Australian Election - Trump Boosts Another Liberal

[Voluntarist]

First Canada, Now Australia: The Trump Factor Boosts Another World Leader in an Election​

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power in an election Saturday, the latest left-leaning leader to achieve a comeback victory as President Trump roils global markets and upends international affairs.

As of about 11 p.m. Sydney time, Albanese’s Labor Party was projected to win at least 87 seats in the nation’s House of Representatives—where governments are formed—defeating the conservative bloc of the Liberal and National parties, which was projected to win at least 40, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The result was a decisive win for Albanese, whose party expanded its majority in the 150-seat chamber. Before the vote, polls showed Albanese leading, but not by much.
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The election is the latest snapshot of how voters are reacting to a shifting world order as President Trump targets countries with tariffs, pivots toward Russia and uses harsh rhetoric about Washington’s traditional allies. Polls show voters in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. view Washington more unfavorably since Trump took office.

Earlier this week, Canadians gave the left-leaning Liberal Party a fourth term in office, even though the party was trailing badly in the polls at the start of the year. Canadians embraced the tough-talking approach of Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former central banker, while shying away from the conservative candidate, Pierre Poilievre, who was viewed as being too similar to Trump.

A similar dynamic has played out in Australia. Albanese was down in the polls at the start of the year, though by a narrower margin than Canada’s Liberals. As the election grew closer, the polls flipped and showed Albanese ahead. Much of the campaign centered on how best to address the high cost of living, inflation and affordable housing. But Albanese and his main conservative opponent, Peter Dutton, also sparred frequently over who could best negotiate with Trump.

Dutton, a former police officer and defense minister, seesawed between embracing policies with a Trump-like flair and distancing himself from Trump-style rhetoric. He backtracked or clarified proposals to end working from home and slash the government workforce, two initiatives that have been supported by Trump in the U.S.

Later in the campaign, he leaned into culture-war issues, and said he opposed indigenous land acknowledgments at annual ceremonies meant to honor Australia’s war dead. He also unveiled plans to further boost Australia’s military spending, aligning himself with Trump’s demand that U.S. allies to spend more on their militaries.

But the strategy seemed to backfire in a country where Trump is very unpopular. Dutton lost his seat to the Labor candidate.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Pure leftist garbage, their conservatives lost for being weaksauce leftists.

 

[acptulsa]

Pure leftist garbage, their conservatives lost for being weaksauce leftists.

That's what Trump is, and he won.

 

[Swordsmyth]

That's what Trump is, and he won.

Bunk.
Trump is the farthest right POTUS in living memory.

 

[acptulsa]

Trump is the farthest right POTUS in living memory.

Millennial. The Overton Window has moved so far that Clinton was to the right of Trump.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Millennial. The Overton Window has moved so far that Clinton was to the right of Trump.

LOL

Absolute bunk.

 

[acptulsa]

LOL

Absolute bunk.

Keep laughing, Kamala, you brainless twat.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Keep laughing, Kamala, you brainless twat.

LOL

There you go thinking with a cash register again.

And blaming congressional deepstate spending on Trump while crediting Slick Willy with the Republican Congress's spending.

 

[acptulsa]

There you go thinking with a cash register again.

There you go making excuses for Trump deliberately bankrupting the nation again. Both the government, which is running out of credit, and the people, who have to use these greenback pennies.

 

[Swordsmyth]

There you go making excuses for Trump deliberately bankrupting the nation again. Both the government, which is running out of credit, and the people, who have to use these greenback pennies.

Ask the people in Waco how important they think the Republican Congress's spending levels were, or the Militia movement.
There are far more important things than money, but libertarians turn out to be mammon worshippers rather than liberty lovers.

 

[acptulsa]

Ask the people in Waco

Sanctimonious much? Why don't I ask the people of Ukraine and Gaza?

