👑🔥 AGAIN A WOMAN‼️ A QUEEN THAT STANDS UP.
Spanish MEP Irene Montero just torched the room in Strasbourg.
While EU leaders posture and celebrate, she looked them dead in the eye and asked:
What exactly are we celebrating?
Prevented a genocide in Gaza?
Stopped the illegal US-Israeli aggression on Iran?
Broke relations with Israel?
Ended the occupation of Lebanon?
No. We cannot celebrate any of these things.
Then she dropped the line that’s echoing across the internet:
“Happy Birthday, Mr. Genocide.” aimed straight at Trump.
The men in suits stayed silent or complicit.
She spoke.
Thank you, @IreneMontero.
Thank you, Spain 🇪🇸.
This is what moral courage looks like when institutions choose cowardice.
Pauline #Hanson might hate our country but I love Australia and I’m a proud Australian. I’m also proud our First Nations and Multicultural communities and our shared contributions in making this country one of greatest in the world. We are stronger together. #OneNation
So, let's recap, shall we?
This week the @PressClubAust managed to:
* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.
* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.
* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.
* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.
* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.
The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.
Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.
What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.
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@petestweets141@aaronsmith The PM got hounded for weeks by every “journo” because his son had been given a QANTAS lounge pass.
Hanson’s daughter lands a tax payer funded $150,000 work from home job and one journo has the guts to question her.
The hypocrisy is next level.
Caught on camera: One Nation caught begging the US NRA for $10M to buy Australian elections and dismantle our gun laws. They literally plotted to use NRA tactics to shame victims of mass shootings. Absolute betrayal of Australian democracy and public safety. #auspol
Albanese tells media pack that while he acknowledges One Nation have big donors like Gina Rinehart, he also remembers the secret NRA donations they sought in the US to try unwind federal gun laws.
“I encourage you to have a look at that footage”💥 Who can forget?🙄 #auspol
Wonderful news Jim! 🎉🎉🎉We are so blessed to have you & the PM with a combined 65yrs of political & financial experience running Australia!
It shows in the way you both stood stoically & steadfastly thru out the war standing strong on your principles!
The party of ‘Aussie jobs for Aussies’ is funded by the billionaire who said Aussies should work for $2 a day, and is now outsourcing its own work to the Philippines.
https://t.co/RUKPp5d5J6
It’s not people with different ethnic heritages that frighten me in Australia, it’s these angry, ignorant white bogans being cultivated by One Nation. They make me feel ashamed to be Australian. #auspol
Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.
He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.
He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.
We have nothing to hide.
Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere.
The country is watching.
John Howard caused the housing crisis in Australia, it’s a fact.
The LNP and One Nation want to overturn Labor’s policy to make it easier for young people to get a home..
And the media are protecting Hanson.
Why should hard working Australians have to subsidies people with investment properties?
A bad policy by Liberal John Howard gone.
Labor continues to fix the LNP mess they leave behind.
Cheer this young man while he’s scoring goals for Australia.
Blame him for high house prices and crime when he walks down the street.
The sheer fucking racist hypocrisy of white Australia and One Nation.