For our international followers Barnaby Joyce is Australia's two time Deputy Prime Minister, who cosplays as a down-to-earth farmer despite having been a banker and an accountant before entering politics, being lifelong best mates with a mining billionaire, and having attended one of Sydney's most prestigious and expensive private schools growing up (along with half of his parliamentary colleagues).
Barnaby is probably best known for being the reason a "bonk ban" was introduced to Australia's Parliament house, making it illegal for politicians to have sex in the Capital, after it was revealed he had gotten his Parliamentary PA pregnant while on the job. This was problematic on two fronts given:
a) He was already very married at that time and
b) He was campaigning against gay-marriage on the grounds of "protecting the institution of marriage"
Needless to say, he was clowned out of office for this (and also clowned some more when he went on TV with his mistress and tried to claim it could be anyone's baby - despite knowing it was his kid)
Barnaby proceeded to dump his wife and move in with his PA Vikki, only to walk into another PR disaster when it was revealed his new digs were being provided rent-free in what most would consider to be "a giant fucking bribe". Also his former wife responded by becoming a professional bodybuilder.
Despite losing his job as Deputy Prime Minister over this - Barnaby regained the role a few years later, by rolling the acting Prime Minister in the middle of a Covid outbreak crisis, while the actual Prime Minister was out of the country and powerless to stop Barnaby's dumbass colleagues from temporarily putting him in the top job.
Here's a pic of Barnaby pushing over a small child at his swearing-in ceremony (the real Prime Minister had to Zoom in):
To give an idea of how much the public still hadn't forgiven him, a few days later Barnaby was fined by police after a member of the public dobbed him in for going into a petrol station without wearing a facemask, as was required at the time.
Other than that you might also know Barnaby from the time he tried to murder Johnny Depp's pet dogs 'Pistol and Boo', after he said Depp would only be allowed to leave the country with his pups intact if the Hollywood actor uploaded this bizzare hostage video about Australia's quarantine rules to an official Government youtube channel:
This is not the first time Joyce's drunken antics have gotten him into trouble, with the man having previously also fallen asleep in parliament in what many suspected to be a drunken stupor:
Anyway we'll leave you with this last pic, reminding you that this man has on many occasions been in charge of an entire continent:
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