Boonta Vista - EPISODE 95: P3: Whacking Day

Episode Date: April 23, 2019

Andrew, Lucy, Ben and Theo are taking a look at One Nation's new star candidate, Social Media Influencer Emma Azzopardi - that's right, THE Emma Azzopardi - and checking in on longtime friend of the show Penis Whackerman. *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Merchandise available at: boontavista.com/merchandise *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8d5aenm Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=144888&refid=stpr Pocket Casts: pca.st/SPZB RSS: tinyurl.com/kq84ddb

Welcome to Fontavista episode 95. I am Andrew. I'm here with Ben. Hey, hey, man. What's going on? How is your diseased and withered body? My body now is more or less fine. All of the snot has fallen out of my face. And all it's left is a persistent irritating cough but I don't feel sick. I feel lively, I feel healthy, I feel great. I will just occasionally not be able to breathe for 10 minutes and then I'm fine. So you're almost back to normal. I'm very close once I get that down to seven. I think everything will be par for the course. And you're saying that's normal. Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that. Yeah, that. Yeah, that. Yeah, that. that. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that's that's, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. th, th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the thi. the the thi. the the the thi. thi. the thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. I'm very close. Once I get that down to 7, I think everything will be par for the course. And you're saying that's normal? Yes, yeah.

Normal body. Yeah. Okay. So what do you feel most the time in your body? they, thii. Not great. Sure. Well, they need to go further into that. Nope. And here checking in on what a normal body is, is Theo. Hello, Theo.

And no follow-up questions. My body is perfectly all the right shapes. Perfectly formed. Yep. I don't even know if I've ever seen you without a shirt off now that I'm thinking about it. Surely we've been swimming at the same time before. No, I don't think we have. We need to remedy that that that that that th th th th th th th to th to to th to to to to to to th to to to tho to tho tho tho the the the tho tho tho tho tho tho. tho tho their their tho. tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their tho. tho. tho. thoooooooooooooooooooo. thooooooooooooo. thoooo. tho. tho. tho. ththe same time before. No, I don't think we have. We need to remedy that apparently. This is an extraordinary number of years in an extraordinarily hot city for us not to have been at a pool at the same time. Well, I mean, as we covered earlier, I have a very normal body and I, as such, I don't enjoy swimming because of the effect that it has on my completely regular

medically acceptable body. You've got kind of the inverse of the problem that fish have, you know, when they get out of water their body can't sustain itself without the lessened gravity. You actually need that little bit of gravity. You get in the water and everything just starts drifting apart. Yeah. You get that, the syndrome that astronauts get. Uh, and of course, joining us from Hawaii via the big satellite phone.

She's got one of those big, big clunky satellite phones from a spy movie in the 90s. Mm-hmm. Holding it comically to my ear. It's much larger than my body. I look very stupid. I'm struggling to hold it up. It's Lucy. Hi Lucy. It's me.

Hello. Are we allowed to talk about your big news? We can because I tweeted about it and I regretted it immediately. That's true. Congratulations are in that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's true. That's true. Congratulations are in order to Lucy. Whomst has become engaged. Yes, future wife of the show, me. That's right. Incredible.

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Marriage is a myth perpetuated by the patriarchy, dissubjugate women in our commodified... I had to google that one. This is a reply. Someone sent me on Twitter, by the way. Yeah, when you say, I got engaged to immediately say, nice one, marriage is bullshit for dickheads, and you have owned yourself as a woman. And then delete your account.

Yes, as soon as people start saying, nice one, dickhead. The guy pulled my favorite classic move, which is I immediately insulted him and he responded to being insulted by following me on Twitter and then deleting his account. Oh very strange, very strange. Pro move, pro move. Good stuff. Pro move. Speaking of, speaking of influencing people on social media, we have a tale from the news

this week. You guys ever seen this news stuff? I've heard about it. It's probably not for me. Not really my thing. Not my style. I hate current events. Only things that are a year or two out of being current for me. Thanks. I only want to hear about things. When can something like officially be considered historical? Does it have to be more than like, does just have to be occurring in the past? Is that? I wouldn't really refer to something from last week as historical, would I? It is in my mind. When you're on Twitter, things it happened a week ago? It's like two years ago. If you did a sex crime last week and then you were charged, they wouldn't say you're being

charged of historical sex crimes. No, they'd say that sex crime you did last week. Yeah. You'd go into the court, the judge would say you are here under charges of that sex crime you did last week. Yep. Yeah, at which point you start talking on your collar. Ooh, thought that one to come back to Harmi. So speaking of being a social media influencer, we have an article here from the advertiser about a one nation Senate candidate, which is very funny. This was surprisingly slept on for, like, because I saw this story and I was sort of blown away and I didn't really see it get a lot of traction, but this is fucking incredible, right? So, One Nation, they got Emma as a party. Which is wild, right? So, one nation, they got Emma as a party, which is wild, right?

The Emma as a party? Yeah, you know. I know you're all saying to yourselves. So, like, for what you would think, you know, that a heavy hitter like this, if she was going to get into politics, uh, would have ended up with one of the major parties. So this is a huge coup. A massive get. Now much in the same way that, that's, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, the the the, right, right, right, right, right, right, the, right, right, the, right, right, the, right, the, right, the, right, right, the, right, the, the, the, the, the, right, right, right, right, the, the, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, the, right, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, the, right, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they. The, they. The, they. They. They. They. The, they. The, they. The, they. The, they, they, the, the, the, the, the major parties. So this is a huge coup. Massive Get. Massive Get. Now much in the same way that it turns out that Captain Getup is a Colombian YouTuber, much in the same way that's very clearly advanced Australia has obtained a big-time social media pitch hitter.

