Headlines be “I have so much food in my house but I’m in the supermarket, how can I avoid the security cameras so I don’t have to pay for this food?” 😉
Headlines be “I have so much food in my house but I’m in the supermarket, how can I avoid the security cameras so I don’t have to pay for this food?” 😉
The numbers always get bigger with every retelling. 😏
The mental health system is fraught with problems on multiple fronts, none of which can be fixed quickly. A review of the Medicare Better Access program was released at the end of 2018 with very important recommendations; no movement. LNP cut a number of proper low income programs; not replaced.
His good friend the head of the White House Faith Office already has that going for her, so they’re most of the way there already.
Alternatively, when a temporary emergency measure with a limited allocation of funding put towards it up to a set end date ends as planned, that is not a cut. It would have been good to see the COVID Better Access sessions continue, but those temporary measures ended as agreed. Not a cut.
Remember: if it was decided, passed, and the money was there in the budget for it, then removing it to not spend it as agreed is in fact a cut.
What is it you would like to see, were they able to get past all the opposition to what they’ve done so far?
While also being condemned for being antisemitic and against the Jewish population of Australia for supporting a two-state solution for Palestine while bringing “Islamic terrorists” from Gaza into our country as asylum seekers. Thinking it’s not that simple, and not a reason to put Dutton in.
As is so common at the moment, lack of individual wealth at the bottom is being blamed on a need to divide it all up and share with those who have the least instead of looking at how much of that wealth has been redistributed to the top and removed from the pool.
The graph? Of population? Not hard to see that that population living in only 1/3 of the houses would have an impact on housing availability, noting that this houses per household figure has increased - houses have increased MORE than population, they’re just not available to live in.
Australia’s turn on Saturday. Canada bucking the trend and giving us hope of doing the same. 👍
Has already been caught out talking about bringing back the Gold Visa: pay enough and in you come.
Bigger issue is the increase in houses per household; eg one family taking up 3 houses. These aren’t rentals, or there’d still be households in them. These are holiday homes mostly sitting empty, potentially enjoying tax breaks as short stay (bnb style) holiday rentals.
The two different styles are so vastly different - some come out with the same clunky rants with ALL CAPS interspersed throughout with dodgy structure, and some sound exactly like the WH Press Secretary speaking at the press.
Did somebody run on a promise of making Canada the 51st state of the USA? What is he on about?
That’s not penalty rates. Did you not mean penalty rates when replying? But JobSeeker rates are $140/fn higher now than those quoted in the article from 2022, with an additional $55/fn introduced for those with only partial work capacity, and an increase in rent assistance.
Dick: “dude, that’s not cool” … ignore him, don’t let it get to you, he’s just being a dick Prick: “wtf is your problem?!” … you trying to pi** me off, prick?
Raise penalty rates? Above time-and-a-half or double-time?
The tariffs other countries have are irrelevant in this. Not reciprocal, not proportional; tariffs aren’t part of the equation at all. Australia copped 20% tariffs despite having 0% tariffs on the USA, so what tariffs should we eliminate?
Sorry, regardless of how far down the list you put them, I’m not seeing how putting Libs over Labor helps the Greens get up. Your preferences don’t get looked at unless your Greens candidate doesn’t get in, then if the others don’t either it’s just choosing Liberal over Labor. Where’s the strategy?
The Prime Minister will be from Labor or the Liberals - Albo being slammed as antisemitic for publicly supporting a two state outcome and Dutton saying Trump’s plan to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza to turn it into a new Riviera where the wealthy play sounds like a good idea.
Noting that his “chart” had nothing at all to do with the tariffs other countries have on the US, but was a measure of amounts imported vs exported. And anyone where the calculated trade deficit was less than 20% of total imports still got hit with a 10% tariff, inc when a surplus.
Or that’s what he calls it publicly as he extorts secret favours for doing so.
I’d still choose the PM who publicly supports a two-state solution over the PM who has said that Trump’s plan to relocate the Palestinian people is a good idea.
?? Where you put preferences only matters if your Greens first preference is out of the running, meaning your vote will then go to the Liberal candidate.
For your representative in the House, sure, but none of them will be PM. You still need to preference one over the other in case your electorate disagrees on which Independent or alternative and it comes down to the Labor or Liberal candidate (Nationals only existing to funnel votes to Liberal).
Sounds like some much needed progress to fill the holes left by the removal of funded mental health programs by the Coalition - a removal that dumped all of these people into needing bulk billed Medicare services, sending psychology practices to the wall. But the two-tier system is the big issue.
Don’t they believe women with guns are DEI and not up to the job? Aren’t they meant to be concerned about his safety if there are only women standing there?
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Anything in particular? Types of HRT were used as examples when the PBS additions were announced.
Tariffs on US products put our prices up, while cost of living is still an issue. Easier if we just boycott products where possible so they’re still affordable where there’s no other option. Time for more clear labeling around Australian Made and especially Australian Owned.
