And in Sydney Vice-Chancellor Scott’s advice to Jewish students is to ‘toughen up’. That’s what the good Germans said about…
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Distraction squirrels can cause your appendages to drop off. In medieval England, leprosy spread between red squirrels and people, genome…
The intelligentsia believe in the dogma of human progress. That makes them very dangerous. See the Russian revolution, for example,…
Of cause the DV fuss is a distraction squirrel. But it was brilliantly planned and implemented.
Dregs of the middle class. More dregs of the upper middle class really. That foul trio have an aristocratic demeanor.
Lol, it didn’t take long for him to get his green crown on.
King Charles told to stay away from Cop27 climate summit by Liz Truss (1 Oct)
He so wants to save the planet. Good on Ms Truss for giving him a rap over the knuckles.
Calli:
Yes, but it also allows the weirdos a chance to have their say.
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred crazed lunatics get it off their chests,”
Is it too early on a Sunday morning for popcorn?
Feminists Attacked at Pro-Abortion Rally for Not Believing Men Can Have Abortions: Reports (1 Oct)
Apparently men can now have abortions, and if you dare to say otherwise you will be beaten up by trannies. Surreal.
Interesting discussion about the Euro, though France I think is 75% nuke and won’t be so affected by the end of Russian gas.
And yes, Germany in winter with solar and wind is deplorable, southern Europe during won’t collapse so badly, not during the day anyhow. It’s mostly sunny.
according to the ABS Australian international departures reached around one million in July, still less than half of pre covid levels.
Only the very bravest left in late 2021 😉
Link to the comparison between 6.5 Creedmore and .300 Blackout.
At the Australian. Paywalled.
Might be the reason, demand outstripping supply.
Hopefully the government abolishing quarantine for the covid positive means more staff are available so there can be more flights, international and domestic.
The regional airline my family used to go to Queensland quietly cancelled that service after June, when the last member of my family used it.
Very inconvenient.
Airfares reach crazy new heights in post-Covid travel boom
The incarceration of Aussies has not gone unnoticed. The group is, as I imagined, mostly Americans, one Canadian and two other Aussies.
They were asking about it, which was odd. Usually they are more concerned with their own affairs.
I got asked the same questions in regional Queensland when people found out I was from Melbourne.
Bruce O’Newk:
I’m rereading Kurt Schlicters’ series on the future US when it splits into the USA and the Peoples Republic.
The Northern half – the Peoples Republic – is like a Woke East Germany but not as well run…
The dialogues are full of the quote above.
When white people get blamed for racism
Quite
Thanks Tom
From David Maddison on Jo Nova’s Blog –
More Fake News from CNN, this time about the Florida hurricane. An actor-reporter pretends to be blown about by the wind while someone calmly walks by in the background. Of course, this is not the first fake weather reporting of this nature. Another one is mentioned in the linked video plus there have been others.
https://youtu.be/cuXNlD_hoD0
More Climate Change BS……………………………
I’m sure I read, some time ago, that Arabs/Muslims ‘invented’ racism, why the word abeed means both black and slave.
a Guardian read
Another fake weather report.
https://youtu.be/ZyrRCx8-fZk
A woman goes to her priest one day and tells him “Father, I have a problem. I have two female talking parrots, but they only know how to say one thing”. “What do they say?” the priest inquired. “They say ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?’” “That’s obscene!” the priest exclaimed.
Then he thought for a moment. “You know” he said “I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots whom I have taught to pray and read the bible. Bring your two female parrots over to my house, and we’ll put them in the cage with Francis and Job. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying… that phrase… in no time”. “Thank you” the woman responded “this may very well be the solution”.
The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest’s house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage, holding rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them.
After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison “Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?”
There was a stunned silence. Finally, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed “Put the beads away, Francis, our prayers have been answered!”
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
– Confucius
Phun and Filosophy with Johnny Rotten
Stacey Abrams finally had her 2018 lawsuit challenging her election loss thrown out.
It’s been a great fund raiser for almost 4 years especially from out of state donors.
Not as good as the GOP’s stop the steal fund raising scam (over $US200mill) that didn’t contribute a dollar when/where it was needed.
Dover.
You still haven’t answered my question.
Discussing mental sickness on the open thread is not feuding.
unless it isn’t an open thread.
We see KD has totally lost it on being confronted with the truth ….now babbling incoherently about bending the knee to corporates.
Like a pissed off school girl with no argument.
We see Sancho describing the excess death figures put out by the ABS as fringe rubbish from the Expose’.
The evil and selfish notafan rejoicing in being somewhere akin to a blogging safe space now.
If these…..and this is just a few ….examples of the mental deterioration of the weak minded can’t be talked about because it offends them, what hole have you dug for yourself?
Or what hole have they got you to go down?
These people are not healthy.
Discussing and using them as examples showing denialism is not feuding. …so is it now just a safe space for whiny ill Koalas?
Where’s choo choo….?
Tick tick tick…………
Jimmy Dore collection of fake weather reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXNlD_hoD0
Can’t go a day without seeing ambulances everywhere with their lights flashing but the sirens off.
Can’t afford to be too noisy and wake the weak minds from their denialist bubbles.
Get a grip.
Ashli Babbitt is in Naval Intelligence.
She’s a Spook.
One guy did die that day, cop Brian Sicknick, he hadda heart attack.
Outsida him Jan.6 was a hoax
m0ntysays:
October 1, 2022 at 11:20 pm
Oh yes, poor Ashli Babbitt the victim of circumstance.
She was obviously tricked into poking her head through a smashed window of a door where legislators were cowering in fear of an angry mob.
You can’t really blame her for being at the front line of an organised insurrection.
Delicate petal, she was just a flower crushed under the jackboot of democracy.
Silly m0nty-fa, still touting the only unarmed insurrection in history. Still in denial about the presence of provocateurs who led the way forward, then faded away into the background.
Still has nothing to say about the DemonRats who invaded the Capitol in 2018, during the Kananaugh hearings.
But he just lurrrrves his new selection of black shirts.
Fascist!
Plausible, I guess.
After all, Arky is NSA.
MatrixTransformsays:
October 1, 2022 at 11:37 pm
mUnty is an idiot
Flattery will get you nowhere with him.
