Peter de Groot

Media Useless Information Junkie. Politics and election addict. Left but still cynical and jaded.
Can remember the 60s, must have been too young.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@lesstenny Finally: rational sophisticated nuanced political commentary

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Who is able to figure out who the Rockstar is?

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

Gotta love capitalism; they told us we all needed air fryers and we bought them at such a rate they ran out of customers before the things wore out. They found the solution and now tell us we need to replace them with glass ones because the ones we have have harmful coatings.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

So Meta has attacked Labor's big tech tax to pay media as a "government-mandated transfer of wealth"; well so what? That's one of reasons we have government rather than a total society free for all. #auspol #bigtechmeditax

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@MikeCarlton01 It's been about time for another Trump shooting scare to distract from Draft Evader Bone Spurs losing his war. This piece of theatre looks about as real as his previous near miss when he failed to lose an ear.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@news_australian Wait for the trial if he is found innocent a pardon won't be necessary if he is found guilty he should do the time; it's called a justice system.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@lesstenny @NoNonsenseRN Although totally opposed to any form of selective conscription in this case on men, the US has an enormous military and keeping them at bay will be a huge job. The enemy we have under the guise of an alliance.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

The US is our enemy, not ally, attack our trade with tarrifs, station military assets in Australia so in event of attacks on the US, they will happen here, not in the US. Worked well for the Tangerine King for all those Iranian attacks in ME.

https://t.co/L3TAbRDYZX

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@lesstenny Keating Whitlam Gillard in order. Albanese like Morrison's a slave to machine politics' say and do nothing that could provide an attack chance. If governing is needed poll poll poll to find an inoffensive strategy. Hastie's looking good with what should be ALP policy.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@AlboMP So prce gouging crackdown how about something meaningful like a resource tax, say 80% for a future fund to invest not only in the future but for subsidies when prics boom out our control. Like the present war. It's not like resource companies manufacture, they just grab.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

If Australia needs to access its fuel reserves and the US is also will Australia be able to access those reserves held in US. Maybe Angus Taylor can tell us the answer as he arranged the US storage which doesn't appear immediately convenient if we run short. #auspol #IranWar‌

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

#iranwar2026 #venezuala #auspol #organizedcrime
Trump ressurects the Roaring 20s Pt1 Ban booze bootleggers profiteer stock market crash Pt2 Seize Venezuela oil, bomb Iran, big oil profiteers, stock market crash. Now a 21st century Tommy gun, Elliott Ness and The Untouchables

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@colonelhogans MAGA have a fundamental religious belief against all evidence to the contrary that what's good for big oil is good for them so the rise in oil prices proves to them how "clever" the Tangerine Thief was when he stole Venezuela's oil.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

Why would the Albo government think it was a good idea for US spy planes to land in Australia while the US is bombing Iran, one of our best cereal grain customers. #auspol #IranWar

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@eezharhh Red flag.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

Longest ever state of the union; who does the Tangerine Terror think he is: Fidel Castro.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@colonelhogans @abcnews Trump searched Australia far and wide and found a hand in glove partner to match them.

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@colonelhogans Why do we still have all these links to an archaic England that's been self immolating for decades. At the rate we're going England will get rid of Chuck and his rellos and we'll still have Porkie in the succession lineage while flying a defaced UK flag instead of one of our own

[Peter de Groot @pcdegroot]

@JDVance The main driver of the American drug like any market is consumer demand. I thought the US was a probusiness country; all the businesses in these Central and South American countries have been doing is meeting US consumer demand.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true:
1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region.
2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate.
3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled).
4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them.
5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.