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The Black Brook, John Singer Sargent, 1908

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feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 12:40 pm

Did 3AW take the same “private conversation” stance with Trump grab them by the…..tape?

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 12, 2022 12:40 pm

Just clicked on my email sent out by the War Memorial every month. It advertises Wartime, their $1o magazine. This month has this information:

WARTIME ISSUE 97 OUT NOW

The Summer 2022 edition of Wartime magazine, “Wars of Empire”, is out now! Featured articles include:

Wiray bimirr madhu by Angus Murray. Wiradjuri warriors and their allies fiercely resisted the advance of colonial forces across the Australian Frontier, 1825-41

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 12, 2022 12:40 pm

2. Finding a house in inner city Melbourne with “Land Rights Now” and “Give it Back” stickers in the window, and teeing up an Aboriginal bloke to knock on the door and reclaim his property.

Two Aboriginal comedians did the same thing in Sydney a few years ago – find a house with “Land Rights Now” and “Give it back ” stickers in the window, knock on the door, and ask if they could stay in the spare room for a few days.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 12, 2022 12:41 pm

The truth is that Morrison is a fucking disgrace.

Harsh, fair and true

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 12:42 pm

Instead, Melburnians are reportedly planning to boo him.

Breaking news: Adam Goodes says don’t boo Joker because of something something.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 12:43 pm

For the $1000 non reporting of the RAT test results: “I bought it but lost the test before I used it” or “I bought it and haven’t used it yet” would get them off your backs. No way they could prove otherwise.

The NSW government is reportedly seeking legal advice after having announced the fine.

Perhaps some conscientious public servant in the Premier’s department has pointed out the legal minefield they’re about to step on to.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 12:44 pm

Why vote for either of them if you can get the same full-on Stalinism from Comrade Albo?

Enough of this Communism Lite!

I want the real stuff! Vote 1 Albo!*

*Free special massage with every vote!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 12:45 pm

Lots of columns in today’s media saying this shortage of RAT’s was totally predictable by authors who didn’t predict it.

Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich
January 12, 2022 12:46 pm

Per Pfizer CEO, by March the tripe-vaxxed will also be unvaccinated.

I feel for him, Gerrard, Palace Chook, Dear Leader, Perrotet and other politico/medico authoritarians. Must be exhausting constantly shifting goalposts.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 12:46 pm

Two Aboriginal comedians did the same thing in Sydney a few years ago – find a house with “Land Rights Now” and “Give it back ” stickers in the window, knock on the door, and ask if they could stay in the spare room for a few days.

The ABC produced an all indigenous comedy review a few years ago that, surprisingly, wasn’t afraid to have a go at some shibboleths of their culture. For some reason it got cut.

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 12:47 pm

The only pandemic in human history that requires a test to establish a ‘victim’ is ‘sick.’

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 12:49 pm

Speaking of indigenous, this is hilarious…
No criticism of that lovely lady. She’s earning a dollar from white idiots. Good for her.

https://twitter.com/BenDavisCP/status/1481036923636699137

Kneel
Kneel
January 12, 2022 12:57 pm

“Necessity is the mother of invention!”

Saw what you did there – nice!

My normal response to that quote is: Yes, but it’s not an immaculate conception. Invention has a father too – and that father is laziness!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 12:59 pm

The fake signer/interpreter winging it?
Been done before.

Mater
January 12, 2022 1:03 pm

Speaking of indigenous, this is hilarious…

Kinda like Pidgin English, but less Pidgin and more English.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:03 pm

Perhaps some conscientious public servant in the Premier’s department has pointed out the legal minefield they’re about to step on to.

Retrospectivity being one which immediately springs to mind.
Good luck announcing a law on the 12th backdated to the 1st to retain proof of tests when the instructions accompanying the test explicitly say to place the used kit in the plastic bag provided and dispose of appropriately.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 12, 2022 1:05 pm

No. Happy endings will be a medicare item with a small gap.

Iseewhatyoudidthere….

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 12, 2022 1:06 pm

The media drumbeat to have the Morrison Government boot Aussie Novak increases:

Murdoch:

If Novak Djokovic spends another day in Australia it’s a kick in the face to millions of Aussies who have sacrificed for the greater good.

Turnbull-Grauniad:

In its incompetent handling of Djokovic’s case, the Australian government has exposed not just one bizarre case, but systemic, structural flaws in the way Australia treats those who arrive on its shores.

Not expelling Djokovic also reveals a shocking lack of commitment to NetZero and a Voice to Parliament.

Vicki
January 12, 2022 1:07 pm

This new edict re RATs is a new low in the scale of insanity in this land.

It’s both amusing and frightening how few can perceive this.

Speedbox
January 12, 2022 1:07 pm

Eyrie says:
January 12, 2022 at 10:12 am
Electric aircraft is one of the more stupid things that could be done.

I’ve been reading about the development of nitrogen powered aircraft. Any thoughts on that?

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 12, 2022 1:07 pm

Two Aboriginal comedians did the same thing in Sydney a few years ago – find a house with “Land Rights Now” and “Give it back ” stickers in the window, knock on the door, and ask if they could stay in the spare room for a few days.

Anybody remember the skit on the original Fast Forward with Ernie Dingo and another indigenous dude at a house auction, with iirc Ernie hanging over the side fence with a cuppa and having a ‘friendly chat’ with the participants, and his mate picking up the house for next to nothing, ends with Ernie saying to his mate , “if hurry we can make it to (address)” ?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:08 pm

Kinda like Pidgin English, but less Pidgin and more English.

Just adding “fellah” and “him one” here and there.
Like English speakers in Italy who add vowels to the end of English words, thinking this will be immediately understood by Italians.
Throwing “le” liberally into English sentences in France works just as well.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 12, 2022 1:08 pm

Sancho

Callers handing them their arse by pointing out a number of examples where Seven has broadcast private conversations of others.

I recall something about “Sh1t happens”?

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 1:08 pm

Blancolirio, Planes VS Trains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWRcy2ZD3Ow

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:10 pm

40,000 cases in Victorianistan today.
The approximate number attributable to Djokovic?
Zero.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 12, 2022 1:11 pm

Glenn Beck’s new book The Great Reset is about all the fissures in western society being wedged further open, all the new rules and cancellations, the coming financial melt-down and the emergence of the new normal aka the new fascism or oligarchy, the elites doing ok, everyone else reduced to serfdom. Start worrying about your assets and your food supply lines.
He says it is going to affect the entire western world, and while it sounds like another conspiracy theory he’s convinced it’s on.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 1:11 pm

Eyrie says:
January 12, 2022 at 10:12 am
Electric aircraft is one of the more stupid things that could be done.