Instead, they've gone with the influencer, Emma as a party, announced as one nation's second S. S.A. Senate candidate in the federal election. She has a funny name. We're going to talk about that? Wow, that's pretty racist. I would just like to say to Emma as a party, does she? Am I invited to it? Cancelled Lucy. Cancelled once again. One of Australia's biggest social media influences, I'm already looking around the room and shaking my head at this one, has emerged as Pauline Hansen's second South

Australian One Nation Senate candidate. Emma as a party who has more than half a million Twitter followers has announced she will put her th th that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's pretty that's pretty th. I th. I's a pretty tho. C. C.Ca's a tho.Ca's a thoooo. C. C.Ca. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C Senate candidate. Emma as a party who has more than half a million Twitter followers has announced she will put her career on the line to spruc one nation's policies at the May 18th election. Now, this is definitely one of these accounts where you look and you go, yes, this person does have half a million followers and they also follow half a million people. Yeah, because they like to keep up-to-date on stuff. That's not a cry. You all know we love to look at our feeds of the 430,000 people that we're following, and get a nice targeted spread of news.

In an exclusive interview with the advertiser, Ms. As a party says she was approached by the party three weeks ago after she expressed disgust online for the way Senator Hanson was interviewed on Sunrise. Quote, everyone has said if you like Pauline Hansen then you're a racist and I would say that is definitely not the case. My husband is Maltese, my business partner is Chinese and one of my best friends is African-American. Ms. Azaparthe 41 said. When I read the policies, I realized that wasn't the case and I thought, I want to work with Pauline.

I think we all, all normal people think when looking at Pauline Hansen. Well, ironclad defense there really. How can one be racist when one of their best friends is black? African-American. Using that phrase I feel is like you know that they're like old-school racist because they think politically correct by saying African-American. Extra extra tactful. My colored friend said that. But Ms. Azaparti would not be drawn on her support for several one-nation policies,

saying she needed to spend more time with her team, Ms. Hansen and lead essay candidate Jennifer Game. So I like that she's already read the policies and decided they weren't racist, but also does not not speak to you about the policies. She plans to target voters through her quote unquote powerhouse social media accounts, including disengaged millennials about one nation's immigration policy. That immigration is going to affect the millennials as time goes past if it doesn't change, Miss Azapati said. Great sentence there. That's grammatically, that's good.

So it seems to me. Is that, it's either the reporter has chucked immigration in brackets after that to clarify instead of doing the square brackets, word replacement thing, or she's just quoting an email here. It, this is very confusing for me. It's not the best written piece. Unlike a lot of people, she says, I have 550,000 people to talk to. 287,000 of them are from Australia. That could affect my career because that is my career, but I believe in it so much the policies I'm not going to talk

about, that I'm going to go to town on social media. I'm gonna bust social media wide open. Gonna bust it on social media. I'm gonna bust social media wide open. Gonna bust it on social media. Mm-hmm. Oh, this is, what a mystery this woman is. The married mother of one who lives on a yacht in North Haven. I've not seen that the first time through. That's a lovely little detail.

Living on a yacht. Tweeting to my five hundred and fifty thousand followers from my yacht, the dream. The married mother of one who lives on a yacht in North Haven previously worked in the travel industry before a degenerative spinal disease at age 31 left her bedridden for more than 18 months. She began tweeting motivational quotes in 2009 and made more money developing social media marketing strategies than she was making in the travel industry. This, just this whole thing, like the whole industry of someone who's who's entire like claim to be able to do something is just I have a lot of followers online and I speak to them.

So let me come and give a pep talk at your business. It's just grift like literally you just have to get 550,000 fake followers, and you can go to any company and be like, look, I'm more popular than a lot of celebs. Give me money to tell you how to tweet. But there's people who believe this. Like, I can't believe how many people just don't have a basic understanding of social media. her Twitter and one of her most recent tweets has one retweet for 540,000 followers. Which is not unusual for her Twitter account either.

Yeah, so they're not real. I thought that would be obvious to most people with a functioning brain. The influencer and motivational speaker who says that she is about quote-unquote empowering women lays claim to the most popular essay Twitter account with 540,000 followers including former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Her website says she was recently voted 28th most inspirational tweeter in the world. I wonder do you guys remember who you cast your vote for in that one? I don't believe mine was for Sam Neal, and I'm surprised you didn't do better. Yeah, that's a good vote actually.

So she's been on eight Forbes lists. Congratulations to her. Congratulations to her. Oh, she also has an Instagram account with 18,000 followers. Oh. Last year it was reported that she offered Instagram account with 18,000 followers. Oh. Last year it was reported that she offered to sell 2,500 Twitter followers for $250 US, revealing questionable business tactics in the social media world. Yes, it's almost like buying a shitload of fake followers is an extremely well-known activity

that people who aspire to be a professional influencer do. Oh, and a fun thing about that little bit in the story is that that was added well after the story was published only after somebody else tweeted at the woman that wrote the story about the fake followers thing. So she just wrote this like gushing write-up of this person without doing any research into themthe Wahhoo! Wahoo!

Now we're closing it on the very, very best part of this article. Although she has contributed to the social media campaigns of aspiring politicians, including former Port Adelaide Mayor Gary Johansson, Miss Asaparte admits that she is, quote, not a political animal. Well, great idea to go into politics. And now I know what you're thinking, guys. The former Port Adelaide Mayor Gary Johansson.

Yes, that one. That's right. She, I guess, contributed to these. I love the, just this, as a statement that means like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I guess, contributed to these... I love the... just as a statement that means like I didn't do anything and nobody got any value for money out of me. Has contributed to the social media campaigns of aspiring politicians. I got paid some money, I did some tweets for some people who then did not get elected, and then I went cashed my check and got back on my yacht. Living the dream. So I don't know more about the yacht. What what sort of square footage are we talking about on this? Right. Is it station or is it somewhere sailing the

seven seas? Ben I knew that you I know that you spent several years of your upbringing living on a boat. I don't live it to me to tell you about how boats work and are measured. Square footage. How many cubits? How many cubits is this? Exactly how many how many fathoms of petrol can you get in this yacht? You know what I can't find a single list that this woman's Twitter account is on. Like, inspirational Twitter accounts, nothing. It seems like a dubious claim, especially to pick 28th. It's not like, I mean, we're all more online than the average person,

and we all use Twitter a lot. And I don't think any of us immediately think of anything when somebody says, uh, worldwide lists of popular tweeters. I'm not sure that's really a thing. Interesting. So anyway, look, the important thing is that she wants to be an inspirational voice, you know. And, uh, and Miss Azapardi says, I want to give people a voice they didn't know they had, an educated voice, not a voice of just jumping on the bandwagon of things that we're all passionate

about, which is racism and guns. P. P. That's... Um... U... just sidling out to the mic. How many all like racism and guns?

