Australian Border Force and Victoria Police conducting random Visa checks on the streets

[Leon]

Abbott is downright dangerous.

It doesn't surprise in the slightest that since becoming PM he's been pursing a ridiculous, bat shit crazy right wing agenda but even though you could see it coming it's still genuinely horrible watching him pull shit like this.

 

[MaddAdam]

The media hot take is that Mark Di Stefano and Buzzfeed are now legit up there as the best political newsbreakers in the land.

 

[MaddAdam]

Abbott is downright dangerous.

It doesn't surprise in the slightest that since becoming PM he's been pursing a ridiculous, bat shit crazy right wing agenda but even though you could see it coming it's still genuinely horrible watching him pull shit like this.

It will get worse too.

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

It's unfair that people blame all this stuff just on Abbott, when he has supporters in the LNP over 6 years who deserve an equal amount of blame.

...But having said that, it's a neat irony that people have been asking about Abbott's own citizenship status. If he never relinquished his English citizenship apparently he shouldn't have been allowed to be PM.

Maybe Border Force can take their Blunder-bus to Canberra?

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Opposing the Chinese FTA is racist. 'Random' visa checks aren't

 

[cats2rise]

Its official twitter runs the country, sad times we live in.

Its also sad regarding who else runs the country, but yes I agree with you. I cant stand twitter and the impact social media has on politics. Trendy three word slogans etc etc

 

[Leon]

It will get worse too.

As usual, I agree with you.

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

And the ABF have blamed a 'low-level official', even though the comments of the Vic/Tas Regional Commander were a big part of the PR release.

It's a bit like Dyson Heydon blaming his PA. These Liberal types are all about personal responsibility, aren't they?

 

[GreatBradScott]

Its official twitter runs the country, sad times we live in.

You mean regular people standing up to an absurd overreach of the state power?

This is supposed to be the shit the Liberal Party should be calling out. If a group of TROTS have to do it, my word we are more ****ed than I thought.

 

[MaddAdam]

As usual, I agree with you.

The one benefit is Abbott has poisoned the "run to national security" well for a good while.

Ya gunna cry wolf, occasionally you have to produce a wolf.

 

[ManWithNoName]

The media hot take is that Mark Di Stefano and Buzzfeed are now legit up there as the best political newsbreakers in the land.

He's been on fire lately. Buzzfeed are right up there now, something the old hats can't comprehend.

 

[MaddAdam]

You mean regular people standing up to an absurd overreach of the state power?

This is supposed to be the shit the Liberal Party should be calling out. If a group of TROTS have to do it, my word we are more stuffed than I thought.

Loving Chris Kenny stapling his shrivelled member to the seat in order to work up a suitably shrill level of outrage.

"Melbourne leftist Twitterati rentamob riot over badly worded media release"

Give it a rest Chrisso.

Both the now badly damaged old fella and the politicking.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Loving Chris Kenny stapling his shrivelled member to the seat in order to work up a suitably shrill level of outrage.

"Melbourne leftist Twitterati rentamob riot over badly worded media release"

Give it a rest Chrisso.

Both the now badly damaged old fella and the politicking.

Nobody takes Kenny seriously anymore. If they ever did.

 

[MaddAdam]

He's been on fire lately. Buzzfeed are right up there now, something the old hats can't comprehend.

Latika in front with the Heydon story but Do Stefano has this and unmasking @RealMarkLatham running a close second and third.

Times they are a changing.

 

[MaddAdam]

Nobody takes Kenny seriously anymore. If they ever did.

I honestly wonder if he ever suspects what a joke he is

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

They don't have opinions though, they think liking and sharing shows they have an informed opinion on the matter.

You do know you are on the internet now, right?

Twitter is just a form of media. The way it is used is as varied as the way people use any other media. Don't follow people you don't like in the same way you wouldn't watch a TV show you didn't like. People have been banging on about the market being the best mechanism as it reflects what people really do and think, yet Chris Kenny and you are now suggesting people power via social media is bad. It's almost like there's a different goal to the BS you speak...

 

[GreatBradScott]

Loving Chris Kenny stapling his shrivelled member to the seat in order to work up a suitably shrill level of outrage.

"Melbourne leftist Twitterati rentamob riot over badly worded media release"

Give it a rest Chrisso.

Both the now badly damaged old fella and the politicking.

His viewers are well within >100k. So are Bolt's. There is no 'moral majority' anymore. The monoculture is long dead. I mean these people bang on about the twitter echo chamber (and it is), but there's a great example with the conservative right too.

 

[MaddAdam]

Shit getting real now.

 

[Gough]

Underestimate the Fifth Estate at your own peril, and a few exceptions aside, the Liberal Party is all but clueless about it.

 

[Leon]

The one benefit is Abbott has poisoned the "run to national security" well for a good while.

Ya gunna cry wolf, occasionally you have to produce a wolf.

Haven't caught the news yet but has he done a presser with a zillion Aussie flags behind him yet?

 

[smokingjacket]

Any updates?

 

[Bugz]

Any updates?

On what? Nothing happened.

 

[MaddAdam]

Haven't caught the news yet but has he done a presser with a zillion Aussie flags behind him yet?

Even he's smart enough to know not to go anywhere this disaster.

 

[smokingjacket]

On what? Nothing happened.

I was referring to the political shitstorm heading towards the government for trying to turn downtown Melbourne in to an Occupied Territories checkpoint.

 

[smokingjacket]

a.k.a. whose arse is getting kicked for this