Could have an application in light sport aircraft. Particularly given that engine failure is a big cause of a smoking hole in the ground.

Easy to do, see Peter Sripol.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 1:13 pm

40,000 cases in Victorianistan today.

A rather slack effort Victorians! You can beat 100k!

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 12, 2022 1:14 pm

I was being facetious.
Tyrants can kiss my arse.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 1:14 pm

If Novak Djokovic spends another day in Australia it’s a kick in the face to millions of Aussies who have been sacrificed for the greater good to prop up a false narrative.

srr
srr
January 12, 2022 1:16 pm

“The implications here exceed those of the Pentagon Papers.” -Dr. Malone on #ExposeFauci by Veritas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWAKbK4YAVY

Jan 12, 2022
Project Veritas
1.44M subscribers

Chris
Chris
January 12, 2022 1:17 pm

Could have an application in light sport aircraft. Particularly given that engine failure is a big cause of a smoking hole in the ground.

I do not approve of smoking holes in the ground. And adding 3000kg of lead-acid batteries to light experimental aircraft would certainly do more for aviation safety than the equivalent weight of bureaucrats.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 1:17 pm

If Novak Djokovic spends another day in Australia it’s a kick in the face to millions of Aussies who have sacrificed for the greater good.

“the greater good”.

Has a Stalinesque feel to it.

God help the individual who gets in the way of “the greater good”, for it’s his or her rights that will be the sacrificed. The rest voluntarily offer them up…”for the greater good.”

Comrades.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 12, 2022 1:17 pm

Like English speakers in Italy who add vowels to the end of English words, thinking this will be immediately understood by Italians.

Seasoned English travellers make no such concessions. All you have to do is speak loudly and Johnny Foreigner will understand you perfectly well.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 1:18 pm

Funny how people who have been systematically gaslighted and propagandised into having needles stuck in their arms and told to stay home and wear masks willingly through fear of infection and death are suddenly transmogrified into people making a sacrifice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:23 pm

rickwsays:

January 12, 2022 at 1:13 pm

40,000 cases in Victorianistan today.

A rather slack effort Victorians! You can beat 100k!

What’s today?
Wednesday?
Call me back Friday.
This is a good thing.
By the end of next week, everyone in the state will have had it, or know several people who have had it, most of whom will report few or no symptoms.
Word of mouth is the best form of advertising.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 1:27 pm

The Murdoch scribblers remind me of Saruman trying to horse-trade with his captors, using the simple but powerful spell of words.

Some will believe, because the spell is strong in them and the words match their own desire. Others will look at the truth or otherwise behind the words and see that they “stand on their heads”.

The spell needs to be broken. I see Mark Latham is doing his best, as is Craig Kelly. We need more spell-breakers.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 12, 2022 1:28 pm

the greater good

das höhere Wohl

or

??????? ?????
bol’sheye blago

Depending on the flavor of dictatorial ballsack you are gargling.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:28 pm

Seasoned English travellers make no such concessions. All you have to do is speak loudly and Johnny Foreigner will understand you perfectly well.

Ah yes.
50 decibels is indecipherable.
Repeating the same phrase at 110 decibels makes it instantly comprehensible.
Even better if you slow it down to “thickhead foreigner” pace.
About five years ago a waitress in a fancy-pants restaurant in Vienna apologised profusely for addressing us in Cherman rather than English.
I told her she should never apologise for speaking her native language in her own country.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 12, 2022 1:29 pm

I quite like the bolshie blago one.
Make a good name for the the covid Karens..

“Shut up bolshie blago”

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
January 12, 2022 1:30 pm

The media drumbeat to have the Morrison Government boot Aussie Novak increases

We’ve all got fuck all chance of being listened to by SloMo, but he sure as hell will listen to his enemies. The guy’s a goddamned moron.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:32 pm

Rita Panahi on 3AW from the good old US of A.
Asked about what Americans thought of the Djokovic thing she repeated precisely what I said to Mrs Panzer yesterday:-
“People are saying, Gee, if they can do that to him, what might they do to me if I travel to Australia?”
If only our PM had worked in tourism at some stage, he would understand that.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 1:33 pm

Funny how people who have been systematically gaslighted and propagandised into having needles stuck in their arms and told to stay home and wear masks willingly through fear of infection and death are suddenly transmogrified into people making a sacrifice.

Say…maybe the Mudrock press is evil, after all?

Just not in the way prog-lefties feverishly imagined.

mizaris
mizaris
January 12, 2022 1:33 pm

We can pick the federal model from whichever state model works best.

Too late – we’ve already got the feral model.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 1:38 pm

Chuckle. The Beloved does that when we travel, breaking into a weird, loud Pidgin English if he’s under pressure. He gets a kick in the shins for his trouble.

Then he lets me do the talking.

It helps to have a smattering of the local language. Funniest episode was in Lyon at one of those “nose to tail” restaurants – he saw something on the menu and ordered it much to my horror and warning that he “may not like it”. He didn’t. But he manfully ate most of it, chewing vigorously and saying, “Yum!” – for my benefit, of course. Turned out both waiter and chef had worked in Sydney and had perfect English.

Figures
Figures
January 12, 2022 1:39 pm

Yes but nobody ever said the vaccines would work in any way to prevent infection, transmission or severe illness. Their entire purpose is to virtue signal your obedience. And in that, they’re exceptionally effective.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/pfizer-boss-says-two-doses-provides-limited-protection-if-any-against-omicron/news-story/9d76126d080e2010f05eb0b4ae5e0c45#share-tools

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 1:41 pm

The drums! The drums!

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 1:41 pm

About five years ago a waitress in a fancy-pants restaurant in Vienna apologised profusely for addressing us in Cherman rather than English.

Unlike the French (generally), the Germanophones will try to accomodate an English speaker. They’re very polite in that way.

Visitant
Visitant
January 12, 2022 1:46 pm

Test

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 1:47 pm

Moronocracy.
Is that better or worse than Idiocracy?

Where does Farquitocracy fit in?

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 12, 2022 1:47 pm

I’ve been reading about the development of nitrogen powered aircraft. Any thoughts on that?

Got a URL for that, Speedbox?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:48 pm

It helps to have a smattering of the local language. 

Exactly.
Making a hapless attempt to start the conversation in the local language really helps.
The rest of the exchange might continue in English, but a little mark of respect goes a long way.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
January 12, 2022 1:49 pm

If only our PM had worked in tourism at some stage, he would understand that.

