Open Thread – Weekend 14 May 2022


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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

.1 munty claims to be a “progressive” leftist.
.2 munty supports the Palestinians.
.3 the Palestinians are anti-semites with a genocidal urge.
4. Nazis were anti-semites with a genocidal urge.

Ergo, so-called “progressive” leftists are Nazis?

5. M0nty says it is legitimate to punch Nazis.
6. Is M0nty coming to any Cat meetups?

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 11:42 am

Zulu

During the Arab Revolt of the late 1930’s, any Palestinians who supported partitioning the province was murdered on the orders of that barking mad fool, the Grand Mufti.

That would be the Grand Mufti who was chummy with H1tler, and blessed a Moooslim SS division?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 16, 2022 11:43 am

Boambee Johnsays:
May 16, 2022 at 11:38 am

So, how’s that Wuhan Institute of Virology “gain of function” research working out for you, Chairman Xi?

What Xi is doing on lockdowns does not make any sense, especially when you consider the COVID case numbers in OZ are stratospheric currently, compared to OZ Lockdown times and we are “Relatively Free”

Anyone Ideas why the Chinese are doing these Illogical Lockdowns now?

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 11:43 am

I am not “supporting” any of those three groups. I merely pointed out that they have legitimate grievances. You may dismiss them, but there have been undeniable wrongs done to those they represent (albeit SU only started two years ago).

Meanwhile, the cookers have no legitimate beefs. They are just a confederation of cantankerous old bastards, shaking their fists at clouds.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 11:45 am

Thanks, Australia.

You’re welcome, New Zealand. Enjoy your provincial home-grown shit.

Inevitably this shit gets a run on the Project or the ABC, and the poster boy will be a violent crook* who came here at the age of 2 and (gasp) “has no friends or family in New Zealand”.
The truth is, most come here as adults to avoid heat from the cops or rival crims.
The report will conclude with “Why is Australia exporting it’s problems to poor ole New Zealand?”
….
* The actual crimes are glossed over. He will be described as having “got caught up in some illegal activity” as if he was a passive bystander.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 11:46 am

I mean, sure you can have a go at the Socialists for their beliefs and the history behind them, but at least they are coherent. The cookers’ belief structures ultimately lead to sovcit foolishness and Qanon rubbish. Yelling “PEEDO” through a loudspeaker from the other side of a lake at the Governor-General’s house while your mate waves an upside-down red national flag flag is not a legitimate political position, it’s just being a dickhead.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

BLM wants to smash up my business premises & kill me.
Socialists want to legislate to control my every thought & action.

Aussie Cossack wants me to be free to go about quiet enjoyment of my life.

Gee tough choice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 11:48 am

6. Is M0nty coming to any Cat meetups?

At least in Melbourne, these things are tightly controlled to ensure no undesirables turn up.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 11:49 am

Old Ozzie

Party conflab coming up, Xi might feel that internal opposition could be a problem?

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 11:50 am

Aussie Cossack wants me to be free to go about quiet enjoyment of my life.

Cossack is a piece of work. Ask him about Putin.

I saw video of him trolling Ukrainian protestors outside the Russian embassy. He is an evil man.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 11:50 am

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 11:43 am
I am not “supporting” any of those three groups.

Is this munty’s fastest ever walkback?

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 11:51 am

“I merely pointed out that they have legitimate grievances. “

Monty confirms that he thinks Jew hating is a “legitimate grievance”.

Carry on Monty.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 11:54 am

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 11:46 am
I mean, sure you can have a go at the Socialists for their beliefs and the history behind them, but at least they are coherent.

ROFLMAO, do you read this crap before you post it? Look at all the groups claiming to be “socialist”, and try to make their collective “beliefs” coherent. Maoists, Trots, Socialist Left, Socialist Unity, and so many more. They spend more time fighting each other than they spend fighting “Torries”.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 11:54 am

China is restricting citizens from ‘nonessential’ travel overseas to stop importing COVID

Ultra Chutzpah. With a side of Extra Special Hypocrisy.

Got to hand it to them.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 11:56 am

“You may dismiss them, but there have been undeniable wrongs done to those they represent”

The only “wrongs” done to the Palestinians have been done by themselves.

Monty thinks the genocidal call “From the River to the Sea” is a “legitimate grievance”.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I mean, sure you can have a go at the Socialists for their beliefs and the history behind them, but at least they are coherent.

Coherently & consistently trying to take all my stuff is not a positive trait.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Monty thinks the genocidal call “From the River to the Sea” is a “legitimate grievance”.

As long as it is stated coherently & consistently (ie the message does not change) then it is apparently better than wanting freedom to go about your daily life.

Warped mind, a seriously warped mind.

Tom
Tom
May 16, 2022 12:00 pm

Ergo, so-called “progressive” leftists are Nazis?

BJ, the question mark at the end of that statement is redundant.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 12:01 pm

Cossack may have a legitimate viewpoint on some issues.
My point is that the organiser of an anti-mandate protest is under no obligation to hand the microphone to Cossack, Bosi or any other fruit-loop who shows up.
Bosi should run his own protest immediately afterwards.
Even with a head-start like that, I’ll bet he could clear the crowd quicker than a Moosley driving a truck through on a French public holiday crowd.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cossack is a piece of work. Ask him about Putin.
I saw video of him trolling Ukrainian protestors outside the Russian embassy. He is an evil man.

One of the freedoms Cossack does not object to is my freedom to not support Putin.
He may state a case why he believes Putin is superior, however Cossack isn’t advocating cancelling me, killing me, assaulting me in public, or forming a mob to destroy my stuff.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 12:02 pm

China is restricting citizens from ‘nonessential’ travel overseas to stop importing COVID

No Chinese tourists?
I’m crushed.

shatterzzz
May 16, 2022 12:07 pm

I don’t know, I think I’ll take Bosi, Cossack and the event organiser of the Saturday protest having in a bust-up any day over Monty’s “legitimate grievances”.
Here are both videos on the Oz Cossack/ Bosi flare-up ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q615GLmeHHM

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

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

No response yet regards the respective freedoms enjoyed by;
Israeli Arabs
Palestinian Jews

After that, perhaps a breakdown on how life is for a Palestinian homosexual;
in Palenstine
in Israel

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 12:08 pm

There are some Chinese tourists around – spotted at Kakadu and Uluru.

They must be Essential Tourists. Perhaps the recipients of some of those spare parts.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 12:11 pm

Here are both videos on the Oz Cossack/ Bosi flare-up ….

The first video illustrates precisely why you wouldn’t want either of them speaking.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 12:14 pm

What’s with all the expletives? Lack of self control. It was clearly for public consumption as he knew the camera was rolling.

He always seemed so urbane. Now not so much. I have to say I’m disappointed.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 12:17 pm

“He always seemed so urbane. Now not so much. I have to say I’m disappointed.”

Yep. It’s sad.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 16, 2022 12:20 pm

He always seemed so urbane.

A $2000 suit hides a lot of problems.

I am also extremely interested in Mr ‘Holding Wheat Bags Under Both Arms with Raybans’ next to Bosi, who has the appearance of a bodyguard of sorts.

If he is, I can assert that he’s doing it wrong.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 12:34 pm

I am also extremely interested in Mr ‘Holding Wheat Bags Under Both Arms with Raybans’ next to Bosi, who has the appearance of a bodyguard of sorts.

Yep.
Totally comical.
Is Bosi afraid of a few old ladies with placards?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 12:42 pm

callisays:

May 16, 2022 at 12:14 pm

What’s with all the expletives? Lack of self control.

Yes.
Not helping.
Someone here a while back (Mater?) suggested that the battleground had moved to booster shots. There is a considerable groundswell of double-vaxxed people who aren’t interested in boosters*. This is the group which protest groups need to tap into. What they don’t need is:-
.1 Self-styled “purebloods” hooking into the double-vaxxed; or
.2 Hijackers grabbing the microphone and ranting about SovCit 5G Chemtrail Red Shoe Pizzas. Or Klaus Schwab and Jessica Mauboy.
….
* No. They have not heard the Troubadour sing and had a Road to Damascus moment. They now assess the disease as having waned in strength to the point that vaccines are not worth the effort or risk.

