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Swede

(40,516 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 09:57 AM Wednesday

An Australian's reply to Trump's rant about "NATO not being there for America" is perfect.

Posted on Facebook -

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

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An Australian's reply to Trump's rant about "NATO not being there for America" is perfect. (Original Post) Swede Wednesday OP
Send this everywhere malaise Wednesday #1
YES! And this too: Justice matters. Wednesday #35
Thanks malaise Wednesday #36
Perfect. sinkingfeeling Wednesday #2
Oi, Oi, Oi! surfered Wednesday #3
Spread this far and wide dalton99a Wednesday #4
BRA EFFING VO Faux pas Wednesday #5
Well said! SheltieLover Wednesday #6
This guy nailed it! BComplex Wednesday #7
This is a righteous rant ... and well-deserved FakeNoose Wednesday #8
Nailed it, indeed!!! returnee Wednesday #9
Oh heck yes. Mr. Mustard 2023 Wednesday #10
Kick, a thousand times democrank Wednesday #11
But we just produced the world's first trillionaire...and the DOW is over 50,000! Ol Janx Spirit Wednesday #12
Just an fyi NJCher Yesterday #39
Righteous!!! Joinfortmill Wednesday #13
I'm really depressed after having read that, ashamed of what our country has become, but, sadly, It's all true. sop Wednesday #14
Agreed. N/T progressoid Wednesday #16
A very good analysis ... ananda Wednesday #15
It's sad to say, but this guy is absolutely correct. patphil Wednesday #17
In the eyes of so-called pro-life MAGAts, Dr. T Wednesday #21
MANY THANKS, AUSSIES. MLWR Wednesday #18
KNR and bookmarking for future use! niyad Wednesday #19
Matie, this nails it. Nt duhneece Wednesday #20
Well Said Sane1 Wednesday #22
If maga/pubs relogic Wednesday #23
"...you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman." mwmisses4289 Wednesday #24
Stunning summary....and all true, at least. the basics. BobTheSubgenius Wednesday #25
USA USA USA Whip-poor-will Wednesday #26
Horribly true. Martin Eden Wednesday #27
Eloquent and deserved response. mdbl Wednesday #28
PREACH IT AUSSIE Skittles Wednesday #29
THIS! THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIMES THIS! OMGWTF Wednesday #30
I'd like to see Jeff Daniels do this! Change 'you' to 'we', 'your' to 'our' Abolishinist Wednesday #31
The Aussie's got a point. Several points, actually. Indisputable points. wnylib Wednesday #32
queen dontuinette jessica twump runs the shithole country w/ the skinflint gee o pee party. pansypoo53219 Wednesday #33
Perfectly Brilliant! Cha Wednesday #34
Ouch MustLoveBeagles Wednesday #37
True that markie Wednesday #38
Bassaaaaaaaaaazing!!! oasis Yesterday #40
Anyone remember when Minnesota weirdo Michelle Bachman was spouting out how "exceptional" America was during GWB's ..... wolfie001 Yesterday #41
Says it all. mountain grammy Yesterday #42

Justice matters.

(10,233 posts)
35. YES! And this too:
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 09:42 PM
Wednesday

The only country where born-rich entitled lifelong grifter can make tens of millions while declaring bankruptcy, leaving all the working class that have to pay income taxes in the red!!



It's not MAGA but MABA (Make America Bankrupt Already to enrich the pedo's mob and himself at the expense of everybody else.)!! And the stoopid magats don't care: The felon is their hero!!



FakeNoose

(43,027 posts)
8. This is a righteous rant ... and well-deserved
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 10:41 AM
Wednesday

I hope the Aussies understand that Chump doesn't represent all of us. He doesn't even represent the majority of us. When Chump is finally gone and the idiot MAGAs are defeated, we will quickly make amends with our friends in NATO and the rest of the "Free World" including Australia.

I'm no longer on Facebook, or I would post a friendly answer to this guy.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,136 posts)
12. But we just produced the world's first trillionaire...and the DOW is over 50,000!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 10:59 AM
Wednesday

BUT THE DOW!!!!!

sop

(19,875 posts)
14. I'm really depressed after having read that, ashamed of what our country has become, but, sadly, It's all true.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:31 AM
Wednesday

Very well said, mate!

patphil

(9,339 posts)
17. It's sad to say, but this guy is absolutely correct.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:40 AM
Wednesday

But let's not forget the destruction of USAID, which has killed over 800,000 people in Africa. That's the largest mass murder event of this century.
The saddest part of all this is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk will never pay the price for it.

Dr. T

(816 posts)
21. In the eyes of so-called pro-life MAGAts,
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:06 PM
Wednesday

those 800,000 deaths were people who were already born so the average upstanding self-righteous MAGAt soldiers don't care.

relogic

(388 posts)
23. If maga/pubs
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:10 PM
Wednesday

had any integrity when you handed this for them to read might they acknowledge the truth and reality expounded therein? No. The majority would attack the piece as false, dismissing the obvious facts as “liberal lies”. Showing these fools that America is and never has been the ultimate moral guide for nations that do it better demonstrates we’ve failed.

The wise (nations) admit their failures and humbling correct against repetition.

mwmisses4289

(5,158 posts)
24. "...you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman."
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:27 PM
Wednesday

The Aussies and the Scots certainly have a way with words, don't they?

pansypoo53219

(23,264 posts)
33. queen dontuinette jessica twump runs the shithole country w/ the skinflint gee o pee party.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 08:55 PM
Wednesday

Cha

(321,547 posts)
34. Perfectly Brilliant!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 08:58 PM
Wednesday
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Mahalo, Swede! ☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

wolfie001

(8,193 posts)
41. Anyone remember when Minnesota weirdo Michelle Bachman was spouting out how "exceptional" America was during GWB's .....
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 07:45 AM
Yesterday

.... maladministration? RePUKES only make things worse to help the well-off. tRUMP is just more open and verbalizes his racism and homophobia that's always been there. Great post from Down Under!

mountain grammy

(29,409 posts)
42. Says it all.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 08:50 AM
Yesterday

We’re a stinking mess. How did this happen? All of America is the reflecting pool.

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