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Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
Somebody let Bronny off the burn. I've never seen anyone so salty, bitter and sour all at the same time.

This isn't the first time she's sounded off about reds under the bed since her retirement, is it?

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Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Les Affaires posted:

What's her view of agrarian socialists?

From the chopper window.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the helicopter story was the end result of a leak from one of Bronwyn's enemies in the Liberal party. Do you think the same thought of thing could be going on with Ley?

Just going by that leak angle alone the first cui bono I could think of is Sinodinos, the new interim health minister.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Tarantula posted:

Man my story isn't anything like yours but it did remind me how long I've now been unemployed and receiving unemployment and I think all that messaging has been worming its way into my mind because I started to feel incredibly guilty even though I know I really shouldn't but that feeling has started chasing me of late.

To add to this, there's a beat-up story about jobseekers basically every week on ACA et al, so it's being drilled into people constantly. If I didn't have an unemployed stint to give some perspective to my parents about that kind of life, I'm sure they would have some deformed opinion they would spout off about like they do everything else.

The plus side is you have what most people don't: time. You can use that to volunteer, get really loving good at card tricks, get into politics, blog, cook, bird-watch, whatever. Just do something other than wallow in front of the Nintendo. Being unemployed will give you plenty of excuses to sleep in late, and sleeping in late will give you plenty of excuses to not leave the house for the day. Just try and get into as many sympathetic ears as you can in situations where the things people know about you is a little more substantive than what's on your drivers licence and that fact you don't have a job at the moment.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
Tell them a cabinet member bought your house and they'll give you a contract instead.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

DancingShade posted:

Maybe he can write a letter to Father Christmas this time so that Santa can fly over on his magical sleigh to declare him solvent.

Depends how much he's in the hole.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
Why is the only press from the Greens about splits and not them hammering this issue like a smashed-in fender?


Also the only moral welfare is my welfare. We, too, are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Anidav posted:

How can you gently caress up this badly and ONLY be losing in the polls by 54-46?

That's 2PP, you should know as well as anyone LNP are haemorrhaging votes to the White Nation party.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

If I moved to an Islamic country and couldn't buy alcohol, or to Thailand and was advised to tone down my laconic aussie humour when discussing the king, the last thing I would do is interpret that as hostility.

You can book flights to Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey or Tunisia right now and see if anyone there tells a paying tourist to "tone it down". The truth is, people from those countries bend over backwards to cater to us westerners, but the moment they get the notion to improve their station in life, white people bring out the lictors and tell them to know their place (and its not their place to come to Australia).

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

No country in all of Asia has taken in as many muslims in the past 40 years as Australia. They have access to public education, health-care, welfare and are equal before the law. The State funds translation services, public broadcasts in their language and a variety of anti-discrimination bodies they can turn to if they have a grievance.

The Muslim population in Australia is somewhere between 1 and 3%, other Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia together take in, in a year, the amount of Muslims of various ethnicities we have given residency to in the last decade. And equality under the law is pale shelter if the protections aren't in-deed as well. This is why people counter-protest anti-Islam rallies: because they are enough of a factor to counter-balance the so-called protections you mentioned. Prejudiced fuckers are clearly not cowed by anti-discrimination bodies if they feel the need to go off their rocker at some lady wearing a scarf on the 4:28 to Pakenham.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

do it on my face posted:

Its really important to teach all this muslim grandmas how important spitting is culturally.

I don't know if he can fit that much community in his parent's spare room.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3805580

Can you guys please take the shitposting to the Australian politics thread in C-SPAM

Just read the SAclopedia article. :ughh:

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Recoome posted:

Which one?

There's a SAclopedia???

https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2342

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Whitlam posted:

Witnesses are saying it was very clearly deliberate.

He ramped two footpaths and went down through Bourke St. Nobody accidentally hits that many people.

https://twitter.com/sunprawn/status/822286142061965312

Frogfingers fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jan 20, 2017

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
You know News Corp might be right. Having to pay out for bigoted statements and actions is a little unfair. They should have the choice of this, instead. Free of charge.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Digiwizzard posted:

They'll just counterbalance it by formally adding One Nation to the coalition.

Turnbull is already scared that Hanson looks too much like a powerbroker, bringing the very people who undermine the Big Australia status quo rhetoric into the fold, would make him look so small and weak that it would surprise people to learn that he can burp himself and use a big boy toilet. It might even lose him those Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative rubes. Not only that, bringing them in would just give the lunar-right faction numbers enough to roll him. We would just end up with Dutton or ScoMo.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
I don't buy into that nationalistic poo poo at all but you never give in to nazi demands.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
How bad do you have to be to gently caress up an authoritarian law and order reign-in-the-blacks speech? Murdoch press has been hand-holding the state libs through the manufactured youth justice saga from day one and he just falls to pieces. Even The Age supports state libs and they barely get any coverage.

Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...130-gu1atu.html

The Age posted:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to follow the lead of other world leaders and criticise Donald Trump's harsh new immigration measures, saying he would not "run a commentary on the domestic policies of other countries".

Speaking publicly a day after his first phone call with Mr Trump since the billionaire businessman was sworn in as US President, Mr Turnbull said that if the policies were found to be harming the freedom of Australians to travel to the US, the Australian government would take it up with their American counterparts.

But in contrast to the leaders of Britain, Germany, France and Canada, Mr Turnbull declined to condemn or express disagreement with the new US executive order, which imposes a range restrictions - some temporary and some indefinite - on refugee intakes and other immigration to the US. This includes a three-month ban on virtually all citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the US.

There you go. There's the death knell for the libs. Agree all you like with the offshore death camps, nobody likes Trump and nobody with a future wants to look cozy with him. They might dump Turnbull but they won't dump strong borders, and have now successfully wedged themselves.

In other news, the libs also doubled the debt since taking power somehow.

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Frogfingers
Oct 10, 2012

Nibbles! posted:

Good Game got the chop :(

Its not like it could compare to Channel 31's 90 minute-late-night-block'o'cringe game review shows. It's sort of like Fishcam except they replaced the fish with the gooniest motherfuckers in Australia in their natural habitat.

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