Open Thread – Weekend 12 Feb 2022


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Rabz
February 12, 2022 12:03 am

Chicago
🙂

Rabz
February 12, 2022 12:09 am

I will not kneel … 🙂

Rabz
February 12, 2022 12:11 am

Purple Haze … 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 12, 2022 12:12 am

I claim this thread in the name of the Scottish squatters, along the Riverina, in the 1850’s, who did this country a great service. They introduced Scotch whisky into Australia, and it’s long been my concern that they never achieved the recognition they deserved.

Sliante!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 12, 2022 12:15 am

6th

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 12, 2022 12:18 am

Oky doc say 5 comments, I’m 6th but only 5 showing…

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 12, 2022 12:18 am

How fucked is everything right now eh

Bruce in WA
February 12, 2022 12:23 am

First XI

Rabz
February 12, 2022 12:27 am

How fucked is everything right now

You think like this, you’re already gone, Squire

Vengeance will be ours.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
February 12, 2022 12:27 am

I bags twelfth man.

Best job on the team. You get paid but don’t have to face any quick bowlers.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 12:33 am

What gets me out of bed every day is seeing various hitlerist imbeciles dangling from the end of a rope.

#theydonotgetawaywithit

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 12:41 am

I claim this thread in the

name of the Scottish squatters, along the Riverina, in the 1850’s, who did this country a great service. They introduced Scotch whisky into Australia, and it’s long been my concern that they never achieved the recognition they deserved.

I was going to claim it for Western Civ, but you are right.
Up the Jocks!

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 12, 2022 12:42 am

Rabz says:
February 12, 2022 at 12:33 am
What gets me out of bed every day is seeing various hitlerist imbeciles dangling from the end of a rope.

Rabz – crucifixion, in winter, last a few days longer

#goodenoughfor jesus,goodenoughforthem

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 12, 2022 12:47 am

Wally Dalísays:
February 12, 2022 at 12:18 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUdQfnshJ4

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 12:48 am

On that note, I recently enjoyed a birthday. Our Best Man gave me a bottle of Limeburners for my birthday. The amazing lady of the house selected that bottle to put 250ml in a Tiramasu recipe. Apparently the Glenfiddich looked too impressive. I was a wee mite peeved, and the flaming Tiramasu was for Book Club, not me, as well.

Fortunately it wasn’t completely wasted; the book club included someone who knew what she was eating, laughed when told the story and said she loved Limeburners.

Well this new birthday rolled around. The lovely chef gave me a Limeburners. Isn’t that sweet? Poor, foolish girl must be besotted.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 12, 2022 12:51 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
February 11, 2022 at 10:51 pm
I would have thought Diesel into ULP would be worse than ULP into Diesel.

Apparently it is far worse, like blow your engine up worse.

Rockdoctor’s mate’s solution may have some merit, given I only have a third of a tank in.

Filled a car’s tank with diesel in Spain. “Gasolino” and “Gasoleo” – who’s to know? Didn’t run smooth, that’s all I’ll say.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 12, 2022 12:53 am

Sorry troops, both pissed off and pissed. Struggling to keep my sense of humour and hold my tongue off lashing all the qvislings and dills I’m surrounded by here SW WA

rosie
rosie
February 12, 2022 1:01 am

I’m sitting at the railway station with a ticket.
They never announce the platform til a few minutes before, at least at this station there are lifts and escalators for the mad dash.
A bit more security than I’ve noticed for a while, still no soldiers though.

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 1:16 am

Bon chance, bon voyage, et bonne journee, Rosie!

jupes
jupes
February 12, 2022 1:29 am

Well this new birthday rolled around. The lovely chef gave me a Limeburners. Isn’t that sweet? Poor, foolish girl must be besotted.

Lucky you. I’ve still got a couple of bottles from back when I used to sell the stuff. Great drop.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 12, 2022 1:35 am

Done some research and aint going to txt qualified people 1 hr ahead of EST at this time of night.

Looking like anything over 20% Deiso/Petrol mix is risky for said mistake, especially for common rails. I have never done it myself but when my mate did it he had the go ahead from a vehicle mech but caveat ADF would likely investigate any problems. Knucks, one of those enter at own risk moments…

jupes
jupes
February 12, 2022 1:35 am

How fucked is everything right now eh

Totally.

However there is reason for cautious optimism. Canada – the truckers look like they might win there, even bring down the Trudeau government. Wow. England has ended mask and vaccine mandates. Democrat states in the US are easing restrictions. NSW are hinting they will end mask mandates.

Things are moving in the right direction. Of course, if you live in WA you will be at the very end of the queue for freedom, but the rest of the world seems to have had enough.

ArthurB
ArthurB
February 12, 2022 3:08 am

I had never heard of Alex Antic, a Liberal senator, until by chance I came across a podcast of an interview he did with Bret Weinstein, it lasts for more than an hour but is well worth watching. Antic is a rare creature, a Liberal who has an independent mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNuv9egD45k

Zatara
Zatara
February 12, 2022 3:11 am

Arabica Closes at a 10-1/4 Year High as Global Coffee Supplies Plunge

Now THAT is an impeding crisis.

Honey, find somewhere else for your toilet paper stash. I’ve got some serious stockpiling to do.

ArthurB
ArthurB
February 12, 2022 3:13 am

Jupes: you are correct about WA being at the end of the queue for freedom, our beloved Mr McGoon believes that by keeping WA as the hermit kingdom he can defeat the dreaded COVID. I think his popularity is plummeting, even the West Australian newspaper is running editorials critical of his policies.

rosie
rosie
February 12, 2022 3:25 am

I have my ticket for the Dali museum por la mañana mañana.
Desperately trying to revive a little Spanish but everything here is only written in Catalan although everyone speaks Spanish.
Zero issue crossing the border, didn’t even get asked for a train ticket.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 12, 2022 3:33 am

Bushkid on the Old Thread:

Bushkidsays:
February 12, 2022 at 12:04 am
Speaking of oddballs and their desires for world domination, did anyone else see a post on farce book by Fraser Anning – Former Senator with a picture of old Klaus Schwab in his best beachgoing gear? I’d post a link, but have never done one here, would probably stuff it up. If I did post a link, it would have to be with a warning to have eye bleach on hand. Plenty of it! To think that wants to rule the world!

Check it out folks – Rule No 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

Sorry

Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 4:17 am
John H.
John H.
February 12, 2022 4:39 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 12, 2022 5:20 am

Thank you Tom— Bob Moran — good question.

Gabor
Gabor
February 12, 2022 5:28 am

John H. says:
February 12, 2022 at 4:39 am

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Nothing to see here, move along.

Read it.
Don’t get it. probably too old and dim.
Is it to do with the jab or not?

I definitely had Covid or the equivalent of the flu.
No vax yet as I couldn’t be bothered, 80 next week and in robust health, other than a heart murmur which I had all my life.
That was the reason I did not want the jab, no need to risk it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 12, 2022 5:53 am

JC says:
February 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm
This is real – it’s not joke.

EXC: New Biden Nuclear Hire Is Drag Queen Who Wears Stilettos to Work, Discusses Sex With Animals, And Calls NIH Chief ‘Daddy Fauci’

It’s a lot worse than that.
Yesterday the chaps at Compound Media showed some of this persons on-line persona.
There were howls of laugher from some but literal shock from others.
This is not someone you want with a security clearance.

Zatara
Zatara
February 12, 2022 6:18 am
calli
calli
February 12, 2022 6:39 am

To think that wants to rule the world!

Depraved. My hands were itching for the garden hose. Or maybe the mulch fork…or maybe both.

