Julian Burnside is beyond parody

Recently, Julian Burnside fell for a parody account of Malcolm Roberts. And it's not the first time he's made such a silly mistake. Late last year Crown Jules was fooled by a similarly fake tweet, this time purportedly by Donald Trump.

Burnside did accept that he was in error regarding Roberts, but grudgingly. In doing so he revealed exactly why he made it, while remaining none the wiser.

This was a classic case of confirmation bias. Emotionally committed to the whole idea of catastrophic climate change, he simply cannot accept that the theory is driven much more by politics than science. So in his mind anyone who questions it must be a moron or a bad person, or both.

Putting feelings over facts, Burnside can't see things rationally on this issue. I doubt he would ever do that in his profession, which he excels at.

And aren't legal eagles always meant to know what someone's answer to a question will be before they put it to them? That's why asking Roberts if he believed in the moon landing was another error. It was very easy for the senator to say of course he did in a subsequent tweet, thereby making Burnside look even sillier.

As if this was not embarrassing enough, Burnside retweeted Adam Bandt's push to have the nation officially declare a "climate emergency". So daft on many levels ...

Apart from the obvious fact that the world is in no such state, even if it were there's nothing we as a nation could do about it. Even if we stopped all fossil fuel usage today, we would have next to no effect on the (non) problem.

So why encourage people to panic -- especially children? The likely answer to that is what I find most disturbing.

When people are stressed out they can be more easily manipulated. So, if you create that state of high anxiety you can then gain far greater social and economic control of the masses, all under the pretence of "helping" them.

IMO those at the top of the warmist pyramid are shameless liars who well know that there's no "climate crisis" but peddle the AGW bollocks because it's a crucial part of their plan to centrally control the world's economy. But I think that many people below them (such as Burnside himself) have bought the lie. That's why they make the kind of confirmation bias booboos detailed above.

Even then I think their commitment to it is more about moral vanity than anything else. Strangely, they actually kind of enjoy spouting all the gloom and doom. By melodramatically warning the normies about the impending apocalypse, they can feel like they are noble planet-saving heroes ... Interesting how the thing that upsets them most is being told the world isn't gonna fry in a coupla decades, innit?

This "climate emergency" push is basically an exercize in political narcissism. Clover Moore has declared one in Sydney to make herself and her fellow travellers feel extra-spesh. But it's pretty obvious she doesn't believe it on a genuine, selfless level. If she did, she'd be focused on the climate issue alone. She'd have no time for other projects such as NAIDOC in the City -- itself another excruciating example of virtue signalling.

The Sauce: Hot Albo way cooler than Latho's crass conservatives!

I have blogged before about how News Ltd has a range of views, even though all the whining lefties at their ABC and Fairfax (now Nine) see it as HQ for eeevil righties. And here's another example of this:

In the Sunday Telegraph there was this item in "The Sauce" about an event held recently in Enmore that featured Anthony Albanese.

Using wordplay on "spinning" it described how Hot Albo carried off a DJ gig with aplomb. 

Kinda ironic, since the report itself was spin. It was clearly meant to humanize the Labor Leader by portraying him as hip to the yoof and all that. 

This was in marked contrast to the report further down the page. It was about an upcoming Liberty Works talkfest that Mark Latham will be attending. It included a coupla sneering references to the high profile guests, including Raheem Kassam, mentioning that "he was forced to apologize to a female minister who had recently suffered a miscarriage".

Now, you can always find some dirt about any well known person if you look hard enough. So why did they do so here unless they were very keen to peddle the dreary narrative about how conservatives are all such awful misogynists and the like?

And the piece concluded by saying the event "promises to be anything but boring". That's PC leftie code for "offensive, appalling and wrong".

The right-on bias is just excruciating, innit?

MSM smokescreen envelops Epstein

The Jeffrey Epstein arrest is absolutely yuge in so many ways. The scumbag rock spider is connected to numerous powerful pollies, squillionaires and slebs. They are all surely packin' their dacks, and bigly!

