Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "MSNBC" channel.

  1. It's strange the initial targets seem to be Democrat areas. It would make more sense to start in Republican areas where there'll be cooperation.
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  2. There's one major country they seem to be holding up well for now, China. Of course Chinese leadership can change that any time they want just by telling people to not buy Tesla.
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  3. There will be more desperate people from the economic fallout and potentially more users so it is more likely to increase supply.
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  4. There's nuances to what you say. Elected officials can't just enter any federal facilities in this case. Military facilities in particular can have extremely limited access.
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  5. That's every government for the last 40 years or so. So both parties obviously.
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  6. Indirectly using the word obesity is a massive problem is very true, yes obese people are massive.
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  7. No evidence he fired.
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  8. ​@justinp8599 Join who might I ask. Trump was the biggest deficit spender in history and Biden wasn't much better. I am an outsider but even I can see that no political group in the US wants to improve the government deficit.
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  9. Probably some will fly over the US to Mexico.
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  10. I honestly don't understand the billionaires agreeing to tank the US economy with trade wars. A lot of these billionaires will be negatively affected as well. If the pie is smaller there's less to go around. Maybe billionaires only care about relative wealth. The poor will go down further than the billionaires.
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  11. I agree with the headline because there's only 1 country where Tesla sales are holding up and that's China.
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  12. ​@anna8331 Not wanting to waste money on a sports car is sensible. A BYD Dolphin costs around $20,000 USD in Australia, a perfectly good vehicle with more durable batteries even if the range isn't as high as Tesla. Most people don't drive over 400km each day.
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  13. Like it or not , Trump has a mandate. Two thirds of the population are happy with him, must include the non voters. If they had an issue with his agenda they should have voted. Americans need to take responsibility for their actions.
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  14. Well they'll have even less once the Trump tariffs kick in.
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  15. The very last point was interesting. It almost sounds like Zuckerberg is excited about the idea of Trump putting tariffs on countries under an oligarchs command if a country annoys one of them.
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  16. Not only demand to put out fires but also burnt out buildings will have water flowing freely until someone turns it off at the mains. I am sure this is being done but in some cases it's probably difficult.
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  17. His current promise is to increase costs with tariffs but that prices will magically go down in the future. A bit like covid 19 will go away before Easter.
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  18. You forgot the other members of the alliance, China and North Korea.
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  19. Tariffs are a socialist policy. A bit ironic implying socialists are always lefties.
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  20. It's nuanced. The government puts the rules and regulations in place which creates either a more competitive environment or a less competitive environment. The government also regulates monopolies such as utilities like water and electricity if privatised. I am Australian and we have a more competitive environment for things such as agriculture, supermarkets or at least many of the products stocked in supermarkets being cheaper which is actually a surprise because wages are lower in the US. The US has more import tariffs than Australia already which along with New Zealand and Singapore can be considered a truly free trade nation. Trump plans a big socialist experiment by putting tariffs on everything imported. This virtual removal of competition will dramatically reduce competition and higher input costs for manufacturers importing goods and lead to price rises. Even something like ground beef which the US imports from various countries like Australia will go up in price. So if Trump does what he says you should complain to him when burgers get more expensive. Because there's no plan to increase minimum wages places such as Burger King and McDonald's will suffer or be selling more chicken which the US produces very cheaply.
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  21. It's basically a test of nervousness. Sycopaths will pass it every time and nervous people will fail it every time. My guess is your president would pass it every time.
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  22. I think you will probably be shipping things around or through the US to each other, a good example is fruits and vegetables which will now be cheaper to send from Mexico to Canada compared to the tariffed price of US fruits and vegetables. Trudeau did mention fruits and vegetable as part of the retaliation.
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  23. Well $2 Trillion in cuts would be absolutely ruthless. If massive cuts to welfare handouts don't scare you they should.
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  24. I am with Trump on this. Those persons mentioned Pete and Matt are qualified whether you like them or not. Appointees should be rubber stamped so the government can start to function. The US is the only democracy in the world that appoints it's ministers through some slow laborious process.
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  25. You must be rich and not involved in export or import or retail. I guess you will enjoy watching the North American economy tank. A strange thing to enjoy watching others getting hurt.
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  26. The idea of shutting down comments is ridiculous. It's also ironic that the discussion of such allowed comments here knowing people were going to leave comments sympathising with the killer and or lack of empathy with the victim. Now is the very time to discuss the issue for US citizens, the killing should start discussions. The killer did a revolutionary act which many people approve of. Shutting down discussion is like not expecting such an act to occur occasionally. The act and the reactions are a symptom of failed US policy that watches people die rather than saving them. So better to try and fix the disease of corporate greed and compliance by both your political parties protecting the status quo. Both your major political parties actually subsidise pharmaceuticals. Nowhere else in the world does this. It's insanity. But hey let's shut down conversations about the matter, like that's going to work. It's as stupid as Trump's tax cuts for corporations mostly owned by the rich and hiking up taxes on those with low and middle incomes through tariffs. People voted for this insanity and the majority of politicians of both parties support a for profit insurance industry to increase healthcare costs. Insanity yet again. Sorry to sane Americans, you are actually in the minority.
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  27. I wouldn't agree with that but Canada could get a free trade agreement with China. Australia has one.
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  28. None of it makes sense.
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  29. A military coup de'ta isn't the answer.
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  30. Quarter of a Trillion would just mean US government debt increasing 1.75 Trillion per year, wouldn't actually help anything. Raise the corporate tax rate to 30% makes more sense because billionaires primarily pay tax this way. Also cut spending on healthcare and raise coverage by paying market rates for medicines. Cut spending spending on the military by a few hundred billion.
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  31. Which flu, it could be bird flu by then passing human to human.
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  32. Actually the best way is functional well regulated as free as possible market . The exact opposite of Trump's protectionism, non functional markets , tariffs and selective industry subsidies.
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  33. Only half way through this clip but it's obvious they are nuts and love to claim to be victims. The wildest comment so far is that Trump will stop division unlike other Republicans and Democrats. That sort of made laugh.
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  34. Historically allies didn't exist countries or groups would continually go around trying to conquer each other to create an empire. That behaviour sort of ended after WWII with only a few exceptions.
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  35. The cost of steel roofing just went up. Australia's ex prime minister explained how it's cheaper for California to import from Australia than from the Midwest due to transport costs. Now there's a 25% tariff on these products, so maybe builders will buy American at a higher cost and most likely with delays as the US producers would need to ramp up production.
