Come with us on a glorious journey back through the weirdest, greatest and most profoundly stupid moments in politics across Australia and the world in 2022.
Former US president Donald Trump today announced he is releasing a series of collectable NFT cards for US$99 each. Impressively ugly, they depict him as, among other things, a superhero rippling with muscle and shooting lasers from his eyes. Again, this is a former democratically elected head of a major world power. It was a perfect way to end what has been an exhaustingly weird and stupid year for politics here and around the world. So much so that we didn’t even get to the distinctly cooked Victorian state election — if you want to delve into that smorgasbord, check in here, and here.
Crazy for Albanese
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of course, largely had a good year, leading the ALP back into government after nearly a decade in the wilderness. But it wasn’t all plain sailing — his inability to recall the unemployment and cash rates (and the meme-ready face he made accompanying that failure) dominated the first weeks of the campaign. All the more horrifying for any Labor politician, his stuff-up inadvertently paved the way for a slam-dunk for Greens Leader Adam Bandt, who responded to an attempt at a similar gotcha with “Google it, mate”, solidifying him as the only party leader who appeared to have any fun during the election.
Albanese soon consoled himself with a bizarre ongoing friendship with purveyor of early 2000s bangers Fatman Scoop, as well as a bike ride with Indonesian President Joko Widodo — the official video of which was shot and cut like the world’s least eventful action film.
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