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Twice in a month. Canada and now Australia
I'm so happy for you guys
May 4, 2025 1:48 AM
ShutUpMeh
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Twice in a month. Canada and now Australia
I'm so happy for you guys
BurlRavenscroft
Don’t forget Mexico electing a woman president a few months before we fucked that up
MadamPuddifoot
@op other countries'*
DaisyfromDownunder
Wash your mouth out for calling The Labor party, liberal.
Beefkins
Zanthius2
As an Australian, I'd like to thank Trump for showing even the hardcore right what could happen.
Cowmayihelpu
Noraneko
Meanwhile, 25 % of voters prefer the far right extremist Afd party here in Germany. I'm terrified, as a person but also as a queer female neurodivergent immigrant.
circlebreaker
It may be that CANZUK is calling to you, with it's beans and toast, gigantic flightless birds, swamp donkeys & cobra chickens, kangaroos and kookaburras... I'm sorry, I forgot where I was going with that.
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
UK is dropping the ball for team canzuk somewhat, but we're still doing well overall
JaL3
*Countries'
ShutUpMeh
It's intentionally singular to reference that I've seen this occur for both Canada and Australia. It depicts a reaction I've had for two elections in two different countries. I understand the difference between pluralization and possession
DrakeAu
Technically the liberals lost Australia, as the Liberal National Party is the conservative party.
ShutUpMeh
RayneOfSalt
The Liberal and National parties are two separate parties in a coalition. They're both right-wing, though the Nats have more cookers than the Libs do.
CallMeBaconLord
Honestly, as long as Clive Palmer didnt win, I didn't care who did. Fat fuck wants to turn us into America 2.0
Hotkolbas
Are you forgetting that Dutton was spruking the same lines as trump and Elon.
CallMeBaconLord
Tbf Im in Victoria so I didnt register it, but Im glad he lost too.
Hotkolbas
Totally wasn't on the same page
PoliticalWanderer
Did Trump being Trump effect the outcome? He just became the first US president to lose a Canadian election, is it true for Australia too now?
Skywatcher16
yep.
Starbolt81
The election of Trump the first time around was enough to snap me out of my apathy and start giving a shit about who/what I was voting for here in Australia. I used to vote Liberal simply because I didn't give enough of a shit, and just looked to the way my parents voted for guidance when I first became eligible to vote. Then I saw Trump take office, and what a shitshow America became because of petty, selfish or simply ignorant voting habits.
Lurch1911
It’s kinda like watching your neighbor deep fry a frozen chicken in his garage… you were thinking about doing the same thing, but once you saw his house go up in flames you realized you’d rather have prime rib out of the oven.
tinytyrant
not quite on Canada election levels but for sure Tr*mp had an impact. the global instability of Trump's economy called for local stability.
Anfalicious
It absolutely had an effect; the trade war made people look for stability, and the actual conservative apparatus is so high on smelling their own farts thinking they are in America they didn't realise we're not buying the culture war distraction from the actual issues facing the country
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
In Canada, it absolutely did.
jiankui
Yes, Dutton was referred to as Temu Trump. Australia was staring down the barrel of what is now happening in America, and rejected that path loudly and clearly.
bloxxing
i'd say trump was def a contributing factor though for me this election was lost by the actions of our rethug-channeling LNP when they were last in power - robodebt.
AsIWasSaying
The local Christofascist conservatives said they weren't all about Trump, as they promised to set up a DOGE, clear out all illegal immigrants, (Scandi, US and Irish overstayers), stop renewables, extend coal mining and gas fracking, and build nuclear power stations on the public purse. In return they'd knock 25¢ off the price of petrol for a year. We just shook our heads, these people got no idea. Their major mistake was "You don't like right wing, OK we'll swing harder right" which was wrong.
manojar
I thought western countries wanted more immigrants from Europe... why do they want to clear our scandinavian, us, and irish people even if they are illegal?
AsIWasSaying
They took urr jerbs. They're mainly backpackers who overstay their visas, and work hospo jobs, kitchenhand, bar staff, etc for cash in hand and pay no tax. There's 30-50 000 in the country at any one time and nobody cares, until the R/wing make an issue of it. Don't worry, they're eager to stop all Asian and African (except the white ones) immigration, and (brown, and/or Muslim) refugees can just piss off somewhere else.
PosthumousExile
The white ones are getting detained too. Unfortunately it's a good thing because it'll cause outrage among the racists. And maybe they'll be on the right side of things for once in their worthless lives
petrovpoo
And the most hilarious thing? Sky News (Australia’s Fox News, also owned by Rupert), are saying the reason Dutton lost, is because they still didn’t go hard enough with their far right leanings. Fucking morons.
AsIWasSaying
Cash and Price whinging this AM, it's all Labor's fault, they told lies about such a fine upstanding man. No, we saw him for what he was. Temu Trump indeed. Pity those two screeching harpies didn't lose their jobs too.
