Fighting Fake News with Real, 10/11/24, Trumpification, Albo's Upgrade, This is Not Good, Trump's Tax Reality, Fight Ahead, Age of Despots,

 

  What will Trump 2.0 mean for Australia? What will China do? But there are two similar questions to ask: what should and what will Trump mean for Australia and our region?

Trumpification Australia. The winners and losers and what might be

by Michael Pascoe | Nov 8, 2024

 

 Kamala Harris could never be elected. There are many things the Democrats could have done better, but in the end, a woman, a black woman, could not be elected U.S. president in a world where Trump's obscenely racist, misogynistic and psychotic ramblings are routinely presented as logical arguments. 

Trump won … but wait, Albo just got another flight upgrade!

 

 

 More remarkable is that so many Americans voted for a twice-impeached felon who, on the false assertion of a stolen election, encouraged his followers to storm the congress. A businessman who has filed six bankruptcies and cheated on his wife, his taxes and at golf. Who misled or lied to the people 30,573 times in his first presidential term, according to The Washington Post’s fact checkers. Who sent vaccines to a Russian dictator during a pandemic that killed more than a million US citizens. His own top general called him a fascist and multiple other former close aides, and rational Republicans, condemned him as unfit to govern.

" Simply Has No  Character " Maureen Dowd

 THIS IS NOT GOOD 

 

 

  By electing Trump, we’ve embarked on a long, dark journey over perilous waters, with a half-mad captain at the helm. Politicians who aspire to be strongmen demand the press embrace our roles as watchdogs. Rolling Stone will not shy from holding the administration to account. In fact, we have already started digging.

 THE FIGHT AHEAD

 

Prabowo Subianto has got his diary right: First overseas handshake from the new President of Indonesia is for his bankers in Beijing, President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Trump can wait.

Moderates begone: ‘TIS THE AGE OF THE DESPOT