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  36. It's worse than that. Misinformation can be used to incite violence etc.
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  37. Wouldn't really consider them media. While they are entertaining, they are activist channels not media.
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  38. Hello scammer
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  39. I hope whoever our next government is tries to develop closer military ties to South Korea , Japan and Philippines. Those countries are now at threat from China and so is Australia to an extent.
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  40. He isn't, he wants to be one though.
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  41. Rather than getting defamed and fired. That's the usual MO of Trump and his loyalists.
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  42. You just got your account 3 hours ago. I guess you were born yesterday as your comment indicates.
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  43. @xMaGuSx888  I think based on reporting your point is significant, seems any employees working on enforcing laws again Elon's businesses have for some reason lost their job just like anyone in the FBI who worked on J6 cases are no longer required.
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  44. I think you mean 1,000,000
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  45. @jerrymartin3965  Do you pay into your government pension scheme? The reason I ask is because your Social Security payout needs to be cut when you reach that age. It's currently operating as a pretend self funding thing when it's actually a government run Ponzi scheme that will run out of money in 2035 if nothing is changed according to their own actuaries. I hope you support cutting your own future income to be consistent assuming you are covered by the scheme. I have little knowledge of that scheme because the US is the only country to run a social welfare program like that.
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  46. @audreywellham2413  Matt is a lawyer so qualified for the position of AG. Pete has a Masters of Public Policy so he is certainly qualified as an administrator. The US is the only democracy in the world where for some unknown reason they have historically chosen ex generals for the job. Probably goes back to the civil war or even war of independence. It's in no way a legal requirement, it's only a tradition.
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  47. Democracies often have kings. It's the role of the king or president that matters. I am Australian and our king plays no role in government functions and our prime minister isn't an absolute ruler and can be removed in about 15 minutes when parliament is sitting. Unfortunately your president is much closer to an absolute ruler than anything Australia has, they even choose the entire unelected government as in secretaries/ministers. The US should wake up to itself and copy a better form of government where nobody has too much power as your president does , it might be better than an absolute ruling king but it's far from best practice in the world. Your elected officials are simply lobbyists of their donors, hence your high spending on heathcare with lowest, high income country absolute outcome. The concept of an unelected executive government to me is completely absurd, very absolute ruler like.
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  48. Running up debt like he did last time.
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  49. He was kicked out of his job is my understanding, put on administrative leave. It wasn't the asking questions that was the problem, it was trying to access the system as in can I have all the passwords for everything.
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  50. That's an overreaction. Just don't buy new ones and don't pay to use their chargers.
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  51. Maybe Corn Republic should be the US nickname.
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  52. In what way?
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  53. Yeah and I think you would find certain fertiliser or other chemicals and compounds used in farming like trace elements will come from China. Farmers are going to love Trump this time. Last time they weren't hit with tariffs on their business, this time they will be.
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  54. You looking forward to tariffs on your countries goods. Each to their own i suppose.
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  55. In simple terms it's legalised gambling that some rich people are profiting off. Trump was correct previously when he said that bitcoin is for money laundering and drug cartels or whatever he exactly said.
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  56. So you going to blame China for American antivaxxers? How did you come to this conclusion?
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  57. So you going to blame China because Americans are antivaxxers. Please explain the logic to me.
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  58. Yeah but subsidies aren't necessary. Abruptly cutting them isn't a good idea , phasing them out over a 10 year period or so would make sense.
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  59. That's not the problem , it's on the other side, has Biden maintained his base and will they vote?
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  60. @ you need mental healthcare.
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  61. They require loyal police and military though and preferably a few judges in their pocket.
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  62. Lots of MAGA in the comments apparently liking what they see. You people are nuts but hey not my country thank goodness.
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  63. That's great.
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  64. Boy the US media is bad when a leftie channel like this one doesn't push back on anything an Israeli representative says.
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  65. You can't even troll properly, your other comment on this same video indicates you are MAGA.
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  66. @JB-lp9xr  While you are correct the rural population actually receives cash mostly in the form of agricultural subsidies not services. Under Trump previously those subsidies were increased and that's likely to occur again when Trump launches his trade war against the entire world. Not sure if he will do that but I do think he wants to.
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  67. Sorry not everyone bows down to your dear leader.
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  68. Jasmine Crockett is a great young lady (it's a relative term , I am 51), cherish her. I am Australian but I can see talent and her along with AOC etc. should be your future leadership.
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  69. @JCTiggs1  Everyone who has successfully finished primary school maths knows that cuts in spending aren't going to balance the US budget without tax increases on corporations and most likely blocking loopholes and crazy deductions in corporate taxes allowing many profitable companies to pay no tax.
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  70. @mistercohaagen  I'm Australian so I don't have any strong opinions on the matter other than Trump will stuff it up. I was in the military a long time ago and nobody would stop volunteers doing that job. Maybe in some units there might be peer pressure not to do it, that's as far as it will go. If anyone tries to stop them from the military they would be looking at charges so it's not going to happen. Civilians might protest and disrupt things and if that happens I guess we will see how it goes. The military personnel probably will only be able to do certain jobs like checkpoints for example and ICE has to do any arrests etc. There's a lot of legal issues when military personnel are used.
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  71. Trump will likely pardon them all the day before he leaves office. If for some reason his term is cut short JD Vance will do the same.
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  72. As an Aussie there's a bit of irony here, an Aussie PM would likely have about 2 local cops to protect him or her.
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  73. In the environment somewhere , either remaining in tact for long periods like anthrax for example or being carried by some type of animal.
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  74. Even if done it's only half way there. Need to nationalise most hospitals and stop paying non market rates for pharmaceuticals where they currently pay well above free market rates. It's not going to happen.
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  75. ​ @SoloAuxz You will pay more in taxes from tariffs but same in income taxes, that money required for whatever will be put on the government tab , raising the debt.
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  76. Many did enter legally, this isn't about method of entry.
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  77. No it wouldn't because a child born to a citizen automatically becomes a citizen, this is standard around the world in countries like my own Australia that doesn't have birthright citizenship. We used to effectively have birth right citizenship but we changed the law. The US is different because it's not under a regular law but under the constitution and therefore difficult to change.
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  78. Lots of disgusting comments so far. Americans your MAGA friends are gleeful about California burning.
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  79. The opposite of liberalism is authoritarian. Are you proud to be supporting authoritarianism? Do you love Putin and Xi who are successful authoritarians?
