Just let churn reach the point where you are spending more on customer acquisition.
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Back in 2013 this is what Kevin Rudd said about Abbott…. Asked about the growing likelihood of armed conflict, Mr…
We live in a joke of a country.It’s disgraceful, but I’m not sure there’d be a different outcome anywhere else…
Sancho Panzer November 13, 2024 5:46 pmOn Spud logic (which he used on Sinc-Cat to try to say 93.1% of Americans…
I think it’s called empowering the consumer with choice.
At the expense of being sanctioned by the Doverlord for scab-picking, the Hunt for Ed October was perhaps one of the funniest episodes we have experienced on the Cat. While not as vicious and long-lived as the First Great Truck vs. Train War (Hail to Team Zeppelin! Hail!), it was something to be well remembered… 🙂
#TheWhiiiiiiiteSuuuuuuuuub!
I don’t think so. India is already ramping up deliveries of oil from Russia. The non-Western world won’t blink over Ukraine. There are multiple conflicts going on that don’t lead to sanctions regimes being imposed. They will buy Russian commodities if it’s in their interests without a second thought.
Disco, as she is re-imagined
And good on Wafia for this – epic stuff, following the golden unspoken rules of that rather regrettable muzakal style.
Best listened to turned up to eleventy, BTW … 🙂
Everything from car accidents to congenital illnesses. Everything possible was counted as Covid.
Now, whomever it was who recommended to visit Fairbrossen for nice wine- Thank You. 🙂
The Saperavi is indeed delightful, and the elder Angers and I also quite appreciated their Verdelho. Multiple bottles of each were acquired for ‘Ron. Ditto 2 bottles of their ‘Pedro’ fortified wine. I am hopeful it does not hit like a Dorper.
As a polite warning to other Cats, while the wine is quite good, and the sampling platters quite reasonable as snackies, there is no food or coffee provided. And the sign on the front says so quite clearly. Pack a picnic and thermos, or flash in on your way to somewhere else nice.
Still a lovely and recommended place to visit, nonetheless.
I have always liked the Frog’s La Marseillaise as an anthem.
Full of bloody flags, roars of fierce soldiers, forming battalions, grabbing weapons, and slitting throats.
None of this poofy “girt by sea” and “wealth to share” nonsense.
La Marseillaise with English lyrics.
The poor bastard who had clean the stains off the carpet and drapes afterwards.
Funniest thing was when a few of the ASX miners reinvented themselves as German sex companies to raise a few bucks. There is probably a few boxes of German marital aids out in Balcatta somewhere waiting for a liquidator to find them one day.
I’ve heard a French Army band belting out “La Marseillaise” at full throttle – however did we get stuck with “Australians all eat ostriches” as a National Anthem?
Me? Nooooo.
I’m just whistlin’ in the wind…
#Snerk
Dover
China will have to be their biggest client.
Also, the problem for Russia will be transportation. Who is going to carry the shipping freight and insure it as well? Russia is donsky on that score except for perhaps China.
Ed Casesays:
March 19, 2022 at 7:46 pm
Curtin was bad news, but then, as now, the MainScreamMedia was covering for him.
Lifelong alcoholic, so likely a closeted flamer as well.
Ed, could you please give us a comprehensive list of every adult male in the history of the human species who you don’t suspect of being/having been a “flamer”.
It would save a huge workload for you and for other people’s scroll wheels.
Saint Gough. Through plebiscite in 1973.
Need anyone say any more?
Pedro, the lyrics are pretty gruesome.
English translation:
Russia is the third largest producer of wheat. It and Ukraine feed the bulk of Africa. That isn’t going to change any time soon, and those states that depend on Ukrainian wheat are already in for food shortages, incl. Egypt.
I’ve heard a French Army band belting out “La Marseillaise” at full throttle – however did we get stuck with “Australians all eat ostriches” as a National Anthem?
The tune’s ok, but we should replace the lyrics with “I love a sunburnt country”.
Try singing it to yourself. It goes really well.
We’d need to agree on the “In joyful strains then let us sing” bit, but that’s an easily dealt with detail.
I reckon they’ve thought of that.
I have always liked the Frog’s La Marseillaise as an anthem.
The first line need changing if you’re really going to motivate people.
Instead of “Allons enfants de la patrie”:
it should be:
“Allez tous vous fumeurs des penìs”.
JC, check your mail.
