Open Thread – Weekend 3 Sept 2022


Lunar Night at the Sea, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1875

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hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 3, 2022 6:31 pm

Have to say the Geelong/Collingwood game is a ripper !

Makka
Makka
September 3, 2022 6:42 pm

Equity= code for Marxism.

Biden’s Covid Czar Dr. Ashish Jha on Friday said he doesn’t want life in the US to go back to normal.

Dr. Jha wants to build a ‘new normal’ that has “equity” at the heart of it.

The Biden Regime just says the quiet part out loud now.

“I’ve heard Secretary Cardona say this over and over again. You know, people do talk about going back to normal… and I’ve heard the secretary say, ‘well, you know, normal wasn’t working out so well every-for some people,” Jha said.

Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 6:46 pm

Duk, the links you posted at 9:58 don’t work – for me at least

It does work if you press esc after it loads. The form disappears and you can read the article.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 3, 2022 6:47 pm

In Seymour again today at footy. GVFL finals. Great day and lol glad someone else was driving, bloody cold southerly spoiling things though.

Euroa Nat Candidate schmoozing the crowd. Another young woman who probably has zero substance…

Observations before footy, over half of the business seems Government or Govt backed. Similar to what I have seen elsewhere in Vic. When this place crashes going to be ugly and well worse than Kirner…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 6:50 pm

Melbourne woman whose granddad was one of 801 killed by Andrews hotel quarantine launches her own ad campaign

Michael Smith News. Guts effort.

Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 6:51 pm
Makka
Makka
September 3, 2022 6:54 pm

Melbourne woman whose granddad was one of 801 killed by Andrews hotel quarantine launches her own ad campaign

Total ineptitude, corruption and incompetence from Andrews and gaggle of Union scumbags. Biggest civilian loss of life in our history and not even a RC.

Well done Scummo you horrible POS.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 3, 2022 6:56 pm

Great comment Makka

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Love how Andrews Inc drop the report on a Saturday during Finals. This won’t get any coverage come Monday.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Poland demands war compo from Germany
Staff WritersReuters
Thu, 1 September 2022 8:11PM

Poland estimates its World War II losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($A1.92 trillion), the leader of the country’s ruling nationalists says, and he said Warsaw would officially demand reparations.

The new estimate tops the $US850 billion estimate by a ruling party lawmaker from 2019.

The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) has repeated calls for compensation several times since it took power in 2015, but Poland hasn’t officially demanded reparations.

“The sum that was presented was adopted using the most limited, conservative method, it would be possible to increase it,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Law and Justice (PiS), told a news conference.

The combative stance towards Germany, often used by PiS to mobilize its constituency, has strained relations with Berlin. It intensified after Russia invaded Ukraine amid criticism of Berlin’s dependence on Russian gas and its slowness in helping Kyiv.

Some six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews, were killed during the war and Warsaw was razed to the ground following a 1944 uprising in which about 200,000 civilians died. (Reporting by Alan Charlish, Marek Strzelecki, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Alex Richardson, William Maclean)

Digger
Digger
September 3, 2022 6:58 pm

“Pleasing to see you lot lose your minds over Biden’s entirely factual speech. Don’t like it up em, sah!”

You truly are a dickhead…

miltonf
miltonf
September 3, 2022 6:59 pm

From American Thinker

America: In the Midst of a Communist Color Revolution
By Shari Goodman
Many thought it was odd that during the entire time leading up to the last election, Joe Biden rarely campaigned and refused to come out of his “basement,” while President Trump held huge rallies with more than 50,000 in attendance.

Whenever Biden did step out of his basement, the numbers in attendance could be summed up as a few dozen here and there.

Anyone with eyesight could see that Trump was on his way to victory which made Biden’s invisibility was incomprehensible.

With hindsight, Biden, and the cabal behind him, had no need to campaign because his selection was smugly secured. As Biden, in a rare moment of truth, once stated, “We have assembled the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of the United States”. He and his cabal (George Soros called it a “temporary glitch”) were not going to permit a replay of 2016 once again. They were simply going to take the presidency by any means necessary.

With more than enough evidence to support the charge the 2020 presidential election was stolen by the Democrats through a myriad of mechanisms, representative government is no longer a guaranteed option. Using hackable voting machines, Zuckerbucks, mail-in ballots, zero voter IDs, and ballot harvesting as the means for voting, Americans no longer trust the integrity of elections.

On his first day in office, Biden began to issue his exhaustive list of executive orders to undo the policies President Trump enacted in his mission to transplant our constitutional republic into a socialist/communist state. He and his cabal wasted no time marketing the new language of “wokeism” to an unsuspecting, gullible public.

Following the playbook of past communist revolutions, erasing our history began immediately (and even in the summer before) with the destruction of historical statues and monuments by Antifa and BLM mobs, the unofficial paramilitary arm of the DNC.

Our new administration said and did nothing as statues were torn down, blocks of cities burned, stores looted while police and civilians were murdered. Along this backdrop and a first in our history, a barbed wire fence was erected around the Capitol with 20,000 National Guardsmen standing guard to protect the Thief-in-Chief and his accomplices. The hundreds, if not thousands, who engaged in actual physical violence were not arrested; nor charged for the nationwide chaos and destruction they caused. The irony of it did not go unnoticed when hundreds of January 6 protesters were arrested, charged, and placed in jail indefinitely for the crime of trespassing at the Capitol in what increasingly appears to have been an inside job by Capitol Police, some members of Congress, and Antifa thugs masquerading as Trump supporters.

The FBI and the DOJ are holding 14,000 hours of video tape which they refuse to release for fear it may incriminate them; however, there are several viewable public videos which vindicate and exonerate the Trump supporters. The videos show Trump supporters openly being led into the Capitol building by Capitol police. If it was, as the mainstream pundits like to point out an “armed insurrection,” then why would the Capitol Police usher in “armed protesters” into the Capitol building? Clearly, they were unarmed, and the entire narrative was a set-up!

As the Biden administration began to operate, Cultural Marxism was inconspicuously introduced using palatable language such as “equity,” “intersectionality,” “love is love,” “white privilege,” Critical Race Theory, gender fluidity, and social emotional learning. We encounter it in our schools, universities, our press and media, television programs, our news, movies, corporations, and in all professional walks of life. Politically incorrect views are not tolerated in the classroom or in the boardroom.

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Censorship is alive on the information highways by Big Tech at the urging and illegal demands of the FBI and the Biden administration. With the advancement of communism, equity is now the principal criteria upon entrance into medical school, law school and in the hiring practices of airline pilots. Where once the goal was a colorblind society, today there is open discrimination against Whites in the pursuit of equity. In the field of science and medicine where data was once held up to scrutiny, those who question or criticize scientific findings are marginalized, ostracized, and often fired from their positions.

Parents, frustrated with school curriculums that divide today’s students by race and gender, have made their voices heard at school board meetings throughout the land. In return, the DOJ’s Merrick Garland, has labeled parents who seek a voice in their children’s curriculum “domestic terrorists”. The agenda to sexualize our children and to designate them as non-binary continues as children are asked not to tell their parents of what goes on in the classroom. When drag queens are invited into classrooms for story time and when children are taught there are more than two sexes, it is a sign we have lost our grip on public education and the moral compass of future generations is now in doubt.

Civility and respect for our institutions have declined dramatically as obscenities in language and dress have become the norm. Norms and mores are non-existent. Once respected and held in esteem, judges and teachers are now threatened by roaming bands of virtuous leftist demonstrators at their place of work and in their homes while the DOJ and the FBI silently stand by. To make matters worse, elected officials such as Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Maxine Waters, and Vice President Kamala Harris openly defy their oath of office when they encourage violence and threats against their opposition. To date, they have paid no price for their shameful endorsements of lawlessness. While on the other hand, President Trump, his advisors, attorneys, and supporters have been subjected to numerous investigations. Some, such as Trump advisor Peter Navarro have been arrested, shackled, their phones confiscated, and jailed.

The raid on President Trump’s home on August 4 by more than 30 armed FBI agents over something not clearly defined has set a new precedent. Never in the history of our country did a president raid the home of his predecessor and potential rival in the next presidential election. The search warrant was issued by a former defense attorney for Jeffrey Epstein’s employees-turned-federal magistrate, and whose prior Facebook comments clearly showed a bias against President Trump. His warrant and the heavily redacted affidavit used to justify the warrant are highly suspect, especially considering President Trump’s cooperation with the National Archives. Initially, Biden denied he knew of the raid ahead of its execution, but it has now come to light that Biden was the one who authorized the raid on his political opponent. Americans are rightfully asking whether the FBI is now Biden’s personal Gestapo?

As I write this, Biden in a speech in Maryland to supporters declared “You MAGA right wingers will need a lot more than guns to fight this government, you will need F-15s.”

What a shameful ominous display of goading and threats from a man who considers half of this country his enemy.