Everyone's just going wild. Firing their guns and their racism into the air. But, she says, I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about the other things. You talk about the other things which I do not want to be asked questions about. Which I will not be drawn on. Let's just take a second. Let's be, let's be generous to miss as a party, the extremely hyper-competent social

media influencer. Let's, uh, because she didn't have time.. to to to to to to to the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, to to to tho, to to to tho, tho, to to to to to tho to to tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th tho tho tho tho thi to to to to to to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to time to like type this out and massage it in her drafts, you know, she was just speaking. She got, she accidentally mumbled this one up. But let's be really generous. Let's try to interpret this sentence in the most generous way possible and see if there's any, like, good way to interpret this. I want to give people a voice they didn't know they had not a voice of just jumping on the bandwagon of

things that we are all passionate about which is racism and guns. So even if you thought that that had been misinterpreted what could she even have been trying to say? Um... I mean, she... Because it sounds like she's talking in terms of... She's talking about what people say one nation are into. But there's no way to read that sentence in that you're putting that on another person's voice, you know? Hmm. Things we are all passionate about. What I want to know is that is we are all, is the we there, one nation supporters, or

Australians or the world. I think it's like an extremely muddled construction of saying that like people think that all one nation cares about is racism and guns. But she, but that's not the case and she wants to be an educated voice for one nation. And also she's not just jumping on the bandwagon of it, maybe. That's, that's what I, that's what I kind of took as the charitable reason, or the charitable re-a-or-or-or- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or th- or thi- or thi- or thi, or thi, or thi, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, or, or, or, th, or, or, or, or, or, th, or, or, or, th, or, or, th, th, thi, or, the, or, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, thi, just jumping on the bandwagon of it. Maybe. That's what I, that's what I kind of took as the charitable reading of that. But of course, being a one nation member, she is unable to articulate that in any kind of sentence. She could also be using passionate in the sense of having passionate emotions about,

not like enthusiasm for, so like everyone has an opinion on racism and guns, whether it's positive or negative. Who's to say? One thing's for sure, which is it's a really good thing that they hired as such an effective top-gun communicator to talk about these issues for them. Oh, when you've got to get your ideas down to only 280 characters, you learn to say to say to say thii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, theoom-a' thoom-a' thoom-a, thoom-a, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.. theooooooooooooooo''eeoooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. thi. Soea, the thea, these issues for them. When you've got to get your ideas down to only 280 characters, you learn to say things concisely and without confusion. Just razor sharp, razor sharp stuff. Like for example, if we take a look at one of her most recent tweets on her account

with half a million followers, this one got 52 likes. Big numbers she's putting up on the boards here. 13 retweets, 52 likes. Big numbers she's putting up on the boards here. 13 retweets, 52 likes. So she has done this in the style of an acrostic poem, which I believe we will all remember writing in primary school. And this one, reading down the page, the letters that make up the word, haters. And then going down word by word, she's, she's really turned this make up the word haters and then going down word by word.

She's really turned this word on its head, you know, because when I say haters, you guys probably think of something negative, right? You would. You would because you guys are fucking pathetic. You're not, you're not driven social media influences like this lady. But she hears the word haters. And she like deconstructs this in her mind, pieces it all back together in a 3D model. She takes it apart like the horse from the movie.

The godfather. Now, I'm the people is the cube. The horse gets cubed? No. No, a man gets a cell. The cell. That's where the name the cube comes from. That's right.

In the cell, the horse gets turned into cells. In the cube, the man gets turned to cubes. That's the demotic device that you use to remember which one is which. Yep. Um, the trick is to remember the horse or man. That's the hard part. Um, although in, now correct me if I'm wrong, Theo, but I believe in the movie Cube, the man gets turned into cubes, he does not get cubed. I don't understand the distinction that you're making. I imagine the second one would involve him being made larger to the power of three.

I think, saying to me, I hear cube as in, if someone told you to cube some carrots. Absolutely. You turn those into cubes. You say, not a kind of man in a trash compact. Well, I'd say diced because I'm not a fucking. weirdo. It's a cute, can you cube these vegetables for me? Yeah, and I feel like... It's a very, that's a very definite thing you do in cooking. And I feel like if you called the movie The Dice, even though it would retain the same shape, it would just raise more confusion. Yeah, certainly it would imply that there's a second dice-shaped object in the movie.

They should call it the die. Wait, no, I think I might have got that the wrong way around. Which one is the plural again? One die, many dice? Oh, jeez. We're going off the rails here. Can I read out one of her tweets as well? Oh, no, you haven't even finished. So she's so excited. She's deconstructing this thought, the horse in the late 90s movie, The Cell, saying Vincent and Ophrio and Jennifer Lopez. Or like the Horse and the Godfather. Or like the Horse in the Godfather. Cartoon. They just didn't have the technology back in that stage to deconstruct to the same level,

just one cut. Certainly no. No. She's in her mind palace and she is rotating the 3D model of the word haters, taking it apart and reassembling it as a something new. And now if I read down the acrostic poem that she is constructed, haters becomes having anger towards everyone reaching success. God damn. How many, what's the engagement on that bad boy? It was 13 retweets 52 likes for her 540,000 followers.

500. Mm-hmm. I have 52 likes. Great stuff there. Thank you, Emma. I'm just going to hit you with a little speed round here. Oh, okay. I'll say the text of the tweet you with a little speed round here. Oh, okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. I'll say the text of the tweet, the number of retweets.

