The regime is cutting productive govt jobs and services and increasing unproductive jobs, services and taxes like ICE, tariffs and jobs for unqualified loyalists as well as cooking the economies statistics and making empty overblown claims.
The regime is cutting productive govt jobs and services and increasing unproductive jobs, services and taxes like ICE, tariffs and jobs for unqualified loyalists as well as cooking the economies statistics and making empty overblown claims.
Trump wants to pick one weekend in Chicago but says nothing about school shootings or the young girls and young women abused by Epstein and Maxwell.
Laugh once the President is gone and his administration removed. Expect a reaction or distraction to be a further move to authoritarianism. The decision could be ignored or the legislative branch is wheeled out to rubber stamp the tariffs.
So guns arent aren’t a problem but books are? If mental health is an issue then shouldnt there be stricter gun controls?
I read this and pictured Slim Pickens riding the A-bomb in Dr Strangelove.
Tony Blair just can’t help himself. He is in good company in Washington. I’m thinking the story that an oil terminal will be built in Gaza for Saudi and Gulf state oil gets more traction as time goes on.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
The Liberals lost their blue ribbon seats and thought they would take outer urban seats. They’ve lost moderate members and the right wing seem to think the only problem they have is in the selling of their message. Holding onto culture wars and outdated ideologies just doesn’t fly anymore.
Oh yes let’s ignore the authoritarian regime taking over the USA. The lack of guts from the govt is disappointing.
There is no coherent economic policy from the regime, they don’t want to listen to bad news and think forcing the fed lower rates will ‘fix’ any problems. We are seeing the Dunning Kruger syndrome being employed at the highest level.
A spoilt geriatric toddler having a massive sook. It’s quite clear he is becoming ever more unhinged and has some health issues. We aren’t even close to the bottom.
Will there be an election? I doubt it.
Postal services and businesses, mostly small businesses, in many countries are stopping parcel delivery’s to the USA over the coming tariff on valuations less than $800. The great extortion continues.
There is no floor for the USA govt regime and therefore there is nothing they will not do.
Sky News where they still cant understand how the LNP lost the last election or why Australia isn’t the 51st of Trumpistan.
Book control is needed to because books can harm children and yet gun control is not needed because guns don’t kill or injure people, or children in schools?
Neither the ALP or the LNP will be happy about the pro Palestinian protest marches. The ALP because it went ahead and so many people attended. The LNP because it went ahead and so many people attended peacefully.
Sorry but this is a bad idea and is more about an authoritarian govt extending control over the private sector. The govt spending billions on shares while cutting healthcare, education, aid and more is not what govt is about.
As with any crime or White House comment, follow the money.
We have regulations, standards and codes because we know without them there is no safety, quality or security. AI will be the next dot.com crisis.
The weaponising of the judicial branch and law enforcement is bad enough but lying about crime statistics in Democrat areas to put federal troops on the streets, the pardoning of insurrectionists, pedophiles, criminals and anyone who drops a donation in the White House should have people horrified.
The regime totally misunderstands the meaning of basic economic terms, thinks foreign countries can be extorted to pay for the USAs rise when it’s US businesses and consumers who pay, deports workers, sacks people who collect economic data and thinks slavery isn’t so bad. There is a storm coming.
The key word in the claim is average. The tech oligarchs will earn billions and a few programmers millions and hundreds of thousands.
4 weeks at best if the AFL is serious
I thought he asked Putin to do his mail in voting.
Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.
It was big govt and unions that drove record growth and living standards post Great Depression/WW2. Destroying both will have major negative effects.
Only true believers go to CPAC
Give Obama another Nobel peace prize and watch the fireworks.
Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Sellout” Chapter 47 is a volume all on its own.
I still have the vinyl record from ‘78, it’s not going anywhere.
With tariffs locked in the full effects should impact consumers by November/December at the latest. Maybe then people will understand tariffs are an import tax.
“I will end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hrs when elected!” To be fair TACO has been busy playing golf and covering up the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell mess.
To put things in perspective the Federal govt is will be spending more on AUKUS than housing.
In 2016 the election under President Obama was won by Donald Trump. In 2020 the election under President Trump was won by held Biden. In 2024 the election under President Biden was won by Trump. Trump says the 2020 election was rigged, under his Presidency, and ignores Russian interference in 2016.
