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Open Thread – Tues 9 Aug 2022
the strong possibility of Vonshitzenpants going to gaol.Crikey, what has Biden done now? What have I missed?
the strong possibility of Vonshitzenpants going to gaol. Ok Monty, can you show us on the doll where the bad…
Parents unhappy with the prayer room at jihad academy should remove their children. Why??? Public school is sort of public?…
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/ralph-blewitts-latest-attempt-to-get-a-visa-for-his-wife-ruby-to-visit-australia.html Immigration bullsh!t are words that spring to mind!
It show how shitscared Trumpists are that Trump is going to be charged with a real crime.
Elvis is dead Monty.
True, but why would they have to D-day us when there are other ways to control us.
Here’s my question. Let’s say the US is in some sort of internal turmoil and China is on the move in the region in terms of controlling the space. Here’s my question: If China threatened us that unless we abide with the Chinese version of the Co-prosperity sphere, they would nuke an Australian city. Also, what if they did? Would the US risk one of their own cities? I really don’t know.
An inflatable tank is a pretty good metaphor for US hard power capabilities and resilience as things currently stand. We need to be realistic about the situation we’re in.
Compare the US with Russia. How many thousands of cruise missiles have the Russkies let fly at targets in Ukraine over the last few months? How many hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds have they expended thus far? And they aren’t slowing down, either. They either have simply colossal stockpiles of these things or their industrial base is able to churn these munitions out – even complex hardware like cruise missiles – as needed and in enormous quantities. They probably have both.
The West isn’t configured this way anymore. When we shoot off a bunch of Tomahawks off the coast of Iraq or Libya or the Balkans or wherever, the Pentagon starts making noises about its depleted stocks, then Raytheon gets a call and takes an order for few billions’ worth more – to be delivered in a couple of years.
The US military can fight the global war on terror, it can invade and defeat the militaries of smaller countries, and it can be fairly dominant on the oceans. How long could it last against a near-peer adversary on land and at scale before it started to run out of just about everything? Not that long, I don’t reckon. It doesn’t have anything like the industrial base that allowed it to almost single-handedly arm the allied forces during WW2*. And a conflict approaching that scale isn’t nearly as unthinkable as it was a decade ago.
*sure, the Soviets churned out masses of guns and tanks, too. But virtually their entire manufacturing capacity was dedicated to making the weapons needed to defeat the Nazis. This wouldn’t have been possible if the US wasn’t providing them with just about everything else
Trump-Backed Candidates Sweep Board Day After FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago
Sure B john. Vessels also have to be insured. A couple of freighters are sunk and what happens then to the cost of insuring risk let alone vessel owners wanting to take on the risk?
From 12’34”, an excellent assessment of the Ukrainian imbroglio, by someone who worked for the CIA.
Relevant take-homes:
Russia will has won
Ukraine has lost
Predominant war was in the flow of information
In the final denouement, everyone will rightly claim victory.
Brilliant assessment!
A load of nonsense. Depending on with whom, when, where, time of day, the year, childbirths, age and the configuring stars, any woman can experience types which would approximate to any of these descriptors. Nothing is ‘excluded’, we are all capable of the lot. Our specific physiology is best described as a diffuse panel and underlying circuits, with a control button function, everything kick-started by emotion-generated oxytocin to the brain.
Next question.
OCO, 20% of the Russian economy is now totally devoted to the war effort. Good luck with that and winter is coming.
Latham sounds as though he’s hit the office staff jackpot. Such a creature appears to be a rarity.
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San Francisco resident David Watson contracted #monkeypox through the casual contact of hugging a friend. He went to the ER three times with extreme pain that “opioids could barely touch.” It took 12 days to get #Tpoxx. His husband AND two dogs were also infected.
What do you do when you can’t win elections legally — raid political opponents homes? – Next Step
Do Those 87,000 IRS Agents Look a Little Different This Morning? They Should.
Build Back Better Light contained one of the provisions that caused backlash the first time Democrats proposed it. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) received billions of dollars to conduct millions of new audits and hire at least 80,000 new agents. Even vulnerable Democrats have decided to ignore that nearly 60% of likely voters believe that federal agencies are too big and politicized. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), and others up for re-election voted to make the IRS bigger.
We should review the more than doubling of IRS staff in context. As of 2021, the IRS had 81,600 employees. Adding 87,000 new staff members will exceed the current number. The total will end up near 168,000 IRS employees. Their mission is to wring every available penny out of working Americans to pay for Washington D.C.’s addiction to spending money they don’t have.
Some other numbers to consider:
The political nature of the IRS became apparent during the Obama administration. We all recall Lois Lerner and the agency’s admission of political bias. However, have you forgotten Dr. Ben Carson? Following his viral speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2013, Carson reported that his real estate holdings got audited. In the same year, two of Franklin Graham’s not-for-profits received audits. Both men had been operating for decades with no IRS issues.
Related: Why Does the IRS Need 5 Million Rounds of Ammo?
With multiple agencies weaponized, as we have seen clearly with the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence community, will the IRS pick up low-level enforcement? The FBI can’t arrest all of the regime’s opponents. It doesn’t need to. Enough tax liens, additional payments, and lengthy investigations will subdue most average Americans. The process is the punishment, and the IRS can bankrupt the average family faster than the DOJ bankrupted Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, Democrats have vowed to revive their banking surveillance. You may recall that their initial Build Back Better proposal was to audit every banking transaction over $200. Supposedly that is why the IRS needed to double in size in the first place. And the IRS is doubling in size. Manchin and Sinema will obviously cave with the correct incentives. And you should not put anything past Democrats at this point.