Leading doctors in the UK who were on the tele promoting the jab calling themselves wilfully ignorant and pleading for the jab to be stopped as their healthy relatives die.
Meanwhile Tom is relorting on the races so that the Darwin barfly doesn’t forget to put a bet on.
Put that durrie out first KD.
You know Charlene has chatted you about that before.
I don’t think enyone invented racism, rosie.
Xenophobia is a natural reaction when incountering a different culture. It’s only a recent idea to blindly embrace all.
Matersays:
October 2, 2022 at 12:03 am
That comment diminishes you.
He’s just taking his ‘punch a Nazi whenever you see him’ theory, to it’s natural extension.
Minor correction, Mater.m0nty-fa doesn’t actually enter the front line of the “punch a Nazi” movement. He cheers the movement on from the comfort of the Member’s Lounge. Lots of belly, but no actual guts.
How does it feel to be a failure Ken of the couch? Supported by the mail order bride while you sooked on the couch coz no one paid the slightest bit of attention to you. The only thing that goes on in what passes for a brain is tick tick, choo choo, denialists, sneerers and other dribbling nonsense. Go back to the furniture shop for some adulation. You’ll be in fine company with the other dribbling idiots.
m0nty-fa
where cops with guns were protecting legislators from an actual lynch mob
Put down the bong. BLM was not involved in the protest.
Winston Smithsays:
October 2, 2022 at 6:57 am
Calli:
The internet is a very strange place.
Yes, but it also allows the weirdos a chance to have their say.
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred crazed lunatics get it off their chests,”
Bur enough about m0nty-fa, who seems to have found a source of Kripsy Kremes in Busselton late last night.
Hold on, Alexander the Great and Jesus Christ taught tolerance but they did not teach us to be blind.
Yep.
Spook.
Puffed Qanon, et, etc.
Spook.
Hoax.
I didn’t say that Dot.
There is a possibility you could be right. We were all treated like a giant lab experiment. Where is the evidence you are right though?
Evidence, not suspicion.
You can barely call someone a “denier!” off suspicion.
We need to be precise bespoke. I know you didn’t say it. It’s worth pointing out though.
Putin and the US intel community have an awful lot in common.
They’re giant, giant bullshitters.
Dickless
Ashli Babbitt is in Naval Intelligence
She was in the Air Force. What actual, you know, “evidence” do you have of a Naval Intelligence connection?
Watch the disgusting moment feral Aussie soccer fans BOO during the Welcome to Country and make Nazi salutes at historic cup final: ‘Pathetic. Absolute village mentality’
From the Comments
– Everyone is sick and tired and being forced to watch this in every sport.
– Welcome to country needs to stop, as its crept into all aspects of our worklife & is just expected without debate. I was born here in Australia & I dont need to welcome myself to my own place of birth.
– The fans clearly don’t want politics injected into their game.
Ed Casesays:
October 2, 2022 at 9:09 am
Yep.
Spook.
Puffed Qanon, et, etc.
Spook.
Hoax.
Dickless
Because you are soooo stupid, let me take this slowly, to give yoy=u time to look at all the letters in the words.
You link refers to the US Air Force. This is not the same organisation as the US Navy. Also, “security forces” more likely refers to physical security (guards at the gates, or patrolling the base) than to Air Force (much less Naval) intelligence.
Try to keep up.
give you time
OK Dot
I was referring to the ‘progressive’ ideology.
Cheers.
I dodged most of the immediate impacts of hurricane Ian. My mates have been loading up relief supplies and dragging them into the impacted areas. They were hit pretty bad.
I generally despise the Red Cross (from previous experience) but I have to admit I’m impressed with their soup kitchens and such which arrived while the hurricane was still doing its thing.
Given a choice tho, I’d donate to the church groups in the US who have taken on hurricane relief as a constant project. They are freaking amazing and are equipped like an Army kitchen that can set up in an hour and be feeding thousands an hour later, all by volunteers and donations.
As in any big storm, the major need afterwards is fresh water. That’s a challenge given the pollution of all water sources by this storm. The national guard and military have deployed reverse osmosis systems, some by parachute, but their capacity was never designed to replace what they are being asked to.
Advice for potential cyclone folks, potable water is key.
There’s a short clip with Hannity. Bottom line (in case we didn’t know) the government is conspiring with big tech to censure their opponents.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
I have been notified that my Twitter handle was very much targeted on this list. We’re gathering more info as we determine how best to respond.
The bottom line is this: After the election and especially after J6, engagement on Twitter was decimated.
And then an enemies list. Want to guess who’s No. 1?
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Lol – I’m #7
UNFORGIVABLE: At least 163 Children dead, 1.2k disabled, 15k hospitalised & 58k injured due to Covid-19 Vaccination in the USA according to CDC
Doctor claims 50% of Children who suffer Myocarditis due to COVID Vaccination will be dead within 5 years
I don’t think enyone invented racism, rosie.
Xenophobia is a natural reaction when incountering a different culture. It’s only a recent idea to blindly embrace all.
Perfectly natural. You don’t know whether the member of another culture, who you are meeting for first time, is sizing you up for the cookpot. Which might be perfectly fine by the other cultures mores and norms.
http://www.american-rattlesnake.org/2011/09/the-stranger/
Kipling, of course.
Correct.
Parrothead knows he’s getting the arse, but he forced Albanese to end the Covid isolation rules, so he’s done something right.
This is pretty worrying.
The case against fluoride
1. She was ambushed.
2. Lt. Michael Byrd panicked and ignored use of force protocol.
3. Babbitt was trying to stop an attack on the Speaker’s Lobby. Her family alleges that a video only shows her being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She recognizes that and tries to extricate herself from the situation. That’s when she gets shot and killed by police.
Despite my polite answer to your question M0nty, I still think you are a real grub to put down a murdered woman as a delicate petal.
Is Ed confusing the USAF security police (nuclear bomb and airfield/weapons/hangar guards) with US Navy intelligence???
This is a rare gem of stupidity.
