The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

The ALP have no traction with the SUV driving, negative geared cattle who will reliably return that shitstain and his ghouls to office. They’ll inevitably shift into hubris right at the moment it will fuck their chances terminally. Australians want comfort and big business to tuck them in at night, doesn’t matter if it comes with a Pentecostal ideology. I’m done with hope.

Yeah, the ALP is a bucket of weak piss, but still better than active cancer.

Right now all who can save us are inner city Sydneyite voting for pro business nice white ladies who also a pro not setting the world on fire and are nicer to minorities (as long as they have money).

Beyond that we just hope frydenberg has enough dirt on Dutton.

I crossed the river last week and Frydo’s grinning bonce is on every street corner. You’ve got to vote for a potato or the wrong potato might get it.

I'm voting for the Gobbledok, he's all for investments in public services and eating potato chippies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vIaCXCkkrs

Love the country regularly being held to ransom to meet the basest desires of Western Sydney and rural Qld.

just the three ambulances for the big boy

EXCLUSIVE: 3 Ambulances called to the home of Clive Palmer, understood both he and his wife were showing Covid symptoms and have been taken to hospital- more to come @9NewsAUS @9NewsQueensland

— Peter Fegan (@PeterFegan9) February 24, 2022

C'mon comrade Rona, you can do it.

I presume two of them were yoked to a common chain so they could drag Big Clive on a pallet?

Ed otm

Clive Palmer has broken the sanctions against Russia. But before you judge, it was with very good reason (buying Hitler’s old Mercedes) https://t.co/k8O0eP6AFu

— keen online poster (@keen_poster) February 27, 2022

Mr Palmer’s company Minerology is believed to have purchased the vehicle at auction in London recently for more than $200,000.

Look it's a fucking bargain compared to the GTHO Phase IV.

I'm saving my money for a Leyland P76 tbh.

Unless that’s some kind of souped up tinny, there’s no future in it.

porkbarrel bop

Albanese, campaign day 1: "in the words of the great Ramones, 'hey ho, let's go'." pic.twitter.com/g7GIKssUTp

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) April 10, 2022

this will be my first election as a citizen, i’m quite excited to be able to vote at last

Ramones Hey Joe let's go vs Dragon April sun in Cuba

Ho, fuck autocorrect

watchu call me?

this will be my first election as a citizen, i’m quite excited to be able to vote at last

<3 thats awesome :) Vote these bastards out!

I did the ABC Vote Compass and as usual, I'm further left than Stalin, my go-to is always "throw all the money at us, all of it".

<3 i will do my level best

Not feeling good about this, day one and Albo has already fallen foul of gotcha questions. Scummo is going to spend the next 6 weeks hammering Albo on this and I fear this is the sort of thing that cuts through.

Australians will vote for short term self interest and quiet xenophobia as always

is the problem that the ALP was too loud with the xenophobia the last four years

they seem to have outsourced leftist policies to the Greens, for sure

spare me some sympathy up here in south east qld with the murdoch press and the lnp strongholds and clive and the evangelical property developer mayor and the resultant dispiriting local discourse

NSW criminalised protest last week

sympathy also freely given though

lmao they gave him a 330ml can, owned

pic.twitter.com/bVdRbNMoTq

— cameron wilson (@cameronwilson) April 11, 2022

An empty 330mL can

Sorry to post own tweet, but I’m with Trayce

Huh pic.twitter.com/2JyqgSqyQc

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) April 10, 2022

is this guy trying to run for Prime Minister of ILM

A journalist has asked Albanese if he thinks he has less chance of winning the election as a result of yesterday's gaffe. He says he'll shake it off, like Taylor Swift. pic.twitter.com/YJ35p4Msyn

— Oliver Gordon (@olgordon) April 12, 2022

fucking lmao they’re incredible pic.twitter.com/MSVC7uirmS

— Lucy V (@LucyXIV) April 13, 2022

can't lose to the liberals if you have the same polices... right? right??

aggressive 'mate' usage is the cherry on top of this

Greens leader Adam Bandt has had enough of "gotcha" questions at #NPC. #AusVotes @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/e9pFzXcXKK

— Naveen Razik (@naveenjrazik) April 13, 2022

BANG

The best bit about that is Bandt gave a useful answer, one I'd want to hear from a politician. If he'd simply answerd "two point five six" or whatever I'd be sitting there going "whats a WPI and why do I care also you are a greasy speccy nerd with a cats bum face mr FinReview"

Srsly that jerno is the worst kind of private school boy nob I want to punch the lights out of.

that was so heartening to listen to

'Peter Dutton being continually owned' is not a terrible timeline to be in

now maybe Labor can stop being The Milquetoast Party????

they're pretty aggressive about signing new fossil fuel deals that last until after the end of human habitation tbf

Yeah, anyone hoping for Labor to be anything other than occasionally OK is going to be eternally disappointed.

I'd settle for 'at least average, maybe even look at that climate change thing in a bit more detail' but I've learned to have a low bar on this sort of thing.