Domoftheloft
It was certainly part of it. One senator made the mistake of saying “Make Australia Great Again” and got thoroughly roasted. We also had a billionaire funded party called “Trumpet of Patriots” (yes really) with basically Trump policies that won zero seats despite spending multi-millions in advertising. Most Aussies despise Trump and rejected anything that smelled like him.
TBandito
To add to this. He spent $50million on ads alone. And didn't get one person elected.
This makes me so happy.
frizy1
Unfortunately, 50mil is a drop in the ocean for clive
NKato
A proposal, then. Any billionaire that has assets in Australia and steps foot on Australian soil gets arrested, and evaluated for certain psychopathic traits that could get them committed permanently to a mental institution.
Excess wealth and a desire to hoard even more wealth is a mental health problem.
petrovpoo
Trump most certainly did affect the outcome, Herr Kartoffelkopf, aka the Leader of the LNP (Liberals/Nationals coalition) Peter Dutton, tried using the Trump playbook during his campaign, labelling our public broadcasting media, (ABC/SBS) hate media.
The problem Dutton failed to realise, is that Australia has far fewer dumb fucks than the US. I was quietly confident he would lose, the moment he used the words “gravitas” and “Trump” in the same sentence.
Thank fuck he did.
NKato
Now I wanna move to Australia (was examining Canada, too). No guns, big car culture, and lots of road. Downside, not enough housing. I don't think I could find an employer in Australia as a machinist.
If I had to choose between Europe, Australia, and Canada, Australia would be second from the top of the list, with Europe above it and Canada below it.
Dinwiddie
Not many machinist jobs in Oz these days. Most clothes are made in Asia. May still be a few jobs for 'fitter and turners' :) Not as many as there were in the '70's though. These days I believe you need a lot of dosh, and an employment guarantee to gain a resident visa... Unlike the '70's when migrants had their passage paid for, and if you came by ship all your stuff was transported to whatever part of Oz you settled in.... Where the surf was good. The water warm & life was... Grouse mate !
Malsbury
Yes and no. There's not a huge amount of machinist jobs but also less people qualified to do the job if they're available. Was in the news the other day about a lack of die makers.
NKato
Die Makers are a very advanced position of machinist. It's not something just anyone can do.
Malsbury
I dunno man. I just looked up 'machinist ' on Seek.com.au and there's heaps of machinist jobs. There's an ad to work on your Virginia class subs. Heaps of mining jobs. Wherever you want to live there would be work.
MrPappagiorgioFromYuma
US here: but I have heard a LOT on NPR taking about how it’s likely that the two winners NOT being on the Trump bandwagon helped them succeed. (Not saying they wouldn’t have otherwise).
doobiedoobop
Much less true for Australia than Canada, but still a factor.
bril350
For sure, Canada was headed for conservative takeover until Trump took power and started calling them the 51st state. Polivierre being trumpian sunk his campaign because people realized the risk of allowing facists into power (again!)
Drenathar
I mean, the polling shows a truly drastic shift in Canadian public opinion starting when Trump took office and began shitting all over Canada.
cuddleskunk
All they needed was a common enemy...
ximzadix
yep, seems like it -
Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose rightwing leader, Peter Dutton, failed to brush off comparisons with Donald Trump and ended up losing his own seat.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/03/australia-election-anthony-albanese-labor-party-peter-dutton
Sh1tMovieGroup
Not just comparisons with Trump, he outright stated he'd do Trumpesque polices when Trump was elected, then quickly tried to walk it back when it turned out Trump wasn't doing so well with said policies
ximzadix
yep
Dinwiddie
So not sorry he lost his seat, a la Toned Abs, as well. Dutton's whole election focus was to realise his long held dream of becoming PM. By hook or by crook. His desperation for the golden ring drove him to becoming a waffling no-where-man that could not hide from what he has always been. A dinosaur. Neo-police state reactionary conservative with no constructive ideas of his own. In other words, an appropriate 'leader' for today's LNP.
SansAandAnguS
Agree totally, and extremely well put!
notchoosingone
Add him to the trash heap of LNP leaders who felt entitled to a stint in Kirribilli. Him, Frydenberg, Tudge, Angus Taylor. Scotty from Marketing did such an incredible job of poisoning the well for them, hopefully they never recover.
And of course the right wing talking heads are already blaming "we didn't go hard right enough" for the loss. Andrew Bolt flat out said "the voters got it wrong".
Sh1tMovieGroup
Absolutely, got what he deserved. Really shits me that people can get to this position and instead of going, you know what, I'm going to do it differently, support the party in power where it makes sense and they're doing well, call them out where they're not, you know, look good to public, rather than just carrying on with the curlish, captain hindsight of how we'd have done things so much better, bollocks mate, you flip flop on everything and have no backbone or care for the people.