How is it not changing? Explain to me the dynamics of what’s happening with those exports to Africa. How is it being transported and by whom? How are they treated with respect to the sanctions?
err, yeah, thanks Bear, that’s enough of that. 😕
BEF Crashes – Once there was a day …
Will I ever get to wear a suit again?
Languishing. Suits, shirts, brogues, dress watches, silk ties, cuff links – not worn for many many moons. 🙁
Gutsy lyrics, JC.
Classic scene from the 1942 film Casablanca with a couple of glimpses of the stunningly beautiful Ingrid Bergman.
French patriots drown out Nazis.
Had enough of being unrepentantly clad in shorts and a t-shirt for almost 18 months.
So much for dignity. 😕
sfw
March 19, 2022 at 7:10 pm
Most here seem to think that a military invasion is how another country, say Chine would invade. That would be really dumb. The best way for them to get a foothold here would be to simply load up as many ships as possible with civilians, especially families, sail to Darwin, they already control the port and disembark the people, return and bring back more asap. What could we do? If we attacked unarmed ships of civilians we would be labelled as barbarians. You can’t kill or imprison that many people when they got here. Their sheer weight of numbers would enable them to overwhelm all forces available as well as the Australian population. They could just commandeer housing, food, anything they want. Much of the local population would just flee south. Then China could deliver supplies until the new population could self sustain. There is simply nothing we could do and we would then have a major Chinese city on our turf, it would just keep expanding to all habitable areas.
Sounds like a political, diplomatic and immigration issue, not a military one.
I’m not familiar with the modern port of Darwin, but I question how many ships could tie up alongside simultaneously. Even if many can, there will be Customs and Immigration staff to sound an immediate alarm.
The AFP then board any ship tied up alongside, and arrest the crews and charge them with people smuggling. Ditto for any other ships in the harbour carrying unexplained passengers. Take all ships already alongside out into the harbour, and anchor the whole group well offshore. Make suitable arrangements to feed all aboard, and provide medical care if necessary. Spice things up by dumping some abbatoir waste near the ships, to discourage swimming.
Then call in the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, explain that we have reason to believe that several ships in Darwin are carrying people who could seek political asylum. Assure the ambassador that we are concerned to keep amicable relations between our two nations, and seek Chinese assistance to return the ships and passengers to China.
I could go on, but I hope you have got my drift.
There’s a rail connection from Pakistan to Russia via Iran now but I don’t know if India could use that. Two breaks of gauge of course.
Sounds like something our former Troubadour in Residence might have in his repertoire.
Especially the bit about impure blood.
#TheWhiiiiiiiteSuuuuuuuuub!
Team Zeppelin reporting for duty.
I see Fauci filth (does he poo his pants too like Biden and Nadler?) is talking about new China bug restrictions. Getting ready to steal the mid terms no doubt.
I don’t know but if you look at these figures how is excluding Russian wheat not going to lead to mass famine and social unrest?
A man who has seemingly lost all sense of his own reason for being.
Pancho, it’s not something we should be gloating about. Those that lose their sense of identity have a tendency to lose their bearings on this planet.
Which may not be good. He’s an ozzie, like you and me, squire. I take no great pleasure in watching our comrades* lose their minds.
*Term used advisedly.
Oh yea, the impure blood thing. Maybe Struth could run it as his own personal anthem while hurtling down Brisbane roads delivering fresh bread.
When too much superstructure is barely enough … 🙂
Early SA results gave libs getting taken behind the woodshed – 8% swing
So in SA it’s looking like Labor lite back to Labor?
Buggered if I know what difference the last change of government made there.
OK, Cats. Time to ponder some of the great existential questions of our age.
Starting with: Just what does it mean to be an Ozzie nowadays?
Answers on something larger than a postage stamp will be ruthlessly trimmed.
Word limit: 20.
Go for it. 🙂
Witless LNP in SA, trying to explain the election debacle: it’s the chunk virus’s fault. Just like in WA the idiots act like lefties on all the big issues, especially global fucking warming and every other cultural issue. And the filth’s vote is up as well. Australia is done. Wake up you fucking idiot scomo.
Just what does it mean to be an Ozzie nowadays?
Nothing.
The end.
Watch. Libs get turfed everywhere while current Lab governments are returned with increased majorities for doing a great job.
If this prediction of mine comes true, I don’t want to hear a fucking peep out of anyone here wanting to witness the destruction of the Libs because something better comes along. Nothing better will come along except the Liars Party floor to ceiling.
Largely surrounded by idiots, fed fat by their beloved braindead lamestream meeja. Born out of time. 😕
Listening to John Williamson singing “True Blue” and trying not to throw up.
