Blueysays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:00 am
Morrison is emblematic of everything wrong with the Liberal party. Stood for nothing in an attempt to get those who will only ever hate him to like him, while throwing those who he nominally represents under the bus to please them.

This was Abbott’s problem too.

Logies 2022: Masterchef’s Melissa Leong on Australian TV and her chance at making history

“People go, ‘Oh, it’s just the Logies’, but it’s a mirror being held up: Who are we watching? What stories are we watching and experiencing through the course of the past year?”

Holding up a mirror? The Late Show took the piss out of this very cliche and ethnicity grifters like Melissa Leong 30 years ago.

Louis CK has gotten his masters back back from HBO.
Seriously, getting cancelled was the biggest money spinner for him.

I was out & about this morning in Wentworth & Grayndler.
A lot of people still walking the streets, by themselves, wearing masks.
Saw some people driving, by themselves, wearing masks.
A lot a sleeveless puffer jackets.
Cafes in Grayndler (ones I drove past were not packed).
Cafes in Wentworth were heaving.

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Morrison is emblematic of everything wrong with the Liberal party. Stood for nothing in an attempt to get those who will only ever hate him to like him, while throwing those who he nominally represents under the bus to please them.

Horse shit.
Climate was settled as an issue, there wre never any votes to be won from Labor/Greens on the issue.
The simple fact is that Scotty was perceived unfavourably by enough female voters to lose the Election.
They coulda replaced him but Dutton or Porter couldn’t win it either.
No Federal Liberal leader can survive a perceived Women Problem.
See:
Hewson, J, Downer, A, Abbott, T, and now Scotty.
What about Howard?
He was never perceived as having a Woman Problem, but women Voters still did him in when they had the choice of Rudd.
Dutton, hard to say.
Women generally have a positive view of cops, but professional women are the problem demographic for the Liberals.

This was Abbott’s problem too.
Abbott’s problem was that he told lies to get Elected, reneged, and was leading the Party to Electoral oblivion.

Aha!
My Plastic Bertrand trap has been sprung!

Plastic was a great artiste. The lyrics to Ça plane pour moi make no sense in French, or English.

The Late Show was an absolute must activity

Back when the ABC was funny.
Shit Scared was television gold.

Menzies reportedly voted DLP after he retired.
Senate only at the 1974 DD Election, according to someone who was told that by someone else.
10 Senate Seats were up for grabs that year, i kinda doubt Bob didn’t end up preferencing Liberal over Labor.

What’s even crazier JC is Tether is still reporting a market cap of $US65bill as of Friday (down from a peak of $US90bill in Nov).
It’s worth nothing.

They are still holding Tether at $US1.
It appears to be more resilient than I thought it would be.

incoherent ramblersays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:38 am
Blueysays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:17 am

Optimist.
The grid will collapse after a short period of rolling blackouts. The engineers required to restart things have already left the country.
The big question is how long before the peasants, without power, revolt. I reckon the full scale riots and mayhem would take about a month without power.

Rare I get called an optimist. Reckon it’ll play out something like there’ll be screeching and carry on, lots of finger pointing. Coal will stay for a while, with a massive shitfight, and Albo’s government will spend stupid amounts on renewables in vain.
Come ~2024 when the SMR stuff gets approved, everything will be falling apart and there will be a mad dash to it as a solution. Mostly because it’ll be about the only thing left as an option to “solve the crisis”.

Never mind it was easily foreseeable.

Later this years, Coles will be delivering Coles-online via paper bags in re-usable, recyclable boxes.
Plan is you leave the boxes outside & Coles will collect the next day.
Good luck with that.

Butchers and grocers won’t come into it.

Once the Maccas and KFCs close, all bets are off.
You’re talking thru your hat.
A person doesn’t need a fridge, just someone nearby who’s got one.
The milkman provided the same service.

Is there anyone more evil, mendacious, destructive, depressing than an environmentalist?

That obsoletes the one about bears defecating in the forest.

The milkman provided the same service.

Rooting will not fix the electricity!

