Open Thread – Tues 9 Aug 2022
2,428 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 9 Aug 2022”
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m0ntysays:
August 10, 2022 at 4:55 pm
Also, that magistrate was appointed when Trump was President and Rick Scott was Governor.Someone mentioned up thread that federal magistrates are appointed by vote of the relevant Circuit’s judges. Can you confirm that Trump appointed the majority who voted to appoint that particular magistrate, or are you just flailing desperately?
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Can anyone really believe that The Hilderbeest was innocent – especially after acid washing 30,000 emails after they had been subpoenaed, or all the stuff that came out about the Wussiagate hoax? And for all the indignant rage that incurred, did Trump let slip the dogs of law upon her.
No.
Yet we are told he is the fascist using the state for political ends, and the septic Biden admin is saving us from fascism after Trump left office.
The big lie. Say it often enough etc .
viz Greg Sheridan on Bolta last nite – Trump derangement on full blast.
This vicious acid has burned deep across the mass media in the US and internationally. -
m0ntysays:
August 10, 2022 at 5:06 pm
How these magistrates are appointed has been explained to you, you dishonest imbecile.Mmyes, let me see, what was it now… a secret cabal of Soros-funded Satanists who had meetings in the tunnels under Comet Pizza?
Oh right, it was just a bunch of Florida lawyers.
Calling m0nty-fa a “dishonest imbecile” is an insult to dishonest imbeciles. Too fvcking lazy to read even the comments that refer to him.
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Lysander says:
August 10, 2022 at 5:46 pmLol! Didn’t know:
When FBI raided Giuliani home and demanded “all technical devices,” as they were leaving Rudy said “hey you forgot this!” They said “what’s that?”
He replied “a hard drive copy of Hunter’s laptop” – I don’t believe they took it)…
That’s a joke, right?
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Ethical Skeptic
@EthicalSkeptic
ACAN – asymmetryIf the cancer rise resulted from deferred screening, then all traditional cancer would rise, in normal reported ratios & scooped seasonal pattern.
However, we are seeing odd/rare cancer and off-season surges.
This is systemic disruption, not ‘neglect’.
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Just 10 per cent of WA lives claimed have been from the virus alone.
@lourennie9
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Knuckle Draggersays:
August 10, 2022 at 5:14 pm
There just has to be a ‘chestnut hair cascading across lithe, sun-bronzed shoulders’ moment shortly.
UPDATE: ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ by Duran Duran just started on the radio.
This is a sign
I’ll be really disappointed if “alabaster mounds heaving beneath her lacy blouse” doesn’t get a run.
I’ve got it in my multi. -
I don’t usually take much notice of what other cars on the road, but in the new sporty beamer/beemer/bimmer (all are apparently ok) I kept an eye on the National fleet as I sped by it. lol.
I didn’t see one Tesla out on the open road highway up to Brissie and none on the Sunshine Coast (except in Noosa where I saw two). How would you be, I say to Hairy, if you needed to get a charge here at McLean, where we stopped for lunch. If you could find a plug-in, then half an hour to charge and five people before you, he replied. That’s how you’d be and that’s why there isn’t a Tesla in sight.
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JCsays:
August 10, 2022 at 5:51 pm
John HI totally agree with the comment @ 5.25 pm. My concern is that there is a risk the US is no longer concerned with the outside world and goes internal. It’s then an entirely different order of pork dumplings. (I had a few today for lunch. Absolutely delicious, but that’s something else).
That’s possible but at present there is no evidence to support it. The USA has military installations all over the globe and has a vested interest in maintaining blue water superiority for trade purposes. China doesn’t have a blue water navy and won’t for at least a decade, probably longer. The US has to maintain a strong presence in the world because of assholes like Putin and Xi. If the USA went isolationist lots of bad stuff could happen and the US won’t benefit from that.
The biggest threat to the USA isn’t external, it is internal. That’s where your scenario might come to pass and if it does the whole world is in serious trouble.
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They know now if Trump becomes President again, he won’t be inclined to generosity.
So they are playing hard, fast and loose to stop him from running.Very close to too hard, fast and loose.
ROGER SIMON ON THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID: DOJ and Dems Risk Civil War to Save Their Jobs. (9 Aug)
RTWT. Paging a Col. Kurt Schlichter…I really wish his novels would stop coming true.
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From Sky News web page which shows a copy of the receipt and wording. So just how much paper does that waste in a year ?
“Coles has introduced an Acknowledgement of Country on its receipts, as part of a wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander plan which includes cultural learning and respect”.
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Vicki:
The West is in an abyss after years of economic and ideological self absorption. Can we recover to save ourselves? Can the USA revive its will and energy to lead the world again in the face of an enemy that, at least in the short term, can destroy much of the free world?
