As I listened to Attorney-General George Brandis today unconvincingly bellow (shout loud: argument weak, as the father of my children used to say) that Malcolm Turnbull will be remembered by history as one of our great prime ministers, I reflected that while it’s sadly apparent Brandis is a fool, what is most unsettling is that he apparently believes the rest of us to be even bigger fools.
Malcolm Turnbull will be remembered by history as one of the weakest men ever to hold the nation’s highest office: I’m damned if I can think of many who’ve been more ineffective, more blustering, more incompetent and more so obviously at a total loss as to what to do next. No amount of Brandis’s maniacal talking up is going to change that situation, as we saw with failed and sacked prime minister Tony Abbott, also marketed as great and in the process of leaving a powerful legacy, as his popularity hurtled off a cliff like Sidney Nolan’s upside down horse, his death cult followers clinging to the saddle, three-word slogan at the ready: Nothing to see! Nothing to see!
There’s a pattern here. Talked up one day, compost the next.
No one can make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear, least of all the meta data-challenged Attorney-General who will himself be remembered largely for his technological ignorance, his ludicrously expensive bookshelves, and his elitist notion of what constitutes art.
Turnbull’s deplorable decision to carry on with predecessor Tony Abbott’s (the one who will be remembered for giving Prince Philip a knighthood, just one of a vast array of incomprehensible acts of wilfully destructive stupidity) ill-willed and non-binding plebiscite on marriage equality demonstrates yet again that the Prime Minister is haemorrhaging principles from every orifice, in a kind of spiritual Ebola that has afflicted him since he took office.
I am unable to think of one reason why the Australian public has a “right” to vote on the right of citizens to marry or not. This is not a question of protecting the Australian public’s rights: no member of the Australian public will suffer during the enactment of same-sex marriage. Marriage equality is a human rights issue, and it is an outstanding example of heterosexual arrogance to reframe it as an issue on which “the people” are entitled to have their say. Why are they entitled to have their say? Give me one good reason.
If “the people” are “entitled” to “have their say” in plebiscites on all matters regarded by politicians as “too important” for them to simply do their jobs, why bother having a parliament at all? We’ll use their salaries and perks to fund opinion polls instead, then all they’ll need to do is pass the legislation.
The High Court ruled that parliament already has the authority it needs to simply amend the Marriage Act to include same-sex marriage, without consulting anybody. Why are we paying the idle swine to hand the job back to us?
Trust me, said George Brandis when asked if his party would honour a *yes* vote, and that’s where I fell off my chair and rolled on the floor laughing my arse off.
It used to be that when Abbott said anything good about someone we knew they’d be in the dumpster fairly soon. It’s very hard to believe that Brandis is serious about Turnbull’s strength as a leader. I don’t think he is. He’s shouting loud because his argument is, like its subject, weak. His exaggerated praise of Turnbull is turning the corner into mockery. Brandis knows what’s coming.
Some of you may be familiar with the segment on ABC broadcaster Jonathan Green’s Sunday Extra, The Year that Made Me. A guest who has achieved chooses a year from her or his life which to them was highly formative. Malcolm Turnbull could do this gig. He could call it The Year that Made Me lose every principle I’d ever held, and left me a dusty, creaking husk of a man, and taught mean the true meaning of the phrase, laughing-stock.
Excoriate! Excoriate!
No Place For Sheep 
After just barely falling over the line and losing 14 seats, Turnbull has had his first near-death experience as PM. Not surprisingly his political allies trumpet this as a triumph, his opponents within grumble and plot, his opponents without dismiss his mandate and everyone else wonders WTF.
The great arm flapper will face a challenge within six months; will we have Abbott redux, or aren’t they that silly? The jury’s still out on that one.
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I agree with that take DQ.
I’d add this as well.Tbull went on about the plebiscite being a mandate.Watch him from this point on.
He will begin the custom mandate phase as he forces the nutiobs wish list policies on Australia to get the core of his destructive shite through, and to pseudo legitimise his deception and theft of the highest office in the land.Brandis will remain the chief sergeant at arms.Says a lot about the depth of his dirt file collection.What a pussy he is clinging to his diary like an oily faced pubescent hanging on to his………………..(insert suitable object)
I can smell some sort of pseudo RC’s into Islam and climate change.
