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Swammerdami said:
In Australia the conservative coalition was poised to win, but now Labor is favored due to anti-Trump sentiment. Is that correct?
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My $0.02 is the leader of the Coalition is deeply, deeply uncharismatic. Throughout his entire stint as Opposition Leader his has worked very hard to avoid the spotlight. He can't do that now so people are seeing Dutton for who he really is for the first time. To use US analogies, Peter Dutton has the fascistic tendencies of De Santis with the social skills of JD Vance in a donut shop. The problem is the media is heavily anti Labor and very much pro Coalition. In the state I live in, pretty much 90% of the news is either owned by Murdoch ('nuff said) or the News Division of Nine Entertainment Corporation, which up until very recently was run by Australia's longest serving Treasurer in a Coalition Government so some conflict of interest there.

Long story short, there just simply isn't enough reliable information out there to predict how this election will go. Very different from the last one, which was decided the second this photo was published.
 
Swammerdami said:
But minimizing the cost of the trade war means appeasing Trump, no?
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I suspect appeasement currency is suffering inflation. Trump arm twisted Columbia university and shook them down, and they appeased him. He extorted pro bono agreements from law firms, and they appeased him. But now he’s back at the well like any mob boss would be,, trying to get even more from everyone he proved he could extort.
But - He went after Harvard and they told him to go fuck himself. Hopefully that will catch on. It could slow his roll considerably.
 
GOP cheating is rampant. Do not expect fair and free elections. The following is from https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-voter-suppression/ -- Free to view I think if Javascript is disabled and/or cookies cleared.

James Carville isn’t a man prone to panic, but when he says, “I would not put it at all past [Trump] to try to call martial law or declare that there’s some kind of national emergency,” around next year’s elections, it’s time to sit up straight.
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[But] Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast, a committed non-partisan ... argues that Trump’s GOP doesn’t have to wait for November 2026 to win. They plan to win it in 2025, through something he calls The Great Purge, authorized by five corrupt Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court.

That’s right: before you even cast a vote, millions of names may already be scrubbed from voter rolls. If you’re Black, Latino, a student, a woman who changed her name at marriage, a military service member, or simply someone who moved apartments, you’re already a target.

Let’s break it down:

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission reported over 19 million names purged from voter rolls. While many were valid (deceased or moved), at least 4.47 million were blocked from voting due to bureaucratic tricks like “failure to return confirmation notices,” a tactic voting rights lawyers call “caging.” In Georgia, Palast’s team working with the ACLU found that 63.3% of voters purged via caging were wrongly removed. Many were African-American. Georgia’s GOP Secretary of State proudly doubled down in 2023, targeting 875,000 voters, and that’s just one state.Thirty states now use an error-ridden system called ERIC for voter purging. Not accurate enough? Trump’s legal henchwoman, Cleta Mitchell, is pushing for a new program called EagleAI, the modern version of the GOP’s 1960s “Eagle Eye” voter intimidation operation.
If that wasn’t enough, Republicans have introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would force every newly registered or updated voter to present proof of citizenship in person. And if the name on your birth certificate is different from your passport or driver’s license, you can’t register or vote.

According to Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center, over 21 million Americans don’t have those documents readily available. And 69 million women don’t have their married name on their birth certificate. Many Americans don’t know where their passport or birth certificate is, especially those living in poverty, moving frequently, or serving overseas.

And let’s be clear about the excuse for this law: A racist myth. The Heritage Foundation, pushing the SAVE Act, claims millions of undocumented immigrants vote. But even Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State who made it his mission to arrest illegal voters, found exactly zero in court. In fact, his law blocked 36,000 legal Kansas voters and was thrown out for being unconstitutional.
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""The Heritage Foundation, pushing the SAVE act...""

Heritage Foundation. Bankrolled by the king of all scammers and grifters, the DeVos Family with their pyramid scheme (AmWay and its offshoots and rebrands). They got the MLM pyramid scheme model legalized by taking over the FTC under Nixon and Ford. They justify that predatory business model because they believe that the poor people they exploit and trick into joining their "networks" are stupid and deserve to be poor for falling for their model.

They then believe that it is their godly duty to make sure they and their elect brethren control the government by any means necessary. They are powerful because god wills it.

If they or the organization says it, you know it is about as truthful as an Rvonse post.
 
Politesse said:
The Constitution isn't a document to these nutcases, it's a "feeling". They feel it in their shriveled hearts.
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The Constitution, as seen by MAGAts, says whatever their bought activist SCOTUS say it says.
 
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