A bargain just in time for the Inauguration! Use it based on your political inclination. Use it as a talking point with visitors or to break the ice at home or start an argument. Use it as a mic or add it to your Beavis and Butthead collection. It's all up to you! 👍
Stop trying to turn this country into Murica
Spoken like someone who hasn’t lived in America.
Pm me for I’ll show you my two passports… how many do you have? Lived in AZ half of my life. How about you?
@mustang87401: I’ve lived in the US, and if you’re on a decent salary with healthcare provided by your employer then yes, it can be good. You’re screwed if you don’t have a decent salary, and destitute if you have a medical episode and no health insurance (and even then your coverage might not be enough to save you financially).
The lack of safety nets for those less fortunate or those who fall on hard times does not sit well with me, and disparity between the haves and have nots only grows bigger (also happening here at a slower rate). The cost of living benefits seem to have evaporated in the US, it’s nowhere near as cheap to live as 10-15 years ago.
Australia is not perfect, no country is, but it’s damn better than most.
@Randolph Duke: I know lots of Americans. Their healthcare is absolutely f*d.
Even with good cover, excess can be in the thousands of dollars. Compared to our cap of $750 here for private health.
And if you don't like that, we have public hospitals.
I dunno what mustang was smoking while in Arizona lol.
@Rick Sanchez: You clearly don't know any Americans then.
The US has a public and private healthcare system just like we do. The system is the same, however what's different is that American's aren't willing to wait years on waiting lists for basic hospital treatments in the public system like we are, so they walk into private hospitals and demand the treatments/procedures, then cry poor about not being able to afford the bills for it after the fact. Australian's simply just wait years until they can get it done in the public system, instead.
As a US citizen, free healthcare is everywhere, it's simply just nowhere near as good as the healthcare offered in the private system. It's the exact same here in Australia in that regard.
Their healthcare system is vastly bigger than ours, too. They have a lot more "in-between" options within the local/state/federal system. Like hospitals run by charities, religions and universities. If your willing to have surgeries and procedures done by teams of mixed experience registered professionals in those facilities, you can get $30K+ operations done for a few hundred dollars. You won't see stuff like that happen in Australia at all.
@mustang87401 I can’t work out what you’re saying. Your last sentence suggests all that goes before it is bollocks.
So I’ll say this anyone promoting American healthcare over Australian needs to have their Ozbargain membership revoked.
Another hater with no actual lived experience. Medicare is full of wait times, misdiagnosis, incompetent imported doctors from South Asia etc…
@mustang87401: I've lived and worked in both the US and here and I can say you're talking out your arse. What's your experience with working and living in the US.
In the US cost of living is generally higher and the healthcare system completely fails those that need it most.
@tjhogwash: As I said I am a dual citizen and half lived there half of my life working and studying even. Funny because you sound like someone who has never worked in america because you would know that salaries are double or more for most professional jobs so whatever you said about cost of living is totally missing the point. Taxes are less and salaries much much higher, especially in tech (which is what I do) but in all of corporate in general. AUD is monopoly money with very little value as you can see right now. Dropped like a rock in comparison to USD. Only reason I am back is due to my parent flailing health and children in school at an important period. Australia was great 20 or so years ago where salaries, medicare were good in comparison to the cost of living. Now it’s so bad and it’s only getting worse. This is a sentiment shared by at least a dozen of Aussies that I know that actually still live where I used to live in phoenix. Nobody is considering moving back if it’s not due to their parents/family. That’s nurses, accountants, tech people… make of it what you want but Australia isn’t as competitive as it used to be.
@mustang87401: Although I don’t live in the US myself, lot of my distant family/relatives do
Yes, you can criticise the Oz healthcare system for its ills but it’ll never come close to being as effed up as the American health care system. America is so fkd.
The kind of price gouging they practice would put our supermarkets to shame,
Btw people commit suicides in America just so they could evade their medical debts. I am talking about actual American citizens here.
I don’t think I have ever heard of anything like that happening in our country.
@mustang87401: Yeah I actually work for a US company right now, in tech as well. I lived in San Diego and LA for a number of years.
