Open Thread – Weekend 26 Feb 2022


Vicinity of Kiev. Over the Dnieper, Volodymyr Orlovsky, 1884

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Jorge
Jorge
February 28, 2022 4:19 pm

Putin will lose.

If that happens, JC, the worry is he’ll take everyone else with him. Biden and the EU must back off.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:21 pm

Russia has gold and it might work out something with China but say the finances there go into a deep dive and what with hacking the place descends into chaos. If Putin goes down he won’t just take a quiet exit. Prodding him, goading him is insane.

Look Gold is a store of wealth.. I have my doubts it is but lets go with that, but it’s not a currency or at least not easy to use as a digital currency. Presumably Russia holds the gold inside Russian borders. How with the payment be made in gold? Russian planes flying the gold to make payments? It would be impossibly shambolic and never work.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2022 4:22 pm

Putin has placed his nuke assets on red alert. If things go bad and he orders a nuke attack on Ukraine or in Western Europe ( I’d wager it would be Berlin), would his generals over-ride his command? I fucking hope so.

Don’t worry, the Generals ignored Nixon.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:23 pm

Dover

Can you carefully explain what is disgusting with opining about arming Ukraine. Last time I read, it was Putin’s military that crossed the border shooting the place up.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2022 4:24 pm

I’m ignoring the danger of escalation that this also entails, but even without that, their conduct has been reckless and disgusting in the extreme: virtue signaling run amok.

Maybe they don’t want their country invaded? How dare they take up arms!

Don’t worry, Putin doesn’t recognise international law anyway.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 4:24 pm

lets arm the Ukrainians (useless and reckless without the requisite infrastructure and training)

That latter part has been quietly happening in the background since 2014.

Not every US or NATO service member sent to a Baltic or Black Sea Republic (or other nation in receipt of western military aid) goes to carry a rifle in the general direction of belligerents for the cameras.

Trainers and reloads alike are a standard part and parcel of weapons deals. Particularly where the delivered weapon system or variant of is new and unfamiliar to the customer.

P
P
February 28, 2022 4:26 pm

Real Clear Politics –
TRANSCRIPT
MacGregor: U.S. Should “Stop Shipping Weapons And Stop Encouraging Ukrainians To Die In A Hopeless Endeavor”

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 4:28 pm

I agree absolutely Dover. The media are disgusting people with nothing to recommend them. They don’t know what they are talking about, lie with impunity and have less integrity than street harlots. They have proved this beyond doubt over the the last six years. Just one example, the Daily Mail alleging Melania Trump had been a call girl.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:30 pm

Putin has placed his nuke assets on red alert.

Since reading this this morning, I’ve had a sick feeling in my stomach.

JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
February 28, 2022 4:30 pm

Presumably Russia holds the gold inside Russian borders. How with the payment be made in gold? Russian planes flying the gold to make payments
Ha. Perhaps look at all the countries that move around the SWIFT. India and UAE have famously had separate ‘payment’ systems. UAE was created by smuggling and selling gold. It is still a ‘bank’ and clearing house for all the wars of the middle east. The little fishing village, Dubai, next to a desert didn’t make its money from oil. Chinese will be happy to take gold.
Oh hang on a sec.. what countries didn’t immediately condemn Russia?

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
February 28, 2022 4:31 pm

By giving him a smoke?
Huh?

Maybe it was a menthol.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:31 pm

Wouldn’t Rotterdam be the number one target?

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:32 pm

Since reading this this morning, I’ve had a sick feeling in my stomach.

So have I.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:34 pm

feelthebern says:
February 28, 2022 at 4:31 pm

Wouldn’t Rotterdam be the number one target?

Why Bern?

My hunch is Berlin because of WW2 pay back and the German disclosure they are openly arming the Ukrainians. That’s all.

Why telegraph supplying the fucks. You could do it later, but not now.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:36 pm

Rotterdam is the biggest port by a fair margin.
And if still the case, which I’m not sure anymore, one of the biggest oil storage hubs in Europe.

cohenite
February 28, 2022 4:37 pm

Hackers are working to punish Putin, theatening an unprecedented cyberwar that will cripple his websites and expose all his secrets.

I read that at first as hookers. It just shows how much the wussia dossier and the pee-pee tapes have ingrained themselves into the social consciousness.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:37 pm

Wouldn’t it be bizarre if Russia dropped a bomb on Europe at the same time its gas is still getting pumped west?

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 4:40 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia.-with a bit of luck that vile waste of space will go there too. How I loathe the pommy establishment.

bons
bons
February 28, 2022 4:42 pm

Every cancelled soccer match brings joy to the collective soul.
Polishing an old metal stand yesterday I accidentally had the womens’ NRL on in the background. I have never watched it before and would not have done so deliberately after having been forced to watch a couple of farcical AFLW circuses.
The NRL women? were rather impressive. Fast, agile, good ball skills and copped the hits. Their goal kicked banged them in from the sideline every time. It won’t convert me to NRL, but it was light years ahead of the AFLW.
They were all muscle-bound gym rats but not unattractive.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 4:42 pm

Wouldn’t it be bizarre if Russia dropped a bomb on Europe at the same time its gas is still getting pumped west?

Sounds like 2022 to me… 🙂

#2022IsLikeLookingLeftAndRightToCrossTheStreet,ThenGettingHitInTheHeadByAFallingMIRV

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:43 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

Now is the time for cooler heads.
This isn’t Syria.
It’s a nuclear armed joint.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:43 pm

Where’s Brucie?

He’s made some great calls on battery technology. He’s been 100%. Wrong!

Volkswagen is the biggest shareholder in US solid-state researchers QuantumScape, after investing $140 million in the company in 2018 (it received a further $1.39 billion in investments in 2020, with Volkswagen again contributing, along with Bill Gates). Volkswagen hopes to introduce solid-state batteries into its EVs by 2024, predicting they will offer about 30 per cent more range, and charge to 80 per cent in 12 minutes.

EV solid-state battery technology start-up Solid Power, a competitor of QuantumScape in which BMW and Ford Motor have invested, recently merged with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp III, allowing it to become a publicly listed company, as well gain access to $697 million in new capital.

It claims its solid-state batteries will offer 50 per cent more energy density than current lithium-ion units, with Ford setting a target to cut battery costs by 40 per cent by mid-decade with the help of solid-state tech.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 28, 2022 4:44 pm

And if still the case, which I’m not sure anymore, one of the biggest oil storage hubs in Europe.

