Is anybody else sick to death of reading about the bloody Americans ? If they’re stupid enough to allow two disgusting billionaires to run their country they deserve what’s coming. Yes, I know, if the US sneezes we catch cold, but fuck ‘em.
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The Yanks are a shitshow for sure.
But everything they are going through could happen here.
We have the same media conservative bias & very loose contributions disclosure laws.
They show us what can happen with complacency
Oh yes! Hear, hear! Sick to death of their political stupidity, arrogance and gun crimes. Our news bulletins now contain minor news items from the US! FFS! Give us a break!
Co-President Musk likes alliances if they use the products his companies sell.
Musk seems to be making a lot of Trump's current decisions. (Or at least influencing them)
I'm done being polite to these nasty ignorant Trumpers. I will happily watch their miserable life to become more miserable in a few weeks. I hope they suffer. Yes, FVCK them.
Sure am sick and tired of the noisy ignorant sods. My main problem with them is that their stupidity is going to affect quite a few countries on the planet. Other than the 50% that voted for Kamala, they can all be fired into the sun.
Interestingly a lot of what I’m reading about is a disgusting billionaire throwing millions at right wing politics in the UK.
Probably a good idea to keep an eye on Australian politics as well.
Yep. News reports, commentary. Copied, posted, reposted here. I just want to reply "And what did you think was going to happen?" I mostly scroll by instead.
There are actually human beings behind what you wrote. We’re not responsible for the election being bought. If you knew that you would have compassion. Root for us. Not for our demise.
Totally, I try and avoid it but so much of my feed is American politics and at times you can't help but be drawn in to comment on some of the stupidity. Frustrating how so much of the world is totally controlled by USA's interests and desires.
I’ve run out of caring about the good ole USA. The worse Trump’s choices for key positions get, the more I think, yep knock yourselves out. Of course, I’m concerned that Musk’s bottomless pockets will mean the funding of far right political candidates here.
Whilst the coverage is exhausting, don't blame the average Americans feet. They are victims of a propaganda network designed to make them vote against their own interests. Their political system is designed to lock out new voices and gerrymandered to marginalise communities. Solidarity is needed.
One of many lessons from the covid lockdowns was social distancing- if Aus is so close 2 usa, that when usa sneezes Aus catches a cold, then we are far far 2close. High time Aus built fences +teach usa 2b good neighbours. Aus has the resources + intellect it certainly doesn't need usa ignorance
Definitely fuck em.
But unfortunately it will matter even more to us if the COALition actually get anywhere near Govt at the next election. (Here's hoping they don't)
The combination of a gloating Dutton & corrupt RW conservative cabal & batshit crazy Trump/Musk is VERY scary.
Harder this time round.
Trump 2.0 is already flagging he is going to scorched earth the Govt Departments & appoint toadies & extended family.
He has people around him this time who actually DO know how Govt works.
They are using that knowledge to burn it down.
More interesting is that a number of House Republicans (38) just voted AGAINST a Republican Speaker introduced Musk/Trump driven plan to bring in THEIR ideas in a Govt Funding Bill to avoid a Govt shutdown.
So 38 House Republicans jacked up against Musk pushing HIS ideas onto them.
Interesting times
Both like centre stage & the spotlight way too much.
But only one was actually elected. And has all the Party & political infrastructure behind him.
Although Trump really does like money & Elon has a LOT of it.
The only country to go from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between - anon (attribs to Bertrand Russell, Ogden Nash, Oscar Wilde and others)
No great suprise but Dump has appointed domestic violence offender, Herchele Walker, as Ambassador to the Bahamas. He's an ex NFL player & has been diagnosed with CTE.
Just imagine how tired the 50+% of the country who voted for Kamala or were ineligible to vote feel. He only got about a third of registered voters. Most of the country hates him, but unfortunately, a third of voters were too lazy or apathetic to vote. So we're all stuck with crazy.
Their simpler and/or meaner folk voted for him but on some level at least, we will be worse off for it. That and that whole environmental consequences bit
God, it’s like the car crash - you can’t look away. I want to see Tesla fall though …. I want world commitment that nobody will ever buy one again. Big hope.
Yes, they have made their bed now they have to live with their choices. There must be more interesting news in the world than continuous posts about Trump, Musk and their band of chosen ones. Let us have more interesting posts.
As an American, trust me, I understand this yet the rest of us that didn’t vote for the clown or his billionaire buddies. We face a very dangerous future as a nation. So please instead, focus on the hope we retain our democracy. The world does not need more authoritarians.
The bizarre choices made by those American voters who could be bothered to turn up to vote are simply incomprehensible to many of us looking on in astonishment from outside the USA.
President Musk and his sidekick, Trump are too hard to track - it is an insane level of grifting. I like that Mexico and Canada are telling the USA to FRO.
So true, especially now.....Americans have been "Trumped"....we should seriously rethink our relationship imo. I believe a Trump/Musk gov(dictatorship) has already begun, and the world is watching. I've got no time for Americans who didn't vote and those who voted Trump.
