The elephant in the room
Submitted by Silver Fox on Wed, 2025-02-05 19:34
Not fishing related unfortunately, yet it's guaranteed to get some comments.
Trump WTF???
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My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
Mark_M
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Date Joined: 10/04/15
genius
annex Gaza and built a US Club Med for all the (beautiful) people of the world (except Palestinians, who will be shipped out to 'other' locations) Israel then shares a border with the US, (don't mention tariffs)
annex Greenland, the Danes aren't watching
annex Oz, Albo's on board
piscetor
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Date Joined: 13/05/16
gaza
Israel was made into a country after WW2 by the allies in 1948. the first thing that happened was the palistiians (about 340,000 of them) were kicked out of thier homes and removed from israel thats when the trouble started.
Have a look at the map of palistien in 1944 than in 1948.
I didn't agree with hamas killing and taking hostages, but nor do i agree with the protracted destruction of Gaza and the innocent people that died there,especially the children.
Israel has learnt nothing from the holocaust and the attemted genoside by hitler.
And Trump is a meglomaniac and will drive the world into WW3.
A wise man once said WW3 will be fought with nuculer weapons and WW4 will be fought with sticks and stone.
Filletmaster
dmck
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Date Joined: 07/03/19
frontal lobe dimentia
A long time friend of mine eventually died from this disease. For several years before being diagnosed he began to act and speak irrrationally............. sound familiar?
Dont forget theRussia-Ukrain conflict was was to be over within 24hrs of his inaugeration........
Rename the Gulf of Mexico, reposess trhe Panama Canal....
.. and he has surrounded himself with like 'minded' people..... perhaps his disease is conagious.
Might need more than 1 ?????... (insert solution of choice...)
davewillo
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He appears to have gone full
He appears to have gone full rogue! The Gaza thing is just weird. Today they are saying well the US Government wont actually pay to rebuild it - so who the f*ck will? He talks about doing things that he critices other countries for doing.
PGFC member and lure tragic
wifecallsmegrumpy
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FAKE NEWS A yank once
FAKE NEWS
A yank once asked me if our politians are any different and whilst perhaps not as flamboyant there are similarities. We don't let illegal immigration happen, and we have an offshore processing facility in Naru?
How many more rights need to be removed from Western Australians before we start to say enough and vote for some crazy just to get the ability to go fishing.
uncle
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I'm gonna watch this space
Seems to be doing what he said he would
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Lefty 44
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Date Joined: 04/12/17
Bait and Switch
Trump learned from his first time around that he needed to control the media cycle.
Main stream (or lagacy) media can on do 1 or 2 topics on a daily cycle.
So he feeds them this stuff while getting actual work done (DOGE).
He also knows that most of the world now gets their news from online sources and he feeds them what is really going on as apposed to the BS the media put out.
As for WA (and Australian) Pollies. Stop voting for the parties and vote indipendant.
It's the only way they will listen. Even the minor parties will only sell out (and have) to the 2 majors.
This is the only thing that scares them and it's why they changed the funding laws recently.
After all, the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Bradmac73
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Date Joined: 22/03/17
Yeah nah
Agree that he employs the bait and switch tactic very well, not sure that he then "gets actual work done?" depends on your definition I suppose.
Re the independants, the independant (teal) movement is pretty much entirely funded by greenie millionaires and organisations. They have become more green than the greens. Not much joy coming for the fishing community by voting for them.
davewillo
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Agree with you Brad. I voted
Agree with you Brad. I voted independant (not fucking Teal!) at the last election and that ended up going to Labor with preferences. Be careful with independants and know where their preferences go, otherwise you may end up voting for a major party when you don't want to!
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Lefty 44
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Date Joined: 04/12/17
Preferences
Preferences are not a good part of our system I agree and the Teal (Green) candidates are not what we need.
But it's the only way to send them a message.
The whole system is rigged well beyond anything we can do much about but if you keep feeding it, it will never die.
As for Trump, I wouldn't mind someone coming in and cutting 40 billion of bullshit out of our nations budget.
I'll make some popcorn now...
sea-kem
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All I see is the MAGA loving
All I see is the MAGA loving working man through the central belt of America are the one's who will be paying for his shit fiscal policies. You get what you vote for.
Dutton the peanut thinks he's on the money following his lead lol
I'd be avoiding open air motocades if I was him.
Love the West!
davewillo
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It's funny Andy, we met a
It's funny Andy, we met a couple in Portugal who were from western Massachusetts and shared a couple of bottles of wine over dinner. Eventually I asked the question on Trump and they said they were embarrassed he was likely to get back in. These were intelligent, retired professional people and they said a lot of people were wondering what the rest of the world thought about it. They said they didn't know a single Trump supporter and that it was those rustbelt states plus the loonies in Florida and Texas who would vote him in. Unfortunately they were right!
I agree with the comments above about bait and switch diversionary techniques. He is working it bloody well I have to admit.
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Swompa
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One of my favourites is how
One of my favourites is how he bagged out the trade agreement with Canada.....the same one he put together last time he was in office.
Brando
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Teals
Be very careful voting Teal. If you take a look at their voting habits, they have voted with the Greens consistently.
Brando
Brock O
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Blokes a nut case, just
Blokes a nut case, just signed the "No Men in Woman Sports" order...who does that!
sea-kem
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Lol I see what you did
Lol I see what you did there, amazingly it's the only thing I agree with him on.
Love the West!
uncle
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Yeah agreed
He got that part right
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs