PM promotes Seselja to junior ministry

Mysteryman said :

pink little birdie said :

devils_advocate said :

Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

Seriously – what do you think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Abbott has both a height (reach) and age advantage on Putin, and has some practice in striking from his days as a boxer. He’s also arguably maintained a much higher level of cardio endurance but depending on the match-up that might not be a decisive factor.

Granted Putin would have the superior ground game, but if UFC has taught us nothing else (and it hasn’t) it’s that strikers with superior reach always have a ‘puncher’s change’ against a grappler. Strikers usually have around 30 seconds to throw shots from the outside which can sometimes be decisive, before the grappler attempts to shoot for the takedown.

So now I’m genuinely interested to know – what do YOU think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Well, now I want somebody to match them up.

Frankly, Abbott’s training wouldn’t even see him past the rawest KGB recruit, let alone a veteran like Putin. He wouldn’t get anything like 30 seconds to try to land anything. Unless Putin wanted to draw it out.

Well I’m assuming our Valodya won’t actually get to bring polonium into the octagon with him.

justin heywood said :

Tenpoints said :

Tea Party Logic. Utter genius.

We don’t have a Tea Party, genius. If you’re trying to use derogatory terms, you’d best find some that apply here in Aus.

That’s a non-sequitur. Rupert Murdoch is behind Fox News, Fox News marshalls the “thinking” of the Tea Party, and The Australian and its local friends such as Tony Abbott and Ian MacFarlane take their cues from there to promote their economic mis-management, NBN vandalism, and “climate change is crap” nonsense.
That’s where the Tea Party logic comes in.
Normal Australians are having trouble voting for a Party that is 50% Tea Party-friendly, so The Australian is pushing the idea that Turnbull needs to give more airtime to the Tea Party-friendly nutters that have infected the Liberals.

pink little birdie said :

devils_advocate said :

Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

Seriously – what do you think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Abbott has both a height (reach) and age advantage on Putin, and has some practice in striking from his days as a boxer. He’s also arguably maintained a much higher level of cardio endurance but depending on the match-up that might not be a decisive factor.

Granted Putin would have the superior ground game, but if UFC has taught us nothing else (and it hasn’t) it’s that strikers with superior reach always have a ‘puncher’s change’ against a grappler. Strikers usually have around 30 seconds to throw shots from the outside which can sometimes be decisive, before the grappler attempts to shoot for the takedown.

So now I’m genuinely interested to know – what do YOU think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Well, now I want somebody to match them up.

Frankly, Abbott’s training wouldn’t even see him past the rawest KGB recruit, let alone a veteran like Putin. He wouldn’t get anything like 30 seconds to try to land anything. Unless Putin wanted to draw it out.

dungfungus said :

Very good Zed .
Good luck with that as I can’t see Malcolm Turnbull lasting too long.

He’s on the nose.

Malcolm Turnbull procrastinates more than kevin Rudd but what makes it more distasteful is that he has a silver spoon tone to his demeanour and his rhetoric is meaningless.

It seems that he got where he is today by other people doing things for him and then takes the credit. he doesn’t seem to be a take charge type person .

Malcolm Turnbull would pee his pants if he was told to shirt front Vladimir Putin.
Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

How is Turnbull “on the nose”? Who is a suitable alternative to him? The only reason why the LNP won the election is because they got rid of Tony Abbott, who was a massive liability. Conservative estimates had them as standing to lose nearly half their seats if the leadership had not been challenged. Turnbull is a proper politician; whether you like that or not, he plays the game intelligently rather than running off with his mouth and then getting surprised that people were listening. He made poor decisions, did not take accountability for his captain’s calls, and continued to blame the opposition years after it was clear that he was the loose cannon. The LNP does not have a viable alternative to Turnbull at the moment. Also, he won the election. It was close, but they’re a majority government.

For what it’s worth, the “shirt-fronting” comment was horrendous. How can the Prime Minister wax lyrical about the problems with violence, particularly among men (I’m thinking of the one-punch assault cases that lead to the lock-out and an attempted changing of terminology with Federal backing) one week, then turn around and say he was going to physically assail the President of another country the next?

