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[B.W.Jackson @BWJacksonX]

@brucehawker2010 Low-income Australians do not need government handouts. They need affordable housing & cheap energy. That means an end to mass immigration & “climate action”.

This is the Albanese government’s record in delivering better living standards - zero growth in real per capita GDP.

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@joe97559604 Tommy is a hero. You're just some loser.

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@mackaysuzie It looks like you're from "overseas" so STFU.

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@AaronDodd To alot of ppl it is. Struggling with multiple mortgages until time and rent increases sees you out of it.

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@Loud_Lass Chinese investors caused the problem

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@luke_amott Spoken like a true intellect.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

This is the part to the Ben Roberts-Smith story that makes my blood boil.

On the night of August 29th, 2012 a Taliban sleeper agent in the Afghan National Army massacred three Australian soldiers in cold blood as they prepared to sleep on their own base.

Their names were Private Robert Poate, Sapper James Martin and Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic.

The rogue Afghan soldier was named Hekmatullah. It was the fourth insider, or ''green-on-blue'' attack by Taliban sleeper agents in the Afghan National Army against Australian soldiers in 15 months.

Out of the 41 Australians who died in Afghanistan, 7 died by way of these insider attacks - attacks which technically constitute the war crime of perfidy.

Hekmatullah's attack was a war crime under Article 37 of Additional Protocol I (1977) to the Geneva Conventions which prohibits perfidy as an act of war.

By enlisting in the Afghan National Army and wearing its uniform, Hekmatullah presented himself as a co-belligerent fighting alongside Australian forces - not against them. He invited the confidence of Australian soldiers so as to lead them to believe that they were entitled to protection under international law, and then betrayed that confidence to massacre them as they prepared to sleep.

Ben Roberts-Smith was one of the first on base after the attack. He was ordered to find and apprehend Hekmatullah in order to bring him to justice.

Acting on intelligence, Roberts-Smith and his men were led to the village of Darwan, where Roberts-Smith is then alleged to have committed a war crime, supposedly kicking a farmer named Ali Jan off a cliff and ordering his execution.

Roberts-Smith has always maintained that Ali Jan was a Taliban spotter in a village that was a Taliban stronghold. It is a matter of historical fact that there was confirmed armed Taliban presence in the village of Darwan the day of the raid.

Robert Poate's father Hugh defended Ben Roberts-Smith and his actions: ''These citizens in the village could well have been a civilian one day and pulling the trigger the next, that‘s the way the Taliban operated. This perspective should have been included to provide some balance and context.''

The Taliban fought by blending into the civilian population. They pushed sleeper agents into the Afghan National Army and murdered our soldiers in moments of vulnerability.

Where is Hekmatullah today? He lives in Afghanistan as a free man, feted as a hero by the Taliban. They don't give a fuck about international law or human rights or war crimes. They openly boast about the way they slaughtered our soldiers through acts of betrayal and perfidy.

So my proposal is this: Australia can put Ben Roberts-Smith on trial when the Taliban hand over Hekmatullah, preferably dead, his head on a silver platter.

Until that time, FREE BEN ROBERTS-SMITH.

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@AZ_Brittney

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@DavidShoebridge

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@blowingtom2 @menotmcovid That's your answer!? Dip shit.

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@RhondaGarad @JohnBB40921542 @ChrisMinnsMP You've got some really bad daddy issues going on. Haven't you, poor thing.

[Bradley Kellam @yourkiddinrite]

“THIS ALL TRACES BACK TO ONE MAN” — NO, IT DOESN’T

The claim that the United States never had problems with elections, foreign interference, or candidates accepting defeat before Donald Trump is not just wrong — it’s historically illiterate.

Here’s the record they hope you forgot:

Election Integrity Was an Issue Long Before Trump
•1800: The election between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ended in chaos and was decided by the House of Representatives.
•1876: One of the most disputed elections in U.S. history (Hayes vs. Tilden). Multiple states submitted competing slates of electors. A backroom deal decided the presidency.
•1960: Allegations of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas helped John F. Kennedy defeat Richard Nixon. Serious enough that Nixon chose not to contest it to avoid national unrest.
•2000: Bush vs. Gore. Hanging chads. Florida recounts. Supreme Court intervention. Weeks of uncertainty. Half the country believed the election was illegitimate.

Foreign Interference Didn’t Start in 2016
•The Soviet Union actively interfered in U.S. politics throughout the Cold War.
•In 1984, the KGB ran influence operations to undermine Ronald Reagan.
•In 1996, the Clinton administration investigated Chinese campaign finance influence.
•Russia didn’t suddenly discover America because Trump ran — that narrative was invented to explain a loss.

Candidates Refusing to Accept Defeat Is Nothing New
•John Adams (1800) believed the election was stolen.
•Andrew Jackson (1824) claimed a “corrupt bargain” robbed him of the presidency.
•Al Gore (2000) publicly disputed the outcome for over a month.
•Hillary Clinton (2016) repeatedly called Trump an “illegitimate president” and said the election was “stolen” due to foreign interference.
•Stacey Abrams (2018) still refuses to concede her gubernatorial loss — and is celebrated for it.

What Actually Changed With Trump

Trump didn’t invent distrust.
He broke the media’s monopoly on narrative control.

For the first time in decades:
•Millions of Americans stopped automatically believing legacy media.
•Institutions were openly questioned instead of treated as sacred.
•Election processes were scrutinized by people outside elite circles.
•Power structures that relied on silence faced pushback — loudly.

That terrified them.

The Real Lie

The lie isn’t that America has problems.
The lie is that those problems suddenly appeared because of one man.

That story exists for one reason only:
👉 to absolve institutions of responsibility
👉 to demonize dissent
👉 to make questioning authority synonymous with treason

When someone says “America was perfect before Trump”, what they’re really saying is:

“We were in control, and now we’re not.”

⸻

Final Reality Check

Democracy doesn’t collapse because people ask questions.
It collapses when questions are forbidden.

And any system that can be “destroyed” by one election was already rotting.

🎯 That’s not opinion. That’s history.

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@SteveOhfromOZ @Ausbobsmit

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@Markfry809 @Red10123

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@1Alboforpm @strangerous10 The cheap petrol is due to US energy independence. Nothing to do with the ALP.

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@colonelhogans You're a fucking idiot.

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@Damaan4u33

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@EVCurveFuturist Here's some more earthworks for you. Wind turbines will not replace the energy it takes to mine and process the materials to make, transport and install them during their 20 year life span. And this is "clean" energy?

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@Martin_Flanagan