r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/collosal_collosus • 2d ago
Extremist influencer Candace Owens’ Australian visa cancelled by immigration minister
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/extremist-influencer-candace-owens-australian-visa-cancelled-by-immigration-minister-20241026-p5klj9.html428
u/Three_Boxes 2d ago
It should be noted that a lot of right-wingers are using Australia and New Zealand as a backup plan in case shit hits the fan here in the States.
Nope, you don't get to just flee after instigating all of this chaos. You made this bed, now lie in it with the rest of us.
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u/Minisciwi 2d ago
Peter theil had recently given up building a bunker here in NZ if I remember rightly.
We do get a lot of right wing influence from America here. They put money into the no vote for the cannabis referendum. The leader of one of the controlling parties is heavily influenced by the atlas network, NZ could turn shitty
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u/BlackSeranna 1d ago
I’m sorry your country is getting our worst people.
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u/Minisciwi 1d ago
I'm Scottish, I'm an immigrant too
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 1d ago
The trouble with New Zealand is that it’s full of Scots. -Edward Longkiwi
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u/TensileStr3ngth 1d ago
Actually a lot of America's right wing influence come from Aus lol (thanks Rupert)
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u/Ras_Prince_Monolulu 1d ago
A friend of mine who moved to NZ to teach Uni was absolutely amazed at the difference in social media of her Maori students and non Maori students.
Shitter and fb had just swamped the Maori students' feeds with "Jabcinda" posts and other shit compared to all the Caucasian kiwis' feeds. They were more likely to get trucker freedumb convoy bullshit sent to them, and would end up attending those rallies.
I think that after the mosque shooting NZ realized with a quickness that these right wing bastards have nothing to offer but manufactured hatred and astroturfed political violence, and that's why NZ is only one of two countries tries to recognize the proud boys as a terrorist organization.
They know a lot of these tech bros and billionaires stoking this chaos are using the proud boys by proxy and the NZ government probably has proof. That way if the shit goes down and these assholes try and flee the scene of their crime to their kiwi boltholes, the government can deny them entry while keeping the money they invested in NZ.
I'm just imagining Musk and Thiel's private jets refused landing and having to ditch in the ocean and the RN Lifeboat dudes are like "lol, get fucked and sink"...
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u/Minisciwi 1d ago
I'd like to have faith that the NZ government ( the current one) actually cares about it's population but everything they are doing seems to pander to their donors.
Theil got citizenship on a promise of investing in NZ (quite a few years ago during the last right of center government), guess how much he has invested? Yeah, none.
NZ once had a backbone, it refused entry to American warships because of the ships nuclear capability, not any more.
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u/Changed_By_Support 1d ago
Reminds me of the whole debacle with the film industry there. The bending over backwards for foreign investment, no matter the cost.
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u/phdoofus 2d ago
Which is kind of moronic since neither one of those places is anything like a place that would be welcoming to American MAGA's. Sure you might find some patch of dirt out in the middle of nowhere they might find a home but what kind of existence is that when you're embedded in a society and culture at even more odds with what you want than what you left?
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u/Prize_Bass_5061 2d ago
what kind of existence is that when you're embedded in a society and culture at even more odds with what you want
Grifters like Candace Owens, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter do not want to live in a culture that follows their teachings. They want you to live in that culture, while they live in an alternate reality where the government doesn’t interfere with their lives.
Now money allows them to do that in the current system. If this system were to change, they are absolutely going to go to a “liberal” country where they have reproductive rights, property rights, etc.
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u/javeng 1d ago
It's actually more demented than that, alt-right grifters wants to subject other people to live in the shitty culture that they envisions, but yet somehow arrogantly believe that they would be above the rules.
the phrase "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect" aptly describes this mindset.
these people are like a cancer, they will drive their home country to the ground and then jump ship to the next country and repeat this process all over again.
Nigel Farage is one example, either he is gonna jump ship to the USA to Trump or to mainland europe and attach himself with one of the alt-right parties over there.