I compare Abbott to Julia Gillard. For years we were told that a female PM would be so much better. More tolerant and level headed, under a woman there would be no wars, etc etc. Well a woman had her go and we all know what happened. It was an experiment that nobody would want to see repeated.

For years the Murdoch newspapers and the shock jocks told us that a hard line conservative leader was the answer to all our problems. No more budget deficit, no more welfare bludgers, no more boat people and no more political correctness. Well we all know how that turned out as well.

The fact is that a centrist and more progressive approach is the only formula that works in politics. Pandering to fringe elements marginalises the majority and is not a recipe for longevity in government and electoral success.

Tenpoints said :

Tea Party Logic. Utter genius.

We don’t have a Tea Party, genius. If you’re trying to use derogatory terms, you’d best find some that apply here in Aus.

devils_advocate said :

Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

Seriously – what do you think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Abbott has both a height (reach) and age advantage on Putin, and has some practice in striking from his days as a boxer. He’s also arguably maintained a much higher level of cardio endurance but depending on the match-up that might not be a decisive factor.

Granted Putin would have the superior ground game, but if UFC has taught us nothing else (and it hasn’t) it’s that strikers with superior reach always have a ‘puncher’s change’ against a grappler. Strikers usually have around 30 seconds to throw shots from the outside which can sometimes be decisive, before the grappler attempts to shoot for the takedown.

So now I’m genuinely interested to know – what do YOU think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

Seriously – what do you think would happen if a drop-out from Priest school got into a physical confrontation with a highly trained KGB agent?

Did you miss the bit where Abbott and Putin ended up in the same room in QLD and Abbott didn’t say boo?

This is yet another illustration of the wilful delusion that is absolutely compulsory if you want to support Tony Abbott, his ludicrous lack of ideas about economic matters and his denial of climate science.

dungfungus said :

How is Turnbull “on the nose”?

Here’s how it works – the Australian Tea Party nutters managed to get Tony Abbott in as PM. This failed, of course, Abbott being even less suitable for the position than my last year’s dandruff.
So now these nutters have to manufacture a reality wherein Turnbull needs to pay more attention to the Tea Party nutters in order to stay in government – hence he needs to give jobs to the likes of Abbott and Seselja.

If you don’t understand how this works, just read The Australian – this political pamphlet runs stories every day of the week where they explain how important it is for the Liberal Party to veer much further to the loopy-Right in order to repair the electoral damage that resulted from the Liberals having veered to the loopy-Right in the first place.

Tea Party Logic. Utter genius.

What an example to the world our gov is. Turnbull, Pyne, Morrison, Joshua whatever and Barnaby Joyce all pathetic examples of men let alone leaders. God help Australia if people think these are typical Australian males. I guess they would seem ok next to Trump or Hillary Clinton. Should all work well together.

Very good Zed .
Good luck with that as I can’t see Malcolm Turnbull lasting too long.

He’s on the nose.

Malcolm Turnbull procrastinates more than kevin Rudd but what makes it more distasteful is that he has a silver spoon tone to his demeanour and his rhetoric is meaningless.

It seems that he got where he is today by other people doing things for him and then takes the credit. he doesn’t seem to be a take charge type person .

Malcolm Turnbull would pee his pants if he was told to shirt front Vladimir Putin.
Tony shirt fronted Vladimir Putin on a reflex action .

How is Turnbull “on the nose”? Who is a suitable alternative to him? The only reason why the LNP won the election is because they got rid of Tony Abbott, who was a massive liability. Conservative estimates had them as standing to lose nearly half their seats if the leadership had not been challenged. Turnbull is a proper politician; whether you like that or not, he plays the game intelligently rather than running off with his mouth and then getting surprised that people were listening. He made poor decisions, did not take accountability for his captain’s calls, and continued to blame the opposition years after it was clear that he was the loose cannon. The LNP does not have a viable alternative to Turnbull at the moment. Also, he won the election. It was close, but they’re a majority government.

For what it’s worth, the “shirt-fronting” comment was horrendous. How can the Prime Minister wax lyrical about the problems with violence, particularly among men (I’m thinking of the one-punch assault cases that lead to the lock-out and an attempted changing of terminology with Federal backing) one week, then turn around and say he was going to physically assail the President of another country the next?