Open Thread – Weekend 12 Nov 2022


The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923


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Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 12, 2022 12:01 am

Shiny!

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 12, 2022 12:15 am

Deux!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 12, 2022 12:23 am

Trois!

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 12:24 am

Lake will win by about 40,000 votes in her race.

mOnster is FOS.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 12, 2022 12:24 am

Plus, pulled a quad at hockey
Howzat for a round-out

jupes
jupes
November 12, 2022 12:35 am

This 2022 version of the Tag Heuer Monaco X Gulf just won the Iconic prize at the GPHG awards (the watch Oscars).

If I was going to buy a Tag, this would be it. (Though like the most popular watches these days, it’s out of stock).

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 12, 2022 12:49 am

Daily Mail has a “death” ship with 800 Covid cases arriving in Sydney tomorrow. No doubt all vaccinated.

Further proof the Vax is not much use. Naturally Norman Swan and Kerry Chant stirring the scare campaign to get more to take the outdated so called boosters.

The only thing they boost is the coffers of big pharma and the many others who never want the Covid saga to end.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 1:11 am

It’s mathematically impossible for the Democrats to win this from here.

Republicans will win both the house and the senate.

The size of the stick is irrelevant. All that matters is who is holding it. My only misgiving is that it’s possible there are some corrupt/compromised Republicans elected.

Retarded Joe smirked when asked if he was worried about Hunter and the Biden Family being investigated. He seemed pretty sure that wasn’t gunna happen.

His confidence is probably well founded. Exhibit A is Liz Cheney. Exhibit B is crying Adam Kissinger. How many more of them are out there?

We also need to bear in mind that the Democrats were funnelling millions of $ into Republican pre-election races. The narrative being is that they wanted their own Democrat candidates to run against “weaker Republican candidates”. People that they thought they could beat.

It never quite “rang true” to me. It doesn’t make sense.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 1:29 am

I’ll give you a local example in New England.

Eddie O’Beid (Labor) and Richard Torbay (National) in Armidale. It’s as grubby as it gets. Torbay fled, never to be heard of again. He was an inch away from being in Barney’s position. No repercussions that I know of.

Extrapolate that into US politics where the money and the stakes are much higher.

No wonder Biden feels confident. The dude hasn’t got a worry in the world. Nothing is going to happen.

Look at the question from the presser – “Mr President, 80% of Americans feel the country is heading in the wrong direction. What changes are you going to make”?

Joes answer was succinct. NONE.

Smug and secure. It tells you a lot. He’s not worried in the least.

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 1:32 am

Take a look at the map. It’s impossible for the GOP to vote harvest like the Demons do, geographic speaking. Look at the are they would have to work through vs the Demons.

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 1:33 am

area..

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 2:12 am

Take a look at the map. It’s impossible for the GOP to vote harvest like the Demons do, geographic speaking.

Probably because the Republicans won’t contest the cities.

Lee Zeldin is a shining light. He lost by 5. Huge result. It goes to show that the cities are contestable.

Republicans need to enter the den, rather than sit back and try to defend.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 2:19 am

Many assume that it’s not worth trying to flip Democrat cities. I’d argue now is the opportune time. It will take a couple of cycles, but it’s ripe.

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 2:35 am

Lol

????? ????
@realBlakeBeye

Biden/Fetterman 2024. It’s a no-brainer

DaFisk
DaFisk
November 12, 2022 3:25 am

It is now over. Kherson completely liberated from Russian rapists and murderers. Total victory for the Ukes and crushing humiliation for Putin and all Putinists everywhere! It is time for Putinists to sign an unconditional treaty of surrender, and to demolish Lenin’s Mausoleum at once!

Gabor
Gabor
November 12, 2022 3:31 am

DaFisk says:
November 12, 2022 at 3:25 am

It is now over. Kherson completely liberated from Russian rapists and murderers. Total victory for the Ukes and crushing humiliation for Putin and all Putinists everywhere! It is time for Putinists to sign an unconditional treaty of surrender, and to demolish Lenin’s Mausoleum at once!

I do hope you have heard the saying, he who laughs last?

DaFisk
DaFisk
November 12, 2022 3:40 am

How humiliating it must be to have supported such a bankrupt cause as Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine! There needs to be a reckoning within the centre-right movement over this. I have no doubt that Putinist sentiment cost at least 10 GOP seats in the HoR and probably 1-2 Senate seats. Voters simply won’t wear the toxicity of the Putin faction, and it shows. Just think about the optics – you have Baltics and Ukrainians knocking over statues of Lenin and freeing themselves of 70+ years of fear for what Russia might do, and then these fringe MAGA weirdos yelling at them to preserve their Soviet heritage! What.A.Shower. A total purge is in order!

Gabor
Gabor
November 12, 2022 3:53 am

DaFisk says:
November 12, 2022 at 3:40 am

Fisker, you are hallucinating.

Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 4:10 am
Dot
Dot
November 12, 2022 5:23 am

It is a bit weird to have the Russian (imperial) tricolour & support the church and still have a mausoleum for Lenin.

By which I mean it is actually very bizarre.

The Ukrainians were right about this. From 2014.

Dozens of Soviet icons are coming down across the troubled country

To keep track of them, the opposition produced an interactive map

But in the east, pro-Russia brigades have formed to protect them

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2567388/Stunning-map-reveals-100-statues-Lenin-toppled-Ukraine.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 6:18 am

Diseased princesses news.

An estimated 800 passengers with COVID-19 are set to arrive in Sydney on luxury cruise ship (11 Nov)

9 News revealed on Friday night an estimated 800 passengers on the Majestic Princess cruise have tested positive to COVID-19. Those passengers are set to arrive in Sydney’s Circular Quay on Saturday morning at 6am.

So all those passengers will’ve had to be fully vaccinated before they boarded…right?

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:23 am
rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:25 am

AFR giving one of the gang of three free air time.

‘Star Wars scene’: Daniel Andrews faces ‘wild’ upper house

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:29 am

The covid ship certainly proves one thing, put people in very close proximity to each other for extended periods of time and that bug spreads like wildfire.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:31 am

Not in Norway
not this time

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 6:32 am

Large, in fact the largest Crypto exchange just collapsed. Read on

There’s a political side to it.

### FTX HAS COLLAPSED ###
Dr. Fly Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:06am EST 1 Comment

It should be noted, Sam Bankman-Friedman at just 30 years old was the second largest donor to the demoncrat party in 2021-2022, second only to George Soros. His mother is a big bundler for the left and Sam was being groomed to be the next money pig for DC.

It does in fact BEMUSE me to see Sam’s FTX filing for chapter 11 today, not because I enjoy to see others fail — but because I specifically enjoy to see Sam fail. There is a distinct difference, mind you.

Those committed to making the country a worse place should be PUNISHED with the vengeance of a malevolent God.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:33 am

And the people who went after Girl with a Pearl got two months prison each.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 6:41 am

That Ibankcoin gentleman sure doesn’t mince his words.

Mater
November 12, 2022 6:49 am

The Suburban Rail Loop: Will it be built and do Victorians want it to be?