Everyone: The common people can’t even afford eggs. Trump: So let them drive a Tesla.
Maybe the key is that you have to post videos of yourself shooting a Tesla or running it over with your truck? 🤔
But… Trump supposedly has the support of the people in a massive landslide. How can there be so many ‘radical lefties’ that they can tank such a large company by just not buying certain cars? 🤔
Musk still blamed Ukraine.
Fox News trying to trick angry climate change deniers into buying EVs so they can reduce emissions and save the planet really was the unexpected plot twist I needed right now. lol
Heritage Foundation trained their Project 2025 people up before the election, ready to step in and do as they’re told.
She knows enough to know what he’s getting at and turn it around to the company line, all while expertly delivering a DARVO response and setting the stage for banning access for AP.
Or it’ll look like a stroke. And Vance has someone carefully managing his new image; he’s not a loose cannon like Donny. Vance would so not have gone on a rant and let slip in front of the world how close he is to Putin.
When it’s called entitlement spending or welfare, yep, the “my tax dollars shouldn’t be supporting someone too lazy to earn a living” crowd do.
That’s part of their fraud line; that they’re fraudulently paying benefits to ‘illegal immigrants”. That’s a big part of what musk is saying when he says “they’re paying for them to come here”.
Yes, tariffs paid by importers in Canada to Canada on US goods being imported into Canada… but this isn’t US goods being brought into Canada being made more expensive so Canadians buy less of it.
A tad confused - isn’t it a surcharge, an additional fee on top of the standard charge, charged by Canada? Not a tariff? If it’s a tariff on electricity from Canada into the US, then it’s an additional charge paid by the importer to the US added by US, isn’t it? Why is it being called a tariff?
Fair point. Photo op handing them to his people seems to be enough.
If in doubt: “the libs say this cat is a duck”
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the whole Trump single-handedly fighting the satanic cabals to rescue the children thing.
That’s actually a hoax. He didn’t say that. But there is an old interview (video) somewhere where he talks about why he leans Democrat but would run as a Republican if he went for President - not these quotes, but something about it being easier to engage the base to follow him.
Contentious wording, but when he’s talking about FIFA he’s talking about how if Biden hadn’t rigged the election he’d have done his 8 years and wouldn’t still be president; “they rigged the election” is still his whole Jan 6-er stolen election shtick that he’s saying means he can be president now.
It’s gone very quiet about N Korean troops, with messaging about how strong Russia still is claiming that they have finished their “training” and gone back home. Interesting to see them so involved in the current offensive.
… and the other influences like China, still enjoying that Trump hasn’t made it obvious yet. But despite his anti-China rhetoric, he continues to use them for his own businesses and has put in place policies that don’t hurt China but rather prop them up to take prime position.
Easy to see it that way, but I dunno. Pretty sure he’s saying his two terms would have been up before now but because the Democrats rigged the election to put Biden in for a term he was able to come back now and be here for it. It’s his same old “the election was stolen” shtick.
But nobody cares anymore. They’ve moved on “Trudeau is a dictator and we need to take action to put America first”
What’s disturbing is Zelenskyy referenced how Putin has taken their children, and I’ve seen NO ONE pick it up.
Not declared war as such, but using the trade issue, tension, conflict to cancel elections or run for re-election to stay in power, yes he said it. With stating that Trudeau largely started it.
I keep getting “you need to watch the whole thing, not just the clips” and I’m like: yeah, I did, what did you watch?
Social psychology. Group identity. Establish an us v them and people will act to have less themselves as long as it maximises the gap between how much each group gets. And they have been pushing the us v them big time, meaning everyone is screaming to be given less. Wild watching it at such scale.
After the “Trudeau has declared war on the US so that he can stay in power” takes off with the impact of the actions taken in response to Trump’s ongoing tariffing whatever gets used as how Canada is hurting the American people, I guess we’ll see how many 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 people doing it tough agree.
“The initially quoted $8m…” Looks like you didn’t even read the comment.
Except when men with guns are standing over the polls. eg The 97% vote for Crimea to join Russia, even a Russian warning ahead of a Putin visit noted that only 30-50% voted and barely half voted in favour.
6. While some of this research benefits trans women it’s more about the effects of providing hormones and is of more widespread benefit to cis women, especially those who are post-menopausal and take HRT (eg asthma study). Claiming these studies are “to make mice transgender” is a misdirection.
4. Understanding HIV risk and progression in a specific population is part of HIV prevention in the wider population. 5. Claiming crossgender therapies are dangerous and then canceling research to see if they actually are looks a lot like denying truth in favour of blind belief.
1. The White House is Trump and Musk/DOGE; whatever they say goes on official WH pages. 2. The initially quoted $8m apparently did match programs that produce transgenic mice for medical research. 3. When these transgenic details came out en masse, that’s when this list came up.
