Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859
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The DeSantis nickname. Oops.
Its not a fair question – after my last stint in the ‘ghan, I picked up a custom, stretched , 200 Series double cab ute. I will be keeping that till I die.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
– Lewis Carroll
BTW, JC you farking twat this is not Spam…………….Just fought’ I would let ye’r know you Victorian Plonker………….LOL…………..
Because Trump drained the swamp so well? He drained it so well that he hired Wray for the FBI.
Trump deserves to run and win in 24 for past sins, but let’s also be clear eyed.
Important tip when using a Landcruiser to pull a slow & heavy object. Always pull in forward gear, never reverse.
Winston, perhaps the teacher is an oldie who was taught how to teach at Teachers’ College.
Yeah, no.
Like Moses and Jesus …
What news of Ian Cook? Making any progress?
Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?
Sabine Hossenfelder
Today we did a little Mornington Peninsula tour.
I’m from that joint so for me it was all back roads and reminiscing.
Had a bang-up set menu meal at Trofeo Estate which, I’d highly recommend.
Nice Pinot, fruit, acid, young, with old wood tannins … stunning stuff.
the food was nek lebel
We decided to take the long way back through Flinders and stopped for a little while there.
and the best part was planning dinner with a full belly when we decided to just grab some bread at the bakery to build a toastie at home later …
The bakery had sour-dough ciabatta but they called them Slippers.
So I asked why the called them that and the answer was because, that’s what they look like.
slippers
I told them that my step-father, who was Italian, always called his slippers Ciabatta … because that’s what they looked like.
ciabatta
I still remember him always calling from the lounge room
Patty … bring me my ciabatta … minaccia !!
As far as I know, minaccia means threat in English
but the thing is, that word is also a play on my surname and my mother’s previous maiden-name. Clever old bugger.
Be like 10 years now almost to the day
damn. I miss that bloke
That depends entirely on the behaviour of the defeated candidate.
And which of the two do you think is likely to play spoiler?
I think a robust primary system produces battle hardened candidates for the main game.
What is the alternative?
Some self-appointed heir apparent declares himself the presumptive candidate and everyone else is supposed to part like the Red Sea and give him a free run?
youll need 125,000 different credit cards
WELL DUH!
That’s the point, end the bots and put unemployed left wing losers where they belong.
If they don’t like it; learn to code, learn to dig coal, touch grass or build their own platform.
It isn’t for them. They should leave a proud African American alone.
November 8, 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse: Visibility Map
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5034
8000lb winch 🙂
But it struggled … almost stalled out – then the tractor slowly started to move.
Just had another 10mm here, so I guess that adds another week to the ‘drive in the paddocks’ date.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-06/is-satanism-a-religion-of-social-justice/101591462
No comment except; WTF? That explains a lot.
“Everyone who isn’t paying gets shadowbanned”
Oh well, for those who don’t like it they can always build their own platforms.
Twice I’ve pulled something out backward in a Landcruiser. (A tree stump each time)
Twice I was sorry.
Apparently the diffs can’t take the load in the opposite direction.
A year or two later a tooth falls off or somesuch – you’re up for a new front diff.
A rather unhappy experience.
Caused quite some reflection, as I’ve been pulling things out of bogs with a Landcruiser my whole life.
Come to think of it, couldn’t recall doing it backward, at least not in anything built later than 1982.
It’s not so much that as people just staying home.
Different matter when one of the candidates was previously President to that when all the candidates aren’t.
More:
Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse, in Melbourne
Begins: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 7:53 pm
Maximum: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 9:59 pm 1.359 Magnitude
Ends: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 12:56 am
Duration: 5 hours, 3 minutes
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/australia/melbourne
Yes. Alice Liddell.
The girlfriend of Richard Francis Burton, at least in Philip Jose Farmer’s book “To your scattered bodies go” (1971)
There was a movie of Riverworld. Not bad at all. Sam Clemens loved being Captain of his riverboat and his crew had a strange one to one resemblance with the crew of a certain fictional spaceship whose Captain loved being Captain and wore a Browncoat.
And rice, 100’s kg rice.
Seems weird for atheists to pursue Satanism. That sort of contradicts their atheist position, since Satan can only exist if you assume Christianity and Judaism are real. And then why embrace the idea of going to Hell. It’s weird.
Why paganism and witchcraft are making a comeback (30 Oct)
I have to say the witches in the photo look quite chubby. Maybe that is a sign of the real issue.
Said it before. I’ll say it again.
I will prey on my neighbours, for they are weak.
Nice little squall/storm and a bit of rain, just on dusk.
Filling up a couple of dog holes in the yard nicely. The dry patches of grass from the past three weeks almost glowed orange in the last rays, and as the clouds towered over the top.
Pretty sweet.