You wouldn’t have it on your property, let alone take orders from it.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 12, 2022 6:42 am

Another blow to the “No evidence of voter fraud” meme:
On Wednesday a presentation in Wisconsin on the 2020 Election results there unearthed tens of thousands of ballot issues. This is more information that this state should never have been certified and given to Joe Biden.
Gateway Pundit

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 6:49 am

From John H.’s link:

Ardehali cautions that the study’s observational nature comes with some limitations. For example, people in the contemporary control group weren’t tested for COVID-19, so it’s possible that some of them actually had mild infections. And because the authors considered only VA patients — a group that’s predominantly white and male — their results might not translate to all populations.

Huh? Why weren’t they tested? Surely if they were in a control group that’s the first thing you’d do. A blood test for antibodies for instance.

Is this how they do “science” these days? Mine is limited to work in the glasshouse, so what would I know.

Also, I enjoyed the aside about race. Rotten, racist virus! And racist scientists too.

An increase of 4 and 12 per 1,000 is troubling, but given the faulty methodology I don’t think I’ll panic just yet.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 6:53 am

Bob Moran wins by a country mile! Very, very good. 😀

sfw
sfw
February 12, 2022 6:55 am

KD, the advice re cleaning the fuel lines with air etc is good but if you don’t have air this is the best you can do. Drain the tank completely, remove the fuel filter and drain the ulp out of it, rinse it with diesel , then fill the filter with diesel and refit. Fill tank with diesel, prime the pump and try to get it started. Any damage is already done, there may not be much, you can’t tell until you drive it again. So give it a go.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 6:55 am

Something to go with our weekend art.

And rosie, enjoy the Dali. I’m jealous.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 12, 2022 7:08 am

How deep is the rot in political America?
This article details and summarises it pretty well. The caving of McConnell and McCarthy to the demrat definition of January 6 as a violent insurrection is just the latest manifestation of it. Extract:
I could write an avalanche of essays explaining how important I believe Trump’s presidency has been for this country. But that seems secondary to the need to roll up six years of government-orchestrated hoaxes, crimes, and propaganda used to undermine the 2016 (and, in my opinion, 2020) election(s) and shove all of Washington’s corruption right down its collective throat. Even if I did not like Donald Trump, the Uniparty’s and Deep State’s relentless efforts to prevent his 2016 election, sabotage his presidency, undermine 2020 ballot security, censor evidence of election fraud, criminalize his supporters as “domestic terrorists,” and now put Trump in legal jeopardy by framing him as having attempted to overthrow the federal government are more than enough to ensure that I would walk through fire to vote for him again. In my mind, justice demands it. The D.C. denizens have just gone too far to ever be forgiven or for their treachery to ever be forgotten.
J.B. Shurk at American Thinker

Vicki
February 12, 2022 7:14 am

I thought most would be in Canberra already, but we are on the Hume & there are a lot of cars draped with the Aussie flag.

Could be a big one in the Capital today. Friend said it would be hot today, but is raining at the moment.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 12, 2022 7:17 am

Good luck to all the Cats who will travel to Canbrrrraaah today for the rally and best wishes. Would have gone however am in isolation due to a double-vaxxed and boostered member of the household contracting OMIGODicron.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 7:48 am

Today’s dead tree Tele – they’re marginalising the Canberra protesters in exactly the same way they did to the No Carbon Tax protesters in RGR.

Anti-vaxxers, SovCits, Far Right extremists – but, like those protests all those years ago, it’s just normal, everyday people who want their voices heard.

I doubt they’ll set fire to the doors of PH, or anywhere else.

Bruce
Bruce
February 12, 2022 7:49 am

Canadian perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03C_IgjHFQ&t=27s

BTW, the petrol / diesel thing:

In places where it gets seriously chilly in winter, they have “winter-grade” diesel fuel; basically ordinary distillate, with a calculated splash of “petrol”. This is to prevent the raw diesel fuel turning to jelly in the cold. Fuel line pumps and injector pumps have “issues” with jellied fuel. Not much of an issue here in sunny Queensland, but in the great white north (or south), it is a thing.

See also: Engine block heaters that you plug into the wall in your garage, not so the anti-freeze coolant doesn’t freeze, but so the oil in the sump remains liquid enough that the starter motor can crank the engine. There are also battery heaters because car starter batteries FAIL at extremes of temperature. And it is a real bitch to start a high-compression engine without an electric starter motor., especially if the vehicle has one of those new-fangled “automatic” transmissions.

Vicki
February 12, 2022 7:56 am

I am hearing that Federal Police have Long Range Acoustic devices used to inflict pain to control crowds.

Can’t believe how many cars clearly going to rally with flags. Obviously many already in Canberra overnight as we are hearing camping areas overflowing.

sfw
sfw
February 12, 2022 7:58 am

Bruce, never been to Canada but I doubt they use petrol to stop the diesel from gelling. Where I live in Vic the winter diesel is already treated to keep it liquid in the winter months. I filled up in Albury one winters day a few years back, back home the next morning the car wouldn’t start till a round mid/late morning. Albury diesel isn’t alpine mix. You can buy treatments from the local servos as well, I think it’s a form of kerosene.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 12, 2022 7:59 am

Ted RunnyBundy was a no show to our “meeting” at The Exchange yesterday at 5:00 … again.
Weak. As. Piss.
#allmouthnotrousers

duncanm
duncanm
February 12, 2022 8:02 am

Love the Bob Moran – lots of little gems in there, just like a ‘Where’s Waldo’.

eg: Chaos all ’round, but the media is interviewing the cat.

.. and I found Trudeau! (bottom left corner)

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 12, 2022 8:16 am

Another little gem in the Moran cartoon is Klaus Schwab in his budgie smugglers on a sun lounge.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 12, 2022 8:27 am

Very quiet this morning.
The dickless uptickers must have the day off.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 8:34 am

From the Daily Terror…I know I shouldn’t but I did derive a lot of pleasure reading this.

“Andrew O’Keefe met the woman he is accused of assaulting when she was a sex worker

The woman who has accused ex-Channel 7 star Andrew O’Keefe of assaulting her at his Kent St apartment met him some time ago, when she was a sex worker.

The woman told police she went to O’Keefe’s Kent St CBD apartment on January 25 to discuss establishing a flower business. She claimed an argument broke out that allegedly resulted in the ex-TV star punching her and putting her in a headlock.

O’Keefe, a former host of Weekend Sunrise and Deal or No Deal, has pleaded not guilty to six charges relating to the incident, and is set to argue he acted in self defence.

A source familiar with the investigation said the pair had an existing relationship before their disastrous meeting last month.

According to the source, the pair met “some time ago”, when the woman was a sex worker.

When the woman reported O’Keefe to police on January 26, she told them the meeting was in relation to establishing a flower business.

It is not known if the woman is still a sex worker. A suppression order preventing details of the woman’s “occupation” was lifted in Central Local Court on Friday.

Instead, Magistrate Lisa Viney placed a non-publication order on the woman’s name and anything that would tend to identify her.

O’Keefe, a former White Ribbon ambassador, “was a well known and sanctimonious hypocrite who used to like to lecture, harangue, fulminate and berate others about the seriousness of violence against women” appeared on screen for the hearing but said almost nothing. He is facing six charges in relation to the alleged assault on January 25.

This includes two counts of intentionally choking a person, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

In court on Friday, O’Keefe’s barrister Arjun Chhabra told Magistrate Viney his client pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

The 50-year-old was refused bail on January 28 but this could soon change. O’Keefe’s solicitor Sharon Ramsden is preparing to launch a fresh bail application for him in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday.

Chhabra told the court his client was pleading guilty to one count of drug possession in relation to 1.5g of cannabis that was found in the Kent St apartment on January 27.

The court was also told on Friday that O’Keefe had been hit with another charge of breaching an apprehended ­violence order taken out to protect a person who cannot legally be named.

