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As anyone working in the corporate or political world will know, it's more important to be able to make a decision than it is to make a properly informed one?

Finland developing alternative to Starlink for Ukraine. This is real news! Why isn't it in the "news"? If anyone can help and advise Ukraine to stand up to Russian aggression it is Finland! Such a small cold clever country! Europe will provide the funds, mass-production. The rest Ukraine will do!

It's not long fingernails that are flipping the Tennessee voting machines - Mar-a-lago faces are freaking them out!

What do Americans call TikTok? since Trump forced it's sale in USA to a political donor and ally - for reasons of "free speech", 1st Amendment, of course. The rest of the world (except Aussie kids) still watch the less censorious original TikTok. So do Americans now call it Truth TikTok?

Voter perception of widespread (but mostly unopposed) corruption within US government has dramatically increased recently (+80%!) It will be very interesting to see if this apathetic awareness will correlate with voter acceptance of results?

It's gonna be a nightmare for the mail service when everything in America is named after Trump? Worse for maritime navigators, when Americans call major waterways by a different name to the sane rest of the world? Even Google Maps is already confused?

2/2 Being a professional in my 20s, I politely answered "No sir, it's an emu." The fat guy turned to his wife, "See! I told you they had ostriches in Australia!" Then the coach leader yelled "Everyone back on board! There are other things to see!" And I still can't believe he called me 'boy'!

1/2 I don't think I've ever forgiven American tourists since, in the 70s, an obese man and his obese wife got off the coach, waddled past me at a South Australian Nature Reserve, and said "Hey boy! Is that an ostrich?" (I've spelled that in English, but it was said in Texan.)

Is the ongoing independent AUKUS Inquiry a million dollar citizen-funded debate a waste of money, as suggested by some, an assault on US hegemony and dysfunctional democracy, or an attempt to remedy the Morrissen-from-Marketing multi-billion dollar US-compliant Aussie defence tax-payer disaster?

Hegseth's OT reference, to inspire his 'warriors', is from the same Bronze Age book that condones slavery and the massacre of non-Jews. The Bibi playbook? I guess he never studied history? or economics, or law?

What is the one thing Putin, Netanyahu, US billionaires and tech bros, and Melania have in common? What do they have that Americans don't? Only Trump knows?

"Trump will be called the 'Traitor President'?" But he'll be dead. He won't care! His children will be billionaires. They won't care! Americans will be poorer. We won't care! The country will be bankrupt. The bankers make more? The military will lose their bases, and we'll all shout Hurrah!

Didn't SCOTUS give Trump immunity? Now you expect him to respect the law? Trump doesn't care if others go to jail for following his orders - he's got immunity! Unbelievable!!

If Dems win the House and the Senate, will the President still be able to veto legislation, ignore the Supreme Court, wage war without congressional approval, destroy historic buildings by executive order, manipulate the stock market, pardon his family and criminals? What's great in America then?

Is it wrong to smile when multi-million dollar houses on the California coast are destroyed by el nino, result of global warming, largely caused by USA and fossil fuel corporations? I wish it was Florida; their turn soon? Is it ever wrong to laugh at American greed, ignorance and incompetence?

If US Border Security has so many people working to protect us, with a wall, and so many guns and high-tech to keep aliens out... how come there are so many Burmese Pythons wild in Florida? Oh, that's a different Department? That's Environment. That's been Doged!

Katie's employment lasted 5 days, her career lasted 15 minutes and three questions! It seems she was NOT employed as a lawyer, OR because she looks like Ivanka nor because she was more loyal. She had the required willingness to lie on demand. Unfortunately, she was an incompetent liar.

Short Story, 3/3 Then came the Mormons, with a new home-grown religious sex twist. And prohibitionists, who effectively created the Mafia. And now MAGA? It's been a downhill ride, but we must have reached bottom by now?

Short Story, 2/3. Then Alabama illiterate cotton farmers were told that the OT, the Jewish Bible, was the word of Christ, their Saviour. So believed that Bronze Age slavery was a solution to their poverty.

A Short Story. 1/2 or 3. Once upon a time, some cultist christians decided everyone would obey only their rules! So they invented Pennsylvania. We know less about 'The Pilgrim Fathers' because the real story is shrouded in myth.

If Starlink, as a commercial enterprise, "cannot be used for offensive military action" in Ukraine, how was it used by Grok to target an Iranian girls' school?

How America continues to tolerate a demented, pedo and convicted felon as President is just so far beyond the scope of normal human civilised behaviour! Forgive me my anger? American incompetence is making all our lives so more expensive, so more difficult!

Fewer Russian data centres means less election interference! Fewer Chinese data centres means less scams? Fewer US data centres means less media slop, a lower GDP, a stock exchange crash, cheaper electricity, less water consumption/pollution: and Eric won't be able to launder Trump crypto?

How can you fear or hate a demented old man? Or take his lies seriously? If Americans had any kindness in them, they would retire him to a home where he can get proper help?

The world is pissed because Trump has single-handedly (the one attached to Putin's string) has made everyone - not just Americans - poorer. An imaginary deal to end the illegal war he and Bibi started, a fake diesel deal to avoid mid-term defeat, a 'secret' ceasefire deal in Ukraine? What next?