Dan can’t even maintain what he has now.
Three times in the last two weeks, I’ve been prematurely ‘alighted’ from my train, at random stations, due to breakdowns, and told to make my own way to my destination. Malaysia has a more reliable public transport system.

It’s a shit show in Victoria, and it’s only getting worse. Much like building more hospitals which he can’t staff, building new lines is not going to alleviate any issues for the public. I guess two weeks will tell if the majority wish to live in a third world, despotic shithole.

Mater
November 12, 2022 7:02 am

It’s a shit show in Victoria, and it’s only getting worse.

And anyone who has visited Southern Cross Station recently will quickly observe that V/Line has more Customer Assistance attendants (running around in pink vests) than they have customers.

It looks like a make-work-scheme for misfits and no hopers.

Don’t get me started on the ‘Authorised Officers’ running around in their black paramilitary gear (inclusive of assault boots). Why is it when you give any Victorian public service an ounce of authority, they want to immediately run out and clad their people in in black assault rig (I’m looking at you VicPol!)?

Can’t they check my Veteran status dressed as humans? An observation; 4’11” fat chicks don’t look any more intimidating or imposing dressed in Black. They still look like a duck waddling around the platforms…just a darker breed!

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 7:02 am

Gorgeous brunette wins New Hampshire beauty pageant.

Take a looksee

https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1590801818044403713/video/1

Dot
Dot
November 12, 2022 7:04 am

JC

You found struth’s boat!

Dot
Dot
November 12, 2022 7:06 am

An observation; 4’11” fat chicks don’t look any more intimidating or imposing dressed in Black. They still look like a duck waddling around the platforms…just a darker breed!

The Darth Helmet Platoon.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 12, 2022 7:18 am

The leftosphere is having a panic attack over Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The BBC coughed up a fact checker to say that “blue ticks are for sale” and that misinformationists would impersonate local authorities in order to send out misleading info!
Stephen Sackur, while trying to give Jonathan Dimbleby a hard time in Hard Talk managed to also cast nasturtiums at Musk’s bold new Twitter world, saying it would be less reliable than it used to be. SS must suspect JD of being a bit conservative, old school, an elite of some sort. He actually accused Jonathan of being the beneficiary of nepotism, having had a famous father who was a BBC notable back in the mid-20th century. It’s not something we hear BBC people accusing leftists of, regardless of the facts.

Petros
Petros
November 12, 2022 7:22 am

The problem, Armadillo, is how many are RINOs. They will sell out and let the globalists dominate. That’s why they hate Trump. He has done a great job in exposing and removing these traitors. I hope him and Desantis can work together.

Dot
Dot
November 12, 2022 7:23 am

The BBC coughed up a fact checker to say that “blue ticks are for sale” and that misinformationists would impersonate local authorities in order to send out misleading info!

Always was.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 12, 2022 7:24 am

It’s mathematically impossible for the Democrats to win this from here.
There were a lot of mathematical impossibilities in 2020, and they were detailed in a couple of the most impressive talks back during Mike Lindell’s big symposium.
There are mathematical dodges being worked in several southern states at the moment, which is why vote counts have all but stalled.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 12, 2022 7:36 am

So all those passengers will’ve had to be fully vaccinated before they boarded…right?

How many that tested positive were ill?

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 7:42 am

My understanding is that masks are recommended indoors on Princess cruise ships and mandatory for staff. Full vaccination is mandatory for all, as is a negative PCR.

Yet it still gets aboard and spreads.

It’s a mystery*. 😀

* to be truly CovidiotSafe, perhaps visiting ports could be curtailed. 😀 😀

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 7:45 am

The BBC coughed up a fact checker to say that “blue ticks are for sale”

They certainly were. USD15k a pop.

Probably forgot that bit.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 7:47 am

“Earlier, the cruise company said those who had tested positive on the ship “are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic and are isolating in their staterooms”.”
Much ado about nothing.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 7:49 am

At least it wasn’t a gastro outbreak.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 7:50 am

If you’re asymptomatic, why would you “test”? Stupid on stilts.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 12, 2022 7:50 am

An estimated 800 passengers with COVID-19 are set to arrive in Sydney on luxury cruise ship (11 Nov)

See Bruce above for a link.

This news, as Viktoristanis prepare to vote, will give Danerobic the excuse he needed to shut down the election process (until the polls infection numbers improve).

struth
struth
November 12, 2022 7:51 am

…..and no one picks up notafans idiocy….

You’ve got to ask yourself …. why

struth
struth
November 12, 2022 7:56 am

“Put people close together and that bug spreads like wildfire”

Yes not a fucking clue.
It’s the deadly bug they have to be tested for to find out they have it because they’re not sick.

Total fucking insanity and hysterics from a totally lost brain dead moron incapable of logic ……honestly you could tell her anything.
Anything

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 7:56 am

9 News revealed on Friday night an estimated 800 passengers on the Majestic Princess cruise have tested positive to COVID-19. Those passengers are set to arrive in Sydney’s Circular Quay on Saturday morning at 6am.

Takeaway messages

1) the vaxx dont work
2) never board a ship with ‘Princess’ in the name

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 7:57 am

I doubt they were given much of a choice calli.
I’d be very ticked if I were stuck isolating in a
I seem to have this recurring dream; I’m walking past a lurking croc waiting to pounce, but invariably, it springs, it misses.

struth
struth
November 12, 2022 7:58 am

After all this time no one can be as hysterical and as thick as notafan.
She must be a left wing troll.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 8:01 am

Yes the bug spreads like wildfire but probably thanks to everyone being vaccinated and double boosted it’s not doing any great harm in what must be a high risk cohort.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 12, 2022 8:05 am

The solution is obvious.

Any cruise ship passenger testing positive for Covid should be made to walk the plank in shark infested waters.

Oops just to be sure if there is just one case on a ship the whole crew and all passengers walk the plank.

Then on land black clad storm troopers should find and exterminate their workmates and relatives just to be sure.

This would prevent any developing into deaths with Covid thus ensuring the safety of the population and decreasing Covid death stats.

During this week we have had multiple news articles telling us the new variants are more transmissible, less serious and are less effected by previous infection or vaccines. Yet the experts quoted constantly encourage the masses make sure they get their next vaccine. The one that is nearly two years old, created before Delta and clearly does not work.

It is simply incredible. Made worse by the fact the mainstream media is pushing this narrative along without any attempt to question the experts. The best example of this is the total absence of reporting of the ages of those dying with Covid. The reason for this is obvious. They can’t scare the young into the next Vax if they realise little chance of dying from it.

Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 8:05 am

One of today’s best reads from one of the world’s best reporters, Alex Berenson, on Substack:

The incredible disappointment of Elon Musk’s first weeks owning Twitter (PART ONE)

Link.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 8:07 am

The covid ship certainly proves one thing, put people in very close proximity to each other for extended periods of time and that bug spreads like wildfire.

Au contraire. The ‘Diamond Princess’ experiment of early 2020 showed that the majority of people DO NOT get sick whatever their level of exposure. Only 19% of the 3711 people aboard even managed to produce a positive PCR after 5 weeks locked on the ship – a positive test – and only a fraction of those got sick. Only 0.4% died. The ‘concordance rate’ (where a 2nd person locked in the same cabin as a sick person also got sick) was less than 25%. The capacity of the Magestic Princess is similar to the Diamond Princess, around 3500, and only 800 cases are being reported.

