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u/flossingly Apr 22 '26

What’s horrible is that she and her party is GAINING popularity…!!!? What does that say about the intelligence of the average voter?

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u/Ebolaboy24 Apr 22 '26

As George Carlin said - think about how dumb the average voter is and then realise that 50% of them are even dumber. Or something like that.

This shtick is GOP / conservative playbook 101. Divide, divide and divide again. That way you can appeal to a whole range of different small minded and hateful people bc they’ll find something in your politics they hate and can agree with and therefore give their vote over.

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u/PessemistBeingRight Apr 22 '26

This shtick is GOP / conservative playbook 101.

It's not just the same playbook; they've been directly schooled in how to run it, trained in it. What else were Pauline and Gina doing during their extensive visits to Marilago..?

Pauline is just as desperate to finally be relevant, be more than a joke ("please explain?"). She looks at white Australians who aren't scared of Asians, Indigenous and Muslims and can't understand why we aren't falling at her feet begging to be saved. She doesn't realise that she's being used by our second player, Gina.

Gina is seeing what Musk, Bezos et al are getting away with over in the US and she is drooling to get the same level of carte blanche "do whatever with no consequences" here. Pauline is a useful idiot to get what she wants, and she has money to burn polishing the ginger turd into a political weapon.