The Saturday Telegraph can reveal that the charge came after police seized O’Keefe’s phone during his arrest on January 27. Officers then searched the phone and allegedly found a slew of communication between O’Keefe and the protected person.

The communication allegedly occurred in December.

Magistrate Lisa Viney ord­ered him to reappear in Central Local Court on February 25 on the criminal charges.

The above words in bold are my own…just for some clarity. And as for the “sex worker”….somebody here, in a comment last week, guessed as much.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 12, 2022 8:35 am

Oops, another tiny problem with EVs…

Shocked Tesla Owners Discover Supercharger Station Robbed Of Its Charging Cables (11 Feb)

Electrek’s Fred Lambert reports thieves cut the heavy gauge charging cables at all eight stalls of a new Tesla Supercharger station in Oakhurst, California last Friday. Tesla Motors Club forum users first pointed out the “vandalism.” Here are eight stalls with no charging cables.

There are 908 and counting Tesla Supercharger stations in the US that are sitting ducks. Someone better advise Tesla to hire private security guards to deter cable thefts (or there will be a lot of angry Tesla drivers running out of charge across America).

All that lurvely copper just sitting there.

Indolent
Indolent
February 12, 2022 8:38 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
February 12, 2022 8:42 am

Interesting, Indolent. Clicked on the link and got a “unsupported protocol” error.

Franx
Franx
February 12, 2022 8:45 am

John H, 4.39
Odd piece about long covid. The control group were not tested for covid, the causal factor in question. Not that I understand these things.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 8:46 am

“I had never heard of Alex Antic, a Liberal senator, until by chance I came across a podcast of an interview he did with Bret Weinstein, it lasts for more than an hour but is well worth watching. Antic is a rare creature, a Liberal who has an independent mind.”

Antic is a true conservative, in a party now infested with progressive green scum, federally and state, he stands out like a gem. He’s articulate, he’s personable, he’s fiercely intelligent, he’s an independent thinker, he’s unafraid of standing up for core, true Liberal principles. Remember, this is now a party filled with the likes of Sharma, Zimmerman, Martin, Allen and Archer. SCUM. As for those treacherous traitors, I look forward to watching ALL of their concession speeches on election night. I would hope Antic survives the forthcoming Liberal slaughter. He should move to the lower house. He could help rebuild a shattered, forlorn depressed Liberal party.

Indolent
Indolent
February 12, 2022 8:48 am

Check it out folks – Rule No 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

Tinta, I’d seen it before and was looking everywhere for it. Do you have a link other than on Facebook, which I’m not on and have no intention of joining?

local oaf
February 12, 2022 8:49 am

Yeah, Nolte link is a no go – the Major Patriot link is good

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 8:52 am

o“Anti-vaxxers, SovCits, Far Right extremists”

Of course….the standard propaganda. I know this is something I repeat….but the biggest problem now is the MSM. They have to be destroyed.

Anyway, P posted this yesterday but it is so worth watching, time and time again. Warning, warning, it’s full of far-right, white supremacist, racist, misogynistic, Nazi Canadians…

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1491755727475691523

It makes me feel good and every time I watch it I shed a tear.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 12, 2022 8:54 am
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 12, 2022 8:54 am

Long Range Acoustic devices used to inflict pain

Julia ?
Sarah Sea Patrol?

rickw
rickw
February 12, 2022 8:56 am

Mark Felton, Market Garden glider recovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87tLJ98nsdk

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:00 am

Do serious military people really talk like this?

No Faustus, they talk like this, to avoid detection and giving anything away to the enemy. Transcript of a conversation* between BRS and Personage 15, ‘stan, 2007:

BRS: “Man, I love the smell of gypsum in the morning.”
Personage 15: “You’re not going to kick that one legged goat herder off a small cliff, are you?”
BRS: “No, I’m going to blow his brains out with this here 44 magnum, man. It’ll be the most beautiful thing you’ll ever see, comrade.”
Personage 15: “:?”

*Conversation transcribed above may bear absolutely no resemblance to reality, even coincidentally, which is why it will be accepted as the gospel truth in an Australian court.

Indolent
Indolent
February 12, 2022 9:01 am

Interesting, Indolent. Clicked on the link and got a “unsupported protocol” error.

Interesting, indeed, because it’s a Breitbart site and the same thing happened to me. I’ll try again with tiny.

Nolte: Truck Drivers Are the Atlas that Finally Shrugged

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 12, 2022 9:01 am

Clicked on the link and got a “unsupported protocol” error.

Eyrie – Yeah, something’s up with Breitbart just now. I read their London/Europe page earlier and all was fine, but later went to the main page and got that error. Then checked back to London/Europe and it gave the same error.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 12, 2022 9:02 am

OK, link works now.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:03 am

You want to know what’s wrong with countries like Canada and Australia…is that parasitic scum like this infest politics…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z3JyC8fuyc

rickw
rickw
February 12, 2022 9:03 am

Klaus at the beach. There is a view that it’s someone else, but given that he’s a sick german fuck I’m not so sure:

https://imgflip.com/i/5ysyao

Indolent
Indolent
February 12, 2022 9:03 am

WordPress must be suppressing Breitbart because I had no difficulty accessing the article directly. I think it’s worth reading.

Anyone familiar with my scribbling knows that I separate modern society into two categories: World Turners and The Useless.

Me? I’m no World Turner. I’m one of The Useless. What I mean is this: If everyone who does what I do for a living stopped doing it today, the world would keep right on turning. Society would roll along just fine without me and mine — maybe better. Sure, a few people might miss my musings, but only for a little while. And the same is true for anyone who makes a living spewing their half-assed opinions (especially Jonah Goldberg).

In fact, you could wipe society’s table clear of every writer, artist, actor, musician, professor, dancer, reporter, tastemaker, producer, influencer, teacher, lobbyist, politician, everyone on TV, everyone who doesn’t get their hands dirty, and our world would keep turning just fine. Would we miss things like the newest Marvel movie? Sure. Those things are the spice of a life as bountiful as ours. But that doesn’t change the fact that our world would keep right on turning.

Now try to live without the World Turners, those sneered at by America’s left-wing elite, by the CNNs and Morning Joes and NPR — the working class. Try to imagine your life without mechanics, farmers, coal miners, oil drillers, plumbers, roofers, electricians, pest control, the people who stock the shelves, who make our steel, police our streets, put out our fires, pave our roads, dig our ditches, haul our garbage, and plow the snow. Within a month, our world stops turning. Within six months, welcome to dystopia. Within a year, we’re eating one another.

But if you really want to know who keeps our world turning, it’s the truck drivers. Nothing moves without truck drivers, and I do mean nothing. Without truck drivers, it all goes to shit in about a week. No gasoline, no heating oil, empty store shelves, empty pharmacies, no seeds to grow your own food. It all grinds to a halt.

And still, despite their necessity and the value they add to our lives, everything our useless elites despise can be found in the person of a truck driver, for they are the modern-day cowboy: the rugged and resourceful individualists doing the dangerous, difficult, skilled, and tedious work of keeping us fed and absurdly comfortable.

Thanks primarily to truck drivers, modern societies’ poor live a life of luxury no Pharaoh could have imagined: central heat, air conditioning, microwaves, plasma TVs, cheap food, clothes, and furniture, cheap everything…

You don’t have to thank these guys. In fact, they’re perfectly content living in a world where no one gives them a thought. That’s how they’re built. If one quality defines most truck drivers, it’s that they just want to be left alone. They’re loners comfortable in their own company and eager to escape into the cab of their rig where the world makes sense, where the complications and unnecessary dramas that define modern life don’t exist. All that exists is hot coffee, a loyal dog, the radio, the companionship of the like-minded at the next stop, and the road.

