By David Abbruzzes:
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Very well stated.
Don’t forget when Rome was collapsing emperors would use Gladiator fights to distract the people from the Corruption of the State at that time! This is all starting to make sense now. Who agrees?
Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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Dorries was the Culture Secretary who got humiliated because she didn't understand her brief & went on strike for a year after her crush resigned as PM. Took the salary & did sweet FA. Tell us again why we should listen to her advice. Seriously, they think we have amnesia. #bbcqt
CONSEQUENCES FOR DUMBASSES: You are an F'ing idiot. If we invade Greenland we go to war with 31 nations. NATO stays together but without us. Its HQ is in Brussels, not the Pentagon. Our global reach across the Atlantic will end with our closest refueling base in Israel or Egypt. 100,000 American soldiers will be forced to board civil airliners and sent home or be taken as POWs/Detainee sWITHOUT WEAPONS OR EQUIPMENT. Canada will close its airspace and sea space. US Ballistic Missile Defense at Pettufik and Fylingdales ENDS, which means we see nothing except what space sensors can see. US Intelligence is reduced to Fort Meade, Ft Gordon and Colorado Springs and Hawaii. CIA spies will be rolled up by their former friends in HOURS. NO ONE WILL SHARE ANYTHING WITH US. ALL GLOBAL SHIPPING WILL BE CLOSED TO US. Denmark operates the largest shipping company in the world. SIX OUT OF TEN global shipping companies are in Europe ... Worlds Biggest container ships? DENMARK!
Australia, NZ, Canada are Commonwealth so they will cut ties with us or be neutral too.
PS Denmark & locals tun all life support and generators at Pittufik and Canada resupplies it ... all 150 US Spece force personnel would become POWs to guys on sleds. FYI They have troops there now and 35,000 Caribou hunting rifles.
FYI France and UK have nukes. Hundreds of them so you cannot intimidate them with that.
Oh and they collapse the US economy by sanctioning us and selling off 2.3 Trillion in US treasuries simultaneously. Also no Botox, Ozempic or insulin. Its made in Denmark.
Ya fucking dope.
Congrats for this shot @SkySports
I’m assuming it’s aimed at Dundee Utd 😂
Joking aside, great result for Hearts and an incredible save from Craig Gordon!
Just because Farage is mates and allies with Nathan Gill doesn't mean he was involved in Russian Bribery.
Just because Gill and Farage both voted regularly in favour of Russia as MEPs, it still doesn't mean he was involved.
Just because Farage has long praised Putin and appeared regularly on Russia Today, it still doesn't mean he was necessarily involved.
Just because Farage has unexplained money he used to buy a house in Clacton, still doesn't mean he was necessarily actually involved.
But, it all sure as hell makes him worth investigating.
@JohnCleese@BritpolInRussia Nigel Farage said exactly the same things as Nathan Gill, same time, same place. Did he do so for free? Like his fascist orange friend, he’s not noted for doing things unless there’s something in it for him – it’s a reasonable question too few are asking.
https://t.co/1nYuaCWqm7
I urge everyone to share this post. Disgusting treatment by @waitrose My daughter Sadie Travis used to work with this young man, who is a lovely lad. He deserves better. Shame on Waitrose🤬
The Reform UK party's former leader in Wales - Nathan Gill - has pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements he made in the European Parliament, as well as newspaper opinion pieces.
@leith1076 Since Brexit, the UK has suffered a hit to GDP.
That economic drag leads to lower tax revenues.
Instead of addressing this shortfall through fair taxation, ministers scrape together £5 billion by targeting the less well-off.
Two bad decisions.
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What has happened to the girls at Camp Mystic is EXACTLY what one of the country's best meteorologists
@JohnMoralesTV warned would happen.
Learn how Trump's cuts to @NOAA & @NWS have critically impacted storm prediction nationwide.
@msm_monitor The BBC is an “arm's length” operation of the British state, funded by a tax collected and set by the UK government. Its Chair is appointed by the PM. It's as close to a government department as it could be while still being deniable on paper.