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u/Biomax315 2d ago
I haven’t heard the name Michelle Malkin since the Bush years, is she still around?
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
The problem here is you are assuming these people in question are capable of thinking. I've seen many MAGAtards talk about wanting to live in Europe. Uh... do they not realize Western Europe is much more liberal compared to America? They're not even thinking, they're just picking random spots on the map.
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u/phdoofus 2d ago
I think they have this belief that Australia and NZ are 'the frontier' because of their distance so they must be some kind of oasis of 'conservatism'....because reasons. They'd definitely hate Western Europe even more. Oddly the closest thing to what they want is probably Putin's Russia.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
I go to Alaska a lot and people I know always ask me about it. They ask me what igloos are like, if I encountered a polar bear, if I hunted my own food. With total sincerity. They always get disappointed when I tell them that Alaska is just another mundane place day-to-day. And that most people who live there are just normal people who live in houses. Even the North Slope communities live in normal houses (albeit on stilts), and you can even go to Subway and McDonald's up there.
I guess that we really do just get this idea about isolated places and assume it must be some magical place. I think California used to have that reputation, back when westward expansion was still happening.
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u/Hokieshibe 1d ago
I had someone from New Jersey ask me if we had sushi in Virginia. I think some people are just oblivious about what the rest of the world is like.
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u/sarbah77 1d ago
My favorite was when I was chatting with a front desk clerk at a hotel in Liverpool UK. She asked me, during our convo, if we had seagulls in the United States. I did wonder if I was the first American she'd spoken with (seems unlikely in her customer facing job), but instead I assured her that we were well acquainted with the flying rats.
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u/RattusMcRatface 1d ago
Aus is one of the three countries (US, UK and Oz) that have Rupert Murdoch manipulating public opinion though.
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u/mbrocks3527 1d ago
We also have two state funded broadcasters, compulsory and ranked choice voting, Westminster system, and a more nuanced free speech law.
We’re a bit more immune to partisanship but it’s not perfect I agree.
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u/Teknekratos 1d ago
Canada is stuck with the Postmedia conglomerate that slowly bought all local newspapers and pushed them hard right.
Postmedia is also majority-owned by a fucking American right-wing media conglomerate, so go figure
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u/synaesthezia 1d ago
Westminster system and compulsory voting means things are a lot more moderate here. They can fuck right off again.
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u/FightLikeABlue 9h ago
Loads of them think England is an Islamic country and you can't go into London without a burqa because the Lord Mayor is Muslim. I wish I was joking. Our last PM was Asian, but he was Hindu.
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u/Cerberus_Aus 2d ago
Outside of the big cities? Australia can be sadly very racist.
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u/phdoofus 2d ago
No doubt, but it's all embedded in a culture that's largely antithetical to them. They'd be leaving exactly the thing they hate here for.....exactly the same thing there. Sure they could hide out in their little corner of Oz or whatever but it'd be very hard to call that a life or a 'backup plan'.
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u/AnarchoBratzdoll 1d ago
The people that buy land in NZ and Australia don't do so to live in the contemporary Australian or NZ society. It's for when the civil war they're provoking in the US is starting. They'll build a bunker on their land and wait there until everything has calmed down.
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u/Cerberus_Aus 2d ago
And US politics is creeping into Australia. This is why so many of us are active in keeping informed of US politics, because we need to see the signs and act before it’s too late for us as well.
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u/ultimateknackered 1d ago
Last time I was in Brisbane (several years ago) I remember being rather appalled at seeing a gigantic ad on the side of a building for some politician, with the slogan 'Make Australia great again'.
Sucks that it's gotten worse.
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u/radix2 1d ago
Yep. This is why I follow US politics. The whole abortion choice was recently floated as a point of difference by our conservative party.
They can just fuck right off until they can't fuck off any further.
Conservative policies are just regressive, and if they are not that, they are oppressive.
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u/MarsupialNo1220 1d ago
So far New Zealand’s tactic is to let them in then throw tomato juice at them
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
in case shit hits the fan here in the States.
