You know, for a long time - I'm talking years - I cleaved firmly to the view that there was no real qualitative distinction to be made between Tony Abbott and Brendan Nelson, and that the difference in their fortunes was just one of those horrific twists of fate that seem to happen so often in our dismal yet always getting dismaller public sphere. It was just an accident, I thought, that it was not Brendan but Tony who had (presumably entirely by chance) happened upon an arrangement, of the otherwise unconnected and unconnectable chunks of ragged, oily, misshapen mental matter floating and drifting and bumping about on the field of darkness within, which tricked the people standing nearby (themselves pretty incomplete specimens) into thinking that he had a mind and could think and also go about in the daylight and not be so weird that you feel afraid reality is really melting for sure this time.
But Brendan Nelson, he has always been weird about carefully selected things and themes that do, on some level, make a bit of sense. Tony Abbott, without doubt one of the two worst prime ministers ever in Australian history, doesn't even exercise that degree of personal sovereignty, and in fact he can't. He's not all there. He just sees something and immediately, without warning, he's weird about it and in ways that you cannot imagine and therefore predict or contain.
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Someone tweeted recently that even if Abbott had never gone into politics he still would have found some way to enter public consciousness as one of the weirdest Australians ever.
"lame, gay, churchy loser"
I've been thinking about that idea Tim and what form Tony Abbott's infliction of himself upon us might take in an alternate universe. And I thought Alan Partridge. And also, obscurely, on Tony Delroy's nightly quiz there was this incredibly annoying contestant who won all the time and eventually got banned. NEVIN. Tony Abbott is like these examples only so much further along the continuum, and so much worse, that there is a paradigm shift and he's mutated.
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God works in mysterious ways. He married a sensible woman (except for marrying him)and her eggs were strong enough to bash the tripe out of his piss weak sperm and birthed daughters who don't seem to resemble their father by having complete brains. As for "Tony weird", no one can say budgie smuggler without his face going IMAX in the mind, now that's weird. But for something truly hideous, Christopher Pyne in budgie smugglers, try not seeing that.
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