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\nThe Right is painting the Left as a bunch of woke idiots.
\nBushfires
\nPoliticians love disasters. It should be easy brownie points. That\u2019s why that get really pissed when someone tries to interrupt with questions about policy.
\nDeputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack on Monday said the Greens were “inner-city raving lunatics” for discussing climate change as fires spread across the state. “We’ve had fires in Australia since time began, and what people need now is a little bit of sympathy, understanding and real assistance – they need help, they need shelter,” the Nationals leader told ABC Radio National when asked about climate change. “They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies at this time, when they’re trying to save their homes, when in fact they’re going out in many cases saving other peoples’ homes and leaving their own homes at risk.”
\nBarnaby Joyce: “I acknowledge that the two people who died were most likely people who voted for the Green party so I am not going to start attacking them, that’s the last thing I want to do,” the former Nationals leader said on Sky News. “What I wish [Greens MP Adam] Bandt would do is not try to extend this argument to political purposes … to make these spurious links, that a policy change would have stopped the fires is so insulting and just completely beyond the pale.
\nMr Joyce’s controversial remarks come after Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said politicians should not debate climate policy while emergency services conducted an “operational response”. “It’s not that people don’t think those issues are important or need to be acknowledged \u2013 whatever issue we’re talking about, it’s just going to focus our efforts on the operational response that’s what people in the crisis areas need,” he told 2GB.
\nThe Shovel
\nSaying his government would do whatever it takes to fight the increasing number of fires in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has committed an unprecedented two million thoughts and prayers per year to struggling fire departments, on top of existing thoughts and prayers already delivered.
\nAt a press conference to announce the new initiative, Mr Morrison said the thoughts and prayers could be deployed quickly and cheaply.
\n\u201cYou know, while others are talking about complex, expensive initiatives like funding firefighters or addressing climate change, we\u2019re actually putting real, practical, fully-costed measures in place today. One or two conversations with Hillsong and I can have this policy on the ground and fully delivered within a week,\u201d he said.
\nIt\u2019s us against them. The liberals paint a picture of urban elites who are out of touch with the average Australian. The left is not selling these people an alternative. Instead the left doubles down on insulting them.
\nThe \u201cdeplorables\u201d want respect. They don\u2019t like mining but what else are they going to do?
\nSpeaking of insults \u2026
\nThe QandA feminist edition
\nBroad sweeping generalisations with little thought or nuance. They totally ignore that men are divided into powerful and powerless and that powerful women ie Margaret Thatcher are as much to blame.
\nAccording to The Australian
\nThe ABC has pulled a Q&A episode from all its platforms and investigating whether it\u00a0breached editorial standards\u00a0by allowing panellists to apparently advocate violence,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}