We have known since then that COVID was a nothing burger. Its interesting to see central casting rolling out the exact same script again. Now we get to run the ‘lets see if the sheeple have learned anything about the lies of government’ experiment.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 8:07 am

Rosie, from what I can gather in Princess cruise FAQs there is no random testing.

In other words, testing is voluntary. The only negative test required is at the point of embarkation.

As I said, stupid on stilts.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 8:09 am

An ocean full of Musk salt from left and right.
So very very sad.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 8:10 am

We also need to bear in mind that the Democrats were funnelling millions of $ into Republican pre-election races. The narrative being is that they wanted their own Democrat candidates to run against “weaker Republican candidates”. People that they thought they could beat.

It never quite “rang true” to me. It doesn’t make sense.

Democrats won every single one of the races in which they did that.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 12, 2022 8:10 am

SloJo was just in a rush.
He had a meet and greet to get to.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 8:12 am

Twitter Blue has been taken down. I am glad I bought it in time. It will be like holding Pets.com stock in the 90s, a cultural touchstone that few people experienced first hand but becomes iconic of an era.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 8:13 am

I’m on Queen Vic next June. I would rather chew ground glass than voluntarily do a RAT, particularly if I felt okay. And even if I had a sniffle, they’d have to drag me kicking and screaming to do one.

The raving idiots who have done so need a good box around the ears, especially if they then go on to whinge about being confined to quarters. Virtue signalling idiots..

Indolent
Indolent
November 12, 2022 8:13 am
rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 8:14 am

Did the FAQs cover what happens in the event of an outbreak?
And I doubt staff can decline testing.
Maybe passengers got tested so they could start taking their Zelenko protocols.

Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 8:16 am

The Bee at its best:

Selfish DeSantis Takes Entire Red Wave For Himself

RTWT

Indolent
Indolent
November 12, 2022 8:24 am

I wasn’t sure if this wasn’t satire at first but it seems to be serious, believe it or not. What it does prove, conclusively, is that the same strings are being pulled worldwide. No matter where you go, the same psychopaths are running the show.

Sports Star to Be Jailed 10 Months for ‘Transphobic’ Message That ‘God Created Adam and Eve’

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 8:25 am

Did the FAQs cover what happens in the event of an outbreak?

No. Nothing. Zip.

Must be either in the fine print in the cruise literature* or it doesn’t exist.

* probably couched in the “Princess Cruise Lines reserve the right to…” type stuff. Perhaps I’d better go over the Cunard stuff with a fine tooth comb.

Razey
Razey
November 12, 2022 8:32 am

Gaborsays:
November 12, 2022 at 3:53 am
DaFisk says:
November 12, 2022 at 3:40 am

Fisker, you are hallucinating.

DaFisk should stay off the crystal meth.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 12, 2022 8:34 am

Nelson_Kidd-Players:
November 12, 2022 at 12:01 am

Shiny!

Let’s be bad guys.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 8:35 am

I think you’ll find Australian cruise rules are a little stricter than those in Europe.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 8:35 am

Anyway, it’s all a chicken and egg scenario. To know you have an outbreak, you have to have people voluntarily testing.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 8:38 am

I think you’ll find Australian cruise rules are a little stricter than those in Europe.

Quite. Princess calls it “Australia enhanced”.

More like “Australia Ruined”.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 12, 2022 8:42 am

Viktoristanis. Danned if they do. Danned if they don’t.

Razey
Razey
November 12, 2022 8:43 am

We have known since then that COVID was a nothing burger

Yep. Kid has a cold at the moment. I said how is it out of 10? He said about a 5. I said, what about covid? He said 2. I agreed. Covid is the biggest scam in human history. Anyone who takes the clotshots now is simply demonstrating obedience.

Damon
Damon
November 12, 2022 8:45 am

“Biden tells climate conference ‘life of the planet’ is at stake”
Well. he seems pretty keen to be at the wheel when the ship sinks.

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 8:47 am

A construction worker came home just in time to find his wife in bed with another man. So he dragged the man down the stairs to the garage and put his penis in a vice. He secured it tightly, super glued it shut, and removed the handle. Then he picked up a hacksaw. The man, terrified, screamed “Stop! Stop! You’re not going to… to… cut it off, are you?” The husband said, with a horrible gleam of revenge in his eye “Nope. You are. I’m going to set the garage on fire!”

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 8:48 am

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

– Mae West

Razey
Razey
November 12, 2022 8:49 am

I heard Biden is going run with Fetterman as VP in 2024.

Razey
Razey
November 12, 2022 8:52 am

The Solidarity Argument for Forced Mass Vaccination Turned Out to Be False.

https://brownstone.org/articles/solidarity-argument-vaccination-false/

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 8:58 am

The covid ship certainly proves one thing, put people in very close proximity to each other for extended periods of time and that bug spreads like wildfire.

actually, it proves two things:

put VACCINATED people in close proximity … never mind

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 12, 2022 8:58 am

Au contraire. The ‘Diamond Princess’ experiment of early 2020 showed that the majority of people DO NOT get sick whatever their level of exposure.

Thank you flyingduk for the facts – just the facts — I thought immediately of the Diamond Princess microcosm — 2 weeks off Japan — and only 712 of 3711 people on board caught that current strain of the flu and of that 712, it is reported 14 died i.e.2% which is in line with or a little better than yearly flu stats —

I find it absolutely amazing that in 2017(?) there were over 2000 people died of the flu in Australia but in 2020, 2021 very few death of the flu reported. Amazing that.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 12, 2022 8:59 am

Red wave after all? GOP winning popular vote by wide margin despite incongruous results

Millions more Americans voted for Republicans than Democrats in House races. So why didn’t the GOP win more seats?

Republicans are currently winning the national popular vote for the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections by a large margin, according to the latest data from the Cook Political Report.

Specifically, GOP candidates have so far received 50,672,592 votes, or 52.3% of the total ballots cast as of this writing. Democrat candidates, by comparison, have so far received 44,802,597 votes, or 46.2% of the total.

These figures come from Cook’s 2022 National House Vote Tracker, which is being updated as states continue counting ballots.

This support for the GOP appears to fit with what pre-election polling data had suggested heading into Election Day. Several Republican candidates nationwide, including those running for the Senate and governors’ mansions, had been rising in the polls in the last couple months, indicating positive momentum for Republicans.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 12, 2022 9:01 am

Struthpid, Phd. (Poo handling driver). Everyone is out of step but me. You’re so right about everything, now fuck off. The most boring commenter ever. Day in day out, the same crap.

Zipster
Zipster
November 12, 2022 9:02 am

I heard Biden is going run with Fetterman as VP in 2024.

wow a double ventriloquist act

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 9:02 am

You’ve got to ask yourself …. why

because its like wearing thongs and pissing on a bull-ant nest

Zipster
Zipster
November 12, 2022 9:03 am

DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’ Election Events

mission black pill
subtext blame Trump

Mater
November 12, 2022 9:05 am

I find it absolutely amazing that in 2017(?) there were over 2000 people died of the flu in Australia but in 2020, 2021 very few death of the flu reported. Amazing that.

