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Good. The sooner he blows a fuse the better. A visibly insane Trump is probably the only thing that would get the politically lethargic US voters to kick him and the Republicans out. I don't think even the useless lackeys he's surrounded himself with would follow his orders if he told them to nuke Germany or something.

I think Meloni (who is not a particularly nice person herself) has made the political calculation that in most of the world, including Italy, it's more palatable with the voters to stand up to Trump rather than lick his arse. This is good, because if even right wing politicians realise this, then centrists and left leaning ones should definitely realise it. I think the clown is going to find out that he's not going to get a lot of respect or time from other world leaders any more.

In the continued saga of everything Trump touches turns to shit, his plan to paint the Lincoln reflecting pool a more patriotic shade of blue has worked about as well as his Operation Epic Fury (maybe should be renamed "Epic Fuckup"). When they put the water back in, algae turned it green. Then when they used chemicals to kill the algae (no doubt under a lot of pressure from the Trump administration), it peeled up the $14m blue paint. Of course the retard-in-chief is blaming "vandalism" as the cause, nothing to do with giving a $14m project to someone who painted a mate's pool once. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/trump-reflecting-pool-renovation-vandalism

They're still up to it. When we were there this year I often saw scooters with 2 blokes, the back one holding on to a trailer loaded with bricks.

I've never understood sidecars. To me it destroys the whole purpose of a motorbike, which is to have fun leaning through corners.

He's back! I especially liked the last one. It's what's in the mind of many young blokes (and women) in the nightclub...

Their triage is usually good. Head injury or chest pain, straight in. Something that's not going to kill you, you'll be waiting.

You're a better man than me. I despise the prick.

Ben Jennings on Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/18/ben-jennings-donald-trump-ceasefire-deal-iran-cartoon?CMP=share_btn_url

What an idiot.

You're better than me OT. I thought the first bit was "F*** you" then couldn't figure out the rest. 😄

Trump ripped up Obama's nuclear treaty with Iran, then started a pointless war that cost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, half of the US missiles and tens of aircraft, disrupted shipping to most of the world and caused fuel crises in many countries. Now he's desperate to end the war before the midterms, so is doing a "deal" that leaves the Iranian regime better off than before the war. Tell me again how he's "righting the ship"?

I don't think this is going to affect working class individuals much. @pmccarthy's example would be treated under existing rules anyway as gains prior to 1/7/27 are grandfathered. It's more for people who can afford high value appreciating assets - art, diamonds etc which they currently use to avoid tax. I'd argue that. I'm not badly off and we don't have anything besides the family home that will appreciate in value. Most of the people I know are in the same situation.

My eldest son is 18 today. Couldn't be prouder of the fine young man he's become. 😊

Yes, that war was an exercise in futility - accomplished less than what they had going in. Comprehensively lost. What a twat. And he doesn't even realise it.

That's because it's true. Her health policy is straight from the Trump administration and would wreck our world class health system.

Greens are fairly stable on 12% - according to a recent article about why they're not benefiting from the downturn in major party support, their support is increasing in the Gen Z cohort but simultaneously decreasing in the older generation. Which, going forward, should be a net increase.

In karate there's a short punch - not sure how it's spelled, but they pronounce it "shitozuki". I commented to another student tonight that I used to own a shit Suzuki, and that was also a short stroke (GS750F). Man that was a crap bike.

If they interview the bird, maybe it can answer that age-old question of why it was crossing the road...

Minority government has been fairly common until Labor's big seat haul. In some ways I think it works better, they have to negotiate to get things done. The problem is of course that if the LNP is in power they negotiate first with the far right parties. If Labor is in they usually negotiate with the Greens first which gives better outcomes. While having a majority does give them the ability to make good reform, like these CGT discount changes, it can lead to complacency which then gets punished at the next election.

PHONey's vetting practices haven't improved. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/16/one-nation-hitler-youth-john-drew-ntwnfb

Tell me where you get the figure and show how you known it's corruption.

That's kind of like saying "I'm sick of this rash, I'd rather have my arms amputated."

Better turn the spell checker off Jerry, it wouldn't be the same without your unique approach to the English language.

Well I get my news from reliable sources and don't doomscroll right wing social media, is that what you mean? "now albo the liar is breaking his ellection promises and bringing far too many immigrants with no regard to infastructure." Wrong. Absolutely dead wrong. State parties may share the name but are absolutely different beasts. You made the statement that Labor is soft on crime, therefore you should provide proof of this. Bearing in mind the judiciary is not an arm of the government of the day, where are your statistics that show that ANY change of law that federal Labor has made is "softer on crime" than the previous LNP government? (Opinion from Sky News does not count as proof.) While very tempted, I will restrain from agreeing with you and just point out that your post does not contain truth. It's mainly a tirade against a state government based on sensationalist reporting of some horrible crimes, somehow conflated with the federal government which is what we're talking about here. No one is saying that Victoria doesn't have problems with crime, and if you want to split it up by ethnicity that's up to you - but if I can give you some local examples, a few years ago a Hobart man killed his wife, chopped her into pieces and flushed her down the toilet. His ethnicity wasn't mentioned, because he was white. Another white man killed 35 people down the road at Port Arthur. And a bloke I worked with was bashed into a coma by a youth gang of 15 year olds - all white. If I were to do what you're doing I would be jumping up and down saying that Tassie has a real crime problem with white offenders. Because if we ignore similar patterns overseas we are doomed to repeat them. Only a complete moron couldn't see the similarities between Trump and Hanson - they're both populists, rabble-rousers, seeking to amplify disaffected people's innermost fears and prejudices. They're both funded by billionaires who know that they will get a great return on their investment at the cost of everyone else in the country. They both have no trust in experts and want to control everything and make unilateral decisions without considering the consequences. And by the looks of PHONey's business and accounting practices they're both dodgy as hell in that regard.