That said cost of living ain't all it's cracked up to be in the US even. Granted I'm probably more fortunate than most but in general wages aren't higher for the majority of citizens. We just had friends come back from a road trip across the south of the US and all they talked about was the sentiment in the US at the moment about the cost of living.
Don't get me started on gun control either. With 2 kids I can't even start to imagine the stress and worry I'd live with them going to school over there.
Australia ain't perfect or as good as it was 20 years ago but it's still miles in front of the US.
Don't get me started on gun control either. With 2 kids I can't even start to imagine the stress and worry I'd live with them going to school over there.
We didn't have any issue putting our kids in the equivalent of primary and high school school there. Outside of terrible inner-city schools in ghetto areas, The rest of the US education standards and system are miles better than us here in Australia.
Almost all violent crime and gun crime in the US occurs within specific places in 4 blue states and it's about 80% black on black/latino crime. The rest is mostly people just using guns to commit suicide. Outside of those numbers and places, violent crime or gun crime is basically the same in the US as most other countries. Gun crime in the US is nothing compared to what it is in South America and other places around the world. There's been more gun violence in Melbourne in the last two weeks than there's been in the last 5 years where I last worked and lived in the US.
Choose not to live in those places in the US and you wont have a problem. Choose to avoid woke schools in "gun free" areas/states and you won't have a problem. Trans offenders who keep shooting up schools only target the one's in those "gun free" places, that don't have armed security protecting the schools.
@tjhogwash: Yep, a lot of violent armed illegal immigrants and mentally ill people in certain places, unfortunately.
@tjhogwash: They have access to free healthcare like everyone in the public system over there, the problem is they choose not to stay compliant with their prescription medication.
@BargainHunter9876543: Woke schools
Trans offenders
Are they eating the pets of the people that live there also?
What colour is your cap? Is it red? It’s red isn't it.
With a cleaning brush?
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
It’s a slippery sponge
It's just for a laugh mate, if you don't like it leave
Must have been old stocks from last term.
Nah man the right ear looks a bit different
Is it made in China?
Make Albo Go Away!
Dude, this is Australia. Getting rid of the PM is pretty meaningless. It was pretty much the national pastime in the 2010s.
I'd drink to that!
What ?
Whoever wins the election ,
Whatever happens around the globe Winnie-the-Pooh makes money.
Hey ho, let's go! Great time to be alive!
Bro that hat is so 2019, if you had any clue about your supreme leader you'd know it's 'trump was always right' or similar rn.
Seriously, what do you expect to change? Especially for you as an Australia. .
He’s obviously trolling
I got done then
And for the hypebeast trump devotees, official trump victory sneakers for a bargain $499 USD
Such a shame here we are stuck with FREEBIE ALBANESE. Because after all he loves himself a good freebie.
Yes but i see no mention of the leader of the civilised and free world in this post?
It's called having a laugh mate, some of you guys are so stuck up, unaustralian
You really are not as smart as you think if you can't detect basic sarcasm
Read the maga comments on here. Unfortunately sarcasm died together with our collective IQs.
The world is not civilised, unfortunately.
Up until now it has never occurred to me that our dogs arses could require such frequent Trump spongeing. I may celebrate Bogans Day by giving the dunny bowl a deeper clean than usual.
He is still considering to make Canada the 51th state ?
Canada is currently in total decline on all fronts, they would be well served by joining the United States. Financially it would be extremely good for them as most of their exports are going there anyway.
Would be actually good to see the stats to prove this.
Use google lazy bugger. It’s full of articles of canadas economic turmoil. Why do you think Trudeau stepped down a week ago? Because it’s going so fantastic?
Use google lazy bugger.
Lol coffee meet kettle…
Except that you're making the claims. Now back them up, don't be a lazy bugger
Financially it would be extremely good for them
The problem with this statement is that if Canada joined the US, there would be no more 'them'.
It's ironic for someone who loves freedom and independence to threaten someone else's freedom and independence.
Threaten? No one threatened anyone
Trump made a very salient point about America being 36 trillion dollars in debt themselves and still for some reason choosing to subsidise Canada, if they want handouts they can come be a part of America.
How are you at all able to twist that?
