It’s already tomorrow morning in Australia — that’s just how woke the people are there.
Still, it might be a bit jarring for Americans used to watching a screen full of liberal panelists on CNN pretend to go at each other to realize that things aren’t much different in Australia.
President Donald Trump took a beating from Bruce Springsteen and others for apparently botching a call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. How could Trump screw up something that simple?
It turns out Turnbull wasn’t pleased to learn that Trump was insisting on renegotiating former President Barack Obama’s “dumb” deal, wherein the United States was expected to take in refugees being held by Australia in offshore detention camps — many from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, and Iraq — before Australia would take in anyone from Central America.
Turnbull has his own problems: it seems he’d like people coming to make Australia their new home to be, you know, loyal to Australia.
Govt calls for new citizens to be Australian patriots in the name of national security… So what IS a patriot? #TheDrum #auspol pic.twitter.com/wlflBOJOBc
— ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) June 13, 2017
Good 'ole boy with rifle across the back window of his pick-up truck…..??? #TheDrum #wildguess #auspol
— ? RODH2 (@2hdor) June 13, 2017
Demanding loyalty to the state… don't fascists like Trump keep spraying that bile?
— ? Agent Arioch [Umbra] ✨ (@the_LoungeFly) June 13, 2017
Tell us about it! We confess, we don’t know these pundits by name, but that doesn’t mean we’re not familiar with them.
"I resent the word 'patriot', its use & application to immigrants. It feels Trumpesque, someone who's either a zealot/ extremist" #TheDrum pic.twitter.com/YXlcuGwh2o
— ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) June 13, 2017
"The implicit message in what PM said today is that immigrants should be treated as a potential threat unless they prove otherwise" #TheDrum pic.twitter.com/qwFVJh7bLh
— ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) June 13, 2017
Xenophobia is everywhere! What are people afraid of? Immigrants? It’s ladders that should have to undergo “extreme vetting” before they’re allowed onto the mainland.
"More people died from falling off ladders in the last year than have died from terrorist incidents in Aus in the last 20 years" #TheDrum pic.twitter.com/IJ0tKBu9aQ
— ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) June 13, 2017
So that makes it all okay. Whew. And to think I was worried.
— Saved By The Blood (@vonzion) June 13, 2017
Big difference. One is deliberate the other an accident.
— Margaret Godfrey (@MargaretGodfrey) June 13, 2017
Ladders don't have a political ideology that tells them to seek strangers to kill. They just stand still, not hurtle across London Bridge.
— ? The Bunyip (@WrittenOnWater) June 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/NearFutureEvent/status/874588635508731904
Charity demands we put this comment down to stupidity, but the former is wearing thin.
— Dover Beach (@theordealofcons) June 13, 2017
More died from accidental poisoning last year than violence against women…doesn't make those brutalised women any less dead, does it? https://t.co/HxppU5UIbB
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 13, 2017
How many people died that were specifically targeted by ladders…none. She clearly hasn't been touched by terrorism…yet?
— Gary Lowe (@GaryLowe37) June 13, 2017
"As long as we remain in denial of terrorism, we are safe" – mindset of the loony left.
— ??Aussie Mum?? (@theycallmemummy) June 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/drbroadgames/status/874566649789075456
https://twitter.com/climatedenier97/status/874587602086703105
If a particular brand of ladder is found to be unsafe it would probably be recalled and banned
— Lucas70 (@luke_b70) June 13, 2017
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 6, 2017
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