Episode 95 - A New Hope (feat Brandon Selic and Denise Pirko)
Brandon and Denise join Jeremy to reminisce, while Jeremy feels a new hope for the future. Or is it the past?
Brandon and Denise join Jeremy to reminisce, while Jeremy feels a new hope for the future. Or is it the past?
00:01:07 Albo's ascension (remember him? See episode 59)
00:06:15 Better approaches to what happened in the campaign; $387bn out of your pocket; the 95% Giant Mortgage policy and The Party of Debt
00:21:08 Bowen tries to apologise to ACL types; ACL reveals that it's not interested in "christian policy"
00:30:50 Nick Carr tells us what's stuck in his craw
00:34:50 How to get people to vote against the policies they actually like (tl;dr - drive them to the edge, and then frighten them)
00:40:38 "News.com.au is very left wing"
00:44:30 ALP approaches going forward (tl;dr - frame immediately the cost of living pressures coming from Scummo, starting with power prices jumping immediately the Libs were returned)
00:57:19 Bipartisan legislation to stop people impersonating the AEC - also reminding people that the Libs didn't just lie, they cheated
WMWS considers an alternative show focus and then remembers the people who don’t have the luxury of tuning out. To hell with hot takes on This Is Definitely What Went Wrong - we have some ideas as to how progressives (and not a stung ALP lurching to the right) can build to a victory over Scummo in 2022.
In the week in which an egg was rolled gently off the temporary Prime Minister's head in Albury (this text and the episode title being the only reference to it since we didn't actually mention it in the episode), a bumper episode featuring
00:01:05 Voting ideas!
00:06:51 far right's new low (seriously)
00:08:26 Letterbox horror
00:16:48 Threatening renters 1 - Dutton's creepy letterbox harrassment
00:20:48 Reader refugee rent offer!
00:25:18 The centrepice of the Libs' campaign "launch" - their new plan to make housing even less affordable (immediately endorsed by Labor!)
00:32:34 Frydenberg admits they haven't modelled their signature housing policy
00:42:16 Frydenberg admits his fake "surplus" for next year won't exist if he gets to do his EWL promise
00:46:40 Threatening renters 2 - real estate agents threatening tenants with lies about the election
00:52:01 What is this "$387bn higher taxes" line and why is it bullshit
00:57:32 Man dies waiting for DSP
01:05:22 Scummo "respects" women
01:11:17 Scummo's plan for new religious powers before the end of the year
01:25:47 Space Invader vs Pacman
01:27 Losing candidates
04:59 Social media pasts
08:46 Climate costing
10:32 REDISTRIBUTION!
13:11 Pity the ALP won't defend it
16:39 If the ALP won't, then point out the redistribution upwards happening under the LNP
18:00 730 overly sympathetic to Frankenboomers - or were they?
24:55 childcare, or as Dan Tehan calls it, communism
27:21 Bill Shorten being an absolute d*ckhead and endorsing turnbacks
29:00 Working through the hideous Victorian senate ballot paper
34:23 Clive "you can make a lot of money if you don't pay your workers" Palmer
35:10 Pauline "why are all the racist grifters I nominate bad men" Hanson
39:36 Scummo embarrassing himself
40:55 Mark Latham being worse
42:15 But Sky is getting worried.