Fiscal policy is creating a massive transfer of wealth. This is what destroys the American Dream, and Trump isn't fighting it. He's pushing it right along, and stacking up the wealth in the process. Me not wanting the middle class destroyed isn't exactly a worship of mannon. You worshipping the pigs who are eating the middle class out of house and home does fit the description.

 

[CCTelander]

Sanctimonious much? Why don't I ask the people of Ukraine and Gaza?

Fiscal policy is creating a massive transfer of wealth. This is what destroys the American Dream, and Trump isn't fighting it. He's pushing it right along, and stacking up the wealth in the process. Me not wanting the middle class destroyed isn't exactly a worship of mannon. You worshipping the pigs who are eating the middle class out of house and home does fit the description.

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You know who uses that tired old “all you care about is money’ argument?

Communists.

Hmmm.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Sanctimonious much? Why don't I ask the people of Ukraine and Gaza?

Fiscal policy is creating a massive transfer of wealth. This is what destroys the American Dream, and Trump isn't fighting it. He's pushing it right along, and stacking up the wealth in the process. Me not wanting the middle class destroyed isn't exactly a worship of mannon. You worshipping the pigs who are eating the middle class out of house and home does fit the description.

Ukraine and Gaza brought this on themselves, and their primary source of destruction is not us, Trump is trying to bring an end to both.

And domestic policy simply matters more than foreign policy.

Fiscal policy is controlled by veto proof bipartisan margins in Congress and Trump does what he can to improve it, but it is simply less important than the outright tyranny and oppression of Clinton, Obama, and Biden represent.

 

[Swordsmyth]

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You know who uses that tired old “all you care about is money’ argument?

Communists.

Hmmm.

I have yet to see any evidence to the contrary, and arguments claiming Clinton was to the right of any Republican, let alone Trump, just make it clear.

Not to mention the same tired old MSM tactic of giving Demoncrats credit for the effects of Republicans in Congress.

 

[CCTelander]

I have yet to see any evidence to the contrary, and arguments claiming Clinton was to the right of any Republican, let alone Trump, just make it clear.

Not to mention the same tired old MSM tactic of giving Demoncrats credit for the effects of Republicans in Congress.

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The “effects of Republicans in Congress” from the Clinton years were the Brady Act and an “assault weapons” ban, among a myriad of other horrible, purely domestic, policies.

Yippee.

 

[acptulsa]

Ukraine and Gaza brought this on themselves...

Ukraine asked for the CIA coup of 2014? Palestine invited the Zionists in back in 1947?

You've lost it. Get help.

 

[Swordsmyth]

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The “effects of Republicans in Congress” from the Clinton years were the Brady Act and an “assault weapons” ban, among a myriad of other horrible, purely domestic, policies.

Yippee.

We're talking about the spending that you guys obsess over so much.

Congressional RINOs are hardly worth celebrating, but Clinton and the Demons were and are much worse.
Trump is far better than both.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Ukraine asked for the CIA coup of 2014? Palestine invited the Zionists in back in 1947?

You've lost it. Get help.

Ukraine embraced the coup, and began persecuting the Russian speakers who opposed it, those who opposed it are not who we are talking about because they are on Russia's side.

The Palestinians have been engaging in acts of terrorism on their side of the conflict long before 47, and they initiated the current war with an act of terrorism, the complicity of some elements in Israel doesn't change that.

You're the one who's lost.

 

[acptulsa]

We're talking about the spending that you guys obsess over so much.

No, shithead, we're talking about Australia. You know. The country that looked at us and said, why elect conservatives? They don't conserve anything, and they're even more sanctimonious than what we already have.

 

[Swordsmyth]

No, shithead, we're talking about Australia. You know. The country that looked at us and said, why elect conservatives? They don't conserve anything, and they're even more sanctimonious than what we already have.

Absolute bunk.

They looked at their own RINO like conservatives and didn't vote for them on their own merits, and then the establishment left undoubtedly stole the election like Biden in 2020, because nobody likes them either but somehow they gained ground against the fake right, the actual right, and the fringe left.