Keep your receipts, and find a good accountant.
Riiiiight.
Define “hug”.
No…belay that. I’d rather not know.
Define “hug”.
Does the I’m not a biologist line work here?
The Critical Drinker had something to say about that. My suspicion is that they realised it would cost them more in prospective earnings of the franchise than it would have made.
On the other hand he had a chance to see and review the movie Prey which, based on the trailer, he had earlier expressed misgivings all too commonly deserved by Hollywood movies. While conceding it was not the the second best movie of the franchise (as much of the press is saying) he welcomed being wrong and that it is actually a good movie.
The Democratic Party of thugs and goons
For the past seven years, since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the Democratic Party and its supporters have increasingly acted like Nazi storm-troopers, willing, able, and eager to crush their opponents at every opportunity, and to do so cruelly and with great viciousness.
I therefore ask, shouldn’t we have exhibited the same amount of rage and fury for the hundreds and hundreds of ordinary Americans these same thugs have harassed and ruined since 2016? Why did it take a raid on Trump to finally bring that rage to the forefront?
Finally, an orgasm thread.
That narrows it down a bit.
My own personal research into the realm of female orgasm aligns with 5 levels which men can relate with similar levels of elation
1. Finding the ice cream container in the freezer has not been emptied by the kids
2. Spying and procuring a car spot in a Westfield shopping centre.
3. Same as 2 but near Christmas time
4. Enjoying a well cooked steak with a cold beer
5. Bacon with or without all of the above
Was earlier talking to somebody who works in Tower of Power Govt offices in Brisbane.
Seems from yesterday they have to wear masks in the common areas.
mUnty’s daily serve of wrongology begins with a single mis-step. And off he scuttles to monitor those US far right message boards. Fuckwit.
It’s probably been up here already, but for those who haven’t seen it, Breitbart has the very strong response put out by Trump to the Mar-A-Lago raid. NB, the FBI now object to it being called ‘a raid’. Just normal business.
Normal business in any third world dictatorship.
Trump candidates are cleaning up in the primaries today. Either maintaining lead or increasing…
What crime, you knucklehead?
“I don’t know, but probable cause is he is a bad man I don’t like very much…and if we get a warrant for no reason, Step 3, PROFIT!”
This must be this “rule of law” thing Dover keeps on criticising.
Just stick your head into this noose …
Define ‘hug’
As Meatloaf so eloquently said:
‘ I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that !’
Munty’s earlier comment/rake on “Trump appointed judge” who issued search warrant was one too many rakes me for with that idiot.
More senile than Creepy Joe.
Bruce O’Newk:
I saw what you did there, you evil, evil, man.
Although I don’t think Wong likes Dick much, so she might not go.
I saw what you did there, you evil, evil, man
Love It! +1
lol, Fair Shake. Men are darling creatures who will always be unable to fathom the overall workings of adult human females. Us adult human females very much want you to enjoy yourselves taking simple pleasures which is why we praise you so much in daily social intercourse as well of course as in other types. Glad to hear you have received Male Carpark Achievement Certification Level 1. 🙂
My advance party is already there.
But his reporting from the frontline is a bit patchy.
Newsmax constitutional expert arguing to be POTUS you have to be US cit, over 35 and lived there for >14 years. Not returning a box of papers to archivist would result in a minor misdemeanour and not a felony (at best for FBI). and misdemeanours are not mentioned an as invalidating eligibility statement – so then, they’re going for the higher charge of treason it seems?
Ohhh, afternoon is getting a bit raunchy now.
JC at 3:43.
So you won’t be standing (or falling if necessary) if the inscrutable dry-cleaners invade?
Eric Trump going off on Newsmax now (to put it lightly)!!!!
Looking ahead a few months… ratpox has a certain ring to it. Or maybe squirrelpox, still undecided.
Further context is required. Firstly, China has had very big internal problems looming for the last 20 years or more, yet the CCP has remained in charge and China has become vastly more powerful. I don’t predict the ‘coming collapse of China’ anymore – I suspect its economic (and thus its social and political) model is unsustainable, yet it persists. We need to deal with this reality and plan accordingly.
Taiwan is definitely a tougher military nut for China to crack than is widely presumed, and a successful invasion will likely be enormously costly and destructive. How the Chinese military performs in such an operation is a big unknown. If the Chinese population is willing to make the required sacrifices that would come with this kind of operation is also a big unknown, as is the Taiwanese population’s willingness to resist.
As for Australia, it’s true that China could not invade and hold territory here for any stretch of time. The logistics are too difficult. That being said, if China buddies up tight with Indonesia against Australia and establishes some bases there, those logistical issues will not be nearly as daunting as they are at present.
Ultimately, what China could get from Australia through invasion could be obtained more easily via an extended period of bribery and coercion. That seems the bigger threat we need to prepare for.
Great line from Eric Trump!!!!:
“Hunger got into business when his dad became VP. We got out of business when my dad became POTUS.”
Washington Times Editorial – The seemingly partisan raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
We must put federal law enforcement under a microscope
On Monday, the FBI executed a warrant and tossed former President Donald Trump’s house in Florida under the very thin premise of a potential Presidential Records Act violation. This act was correctly viewed as the latest in a long series of political hit jobs on Mr. Trump and drew immediate condemnation from all corners of the political right — with the notable exception of the Senate Republican “leadership.”