A geriatric toddler throwing a massive tantrum because someone has a shiny toy he doesn’t have and that he has done nothing to earn.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Figuratively speaking of course.
You can sweep only so much bad news under the carpet before the floor collapses.
Another glorious chapter in the book, the Art of the Sellout, Volume 47.
Tim Wilson is a perfect example of Liberal party irrelevance.
It beggars belief people still don’t understand the clear and present danger that is the Trump regime. Stagflation is now stalking the USA and you have a govt that looks like it will cook the data to make it look successful. I don’t think there is a bottom for this govt and that is horrifying.
Trump flies by the seat of his pants and we’ve all seen how that looks.
What Trump is doing might be funny if not for the assault on the judiciary, human rights, the economy, science and democracy.
DOGE has effectively put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work, cut services to millions and has possibly irreparably damaged govt. To be fair the Trump regime is really responsible given DOGE worked as instructed for the regime.
It’s not just a recession we should be worried about but the use or not of federal bail out funds to punish or extort states who have been critical of him.
From fictional deep state to a real life deep shit state that is covering up crimes they are guilty of and practising open corruption. The USA has really lost its way.
If the Trump regime won the last election by a landslide then why gerrymander. If the Trump regime wanted to play fairly then why put troops on the streets now, to normalise martial law of course. The Trump regime is interested in discouraging voters not encouraging them……
The Trump regime is shutting down science and education, threatens and sues the media, is taking over the art and entertainment centres and working to rig the voting system so the attack on museums is perfectly understandable. This is authoritarianism. This is tyranny.
The first Trump administration had some competent people who kept the govt together. Now there are no such competent people. Welcome to Democracy Defcon 1.
The worst USA President in history.
The USA was never perfect but its data could be relied upon until now. From this point on it’s probably best to view all data coming from the Trump regime as cooked.
I have joked about the 100th anniversary of the Great Depression being a sort of rerun rather a remembrance. The way the Trump regime is going I’m more convinced it will come to pass.
There nothing Donald Trump won’t do to avoid releasing the Epstein files. There is nothing Donald Trump won’t do to provoke civil unrest to impose martial law. Donald Trump and his regime are the enemy within. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The LNP is at odds with humanity and compassion over its lack of demand for action to help Palestinians.
1. If companies were to pay for the tariffs then their profits and stock values will fall. 2. If tariffs are passed on consumers will pay for them and the cost of living goes up along with inflation. If it’s 2. consumers tighten spending then eventually the profits and markets are impacted.
The economy is going to be a mess well before the midterms and even if the fed lowers the cash rate there is no guarantee it will help the people already in trouble.
It’s a bit hard to have protests about the atomic bombs when it was a top secret project. The Australian coughing up rubbish again.
Thanks Justin for helping to bring clarity to the facts.
I read an article last year by Adam Tooze and he is someone not prone to gossip. Israel will clear the Gaza, a US/Middle East alliance will manage the area and an oil terminal will be built on the Mediterranean for oil from Saudi and the Gulf states. The first two parts look certain.
When the media fails to hold govts to account and govts fails to listen to statistical data or understand the meaning of simple economic words then it’s only a matter of time until a crisis develops.
The Sky News War Cabinet? They look more like ICE rejects.
It’s the Australian. Supporting pedophiles is a new low but not unexpected given Trumps involved.
Does anyone think Trump will be not be completely gaga or not be alive by the LA Olympics?
Corruption or gross incompetence by the LNP and ALP take your pick or pick both. They clearly aren’t working for the average Australians.
The number one rule for when Donald Trump speaks. Do not believe anything he says.
The fence sitting by the govt over Gaza is bad enough. This just adds to the evidence of their neoliberal/Trumpian chops (skills). www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It’s probably tax deductible
Given the failure of the govts actions to date I expect a harder push on the fed to drop the cash rate and replace Powell before the midterms. A sugar hit to the economy and as usual blaming someone else. Of course it’s quite possible the markets implode late this year.
Profits before the proletariat every single time.
I think it’s more political self interest than political pragmatism. Don’t build public housing because the property sector might lose $$$ Don’t do anything about climate change because it might upset the fossil fuel industry. Don’t do anything about Gaza even when people protest en masse.
It’s a boom for Trump, that’s all that matters. Biden might be blamed but anyone thinking the economy is going to become great or better is in for a rude shock.
