The Hawke Afficionado 🐁

Mugged by reality, refused to press charges.
Still enthusiastic about John Curtin. Still want to reform the NDIS.
Technocratic populist. Neoliberal socialist.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

He was a brilliant man, and a better statesman.

That his premiership overrides in significance a multi-decade long career in the public eye to such an extent that the latter has become so criminally oft-underdiscussed even by his admirers is testament to the volume of accomplishment in his term of office.

The scale of his achievements is most apparent when you look back to Australia in the 1970s. Successive governments had relegated what could have been among the great powers in south pacific to little more than the "poor white trash of Asia", to quote Lee Kuan Yew. The fact that any politician could not only remedy such circumstances, but irreversibly redefine the economic landscape of his country for the better while facing off a hesitant public service, lulling a potentially adversarial industrial base and remaining popular with the electorate should strengthen all of your convictions that sharp, charismatic, ambitious technocrats can succeed in democratic environments.

So few people love Bob Hawke more than I do. Rest in peace.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@Iainite_Iain Wait fr??

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@DominicPenna Sloppulism.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@PunishedRWR Quick reminder: https://t.co/IxoXZzwcXC

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Former Somali Prime Minister Khaire at MN rally for Ilhan Omar: "Her interests are not America. Ilhan is for Somalia."

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@shriverist Mfw the LABOUR party almost implements a fucking flat tax....

[Roll with Reagan ✝️ 🍷 @PunishedRWR]

There is a certain kind of Leftist who will construe any behaviour by white people as being "subliminal racism/ microaggessions"

but will give muslims who are anti-jew and anti-lgbt the most charitable possible explanations to explain away that ''they aren't ACTUALLY bigoted''

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@sugarcel138 No.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

Greens Delenda Est.

[The Australian @australian]

The Greens and crossbenchers are demanding Jim Chalmers extensively wind back his extraordinary ministerial powers in the government’s new tax laws if he wants Labor’s budget revenue raid on property and capital gains swiftly passed through the Senate. Read the full story: https://t.co/qQ6jOrtmd2

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@twinksforqiang @FToast60 Give up.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@SkullSpeedDeal @RennickGBR Question about the remittance tax: what’ll stop people from simply purchasing goods and sending them overseas?

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@Robotmurloc5 I don’t see how that wouldn’t be as coercive as a business.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@Teunemansvb @Isari301 Right, because multiparty systems are working so well in Europe.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@Teunemansvb @Isari301 Me:

1. Strongly centralist.
2. Strongly pro-USAID.
3. Middle (anti-illegal immigration; wall is dumb.)
4. World police.
5. Staunch 2 party system.
6. Free trade.
7. Leader of the free world!

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@badtakesmachine …would it?

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@badtakesmachine I can’t imagine such an equivalent not being panelled exclusively by the worst elements of the left though.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@monashposting You should tweet about me.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@captgouda24 Social cohesion is already dead brah.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@FToast60 The death of social cohesion in America trumps any other cultural concern, and every single issue regarding American politics is downstream of it.

[The Hawke Afficionado 🐁 @MrHawkeFan]

@Iainite_Iain Think thats just what happens when the major left-wing party has had to deal with lots of literal conservative Dixiecrats up until the 90s, and complete cuckolds for some time after.