Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022


Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859


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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 5, 2022 12:08 am

Uno

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 5, 2022 12:18 am

Dotbaiting..

ABCcess had an “ expert” on holiday romances and why the normal timelines of a relationship get “compressed”
It was basically a chick justifying throwing the hairy lasso around at the triple dong cock ranch as soon as she’s free from judgement from people she knows.

This chick is being paid 5 figures a year to be a rationalisation hamster.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 5, 2022 12:22 am

Also while removing a bungara from the medical centre last week ( the door was left open and he wandered in) I discovered 4 things.
They are fast
Their claws are like knives.
They are really really bad at being herded out. ( I had to catch and remove)
They have 2 dicks…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 5, 2022 12:26 am

Not many people know that.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
November 5, 2022 1:12 am

Bangarra story.

A huge fat one was living peacefully under the food scraps bin at a mining camp near Laverton WA. He used to just lie there and eye people walking past, absolutely no fear of humans (if gold miners can be called humans).
One night after a session in the wet mess, some drunken gronk decided it would be fun to drag ol’ bungarra out of his spot by the tail. “Fat & lazy” lizard struck like lightning, a couple of pints of blood sprayed around and some forty stitches later, peace was restored.

Nobody ever interfered with the beast again. Respect.

Rossini
Rossini
November 5, 2022 1:13 am

Well that’s news to me!

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
November 5, 2022 1:14 am

Bungarra Dammit.
Spell checker is a tool of the devil.

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 1:47 am

2024 Presidential Election Odds

“Shortly after the inauguration, Vice President Kamala Harris was atop the presidential odds board at +350, with Biden close behind at +400, and Trump in third place at +650. Those odds have shifted massively, and Trump is now alone at the top of the board as 2024 U.S. presidential election favorite at +300 (implied probability = 25.00%) with DeSantis trailing slightly behind him. Biden has now dropped to third place at +500 (16.69%), which is shorter than it was a month ago, while Harris has plummeted all the way to fourth place at +1,200 (7.69%). Other presidential betting favorites for 2024 include governor of California Gavin Newsom (+1,400, 6.67%) Trump’s VP Mike Pence (+1,800, 5.26%), Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (+2,500, 3.85%), and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (+2,800, 3.45%).”

“The biggest riser on the presidential election odds board is DeSantis, who was +6,600 (1.49%) a year ago, +550 (15.38%) at the start of July, and is now at +330 (25.00%). The 43-year-old remains coy about whether he will run for president but has become a Republican firebrand figure for his laissez-faire policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and his enactment of the Stop WOKE Act.”

rickw
rickw
November 5, 2022 2:10 am

The man who saved Wilkinson’s sword making department:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4dO_Lx7Ss

Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:06 am

Bob Moran. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 4:17 am
Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 4:23 am

Bob Moran in good form today.

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 5:02 am

Half of Twitter’s employees became unemployed 2 hours ago.

In response to the crushing, sudden layoff of half the Twitter staff, employees have filed a massive class action lawsuit claiming Musk’s draconian layoffs are in violation of California and federal law, which prevent mass layoffs without 60 days notice.

Fired Twitter workers are asking the federal court to issue order requiring a more orderly & compassionate approach under the Worker Adjustment & Retraining Act. Meantime, Musk has unleashed a ruthless campaign to cut billions on bloated infrastructure, cutting employee laptops.

Sympathy level – nil

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 5:06 am

Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck

I don’t have sympathy for people who have censored Republicans, helped destroy our country by pushing COVID lockdowns, hid news stories that didn’t fit their narrative and supported firing people if they didn’t get the vaccine. They earned every bit of this. #TwitterLayoffs

They claim the law says they should have gotten 60 days notice. Musk should hand them 2 months severance pay and tell them to bugger off.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 5:18 am

Oceans of tears at Twitter.
Will they be enough to extinguish the bonfire at Atlassian.
The after hours crunch from yesterday continues.
Down $55 on the day to $121.
That’s 30% today.
Has been as low as $115.
And on decent volumes.
Nearly 12 million shares traded against a normal turnover of 1.8 million.
I think that’s officially a rout.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 5:20 am

They claim the law says they should have gotten 60 days notice. Musk should hand them 2 months severance pay and tell them to bugger off.

That’s what will probably happen.
Those still on board will be very, very focussed now.

win
win
November 5, 2022 5:21 am

Peter Brookes tickled my fancy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 5:22 am

winsays:

November 5, 2022 at 5:21 am

Peter Brookes tickled my fancy.

Is that a chapter heading in your book?

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 5:36 am

US left-wing propagandists are going down like flies this week.

– Jake Tapper lost his prime-time show at CNN.
– Sheppard Smith got the axe from his prime-time show at CNBC
Toxic Racist MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross Fired for Promoting Genocide Against White People

MSNBC chose not to renew Cross’ contract and severed all connections with her immediately.

– Why has that just been recognized as an issue now one wonders.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 5:42 am

From CNN.

By Friday morning, Twitter employees from departments including ethical AI, marketing and communication, search, public policy, wellness and other teams had tweeted about having been let go. Members of the curation team, which help elevate reliable information on the platform, including about elections, were also laid off, according to employee posts.

Ballast.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 6:02 am

Sheppard Smith got the axe from his prime-time show at CNBC

He was at Fox for ages, like Wallace. Funny how the management persisted with these types so long there, while at their ideological homes of CNBC and CNN they immediately faceplant.

Jorge
Jorge
November 5, 2022 6:07 am

So now whites can’t tell blacks where to go – back to Africa.

Is there anything at all we can say to them or should we just lower our eyes and keep silent in their presence ?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:10 am

former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (+2,800, 3.45%)

The RINO/establishment/corporate candidate.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:12 am

Atlassian now at 124.
Still has a market cap of 36bill USD.
Just amazing how much stock the two chaps sold over the past couple of years.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:22 am

The whole sector is being routed.
I’ve previously referred to their low-code no-code competitor Monday.com.
That’s down 12% and has a market cap of 3.7bill USD.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 5, 2022 6:35 am

Don’t know if this has already been linked to but the capture of major companies is complete. It seems that almost all political parties, gov depts and big companies have come under the control of an elite that believes in and want the same things. I cannot see how this can be undone in the short to medium term, if ever. They all attend the same schools, mix with the same people and have the same thoughts.

BHP wants Australia to ban new petrol cars by 2035
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/bhp-wants-2035-ban-on-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-20221102-p5bv4a

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 6:38 am

“US left-wing propagandists are going down like flies this week.”

