Oh no! That’s terrible. Anyway…

Like what else would they say? Nope he has cancer and Alzheimer’s. Won’t last the term. Even if it were true, their not going to say it.

This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.

That’s because he’s a narcissistic sociopath.

Might be? LOL.

Funny. I don’t even think it looks that bad. He looks worse in person.

But if you were in Australia, you SHOULD be worried about your safety with something like that on your ceiling

For me, it was my hips. I really do think sitting for long periods in front of a computer is really bad for your health. Good luck to you. Get lots of exercise and take as many breaks as you can get away with.

I’m already waiting for my interview. But it’s more than that. It’s having to go through it at all. It’s their treatment of people. It’s the super spreader event that is an aircraft and an airport. It’s the treatment of people by the airlines and the whole schedule thing. It’s dealing with other passengers. I live in Florida, yup the crazy one. In the last four flights I’ve taken it took 20 hours to get home from Canada, 36 hours to get home from Tennessee and 15 hours to get home from Colorado. I mean WTF!

I took a private airplane once and I parked for free at Signature services, walked into a, large mostly empty lobby area with free cookies and got on the plane. When I got back, the crew, and I swear I’m not making it up, actually brought out a red carpet. It was ridiculously short, like 2 feet, with a ridiculously short velvet rope to match it. I walked through the same lobby, grabbed a cookie and hopped in my car and went home. That was it. Friggin fantastic. I do admit this was prior to 9/11. Since I’m not privy to such treatment normally I’ve never taken another private flight so I don’t know how much has changed. But THAT’S the way to travel… unless the OP meant something like a teleporter instead.

Also I’m not sure it’s borderline extortion. Feels like flat out extortion, but I see your point.

Don’t fret about it. It only lasts another 40 years or so.

Private Jet. Not because I want to live like a billionaire but because I friggin hate going through TSA and lately every time I travel the airlines seem to have little value-add over just driving.

Who knew giving all your power to a dictator could go wrong?

Yes but isn’t Italy part of the EU? Once he’s in, it is easier to move to a different more liberal country member of the Union.

Gotta make sure those poor white males aren’t suffering. They have everything going against them after all.

Uh oh, they’re expressing outrage now. I’m sure someone will suffer.

I believe they thought they could ignore the order because they could ignore the order.

Uh oh, Democrats are outraged. There will be hell to pay now.

Yeah, we should definitely hurt Canada economically. I mean screw our best ally and longest lasting friendship.

Retaliatory measures don’t have to include taxing your own people. I suggest merely rallying people around the cause of boycotting US products does more good.

A tariff is a tax on the country imposing the tariff. The only way it actually hurts the country that the tariff is placed against, is if people stop buying the foreign products. But in the case of a tax on steel or aluminum, that would require people to avoid all products made with foreign steel/aluminum. This is nearly impossible. So it only hurts Australians in this case.

Plus that’s not how capitalism works. A real example from Trump’s first term was a tariff imposed on washing machines. The tariff made foreign washing machines more expensive than domestic ones. So far, so good. What did American companies do? Raised the price of domestic washing machines to match that of foreign ones in a greedy grab for profits. This meant the incentive to buy American washing machines was nullified. You know what people also buy when they buy a washer in the US? They buy a dryer. So the price of dryers went up as well, even though there was no tariff on those. So in the end all that happened was Americans wound up spending more for washers and dryers. Why would a country want to do that to its own people?

You’re screwed no matter what you do. As right wing as Australia has become, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but good job Australia.

There are other ways to retaliate. China doesn’t mess around. They outright banned certain companies from operating there and denied sales of certain needed elements to the US.