What’s the point of the Church of Satan when actual churches lend support to abortion?
They’re all political weirdos who want free shit: La Vey hated individualism and so made a mockery of it, the new guy is just a blatant leftist shill.
“Abortion access”
Please try contraception or adoption first.
They’re just smart enough to know atheists preaching is laughable so they make up a fake anti religion.
It’s also based on ignorance.
“The meek shall inherit the earth” cannot even be mocked because it is incorrect. A better translation is “he who keeps spear sheathed shall inherit the earth” – also a lesson about contraception.
Beware, Kevin is Hercules.
JC
Have you heard his wife? Fetterhead is brain dead. She’s worse.
I clicked on the link. She looks like the bride of Frankenstein. Which is rather apt.
Sushi?
Or basmati?
The theological illogicality may escape them, but a vacuum cries out to be filled by something.
Nice little squall/storm and a bit of rain, just on dusk.
Threatened all day round our way but got nothing. Cairns and the Cape have had a good drink over the last couple of days. Oz Cyclone Chasers hinting at a tropical low, very rare for Nov but SST are above required temp so not in realms of impossibility.
There is no way Trump will announce he is running in 2024.
That will be an admission he was defeated/concede the 2020 election.
That won’t happen.
There are these things now called virtual credit cards, so no, you don’t.
Hey custard, good to see you bro.
Your thoughts on Kash Patel turning snitch?
Times run out. Trust in Jesus Christ.
How do you acquire 125,000 virtual credit cards?
Hey. The UN and DHS have been paying to play already.
Lets sack all the Sicktorian Overlords and hire this man for a couple of years.
“That won’t happen.”
Oh okay, so, he’ll just walk up to the White House, the guards will allow him in and he will waltz into the Oval Office..
That’s the shtick, right?
m0nty-fa seems to be having nightmares about Twatter. Maybe he can’t afford to fund his bots?
Isn’t that what was already happening? Now they only have to pay $8pm rather than a one-off $15k.
If Kevin Sorbo is my neighbour, he gets a pass even though he’s 64.
Everyone else is fair game.
B O N 5.57pm. Any information you could give me and your opinions of Paracetamol would be be gratefully received. Panadol has always caused hyperactivity in the family but could it pass through the antiepileptic drugs that have a 10 year old sedated and have him awake and interacting with out the seizures.
Hillary might as well have won in ’16, since all Trump for 4 years was kiss black arse and promote GloboHomo in Africa.
And stand around like a big dope while Antifa burnt cities out.
Though he did say:
There are good people on both sides.
What a Cuck.
So, what would he do if he won in 2024?
Cuck harder, whaddya fucking think?
Speaking of Hercules, the Troy soap is on 7Flix if you fancy some swords and sandals.
If you’ve got a weak constitution, perhaps steer clear of Ed’s basement.
I’m sure he’s got freezers full of meat, but just don’t.
Presumably those who paid Fifteen Thousand to a scalper aren’t happy at the Muskinator telling them their “free” (heh heh)blue check will now cost $96 per year.
Simon Holmes à Court boasting
the biggest battery in australia is in victoria!
over the last year it has bought $12.9m in energy and sold it for $31.4m.
More fool them, Sal. No wonder they’re dirty.
I wonder how much Eric Idle paid for his tick and 2million + “followers”? It’s all so silly, but obviously profitable…up until now.
Win – I can’t help you, re paracetamol. It works fine on me, but almost everything does. The liver damage issue is well known of course.
How much of Holodomor is influencing Ukrainian thinking.
$15,000 USD to a scalper = this is such a good deal I’m not going to tell anyone that there’s a black market in illicit blue ticks.
$8 per month paid legit to Twitter is an abomination, it is profiteering, how dare he, etc. I’ll be screeching it from the rooftops & will teach that profiteering scum, Musk, a lesson by influencing advertisers to pull their money.
Oh, OK.
Can you give me the name of the School of Death before you go.
Mr Jones. Top notch movie.
Damn straight.
Ed watching someone – er, ‘eat’ Mummy is how we got here.
It’s right next to the Camp of Death.
Mr Sorbo has been doing climate realist videos. He’s awesome. If anyone can clean out the Augean climate stables it’d be him.
Wax on.
Wax off.
That one?
(It’s the only Japanese movie I know).
Oh.
So you catch the School Bus of Death there and back?
Who would drive the School Bus of Death?
And does he own a boat?
So many questions.
This is definitely worth a watch. A blast.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10405370/
Looking at Mr Idle’s feed what he had was practically free advertising for his business and his atheism and his Trump hate.
He has a Tesla though but is so incensed about paying $8 a month he’s thinking of getting rid of it.
What a wanker.
Down the road from the nudist colony of the dead
I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about Montifa
Link?