The raid, which is the culmination of six years of FBI and other federal law enforcement efforts to run Mr. Trump from the public square, leads to the inescapable conclusion that we need a new Church Committee.
In 1975, Sen. Frank Church, a Democrat from Idaho, gaveled in a new committee that examined illegal and unauthorized activities by the FBI, the Department of Justice and the CIA. After 15 months of hearings, the committee concluded that the FBI and others had often acted illegally, imprudently and without sufficient authorization from their superiors or from elected officials.
We need a new Church Committee.
The pattern of lawbreaking and indifference to political, social, legal and governmental norms among the bureaucracies of the FBI and the Department of Justice has now become so obvious and so egregious that Congress must examine the activities of those charged with safeguarding the United States and her citizens.
The lengthy and troubling list of criminal and pathological behavior on the part of the federal law enforcement bureaucracies — spying on political campaigns, constructing false flag operations (the Steele dossier), lying to Congress, surveilling reporters and ignoring illegality propagated by one side of the political spectrum (ranging from firebombing pregnancy centers to being compromised by the human dumpster fire that is Hunter Biden) — is so substantial that it precludes reliance on any specific committee in Congress.
This newspaper has recently reported that FBI agents have recently violated the bureau’s own rules almost 750 times while conducting sensitive investigations involving individuals engaged in politics, government, the news media and religious groups.
These are just the things we know.
Many of the committees that have jurisdiction over these agencies have already failed to conduct or in most cases even initiate meaningful oversight. Some congressional committee members and staff with jurisdiction are themselves part of the problem.
Citizens require and should demand a special commission or committee be empaneled, preferably led by a serious senator or House member. This is not a moment for members who are concerned primarily about their social media accounts. This is a matter of the gravest urgency and will require an equally sober, deliberate, nonpartisan and bicameral assessment of the depth of the crisis and the changes that need to be made.
Those involved in such an examination should be clear about the stakes. Despite all the nonsense on both sides about insurrection (still, no one charged with that), elections being stolen and votes being suppressed, and democracy dying in the darkness, the real and immediate risk to the republic is that some of those charged with safeguarding it have, in fact, become its enemies.
Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Juvenal wrote: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” — who watches the watchmen themselves?
Five hundred years before that, Plato grappled with the same question: How does society protect itself from the tyranny of those who wield the legitimacy of law enforcement like a weapon against the citizenry?
No one likes to think of their own watchmen as part of the problem. But at a certain point, facts become inescapable. The only right answer — and the one we face now — is to be fearless and resolute in examining the conduct of those federal watchmen who need to be watched. If we don’t have a system-wide, open, transparent and meaningful examination of the problem now — when the scope and scale of the problem have become obvious to everyone — when will we?
That’s what men have been saying for ever to women trying patiently to explain things.
Best we all just love, hug, tickle, giggle and get on with it in the bedroom.
That seems to work for an awful lot of people. Catching the mood, taking it from there.
**Hunter**
The hand-wringers even acknowledge this:-
I can imagine Cecil B DeMille’s response to that …
“How much did XYZ movie take in it’s first week?”
“Next to nothing … but it did generate a ton of positive buzz.”
For those who did not watch the riveting address by the Chinese ambassador to the Press Club today…..here is perhaps the most ominous remarks he made:
“If every country put their ‘One China’ policy into practice with sincerity, with no compromise, it is going to guarantee the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” he said.
“There’s no room for compromise. How long it’s going to last, a proper time? I think there will be an announcement.”
Perhaps they are just engaging in brinkmanship……..the increasingly threatening military “drills” around Taiwan suggest something more.
There won’t be an invasion of the D-Day sort. We’ll be slowly choked into compliance if the US skips off.
And standing with what exactly – a gun in Australia? Don’t make me laugh.
When President Trump is once again President of the United States of America.
Bring it on.
Fitzsimian might be worried that she has her own recording. If he edits his version, and she has her own, he will be so far in the shit, he will look back on his fight with the Frogs as the best of times.
Our Jacinta had her first experience with the duplicity of the left wing media when the abc scum defamed her and then settled for a huge amount. I hope she did learn her lesson and taped this bastard.
Fair Shakesays:
August 10, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Define ‘hug’
As Meatloaf so eloquently said:
‘ I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that !’
Ask the Dogs!
San Francisco resident David Watson contracted #monkeypox through the casual contact of hugging a friend. He went to the ER three times with extreme pain that “opioids could barely touch.” It took 12 days to get #Tpoxx. His husband AND two dogs were also infected.
JC will be big in Japan.
He’s about four foot high, but these things are relative.
Ultimately, what China could get from Australia through invasion could be obtained more easily via an extended period of bribery and coercion.
I thought that is what they have been doing for the last 10 years, at least.
Or, on the other hand, it is possible you just married a couple of dud roots.
The Anglosphere has never been more important.
The defense of the West.
Also, that magistrate was appointed when Trump was President and Rick Scott was Governor. Plus Scott appointed his wife for something too. He’s hardly a partisan hack.
Of course you lot would try to Alinsky him up, it’s not as if you can defend Trump on the merits.
They look well positioned to me. No shortage of customers for their oil and gas and they’ve shrugged off the most severe economic sanctions the West can impose. Winter is indeed coming, and the Russians have plenty of food and energy while Europe is ridiculously dependent on Russian energy supplies if it’s going to avoid freezing over Christmas.
The fact is that the West started a war of economic attrition with Russia when the West was already deep in deficit and Russia was swimming in surplus. This was epically ill-advised and what has transpired is not surprising and was entirely predictable.
