The Brown Note

With a bitterly fractured world, divided along the political right and left, recent wins against populism have come with some imploring us to reach out to the right and heal. I say no, these are not good people, they want to fight and are the enemy.

Another winner in 2020 bingo. Why I don't think the celebrity chef and now Qanon-lite grifter is an ACTUAL white supremacist, in light of his recent and utterly bizarre posting of an anti-Trump meme with Nazi connotations and subsequent cross-media cancellation, he may just be incredibly stupid.

Australian Attorney General, Christian Porter, was outed on a recent 4Corners TV expose on Liberal party misogyny and bad behavior towards women. Ring wing news media of course came in to bat for him as claiming rumors of his boozing and affairs weren't in the public. With this top legal entity in the country currently involved in a Men's Rights attack on the Family Court that's perceived to be too friendly to woman - I say his accused lifetime of misogyny is very much in the public interest.

His election defeat was beautiful but now we enter a dangerous phase we only joked about and that now seems real. Donald really is trying to take over American democracy in a coup and why this is going to lose the republicans their last crown jewel - the senate.

The ABC's 4Corners expose into the systemic sexist, entitled behavior of Liberal National Party government officials shows they really believe themselves to be the ruling elite, above such petty concerns as faithfulness to their wives, respect to their staff or honesty to their electorates.

The best UK political leader of my lifetime, the UK's Bernie Sanders - Jeremy Corbyn, is once again being railroaded by accusations of racism, despite campaigning against racism for decades in a way almost no UK politician has. SHAMEFUL

It's been a horror five years, bouncing from catastrophe to disaster. From Trump to Brexit to Boris to Scomo. The nightmare of populism might be ending though, with great election results in New Zealand, Queensland and the US knocking at the door.

I can't think of another oppressed or marginalised group who have ownership of their own issue, identity or story so routinely talked over or dismissed as Women. The Harry Potter author, JK Rowling's personal notion of feminism has clashed with Trans rights. Why I stand with her.

The ex-Aussie Prime Minister takes aim at one of the most pernicious influences on the Western World's political discourse and media landscape - the Murdoch Press. "Some Say" a vile cancerous parasite on the Anglo-Sphere. Find his petition for a Royal Commission into them here:

https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938

He probably had anyway but the optics of his $750 tax bill just ended his campaign.