America, you are in so much trouble. I care only so much, and have been trying, rather unsuccessfully, to not care. However, it appears your President (both of

America, you are in so much trouble. I care only so much, and have been trying, rather unsuccessfully, to not care. However, it appears your President (both of them, the elected one, and the billionaire non-elected one) wants to directly interfere with our health care system and our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. We in Australia have a small population compared to yours. We have a fantastic (albeit imperfect) public health care system which we have, as a country, enthusiastically and democratically embraced. Please, if you as a country do desire, by all means fuck up your own countrymen with a draconian private health care system which causes medical bankruptcy, but leave us the fuck alone. We aren’t causing you any harm and we aren’t interfering with your democracy. We have enthusiastically helped you fight your wars and signed all sorts of friendly agreements. We aren’t net drug smugglers to the U.S. By and large, we are as a nation watching America destroy itself and we want nothing to do with it. We aren’t even going to retaliate with corresponding tariffs. Americans question our sometimes spotty privacy legislation. Quite right. But given your Executive Branch doesn’t believe in the rule of law anymore, you can’t even credibly criticise our more lax separation of powers (we are a Common Law country) as all of that has now gone out the window. Good luck, America! You are going to need it.