Two in all of 2021.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 12, 2022 9:05 am

St Ruth and Montypox. Two stinkers.

Zipster
Zipster
November 12, 2022 9:07 am

FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy’

hypocrisy is a badge of the left not a bug

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 9:07 am

And away we go.

Paramount+ Show Features Character Accusing DeSantis of Sex Assault (11 Nov)

He’ll cross the ‘worse than Hitler’ threshold faster than any Republican in history. He’s coming for your ovaries! He will make you slaves again! Condoms will be banned! (Oops no that’s Clarence Thomas.)

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 12, 2022 9:08 am

As Flyingduk says this should never be forgotten. It should also be noted that Qld CHO (before he became CHO) John Gerard actually flew up to Yokohama to assist with cases on this ship.

He must know by now the first four Vax are not effective but they have to follow the narrative.

“Au contraire. The ‘Diamond Princess’ experiment of early 2020 showed that the majority of people DO NOT get sick whatever their level of exposure..”

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 12, 2022 9:13 am

My brother and his wife, who live in Canberra, are on the death ship. I am supposed to pick them up off the train this afternoon.

My question is: should I attack the train with rocket grenades before it gets here, or when it arrives?

Or maybe I could just ring him and tell him “get an Uber”.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 12, 2022 9:16 am

Australian companies being compelled to keep massive amounts of digital data on file is not at all a burden or a security risk.
But Russia Russia Russia!!! “We know who you are”, says Chief Quimby

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 9:17 am

TE – You could always hire a spacesuit from a costume supplier. Or perhaps wet suit and scuba gear? Although the oxy cylinder might get in the way of gear changes I suppose.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 12, 2022 9:17 am

Condolences, TE

Zipster
Zipster
November 12, 2022 9:18 am

We have known since then that COVID was a nothing burger

Yep. Kid has a cold at the moment. I said how is it out of 10? He said about a 5. I said, what about covid? He said 2. I agreed. Covid is the biggest scam in human history. Anyone who takes the clotshots now is simply demonstrating obedience.

wrong. about 10% have genetics to be fully immune to it. about 10-30% are extremely sensitive to the toxic peptides this virus leaves behind. the peptides are so toxic that they will kill according to current numbers about .1% of people across all age groups when exposed through the mRNA shots. Given the virus kills about 1% we haven’t seen the final death toll from the mRNA shots which will probably end up killing more people.

the spike protein is known to be a natural coagulant, it is known to damage the immune system, neurology, the vascular system and reproductive system. it also has ability to persist for years in the body.

my observations are that multiple exposures to different strains results in cumulative damage much of which flies below the surface of awareness.

if you are one of the lucky ones that have no obvious damage from the virus, good for you. some of us are not so lucky so stfu.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 12, 2022 9:21 am

Just read the Oz story on the death ship. Apparently, in a badly written piece all over, passengers have been seen “clinging to their balcony”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 12, 2022 9:22 am

Louise Milligan speech exposes ABC’s double standards Gerard Henderson

11:00PM November 11, 2022
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What’s notable about the ABC’s communications department (headed by Nick Leys and Sally Jackson) is that it does not do much in the way of communicating. This has been a constant complaint of The Australian’s media writer Sophie Elsworth among others (myself included) who have found it difficult to obtain information from the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster.

So it came as some surprise on Tuesday when the “ABC statement on Louise Milligan” appeared with Jackson identified as the media contact – rather than the more familiar anonymous “ABC spokesperson”. It began: “Louise Milligan is one of Australia’s most experienced and awarded journalists and her work has added enormously to the public good of this nation.”

It was an unusual intervention in the public debate. When, some years ago, the (then) ABC journalist Emma Alberici was criticised by prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for her comments on tax, the ABC proffered no public defence of one of its most experienced journalists.

The ABC’s defence of Milligan comprised a record of her work on Four Corners along with an account of her awards for journalism, most of which were decided by other journalists. This overlooked the fact that the current controversy about Milligan turned on her address on October 21 to the ACT Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Association gala dinner.

The story was broken by former lawyer Janet Albrechtsen in her column in The Australian on November 2. The author asked for an audio or transcript of the speech, without success. The ABC told The Australian that this was not an ABC event.

Milligan finally released a copy of her speech on LinkedIn on Thursday following the matter having been raised in Senate estimates the previous Tuesday by opposition communications spokes­woman Sarah Henderson. ABC managing director and editor-in-chief David Anderson told the senators that Milligan’s speech would be released.

On November 3, on behalf of the ACT Bar Association, Rebecca Curran wrote to the WLA advising that “a significant number of our members who attended (the dinner) were deeply offended and distressed by the speech” and that, in the view of the ACT Bar Association, “Milligan’s speech was insensitive and polemical”.

Curran added that the association was of the view that Milligan “demonstrated no understanding of the difficult and vital work done by barristers of all genders in both criminal law and other areas of the law … and seemed to generalise that all barristers who acted for defendants in sexual assault matters were part of the problem”.

Milligan is one of quite a few members of her profession who like dishing out criticism but are not only ultra-sensitive but also self-righteous when criticism is directed at them. And so it came to pass that the ABC’s experienced journalist was live-tweeting criticism of Henderson when she was questioning Milligan’s boss Anderson in Senate estimates.

In her long Canberra speech, in which many allegations were not supported by evidence, Milligan expressed sensitivity about having been described as an “activist” journalist. She claimed that “so much of the white noise that has been thrown at myself and other female journalists has seemed to be gendered”.

Sure, there are many activist male journalists. It’s just that Milligan is an activist female journalist. One example illustrates the point. Milligan shot to fame because of her 30-minute attack on Cardinal George Pell on ABC TV’s 7.30 program on July 27, 2016, effectively accusing him of being a pedophile. This was followed up by her book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (MUP, 2017).

Interviewed by Virginia Trioli on ABC TV News Breakfast on May 16, 2017, Milligan said the case against Pell advanced by her book “has come from the complainants’ point of view”. In other words, this was a work of advocacy – or activist journalism.

Even so, ABC management allowed Milligan to report on the Pell case, including his conviction for historical child sexual abuse following a retrial and unsuccessful appeal to the Victorian Court of Appeal following a majority decision. Milligan made it clear that she did not agree with the unanimous decision of the High Court to quash Pell’s conviction.

All seven judges of Australia’s superior court substantially agreed with Justice Mark Weinberg’s devastating dissent in the Victorian Court of Appeal.

The High Court followed Weinberg in making the unusual statement that it was possible an innocent person had been convicted. This was the term used by Justice William Deane in his dissent in the Lindy Chamberlain case of recent memory.

In her Canberra speech, Milligan referred to her 2020 book Witness (Hachette), which I reviewed in The Sydney Institute Review online in March last year. In Witness, the author all but ignores the High Court’s April 2020 decision in Pell v The Queen (despite the fact Pell is mentioned in over a third of the chapters) and regards all complainants as survivors. Well most are. But to imply that all accused are guilty invariably leads to the opposition that Milligan experienced from Albrechtsen and some members of her Canberra audience who acknowledge that a functioning legal system entails that both a complainant and an accused receive a fair hearing.