Okay. Life is about choices, and the wonderful thing is, you get to choose. Damn! Eight retweets. If it doesn't open, then it's not your door. 11 retweets. I feel inspired. Seriously, the body clock never ceases to amaze me. One retweet.

Oh, I'm feeling influenced. It's very influential. You were never created to live, depressed, defeated, guilty, ashamed, or unworthy. You are created to be victorious, courageous, unstoppable and worthy. Six retweets. Also, I don't feel like any of that is true. I don't think that's true at all. I mean, you might be the one person that actually needs this, Theo.

Everyone can make a difference. You just have to want to. Huh. That's inspirational. Doesn't say whether the difference has to be good or bad. Oh, what the fuck? This is, all right, this is the last one. Okay. Uh, no one knows what the picture will look like. So we grab colors along the way and start coloring it. Start, start grabbing bright colors. Start, start grabbing bright colors.

Start, start grabbing. Start, start grabbing bright colors. Four retweets. I'm, that for me, really, um, really conjures the image of being given one of those adult coloring books. She's an adult coloring book of a person. But also, also being told that I have to find my own pencils. Yeah. All right, one more. This is it. Then, th. Then, th. Then, th. Then, th. Then, th. Then, th. Then, th. T, th. T, th. T, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start, start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. Start. th. Start. th. Start. th. th. th. Start. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tha have to find my own pencils. Yeah. All right one more, this is it. Then I'm out. People aren't just blocks of wood, they do have feelings. What? No punctuation in there. People aren't just blocks of wood. They do have feelings. Two read twiks I've ever thought of a person as a block of wood. They do have feelings, Lucy. Stop thinking them as just blocks of wood.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Stop it. People are more than a simple block of wood. Oh, okay. All right, this is really the last one. Sometimes movies choose us. Sometimes movies choose us. She also has this weird thing where she

follows, she finishes all of her tweets. Oh God damn, this is so bad with a less than sign. Yeah, it's a little less than symbol. Yeah. Which I guess is kind of like a trademark thing she does. Let your light shine and watch it fall on others' faces. I'm fine. You don't want to do it? No, I'm good. It sort of sounds like a advertisement for white phosphorus. He said it sounds like a advertisement for white phosphorus. You You gotta get the word out there. Yes, you're not perfect. But you do deserve to be loved.

I am perfect actually. Fuck you. This is probably why her own biography describes her as a motivational speaker, entrepreneur and writer, quote, enriching people's lives one tweet at a time. I don't know. Each one of those enriched my life slightly like so much uranium. Oh dear, oh dear. Sorry I'm not going to read them out. I can't just look at all these and I feel unwell. Yeah I can't stop reading these it's really upsetting.

So if you would like to follow Emma on Twitter and hear her I guess not talk about One Nation policies or anything. You can find her on there at ILLWH. God, I, this is amazing. I think we actually, this is a live scoop on the podcast. She's plagiarizing her own tweets. Here's a tweet from January 25. You tell me if this sounds familiar to you.

Choose your words carefully. People aren't just blocks of wood. They have feelings. Are you kidding? Emma, you dog? Oh my God. Look, I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt. Yes, it did.

I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt that she came back to that one and thought, you know, I could have trimmed that down. Choose your words carefully, that's excessive. Let's streamline this bitch. I could have sharpened that up. And of course, her most recent tweet 21 hours ago, it is the Easter weekend. And it says, wishing you all a happy and safe Easter, this is like on an image of Easter eggs, speckled eggs, wishing you all a happy and safe Easter is the one time of year. You can get away with putting all your eggs in one basket. With love, with love. I often put all the eggs in a single container. I'm not going to spread them around the house. I always put them in one basket.

That would be insane. Why would you put your eggs in separate baskets? I actually store my eggs in the tha the the tha tha tha tha the tha tha the tha tha tha tha tha tha tha the the the the the the the the the the the the the in one basket. That would be insane. Why would you put your eggs in separate baskets? I actually store my eggs in two separate fridges just in case something happens to one of the fridges. I've learned from that aphorism. Wow, you sure have. So we don't wish her the best of luck, I guess. I mean she's already got a social media empire. She doesn't really need anything. She doesn't need help. She's loving life because she chooses to smile every day and you know, good for her. All right, wait, one more. True success generally happens when you're too busy working. To busy working. So there's one-oh on that too. True success generally happens when you're to busy working. True success generally happens when you're too busy working. When you're to busy working, that is when true success will generally happen. That's just my experience. Is she wrong? Oh god damn it! Fuck! Okay, this is genuinely last one. And I would like to apologize in advance because I'm about to say a slur. And this is just me reading the tweet that she said. I don't think

it's nice to use this word to denigrate people. I just read an email back and had signed off kind retard instead of guide regards. Should I email and rectify it? Or will they not notice? I would probably have kept that to myself. If I had done that, I probably wouldn't have tweeted it. I wouldn't have tweeted it. I would have said a follow-up email. Maybe if I was using, if I noticed it quick enough, Google has that thing where you can retract an email very quickly. There's a little window of time. But I probably would have said, hey, it was definitely a typo there, and then I would have moved on. I wouldn't have shared it with 550,000 people, 270,000 of which are in Australia. I'm going to be more uncharitable and say that I believe that she didn't actually do that. She just thought of it and thought it would be a funny thing to tweet.

This is like when you lie and say that your children have done something precocious for social media engagement. Yes, whereas they've never actually spoken to me. What day? So, folks, an old friend, thiiiiiiiiii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. that. tho. tho. th. that's that's that that that that she's that she's that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she that she's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's, that's th. th. th. th. to to to to to. toe. toe. toe. toe. the. the. thea. toea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. the. that's that's that of the show is back in the news, an influencer of a different kind. I am of course talking about... Penis Wackerman. Penis Wackerman is back, folks. And here's where we play the theme.

