• geekwithsoul@piefed.social
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    Trump accused the reporter of “hurting Australia” with the line of questioning.

    “In my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now,” Trump said. “And they want to get along with me.

    “You know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you. You set a very bad tone. You can set a nicer tone.”

    Trump subsequently told Lyons: “Quiet.”

    That’s straight up how mob bosses talk

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      We don’t really have a better alternative sadly. Independents tend to either sit between Labor and libs rather than left of Labor or lean hard into libertarianism economicly rather than socially; single issue candidates are usually right wing and/or religious psychopaths; the greens have good policy but are uncompromising on many issues so lose a lot of support due to misalignment with the opinion of the voter majority.

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    The responsible thing would be for all media to refuse to deal with him in the meantime.

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      He’d like that though. He doesn’t like the media asking him questions pointing out inconvenient truths. If mainstream media stopped engaging with him all that would be left is fox, which will broadcast whatever he tells them to.

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    Maybe as a result we get to see slightly fewer broadcasts of the UK govt capitulating to a spoilt man-baby make it over here in Australia.

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    What? But they CANCELLED Jimmy Kimmel like he ASKED! What MORE could Daddy Twump want?