Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Ok ta craig but can you remind me why you mentioned him earlier.
Because the way he and Clark handled a rather sticky situation couldn't be a more depressing compare and contrast with Goff's determined incompetence.
BTW, I really hope I was having an auditory hallucination this morning when I heard Goff saying Andrew Little was out of the loop (and not shy about expressing his displeasure) because he couldn't contact Little. FFS, folks, the Labour flaxroots really should be firing off "please explain" e-mails if their Parliamentary and organisational leadership are communicating through low-grade sniping on Morning Report.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Spokesperson for Economic Development ringing any bells? :)
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Dunno Russell, perhaps he really thought it’d be over before he would be pushed to have to drop him.
If that's true, Sofie, it's an astonishing level of magical thinking from a former Police minister.
And I'll compare and contrast with David Parker -- who, IIRC, asked to be stood down from Cabinet and the position of Attorney-General as soon as he was aware that allegations he filed a false declaration with the Companies Office would surface in Insinuate Magazine. While he wasn't fully re-instated when he was cleared by the Companies Office investigation, I've got to say both he and Clark scored some serious brownie points for their good judgement.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Don Christie,
Australian State politics, a foetid, festering carbuncle on the name of democracy….
But endlessly entertaining in a torture porn kind of way -- and I got one hell of an answer to my long-time question "Just how sleazy and generally bizarre does the NSW state government have to get before voters throw it out"? Answer in two parts: 1) Very, and, 2) like dingos on speed. I have Liberal acquaintances in NSW who were saying to themselves "these polls can't be right"; and they still don't believe it.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Rik,
What planet do you live on Jackie?
Dude, I think you've just used your Noob pass. Disagree with Jackie using all your words - make an argument, be pointed and articulate, wit is always a plus.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Also important, is avoiding a National Party 2002 result.
On the bright side, at least Labour here isn't seriously facing the downright sadistic beating voters handed to the New South Wales ALP over the weekend.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Richard Aston,
I am no fan of Laws but I thought he had a point re trial by media.
I’ve got to pop out for the rest of the day, but I thought the only point being made is that Laws will concern troll on behalf of nice white middle-class people who look a lot like him, while continuing to void his media bowels all over everyone else.
If Laws genuinely gave a shit about trial by media he could clean up his own act. But he won't, so he can go screw himself.
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And anyone wondering why you've only got 159 seconds this week, I decided to cut a passage almost literally at the last moment. Think you can guess what it was alluding to.
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David:
I don’t know… on some level, I think Goff is a far too convenient scapegoat. I’m having acidulous flashbacks to 2002, when National won the lowest share of the popular vote in the party’s history. Blame the media? Well, that’s easy enough to do. Blame Bill English & Michelle Boag – well, that’s fair up to a point, but only that far. The simple truth is that an incoherent policy platform, a lousy campaign and a party organisation more focused on its unattractive in-fighting than public policy just turned people off.
And anecdotally, I’d respectfully suggest a lot of people in Labour need to get the frak through their grieving process over the last election. There’s still a nasty strain of entitleitis; the conviction that the only way Labour lost was a stupefication spell cast over the moronic peasantry by Harry Crosby Textor. Well, folks, the counter-spell isn’t chanting “secret agenda, Smile and Wave, expelliamus!” but actually coming up with a more disciplined, credible and coherent platform than the ‘Axe The Tax’ bus tour farce.
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WARNING: Links in the following are SFW but MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR ABUSE SURVIVORS.
Nor is it particularly helpful when smart people like Brian Edwards who should know a lot better, let WhaleOily comments like this run unchallenged.
My first reaction to this story was – was Darren Hughes set up? There has been no report (that I’m aware of) of the party for which the ‘youth MP’ went to Parliament.
Could Hughes’s drink have been spiked?
The whole thing smells fishy to me. Hard to imagine three politicians of the experience of Clark, Goff and King misreading the character of Hughes so badly that they would have taken him under their collective wings and promoted his cause (over quite a number of years now) without any of them discerning in his makeup the possibility of his making such a mighty error of judgement such as inviting a young man (whom he may or may not have known previously) back to his mentor’s home for a sex romp.
M’kay… sounds like there’s some abuse apologist bingo going down at Brian’s house – and his later defence in response to my comment would be funny if it wasn’t so damn creepy.
And with all standard trigger warnings in place, Michael Laws is reliably vile – here’s a hint, as soon as he starts using the word “sensual” avert your eyes. Prick.
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