Enough to be fans of the SS. (The enemy of my enemy etc).
Razey,
Im interested to hear more about your plans to vacate.
My brother and sister in-law lived in Japan for a several years
Back home so normal service can resume. An unexpected loss of the weekend but quite relaxing in the end. All fixed ready for the week ahead.
Ah but it is a paywall, Bruce, if he follows through on what he said in that talk to investors that I linked. He is saying that if you don’t pay then your followers won’t see your tweets until every other blue-ticked post is shown to them, if at all. The algorithm will prioritise those who pay, everyone else can go jump. This is a form of shadowbanning, and wingnuts go crazy about stuff like that.
I fully expect him to backflip on it, but it will be fun while it lasts. I just bought a blue tick myself, to get a front seat to the flame-out.
hello anybody home? go and try and get 2 fake credit cards report back how you went.
< < < I just bought a blue tick myself, to avoid missing out. > > >
That’s what you really meant.
Interestingly I found a big vertical scar across my stomach I didn’t know I had to go with the hole in my skull from the stroke. Increasingly I suspect I’m lucky to be here at all.
He’s Vladimir Putin, he controls many banks who can set that up.
Don’t get too excited mUnty. There would be dozens of those given by courts across Australia every week. I think I even got one in my Magistrates Court trial. Don’t send those Muellerween invitations out just yet.
James Woods and others were shadow banned for years for expressing opinions twitter employees didn’t like, so so what if people are shadowbanned for being too tight to pay $8 a month.
Why are people blue ticks?
Because they want to influence public opinion and/or make money, let them pay a token amount for that privilege.
Getting a blue tick doesn’t guarantee you followers does it?
And everyone that applies for one will presumably have to go through a verification process.
Unlike the previous system, apparently.
which ones, mUnty?
If Putin is prepared to actually pony up One Million dollars, in tranches of $8 (+ card fee) for some obviously fake followers, why would Musk stand in his way?
Chicks dig scars Bear. They diggity dig them.
Welcome aboard (for different reasons).
No, he abolished that.
How hard would anybody work to prevent someone having their way with you, when they’re trying to give you One Million dollars?……… And they don’t actually want anything in return?
Has the Poot hacked the fantasy football?
Channel 7 regional news just spent more than a minute reporting that a woman had seen a brown snake on her driveway.
In Adelaide.
FMD. They wonder why ratings are plunging.
Lol, the pink-haired staff abolished that, the minute they started taking Fifteen grand (non-taxable) under the table in return for a few blue pixels.
Maybe not. I found out recently a relative died during one of the Sandankan death marches.
m0nty-fa
Re Patel, being forced by a court to answer questions is a long way from being a “snitch”, at least in the normal meaning of the word.
Kash isn’t a snitch Montifa
He’s Ultra MAGA
What?
I could get six in a week, should I desire to. It’s not rocket surgery.
Kash totally snitched on Trump. There was an offer made by the DOJ, a deal struck with Patel and the quid pro quo is that he’s got immunity.
Steve Bannon got four months gaol for contempt of court. Patel turned supergrass. No honour among thieves.
Presumably both woman and snake were hyphenated.
Must be a slow news day everywhere. A corresponding piece in Mongyang’s biggest seller, the Hun:
m0nty-fa
Have you had access to his testimony? If not, you are talking through your arse, as you did through 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Is this Patelween, ThanksPatel, Merry Patel or Happy New Patel?
For the benefit of the huddled masses, when you are given immunity in America you can’t plead the Fifth.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, this is less about the exact suburb mentioned here and more about the ‘ooooh, we don’t need more of those icky people here, do we Roderick?’ NIMBYism infesting the joint.
It’s Martha’s Vineyard 2.0. The Tele:
Former journalist-turned Liberal candidate for Vaucluse Kellie Sloane has declared residents in her well-heeled electorate shouldn’t be “punished” with new homes, in a statement likely to put her at odds with a local council with housing targets to meet.
‘Punished’. Righto:
Infrastructure? How much pebblecrete does one need?
Notably, Sloane didn’t mention where she thought these houses should be built. Cobar, probably.
Yes, yes, blockquotes.
I’m trying to organise my new cards.
Elon Musk’s BRUTALLY HONEST New Interview With Ron Baron
Musk wants to be rid of bots you thickheaded troll.
No wonder there are filthy disgusting sheets at the motel. He’s completely stupid.
Why would you?
Because you don’t want to grass on your supposed friends?
Patel trilled like a songbird to the grand jury.
Presumably because you slept in those sheets.
You are ordered to cease talk of motels to me. I am a hotel & a fine establishment, not a common motor inn for dirty liasions with your mistress.
