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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Brandis isn't who I'd cite as someone who never said bad things about other members of his party.

You Am I posted:

Wasn't Sheridan The Australian's foreign editor?
He prefers to think of himself as an F-35.

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Dimebag
Jul 12, 2004

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Brandis isn't who I'd cite as someone who never said bad things about other members of his party.

It's more my own fault for thinking that with everything else happening at the moment the one thing they could have just left well alone he bumbles into. There is a time to just move on but these guys can't seem to achieve even that simple task.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
"americans cannot lose a war, although they might not win"

what

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Milky Moor posted:

"americans cannot lose a war, although they might not win"

what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X6QqZF3J14

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004


Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Maybe if Nixon hadn't derailed the peace talks so he could win the election the situation might be different too, but we'll never know.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
Sucko Molan whether you accept the apology you demanded or not one has been made. What a complete and utter toss pot of a fascist bully boy you are Jim.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

This is actually mentioned in The Vietnam War documentary, though Greg Sheridan's interpretation is completely wrong.

quote:

The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were ordered to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the South would not be overrun. But Nixon was fighting for his political life in the growing Watergate scandal and facing an increasingly hostile Congress that withheld funding. The President was able to exert little influence on a hostile public long sick of the Vietnam War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War#Election_of_1972_and_Operation_Linebacker_II

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
So really the Vietnam war was lost due to the intolerant left?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Anidav posted:

So really the Vietnam war was lost due to the intolerant left?

I think it was won by the intolerant left.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

Anidav posted:

So really the Vietnam war was lost due to the intolerant left?

The US was fighting the war in one form or another for literally twenty years. The only strategy the Pentagon could come up with was, "More time, more troops". Eventually you have to wonder even if you can win, is it worth it?


E: Eighteen years. w/e

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Doctor Spaceman posted:

He prefers to think of himself as an F-35.

Hideously expensive with disappointing performance?

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Doctor Spaceman posted:

I think it was won by the intolerant left.

:wolf:

Whitlam
Aug 2, 2014

Some goons overreact. Go figure.

Potentially controversial and definitely irrelevant take but Tim Hammond is 100% the most attractive male federal MP.

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

cheese-cube posted:

Hideously expensive with disappointing performance?

Can we please stop talking about Barnaby's sex life?

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

I'll burn hundreds more farmer's children alive for a graph that handsomely up pointy

drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib

The Peccadillo posted:

As long as you touch one person it was all worth it :angel:

But priests touch multiple kids

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
https://twitter.com/tonyhwindsor/status/961544498747551744

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

re alp faction chat; isn’t swan a big member of the labor right?

Schlesische
Jul 4, 2012

BBJoey posted:

re alp faction chat; isn’t swan a big member of the labor right?

I think Plibersek and Albo are the only notable members of the Labor Left.
And yes, I'm referring to the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years.

EDIT: Wikipedia tells me Penny Wong, and Gillard might possibly have been too.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Victorian left win factional brawl

Install Albo and also Communism

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/emilyburley/status/961468114322964480

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Dad weighs in on daughter's private life. Classic patriarchy.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/SerkanTheWriter/status/961547863707697152

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://truecrimenewsweekly.com/201...nd-young-woman/

One of the other staffers was the one that had the abortion.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://truecrimenewsweekly.com/201...nd-young-woman/

One of the other staffers was the one that had the abortion.

I'm sorry, New England, but you're gonna have to get another federal member in the next election.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
I desperately want one of his kids to hoon around and yell to distract from this grottiness

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
Figuring out the factional groupings in the ALP is a doozy.

Xerxes17
Feb 17, 2011

I was amazed when I learned that Wayne Swan is in the right faction. :psyduck:

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do
The money boy being a oval office should not surprise you

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

quote:

MATE CREATED PLUM ROLE FOR JOYCE’S LOVER
EXCLUSIVE RESOURCES Minister Matt Canavan created a new high-salary job for Barnaby Joyce’s girlfriend as the affair created serious dysfunction in the Deputy Prime Minister’s office.

woah

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/961578207936786432

https://twitter.com/YvonnBest/status/961557962740256769

^ former Warren Truss staffer

I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Feb 8, 2018

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

The Peccadillo posted:

The money boy being a oval office should not surprise you

He's the not poo poo type of treasurer though - the one who understands economics and rejects neoliberalism as a failed ideological dumpster fire.

If you follow his Facebook feed, he comes across as pretty drat bolshie at times.

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY

Don Dongington posted:

If you follow his Facebook feed, he comes across as pretty drat bolshie at times.

I figured he was only saying that as he's on the backbench now.

Les Affaires
Nov 15, 2004

Australian treasury policy is very much driven by the department, the treasurers job is to spin it in a way that appeals to either (preferably both) the public and/or their base. Changing the mind and the mood of treasury is pretty difficult.

Scomo’s doing better than Hockey because he understands why you can’t just pull funding away from everything all at once, he just hates the spot it puts him in. Hockey never had a chance in the slightest, hence the 2014 budget.

The Peccadillo
Mar 4, 2013

We Have Important Work To Do

Hell yeah, gently caress horny old freaks up

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

No no, we must not talk about this because of decorum!

Certainly recent experience has shown that as soon as you scratch the surface of something sexually dodgy happening from a man in power an entire shitshow never ever follows.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]




This manFUCKS

Seemlar
Jun 18, 2002

tithin posted:

This manFUCKS

https://twitter.com/MikeCarlton01/status/961503698684805120

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]




#BeetRoot

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BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

imagine being so utterly braindead you think someone’s private life has no implications for their work as the deputy pm of australia. just how stupid would you have to be. how would you even dress yourself

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