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Post by Gort on Aug 9, 2020 22:21:17 GMT 10
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Post by caskur on Aug 10, 2020 5:18:39 GMT 10
Morrison said he doesn't want us to stay under doonas... pfft. What a dickhead.
Our Prem stuck to his guns about borders closing and WA will have a Royal Show this year.
No community transfer of the virus has touched us...
Our borders may stay locked for a whole year.
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Post by pim on Aug 10, 2020 6:33:22 GMT 10
Beware the hubris fairy ...
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Post by pim on Aug 10, 2020 7:17:46 GMT 10
Another poll ...another Albo fail ... Gosh he looks unbeatable doesn’t he. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by Gort on Aug 10, 2020 10:19:46 GMT 10
So, who's next cab off the rank? Chalmers? One of the three architects of the policy that lost the unlosable election? Another Dr. Jim? Last time there was a Dr. Jim in charge of Labor budget policy, it didn't end well either.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 8:38:18 GMT 10
Chalmers was a key figure in Rudd's GFC recovery polices....and back then Labor had a plan, there is no plan with the LNP other than to muddle there way through the recession and hope for the best that the economy will still be in dinosaur land.
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Post by pim on Aug 11, 2020 9:00:40 GMT 10
Ponto he’s not interested in debating or exchanging ideas. Trickles game is just to fart in your direction and then post a cartoon or a gif.
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Post by pim on Aug 11, 2020 9:46:49 GMT 10
The federal government is hiding under the coversBy MUNGO MACCALLUM | On 11 August 2020. johnmenadue.com/the-federal-government-is-hiding-under-the-covers/Having tried pleas, threats, restrictions, lockdowns, fines and closures in vain, our political masters are now apparently cutting to the melodramatic climax: scare the living crap out of us writes Mungo MacCallum. And, to set an example, their current action plan seems to be to hide under the blankets until the monsters go away and the nightmare ends. Except that part of the campaign of fear and loathing is the likelihood that it won’t – at least not in the timespan the quivering victims will accept. We are now being bombarded with figures which are not just raising hair, blowing minds, watering eyes and smacking gobs; they are so horrific that they quite literally defy comprehension. Credible modelling on various fronts is now predicting infection rates of over a thousand a day, remaining in the hundreds well into spring. Official unemployment will reach double figures and stay there until next year with the real numbers far worse. The hit to the economy will be in terms of tens of billions of dollars a month and recession will drag on for at least another two quarters. And these are just the raw statistics. The human cost of the pandemic is now starting to hit home with little hope of relief in sight. Many of those who survive will be broke and broken, without the hope of a job and the real risk of becoming homeless. There will be an aftermath of long term post-COVID health problems. The fallout in the decline of the wellbeing of the populace, physical, mental and emotional, will lead to consequences that can barely be imagined. But they will have to be because even if our respective governments are unable to deal with them, we will have to. Our much-trumpeted resilience is likely to be tested in ways that Scott Morrison. too frightened of the virus to attend parliament, has never envisaged. So he has given up even trying. Instead, we are offered distractions, like yet again re-opening the Christmas Island gulag at vast cost and no useful result. And absurd evasions like the previously sensible Brendan Murphy, translated into a career bureaucrat, telling us he can’t name dysfunctional nursing homes for fear of causing “reputational damage.” But surely that is precisely the point. We need honesty, transparency, a taste of the brutal truth. The real damage is being caused by the ducking and weaving, the buck-passing and cover-ups. And if a few reputations get bruised in the process, well. tough titty. But that would require rather more conviction than our national cabinet of nervous nellies is prepared to manifest in its present prevarication. Our leaders emerged briefly to rubberstamp another tweak to keep JobKeeper on the books, possibly in response to a cabal of billionaire property developers sooled on by The Australian to demand more handouts. But then they dived back under the doona to resume their strategy of masterful inaction, which seems to consist largely of hoping, or if they prefer praying, that the hard lockdown in Victoria will eventually produce results. But not immediately: the old joke needs to be refurbished. The reply to the question: how do you keep an idiot in suspense? used to be: I’ll tell you tomorrow. Now it has to be pushed back to: I’ll tell you in about two or three weeks. And in the meantime, quiver and obey. And if, as September rolls in and there is still no credible answer. what then? Well, find a scapegoat, of course. Scott Morrison got the process underway in the national cabinet meeting last week, when he gave the states a collective kick for not, as he saw it, doing their bit: they were effectively hoarding, keeping their balance sheets relatively healthy instead of contributing more assistance to those suffering economic hardship over the pandemic crisis. They were chipping in a mere $40 billion between them, he complained, while the commonwealth had already shelled out well over $300 billion and counting – about two per cent of GDP from the states and some 16 per cent from the feds. Clearly the skinflint premiers and their treasurers need to lift their game. But this dodges the inconvenient fact that it is the feds who have the money – almost all the revenue the states raise comes straight from Canberra, and much of it depends purely on the whim of ScoMo and his team. This is how our fiscally imbalanced federation operates and will continue unless Morrison or one of his braver successors is prepared to tackle it. We are not holding our breath. And in any case, blaming the states is so passé, a refrain from the last century. We need a more personal approach, a victim who can be identified, named and shamed. Step forward, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews. The rambunctious right rulers of the Liberal Party, egged on by the Murdocracy of the media, have been urging more belligerence for months. As a Labor lefty – a Maoist dictator, as they see it – Andrews is intrinsically loathsome. And as a successful and popular premier, he is utterly abhorrent. So lets put in the boot. Morrison has been reluctant, savouring his role as an inclusive leader, a mediator. But as his own position becomes more vulnerable, especially over the unravelling of the disastrous aged care industry for which the commonwealth ultimately controls is becoming more obvious, it is time for a bit of duck-shoving. As Andrews admits, in Victoria the buck stops with him, but nationally, it ends up with ScoMo. So we have seen a little scene-setting: Morrison is now saying that Andrews must bear responsibility for the second COVID-19 wave. Not yet, perhaps – we can be all in this together for a bit longer. But the gloves are coming off, and, the brass knuckles are being readied to replace them. And when we get back to political business as usual, it will not be pretty. Because this will not be an argument about who is responsible. It will be an argument about who can be blamed, So be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 9:51:16 GMT 10
Ponto he’s not interested in debating or exchanging ideas. Trickles game is just to fart in your direction and then post a cartoon or a gif.