Please refer to me as a truck stop again. Truckies are a much higher grade of clientele than you & your ilk who soil sheets in cheap motels. (No need to tell us how you manage to soil so many sheets, just stfu about how you have so many of them)
Got a tweet from Elon, I verified munty is a bonafide fat freak. He wanted a second opinion……. he’s an idiot as well. Pay your 8 bucks idiot.
Family, here, lost three of their sons in the Sandankan death marches. Another died a few days ago, aged over 100.
M0nty, how did you respond when one of the Twitter sheilas offered you a “free” blue tick for only fifteen grand (USD)?
Why are you responding to the dirty sheets comment, Driller? How do you assume I was even talking about you as I wasn’t. I’m referring to a motel employee pretending he’s some big time hotel owner in QLD.
Stick to telling people about how to reverse in a Land Cruiser, you useless drunk. You loser.
Please list, in descending order, all the other people you mention you filthy sheets to, along with how many times you’ve raised this topic with them.
Thank you in advance…..
(After that we’ll go into the utterly ridiculous notion of why anyone would have any idea to whom you’re addressing complaints about your personal bedroom hygiene)
They didn’t bother with small fry like me, Sally. That sort of wheeze was reserved for millionaire crypto bros.
Bloody hell. To survive that, you’d have to be a tough bastard. Was just reading now, my relative died in in the POW camp, before the march.
Rosie:-
And JC:-
I think Musk’s plan is to reduce the number of accounts but have lots of verified accounts.
The detail provided in a verified account is gold. Even if it is only 3-4 pieces of meta-data it is invaluable to advertisers compared with what they have now.
I don’t think he is even worried about charging for it.
Why would he?
It has intrinsic value far beyond the eight bucks.
I think the posturing about the $8 is just yanking the blue-ticks chains.
What’s the betting he ditches it, or only charges it as a one-off.
Give it up. You can’t even run a motel without fucking it up. Those sheets.. disgusting. The health dept. should investigate and close down the filth hole.
Razey-san is off his sushi and is putting the Corolla on Gum-Tree.
Please name this Cat. The very idea of there being fakers on here is… oh lordy lord…. call my maid & have her pass my smelling salts, please.
STFU about fakers, unless you come out & reveal your true lizard identity. All that goanna talk on the open thread yesterday was dropped in as a hint that we all know your real species. No need to hide it.
Seriously lizard, what the fukkity fukk are you on about with sheets & motels all the time?
Time you consulted a mental health professional. Taronga zoo will know of someone who handles lizard problems.
hahahahha
you indeed jump to the front of the comments list when you have a blue tick
eat shit leftoids
Susumi Hoshijima:
“You will work until your bones rot under the tropical sun of Borneo. You will work for the Emperor. If any of you escape, I will pick out three or four and shoot them. The war will last for 100 years”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandakan_camp
Speaking of Twitter blue-ticks.
I am not on there, but when I used to see links to Orange Man tweets, the reply which showed up first was almost invariably this smartarse guy with the Dems talking points.
Same account every time.
How did that work?
Was he always first to reply?
Or did his replies always get promoted to show first?
If the latter, who decided that?
For the benefit of the huddled masses, when you are given immunity in America you can’t plead the Fifth.
That’s true dickless but nor do you necessarily have incriminating evidence against yourself or others.
Does he look like he has a plan? He only went through with the purchase to stop his stupid DMs getting exposed through discovery in that lawsuit. He got boned on that transaction, good and hard.
Paywalls for professionally produced and curated content are one thing, but paywalls for social media UGC are another. The former is a legitimate if risky biz model. The latter seems like it is doomed to failure before it starts.
He has an extremely large amount of balls in the air, and his dick on the line. Puppetry of the Penis featured less contortions.
Yes.
blah blah blah the rakemeister back to solid rake form
and you can edit your tweets and decide who sees them. and I am not shadowbanned! hahahahahah
I don’t have a reference, but after the Allies captured the camp, the Japanese guards were rounded up and marched over the same route. The local villages practiced headhunting, and apparently quite a few Japanese heads ended up in local longhouses, without anyone getting too upset.
JC and Salvatore, you guys are a crack-up.
You’re like first draft Pinter.
You’re an interior decorator!
Wtf?
You said you’re an interior decorator!
Wtfuckettyf?
You saying you’re not an interior decorator?
Never said I was.
I always knew you’re a lousy interior decorator.
Cove
He tells people he’s a bigtime successful hotel owner. He’s not. He’s employed as a motel manager and runs a filthy disgusting place that ought to be condemned by the dept of health. A total loser.
a longer list
@GeneralMills
@Audi
@GM
@pfizer
@MDLZ
@VW
@InterpublicIPG
@Dyson
@MazdaUSA
@Disney
@Forbes
@nbc
@colehaan
@CocaCola
@DIRECTV
Does he look like he has a plan?