Is Biden now threatening to use the military against his own population? Does the FBI, whose role it is to protect us from the enemy, now consider fellow Americans the enemy? Words have power, and as Biden and his administration continue to refer to Trump supporters as “white nationalists” and “semi-fascists,” it is eerily reminiscent of Hitler’s and Goebel’s tactical use of language to dehumanize Jews. The dehumanization of Jews was used as a justification for their elimination.

It should be noted that in 1943, the following directive was issued from party headquarters to all communists in the United States. It read:

When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them – after suitable build-ups – as Fascist, Nazi, or Anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of anti-fascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them.

In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become fact in the public mind.

Biden and his cabal are replaying the communist playbook here in America to advance a communist mission.

Considering the seven years of persecution against the former president and his associates, it is reasonable to ask if millions of Trump supporters will be next?

Mark Zuckerberg has openly admitted on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the FBI specifically asked Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story lest it influence the 2020 election. That explained a lot.

According to one poll, some 47% of voters including 71% of Democrats polled have stated that they would have changed their vote had they known the laptop story was not disinformation.

In essence, the FBI interfered with the outcome of a presidential election and in the process democracy was erased. Justice demands a redress. By asking for a redress, considering all the evidence of election interference, do we risk arrest for challenging the election? Will we be hounded by the newly hired 87,000 armed IRS agents?

President John F. Kennedy in a speech to the American Press Association in April of 1961 warned: “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, economic, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”

Today, Kennedy’s prophetic words have come to life as every agency and institution we once relied upon to protect us can no longer be trusted.

When a former president is treated as the enemy, his supporters designated as “white nationalists,” parents are declared “domestic terrorists,” and censorship is employed throughout the country, we may no longer be living in a constitutional republic.

miltonf
miltonf
September 3, 2022 7:01 pm

Sorry for the word wall but it’s an excellent article. I really hope America can recover from this but I’m not depending on it.

miltonf
miltonf
September 3, 2022 7:02 pm

A country in the grip of the mot dirty, evil and ancient degenerates imaginable.

miltonf
miltonf
September 3, 2022 7:03 pm

Biden is dirty in every sense of the word.

miltonf
miltonf
September 3, 2022 7:05 pm

“You MAGA right wingers will need a lot more than guns to fight this government, you will need F-15s.”

wow

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 7:05 pm

Love how Andrews Inc drop the report on a Saturday during Finals. This won’t get any coverage come Monday.

Karl Marx once described “Religion as the opiate of the masses.” Do you think his Australian disciples don’t regard sport as the opiate of the Australian masses?

Rabz
September 3, 2022 7:07 pm

Ahem! ?

Winston Smith
September 3, 2022 7:11 pm

Imagine a Cruise ship seafood banquet, only a million times worse.

Megan
Megan
September 3, 2022 7:16 pm

Cats! Rejoice!

Megan
Megan
September 3, 2022 7:19 pm

You truly are a dickhead…

You’ll get no argument from anyone else here. Accurate.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 3, 2022 7:21 pm

Megan says:
September 3, 2022 at 7:16 pm
Cats! Rejoice!

I didn’t expect the Pies to play so well and it’s not over yet.
Seems that dropping the ball in a tackle is OK with the umps if you’re a Cat. Three times in the last quarter.

Winston Smith
September 3, 2022 7:23 pm

Rosie:

Tariffs on Australian wine from China have created an oversupply of red wine and global freight issues and led to a downturn in red grape prices, with the pain expected to continue past the 2023 vintage.

Next will come the demand from the Chinese Government on some utterly unrelated front, and when we cave on that, bingo the tariffs will be lifted.
Any trade with China is fraught with danger.
We should now retaliate on an entirely different front to let them be aware that we can play this game too.
Perhaps it’s the only way we will ever find out who China has working for them when they retaliate to us.

Makka
Makka
September 3, 2022 7:25 pm

The Broncos season ends as it was- a fkg shambles. And Kevvie will be clueless as to why?

Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 7:26 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 7:27 pm

Numbers Bob is over on Michael Smith, beating up the election chances of the Labor Government, in Victoria….

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 3, 2022 7:30 pm

Seems that dropping the ball in a tackle is OK with the umps if you’re a Cat. Three times in the last quarter.

This is not the time to start enforcing that rule. UnAustralian.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 7:35 pm

Any trade with China is fraught with danger.

Help fight Communism! Drink more Australian red wine!

Winston Smith
September 3, 2022 7:36 pm

Miltonf:

The old thief has really sunk to new lows. How low can the incontinent piece of human garbage go I wonder? Nothing would surprise after what has gone down in the last four years.

I said he would go in an amazing Personal Best Explosehate about a year ago and he’d take the Democrats with him when he did.
Why?
Because the Democrats/his missus/Hillary/the Harris VP all have different aims. They are hoping he doesn’t explode in a way that can’t be blamed on a Republican.
My money is on an assassination by someone wearing a MAGA hat and carrying a noose. 🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 3, 2022 7:36 pm

Diggersays:
September 3, 2022 at 6:58 pm
“Pleasing to see you lot lose your minds over Biden’s entirely factual speech. Don’t like it up em, sah!”

You truly are a dickhead…

Nothing as good as that, he’s just a low grade fascist.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 3, 2022 7:43 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 3, 2022 at 7:27 pm
Numbers Bob is over on Michael Smith, beating up the election chances

Sorry, I misread that as “beating up his erection chances”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 7:50 pm

Sorry, I misread that as “beating up his erection chances”.

That’s a pre – dinner wee dram, and a new keyboard you owe me.

shatterzzz
September 3, 2022 7:52 pm

The Broncos season ends as it was- a fkg shambles. And Kevvie will be clueless as to why?

Why the bookies had them favourite after last week’s “joke” against the Eeels baffles me!..
plus that final Dragons try when he ran past half the Broncs team without any real attempt(s) to stop him .. duuuuuh! …..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 7:59 pm

Winston Smithsays:
September 3, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Miltonf:

The old thief has really sunk to new lows. How low can the incontinent piece of human garbage go I wonder? Nothing would surprise after what has gone down in the last four years.

I said he would go in an amazing Personal Best Explosehate about a year ago and he’d take the Democrats with him when he did.
Why?
Because the Democrats/his missus/Hillary/the Harris VP all have different aims. They are hoping he doesn’t explode in a way that can’t be blamed on a Republican.
My money is on an assassination by someone wearing a MAGA hat and carrying a noose. ?

I just said the same thing to the missus not 1/2 hr ago.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
September 3, 2022 8:01 pm

How good is AFLW footy?
Geelong 3.9.27, Fremantle 0.1.1.

You read that correctly, Freo ladies scored one point for the entire game.

GOAT!

m0nty
m0nty
September 3, 2022 8:03 pm

He and his cabal (George Soros called it a “temporary glitch”)

You might as well quote the Protocols directly at this point.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:10 pm

Only just got here. Since Rabz is letting the side down ( he must be on the chance of a promise)Here is my new favourite after PF Pulse Comfortably Numb. Play it though a stereo for better sound

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 8:11 pm

Nothing as good as that, he’s just a low grade fascist.

Apparently he can swim though. Or could.

Zipster
Zipster
September 3, 2022 8:11 pm

dover you on discord?

Yes, have you left a message?

just a question

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 8:12 pm

My money is on an assassination by someone wearing a MAGA hat and carrying a noose. ?

Known (in the right circles) as Smolletting.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 3, 2022 8:13 pm

It’s taken me a while to realise it, but in Mussolini’s ‘marriage between the corporation and the state’, the state is the junior partner.

I’m not sure that Mussolini held that opinion.

And Mussolini is long dead and the corporations live on….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 8:14 pm

calli at 3.23:

any Aussie can hop on a plane right now and go pretty much anywhere they like regardless of vaccination

Hang on. I’m sure I was told time and again that the joint’s a prison. It may have been, but sure as shit not now – which should put paid to the ‘nazi pass vs purebloods’ sentiment.

Should.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 3, 2022 8:15 pm

We drove from Perth to Albany on Thursday. On the way the canola fields were spectacular, they seemed to be glowing in the sunlight.

Too bad canola is an un-natural food (our hunter gatherer ancestors never consumed seed oils) which causes much ill health…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:17 pm

Never fails, Masters of the Universe. Simon Phillips a force of nature. How does music get any better without boobies. Enjoy.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:18 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
September 3, 2022 at 8:14 pm
calli at 3.23:

any Aussie can hop on a plane right now and go pretty much anywhere they like regardless of vaccination

Hang on. I’m sure I was told time and again that the joint’s a prison. It may have been, but sure as shit not now – which should put paid to the ‘nazi pass vs purebloods’ sentiment.

Should.

Don’t tell Ken. He’ll have no reason to live.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 8:20 pm

Don’t tell Ken. He’ll have no reason to live.

Oh I dunno. There’s always the next failed cause.

Or, perhaps more properly, the causes that failed to have him.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 3, 2022 8:21 pm

“You MAGA right wingers will need a lot more than guns to fight this government, you will need F-15s.”

