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Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

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8th Dec: Dress like a Time Traveller's Day, celebrating with a chat to 891 AM @abcadelaide radio's David Bevan on the Mornings program.
Today's Advent tea is Guayusa (South American tea, a bit like a Yerba Mate).
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