Americans Put Donald Trump Back In Power
In a perfect world I doubt whether most Australians would choose the United States of America as an ally. We are in this position thanks to the vagaries of history and an adherence to a pragmatic reality. America is a military superpower currently led by an unhinged vainglorious fool. The real problem being that a majority of voting age Americans put Donald Trump back in power, after a hiatus with an octogenarian alternative. It is timely to remember the botched job Trump did leading his nation through Covid, where nie on a million Americans died from the virus. The Republican majority in the US senate is currently blaming Anthony Fauci MD for this pandemic in a belated hearing designed for this very purpose. Talk about whipping a dead horse.
Why Did 76 Million Americans Vote For Trump?
Of course, in truth the buck stops with the leader of the nation – President Trump. Strangely, Trump very often heaps praise upon himself and takes credit for things he did not in fact do, but never admits failure or defeat of any kind. Is this the archetypal American psyche? Is this why 76 million Americans voted for Donald Trump despite him being a convicted felon, sex offender and compulsive liar? Americans are used to being lied to. It is probably why in the so-called ‘land of the free’ they feel the need to be armed with so many guns.
I mean, what are you going to do with your gun? Shoot someone or a whole bunch of someone’s? This will be met with a far greater force and they will shoot you dead. Welcome to America.
The American Influence Upon Australia
Returning to Australia and its troublesome ally. Many Australians are largely unaware of the ever present American influence upon their lives. When something is everywhere, you cannot see the forest for the trees. The majority of our capital cities’ newspapers are owned by an American corporation, News Corp. Rupert Murdoch is an American citizen and the founder of Fox News. Sky News Australia is a local copy of that far right biased media platform pretending to cover the news. The Murdoch news model left the pretence of objectivity behind decades ago. Opinion rather than balanced editorial has been the driving force powering News Corp platforms for years. The tabloid newspapers are all Murdoch owned downunder. Right wing pro-American and Israel bias is the News Corp party line.
News Corp sets the agenda for the media in Australia, as it is the most outspoken and virulent among a generally Right leaning bunch. Seven West Media and Nine Fairfax follow suit, as does the disappointingly gutless ABC.
American Celebrity Culture & Communications
In the much more influential entertainment sector America rules the airwaves via Hollywood, social media and celebrity culture more generally. The US has always been bigger, richer and brasher. America invented Public Relations, which more lately is called Communications. In other places it is referred to as propaganda. Edward Bernays was responsible for starting wars in Central America and encouraging women to smoke all in the name of manipulating public opinion for profit. Right wing America spruiks the libertarian ideal that everything is for sale and that there is some weird purity in that fact. The consequence of this is the extreme divide between rich and poor in that country. Billionaires and oligarchs dominate the political system and the culture. Plus, justice is only available for those that can pay for it. Australia through its business sector and its dominant right wing political parties, the LNP, have Americanised Australia. Most of our CEOs have MBAs from US institutions. That we live in an economy dominated by duopolies and oligopolies is no accident of fate – we copy what happens in the US. Our university sector has been corporatised by stealth, with many of our Vice Chancellors earning massive 6 figure salaries. Even those running third rate universities downunder earn more than their equivalents at Oxford or Cambridge in the UK. Former PM Tony Abbott attempted to privatise our universities, as in the US. Although this failed, the LNP federal government achieved by stealth the corporatisation of the sector to cash in on the lucrative overseas student market.
Universities are run by bean counters and spend billions on consultancy reviews each year.
“Australia's universities are paying external consultants and contractors an estimated $1.8 billion a year without disclosing which firms they are hiring and what the money is being spent on.”
- (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-30/university-consultants-fees-uts-kpmg-four-corners/106499192)
Australia Being Dudded By US Companies
The Australian economy does its best to become like the American economy. Multinational companies avoid paying their fair share of tax via profit shifting to tax havens elsewhere. Companies like Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook) have stripped billions of dollars of revenue from our advertising sector and minimise their corporate tax liability by this accountancy trick of transferring profits via IP charges to associated firms in Ireland and other places like the Virgin Islands. This is the American way and is practiced by companies like Uber, Pepsi, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, News Corp and the rest of them operating in Australia. We are missing out on tens of billions every year because of this. The gas extraction companies do this, also, Shell, Santos and the others reduce their profits in Australia to pay substantially less corporate tax. This puts a greater onus on ordinary Australians’ personal income tax and higher taxes on things like alcohol, tobacco and gambling to provide the necessary revenue to fund services.
Aping American Style At The Bottom
We see a proliferation of American style pickup trucks or giant Utes on our roads. These symbols of masculinity, the muscle cars of their generation pretend to be working vehicles but plenty are merely recreational. Work vehicles get a tax discount and this is why we have seen this masquerade of the recreational disguised as work vehicle. The makers of Jim Bean boast that one of their American bourbon products is sold every 10 seconds in Australia. Tradies downunder embrace redneck culture in their search for an identity. The manosphere is driven by Americans and their desire for unfettered freedoms, whether they fuck over women for fun or merely ape the Tate brothers as hero worship.
The recent rise in the polls of One Nation, a fringe political party controlled by the right wing billionaire Gina Rinehart, is a further example of the working class being sucked in by the politics of grievance. Australia is always a decade or so behind the US and this could be the Aussie version of MAGA. Americans put Donald Trump back in power.
Blaming shit on immigrants and refugees is a popularised far right campaign strategy globally. Elon Musk is a technocracy Nazi. What this does is galvanise the discontent felt by populations and it deflects the blame from the billionaire Epstein class, who have actually financially screwed us. Not too smart white working class voters just want someone to demonise and lash out at, as they are too gutless to take on the big end of town. Punching down is a favourite Aussie sport. The culture wars have replaced economic management, as the leading campaign strategy for those on the Right. Why? Because they are backed by the oligarchs who are exploiting our economies for their own blatant gain. Trump is all about tax breaks for the billionaires and slashing social services for the poor. Americans put Donald Trump back in power. Pauline Hanson the leader of One Nation is a big fan of Donald Trump and his policies. ICE in America have murdered Americans and created concentration camps to detain thousands of illegal immigrants. It is important to remember that legally overstaying your visa is a misdemeanour. People are being shot dead at traffic stops by ICE agents for such misdemeanours. American citizens have been murdered by ICE. Is this the ally Australia wants? Do we believe in the rule of law? The Trump regime does not. Support for One Nation and its white supremacy motivated policies will take Australia down this racially slippery slope. If you empower extremists you end up with murderous consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkwXWC_Ql8
Big Wheels, Shiny Grill & Manosphere Fantasies
“Have you seen those ads for big Utes on the telly? You know the ones where these pretty massive vehicles are encountering rugged terrain? Complete with mega sized grills, tyres and tough looking blokes at the wheel. Talk about pumping up the tyres of would-be-buyers. Pissing in the pockets of wannabe big men. Living a lie in the manosphere. Soundtrack thumping in the background and plenty of filmed stunts. I wonder if some guys are masturbating to this stuff on screen. I think back to the days of the real hard men of yesteryear, they wouldn’t be glorifying their lives like this, cause they lived them and they didn’t need to. This fantasy adventure crap is akin to dangerous wild beasts locked up in zoo cages. The closest any of these guys are gonna get to anything real.”
https://www.housetherapy.com.au/living-a-lie-in-the-manosphere/)
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer; The AI Heresy; What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
