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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

@buddpete.bsky.social
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Retired, progressive Aussie diplomat. I share my home with a Rottweiler and too many record players. I yearn for a return to respectful and empathetic political discourse. I appreciate the value of science and talking shit with smart, passionate people.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, having faked insanity to escape a prison sentence, did you not encourage a rebellion by patients at your psychiatric hospital against authorities? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack Nicholson.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jack jokes So after Wichita, far from the opera forevermore, did you not work the straw and make sweat drip from every pore? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack White.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thanks Belgium for saving FIFA and USA from themselves.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@southoftheborder.bsky.social Iran 300 billion. Trump a big fat zero. Winning.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Trump Furious Australia Won't Just Join America's War Like We Did When He Had Bone Spurs.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Very productive talks.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As if anyone wants to clean up Trump’s mess.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The OMG moment for the man formerly known as prince. Epstein fallout is happening everywhere, except in the USA where paedophiles roam free.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Rottweiler math. When you have four tennis balls, but one rolls under the furniture, you then have exactly zero tennis balls.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Oh wow. First listen. Where have you been hiding since 1973?
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi. Give her a cigar.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nothing to see in Epstein files.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Release the rest of the Epstein files.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Seriously. The republican party is broken.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seriously!
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Blessed are the peacemakers.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Tuck off Frump.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trump still winning. And I’m not drinking Kentucky bourbon anymore either!
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Looks like I won’t be visiting the USA anytime soon with my social media profile. But I hear Canada’s nice.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I see Gov Newsom’s released some MAGA knee pads. Here’s an old Aussie classic that aligns nicely. youtube.com/watch?v=XElR...
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I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am
YouTube video by Regurgitator - Topic
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Not all Australian animals will kill you. Some are really useful around the home.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Just saying.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
They don’t call it cringe Thursday for nothing.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
But the less said about the JD Vance couch, the better.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
And don’t get me started on drop bears.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Time to invite the Fat Orange to visit Australia? Thoughts and prayers to Norway.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am cringing for the USA as I watch the performance of its Commander-in-Chief.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Live long enough to be a problem for your children.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Brits don’t mince words.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/19Wt...
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Redirecting...
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Australia and USA are becoming culturally disconnected under Trump www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule
Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Just saying. www.theage.com.au/business/the...
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Australia is having the last laugh on Trump’s trade beef
Nothing highlights the US president’s trade delusions better than his victory over Australia’s beef ban. Record exports are now flowing in the opposite direction to what he intended.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hoo boy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Hegseth’s undiplomatic treatment of Marles reveals a chaotic, ungenerous ally
The flap is significant only because it symbolises a deeper truth: the United States may be our ally, but it is an increasingly unreliable and capricious one.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... The man who would be king of the world is having the opposite effect.
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‘Frosty on Trump’: Australians eager for more independence from the US
Australians are voicing a strong desire for the country to assert more independence from the United States amid Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Australia’s journey to becoming a renewable superpower is now interlinked to our relationship with China…not the US. How has it come to this? www.theage.com.au/environment/...
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Trump’s big toxic bill will cost America – and the world
The US president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” won’t just undo many positive developments for the environment – the economic fallout will be significant too.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The United States has just dropped a big, beautiful, bunker-busting bomb on its own economy. A moronic act of economic self-sabotage and short-termism. www.theage.com.au/business/the...
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Trump’s big, beautiful mistake will have China licking its lips
China’s leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating as Trump’s White House commits economic and geopolitical self-harm on a breathtaking scale.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The indefensible was somehow achievable. #onebiguglybl www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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‘Going to be a reckoning’: The ticking time bomb in Trump’s big beautiful bill
British historian Niall Ferguson has a cardinal rule: When a country’s interest payments on debt eclipse its military expenditure, the collapse of empire cannot be far away. That’s now a problem for T...
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So much winning. www.theage.com.au/business/the...
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Trump’s foolish war on the world is a mess
Trump promised “90 deals in 90 days” in April. It’s proving far more difficult than he thought as the clock ticks down.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Who knew it was this easy? www.theage.com.au/business/the...
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Trump’s ‘magic’ act: The US Senate has just made $5.8 trillion disappear
The Senate Republicans are using a controversial accounting approach to make the cost of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill appear far smaller than it is.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Nobel peace prize up in smoke www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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If you look closely, behind the f-bomb and fury, you can see what Trump really wants
Donald Trump’s spinners like to say he is the most transparent president in US history. His explicit tirade at key ally, Israel, reveals how his eye is on another prize.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Remind you of anyone? #noKings
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It’s comforting to have a considered and measured leader at the hem. Did the USA seriously reelect this guy? www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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Phone in hand, weapons at the ready, Trump must act on his instinct for drama
Donald Trump faces a real-world crisis with real-world, high-stakes consequences, one in which he must be closely involved.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What a gawd-awful military parade.
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