Bar Beach Swimmer
May 16, 2022 12:45 pm

At the beach – the weather’s magic, beautiful blue sky with not a cloud in sight, the water is crystal clear and is really inviting, though I didn’t bring my swimsuit.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 12:47 pm

The only “wrongs” done to the Palestinians have been done by themselves.

It is not anti-Semitic, Cassie, to point out that assertions like this are flatly untrue.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 12:55 pm

Having spoken at length to some Palis in Israel, a lot of the “wrongs” find their beginnings outside the country, fomented by urgers.

Like normal people everywhere, they want peace. Can’t have that.

Tom
Tom
May 16, 2022 12:55 pm

There is a considerable groundswell of double-vaxxed people who aren’t interested in boosters*. This is the group which protest groups need to tap into.

That would be me and, I’m guessing, hundreds of thousands of other Australians who can’t believe Morrison’s continuing ad campaign urging people to get “boosters” with the same chemicals that didn’t work the first time.

I have politely told the local doctors and nurses they can shove their “boosters” up their clackers. I suspect thousands of others in my area have done the same.

Kung Flu has destroyed what’s left of trust in government.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 16, 2022 12:56 pm

flatly untrue

If an assertion that is flatly untrue is flatly untrue is that an oxymoron?
Palis have been doing this to themselves ever since they arrived in Gaza after the Minoan disaster.
They should give it away and get a life. Start with ditching both chips of their shoulders.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 16, 2022 12:59 pm

The Dawson trial has resumed, and The Australian is pretty well live blogging it. So far today:

Neighbour ‘really frightened’ for Lyn Dawson
2 HOURS AGO
‘Not a scintilla of truth to hitman allegation’
2 HOURS AGO
Dawson defence outlines Northbridge Baths phone call
3 HOURS AGO
‘Dawson had no motivation to kill Lynette’
8:30 AM
Lyn’s sister, neighbour to take the stand

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 16, 2022 12:59 pm

I should read & edit before hitting the button.
M0nty seems to use 1984 as a manual.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 1:01 pm

Tom at 12:55.
3AW had a few on this morning.
OK, it is only a small sample of talkback callers/SMS correspondents. But what is telling is that Nanny Neil put them to air.
Six months ago he would have dismissed them as “dangerous”.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:03 pm

Ricky has a long history of not following through. He left the Army without doing much (as evidenced by his medals), he hasn’t even bothered to register A1 as a party, the Canberra Convoy did nothing, his summer of Canberra cookery went nowhere when the autumn cold hit, and he backed out of funding my Malmo expedition. No wonder Mack didn’t like it when Ricky dissed him, Mack actually gets things done.

It’s all such high school drama queen stuff.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 1:04 pm

Kung Flu has destroyed what’s left of trust in government.

Let’s hope so.

But I get a sense that there’s a bit of a regional-metropolitan divide on this.

Pubs in my locale had quietly stopped checking vaccine status weeks before it was officially announced up here & the police were looking the other way. Not so in Babylon on the Brisbane.

jupes
jupes
May 16, 2022 1:10 pm

I am not “supporting” any of those three groups. I merely pointed out that they have legitimate grievances.

No they don’t. BLM is based on the premise that Black people are routinely murdered by police. Bollocks on stilts.

Bluey
Bluey
May 16, 2022 1:16 pm

Rogersays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Kung Flu has destroyed what’s left of trust in government.

Let’s hope so.

But I get a sense that there’s a bit of a regional-metropolitan divide on this.

Pubs in my locale had quietly stopped checking vaccine status weeks before it was officially announced up here & the police were looking the other way. Not so in Babylon on the Brisbane.

There’s always been a significant rural/urban divide. I’ve found it hard to get through to people that rural areas just flat out don’t have the services available cities do, you have to have a strong level of self reliance. Not wait on other people to pull your arse out of the fire.

It sounds like such a simple concept, but people genuinely can’t grasp it. There was a woman at my workplace who was like that. Could not believe that small towns might not actually have access to basic medical care at the drop of a hat.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
May 16, 2022 1:16 pm

Monty trying the “ I rooly truely would have gone to Malmo” on a quiet Monday morning.
After praising the genocidal Palestinians, the Yakub inspired BLM mongs and the uniretardation* of the cringiest of fringe leftists.

.* something so retarded it can usually only be found where university funds can be found to subsidise it’s lunacy.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:17 pm

BLM is based on the premise that Black people are routinely murdered by police.

American citizens are regularly murdered by police at traffic stops. This is undeniable, it happens over 100 times a year in America with a quarter of the victims being Black – twice the fraction of Blacks in the US population. That’s only 10% of the overall homicides by US police per year, but many of the most notorious recent blue-on-black killings were of this type.

BLM is not a perfect political movement – none of them are – but the things they are protesting are real.

Zipster
May 16, 2022 1:21 pm

I saw video of him trolling Ukrainian protestors outside the Russian embassy. He is an evil man.

what a spontaneous turn around, mutley now supports nazis

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:24 pm

I don’t support you, Zippy.

Tom
Tom
May 16, 2022 1:27 pm

BLM is not a perfect political movement – none of them are – but the things they are protesting are real.

Bullshit on stilts. Please show the statistics you have tortured to reach this “conclusion”.

BLM has a single purpose: to stop blacks from straying off the reservation and voting for Republicans. That was the main reason Trump had to be got rid of: he was wildly successful in getting blacks to change who they were voting for, thus threatening the electoral future of the Democratic Party.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
May 16, 2022 1:28 pm

Monty.
What’s the homicide rate vs% of population for the same group?

Perps and victims.

How do those stats influence the traffic stop deaths you are apparently deeply goncerned about?

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 1:29 pm

There’s always been a significant rural/urban divide. I’ve found it hard to get through to people that rural areas just flat out don’t have the services available cities do…

Yep.

The biggest divide in Australia is between the regions where the wealth is mostly produced and the metropolitan areas where it mostly gets consumed.

rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 1:30 pm

American citizens are regularly murdered by police at traffic stops.

How many of these police are convicted of murder?

The problem isn’t policing. The problem is people with shit attitudes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:30 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
May 16, 2022 at 11:58 am
I mean, sure you can have a go at the Socialists for their beliefs and the history behind them, but at least they are coherent.

Coherently & consistently trying to take all my stuff is not a positive trait.

munty the kulak is silly enough to believe that they will never come for him, his possessions, and his mind (such as there is of it).

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:32 pm

Tomsays:
May 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Ergo, so-called “progressive” leftists are Nazis?

BJ, the question mark at the end of that statement is redundant.

Thanks Tom, apologies for the terrible error on my part.

Morsie
Morsie
May 16, 2022 1:32 pm

Just voted in Kooyong.Josh is screwed.

jupes
jupes
May 16, 2022 1:34 pm

American citizens are regularly murdered by police at traffic stops. This is undeniable, it happens over 100 times a year in America with a quarter of the victims being Black …

No. I don’t believe your stat, but even if true, killed and murdered are totally different things. The use of the term “Traffic stops” is pure obfuscation. Violent, armed criminals are pulled over by police. Some of them resist and are killed. So what?

– twice the fraction of Blacks in the US population.

Black people break the law at a higher rate than whites. Therefore, it stands to reason that they are killed legally by cops at a higher rate. On the other hand, blacks kill each other at much, much higher rate than they are killed by cops. BLM don’t give a fuck. Only some black lives really matter to those grifters.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:35 pm

What’s the homicide rate vs% of population for the same group?

Perps and victims.

How do those stats influence the traffic stop deaths you are apparently deeply goncerned about?

So you reckon those black people just deserved it? Interesting.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:37 pm

Black people break the law at a higher rate than whites. Therefore, it stands to reason that they are killed legally by cops at a higher rate.

Racial profiling, it’s good and righteous! So says the Cat.

