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Scotty From Marketing has today taken a moment to himself to think about how good he had it before this virus.
While lying in bed at his hotel room in Brisbane’s Calile Hotel at 10:30am this morning, the big fella stumbled across a Facebook memory from his last overseas family holiday.
Back when all he had to worry about was record-breaking climate-change-aided bushfires ravaging millions of hectares of bushland between Townsville and Geelong.
This moment of nostalgia comes as the Prime Minister gradually realises that he’s not going to be able to take credit for pulling Australia out of this pandemic and into the 2022 election as a hero of the people.
His plan was to sit back and let the states take the blame for the lockdowns and bungled jab roll-out, before coming in guns blazing with an election campaign focused on how the Morrison Government saved Australians from their tyrannical premiers and the Chinese war machine.
But with case numbers breaking records and state governments having to implement their own strategies to open up borders through tests and permits, as well as Australian agriculture being brought to it’s knees by China quietly turning off the tap on both imports and exports – Christmas isn’t looking as flash as he thought it would.
The crushing weight of his 2021 tragedy of errors has been compounded this morning, after stumbling across a Facebook memory that took him straight back to Waikiki beach.
The fabled Hawaii holiday.
It wasn’t a good look at the time. In fact, it was the sole cause of the rapid shift in public perception towards him. A backlash against his photoshoot-heavy leadership that resulted in the nickname Scotty From Marketing.
Things only got worse from there. People refusing to shake his hand on TV, the pork barrelling allegations, the womens march, Christian Porter, the quarantine drama, the 3rd-word jab roll-out, the Facebook ban on news – the Qanon allegations.
But Hawaii was the last time he was free. With his phone turned off, and nothing but clear and smoke-free skies.
He shares the memory to his timeline.
“Ugh. Can’t believe this was 2 years ago!! Take me back”
