Liberal lunacy gif5/1/2023 ![]() In 2015, he appeared on Channel 7's The Morning Show to spruik his book Latham at Large, and explained the reasoning behind the infamous shake. The handshake remains a convenient watermark of Latham's paranoiac gunked-up mind. It conjures the same distant nostalgia as memories of John Howard solemnly condemning turkey slapping on Big Brother. It's a fantastic callback to the age of Tampa, Rove's What The?!, and Wilson "Iron Bar" Tuckey. It's a GIFable banner ad of AusPol's unending farcicality-of our nation's elevation of unlikeable blowhards. The Latham handshake is so much more now than it was then. ![]() "He was bigger than I am and he wanted to create the impression that he was dominating me. "When I saw him coming out of that studio I thought 'He's going to do the handshake thing again,'" Howard later said in an interview with Sunday Night. Howard himself said he saw it coming, that Latham had done something similar to him off camera a few weeks earlier. But actually it occurred on election eve, pre-social media virality, and was greeted by a press that already hated Latham with unsurprised shrugs. I've always looked back on it as the moment Latham revealed his psychosis, and spooked the herd back to Howard. It's easy to think that the Latham handshake had a similar effect on the Australian electorate, but in reality it was just another nail in a coffin already covered in dirt. I vote Labor in state, I vote Liberal in federal." The only payback I can take is not to vote for Labor. Mustafa told the press, "I don't bear him any grudge… He looks a family man, a sport man, and he may produce a good government. Latham spear-tackled Mustafa and broke his arm. Mustapha asked an irate Latham to leave the taxi, Latham refused to pay, and as he made off down the road was chased by Mustapha, who grabbed Latham's "satchel" and demanded payment. The story went that Latham, returning from Gough Whitlam's 85th birthday shindig, blacked out in the back of a taxi, woke up, and accused driver Bachir Mustapha of taking the long way home. A story emerged of an incident in 2003 where Latham assaulted a taxi driver. Sure, he had a reputation as a short tempered hothead, but how bad could it be?Īs the campaign unfolded, it became clear that Latham's bile had long ago backed up, and was spilling over. He simply had to run and let them project their worries onto his massive forehead. On the campaign trail, Latham didn't have to be much more than an avatar for the stress and anxieties of working families. The Howard Government had driven working families to their knees, had embroiled the nation in costly foreign conflicts, and carried themselves with an arrogant indifference so palpable it could've had a Lynx deodorant named after it ("Lynx: Overboard"). In 2004, Latham was tapping into a fury that was very real. He's the wild colonial boy of the outer suburbs, propped up by nothing more than grit, hard work, and a substantial parliamentary pension.īack then, it was almost impossible to detect how unbalanced Latham would one day become. Latham now, as he did then, sells himself on artifice. ***Help Us Take Down The Liberal Media With Our FREE News App!*** The company said its mission encourages “all children and families with messages of hope, inspiration, inclusion, and friendship.The majesty and mystery of Mark Latham is in his aura of "blokeness." In the heady balance of inauthentic japery and authentic loutishness. Seuss Enterprises’s catalog represents and supports all communities and families.” “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. ![]() Seuss “racist,” which led to the company announcing that they would stop selling six of the revered children’s author and illustrator’s books for racist and offensive imagery, according to Insider. This comes as liberals have been raging over calling Dr. However, it’s difficult to definitively disprove the claim because the term’s entry into the English language is downright murky.” Even left-wing Snopes, a fact-checking website, says “No valid reason exists to suppose that ‘jimmies’ carries a racist meaning or had a racially-charged origin.
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