The story is more relevant to Americans than Australians for obvious reasons. Still, it's a massive development given the context of Trump's war against the globalist cabal and the deep state. If the local MSM were dinkum non-biased truth seekers it would still be one of the top stories here, with many details included.

But all I saw yesterday in the main two dailies (Daily Tele and Herald) were brief items on pages 19 and 20 respectively. Below is the one from the former.

As you can see it mentions Bill Clinton and Trump together as pals of the pedophile. It makes their links to him seem equivalent. But this is not the case at all.

Slick Willy has long been much more closely involved with Epstein, and has lobbed at his creepy "Orgy Island" dozens of times over the years. Trump, OTOH has never been there, and while he knew the guy he actually banned him from one of his resorts because of his creepy sexual predation of young girls.

But you can be sure that right across the spectrum the local MSM will maintain the false equivalence for as long as they can. That's because the same factors that cause a preponderence of fake news in the USA are at play here too, just not as pronounced. 

Below is a much more accurate depiction of what's going on. 

So only PC LGBTQIA+ folk can cry "homophobia"? Sounds like discrimination to me!

Something that becomes clearer with every passing day is how divisive and toxic political correctness is. And the reason it has this effect is not because of an excess of zeal -- you know, pathway to hell, etc -- but because being toxic is its actual intention. It's classic "divide and conquer", and conquering us is the ultimate aim of the totalitarians at the top of the power pyramid. 

The mistake many people make is to confuse the muppets with the, er, muppeteers. Magda Szubanski, and so many activist members of the LGBTQIA+ community (and what a bollocks term that is, just as the "heterosexual community" would be if people decided to invoke it) are sanctimonious and annoying. But in the end they are just useful idiots for their calculating cultural Marxist thought leaders. 

Non-hetero slebs like Magda have been brainwashed into thinking that they're oppressed by society. M'kay ... If she's so oppressed, and our society is so "homophobic" then how'd she become so successful, admired, and I suspect wealthy in the first place?

Being one of the anointed, she feels that only she and her fellow woke folk get to use right-on terms of condemnation. Below is her response to a torrent of abuse after she liked a mean-spirited tweet by Marcia Langton (who has form on this sort of thing BTW) basically claiming that a self-described gay conservative couldn't be both. He only thought he was gay, she tweeted, because "he masturbates too much".

Surely hateful by any measure. And we all know how Magda and her ilk would react if an influential rightie had tweeted mockingly about a powerless gay person's sexuality and an even more influential rightie had liked it.

What's amazing is how she not only denies that the tweet itself was homophobic, but she then goes on to cast herself as the victim. I don't doubt that much of the reaction she got was nasty and abusive (which should always be condemned of course) but a lot of it was completely justified criticism of her obvious hypocrisy. Still, in classic SJW style she didn't show any humility or maturity. She just doubled down instead.

You really couldn't get a clearer example of the rules of political correctness. Magda clearly implies that the term homophobia (hatred and fear of homosexuals) is only to be used to describe righties, especially Christians. So it's a term to sledge political opponents, not protect sexual minorities. Which makes it just another one of PC Left's deceitful labels along with Islamophobia, climate change denialism, misogyny and toxic masculinity.

The line is that PC leftie gays and lesbians, etc, just can't ever be guilty of homophobia, even when they are. But if the same standard cannot be applied across the board, then how can equality ever be achieved? And isn't that what PC LGBTIQ+ activists say they want?

Well, clearly not. They just want the power that comes from constantly claiming they are ... powerless. And they just can't see the irony. That's because they've been so completely indoctrinated by cynical control freaks into demanding special rights, and thereby sowing social discord. It suits the anti-Western, pro-globalist, cultural Marxist leaders to have such prominent "victims", even when, like Szubanski herself, they are nothing of the sort. On the contrary, they have clearly long had the world at their feet. Sad! 

But it's not just leftie atheists who pile on with the very selective condemnation of political opponents. Many woke Christians do too. Take their ABC's Julia Baird for example.

