Whoever said The Bug‘s tweet-of-the-week judges don’t appreciate short, sharp tweets with a scatologically based squirt of creative writing?

No-one ever, of course, so here’s this week’s winner, Ross Clelland (above and below).

Bewdiful!

Perhaps he was inspired by Michael J Wyllie who was also riffing rhymingly if not onomatopoeically, so to speak!

Enough of that silliness. Now a warning. Many of this week’s tweets we’ve selected cover the very depressing sessions over last week of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt scheme. A conga-line of servile, suck-hard, senior public servants and a couple of the Turnbull/Morrison government’s worst ministers shattered our faith in the senior levels of the Australian public service and removed any last skerrick of doubt that the nine years of LNP government up to May last year were the shittiest, most incompetent, least caring, murderous mob of moronic ministers in this nation’s history.

So much so that before we start, here’s a totally unrelated meme harvested over the past week to soften the blow. Thank you Annette Schneider For Climate Action.

Now for Robodebt: aka the hearing where gutless, lazy morons have enormous trouble recalling even their own names as they throw as many other suckers under a bus as possible.

Devil’s Candidate and Lobes looked at the media’s treatment of the story.

Grant Malcolm got a chuckle – we all did, Grant! – over the very notion that the SMH could be seen as left-wing! Correction: we accept the SMH was probably not quite as right-wing back then.

Shortinterlude2 reflected on the evidence (if that was the word for it) of Christian Porter.

Mike Carlton and Meredith Baxter exchanged views on the cringeworthy appearance by that Price Waterhouse Cooper chappie who somehow managed to make the evidence of the ex-ministers Tudge and Porter sound almost reasonable.

It’s all very depressing, isn’t it? Another meme to lighten the blow. Thanks Tom Red.

Back on the #robodebtRC, and as mentioned above, Sunday’s season return of ABC Insiders copped a lot of flak for totalling ignoring the story of the week. Here are James Meldrum, Andrew Lissiman and our overall winner for the week, Ross Clelland, deserving of a second bite at the cherry, having their sprays…

Shit, we need another meme! Thanks again to Tom Red!

Speaking of the kiddy-fiddler protector who is hopefully now burning in a hell he probably didn’t really believe in, Fiona Thatcher got a tummy ache and Humble Barman reflected on that $5 bank note supposed brouhaha.

Okay, brace yourself for the last lot of Robodebt tweets. The Bug‘s twitterfeed obviously did not take kindly to government ministers and their public service toadies who callously cast aside the lives of innocent, vulnerable, Australians in their pursuit of a vote or their master’s approval.

Take it away Bye Bi & GLTQIA Smoko and Jeff Lormans!

And if we are all still scratching our heads over how Insiders managed to ignore the political story of the week – of possibly the last half-year – Ann Meharg just about lost hers.

Excellent ones to finish off our Robodebt coverage, you three!

Solo Monk and Steve Baty both had excellent observations on the current Leader of the Opposition, The Spud with Dead Eyes.

Finally, in what would easily have been the tweet of the week winner in most other political week cycles, we salute Andrew Gardiner. Your words, Andrew, were so, so, needed. Not satire. I repeat: not satire.

STOP PRESS: The Bug’s tweet-of-the-week judges have just reconvened outside an early opener and have declared Ross Clelland and Andrew joint winners!

Everyone else out there in BUGland wondering how Bridget McKenzie managed to pen that without blushing so mightily that she was immediately rendered unconscious by the complete lack of blood and therefore oxygen to other more-vital parts of her body?