Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562
JC experienced a similar reaction when people fond out he ironed his jeans.
Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562
JC experienced a similar reaction when people fond out he ironed his jeans.
A truly foul creature
22 novels and counting…. I like Barney.
Has someone been baiting the cats? Many years ago in Richmond, I think it was, a new Mayor from the…
If there wasn’t a Great Game no one would be playing!
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
Lizzie, don’t miss the Cairo gunboat in Vicksburg.
Did it in two.
Started with AUDIO then used the NYT hypocrisy plug-in.
Fair comment, calli.
Agree that “I told you so” serves a very valid purpose. The destruction of bridges should be done on a case by case basis. I am still friends with a guy who I have known since we were both 5yo whose politics is diametrically opposed to mine. We both send a text when the other side is wiped out at election time both knowing it will not be taken beyond that. It is false thinking and a fools errand to think you will change peoples thinking. Leave that up to missionaries.
Decades of “deliberate ambiguity” have now given way to the Taiwan Policy Act 2022.
Reupping this for a new page. Seems like there should be much more talk on here about how Russia has been forced to withdraw in humiliation from its major battle prize of the entire war.
Dot:
It sounds like an interesting argument – right up till you realise it is Narkles task to overcome his own demons and not Gods, and especially not mine.
Narkle failed Narkle.
Trump touts ‘tremendous’ wins for endorsed candidates, says ‘why would anything change?’ on 2024 announcement
Trump says more than 200 of the candidates he endorsed won and says suggestions he was angry are ‘fake news’
By Brooke Singman | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump says he is celebrating the wins of the more than 200 “great” Republican candidates he endorsed who were able to claim victory in their midterm election races, telling Fox News Digital on Wednesday that he is “proud” of them and maintaining that his plans to make a “major” announcement next week have not changed due to the “tremendous success” he had.
At this point, 216 GOP candidates that Trump endorsed won their races Tuesday night, with 19 losing to the Democrat candidate.
“There is a fake news narrative that I was furious — it is just the opposite,” Trump told Fox News Digital, responding to reports that suggested he was less than pleased with the election results for his endorsed candidates. “The people I endorsed did very well. I was batting 98.6% in the primaries, and 216 to 19 in the general election — that is amazing.”
He added: “All these guys that are winning are my people.”
Trump touted the wins of Sen. Chuck Grassley in Iowa, Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida, Eric Schmitt in Missouri, JD Vance in Ohio, Ted Budd in North Carolina, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin and others.
“I really think we had great candidates that performed very well,” Trump said. “Marco performed very well — I held a rally for him on Sunday.”
“JD Vance performed very well,” Trump said. “Johnson won.”
Trump told Fox News Digital that he is “very proud” of all the candidates, noting, though, that “they always perform better when I’m on the ticket.”
Trump pointed to Pennsylvania’s hard-fought Senate race between Democratic Senator-elect John Fetterman and Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom he had backed.
“Oz worked very hard, but there were forces against him,” Trump said. “Oz is a great guy. He had a lot of immovable forces against him.”
Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano was also defeated by his Democratic opponent, and in Michigan, Trump-endorsed Republican Tudor Dixon was turned back in her effort to unseat Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
At this moment, three Senate seats are still up for grabs: in Nevada, where Trump endorsed Adam Laxalt, who is trailing Democrat incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto by a very narrow margin; in Arizona, where Trump-endorsed Blake Masters is trailing behind Democrat incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, but, due to “ballot glitches,” additional results are expected; and in Georgia, where Trump-endorsed Herschel Walker is headed to a run-off against Democrat incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.
“Herschel is a great guy,” Trump said, touting Walker’s campaign and candidacy. “He is in a runoff with a U.S. senator.”
When asked if he would get involved or ensure his MAGA Inc. spends money in the Georgia run-off in support of Walker, Trump said: “We have a lot of money.”
“Herschel is a great guy,” he repeated. “I will always help Herschel.”
On Monday night, the eve of Election Day, Trump teased that he would be making a “major” announcement from Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 15 — signaling that he may formally announce his plans to run for president in 2024.
Pundits have questioned whether Tuesday’s election results for Republicans would change Trump’s plans to launch a third White House bid.
“We had tremendous success,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “Why would anything change?”
The flower of western civilsation has been sliced off by the Leftards and dunked in poison water. It’s wilting and can’t be replanted.
Some of us foresaw the possibility of this.
That being said, wisdom dictates we wait for confirmation on the ground.
We all know about the Russians and their battlefield feints, eh?
😀
Relax Roger, retire to the feinting couch.
Haha, Green King Charles got egged by a stinky.
Watch: Moment eggs are thrown towards King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla by Extinction Rebellion activist in York (10 Nov)
Classic leftism, Charlie being Green doesn’t cut it. He’s still a class-enemy no matter what he does.
Monty – you should take note. You are contaminated. You are kulak. They’ll put you against the wall first when the revolution occurs.
To reprise a point made earlier last week – if you complain that your kid/s have been captured by the ideology of schools, you have failed to take adequate interest in their development and therefore failed as a parent.
Won’t take the Revolutionaries long to reach Hawthorn, especially those inner city types.
Cassie:
Even if we only exist in the prisons and concentration camps, we still exist somewhere.
And we still have the capability of infecting the Collectivists and bringing them down.
And while the last copy of the Bible is entombed in an airproof vault printed on acid free paper in a nitrogen atmosphere, then the Bible still exists. (Look at how big a find the Rosetta stone was.)
Yes, I know. I’m very optimistic today even though there is little to be optimistic about.
In my idle time overnight I got to thinking( yeah, yeah, I know, don’t do that), If the newly elected people have to be sworn in before taking over the house, then as majority they elect a speaker which basically sacks Pelosi, would they think about the following scenario. Before take over, Harris finds an urgent need to resign for “family” reasons, Joe has a “medical episode, and Pelosi becomes intterum Pres.? Just asking.
Unduly pessimistic. And not really true while you are living in the West.
You might be less optimistic if you knew that the Left wants to send the Stone back.
2,500 Archaeologists Demand the British Museum Return Rosetta Stone to Egypt (7 Oct)
Sad when even archaeology has gone woke. Someone nuke us all now, before we get even dumber.
Peasants/serfs, is anyone else amazed by the prescience of the Movie “Idiocracy”?
We and the USA are closely adhering to the script .
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/09/at-1230-a-m-this-morning-alberta-got-just-3-megawatts-out-of-its-3076-megawatts-of-wind-again/
Billions of dollars sitting on its arse freezing. Not producing a bloody thing except for subsidies – which are keeping the subsidy whores nice and snug while the mugs paying for this shit are freezing in the dark.
How long before you lazy Albertans get up off your arses and start tearing these monstrous Ecocrucifixes down?
Shaper of the week for WA cats, 18” Macson with vice:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/albany/miscellaneous-goods/macson-metal-shaper-18-inch/1303797372
Yeah, return the Rosetta Stone… when they bury the Valley of the Kings under the sand again, forever.
Or do they want revisionism with immunity too?
You lose one election and all of a sudden it’s all A Canticle For Leibowitz in here, LOL.
Are you sick of #winning yet?
Academics have always been a lost cause. I stumbled across the Rosetta Stone when I was suffering museum fatigue and rushing around trying to find the cafeteria for lunch.
Saw that ingot Wrick… nice swag of accessories, make a beautiful resto piece.
I largely agree with this, up until the point that universities start rejecting, ejecting or just plain flunking students solely based on ‘wrong think’. Then it’s at a new level, beyond a parents control.
Myself, I was asked to leave a lecture because when asked “who in the room doesn’t agree with compulsory voting”, I raised my hand.
Even my own kids (high school) are tempering their essays based on the potential consequences of presenting an opposing , and well reasoned, opinion to that of the teacher. Yes, the English teacher has proudly announced (multiple times) that she is “Left Wing” to the students…which the coloured hair and the existence of her wife, might have already telegraphed. They know what they want to write, but they are also in no doubt as to what they must write, if they are to succeed.
mUnty giving the ol’ tube sock a real work out today.
Take it from an old gardener. Dead heading and poisoning the flower doesn’t kill the root or bulb. That can remain dormant for many…many years.
Do not despair. That, as Gandalf would say, is for those who see the end. We don’t.
As for not burning bridges, I don’t have a siege mentality quite yet. Plenty of gardens still outside the walls to cultivate.
No.
After decades putting the brakes on global action, does Australia deserve to host UN climate talks with Pacific nations? (9 Nov, via Phys.org)
My sides hurt. I wonder who is the author of this amazing tome?
Ah, the Mount Gravatt Teacher’s College. Figures.
Chuckle.
Gertrude Jeykill, Tolkien and Voltaire in one comment!
Top that Catsters!