The last time I was there, yes, some thirty tank farms, handling over 90 million tonnes a year.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:44 pm

The science wrongologist.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:46 pm

Never give up your nukes.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:46 pm

Dover

Sending defensive weaponry to the Ukraine is exactly the right thing to do, but it’s not without risk. Fuck Putin.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:48 pm

feelthebern says:
February 28, 2022 at 4:36 pm

Rotterdam is the biggest port by a fair margin.
And if still the case, which I’m not sure anymore, one of the biggest oil storage hubs in Europe.

Okay.

johanna
johanna
February 28, 2022 4:51 pm

Andrew Forrest, shyster-in-chief, is now TheirABC’s hero because:

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has turned the first sod for construction of the world’s largest electrolyser facility in central Queensland, where he also announced a $3 billion investment in a wind, solar and battery farm.
Key points:

Construction on FFI’s green hydrogen manufacturing hub begins in Gladstone
Stage one will build infrastructure to make green hydrogen, called electrolysers
Andrew Forrest also confirms a $3 billion investment in a nearby solar, wind and battery farm

Fortescue Future Industries’ Green Energy Manufacturing (GEM) Centre will build equipment to make green hydrogen, including electrolysers and wind turbines, with stage one going up at Aldoga, west of Gladstone.

Mr Forrest said the $114 million project was filling a gap in the market.

There’s a bit of a ‘gap’ between $114m and $3bn, though.

No mention of the amount of government subsidies involved, either.

And, how do wind turbines make ‘green hydrogen’ – whatever that is?

Talk about stenographers – not a single question is asked about the Press Release they faithfully reproduced.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 28, 2022 4:52 pm

Never give up your nukes.

Correct. I keep the family nuclears in a secure location.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 4:52 pm

Seems to me the political-media class are really enjoying this and are finding it hard to pretend not to.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:53 pm

What ‘defensive’ weaponry are they sending?

Anti-tank, surface to air missiles for a start. However, for a defender every weapon is theoretically defensive.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 4:53 pm

Why isn’t ScoMo talking about the strategic oil reserve deal he did with Trump?
He announced it in 2020 just after oil went negative at expiry.
Now oil is just under $US100/b.
How much is in it?
What’s the marked to market profit?
Or why doesn’t he sell it?
It sits in the US anyway.
It’s not like it’s ever coming to Australia.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 4:54 pm

And, how do wind turbines make ‘green hydrogen’ – whatever that is?

Water electrolysis, with all the required electrical energy provided solely by ‘ruinable’ generation.

As compared to existing methods that involve steam reformation of methane or burning coal or natural gas and using other recombinative solutions.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 4:55 pm

Abbott has an op-ed in this morning’s WSJ.

Putin Gambles That the West Is Weak
Both militarily and culturally, we’ve been derelict in our duty to defend our civilization.
By Tony Abbott

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tony-abbott-putin-west-weak-ukraine-russia-invasion-military-fossil-fuels-nuclear-germany-lng-woke-covid-regulations-china-11645977566?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 4:57 pm

Correct. I keep the family nuclears in a secure location.

And used only in the most sparing or dire circumstances. And never against people

The Landsraad would never tolerate that…

#ATOMIIIIIICS!

#Dune

johanna
johanna
February 28, 2022 4:58 pm

Followed by this:

Australia’s richest man Andrew Forrest told ABC News he had pulled back his renewable energy interests in Russia, and condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I’m devastated. I’ve spent time in Crimea, I’ve spent time in the Ukraine,” Mr Forrest said.

“We have been trying to work with Russia for some time, we’ve made it incredibly clear that you just have no excuse to go and invade another country.”

“A world moving to a full green energy future won’t be based on who has the gas or the oil, it will be based on the best leadership. So Russia is looking like coming last in that race.”

The Fortescue Metals chairman said the company’s renewables arm, Fortescue Future Industries, would retreat from green hydrogen projects underway in Russia.

Mr Forrest said he had met with Mr Putin on previous trips to Moscow, and described him as someone who would not be rattled by Western sanctions.

When they are not railing about inequalidee, they are sucking up to ‘Australia’s richest man’ if he follows the pardy line.

Apart from being hypocrites of the first water, they are amazingly naive, unlike Forrest.

calli
calli
February 28, 2022 4:59 pm

What ‘defensive’ weaponry are they sending?

I heard on the news coming home from Stitch n’ Bitch – helmets and body armour.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 28, 2022 4:59 pm

Apologies if this has already been posted.
Future President of Ukraine plays piano with his cock:
https://youtu.be/HbmZrzN3WFE

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:02 pm

Future President of Ukraine plays piano with his cock:

Put it away, Grigory.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 28, 2022 5:04 pm

Aussie Twitter Antifas yesterday were comparing Zelenskiy larping in Camos to Scotty kicking back with his wife in a cafe.
Perhaps they might also compare Scotty to a President playing the piano with his cock?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 5:05 pm

helmets and body armour

There was hilarity when Germany sent 5000 helmets to Ukraine.
So we’re one step up from hilarious.

Winston Smith
February 28, 2022 5:07 pm

Diogenes:

Bah that won’t deter him.
The real deterrence will come when international celebrities do a mega video of (the idiots anthem) “Imagine” or “Give peace a chance” filmed from their mansions. (HT WiP)

What will deter the West is when Putin starts releasing the KGB/GRU/FSB files on our politicians and others.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 5:07 pm

Australia’s richest man Andrew Forrest told ABC News he had pulled back his renewable energy interests in Russia, and condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Someone ask him about Uyghurs.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:09 pm

What will deter the West is when Putin starts releasing the KGB/GRU/FSB files on our politicians and others.

Yes! I think there may be a lot of Australian names. How come it’s been hidden for the last 30 years?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:14 pm

Perhaps they might also compare Scotty to a President playing the piano with his cock?

Put it away, Grigory.

Before I tie it up like a balloon poodle and force-feed you a 3L bottle of Coke…

Winston Smith
February 28, 2022 5:14 pm

Rex Anger:
Your link -#2022IsLikeLookingLeftAndRightToCrossTheStreet,ThenGettingHitInTheHeadByAFallingMIRV
– Doesn’t work.
🙂

johanna
johanna
February 28, 2022 5:22 pm

Great trolling by the Ruskies:

3:00

Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, issued the space station warning late Thursday, demanding of the United States: “Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS?”

The Russian official was responding to U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement of sanction to “degrade [Russia’s] aerospace industry, including their space programme” in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, as reported by Euronews.