Never mind treating each case on its merits. Nup, those blacks had it coming says jupes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:38 pm

munty

It’s all such high school drama queen stuff.

A bit like a trip to India?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 16, 2022 1:38 pm
rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 1:39 pm

But I get a sense that there’s a bit of a regional-metropolitan divide on this.

Pubs in my locale had quietly stopped checking vaccine status weeks before it was officially announced up here & the police were looking the other way. Not so in Babylon on the Brisbane.

My observations on this:

Rural people tend to not have much reliance of government.

Rural people did buy the COVID hysteria, becoming particularly irritated at visitors from cities, but mainly because of the prospect of having some stupid lockdown imposed on them.

Rural police are generally better behaved because everyone knows where you live. Although there is a trend towards police not living in the areas that they police which is boosting the level of shit policing.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 1:39 pm

“It is not anti-Semitic, Cassie, to point out that assertions like this are flatly untrue.”

Actually, they’re 100% true.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 1:40 pm

dover I’ve just reported m0nty’s false and defamatory misrepresentation of frollickingmole’s comment.
Things like that can get the blog into trouble.
I think m0nty’s comment needs to be deleted, and if the fat idiot keeps on with that kind of malicious dishonesty he needs to get banned.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 1:41 pm

“Racial profiling, it’s good and righteous! So says the Cat.”

Jew hating is good and righteous because it’s born out of “legitimate grievances”.

You need to stop whilst you’re behind.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 1:42 pm

Likewise his malicious misrepresentation of jupes’ comment.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:42 pm

jupessays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:10 pm
I am not “supporting” any of those three groups. I merely pointed out that they have legitimate grievances.

No they don’t. BLM is based on the premise that Black people are routinely murdered by police. Bollocks on stilts.

It seems that in munty world, the small number actually killed by police is a “legitimate grievance”, but the hugely larger number killed by other blacks, predominantly gangbangers with illegal weapons is “Meh!” just one of those unfortunate things.

And as for the leaders of BLM using funds raised for the “cause” to buy multi million dollar houses, nothing to see here, move along after placing $1000 in the collection box.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 1:42 pm

“Just voted in Kooyong.Josh is screwed.”

How do you know?

Old bloke
Old bloke
May 16, 2022 1:43 pm

“One of the characteristics of the Palestinian national movement has been the Palestinians’ view of themselves as perpetual victims of others: Ottoman Turks, British officials, Zionists, Americans.”

Palestinian Arabs fail to recognize that they are victims of their own doing.

In Mark Twain’s account of his travels through Israel in the 1860’s he describes a land largely devoid of human habitation. The few Arabs he encountered were the wandering Bedouin with their goats, and the towns were chiefly occupied by the Jews.

The population began to grow in the 1870’s when the Russians pushed the Ottomans back to Constantinople and thousands of Balkan Muslims fled to Turkey. The Ottomans relocated them to the villages along the Jordan River, hence the “Palestinians” aren’t exclusively Arab, which is probably why the Arab states won’t accommodate them.

The pogroms started in Russia in the 1880’s which resulted in thousands of Jews migrating from Russia and eastern Europe to Israel. The wealthy American Jews provided financial assistance to these new settlers which resulted in Arabs from many surrounding countries moving to Israel as there was work available to them which gave them a better life.

The Ottoman censuses show that the Jews were always the majority in Israel, and that the people who call themselves the Palestinian Arabs are mainly recent arrivals who aren’t exclusively Arab, even Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 1:43 pm

“Likewise his malicious misrepresentation of jupes’ comment”

Correct, but that’s what the left do.

I think he’s outstayed his welcome.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 1:45 pm

dover I’ve just reported m0nty’s false and defamatory misrepresentation of frollickingmole’s comment.

LOL. So much for free speech.

You’re a bit of a poltroon, Tim N. What happened to the Cat being a place of robust debate. What are ya… chicken?

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:45 pm

munty

BLM is not a perfect political movement – none of them are – but the things they are protesting are real.

Are the hugely greater numbers of black-on-black killings real? What do BLM have to say about them? Nothing, because there are neither money nor political power in protesting them?

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 16, 2022 1:45 pm

American citizens are regularly murdered by police at traffic stops.

I’ve driven thousands of kilometres in the USA over the last 30 years. The American police forces I has experience with were perfectly reasonable types. There is no way though you should do anything if stopped but wind your window down, and keep your hands on the wheel.

Risky job they have a lot of the time, and hardly surprising they’re ultra-cautious, and ready with weapons.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 16, 2022 1:47 pm

Snap, Tinta.

P
P
May 16, 2022 1:49 pm

Craig performed very well at the National Press Club Address today.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 1:50 pm

Strangely, this is the first time I’ve drawn Jacinda Ardern.

The toplessness seemed a bit cruel though. Unflattering at best, but mainly cruel.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:52 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm
What’s the homicide rate vs% of population for the same group?

Perps and victims.

How do those stats influence the traffic stop deaths you are apparently deeply goncerned about?

So you reckon those black people just deserved it? Interesting.

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m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:37 pm
Black people break the law at a higher rate than whites. Therefore, it stands to reason that they are killed legally by cops at a higher rate.

Racial profiling, it’s good and righteous! So says the Cat.

Never mind treating each case on its merits. Nup, those blacks had it coming says jupes.

munty now desperately resorts to “re-interpreting” what others say, to avoid addressing the factual issues raised.

Gutless worm/

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 1:54 pm

Dover

Apologies, accidently reported Cassie’s comment at 1341.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 1:55 pm

Rural police are generally better behaved because everyone knows where you live. Although there is a trend towards police not living in the areas that they police which is boosting the level of shit policing.

Didn’t someone post a video from somewhere in rural Victoria where a copper said exactly that to a group of protesters?
“We all live here together”.
No Ninja Turtle body armour. Just the normal gear and talking rationally to people. I don’t think he even called them “boofheads”.
Of course, his message is double-edged. “You live here too. Don’t make dicks of yourselves.”

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 1:57 pm

dover I’ve just reported m0nty’s false and defamatory misrepresentation of frollickingmole’s comment.
Things like that can get the blog into trouble.

But I’d love to see Munty try squeeze his mammoth backside into the witness box…. 🙂

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 2:00 pm

What happened to the Cat being a place of robust debate.

Therein lies the difference, conversations with personality disorders (actual or feigned) are a waste of time; they don’t believe the crap they are spouting either. It will be interesting to see what happens when people work that out about the left in large enough numbers to matter.

rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 2:00 pm

I think he’s outstayed his welcome.

Was he ever welcome? He went immediately back to stupid posting, clearly having learned nothing in his absence.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 2:00 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm
“Just voted in Kooyong.Josh is screwed.”

How do you know?

I wouldn’t base it on the sample of people in the booth on a Monday afternoon.
Likely to be public servants taking time off “work” to vote.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 2:01 pm

There was a great video from a CNN interview that went “terribly wrong” during BLM protests with a coloured police officer who was asked, from an activist, “what can we do to stop these shootings, go to congress, gun reform, prison for cops?”

The cop says “stop breaking the law.” (That was it and it was great).

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 2:02 pm

FIFY

Likely to be public servants taking time off woke to vote.

rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 2:04 pm

Risky job they have a lot of the time, and hardly surprising they’re ultra-cautious, and ready with weapons.

That’s an understatement. Frankly I’m amazed that they’re as restrained as they are given the shit that goes down. If you looked at the sum total of vehicle and badge cam footage you would conclude that it was perfectly reasonable to shoot someone as soon as they disobey a command to keep their hands on the steering wheel.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 16, 2022 2:08 pm

the Canberra Convoy did nothing

Don’t tell the Mouth from the Couch that. That’s traitorous talk. Brim, brim, brim.

dopey
dopey
May 16, 2022 2:09 pm

‘The Palestinians’ were invented in the 1970’s, as acknowledged by the PLO.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 2:10 pm

‘The Palestinians’ were invented in the 1970’s, as acknowledged by the PLO.

