Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Meet Australia's President of the United States, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the instigator of a wink-related scandal. He sometimes puts his foot in his mouth and other times chooses to say nothing at all.
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"You're not saying anything, Tony." Can't stop laughing.
The reporter broke him
Tony.exe has crashed
lmfaooo
the entire time I thought I was watching an outtake of The Office...
Emily S hahaha
As an Australian I laughed my fucken arse off at this.
MrHeyfuckoff Same!
MrHeyfuckoff You should be crying.
toyotaprius79 With your username, you should be crying. The Prius is an abomination to all cars, petrol & electric.
MrHeyfuckoff Oh, then I guess the La Ferrari, Porsche 918, McLaren P1 and BMW i8 are all abominations. Get a grip, I wasn't talking about that. It's a car, like many great Holdens, and no one (but kids) used Prius jokes anymore. You should be proud to be an Aussie, but not to be as awkward to talk to like Abbott. Wow.
toyotaprius79 The Prius is an abomination. Its awful for the environment. I'd prefer an EV1 or Tesla Model S
haha I love that old guy who calls Abbott a dickhead at the end there
People have said and done ruder stuff to politicians. My mate king-hit (Australian slang for hit over the head) our MP and called him a c@nt.
so do most australians
Good God, why was his head shaking like that? Was that question so mind blowing it caused him to go into an epileptic fit?
Just an average day for tones. Like him not liking gay people even if his sister is a lesbian.
No, that eas Tony Abbott operating on his own NBN, he was buffering.
aussies should make those nodding dogs that go on your dashboard with abbot heads
HAHAHA you won youtube!
He was malfucntioning
The guy at the end who calls him "dickhead" gave me some hope for humanity.
Aussies don't mince words
Good to see our prime minister is a world class... laughing stock
and depressing at the same time :)
At least none of us will be lecured by this man..!
And our president is now.
Join the club! -The US
Donald Trump
*allow me to introduce myself*
You know someone is truly racist when they even make racist jokes about Irish people like it’s 1910s 😂😂😂
Also, nothing says patriotism like insulting veterans 👌
damn I wish they'd start doing these again...
Look up Honest Government Ads. It's hilarious.
@Anthony Orlando Trump
They'd have a field year with our current PM, Scott Morrison
@@Kevinduddo EX-PM luckily!
My jaw was literally dropped the entire time. I see Australians complain about Abott all the time but I figured they were being over dramatic, like Americans if Obama happens to fucking chew gum or something else irrelevant, but this guy is awful, wow.
worldpeaceforme Now you know our pain.
Lord Emeraldicus Hey - you elected him! :-) Now I can go to Australia and if anyone gives me crap about the US government (and they deserve some), I can still always say- 'hey mate, check out your guy!".
It gives me a warm feeling :-)
I didn't elect him, I'm 14 and neither did my family.
And let's just hope you don't get Donald Trump.
If we get Donald Trump, I am moving to Australia. Even your guy is better than that..:-)Lord Emeraldicus
This clip could have gone for longer too. They didn't even use the clip where he tries to justify his decision to stand up that Asbestos victim by baselessly implying the victim was a bad person.
Well those guys should have worn safety gear back in the day, its not the government's responsibility to baby-sit.
Paul Hhong That may be, but back in the day they didn't know the dangers of asbestos.
Jacob Orth Agreed, so why are the cultural Marxists ripping on Abbot about it then?
Paul Hhong Because he said he would meet with the guy, stood him up and tried to cover his arse by slandering him with unfounded aspersions.
Paul HhongThe point is Hardies DID know the dangers of asbestos long before and they covered it up. Just like the tobacco companies spent years trying to "prove" the statistics were false on the dangers of smoking. Lives lost needlessly and all in the name of a buck. AND the Liberal Party still takes money from tobacco companies. AND Julie Bishop was the lawyer arguing Hardies case against the workers who were dying and Hardies tried to take the money offshore AND the Liberal Party and their members are sacks of shit AND, AND, AND.........
2:54 tony_abbott.exe has stopped working
Error 404 dumbass Abbott response not found.
+Ryan Lau LOOOOLLLL
+Ryan Lau Tony Abbott exception divided by 0
Ryna Lau Tony Aborted
Oh Snap! Tony encountered a problem and needs to close
As a British person, I felt like this was necessary research for what to expect now he's a trade envoy... I mean, we sure know how to pick them.
Oxford educated too.
We’re a shitshow at the moment
Good fucking luck. He was such a fucking drongo and just preached hate for a couple of years without doing anything
As a Brit/Aussie dual citizen I have a twice as many reasons to deplore him. If Boris survives long enough to give him a seat in the House of Lords I will despair.
As an Australian let me sincerely apologise for his future behaviour.
