Kos Samaras: Australian Labor obstacle to positive change; vows to make things worse

After three years of the Albanese Labor government committing to not fixing anything... wait, sorry, that's wrong.

After three years of the Albanese Labor government cutting NDIS plans, kicking autistic kids to the states for so-called Foundational Supports under threat of not providing public hospital funding, after cutting said funding because COVID-19 is allegedly over, and doing literally nothing to improve cost of living for those of us on the margins, refusing to make housing actually affordable for the HAFF policy that maintains the current order of private landlords and their native class antagonism to renters, approving a multi-decade extension of Woodside's North West Shelf project's operating life and refusing to consider the carbon output, ensuring runaway climate change, and standing by while Israel commits the genocide of Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, currently, apparently attacking Palestinians at aid points. Australia has now meekly come out in support of Trump's unilateral, probably illegal, strike on Iran, days after Israel attacked Iran after hacks compromised Israeli systems, and counterattacked in kind, citing Iran's potential nuclear weapon capability.

I cannot begin to describe the disappointment, shame and anger I feel towards Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and the rest of the Labor establishment. Not just for the above listed failures, but especially for them.

While Albanese and Wong have been incredibly cagey since the attacks on a concert held concerningly close to the Gaza open air concentration camp on October 7th, and perhaps that's good strategy, small target, can't give roving Zionist gangs ammunition to help them think they can make artists and activists lose their jobs and standing through organised gangstalking WhatsApp chats, almost as if there's a violent element to an explicitly political settler-colonial project built on ethnic cleansing. Nor can they empower the "antisemitic" genocide-opposers, lest another criminal gang hide behind it to distract the cops.

Regardless, for what Wong and Albanese won't say, they have an endless supply of sycophants who will just blurt out the whole strategy, publicly shitting themselves against the radical left (who want people to live, happy, healthy and safely) and the far right (who want eugenics, their own brand of social cleansing), two very good foes to pick fights with. Clearly, they are only laughing at you because you're right.

This dipshit, this utter fool, is using Labor's win against the Dutton-led Coalition opposition, to justify after the fact, Labor falling into line behind Trump's attack on Iran.

I shouldn't need to tell this overpaid dickhead that Labor didn't go into the election promising to endorse this latest attack on the so-called "International Rules Based Order", but I'm sure if it had, Labor would have collected even less votes than they managed to gain lying about preferences accidentally or incidentally going to Dutton - as if voters don't make that decision themselves, and absolutely should work those preferences to the bone before they get to Liberal or Labor, precisely because of Labor's ongoing failures.

If anything, Dutton borrowing elements from Trump's administration with DOGE, the embarrassment of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price appearing in and around the hat slogan "MAGA", was just a threat against so-called Australian values that made him and his coalition completely unelectable, to betray that by immediately holding onto the pant legs of the United States regime as it once again rolls out the pre-emptive strike nonsense that only led us into what I inaffectionately dub the War of Terror. The 20-year, innately islamophobic wars that have both increased displays of unnecessary security theatre, and made regular people, but most often racial and gender minorities, subject to invasive and dehumanising searches, and multiple concentration camp regimes, notably Guantanamo Bay, innumerable CIA black sites, and for our lot, Christmas Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru (content warning: mentions of child sexual abuse).

As Kos states:

But some, keep shouting into the void. Because if there's one thing May 3rd taught us, it's that performative outrage, whether draped in a keffiyeh or clutching a Stars and Stripes[sic], doesn't win elections in this country. It alienates the very centre-ground that actually decides them.

This is actually a weird thing to say, when Toto-like, Australia toddles behind Trump, seeking appeasement, protection from his insane tariff agenda, and takes its foreign policy cues from him. Meanwhile, ignoring the pleas from both people in poverty and the explicitly referenced Palestinians, grub, you are not even centrist in your own words.

There is only one word fitting for you and it is Collaborator.

Get fucked.