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Gina Rinehart urges Liberals to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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You do that, Gina. Make them even more unelectable.
Let's not confuse wealth with merit. She gets a vote like everyone else.
Her comments aren't based on research or analysis, she just vibes with trumpism.
Her interests do not align with those of Australians, why would her political views have any credibility.
We don't, but she certainly does, hey.
The Greens and Labour also hope the Right-Wing Parties also continue following Gina’s instructions. It will make it so much easier to acquire more seats in the next election.
No, this is bad for The Greens if their ambition is to win lower house seats. It's Teal independents (AKA moderate Liberals) who will find it easier, The Greens are too far to the left to benefit from an increase in first preferences or preference flow. It's also not a great thing for the health of the country to have more extremists on the right. How quickly we all forget the hatred and violence the opposition was able to generate during the Voice referendum or on the issue of Gaza.
To an audience that included three former prime ministers – John Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison – along with Dutton and the defence minister, Richard Marles, Rinehart said Australia needed to lift its defence spending to at least 5% of GDP and invest in an Israeli-style Iron Dome defence system.
Oh good, this will intercept all those missile attacks Australia has been constantly bombarded with. Finally, some common sense ideas!
I'm completely fine with increasing defence spending, let's introduce a wealth tax and close all those tax loopholes to pay for it. And then all the leftover money can go towards societal improvements.
The Iron Dome wouldn't even defend against the kind of missiles Australia could be bombarded with. We'd need US Patriots.
We've already got too many US patriots.
... and everyone sang, "no way, get fucked, fuck off Gina."
I think what the media and Gina get confused with Trump is that sure he's right wing, but he portrays himself as an outsider and anti establishment. He says "the system is rigged", and calls out the hypocrisy of career politicians who take the status quo for granted. That really gets traction with disenfranchised people.
I would say though that Trump is the exception to the norm. Candidates typically don't win through campaigning for austerity, and they don't win through surrounding themselves with smooth brained billionaires. Trump won, but at the same time, the Democrats lost badly. I don't see Albo making that mistake.
She also doesn't understand that Australia is far less conservative than America, and that over a third of estimated eligible Americans don't vote.
I don't know about less conservative (I actually don't know) but even the concepts of "conservative" and "right-wing" are different in the US. We don't have much of that ingrained proudly-capitalist red scare rhetoric that's normal in the US, comments like "free healthcare is socialist" would make most politically-aware Australians laugh, and make unaware Australians consider looking into socialism. We nationally don't have a good opinion of the US, as far as I've seen, despite them being cultural and geopolitical allies to our government. We're less prone to dynasties (Bush family, Clinton family) and electing actors (Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Trump), we have some expectation of professionalism.
We're also less religious. Women have a greater chance of becoming president than open atheists.
I heard someone say about Trump is that he has the wrong answer to the right questions, which is probably the kindest thing I could say about him
Trump lost the popular vote. Three times in a row. More people voted for Kamala or a third party than voted for trump in the last election. The majority agreed they did not want trump, they just didn't agree on who they wanted instead so he won the consolation award presidency. Further, Trump beat Democrats by one of the narrowest margins in history. So I'm just not seeing how they were beaten badly.
Well using logic, only 34% percent of Australians voted Labor. The vast majority of Australian's didnt want Albo as PM ether.
The logic checks out.. Thanks for the double check.
Edit: I was using percentage of voters. Just making sure you're using percentage of voters and not percentage of population
Well using that logic, Australians don't want a PM. And I respect that.
i dont think gina is trumps type.
All the money in the world can't buy an once of self reflection. I genuinely hope the worst for her.
Wow. Her writing is as horrendous as everything else about her..
I vaguely remember some terrible, terrible poetry.
Captain should go down with the ship, I say!