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Good to see that our prime minister is as bad in the eyes of other countries as he is to us. He's gotta go. Worst PM we've ever had during my time of being politically conscious.
You weren't politically conscious for that whole Rudd-Gillard-Rudd thing?
clapppo obviously you're not politically conscious now. abbott is a clown and a liar and he needs to go. he's totally out of touch with the way things work in the real world and is only out to help his rich business mates by abolishing all safety nets, making us pay through the ass for healthcare and trying to get everyone in the working class to work for $2 a day. get a grip.
clapppo At least they had the courtesy not to embarrass themselves and in turn us in front of the world.
clapppo the worst thing about Rudd was that his whiteanting of Gillard was what got Abbott elected.
obviou stroll Like I said, I'm not a fan of Abbott (considering change of government was inevitable, I would have much preferred Turnbull) nor most aspects of his government's budget. But read over your last post; do actually think all that to be true? Do you really think Abbott is "trying to get everyone in the working class to work for $2 a day"? "Get a grip", was that what you suggested? Solid points for irony, I'll give you that much.
So Australia got their own version of George W. Bush it appears.
Yep. Here's hoping we get an Obama next, though.
Benjamin Rome Clarke
those Obama models are not always what it says on the packaging
I hate google Don't complain.
No, this report does not reveal he truth, he is the much better choice than opposition
WarwickkkT101 And yet he is still shit.
I come back to this video to listen to the “Tony Dumb Dumb” kid on occasion. He brings a smile to my face
I just came back here because I searched for "Tony Dumb Dumb" because I didn't recall his (real?) last name… didn't even recall where I got "Tony Dumb Dumb" from, but it was (unsurprisingly) Last Week Tonight. :D
5 years later and I still find much joy in this clip. Especially at the end. 😂
When the Americans are making fun of our Prime Minister you know shit is real bad. Well done Mr Oliver love your work. And congratulations on the show
Technically he's British. They mock all nations, including their own.
@@grfrjiglstani mean he’s a US citizen and has been living there for over a decade
"It is not everyone's place to come to Australia"
......er... d-do you even know you own history? I feel like you don't know your own history...
Olivia McDonagh well it was wasnt for my parents i wouldnt have been in Sydney so tks mum and dad for helping me here but u dont rreat it rughr.
I wouldn’t be surprised is he doesn’t, he was a really bad leader for us
@Shiki i I dont think they had a choice ... that was the point
Tony Abbott was born in London, that is his own personal history not the convicts.
remember "property rights began the day after Europeans stole everything."
Forgot to include the video of Tony taking a nice big bite out of an onion. I will always remember that crunch sound, it will be engraved in my brain forever
Silence. You know a politician is too dumb to even be in office when he takes about 5 second to try and think of a response and is silent that whole 5 seconds and comes up with a shitty retort.
+Go17Gabe Actually, when there's complete silence to a question, that's the Aussie politician's way of saying "go f**k yourself" :P
he is a rhodes scholar
So far the 3 + years under Abbott will be remembered as the years when nothing happened;
- We've done nothing for cleaner energy.
- No improvement in the economy or unemployment rate, with stagnating wages.
- No improvement in the mining industry, despite billion dollar subsidies and tax breaks.
- Our country's debt (their number 1 voter promise) has only gotten worse.
- They've increased their own wages/benefits while telling the rest of its population to deal with less government spending.
- Basic social rights like gay marriage among other things remain unchanged.
- We are still waging an expensive war in the middle-east rather than helping them re-build.
- Our freedom of speech/level of internet censorship has been attacked.
- Our infrastructure spending (NBN/Road spending) has been reduced/ gone backwards.
- The public safety-net has slowly been stripped.
- Education and healthcare has gotten more expensive.
The list goes on. Tony Abbott will go down in history as one of the most useless PM"s in the history of this country.
+toasteh Most of that is identical to our problems with John Key and his bunch of corrupt twats here in New Zealand. These leaders seem to be a part of a worrying trend. The days of the true Statesman are gone.
+toasteh "We've stopped the boats"
+toasteh He wasn't useless, he did exactly what he was paid to do: transfer the country's wealth from the middle class to the rich. Screwing everyone over in favor of the rich and powerful is just business as usual for modern politics.
+Miranox Right. I wish people would stop misinterpreting these politicians. They _aren't_ incompetent. They're actually just _malicious_. Thinking that they are just useless is giving them way too much credit. Certainly their banking buddies don't think so.
Shinbu1128 Let me get this straight: If you had an ounce of social intelligence and intellect, then the fact that Abbott would fail would have been extremely apparent early on in the election, much in the same way you can tell that putting Donald Trump in politics is a train-wreck waiting to happen. It doesn't take much, but unfortunately the majority of Australia's voters at that point couldn't even muster to vote with just an ounce of character judgement (which is mildly frightening). These people had to learn from their voter stupidity the hard way. Yes, even a monkey would do.
