Ah, Australian Federal Politics.

[Black Aeronaut]

And after it turned out a member of parliament had financial ties to the Chinese government, and the PM knew about it before the last election (And was in fact advised by our security agencies not to endorse her on the ballot), looks like it might be time for another leadership spill!

That's all it takes in Australia?  Here in the US the President can give top secret stuff to Russia, have business dealings with Russian oligarchs, and even ask Russian hackers to attack his political rivals, and no one does anything about it.

We have some decency left... also, the past decade has left both major parties with a really bad habit of loyalty issues. Morrison is a scumbag that has gone above and beyond at earning bad PR over the last few weeks, what with deliberately making a family of asylum seekers suffer in unneeded and expensive to the taxpayer ways, while shitting on the court system. He deserves to be kicked out.

It also doesn't help matters any that a good number of Republicans have taken Trump's election as license to abandon all decency and humanity, and all but openly proclaim favorable positions on misogyny, racism, and unchecked avarice.  At this rate it won't be much longer until we have card-carrying members of the KKK in Congress because they ran on the platform of "Send them back".

What's worse is that if the Democrats do try something, be it overt or covert, then the Republicans will turn it on them later on down the line with the excuse of Precedence.  "Well you did it before, so why can't we?"

That's gonna be the watch-word for the next few decades, what with the Supreme Court Justices Trump has put on the bench.  And while it is possible that a Supreme Court Justice could be impeached, just try making it happen.  It never does.  And again, the Republicans will use Precedence as their weapon of choice.

The only way that the Democrats would be able to do anything is if they can pull it off without anyone on the Far Right being able to use it as ammunition.  Because while their following may be small, it is horrifically toxic on top of being loud and obnoxious; they pretty much poison everything they touch.

As you can imagine, that's a lot easier said than done.