Open Thread – Mon 20 Sept 2021


Music in the Tuileries, ร‰douard Manet, 1862

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incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 11:53 am

1. When Vicplod monster squad knock your teeth out
2. you can immediately get them put back in again .
3 go to 1

twostix
twostix
September 21, 2021 11:53 am

Peasants revolt in the making.

Don’t meet the king when he comes out to make terms on horseback with the mayor by his side, it’s a trap!

Arky
September 21, 2021 11:54 am

They’re at Parliament now.

rosie
rosie
September 21, 2021 11:54 am

I thought most people here thought Steve Waterson’s latest covid column was measured and sensible.
Anyone, including Archbishops, that are convinced of ‘NWO’ and ‘great resets’ may not be as credible.
I don’t know anything about Pope Francis’s standing with the Jesuits but to paint them all as leaning far left is simply an untruth.

Father Pablo Migone responded to the Archbishop Vigano tapes.

Lysander
Lysander
September 21, 2021 11:54 am

CFMEU protestors now at Vic Parliament (or the Imperial… depending on your viewpoint)… ๐Ÿ˜›

Cassie of Sydney
September 21, 2021 11:59 am

Just in from the Oz….I’m liking these protesters more and more….

“Protesters ‘pour urine’ on TV journalist
Adrian McMurray
ADRIAN MCMURRAY
Channel 7 reporter Paul Dowsley says protesters have poured urine on him as he covers the protests for the free-to-air network.

Adding that other protesters came and checked on him after the scuffle, Dowsley said some in the crowd have it in for mainstream media.

โ€œA man came from the side, grabbed me around the neck โ€ฆ the outcome of that was both Rick and myself now being covered in what I believe is urine,โ€ Dowsley said. โ€œThis has been thrown in my mouth, it’s all over me.โ€

Cassie of Sydney
September 21, 2021 12:01 pm

The Oz has no comments under its coverage of what’s happening in Melbourne.

Lysander
Lysander
September 21, 2021 12:03 pm

couple of protesters have emu export cans.

CFMEU? Proven.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 12:04 pm

some in the crowd have it in for mainstream media

Yaw.
Some in the mainland have it in for mainstream media.
Let’s do the arithmetic.
25 mill people x 250 ml of urine = ? litres of urine
So students, is this enough urine to wash the MSM away?

johanna
johanna
September 21, 2021 12:05 pm

The lying ramping up of fear goes on and on ….

The territory’s porous border with NSW poses a continued threat and the ACT government must weigh that ongoing and unavoidable risk against the jurisdiction’s own relative wellbeing.

Mr Barr’s government is not only responsible for the health of Canberrans, but it must also consider border communities such as Bungendore, Yass, Queanbeyan, Braidwood and, further afield, the South Coast.

If cases spike in those regions, the ACT said it would assist an already burdened NSW health system by taking in patients.

“I do note that both the NSW Premier and the Victorian Premier have been very clear that they expect the demand on their health systems to be unlike anything Australia has ever experienced before,” Mr Barr said.

It’s a pressure Mr Barr is reluctant to place on the territory’s healthcare system. But it also appears the people hardest hit by COVID-19 โ€” those requiring hospitalisations โ€” are who Mr Barr is buying himself more time to consider.

Their ‘solution’ is to mandate mass produced jungle juice for their unfortunate employees.

I’m still trying to work out how ‘vaccine passports’ will inconvenience the ACT’s ruling class of public servants, diplomats and academics. No doubt the devil is in the detail.

We will get there.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:05 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 21, 2021 12:05 pm

Interesting one for Jewish and Christian Cats.

Evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed ancient city in the Jordan Valley (Phys.org, 20 Sep)

“We saw evidence for temperatures greater than 2,000 degrees Celsius,” said Kennett

The airburst, according to the paper, may also explain the “anomalously high concentrations of salt” found in the destruction layerโ€”an average of 4% in the sediment and as high as 25% in some samples.

“The salt was thrown up due to the high impact pressures,” Kennett said of the meteor that likely fragmented upon contact with the Earth’s atmosphere. “And it may be that the impact partially hit the Dead Sea, which is rich in salt.” The local shores of the Dead Sea are also salt-rich, so the impact may have redistributed those salt crystals far and wideโ€”not just at Tall el-Hammam, but also nearby Tell es-Sultan (proposed as the biblical Jericho, which also underwent violent destruction at the same time) and Tall-Nimrin (also then destroyed).

Tall el-Hamman has been the focus of an ongoing debate as to whether it could be the biblical city of Sodom, one of the two cities in the Old Testament Book of Genesis that were destroyed by God for how wicked they and their inhabitants had become.