Not the Prime minister anymore!
Wheh-hey!
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!
+LivewireStudioss I'm assuming the parade's still going.
+Stine Hvattum Nothing changed when they ousted Abbot. Same party, just a smooth snake cunt who is just as bad inside if not worse.
+LivewireStudioss In 2014 he was
I can't stop laughing about the "suppository of all wisdom" !!!
Jesus was literally middle eastern
Dani Stuart which is why he never travelled to Australia
wasn't he a jew practising the then alien-ish customs of christianity that made a heavy chunk of other jews take disdain? (am i even remotely on track?)
@@nadlax5920 Technically, being Jewish and Arab are not mutually exclusive. From Wikipedia: "Arab identity is defined independently of religious identity, and pre-dates the spread of Islam, with historically attested Arab Christian kingdoms and Arab Jewish tribes."
@@nadlax5920 arab is not a religion he was a jewish arabic
@@nadlax5920 first of all learn better manners and what about jewish people who are born in arabic countries and so are their ancestors which leads to being arabic and jewish
We just had the honour of Tony Abbott visiting us up here in "Canadia".
Harper must've invited him, Harper looks positively Prime Ministerial next to this clown.
Would it be fair to say Harper sounds like a stupid right wing nutter too?
Can you keep the clown there?! We don't want him back! LOL!
CarltonDry.Please I'll second that.
CarltonDry.Please I hope Harper goes back with him! Two of a kind!
clownage123 Yes Harper is a Right Wing ideologue, which I can't stand, but the guy is as shrewd as he is boring. (which is plenty)
Never thought id see the day id prefer John Howard as PM.
Some how I agree.
2014 Australia: My national leader is the dumbest.
2016 USA: Hold my beer!
Yeah, nah
Our new leader here in Aus is even worse than Trump n Abbott
Trump is underrated
@@JT-93 #scomao
@@EamonMYT scuntmo
then we elected the guy that sucked off the US one for a medal
He'll still beat you in an onion eating contest
Well... im off to seek asylum in New Zealand.
I'm going to Pakistan and join the Taliban they offer benefits
turpioSE I've heard they have explosive benefits.....
Yep. Same here.
Isnt John Key even worse?
I think it's a shet everywere nowadays.. I think they're testing us to see if we finally kick them the fuck out haha no real leaders.. we killed them..
The sad thing is, the press/media here in Australia continue even today to over look these things. Not surprising as it was the press/media who got him into power through such selective reporting.
As an example that wink during the interview. Now that I have seen it first hand rather than the edited version, I see that it was an offensive reaction by our prime minister towards a elderly lady who has just admitted to him that she is forced to engage in such behaviour for her to be able to pay her way.
That disclosure is not a joke, its a sad reflection on where our country is heading.
Australia is sending this guy back.
Literally Boris gave him a “job”
He has the best words.
IKR..?
Housewives should understand this.
The man is a class A Pratt and deserves everything coming to him. He's a fascist wanna be dictator who shouldn't feel any threat when it comes to gay people, as we certainly wouldn't wanna touch him with a shitty stick! That comment coming from a man with a gay sister -- sure he really knows the values of family and being a good religious person with morals and standards! Annastacia Palaszczuk please -- she'll get the country leaping ahead, not taking it back 20 years!
I'm afraid the Liberals are the only hope Australia has of getting its financial house in order. Poofterism is a sectional issue at best.
Wow - you learn a new word every day! :O)
Dan Mckae Yeah, what is it -- XXY isn't it?? :O)
It's so inspiring seeing how many of us despise and loathe that maggoty worm of a man! I think him and Vladamir Pukeon were definitely separated from birth -- not just aesthetically, but they're both emaciated little arseholes who wanna dictate to the world, and haven't a fucking clue just how far the world has moved on from where they're stood! Whoever gets in next - whoever - has to fucking up the ante and push forward with this otherwise brilliant country I've moved to! :O) Just my thought for the day!!
Gay people aren't born gay they pick it up on the way and the only reason your sister is gay is because she was raised by your family like that.
So stop giving him shit for what he supports and what he doesn't if people didn't agree with him they wouldn't vote for him. But since people did vote for him that means that more Australians are against gay people and that they don't want them getting married.
Not so funny now is it America! When you're options are 10x more shit then our ex-Pm Abbott!
hey were having a tough week chill
Eh, Clinton wasn't a bad option at all - people are just retarded.
suejak1 Actually, blame the electoral college.
