Marty_d

It's far easier to count the number of times he's told the truth. You don't even need to take your shoes off.

Wealth accumulates wealth. You can't tell me Gina "earned" 40 bill. With that saying of yours, I'd be asking where the "someone else" got their money, because it was most likely them or their ancestor being a robber baron.

Oh, how's that? I'd really love to know how the government works out who voted for them and distributes what it's "taken from everyone" to those people only. You've obviously lived through more governments than me, but I've lived through 3 worse governments than this - Howard, Abbott and Morrison.

This is an interesting read. Stick with it, it's long but puts it all in perspective. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables

It would have been interesting to be a (Chinese speaking) fly on the wall in the Chinese planning sessions leading to Trump's visit. I reckon he'd have some unflattering nicknames.

Everything except 3 and 5. He has no knowledge nor science, but still lacks character and humanity.

Well, you've just put yourself on an ASIO watchlist OT!

What sort of scrap bins do you hang around?? That's high quality scrap!

He's a petty little man. Reckon he must have been a bully at school. This article sums up his (and his family's) profiting from his position. The extent of corruption and fraud is breathtaking. Any one thing he's done, if it had been any previous president doing it, would have led to impeachment and possibly jail. But he just does it so constantly that it's the new normal. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/trump-drain-the-swap-billionaires

Yep - banks don't lose value for long.

And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon

Good. Most Australians wouldn't want anything marked "Trump" over here.

Surely they wait until they're in the locker room.

OT, be careful with buying a phone from overseas. I got caught out with that a couple of years ago, bought a new Samsung for my son from an ebay seller. 2 months later it had permanent lines on the screen. Seller didn't want to know about it. Samsung Australia wouldn't touch it under warranty because it wasn't an Australian phone. Samsung US didn't want to know about it because I wasn't the original purchaser in the US. So my son had to put up with the lines until he got a job and saved up for a new phone.

I haven't watched free to air TV in years. Everything is available on demand anyway.