So that’s where the Welcome to Country came from!!!

Bluey
Bluey
May 16, 2022 2:13 pm

I’m old enough to remember a BLM activist shooting police in Dallas.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 2:15 pm

Monty – Dot asked you at 9.36am:

What rights do Israeli Arabs not have?

It’s now 2.15pm. I guess I won’t be hanging around waiting for an answer.

Dot
Dot
May 16, 2022 2:17 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:37 pm
Black people break the law at a higher rate than whites. Therefore, it stands to reason that they are killed legally by cops at a higher rate.

Racial profiling, it’s good and righteous! So says the Cat.

Never mind treating each case on its merits. Nup, those blacks had it coming says jupes

You utter prick. He is judging people on their merits. It’s not racist to state facts.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 2:19 pm

Racial profiling, it’s good and righteous! So says the Cat.

Rage against the actuarial tables, you know it makes sense.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 2:21 pm

Rage against the actuarial tables, you know it makes sense.

Yeah it wasn’t the cops who killed those people, it was the actuarial tables. Good one Frank.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 2:22 pm

The Beer Whisperer:

Royalties in this instance is a straight euphemism for bribes. Drug approvals are all henceforth tainted. Tale all new drugs at your own risk.

I’ve put down the foot with Doc – No Vaccinations/Blood Products.
No trust left in the drug barons.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 16, 2022 2:22 pm

Can anyone help out by explaining this spike in young people’s deaths?

Monday, 16 May 2022

From The Australian’s Adam Creighton:

Any ideas what caused this massive death spike among younger Americans in Q3 2021?

Source: Society of Actuaries

https://soa.org/48ff80/globalassets/assets/files/resources/research-report/2022/group-life-covid-19-mortality.pdf

JC
JC
May 16, 2022 2:26 pm

H B Bear says: May 15, 2022 at 11:49 pm

I wonder if kd wrong has seen some internal Liar polling? All the public stuff has Albo moving house next Sunday.

Dunno bear. FWIW, Latham’s tweet on the 13th reckons not to believe the newspaper polls.

Vicki
Vicki
May 16, 2022 2:28 pm

I have an athletic 19 year old, treasured grandson & a granddaughter who suffered short term upper gastrointestinal bleeding after her second Pfizer shot.

The mounting evidence of spike longevity terrifies me.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 2:29 pm

LOL. So much for free speech.

You’re free to say whatever you like you fat mendacious sack of shit. I’m just suggesting dover’s not obliged to give you a platform to do it. No “free speech” issue at all. Just like with Twitter etc. – people’s complaints weren’t that they “censored”, the complaints were that (a) they censored but claimed “common carrier” exemption from liability, and (b) they campaigned to have alternative platforms shut down. No-one here would try to shut down your blog.

You’re a bit of a poltroon, Tim N.

Name a time and place fatboy. I live in Melbourne.

What happened to the Cat being a place of robust debate. What are ya… chicken?

Maliciously defamatory falsehoods aren’t “robust debate”. If you can’t respond to what people actually said you aren’t actually “debating” at all.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 2:30 pm

Yeah it wasn’t the cops who killed those people, it was the actuarial tables.

You are not that dumb Monty.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 2:34 pm

Name a time and place fatboy. I live in Melbourne.

A threat of violence now. I think you’re the toxic one here, Tim.

Dover is free to do what he likes with his blog, of course. Banning me just because you’re losing an argument and whinging about it through the reporting process would not be particularly in the spirit of the Cat, though.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 2:35 pm

Dot:

The root causes of our absurd false economy is the property magic pudding. Government taxation is the strongest attractor for these anti civilizational policy set we live under.

Exactly.
The Government cancer just grows bigger every year and consumes more resources. It’s now at the stage of a terminal cancer where the host has been so depleted by its demands that the host is consuming itself while the cancer just keeps demanding more. It won’t stop until both are dead.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 16, 2022 2:36 pm

TimN don’t challenge Munty, he’s challenged enough. His choice of weapon. As many donuts you can throw at him, he’ll eat the lot.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 16, 2022 2:38 pm

H B Bear says: May 15, 2022 at 11:49 pm

I wonder if kd wrong has seen some internal Liar polling? All the public stuff has Albo moving house next Sunday.

I wonder if they’ve an update of the 2019 Munsters photo of the Labor incoming leadership team

Anchor What
Anchor What
May 16, 2022 2:39 pm

Daytime Sky giving airhead Steggall a free kick to bag both Deves and Morro.
I have to agree with Tom that the media is mostly green/Labor oriented.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 16, 2022 2:39 pm

In that Labor leadership photo 2019 Jim Chalmers is a dead ringer for Gomer Pyle.

Dot
Dot
May 16, 2022 2:40 pm

Shazam!

Anchor What
Anchor What
May 16, 2022 2:41 pm

Dover is free to do what he likes with his blog, of course.
Yes, he’s free to allow the sort of dickheads who make it a waste of time to read through threads clogged with leftist rubbish.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 2:41 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Name a time and place fatboy. I live in Melbourne.

A threat of violence now. I think you’re the toxic one here, Tim.

Who said anything about violence? Poor old m0nty the craven gutless fat sack of shit leaping to all sorts of wrong conclusions out of sheer craven gutless terror.

Delta A
Delta A
May 16, 2022 2:42 pm

HaHaha!

I had to go back and check, Tinta, but you’re dead right.

Vicki
Vicki
May 16, 2022 2:46 pm

Don’t know if I have posted this before.

Unitaid and Medincell are looking to develop Ivermectin in vaccine form. It seems that although patent has run out on Ivermectin in current form as animal drench and human tablet for parasites, it would resume currency for vaccine reincarnation.

Money always triumphs. Is it the most disgusting aspect of the human species??

https://philharper.substack.com/p/why-unitaid-keep-turning-up-for-ivermectin?utm_source=email

P
P
May 16, 2022 2:52 pm

In that Labor leadership photo 2019 Jim Chalmers is a dead ringer for Gomer Pyle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o9lMbh1fQY

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 3:01 pm

mumty

LOL. So much for free speech.

ROFLMAO> You had Steve from Brissy and Homer censoring your free speech on your own blog (to which you could readily return, and speak freely. But then you would have an audience of three (including yourself).

Tom
Tom
May 16, 2022 3:03 pm

Unitaid and Medincell are looking to develop Ivermectin in vaccine form.

I love Ivermectin: areff got me a course of it two weeks ago to get rid of Kung Flu — which it did in three days (in tablet form).

The best thing about Ivermectin is that it’s totally yummy, which tells me it’s very good for me. The nearest taste I can compare it to is the vitamin supplement/hangover cure Berocca, a popular form of Vitamin B.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 3:05 pm

Franksays:
May 16, 2022 at 2:30 pm
Yeah it wasn’t the cops who killed those people, it was the actuarial tables.

You are not that dumb Monty.

Sorry to disagree Frank, but based on his comments, munty is that dumb.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 3:05 pm

Just to add to the extra fun of covid, food shortages etc… Foot and mouth* has returned!

https://www.youngwitness.com.au/story/7736415/australia-faces-biggest-biosecurity-threat/?cs=7

*(Note: This is different to Munty foot IN mouth)

duncanm
duncanm
May 16, 2022 3:06 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 1:41 pm
So the Cat’s pronouncements for the day are that Palestinians have apartheided themselves

well, yes. They continue to do so.

Tell us all about freedom of religion in Gaza, Monty.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 3:07 pm

Boambee Johnsays:

May 16, 2022 at 3:01 pm

mumty

LOL. So much for free speech.

ROFLMAO> You had Steve from Brissy and Homer censoring your free speech on your own blog (to which you could readily return, and speak freely. But then you would have an audience of three (including yourself).

We get a bit of that here.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 3:08 pm

munty

because you’re losing an argument and whinging about it

What makes you think that you are winning?

Figures
Figures
May 16, 2022 3:11 pm

Thanks m0nty for your brilliant analysis.