We need truck drivers a whole lot more than they need us, and they know it. The leverage they hold over our society has always been there, but because truck drivers are men and not babies, they don’t use it. Instead, they just go about the business of going about their business. But if you don’t allow them to go about their business…

Guys like this, guys who just want to be left alone, those are the last guys you want to push around to the point where they push back.

And now the world’s truck drivers, especially in fascist Canada, have had enough, and now they’re shrugging. Brother, are they shrugging.

And can you blame them?

You don’t need a vaccine passport to attend the Oscars, but you do need one to be a truck driver.

On what planet is that okay?

Only silver-spooned bullies like Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden live on that planet.

And never forget that unlike the Brownshirts in Black Lives Matter and Antifa, these men are laying something on the line, something real. These are working people, not professional activists, criminals, and students. These men have families, mortgages, a nut to crack every month. But they’re still out there without the burning and looting that define the modern left. The risks are also real — crippling fines, imprisonment, truck confiscation, a fascist state eager for violence — but their cause is the most righteous of causes in the history of man: the right to be left alone.

Who is John Galt?

Now we know.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 9:06 am

More bad news for SloMo. In Teh Weekend Paywallian Prof van Wrongselen warns not to write him off. Ruh roh.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:07 am

jupessays:
February 12, 2022 at 1:35 am
How fucked is everything right now eh

Totally.

However there is reason for cautious optimism.

Today’s be elections in NSW could be a signal to pull back on the crazy.

I reckon why this is why the feds brought forward approval of Novavax.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 12, 2022 9:08 am

Today’s dead tree Tele – they’re marginalising the Canberra protesters…

Anti-vaxxers, SovCits, Far Right extremists

See your Tele and raise you a Guardian:

The global ‘freedom movement’ is a carnival of crank and conspiracy – and very dangerous
Van Badham

Participants unwilling to be injected with a free vaccine safely used on hundreds of millions of people further advise each other that drinking one’s own wee is curative and somehow “camel urine deals with cancer”. Monitors observe attendees costumed as paramedics, pilots and deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Someone really wears a tinfoil hat.

There is some serious hatred of the lesser folk amongst Australia’s elite.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:10 am

So the boy who likes to put on black face has basically declared war on the truckers…..the genie is now out of the bottle, this is progressivism to a tee, a loathing for the working man and woman.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 12, 2022 9:11 am

Indolent – It was just a brief outage at Breitbart, it’s back up again. You first link is working again now too.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:12 am

https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042

In the age of sloppy journalism, few authors are sloppier than those who claim they ‘debunked’ the story that Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s biological father. They recite the Canadian governments’ official travel dates to Cuba and painfully avoid the Trudeaus’ extensive personal trip to the Caribbean trip in Spring 1971. It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. It is a fact they adored Castro. It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers. This is what you need to know.
First, Margaret Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20’s. She publicly states today she suffered from bipolar disorder and self-control issues. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Minister’s official government luggage. She sneaked away from official functions to get high. She partied scantily clad at Studio 54. She became embroiled in a scandal for having sex with Ted Kennedy (gross). According to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Pierre broke up with her while she was having an affair with Ronnie Wood. The list goes on.

Today we might remember Fidel Castro as an old man, but he was one of the most impressive people in the world back then, especially to fellow Marxists like the Trudeaus. He forcefully deposed a brutal dictator with a band of rag-tag rebels. He turned Cuba into the Western world’s first Marxist country. He beat the Americans in an armed invasion by personally commanding the battle in a tank. He survived CIA coups and assassination attempts. He outlived two Kennedy brothers behind those attempts. He was smart, charming, and funny. He was 6’3, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. He looked like he could beat up any other word leader, much less any competitor for Margaret Trudeau’s attention. He was full of bravado, confidence, and masculinity and smoked cigars like a baller. Why would Pierre Trudeau chose anyone else to be the biological father of his children?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:14 am

Breitbart is a Spook megaphone anyway, so you’re not missing anything.

By the way, what happened to Andrew O’Keefe’s Presumption Of Innocence?

rickw
rickw
February 12, 2022 9:15 am

Bruce, never been to Canada but I doubt they use petrol to stop the diesel from gelling.

It doesn’t work. The material with the greatest propensity to form crystals will act as seed crystals for the remaining material. Spiking a fuel with a material that has less propensity to form crystals at low temperatures won’t alter the properties of the overall mix with respect to freezing/wax formation.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:16 am

“There is some serious hatred of the lesser folk amongst Australia’s elite.”

I think it’s time to hate back.

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 9:19 am

I really wonder about these ‘elites’. At present I am forced to watch several minutes a day of the ABC while I eat in the FIFO mess.
Now, I dont approve of the ‘mountain of skulls’ approach to market corrections because it would be considered violence against women and gays, and no-one wants that.
All they have are a couple of diversity picks to sometimes leaven the endless droning of overpaid, entitled, upper-middle-class women. Entitled WHITE women.
Seriously, where are all the hardworking, young, articulate men on the ABC?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 12, 2022 9:19 am

I don’t know what it’s like in the city but in our small towns every second person has had Covid. Some quite ill but others just a bit off.
They are still lining up for a jab that works on a virus strain that has disappeared. I ask them if they think the booster works on Omicron, they don’t know but it’s better to be safe than sorry. They know someone or heard of someone who was very sick that was unboosted or unvaxxed.
It’s a pandemic of anecdotes for the believers.

rickw
rickw
February 12, 2022 9:19 am

So the boy who likes to put on black face has basically declared war on the truckers…..the genie is now out of the bottle, this is progressivism to a tee, a loathing for the working man and woman.

Pro tip:
Don’t start a shooting war with hard men who own lots of guns.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:21 am

“By the way, what happened to Andrew O’Keefe’s Presumption Of Innocence?”

Poor old Dick Ed, he truly ruly thinks he’s smart but he ain’t. I do presume O’Keefe innocent, I make no comment on his current legal woes. I and others here point to the fact that here’s a man who’s spent years piously and sanctimoniously lecturing others about violence against women and now he’s been charged with assault against a woman. It’s the hypocrisy DICK ED.

Try harder.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:22 am

First, Margaret Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous.

Okay.

Pierre Trudeau was a Flamer who unquestionably had sex with men

Fixed it for you.
Male children tend to resemble the Mother’s father.
So unless Castro was Margaret’s dad, which could be possible, since he tried out as a pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1946, then no.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 12, 2022 9:24 am

Sharma says his conscience is clear — of course he can say that because he has no conscience.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:24 am

I must reiterate what I posted on the recent Dr Kates/Canadian truckies post.

The global ‘freedom movement’ is a carnival of crank and conspiracy – and very dangerous

– Van Badham

The national cabinet is literally a conspiracy – a secret meeting of people meeting to make decisions they were never legally empowered to do so in any State constitution, let alone the Commonwealth constitution.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/conspiracy

a secret plan or agreement to carry out an illegal or harmful act, esp with political motivation; plot

Citation:

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 (c) HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.

As for being a crank, accepting the government narrative doesn’t not make you a crank.

Novavax is indisputably better and safer than the other vaccines. That is why I (regrettably) told my employer I would take it.

Now if it is indisputably safer and more efficacious then what does it say about the safety and efficacy of the other vaccines?

I doubt Van Badham could have a civil discussion with a mere keen observer such as myself or a biology researcher or doctor such as John H or Gilas who post here.

If she’s whinging about someone protesting and taking the piss out of themselves wearing a tin foil hat, has she observed what our judges, keen to roll over for a tummy rub from the executive, what they wear?

I think I want to have a beer with the tin foil hat guy, not the English Civil War cosplayer.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 9:25 am

It’s the independent </strong working man or woman that they loathe.