I’ll be happy when racist Joy Reid loses her gig.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:41 am

Walter Kirn will be in Gutfeld tonight.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 5, 2022 6:42 am

Yes, it’s very late in the piece for the US MSM to do some house cleaning.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:45 am

The internet machine doesn’t like my post comparing the Double Bay Jesus company to its low code no code competitor.
Keep getting that darn error message.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 6:48 am

Wallace was a snake at Fox for years.
He ran one of their key shows and ran dead on everything the Obama administration should have been held to account over.
Smith was mostly harmless at Fox until his last year, not hard considering he was a glorified news reader.

Mater
November 5, 2022 7:10 am

Mater’s Musings #62: “Real-life skills” indeed

We keep churning out these drongos!

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 7:13 am

Just on the projected GOP wins in the house and senate, it’ll all mean nothing unless a GOP controlled congress gets down and dirty when fighting the Demonrats.

In 2017 and 2018 the GOP had control of both the house and senate and did nothing. When in control the GOP, particularly with RINOs such as Bitch McConnell as leaders, had zero interest in fighting the left because they much preferred demonising, fighting and bringing down their own in order to protect their positions. So unless something radically changes next Tuesday, the funding of the war in Ukraine will continue unabated, big tech platforms will continue to run amok and basically, nothing will change.

Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 7:21 am

WASHINGTON, DC — As the date of next week’s midterm elections approaches, President Joe Biden used his Wednesday night address to warn everyone that the results may not immediately be known because it may take several days for enough Democrat votes to be harvested and double-counted.

“Despite the fact that third-world countries around the globe are capable of tallying their votes on the same day as their elections, it’s simply not realistic to expect that from the world’s most technologically advanced nation,” Biden shouted with an unnecessary amount of anger to the assembled crowd made up entirely of White House staffers and the media. “Folks, we’ve got to take our time, find out how far behind we are, and wait for the unmarked vans carrying bags full of ballots to arrive in the middle of the night. Then we gotta find out how many times we have to count each ballot. Tomato soup.”

RTWT

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 7:22 am

“I cannot see how this can be undone in the short to medium term, if ever. “

A future Coalition government could start by legislating to outlaw ESG.

But that would take a Liberal Party and a National Party with conviction and balls, of which they have neither.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 7:24 am

Narrative change alert being promoted by DNC surrogates via the evil twitter they somehow are still using.
“The GOP should be leading these races by 20bps & the fact they aren’t is telling”.

I look forward to the drones promoting this, defending this.
What a hill to die on.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 7:28 am

A future Coalition government could start by legislating to outlaw ESG.

I think it should go the other way.
Become granular with each component of the ESG premise.
Once you get to modern day slavery, Wall Street and the corporate set will dump ESG.
This zero carbon mind set is what has promoted modern day slavery more than any other factor since real slavery.

Mater
November 5, 2022 7:32 am

Just been doing a quick fly by of some notable FB posts.

I’m going to put it out there; I don’t think Dan is going to do as well as the polls indicate. There is some serious venom out there towards him on all manner of fronts from energy, to netball, to traffic violations, to health. I sense a small awakening, and not just from Facebook.

I know the opposition isn’t, I know they are invisible and I know what the polls are saying. But, I have such loathing towards any element of our political system and public authoritative figures ATM, I just hang up on such calls. I dare say I’m not alone, and I can’t see how the polls are representative of anything except the group who continue to get wet and gooey in the fork, over Dan.

Guy might be a non-entity, but Dan is a focus of a surprising amount of hate. Guy likely won’t win the election, but Dan could very well lose it.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 5, 2022 7:37 am

Betfair have the Vic Libs at $9.40 to win, Labor at $1.08, Andrews is more on the nose than many think and the media are turning on him, I put $20 on the Libs but will probably lose my stake.

Mater
November 5, 2022 7:40 am

I put $20 on the Libs but will probably lose my stake.

I’m going to do the same, as an outside chance.
The odds are better, and the chances more realistic, than some of the dog food I put money on on Derby Day.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 5, 2022 7:41 am

I think there will be mongrel in a GOP Congress than 2017-18. Not as much as you might expect. There will no doubt be a number who, once ensconced in their seats will think of nothing except staying there – whether by following the path of least resistance or trying to carve out a special niche as someone holding their party to account.

Last time around congress was made up of the usual crowd with a few who leapt in the Trump Train but many not.

This time the RINOs are not just seat warmers but the undisputed enemy. Resentment over the debacle of the last election, complicity of RINOs, and Biden’s and the Democrats appalling agenda means the voters more than before demand fighters.

And Trump is their compass needle. He was pugnacious enough before, but I think a lot of people see his defiance and refusal to quit inspiring. It embodies something Americans like to see in themselves.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 7:48 am

Guy might be a non-entity, but Dan is a focus of a surprising amount of hate.

He’d fit right in in Austria. Maybe he should take up painting.

Poll: 83 Per cent of Austrians Believe All Politicans are Corrupt (4 Nov)

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 7:49 am

I am sooooooooooo tired of right of centre parties that, when given enormous mandates by voters, proceed to do sweet fuck all with the mandates and actively spit in the faces of those votes that gave them the enormous mandates….think Blob Johnson in 2019 and Abbott in 2013. I just hope that the GOP, if given a mandate next Tuesday, actually use it against their ideological enemies, the way the left use their power against us. The time for turning the other cheek is over, finito, finished.

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 7:51 am

Biden’s last minute pitch to voters: Help me because I’m going to be impeached.

“I’m already being told if they win back the House and Senate they’re going to impeach me. I don’t know what the hell they’re going to impeach me for,” Biden said during a campaign speech at Mira Costa College in Oceanside.

This is a man who knows his party is about to get wiped out.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 5, 2022 7:53 am

“The GOP should be leading these races by 20bps & the fact they aren’t is telling”.

It is good that this is being said.

Not because it is true, but it might frighten GOP voters who, hearing about the red wave coming, might start acting and thinking as if it is already one, and not bother to turn up to vote.

