The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

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)

This is the neuron bomb approach: kill the living things but spare the buildings and roads.

and the negatively geared investment properties paid off with franking credits

oh yeah, how could I have overlooked mentioning those?

we either save the liberal party and destroy society, or destroy the liberal party and save society

making cuntish remarks in his posh feeble voice is his main talent

who could forget "the things that batter"

Arts Minister votes against arts industry relief package designed by others, then uses COVID-19 as reasoning to unilaterally axe local content quotas on broadcasters, with press release on his personal website.

Between this and piling on the WHO by the usual thugs the government have done their best to remind us that they are a bunch of miserable vindictive pricks. Get ready for the evisceration of everything when we get out of lockdown.

votes against arts industry relief package designed by others

Ex-PM's book push-bootlegged by current PM in effort to further undercut the publishing industry.

such fuckwits

Have YOU ever read a book that wasn't quite right?

Important immigrant question:

Are NRL players bigger dickheads than AFL players or does the AFL have a better press officer?

the former, times a bazillion

A little from Column A, a little from Column B.

ah I see we have a New South Welshman in the room

live in NSW, grew up in Aussie Rules states

~the balanced take~

pfff I lived in NSW for 8 years and have family in Qld, but ARL players are phenomenal dickheads. AFL players are merely dickheads.

WTF is Albo up to?

Dude set out in the first weeks of his leadership that his strategy was going to be "advocate policies almost exactly as vicious as the LNP, and vote through all of theirs" in the hope of getting swinging voters in 2022. There's no room left for disappointment.

(I stopped placing him mid-ticket after he was not only pissweak on, but dismissive of voter concerns re:, closing concentration camps; doing any sort of investigation into the obvious rort of Westconnex blowing out from $10 billion to $45 billion while his constituents' homes could still be saved; or the Libs flat-out deleting every local council in his electorate in order to gerrymander & shut down protest to the former project. Still managed to summon some disappointment when he rolled out his Full Compliance mode last year, but by the time he was criticising the govt for not being cruel enough to refugees a week or three later, I'd run out.)

Australian politics is a venal shitshow without any ideology beyond economic rationalism (and look how well that served us when the pandemic hit). Aside from his obsession with Julian Assange I am glad to have Andrew Wilkie as my member.

Assange should have seen court in Sweden years ago, but unfortunately neither avoiding that, nor apparently being a colossal prick, mean all other prosecutions & imprisonments he’s been subject to are fair. It would muddle the message for Australian pollies now calling for him not to be a political prisoner as punishment for revealing war crimes, to frame it as “this probable half-rapist is being unreasonably held on unrelated, more globally serious grounds.”

Obv it would be entertaining if he were released and Ludlam or Wilkie immediately clamour for him to be extradited to Sweden to face trial.

Haven't voted Labor since they caved to shipping refugees to remote Pacific islands. Thankfully with our preferential voting system I can vote Green without worrying about splitting the non-fascist vote.