Your proposal is acceptable…..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:21 pm

Pedro the Loafersays:
September 3, 2022 at 8:01 pm
How good is AFLW footy?
Geelong 3.9.27, Fremantle 0.1.1.

You read that correctly, Freo ladies scored one point for the entire game.

GOAT!

I take it you took the lady in the Jag to the game to score more points or just score more than Freo.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 3, 2022 8:24 pm

20,000 Zaporozhya residents signed a letter to the IAEA, telling them that it was the *Zelensky* regime that was shelling the nuclear power plant.

Last night the 9News without a hint of curiosity reported on the arrival of the UN inspectors at the Russian-occupied reactor. They were being shelled and the story implied it was the Russians doing the shelling – not a whit of curiosity as to why the Russians would shell themsleves.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 3, 2022 8:25 pm

How good is AFLW footy?
Geelong 3.9.27, Fremantle 0.1.1.

You read that correctly, Freo ladies scored one point for the entire game.

GOAT!

As is oft said here “they’re not sending their best”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:26 pm

Last one, watching the Wobblies cop a shellacing. Not popular but talks to me.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:29 pm

Not the last one, I lied. Not even R’nR. Lead to some of the best.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 3, 2022 8:32 pm

dover0beach says:
September 3, 2022 at 5:16 pm
Gez, I got to your reply late last night. That was the Head of Mission to the nuclear plant, not just someone responding to a RUS MoD report.

I was aware of that.
The HoM gave a very diplomatic reply that didn’t amount to verifying the event claimed by the MoD took place.

Winston Smith
September 3, 2022 8:35 pm

Cassie:

The left want a revolution, but revolutions always bring upheaval and in the aftermath, you need leaders, military and otherwise, who have the intellect to bring people together. That ain’t gonna happen with the current administration in Washington.

Correct, Cassie.
When the noise and fury die down, they will be the first ones purged. Then the real Revolutionaries will appear, just like in every other communist uprising of the masses.

custard
custard
September 3, 2022 8:36 pm

If you re-read the article it was pretty clear that nobody had any clue why he was there, in spite of the weak ‘he supported the former president’ comment from Kevin Bishop. Thank-you Captain Obvious.

So the question becomes Why was the founder of Oracle (largest database technology company in the world) who also happens to be the 6th wealthiest man in the world on a call related to contesting a presidential election? You talk about loaded questions….this requires us going back in time and then navigating forward to present day.

Here we go. Now please I beg you as you’re reading and listening, keep in mind that like Donald Trump, Ellison has a long and storied history of evolving viewpoints as he gains knowledge as well as intense and often brutal business and personal dealings. This is not a guy that plays around.

H/T Richard the saint substack

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:38 pm

Not R’n’R either but a homage to greatness from a newer great. Everybody thinks of their rootsEven greats make mistakes, don’t be afraid to.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 3, 2022 8:41 pm

132andBushsays:

September 3, 2022 at 2:46 pm

Beautiful day here with all crops seemingly growing before your eyes thanks to abundant moisture and sunshine.
Canola and long season wheat will be the stand outs this year. The canola has been flowering for 7 weeks now

Driving down to Melbourne the other day.
Sunshine on the vivid yellow canola with a few huge red gums dotted around in the paddocks.
Grampians in the background with grey storm clouds behind.
Bewdiful.
Probably more bewdiful to the owners of the paddocks.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:42 pm

Black Ballsays:
September 3, 2022 at 8:25 pm
How good is AFLW footy?
Geelong 3.9.27, Fremantle 0.1.1.

You read that correctly, Freo ladies scored one point for the entire game.

GOAT!

As is oft said here “they’re not sending their best”

After a career in football politics will be a doddle.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 3, 2022 8:43 pm

m0ntysays:
September 3, 2022 at 8:03 pm
He and his cabal (George Soros called it a “temporary glitch”)

You might as well quote the Protocols directly at this point.

m0nty-fa returns to his comfort zone – “It was der Jooos!”

It is easier than accepting that the great hero of the left, and sponsor of DemonRat candidates, was a lackey of the Nazis.

Tom
Tom
September 3, 2022 8:51 pm

90,525 people turned up at the MCG tonight for one of the matches of the AFL season, the qualifying final between top four sides Geelong and Collingwood.

My chiropractor in Drysdale, 30 kms from Geelong, tells me he once took his two young children, both Cats fans, to the MCG for a Geelong-Richmond game. They were terrified of the ferals of the Tiger army, spitting abuse not only at Cats players, but their fans in the crowd.

About 80% of tonight’s MCG crowd were Pies fans, who also spat abuse at Cats players and their fans.
They were also intimidating their own Pies players: don’t you DARE lose this match.

As it turns out, the Cats beat the Pies by a goal but, had the Cats been beaten, their fans couldn’t have cared less: the Cats won the 2007, 2009 and 2011 premierships – their first since the 1963 flag.

Cats fans aren’t ferals like the inner-city ferals who barrack for the Pies, the Tigers and the Carlton Blues.

Cats fans are mostly country people with lives outside of their football team and many of them are farmers, who run small businesses on the land.

Come what may, they will still be gathering around the players race at Kardinia Park in round one 2023 chanting “GEE-LONG *clap*clap*clap*”

They aren’t true Australian sports fans who demand victory at any cost – every year.

Cats fans are quite passive – even effeminate and mostly female, like my sister.

But they’re aren’t ferals like the footy fans in inner suburban Melbourne, who are antifa-style hoodlums without the lunatic ideology.

So the Cats’ fate is sealed: because their fans demand nothing of them, in two weeks they will meet the winner of the semi-final between the Melbourne Demons and the Brisbane Bears and, after beating the Cats in the prelim on the second-last Saturday in September, the Dees will get their wish of their first premiership since 1964 in front of their fans at the MCG, even if it is via the long way of four finals following their defeat this weekend by the Bondi Surfies.*

*The Dees, who were an VFL powerhouse in the 1950s, won last year’s flag in Perth, which doesn’t count for an AFL football purist.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 3, 2022 8:56 pm

Too late for me I’ve done my bit.

m0nty
m0nty
September 3, 2022 8:59 pm

Stick to posting cartoon links, Tommy.

HT
HT
September 3, 2022 9:00 pm

Zatara says:
September 3, 2022 at 1:38 pm
We never found out what was in Crooked’s email server
Not all perhaps, but some.

Hillary Clinton had emails on server more classified than top secret (CBS News)

The private email server Clinton used while secretary of state contained “several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the [intelligence community] element to be at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET/SAP levels,” the inspector general, Charles McCullough, wrote in the letter, which was first reported by Fox News. “SAP” stands for special access programs, which carry a classification level higher than top secret.
And not a damned thing happened to her for it. No FBI raids in the middle of the night to seize the server before she wiped it, nothing.

I worked in a three letter agency for over 20 years. Point 1.) Had I had SAP materials at home I would have done goal time. 2.) More poignantly, one cannot get ECI/SAP materials off the system: you can’t just email from an TS/Codeword system to your Hotmail account! These systems are “closed”. If Clinton had electronic materials on her home server, a shitload of people deliberately broke a shitload of security protocols. I’m no conspiracy theorist but I suspect nobody investigated because nobody wanted to know the answers (who authorised the data transfers?).

Note Trumps allegations revolve around printed copies of materials (relatively easy to get out of the building for someone on the inside and who wants to get the materials out) as opposed to Clinton’s electronic data (Impossible to get off an SCI system without someone authorising it, and somebody else again facilitating the transfer via sneaker-net. Every step meticulously recorded with all kinds of manual and electronic safeguard, so how did one of multiple Security Audits at this level not flag it, and not follow up with a great deal of vigour and attitude?).

For Clinton to have SAP data on a home server would have required an almost conspiratorial level of wilful malfeasance by a large range of actors. Clinton, I suspect, got away with it because it would open a giant, stinking can of worms nobody wanted to deal with.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 3, 2022 9:07 pm

Fremantle blokes emulating the ladies football side.

cohenite
September 3, 2022 9:09 pm

Stick to posting cartoon links, Tommy.

You stick to looking for your dick.

Franx
Franx
September 3, 2022 9:09 pm

It’s less about using the nazipass than about owning one.
Until it becomes a matter of disowning ever having had one.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 3, 2022 9:11 pm

dover0beach says:
September 3, 2022 at 8:45 pm

Rabz Radio show now up.

Sorry it’s late. Had to keep eye on one of my dogs whose got a cruciate injury.

Too late for the early crowd? Or maybe my U2 link drove youse all away…

May be worth throwing a set of blog keys to Rabz so he can launch his musicola threads on his own.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 9:14 pm

The Hun:

US acting legend Jane Fonda has revealed she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

custard
custard
September 3, 2022 9:20 pm

Montifa your criticism of Tom for his excellent review of the AFL tonight proves that you are a actual xunt.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 9:27 pm

What Biden delivered yesterday was a cross between the Michael Jackson “Thriller” film clip and the “Reichstag Speech”.

