The Brown Note

Arguably the world's apex stand up comedian, Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix stand up, The Closer, is the most controversial of the modern age. Why I think it's also the most important. The most fearless, deliberate and confrontational work of his career, less concerned with being funny than staring down the zeitgeist, taking a blow torch to the sound bite universe and running a freight train through cancel culture. Astonishingly, in an era of gun-shy corporations, Netflix knew full well what they were getting into and did it anyway.

I am now in possibly the smallest group of people in the country, I have had both vaccinations yet am unvaccinated, have a medical exemption and with the rest of Sydney now free, have another month of lockdown to look forward to. How my genius level intellect got me to this place. Also the farcical Australian Freedom Day copies the UK in name only and why I think more lockdowns are on the horizon for NSW.

Not content with randomly destroying our relationship with our biggest trading partner and the world's second most powerful nation, China, just to look good for team Trump, Australian Prime Minister and all round crazy dude, Scott Morrison has decided to throw Australia under a bus with France and potentially Europe too! Just to look good in the news for a week, he behaved like all bad boyfriends and broke up with the French via text, only he is the leader of a country. And as with all this announcement kings announcements, the fine print reveals we will likely now get nothing at all for it. Genius.

Please spare some space in your heart to pray for the saintly Gladys Berejiklian, queen of our hearts, cut down so brutally from her rightful throne as leader of New South Wales by those pesky corruption scandals. Vale oh golden saviour.

No we're not! COVID is giving our media, politicians and public some false sense that we are one country united - far from it. We are two countries that hate each other and where one side lives to stick it to the other, every way they can.

With the streets of the UK now resembling an episode of The Waking Dead, as the zombiefied masses literally fight over petrol, shelves are bare, fast food joints have no food and a million workers are missing, if only there was some kind of warning that this would happen...

What should China do with a problem like Evergrande, their very own personal Global Financial Crisis collapsing property giant? They should do the opposite of what the West did and send a message to the World.

Now surpassing One Nation as Australia's most awful band of political charlatans, the UAP, despite ironically sending me an unsolicited text message in 2019, to tell me they would ban the practice, are in 2021 - sending the country unsolicited text messages. And from one of the country's most esteemed purveyors of self promotion and conspiracy theories - Craig Kelly. A look at how stupid someone would have to be, to believe this billionaire mining magnet friend of Scott Morrison is their anti-government Che Guevara.

It's been near 20 years since the most watched event in global history kick-started the century but could America's forever war finally be over? Since World War 2 the USA has either been in a cold war with Russia or troops on the ground in South East Asia or the Middle East, now all of that's gone and the stars are aligned. Biden seems strong enough to wear the abuse of pulling out of the last two decades devastating conflicts, there's no one left to fight and all the battles left are economic. With the most progressive side to an American government in history, no wars and a reshaped global order, Biden has a chance to be the best president since FDR.

The New South Wales state premier has taken several leaves out of the king of empty PR and spin - Prime Minister Scott Morrison's book and is dealing with her COVID failures by relentless gaslighting of the public. Daily announcements about new freedoms that have already been announced, constantly telling us things we've know for months as though they are brand new, making out it's public hesitancy and not the Liberal party supply chain failures that are stopping people getting vaccinated. Refusing to give us the accurate facts, figures and projections she has access to and continually tossing us crumbs to put a positive spin on our COVID woes. And having some of the world's worst and most pro-government news media, they are all to happy to help.