Peter Dutton’s racism to the bottom

[kickazz]

Also it has to be said - how does he know these people aren't citizens or were born here? Oh that's right, silly me they have brown skin. Carry on.

 

[cartwright]

Just Dutton reminding us all he’s a racist. He’s not a leader.

 

[Gough]

Just Dutton reminding us all he’s a racist. He’s not a leader.

Odds on what day next week the trans community becomes the next greatest threat to Australia's ongoing social cohesion? It's that or actually have a policy on something so we know which way Spud will swing.

 

[kickazz]

Odds on what day next week the trans community becomes the next greatest threat to Australia's ongoing social cohesion? It's that or actually have a policy on something so we know which way Spud will swing.

Our good friends at The Australian are one step ahead of you, Gough . Quoted from their editorial yesterday:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/slaughter-of-the-innocents-reflects-hamass-character/news-story/997046433880b3f1cf8ef821cbe445c8

Such prejudice is also evident elsewhere. New York University law school student bar association president Ryna Workman, who identifies as “non-binary”, said the slaughter in Israel was “necessary”.

Mentioning their non-binary status is relevant ....... how?

 

[JackOutback]

Our good friends at The Australian are one step ahead of you, Gough . Quoted from their editorial yesterday:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/slaughter-of-the-innocents-reflects-hamass-character/news-story/997046433880b3f1cf8ef821cbe445c8

Mentioning their non-binary status is relevant ....... how?

Mentioning non-binary status is generally still relevant for newspapers to explain why they are using 'they said' for a specific person, rather than he or she. It still isn't common enough in the vernacular to just ignore it. Don't think this is a particular attack.

 

[kickazz]

Mentioning non-binary status is generally still relevant for newspapers to explain why they are using 'they said' for a specific person, rather than he or she. It still isn't common enough in the vernacular to just ignore it. Don't think this is a particular attack.

This is a good point, and I'll keep it mind in the future.

But read the text I quoted. There is no use of any pronoun (apart from 'who'). No 'they'. It is an irrelevant inclusion.

 

[HurleyHepsHird]

Odds on what day next week the trans community becomes the next greatest threat to Australia's ongoing social cohesion? It's that or actually have a policy on something so we know which way Spud will swing.

Well, they'll milk the referendum for all it's worth demanding Albos resignation or an early election because Labor have lost the confidence of the Australian people, or some other garbage.

Soulless cynical human vaccuums of avarice and cruelty. Do or say anything for power.

 

[TRP1996]

He's Trump without any of the things that made Trump attractive.

Wouldn’t say having hair made Trump attractive?

 

[Gough]

Good by Murph.

Peter Dutton is Australia's figurehead of fear and fake news, like Trump but without charisma | Katharine Murphy on politics

From geopolitics to the voice the Liberal leader is a political fabulist, dishing up provocations to get voters’ attention and using a deadly crisis to monster foesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

www.theguardian.com

 

[QuietB]

Well, they'll milk the referendum for all it's worth demanding Albos resignation or an early election because Labor have lost the confidence of the Australian people, or some other garbage.

Soulless cynical human vaccuums of avarice and cruelty. Do or say anything for power.

Right now Dutton’s entire legacy is walking out on the stolen generation apology, treating refugees like sub-humans and using the Home Affairs Department as a personal ATM machine, and then torpedoing the Voice referendum.

What a CV. What a guy

 

[E Shed]

 

[Festerz]

 

[Maggie5]

Good by Murph.

Peter Dutton is Australia's figurehead of fear and fake news, like Trump but without charisma | Katharine Murphy on politics

From geopolitics to the voice the Liberal leader is a political fabulist, dishing up provocations to get voters’ attention and using a deadly crisis to monster foesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

www.theguardian.com

The following parts of the article, spot on!

The only person fully intent on kicking a hornet’s nest was Dutton. It is important to be clear-eyed about what is happening in our politics. Escalation by escalation, embellishment by embellishment, the Liberal leader is inhabiting the zone of the political fabulist. Like Trump, sans charisma, Dutton is the dancing bear of the engagement economy, dishing up provocations intended to capture the attention of readers and viewers.

This opposition leader makes things up regularly, sometimes several times a day, with growing confidence. He’s fully intent on shaping his own reality, and why wouldn’t he be? Dutton’s accusations and inventions are amplified much more often than they are factchecked, parsed or decoded, because there is so much bollocking and barracking in the public square, people can’t see the bullshit.

That’s the point. That’s the strategy.

Authoritarian populists like Dutton set the media truth-seeking tests we cannot afford to fail. And yet we fail them. Time after time. Much of the mainstream media doesn’t seem that engaged with the measurable reality that the alternative prime minister of Australia has set his vocational GPS to post-truth and is picking up speed. I’m not sure why. That development seems pretty important from where I sit.

and

But it was discomfiting too to hear Dutton escalating yet again, championing mass deportations of protesters attending demonstrations in Australia. This was the Liberal leader on Thursday. “If there were people [at the protests] who were on visas, they should be identified and have their visas cancelled. They should be deported.” Anyone who breaks the law should obviously be punished. But why should people be deported en masse for exercising their rights in a democracy lawfully and peacefully?

 

[Gough]

You could quite easily view this as a politicisation of Foreign Affairs here. Dutton really is scum.

The Israeli ambassador is a ‘special guest’ at the Opposition party room meeting this morning.

Amir Maimon said Israel was grateful for the ‘bipartisan support’ and was in a war ‘we did not choose’.

He went on to say more, but Mike Bowers says media was only allowed in for the beginning of the meeting and were shuffled out, as the rest of it occurred behind closed doors.

 

[QuietB]

You could quite easily view this as a politicisation of Foreign Affairs here. Dutton really is scum.

Jeez Dutton picks some strange hills to die on

 

[Number37]

Jeez Dutton picks some strange hills to die on

He doesn't have anything else.
The only thing the LNP had going for them was the mistaken belief of the population that they had economic credentials.

 

[QuietB]

He doesn't have anything else.
The only thing the LNP had going for them was the mistaken belief of the population that they had economic credentials.

Morrison ****ed that once and for all

 

[Number37]

Morrison ****ed that once and for all

You would think so. But after one term of Labor it is a sure thing that the LNP will campaign on bEtTeR eCoNoMiC mAnAgErS.

 

[Kyptastic]

You would think so. But after one term of Labor it is a sure thing that the LNP will campaign on bEtTeR eCoNoMiC mAnAgErS.

Hard to do that when Labor got a surplus in their first year after the Coalition got 0 in 9 years

 

[QuietB]

Hard to do that when Labor got a surplus in their first year after the Coalition got 0 in 9 years

If Labor are serious about being Liberal lite, they will go surplus - surplus - middle class welfare - election - repeat.

 

[Number37]

Hard to do that when Labor got a surplus in their first year after the Coalition got 0 in 9 years

Facts don't matter.
It was never true that the LNP are bEtTeR eCoNoMiC mAnAgErS.

 

[schneebly111]

If Labor are serious about being Liberal lite, they will go surplus - surplus - middle class welfare - election - repeat.

If would say it’ll be middle class welfare and tax cuts in May next year for sure. And double dose just before 2025 election.

Lock down the swinging middle class seats. Working class seats solidly Labor so can afford to lose some support in them with no reverse Teal movement to threaten them. Teals keep inner urban of Libs.