Aaron Smith

Tech for work, swimming for sanity, and doing my bit to fight for integrity in our politics. Also aaronsmith333 at the other place.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

I rarely put pen to paper, but this privileged experience was worth the exception.

Four days, a lot of walking, a few people I admire enormously, and several I do not.

It's all in here👇

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https://t.co/MZfOupqENU

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@RonniSalt This is the worst thing I have ever read.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@JbarutJames Be kind, rewind.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

The Liberal Party rebranding is like Blockbuster launching a comeback built entirely on late fees.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Apropos of nothing, this wasn’t an attack ad.

The Liberals made it themselves, and then posted it voluntarily last election.

It feels like a kind of metaphor, or something.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@drpete00 @BConn39 Oh yes. That’s an interesting random factoid.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Deeming says she made a confidential police report, then found herself constantly reacting to media.

So how did it get into the media?

I'm not saying it came from Jess Wilson or her leadership team.

But, who else is there? Who stood to benefit?

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@socfemoz It could go so many ways. I’m thinking a take on the movie ‘Misery’.

[Nick Schadegg @nickschadegg]

must be annoying for racists to type out “judeo christian values” each time when they really just want to say white

[John Kennedy @JKennedy1947]

One Nation treasury spokesman.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@SenatorCash Why are you so disingenuous?

Your party has vast resources and still didn’t spot this anomaly.

David Pocock did. He does more work than every Liberal Senator combined.

Chalmers has already said it’ll be fixed for the tiny number affected.

Grow up, Michaelia.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@SenatorCash Why are you so disingenuous?

Your party has vast resources and still didn’t spot this anomaly.

David Pocock did. He does more work than every Liberal Senator combined.

Chalmers has already said it’ll be fixed for the tiny number affected.

Grow up, Michaelia.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's @lucyham.

"Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg"

https://t.co/v5bpIk5wtH

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@Jamiiiid28 @uplatewithjase Student visas, and skilled visas require english proficiency. Citizenship also has a requirement.

What is Pauline's plan going? Deport people who can't speak english? What's the specific change?

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Pauline says everyone is welcome in her monoculture.

Then, the follow-up question becomes very simple.

What exactly is not allowed in Pauline’s monoculture?

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

They hid child sexual abusers for years.
Now they’re hiding money.

They failed kids, destroyed lives, and still managed to protect the one thing they actually care about: their balance sheet.

So fucked.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@RonniSalt

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@RonniSalt

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

The Liberals escalated one complaint from "let's keep this internal" to "call the police" to "defamation threats" to "you're gonna be expelled."

Imagine this crisis-management instinct in charge of hospitals.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@heidimur Jess Wilson’s leadership style is becoming very clear: point at the crisis, whisper "party matter", and slowly back out of the room.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@heidimur Jess Wilson’s leadership style is becoming very clear: point at the crisis, whisper "party matter", and slowly back out of the room.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

In fairness to Jess Wilson, it takes courage to ask for an apology, not get one, and then outsource the entire problem to the people already setting themselves on fire.

[Heidi Murphy @heidimur]

Jess Wilson will NOT be meeting with Moira Deeming after she returns from overseas after all.

Her fate is now in the hands of the party.

James Newbury says the call was made after Mrs Deeming refused to make the unqualified apology that Matthew Guy and Jess Wilson asked for.