Tom
Tom
September 3, 2022 9:27 pm

Don’t be so ungracious, Monty. Your Hawthorn side is doing quite well under your new rookie coach, even though sacking Alistair Clarkson was the dumbest thing Jeff Kennet ever did.

You must be torn as Kennett is an ideological enemy and, for lefties like you, defying tribal identity rules would cause your expulsion from the tribe.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 3, 2022 9:28 pm

Montifa your criticism of Tom for his excellent review of the AFL tonight proves that you are a actual xunt.

He knows his fantasy football though.

P
P
September 3, 2022 9:28 pm

Tonight I watched “Thirteen Days” again. Brings to mind those memories of ’62.
I was then a 22yr old nurse at a large suburban Sydney hospital. I was working in men’s public medical ward. Morning papers, Tele and SMH were delivered by trolley from the hospital shop. Evening papers, Sun and Mirror were delivered after visiting hours in the afternoon. For two weeks in Oct ’62 the headlines were strewn across the beds of the patients I nursed. There was nothing political in the discussions we heard or took part in regarding the Cuban Crisis. It was though a tense time which we felt. Jokes were few and the mood was sombre.
I finished a 2-11 pm shift and met with other nurses on a balcony of the Nurses Home where we drank coffee and smoked cigs, not knowing if it was worthwhile going to bed that night if there was going to be no tomorrow. I finally went to bed about 1:30am as I was scheduled to be on duty at 6am. By 3:30pm that afternoon after finishing my shift I wasn’t even tired. Just relieved and happy.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 3, 2022 9:37 pm

Poor old gullible m0nty. I think he actually believes the talking points he gets given to recite.
It doesn’t even occur to him to ask why, if MAGA Republicans are a threat to democracy, the Dems are supporting MAGA Republican candidates in the Republican primaries (with money and by getting their own voters to switch registration and vote MAGA).

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 9:38 pm

I sense an infiltration of Literature students infecting the Cat.

Rabz
September 3, 2022 9:39 pm

The Radio Show is up, Cats!

Get on down there …

Rabz
September 3, 2022 9:41 pm

Thanks, Dover

Tom
Tom
September 3, 2022 9:41 pm

I sense an infiltration of Literature students infecting the Cat.

Not good enough, Armadillo. You need to fulminate. Inner meaning. And stuff.

m0nty
m0nty
September 3, 2022 9:42 pm

Bloody Jeff. Wish he’d nick off back to Flicka.

At least we flogged off the pokies venues this year. Made a nice profit from it though.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

“You MAGA right wingers will need a lot more than guns to fight this government, you will need F-15s.”

This would be the same government that cut & ran from goatherders who had tommy-guns.
The same government that departed in not so much an orderly withdrawal as a rout.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 9:55 pm

Tim, as a bookmaker, the Democrat strategy makes absolute sense.

The book never lies. Money makes favourites. And humans are much easier to manipulate than a racehorse.

Zipster
Zipster
September 3, 2022 10:01 pm

What Biden delivered yesterday was a cross between the Michael Jackson “Thriller” film clip and the “Reichstag Speech”.

it was a grotesque clown show

RuthM
RuthM
September 3, 2022 10:12 pm

My birth team is Melbourne and I was around for the 50s-60s glorious years, so I’m unlikely ever to barrack for Collingwood, and glad that Geelong won today. It was a good game. I was impressed with the way the two teams mingled good naturedly after the game though. I don’t see many Geelong games, but isn’t Joel Selwood meant to finish the game covered in blood? Also it was good that the Collingwood coach didn’t burst into tears! As for the supporters, I’ve met many quite reasonable people who claim allegiance to Collingwood, to my surprise; also I heard a few years ago that there is a larger number of Melb Cricket Club members who support Collingwood, not Melbourne. On the game today, I do like the way Chris Scott had his team stand to attention respectfully for the national anthem.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 10:14 pm

Anyone else figure out what Joe meant by defining Republicans as “MAGA Republicans” and not the Republican Party as a whole?

He’s not attacking the Republican Party and their voters. Just the “fringe elements” AKA MAGA).

It’s a “tell” of who are in their pockets. Kissinger and Cheney plus many more.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 10:30 pm

it was a grotesque clown show

I started writing a long post in agreement, but I stopped.

Suffice to say, this hedonistic insanity needs to end.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 10:35 pm

Infidel Tiger was pretty accurate.

“It’s a shit stained toilet that needs flushing”.

Can’t get much more succinct than that.

Dot
Dot
September 3, 2022 10:43 pm

Nothing will change until Kevvie gets very real and stop relying on hope. Broncos are not serious because Kevvie just isn’t serious.

Wayne Bennett is serious.

The Redcliffe Dolphins have the firepower and money to muscle out everyone for the J J Gillitan & Provan-Simmons trophies.

Dot
Dot
September 3, 2022 10:44 pm

Sorry matrix old chap.

Reported an innocuous comment of yours.

This forum has been brilliant today whilst I have been otherwise occupied, carry on!

Dot
Dot
September 3, 2022 10:45 pm

dover0beach says:
September 3, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Rabz Radio show now up.

Sorry it’s late. Had to keep eye on one of my dogs whose got a cruciate injury.

Do you coach Fremantle or Carlton?

Dot
Dot
September 3, 2022 10:46 pm

Boambee John says:
September 3, 2022 at 8:43 pm
m0ntysays:
September 3, 2022 at 8:03 pm
He and his cabal (George Soros called it a “temporary glitch”)

You might as well quote the Protocols directly at this point.

m0nty-fa returns to his comfort zone – “It was der Jooos!”

It is easier than accepting that the great hero of the left, and sponsor of DemonRat candidates, was a lackey of the Nazis.

BLM no doubt too have done antisemitic lunacy too.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 3, 2022 10:46 pm

Made a nice profit from it though

Said the failed economics student, contentedly.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 3, 2022 10:49 pm

THE PLAGUE OF GREEN ELEPHANTS
By Viv Forbes -August 31, 2022

Perhaps the world’s biggest Green Elephant is being bred in Australia’s Northern Territory. This green folly would connect the world’s biggest collection of solar “farms”, wind turbines and batteries to Singapore via the world’s longest under-sea extension cord across a deep submarine trench that is subject to many earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.

These disastrous Green adventures are driven by the UN Billionaires’ club and promoted endlessly by government media and education bureaucracies, and vocal vested interests.

This plague of Green Elephants will destroy our industries, our farms and our access to cheap reliable fuels and electricity.

It is time for a Green Elephant Hunt.

Dot
Dot
September 3, 2022 10:49 pm

Wow!

Timothy Neilson says:
September 3, 2022 at 9:37 pm
Poor old gullible m0nty. I think he actually believes the talking points he gets given to recite.
It doesn’t even occur to him to ask why, if MAGA Republicans are a threat to democracy, the Dems are supporting MAGA Republican candidates in the Republican primaries (with money and by getting their own voters to switch registration and vote MAGA).

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
September 3, 2022 at 9:46 pm
“You MAGA right wingers will need a lot more than guns to fight this government, you will need F-15s.”
This would be the same government that cut & ran from goatherders who had tommy-guns.
The same government that departed in not so much an orderly withdrawal as a rout.

Hear that noise?

It’s munter getting belted harder than a balll in a 300 yard golf drive.

cohenite
September 3, 2022 10:50 pm

GFC part 2 coming to a shitstorm near you. Salty explains how Bank of America is now giving deposit free, low interest loans to minorities, ie blacks. It’ll be Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all over again.

Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 11:00 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 11:01 pm
Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 11:02 pm

I’d much prefer a world where the Government stays the fuck out of my life (as much as possible). Collect the bins, fill the pot holes and so on. Flush the dunny, and turn on the tap. All good.

I didn’t sign up for the rest of the bullshit.

Indolent
Indolent
September 3, 2022 11:02 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 3, 2022 11:05 pm

US acting legend Jane Fonda has revealed she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Seeking treatment in Vietnam?

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 11:13 pm

Seeking treatment in Vietnam?

LOL.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 3, 2022 11:25 pm

Seeking treatment in Vietnam?

Jane Fonda is the silly bunt who assured the world that that North Vietnamese were fighting for their independence and liberty against the American aggressors – I did wonder if she was related to Numbers Bob.

Real Deal
Real Deal
September 3, 2022 11:25 pm

US acting legend Jane Fonda has revealed she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

84.
Hmm.

Was she triple jabbed?

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 3, 2022 11:39 pm

Jane was a solid 8 on the “Hot Crazy Index”.

MatrixTransform
September 3, 2022 11:42 pm

Sorry matrix old chap.
Reported an innocuous comment of yours.

was it the spelling?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 3, 2022 11:43 pm

Armadillosays:

September 3, 2022 at 11:39 pm

Jane was a solid 8 on the “Hot Crazy Index”.

The “hot” axis might have been 8.
The “crazy” axis was off the chart.

