Maxim Hooper

@RussConnor3 He's correct

So this old curmudgeon says that anyone who complains about Labor's new taxes is motivated by "naked greed". Not bad coming from a bloke who's been on the public gravy train since 1969. Currently on a lifetime indexed pension in excess of $400,000 p.a Sickening hypocrisy.

@DrewPavlou Drew campaigning against the repeal of CGT concessions on residential housing. Now I have seen everything

New Labor Party tax changes are absolutely brutal for anybody who aspires to be productive. If you start a successful business and sell it for $20 million, you pay 47% in tax - $9.4 million. But if you win $20 million in the lottery, it’s tax free. So the message is: Don’t build. Gamble instead. How does this work? Can somebody explain how we are supposed to make Australia a productive, first world society when we directly punish investment and productivity while encouraging people to incinerate their money in pokies and gambling? The entire budget is bullshit. It’s supposedly all about “generational equity” and helping young people, yet they’re only eliminating negative gearing for young people. If you already have ten negatively geared investment properties, you’re sweet because the changes are being grandfathered in. So how does that help me as a young person? You ask me to pay more tax while preserving tax concessions for older generations. You say that if I start a new business and work hard at it for years building something productive for society, half must go to the government in tax to be shoveled into the furnace of NDIS fraud. The budget is all about penalising productive people. Australia is on track to be a full command economy by 2040.

@DrewPavlou @parscale Grifting on the grifters. Nice move sir

Dear @parscale can James Flynn please be removed from our Nucleus hosted NDIS campaign. We need to determine how much money he raised through the website so that we can determine what was looted

@lyndall19414 @DrewPavlou False. National party ideas. Flawed route from day one

@DrewPavlou The billions spent and wasted on this LABOR IDEA What ever happened to Lismore THE TOWN IN THE WAY that was flooded and we were NOT ALLOWED TO HELP.

Australia can’t even build a basic freight railway for 45 billion dollars

@DrewPavlou It would be less than a third of that if they chose the right route corridor

@DrewPavlou Impeachment of this deranged dementia patient and removal from office under the 25th amendment to the constitution can't come fast enough

''American patriots today can sing 'My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,' only because our colonial ancestors first sang 'God save the King.''' Absolutely beautiful speech

@knightosaur @AdamShurey @DrewPavlou Umm I believed he called them "evil" and "enemies of the people". Not too friendly rhetoric.

@AdamShurey @DrewPavlou Trump never called for people to be murdered - Hasan has. Also: Whataboutism

And I guess there’s a chance that his rhetoric encouraged the shooter too.

@7NewsAustralia Good stuff

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is departing for Brunei this morning on a crucial mission to secure additional fuel supplies for Australia. The trip marks the beginning of a second consecutive week of international travel, following a fuel security mission to Singapore. After meetings in Brunei, Mr Albanese will fly to Malaysia where he aims to shore up energy supplies, fertiliser and other critical goods essential to Australia’s economy. #albo #anthonyalbanese #fuel #brunei #malaysia

@DavidCrisafulli Urine samples?

From unlocking fuel security to delivering a fresh start for the best State in our country - thanks for the chat The Karl Stefanovic Show!

@captainrobbo66 @DrewPavlou More like trashed it

@DrewPavlou Wot, like JD Vance flying in to rescue Orban's campaign?

It would actually be good if the US condemned the stupid anti-democratic policies of our own government

@disco___cat @eachwayjase @DrewPavlou Bored of peace you mean?

@eachwayjase @DrewPavlou look at his "Board of Peace" and there's your answer, not to mention his government's explicit aim of undermining the EU and promoting far right authoritarian parties across Europe.

Psychotic take

@DrewPavlou *Western liberal democracy" at this point consists of bullying, empty threats and writing cheques you can't cash

@AlboMP What is the point of you?

Saving you money when you buy the petrol you need.

@DrewPavlou Initially supported by the US against Egyptian government

Ban the Muslim Brotherhood.

@DrewPavlou The Australians want to rev the economy like a Bugatti V12 spending billions of dollars on Olympics stadiums, but it's built off the back of a second hand whipper snipper