Australia is about to enter the last straight of our greatest and fatal race to global pariah status.When the world looks in at us ,crying and laughing at the same time, they won’t see culpable politicians, they will see the cretins who voted for them.The key problem.
I also believe the next imminent election will see more ‘units’ get voted in.There is no longer a way out of this mess I’m afraid.
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The ALP has a mandate to take the ssm vote to parliament & there’s only one seat between mandates. Everyone thinks the government is the only party with mandates
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Yes they are that silly, DQ. I hope.
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Deaf ears JW.
They are a lost cause.And now, so is Australia’s current and future community cohesion.We find ourselves where 500,000 ppl think Hanson is worth voting for.The number matches actual Muslim Australians.There will be fireworks, and whatever form that is ,is yet to surface.Know this though, her speech probably just radicalised more youth than ISIL could have done through any propaganda.
Just what she wants.
Australia is the gold medal foot shooter .
Expect more clandestine laws to counter her race baiting hate campaign,less freedoms, more conflict, more violence,harm and tragedy.
All under the stellar incumbency of the party who created her and who do all they can to make her flourish.With Hanson the Libs get all they want for free,including a third party to blame.
Hansons support will grow each day.
‘Land of the long white cloud’, I hear you calling me.
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Yes ,Hypo, I agree with you about usefulness of Hanson
Hanson is a handy a tool for the right-wingers, she says things in public they agree with, but know are not quite the right thing to express openly…They nod their heads silently, only the faintest smile on their lips.
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msm that is, lol.
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I am a bit jaded of politics and msm and people like Christensen.
Despite itself, the media, having forgotten the difference between lies and truth, inadvertently puts up the truth.
After all the muslim and refugee bashing this week, a healthy antidote in the form of an epiphany:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-15/how-i-did-a-180-on-nauru/7815860?section=analysis
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This article is a must-read for any believers of the ‘queue jumping’ myth.
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Pretty sure they can’t read, let alone master any form of comprehension.
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I agree, Hypo, that Hanson is extremely useful to the LNP, as she was to Howard.Abbott only conspired to imprison her so as to get her banned forever from parliament, but that didn’t work for him.
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Howard was the PM when Abbott sent her to jail.Where was his leadership,judgement and intellect?
He paints all around the fact that he would have ticked off on this as a strategy and yet no-one in the media has ever questioned his role in this failure which amplified her power and massively inflated her ego and her supporter base.
Once again the lying war warmongering rodent gets away with ‘look away now’ or rewrites of history.Worm infested coastal feral cat shit more ethics and less smell than the MSM in this country.
Another reason why Abbott became PM .
His toadying acceptance of taking the rap for dirty deals like the Liberal Party (Howard) pursuit of Hanson .
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The Year That Made Malcolm.
I think it was more the year that un-made him, exposed him for what he was, we realised the Emperor had now robes, he was naked, no substance, no backbone…
We were dreaming, and were woken up…
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Who would have thought he’d turn out to be so bad, Helvi? All those idiotic moms journos greeting him as a saviour.
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I must say he has entirely fulfilled my expectations of him.
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Marilyn, I have to say I’m a bit surprised that he’s got himself into this predicament, and I wish I had your insight…
My take on this is that he’s just grossly underestimated how ridiculous his fellow human beings can actually be. Incongruous for an investment banker perhaps, but there you go.
If I were his adviser or even [ssshhhh] his friend, I’d advise him to chuck it in, make a speech about how disappointed he is that the people of Australia obviously don’t take their voting responsibilities seriously, then move to Switzerland and spend the rest of his days supporting the pop art and classic car markets.
…Or if he’s really so fixated on being powerful that he would continue to suffer his present state of indignity, then why not cross the floor and bring his cronies with him??
PS Jennifer I hope you’ve found a way to successfully re-attach your arse after all that laughing. You know what happened to Michael Jackson/-;
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Palmer and Murdoch were his only visible friends.
LOL
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Sam, because you don’t do Twitter you won’t know that rolled on the floor laughing my arse off is ROFLMAO when you’ve only got 140 characters.
I think Turnbull grossly overestimated his ability to control his party. It must be an awful shock to discover they control him & not vice versa.
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In front of the cameras LNP politicians are ducking and weaving any comments made by Hanson.While behind the scenes flowers flow to her office,the chocolates pile up, and she has now run out of spare lunch or dinner dates to share with her eager suitors.