Complacency born of overconfidence is the danger.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 5, 2022 7:56 am

Living in the Dans Vic electorate of Mulgrave I received a flyer in the mailbox yesterday. It appeared to be a Labor party brochure. It proudly proclaimed its gender change policy and highlighted how parents are specifically excluded from the process. However as I turned my nose up at the appalling policy The fine print and a QR code referred to Gender Awareness Australia. The people behind firmly believe and rightly there are on 2 genders. The brochure highlights how insidious the vic Labor Government and it’s laws have become on this issue.
Well played sirs, well played.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 5, 2022 7:57 am

Already WON

Damn Auto-corrupt.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 5, 2022 7:58 am

Am off shortly to hand out Liberal flyers at our local shopping centre. Yes I think the Libs have become a bunch of cucks, but I’m now in the camp of ABD. Anyone but Dan.

Mater
November 5, 2022 8:01 am

The CFMEU are backing “our prick” Dan (or the HQ are at least), because he’s promised to build more hospitals, etc and keep them farting through silk.

What Dan doesn’t seem to comprehend is that even Victorian nurses are looking quizzically at each other and wondering how he’s going to staff these potential white elephants, when he can’t staff the current ones.

Naming hospitals them after such Labor luminaries (and saviours) as Joan Kirner, doesn’t magically make them function, nor does it inexplicably resolve the self-inflicted crisis he’s wrought on the health system.

When you’ve even got the nurses questioning a Leftist government, you’ve got the winds of change in the air.

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 8:06 am

Democrats Worried Republicans May Take Lead Beyond Margin Of Cheating

As Republicans continue to expand their leads in polling across the country, Democrats are worried that the leads may soon grow beyond the normal margin of Democrat cheating.

“Yeah, normally our big-city vote harvesting machines and slimy election procedures are good for a bump of a few percentage points, but Republican poll numbers may have even grown beyond that,” said a visibly nervous DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, (they/them). “I don’t understand why people care more about feeding their kids than they do about voting in literal mega-MAGA, far-right, Nazi, alt-right, white supremacist, Nazi, fascist-adjacent Nazis. It could be the end of democracy!”

The Bee gets it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 5, 2022 8:11 am

The Bee is prophetic.

If they wrote an article where someone won the lotto and showed the numbers, I would be out the door and up to the newsagent toot sweet.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 8:14 am

but Dan is a focus of a surprising amount of hate.

Wrong.
It is not surprising.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 8:15 am

Damn Auto-corrupt.

ok, go to the top of the class.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 5, 2022 8:16 am

Fair Shake, doing what you can is good, but I just cannot support our local Libs. If we had someone like Bev McArthur perhaps, but ours a utterly useless fools, lazy, pension seeking fools. I’m doing what I can for the LDP, they’re under resourced and although I don’t like some of their policies, overall they’re a good enough fit for me. They currently have two upper house members Limbrick and Quilty, both good people if a little underwhelming but they did their best during the wuflu madness.

I reckon the best we could hope for is a balance of power in the upper house.

rosie
rosie
November 5, 2022 8:17 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 8:17 am

I’m already being told if they win back the House and Senate they’re going to impeach me. I don’t know what the hell they’re going to impeach me for,” Biden said

Maybe he shouldn’t’ve helped falsely impeach Trump twice then.
Payback, as they say, is a female dog.

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
November 5, 2022 8:17 am

Regarding the VIC election and Labo(u)r. Most of my Labor voting friends are dropping Dans mob and going for independents. Matthew (the dwarf) Guy may just get over the line because of that. Him or Dan. we are all still fucked in Sicktoria. 🙁

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 8:21 am

It doesn’t matter who gets your vote.
Auto corrupt decides the result.

Saint Germain
Saint Germain
November 5, 2022 8:30 am

As Republicans continue to expand their leads in polling across the country, Democrats are worried that the leads may soon grow beyond the normal margin of Democrat cheating.

That’s is what happened last time. The normal computer cheating was not overriding the Trump landslide so they had to do all that early morning cheating.

calli
calli
November 5, 2022 8:32 am

America is hurtling towards the first nationwide test of its democracy since Donald Trump left the White House and his supporters mounted a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.

That’s as far as I got on the Guardian article.

I presume they mean the shooting of Ashli Babbit?

Makka
Makka
November 5, 2022 8:33 am

And why wouldn’t the BLS be totally politicized? Every other USG organ is.

ZH;

Something Has Snapped: Unexplained 2.3 Million Jobs Gap Emerges In Broken Payrolls Report

… the BLS has a single, political agenda – not to spoil the political climate less than a week ahead of the payrolls by painting a “suboptimal” labor market picture.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 5, 2022 8:34 am

For Rickw, an couple of easier to feed pig-guns

https://youtu.be/t8DR_Y1Owi4

https://youtu.be/pHKOYu1Sr-4

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 8:41 am
Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 5, 2022 8:43 am

Steve Williams, I fully get that position as well. Our local Lib president resigned last week cos like most of us the Lib leadership have given us nothing to rally behind. Come Election Day I’m happy to hand out flyers for anyone As long as it’s not a Marxist group. Looking at you Dan and Greens.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 8:45 am

The Mackinnon Stakes field today is the best of the entire spring carnival.

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 8:46 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 8:49 am

Matersays:

November 5, 2022 at 7:32 am

Just been doing a quick fly by of some notable FB posts.

I’m going to put it out there; I don’t think Dan is going to do as well as the polls indicate.

Big indicator for me?
Throwing money at rural train travel.
Twelve months ago he would have said “Fuck ’em.” This tells me he needs regional seats to hold on.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 8:53 am

Tom, any thoughts on a trifecta for the Mackinnon ?

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 8:58 am

Covid-19: How the Greatest Crime in History Unfolded

Dr. Vernon Coleman

I reported in July 2020 that the UK Government had agreed to buy 190 million doses of vaccine for a population less than a third of that. I predicted that vaccine company shares would soar.

The rules that were introduced were unutterably stupid, incomprehensible and indefensible. The entire world appeared to be run by people who were at least one sandwich and a bottle of fizzy pop short of a picnic. You could go into a pub but not a bowling alley. You could have your hair permed and your nails varnished but physiotherapy departments were still closed. The idea was to keep people confused, miserable and damned near suicidal and it all worked brilliantly well.

Researchers then claimed that a skin rash was another sign of covid-19. Apparently 8.8% of patients with a positive covid-19 test also have a rash. No one in government realised that the rashes were probably caused by the damned sanitiser fluid that everyone was being forced to use in absurd quantities.

We were, I wrote two and a half years ago, living in a manufactured nightmare.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 8:58 am

feelthebernsays:

November 5, 2022 at 8:53 am

Tom, any thoughts on a trifecta for the Mackinnon ?