All part of the scorched earth and obliteration of all supporters, relatives, pets and signage.
AND The extra fertilizer is good.
Then those little “bulbs” will never flower into weedy Leftism. It will be against nature to do so.
Well done Mater.
The Rosetta Stone has survived because it is where it is.
Return it and London to a brick, some disaffected lunatic will put a sledge hammer through it.
More on the power of teachers and uni lecturers;
Sydney University has torn up a law exam after a student complained she had been depicted as a HIV-positive conservative who ran over a ‘socialist’ in a car in a bizarre legal scenario. (The Oz)
Yes, parents must fight the good fight but don’t ever assume the left will cede any ground.
Well at least they don’t have to grow their own bugs.
Harnessing rainwater for self-sufficient veggie gardens in Adelaide (Phys.org, 9 Nov)
This rubbish is typical of a large proportion of science news these days. Ms Hume has a great career ahead of her/it. May even get to be Environment Minister one day, if the nation exists that long.
60 Minutes last week did something on Taiwan where they sprinkled through the program various belligerent warnings from the Chinese ambassador to Australia on the subject.
Raise your voice. Go pop eyed. Get red faced. Threaten. Bluster. Chuck a spazz.
This is diplomacy Chinese style. We all tiptoe past like you do when you have a cranky old grandpa in the family.
Thank God we’ve got Dad (Biden) to jerk them into line, eh ?
Masks back on: COVID wave shifts Queensland from green to amber state
Vicplod has discovered that 3D printers exist.
3D-printed guns are on the rise in Australia. How can we prevent them being made? (9 Nov, via Phys.org)
Another article in the Monologue oops Conversation. Here’re who the authors are:
Yep, the former Geelong Teachers College.
With the rising cost of living and vegetables becoming more expensive, University of Adelaide research has found that 65 percent of Adelaide homes can grow enough vegetables to become self-sufficient by using their own rainwater.
Doubt… so much doubt
3 cherry tomato bushes struggling in a pot is not a “garden”.
The Conversation is hot today. This one makes my brain hurt.
Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Blue’ gives verification for a fee. This could make Twitter even less safe for women (9 Nov, via Phys.org)
So blue ticks are now misogynist and racist. Okaaay. Here’s the author:
Her photo, and bio, are exactly as you might imagine. I wonder whether she’s one of those “women of color” she speaks about?
Calli and others. I wish you could realize that London to a brick does not mean a certainty. A certainty would be London to a brick on. If you don’t believe me please ask Tom.
A passenger of Virgin Australia partner airline Link Airways has been taken to hospital after a bizarre accident at Canberra Airport on Thursday.
It’s understood a strap used to secure a propeller on a Link Airways’ Saab 340 aircraft overnight was not removed before the 8.05am flight to Sydney.
As a result, when the propellers started turning, the strap whipped through the fuselage of the aircraft, striking a female passenger.
Flight radar images showed the aircraft in question registered VH-VEQ taking off from Canberra, then returning within 14-minutes to the airport.
The injured passenger was taken to hospital suffering shock and bruising as the Australian Federal Police launched an investigation.
An AFP spokesman said the matter had now been referred to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to investigate.
Canberra Airport chief executive Stephen Byron said they had spoken to the passenger to check on her wellbeing.
Interesting – did the strap penetrate the fuselage before or after the aircraft took off?
Eating kale is like giving up smoking.
Highly processed foods can be considered addictive like tobacco products, study claims (9 Nov)
Put down that chip and walk backwards with your hands in the air!
Zipster:
And that took 2 years to generate the industrial capacity capable of meeting the Axis Powers. Then you can add another year to cut through the dead wood infesting the industrial and military design bureaus(sp?)
Meanwhile the poor bastard GI’s are doing the dying and bleeding, just like the Diggers and Tommies before them for the previous 2 years.
That’s the part that really pisses me off – to cover for the lack of action and cerebral effort from the upper echelons whose job it was, the casualty rolls were filled by names starting with PTE & S/SGT & CORP etc.
Mater:
Exactly, which is why I only mentioned schools in my response to the original comment.
If you are an adult, even if only nominally, you are ultimately responsible for your own ‘educational choices’.
Oh dear, Warren…
Warren Beatty sued for allegedly coercing teen girl into sex in 1973
Lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles alleges actor, then 35, ‘coerced sexual contact’ with 14-year-old ‘on multiple occasions’
A near 50 year old case.
Believe all women, hes guilty!!!
Hirsch, who now lives in Louisiana, alleges that she met Beatty on a movie set in 1973, where he paid her “undue attention”, commented on her looks and gave her his phone number. The suit claims Beatty called Hirsch several times, invited her to his hotel, took her on car rides, offered to help with her homework and commented numerous times about losing her virginity.
According to the suit, the defendant “used his position and status as an adult and a Hollywood movie star to coerce sexual contact with plaintiff on multiple occasions, including oral sex, simulated sex and finally coerced sexual intercourse with the minor child”.
The suit claims that Hirsch was “initially thrilled” by the defendant’s attention and believed herself to be in a romantic relationship with him.
Hirsch filed the suit via a 2019 California law that opened a three-year “look-back window” for claims of child sexual abuse that would have been dismissed by the statute of limitations. The window closes on 1 January.
“Your blue vein… I bet you think its about it… your blue Veeeeeiiiiin”.
Enrolling for a forklift course for a bit of fun.
Johnny Rotten:
Had Hitler spent the human and financial capital he wasted fighting the Soviet Union, on developing the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, and mechanising the farmlands of Western Europe, he could have taken Northern Africa and the Suez Canal without losing the war.
But Hitler saw the entire war as an ideological one and that entails going to where the ideologues are.
Arkysays:
November 10, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Enrolling for a forklift course for a bit of fun.
Suggest the instructor play this to the class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cr7F-oLU84
The worlds greatest training/safety video.
Even if you dont speak boxhead its awesome.
Plays it straight for about a minute and a half, then gets awesome.
How woke language distorts the world
Every word in the woke lexicon conceals activism. Every single one. To achieve activists’ ambitions of deconstructing systems, terms must have dual meanings – a common, ordinary and reasonable meaning, and a specific, activist meaning. In a policy proposal, for example, the wokerati first make people believe they are using the term in a standard way. And then, once the proposed policy becomes adopted, the meaning of the term is turned into Wokeish.
and here we are, instead of teaching the communists a lesson the west indulges in self-destructive climate, woke agenda and mass migration policies
Bruce O’Newk:
And when that happens, I will look up from my small, cracked bowl of Victory Gruel, and smile.
Heh Heh Heh
Risitas on the vaccine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5H6j82dPs
On getting cancelled by your own teenagers in the house:
In fact, I often get shut down before I’ve even said anything. ‘What do I think of statues being pulled down?’ one of them might ask me.
‘Well what I think is…’ and then before I’ve expressed any view at all, whichever child has asked the question starts lecturing me on the horrors of colonialism.
Then again one of her daughters is called Ottoline. Daily Mail
I think Rod Dreher says it best when it comes to the red ripple that was yesterday…
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-red-wave-that-wasnt/
On Tuesday the foreshore pied butcherbird family found the Cafe. I presently have five pied butcherbirds sitting in the nearby trees singing like angels (photo short time ago, sorry about the fingers it was the only one that worked).
This is fun since it has taken them eight years to get here (not quite a km of distance has been covered: they didn’t break any landspeed records). I’ve been engaging with them that long, during morning walks, and all but the youngest already were accepting food from the hand. They’ve now taken to my Hills Hoist like it was the executive booth of a upmarket restaurant, with much excited squeaking and flapping of wings. The mythical source of Coles mince has been discovered!
The Cafe’s resident grey butcherbird isn’t happy about all this though. He was doing serious aerial dogfights with them yesterday, outnumbered 5:1.
Wivenhoe:
Getting to thinking is never an idle preoccupation, Wivenhoe. People who never think beyond “what I want” are continually surprised by “What has happened”.
If there is something that could be almost guaranteed it is the the Secret Service have been well and truly corrupted in the same way the Justice Department and the FBI have been corrupted.
If Trump were to become President, he wouldn’t last the first month and the SS would have a patsy all lined up to go.
Cassie of Sydney
Good little article.
To those who saw its not “fair” trump is demonised while the literal party of baby butchery and child sterilization skate awy without odium
Tough titties: Fair is where there are kids rides, not power.
50 years of conservatives sitting on their fat arses while the marxist filth indoctrinate their children.
P:
And they can go and get stuffed this time – just like last time.
Only I’ll make it more obvious I’m outside waiting with the Jews, Gypsies, and Dogs.
I’m getting cranky enough about this tyrannical shit to start making a scene.
Bit unfair Zippy. They weren’t sitting on their fat arses they were working their arses off trying to get ahead. And hoping the school system would do what their taxes were paying for it to do. Which it wasn’t.
