If you are no good at diplomacy then I expect that building a dyke to keep the invaders out would seem worth while. All other presidents seemed to get by without it and history shows that whatever defences you build, some cunning adversaries will find a way around them.

He abuses people hardest to try to force them to submit. It may work with some of his business deals but in international politics with an economic superpower? What a clown.

Conservatives in Australia are publicly backing away from emulating DOGE and Trump. Publicly but I’m sure that it will change if they win in May. Can’t trust them as they are rabid.

He did the same with Obama. Such an insecurity syndrome. Truly a petulant child, and people think he’s the man to follow?

Back to Biden. Trump is setting up a kleptocracy like Putin has and Biden looks like a moral beacon by comparison.

Million/billion, the interesting fact is the scale of corporate graft. Paying shareholder’s money to suck up to Trump is really disgusting and any system that allows it is deeply broken.

When billionaires want to get rid of private ownership of intellectual property, which it turns out they want to use, next will be patents. Strange, most patents are owned by corporations which means billionaires own most, so patents are safe?

If Musk and Dorsey are singing from the same sheet it implies that Dorsey can’t be trusted either. So much for BlueSky.

I thought Trump was expanding it to everyone. Probably including people in other countries he doesn’t like.

Isn’t Trump a convicted criminal? There would be a lot of happier people if they just sent him to El Salvador.

This DEI label which implies bias in favour of minorities over the deserving majority is wrong when it says Trump is purging DEI. What he is doing is purging the majority of Americans, not “white”, female and foreign. A lot more of them than the good old white boys.

It’s time for Europe and the rest of the world to sort out Putin. No time to waste on wasters.

It’s all built on trust and stability which is hard to earn but oh so easy to throw away.

The Morrison government in Australia told all the temporary workers, backpackers, international students, tourists to go home during Covid and Australia is still paying the price of economic dislocation. A lot of these people worked on farms, in cafes, construction, hospitals etc and we had massive problems because him thought they were a burden.

Time to block Twitter by whatever name it’s called. The world would be a better place.

Time to stay away from the USA.

Certainly they should and it’s lucky that no one is hurt. That said, the gun culture says otherwise, if people have guns and the culture says guns are good then people will use them in anger.

It’s a bit odd that there is all this concern about shots fired. The official policy is that guns are good. One assumes that includes using them for a good purpose.

Too true. Should have read the article but the WSJ is on the nose. Others had a better take.

I suppose that Donny is surprised. No body else is.

1,200 sales in one day just as the rebate closed! Such efficiency! No wonder Musk Doggie was selected to sort out government efficiency???

I watched Twister and saw how good wind chimes worked. Looked cool and added to the carnage when the wind hit!