She wasn't perhaps as bad as Trump, but the problem is, everything you can say about Trump, you can also say about Mrs. Clinton or her Husband, just to a lesser extent; lying, cheating, stinky business practices all of it lol
So, the Dems did that instead of picking someone who would contrast with Trump, they just picked a less vile version of the guy. I am not saying Sanders is Jesus or would have done a great job, I live in Canada, but at least he would have been completely different than the opponent.
Wow. He's like Australia's version of George W Bush.
+Laura Fotze that is actually a pretty good comparisson
+Laura Fotze no, i think this guy is dumber then Bush.
+Alexandru Serbuta Think again
"Is our children learning?" - George W Bush
"All of our imports come from other countries" - George W Bush
"They misunderestimate me" - George W Bush
+Laura Fotze The big problem is: that's exactly how we saw him here all along. We have a new Prime Minister now, because Tony was blatantly incompetent in the eyes of almost everyone.
+Timgor what's even weirder is that misunderestimate sounds like a real word, until you read it again.
We are all so proud of Tony here. He always knows what not to say, then unfortunately goes on to say it.
He needs to adopt Michael Scott's rolodex approach
I fucking hate Abbott and Joe Hockey harping on about Labor's debt problem when it was the only necessary way to move out of the GFC. They seem to completely disregard this fact and prey on the short term memory of many Australians who have no idea on politics or economic concepts.
If people really wanted Labor out then why couldn't we vote in the mighty Clive Palmer? He'd surely run this country right... to the ground. :)
If Australia really is in debt, it's not because of a few handouts but because the yuppies here are addicted to travelling to the latest fad-country and spending Australian money on things they could buy at home.
Then these nations use the money that was willingly handed to them to buy the Great Barrier Reef so they can dump their waste. And people wonder why Aussies are so racist.
malcasablanca So Aussies are so racist because we travel? Sounds reasonable.
***** So why not have the mining tycoons pick up the slack? They have enough money to offset the debt by at least a few billion
malcasablanca they should, I completely agree with you. However, the previous administration essentially modified the mining tax legislation to allow the largest mining companies to avoid any increases in tax owing. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place, atm; I just hope that the "nasty surprises" in the current budget get rejected. The budget can yet be salvaged, without the attack on medicare and the deregulation of universities.
***** Our government debt, as of June 30 2013 by ARB statistics, was $257 billion (17.13%), and is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world. Lehman Bros. had a AAA rating immediately before it collapsed; it's not a viable determinant for economic health. I suggest you check your facts before flinging low brow, guttersnipe insults at others, lest you be accused to have the same disingenuous nature of which you accuse others.
What exactly was so appealing about Abbott that made most Australians vote for him?
pretty sure the voting was rigged, nobody admits to voting for him.
Imagine Fox News dictating the nations news coverage, and owning a majority of of the newspapers (without any alternative). That is Australia with Rupert Murdoch in charge.
Nothing this man offered was critiqued, it was literally just daily coverage of the former government and how they were destroying the country. Thus, people got scared and voted for Tony.
His achievements since coming in to power revolve around taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich. Thus, he is now one of the least popular leaders in Australia's history and will no doubt go down as the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.
the voting was probably rigged
keaedz And what was the Australian people's response or counter-action?
In what way?
We managed to prevent the LNP getting a majority in the senate (upper house). This means their budget is effectively on hold and most of the unpopular ideas have been stopped (for now). Tony Abbott was never really considered popular, rather an alternative. So fortunately the system worked.
Beyond that, people only really took notice post election because a majority of the policies Tony Abbott took to the election have been put aside, and they are now implementing a pretty awful neo-liberal agenda. That woke everyone up.
Keep in mind we have compulsory voting as well, so a lot of apathetic people will vote without much research. Thus, a dominant conservative media (print, TV and radio) has a huge influence.
Didn't even show him literally eating a raw onion either. He ate a raw onion! Not a mistake. He took multiple bites like it was an apple!
This ^ I was scrolling through the comments wondering why people weren't mentioning the onion. A god damn onion!
The onion event occurred in 2015 around a year after this video was produced.
@@nickmaunder6478 oh. I didn't realise that. I swear it happened earlier. Were there multiple times?
This makes me feel better about American politics. Worse about humanity, but better about America.
Then we have Donald Trump...
You have Donald fucking trump.
+MentalJack Yes, but others do too
yeah but in the cas of abbott, he was impeached last year
Yeah see we don't have Abbot here in Australia anymore. And it looks like your about to get Drumpf. However bad Abbott Is, Drumpf is like infinitively worse! Still Tony is a dickhead
And now he’s Boris Johnson’s trade envoy for the UK ...
Well he seems racist and deluded enough..
Unfortunately we didn’t learn the first time and then voted in Scott “Hillsong” Morrison.
Welllllll, technically Australia is an American LLC.
Technically you're an American LLC, gottem
@@jeremyseb185 if anything you're an American LLC you spoon, don't bag out ol mate economics explained
@@memesleeb2214 Simp
Fucker
“....like Tony Abbott, who was born in London England.”
Pfffft
To Oz parents who used the "10 Pound pom" scheme to get back to Australia. The corruption started way back.
how did he get elected?!?!?!
Ay yo 0o0o0o00o. Im da Scal4prez
He simply lied his arse off and enough fools believed him to vote the wanker in
Labour kept fighting themselves for leadership and everyone got sick of it and voted Liberal. That's the only reason the won. We're all regretting it now though.
I think one of the main reasons was his promise to stop the illegal immigrants and everything he promised before the election which turned out to be all lies except for the boats. People were fed up with Labor and he made it look like Australia would blossom if he got in. There was always something about Abbott that I didn't like, he would frown when interviewed and always looked like a kid who got caught with his hands in the cookie jar, at the time I couldn't quite put my finger on what is was about him that made me feel uncomfortable, now we know, he's a liar!
Jay Roses If a swedish politican would have said that he or she would be called a racist
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
hahahaha thank you
don't blame me, he was there when we came here
Yes!!! Someone still watches The Simpsons other than me.
My girlfriend moved from Australia to Portland just to ignore Abbott.
How did that work out?
Sill your GF? Or still in Portland?
Now you have Trump she will have to move back
@@Eskay1206 That is logical. Better than getting kidnapped by Anonymous jack-booted thugs.
@OceanBlue Check it out:
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I live in Australia and back when he was Prime Minister, each time he appears on TV I would get ready to facepalm
Sadly, I find it somewhat comforting that the US doesn't have a monopoly on apocalyptically stupid politicians. Don't think that'll help me sleep any better at night, unfortunately.
We followed your lead unfortunately. I blame Reagan and Thatcher for starting this lemming like rush to stupidity.
dale jackman On behalf of all Americans who DIDN'T vote for right wing nutjobs, I want to apologize and offer my sincere condolences for inflicting this curse upon the world. We dropped the ball.
BigBlack81 Not your fault, BigBlack81.
its because since howard our leaders have worshipped american presidents
Steve Kean Howard? I have not the faintest idea what you're referencing and that bothers me, tremendously. Because I have, at least, a faint idea of about everything.
when liberal won the election i was devastated. everything i feared about him was 100% correct. building a giant coal port in the great barrier reef. removing protection from forests to start logging again. attempting to make an alliance with other countries to block carbon pricing and refusing to include climate change discussions at the upcoming G20 meeting in brisbane. As a young australian who will be directly affected by these long term decisions, it almost makes me want to cry
8 years later and this is just as relevant now as it was then
@sex the elmo Not only would this never happen, Greens majority government would quite literally destroy the country. Only thing good are their climate policy, name anything else they stand for. Replacing the aussie flag with the Aborginal one?
The expression of the guy talking to the kids is amazing, it's like he can't believe what is being said but doesn't want it to stop
repository: a place where or receptacle in which things are or may be stored.
suppository: a solid medical preparation in a roughly conical or cylindrical shape, designed to be inserted into the rectum or vagina to dissolve.
"Nurse, have you seen my suppository?" "It's behind your ear Doctor." "Damn some assholes got my pen..."
@@cliftonmanley3882 If I died laughing, you go to jail.
@@android12921 😄
It's funny because even if you ignore all his social and ethical issues, he's still a terrible PM when it comes to the economy anyway. His budget is cutting the wrong people and punishing the poor while the rich get away scot-free.
I hope Turnbull replaces him.
I hope Bane replaces him.
This aged well.
Too bad they didn't mention the icing on the cake: Abbott's daughter getting that scholarship.
Hey Australia, greeting from America. Damn!! I didn't you know you had a Donald Trump version before we did.
Oscar Alexis Martinez please learn from our mistake!!
Trent O they didn't learn
We got rid of ours in just under two years, you guys might be able to match that.
nextpkfr lets hope they surpass our ability to kick out idiot politicians.
@@firerath "dickhead" lol (@3:49)
They forgot to add the roast of former-PM Gillard of Tony
I love how in the beginning he was incredibly smug, and as the speech goes on, he's just looking to the ground, afraid to even make eye contact with Gillard. If words can kill, he'd been dead 100 times over.
Absolutely perfect as tea bagger presidential candidate. GOP would worship the ground where he walks on.
Wow, he is the Australian George Bush.
Even 5 years later this still makes me laugh and laugh....what an hilarious idiot he was. Also why is this in my feed now? Maybe CZcams knew I needed a bit of a laugh today. Thanks CZcams.
1:19 Can this verse apply to the Texas Governor as well? His name is Abbott and he’s bad too.
We didn't vote him in. We all voted independent and shit got fucked up!