In her speech she said ‘a Muslim refugee was responsible for a terrorist act’ at the Lindt cafe.In fact it was an Australian citizen (anointed under Abbott’s tenure in Howards govt) A plane arrival from Iran who sought asylum.A known nutjob.With no links to any terrorist org.
Iran warned the govt about his character and asked for him to be returned.He was known to be mentally unstable.
He even fired several direct warning shots (letters/emails etc) at Brandis who chose to ignore him.Security orgs also fobbed him off.Perhaps if we had Brandis’ diary we may know if that was an act of plain ignorant irresponsible stupidity, inevitably leading to two deaths and untold trauma.Or worse.
Based on all the above and in the absence of even considering the truth,the enquiry into Lindt resembles a pile of cover up bullshit .
It framed all the loaded questions it needed to make the public look the opposite way to the undeniable underlying truth of this monumental and dangerous incompetence.(Remember who wned called and draughted this enquiry)
History shows (emphatically) that the public was placed in harms way under the LNP watch,despite all the loud clanging warning bells.Including the knowledge he had a weapon.
Fast forward to today ,and not one LNP coward cares enough for the community or his children or his electorate to challenge or condemn a single Hanson claim.That makes them culpable (again) .They are aiding and abetting whatever outcome the One Nation leader delivers.Ground hog day.
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News Update:
Back bench now officially running govt.
George Christiansen appointed as treasurer.
Pauline Hanson takes up new role as foreign minister.(Pearl necklace in the mail)
PM John Howard calling a press conference later today.
Cleaners have removed annoying Malcolm Turnbull shop window manikin from the Lodge.
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A dystopian future
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Looks like I omitted to say that George Christ Inside has now morphe into One Nation leader John Winston Howard.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-16/christensen-against-immigrants-without-%27australian-values%27/7850426
The LNP can no longer deny they are working in cahoots with One Nation.Pretty clear the greatest way and shortest route to install their two pillar policies(White straight Australia and coal forever/climate carnage, was to do a deal with the preference whisperers,get their O.N. Trojan horses in the senate, and then feign conflict over passing legislation.
The Liberal party of Australia is One Nation.
Turnbull is so fkn irrelevant,weak,useless,impotent it’s hard to find a useful analogy.
Condom in a nunnery?
Can someone pls give Bob Katter the chainsaw so he can cut QLD from the rest of Australia (not just the knuckle draggers north west corner /swamp ppl playground.)
Getting them to leave the federation entirely would halve the racism and stupidity overnight.
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additional> There is no coincidence that the Libs specifically sought to de activate Dastyari first, (get rid of the Muslim voice in govt) before unleashing these strategic race hate missiles in their planned One Liberal Nation assault strategy.
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Libs nutters couldn’t get their way on 18C…
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…and the poor bastard, Dastyari, is not even a practicing Muslim.
I was baptised in the Lutheran Church, I hope they’ll not come after me next, after all Luther was a German…
Milo has to make room for me under the desk….
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Prime Minister’s Hanson/Abbott/Christ Inside and Osama Bernardi are way too busy dressing up the welfare assault coming.They are dressing it up as one thing, (Fiscal waste) when there is clearly another anti indigenous tidal wave of slurs coming.
Watch Hanson and Abbott tag team to kick indigenous ppl and communities in the guts for the next ? years.
The confected shag shit that this is a crackdown on bludgers takes nothing on board that there are no spare jobs left,let alone meaningful ones.If every unemployed person signed up and took a benefit the unemployment rate would reach 7% and the budget would smash through the floorboards.(Maybe getup should run a campaign to do just that)
Meanwhile the new senate has had weeks to set out a plane to tax the thieving arseholes dodging tax while screwing us dry.Including the churches vampiric industry running the govt agenda and multi nationals.But we all know that the biggest bludgers of all are the ones in the big house in Canberra.There is not a corner of this land where the sound of the most rancid of our politicians gob-grovelling,knee sliding, and arse mouthing’ cannot be heard.The loud slurping sound is the QLD ‘members’.
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…you are right, Hypo, it’s all too depressing.
To cope I need to go back to my Yoga classes and Buddhist meditation practices…Sigh and cry.
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Immerse yourself in nature,Helvi.
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I’m a loud mouthed opinionated woman, they’ll come after me.
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So you ARE the person who writes under the sock puppet Anarchic Sheep elsewhere??!!
