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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn 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 youve 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."
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C8bHGy3ar/
malaise
(299,541 posts)Excellent
Rec. Rec. Rec
sinkingfeeling
(58,228 posts)surfered
(15,027 posts)dalton99a
(96,203 posts)Faux pas
(16,593 posts)SheltieLover
(82,598 posts)BComplex
(10,015 posts)So clear! So true!
So f***ing sad, but true.
FakeNoose
(42,985 posts)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.
returnee
(1,010 posts)Mr. Mustard 2023
(370 posts)democrank
(12,733 posts)Flat out truth.
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,136 posts)BUT THE DOW!!!!!
Joinfortmill
(21,910 posts)sop
(19,834 posts)Very well said, mate!
progressoid
(53,553 posts)ananda
(35,800 posts)of where Trump's America is right now.
Grrrr
patphil
(9,332 posts)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)those 800,000 deaths were people who were already born so the average upstanding self-righteous MAGAt soldiers don't care.
MLWR
(1,150 posts)niyad
(135,283 posts)duhneece
(4,542 posts)Thanks for brightening my day.
relogic
(372 posts)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 weve failed.
The wise (nations) admit their failures and humbling correct against repetition.
mwmisses4289
(5,145 posts)The Aussies and the Scots certainly have a way with words, don't they?
BobTheSubgenius
(12,267 posts)The author.
Whip-poor-will
(617 posts)Sounds about right
Martin Eden
(16,038 posts)Though spray-tanned aluminum siding salesmen might take offense.
mdbl
(8,959 posts)Skittles
(173,596 posts)yes INDEED