ABC management’s statement praising Milligan refers not only to her 7.30 program and follow-up book Cardinal but also to the Four Corners Guilty program that aired after Pell’s conviction. But it makes no mention that all have been the subject of considered criticism.

The ABC TV Media Watch program, presented by Paul Barry, is by no means a constant critic of the ABC – rather its obsession is with Sky News. However, on April 20 last year Barry did criticise the program Guilty – pointing out that Milligan “did not canvass any of Pell’s defence from the trial”. It was yet another act by an activist journalist running a line.

It’s around six years since Milligan used the ABC to advance a case for the prosecution against Pell. In this time, the public broadcaster has not provided a microphone to any of Milligan’s critics. The ABC’s communications style is of the one-way kind.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 9:28 am

Diamond Princess.
That anti vaxxers chestnut.
Anyone that bothers to read a decent review of that case knows it’s not that simple.
infection rates don’t go from one to eleventy in a day.
The reproduction rate was greatest in areas where people commingled in close proximity shopping areas, buffets, shows etc and was dramatically diminished after people were confined to quarters.
Like pretty much every other infectious disease it requires some form of contact.
And yes sometimes some people despite best efforts don’t get what is going around.
So what?

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 9:29 am

Specifically, GOP candidates have so far received 50,672,592 votes, or 52.3% of the total ballots cast as of this writing. Democrat candidates, by comparison, have so far received 44,802,597 votes, or 46.2% of the total.

California traditionally has late counts that add points to the Democrat total. I wouldn’t go too early on that crow.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 9:32 am

“Given the virus kills about 1% we haven’t seen the final death toll from the mRNA shots which will probably end up killing more people.”
In five to 35 months.

Diogenes
Diogenes
November 12, 2022 9:36 am

people were confined to quarters.
Like pretty much every other infectious disease it requires some form of contact.

Well I must remember to travel on Princess ships then, as their AC must be immaculately maintained and clean.

Remember this was the time were it was the “oh no it’s not airborne, it only is passed in via physical contact” lie, and nothing extra would have been done to AC systems.

Those not in balcony rooms were breathing AC air 24/7.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 12, 2022 9:37 am

m0nty-fa

Might we assume from your comment that you are relying on California’s traditional “late counts” to ensure that the Democrats also “win” the popular vote?

You’re now not even trying to hide your support for electoral rorting (as long as it helps the DemonRats), are you?

PS, does your reference to Californoia mean that you have finally worked out why the Democrats would rort votes in bluest of blue Maricopa County?

Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 9:37 am

My brother and his wife, who live in Canberra, are on the death ship. I am supposed to pick them up off the train this afternoon.

My question is: should I attack the train with rocket grenades before it gets here, or when it arrives?

Thanks, TE. Laughed out loud.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 9:42 am

People arguing that a cruise ship containing 4000 people with 800 infected after 12 days at sea arguing that that isn’t evidence of a bug spreading like wildfire.
Lol.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 9:44 am

Live dangerously, Top Ender! Pick them up and inhale deeply.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 9:45 am

The Ukrainians have officially taken over all Kherson territory on the right bank. Blue and yellow flags going up everywhere, locals celebrating in the town square. Good day for freedom.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 12, 2022 9:47 am

Yet it still gets aboard and spreads.

It’s a mystery*. ?

Russians.

That is all I am going to say because I want to wrap it in an aura of dangerous truth.

There is that saying along the lines of “There is nothing we love more than a secret, except the seal of secrecy itself.”

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 9:50 am

I am surprised about how the Kherson locals are milling about so openly, well within range of enemy artillery. They must know something about the short-term capabilities of the retreating Russians. It seems they don’t fear the Z army for the moment.

I am sure the bombing will start shortly, nevertheless.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 12, 2022 9:51 am

My brother and his wife, who live in Canberra, are on the death ship. I am supposed to pick them up off the train this afternoon.

Ahaaaa hahahaha.

The only train they’ll be on is the one straight to tHe Camps.

rosie
rosie
November 12, 2022 9:51 am

Some people will probably argue you have as much chance of getting an STD if you are quiet living celibate as you do if you participate in activities in a gay bath house.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 9:55 am

My argument is with fetishistic “testing”, not methods of transmission.

And I see they’re desperate to mask us up by Christmas. Some of my friends are even talking about wearing them to the shops again. My only comment – you aren’t serving the community by making them more anxious over nothing.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 9:57 am

wrong. about 10% have genetics to be fully immune to it. about 10-30% are extremely sensitive to the toxic peptides this virus leaves behind. the peptides are so toxic that they will kill according to current numbers about .1% of people across all age groups when exposed through the mRNA shots. Given the virus kills about 1% we haven’t seen the final death toll from the mRNA shots which will probably end up killing more people.

No one is ‘genetically immune’ – the immune system is a dynamic, learning system. To keep it ‘match fit’ and up to date requires regular exposure to infectious risks in the environment, on top of good metabolic health (low carb diet, sunshine, normal BMI). Trying to hide from an airborne virus does nothing but allow your immune competence to decay to a lower level before you do eventually, inevitably, encounter it.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 10:00 am

low carb diet, sunshine, normal BMI

As Meatloaf would say, two out of three ain’t bad.

At least I’m not easy to kidnap.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 12, 2022 10:04 am

The great military strategist, with raw talent derived from Twitter and Call of Duty:

The Ukrainians have officially taken over all Kherson territory on the right bank. Blue and yellow flags going up everywhere, locals celebrating in the town square. Good day for freedom.

Only 80 years ago – 1941:

The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a huge encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. The operation ran from 7 August to 26 September 1941, as part of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. In Soviet military history, it is referred to as the Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation

616,000+ killed, captured or missing. Less than two years later:

The Second Battle of Kiev was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943.

The Germans, for their part, had bloodied several sizable Soviet formations and kept the vital rail link open, but failed in its attempt to encircle and destroy the Soviet spearheads. A few days after XLVIII Panzer Corps was pulled out to rest and refit, the Soviets launched Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive on Christmas Eve. The renamed Voronezh Front Offensive pushed the Germans back to the 1939 Polish border by 3 January 1944.

Note the times of year well, mUnter. The Russians have a thousand years’ worth of demonstrated success in trading space for time before delivering big smacks.

The colour, mUnter. The colour of the boathouse at Hereford, if you would be so kind.

Leon L.
Leon L.
November 12, 2022 10:05 am

From Eugyppis in Germany: “ Australian Media: “Majestic Princess cruise with 800 COVID-19 patients set to dock in Sydney”.

Somehow cruises are still a thing, which people are still somehow doing.

Specifically, around 4,600 people are currently aboard the Majestic Princess as she approaches Sydney. Among the amusements provided them by the wise administrators of Princess Cruises is apparently a rigorous antigen testing regimen, doubtless because passengers and crew alike believe this is hygienic and responsible, even though none of them, if challenged, could defend their bizarre compulsion or explain its benefits in any way at all. Alas, idiocy has consequences, and suddenly around 800 testees turn out to have SARS-2 antigens in their mucus. This is now a newspaper story in multiple languages, because everything has to be extremely, unbearably stupid all the time now.