“my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.” Is that the same as refusing to release the Epstein files is evidence of wrongdoing?
If the Republicans won by a supposed landslide then why change electoral boundaries?
Daddy will be so proud, as long as he gets his cut.
Giving away our resources for a pittance when the proceeds we missed put on could fund research and set up a cleaner economy is plain incompetence. There are only two parties responsible for this. The ALP and LNP, just to clarify the blame.
Norway taxes their fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free university education. In Australia, we give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni. 📺 Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
We have a housing affordability and availability problem and whenever any proposal to cut investor tax breaks is raised the vested interests shout its the end of the world. Cheaper homes sold buy investors means affordable homes by first home buyers or single home buyers or at least it should be.
Susan Ley showing the tone deafness that is the hallmark Liberal leaders with her comments about the march and her silence on the suffering in Gaza. Number of Protesters - 90,000 Liberal party members - 40,000 Hmm I wonder if there is something there that might explain the Liberal election woes.
I think it’s about time a new Red Dawn movie is made. This time it’s the enemy within. A billionaire criminal lies his way into the White House, corrupting the govt and judiciary. With the aid of a masked militia to control the streets and imprison dissenters totalitarianism covers the land. Oh…
$368 Billion? Try >$500 Billion. All defence acquisitions go over estimate. And yet increasing spending on Jobseeker, health, science, housing and infrastructure is somehow ‘unsustainable’?
The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations: Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS
Policy takes time to come into effect. Statistics are vital to enable govt and business to react and adjust to situations. Ignoring the numbers amplifies the effects of bad policy and increases the chance of making worse decisions.
A massive peaceful pro Palestinian protest march. It’s easy to see why the LNP and ALP are not happy about that.
Another Trump cover up.
The PM has Labor following his favourite strategy, do only what is the least politically damaging. Australia went to war in Iraq based on lies but the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, it sits on its hands.
In Senator Lambie v Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social (re: content quotas), Burke has failed to comply with a mandatory law that requires him to hand over ALL docs relevant to the dispute. Instead he’s first asking foreign media companies if they’re OK with him complying. 👈👮♂️🚔 #FOI #auspol
The worrying thing is that the Trump administration did not have a detailed and costed economic policy during the election and still don’t have one. Business and markets don’t like chaos and uncertainty.
You can have too many books?
When the DOJ said they can’t release the files because they had to protect the ‘victims’ they weren’t talking about the young girls and women. When the DOJ talk to a convicted sex trafficker who is then moved to a low security prison and the President doesn’t rule out a pardon. The stench is real.
It’s not about the figures or Dr McEntarfer, it’s all about the President feeling hurt because he doesn’t like something and when he lashes out he lashes out to hurt people. This will happen again and again.
Nothing makes sense, but I'll add this anyway... When preliminary payrolls numbers overestimated job growth under Biden—and were later revised down—Trumpland claimed this was the BLS trying to prop up the President. Today he interprets it as the BLS is trying to undermine him.
It’s seems only yesterday that the LNP was going on about a ‘debt and deficit crisis’ and now even after political life they have managed to keep their snouts in the govt trough and will add $500 billion to govt debt for nuclear submarines we may not get.
When you have no diplomatic skills threats are all you have left but when you are broadly known as TACO the threats ring hollow.
It’s not about fooling folks, it’s about the geriatric toddler being the greatest in the world and history.
It’s going to be fun watching the Trump regime make policy on the run based on false data.
When you don’t understand what a trade surplus or deficit is, what a tariff is, why govt spending is essential, the importance of taxation and you then start ignoring confirmed and verified data because you don’t like it, well buckle up people because a storm is coming.
RENMAC: “This is the same BLS that published the inflation reports earlier in the year that the administration touted. This is the same BLS that published the rise in motor vehicle manufacturing employment that the administration touted with a ‘see! it's already working!’” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
Donald Trump is basically a sociopath. He is incapable of empathy and does not care about the consequences of his actions. This is what makes him so dangerous. That his regime supports him just adds to the terror.
Just think of all the teenage beauty pageants or the Miss Universe contests the GOP can hold in their Great Golden ballroom. They can have a jacuzzi and spa in each corner with ‘young women’ handing out towels. Trump has 30+ years of experience in that field.
So the Daily Telegraph is just as clueless about tariffs as Donald Trump and his regime and ignoring the utter futility of trying to deal with Washington.