Marla wrote on Mar 19^th, 2026 at 5:23am:



What organisation do you work for.
Terrible ratings.
No one is watching you.
You're like an old phone plan people have forgotten about but they can't be bothered cancelling
Very low energy.

Joe Kent found financial security more important.

Apparently Kent wasn't privy to the intel, he'd long been frozen out.

aquascoot wrote on Mar 18^th, 2026 at 7:06pm:


Just so. The schoolgirls' parents are paying attention. They'll wait and see what happens.

Donnie can sling them a flexible fact or two, it'll all work out.

How's your share portfolio looking?

aquascoot wrote on Mar 19^th, 2026 at 8:53am:


You know things have gone properly off the rails when Scoot is openly conceding there'll be food shortages and widespread scarcity, and still trying to spin it as some kind of upside.

That's not resilience, that's rationalising failure in real time.

At some point the pretence has to collapse. You don't get shortages in a functioning economy without something having gone seriously wrong, and you don't celebrate them unless you're desperately trying to avoid admitting you backed the wrong horse.

And that's the core of it, isn't it.

He was warned. Repeatedly. By economists, by analysts, by anyone not ideologically captured. The consequences were spelled out in advance, tariffs would disrupt supply chains, retaliation would hit exports, and consumers would wear the cost through higher prices and reduced availability.

Now those exact outcomes are materialising, and instead of reassessing, he's reframing the damage as a virtue.

That's not analysis, it's cope.

Because admitting the obvious would mean admitting he got played, that he bought into a narrative that collapsed the moment it met reality, and that the people he dismissed as "wrong" were, in fact, entirely correct.

So instead, we get this.

Shortages rebranded as strategy. Scarcity reframed as strength. Failure dressed up as intent.

It's not just wrong, it's intellectually dishonest.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Mar 19^th, 2026 at 1:21pm:


Aquascoot's allowed to lie, Sad. He's made an entire lifestyle out of it.

The Superior Man's gone from bouncing out of bed with a plan to staying in bed and shutting down the farm.

And that's okay. Aquascoot planned to lose some weight anyhow. Mrs Scoot's been trying to get him to lay off the celery sticks for years.

The son-in-law's been trying to get him on the Paleo diet - lots of witchety grubs and wild berries. Aquascoot thinks he can survive on a bowl of dirt a day.

Mrs Scoot's given up, poor dear. Aquascoot's been in the doghouse since she caught him trying to feed the grandkid a spoonful of mud.

Before the Don, it used to be beautiful. The Scoot family were effluent. The Scoots comfortably retired in Ipswitch, the daughter happily married to a trendy up in Noosa.The son-in-law had a nice little earner as an Aboriginal-industry consultant for the mining companies - a few welcome-to-countrys and the odd spear-chucking demonstration down in Mt Isa. Money for jam, he said.

With the latest turn, Aquascoot's self-managed super fund's in dire straits. The son-in-law's gone walkabout. The daughter's come down with post-natal depression, handing the grandkid over to Mrs Scoot. It's a bit of a crisis.

So, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Aquascoot's gone full-blown austerity. He yells at Mrs Scoot for turning on a light. He follows her around Woollies, taking stuff out of her trolley. He even jumped up to turn off her iron. Mrs Scoot missed bowls because she couldn't bear to turn up in a wrinkled uniform.

Aquascoot refuses to admit the cause of all this. He's tried blaming Albo, Macron, Kier Starmer, even poor old Sleepy Joe. None of it sticks, so Aquascoot's just thrown in the towel.

Bring it on, Aquascoot says. He's happy to go on a diet for a few weeks, no worries.

It's only going to get worse, of course. You wait and see what he says in a few years.

Baronvonrort wrote on Mar 19^th, 2026 at 10:20pm:


A smear campaign is to be expected.