Juan Carl
@juancarl
Retired lefty. Advice to young self: Study hard and save 10% of your salary (what I didn't do); be courageous; be kind and don't worry needlessly. Juan Carl was my birth father's name but he died before I caught up with him. Living on Yuggera land
Ed Husic’s attempt to recognise claims of genocide in Gaza failed to gain support for a debate at Labor's national conference. As Julia Gillard once wrote, Labor conferences are at their worst when anything controversial is swept under the carpet. The ALP needs to be better than this, much better.
How many tonnes of concrete would this take? And at what cost? Who cares? It would be less than his ballroom and so it would be no surprise to see it happen before his term ends!
Trump embarrassed the US again at the July 2026 NATO summit. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s dangerous. He keeps demonstrating his fundamental ignorance of the NATO alliance. He doesn't understand that NATO is a defensive alliance, not an offensive one. www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
Xi was telling the US president that China sees itself as the rising power, the US as the declining hegemon, and the question is whether they avoid war. It was not a polite welcome. It was a warning shot. Trump was too dumb to know what he was talking about. deanblundell.substack.com/p/xi-jinping...
It's revealing to hear Michael Gawenda talk about the rise in antisemitism in the aftermath of the Oct 7 attacks. It would be more appropriate if he talked about the rise in antisemitism since Israel began its bombing campaign on Gaza killing 68,000 men, women & children. www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
The word is that Trump and his pedophile pals are stitching up a plan to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell so that in return she would testify under oath that Trump wasn’t involved in raping underage girls. Bear in mind that Maxwell has been found guilty herself of participating in the abuse of these girls.
When Donald Trump dies I won't be just glad, I'll be euphoric!! Innocent people won't be dying in their tens of thousands in the Middle East, the poor & disadvantaged won't be suffering in the US, and support for pedophiles & war criminals like Netanyahu will stop. Yippee!!! @techdesign.bsky.social
It's a very good indication of what the US has become when President Donald Trump says they're negotiating and Iran says they're not, and the world believes Iran not Trump. We certainly can't believe one word Trump says.... www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Love this Cartoon by Pat Bagley.... First Trump supporter: We didn't vote for war! Second Trump supporter: We voted for racism and secret police!
According to the US Census Bureau, 37.9m Americans are considered to be living in poverty. The poverty rate for children is 12.4%, and the rate for people 65 and older is 10.2% up from 8.9% in 2019. But this is what you voted for America. Of course, there are some who aren't so poor and we know why.
Remember QAnon? Most of us scoffed and promptly forgot about him. QAnon claimed there was cabal of highly influential individuals, politicians, business leaders, police and so on, who were part of a paedophile ring that may even have included President Trump. And now? www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...
Jon Kudelka was one of Australia's best. This was one of my favourites. Rest in Peace, Jon.
What odds AI wrote this address for Melania? Almost certainly you say. Ironic isn't it? www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
"....Just a diseased distillation of everything this country (the US) swears it isn't, but has always been." I'd take issue with the 'always been' bit. James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover, and Franklin Pierce were all poor choices but they were getting it right. Then they elect Trump, twice!!!
"haymaker of a speech" "moral bankruptcy of the UN" "corrupt" What??? Then you see that it's Sky News Australia talking about Donald Trump. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously?? Does anybody actually read this crap? www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
Colin Firth’s ex-wife, Livia Giuggioli (Firth), has dramatically handed back her MBE because of Britain’s ‘appeasement’ of US President Donald Trump. Well done, Livia. Should be more of this, a lot more. www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale" is a portend of Trump's America. Sure, there are differences but you only have to see Kirk's memorial service to see the amalgamation of right-wing Christian populism and the MAGA movement. It's an America that's authoritarian, puritanical, militarized and oppressive.
Is this one of Kirk's opponents talking about Kirk? No, it's Kirk talking about George Floyd. Nice fella that Charlie Kirk.
Trump is a fraud. And this is just another lie. CNN have found that during and between his terms as President of the United States, Donald Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims.
Know what Domain knows?? It's bugger all. There're two units in Kangaroo point. Both are in the same building, both are on the same level, and in fact one is the mirror image of the other. But one is valued at $1.18m and the other at $1.68m. Seriously, Domain know bugger all about property values.
100% Trump, is it not? It was Trump who "grabs 'em by the pussy". We've seen similar sketches, similar sentiments and a similar signature. This is significant. If true, it implies that Trump was involved in the same surreptitious sexual activities as his mate Epstein. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
This is the very one who has now been transferred to a low-security prison in Texas to continue serving her 20-year prison sentence. The move came a week after Ghislaine Maxwell met with Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche. Blanche was President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney!!!!!
Seriously Abbey Gelmi, there is more to talk about in sport than AFL. 18 minutes into a 30 minute edition of the Offsiders and the panel were still talking AFL. Not much time left for the NRL, rugby, soccer, cricket, swimming, cycling or golf. My friends tell me there is no point watching Offsiders.
Monstrous and corrupt is right. Trump’s personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, interviews Ghislaine Maxwell and gets her to agree to make a public statement that to her knowledge Donald Trump did not have sex with underage girls and in return is granted a pardon. Wow! Don't ya love it! #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
The FBI searched for any mention of Donald Trump in the files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Seriously? Why would they bother? There are enough photos of these two in the public domain to show that Trump was a very good friend of the serial pedophile. And we all know what that means.
What a farce!! Just when you thought things couldn't get any more ridiculous in a land where a buffoon is president, we have the TACO trade. TACO stands for "Trump always chickens out". Investors profit by buying the dip that has followed Trump's tariff threats. www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...
If Sussan Ley is the future of the Liberal Party, then its future is very, very bleak. www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
Alan Kohler writes that the Australian economy is a basket case. While that may be something of an exaggeration, it is an economy badly in need of reform, something along the lines of what Hawke and Keating did in the 1980s. We all hope Chalmers and Albo are up for it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...