Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

@buddpete.bsky.social

Retired, progressive Aussie diplomat. I share my home with a Rottweiler and too many record players. I yearn for a return to respectful and empathetic political discourse. I appreciate the value of science and talking shit with smart, passionate people.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

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So Trump is now funding Putin’s war against Ukraine. And Ukraine’s allies in Europe, Australia and Canada. Who the fuck is the USA?

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So, having faked insanity to escape a prison sentence, did you not encourage a rebellion by patients at your psychiatric hospital against authorities? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack Nicholson.

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But having accepted a caretaker appointment at the Overlook Hotel, did you also not attempt to murder your wife and son? Also Jack Nicholson.

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Jack jokes So after Wichita, far from the opera forevermore, did you not work the straw and make sweat drip from every pore? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack White.

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Thanks Belgium for saving FIFA and USA from themselves.

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They don’t call it cringe Thursday for nothing.

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IYKYK

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@southoftheborder.bsky.social Iran 300 billion. Trump a big fat zero. Winning.

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Trump Furious Australia Won't Just Join America's War Like We Did When He Had Bone Spurs.

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Very productive talks.

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As if anyone wants to clean up Trump’s mess.

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The OMG moment for the man formerly known as prince. Epstein fallout is happening everywhere, except in the USA where paedophiles roam free.

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Rottweiler math. When you have four tennis balls, but one rolls under the furniture, you then have exactly zero tennis balls.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

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Oh wow. First listen. Where have you been hiding since 1973?

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Pam Bondi. Give her a cigar.

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Nothing to see in Epstein files.

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Release the rest of the Epstein files.

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Seriously. The republican party is broken.

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Seriously!

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Blessed are the peacemakers.

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Tuck off Frump.

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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

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Trump still winning. And I’m not drinking Kentucky bourbon anymore either!

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Looks like I won’t be visiting the USA anytime soon with my social media profile. But I hear Canada’s nice.

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I see Gov Newsom’s released some MAGA knee pads. Here’s an old Aussie classic that aligns nicely. youtube.com/watch?v=XElR...

youtube.comI Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I AmYouTube video by Regurgitator - Topic

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Not all Australian animals will kill you. Some are really useful around the home.

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Just saying.

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But the less said about the JD Vance couch, the better.

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And don’t get me started on drop bears.

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Time to invite the Fat Orange to visit Australia? Thoughts and prayers to Norway.

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I am cringing for the USA as I watch the performance of its Commander-in-Chief.

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Live long enough to be a problem for your children.

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The Brits don’t mince words.

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Australia and USA are becoming culturally disconnected under Trump www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

theage.com.auWith a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred ruleNow we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

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Just saying. www.theage.com.au/business/the...

theage.com.auAustralia is having the last laugh on Trump’s trade beefNothing highlights the US president’s trade delusions better than his victory over Australia’s beef ban. Record exports are now flowing in the opposite direction to what he intended.

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Hoo boy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

theage.com.auHegseth’s undiplomatic treatment of Marles reveals a chaotic, ungenerous allyThe flap is significant only because it symbolises a deeper truth: the United States may be our ally, but it is an increasingly unreliable and capricious one.

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www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... The man who would be king of the world is having the opposite effect.

theage.com.au‘Frosty on Trump’: Australians eager for more independence from the USAustralians are voicing a strong desire for the country to assert more independence from the United States amid Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency.

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Australia’s journey to becoming a renewable superpower is now interlinked to our relationship with China…not the US. How has it come to this? www.theage.com.au/environment/...

theage.com.auTrump’s big toxic bill will cost America – and the worldThe US president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” won’t just undo many positive developments for the environment – the economic fallout will be significant too.

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The United States has just dropped a big, beautiful, bunker-busting bomb on its own economy. A moronic act of economic self-sabotage and short-termism. www.theage.com.au/business/the...

theage.com.auTrump’s big, beautiful mistake will have China licking its lipsChina’s leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating as Trump’s White House commits economic and geopolitical self-harm on a breathtaking scale.

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The indefensible was somehow achievable. #onebiguglybl www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

theage.com.au‘Going to be a reckoning’: The ticking time bomb in Trump’s big beautiful billBritish historian Niall Ferguson has a cardinal rule: When a country’s interest payments on debt eclipse its military expenditure, the collapse of empire cannot be far away. That’s now a problem for T...

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So much winning. www.theage.com.au/business/the...

theage.com.auTrump’s foolish war on the world is a messTrump promised “90 deals in 90 days” in April. It’s proving far more difficult than he thought as the clock ticks down.

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Who knew it was this easy? www.theage.com.au/business/the...

theage.com.auTrump’s ‘magic’ act: The US Senate has just made $5.8 trillion disappearThe Senate Republicans are using a controversial accounting approach to make the cost of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill appear far smaller than it is.

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Nobel peace prize up in smoke www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

theage.com.auIf you look closely, behind the f-bomb and fury, you can see what Trump really wantsDonald Trump’s spinners like to say he is the most transparent president in US history. His explicit tirade at key ally, Israel, reveals how his eye is on another prize.

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The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump