Bot swarms celebrate as South Australia confirms it’s 20% racist
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) garnered just over 20 percent of the vote in Saturday’s election South Australia State Electionproves that racism is alive and well in the state.
Even though he apparently spent a fortune on social media bots after the latest incident Takeover of the party by Australia’s richest people Americanophile MAGA Gina Rinehart, PHON has so far won only one seat in the Lower House of the South Australian (SA) Parliament. It does not seem possible to win over others in that House and at most two people in the Upper House.
Pauline Hanson, who spent almost 30 years in politics with a stutter, built her entire brand on the “fear of others.” At first, in the late 1990s, this involved blaming Asian immigrants for taking over the country. He began accusing Muslims of attacking everything that moved around the beginning of the new millennium. This was followed by reports that African gangs were cutting everyone with machetes in the mid-2010s. He has always felt sorry for Indigenous Australians. Lately, Hanson has started telling gullible people that they should fear Asians as much as Muslims.
With no consistent policies other than hating immigrants, and providing no cost for those policies aimed at hating immigrants, Hanson has managed to provide a safe space for leftover cooks, anti-vaxxers, and Q-anon PTSD sufferers to let their inner racism shine through publicly. While most PHON candidates are chosen from each village’s idiot pool, Hanson recently managed to nominate former Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi as his candidate in the SA election. Bernardi’s only brief claim to fame came when he announced the end of same-sex marriage. bestiality; Ironically, this could get him into the Upper House.
Hanson, sorry Gina, also recruited serial sex troublemaker and drunk Barnaby Joyce from the collapsing National Party. “Beet”, as he was affectionately known, was upset at not being elected leader of the Party, jumped ship, sorry, jumped out of jets, ran PHON at the Federal level, easily pushing out tiny crayon-eating, climate change denier, Dunning-Kruger poster boy Senator Malcolm Roberts. planter box. Everyone wonders how long this marriage between Pauline and Barnaby will last, but Malcom’s crayons are always ready. (This is Barnaby’s third marriage, by the way;A.Wondering how Vicki feels about this?)
The mainstream media, of course, trumpeted PHON’s “surge” in this election as heralding Hanson’s rise in popularity nationwide. But what they fail to realize is that despite the switch to PHON, the ALP’s Malinauskas Government returned to power with an expanded majority and the Conservative base of the Liberal and National Parties collapsed and many of their fleeing voters flocked to Labour.
Gina’s boots may be flocking to Facebook, where cranky old Boomers, Trump lovers and brick-headed cementers blindly embrace lies and facts, but in reality, as the ALP quietly creeps further to the right and in the face of rising living costs, the housing crisis and the uncertainty of daily Trumpian madness, Labor is now catching up with conservative voters who want steady, consistent leadership.
The ALP has a plan. Under Malinauskas, South Australia is developing rapidly. Pauline has no plans, no expenses, a pack of village idiots, a drunken serial adulterer, a dwarf with an obsession with consuming crayons, and an Italian immigrant kid who fantasizes about dogs and men in distress.
Even though Gina has thousands of robots and a Rewards Card for the Mar-a-Lago Buffet, it didn’t pay off to buy the most prejudiced politician in Australia to support her own racism. Again. And until the Liberal and National Parties see their way back to the sensible centre, it will never work because Facebook bots can’t vote.
Darren Crawford is a surfer, environmentalist, sports coach/manager and academic. He is also vice president Save Our Spit Alliance. You can follow Darren on Twitter @darrencanplay.
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