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  80. Or Zeteo
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  81. Trump's plans will increase debt, not sure why you think differently. Can you not remember Trump's last term and how it raised the debt as a proportion of GDP more than any other time in US history outside of war time?
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  82. You must be rich then, good for you.
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  83. If anyone can be bothered using Google the 4 states with the highest number of illegal immigrants are the four big states of New York, California, Texas and Florida. There's a higher concentration in Florida and Texas because those states population added together is less than California plus New York and both red and blue states in this case have a similar number of illegal immigrants when added together.
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  84. I had a life changing experience yesterday, I smuggled 200 Mexican eggs into the US. I was able to pay off my Australian mortgage with some left over for investment.
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  85. He doesn't believe they are corrupt, he only believes they can make mistakes in good faith.
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  86. It's an interesting plan, cut government services for the less well off and tax them more meanwhile cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations and run up government debt quickly. The fact about a third of eligible voters consider this a great plan is amazing.
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  87. Those issues are unrelated. A large amount of homelessness in any wealthy country is people with mental health and or addiction problems. So offering free healthcare would help to some extent in the US. Free healthcare however needs to be run properly and cost effectively. The Republicans and Democrats are against this idea for now and in that context $40 Billion doesn't go very far.
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  88. I have never heard Trump apologise. It's just not a thing.
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  89. For certain goods yes but for certain goods the US and Canada are stuck with each other, especially steel, aluminium and oil ( due to current infrastructure). It's like Australia and China with iron ore, our trade in that product is around 85% of Australian export of that product and about 60% of China's import of that product. Of course over a 10 year period countries might be able to change such arrangements but it's not like finished goods or agricultural products where it's just a matter of changing a shipping destination.
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  90.  @neutrino78x  the state might be blue but the voters in agricultural areas regardless of state voted red.
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  91. They actually do, the reason for eggs being the most expensive in the world in the US is actually the same reason healthcare costs are the highest in the world. Pro price gouging governments of both major US parties is the reason.
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  92. They might actually move more production there because exports can still exist. With the US when Trump starts tariffing the entire world the US will be isolated.
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  93. That's not the issue. Only in the US do they have these time wasting activities and it achieves nothing. The US has the lowest life expectancy of a high income country. Clearly your observation of what the problem is is incorrect. Choosing ministers from the pool of elected representatives is the standard way it works outside of the US and it seems to work better than one person the president choosing who ever they want.
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  94. Not for a while, wait until every country has tariffs on it and then beef costs will rise putting up the price of a US made Whopper. However Burger King could offer a pork choice to keep prices low.
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  95. Who has been charged with crimes relating to USAID? Obviously you know so let others know.
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  96. It's nothing to do with trying to balance a budget. Keeping taxes low for billionaires isn't exactly going to improve anything. Simple math.
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  97. ​@chilkat_river actually it would likely be the opposite. Returning middle class people will benefit those countries. You have to realise in many cases skilled workers leave poor countries to go and do unskilled jobs in the US because they are illegal and or qualifications not recognised.
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  98. Your economy is fine, the problem is wealth distribution and a low federal minimum wage. I assure billionaires are happy with their current situation, however many aren't keen on a trade war but keeping quiet about it.
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  99. The Chinese tariffs are cleverly designed not to affect the Chinese people. They might be a dictatorship but they also believe in freetrade more so than the US does under Trump. There's also the non tariff measures they will quietly take. Because of the way the Chinese system works they can just encourage importers to source agricultural goods in particular from other countries. China has free trade agreements with ASEAN, South Korea , Australia, New Zealand and a few Latin American countries and Pakistan. The Trucks and machinery tariffs against the US do no harm to China in almost all cases similar high quality products can be purchased from Japan and i would bet that China has kept any specialised equipment than can only be purchased in the US off the list.
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  100. Well at an estimated $88,000 per head it will cost a lot. Trump isn't going raise taxes for it however, it will be debt funded. His tax increases will only be on imported goods affecting the poor mostly.
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  101. I don't think you can put a time on it, depends if and when tariffs come into effect increasing the price of everything including some food items.
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  102. Americans will likely be more affected than Canadians. Of course Canadian businesses will suffer but the retaliatory tariffs are designed not to hurt citizens, things like alcohol doesn't need to come from the US and nobody harmed. Same with some food items they can either be manufactured in Canadian or imported from Mexico, getting the supply chains working to avoid the US on such items might take a while but probably not a long time. Canada and Mexico also have to send freight by ship because trucking through the US might get blocked.
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  103. There's literally half a dozen clips on the matter on this YouTube channel. Do you think they are only allowed to report on that until you give them permission to report on something else?
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  104. @ChrisWhite-et3xb  but on that basis Jesus was woke. I am in no way religious but I have nothing against Jesus or his teachings, it's unfortunate you do.
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  105. Trump's plan is objectively worse than what happened in UK. They managed to stuff things up without having a trade war.
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  106. I think no, they already believed they were innocent, nothing will change that thinking in the short term.
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  107. Walmart is an interesting case. They might be able to maintain profits from what will be a smaller pie by gaining customers from higher cost retailers. Retailers overall will suffer because people's after tax spending ability is reduced because of tariffs.
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  108. You think tanking the North American economy is a good thing. Well I guess you will reap what you sow unless you are rich.
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  109. Maybe because they suggesting things like eliminating the FBI. So not a defund the police policy but an eliminate the federal police policy.
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  110. He got votes from probably 32% of people eligible to vote, not even a third, that's certainly not overwhelming. However it can be said that 36% of people eligible to vote but didn't accept Trump's plan as they were not willing to vote against it. Given the number of people not voting almost any state could actually be flipped if turnout was higher from the losing party. I truly don't understand why Americans are all angry about their situation and over one third won't do anything about it.
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  111. That's extraordinarily ridiculous.
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  112. Definitely not other wise she would go quietly not a public 8 page letter.
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  113. Oh another scammer, hello there.
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  114. ​@randythompson6494 at least 2 I think, Canada and Mexico.
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  115. Bitcoin's main purposes are money laundering and scamming. It's value is based on it being used for such purposes and speculative gambling.
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  116. Actually a minority of voters thought that. I think the biggest group was actually or if not extremely close to the voters who think both are just as good/bad.
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  117. They don't have power to do anything but shout from the sidelines. Whether you like it or not the US public voted for this.