The Left is still trying to squelch home-schooling, which is the model that works for righties. It’s the only way to get even partly free of the leftism-indoctrinated teaching system.
I particularly like this paragraph from Dreher’s piece..
“No courage to confront the important issues head on. It has fallen to Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, Libs of Tiktok, and others to take on the scourge of gender ideology. With the exception of DeSantis, no other major elected Republican politician has wanted to touch wokeness. I cannot understand why. The country is falling apart, the libs are becoming totalitarians who are coming after children, and most of the GOP just sits there with its thumb up its backside, running on the thrilling platform of “hey, at least we’re not the other guys.” No, forget it. That’s over.”
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It’s a story of the complete and utter abandonment and failure of right of centre and conservative governments, not just in the US but also here, the UK, Canada and NZ to fight “wokeness”. Instead, we have Liberals in this country who, when in power last year, voted with Labor and the Greens to smack down Malcolm Roberts’ perfectly reasonable bill to stop under 18 year old boys and girls being prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And we saw how various Liberals (cough) such as Kean, Sharma, Birmingham and Zimmerboy and so on joined the pile on of Katherine Deves before the election, even actively calling for her to be disendorsed…..and yet they have the chutzpah to want our vote every three, four or five years. And watch the Nationals in NZ, if they win next year, do nothing to wind back Horse face’s totalitarian dictates of the last five years.
As for this line from Dreher…””hey, at least we’re not the other guys.“…this was the same empty line Scumbag and the Liberals coughed up before the election.
It’s advice for certain situations, not a mandate, Winston.
No laws will be broken if you choose no to do so.
Not a hill to die on then.
Winston, from the ABC
“I encourage all Queenslanders to take this advice,” Ms D’Ath said.
“We know that some of the best protection against this virus comes from ensuring that we are fully up to date with our booster doses.
“For any person who hasn’t had their third or fourth dose and is eligible to do so, I implore you to head down to your local GP or pharmacy and protect yourself in anticipation of this forthcoming wave.”
TheFrollickingMoll:
Nevertheless, the Victorian Government has seen fit to pass a law that gives them the right – nay! the Duty! to invade your castle of defiance and rip those diseased cherry tomatoes out of the ground, smash and incinerate the accursed pots and ground in which they’ve grown, and take the refrigerator in which you’ve hidden them and burn the whole lot in an industrial incinerator.
There is only one problem here.
The incinerator which burns these Fruits of Satan cannot be run because the solar power grid and the windmills aren’t producing enough electricity for anything more demanding than the local coppers beer fridge…
#Meetoo
I was once at compulsory SA Health IT training on the 6th level of a building in the CBD. After the usual spiel about the toilets etc, the session head went on to say that ‘we acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, their ancestors, and any other indigenous people who are present … etc etc’
At this point,, my military training kicked in (‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’ and all that) so I called out ‘STOP STOP STOP – you can’t say that, that is racist and divisive. I am entitled to come to work without being exposed to racism! When are you going to acknowledge the contribution of MY ancestors* to this land?’
The presenter stopped, gulped a few times, goldfish style, paused, then said ‘ you are right, I acknowledge their contribution also’.
😉
* this was obviously back a while, before I discovered my own indigenous ancestry – being a ‘proud Bass Strait Islander man’.
I spent a lot of time ensuring none of my kids were brainwashed by a clearly left leaning education system, if a parent is stupid enough to “hope” the education system does not brainwash their kids then they reap what they sow, or rather what they didn’t sow.
There is whiskey in my coffee this morning. I considered going with heroin, which, thanks to Kathy Hochul, is easy to find in New York, but I’m saving my final fall for election night 2024.
Here is what I think went wrong — and right — in our elections.
Principles
For starters, conservatives have principles, and the lefties do not. Die-hard libskanks are dedicated to their party communism. They will happily vote for anyone, even a pedophile — or, as they call them, Minor Attracted Persons (MAP) — as long as they have a “D” before their name.
Conservatives are not the same. I know a few never-Trumpers who pinched their noses and voted for Trump, but I know many who stayed home on election night, twice. True Democrats wouldn’t consider not voting for their candidate, even if he looks like the guy from Sling Blade and can’t put a sentence together.
Dr. Oz was a horrible candidate, but he is clearly a better man for the job than Fetterman. How many Pennsylvania Republicans snubbed Oz, the highly polished carpetbagger, and stayed home on Tuesday?
Conservatives love their children
Today, Facebook is full of working-class libs celebrating Tuesday’s elections, even though their kids could get raped due to cashless bail laws or an accidental overdose on a Percocet they bought off the street, having no idea it was laced with Chinese fentanyl.
Fake news
The true leftists have been programmed to believe what they are told and ignore everything else. The Marxists will not believe a word of news from a source that doesn’t lean their way. It’s called “ideological subversion.”
Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures.
When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
Another ideological difference between liberals and conservatives is this: we want to build, and they want to destroy. They have sacrificed their large cities, and thousands of lives, to push their doctrine. Democrat cities have been stacking bodies for three years. Again, collateral damage. Here is the punchline: the Dems happily sacrifice black people for the cause while telling the survivors that Republicans are “racists” who want them dead.
Making it rain
Conservatives are obviously better with money. The Democrat Party has spent, as far as I can tell, roughly $164 million for Beto O’Rourke to lose three races. Why continue funding this cuck? Because he is staunchly communist and will push the Marxist agenda that the left has embraced.
Potential cheating
Abortion
This was a knee-capper for Republicans. Most of the nation believes in abortion to a certain extent. Republicans celebrated when Roe v. Wade was overturned. It was likely part of our undoing.
Conservatives hate abortion, and libs love it. Pink-haired, non-binary freakshow chicks have abortions simply because they think they are hurting us.
Maybe it’s time to shut up and let the leftists slaughter their unborn kids.
What have we learned?
Seventy-five percent of the nation believes the country is on the wrong track, yet most of them did little to change things.
We learned that liberals will vote for a drooling, openly communist, Young Frankenstein Senate candidate who has promised to empty the jails.
Which is making its way through the affordable Christian schools as church bureaucrats are clueless.
How Business Giants Get Lower Interest Rates for Meeting Diversity Quotas
The businesses that have struck such agreements include the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the consulting groups Ernst & Young and AECOM, insurers Prudential and Definity Financial, private equity firms BlackRock and the Carlyle Group, the technology company Trimble, and the telecommunications giant Telefónica.
Flush toilets will be covered in Dr Pascoe’s next book, “Dark Emu Unplugged”.
Things are going to have to get much worse.
Tell them to look up “Disinherited” in the dictionary – there will be no sizeable bequest from the Bank of Mum and Dad…
I bet most of those have a pet rock which they think qualifies them as a ridgy-didge archaeologist.
There WOULD Have Been a Red Wave, but One Group Saved the Left From Being Completely Obliterated
One thing I know already.
If not for voters under 30 … tonight WOULD have been a Red Wave.
CNN National House Exit Poll
R+ 13 65+
R+ 11 45-64
D +2 30-44
D +28 18-29
#GenZ did their job.
What he is crowing about is the apparent fact that the voting group with the least life experience and the most recent subjection to the Leftist indoctrination that dominates America’s educational system ended up voting as it was brainwashed to do.
Gee, that’s terrific, if you like evidence of the success of the relentless propagandizing of a vulnerable and impressionable captive audience, but neither John Della Volpe nor anyone else should be proud of it.
What it shows is not that the Leftist case is compelling or persuasive; it shows that patriotic Americans have been far too complacent in allowing public schools to become centers of Leftist indoctrination and hatred of our own nation and heritage.
People have awakened to this in large numbers in recent years as the Left has, as always, overplayed its hand. Angry parents began showing up at school board meetings in large numbers to protest the imposition of race-hate propaganda, aka Critical Race Theory, in public schools, as well as the presence of outright and unmistakable pornography in the guise of “gender-affirming” literature. This got so embarrassing for the Left that Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, that indefatigable foe of “white supremacists” (as soon as he can find any), actually sicced the FBI on those parents as if they were a terrorist threat.
But this endeavor has been going on since long before Garland first put on his jackboots and resolved to destroy the republic. In the 1960s, Leftists began what Communist activist Rudi Dutschke indelibly dubbed “the Long March Through the Institutions.”
Many, if not most, of the Gen Z-ers who voted overwhelmingly for the Left will, as they get older, come to realize how foolish and wrongheaded they were to support socialist internationalism and the managed decline of the United States. But others will never wake up, and will applaud that decline as retribution for centuries of alleged racism and colonialism. Even as their own cities and towns become ever more squalid, poor, dirty, and dangerous, they will continue to think of themselves as righteous for having chosen all that. That pride will be all they have left.
