Open Thread – Weekend 20 Nov 2021
1,130 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 20 Nov 2021”
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Also attended Melbourne march.
A few crazies, most notably Moses who was standing on a tram shelter in Burke St. Couldn’t read what was written on his tablets, but gave many of us a good laugh.
Statue of the Virgin Mary also winding its way down to the mall.
God is not completely dead in Melbourne town.
Lots of Mums, lots of kids, dogs. Ages 8 months to 80.
Completely uneducated guess would put the crowd at 15-20k.
Police were still lining side streets, which I am unsure of the tactics behind. Major principle of mine is to always leave an escape route when in unpredictable crowds.
Anyway, a great day, and reassuring that I am not alone.
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Cat identifier for large crowds is definitely required.
Gentleman Cats should wear their Dickless Upticker club ties.
Lady Cats, look out for the neckwear with white shields bearing the blue thumbs up sign, with a tick as the crest and the supporters being suits of armour with the codpieces conspicuously missing.
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The blue thumb on the t-shirt needs to be adjacent to a Report comment.
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Barry.
Police were still lining side streets, which I am unsure of the tactics behind. Major principle of mine is to always leave an escape route when in unpredictable crowds
Police like to contain protests to the main road where some control can be exercised.
Once crowds disperse mayhem could be the result.
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I was hoping to CATch up with some Cats but it was not to be
err, peoples – I have a confession to make – I’ve let you, my family and my friends down (again).
Thanks to the total absence of a back up/contingency plan, got to the train station at about 11:25am this morning, only to discover that no trains were running between Sydenham and Central. This is despite checking on the state rail website two days ago that showed no “track work” activity this weekend on my line.
$20 dollars cash, no wallet and no phone and 12 minutes from the cottage (in 97% humidity).
I apologise unreservedly, Cats.
I am a joke. 🙁
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Kyle Rittenhouse Not Guilty Verdict Breaks Hollywood: ‘I Weep for This Country’
They are not just so feeble minded that they can see nothing else in any interaction between a white guy and a black guy as being a black guy/white guy thing – like there is no other possible dynamic possible (such as criminal/victim, rivalry, personal animosity, who got a pony for their 9th birthday etc).
No, when all the people involved are white – and you can see it in all the footage – they will ignore what their lying eyes are telling them and see racism (with one of the races is conspicuously absent) simply because the MSM says so.
I think this same ability to immerse themselves absolutely into a fantasy that underwrites their acting ability.
But seriously, just because one of them plays a physicist in a movie no one would be stupid enough to trust them when they say in the free time they have discovered a new sub-atomic particle.
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I see no problems with noose carriers, they were used in Nuremburg in the 1940’s.
The NWO mob should be aware of that.He was not harassed, just ignored. If you’re going to make a statement like that, take the mask off and own it. Unless, of course, you don’t want to be identifable as your social media may link you some particular group **cough** ANTIFA ** cough, cough***
Sucha brave man, all masked up. He must of been hot though, sweating bullets (metaphor alert, not to be taken as triggering).
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“…who bought one of the big newsies like CNN…”
Cuomo, Lemon et al might already be worried:
Well, given CNN has 1/4 the viewers of Fox, it’s hardly surprising…
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Why should he take the mask off? hangmen in the past were generally masked & anonymity in this day & age is pretty important.
Are you an LNP supporter?He’s entitled to his anonymity. I’m entitled to point out the cowardice in his actions given the context. Unless you think he really is a hangman, of course. Although I’m not sure it’s much of a career in Australia at this point. What does the LNP have to do with anything?
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Do any Cats remember when m0nty would randomly pop up and denounce someone of popular standing (who also happened to be conservative or at least slightly to the right of Joe Stalin) as a ‘grifter?’
Just the Fat Man slavishly following that old Alinskyite trope of accusing the other side of doing what your lot are up to.
They don’t even bother to hide it…
It ain’t just the Bidens, Obamas or Sussexes, folks.
Everybody’s in on it.
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If I could get into Melbourne, I would parade around with a set of prop stairs.
That would definitely attract stares!
/gedditt stares = stairs….yuk yuk yuk
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Completely uneducated guess would put the crowd at 15-20k.
Very easy to underestimate, but today was in the hundred/s of thousands.