The Americans voted Trump into the White House TWICE. Not once which you could say was a mistake, an aberration, a protest but a second time, as you say they deserve all they get. Trump was 100% clear on his team and agenda and everyone knew his crimes and lies but still voted him in. Suck it up.
As the saying goes, you cannot fix stupid, but you can vote it out, and then they went and voted it in a second time when I had thought that perhaps peak stupidity had passed...only in America...
I’ve got the Christmas break sorted, guaranteed to bring enjoyment to an old sailor Dive and Scrap Iron , done on to the rest have a great break Mike over the New Year and thanks for the great reads , ⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️cheers
I got sick of it after their election, when ABC talked of nothing else for a week. We heard more about D.Trump’s appointees than we’ve ever heard about our actual government members.
I couldn't give a flying fuck about the Americans,wait until Spud wins the next election with the help of Murdoch and the fat bitch from the west.Then we'll have something to worry about.
I care about the literally millions of Americans who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Especially the ones fighting with every bit they have to hold back this tide of fascism.
Anything but solidarity, when it comes to people standing against fascism, is complicity.
Good point. Lots, but not enough tried and failed. Or did they? When the orange thing said he didn’t NEED any more votes, perhaps nothing would have saved them.
Amazon workers in the US are on strike right now, but your all sick of hearing about the US... And they all deserve what they get... coz..... orange guy won election in broken electoral system?
Err! He's not Aussie now. You lot have had him for decades and even gave him citizenship so don't blame us. Incidentally, that waste of skin and hair is fucking up us and the UK as well whilst he's at it. He's an evil fcuk. We'd love to see the end of him and his sprog Lackluster.
Hows every one feeling about Musk having direct dealings with Putin? His Space X is not just a security concern for America but for all its nervous allies.
This site has become very US politics centric since the heavy hitters of Twitter USPOL moved here. I've started using the "only posts" feed and noticed a massive difference in the amount of US content.
The UK doesn't have guns as the highest cause of child deaths, hasn't banned abortions because the judiciary is independent, abolished the death sentence in 1965 and removed Boris because he was an incompetent self-serving liar. Does the catch a cold analogy hold water anymore??
If Australians are not fully alert to what is occurring in the USA it could happen here. The intention is evident, the rhetoric & tactics are already developed, as is media manipulation & the purchase of a political party by vested interests with deep pockets.
Imagine being Canadian or Mexican and having to live next door to the USA.
Yes, of course there are tens of millions of decent people in the USA, but as a country it would be the neighbour from Hell.
Agree but as a society, they are weird. Full of their own self importance and belief they are the greatest country blah blah. The blame for the Trump shit show lies with those too lazy to vote..they could have made a difference in the election.
Many, yes. Most? Maybe.
Western governments broadly reflect the character of the people - or what most people are prepared to tolerate.
It's the nearly 76 million who voted for the incoming next-level USA nightmare that worry me - and the 90 million or so who could have voted against it but didn't.
Do you not know how American politics works? Governments are not elected by the popular vote. We have an electoral college system, which means it does NOT reflect the people.
Also, just like any system, our system is open to corruption. This election was bought. No question about it.
Yes - followed for years. Electoral college is an evil twist.
We have gerrrymanders in Australia too but nothing like USA. Our senate is "states' house". Big imbalances. But our lower house is representative. "Compulsory" voting helps.
But - in 2024 in USA, about 50% total votes went to Trusk.
Totally agree. But I suspect their bromance will not last very long once bully boy orange man denies musk extra deals on Tesla and more contracts for space x
USA war time economy is underpinned by its divisive rhetoric. Trade between USA & China about to be tested both in narrative & $
Will be interesting to see how Trump govt handles prices rises given low socio-economic cohort are their main supporters
We will be watching Rome burn in real time!
Maybe, except submarines are yesterday's war machines - they only exist now because of national "prestige". Russia and China won't be using submarines against Australia or our neighbours if they invade (except they won't invade), they'll be using drones and cyber attacks.
They aren’t for attack, they are for detecting attack. They are needed to enable defence. You wouldn’t use a submarine to invade. You would however use one to detect invasion.
True, except nobody wants to invade us - well not by conventional means anyway. And 6 submarines won't make one jot of difference anyway. They're just vanity projects for the military defence industry.
Spot on. I've being saying for years that we should take back Pine Gap. It's ours, it's in Australia and fuck the Yanks off ... or as my Nan told me, maybe they've got some nylon stockings ... so they can 'get some action'
Send the Yanks back home, they can hang out with Donny and Muskerfucker ...
There's only one other nation Australia should allow ... our mates across the ditch ... our Kiwi friends ... ANZAC, and piss all the Yanks off back to Yankee Land where they can shoot each other ... We, Australia, have a nation and it's citizens, who stood truly shoulder-to-shoulder, our Kiwi mates.
Sorry, but I reckon we either take back Pine Gap, kick the yanks out, or close it down ... because guess who is charge of Pine Gap if we don't at 12:01hrs on January 20, 2025? Donald Trump. No thanks.
