America seems to have a sacred Constitution, and an Electoral College, and only two parties both dependent on billionaires who don't believe in democracy?

If you are American, aren't you surprised that you are being surveilled every moment of your life! By Palantir, MS, Google, Israel, Russia and GOP. Seems Freedom, Privacy, Individual Liberty, Republicanism and Capitalism no longer means what it used to? Thank god you'se all got lots of guns!

It seems Trump didn't read nor understand the Memorandum of Understanding that he signed?

Reporting and debate are essential to Democracy! But only if the demographic is sufficiently educated and interested enough to read or debate and vote? It's not the oligarchs who fail America (they just do what US capitalists have always done) - it's the ignorance and arrogance of most voters?

"Brexit still hinders EU reconciliation." Reuters Like 1430, 1760, 1810 or those other dates we learnt at Eton?

Why is Vance in Switzerland publicly saying the opposite of what Trump is posting on Truth Social in America? Why is Kushner not saying anything, except to the Israelis? Where is Witkoff? The real Real Estate Agent in charge of the Strait of Hormuz?

Bezos: "AI will result in labor shortages instead of replacing humans." So that's why Bezos is investing so much in AI and data centres? That's why Amazon is laying off thousands of humans? To improve opportunities to tax poor workers remaining, to pay for the data centers to make it happen??

"If you buy enough Facebook ads, you can manufacture outrage." Jake Broe, 22 Jun 2026. A memorable quote for our time!

Who knew American elections could be bought? Not just by Israel and Russia. A president for a plane or peace prize + mining rights for Don Jr, patents for Ivanka, $2bn investment for Jared, crypto support for Eric, an island, lots of govt contracts... anyone yet feeling sad for Melania and Barron?

USA makes rich people richer. A country so proud of its billionaires? The sort of people who you'd think would need to spend an awful lot of money to persuade you to like them? And they do, because they can. We - POTUS and SCOTUS, our Constitution and Electoral College - let this happen! Now we..

Give up trying to list all US policians in thrall to Israel... they ALL are! The money US gives to Israel, for unspecified and unaudited reasons, comes back to America as bribes! As always, US taxpayers pay for their own corruption?

The American Dream was, I thought when growing up, an incentive to maximise individual potential. I discover that, if it still exists, or ever existed, the American Dream is to maximise corporate profit?

Reflections. Blue v green. Rats v moles. Life in the swamp makes money?

UFC Fan Fest at White House Ellipse! Shouldn't that be "White House Eclipse"?

Australia is feeling pretty smug now, after so much US complaint re unwelcome sub-standard beef into this country? Agriculture's response to a three-year-forecasted screw fly infestation has been... zero. It's fine! Texas outbreak now in New Mexico and beyond. Doge killed your exports, industry!

The next time USA hosts a World Cup, can they make sure it's like the World Series? US teams, that Americans love, but the world has never heard of!

What are Trump and Hegseth hoping for? Another imaginary ceasefire, from another failed and expensive show of strength? FFS America, get these idiots out! They are destroying your economy, your military, your democracy, and all respect!

American political podcasters, even 'good' ones, are reporting more on what Fox News is saying than real news? Is this Murdoch's greatest strategy - to be the conduit between a crazy POTUS and an intimidated media struggling to make America Real Again? Forcing rivals to fail, defending integrity?

I get the feeling that no-one in the Trump cabinet has any idea of what their respective departments are supposed to do? Treasury sells crypto, Education dumbs down America, Agriculture drives farmers bankrupt, ICE contracts detention centers and deports cheap labor, Health limits easy remedies...

Why are US media not OUTRAGED that their Secretary of War has been declared "persona non grata" by a NATO 'ally'? Hardly an awareness in America! Oh, because of the NBA final?

Is Husic - as Chalmers says, one out of 120 members - the only one with a conscience worthy of Labor? Used to be Wong -now reviled as a zionist - Albanese - who I supported when defeated by Shorten, now more rightwing than him - or Chalmers and Marles - who will sell us to the US even under Trump?

Mix politics and science and you get rational informed debate - if your demographic is sufficiently educated to participate in democracy!

Peversely pleased that Trump cannot proceed with his mad $10bn defamation suit against the BBC because he refuses to divulge his financial dealings - including the tax returns he promised to reveal to voters after he was elected but never did!

If pro-Ukraine, pro-European security, pro-NATO, not pro-Russian, then whatever Americans think, whatever the House approves, the Senate and Trump will veto! How better to define the new autocracy, the degradation of US democracy, than by sending a cultural envoy to Russia to advertise His ballroom?

So Taylor thinks the second-hand AUKUS fiasco is the result of an underfunded Defence Dept.? Does he mean we should be paying more?

