Boycotting Dutton

The opposition leader launches his first attempt of 2024 at "flooding the zone with shit". Yay.

Peter Dutton has provided almost instantaneous verification of an observation I made earlier in the week and I would thank him for making me look prescient except that you would have to be living under twelve feet of concrete not to realise what was going to happen.

Still, the timing is sweet.

On Tuesday I wrote that “Peter Dutton can…create guerilla campaigns around hot-button issues that fill up the space temporarily while accelerating the disruption as we flit mindlessly from scare campaign to scare campaign…”

On Thursday, Dutton announced—bless his predictable little heart—that we should all boycott Woolworths because they have decided not to sell Australian-flag-themed thongs and other cheap tat in the lead up to what some people are still calling Australian Day, January 26.

He told Liberal enabler and talkback host, Ben Fordham on radio 2GB that ““If they (Woolworths) don’t want to celebrate Australia Day, well that’s a decision for them, but I think people should boycott Woolworths…