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  118. 9 years is a pretty big sentence even if it gets cut in half. This wasn't for a crime she gained advantage monetarily or otherwise, she did it for her king.
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  119. One might ask the question would Zuckerberg or Musk or Bezos cooperate with Trump. Why do Americans fear an internet company that mostly just puts out personal videos. The US has a history of and continues to interfere in other countries, now China is doing the same. As a non Chinese or American I don't trust either of you.
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  120. X is a platform that censors contributors by using an algorithm. It's free speech for Musk that pushes his posts to the top of everyone else's.
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  121. You never heard of deficit spending, maybe you should look it up. Trump is the king of deficit spending.
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  122. They're not going to anyway, this is just to stir people up like Trump does. All that some Democrats have said is they aren't going to assist the Feds, whereas a state like Texas will.
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  123. Yes they are, Trump and Musk are dictators.
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  124. It could be but knowing Trump it could also be another reason he hasn't told us yet.
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  125. People like a mixed capitalist socialist system. This is the system in place in every wealthy country on the planet.
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  126. That's not true. But let's say average cost of an employee is $100,000 , cutting 1 million employees is only $100 Billion. Deficit's running at about $2 Trillion per year it won't help much.
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  127. American taxpayer do you enjoy your expensive and dangerous fireworks? Time for a $1 trillion dollar trip to Mars maybe?
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  128. Nah, many billionaires will become poorer as in profits will go down. If you're involved in export or import or retail it's going to be really hard to maintain profits from a smaller pie.
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  129. Unfortunately people voted for this or didn't care or bother to vote by a large majority. Collectively you got what you voted for because Trump wasn't secretive about what he was going to do.
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  130. There's 2 million military personnel in the US. I am sure could get 100,000 to volunteer to such a deployment no problems. Best to use volunteers so they will be more enthusiastic.
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  131. Big corporations will be paying for it by lending money to the government. There's no actual plan after that.
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  132. So someone crossing a border causes Americans to become antivaxxers. That's interesting please explain the cause and effect.
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  133. The only thing we can say without certainty is the helicopter pilot was likely to blame and was likely in the military. The reason i say likely to blame is a helicopter should never be in an aeroplane's flight path and the type of helicopter reported was a military one.
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  134. More crime, more homelessness and riots on the streets. How does this excite you unless you are Russian or Chinese?
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  135. Bill Gates is the nemesis of Elon Musk. One is probably the largest charitable donor in the world and the other is Scrooge even going as far as taking money which isn't his off the most vulnerable.
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  136. @vforwombat9915  that's not disqualifying unless he was convicted and he wasn't. I think he is probably a terrible choice , what me or you might think is irrelevant though. I think Trump was a terrible choice but he is now the president.
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  137. @rebeccagallagher3306  I know it's a part of your system however whether someone is suitable is not what they actually vote on. They vote on whether or not they want that person in the job, a personal opinion. The reasons for not voting for someone could be personal reasons or quite often they don't like the character of that person. It's never due to lack of experience or actual qualifications. Everyone nominated will meet the actual reasonable qualifications standard. Your personal reasons for not liking Trump's picks are valid and I actually agree with. However making government dysfunctional and having time wasting processes doesn't help anyone. The US is extremely unusual as a democracy having ministers being chosen outside of elected officials. In a parliamentary system the governing party simply picks it's ministers from the members of parliament and it takes a few hours for the PM to decide and then it's done. This doesn't lead to any problems.
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  138. You must be rich otherwise you are a strange person waiting to see the wealthy get major tax cuts when you will be taxed more.
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  139. That's one thing that in theory will get cheaper, China was main buyer of stock feed so now the US would have excess. It's only temporary though, next season less crops planted most likely.
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  140. Well that's not what they are doing. Running up deficits to fund billionaires tax cuts and sacking IRS workers, meanwhile increasing taxes on low and middle income people. Does that sound efficient to you?
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  141. He'll exempt anything he is selling.
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  142. @Civilizashum  I didn't claim Australia is perfect, only that it compares well to the US.
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  143. Trump has told you, Trump's plan is to split Ukraine with the US and Russia sharing the spoils. He wasn't secretive about it.
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  144. Trickle down apparently.
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  145. They are not mutually exclusive.
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  146. Then you are a fool because he isn't going to do that, his stated plan is to blow everything up and only have loyalists to help him achieve such goals.
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  147. Yes it's primary uses are speculation, money laundering and scamming.
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  148. It will recover but the US needs to hit rock bottom. It clearly hasn't hit rock bottom yet and is protected to a large extent by being the major reserve currency in the world.
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  149. The retaliatory tariffs China is planning will be more targeted to cause as much pain as possible over as many states as possible. China also knows what will have no effect on them, as in other sellers around the world to replace any supply shortfalls.
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  150. Every 30 day pause paralizes business, nobody can make business decisions regarding capital investment under such circumstances. Let's see if the steel and aluminium tariffs go into effect on 12 March.
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  151. Also covered their ears somehow at the same time. 10+ ICJ lawyers including the US one believe there is plausible evidence.
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  152. Well Americans are a strange mob with a large percentage of them wilfully blind to how socialist they actually are. Agricultural subsidies, subsidies for big pharma and trade protectionism just to name a few examples. Seems more of a case if they personally receive money it's not socialism. Pretty sure many farmers voted for Trump because they feared the socialist Democrats.
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  153. ​@chairmanofthebored6860 Yeah there was a pandemic and the US had both the worst economic performance and health performance of any wealthy country. Being the worst of the worst is a fairly bad performance I would suggest.
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  154. Rural Americans are mostly socialist and support farm subsidies. They know Trump is a socialist also who will up the subsidies if required as he did in his previous term.
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  155. I notice there's no nuance in most of the comments. I am from Australia and we don't tolerate illegal immigrants. Trump's plan might look good to some as you believe he is emulating Australia's policy. Problem is he isn't. There's no forward planning and working with other countries including giving them money to make his plans a reality. The problem has become so ingrained in the US because of the policies of both political parties over decades. A better policy given the reality of the situation is to fine employers $50,000 or so per illegal worker. This policy would cost very little and the illegals would leave of their own volition or start some sort of business themselves. A secondary approach would be to fine individuals who hire illegals doing work such as gardening or babysitting, of course the fine shouldn't be so much but even a $1,000 fine would be a deterent to many. The other thing that needs to be fixed is who is allowed to enter on tourist visas for example because that's how many illegals arrived. Then there's actually trying to stop people such as Trump's wife and Elon Musk who were effectively both illegal immigrants once they started working while on a tourist visa. There appears to be no plans to stop illegals who enter legally, just the optics of people walking accross the border looks bad.