Yep that's what happens when we have no one to vote for
yeah the preferential voting system is a farce, nigh an affront to democracy :( I mean look at clive palmer, he came out of nowhere, is known to be batshit crazy, but the public are like "ahh what the hell if they stick up to their policies it'll be better than what we have".... not to mention stats say 7 million eligible voters just didn't vote at all (30% of the gross population)
if this isn't a wake up call what is?!?!!
"You're not saying anything, Tony..." :D
So now I know where that ad for grammarly got that "I'm a suppository of information" bit from!
"Dickhead" oh my god!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I love Australians 👍
They voted him in u realize 😂😂
lol Australian version of bush ?
The bizarre thing is that Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar. So, he seems to have been intelligent at least at one point in his life. I have no idea what happened. Without fail, he comes across as not very bright - somebody who really doesn't think too deeply about anything.
CyeOutsider His Rhodes Scholarship was in divinity. So he was good at rote learning fantasy literature. It was also boosted by his boxing ability, which may account for what happened to what brains he did have.
Jared Fullyfisted
Not sure that's right. According to Wikipedia, Abbott:
"studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney, and later for a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics as a Rhodes Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford"
It says that he later when to study as a Roman Catholic Seminarian.
As for boxing, that might explain the fog of 'stupid' that plagues his brain now.
***** Its still early days.
Tony Abbott can stick his suppository of wisdom right up his Canadia!
Hah! Perfect.
I died at the head nodding part 😂😂😂😂
Abbot: Jesus knew that there was a place for everything.
Me: Judging by your face Jesus clearly didn't know how to make ears properly.
+Captain Slow he probably thought that was the place for them, and he'd know, right?
Ha! Aren't the awful?! Not as bad as being subjected to him trotting around in his budgy smugglers though
god was freestyling that day
Bet Jesus knew where suppositories go
He's PM only until the next election.
*cough Double dissolution *cough
Wink, wink, wonder if it's our (Australia's) turn for a Texas schoolbook depository "moment"?
Anthony Franken
Or maybe Malcolm Turnbull will kick the briefcase under the map table.....
I'd put money on him not lasting a full term. Setting aside double-dissolution, or a constitutional crisis such as blocking supply there's no shortage of other things that could see him unseated - political scandal, leadership spill... hell, his human rights violations could even see him brought before the Hague.
I don't think the Budget is much to worry about for the Australian public! xD
As an American, who holds both conservative and liberal views depending on the topic matter, I would have to say that if Mr. Abbott is anything remotely like he's portrayed in this; Thank you my fellow citizens for our last seven or so Presidents.
Moreththerogue Since Dubya was one of those Presidents, your tongue must have been firmly in your cheek as you were typing your comment.
Free Speech Smuggler
;)
Free Speech Smuggler
Oh I did want to mention one thing. While President George W. Bush did many things I disagree with (like all Presidents) he also did a number of things I consider great. Don't ask me to pronounce it but look up "Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument". It's one of the many things he doesn't get credit for. Every President gets slighted. My main problem with President Bush is that he surrounded himself with people who carried their own monetary agendas into office with them.
Moreththerogue It is an unfortunate reality that in capitalist countries like ours, it’s the big moneyed interests that control political policy - and often own the politicians as well. For example, name a senator who served between the Civil War and World War I? Chances are unless you’re a history buff or a politics junkie you won’t be able to. Now, name a tycoon who bought senators during the same period? - J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller ... it’s easier. To foreigners like me, George W. Bush always looked like the front man of vested interests represented by people like Richard Cheney. There wasn’t even any pretense to hide it.
“All questions in a democracy are questions of money.” Mark Hanna, William McKinley’s campaign manager
Free Speech Smuggler
I agree that money plays far too much of a role in all governments and because the U.S. puts itself so prominently on the world stage, we get (and rightfully so) a great deal of scrutiny.
Most Americans will, if asked issue by issue, will agree and disagree with most Presidents about equally.
The problem we have now is that moneyed interests are able to purchase so much influence. In government, in media and in industry. It's led to a general apathy among voters here, who feel powerless. Which is exactly what those interests are after.
You're right in that people can name the robber barons far easier than the politicians of the time. While several reasons exist for this, I think the main being we, in America, have made them icons, good and bad, of their time. In contrast, Congress has been compared to watching sausage being made. While most people here have always found congress abhorrent. Congress has always seemed like a necessary evil, but people have traditionally supported their own congressmen / women.
President George W. Bush, like every modern President, has been hamstrung by moneyed influence. In addidtion to that, most Americans would agree that the people he surrounded himself, came into their respective offices with their own agendas. If there were any one thing I'd have an issue with it's this; Once he realized that to be the case, that he didn't fire the lot of them. I understand there would've been some chaos created by that and too many people would've chosen the "better the devil you know" route. But to my mind, it would've been better than the trillion dollar debacle in Iraq that cost thousands of servicemen and over a hundred thousand civilians their lives.