The overlooked and clandestine gypsy meat theft cartel may be the insidious destabilising cancer tearing our entire society apart from within.

Trump nails Biden:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1538244937153753088 (via Lucianne & Gateway Pundit)

I give Joe credit for being even able to ride a bicycle at age 79. On the other hand Trump shoots in the low seventies at golf at age 76, so the video isn’t totally improbable.

ago that Tether isn’t really pegged to the buck on a one for one basis.

That’s correct & there in lies the scam.
The original article was a medium blog that many have posted here since pre-COVID.

Looks like that original medium blog on Tether has been deleted.
I’m getting an error message.

Its main fault, IMHO, is it goes too far.

I think that was the point of it.

Here’s what nuts.
The lower the price of BTC & ETH go and the speculators get washed out, the more ETH becomes a functional piece of infrastructure.
It was never a store of value.
It was never an inflation hedge (just like gold has demonstrated it isn’t).

Ed Casesays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:46 am
The big question is how long before the peasants, without power, revolt. I reckon the full scale riots and mayhem would take about a month without power.
Horse shit.
Fridges have only been common since the Sixties.
Until then, goods requiring refrigeration were purchased off the local Butcher and local Grocer as needed.
Local Butchers are long gone, but if you’re living close to a local Grocer, you might be alright.

Even more stupid that your usual standard, Dickless.

JCsays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:52 am
Is there anyone more evil, mendacious, destructive, depressing than an environmentalist?

Public figures ranging from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Prince Harry to comedian and political commentator Bill Maher have all questioned or decried the morality of having kids in the face of global warming. Speaking on a panel, Bill Nye “the Science Guy” seemingly innocuously asked the ridiculous question, “Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” (One of his co-panelists said yes.) Dave Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club, the self-proclaimed “most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States,” was much more direct. “Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license,” Brower famously stated in an interview. “All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”

All these scumbags should be late term abortion candidates starting now. I’m not squeamish and would be doing humanity a service.

Presumably the Butcher and Grocer had refrigeration?
Not much gets past you, eh?

Ed,
I’ll explain this as simply as I can.
Gen X, Gen Y and millennials are allowed to vote. They have had fridges available all their lives.
Telling them that they can learn to live without a fridge will not win their votes.
Timothy, i’ll dumb this down to the Max, just for you.
1. 3 Generations = 90 years
2. 90 years ago, an IceBox was a luxury
3. If Electricity is unavailable or too expensive, your fridge is about as useful as a c.ntful of cold water
4. Voting doesn’t matter

H B Bearsays:
June 19, 2022 at 12:36 pm
Talking to a mate who works in the downstream gas industry. There is so much uncertainty now investment will be impossible without some form of government guarantee. The industry relies on long term contracts to make huge capex projects viable. Nobody will sign anything. AGL has got a Canon-Brookes sized problem.

Can’t say I’m surprised. No doubt the greenies will point to it as another reason to why fossil fuels are not viable.

What’s gey nurse taste like Dot?

And Turdballs worked hard (or perhaps not very hard – mornings only) to complete the process.

Incorrect.
Abbott had already lost the 18 seats he picked up in 2010 and 2013 and another fifteen on top of that.
And it only took 2 years.

Only the Nats winning an unexpected seat prevented Turdballs from completing the task.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Turnbull performed a miracle in 2016 and he kicked in $1.6 mil. of his own dosh too.

Adam’s blog now essentially mh and Steve T talking to the Grigbots.
Grigbots even doing guest posts.
Becoming more like Sh1tfers/M0nty’s.
Sad.

I am (was) Hammy.
And his sister.

One can dream, I guess.
The Hammster even went on the Q&A freds occasionally.
I usually nominated 69 for him in Q&A lotto, if some retard didn’t steal it first.

Shut down the interconnectors, for starters.

The plight of our southern neighbours thereafter should focus some minds on a solution.

Can someone – anyone – define these nebulous interconnecters?
Are they a physical building?
An array of towers and wires?
Something that exists in the intarwebs?
They need to be defined before we can act on them.
And yes, I agree the threat should be made, if only to achieve what Roger has spoken of – mentally focusing our minds on the problem.

