So far it's "get vaxxed" times a thousand. I wonder if Mr Limpy is getting paid in little blue pills.
The vaccine protection is clearly proven he says, after announcing the highest figure of fully vaccinated people in hospital to date.
And here comes the justification of Nazi powers. He's copying the equine Nazi from across the ditch.
Unvaccinated people are dirty, and should be treated as such.
Now the man who has failed 7 times to offer his health advice for scrutiny is bragging about a new transparency 🤦♀️
Funny how the first time we hear about these laws is on the day they get tabled in parliament.
Now Fooley is bragging about more transparent than ever.
Lol, no other state or territory requires this advice to be tabled, but were going to pretend Victoria never had this.
And were going to talk about important safeguards, and we need this bill, because the 21 month safeguard limit we've got currently is really annoying for Dan.
We've got important checks and balances getting repeated over and over. Clearly the focus groups have brought this up.
Imagine talking about the lessons learned over the past 21 months, and concluding that rather than needing more competence, you need more powers 🤦♀️
Lol, and privacy will be enshrined. Except for you're vaccination status, clearly.
And health archive to be tabled within 14 days.
Imagine tabling the health archive you already have BEFORE making orders. I guess that's just beyond some peoples abilities.
Fines will continue to be at insane levels, but you can supply to have them reduced, or get a payment plan.
Definitely not going to be a cash cow.
Sorry, briefly fell into a coma there, Foley will do that to you.
Wow, missed that before, there will be a new "aggregated" offence for intentionally breaching pandemic orders. I'm going to assume that's "aggravated" and Foley's an idiot.
Oh now human right matter apparently.
And we're going to continue to treat Victorians differently, as cultural and ethnic communities will be considered.
We're not extending SOE(we can't) and we should be thanked for not doing that, despite introducing something permanent and worse.
Fuck these people, seriously.
Now it's over to Sluggo, for some vaccination bragging.
He names some names, and then it's on to pop ups. Funny how they've never had the brainwave to have pop up heroin clinics. I guess they've been distracted by pretending not to be the worst COVID managers in Australia.
Now it's on to anecdotes, and the young man who thought of his grandparents, and how to protect them.
Which is ironic, because some others also thought of their grandparents, and how they went to war to protect the whole country from governments like this, and decided to resist.
Somehow, although nearly everybody is vaccinated, and the unvaxxed aren't allowed to participate in society, COVID is about to explode across the state and we need to be ready.
It's almost like Sluggo didn't notice that COVID disappeared last summer, without a single vaccine.
Pretty piss poor for a health officer not to notice COVID is a seasonal disease, but then the bloke thinks it's ok to shut down a private business without any evidence, so expectations shouldn't be high.
LOL, "have you been sidelined by these laws"
"oh no, it's for parliament ...
"....to make those rules" says the man who isn't elected, who has been making the rules for the past 18 months 🤦♀️
FMD these people are absolutely shameless.
Now RB asks if Sutton feels like he will have less power, and he's ok with that, even gives a little laugh.
Extra FMD.
Sutton's so dumb, he's actually making the case that Andrews has been acting like a complete dictator for the last 18 months.
He's upset that "unelected bureaucrats" has become a perjorative term.
Gee, maybe that's because it COMPLETELY UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY, dipshit.
Now we're on to specifics of what a pandemic will be defined as, and why the Premier should be allowed to control your life even for a virus that doesn't exist anywhere in Australia, let alone Victoria.
Dan playing federal politician yet again.
I think we should add "Narcissistic Cunt" to the "listed human diseases" and send Dan to Mickleham until he's fully recovered, IMHO.
Now we're sneakily getting on to the unvaccinated tennis players, but Sluggo's not smart enough to see it coming.
"It's not his call" 😂
Don't you just love this game of tough talk, followed by federal finger pointing? Seems like a great argument to get rid of the states.
LOL, it's so out of control now Dan's had to step in for some commonwealth bashing. Go sign another BRI deal, fuckhead.
"They're not an Aussie" - thanks for that soundbyte, Dan. I'll be abusing that one later for sure.
LOL, Dan's worried about the ball boys and girls being double vaxxed, and catching COVID. You couldn't nominate a less "at risk" group than kids who are double vaccinated.
Where was all this hyper concern when he was sitting on the COVID cluster at #CedarMeats, Mr pick and choose?