Biden Thanks Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer He’s Kicking Out over Vaccine Mandate
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
Liberty Wept
Roger Kimball
The fate of conservatism in an age of illegitimacy
Conservatism, in any normal understanding of the word, depends upon a generally acknowledged and widely shared sense of legitimacy if it is to survive.
Absent the authority of legitimacy, conservatism has nothing to conserve. It floats anchorless. In so far as its habits, rituals, and formalities persist, they contract into increasingly antiquarian gestures, detached from the vital pulse of lived experience. In such situations, conservatism degenerates into a largely rhetorical exercise. It mouths the same pieties that once rallied the troops, but it does so nervously, either without conviction or with that brittle belligerence that substitutes for conviction in decadent times.
There are several ways in which a regime can declare its illegitimacy. One way is when its governing apparatus becomes detached from or is at odds with the laws and mores that define it. This can happen, in fact it usually does happen, even when a soothing political rhetoric assures the public that everything is just fine, that the canons of our forefathers are just as operative today as they were in the past.
Examples are not far to seek.
Ronald Reagan is out of fashion these days, but I think that the fortieth President of the United States was right when he observed that “Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive: A system,” Reagan continued, “of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in family and faith.”
Whether what Reagan says is true of democracy itself is something that we might, with Tocqueville, and with sadness, want to question. Too often democracy has been prey to deformations that encourage rather than retard the growth of government.
Illegitimacy occurs when there is serious disjunction between precept and actual behavior. Article I of the Constitution vests all legislative power in the Congress. But for many decades now, Congress has been assiduous in avoiding that duty
Indeed, Americans today find their lives directed by a jumble of agencies far removed from the legislature and staffed by bureaucrats who make and enforce a vast network of rules that govern nearly every aspect of our lives.
A closer look at the so-called “knowledge class” shows that what it knows best is how to preserve and extend its own privileges. Its activities are swaddled in do-gooder rhetoric about serving the public, looking after “the environment,” helping the disadvantaged, fighting racism, and similar performative kindnesses. But what they chiefly excel at is consolidating and extending their own power.
That discovery stands behind the growth of the administrative state. We still vote. We still have a bicameral legislature. But the institutions that govern our politics are increasing decadent: that is, they are empty shells that merely look like their democratic originals. As Tocqueville noted in his analysis of governmental paternalism, “Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms.”
One sign of that decadence is the resignation that now greets every fresh assault on the impartiality upon which the rule of law, and hence liberty, depend.
Remember what happened to Mike Flynn? He was set up by the FBI and then lost his job as national security advisor and was bankrupted trying to defend himself. What happened to Kevin Clinesmith? In 2020, he pleaded guilty to doctoring the email and was sentenced to probation. What Clinesmith did is a felony. Usually, a lawyer who is convicted of a felony is disbarred. Clinesmith got probation.
It’s all part of our two-tier, which is to say, illegitimate system of putative justice. If you are a Deplorable, you do not have the same rights and privileges that the elite have.
Today, the Left says things they would hitherto only have thought, and does things that they would hitherto only have said. It used to be that there was a certain latitude accorded to opposing views. That’s all over now. What we see is the triumph not just of political correctness but also of visceral intolerance that nurtures a “by-any-means-necessary” attitude. Every issue is an existential emergency for which the Left’s shock troops are willing to go to the wall.
The Right’s problem has been that it was too frightened by the Left to respond effectively. Deep down, many on the right secretly agreed that only the Left was allowed to win. In some precincts, anyway, that may be changing.
The second thing worth bearing in mind is that this novel exhibition of backbone by the Right is down almost entirely to Donald Trump. The promiscuous desire to be liked is a common character flaw. Donald Trump does not suffer from that disability.
Donald Trump’s governing passion can be summed up in one word: winning. Similarly, his path to that goal can be summed up in one word: fighting. He showed the Right that it was OK to win and that the way to win was to stand up for the things you professed to care about.
The third choice is the perhaps paradoxical option of we might call Alinskyite conservatism, after the canny left-wing activist Saul Alinsky. This option eschews the quietism of surrender for the activism of what Trump called “winning.”
How is this to be accomplished? One major goal must be to downgrade the place of Washington, the spirit as well as the city, in the metabolism of American political life. Legitimacy is draining out of our governing institutions at an alarming rate. Stanching that debilitating flow requires that we redirect our attention away from the greedy puppet show in Washington to the true source of legitimacy, which is with the people. As I have suggested elsewhere, we might start by moving the next presidential inauguration out of Washington altogether.
There are messy ways that other countries throughout history have dealt with a regime party that is thoroughly corrupt. The process is seldom edifying, even if, in the end, it is cathartic. A kinder, gentler alternative would be to treat Washington, D.C. as Hercules did the Augean Stables. I doubt that the Potomac, suitably diverted, would sport enough water to do the job, but moving the government, piece by piece, out of Washington, beginning with the ceremonial occasion of the inauguration, might be the least expensive, and least sanguinary, alternative.
An Extremely Long but Excellent Read
It’s not merely xenophobia, it’s the notion that other skin colours are inferior.
People can also distrust and make war against people with the same colour skin, in the next town over.
We’re not meeting on the plains with spears and clubs anymore though.
Every major culture has a religion which at least teaches civility and hospitality.
No.
Everyone hates it.
A great line from Tom’s link to WIP:
White House spokestoken Karine Jean-Paul Sartre
Ed is.
She’s still a Spook though, still alive, and Jan 6 was a hoax.
They spend $476 mil./year on Capitol Security, you seriously think they’re just gonna stand there scratchin’ their ass while a real Insurrection is happ’nin’?
M0nty
Sounds like you are enjoying all the misery, destruction and death that comes with war.
Really?
So, an Albino Negro would be acceptable to marry a white racist’s daughter?
Does your wife do a Welcome to Home, every time you do come home?
Every major culture has a religion which at least teaches civility and hospitality.
The problem is that the two different cultures may have quite different ideas about “civility and hospitality”. Or you might run in to a member who doesn’t subscribe to that religion.
Ed Casesays:
October 2, 2022 at 9:42 am
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
This gem of “wisdom” from the idiot who thinks that $33 billion pa, on top of the same benefits all citizens are entitled to access, is “crumbs from the table”.
His brains (such as they are) seem to have been crumbed.
