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Ha, Trump compared to who? We don't even know who is running the show in the USA. It certainly isn't Biden or Harris. I suspect Biden and his cronies will be poking as many bullant nests as possible so that they leave an enormous mess for which they can use to attack Trump next term. A bit like the havoc Albanese is causing here.

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Back in the day when Clinton was leaving ,the staff at the Whitehouse being lefty sore losers superglued all the keyboards letter W so they couldnt be used (George dubbya) had a good laugh ---I hope he sent Billary a bill .

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Totally agree with you James - what do we have to worry about Trump for? He is not going to affect our everyday way of life. The so called 55% of worry warts (I know a few) are either brainwashed lefties or those who believe the ‘untrained reporters’ own interpretations of international affairs. Probably the same brainwashed lefties being further brainwashed! As for Anal and his gang, they are deteriorating by the day. A very sad state of affairs.

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There was only one US President who was called 'Too hot to handle", and that was President JF Kennedy and it was Marilynn Munro who sang a sultry "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", which announced to the world just how hot he was.

Prime Minister elect, Peter Dutton, doesn't need oven-mitts to trade talks with Trump, and we've seen that the 'kid gloves ' used by Albo, fit his limp-handedness when it comes to diplomacy!

The latter acts like Don Quixote, tilting at wind turbines with his energetic companion, Sancho Panza, aka., Chris Bowen. Both live in an imaginary world where Renewables win all the time.

Nuclear Energy, is definitely too hot for them to handle!

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If Miguel Cervantes were alive today, he could write a modern beauty about Albo and Penny Wong's storming the wind turbines.

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And I bet it was Paul Kelly who said that. He worked so hard to get Labor in. The Oz isn’t fit for purpose.

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In fairness to Paul Kelly, whom I very much rate as a political commentator (doesn't mean I always agree with him) the headline I quote was - as I wrote - from The Australian Financial Review, not The Australian.

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I quit reading the OZ in1999 on the day of the republic referendum the one word head line of that rag was YES

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In my experience the people most upset by the trump win in Australia are left leaning women in high powered roles - silly brainwashed geese! I loved it when one such woman at my work said her teen son was a trump supporter - smart kid!

Anybody with half a brain wouldn't be worried about Trump returning to power!

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FFS that Kac,ler Harris would have been worse for them than the goose that we are stuck with .

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100%, but women in power want to see more women in power - idiots - I'd give anything to go back and be home with my babies the last 18 years of their lives, instead of having to work a horrid job I don't love just to make ends meet!

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I repeat myself in saying that I dont care whether man or woman as long as they know what they are doing . Maggie Thatcher for one and I still support Pauline Hanson .Brigette McKenzie is another one that I like

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I agree, there are some amazing women who have done and could do amazingly in leadership roles, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to name another. Sadly though many are only in it for the title and glory and not the purpose nor passion to deliver anything of worth.

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I forgot that one, Bella Jacinta is looking very good and doing more for her people (also OUR people )than any other gaggle of "plastic white pretenders "

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Thanks Dianne - I read the TOI every day - this is an excellent article. 😃

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Nov 18Liked by James Macpherson

Where do these "journalists "get their information on who likes or doesnt like Donald Trump ?trades hall ?social democratic club ?Eastern suburbs Kaffee Klatch ? Proof is in the Pudding you lot , Peter Dutton has a proven record (as a CIB copper )before he got into politics . My reading of this is that Donald Trump would respect someone with the credentials of Peter Dutton rather than some wet dream sook from the inner suburbs .who has never had a job or an idea outside of left wing politics .

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Oh dear James- Don't get us all started!

Didn't I see a crawl thing yesterday on Sky saying that Albo has an ad out already - demonizing Dutton and blaming him for all our woes?

And isn't 9 media behind turning Alan Jones into Trump and Cardinal Pell?

Oh there's more -- and---more

No stopping your mob now!

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Haha! The media have such an influence on thought....I wonder why so many left- leaning journalists are attracted to that job & so few right- leaning?...unless the right - leaning people are much smarter & doing the "real work" in keeping society afloat? LOL! ...maybe an essence of truth there?

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It's because the lop siders have the polarities of the battery between their ears reversed.

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Journalists ? My old mate Collinridge Rivett (journo 40 years )would disparagingly call them untrained reporters .

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Australian main stream media are manipulative, deceptive and cunning. For them, their job is not about informing the public of the facts. It is about social engineering and re-education.

Too many Australians are asleep at the wheel. They are too lazy to think further than the tip of their nose, are stuck in a 'she'll be right' kind of attitude and care only about their own little bubble of existence, not giving a hoot about how things might effect others, or how things might effect themselves or their children in the long run.

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There is the pity of compulsory voting . The donkey vote where people just number from top down with no idea of how they voted . I understand that this was introduced by labor in the 1920s (and the Catholic Church to get the Irish vote ). That and thundering threats from the pulpit and closing the pubs on election day to get them in . Did it work I suppose that it did because we are still stuck with it

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Heather while I agree in general with what you say, I think the many people just don't have the time to notice much beyond their daily concerns. There's so much so-called news, wizzing by so fast, that by the time you make time to follow up on something it's gone-- and forgotten.

We are so lucky to be part of James's group.

Are we, in social media parlance, 'followers'? James is certainly an 'influencer' for the good, but not the bad and only maybe the ugly.

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A big problem for many who like to follow the news, their dials only work from 2,3,7,9 &10. Sky is way too far for them to flick channels!

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Perhaps they can't count past 10.

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Not sure that I am happy with that word "good " Lillian

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Indeed, many people are very happy to remaining ignorant - until it directly impacts them, then sadly it's too late.

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Exactly. And they have no idea how dangerous that is.

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Nov 18Liked by James Macpherson

The mainstream media have created a kind of "Matrix" situation whereby the majority of people are presented with a version of the world that represents the Leftist Establishment's narrative rather than reality.

Fortunately, like in The Matrix, there are also those such as yourself offering the "red pill" to those who are willing to choose the discomfort of real knowledge over the easy option of blissful ignorance.

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Nov 18Liked by James Macpherson

And the media continue to be perplexed as to why they are hemorrhaging viewers on a daily basis.

The only ones still watching or listening to them are so drunk on the Koolaid there's little to no hope for them.

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Nov 18Liked by James Macpherson

Fair and square point. The idiotic Australian media brouhaha surrounding Trump defies logic. Sadly, I ignore the Australian MSM with the exception of the Australian and Sky News. I rely on international agencies for my international news.

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I bet that headline came from the Oz. They are shockers on Trump.

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Nov 18·edited Nov 18Author

I wrote in the article that the headline came from The Australian Financial Review. It's in the first line!

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Mind you the AFR are just as bad as the Oz.

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Ok. Sorry. But Kelly has said some shocking stuff.

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I agree James. Maybe, as a population Australians need to do a dangerous goods course and especially, Peter Dutton if he is to handle Donald Trump. We need the course here is Australia to handle the media. But does Albo have a certificate to handle Donald Trump? What about Kevin Rudd(erless)?

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Did the Dudd get his money by being smart or just lucky landing a wife that is stinking rich ?

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Well,more fool her if that was the case

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An arrangement perhaps ? it certainly couldnt have been his sparkling witty personality .

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I like the idea about a course to handle the media. However, if you can't afford the course, simply ignore the lot of them. The outcome - you win!

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The best way to handle the ABC would simply be to shut them down completely. We seriously need a 'Clean up Australia' day. The ABC should be one of the pieces of rubbish that gets thrown out first.

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Absolutely

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