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  156. ​ @alidarke3132 so you want tariffs put on our beef and wine and I am sure other goods. That sort of makes you a pro American no matter what traitor.
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  157. Yep you are correct, a complete failure.
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  158. You do know that the military literally runs itself right. Only in the US and probably dictatorships is it required that the Defence minister/secretary need to have even been in the military, it's purely an administrative position involving reading reports. If you are literate in English you are capable of doing the job.
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  159. Where can I buy whatever it is you are smoking or drinking and will it be cheaper after January 20 if I was to purchase it in the US?
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  160. At least when it comes to MAGA adherents it's incorrect to say negative attention is not preferred. Owning the libs is literally being proud of making people angry even to the point of hurting your own supporters.
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  161. Yes unless it's initiated by Republicans it will fail and be a complete waste of time.
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  162. There's 10s of thousands of people crossing the border each day legally. They do what they can noting the majority of traffickers or at least smugglers are US citizens.
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  163. I think they might be used to hold doors open instead of using a brick.
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  164. Lawrence you are currently delusional. The US is an ally of nobody. If you had spoken previously an ally then ok. It's possible the US will have different allies again one day but at the moment North Korea and Hungary and a few other dictatorships are your allies , that's just a fact.
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  165. They can't go to Mexico or Canada, Trump's tariff will follow you.
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  166. @chaseschwartz  I am not highly aware of the US tax system being Australian but anecdotally what you say seems to be correct.
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  167. Not a single swing state has been decided, what made you think Kamala was going to win deep red states?
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  168. It is incorrect to say he doesn't have a mandate, he said what he was going to do and only one third of the population objected. That's actually an incredible mandate,. Most parties in democracies in the world could only dream of such a low objection rate. If you claim there's no mandate you are calling voters stupid because they didn't know what they were voting for even after being told. While Trump does lie a lot , he actually doesn't lie very often when he tells you his intentions. Nothing so far he has done is out of line with what he said he would do.
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  169. While it might be morally corrupt it isn't legally corrupt in the US.
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  170. ​ @AlwaysAwesome001 Trump is a socialist. So not sure why you support your dear leader.
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  171. @Alex-pm8wr  So what, you don't need to leave these vehicles connected to the internet if you really don't want because there's no reports of vehicles malfunctioning when they are in areas of no mobile coverage. On that note Tesla's for the Australian market are all Chinese made anyway, so connected to China, US and now arguably Russia noting the current US alliance. I am not a computer geek but if you purchase a vehicle connected to the internet simply disconnect it if it bothers you.
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  172. Trump is not acting like a King which is 99% ceremonial these days for 99% of constitutional monarchies. The king of Australia, King Charles has nothing to do with our government. Australia doesn't have any person with US president like powers. Any Prime Minister is literally hours away from being sacked when parliament is sitting and the Governor General as the Kings representative and our official head of state has no involvement in politics, they just sign things into law and represent Australia when it's appropriate for our head of state to attend. The Prime minister is the head of government. In the US system you have basically combined 3 positions into one when comparing to our system and on top of that given them extraordinary powers that nobody in our system has such as picking the entire executive government from mostly unelected individuals.
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  173. MAGA people are often quite angry people. You see them posting angry stuff in the comments after they already won.
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  174. So isolation is good is it?
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  175. Not to minimise the $120 billion spent by the US but it pales in comparison to the cost of unjustified invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and for that matter the total amount sent to Israel to keep an oppresive apartheid system.
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  176. Elon is correct about the US needing to live within it's means. His solution however is to tax middle and low income people more and remove a lot of welfare payments and corporations less. It's clearly a stupid approach that will increase the wealth gap. Elon hasn't said a word about corporate welfare particularly with agriculture and pharmaceuticals. So evidence is he is a socialist just like Trump that supports welfare for corporations.
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  177. @steventate8514  huh what's with you, yes the run up in debt by Trump previously is well documented.
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  178. Your idea only goes into the 10s or optimistically low 100s of billions, nothing like the $2Trillion promised. Probably won't even cover the corporate tax cuts proposed.
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  179. It's not that simple, US citizens might not be allowed to just get citizenship of the country of a parent especially if adult.
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  180. Well Trump has got one thing right and that's the debt ceiling is stupid. There's only a few countries that do this and they can be counted on one hand. Australia my country is in the 40's and Canada is in the 80's and the US in the 120's of percentage of government debt to GDP. Over about 50% of government debt to GDP problems usually start to occur. The US is special however and maybe that number is 100% of GDP due to major reserve currency status, but if the US creates a crypto currency reserve all bets are off.
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  181. Why are MAGA people so angry in the comments section, get over it, you won
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  182. My guess is Trump won't back down and is more likely to double down.
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  183.  @PhillipJackson-n7m  what a silly comment. I am not American but I can tell you taxing the people with low and middle incomes so they can buy less imported goods hurts those people. How is hurting low and middle income people good for USA?
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  184. @DrivenA111  I am not even American, I come from a free trading nation. Trump's move to what has traditionally been the far left on trade will cost low income consumers a lot in tax. Yep if you rich you don't need to care, your taxes go down not up.
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  185. @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  Yeah the stock market went up more under Biden creating a bigger wealth gap and your point is what? Hopefully your point is the US should increase the federal minimum wage which is too low and the Democrats didn't do this and Trump has no plans to do this.
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  186. You can't blame an individual unless it's an executive order. So Trumpflation from tariffs is 100% on him. Having said that you can blame industry policy on successive governments. Best example in the US is the outrageous prices the government and individuals pay for pharmaceuticals. Deciding to not have a free market and pay extra is just crazy. Socialism gone mad.
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  187.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  Really, so rural areas are run by Democrats? We know a lot of illegal immigrants are farm workers.
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  188. @Dilettante13  so 10s of thousands of people being round up working for Republican voters and those businesses being fined the maximum but nobody has reported on the matter. Ok so believe what you can't see and don't believe what you did see like J6. That makes sense.
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  189. It's not the money it's the power.
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  190. Maybe they do but Trump's policies aren't designed to do that other than environmental deregulation allowing for destruction of the environment.
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  191. Big regarding the threat is inappropriate. If Trump follows through it will crash the economy.
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  192. But they actually voted for it. I don't know why they did, tax cuts for the wealthy and tax increases on middle and low income people through tariffs.