– Everyone is sick and tired and being forced to watch this in every sport.
I never switch televised sport on until a coupla minute past the advertised starting time nowadays .. to avoid the rubbish!
Dickless
They spend $476 mil./year on Capitol Security, you seriously think they’re just gonna stand there scratchin’ their ass while a real Insurrection is happ’nin’?
When did this “real Insurrection” happen? The armed one, not the unarmed one.
I remember while living in FNQ back in the day, besides filling the bathtub and every bucket and drum we could find, the FIL offered to dump his home brew from his brewery liberated kegs. Too drastic , we thought.
Yeah, and they’re arrogant about it too.
UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to ensure only UN climate results appear (WUWT, 1 Oct)
Ed Casesays:
October 2, 2022 at 9:42 am
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
They will be having these shows at Kindergarten’s next…………………………..FFS
I recently participated in a Teleconference which involved Public Servants from all around the Country.
Of course, a Welcome to Country from the Chair, before opening remarks. Then throughout the whole meeting, when one or other of the numerous Public Servants raised their cyber hand to speak, they each did a separate Welcome to Country prior to making their point…because they were ‘broadcasting’ from the lands of a different tribe. I dare say they felt obliged because of strict departmental policy, though I’m in no doubt that many were true believers.
Random Welcome to Country’s thrown in throughout the meeting, and it took up a significant portion of the whole meeting.
It was a fucking joke, and quite reflective of the level of ridiculous to which we have now climbed. Lucky my camera wasn’t on, or they may have been able to lip read the many “What The Fuck’s!” which entered my muted microphone.
Too stupid to survive.
And you were right. Because invariably the day after a cyclone or hurricane, the sun is shining and the air is more clear than ever.
Relax and enjoy your beer mate, because the cleaning up and repairing is going to be a nightmare.
US is overreaching in Ukraine – Washington Examiner
All empires overreach themselves. Even if, like the United States, they aren’t empires in the traditional sense. This get-out clause began to lose its credibility around the time of the Monroe Doctrine and should not be taken seriously by a thinking person or even a career politician. As the nature of power projection changes, so the nature of empire changes. Power is not only projected by military strength or subjugating populations. It is also projected by influence over local elites and by control over resources, communications, currencies, and systems of economic exchange.
The war with Russia in Ukraine demonstrates America’s quasi-imperial reach. But it also shows how the country’s strategic goals are beyond its grasp. The Biden administration’s stated goal in Ukraine is to force Russia to withdraw entirely from Ukrainian territory. The administration’s unstated goals are to destroy Russia’s military and economy, harden the European Union’s eastern border, permanently establish NATO garrisons on Russia’s doorstep, and, as President Joe Biden stated openly when he visited Poland, bring down Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Our docile media repeat the administration’s line that we are not really at war with Russia, but we are. The administration has used the global financial system as a weapon of economic warfare against Russia. The proxies in our supposed proxy war include not just Ukrainian troops, but also American technology and American troops. The Ukrainian military’s communications are protected from Russian jamming because they use Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite. The American government is paying American manufacturers to send state-of-the-art weaponry to Ukraine in order to destroy Russian equipment and kill Russian soldiers. American soldiers train Ukrainians in the use of the HIMARS rocket artillery system.
Every administration since the Truman presidency inherits the assets of global influence. Most cannot resist the impulse to spend it. Few spend it wisely. The Biden administration is squandering it out of arrogance and panic.
As of this week, Congress will have sent $65 billion to Ukraine. Russia continues to control most of southern and eastern Ukraine, and Putin very much remains in power.
Biden and Putin are playing chicken over Ukraine. The player who will blink first is Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany. Winter is coming.
Biden’s economic warfare might not have beaten Russia, but it’s driving America’s European allies into a recession. It’s not doing much for Americans, either. The dollar gets almightier by the day as the tired, poor, and huddled masses of foreign investors seek a safe haven for their pounds, euros, and yen. Prices of imports rise with it. Meanwhile, rising energy prices have boosted Russia’s energy export earnings by 38% this year. Russian oil exports have risen by 12% despite six rounds of economic sanctions.
The U.S. is fighting a war on the other side of Europe that it cannot win, and the Europeans don’t want a war at all. This is the very definition of overreach
I see Matt Guy’s new campaign vid has been taken down. Lasted a day on fascist book.
Made up bullshit – invented as a tool for pulling the legs of gullible whitefella’s.
Sacre bleu!
Those perfidious saboteurs used les quadcopters aquatique.
See 00:19.
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have,
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that “thugby” embraced the “welcome to country” gimmick so wholeheartedly when they realised the cost was a lot cheaper than the cheer leading troupes ..
Ed Case says:
October 2, 2022 at 9:42 am
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
If it was a genuine tradition I might consider it. But very aboriginal Ernie Dingo and other real aboriginal people have rubbished “welcome to country” as a new invention and nothing to do with culture. Just a money grab.
The only part of it that I like is laughing at all the dumb white fella that fall for it.
How dare you!
Matersays:
October 2, 2022 at 10:11 am
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
I recently participated in a Teleconference which involved Public Servants from all around the Country.
Random Welcome to Country’s thrown in throughout the meeting, and it took up a significant portion of the whole meeting.
It was a fucking joke, and quite reflective of the level of ridiculous to which we have now climbed. Lucky my camera wasn’t on, or they may have been able to lip read the many “What The Fuck’s!” which entered my muted microphone.
Too stupid to survive.
My wife, who is the caring Member of our family, has also become sick and tired of “Welcome to Country” – as a descendent from the 1st Fleet, it is her/mine/all of our country
The positive point to take from the Football Match, is that more Australians are sick and tired of “Welcome to Country” and it will push them to NO in Voice
Trump Live now
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/01/president-trump-save-america-rally-live-in-warren-mi-10-1-22/
You’d have to be a dickhead to think that. Oh..
Johnny Rottensays:
October 2, 2022 at 10:06 am
Ed Casesays:
October 2, 2022 at 9:42 am
Welcome To Country is a nice thing to have, you’ve gotta be a mean spirited misery guts not to acknowledge that.