Yeah, I don't have a penis whackerman theme, do it? In my head. It's kind of like a, um, like a black exploitation movie, though like the songs that always play at the start of those. I don't know why. The whack. Yeah, the whack is back. Yeah, the whack is back.

Yeah. He's back. He is popped up. Because after all, we all know that Pierce Ackerman is a fierce critic of the ABC and SPS public broadcasters, anybody who is not sufficiently right wing. He very much has the same view as Tony Abbott, which is anyone who is not sufficiently right wing is there for a hardcore leftist, you know? So he popped up recently, he popped up in the social media of Tony Abbott's campaign, because that's what we like to see. We like to see our journalists, our columnists staying extremely unbiased. So in this piece from, I think it's the Guardian, it might have been the Guardian, might

have been the Sydney Morning Herald. I'm going to say the City Morning Herald. I'm going to say the City Morning Herald. I'm going to say, ''Vearns, Paul Kenni has rejected criticism directed at him for joining former Prime Minister Tony, told him, "'Ir-a-lionist, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a, "'a,''''''''''''''''''''''''''' "'it, "'it, "'it, "'it, "'it, "'it, "'mah,''''''' "'mah,'' "'mi,'' "'mi, "'mi, "'mi, "'mi,'' "'mah,'' "'mah,'' "'mah,'' "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m. "'m..''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Ringo on the weekend. Former Sydney Morning Herald and the age journalist Mark Kenny said on ABC's Insiders that Sunday morning that quote a lot of people are looking at this and thinking this surely crosses a line. Ackerman who was wearing a Tony Abbott for Reringer t-shirt rejected that, saying that he was there as quote an independent Australian and a private citizen. He said there was no more conflict between him joining Mr. Abbott and working as an independent commentator than there was for ABC journalists who drove with Mr. Abbott's opponent Zaley stegel for a

story on 730 to the press conference at which she announced her candidacy. I feel like there is something different about those two things. I feel like a pretty clear difference there in my head. Can't put my finger on it. It's the the shirt. It's. It's. It's the shirt. It's the shirt. It's the shirt. It's the shirt. It's the shirt. It's the the the the the the the th. It's th. It's the th. It's the th. It put my finger on it. It's the shirt that really sells this, because to me, I imagine putting on a regular t-shirt is a huge indignity for Piers Ackerman in the first place. So it's a massive boundary to cross. It's a hurdle to get one of those on. It's not like a whim.

I'm pretty sure in the photo he's wearing the t-s t-s-down. I was just going to check that because I was almost certain that he was which made it very very funny in my head. I'm try to find that original article. And to prove of course that he is absolutely correct and that there is no conflict of interest perceived or otherwise. Tony Abbott's social media team immediately deleted that photo as soon as people realized that he was visible in it. Yeah, like, just the idea that, you know, journalists accompanying. Oh, beautiful, powerful move. Nice. Hang on, I'm sorry. I think we're missing one wonderful aspect of this story, which is,

I believe when it was posted by Tony Abbott's media team, it had the comment of, something along the lines of so glad to be getting away from the media and out talking to everyday people. Nothing more every day than being confronted by Pierce Ackerman at your door. Famously not media man, Pierce Ackerman. Yep. Here with me. So Pierce has given a statement on this explaining it. Penis says, I stepped out in Waringo on Saturday and stepped into a social media storm. I had earlier asked my old friend and former colleague Tony Abbott, so again, there's no, that's not sending us any signals about like the issues that we have with political media in Australia, that he is old friends and former colleagues

with the former Prime Minister. I asked Tony Abbott if I could personally assist him in his re-election campaign and he had invited me to join him door knocking in his electorate. As I was later to tell the ABC's Patricia Carvelis in a note she posted to a Twitter account and which I also posted on Facebook after several rather ugly comments were made there. We went to approximately 50 homes only about half of which had residents present. Of those the majority were for Tony. I absolutely believe that. that. to to that. to to to to to to to to to that. to to to to to to to to to to to to that to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the the to the the the the to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. toe. too. toe. toe. toe. the. the. tho. those, the majority were for Tony. I absolutely believe that. That's very believable. Opposition leader Bill Shorten's media team had picked up on a photograph showing Tony talking to one of his constituents with me in the background,

wearing his campaign volunteer t-shirt and posted it on Shorten Suite. I wasn't working as a journalist. I'm a contributing colonist to News Limited's Sunday Telegraph, but believed I was entitled to do what I wished with my time. Participating in the democratic process is not a crime. I certainly wasn't proclaiming to be an independent journalist, as those activists who spruc for leftist causes at RABC or the nine media groups newspapers do constantly when they are spruking for the greens or labor. A mate does what he can for a mate. What a conflicted, conflicted message again. I kind of feel like he's sort of just tripped up on that last sentence there perhaps that admitting that one of the most powerful people in Australia or previously for whom he's gone to bat for many, many times in nationally syndicated newspapers is just a mate that you're

going to help out. Just a mate. Struggling to, you know, start his lawnmower, it's out of sugar, maybe you go around to help him. Then when you're there you can maybe help him get re-elected, just as mates do, mates helping mates. It's very, it's all very conflicting in that he sort of starts from the position of, well I'm allowed to do that just as a citizen. I'm not doing it in my capacity as a journalist or whatever, except when other people specifically do coverage in their

capacity as journalists, they're doing it to help their mates in the leftist parties and that's why it's fine for me to help my mate in the right-wing party except that I'm not doing it in my capacity as a journalist. I'm just doing it as a private citizen and now posting about it in the newspaper. So we thought it might be a good idea, seeing as we haven't spoken about penis whackerman in some time. We thought it might be a good idea to revisit, not revisit actually, just to check in and see what he's been writing about, because after all, one of the most insightful, keen political minds, someone you really would want out there helping you on the campaign trial. You might be shocked to find that his latest piece is about being mad at the left. Mob seeks affirmation through alienation, virtue in victimhood, says professional victim,

penis whackermit. At this time, the holiest of the Christian calendar, it is Easter weekend, after all, it is difficult to escape the enduring sense that nothing has really changed in a human condition, since Jesus Christ was dragged by obeying mob before a Roman judge in Jerusalem and sentenced to crucifixion. I for one can't think of a single thing that has changed. Nothing's coming to mind I don't think. Oh. That same mob is with us now, 2,000 years on and has now, through the internet and social media become universal.