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  193. I know, it could be nerve racking wondering if a promotion is coming.
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  194. Some interesting things will occur. I am Australian and we (currently) have a solid free trade agreement with the US. While this remains the case Australian exports will be boosted to the US and cases of arbitrage might start occurring where for example we export let's say peanuts to the US and for arguments sake Mexico also produces peanuts and exports them to Australia. So in my example it could end up being somewhat inflationary to Australia at least so long as our free trade agreement isn't touched by Trump.
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  195. There's no mechanism for the US supreme court to do anything. There's only 2 ways the president can be removed and that's by the 25th amendment if his cabinet believes him to be mentally unfit , so that's not going to happen they are all loyalists or by impeachment with 2 thirds of the senate voting for his removal which won't happen any time soon and unlikely to happen because they appear to all be loyalists as well. All the supreme court or any court can do is stop things from from continuing to be unlawful after the fact.
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  196. Probably a similar reason Hitler was put on there. Not suggesting Trump is as bad as Hitler but he is definitely an agent of chaos threatening to tank the North American economy.
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  197. Israel first and then Russia, maybe a US third policy.
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  198. The answer to who the boss , it's Elon Musk. He's been annointed by Trump. Regardless who the security are whether they be government employees or private contractors they told to do a job and do or they will be fired, they are not breaking any law. This can actually occur in any country and Trump knows he can break as many civil laws as he wants if Republicans in the senate are ok with it and nothing will happen except court cases which take time. People often don't understand the difference between civil law and criminal law. All governments around the world breach civil law and politicians can't be held responsible except through the ballot box. It actually has to be this way because breaches in civil law are usually accidental. It's not the case with Trump but he still receives that universal protection.
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  199. You have to remember Trump is talking to his cult and they will believe him no matter what. Trump is not talking to regular people who know he's lying and Trump knows that most people don't believe him and he doesn't care.
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  200. Actually you do if you want to get a government job or a job with a government contractor in many states.
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  201. I feel sorry for that guy with the long sleeved brown shirt. Pretty he's being forced to do that or lose his job based on his body language.
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  202. In answer to the headline Musk is only cashing in on power, he isn't cashing in cash wise killing the Tesla brand everywhere except China. Edit ok and US government.
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  203. Someone needs to make the direct arguments about money and the stock market. While it's hard in many circumstances to completely boycott US companies, it's extremely easy to reduce consumption. To give one example, Coke and Pepsi literally dominate the world's Cola market. In most countries but possibly not all alternative cola brands or a home brand exists. It's extremely likely Coke and Pepsi's international sales will decline enough to affect profits and therefore the share price. Now think of all the big multinational food brands based in the US, same will likely occur with them but probably to a lesser extent because they often own lots of local brands that wouldn't be immediately associated with a US company. Trump has already most likely hurt many industries inside the US. Even these countries recieving AID will still have US company products on their store shelves. Only destitute refugees have nothing, poor countries are still big consumers overall especially on the most basic products like soap and detergent.
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  204. Based on Trump's previous behaviour he will stuff it up and he wants it done his way not a way another country does it.
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  205. They will, but you have to remember these people are indoctrinated, Trump will blame the deep state AKA public service and they will believe.
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  206. Is he going to institute export bans on oil products or nationalise oil companies like Venezuela did? This is the only way to bring prices down.
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  207. The US has veto power in the UN security council making it powerless to do anything.
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  208. To those Americans who are unhappy with Trump's behaviours and nominations. Well he's probably going to start a trade war US versus the world which will hurt everyone. The silver lining for us foreigners is it will be entertaining watching the apprentice on steroids , his cabinet is basically a reality show and Trump won't change he will enjoy hiring and firing them all, it will be very entertaining to the world.
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  209. It's to cause fear, same reason no other countries not yet targeted are speaking up against Trump's crazy trade war. However citizens in Europe, Australia and NZ who following this are boycotting US products along with Canadians and Mexicans. Outside of China and the US Tesla is looking terrible.
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  210. @neutrino78x  Well all agricultural areas are red areas so you shouldn't have any problems with retaliatory tariffs against agricultural products .
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  211. He must be a supernatural being then. We all deteriorate after about 50 or so. Joe Biden does just like Trump.
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  212. Most pro Trump comments come from Americans.
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  213. Actually non voters won, they were a higher percentage than Trump voters.
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  214. AR 15 style just means semi-automatic rifle in US news media language and sounds like it was. Don't you watch your own media?
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  215. Not really but that's not what's happening. The country is being run into the ground to support billionaires. This is fully intentional. Hopefully Americans will wake up in 2 years.
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  216. You afraid of being eaten?
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  217. Covid of course. According to his fans he created the best economy ever and managed covid 19 well.
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  218. This is a disgusting headline. The instigators of what occurred were Israeli's supporting the Genocide in Gaza and wanting to expand the campaign overseas. Truly disgusting for a nominally left wing media outlet. On this issue you are to the far right.
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  219. You've been a low functioning democracy for many years, it's just that it might accelerate. This could lead to revolution if it keeps getting worse. Your government has been controlled for many years by lobby groups. This is what makes you a dysfunctional democracy because the voters actually follow the directions of the lobbyists telling you who to vote for with their PACs if any politician gets out of line. All the powerful lobby groups are industry groups and even some individuals now plus AIPAC.
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  220. The plan I believe is tent cities. They'll need to build sanitation infrastructure however unless they going to use porta potties.
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  221. They can't, Trump has absolute power as given to him by the constitution. If one of his underlings breaks a law and it's a punishable offence , Trump can just pardon them. Truth is as you're seeing now there's no checks and balances on your presidents power if that person has the support of his or her party which Trump currently has.
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  222. @DariusSharlow  Tesla isn't worth that, market valuation and worth or intrinsic value are different things.
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  223.  @kathyheyne6030  I think the reason Chinese leadership has said nothing about Tesla is because it's a bargaining chip, Musk is probably viewed as a Chinese diplomatic asset.
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  224. @dannyvine3605  to be fair it's 10% on top of existing tariffs. Trump's threat of 60% tariffs plus the 10% not eventuating could be due to Musk. So I agree it's likely that Musk has a significant influence.
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  225. This is what people voted for. Trump didn't keep it a secret. If the senate obstructs Trump's picks it will just make them hypocrits because before the election they were dead silent on the issue. If you don't like what Trump is doing you pretty much should be campaigning for constitutional change because it's your system that makes it so easy for a person like Trump to do what he intends to do.