The journos are still hammering the tennis, which is great, but I think there might be a slightly more draconian legislation issue that needs dissecting. Get on it, ppl.
"Concerns the Premier will have too much power, with too little oversight, could you comment on that?"
And what does Mr Shifty do? Assume it's related to a comment someone made, slags them off, then says he won't be engaging in politics, as he engages in politics 🤦♀️
This cunt....
LOL, the bloke who shut down parliament and prevented several members from voting is now claiming he already operates under oversight, and is adding further oversight.
And it's back to talking about the opposition leader, because he's not irrelevant suddenly 🤦♀️
"Why does it take 14 days to make the health advice public?" - good question.
Oh apparently it's warp speed to produce something you already have, within 14 days 🤦♀️
And now Fooley is quoting the opposition again. Sounds like the opposition is driving the govt today....
Now we're asking about the attributes and characteristics line from the leak, and Fooley is either stupid, or pretending to misunderstand it's about classes of people.
Maybe he hasn't read his own bill 😂
LOL, he hasn't read the equality act either apparently. Absolutely NFI.
Ill informed mischief making, apparently. What, like endlessly saying the opposition isn't relevant, then dragging them in when you don't want to answer a question directly.
Now Fooley is upset that loose language in the government's own bill is fuelling conspiracies 😂
They really don't want to elaborate on what "characteristics" might mean. It's clearly about people, and Foley's pretending it's about a virus.
Now Sluggo has had to step up and rescue the health minister.
At least Sluggo knows, and there it is: "Unvaccinated people" classified.
Untermenschen will now become a permanent part of Victoria's legislature. Lock it in, Eddie.
And next up, let's scare monger with Ebola. If Ebola was so scary Brett, why wasn't this permanent pandemic legislation introduced back then? Do tell.
And now Daniel Andrews steps up to explain that his new increased freedom is taking away rights of unvaccinated people in regional Victoria, and he's actually proud of this. The hubris on this scumbag is something else.
Now he's bragging about involving upper house members in the process, despite making a rule to exclude members from voting in that chamber. And the lack of scornful noises from the press gallery is very notable.
Now we're onto Crown Casino licence questions. This might be important, but today should be 100% questions about pandemic legislation. Media are fucking hopeless. The most insipid, over reaching authoritarian power grab in Australia's history, but "casinos and tennis"
SMDH
Good punch, Sumeyya. Shames Danny with his slow response by invoking NSW. He hates that.
LOL, the opposition is relevant again.
LOL, "Have you saved Crown by being too slow to act"
"No....no....." GOTCHA, Dan.
And to get out of it, he's forced to mention IBAC 😂
"Is it the case that the revenue of this state is so dependent on the casino it wasn't an option to cancel it?" - Well not now Rachel, he's relying on COVID fines into the future.
Sumeyya is really sticking it to him today, keeps pushing that he should have acted sooner.
But Dan's not having any of it, because as he explains, he's an awesome person, and he would never do anything bad, unless it's the oppositions fault.
Now he's Mr Accountable, who always takes responsibility, in an environment where there's no punishment for stuffing up. Wow.
Now sluggo has to step up to explain the visiting rules for aged care, because Dan doesn't care about old people, and he isn't across the rules.
Sounds like you can visit them for psychological reasons (they're dying) and for translation services.
What a nasty government....
Why can't you just do anything you like in Victoria, provided you've got proof of a negative test, and wear a mask? It's almost like the government doesn't believe these things have any worth. Very interesting indeed.....
Now Sluggo gets asked if he's comfortable with 90% rules.
LOL, "I cannot imagine what it would be like if we had an entirely unvaccinated population" says the bloke who was in charge of ending lockdown last year, when the entire population was unvaccinated.
These idiots needs to sit down and watch their own performances.
And now the irrelevant opposition is completely relevant again 🤦♀️
Yes, Dan. We have an election every 4 years. But we don't elect "the government." We elect 128 individuals and they can vote however they like. And YOU took their votes away by SOE decree, so STFU.
Now Dan's bragging about doing exactly what the opposition wanted. You seriously could not make this shit up. God he's such a flog.
And now Dan wants to talk about "the definition of people playing political games" by playing political games and pretending it's others doing it.
Now a good question about "what constitutes an aggravated offence" and Dan ducks it and passes to Fooley.