It's a scary thought. I'm thinking like a lawnmower man. Yep. I haven't seen the movie lawnmower man in quite a while. Doesn't hold up. Well though that's kind of a weird way to characterize it because I don't think anyone watched it the first time and went, this is good. This is going to hold up in 25 years. This is gonna last. Have you ever read the first time and went, this is good. This is going to hold up in 25 years. This is going to last. Have you ever read the short story that the little more man is based on? Maybe. Everything I've read from Stephen King has blended into a wishy-washy my asthma in my brain.

It's washed away. It's one of those things where they've made a feature-length movie out of a story that is about two pages long and has absolutely nothing to do with computers in any way show perform. Why is he the lawnmower man? Is he a lawnmower? He's half lawnmower, half, half, that's what I'm picturing. I know nothing about this movie. In the, in the movie, it is the, in the movie, in the movie, it's, it's, i i i i i i, in the movie, i, it's, i, i, it's, it's, it's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, it's, it's the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the the the, the, the the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the.eat, the, the.e.e.e.e.e. th. the. that, that, that, the, the, the, the, the, th movie, it is the, it's the simple jack style dumb guy who does the lawn mowing for Pierce Brosnan's smart computer scientist. That's where I've gotten mixed up. He's not a lawnmower man. No, but in the short story, it is a man who eats the grass as though he is a llama.

Okay. Cool. In an upsetting manner. Anyway, as Robert Thompson, the chief executive of News Corps, publisher of this newspaper said last week, there is no doubt that a mob mentality has taken whole in much of the West and among the most pronounced of the mobs are illiberal liberals. Got them, got them. Nice.

Roaming the landscape in the seemingly endless insatiable quest for indignation and umbrage. I love an endless quest for indignation. I'm always chasing down umbridge. I'm waiting for you to read the next sentence. Bated breath here, Andrew. It is vituperation as virtue. Now, I'm not going to lie. I saw in the Google Doc that you had highlighted that word, which to me meant that you

were going to do a right-click, search Google, kind of deal on that. So I'm kind of hoping that you have. Did I define that word? Yeah, could you maybe tell us what the fuck that maids? I did ask you Google to define the word for me. I said, bitter and abusive language. No one else attracted such vituperation from him. Synonyms, revilement, invectiasement, chastisement, a probation, fault finding, blame, reprimand, upbraiding, admonition, ad ad ad ad ad adading, adadination, adadination, adadination, adadination, adadition, adadition, adadition, adadition, adadition, adadition, adadition, adamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamination, and ababition, and ab condemnation, castigation, chastisement, approbium, rebuke, scolding, criticism, flat, disapprovation, fault-finding, blame, reprimand, upbraiding, admonition, abuse, insults, curses, et cetera, et cetera. It's a long list.

Okay. I think we can release bonus content. That's just you doing that. Just reading out lists of words of words.. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi. I, thi, thing, thing, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. I, th. I, th. I, th. I, thi, thi, thi. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I'm. I'm. I'm t. I'm toda. today. today, today, today, today, today, today, today. today. today. today entries that's it. So this is this boss of News Corp delivering the annual Keith Murdoch Oration at the State Library of Victoria Even as he was speaking of universal trends playing out on the global stage elements of his theme were playing out locally one example of that mob trend he said is the seething secularism that portrays any person

of faith, whether an evanescent, evangelical, or occasional attendee at Mass or synagogue or mosque or temple as a nutter of fruitcake touched a devotee of the deviant. He might have been talking about confected outrage over Wallaby star Israel forows, posting of a short, sharp reminder of the biblical position on homosexuality, adultery and drunkenness among other sins. Just a short sharp reminder. That's my favorite kind of outrage. Yeah you can get regular outrage or you could code it in a thin layer of sugar. The confected ones are way easy to eat to my mind. Yeah, um so I don't, I don't know. I don't... I don't... think. think, the the th, I, I, think, think, th think, th think, think, th th think, think, the th think, th thi thi their thi their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. things. I things thiiiiiiiiii. I thiiiii. I thi. I thi. I to thin layer of sugar. The confected ones are way easy to eat to my mind.

Yeah, um, so I don't, I don't think we talked about the Israel Falo thing on the show, but basically like a year ago, um, Israel Falow, who is like a, uh, one of the, the foremost stars of rugby union, is that the deal? Um, there are, uh, I've seen people making claims that he is one the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best I've seen people making claims that he is one of the best players in union, but I stopped thinking about him after he left league. So I haven't formed any new opinions. So jokes on you, Israel for now. He posted a thing like a year ago, we talked to a friend of the show, Vic Rodriguez on the show back then. And it was like a social media post that was like, he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he th. thia thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi is thi, thi is thi is thi is thi is that he is that he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is he is is he is he is is is he is he is is he is he is he is he is he is th. He is th. He is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that the is that talked to a friend of the show, Vic Rodriguez on the show back then. And it was like a social media post that was like, all the gays are going to burn in hell and all the sponsors of the rugby went, bleh. So he got a firm speaking to, and he has posted another thing on social media like a year later saying, hey, you know who's going to hell?

The gays and atheists and adulterers and people. Yeah, that was a big list. There was like fornicators. Just a lot of straightforward things, a lot of hell. Gamblers, Italians, you know. Very much, very much. And like, I know that we all have our, we all have our positions on, I guess, I don't

know, the double-edged sword of saying if we're going to get people fired for their shitty posts, then everyone can get fired for their shitty posts. But also, um... I think if you're a celebrity, that's an exception to the rule. He's very high profile. He has previously been in trouble for this. And apparently, like, several days before this second posting, he had just re-signed a contract binding him to specific behavior.

