"historic" as in backwards

fuck

After all this bullshit of Albo chucking a fossil fuel lobbyists into the seat and going to billionaire fund-raiser functions where they pay for access to politicians, it's really disheartening to see any of the Liberals, One Nation, or Labor get the seat.

I wonder what this implies for the Victorian state election coming up. Normally it looks like a drover’s-dog election, where anyone could beat the unpopular government, and the opposition could cash in by front-loading controversial policies and claiming a mandate. If the likely beneficiary of this is the Trumpist kleptofascist party typically favoured by chronically lead-poisoned boomers who take horse paste for their wind turbine syndrome, and whom no-one who’s not cooked would have taken seriously as a potential government, would they still be in love to reap the benefit of the state of affairs, or could Labor make a miraculous recovery just by the alternatives being worse?

Thumping defeat for Labor and Liberals.

I really want to know if Labor are going to take the lesson that an allegedly cocaine snorting, mafia connected candidate looks more appealing than the Woodside candidate who runs at the first sign of hard questions over gas.

Like it's ridiculous, it's not like her main opponent was a Greens candidate. The ON candidate is probably worse on corruption and fossil fuel support, in that situation why run the comparisons write themselves.

But in reality I think debate was really on things like red bins and a general discontent which she couldn't counter by being an engaging or exciting candidate on real issues.

So, question, is Labor going to learn that backroom staffers and lobbyists are far from the flavour of the day and they need to start finding real community candidates?

Labor deserve it for running a Woodside candidate. Pity they voted for Gina's candidate instead of Greens, independents or even the Libs as lesser evils. Australian elections were never more buyable than they are today with targetted social media. You can't half arse this stuff and run a bullshit candidate unless you can back it up with undeclared money and foreign influence. Hanging on to seats is going to be fucking hard work from here on unless you have X and Meta on your side. Labor need to pull their finger out and make some changes.

I confess to being surprised. Not about yesterday's result, though I would have been a few weeks ago. I was at a Fathers' day thingy last week and my Brother-in-law and my dad were essentially talking about One Nation as a viable choice. Dad has been a bolted-on Labor guy with every 80's stereotype those voters came with (battler, literal blue collar, lifetime CFMEU member, union shop steward - the whole works) for my entire life. Dad coloured my understanding of politics as a child (Fraser bad/Whitlam good).

So for him to be shit-talking Labor and talking about One Nation as something viable - yeah I was really taken aback. He doom-scrolls Facebook all the time, so I know where this has come from. If he can be shucked from Labor boat and turned, I bet loads of others can be as well.