We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI
BY: DAVID HARSANYI
If Republicans were doing any of this, Democrats would be calling it authoritarian. And they’d be right.
I am? Says the guy who’s 4 foot wide. You’d be bigger in Japan.
It’s getting on dusk. In the basement, shoo.
My goodness, you’re so bad at this. Just the worst.
How people laughed and laughed that they were only finally able to convict Al Capone on charges of Income Tax Evasion.
How preposterous! A monster responsible for countless murders and other heinous crimes. A bootlegger, the head of prostitution rings, trafficker in narcotics…and they got him on the unrelated crime of tax evasion. But desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose.
But the Democrats learned that you can prosecute a person for one crime you when can’t get them for another.
They learned that they can prosecute a person for the crime of being innocent.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
August 10, 2022 at 4:52 pm
If we don’t have a system-wide, open, transparent and meaningful examination of the problem now — when the scope and scale of the problem have become obvious to everyone — when will we?
When President Trump is once again President of the United States of America.
Bring it on.
+1000.
Oh God!
I have stumbled into the middle of a Mills and Burns bodice-ripper.
Fucking christ you are stupid or mendacious, or both.
How these magistrates are appointed has been explained to you, you dishonest imbecile.
I think the market will tell us when Ukraine & Russia are serious about a negotiated shit sandwich.
The gas arb between North America & Europe is now at such obscene levels, it’s saying no shit sandwich for everyone.
When that closes it would signal one is closer.
Until then, the suffering of 40mill Ukrainians is pure content creation.
The fat little turd has a shot at head prefect. Hey head prefect take the little bitch out to lunch again; and put some laxative in his soy milkshake. I reckon a good shit will do him a world of good.
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.
Trump should tap into the left:
1. Legalise weed Federally.
2. Abolish the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI & ATF.
3. Repeal the new IRS powers under the grotesquely named Inflation Reduction Act.
4. Review and correct over criminalisation.
You will get supporters like Jimmy Dore and Bernie bros. Historically, Democrat elders like Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
If Trump takes 5-10% of remaining Democrats, they cannot cheat their way to victory again. They simply won’t have the votes.
Monty,
The magistrate (whose name you only discovered for the for at time today) was confirmed by the President and then the Senate. He was not appointed by Trump.
Primary source (Florida Magistrates Court) states:
“Magistrate Judges are selected by the district judges upon recommendation by a Merit Selection Panel. “
So your either a liar, dumb or more likely, both.
Was Judge Who Signed-Off on Sketchy FBI Search Warrant Raid of Trump Home, a Client Name in Ghislane Maxwells Little Black Book?
Old Ozzie:
Errors in recruiting people who are obviously a danger to the rest of the team have a way of sorting themselves out the first time under fire or the first night at sea.
And its a bloody tragedy it has to happen because they are victims of their own stupidity and the crassness of the people who have used them.
For shame, Sancho. That is a very long way from the truth. I would not marry such a one, let alone two of them.
And why limit my experience to only two? I have spent many years of my life since menarche in an unmarried state or in an inter-regnum period. At least three live-in lovers in those times, and others too. Not an easy conquest, but I have been conquered sufficiently to speak from experience enough.
I have never claimed to be a nun when unmarried, only always a faithful wife.
Just pathetic, m0nts. You’re still pining for Muellerween after all these years. Can you ever let go?
No sunflower planted until at least next January. Soft commodities are in a tear no matter the energy story.
Yea well, it was supposed to be a month’s worth of war and look where they are now.
Their access imports is very difficult. Look, they’re likely selling oil at a marked discount and paying a large premium for their imports. And 20% of the economy is devoted to the war. Living standards are being killed.
I was talking more about the military dealing with the winter.
What war did the West start eggsactly?
No room for compromise over Taiwan: China envoy
China’s top diplomat in Australia has declared “there’s absolutely no room for us to compromise” over Taiwan and warned the Albanese government more work needs to be done to repair ties between Canberra and Beijing, offering no indication when bans on Australian exports could be ended or detained Australian citizens freed.
In a wide-ranging address to the National Press Club of Australia, ambassador Xiao Qian did not dispel the possibility of re-education for 24 million Taiwanese people if the self-governed island was reunited with the mainland and described China’s live fire drills as “legitimate”.
He also defended a Chinese fighter jet releasing chaff that was ingested by the engine of an Australian reconnaissance flight in a dangerous challenge over the South China Sea, and lashed out at Australian media for poisoning views of China.
But Mr Xiao offered a goodwill gesture towards repairing bilateral ties, saying he hoped Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping would have a face-to-face meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Indonesia in November. He also said China would not open a military base in the Solomon Islands, a major strategic worry for Australia.
“The development of China-Australia relations is at a critical juncture,” Mr Xiao said.
“We have had a good start ever since the new Labor government came into power. But this is a good start only. There’s a lot to be done to reset this relationship. There are a lot of issues on the table.”
– China reaction to Pelosi’s provocations
– ‘Taiwan is not an independent state’
– Re-education post-reunification
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.
Are Pubs that profitable?
Former Wallaby Bill Young nabs Bar Broadway in Chippendale for $37m
Former Wallaby-turned-pub baron Bill Young has added a sixth Sydney pub to his family’s hospitality empire after nabbing the Bar Broadway hotel in Chippendale on the city fringe for $37 million.