Are Americans aware of the total collapse of US hard and soft power overseas? They have expended half their arsenal defending their navy and 'destroying' drone bases. Do they realise they now have NO allies at all? and no means to defend them. Do they know they lost the war they started? $30bn+?

American guns and bombs are the leading cause of death of women and children in Palestine! Ironically, it's the only place McDonalds might be welcome now?

As a billionaire, would you donate $500m to control the President of the richest, most powerful nation on earth? If you had everything, would you want more? Would you destroy the earth to go to Mars?

Is waving the flag, venerating the veterans of failed wars, cheering the leader, still sufficient qualification to be a patriot? As everything starts to crumble around you?

The only reason we remember Trump's tax non-disclosure is because he sued the IRS for invasion of privacy and release of personal data? I think he settled the $10bn claim, out of court, with his own appointed head of IRS for $1.8bn? Which has since disappeared? Like the 'Board of Peace' funds.

It would be so much easier if US Media could list the felonies that Trump has NOT been convicted or accused of? And the wars started, the women and children bombed, world economies destroyed, to cover for his refusal to accede to lawful congressional demands to release the Epstein Files?

When will we stop talking about antisemitism and be brave enough to talk about the appalling behaviour of the Jewish State? And the Americans who supply them with weapons?

Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced, underperforming, maintenance-hungry AIRCRAFT (F35) OR SUBMARINE (AUKUS) without sovereign control? OH! Australia?

Blue Origin "experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test." That's NASA-speak for... it blew up. Severely damaging the launch-pad. Musk, to his credit, is not yet gloating out loud. The race to the moon, between the world's 2 richest men, continues! With no other objective than to win?

Isn't "Dynamic Pricing" just a way to squeeze more profit for FIFA, using AI, justifying another use for data centers?

Queensland. Looking forward to winter! Gardening, not watching seedlings die of heat, not having to water every day, digging without raising a sweat. Tucking up in bed with a blanket, not having to kick the doonah off in the night. But I fled Tasmania because of Winter, so don't want too much!

Let's celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence, it's history and new-found maturity, with a "UFC Freedom Fight" on the WhiteHouse lawn! Let's add AI B2 bombers to the Stars and Stripes? OMG, what went wrong?

Labor has finally decided to reserve 20% of gas exports to the national market? Gas extraction companies and LNP/ON claim this will destroy the industry! They wont make as much profit from Australians? We assume this policy is an attempt to ameliorate the unpopularity of current tax-free regime?

US can no longer honour contracts for Tomohawk and Patriot missiles, to Japan, Europe, etc, because Trump and Hegseth failed to increase production before depleting American stockpiles in useless wars for the zionist madness that is 'Greater Israel'? Bye-bye exports! US taxpayers will pay!

Why am I not surprised that Trump has messed up again? "It won't be a deal unless it's a great deal" (Tump on Truth Social today.) So it's not a deal? Defensive strikes against Iranian threats to preserve the ceasefire. (Centcom, today). So it's not a ceasefire? This is beyond Orwellian?

Centcom is getting very good at double speak! ("Strikes to maintain the ceasefire"?) But a long way to go to match the White House (which makes no sense at all), or Netanyahu (whose rhetoric demands Armageddon).

Those graduates lectured by Hegseth looked so sad! They seemed to realise they had joined HIS military! They needed an education, an apprenticeship, healthcare, housing, or income to provide for parents and dependents? Not Hegseth's warped idea of patriotism?

It's an IPO race! Will Musk's SpaceX, now officially an AI company, with $+30bn debt, hit Wall Street this week, before OpenAI, debt as yet undisclosed? It's so exciting to know how the US will end.

What was accomplished by war in Iran? Apart from global economic pain, collapse of trust in US alliances, destruction of US ME military bases, revelation that Trump is SO ignorant corrupt and incompetent, impotence of the greatest military power on earth, the broken state of America? Anything else?

Sometimes I wonder whether most Americans still believe they have the guns and everyone else has bows and arrows?

Are NO US media views 'objective' nowadays? Even the best independent news is loaded with clickbait and ads! Today read an American reply to news re Iran... "yeah but what news site did you get that from?" It was clearly labelled Al Jazeera.

The right of a President to pardon criminals was envisaged as protection against a potentially corrupt justice system, not as the protection of a corrupt President protected by a corrupt justice system?

Hard work and sex is what Hollywood has for decades taught the world to be the American route to success? US soft power was pervasive! Now we're grown up, past cowboys and indians, mafia and FBI, we are left with only contempt for lies and violence.

Moose: I recommend an education not solely focussed on American history, geography, politics: more interaction with the rest of the world; and revision of a Constitution that was idealistic in the 18th Century, written by the oligarchs and slave-owners of the day, that is now a sacred cow.