Honest Government Ad | 2025 Election
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Here is our latest Honest Government Ad - made, as always, thanks to your generous monthly support!
Honest Government Ad | 2025 Election (Congratulations President Trump)
Firstly, my sincere condolences to all our friends in the USA.
After the US election, my first instinct was to make a US Govt HGA, reflecting on the causes of the outcome. But I quickly realised there was a surplus of "takes" about this: some of them good (although my favourite was Jon Stewart's)
So instead of jumping on the bandwagon, I thought the better and more forward-looking option would be an HGA about what our own, Australian government can learn from the US election outcome, if it wants to avoid Peter Dutton winning at our coming election (which will be called early in 2025), and implementing Project Gina.
I've also been thinking a lot about how fortunate we are to have preferential voting here in Australia - and how it makes our elections so different (and superior) to the USA's.
I think America's voting system is a major factor in Trump's win - and the general deterioration of US politics under a spiralling two-party system. As Ralph Nader once said, if you keep voting for the lesser evil, eventually all you're left with is evil. Of course, US voters have little choice but to vote this way, because they lack a preferential voting system, like ours.
And yet, among the hundreds of "takes" about the US election, I have not seen anyone commenting on this. It blows my mind.
Which is why I wanted to make an HGA that speaks, both to Aussies - reminding them that we have a preferential voting system, and that we should use it - as well as to Americans - many of whom watch our videos - to let them know that their electoral system is a key factor in the shitshow they are in and that reforming it should be part of the conversation when discussing the outcome of the US election. (cc: UK voters too!)
So that's what this Honest Government Ad is about!
As always, thank you to all of you for supporting our work here at the Juice Media. And at the risk of sounding repetitive, I just want you to know we never take it for granted.
Giordano & team
Comments (28)
Just one note on a rewatch, Giordano - Coles and Woolies are a duopoly - because there's two of them - not a monopoly - where there'd only be one dominant player (eg. Bunnings).
So . F'ing . Good . ☺
Great work again team. Not sure ACT David Pocock is up for re-election until 2028? Removing Gallagher would be fabulous for ACT. How about a t- shirt with the “not shit candidate tour coming to your electorate 2025” on back. On front something re preferential system: Don’t vote like an American put shit or shit lite last. Your voting card graphic on this is great Love the MAGA, make Australian government afraid again. Just a suggestion. I’d sell some at markets for you! My old black thoughts and prayers shirt just about worn out. So I’d order one.
Thanks Dave! Yeah, I thought we should invclude David Pocock there anyway to make sure people don't think we excluded him! Thanks for the tshirt idea!
Love you guys and girls. No side note this time, just a proposal. What about a video on the upcoming law (ddl 1660) that the Italian fasci... ehm... conservative government is trying to pass to limit the right to protest? Or else, an overall display of how European countries are trying to limit this right, mainly to tackle climate change protestors? That'd be cool.
Thanks for the suggestions Francesco, they are good ones. We will be focusing on the Australian situation between now and the election, which might be as early as March, but after that, I do plan to look at more international issues!
Malignant tuber! Love it. Yes. Huge thanks to Cathy McGowan, Zali Steggal and Climate 200 for getting the kitchen table/ community elected and supported independent movement going. May there be many more emerging to ‘keep the bastards honest’.
thanks Sandra!
Great simple explainer! Thank you!
thanks bro xo
Thanks Giordano, excellent work, much needed right now.
Thanks Sally! xo
#LADY BABYLON @UTUBE, #BDS, #CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO ALL GLOBAL BANKING!
We in America used to have Presidential de bates run by “The league of woman voters”, wait who? Yes woman and they allowed many candidates to debate on national television, no more as corporations now run them and god even the questions now asked are asinine! Bring back the girls, please,! Jessie Ventura won the Minnesota Governor race while polling at 6 percent until they allowed him into the debates! He’s pretty good even now even after being a Navy Seal. College tuition was paid by veterans and he claims that opened his eyes. Go figure? Good luck in your upcoming cause I read The Gangsters of capitalism and Legacy of ashes! Oh shit!
Got that right. We Yanks have screwed the pooch. This dog won’t hunt.
Sorry, I can't seem to muster even a smile at this point, but I'm guessing the MAGAs here will send you lots of "thoughts and prayers."
Good one. I even laughed out aloud so my chihuahuas looked up at me quizically. Need to share the shit out of this. so glad to see my patreon sub producing such brilliant content.
Brilliant as usual.
ty xo
Love it!
Brilliant! I am so glad to see that there might actually be something positive coming out of the US election - i.e. an example for candidates elsewhere of what "not to do". Paying attention to the people who matter (i.e. most of us who work for do real work and pay bills and worry about the cost of every day things needed for life ...) is the key, so is delivering on commitments to the people (what I suspect that the apparent majority of votes in the US are about to see *not* happen, sadly). Your voting system is definitely the way to go (and BTW a couple of States in the US have the same system for State elections, sadly not enough and not at the Federal level). I hope the "malignant tuber" doesn't get in - you are certainly contributing to keeping him out!
Thanks Robert. I've noticed that some US states have ranked choice voting - it shows that it is possible for you to reform your electoral system, too. It might not be easy or a smooth path, but it has to start somewhere!
Two challenges to reforming the US presidential election system: (1) changing to a national preference system would require a constitutional amendment, which is very difficult, and (2) The two major parties LIKE the current system, as it keeps out the riff-raff. The best we can reasonably do despite the efforts of the parties to keep things the way the are seem to be (1) preferential / ranked choice voting within states and for representatives and senators to try to get away from extreme candidates in either party, and (2) the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, where participating states agree to award their Electoral Votes to the winner of the National Popular Vote. Alas, even those reforms likely will be rather difficult to put in place, as the currently-entrenched powers will fight them tooth and nail.
It would help start the ball rolling if more states split their Electoral votes instead of winner take all. That way people start feeling that they actually do have a say in the election instead of being buried by others.
Spot on! I've been voting NOT SHIT for a few decades now.
Thanks Gerald - more and more people are with every election
It's being reported that ballots with only a vote for president normally occur at a rate of 0.1 to 1 % across the US every election since the 1980s. However, the 2024 US election had over 5 %, over 8 %, one state over 11 % of such ballots, and only in 7 swing states, none of the states surrounding any of those swing states. Wouldn't want to get hopes too high, but that's some shit that would be interesting to see the pattern it makes when it hits the fan.
Yes, bullet ballots, the numbers for those are way too high. One swing state had almost all bullet ballots occur in a single county, a statistical impossibility unless there was tampering. Planet Critical had an overview on what happened, it's dodgy as all hell.