I don’t actually believe the figure being thrown around about 450K people in Melbourne, but several hundred thousand I can live with.Most definitely larger than last week. At least double. We hadn’t really made it far into Bourke St (from Spring St) and they were reportedly already arriving at Flagstaff Gardens, and we couldn’t see the end of the sea of people behind us. Some didn’t even continue on to the Gardens, as progress was so slow due to the numbers. Took hours to get there. The numbers at the Gardens don’t reflect all those who were at Parliament.
It was incredible.
The Dan cult (prguy17) can talk the numbers down all they want on Twitter, but he will be briefed by VicPol about the true figures (from mobile phone pings), and he will be shitting himself. The increase from last week to this week indicates grassroots momentum that he really doesn’t want to see.
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Guess who deserves to spend some figurative time in Gaol tonight? 😕
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@ Cassie-
When the next time rolls around that you have a Chardonnay socialist wearing a ‘Liberal’ nametag swans into town for a cheeky morning on the hustings, can I request you have somebody playing this in the background?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tginXAiWLL8
Tell ’em a former denizen of Tamworth put you up to it! Assuming the ‘luminarie’s head hasn’t exploded, Mars Attacks! style first… 😉
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Actually, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tginXAiWLL8 would be the greatest repudiation song the Uniparties could face in these next few years…
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Malcom gruinaid puzzled…
Why would people protest…
Why wont they shutup and do as they are told.Thousands apparently at the Adelaide protest. Which is, on one measure, even more ridiculous than the other “freedom” rallies. Covid-free South Australia has barely been locked down, and is in the weird situation where it’ll open its borders next week and let Covid in …
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Amazing how “emergency” track work suddenly materialises out of nowhere. I wonder how much work they got done and how many wokkas were deployed. Timesheets should tell us.
And all amidst rolling industrial action with SydneyTrains over safety concerns with their new Singaporean trainsets that are allegedly too large for the loading gauge (aka It’s Too Big To Fit My [Tunnel] Entrance!), all manner of other working conditions and EBA woes and more…
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given CNN has 1/4 the viewers of Fox, it’s hardly surprising…
Fox has been collapsing too because woke Mudrock kiddies.
It has gotten Mudrock snr out though.Rupert Murdoch Says Trump Needs to ‘Focus on the Future’ (18 Nov)
Yes, Rupe, he is doing that. Maybe you should have a word in your sons’ shell-likes about doing it too. Try ditching climate rubbish, since CAGW ain’t happening and righties won’t read your stuff if you keep spouting it.
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Thanks, calli – I really do feel like a sad ol’ personage at the moment.
Those that actually made it there are the real heroes. 🙂
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I’m unsure whether to be surprised or not, but the Hun has given today’s Mongyang event some decent press:
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday to protest the state government’s pandemic bill. Protesters flocked to the steps of state parliament from midday before marching through the city to Flagstaff gardens.
Hundreds of police monitored the demonstration but no arrests were made.
In contrast to earlier published pics of the protestors, some of these were taken from a height – one in particular showed the number of people in from of Parliament, and another from there looking down what appears to be Bourke Street. Very, very striking pics showing the numbers there, but I suspect they still don’t do the actual numbers justice.
The Hun also threw this bit in:
A counter-protest organised by the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) in Carlton attracted around 300 people. Attendees carried signs saying “Melbourne is an anti-fascist town”, “neo-Nazis off our streets” and “stand against the far right”.
Fears the two groups would clash and become violent did not eventuate.
Not terrible, especially when contrasted with coverage of earlier protests. Not great, but certainly not terrible.
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Rabz, best intentions, and all. Don’t kick yourself.
Time to chill out with all the successful protesters.
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“The 12-person jury, made up of five men and seven women, which appeared to be overwhelmingly white, deliberated for close to 3 1/2 days”.
From 9 News.
The media are scum.
Channel 9 selectively omitting that everyone in the case is white, and Wisconsin’s (from where the jury is drawn) population is apparently 90% white.
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Zepplins. Don’t need no rails. Sky’s the limit, really.
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Thousands apparently at the Adelaide protest. Which is, on one measure, even more ridiculous than the other “freedom” rallies. Covid-free South Australia has barely been locked down, and is in the weird situation where it’ll open its borders next week and let Covid in …
I guess that the writer won’t be republishing what they wrote when all those thousands protested in Australia when George Floyd was killed?