According to press reports, some of these 800 people feel mildly unwell, while others feel totally healthy. Nobody is dying or seriously ill in any way. Regardless of anybody’s actual medical condition, all 800 have been confined to quarters, while the rest of the passengers have been required to don masks, and – I swear this is real – “crew members have been advised to wear full PPE.”

Australian news also notes that “The Majestic Princess has been ranked by NSW Health as a tier three risk level,” which sounds extremely terrible. They report further that “there are no plans to prevent any unwell passengers from disembarking” when the ship arrives at port tomorrow morning, and if you can detect a little regret behind those words, perhaps it’s because 800 positive passengers represents a staggering 4% increase in the current case count of New South Wales.

Some days I am very optimistic that the pandemic at least is behind us, and then I stumble across a story like this one, and I basically want to abandon all of civilisation and take up residence by myself on a desert island somewhere. While the most intrusive pandemicist policies have died an ignominious death, the toxic and idiotic cultural attitudes that supported them are still alive and well, and waiting – just waiting – to seize the levers of policy once again.

Each to his/her own, but stop pushing your choice on all of us.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:05 am

Like pretty much every other infectious disease it requires some form of contact.

Lets just focus on respiratory viruses, which are airborne – that means you can catch it from ‘contact’ with the air – which was, btw, recirculated throughout the ship by the AC.

And yes sometimes some people despite best efforts don’t get what is going around.
So what?

Its not ‘some’, its the *majority* that do not get significantly sick from this, and a very small minority indeed who die FROM it – and for that they stole my liberty, ruined my country and destroyed my career. For some, they ruined their health as well with forced vaccination and lockdowns. And for what? the current ‘Princess’ experiment is yet more proof that masks and vaxxed do not work.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:10 am

People arguing that a cruise ship containing 4000 people with 800 infected after 12 days at sea arguing that that isn’t evidence of a bug spreading like wildfire.
Lol.

No, we are arguing that

1) Vaxxines and masks clearly don’t work
2) Testing asymptomatic people using oversensitive PCRs is invalid
3) Respiratory viruses spread via the aerosol route, meaning you CANNOT avoid exposure – so you shouldn’t try.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 10:11 am

monster earlier.

Democrats won every single one of the races in which they did that.

The truth.

All told, Democrats directly interfered in at least 13 primaries — six gubernatorial races, two Senate contests, and five House campaigns. Their efforts have been successful four times, with the two outstanding contests to be decided on Tuesday in New Hampshire.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/12/democrats-interfere-republican-primaries/

mOnts, do you ever stop lying?

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 10:14 am

masks and vaxxed do not work.

How can they? People get off the ship and visit local cafés, museums, cultural centres, markets…you name it. Then they hop back on.

From what the Princess Cruise info tells me, the negative test is required at initial embarkation only. Eugyppus suggests that they are testing randomly throughout the voyage. None of this is disclosed (that I can see anyway) in their literature.

As for the vaxxes…they might provide some protection to guests, but even the drug pushers tell me that this wanes over time. In other words, useless unless you’re vaxxed to the eyeballs, and recently.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:15 am

Some people will probably argue you have as much chance of getting an STD if you are quiet living celibate as you do if you participate in activities in a gay bath house.

I doubt it – no one would be so stupid to equate bodily fluid transmission of an STD (which requires close, intimate and often ‘un-natural’ contact – bypassing the immune system) with breathing in invisible particles floating in the air by the billions.

Tom
Tom
November 12, 2022 10:15 am

Photo of the day from Ian Plimer’s truth bomb at Quadrant The Biggest Public Policy Disaster in a Lifetime.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:17 am

KD at 1004

Note the times of year well, mUnter. The Russians have a thousand years’ worth of demonstrated success in trading space for time before delivering big smacks.

great post!

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:18 am

Dillo: the article you linked was about the primaries. What I was talking about was the November elections. Two different things.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:21 am

Note the times of year well, mUnter. The Russians have a thousand years’ worth of demonstrated success in trading space for time before delivering big smacks.

The only big smacks delivered lately are to the bums of Russians as they flee in terror.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 12, 2022 10:21 am

Armadillo

m0nty-fa is a leftard of the fascist variety. Leftards lie all the time, as a duty “for the great cause”. Of course he never stops lying.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:22 am

As for the vaxxes…they might provide some protection to guests, but even the drug pushers tell me that this wanes over time. In other words, useless unless you’re vaxxed to the eyeballs, and recently.

Its not the VAX that wanes over time, its the competence of your immune system, which, as discussed, is a dynamic system that needs regular exposure to risks in the environment to keep it up to date and fighting fit. At best, you might gain some temporary immunity by taking the ‘cheap fix’ of a vaxxine, but at the potential future cost of 1) leaving your immune system more out of date next time 2) damage to your immune system via OAS etc.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
November 12, 2022 10:24 am

Russia will roll through Ukraine during the winter like a combine harvester.
The remains of the Ukrainian military will look like Steve Buscemi’s foot in the mulcher at the end of Fargo…

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:24 am

The only big smacks delivered lately are to the bums of Russians as they flee in terror.

ah fair point then, disregard what KD said at 1004

Winston Smith
November 12, 2022 10:25 am

Winston Smithsays:
November 12, 2022 at 8:41 am
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?

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:25 am

Narrator: “Russia did not roll through Ukraine during the winter like a combine harvester.”

Winston Smith
November 12, 2022 10:26 am

Winston Smithsays:
November 12, 2022 at 9:46 am
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”.

Winston Smith
November 12, 2022 10:26 am

Winston Smithsays:
November 12, 2022 at 10:01 am
Dover Beach:

Are Trump’s remarks directed at DeSantis?
Or the people *behind* DeSantis?

An argument that holds an awful lot of truth, but is probably too difficult to be put succinctly to the Left who will refuse to hear it anyway.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:27 am

Should also be pointed out that when you say “Russians” beat the Nazis in Kiev in WW2, that was actually Ukrainians, not the current Russians.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 10:27 am

Photo of the day from Ian Plimer’s truth bomb at Quadrant The Biggest Public Policy Disaster in a Lifetime

Sadly, after reading Plimers and other excellent works, I have realised the forces behind the green scare are political, not scientific, and countering them with facts is ineffective.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 10:32 am

Dillo: the article you linked was about the primaries. What I was talking about was the November elections. Two different things.

Huh? Nice try. Of course you were talking about the primaries. It’s the only thing you could have been referring to.

Are you seriously suggesting that the Democrats poured money into the Dr Oz campaign once he got in a “head to head” contest with Fetterwoman? Or any other “head to head” contest for that matter.

Winston Smith
November 12, 2022 10:32 am

Dillo!

My only misgiving is that it’s possible there are some corrupt/compromised Republicans elected.

And that’s the big issue. The presence of so many RINO’s subverting the Party from the inside is the nightmare of the Inner Party that exists within both the Democrat and Republican organisations.
Whilst the Democrats have come to terms with this infestation, the Republicans haven’t and need to do so if they are to survive.
Purge Now!