“If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or Europe? There is also the option of dropping a 500-ton structure to India and China. Do you want to threaten them with such a prospect?” he asked ominously, adding that the space station “does not fly over Russia, so all the risks are yours. Are you ready for them?”

Rogozin went on to suggest that “when planning sanctions, check those who generate them for Alzheimer’s” — likely a thinly-veiled reference to President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline — in order to prevent such sanctions “from falling on your head. And not only in a figurative sense.”

??????? ??? ???? ??????? ??????? 500-?????? ??????????? ?? ????? ? ?????. ?? ?????? ?? ???????? ????? ????????????? ??? ??????? ??? ?? ??????, ??????? ??? ????? – ????. ? ?? ? ??? ???????
???????, ?? ????? ??????? ??????????, ?????????? ???, ??? ?? ??????????, ?? ??????? ???????

— ??????? (@Rogozin) February 24, 2022

Discussing Rogozon’s astonishing remarks in an article published on Sunday morning, the National Review noted that the International Space Station travels over Western cities including London, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Rome at some 17,500 miles per hour, “but could accelerate beyond that if pushed from its orbit and crashed into the Earth.”

As well as the cities listed, the Space Station passes over Canberra every day, an hour or two before dawn at this time of the year.

I wonder how that came about?

And how did the superbrains in charge in Washington miss it?

I don’t think it’s a serious threat, more a reminder of how slack and lazy the US and NATO have become.

Ouch!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:24 pm

Rex Anger:
Your link -#2022IsLikeLookingLeftAndRightToCrossTheStreet,ThenGettingHitInTheHeadByAFallingMIRV
– Doesn’t work.
🙂

That probably means it’s already airburst… 😉

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 28, 2022 5:28 pm

yeah. But can he push the big red button with it?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
February 28, 2022 5:29 pm

A few thoughts on Russia Ukraine invasion. Old Vlad has had years to plan this. I can’t help thinking each day they would have mapped out expected responses and counter offensive measures. The talk of nukes is one out of the playbook. Make the other side think you are crazy to make them think twice about their next move. Nixon did this to Ho Chi Minh and the Chinese. As soon as Nixon was out of the way the NV made their move.
Although I doubt Vlad was expecting Slowmo to pull his Aussie Tourist visa. That would have unsettled Vlads morning vodka.

Winston Smith
February 28, 2022 5:30 pm

miltonf:

Yes! I think there may be a lot of Australian names. How come it’s been hidden for the last 30 years?

Because a mid level bureaucrat in 1990 may just become important in 2022, and that honeytrap in Beijing or Moscow way back then may just come in handy…

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 5:30 pm

Fair Shake

The only thing predictable about war and how it unfolds is unpredictability.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 5:31 pm
miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:32 pm

I don’t believe Putin would be so stupid to nuke anyone. As I said before, the western establishment are finding it hard to pretend they’re not loving it.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:33 pm

Because a mid level bureaucrat in 1990 may just become important in 2022, and that honeytrap in Beijing or Moscow way back then may just come in handy…

ah ok

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:34 pm

I’m also thinking of names like Evatt and Cairns.

local oaf
February 28, 2022 5:35 pm

feelthebern says:
February 28, 2022 at 4:43 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

I wonder what Britain would do if any of them were captured by Russian forces?
Probably disavow all knowledge of them.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 28, 2022 5:35 pm

The only interest I have in this war is my fear that it might interfere with the delivery of my cigars from Cuba. They’re currently gone from Leipzig, but where I just don’t know. DHL haven’t updated since Saturday.

It’s a worry.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It’s easy to avoid Ed Case by scrolling past. A bit harder when people copy/paste & reply to him.
Please think of others when copying his drivel. 😉

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 5:37 pm

miltonf says:
February 28, 2022 at 5:32 pm

I don’t believe Putin would be so stupid to nuke anyone. As I said before, the western establishment are finding it hard to pretend they’re not loving it.

There are reports that Putin is mentally unwell and acting crazed. This is likely to be Western intel propaganda, but it could also be true. We DON’T know.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:39 pm

It’s easy to avoid Ed Case by scrolling past. A bit harder when people copy/paste & reply to him.
Please think of others when copying his drivel.

You kidding?

I thought my threats were getting pretty inventive.

I’m feeling unloved now, Sal. 🙁

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 28, 2022 5:39 pm

You’d think someone with an AO for services to Netty would look before they shoot.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 28, 2022 5:39 pm

It is enjabbening.

And a looney in the WH helps.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:39 pm

Isn’t the pommy slag inciting people to become illegal combatants or least inciting weak minds to put their lives in danger? TBH after they played ‘candle in the wind’ Westminster Abbey, I decided England wasn’t a serious country anymore.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 5:39 pm

Head Prefect when is your flight to Kiev? you brave keyboard fighter you.
Zelensky will give you a free AK….Off you pop.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 28, 2022 5:40 pm

It’s a worry.

If anyone shoots down the plane carrying my smokes, I’ll be really, really cross.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 5:40 pm

For no reason other than Lotocoti’s awesome Ukraine video and Twiggy’s hypocrisy I am reminded of SF&F author Piers Anthony.

Anthony has published 166 works in total from 1956 to December 2013.[1] He is the only author to have a published novel starting with every letter in the alphabet, from A to Z.

Two particular lesser known novels:

Macroscope (1969)

Steppe (1976)

Both fine reads, as are many of his others. I recently reread the Battle Circle trilogy. The protagonist in Steppe, despite the blurbs you see on Amazon and elsewhere, is an Uighur. His novel is where I first heard of those people some decades ago when I first read the book.

Macroscope is also quite prescient of the current era of surveillance.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:40 pm

We DON’T know.

true

local oaf
February 28, 2022 5:41 pm

Discussing Rogozon’s astonishing remarks

What was so astonishing about his remarks, the danger from the ISS or his reference to Alzheimers? Both would be huge news to anyone plugged into the US legacy media.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:41 pm

I wonder what Britain would do if any of them were captured by Russian forces?

Immediately commence a combined media and legal campaign to repatriate them cuz they diddun know wut they wuz dooink?

Football (in all its sporting, cultural and political iterations) truly is a national pastime for the UK…

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 5:42 pm

Ted

Did you pick your banana quota today?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rex Anger says: February 28, 2022 at 5:39 pm

You kidding?
I thought my threats were getting pretty inventive.
I’m feeling unloved now, Sal. ?

