Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it โproving her critics wrong.โ
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.โ Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25โ30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her โa trashy journalistโ and banned her from all future press conferences.
โข โBabies are aborted the day before birth.โ Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
โข โInterest rates are heading towards 10%.โ False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
โข โThereโs no gender pay gap โ just women taking time off.โ False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
โข โ$30B a year on Indigenous programs.โ False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
โข Transgender people were compared to โmilitant Islam.โ False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the popโn. Thereโs no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violenceโ assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
โข โ23% of Australians canโt speak English.โ False. That 23% speak another language at home โ most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
โข โThe CEFC has had $200 billion.โ False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
โข โI care about the homeless and hungry.โ Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding โ despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
โข $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
โข โI support worker rights.โ False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
โข Called Australian workers โlazy.โ She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
โข Labor have let immigration get out of control.โ False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 โ 538,000 โ 446,000 โ 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS popโn projection as a fresh โnext 50 yearsโ forecast
Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined usโ- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out โ and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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@SenatorSeanBell@PaulineHansonOz@OneNationAus You are welcome to live in your own little bubble of white bread, meat and 3 veg monoculture all you like.
But keep the rest of us out of this nonsense