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  226. There's probably worse out there. Such thoughts can lead to suicidal thoughts because you think you've lost everything and nobody will help you.
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  227. The corruption you describe is already well instituted in the Pharmaceutical industry. The corruption you speak of actually brought Trump into power because they see him as less corrupt whether you like it or not.
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  228. Well we don't know because barely any swing state votes counted.
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  229. Well done for stopping something that has never happened. Bravo, Bravo!
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  230. It's probably training. I doubt any military operations were being carried out.
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  231. 50 million Americans believe Trump won in 2020. Seems you can hide the truth from many and remarkably easily.
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  232. Any strip clubs in DC look forward to official pentagon meetings to be held there. Don't worry DOD can pay the bills, he can't bankrupt that organisation.
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  233. When are Americans going to realise that a handgun won't stop a bullet from a rifle fired 300 yards away? I ask this genuinely because there's something really wrong thinking that having a handgun would stop such a bullet. Maybe restriction of weapons that can be owned would be a better path. The US as the most dangerous high income country needs to wake up.
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  234. Your number is out by about 100,000,000. Kettle calling pot black. Or are Democrats collecting votes from babies and illegal immigrants?
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  235. It's a joke, deploying military won't stop the flow of fentanyl products mostly smuggled through legal ports of entry by US citizens.
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  236. I doubt it , as Musk annoys people they will buy alternatives to Tesla.
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  237. Iron ore mines , coal mines, iron and aluminium smelters, a few plastics factories and a heap of new US oil production and the refineries to process that grade of oil. Plus of course vehicle parts factories for every single component. Sounds doable.
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  238. Rallies don't indicate much at all. Biden didn't even really have Rallies last time and he won.
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  239. Two thirds of the voting population either support this or are ok with this even if every Democrat that voted isn't ok with it. Is he qualified is basically a question whether or not he is literate. He has a Master of Public Policy degree so he is overqualified for the job. All he needs to do in the job is be capable of reading reports given to him and the advice contained within. That's not a hard job actually, the public servants within DoD run the show AKA deepstate as Donald refers to the public service.
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  240. Why the soft language, if fentanyl crosses the US Mexico border it's smuggling and criminal but US criminals smuggling guns to Mexico is called selling them guns.
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  241. But he can't. The likely crimes will be at the state level.
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  242. Trump is a socialist, what do you think tariffs are for and handouts to farmers etc.?
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  243. If martial law can be declared it then becomes relatively easy to do using National guard or regular military.
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  244. But the economy was great. It's a low minimum wage in most states which is the problem.
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  245.  @2Bros-OVO  yeah the wages in the US is the problem, companies are making record profits and the economy is doing great. Billionaires are getting richer and richer. Are you unaware of this phenomenon?
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  246. Rudy is correct, the settlements in the US are ridiculous. But Americans support this system and Rudy hasn't cared before.
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  247. Israel claims to be a modern liberal democracy, it isn't and should be held to the standard they claim, not some other standard of a tin pot dictatorship.
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  248. A corporal can't become a commissioned officer, even Trump can't pull that off.
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  249. Lol
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  250. The answer to that question is whoever will give absolute loyalty to Donald. Treasury Secretary number 1 qualification is to support running up government debt and having a trade war against the entire world and not saying a word against it.
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  251. A big point is being missed, a functional somewhat honest governance is required. The Democrats weren't that and nor are the Republicans. Seems people in the US will just keep changing the federal government after each failure, Trump will fail of course. The only ones that benefit from Trumps policies are the rich and corporations not affected by tariffs and retaliatory tariffs. Trump's policy is literally to tax the poor more with tariffs and the rich less with a very low corporate tax rate.
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  252. Not according to Israel who says they will occupy Gaza indefinitely.
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  253. Well it's not , X for example promotes the right wing speakers and at the same time suppressing left wing speakers. So clearly has nothing to do with free speech.
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  254. One of the Tequila brands is advertising in Australia on YouTube at the moment. They probably looking for more secure markets.
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  255. Nazism clearly wasn't defeated it was subdued and is now rising again in the US.
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  256. @Angelum_Band  Really so North Korea and Hungary and the US are all anti Nazism, interesting take I must say.
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  257. It's up to the Trump administration to tell us but for whatever reason it's a secret.
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  258. Trump might have united the middle east to some extent because now everyone in the middle east except Israel hates Trump.
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  259. Are you sure you would want the pro rata by population of their government debt. While Canada does have government debt that's too high it's much lower than the US at about 120% of GDP.
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  260. It doesn't affect the economy but it can over time affect who owns stuff, as in foreigners having more investments in the US than US investments in other countries. For most countries at the moment I think the US has more overseas investments than the other way around.
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  261. I don't understand the motive to be in charge of a trade war and as inflation hits and people in retail and export sectors lose jobs, he'll be one of the most hated person in the US behind the president himself.
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  262. Trump is planning to tank the entire entire North American economy and this has become clear and US citizens are supporting this. Americans have truly lost the plot.
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  263. ​@dilbertdoe601 senate elections aren't popular vote, it's by state, a Californian has a tiny representation per capita compared to say an Alaskan.
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  264. How exactly do LGBTQ people cost money. I am totally confused please enlighten me.
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  265. Well US citizens will be paying for it and of course it's more costly to build and run than mainland US.
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  266. It's not possible, it would take a long time to source the goods from elsewhere. Some things It's easy like agricultural products. Some things It's very difficult like machinery especially parts for already owned machinery. In some cases it might be extremely difficult to integrate new machinery into an existing factory or whatever and use a different brand.
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  267. Cryptocurruncy is literally a bit of data. With today's average smartphone we could assign everyone on the planet some data and we can all be millionaires.
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  268. Disagree with the headline, nothing shocks the world any more about Trump. He has threatened to annex many other places to create a massive US Empire. Isolationism and imperialism aren't mutually exclusive. It's not like Japan and Germany were ever trying to make friends in other countries around 80 years ago. Stop saying you not sure what he means, Trump means what he says, a president for life that wants to expand US territory by any means possible. Will he achieve it probably not but his intentions are very clear.
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  269. ​ @Mike_Honcho_8653 The congress is owned by the billionaires. They're literally paid for.
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  270. This is actually quite scary that a lacky will be in charge of the Fed in 2 years time.
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  271. That's ok if you bad at maths, at least you probably still on board with the tariffs.