Brilliant, Sancho. How could someone so stupid ever become PM? He doesn’t even have rat cunning.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 12, 2022 1:50 pm

If Johnnie Foreigners needed to speak to me they had better to have used English.
Silly to let them know you speakee the local lingo.
It has been one of the greatest pleasures in my travels to speak English loud and slow as if to a moron.
And remember, if a froggie pretends to not understand English mangle your French. They capiche English chop chop then.
Travel in the old days. It was for winners.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 12, 2022 1:50 pm

OK quick search turned a discussion saying it was a bad idea. About like using compressed or liquid air.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 12, 2022 1:51 pm

Joy of a new page to you all.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 1:51 pm

Australia is such a pack of wuss bags.
Compare this omicron sniffle in Oz to the original wave that ripped through Brazil.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 1:52 pm

Also, as it’s a new page, GFB.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 1:53 pm

Transport Scooters in Goma DRC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTy2aifnvRQ

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 1:54 pm

Being rude to Johnny Foreigner in a restaurant setting may have certain drawbacks.

Play safe. Be nice.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 1:54 pm

Compare this omicron sniffle in Oz to the original wave that ripped through Brazil.

Talking to a mate today that has it:

“Spicy Sniffle”

Zipster
Zipster
January 12, 2022 1:56 pm

top 100!

Zipster
Zipster
January 12, 2022 1:58 pm

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/is-original-antigenic-sin-starting

if this is what it looks like to me, this is not spreading like wildfire in these groups because omicron is some crazy new superspread variant. it’s spreading because all these people over-trained their immune systems against a specific spike protein pattern and their immune response is now a one trick pony that cannot mount an effective sterilizing resistance against variants and perhaps will NEVER gain this capability.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 1:58 pm

How could someone so stupid ever become PM? He doesn’t even have rat cunning.

That is what shits me.
Dan needed Djokovic here.
He set up two committees to grant him double exemption from double vaxxing.
He would have to deal with the Karen fallout of letting him into Melbourne Park.
This turd was squarely in the middle of Dan’s doormat.
Then, underpants on the outside, in jumps ScoMo.
Squuiiisssh.
His dim bulb advisers told him Djoker would be on the jet back home by breakfast time, and ScoMo would be on the Kochie-Karl-Fran circuit telling everyone how tough he was on rule-breakers.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 12, 2022 1:59 pm

Calli,
That is a known risk.
I’ve been jacked to slave more than once in Officers’ messes.
Another reason never to commission.

Zipster
Zipster
January 12, 2022 1:59 pm
Eyrie
Eyrie
January 12, 2022 2:01 pm

The point of my comment about electric aircraft was that the tech doesn’t scale well. Works great for R/C models but even there expense rapidly goes up as the aircraft gets bigger.
Works “reasonably” for self launching sailplanes and yes, it can be made to work for light sport aircraft – See Pipistrel but you get an hour or so endurance at best and will be hammering the battery.
Note there has been at least one fatality (NZ) with electric self launching gliders where the battery pack caught fire. A case where a ballistic chute on the aircraft doesn’t help. There have been others where fires or incipient fires happened.
As for reliability – one study of a two stroke piston engined self launching sailplane turned up a mean time between failures of the powerplant system was 2.2 hours. You’d think electric would be easier but a similar electric showed 2 hours between failures.
Landing a Light Sport Aircraft after an engine failure is fairly easy and survivable. You may even get to use the aircraft again. Stall speed 45 knots max. Deduct wind speed for touchdown speed.
Don’t fly over tiger country, plan takeoffs and climb out carefully and fly nice tight circuits where if the powerplant fails you can make the strip.

Zipster
Zipster
January 12, 2022 2:02 pm

if this is what it looks like to me, this is not spreading like wildfire in these groups because omicron is some crazy new superspread variant. it’s spreading because all these people over-trained their immune systems against a specific spike protein pattern and their immune response is now a one trick pony that cannot mount an effective sterilizing resistance against variants and perhaps will NEVER gain this capability.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 2:04 pm

How could someone so stupid ever become PM? He doesn’t even have rat cunning

No. He had the Hero of Beaconsfield.

He won’t be so lucky next time.

Chris
Chris
January 12, 2022 2:06 pm

We’ve all got fuck all chance of being listened to by SloMo, but he sure as hell will listen to his enemies.

From Little Johnny on guns, to today’s astonishing Liberal-created national debt, the Liberals have been playing to the (press) gallery.

Remember when the Libs one job was fixing Labor debt?

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 2:09 pm

I get that, Zipster. And it may be that the immune system won’t give Omicron the shove once it’s compromised.

Why then have people not dropped like flies to other coronaviruses after inoculation? If the immune system has been wrecked, you’d expect to see lots of really serious reactions to other illnesses doing the rounds. We’ve had at least a year to observe this.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
January 12, 2022 2:10 pm

I wonder how much of the anti-Djokovic sentiment is also latent frustration that Margaret Court’s accomplishments remain unsurpassed. ‘They’ wanted Williams to do that at the AO so bad…

twostix
twostix
January 12, 2022 2:10 pm

The retrospective fine thing is red meat to the karens, but the critique of this is the implementation of a system where you have to tell the government every time you have a runny nose or they’ll fine you.

And it will be ‘enforced’ by making you take it before entering to doctors, hospitals, certain industries and many workplaces will demand it. As CL linked to Ron Desantis saying, it’s lockdown by stealth.

Franx
Franx
January 12, 2022 2:13 pm

So the the vaxx has been a sacrifice, and nothing to do with being inoculated against a virus. Fine, but time then to name who or what was propitiated in the sacrifice.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 2:16 pm

it’s lockdown by stealth.

It’s more than that.

It supersedes vaxx “passports” for those who want to participate in normal life and services, now that “vaxx” does not mean what they would have you think it means.

The technology will likely get to the same level as temperature-taking, but with a q tip and scanner. Pass and the turnstile of life opens.

Digger
Digger
January 12, 2022 2:23 pm

Voting for other than the Liberal Party doesn’t necessarily mean handing it to Labor. As long as the LNP are above ALP and Greens in your preferences, voting for a minor party/ies, is both workable, principled and, in my case, desirable. It delivers a message.

In what universe, doesn’t it hand it to Labor? Ending up like Italy and Israel with 20 parties and 6 monthly elections looks really sound, principled, responsible and desirable… not for me thanks.

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 2:25 pm

Our politicians and health clerks are herding us towards a Butlerian jihad.

(read Dune if you don’t know what this means)

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 2:27 pm

Ending up like Italy and Israel with 20 parties and 6 monthly elections

YES. YES. YES.
Please.

(where did I put the towel?)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 2:29 pm

Miss Anthropistsays:

January 12, 2022 at 1:50 pm

If Johnnie Foreigners needed to speak to me they had better to have used English.

That stuff in your salad.
It wasn’t mayonnaise.

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 2:31 pm

I want to highlight the egregious lying of Gerrard and “D’ath today:

Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard said the data coming through now – with 525 cases now requiring treatment in hospital – was making it very clear that people needed to be vaccinated.

