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Michaelia Cash Argues Against Democracy!

Last week Senator Cash tweeted the…

Is it still correct to say “tweet”? I mean now that it’s X, should it be “Senator Cash Xed…”?

Whatever, Senator Cash put out the following message on the social media platform that was once Twitter but is now X:

“Australians should be able to choose what car they need for their family and their work – not the Prime Minister.”

So Australians should able to choose what car they need but they shouldn’t be able to choose the Prime Minister? That’s outrageous!

Yes, of course, that’s not what she meant; it’s just what she said. And yes, she was just trying to make a point about the government trying to impose more efficient vehicles on people when they want to waste money on less fuel efficient ones.

The Opposition have seized on this to complain about how this will make some vehicles more expensive while ignoring that a large number will actually be cheaper. I guess it doesn’t make a good scare campaign to suggest that most of you will be better off but those who want to waste money on a fuel guzzler may be given the opportunity to waste money up front by having to pay more for their car.

Still, the scare campaign has apparently worked a treat in the Dunkley by-election where the Liberal candidate achieved a magnificent swing of approximately 3.75%. The Liberals were overjoyed with this because if this was repeated in the general election then they’d repeat the result of losing Dunkley by less than they lost it at the previous election.

Personally, I couldn’t quite understand how they could be so happy with the result when they had so much going for them:

  1. Peta Murphy had a significant personal vote which would go a long way to explain why Labor’s primary vote was lower. Unfortunately for the Liberals it wasn’t. The fact that the primary vote held up should be the signal for a lot of soul searching in the Liberal Party, and if they actually find someone with a soul, then it’d be a great start!
  2. Scott Morrison was no longer leader and there was supposed to be a Morrison factor that went against the Liberals in the 2022 election… Mind you, in 2018, Morrison’s colleagues decided that they preferred him to Dutton, so the change in leadership may not be actually be the plus that commentators think!
  3. Anthony Albanese had just recently become the first Prime Minister to break an election promise and we can’t trust him… All right, he may not have been the first one to break a promise given Abbott’s paid parental leave and no cuts promises, John Howard’s “Never ever GST!”, Morrison’s Integrity Commission that he couldn’t introduce because Labor disagreed, but Albanese was the first one to admit that he was breaking one and that he was sorry.
  4. Australia has the highest rate of inflation of all the countries in a list of countries that excludes all the ones with higher inflation. The increased prices and the interest rate rises have caused a cost of living crisis because we only have crises when Labor is in power. When the Liberals are in power we have problems or difficulties or concerns.
  5. Similarly there is a housing crisis which is all Labor’s fault because when people couldn’t afford a house under a Liberal government, they just need to follow Joe Hockey’s advice and get a better paying job.
  6. Immigration is too high. Dan Tehan told us all on “Insiders” that it was too high but wouldn’t be drawn on what figure would be about right. No matter how many times David Spears asked, Mr Tehan couldn’t be tricked into revealing a Liberal policy because that’s against their strategy. Of course, he insisted that they have plenty of policies but none that can be released until closer to the election… In the past they’ve often waited till very close to the election date and by very close I mean a few days after they’ve been elected.
  7. In a by-election which won’t change the government, there’s an opportunity for a protest vote to let the government know that they better get their act together.

Yet for all this, the swing was merely consistent with what you’d expect in a by-election. In sporting terms, it’d be like saying that our team was expected to lose by 37 points and we did, so isn’t that a great result?

 

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  1. uncletimrob

    She’s taking lessons from Dutton – “Be as negative as possible and hopefully enough people will believe our lies and vote for us.”

  2. Phil Pryor

    Mde. Cash, a harpy from hell and an aviatrix from Abomination broomland, is just the most divorceable female around (at the moment, many rivals) with her shrieks of sensational stupidity and volumes of volative vomitousness, all of which indicates her lack of anything intelligent, polite, civilised, relevant or correct. But lies are her go, a policy to rival her repulsiveness and unsuitability.

  3. Harry Lime

    Whatever the so called liberal party is these days,it is characterised by brainless, loudmouthed fuckwits,who, to any sentient human would appear as a mob of feral pigs squealing at the sky,strumpet Cash leading the chorus,assisted by her sister in stupidity,flannel mouth LLLLLey.Not to forget Jane Vacuum.If it wasn’t for the earnestly dumb MSM and Murdoch’s trash,we wouldn’t have nearly as big a problem with the sad mediocrity of our politics.Or would we?As for the fucking goose Tehan,,,he speaks to our problem so very eloquently.

  4. OldWOmBat

    Cash, Hume, Lay – is that’s the best the lnp can do?

  5. Fred

    It’s laughable that MC is the Shadow Attorney-General, a role usually associated with levelheadedness, honesty, logic, due process, reasonableness, etc. not strident batshit crazy. It doesn’t bear thinking about if she were to keep the portfolio and the LNP were voted in. Then again we had the pillar of integrity C. Porter with a “secret” trust fund, so we knew no integrity commission was going to happen. Anybody heard of any convictions coming from the NACC which is so deep behind closed doors that it may only have two people working for it.

