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@buddpete.bsky.social

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Retired, progressive Aussie diplomat. I share my home with a Rottweiler and too many record players. I yearn for a return to respectful and empathetic political discourse. I appreciate the value of science and talking shit with smart, passionate people.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 6h

And don’t get me started on drop bears.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t even compute ‘less rich’. Once you’re rich, you’re rich.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 7h

Time to invite the Fat Orange to visit Australia? Thoughts and prayers to Norway.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 1d

…and also a self-loathing closet homosexual.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 10d

I’m so sorry, but I cringed for the USA when listening to the Hegseth and Trump performance to the US Defence leadership.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 10d

I am cringing for the USA as I watch the performance of its Commander-in-Chief.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 10d

I’m still mourning the demise of Banana Splits.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 14d

Live long enough to be a problem for your children.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 15d

The Brits don’t mince words.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17d

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22d

Australia and USA are becoming culturally disconnected under Trump
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With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule

Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Sep 7

It may he time for the little angry orange to switch to decaf.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just saying.

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Australia is having the last laugh on Trump’s trade beef

Nothing highlights the US president’s trade delusions better than his victory over Australia’s beef ban. Record exports are now flowing in the opposite direction to what he intended.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Sep 5

Give the people sugar water.

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hoo boy.

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Hegseth’s undiplomatic treatment of Marles reveals a chaotic, ungenerous ally

The flap is significant only because it symbolises a deeper truth: the United States may be our ally, but it is an increasingly unreliable and capricious one.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Aug 10

So, if they are not into Jesus preachings (presumably including the Father and Holy Ghost), what precisely are they for?

Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · Aug 7

Trump just trying to apply his father’s NY real estate bullying behaviour against international community.

But we can move our business elsewhere within our much larger non-USA community. Yes, we must do things better, but Trump’s presumption of USA global monopoly is killing the USA.

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