Forget the gee-gees.
The new mantra is, “Put Matty in your Multi”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 9:01 am

Is Waikikamukau still going around?
My favourite horse back in the day.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 9:01 am

Covid-19: How the Greatest Crime in History Unfolded

Second greatest crime after the global warming fraud.
Orders of magnitude more money stolen. So far.
Covid fascism was a trial run for what they want to do.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 5, 2022 9:02 am

Not too sure how I will vote in the LA but in the LC I want to put meddick last.

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 9:03 am
WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
November 5, 2022 9:03 am

Mater says:
November 5, 2022 at 7:32 am
Just been doing a quick fly by of some notable FB posts.

I’m going to put it out there; I don’t think Dan is going to do as well as the polls indicate. There is some serious venom out there towards him on all manner of fronts from energy, to netball, to traffic violations, to health. I sense a small awakening, and not just from Facebook.

I know the opposition isn’t, I know they are invisible and I know what the polls are saying. But, I have such loathing towards any element of our political system and public authoritative figures ATM, I just hang up on such calls. I dare say I’m not alone, and I can’t see how the polls are representative of anything except the group who continue to get wet and gooey in the fork, over Dan.

Guy might be a non-entity, but Dan is a focus of a surprising amount of hate. Guy likely won’t win the election, but Dan could very well lose it.

It might, just might be a case of a Govt losing an election. After all oppositions rarely win elections, and a non-entity that is Matthew Guy and his wet lettuce party are totally uninspiring.

But there’s a definite mood in Victoria of loathing for Andrews.

I live in hope.

shatterzzz
November 5, 2022 9:04 am

Not being highlighted by ‘our’ media .. as you’d expect .. but Nick Kyrgios ha settled out-of-court with the woman he, publically, accused of being drunk & disruptive at one of his games .. cost him $35 000 (charity donation) and a public apology .. LOL!

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 5, 2022 9:05 am

More red pilling of Dr John – this one about the radio silence about the ongoing ‘excess deaths’ in the UK. Its the same here , they shut the country down for a handful of cases, yet now are ignoring an extra 10,000 or more deaths this year alone.

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/04/dropping-like-flies/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 9:06 am

‘bern, when you say “the whole sector is down” in relation to Atlassian, do you mean all software, or just the stuff Atlassian puts out?
It could be that Monday.com rode Atlassian’s coat-tails on the way up and is shackled to them on the way down.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 5, 2022 9:07 am

Ha ha democracy is under threat if people exercise their democratic choice. Fuck off obuma you evil piece of shit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 9:08 am

It might, just might be a case of a Govt losing an election. After all oppositions rarely win elections, and a non-entity that is Matthew Guy

This is true of nearly every state election.

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 9:08 am

Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted

The areas of Twitter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams, according to tweets by laid-off employees and people familiar with the matter. More company leaders, including Arnaud Weber, VP of consumer product engineering, and Tony Haile, a senior director of product overseeing Twitter’s work with news publishers, have also been laid off following Musk’s firings of Twitter’s senior leadership last week.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 5, 2022 9:12 am

If Guy were to win I would be like when the libs won in SA. Agree though that the dick tator is loathsome and it would be great to see him gone. What happened at Blairgowrie says it all. Despicable is not a strong enough word.

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 9:12 am

The Australian has a piece on Vic polling.

“after a drop in support for Victorian Labor three weeks from the state election has put up to 10 government seats at risk.”

Here’s my take, Labor goes into minority government and then forms a coalition with the Greens. What ensues? Disaster, absolute disaster. If things are bad in Victoria now, just wait for that calamitous coalition.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 9:16 am

It could be that Monday.com rode Atlassian’s coat-tails on the way up and is shackled to them on the way down.

Maybe.
Monday.com has been next level smoked compared to Atlassian over the past 18 months.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 9:17 am

Here’s my take, Labor goes into minority government and then forms a coalition with ???
someone, anyone, whatever, probably the equal rights for navel lint party.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 5, 2022 9:23 am

Here’s my take, Labor goes into minority government and then forms a coalition with the Greens. What ensues? Disaster, absolute disaster. If things are bad in Victoria now, just wait for that calamitous coalition.

Things have to get a lot worse before they can start to get better, history tells us the people only wake up when their bellies are empty.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 5, 2022 9:24 am

Mmmmm:

Labor’s bid for a third term in government has suffered a horror first week after revelations Premier Daniel Andrews has been questioned in a fresh corruption probe.

With just 10 days before the polls open, Mr Andrews is facing questions over his involvement in government grants provided to the Health Workers Union on the eve of the 2018 election.

The Herald Sun first revealed on Thursday the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission was investigating a $1.2m grant provided to the union in October 2018. It is the fourth corruption probe Mr Andrews has been linked to.

In the latest investigation IBAC is probing funding awarded to the HWU on the eve of the 2018 election, and just a week after a program grant was first announced.

It formed part of a multimillion-dollar package for the training of hospital staff against occupational violence that was announced a week before the government went into caretaker mode.

Mr Andrews refused to answer questions about the probe on Friday.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 9:25 am

I think one of the issues Musk will face will be litigation from advertisers regarding the bots.
It will be a case of we paid our money based on reach metrics you provided which you knew were false.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 5, 2022 9:27 am

Jab jab booster ………………………………..you were conned.

In this power-packed interview, Shabnam Palesa Mohamed hosts Leslie Manookian, Health Freedom Defense Fund founder and President. A former Wall Street executive, and a filmmaker, Manookian works collaboratively to reform what she calls the largest international criminal syndicate: Big Pharma.

In this informative interview, find out about:

a) How the public subsidizes Big Pharma, which captured the FDA through exorbitant schemes akin to racketeering

b) Fraud, the WHO, a citizen’s petition against the FDA, and the CDC admitting to mistakes to avoid accountability

c) A shocking case of Disney vs a employee harassed for the C19 shot, and a winning mask mandate case exposing ‘deep state’

d) Informed consent: Critical battleground for health, environment and democracy vs the inherent dangers of a bio-security state

e) Three clear and achievable reforms towards protecting human rights and restoring public trust in science

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/is-the-public-subsidising-big-pharmas-license-to-kill-2b1238bf

Indolent
Indolent
November 5, 2022 9:28 am

Second greatest crime after the global warming fraud.
Orders of magnitude more money stolen. So far.
Covid fascism was a trial run for what they want to do.