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  272. I reckon Elon has his eyes on NOAA. Basically privatise it to himself at little cost. Then he will get the costs down a little bit and the public will love him not realising he paid nothing for it and that costs to the government will go up more quickly than inflation, so after a few years it will be more costly than a properly run government service. Americans are suckers especially when it comes to pharmaceuticals.
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  273. If at his sentencing he gets a little prison time it will create a constitutional crisis. While it's not likely it is possible.
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  274. Yeah you're probably right, however 99% of the time it's an irrational fear.
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  275. Trump is the closest to a Marxist with his trade and industry policies. So the Marxists are happy they got their candidate more aligned with their beliefs.
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  276. Which basically means only use what are called legacy news media because all other sources are useless and full of lies. Even the biased legacy media channels like MSNBC and Fox mislead viewers by eliminating critical information in their reporting.
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  277. Well could do a Weekend at Bernie's style administration, most MAGA adherents wouldn't notice.
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  278. The savings are insignificant so far and certain costs are going to rise. Have to wait and see what he does , last time Trump ran up debt at a crazy rate and I expect he will again especially if he gets the corporate tax rate down to 15%.
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  279. The US is very elitist. Other than the Attorney General position which should be run by a lawyer every other position only requires someone to be literate in English. You might not like Trump's picks but they are all qualified as in can read English. It's not like the Defence Secretary leads troops into a battle or does some strategic work behind the scenes, they just read reports that's literally all they do and in the case of Defence Secretary they have no power to do anything because congress funds stuff and the President makes all final decisions.
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  280. I think the issue is both Americans want to be known as honourable and selfish reasons. America is now seen as a dishonourable country on trade agreements and AID. Not sure if it's a net benefit for other democracies but it is a net benefit for non democracies. As an Aussie it will likely mean buying less Chinese Tesla vehicles and more BYD Chinese vehicles and so be it. Of course it's more than that but that's front and centre.
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  281. To be fair there was a lot of hope that Russia would become a democracy, however it became a far right dictatorship as did China. It is interesting to see how China transitioned from far left to far right seamlessly.
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  282. By definition it's close as 43 states already decided, only 7 in play.
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  283. @pavithranraju8017  enlighten me what crimes Fauci and Cheney committed. Yeah we all know Hunter Biden committed crimes including Hunter Biden himself, so in relation to Hunter Biden no he doesn't believe he is innocent.
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  284. Trump is a socialist. So I don't understand your contradictory comment. Taxing all imported goods is socialism and it's Trump's policy.
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  285. ​@dorianshadesofgray2981 no indication that any Jewish person involved.
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  286. Actually they do, a significant amount of US government bonds are owned by foreigners.
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  287. First of all it's impossible to achieve, if however by a miracle it was achieved it would likely cause the opposite because the consumer base has just reduced by 5% or so. Fruit and vegetables might go up a little bit due to labor shortages but everything else will go down in price and you will have deflation which is scarier than moderate inflation. A caveat though the public debt could get out of control with a reduced gdp causing the dollar to weaken causing inflation.
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  288. Typically swamps are breeding grounds for many fish species, drain the swamp you have less fish. Not a sensible environmental approach.
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  289. @Duude125  That would make all Australians silly then. Australia has a robust free trade agreement with China. So Australians can buy cheap electric vehicles from China or the expensive Tesla also from China. I hope people are choosing the Chinese brands more often and Tesla's less often. Have to remember Trump and his buddy Musk have threatened the entire world with a trade war.
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  290.  @swampsprite9  No they don't otherwise they would have at least done a protest vote in the case of non voters who must hate Harris too.
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  291.  @vaffankoolo  the non voters were happy with either candidate otherwise they would have done a protest vote.
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  292. Interesting comments from Americans. Seems they/you don't approve of letting 10s of thousands dying because of executives legally denying care. The ACA is clearly useless but better than what the Republicans have on offer which is we openly support the status quo because it's not communist. They are correct so far as it not being socialist this is far right fascism. In every high income country except the US we have socialist healthcare in some form. We also all have a higher life expectancy than the US.
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  293. Interesting nobody in this comments section care about government waste. This is going to be far more expensive than keeping people in the mainland of US. Seems different rules apply to authoritarian actions.
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  294. It's not possible without cutting welfare and military budgets. Employees are only $350 billion or so. Even if you cut every single one of them it would only change from a really massive government deficit to a massive government deficit.
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  295. @TonyMasterson-b3z  It's not quite that bad, no need to exaggerate an already bad situation. The last fiscal year deficit ending 30 September was around $1.8 Trillion . This is still an enormous amount of money, there's no real way of getting out of that without higher corporate taxation and effectively cutting handouts by increasing them at a slower rate than inflation. It's unlikely either political party in the US is willing to take those steps so the debt will continue to rise as a proportion of GDP until it causes a serious problem. The timeline of things going really bad is unpredictable because the USD as the major reserve currency of the world protects the US from what happens to most other countries if they reach your situation. Japan interestingly can survive with really high government debt. I don't know how they get away with it.
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  296. You better go tell the billionaires that, they getting richer by the day.
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  297.  @censorshipisreal3153  yep, wealth distribution is the problem, not the economy.
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  298. It's a scam of course but Trump has a record of permitting super sized handouts during covid 19. What Trump could do with permission of congress is handout checks being given out with imaginary savings. He can say anything on Fox and won't be questioned.
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  299. @questioneverything349  they are your federal police. They are the only ones to investigate federal crimes not covered by jurisdictions ICE or ATF. So no FBI means no federal crimes any more.
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  300. Hello scammer
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  301. I think Elon is planning to be a genuine monarch by privatising certain functions of the government and getting the contracts by seeing competitors bids which he can undercut slightly. If this scenario plays out Americans will fall for it and think Elon is great.
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  302. That number is remarkably high. The US is literally trying to conquer Canada by bankrupting the country in his delusion.
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  303. The power is most likely gone, Trump only needs to find 20 or so loyalists with the skills to carry out spying operations. Only hope is he can't find them because difficult to ascertain who is a loyalist.
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  304. If you're a corporate tax payer you might get a tax cut. I guess you are rich to support tax cuts for the rich and more taxes on middle and low income people.
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  305. He has never had policies other than a wall and trade protection. Second policy is a tax on the poor and highly socialist. His health policy is coming soon apparently.
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  306. The failed audits in Department of Defence is to do with valuations , not fraud.
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