The boiling point of sodium chloride is 1465ยฐC. Being exposed to a blast front at 2000ยฐC containing gaseous NaCl would probably carbonize a human and coat her with it. Instant pillar of salt.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 12:10 pm

Just got on the scene, crowd moving away from Parliament, I’ve hooked up with a group of about 10 and we’re heading down to join the march. Cavalry just passing me in Collins St

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 21, 2021 12:16 pm

the response left him stunned … the crowd began to boo and whistle.

Great reminder of a time I remember well – the historical link above to the fall of a socialist dictator and his evil wife who ruined Romania, leaving as his legacy policy orphanages full of uncared for infants and children. The horrible dictator had no idea of how hated he was.

Good morning, Dan.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:19 pm

So 4000 or so workers, breaking lockdown rules, followed by police, faced by full riot police & horses, NO confrontation, NO arrests … NO hotheads on either side … this is theatre.
Who’s directing it and how it ends is still a mystery.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 12:24 pm

Ice now joined the front of the march in Elizabeth St…the jacks won’t take on this crowd, no way.
Nearly at Flinders Street

Cassie of Sydney
September 21, 2021 12:25 pm

The truth is that whilst Dictator Dan is to blame…so is Scummo. It was Scummo who empowered these odious premiers last year. Scummo, desperate to be liked after the bushfires, thought power sharing with the likes of Andrews would mean that he would always be in everybody’s good books. Scummo isn’t a leader, he’s a snake oil salesman. Oh…any words from Matthew Guy? No, didn’t think so, Guy is the groundhog day leader of the Victorian opposition.

We have no leadership in this country.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 12:30 pm

A source with knowledge of the death said: โ€œThis wasnโ€™t a workplace accident, it was a suicideโ€.

Dan will no doubt spin this as an example that freedom of choice is alive and well in Afdanistan.
“You are free to either do what I say or kill yourself.”

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 12:32 pm

Haha, I’m walking right behind rukshan now

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:32 pm

So they marched into another riot squad line, turned around.
Again, avoiding confrontation with police.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

calli
calli
September 21, 2021 12:33 pm

Smile for the camera, Gunner. Make sure he gets your good side.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 12:33 pm

Adding that other protesters came and checked on him after the scuffle, Dowsley said some in the crowd have it in for mainstream media.

No shit, Sherlock?
You run 15 minutes on the bulletin last night about them being Grudge Nasties and you wonder why they are (ahem) “pissed off”.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:34 pm

If police move to kettle & corral them now to get arrests, people will just remember how much trouble the workers have gone to to avoid violence –

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 21, 2021 12:34 pm

Most exercise some of the fattie plods have had for ages.

Walking the streets – though a lot had to get a bus. ๐Ÿ™‚

calli
calli
September 21, 2021 12:37 pm

No need for me to watch. Itโ€™s enough to read the commentary.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:38 pm

Also, if Setka, “loses the support of his members & has to resign”, you can expect him to retire & live out his days with his rather large nest eggs continuing to bring in ‘good interest’, while his members ‘new boss’ can actually do a bit for the members … for a while anyway …

Bruce in WA
September 21, 2021 12:39 pm

Well, Bill Shortarse has certainly made his take on the protests clear:

Ex-unionist and federal MP Bill Shorten has blamed โ€œfake tradiesโ€ and โ€œman-baby Nazisโ€ for the melee that broke out at the construction unionโ€™s Melbourne headquarters.

Building site workers and others angry at a vaccine mandate for the industry in Victoria stormed the CFMEU on Monday, resulting in the riot police being called in.

Officers used rubber bullets and pepper spray to try to disperse the protesting mob who were chanting โ€œf*** the jabโ€ and other expletives.

Construction workers clash with unionists at a protest in Melbourne.
Victorian construction workers angry about mandatory vaccinations have stormed the CFMEU. Credit: AAP
Mr Shorten, whoโ€™s the federal member for Maribyrnong, said while there were construction workers in the crowd โ€œmy sourcesโ€ point to a group of professional trouble makers.

โ€œI never thought I would see a scene where you have people who call themselves Nazis using encrypted message systems to bring in a rent-a-crowd,โ€ he told Nine Network on Tuesday.

โ€œSome of those people … Iโ€™m reliably informed were fake tradies.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve been down to the Reject Shop and got themselves a $2 hi-viz hoody.

โ€œIt was shocking violence.โ€

That should guarantee the ALP a lot of tradie votes at the next election … NOT!

132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2021 12:43 pm

I wonder what the Senior Labor Figure has to say about this crowd?

Dot
Dot
September 21, 2021 12:44 pm

couple of protesters have emu export cans.

Those sick fucks.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
September 21, 2021 12:45 pm

ACTU also recons da brovers redecorating Setka’s lair were right wing extremists ™. https://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/media-releases/2021/actu-condemns-attack-on-union-office

Dot
Dot
September 21, 2021 12:46 pm

Hey Man Boobs Shorten,

Can us real workers suckle at your ample breasts?

After all, aren’t you a lactating river to your people?

