Jerry_Atrick

Hey Rocky.. watch chumpy pull a rabbit out of his sleeve...

I read an article in The Age on the weekend that Chump wasn't terribly interested in Australia and that Albo did a good job of keeping quiet to keep Australia out fo Chump's thoughts. I am not sure that is the case, given the above. Captiulation is the name of the game with Chumpy, apparently.

I am not arguing either point, but to say the US increasing tarrifs by a ballistic amount, or even vacillating continously over setting them is not illegal. A lot of people are coming to an understanding that the tarrifs themselves are illegal.

The tarrifs themselves are not illiegal. The USA can put on whatever tarrifs it pleases, and there is nothing in US law that restricts what they can do. The issue is that Chumpy is using some national emergency law to bypass congress to apply tarrifs (and other goodies), for which he normally does not have the power. The US Court of International Trade ruled the circumstances that Chumpy relied on to justify bypassing congress did not constitute a national emergency for the purposes of the act. The case is currently on appeal to the Federal court, and my guess is that if Chumpy loses it, he will appeal to the Supreme Court, where he will have a more sympathetic hearing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-tariffs-poised-for-major-test-before-federal-appeals-court/

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I have had a great weelend.. Lunch with the son and daughter at the local pub on Saturday was nice.. albeit pricey. Daughter woke up this (Sunday) morning and asked if we could go to the local airfield (Dunkeswell) for breakfast. Most airfields have cafes/bistros. Although it was cloudy, the wind was blowing straight down the runway and the cloudbase was high enough for circuits. A sole C172 took off for about three or four circuits. We finished our bacon and egg rolls, which were very nice and drove around the perimeter of the airfield to the hangars and checked out the aicraft. After a while we drove home as the wx brightened up. Lovely weekend.

I am surprised she hasn't vanished already.

Desk

Oi! London is no longer rat infested since foxes became a protected species within its confines. Muslims have visited Australia long before it became terra australia, and after Christian settlement, started moving here from early days: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JIA/article/view/29395

With climate change, there are more great VFR days here, but they are still few and far between... I am pining to come back to my grass roots flying: https://rvac.com.au/ Worlds oldest continual flying club.. There are older, but they have folded and re-constituted

And here, in SW England.

Found this quite a good summation of things:

Isn't that what people do (or tempo become) after having a Big Mac?

Slices of roast beef and thicker than normal gravy

Sounds like a perfect day for a piping hot pie with tommy sauce.

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No worries. Best of luck in your endeavours, and of course, it would be great to have you hang around these forums. too!

In price sensitive markets, I have seen business absorb the costs where they can and keep it viable.. If the costs go up too much, shop closes up.

What proper capitalist (i.e. free market) country is there in the world right now? Has there ever been one? In this case, tarrifs are being used as a tax hit to give his wealthy mates tax deductions under the guise of protecting and bolstering American manufacturing. Chump is doing it because he knows it is a massive lever he can pull. If Australia tried it on, the world would be, "meh?" because Australia ain't so big. Look at how other countries have low-towed to him.. Only exceptions are Canada and Mexico. Everyone else talked tough, but when the rubber hit the road, they all capitulated. Starmer's grovelling was an absolue disgrace and it still go him nowhere. Not only that, but the UK was willing to reduce its food standards for Chump until there was a massive public backlash. Apparently, USA beef is now good enough to allow people to eat in Australia, when only two weeks ago, it wasn't. Paramount studios fired Colbert, an ardent critic of Chump, because of a multi-billion dollar defamation case launchged by Chump that almost every legal eagle in the US was frivilous and actually could expose Chump. But they capitulated and even paid him out, I think it was $16m, I guess for hush money or greasing the wheels. No one likes itm but they will work around it because the perceived loss of mainly business has them running ship scared.. and Chumpy knows it. Life continues.

In all seriousness, immigration into Australia requires you to go through a bunch of hoops and the system I think is designed to discourage it. I haven't watched this particular video, but have watched a couple of her previous ones. In terms of education based visas, I am not sure, but if I were going to emigrate to Australia, I would probably use a MARA registered immgration agent. This youtuber has done a lot of vids about movign to Aus: https://www.youtube.com/@thatjohnstonlife/videos

Them, there are fighting words.. You know they exist, and thay is all that matters 🙂 I have been unusually emojional this eve.