The popular multi-storey hotel, built in the 1940s and formerly known as Sutherlands Hotel, is right on the door step of the emerging $2.5 billion Tech Central precinct that will include a new Atlassian office tower next door to Central Station. Just behind it is the huge Central Park apartment, retail and hotel complex.
The deal comes amid a record flow of transactions in the booming pub sector, where more than $2 billion of venues have changed hands over the past 12 months, including the record sale of the Crossroads Hotel in Casula for $160 million and the $80 million acquisition of the Strathfield Hotel by Rich Lister Sam Arnaout.
While the purchase price fell well short of the ambitious $45 million quoted when the Bar Broadway came to market in June, it is understood the property still sold on a sub five per cent yield, highlighting the strength of demand in the market.
Alongside the Bar Broadway, Young Hotels owns the Illinois Hotel in Five Dock, the Five Dock Hotel, the Royal Hotel Top Ryde, the Concord Hotel in Concord West and the Mortlake Hotel. The Young family also owns the Wisemans Ferry Inn on the Hawkesbury.
The Bar Broadway sold with a 24-hour hotel licence, 28 pokies, a bar and two levels with 36 accommodation beds. There is the opportunity to develop two additional upper floors of accommodation.
The universities have endowments that get special tax exemptions too don’t they? Ripe for the plucking if it is the case.
Another constitutional lawyer says Presidential Records Act does not overrule Constitutional eligibility requirements for Presidency and, if anyone think so, they’ll need to take it to SCOTUS (and if SCOTUS even wanted it heard).
Reasoning and analogy is You couldn’t be President if you sped or got done for drunk driving. Founding Fathers deliberately designed it this way (so the wording in a subordinate Act of Congress about “not holding office” would need to be tested.).
That’s why I still say this is bigger than archives. They’re fishing for Jan 6 dirt and any other “diamonds” they might find from their “indiscriminate search.”
The US can defend Taiwan, but would lose half its air force
As China waged extensive military exercises off the coast of Taiwan last week, a group of American defence experts focused on their own simulation of an eventual – but for now entirely hypothetical – US-China war over the island.
The unofficial what-if game is being conducted on the fifth floor of an office building not far from the White House, and it posits a US military response to a Chinese invasion in 2026. Even though the participants bring an American perspective, they are finding that a US-Taiwan victory, if there is one, could come at a huge cost.
“The results are showing that under most, though not all, scenarios, Taiwan can repel an invasion,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, where the war games are being held. “However, the cost will be very high to the Taiwanese infrastructure and economy and to US forces in the Pacific.”
In sessions that will run through September, retired US generals and Navy officers and former Pentagon officials hunch like chess players over tabletops along with analysts from the CSIS think tank. They move forces depicted as blue and red boxes and small wooden squares over maps of the Western Pacific and Taiwan. The results will be released to the public in December.
The not-necessarily-so assumption used in most of the scenarios: China invades Taiwan to force unification with the self-governed island, and the US decides to intervene heavily with its military. Also assumed but far from certain: Japan grants expanded rights to use US bases located on its territory, while stopping short of intervening directly unless Japanese land is attacked. Nuclear weapons aren’t used in the scenarios, and the weapons available are based on capabilities the nations have demonstrated or have concrete plans to deploy by 2026.
China’s test-firing of missiles in recent days in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan underscored a Chinese capability that’s already assumed in the gameplay.
Hundreds of aircraft destroyed on the ground
In 18 of the 22 rounds of the game played to this point, Chinese missiles sink a large part of the US and Japanese surface fleet and destroy “hundreds of aircraft on the ground,” according to Cancian, a former White House defence budget analyst and retired US Marine. “However, allied air and naval counterattacks hammer the exposed Chinese amphibious and surface fleet, eventually sinking about 150 ships.”
“The reason for the high US losses is that the United States cannot conduct a systematic campaign to take down Chinese defences before moving in close,” he said. “The United States must send forces to attack the Chinese fleet, especially the amphibious ships, before establishing air or maritime superiority,” he said. “To get a sense of the scale of the losses, in our last game iteration, the United States lost over 900 fighter/attack aircraft in a four-week conflict. That’s about half the navy and air force inventory.”
The Chinese missile force “is devastating while the inventory lasts”, so US submarines and bombers with long-range missiles “are particularly important,” he said. “For the Taiwanese, anti-ship missiles are important, surface ships and aircraft less so.” Surface ships “have a hard time surviving as long as the Chinese have long-range missiles available,” Cancian said.
The game players haven’t made any estimates so far on the number of lives that would be lost or the sweeping economic impact of such a conflict between the US and China, the world’s two largest economies.
Taiwan’s defence capabilities are an especially important part of the calculations because its forces would be responsible for blunting and containing Chinese landings from the south – a scenario played out in the simulation.
Chinese beachhead possible
No, Sancho. You have been trying, unsuccessfully, to create one.
Women who come here are not milk-sops.
You know how m0nty always enters with the swagger of one expecting to take scalps, and exits with the stagger of one recently and repeatedly sodomised by an unripe pineapple?
You’d think he’d get tired of this shabby treatment, but no. He must enjoy it or something.
Of course they were, and still are. They won’t stop digging until made to do so.
Treasury Wines in China court win over Penfolds copycat
Treasury Wine Estates has secured an important win in China’s legal system to bolster the protection of its Penfolds brand, with the Supreme People’s Court of China ruling in favour of Treasury Wines in a long battle against Penfolds copycat operator Rush Rich.
Treasury Wines said it had received a favourable judgment that Rush Rich’s registration of the Chinese character mark for Penfolds Winery, ????, is invalid.