Australia has great weather (usually).
And the best food on the planet (always).
In return for paying an obscene amount of tax & having government over reach, someone who lives here get those two benefits (weather & food).
Bluddee hell – Bern (8:57pm) appears to have taken it out.
Buggered if I know what difference the last change of government made there.It seems hard to tell the difference. Used to live there. On visits, glad we left.
Don’t knock ducks, disco or otherwise.
I’ve just run the numbers.
A 1.8kg Drake with a drag coefficient of 0.1,
dropped on a PLA(N) aircraft carrier from 30,000 metres,
would hit with the energy equivalent of 7 grams of TNT.
Probably.
Just what does it mean to be an Ozzie nowadays?
g’day mate
Cronkite
Stop that nonsense. Liars get increased majorities and Libs get turfed, but you’re saying the libs are being punished because they’re acting like Liars. Yet people are just voting Liars.
Well, from my standpoint, there wasn’t a discernible difference on the Final Day from the 800 – 900 preceding days.
However, if it was apparent he was losing his mind, you might consider directing some barbs at his “you go girl” cheer squad who egged him on daily.
In short, someone who dished up gems like “I hope you get a clot and die” on a regular basis isn’t getting a lot of sympathy from me.
F8ck yeah – something that I always missed when overseas. When people I’d met OS who caught up with me here afterwards they were stunned by the quality of the foodstuffs on this continent.
So evidently, it’s not all bad.
Yes wishing death and destitution as well as all round abuse does not garner sympathy.
As if there hasn’t been enough bad news, the latest from the whacky world of islam:
Geller Report.
Jihad Watch.
Yeah I think Australian food is excellent- great oranges and cheeses just off the top of my head
Batlow delicious apples. Qld and NT mangoes. Tully banana.
It means having the luxury to bitch about where you’d rather live.
Stuth didn’t lose his mind all this just exposed what was already there.
Any significant swing in SA to minor parties?
I always marvel at the Royal Hotel in Hill End- a Victorian gem, carved out of the bush in the middle of nowhere.
Yea Tim. The ALP scored really well. 🙂
the bug was an essential element in the theft of the last election
Yes, but Milts, he’s clearly struggling. Those big rigs empty of petrol in Qld aren’t going to drive themselves any time soon.
This is what happens when socialism sits working class heroes from Qld on their house sized backsides.
Having said that, I’m in no position to be criticising anyone, in case I sound like a monumental hypocrite. If we’ve struggled after the last two years of hitlerist insanity then we’re part of a nationwide shitegeist.
Putting a stop to future local fascist outbursts would be good, before we go blundering off (again) on various foreign adventures.
Lieborals wiped out in Mainland Tasmania. Surely that warrants opening a Coonawarra red?
Couple more elections and they might start to get the message.
Democracy. Good and hard.
Again I ask, what improvement did the last change of government in SA bring about? Tweedle dee and tweedle dum. As for NSW the O’Barrell-Weepy Baird-Gladishoclian-Parrot abomination are worse than Carr ever was.
Bear, with due respect, but the punters want Liar Party policies and ideas. You can’t win here without being Liar lite.
SloMo can dust off his WA federal issues speech. Don’t bother putting it away either.
Boambee John,
An attacking force which came in from the south would cause major problems. If they could sail down either the east or west coast and launch an attack on Port Augusta or the Eyre Peninsula, they could immediately close down east-west and north-south movements.
Sliante!
I’m an Ozzie, Pancho. At the risk of sounding like a Qld truck driver, I’m not in any hurry to exist anywhere else on this planet.
That ‘orrible ol’ cliche comes to mind – “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”. 😕
Bluey
A (relatively) few words on Bombardment.
Australia gains a lot of natural protection from its size. Putting aside ICBMs armed with nuclear warheads, bombing major cities in Australia is made difficult by distance. Even with bases in Indonesia, PNG or New Caledonia, few nations have aircraft with a long enough range to reach our southern cities. Fewer still have many of them.
That said, keeping a fighter force, but also buying long range SAM systems are worthwhile, at least in part because they would also contribute to defence against invasion. Both the fighter units and the SAM systems, however, must be mobile. Our last effort at a long range SAM, buying the Bloodhound from the UK in the 1960s, ended up with two fixed sites at Williamtown and Darwin. there was never a credible bomber threat to Newcastle of Sydney at the time.
Only Insurgency to go, tomorrow.