Hey, at least they got rid of the English
People ‘Afraid to Walk the Streets’ as One-Fifth of Irish Town Now Migrants
That election/voting thingy doesn’t seem to be working very well.
Knuckle Dragger:
OK. I take back the evil, evil thoughts I thought about you when I first read your refutation of my comment.
🙂
and by 2024 there will be 2 more years coming online and 2 more years of boomers shuffling off this mortal coil, something which the ccp bioweapon has accelerated.
80s parents never had to worry about Woke.
Every Monday morning I had to sing advance australia fair, god save the queen and pledge allegiance to the flag.
wife keeps asking me what I think will happen. Nothing good thats the only certainty at this point.
things are going to get much much worse
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 10, 2022 at 2:11 pm
After the usual spiel about the toilets etc, the session head went on to say that ‘we acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, their ancestors
Flush toilets will be covered in Dr Pascoe’s next book, “Dark Emu Unplugged”.
Perhaps Pascoe will include these instructions
“How to Wash a Cat” by The Dog
Of course this is Harry Hindsight talking. Why assume that after COVID wrong track means what we thought it used to mean? COVID hit the country for a six.
Combine that with a party machine in the densely populated urban areas that knows how to spit our votes through harvesting and you could be fucking brain dead or dead and you will still win.
And then there’s this.
Read the whole thing, it’s pretty decent.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590336672130105344.html
Ha! most of the way through that book as we speak!
For those unaware, it documents how big pharma has corrupted the science to make their vaxxines appear ‘safe and effective’. The phrase ‘ turtles all the way down’ reported comes from a person who claimed that the whole ‘earth orbits the sun’ thing was baloney, and in fact, the earth was resting on giant turtle. When asked what that turtle was resting on, she said ‘another turtle’ and so on, all the way down.
The book explains how there has *never* been a gold standard randomised, double blinded, placebo controlled vaccine trial. Instead, they usually seek to compare the new vax to another vaccine which has already been approved. They then show similar side effect profiles in each group and declare the new vax safe (because the old vax is known to be ‘safe’). The problem is, the old vax was never gold standard tested either, it was compared to another existing vax (ie the turtle under it) .. and so on, all the way down.
At the risk of awakening Sun Tsu again, might I say:
Be strong where the enemy is weak
Be weak where the enemy is strong
When the enemy advances, retreat
When the enemy retreats, follow ……
I stand corrected dopey, and will use the phrase correctly in future.
And here was me wishing a pox on those who say, “the proof is in the pudding.”.
Pendant, heal thyself!
Wonder how long Hunchback will wait to mandate clotshots and lockdown again.
Here’s something else about Florida and why DeSantis did so well. Florida is a mostly all suburban state. It has nothing like Chicago, NY and Philly in terms of densely populated urban areas where you can walk into a project and pick up a couple of thousand votes…. building after building. The piece above talks about how the demon rat party machine went into overdrive collecting votes after the Dodd decision. It’s an incredible machine.
Cue the government, therefore, solving this economic hurdle by making it ‘free’.
Simples.
2022 Is Over Except for the Lawsuits. Use the Data to Start Planning for 2024.
Looking forward, which begins today, Republicans nationwide should examine the 2022 exit polling and figure out how to continue the progress seen for the last two cycles. The only way we keep making inroads in blue states and make the red states even redder is to bring together a class-based coalition of patriotic Americans who believe in the American Dream.
First, Gen X is our generation GOP. White voters between 45 and 64 make up 28% of the electorate and, according to the exit poll, 63% of them voted for Republicans on Tuesday. Likewise, Gen X Latinos selected GOP candidates at a rate of 44%. Overall, voters from 40-49 voted for Republican candidates 52% of the time in 2022, and those from 50-64 did 55% of the time. Our kids are open to Republican candidates, too. Gen Z aged 18-24 voted for Republicans 36% of the time. White voters 18-29 selected GOP candidates 40% of the time, and 30% of Latinos the same age did as well.
2022 trends with black voters are a bit different. The largest share of the black vote for the GOP was among Millennial voters aged 30-44 at 17%. Gen X was next at 13%.
It also seems men, tired of the anti-masculinity messages from the radical left, make up a sizable Republican constituency. In every race demographic, the percentage of men who vote for Republican candidates exceeds women. This gap is the largest among Hispanic voters, with men selecting the Republican candidate at a rate of 45% while women do at 33%.
Some of the most considerable differences are seen when the data gets arranged by gender, race, and education level.
And to root out and fire the ‘peace generals’ (Morrison, Campbell, I’m looking at you. Sirs)
flyingduksays:
November 10, 2022 at 2:37 pm
Seems like there should be much more talk on here about how Russia has been forced to withdraw in humiliation from its major battle prize of the entire war.
Pulling back ‘to save lives’: Key points of top Russian commander’s Kherson speech
The order to leave the city comes amid what Army General Sergey Surovikin said was a risk of being cut off
Where do you stand on AHPRA de-registering Drs who refuse to read the script, or politicians sending the police around to tell constituents that ‘things might happen which you do not want’ when they try to hold them to account, or the AFP fraudulently concocting charges to arrest protestors, or VICPOL arresting pregnant women in pyjamas, or pepper spraying grandmothers, or firing rubber bullets at citizens gathering at the shrine of remembrance, in support of freedom?
US gets first Gen Z congressman
A CNN exit poll found that only the youth vote saved the Democratic Party from a wipeout
Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost has become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. A proponent of “social justice,” Frost’s victory came despite landslide Republican victories in the Sunshine State.
Frost took 58% of the vote in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, beating Republican Challenger Calvin Wimbish’s 40%. He was heavily favored in this solidly Democratic district, and now takes over the seat of Val Demings, a Democrat who comfortably won in 2016 and 2020.
Frost described his win as making history for Gen Z, or the demographic born between 1997 and 2012.
Frost’s platform is typical of younger Democrats, with his campaign site describing him as a fighter for “social, racial and economic justice.” In practice, Frost supports universal healthcare, strict gun control, a fossil fuels phaseout, and the defunding of police and freeing of some criminals.
His campaign was endorsed by progressive stalwarts Sen. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and by the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Biden and the Democrats can thank Generation Z for their luck.
More liberal than even their Millennial predecessors, members of this generation favored Democrat candidates in the midterms by a margin of 28 points, according to a CNN exit poll. Millennials, who are between the ages of 30 and 44, voted Democrat by a margin of two points, while voters aged 45-65 and 65+ favored Republicans by 11 and 13 points, respectively.
Let me guess, she kept the dress until a month ago, then ‘symbolically’ washed it?
Funny things happening in Maracopa. Arizona talking about dumps again Neck and neck . Hope Lake wins
Elbow haszappointed an Ambassador for Climate Change
Director’s ID microchip- strike one
Had my berth cert, driver’s lic and medicare card, had my place in the queue, opted for call-back function, okey dokey.
Gave the call centre worker (yes, all the cliches are true) my name and birth date…
“tell me the bank account number which the ATO associates you with?”
I don’t fucking know, how about you tell me, you’ve got thirty years of forms submitted in my names at the pointy end of threats.. you should know every damn thing there is to know, and don’t go pretending that a Trusted Digital Identity app scannable neck tattoo is anything other than a logical next step from the Eora Eloi that will entangle the mere prole with more obligations and zero benefits.
Quick dig through the office… no I don’t know where the damn hell it might be. Business account? Er no. Old business account? er no.
Any alternatives? …I’ll call back.
This result is perplexing. Apparently, everywhere other than the college town, Missoula, voted Yes.
This just in:
I guess that scuppers the netball deal then?
Another good thing from the pink wink in the mid-terms is Huckabee got elected in Arkansas. But it pales if Kari doesn’t get up over that swamp skank currently ahead of her in AZ.
If you stole one would the whole edifice collapse? Beware ruthless turtle poachers…
Turtles in demand as pets, leading to a spike in poaching (9 Nov, Phys.org)
Take away too many turtles and were going to be in great strife. These insensitive people are undermining all of society.
(I think a better way of understanding the planet is to imagine we’re all fleas on a camel, and underneath that camel is another camel. And so on. The whole thing having been designed by a camel committee.)
Counterpoint to the ‘Russians withdrawing from Kherson = major defeat’ narrative.
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/11/09/scott-ritter-explains-why-russias-kherson-withdrawal-is-a-pyrrhic-ukrainian-victory
You know what would really lead to Russian victory: if they withdrew all the way to their old borders. That would really extend the Ukraine supply lines and lead to a major Russian triumph!
Zipster:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/08/how-woke-language-distorts-the-world/
I couldn’t put it into better language myself – it crystalises many different ways in which I think we are being manipulated and how when we vote for Gay Marriage, we open the gates to paedophiles.
