“Guys! GUYS! You really depend on the oil that flows through the Strait so come and help me open it!”

“But your actions closed it in the first place.”

“OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU WON’T HELP! :`(”

Fuck me, this is what international politics and diplomacy have become.

And when he gets there, he should fuck off again.

Stop thinking the US is some righteous bringer of all that is good. The US has only ever served its own purposes and fucked everything up in the process.

Pauline, perhaps? Seriously though, I get infuriated every time I think of Pine Gap and wish the government had the guts to shut it down, especially as it makes us complicit in many of the US’s attacks around the world.

Correct. Trump has no personality, he is just personified disorder.

Let’s not forget the last prime minister who tried that was Whitlam, and what then happened to him is no coincidence. The CIA reaches far and wide unfortunately.

No no, that’s SABOTAGE, not sabatoge.

So the US involving itself and killing more people is the right answer. I see.

“Let’s not murder people in another country because it might slightly inconvenience us at home!”

Wow. Such argument. Most strong. Not that I expect the Democraps to do much more than put out a letter that’s totally in the mail right now.

It certainly feels like yet another case of “Australia says thing and no one cares”. Firstly, the monarchy rules Australia so they can do what they want without Australia having a say. Secondly, Andrew is so far down the line of succession that this is a fairly pointless thing to even mention. Unless Prince Harry and Prince William (with all three of his kids) all have some sort of freak accident in a Parisian tunnel, Andrew will never live to see the throne anyway. Even if Charles, his kids AND their kids ALL get wiped out, Anne is next in line before Andrew. So… whatever. Slow clap for Albo I guess.

Trump wouldn’t say “fuck Iran” after he finds out how old Iran is…

Lushsux is Melbourne based, unless they’ve gone to Sydney recently…

weeks-long campaign

“Mission Accomplished!” in just a few weeks, bro! And, you know, about 10-20 years of wasting time and resources, gradually building hatred towards themselves via a non-stop guerilla war and war crimes, until the US once again quietly chickens out and goes home.

But I guess you’ve got to keep the industrial war machine happy, otherwise all the shareholders, and the economy in general, will be really upset.

And then they get to stand around saying “Why do they hate American so much? It must be because we have freedom!”. This has the lead up to 2001 written all over it.

This. I will forgive most driving indiscretions if I see a wave/acknowledgement of wrongdoing.

A military coup to keep a dementia-ridden, kiddy-fiddling, lying, raping felon in power will be one of the fuck-dumbest things to occur in the modern history of this planet. Can’t wait to watch it play out.

The Pinto became so renowned not because it easily blew up, but because people found out Ford had calculated the cost of payments to victims’ families and worked out it was cheaper than recalling all the vehicles and fixing the problem. Capitalism has been alive and well for at least the last 50 years.

TIL gubernatorial is a word. Adj of or relating to a governor.

I can see some gaps that could have been filled with more people!

When I was a kid the CIA (and FBI for that matter) seemed like some magical force that was impossible to go against. Now I’m an adult I see the CIA as a massively expensive meddling influence that will do long-term massive damage to a country often for short-term gains. They truly are one of the biggest terrorist organisations on the planet.