Here’s What I Learnt Today
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I learnt today that Australians are actually dumber and more gullible than Canadians and I didn’t think that was possible.
We have just re-elected the worst government in living memory with a thumping majority. A triumph of spin over substance. The conservatives were leading in the polls until Donald Trump was inaugurated on Jan 21. Since then a very calculated smear campaign by a desperate socialist government and the complicit media warning of a Trump down under scenario paid off. So a campaign based on lies, fearmongering and big promises we all know they can’t deliver on won the day.
On what planet do you determine your vote on an election in Australia by who is President of another country half way around the world? What kind of a catastrophically stupid ignoramus do you have to be?
Now there were other factors at play such as a pretty lame campaign strategy from the conservatives which lacked conviction with a very capable and good man as leader but who comes across as a bit stiff and schoolmasterish but the electorate knew that when he was leading in the polls a few months ago. A narrow loss I could understand but a landslide victory for a government who by every observable metric has spectacularly failed is a cautionary tale about the power of fake news, a mass third world immigration policy, and an AI Tik Tok generation that now outnumber baby boomers.
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