The Brown Note

Working From Home: The Battle Begins

We all knew the billionaire CBD property owners were never going to give up that easy and now everyone is trying to pretend working from home was only ever a temporary symptom of COVID, not the complete and irreversable paradigm shift it is. Almost every argument against remote work can be countered by a far better one for it, so lets fight. We also have an unexpected enemy in the midst - the war between the introvert and extrovert. VIVA WORKING FROM HOME FOREVER!

Boris, Trump And Scomo: The Three Amigos Of Apocalypse

Now that UK PM Boris Johnson has been vanquished, the last of Rupert Murdoch's trifecta of terror, the worst leaders in the Anglo-sphere's history, a look back at how they were never messianic profits of doom, but a reflection of a populist right wing voter base that has got ever more aggressive, unified, insane and destructive and isn't going anywhere. And why any false equivalence that the Left are just as bad is garbage. These people who look like us and live among us are our biggest war and our only hope is to continually outnumber them.

The Democrats Are Doing Nothing

Even in the face of actual fascism, the USA's Democrats are doing nothing. Even with the highest number of progressives in government ever, the Democrats are doing do nothing. Even with the greatest threat to democracy of the modern era, the Democrats are content to whittle around the edges and offer the same politics as usual that got Trump elected in the first place. Whilst the Trump era extremist Republican party are all on the same page and fighting for the same thing, the Democrats aren't fighting and don't even have a page. They united for one brief spark around ending Trump and now that's gone, they believe the awfulness of their opposition is reason enough for people to vote for them, even when the unelected Republicans are still passing major policies via the Supreme Court. This is how fascism wins. WAKE TF UP!

Ukraine: Where Is China?

And where are progressives? As this disaster rolls on, with the West only intent on fanning the flames and doubling down on the reasons that led to the conflict in the first place, where are all those progressive voices that normally oppose wars? Especially with a record number in the US government - still everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. And now is the time for China to step up and call for peace - they are uniquely suited to do so, given a very different relationship with Russia, unencumbered by the Cold War ideologues. China also cannot have a failed, damaged Russia on its border, with the security of many Islamic majority nations close to China thrown into chaos.

Roe V. Wade: The Republican Take Over Of Democracy

Once only pandering to the rich and paying lip service to ideological battles to generate votes, since the early 2000's the Republican party of the USA has morphed into a Tea Party/Fox News fueled ideological war machine, which Trump is only a symptom of. With a declining proportion of conservative white males to actually make them win elections, they've sought ever more dramatic and disgusting ways to usurp democracy. The latest is to simply ignore election defeats and use the hopelessly compromised Supreme Court to pass legislation for them. Perhaps even worse than the repeal of Roe V. Wade is yesterday's less focused on decision to support an ex football coache's after match prayer sessions. This isn't attacking some vague amendment but one of the founding cornerstones of the constitution itself - the separation of church and state. They will stop and nothing, which is currently what the Democrats are doing to stop them.

John Barilaro - The Man Who Took Down The Government

Even for the unrelenting gravy train of corruption that is Australian conservative politics, John Barilaro has set a new gold standard. Creating a $500k a year job whilst a politician, then promptly quitting and having his ex-staff member appoint him to the role. COOL AND NORMAL. His ex boss had even appointed someone else to the role already, who has since been paid compensation. In a country thoroughly sick of the corruption and nest feathering of the Liberal and National parties, it will take down the New South Wales state government in the coming election. Cheers!

Roe V. Wade - Woman Know Your Place

Even two months back when I posted on Roe V. Wade, I never thought the crazy SOB's would actually do it, but they have, likely losing the midterm elections with it. We should be impeaching at least three supreme court judges for lying to congress and the American people, when they specifically stated they would not do this and the supreme court itself has been destroyed as just another political tool, where a minority of extremists gets to usurp the democratic will of the majority. I have a feeling this will be the most Pyrrhic political victory in American history.

Australian Election 2022: Peter Dutton Unites Australia

Incoming populist hard right Liberal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, does one thing no one on the left of politics can do - unite voters from the left and right, we both want him to be leader. After scraping through with pretend moderates for the last two elections, the Liberal party is responding to the rout of the populist hard right, both in media and politics, by going even further populist hard right. It's beautiful.

Australian Election 2022: Australia’s Awful New Media Rejected By The Public

On the very day Australia's toxic political news media were allegedly booted out of a Albanese press event BY THE JAPANESE, a look at how it was not only the right wing populism of the Scott Morrison government that was rejected but the press too. WA Premier Mark McGowan's comment on Peter Dutton went national but most of what he said was a brutal take down of one of the developed world's most insidious, one sided and vicious mainstream medias, whose behavior throughout this election was shocking. Also a look why how the right wing circus of the Murdoch press can do nothing but claim the Liberals need to move even further to the right.

Australian Election 2022: Labor Victory Wrap Up

Ten years of agony over, the lying onerous gaslighting calamity balloon defeated. But Anthony Albanese's small target strategy did not win this and dont let the right wing media claim his tactics did. The rejection by the Aussie public of both the Murdoch media's right wing populism and the anti-vax, anti-lockdown UAP and One Nation. Women won this and how sweet it is to have a nice and decent human being in charge, rather than a narcissistic sociopath in it for themselves. But don't feel sad for Scott Morrison - the Liberal party is the only job you get the sack from and are guaranteed a pay rise...