The ABC’s fact-check desk, which usually spends its days warning that climate change will soon cause boiling oceans, flying spiders, and the extinction of Labradoodles, was quick to label Trump’s words “dangerous misinformation.” Analysts say this was the first red flag.
China’s foreign ministry then piled on, declaring the speech “false propaganda.” That was the clincher.
“It’s the golden rule,” explained one observer. “If ABC says it’s misinformation, it’s gospel. If China says it’s propaganda, you may as well tattoo it on your forehead.”
The timing has raised eyebrows. Only last week, ABC ran a piece about how children may one day be forced to drink recycled sweat because of climate change — sandwiched neatly between two glowing articles on the “ethical benefits” of Chinese-made wind turbines, despite the fact they’re allegedly built using slave labour.
Critics have suggested that the public is now trapped in a bizarre moral universe where coal is evil, but buying solar panels from a totalitarian state running concentration camps is considered “the responsible choice.”
Meanwhile, Albanese has reportedly booked a 12-minute FaceTime with Don Jr. to get clarity on what’s real and what’s not.