An Australian US Presidential Election?

For months on end, my Facebook feed has been battered by arguments, glowing support and slanderous comments directed towards Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama. No biggie right? Most of you reading this are likely in the same boat. The problem is this though: All these political posts are coming form Australians.

Australians. People in a country far from the jurisdiction of the US President. A country with a whole handful of its own political problems. A country that really doesn't need its citizens focusing so intently on something that 1. Doesn't have any affect on them and 2. They don't even have a say in. Aussies don't vote in international elections.

It reminds me of another raucous debate my Facebook endured months ago. Team Edward or Team Jacob. Clearly Edward was the protagonist of the entire Twilight series so he had dibs, right? No, no, no, he bailed in the second book and forfeited that right... Sound stupid? Well now you're beginning to see just how ridiculous this is.


Yet still people do it. They are passionate about it and will continue regardless of how often I link them to this very post in the available comments section. Meanwhile, Australia has a Prime Minister doing her very best to be worse than useless and naming her opposition a "misogynist" for calling her out on it, which is ridiculous: Being a woman doesn't make you a crap politician; being a crap politician is what makes you a crap politician. 

It doesn't help that we, as a country, elected someone who closely resembles the villain in the Disney movie The Rescuers.


Alas, that is the boat we are in. So I shall endure the pointless political posts with a smile. I've had my rant and ranting is always strangely therapeutical in one way or another. Yet that is my stance- what side of the fence am I on?

The Australian side.

As for you, where do you stand in the current Political maelstrom?

A Rare Political Post

I work, I pay tax. My tax goes to the Government.

This is nothing drastically out of the ordinary, 'tax', in one form or another, has existed worldwide for at least the past five thousand years (the earliest recorded case being in Egypt between 3,000 BC and 2,800 BC) and I am happy to live with that.

However, what does make me not quite so happy is when I see the Government that I (and the 21 million other residents here on this Island) support using it stupidly.

For those of you unfamiliar on the current condition of Australian Politics, here is the situation in a five point nutshell.

1. Two major parties- Labor and Liberal.

2. Labor party leader, Kevin Rudd, is ousted as Australia's Prime Minister by his own party. If Kevin Rudd was Blackbeard and the Australia Labor Party was a pirate ship, we would happily call this mutiny.

3. Julia Gillard, the second in command, takes control over Labor Party and as a result, the rest of Australia.

4. Outcry from the Australian public forces an election (nobody wants someone in charge who wasn't voted into office by the people) and Labor wins on the merit of promises such as 'No Carbon Tax'.

5. Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister, announces a Carbon Tax, effectively backflipping on one of her most important policy's during election time.

There are more details, but I don't care to write them and (as this IS a political post) you no doubt don't care to read them. Basically, you are now caught up on the situation.

Which brings us to now... The leader of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott has been giving ol' Prime Minister Julia Gillard grief about lying to the Australian public. Julia Gillard fires back with this:



That's right, don't use my money for healthcare, the schooling system, safer roads or even working on better Government policies! Use it to make a crappy cartoon that has no political value at all.

Because when all is said and done, I just want to fund a personal attack and a Government employed animator.

Idiots.