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 9:56:18 GMT 10
Chalmers was a key figure in Rudd's GFC recovery polices....and back then Labor had a plan, there is no plan with the LNP other than to muddle there way through the recession and hope for the best that the economy will still be in dinosaur land. Was it Chalmers who actually dreamed up the ridiculous MRRT scheme?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 10:12:47 GMT 10
Miners are geting away with blue murder and thats OK with you because you have your tax rort....I can see you have lost your head..as it rols away laughing...and only fools die laughing.
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 10:24:49 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Aug 11, 2020 11:05:47 GMT 10
Did a flea just fart?
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 11:15:09 GMT 10
How's that "Shorten era" going Pimp?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 17:27:48 GMT 10
Nomosis is talking like a conservative shit stirring Tony Abbott trooper defending the coalition and ina Rhinehart and Twiggy Forest huge profits as well as the majority of foreign owned mining companies rorting Australian resources...good on champ....pin that franking credit medal to your sunken chest.
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 18:04:28 GMT 10
Speaking of Franking Credits: I voted to protect poor folks. Those earning $18,000 p.a. who were set to lose 30% of their meagre income if Shorty had won. I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it. I wasn't alone either. Labor received its lowest Primary Vote for 85 years. So, Shorty's gone ... and it looks like Albo is terminal too - if he can't get his Preferred PM rating up to 40% ... What a mess over in Labor land. A win is a win but this result once again highlights the major challenge for Labor, exemplified by Bill Shorten at last year's election.
Its primary vote is simply too low.While it may have been distorted, somewhat, by the huge field of 14 candidates contesting Eden-Monaro, Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon has openly conceded it's an issue, telling Insiders: "We do need to lift our primary vote and Anthony Albanese understands that." But Fitzgibbon, who's from the party's right, has credited his left-wing leader with bringing Labor to the "sensible centre" and appealing to voters in regional Australia who have abandoned the party in droves."He was quick to jettison unpopular policies like franking credits," he told the ABC's Insiders. "He was quick to start establishing his bona fides with our tradition blue-collar base." www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-05/eden-monaro-status-quo-results/12423896
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 20:50:15 GMT 10
Nomosis....try and justify as much as you like, just pin that franking credit medal to your sunken chest, you don't have the moral high ground.
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Post by Gort on Aug 11, 2020 22:38:38 GMT 10
As Boris would say: I just do not care what a pot-head illiterate hippy thinks about anything and especially not what he thinks about me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 7:28:54 GMT 10
Yes you do care...otherwise you wouldn't be quoting Boris the spider.
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Post by Gort on Aug 12, 2020 10:01:16 GMT 10
Yes you do care...otherwise you wouldn't be quoting Boris the spider.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 21:56:56 GMT 10
Glug glug glug...gloobph...the sound of Australia's wine industry going down the plug hole and pop pop pop whoomp whoomp whoosko 💨 the sound of Australia's greenhouse gases rising...poor ol' Scomo cannot help being a fuckwit...what sort of drongo would vote for the pea brain coalition.
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Post by pim on Aug 19, 2020 0:21:25 GMT 10
Franking credits huggers
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Post by Gort on Aug 19, 2020 0:22:36 GMT 10
How's that "Shorten era" going?
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Post by pim on Aug 19, 2020 0:34:23 GMT 10
But hey, as long as your franking credits are OK, right?
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Post by Gort on Aug 19, 2020 0:38:41 GMT 10
Poor old Pimp ... surrounded by "Loopies"; "Racists"; "Extremists" ; "Cartoon spammers"; "Jew haters"; "Illiterates" and "Bandwagon hoppers" ... Keep ruminating. In clinical psychology, rumination or brooding is classified as an element of OCD*. The intrusive and distressing thoughts brought about by rumination soon become impossible to stop. It's precisely this loss of control over one's thoughts that has led many psychologists to make a connection between this condition and OCD*. * Obsessive Compulsive Dutchman.
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