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First thing’s first: this post will be much more fun to read if you chuck this on.

This morning Tony Abbott went to a timber yard in Melbourne to do one of those awful staged press conferences where a politician puts on a hi-ves vest and makes dreadful banter with tradies to play at being a Real Person. At some point a timber worker asked to get a selfie with the PM wearing his sunnies, and Abbott obliged. The Age‘s Richard Willingham captured the moment Tony Abbott went from “beleaguered politician” to “420 Speed Dealer Supremacists page admin,” and it’s fucking magnificent.

Sometimes, trawling through other people’s Tweets to find the best takes on a dumb internet thing is more than my profession — sometimes it’s a Goddamn privilege. This is one of those times.

Tony Abbott [SKITZMIX 2015] [FLAC] [CD-RIP] [MIXXED BY SHANE SKILLZ].zip.torrent pic.twitter.com/ivjXumbEUV — j.r. hennessy (@jrhennessy) February 5, 2015

a considered take pic.twitter.com/xjSTjLBgdl — yung job creatuh (@dannolan) February 5, 2015

*gurning intensifies*

bae: come over me: i can’t, i’m connecting with blue collar workers bae: my parents aren’t home me: pic.twitter.com/Rms1TpAYjJ — Kemal Atlay (@kemal_atlay) February 5, 2015

Straya might have been nothing but bush but after this weekend I’m gonna be nothing but cooked pic.twitter.com/YU4bxsD52L — Christian Jeffries (@4everunrustled) February 5, 2015

Then everyone got invited to the party, because why the fuck not at this point.

Leadership of Australia to be settled at Woy Woy Maccas carpark tonight. Be there. pic.twitter.com/D5IoXkb68T — Matt Burke (@matttburke) February 5, 2015

Oldm8 who owns the sunnies even uploaded the original selfie to Facebook, and in the process established himself as a bona fide national hero.

First Christopher Pyne calls Anthony Albanese a c*nt on morning TV, and now this. What a wonderful country.

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Feature image via Richard Willingham/Twitter.