The lurrrrve their tame unionised flying monkeys.*

And they’re not afraid to use them.

* it must be an election year – lots of industrial action forecast, including those holy and worshipful nurses

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 12, 2022 9:25 am

From two different articles at Herald Sun :

“Extraordinary details released by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) have confirmed the protection provided by current vaccines can wane from 80 per cent to as little as zero in just four months.

The national drug regulator’s updated advice said “early estimates” of vaccine effectiveness against infection of the Omicron variant similarly indicated “lower initial vaccine effectiveness” from two doses of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.

At best, the estimates mean a double-dosed person will lose 50 per cent of their protection in just 120 days.

The initial estimate of 36-88 per cent protection “wanes rapidly to 0-34 per cent from about 4 months after the second dose”.

ATAGI said “steadily accumulated” data indicates that the numerous mutations within the spike protein receptor of the Omicron variant “facilitates immune escape” and therefore increases the likelihood of reinfection in individuals previously infected with earlier variants, and breakthrough infection of vaccinated individuals.

The updated advice says a Pfizer booster dose “appears” to restore moderate levels of effectiveness against symptomatic Omicron infection by 71 to 76 per cent.

“Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation with Omicron shows a similar pattern of waning, falling to 52 per cent after a two-dose primary series,” the ATAGI release reads. “A booster dose increases vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation to 88 per cent.”

Australia recently shaved the waiting period for booster shots down to three months as the Omicron variant continues to rip through the east coast.

The advisory group stressed there “have been no safety signals of concern for an earlier booster dose given from three months after the primary series where this is used overseas (e.g. United Kingdom)”.

and

“Hospital chiefs have raised serious concerns about the suitability of the booster shot mandates with the Department of Health in recent weeks as they faced the prospect of losing hundreds, or even thousands of staff from their rosters.

It’s understood some hospital CEO’s requested a delay or even a scrapping of the mandate during a meeting with department management on February 1.

Despite several major hospitals each having more than 1500 staff members without records for having a booster shot, it is understood department secretary Euan Wallace made it clear during the meeting that no delay to the mandate would be considered.

Hospital sources told the Herald Sun they feared losing hundreds of staff from their already crippled rosters from February 12 through a combination of those returning from leave who had not vaccinated, a high number recovering from Covid who were delaying boosters, and others who had received jabs at GPs whose records did not filter into their employment records.

Hospital board chairs met with Health Minister Martin Foley on Wednesday night where they were told of wider concerns over the booster mandate, including concerns the abattoir sector was going to be the worst hit and a meat shortage loomed if a delay was not introduced.

But on Thursday some Melbourne hospitals were finalising official notifications to some staff informing them there was no record of them having received a third vaccine and that they would not be able to work from Monday when they received an 11th hour reprieve.

Australian Industry Group Victorian head Tim Piper said there are also “plenty of other industries”, including meatworks, that had pleaded for more time to get workers boosted.

Mr Piper said without urgent intervention, Victoria’s “vital supply chain” was at serious risk”.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 9:26 am

Yikes! Format fail.

Never mind. I’m feeling bold today.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 9:27 am

Sharma’s conscience cleared out.

Smart conscience.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:27 am

I and others here point to the fact that here’s a man who’s spent years piously and sanctimoniously lecturing others about violence against women and now he’s been charged with assault against a woman.

No, you’re gloating as if he’s already been found guilty.
Do you even understand what Presumption Of Innocence means?
It doesn’t appear so.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:27 am

Once again – god bless those electors in NSW today, hopefully Dom & Scotty will see the light. A Federal voluntary vaccine law right now would be great, ta.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 12, 2022 9:28 am

By the way, what happened to Andrew O’Keefe’s Presumption Of Innocence?

Laughing at the prick’s tales of woe is not presuming his guilt.
Now we hear he met with a “former sex worker” to discuss setting up a “flower business”.
That phrase has the potential to out-meme Albo’s “rub and tug”.
Laugh? I near busted a pfoofer valve.

shatterzzz
February 12, 2022 9:28 am

Do they, actually, pay sports administrators? .. This weekend’s fixture list for the A League comprises of 3 games on Saturday afternoon/night yet both evening fixtures are scheduled to kick-off at the same time! .. tomorrow they have two night games allocated but the 2nd game starts well before the 1st match is finished ..
I mean, how hard is it to ensure all the matches are scheduled so fans can watch them all, if they want too? .. The A League is played across the country not all in one city so the only way to follow multiple games is via broadcasting yet here we have a, so called, top sports contender making a complete hash of the schedule and ensuring selective viewing choice(s) ..
Maybe these folk should consider career changes .. they’ve got the organizational abilities to excel in Oz politics .. duuuh!

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:29 am

“Tintarella di Lunasays:
February 12, 2022 at 9:24 am
Sharma says his conscience is clear — of course he can say that because he has no conscience.”

He’ll have no job soon. I had been feeling some sympathy for him in his forthcoming battle against Allegra Da Big Spender…but no more. Sharma will be second last on my ballot paper.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:29 am

“Laughing at the prick’s tales of woe is not presuming his guilt.”

Well said.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:30 am

Grigory says:

Did O’Keefe even understand what Presumption Of Innocence means?

No, O’Keefe didn’t know what it means until it hit him like a Mack truck.

“Opening a flower business”

“Business opening a flower”

“Flower opening business”

Thanks for your input, Ed Case.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:31 am

“No, you’re gloating as if he’s already been found guilty.

No….that’ll be up to a jury and/or judge.

Do you even understand what Presumption Of Innocence means?

Yes…more so than you.

Now fuck off cretin.

shatterzzz
February 12, 2022 9:31 am

By the way, what happened to Andrew O’Keefe’s Presumption Of Innocence?

Methinx, O’Keefe’s presumption of innocence failed the pub test 2 assaults ago .. LOL!

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 9:33 am

By elections are like chicken bones thrown on the floor of a mud hut. They mean what you want them to mean. A few loses never hurt though.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:36 am

This is what a cesspit canberrastan is – just heard on chiple jay news that extra security will be sent to the AIS this afternoon to ensure that extreme right wing neo-nazi anti vaxxers don’t disrupt “Super Hero Saturday” where “medical professionals” dress as super heroes in order to encourage more 5-11 year olds to be jabbed with those useless unnecessary toxic chemical cocktails.

Stop the bus, etc …

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:38 am

So unless Castro was Margaret’s dad, which could be possible, since he tried out as a pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1946, then no.

LOL

That never happened.

Margaret Joan Trudeau (née Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948…

She only took 21+ months to go from conception to birth eh Grigory?

LOL

You loathsome, miserable failure of a troll.

There can be no doubt that PM Little Blackface Boy is Castro’s son.

https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 9:39 am

sfw at 6.55:

Wise advice. I am at the point of considering what Mike Nolan would do in these circumstances.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:39 am

Male children tend to resemble the Mother’s father

No eddles – they tend to resemble the mother’s father’s milkman/postman/gardener, etc.

You know nothing of basic human intercourse.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:41 am

Let’s have a closer look at the Castro myth, eh?
No children, no wife usually = Flamer.
He overthrew Batista, who was the grandson of Black Slaves in Cuba.
They keep that one pretty quiet, not surprisingly since Castro himself was a Blue Blooded Spaniard who never worked a day in his life.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 12, 2022 9:44 am

Don’t start a shooting war with hard men who own lots of guns.

I said something similar to my spouse on the way to the orgy.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:45 am

shatterzzz – since the a-league’s latest broadcasting deal I’d say that viewer numbers have plummeted.

I haven’t watched a second of this season’s games, for example. When it was on Fox I’d at least watch a bit of it now and then, even if accidentally.