By focusing on the hate that people have expressed (rather than the valid criticism of hypocrisy) she manages to sidestep the issue, and merely repeat the same tactic of applying standards only when it suits the PC Left's divisive, misery-causing agenda. If Ms Baird sincerely believes her own talk, then why doesn't she condemn Langton for the obvious hateful abuse that provoked the mean tweets sledging Magda? 

I suspect she would say that's because Ms Langton is not a Christian (AFAIK). (She's prolly also wary of being labeled racist, since the same double standard applies regarding that issue as well.) But would she refuse to condemn right-leaning atheists for the same thing? Of course not.

See, Ms Baird is still doing what the sanctimonious hectoring woke folk always do: ignoring the ugly hate on her own side. That makes her just as much of a fool and a muppet as Magda herself.

And she must know how such brazen hypocrisy enrages people -- particularly when they also have to pay for it (by funding the ABC). Which I suspect is a big part of why she does it. That also makes her a bit of a troll, which she explicitly condemned in that very tweet. Not very "Christian" of you, Jules!

Unlike Israel Folau himself, who's remained restrained, dignified and forgiving throughout (even if, IMHO, he was wrongheaded). His original post was inclusive because absolutely everyone was on the "hell list". It was also loving, because he wanted all those "sinners" to be saved.

He repeated Ms Baird's exhortation. And coming from such a goodhearted place, he thereby improved upon it greatly.

How ironic is that? After all, it was Folau's so-called "hate" that started this big ugly ball of of right-on virtue-signalling and putrid leftie abuse rolling in the first place ... 

Atheist lefties could easily ignore Israel Folau, so why don't they?

Pretty obvious that there is a massive long term push to erode the power and influence of Christianity throughout the West. It's particularly intense in the USA. And it's definitely getting that way here in Oz, with a howling pack of atheist lefties (along with a few religious woke folk) going hell for leather at Israel Folau.

As we all know, the PC Left consistently use sneaky tactics to achieve their goals. One of their faves is to choose a seemingly oppressed minority and falsely claim that the group they wanna slime are being big bad meanies to them. This is the primary ploy they use to attack Folau.

If you don't do your own thinking -- and sadly that is the case with a lot of people these days because of the dumbing down of education resulting from the PC Left's corruption of it -- then it might appear the accusation levelled at the rugby player is accurate. The Instagram post that set the whole firestorm off does say that homosexuals are going to hell, after all ... 

But while the list was short, it was extremely comprehensive. According to devout Christians atheists and idolators alone make up the vast majority of the world's population. Hardly discriminatory, it was actually highly, er, inclusive.

So this idea that Israel was singling out or targeting gays is absolute bollocks. So too was the idea that he was being hateful. (If you hate people you wouldn't wanna save them, right?) But of course the usual suspects were repeating this line ad nauseam.

Notice how Phelps fudges the issue by calling the stoush a "contractual dispute", zif it had nothing to do with Folau's religious beliefs. Gawd ... There are many Muslim sports stars who have a harsher view of the gay lifestyle than the Christian rugby player yet they haven't come a cropper in this way. Anthony Mundine is an obvious example.

Pirate Pete was true to form as he joined the pile on to kick another worshipper of "Big Sky Daddy". But it was interesting that such a high profile atheist didn't cast himself as a victim of Folau's post. And that was because he so obviously wasn't. How could you be upset about someone saying you'll be going to a place you don't even believe exists? Also, it would've looked completely ridiculous if such a thick skinned ol' lummox (and a former rugby player himself) claimed his pwecious wittle fee-fees were hurt.

So, rather than tackle Folau honestly, like he would've done on the field, and say he was driven by disdain for his religion specifically, he had to make it look like he was being all compassionate and caring. FFS, what a fake! 

So, he was implying that Folau's post could've contributed to suicide. That is such an absurd claim. Has there ever been a confirmed case in which some tormented whippersnapper offed himself because of something a sports star he admired said ... and about religion?

Even if there is a case to be made that the online brain farts of famous rugby players and the like exacerbate closeted kids' torment, the sensible response is to advise them to ignore such posts. (That adage about sticks and stones versus words comes to mind here.) Surely it would be best to say something along the lines of: "He's a rugby player, not a life coach. Respect his skills on the field, sure. But don't worry about the other things he says. He's talking utter BS!"