Simply hilarious watching munter critique one of the most successful men of our time.
But then again, they’re both inventors, entrepreneurs and explorers. Didn’t munty invent skywhale?
I am.
You have been ordered to cease talk of motels.
What the fukkitty fuk is this comment based on, you lizard?
Did you take the dog’s worm pill by mistake this morning instead of your regular heart medication? or something?
Owned by VW. Fined billions for lying to people about the emissions from their cars.
@GeneralMills
@Audi
@GM
@pfizer
@MDLZ
@VW
@InterpublicIPG
@Dyson
@MazdaUSA
@Disney
@Forbes
@nbc
@colehaan
@CocaCola
@DIRECTV
Guess who made my “No Buy” list.
It’s not just the montopolis saying this, take a gander at Twitter, there’s all manner of under-achievers on there guffawing about how Musk has “clearly” made a total stuff-up of running Twitter.
Rickw
Modelled for the skywhale, not invented it.
Why assume it’s about you Driller? Have you lied to us for years about being the Conrad Hilton of the North? Have you ever defending a plagiarist? Steal valor. That’s not you is it?
Just worry about helping the rest of us on how to drive a Land Cruiser in reverse, you blowhard slob.
Trusted Tweeters I hope?
You are Georgie.
Priceless
Serioulsly you lizard, what the fukkitty fukkitty fukk are you on about?
You seem fixated on this bullshit. Nobody knows what you’re on about.
Blurt it all out, so you can get back to just darting your forked tongue in & out all day while dragging one paw.
You’ll feel so much better afterward. You may even be able to enjoy a coffee again sufficiently to admire the cuffs on the shirts of a couple of dudes sitting at the next table.
Y’know, get your life back to normal.
Blue ticks.
Things change so fast at Twitter these days I’m not sure of their trust status.
Remember when Murdoch bought MySpace? Billionaires make mistakes.
Sure. He can’t possibly make money from this or have fun messing with people.
It’s a really stupid plan though right?
Ergo Musk will screw up at Twitter.
Just like he screwed up at Tesla & Space X, by turning them from big successful companies into tiny bankrupt small businesses…… oh… wait…
The CCP did good yesterday.
They snapped a bolt off in one of the main motor hazardous area rated junction boxes.
Instead of doing crazy shit like trying to fix it with drills, hammers and angle grinders. They came and got me.
I thought very carefully about posting this.
Then I thought, “Fuck it. Why not?”
Of course they don’t. But what we don’t understand is why you’re responding?
The plan seems dumb on its face, Dot. Media paywalls work because quality professional content is scarce. Social media paywalls… well the users can just go somewhere else.
I might be more sympathetic to the 11-dimensional chess argument if we hadn’t just lived through the Trump era. Musk is just another trust fund dickhead with a hair plug. He hardly lifted himself up by the bootstraps.
It’s possible he could do both.
He’s already made a pretty good fist of messing with people and cutting costs.
mUnty knows quality j’ism. He’s a professional.
Musk fired close to 4000 imbeciles.
At an average of 150 K total factor comp , this equals US$600 million.
Not a bad start for the first week.
Do you reckon Rupert Murdoch is not the primary breadwinner in that family?
None of that matters.
1. It doesn’t alter the profitability of future projects.
2. X dot com / Pay Pal could have brought him from Lagos, Nigeria to Ivy League old money.
Musk’s approach to costs is what everyone talks about doing, but never follow through on.
Most cost cutting ends up being salami slices of everything, with massively bloated hangers-on and lean productive areas all being cut by some arbitrary percentage, rather than a proper re-structure.
He has turfed entire non-contributory functions out on their ears.
And here’s the thing.
The remainder automatically become more productive.
Example.
The guys cutting code for some new functionality won’t be called to a meeting on Monday to explain how it complies with some UN convention or other.
Because the UN compliance people are gone.
All of them.
Can you imagine. They had UN Compliance.
Let’s put up the pic again.
Some of the smartest folks in the Valley are co-investors with Musk. But why bother even talking about this when we have fatboy telling us it’s a dumb trade.
Who is this “we”?
The guys cutting code for some new functionality won’t be called to a meeting on Monday to explain how it complies with some UN convention or other.
Because the UN compliance people are gone.
All of them.
I imagine calendars at Twitter cleared up quite a bit. What else would the UN compliance fucks be doing beyond booking meetings?
Who’s on first?
You, with (yet another) faceplant.
Haha, who said lizards couldn’t faceplant?
Please, faceplant away…………. choose from the following: Bankrupt, Motel, Drunk, Employed, Fake, Liar, etc.
None are true, use of any is an automatic faceplant by you.
Your nose must hurt more than M0nty’s.