MatrixTransform
September 3, 2022 11:46 pm

Said the failed economics student

do you reckon his show would be improved if he wore a sequinned jump-suit and sun-glasses?

Real Deal
Real Deal
September 3, 2022 11:58 pm

Barberella was Jane’s finest.

MatrixTransform
September 3, 2022 11:58 pm

mUnty

more noisy and repetitive with better tits than half of ABBA

a turd more glittering than the offspring of Elton and Liberace

we’ll call him The Hot August Knight

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 4, 2022 12:07 am

Armadillosays:
September 3, 2022 at 9:55 pm
Tim, as a bookmaker, the Democrat strategy makes absolute sense.

The book never lies. Money makes favourites. And humans are much easier to manipulate than a racehorse.

Corrct.
But do you think that a prescient centre-leftist in the Weimar Republic would have said “let’s help Hitler’s candidates win the primaries because that will give us better odds against the conservatives in the general”?

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 4, 2022 12:17 am

Queensland Indigenous leader facing violence, drug charges

One of Queensland’s most influential Aboriginal leaders has been charged with domestic violence offences and supplying methamphetamines in the state’s remote northwest.

Murrandoo Yanner, who in the 1990s famously led the successful fight for First Nations people to hunt traditional food on their country, fronted Mt Isa Court on Friday charged with five counts of dangerous drug supply, one count of possession, one count of fraud and two counts of unlawful stalking, a domestic violence offence.

He was arrested at Burketown in the Gulf of Carpentaria late last month.

A Mt Isa magistrate will decide whether to grant Mr Yanner, 50, bail on Tuesday after police ­ opposed his application.

Police on Friday said Mr Yanner’s five drug supply charges were for the supply of methylamphetamine, cannabis and MDMA ­(ecstasy)

“On August 25 a 50-year-old Burketown man was charged with five counts of supplying dangerous drugs, two counts of unlawful stalking (domestic violence offence) and one count each of fraud, possessing dangerous drugs, possessing anything used in the commission of crime and damaging evidence with intent,” a police statement read.

Mr Yanner is a Gangalidda man from Burketown, in the lower Gulf, who served as the chief executive of the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation between 1992 and 2001 before ­becoming an ATSIC commissioner for a year.

He rose to prominence in 1994 when he used a traditional form of harpoon to catch two small crocodiles on Aboriginal land near ­Doomadgee, in the Gulf.

He and other members of the Gunnamulla clan caught and ate the crocodile meat, and Mr Yanner froze the remaining meat and kept the skins.

He was charged with taking and keeping fauna without a permit under Queensland’s Fauna Conservation Act. Mr Yanner went on to win a High Court battle confirming hunting, gathering and fishing rights of Indigenous people.

The majority of High Court judges – led by then chief justice Murray Gleeson – found Mr Yanner did not contravene the state law because it did not extinguish his rights as a native title holder.

The court was told the Gangalidda people of the Gulf had always sustainably hunted and fished in the river systems of the region, and the crocodile was part of their traditional diet.

In 1996, Mr Yanner led protests and sit-ins that held up the establishment of the Century zinc mine, 250km north of Mt Isa, until they had reached a compensation agreement

He was a vocal critic of police after the watch-house killing of his cousin, Mulrunji Doomadgee, who died in custody on Palm ­Island in 2004.

In 2020, Mr Yanner hit the headlines again when he clashed with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, in a video that went viral.

“You’re just a racist redneck with your red hair. Go back to ­Ipswich and your fish and chip shop,” Mr Yanner said in the video. “You are intellectually dishonest and you’re not welcome here.”

Oz

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 4, 2022 12:51 am

But do you think that a prescient centre-leftist in the Weimar Republic would have said “let’s help Hitler’s candidates win the primaries because that will give us better odds against the conservatives in the general”?

I’m not sure where you are going with this, Tim. Lay down the crack pipe, and walk backwards. Slowly.

There is no comparison between Biden and Hitler. Zero, zip, zilch.

For starters, Hitler was popular. “In Vouge” at the time.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 4, 2022 1:02 am

My honest opinion is that the American people will prevail.

JC
JC
September 4, 2022 2:48 am

I don’t want you to worry your pretty little head about BofA, Cronkite.

The loan program is small enough not to cause any rupture to the trillion dollar balance sheet.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/09/01/bank-of-america-to-help-minorities-buy-first-homes-with-new-mortgages.html

rosie
rosie
September 4, 2022 4:32 am
Tom
Tom
September 4, 2022 4:40 am

Week In Pictures (in case you missed the post by Indolent at 11.01pm).

calli
calli
September 4, 2022 5:28 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
September 4, 2022 5:33 am

Thank you Tom I love the Adam and Chris one and the coal miners off to work to pay of the debt of the gender studies major –

calli
calli
September 4, 2022 5:40 am

First impressions of Croatia, once the schemozzle of Zagreb airport was over – positive.

All you Cats who are looking for attractive, slim and untatted young ladies may look no further. Out and about this evening and what a pleasant surprise. Young people dressed up for Saturday night out and looking respectable…what a contrast to Amsterdam.

I’ll gice you a fashion and gastronomy rundown tomorrow – I ate so much good food my fingers are too fat and bloated for typing. 😀

calli
calli
September 4, 2022 5:41 am

Exhibit A – give

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 4, 2022 6:02 am

BBC yin and yang, the good and the not so good.
From Our Own Correspondent: the real human being Mikhail Gorbachov. Excellent.
Green Energy – Some Inconvenient Truths: ardent propaganda for wind and solar, wrapped in extreme climate alarmism as usual. They did four half-hour shows to construct a series full of this.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2022 6:34 am

The witchdoctor will see you now.

Top Footballer Blackmailed Over Witchcraft in France, Where 40 Per Cent of Youth Now Believe in Magic (3 Sep)

Football star Paul Pogba has allegedly been blackmailed by a group who accuse him of attempts to cast spells — potentially a serious accusation in France, as surveys claim as many as 40 per cent of under-35s there now believe in witchcraft. … While Paul Pogba has admitted to hiring a witch doctor in the past, claiming he did so to prevent injuries, he has denied casting spells on fellow players.

A survey conducted by the firm Ifop for the Jean Jaurès Foundation in 2020 revealed among French residents under the age of 35, around 40 per cent seriously believe in witchcraft, compared to 25 per cent of people over 35.

Another survey conducted earlier this year by the firm Ifop found that belief in witchcraft had increased in the general population from 28 per cent to 32 per cent, with 38 per cent of women believing in witchcraft compared to 27 per cent of men.

They reject Christianity out of hand yet believe the craziest things. No wonder they believe in climate fairies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 4, 2022 6:38 am

callisays:

September 4, 2022 at 5:40 am

First impressions of Croatia …

If you are heading south, Plitvice Lakes are well worth a visit.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 4, 2022 6:48 am

I remember some dam plans being wrecked by enviro-loons pleading the case of the threatened legless lizards. Right now, in the USA, Google’s plan to power one of its data centres with a geothermal plant has met a similar fate:
“… environmentalists objected because the project threatens to wipe out the Dixie Valley toad.“

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 4, 2022 6:54 am

They say there are no places left in Australia suitable for hydro electricity power stations.
But right now it’s raining buckets, not on Bucketts Way, but across on the Dorrigo plateau, which sees copious rainfall at many times each year and causes the Bellinger to flood regularly.
Let’s see. Lots of water, huge fall from Dorrigo down to Bellingen. Imagine those large Headstocks (aka pipes) feeding the turbines at the power station down below.
But wait. Despoiling the landscape? No problem for wind and solar. Killing or inconveniencing fauna? No problem for wind and solar.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 4, 2022 7:00 am

in North Carolina, and seeing the occasional Confederate flag!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 4, 2022 7:11 am

Top Endersays:

September 4, 2022 at 7:00 am

in North Carolina, and seeing the occasional Confederate flag!

Are you doing Civil War sites?

Dot
Dot
September 4, 2022 7:15 am

They reject Christianity out of hand yet believe the craziest things. No wonder they believe in climate fairies.

There’s a witch in the bible (Endor) and a spirit that sounds vampiric (Ormeus) in the Enochian literature. There’s a wizard in the New Testament (Simon Magus).

Dot
Dot
September 4, 2022 7:18 am

They say there are no places left in Australia suitable for hydro electricity power stations.

That’s a lie.

We could have cheap and abundant power and irrigation with dams. We could build 500 more and a few thousand smaller ones.

CALD (IIRC) have done modelling of most possible sites.

“No solution but taxation” is just Marxist dialectical dishonesty.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 4, 2022 7:28 am

He rose to prominence in 1994 when he used a traditional form of harpoon to catch two small crocodiles on Aboriginal land near ­Doomadgee, in the Gulf.

Enough to land him a board position at ATSIC. No academic achievements of note in the report linked above to suggest he was versed in running that failed organisation.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2022 7:31 am

Dot – The first and third were object lessons. The second I don’t know anything about because I haven’t read that bit (it’s not in the biblical canon of the churches I’ve attended). You missed out Pharaoh’s wise guys btw.

m0nty
m0nty
September 4, 2022 7:31 am

But do you think that a prescient centre-leftist in the Weimar Republic would have said “let’s help Hitler’s candidates win the primaries because that will give us better odds against the conservatives in the general”?