Every protest on the left is legitimate because you said so.

Every protest on the right is illegitimate because you call them “cookers” a lot.

But can you explain one thing for me?

Why would people who *oppose* injecting themselves with experimental drugs be labelled “cookers” rather than people such as yourself who are already on your 75th booster and you couldn’t care less what you’ve been injecting?

Dot
Dot
May 16, 2022 3:14 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Name a time and place fatboy. I live in Melbourne.

A threat of violence now. I think you’re the toxic one here, Tim.

Let’s refer back:

Punch a Nayzee.
Far left anti-Semite Palis are okay.
Even ones who were lockstep with moustache man.
Violence is very bad.

Failing in 4k.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 3:18 pm

Vicki:

Husband rattled off the above regime, then, naughtily, added he had put a dab of Ivermectin cattle drench on his wrist !!!!

Late in the day but first LOL!

Figures
Figures
May 16, 2022 3:22 pm

so much for free speech

I couldn’t care less about free speech in and of itself.

I believe in reciprocity. The Golden Rule.

No commie should be allowed any rights that they say they don’t believe in. Indeed, it’s completely bizarre to me that leftists are allowed to own property or are presumed innocent or have the freedom to speak on any issue.

It’s extraordinary that so many people who believe in climate change own coastal property. The government should requisition it with zero (ie fair value (assuming climate change is real)) compensation.

It’s even more extraordinary that the Liberal government doesn’t make every Labor and Greens politician (save perhaps Andrew Barr) take 1000 vaccines every single day in order to be allowed to continue to work.

Hopefully the next time a country is formed the founders understand that anybody who calls for any cessation of rights should immediately lose those rights themselves.

You see m0nty, this is how we know you’re a disgusting piece of shit. You call for the cessation of rights but would be horrified if your own beliefs were applied to you.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 3:24 pm

Cassie of Sydney:

Oh, so you regard anti-Semitism as a legitimate grievance?

Yes he does, Cassie – after all, that’s his tribe.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 3:30 pm

Who said anything about violence?

Don’t come the raw prawn, Tim.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 16, 2022 3:30 pm

Tell us all about freedom of religion in Gaza, Monty.

Or the 19 Arab terrorism fatalities in Israel in the last 2 months.
Do keep up M0nty. Palis have shown no inclination towards peace whatsoever.

JC
JC
May 16, 2022 3:31 pm

Fatboy
Get in the freaking basement as you’re really beginning to annoy people here with your stupid shit. You’re not allowed above ground until the med authorities approve, which they believe will be sometime in the summer of 2033.. Get down there now! or I’ll refer you to Brett Sutton. Go on, shoo.

rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 3:35 pm

I have an athletic 19 year old, treasured grandson & a granddaughter who suffered short term upper gastrointestinal bleeding after her second Pfizer shot.

Pfizer does everything except stop COVID.

GP sending missus for a full body MRI, onset of issues coincided with second Pfizer shot.

Buy MRI machine stocks! Seems to be the go to tool for post Pfizer issues.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 3:40 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 3:30 pm
Who said anything about violence?

Don’t come the raw prawn, Tim.

More likely, don’t throw the cooked donut.

Now that you seem to have become a Nazi supporter, are you cooling off on your previous enthusiasm for “Punch a Nazee”?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 3:49 pm

Timothy Neilsen.
If you want to make m0nster cry, offer to meet him at a Hawthorn game.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 16, 2022 3:52 pm

I saw a medical report the other day from a neurologist opining on an MRI for a woman who has suffered significant adverse effects after her first Pfizzzzzer shot — patches of white in multiple areas of the brain — I did not sound good at all.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 4:01 pm

I have discovered a new horror inflicted upon urban humanity.

The E-Scooter.

Nearly run down by a phalanx of the halfwits on a Darwin pavement this morning. Almost ran down another last night – idiot trying to overtake our 4wd on a darkened street, no lights on the scooter, natch.

How soon before someone dies?

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 4:04 pm

So the Liberal Party in Victoria doesn’t even pretend to believe in free speech anymore…

“Bernie Finn faces Libs ousting over abortion stance
Alexandra Middleton

Outspoken Victorian MP Bernie Finn could be expelled from the Liberal Party over his controversial abortion views, just one week after resigning from his role in parliament as opposition whip.

Sky News revealed on Monday there were talks of ousting Mr Finn from the party, with three sources confirming a vote could be held as early as next Tuesday to decide Mr Finn’s future.

It comes just two weeks after Mr Finn posted controversial anti-abortion comments on social media.
Mr Finn took to Facebook to voice his “excitement” over leaked draft anti-abortion legislation in the United States, adding he hoped similar laws would “come here soon” and “killing babies is criminal”.

When approached for comment on the matter by Sky News, Mr Finn said: “I don’t know what grounds anybody would use to have me removed from the Liberal Party”.

He added Victorians should instead be concentrating on Premier Daniel Andrews’ “crimes” against his state.

Politicians on both sides in Victoria have previously voiced their opinions on Mr Finn’s abortion stance, with tourism minister Martin Pakula labelling his comments “appalling”.

Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy – who Mr Finn said he hasn’t spoken to “for some months” – has also made it clear he was “sick” of Mr Finn’s comments.

Mr Finn has been part of the Liberal Party for nearly 42 years and a member of the Victorian Parliament for more than 20 years.”

So being anti-abortion and wanting to preserve life is “appalling”.

How long before Christians and Jews are imprisoned in Victoria?

Words fail me…and that unusual for me.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 16, 2022 4:07 pm

You had Steve from Brissy and Homer censoring your free speech on your own blog (to which you could readily return, and speak freely. But then you would have an audience of three (including yourself).

And:

We get a bit of that here.

Grass is greener syndrome, combined with delusions of adequacy.
1. Start their own enterprise, or be centrally involved in it;
2. Discover it’s shit;
3. Be overtaken and swamped by even bigger nuffies than themselves;
4. Park their own setup on the side of the road; and
5. Walk back to the place where they started, and resume the same ‘repetitive gibber’ as though nothing had happened in the meantime.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 16, 2022 4:08 pm

How soon before someone dies?

Not soon enough.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 4:11 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

May 16, 2022 at 4:08 pm

How soon before someone dies?

Not soon enough.

Provided it is a scooterer.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 4:17 pm

Matthew Guy… now there’s the type of person I reserve the C word for.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 4:18 pm

Top Ender:

The Ormiston raid, whose perpetrators were so cocky they posted their own video online, was emblematic of a crime wave sweeping New Zealand. Shootings and stabbings are also commonplace as gangs fight for dominance of the lucrative methamphetamine trade.

How odd.
The government made a law and now the criminals have taken over and are destroying their carefully planned and utterly impractical social nirvana.
How many times does this happen?
Alcohol – Italian Mafia
Tobacco -Indonesian Tobacco growers
Marijuana – Mexican Cartels
Guns – Lebanese Crime gangs
Heroin – Chinese Crime gangs
Prostitution – Asian sex slave trade
Methamphetamine – Chinese Crime gangs
Fentanyl – Chinese and South American Crime Gangs
We’ve seen this movie so bloody many times, and the bastards in Parliament keep doing the same thing – make it illegal and the trade in dodgy shit just keeps corrupting the legal system.
OR IS THIS THE REASON FOR THE ILLEGALITY?

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
May 16, 2022 4:20 pm

Monty.

You started by presenting a figure as “proof” of a free form racism justifying BLM.
The figure you chose was blacks killed in traffic stops.
As the % of population didn’t match the % killed you assumed racism.
When given another set of figures which go a long way to explaining that over representation you decide that it’s more important to look at individual cases.

After misrepresenting my comments as racist.

It’s just grubby, dishonest and bad faith

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 4:21 pm

I would prefer not to be skittled by a brain dead scooterer, hurtling towards me at a great rate of knots, feeble bell tinkling menacingly.

Is there some scooter collector who runs around at dead of night picking them up and recharging them? I know you have to use a QR code to get one going. Is there an abandoned scooter graveyard?

