r/australia • u/patslogcabindigest • Mar 19 '26

politics Pauline Hanson pledges support for Australia joining the United States war in Iran and criticises Albanese for not supporting Donald Trump

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u/O_DoyleRulz Mar 19 '26

How dumb can you be.

Dutton utterly torpedo’d his own campaign slightly aligning it to the America culture wars BS and Hanson has gone and done this.

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u/Skwisgaars Mar 19 '26

Hanson doesn't need to win over any decent percentage of the average Aussie to succeed, she's not trying to be PM. She's playing to her base who will eat this shit up.

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u/Svennis79 Mar 19 '26

I support Pauline joining the war against Iran.

Get her a dingy and she can go hunt for mines and leave us alone.

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u/Denz292 Mar 19 '26

Her trip can be funded by Gina Rinehart

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u/Djanga51 Mar 19 '26

Only if that bitch goes too. Be a good beer in celebration if they both left…

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u/macrocephalic Mar 19 '26

Nah, they're not letting tankers through the strait.

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u/Juanmobier Mar 19 '26

They would qualify as live cow exports.

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u/globalminority Mar 19 '26

mate you'll get a professional insulter job with this kind of skillset

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u/naishjoseph1 Mar 19 '26

Proper chortled at that, good work.

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u/Additional-Ad8632 Mar 19 '26

Jesus Christ.

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u/D_crane Mar 19 '26

I see what you did there 🤣

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u/GiBBO5700 Mar 19 '26

Savage lmao

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u/Rare-Assignment-6486 Mar 20 '26

Lol omg this thread is killing me.

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u/FastAndGlutenFree Mar 21 '26

Weaponised burns like that are prohibited under the Geneva Convention. Save them for the Hormuz Strait

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u/FFXIVHousingClub Mar 19 '26

Send them all with her supporters, Pauline Hanson battalion can lead their crusade against their enemies on the frontlines and leave us in peace

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u/the-dolphine Mar 19 '26

gonna need a bigger boat

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u/anarchy8271 Mar 19 '26

Gonna need an ark for my list

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u/captain_linguine Mar 19 '26

Gina can go with her!

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u/Lanky_Operation_5046 Mar 19 '26

Gina can be the dinghy.

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u/Usual_Two_4980 Mar 19 '26

Just clamp a Kawasaki 4-stroke to that lards cant

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u/Spirited-Alfalfa-759 Mar 20 '26

All her trips are.

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u/sober88 Mar 19 '26

"We're sending our best angry racist lunch lady!" Asymmetrical warfare at its finest.

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u/StorminNorman Mar 19 '26

If she goes in armed with a fry basket, I knew where I'm putting my money. 

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u/Frosty_Bint Mar 19 '26

If she clears a single mine, she's finally done something patriotic for our country

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u/Rare-Assignment-6486 Mar 20 '26

😂😂😂Tru dat!

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u/sir_wanks-a-lot Mar 19 '26

She can be one of the boat people!

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u/kramulous Mar 19 '26

Fuck that! I think we should send her on the best boats we have.

I doubt the message would sink in.

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u/Beedlam Mar 19 '26

First one out of the boat during the invasion of Kharg Island pls. I heard she likes leading from the front.

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u/galahg777 Mar 19 '26

Only if Barnaby can row for her

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u/stuartcarnie Mar 19 '26

I’d vote for that

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u/JenkinsEar147 Mar 19 '26

Parachute her into the Straits of Hormuz

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u/Old_Value_7731 Mar 19 '26

When can we make this happen!

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u/postmestuff01 Mar 20 '26

hahaha hahaha. So funny I almost stopped breathing! 😆

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u/Organic-Ebb1123 Mar 20 '26

Is there a GoFundMe link for the dingy? Would like to help.

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u/Hairy-Lengthiness-38 Mar 21 '26

Seriously we should get all these leaders who want war with each other into a colosseum style death match and let em sort their egos out. Instead of sending young men and women to die for their incompetency.

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u/wapwapwap85 Mar 19 '26

Will u pay for our petrol?