Someone paint up M’bobs Shorten as the Madonna with Kevin Rudd as the anti Christ child.

GO!!!

PS

Isn’t Our Annie a gifted painter?

Dot
Dot
September 21, 2021 12:47 pm

Union HQ has been taken over by people who have never done a day’s work in their lifetime.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:49 pm

Stopped at an intersection, huge crowds down all four streets, gathering to move together –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
September 21, 2021 12:50 pm

โ€œTheyโ€™ve been down to the Reject Shop and got themselves a $2 hi-viz hoody.

I didn’t see too many in yesterdays footage that looked like that, if any. Not that I was paying too much attention to that sort of detail.
Does anyone actually believe anything Shorten says?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 12:51 pm

Well, just arranged to have half a dozen bottles of Red sent from a vineyard in the Orange area.

That will give me a few nights when I can almost feel normal.

(Also getting a Junmai Daiginjo sake from Fukui sent from Stanmore – for those who know of such things. They had none from Kyoto, if you are about Carpe. Adjacent prefecture but…)

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:53 pm

Heading back down Elizabeth Street towards CFMEU Offices, where they started in the morning –

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 21, 2021 12:55 pm

Re the Melbourne protests – dunno who is leading them, but sooner or later the brighter minds will realise they need an aim; a strategy, and tactics worked out.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
September 21, 2021 12:56 pm

MUA … stum No statement on their front pages.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 12:56 pm

Back at CFMEU HQ, jacks have weapons out and ready. It could be about to get a hot spicy!

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:56 pm

Rukshan says he’s been getting continuous threats just for reporting on this –

Facing police again, police drawn weapons –

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 12:58 pm

Workers to police – “Who are you protecting?”

Sign, “You cannot Comply Your Way Out of Tyranny”

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Rabz
September 21, 2021 12:58 pm

Shorten has blamed โ€œfake tradiesโ€ and โ€œman-baby Nazisโ€ for the melee that broke out at the construction unionโ€™s Melbourne headquarters

Thus demonstrating his total contempt for both the aggrieved wukkas and reality itself.

The ample boozied Bourbonesque walking dildo.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 21, 2021 12:59 pm

“Does anyone actually believe anything Shorten says?”

Don’t think anyone has for a long time.

I’ve never seen a $2.00 hoodie in The Reject Shop. A bit of hyperbowl there from Tits

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 12:59 pm

Holy shit, I just copped a plastic round in the stomach!!

Arky
September 21, 2021 12:59 pm

Tear gas fired.

Rabz
September 21, 2021 1:00 pm

Tails – keep the updates coming and don’t get yourself into a contretemps you can’t safely negotiate.

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 1:01 pm
TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 1:03 pm

I’m in a black Salty Army hat if anyone sees me

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 1:05 pm

Gunner doing wheelies.
Awesome bike work, good sir !

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 1:07 pm

When you need an Armed, Shielded & Mounted Black Shirt Army to protect “YOUR” Union Offices FROM THE UNION MEMBERS …. surely ‘retirement’ must be next …

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Workers moving on now …

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 1:08 pm

Haha, the guy doing wheelies started the whole thing off! Legend

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 1:09 pm

When you need an Armed, Shielded & Mounted Black Shirt Army to protect โ€œYOURโ€ Union Offices FROM THE UNION MEMBERS โ€ฆ. surely โ€˜retirementโ€™ must be next โ€ฆ

The more relevant question is how did they get an army to protect their offices? The cops don’t turn up for anyone else.

132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2021 1:10 pm

Well said that woman!!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 1:10 pm

This bird is a bit lippy.

Pogria
Pogria
September 21, 2021 1:13 pm

Hey Gunner, was that you showing your arse cheeks? ๐Ÿ™‚

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 1:15 pm

70-year old who was a fa® ®ight protester?

Winston Smith
September 21, 2021 1:18 pm

Zipster:

Mr Larter said no reasons for the council’s decision were outlined in the email, which advised the matter would be reported on, including the reasons, within a month.
He said he believed the reason he had been suspended was because he had spoken out โ€” both in his court action and by speaking to the media about his views.

Just another example of the role of Regulation compared to Acts of Parliament – a person can be denied employment which Parliament has decreed they have no right to prevent.
IOW, the Paramedicine Council of NSW has greater powers than the Australian Parliament.
This kind of regulatory overreach MUST be addressed in our new Constitution.

132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2021 1:19 pm

Police seemingly corralling the marchers.

Won’t end well.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 1:20 pm

Dan will no doubt spin this as an example that freedom of choice is alive and well in Afdanistan.

Right-wingers are notorious for offing themselves to gin up outrage in large groups.

Hey, if we are going to have fictitious right-wingers, we can give them fictitious traits. Like laser beams that shoot from their eyes!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 21, 2021 1:21 pm

Like laser beams that shoot from their eyes!