Second greatest crime in terms of money stolen perhaps, but looked at in terms of human death and suffering? Certainly, the global warming fraud was intended to have the same catastrophic outcome but was not quite there yet.

struth
struth
November 5, 2022 9:29 am

That’s right.
You live in a corrupt socialist shit hole and you think you’re going to vote yourself in some freedon.

What fucking planet have you been living on the last two years?
Denialism.

Razey
Razey
November 5, 2022 9:33 am

you were conned.

I wasn’t conned. A fair few low IQ boomers on this site were though (and still are conned btw).

Cassie of Sydney
November 5, 2022 9:36 am

“Mr Andrews refused to answer questions about the probe on Friday.”

That’s his shtick, he never answers questions. I watched him last night dealing with the MSM, his refused to discuss the 2013 incident, he couldn’t even bring himself to say some hollow words such as “it was unfortunate”. No, he was standing next to a smirking “Cath” and he just shuts down any discussion, just like he did with the hotel quarantine disaster, just like he did with Red Shirts, just like he did with Slug Gate. But the man had a lot to say about Cardinal Pell, about Andrew Thorburn and so on. It’s amazing, he gets away with hit. One thing is clear, Daniel Andrews does not have a conscience. I believe him to be profoundly evil.

Razey
Razey
November 5, 2022 9:36 am

Top Endersays:
November 5, 2022 at 9:24 am
Mmmmm:

Labor’s bid for a third term in government has suffered a horror first week after revelations Premier Daniel Andrews has been questioned in a fresh corruption probe.

Hunchback could murder people on the street and the low IQ boomers would still vote for their savior.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 5, 2022 9:39 am

Struth asked;

Now the jabs have either been taken or not….who can now hold their heads up in these matters.

I can!!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 5, 2022 9:41 am

Last night saw a Tweet about SES Qld being asked to help with volunteers to send to NSW to assist with floods.

NSW only wanted those who could prove triple jabbed. However Qld never had a Vax mandate for RFS and SES so would have plenty of fit and healthy volunteers who can’t be deployed.

Qld Lifesaving was similar. Qld came within 2 weeks of getting rid of unvaxxed but stopped. NSW did enforce the mandate so had qualified guys who could not help during floods and presumably in the future.

VIC is same.

So they are happy to enforce mandates that mean they have less volunteers in times of disasters.

I would guess most who have got a triple jab did so over 6 months ago. So are they now still counted as vaxxed due to waning. Please note I am not endorsing the booster at all just highlighting the idiocy of the policy.

I wonder if Qld SES picked up on the recent review into Emergency Services. It recommended SES come under police command. That would be the only state police who are requiring over 50’s to take 4th jab or lose their jobs. All under 50 have to be triple jabbed. Should be great for volunteer retention.

struth
struth
November 5, 2022 9:48 am

Those who belittled and mocked the warnings regarding the jabs right through to the hysterical responses like notafan still trying to lie and twist the truth …..show no regard for their fellow man and feel no responsibility for what that sickening behavior may have led others to do.
No different to pushing drugs on young people saying “it’s fine..it’s just heroin…everyone’s doing it”

rosie
rosie
November 5, 2022 9:48 am
Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 9:48 am

I’m going to put it out there; I don’t think Dan is going to do as well as the polls indicate. There is some serious venom out there towards him on all manner of fronts…

Reported overnight that he’s the subject of another IBAC investigation.

Someone leaked it to The Age.

Rabz
November 5, 2022 9:53 am

Biden used his Wednesday night address to warn everyone that the results may not immediately be known because it may take several days for enough Democrat votes to be harvested and double-counted

Is it possible to even parody that foul syphilitic ol’ geriatric husk anymore? The statement above, while courtesy of the Bee, is basically what the stupid ol’ criminal bastard actually said. That is, you will wait for days to know the results while we rig the outcome.

Tom
Tom
November 5, 2022 9:53 am

Mackinnon (TAB Champions) Stakes:
1. Anamoe (J: J.McDonald; T: J. Cummings; $2 fav).
2. Zaaki (J: J. Kah; T: A. Neasham; $7.50).
3. I’m Thunderstruck (J: M. Zahra; T: Price-Kent; $4).

Bern, there’s no hiding on the long Flemington straight*. Champions win, including Australia’s best jockey J-Mac.

*Even after the wettest October on record and more rain this week, track manager Liam O’Keefe had to put another 5mm of irrigation on it this morning –astounding. Flemington’s new irrigation system is the world’s best.

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 9:53 am

Heart attacks, Heart disease SOARING. Medical Establishment has an “answer”
Dr. Suneel Dhand

How interesting, the medical establishment is recommending polypills for heart problems. oh wait where have we seen this before? What is a polypill, it’s a statin, baby aspirin and an ACE inhibitor.

Hang on a sec isn’t that basically what is in the long covid protocols? why yes, yes it is, the very same protocols the establishment has been heaping shit on.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 5, 2022 9:55 am

Because St. Ruth has a day off from slaving for Big Corporate – a crikkit post.

This is a couple of blokes from NewsCorp, accurately getting to the heart of the issue:

Their lame effort against Afghanistan was the embarrassing proof of how far their standards have slipped since they won the World Cup under Justin Langer a year ago.

KaBLAM.

Needing to win in a landslide to improve their poor net run rate and give themselves a second possible route to the semis if England only narrowly beat Sri Lanka, they fluffed their lines again and were lucky to win.

Luck runs out, particularly if you’re a pack of dilettantes who believe their views on social issues transcend their sporting ability.

Rabz
November 5, 2022 9:55 am

The areas of Twatter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility

Propagandists and censors, in other words.

Go and learn to code, you knobheads.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 5, 2022 9:55 am

Police keep watch on returned low-risk ISIS brides

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11:09PM November 4, 2022

Four former brides of Islamic State brought back to Australia a week ago are under police surveillance, were deemed low-risk by ASIO, and have signed legally ­enforceable agreements to co-­operate with authorities.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said she decided to repatriate the women and their 13 children from the secure detention camps in Syria only after they underwent “individual, detailed’’ security assessments.

In her first detailed comments about the families’ repatriation, Ms O’Neil revealed it had been determined it was safer for the children to be raised in Australia, with Australian values, than languish for years in camps where they would come under further influence from ISIS.

She said the children would have retained their right to gain an Australian passport and to enter Australia in the future.

And she indicated she was taking a hardline national security approach to the repatriations, saying her “one concern’’ was for Australian security, and indicating not all the women in the camps would be repatriated.

