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9. Malcolm Turnbull must have been spitting chips

Reply to Matilda (Original post)

Sat May 20, 2017, 12:32 AM

May 2017

when he visited the Trumpster only to find out that he would have to wait another 3 hours and then have his "one on one" reduced to half an hour. The excuse being that Trump needed to stay back in DC to celebrate the passing of the bill through the house to take healthcare away from approx. 24million people. The really sad thing was seeing Turnbull congratulating him for doing it.

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'The most ill-informed, under-prepared, and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history' [View all] Matilda Apr 2017 OP

Someone that thinks a dictatorship should be accepted as their rule maker is an idiot. n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2017 #1

That's pretty fucking rich. Current Chinese Sculpin Beauregard Apr 2017 #2

We can vote out the Trump administration, and China will still be a dictatorship. nt PoliticAverse Apr 2017 #3

I fucking hope you can vote out Trump. Sculpin Beauregard Apr 2017 #4

But to a foreign country (Australia), the form of the govt of another country isn't relevant. Honeycombe8 Apr 2017 #6

Well, I looked up China's govt in Wikipedia...it doesn't seem to be a dictatorship. Honeycombe8 Apr 2017 #7

This is also a dig at the unquestioning subservience of Australian conservatives to the U.S. Matilda Apr 2017 #5

chuck him out peakhillfm May 2017 #8

Malcolm Turnbull must have been spitting chips pink May 2017 #9

Trump is ignorant. Matilda May 2017 #10