Barnaby Joyce Took A Pic Of A Blocked Urinal To Make A Point About Economics. It Didn’t Go Well
The ex-Deputy Prime Minister shared a photo of a broken, wee-filled urinal, for reasons that can best be described as "confused".
Barnaby Joyce has always had a, well, let’s call it unconventional way of getting his point across.
Sometimes, when the one-time Deputy Prime Minister of Australia wants to mount an argument, he bellows it across the floor of parliament with all the sheer force of a maths teacher trying to contain a rowdy class of year sevens. Who can forget, after all, the time he stood up in front of the assembled cameras and his colleagues, and shouted very loudly about carp — yes carp, the fish — for a very long time?
But other times, Joyce is more elliptical. And nowhere is that clearer than on his Twitter page, which includes strange, coded insults on journalists, screenshots of his weather app used to make a point about global warming, and admissions that he doesn’t understand what’s going on.
However, yesterday Joyce broke new grounds in incomprehensibility, taking a photograph of a blocked urinal at the Sydney Airport bathroom to make a point about, uh, the free market, I guess?
“At Sydney Airport a monopoly owns the terminals, charges for the retail space and landing fees but is responsible for the bathrooms,” he wrote. “Excessive market power is never healthy.”
And then, there was the picture: two broken urinals and one filled with ruddy brown piss.
At Sydney Airport a monopoly owns the terminals, charges for the retail space and landing fees but is responsible for the bathrooms. Excessive market power is never healthy. pic.twitter.com/KfbusgOsnZ
— Barnaby Joyce (@Barnaby_Joyce) October 11, 2019
So, uh, yeah. Rough.
Anyway, predictably, within minutes, hundreds of Twitter users were piling on Joyce.
computer…enhance. Enhance pic.twitter.com/MbJtmtvsUm
— tim (@takethetwoo) October 11, 2019
Welcome, Comrade Barnaby, our brother in piss
— tony shalhoub memes (@maximumcuddles) October 11, 2019
Barnaby if you think airport monopolies are bad imagine if there was an authority that controlled the rights to water
Imagine that
what was it you said..excesive market power is never healthy#auspol
— Candide (@KafkaVoltaire) October 11, 2019
Best of all, before long, Twitter users were pointing out that it was Joyce’s beloved PM John Howard who privatised the airport, creating exactly the problem that troubled Barnaby enough to get his camera out.
Take it up with John Howard. He privatised Sydney Airport and allowed this to happen. And here we are, 17 years later, and now you can’t find a place to take a piss.
— Julian Lalor (@SwizzleSister) October 11, 2019
Chalk this one up as a self-own, then.