The Chinese court’s decision was made on the grounds of bad faith and Rush Rich’s illicit conduct in registering a large number of trademarks for a range of global luxury brands, including Penfolds and luxury carmaker Bentley.
Treasury Wines has been battling against Rush Rich, a South Australian-based company which also had entities in China, for six years through the courts in China and Australia.
The court victory comes at an important time for Treasury Wines, which is preparing to launch a Chinese-made version of Penfolds in China in the next couple of months.
Chief executive Tim Ford announced on May 18 that the first “made in China” Penfolds would hit the Chinese domestic market later this year. It will sell for between $30 and $50 a bottle and have cabernet grapes as the main component.
The group has been conducting extensive trials for Chinese wine production using grapes from winemaking regions Ningxia, in China’s central-north, and Shangri-La, in the south-western Yunnan province.
‘Zero tolerance’ for infringements
Penfolds managing director Tom King, who is based in Shanghai, on Wednesday thanked the Chinese authorities for their support in protecting the rights of the owners of luxury brands.
“Penfolds has a long and proud heritage in China that’s been protected and
nurtured since the first bottle of wine was exported from South Australia to Shanghai in 1893,” Mr King said.
Oh come on says:
August 10, 2022 at 5:22 pm
You know how m0nty always enters with the swagger of one expecting to take scalps, and exits with the stagger of one recently and repeatedly sodomised by an unripe pineapple?
You’d think he’d get tired of this shabby treatment, but no. He must enjoy it or something.
OCO
Typical Leftard tactic: Repeat the lie enough (on the judge, he’s done it three times today despite his skull now damaged from rakes.
He’s gone quiet so I expect he’s taking his lines from ABC and Hunter.
Yup, Monty – huge crack and on crack.
JCsays:
August 10, 2022 at 4:52 pm
Sancho Panzer says:
August 10, 2022 at 4:41 pm
JC at 3:43.
So you won’t be standing (or falling if necessary) if the inscrutable dry-cleaners invade?
There won’t be an invasion of the D-Day sort. We’ll be slowly choked into compliance if the US skips off.
And standing with what exactly – a gun in Australia? Don’t make me laugh.
There is the opportunity to develop two additional upper floors of accommodation.
Old Ozzie, the city of Sydney will allow a lot more development than that.
Taking that into account, it doesn’t seem too pricey.
This is what North Sydney Council won’t let the Oaks do which is current two stories but they’ve been trying get approval to go to four for the last couple of years but with zero luck.
My understanding is that all Presidents have reserved archival material. It is their legal right.
It is also up to Presidents to determine the public status or otherwise of records.
They are not even allowing Trump the sorts of Presidential actions given freely to other Presidents and that are part and parcel of the President’s role.
Oops Correct Link – You’d think he’d get tired of this shabby treatment, but no. He must enjoy it or something
I never had any problems dealing with D.V.A. – an M.R.I., a consultation with my doctor, an interview with a professional advocate from the R.S.L., all approved in the three months I was advised it would take…
Why Musk sold $10b worth of Tesla shares
San Francisco | Elon Musk sold $US6.9 billion ($10 billion) worth of shares in Tesla, the billionaire’s biggest sale on record, saying he needed the cash in case he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy Twitter.
“In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,” Mr Musk tweeted late on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), after the sales were disclosed in a series of regulatory filings.
Mr Musk sold $US8.5 billion worth of Tesla shares in April and had said at the time there were no further sales planned. But since then, legal experts had suggested that if Mr Musk is forced to complete the acquisition or settle the dispute with a stiff penalty, he was likely to sell more Tesla shares.
Mr Musk sold about 7.92 million shares between August 5 and August 9, according to multiple filings. He now owns 155.04 million Tesla shares or just under 15 per cent of the car maker, according to Reuters calculations.
The latest sales bring total Tesla stock sales by Mr Musk to about $US32 billion in less than one year.
In May, Mr Musk dropped plans to partially fund the purchase with a margin loan tied to his Tesla stake and increased the size of the equity component of the deal to $US33.5 billion.
This Bollywood thing seems like a rip roaring good time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9K3nj_v8xU
Monty seems to believe that Trump, as President, has the same power as Comrade Stalin (Proletarian Blood Upon Him). That he personally approved, and nothing was approved without him, everything that happened in the US during his tenure.
Here we have the DOJ and the FBI, supposedly, going after Trump for classified documents he supposedly still had improperly in his possession. No word or indication – or concurrent investigation into – anything being done with these documents. Nothing about him selling information to anyone, but that is the Democrat specialty: Like Maxwell, who they prosecuted and convicted of sex trafficking without ever showing her having done it. In both cases it is someone they want to shut up. Trump for being a threat, and Maxwell for…well…being a threat.
Justice as the Democrats perceive it is not about law, but about their security. So they go after Maxwell on the unrelated crime of trafficking in kids to protect themselves from the real sin of threatening Democrats and their toadies, and they go after Trump for the sin of being a threat to them and their toadies, and the formality of a crime to ‘legitimise’ it is merely a matter of manufacture.
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.
I think Monty is a shit-stirrer. I don’t think he is otherwise intelligent and insightful playing a nasty game, but he likes watching the reaction to his reproduced goading. Thing is, dim bulb that he is, I would not be surprised to see him eventually take on the nature of the element in which he immerses himself, and becoming as stupid as a page of the NYT made human.
NBN goes back to the drawing board
NBN Co’s financial results and commercial expectations have collided with a Labor government that insists it must radically revise its pricing models and work in co-operation with telcos. How likely is that?