But yes, as you’ve noted it is yet another triumph for sports administrators in this country.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 9:46 am

OSC:

Now we hear he met with a “former sex worker” to discuss setting up a “flower business”.

Oh I dunno.

There is no possible way that Mr Son of Judge O’Keeffe would have once again engaged the services of a person previously known to him, and that said services were to ‘discuss setting up a flower business’, and that then this champion of women’s rights suffered a few ‘performance issues’ because he was pissed and coked out, and that then he became enraged because he couldn’t get it up and took it out on the hooker?

Because that would be impolite and poor form if he did.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 9:48 am

OMG. OMFG. Blockquote fail again.

No wonder I have Tank Syndrome.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:50 am

he met with a “former sex worker” to discuss setting up a “flower business”

Can’t imagine any other reason why you’d meet with a sex worker, eh eddles?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:50 am

One F in O’Keefe, dumbo.
Another one who trashes Presumption Of Innocence.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 9:54 am

Let’s have a closer look at the Castro myth, eh?
No children, no wife usually = Flamer.

He had at least 9 kids.

So unless Castro was Margaret’s dad, which could be possible, since he tried out as a pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1946, then no.

She wasn’t born until 1948 and he never tried out.

Both of these mong core values are demonstrably false.

I think Grigory might be part of an elite leftist mong militia, the Viet Mong.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 9:55 am

Oops – “former” sex worker, wouldn’t want to harsh any “presumption of innocence” vibe.

shatterzzz
February 12, 2022 9:55 am

When it was on Fox I’d at least watch a bit of it now and then, even if accidentally.

I used to have it thru KAYO but when PARAMOUNT took over I switched & watching isn’t a problem, they’ve ironed out their early technical problems and the coverage is excellent now but they can’t do much about poor scheduling ..
One advantage .. KAYO cost $25 a month .. PARAMOUNT is $8.99 .. although KAYO has lotz more sport I only really watched A League so good for me .. FOXTEL/OPTUS/ STAN & NETFLIX I bum off my adult kids accounts .. LOL!

srr
srr
February 12, 2022 9:55 am

TK (PRO)
TK
@tommyknocker

15m
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Here comes the data…
“The data included a total of 23,615 reports of deaths — an increase of 466 over the previous week — and 188,135 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 4,824 compared with the previous week.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-child-vaccine-induced-myocarditis-deaths-injuries/

6-Year-Old With Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis ‘Unable to Walk,’ as Reports of Deaths, Injuries After COVID Vaccines Climb Steadily
VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,103,893 reports of adverse events from all age groups following…

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 9:55 am

Castro left many children.

srr
srr
February 12, 2022 9:57 am

FBI Investigating Inflated COVID Numbers Exposed by Project Veritas Whistleblower Jeanne Stagg

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

Feb 12, 2022
Project Veritas
1.46M subscribers
[Washington, D.C.- Feb. 11, 2022] The FBI is investigating the subject of a recent Project Veritas story on COVID-19 cases potentially being inflated for financial incentives such as higher federal reimbursements and faster turnaround. It appears that those who submitted these inflated COVID numbers may be the subject of this FBI inquiry.

Project Veritas founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, broke the news in a video from the Washington D.C. Capitol building after meeting with members of Congress to discuss the news. Below is his full statement:

The FBI is looking into a video released by Project Veritas featuring the whistleblower, Jeanne Stagg, from Louisiana. The videos released by Jeanne Stagg indicated how hospitals were potentially inflating COVID numbers in exchange for government money. People came into the hospital for other reasons, like gunshot wounds and accidents, but they were being labeled as a COVID case. We just came from inside the Capitol building, where we talked about this story to various members of Congress and their staff. We also talked about the abuse of power by the Department of Justice against journalists, but in this case, it appears as though the FBI is legitimately investigating the journalism that we’ve done, looking into it, and is trying to expose the fraud that we uncovered.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:57 am

He had at least 9 kids.

Yeah, sure.
Liberace was as straight as a die too, right?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 9:59 am

Castro left many children.

Source?
Link?

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 9:59 am

Honestly.
The OZ.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 10:00 am

The FBI is looking into a video released by Project Veritas featuring the whistleblower, Jeanne Stagg, from Louisiana. The videos released by Jeanne Stagg indicated how hospitals were potentially inflating COVID numbers in exchange for government money. People came into the hospital for other reasons, like gunshot wounds and accidents, but they were being labeled as a COVID case. We just came from inside the Capitol building, where we talked about this story to various members of Congress and their staff. We also talked about the abuse of power by the Department of Justice against journalists, but in this case, it appears as though the FBI is legitimately investigating the journalism that we’ve done, looking into it, and is trying to expose the fraud that we uncovered.

This is indeed great and important work, the CARES Act corrupted medicine, but all I can say is well no shit, what did they expect?

srr
srr
February 12, 2022 10:01 am

Black Man Small Penis Phd
@rockthecasbah

31m
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No punishment is too harsh for the people who did this to our kids….And all for a little bit of money…And all for a feeling of power and control…The people who did this are psychopaths and sociopaths…Insane perverts and control freaks…No punishment is too harsh.

TheSharpEdge
@TheSharpEdge1
6h
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Kids in a Vegas elementary school find out they don’t have to wear masks anymore. Their reaction says everything.

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1492087366114234369

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:01 am

This piece in The Hun about the floor-crossing MP starts off really well.

Ms Vaghela, who is facing expulsion from Labor after sensationally crossing the floor to vote to have the Andrews government’s red shirts election rorts reinvestigated, said she was left mentally and physically broken by a toxic culture fuelled by the party’s ongoing factional infighting.

Speaking to the Saturday Herald Sun, Ms Vaghela said people close to Daniel Andrews, including a key adviser, threatened, intimidated and harassed her after she defected to the party’s Right faction and entered parliament.

“They wanted to break me mentally, physically, and psychologically,” she said. “They thought if they did this I would get tired and walk away, they wanted me to walk away. I was determined not to.”

Good. That’s pretty good. There’s also mention of her being the first Labor MP to cross the floor since 1987. All promising stuff. But then, as usual:

“He has a problem with women, but he also has a problem with anyone who doesn’t hold the same views as him or doesn’t do what he wants,” she said.

“He will take revenge. Everybody’s scared. That’s why nobody says anything against him. And anyone, any woman that does, they disappear. Like Jenny Mikakos. “People don’t see his real side. He’s a misogynist, that is what he is.

Just has to be about gender. Again. Then she quotes what she wrote to Andrews’ advisers once:

“Please remember that if anything ever happens to me or my family, then only you and your office will be fully liable.”

And, finally and predictably, the destruction of credibility is complete:

“I can’t go anywhere or to any event alone anymore, as, if they are around and see me alone anywhere or at an event, and if no one is around, then I am sure I will be assaulted or hurt by the gang.”

Tom
Tom
February 12, 2022 10:02 am

…the genie is now out of the bottle, this is progressivism to a tee, a loathing for the working man and woman…

Because they’re mindless followers of political fashion, most “progressives” are too stupid to have noticed that they’ve become the useful idiots of the elite rich in a war against the working class — the exact opposite of what their beloved left stood for until 30 years ago.

“Progressives” would know what they’ve become had they not banned the teaching of history in schools.

Cassie of Sydney
February 12, 2022 10:02 am

“Indeed. It’s very instructive thst so many of the unabashed ‘left-wing’ journalists and organs are at the forefront of this attack. Or as Jimmy Dore describes them, are they just shitlibs? Has one of them stood up for the right of workers to decline a medical procedure? Has one of them complained about the extended use of emergency powers? And so on. I can’t think of one.”

Nor can I. At least in the US there are progressives who are willing to think and speak outside the box…

Jimmy Dore
Glen Greenwald
Aaron Mate
Max Blumenthal
Matt Taibbi

and so on.

