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Ben J Churchill
@Benji_Churchill
Aspiring Author. Bit into the journalism as well
Used to breathe politics and sport. Diving back in the deep end.
I tend to play the video games a bit as well.
Queensland, AustraliaJoined October 2017
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Thought I'd share this public service announcement that the banks are trash and so far, so are the government for letting stuff like this slide for a decade
#auspol #creditcard #Interest #Banking #coronavirusau
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OH FOR FUCKS SAKE
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The bill that the House passed last night only guarantees paid coronavirus sick leave to ~20 percent of American workers.
I repeat: Most workers still aren't guaranteed paid sick leave.
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Fuck both parties ...
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Republicans insisted on an exemption for companies with more than 500 employees, and Democrats caved.
McDonald’s, Amazon, and pretty much any other company that you’ve ever heard of — THEY ARE EXEMPTED.
And that loophole includes 54 percent of all workers.
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Where's their broken record now?
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BuT HoW WiLl We PaY fOr It?!?!??!?!??!
BuT HoW WiLl We PaY fOr It????!?!??!?!?!
BuT HoW WiLl We PaY fOr It?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
BuT HoW WiLl We PaY fOr It?!?!??!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!?
Incredible to me how silently the media have just accepted that a decade worth of Liberal mockery of Labor’s stimulus response to GFC was political opportunism - political assassination - rather than based on truth, fact or expertise. It’s just a given that Libs lied? Is that Ok?
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Trying to orchestrate a new narrative because he knows that he's in the wrong a d ppl will turn on him for it, if only the #MSM did their damn job!
#USPolitics #Biden #IraqWar
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This is a new rationale for Biden, but its similar to his stance a year after the war began where it became clear there were no WMDs and he argued the war was justified on violating international order alone.
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Forget the Gaffes, What About Biden's Lies? WATCH AND SHARE youtube.com/watch?v=JvOjlf
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Joe Biden just said he would veto Medicare for All. His position isn’t to profess support in theory but plead political impossibility, which is bad enough. No, Joe Biden’s stance is that if the legislation were to succeed politically he would kill it with his bare hands
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If you're not furious with Elizabeth Warren for choosing not to endorse Bernie Sanders in this critical moment, stop talking about progressive coalition building. You clearly don't value it, you just want to cluck your tongue at the left for not groveling before various brokers
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My diabetic boyfriend was just informed his insulin copay is $1,300, so I'd advise Liz Warren people upset about snake emojis to get the fuck over it
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If the only response you can muster to criticisms is “please don’t talk about my candidate’s record, it hurts him,” maybe don’t nominate that candidate
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Meanwhile Biden is hiding from the press. Remember a few weeks ago when Biden was handing reporters leaflets of his talking points rather than risk speaking off the cuff?
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Bernie Sanders is blanketing the Sunday shows days before Michigan, Washington and other states’ primaries: His campaign announces he’ll be on ABC’s This Week, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox News Sunday and NBC’s Meet the Press tomorrow.
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Very interested to see if Warren endorses Bernie this weekend. She should, not because she owes anything to Bernie but because of what she owes to all the people whose lives would be altered by the reforms she and Bernie support and Biden opposes. Or else what was the point?
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When I said Trump was the favorite against Hillary, most people laughed. I could see he would weaponize her corruption and hit her from the left on issues where she was vulnerable. I was right. Now I say Biden will lose to Trump and it's not even controversial. Everybody knows.
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You really want to know how bad this guy is.
Not a skerrick of integrity.
"Morrison simply refused to take questions on the subject ... Those who tried were cut off, with the PM saying “I’m not talking about that”.
au.news.yahoo.com/scott-morrison
Is it really that high!?
Jeezus...
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This coronavirus business is probably a good time to remind you that 25% of the Australian work force has no right to paid sick leave.
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Finally something #Pelosi and I can agree on. Do I believe her? Not a fkn chance, but do I accept that she can see what way the wind is blowing? Yeah might as well.
Still support her primary challenger though. Hopefully it'll bring her left having to defend her seat #USPolitics
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NEW: Pelosi tells reporters that she is comfortable with Bernie Sanders as a potential nominee and doesn't think he would jeopardize the House majority.
"I think whoever our nominee is, we will enthusiastically embrace and we will win the White House, the Senate and the House."
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Yeah well #Warren is either a backstabbing snake with no principles along with a dislike for the DEMOCRATIC voting process or she's just become an idiot. She's sold out or she's lost her ability to reflect on her actions and think critically
#USPolitics #DemDebate2020
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Warren’s only strategy is to get a contested convention + win everyone else’s delegates + all the superdelegates.