Here’s the Seat of Adelaide, held by Liberal, gone to Labor:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/sa/2022/guide/adel
Labor Girl only got 37.6%, Liberal girl 46%, but after preferences are counted she’s won with 56%.
My opinion:
All independents do is keep Labor in the race.
A vote for the Independent is a vote for labor
Nobody likes mid strength.
lol
Seriously how is the current NSW government liar lite? It’s further to the left- abortion, sex changes for school kids, destroying the grid.
People voted against all the climate crap in 2014 and 2019 and they are fucking going to get it anyway.
Old Bloke
An attacking force which came in from the south would cause major problems. If they could sail down either the east or west coast and launch an attack on Port Augusta or the Eyre Peninsula, they could immediately close down east-west and north-south movements.
Indeed, but where is this force to come from? Will some national leader with a significant navy wake up one morning and decide to invade? Which nations have a navy capable of such long distance power projection? I was trying to focus on credible opponents, most of which lack such capability, particularly at short notice.
Old Australia is gone, never to be seen again.
New Australia is 90% politically correct, multi-culti, shivering and fearful, obedient to their betters.
Yep every minute managed by the state for the state until death.
Speak for yourself
milts – this is why you opt out – no more legitimate votes.
The only thing the gliberals can ever boast about is that they can implement labore and the greenfilth’s policies more efficiently.
Yeah, thanks, you loathsome technocrat gerbils. You’ve not conned me, but you have conned about 40% of the electorate.
Proud of yourselves? Oh wait – that’s shouting into an abyss.
Yep, the whole lesser of two evils thing is a load of crap. Libs need to get the Carthage treatment.
Well said.
This Seat had Xenophons “party” winning 11% last time.
They didn’t stand this time and the 11% went to Labor and The Greens.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/sa/2022/guide/blac
Dick Ed
Labor Girl only got 37.6%, Liberal girl 46%, but after preferences are counted she’s won with 56%.
So, 2% of Liberal primary votes flowed to the “Labor girl”? This is Numbers standard maths. If the Liberal got 46% primary, the absolute most Labor could end up with after preferences is 54%, and that only if absolutely no preferences flowed to the Liberal.
milts – this is why you opt out – no more legitimate votes.
At the risk of repeating myself, I’ll vote if there’s someone worth voting for eg Latham but I voted informal in the LA in that election.
Will voted UAP in the HoR this time and maybe LDP in the Senate.
New Australia is 90% politically correct
where do you get that figure from? Not 95% or 70%?
Bluuddee hell BJ, your stating of the facts is not appreciated by indivegetables that see no need for them.
*He/she/it refers to you as Spongebob?
South A ustralian Lib Premier has just conceded.
Some Grik bloke new boss.
Souvlaki for all!
sfw:
A variation on the theme is happening on the China Russian border. Chinese citizens ignore the borders and just move into southern Russia. The Russians turf them out, but there are Chinese townships already developing in the Russian hinterland.
New Australia is 90% politically correct, multi-culti, shivering and fearful, obedient to their betters.
sweeping rubbish statement- what about the people who marched against Andrews last year many from non euro backgrounds too eg Sri Lanka.
A house sized backside sheltering fundament.
What it should mean:
A love of Australia and respect for its history.
A healthy disrespect of authority.
A willingness to give people a fair go, while not cutting them any slack if they take advantage.
An ability to spot bullshit and call it out.
What it means in the 21st century:
A passport indicating citizenship with any or all of the following,
A toxic view of Australia,
Hatred of its history,
A love of authority,
A racist view of fellow citizens, with Aboriginal worship at the top and white denigration at the bottom,
A gullible willingness to follow rules no matter how ridiculous.
Just rounded it out, milton.
Its actually 91.3% (H/T Numbers)
Does the coalition still require 54% of the TPP to win in SA? It used to…
Cool. I hope there are less Libs left in the SA parliament than there are in the WA parliament.
So many Sri Lankan and Kiwi friends and colleagues have told me how much they love it here and how fortunate they are.
Vietnamese too come to think of it
In a nutshell – uninvaded.
Whose tyres were being incessantly pumped during the week by those “courageous conservatives” on Sky.
Gee, thanks, dickheads.
A variation on the theme is happening on the China Russian border.
US southern border also.
There aren’t enough immigration and customs people in Darwin to stop several thousand Chinese getting off their boats and walking over them. Who is going to start shooting them? Better have plenty of ammunition because survivors will tear you limb from limb.
Apropos that discussion of NATO bombing Chinese embassy in ’99:
Realy! what for, Rabz?
