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[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.

The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.

Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.

Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.

In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.

And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

An estimated 1 MILLION Albanians protest in Tirana. Protesters demand an END to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Sazan Island luxury resort project and PM Rama's gov't corruption.

THE FLAMINGO REVOLUTION HAS LEGS.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The United States fans are clearly overwhelmingly cheering for Iran. It speaks volumes!

The people of America do not want war with Iran at all.

Donald Trump must be pissed!

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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[NRL GUY @KayoNrl]

@toddvs35 @palejawsh That’s 2 shoulder charges on one player.

And NSW got the ball. They aren’t even trying to hide it.

This is insane.

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

Épico momento...

La bandera de Irán desplegandose en territorio NorteAmericano, simbolismo puro, esto es lo que Donald Trump queria evitar....

#mundialdefútbol2026 #Irán

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨 The situation is completely getting out of control.

Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion. 🇦🇱

The Albanian people refuse to become a new Palestine. 💥"

[Nannan. @NannanBay lower class Australian @NannanBay]

Let's look at Pauline's work record.
https://t.co/5jhhQ6tGjk

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Pauline Hanson says young people don't want to work, but If you only showed up to work 12% of the time, you'd probably be looking for a new job.

Yet Pauline Hanson wants working Australians to take her seriously after an 88% absence rate at Senate Estimates.
#auspol #OneNation

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Javier Echeverría @JEcheverriZ]

“China ha aceptado que no existió ningún país llamado Israel. pronto el mundo también lo sabrá: era Palestina, es Palestina y siempre será Palestina.

Retuitea esto para que todos los judíos sepan que Israel no es un país.”

[ShiannonCorcoran💉x4 @shiannonc.bsky.social @ShiannonC]

Back in 2016-2017 Gina Rinehart went into a joint venture with Gui Guojie to buy the 100-year old Kidman cattle business for $386.5 million.

A syndicate of Australian grazier families tried to buy the Kidman Cattle business but were outbid by Rinehart and Guojie.

Gui Guojie is the Chairman of CRED, a Chinese real estate conglomerate. He has various Australian interests, including the Port Adelaide Football Club and his joint venture with Gina Rinehart- Australian Outback Beef Pty Ltd. He has also acquired various farming properties in Western Australia.

Nothing wrong with Chinese investment in Australia, right? Unless you believe Pauline Hanson in her comeback speech in 2016 when she denounced Chinese ownership of assets.

Hanson: “Any foreign ownership is regrettable, but why are we allowing the Chinese government, an oppressive communist regime to own our assets?”

She goes on to say, “Why are we allowing our ports, utilities, services, agricultural land and industries to be acquired by foreigners of any nationality? Our land and assets are not for sale."

🙄

Around about the same time as she made that speech, Gina Rinehart and Gui Guojie were in the process of acquiring the Kidman cattle business under their joint venture of Australian Outback Beef Pty Ltd - outbidding the Australian graziers in the process.

.. but Hanson reckons that’s all okay now - because she’s been assured that even though it’s foreign investment and she is against ALL foreign investment - Gui Guojie is not “communist China” and would employ Australian workers. Hanson said this in a video she released in support of the Hancock/CRED bid. It is also noted that she did not openly support the Australian graziers at the time and their bid.

According to research, Gui Guojie is a member of the Chinese Communist Party - this fact was also noted by The Australian in 2016.

So, in effect - Pauline Hanson is absolutely against foreign investment - unless it has anything to do with her associations with Gina Rinehart and her Chinese foreign investment with a known member of the CCP, Gui Guojie.

Pauline Hanson is a hypocrite - and anybody who supports Hanson who has an ounce of critical thinking skills should be able to source factual information regarding the above in under 20 minutes online.

Hanson relies on the ignorance of her followers when she foghorns her “Australia and Australians first” narrative. She relies on the fact that these people will not do the research - but will almost certainly be riled up by her anti-foreigner rhetoric over and over again.

Hanson can’t even walk the walk. The same person who buys Hanson a private jet is involved in foreign investment with a member of the CCP.

You be the judge of her character, but do it on the basis of factual information, not with your manufactured outrage.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The way the United States closed the Strait of Hormuz.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

This

[Sandra K Eckersley @SandraEckersley]

Twiggy Forrest, whose company Fortescue Mining is Australia’s third biggest tax payer, has just called for an END to diesel subsidies for mining companies like his. You won’t hear Gina Rinehart’s One Nation advocating for that. #auspol

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

BREAKING NEWS 🆘The daughter of U.S. Republican Senator Jay Block: 🆘

"Israel pays money to my father, and he spreads propaganda.

I am deeply ashamed of this situation. I believe my father has sold his soul to the devil.

I hope his career ends!"