You’re unloved because a law prohibiting the Nazi (Roman) salute has accidentally included hand signals for traffic control, this means traffic cops cannot direct traffic without a pair of ping-pong bats, and you are in real trouble when driving your 1962 Bedford delivery lorry, coz if you do not indicate ‘right turn’ you’ll be ticketed for failing to indicate & lose your licence, or if you do indicate, you’ll be arrested for giving a ‘Nazi salute’ & will go to jail.

Your wave to me just now better have been with a ping-pong bat, lest Plod run you in!

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 5:45 pm

HP, couldn’t get out there flooded here.

Are you going to hunt down Putin on your own?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

JC says: February 28, 2022 at 5:39 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
February 28, 2022 at 5:37 pm
He’s terrible, but you’re worse. Keep your stupid fucking opinion to yourself, you big jerkoff.

Shouldn’t you be busy putting down a bet?
You got called, & you squibbed out, you gutless p.o.s.

Don’t dare comment to your betters, coward.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:47 pm

Head Prefect when is your flight to Kiev?

And when are you starting your new career as an electrical fitter, Dribbles?

Remember to take your tinfoil hat off before you start working around the sparky bits- Electricity cares not for whomever you think really controls the Central Banks…

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 5:48 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

Very courageous, Minister.

(She’s one of the favourites to replace Bozo if/when he goes.)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:50 pm

Your wave to me just now better have been with a ping-pong bat, lest Plod run you in!

Even Better!

Heehee! 😀

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 5:51 pm

Putin Gambles That the West Is Weak
Both militarily and culturally, we’ve been derelict in our duty to defend our civilization.
By Tony Abbott

The biggest threats to our civilisation come from within, not without.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 5:51 pm

Choo choo man, I start fitting those turn indicators next week.
Apparently they don’t need wiring up they are the type that just flick up, so dumb fuck train drivers don’t have to listen to that clicking sound.

Bushkid
Bushkid
February 28, 2022 5:51 pm

P says:
February 28, 2022 at 1:47 pm
Biden Claims Success But People “Psychologically” Can’t “Feel Happy”

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1497629895547105280

This is the sort of arrant nonsense being unquestioningly regurgitated by the media, never questioned as to the logic of whatever the latest pronouncement is, be it by the senile US incumbent or any of our own homegrown bureaucrats, CHOs or politicians.

It’s gaslighting on a grand scale, on a scale that is actually dangerous as well as insulting, and yet it’s never questioned or disputed, never analysed for plausibility or accuracy before being broadcast to an increasingly confused, scared and disengaged population.

The situation between Ukraine and Russia is yet another example of abysmal quality journalism and reporting. Social media posts are being taken as gospel, memes from years before are unquestioningly reported as truth, even video game images being used to build a myth FFS. The general public around the world has no hope of understanding what is actually going on, and governments are buying into the pre-determined “narrative” yet again. We’re seeing the same
“lockstep” happening again as we did with covid.

Beware the deliberate shaping of public opinion. Did nobody learn anything from the covid media psyop? Question everything before you jump in boots and all.

As someone noted upthread: Are we seeing another archduke assassination? The implications of incautious response by our government and others are truly frightening.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

That nazi salute law that prevents hand signals for traffic, is the reason vehicles were fitted with that metal hand on a lever on the driver’s door.

So hath speaketh Sir Edgar Casement.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 5:53 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

I wonder what Britain would do if any of them were captured by Russian forces?

Pommy guys have been in Ukraine for at least a month training the locals to use the NLAW.

British military show Ukrainian army how to use anti-tank weapons against Russia (25 Jan)

Going on some of the vids floating around on the net the Ukrainians quite like them.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 5:57 pm

Apparently they don’t need wiring up they are the type that just flick up, so dumb fuck train drivers don’t have to listen to that clicking sound.

We ready have a persistent audible click on our speedos.

Your anklebiting is really ineffective, Dribbles. You need to eat more of your bananas to counteract your low energy levels…

twostix
twostix
February 28, 2022 5:57 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

2018, ABC headline:

From Neo-Nazi to militant: The foreign fighters in Ukraine who Australia’s laws won’t stop

When Australian former Neo-Nazi and registered gun owner Ethan Tilling flew into Brisbane this year, he was returning under the radar of Australian authorities with newfound combat experience from a brutal and forgotten war.

Two Australians have been identified as joining militant groups to fight in the war in Ukraine
One of the men, Ethan Tilling, is a former Neo-Nazi and soldier in the Australian Army and the other was an airman with the Royal Australian Air Force. There are no rules prohibiting Australians fighting for Ukraine.

Mr Tilling, who was until recently a member of the Nazi group Right Wing Resistance, had spent the Australian spring in the bitter cold of Eastern Ukraine firing Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers and grenades at Russian-backed separatists.

In just four years you’re all neo-nazis now LOL.


Also a warning for any retarded skinheads or leftwing retards who head on over to do globohomo’s bidding, reality comes at you quickly…

Two Australians who joined militant groups to fight in the war in Ukraine could face prosecution if they are found to have broken the law, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has warned.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 5:58 pm

Biden Claims Success But People “Psychologically” Can’t “Feel Happy”
It’s gaslighting on a grand scale, on a scale that is actually dangerous as well as insulting, and yet it’s never questioned or disputed, never analysed for plausibility or accuracy before being broadcast to an increasingly confused, scared and disengaged population.

correct- part of the slide into totalitarianism with an incontinent old crook at the top of the rotten, decaying pile

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 6:00 pm

Driller

I offered the bet with my rules. The idea that I/others would accept anyone representing you determining the direction of a bet is laughable, you filthy fucking fraud. A fraud until the end. Those genes took a while to cook up through the generations. I wonder if those betting machines are checked. I wouldn’t trust you in a pink fit.

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2022 6:01 pm

The little girl in a sleeveless top in the Ukraine in February, are people really that silly?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 6:02 pm

Choo choo man, my anklebiting is so ineffective it has you jumping at every post I make whether it is aimed at you or anybody else.
Now get back to gaggle to find some uninteresting shit to post…..wanker.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:05 pm

Choo choo man, my anklebiting is so ineffective it has you jumping at every post I make whether it is aimed at you or anybody else.

I just like making you swear and run away.

And I seem to be very good at it. 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 6:06 pm

I read an article & now I’m all sick of the current situation again.
First three paragraphs.

Celebrations have been taking place in the self-declared Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in what is almost universally recognized Ukraine. Having declared independence eight years ago, events have now forced Russia’s hand in which these two nascent entities are now recognized by Moscow, with all the protections that come with it. One cannot help but understand why these people are celebrating.