  6. Jon Chesterson

    ‘Australia has the highest rate of inflation of all the countries in a list of countries that excludes all the ones with higher inflation’. Ah you’ve just got to love that! No buts, no excuses, no analysis, just twisted love it.

    As for the 3.75% swing to the Liberals some must have peed in their pants as they leapt for glee without a cause, and all the while Sussan Ley said she was coming to get Albanese, but I couldn’t see the connection.

    Correction to the ABC and everyone else still calling Dunkley a swing. There was no swing, there was no dip or tilt on the Labor vote, the ‘swing’ simply matched the 3.75% from One Nation and United last time, who this time couldn’t find anyone to vote for and dumped themselves on the Liberals, nowhere else to go, no-one else will have them. The Liberals hardly moved an inch at all when in Opposition they’d be expected to have moved at least 3 inches or percent (take your pick). So they actually did worse on their own puff and panting. They did worse and were jumping up and down, scowling and shouting, pissing in their pants at the club as if they’d won. And despite all the excitement twisted Ley cannot scowl and growl, scream and screech as rank, bitter and twisted as alley-cat Cash can. She’ll need more lessons before the next election, so bugger the policies and off with everyone’s heads.

    And yes, it’s time to drop tweet, absolutely right Rossleigh, no such animal as tweet on twitter. You can Musk on X, X on Musk or X on X or do something else not done before, but be careful what you wish for. I guess he never thought that brand through properly, since when do we X to each other unless he was heading for the letter Z, but the Russians have already grabbed that one.

  7. Cool Pete

    Michaelia Cash is an empty head who got to be where she is because Daddy George was a famous WA Liberal politician! And I hate to think of what she believes about former Liberal Leader Dr. John Hewson being critical of Whittle Johnny Coward tying Australia up to dirty fuel! I can tell her that buying more efficient fuel makes cars cheaper to run.

  8. Katie

    What Michaelia Cash (aka McFailure Trash) doesn’t seem to understand is that the lying, conniving Fiberal Party (aka the Fibs) have been on-the-nose for over a decade and, most certainly, ever since that diabolical war criminal, John Howard (one of the worst pathological liars in living memory) rose like a demon out of hell to divide and conquer our nation using hate, racism, misogyny, fear and war as political “tools” to manipulate gullible Australians into voting for the worst, most degenerate political party in living memory. Ever since then, it would seem that the Fibs are unwilling and/or incapable of improving the situation! Sadly for the Fibs, the huge majority of Australians have now grown extremely weary of their constant pathological lies, born-to-rule arrogance, callous inhumanity, inherent misogyny and increasing level of condescending contempt for ordinary working- and middle-class Australians (in general). Indeed, history has PROVEN that the ONLY thing the Fibs care about is THEMSELVES, their avaricious, non-taxpaying supporters in the Top 1% and their Propaganda Minister, Rupert Murdoch and the lying, character-assassinating Z-rated hacks in his employ! Other than that, it is clear that the Fibs think the rest of us (ordinary working- and middle-class Australians) can go to hell in a handbasket!

    First we had to contend with that ghastly, Monument to Misogyny: Phony Abbott who believed that all women should stay in the bedroom or the kitchen (where they belonged) and couldn’t tell the truth if his non-achieving life depended upon it; then the Fibs vomited up that bible-thumping hypocrite and signed-up member of the notorious paedophile-protecting CULT of Hillsong: the bone-idle Sloth Morrison who proved to be as “popular” as a fart in an elevator! Now the LNP have elevated that sadistic Peter Dutton as King of the Fibs, who, clearly, as a child enjoyed his hobby of pulling the wings off flies in preparation for his role as one of the most cold-blooded, racist political psychopaths in our nation’s history. The ONLY positive thing about having the deeply unpopular Dutton as King of the Fibs is that it will ensure that the Fibs will wallow in Opposition for years to come!

    It is impossible to think of politicians who are as deplorably corrupt, self-serving, unconscionably depraved and as callously inhumane as the lying, conniving borderline fascists and unconscionable sociopaths who hide in every dark corner of the LNP. Let’s all hope and pray that Dutton remains in his position as the festering, diabolical head of the most degenerate political cabinet in living memory because as long as he’s there (we hope and pray), the Fibs haven’t got a chance in hell of crossing the electoral line!

  9. Clakka

    The only swings the LNP appear to have are the drips and trickle-downs from their big swinging dicks club.

  10. Jon Chesterson

    See look see what you’ve done again Rossleigh – Bring out the spitting images of sublime truth and impassable satire, and more golden lines from Katie to keep us nourished and entertained at the helm. Those other rags they do take themselves so seriously with their loose spit and flaky polish.

  11. Andyfiftysix

    Michaels Cash is everything we hate and don’t want in female politicians.
    1/ dumb as dog shit
    2/ a shrill
    3/ a career politician
    4/ a wanna be male politician
    5/ a yes ” man”

  12. corvusboreus

    6/ a ruthless abuser of power and privilege.
    7/ a pitiless torturer of vowels and syntax.
    8/ a boss who’ll gleefully toss hapless minions under a bus

  13. Andyfiftysix

    “Ohi was surprised”
    In other words ” i know nothin …..”
    Hahaha

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