Wry & Dry #19-26 Elvis still alive? Liberals still alive? Mental derangement.
Fiftieth anniversaries are optimal for retrospective reconstructions of events. So, it has been with The Dismissal: a prime minister getting the DCM from the GG. Uncle Albo didn’t even wait for the starter’s gun. The Gnats wagged the dog; and the Liberals have given Uncle Albo a great chance at breaking Menzies’ record. New peaks in Trumpster’s mental derangement continue, the men in white coats are standing by. Read on.
Wry & Dry #18-26 Longer than a lettuce. The beginning of the end? It was 50 years ago.
Sussan Ley’s tenure at the top of the Liberal Party looks increasing like that of a lettuce. Trumpster’s bluster about election of a radical left-wing mayor of New York missed the main story: swings of over 7% away from Republicans in special state elections. Is this the beginning of the end of the penny section for MAGA?
On Tuesday it will be 50 years since the imperious PM Gough Whitlam was given the DCM by the GG. Expect the hagiographic media articles to overlook one glaring hypocrisy.
Wry & Dry #17-26 Grim Jim didn’t smile. Begging bowl. Trump goes east.
Whilst Uncle Albo was lapping up the accolades for sitting next to his new best-buddy at a dinner at the APEC summit in South Korea, Treasurer Grim Jim was taking a beating for the latest inflation data.
Wry & Dry #16-26 Uncle Albo brings it home. Barnaby’s back! The French Job.
Uncle Albo looked as happy as a clam. Not even Ruddster’s mortification as the ghosts of his chickens’ past came home to roost could dampen the ebullience. Hats off to Uncle Albo’s team for the many months of back-channel planning. The optics of Trumpster being Uncle Albo’s new best buddy were outstanding.
Wry & Dry #15-26 Where’s Uncle Albo? Trumpster 1 Appeasers 0. Liberal enemy within.
Where was Uncle Albo on Monday? This was when Treasurer Grim Jim tried to show humility when he undertook the best political backflip/ backdown/ change of mind since events on the road to Damascus about 2,000 years ago.
Wry & Dry #14-26 So far, so good. Hasty Hastie. “To lose four is carelessness.”
The widespread conflating of the joy of the hostages’ release with Trumpster’s Nobel Peace Prize Plan (Gaza Chapter) is disappointing. There are at least three submerged logs. Meanwhile, Liberal wannabe prime minister Hastie continues to focus on the future, his own. To the cheering of the far-right echo chamber. And France’s government stumbles like a giraffe on roller skates on ice.
Wry & Dry #4-26 Barnaby’s back! Bradmanesque. Coldplay: moralistic schadenfreude.
No sooner had new Opposition Leader Sussan Ley worked out the location of the opposition toilets than the first hand grenade landed. And it wasn’t tossed by the Greens, Teals or loose-cannon independents. But by her coalition partner, the lunar-occupying Gnats.
Wry & Dry #3-26 Albo goes the full tourist. The dropping penny. Public holidays.
Difficult to decide who enjoyed more adulation this week. Albo who didn’t seek it, but got it. Or Trumpster, who did, but didn’t get it.
Elsewhere, France’s PM wants to slash two public holidays – where is Tom Cruise when needed? And would celebrity add glamourazzi to the AFL Grand Final.
Wry & Dry #2-26 Mr. Albo goes to Beijing. Interest egg on face. Liberal idiots.
Albo’s plan to boost his lack-lustre frequent flyer miles account after the election was shredded by Trumpster’s fleeing the G-7 in Alberta. Albo also has no desire to meet Trumpster in the White House; why risk meeting Trumpster in front of the world’s cameras, with a couple of 60 Minutes-type gotcha questions ready to be fired?
Better to take a 7-day, all expenses paid (including tips), luxury but twin-share accommodation trip to China. Of course, it will be a week of eating three Chinese meals each day. An Ozempic homecoming for Albo?
Wry & Dry #36-25 Gnats incompetence reveal. AAA loss leads to ZZZ. Bre-enter.
The flat-earthers in the National Party have locked Albo into the Lodge until 2037. This week’s great schism of the Coalition mirrors the ALP split of 1955. And that sandpit fight kept the ALP out of office for another 17 years, until Whitlam gave the treacherous Billy McMahon the DCM in 1972. But by this morning the Gnats might have changed their minds.
Wry & Dry #35-25 Trumpster blinks. “… ask a woman.” Albo washes his hands.
The election postmortems continue. And Wry & Dry is exhausted, but feels duty bound to add his tuppence worth.
However, inevitably, Trumpster dominates the literature. And has added a new meaning to “token gifts from overseas.” A gift of a $400m 747-800 aircraft to use as Air Force One, until the much-delayed new kit from Boeing is built. No strings attached, of course.
Wry & Dry #31 FY-24 Where 88% is a fail. Where’s Dan? Useful idiot.
Tsar Vlad threw himself at the feet of his subjects. And begged to be re-elected for the 5th time. To make it easier for his subjects to vote for him, he wisely banned all opposition parties.
Under those circumstances, he really should have got at least 100% of the vote. So, an 88% result is a dismal failure.