Another celebration is taking place in the USA. The State Department has achieved its main objective of seeing Nordstream 2 put on ice. American LNG producers are now popping champagne bottles as they can envision huge stacks of cash to be made by overcharging Europeans desperate for gas.

The Military-Industrial Complex is chuffed as well, as the arms will continue to pour into Ukraine and into the NATO armies in its periphery.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 28, 2022 6:09 pm

The little girl in a sleeveless top in the Ukraine in February, are people really that silly?

Yes.

Frequently, sillier.

twostix
twostix
February 28, 2022 6:09 pm

Orwell wrote that British who joined the International Brigades and went to Spain were long watched with suspicion by the government when they came back.

Which is natural, because they come back to live in peaceful towns and cities as mercenary radicalised killers with a head full of foreign garbage, foreign contacts and extreme gore experiences. Also a strange sort of dual allegiance. They naturally forever cast themselves as a misfit to people in a peaceful society after doing something like that outside of the cover and connection of their nation (I.e in a normal war with their peers and national propaganda telling everyone they’re ok, did the right thing, protected the nation, etc).

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 6:11 pm

How have I run away you absolute numbnut?

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2022 6:12 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 6:13 pm

I suspect a fair number of Poms will also be fighting with the Russians given the announcements from Kadyrov and his mufti.

Interestingly a number of Russian-heritage Israelis appear to want to fight for Ukraine.

Meet the Israelis heading to Ukraine to fight (Arutz Sheva, 27 Feb)

Reminiscent of the Spanish Civil War with people flocking in from all over the world.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 6:14 pm

Dnieper from Mykolaiv-Kherson to the Dnieper Bend and then across to Kharkov

Dover, does the topography support that?

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 6:15 pm

they are the hollow men, they whisper like rats’ feet on broken glass in our dry cellar

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 6:16 pm

Volkswagen hopes to introduce solid-state batteries into its EVs by 2024
Toyota were meant to have them in 2020. Hasn’t happened. “Hopes” is an interesting engineering term.
Let me know when I can order some cells under normal commercial terms. There are some really good battery scams going on with OPM. Anything still in the lab right now is a 2027 release for public use and amybe NET 2030.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2022 6:17 pm

Never give up your nukes.

Good advice. Mr Kim working on that right now.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 6:19 pm

I think Putin has every reason to keep his nukes on high alert. He’s facing a demented fool who is being manipulated by the neo-cons in the Deep State. They might just think they can nuke Putin and get away with it.

cohenite
February 28, 2022 6:19 pm

For no reason other than Lotocoti’s awesome Ukraine video and Twiggy’s hypocrisy I am reminded of SF&F author Piers Anthony

Piers is hit and miss but much better then Stephen Baxter who if possible has swallowed more of the green poison then Kim Stanley Robinson.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2022 6:19 pm

There are only two types of golf clubs. Ones with too much money and ones with not enough money. LKGC falls into the former. Bit hilly for old buggers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:20 pm

How have I run away you absolute numbnut?

Welp, if you stick to your usual pattern (Initial smartarse snark aimed at someone you don’t like, followed by 7 or 8 increasingly whiny and sweary attempts to riposte the folks rolling you in reply before you disappear for 24 hours or so) , then you have maybe 3 or so more sweary, whiny anklebites left in you before we see you again this time Tuesday…

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 6:21 pm

Toyota were meant to have them in 2020. Hasn’t happened. “Hopes” is an interesting engineering term.

Eyrie, recall when I criticized the lack of flight into space by Branson and Musk and you suggested I keep my mouth shut because it was coming. I suggest you try this about battery technology.

The incel was predicting the demise of Tesla only a few years ago when the stock price was about $35 a share. That’s hasn’t worked out well. There’s a ton of money being thrown at this. If you or the incel think it’s wrong then short those stocks, otherwise remain silent.

srr
srr
February 28, 2022 6:23 pm

Oh dear.

Dot says:
February 28, 2022 at 2:44 pm
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/02/26/open-thread-weekend-26-feb-2022/comment-page-8/#comment-163168
[…]
That fat pretentious “thinker” can fuck off.
[…]

Straight up you show how far back your bitter enmity towards Carl Benjamin goes.

He hasn’t been fat for a very long time (in fact he looks very good now!), since he decided to add improving his health to so many of the improvements he’s cared & worked to make.

Far from pretentious, he always admitted he didn’t know enough about all sorts of things so set about to learn and share what he learned and how & why he’s come to shift his opinions on important things.

He’s a very likable & approachable example of the value of making yourself a better man for the sake of your loved ones & future generations, who inspire other young men to do likewise.

You hate that so much you lie about it & say it’s bad.

Oh I know, you bitter clingers can’t let go of your handy poisons (“parasite” in this case), but you also have an impeccable record of mis-quoting out of all context, those you hate.

As I’m only one of millions who’s also heard him acknowledge the intrinsic value of human beings as something we must keep sacred, I can only presume that you didn’t take to one of his hard talk bant’s well, it probably being too close to your own feelings about yourself at the time.

johanna
johanna
February 28, 2022 6:23 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

It is hard to enumerate the many ways in which this is wrong. And from the Foreign Secretary, not some fringe backbencher.

Still, with Flophead supposedly in charge, what can you expect?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2022 6:25 pm

The little girl in a sleeveless top in the Ukraine in February, are people really that silly?

I take it you’ve never been clubbing in Manchester in January.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 6:25 pm

OK choo choo man I surrender to your superior intellect.
Now fuck off & drive a train.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 28, 2022 6:26 pm

How Yuri ended up in Emergency with a thirty round mag
jammed up his wossaname.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 28, 2022 6:27 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 28, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Aussie Twitter Antifas yesterday were comparing Zelenskiy larping in Camos to Scotty kicking back with his wife in a cafe.
Perhaps they might also compare Scotty to a President playing the piano with his cock?

Hang on, hang on, Dick Ed has previously babbled on about “Scotty’s” political brilliance, playing Albo like a Strad, outwitting all on the left. Has he had a revelation, or is the real Dick Ed now coming out of his shell?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2022 6:28 pm

There are also reports that the Thief in Chief is mentally stable. Must be true.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:35 pm

He hasn’t been fat for a very long time (in fact he looks very good now!),

Getting very uncomfortable Latrine x Sheriff of Rottingham vibes here.

Mrs Benjamin better have sharpened her lovelorn-suitor-fending-off stick…

#TightTights

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:36 pm

OK choo choo man I surrender to your superior intellect.
Now fuck off & drive a train.

