pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 10, 2025 04:03PM

Yes, sadly this pickup driver suffers from the TDS-R strain, which is at the opposite end of the spectrum as TDS-D.

Both strains have similar causes; consuming biased media.
TDS-D is far more common however...

In the last 10 years I've been to roughly 30-35 US states and I can honestly say that I've seen people wearing a MAGA hat and/or driving a flag adorned pickup trucks less than 10 times.

In the same time frame I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of hateful comments, stickers, and signs that are anti-Trump.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 10, 2025 09:20PM

That I don't believe. *I* have seen people wearing Trump/maga hats in Sydney and Melbourne more than 10 times.

It's fucking weird. If they're American tourists, it's weird. If they're Australians, it's downright nutty.

We're heading into a federal election now. One of the parties bankrolled/chaired by a dipshit named Clive Palmer has called itself "Trumpet of Patriots". It's not the first time he's contested the election, will be interesting to see how he goes this time. Hopefully the legalise cannabis party makes some inroads this year.

American political shit really has spread too far.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 11, 2025 09:12AM

People cheering at televised political rallies are the ones I don't get.
THIS person however, I get.
THIS person is trolling.
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pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 11, 2025 09:34AM

Is the site running like absolute dogshit tonight or is it me?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 11, 2025 10:28AM

Hmm seems okay now. Damn internet.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 11, 2025 10:46AM

Yes it was a bit crappy.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 11, 2025 11:32AM

Author ~ Eilene Workman

I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many decades—LONG before he ever made a run at politics.
His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it.
He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.
If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower.
If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock.
If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.
If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn’t want him to run under color of their party.
If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”
What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it. And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy.
The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would LOVE to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude—a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.
Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.
I don’t know what it is, but every bone in my body FEELS an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion—coming soon.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 12, 2025 06:56PM

"That I don't believe. *I* have seen people wearing Trump/maga hats in Sydney and Melbourne more than 10 times."

So you're basing your belief of what I've seen in the USA on what You have seen in Australia...?

Seems really weird for someone in Australia to wear a MAGA hat ..
I think it's weird to wear ANY political stuff but in a different country is beyond..

As for what I've seen...
to be fair, I do live on the west coast where all the cities are blue..
I did see a Trump bumper sticker just yesterday though..
Thinking on this a little more, I do remember seeing a lot of FUCK BIDEN signs around over the last couple of years.

Leading up to the last election it really seemed to me that most people weren't showing support for anyone.
As I said, I live in a mostly democrat area and I can only recall seeing one Harris sign.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 14, 2025 11:27AM

I certainly haven't seen signs in front yards. But also that's not something that happens here, for ours or any other politics. Flags aren't a thing here either. Or really anywhere but the US.

With that said somebody a few blocks from here has a Greens pamphlet in their front window. But it's one placez and we're in a Greens stronghold.

So yes seeing foreign politics here is fucking weird. But then Americans are fucking weird

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 14, 2025 12:02PM

In my experience around university graduates (not me), engineers, IT dudes with neck-beards and miners (yes miners not minors)...
... Americans (US and Canadians) are the smartest and most "life is good" people I have ever met.
Except maybe some plasma-physicists from Russia that I met in a backpackers hostel.
But I digress.
America is a big place with LOTS of people.
Like Australia and the UK, it's citizens get the BEST opportunities in the world.
No ifs or buts. Australia, UK, USA and Canada are the best countries in the world (NZ is part of Australia let' sjust admit it).
When you can choose to be a redneck, a bogan or a chav that's a good sign of a free country.
But even though those fucken loozers outnumber the rest of us at time, they do not represent their countries.
/rant

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 14, 2025 12:05PM

American schoolchildren have been taught to worship the flag for about a century. I don't think it's quite as prevalent now, but when I was in school every day started with reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, facing the flag, with hand over heart. I suppose you've seen how sporting events are started with the National Anthem, again with hand over heart. The pledge was written by a socialist minister as a magazine promotion, and it caught on. Most Americans have no clue that he was a socialist, and the words "under God" weren't added until the cold war in the 1950's to distinguish us from those Godless commies, I guess. I still remember it and some people lose their shit when it's not recited in a school or someone refuses to say it.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

It's indoctrination and has seldom been lived up to when it comes to liberty and justice for all. It does make for some rabid nationalists though.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 14, 2025 11:15PM

I no longer sing my national anthem because recent politicians have had the words changed.
True story bro' they didn't want to offend the snowflakes.

Nationalism is good if you have good leaders.
That's all I can say.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 15, 2025 12:44AM

Woberto is offended because the words changed from "for we are young and free" to "for we are one and free". We're not young anymore But yes the inclusivity attempt, while not offensive to me, just feels dumb.

I don't care about that. I haven't "sung" the anthem since primary school.

Was it 'Australians all love ostriches' or 'sausages'? I can't remember anymore. My favourite anthem is "God save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 15, 2025 05:22AM

yes.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 15, 2025 05:55AM

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 15, 2025 06:09AM

Oscar was unlucky. I like the new wings and the helmet-cam is neeeeet.