Yes, this will be a ‘come as you are’ war.
Just like the last one and the one before that. All because our damned leaders wanted NBNs instead of submarines, sports stadia instead of artillery, Injecting rooms instead of mortars, I could go on…
There are no innocents in government over the last twenty years. We need to make sure their kids and relatives are the first ones drafted into front line units and subs. And that goes for the bloody Unions too.
In fact, I’d like to see the initial draft fall on the bastards who have made a motza out of the country – no exceptions. This bullshit about wanting the wukkas to shoulder the primary burdens of the casualty lists is over. -
His strong manly hands probed every crevice of her silken femininity, their undulating bodies writhing in sensual rhythm, as he thrust his purple-headed warrior into her quivering mound of love pudding.
Good lord, Dot, the only response to that is more ice-cream. Certainly not jelly or blancmange.
Don’t give up your day job. 🙂
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Ricky Stuart giving the opposition player a blast in the press conference after the game was ill advised.
But considering what Panthers player allegedly said to Ricky’s son about Ricky’s severely challenged daughter over several incidents shouldn’t be glossed over.
A bogan kid being abusive a decade ago is one thing but when the full story goes mainstream people are not going to be defending him as they are now.
TBH I’m surprised the Panthers player didn’t try smother it when Ricky blew up. -
“Coles has introduced an Acknowledgement of Country on its receipts, as part of a wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander plan which includes cultural learning and respect”.
I wonder if Coles realizes that customers chuck the receipts into a garbage bin immediately?
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Pete O’ Perf:
I live about 39km from a nuclear target. Will cop the fallout if a SW is blowing. So some chance of surviving the initial invasion.
The world wants our resources and infrastructure to plunder those resources.
It will be bio not nukes.
Having nukes ourselves and planting them on our resource infrastructure if the population starts getting sick and dying would be our best insurance now seeing we’ve got SFA to defend ourselves with. -
Boambee John:
I’m a bit confused here. I thought that Trump, as a former president, had a continuing right to a protective Secret Service detail. Was that bloke one of the detail, observing and restraining the FBI fascists, or was this a joint operation? If the latter, the shit has now hit the fan.
That was my immediate thought when I saw the insignia on his gear.
But the SS is organised under the Treasury – so is the Treasury implicit in this?
Organisational Chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Yellen
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My fees for advice on bodice-ripping style are quite moderate. $1000 will see you get 7 helpful hints.
First hint is, never forget that your audience is female. Hence no heroine is fat (anywhere) and the male apparatus is felt more often than seen. Keep it discrete.Meantime, I’m off to write a PR piece IRL. Re saving a church. That’s the other string to my bow. 🙂
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“Coles has introduced an Acknowledgement of Country on its receipts, as part of a wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander plan which includes cultural learning and respect”.
Every time you get one at Coles, rip it off, hand it back to the cashier, and let them know nicely that you don’t want it. If everyone did that, it would soon stop.
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“Coles has introduced an Acknowledgement of Country on its receipts…”
They’re also advocating for constitutional recognition in their stores.
Woolworths is worse; their name tags have pronouns.
I saw an interesting t-shirt today being worn by some guy: on the back it said my pronouns are piss and off.
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WA police chief warns on vigilante pursuit
Michael RamseyAAP
Wed, 10 August 2022 3:30PMWest Australians are being urged not to take the law into their own hands as police investigate whether a crash which left a young man fighting for his life was the result of a pursuit.
The 18-year-old and a boy, aged 17, are alleged to have been riding a stolen off-road motorcycle early on Monday when it was involved in a crash with a four-wheel drive in the Perth suburb of Hillarys.
Both were rushed to hospital with serious injuries, and the 18-year-old remained in a critical condition on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old has been charged with aggravated home burglary and stealing over the alleged theft of two off-road motorcycles from a nearby home earlier that morning.
He faced court on Tuesday for a bedside hearing.
The driver of the four-wheel drive, a 49-year-old woman, also suffered serious injuries after her vehicle rolled and caught fire.
Police have interviewed the woman, who is believed to live at the home from where the motorcycles were stolen. Detectives are investigating whether she had been chasing the youths in her car when the crash happened.
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the investigation was ongoing and asked anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward.
“Clearly there is allegations that they were being chased … we haven’t formed any of those outcomes or findings yet,” he told ABC radio.
While declining to comment further on the Hillarys investigation, Mr Blanch urged people who may be victims of crime not to take vigilante action.
Parallels have been drawn with the 2016 death of Kalgoorlie teenager Elijah Doughty, who was riding a stolen dirt bike when he was run down and killed by its owner.
The man was charged but later acquitted of manslaughter, before being convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serving half of a three-year jail term.