Independent MP Dai Le says an “open dialogue” from the government about the repatriation of Islamic… State-linked families to Australia would have been fruitful and “alleviated fears”. Four women and their 13 children, who had been living inside the al-Roj Syrian camp since the fall of IS in More

“In some instances – not in all – it will be in the national security interests of our country for women and children to be ­returned to Australia. These are tough decisions, they are the right ones for our country’s long-term security,’’ she said.

“Some people will find the ­humanitarian arguments here compelling. As Home Affairs Minister, I have one concern and that is the domestic security of our country.’’

Her comments came after a week of controversy in which ­Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and home affairs spokeswoman Karen Andrews continued to warn that the repatriation of the group of 17 women and children posed a dangerous threat to Australia and should not have occurred.

The Coalition, when Mr Dutton was home affairs minister, repatriated two family groups from Syria in 2019, the majority of them orphans, but refused to bring back others over the next three years, despite pleas from ­national security experts and senior American defence and diplomatic officials, who feared a looming security crisis if women and their children were left in Syria indefinitely.

“The former government chose to bury its head in the sand and pretend that this problem could be safely ignored. It cannot,’’ Ms O’Neil said.

“The children at the heart of this matter are and will remain Australians. There is nothing ­legally to be done to change that. They will have a permanent right to obtain an Australian passport and re-enter our country.

“The question is whether it is safer for these children to grow up in a squalid camp, without education and health, where violent radical ideology is a part of their daily lives. Or, whether it is safer for them to grow up here, around Australian values.

“Pretending these children don’t exist, and leaving it for the next generation to have to deal with the consequences, is shortsighted and irresponsible.’’

The Weekend Australian has independently confirmed the four women who arrived in Australia last Saturday are being monitored by the Joint Counter Terrorism Taskforce, comprising NSW and Australian Federal Police.

They were designated “low-risk’’ by ASIO, in an assessment made after each woman was ­interviewed multiple times by ­intelligence agents in the camps in Syria. They were also deemed the most vulnerable of the group in the camp.

Each woman’s extended family, her acquaintances, her social media footprint, and her past communications were examined.

The women each signed enforceable undertakings while in secure hotel accommodation last weekend, guaranteeing they would take part in NSW’s countering violent extremism programs, and co-operate with authorities.

And police, justice and child welfare officials have been visiting the women’s homes in suburban Sydney in the week since they arrived.

Work is also under way that appears to indicate a court order of some sort, possibly a supervision order, may be sought in the NSW Supreme Court. The women are not expected to be charged with any offence relating to their time in Syria. A terrorism control order is also a possibility, although seems unlikely.

Ms O’Neil refused to comment on any potential legal ­action that could be taken against the women.

The minister hit out at the “hypocrisy’’ from the opposition, saying repatriation decisions were “serious, significant decisions that our government makes calmly, thoughtfully and methodically, and in the national interest.

“Peter Dutton repatriated citizens three years ago, yet today opposes the exact same decisions. People are sick of this kind of politics,’’ she said.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 5, 2022 9:57 am

You live in a corrupt socialist shit hole

So do you.

and you think you’re going to vote yourself in some freedon.

Said the failed UAP candidate. Or so he says.

Leon L.
Leon L.
November 5, 2022 10:00 am

Cassie at 9:36am

It’s amazing, he gets away with hit.

The body language in Dan’s interview yesterday is very illuminating.
Politics is a sewer.
The politicians from either side, have more in common with other politicians, than the people they supposedly represent. (Nigel Farage.)
When you are dealing with sh*t, you need to flush often.
We have never held governments accountable, as the other team is always worse.
The Liberals have been taken over by Labor stooges.
But you have to vote for them in Victoria.
If they fail, flush then out too.
Pity is that it is fixed 4 year terms.

The Brownstone Institute has a good summary of ”What we knew in the early days” of covid.
No amnesty. We need a day if reckoning.

Rabz
November 5, 2022 10:01 am

a pack of dilettantes who believe their views on social issues transcend their sporting ability

Or their relevance in the greater scheme of things, which would be less than zero.

There are few more embarrassing spectacles than sports wallies screeching incoherently about saving da planet, da wacism, da evil corporates, etc, except perhaps Hollyweirdos, who are every bit as self important useless and ridiculous.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 10:02 am

Are you compliant?

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:03 am
Rabz
November 5, 2022 10:03 am

Police keep watch on returned low-risk ISIS brides

Err, if the stupid evil slags are so “low-risk”, why are the cops keeping watch on them?

Another headline presumably composed by a bot (you would hope).

Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 10:03 am

Luck runs out, particularly if you’re a pack of dilettantes who believe their views on social issues transcend their sporting ability.

The underwhelming Captain Cummins might want to look into getting a new pair of boots.

His present ones appear to big for him.

JC
JC
November 5, 2022 10:05 am

More on the Hunchback

Wifey is broadly unpolitical or more like uninterested in politics. She thinks they’re all the same, which I guess is broadly true.

One thing she’s dead cert on though. She despises the Hunchback more than anything I’ve ever seen before. She keeps repeating the pregnant woman thing and how we were locked up for two years. The lock up had a big impact on her and I could see it as she has a social circle as well her her sises.

If her view on the hunchback is any indication, then he’s in trouble, but it’s really hard to ignore the polls though.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:07 am

BREAKING: Paul Pelosi opened the door for cops, did not flee or declare emergency, walked back to the attacker in the house, then was ATTACKED!? WHAT!?

Classic CoverUp.
Attention is diverted to the periphery.
The only way this makes sense is if Paulie and DePape were playing Ed Buck with some homeless black hustler and the guy flatlined.
The cops are then called to clean up the crime scene and concoct an alternative scenario.
Paulie never had brain surgery and DePape is likely laying low south of the Border.

Zatara
Zatara
November 5, 2022 10:10 am

Police keep watch on returned low-risk ISIS brides

If they weren’t zero-risk why were they allowed back?

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:12 am

If her view on the hunchback is any indication, then he’s in trouble, but it’s really hard to ignore the polls though.
The Polls are bullshit, remember 2019 when the NewsPoll declared PeanutHead a certainty 3 days out?
Andrews has lost the Women’s Vote, he’s headed to the political graveyard, unless Matty is snapped in bed with a live goat and a dead boy before next Saturday.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cassie of Sydney says: November 5, 2022 at 6:38 am
“US left-wing propagandists are going down like flies this week.”
I’ll be happy when racist Joy Reid loses her gig.

+1
She’s an out-&-out racist, that’s indisputable.
But she also seems to be quite dumb. How did someone that thick get beyond being tea lady?

