Scott Abbot

When Trump hands you his scorecard

It's possible Trump thinks the titles in sitcoms also exist in the real world like Too Many Cooks.

Hospitals in Australia: “Free Healthcare is a human right and you shan’t pay a penny! Also we’ve outsourced our parking to a multinational conglomerate who charge $58 a hour”

Calling Trump a fascist assumes a level of coherence, understanding and self-awareness that just isn’t there. Trump is a fascist in the same way that a bear riding a bicycle is a cyclist.

At Planet America we're sorry we took the last 2 weeks off. So as a public service, here's a quick catch-up of what we missed covering. (thanks to @ScottAbbot ) Oh, and there's a 50min special tonight at 9pm.

AI is getting crazy good.

it was on the door the whole time

We’ve all heard of the “October surprise”, this is the closely-related “June confirmation of what has been extremely obvious for ages”

It's easy to forget how much the world has changed in a decade, but imagine trying to explain to yourself 10 years ago the sentence "Former and future US President Donald J. Trump is selling NFTs of his own indictment mugshots" collecttrumpcards.com

Everyone talks about 5G conspiracies but the real conspiracy is in-flight WiFi. There is no such thing as in-flight Wifi and never was. The real entertainment is you spending the whole flight trying to connect.

There needs to be a way to tell twitters ad algorithm that you aren’t aggressively in the market for a new tractor, you just have a 3 year old

“You can’t elect me! I quit!”

Incredible irony that Elon is trashing Twitter so quickly that it’s only possibly to keep up with the destruction on Twitter.

@davebloustien @TheJonBrooks @markhumphries @ARationalFear @Colvinius @LewisHobba @danilic @vmilsom @HotDubTM @clivepugh Some say he's still chasing Kony to this day.

@TheJonBrooks @markhumphries @ARationalFear @Colvinius @LewisHobba @danilic @vmilsom @ScottAbbot @HotDubTM @clivepugh Yeah, but he’s still going strong.

10th anniversary of @ARationalFear at the Sydney Opera House tonight. Here's a photo from 2012 with the great @colvinius.

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"Now, do a wave for the history textbooks!"

So Trump said something stupid, waited until all his supporters had tried explain it and then swooped in and said he was being sarcastic - rendering all their public explanations embarrassingly false. I finally believe in 4D chess.

@mrmsutton Machiavellian

Other that Orwellian, Dickensian and maybe Lovecraftian, are there any other authors names that are adjectives in wide use? (With a meaning beyond just, “this style of writing is reminiscent of this other author”)

Randwick Council has spent all winter widening the footpath to the beach on Coogee Bay Road (see the original roof line). Now @Telstra has come along and installed one of their giant new phone booths that blocks all of the new space. So... what was the point?