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Swede

(40,500 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 09:57 AM 7 hrs ago

An Australian's reply to Trump's rant about "NATO not being there for America" is perfect.

Posted on Facebook -

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

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An Australian's reply to Trump's rant about "NATO not being there for America" is perfect. (Original Post) Swede 7 hrs ago OP
Send this everywhere malaise 7 hrs ago #1
Perfect. sinkingfeeling 7 hrs ago #2
Oi, Oi, Oi! surfered 7 hrs ago #3
Spread this far and wide dalton99a 7 hrs ago #4
BRA EFFING VO Faux pas 7 hrs ago #5
Well said! SheltieLover 7 hrs ago #6
This guy nailed it! BComplex 6 hrs ago #7
This is a righteous rant ... and well-deserved FakeNoose 6 hrs ago #8
Nailed it, indeed!!! returnee 6 hrs ago #9
Oh heck yes. Mr. Mustard 2023 6 hrs ago #10
Kick, a thousand times democrank 6 hrs ago #11
But we just produced the world's first trillionaire...and the DOW is over 50,000! Ol Janx Spirit 6 hrs ago #12
Righteous!!! Joinfortmill 6 hrs ago #13
I'm really depressed after having read that, ashamed of what our country has become, but, sadly, It's all true. sop 6 hrs ago #14
Agreed. N/T progressoid 5 hrs ago #16
A very good analysis ... ananda 5 hrs ago #15
It's sad to say, but this guy is absolutely correct. patphil 5 hrs ago #17
In the eyes of so-called pro-life MAGAts, Dr. T 5 hrs ago #21
MANY THANKS, AUSSIES. MLWR 5 hrs ago #18
KNR and bookmarking for future use! niyad 5 hrs ago #19
Matie, this nails it. Nt duhneece 5 hrs ago #20
Well Said Sane1 5 hrs ago #22
If maga/pubs relogic 5 hrs ago #23
"...you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman." mwmisses4289 5 hrs ago #24
Stunning summary....and all true, at least. the basics. BobTheSubgenius 4 hrs ago #25
USA USA USA Whip-poor-will 4 hrs ago #26
Horribly true. Martin Eden 4 hrs ago #27
Eloquent and deserved response. mdbl 3 hrs ago #28
PREACH IT AUSSIE Skittles 3 hrs ago #29
THIS! THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIMES THIS! OMGWTF 2 hrs ago #30
I'd like to see Jeff Daniels do this! Change 'you' to 'we', 'your' to 'our' Abolishinist 2 hrs ago #31

FakeNoose

(42,985 posts)
8. This is a righteous rant ... and well-deserved
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 10:41 AM
6 hrs ago

I hope the Aussies understand that Chump doesn't represent all of us. He doesn't even represent the majority of us. When Chump is finally gone and the idiot MAGAs are defeated, we will quickly make amends with our friends in NATO and the rest of the "Free World" including Australia.

I'm no longer on Facebook, or I would post a friendly answer to this guy.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,136 posts)
12. But we just produced the world's first trillionaire...and the DOW is over 50,000!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 10:59 AM
6 hrs ago

BUT THE DOW!!!!!

sop

(19,834 posts)
14. I'm really depressed after having read that, ashamed of what our country has become, but, sadly, It's all true.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:31 AM
6 hrs ago

Very well said, mate!

patphil

(9,332 posts)
17. It's sad to say, but this guy is absolutely correct.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:40 AM
5 hrs ago

But let's not forget the destruction of USAID, which has killed over 800,000 people in Africa. That's the largest mass murder event of this century.
The saddest part of all this is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk will never pay the price for it.

Dr. T

(810 posts)
21. In the eyes of so-called pro-life MAGAts,
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:06 PM
5 hrs ago

those 800,000 deaths were people who were already born so the average upstanding self-righteous MAGAt soldiers don't care.

relogic

(372 posts)
23. If maga/pubs
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:10 PM
5 hrs ago

had any integrity when you handed this for them to read might they acknowledge the truth and reality expounded therein? No. The majority would attack the piece as false, dismissing the obvious facts as “liberal lies”. Showing these fools that America is and never has been the ultimate moral guide for nations that do it better demonstrates we’ve failed.

The wise (nations) admit their failures and humbling correct against repetition.

mwmisses4289

(5,145 posts)
24. "...you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman."
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:27 PM
5 hrs ago

The Aussies and the Scots certainly have a way with words, don't they?
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