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^^^ I am sorry we have to deal with all the people who would still vote for him if we had an election next week.
 
With the fires burning the stupid is also flaring up.

Seeing a number of posts coming across my facebook feed about Australia sending millions in aid overseas and wondering aid is coming to Australia show a complete and utter ignorance.
 
With the fires burning the stupid is also flaring up.

Seeing a number of posts coming across my facebook feed about Australia sending millions in aid overseas and wondering aid is coming to Australia show a complete and utter ignorance.


Same had someone on my feed say that we gave the USA 1.5 billion for their space program.
 
^^^ I am sorry we have to deal with all the people who would still vote for him if we had an election next week.
I dunno Miss C, the optics of the Cobargo photo op-- I mean, compassionate concern and checking of welfare, looked pretty bad.

Now, semi-related question.

For at least 10m years I've had an idea that I want to turn into a movie script, but I've never been sure if the time is right or not. This year, more than ever. Could be really good or seen as very crass.

Premise: as a country town, isolated in the Great Dividing Range is gearing up to fight a bad fire coming towards them, a mad scientist/wizard type has come to warn them it will be very difficult. In some news reports IRL witnesses say, "The fire acted like a living thing!" Well... what if it was? And it hibernates? And each year gets stronger? And has developed a taste for burning flesh? Maybe an old fire god brought from another land?

It would definitely be an action/horror script. The title, for now, would be Too Late To Leave.

Too soon? Too on the nose? Too close to the bone?
 
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I dunno Miss C, the optics of the Cobargo photo op-- I mean, compassionate concern and checking of welfare, looked pretty bad.

Now, semi-related question.

For at least 10m years I've had an idea that I want to turn into a movie script, but I've never been sure if the time is right or not. This year, more than ever. Could be really good or seen as very crass.

Premise: as a country town, isolated in the Great Dividing Range is gearing up to fight a bad fire coming towards them, a mad scientist/wizard type has come to warn them it will be very difficult. In some news reports IRL witnesses say, "The fire acted like a living thing!" Well... what if it was? And it hibernates? And each year gets stronger? And has developed a taste for burning flesh? Maybe an old fire god brought from another land?

It would definitely be an action/horror script. The title, for now, would be Too Late To Leave.

Too soon? Too on the nose? Too close to the bone?


I think there was a movie like this set in the outback some kind of scifi disaster / drama thing.

There's a movie called Occupation set in Australia too on Netflix.
 
After Smirko's speech today, there was al;most immediately an ad up on Twitter.

While promoting the positive aspects of the ADF getting involved, it does so in such a way as to politicise thew ADF, and their representative body is pissed off. And right above the ad is a donate btn. But this isn't for the firies... it's for the LNP.

Tell your friends, when the next election is coming. Let's hope it's soon.

Perhaps it was Scott Morrison’s own demonstrable lack of clarity about what his government was, or was not, doing, in response to Australia’s catastrophic summer of bushfires that prompted his communications team to pump out a promotional video – on one of the most perilous days of the disaster – outlining today’s initiatives.


Perhaps the boss needed to be reminded, visually, with a soothing backing track called Live Tropical Beat, royalty free, complete with clicking fingers, or a simulation of clicking fingers, about what he’d said five minutes ago.


https://www.theguardian.com/austral...love-as-firefighters-battle-to-save-australia
 
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#ResignMorrison is no. 2 on Twitter's trending list.

Sadly I don't scumo is going anywhere. The libs changed the rules so that dumping a sitting P.M requies 75% support in the party room for a spill to be called for starters.

Then who do they replace him with? only other person who's shown a desire to be leader is a sontaran in human skin suit.
 
Sadly I don't scumo is going anywhere. The libs changed the rules so that dumping a sitting P.M requies 75% support in the party room for a spill to be called for starters.

Then who do they replace him with? only other person who's shown a desire to be leader is a sontaran in human skin suit.


Sontaran, I thought he was a potato.
 
Oh and I stand correct.

Labor needs 75% support for a spill motion to dump a P.M, the libs are happy with 66% and that only applies to if the P.M has one an election. There's no requirement for anything about 50%+1 support for the libs to dump their leader while in opposition.
 
So there was a petition that came up over the weekend to have the greens de-registered as a political party on change.org - and it has been removed. I did get tagged to sign it, by an idiot uncle of mine. I just laughed after that.
 
So there was a petition that came up over the weekend to have the greens de-registered as a political party on change.org - and it has been removed. I did get tagged to sign it, by an idiot uncle of mine. I just laughed after that.

Why?

Why attack the Greens? They had nothing to do with this.
 
apparently even before craig kelly's clusterfuck of an interview on U.K tv, the knives were out for for him within his own party branch.

However to not embarrass scumo, the state branch decided that he would remain where he is.
 
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