I’d suggest a read of the article, then start applying it to everything you hear and read. Especially about “The Voice”.
“The Devil is in the details”. And you are not being given the magic decoder ring to help your understanding because understanding isn’t the aim of the legislation, just your acquiescence to the legal framework that will then bind you to their woke outcome.
As asked on the other forum (to no avail).
What does a Georgia run off entail?
Is it a complete revote? Or do they have some sort of preference arrangements (funny listening to one CNN “reporter” talking about one US State (can’t recall) and how they “invented preferential voting” since 2020!!!! lol!!!
Ambassador for Climate Change
Minister for The Republic
The Digital Transformation Agency
Working Group For Altering The Constitutional Method Of Referendamums
… we don’t really have governance in Australia, we just have a laptop class who are plundering our larder and making play-dough figurines in their own image.
Wodger:
Well, bugger. That puts a damper on it, then.
I’ll probably lose my membership in the cranky old fart club now.
There were more than two candidates and none of them scored 50% plus one vote more to secure the win and avoid a run off.. The run off will now be only between two candidates and who scores the most votes will win. I’m pretty sure that it.
Following on with the apathy of Aussies and particularly Victorians. We have a state election coming up. Ive heard so many people complain about Dictator Dan. We have an 20 booths to cover on the day. Lucky to get 10 people to cover the whole lot for the full day for Libs. Maybe its the lack of Lib leadership. But this is an opportunity to kick Dan to the kerb.
…at the end of the day Victorians cant get off their fat arses to make it happen. I really hope the Freedom Party and others are getting a better rollup.
Which ones? The 1914 border placed Lithuania, Finland, Poland and Ukraine inside of Russia.
https://youtu.be/stY2dlH37Uw
Good luck restoring the Russian Empire, Ducky.
Old Ozzie:
Wodger:
Winston:
There’s the Hard way, then there’s the other Hard way. At the end is the Bloody Hard way which involves choppers to the Great White breeding grounds.
I suppose sort of Good News – better than pay within 3 monthly installments
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1) How many voters really change their vote according to information received at the booth on the day
2) Yes, the Libs ARE the problem – no one believes they would be significantly different to Labor if voted in. A single, unified ‘anyone but Dan AND Guy’ ticket would be stronger.
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Are Finns Russian?
Are Poles Russian?
Why the fucking hell should Russia control the homelands of anyone who isn’t Russian?
If he’s not scaring himself to death with fabulist crap, he’s wishing death and destruction on a mass scale. All perfectly normal.
Beery!:
Now that is a severely oversupplied market.
Crikey! How the heck would you know the answer to that?
Thx JC!
Finland also wants the rest of Karjala back.
I know, the Western Empire is too strong, socially, culturally, morally, economically …..
No probs. I forgot to add, almost by definition, one of the two will score over 50% of the vote.
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/11/09/scott-ritter-explains-why-russias-kherson-withdrawal-is-a-pyrrhic-ukrainian-victory
Sputnik: What does this move say about the Russian strategy? Is Moscow playing the long game in Ukraine? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy?
Ritter: First and foremost, this should demonstrate to the Russian mothers, wives and daughters that the Russian government takes the lives of their loved ones, the men who have been sent into combat very seriously and is not willing to sacrifice them needlessly.
That’s an extraordinarily important statement being made by the Russian government, where they are willing to accept short-term embarassment in exchange for preserving the lives of Russia’s most precious asset, which is its human resources, in this case, the men who wear the uniform of the Russian army.
It also shows that Russia is in no hurry to get this conflict over with, that Russia is willing to consolidate its defenses in order to preserve life potentially extending the conflict, but in a manner which allows Russia to gain the advantage at a time and place that’s more beneficial to Russia, so that not only will Russia ultimately achieve the military victory it seeks, but it will do so without needlessly sacrificing thousands of Russian military lives.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
November 10, 2022 at 3:37 pm
“tell me the bank account number which the ATO associates you with?”
Crikey! How the heck would you know the answer to that?
Surely the Answer “As you are the Government – speak to the ATO – I am not going to give my Bank Details over the phone”
Duk,
Apparently 20% of popn make their minds up on day or election.
However 50% vote prepoll. I expect early voters have decided early.
San Francisco DA won’t turn over Pelosi attacker for deportation, because it’s a sanctuary city
Joseph MacKinnon – The Blaze – Tue, 08 Nov 2022
The very policy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long supported may ultimately be the same that keeps her husband’s alleged attacker in the country. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she won’t turn over Canadian national David DePape to federal authorities for deportation, citing San Francisco’s sanctuary city status.
On Nov. 1, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an immigration detainer on DePape. Accordingly, San Francisco law enforcement is asked to notify ICE prior to DePape’s release so that the agency can take custody and then possibly eject the illegal alien once his case is resolved.
Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, suggested that the “mere issuance of a detainer request for DePape smacks of disparate – shall we say, inequitable – treatment because of the political connections of the victim.”
“Would ICE have bothered to ask San Francisco to detain a criminal illegal alien, if the victim had been Paul Smith or Paul Jones, instead of Paul Pelosi?” asked Mehlman.
Though possibly “inequitable,” the detainer request may not ultimately matter, because Jenkins flat-out rejected it.
Illegal alien privileges
On Nov. 4, Jenkins issued a statement, saying, “San Francisco is a sanctuary city and our policy is sacred. … We will not be collaborating or coordinating with ICE.”
Peter Thiel on tariffs:
“I’m not for tariffs, but I make an exception for our one massive geopolitical and ideological rival”. (China)
Interview just dropped today, Hoover Institution:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXFdEyOKc4
A perfect example. Abject and undeniable parental failure, compounded by whining to the media about it.
Stop running your household as a democracy.
In my case that would be the account that got a miniscule tax return this yer.
Tucker Carlson: Electronic voting machines are an ‘actual threat to democracy’
Harold Hutchison – Daily Caller – Wed, 09 Nov 2022
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called for an end to the use of electronic voting machines Tuesday night, citing issues in Arizona where nearly one-fifth of the machines broke down.
At least 20% of tabulation machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, malfunctioned, leading Republicans to file litigation seeking extended voting hours. A judge denied the request.
“I feel so sorry for you, Bret, and Martha, because it will probably be a very late night for you, and a tense one. And it points up the problem. Look, the country is really closely divided in a lot of places,” Carlson told host Bret Bair.
” Pennsylvania is one. Nevada is another. Arizona. Lots of different places. And so, you’re going to have close election results…People have to have confidence that those results are real, that they can trust the mechanics of the election.
And what happened today in Maricopa County, where some huge percentage of voting machines, electronic voting machines, according to The Arizona Republic, 30 percent, they claim these are Dominion voting machines, but it almost doesn’t matter.”
“Electronic voting machines didn’t allow people to vote apparently. And that, whatever you think of it, the cause of it, it shakes people’s faith in the system. That is an actual threat to democracy,” Carlson continued.
Republican gubernatorial candidates blasted Maricopa County over the malfunctions, saying, “I hope it isn’t malice” before vowing to fix Arizona’s election system if elected. Former President Donald Trump narrowly lost Arizona in the 2020 election, a result confirmed by a report by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
“We’re not really very serious about democracy if we’re using electronic voting machines, or for not requiring photo ID to vote. We could have secure elections, we don’t because a small number of people don’t want them,” Carlson said. “But until we do, you’re going to have these moments where everybody in the country fears volatility, because one side doesn’t believe the result is real. And you’ve seen it on both sides. You saw it yesterday, Democrats suggesting that electronic voting machines could be hacked. Democrats. This ran in Politico. So, it’s not just the crazy right, it’s that everybody is losing faith in the system itself.”
“So, I hope if there’s one thing that comes out of this, and I hope it’s bipartisan, no more electronic voting machines. France doesn’t use them because they care about democracy,” Carlson said. “Require ID and then we can just call it a day, everyone knows the election results can be believed, and the temperature goes down. I really hope that happens.”
It’s a bit complicated, Sal. I’ve closed my old individual bank account, and haven’t registered the wifey’s yet obviously.
Actually it’s not complicated, it’s just the office is a freaking shambles, which I will now proceed to blame on my wife and kids, my old accountant, our bookkeeper who is an interfering and borderline controlling friend of wifey, and the Lizard People ‘s financial class of exponential complication. I could dig out my personal TFN for a shortcut.
Actually if you’ve got time O holy hotelier-
What’s the deal with a waitperson pouring wine, unbidden, into glasses for people sitting at a table? Does it contravene RSA guidelines at all? We were at a fancy food vendor the other night, and the wine wank was bugging me a bit, but the intervention of the staff when it came to me handling the bottle was borderline showpony mane-tossing by the aged aproned hipster. I was about to draw the bloke aside and quietly say “this ain’t your party pal, take a hint”, but it wasn’t my party either, so I’ve been mulling it over, and it occurred to me that it would make it hard for an individual to monitor their own consumption when the house is actively trying to pour out their mark-ups. Any thoughts?
