Accepting that The Bug‘s twitterfeed is largely leftwing, are we in danger of poking fun at Anthony Albanese, fast becoming God’s gift to 21st Century Australian politics?
But then our judges thought: “Fuck it! Why not?” Albanese doesn’t appear to have gotten a big head yet nor is he showing signs of hubris as his prime ministership unfolds but when he says something really, really, silly, we’ll always be here to keep him down to earth.
Like, for example, when he either writes a tweet himself – or fails to check one written for him by one of his phalanx of media advisers and scribblers and general office brownnosers – that’s not only just plain silly but diminishes the message he’s trying to deliver – in this case, paying homage to the life of Barry Humphries.
Here’s the tweet (at top) shown again.
Really, Albo? For 89 years? Really?
You don’t have to have a university degree in the study of logic – just a little bit of commonsense suffices – to know that Barry Humphries did not come out of the womb entertaining us with his wit and his wisdom, both as a stage comic, author and actor.
He wasn’t born in Melbourne on February 17, 1934, already perfecting his acting and comedic crafts.
We couldn’t find an image of how Humphries looked in 1953 at the age of 19 when he first appeared on stage in Melbourne so we hope you didn’t mind when our inhouse artist created the other artwork (at top) by using an image of Humphries when he first started to develop the character of Edna Everage, Moonee Ponds then un-superstar housewife, to depict how Anthony Albanese quite possibly saw Humphries being born in 1934. Let’s just say thanks that it wasn’t Sir Les Patterson!
Actually, our artist spent quite some time doing that with CorelDraw 2.2 – we’ve never been able to afford Photoshop – so do you mind if we show it again?
No? Good.
There he is! Making us laugh the very moment he left the womb. What an absolute talent! No wonder he is so sadly missed! And it’s a miracle his mum didn’t die in childbirth.
So let’s repeat this one more time to let it sink in. Really, Albo? For 89 years? Really?
Regardless of who writes these things, Prime Minister, read over them before pressing the tweet button.
We can’t stop you being a typical Labor man – even a supposedly Left-leaning one – who becomes PM and then sucks up to the Yanks even more than the Tories do. We can’t stop you being elected declaring no-one will be left behind and then doing exactly that by doing fuck all about Jobseeker and other dismal support payments for a year, pretending the nation can’t afford it because it’s absolutely vital not to break that election promise over Stage 3 tax cuts the nation was never able to afford.
But we can help you be social media savvy and in the 21stC, that’s really important, okay?
Read twice. Click tweet once.
Editor’s note: Our tweet-of-the-week judges are so ashamed of themselves over the gentle digs they’ve had here at someone who, arguably, will be the finest peace and wartime prime minister Australia has ever had that they’ve asked 24 hours grace to complete their list of the best tweets of the past week. So, tomorrow, more on the current Opposition Leader – Peter Dutton – much more, AUKUS, The Voice, Sussssssan Ley, Michaelia Cash, those Stage 3 tax cuts, the usual media pisstakes and ABC Insider sledges and other stuff.
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