Wanting the democratic nomination maybe she would know that the platform committee is an entirely different group that met 3yrs before the primary rules were set? twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/sta…
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#auspol Australians can you imagine if we'd put our mining boom to use properly setting up the future?
And I'm not talking a future fund, in talking a proper sovereign fund like Norway. Instead we "invested" in tax breaks that gave the economic elite even more of the pie...
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They lie about what they can.
They lie about what they want.
And they sprinkle in enough outings with the truth so they look mildly reasonable to the politically agnostic or ignorant.
#auspol #coronavirusaustralia #LNP
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I still don’t understand how @ScottMorrisonMP can accept the scientific advice on #Corvid19 & act with the appropriate measures for a global #pandemic.
And yet we have the slow creep of #climatechange and there’s no #ClimateEmergency?
This is ideology obscuring facts. twitter.com/SBSNews/status…
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Bernie didn't "write" these rules. He nominated people to a reform committee that suggested new non-binding changes the DNC should adopt (his nominees wanted NO superdelegates).
If you steal the nomination from us (not Bernie—US) you WILL lose to Trump. Period.
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With a “Hello Somebody” shoutout to @ninaturner, 1 @JasonPietramala asks Elizabeth Warren if she still will go against Bernie being the nominee if he has the most delegates, but not 1991 in Milwaukee?
It got testy, with Warren saying she would take it to the floor. #CNNTownHall
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That he would.
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#Auspol #QT
Seriously..
Frydenberg is hanging shit on other folks religions and beliefs quoting Ashrams, yoga and meditation, if someone started using mockingly terms from the Torah or spoke disparagingly about the jewish Mitzvah he would be screaming "Anti Semitism" Hypocrite
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Makes me glad everyday I live in a country that (mostly) gives a shit about healthcare unlike what almost dystopian LVL crap the USA has to deal with. If you're sick or injured you should be looked after
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my 82 year old grandfather just got sent home, alone, on a transport bus from the hospital, because despite the recommendations of 3 different doctors that he should be staying longer and that he needs acute care immediately, his insurance company is refusing to cover it.
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Jason Johnson, an anti-Bernie troll, is benched at MSNBC! He's been nothing but toxic, harassing Bernie's campaign staff on Twitter & outright lying & flame baiting on the air. Good riddance!
thedailybeast.com/msnbc-benches- #Bernie2020 #NotMeUs
Warren is lying, Bernie’s position was to totally eliminate superdelegates and he was forced to compromise & leave them on the second ballot. And also notice she never answered the ‘undemocratic’ question - bc she cant.
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Peter Dutton's false equivalence and equivocation around the very real threat of right-wing terror cannot hide his own shameful record or the shameful record of the Liberal and National parties.
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Bernie is a Democratic Socialist. Like many of our Allies In Europe.
His policies mirror the ambitions of MLK & FDR.
Anyone Democrat getting hysterical, calling him a “socialist” or a “communist” has had their brain coopted by the GOP and is embarrassing us on the world stage.
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Hey , the revolutionary politics of the 1960s brought us the civil rights movement! Check your history!
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Bernie Sanders just called Netanyahu a "reactionary racist."
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Again because it does not suit their BS agenda
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Why is everyone attacking Dr. Jill Biden for going to Cuba and praising Cuban teachers. People are so mean.
#Castro #JoeBiden #Bernie #CNNTownHall
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Last night's debate was a pure microcosm of the Dem Party:
* Led by inept TV stars with annual multi-million $ contracts, with an audience filled with rich donors & lobbyists because the price tag to enter excluded everyone else, creating an artificial pro-oligarch climate.💙
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I am so so so sorry for your loss and subsequent emotional hardships. It just breaks my heart to hear these stories. I'm so glad i was lucky enough 2b born into a country where healthcare was instituted universally. I thank PMs Gough Whitlam then Bob Hawke + Paul Keating for that
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I believe change is coming. I am ready to fight for other families, for #MedicareForAll, and to elect @BernieSanders president. Sending solidarity and love to all who are suffering under this awful system. 
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Got a Bloomberg mailer that says:
“Politics has no place in healthcare”
My message to Bloomy:
It’s political that profit is made by denying ppl care. It’s political that a wealthy few dictate our healthcare. We won’t take it anymore.
Xoxo
Your downfall 😘
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