Pretty sure a lot of Canadians don’t care; US products are already off the shelves.
Wasn’t “a scalpel rather than a hatchet” (or chainsaw) all leftist tears the other day? Now Trump came up with it. smh
So Ukraine can’t see the detailed satellite images taken of their country … but Russia can?
The opposition they’re talking to also have low support. They could only win a fraudulent election.
Noting, Crimea was also Ukraine.
Is that just for the US? I’m in Australia and am still getting the usual.
The triangulation strategy of the narcissist. Tracks.
Doesn’t sound like she agreed to anything at all this time, not even things they were already doing. So why did he back down? She send a few threats his way of what would happen if he continued?
Ah, that’s right. It first came up just before the election, in the midst of all the denial that the opposition was fearmongering about how the proposed plans would make things more expensive, there was Elon admitting that prices would increase but it was a small price to be paid in the bigger pic.
He’ll say he’s fighting terrorists. That’s what the beautiful life for the people of Gaza bit is there for.
The DOGE “it is true” WH page includes not a study but a list of studies to make that $8m… including impact of female hormones on lungs and asthma, which yes helps trans women but is also to benefit cis women (especially those post-menopause on HRT). Anti-trans always seems to end up hurting women.
That’s it. When you hold the belief that this world was built around humankind to provide resources for us, the idea that we could use too much is easily dismissed as not just nonsensical but also blasphemous. Hard to work with that kind of belief system.
Musk started putting it out there after the election that there’d be some short term pain before things turn around and become the golden era of making America great again. Keep repeating it, and it replaces “on day 1” even before the inauguration. Seems this time it’s all for the better good.
Maybe. But if he’s not actually the head (he’s just playing his role so he can stay out of jail and play golf at this point) then removing the puppet can also be the part where the true face of the snake steps in, having exposed the opposition. Of those who together put him there, who takes over?
Trump takes a particular delight in putting those who previously trashed him in positions where they have to keep kissing the ring in front of the crowd.
Provoking from the start. Condemning Zelenskyy for having so much hate for Putin, can’t make a deal when there’s hate like that, and make no mistake Putin doesn’t like Zelenskyy either (but apparently that’s understandable). It started bad and just got worse.
The claim is that having the US there mining minerals will prevent any aggression from Russia (hence no need to assure security for Ukraine) … but I have questions, considering no NATO on the border, US involvement brings ‘the world’ into it, what does Russia get in this deal that makes them stop?
When Rubio is the moral compass in the room 😳
Nothing new. They know their base will only read their version and call anything else fake news, and that’s all that matters: keeping them on-side and outraged and all fired up ready to defend their president.
Trump’s always putting hands on as condescension to the other leader, whether it’s those handshakes or sitting his hand on their leg while he’s talking. He mostly did this, but did also push Zelensky on the shoulder while berating him at one point. It wasn’t violent, but it was pretty poor form.
A bunch of them were calling for Putin to come and invade and save them after Jan 6, so they’ll be cheering. Cos Putin’s all over bathroom privacy, I guess.
Making him read it live on camera so as to respond immediately (and this having to ask Starmer to tell everyone what it said) was that little extra something on top.
Not so much plausible as something that will fire up their base. They need that clamour to stay high as cost of living doesn’t get better and services disappear.
He’s not one person. He has a whole machine behind him.
There’s apparently a drive from overseas to draw experienced staff from the pool of US employees fired.
Well, those of us I know where we stand, anyway.
With the rest of the Commonwealth
So much of it in the comments on TikTok I hate to think what Twitter and Truth Social are like.
Cos women are too emotional to negotiate with foreign leaders. 🫤
I was watching two abusive men putting it all on display. The ease with which DT threatens abandonment and the cruelty of the ‘then I’ll watch with satisfaction as they destroy you and your people’ level move came out together with the need to put hands on… this is a man used to forcing his will.
The rage of an entitled narcissist being told “no”.
The gratitude thing was that he hadn’t thanked Trump during that meeting… for the support given by Biden that Trump ridiculed… that Trump was demanding now be paid for after the fact… without any assurance of security after giving over the minerals.
His response that maybe he’ll wear the costume after the war… nice one.
Already publishing their admiration.
There’s a clip of Clinton talking about how he convinced them to get up their nuclear weapons, with some regret now that the US has broken their word. Third largest stockpile in the world, or something.
When was this exchange?
I’m sorry you learned that behaviour that way, but I agree: (TW) that was a man who uses not just threats and intimidation and the incredibly cruel “and I will just watch with satisfaction as they hurt you” but who is also used to laying on hands to get what he wants.
I think they’re promising to bring the Covid measures back. Which is good, but the bigger issues aren’t addressed by that, and it’s these that have psychologists leaving the profession. You can’t just up and ignore the registration standards and expertise of 67% of your psychologists.