Thread by @iMusing

a week out from the federal budget, the federal treasurer is on ABC radio reciting fabricated figures about opposition campaign promises.

he is also lying about wages again. Fact check: the best way to get higher wages is for bosses to pay more money to workers.

“better than I forecast” is his KPI😂

“well the government will use the budget as a springboard for the election” says Karvelas.

Fact check: Morrison government politicians will weaponise the budget of the Commonwealth as a springboard for the Liberal and National Party campaigns.

“temporary and targeted” means handouts to people who will spend it in time for the effects to flow through to headline quarterly figures released during the election campaign. This strategy requires the press to stay wedded to Liberal Party economic management lies.

Maiden is empathising with Scott Morrison’s “frustration” for failing to announce more assistance to flood victims and Speers is sympathising with Liberal Party failures to increase its chances in NSW.

now the comparison is between no official investigation into a disgraced former Attorney General still in the parliament whose alleged victim took her own life and no internal investigation into allegations of bullying a Senator who died of a heart attack.

almost as tho the false equivalence gloves are off and any ludicrous comparison, no matter how long the bow, is full speed ahead before the election has even been called. Thanks, Bevan. Well done, David.

these are open attacks on federal Labor in the lead up to a federal election, masquerading as self-righteous defence of the dead. The relevant test for this performative indignation is whether any of them reported Kitching’s complaints before she died.

worth noting too that the press gallery and Liberal Party politicians are as usual presenting as a single unified voice with their crocodile tears/partisan attacks.

the Morrison government might try its hand at buying votes with our cash because they choose to suppress wages and never had another campaign idea in their lying conniving lives.