See you tomorrow, Dribbles!

Try to bring something more energetic than your usual next time! 😀

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 6:37 pm

There are only two types of golf clubs.

True.

9 iron

Driver

The latter is most useful. I like Fallout New Vegas a lot, although I prefer Fallout 3 better for the wonderful atmosphere and 50’s culture stuff. Sadly I put out my old clubs for the council pickup day last year, they lasted on grassy verge only a few hours before they were salvaged by someone. I hope a kid has fun with them.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2022 6:37 pm

The biggest threat to our civilisation comes not from being militarily weak but from being mentally weak.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 6:39 pm

Choo choo man are you going?
Don’t forget to bring more of you uninteresting gaggle shit for me to scroll past you boring idiot.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2022 6:40 pm

Oh I know, you bitter clingers

Get off the stove you bitter old mill USSR, scrub yourself until the black comes off. I haven’t “sold out” you whacko, Carl Benjamin outed himself as a dumb fucker so I don’t listen to his pretentious shit anymore.

YOU keep on bringing it back up.

Come on now. If you keep bringing it up, debate the issue instead of fellating fatso (“Sargon of Akkad”).

Tell me why Lamaitre, Mother Theresa, John Paul II, … Athelstan, Mendel and Copernicus all were, as fatso puts it, parasites… because they didn’t have kids.

GO!!!

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 6:43 pm

recall when I criticized the lack of flight into space by Branson and Musk
????
Musk has been launching into orbit since 2008. Branson has carnival roller coaster ride on a highly dangerous contraption. Some bad design choices were made early on with it. He also has an air launched small sat launcher which works which may get customers and make money.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 6:44 pm

How Yuri ended up in Emergency with a thirty round mag
jammed up his wossaname.

Embarrassing. 😀

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:44 pm

How Yuri ended up in Emergency with a thirty round mag
jammed up his wossaname.

AK magazines (OG AK47 thru 74/101/103) all have a lip and catch system that secures them to the weapon. To apply the magazine, you line the catch at the front with the muzzle side of the magazine well, and rotate the magazine back towards the trigger guard so it engages a spring-loaded lever.

To remove the magazine, you depress the lever and rotate the magazine away from you.

Our heroic derp-fender here did not correctly insert and secure his magazine. I thought the angle looked weird on the telly, as an AK mag should look like this.

#WeaponHandling101

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 6:45 pm

The biggest threat to our civilisation comes not from being militarily weak but from being mentally weak.

All the military in the world is no good with the *will* to use it. Applies in many fields. Or as Mrs Eyrie says “ya gotta wanna”.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:46 pm

Choo choo man are you going?

Why?

Miss me already? 😀

slackster
slackster
February 28, 2022 6:46 pm

I’ve come to the conclusion after battling local council today-Everything our government does is to ensure at the end of the day we have less.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 6:47 pm

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia

It is hard to enumerate the many ways in which this is wrong. And from the Foreign Secretary, not some fringe backbencher.

She’s encouraging Brits to break the law. Admittedly the UK authorities have been rather selective in how they’ve applied that law, but English IS brides are languishing in Syria for less (not that I’ve much sympathy for them).

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
February 28, 2022 6:47 pm

If you or the incel think it’s wrong then short those stocks, otherwise remain silent.

Orders others to remain silent after having a MamaMia style hysterical spazz out over Russia.

What a fucking deadshit you are, Kerry Spacker.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

JC says: February 28, 2022 at 6:00 pm

It seems my battered poodle is smarting at being called as a fake.

Easy to fix, grow a dick & balls, put your money where your mouth is.

You won’t, coz you’re a gutless chickenshit – whose mouth made a statement his chequebook can’t cover.

I own you.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 6:50 pm

Musk has been launching into orbit since 2008.

Not people!

But hey, I was wildly pessimistic. You’re trying to brush off every battery advance there’s been since the first Tesla, which was 220 miles vs now 400 miles for the model S.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 6:51 pm

Kerry Spacker.

That gave me the giggles. 🙂

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2022 6:53 pm

Who thinks they’re more useful to society than Newton or Tesla because they’ve had kids?

Look. Tesla was so useful to us because he was an incel and he married a pet pigeon basically.

There are millions of Australians who live in households of three generations where no one has worked a day in their life.

I won’t belittle them but I am not going to conclude they’re pulling more weight for all of us than the luminaries I mentioned.

sfw
sfw
February 28, 2022 6:53 pm

All of you appear to be wetting your pants over something that really doesn’t concern us. The west is being undermined at every turn, our country is is full of indigenous and other violence, our backyard has the Chinese bribing every pollie they can and you’re worried about Ukraine? We should remain neutral, it has nothing to do with us. The only reason for getting involved would be that if we didn’t it would threaten the US/Aus defence relationship. We can’t defend ourselves and need the US, if that means we sacrifice our young men, then so be it. It’s horrible but better than getting into a SE Asia war on our own.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 6:54 pm

Driller

You’re a fraud and you’re the coward. You’re unable to speak to the person directly, which why I picked you up earlier for the way you trolled Mr Ed. You disgust me and also quite a few people here.

You’re also a fraud and anyone using poker machines you have control over must have rocks in their head.

You’re genetically incapable of being anything other than a fraud.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 28, 2022 6:55 pm

I am going to learn to drive a train, they give yo handling instructions on an AK 47 …OG AK47 thru 74/101/103 , could come in handy.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

JC says: February 28, 2022 at 6:54 pm

Translation:
The Dwarf of Wall Street’s mouth dug a hole his chequebook can’t dig him out of.
He’s all noise when it comes to mouthing off via a keyboard.
But nowhere to be found when it’s time man up & back the mouth.

Gutless.

It was your choice – now you wear the title.

I own you.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 6:59 pm

The Dwarf of Wall Street’s mouth dug

Oh we’re incapable of coming up our own put downs, so Driller steals stupid Evil’s. You’re such a fucking fraud driller. No wonder you’re pals with Adonis.

I own you.

You don’t even own the chair you sit your fat arse on let alone anything else. You fraud.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 28, 2022 6:59 pm

Bidding online for a grain cleaner, only half an hour to go and I’m top bid.
Sounds good but the last few minutes after the time clock is activated sees the real players.
These online auctions are worse than the real thing as they keep resetting the timer after the supposed finish.
The digital hammer is bogus.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dwarf of Wall Street, you squibbed when it counted.
Now piss off you gutless piece of shit.

