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AusPoliERA |OT| Section 44’d straight to Manus Island
- Thread starter Bernie Bernbaum
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Needed someone in the Senate holding a giant pic of Tom Hardy Mad Max saying This Is Bait.
LOL, no.
Either your party supports white supremacy, or it fails to do its due diligence on researching motions going up for a vote (and you probably have at least one white supremacist on your staff). I mean, you knobs are elected and paid to research shit and then vote on things on behalf of the people. That's your fucking job.
As I understand it, both Hinch and Di Natale mentioned to the chamber that the wording was gross and basically white supremacist speech. It's not hard for your senators to listen and think "Waaait a minute... this might not be a good idea coming from Pauline Hanson" no matter what the party line may have been.
I find this bit particularly hilarious and sad:
A Minister for Finance who can't count to 43.
A Leader for the Government in the Senate who can't get the Government Senators to vote the right way.
Yep, had a feeling those were Coalition numbers, but wanted to be sure. Bloody halfwits.
To be charitable to her, Lucy Gichuhi is Kenyan born and I think this may have given her a different perspective on it than your average Hansonite. Racism in British colonial Africa has historically been quite open and explicit rather than coded and covert as it is in the US and Australia. It's also associated with horrific violence and, at times, ethnic cleansing. She may see a repudiation of racism of any sort as her duty or may be unfamiliar with American white supremacism (which Australian White supremacism takes a lot of cues from) and would therefore not have recognised the dog whistles for what they were.
She is otherwise a very conservative politician however, so it's also possible the people she had in her circle (and constituency) are in favour of this sort of thing.
Ok to be white is just them again overestimating Hanson's influence, like Charlie Brown trying to finally kick the football.
The Murdoch Press is also gearing up to get them into the mindset for the NSW State Election;
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/n...w/news-story/4414ed7922859053d58bba19c7db63ef
Hanson's underperformance in the Qld and WA state elections is a distant memory I guess.
The Murdoch Press is also gearing up to get them into the mindset for the NSW State Election;
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/n...w/news-story/4414ed7922859053d58bba19c7db63ef
Hanson's underperformance in the Qld and WA state elections is a distant memory I guess.
They're purposely trying to shift Australia's right to be more closely aligned to the US Republican Party. This shit looks like amateur hour but the Republican base and a lot of independents doesn't give a shit because they want to believe that there's an existential threat to their white existence. They want our voting independents to be as trash as the US voting independents. The only reason Republicans might lose the House and maybe even the Senate is because they're actively pissing off women, they'd probably be winning seats if Donald Trump and other Republicans weren't going out of their way to support sexual assault.
The isolated Facebook attack ads from LNP affiliated community groups that go "LABOR wants to kill white people" write themselves. We've already got shitty Weibo and Wechat anti-safe schools attack ads, this sort of white supremacy garbage isn't too far away from being mainstream.
It's pretty obvious that's what they're going for, Morrison being a pentecostal Hillsong supporting tool would love to shift the Overton Window so far right that he could support kicking out gay children from schools ("religious freedoms") without impacting the Australia political undecided. The only problem for the LNP right now is that I don't think Australia is white enough, holds enough racial resentment for minorities or religious enough for this strategy to work nationally.
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Demographically, Australia is much, much whiter than the US. We just don't have the history of slavery, the racial consciousness or the racial resentment that comes with it.
Leaning on religion like the Republicans do is most definitely a vote loser here, but the racist strategy could most certainly make big inroads given enough of a push. Don't get it twisted, things could get ugly.
Bumbling keystone cops the coalition. From one scandal to the next. They are unfit to govern and grasping at anything on they way down.
Shifting foreign policy on something as major as Israel/Palestine to the shock of the competent international community, our closest neighbour and largest population Muslim state about to sign a trade deal, to maybe shore up a few votes for a by-election? After voting for a white supremacist motion in the senate?
What the fuck are they doing?
Shifting foreign policy on something as major as Israel/Palestine to the shock of the competent international community, our closest neighbour and largest population Muslim state about to sign a trade deal, to maybe shore up a few votes for a by-election? After voting for a white supremacist motion in the senate?
What the fuck are they doing?
Or I mangled the URL. It's ABC's tweet about Indonesia considering suspending the trade deal with Australia.
Hmmmmmm... Move the consulate to Jerusalem because Jesus and piss off our nearest neighbour, all the cattle farmers and by extension the Nationals... Or don't.
Someone was clearly thinking this through.
Someone was clearly thinking this through.
Pentecostals aren't even pro-Israel for the sake of Israelis. They're pro-Israel because a Jewish nation state of Israel has to exist in order for their reading of Revelations to make sense. What happens in their vision of the end times? Every Jew who hasn't converted to Christianity gets killed in a literal fiery apocalypse.
This preoccupation with the end times is creepy, anti-Semitic and doesn't make internal logical sense anyway. The whole point of prophecy within their worldview is that later generations can look back on the then-cryptic now-clear words, see that God or his prophets/apostles totally called it and they will therefore give glory to God. What it specifically isn't for is so that pre-fulfilment generations will know the future. There are multiple biblical verses that spell this out.
Not only that, but hoping and preparing for fiery death to arrive instead of focusing on charity, good works and improving the moral character of Christians is not only counter-productive, it's also a dereliction of duty. Ugh. Makes me sick.
Meanwhile, the actual state of Israel is more than happy to exploit this fascination in order to support and sustain its long-standing policies of apartheid and oppression.
Wentworth is absolute full of Jews, many of them nutters, who will salivate at the prospect of the embassy being moved. Many of these guys also are swing voters cos of climate change and jews are generally more left-wing so it could be a ploy
(I know this because I used to be one, not a nut but the rest)
(I know this because I used to be one, not a nut but the rest)
Christ. The swing would be up there with Wagga Wagga by election levels.
I like to imagine someone in the Liberal party is putting serious thought into starting another spill to install Josh Frydenberg as PM.
Frydenberg really needs to go bald at this point. He's in denial
Yes, they are and they should. You can't shaft a PM for no good reason and then expect the people in his former electorate to vote for you. Simple. Of all the people in Australia who should be offended at what the libs did, the people of Wentworth should be the most angry.
Who sent this bullshit? Absolutely disgusting.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018...ms-kerryn-phelps-has-hiv/10382406?pfmredir=sm
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018...ms-kerryn-phelps-has-hiv/10382406?pfmredir=sm
It's like all of a sudden complete anarchy broke out in the Coalition. They don't seem to be able to go more than 6-8 weeks without completely losing their shit.
That's political suicide. It works for the Republicans because their broken voting system lets them increase the effect of their racist voters. You can't do that in Australia, you'll just lose election after election.
There's a 27.3% swing against the Liberal party so far. Antony Green thinks he's minutes away from calling it.
Primary votes:
Liberal 37.7%
Labor 9.9%
Phelps 35.5%
Greens 10.1%
Other 6.8%
EDIT: and it's gotten 'worse':
Liberal 33.8%
Labor 10.9%
Phelps 37.6%
Greens 10.2%
Other 7.5%
Primary votes:
Liberal 37.7%
Labor 9.9%
Phelps 35.5%
Greens 10.1%
Other 6.8%
EDIT: and it's gotten 'worse':
Liberal 33.8%
Labor 10.9%
Phelps 37.6%
Greens 10.2%
Other 7.5%
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It's funny that they cocked up what was such a safe seat, but she's likely to guarantee supply so it's not like anything will have changed materially
lol
Honestly pollies who miss crucial votes (like the Lib Dem leader on a brexit motion) should lose their jobs. You have to do one thing dont fuck it up