HALLELUJAH! No more Campaign Ads.

Yeeeehaaa! 6PM Polls are cloooosed! It's overrrrrr.
Let the games begin. I've got a front row seat at the Colosseum, a bourbon mixed, a Chinese take-away to sustain me and they can start the 'bloodbath' as soon as they like. Bring in the pollies and let loose the lions. Bwaaaahaahaha.


... sorry, but it's been a long time coming.
 

True to a point TG, unfortunately, still a politician.

But to continue the Roman analogy,..... we've exchanged the deranged Caligula for at least a Nero, and hopefully an Augustus.

We had a female Julius (Julia Gillard) but we all know what happened there, Julius got stabbed in the back. In this twist by Caligula, but creepily close enough to be Roman history repeated. Julius had stabbed Caligula first time he was Caesar but didn't finish the malevolent, scheming fool off and so paid the price for that oversight.


Rudd/Caligula, hired a team of Obama's campaign gurus who promptly marketed him as a 'presidential' type candidate, 'cos that's how things are done in the US. But we don't do Presidents. duh! We do Parties, and Rudd made it a Party of one. They put all their eggs in his basket and he dropped it.... maybe even deliberately?

I'd go further into that aspect but due to some technical glitch beyond my comprehension the speed on this site has dropped to pedal generated dial-up. (It's not my computer, everything else except Yahoo mail is working fast as usual) It takes at least 30 seconds to change a page, up to 3 minutes and I'm too old and impatient to wait that long.

So I'll leave airing my 'views' for now and I'll sit here in the hope that things will speed up.
Suffice to say that the fact that the prancing show pony con man Caligula got any votes at all, let alone enough to retain his seat, is testament that the gullibility of the general public is truly gobsmacking!
 

When Obama first ran with his hope and change song and dance . . . my African/American co-worker said, "Remember, he's still just a politician."
 
Hey, remember that Titanic and Dinosaur building billionaire candidate? The one that made the announcement on live TV that Rupe Murdoch's ex, Wendy Deng is a Chinese spy?? Looks as though he's in with a very good chance of actually winning his seat. Duh!

Bet your lot are looking better 'n better eh?
 
As I remember it, Nero styled himself as a man of culture and the arts.
Not everyone agreed with his self assessment.
I don't think our new PM has ever been characterised as a man of arts and culture so we need to look for a new Roman to compare him with. He has written a book.

This fellows sound like a better match
Marcus Tullius Cicero, English byname Tully (born 106 bce, Arpinum, Latium [now Arpino, Italy]—died Dec. 7, 43 bce, Formiae, Latium [now Formia]), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters.
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Let's just hope that the civil wars are not final.

:lemo:
 
Being as polite as I'm prone to be I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt Polly, and will presume you meant 'remember it' as in recall of reading about it and not actually being there.

I bow to your better knowledge of history, mine's not much better than my maths. They were the only Caesars I could think of at short notice.


2nd that hope for continued skirmishes, it's been a ball. Most of the principal cast have survived, unfortunately, so the show will go on.
It's a damned shame for Labor really that the elephant in the room will be still sitting there on the back bench. He'll always be the unmaskable scar on whatever pretty new face they want to put on their rescurrected Party persona.


.... does it show much that I don't like him at all?
 
Being as polite as I'm prone to be I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt Polly, and will presume you meant 'remember it' as in recall of reading about it and not actually being there.
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I watched I Claudius more than once. Most of my remembered history has been acquired courtesy of the BBC.
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And I pulled Cicero out of a hat because of a (half remembered) line in my fifth form Shakespeare which happened to be Julius Caesar. I think I got it wrong.

Perhaps I should have likened him to Cassius, one of the conspirators against the leader

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.​
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Diwundrin said:
Hey, remember that Titanic and Dinosaur building billionaire candidate? The one that made the announcement on live TV that Rupe Murdoch's ex, Wendy Deng is a Chinese spy?? Looks as though he's in with a very good chance of actually winning his seat. Duh!

Bet your lot are looking better 'n better eh?
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OMG! It's the end of the world as we know it ....
 
Just heard my local pollie (Hartsuyker, NLP, aptly locally pronounced heart sucker) got back in with a 2% increased majority of 11+%, we sure don't like Labor or Greens much around here.
 
It's a fair to middling size. What about that one in the NT? Lingiari or somesuch, covers the entire Territory except Darwin. Around a million square kilometres, now that's a hell of a door knocking challenge for a candidate!
He'd rack up flyby points just doing a 'street'.
 

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