Yes, but don’t you go mentioning the “G” word. It was a “malapportionment”, which is allegedly something very different.
Re: Kitching, ABC says:
ABC desperately trying to change the topic of that conversation.
Malinauskas sounds Lithuanian, not Greek.
Basically, the Labor Party is on the nose in SA, so it funds Independents who either preference them or keep a Liberal out.
The Murdoch Press goes along with the charade.
Some huge swings (up to 40%) against Libs in SA.
Not all to Labor.
Rabz
*He/she/it refers to you as Spongebob?
Indeed. I’m not familiar enough with children’s comic characters these days to understand why he thinks it is some form of insult, so I just assume he is trying to flatter me.
Fixed the link for ya Delta.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/sa/2022/results?filter=all&sort=az
bespoke – certain of them were all onboard for “the malanouskas*” or whatever the loathsome corruptocrat parasite’s name is.
*FFS, it’s greek, eddles, you imbecile.
Old Australia is gone, never to be seen again.
New Australia is 90% politically correct, multi-culti, shivering and fearful, obedient to their betters.
Yep, it’s fucking shit.
Thanks, BJ.
Cheers Rabz
If the link doesn’t work, try ‘South Australia Election 2022 Results’.
Curse you, Kaspersky.
Thanks, Bespoke. 🙂
Did some one inquire as to why I refer to SpongeBob as SpongeBob?
It’s because he’s a SpongeBob.
Eyriesays:
March 19, 2022 at 9:47 pm
A variation on the theme is happening on the China Russian border.
US southern border also.
There aren’t enough immigration and customs people in Darwin to stop several thousand Chinese getting off their boats and walking over them. Who is going to start shooting them? Better have plenty of ammunition because survivors will tear you limb from limb.
Meeting the “Long grassers” should be an interesting cultural experience for them. Relationships between the two groups are unlikely to improve after that.
many from non euro backgrounds too eg Sri Lanka.
They’re amongst the few new arrivals embracing Australia.
More meaningless prattle from Dick Ed (who really is a dick head).
New term : Crime Tourism.
No, Palaszczuk is the Greek, her pappy was born in Athens.
That’th in Greece, Rabth.
Thith Labor guy ith a Lith.
Somebody has to wear the clown suit and the false nose that Numbers left behind.
Or if that doesn’t work, look up “Malapportionment South Australia”.
Sorry peoples – I hate the labore pardee, all of the irredeemable imbeciles existing within it and all of its many hideously uglee manifestations across this wide brown land.
Scorpo Ukraine update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcWHUA26oNI
Week in Pictures up https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/the-week-in-pictures-putin-us-on-edition.php
They steer clear of hotels though.
They prefer to stay in a bed’n’break-in-fast.
Of course, it’s the entire purpose of, Mean Girl blocks; to ‘get away with murder’ (and the ‘castration’ of ‘bothersome’ strong men), in a “robust business” where men can no longer be honest about the savagery of women, and women who aren’t backed by a savage pack are publicly shredded for daring to try to function as individuals –
The lesson that the Libs will learn from this is that they needed to be more Left-wing. Harder on COVID, more Green, more DragQueen/GloboHomo, etc. They are drawing plans as we speak to outflank Labor from the Left next time. Always from the Left.
Some Grik bloke?
Heh, I’ve spent enough time in the backwoods of Lithuania to recognise where his name originates.
Sacré bleu, Eddles – you do not get to lecture me about the idiosyncrasies of human speech, given you’re barely able to string a coherent sentence together in any known human language.
Would you believe that 30% of the Ukrainian refugees are not Ukrainian.
A video that claims to show the Russian usage of a Kinzhal hypersonic missile on a Ukrainian ammo depot in western Ukraine surfaced online.
At this point Cats, we should all take a break from these petty squabbles and acknowledge the mighty achievements of one Zaphod Beeblebrox, who was voted the “Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe” seven consecutive times.
Sigh – I can only ever aspire to such unimaginable greatness 😕
Hey hey!
Another one term Liberal government. A Liberal government that was Labor lite….in fact you could argue that Peter Malinauskas, the new Labor premier, is probably more right-wing than the Liberal Marshall ever was. And Marshall is struggling to retain his own seat….shades of Zac Cockup in WA.
Will the Liberals ever learn?
I wasn’t at all excited when Marshall won- I’ve seen that movie before- Failyou in Vicco and O’Barrell in NSW. In fairness to Napthine if he hadn’t taken over late in the piece he might have been ok but tolerating ambulance officers defacing public property is piss weak.
