Australia, its that time again

Attention: Australia.

In 2007 you elected a Labor government lead by Kevin Rudd.

Approaching the 2010 election, with Labor polling poorly, you replaced Rudd with the more moderate Julia Gillard. Gillard then won the 2010 election, albeit very narrowly.

Prior to the 2013 election you noticed Gillard was polling poorly and replaced her with Kevin Rudd again.

He went on to lose to Tony Abbott.

Approaching the 2016 election, with the Coalition polling poorly, you replaced Abbott with the more moderate Malcolm Turnbull. Turnbull then won the 2016 election, albeit very narrowly.

Prior to the 2019 election you noticed Turnbull was polling poorly.

ATTENTION AUSTRALIA

It is time to replace him with Abbott so the coalition can lose to Labor and we can repeat this process with Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese.

3 posts I've made in the past about the US and its "gun" problem

The US has a violence problem.














The US has more non-gun deaths than these countries have gun + non gun deaths.

The US has a violence problem. People think it's okay, or cool, to be violent towards one another for various reasons, many cultural. Getting rid of every gun in the country still means the US has a crazy high rate of murder and violence.

If you want to solve the problem of gun violence, you need to solve the problem of violence. Convince americans that violence is not okay, and you'll see the number of gun deaths drop along with the number of non-gun deaths.













Part 1: http://thenewteddy.blogspot.ca/2016/06/us-and-gun-violence.html

Here are two videos I just watched by Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1VZGUJ8GtY&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhLoBheK-7Y&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert

You don't need to watch them. In the second video there is a part where a famous basketball player says that if someone steps over you, you have an obligation to assault them. Watch if you want the full context, but it matters little.




I remind you of this graphic





If you take away guns from every American, you'll likely cut the total number of homicides in half. And the remaining half will still be far far more than Canada, the next country on the list.




The poorly thought out comment in the second video is a perfect example of this culture. So that it's very clear what I'm saying, I will scream it.

It is not okay to commit violence on another person. If you think it is okay, you are the problem, and removing you will do more for reducing gun violence than removing a gun will.

The US has a violence problem.

http://thenewteddy.blogspot.ca/2016/06/us-and-gun-violence.html
http://thenewteddy.blogspot.ca/2016/06/us-and-gun-violence-2.html

When you compare the USA to these other countries, it becomes obvious.

The US has a violence problem.
If you take away their guns, you'll do two thing. First you'll reduce the rate of violence a bit, secondly, you'll increase the amount of knife and car violence.

If you take away their knives and cars you'll increase the rate of hammer violence
And then of axe violence
And then of frying pan violence

If you strip everyone in the world naked, and took away all their things, the amount of fist and foot violence in the US would be off the scale compared to fist and foot violence around the world.

The US has a violence problem.

"How'm I doin?"

(Mayor Ed Koch) rode the New York City Subway and stood at street corners greeting passersby with the slogan "How'm I doin'?"

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Koch

If I ask you this it means I want you to tell me how good I am doing at my job.