Nope. The next variant of Nosferaflu already does that…

Eddystone
Eddystone
September 21, 2021 1:21 pm

If they start shooting, we f**ing rush ’em.

Winston Smith
September 21, 2021 1:22 pm

Twostix:

Holy moly, Pfizer literally had countries passing laws, altering laws, was dictating new laws, and was demanding military bases and embassies as collateral for its stupid โ€˜jabโ€™.

I welcome our New Overlords, the Pfizer Pfascist Pfarty!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 1:22 pm

Cops moving in by the looks. They better be careful these guys will fight back if cornered and broken police bones will be the least of their worries.

A family member used to work on these unionised sites who was fairly handy with his fists. Only time heard him say some of the guys he met there scared even him…

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 21, 2021 1:24 pm

dover

The entire ACTU and most union officials are entirely co-opted by the ALP, their superfunds, and corporations.. Their members are to be squeezed for dues, and used when relations between corporations or the government falter.

Most were at uni together, became union “research assistants”, then either went the ALP route, or wormed their way up to become union secretaries, never having been on a worksite except to organise a vote (and make sure that the numbers show that it “passed”).

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 21, 2021 1:24 pm

MUA โ€ฆ stum No statement on their front pages.

Too busy holding Patricks (and thus the East Coast) to ransom, because it is EBA time.

No way they are going to let their proles get in the way of a suitably sweet (read extortionate, and highly profitable for the Union bosses and their favoured underlings) deal…

Winston Smith
September 21, 2021 1:25 pm

rickw:

Just remember that these imbeciles have guns.

The police and the armed forces are traditionally where insurrectionists get their weapons to… er…insurrect.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 1:26 pm

Beer stop. That IGA will be sold out very soon!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 21, 2021 1:26 pm

Holy moly, Pfizer literally had countries passing laws, altering laws, was dictating new laws, and was demanding military bases and embassies as collateral for its stupid โ€˜jabโ€™.

I welcome our New Overlords, the Pfizer Pfascist Pfarty!

East India Company 2.0. Now without the modicum of Government and Foreign Office oversight…

Roger
Roger
September 21, 2021 1:30 pm

My…there are certainly a lot of “right wing nutters” in Melbourne.

MatrixTransform
MatrixTransform
September 21, 2021 1:35 pm

look at their hands

Shake their hand …not soft

Winston Smith
September 21, 2021 1:36 pm

Twostix:
Just under your post I noticed this great giveaway – Barrett M82A1.
Just what you need for shooting pigs from so far enough away that you don’t even need to get out of bed…

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 21, 2021 1:37 pm

Via Instapundit:

This may actually be a good idea:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/us-should-test-frances-seriousness-by-buying-its-submarines-for-vietnam

Pisses off the Chunks and puts the Frogs on the spot as to where their allegiances are.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 1:38 pm

Galdys is with the brains trust now trying to think up ways of avoiding this sort of thing spilling into NSW.

They have settled on a brilliant response to nip it in the bud – end lockdown at 79.5%

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 1:40 pm

Nein reporterette sticking to the ‘fake tradies’ script, “Oh, I’ve covered lot’s of these Freedom Rallies and I saw familiar faces yesterday.”
Riiiight. File that under T for Things What Never Happened.
Channel Seven guy got a biff on the head and a tradie bought hime some antiseptic wipes (could be the piss guy).
Chases tradie down the street tp thank him and question him.
Leading question, “So, you’re against the vax?”
Tradie : “No. I’m double vaxxed mate. I just don’t like the idea of forcing people.”
Stunned silence from reporter guy.
BTW.
The tradie was fake. He had obviously bought his $2 fluoro hoodie and spent all night smearing it with daubs of various coloured paints and fillers to look like he had been a painter/plasterer for years.
Jeez they’re cunning these Grudge Nasties.

Arky
September 21, 2021 1:41 pm

All the cop chicks who can only orgasm on a horse now outside Flinders Street station.
Where’s Gunner?
See if you can get some of their phone numbers man.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 21, 2021 1:44 pm

Herald-Sun has good pix for anyone with access – headline: Police have fired tear gas at construction workers and protesters who are hurling bottles and setting off flares as Melbourneโ€™s CBD descends into chaos.

Link

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 21, 2021 1:46 pm

Meanwhile the complete opposite in NSW, says the Daily Tele:

The construction industry will be allowed to return to 100 per cent capacity next Monday with the government lifting capacity constraints in recognition of the industryโ€™s strong vaccine uptake.

