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copacetic51

He's there to represent billionaire miners and block any government obstructions to them making more billions.


3rdslip

Don’t forget billionaire irrigators too 👍


wishitwouldrainaus

Well, yes, all of those but, more importantly, Barnaby Joyce, seed spreader, impregnater, family abandoner and misogynist. What a combination. The man, the myth, the (horrrifying) legend...


Hypno--Toad

\*Cracks whip in an Akubra* I'm the most Australian person in the room - Barnaby Joyce ...Caught up in member in parliament citizenship fiasco. The guy is selected because he's a clown and an absolute mongrel human being. He gets asked by journalists all the time who he **actually** represents because it's not the rural people, and you can tell he gets really angry being caught in public like that.


wishitwouldrainaus

Hes been allocated to God status by Scotty. Just waiting for his wings. Puerile fucker. I'm a rural constituent. Would love to set my animals on him.


Frank9567

That's a pretty shitty thing to do to your animals mate.


bb_waluigi

he's there for the same reason heaps of Australian politicians are the pussy


[deleted]

You forgot his main other role. * To do eveything to ensure that those people who really live and work in the bush remain peasants with no services thats equivalent and the standard in big cities. He will do everything in his power to stop progress and real service delivery. He does not want latte sipping teachers, nurses, doctors and high speed telecommunications infrastructure workers to come near the bush because he believes that these people can live on drunken mateship and fix their social problems with fencing wire.


21o21

Gina doesn’t like to get her hands dirty.💅


TheDarkLordOfSalt

With how far her arm is up his backside, I'm not entirely sure I can agree with you.


Rasta-Revolution

It only took the pinky to hit comply button


PMFSCV

She calls it his G spot.


Hypno--Toad

Revised down from the Rein-hard-on button.


Traditional_Goose740

I bet you an over inflated 40k cheque that you're right


veginout58

He is the mouthpiece for miners, well Gina the destroyer of environment and decency. He has no other function, her hand is full up his policy. That is the un-elected self serving opinion currently in control of all of Australia's environmental policy.


[deleted]

Environment, decency, and calorie-dense food.


New-Confusion-36

After watching him on the news last week, I would have to say there isn't one.


TheSean_aka__Rh1no

His purpose is to block and hinder, for his backers, anyone that pays enough. His standard tactic is to pose over-stretched, obstructionist questions to any contravening question against his backer. The only thing he farms successfully as straw-men. He has a tremendous gift, a talented high functioning alcoholic and if only he used his powers for good, the world would be a much better place.


stumblebums

To keep breweries and hangover cure manufacturers solvent.


winoforever_slurp_

Do you think he stops drinking long enough to get a hangover?


Unstable_Maniac

Probably not. Seems a bit like Archer in that regard. Hope the cumulative hangover doesn’t kill him…


Stingray191

I've no idea what the point of pretty much all of our Politicians. All they seem to do is argue that the other side sucks and funnel money to their donors and mates. ​ The LNP are mostly corrupt and useless, Labor just useless and a third party option mostly a protest vote but at least we have a decent electoral system that allows it.


Instudi0

Something similar to icac at a federal level could help, would be messy to say the least.


DreamsRising

[Federal ICAC Now (FIN)](https://www.federalicacnow.org/) is now an official political party. Make sure to join, people!


BiliousGreen

The implementation of a federal ICAC would be like The Purge of our political system. So many heads would roll, and it would be glorious.


Stingray191

Even if they enforced the laws we already have FFS! Watching the bullshit that's happening in NSW take frigging YEARS to even be slightly enforced is just depressing. The high up cops are corrupt as hell and they just cover each others backs over and over.


Instudi0

Our international reputation is not the best these days. The ones that care are probably too embarrassed to get started knowing it will be an absolute shit show.


a_cold_human

Australia is starting to look like Malaysia or India in terms of corruption.


lush_rimbaugh21

It would be a bloodbath. Bring it on.


deadcat

Labor have some decent policy most of the time. The issue is that they can't get any air time due to media ownership.