“You are nine times more likely to end up in hospital if you are unvaccinated than if you are triple vaxxed,” he said.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says the details surrounding the hospitalisations reflect the state of vaccinations in Queensland, and urged people to get their booster shots.

“If you are not vaccinated out there, the clear evidence out there based on hospitalisation rates is you are nine times more likely to end up in hospital than someone who is triple-vaxxed,” she said.

“The evidence is clear: Go get vaccinated.”

Then:

Ms D’Ath said Queensland was not mandating the booster dose “at the moment”.

Ergo: Officially, double-vaccinated still means FULLY VACCINATED in Queensland – except when a double-vaccinated person is hospitalised. Then he or she becomes unvaccinated for propaganda purposes.

They are openly lying.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 2:32 pm

From Little Johnny on guns, to today’s astonishing Liberal-created national debt, the Liberals have been playing to the (press) gallery.

The role of the Liberal Party in modern Australia is essentially twofold:

1. To serve as the outer faction of the Uniparty which provides a semblance of opposition to the inner faction and thus gives the voter a putative choice, but ends up ratifying the inner faction’s agenda anyway.

2. To provide lucrative careers for its inner circle of members.

Abbott was a brief interruption to normal service, which has since been resumed.

Digger
Digger
January 12, 2022 2:32 pm

Ten years of unstable multi party coalitons is worth it to destroy the political establishment of LNP/GRN/LAB.

Be worth revisiting this statement in about January 2024

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 12, 2022 2:32 pm

How could someone so stupid ever become PM? He doesn’t even have rat cunning.

He’s not Spud.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 2:33 pm

They are openly lying.

That aint noose.

Kneel
Kneel
January 12, 2022 2:35 pm

“I recall something about “Sh1t happens”?”

Shit doesn’t just happen – arseholes make it happen!

(had to argue against, eh?)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 2:35 pm

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

Yeah, you’re right.
As incompetent and wishy-washy as ScoMo and Co are, imagine what the last two years would have been like with Dan and Albo in tandem.
Yes, it is an unpalatable choice.
I will be going down Mater’s path.
Solid independents and minors at the top of the ballot, but when it comes to Green, ALP or LNP down the bottom, I cannot go Green/ALP.
At least it deprives the majors of AEC funding.
And, no matter who it is in the Senate, I am voting below the line.
One of the most sinister things in Australian politics is the Glen Drury types, cobbling together preference marriages which end up giving us Animal Justice, Hunch Party, Fiona Patten etc etc.
Voting minor party and below the line fucks up his game.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 12, 2022 2:38 pm

This is a sad article.

Basically woo vs science.
Woo wins.

The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America’s Indigenous Peoples

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 2:39 pm

‘They’ wanted Williams to do that at the AO so bad…

Can you imagine if it was Serena Williams being locked up in hotel quarantine?
Fuck.
Al Sharpton would be banging on about slavery and the AOC hit squad would be insisting a seal team be sent to the rescue.

bespoke
bespoke
January 12, 2022 2:39 pm

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

People feel taken for granted. How else is there to get the message across apart from voting for the miner parties, Digger?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 12, 2022 2:40 pm

The Lieborals always get my 4th preference ahead of the Liars and Greens in the HoR. Job done.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 2:41 pm

People feel taken for granted

Betrayed might be a better word.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 12, 2022 2:42 pm

If Novak Djokovic spends another day in Australia it’s a kick in the face to millions of Aussies who have sacrificed for the greater good.

Actually, the millions of Aussies have been kicked in the face for two years because they are governed by thugs and if Novak spends another day in Australia the thugs might have to explain why they are still kicking Aussies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 2:42 pm

Someone mentioned upthread that Jesus was a carpenter.
Can anyone tell me what brand of cordless tool he recommends?
He looks like a DeWalt man to me.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 12, 2022 2:43 pm

AOC hit squad would be insisting a seal team be sent to the rescue.

Nat thats Knuckles little love wombat, Christeen “more pies” in her black latex lingerie after they texted the bain marie was “all you can eat” at the hotel.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 12, 2022 2:44 pm

Yeah those Independents are really kicking goals in Victoriastan. Folded faster than a cheap tent.

Speedbox
January 12, 2022 2:45 pm

The guy’s a goddamned moron.

Yes, but it’s impossible to not wonder who advises him. Morrison doesn’t live in a vacuum by himself. He has a wealth of researchers, advisers, Chief of Staff and other Ministers to consult. How is it that somebody can be so awkward and clumsy (not to mention wrong) on so many issues. Is his strategic thinking utterly clouded by his desire to be liked and be seen as everybody’s mate? Has he not seen how time and again those who he panders to have ruthlessly turned on him? Hasn’t any one of his advisers noted the continued erosion of the Liberal base?

This blog is a case in point. Many Cats are lifelong LNP voters (myself included) but who have also recently said that Hell will freeze over before they will vote for Morrison/LNP at the next election.

The latest polls are a very serious concern – frightful – for an incumbent. Even if the polling of voting intention translates to only 50% of actual votes cast, Labor will be swept to power with a significant majority that will see the LNP on the opposition benches for two terms. Populist policies and stroking the ego of noisy fringe groups has a use-by date. Yet the disenfranchisement and/or outright insult to the traditional LNP voter continues whilst the Government continues to pander to those who have never, and will never, vote for them.

For a long time I wondered whether the people advising for Morrison were actually Labor ‘plants’ but Morrison is doing this to himself – albeit with a chorus of support from those around him. I can’t help but be bemused, and alarmed, at how ‘cack handed’ Morrison’s tenure as PM has been.

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 2:46 pm

Can you imagine if it was Serena Williams being locked up in hotel quarantine?
Fuck.
Al Sharpton would be banging on about slavery and the AOC hit squad would be insisting a seal team be sent to the rescue.

A seal team is what it would take.

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 2:46 pm

“Ending up like Italy and Israel with 20 parties and 6 monthly elections looks really sound, principled, responsible and desirable… not for me thanks.”

An election every six months! Yes please.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 2:49 pm

This turd was squarely in the middle of Dan’s doormat.
Then, underpants on the outside, in jumps ScoMo.
Squuiiisssh.

Pretty accurate.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 2:49 pm

An election every six months! Yes please.

And Gobbmint employees not allowed to vote.

Bruce
Bruce
January 12, 2022 2:49 pm

Tom:

In actual countries, if a demand is noticed, a supply will arise. However, if you have a “supply” that nobody wants, what happens then? Add in the toxic hand of “government” and it all gets bent very quickly. “Spillage” is not productivity.

