Vic Lidia Thorpe: Not the subject for every thread!

[Gethelred]

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Go nuts.

 

[Reg Grundy35]

I mean who does she think she is, expecting the King to have a private meeting with her? Kind of similar to when Harry O'Brien wrote a letter to Obama requesting a meeting, nothing wrong with asking I suppose.

yeah these blackfellas can get a bit uppity can't they mate? Thank goodness we have loyal subjects like you to put them in their place. W

 

[Not Important]

Only the 98% stolen.
Don't like her, but her speech yesterday was spot on.

her antics really don't help the cause.

 

[tandino]

Tell me the simple reason why?

Given I have mentioned Pauline Hanson once (in that above post) in 12,000 posts, it must be important to you and very obvious. And lol at this is what you are basing this all on? 1 single post which was inferring Roby calling everyone a racist (lol, some things never change with this group of posters tbh) with an opposing view to his.

I wasn't even commenting on Hanson you absolute drip

I generally don't waste my time on her.

You must be an extraordinarily memorable person.

 

[Gralin]

anyone wanna guess what Peter said?

 

[Gough]

anyone wanna guess what Peter said?

Rhymes with yank.

 

[Gralin]

 

[Gralin]

Rhymes with yank.

good old channel seven hey

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

yeah these blackfellas can get a bit uppity can't they mate? Thank goodness we have loyal subjects like you to put them in their place. W

Her chances might improve if she could show she can carry herself like an adult, much less an elected official. But her history proves otherwise.

 

[Reg Grundy35]

Her chances might improve if she could show she can carry herself like an adult, much less an elected official. But her history proves otherwise.

she was the only person in the room with any courage. Just point out too that the person the anger was directed to is NOT an elected official. His staus and money is a pure accident of birth. Gook luck to her. I'm a Labor voter but Albo's smirk with King Tampon was last straw for me. Spill.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Nailed it Nova. But I guess she’s just a racist also.

Racist, no. Failure as a politician, yes.

Although, some might call Peris racist for this:



I wouldn't, but some might.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Every time Thorpe carries on with one of her stunts, I'm reminded that the Greens somehow preselected her over well respected human rights lawyer Julian Burnside. Muppets.

Burnside was a member of a men's-only club for 40 and has displayed sexist behaviour in public. Not a good fit for a party like the Greens whose voters and members are majority women.

 

[QuietB]

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Conservatives lose their collective minds because Thorpe did not behave appropriately and express their outrage by behaving completely inappropriately. Oh the ironing.

Who the **** is Peter Ford?

 

[Gralin]

Conservatives lose their collective minds because Thorpe did not behave appropriately and express their outrage by behaving completely inappropriately. Oh the ironing.

Who the **** is Peter Ford?

part of the channel 7 news team

 

[QuietB]

part of the channel 7 news team

Shouldn't he be busy sexually assaulting someone?

 

[Happy Mastenator]

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He was in the midst of an epic twitter meltdown. He obviously had a few drinks last night while posting, and woke up this morning and realised that a "Showbiz reporter on radio and TV" probably shouldn't be posting such things if he wanted to keep his career, and tidied up his timeline.

What a loser.

 

[Sphynx]

Racist, no. Failure as a politician, yes.

Although, some might call Peris racist for this:

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I wouldn't, but some might.

Depends on on your standards I guess.

If it's simply for being a single term senator that retired/didn't sit for re-election to spend more time with her family and her mob and foundation. She failed I guess....

I'd like to think being the first indigenous female elected to federal parliament, campaigning against counter preductive alcohol reforms in the territory and personally founding an organization which attempted to increase attendance and academic standards in indigenous girls at school was extremely impactful to our country in a short space of time.

But what do I know, I'm just a centrist.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Elected to serve at the pleasure of the crown who she has pledged allegiance too, i'm no royalist, but if she feels that strongly about it then all she has to do is resign! Will Adam Bandt give up his home and join us all on that journey to find a new home on one of the 2 million uninhabited islands in the world? Will the Spanish and Portuguese say sorry about that and give up Mexico, Latin and South America?

She is the most divisive person this country has ever seen. She has no decorum whatsoever.

Yet another person who is annoyed that not everyone thinks the way they think. We were always divided, you just didn't pay attention.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

she was the only person in the room with any courage. Just point out too that the person the anger was directed to is NOT an elected official. His staus and money is a pure accident of birth. Gook luck to her. I'm a Labor voter but Albo's smirk with King Tampon was last straw for me. Spill.

Carrying on like a petulant child who didn't get their way. Stunning and brave.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Depends on on your standards I guess.

If it's simply for being a single term senator that retired/didn't sit for re-election to spend more time with her family and her mob and foundation. She failed I guess....

I'd like to think being the first indigenous female elected to federal parliament, campaigning against counter preductive alcohol reforms in the territory and personally founding an organization which attempted to increase attendance and academic standards in indigenous girls at school was extremely impactful to our country in a short space of time.

But what do I know, I'm just a centrist.

And was the subject of two separate corruption allegations, but who's counting?

 

[Sphynx]

And was the subject of two separate corruption allegations, but who's counting?

Cleared twice wasn't she? But who's counting?

Or are you saying Gillard may have had something to do with that?

 

[Gralin]

The constant infantilising of Thorpe is very transparent in its intention

 

[Sphynx]

she was the only person in the room with any courage. Just point out too that the person the anger was directed to is NOT an elected official. His staus and money is a pure accident of birth. Gook luck to her. I'm a Labor voter but Albo's smirk with King Tampon was last straw for me. Spill.

So aren't many or all of the upper house members of the UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, India, Malaysia and South African governments.

I guess we should treat them like shit also if they come to town as most of them weren't democratically elected and just indirectly appointed? Social standing, money, wealth and family names etc play a big factor in politics. Welcome to reality.

Our senate is elected via proportional representation also. She's hardly got the same personal mandate as a member of our house of representatives if you really want to get into it.

The Australian Greens received 99.7% of the vote above the line to enable them to award Lidia a seat as their pre-selected #1 ticketed senate candidate. Lidia received 0.2% of the direct vote below the line for those that wanted to specifically vote for her.

It's not exactly like it is a direct election like US Senate elections. Australians vote for parties in Senate Elections and the Greens were the ones who directly selected Lidia personally (A decision they regret...). This applies to most Senators.

 

[Roylion]

Does he have any powers of a king? Does he make laws? Does he have any relevance at all?

There's a significant difference between an absolute monarchy and a constitutional monarchy.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

The constant infantilising of Thorpe is very transparent in its intention

At least the bigfooty bootlicking is consistent

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Cleared twice wasn't she? But who's counting?

I never saw an outcome to the Ato Boldon saga so I have no idea on that one. My point is more, if corruption allegations keep following someone around and then they quit after three years, they're not a successful politician.

Or are you saying Gillard may have had something to do with that?

I have no idea what Gillard did or didn't do, beyond giving the finger to the sitting senator and the NT Labor branch members so she could have her captain's pick.

Anyway, Peris is welcome to her opinion, and of course Aboriginal people have multiple viewpoints. It's just funny that anyone's paying attention to her on political matters given her brief and controversy-laden career, and that even Jacinta Price thinks she's a dropkick.