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 12, 2022 10:34 am

m0ntysays:
November 12, 2022 at 10:27 am
Should also be pointed out that when you say “Russians” beat the Nazis in Kiev in WW2, that was actually Ukrainians, not the current Russians.

Try not to show your gross historical ignorance too often. You idiot.

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 10:38 am

People arguing that a cruise ship containing 4000 people with 800 infected after 12 days at sea arguing that that isn’t evidence of a bug spreading like wildfire.
Lol.

silly old Nannas that reckon they’re epidemiologists because they read the news this morning

…priceless

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 12, 2022 10:38 am

Resiliency, eh?
That seems to be the WEF’s favorite word lately.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 10:40 am

Photo of the day from Ian Plimer’s truth bomb at Quadrant The Biggest Public Policy Disaster in a Lifetime.

The second half of the following headline shows how insane all this is:

Soviet electricity: UK faces blackouts, blistering costs and still has to pay wind farms £1b to do nothing (12 Nov)

The UK has been squandering an estimated £1billion a year in energy as the National Grid’s infrastructure cannot handle the volumes of clean power currently being produced.

That’s the problem with these mad renewables. Too much crashes the grid the same way not enough crashes the grid. But the producers are all going to keep on producing because they get a subsidy for every kWh whether it’s needed or not. So they have to be bribed a second time to stop producing.

And no one is going to build the storage that is required because it makes no economic sense either. It’s crazy.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 12, 2022 10:42 am

Should also be pointed out that when you say “Russians” beat the Nazis in Kiev in WW2, that was actually Ukrainians, not the current Russians.

The 3rd and 5th Guards Tank Armies, and the 60th Army (generally comprised of Siberians and Central Asians during and after Stalingrad), and with two Soviet air armies in support.

A scrabbly partisan movement of heroic elderly farmers did not kill 18,000 Chermans in the last week of that battle, you reality-divorced simpleton.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:43 am

Huh? Nice try. Of course you were talking about the primaries. It’s the only thing you could have been referring to.

Are you seriously suggesting that the Democrats poured money into the Dr Oz campaign once he got in a “head to head” contest with Fetterwoman? Or any other “head to head” contest for that matter.

I didn’t say that the Democrats won all the Republican primaries. I said the Democrats won all the elections against Republicans they supported in the primaries whom they faced in the election.

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 12, 2022 10:43 am

Dig up, mOnster.

You HAD to be talking about the primaries, not the November elections. It’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise. Unless you are incredibly retarded.

Oh wait. As you were Cats.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 12, 2022 10:43 am

Try not to show your gross historical ignorance too often. You idiot.

Snap, Boambee.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
November 12, 2022 10:45 am

That’s the problem with these mad renewables. Too much crashes the grid the same way not enough crashes the grid. But the producers are all going to keep on producing because they get a subsidy for every kWh whether it’s needed or not. So they have to be bribed a second time to stop producing.

Just wait until running a generator full time end up cheaper than power from the grid due to inefficiency, prohibitive cost and horrible reliability issues…

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 10:52 am

If there is one thing that the current Ukraine war shows, it is that Ukrainians are better fighters than Russians.

calli
calli
November 12, 2022 10:53 am

silly old Nannas that reckon they’re epidemiologists because they read the news this morning

Eeeew! Why would I want to be an expert?

I’d rather be an observant and rational silly old Nanna thank you very much!

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
November 12, 2022 10:56 am

If there is one thing that the current Ukraine war shows, it is that Ukrainians are better fighters than Russians.

Yeah, nothing shows Ukrainian superiority like their 1 to 5 K/D ratio.

In the gaming world, you would be laughed at for your stupidity.

Roger
Roger
November 12, 2022 11:02 am

The Myth of Post-Industrialism

Or, smart people who write books are often stupider than they give themselves credit for.

Or, beware sociologists bearing predictions about the future.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 11:05 am

1 to 5 K/D ratio

LOL no.

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 11:06 am

one thing that the current Ukraine war shows, it is that Ukrainians are better fighters than Russians

everything you post here logically inconsistent rubbish

the worst part is that you seem to believe you’re some sort of spokesperson for everybody non-right

vacuous fool … every idiotic dialectic you posit sucks any possibility of a reasonable discourse into a deep dark void

is Gibberish is yr first language?

Winston Smith
November 12, 2022 11:06 am

Dillo!:

Republicans need to enter the den, rather than sit back and try to defend.

The only way to win against the bear is to enter the cave and kill the cubs.
Dangerous, but the only way.
President Trump has shown the black population will follow the ones who deliver on jobs and safer societies. Those are the Republican strong points and the Democrats weaknesses.
But why are we talking about this now? It was obvious over the last three elections and then ignored. It worked once and failed twice due to 3rd world levels of cheating from the Democrats.
The Republicans are not serious, they’d rather play at politicians rather than treat it as the life and death struggle it is.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 12, 2022 11:09 am

Plimer at Quadrant-

We are reaping the rewards of 50 years of dumbing down education, politicised poor science, a green public service, tampering with the primary temperature data record and the dismissal of common sense as extreme right-wing politics. There has been a deliberate attempt to frighten poorly-educated young people about a hypothetical climate emergency by the mainstream media uncritically acting as stenographers for green activists.

Sums it up nicely.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 11:12 am

Plasmamortar – They’re going to ban generators. It’s inevitable. California has already banned small petrol equipment like lawnmowers and whippersnippers. Also generators. For the Planet!

Which I have to say looks to be going just fine from the climate indicators I see, despite the angst of the lefties infesting it.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 12, 2022 11:14 am

Just wait until running a generator full time end up cheaper than power from the grid due to inefficiency, prohibitive cost and horrible reliability issues…

They will of course outlaw them things once the above becomes a threat.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 12, 2022 11:15 am

I’m thinking about a Viktoristan power generating system like the donkey and carrot, where we have a sign that says FREE Big Macs in front of tethered peasants.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 12, 2022 11:15 am

The only train they’ll be on is the one straight to tHe Camps.

Struthpid has got a woody. The death camps are filling up. Did I happen to tell you that’s what was going to happen. He’ll be most disappointed about the gas shortage. The end is nigh. Brmmm Brmmmm Brmmm.

Roger
Roger
November 12, 2022 11:16 am

It worked once and failed twice due to 3rd world levels of cheating from the Democrats.

Let’s give 3rd world jurisdictions some credit…

Most don’t allow for postal or absentee voting precisely because it is so open to manipulation.

You have to turn up on the day to cast a vote, and the indelible ink on your finger prevents you from doing so more than once. Many also require voter ID.

Of course, there is massive corruption in 3rd world politics, and votes can be bought, but they have an elegantly simple voting system that the more recalcitrant American states could learn from. If they were open to doing so, that is.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 12, 2022 11:17 am

The Little Truck that Couldn’t.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 11:23 am

is Gibberish is yr first language?

LOL, classic!

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 12, 2022 11:26 am

General mUntgomery very chirpy today. With his track record I might see about getting set on the Russians.