Australia is on track to run out of diesel, petrol and jet fuel in 30 days. If things don't change soon the Australian government will be forced to implement a national emergency lockdown within weeks. In practice this would look like: - Priority allocation to emergency services, defence, hospitals, police - Bans on recreational driving and non-essential vehicle use - Suspension of domestic flights except essential routes - Mining and construction effectively halted - Agricultural machinery grounded at a critical time of year for harvests The Australian government will blame Trump. The truth is that the Labor Party and the Liberal Party are the ones most at fault. For the past ten years there have been voices in the Australian political wilderness warning that Australia was crazy for keeping just three weeks of fuel reserves while shutting down almost the entirety of our domestic refinery capacity. This would never happen in China. I hate the CCP but I believe in studying and learning from your enemies. I believe in the Dengist maxim of ultimate pragmatism - ''it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice.'' So look at what our enemies do. The Chinese have a ruthlessly pragmatic approach to energy security, treating energy as a sovereign capability rather than a market commodity. They keep reserves totalling 1.3 BILLION barrels - enough for up to 6 months depending on rationing. They have strategic foresight. They don't give a fuck about environmentalist protests - they will never voluntarily deindustrialise to meet the whims of progressives. They produce 4 million barrels of oil a day. They build massive refineries across their country and keep them open. They also made EVs a national priority - not for stupid woke reasons, but so as to try limit their dependence on foreign imports. Just contrast their approach to energy security to Australia's suicidal approach. We used to have eight oil refineries. Four closed under the Liberals and two under Labor. The last two of these closures took place in 2021 under Scott Morrison's Liberal government. 25 years ago we were almost completely self sufficient in fuel. We consumed 850,000 barrels of oil a day in 2000 and produced 820,000 barrels domestically. 95% self sufficient. Net oil imports in 2000 were just 12,000 barrels per day, essentially a rounding error. Now we consume 1,145,000 barrels of oil a day while producing just 200,000 barrels. We need to import about 900,000 barrels a day for our economy and society to function. What happened? Our mature oil fields ran out while endless environmental approvals and protests from activist groups hampered new production. The far-left Extinction Rebellion campaigns against new shale development and oil and gas production in Australia now stand exposed as essentially campaigns of terrorism against the national interest. But our political class gave these lunatics a crucial assist by strangling new development to meet their whims. A significant section of the Australian public demanded this, maybe about 30-40% of the left-leaning voting population - and they held the nation hostage. So their willingness to indulge infantile leftist whims is a big part of it. But the most fundamental problem I think is that our political class - like most post-Cold War political elites across the Western world - were simply sleep walking through the end of history. They believed the ''international rules based order'' - ironically a phrase LITERALLY coined by Kevin Rudd while Prime Minister - would hold forever. This is because they failed to understand the real source of political power. As Chairman Mao said, power comes from the barrel of a gun. Real life is not like a university debating society or an Aaron Sorkin West Wing TV script. You cannot simply win the day with the perfect argument, the perfect comeback. The only thing that our ideological enemies understand is force and sovereign capacity. Western political elites fundamentally failed to construct a theory of mind for their opponents. They believed that the entire world shared the same liberal psychology of educated upper middle class Western elites. They failed to understand that some of our opponents have radically different world views. The Iranian regime for example is run by men who truly believe that they will help bring on a religious apocalypse to hasten the return of the Hidden Imam the twelfth and final Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, believed to have entered a state of occultation (concealment) to protect his life from Abbasid persecution. This is literally what these men believe. It may seem strange and quaint to upper middle class liberals in the West but other human beings from radically different societies and cultural backgrounds believe different things to them. And given the fact that these political enemies are religious extremists, we cannot convince them with clever arguments and appeals to international law. Do the Iranians care for international law when they hit random civilian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? No, of course not. They don't care. So blame Trump all you like. Khamenei deserved to die, the mullahs are apocalyptic madmen trying to murder suicide the world economy. The Iranian regime is clearly already willing to murder-suicide the entire world economy for its objectives. It is better that they do it now when they are weak and on their knees rather than later when they have nuclear weapons and ICBMs that can reach London and Paris. Take them down now when they are weak or get North Korea on the Strait of Hormuz. Trump I believe understands this, other Western political leaders in their fantasy sleepwalk fail to understand. Build sovereign capacity, project strength. That is the only option. Australia should always be a close brother nation ally to the United States. I will always believe in Western civilizational unity. But we must adopt a defensive Gaullist posture in terms of sovereign capacity and capability. Otherwise we are a useless ally anyway. What use is an ally with 20 days fuel reserves? My solution's for Australia. Politically we must restart domestic oil production, open up shale production, rebuild refineries, build 50 nuclear power plants like France's Messmer Plan. Build nuclear weapons. Culturally we must wake up from our post-Cold War slumber and re-enter history as a sovereign actor.

@TDlisle @DrewPavlou "Chris Bowen said" is the most rediculous way to start a sentence ever, especially if you actually believe it

@DrewPavlou Projection assumes no fuel delivered after March 27. Currently there are no disruptions to fuel deliveries. Bowen said 6 tankers were impacted at the end of April but that these had been made up with other arrangements. This is post is hysteria.

@DrewPavlou Finally you've said something that isn't retarded and cringe

@DrewPavlou If you look at a still of the digital display monitor of the cash register you will see the date this video was filmed as February 2024

Wow Nentanyahu looks dead to me

@AlboMP A kebab and a stab. How delightful

Muslim Australians have contributed so much to our nation over generations. Tonight, it was an honour to celebrate with the community at the Ramadan Night Markets in Lakemba. Ramadan Mubarak!

@DrewPavlou She's right. Be loyal to yourself. Don't be a sacrificial goy

Candace is literally a traitor