Thread by @iMusing

it is not a tightrope. That’s a thing circus performers do. It is a stimulus measure that has known multiplier effects on quarterly figures which these men will then “report” during the election campaign to promote Liberal Party lies.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1504339285465792515

there is no pub test. Journalists use pub test as a euphemism for corrupted decisions made and corrupted actions taken by the Morrison government.

culture wars means violent bigotry, pass it on.

controversial means racist.

larrikin means alcoholic adulterer or some general approximation, for famous cishet white males.

“our government has always” means “I am paid upwards of $300K pa, funded by the Australian public, and still have exactly no clue how to answer this tame as fuck question about my own job”.

better than expected means those at the top of government get to set their own KPIs and still fall short.

the prime minister is [insert emotion] means the journalist concerned has no idea how to report politics from any perspective other than Liberal Party #CampaignComms.

“I’m not going to get into” means the messaging on that issue has been workshopped for release tomorrow or next week or later in this interminable publicly funded nine year Coalition campaign masquerading as a federal government.

unprecedented. Omfg. The worst faux empathy training climate catastrophe denying Mackellar defence of them all. Matched only by resilience for weaponisation of words by the soulless fucks who purport to run this state (NSW) and the nation.

okay i am done for now. This has been campaign semiotics brought to you by Dr Ingrid M👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
I respectfully recommend this brilliant article on “unprecedented” by Gomeroi poet and scholar Alison Whittaker:
theguardian.com/books/2020/apr…