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Shadow Treasurer Malcolm Roberts has met with concerned members of our puffer vest-owning community this week after the latest Federal Budget threatens to take them a bit more than before.
In closed-door fire-side chats with tech leaders and entreprenuers, the Senator for Queensland shared his own thoughts about the budget and how things could be turned around with a little, old-fashioned empirical evidence that the majority of the community rejects it.
Before getting underway, one tech entrepreneur present at the meeting told The Advocate that Senator Roberts wanted to know certain details about them.
"He said, 'Men, I need to know, you're all worth millions of dollars, right?' and we just, you know, nodded but reiterated that a lot of it's debt and so on but he just waved his hand at me to stop speaking," he said.
"Then he asked which ones of us were Catholics, which were Protestants. Then he looked at Mikey from UrbanTreats, who just got a valuation of $1.1bn by the way, and narrowed his eyes. He goes, 'You have big uncircumcised energy,' and shook his head. 'Wouldn't fly in Queensland,' he added. It just kind of threw us,"
"So Tommy and I just nodded and said yeah, we both circumcised. Tommy's a shower but I'm more of a grower and Malcolm got up and slapped us on the shoulders and said, 'My boys!' and he asked Mikey to leave, who refused to say what state his penis was in. So Mal and us just shot the shit for a few hours, he showed us pictures of a kangaroo that'd been hit by a car and he put his watch on it's paw. Fuck he thought that was funny. I guess it was, kind of. But yeah, good to chat with the Shadow Treasurer, he's actually not as crazy as he sounds. You know, he's a bit like a deeply introverted version of Bob Katter."
The Advocate reached out to the Shadow Treasurer's Office for comment but have yet to receive a reply.
More to comee.