Oh it's going to be a "high bar" apparently. Journos specifically ask about protests, but Fooley doesn't want to give examples. Seems they don't understand their own laws.
LMAO, "the independent police will make these decisions" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The ones who bash anti Dan protesters, and don't file charges against Dan's ministers when fraud was committed? Those independent police?
And once again, Fooley refuses to confirm protesting, or organising a protest will be included. So you can pretty much guarantee that the "independent police" will be told to hit protesters with this "aggravated offence"
Probably because "incitement" is legless and they know it.
And the clown show is over, and we're not much the wiser about the new communism bill Dan's introducing to parliament today. So let's do a quick recap of what we did learn:
Commonwealth govt bad.
Crown Casino bad.
Novad Jokovic dirty.
Dan good.
Opposition bad.
Opposition relevant
Opposition super relevant
Opposition really, really relevant
Opposition actually created my new bill.
Opposition didn't notice Crown being naughty either.
Fines are awesome.
Police just became independent.
Equality is dead.
14 days is warp speed.
Dan's worse than Hitler.
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So let's do an #IBAC summary of today's hearings. Appearing again was Rick Garotti, Mayor of Banyule, Somyurek stooge. Boy, did he get a flogging.
After getting thrashed yesterday by Carr, he was careful to not deny anything he couldn't remember, in case receipts were inbound.
And LOTS of receipts were provided by IBAC, including financial documents, emails, phone intercepts with audio, and text messages. The actual focus of the hearings today was largely around SACOV, or the Somali Australian Council of Victoria, and grants awarded to them.
Garotti was heavily involved in facilitating these grants, but officially Hussein Haraco was running the show there. Garotti moved behind the scenes via Somyurek to the executive to gain info about grants and progress, Hussein actually filed the grants.
So it's #IBACday! Again.... Time for another serve of #OpWatts. Returning to the stand for another round is Rick Garotti.
I'm going to be using more abbreviations to try and get more content in each tweet, as it will work better with drawn out sections of questioning. See below.
CR - Comm. Redlich
CA - Counsel Assisting
W - Witness
AS - Adem Somyurek
MK - Marlene Kairouz
RS - Robin Scott
NE - Nazih Elasmar
KV - Kaushaliya Vaghela
HH - Hussein Haraco
SACOV - Somali Australian Council of Victoria
BMR - Bracks/Macklin Report
CCB - Corrupt, Cheating Bastards
And we're up!!! Good morning Mr Garotti!
CR reminds him he's still under oath, asks if there is anything he wants to challenge or correct from yesterday, that's a no, and it's straight over to CA for the first question of the day. #OpWatts
Garotti isn't a good witness. He was clearly wanting to be a big player, whether he actually was or not, and is trying to downplay himself to the commission.
But they are having none of it, and keep referring him to previous statements, and evidence they had locked and loaded that Garotti wasn't aware of.
One thing shines through yet again. Labor's internal party culture is/was rotten AF, and they don't learn from their mistakes.
Much of these activities can't be recalled in any detail, because they were so run of the mill they weren't remarkable enough to be memorable. And the commissioner once again brings up #RedShirts to clarify that the witness of the day was aware of it, and nothing changed after it
Almost time for the #IBAC hearings to start again. This will be the live tweeting threat for #OpWatts. Will be using the following abbreviations:
CR - Commissioner Redlich
CA - Council assisting
W - Witness (Rick Garotti)
WC - Witness council
Waiting for the stream.....
And we're off and racing! The commissioner now going through the formalities with the Witness and his council.
Today's witness is the former mayor of Banyule council, and I think we're going to hear more about ethnic branch stacking today via the Somali association #OpWatts
And it's question time! And some boring questions to the witness about the summons. Number 2021187. So presumably that's summons 187 issued in 2021. Interesting. I presume that's all IBAC matters, not just #OpWatts
The #DailyDickheadDiatribe is underway, and the Dictator himself has graced us with his presence.
I'll keep you posted.
So far we're speeding past the very bad numbers to focus on the naughty unvaccinated people in ICU and on ventilators. Except we're describing them as "not fully vaccinated" read into that what you will.
So we're getting reduced restrictions as of 11.59pm this Thursday - "full roadmap, plus extras" so it seems that the roadmap isn't really a roadmap, just guidelines.
No travel limits, was going to be the 25km limit for that step, but no travel to regional Victoria allowed.