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  1. notliondown

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    Take this whole thing one step further... Who is the Chair of the FCC? You know, the guy Trump says should look into TV licenses? The one threatening stations so people like Kimmel are removed? Brendan Carr. Who is part of the Heritage Foundation and wrote the chapter in project 2025 about...
  2. notliondown

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    The Dems are definitely part of the problem as an organisation. There's a lot of resistance to changing the status quo from the long established factions. However a large part of the problem is the lack of a single "leader" to spearhead the attack against Trump because of their split leadership...
  3. notliondown

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    I think the real concern are the strings pulled by the Heritage foundation and other ultra right wing groups. Project 2025 and Ester were public knowledge. All of this shit was literally spelled out. Anyone who could read or write or bothered to look could see what was going to happen. Trump...
  4. notliondown

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    Reid - Gone. Colbert - Gone. Kimmel - Gone. Even with Disney and ABC maintaining he did nothing wrong, he's still gone. Now the threat to pull TV licences if you show unfavourable coverage. Nope not an authoritarian state at all. Surely to hell some of this stuff is getting through to his...
  5. notliondown

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    Truly scary that even if you try to make sure you are educated with 3 or 4 sources and alternate views, that this stuff gets the run it does for days on end because mainstream media want it to suit a narrative. No different to the bullshit that ran unchecked for days after the shooting. I doubt...
  6. notliondown

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    Baffles me how, in a country so hell bent on conspiracy theories and distrust of business and government that they've allowed themselves to be so influenced. Granted they are isolationist and inwards looking so they really don't have perspective or alternate views put forward but this whole mess...
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    They are trying to play up the differences between Kirk and Fuentes but the reality is that they were/are both white supremacists, misogynist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic arseholes. Sure they have some differences on the fringes but their core values aligned. The efforts today to portray the...
  8. notliondown

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    The really hard part is now both sides - lets be real the right far more than the left - have become so polarised and hardened that they have simply stopped listening. The hard core support for Trump and his allies regardless of their actions will not erode. No matter what happens. 30% of...
  9. notliondown

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    I just don't know how the red states survive in that scenario but it seems to draw closer every day. It's fair to say both coasts are a lot more like each other than the middle. I can't see the end game here... no matter how long this goes on for it will always reach a point of ultimate...
  10. notliondown

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    There has always been "sides" no doubt. But I guess I look back to times when things had to be aside to rebuild and recover. Now the world we live in today lets amplified and unbalanced views be pumped into your ecosystem 24/7. We have never been as radicalised and coerced as we are today. Some...
  11. notliondown

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    That it's come to this idiotic and yet totally predictable outcome is just crazy stupid, scary and just sad. I didn't like the guy one bit but his wife and children are now left alone which is horrific. It's just hard to believe it's spiralling that far out of control. You can't sow the seeds...
  12. notliondown

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    No I think you are 100% right, and from the little that I know I think all of that is correct. Xi wants to return those territories back to the Empire. He's pretty much stated as much reading between the lines. I should have clarified in my ramble that I meant a threat to us, and the West more...
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    Yeah you are right but it makes no sense. Xi has a businessman in a photo of leaders? Nah, he knew the publicity this would stir here... and around the world, by having an Aussie there. It was calculated. I don't doubt Andrews lapped up the attention and was happy to oblige because he's naive...
  14. notliondown

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    I don't understand what the message is that having an ex Premier stand amongst world leaders sends... although nothing happens by accident with Xi. If the Maga cultists think Trump plays Chess then Xi plays a game yet to be invented. But having Andrews stand there is like a pre-schooler standing...
  15. notliondown

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    I just can't help but wonder how either desperate or foolish or selfish you had to be to support this idiot in the first place. This implosion was inevitable. The battle lines between Maga and Project 2025 were being drawn up 18 months ago. Steve Bannon openly stated there would be a battle to...
  16. notliondown

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    It's amazing where money can be found when it suits your agenda....
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    Gee the whole Alligator Alcatraz thing over there is just terrifying. I just can't believe this is where we are at. What's worse are the gleeful media and Maggats celebrating the construction of a concentration camp in record time. One with no access to showers and toilets. One where beds are...
  18. notliondown

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    You mean like this TACO??? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-trade-tariffs-deadline.html And now you have the truly sober Hegseth berating the media because they keep reporting the truth instead of what they are told... Nothing to see here from the quasi dictatorship...
  19. notliondown

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    This whole situation in the middle east is such a complicated mess a simpleton like the Orange Menace will never understand it... To be honest I'm not sure any of us in the west ever will. And despite his Truth Social declarations I doubt it's anything like over. When the man ignores his own...
  20. notliondown

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    I can't see Iran failing ever being the case... I think the Middle East is ripe to make this count if the USA sticks it's bib in. If you cut one head off another will rise, more radicalized and more focused on revenge. Like Ukraine, the US is happy to have others fight its wars and do it's...
  21. notliondown

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    150% I was listening to a podcast the other day and they pretty much concluded that Biden's entire political history will come down to his decision to run again... and what a clusterf*ck that decision was. The only upside to this whole mess is that when they finally find a way to get rid of...
  22. notliondown

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    Oh look. Australia dared say something Trump doesn't agree with and now they are reviewing the AUKUS deal. What a petulant child. How the f**k does this man hold the nuclear keys?????????
  23. notliondown

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    I guess what's happening in the US is really what most predicted... the question is - how far will it go? My question is this but - if you were there, how long do you watch? What's your tipping point? What's the point where you say - I have to get involved? It's terrifying and yet fascinating...
  24. notliondown

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    This video runs for a few minutes... but it's worth the watch if you are actually interested in democracy and how quickly it can be snatched away. This is what academics, observers, commentators, Democrats, international advocates and just open minded people who aren't brainwashed and have some...
  25. notliondown

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    Is it wrong to hope that neither of them escapes intact????
  26. notliondown

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    But in reality it's bigger than that... the circus covers the really scary stuff. Lets not forget the Feds are raiding Dem's offices now... Or parades to celebrate himself costing however many tens of millions... Or Peter Theils company creating a database on every American citizen for the US...
  27. notliondown

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    The only thing that you can be sure of at the moment is that self interest is the only commodity running Washington. If someone is whinging, that someone is missing out. It's really become that simple... and terrifying.
  28. notliondown

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    The easiest way around this is to change the rate on the input tax once certain thresholds are reached. Currently super is taxed at 15%. So let's say balances of up to $1.5m are taxed at 15%. Should you wish to add assets or funds over that your input tax increases to 20% until you hit $3m...
  29. notliondown

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    As someone who was told that we had to prepare to look after ourselves in retirement because the pension would no longer exist when we retired I get some people are going to be hurt by this - people who thought they were doing the right thing. But Super has always been flawed. Despite it...
  30. notliondown

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    I actually understand why the Nats have split from the Libs (for now, lets not kid ourselves) and in reality it's no bad thing. The thing that I can't understand is the hubris they have. Yes the Nats held their seats - and it was an achievement. There was a period not too long ago where the...

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