This is my second posting of the day. I haven't posted twice in the one day since a time of extreme distress many, many years ago. Thankfully, I am not distressed. What I am is so damned pissed off and disgusted, that my fingers were itching to hit the keyboard here.
Anyone else happen to catch Michaelia Cash's performance in Parliament yesterday? A vicious, vile threat to reveal names of women about whom rumours had circulated regarding their 'relationships' with Bill Shorten. Yes, my use of inverted commas on that word is to imply innuendo and some type of impropriety. In short, shenanigans. Anyway, what we had was a former Minister for Women making menacing comments about other women on the basis of what, as previously mentioned, is just rumour. If, as rumour has it, they were 'involved with' Shorten, so bloody what? Presumably they are all consenting adults, and the only thing about this that raises my eyebrows is their taste in men.
What an utterly disgraceful display by Cash. She had the cold obsidian eyes of a malevolent reptile, and the tone of a nasty alpha bully. Once I got past this utterly outrageous nastiness of hers, and looked at the stiffened hair, the power suits, and the implied threats to exposure people's secrets, all I could think was: She's like a poor man's Alexis Carrington. Yes, it was like a scene from some guilty pleasure Eighties night-time soap opera, the characters of which are all rich, completely devoid of any scruples, seeped in avarice, and all have immovable hair. On the Alexis motif, maybe Michaelia is planning a catfight in Lake Burley-Griffin.
I have no doubt people are saying Cash is a disgrace to women. I'm going to go a step further and say she's a disgrace to people in general. Her behaviour was beyond foul. If Turnbull has any balls, he'll remove her portfolio from her.
Senator Penny Wong acted with style and grace in her refutation of Cash's vicious vitriol. Cash issued a Sorry-Not-Sorry apology (one of those 'I'm sorry if anyone was offended' types), and this is almost as insulting as her original comments.
Hey, Michaelia, you might want to ease up on the hairspray because perhaps it's seeping through your scalp and compromising your ability to think.
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