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From Bolt's if-only file - If only I could  stop pretending I was cultured and  be able to adopt the qualities pf Chekhov

 

1) Forgive the  the strangers in my house.

 

2) Pay for brothers at the University,

 

 4)They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things. A lie is insulting to the listener and puts him in a lower position in the eyes of the speaker. They do not pose, they behave in the street as they do at home, they do not show off before their humbler comrades. They are not given to babbling and forcing their uninvited confidences on others. Out of respect for other people’s ears they more often keep silent than talk.

 

5) They do not say “I am misunderstood,” or “I have become second-rate,” because all this is striving after cheap effect, is vulgar, stale, false….

 

6)  They do not brag of having the entry where others are not admitted…. The truly talented always keep in obscurity among the crowd, as far as possible from advertisement…. Even Krylov has said that an empty barrel echoes more loudly than a full one.

 

8) They do not ask for the cleverness which shows itself in continual lying. 

 This is what cultured people are like. In order to be cultured and not to stand below the level of your surroundings it is not enough to have read “The Pickwick Papers” and learnt a monologue from “Faust.” …or brag about your knowledge of art, opera and whiskey

 

Is Bolt Cultured as he suggests would Chekhov agree  you be the judge. 

 

 

He’s got the whole ABC in his hand

Andrew Bolt's to be on the ABC and he's proud. Yet he posts "ABC Vomit inducing Adoration " He's certainly not cultured by Chekhov's standards

Bias not at all Bolt but yes who are you even talking about? Who is the who in your mind? The only one I can think of isn't at the ABC but he sure as hell wants it that's Rupert Murdoch. The ABC is the only  counter to the right wing misinformation, distortion and lies  spread by News Corp who are aching so badly to have Aunty broken up so  they can grab the good bits and trash the rest . Will we ever see opera at Sky?

  Remember Agnostic Bolt's Pick for President. Nominated because he was by and large Rupert's Pick. How biased is this then Ted Cruz’s Dad: My Son Ran for President After God Sent His Wife a Sign

 

 

A nation of tribes

Oh my god it's 50s revisited don't go to Carlton it's full of Dagoes or Richmond full of Greeks  black worn everywhere and they don't speak English. Melbourne and Sydney are two of the biggest Greek cities in the world. More Maltese here than in Malta. Three generations and Ohma still doesn't understand or speak English. Nevermind that her kids are all professionals.  More  false rumours were spread back then too as they are now. Their shyness was used for political reasons back then too and it was called resentment hostility and a criminal mindset to be frightened of. The tribalism what Bolt speaks of was rampant back then if not worse than now. The difference however was that media focused entertainment real news and not the fiction promoted by Andrew Bolt. That was left to the paper called The Truth which was of course anything but.

A Jew at Sorrento or Portsea never. They couldn't be found or allowed further south than Mt Martha. They pioneered Surfers Palestine as it was called back then. Golf Clubs, Mens Clubs seperated the wogs, jews, dagoes out  as they did Catholics. resulting in the formation of their own clubs. Assimilation bullshit immigrants weren't welcome socially they were labor and small business and that's where our worlds met. They're the days Bolt dreams of feeling we were being invaded. Bolt was an invader. "Immigration is becoming colonisation. Janet Albrechtsen calls for the end of multiculturalism, now separating us into tribes:"

 Back then  the suburb you lived in was important even more so than it is  today. The "host " nation Bolt talks of had no tolerance and lived their lives apart of any process of integration or assimilation might have taken 3 generations because the notion of assimilation was tokenism  because  you weren't assimilated just because you could say "mate". The Dutch club the Danish clubs were packed. Any real integration if and when it happened was on the job  and in schools when the children had done the work.

What changed what  brought Bolt into the fold? It wasn't his charm, individuality or gregariousness. He was a  reverse bigot back then but  to no effect. How could his aloofness even begin to effect the host nation who never really cared that the prick felt better than them and that he felt un-Australian and preferred to be stand offish.  That was as much his parents doing and his resultant insecurities his hosts didn't care because they were comfortable in their skins . It was multiculturalism and the in attitude of most host Australians that allowed the immigrants to be more comfortable that changed. We started to meet in pubs cafes and restaurants and other places. Now Bolt want's to reverse it.  He simply doesn't like working class Australians because he's never believed he was one. He's  always been a reluctant Australian dragged into the crowd preferring to stand back and watch. Now at 56 he hasn't changed his kids have dragged him to the fold maybe but now he's  reluctant towards immigrants and wants them not only of a particular class but all other cultural characteristics that suit him. Once a bigot always one and ready to put his foot on their necks. Racist, bigot tribalist  Bolt is living proof that ugly Aussies exist.

