A reminder that ‘civility’ is always a leftist con to gag opposition

15 Responses to A reminder that ‘civility’ is always a leftist con to gag opposition

1. Petros says:

   24 June, 2023 at 3:51 am

   Just quote them back to themselves and remind them who said it first if they kick up a stink.
2. NFA says:

   24 June, 2023 at 4:51 am

   Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal Oligarchy
3. Cassie of Sydney says:

   24 June, 2023 at 7:53 am

   “A reminder that ‘civility’ is always a leftist con to gag opposition”

   Yep, but I don’t need to remind anyone here that it’s a con the stupid Liberals and Nationals always fall for, every single time. Any cry for civility from the left is simply a dog whistle designed to silence opposition. It now works because of the timidness of the two major right of centre parties.

   I miss the likes of Wilson Tuckey, Bill Heffernan and others, the Liberal Party “sh*t kickers”. Neither of these men had much for “civility”, especially cries of fake civility emanating from Labor. They (and other Liberals) knew how to throw it back. But they existed when the Liberal Party was really and truly a “broad church”. Sadly now, thanks to left factionalism, an inept Tony Abbott, the Miserable Turd of Point Piper and the Smirking Scumbag of the Shire, the Tuckeys and Heffernans of the Liberal Party are all now extinct, you’d have more chance of finding a Thylacine.
4. Christine says:

   24 June, 2023 at 9:51 am

   Leak has that Albanese nostril darker than ever. Symbolic. I love it (the drawing, not the nostril).
5. Jackie Howe-Singlet says:

   24 June, 2023 at 12:40 pm

   Yep, Christine, sorted. I like to think Albo was forced to don the gravitas goggles because of Leak Jnr’s eye-popping Albo.
6. Ed Case says:

   24 June, 2023 at 1:18 pm

   There’s always ambiguity with Leak.
   Note that the audience is all White, Anglo-Saxon, stern, middle aged/Elderly.

   So, yeah, it’s a cheap laugh, but he’s validating the words he puts into cartoon Albo’s mouth.
   Bill Leak did it all the time.
7. and says:

   24 June, 2023 at 2:23 pm

   Lil’ Dennis Elbow must be so proud of his “unifying” work. Although behind a paywall, the headline at The Strine is jarring enough –

   Restraint needed as voice divides the nation
8. Lee says:

   24 June, 2023 at 3:02 pm

   Albo telling opposition to the Voice to be “respectful” while there is absolutely none from him or his side.
9. Christine says:

   24 June, 2023 at 3:28 pm

   “a cheap laugh”
   The cartoon. If I might be indulged:
   It isn’t Albanese’s fault that he doesn’t have a strong Roman nose.
   Throw in a pair of beady eyes. Poor thing.
   But if a man is stuck with extra-long nostrils and a very narrow septum, it’s wise to aim for a pleasant expression in public … otherwise, those nostrils will flare and he’ll look mean and nasty.
   The depiction is excellent.
   “a good laugh”
10. NFA says:

    24 June, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    “We will keep shooting prisoners until morale improves”.
11. Buccaneer says:

    24 June, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    Ed Case says:
    24 June, 2023 at 1:18 pm
    There’s always ambiguity with Leak.
    Note that the audience is all White, Anglo-Saxon, stern, middle aged/Elderly.

    So, yeah, it’s a cheap laugh, but he’s validating the words he puts into cartoon Albo’s mouth.
    Bill Leak did it all the time.

    Ed your comment says more about you than Leak or your assessment of the audience.

    The depiction of Albanese doesn’t suggest he’s right, it shows him as a rapidly partisan hypocrite, exactly how he comes across. That you fantasise something else, tells us all we need to know.
12. Ed Case says:

    24 June, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    Killed another thread, eh?
    Well, you’ve had plenty of practice.
13. Old Lefty says:

    24 June, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    That’s one thing you can say about John Howard: he was unfailingly courteous, even when people abused him to his face. And he was (unlike some)* courteous towards staff even when the cameras weren’t running.

    Surprisingly, the same was true of Keating in private. He could be brutal if you were a political opponent but, so I am told, was good to work for. (A residual influence of the penny catechism?)

    *As for the ‘some:, how about seminars for parliamentarians on courteous and respectful treatment of staff conducted by that New Class Labor luminary Gareth Evan
14. Old Lefty says:

    24 June, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    … Evans?
15. Buccaneer says:

    25 June, 2023 at 10:23 am

    Opinion polls show the undecided public is crying out for information, but Linda Burney offered very little.

    The Voice was “a practical and simple proposition” that was “about doing things differently so we can move the dial of national shame,” she said.

    Linda Burney is wrong, Australians should not be ashamed of our constitution, we should be ashamed of an indigenous grievance industry that wants to introduce race based special privileges into a document specifically intended to treat people equally.

    “History is calling,” she said.

    “Friends, how often do we get the chance to put a shoulder against the wheel of history and push?”

    Linda Burney is right, we have an opportunity as a community to reinforce that we don’t accept special treatment based on race by rejecting the voice and auditing the more than a thousand indigenous bodies and $4.2 billion funding.