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False altar of ‘globalism’

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Since moving to Australia in 2007 I have watched nothing but its sacrifice on the false altar of ‘globalism’. Our politicians (regardless of party), are for the most part whores; whores for Israel, for the banks, for the UN, for the WHO, for the WEF; whores for climbing the global power structure and local needs be damned; whores for the oligarchs and elites that arrange their puppets for us to choose from.

Now appearing on stage for the latest instalment of the Punch and Judy Show it’s the Christ-hating, cultural wrecking-ball and Trojan Horse for International Marxism – Mandy Nolan; running for the so-called ‘Greens’ in the border riding of Richmond, which has no doubt had a gutful these last two years of fear and loathing in Plandemic live.

Mandy’s qualification for office is having spent the last five years in her bra and panties telling raunchy jokes, demonstrating a healthy disrespect for the electorate and the culture in which she was raised that apparently she would like to destroy.

Ms Nolan wields simplistic, idealistic and inflammatory rhetoric wrapped in the typical self-righteous narcissism of a vexatious belligerent; asinine ideas forged in the fire of the latest social justice hissy fit, where depravity is sold as wisdom along with all the usual fear, guilt and shame-inducing tropes and ploys of elitist global politics.

Mandy Nolan professes to take inspiration from licentious, provocative artists whose overbearing cultural influence has no doubt assisted to debase politics, rendering parliament a thuggish brothel.

This is the quality, integrity, skill, experience and calibre that will make a difference? This is leadership material for a country falling apart at the seams?

Edward Kent, Suffolk Park



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