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I love how the left always blames MSM and the Murdoch media…

Showing just how out of touch they are, given no one consumes/trusts MSM anymore at all…

And mainly due to the overwhelmingly leftist narrative they have been running for the last decade

#delusional #outoftouch

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

26 graphs that evidence Australia is a nation in sharp decline. A thread 🧵

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With the destructive insanity of Net Zero - excessive migration causing a housing crisis - an ever-growing bloated bureaucracy - and the erosion of freedom of speech, Australia’s golden era is in the past. We are going backwards.

Unless we wake up quickly and reverse course, we will be the first generation in our nation‘s history to hand on a less prosperous country, with fewer opportunities and less freedoms than what we inherited.

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Ninety-nine per cent of ex-politicians and public servants on lucrative pension schemes will be unaffected by Labor’s proposed super changes. Full story: https://t.co/ldizyu4bhI

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@Rob_Ruadh2 @grok Insane. But so true to character 🤬

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@ZemanLynnZ Cool. Well Canada seems these days to share values with Russia. China. Iran. I’m sure they’ll be lining up

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

Great chart on which federal politicians own the most properties and what party they are from.

h/t - @KirilRuvinsky
Source: https://t.co/ooxbGwL3yy

[Ben Robson @brobson_politic]

Australians have been convinced they are experiencing a cost of living crisis - but, in fact, it's a cost of government crisis.

Australians have been gaslit, indoctrinated, brain-washed into believing that the government should be doing the things that it does and that they should be paying the amount of tax they are paying.

Australians have been deliberately not taught history, so they are unaware that we didn't used to pay income tax or company tax (both were introduced in 1915 to fund Australia's contribution to WW1), payroll tax (introduced in 1941 to fund WW2 child endowment schemes), fringe benefits tax (introduced in 1986 to target employee perks), capital gains tax (introduced in 1985 to tax asset sales), Medicare levy (introduced in 1984), goods and services tax (introduced in 2000 with the intention of replacing a bunch of taxes, which were not removed), and more.

So many taxes we pay today were introduced to serve a specific purpose ... but when that purpose was no longer relevant the tax didn't go away, the government just got bigger to consume it. An example of this is that Australians still pay a 33% Luxury Car Tax, which was introduced in 2000 to protect the Australian car industry ... an industry that no longer exists.

On top of those taxes described above (which are all federal government taxes) we then have state government taxes and local council fees (taxes).

Australians are not experiencing a cost of living crisis, they are experiencing a cost of government crisis!

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@AdamBandt “And together we have kicked Bandt out 🙌🏻👊🏻”

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@TheKouk This aged well

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

The largest COVID-19 'vaccine' safety study ever conducted, involving 99 million 'vaccinated' individuals, confirmed that the injections are NOT SAFE. They dramatically increased the risks of:

1. Up to a 610% increased risk of myocarditis following mRNA platform injection.
2. 378% increased risk of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following mRNA injection.
3. 323% increased risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) following viral-vector injection.
4. 249% increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following viral-vector injection.

https://t.co/4nuWWpuAZD

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@australian https://t.co/K2NsxSSC41

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Biden just gave $3.5 billion for Ukraine's gov pension fund. $770 to the LA fire victims.

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What is he scared of 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[Rukshan Fernando @therealrukshan]

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has publicly warned Elon Musk not to get involved in the upcoming Federal Election.

“We have foreign interference laws in this country and Australian elections are a matter for Australians,”

The photo attached to this X post is unrelated.

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@MurrayWatt No solutions…? You are the fools in government who have consistently demonstrated a lack of answers and implemented policies that have made it worse.

You just lie and accuse everyone of
your own failures.

It’s called #gaslighting

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives.

The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down.

And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe.

On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas.

Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have.

In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs.

And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts the mentally ill to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which has skyrocketed under their misrule.

It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. Whether or not that’s the case, over half of all fires put out by the Los Angeles Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was preventing catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they started.

Why didn’t they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors?

Part of the reason is that they are self-centered and craven politicians, typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society’s victims; in truth, they care only about themselves and their self-image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead obsessed with their own personal promotion. For that reason, they have long been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than governing effectively.

Another reason is that they are beholden to affluent, radical Left environmentalist and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical Left groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and effective management of landscapes around housing development, for over 45 years.

Before that, the same groups and financial interests halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination.

And these are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached.

All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, social justice, and saving black lives. The result of them was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives, including from violent crime, which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average.

For decades, Hollywood cranked out movies and TV depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate as causing the apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That’s ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years.

Destroying civilization turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent $24 billion to increase homelessness by 40%.

Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person’s motivation by the consequences of their actions.

California’s Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment.

Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles and California was one of human progress. The story that destroyed it was of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, and the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof.

And now, as the city of angels smolders, it’s clear that progressives reaped what they sowed.

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@AlboMP You created this division in our communities

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@AlboMP #Gaslighting

[Tracey @TraceyLee_07]

@AlboMP This guy gets it

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@AlboMP You forgot #gaslighting

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@stats_feed There are only two genders

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@newscomauHQ But yes we should definitely paint this map in more ridiculous colours