Furthermore, if your particular cess-pit body polotic smacks down actual innovators and regulates and taxes the daylights of anyone who gets back up, what should one expect?

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 12, 2022 2:51 pm

Please, bring it on! The Deplorables will love it.

A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024. Several circumstances – President Biden’s low approval rating, doubts over his capacity to run for re-election at 82, Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, and the absence of another strong Democrat to lead the ticket in 2024 -have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs Clinton viably could fill.

She is already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee. She is an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr Biden and can offer a different approach from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking. If Democrats lose control of Congress in 2022, Mrs Clinton can use the party’s loss as a basis to run for president again, enabling her to claim the title of “change candidate.”

Based on her latest public statements, it’s clear that Mrs Clinton not only recognizes her position as a potential front-runner but also is setting up a process to help her decide whether or not to run for president again. She recently warned of the electoral consequences in the 2022 midterms if the Democratic Party continues to align itself with its progressive wing and urged Democrats to reject far-left positions that isolate key segments of the electorate.

In a recent MSNBC interview, Mrs Clinton called on Democrats to engage in “careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.” She also noted that party’s House majority “comes from people who win in much more difficult districts.”

Oz

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 12, 2022 2:51 pm

Someone mentioned upthread that Jesus was a carpenter.
Can anyone tell me what brand of cordless tool he recommends?

Septuagint. It’s a great tool and has lasted well over two thousand years so far.

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 2:53 pm

“Speedboxsays:
January 12, 2022 at 2:45 pm”

Excellent comment.

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 2:54 pm

A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024.

The Wall Street Journal catches up with Wayne Allyn Root and yours truly:

https://thecurrencylad.com/2021/11/30/step-one-cancel-kamala/

Chris
Chris
January 12, 2022 2:55 pm

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

Yes and…
The ‘stable’ two-party system plus the odd minor is only good if the parties are working ‘as advertised’. The Liberals have stopped being the good guys who straighten out the mess. They have stopped representing business, real jobs and the rule of law. Now they make a mess just like the others.
And they certainly don’t listen when rationality requests a hearing. The media have only about six rational representatives and no longer constitute a ‘loyal opposition’.
So the sensible centre are fucked.

Betrayed might be a better word.

And what do the sensible centre do when they are betrayed? Like when the Liberals sold us to Malturd, they vote against their interests to punish the betrayers.
When your Liberal Party stop betraying the sensible centre I will reconsider voting, donating and volunteering Labor and/or minor parties.

And what have the Liberals (whoops, the only Liberal) done for Western Australia lately? They certainly haven’t been limiting the power of Government to fuck things up.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 2:56 pm

The latest polls are a very serious concern – frightful – for an incumbent.

If they’d done their jobs more effectively they’d have nothing to fear.

The party room is meant to serve as a sounding board for and a check on the PM & Cabinet.

One can only assume they’ve not been doing that or are fully on board with Morrison’s agenda.

I have no sympathy for any who might lose their seats.

C.L.
C.L.
January 12, 2022 2:57 pm

Great comment, Speedy.

For a long time I wondered whether the people advising for Morrison were actually Labor ‘plants’ but Morrison is doing this to himself.

With a LOT of help from The Australian. Every idiotic thing he has done was cheered and encouraged by the national daily.

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 3:00 pm

“Chrissays:
January 12, 2022 at 2:55 pm”

Another excellent comment.

twostix
twostix
January 12, 2022 3:01 pm

Speaking of the ongoing mental decline of the media class, The Australian “breaks” the story that a tennis player took his mask off once:

Djokovic: I attended event while positive
Tennis star admits attending photo-shoot while positive and removing his mask for pictures on December 18; blames ‘human error’ for his incorrect travel declaration.

Dot
Dot
January 12, 2022 3:04 pm

“Ending up like Italy and Israel with 20 parties and 6 monthly elections looks really sound, principled, responsible and desirable… not for me thanks.”

They are successful countries – I am willing to have this for 10 years if it breaks the backs of the LNP, ALP and GRN.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 3:05 pm

A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024.

It would be very unwise of them to neglect the on point punditry of Norm Macdonald:

‘Americans hate Hillary Clinton so much they elected Donald Trump president.’

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 3:08 pm

“They are successful countries – I am willing to have this for 10 years if it breaks the backs of the LNP, ALP and GRN.”

Correct.

Roger
Roger
January 12, 2022 3:12 pm

“They are successful countries – I am willing to have this for 10 years if it breaks the backs of the LNP, ALP and GRN.”

Some of their success can surely be attributed to the politicians being so preooccupied with their petty games that the rest of the country is allowed to get on with business without their interference. Both Italy & Israel are sophisticated exporters of a range of products that puts Australia to shame.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 3:12 pm

Dear Lord, please protect me from Delingpole‘s pen.

… Australia has stolen the crown previously held by Canada (or arguably New Zealand) as the most embarrassing country in the world. It’s not the Australian people’s fault (well, only a bit: they can’t help being descended from convicts and prison warders) but the fault of their heroically useless political class. Peevish, petty, bullying, irrational, slippery, dishonest, CCP-controlled, authoritarian and quite epically thick, Australia’s governing class is so inept and wrongheaded that it threatens to make even Kazakhstan’s look like a model of integrity.
This has been evident for some time: the fascistic zeal with which state premier Dan Andrews has locked down Victoria; the quarantine camps imposed on the unvaccinated by Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner. But now Australia has gone right to the top of the global superleague of Clown Nations by fighting — and losing – an entirely unnecessary war with tennis star Novak Djokovic.

By picking on one of the world’s most famous sporting superstars, though, Australia has suddenly drawn attention to itself. The rock has been lifted and (no disrespect to the Australian people, only to their appallingly useless political class) and the underside has been revealed to be swarming with cockroaches.
Make no mistake, Australian federal government v Novak Djokovic has been utterly disastrous for the cause of vaccine passports and vaccine regulations.
Djokovic emerges as a bigger hero than ever before.
Australia’s image will not recover for years.

Peevish, petty, bullying, irrational, slippery, dishonest, CCP-controlled, authoritarian and quite epically thick, Australia’s governing class is so inept and wrongheaded that it threatens to make even Kazakhstan’s look like a model of integrity.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 12, 2022 3:16 pm

Why then have people not dropped like flies to other coronaviruses after inoculation? If the immune system has been wrecked, you’d expect to see lots of really serious reactions to other illnesses doing the rounds. We’ve had at least a year to observe this.

Calli, look up the Indiana insurance company numbers. 40% increase in deaths (not covid) of working age people since jab rollout. This gels with the Brit funeral director’s experience a few months ago.
Now there aren’t all that many deaths of working age people so the numbers aren’t all that huge so are relatively unnoticeable except if your company profits depend on them.
This is all only early days yet.

