Man, this is unhinged from yesterday, from the AFR:
The Greens are trying to interrupt parliamentary question time by suspending standing orders in the Senate to condemn Donald Trump and question the US alliance.
Attorney General George Brandis has jumped up to condemn the comments and completely “disassociate” the Australian government from them.
And then:
An update on the Greens who wanted to suspend standing orders in the Senate to condemn Donald Trump.
While all parties had to speak on the motion, it failed to get up.
There was an intervention from One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts who said while he disagreed with the motion, he agreed with the Greens in terms of Australia getting pulled into supporting far-off wars led by the United States.
Today they’ve launched a new movement:
Let’s recall their recent antics over “pussygate”:
The NSW Parliament has passed a motion describing US presidential candidate Donald Trump as a “revolting slug and completely unfit for public office.”
The NSW Upper House agreed to a motion moved by Greens MLC Jeremy Buckingham which condemned “misogynistic, hateful comments” by Mr Trump about women and minorities.
Obviously Trump’s statements on different groups are offensive but what exactly do the Greens think this is going to achieve? If they were to destroy ANZUS what would be the result? This:
- Australia would immediately be driven into the Chinese sphere of influence;
- China would park a permanent figurative aircraft carrier off Sydney and do whatever they liked with Australian policy;
- Australia would likely respond with a large military build-up including production of a nuclear deterrent;
- that would spark a regional and quite possibly nuclear arms race to our north.
In short, Greens intolerance of intolerance is now so extreme that a “pussy grabbing” buffoon as the leader of the free world is more offensive to them that living under an explicit communist dictator governing a regime with a long track record of driving tanks over its own people.
I can sympathise to the extent that the Trump election is a blow to the fight against climate change but that is not even mentioned!
This is all form over function. All surface over over substance. All loon over leadership.