Don’t know about fake, but this app called “Revolut” generates virtual credit cards and disposable credit cards the later which is not a bad idea , comes in handy for purchases where they might want to charge a recurring payment . Pay for the goods or service then cancel the card as soon as the transaction is accepted. Ive used it quite alot.
The Andrews government is at almost unbackable odds to be returned to power in Victoria – but there is one person who would certainly wager against them.
Former Liberal premier Jeff Kennett.
That’s because his government was also a ‘surefire’ thing to cruise to victory and claim, like the Andrews government, a third term in 1999 before an incredible series of events saw them lose power.
Mr Kennett told Daily Mail Australia that with the bookies having Labor at an unbackable $1.05 to win a third term on November 26th – and the Liberals paying a whopping $10 – he’d be game for a punt.
That’s despite the Liberal-National coalition headed by Matthew Guy requiring a staggering 18 seats to win government. In the Victoria’s 88 seat parliament, Labor holds 55, and the Liberal-Nationals just 27.
‘I always have a flutter on those sorts of odds,’ he said, noting he had put money on two ‘roughies’ that got up in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.
While accepting that the polls had consistently shown the government of Dan Andrews as being on track for a win, Mr Kennett said his reading of the public mood is there were many with ‘no love for this government’.
‘Does the polling mean there are people out there who are sick and tired of his authoritarian behaviour, failure to accept responsibility, failure of some of our services, escalation of our debt that are not saying anything?’ he asked.
‘Or are the public saying ‘we want more of this sort of life?’ I don’t know.’
According to the polls and bookies Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is sitting pretty to be returned to office for a third term
On the Monday before the 1999 election Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper ran a poll predicting the Kennett government would be returned with an increased majority of six per cent.
‘I called the media together in to my offices and I held the paper up and I said ‘this is ridiculous’ – it’s the sort of thing that will see us defeated,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘It will encourage people who think we’ve moved too fast, where the reforms have been too overwhelming, and they’ll give us a kick in the pants.
‘The media broke down in laughter. They just couldn’t imagine Labor winning.
‘Everyone was laughing so much I had to bite the inside of my cheeks not to laugh with them.’
In 2022, the polls are again predicting a whopping win for the incumbent government.
Just like the Kennett government of 1999, Andrews also has a healthy majority of seats to act as a buffer against all but the biggest of swings.
Mr Kennett admitted it would be a ‘massive challenge’ for opposition leader Matthew Guy and the Coalition parties to pull off a shock win.
‘They have fundamentally got to win 18 seats, which is a huge ask,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘The Greens and the Labor party are going to exchange preferences, so a Green victory is ultimately a Labor vote.
‘Those who are using the Teals colours also invariably support Labor.’
However, one parallel he did see was anger outside the Melbourne metropolitan area, a factor which played a huge part in his own government’s demise.
‘I think the regions are very anti-Labor this time because they were locked down when they had no Covid and they are furious,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘The regions are suffering as their road ways and communities and communication avenues are breaking down, not only potholes, but the shoulders of the roads are becoming dangerous.
‘What has happened here is the government has borrowed money and the money is being spent on infrastructure in the metropolitan area, not in rural Victoria.’
Mr Kennett believes Labor’s attempt to ‘demonise’ opposition leader Matthew Guy (pictured centre) shows they are worried about a silent majority who have ‘had a gutful’ of the Andrews government
‘In the city the public are increasingly concerned about the quality of their health services,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘That Daniel (Andrews) is now promising new hospitals and new money for ambulances after they have been in office for eight years is an indication his priority has not been to provide for the quality health, education and roads.’
Mr Kennett believes that far from looking confident, Labor was showing signs of concern.
‘The Labor Party are throwing a huge amount of money at this campaign and trying to demonise Matthew Guy – they are only doing that for one reason – they are worried,’ he said.
‘They are worried about that silent majority who have just had a gutful and want change.
‘Even now in the election period they are using 30 or 40 people in their social media unit who will be attacking anyone who has a different view from them.
‘They have 30 or 40 addresses – it’s immoral and they are getting away with it.’
Some have pointed to the similarities between Mr Kennett and Mr Andrews, both of whom have dominating personalities and are seen as polarising figures.
Mr Kennett said the ‘great difference’ between him and Mr Andrews is that he worked with a team of people, while Mr Andrews is ‘one-man show’.
‘He runs it his way to his sense of values that are not the values of the community,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘I am not opposed to strong leadership – as long as it is applied well and as long as you understand in the council of many there is safety.
‘Where you have an individual who sets themselves above the rest and believes that they and they alone know what’s right for a community there is danger.’
Mr Kennett accused the media of giving Mr Andrews a soft run especially over the bungled hotel quarantine that led to 800 deaths in Victoria and 262 days of lockdown.
The later Coates Inquiry into the debacle essentially pinned the blame on nobody.
