Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562
Open Thread – Tues 8 Nov 2022
1,939 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 8 Nov 2022”
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“Things db has gotten embarrassingly wrong lately:”
You know something fat fascist fuckwit, Dover is the proprietor of this blog and he, like all of us, can get things wrong occasionally. You however get things wrong ALL the time. Oh and have you ever retracted your “rock spider” smear? No. I don’t need to remind you that you got that wrong, big time.
I think it’s time for you to fuck off. Quite frankly, you’re a disgrace.
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Things db has gotten embarrassingly wrong lately:
-Russia will not run away from Kherson under heavy artillery fire and suffering mass casualties
What mass casualties? They are from what I read, about an hour ago, now all on the Left bank and they just blew the Antonov bridge.
– Trafalgar Group is a good pollster
They are. Nothing you actually provided in the mid-terms thread indicated otherwise.
– Republicans will win Senate with 53-55 seats
Looks like I’ll be 2 off. OMG.
– American women will forget all about abortion rights and instead obsess over the price of eggs
They did largely.
– Cats shouldn’t be doom-and-gloomy about the midterm results
Not sure how this isn’t simply a matter of opinion. I’m not by nature a doomer.
– there will be massive vote dumps overnight favouring Republicans in close races
I don’t think I’ve said anything about overnight vote dumps. I have said that the remaining vote in AZ favour R strongly which is why they’re slow walking the count.
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The Turnbuckle, in excelsis, interminably waffling at the Sofitel* during a controversial event**.
*As one (allegedly) does … 😕
**BP off the scale, as so beautifully portrayed by the Leak Snr 🙂
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They’re hoping to hold on to the ‘election denier’ description for Kari Lake. Slow walking the count helps this. Eventually, assuming they can’t magic up mystery ballots from multi level car parks, she will win, and they will say the election denier denied her own election, and probably try and run with that, along with all their other extremely obvious dirty tricks. All the while assuming that people will forget that they counted the votes at pre industrial revolution speeds.
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The latest “dumps” I saw all favoured Republicans. Lake, Masters and Laxalt.
Do you have something different mOntster? Link please.
Laxalt is only 9k ahead, was 30k yesterday and still only 90% reporting. He is going to lose.
Masters has had a few favourable dumps but others that went against him. The margin there is too great, still 6% with 82% reporting. That implies he needs more than a 2:1 margin in remaining votes. That’s not going to happen.
Lake the same sort of thing, but her margin is more doable. To be frank I don’t care about governor races, I’d be happy to say Lake wins that one. Masters is a different story.
Sorry can’t do deep links, I am on my phone.
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The Leak Snr’s impeccable rendering of a Fifties HausFrau.
Magnifique.
The cartoon dates from 2016, presaging the vile decadent idiocy that “the West” has brought upon itself, now barely needing as it is, a proverbial jackbooted kick in the door to bring the whole rotten structure crashing down … 😕
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mUttley’s favourite moozley womanage, engaging in one of her favourite activities …
Trigger warning: Irredeemable medieval idiocy as purveyed via your taxes courtesy of their ALPBC …
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Fetterlump’s current margin is 475.237%. It wasn’t even close, LOL.
A massive and long overdue triumph for the braindead community across the states, which now evidently numbers more than one in two peoples.
Idiocracy – no longer satire, your are now existing in it.
Break out the Brawndo – its got electroloitz, I tells ya!
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Cassie of Sydney says:
November 11, 2022 at 2:00 pm“All of the world’s billionaires are brash, rude and vulgar? Ridiculous, and just plain wrong. Prove it. (Don’t forget Hathaway in your analysis).”
Who is “Hathaway”? Or is this, yet again, just another manifestation of your crazed obsession?
Heh.
Just testing your apparently encyclopaediac knowledge of billionaires and their personalities.
Berkshire Hathaway = that well known brash vulgarian, Warren Buffet.
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The path to 218: Why Democrats aren’t out of the race for the House yet
Basically there are 11 remaining genuine toss ups, and Republicans need to win only three of these to win the House majority.
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mUttley as he imagines himself …
A big fat pinheaded utterly incoherent braindead arse clown.
Oh wait, zero imagination required.
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1. Rabz, stop believing Cohenite, he is not a source.
2. Cohenite, no Kari Lake is not gone, the DecisionDesk feed does not show anyone as a winner of AZ yet, there is 17% of the vote to count and only 1.3% between them.
3. Stop talking about the mid-terms on the non-midterms thread. -
Masters has had a few favourable dumps but others that went against him. The margin there is too great, still 6% with 82% reporting. That implies he needs more than a 2:1 margin in remaining votes. That’s not going to happen.
Lake the same sort of thing, but her margin is more doable. To be frank I don’t care about governor races, I’d be happy to say Lake wins that one. Masters is a different story.