It’s the good eggs versus the bad eggs*, Sancho.

* Runny

Interconnectors are the Primarchs of the grid.
All hail the God Emperor.

The states wouldn’t dare cut the interconnectors now. They all rely on them at various times.

Recovering the gold plating may be an attractive prospect, though.

What is the role of the chicken egg in making the influenza vaccine?

For Biggles nanowrigglers.

Reading about how some people can convince themselves they have PTSD from events that never happened.
It’s a hell of a scenario.
In the olden days you’d say they were nutters.
Now, it’s a bit more nuanced, but they are still nutters.

Didn’t a Grigbot label Scummo as “Dr Mengele” over the Frankenvax rollout?

Dickless

This deserves a separate response.

Turnbull performed a miracle in 2016 and he kicked in $1.6 mil. of his own dosh too.

If only he had bothered to campaign after his loooong lunch, he might have saved all those seats that Abbott lost.

Turdballs was a monumental waste of time. The $1.6 million seems to have been his purchase of a lifetime membership of the Liberal Party, so he could be a “Miserable Ghost” until he dies.

Timothy, i’ll dumb this down to the Max, just for you.
1. 3 Generations = 90 years

OK Ed, you’ve got the over 90’s voting demographic sewn up. Unless they’ve grown to like having a fridge over the past several decades.
Now all you’ve got to do is found your “fridges are an unnecessary luxury” political party and sweep to power at the next election.
That would totally refute the posts to which you were responding, i.e. the ones that WEREN’T commenting on whether it is possible to survive without a fridge, but which WERE predicting that a loss of fridge-powering electricity would provoke large scale rebellion against our current ruling “elites”.

Talking to a mate who works in the downstream gas industry. There is so much uncertainty now investment will be impossible without some form of government guarantee. The industry relies on long term contracts to make huge capex projects viable. Nobody will sign anything. AGL has got a Canon-Brookes sized problem.

Can’t say I’m surprised. No doubt the greenies will point to it as another reason to why fossil fuels are not viable.

I’m not surprised either, and yes, this will make the greenies blather on even more about renewables being so very viable, in spite of me saying what are you going to do for base-load power for aluminium and steel smeltering. The level of incomprehension of these deluded people never fails to disappoint. Just when you think they can’t possibly ignore reality as it stares them in the face, they double-down. Interesting point though, my 13 year old grandson in Year 7 is suddenly talking nuclear power (clean and reliable) to me following discussions in his classroom. Suburban public high school.

We’ve had a lot of exposure to leftism lately with Hairy’s ex-wife’s recent bitter-sweet for him memorial wake, a blast from the past well populated by inner cities luvvies (as unlike Hairy she had never left the left). This exposure was then enhanced by my grandson’s 19th birthday party at ours yesterday. Gorgeous young grandson stands firmly by the beliefs of his woke generation, but when I asked on what basis he believed the planet was so CO2 endangered he had the good sense to admit he was simply going with the flow and that he hadn’t actually read any of the scientific material himself. Which is the mollifying reply so many of them give. Trust in ‘the experts’ is strong in them.

Or he’s merely keeping in good with grandma so I will let him drive my sporty new BMW X2.
He had it up on his phone asking about its options two seconds after we told him of the purchase.
Flighty yoof are never going to seriously give up on modern industrial society. 🙂

The grid will collapse after a short period of rolling blackouts.

She can only hold on so long, Captain.

No more Musk splodey battery competitors?

Prolly why Whyalla, etc. can isolate themselves from the grid with their “Green” power “islands”.

Being lied to today in the dead tree Telegraph.

They assert that coal fired power is “uncompetitive” because it’s expensive compared to renewballs.

No mention of ongoing taxpayer subsidies to the latter that are intended to drive out the former.

Hold on tight, it’s going to be a wild (downhill) ride. Just moved on AAP:

Employment Minister Tony Burke does not believe wages growth is about to further fuel inflation, saying pay rates have suffered a decade of stagnation…..