‘For the last eight years the government have put around them a collection of journalists who in my opinion are not independent as they should be in pursuing issues,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘Imagine if I had been the premier whose administration presided over 800 deaths. Do you not think the media would have eaten me alive?’.
‘But not only did they not pursue this government, the ministers got up at that low-key inquiry and said ‘we can’t remember’.
It was in my opinion unforgiveable, it was disrespectful to the community, and disrespectful to the practice to the Westminster system.’
If Mr Andrews is returned to power Victoria faced a rocky road, Mr Kennett predicted.
The state is on track to have more debt than NSW, Queensland and Tasmania combined, mostly because of a series of big infrastructure projects.
‘The size of this debt will continue to grow because all these projects have to finished,’ Mr Kennett said.
‘He will have to increase taxes substantially just to stop the growth in the annual deficit of the budget and the size of the debt.
‘People are now leaving the state and there is no doubt if he is elected again, more will leave.
‘He will be further emboldened by the fact that he has won and that means his disrespect for us as citizens will be even greater.’
Mr Kennett admitted he was a polarising figure and said his opponents played politics ‘very hard’.
‘I’m blamed for the weather,’ said with a hearty laugh.
The former premier said he was very happy to be judged on results and had left the incoming government of Steve Bracks a ‘vibrant state’ that people were flocking to.
Mr Kennett also admitted he didn’t personally dislike Mr Andrews and said he appreciated strong leadership.
However, he didn’t believe Mr Andrews had used his position of dominance well.
‘I would have thought much more of him if he used his authority to deliver positive outcomes,’ he said.
‘He’s been premier for eight years and health minister for six years before and so ignored the needs of the system he didn’t provide for the community you were elected to serve.
‘Health is a fundamental issue of government and he has failed.’
Daily Mail
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Thanx, Tom.
Thanks Tom.
Rowe is a turd of an individual.
Dilbert
Looks like the Duckworth-Lewis method might be under threat in the cricket.
Being superseded by the Tindr method for visiting teams.
Sri Lanka currently in the lead with four times in two hours on a variable pitch in Rose Bay.
Some dispute as to the outcome which had to be interrupted by a hasty scamper to the airport.
Score sent upstairs for review and awaiting decision.
five people who can speak for themselves speak about why they need someone else to speak for them
The very successful multi billionaire with access to the finest brains in the industry doesn’t know what he is doing, according to M0nty.
suckling pig
dreaming of cash
Re The Voice: this year the ABC handed over the Boyer lectures to Noel Pearson who is using this opportunity to tout unrelentingly for one side in the referendum.
Last year the Boyer lecturer was Marcia Langton.
Both of them given a microphone on the national broadcaster to talk about how the voice of the indigenous is ignored and unheard.
Quite true. Nobody listens to the ABC.
more on universities end running around Atar, I wonder how many are diversity picks.
Haha, top story at the Express right now.
Desperate Democrats put Meghan Markle as top choice for 2024 White House run against Trump (6 Nov)
And who said comedy is dead in the 21st century?
The equivalent of producing a fake vax certificate, when asked.
Doesn’t put me off buying their product one bit.
In fact…kudos to them.
please, oh please!
Popcorn stocks will go through the roof.
Yes I literally don’t care. All electric vehicles are lying about their total embedded emissions too.
A VW diesel is far more planet friendly than any (particularly UV solar powered) electric vehicle, divergent opinion reeks of ignorance.
Cadmium (solar cells) – nasty shit.
The embedded costs of CO2 production for battery materials mining and manufacture are never recouped.
As Leak illustrates, the big push at COP This Lot (Egypt Edition) is for “wealthy nations” to chip in bigly to give money to the poor third world nations which have been “devastated by climate change”.
The Big Lie, brought to you by Their ABC, among others.
McCulloch is still pushing the limits of our knowledge.
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2022/08/glimpses-of-qi-in-lab.html
With experimental data!
The majority of poor third world nations have been “devastated” by dodgy klepto governments rather than by climate change, but the media are still spewing out reports of record warming in the past decade in order to gee up the demands for action and funding.
Those of us in formerly wealthy countries aren’t well served by governments or media either. We have watched with alarm how much of our wealth has been pissed up against a one-way alley wall in order to fix non problems like climate and covid. There’s no fix in sight yet for our own stupid governments or our own reckless and complicit media.
FMD, just caught up with this story. Lady policeman says the woman did everything to keep herself safe. Meet in public place, friends know who she was out with etc etc. Copper stops just shy of saying “then she took him home”.
#Pfizer
Owned by Pfizer. Fined billions for lying to people about it’s products.
Didn’t seem to bother they-who-must-obeyed, or the panicked masses.
Anchor – this headline was fun.