Fast Bowler
Fast Bowler
November 12, 2022 11:29 am

From many of the comments above I can’t believe that so many still think a PCR test works! It is so easy to set these tests up to ‘fail’ or ‘succeed’, simply increase/decrease the amplification cycle level. If they, the ‘authorities’ were even remotely honest they would publish the cycle rate used beside the number of ‘positives’.

P
P
November 12, 2022 11:34 am

Kari Lake
@KariLake
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Governor candidate, AZ
Arizona & America:

Rest assured that I have the brightest & best attorneys in the Nation, right here on the ground in Arizona.

Every ballot has eyes on it.

GOP Ballots (Election Day) ballots start dropping tonight.

Keep your Champagne cold, our votes are about to start.

JC
JC
November 12, 2022 11:35 am

Another seat added to the Demons a short while ago.

Democrats
198(-9)
Republicans
211(+9)

26 seats to go. What’s the bet 25 go Demons?

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 11:35 am

It’s pathetic that Republicans are trying desperately to ignore losing the Senate and possibly losing the House and instead obsessing about the Arizona governorship.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 12, 2022 11:37 am

Release the squirrels.

Cassie of Sydney
November 12, 2022 11:40 am

Just been to a morning exercise class, decided to walk to Paddo markets to buy some staff. Standing outside the markets are three volunteers for “Allegra Da Big Spenda (and boy is Da Spenda a big big spender), all in teal t-shirts, and all elderly women. It reeks of a cult and it reeks in particular of a female cult, consisting of well-heeled hypocritical women from Australia’s best suburbs.

As I walked past one of the women asked me if I live in Wentworth, I said yes and she asked if there’s anything she could pass onto Da Big Spenda from me. I said “yes” and she asked what and I said….

“she’s a waste of space, please pass it on”.

All three women’s jaws dropped, like they had sudden onset bell’s palsy.

I then walked off.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 11:42 am

Laxalt lead down to 798 votes with 93% reporting. He is done.

Senate will be 50 Dems 49 GOP with Georgia runoff to come. So probably 51-49 Dems, given that Warnock won the last runoff.

Stupendous result in the circumstances.

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 11:43 am

The death camps are filling up

I was reading late last night from a book on Victorian History and
many times in the past in Victoria and around Australia there have been internment camps of one sort or another … often internees were ‘enemy aliens’ from countries we were at war with.

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/wartime-internment-camps-australia

See the thing is, its great sport to poke fun and say jokey things about death camps filling up.

But unlike the internment camps of the past that were shut down after the wars, our current internment facilities are brand-new and in many cases still fully staffed and maintained.

I know for a fact that only a few weeks ago that Mickleham still was

all jokes aside … one does have to wonder why.

right?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 11:45 am

It’s a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black!

Anthony Albanese arrives in Asia ahead of international summits but may not end up meeting with President Xi Jinping (12 Nov)

Mr Albanese arrived in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, for the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN-Australia Summit, he will then head to Bali, for the G20 Summit before travelling to Bangkok in Thailand for the APEC Summit.

During the flight to Phnom Penh, Mr Albanese tweeted that Australia had failed to fulfil its obligations to its neighbours on issues such as climate change at the upcoming summits but vowed to improve the nation’s standing on such issues.

What was the aeroplane burning to get him there, camel dung?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 11:49 am

Stupendous result in the circumstances.

Monty does a funny.
I think you meant “Incredible result in the circumstances”.
Accuracy is good.

Arky
November 12, 2022 11:49 am

rosie says:
November 12, 2022 at 9:42 am
People arguing that a cruise ship containing 4000 people with 800 infected after 12 days at sea arguing that that isn’t evidence of a bug spreading like wildfire.
Lol.

..
My God woman.
After the last three years you are AGAIN going to go along with attempts to spark up this ridiculous panic?
It’s over. Everyone is over it. Give it up.

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 11:50 am

plague-ships ?

virtually over-night another moral panic has been crafted from nothing.

fuck me, the populace is very very stupid

MatrixTransform
November 12, 2022 11:51 am

Arky … snap!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 11:57 am

Taxing energy to lower the cost of energy.

Anthony Albanese refuses to rule out tax on massive coal and gas profits in a bid to ease energy price pressure on Australians (11 Nov)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to rule out a tax on coal and gas in attempt to lower energy prices amid a possible market intervention.

The government is under pressure to rapidly drive down gas and power bills by Christmas, with The Australian reporting Cabinet will consider a temporary tax on coal and gas when the Prime Minister returns from a nine-day tour of Asia.

So if you tax something which is being used to make electricity won’t that increase the cost of the electricity? I mean that does really seem to be simple logic. I must’ve done a different form of arithmetic than Labor voters seem to study though.

Zipster
Zipster
November 12, 2022 11:57 am

Paxlovid Rebounds Explained • Gerald Commissiong at NASDAQ with Marc LoPresti

paxlovid= nirmatrelvir and ritonavir
nirmatrelvir has same mechanism of action as ivermectin ie 3CL protease inhibitor.
ritonavir supposedly enhances the effect of nirmatrelvir
however
HIV Protease Inhibitor Ritonavir Impairs Endothelial Function

and we already know that S1 damages the endothelium

what the f. is going on with pfizer? is it stacked full of eugenicists?

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 12:00 pm

An overweight bloke just won a Miss America beauty pageant

From Spiked –

“Did you know that men’s legs, which tend to have better muscle definition than women’s, are often used to advertise hosiery? It seems men really do make the best women sometimes. Further proof of this came this week when a 19-year-old bloke called Brían was crowned ‘Miss Greater Derry’ at a Miss America beauty pageant. To look at the photos, one could be forgiven for thinking it was a social-media hoax. A woman of his, let’s say, bulk would have been laughed off stage.”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/11/an-overweight-bloke-just-won-a-miss-america-beauty-pageant/

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 12, 2022 12:06 pm

After the last three years you are AGAIN going to go along with attempts to spark up this ridiculous panic?

I think we’re all forgetting the real killer here:

Coconuts falling from their trees and striking individuals can cause serious injury to the back, neck, shoulders and head, and are occasionally fatal.

Following a 1984 study on “Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts”, exaggerated claims spread concerning the number of deaths by falling coconuts. Falling coconuts, according to urban legend, kill a few people a year.

This legend gained momentum after the 2002 work of a noted expert on shark attacks was characterized as saying that falling coconuts kill 150 people each year worldwide. This statistic has often been contrasted with the number of shark-caused deaths per year, which is around five.

m0nty
m0nty
November 12, 2022 12:07 pm

Bruce, your ignorance is not notable.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 12:07 pm

An overweight bloke just won a Miss America beauty pageant

Here you go JR.

A woman wins GQ Man of the Year (8 Nov)

Maybe Miss America should be restricted to male entrants only, and GQ Man of the Year restricted to woman only.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 12, 2022 12:14 pm

Monty considers ignorant anyone who doesn’t think the worst economic conditions since Carter’s stagflation, quadrupled interest rates and doubled gasoline prices, is a marvellous reason for people to vote for the party which caused this mess.

Haha, Monty, tell us another one. I laughs! Boss Tweed does too.

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