End of an Era for Stupidity

And Boris Is... Going

So say the news. 

It truly is some kind of an end of era. First it was Trump not winning in 2020, followed by the January 6 Capitol mess. Arguably, it took a while but Australia corrected itself at the electorate and removed the mendacious Scott Morrison and his government of corrupt miscreants. Not importantly it marked the end of Australia's time that started with the election of Tony Abbott, the most incompetent PM in Australia's short history. Finally, we're seeing Boris Johnson being tuned out by his own party who can no longer abide his zero-governance style of government. 

What they all have in common is that they are all governments pushed upon us by the Murdoch press and TV. Any rational mind could see Tony Abbott had no idea - no fucking idea - about how to run a country, let alone a chook raffle, but somehow Australia ended up with him just so the hard right nut job brigade could run a solid defence against actually doing anything about Global Warming. Compared to the decade of travesty that followed, perhaps Boris Johnson is not as bad. But then a pile of steaming poo is not as bad as a lake of diarrhoea. As for Trump and his entourage of corrupt minions and family, hoo boy. 

Jeez y'know, it makes you wonder about all kinds of things like the efficacy of all that private school education and bullshit if it yields leaders like these. It's hard to tell where all that money went. It also makes you realise that you can deny reality only for so long. You can pray and make a song and dance out of your religiosity like Scomo but ultimately Black Summer Fires and a bunch of once-in-a-hundred-year flooding events will put you squarely in the context of not knowing what you're talking about. Equally, if 40 of your own side ministers quit on you, maybe you don't know just what the fuck you're doing as Prime Minister of UK. It begs all kinds of questions about a society that gives rise to a process that allows this kind of thing to happen. If it were only America or only Australia or only the UK, you're be forgiven for saying it's a cultural quirk. But for these 3 Anglophone countries to all be beset by this kind of anti-intellectual incompetent troglodyte governments does make you search of answers. 

And really, it's staring in your face if you're a news junky. It's the collective effort of the Murdoch press that delivers these terrifyingly stupid outcomes for so long. Perhaps it is the sign that demographics are shifting - the greying nut-job Murdoch-press-consuming dickheads are dying out, and this is creating just enough of an edge for sanity to prevail. I guess we'll see. 

The Other Stupid Keeps Hanging On

Goodness. What the fucking fuck are we going to do about Russia and Poo-tin? The unhelpful answer is that we should somehow come up with a way to talk him off the ledge of history. 

The West is “blindly” marching towards World War 3, one expert says, and warns one act could trigger a “disastrous” global war. 

Henri Guaino, a French politician and senior advisor to the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, says an “all-out” war could be triggered by treating Putin like Adolf Hitler – an act which would make Russia “the most dangerous country in the world”. 

"The moment we compare Russia to Nazi Germany and Putin to Hitler – we must be prepared for an all-out war,” Mr Guaino told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom. 

“It is impossible to stop the war against Hitler. If we are facing someone like Hitler – we have to go all the way, at any price, and we will be walking into a disaster. Alternately – we must find ways out. This is the responsibility of politics.”

Look, I know it scares people to sobriety that Poo-tin might just go for the nuclear launch codes. It needs to be said that it's also true that whoever goes for the launch codes first invites the other to do whatever the hell they like, up to and including Mutually Assured Destruction. 

So the Russians bleating about how they have nukes and if they keep on getting mistreated by the world, they might just go for them, is just show. They keep talking about nuking London, but the moment they let off that sucker, it invites NATO to surge across the border and head for Moscow in a conventional war. And given how depleted the Russians are, the West can win that one without nukes. Therefore, the Russians can't just let off one as a warning or do proportionate damage if they go first. The only option once they decide to go nuclear is in fact Mutually Assured Destruction. Now, the Mutually Assured Destruction scenario is where everybody loses, but that everybody includes Russia at the front of the queue. Any World War III of the nuclear kind would guarantee Russia loses. The rest of it leading up to World War III is a pantomime to see if Poo-tin can be made to wear the responsibility all by himself. 

Poo-tin is not as stupid as say, Boris Johnson or Scott Morrison. He understands this calculation. This is probably why he is getting other mouthpieces that are not him to put these ideas out and about. Yet it still has to be said, the dumbest guy in 2022 isn't Boris Johnson or Scott Morrison - it's the guy who ordered his army to invade Ukraine. What an idiot.