Zipster
May 16, 2022 4:24 pm

China Insights
Run! The door of China is closing/The government blocks the outflow of capital, cutting passports

If you want to leave China, you better hurry up, because you won’t know when the door will be completely shut.
Recently, there have been many stories circulating online about passports being cut up by customs officers in China. There are many official signs suggesting that China’s doors are indeed closing quietly.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 16, 2022 4:28 pm

Is there an abandoned scooter graveyard?

Up here there is, yes. It’s known as Darwin Harbour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 4:29 pm

Is there some scooter collector who runs around at dead of night picking them up and recharging them? I know you have to use a QR code to get one going. Is there an abandoned scooter graveyard?

I think they have basic on-board comms and GPS, which tells ScootaHQ when the battery is getting low.
Whatever you might say about Melbournians, one thing they excelled at was finding innovative locations to place e-bikes, o-bikes, q-bikes and whatever other variations they have had.
Up trees, on rooves, in the bay, in the river.
I wonder if e-scooters will go the same way.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 4:30 pm

Snap KD.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 4:37 pm

It’s known as Darwin Harbour.

Reef and habitat creation.

Environmentally sound.

Anchor What
Anchor What
May 16, 2022 4:37 pm

Kieran Gilbert on daytime Sky tried to draw a comparison between the Chinese spy ship transiting along west coats of Australia and ships transiting through South China Sea.
James Patterson was very solid throughout the interview and in this case pointed out that (i) South China Sea is international waters and a much used cargo route, whereas the west coast where the spy ship was operating is not the same at all. It was clearly aimed at electronic surveillance of military installations. Exmouth is famous for relaying communications to submerged USA nuclear submarines.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 4:40 pm

So, did Bono go to Epstein’s island?

rosie
rosie
May 16, 2022 4:45 pm

Rural people mostly scared of lockdown imposition?
That wasn’t my observation travelling in rural Victoria and through western New South Wales in May 2020.
Not with threats to shoot people and various other imprecations against the disease ridden.
And I agree farmers produce but rural towns have their fair share of intergenerational welfare types.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 4:47 pm

Scooters must be good for the batteries at least, if only some enterprising soul would set about repurposing them. It would piss the ninnies in council off so the benefit would not be trivial.

jupes
jupes
May 16, 2022 4:48 pm

There are many official signs suggesting that China’s doors are indeed closing quietly.

Great news, though it’s probably a case of shutting the door after the horse has bolted.

calli
calli
May 16, 2022 4:48 pm

On a more positive note, went to the Darwin Museum today. Only a little place, but it is very good. Excellent exhibits, a perfect place to take children for snapshots of the earth’s timeline and local fauna.

And the Cyclone Tracy exhibit – the Beloved and I had just started “going out” when that thing hit Darwin, so it will be forever meshed with the whirlwind of new romance.

The Yr 12 art exhibit was a bit disturbing to me though – the majority of the work was depressing, dislocated, dark. You expect a level of teenage angst but this was different to the NSW Art Express I’ve see in previous years. The world is their oyster and they are miserable. It shouldn’t be like this.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 4:49 pm

Furthermore, after donning the tinfoil hat. Scooters are the first step in banning cars in the cities couched initially in terms of benevolence. The bug eating and pod living lifestyle.

rosie
rosie
May 16, 2022 4:50 pm

Is ‘cookers’ a reference to the one time topic de jour ‘spirit cooking?’.

Frank
Frank
May 16, 2022 4:52 pm

The world is their oyster and they are miserable. It shouldn’t be like this.

They have just finished twelve years of being told they are racist, sexist, homophobic imperialist swine by the education system and that the planet is going to fry because of their selfishness. Can’t really blame them for some level of despondency.

johanna
johanna
May 16, 2022 4:55 pm

Roger says:
May 16, 2022 at 1:29 pm

There’s always been a significant rural/urban divide. I’ve found it hard to get through to people that rural areas just flat out don’t have the services available cities do…

Yep.

The biggest divide in Australia is between the regions where the wealth is mostly produced and the metropolitan areas where it mostly gets consumed.

In fairness, that’s the history of civilisation. Rome did not produce its own wealth – it provided the intellectual and social and legal framework for the Empire, backed up by its military might.

That’s how the world works.

While these resentful sentiments will never go away, nor will reality.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
May 16, 2022 4:57 pm

Calli.

In case you missed my earlier suggestion, make sure you enjoy the virtual reality bombing of Darwin at the RFDS on the harbour. Enjoy.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 16, 2022 4:58 pm

Alcohol – Italian Mafia
Don’t forget the Kennedy crime family.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 4:58 pm

You started by presenting a figure as “proof” of a free form racism justifying BLM.
The figure you chose was blacks killed in traffic stops.
As the % of population didn’t match the % killed you assumed racism.
When given another set of figures which go a long way to explaining that over representation you decide that it’s more important to look at individual cases.

Your contention, mole, is that because blacks are over-represented in the murder statistics, cops should be more prepared to shoot black people at traffic stops.

This is racial profiling, straight up. You are advocating racism.

People like you are why BLM exists, and they have a valid point.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 16, 2022 5:02 pm

That would be the Grand Mufti who was chummy with H1tler, and blessed a Moooslim SS division?

Indeed – the Grand Mufti who visited Berlin, was given a guided tour of an extermination camp, had an interview with H1tler, and received a grantee that, in the event of a Nazi victory, “The Jews of Palestine are yours.” He was also Yasser Arafat’s uncle.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 5:04 pm

rickw:

If it was a false flag, it was the biggest fail ever, people took their semi auto shotgun money and brought scoped rifles in .223 and .308 etc. If I was Dictator Dan I would have much preferred they kept their shotguns….

See my post above (May 16, 2022 at 4:18 pm)
Have you seen any government program executed below cost/ below time and with no opportunity for graft for maaates?
Of course it was a stuffup.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 16, 2022 5:05 pm

You are not that dumb Monty.

M0nty loves trolling. It’s his perversion. Yes, he is stupid, but he doesn’t actually believe the garbage he spreads here, he doesn’t believe anything very much. He just loves to get a rise.
Posting inane crap is his idea of time well spent, which is very sad. But it’s who he is. He makes me feel slightly guilty for laughing at him, but I console myself by reflecting that as a demonstration that it is a capital error to argue with lefties, he has value.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 5:12 pm

That’s how the world works.

Not if we pursued a policy of population decentralisation.

The USA, for example, is not NYC, LA & Chicago, and a few other major cities.

To an extent we saw this with the Forgan-Smith govt in QLD, with the encouragement of the noted Anglo-Australian economist Colin Clark, which is largely why we are Australia’s most decentralised state. Even so, modern Labor governments here have tended to be metropolitan-centric when it comes to allocating public resources.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 16, 2022 5:13 pm

If it was a false flag, it was the biggest fail ever, people took their semi auto shotgun money and brought scoped rifles in .223 and .308 etc. If I was Dictator Dan I would have much preferred they kept their shotguns….

I heard one bloke turned in some old Bren gun barrels he had lying around. Actually he allegedly turned in many more than he had lying around as the money was good. He owned a CNC metalworking shop. 🙂

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 16, 2022 5:15 pm

Hey Knuckles, have you heard anything about Zac Rolfe?

IIRR he is suspended on pay by NTPol.

I thought he would be sueing the NT Government by now.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 5:15 pm

Boambee John:

Socialist Unity? ROFLMAO. But they would purge kulaks like you come the revolution, so there is that.

So they have some good points?
Funny isn’t it, they NEVER see that one coming!
“Oh! If only Comrade Stalin knew!”

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 16, 2022 5:18 pm

And speaking of plod…

FLAT WHITE

Sergeant Bruno’s big mistake
James Macpherson / The Spectator

A Victorian policeman is under investigation for posting online that there are only two genders.

And so he should be!

Everyone knows there are actually three genders: Males (pronouns he/him), Females (pronouns she/her), and Narcissists (pronouns me!/me!/me!).