Trump made a very salient point about America being 36 trillion dollars in debt and still for some reason choosing to subsidise Canada
Obviously you know that Trump expanded the US debt by about $8T (and Biden by another $4T or so). And this is Canada’s fault somehow? 🤨
I never said that Canada caused the American debt. How stereotypical of you to lie like you just did.
Trump made the point about America worrying about itself rather than being charitable elsewhere.
Majority of that debt he incurred, happened due to effin Covid,
But don’t let that inconvenient fact get in the way of your falsehoods.
@Gervais fanboy: So contrary to your first statement, Trump’s point was not really salient to anything since the US debt is unrelated to Canada and the notion of subsidies is entirely fictional. Got it. 😆
@Soave: It’s hard to be charitable when you yourself are broke af.
But ofcos someone like you can act all generous with someone else’s money.
@Soave: You know what, let’s do it
Obviously you know that Trump expanded the US debt by about $8Tm And this is Canada’s fault somehow? 🤨
Where and when did I say it was Canada’s fault???
You know what, let’s do it
No I think we just did it. I asked how Canada was at fault after you gushed over Trump’s ‘salient’ (😂) point about the size of the US debt and how America subsidises its northern neighbour. Is Canada to blame? No? Is it being subsidised? No. Is Trump full of shit? Obviously.
It”s like saying I subsidise Coles when I paid them for a rotisserie chicken yesterday.
Good chat.
@Soave: Me paying Coles and getting a rotisserie chicken in exchange is a transaction.
A broke arse country handing out free money to others is a transaction display of madness,
They are two very different things. Btw how even more stereotypical of you to double down on your lies. Though I am not surprised to see you do that,
And yes it is very salient for an American to be America first,
A broke arse country handing out free money to others is a transaction display of madness,
Sure but since that’s not happening, do you intend to make sense any time soon?
@Soave: If you want me to educate you on the basic economics underlying this whole issue, I would happily do so,
Just apologise for your previous lies and say please.
@Gervais fanboy: I’m a Gervais fanboy myself and I must say that you're at least as funny and perceptive as Ricky is. Like joking that you understand basic economics. Good one. 😂
Trump made a very salient point about America being 36 trillion dollars in debt themselves and still for some reason choosing to subsidise Canada
Does it matter? If so, why does it master NOW? This is how America has always been… Printing money when they need to spend, getting themselves more into debt. This is not Canada's fault, or anyone else's.
So why does this suddenly matter…
He's just trying to score political points convincing Muppets that Canada and others are taking advantage of America. It doesn't even make sense, is a customer taking advantage of you when they buy from you?
Does it matter?
It does to them
This is how America has always been
So….. that means that they shouldn’t change course….ever?
This is not Canada's fault, or anyone else's.
Who said that it was?
So why does this suddenly matter…
It’s always mattered.
He's just trying to score political points convincing Muppets that Canada and others are taking advantage of America
Well, they are
By your logic - one shouldn’t be enacting good policies coz that could mean that they could be scoring some political points?
So the solution is to only pursue bad policies?
It doesn't even make sense, is a customer taking advantage of you when they buy from you?
What? I don’t think you understand this issue at all.
AT ALL
What a ridicules comment totally twisting everything I wrote and injecting hyperboles and falsehoods trying to sound smart. The them was rhetorical as in the Canada that exists now. Canada would join not by force but by their own device obviously. Trump never said he will invade Canada.
Yes the USA is going great guns, in comparison.
USA economy is the best in the world right now. That’s a fact. How is AUD dropping like a rock in comparison to USD?
@mustang87401: You missed it completely. America. LA burnt to a cinder, shoot their own kids.Vets turning on their own. Their greatest leader built on hate,division,prejudice. The US economy thrives on absolute misery somewhere else.And lately, even at home.So they'll do extra well $$$ under Trump.
If that's where your principles lay,and they clearly do, you'll be joyous.I reckon you'd love the place.