Mater
November 5, 2022 10:14 am

If they weren’t zero-risk why were they allowed back?

Because their rights as citizens are apparently everything.
OTOH, my rights as a citizen, 12 months ago, were less so.

I hope they are vaccinated!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cassie of Sydney says: November 5, 2022 at 7:49 am
I am sooooooooooo tired of right of centre parties that, when given enormous mandates by voters, proceed to do sweet fuck all with the mandates and actively spit in the faces of those votes that gave them the enormous mandates….think Blob Johnson in 2019 and Abbott in 2013.

The greatest mandate-squanderer of them all should not be omitted: Malcolm Fraser.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:18 am

If they weren’t zero-risk why were they allowed back?
In the eyes of the Police, everyone is at least a low risk of going terrorist.
They trooped down the gangplank in full Purdah, so assuming there was a woman underneath is a big ask, in my opinion.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 5, 2022 10:18 am

If they weren’t zero-risk why were they allowed back?

From the Commonwealth of Australia Attorney-General’s Department:

The chances of an average suburban punter having their spinal cord kinetically removed by IS tarts and enablers is low but never zero.

The chance of someone who made that decision having their spinal cord kinetically removed by IS tarts and enablers is zero.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 5, 2022 10:19 am

Bourne1879

They are using the army to plug holes at moment. Haven’t heard of any Townsville troops going but have heard Brisbane and Adelaide are involved.

https://news.defence.gov.au/service/adf-continues-support-flood-response

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:21 am

The underwhelming Captain Cummins might want to look into getting a new pair of boots.

Wadey is captain now.
If you’re going to comment on Cricket, it helps to know what you’re talkin’ about.

Bluey
Bluey
November 5, 2022 10:23 am

My local area is plastered in signs for the local liberal candidate. There’s even a couple up advertising the LDP. I’ve seen a grand total of two for the sitting labor MP.

This is a labor stronghold. As in I can’t remember a time it didn’t vote in labor with a 10 percentage point or more lead.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 10:24 am

The greatest mandate-squanderer of them all should not be omitted: Malcolm Fraser.

He was a proto Teal.
A full-on green in later life.

Rabz
November 5, 2022 10:26 am

WTF?

(No) Energy Australia have just sent me the final gas bill for this year and it seems they massively overcharged me on the last bill and I now have a credit balance. Thought it was odd that the last bill was more than double the usual amount – which I wrongly attributed to (spirit) cooking home made pizza in the oven four nights a week for about eight weeks.

Anyway, it seems the gas bill went up 4.6% this year compared to 2021, another barely noticeable increase along with the electrickery bill (1.1%). Very odd. Any Cats had a similar experience with their increases in their bills?

Bluey
Bluey
November 5, 2022 10:26 am

Correction to my last:

Last time the Liberals won the Vic state election they came within 5 percentage points of labor in my seat.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 5, 2022 10:27 am

The children at the heart of this matter are and will remain Australians.

Nope, if they were born in Syria they are Syrians but with the right to apply for Australian citizenship by decent that we have the right to say no.

Majority of the public has said no but O’Neill has done it anyway.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:28 am

This is a labor stronghold. As in I can’t remember a time it didn’t vote in labor with a 10 percentage point or more lead.
Labor internal Polling musta told them they were fucked at least 6 months ago.
That’s why all the Labor dirty laundry is being dumped now and they’re not wasting money on Seats that are goooorn.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:33 am

Similar happened in the Jan. 2015 Qld Election.
Polling from mid 2014 told the LNP that they were history no matter what, so they saved their money and took the loss.

Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 10:34 am

If you’re going to comment on Cricket, it helps to know what you’re talkin’ about.

Don’t be a pedant, Ed. If you can help it.

Now, it’s a Saturday & you’ve got the day off. Pop down to New Farm Park for a stroll. Go on…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 10:36 am

Rabz – Check the fine print. The gas companies only seem to actually read the meter every half year, and “estimate” the other quarters. The estimates being such as to make BoM look good.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 10:37 am

*Even after the wettest October on record and more rain this week, track manager Liam O’Keefe had to put another 5mm of irrigation on it this morning –astounding. Flemington’s new irrigation system is the world’s best.

100%.
Randwick looks on with envy.

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:37 am
shatterzzz
November 5, 2022 10:37 am

They trooped down the gangplank in full Purdah, so assuming there was a woman underneath is a big ask,

I’m guessing this was a deliberate tactic to avoid any head shots getting into the public arena …….

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 5, 2022 10:37 am

Cassie

A future Coalition government could start by legislating to outlaw ESG.

Take a different approach, legislate to strengthen the fiduciary duties of directors, and extend them to CEOs, CROSS and CIOs.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 5, 2022 10:39 am

From Senegal to NYC: the latest sign of Biden’s open-borders insanity

By Post Editorial Board

News that the first big wave of guests at Mayor Eric Adams’ “Tentz-Carlton” are from Senegal exposes the utter madness of President Joe Biden’s open-border policy: As word spreads, “asylum seekers” from across the globe will keep on coming, until this president, or his successor, finally bends.

We noted weeks ago that the mix of illegal migrants had grown beyond the waves from Mexico and the Northern Triangle nations. More than 730,000 migrants last fiscal year alone from the rest of the world crossed our border. While Biden has (until Election Day, anyway) shut the doors to Venezuelans, that leaves scores of nations where heading to America seems like an excellent idea.

And the idea that legitimate claims for asylum have a thing to do with it is a complete joke. All these 110-plus Senegalese, per the imam who’d hosted them, “came across the southern border,” leaving home in West Africa after they “heard the border was open.” More: “Any time I ask them, all they are talking about is, ‘Border is open,’ ‘Border is open.’ ”

So the Biden effort to address “root causes” in the Northern Triangle has zero chance to dent the tide, ever.

The mass migrations have vanishingly little to do with the “root causes” of political instability and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that Biden & Co. harp on about. Most of them, understandably enough, just want a better life in the greatest nation in the world — and are delighted that our president gave the OK for them to jump the line ahead of everyone seeking legal immigration.

As one of the new New Yorkers from Senegal happily put it, “We can stay as long as we want.”

It’s another reason Nov. 8 is sure to bring a “red wave” and Republican control of Congress, followed by hearings and likely new laws to stop the madness at borders Team Biden keeps insisting are “secure.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 10:39 am

Musk tweeted an hour ago saying the “safety department” didn’t get a fraction of the layoffs that others did.
What’s hilarious is they are already asking for recruiters to send twitter quality applicants.

