change inaction. Climate change was important two years ago; not any more, Dutts is a’thinkin’.

Dutts has always spotted a divisive issue he can exploit and clearly he’s decided there are votes to be had in trying to claim to be helping struggling Aussies survive the cost of living crisis and Froggies can fuck off and eat as much gâteau as they like.

But that debate will be tested over the next year or so and immediate reaction was harsh, and not just from the Teal brigade such as Monique Ryan. Peter Murphy and Ray Wilton had their two bob’s worth.

Also on the subject of a heating world were Jane Caro and Tom Ballard.

Oh, Tom, you crack us up. “I sincerely believe this man must need assistance to tie his own shoes”.

Let’s end this first look at The Bug’s Xcrements-of-the-Week by this effort by Martin Pakula and this stunning example of failed self awareness by former British PM David Cameron.

INDEED! Who was it again that made Farage a thing?

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