But I get your point. The average person will never hear of the "positive" things President Bush did anymore than hear of the horrendous things a President they support did. Political and news dweebs like us (Yes, I include you in that ;)) may look at the whole story. But few others do, in modern media spoon fed society.
Damn, sorry such a long post man.
Thank fuck he's gone, what an embarrassment
I think I've watched this 500 times and the last joke still gets me
Don't need to create ads for your next election Labor just air this 3:58 video and you've basically won every voter with a brain. But that's also the problem....
This guy was such a national embarrassment. As an Australian, I was ashamed there were enough people in my country to put this fool of a man into power. I know just how the majority of Americans currently feel with Trump in charge, we made the same mistake, and are still trying to sort out the mess Abbot left behind.
"If this guy becomes prime minister, god help us" Huh where I have I heard that before?
This segment about presidents is beyond sarcasm and hillarious! please do more!!!
Just so you know, he's started insulting members of his own party, starting with treasurer Joe Hockey.
***** Tony isn't a bully, he's an idiot.
Delray misfits
***** He's too much of a wimp to be a bully.
Hockey and Tony was a fierce team, right?
HAHAHAHA OMG THAT LAST CLIP
That old guy at the end is priceless.
Abbott: "Hello"
Old guy: "Dickhead" :)
I've lived in Australia for ten years and no restaurant I've been to had 'bloomin onions' on the menu. I wish they did though, that looked amazing.
They're not an Australian thing.
damn Australia get your shit together and get rid of this guy
People are voting against him don't you worry 😂
Fuck your thick
"You're"
Well next year an election will take place AND HOPEFULLY this knob known as our current Prime Minister will be out.
Jarod Kieg I promise you, we're trying.
hey, I'm learning things about Australlia :D
I mean, now I at least know the name of their -king- -president- prime minister :D
Who is Poland's current king? And how many wars has he fought against the Ottoman Empire?
I wish there were more of this series :(
OMG! soooooo funny! But they missed the footage of him eating the onion!! 😂😂😂
When a satirical tv show in another country can take this much license in insulting your president, you know he sucks.
guys, seriously, I think you need yo show some respect to our supreme leader, sir lord Anthony Abbott. He's only human and he's giving it his best shot!!! Trust me, next time we vote him in (which we should definitely do) he'll be much better at the job!
you have to be trolling or an idiot hardcore liberal there is no way the liberal party deserves a second term nor do they really deserve this one with the shit they have been pulling like destroying a part of the great barrier reef so a coal port can be put in at abbot bay as well as the many other more well known reasons people hate him and his party.
Trent Kelly I think the "supreme leader" bit gave it away that he isn't a hardcore liberal.
Trent Kelly and your shit fucking labour party has a documented history of:
- getting our country BILLIONS of dollars into debt without having anything to show for it accept for a sculptures down by our seasides & harbours.
- not being able to elect a leader for its party, kicking the PM out of his seat to a stupid gillard only to bring him in
- sending URANIUM to india. URANIUM... Yes, that's the shit that they use to make ATOMIC weapons for you people out there that don't know.
After the atrocities that your pathetic labour party has committed to this country you are obviously either completely blind, or a typical selfish labour piece of shit who wants to bludge off the rest of us hard working tax payers!
AJ Bones
you want to talk about history do you AJ? ok fine.
- that fuckhead howard who introduced the GST tax was liberal.
- howard was able to "balance the books" by selling off massive amounts of assets like Telstra.
- the debt labor accumulated was worsened by Liberal selling of assets meaning less income during the GFC
- australia despite the global financial crisis didn't do horribly bad working in a construction industry i was fully aware of the crisis and luckily Australia did pretty fucking well our company didn't have to let anyone go during the period.
- tony abbott and his fuckhead right wing party ignored the world heritage listing of the great barrier reef and plan on dredging it DESPITE environmental scientists warnings that it would have far reaching effects. (a tourist hot spot earning the region millions of dollars a year)
fightforthereef.org.au/risks/dredging/
- abbotts refusal to listen to the scientific community because it directly contends with his corporate buddies plans to gain as much profit as possible evidence by the scrapping of all global warming legislation and the mining tax. which is funny because the mining tax was meant to keep the money that would otherwise go overseas in Australia how is that bad? they were never going to stop mining they just want more money.
- howard quoted that they should relax unfair dismissal laws which are the laws that protect you from getting sacked for being gay or just not being liked by your boss or other bullshit reasons that shouldnt effect your job.
