timrust.bsky.social
I'm a [grand]father who often gets worked up about stuff
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A smooth evolution from "Devil's Advocte" to mere "advocate"
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Hey, even trump is surprised that trump has kept to his word
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Spare a thought for the MSM, which constantly assured Americans that he wouldn't be as bad as .. he said he'd be
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What? Israel?
They'd never... oh, right
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Every Massola article reads as though it's pre-packaged from start to finish: open wide James, here's your next story. Every Laura Tingle article reads like it's been stitched together from multiple sources, nobody gets to put the full story
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If the Army come out on the side of the rule of law, there'll be a terrible Civil War; if they side with a corrupt federal government, there'll be a terrible dictatorship
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The stars in Marles's eyes nail it
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Our journalists continuing to Trump as though he is stable. rational, and trustworthy, when telling us what Albo should do, is a real worry
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Why is the ABC so blasé about this, as if blackmail is just the rough and tumble of party politics?
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And it would truly win the center, not by engaging in a pandering chase after the least awful of an awful coalition, but by defining and defending a true moral center—a fixed spot of universal solidarity around which people can gather, if they want to accept the invitation for something better.
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If it hasn't been festering in a glass pot on a hotplate fo a couple of hours, it just ain't the same
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Presumably, someone's got them by the pills and twisting
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Every person should!
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If only we had bigger tongues: then we could lick more boot
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ABC managed to cite the entire political history of a Victorian citizen who has reported Moira Deeming to IBAC for extortion, but Hockey's pedigree just slips by
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don't. let. it happen. again.
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Isn't that it in the picture?
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How is it possible for the party to let her stay after this?
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Why not...
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Seems a bit previous, as they say
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I'm pretty keen on tech, but I was stunned when a relative told me she needed an app to allow her to select the wash cycle she wanted
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What's a little extortion between colleagues?
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There's only so much banter between smartarses that anyone can take
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Well, those two choices went well, didn't they
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You'd think this should be grounds for expelling Deeming from the party, regardless of the legal outcome
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Blackmail, at least
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And if he was too tired, they'd call Li'l Jimmy Paterson
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I'm a Hobnob guy
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a panel of 4 right wingers, one Labor (but I repeat myself) and a poet (wondering what their agent signed them up for) is not balance.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here
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And the moderator asking the international guest to venture an opinion on the domestic party political stoush going on at the other end of the panel
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Raf Epstein seems to think it enabled "all Australians" to engage in the "national conversation", rather than being an example of the worst kind of bad faith "balance" and both-siding