Malcolm Roberts Is Getting Shredded For Blaming The Toilet Paper Shortage On… Socialism?
Old Malcolm reckons that it's the fault of the left-wing that Australia is out of toilet paper.
Malcolm Roberts, Senator for Queensland and representative of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, has spent the last few years vainly trying to fight a one-man culture war.
Roberts is one of those conservatives who sees every progressive issue as a conspiracy, organised by a cabal of evil left-wing Marxists. According to him, everything from climate change to same-sex marriage to international banking is the same evil posed in a slightly different way. And, as he sees it, it’s his job to address that terrible, growing horror by, uh, tweeting about it.
Hell, Roberts has even convinced himself that the entirely self-made toilet paper shortage caused by fears over the coronavirus is part of the same conspiracy. And yesterday, he took to his Twitter account to tell Australia so.
“Australia gets a taste of socialism,” Roberts tweeted in that wholly self-satisfied way of his.
Australia gets a taste of Socialism. pic.twitter.com/CiYQ8b4wF8
— Malcolm Roberts ?? (@MRobertsQLD) March 6, 2020
Of course, such a tweet is misguided even for Roberts. The absence of toilet paper has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with capitalism. The market’s not prepared for a mass panic buy of one resource, leaving consumers and Australians vulnerable and at-risk. And Twitter users quickly flocked to Roberts’ page to tell him exactly that.
You have no idea …. go and have a rest…
— Macca (@raecorn) March 6, 2020
It was rampant capitalism-these people in Melbourne stocked their garage with toilet paper and resold it to the public at three times the going rate-get your facts right before you mouth off next time. pic.twitter.com/4ox6Kz5GWJ
— ?Derek Robinson (@DerekRobinson2) March 10, 2020
Actually malcom in Australia, this week, it was a right wing capitalist system that delivered those empty shelves
Mismanaged communication & lack of confidence brought you those images
Check electoral data you will find empirical evidence Oz doesn’t have a socialiat government
— Candide (@KafkaVoltaire) March 10, 2020
Malcolm Roberts: truly there is no Australian politician less willing to learn.