The Daily Telegraph understands that a plan has been signed off to return construction to full capacity, up from its current 50 per cent restriction, cementing NSWโ€™s position in leading the nation out of the pandemic and back to normality.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 1:46 pm

The ‘fake tradie’ narrative looking a bit sick.
The vox pops on the street were intended to portray swivel-eyed loons.
All I saw was normal people who were jacked off that they might lose their jobs.
The media suits had no fucking idea they were producing the best advert for push-back anyone could wish for.
Mr Piss Head, instead of asking questions, ended up in a stand-up blue with one bloke, which was won hands-down by the wukka:
“Why am I here. Parliament is shut down and the country is being run by seven CHOs no-one voted for.”
A quick cut-away and a, “we’ll leave that one there” from the studio host.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 21, 2021 1:48 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 21, 2021 at 12:05 pm

Thanks Bruce!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 1:50 pm

For a pack of neo nazis, they all seem to like the subcontinental chap with the camera.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 21, 2021 1:51 pm

Tony Selby obituary
Versatile character actor and master of the cameo who took centre-stage in the popular Seventies RAF sitcom Get Some In!
Monday September 20 2021, 5.00pm BST, The Times
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Tony Selbyโ€™s uncommonly variegated career might easily be framed as a series of improbable pub quiz conundrums. What was the connection between Ken Loachโ€™s Up The Junction and EastEnders? Or between Doctor Who and a play by Edward Bond banned at the Royal Court? Or between Superman and Spike Milliganโ€™s Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall? The answer in each case was Selby, who spent 70 years abseiling across the face of British acting, leaving almost no cleft or crevasse unexplored.

He could play chirpy and congenial or menacing and sinister, with an enviable line in roguish wide boys which fell somewhere in between. All were portrayed with a realistic down-to-earth cockney conviction and if his name did not command household recognition, his face certainly did. From Minder and The Good Life to The Bill and Holby City via Casualty and Bergerac, his crumpled and instantly recognisable features were seen in many of the nationโ€™s most popular soaps, sitcoms and dramas.

He often played small parts or took cameos, many of which went uncredited. Yet he was an impressive lead in the 1970s RAF National Service sitcom Get Some In! as the sadistic Corporal Percy Marsh, making life a misery for his young and reluctant recruits, who included the then little-known Robert Lindsay. โ€œMy nameโ€™s Marsh,โ€ he bawled at them and explained that it was spelt โ€œB-A-S-T-A-R-Dโ€.

For once he was the bride rather than the bridesmaid and the show was popular enough to run for five series on ITV between 1975 and 1978.

132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2021 1:53 pm

GUNNER!!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 1:53 pm

GUNNER !!!!!

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 1:53 pm

Hey Tailey!
SEEN

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

Gunner you legend

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

โ€œWhy am I here. Parliament is shut down and the country is being run by seven CHOs no-one voted for.โ€
A quick cut-away and a, โ€œweโ€™ll leave that one thereโ€ from the studio host.

Anyone who thinks the workers are stupid and the journos smart needs to do a reevaluation, quicksmart.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

For a pack of neo nazis, they all seem to like the subcontinental chap with the camera.

Yah.

Really hard to make a case for racism! Was watching that walk by Rukshan … bring tears to the eyes! These are real Aussies… Pride!

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

Please Arky address the cons table ladies on horseback by their proper respectful title.

Pommel humpers

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

Gunner you Magnificent Bastard!

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

Re the Melbourne protests โ€“ dunno who is leading them, but sooner or later the brighter minds will realise they need an aim; a strategy, and tactics worked out.

Entirely wrong.

Planning just tells the jacks where to muster. Free form is much harder to control. And a “strategy” is just a target for Dan to aim at.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

My arms are aching just looking at the footage Rukshan is recording.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 1:54 pm

LOL tally of Melbourne Bitter, not something I have seen in years. A mate & I used to drink that when I was first in Townsville in the absence of Carlton Draught.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 1:55 pm

Haha had to give a shout out ๐Ÿ™‚

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 1:55 pm

Also, good to see good mask etiquette from Gunner.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 21, 2021 1:55 pm

Hey Gunner.

Delta A
Delta A
September 21, 2021 1:56 pm

Well done, Gunner.

JC
JC
September 21, 2021 1:58 pm

Someone told me earlier he heard that city construction workers urinated on the Channel 7 crew from a height.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 21, 2021 1:58 pm

Gunner!
I just picked up the phone, for a breather from fencing.
Whoโ€™s ugly mug do I see.

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 1:59 pm

Another shout out for catallaxy files or have a spit about Klaus.
60, 000 people watching this live feed gunner.

JC
JC
September 21, 2021 2:00 pm

Gunner

Stop pissing on Channel 7.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:00 pm

Ok struth, rukshan is just ahead of me I’ll try and get there and throw Klaus out of the chopper

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
September 21, 2021 2:01 pm

Did you keep the bullet Gunner? straight to the pool room.

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:01 pm

struthsays:
September 21, 2021 at 11:07 am
Please watch project veritas.

Yes, a must see and they’ll be releasing more in the days ahead. https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1440106272146165762

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 2:01 pm

Few there who don’t look union at all, Dans in that rock and hard place moment. Use the pigs and smash it or do nothing. Either way there’s a distinct chance more of the public will be marching tomorrow in support.