Close it down and send 'em all home. It's our base, not the Yanks ...
Who knows what the f Trump will use Pine Gap for - he could be spying on AUstralia via such ... close it down and kick the Yanks out ... send 'em all home.
They can give out nylon stockings on the docks of New York, not ours.
I’m sick to death about their stupidity. Still, I see no way to escape them moaning about the execution of democracy that they’ve self-manufactured, so it skim their verbiage and move on for me.
Well according to Nick Bryant’s SMH article today our scything of tall poppies and our use of the vulgar expression “He’s up ‘imself” will save us. Let’s hope.
Given all the shit that is going on there, they seemed, at least here on bluesky, strangely occupied by somebody called Kendrick Lamar, releasing an album. I suspect as a population, they are a bit, well, dim.
I think one is a billionaire, the other one just has a really bad toupee. But yes, absolutely sick of them. Give me glamorous Americans if we have to have any - like Sarah Snook and Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Nicole and the like! 😉
Believe me, those Americans who voted for a candidate other than Trump - which incidentally were marginally more than those who did (despite his hyperbole) - are also sick and tired of it all!
What America does to the rest of the world in terms of interference, interventions, wars, instability, economic hegemony etc is far worse than what they do to themselves.
Honestly Mike, like a train wreck or traffic accident, it's hard to look away! Not really "Doom-scrolling" but it is a bit entertaining. (unless it's happening here)
Their self important “greatest country on earth” schtick needs to be punctured so that take voting seriously and the orange turd is just the one for the job.
It's been a good few decades since they could legitimately proclaim that. Now they majority of the world takes both pity and disdain on them in equal measure.
Yes, l agree. Yesterday l un-installed tictoc. Just so over so much US politics and questionable breaking news and outright lies by a large percentage of content makers. Waste of time. Culling my big US commentators on here as well. Just too depressing.
Yes, I’m completely over the expectation that the rest of the world should be so focused on the USA. They are rapidly losing relevance. So much for MAGA.
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But everything they are going through could happen here.
We have the same media conservative bias & very loose contributions disclosure laws.
They show us what can happen with complacency
I think it could be summed up as
‘fuck ‘em’
Musk seems to be making a lot of Trump's current decisions. (Or at least influencing them)
Probably a good idea to keep an eye on Australian politics as well.
Choose who you Follow here to avoid influencers and activists making this timeline a nad experience.
The USA has lost so much world respect & stature with President Musk and the First Lady Trump.
https://otto73.bandcamp.com/track/beware-beware-of-the-greedy-rich
But unfortunately it will matter even more to us if the COALition actually get anywhere near Govt at the next election. (Here's hoping they don't)
The combination of a gloating Dutton & corrupt RW conservative cabal & batshit crazy Trump/Musk is VERY scary.
💯👏
Trump 2.0 is already flagging he is going to scorched earth the Govt Departments & appoint toadies & extended family.
He has people around him this time who actually DO know how Govt works.
They are using that knowledge to burn it down.
So 38 House Republicans jacked up against Musk pushing HIS ideas onto them.
Interesting times
But only one was actually elected. And has all the Party & political infrastructure behind him.
Although Trump really does like money & Elon has a LOT of it.
One does feel however for those who didn’t vote for what’s coming…
Such is fame.
and the musk presidency, trump vice presidency, and their catamite vance is totally disgusting
Funny I’m listening to Tapestry by Carole King, a bit ironic sort of, but I still like it.
Musk is already trying to Farageup the UK, don't think he won't try and Duttonize us here.
Gina particularly seemed to be taking lessons off Elon
Anything but solidarity, when it comes to people standing against fascism, is complicity.
Not voting is being complicit
US citizens voted for it. I mean half of them. The country seams to be in the path of a civil war.
I hope Luigi Mangione actions can unite the country under the banner of stopping social injustice.
I say let's not stop paying attention.
Yes, of course there are tens of millions of decent people in the USA, but as a country it would be the neighbour from Hell.
Western governments broadly reflect the character of the people - or what most people are prepared to tolerate.
It's the nearly 76 million who voted for the incoming next-level USA nightmare that worry me - and the 90 million or so who could have voted against it but didn't.
Also, just like any system, our system is open to corruption. This election was bought. No question about it.
We have gerrrymanders in Australia too but nothing like USA. Our senate is "states' house". Big imbalances. But our lower house is representative. "Compulsory" voting helps.
But - in 2024 in USA, about 50% total votes went to Trusk.
AUKUS is a con. Australia is victim.
Will be interesting to see how Trump govt handles prices rises given low socio-economic cohort are their main supporters
We will be watching Rome burn in real time!
Send the Yanks back home, they can hang out with Donny and Muskerfucker ...
Close it down and send 'em all home. It's our base, not the Yanks ...
They can give out nylon stockings on the docks of New York, not ours.
To watch. What sort of country will it be when it gets through what’s coming?