Dot
Dot
January 12, 2022 3:20 pm

That’s the best thing Delingpole has written. Golf claps all around.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

A seal team is what it would take.

Be best to use a walrus team, just to be sure of mission success.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 3:22 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

In concert with others, I have to question the methodology on this one.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 3:34 pm

“Seal team” was a totally unintentional pun.
As Cats know, I never, ever deliberately denigrate anyone.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 12, 2022 3:34 pm

Australian politicians are finding out the only thing worse than not being talked about is being talked about. Or something like that.

Finally world class in something.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 3:34 pm

Of course this is how you measure temperature in January in Australia.

Since New Year, Sydney has been experiencing minimum temperatures so warm that if repeated until the end of the month it would be the third hottest January on record measured by overnight lows.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 3:40 pm

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that.

Probably needs the qualifier “in the Lower House”.
But true.
You can pontificate all you like, but with preferential voting, you can put a truckload of independents up the top of the ballot paper, but when you get down the bottom, there is a fork in the road.
LNP or ALP/Greens.
Inescapable.
Yes, yes, I know.
UAP is a Big Chance in Lot Of Seats.
Fat Cloive said so.
But the hard truth is, Kelly could hold on and he might – just maybe – fluke another seat in the Reps.
For the remaining 148-149? seats it will be that LNP/ALP -Green choice.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 3:42 pm

The Merc EV might actually be a winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRm-wezF6kM

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 3:42 pm

third hottest January on record measured by overnight lows.

Would an urban area chockers with millions of tonnes of concrete be causing that?
Heat sink effect anyone?

Vicki
January 12, 2022 3:43 pm

Why then have people not dropped like flies to other coronaviruses after inoculation? If the immune system has been wrecked, you’d expect to see lots of really serious reactions to other illnesses doing the rounds. We’ve had at least a year to observe this.

While they may not be “dropping like flies”, they are numerous accounts (including personal knowledge) from nurses, and those visiting ERs, of unusually large cases of various ailments.

Now, as for “other coronaviruses” & inoculations – to state the obvious – past flu vaccines were not gene editing or gene therapy vaccines.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 3:46 pm

Kazakhstan
I reckon we can beat them.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 3:46 pm

feelthebernsays:

January 12, 2022 at 3:42 pm

The Merc EV might actually be a winner.

Yeah, nah.
I could get that bogged easy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 12, 2022 3:48 pm

A seal team is what it would take.

Be best to use a walrus team

I have the perfect guy for you.

Sea lion with ‘track record for wandering into odd places’ rescued along San Diego highway (7 Jan)

“This specific sea lion has been rescued by SeaWorld’s Rescue team before and has a track record of wandering into odd places,” said Tracy Spahr, spokesperson for SeaWorld San Diego, in an email.

The animal has shown up in other spots somewhat removed from its natural habitat, including near the San Diego International Airport and the Navy Base in Point Loma, though none quite as far from the water as where it was found Friday.

Likes travel, isn’t afraid to go into protected sites like naval bases and airports, and being a sea lion is ferocious and flexible.

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 3:49 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
January 12, 2022 at 3:40 pm”

I think that’s an accurate analysis. However the focus should be on the senate…where minor parties can make a dent.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 3:50 pm

Heat sink effect anyone?

Asphalt concrete terracotta …

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 3:50 pm

With trucks around like that Merc one, the trains would be looking over their shoulder.

Cassie of Sydney
January 12, 2022 3:51 pm

And watch the Liberals preference PHON, Lib Dems and UAP BEHIND Labor and the Greens.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 3:54 pm

UAP – fat chance

Morsie
Morsie
January 12, 2022 3:54 pm

“And watch the Liberals preference PHON, Lib Dems and UAP BEHIND Labor and the Greens.”
Well you preference those who you feel akin to.

Leon L.
Leon L.
January 12, 2022 3:57 pm

No one seems to have made any comments on the Project Veritas report yesterday.

Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

The accompanying document seems too good to be true.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:00 pm

In a moment of genuine seriousness, Tim Dillon told Joe Rogan that half of Hollywood is unvaxxed.
He said to Rogan that every single one of them were all in on BLM.
And now you don’t hear many of them saying much about vaccines.
He then went onto say all the network cattle are all in, but the silence from the big names is deafening.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 4:03 pm

I think it was remiss of Delingpole to not use the words vicious and spiteful.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:06 pm

Funny thing is that when Jim Breuer said that exact same thing last year when he was on the Anthony Cumia show.
They went through a handful of big names instagram & while they were boosting BLM non stop, none of them had said anything about vaccines.
Not definitive, but interesting.

Mater
January 12, 2022 4:07 pm

You can pontificate all you like, but with preferential voting, you can put a truckload of independents up the top of the ballot paper, but when you get down the bottom, there is a fork in the road.

True.
But if the vote eventually flows down to SCOMO, but he sees that it went through UAP, LDP and PHON first, hopefully he’ll see a pattern as to which way he should move (on their key issues).

If you vote for the ALP, that dunderhead (SCOMO) will think he needs to move further left.

If you give your first preference to LNP, he’ll think you approve of his duplicitous bullshit.

To my mind, there is only one, half reasonable, option.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:09 pm

I wonder what would happen if the same scrutiny Djokovic is being subjected to was applied to all the alleged Hollywood stars that have moved freely through Oz over the past two years.
All while citizens couldn’t see dying relatives or attend funerals.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:11 pm

I would rather slam my balls in a car door than give the LNP my AEC funding.
It’s going to the LDP.
If there’s no candidate in Wentworth, I’m drawing a big set of tits on the lower house paper & dropping that in the box.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 4:13 pm

To my mind, there is only one, half reasonable, option.

Agreed.

Peru.

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 12, 2022 4:15 pm

Digger says:
January 12, 2022 at 2:23 pm

Any vote against the LNP is a direct vote for a Labor/ Greens government and no amount of weasel words can change that

I will be preferencing the ALP against the Liberal Party next election as my local member is in the Liberal Party and I want to see all sitting members out of a job. Likewise, if my local member was in the ALP, I’d preference the Liberal Party candidate higher.

Both the government and opposition members have failed Australia, they all deserve to be booted out.

Vote for the UAP, the LDP, One Nation, other minor parties and independents higher than the sitting member, sack the lot of them.

Bluey
Bluey
January 12, 2022 4:20 pm

Living in a safe Labor seat, I’m going to get my name checked off and that’ll be about it unless LDP or UAP run someone.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 12, 2022 4:22 pm

Top comments Speedbox and Chris.

Despite all the enormous political advantages of being a Pandemic Government, effectively having an open chequebook, and having a supine Opposition, Team Morrison has managed to strangle rational conservative politics and practical administration.