 The Germans and Japanese stopped being the most hated nations on the planet the Soviets  we were told were. We never met any we just heard about them and they were under our beds. We were sold the cold war narrative and the domino effect lies fear and division yes by the Conservatives.  We even helped kill 1 mill Indonesians doing it in the early 60's  and it took us to Vietnam to kill even more because we were told we were in danger. 

There isn't a single argument that Bolt has put forward for a return to where it is he wants to take us South Africa has changed it's mantle and he seems to have picked it up. Israel being the only other place wanting to officially be the Jewish State an apartheid state. Bolt's ideal being Australia the official  white monolingual Christian state. Does he actually see a future where his kids kids  aren't speaking Chinese and that it's a major language heard in public along with sinage to match. Bolt isn't  an Australian  none like I ever met that's for sure. In fact it appears he never was and has never assimilated.

Guess who doesn't speak English Bolt and who doesn't even want to 

 

 

Very negative gearing: Shorten’s plan won’t work

Terry Mc Crann get's the whole space to himself because nobody knows the planet he's from. Mulder has been trying to chase him down for years. However Mc Crann is right you can't fiddle with just a bit of the scheme because it inevitably changes the whole and not to everyone's benefit but the developers.

BHP’s losses are ours, too

" Just a reminder to the green Left: mining means money for hospitals and schools. You have fought mining, so welcome this hit to the budget."

Corporations are  the greatest tax dodgers we have.  In fact mining, subsidies received tax avoidance  and their lack of restoration after the mines are abandoned are as important activities to them as is getting stuff out of the ground. Bolt's claim that mining fund public utilities carries the same logic as what would the Charities do if it weren't for those that are like the Shane Warne Foundation. We are to blame for not donating even more. We could revive the Tobacco industry we certainly screwed that. Casinos they'd be great because they to mean $$$

 

 

Turnbull tangled

As long as these renegade conservatives hate Liberals more than Labour the election results will never be certain. They are saying no to everything their own party puts up even the time it takes to do it. Doesn't it remind you of the same tactics used by Tony Abbott back when he took the leadership off Turnbull? Except they are being used by proxy with the aid of 9 monkeypoders and News Corp. The ALP don't have to even attend because they heven't been invited to play. As long as Abbott is an MP Australian politics will be a sham.

 

 

 

 

The scapegoating of George Pell

Amazing how selective perception works Bolt fails to acknowledge that Eloise Elliot an opinionator at the Herald Sun  said clearly how her respect for the church had plummeted so much she wont go back and that George  Pell was in her mind the coward victims have made him out to be. She  doesn't speak  from a distance either like the declared agnostic Andrew Bolt nor does she speak as loudly from behind the empty News Corp curtain that reminds us of Oz. Elliot speaks as a victim herself as a consequence of the Church's misdoings. Will Bolt deny her that? Acknowledge his co-workers story or just let it go through to the wicket keeper silently. You guess!!

 

 

Turnbull tangled. UPDATE: Assistant Treasurer then tangles him more

As a anti- conservative and anti- fascist  I can only sit in silence and watch SS News Corp the consevative carrier and Abbott the intel shelling and bombing their own  as if there's no room for compromise.  Abbott's showing us a warlord revenge.

 Combined they remind me of ISIS  trying to destroy the FSA and Al Nusra factions in Syria who aren't fighting back saying they are busy enough trying to fight Assad but in this case the ALP. Abbott on the backbench has nothing to do but strategize.The mind boggles at the self destruct and Rudd style war going on here. It's worse than the ALP.

Did anyone see Eloise Elliot's opinion in the Herald Sun. She really does make Bolt to be Pell's personal Bully when he attacks the victims of the Catholic Curch for wanting the truth to be revealed.

