Charlie Manson is dead. Fetch me a bin liner. I could make that funeral quick and inexpensive I assure you.
In the wake of Manson’s long overdue demise there were a great many catastrophically bad opinions expressed.
Chuck Woolery, a former television host and Hollywood conservative does a podcast (doesn’t everyone these days?) with fellow weirdo, Mark Young. It sounds as many podcasts do, as if two drunk men are sitting in a garage with a cheap microphone trying to outdo each other with increasingly stupid takes.
Woolery thinks Manson was an early supporter of the antifa (anti-fascist movement) and further that had Charlie been allowed to vote, he would have scratched a swastika in the box alongside Bernie Saunders’ name. By Woolery’s logic Jeffrey Dahmer would be a Reaganite, preferring to opt out of the expensive food stamp welfare program and make his own sandwiches.
Sadly it got a lot worse. On the other side of the political aisle, there were some appalling attempts to evoke sympathy for the man who facilitated and urged his followers to commit the most appalling deeds known as the Tate-Labianca murders in Los Angeles in 1969.
Full column here.
47 seats and a Majority win to the brilliant QLD Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk, Mr Insider, she now moves into the “magnificent bastard” class. Poor old LNP waffler Timmy Nichols can now go back to flipping burgers or whatever he is good at, if anything!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/qld-election-2017/
Entirely predictable from the results I saw on Sat night. Apropos of my latest column on Turnbull’s lack of political craft, MT was babbling about the likelihood of Palaszczuk going back on her word and seeking the support from crossbenchers in order to govern. He made those comments on Sunday in Bennelong. Here we are on Friday and the remarks then look dumb and obviously wrong now. This was a good win for Labor in QLD and a disaster for the LNP. There was no avoiding that conclusion on election night.