Jennifer Hewett
NBN’s website still promotes its original 2009 mandate to ensure “all Australians have access to fast broadband as soon as possible, at affordable prices, and at least cost”.
But its history is scarred by dramatic shifts and contradictions in government policy that have made it a magnet for constant criticism of its pricing, speeds and structure ever since Kevin Rudd came up with his grand plan to supposedly outfox Telstra and “future proof” Australia.
Naturally, no succeeding prime minister has been able to fully deliver on that promise. Even as technology transformed what was possible in terms of speed, average Australian broadband lagged way behind, often further limited by network congestion at busy times.
At least this Labor government has finally acknowledged the commercial fantasy that required NBN Co to get a financial return on the government’s massive investment while miraculously providing fast speeds and affordable prices for all consumers.
The elaborate bookkeeping pretence was designed to conveniently prevent the massive government support for the national broadband network damaging the budget bottom line. This included $29.5 billion in equity plus a further $19.5 billion loan – which NBN Co has so far paid down to a $6.4 billion balance.
A notional return on taxpayer investment remains the official line but any prospect of the recovery of the tens of billions of dollars in sunk costs is now postponed indefinitely. Presumably, that sounds more politically palatable than a new government immediately writing this amount off or down.
But Communications Minister Michelle Rowland not only announced last month that NBN Co would remain in public ownership for the foreseeable future. She also told its management to withdraw new pricing proposals that would have translated into big jumps in charges to retailers – and therefore to consumers.
NBN’s proposed pricing, she stated pointedly, was “underpinned by unrealistic revenue expectations and reflected a view to privatisation”.
– Quality and service
– Consumer frustrations
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had also already rejected a new pricing structure which had infuriated retailers and included wholesale price rises of CPI plus 3 per cent for high-speed plans.
Rising inflation only made this prospect more inflammatory. Even though NBN Co’s average revenue per residential user remained unchanged at $46 over the last six months, it had wanted to increase this to $49 by next financial year.
This corresponds with NBN Co’s argument that connection to 8.5 million homes and businesses meant it should be entitled to join other regulated assets and base future prices on a weighted average cost of capital of 6.5 per cent.
The full weight of a new government’s revised expectations temporarily unblocks the impasse with the regulator.
The ACCC, for example, has traditionally been concerned about the cost of entry-level prices for people on lower speeds – even though changing technology with superfast speeds has made this issue far less significant.
Pass the Coke please.
Yes indeed. Straight out of the Beria playbook:
“Name me the man and I’ll give you the crime”.
Mmmyes. Looking forward to that Great Wall Grange.
You’re spot on ML.
When you see fat boy:
JUST KEEP SCROLLING!
Because we all know, he’s “gonna be so sick of winning.”
feelthebern says:
August 10, 2022 at 5:33 pm
This Bollywood thing seems like a rip roaring good time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9K3nj_v8xU
Brilliant love Bollywood Movies
https://www.comparetv.com.au/streaming-tv/rrr-2022-movie-live-stream-australia/
eg – Bride and Prejudice
OCO
If the Chinese population is willing to make the required sacrifices that would come with this kind of operation is also a big unknown, as is the Taiwanese population’s willingness to resist.
This is the big unknown.
After around 40 years of the “One child policy”, there are families with only one child, and only one grandchild. Chinese culture seems still to be largely family centered. Lose that one child or grandchild in a losing war, and the economic problems will fade into the background.
It will be a single throw of the dice for Xi, double six or snakes eyes? Reign forever or a bullet in the back of the head?
Another government rescue. Thank you, taxpayers. NBN was always a boondoggle.
Next. Huge Australian Gvernment subsidies for the poorer people who are getting their electricity cut off for non-payment of bills. Give it another six months for the disaster to get up to speed. Just as Boris did in Britain before he was ousted. Just keep paying out redistributive funds in order to save the planet.
Vicki/Feelthebern:
I’ve never understood why the media never made an issue of this fact.
They’ve all been very coy about Taiwan never having been a Province of Communist China.
I’m pleased to see the fault lines appearing in the West, and the ones who have cheering on the bad guys all along are starting to show their true colours.
Lol! 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)…
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?
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.
Dot
Fucking christ you are stupid or mendacious, or both.
This is m0nty-fa being discussed. Embrace the power of “and”.
test
John H
I 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).
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.
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.
That’s a joke, right?
Lysander:
Then that pretty much says the FBI is trying to find out what President Trump has on them.
Ethical Skeptic
@EthicalSkeptic
ACAN – asymmetry
If 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’.
He relies on The Chaser for all his research needs.
Is Musk allowed to buy Twitter shares on the stock exchange atm?
There are arcane rules though governing all this, Rosie. I’m not sure that he would be able to when he has a bid higher up.
9News Perth
@9NewsPerth
We have a Covid bombshell tonight with figures revealing the true number of deaths is much lower than feared.
Just 10 per cent of WA lives claimed have been from the virus alone.
@lourennie9
#9News
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
JC – I didn’t think it was a joke???
Vicki:
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.
Good lord, Dot, the only response to that is more ice-cream. Certainly not jelly or blancmange.
Don’t give up your day job. 🙂
It makes sense because Aborigines have native title over NCR, Lenovo and JavaScript?
???
Lizzie
It’s from The Naked Gun 2.5.
Dot.
It was all going beautifully until you went with “purple helmet” and “love pudding”.
Love pudding?
Really?