Who cares about social cohesion,peace, a safe future for ALL people, respect of the law,democracy.That's all for sissies
@mustang87401: nope, the economy is shot. biden has been adding one trillion in debt every 90 days. the u.s. revenue brings in 3 trillion per year and biden's budgets are 5 trillion per year. just the i the interest on the debt is nearly 1 trillion every year. as much as the defense budget. the only thing they have to crow about is the over heated stock market, and the only reason the stock market is high, is because the fed is printing money for wall street. and where does that money go? yep, into the stock market to pump up the over valued zombie companies. now you have the top ten companies virtually manufacture nothing. apple makes chinese phones, meta is just a advertising company and so is google, amazon and walmart sell chinese junk. apart from a couple of banks there is only one oil company in those top ten companies. but the elephant in the room is the u.s. bond market, which is imploding, but the public are too stupid to realise that while the stock market is worth ten trillion dollars, the u.s. bond market (worth 30 trillion) dollars), makes the stock marked look like a tinker toy, and NO ONE IS BUYING U.S. BONDS. the japanese insurance companies dont want u.s.bons, the saudi's don't want u.s. bonds and the chinese aren't buying any either. so the Fed has had to resort to printing short term bonds and the u.s. TREASURY IS BUYING THEM BACK AGAIN. absolute unprecedented insanity. that is not an economy, that is a dumpster fire. the only thing the u.s. has going for it now, is that the USD is still the reserve currency, for now, if they can keep it that way because BRICKS is working on ending that in the future too.
It would be some country if he could get Greenland and 🇨🇦.
How can America afford to buy Greenland if it's broke?
Apparently>
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/16169277/redir
So when you hear Trump say their ecomony is fecked, cos Biden,it's all a lie, and give Trumpy Mustang boys mobile number
You guys just swallow up any ridiculous thing they say, and forget about all the promises they're moving away from before even starting.
He should. UK is the 52 and we're the 53rd.
Dr Nick:These memes came free with my toilet brush!
Already sold out 🤷🏻♂️
Only sold out online, still available in store
Why does this site attract so many leftys and their Orange Demon butthurt?
Sooo many hurt lefty's
Lots of easily manipulated uni students who love grandstanding in front of audiences to feel relevant.
Half the site are just mindless CCP bots, including half the uni student group.
Plus a lot of butthurt Twitter/X drones who threw a tantrum and deactivated their accounts. Some jumped to Bluesky but most of them just spread out and started infesting the rest of the internet like cockroaches.
You ok?
Member since: 26/04/2024
No other responses in this post except to mine, with nothing to say. Hmm. Sour Twitter cockroach category I take it? 😉
@jackspratt: Ironic coming from you, the one who gets upset about the popularity of a singer among young girls. This is the type of lonely, angry incel drivel that would be found amongst the mental health advice groups on reddit, but you chose to rant on a bargain website. Best get back to your bedroom window so you can identify some other things that young children enjoy for you to whinge about, no doubt with some deranged link to Trump and right wingers.
@HamesJoffman: But interesting how he introduced "young girls" and "young children" into the subject - something that wasn't even mentioned in my OP that he linked to.
And also confirming my suggestion above.
@jackspratt: It's not that interesting to anyone except the adult male posting mindless psychotic rants about pop singers mostly popular among children and teenage girls. What a strange thing to get worked up about, to the point of running to the internet to complain. A bargain website of all things too 😂
A bargain website of all things too
An interesting comment from someone who has 300+ comments, but is yet to post a bargain on this "bargain website".
Be careful in that glass house you live in.
@jackspratt: Lmao. I don't need to post any, I'm more content calling out the strange adult men that frequent it who get so enraged at things that teenage girls like, they need to post angry rants about their annoyance and linking them to weird political theories.
The same bargain website that they're so personally invested in for some weird reason that they treat it as some sort of exclusive club that requires people to post deals to acquire some sort of strange status in their head, which is totally irrelevant to everyone, yet they use it as some sort of attack weapon. LOL. What a life 😂
I think it's pretty obvious: lefties love a bargain whereas righties love a tax break for the rich. You won't find many righties admitting to shopping for bargains…
lol all that conjecture, based on what?
A lot of ‘feelings’ talk right there.
and righties love saying leftie and butthurt and orange
I'm a hard right-wing, conservative libertarian and I love me a good bargain - and an even better tax break.
Now don’t tell them that you too have got two legs and two feet like the rest of us or he’ll lose his freakin mind.
Time to get new friends…