On consulting the Urban Dictionary, the phrase means - that an intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid.
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Case in point... Tony Abbott.
Abbott recently lied about the reasons for not providing government support to SPCA. The stupidity of this move lies in the fact is was so easily rebutted by SPCA themselves and by Sharman Stone, an MP from his own side of politics. And once the hole was dug, it was time to dig it deeper with more stupidity, like trying to spin his support for Cadbury as being totally different... because a very profitable company owns SPCA (same as with Cadbury), it was all about Tourism (contradicted by the Liberal's own website), because the government isn't there to subsidise the upgrading of a company's infrastructure (this from the Infrastructure PM?), because the age of entitlement is over (unless you're a Tasmanian fish manufacturer), because the real problem was employees wages and conditions (rebutted by SPCA themselves).
Sound very much like his explanation for how the school kids bonus and the baby bonus are different... they just are. There's no arguing Abbott has had stupid runs on the board for a long time.
What was even more stupid was throwing open the opportunity to talk about more of the lies Abbott tells habitually. Tristian Edis decided to focus on Abbott's Carbon Tax lies. The same Carbon Tax that when removed will provide a massive stimulus to the economy and create countless jobs. Stupid statement.
The end of the age of entitlement - another lie, is contradicted by all the Libs are doing to ensure their mates continue to believe government largesse is reserved entirely for them... as Bernard Keane explains, much of the frantic dismantling of Labor government policy is designed to put more money into the pockets of people like financial planners, by ripping it out the retirement savings of the planners clients (upto $130 Billion dollars worth).
That what happens when you build an entire policy platform on mindlessly dismantling what your predecessors put in place, and put nothing into your own policy or your own vision for the future.. stupid for so many reasons.
The long touted defense for Abbott and his difficult to observe intellect has been his Rhodes Scholarship... but... Stupid is as Stupid Does.
Abbott's university days were a long time ago, and Tony just keeps doing seriously stupid things.
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The Barnett government recently exercise their stupidity through irresponsible policies like setting drum lines for sharks. The risk of shark attack is very small for surfboard riders and infinitesimally small for swimmers. While the risk to the environment of killing off an endangered species which is also at the top of the food chain carries a significant risk. And the risk of being killed in a motor vehicle accidents is around a thousand times higher. But we have no new road safety policies. Stupid is as stupid does.
Barry O'Farrell, the Premier with no class, gave the NSW Opposition leader John Robertson a one finger salute in parliament while the cameras were rolling. He then came up with a lame excuse that he was counting, the kind of stupidity even school children don't expect to get away with.
The O'Farrell government sat on their hands in relation to action on addressing alcohol fueled violence for 16 months. Following the deaths of two young, innocent victims, the O'Farrell implemented some good changes and just as many idiotic ones. Among them, a $500 fine for swearing. A measure which will disproportionately affect the mentally ill and lower income earners with lower levels of education, while doing next to nothing to curb alcohol fueled violence.
And mandatory sentencing which legal and social experts say is likely to be ineffective and counter-productive.
Way to go Baz!
And of course we have our very own conservative arse-clown this side of the border.
The bikie laws continue to attract criticism. Tony Fitzgerald, a man who had famously kept away from public comment for 2 decades since concluding his Fitzgerald inquiry, has now come out on a number of occasions to speak against the bikie laws and the abuse of power by the Newman government.
'Shambles' Newman and his Attorney General, Jarrod 'Trainer Wheels' Bleijie have enacted legislation which has at times been unworkable, and when it has been able to be applied, has resulted in the jailing of people who did little more than go to a pub for a beer. I feel much safer knowing that!
A recent article on the Independent Australia website highlights how this legislation is at odds with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It takes very stupid men to think that human rights abuses are justified in the process of targeting unpopular minorities in an effort to create the impression that the government you lead is achieving any leaps forward in safety or security.
Stupid is as Stupid does.
And, just to drive the point home, Newman recently turned his attention to the legal representatives of Bikies. It seems that Campbell thinks bikie defence lawyers are "hired guns". Outlaws in their own right!
While he acknowledges that "everybody's got a right to be defended under the law", he warns us "you've got to see it for what it is,". Campbell is outraged that "They will see, say and do anything to defend their clients and try to get them off."
Apparently anyone who is willing to defend their client against laws which impinge on their human rights is a criminal.
Even the Courier Mail has weighed into the debate about Newman's ridiculous comment
Stupid is as Stupid does.