But here in Oz, I can’t think of one leftist/progressive willing to go up against the prevailing Nine/Guardian/ABC narrative….actually maybe one name….Chris Uhlmann….it’s a monoculture here.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 10:04 am

So Andrews isn’t a Misogynist, is that what you’re saying?
And he’s not a thug either, right?
Clown.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:04 am

“Hi baby, how much to set up a flower business? Cash only.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:05 am

Another one who trashes Presumption Of Innocence.

Perhaps Keeffy was embarrassed by the size of his hatchet.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 12, 2022 10:05 am

The ATAGI rationale for boosting is hardly compelling when they push high percentages of effectiveness of a boost but at the same time point to Omicron dodging the vaccines.
I’ll use an anecdote even though they’re usually worth ignoring.

A young daughter of friends of ours was a committed anti vaxxer but had to relent as her money ran out and jobs stopped. She’s been double jabbed for only a little over two months and yet on Monday she got the coof. Feels sick and in bed ax his her brother who was jabbed a month earlier.

That sure as hell doesn’t sound like 80% effectiveness.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:08 am

Sentences uttered in the Cross on any night of the week:

‘Hey boss, want a geranium? Fifty for 15 minutes with a rhododendron.’

‘You want an orchid for an hour? Four hundred. All night with a Venus Fly Trap, price on application.’

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 10:09 am

All my jabbed and boosted family have had it.

100% useless.

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 10:10 am

Orchids are named for male genitalia.

You might want to rethink the transaction.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:11 am

You might want to rethink the transaction.

Get you anything you want in the Cross, baby.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 10:13 am

thieves cut the heavy gauge charging cables at all eight stalls of a new Tesla Supercharger station in Oakhurst, California

Utopian greenfilth imbeciles colliding with reality, again.

“Hey, where are the electrickery tube thingies, man? I’ll be late for my Haight Ashbury hippie chick love-in at Manuel’s Kale and Quinoa Cafe.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:13 am

Ed Casesays:
February 12, 2022 at 9:14 am
Breitbart is a Spook megaphone anyway, so you’re not missing anything.

Apart from himself, is there anyone in the whole wide world whom Dick Ed does not believe to be a spook?

calli
calli
February 12, 2022 10:13 am

The Crying Game might come as an unwelcome surprise.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 12, 2022 10:13 am

Sparty is on fire about the Lieborals.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/the-liberal-partys-mission-to-end-liberalism/

The Liberal Party’s mission to end liberalism
Stephen Spartacus

12 February 2022
7:00 AM

Come the next election, I will be voting the Liberal Party last. My reasoning is very simple. If I am going to be stabbed, I would rather be stabbed in the front than in the back.

miltonf
miltonf
February 12, 2022 10:14 am

This is what a cesspit canberrastan is

I despise the place with a passion and I am very very familiar with the mindset of its inhabitants

shatterzzz
February 12, 2022 10:14 am

So how well is GLADYS travelling!.. ripped off the, mug, NSW tax-payers walked away with a monster pension, ditched the trougher handbag for a legal purse and now wiv a new job selling inside info & influence (Chicom style) for Optus she’ll be able to fund a toyboy or three on the side .. meanwhile all the poor sods who were locked down, masked, jabbed & sent broke get nuttin’!
WE IS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, except .. LOL!

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:15 am

Met my unvaxxed sister in the local park with my takeaway coffee. It felt like being in the French Resistance – how long can this continue? No one there but us, some bin chickens and a few First Nations. My BIL (also unvaxxed) has been banned from his office despite being the MD and major shareholder of the company. He just goes to the factory, where I suspect he would rather go anyway.

Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich
February 12, 2022 10:15 am

Wow. The school district in the process of being sued but nothing yet to indicate that, if true, the child abusers – two teachers and the Principal – are facing the prospect of serious jail time.

The woman whose child was converted to “trans” behind her back by California teachers is suing. Her child also became, surprise, suicidal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1484051142447276035

But if you want to make a tranny omelet, you have to break a few confused-tweenage girl eggs.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397478.php

min
min
February 12, 2022 10:15 am

When I told my pharmacist about mr recent problem with a gall stone first thing she asked after the booster . Seems she has other customers who have suffered similarly . Given that I don’t fall into the usual category of sufferers The triple Fs fair, fat and fertile . Or as my surgeon told me pregnant is this another consequence of vaccines?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 10:15 am

Hey, SpongeBob!
You’re not smart enough to be a Spook.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:17 am

Dick Ed

Male children tend to resemble the Mother’s father.

Another pseudo “fact” plucked from Dick’s fundamental orifice?

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 10:18 am

Hi baby, you got flower arranger in Sydney?

Not just this minute!

Well baby, me so fecund!

Mesofecund!

Me flower arrange you long time!

You party?

Yeah, we might have a flower party, or a flour party. How much?

Fifteen dollar!

Fifteen dollars for two bouquets?

No, $15 each!

Me flower arrange you long time! Mesofecund!

Fifteen dollar you say Papillion Soo Soo? I feel that these roses have stems that are far too long, thick and vascular!

Five dollars a bouquet!?

Me give you sachet, sachet, to extend flower life. Me fecund too much!

Five dollars is all this court order allows me to spend on weekends!

Okay, $10 per bouquet!

What flowers do we get for $10?

Every flower you want baby!

Everything?

Yes, everything!

You feel like spending your hard earned money? You know, half of these flower arrangers apparently have connections to less wholesome professions. The other half have gypsum poisoning.

Be sure only to by flowers if they aren’t covered in a white material.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:18 am

You’re not smart enough to be a Spook

Said the bloke who thinks gypsum is toxic in water.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:20 am

You might give your vote to the LDP. Compulsory preferential voting will most likely give to the UniParty if it is valid.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:21 am

Because they’re mindless followers of political fashion, most “progressives” are too stupid to have noticed that they’ve become the useful idiots of the elite rich in a war against the working class

Like this Canadian Socialist activist wondering why the workers aren’t protesting the Fascist truckers.

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 10:22 am

Bear

That’s why the LDP want to get rid of compulsory voting and compulsory preferences.

Getting rid of that will help end the political oligopoly in Australia.

shatterzzz
February 12, 2022 10:22 am

Oh dear! I fear I am flagging on the BAT FLU front .. I had to Google ATAGI to find out what it is after reading a coupla earlier comments .. LOL!

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:26 am

Groogs, I hope you are not getting Saturday rates for this low grade trolling-by-numbers.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 12, 2022 10:27 am

Nick Cohen will have to do a few more chapters if and when he does a reissue of his marvelous book “What’s Left?”
The left have strayed right off the reservation into the badlands.
“In What’s Left, Nick Cohen takes the view that in the early twenty-first century ‘the left’ has lost its way. The main reason behind this, he argues, is that unbridled capitalism has won, market economies have proved themselves to be the best form of economic government and ‘the left’ is now consumed with hatred and bitterness over the death of socialism.”
The left is in cahoots with any despot, tyrant or cabal who promises to subdue da woikers and forge the new world order for which 1984 (or more recently East Germany) is the model.
Or, the breakdown being forced on the USA is an elaborate varied barrage of anything that fragments society, with the resultant collapse to be something like the collapse of the USSR. After that, they may think, a group of cognoscenti (aka oligarchs) will assume ownership of everything, and the left who helped with the project will be richly rewarded.

Frank
Frank
February 12, 2022 10:29 am

is that parasitic scum like this infest politics

Fabulous hair though.

rickw
rickw
February 12, 2022 10:30 am

6-Year-Old With Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis ‘Unable to Walk,’ as Reports of Deaths, Injuries After COVID Vaccines Climb Steadily

The reset is going to be brutal, for the political and bureaucratic classes.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 12, 2022 10:30 am

Castro left many children.