The Age newspaper reported this week that 62-year-old Sergeant Bruno Staffieri was interviewed by officers from Professional Standards Command over an online comment he made to an officer working in the Gender Equality and Inclusion Command.

Staffieri reportedly wrote:

‘So you are doing tertiary education studying genders. I’ll make it easy for you to pass … there are 2.’

Someone call triple-zero!

You have to hand it to Victoria Police; they know what constitutes inappropriate behaviour.

Shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets? No consequences.

Pepper spray law-abiding citizens? No consequences.

Harass old ladies sitting in a park during Covid lockdown? No consequences.

Slam people into the pavement for not wearing a mask? No consequences.

But if you dare to state a biological fact, everyone – from the Deputy Commissioner down – wets their pants.

Sergeant Staffieri should demand to know how many genders there are so that he can be more accurate in future.

Google doesn’t know, so we’ll wait for the answer.

Oh, and if you’re the victim of an actual offence, you’ll have to wait too. Police are busy attending to thought crimes.

Staffieri, who has been an officer for more than 35 years and is close to retirement, could lose his job because of the online comments.

This is not the first time Staffieri has upset police command with views that, until five minutes ago, were entirely unremarkable.

Staffieri was also investigated over his public criticism of the government’s decision to cancel Australia Day and Anzac Day celebrations last year, but allow the Gay Pride March in St Kilda to proceed.

‘So the next time Australians are sent out to fight a war, maybe we can send out the 8,000 that marched today … and try to stop the enemy by waving feathers and brightly coloured boas at them,’ Staffieri reportedly posted on May 17, 2021.

‘Triple-zero. What’s your emergency?’

‘Sergent Staffieri objected to the Mardi Gras.’

‘Does anyone need help?’

‘Yes. We are all very hurty.’

‘Does Sergeant Staffieri have a weapon?’

‘It’s his words. His words! Words are violence.’

‘Stay in a safe space and practice socially distancing until a squad car full of thought police arrives.’

In June last year, Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson posted on Yammer, the force’s internal communication platform, that…

‘Victoria Police is proud to have been recognised as a silver employer at the 2021 Australian LGBTQ+ inclusion awards.’

Staffieri reportedly responded by posting:

‘Yes, I agree. Great achievement. But if the public knew how much time, effort, and taxpayer dollars went into this, they would also be demanding why we didn’t get a gold.’

That’s pretty funny.

Paterson didn’t think so. According to The Age, he defended the campaign and denied it had received significant public funding.

Staffieri responded:

‘Sir, I totally value and respect your opinion and your rank, I simply ask that you value and respect mine.’

Paterson fired a broadside back at Staffieri…

‘I don’t respect or value your views as they are offensive and there is no place for those views in Victoria Police… Either limit your comments on Yammer to comments that are respectful of everyone or consider your employment options.’

So in Daniel Andrews’ Victoria, it’s an honest police officer who tells the truth who is threatened with the sack for being in possession of what police hierarchy call ‘those views’

Maybe, if Sergeant Staffieri flies the Chinese flag outside his station, all will be forgiven.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 16, 2022 5:21 pm

Ben Roberts-Smith loses ‘leaked email’ challenge against ex-wife

Perry Duffin
Senior Court Reporter
@perryduffin1
NCA NewsWire
12:14PM May 16, 2022

Ben Roberts-Smith has been denied an appeal that could have seen him grill his ex-wife about whether she leaked his private emails to his critics in the media.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing Nine newspapers for a series of articles that accused him of war crimes, bullying and domestic violence.

The Victoria Cross recipient denies every allegation against him and has faced off against his accusers in court including SAS soldiers, his ex-wife Emma Roberts and his alleged former ‘mistress’ who is known as Person 17.

The soldier‘s lover had appeared on the doorstep of the family home, in April 2018, and thrown Ms Roberts’ life “into chaos”, she would tell the court in evidence.

Mr Roberts-Smith and Ms Roberts separated in 2020 as his legal action worked through the Federal Court.

He launched a second lawsuit in mid-2021, against his former wife, accusing her of accessing his private emails to Nine either personally or through her best friend.

Ms Roberts denied his claims.

A Federal Court judge, in January this year, accepted Ms Roberts‘ denials and ruled Mr Roberts-Smith’s lawyers could not cross-examine her in the stand.

Mr Roberts-Smith applied for a chance to appeal but Justice Michael Wigney, on Monday, refused the soldier‘s bid.

“Mr Roberts- Smith’s real complaint appears to be that the primary judge did not weigh up the evidence in a way which favoured him,” Justice Wigney said in his judgment on Monday.

“The decision of the primary judge is not attended with sufficient doubt to warrant reconsideration by the Full Court.”

Justice Wigney also noted that Ms Roberts‘ evidence in the main trial, against Nine, touched on her access to the emails. If anything significant changed as a result of her evidence, the judge said, Mr Roberts-Smith could launch other legal appeals.

It means the original judge‘s decision will stand and Ms Roberts will not have to step into the witness box to answer questions about the emails.

Mr Roberts-Smith‘s lawyers, in the 2021 lawsuit, claimed Ms Roberts had access to an email connected with his public speaking company, RS Group, and suspected either she or her best friend Danielle Scott had leaked its contents.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 5:21 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 4:58 pm

Stop lying fatboy.
Two simple scenarios.
A. The police are following a car because they clocked that car going 70 in a 60 zone. The driver pulls over, appears to get something out of the glovebox, and turns towards the approaching cop.
B. The police are following a car because there’s been a report that the car has been stolen by a violent felon. The driver pulls over, appears to get something out of the glovebox, and turns towards the approaching cop.
In which scenario is it more likely that the cop will shoot (rightly or wrongly)?
Skin colour’s got nothing to do with the cop’s judgment in either case. It’s just a simple fact that violent felons are more likely to get shot. So if demographic group X is overrepresented among violent felons demographic group X is likely to be overrepresented in “shot by police” stats.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 5:25 pm

callisays:

May 16, 2022 at 4:37 pm

It’s known as Darwin Harbour.

Reef and habitat creation.

Environmentally sound.

Err, batteries + fish.
Not so sure about that.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
May 16, 2022 5:33 pm

DrBeauGansays:
May 16, 2022 at 5:05 pm
….
M0nty loves trolling. It’s his perversion.

You say that like it’s proven that he has only the one.

Anyway, up to a point Dr B. When the fat imbecile starts lying about what other people have said and accusing them falsely of supporting racist killings it’s no longer a joke. It’s a danger to the blog, and the mendacious turd needs to be punted.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 5:39 pm

Skin colour’s got nothing to do with the cop’s judgment in either case. It’s just a simple fact that violent felons are more likely to get shot.

We’re talking about traffic stops here, not violent felonies. What a stupid post, Tim.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 16, 2022 5:40 pm

So if demographic group X is overrepresented among violent felons demographic group X is likely to be overrepresented in “shot by police”

There is no point whatever in using logic, reason or anything citing numbers or calculation to m0nty. You should have noticed by now.

Poor m0nty has his own method of arriving at truth, and it involves polling his social circle. The idea that one might use numerical evidence and reason is totally alien to him. If you point out that his argument is bullshit, he’ll either repeat it or throw out more bullshit.

Your fundamental assumption that you can treat him as a rational adult is just wrong. He isn’t. But he loves getting a response, it validates his trolling.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 5:46 pm

So in Daniel Andrews’ Victoria, it’s an honest police officer who tells the truth who is threatened with the sack for being in possession of what police hierarchy call ‘those views’

Is anyone surprised?

I wonder what the attitude of the police union is?

Dot
Dot
May 16, 2022 5:46 pm

Your contention, mole, is that because blacks are over-represented in the murder statistics, cops should be more prepared to shoot black people at traffic stops.

No one is contending that but you, moron.

