Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: June 20, 2025 09:04AM

There was a school of thought here in Australia that Trump is monetising his office, that's morphed into deliberately causing such chaos in the markets countries will protect themselves by decoupling from the yanks. Ending globalisation. That's fine by me.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: June 20, 2025 05:32PM

It's not just some folks in Australia thinking that. His shenanigans are destabilizing the U.S. dollar while he's personally cashing in by selling his own brand of goods, the latest being a mobile phone network. You too can get your own golden Trump phone that will (someday) be made in the USA.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: June 21, 2025 03:51AM

Well, we could just sit back and watch. Or think like a larrikin and throw in banana skins. Or think like something else and throw in a grenade. Or think like an Australian and throw in some of our wildlife.

Here's a plan:

There seem to be two types of yank who hate Trump: those whom I'll ignore as I think they honestly don't like him, and the ones coiffured in suits and dresses, who want to keep your constitution and scrap the amendments. Who imagine the world will be/is under your constitution, whom I don't trust. All right then, why don't you scrap your constitution for one that doesn't rely on grand words with no substance, and keep your amendments? All of them. In their current order. In their current wording. Pay close attention to whom objects.

Or: why not your states hold referendums to add those amendments to their constitutions, locking them in? All of them. In their current order. In their current wording. If anyone doesn't like it they can put up or shut up. We'll watch.