One of the clauses of which was you are not able to post any, like make any statements publicly which denigrate people based on their sexuality or their ethnicity or anything like that. An uncharitable reading would be that he signed this thing and then a day or two later went, fuck these guys, I'm gonna show that I can post whenever I like. So I think he's getting fired. Yes. That's what I heard. So I think he's getting fired. I think that's the deal because he is, yeah, repeatedly and egregiously violating his own contracts of employment. So that's going to happen, I guess.

But it was just a short, sharp reminder of Jesus's position, right? Yeah, which is funny because the caption on the Instagram post is unbelievably long. It is quite long. And so this is a thing as well where Miranda Divine did a similarly, sort of floral, fucking ridiculously long piece about all this, where she described what he did as quoting a few Bible verses. And like, he did quite a few Bible verses, but the post that got him in trouble is like a shitty imagey copy of a pacer that's just like warning these people are going to hell it's like a very generous way to categorize it well and what gets me

about I guess the the statements from him in particular I think come off as like very deliberate and mean-spirited. It very much comes off as like, no one's gonna tell me that I can't tell all the gays that they're going to burn for all of eternity. It's like, hey, maybe just don't, maybe just don't post that. It needs a few lessons from one, uh, one miss as a party. how to do some positive influencing via social media you know or at least how to do it without anyone seeing it or

liking it. Actually I just I can show you how to post this and and only get like two retweets maximum. Yeah I forgot to say this before we're talking about Emma as a party so that the thing about the fake follower account thing that was quoted in the other article this is the headline the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th of the the the the th of th of th of th of th of th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the the the the thing about the fake follower account thing that was quoted in the other article, this is the headline from the AFR article about it. Obscure Adelaide publicist fueling Twitter's fake follower problem. Cool. Couldn't it be so great just to have someone go out of their way to be like, oh this isn't like a good publicist. There's like a lesser known not important one.

Someone who claims to do this shit. Anyway, I'm sorry, I just have to get that in. Let's just jump back over to Penis Wagon for a second. He's saying of this speech that Mr. Thompson gave. And this is the sharp and insightful writing of Pierce Ackerman that we all know and love. He absolutely nailed the bizarre situation in what is now the People's Socialist Soviet of Victoria. Sorry, say that again. People's... The People's Socialist Soviet of Victoria.

Socialist, Socialist Soviet. The old piece V. You nailed the bizarre situation in what is now the People's Socialist Soviet of Victoria, where the local comedy festival has decided that its top award, the Barry, which once honored the co-founder of the festival, Barry Humphreys, creator Australia's best-known comedic figure Dame Edna Everidge and her co-star Sir Les Patterson should be renamed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award. What a hoot that name is!

He says. I love it when old shit things get taken away from old shit people. It's like one of the purest kind of joys to me where like Pierre Zachman thinks someone like Barry Humphrey's dressing as a woman is the funniest thing that has ever happened in human history and then they're like no we don't not not anymore and he just loses his mind but but he's wearing a dress why can't you see this it's funny but acting acting like anybody gave a fuck that that award was specifically named the Barry and something

has been taken away from society or culture by having a not named that anymore? No. Before I saw the name and I hooted to myself. Oh, you've done it again. It's called the Barry still and now I look at it and just complete emptiness. I'm hardly hooting at all. Like a switched off robot. Bereft of hoots. I feel like you've got a completely backwards bend because it's been renamed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award, what a hoot that name is. Oh, yeah, he's being sincere. He thinks it's funny to him that you would name it the International Comedy Festival Award

when they're not doing funny things anymore. They're instead being a socialist Soviet. It could only be funnier to him if it was th. It's it. It's it. It's th. It's the th. It's th th the th th th th th th th th th th th thi th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be th be thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi to be to be to be to be thi thi to toeeeeeean toean thin thi thi thi thi thi thi thi they're not doing funny things anymore. They're instead being a socialist Soviet. It can only be funnier to him if it was dressed as a woman. A fence has been taken at Barry Humphrey's casual remarks. I love that like Israel for love's thing is just a short sharp reminder and Barry Humphrey's thing is just casual remarks to the newspaper or whatever about the newly emergent and apparently quite fragile population of transgender individuals. I mean if you're talking about the suicide right thanks to people like peers yeah that's maybe a word you could use you fucking piece of shit. Yep Victoria has led the rush to

embrace gender fluidity and has installed the openly Marxist-driven safe schools agenda which is engineered to create uncertainty in prepubescent children about their sexuality regardless of their biological sex. What has this got to do with Marxism? What is like, this is one thing that kind of came out of the Peterson, um, Gizek, debate where it's like... Which you of course watched. Which of course I watched, it took me several hours. I took many, many pages of well-written and inform notes.

But there's absolutely no process for us to kind of just, maybe get in toucest with old penis and go, hey, what the fuck are you on about? Like, what do your words mean? Please just break them down into more smaller words that explain just how any of this is Marxist? Well, my understanding, I did not watch the debate and take several hundred pages. Oh, would you like them? We've got a PO box now, don't we?

I'll send them there. Oh, yeah, you post them on down. But something that I did see people talking about was that basically, Gijek just repeatedly asked Jordan Peterson to just explain to him, what is a postmodern Marxist? A postmodern neo-Marxist, which is a thing that Jordan Peterson is constantly describing, you know, leftists as, as these people who are seeking to, you know, actively undermine and destroy the fabric of society, but when asked to explain, what do, what do you, what do, what do you, what do you, what do you? What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the, the, the, the, the, the, the seeking to, you know, actively undermine and destroy the fabric of society,

but when asked to explain, what do you think that is? What do you think that is and what does it mean? And what does it come from? That he was just unable to explain that. And I think the actual answer to that question is because it's just an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. It's just a... It's just a... Oh, the Frankfurt school. All the Marxists... Wink, wink, wink.