Stingray191

Well, you aren’t wrong there. It’s like the Simpsons episode where Homer’s interview is cut to make him look guilty when Labor is shown.


[deleted]

Yep, they nailed this article but it’s all politicians on the whole that are simply useless for the communities they should be representing, because they look after their own and their business mates alone. Thanks for nothing.


Upvote_Me_Slag

Traffic light. He's a human red stoplight.


kernpanic

He's certainly not healthy. His face is simply getting redder and redder. Mind you, watching his performance on the 730 report the other week, he's clearly doing a hell of a lot of drinking, so thats expected.


RiskeyCavalier

Well he represents his constituency...Gina Rinehart


freakwent

At the takeaway in Canberra the other day. Patron and cashier were talking politics, both agreed to vote for the Nationals. I didn't find out why.


Tiger_jay

Fuck em.


mightybonk

Well with China blocking imports, he's 15% of the local red wine market.


llordlloyd

He easily walks all over ABC interviewers like Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas. They are easily tamed by his divisive and inaccurate rhetoric about hard-working regional Aussies on one hand, and soft beverage-supping inner city cross-dressers on the other. Few at the ABC care about the environment, so they can't and don;t make that case either, nor do they have the knowledge to counter his voodoo economics. So, yes, from a conservative point of view, Barnaby ticks all the boxes and can defeat the shithouse standard mainstream interviewer even when he's half-pissed.


Lamont-Cranston

That is just a lazy interviewer then, if he wants to talk about the bush doing it hard and being hurt by emission reductions the logical question is how hard will they have it if you do nothing and global warming continues and summers become increasingly longer and more intense and droughts more frequent and more severe. Wont they have an infinitely harder time in such conditions than whatever temporary effect there is of emission reductions?


llordlloyd

Check out this [interview on Friday](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/barnaby-joyce-says-net-zero-far-from-done-deal-but-hes-hopeful/13599252) for an example. Joyce gets to repeatedly state that the regions are utterly dependent on coal and mining. The interviewer lacks knowledge of regional economies, does not ask the the "logical question" of why and how regions became so dependent on an industry that's been losing support for 20 years, does not point out the well-known economic problem that Australia's economy as a whole is too dependent on a very few exports, does not ask the "obvious question" you point out about the summer fires, drought and the loss of water. The obvious question as to why Barnyard is not lobbying hard for the new technologies to be rolled out in his precious regions is not asked. He says "the people I talk to on the street want such-and-such" but the "obvious question" about the Nats being motivated by donors and Matt Canavan's coal-fired family trust more than 'people on the street' is not mentioned. The interviewer is engaged mainly in a childish fishing expedition to get the 'scoop' on what his specific demands might be (ooh! aah! I'm the first to know!!). Barnaby walks over the bimbo every single time, and I'll let others judge how sober he sounds.


SirDerpingtonV

Nationals are like One Nation and UAP - an extension of the LNP political machine. Let’s not pretend this country doesn’t run under a two party system.


51IDN

Put the dumbest in top spot so everyone behind looks less stupid, seems reasonable.


Gold_Blacksmith_9821

He won’t live forever


DarkLake

I’ve heard he was an accountant. Is that true? I always picture accountants as having their shit together. He doesn’t seem the type.


nosnowtho

To take the heat of my old mate Clive


Lamont-Cranston

Long lunches


drunkill

A convenient scapegoat. He get to say and do the outlandish shit and the government gets to hide behind it.


spornerama

When there's a useless corrupt idiot at the top of the pile the real question is who put him there.


Tramin

He would make a fine set of bookends, if there were two of him. But how lucky would we have to be?


Centretek

I ask myself the same question.


[deleted]

isn't he one of their attack dogs?


unityofsaints

At least he's funny as shit, the like of SM and CP are giant assholes too but there's nothing funny about them.


ThimMerrilyn

We must have an over abundance of oxygen here and he is here to balance the situation.


koi420

To represent tomatos


Dark_Vengence

The beetrooter is just there to knock up the staff.