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No, you meant I do not have the same privilege of posting my views on religion on ASEAN as you do. I would have thought a God that wants more people to love him and worship him would have exhibited himself millennia ago, not relying on texts generated by humans. So your God is the only one? There's about 1.4 billion Muslims that disagree with you.

Trump thought he could do anything. The bond market showed him otherwise. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/donald-trump-met-match-on-tariffs-in-bond-market-rout/105160436

I don't know where your figure of 125 comes from. According to Gemini AI, the figure is 750. Harbours and airfields constructed by the Chinese in other nations only count if they are sovereign Chinese territory. Most US bases are sovereign American territory. Ask the Cubans what they think of Guantanamo Bay.

Grass-fed Gippsland eye fillet is a completely different taste sensation to the fat-laden feedlot rubbish America produces. You are confusing quantity with quality. Don't go to Australia. With your attitude to our biosecurity laws, we'd probably sling you in jail.

From my perspective, it is America that is doing all the threatening. The US has 750 military bases across the world. China has none.

We trained the penguins to crap guano in one spot, which was then exported as nitrogen fertilizer, so the US could grow soybeans.

Last time I looked, Cuba couldn't even keep the lights on. Neither can you, if Canada plays nasty.

Betting the house is stupid when you don't hold all the cards.

Without fertilizer, yields of food are very much less. Where are you getting the tractors from to plough the soil for cropping and seeding? Last time I looked, John Deere had closed down, and Kubota is your biggest supplier. Now you've got rid of the immigrants, are Americans lining up to pick crops at minimum wage? Reality is such a bitch, eh?

The US is heavily dependent on Canada for potassium fertilizer. It imports $10 billion worth of mixed fertilizers from Canada, and 50% of its oil. The US has no developed rare earth capacity, to build advanced equipment. Mexico is the main US supplier of silver, which is found in every phone, laptop, desktop and TV on the planet. Anything electronic, it has silver. The proposition the US is self-sufficient does not stand up in the light of said facts.

Kerry Packer famously said you only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, meaning a dumbass who bought a media business for $1 billion from Packer, who bought it back for $300 million a few years later. Alan Bond went broke owning a brewery, in a nation of beer drinkers. Trump went broke on three casinos, in a nation where gamblers lose more money than any other country. Xi is probably thinking he will only get one Trump in his lifetime.

I agree. Restaurants and large catering events are a different story. Get back to me after you have educated yourself on how blood and bone fertilizer is manufactured,

Where the hell do you think organic garbage goes? You are doubling down on ignorance.

You are talking heresy, the right-wingers will be frothing at the mouth. IMO taxing the rich, with assets they can take loans against, simply won't work. A revenue tax of 1-2% would pay off the national debt quite rapidly.

Where do you think the remains of a ribeye steak go? The most common way of spreading the prions causing mad cow disease is when blood and bone meal fertilizer is either consumed directly by cattle, or spread on pasture. Farmers use fertilizer, right? Prions are not bacteria or viruses. They are abnormal proteins highly resistant to normal sterilization procedures, including cooking. More so if ordered rare. Your post merely demonstrates your ignorance

The wombat of ASEAN?

The national debt is caused by America printing more money than it makes by selling goods and services. Plus interest on the debt, of course. Sensible countries tailor their products to the market. America tries to sell gas-guzzling behemoths to countries that have narrow roads and expensive fuel. It assumes everyone else wants to do what America does.

Australia does not have rabies. It does not have foot and mouth disease. It does not have bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The US has 2 out of 3. US beef is not safe because it is feedlot crap. Australian beef is safe because it is free range, behind biosecurity barriers. The latest undesirable import from America is fire ants. Australia does not tariff any US goods. Its biosecurity laws are strict for good reason. The US has a 2:1 positive trade balance in its favor. What the US has done to Australia has probably ensured the right-wing opposition is going to get wiped out in the forthcoming election. Hopefully, the current government will tell Trump to <deleted> himself.

How crazy is it to hit Australia with a 10% tariff, when goods from the USA enter Australia tariff-free? With a positive trade balance for America. How crazy is it to think America can be re-industrialized with a snap of the fingers? Trump's background has taught him to try to cheat everyone else. So what happens when, instead of refinancing US debt, creditors call it in?

Australia has zero tariffs on American goods. The USA has a positive trade balance with Australia. Trump tariff 10%. Please explain why we should not treat America as an unfriendly trading partner, and reciprocate with tariffs of our own.

Apparently some Immigration officials in Laos have come up with a new income stream. USD 40 to enter Laos. You get the visa stamp, but no entry stamp. When it comes time to leave Laos, you have no entry stamp. Fine USD 100. Has anyone heard of this? Sounds like a good way to kill tourism.

Since when? Australians have always pronounced the "T". But then, we are not as lazy as Americans, who can't even spell the word ALUMINIUM correctly.

Nice to know one of your faculties is left. Rationality is a ship that sailed years ago.

It's difficult to soar like an eagle when turkeys are posting.

Unfortunately, there are posters on here with the attention span of a goldfish, and about as many brain cells.