"I heard a discussion about laws passed today in Canberra about
hate speech. Will that apply to printed text ?
If so the Koran will be banned"

Good one Baz. But I think that we all know that "hate speech" is only what the Left doesn't like. Any legislation would be used only against white, Christian conservatives and anyone else not a barking-mad Leftist.

Why only talk about the "Barking-Mad Leftists?"

Life is more interesting than that surely.

What about the "Goose-Stepping Right-Wingers?"

Or the "Fish & Chippie One Nationists?"

Or the "Small-Minded Confused Conservatives?"

Or the "Messianic Trumpsters?"

There's heaps of others to add to the list.

We're living in such exciting times.And there's so many choices.

Take your pick.

Don't let sanity prevail.

Let's go for the lunatic-fringe.

Let's divide not unite.

Finger-pointing is more fun.

Let's keep up the "them" and "us" - we know where we
belong and they don't. Never have. Never will!

Yay!

The biggest mistake the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd make is to assume that Trump is a fool. From that they assume that everything he does is foolish.

Of course, when they see his 'foolish' ideas, like imposing tariffs on Mexico or pressuring Panama over the canal, turn out to achieve exactly what he wanted, they rapidly forget it and move to talk about something else - anything else.

So we move to the Gaza gambit. What has changed since Trump floated his idea? Well suddenly the world, particularly the Arab world, are talking about options and solutions other than the perpetually failing two-state solution - the solution that never solved anything.

Of course, people who have no understanding of the history of this have very firm opinions that they knew what they're talking about. Trump talks about making it the Riviera of the MiddleEast and they mock his idea. But its not his idea. Its been talked about for decades. When Israel handed Gaza over to the Palestinians (another thing that seems to have been gratuitously forgotten) all sorts of groups -including the UN- talked about exactly that. It was considered a great idea then, but as soon as Trump mentions it, it magically becomes bonkers!!

In one swoop, Trump has put the final nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. Everyone is now trying to work out what replaces it.

Trump's playing 3D chess. The rest are reading up on the rules for checkers.

In other Trumpian news, he's signed an Executive Order banning men from competing in women's sports. J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame is, for one, very pleased with the outcome, as are myriad female athletes.

Another iconic image from the era of Trump....
http://tiny.cc/f349001

Trump last week signed an EO that recreated the notion that there are two genders ending the idiocy of the last 5 years....

100,000 years BP - 2020AD .... two genders.
2020 - 2025....47 genders.
2025 - ? .....two genders.

Of course, this lunacy only applied to the left in the west. The rest of the planet never fell for it. Now Trump has put an end to it.

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Trump's tariff diplomacy is now so successful that we have Central American nations offering him things he didn't even ask for! El Salvador has offered to house dangerous US criminals in its own jails.

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Elon's DOGE boys are uncovering all sorts of shenanigans in the corrupt old regime. We'd need a new thread to cover all the corruption that's being unearthed but one of the more interesting is the amount of US government funds being secretly funnelled to anti-Trump media - Politico was virtually a fully own subsidiary of the CIA and gigantic sums were being given to the New York Times, and ABC favourite Bill Kristol's never-Trump think tanks

what Trump says must not be taken literally.
The man is unstable.

The Australian government is bound to uphold
international law. If Australia and the international
community cannot prevent the US and Israel from
following through with the so called "Trump Gazan plan"
then international law and a rules-based order will
be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Not going to happen.

There's more evidence that the loony Left here and in the US since Trump's election are “gibbering idiots”.

A Democrat politician state politician has had herself sterilised because she was “scared President Trump might make contraception inaccessible”.

She doesn't want to “ navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America”.

It has to be recognised, of course, that Laurie Pohutsky might be a bit more loonier than the average Leftist lunatic.

As a bi-sexual, she has probably done everyone a favour, including any child she might have had.

https://politicom.com.au/michigan-democrat-state-legislator-sterilizes-herself-to-avoid-giving-birth-in-donald-trumps-america/