Incoherent Rumbler:
The term “Snout Counter” from a Scifi book randomly popped into my head, damned if I can remember the book…
Crows outthink monkeys, can grasp recursive patterns
In cognitive tests for recognizing certain types of patterns, crows outperformed monkeys.
Crows are notoriously clever — the songbirds can use tools, understand the concept of zero and follow basic analogies. Now, a new study suggests that their grasp of one complex cognitive principle in particular is better than that of monkeys and comparable to that of small children.
Researchers found that crows can distinguish paired elements buried in larger sequences, a cognitive ability known as recursion. Consider the sentence: “The cat the dog chased meowed.” Although the sentence is admittedly a grammatical nightmare, most adults would quickly understand that the cat meowed and that the dog chased the cat. This capacity to pair elements like “cat” to “meow” and “dog” to “chase” in a sentence, or any sequence, was once thought to be a uniquely human trait.
The new study, however, suggests that crows can do it too. And this latest research builds on previous work demonstrating the existence of recursive reasoning among monkeys. “One of the most distinguishing features of human communicative cognition may turn out not to be that human-specific after all,” lead author Diana A. Liao, a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told Live Science in an email.
Snout Counter is a route inside of Main Wall. New South Wales and ACT NSW & ACT
Fabulous tabulator selector machines
The Good Citizen
Substack
Technology for the advanced democracy.
There’s an inaccurate definition of insanity which is portrayed as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Did you get that?
There’s an inaccurate definition of insanity which is portrayed as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
How about now?
The fabulous high-tech tabulation engines used across the same purple counties of America are getting glitchy again.
The mainframe crosswire password cloud protocols are simply not regulating the database count to timestamp voter selections to correspond to predetermined candidate controls. Don’t worry Democracy-lovers, it’s all completely normal.
Machines are magically failing right on schedule in all the right states that will decide the Senate. Ballots are disappearing. Some were never sent out “by mistake” in Georgia so voting has been extended another week there. Don’t worry, it’s all normal.
Pennsylvania is trying to replay its greatest hits from the 2020 election. The courts will determine the winners again sometime around Thanksgiving.
Lawyers will get rich. Parties will pretend to fight to the last gavel strike for their team while reaching out to the gullible flock for more donations for their lawyers’ pockets. It’s all normal.
There are innumerable ways to fix things to make people believe. It always starts with the media preparing expectations.
Over the weekend and yesterday, they blew their election psyop loads across the Internet, all with some variation of the memo they got from Mockingbird HQ.
Don’t worry Americans, it’s completely normal for election results to take days, weeks, maybe even a month or two. Be wary of “Red Mirages” which may blind you to the possibility that the Republican candidate will win just because they have an early lead.
had the same problem. turns out its my accountant’s bank details
Cassie – yep, Trump is played. Best left to custard types. He was needed at the time but Yesterday’s man. Let’s see if anyone gets the message.
Getting out the vote in ancient times
Dave Roos – History.com – Fri, 04 Nov 2022
Representatives Chosen by Randomizing Machine
There were very few elections in Athens, because the ancient Athenians didn’t think that elections were the most democratic way of choosing officials, says Eric Robinson, a history professor at Indiana University and editor of Ancient Greek Democracies: Readings and Sources. “For a democracy to give full power to the people to run things, and not just the wealthy, you had to choose people at random.”
To decide who would serve in the Council of 500, the chief governing body of Athens, Athenians used a system known as the sortition. There were 10 tribes in Athens and each tribe was responsible for providing 50 citizens to serve for one year in the Council of 500.
Each eligible citizen was given a personalized token and those tokens were inserted into a special machine called a kleroterion that used a long-lost technology (involving tubes and balls) to randomly select each tribe’s contribution to the council.
– In the Assembly: One Man One Vote
– Stones Used as Secret Ballots
– Special Elections for Ostracism and Exile
– In Sparta, an Ancient ‘Applause-o-Meter”
– Roman Elections Gave ‘Prerogative’ to the Rich
– Secret Ballots and Campaigning in the Roman Republic
Huh? Not cheering the nasty boomers off?
I hope this is a rhetorical question, ‘cause I don’t think I could be much clearer in my posts, or through my actions, over the last three years.
The Lizard People still control the Senate, the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, the DOJ, the IRS, and any amount of City Governorships and School Boards.
The U.S. will not halt its slide into debauchery just because the GOP, many of which are still Never Trump RINOs, now controls the Congress.
It’s a long way until 2024. Trump still needs to win, and he needs to be seen to win.
That’s a real laugh. The SFL’s are an integral part of the problem in Vic. A more mealy mouthed useless bunch of do NOTHING’s cannot be found. Fk em.
One for Cassie.
Heard Joe Rogan mention a Jewish comedian, Ari Shaffir, had a show up on YouTube. 2.5m views in 7 days. Then by coincidence it pops up on my YouTube feed which shows Rogans mind power.
About 20 minutes in and no surprise mainly Jewish / religious jokes.
Rogan latest guest Bjorn Lomborg and I note Tim Pool had Milo on. Looks quite different from a few years ago.
Donald Trump is a patriot.
Donald Trump loves America.
Donald Trump, as POTUS, accomplished many good things, the economy roared, America was self sufficient in energy, he helped broker the Abrahamic Accords, and he didn’t entangle the US in any foreign wars because he, unlike many in the GOP, in the Demonrats and among the putrid neocon establishment that infests DC, Trump doesn’t like seeing young American lives wasted on a battlefield in some foreign land..for oil or for lies such as “weapons of mass destruction”.
Donald Trump never deserved the outright lies, the smearing and the endless vilification that was thrown at him from the Democrat Party, the MSM and various RINOs. It all began the day he won office, back in November 2016. From that moment on the establishment desperately tried to delegitimise him, to prevent him from taking office. It was clear back in January 2017, when Crooked Hillary spoke about “resistance” that she, the party, the left and the MSM would never accept his presidency. No, they were determined to destroy him. And from then on it was four years of hate and lies in order to distract him, they even tried to impeach him, not once but twice. And you know what? I’m sure many progressives would have been happy seeing him killed. And then that perfect storm, all manufactured by the left, of Covid, Georgina Floydina and the “summer of love” in 2020. It’s quite remarkable, given the bile that was thrown at him, that he got up everyday and functioned and he still pushed through many policies that benefited ordinary Americans. It took Donald Trump to withstand the hysterical and manufactured lies the left vomited up to destroy Kavanaugh, others would have buckled. It took Donald Trump to push Amy Coney Barrett and now she sits on the SC. And then it all culminated in the November 2020 election. And I have no doubt that he was cheated.
Donald Trump has long reminded me of the John Wayne character, Ethan Edwards, from The Searchers. Trump is a classic American hero. However I have now come to the conclusion that in order to save America Donald Trump needs to retire. Like Ethan Edwards in the final scene of The Searchers, Trump’s did great things but his job is now done and he needs to ride off into the sunset.
The Benefits of Soft Shackles
If you are serious about utilising your 4WD, the chances are that you are going to get stuck somewhere and will need recovery.
100%. I said the same on the election thread. He’s the single biggest obstacle to GOP victory in ’24. And he should retire NOW.
Cassie of Sydney says:
November 10, 2022 at 4:27 pm
Whatever its worth, I agree.
He is too impulsive and should have retired gracefully, now he is attacking fellow conservatives.
Whether the bile poured on him would’ve stopped if he’d retired, I don’t know.
DeSantis Wins Historic Vote
From Armstrong Economics –
“DeSantis’ victory was really in the bag. However, the migration fleeing Wokeness outside Florida has changed the political map entirely. Miami Dade County has NEVER voted Republican in history. It voted for DeSantis. I moved to Florida 6 years ago. I did so when Socrates pinpointed that Florida would be the #1 state in the USA. My family was not so pleased, but I said I had to follow Socrates. The traffic here has doubled, which was not something I Cherish. Hedge Funds have been moving to Florida as well as the hidden secret – much of Wall Street moved to Florida.
This vote for DeSantis is remarkable in how the map has changed – not simply that he won by about 60%. I am glad I put my faith in Socrates. We have a diverse climate for those who think Florida is hot. The North gets cold in winter and it has even had snow on occasion. But by Tampa, you will still need a jacket in winter, and on some occasions, I have even had to turn the heat on.
This vote is historic for flipping Miami, but it is also important from the perspective of the flight from the Woke states. I have met people who fled up north because during COVID their children became so depressed and boys with dreams of sports careers even became suicidal. Others moved for freedom and the whole COVID scam destroyed people’s lives, small businesses, and careers. People who fled to Florida did so for a variety of reasons. Yet what I found astonishing was that Florida became the beacon of light around the world.
