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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -I’m still waiting for Abbott to shirtfront Putin 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -Do our own feelings regarding Trump cloud our judgement in some respects?
I thought Albanese handled himself quite well in the meetings.
He looks to have come away with some good results for the country.
He hasn't antagonised Trump in any way
He hasn't seemed to be anyting other than diplomatic.
He was respectful without fawning.
It will be largely spun as positive.
We don't need to 'shirt front' a bloke just to demonstrate bogus strength when we can achieve results through a good old sit-down.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
4. Immigration. Holy mackeral I recall the same racism/xenophobia in the 50s against the poms ('The $10 immigrants'), 60s, 70s and even 80s against Greeks, Italians and Middle Eastern immigrants... then to Indian and Asian folks, and so on it goes. This is nothing new, Shawny. Seems to be spliced into the DNA of some folks (Xenophobia).
Don't agree with this one - the immigrants that flooded our shores in the 50s-80s, the vast majority assimilated into the Aussie culture, worked and worked bloody hard, respected our laws and authority and if kids of Wog parents like me dared to disrespect the law or even just be rude to anyone older then we were we coped it. From what i hear the current crop we are letting in by the tens of thousands just don't have those traits at all and its clear to see how things are headed.
The amount of crime in certain pockets of this state, in particular the western suburbs is worse than its ever been. There is no respect for the law whatsoever and regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on serious crime such as car jackings, home invasions, knife offences against civilians has never been this brazen. Everytime im out and about function party etc and im speaking to an emergency workers I always ask them for thir experiences and im yet to met one that said its the same as it was 20 years ago. They all say in different ways that there is a disproportion number of serious crimes coming from individual's from certain war torn regions. Sure there was crime in the 50, 60 and 70s from the Europeans, Asian, Indian etc but nothing like this.
If you are not fully committed to our culture our laws our flag and our peaceful way of life and are not willing to work hard then you should not be allowed in regardless of how bad your current life is. I know it sounds a bit cold but allowing those in who don't 100% buy into our values is slowly turning our streets like the ones they escaped.
And if you commit a serious crime their citizenship should be revoked.
She copped the lot ,gangs at the shops doing car jackings, damaged cars in the street, attempted break ins to her home, people stabbed at Watergardens shopping centre ,even a drone hovering outside her kitchen window with a white package onboard. One in Nine people known to police she was told, lucky she moved to Greensborough where the only break ins are from possums and the odd bird or two trying to nest in a gap under your eaves.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by shawny -
I didnt buy into anything simply quoted what the police minister said in his press conference which was so refreshing to see someone stand up to these lowlifes and call them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbliCmt0QqA
As others have said enough is enough. The politicians are weak and compulsive liars and the current lot are simply incapable of fixing the mess they caused. The machete bins fiasco says enough of the incompetence of those we elected to run the state (well i didn't but enough did unfortunately) - they focus on topics to win votes and fail to address the important issues. Our state is being overrun with criminals, majority out on bond, no repercussions for violent protesters against the law as well as the effect of letting tens of thousands of immigrants in weekly with too many that don't want to assimilate to our customs and worst part is when they commit a serious crime they is stuff all to deter the next lot from offending. Lack of mental health facilities to monitor and house those who should not be on the street. That poor chef that was stabbed in the city last week for no reason was just sickening.
4. Immigration. Holy mackeral I recall the same racism/xenophobia in the 50s against the poms ('The $10 immigrants'), 60s, 70s and even 80s against Greeks, Italians and Middle Eastern immigrants... then to Indian and Asian folks, and so on it goes. This is nothing new, Shawny. Seems to be spliced into the DNA of some folks (Xenophobia).
Don't agree with this one - the immigrants that flooded our shores in the 50s-80s, the vast majority assimilated into the Aussie culture, worked and worked bloody hard, respected our laws and authority and if kids of Wog parents like me dared to disrespect the law or even just be rude to anyone older then we were we coped it. From what i hear the current crop we are letting in by the tens of thousands just don't have those traits at all and its clear to see how things are headed.
The amount of crime in certain pockets of this state, in particular the western suburbs is worse than its ever been. There is no respect for the law whatsoever and regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on serious crime such as car jackings, home invasions, knife offences against civilians has never been this brazen. Everytime im out and about function party etc and im speaking to an emergency workers I always ask them for thir experiences and im yet to met one that said its the same as it was 20 years ago. They all say in different ways that there is a disproportion number of serious crimes coming from individual's from certain war torn regions. Sure there was crime in the 50, 60 and 70s from the Europeans, Asian, Indian etc but nothing like this.
If you are not fully committed to our culture our laws our flag and our peaceful way of life and are not willing to work hard then you should not be allowed in regardless of how bad your current life is. I know it sounds a bit cold but allowing those in who don't 100% buy into our values is slowly turning our streets like the ones they escaped.
And if you commit a serious crime their citizenship should be revoked.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -Capitulating to bullies just encourages them to bully you more.
The political art would be to make him think he is a winner, when in reality it is you getting what you want!
RedTrump is a gunna man, he's gunna do this, he's gunna do that, his followers stop the assessment there and he is happy for them not to look deeper.
Foreign bureaucrats can depend on a couple of things, RedTrump will feather his nest and take any credit whenever the opportunity arrives.
btw., RedTrump, Rudd, Albanese or not, this is Australia making a deal with America. I think we did a good job of not making the recent China military activity an issue, that is what China would have wanted, they would have wanted us to focus on the guns and forget the minerals. When that 'flares' story hit the airwaves yesterday the first thing I said to my wife was, "They don't want us talking mining, they want us talking guns!"
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Last post by DJC -That sort of behavior is an indictment on both of them, and others. The fact that he is such a baby and is so easily played, and the fact that diplomats, business leaders, world leaders and others would stoop so low as to lick his saggy, sorry ar$e. Have some f%%^^ng principles and self respect. Capitulating to bullies just encourages them to bully you more.
Couldn't agree more Paul. While flattering and kowtowing to a narcissistic bully may get the outcome you desire, it's hardly good leadership and does little to make the world a better place. Zelenskyy fluctuates between standing up to Taco and bending over backwards, but he's in a difficult predicament. Musar of Slovenia, Colombia's Petro, Ireland's Micheál Martin, Brazil's da Silva and, leading the way, Carney, Sheinbaum, Frederiksen, Steinmeier and von der Leyen, are shining lights in how they don't take a backward step when confronted by Taco.
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Last post by LP -Kevin Rudd grovelling to Trump was a sight see.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by LP -As an aside, a mate who served with me in the Navy on leaving the service went into commercial TV in Sydney and was telling me only recently how in news rooms (TV and print) the footage would come in from a protest and they would edit the coverage in such a way that the focus was on scuffles, and worse, greatly exaggerating the extent of any violence.
The stupid thing is local protestors model their behaviour and tactics on the fake reports that they watch, so in effect this is a feedback loop caused by the media's own fake reporting.
Even worse, when I was at News Ltd, the tip offs about protests and demonstrations, in most cases union related back then, would come in from the same handful people no matter the industry sectors involved. So as you mentioned this has been going on for a long long time.