The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

that smug fucking head is THEE number one reason i refuse to watch leanback fta television under any circumstances

i refuse to be ambushed by neonazis on a daily basis tyvm

You're going to spend three years standing up for homophobia and police states and fracking and complaining that the concentration camps aren't harsh enough, in order to... win over 3.2% of LNP voters? While somehow assuming that you're not going to lose a massive chunk of your regular voters?

Thing is, Labor bet (not entirely irrationally) on votes lost to the left trickling back to them via preferences in most federal lower house seats. (Melbourne being the most reliable exception recently.) Greens first-preference votes, for example, end up in the Labor pile after distribution some 90% of the time. (That was Antony Green's estimate recently.) Labor may ridicule Green (et al) voters but they know they're unlikely to preference LNP over Labor any time soon no matter how underwhelming they are.

It's luvly that we can at least now let our senate preference exhaust without any risk of inadvertently helping install either Labor or LNP in the lower house. (After electoral changes vigorously opposed by Labor, naturally.)

Er, "install either Labor or LNP in the UPPER house" rather.

don't even know how fucking shit this country has gotten, I mean, it's more fucking shit than ever *and* it's going up in flames

anyway here's Chris Uhlmann taking photos of public toilets

I mean, you see stuff like this, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/10/australians-increasingly-fear-climate-change-related-drought-and-extinctions

and you think, well, they're not THAT concerned because they keep voting in the same coal shills and even then the ALP are a bunch of pissweak cunts when it comes to taking a stand on the environment

They fear its effect on coastal property values while declining to take any action that would impede them from driving around in large plastic living rooms and renovating their houses with acres of giant cream tiles and cement render.

Good things about Australia in 2019:

1. Baby John Burgess' Twitter account
2. Um, that's about it

Oh, well, a whole bunch of those National-voting fuckwits are about to run out of water. I guess it's possible they MIGHT realise voting against protecting the land you rely on because the bigot arguing to destroy it is wearing an akubra is not a long-term plan for success.

There might be a fatal flaw in this hang the environmental impact studies and let’s build more dams strategy - if it doesn’t fucking rain.

Also stop growing cotton.

We need Fran Kelly back on RN Breakfast. McCormac should not have been allowed to get away with his 'Fuck the Frogs, dig the dams and the rain will magically appear schtick'.

I'm pretty sure farmers more than anyone are well aware of climate change and its looming problems, theyre not stupid. But yes, why the fuck we grow cotton or rice in this country I dont know.

Oh, well, a whole bunch of those National-voting fuckwits are about to run out of water. I guess it's possible they MIGHT realise voting against protecting the land you rely on because the bigot arguing to destroy it is wearing an akubra is not a long-term plan for success.

just imagine how much worse it’d have been under labor! JUST IMAGINE

The current lab hand-wringing and vacillating makes me worry that their policy might be to wear a different coloured akubra hat.

“sure, hitler started the second world war, but just imagine how much worse labor would have been!!!!!!!” <cry-wanks over a photo of john howard>

(godwin can get fucked, we are at that point now)

that’s a bit harsh given how Godwin has been tweeting for the last two years

i am in serious despair about this country

please point me to all relevant news sources explaining how your PM was supposed to help with countering the conclusions of the US intelligence community re: Russian election interference c.2016

probably through faith tbh, it's what powers the POTUS

I would tell you but given the government is banging up journos, and I’m afraid asio is watching and will come and get me, even if I am in Tokyo.

please point me to all relevant news sources explaining how your PM was supposed to help with countering the conclusions of the US intelligence community re: Russian election interference c.2016

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/01/donald-trump-urged-scott-morrison-help-discredit-mueller-inquiry

honestly though this is a 2/10 on the scale of putrid racist homophobic sociopathic things this absolute fucking cockwomble has done

tried to gently explain to a lower-ranking colleague at work today that no, there has been no law passed in Australia to allow abortion to occur at time of birth (despite her protests that it is on Facebook and 'it's on Channel 9' - linked to some weirdo site on there with a screenshot of Nine News)

all types of despair, this country's traditional mindset of don't tell me what dickhead makes it more prone to this type of stuff

worries me even more than the usual malarkey of sucking up to americans, not matter how fucking mad or illegal they are at the time

I’m in Brisbane today an this woke capital city greenie is raving mad that he has to go out and buy a dust mask.

breathe in our wealth and prosperity with gratitude ye god damned hippie

unfortunately our home is girt by c’s

sending sympathies from the most progressive city in this relative shitbag of a country

Scott Morrison is a cunt, cunting it up on the ABC.

I can’t think of anything more amusing or cryptic to write really.

Told him to fuck off and die on twitter, got suspended

[reads up on australian politics for about seven minutes] yep i'm depressed now

Infrastructure week down under!

Infrastructure week in Tasmania and you now get apology if you are a homophobic fascist cunt.

hello from [coughs & splutters for nine minutes]... Sydney

I’m not looking forward to my trip to Sydney next week.

I’m also very ashamed. I had to present to the board of the company I am working for right now and was chatting with the chairman (notorious coal plant owning, climate denying fuckstick), in the preamble, while the conference call was getting, I passed up the opportunity to educate him (and possibly loose my job). I bottled it. Not next time.

Albo can go fuck himself as well.

Albanese, Terri Butler, Joel Fitzgibbon, useless fuckwits all.

What is this Australia Day tv advert and why doesn’t it have a message at the end say who is funding it?

Clive Palmer is out trying kill readers of The Australian today,

good

About time, frankly.

Can we pause and laugh at Peter Dutton’s continuing failure to “Stop the Boats”

What’s happened today?

Petter Dutton is shouting at a number of cruise ships anchored off New South Wales that won't leave. I think they only have crew on them but he wants them to go back to their home ports. I think he called the AFP about it.

Ah - I saw they'd been ordered to leave after three crew from the Ruby Plagueship were evacced to hospital from Botany Bay the other day, didn't know they were staying. Loving the idea of him standing on the outcrop where John Woo had Tom Cruise throw a motorcycle at a dude, screaming so hard at a boat that a single vein finally shows up on his smooth potato carapace.

All it took was for the world to end to provide free childcare.

Prime Minister uses a security-hacking scam app to read bible & deliver prayers for a group that asks "Coronavirus TS: God's punishment for sin, or the work of the demonic?," from his Parliamentary office

we are doomed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6v5Zx41y64

Been enjoying the responses to Alexander Downer's grotesquely false dilemma:

We either save avoidable deaths & destroy society OR accept avoidable deaths & save society. The moral dilemma of our time.

— Alexander Downer (@AlexanderDowner) April 7, 2020

might be the biggest ratio I've seen (at present, 86 / 1274)