- so fucking what uranium isn't exactly hard to get if we didn't sell it to them someone else would have and its massively hard to turn it into a bomb and beyond that India has a few nukes oooohhh that's so scary its not like Russia and America don't have enough nukes to completely destroy all life as we know it on earth thousands of times over already.
- labor selling uranium to India = money, governments need money and establishing good ties with India and possibly helping secure more trade in the future secures our future.
- also Australians financial position according to independent outside organizations was pretty good at the end of the GFC a fact abbott wouldn't tell you because he would much prefer to scare you with out of context number and hope your stupid enough to forget the reasons it got so high here is some reading for you
www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australias-credit-rating-still-aaaok-20130329-2gyct.html
so in closing no i'm not blind and i have a full time job and i have never been on any government benefit program and im just not stupid like you i don't just watch the news and listen to the oppositions scare tactics to get elected which apparently got you hook line and sinker and also buddy the fact that your pathetic hardcore liberal arguments are either A: omg look at the debt. or B: you must be a centrelink regular. statements which just further prove that you are in fact a moron.
According to economists, if Peter Costello and Johnny Howard hadn't given good size tax cuts to the better off and the baby bonus to everyone, we would still be in the black, have a surplus, despite the Labor spending... Of course, Tony Abbott isn't going to take away these tax cuts from the voters with the better incomes, too simple a solution to sorting out the budget, no its so much easier to take from the poorer in our society, and increase inequality. Of course no one seems to remember that Labor got us through the Global Financial Crisis, imagine how Abbott would have behaved...
Just one rewatch of this... oh, how innocent we were. We didn't realise just how much worse it was gonna get.
He was and still is a See you next Tuesday, though.
2:53 PrimeMinister.exe has stopped working. Starting physical memory dump.
As an Australian who was once so proud of my country, I've never been so, so, so ashamed. When will this nightmare end?
I hate that in American schools they only teach you how great America is I have spent so much of my personal time trying to learn about other country's
It’s not just America. Every country is narcissistic.
And good for you, wanting to learn about other peoples and cultures. Life’s too short to get hung up on just one thing of whatever.
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Apostolic Succession No dope, you're wrong about that!
But World History is a core class
core?
I lost it at 2:47. So fucking funny. xD
Hahahaha!! Tonny Dum dum!! they are funny kids, that basically summarises all about Tonny Dum dum!
Tony Abbot: most unpopular head of state in the Western world.
We Australians may be the only people who refer to their leader just by their first name, we call him Tony, we called the Prime Minister before him just by 'Julia' and called the Prime Minister before that 'KRudd'
I called the previous Prime Minister Julie G because she needed all the street cred she could get. In all seriousness she was a waaaaaaaay better PM than this retarded muppet we have being paraded as our leader.
Too right, I called her Juliar
spielberg14 I'm guessing you only read the first 2 lines of my comment, didn't you?
unstoppableExodia
I do remember her delivering a remarkable take down of that Abbot prick concerning his misogyny in parliament.
oneguycoding I remember that. She tore him a new one with that take down. Even the right wing leaning media had a tough time saving face for wabbot. Verbally he got beaten up by a girl.
I cracked up at that wink during the radio call.
I still don't get why we need fighter jets when all of that money could of been spent on fixing this country.
Here, here, who is our supposed enemy. Is there anyone in government or public service who can forecast our future enemies of 40 years time. So we spend $40 billion on 50 planes. There may be nothing to defend when the fundamental's take over and they will have very few enemies by that time. Government's will not use the money to fix this country the big boys need our birth right .That's our biggest danger, no pity, or hope from that direction . I feel really sorry for my grandsons And I served in the Korean war to save all this crap. No honesty no hope. Cheers Derek
If you want to live on a sitting duck go find one at your local duck pond.
We need to keep the Indonesians in check.
If you want to fix the budget keep Labor out of power because they are useless with others peoples money.
Dear John Oliver,
Welcome to your Australian fan base
Sincerely,
All of Australia (except for bogan Western Sydney and those with Foxtel subscriptions)
Foxtel? Is that like Fox News?
***** Well, it's actually the name of cable TV company owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. $40US a month for a basic subscription. It only has one major rival (that's only available in some cities), Optus...
There is that irony that Foxtel is the exclusive provider of HBO in Australia - which is a major gripe for me (and every other GoT fan) - but Foxtel (as a monopoly - lets face it, Optus is NOT a competitor) - owned by Fox - thus owned by Murdoch, put their full media support behind the coalition and as is always the case, whoever they put their weight behind - wins...
America 2017: "Hold my beer"
I come back here every 6 months or so. This video brings me so much joy 😂
Even more disappointing is the fact they are now in government, yet still have the mindset of an opposition, attacking their opposition at every given opportunity?
Conservative Christians don't have anything better to do than antagonise anyone who isn't them.