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Barrysays:
November 20, 2021 at 4:18 pm
Also attended Melbourne march.A few crazies, most notably Moses who was standing on a tram shelter in Burke St. Couldn’t read what was written on his tablets, but gave many of us a good laugh.
Statue of the Virgin Mary also winding its way down to the mall.
God is not completely dead in Melbourne town.
Moses’s sign said: Let my people go free.
Very apt.
And the statue of Our Lady of Fatima is my mob. We processed around the completely locked up St Patrick’s Cathedral (gates as well) while praying the Rosary for the cause and for the conversion of the Archbishop nd then mingled in with the crowd amid cheers and expressions of joy at seeing the statue of Our Lady.
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Thanks calli – time to enjoy some 12 strings, stoves, granny glasses and biblical verses running rampant … 🙂
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Guess who deserves to spend some figurative time in Gaol tonight?
Anthem for the #freedom marchers:
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Unable to attend today, but delighted and exited to see my local centre had a good turnout, along with a couple of other regional ones. Senator Matt Cavanagh has posted on farce book about some regional protests – check it out. Even one of the regional councils up here has canned jab status demands for businesses. One councillor’s son was hospitalised the day after his jab. Feeling is running fairly high.
Stand in the Park has been a weekly Sunday event around here too.
Next week is the big one, 27th. Hoping to be with a decent-sized group for that one, making up more numbers! Need to organise a Cat T-shirt, several are followers.
This is getting too big to ignore, however hard they try.
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I was hoping to CATch up with some Cats but it was not to be but I know they were there, salutations – what an experience of a lifetime.
Will be there next time. Actually are in Sydney – but were with grandson today, seeing him for first time after jaw surgery. Glad to report that offenders have been arrested and charged. Have been able to purchase & use Rapid Antigen Tests to be able to say that we are Covid free – although given we rarely see anyone at the farm – that was really “a given.”
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Rex, is anything built any more that is fit for purpose? Particularly things that run on rails?
Well, yes! The very good stuff nowadays tends to be purchased by private companies for private use. Some are so popular, everybody gets into them. And you never notice it because it just goes and gets the job done…
Some turn out to be a bit lemony, but that is a risk you take when you want to minimise outlay for maximal capability.
It is unusual these days, but not unprecedented for something to be ordered with good intentions but then turn out to need a lot of rectification work, or get quickly scrapped as being unsuitable.
However, anything that has governments, tender processes and nobody with skin in the game or their own money involved can risk trouble.
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Good on you Gab, and all the faithful who stood up to authority. They have tried to normalise something that is an affront.
“ ‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”
That was Ezekiel. We know what happened.
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Time to chill out with all the successful protesters.
That’s a ripper Calli. Haven’t heard it in a very long time. It’s a disappointment that there’ve been so few memorable tracks since about 2010. Music seems to’ve died. I don’t know why. In Coles lately all the music on the tannoy is 50 years old. Which is a tell.
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“The 12-person jury, made up of five men and seven women, which appeared to be overwhelmingly white, deliberated for close to 3 1/2 days”.
Lefties pick and choose.
If it was seven men then they would be able to claim there was a ‘male’ thing going on. But it was seven women so that is out. In fact we must assume that seven women managed to prevail upon a numerically inferior (and therefore morally inferior in the ways of leftist social calculus) men. Leftists do not believe in individuals the make up of the jury determines outcomes.
Hence the 11 white jurors somehow dissolved the black juror like an aspirin tossed into the ocean. There is no way a black juror might have seen a white kid killing two white guys and injuring another as anything other that white supremacy except for the overwhelming number of white jurors. The black juror had no agency or opinion.
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Channel 9 selectively omitting that everyone in the case is white
Shapiro and Knowles discuss colour and msm (from 2m56s):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4OmuXAIP8
Correct.
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Knuckle Dragger says:
November 20, 2021 at 5:23 pmI’m unsure whether to be surprised or not, but the Hun has given today’s Mongyang event some decent press:
They’re probably hedging bets in case things go badly for the fascists. They can always point to one or two balanced stories to pretend they weren’t biased and presented the people’s views all along.
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“Are we willing to go to the absolute end?” Jonas says, and the crowd cheers.
“Is it fair to say that we will go to any length necessary to rid our parliament of those traitorous politicians?” More cheers.
This guy is a rabble rouser and no friend of Liberty.
The obvious intent is to keep forcing Scotty to disavow these types of clowns and it prevents him from endorsing the protests.
