Hastie is right to call them cowards.
I don't like a lot of his politics but that guy will single-handedly rebuild the Liberal party. Each one of his interventions is more effective than everything Angus 'good one mate' Taylor has ever done.
unfortunately, he's cunning and evil and fascist rolled into one.
I'm yet to see anything fascist about him. Please inform me if you have. Conservative as fuck, for sure, but conservatism doesn't equal fascist. He also seems to be a religious zealot, or at least adjacent to such. Not everyone who thinks of life as a 'heirarchy of the deserving' takes that idea as far as fascists.
He has demonstrated on numerous occassions lines he doesn't cross, there is no line a fascist will not cross in their extremist pursuit of dominance and power.
His demarcation line is still better than ON, it would seem. The question is, do we want incompetent screaming racist fascists, or competent quiet racist fascists.
Tough call.
I'm glad he is calling them out though. It helps shine a light on their ridiculous antics. Pauline herself constantly whines about the media being unfair to her. They are not, they report the reality. Then she says awful things about everyone. She's a coward and a bully.
The doublethink is real. The party she runs makes a cartoon. She posts the cartoon on her feed. It calls him a traitor. She says she didn't say it. As if someone else did, instead.
Pauline, dear you don't need to mouth the words to be saying it. I am not saying these words. I'm writing them on my phone. That doesn't mean I didn't say it.
If she can't own it, she shouldn't say it. Even if that is by commissioning a cartoonist to say it for her. I hope he does sue her. It would make the Gina bankroll even more obvious.
Even better would be for him to sue Gina. Say that she said it, via her proxy. He'd still lose and waste money, but it would make a better point about who's speech he is being attacked by.
I don't want any racist facists. There are more options than those 2
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