Marty_d

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.

If he had his own ejection seat the choice would be easier. Wouldn't even need the missile.

If it came down to a choice between those 2 shows, I'd read a book.

She draws Barnaby so well. That shade of purple is reserved for him.

Prime minister Pauline Hanson?! Is this the inevitable conclusion of our beleaguered democracy? | First Dog on the Moon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/11/prime-minister-pauline-hanson-is-this-the-inevitable-conclusion-of-our-beleaguered-democracy?CMP=share_btn_url

I went to visit my mum on Saturday and she had a YouTube video paused on her computer - something about a sniper taking a 600m shot. When I asked her about it she was telling me how interesting it was, this female sniper doing a 600m shot against the Taliban in Afghanistan recently. However, the woman on the screen and her male spotter looked like models, their olive drab clothes were WW2, their pistols looked like Glock butts with weird circular end on the slide, and the rifle had iron sights! Pure AI slop. God knows what it was telling her.

Funny thing - I reckon it's AI generated.

Were there any windows on display? They seem to be the major cause of death for senior figures in Russia.

So did I!