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:08 pm

Marching onto the freeway doesn’t seem tactically smart.
Easily boxed in surely?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 2:10 pm

PS, while this is all happening, it looks like Trudeau has won another term.
Sell Canada.
If you put up with that shit, you deserve what you get.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:11 pm

Anyone who thinks the workers are stupid and the journos smart needs to do a reevaluation, quicksmart.

Ha, ha, yes.
Reporter in suit thought he might take “dumb-arse tradie” down.
Got his arse handed to him and had to be rescued by the studio producer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 2:11 pm

Gunner, did you remember your e-tag?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:12 pm

I can’t get the vids to play.
What is TG up to?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 2:12 pm

And over the Yarra to Sth Melbourne, could be wromg but looks like the former…

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 2:13 pm

I had a quick glance at News.com.

We are told that violence has erupted at the protest – although from what I have seen it is overwhelmingly people walking along the streets. Also the piss sprayed on the channel 7 reporter by an angry mob.

There is the (slightly smug and even gloating) story of an anti-vax woman in California who died from Covid, which they explain as pneumonia caused by covid, whose family is now trying to crowdfund for her funeral.

And there is a vaccine expert who debunks ‘anti-vax’ comments. I am listening to whether she is addressing vaccines in general or these ones in particular, but since this is not about the vaccine but government overreach making them mandatory they have perhaps brought in the wrong expert.

What an electronic rag.

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:13 pm

I hope they’re wearing their masks otherwise the cops will arrest them, right?

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:13 pm

Crossing the west gate would be great visuals with a crowd that size.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 2:14 pm

Are they saying ‘Fuck the jab’ rather than ‘Fuck the jacks’?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:14 pm

JCsays:

September 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Gunner

Stop pissing on Channel 7.

Yes.
Give Channel Nein their share.
The meeja are genuinely surprised that they are also a target.
Fuck knows why.
Surely it couldn’t have anything to do with smearing ordinary people as Nazis, could it?

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:15 pm

Where are you all watching the protest live?

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:15 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:12 pm

I canโ€™t get the vids to play.
What is TG up to?

Happened to me yesterday, couldn’t get anything to play til it was over.

Try this anyway –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:16 pm

If anyone knows anyone in Melbourne that can film from a drone, as it won’t go on free to air.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:17 pm

Are they headed to the Westgate Tunnel project to call for a walk-off?
Fucking long walk.
Dan has exempted his pet projects including the tunnel.
Going to be tops if the Great Unwashed start chanting “Scabs, Scabs, Scabs” as the day shift knocks off.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:17 pm

We’re gonna block the Westgate!!!

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:19 pm

Mother Lodesays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Are they saying โ€˜Fuck the jabโ€™ rather than โ€˜Fuck the jacksโ€™?

โ€˜Fuck the jabโ€™

The Jabbing of kids turned the tide.

THE Message has been –
Experiment on adults who want to be experimented on but LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:20 pm

Gabsays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:15 pm

Where are you all watching the protest live?

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:20 pm

TailgunneRsays:

September 21, 2021 at 2:17 pm

Weโ€™re gonna block the Westgate!!!

This is fucking gold!!!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Their ABC spinning like tops trying to prevent the narrative from unravelling.

Sally McManus given a piece to camera by Gemma Veness (ostensibly an “interview”)
Gemma Veness starts off by saying it is well known that right wing operatives & anti-vaxxers are peppered all through the crowd, etc etc. what message does ‘Sally’ have for the people?

McManus says the crowd are ‘led astray’ by ‘anti-vaxxers’ etc etc, that people are getting their information from social media instead of from ‘official sources’ and this is what leads to them falling for pressure from ‘anti-vaxxers’ who have been ‘targeting’ workers… blab blah blah.

Anyone NOT able to spot the change of narrative?

Gemma Veness did her job by prompting Sally on the points she missed, i.e. concerned tone question does Sally have fears for her personal safety?
A few ‘battered wife’ type statements by Gemma Veness to the protesters, i.e. “Look what you made the government do, now the whole industry is shut down and it is your fault!”

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:22 pm

Thank you, SRR.

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:23 pm

Take thye lead gunner.
Tell them to bunch up and cross.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:23 pm

This is fkn amazing. Historic!!!
Now what does VikPol do??

duncanm
duncanm
September 21, 2021 2:23 pm

Weโ€™re gonna block the Westgate!!!

.. and they have.

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:24 pm

The tide of tyranny is finally turning.
Go you bloody beauties!
Rise up!
Liberate!
Fuck You Dan Andrews!

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:24 pm

Gabsays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:15 pm

Where are you all watching the protest live?

