.. and yet all he got was a punch in the face!

For the first time in The Bug‘s tweets-of-the-week history, our judges refused to single out just one response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s laughable lie that in a walk, he was approached by “average punters” complaining about Labor’s superannuation changes.

Yes, we know. We’ll pause for a moment to let you calm down and regain your bearings and composure. Especially if you’re aware of today’s Newspoll that shows voters back Labor’s changes 64 per cent to 29.

Yes, it’s amazing, isn’t it? The large bulk of the mainstream mediocre wet their collective pants over their hope that Labor’s move would prove very costly politically and would have cheered Dutton’s comments. Yet it took the Twitterverse – from its own sewer rats, average punters above ground, to better known political commentators and image shapers, to see Dutton’s comments as the total bullshit they were, and not only because he was a Liberal leader opening his mouth.

Okay, have we allowed you enough time to stop chuckling? Good. Let’s start with David Vote YES! and a nice little meme.

Bethany Williams’ response gives us a chance to see The Spud with Dead Eyes’s original tweet about what average punters were telling him.

One of our all-time Twitter favs, the incomparable Ronni Salt, had her own firm view of what your real average punter with fuck-all super might have done to Dutton should they have encountered him in the street.

Thanks, Ronni, also for introducing the concept of Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards. Bewdiful.

MFW also spotted the lie and the ministerial britches on fire from far, far, away ….

Highly respected image maker Dee Madigan weighed in on who Dutton thinks his average punters would be…

Eric of Berwick roped in Insiders and the Robodebt Royal Commission to give Dutton this fine spray…

And let’s go back to a meme from Tom Red to finish this topic…

TOMORROW: In part 2, we honour tweets that, like Eric of Berwick’s above, linked the MSM’s confected, faux, outrage over Labor’s super changes that hit 0.5 per cent of the population to the startling evidence coming out of the Robodebt RC. And our usual dig at the Liar from the Shire, too!