Dot, Sancho and KD, you guys need to get a writer’s room and work on it.
If you’re aiming for sales you are not there yet. lol
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.
Really, okay.
Good to see some ‘inside the tent’ critique arising there, Sancho.
I was going to offer a similar review – ‘a smooth enough take off, but a total crash landing’.
I wonder if Coles realizes that customers chuck the receipts into a garbage bin immediately?
Might not be quite the signaling they want.
Pete O’ Perf:
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.
Oh God and he’s off frightening himself to death again.
They’re also advocating for constitutional recognition in their stores.
This is why I no longer shop there.
That and the cranky old lesbians with rainbow signs on their name badges.
Boambee John:
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
Not looking real flash…
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. 🙂
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.
Daily Mail cites Coles as being the largest private sector employer of Aboriginals in Australia. Could’ve something to do with it?
Good gracious. It’s not just the output of your own fevered brow?
It has a life of its own. Who knew?
Remind me to avoid The Naked Gun 2.5, whatever that is.
“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.
Thanks to all about MEL. Be interestng to see how zealous Jetstar is, Queensland Airports no longer require masks. Tomorrow night this I’ll be in a Townsville Airport lounge waiting. Shudder…
Rickw, necessity. Family problems.
Facebook has slapped Women’s Forum Australia with censorship restrictions for 30 days. Why? Because apparently saying men can’t get pregnant is hate speech.
Monty probably thinks Trump also had Weiner’s laptop.
T-shirt I saw today was great. It simply said, in large letters, MOTHER.
Worn by one of course.
Would work just as well with the word WOMAN. I might franchise that.
They’re also advocating for constitutional recognition in their stores.
Corporate marxism
They’ve already given the race of the suspected offenders..
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.
Not in my neck of the backwoods.
Oh yeah…what crime is that?
The Soviets made ‘wrecking’ a crime.
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. Gotta get those KPI bonuses!
Under WOMAN one would have to write Adult Human Female.
Otherwise it could be worn by a wannabe.
Winston
Just caught up with your response, thanks.
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.
MatrixTransformsays:
August 10, 2022 at 6:51 pm
Trump is going to be charged with a real crime.
Oh yeah…what crime is that?
Well done steak with Ketchup?
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.
You mean like this?
Ultimately, what China could get from Australia through invasion could be obtained more easily via an extended period of bribery and coercion. That seems the bigger threat we need to prepare for.
Um, we are a little late. That horse bolted and disappeared over the horizon a while back.
Said owner subsequently had his house burned down, and his family re – located Inter – State.
The job of the Police is to protect criminals from the wrath of the citizens.
Yes Roger
Simply aim your local communists at the big retailers.
Eat the rich, etc.
Their ideas about how to live through Marxism are truly the ideas of defeated people.
Sounds like the Sydney Uni young liberals, all welcome under the blouse!
I suppose a t-shirt bearing the term ‘mother’ is also hate speech?
Pronouns are so yesterday.
Nolte: Woke ‘They/Them’ So Awful Even Left-wing Reviewers Hate It (9 Aug)
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)
Perhaps a better set of pronouns would be dumb/dumber.
Bruh.
Anyone born before 1985 has seen at least the first two.
Never met any SU Young Libs, Sancho, so I cannot say. Beyond my expertise. 🙂
I bet Vox has some lame brained BS article like “The Trump Raids, Explained”.
Disgusting, feces tainted viral stupidity.
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
Fat, used up, no eggs.
You mean Roland Freisler.
Looks like East Germany took over West Germany not vv.
Leslie Nielsen is a god.
But enough about mUnter.
The Coles ladies around here have those brindle femme mullets.
I’m loving Rick Stein’s Cornwall. Rick Stein: how do you cook beef that people love? Chef du jour (I didn’t catch his name): “Read history books.”
Cuisine Nouveau is rubbish. Seek out those in history who really knew how to cook food and you will find those who actually love food!
I think anyone cannot be scruted must be resisted!
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.
Saving a church?
What’s all that about?
The Anglosphere has never been more important.
The defense of the West.
The biggest problem with the Anglosphere is the huge dump the Anglosphere politicians took in the middle of the living room over the last two years.
All of it?
🙁
All I know is I like authentic Frog and Italian food.
‘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.”‘
Err, I think that was Dot, not Panzer.
Speaking of life in the backwoods, I just popped outside to the woodshed to get a couple of decent sized bits of firewood for the cold night ahead and heard an owl hooting.
All is well…at least in this corner of God’s creation.
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.
Rick – this is why we need subsidiarity.
Infowars has possibly the best exchange I’ve seen in a long time with Alex Jones and Steve Bannon for over an hour.
We are winning!
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.
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.
Eight percent of the population is indigenous, yet they make up 3/4 of the population of the local lock up.
How the hell would they even know, that’s what I’m getting at.
Besides, I doubt you would be stealing state secrets in written form. Again, the whole story is just absolutely bizarre.
“Fucking bolt”
Give Blot the boot.
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.
Unfortunately Bolt has outed himself as a twerp and a twat. The Trump test has smoked a lot of these out.
Which deadshit political parasite was that Rabz?
He had that silly black democrat woman (BIRM) on this evening whining about Fatty Trump “being so divisive” – as if the utterly illegitimate geriatric joe of the hairy legs isn’t.
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.
Milts – the PRC’s ambassador to this country – Vicki first noted upthread his bellicose language.
I hope that Trump has reliable security people to check his house for any surveillance devices that might have accidentally been left behind.
Thanks Rabz