Recent content by Purple_Turtle

Can politicians choose their father? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/10/canning-byelection-andrew-hastie-refuses-to-give-his-views-on-creationism If a politician can be condemned for their father being a creationist surely another can be condemned for his uncle being a...

I've found Twitter to be the most useful social network, but it's a net good for society if Elon Musk actually kills it off (intentionally or unintentionally.) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-global-town-square-is-a-terrible-idea-elon-q7q0czfc7

If that was a consistent standard I'd be fine with it. But given we already see the political beliefs or actions of a politicians spouse or family members dragged into the limelight and ask for an explanation from the politician why shouldn't it be noteworthy that the new Democrat House Speaker...

Bit of a difference between being a hoarder and an open racial supremacist and anti-Semite.

I think the issue you'll find is the largest constituency in this country is what the UK call the "fund the NHS, hang the paedos" group. They're the opposite of your vision for the Liberal party; they're happy to see the introduction of price controls, nationalisation and trade protection, but...

You're the one who made the absurd claim that Biden is closer to traditional Republican beliefs than the current Republican party. I think it's on you to defend that. Russel's teapot and all that.

Well that's a misleading graphic. The asylum seekers on the platform refer to people in Eastern Europe displaced by the Soviet Union and Communism; supporting them was obvious and a very different issue to millions of people streaming across the Southern Border illegally. On unions the...

What's that got to do with anything? Also Reagan was a follow-on from Goldwater, and I'm not sure "Democrats best represent Republicans who liked the party the way it was before 1964" is a great argument for anything. Joe Biden exemplifies the traditional Republican value of thinking that...

Sorry mate. Biden's entire shtick in his decades in office has been that he supports whatever the mainstream of the Democrats supports. If you think he somehow represents "Republican values" I don't know what to tell you.

Republicans will retake the house, but by a much narrower margin than they'd want with a +5 R vote. Lesson here is less that the Republicans are dead and more: 1. The economy, illegal immigration and crime are winning issues for Republicans. "Stop the steal" and loyalty to Trump are not. 2...

Will note two things: 1. I note you haven't bothered listing anything the Coalition has done either, other than just claiming the undefined things they did were egregiously bad in a way that throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at Victorian infrastructure projects ahead of an election without...

Looks like we're going to get Roughead as our new AFLW coach. Seems like a great win for us, given his experience with the Bulldogs and Magpies AFLW programs. Club is making exactly the kind of solid but bold decisions needed for success.

Looks like we're targeting Roughead to take over.

Republicans under DeSantis winning Florida in landslide. The non-conservative platform of speaking out against CRT and radical gender theory of schools seems to be a winner.