 

 

Turnbull tacks to the Right. UPDATE: Shorten abuses the Right

It's good to see a leader that takes a pragmatic line rather than one solely based on slogans of three words and ideologies. We learn't very quickly that Abbott could walk the walk but found it difficult to talk the talk.

 

 

The invasion of West increases

No Bolt it's not an invasion it's the great escape refugees manufactured by the policies of the West policies put in place over 30 years ago. Why have we been in the in Afghanistan for 15 years? Iraq for10 ? To stop the invasion  or produce refugees? We have certainly succeeded in producing refugees.

 

A nation of tribes

Of course we are Catholics Protestants Jews Muslims  people identifying themselves in various terms  But we aren't tribal in the way Andrew Bolt so narrowly defines it. Further more what allows him to identify what tribe  you belong. Identity might simply be your family but Bolt will ID you. It might be your extended family or country of birth but Bolt will ID you. On what ground other than his own has Bolt the authority to put anyone in a box of his choosing?

Bolt seems disgusted that some migrants still can't speak English after 30 years despite the fact that they have given us their labour their children as lawyers ,doctors and other professionals Greeks came well before the Vietnamese and yes there are areas where sinage and information is still bilingual. They are Greek Australians and yes elderly women still dress in black Mr Bolt. When was the last time you went to China Town Oh my the Signs are in Chinese. When were you last in Little Vietnam Richmond the signs are in Vietnamese. To have the trams announce stops in Vietnamese and English makes it a far more authentic tourist experience. But you wouldn't want that. Maybe only English speaking need apply.

Bolt refuses to watch foreign movies no doubt. Yet he adores Opera shoult it only be sung in English when performed here? The man is a pedant.

 

 

 

Abetz on the heckling of conservatives on the ABC

Bolt is an extreme bully. It has  clear definition and it's so extreme that it became vilification  proven in our Australian courts. In other words Bolt was sent to the headmaster and found guilty of using his position at News Corp of putting his foot on peoples necks people with less power on any other day to defend themselves. Bolt is a bully Caro and Abetz on Media are equals as far as the two are concerned professionals of equal standing. If neither can stand the heat then get out of the kitchen. However why did all these conservatives think Erica needed any help? Do they believe he's a weak link? Hecklers the conservatives never.... Oh that's accept for Cory Bernardi walking through or crashing a Shorten press interview for a heckle.

 

 

No whites. Racism returns to Tennessee

Reverse Racism does not exist. Racism exists and it was and is the creation of a white society politically and socially dominant society. Yes the blacks in the hold of slave ships hated the white slave traders above deck. They were devastated by that reverse racism and could never understand why could they Tim Blair.  White Australians had their boots on the necks of Indigenous people for 220 years and not respected for it and Bolt and Blair ask why? They feel victimized.

 

 

Turnbull sticks with Abbott pledge on subs and defence spending

" Turnbull is wise not to look for cheap savings in defence." Why do Conservatives tell us not to spend but it's wise to spend on defence? But not wise to spend on what we really need? Because it fits well with their politics of fear and uniforms. Like in the wizard of Oz if you actually pull back the curtain you will find nothing there. We have been in Afghanistan for 15 years with no clear strategic policy and nothing to show for being there.  What has been the cost? 20++ billion? We have obviously stopped the Taliban coming here.  We have been in Iraq on the back of how many lies and at what cost 30 bill . The only benefit political and a plus for Israel. Those 2 campaigns alone would have cleared the deficit.

The deficit does not matter when it comes to being  good global citizens and going to fight wars, but not against Ebola or Climate. Abbott was an eager bever to have us in the Ukraine as well. According to the hype we are safer for these invasions Andrew Bolt &Tony Abbott keep telling us  but  will we ever find out why? The only thing for certain is Conservatives took us there. 

The subs are a questionable assetts but not for any reason we know. The probability being is they will never be as visible as boots on the ground tanks guns and dust. That alone publicity wise makes them suss. They aren't an invasion force  or a symbolic certainty that they are keeping safe. Keeping us safe secretly and silently doesn't doesn't quite do it. Cant they just pretend to be building them and tell us they are out  there and deployed? Put them behind the curtain with the Wizard of Oz we'd be $40 -$60bill dollars richer healthier and better educated.