One thing though- it’s a beautiful evening in western Melbourne. Just magic.
Granted not much space beteen them but this is just silly.
“Steve trickler says:
March 19, 2022 at 8:56 pm
Something I’ll watch over the next few days.
2:03:38
*****
Del Bigtree.
How is it that The HighWire’s reporting on Covid has been so far ahead? How did we know so much about the public health players, and the games they would play with lockdowns and vaccines? Because, they’ve done it all before.
The HighWire presents “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” the movie that exposes one of the biggest public health scandals of all time. They say ‘vaccines don’t cause autism,’ but they never told you this.
Episode 259: THE MOVIE THAT INSPIRED A MOVEMENT
https://rumble.com/embed/vv2fjt/?pub=5f67r “
egg_ says:
March 19, 2022 at 8:58 pm
China Backs Russia As Biden Just Lost In Ukraine
Salty Cracker
https://rumble.com/vxtpno-china-backs-russia-as-biden-just-lost-in-ukraine.html
Will the Liberals ever learn?
I don’t believe they are capable of learning because of their backgrounds and circles they move in. They might as well be from Mars. Same with most pollimuppetts. Pauline is one of the few real people who went into politics. Latham seems to have been able to sense the rottenness career politics which is very unusual seeing he is a career politician.
Yo – Miss Ellie, punking out (again) … 🙂
Malinauskas has hinted that nuclear is the way forward in the climate battle. Be interesting to see if that goes anywhere given the dire situation SA is in.
“The lesson that the Libs will learn from this is that they needed to be more Left-wing. Harder on COVID, more Green, more DragQueen/GloboHomo, etc. They are drawing plans as we speak to outflank Labor from the Left next time. Always from the Left.”
Yep….in other words they never ever learn.
Malinauskas has hinted that nuclear is the way forward
good to hear
If anybody’s looking for positive news LDP and ONP combined appear to be polling close to the Greens in the Legislative Council in SA. No idea why there’s such a discrepancy between that result and the Assembly.
It will never happen and he knows it.
Russia says it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine as Zelenskyy calls for talks | DW News
Probably about the only group who might be permitted to do so by the Leftard establishment and its pet intelligentsia and Feral Street Militias.
Even they were affected by the Great Black Out of 2016. And not a single Big Battery was able to save them…
We can always rely on the brutal pragmatism of the elites’ drive to self-preservation overcoming even their own terminal cases of Ideology…
Timothy Neilson:
I wondered why people looked at me oddly.
“In awful trains then let us sing”
I always thought it had something to do with the North Coast Mail Train.
The NSW one Winston?
Anyone know how to link to this? It’s rather a quirky version of a classic song..
I doubt it. I was an unwilling visitor to a cocktail do last evening to introduce a local business man who at least has put his money where his mouth is and is going to try and win our state seat for the Liberals. He’s off to a good start in that his campaign office, plastered with huge blue liberal signage has pissed off certain green local councillors who pushed hard to make him take them down but failed. So, a small win.
He seems a nice enough chap but could not give me a coherent answer to my question of how the VIC Libs under Guy can win back previously loyal but now totally disaffected Liberal supporters. It was approved talking points about how Matty learned a lesson in 2018 and is now a changed man. A great leader in fact.
The rest of the group that I chatted to just blathered on about how this time will be different. And how the current mean girls imbroglio will deliver the PMship back to ScoMo. It was a bit like how previous premiership teams sliding down the league ladder desperately cling to their past glories as they try to convince you how next season will be different. Sad.
I’m not sure they are capable of learning anything. Stop rabbiting on about what you are going to do…instead show us what you believe in by living the actual Liberal values your base expects and wants. Net zero by 2050 is not going to do it for you.
SA will be seen as in unfortunate blip. The Feds getting a similar or worse result may, or may not, wake them from their rose coloured dream. They are sleepwalking into oblivion.
Possibly since it’s happened before but this was just pandering to bleed votes of the Libs I recon, Rex.
This is a common characteristic of two party systems across the world – without exception, nominally conservative major parties are prone to believing they can win elections by running to the left. It has never worked, it’s 100% guaranteed to fail, it always results in alienated core voters who look elsewhere…maybe there is some satisfaction gained from leftists (who take it as a vindication of their shitty ideologies because, look! Even the evil Tories are coming around!) but certainly no votes from them. However, conservative political strategists are incapable of learning this lesson. It’s so bizarre. They’re like those modern-day reds who want to give communism another go because this time they’ll do it right. No, it doesn’t work, it will never work, stop trying it because it’s going to fail.