Miliband demands Britain give money to nations like Pakistan to fight climate change (6 Nov)
Yes he really said that the UK should give oodles of money to major nuclear armed power Pakistan because of bad weather. These people are mad.
Reagan’s Best Joke
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/reagans-best-joke/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
– Lewis Carroll
Until you buy a $55k+ car and try to trade it in a couple of years later. And you’re offered $10k by the dealer because the market value has plummeted due to the nefarious activities of the manufacturer.
I know. Caveat emptor. So…never buying kraut again.
Why aren’t we in the frame?
Devastating bushfires and floods were caused by “climate change”. The ABC told me so.
That’s us too! Where’s our money?
Some expert analysis on the Twitter contretemps, from overnight:
Said the bloke living on other people’s success.
Twitter does not belong to everyone. It belongs to Musk. He doesn’t need a plan. He can set the whole thing on fire if he likes, or devote the entire platform to tentacle porn instead of just a little bit.
If he wanted, he could deconstruct all of Twitter’s buildings brick by brick and have them towed into the Pacific before being dumped into the Marianas Trench. Because it belongs to him.
Calli,
This isn’t a result of the manufacturer, the product is still good and does everything it claimed from a transport point of view.
Like during Covid, the damage is actually a result of the idiotic authorities and their stupid regulations.
they didn’t lie.
they just tuned the car to pass an idiotic government test
real world results may differ
I don’t usually revel in anyone losing their jobs, but, but, this news puts a smile on my face early on a Monday morning.
From the Oz
“Musk lays off Twitter’s Australian staff
Australian Twitter employees have been laid off as Elon Musk embarks on a massive cull of the company’s 7,500 global staff.
Numbers have been slashed in the social media giant’s government relations, marketing and news divisions, while its sales team, responsible for sourcing advertising, remains unaffected at present.
Former SBS journalist and Twitter deputy curation lead Katherine Gallo said the 10-person Asia-Pacific global news team that she managed had all been made redundant.
“Today, my entire team was laid off from Twitter,” Ms Gallo wrote on LinkedIn.
“I’m heartbroken because when I left my previous job at SBS I thought I wasn’t going to find another place I loved so much so quickly.
“My brilliant curation colleagues tackled misinformation, contextualised topics of interest, including breaking news, politics, health, social justice, sports and entertainment, summarising complex conversations unfolding in real-time on Twitter.”
Musk made no apologies for the layoffs as he attempts to drastically reduce Twitter’s costs.
“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Everyone exited was offered three months of severance.””
I know it sounds beastly but please excuse my schadenfreude. I can’t feel sorry for Ms Gallo, particularly when I read what part of her role was at Twitter, “tackling misinformation”, which is just 2022 babble for “censoring content we don’t approve of”.
Of course it is. The manufacturer lied about the emissions, the lies were exposed, a worldwide class action was commenced and the price of the affected goods plummeted.
The goods themselves were perfectly serviceable, but the fault lay in the description of the goods as sold. What stuck in my craw was that the VW dealers resale offer was low due to their own product being tainted with a lawsuit.
Every single day my company has to adhere to regulations, whether sensible or stupid. Apparently VW decided not to, and I paid for it.
so the Democrats understand that their voters are airheads who will vote for a celebrity, rather than competence.
In other words, they censored and re-wrote local news.
Bye bye.
Possibly an unintentionaly apt photo in The Hun on Saturday.
TaliDan is out announcing his funding for dog parks. A very well groomed guy (no guesses) with his dachshund who’s getting a overly keen pat from the dictator.
The dog is looking out of shot toward our perspective with a sick look.
The dog knows a mongrel when it sees one.
Moran’s slightly cross-eyed Thunberg today made me remember that in her salad days, she was widely touted as being some sort of idiot savant and therefore worthy of following because she was autistic and could see carbon dioxide.
In the US, Fetterman is being held up as a paragon despite claims that his demeanour and incoherence are the result of a stroke, rather than medication for the side effects of cannabinoid psychosis.
For centuries, if not millennia people have been held up as prophets – if not actual gods – for suffering varying degrees of retardation. Touched by God. Visions, and/or the ability to see into the future.
From Old Testament maniacs returning after years in the desert claiming to have been yakking to the Big Man the whole time to Peter the Hermit and Joan of Arc, their proclamations have been seized on by opportunists looking to feather their own nests.
This is no different. You can’t blame the string-pullers, because it’s a proven method of using human psychology to influence people. It’s worth noting though, that after these people outlive their usefulness they are invariably either cast aside or martyred on the pyre of somebody else’s self-interest.
Every single day my company has to adhere to regulations, whether sensible or stupid. Apparently VW decided not to, and I paid for it.
NO. The Shareholders paid for it.
Like I said. Retarded.