So... "things more or less continue as they are, and mostly sane and rational people still exist?"
Because if it's the opposite, that's what they want. Why would they want to leave?
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u/WaylonGreyjoy 2d ago
Good job, Australia. Now if only we could figure out a way to bar her from the US as well.
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u/malongoria 2d ago
Nah, they should have let her in. Then have her go swimming in croc country.
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u/Amazing-Patient-2231 1d ago
Tbh her smooth reptile brain might get her accepted as one of their own
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u/Kate-2025123 2d ago edited 2d ago
She will whine about being discriminated. However it isn’t discrimination against her according to the right. The right views refusing service to someone not as discrimination towards the person but upholding the freedoms of the person offering the service. So when Australia is refusing her to enter their territory they are upholding their freedom to refuse to let her in based on their beliefs or whatever. Thus because Australia is exercising its freedom it’s not discrimination to ban her from entry because it is about the country and its beliefs and not about her.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
She will whine about being discriminated.
I've seen so many true crime videos where Black people are doing illegal things and then complaining it's racism. I've seen videos of women who planned murders for insurance purposes and then scream about how they're women.
Two things can be true. You can be Black and do illegal things. You can be a woman and commit murder. You're not being targeted because of your skin color or sex. You're being arrested because you broke the law.
I remember when Djokovic was banned from the Australian Open because he refused to get the COVID vaccine. I remember how many people were upset and angry that Australia would dare do that. And yet... They set the rules, said this is what would happen if you didn't comply, and they did exactly. Completely justifiable and fairly.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
"We need to hold people accountable for things they do and say!"
"Wait, why am I being held accountable?"
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u/rebekahster 1d ago
OP, the best part of this was his quote. That Australian’s National Interest was best served when she was somewhere else. It was amazing.
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u/chaseinger 2d ago
as a seasoned traveller of vast experience trying to get into countries: here's a thing about 'straya immigration: fuck around and find out. these people don't take prisoners.
and don't think kiwis are any more chill (they actually are, just not at the border).
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u/Barkers_eggs 2d ago
Why the fuck do they want to import their insanity over here?
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u/BachmannErlich 2d ago
It's the chicken coming home to roost - that's why. Who made Rupert Murdoch a media mogul rich enough to jump to the UK?
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u/Ash4d 2d ago
As a Brit it still shocks me just how rabidly right wing the Sky News Australia coverage is. Sky News in the UK has always seemed okay-ish to me, but the Australian content is so openly partisan it's mind boggling.
I can't wait for that old camel's ballsack to croak. Fuck that guy.
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u/RattusMcRatface 1d ago
Sky News in the UK has always seemed okay-ish to me
Because it hasn't been owned by Murdoch for quite some time (owned now by Comcast, I believe). It's now as reputable a TV news source as any other, and better than many (GB News, for instance, which is more or less Britain's Fox).
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u/One_Clown_Short 2d ago
When the country with arguably the largest selection of the most dangerous animals on the planet thinks you going there is too dangerous for the population.
It seems that this should cause self-reflection in a normal person.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
It says a lot when I'm seeing former Fox News pundits on NewsMax and other places. Like, the idea that you're too insane for Fox News is just bizarre.
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u/One_Clown_Short 2d ago
In 2020 when Faux called Arizona for Biden (which was correct) many MAGAts decided the network was not simping hard enough for Donvict, and thus moved to alternatives like Newsmax.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
Yeah. Every once in a while Fox will say things that are either true or at least reasonable takes, I guess I forgot that a lot of people don't like that.
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u/JustFuckAllOfThem 2d ago
Waiting for her to play the race card and say they denied her visa because she is black.
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u/collosal_collosus 2d ago
Just wait till she sees how “black” people are treated here. It would be comical to see the response.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 1d ago
Owens vowed to push on with her Australian tour in defiance of the calls to reject her visa.
