Let's keep Michael McCormack as Prime Minister forever
Dear Reader,
As a satirical news organisation, we usually try to stay above the fray of retail politics. It is important for us to maintain an impartial editorial stance so that we can call out momumental dumbfuckery wherever it may occur, be it in the National Party, the Liberal Party, the National Party, the Labor Party, the National Party, the Greens, the National Party or the National Party.
However, after a long and tense editorial board meeting last night, we have decided to cast aside our policy of impartiality and call upon parliament to retain acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack in his current position indefinitely.
Michael McCormack has only been in the top job for less than a week, but in that time he has embodied Donald Horne's thesis that Australia is lucky because we muddle along despite having absolutely shithouse leaders.
Michael McCormack has over the course of the past week managed to discredit almost every cause he's sought to support. By weighing into debates about Trump, Black Lives Matters, racial slurs at the cricket, Cheese Brands and fruit picking, he has done more for progressive causes in this country than any other leader ever, including Gough Whitlam. Every opinion he expresses is immediately discredited simply by sheer weight of his moronicness.
Such skills are rare. We must seize this opportunity as a nation and make him Prime Minister for life. Because if Australia can continue to exist as a country with Michael McCormack as its leader then it truly is one hell of a lucky country.
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