Reported on the mid-terms thread:
Harmeet K. Dhillon
@pnjaban
2/ check this out —AZ outstanding non-provisional ballot estimate as of 7:45pm
State: 571,813
Apache 8,500
Cochise 8,662
Coconino 12,231
Gila 269
Graham 118
La Paz 1,972
Maricopa 407,664
Mohave 10,600
Pima 114,203
Pinal 16,281
Yavapai 12,458
Yuma 9,180Majority of these will be Election Day drop-offs and will break strongly R, while the last two days have been all I think pre-election day votes from Pima and Maricopa county.
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Majority of these will be Election Day drop-offs and will break strongly R, while the last two days have been all I think pre-election day votes from Pima and Maricopa county.
Correct. The Democrats got swamped on election day because voters didn’t trust them. Hand delivered ballots on election day. Masters was getting 70% of the ballots. Lake was getting 68%. The Democrats are hoping that slowing down the vote will see another miraculous arrival of truck loads of ballots.
Ain’t going to happen. Too many eyes this time around.
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Dillo!
Whilst I’m on my rant, the entire election system needs to be overhauled.
There is way too much money (donors) and influence (media/big tech) involved.Yes to the overhaul of the system. Voting ID has become an entry point for universal identity with everyone required to have papers – electronic or otherwise, when the problem is simply identifying who has, or has not voted.
My favourite is the indelible finger dye. Any issues with that – like having no fingers or otherwise can be dealt with in a practical manner, and we really don’t need to discuss them at the moment.
Go for the simpler solution and be done with it.
A simple piece of paper and ink (biro) collected and collated, then sealed for transport will help restore public confidence in the voting process, which appears -in the US – to be taking quite a hammering.
At no point should the original vote be digitised or electronically stored in any way except as an adjunct with the original vote as the copy of record.
1 election day and if you can’t get your shit together to get to the voting office once every three years well, tough shit.
If you’re in hospital or otherwise incapacitated, we used to have teams from the electoral office come around to the bedside to record your vote.
As an aside, I heard that Dominion had machines active in both the Victorian and Queensland elections – does anyone know of this?
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WokDoctor:
Regular food bought in average supermarkets in NZ, whilst significantly more expensive than the equivalent quality supermarkets in the US, nonetheless the quality of everyday products is much higher and is akin to the quality you can only get in the US at more expensive farmers markets and upmarket shops like Whole Foods. It is well known that NZ’s year-round outdoor grass grazing of cows leads to rich and creamy milk, butter, cheese, cream, chocolate and ice cream, but I was reminded that ordinary day to day veges like onions, spring onions, carrots, celery, potatoes etc. just have more flavour and colour than average veges bought in US supermarkets. NZ’s more local market gardens growing in rich, naturally watered soils yield better and tastier products than the industrial scale farms in the US and increasingly Mexico.
From your links last night: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/11/nz_four_years_on_bittersweet_-_part_1.html
Brings me back to the point I tried to make a month or two ago about locally produced food. I remember nearly every country town in Australia had a wizened old Chinese* husband and wife team that would run a market garden and produced heaps of food – fresh, really nice food. (Every now and then we’d get an overrun of cabbage or zucchini or carrots, and we’d guts out on the donated excess)
If there were two of these farms the competition would be fierce to produce the best vegies and who could anticipate the market most accurately. There were also chooks competing to lay the biggest and bestest eggs. There were many dairy farms and by magic, urns of milk would appear as the sun rose.
The farmers would get together to play some tile game and drink some Chinese tea which made them giggle a lot. I’m not sure but I think there was a lot of planning and not too much competition at these sessions.
It wasn’t until I got much older and into a certain level of self sufficiency that I realised just how much these little paddocks added to the resiliency of the communities they served. Looking at the current situation where an insufficiency of government planning and just plain common bloody sense has made us susceptible to food shortages of second grade vegetables that are more focused on travel than taste, and to the advantage of the sellers and truckers than to the customer.
And really, when you look at the prices in the supermarkets for fresh food, have we gained anything? In fact if you were to try to set up a market garden – not a Farmers Market – which is just a rip off of trendie types who are too ignorant of how society works to understand the fleecing they are getting, you would be immediately crushed by the bureaucracy set up by the big boys to prevent this competition.
I was thinking of setting up some hives recently, more because it looks like an interesting past time than any desire to grow bees to make mead. The legislation and regulation is just mind blowing – and soul destroying.
Where else in the world has there been needed legislation to enter private property, to destroy crops and equipment, seize fertilisers and yes, the very ground the food is grown in to protect the AGro Businesses who can afford the paperwork to show compliance?
We used to have some independence in rural Australia but now I feel just more and more dependent on organisations over which I have less and less control every day, and more and more dependent on a controlling industrial conglomeration.
Anyway, I’m off to setup a batch in the still I bought recently, and if no more is heard of me, you may use the still to produce Isopropyl alcohol… 🙂
*Probably Vietnamese, Laotian, Khmer, whatever, but they were always “Chinese”.
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