Thread by @davidfrum

Right-wing Twitter aghast that Australia applies the same public-health rules to rich and famous athletes as to everyone else. Pretty much communism, apparently.

First they enforced the public health laws against world-famous athletes, and I said nothing, because I was not a world-famous athlete ...

Then they enforced immigration laws even against Eastern European "models" with influential boyfriends, and I said said nothing because I was not an Eastern European model ...

Then they tried to stop American presidents from rewarding favor-seekers who paid money to the president's family business, because I was not an American president who owned a family business ...

Then they prosecuted violent insurrectionists who tried to murder the US vice president when he refused to overturn a presidential election, and I said nothing because I was not a violent insurrectionist ...

Then they returned a defamation verdict against a popular right-wing talk show host who repeatedly claimed that the grieving parents of murdered elementary-school children were just a bunch of lying whiners, and I said nothing because I didn't have a talk show ...

And only then did I realize that I had no punch line to conclude this thread, because there is no end to the ability of people who have no regard for others to feel bottomlessly sorry for themselves. END

[[ and I said nothing because I was not ... ]]