Bluey
Bluey
May 16, 2022 5:50 pm

Reports coming that Bernie Finn will be facing a motion to kick him out of the Vic Liberal party. This is exactly why they are utterly worthless reason no. 239897234

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 5:51 pm

Sergeant Staffieri

What an absolutely solid citizen!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 16, 2022 5:52 pm

Chris Kenny just had Craig Kelly on and rightly took him to task about the ads indicating that Kelly will be next PM. “Buckleys and None”. Kenny offered free lawn mowing at the lodge if he wins. After interview called Kelly and the teals “loons”.

I saw a full page ad in Herald Sun with the heading Our Next PM with Kelly’s face full page. Simply delusional and shows Palmer is totally out of touch if he thinks his party can form Government.

It is rare that I read paper edition of the Oz and the Courier Mail but saw both today. Full Pages 2-3 all Palmer ads with page 3 mainly attacking PM with quotes from Barnaby Joyce.

If Kelly did not have to defend the ridiculous PM ads he could have spent the interview talking about vote for Palmer candidates who perhaps might have a chance to help with balance of power if got some seats.

Dont get me wrong as I would like to see Kelly remain in Parliament. However Palmer has just been totally delusional in relation to their ads.

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 16, 2022 5:52 pm

Western Australia’s COVID-19 cases in hospital surge past 300 amid calls for restrictions to be reintroduced

300 people are in hospital with (note: not ‘due to’ – this data isn’t released) Covid and the medical Nazis want to mask us up again. Probably support another lockdown, too. Why not?

Western Australia is still sitting far below the expected peak in daily case numbers, which Mr McGowan said could reach around 25,000 — more than double today’s figures — according to the Chief Health Officer.

The expected peak was 10,000/day a few weeks ago and the media monomaniacally focussed on the fact that we didn’t *quite* get there. This is why the government doesn’t release its ‘modelling’. Doesn’t matter what happens, the state will always claim ‘well, this is in line with our modelling which we won’t show you – aren’t we doing a brilliant job?’. Absolute bullshit.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 5:55 pm

However Palmer has just been totally delusional in relation to their ads.

Has he explained how he’ll enforce his mortgage interest rate cap yet?

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 6:02 pm

rosiesays:
May 16, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Is ‘cookers’ a reference to the one time topic de jour ‘spirit cooking?’.

Perhaps, but if so, munty needs to do some research. Those I saw mentioned in relation to “spirit cooking” tended to be left wing DemonRat so-called “progressives”.

OTOH, if munty is actually referring to the “spirit cookers”, he might have inadvertently hit the correct target – his political soulmates!

JC
JC
May 16, 2022 6:02 pm

Let me edit that for you, Fatboy.

Your contention, mole, is that because blacks are way over-represented in the murder statistics at about 8:1, and they appear to attack cops frequently, and there are a lot of guns in the US, cops are generally afraid of blacks.

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 16, 2022 6:02 pm

I tend to only keep an eye on ABC News. Did other media sources report Albanese’s NDIS six point plan clusterfuck? The ABC didn’t mention it. You can guarantee it’d be top of their stack for days if Scummo made that kind of mistake. In all honesty, Albo’s NDIS ‘gaffe’ and his subsequent, blatant reading off of a cheat sheet looked to me to be a very serious screw-up. He just looked terrible. Figuratively and literally not ready for prime time.

I’m quite surprised how bad Albo has been on the campaign trail. He wasn’t such a crappy media performer in the past. I wonder if he lost the knack because he made himself the invisible man throughout 2020 and much of 2021.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 6:03 pm

Rogersays:

May 16, 2022 at 5:55 pm

However Palmer has just been totally delusional in relation to their ads.

Has he explained how he’ll enforce his mortgage interest rate cap yet?

Bloody Liberal shill!!!
🙂
🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 6:04 pm

Your contention, mole, is that because blacks are over-represented in the murder statistics, cops should be more prepared to shoot black people at traffic stops.

This is racial profiling, straight up. You are advocating racism.

People like you are why BLM exists, and they have a valid point.

No, munty, that is your interpretation, which seems to be based on some form of claimed white intellectual supremacy. Examine your privilege!

JC
JC
May 16, 2022 6:05 pm

Dover

I’d like to see the macro research as I’m 98% sure JP Morgan wouldn’t have said this.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 16, 2022 6:05 pm

Well, has Winnie the Xi had a brain aneurysm or not?
Could be bad news Monty, brace yourself.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
May 16, 2022 6:05 pm

Tinta:

Chris Rock’s educational video on not getting your arse kicked by police

Such a great video, and reminds me of a couple of incidents in motor bike days.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 6:08 pm

Bloody Liberal shill!!!
?
?

Well spotted.

I’m also a Zelenskyist.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 6:10 pm

“However Palmer has just been totally delusional in relation to their ads.”

Why is anyone surprised by this.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 16, 2022 6:10 pm

m0ntysays:
May 16, 2022 at 5:39 pm
Skin colour’s got nothing to do with the cop’s judgment in either case. It’s just a simple fact that violent felons are more likely to get shot.

We’re talking about traffic stops here, not violent felonies. What a stupid post, Tim.

munty

Either you didn’t read the comment, or you are unable to comprehend plain English. Perhaps in future do not respond, and be thought to be stupid, rather than rushing to the keyboard and proving that you are.

Lysander
Lysander
May 16, 2022 6:12 pm

This is why the government doesn’t release its ‘modelling’. Doesn’t matter what happens, the state will always claim ‘well, this is in line with our modelling which we won’t show you – aren’t we doing a brilliant job?’. Absolute bullshit.

I never give McClown any credit; he’s a fucking moron. But on radio some weeks back he said they wouldn’t release the modelling data “because its just modelling data and doesn’t always reflect reality.”

I tried to call in to ask him about climate modelling then…??

Couldn’t get thru…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 16, 2022 6:17 pm

Well spotted.

I’m also a Zelenskyist.

Oooooh.
Don’t be sayin’ that around these parts.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 16, 2022 6:20 pm

TE:

Hey Knuckles, have you heard anything about Zac Rolfe?

Not a single peep. Or gurgle.

Last I heard he was still suspended – after vowing to continue in his role as a Constable, thus sending the top floor into conniptions.

I also hear that the NT jack union has deliberately gone a bit quiet, in exchange for concessions at their upcoming EB later this year. Shameful either way, I reckon. In any event, he’ll be back in the spotlight come September when the inquest starts.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 6:25 pm

Oooooh.
Don’t be sayin’ that around these parts.

And a graduate member of the WEF.

Cassie of Sydney
May 16, 2022 6:26 pm

Who knew that Scott Morrison has taken the Liberal Party to the far-right? Well apparently he has….

Example One, yesterday I waited outside my home for a friend to collect me. An elderly man, who I vaguely know, walked past and stopped for a chat. We started talking about the election and he told me he was supporting Princess Allegra because Morrison has taken the Liberal Party to the far-right. I kid you not.

Example Two, speaking to another friend last night, she told me how she went to a party on Saturday night and whilst she was talking to a couple of people, she overheard a group of men saying how Scott Morrison has taken the Liberal Party to the far-right. I kid you not.

Example Three, today at work some of my colleagues started talking about the election. I don’t join the conversation and listening to them I felt my hackles rising. They were talking about how Scott Morrison has taken the Liberal Party to the far-right. I kid you not.

I’m speechless.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 6:27 pm

As a matter of fact, not only am I on Facebook, but Jess Mauboy is a friend.

m0nty
m0nty
May 16, 2022 6:28 pm

Is ‘cookers’ a reference to the one time topic de jour ‘spirit cooking?’.

Cookers are conspiracy theory believers who attend regular protests. Bosi has been seen every week addressing the cookers in Canberra. Other prominent cookers include the aforementioned Mack, Graham Hood, and Monica Smits.

rickw
rickw
May 16, 2022 6:29 pm

They were talking about how Scott Morrison has taken the Liberal Party to the far-right.

Australians are generally imbeciles.

Roger
Roger
May 16, 2022 6:30 pm

I’m speechless.

I hope Elbow, assisted into gov’t by Allegra, introduces a wealth tax and a death tax.

Democracy…good and hard.

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