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Australian Tourism pitch for “Covid Australia”, very well done:
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Triple M news doing Andrews Government bidding. ‘Tens of thousands turned up to protest vaccinations around the country but thousands turned up to counter the protesters. But the community has moved on with the overall vaccination rate rising to …. Cricket Australia blah blah blah…’
Let’s go Brandan!
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Gee whats the odds of the “anti fascist” protesters in Perth being Stalin slurping Socialist alliance types??
Also note the ABCcess mentions “2 protesting groups” as though they are similar size…A handful of their policies.
https://socialist-alliance.org/policy
An immediate rise in company tax to 49%; establish an additional super-profits tax
Nationalise the mines, banks and energy companies, under community and workers’ control
A planned shift to 100% renewable energy within 5-10 years via public investment and emission reduction targets
No nuclear energy, no nuclear weapons and no uranium mining
Full industrial, residency and citizenship rights for all migrant workers
Allow workers to retire on the pension at age 55 if they so choose
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Gab, I saw the procession at Flagstaff Gardens as we were leaving around 2.30ish. There were quite a few of you too which was excellent.
Mater, I joined the march at Russell and Bourke as we were running late at around 12.15ish. We were about half a block from the head of the march. Got to Flagstaff 1.15ish. We stood under the tree on corner of William and Flagstaff and the area around the MC etc was already quite large, probably already 25K. And the area around us filled quickly as the line marching behind filed in. Around 1.50ish we decided to move down the left and up the side to the left of the MC area near King looking back to William and Flagstaff corner. We could still see people coming through around 2. Even when we left around 2.30 people were still coming up in small groups up Latrobe as we were walking back to QV for lunch and to our car. Massive crowd. It was great to see. People were overjoyed.
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Winston.
From earlier today,I think.
Excellent Lionel Shriver article at the pommie Spectator.
“In every age group over 30 in the UK, the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed. Indeed, in the cohorts aged between 40 and 79, infection rates among the vaccinated are more than twice as high as among the unvaccinated.” -
…but what in blazes were the counter-protestors protesting for, or against?
Were they madly in favour of the pandemonium act? In favour of the panjandrum premier? Were they supporting the brave Vicktorian health workers who were battling to penetrate the picket lines and get to work? Were they holding off the demented mob so that steely-hearted workers could upgrade rail-lines unhindered?
Or were they against the crowd gatherings, and selflessly trying to disperse the mob into 1.8m2 density? Were they struggling to hand out paper masks to the raging mistaken libertyniks, through the barricades? Were they calling out available jab appointments to the immovable passing cattle, pen poised vainly at the ready above an empty appointments sheet on a clipboard?
Counter-protest of hundreds… my arse. Id’ be interested to see if any of the upper house muppets addressed the brave minority. -
This afternoon a number of people walking eastward along the Brisbane river walkway had flags ,either furled or fluttering in the breeze another had a large yellow sign folded and tucked under her arm , An exhausted “the media is the virus “wearing T shirt was resting his feet which indicated we had a march in Brisbane this afternoon. They estimated that there was about 50,000 as it was jam packed and difficult to move. One absentee lady ( a classic example of Dan Andrews domestic terrorist) gets her information from a blog called telegram any one know it?
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Moley, that bird’s mid-forehead fringe is a danger sign.
And what’s with the masks? Is Perth masked up at the mo? Or is it a useful tinfoil-hat facsimile for the mad lefty spotter?
I used to hang in the arts precinct in my uni days… looks like the same socialist grifters are stiull clogging up the space, it’s just there’s been a hundred million dollars of mining money spent tarting up the grounds around them. -
A counter-protest organised by the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) in Carlton attracted around 300 people.
As they say in the classics, “oh, the ironing!”
If they were truly anti-fascists, they would be protesting Dictator Dan’s legislation, not in favour of it.
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I did not have a watch nor a phone to verify things, but about block or so away from Flagstaff along William St, a small group walking in the opposite direction was telling us all to head back to Spring St because the protesters had been misled in that they were heading towards a gathering which was a music festival. Some protesters doubled back; I did not, preferring the nearby gardens to the distant Spring St. What a surprise then to see the many thousands of protesters already settled in the gardens. They must have got there so much earlier than the rearguard – that is to say, it was a very big gathering, all up. As for the group spreading misinformation, can’t say what they were about.
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