“We’ve seen it many, many times, people taking chase of offenders when they’ve witnessed a crime,” Mr Blanch said.
“Consider your circumstances before you take things into your own hands because it can end in tragedy for yourself, other members of the community or the person that you might be chasing.
“No one’s life is worth more than property.”
They’ve already given the race of the suspected offenders..
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Has anyone had any thoughts about the presence of the armed Secret Service at the Mar a Lago “raid”? Part of Trump’s security detail, keeping the home secure in Trump’s absence? Or part of a joint FBI/Secret Service operation?
The latter would seem to me to be a sinister development.
yes for sure- they went through Melenia’s clothes too apparently. It’s disgusting but it’s also a logical development after imprisoning people in Moscow on the Potomac without trial.
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Parallels have been drawn with the 2016 death of Kalgoorlie teenager Elijah Doughty, who was riding a stolen dirt bike when he was run down and killed by its owner.
If there were more of these parallels there would be much less shit getting stolen.
Justice delay or never occurring is plod’s standard result. Despite their incredibly poor record of solving crimes post event, they’re staunchly against real and immediate justice.
Plod aren’t a solution to the problem, they’re a baked in part of it.
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Big business really isn’t your friend. It’s fascinating to watch how companies I’m very familiar have their Maoist struggle sessions at ‘lunch ‘n’ learn’ but will screw their workers as much as they can get away with.
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… since Facebook’s censorship of our page began, our visibility and post engagement has decreased dramatically, significantly hampering the reach of our advocacy for women and girls on a wide range of critical issues.
If there was ever a ‘hateful ideology’, it is the ideology that attempts to erase women and their sex-based rights.
In Australia and throughout the world, women continue to be silenced for speaking out about the reality of biological sex and women’s sex based rights. But all the censorship, vilification and abuse will not contain us. Men cannot get pregnant. Men cannot be women. Men should not be in women’s spaces, services and sports. The truth cannot be hidden and an ideology that is so antithetical to common sense, as well as the welfare of women and children, cannot survive. Women, at least, will not stand for it.
I suppose a t-shirt bearing the term ‘mother’ is also hate speech?
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Woolworths is worse; their name tags have pronouns.
Pronouns are so yesterday.
Nolte: Woke ‘They/Them’ So Awful Even Left-wing Reviewers Hate It (9 Aug)
They/Them, a gay empowerment/anti-conversion therapy horror film, was supposed to help put the Peacock streaming network on the map.
Well, it has, just not in the way it had hoped.
Over at Rotten Tomatoes, with 48 reviews logged in, They/Them has earned a terrible 29 percent rotten score from critics. The audience score is even lower — 15 percent.
Meanwhile women are starting to work out what a woman is.
DEMI LOVATO says she is no longer using ‘they/ them’ as her pronouns and has reverted to ‘she/ her’ (3 Aug)
Demi Lovato has reverted to she/her pronouns more than a year after coming out as non-binary and asking people to use they/them pronouns for her.
The singer, 29, opened up about re-adopting the pronouns during an appearance on Spout Podcast.
She said she decided to revert after recently “feeling more feminine.”
Perhaps a better set of pronouns would be dumb/dumber.
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Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister has threatened the public with consequences should they decide to like posts she disapproves of on social media.
Nancy Faeser, Germany’s leftist Interior Minister, has threatened the general public with consequences should they decide to like posts on social media she deems problematic.filthy creature
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Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister has threatened the public with consequences should they decide to like posts she disapproves of on social media.
The German people should threaten the Interior Minister, and the government of which she is a member, of suitable consequences if they’re taking cold showers in January.
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Hence no heroine is fat (anywhere) and the male apparatus is felt more often than seen
‘Walking around like a half-open pocket knife, his eyes locked across across the hammer and fastener aisle with the chick who definitely wasn’t fat.
‘Her VW bonnet outline, contained for the time being within her yoga pants, convinced him that this was – after all those painful years of searching – his time. Her time. Their time.
‘Hesitantly, still lost in her dark azure eyes, he floated (or so it seemed) close to her. Very close. At last, he was close enough to say those simple words he feared he would never say to another woman since the death of his wife in that industrial accident over Macho Grande.
‘Her lips parted, oh so slightly. He said: “Feel this.”‘
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Said owner subsequently had his house burned down, and his family re – located Inter – State.
Plod being part of the problem again. Won’t let the bloke set up his MG42 on the porch, whilst simultaneously being unable to prevent his house from being burnt down.
The fucking chief of police down to the local chief should have been fired over this. Criminal.