Whoa whoa whoa Tim. You are telling me that Hitler was a conservative? And that Trump is analogous to Hitler?

What a spectacular own goal you just scored.

Mater
September 4, 2022 7:45 am

“I, on the other hand, have tried for two decades to build a new socialist order in Germany, with a minimum of interference and without harming our productive capacity. This has not only eliminated unemployment, but also the profits of labor have flowed increasingly to working people.

The results of our policies are unique in all the world. Our economic and social reorganization has led to the systematic elimination of social and class barriers, with the goal of a true people’s community.”

Hitler’s “Barbarossa” Proclamation, (June 22, 1941)

Yes, yes, Monty.
Hitler was clearly a ‘Conservative’!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2022 7:47 am

I see the bakery’s open.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 7:49 am

Georgia towelling up the Ducks & are now taking it easy.
Cats with ESPN will be able to see Notre Dame (hopefully) get smashed by Ohio State shortly.

rosie
rosie
September 4, 2022 7:50 am

Wave to my NC buddies for me TE.
I’ve only visited an American Revolutionary site in NC, and that by accident.

rosie
rosie
September 4, 2022 7:55 am

Climate scientists going on strike, indefinitely, would please me more that the defeat of KKK.

climate scientists call for strike, or something

m0nty
m0nty
September 4, 2022 7:58 am

Don’t tell me Mater, it’s your boy Tim N who said it.

rosie
rosie
September 4, 2022 8:01 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
September 4, 2022 8:02 am

Whoa whoa whoa Tim. You are telling me that Hitler was a conservative? And that Trump is analogous to Hitler?
What a spectacular own goal you just scored.

Way to miss the point entirely Monster. AGAIN

m0nty
m0nty
September 4, 2022 8:02 am

But while we don’t yet know the extent or nature of Trump’s abuse of classified documents, we can determine how many were found by investigators, after exhaustive searches, among Clinton’s thousands of State Department emails.

The accurate and definitive answer is zero – although few if any news outlets have informed the public of that startling fact. Moreover, it is a fact that the Trump administration itself confirmed three years ago.

m0nty
m0nty
September 4, 2022 8:03 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 8:06 am

Jimmy Dore & crew critique the Red Sermon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsK9CUBsO0

The DNC know that Jimmy & his ecosystem is a real threat.
Moving 2-3% of the DNC base to a Green or third party candidate (or not showing up) losing in 2022 & 2024.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 4, 2022 8:10 am

First impressions of Croatia, once the schemozzle of Zagreb airport was over – positive. All you Cats who are looking for attractive, slim and untatted young ladies may look no further

Just refresh your memory on how the ‘hot-crazy matrix’ works first – I speak from experience.

Mater
September 4, 2022 8:10 am

m0nty
#2903174, posted on January 10, 2019 at 10:04 am
Hitler was preparing for war so he implemented a war economy with central planning guiding key parts of a capitalist system… just like Churchill did, and to a lesser extent Roosevelt and Curtin.

Hey Monty,

If Hitler instituted ‘a war economy with central planning guiding key parts of a capitalist system’ from the moment he was installed in 1933 right through to when he met his long overdue demise in 1945, what evidence do you have that he was ever a capitalist/conservative/right winger.

Your argument seems to hinge on something that never…ever…existed. You know, like the dubious and delusional argument that he WOULD have installed a non-centralised economy as soon as he’d won the war. It never existed in such a form during his time, so such a claim is spurious.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2022 8:10 am

Haha, Joe’s V for Vendetta speech didn’t rate.

Biden Fascist Speech Loses Out to Young Sheldon Reruns (2 Sep)

While President Biden warned the nation about threats to democracy in a prime time address on Thursday, ABC was airing a game show, “Press Your Luck.” As Biden spelled out his objections to former president Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans,” NBC was broadcasting a rerun of “Law and Order.” CBS skipped the speech to show a rerun of “Young Sheldon.”

Biden losing the MSM is an interesting new phenomenon. If you are wondering about the V for Vendetta thing, here it is. Quite something.

Mater
September 4, 2022 8:14 am

Don’t tell me Mater, it’s your boy Tim N who said it.

Don’t play the raw prawn with me, you fuckhead!
You haven’t got the intellect.

m0nty
#2902655, posted on January 9, 2019 at 5:47 pm
As for you mole: as with Trump, you have to look at what Hitler did, not what he said. His rhetoric paying lip service to socialism was full of lies, income taxes were much lower than that in Britain at the time, and captains of German industry sailed through the Nazi era untrammeled with their capitalist empires intact.
For your talking points to be correct, you would have to label Churchill as a socialist as well.

m0nty
#2902319, posted on January 9, 2019 at 12:34 pm
struth, the Nazis purged the Communists and unionists first, funded by millions of marks donated by German captains of industry. Strasserism was beaten out of the Nazi Party well before the war, and the anti-capitalist parts of their platform were deleted.
Here, educate yourself. Or stay ignorant, if you like.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 8:15 am

Going to post Taibbi’s column on the Red Sermon in full.
As usual, anything that is overtly critical of Biden is paywalled.
His closing comments are spot on.

Seventy-four million people voted for Trump in 2020. It’s beyond delusional to think they are all violent extremists. A smart politician would recognize the overwhelming majority are just people who pay taxes, work crap jobs, raise kids, obey the law, and give at most a tiny share of attention to politics. The University of Virginia did a study arguing that as many as 8 million previously voted for Obama, so there’s that. I’d bet more than half would pick a screening of Thor: Love and Thunder over a Trump speech. The only sure way to radicalize the lot is to call them one big terror cell, or have the president go on TV to describe them as an existential threat to national security.

Having done that, Biden now has a bigger problem than ever. What a mess, but how perfectly in character for our leaders! Metaphorically we’re always blowing up villages and pyramids to chase a terror suspect into the desert. Now we’re factory-producing enemies at home, too, and it doesn’t look like anyone up there knows how to stop.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 8:19 am

Biden Brings the War on Terror Home
President Biden in his primetime speech Thursday sure sounded like a man preparing to criminalize Trumpism. Is the White House expanding the great policy error of our time?

He looked shaky as he hobbled onstage Thursday night, but at the podium the drugs kicked in and Joe Biden delivered a commanding speech, by his standards. He handled an early bout of hoarseness like a pro, matched affect to content most of the way, and fumbled few words and none seriously.

But something was off from the start. Biden’s handlers had the otherwise inspiring setting of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall bathed in so much blood-red light, he looked like an opening act for Queensrÿche or Rammstein. Trying to create a setting for judgment and warning, they overshot the staging and made the white-haired ex-Senator look like a vampire sat up from a crypt.

The content matched the ominous staging. Biden delivered a remarkably menacing manifesto.

The only political speech I can remember that rivaled Biden’s address for darkness is Donald Trump’s own much-pilloried tirade against “lawlessness” at the 2016 Republican convention (I was there and called it “relentlessly negative… pure horror movie… with constant references to murder and destruction”). In fact, replace “illegal immigrants… roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens” with “MAGA Republicans… [threatening] the very foundations of our Republic,” and that speech of Trump’s reads eerily like the one Biden just gave, which Fox host Bret Baier agreed was “essentially a convention speech.” Both described a lost paradise that may be regained, if only we rid ourselves of a verminous infestation of lawbreakers.

On one level, it was standard ring-around-the-collar tactics. From Barry Goldwater in 1964 exhorting supporters against “marauders,” to Nixon four years later rallying “forgotten Americans” against the “merchants of crime and corruption,” to retired Barack Obama in 2020 warning of a nameless “them” who would “take away your power” and “your democracy,” this type of scare speech is a familiar political trope.

But Biden was going for something bigger, and the speech his primetime gambit most resembled was the great demented clarion call of our age, George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address. That landmark effort, written by current Democratic Party consigliere and furious Twitter dimwit David Frum, outlined with literary élan the Bush administration’s grand plan for fucking up the response to 9/11. It would be the Sorcerer’s Apprentice approach to terror prevention: in every place we found a terrorist, we created two more, and still more to chase each of those, and so on, until the Middle East filled up with our soldiers, frantically bailing a flood of our own creation.

This happened because instead of focusing on al-Qaeda as a small, isolated cult best dealt with as an international policing problem, Bush announced an existential fight against all evil everywhere, in a snap boosting the enemy’s numbers from hundreds to millions. We weren’t just fighting bin Laden’s cave force, but the “thousands of dangerous killers” he said were “spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs,” members not just of al-Qaeda but “Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Jaish-i-Mohammed.” To pursue them “wherever they are,” we’d also fight “nations” who “harbor terrorists,” as well as those who might harbor terrorists; Bush sought to eliminate the very concept of threat. He’d prevent “regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America,” beginning with Iran, North Korea, and Iraq, the “axis of evil.”