They will be having these shows at Kindergarten’s next…………………………..FFS
Johnny,
you obviously haven’t been to a Kindergarten recently – they do the “Welcome to Country” – one of the reasons my wife has been turned off the whole exercise
thugby
How dare you!
I’m a proud TOON man .. LOL!
Oh yes, poor Ashli Babbitt the victim of circumstance.
She was obviously tricked into poking her head through a smashed window of a door where legislators were cowering in fear of an angry mob.
You can’t really blame her for being at the front line of an organised insurrection.
Delicate petal, she was just a flower crushed under the jackboot of democracy.
You’re a kunt dickless, a low-life grub.
Hell is Peter Doocy.
I think you will find that to be an accredited pre-school child minding centre in my neck of the woods (sunny Northern Beaches) many….many indigenous displays are mandatory. Inspections are made to check on compliance.
The only thing I am unsure of is whether it’s a local council diktat or State Government.
‘Welcome to Country’ has nothing to do with blackfellas. It is a public acknowledgement of subservience and obedience to the leadership class’s tribe.
Having publicly declared your subservience and obedience to the tribe, you forego your right to object to any and all dictates of the tribe on any matter — backed up by the news and entertainment media, which is totally on board with passing political fads like ‘welcome to country’.
Proceeding from these simple and very logical points, let me ask the representative of the United States this one thing. Can you confirm, here and now, that your country has nothing to do with this sabotage?
Colleagues, of course we do not expect to identify and punish the perpetrators today. The Security Council is not a judiciary body and should assume no such tasks. So Russia stands for a comprehensive investigation that should clarify the true circumstances of what happened with the pipeline.
Today, we very much like to hear the opinion of our European colleagues, learn your official position. We hope that you will abstain from Russophobic and senseless spiel which you resorted to when we were talking about attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP by Ukrainian armed forces. Or should we anticipate a statement where you will say that after the “masochistic” shelling of the ZNPP where our forces are deployed, we started exploding our own pipelines?
It is obvious that a sabotage of such scale and complexity cannot be carried out by ordinary terrorists. We consider the assault against the Nord Stream pipeline as a premeditated sabotage of Russia’s key energy infrastructure facility. Such attack could not have been carried out without involvement of state or state-controlled entities. We will surely identify all who were complicit in this sabotage. Those who stood behind it cannot be considered as a non-side in an armed conflict. Neither can they count on a neutral status that Western states already violated. Besides, an international investigation of the incident can only claim to be objective if Russian experts take part in it. Also, we believe the investigation should involve not only Denmark and Sweden, but also representatives of the German side, because Germany is the main recipient of the LNG transported by the Nord Stream.
If involvement of certain states in those terrorist attacks is proven, this will mean deliberate escalation of the conflict. Colleagues, I hope all in this chamber realize to what dangerous line the perpetrators of this sabotage are driving us.
Thank you.
In response to the representative of the United States:
Mr.President,
I thank my American colleague for giving a straightforward answer to my question.
I asked: “Can you confirm here and now that your country has nothing to do with this sabotage?” What my American colleague has just said in this chamber is that the United States denies any involvement in this incident. I appreciate his response. But now that I have heard what you and also our British colleague said, I would like to ask another question. What exactly do you call Russian disinformation and conspiracy theories? We did not call anyone responsible before the investigation. We just cited some facts. You cannot deny that your president said what he said publicly, can you? We just provided some quotes of what he said.
NATO exercise BALTOPS in June 2022 near the island of Bornholm is a fact. Former Foreign Minister of Poland R.Sikorski publishing the tweet that I showed you, where he thanked the US for what had happened at the pipe is a fact. Launch of the Baltic Pipe connecting Norway and Poland is a fact. NATO speaking about sabotage and inadmissibility of strikes against its infrastructure is yet another fact. Those are mere facts. Are you going to argue that the current energy crisis objectively makes American energy suppliers more competitive? Is it also a conspiracy theory? No, this is economic reality. And objectively, the United States benefits from it in economic terms.
Finally, before our American colleague took the floor today, we had not thought of the Nord Stream incident as something connected to the situation around Ukraine. But now we see that our European colleagues perceive this sabotage, whoever may have committed it, as some sort of revenge for Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Well, I think this inference narrows down the list of suspects and can be of great help in the investigation.
Thank you.
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I put a whole Carolina reaper in an omelette I made myself yesterday.
Maybe my taste buds are immune to the zing because it caused no grief eating it.
But oh boy, the guts did not like it one little bit.
Was a painful experience for most of the evening.
Aborigines are a welcoming people in my experience, so consider it.
1.Ernie Dingo is a clown
2. What other “real aboriginal people” have rubbished “welcome to country” as a new invention and nothing to do with culture.?
bespokesays:
October 2, 2022 at 10:18 am
thugby
How dare you!
Having played Hooker/Dummy Half in Thugby League throughout school years and represented Norths in Jersey Flegg & Presidents Cup, played my first Thugby as Hooker for Syd Uni Engineering Team – as I lay on the bottom of a maul being raked by studs, I thought – Hmmm
If it was a genuine tradition I might consider it. But very aboriginal Ernie Dingo and other real aboriginal people have rubbished “welcome to country” as a new invention and nothing to do with culture. Just a money grab.
Ernie Dingo has stated publically, several times, that he and a mate dreamt up the “welcome to country” spiel as a money-making scam back in the 80′ ..!
Easy tiger. He was distressed.
Look I reckon the day of the cleanup, whilst drinking one, he wouldn’t have even remembered saying such a desperate statement.
Quite an interesting post on Instapundit this morning.
Nordstream II (Electric Instapundit) | The LawDog Files (1 Oct)
Doesn’t seem all that plausible to me since it would mean something being done at the pump head. Otherwise you wouldn’t get all three pipelines to go pop on the same day. Fun idea though.
Among other things, Welcome To Country nudges people into reflecting on how Aborigines were dispossessed, which may lead more intelligent persons to wonder whether it could happen to us.
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She was leading a siege. You are literally stating a bald-faced lie.
If he hadn’t shot her, the mob would have broken through the door eventually and confronted legislators. Then what would have happened? A friendly game of tiddlywinks? Don’t come the raw prawn.
