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After two years of firing shots at each other through press conferences and media leaks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews have surprised nobody by turning to water after running into eachother in Melbourne today.
The entire nation was forced to cringe through the long-awaited showdown between the two pillow-fisted public servants today, with not one prickly comment exchanged.
As the Victorian premier, Dan Andrews has followed his fellow state leaders in their passive aggressive sledges against the Federal Government during a pandemic that saw the Prime Minister shift as much responsibility and blame onto whoever he could, regardless of their party.
However, with Melbourne accumulating almost 300 days in lockdown since the first outbreak, Dan Andrews became a sitting duck for the PM to return fire at – after he made the very smart decision to leave the much more popular NSW, WA and QLD leaders alone.
With almost two years of finger pointing and sledging, today was the day we got to see the two of them in the same place at the same time.
The Prime Minister was seated next to Premier Daniel Andrews for the Remembrance Day service at Melbourne’s Shrine Of Remembrance in Kings Domain.
While many patriots would argue that today’s encounter was hardly the time or place for a confrontation between the two men, it’s not like either of them came out on the front foot to condemn the deranged conspiracists who desecrated that same sacred landmark with their anti-vax protests not even two months ago.
With the entire country hoping for at least one elbow shove, or a deeply personal insult at the very least, everyone was left feeling disappointed at how soft the two career politicians really are.
Australians are today reminded of the very similar scenarios we have seen in our own communities where two big-talkers organise a fight on Facebook and pussy out at the last minute.
Both Mr Morrison and the Victorian leader laid a wreath on the steps of the shrine as part of the commemoration, sat next to eachother and didn’t say shit – like the cowards they are.
Even after the official formalities ended, both men kept up the mindless low-energy small talk until it was time to leave in their tax-payer funded chaffuers vehicles – and begin furiously tweeting about much they are lesting to forget.
