Andrew Bolt's Blog,8/4/19; Pick the Vegans, Pick the Bullies, Pick Bolt's Team; Polls; Bashing Julia Banks; Bolts Ego is showing; The planet's cooling;

THE BULLYING GAME: VEGANS BLOCK TRAFFIC

The arrogance of people who adopt a cause that licences them to bully: "A number of protests by vegan activists are taking place in Victoria, including in the middle of one of Melbourne's busiest intersections. On Monday morning, protesters parked several vans in the middle of the intersection of Flinders and Swanston streets... during peak hour."

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Protests of all kinds are going on each day, yet Bolt has chosen to play whack-a-mole with vegans. It wasn't too long ago he was defending the good citizens of Reclaim Australia and their right to protest. He indeed defended the right to protest against the building of a Mosque in Bendigo. But then not all protests are the same, are they? Bolt supported the Right to Lifers who threatened staff and patients attending abortion clinics and no doubt empathised with the one who protested with a gun. 
There is a fundamental right in a Democracy to protest, and that right can at any time be tested in our courts to distinguish what is and what isn't bullying. Bolt experienced that moment and was deemed guilty when he carried out his protest in the media. 
It seems Bolt has changed the word Equivalence and has substituted it for Inconvenience to suggest all protest left or right is bullying. It doesn't work with Equivalence, and it doesn't work with inconvenience or "Free Speech" the reasons social context and history provide substantive meaning as to why things are occurring and for what reason Andrew Bolt.  What Bolt is doing is trying on his manners and claim that all protest is equal if non-violent when it's not, and vegans tend to be Green warmist lefties who sympathise with Antifa and therefore need to be whacked.

POLLS NOT DISASTROUS FOR LIBERALS, JUST BAD

A small sign of hope, engineered more by Labor's crazy green policy than by the Budget, I suspect: "Bill Shorten’s opposition still holds an election-winning lead, 52 to 48 points, but the Coalition has engineered a four-point turnaround since last month." But IPSOS keeps it real: "The Morrison government... trails Labor by 47 to 53 per cent."

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How many years is it that the Liberals have been down? Is it since Abbott's first budget or even before? It seems 47/53 is the new norm for Andrew Bolt when he says the polls are just bad, not disastrous 6 weeks out from an election. He makes no mention of just how good they are for his mate in Warringah 12% down. Has Bolt been told not to mention Abbott or get up close because he has an adverse effect?

WHAT DOES JULIA BANKS REALLY STAND FOR?

Julia Banks, opportunist. Elected as a Liberal, now running against the Liberals. Paid to represent Chisholm, now campaigning in Flinders. And now claiming to be against the Adani coal mine when video shows her laughing and cheering as the Prime Minister waved a lump of coal around in Parliament and talked of the jobs that depended on it. Watch.

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Liberals aren't bullies just their supporters are. Bolt is beyond being a Julia Banks troll he's a stalker a media stalker. It's as if he were once married to her and she turned Lesbian that's how offended Bolt tries to make out he is. When all he is, is a media opportunist whose turned to Banks bashing as a sport instead accepting that having joined the Liberals she discovered what they were really like and jumped ship. She resigned, if I recall, and was called back for service by the voters of Flinders who it seems have also seen the light. Bolt's pissing his pants that she just might win that seat which is like Warringah made up of the Victorian elites who are all turning their backs on the LNP.

MY ROLE IN THE DOWNFALL OF DEMOCRACY

COLUMN I was almost proud when America’s most famous newspaper last week said I was one of the plotters “destabilising democracy in North America, Europe and Australia”.  Let my enemies tremble! But The New York Times instead proved the surest way a newspaper destroys a reader’s faith is to write about something the reader knows.

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" I was almost proud when America’s most famous newspaper last week said I was one of the plotters “destabilising democracy in North America, Europe and Australia”." Bolt  
 That's Bolt for you ego personified but blind as a bat to what was actually being said. That he is just a millionaire because he is working for and being paid by a billionaire as his sock puppet. Bolt has no heft in anyone's world other than the one given him by the Murdochs the owners of the most prominent PR firm in the Anglosphere. Bolt's proud to be their sock puppet, and that's what the NYT's analysis, in fact, refers to. Should we be surprised the Murdoch's are here in Sydney? What to visit friends and family?
What would be interesting would be to discover just how much Bolt's ego had him participate in the NYT analysis. Do the readers remember how Murdoch pulled Alan Bond's dementia card when under investigation in the UK? How it was determined he wasn't fit to run a news corporation? Did they know that Murdoch closed a paper and had journalists sacrificed in order not to be jailed himself? Did all his American readers and viewers know he orchestrated the removal of some Australian PM's the last being Malcolm Turnbull? None of what was written was about Andrew Bolt at all. But what did the sock puppet actually contribute to the article is more to the point.
Bolt never publishes negative news about himself so I will. His podcast started as he was dropped from 2GB's Nights with Steve Price went down with his talent as an unproduced broadcaster like a lead zeppelin. He taught his youngest son all the things not to do when podcasting, talk

SOLAR FRIES OUR CASH: ANOTHER GREEN SCHEME CRASHES

COLUMN Haven’t you already been hurt enough by the global-warming politicians now wanting to make you drive electric cars? It’s like your money doesn’t matter to them. Take the latest green fair: the crash of a solar project backed by $110 million of cheap government loans and a generous government contract.

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Is Bolt telling us there's about to be a global turn around in Solar Energy like he did all those years telling us not to worry the planet was cooling? That's the skilless art of the 24/7 media cycle where you can say anything one day, and it will be forgotten the next information not required when churning. The boom in electric cars won't come from the consumers anymore but the car manufacturers and their investors. The biggest in the world are all going global, and the governments of the world are supporting them. Where they aren't the manufacturers are still moving to electric cars and as much as Bolt squirms and puts on a show for the mining and the fossil fuel Industries, who spend a 1 billion dollars yearly fighting it,  too realise they can no longer stop it. However, there is a renewable that can and Bolt doesn't seem to even want to go down that track and that's hydrogen-powered cars.(ODT)

Nicole Hasham: ' The Morrison government’s derision of Labor’s electric cars policy has been undermined after it emerged that the Coalition has spent millions of dollars encouraging Australians to use the vehicles ' .......
Further reading
* ' Coalition hits bottom of barrel with fake news campaign against electric cars ' - Bridie Schmit

https://thedriven.io/…/coalition-hits-bottom-of-barrel-wit…/

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