Marty_d

Who'd want to visit the USA? Its time is over. We should be forming stronger defence bonds with Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and NZ, as well as maintaining cordial relationships with China, India, and the rest of Asia. If saying bad things about their dictator is enough to stop visitors, their whole tourism sector is going to go tits up.

Jerry? Is that you??

The sad thing is, many of those worse affected who voted him in, will still support him as their lives worsen.

Michael Madsen has also died. Best known for his role in Reservoir Dogs, where he dances to "Stuck in the middle with you" while torturing a cop with a straight razor.

As Peter just mentioned, Trumps "Big Beautiful Bill" has passed. This bill is beautiful for billionaires, because they benefit hugely from tax cuts. It's very much horrible for most Americans, removing vast amounts of money from health, food assistance programs, education and environment. This is so it can pay for those tax cuts for the wealthy, as well as increasing the size of ICE's budget by a factor of 14 (from $3.5b to $48.5b). Despite these cuts it will still add 3.3 TRILLION dollars of debt over the next decade. This, by any objective view, is a terrible and harmful bill. The people it affects the most are the poorest, and ironically, their "representatives" in the Republican party are the ones who pushed it through - against their own interests, their political interests, and the interests of their constituents. Why? I can only think that Trump and his MAGA freaks, so similar to Hitler and his Brownshirts, have such a grip of fear on house Republicans that they do not have the courage to stand up to him, even on such a disgusting piece of legislation. What else can explain why they would vote for something so wrong? Many of them had publicly spoken out against the bill in the days before they passed it. Seeing this travesty makes me so glad we don't have a "cult of personality" type head of state here in Australia. I'm actually starting to think that remaining a monarchy and being kind of attached to the UK is no bad thing. Let's face it, no one is going to throw themselves on a grenade for Albo or Sussan. They are simply the politician who happens to lead their party, not an emperor-wannabe who wants to impose his twisted desires on the whole country. We have sufficient distance from our "King" that neither he nor his successors have any influence over our country. I kind of think of England as the old parent's place; America is the rebellious older child who left and joined a religious cult, Australia is the younger but more mature kid who lives apart from Mum or Dad but still gets on ok with them.

Some of his top brass tried, there was a bomb attempt. Operation Valkyrie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot

And a way of giving birth.

I thought it was the French who were better known for eating p... oh wait, that's different...

It'd be a great day if Trump, Putin and Netanyahu had a moment of clarity, realised their massive negative impact on the world and topped themselves.

I think the quarter of a billion Elon gave him to get elected compensated for his anti-EV sentiments

ICE cars certainly aren't exempt from panel problems. Our 2015 Santa Fe has one of the plastic lower door panels peeling off and just lost a plastic under-body panel in front of the passenger side front wheel. Mind you we do live up a dirt road. Fords used to be notorious for door and window problems, my old XE Falcon only had one fully working door handle and unfortunately it wasn't the drivers one.

It was a classic conflation by the AFL. "If you want a team, you gotta build the stadium". There's heaps of cars on the road with "Yes AFL team, Yes stadium" bumper stickers, and an equal number with "No stadium" on them. But until recently I never saw one with "Yes AFL team, No stadium". Trouble is, the state government went along with it, Jeremy saw a chance to build his legacy, and Labor jumped on board as well. Now we're in the ridiculous situation where both major parties want the $1b+ stadium even though this snap election is because the state's budget is already in the shitter, so anyone opposed to the stadium is going to be voting for the Greens or other minor parties/independents, and whoever gets in is going to have a far smaller minority than the Libs currently do. As I said the majority of diehard footy fans are up north. We have a population here of about half a mil. Are they really expecting crowds of 5-10% of the entire state's population to attend every game?

I wouldn't go as far as Litespeed but he is a waste of space. Heard him on the radio the other day talking up the Macquarie Point white elephant and saying that if the Tasmanian government doesn't build it, no business will trust them. Absolute shite. There's probably about 2000 people in Tassie who physically regularly go to the football, and most of them are from the north of the state. I don't particularly care whether Tassie gets a football team or not, but to my mind the AFL have acted like absolute c**ts in mandating, as a deal-breaker, a new billion dollar stadium which the state can't afford in prime waterfront land which should be mixed use restaurant/ park/ boulevard etc.

Well, when I say "leathers" I'm only talking about jacket, boots and gloves - I would like some leather pants at some point but it's jeans at the moment. Not sure that I would want to take on a log truck regardless of outfit, or vehicle for that matter. Grandma is safe.

Plenty of CCTV around fuel pumps. If you drive off without paying they know your rego. What made me laugh the other day is when I walked into the service station in my leathers with helmet to buy some chips for the kids, and the attendant asked if I had filled up as well - but there were no motorbikes near the pumps.