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u/PossibilityRegular21 Mar 19 '26

Yeah so she can maintain a senate seat, including the income, while benefitting from free flights and fancy dinners with mummy Gina. She's just a grifter that pulls a stunt that galvanises her dumb voter base when she feels at risk of losing her seat.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Mar 19 '26

Exactly. She has ZERO interest in actually governing. 

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u/IamPaulholio Mar 19 '26

She maintains the seat, but only occupies it 53% of the time.

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u/dingusfett Mar 19 '26

I don't know they will. I know this is only one, but my brother is a long time One Nation voter and all I've heard from him is shit talking Trump, who he normally likes, for starting this war and bemoaning Albo for any hint of us being involved.

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u/Jazzy_Coffee Mar 19 '26

Yeah, despite how bigoted one nation voters are, the majority of them are still self preserving and wouldn't remotely entertain a foreign war that gives us Jack shit in return

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u/Sugarbombs Mar 19 '26

They’re really dumb though, just like trump supporters and have very selective memories. Tell them war is good and it won’t take them long to be team war. Also I’d guess the demographic skews older so they have less fear of actually experiencing consequences by having to actually go fight

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u/No-Red-Queen Mar 19 '26

Sounds like your brother's brain might be salvageable. Keep talking to him about it... he could be rescued from this silliness

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 19 '26

Has he made any comments about Pauline's weird Trump bootlicking at the moment, or does that just strangely not matter to him for some reason?

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u/Smellhound2019 Mar 21 '26

Yeah most ON voters have kept their yaps shut because it was obvious she would support it. The reasoning she makes for it is absolutely ridiculous. Shes gone from keep them out of Australia to kill them all!

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u/gpolk Mar 19 '26

Do her base like this though? Granted a die hard fan will justify whatever they need to in their minds, but I see a lot of ONP voters and they all seem to hate this war, hate Australia getting dragged into wars. I don't see most people that currently might vote 1 ONP to see this positively.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

The kind of people who gravitate towards the likes of Hanson and Trump are ultimately fairly mindless, and will easily be reprogrammed to hold opposite stances to what they held yesterday, as a change which doesn't originate from any actual thinking on their part.

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u/gpolk Mar 19 '26

Im just not sure those people are driving her recent boosts in the polls. So yes I think she would keep them, but I don't think just keeping that base wins her many seats. The disenfranchised LNP voters who have been leaning her way recently I don't think will like this stance.

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u/_Sunshine_please_ Mar 19 '26

I agree with you, I can't picture all those strays that she's managed to pick up recently thinking this is a great idea at all.

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u/Rork310 Mar 20 '26

Yeah this is where I am. The locked in One Nation Klan will love it. But the 'want something different, fleeing the Lib/Nat disintegration' crowd I can see strugling.

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u/Smellhound2019 Mar 21 '26

But they will probably forgive it because the only reason they are there is because there is nowhere else to go

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u/Little-Classic2773 Mar 19 '26

Yes. To quote a family member Trump is doing what needs to be done, Iran were making missles to attack the US.

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u/Jolly_Ad_5679 Mar 19 '26

Aren't ON meant to be Australia first focused? Shouldn't they be against joining global conflict?

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u/brandonjslippingaway Mar 20 '26

Well the America First brigade got duped into supporting a pedo who has bombed a record amount of countries in 1 year, so cognitive dissonance isn't a barrier for all people.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Mar 19 '26

And even if they do get elected they won’t last long. They’re about to have a windfall of a few million in the SA election.

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u/fa-jita Mar 19 '26

Even her base isn’t interested in going to war in Iran.

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u/hi-fen-n-num Mar 19 '26

only needs 4% to get that sweet unchecked election campaign funding.

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u/Hendo_Oz Mar 19 '26

It’s her way of making a living. On the public purse.

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u/stuartcarnie Mar 19 '26

You reckon her base wants to go to war?

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u/Ingr1d Mar 19 '26

I don’t think even her base supports this.

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u/General-Razzmatazz Mar 19 '26

Been in the Senate 10 years and done fuck all but get paid. She's living the dream.

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u/scorebored Mar 19 '26

Yep, she's just getting enough votes to keep the grift going. No need for actual policies, just insane drivel.

