Spud on the tracks

Then: journo stuff. Now: Other stuff

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

@AlboMP Late to the party as usual on EVs, a network of charging stations, oh, and fighting fascism. Scrap the #AUKUS rort and fund a better future.

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@JasonClareMP Still gouging humanities kids with Morrison’s unfair culture war fee increases though huh?! #auspol #ALPgaslighting

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#derekandclive #Trump #ballroom

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@AlboMP More gaslighting. Try sitting in an ED waiting room for 24 hours with a perforated bowel, knowing you are spaffing $360b on fascist nuke subs and gifting gas to corporates for free Morrison-lite garbage … history will not be kind to Albo’s cowardice. #auspol

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@Lisa9Sophia Same vibe #auspol

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@AmboRudd Our kids once again sold out for your ego. #auspol #infamy

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@AlboMP Gaslighter in chief. #auspol

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FMD @RichardMarlesMP on @abc730 getting a free kick on the Nazi rally. Fraud hangs with right wing fascists Hesgeth/Vance. “Good people on both sides!” Nothing linking any of this garbage with cosying up to the #aukus rort. COOKED if the ABC can’t call out this hypocrisy #auspol

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

@RichardMarlesMP @VP Free lunch guy seeks free lunch with fascists. #AUKUS is a rort and sells Australians out.

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@AlboMP Pennies as Marles sells us out for billions to the US war industry.

[RonnyB @MsRonnyB]

Hey @AlboMP Richard Marles should be fired for his inflammatory comments about China. How dare he bring unnecessary trouble to Australia? Sack him right now! #auspol #abcnews

[Trevor Johnston 🌏☮️ @TrevorJ24567534]

“Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away
Statement by PJ Keating

Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a
war against China will go down as a dark moment in Australia’s history.
A moment when an Australian Labor government intellectually ceded Australia to the United States as a platform for the US and by implication, Australia, for
military engagement against the Chinese state in response to a threat China is alleged to be making.
And ceding the continent to the United States devoid of an electoral authority – a month after an election where the government had the opportunity - but declined to make explicit, its strategic intentions and policies. Declined to let the public, the Australian community, be party to its strategic thinking and intent.
Instead, as Defence Minister, Richard Marles reveals his and the government’s fatalist thinking at a sleazy conference, run exclusively by The Australian
newspaper – ‘sleazy’, in that guests invited to the conference were chosen and assembled according to the paper’s view of their collective propensity to
subjugate Australia’s interests to those of the United States.
And without one solid or reliable word as to the ‘threat’ or nature of the threat China is supposedly making to both Australia and to the region.
The fact is, China has not threatened Australia militarily nor indeed has it threatened the United States. And it has no intention of so threatening. Every
person attending ‘The Australian’ conference knew this to be so.
China’s singular crime is to have built an economy larger than the United States, with industrial breadth and depth that the United States not only does
not possess but cannot hope to emulate.This is the affront which the United States cannot bear, because nowhere in the
US playbook is there a chapter articulating the precipitous decline in US industrial strength or in US strategic primacy. Hence now, the US is running
about trying to sweep gullible allies into its declining and failing pitch.
Yet, it believes there is always a mug who will buy its venal view of affairs.
And in Australia, the United States is not disappointed.
The Australian Labor Party, at its grassroots, will not support Australia being dragged into a war with and by the United States over Taiwan.
And the large majority of new members of the Parliamentary Labor Party will
not find community support for such a course of action.
This whole problem has arisen owing to Australia agreeing to host military assets on Australian soil.
This began with Julia Gillard and Stephen Smith agreeing to base rotational US troops in Darwin during Barack Obama’s ‘pivot’ moment in the Australian parliament in 2011.
This inauspicious action was locked down further by Julie Bishop and Tony Abbott with the Force Posture Agreement of 2014 providing US access to
Australian military facilities as well as agreement as to the types of activities US forces may conduct on and from Australian soil, including the interoperability of each other’s forces.
Yet built upon this agreement is the whole AUKUS fantasy, designed to lock Australia further into US naval operations.
Yesterday’s statement by Richard Marles amounts to nothing more than a
careless betrayal of the country's policy agency and independence in its ability
to make decisions in its own national interest and not in the interest or interests of another country” - Paul Keating Potts Point June 17

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

@JasonClareMP No hecs on a dead planet! You dickheads!

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

No that's just you, @elonmusk

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

It’s over. It’s been a journey guys. This account had a small but engaged following & it’s been great following those still doing news/sport coverage well. While, Bluesky is yet to cut through, Musk is a cancer and AI can fuck right off. Farewell. Delete.

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@PeterDutton_MP

[Bob Carr @bobjcarr]

Hard to find anyone who will argue we are still going to get Virginia subs. No, we will get the horrifying and dismal compensation offer: US vessels stationed here - with Australian submariners included in their crews.
https://t.co/DOGr6sdltX

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

Hey @bobdylan I know you’re out and don’t want to be dragged in, but maybe for that reason it’s only you who can provide the ‘have you no decency’ moment. 🫵🏻💪🏼✊🏻

[Spud on the tracks @SpudontheTracks]

@SecRubio @elonmusk @StateDept Same vibe …

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The greatest hoax ever perpetrated is that Elon Musk is a genius.
Elon Musk is a midwit Nazi conman.
He got all his ideas from Nazi storybooks and other people’s work.
He never invented anything except his own mythology.