President President Zelenskyy and Donald Trump (Image from The Conversation : Alamy photo)
Yeah, all right, that’s not what he said. What Dutton actually said was:
“He’s not become the President of the United States by being anything other than shrewd, you’ve seen it in his business life, and the art of the deal is important to him, that both sides of the deal are contributing, that nobody’s ripping each other off.”
Now some of the people who are paying attention are pointing out that this “deal” consists of him and Netanyahu announcing an idea where the only ones who’ve agreed to it are Trump and Netanyahu…
I mean, Hitler did at least do a deal with Chamberlain to annex the Sudentland in return for “peace in our time”, only to say that our time was short and therefore the peace would only last until he could move his tanks across the mountain ranges and use his new territory to advance his ambition to stamp out division by removing anyone who disagreed in any part of Europe…
Trump’s deal, on the other hand, left out the following people:
And I guess it’s that final group that is always the hardest one to win over in any deal. I mean if you don’t have to worry about anyone who disagrees with you, then making a deal is easy: “I just made a deal to buy my neighbour’s car for $25.99, he doesn’t agree but that’s why I have to ignore him in this whole transition; he just won’t agree to me without arguing!”
Anyway, I must say that I’m not about to condemn Trump for putting forward a lunatic plan for peace. Nothing else has worked, so maybe this will…
See what I did there?
Yes, it’s an awful plan but I didn’t commit myself so if we completely ignore the fact that just because something “works” that doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing…
For example, if I offer to solve the problem of the homeless in the city by moving them to the country, it might work, but it doesn’t mean that there’s no longer a problem; it just means that I’ve moved it to where nobody cares… and by nobody, I mean the people who thought my solution was actually a good idea and who needs to make a deal with people who disagree with you…
And that’s the strange thing about Dutton’s inclination to attach himself to Trump’s coat-tails in his charge at The Lodge, he doesn’t seem to understand that, not only is everything likely to blow up in Trump’s face, even when he wins, he ends up leaving his supporters with egg on their faces.
“Yes, the tariffs are just a negotiating tactic… no, um, he means them, well they’re a good idea… I mean they’ll help… oh, excellent, they made Mexico and Canada back down and agree to… something… stopping drugs coming so we can make our own… no, um… Look, I’ll get back to you!“
When Dutton says look at Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency, it should be great here, we have to ask the obvious question…
NO, NOT WHY DOES DUTTON HAVE TWO SHADOW MINISTERS WORKING ON GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY WHEN SURELY THAT’S A CONTRADICTION!!
What will Dutton say if the whole DOGE thing blows up in the face of the US?
Will he say: “Yes, it’s true that the whole country is in a mess now that they sacked the public service, but that won’t be the same here because when we copy them, we won’t copy them because… Sorry, you’re from the ABC aren’t you? Well, you won’t have a job after we get elected!!”
Also by Rossleigh: Dutton’s Detailed Plan…
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How long would Israel be safe from a Trump take over?
Would Israel become another USA territory under Trump and Musk?
Yes that deal, air brushed out of history by Soviets, Russian regime and pro-Putin faux anti-imperialist tankies of left and right, who ran cover for Putin's invasion including one meme ie. USSR solely protected Europe from Hitler's Nazi regime.
Plausible if ignorant of history, but misses the cynical Molotov-Rippentrop Pact that divvied up Poland (again) of 1938-41; many Russians still believe that WWII didn't commence till (Hitler did the dirty) the invasion of 1941.....
be very afraid, and don't be a dunce like the MAGA followers !
If we wait a few days, we will probably find Trump proposing that Israel be relocated to somewhere more compatible with Jewish aspirations. Clearly the experiment hasn't worked out and the Balfour Declaration was a mistake.
It may well be that the Jewish people would be happier in somewhere like, for instance, Del Boca Vista in Florida, just down the road from Mar a Lago ; there is precedent!
with so many septic jews, Israel is safe.
With the big 3 billionaires behind him, he can do anything but public ownership of an amusement centre the size of Gaza seems un-american???
Here dutton is a shoe-in and will be supported by rupert et al in the media for ruining the public service with 'consultants' and selling the ABC.
ps
in his head he is a genius and what pops in will be shared and enacted, without consideration or humanity, for personal profit. He will succeed in ruining America and will eu ukraine and russia join to capitalise? What will china do?
pps
about 70 years ago my mates dad went to america on business and he brought back stanfreberg's answer to TV and one episode had 'the Gaza strip' theme. Cannot find a reference but memory says the solution was a mushroom cloud.
We've had Cuddly Dud, Nice Dud, Dadly Dud, Caring Dud and a few others I've probably forgotten about and now we have "Human Dud." What a steaming load of excrement! Trying to humanise the inhuman...blurg...gag...
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/peter-dutton-opens-up-about-divorce-broken-engagement-20250207-p5laaw.html
A Smith asserts some points in bad, misleading history. Reconsider diplomacy and known facts from 1937 to 1939. Poland's behaviour and diplomacy were ridiculous, fatal. Hitler and Stalin "knew" what to do to correct old wrongs. The Czechs and Rumanians did not help things, while Britain and France, in particular, behaved poorly, weakly. Sad.
It's a great segway to point out that (during his interview with Tucker Carlson), Putin specifically rationalised and justified Hitler's rationale for starting WW2.
PP and AC and what are you claiming, whataboutery of preceding years?
How did that justify two imperial powers in USSR and Nazi Germany invading Poland?
Surely it wouldn't be a deflection from Putin's invasion of Ukraine, also justified by then Fox News' Tucker Carlson (et al. repeating Kremlin talking points?), Koch's Mearsheimer and Rockefeller's Sachs with their Kissinger big power 'realism' or geopolitical eugenics?
Related, not just Fox Board's Abbott's workplace in Hungary or PM 'mini Putin' Orban at the (Opus Dei infused) Heritage* partnered Danube Inst.; Koch and Tanton joint *Project2025.
Not unrelated is ARC Alliance for Responsible Citizenship trustees including Abbott, Howard et al and Jordan Peterson; the former may need a heads up?
It's been alleged and claimed that through chatter and some news that in Canada opposition leader Pierre is going to regret same allies in Carlson and Peterson; a foreign influence report coming out in March (well before elections) may claim or allege that they are both Russian assets....more than the UK and US have done where investigations have been denigrated and avoided.....
Orthodox, accepted, well known, conventional, accurate history, and for over a half century, will not be altered by obsessions about modern day arseholes named Tanton, Carlson,Koch, Peterson, Abbott , etc. as held by obsessives who know nothing of Gen. Beck, Pilsudski, Ribbentrop, Bonnet, Litvinov, Chamberlain, Benes, Ciano, etc. And, as an example, Do read an essential orthodox accepted brilliant work by Jacques Delaunay, "Major Controversies of Contemporary History, Pergamon, 1966, London, especially from pages 166 to 191, being Part two, section four, chapters four to seven. (Add works by Sir Lewis Namier.)