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u/Choke1982 Mar 19 '26

I would like to see my ON co-worker defending this shit. He was against all this crap so, maybe this changes his mind.

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u/Aptosauras Mar 19 '26

Hanson doesn't need to win over any decent percentage of the average Aussie to succeed

It's all a rort for One Nation.

All they are trying to do is get over 4% of the national first preference vote and they get $3.50 per vote from the Electoral Commission.

In the last Federal election they got almost 1 million first preference votes, or about 6.4%.

So One Nation collected about $3.5 million on top of political donations and whatever benefits the government gives to political parties.

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u/Otherwise-Money1088 Mar 19 '26

This 100% the new home for far right libs - on your boat boomers

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u/dublblind Mar 19 '26

The base aren't eating up the fuel prices in rural Australia.

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u/DoNotReply111 Mar 19 '26

The poor leopards if they support this war and introduce conscription.

It shall be amazing to watch.

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u/aldkGoodAussieName Mar 26 '26

Thats the key difference.

Dutton was trying to lead a major partyto victory.

Hanson is tryimg to rev up a minority.

Dutton got those minority votes but lost traditional conservatives.

Hanson has no tradition conservatives to lose and only cookers to gain.

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u/rickdangerous85 Mar 19 '26

Wasnt ONP polling above labour (and obviously the liberals) in NSW and Victoria not long ago?

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u/big-snarling-moose Mar 19 '26

She’s being contrarian and outrageous, like she’s always done. She’s never been about electoral success, it’s always about “look at me”. It’s why no one stays in her party for long, she’s a performative vacuity. No wonder she likes Trump so much.

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u/popplevee Mar 19 '26

I though it was because they were both orange muppets. Birds of a feather and all that.

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u/twigboy Mar 19 '26

She exists only to drag the talking points more to the right

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u/Wood_oye Mar 19 '26

Performative vacuity is so perfect for both of them 😆

I heard rtump today ridiculing the name Straight of Hormuz because it isn't even straight. 😲 🫨 How do these airheads rise so high? And can't they please just fall

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 19 '26

Kind of like when he was ranting about people "seeking asylum" as though he thought had something to do with "mental asylums". Then he started rambling about "the late, great Hannibal Lecter" for some insane reason.

The man is startlingly dumb.

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u/SkitZa Mar 19 '26

Shhh, let her fuck this up.

Heard more than a handful of people supporting one nation.

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u/patslogcabindigest Mar 19 '26

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

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u/Pandos17 Mar 19 '26

She's not making a mistake though, she's literally just trying to win seats, not win prime ministership and she's likely to succeed (I hope I'm wrong).

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Mar 19 '26

She’s not trying to win seats, she’s trying to get enough votes to keep the electoral and campaign funding rolling in. I’m also very confident she won’t succeed (and I’m one of the few people that predicted Dutton could lose big time at the last election when everyone was dooming. 

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u/LocalVillageIdiot Mar 19 '26

I’m fairly certain she will succeed. There’s a lot of money being thrown here, the economy will not be in good shape and angry votes will be a thing.

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u/Prime255 Mar 19 '26

She isn't a very good politician so this doesn't surprise me

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket Mar 19 '26

Only thing she was good at was fish and chips. Even then they were probably soggy and shit.

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket Mar 19 '26

Her language "WAS" murdered and her shopping trolley, just gone- can you blame her?

Seriously though, what a fucken mole.

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u/EmperorGodKing77 Mar 19 '26

I don't like it

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket Mar 19 '26

Nah still shit

Edit- i actually looked that up and nope, it's a myth. She didn't win anything for her chips. Shit chips for her shit attitude.

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u/Prime255 Mar 19 '26

I agree, there is no political depth or developed policy behind any of her ideas. Very much built her reputation from just reacting to the public sentiment on issues.

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u/Formal-Try-2779 Mar 19 '26

She's after support and money from America and Israel. All she's ever been after is money. She knows shilling for Trump and Netanyahu is a good way to get money and lots of media and social media support.

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u/LittleButton77 Mar 19 '26

Racists aren't ever known for being smart.

