I very much doubt that.

There’s blood in the water. Trump would be pretty desperate for this to go his way.

Not sure if you’re talking about Australia or Canada but while it’s easy enough to get a study visa for Australia the cost of studying here would preclude that option for most people.

Oh man.

What did this idiot give Bezos I wonder?

He’s the worst negotiator in the history of US presidents.

My beautiful tariffs have worked and we’ve made deals with 376 countries that have made American dicks appear 74% bigger /s

I’m … not quite sure about that.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks and I find it difficult to get engaged with those from American presenters or narrators. I’m certainly not alone in that either.

That’s not really my take.

Economically we’re much more dependent on our exports to China. Any hickup in that relationship hurts. We also export heaps of grain, livestock, and gas to a variety of destinations.

IDK what we export to the US, other than some beef and bauxite, but it’s not much in the grand scheme. We were hit with the 10% Tariffs and our politicians were a bit “meh” about it. We didn’t bother with retaliatory tariffs.

Politically we have had a close relationship with the US. Obviously their military assets are huge compared to ours. The US military bases in Australia aren’t here for our protection, they’re here because the US want’s a place from which to project power in our region.

There’s a trilateral security treaty called AUKUS between Australia, UK, and US. That’s not all one way either - all three nations are making significant contributions for everyone’s benefit. There’s been some reporting on whether Trump will withdraw from this treaty - it would be disappointing but not a disaster. We’re a pretty enough dance partner.

My partner migrated to Australia.

There are multiple steps and the obscene waits at each step were awful.

That’s a lot of jobs.

Sorry guys, the only way to pressure republicans to take action is a lot more of this.

Good luck.

I know this is a meme but if I were trans, and living in the US, I would 100% do my best to GTFO.

I was legit thinking a few days ago, we (Australia) should invite progressive voting Americans to migrate to Australia and ship our Trumpets over there.

There’s a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.

oddly enough, no one has suggested that I start an OF if I don’t have money /s

I would find this very annoying.

Oh please.

Did you really just create a lemmy account to tell us about your best friend who is a top international high-end escort who also runs an extremely profitable OnlyFans account ?

I imagine lemmy is fairly low-yield as regards paying fans. The stereotypical lemmy user is young and broke.

Yes, everyone can be misled, but surely there’s a point where it’s wilful ignorance.

I wee in to the toilet while I’m brushing my teeth.

I don’t think “stupid” is a helpful term, ever.

However, with the things that are going on plausible deniability is getting harder and harder.

At this point, you can’t say you aren’t aware of what this administration is doing.

Comment of the year right here. Awesome. I like you.

You’re looking at it the wrong way.

It doesn’t matter who’s on the right side of the law. They don’t care if they lose this case.

They’re trying to make ordinary citizens fearful of speaking up or calling them out. When they come to take your neighbors away they want you to look the other way because you don’t want to get involved.

Honestly, it’s horrifying.

I think it’s a different kind of unhealthy economy.

There’s more at stake than stocks going up or down by a few percent.

People with large business empires don’t want a catastrophic recession.