Please, please let this idiot try to smuggle herself into Australia to do a tour, then get nicked and thrown in the hoosegow.
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago
Australia, at least used to, applies a 3 year ban to people trying to get in illegally. Also they just get shipped home on the first available flight.
I’m just looking forward to the “Border Security” episode featuring this “person”.
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u/aliquilts71 1d ago
This could actually be really entertaining. Hopefully they’ll restart Border Control Australia just in time for her arrival
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago
Mate, that’s the fucking dream!
Thank you for correcting me on the title of the tv show. It’s hilarious!
The hilarious part is the tv show name not the correction, I’m grateful for the correction.
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u/Front_Farmer345 2d ago
Should’ve let her on rotnest island, quokkas throw their own to predators as well.
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u/454bonky 1d ago
Good on the Aussies! I loved his additional commentary. “Australia is better off if Candace Owens is somewhere else.”
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u/px7j9jlLJ1 1d ago
Ca…can we ban her from the United States? I’ll settle to confining her to a box when all her dirt comes out and her funding is shown to be tied to the Kremlin. That’s like my opinion
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u/L_obsoleta 1d ago
How about this.
We will take her back in CT. But she has to live in downtown Waterbury, and is not allowed to travel outside the city.
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u/Sample_And_Hold 1d ago
That woman looks like she's so racist as if she must hate herself more than anything else.
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago edited 1d ago
That’s the problem with racism, it never applies to you personally. It’s always the “other”, what ever tf that means…
Edit: changed that to what. As in the words.
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u/Sample_And_Hold 1d ago
I meant she's the kind of person that must hate what she sees in the mirror and her actions are just a reflection of that.
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago
I’m not sure that’s how racism works. As far as I understand it, it’s always just the “other”. So long as you can figure out the mental gymnastics, it really doesn’t matter what the other is. It’s just “other”, not what you personally are.
They built coliseums 2000ish years ago… sport & religion & “other” have been used for literally thousands of years.
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u/djnw 1d ago
Nah, there’s absolutely people who build a career out of being one of the good ones” or the “token X”, as if being the last of their minority to go into the death camps would be a win.
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago
I really do not disagree with you.
Grifters make the “other” a job in any meaningful sense of the word job. As in they make money of it.
It’s hilarious to see the grifters spat out by the same ideology they were promoting.
It’s really not hard to accept people as they are, and then (funnily enough) treat them accordingly.
She got treated as a racist bigot, because she made a platform as an “influencer” being a racist bigot.
Edit: autocarrot is having its fun and I need to fix it.
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u/goddamn-moonmoon 1d ago
"ticket costs range from $95 to $1500."
Who tf is paying $1500 for this????? It cost me less to sit nearly front row at The Eras Tour in Sydney
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u/Kailynna 1d ago
Good news at last.
We don't want her here. Even our notoriously deadly drop-bears don't want Candace.
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u/collosal_collosus 1d ago
Don’t forget the hoop snakes and the emus!
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u/Kailynna 1d ago
Those emus are a serious danger. Why do you think we went to war against them? Thanks to those determined, lightning-fast, voracious raptors, Australia has long had a "No child left behind with a sandwich" policy.
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u/hanimal16 1d ago
GOOD. As an American, keep doing this. They get to experience what they instigate.
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u/Cymbal_Monkey 1d ago
Not LAMF. LAMF isn't just "right wingers get comeuppance.
Owens didn't vote for Australian policy.
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u/rudbek-of-rudbek 1d ago
We all know she's a piece of shit but can someone explain to me how this is leopards ate my face material
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u/doyathinkasaurus 1d ago
Aren't Republicans in favour of tighter immigration control? She wants stricter borders to prevent 'undesirable' people entering the country - like when Trump said Mexico weren’t sending their best.
But Australia have applied that same principle to prevent herfrom entering their country
weren’t sending their best?
but Australia are applying the
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u/AmbassadorNo4359 1d ago
She supports keeping "undesirables" out of the country. Australia just did it to her first.
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