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Crikey PW, were you sleeping all this time?
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Do not interrupt. This is to do with National Security matters. I am not permitted to say anymore.
Now you have let her off the hook, you killjoy.
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yelp! yelp! yelp! > > > >
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Jennifer, you are a loud mouthed opinionated woman. Do not despair.
Ada Doom, after her ultimate defeat by Flora Poste and prospective departure from Cold Comfort Farm, perked up at the the consolation of now being free to put her self about in Paris, as a moral woman at large.
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I’m considering the possibilities of putting myself about, PW.
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pwhhwwoooahhhh!
It was also a very rude thing, to call Chrisitiansen “a vile slug”
It Is true he could be said to be a little plain though..funny arms too, like a baby’s..seem to stop at the elbows instead of continuing down to the hands, down about his waist like the rest of us.
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Easy on! His arms have a long detour to make en route to his middle (he doesn’t have a waist.)
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I accidentally did something to your previous comment, DQ, and I can’t find it. My apologies, I’ll try to get it back.
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And PW goes the full ad hominem, after JW started it.
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PW
“seem to stop at the elbows instead of continuing down to the hands, ”
Perhaps he enthusiastically continued beyond where the lunch ended and his arms began?
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“PW, goes the full adhominem after JW started it.”
I have studiously fought the impulse as to some public figures for a long time. But I am only human and even the wiliest trout will strike if the lure is sufficiently attractive.
I lowered myself and regret it. but that’s the reaction his nonsenses have provoked with me; his own intolerances given his own characteristics.
He is a target of his own making, given his own public lack of charity.
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I know, PW, it’s an impulse I fight daily. It’s an instinctive reaction, to slag off at the personal characteristics.
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Anyway, is preselection by party factions a studied insult as to the public?
How dare they offer up some of this human detritus for the nation’s house of deliberation?
Not just Christiansen, but a whole raft of oddbods right across the supposed political spectrum.
It is true that our politics is now only retail or shopfront, surface over substance.
Otherwise, parliament would involve an entirely different spectrum of people: People like of Triggs and Quiggin would represent us if anything important was decided in parliament, not the likes of Bernardi and co, who are just there to roadblock real change in behalf of the interests who put them there?
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Hypo, no doubt. dainnart’s inclusion of a Jabba the Hutt depiction summed it, although I though it was a pic of Gina Rinehart for a start.
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Gina generally wears a hard hat.
Apart from that, peas/pod.
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Christensen is a vile slug
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Far too kind to Chrsitensen and too too harsh on slugs.
Due to tinnitus I leave radio on all night, was woken this morning to the fat git spewing bile … maybe I should switch from RN to Triple R, PBS, Triple J, Classical… have done so in the past when the listening became too nauseating.
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Speaking of slugs.
He carries a mirror on a stick for public urinal usage.
Politically,he personifies the spiritual heart of QLD.He and Hanson are the walking / talking DNA of QLD.
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What little ditty should Malcolm choose for his year that made him? Not really up on MSMusic of 2015/16.
I leave that for now…. doubtless there is wit enough among the NPFS’s to think of something suitable. 🙂
while it’s sadly apparent Brandis is a fool, what is most unsettling is that he apparently believes the rest of us to be even bigger fools.
That’s a thing, you know, fools see everyone else as fools, cheats think everyone else cheats, racists see everyone else getting more attention than them… plenty of room to add to this as well… I’m tapped out.
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diannart, it would be some ludicrously sentimental and extravagant operatic aria that Turnbull identifies with.
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except totally pop, like something from Queen.
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Like the rest of his haters (party /sponsors and supporters/LNP voters) he sings the Libs universal theme song.
(You’ll see the parallels)
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I was looking for a good version of this weeks ago – for some Looter & Nutter or other. (Cory?)
Good one Hypo. 🙂
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Madame Butterfly
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Closer to the Baa Baa of Seville
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More suited to AbBAAt
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Marilyn
Nailed it. Pretentious, pompous and yet not really in power.
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Doesn’t it sh-t you when you lose a post? Too deflated to rewrite, good posting Jennifer.
I was actually trying to find the contact for “Sheep”, having lost it when my computer fizzed out a month or two ago
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What a fkn nerve.Hanson targeting welfare recipients .Is there a greater suck on the public purse than her fat lazy arse being paid to peddle and incite hate?
