Antinuclear

Donald Trump believes in fossil fuels. Just one of many examples of this is his choice of Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, to head the Environmental Protection Agency. You wouldn’t see this in a forward-looking country like Australia. Oh, hello, ministers Melissa Price and Angus Taylor.

In February 2017, Morrison, courtesy of the Minerals Council of Australia, brandished his friend. He said, “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared.”

Mr O’Coal, of course, had no say in the matter. Others spoke for him. He was just there – a token of their esteem, a symbol of their way of thinking, a pillar, metaphorically, of their ideology. He sat quietly except when passed around. There was laughter and much mirth. He was not the butt of jokes, but light entertainment. See, look at him, poor harmless fellow. Oh, don’t be scared yon naysayers across the floor and throughout the land, he won’t bite. See, he has no teeth. Look at our hands. Clean!

He was servant to a grinning master and, his usefulness in the skit done with, put away. You can’t blame Mr O’Coal. He was just the prop, the sight gag to a larger joke that is still running throughout the land: in this long night of the lumpenproletariat, ignorance flourishes. Too much sunlight and it withers. Too much science and it withers. It’s as if there’s an idiot wind making it so we can hardly breathe. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/remember-mr-lump-o-coal-he-s-still-doing-his-thing-20181207-p50kxi.html