Those who would assume I would support DeSantis for President are wrong. They will eat him for lunch in DC. He is far more in control right here.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/desantis-wins-historic-vote/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Another Brick in the Wall
From Armstrong Economics –
“It is rare for a celebrity to speak out against the agenda. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has reached a level of fame where he can question the status quo as his legacy is sealed. Waters called Biden a “war criminal” for encouraging the war in Ukraine. “This war is about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR,” Waters declared. Amazing how a musician understands the situation better than politicians.
CNN attempted to argue with Waters, but he held firm. The reporter attempted and failed to belittle Waters by saying he should see Russia as the enemy as his father died in the last world war. However, that is precisely what Waters and any sensible human are aiming to avoid – another world war. “Don’t forget 23 million Russians died protecting you and me from the Nazis,” Waters said.
He then asked the reporter what he thought America would do if China began to line up on the US border. We all know the answer to that question. Imagine if China placed nuclear weapons in or near Canada and Mexico? The nuclear apocalypse would have already happened.
Many hold the same views as Roger Waters, but they are too afraid to speak up. The average person, who may not tune into political commentary, will listen to celebrities when they speak. The problem becomes the fear of cancelation. It is career suicide to question the current agenda. Pink Floyd cannot be canceled; they’ve been popular for far too many decades. The left “hippies” of the past are nothing like the hipsters today who encourage war and echo the voices of the elite.”
https://youtu.be/svhXSjo5oPk
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/another-brick-in-the-wall/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Cassie,
Don’t take my post as a recommendation. Most of the humour is fairly crude stuff.
He made his name laying waste to a presidential primary field of 17 conservatives. Once he was finished with them, you lot crowed about each and every one of them not being a true conservative, not to mention most of them being beta cucks. He is not going to change his style now.
I can see him arguing you round after a while. I mean, who is going to stand up to him? It’s all very well for some no-name pundit to write a throwaway piece that it’s DeSantis’ party now, but Trump controls all the RNC finances and has purged all the elected positions to install his stooges.
In short, you can take the GOP from Trump’s cold, dead fingers.
I stand the same place as every other sane person.
However, thank you for posting your experience. By the yardstick used, could similar methods be used to go after GPs who write fake “too sick to work” certificates?
(This has been a bugbear of mine for decades)
I’d love nothing more than to see some serious de-registering of those who write certificates for fake sickies.
Nice Post Cassie.
Got my (unwanted) Directors ID No over the phone, no troubles, no question re bank accounts. I think it was just D/L and Medicare No, or maybe passport number.
Not one of them could have won. At the very least we got 4 years of Trump vs no Crooked.
Look at it this way, you oversized lardball.
We go four years of Trump and Pence. Your lot have four year of a senile, corrupt dumbarse and an equally stupid female token.
And presto change-o, just like that, it’s no longer an inevitable failure by an untouchable administrative class, it’s an unforseeably outrageous attack by supervillans.
Abortion data from Medibank hack posted on dark web as Clare O’Neil pledges to pursue ‘scumbags’
Nice Post Cassie.”
Thank you.
Look what impresses Zali. She’s on heat, of the climate change sort. The heated up “independent”.
Rodney Rottenhead.
Armstrong is a convicted fraudster who served time in jail for defrauding folks. He’s as credible as Carlo Ponzi, but not as smart. You ought to be embarrassed linking that arsehole.
I suspect a lot of car parks will only allow 79 cars now
LOl.. Good point mx.
Ha! the final pic of the bogged troopie is exactly the same sort of soil thats been ambushing me of late – a bit soft on top, but liquid quicksand underneath once you break through.
Would all the Eeyores here who claimed that the mid-terms weren’t going to happen because (Deep State, Nancy Pelosi, Dimmocrat conspiracy yada yada) and instead there would effectively be a coup please raise their right hand?
As I and a few others keep saying, American politics operates at a higher temperature than ours, and all the hot rhetoric is a feature, not a bug. Along with electoral corruption, ditto. It has been that way pretty much since the beginning of the Republic.
In the current example, I bet they have pulled out all the stops to try to defeat Kari Lake. She is what Southerners call ‘a pistol’ as in a fiery and gutsy lady, in this case with a nice veneer of charm and glamour via her experience in television. She is a major threat, and they really, really do not want her to win. Every kind of skulduggery will have been employed against her. I hope she makes it.
My greatest wish is that the loathsome Mitch McConnell gets booted from leadership in the Senate. Almost anyone would be better.
I’m wary of the ‘oooh, shiny!’ reaction to De Santis, and the dismissal of Trump as old hat. It may be that De Santis is the best choice, but he has been hanging around with some shady RINO never-Trumpers, and could turn out to be a Trojan Horse for them. I reckon the jury is still out on that.
Remember all the times Trump made an accusation and the ‘wise heads’ freaked out and said that this time he had lost it for sure? We all how how that turned out.
I got asked the address of a rental property we owned in 2015, the rest was D/L, Medicare and passport number, certainly no questions re bank accounts.
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Roger Waters? This Roger Waters? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, man:
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On Trump:
On Israel:
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Maybe when you parse someone like Waters, who is basically Numbers Bob with musical talent, and is rabidly pro Russian and pro China, you might come to want to rearrange your views to stop your drift towards becoming Jane Fonda minus the shag pile and mildly arousing semi nudity.
Story of a snake.
Only half way though. I never suggested anything like that, but said I wasn’t prepared to go against Cronkite’s views on stuff as he had 2020 down pat.
They didn’t need a coup though as they cheated (perhaps legally) through massive vote harvesting operations in densely populated areas. It’s hard to beat.
Excellent comment johanna, thank you.
Don’t worry. They will.
Trump did something pretty special. He proved that a political outsider (albeit a wealthy one) could get into the top job.
That is his greatest achievement. And the hatred he has engendered from both sides proves it.
I doubt whether it will ever be allowed to happen again.
In short, you can take the GOP from Trump’s cold, dead fingers.
Dickless humour at its most dickless.
If Trump decides not to run he will continue to raise funds for the GOP not for himself. Basically the entire GOP would have to support him for ’24; but there are still too many RINOs, especially if Boebert and Green go down; tough ladies who copped heaps from dickless’s mates in the US.
Hehe … am looking at a (McDonalds?) Eeyore I was given by some girl in accounts. Not sure why.
Joh, I agree with your historical perspective on US politics. The great experiment always risks something going “pop” in the lab.
Trouble is that never have such powerful splodey toys been the hands of such a group of charlatans and imbeciles.
They make the gunboat diplomacy of the C19 look puny.
but Trump controls all the RNC finances and has purged all the elected positions to install his stooges.
Monty actually believes this.
As trump is Jewish adjacent (son in law?) can I now claim monty is being an anti semite because hes equating money and influence with Judaism? (adjacent variety)
At last i truly see Trump = Soros!!!!
That was C19th, not Covid19.
That was pepper spray diplomacy.
Fvcks sake……
Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has grilled Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong over the government’s plan to appoint a First Nations ambassador, leading to a fiery exchange.
Ms Price gave a scathing assessment of the role, suggesting it continued “a theme of segregation of First Nations people”, which Ms Wong vehemently rejected.
The Albanese Government discussed their plan to spend $2 million over two years in a Senate meeting on Thursday, aimed at elevating Australian First Nations stories on a global stage.
“I reject that. It’s not about segregation. It’s about inclusion. And a place in our international story that we have not told,” Ms Wong said.
“I think in the world telling the full story of who we are is a good thing to do, regardless of one’s political views over the Uluru statement. “This is about telling the full breadth of the story about who we are.”
Ms Price – who is a vocal critic of the Albanese Government’s proposal to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament – questioned whether Australia needed to separate First Nations people and have a separate foreign policy for their voice.
She has previously said the government was attempting to “create racial separatism” through the Voice, which would advise the government on issues affecting First Nations people.
“As someone who has Indigenous heritage, I do find it divisive,” Ms Price said on Thursday.
Ms Price suggested the move to have an ambassador was “ideologically driven” and asked whether this was an international PR stunt for the Voice to Parliament debate.
Ms Wong rejected the claim and explained that domestic politics aside, the Albanese Government had a First Nations caucus which consulted with First Nations communities and wanted to see Indigenous stories part of the Australian story told abroad.
The Northern Territory senator continued her attack as she attempted to get her point across by highlighting Ms Wong’s Malaysian heritage and whether an ambassador could include all Asian voices.
“Well, I doubt that you would accept 0.03 per cent of the Asian community on anything with regard to any decisions made with regard to the Asian community of Australia, which is on the same sort of principle,” she said.
“It is your position that the Uluru statement of the heart should represent us all, and I’m suggesting to you that it doesn’t.”
