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How Good Is Communism? OR ScoMo The Trotskyist

For years, we’ve been warned about the left turning us into a nanny state and trying to control everything. We’ve heard how the Communists want to control us and how the conservatives are the ones who believe in small government. “We are giving you tax cuts,” say the Liberals, “because we believe that people are best placed to know what they should spend their money on. They don’t need governments making decisions for them.”

Yet now we have the Indue card. Ok, I know, I know. That’s just compassionate conservatism to help those who can’t help themselves. It’s giving a go to those who aren’t able to have a go because they’re all on drugs… Unless they’re over thirty five when they’ll no longer be drug tested. Mm, does that mean that they’ll all be able to celebrate with a wild cocaine and ecstasy party on their thirty fifth birthday…

I guess that’s why we have the Undue card. To protect all those older Australians who are no longer subject to drug testing. Some people think that these trials are just a Trojan horse and combine this with the proposal to limit cash payments to $10,000, it won’t be long before everyone will have one and the government can view all our spending.

However, the government assures us that this Undue – or is Undie – card isn’t even going to be extended to pensioners even though the legislation does include aged pensioners, meaning that it’s simply an oversight, and not a way of making it easier to roll it out without needing to go back to Parliament when the time comes to say that we’re worried about pensioners being exploited so we’re going to ensure that they can only shop at stores which we approve of and who likewise approve of the government. Business that show this approval by running fundraisers or buying dinner tickets so that they can hear the PM ask them, “How good is this Indue card?” Over and over again.

Yes, good old ScoMo is quite the joker… Last night in a performance reminiscent of Heath Ledger, he made a joke about how good it was to have all the journalists in the one room so that they could more easily gather their metadata.

At least I presume it was a joke. Although now I think about it, between the metadata laws, the Indue card and the threats to forcibly acquire energy assets, ScoMo is starting to show all the tendencies of one of those communist dictators we’ve all been warned about.

Mm, and then there’s Gladys Liu. While she may not be a card carrying member of the Chinese Communist Party, she’s certainly belonged to organisations which are meant to advance China’s interests in other countries. When Scottie hears this, does he announce that he’ll ask the security forces to check it out? No, he calls her a great Australian and accuses people of racism for even suggesting that there are questions to answer.

Good on him, says the Chinese newspaper. (This is real, I’m not making it up).

Now imagine if Jeremy Corbyn or Bill Shorten had introduced a card to control people’s spending, presided over raids on journalists and then was praised by the Communists for standing up for a possible Chinese propaganda stooge. Yeah, I can see the Murdoch press calling for their extradition to Guantanamo Bay as a threat to the nation.

But Scott, it seems, is ok right up until he says, How Good is the Socialist state?

 

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  1. Concerned_citizen

    Spot on.
    I wonder why the po-po and our security services are allowing our parliament to be infiltrated by communists?
    We’re a bit like Hong Kong at the moment albiet without the tear gas.

  2. Patricia

    Absolutely correct, where is the indignation from the media, where is the AFP, why is the ALP not shouting this stuff from the top of Parliament House? All Shorten wanted to do was make a couple of moves to bring s tiny bit of equity to the taxation system but the idiot voters in Queensland and WA thought it would be a better idea to have a government that has passed 75 pieces of legislation in the past six years (Albury with the consent of the ALP in most cases) that take away, bit by bit, the people’s freedoms. How good is that.

  3. Rossleigh

    ScoTro?

  4. Michael Taylor

    Someone on our website came up with a ripper: Scomunism.

  5. Bronte ALLAN

    Well said Rossleigh! The trouble with ALL this fcking COALition mob is that, yes, IF this Undue etc crap was introduced by Labor, there would have been the biggest hue & cry ever from Mudrake, ALL the idotic bloody shock jocks & ALL these so-called “liberal” lot! This Undue card is definitely the start of a complete crackdown on ALL Welfare/Pensioners! And the speed at which he is pushing this bloody “card” through parliament really means that ALL pensioners etc will soon be the “lucky” (?) recipients of it as well. Bugger! Instead of forcing any type of “welfare card” onto anybody why don’t SloMo etc spend more time trying to find ways to increase ALL Welfare/Pension payments, especially the bloody dole! After all if he “had a go he would get a go” (sic) at increasing ALL welfare payments! And maybe, just maybe, increasing ALL taxes on the obscenely wealthy mates he has?

  6. silkworm

    We need to drug test old age pensioners, otherwise how would they be fit to work?

