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You Get The Representative You Deserve...
Apr. 18th, 2022 03:58 pmFederally-speaking, the seat I live in has been a blue-ribbon Liberal stronghold for generations. Anyone who voted Labor, Greens, Australian Democrats (R.I.P.), or independent was pretty much throwing their vote away...
That is, until Tony Abbott, erstwhile Prime Minister & perpetual blinkered, god-bothering, coal-loving, racist & sexist dinosaur, completely failed to read his own room/seat & was booted out by a well-liked, progressive independent candidate who ran on a platform of climate change action, racial & sexual equality & tolerance & a raft of other ideas the Liberal Party has yet to even consider
Here we are at Federal Election time again & the Liberal Party has selected a woman to try & get their seat back. Unfortunately, they've selected a woman with outspoken, inaccurate & plain offensive views about transgender people & by extension, the whole LGBTQI+ community. She's even committed the ultimate political sin of invoking the Aboriginal Stolen Generation to back her unfounded claims about kids being removed from their homes if the parents didn't approve of their orientation. Complete bollocks of course & a profound insult to our First Nations. About the only foot-in-mouth symptom she hasn't displayed, so far, is invoking the Nazis... but there's still time, the election's not until May...
To bang another nail in the coffin of her candidacy, Tony Abbott has stated his support for her, proving that the Mad Monk hasn't improved his reading skills since being voted out of a Federal seat that was 75% in favour of Gay Marriage in the 2017 referendum
And yet... somehow, I have this gnawing dread that the Nation as a whole, will re-elect Scotty from Marketing - the man for whom the buck stops at any number of locations as far away from his desk as possible
That is, until Tony Abbott, erstwhile Prime Minister & perpetual blinkered, god-bothering, coal-loving, racist & sexist dinosaur, completely failed to read his own room/seat & was booted out by a well-liked, progressive independent candidate who ran on a platform of climate change action, racial & sexual equality & tolerance & a raft of other ideas the Liberal Party has yet to even consider
Here we are at Federal Election time again & the Liberal Party has selected a woman to try & get their seat back. Unfortunately, they've selected a woman with outspoken, inaccurate & plain offensive views about transgender people & by extension, the whole LGBTQI+ community. She's even committed the ultimate political sin of invoking the Aboriginal Stolen Generation to back her unfounded claims about kids being removed from their homes if the parents didn't approve of their orientation. Complete bollocks of course & a profound insult to our First Nations. About the only foot-in-mouth symptom she hasn't displayed, so far, is invoking the Nazis... but there's still time, the election's not until May...
To bang another nail in the coffin of her candidacy, Tony Abbott has stated his support for her, proving that the Mad Monk hasn't improved his reading skills since being voted out of a Federal seat that was 75% in favour of Gay Marriage in the 2017 referendum
And yet... somehow, I have this gnawing dread that the Nation as a whole, will re-elect Scotty from Marketing - the man for whom the buck stops at any number of locations as far away from his desk as possible