The two repeatedly spoke over one another during the fiery exchange with Ms Wong elaborating that just like the Ambassador for Women’s rights she assumes the First Nations Ambassador would consult widely to get a “diversity of views”.
“I think it should be reflected more in how we engage with the world,” she said.
The First Nations Ambassador budget would spend $1.3 million initially on a taskforce in the department, remuneration for the ambassador, international and domestic engagement as well as meeting facilitation.
Sky News – comments open
OldOzzie
Just ordered a 50 tonne recovery strap with same rated soft shackles.
I’m getting rid of the metal parts in the bog recovery kit for OHS. A farmer was killed recently by a flying metal shackle.
A Chinese faggot telling a a smart Indig. women how and what she should be thinking?
Typical from the Left.
Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms
By John Podhoretz
I suspect the mood on here is going to revert to Trumpism, as phalanxes of Establishment GOP pundits all assemble the firing squads on behalf of DeSanctimonious. Eventually you will get sick of Never Trumpers doing a victory lap, and want to teach them a lesson.
Sounds to me that Chris Dawsons lawyer is saying yes, he did kill her:
Chris Dawson’s murder of his wife Lyn was “precipitous” in nature, his lawyer says.
Mr Walsh drew on Justice Ian Harrison’s finding in his verdict that Dawson decided to kill Lynette in a panic at the threat of losing his teenage babysitter, JC.
Mr Walsh said in the weeks before the murder, Dawson was intending to leave Lyn rather than kill her.
“Your Honour found that when the offender and JC went to the North Manly flat to make inquiries and went to Queensland and came back, you were satisfied there was no intention to kill.
“It was only as it were when she decided – that is JC – that she was unhappy on return to Sydney that there was this manifestation of this intention (to kill),” Mr Walsh said.
“He was worried that he was going to lose her.
“It’s my respectful submission that the decision to kill his wife was precipitous. I use that term advisedly. It was not one that involved a great deal of planning,with respect, but one that was driven by his obsessional need to be with JC.”
Tucker Carlson: No one should ever be rewarded for failure
They can bash their Director ID up where the sun doesn’t shine.
Enough.
the gloating regressives are so scared of Trump they’ll say anything to prevent him from running again
JCsays:
November 10, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Rodney Rottenhead.
Armstrong is a convicted fraudster who served time in jail for defrauding folks. He’s as credible as Carlo Ponzi, but not as smart. You ought to be embarrassed linking that arsehole.
Well Jerky Crunt. Thanks for your observation. Now go and play in the traffic there’s a good boy.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1590534800531918848
A beautiful family photo.
Zipster:
I recapitalised your paragraphs because I put aside a few extra for emergencies. Don’t thank me. 🙂
Now is the time, if you are able to get the missus to agree to you putting in that backyard wine cellar/Sewing room/ham radio set/ ensuite whatever you’ve been thinking of for the last five years.
.1 Sink one 20′ container – the rule is 40′ container per nuclear family.
.2 Cover with 8″ concrete + reo (NB No connection with container metal to isolate.)
.3 Cover concrete with plastic waterproofing and soil.
.4 Line walls with 4” reo in offset pattern. 2x Sheets to enable proper position of bottles of wine. (The bottles should be canted slightly backwards so in event of earthquakes – common in Australia but not too far backwards that the cork is exposed too much.)
.4a I found that while living on the Yacht buying a hundred pipe rings that fitted around each bottle to keep them separate was slightly less stable, but allowed closer stacking and more storage. Available in packs of 20. You only need one per bottle – just make sure the stacking pattern has one near the base and the other near the neck. It also stopped the clanking noise inherent in hull and contents movement thus letting unwelcome guests know a party boat was in the area.
.5 Find out where your water table is before planning position.
.6 Your wife will think you are marvellous for thinking of using her latest sewing machine if you put a genset in the wine cellar. With the money you save on the refurbished Singer Treadle Sewer, you can afford a (Not directly, mind you as the fumes are going to play havoc with your oxygen supply. You will need access to refuel, but different access to air for the machine.
.7 A TV. A TV set will do fine at one end of the Wine Cellar, so your bride can take a break from sewing, or even indulge in something I’ve noticed they do reasonably well – multiple tasking. Just remember the width of the TV is important to take into account the Wine bottles protruding from the long sides of the cellar. It will give the edges of the TV a subtle framing effect that to the non wine drinker could be called irritating, but to hell with them.
.8 A good sound system is a must – I suggest whatever you get, use the Acoustic Research Demonstration disk to calibrate the speakers. If you are unfortunate enough to have to share your wine cellar with children below the age of 40, lock them out of the stereo setting and allow them the use of a couple of speakers from Good Guys from around $5 each. Do not complain if you forget to lock them out and you notice they’ve set the Double Bass Enhance Setting to Max, Dude. And your unreplaceable AR speakers have lost all rigidity and are actually sagging in their frames.
.9 Air quality. I suggest a small vertical hydroponic system for the child bride to indulge in a herb garden that will provide subtle refreshing calming aromas. Base kits are available from Amazon from $150
.10 Dunny. In the case of liquids, the problems are self solving. As you empty a wine bottle it becomes a receptacle for your full one. If you plan on remaining in your wine cellar – for cataloguing purposes perhaps – it may be worthwhile to set up a camp toilet that allows maceration and discharge to a disposal facility. Do not connect to a mains sewer line. God only knows how big cockroaches grew when exposed to radiation of whatever kind. To create a sewerage sump, you can make an outback dunny sump by gutting two EV bodies of their interior bits and batteries – Especially the batteries – no one has tested for immersion in raw sewerage of the battery bank. Dig a hole and bury the car bodies at least three meters down. Run a length of poly pipe up to the camp dunny and connect.
.10a If this is all too much trouble a quick and dirty method is to drill a three meter steel pipe into the ground about twenty meters away from your Wine Cellar. Drop half a stick of AN60 and detonate. This should create a void that will serve admirably for several years/weeks/Months. Connect to Wine Cellar after slight amount of ground subsidence. Do not mention unusual dirt clumps on neighbors solar panels, as they may become suspicious about your recent wine storage facility. (And rightfully so – but if they cannot tell the difference between a wine storage facility/sewing room, and a blokes refuge, then to hell with them.)
Trump is too old to run.
Politics Globally is on a New Agenda
From Armstrong Economics –
“COMMENT From Brazil: So, about the Brazilian Elections.
The Brazilian military (DoD) were not allowed to access the source code by the Supreme Court.
The conclusion, the fraud is guaranteed, as the lack of transparency.
I wouldn’t want to be in Lula’s shoes. Now, everybody knows.
There was a huge fraud against Bolsonaro, because nobody voted in Lula.
Unbelievable, the world will not recover from this, the thing is going into free fall.
When the military cannot do its job, something is very rotten, they have no authority within their own country, so where does this external power or interference come from?
King regards,
R.
REPLY: Bolsonaro had to be removed from office the same as Trump, Putin, and Jinping. I have a video clip someone took at the Davos WEF meeting in 2019 where Bolsonaro said these people are insane. The EU organized a rigged election in Italy to get rid of Silvio Berlusconi. The EU rigged the Scottish separatist vote as well. The EU rules that Catalonia has no right to separate.
We do not live in a world where the right to vote is truly respected. Bolsonaro had to go for the WEF was out to remove him because he stood against their climate change agenda.
There is nothing we can do about this. It will play out and blow up in everyone’s face.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/south_america/politics-globally-is-on-a-new-agenda/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
There’s an interesting show on FTV called ‘Heavy Lifters.’ I’ve learned all about soft shackles being used outside the boudoir from it. 🙂
Re De Santis as the Messiah, here is an extract from an article at American Thinker:
There is an old Dutch saying – don’t throw out your old shoes until you have new ones. Not just what looks like new ones, proved new ones without holes in them.
A quick correction to .6a above:
.6 Your wife will think you are marvellous for thinking of using her latest sewing machine if you put a genset in the wine cellar. With the money you save on the refurbished Singer Treadle Sewer, you can afford an 8kva genset in an alcove. If she complains about the 2,000 liter fuel tank, let her know it will be the buffer reserve for her vehicle when prices are low. (Not directly, mind you as the fumes are going to play havoc with your oxygen supply. You will need access to refuel, but different access to air for the machine.
Changing way of voting in USA
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/09/big-picture-2020-midterm-elections-highlights-distinct-difference-between-ballots-and-votes/
Rottenhead, he’s a convicted fraudster, FFS. Show some discernment. He lost money trading, took other people’s money to cover the losses and lost even more. So much for his predictive abilities, leaving aside that he’s a fraudster.
UK Parliament vaccine debate
Dr. John Campbell
Extremely low energy, sounded like he had been crying all night.