The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

"Some of what my colleague puts up on Facebook is very much true, but the people on Twittersphere, they don't always like it. You know, toughen up, I say. George Christensen is doing a great job for the north."

He used to have the local coppers raid , beats, bars and restaurants in Wagga that drag shows or any gay theme

— BundythebearACT 😃🐯🐅🐻🌈 (@bundythebear) January 12, 2021

Some other prick of a senator is giving it the old ‘we had less deaths from Covid than from the flu so we shouldn’t have restrictions’ bullshit.

‘Perhaps people should stay the fuck home, wash their hands and wear a mask when they have the flu, you akubra wearing dickhead’ is what I didn’t respond on Twitter with.

I realise it’s January when liberals go on holiday leaving Nats in charge...

Every time I read an article about someone in far North Queensland being eaten by a crocodile I hope it’s George Christiansen but I fear the stand up paddle board big enough to support him has never been built.

That senator is just your standard Queensland conservative trying to understand how numbers work

David Oldfield:

My ex husband and I used to go scuba diving with him. Only bloke I knew who had a fly put in his wetsuit. Used to stay on the boat till everyone else was in the water and take a piss over the side. Such a weirdo!

— Gibbsy (@MsDugibbley) January 13, 2021

not quite Craig Kelly-level weird, however

Click through to the thread for some high-quality excerpts from his autobiography.

okay, he's Barnaby Joyce-level weird

But his balls are the most moist you will find anywhere, and will melt in one's mouth.

He used to live in an apartment next door to me in Manly, I must've been 12 or so and had to ask why was the man who looked like David Oldfield making silly faces at me from his apartment window. My dad said 'he's a strange man, let's go back (inside)' 🤷

— Di McIntyre Westwood (@dimcwood) January 13, 2021

i suddenly saw him and his now ex-wife coming out of the church in manly on their wedding day and, along with other bystanders, did not say aw<3

'Straya is rocketing up the 'dumbest racist dipshit leader' rankings -- and not just by default

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on #AustraliaDay: "It's all about acknowledging how far we've come. When those 12 ships turned up in Sydney, all those years ago, it wasn't a particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either."

— Stephanie Dalzell (@steph_dalzell) January 21, 2021

also sTiCk tO sPoRtS has finally come to our shores, an exciting moment

Morrison on Trump: "not for to me to give lectures to anybody"

Morison on Cricket Australia: "I think a bit more focus on cricket, and a bit less focus on politics would be my message to Cricket Australia,"

— Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) January 20, 2021

It’s been a great day to bury being an idiot. Dutton let out some refugees because he realised it’s cheaper to have them be productive members of society than keep them in a concentration hotel.

I’d hope this is a stopped clock moment but I assume he’s got something nasty up his sleeve.

Nothing says Australia is back to normal like giving a gong to an ageing homophobe.

Who in the name of fuck thought that was a good idea. I'd love to think this is Scomo's knighting Prince Philip moment, but I doubt it. Tired of being embarrassed by this country.

ScoMo has been on invasion day trolling his way around Queensland all week. All this culture war bollocks smells like an election coming.

Love having the whole tone of the country set by dipshits from Qld and Western Sydney.

I thought trying to forcibly give out handshakes during the bushfires would be the Knighting Price Philip moment, but it was merely a Raw Onion Eating moment. This'll probably be the same.

Labor has a reshuf... uh, sorry, nobody gives a shit.

They're so fucking spineless, it's just incredible.

Where do you find all these fringe studies you post on Facebook?

KELLY: I find most of this from emails and messages on my Facebook Messenger. People send me stuff “have you seen this?”

How did you first come across (disproven and unproven COVID-19 treatments?

KELLY: I’ll tell ya how it started. A good 9 months ago someone sent me a YouTube video of a doctor ... He said ‘I’ve got information for the president of the United States, I’ve got this therapy and it’s highly successful, I’ve got to get this message to him.’ And I thought to myself, that’s a good, positive message.