… “Wage stagnation happened when we were told we couldn’t have wage improvements because inflation was low, now some people are arguing we can’t have wage improvements because inflation is high.”

Ragu has been through some tough times. Cruelty from the family court, poor health. Now he has a new missus and young children.

I thoroughly enjoyed his on the spot reporting of The Battle of Sussex Street, when some burly blokes took down that knife wielding maniac with a milk crate and office chair.

Being lied to today in the dead tree Telegraph.

They assert that coal fired power is “uncompetitive” because it’s expensive compared to renewballs.

Da ironing.

When’s Rupe going treeless ‘lectronic and saving all of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trees?

4 under leading at the US Open. Min Woo Lee, brother of Minjie, going well at +2.

After the US subs deals, ScoMo will never have to worry about a quid in retirement.

Tulsi Gabbard is also a young WEF Leader as well as being a GunGrabber.
Could the 2024 Prez Election be between a GunGrabbin’ Samoan Hindu and a GunGrabbin’ Hindu Dindu?

The bit about inclusiveness is idiotic. The British NHS wants to ‘include’ people who get wrong a biological fact, their sex, but refused to ‘include’ people with enough sense to know that as a 66-year-old male he can’t get pregnant.

My term for this is sexual fascism. Everyone must be forced to accept a certain and absurd idea dictated by authority figures.

A comment on the Insta link above about a male blood donor being sent away because he refused to answer whether he was pregnant or not.

I do like the term ‘sexual fascism’ for this sort of political intrusion into obvious realities.

I liked Gunner.

So did I. It’s sad when good lively people are prey to drifting into crazy ideas and do their dash here.
Gunner was a lot of fun. He was the obverse of staid, and good on him for that.

Famous French personages?

Read this very carefully, I shall write this only once.

Read this very carefully, I shall write this only once.

Michelle Dubois

Wow. Rolls Royce SMR’s.

Rolls Royce to the rescue. Who’da thunk it. Order off the plan. Very interesting.

Ragu (before he changed his screen name) once told me to get off the blog because I didn’t belong there. Something to do with not commenting on economics.

So every comment I made thereafter had some economics/business slant woven into it just to annoy him. Later on he gave me some excellent tips on regional France, particularly the Dordogne.

😀

Leon the Professional

Yes I remember the Nazi stuff. And the 1946 haircuts for women who disobeyed something or other (like being “at risk” and getting a jab).

Pressure makes some people lark around even more, and others to give anyone who offends their world view gyp. The passage of time puts it all into proportion.

Scotty had a Women Problem.

Scummo was just a Sam Dastyari numbers man on steroids.

ftb has him plugged.

Shatterzzz, and the ABC re: the doubled-flagged coathangar.

‘Small price for unity’: Dominic Perrottet backs $25 million costing for Aboriginal flag plan
The Premier says he is not sure why the project costs so much, but backs it as an “important decision” for the state and country.

Splitting the country into Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia under two flags instead of one is obviously divisive, literally the opposite of unity. Is Parroted a believer or was he pressured into parroting this nonsense? If the aboriginal flag does not represent a country-within-a-country but rather a culture, which of the hundreds of different and often warring tribes does it represent, and where are the flags of the Greek, British, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese, Indian, and Bosnian cultures on top of the bridge? Doesn’t sound very inclusive now, does it?

The flag doesn’t make the politics, we interpret flags from a political context. The “aboriginal flag” was invented in 1971 for land rights protests. If you change the politics of Australia, you can potentially get Aboriginals to reinterpret the ex-British Australian national flag as representing the country aboriginals are also members in. The protesters of 1971 essentially won through the Mabo decision of 1992 and so altered the meaning of “Australia”, potentially obsoleting the aboriginal flag (if it were confined to its original purpose). If unity was really the goal, you would unify the country under one flag – either the one we have or a new one. But flying two is necessarily divisive.

As for the Voice To Parliament, if aborigines can’t see their interests being democratically represented, they can join the club, because in recent years neither can the rest of us.