Traditionally left-leaning parties can win elections by attracting typically conservative votes with policy platforms that focus on particular issues like defence or fiscal prudence/reform. Traditionally right-leaning parties cannot win elections by attracting typically progressive votes. Can’t be done. Sorry, mainstream conservative politicians, this may be unfair, but you just have to accept it.
Yet, you won’t. And you’ll keep on trying to make it work. And losing.
Will the Liberals ever learn?
The real question is, will the electorate.
On being an Ozzie – Bye Bye Pride, the Go Betweens, 1987
There is just so much to love about this song and the clip.
“a teenage Rasputin, takes the sting from a gin”
“When a woman learns to walk, she’s not dependent anymore …”
“but I didn’t know someone could be so lonesome, didn’t know a heart could be tied up and held for ransom …
Bye Bye Pride, cause the door is always open wide …”
The skies, the Sydney backdrops, the harmonies, the clanging guitars. The luminous Amanda Brown on the Oboe.
It’s all there. Gunner would especially love the blue denim jacket on the McClennan at the end, including the mighty Amanda Oboe fadeout.
The past is indeed another country. 🙂
Lotocoti:
Frozen or thawed?
Curious minds etc…
Interesting result in the Adelaide Hills electorate of Kavel. Lots of little villages like Mt Barker, Woodside, Lobethal etc.
Former Liberal, now Independent, Dan Cregan got something like a 50% swing to win the seat.
I have rellies who live there and they are surrounded by potters and weavers, tree huggers and greenies and yet a conservative romped home like Phar Lap.
The rural/urban divide seems to be getting stronger, at least in SA.
I would like to know my status as someone who chose to get Novavax.
You post from a State with the highest mountains in Australia? The Darling Range? No -one in Perth can see over those mountains, into rural areas?
Shall water our FURROWS.
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons
Best national anthem of all.
MiltonF:
Yep. I remember it being pulled by steam train – stick your head out of the window and get cinders in your eye.
Hurt like buggery.
Yep a very expensive one.
Government funded or mandated pre school along with the digital identity bill and a fed-coin are the most serious threats to liberty right now. These can affect our lives so much more than the Gopnik – Narod War which is nothing but a distraction unless it goes nuclear.
C’mon Zulu.
We both live on the eastern side of the Darling Range.
I count it a blessing I can’t see the western side (well, except for the occasional foray into the Swan Valley to sample the hedonistic delights of fine food, snivelling waiters and expensive plonk).
Totally not disco … 🙂
I must confess I’m looking forward to the resumption of long lunches in the Swan Valley as being a pastime worthy of a self funded retiree.
Why isn’t oil higher?
My portfolio bleeds over this.
This is disco.
Latham’s road to Damascus moment with Liar party machine men seems to bear a strange coincidence of timing with their turfing him as leader. I don’t recall him having too many problems prior to that.
Have you topped up your sump recently? 😉
#AgentsOf20W40
Good. Let’s have some more of this at a feral level.
These claims will ruffle feathers.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-news-%e2%80%93-live-russia-loses-14400-soldiers-and-admits-to-bombing-arms-depot-with-hypersonic-missiles/ar-AAVfkV1
Eyrie:
Yes. A combination of the two.
Any old aircraft will do – as long as it can carry the homing weapons. Even a few Short Sunderland type patrol aircraft.
Bluddee hell, nominally, it is. 🙁
https://www.theepochtimes.com/10-realities-of-ukraine_4347453.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRGQLJM&
The guy is a big spender and will fit right in the new gov, Rabz.
Have you tried “Wild Swan” at the Mandoon Estate?
I’m not sure what value striking a large and static arms depot with a hype-personic missile would achieve over using a ‘mere’ supersonic one.
Unless the Russians’ stocks of stand-off precision munitions are all but expended, and the Kinzhal merchants’ hype-train (and order books) needed a bit of stoking…
(The damn thing is meant to be the last word in smashing warships, after all. Not big buildings that can’t move and do not have all the Phalanx CIWS guns, Standard and Sea Sparrow and other anti-missile missiles and radar jammers, chaff launchers and other countermeasures that can be physically jammed into them).
Time for an aesthetically pleasing young woman (again).
“I knew it was all an act …”
It is my melancholy duty to inform of the demise of Aussie Cossack, who has apparently fallen into the trap of making protests against government vaccine mandates all about him, and the pet issues closest to his heart.
