Thoughts from a Bulldozer Driver

A few days after Joe Biden took office in the US’s White House, a (what I found quite funny) meme quickly circulated on the Socials. It showed a photo of Biden at his oval office desk, signing a stack of Executive Orders. The covers of said orders were labeled, (in a more crude language) “Fix This”, “Fix This” etc in a referral to his reversal of Trump’s policies. From what I have read, Biden signed 30 executive orders in his first 3 days, with 17 of them being direct recindation of Trump policies. This is despite Mr Biden once saying that only a dictator would rely on Executive Orders. The first three months of the Biden Administration has been a chaotic disaster. Here’s what just a few of those signatures has meant for the people of the US, and the world.  - Rejoin the WHO (World Health Organisation). Trump withdrew US support for the WHO protesting, among many things, the corruption and deceit trumpeted by the WHO when it came to investigating the origins and subsequent spread o...

It’s common thought that politicians have worked exceptionally hard in the year of Covid, and if it wasn’t for them we would all be dead.  Untrue. They have also pushed the fallacy that were it not for them doing those long tedious press conferences, we’d all be suffering from the WuFlu. People seem to think that Dan Andrews did his 200 press conferences in a row as some kind of higher personal sacrifice. I don’t think so. The idea that any politician didn't want to spend one to two hours a day, completely hogging the limelight, while completely drowning out the opposition, is ridiculous. This was a brilliant way to starve their opposition of oxygen, and you saw that manifest itself in WA where Mark McGown was re-elected absolutely overwhelmingly. Same thing happened in Queensland. Incumbency during a crisis means you get the cameras. And this crisis is a boon for incumbents no matter how ordinary or incompetent they happen to be.  Another myth that's taken hold is that they’v...