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/live-real-rukshans-live-video-feed-from-todays-protests-against-cfmeulabor.html

That’s Real Rukshan marching & filming the whole thing, for hours, live on Facebook but also playing live here on Michael Smith News for all of us banned from Facebook.

duncanm
duncanm
September 21, 2021 2:25 pm

Vikpol really fucked that up.. while making sure no-one caught a train, they forgot to stop the crowd moving on to the West Gate.

Now what do you do ?

Golden!

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:25 pm

Just yell out bunch up and cross.
Make history Gunner, you little beauty.
The media won’t be able to resist the visuals……maybe.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
September 21, 2021 2:26 pm

This is more fun than watching the union luvvies squirm, at TURC!

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:26 pm

All that’s needed is for truckles to join in and then maybe I – and others – won’t lose my job.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:26 pm

The revolution WILL be televised!!

Arky
September 21, 2021 2:26 pm

Nazis on the Westgate.
It’s Romper Stomper all over again!
Where’s Hando?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 2:27 pm

How did all the nazis get their hands on so much CFMEU kit?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 2:27 pm

Nice that push them to a decision point. Once they went past Crown and into Sth Melbourne I was getting a bit disoriented. The lack of buildings had me wondering whether they were out to Docklands. Cheers TG just confirmed that.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 2:27 pm

Has Ubersuperschnitzelgruppenfuhrer Andrews emerged from his bunker?

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:28 pm

If only Rukshan held his camera horizontally FFS

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 2:28 pm

Gunner, there’s a guy with a small red flag who’s popped up a few times.
Is he a marshal or something?

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:29 pm

Tell them to bunch up and cross.
Everyone is knackered from all the walking haha
I’m sitting in the middle of the freeway on the concrete barriers having a beer with some lads I’ve just met. Some are keen to take the river crossing though!

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:29 pm

The revolution WILL be televised!!

Don’t bet on it, even now, Gunner.
Do what you can to make them film it.

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:31 pm

Like a fluoro orange flag, Bern? Saw him a few times, no idea what’s up with him. He was smashing that flag into a traffic light earlier!

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:31 pm

What road are they walking along now?

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:32 pm

Gab, they are about to cross the west gate bridge!

duncanm
duncanm
September 21, 2021 2:32 pm

a lot of support from the truckies.

Arky
September 21, 2021 2:33 pm

“Come and join us ya weak kunts”!
Ha ha ha.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 21, 2021 2:33 pm

Has Ubersuperschnitzelgruppenfuhrer Andrews emerged from his bunker?

Officially it is reported that he is fighting the Russians at the head of his troops.

In reality he is in der Fuhrerbunker mobilising non-existent bodies of troops around on a map for the final victory.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 21, 2021 2:34 pm

Well this escalated quickly

We’ve stopped work at the moment watching this on my laptop on the boat

Dot
Dot
September 21, 2021 2:34 pm

Roll on, brothers!

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:35 pm

LOL One of them saying ”look at the f****** numbers” and another saying ”it’s not safe, there’s no long term safety data”

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:35 pm

It’s uplifting to see such confidence and outright rebellion.
The Australian spirit still lives.
God bless ’em.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
September 21, 2021 2:36 pm

Google Maps live traffic is saying “slower than usual with delays up to 23 minutes” on the West Gate. Ha!

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 21, 2021 2:36 pm

I think the overlords of Afdanistan have poked the bear.

And the bear ain’t happy

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 21, 2021 2:37 pm

Lying little bitch Julia Bradley on SKY saying marchers are going into service stations to get drinks, perhaps alcohol.
โ€œIt does seem this is turning into alcohol fuelled violence now.โ€

You can get alcohol at servoโ€™s now.
Who knew.

Rabz
September 21, 2021 2:38 pm

J’ismists copping a golden shower – absolutely hilarious.

Go aggrieved wukkas, you magnificent bastards!

TailgunneR
TailgunneR
September 21, 2021 2:38 pm

Jacks are moving in

132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2021 2:39 pm

Hardly any fat slobs.

No soy boys.

Good stuff.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2021 2:39 pm

The Westgate.

Oh please please please.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 21, 2021 2:40 pm

Lying little bitch Julia Bradley on SKY saying marchers are going into service stations to get drinks, perhaps alcohol.
โ€œIt does seem this is turning into alcohol fuelled violence now.โ€

She’s disgusting… SHE is inciting violence!

Arky
September 21, 2021 2:40 pm

TailgunneRsays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:38 pm
Jacks are moving in
..
Knuckle Draggersays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:39 pm
The Westgate.

Oh please please please.

..
Pigs in Space?

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:41 pm

Hi-vis never looked so good.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
September 21, 2021 2:41 pm

Delays up to 46 minutes for the West Gate on Google Maps, I think it’s going to be a lot longer than that.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 2:41 pm

Go aggrieved wukkas, you magnificent bastards!