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This is why the demorats raided Trump: his new election ad:
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2022/08/09/president-trump-a-nation-in-decline/
Fucking bolt, still saying even if there were good legal reasons for the raid it was just bad politics. The essence of this raid was Trump’s personal archives from his presidency, things like personal correspondence from obuma and the mutant from NK. Nothing in other words, but watch the manufactured evidence emerge since the raiders told Trump’s lawyers to leave the property and did not leave a copy of the warrant. Bolt and his fucking guest say what a shame it is that this raid will boast Trump’s run for presidency. A shame, FFS.
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Something really weird going on with this “Mar-a-Lago” raid. It’s the second “precedent” set today after the courts ruling that Trump has to hand over his tax returns. What’s good for the goose is now good for the gander. Sweet, as it means that if Trump is elected in 2024, the Democrats can hardly bitch about copping the same treatment.
However, here is what I find rather strange. It’s been reported that this “search warrant” was issued because of some documents that the “Presidential Archives Office” believes contains “Classified Information” is missing and that Trump took them from the Whitehouse.
How on earth could they (the “Presidential Archives Office”) possibly know that these “documents” even exist? I wouldn’t imagine that these guys would be sitting in on Whitehouse Administration meetings and monitoring the “in and out” correspondence boxes.
What exactly do they think is missing, and how do they know these documents even exist? Do they follow around the sitting President noting down everything he says, texts and writes down? If so, they must have the highest security clearances possible.
FFS, they never noticed Hillary walking out the front door with Antique furniture and paintings, but all of a sudden they an intricate knowledge of exactly what is in a packing box with some binders in it.
It’s incredibly bizarre when you think about it logically.
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Scottish family fights deportation after Nadesalingam ruling
David Penberthy
South Australia Correspondent
@penbo
5 minutes ago August 10, 2022
No CommentsAn Adelaide electrician facing deportation back to Scotland despite being brought out to fill gaps in the labour market is defying an Immigration Department order to leave the country.
Instead, Mark Green is using the precedent set last week by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles in granting permanent residency to the Nadesalingam family from Sri Lanka to argue that he and his family should also be allowed to stay.
Mr Green, his wife, Kelly, and daughter, Rebecca, were scheduled to be deported from Adelaide at 10pm on Wednesday but have vowed to remain in Australia to fight for their right to stay.
Mr Green is on a bridging visa and has worked the entire time he has been in Australia, save for a few brief periods when the solar panel companies employing him went bust.
He has never sought or received any assistance from the Australian taxpayer.
He was headhunted by the solar industry in SA 10 years ago amid a shortage of electricians but is now facing deportation after a former employer bungled his visa paperwork and then misled him about the error.
On seven occasions, Mr Green has been forced to pay $4000 to renew his 457 visa plus a further $5000 to immigration lawyers to handle the application.
His total bill to remain in Australia is about $200,000 and as a non-citizen he also paid a hefty $8000 a year fee to send his daughter to their local southern suburbs public school.
Mr Green’s decision to fight came after the family sought advice from a new immigration lawyer with the assistance of SA Best MLC Frank Pangallo.
Through their lawyer, the Greens are lodging a new appeal direct to the Immigration Minister framed around his intervention in the case of the Nadesalingam family last week.
Mr Pangallo said there should be no difference between the treatment of the Nadesalingams and the Greens.
“In the Nadesalingam family matter, the minister exercised his power to allow the Sri Lankan family to remain permanently in Australia after ‘careful consideration of all relevant matters.’,” Mr Pangallo said.
“I urge him to do the very same thing with the Greens.
“If not, the minister needs to explain how he can approve permanent residency to the Sri Lankan couple – who entered the country illegally – and their two young children, but deny the same approval to a family who entered the country legally and have been paying their own way – including taxes – for the past decade.”
“The Greens are of excellent character and fill all the requirements of people seeking permanent residency in this country. They have never been a burden on taxpayers.
“They deserve to be granted permanent residency, particularly in the middle of a skilled workers crisis.”
Mr Green said he and his family loved Australia, had built their lives here and had no real connection to Scotland anymore.
“We want so desperately to stay in Australia,” he said. “This has been our home for the past 10 years and a place where we have established a future for ourselves
“We have no home to go to in Scotland. My daughter came here when she was nine and considers Australia her home.
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Did I mishear that unctuous li’l chicom toad at his address to the NPC today?
“The future of the 23 million (in Taiwan) will be decided by the 1.4 billion chinese on the mainland.”
The chicom regime is loathsome. I am so looking forward to it (and its stinking supporters and functionaries) going down in flames.
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Besides, who’s to even say that Trump “took” these supposed “classified documents”.
There would have been about 300-400 people working there. Do they have Trump on camera nicking it?
Imaging working at similar sized workplace and some shit goes missing, and next thing there are 30 plod kicking your door in.
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