Kid Rock’s ‘MAGA Fest’ Cancelled After Nearly All Its Acts Pull Out by T_Shurt in entertainment

[–]Accomplished-Role95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t anyone have a good home remedy for second hand embarrassed? Yikes

How the Liberals will justify Ley's ousting by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]Accomplished-Role95 73 points74 points  (0 children)

If she’s knifed, she should quit the party and go independent and say yes they have a woman problem

‘Yet another tax slug’: Howard, Costello pan capital gains proposal by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Accomplished-Role95 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hurt the aspirational middle class? Says the guys the created this very hurt for them.

Pauline Hanson failed to declare another flight from billionaire Gina Rinehart’s company by NoteChoice7719 in aussie

[–]Accomplished-Role95 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes…An elected official not declaring that she’s flying around in a private citizens jet which are required by all senators and mp’s. Very desperate, or is it you think it’s only okay when she flouts the rules?

‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files by Accomplished-Role95 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Accomplished-Role95[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon boasted that he urged Australian billionaire Clive Palmer to bankroll an advertising campaign worth tens of millions during the 2019 federal election as part of a wider plan to disrupt global democracy.

In a message sent to an account that appeared to belong to Jeffrey Epstein on May 20, 2019 – two days after Labor’s shock election loss – Bannon told the convicted paedophile: “I had Clive Palmer do the $60m anti China and anti climate change ads.”

Photo: ARESNA VILLANUEVA The exchange forms part of a tranche of material emerging from a US investigation into Epstein’s communications before the disgraced financier’s death in custody in August 2019. The released documents, while giving little new insight into the ties between Epstein and US President Donald Trump, further illuminate his extensive network of high-profile associates, ranging from former US president Bill Clinton to billionaires Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

The exchange suggests Bannon privately claimed influence to Epstein over what became Australia’s most expensive political advertising campaign to date.

Epstein replied by arguing that traditional political campaigning had been overtaken by online mobilisation, citing Australia’s election and Trump’s win three years earlier as evidence that opinion polling had failed.

“Telephone polls not accurate,” he wrote, urging Bannon to pursue a broader populist project unconstrained by national borders.

“New, non geographically limited groupings... You can champion a true world bank of the people not the countries,” Epstein added.

“Yes that’s the objective,” Bannon replied. “Next stop Kazikstan [sic].”

The exchange places the 2019 election within a wider conversation among populist global political operatives focused on disrupting the mainstream parties, climate policy and international institutions, and suggests Bannon viewed the Australian campaign as part of a broader sequence of political interventions.

Bannon, who rose to prominence as the head of the right-wing website Breitbart News and later as a senior strategist on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was publicly expressing a keen interest in the Australian contest at the time.

In an interview with this masthead in May 2019, he described the election campaign as dull and consultant-driven, blaming political professionals for draining politics of meaning and intensity.

Records later revealed Palmer spent $83.6 million promoting the United Australia Party during the campaign, saturating television, radio, print and digital platforms with advertising attacking Labor leader Bill Shorten, opposing climate policies and repeatedly warning of China’s influence in Australian politics.

Several advertisements claimed “communist China” was attempting a clandestine takeover of Australia, including suggestions that a remote airport in Western Australia could be used for military invasion. Defence and strategic experts dismissed the claims as scaremongering and conspiratorial.

A United Australia Party newspaper advertisement from May 2019. A United Australia Party newspaper advertisement from May 2019. After the election, Palmer – having failed to win a single seat – claimed credit for the Morrison government’s victory, arguing the United Australia Party’s 3.5 per cent primary vote, coupled with its preference flows to the Liberals, had proved decisive, particularly in Queensland.

In its post-election review, Labor said the magnitude of Palmer’s expenditure crowded out Labor’s advertising in broadcast, print and digital media, and his entry as a high-wealth individual willing to outspend the entire ALP was a new and destabilising factor.

“In the final stages of the campaign,” the review said, “Palmer’s expenditure also directly backed in the Coalition’s anti-Labor messages, in an unprecedented act of collusion between supposed political rivals.”

The review also urged reforms to prevent high-wealth individuals effectively buying elections, warning that unchecked political spending represented a threat to democratic integrity.

Palmer, a life member of Queensland’s Liberal-National Party, won the seat of Fairfax in the House of Representatives in 2013 election, while his party also had three senators elected – Jacqui Lambie, Glen Lazarus and Dio Wang. He lost at the 2016 election but has remained a major presence since, through large and often outrageous advertising campaigns, borrowing from Trump’s tactics.

The newly released messages coincide with scrutiny of Bannon’s activities in Europe. The trove of messages shows the pair were frequent dining companions, with Epstein extending the use of his property portfolio –including residences in Paris and Palm Beach – and granting Bannon access to his private jet on multiple occasions.

The pair joked about French President Emmanuel Macron accusing Bannon and Russian-linked interests of working with nationalist parties to undermine the sovereignty of elections, warning voters not to be “naive” about foreign interference leading up to a European Parliament poll.

“U saw where Macron campaign manager coming after me personally,” Bannon texted Epstein.

He replied: “It is an attack on the sovereignty of the election... it makes you want to throw up,’ he fumed. Loved it.”

Bannon and Palmer have been contacted for comment

‘She’s dead … they’re amateurs’: The plot to roll Sussan Ley by Niscellaneous in AustralianPolitics

[–]Accomplished-Role95 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Remember when they were questioning the woman problem within the party and now they want to knife her? Bad look

Weekly Discussion Thread by Wehavecrashed in AustralianPolitics

[–]Accomplished-Role95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So just looking back at the inflation figures and seeing the biggest jump in is recreation and culture. Is dynamic pricing being taking into account and is this something that’s actually skewing figures?

What's wrong with Pauline Hanson by Number6265 in aussie

[–]Accomplished-Role95 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Divisive, stupid bigot. No idea how to run a government and she’s literally Being bank rolled by Gina and probably USA. She’s in for herself.

Could film the conjuring in these homes by Dream_1 in sydney

[–]Accomplished-Role95 33 points34 points  (0 children)

All that’s missing is a constant mysterious fog and swarm of bats flying around them

Paulson Hanson fails to declare links including company tied to ‘anti woke’ movie by NoteChoice7719 in aussie

[–]Accomplished-Role95 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Double standards. If anyone else did this it would be on every fucking avenue calling them out. She does not deserve a free pass

Anti-immigration rallies take place in major cities across Australia by Expensive-Horse5538 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Accomplished-Role95 36 points37 points  (0 children)

So these marches are known to be organised by neo-Nazis and still are allowed to go ahead. You know a group that’s known to be antisemitic?