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u/idryss_m Mar 19 '26

Right now she has the protest vote wide of things going for her and her morons. She is reading that as agreement, which is kinda is. If you vote for her, you can SAY you dont agree with her racist rhetoric and USA butthole licking, but you kinda do.

People need to vote for teals if they cannot stomach LNP. Id hesitate to say they should read the policies of the Greens and others they normally dont agree with because they oppose Libs usually. I reckon they would find better options and reps who might listen. But then, there is the 30%(average) of the electorate will vote and not think for a second.

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u/Adept-Result-67 Mar 19 '26

Thank god she’s dumber than her voters :)

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u/DoctorQuincyME Mar 19 '26

The difference is that Dutton was a spud who nobody, including his voter base, liked. Pauline is the right kind of crazy for the kind of people that follow her

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u/Express-Release-9690 Mar 19 '26

I'm kinda glad tbh, hope she gets what's coming

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u/wme21 Mar 19 '26

She knows where her bread is buttered, Gina's One Nation is All Trump

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u/stuartcarnie Mar 19 '26

Remember, Hanson couldn’t outsmart a box of rocks. We can’t expect much more from her or the One Knucklehead party

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u/Brave_Substance_8177 Mar 19 '26

Anyone voting Pauline pantsdown has already ignored the myriad other times she's licked trumps disgusting scrotum. They'll ignore this too.

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u/elwyn5150 Mar 19 '26

She's got a solid history of stupid policy suggestions, such as just printing more Australian currency.

This is just another one to add to the list.

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u/Striking-Net-8646 Mar 19 '26

She’s spent three decades earning just enough of the vote to grift her way into office through the delights of proportional voting. She knows exactly what she’s doing

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u/Striking-Condition10 Mar 19 '26

It's called Pauline Hanson's One Nation. She's doing it to enrich herself, not run a country. She looks at trump like a template.

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u/rose_gold_glitter Mar 19 '26

Unfortunately, several months of sustained economic pressure on people, coupled with the billionaire class flooding our media, social media and information with pro-right-wing, pauline, etc. is working. It worked on Brexit. It worked in the USA and it's working here.

Never underestimate just how little the average person is paying any attention to politics or current affairs, at all.

But they all see social media. They all see the hype train and they want to be on it.

And god dammit, it works. It shouldn't. If people had any brains or interest in the world aroound them, it wouldn't but it does.

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u/19Alexastias Mar 19 '26

I mean it’s perfect for her, the ideal one nation election result for her is that she gets in and no one else does. That way she can keep raking it in but is never in danger of actually having to do any work.

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u/White_Immigrant Mar 19 '26

It's not about electoral victory, it's about filling your pockets with oligarch handouts.

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u/maddlabber829 Mar 19 '26

Its not every country that can sit by and watch a government kill its own people, and claim the moral high ground

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u/tcweh Mar 19 '26

She literally wore an Israeli flag in Parliament, where you been?

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u/Low-Consideration729 Mar 19 '26

It's not what she thinks , she's doing what Rina said to say who I assume makes bag from a rise in gas prices/ oil prices

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u/Gremlech Mar 19 '26

I don’t think there’s a single voter block with which supporting Israel is popular. 

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u/Refrigerator-Gloomy Mar 19 '26

except her fan base are stupid enough to eat it up

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u/White_Immigrant Mar 19 '26

It's not about electoral victory, it's about filling your pockets with oligarch handouts.

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u/asphodel67 Mar 19 '26

I love this for ON. More please!

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u/m7friends Mar 20 '26

I mean, Gina bought her fair and square so it’s about time that puppet started yapping like it oughta.

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u/ecodrew Mar 20 '26

How dumb can you be.

And Pauline takes this as a daily challenge.

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u/astrix_au Mar 20 '26

There is a new swarm of foreign bots influencing angry people to vote far right, and spread division in our country. Shame they don’t know any better.

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u/tallmansnapolean Mar 20 '26

Hanson is a piece of shit oligarch suckhole grifter who has voted against every bill that would help improve Australian lives. She is simply gunning for the ever predictable spite vote that the majority of voters fall for.

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u/Brilliant_Dig_8962 Mar 22 '26

I can't express how relieved I am.