so the federal Liberals have finished crafting how the federal budget will be used to launch Liberal Party campaigning. Once more, they are fabricating opposition policy, lying about headline economic figures; and demonising both employed and unemployed workers.

the treasurer is out and about this morning campaigning on the massive lie that their disastrous economic management - truckloads of our cash that they give to client donors and spend on targeted vote buying - will create “jobs”. What jobs? Gig work is not a “job”.

using another federal budget to launch another Liberal Party campaign composed of the same “economic management” lies is just about generating headline figures. They nail Liberal Party slogans to phoney “jobs” numbers and tada. The press does the rest.

while Josh Frydenberg uses the “unemployment rate” to campaign for re-election of wealthy politicians who give public money to wealthy voters, actual under- and unemployed people and their kids struggle with every bill, with homelessness and mental health conditions.

while Josh Frydenberg boasts about “driving” the “lowest rate of welfare dependency”, whole families and communities and sectors struggle to manage the poverty, homelessness, mental illness and violence created by his cruel and punitive income support policy settings.

and mourn their dead. Morrison government “jobless” policies drive people to an early grave. This is the crux of the boastful lies that Frydenberg is broadcasting to Coalition voters and those wavering wealthy males they need to win again.

they are lying to the upper and middle classes about the lower and under classes for re-election, and no amount of indulgent press gallery chuckling about debt and deficit hypocrisy can or will counter this strategy. Nor is it intended to.

Howard learnt to lean in on “trust” and thanks to the press, it worked. Morrison is leaning in on every lie and fuckup of the last seven years - which is everything they touch other than client donor and franking boomer interests - and thanks to the press, it is working.

I can barely keep posting this stuff. I feel sick. How Morrison government politicians are using people they impoverish afford literally kill to campaign for re-election. How press gallery journalists chortle tepid “hypocrisy” takes while REPEATING VERBATIM LIBERAL PARTY LIES.