The Australian Spontaneous Politician Combustion thread

be frank · Jan 20, 2019

The centre court big screen just showed Scott Morrison at the Aussie Open, and the whole crowd booed.

Ah, Melbourne, how I love thee.

mccardey · Jan 20, 2019

be frank said:
The centre court big screen just showed Scott Morrison at the Aussie Open, and the whole crowd booed.

Ah, Melbourne, how I love thee.

Yeah, twitter went a bit cray cray too. And not in a Morrison-affirming way.

be frank · Jan 20, 2019

I love that Morrison also started booing, presumably thinking the crowd was booing a bad line call or something...

Helix · Jan 20, 2019

be frank said:
I love that Morrison also started booing, presumably thinking the crowd was booing a bad line call or something...

ahahahahahahahahaha! I hope he realised and started calling BOO-URNS.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2R01k4SXI

be frank · Jan 20, 2019

Helix said:
ahahahahahahahahaha! I hope he realised and started calling BOO-URNS.

Helix · Jan 20, 2019

Although this tweet from ScoMo hasn't been ratioed...

@ScottMorrisonMP How good is @ashbar96! &#55356;&#56806;&#55356;&#56826;&#55356;&#57278;

...pretty much all the replies reflect the mood of the nation.

My estimate? About 67,840 Scott Morrisons.

You crawling toad. Ash’s glory is not going to rub off on you. Useless grub.

Congrats Ash. Glad no one is using your brilliant game for political point scoring.

Hey Scott remember that time an entire river system was dieing and instead of addressing the massive ecological and economic crisis you were at the tennis. Good times.

and the perennial

Fuck off

ETA: And my favourite so far:

FFS @ScottMorrisonMP! This is like the *fifth* time you’ve posted one of these posts with an exclamation mark.

A man who doesn’t understand question marks has no business governing a country.

#Grammarwherethebloodyhellareya?

be frank · Jan 20, 2019

Yeesh. I feel like the contents and tone of those comments are almost equivalent to being ratioed. I scrolled a looong way and couldn't find even one positive ScoMo comment (though I imagine if he read them, he'd write them all off as being from leftist twitter activists and not reflective of 'real' Australia).

Albedo · Jan 20, 2019

Ratioed?

Helix · Jan 20, 2019

When a tweet receives vastly more replies than likes.

Usually the replies are not supportive.

ETA: this tweet from Matt Canavan *spit* has been well and truly ratioed at 1700 replies to 287 likes.

Albedo · Jan 20, 2019

Ah okay. I'd seen it around a lot. I thought it had something to do with Twitter based on context, but wasn't sure.

That's quite the tweet from Canavan.

Helix · Jan 20, 2019

His mum probably tweeted it on his behalf and didn't tell him.

Albedo · Jan 20, 2019

Are they still archiving tweets? Because I feel that is the kind of deep thought that needs to be preserved, so future sentient life can know us better and (more importantly) know not to bother cloning us.

Helix · Jan 21, 2019

That ahistorical plum in charge of the country has now decided to spend millions on building a replica of HMS Endeavour to re-enact Cook's...*checks notes*...circumnavigation of Australia.

mccardey · Jan 21, 2019

Helix said:
That ahistorical plum in charge of the country has now decided to spend millions on building a replica of HMS Endeavour to re-enact Cook's...*checks notes*...circumnavigation of Australia.

He's trolling, right?

Helix · Jan 21, 2019

mccardey said:
He's trolling, right?

I think he's just an absolute fuckwit trying to fire a salvo in the culture wars. But he's so stupid that he can't find the cannon balls, so he's loading up his own.

Helix · Jan 21, 2019

And following ScoMo's selection of Warren Mundine as the Lib candidate for Gilmore, the locally endorsed candidate, Grant Schultz, has resigned from the Party and plans to stand as an independent.

So this is going well...

mccardey · Jan 21, 2019

Helix said:
And following ScoMo's selection of Warren Mundine as the Lib candidate for Gilmore, the locally endorsed candidate, Grant Schultz, has resigned from the Party and plans to stand as an independent.

So this is going well...

Look, what with W. Mundine not being an actual member of the Liberal Party just yet, I think it was brave call to chopper him in. A very brave call.

Albedo · Jan 21, 2019

So many rats, so much sinking. I'm wondering if the LNP's internal polling is even more dire than the public polls, and they're all clawing over each other to escape the generational wipeout. There can't possibly be enough cushy corporate and consular jobs for them all. Particularly for the dregs. Last one out's a rotten ~~egg~~ potato.

Helix · Jan 21, 2019

I'm not sure how much more of this I can stand. What an absolute 'ken mess.

ETA: But, yanno, we get a new replica Endeavour to go with all the other replica Endeavours clogging up the place.

be frank · Jan 21, 2019

I just ... I don't even know where to start with today's shenanigans (any of it).

Can we please have an election already? This 'government' is a farce.

eta: Tweet of the day goes to "Paul Keating":

Stop the boat.

https://twitter.com/Paul_KeatingPM/status/1087591437535854592

Helix · Jan 21, 2019

I choose to believe that's the real Paul Keating.

And if you thought you couldn't despise Cliev Plamer more than you already do:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01...i-company-threatens-to-sue-taxpayers/10734744

Clive Palmer has channelled his corporate empire through New Zealand and threatened to use free trade rules to sue Australian taxpayers for $45 billion as part of a dispute with a Chinese mining company

Albedo · Jan 22, 2019

Oh shiii. $45 billion's gunna buy years of unskippable Youtube ads.

be frank · Jan 22, 2019

This Cliev chap sure knows how to win over the electorate.

Helix · Jan 22, 2019

I just had a look at where 'Cliev Plamer' originated and it seems to have been with the fake Kevin Rudd twitter account @Rudd2000 in 2014.

Helix · Jan 22, 2019

Tony Abbott will direct a Liberal Party social media campaign mach*ine on the back of almost half a million of his Facebook followers in a bid by the federal party to mobilise its centre-right support base as an election counter to the left-wing activist group GetUp.

From the Australian. Here's the link, but it's a short article lacking in detail, so probably not worth giving Murdoch the clicks.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...p/news-story/257b483b309867bae13d1b537f6b1cbb

ETA: LOL! https://twitter.com/NoniDoll/status/1087938116713934848

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