This is such an obvious solution to this so-called massive problem that even Father Flog himself endorsed it.

You know you're using a truly stupid argument when this shameless virtue signaller debunks it. Talk about a sign from, er, Rod!

And not only is Pirate Pete's argument idiotic, it's also likely to cause more harm than what it condemns. Rather than encouraging the confused, impressionable yoof to stop sweating the small (and silly) stuff and taking charge of their own emotions, it actually implies that they should cede control of them to their idols. To use a fave leftie term it's extremely disempowering.

To be honest, I think this might even be the intention of many of those who use it -- though that's unlikely in Fitzsimons' case because I doubt he's that diabolical. It suits the agenda of the most zealous and influential rainbow fascists that young gay kids are miserable even to the point of suicide because they can use this sad state of affairs to slime their number one target: Christianity and those who practise it. And that's not just wrongheaded but deeply sinister.

More thoughts on the Folau saga, and why he's received so much support from the normies below.

Why Hollywood is full of deviled hams

Back in the day I used to do standup and character comedy. So I would hang out with comics, actors, musos and other arty wankers. There was a lot of high-minded talk about freedom of expression, creativity and all the rest of it. But it slowly dawned on me that rather than being individualist free thinkers this crowd were generally very conformist in their political views. 

By the late nineties I'd concluded that most of the people I knew -- while being very personable individuals -- were brainwashed by political correctness and deep green mania. I used to think of the most fervent greenies as religious in their zeal and jokingly referred to them as "ferndamentalists".

Occasionally I took the piss out of them in gigs, though there was a trick to doing that. You couldn't just go "balls out". The best approach was to sandwich your subversive "right-wing" gags in between more traditional fare mocking popular culture (eg TV shows) and pollies generally. If you showed complete and consistent disdain for the Left the audience may have gone with it, but the denizens of the comedy scene sure as hell wouldn't have. You'd be marking yourself as an ideological enemy and the gigs would slowly dry up for sure.

Needless to say having to self-censor was very depressing. It was the main reason I pretty much gave up comedy, only performing very occasionally. Haven't done a gig for many years now. 

Like all sane adults stuck in a leftist dominated milieux I found the ideological conformity deeply frustrating and the strange fervour these folk had for their causes -- feminist and green ones especially -- weird and a bit unsettling. They were daft, but dark; right on the cusp between silly and sinister -- sillister, for short!

At the time I had a couple of lines on this particular subject that I wanted to try out but don't think I ever did. That's because they weren't actual jokes with strong, sure-fire punchlines, obviously a crucial ingredient in any comedy routine.

The first was to describe these sillister folk as being trapped "in the belly of the Beast -- but they think it's an indoor swimming pool." The other was about how ironic it was that they hated Christians so much. After all, their whole world view seemed to be ripped off from the Bible. "It's just like the Garden of Eden except this time the serpent is the good guy!"

The reason I cite these two observations now is that at the time I didn't actually believe they dinkum worshipped the devil (and I still don't). I just thought they were so extreme in their views that they'd done a sort of spiritual about face and Luciferian imagery was the best thing I could think of to convey the concept. 

But now, twenty years on, I realize that I was actually onto something ...

The PC Left, particularly in America, have long been virulently anti-Christian because so much of what they see as bad, wrong and oppressive (like the traditional family, gender roles, etc) is promoted by the Church. If they can destroy its power, they are that much closer to implementing their creepy totalitarian agenda.

While most of these folk are just garden variety atheists, some of them are genuine Satan worshippers. They don't advertise that fact, of course. Occult power thrives in the dark, after all. Exposure is its kryptonite ... Hell, if you thought the Lord worked in mysterious ways, you should get a load of his nemesis! The Prince of Darkness is the "father of lies" and is always dissembling.

While these deluded control freaks are found throughout the upper echelons of politics, business and other fields they are extremely powerful in Hollywood.

And their influence is obvious. So much of what the joint produces is not just atheistic, but deeply anti-Christian. Can you even think of major studio flick since, say, Ben Hur that had a clear pro-Christian theme? The only one that comes to my mind in recent years is The Passion of the Christ. And think of how controversial that was ...