In the end with the likely outcomes,her senate position is basically tax payer funded and sponsored terrorism.
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Conroy’s outta here.
Something ‘smelly’ found in the NBN raids?
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Can’t say I’m sorry about that. He was a mediocre minister with mediocre talent and mediocre ambitions.
But he might have advised his colleagues ahead of time. Mediocre even in his departure.
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Pretty much agree.
Yet another tax burden gone and set to grow as he milks more in retirement.
They should rename the outgoing retiring politician entitlement as the ‘golden hand-job’.
Always a happy ending for the recipient.
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I wonder at this also.
There is vast amount of smoke relative to it from msm but no substance (keeps it nebulous)
We are invited to wonder whether it’s because (a) he actually wants to spend time with his family (b) he doesn’t like someone or someone doesn’t like him (not more personalities shit whilst policy is neglected”?) (c) My theory-a spat between the ALP Right and the progressives over gay marriage (d) Hypo’s contention that he is demoralised over NBN (e) related to (b) suggested mischievously by Katharine Murphy that it is about the NSW factions undermining Shorten and his Victorian faction.
I contrast the effective performance here by ALP Deputy Leader Plibersek interviewed at Huffpo (a big disappointment on the whole, the Oz Huffpo). to the sullen appearance of Sen. Conroy, who so soon after the election appears to be abandoning ship when he is most needed on board
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/15/gay-marriage-plebiscite-an-issue-of-conscience-will-the-alp-fol/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
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Yes, the NBN Commonwealth cops raid on Conroy..now it starts to make sense.
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ENGORGE Christensen makes his move.
The ship jumping of party anointed politicians needs to be scrapped in law.If you get in on a ticket,you stay there till stumps or their is a bi-election so the electorate can choose.The current rules are being exploited big time.That said the Libs plan to run a racist bigoted agenda and oppress the poor,sick,coloured and weak is now assured.
Tell me ENGORGED Christensen did not plan this all along.All QLP LNP pollies are diarrhea stains on our nation.
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…how much sugar has that big boy consumed (ancestors were Danish cane-cutters), that jacket would house few refugees…
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He’d eat a lot of sugar to dull the taste of the religious and bigoted arses he kisses all day.Add to that the bile and shit he spews out and you have a good case for hoovering up a whole lot more.
He is the triple threat of politics.A liability in govt,a liabilty in cushy retirement and a liability in his health issues he gets via lifestyle choices.If there was a god the latter one might drag out.
The ppl of Australia pay millions to run his engine.What a perverse waste.
And I’ll bet he has a few red hot pseudonyms on the www,pushing out his poisonous dribble,too.
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And to round off the case that QLD is a science/logic/humanity free zone, enter the neolithic numbskull to stamp an exclamation on the fucktardness of his state,party and church.
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/joyce-counters-economic-debate-hijack/news-story/6022a6be053429fcea9663d3c05faad2
Give QLD to Indonesia.
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Legislation introduced to protect RAF in ME chest beating for USA deputy sheriff role, followed closely by bombing (accidental) of Syrian troops.
Coincidence?
MSM>>>>>Invisible.
Nothing to see here.
Just the LNP tripling our security threat, as usual.
Mal sounded so ‘remorseful’ you would think he’d lost his pen.
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Just the LNP tripling our security threat, as usual.
Gotta justify all those subs…
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Let’s face it,when it comes to ‘sub standards’, this govt are experts beyond comparison.
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You know, in the end this piece is really about control and a group of self appointed guardians rights to impose by virtual fiat their world view into the most personal aspects of others lives. Its a sort of coup d’etat of the soul and commodification of an actually very crude and violent sort.
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“Let me make money, and FFS please try to keep your legitimate feelings out of the way”
“Best I rake it in on the back of your cultural oppression, lest someone else beats me to it.”
“Harden up Princess”
It’s all very contemporary LNP core promises ,really.
Their DNA.
Oh , and not to forget and ‘Mons Sewer Lesion Head’ has the M.O. down pat,too.
The entitled and parasitic ‘heart worm cult’ knows no boundaries.
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That’s conservatives for you, PW.
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Conservatives? Watch this and have a good laugh.
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Laugh?
He who laughs last…..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-21/red-backs-impregnate-immature-females-to-avoid-being-eaten/7864906
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Appropriating, genetics style.
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