Shorten might well have been worse, but it’s almost impossible to imagine how.

Dot
Dot
January 12, 2022 4:22 pm

Bluey – don’t forget the Senate!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:29 pm

53,909 RAT uploads by NSW residents.

Winston Smith
January 12, 2022 4:29 pm

Farmer Gez:

A big shortage of cat food in the supermarkets.
Bloody pensioners!

I’ve been tossing up to see if I should get another pet. Things are very quiet here.
Could get another cat, but a female one this time. All the ones I’ve had before were male and ended up losing all their 9 lives from taunting the local pig dogs or trying to outrun cars.
I could get a dog, but I don’t like big dogs. I detest small yapping things as well. I’d like a smallish dog like a Beagle – but a lazy one that sleeps a lot.
Dunno. Must think about it more.

Dot
Dot
January 12, 2022 4:30 pm

53,909 RAT uploads by NSW residents.

Extended public holiday for all NSW civil servants!

rosie
rosie
January 12, 2022 4:34 pm

My daughter went through a road block when she returned to Queensland

Sent me a photo and she was ticked as they demanded proof of vaxx as well.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:36 pm

How much steel would be needed to build a wall the length of the WA border?

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 4:37 pm

I think it’s important to spell out all the “Original Sin” immunology and its supposed result as per the article posted earlier today.

If what they are saying is correct, then everyone who has received an injection/s will have a severely compromised immune system resulting in succumbing to serious illness and/or death. And this effect is imminent.

Have I got the gist of the thing or am I missing something?

I really need to know as if this is true, then my entire family and pretty much all of my friends will die in the next year or so.

No shilly shallying around – is it true?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 12, 2022 4:39 pm

If there’s no candidate in Wentworth, I’m drawing a big set of tits on the lower house paper & dropping that in the box.

I will have to review the field. Senate is easy, don’t do Libs, but the House of Reps is difficult in Wentworth; a message has to be sent to Allegra Spender of The Voice. I might have to give the Libs a few bucks worth, hold my nose, keep Wentworth Liberal, if there is no alternative protest vote option.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 4:40 pm

calli stop worrying about the death risk, think what it would do to real estate prices!

Chris
Chris
January 12, 2022 4:42 pm

Another excellent comment.

and

Top comments Speedbox and Chris.

I am sincerely chuffed, Cassie and Dr Faustus. Thank you!

Figures
Figures
January 12, 2022 4:43 pm

Say…maybe the Mudrock press is evil, after all?

Just not in the way prog-lefties feverishly imagined.

It was Murdoch – not the ABC – that gave us No Jab No Pay.

Complete arseholes.

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 4:44 pm

I think for something so very important to all of us that this should either be confirmed or put to bed.

If it is untrue, then it’s on the same level of bullshittery as the vaxx promotion itself. Except this time it’s for clicks and eyeballs.

Sorry to ruin everyone’s day and speculative enjoyment by asking a direct question.

Speedbox
January 12, 2022 4:44 pm

feelthebern says:
January 12, 2022 at 4:36 pm

Well, its about 1,900km long but you didn’t say how high you want it and how deep into the ground. Electrified? If electrified, piss off voltage or fvck off voltage?

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 4:45 pm

How much steel would be needed to build a wall the length of the WA border?

2.4m high?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 12, 2022 4:45 pm

Novak himself spreads a little more poo on the Morrison Memorial shit sandwich.

Novak Djokovic releases statement to address COVID-19 ‘misinformation’, but admits to making errors

On the issue of my travel declaration, this was submitted by my support team on my behalf – as I told immigration officials on my arrival – and my agent sincerely apologises for the administrative mistake in ticking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to Australia. This was a human error and certainly not deliberate. We are living in challenging times in a global pandemic and sometimes these mistakes can occur. Today, my team has provided additional information to the Australian Government to clarify this matter.

Obviously “Near enough is good enough for Government Work” translates easily into Serbian.

Australia is now inviting a tsunami of “administrative mistake” and “human error” border declarations – all invoking the Djokovic Defence, if sprung.

Way to go Mr Rules are Rules…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 4:45 pm

Cranky of Sydney at 3:49

I think that’s an accurate analysis. However the focus should be on the senate…where minor parties can make a dent.

Yes, but try to avoid voting above the line unless you have studied the preference deal of your #1 and are on board with it.
Maybe tweak it anyway and vote below the line.
Above the line voting strenghtens the hand of dealmakers like Drury.

Frank
Frank
January 12, 2022 4:47 pm

I’d like a smallish dog like a Beagle – but a lazy one that sleeps a lot.

Beagles are vicious little buggers. Greyhounds sleep all the time and are otherwise pretty laid back. Maybe split the difference and get a whippet and hope for the best.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 4:47 pm

If electrified, piss off voltage or fvck off voltage?

Let’s go “smokin’ pair of shoes” voltage.

Figures
Figures
January 12, 2022 4:50 pm

As for voting it needs to be clear that a huge number of people oppose this bullshit. If, say, 30 per cent of the populous vote in a way that makes it obvious that they explicitly oppose lockdowns and vax mandates then whoever takes government will more than likely back off.

So it doesn’t matter whether you’re in a safe Labor/Liberal/green/whatever seat or the chance of the UAP winning lower house seats, your vote needs to make it obvious where you stand.

Informal votes are no good.

Vote any of UAP, ONP, LDP 1st, 2nd, 3rd, then Greens last, Labor 2nd last, Libs 3rd last.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 12, 2022 4:50 pm

In other news, I have had a very positive response from Friends of Friendless Churches re saving my little church. They know this church and were glad to be notified of its impending peril and of family interest in saving it. They tell me “It’s a gorgeous and highly listed church, and there would a huge outcry if the Church (Diocese) exerted its special privilege of demolishing a listed building”.

Hence, I will put my back into doing some networking to see what family-name support I can muster before making a submission to the Diocese, who have just called for community views on its future, and seeking a personal intereview with them in May. In my eightieth year it gives me a great sense of purpose to be part of saving a church that was built at the time Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing his great Arthurian opus and where my ancestors are buried.

Frank
Frank
January 12, 2022 4:50 pm

How much steel would be needed to build a wall the length of the WA border?

So we can weld them in?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 4:50 pm

How much steel would be needed to build a wall the length of the WA border?

Landmines would be cheaper.
Or automatic 50 cal sentries.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 4:51 pm

I really need to know as if this is true, then my entire family and pretty much all of my friends will die in the next year or so.

No shilly shallying around – is it true?

All over in 18 months to 48 months from October 2021.
All vaxxed dead.
The Great Predictonator told us so.

cohenite
January 12, 2022 4:51 pm

No one seems to have made any comments on the Project Veritas report yesterday.

Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

The accompanying document seems too good to be true.

Bongino was all over it; along with that fat kunt, SC judge sotomayor, and her outrageous lies about the the chunk virus and children.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 4:51 pm

No one seems to have made any comments on the Project Veritas report yesterday.

Fauci is Dr Mengele.

Watch his hands shaking during the exchanges with the US Senator. He knows he’s fucked, really fucked. The walls are closing in as the truth leaks out.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:53 pm

McGowan could be talked into building this wall.

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 12, 2022 4:54 pm

calli says:
January 12, 2022 at 4:37 pm

No shilly shallying around – is it true?

Calli, no one knows and no one will know for a few years at least. You would hope that your genetics would fix up a damaged immune system and fully recover from whatever the vaxx does to it.

If it doesn’t, remember me in your will.

cohenite
January 12, 2022 4:54 pm

No one seems to have made any comments on the Project Veritas report yesterday.

Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

The accompanying document seems too good to be true.

Bongino (at Rumble: can’t link to it) was all over it; along that fat kunt sotomayor in the Supreme Court and her lies about the chunk virus and children.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 4:54 pm

Let’s go “smokin’ pair of shoes” voltage.

I think we’re starting to pull together some sort of specification together for this thing:

1900km long
2.4m high
Smokin shoes voltage.
.50 cal sentinel’s at 500m intervals.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 4:56 pm

Landmines would be cheaper.
Or automatic 50 cal sentries.

The gun-bots from Aliens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZS_ltsMhM

rosie
rosie
January 12, 2022 4:57 pm

Thanks for that article.
Interest bit at the end about susceptibility to covid being genetic.

rosie
rosie
January 12, 2022 4:57 pm

Mole

calli
calli
January 12, 2022 4:58 pm

Which article, rosie? The one I’m asking about or a different one?

P
P
January 12, 2022 4:59 pm

The New World Order makes an example of Djokovic
Written by Kathy Clubb | Australian Correspondent
The Remnant – Sunday, January 9, 2022

Question: If you were a globalist overlord who was trying to drum up support for an international digital passport, how would you engage the entire world without giving your game away?

Answer: orchestrate a situation involving trans-national governments, the new fake religion (the COVID-cult), the old fake religion (sport), with a bit of actual religion (Orthodoxy) thrown in.

The Australian government’s ridiculous treatment of tennis champion, Novak Djokovic, shows the extent of its willingness to further the globalist agenda. No matter how absurd, illogical or embarrassing a policy may be for a nation’s reputation, it will be implemented forthwith if it serves the needs of the New World Order.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2022 5:00 pm

Calli.
Don’t bother asking direct questions about batshit crazy links.
The standard responses are “Gee, I’m not sure about this, but if it is true it is frightening” and “Well, I am not an expert and can’t say for sure, but the guy on the video seemed pretty convinced it was true”.

Chris
Chris
January 12, 2022 5:01 pm

I think we’re starting to pull together some sort of specification together for this thing:

At last! We get to pay for only our own dole bludgers and their flat screen TVs.
Whose skulls get to go on the posts? Should be room for a good few.

Speedbox
January 12, 2022 5:01 pm

Ballpark, about $2 billion for the steel. Then labour, smoke ’em electrification, M134 miniguns every 250m and a few gates (assuming you want anyone coming in/out), then think ….say…..$6-7 billion. I’ll give you a firm quote later – just sign the enclosed contract and we can deal with actual cost at some later time.

Strictly E&OE.

Send me a deposit cheque for 10% and my mates and I will get on this as soon as the cheque clears.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 5:01 pm

Or maybe this unit from Robocop patrolling the McGowan Freedom Barrier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cDgbf23u_E

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 5:02 pm

1900km long
2.4m high
Smokin shoes voltage.
.50 cal sentinel’s at 500m intervals.

Is no one else interested in what a landmine would do to an emu?

Zipster
Zipster
January 12, 2022 5:03 pm

My daughter went through a road block when she returned to Queensland

Sent me a photo and she was ticked as they demanded proof of vaxx as well.

what for? the virii are out of control already.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 5:03 pm

Kazakhstan
I reckon we can beat them.

Absolutely! Bodies of politicians, police and bureaucrats all the way from spring street to Burke when the dam breaks in Victoria.

Winston Smith
January 12, 2022 5:05 pm

min:

I have been telling friends for some time how we are being treated like the Germans pre WWll when media and politicians used propaganda to control t the population. Most were too young to have witnessed it at the time or after when all was analysed .

I made a reference to a shoppie about the Health Regulations being similar to the edicts put on the Jews in Germany in 1934.
The reaction?
“Here we go again…” + eyeroll.
Won’t be back in that shop again – Longreach is only 100km away

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 12, 2022 5:05 pm

The Australian government’s ridiculous treatment of tennis champion, Novak Djokovic, shows the extent of its willingness to further the globalist agenda.

This.
ScoMo & Co are applying for their roles post getting booted.
Pfizer will be funding think tanks globally.

rickw
rickw
January 12, 2022 5:05 pm

Is no one else interested in what a landmine would do to an emu?

Ok, land mines are in the spec, please nominate the depth of the field and the spacing!

Hmmm, claymore mines + emu’s?!

Delta A
Delta A
January 12, 2022 5:05 pm

Have I got the gist of the thing or am I missing something?

Astute cherry-picking of the milions of articles on the Internet ensures that the hyperbowl remains off the scale. There’s also among the unvaxxed cohort a nasty glee at the thought of imminent damage or death for those who have taken the vax.

The authorities must be delighted: one more contentious issue to further divide the masses. And while we’re all challenging each other, they’re quietly passing dictatorial laws which ratify their control over us.

Muddy
Muddy
January 12, 2022 5:08 pm

People feel taken for granted
Betrayed might be a better word.

It has been a pattern of psychological, financial, (and in the case of some in Victoria – physical) abuse, perpetuated by authority figures, motivated by either neglect or malice, and with consequences wholly incommensurate with the extent of damage inflicted on those incapable of defending themselves using a comparable level of opportunity or authority.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 12, 2022 5:08 pm

rickw
and some tanks to patrol the fence?

Winston Smith
January 12, 2022 5:09 pm

Eyrie:

Microwaves. I’m sure you know this. See Gerry K. O’neill “The High Frontier”. Space based solar power.
Possibly the only thing the space folk can export to Earth economically in the near to medium term.

Quite right, Eyrie. But I was thinking of more as a distribution system from local sources.
Could you imagine the econuts if we proposed beaming down a dozen Gw of power to even a desert somewhere?

MatrixTransform
January 12, 2022 5:09 pm
MatrixTransform
January 12, 2022 5:10 pm
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