  7. Robin Alexander

    I watched te then minister May2019 state that all government payments including Aged & Veterans pensions would be paid by Indue card commencing 2020? Being 82yr old pensioner living only on pension I was immediately under great stress and remain so now about this and furious?How dare they impose this on the oldest of the population 80/90yr olds?most would have no understanding of this insidious card its complicated uses only! Restricted cash lack of use direct payments for ongoing quartly payments rates water power insurance? Who will advise very old who have nobody? on its use? Use restricts payments over $100 per time?nightmare in making?to make special purchase with money unspent having to ring Indue to forward payment? Many now told of frustrstion.of repeatedly requesting forwarding on their money after mslready making deposit eventually being told NO! You cannot afford to buy that! Purchaser then lost her $200 deposit?control of your money by Indue a American bank backed Co. ?Run by directors including former National.party man Larry Anthony trickle down money floods into LNP funds? Tell me its not well set up.Scam? on the less fortunate to suffer for benifit politicians? Think about these Pensioners their right for pension was given to them decades,ago reward for workers hard work helping building this nation & Veterans fought for our country! it is not ever to be referred as Welfare?indorsed at time by Bob Menzies who also stated not Welfare! but well deserved reward? PM always referrs to.it as Welfare?he would? he has no empathy at all for less fortunate? worships sings prays for wealthy? beliefs are that all others are of devils making? not to be cared for? his very actions are very evident of his beliefs and his main Top ministers are are fellow followers? NOT Christian church (believes in compassion) more known as money making “Sect” ?be aware of their evil beliefs? not Fair Australian beliefs? Please remember card was introduced for addict control?pensioners are not in this category? It will cause utter confusion! stress!and lack understanding will be immeasurable for old people? A major tragedy in making for fragile old? who just want to be left to live last years without this imposition & fear !

  8. Robin Alexander

    I watched the then minister May2019 state that all government payments including Aged & Veterans pensions would be paid by Indue card commencing 2020? Being 82yr old pensioner living only on pension I wad immediately under great stress and remain so now about this and furious?How dare they impose this on the oldest of the population 80/90yr olds?most would have no understanding of this insidious card its complicated uses only! Restricted cash lack of use direct payments for ongoing quartly payments rates water power insurance? Who will advise verybold who have nobody on its use? Use restricts payments over $100 per time?nightmare in making?to make special purchase with money unspent having to ring Indue to forward payment? Many now told of frustration.of repeatedly requesting forwarding on theIr money after already making deposit eventually being told NO! You cannot afford to buy that! Putchaser then lost her $200 deposit?control of your money by Indue a American bank backed Co. ?Run by directors including former National.party man Larry Anthony trickle downoney floodsvinto LNP funds? Tell me its not well set up.Scam? on the less fortunate to suffer for benifit politicians? Think about these Pensioners their right for pension was given to them decades,ago reward for workers hard work helping building this nation & Veterans fought for our country! it is not ever to be referred as Welfare?indorsed at time by Bob Menzies who also stated not Welfare! but well deserved reward? PM always referrs to.it as Welfare?he would? he has no empathy at all for less fortunate? worships sings prays for wealthy? beliefs are that all others are of devils making? not to be cared for? his very actions are very evident of his beliefs and his main Top ministers are are fellow followers? NOT Christian church (believes in compassion) more known as money making “Sect” ?be aware of their evil beliefs? not Fair Australian beliefs? Please remember card was introduced for addict control?pensioners are not in this category? It will cause utter confusion! stress!and lack understanding will be immeasurable for old people? A major tragedy in making for fragile old? who just want to be left to live last years without this imposition & fear !

  9. Florence Howarth

    Nazi socialism.

    “Nanny state is a conservative term of British origin that conveys a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering unduly with personal choice. The term “nanny state” likens government to the role that a nanny has in child rearing.”

    Yes, they treat us as inferiors that they are going to mould us into their likeness. Nothing to do with love though.

    Role of government and I might add Prosperity Christianity is to force all to stand on their own feet, responsible for their own plight.

    Welfare is seen as evil, not the role of government. Welfare only encourages sloth.

    All can make it if they give it a go and honour the prosperity God.

    This is not a nanny state. A nanny state shares it wealth.

    This is nazi socialism where the powerful control the lives of the masses. Mainly through fear and cruelty. Dividing society, turning one against each other is essential.

    Funny that is what happens in a family where a father sexually abuses his daughter.

    We should be afraid.

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