You’re a nothing…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2022 7:01 pm

All of you appear to be wetting your pants over something that really doesn’t concern us.

Entirely true SFW, except the Cat wouldn’t be the Cat if we couldn’t discuss the issues of the day.

rickw
rickw
February 28, 2022 7:01 pm

Ukrainian MP gave the game away. She says they are fighting for the NEW WORLD ORDER

Some things get lost in translation. Oh…. we weren’t meant to say that bit!!!

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:01 pm

Driller

Go clean the water out of the bar, or can’t you even afford a mop these days. You filthy degenerate fraud.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 7:02 pm

I am going to learn to drive a train, they give yo handling instructions on an AK 47 …OG AK47 thru 74/101/103 , could come in handy.

Pays better than licking windows, Dribbles…

Razey
Razey
February 28, 2022 7:02 pm

Does anyone know if there are any covid court cases left to try in this dystopia? Why the Fuck are mandates illegal now in NZ but not here? I’m bloody annoyed.

Winston Smith
February 28, 2022 7:03 pm

Just noted a question Quora:
“Why didn’t Hitler use the Channel Tunnel to invade Britain in 1940?”
I doubt anyone would believe me that this question would be asked, so here’s a link.
This persons vote is equal to yours.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dwarf of Wall Street:
I told you earlier, no need for words.

Put your money up. You were so sure of your mouth.
Money up, or you’re agreeing that you’re a blowhard (& a coward)

Thus far, you are admitting to being a coward & a blowhard.

Get back in touch if you’re able to grow a dick & balls and put up the money your mouth dug you into.

Piece of cowardly shit. Blowharding all over this page, when you’re called you squib. Pathetic.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 7:05 pm

the Cat wouldn’t be the Cat if we couldn’t discuss the issues of the day.

We discuss the issues of the day?!

I thought we all came here for the electronic equivalent of Ecky-Thump…

rickw
rickw
February 28, 2022 7:05 pm

I take it you’ve never been clubbing in Manchester in January.

One of the world’s most dangerous sports.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:06 pm

Driller tried to peddle the lie that he was audited four times in a year by the ATO and unless it was prior to 2000, one of the supposed audits was in an area that had become redundant. This is what the blowhard was trying to bullshit. Another example of narcissistic blowharding and just like the GST Driller’s comedy hour.

MatrixTransform
February 28, 2022 7:06 pm

There are reports that Putin is mentally unwell and acting crazed. This is likely to be Western intel propaganda, but it could also be true. We DON’T know.

no doubt he’s stroking a cat and laughing maniacally

explains everything

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 7:07 pm

I take it you’ve never been clubbing in Manchester in January.

One of the world’s most dangerous sports.

Also a pun guaranteed to upset even the most genteel of animal lovers…

Cassie of Sydney
February 28, 2022 7:07 pm

“except the Cat wouldn’t be the Cat if we couldn’t discuss the issues of the day.”

Isn’t this what the Cat is supposed to be for?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dwarf of Wall Street, if it is a lie, you’ll clean up big on the bet.
It is now wallet time.

No more talk. You have been made a fair offer to bet your certainty.

Money talks, Bullshit walks.

Which will you do?

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 28, 2022 7:08 pm

Our heroic derp-fender here did not correctly insert and secure his magazine. I thought the angle looked weird on the telly, as an AK mag should look like this.

Yep, did a double take myself as the mag didn’t look curved enough, but some googling shows that the AK 74 does have a less curved mag than the 47s we are used to.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 7:09 pm

since the first Tesla, which was 220 miles vs now 400 miles for the model S.
Primarily because they put in a larger battery pack.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 28, 2022 7:10 pm

Just noted a question Quora:
“Why didn’t Hitler use the Channel Tunnel to invade Britain in 1940?”
I doubt anyone would believe me that this question would be asked, so here’s a link.
This persons vote is equal to yours.

The questioner might be a mong (or just trolling), but the piss-taking answers are quite glorious.

And every one of them Cat-worthy. 🙂

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 7:11 pm

All of you appear to be wetting your pants over something that really doesn’t concern us.

It’s our vile polticians/meja whipping up hysteria that’s pissing me off.

Regarding the US, I doubt if we can rely on them anything now. It’s not 1966 anymore. LJB was a turd but a giant compared to the old thief.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

For the record: I made the Dwarf a fair offer of a bet.
Four Million Australian Dollars.

This is his chance to use his oft repeated threats to crush other commenters with superior financial muscle.
Y’know, like this:

I’ll fucking grind you the ground financially before its all over. You’ll be eating dirt biccies.

It seems he’s not so sure of himself when faced with a realistic offer to take him up.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:11 pm

Dwarf of Wall Street:
I told you earlier, no need for words.

This time not trolling in the 3rd person, Driller? What happened? Embarrassed a little?

Put your money up. You were so sure of your mouth.
Money up, or you’re agreeing that you’re a blowhard (& a coward)

Yea, 4 audits just like it was next to impossible to figure GST on bets. You freaking ridiculous blowhard fraud.

Thus far, you are admitting to being a coward & a blowhard.

Plagiarizes stupid Evil and now me.

Piece of cowardly shit. Blowharding all over this page, when you’re called you squib. Pathetic.

Obviously, you wouldn’t own one, so borrow a mop and go dry out the bar, you fraud.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 7:12 pm

The little girl in a sleeveless top in the Ukraine in February, are people really that silly?

I take it you’ve never been clubbing in Manchester in January.

I can only assume large amounts of alcoholic fortification are required.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:14 pm

For the record: I made the Dwarf a fair offer of a bet.

Lol

Four Million Australian Dollars.

Driller doesn’t have 4 dollars to his name.

This is his chance to use his oft repeated threats to crush other commenters with superior financial muscle.
Y’know, like this:

I’ll fucking grind you the ground financially before its all over. You’ll be eating dirt biccies.

Let the bread delivery terrorist try it out.

It seems he’s not so sure of himself when faced with a realistic offer to take him up.

You fraud.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

JC says: February 28, 2022 at 7:11 pm

No need for talk.
Put money up. If all your ‘knowledge’ is correct, you’ll win serious money.
What could go wrong? You know everything, rite?

rickw
rickw
February 28, 2022 7:15 pm

There are reports that Putin is mentally unwell and acting crazed. This is likely to be Western intel propaganda, but it could also be true. We DON’T know.

Putin’s possible insanity and Biden’s know dementia/insanity. #AccidentalWW3

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 7:16 pm

You think the way the US uses its allies doesn’t concern us?