Makes you wonder what his ultimate motives were for seeking (and getting) all that earlier publicity. Having said that, I am careful to note some of the language used in this Courier Mail piece:
And:
It’s the same one.
You have blonde Ellie’d me for the last time, Rabz.
***Lauren Mayberry-ing Intensifies***
(We don’t talk about this development, though. This makes it awkward…)
Time for some good ol’ fashioned R’n’R peoples! 🙂
On the subject of Chvrches’ Good Girls single I linked above while making an ironic blonde joke, I think their production, while quite good, is a little lacking in…well…body.
Something I think John Carpenter’s remix solves beautifully.
The OG How Not To Drown is pretty damn good. And needs to feature in the credit roll of a gritty, dark covert ops-thriller of some sort. Like the Bourne series, but less Maaaaatt Daaaaaymerrrnn-y…
If Aussie Cossack wants to be pro Russia that is up to him. However he should keep that issue away from any vaccine mandates protests as basically affects the reputation of the so called anti vaxxers of which I am proud to be one. If he turns up at a protest now his appearance is going to overshadow any genuine anti Vax protest.
He was amusing at first but my interest in his activites only lasted a few weeks as his routine was repetitive. Hopefully his YouTube is getting less hits although might get some Russian bot support.
LOL
Rexy, if you’re into her, go and introduce yourself.
Been a while Zulu, but me and Her Ladyship have been known to frequent Mandoon on a fairly regular basis, but won’t be back there until either the plague has left the land or McGowan does the decent thing and retires to his study with a whisky and a Webley.
100%, Bourne. It’s so disappointing to see what is probably the most crucial protest movement of our lifetimes overshadowed time and again by dickheads using that movement to further their own personal causes.
It hasn’t escaped my attention that Bosi started off as a ‘superstraight’ anti-mandatory vaxxer, then once he had a platform turned it into a donations vehicle for his shitfest of a ‘political party’ that isn’t.
It’s a goddamn shame to see Cossack go a very similar way.
Bluddee hell – he exists very near to me. A controversial figure (allegedly) according to our beloved braindead lamestream meeja.
Unfortunately, he strikes me as someone about to go full Bosi.
You never go full Bosi, Cats.
Schnapps, KD
But not a shock though. Safer bet is to consider all are grifters until proven otherwise, KD.
Anyway, night all. I’m pleasantly awash in good Scotch.
We buried an old soldier in this town a few days ago. We gave him a good send off – every ex soldier from the district was there. Way back when, he reminded me of the old story about a drill instructor, catching a recruit, with his hands on his hips.
“Now listen lad, there are two types of people allowed to stand with their hands on their hips on this establishment – pregnant women and poofters. It is obvious that you are not pregnant, so we must endevour to curb your disgusting tendencies. Double around the parade ground – GO!”
Urgent business intervened, and an hour later, the drill instructor remembered that said recruit was still doubling around the parade ground. For some reason, there was one recruit who never put his hands on his hips, ever.
Rest in Peace, mate, you’ll never be forgotten.
Uncle Mark has about another week or two at most before his latest data-based figleaf (Nosferaflu case figures) wisps itself away, as the virus bellcurves itself back into the pathogenic background noise of society. Like every other seasonal cold and flu bug does.
Heck, Uncle Mark may not even be extended the luxury of Webley-ing himself…
KD – overlooked this before. His woife is from Wussia, Wussia, Wussia and therefore hysteria is the order of the day.
There is no more dangerous a ghost than a commo ghostette, I tells ya. 😕
One would slice oneself to bits on those cheekbones, Rabz…
#YaWannaKnowHowIGotTheseScars?
#KissingTheMissusGoodnight
One of the undisputed truths of our time is that pussy will drag you further than gunpowder will blow you.
I’ll supply the whisky – anyone up for the Webley?
Don’t know the full story, but, apparently, back in the day, a Gentleman’s club in London, was in an uproar.
“I say, you fellows, Pemberthy’s gone and shot himself in the library. Made a devil of a mess. Not good for the younger members, chaps like him should think of the younger members before making such a mess in the library…”
subsumed
you poor creatures
Thought I’d better let people know I’m still alive and kicking.
Cardiologist looked at ECG, said my GP was wrong, tweaked my meds and said, “Come back in October unless you have any more problems”.
I was outta there so fast I left skid marks on the floor …
Harder on COVID, more Green, more DragQueen/GloboHomo, etc. They are drawing plans as we speak to outflank Labor from the Left next time.
They’re imbeciles.