Before I posted it, I checked the credibility of it. He had this long Jewish beard.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/02/why-facebook-suspended-craig-kelly-as-told-by-craig-kelly/

oh

This is the prime minister's listening to things face.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxsa4su2vf9kk1d/Image%20from%20iOS.jpg?raw=1

He was listening to a question about a ministerial staffer being raped in her office.

After two years thinking it was annoying to hear about a staffer getting raped at his place of employment, Scott's wife said "how about if it was our daughter?" and he though oh maybe it's bad it happened

Then he told the television cameras that he had gone through this process

Probably not surprised to learn that the owner of this is incapable of basic humanity & decency.

The prime minister has an 'I Stopped These' boat trophy in his office: https://t.co/nranKzF9va #auspol pic.twitter.com/YZZFBEoQH3

— Peter Martin (@1petermartin) September 19, 2018

How it started:

Happy International Women’s Day.

Let’s make it a day when we strive to improve the respect, dignity and equality for every woman, everywhere.#internationalwomensday2021 #IWD2021 pic.twitter.com/pbpqfGdzp7

— Dave Sharma (@DaveSharma) March 7, 2021

How it was going immediately afterward:

So the international woman in this photo is my friend. This is her response: https://t.co/5ri85LyoaQ pic.twitter.com/lDvrAYUJfm

— Alex Lee (@alex_c_lee) March 8, 2021

Not an unexpected resolution to weirdly giving out flowers to random women at Edgecliff Station.

did this work

The front page of tomorrow's The West Australian. pic.twitter.com/sPgvo5F3Ml

— The West Australian (@westaustralian) March 12, 2021

Ahahaha, errr no. A wag on ABC called the WA Libs the Vespa party after the vehicle needed to accomodate tall their lower house mps.

where do we even begin, folks

string the fucker up by his heels and emasculate his corpse?

...a masturbatory offence against a piece of furniture seems to have finally if briefly prompted Morrison to engage all those skills learnt in his taxpayer-funded empathy training.

my prediction is that tomorrow’s apology about today’s apology about yesterday’s apology will be inadequate and mediocre

Meanwhile, Eric Abetz:
"On Monday the First of March at the Hobart City Council’s citizenship ceremony, I casually asked the Honourable Senator Eric Abetz if the Minister allegedly accused of the alleged rape that occurred around 30 years ago was the Honourable Christian Porter MP. The Senator quickly responded that yes, it was the first law officer of the nation, Christian Porter, but not to worry, the woman is dead and the law will protect him. He then said, as for that Higgins girl, anybody who is so disgustingly drunk, who would sleep with anybody, could have slept with one of our spies and put the security of our nation at risk."

aiding and abetzing

hey hey it's Tasmania, we just elect this human shitstain over and over again no matter what antediluvian biowaste dribbles out of his orifice

He’s on 2GB right now continuing to dig down in search of a way out of the hole.

He sure likes to whattabout

The old days were more rapey

I want to encourage Australians, here, of course, there are issues, but think about where things were 20 years ago, 50 years ago, and I can tell you, go and ask your nan and she’ll tell you the real story about the good old days.

if a listener’s phantom nana was willing to testify she’d most likely say it’s bleakly apparent things are the same as they ever were

at least these phantom nanas probably didn't expect anything to ever change, so won't be disappointed.

Scott Morrison finished his interview with 2GB by saying:

"I’m just glad the footy is back on. It helps everybody."

nothing rapey about the major footy codes, no siree

maybe it soothes the rapists?

Fuck me

Keith Pitt overruled the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund to stop them supporting a new energy project which would create 250 North Queensland jobs, but in this interview, he couldn’t even answer basic questions about the project. Watch this train wreck interview... pic.twitter.com/8lLR8Xk2Km

— Chris Bowen (@Bowenchris) May 10, 2021

tbh I would be disappointed if he wasn't repping for coal with that name.

https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/getmedia/1ae9cfd7-f5a6-4acf-a970-fa889e69a63d/Clarke-619-386.aspx?width=515&height=386&ext=.jpg

The front didnt fall off!

hello, mates, it's me, an Australian, wishing to advise that my username is slightly different because I wanted to re register with a non-work email address