A key theme was preventive action. Bush wouldn’t wait for disaster, but would step in, Minority Report-style, to stop it before it began. He read off this pledge like a religious incantation, using a Dr. Seuss-like rhythm: “I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer.” (He did not like Green Eggs and Ham. He did not like them, Sam I Am!). He repeated over and over that Our Enemies were steeped in evil, people who “embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed,” while we stand for “freedom and the dignity of every life.” He demanded unity, noting that in this binary world, none may be neutral:

No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture, but America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity…

Biden’s speech was an exact domestic analog. Like Bush’s sweeping description of enemies wedded Satanically to tyranny and death, Biden’s MAGA Republicans “embrace anger,” “thrive on chaos,” and live “not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.” He repeated almost verbatim Bush’s theory of preventive action, saying it is too dangerous to allow “MAGA Republicans” to run for office. He said “they” are working “as I speak” in “state after state” to pack vote-counting bureaucracies with “partisans and cronies,” with the express purpose of “thwarting the will of the people.” He will not watch MAGAs win a house, he will not watch them with a mouse:

I will not stand by and watch — I will not — the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence-free claims of fraud. I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. I will not stand by and watch the most fundamental freedom in this country, the freedom to vote… be taken from you.

This is a word-for-word lift from Bush, who said “I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer,” and backed up his talk with pre-emptive military action. Will Biden also act? Assume for argument that he’s right, that Trump allies are running for office with the purpose of stealing elections. Still, what does “I will not stand by and watch it” mean? Biden hinted that courses of action are available, but was unnervingly vague about what those are. “We are not powerless in the face of these threats,” he said. “We are not bystanders… it’s within our power… to stop the assault on… democracy.”

If he’s talking about voting, that’s one thing, but Biden’s extravagant use of the language of threat — he invoked the word nine times, besting even the seven mentions in the Bush/Frum speech — suggested other possibilities.

Modern Republicans bear a lot of responsibility for the fact, and I’d hope at least a few of the party’s officials are smarting from the irony now, but in the War on Terror age, the words presidents choose to describe antagonists unfortunately mean a lot. 21st century presidents can spy, kill, and imprison just by invoking that magic word, “threat,” and this is obvious and important subtext to Biden’s remarks.

Just over 20 years ago, when George W. Bush re-christened American citizen Jose Padilla an “enemy combatant” who posed a “serious and continuing threat” to America, the semantic change gave him power to detain the man three years without charge. Bush lawyers later claimed authority to use “enhanced interrogation” on “members of the enemy.” One could be put on a Watch List, with consequences ranging from restricted travel to cessation of government benefits to being denied a bank account, if judged to have “known or potential links to terrorism.” The Obama administration followed by sanctifying “targeted killing” even for an American deemed a “continued and imminent threat to U.S. persons or interests.”

This is why it matters when Biden describes “MAGA Republicans” as a “threat… to the very soul of this country,” or as “extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” representing “dangers around us we cannot allow to prevail.” It’s hard to see how these terms are substantively different from War on Terror constructions like the “continued and imminent threat to U.S. interests” or a “serious and continuing threat to the American people.” Biden sounded like a man preparing followers for an enforcement response to Trumpism itself, and even if that wasn’t what he was doing, it’s clear many Trump supporters heard things that way.

Biden went out of his way to quote federal judge Michael Luttig in calling the MAGA enemy a “clear and present danger.” The loaded term traces to a 1919 Supreme Court case in which Oliver Wendell Holmes created a test for judging if speech and/or other political activities may be suppressed. “The question,” Holmes wrote, “is whether the words… create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.” This “balancing test” was invoked to justify restrictions ranging from a ban on passing out antiwar leaflets to bars of membership in communist organizations. The “substantive evil” in such cases often involved a judgment that groups or individuals posed an active threat to overthrow the state — not so different from arguing that a political movement threatens “democracy itself.”

In the context of what increasingly feels like a fifties-style PR campaign to describe “MAGA Republicans” as dangerous subversives, “clear and present danger” sounded particularly ominous.

Biden made headlines last week when he denounced “extreme MAGA philosophy” as “like semi-fascism.” Later, DNC adviser Kurt Bardella went on MSNBC and said, “The MAGA Republicans are a domestic terrorist cell operating in America.” Bardella retweeted his comments in case anyone missed his point:

Atlantic contributor Peter Wehner went on Morning Joe and previewed a line that would appear in Biden’s speech, saying Republicans are a “dagger pointed at the throat of American democracy,” while New York Times writer Charles Blow said “the Republican Party itself is now a threat to our democracy.” The concept of MAGA Republicans as not merely disreputable, deplorable racists but an imminent terror threat is suddenly mainstream:

Seventy-four million people voted for Trump in 2020. It’s beyond delusional to think they are all violent extremists. A smart politician would recognize the overwhelming majority are just people who pay taxes, work crap jobs, raise kids, obey the law, and give at most a tiny share of attention to politics. The University of Virginia did a study arguing that as many as 8 million previously voted for Obama, so there’s that. I’d bet more than half would pick a screening of Thor: Love and Thunder over a Trump speech. The only sure way to radicalize the lot is to call them one big terror cell, or have the president go on TV to describe them as an existential threat to national security.

Having done that, Biden now has a bigger problem than ever. What a mess, but how perfectly in character for our leaders! Metaphorically we’re always blowing up villages and pyramids to chase a terror suspect into the desert. Now we’re factory-producing enemies at home, too, and it doesn’t look like anyone up there knows how to stop.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2022 8:21 am

I wonder when ASIO and the AFP will be arresting her for hate speech?

Australian university student magazine calls for ‘death to Israel’ (3 Sep)

The Aug. 4 article in On Dit, written by one of its editors, Habibah Jaghoori, was prompted by the three-day conflict last month between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. The conflict killed close to 50 Gazan civilians.

“The solution to achieving peace and bringing forth justice for Palestine is to demand the abolition of Israel,” Jaghoori wrote. “Free Palestine and Death to Israel.”

She should be deported immediately. As for the University of South Australia’s “support of academic freedom and freedom of speech” maybe they could comment about Peter Ridd’s rights in this regard.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 8:24 am

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and out & loud registered Democrat Walter Kirn.

@walterkirn
That weird speech last night really opened the crypt and let the bats fly out.
Meme wise, it will keep on giving until the authorities make it formally illegal to remember it.
It struck me as the production of a delusional in-crowd nearly fully divorced from outside input.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2022 8:27 am

Murrandoo Yanner, who in the 1990s famously led the successful fight for First Nations people to hunt traditional food on their country, fronted Mt Isa Court on Friday charged with five counts of dangerous drug supply, one count of possession, one count of fraud and two counts of unlawful stalking, a domestic violence offence.

Hasn’t he got form for assault?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2022 8:28 am

Oops, correction: it was University of Adelaide, not U of SA. Sorry.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 4, 2022 8:35 am
Mater
September 4, 2022 8:37 am

This man gets it said.

Johnny Rotten
September 4, 2022 8:37 am

Matersays:
September 4, 2022 at 7:45 am
“I, on the other hand, have tried for two decades to build a new socialist order in Germany, with a minimum of interference and without harming our productive capacity. This has not only eliminated unemployment, but also the profits of labor have flowed increasingly to working people.

The results of our policies are unique in all the world. Our economic and social reorganization has led to the systematic elimination of social and class barriers, with the goal of a true people’s community.”

Hitler’s “Barbarossa” Proclamation, (June 22, 1941)

Yes, yes, Monty.
Hitler was clearly a ‘Conservative’!

Hitler had Nazi Germany invade the USSR in 1941 primarily as they were running out of Wheat for food and Oil for the Armed Forces as well as the need for other essential commodities (Iron Ore and other Metals). There was also the issue of needing more room for the German people.

Some ‘Conservative’…………LOL.

His Proclamation was pure Propaganda. There never were 160 USSR Divisions on the Border and Stalin was taken by complete surprise. He didn’t even believe his own Intelligence Services who were warning him of an imminent attack by Nazi Germany. The USSR was completely unprepared.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 4, 2022 8:37 am

Indeed visiting Civil War battlefields. So far:

Bull Run 1
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville

Also went and gave Enola Gay a pat in the Smithsonian.

Mater
September 4, 2022 8:44 am

His Proclamation was pure Propaganda.

Of course it was, but the economy and business was not something he could hide from the masses living it, so that part was true.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 8:47 am

m0ntysays:
September 4, 2022 at 7:31 am
But do you think that a prescient centre-leftist in the Weimar Republic would have said “let’s help Hitler’s candidates win the primaries because that will give us better odds against the conservatives in the general”?

Whoa whoa whoa Tim. You are telling me that Hitler was a conservative? And that Trump is analogous to Hitler?

What a spectacular own goal you just scored.

I see that the concept of the simile did not make it into what passed for m0nty-fa’s “education”, much as the concept of economics also failed to make the grade.

Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

What a spectacular own goal he just scored.

shatterzzz
September 4, 2022 8:49 am

Indeed visiting Civil War battlefields. So far:
Bull Run 1
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Also went and gave Enola Gay a pat in the Smithsonian.

Don’t miss Gettysburg & if your in Richmond .. the Confederate White House Museum, Tredegar Iron Works where they manufactured their cannon & ammo supplies is a must plus Hollywood Cemetery last home to lotza Confederate soldiers .. plus Appomattox Court House isn’t too far out of Richmond either ….!

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 8:50 am

m0ntysays:
September 4, 2022 at 7:58 am
Don’t tell me Mater, it’s your boy Tim N who said it.

And m0nty-fa was (and still is) too stupid to comprehend.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2022 8:51 am

Business opportunity for the entrepreneurially-minded. The PR/advisory roles in this country (but not just this country) have been gaily sailing down the ‘special interest’ path for some years now, and there might be a buck in it for people that can read the room. The Hun:

It’s a real life case of Morning Wars as shows across all networks wonder where hundreds of thousands of breakfast TV viewers have gone.

I know where they’ve gone. Away.

In November of 2019, Sunrise, Today and ABC News Breakfast pulled a collective audience of 672,000. Just three years later, that’s down to 498,000 – a loss of 174,000 viewers. In fact, in December of 2020, Sunrise had an average 448,000 viewers nationally – a figure which is now just short of total viewers for all networks combined.

Geez. How could this have happened? A bloke called David Knox from TV Tonight (a TV blog, of all things) reckons he’s on the money:

“Over the past year there was a fair bit of commentary around how presenters approached lockdowns, border bans and state premiers and it may have prompted some to switch allegiances or seek out new alternatives,” he told Confidential.

‘How presenters approached lockdowns’ was a cavalcade of untalented, unqualified dunderheads with zero life or business experience regurgitating propaganda fed to them by the abovementioned PR ‘advisers’ on the basis that someone in a focus group said it was good.

As always, what the hairy lesbians and effeminate Catweazle-beard-wearing types in these cloistered environments* believe is contrary to functioning economies, education systems and societies.

Behind the scenes at Sunrise, they are working on strategies to win back viewers.

Almost a dozen senior reporters, producers and employees in on-air, sponsorship and digital positions have parted ways with the network for other jobs in the last six months, prompting new Sunrise EP Sean Power to take to Twitter recently to advertise two producing roles currently available.

If you want people to watch you on the picture wireless, provide them with a reason to do so rather than filling their screens with horseshit. Give the system a chance to work, and it works.

*Read – ‘taxpayer-funded’.

Indolent
Indolent
September 4, 2022 8:51 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2022 8:54 am

Indeed visiting Civil War battlefields. So far:

On a tour, or as an individual? A tour of Civil War battlefields is on my bucket list.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2022 9:01 am

The Walking Dead will be viewed as a documentary.

Now a biotechnology company based in Seattle says the US Food and Drug Administration has agreed to let it move forward with the first study in humans of a new type of gene therapy, using genetically engineered B cells. The company, Immusoft, plans to harness B cells to treat a rare inherited disease called MPS-1.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/01/1058830/next-act-antibody-cells-new-form-of-gene-therapy?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=09-01-2022&mc_cid=0b6c9d5e5f&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 9:02 am

Taibbi is a man of the left, but not of Biden’s fascist left.

And, ROFLMAO, the “Nuremberg” speech was at least partially lifted from a George W Bush/(Lesser Satan) David Frum speech, with a touch of Dr Seuss!

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 4, 2022 9:02 am

Gettysburg is coming up about 10 days away – we are still heading south at present. I was there about 15 years ago – we are staying overnight so will have a good walk around.

No, just me and Mrs TE, Zulu. We have a car now, but when in NY and Washington used public transport.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 4, 2022 9:08 am

If you want people to watch you on the picture wireless, provide them with a reason to do so rather than filling their screens with horseshit. Give the system a chance to work, and it works.

Mrs D knows better than to have either of 7 or 9 breakfast shows on, and especially not 7 . I know it’s supposed to be light, but I have 0 interest in what celebrities think, say or do, and even less about sport.

The last time I watched 7 was Kockheads climate change “debate” with Bolta. As for the ABC, the only time I deliberately put it on is when the grandkids come over and we put ABC kids on.

If we want morning news we will put the teev on Sky News

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2022 9:09 am

mUnty abandons the (failed) undergraduate caricature that he mistakes for thought and resorts to abuse. Fuckwit.

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2022 9:12 am

Hillary Clinton in 2016, “half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables”.

The Sniffer in Chief in 2022, ““MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies. Together, we can choose a different path,”

Monty in 2022, Jew haters have “legitimate grievances”.

Makka
Makka
September 4, 2022 9:18 am

Hitler had Nazi Germany invade the USSR in 1941 primarily as they were running out of Wheat for food and Oil for the Armed Forces as well as the need for other essential commodities (Iron Ore and other Metals).

At that stage of the war and well before, Sweden was doing significant trade with Hitler’s Germany for iron or and other metals.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 4, 2022 9:21 am

Even Sky news goes down the left sinkhole. It pumps the leftist version of the news and is v similar to ch 7 inc. hence there is no morning tv in this household.

sky’s editorial and opinion shows are more watchable Credlin, Bolt, Murray, panahi, and Dean.

As for falling ratings, I look no further than my teenage son who rarely if ever watches tv. It’s all online games and the inter web machine. I don’t know how Msm is able to pay the bills.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 9:26 am

Fair Shake

As for falling ratings, I look no further than my teenage son who rarely if ever watches tv. It’s all online games and the inter web machine. I don’t know how Msm is able to pay the bills.

Look at the quantity of government funded advertising on FTA TV, and remember that your wallet is being given a fair shake to pay for it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2022 9:27 am

TV outside of live sport is going the way of candlestick makers. Subscription TV may survive in some form because most people lack the intellect to amuse themselves or fill their time productively.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 4, 2022 9:28 am

At that stage of the war and well before, Sweden was doing significant trade with Hitler’s Germany for iron or and other metals.

As good Socialists AH and Goering (head of the 4 year plan) subscribed to the Diminishing Markets Theory/Fallacy, which is why he went “all in” on Autarky.
If he could have avoided trade, which means he would have to deal with the “capitalistic international banking system”, he would have.

Iron ore he could not get internally, and because the economy was centrally planned with steel for armaments as the number 1 priority, he had no choice.

P
P
September 4, 2022 9:31 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 9:33 am

From Spiked On-Line.

Here we had agents of the American security state essentially leaning on Big Tech firms to censor certain content. As a consequence, a story that could well have influenced the 2020 election result was expunged from much of the digital public square, while Democratic politicians and former intelligence chiefs egged Big Tech on. If that’s not an authoritarian threat to democracy, I don’t know what is. In Twitter’s case, users were banned from sharing the link at all and the Post, America’s oldest daily newspaper, was locked out of its account. All of this utterly explodes the old deflection about Big Tech censorship – that it is just private companies doing as they please – and shows us how destructive this fusion of the security state, sections of the political class and big business is in American life today. Dissent can be crushed with incredible speed and efficiency, while the feds and the politicians can keep their hands clean.

To borrow something that m0nty-fa posted some time ago, “Fascism, straight up”.

Zipster
Zipster
September 4, 2022 9:33 am

Joe Biden is the real clear and present danger to democracy

biden is a senile incompetent career corruptocrat. it’s the woke criminal obama cartel behind him that is evil. obama would have been fully briefed on bidens corruption and for that matter others as well and accepted it all.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2022 9:34 am

H B Bearsays:
September 4, 2022 at 9:27 am
TV outside of live sport is going the way of candlestick makers.

Not while the stations are willing to broadcast paid government propaganda.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 4, 2022 9:36 am

TV outside of live sport is going the way of candlestick makers.

Even live sport as it goes “woke”

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 4, 2022 9:41 am

It’s best to give up tv altogether. It really is a load of shit. I do use YouTube a lot. Been rewatching capital city from the very late 80s. Fairly light weight but high quality compared to the muck offered now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2022 9:41 am

Diogenes- interesting to watch the US PGA contortions. Just another monopolist trying to maintain its market.

Winston Smith
September 4, 2022 9:43 am

JC:

WTF was the military guard hanging around for?

It was a subtle message regarding who commands the military.
OK – not so subtle.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 4, 2022 9:44 am

The old thief is evil too. Ask Clarence Thomas.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 4, 2022 9:45 am

Rita Panihi
Summing up Peanut Head’s Snowy 2.0 disaster and the enthusiastic supporters as a person.
“It’s like a child who got just crazy on cordial and is sugared up and is coming up with crazy things.”
Perfect.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2022 9:48 am

Not while the stations are willing to broadcast paid government propaganda

Government ads will be the last to disappear because they are bought by the dumbest buyers – public servants with OPM.

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