Many of you are most likely aware that yesterday a bill was introduced in Parliament to
increase the Medicare Levy to help fund 'DisabilityCare',
still more commonly referred to online as #NDIS. What many
of you may not know as our esteemed media (sarcasm dripping) did
not bother to report that the opposition was basically a 'No
Show'. It was the most disgusting display of disrespect to
a segment of our community that has been working for years to get
this support. It was a historic moment in our history, yet,
the Coalition preferred to play politics than give the disabled
the respect they deserved, thereby turning it into one of lowest
& most shameful sittings of Federal Parliament in our
history.
To compound the disrespect, our media did not even bother
to report it.
Many of us were appalled, frustrated and beyond saddened at this
stunning display of indifference by a party that is supposedly
going to be leading this nation in a few months time as the media
keep telling us. Mr Richard Chirgwin spoke for many in the
following epic rant. Note some ripe language has
been used, underlining the sheer anger and contempt experienced
from a man who is usually such a gentleman. Many of us
understood and watched his feed in awe. The epic rant has
been embedded below for those who missed it:
The LNP's absence in Parliament in the chamber for the NDIS legislation … atrocious. Nutlessness as a service.— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
So, Abbott tells the whip "nobody attend". Whip tells nutless sheep "nobody attend". What a grovelling bunch of coprophages they are.— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
A minimal gesture of respect to the disabled would have put at least Abbott in the chamber for the NDIS first reading. (Yes I'm ranting)— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
(Mute me if you like. Fight me if you dare) Abbott's absence is the mark of the petty, vindictive, vicious, gratuitously nasty ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
… proud-to-hate, revelling in despising those who don't fit his fresh-from-knuckle-dragging American philosophy … a shrivelled, heartless...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…horror of a pond-scum, a dweller in the arse of life, a devourer of misery, the kith and kin, pith and epitome of the worst of Rand.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Had Tony Abbott the faint shreds of decency you could attribute to a hyena, he'd have been present in the chamber. But ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
… This scummy vote-grubber, this little poseur of stunts, this infamous little ponce for whom "conscience" hangs in the wardrobe ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
… holding second place to his "imitation suit of the Lizard People" can't manage to actually warm the SEAT HE WAS ELECTED TO ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
… to honour a move that is in favour of one of the most suffering groups of society. This man sucks shit lozenges and smiles.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
As for the rest of the LNP members. Having been lettuce-whipped into panting submission by your great leader, not one - NOT ONE of you...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…unthinking, degenerate, cynical display of we-don't-care shameless INSULT, not to the PM, but to the disabled.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
In a world in which shame meant something, the entire opposition benches would now be wearing sackcloth and apologising. Instead...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…their lowbrow opinions are still given the weasel of media "equal time" while their sins are glossed.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
(give me a minute. The crescendo approaches but it's as elusive as a trout on a cloudy day)
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
My own disability, industrial deafness, is old and self-inflicted. My wife's, I carry with love and work. But to every LNP member absent...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…today, I cannot feel anything but utter contempt. You couldn't even defy a Party Whip, whose worst punishment won't affect your seat odds?
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…You wouldn't have been dis-endorsed for showing up today, you bunch of spineless grubs? Couldn't say it was worth it?
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Who stole that shred of humanity that joins you to the rest of us? What argument put your party affiliation...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…ahead of that pale imitation of life you would have had by merely sticking your worn-out arses on a leather seat for a few minutes?
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
How could anyone with warm blood, a beating heart, a last vestige of love, and more brains than my CAT have accepted an instruction...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…not to be present at the NDIS first reading, is worth more than a hundred dyspeptic political columnists pimping their favourite leader.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
For your information, Lizard-man Abbott, the last time I claimed a non-Medicare government benefit was 1979. I think of this not for me …
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…but because if I had to choose between a coal miner and an invalid for my tax dollars, I choose love over pollution, you prick.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
And I, as a small businessperson in two hats, am supposed to be your natural constituency. I'd rather eat chocolate-covered cockroach.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
The NDIS chamber photo was not just a parliamentary money-shot. It was an exemplar of small minds performing small acts...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…and these small minds will perform their small acts, but on a large scale, based on discredited economics and the last twitches...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…of economics-based-on-religion. There can't be anything worse in life than Calvanist ideas administered by a Jesuit, can there?
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
I will note here that Richard had a number of people attempt to
shut him down, I will only include the one so that you get the
'idea' as to how this epic rant went down :)
.@gregjessop1 I will not shut up, Mute me if you wish. NDIS is important and right, and I have found a cause worthy of my blade.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
My father died in a nursing home, both brain and continence long gone. My wife and I nursed my mother through 16 years of ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…incapacity in our home, on our own dollar, in the front room of our home. Ms T's condition wouldn't count for NDIS anyhow...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…It will just kill her when the time comes and I DON'T CARE. NDIS is right, good, humane, ennobling, the stuff we're made of...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
If we can't grease the wheels of a wheelchair, we all need to live in bark-and-stick hovels and eat insects. If you resent NDIS ...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
… Go and live in your American paradise, except America taxes more than Oz, so you'll have to find your McDonalds in Somalia.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Honestly, the day I couldn't find a couple of bucks for the kid I used to play with in a wheelchair in 1968, I'll hoe beans and eat soap.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Unless I think of new aphorisms, insults for the shrivelled guts of the LNP, or different angels for the shameful LNP shit, that's >exit<
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
.@gregjessop1 Just in case you didn't understand: shit or get off the seat. There isn't one THING you can say on Twitter to shut me up.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Oh yeah, a last thought. The LNP no-shows. The entire party, pretty much, didn't even have the balls to stand AGAINST the reading.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
Their no-show was an "abstain". Didn't even have the balls to stand behind their two-bit imitation Ayn Rand principles. Just didn't show.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
BTW, brain donors. Twitter isn't journalsm. I don't have to give equal time to different sides. Did someone suck your brains out straw-wise?
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
In the 1980s my father died without NDIS. For 16 years we cared for my mother in my home without NDIS. I won't benefit from NDIS...
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
…But I'd happily support it and give the finger of scorn to the dead shits that want to import American politics to Australia.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
@stevej_cbr I'll embrace balance with both of my last surviving brain cells when I die. Facts aren't balanced.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
I notice that given a decent challenge, my troll on NDIS has decided to shut the fuck up. The LNP trolls always have loose sphincters.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
@z3n_digital Rupe can bite my shiny metal arse. I would eat shit on chocolate before I pretended journalism for a News Limited publication.
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
@psycho_chook thanks! I'm certain that I thought of something to say that got lost in the thread, mayhap I'll remember tomorrow!
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
And that folks is how you do a twitter rant :)And I got distracted, and gave Son #2 a one-hour tutorial in how to create one's "secondary personality" for public speaking! Goodnight all!
— R_Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) May 15, 2013
There is speculation as to who was actually present in the
Chamber, to be fair the ALP did not exactly drape themselves in
glory, though with a Budget just announced, there may be legit
reasons for lack of numbers, though nothing can compare to the
pathetic display from the Opposition.
The best confirmation of attendance we can ascertain is below:
Gentlemen (as seen at 9:16am)@johnmcternan @pmonair Lib 2 K Andrews P Ruddock; Nat 1 M McCormack; ALP 39
— andrew meares (@mearesy) May 15, 2013
If you have further names or I am missing any of the above, please just let me know :)
Cheers
Noely (@YaThinkN)
7.00 am 16 May 2013 “Opposition blocks bid to be with sick
baby” The lack of empathy or care from the Coalition
continues this morning. Politics is definitely more
important than ‘people’ and how anyone can condone this behaviour
is beyond me.