I moved to Brisbane with my then fiancee in about 1993.. In the winter, we would alternate going to the gold coast and the sunshine coast each weekend. The prices in the off season were about as good as the back of a Toowoomba caravan park.. Except for those lovely apartments on Hastings street (the caravan park was long gone). We actually used to stay at Peregian beach and I saod to my then fiancee, we should buy a house there. She refusused.. The same house I was looking at at the time, was up for sale for $4m.. Yeah, it was done up a bit.. but it is land an proximity to beach. Oh, how I wanted to stay at one of those beachfront apartments on Hastings street. Just to be able to walk to the beach would have been such fun. Fortuitously, I moved to the UK when the £ was worth $3. I took my current partner there and we booked 3 nights at a dog-awful rate on Aussie dollars, but bearable on £s. I almost had her moving to Aus then, when after a nice meal we arrived back at the foyer of the apartments, and she said, "what a lovely terra cotta moth is on the wall". It was huge, and she hates living moths with a vengeance. I said to her that I don't recall seeing it before as she went to feel the lovely piece of art.. The wing span must have been 20cm. Well, it flapped its bloody wings and defended itself by going for her hair. Once the screming had died down, while drawing heacy breaths, she commented she cannot move to QLD. F! Another opportiunity missed.

Well, since the Thai food in Australia is the best (I would say better than Thailand, but I actually haven't been to Thailand), Australia will be your second home. Seriously, I was dating a girl once (yeah - hard to believe) and we went to a restaurant in Malvern (suburb of Melbourne) called Beau Thai, and she dreamt about the food she ate... and it woke her up - it was that good (or she was really a bad cook.. which is part of it). What bachelor degree are your studying? We need more lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents.. not. Seriously, you're welcome as someone into ag and enviromental science.. until the Lib/Nats get back into government. I have strived to become a person of the landed gentry, but alas, my colonial past always catches up with me. Anyway, for foreign students, it is much the muchness you pay your fees. In the UK, it is cold, the Thai food is absolutely ship (replace the "p" with a "t"), and the country is going broke, anyway. Nationalistic politics is on the rise, so if you desire to be labelled a pariah, the UK is a place to be (it is quite funny to lob into a conversation that is bagging immigrants, that I am one; the conversation goes silent very quickly). That's only because you're from Tasmania and they don't have a football team! 😉 As I said, @Natn, you will not get into the country without supporting Hawthorn Football club.. If you become a member, you get priority access 😉

Because getting Back Patio from ac at is pretty awesome.

Of course no one likes to be taken as a sucker, etc. However, Chump doesn't care. Whether done diplomatically or not, the bottom line is that the side that has the most power in an materially asymmetric relationship will always get the better outcome In dimplomacy, often the outcomes are the same - if you have the levers of power well over your counterparty, you are going to win. It has been like this always. The difference is Chump isn't diplomatic about it at all. He has no issue telling the world he is going to use the same levers.. he publicly rather than privately threatens. The bullying tactics are part of him, like they are in many. Tarrifs ensure the US taxpayer pays more tax.. The importers pay the tarrifs, not the exporters. Either they take a hit or they pass it on. Either way, it is the US that pays the tax. It is there for one reason and one reason only.. Making the wealthy wealthier. Those big tax breaks to the wealthy are not going to pay for themselves in a developed economy. Getting back to Chump and his antics, and why he remains popular relative to the deomocrats. And I think it is in the culture of the people. Americans like the hollywood BS.. Everything is brute force with them. Die Hard, etc. I remember when 9/11 happened there were people wondering whee the real Die Hard shoot-em-up law enforcers were. You only have to look at the reaction in the aftermath where people were seriously calling for pilots to wear guns.. Look at their law enforcement (sadly, some of it has spilled into Australia) compared to the unarmed bobby. The other thing is that America epitomises selfishness. It's al me me me me me me me me me. They could not care about what anyone outside America thinks. I seriously think that most people who live in America think the rest of the world is a third world backwater, anyway - at least those that haven't ventured anywhere else. And there's a lot of them. So Chump shafting the world is seem as power, being tough and brutish.. which is what they want. We call him dumb, but he plays his audience very well. And only they get to votet him in. And yeah, you can argue that he was voted out, but he was voted in after the democrats fixed the economy and their foreign relations after the first bout of Chump. And this time he was ahead in the popular vote and took both houses! The yanks do not care. Like everyone else, it is "what is in it for me?" A lot of them were convinced the crap he is doing is better for them when iut is worse at every level.. I still love the US, but I no longer preference by spending on US products over Chinese (yes, I know US brands are largely manufactured in China, but at least some of the profit went back). I am more inclined to buy non-US brands in may things. And although I won't use Temu nor Ali-Baba, I no longer spend as near as much as I used to on Amazon. I use Mistral LLM AI over Chat GPT. I have made my decision with my wallet.