LOL these are getting more pathetic. Is there video of her saying “actually we are just here for selfies you guys, never mind the thousands of people storming the building, it’s a movement of peace and love dontcha know, kumbaya!!”
Respect.
(Who do I send flowers to for your funeral?)
The pseudo-scientific notion of race emerged in the modern period.
Genetics has discredited it.
Uh huh?
So, how did that work?
Where’s the dosh in Welcome To Country?
If they were dispossessed, how is it they’re welcoming us to their country?
When did that happen?
Darwin posited 15 different Races, when was he “discredited”?
Verry Elleegant’s run overnight was interesting.
Maybe the old girl just wasn’t up to it.
Considering her Caulfield & Melbourne wins, having nothing in the tank so far out was unlike her.
Somebody skipped Testicle Tuesday again.
And yes, OSC, I do confess to some small gladness that the good guys are winning the war. The Russians are rushin’ away from their newly annexed territories, suffering significant casualties. Izium, Lyman, where next?
The original welcome to country was a Long Pig feast with the blokes as the main course, and a bit of the old in-out for the ladies.
Just ask the pygmy abo’s.
Farage encounters a typical young leftie punk. Waste of time trying to be polite to these arseholes:
https://twitter.com/australian/status/1576134826318598145?cxt=HBwWgsC8jcORx98rAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
Yeah, Roger.
Perhaps the Play School blog might be more your speed?
The US knows Europe’s resolve will weaken substantially over winter. So they have to goad Putin into a drastic response while they still have public opinion their way. And therebylegitimizing the US/UK/EU/NATO regime change in Russia strategy. The next few months will be very tense.
The destroyed pipelines now effectively neuter the general public’s desire to get the Ukraine situation fixed and access the gas. Leaving the only seemingly viable option open; to support a “win” in Ukraine to bring about a resolution. Joe Public fkd over again while the Great Powers play GOT in Eastern Europe.
James Allen at CPAC – hilarious.
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It was a rhetorical comment on your obtuseness, Ed.
You’re not required to respond.
the obvious way for the davos mob to sidestep 2024 altogether
The dickless arsehole still trying to justify the indefensible; here is a good article on Ashli and what was done to her.
Dickless reveals the attitude which defines the left. Bongino summed it up: the right will deal with the left because they accept them as humans with bad ideas; the left will not deal with the right because they regard them as bad people. Because they’re bad people killing them is justified. You have to know that the left want you dead.
let the record show that mutley is on the side of neo-nazis
100%. It’s the same as the arena and all the viewers taking a knee.
It’s total bullshit.
Going rate is eight hundred bucks – cash only, no receipt given.
If you’re over 40 and not taking some form of NAD/NMN you are doing yourself a disservice.
You’re a Grievance Monger, cohenite.
And either drunk or an idiot, since you haven’t bothered to read back and find out who said what.
Q86753-oh-nah-eeee-9
Meanwhile, in Russia, Putin is priming Ivan for a holy war.
How does that work?
The presentation starts with an acknowledgment: We …
Where’s the cash there?
You’re a kunt dickless, a low-life grub.
everyday montypox proves what a nasty piece of work he/she/it is. Good insight into the modern left though and its hatred and contempt for ordinary working people.
You’re a Grievance Monger, cohenite.
And either drunk or an idiot, since you haven’t bothered to read back and find out who said what.
High praise from you. So, you agree with dickless that Ashli deserved to be shot.
Also funny to see the left’s new found love for the neo cons and the Washington war machine.
OldOzzie
I know, I was just having friendly dig at soccer fan. Skittles would be seen as an extreme sport to them.
My step dad was involved with the professional management of several Sydney clubs then moved to the ACT were my brother played for the Raiders before going to the US.
Going rate is eight hundred bucks – cash only, no receipt given.
WOW! .. I blame inflation & the VOICE ! .. 6 months ago the rate was $300 …
but then the “pardy” got in and .. LOL!
Im out of that BS now, but 2 of my favourite Alinsky moments were
1) Upon scoring only 9% ‘correct’ in the assessment for SA Ambulance’s compulsory Aboriginal Culture Module, I told my supervisor that I ‘found it offensive’ and would not be doing a resit.
2) Whilst sitting on the 6th floor of a govt building in Adelaide, prior to commencing compulsory IT training, and after hearing the presenter welcome ‘any traditional owners or other aboriginal persons present’ … I called loudly ‘STOP STOP STOP – you can’t say that, thats racist and divisive – I have a right to come to work and not be exposed to racist speech.. where is the acknowledgement of MY ancestors and their contributions??’
The result – 30 seconds of silence and a spectacular ‘goldfish mouth smacking’ display – at the end of which the presenter said ‘ you are right – I acknowledge your ancestors too..’
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
.1 Dover doesn’t need to answer to you or anybody;
.2 His blog, his rules. Which he has already published in relation to this matter;
.3 It sounds like you might be uncomfortable with the restrictions on personal abuse;
.4 It’s “duelling”, not “fueding”;
.5 You’re welcome.
The Confronter of Broomsticks, at 8.36:
You’ve fully flipped 180 degrees. Working for Big Corporate, suppressors of FreEdom. Aren’t you?
It’s a simple question, I know. I would suggest it deserves an honest answer, given you’ve been parrotting lines you don’t understand but think are catchy from crank sites (coup d’etat, submit) for quite some time now.
It would be quite something if the ongoing rants and finger-pointing were merely a cover, and that all this time you were doing exactly what millions of Australians were compelled to do – place the welfare of their families above all else.
Yes. That really would be quite something, Mr Corporate. One further question – and again, it’s a simple one:
Are you wearing hi-viz with your employer’s name on it?
Old Ozzie – I’m getting you the “Bring back Rucking” t-shirt for Christmas!
Groogs seems to be enjoying a moment in the sun. Mother will be proud.
Monty.
Both sides are shit.
Putins is slightly worse shit since he went for shooting vs economic/ internal meddling.
Monty cheering on Lockheed Martin and the military industrial complex.
I had to re-read that.
For a moment, I thought it read “Bring back Rutting”.
Was going to give you 2 upticks, but….
I can’t wait all day for dickless and ed to justify their position that Ashli deserved to die despite trying to warn authorities of the presence of BLM and antifa agitators: here is a good Salty take on Ashli’s murder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu4gTVJbKJs
As I said the left want you dead; so, in effect dickless and ed support murder.
correct
The mobilisation law has a clause that allows up to 1 million conscripts. Russian cities are distributing evacuation and contingencies plans to all bureaucrats.
My guess is that the
obamaer…biden administration will just blunder right through the red line Putin has just drawn in the sand. Once that happens all bets are off, including taiwan, nth korea etc.Wow. The Never-Trump lefties at the London Times (via the Paywallian) are in full screech over Pommyland’s new PM:
I’ve searched the web for the reasons why they’re in such a lather, but the only thing I can come up with is her plan to cut taxes which, to lefties, smells like a reduction in the size of the administrative state – specifically the public service used by the left to intimidate the little people during the Kung Flu reign of terror.
wow, Arky’s on a tear
that would be 1.5 ticks per minute
She was leading a siege, unarmed?
Confronted legislators? You can’t shoot people because they might be violent. Everyone might be violent. In theory we can all be shot.
He should have physically restrained her. That’s his job. Not shooting people because of a not as of yet precipitated threat to human life.
There’s no video of her threatening anyone.
You are asserting she was leading a pack of violent protestors. Whilst playing “Here’s Johnny” and no one got hit but overpenetration or ricochets.
Absurd.
All that happened was property damage and selfies. They should have been fined severely and some minor gaol time. It is absurd some people are still awaiting trials.
Americans are right to be angry; they should have listened to Trump and stayed home.
The election was definitely stolen. Biden is indelibly more corrupt than Nixon or Kennedy. He surpassed their cheating with flying colours.
We all saw the absurd voting trends when suitcases of unverified postal votes came in. America became a 2nd world country that day. They can’t even have clean elections. They’re like Russia. India is probably less corrupt.
Firstly, Mr Fake Real Dinky-Di Hearty Aussie – smoking’s been banned in front bars for years, and barmaids don’t go into beer garden/smoking areas. Which you would know, if in fact you do what you say you do.
Secondly, Emma is in fact part………… Asian. The mix has clearly retained elements of her figure essential for the trade, and she is extremely intelligent. I was being a smart arse the other day and quoted some of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to her the other day – But soft! What light from yonder window breaks? ‘Tis the east, and Emma is the Sun – and though I’d nailed it.
On my way out later, she fired right back with: Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
A slight nod of acknowledgment passed between us, and I was on my way.
‘Charlene’. You really are a caricature.
same as yesterday
Typos.
Apologies. I was lighting a durrie.
Ashli Babbitt was not a victim or a passive observer. She was first to the Speakers Lobby doors. She led the attempted insurrection, literally.
That Epoch Times piece is a bunch of nonsense. If that is your whole argument, you have nothing.
Babbitt may have been stupid rather than evil, but the line between the two was fairly blurred among the rioters that day. Either way, Lt. Byrd saved more lives than he took that day.
This Giorgia Meloni gal is upsetting a lot of people.
Russia cancelled gas deliveries for the weekend.
You don’t even know Ashli Babbitt or anything about her, yet you’re waving the Bloody Shirt like a circus clown.
Jan 6 was a hoax, the actions on the day of the normally brutal Capitol Police prove that.
I have sat through one where the old codger mumbled for about a minute.
It’s funny because I have been told by a part Aboriginal bloke about a native language dictionary that was half made up and virtually all elders bar one were furious about in that tribal area.
Maybe the old codger was the BSer who wrote the fallacious dictionary.
Dot, just now:
mUnter can’t be violent. He hasn’t the capacity. Therefore he is not peaceful, he is harmless.
Let the record show that mutley makes no effort to deny supporting neo-nazis
You can make the argument that the Ukrainians are the finest fighters in the world. They may have better toys than they normally do, supplied by the American military industrial complex, but they are kicking some major Russkie butt.
Which will come first, the European winter or any sign that Putin’s mobilisation is turning the tide on the front?
Zulu’s quoted piece:
No mention of his distress that she’d clearly rather be out attacking pregnant women and two-year-olds than at his bedside.
Then don’t spend time with those peers. This person is apparently of sufficient age, and has the mental acumen to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
That old attention-seeking chestnut.
She did not commit a crime which carries the death penalty.
You have no proof she was leading an “insurrection”. You cannot get shot for trespassing. The cops made no attempt to restrain her. They did not give a lawful order to stop did they?
She was shot like a feral dog.
The Epoch Times piece has verifiable information as opposed to your speculation.
No, she posed no threat to anyone’s life and her death was unjustified.
Lt. Byrd. can be forgiven but he probably isn’t cut out for law enforcement or military service.
The World Game (the Hun):
No mention of the ref being called a bald-headed flog, which would have been far worse. Obviously.
Well, that’s all right then.
Paywalled, but you get the drift;
AUD 50 something looking increasingly achievable.
Bingo!
Most counselors would disagree and go on about needing kinship.
Capitol police are blowing people away all the time in Washington, yet they let an unarmed Mob walk into the Capitol and did nothing?
Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.
Here’s the Buffalo Horns Shaman, he’s got an IMDb profile, since he’s an Actor.
Don’t undersell the possibility of a nuke being used, fatboy.
Buffalo Horns Shaman IMDb profile
Feraldton comes to Perth. It ain’t pretty.
That any indigenous languages survive at all is mainly due to missionaries who, with the collaboration of knowledgable aboriginals, produced dictionaries and grammars with the ultimate aim of translating the Bible. These efforts go as far back as the 1830s and persisted even when governments were trying to stamp out the use of local languages. You won’t find many leftists who are aware of this, let alone prepared to acknowedge the role the missionaries played in preserving language.
Actors getting involved in politics Ed, this isn’t a revelation you twit.
What’s gold gonna do?
Penny dreadful chancers want to know.
There it is folks, dickless approves of Ashli being murdered. What further evidence do you need about this grub and his support of the left’s destruction of the West and the murder of decent citizens.
Russia spent almost nothing on maintaining its warheads in the 90’s because they were broke, so you have to assume most of the arsenal is non-functional. If Putin fires a couple of nukes and they turn out to be duds, Russia is done a state. Every region that wants to will secede.
There’s trouble’t Kremlin.
Absent anything going seriously bad in Ukraine, gold will be governed by USD strength. So gold lower for a bit longer I’d say.
Any changes to gold’s direction will first show up in NEM (Newmont). Watching that closely.
It’s heading much lower against the US dollar, Dot. It may rise against the Aussie, but that will be because gold is falling more than the Aussie against the greenback. It would be just an illusion.
Buy Dollars wear diamonds as we used to say.
There’s no scenario where that shit can rise other than finding some new industrial use for it. Cronkite can sell his massive holdings to wire makers as its a great conductor. 🙂
Look at the pull the US has. America currently has the worst, most inept , apologetically leftwing gov administration and state apparatus in history. Folks still buy the buck as a safe haven. That shows just how strong the pull is of that place.
whoops un-apologetically
Must be an election approaching fast.
NSW government to ‘buy back’ flood-ruined homes: Clennell (2 Oct)
Good luck getting Albo to stump up half a billion to a Lib state government to buy out people on flood plains who didn’t have insurance.
Sometimes we get caught up in the daily cut and thrust of the battlefield. I think that’s a waste of time. You have to look at the big picture – Russia has gotten absolutely smoked since late March, and no longer deserves to be called a great power. They don’t even have a proper conventional military anymore – having to mobilise the utter dregs of society and send them to the front with zero training.
And everyday I try to convince wifey we move back to the US. Australia is like a wife of 4o years. Safe, good natured, helpful etc . The US is like a mistress. You can love both.
Old School Conservativesays:
October 2, 2022 at 9:49 am
M0nty
Big Serge sounding like Comical Ali. Glorious, victorious retreat!
Sounds like you are enjoying all the misery, destruction and death that comes with war.
Of course he is. Blackshirted fascists lurrrrve “misery, destruction and death”.
l
Hilarious!
Reminded me of JC and Salv but alot less fruity.
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Johnny,
you obviously haven’t been to a Kindergarten recently – they do the “Welcome to Country” – one of the reasons my wife has been turned off the whole exercise
Crikey and I was only joking when I posted that.
Might have to review belief that there is absolutely nothing worthwhile about soccer. No, not that 128 Indonesian fans have been crushed to death. That’s tragic.
The real reason to accord the game a little respect, just a bit, is that fans in Sydney booed the welcome to country before settling down to the serious business of throwing flares, punches and abuse while waiting (and waiting and waiting) for a goal.
Yeah, wogs!
Young , Russian kids aren’t dregs Fisk.
Also, Russia would be able to determine which nukes are functional and which aren’t. Don’t underestimate how tense things are at the moment. And the Demented Kunt in the White House keeps stoking the fire and could end up getting into a nuclear confrontation because he’s a demented and disgusting piece of shit and always has been.
Oh too bad! It looks like one of the last remaining Putin propagandists “Big Serge” has taken his Twitter account private. I wonder why lol
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1576236925312122880
You can be sure they’re primed to go.
Even with conventional forces Russia would be stretched trying to manage a response.
doesnt matter what is first
it matters what is next
Europeans will awaken one-by-one to the fact that they are governed by ideological idiots that are driving the world toward the brink of destruction.
driven by people who have their heads full of 2-dimensional gibber
like you mUnty … like you
may your neck find out how heavy your arse is.
Who’s Big Serge?
OK, so the alternative to the present policy of arming Ukraine and letting them smoke the Ruskies is what exactly?
Perhaps, but Russia under Rasputin won’t go without a bang. A fucking big one.
Ed Casesays:
October 2, 2022 at 10:27 am
If it was a genuine tradition I might consider it.
Aborigines are a welcoming people in my experience, so consider it.
Neat tap dance there, Dickless. Way to slide around the point.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
– Confucius
Also funny to see the left’s new found love for the neo cons and the Washington war machine.
They’re very programmable, just look at munty.
m0ntysays:
October 2, 2022 at 10:35 am
1. She was ambushed.
She was leading a siege. You are literally stating a bald-faced lie.
Speaking of “bald-faced” lies, m0nty-fa leads the way.
And the rest of his comment was worse.
Fisk- Negotiate with the Russians and leave the majority Russian part with Russia. In any case why would you want a place that essentially is your enemy?
Everyday, Demented is calling Rasputin evil etc. Those Demonrat cunts have been doing this since 2015 -making destructive accusations against Russians. Negotiate with Russia and destroy the demonrat party as it’s a bigger force for evil.
Any changes to gold’s direction will first show up in NEM (Newmont). Watching that closely.
NEM is up from its 52 week low. Gold spot price was at 10 year highs in March 22; down a bit now but still historically high. Biden and his sex grubs are going to take on putin; but all it needs is for one of his nukes to go off.
Dream on.
Blacks and Hispanics aren’t voting Republican in a thousand years.
Why would they?
A little boy goes to his dad and asks “What is politics?” Dad says “Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I’m the breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me capitalism. Your mum, she’s the administrator of the money, so we’ll call her the Government. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call you the people. The nanny, we’ll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we’ll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense”.
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room.
Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy says to his father “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now”. The father says “Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about”. The little boy replies “Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit”.
That’s not the policy.
The policy is to force Europe off traditional energy sources at any and all costs. Even if it means freezing thousands to death and ruining Europe’s economy for years. Using Ukraine is the proxy.
So, in that respect the policy is proving very successful. Especially with NS1&2 taken out. All good, until something breaks and Russia drops a nuke. That is the direction the US is taking us. Happy now?
Absolutely politically unsaleable in Ukraine. There is nothing short of Russia withdrawing to the 23 February lines (and I’m not even sure that will be enough) that will pass muster in Ukraine. And Russia has just formally annexed Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation, including a bunch of places they just lost on the battlefield!
There is no peace deal now or ever. This is Israel-Palestine in E.Europe. Get over it.
It’s weird how the people who are most likely to be nuked – the Ukrainians – are the ones doing the least bedwetting over Putin dropping a nuke.
Negotiate with Russia and destroy the demonrat party as it’s a bigger force for evil.
Absolutely.