Thread by @iMusing

Morrison is giving a stump speech.

he fondly lingers long on the 30,000 dead Australians of his imagination.
He repeats his lives and livelihoods slogan that is obviously polling well, presumably because the March 2020 measures polled well.

the actual prime minister thanks an army general for “taking over my job of whole of government” pandemic response. Unusually honest, for Morrison, who is a compulsive liar.

we are back to slide shows, also revived from March 2020.

unless I missed something, the slide of the “plan” he released on 1 July is said to be of a “plan” he released last Friday. Idk who this woman is but any health professional who opts into Scott Morrison’s re-election plan is a disgrace to their field.

someone please count how many times our bogan in chief said Australia and Australian in this mornings campaign speech. He also plagiarised the Bob Hawke line about faith in the strayan people mate. Being a man of no imagination nor leadership qualities and all.

bushfire metaphor. Drink.

lmao Morrison interrupts the slide show to compare hypothetical future (as opposed to past hypothetical) deaths to the flu. Important public health* message there amirite.

nobody could possibly be taking in this information. There was no notice that Morrison was going to host a health statistics slide show with military optics this morning. It has exactly zero public health utility. None.

we are moving into the boomer pitch. He needs the wealthy shareholder base to hold the line, despite his abject neglect of them and their older siblings/parents in those outsourced, Commonwealth-funded for-profit aged care horror shows.

hypothetical pfizer feasibility strategy omfg this is straight up where the bloody hell are ya mate Morrison campaign comms.

Frydenberg is up. Has this whole circus really been rolled out with an hours notice to the national media? On a Tuesday lunchtime? There is simply no way the purpose is public health information. Look at it.

heh. Frydenberg has been given the job of using fabricated future economic figures to reconcile all the jumbly stumbly vaccine-vs-lockdown-vs-vaccine-vs-lockdown comms fuckups, which he has been swinging between since the day Berejiklian finally yielded to reality.

“the most recent Sydney outbreak”. He is definitely framing this re-election campaign speech to fit the last time he was riding high in the polls - the closed borders, nationwide lockdown, and big spending 2020 autumn/winter.

clearly we are on mummy track comms this fine Tuesday and the General is there strictly for campaign optics. Polling badly with the womenz mate. No doubt he will swap back to daddy track paternalism and scare tactics later in the week.

“as General Frewen has said to me” lol my daddy is a policeman.

the CMO confirms that “we” have a national strategy of suppression with zero community transmission. Berejiklian is chucked busward. NSW capacity must be pretty dire.

watching all these white Gen-X non-politicians apparently willingly shoring up Scott Morrison’s political fortunes is very fucking telling. What a shitshow.

now he is saying that General Frewen disagrees with an ALP policy proposal. Yes, yes he is.

Morrison is wrapping up with an emotional attack on the federal ALP, using off the scale argumentum ad passiones and pretending to care about Indigenous communities.
The press gallery will absolutely love these lies. They will fall over themselves with breathless admiration.

calls managing public health risks “common sense” which is presumably why he has lined up two health professors to back in this campaign set piece. Then he cites John Howard.

finally. Morrison signed out with one of his freshly minted lympics campaign slogans and the ABC host went straight to covering his political attack on a minor opposition policy proposal. Did not even draw breath.