All of the Marxist Jews decided that they would destroy our society from the inside out by talking about how we think about things. And I would assume that is exactly what Pierce is getting out through this, is that it is just a catch-all term to mean, I think that there is a group of nefarious individuals who are seeking to undermine and destroy the fabric of our society by demanding that we treat each other with a basic modicum of respect and dignity. Terrifying.

Scary stuff. But you tell me if you think that all of these post-modern neo-Marxists can stand up to this kind of mental battle here. Pierce says, truly there must be something in the Yarra Water Catchment Area. Zing! What? You can't even say, can't even say, can't even say there must be something in the water down in Melbourne. It's just...

I'm having a mental battle right now. There must be something in the Yarra Water Catchment Area. Does he think we drink the water from the Yarra? Just get down scooping up handfuls. Just scooping up handfuls of that like still-s brown liquid. That's what we do down in Melbourne. Oh my goodness. Mr. Humphreys, who...

It's very transphobic, made the following transphobic comments. Mr. Humphreys once said he thought transgenderism was a fashion and that he regarded the severing of sexual organs as self-mutilation. Hence he has been condemned, says Pierce. Yeah, that makes sense. Seems reasonable. Yeah, that logically follows. Mr. Thompson dealt with this also saying, Australia famously dealt with a tyranny of distance, and now the world has a tyranny of the distinguished,

a smug, sneering elite that derides popular concerns as populism, and whose self-image is fueled by an abiding sense of absolute superiority. Can I just point out here that the speech being made here that he's quoting from, talking about the sneering elites, it's fromthe CEO of News Corp Australia who is paid 12.8 million dollars a year. Being made to an audience that includes Pierce Ackerman syndicated colonist for News Limited, who is also close personal friends with former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and has been out personally campaigning for him. Except somehow these guys can make

these statements as looking outside, looking from the outside in at the smug and sneering elite. I'm just, I'm confused sometimes we're elite and then sometimes we're unemployed. That's just interesting to be. You know when do do they make this distinction about when we're smug elites on the left and when we're all people with no jobs asking for a handout, you know? It depends what you're asking for. If you're asking for people to, like, stop being transphobic, then you're a, yeah, you're a smug university educated ABC panelist or whatever. If you're asking for an increased a new start so that it's not like a below half of the

poverty line in Australia, then you're a bum. You're a bum who needs to pull up your bootstraps and become successful through mindset. I really enjoy in this piece that he does, so he quotes that paragraph, right, the tyranny of the smug sneering elite that derives popular concerns as populism. And in the very next paragraph, he describes Get Up as the truly disgraceful populist leftist organization. Cool man. Okay, all right. Very smart. It's, weren't we just talking about, wasn't the first half of this piece about the quest to take umbrage at everything? Oh, but this isn't confected out right. This is just a lot of umbrage this piece, you know, umbrage all over.

Positively dripping with umbrage. Ugh. Getting umbrage all over my shoes. Um, well, yes, Pierce says, as we look at the effects of the mob, it's worth noting in this election how the truly disgraceful populist, leftist organization get up is equally guilty of failing to understand not only the concept of intellectual freedom, but the very notion of treeee...... to to to to thee. to the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thecke. theckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckecki. the. theoome. the. the. the. I the. I the. I. I. I'm the. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. toe. toe. toe. toe. the. the. the. thea. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea intellectual freedom but the very notion of truth. Pierce needs a fucking editor. He so badly needs a cut down into several senses. Well that's true. That's true. That's true. Censoring my words, my many words. Get up has thrown hundreds of

thousands of dollars behind its campaign to unseat a number of coalition candidates. Their most notable target is former PM Tony Abbott in his seat of Waringer, and they've been forced to withdraw a number of totally false claims. Doesn't say what those are. The mob supports get-up, according to get-up. And get-up supports labor and all those who oppose the economic security delivered by the coalition. Citation required.

Including the so-called independence Z Zali Stegel and Julia Banks. Can I just point out, there is a comma before a hyphen there. Delivered by the coalition, comma, hyphen, including the so-called independence. That is disgusting. That's disgrace. Get an editor. Make up your mind, mate. Which one do you want?

Got him. Passage of time 2,000 years in the case of Christianity shows however that those who were not part of the mob were to use the oft-repeated claim of the left on the right side of history. This is some of the worst, just the worst right. I'm, I need to read that back again because it is barely comprehensible. Oh look down, this is quite simple. Those who were, weren't not part of the mob, aren't not on the right side of history. So with this one we have, we have the start of a sentence, he immediately then has a comma

and another sentence in the middle of the sentence, gets back into the sentence but then interrupts it with another, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it is the the the the the the the the the the th is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely is barely, it is barely, it is barely is barely, it is barely, it is barely, it is barely, it is barely, it is barely, it is barely, it is the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the sentence, it is the sentence, it is the sentence, it is the sentence, it is the sentence, it is the the the the the the the the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thea thea thea thea the the the the then has a comma and another sentence in the middle of the sentence, gets back into the sentence, but then interrupts it with another sentence in parentheses in the middle of it. So let me just hit you with this one again. The passage of time, 2,000 years in the case of Christianity, shows, however that those who were not part of the mob were, in parentheses, to use the after repeated claim of the left, in parentheses, on the right side of history. Can we, let's get the parenthetical statements out of it. The passage of time shows, however, that those who are not part of the mob were on the right side of history. Okay, maybe there's a way he could have written that a little better. My God.

The message this Easter election is clear just like all this history history history history history history history history history the history the history the history the history the history thi history the history thi history the the thi thi the thi thi thi the thi of thi of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of thi of of of history. of history. of history. of history. of of the thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi thi. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the that a little better. My God. The message this Easter election is clear, just like all these sentences. Do not be conned by the mob. Just stellar writing there from Pierce as usual. Truly blessed. Truly blessed this Easter. I have the writings of so many spectacularly accomplished and smart, extremely old white dudes in Australia. And that

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