Treatment number P155 for all MSM journos.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 21, 2021 2:41 pm

Looks like Vicplod is mobilising in force. [Behind Julia]

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:42 pm

Son points out that the “White Supremist” slur is dead in the water, with so many people of all sorts so happily marching together.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2021 2:42 pm

It’s a ‘remember where you were when’ day.

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:42 pm

Live video stopped!!!!!

Indolent
Indolent
September 21, 2021 2:43 pm

Heads up, mates, a friend posted this on Failpage, and they removed it in under ONE MINUTE. They don’t want you to know that a citizen has defeated the vax mandate in a NSW court this morning.

Huge, if true. Removed from Facebook in under one minute!!!!!

Megan
Megan
September 21, 2021 2:43 pm

Nothing but admiration, Gunner! Keep it up!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 2:43 pm

And facebook just pulled the plug. Looks like endgame and they don’t want it boadcast…

Gab
Gab
September 21, 2021 2:44 pm

NOt one cop in sight!

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:44 pm

Love this.
Do the cops stop them marching across the bridge?
This is better than you could dream up.
perfect.
What optics.
A battle on the westgate or a march across it, while the dumb cops are in the city.
Fantastic.
It still could get ugly, but nit can’t be not reported.
Every time the mainstream media tell porkies about this the more they expose themselves.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 21, 2021 2:44 pm

Live feed is back

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:44 pm

Tear gas won’t work in the breeze on the bridge.

Megan
Megan
September 21, 2021 2:45 pm

Sounds as if they have the support of the trucks they are preventing from getting on to the WestGate. Whereโ€™s DickDan? Covering in his office and letting others do his dirty work for him.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

… Julia Bradley on SKY saying marchers are going into service stations to get drinks, perhaps alcohol.
โ€œIt does seem this is turning into alcohol fuelled violence now.โ€

You can get alcohol at servoโ€™s now.
Who knew.

How would a journalist know what is inside a servo?

Megan
Megan
September 21, 2021 2:45 pm

Coweringโ€ฆnot covering. Jeez, I hate auto corrupt.

duncanm
duncanm
September 21, 2021 2:45 pm

There’s a traffic camera on the west tower may be worth looking at in a little while.
https://traffic.vicroads.vic.gov.au/cameras/34

struth
struth
September 21, 2021 2:45 pm

As I said, gunner, the revolution may not be televised.
Feed down everywhere.
These bastards are playing hard ball.
Be careful.

Indolent
Indolent
September 21, 2021 2:46 pm

Can anyone explain the logic underpinning the latest announcement from our Betters in NSW?

Where’s that list someone posted which includes forcing people to observe with ridiculous rules. All of this is nothing but training us to do what we’re told, no matter what. Tighten, loosen, the government is your master.

Bushkid
Bushkid
September 21, 2021 2:49 pm

Rex Anger says:
September 21, 2021 at 1:26 pm
Holy moly, Pfizer literally had countries passing laws, altering laws, was dictating new laws, and was demanding military bases and embassies as collateral for its stupid โ€˜jabโ€™.

I welcome our New Overlords, the Pfizer Pfascist Pfarty!

East India Company 2.0. Now without the modicum of Government and Foreign Office oversightโ€ฆ

Very good analogy, Rex.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2021 2:50 pm

‘Tear gas won’t work in the breeze’

Deliberate or not, a tactical masterstroke.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:50 pm

Gabsays:

September 21, 2021 at 2:44 pm

NOt one cop in sight!

Jimmy Gargasoulos must be somewhere nearby in his red Commodore.
Or African yoofs stealing a Beemer.

Filbert
Filbert
September 21, 2021 2:50 pm

These selfish bastards are super-spreading democracy!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 21, 2021 2:51 pm

Last Refuge (Conservative Treehouse) Twitter updating hourly with Melbourne feeds… Nice, Andrews or MSM aint keeping the lid on this…

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 21, 2021 2:51 pm

NSW health today.
Of the 10 deaths from/with COVID, they go out of their way to say the two double jabbed deaths had serious underlying health conditions.
Curiously (@sarc) they don’t comment on the underlying health of the others?

shatterzzz
September 21, 2021 2:53 pm

As I said, gunner, the revolution may not be televised.
Feed down everywhere.
These bastards are playing hard ball.
Be careful.

No problems with the live feed on michaelsmithnews.com

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 21, 2021 2:53 pm

Filbertsays:

September 21, 2021 at 2:28 pm

If only Rukshan held his camera horizontally FFS

Well, thank you for the film critique.
That’s two and a half stars for me, David.
Just two stars for me Margaret.
?

srr
srr
September 21, 2021 2:53 pm

Gabsays:
September 21, 2021 at 2:42 pm

Live video stopped!!!!!

Refresh, it’s back up

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 21, 2021 2:54 pm

Ubersuperschnitzelgruppenfuhrer Andrews has ordered a division of panzers to the Westgate.

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