As well as the anti-Christian subtext of so much popular culture in the West -- which as we all know is completely dominated by Hollywood -- there's been an overt obsession with sprucing up Old Nick's image of late.

The above doco is just one example. Think of all the dark movies and series that have come out lately in which "evil" characters are the actual protagonists; the ones the audience are meant to identify with and not the bad guys who must be defeated.

There's also heaps of occult imagery in the MSM these days: goats, pentagrams, and the like. And it's everywhere, even in Oz.

Take the new online publication tweeted above. I first saw it advertised slickly (and expensively) in a video in a city train station. I thought the goat symbol was very odd, especially for Australia. Wouldn't quolls, numbats or bilbies be the go? And how did it get the obvious loads of money behind it? If you check it out you'll see it's chockas with sleb-centric fake news. Call me a parochial puritan if you like, but I smell globalist sulfur ...

So what's going on here? Looks to me like a massive, international, long term, stealth campaign by the occult elite to instill their dark narratives in our consciousness.

The vast majority of cultural content producers aren't overt devil worshippers, of course. But they are slowly but surely being fed satanic symbolism from on high and rewarded for promoting it.

Watch the video below and tell me there isn't something seriously creepy and wrong going on -- and right under our noses!

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The climate changes but leftie elites never do

So there have been more of these bizarre climate change rallies by kids across the globe. These are creepy and wrong on so many levels.

The extent to which kids are being brainwashed with this doom-laden bollocks is sickening. And it's not just greenies terrifying their own children. The state is actively involved in this process via the education system. Not every teacher encourages their students to take part in these demos but many of them do. And they're all expected to repeat the massive lies peddled by Al Gore and his ilk.

It would be much more professional, responsible and ultimately far better for children's mental and emotional health if they were taught what all rational and sane folk have long known: that the climate is always changing, and has been for yonks.

Yes, we're probably having some influence on it but in ways that are hard to quantify. And it's just crazy to think that we can turn the planet's temperature up and down like a thermostat -- least of all by paying more for fricken electricity! 

FFS, even if warmists had a solid case their predictions should not be taught in schools. Kids should be protected from such horrifying scenarios. And the fact that it's all a yuge, global scam makes what's happening in education -- particularly in the primary and secondary levels -- even worse!

Recently I blogged about this push by warmists to turn schools into indoctrination camps. And here is some Limey activist proudly reconfirming this very point.

Oh the irony!

In a strange way this daft Brit is actually correct. This is what education looks like these days -- because it's been completely hijacked by Gaia-worshipping doomsayers. Needless to say it shouldn't be like this at all. Education should be about teaching kids how to think, not what to think.

And the fact that schoolteachers, of all people, now tell their students that the whole world is gonna fry unless they get out and wave placards about is just disgusting.

Traumatizing kids to push your own nasty political agenda is definitely child abuse. And influential activists and politicians like Adam Bandt are the most culpable. I hope they are held responsible and severely punished one day for what they have done. 

Just look at the smug little soy boy. He's pleased as punch he's got all his minions mind-controlled.

Does he believe the massive lies he's told them? Somehow, I doubt it.

If he dinkum reckons that "we're all gonna die!" because of global warming then he wouldn't be sporting such a calmly self-satisfied expression, now would he? To me, this looks much more like the face of a narcissist savouring the power he has over others.

And check out the frightbat holding the sign as she beams at the dreadlocked nature boy -- who himself appears to be grinning.

Maybe they're flirting with each other, who knows ... Whatever's actually going on it massively contradicts the sentiment expressed by her stupid sign.

Looks very much like they're just peddling this bollocks because all the other muppets around them are. But most of the kids who've been exposed to this rubbish genuinely believe what they've been told by their parents, guardians and teachers. Childhood is traumatic enough without the threat of impending global catastrophe to worry about!

I really feel sorry for them. It's very different to what I went through as a child during the Cold War. And that was a time when there was a genuine possibility that the world was gonna end ...