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2022 7:16 pm

I sure hope JC’s trading software was intelligent.

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2022 7:16 pm

I see yapping chihuahua runnystruth has been having the time of his life today.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:16 pm

You fraud, Driller. You pathetic fraud.

Ho ho ho, I had four tax audits in a year.

Driller is Clive Palmer behind the anon.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:17 pm

Eyrie says:
February 28, 2022 at 7:16 pm

I sure hope JC’s trading software was intelligent.

I sure hope you’re the only person in a glider, Champ.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I see blustering words. I do not see money put up.
Heh!

I own him.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:19 pm

Driller

You don’t even own the pixels. STFU and go dry out the bar. Enough.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Wow, the blowhard who hasn’t the cojones to show the money, says I haven’t any.
He’s not very good at this.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You bigmouthed, you got called, you squibbed.

Game over.

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2022 7:22 pm

I couldn’t read more than a couple of paragraphs of TA’s piece because of the paywall.

But I have questions.
Why is NATO apparently so determined to antagonise Russia by creeping closer and closer to the Russian borders?
What benefit to the west was there getting Ukraine inside?
Is it some sort of we are morally superior and people must live like us, whether they like it or not?
The sort of thinking that unleashed ‘Arab Spring’ to disastrous consequences?

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:23 pm

Driller

You don’t have any money. Banks will NOT lend to you because you’re a dreadful risk and by the way you’ve conducted yourself here, they aren’t wrong. You’re totally dishonest and a fraud. Please go away.

cohenite
February 28, 2022 7:25 pm

Converted convent in melbournistan looks nice:

https://www.domain.com.au/55-anzac-avenue-koroit-vic-3282-2017546529

Although the Noosa Hinterland pile for about the same price probably better.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
February 28, 2022 7:26 pm

Plagiarizes stupid Evil and now me.

As long as my agent is tracking the royalties, plagiarise away!

johanna
johanna
February 28, 2022 7:26 pm

Looks like the usual repetitive slanging match between the usual suspects, fascinating to them and irrelevant to everybody else.

I’m off to watch a movie, while giving the scrolling finger a rest.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 7:27 pm

Why is NATO apparently so determined to antagonise Russia by creeping closer and closer to the Russian borders?

They want a war- that’s their business. I also suspect they’re upset that Russia hasn’t bought into the mukkie ‘gender fluidity’ filth.

Cassie of Sydney
February 28, 2022 7:27 pm

CPAC have had a conference in Florida over the last few days. Anyway, shock, gasp, horror, there were a few speakers who said America should stay out of what’s going on in Ukraine. Fair enough, that’s free speech…isn’t it? Anyone with a basic knowledge of American history knows that both the GOP and Demonrats have always had people who support American isolationism. You can agree or disagree with their words.

Tonight I made the mistake of watching Credlin the Cretin. I need to make sure I never watch the nauseating mediocrity ever again. She basically “dissed” on CPAC USA for allowing such speakers to speak. So much for free speech. Credlin the Cretin clearly doesn’t believe in free speech, and once again I’m reminded how she really thinks she’s the smartest person in the room…..she isn’t…..and I strongly suspect that her control over Abbott lead to his early demise. She’s nauseating….an utterly repulsive mediocrity.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 7:30 pm

Cassie, you have to stop watching Skah.
As of midnight tonight, I’ve been Skah clean for two whole months.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:31 pm

They want a war- that’s their business. I also suspect they’re upset that Russia hasn’t bought into the mukkie ‘gender fluidity’ filth.

How about reality. Stalin took those countries over after the Yalta carve up. Poland , Hungary, Czechs and the rest don’t want anything to do with Russia and have begged the west to join their defensive grouping – NATO.

Good for them.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 7:32 pm

She basically “dissed” on CPAC USA for allowing such speakers to speak.

effing unbelievable- just proves she’s part of the problem

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2022 7:32 pm

I can only assume large amounts of alcoholic fortification are required.

It doesn’t hurt. You don’t want to fall asleep outside though. Moderation required there.

cohenite
February 28, 2022 7:33 pm

Anyone else watching the second season of Raised by Wolves; and if so do they want to venture an explanation of what the fuck it’s about.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2022 7:34 pm

She basically “dissed” on CPAC USA for allowing such speakers to speak. So much for free speech.

Abbott’s pronouncements on Ukraine have also been mere neo-con boilerplate.

John H.
John H.
February 28, 2022 7:35 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 7:35 pm

cohenite, I have no idea.
If there is a series 3, I will not be watching it.

Cassie of Sydney
February 28, 2022 7:35 pm

“feelthebernsays:
February 28, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Cassie, you have to stop watching Skah.
As of midnight tonight, I’ve been Skah clean for two whole months.”

Well you see Bern, I like Kenny, I like Panahi and I like Outsiders…but that’s it.

And Bolt……he’s just a frigging dolt. Bolt the Dolt is what I’ll call him in the future. Is it too much to want some serious analysis about what’s going on in Ukraine…yet all we get is hysterical spin…it’s a disgrace. It just confirms to me that journalism is dead.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2022 7:35 pm

NATO was set up to contain the Soviet Union which ceased to exist over 30 years ago. Why does NATO still exist?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 28, 2022 7:36 pm

John H, MIT tech review was saying that fusion is an AI issue more than anything else now.
I don’t pretend to understand much of it.
But the article I was reading said that AI will deliver fusion reactors.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2022 7:36 pm

Free speech went out the window a while ago.

JC
JC
February 28, 2022 7:37 pm

I must be in a coma, because I can’t recall all those boring attacks on Liz and the countless exchanges.

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2022 7:38 pm

Don’t the majority of people in Eastern Ukraine not want to be part of the Ukraine?
Why can’t those regions be independent states too?

Cassie of Sydney
February 28, 2022 7:38 pm

“How about reality. Stalin took those countries over after the Yalta carve up. Poland , Hungary, Czechs and the rest don’t want anything to do with Russia and have begged the west to join their defensive grouping – NATO.”

JC, those countries are already members of NATO…as are the Baltic states.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 28, 2022 7:40 pm

Anyone else watching the second season of Raised by Wolves …

Only watched 2/001 so far. Already lacking something series one had.
(Not just the SFX budget.)

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  2. Reading a novel by EDWARD MARSTON from his Home Front Detective series .. never come across him before but a…

  3. Not coming up on my system unfortunately. Small sadness at the Cafe this afternoon: one of my tame noisies has…

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