It's said a Jan 2027 Dem majority won't or can't hold Trump accountable for all, or any, of his crimes? Have even the best Americans given up on concepts of law, accountability, and justice? At least you can put Hegseth in front of a firing squad? I mean, the bar doesn't get lower than that?

“Witkoff and Kushner raised the possibility that intelligence sharing could be cut off if Kyiv did not heed Washington’s warning to halt the strikes” on Russian refineries. “It was a firm request from POTUS. “Hours later, Ukrainian forces struck the Yug Rusi oil terminal in Rostov-on-Don.”

America's defense spending is insane, now exceeded by debt servicing. But debt, if you ignore it, is what makes USA rich (or Great, if you prefer), until another President can take the blame?

Did anyone listen to Rubio's speech in front of the Acropolis in Athens? (That's Athens, Greece, not Georgia!) The most explicit notification of US use of power, Imperialism, ever articulated! Americans need to wake up and listen to what their unelected representatives are committing them to!

I wouldn't be happy schooling my children in the US public education system! Neither would I home-school, because 'education' is more than passing tests in a safe environ? I'd move to a country where education valued culture and critical thinking! (And they're getting more difficult to find.)

I DON'T believe AI is an existential threat.. though damage to our economy and culture will be irreparable. I DO believe AI (or SI, ffs) + US Dept. of War is an existential threat, that the world is aware of, but Americans don't see coming. (Distracted as they are by the price of gas?)

AI agents can hack national medical records, minimise tax, replace loyal workers, reroute your supply chain to avoid US tariffs, replace generals and admirals, select bombing targets, control the strait of Hormu... TRUMP! Whoops! Went off track there? Who needs real people, when we've got Hegseth?

Britain has finally (2006) paid off its WW2 debt to USA, so is now feeling very grateful for America belatedly joining the war and saving us all from facism? The billions of interest paid no doubt helped the US expand its military - for wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.

There have been threats against US airbases in UK since the Vietnam war! Now, on the flimsiest of evidence, Hegseth (Bibi's advice?) has withdrawn the USAF strike force. Nobody knows UK intelligence: no-one believes US intel! ALL we can say, is that protesters forced the withdrawal of US bombers! .

This war must be costing poor Americans so much in education, hospitals, infrastructure maintenance, housing...? Be assured, Iran will never get the nukes that they promised Obama they would never build! Until now. Vote for corruption! Let's totally destroy USA? Make the world a happy place again!

I just wish to affirm my respect for all those influential and brave people unofficially representing 90% of Australians who are opposed to the AUKUS 'agreement', standing up to truly awful Morrisson submission, subsequent Labor acquiesance. We aren't at war with China! unless Aukus drags us in?

As more and more Americans complain about the price of gas, how many are supporting cheaper energy alternatives? Meanwhile, Trump is subsidising coal, promoting oil and fracking, deregulating pollution/safety, profiting from your pain, killing you softly with his greed.

Has anyone recently read "the Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser? It was considered compulsory reading for students of literature, decades ago. Wikipedia says it's hard to read, but that's an American assessment? Has anyone yet asked Grok for a literary critique, and dared to claim it as homework?

We all know what happened in Chile. I can guess what happened in Venezuela. I know what happened in Argentina. Bolivia and Ecuador a bit more complicated? But what happens in Brazil will make or break Democracy in South America!

Does anyone, ANYONE!, think employing Musk (and Newt Gringritch!!) to map the Department of War's future strategies, is a good idea?? If Elon has his way, Grok robots will rule the world. Rich people will build a safe haven on Mars, using the resources of their Earth-bound serfs?

If Americans don't impeach ALL the agents of this outrageous plunder of national resources built and saved over decades for future generations, let's hope the Education System is not sufficiently degraded and corrupted to allow young people to survive, unemployed, believing fascism is their fate?

Like tax, boredom should be avoided, not evaded?

After billions invested, AUKUS has not yet built a submarine! US has not yet even kept up to it's own submarine construction program? Meanwhile Canada is buying 12 German subs for total US$12-30bn, a TENTH the price Australia promises US for unproven, and probably by delivery, obsolete technology!

I guess, after 30 years on death row, and two failed attempts to kill her, Tennessee is now struggling to keep Christa Pike alive? Mental health support for child rape victims would have been so much less expensive! Too 'woke'?

We need to purge the Department of War of an idiot Fox News Secretary; curb drug-taking (testosterone, etc) in the military; get the hell out of the Gulf, now we've lost; and get back to the core US mission which is Defence (not war!).

Countries pay taxes for a reason, a benefit, like education, health care, social infrastructure. US seems to think taxes are a means for government to deprive hard working people of the rewards of their labour? So who is sympathetic when US budgets to go to war and Americans suffer the consequences?

I assume someone is keeping a record of every Trump promise, every fuck-up, every Peace deal that led to war, every Trade deal that led to inflation? Someone will write a book one day? Schools will ban it, libraries will file it as fiction.

If you need to know how GOP policies will make your life better, ask Mitch! "On February 20, 2025, McConnell (84!) announced he would not run for an eighth Senate term in 2026 and would retire from politics." But better still, ask his staff! Because when Mitch dies they lose their salaries"?