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:40 am
Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:42 am

A future Coalition government could start by legislating to outlaw ESG.

ESG is communism with a suit & tie

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 5, 2022 10:44 am

If only I could have voted for the Road Rager, he would have saved us from ourselves. Wait a minute, even Fat Cloive could see he was another Jacqui Jackie. A one trick pony.

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:45 am

24hrs on twitter and not a single request to delete a tweet

Rabz
November 5, 2022 10:46 am

The estimates being such as to make BoM look good.

Bruce – hence the August bill being somewhat of an “outlier”. Bloody shonks.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 5, 2022 10:50 am

Let me get this right.

You lot are saying that they are permitting the non-compliant to post on twitter?
Shirley this can’t be right.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 5, 2022 10:52 am

My tip for the MacKinnon Stakes … Denialism.

Rafiki
Rafiki
November 5, 2022 10:55 am

Let us suppose that one of the returnee black letter-boxes is a security risk. She has now been warned the cops are to keep a watch of the group. One might think that her strategy will be to give the impression that she is de-radicalised; wear western clothing, condemn FGM, join the CWA, etc.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 10:55 am

They’ve gotta read the meter sooner or later.
I didn’t respond to their offer to read the meter mahself, so the following Bill was on the high side, but they musta done a reading since, because the last one was the lowest in 30 years.

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 10:56 am
flyingduk
flyingduk
November 5, 2022 10:56 am

NSW did enforce the mandate so had qualified guys who could not help during floods and presumably in the future.

Hopefully all of those who were ‘let go’ for exercising their rights to bodily integrity will say ‘nup’ when graciously invited to return (mistakes were made on both sides right?).

SA never had a vax mandate for the CFS volunteers although they did for paid staff. A friend of mine lost his post as an Air attack supervisor (they control the firebombers from above) due to being unvaxxed – the CFS subsequently had to close their main Adelaide Hills Airbase and quarantine the staff after a (fully vaxxed) person brought covid onto the base.

I did, however, get told by a CFS Regional Commander that I posed a ‘reputational risk that needed to be managed’ due to my protest activity. I told him he could shove it, after more than 20 years, and walked out of the station that day, forever.

Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 10:59 am

One might think that her strategy will be to give the impression that she is de-radicalised; wear western clothing, condemn FGM, join the CWA, etc.

Odds are they’ll be resetttled in one of their ethnic enclaves due to “social support.”

The burkas they were photographed wearing alighting from the plane weren’t just for privacy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 11:00 am

My tip for the MacKinnon Stakes … Denialism.

Oh behave!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 5, 2022 11:01 am
lotocoti
lotocoti
November 5, 2022 11:01 am

“Protecting”

Charged With is interesting.
Did these former Protectors of the Midterm Elections go through
some sort of Congressional confirmation process?

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 5, 2022 11:01 am

They trooped down the gangplank in full Purdah, so assuming there was a woman underneath is a big ask,

I’m guessing this was a deliberate tactic to avoid any head shots getting into the public arena ……

.

If that was the case, then they coulda disembarked them securely.
The full Purdah was to rub the public’s noses in it, but we’ve still got no idea who or what was inside the black sacks.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 11:03 am

Listening to the weekly Taibbi, Kirn podcast.
They’re talking about how all House Committee work was boxed up weeks ago.
But the Senate Committees are for the most part continuing.
Most committee work isn’t the public hearings, it’s the behind the scenes work.
That would say the DNC is still holding out hope re the Senate.

and
and
November 5, 2022 11:06 am

Shirley says it is right. 🙂

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Mother Lodesays: November 5, 2022 at 8:11 am
The Bee is prophetic.
If they wrote an article where someone won the lotto and showed the numbers, I would be out the door and up to the newsagent toot sweet.

The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang spelling.
Love it!

Christine
Christine
November 5, 2022 11:10 am

and

what a fascinating avatar

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 11:10 am

According to a gambling site, a punter has 50k on:
Race 6 Nature Stip;
Race 7 Private Eye;
Race 8 Anamoe
To all win, all shortish favourites at 10 bucks.
Some people don’t respect money.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 5, 2022 11:11 am

Test

calli
calli
November 5, 2022 11:12 am

Flemington’s new irrigation system is the world’s best.

100%.
Randwick looks on with envy.

Probably the drainage system, not the irrigation. My understanding is that Randwick has always had a problem with perched water on sand.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 11:16 am

My understanding is that Randwick has always had a problem with perched water on sand.

That’s why they’ve ripped the thing up and tinkered with it 3 times in the last 20 years.
Still can’t get it right.

Roger
Roger
November 5, 2022 11:16 am

Probably the drainage system, not the irrigation.

And that concrete wall certainly came in handy.

calli
calli
November 5, 2022 11:16 am

“Protecting”
Charged With is interesting.
Did these former Protectors of the Midterm Elections go through
some sort of Congressional confirmation process?

“Protecting” is the word you use when “influencing” might give too much away.

calli
calli
November 5, 2022 11:18 am

In my view they need a massive system of wick drains. Cost the earth, but there it is.

Rand-wick. Geddit? 😀

Zipster
Zipster
November 5, 2022 11:20 am
shatterzzz
November 5, 2022 11:21 am

If that was the case, then they coulda disembarked them securely.

Not really, they (gummint)_ knew the media would be waiting and the howling commence if they off-loaded out of the ordinary .. so they stage-managed to appear as if they were being treated like any other arrivals .. tho the chartered flight and additional security might have been a give-away ..!

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 5, 2022 11:24 am

Dot, the Hoover Institute has dropped another episode in their election coverage.
It’s just fucking bizarre now.

Goanna
Goanna
November 5, 2022 11:25 am

Guy might be a non-entity, but Dan is a focus of a surprising amount of hate.

Andrews is on the nose. In fact the Herald Sun print front page in large print says, ‘It Stinks.’ ( The state of Victoria)

He’s in trouble despite the polls.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 5, 2022 11:28 am

Welcome Christine!

Gravatars are fun, but be careful as they aren’t secure.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
November 5, 2022 11:36 am
dopey
dopey
November 5, 2022 11:38 am

Elliptical might be worth some thought. Craig Williams to ride and 51kg. Three year olds are not supposed to beat outstanding older horses but he got Giga Kick home in the Everest. The race now seems to be called the TAB Champions Stakes. May as well just have poker machine racing.

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