Stalin had his all killed.
Mao’s were usually too young to conceive.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:30 am

Dot, will never happen. That is something the UniParty can reach open bipartisanship on. Unless the do something stupid like propose a referendum like Brexit in the UK.

Rabz
February 12, 2022 10:31 am

and the left who helped with the project will be richly rewarded

The rewards being summary executions or indefinite spells in a labour camp.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:31 am
Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 10:31 am

6-Year-Old With Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis ‘Unable to Walk,’ as Reports of Deaths, Injuries After COVID Vaccines Climb Steadily

Vanessa Bad Ham, a professor of leftist theology and lady pages/twilight fan fiction, told me it was safe!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 12, 2022 10:32 am

That’s why the LDP want to get rid of compulsory voting and compulsory preferences.

It’s the only solution.
Because of that it will never happen.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:32 am

No children, no wife usually = Flamer.

Seems that Dick Ed might indeed be a homophobe?

Dot
Dot
February 12, 2022 10:33 am

Don’t blackpill me, bro.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:34 am

Rabz

But yes, as you’ve noted it is yet another triumph for sports administrators in this country.

Another triumph for the cult of managerialism.

local oaf
February 12, 2022 10:36 am

There is some serious hatred of the lesser folk amongst Australia’s elite.

The Left dropped the working classes over 50 years ago. After Czechoslovakia 1968, it was obvious the workers were never going to rise up in a revolution and install the Left as their rulers.
The evidence that western working classes were better off then anyone in a socialist state was obvious. East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Soviet Union 1962, Czech & Poland 1968, etc.

The workers were too happy with their lot. The Left set out to make their lives miserable with Multiculturalism, Feminism and the rest of their agenda.

Today’s working classes are just bigoted, redneck, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, misogynistic trash as far as the Left are concerned.
Also, too many of them still like their country’s history, flag and monarchy. Too many of them like Israel as well.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:37 am

In What’s Left, Nick Cohen takes the view that in the early twenty-first century ‘the left’ has lost its way. The main reason behind this, he argues, is that unbridled capitalism has won…

If only we had unbridled capitalism.

The reason ‘the left’ is consumed with hatred and bitterness – directed mainly towards the working classes – is because the latter declined the invitation to the revolution.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:38 am

Snap, oaf!

Zatara
Zatara
February 12, 2022 10:42 am

Family Tree of Fidel Castro Ruz

“Sánchez described Castro as a compulsive lover or “womanizer”; he has been officially married twice but has carried on numerous affairs, including many one-night stands.”

He sired at least 11 children. Not counting Trudeau.

He never set foot in the US until 1959 and certainly didn’t try out for any US baseball team.

Your turn.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 12, 2022 10:45 am

I would rather be stabbed in the front than in the back.

+1

Vicki
February 12, 2022 10:47 am

Am in the middle of an estimated 100,000 people here at Parliament House in Canberra. Unbelievable amount of cars on highway coming in from other states. Police look very concerned. Don’t think they expected anything like this. Horn honking and jovial banter as we drove in, the diverted by police blockade before the bridge leading across main bridge over Lake Burley. Amazingly found a park nearby & walked with a moving mass of people of all ages, most with banners. SO many families, children, dogs etc etc. all good natured and in earnest..Of all the banners, one of most frequent was “hands off our kids”, followed by cri de Coeur s of “freedom”,”my body, my choice” et al.

Johnny Farnham “You are the Voice” ringing out over loudspeakers. Shivers down the spine.

We have bagged a great spot near Old Parliament House in the shade of gums. This is where speeches to be made. Have my Akubra & dirty boots on to claim my heritage! My heart is full…..THIS is the Australia I remember!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 12, 2022 10:47 am

Who did it better?
ScoMo & his ukulele.
Or David Brent & his guitar.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 12, 2022 10:48 am

Will all those who do not fall under the political or medical safety umbrella of indemnity who said: “it is safe and effective” find themselves in the ambulance chasers sights?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:48 am

He never set foot in the US until 1959 and certainly didn’t try out for any US baseball team.

Castro was a Spook and CIA plant. JFK was likely Trudeau’s father.

Vicki
February 12, 2022 10:50 am

Any other Cats here? Would love to meet you. Me with Akubra & riding boots. Husband has “urban” short grey beard – sitting on triangular stools. Near pathway leading from New to Old Parliament House.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:50 am

Johnny Farnham “You are the Voice” ringing out over loudspeakers.

Uh oh … Johnny will be vewwy angwy.

Bar Beach Swimmer
February 12, 2022 10:52 am

Vicki, great to hear!

My brother and a friend of ours is there as well; they’ve come from one of the many inland cities of this great country.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:52 am

From Mak Siccar’s link:

Somewhere in the Australian political sewer, floating next to the Liberal Party, exists the Flux Party. The Flux Party’s platform is essentially electronic mobocracy.

They have an app, an ‘ecosystem’ that allows citizens to direct their representatives’ votes on legislation. Essentially, the member of Parliament (for this Party) would vote per the instructions of the majority of their constituents.

Elected Flux MPs and Senators give up their autonomy and use their votes in line with the outcomes produced by the Flux ecosystem

No judgment. No value-add. No debate to find the greater truth.

I had a discussion with a Liars high flyer about 20 years ago. I asked him why, if we have secret votes for the election of politicians, they do not have secret votes for the laws they pass. After an initial conversation, and some further email correspondence, he essentially said that, if he had wanted to exercise independent judgement he would not have joined the Labor (Flux) Party.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 12, 2022 10:52 am

Uh oh … Johnny will be vewwy angwy.

At least it’s not ‘Sadie’.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 12, 2022 10:53 am

Too right Roger. Should be some Angels …LOUD.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 12, 2022 10:53 am

No children, no wife usually = Flamer.

Seems that Dick Ed might indeed be a homophobe?

Given Ed-Mong has no kids its just projection.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 12, 2022 10:55 am

Ed Casesays:
February 12, 2022 at 10:15 am
Hey, SpongeBob!
You’re not smart enough to be a Spook.

You are too stupid to realise how dumb that comment is.

Bar Beach Swimmer
February 12, 2022 10:55 am

Vicki, sorry to say that we’re not there because the other half had an operation the other day – nothing major but he won’t be riding his bike or even walking well for a while.

Roger
Roger
February 12, 2022 10:56 am

Police look very concerned.

“Are we the baddies?”

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 12, 2022 10:57 am

He never set foot in the US until 1959 and certainly didn’t try out for any US baseball team.

According to Snopes, long since discredited.

The story of Castro trying out for the Senators in 1946 doesn’t fit the Revolutionary Narrative, so it was tossed down the memory hole for 50 years.
Castro [born 1926], son of wealthy parents, never set foot in the US until 1959?
Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.

Bushkid
Bushkid
February 12, 2022 10:57 am

Rabz says:
February 12, 2022 at 9:36 am
This is what a cesspit canberrastan is – just heard on chiple jay news that extra security will be sent to the AIS this afternoon to ensure that extreme right wing neo-nazi anti vaxxers don’t disrupt “Super Hero Saturday” where “medical professionals” dress as super heroes in order to encourage more 5-11 year olds to be jabbed with those useless unnecessary toxic chemical cocktails.

There is a very serious sickness in the “health” industry and bureaucracy. Even if government want to inflict this on the population, the genuine doctors and health officials should be just saying “NO!”

Stay away from it, far away, and keep your kids even further away from it! This has gone far beyond anything that can be called remotely decent, ethical or right. These ghouls seem literally hell-bent on doing as much harm to as many people as they possibly can, and far too few who could stop it are not. In fact they are participating, some eagerly.

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