Everyone Is Roasting This Liberal Politician After He Was Caught Making Shit Up
Angus Taylor has been credited with walking on the moon, inventing the internet, and discovering time travel.
Australia’s Energy Minister has been copping it these last few months — and no, it’s not for being the MP in charge of emissions reduction for a government whose policy is basically ‘we’ve done enough‘.
Angus Taylor is currently in the middle of a police investigation (you can find a full explainer here), and there are calls for him to be dumped from the front bench.
In the midst of the scandal, a section from Taylor’s maiden speech to parliament in 2013 has gone viral.
Angus Taylor was elected in the same year as me. He came highly (self) billed. So I went along to listen to his first speech to see what he was about.
A ‘future PM’ setting out what he most believed in, his purpose in politics..
He spoke about the War on Christmas. https://t.co/rIAamVhNBb pic.twitter.com/5pweWKPhOQ
— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) November 29, 2019
It wasn’t the fact he used his maiden speech to talk about Christmas trees that caught people’s attention; it was his namecheck of American feminist author Naomi Wolf.
Because the thing is, Naomi Wolf was definitely not at Oxford in 1991 when Angus Taylor was.
I was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford 1985-88. Angus Taylor recalls me in a fever dream at Oxford in 1991 among those warring on Xmas.(I was in NYC). (Plus I love Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa.) Flattered to be on this mythological hate list. Imaginary “war on Xmas” worked in US too.
— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) December 2, 2019
It’s all a bit awkward for Angus. In Question Time today, Labor was savage.
Labor asks about Taylor and Naomi Wolf. "Given that the minister has been misleading the parliament since the day he arrived, is he proud of his consistency, that he has continued his career as he began it"? Tony Smith bins the question #qt
— Katharine Murphy (@murpharoo) December 3, 2019
It didn’t take long for Twitter to pile on with the fun new hashtag #ThingsAngusTaylorDid, which was trending this morning. If it makes him feel any better, the thread is full of people giving him credit for all kinds of amazing feats.
Besides, getting memed is probably the least of his concerns now.
It all started with this tweet:
Don’t you remember when Angus Taylor walked on the moon in 1963? True story. #ThingsAngusTaylorDid
— 💧 Mad Fucking Witches (@MadFckingWitch) December 2, 2019
And so the pile on began.
I remember reading in school how Angus Taylor discovered Australia. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus. #thingsangustaylordid
— janiebowbanie (@janiebowbanie) December 2, 2019
Who else remembers when Angus Taylor created the internet?#ThingsAngusTaylorDid
— Ruby Brunswick (@RubyBrunswick) December 2, 2019
Angus Taylor knows what happened to Harold Holt. #ThingsAngusTaylorDid pic.twitter.com/PXTJAjs1p6
— David Marler (@Qldaah) December 2, 2019
Angus Taylor invented solar power way before the sun was even a thing #thingsAngusTaylordid
— Lousy_cricketer (@RadioPhysician) December 2, 2019
Angus Taylor invented time travel so he could send Greta Thurnberg back in time #ThingsAngusTaylorDid pic.twitter.com/BoBNxRBX1I
— 🐠💦🇦🇺LivinInAPetrostate🌏 (@CntrlPimpernel) December 2, 2019
Sir Edmund Hillary’s recently discovered diary reveals that when he and Tenzing Norgay finally reached the summit of Everest, Angus Taylor was already there waiting!#ThingsAngusTaylorDid
— 💧Thechachi (@Thechachi1) December 3, 2019
Discovered King Tut's burial chamber and wrote a bestseller Death of the Nile which inspired Agatha Christie to write Death On The Nile. pic.twitter.com/6AmiAhCevp
— Action NOW. We are in Tinderbox Territory (@Outofthewoodsi1) December 3, 2019
Did you know Issac Newton, an English mathematician and physicist was a complete hack?, Angus Taylor actually discovered the law of gravitation, forces that draw objects to each other, Angus connected 💧 and💰, that’s why things are falling down now! #ThingsAngusTaylorDid #auspol
— 💧MelissaD (@D_Melissa2) December 3, 2019
#ThingsAngusTaylorDid
Angus is busy writing the next installment of his best selling books, A Series of Unfortunate Events.— Maranoa Girl (@GDixon1977) December 3, 2019
Yep it was Angus #ThingsAngusTaylorDid pic.twitter.com/kLFdZ7HUa1
— GeorgieBoy (@Lynny_Pinnie) December 2, 2019
The Murray-Darling system did not even exist until Angus Taylor picked up a shovel and dug a channel from one end of the country to the other.#ThingsAngusTaylorDid
— cnqaus (@cnqaus) December 2, 2019
Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe but it was actually Angus Taylor, just quietly. #ThingsAngusTaylorDid #auspol2019 pic.twitter.com/pTcyXl50iX
— 💧C h r i s 🏳️🌈🌲🚴♂️🌏 (@Chris86767838) December 2, 2019
I do recall as a young boy hearing my grandparents recount how Angus Taylor invented the bubonic plague to rid the world of commoners.#ThingsAngusTaylorDid #QandA #auspol #qanda
— Ed (@terkey76) December 2, 2019
But uh, not all of them were so “flattering”.
Shook the hand of an ordinary unwashed constituent, without the aid of a hand sanitizer. Heartwarming. #ThingsAngusTaylorDid
— Camellia Feteiha (@C_M_Feteiha) December 3, 2019
Did you know know that Angus Taylor gave Scomao his own undies when Scomao shat himself at the Engadine Maccas? #thingsAngusTaylordid
— Lousy_cricketer (@RadioPhysician) December 2, 2019
#ThingsAngusTaylorDid killed #Epstein #EpsteinSuicideCoverUp
— Glen cares (@grbradbury) December 3, 2019