Open Thread – Weekend 12 Nov 2022


The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923


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jupes
jupes
November 12, 2022 11:08 pm

So boo to your Carrera!

Yeah, but your smartwatch will be obsolete and worthless in a few years. The Carrera will still be valuable in a century.

Zipster
November 12, 2022 11:10 pm
Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:11 pm

Bourne1879says:
November 12, 2022 at 8:06 pm
Useful summary :
Current COVID-19 vaccine recommendations by ATAGI

Useful Summary by Johnny Rotten is – BOLLOCKS

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 12, 2022 11:12 pm

Yeah, but your smartwatch will be obsolete and worthless in a few years. The Carrera will still be valuable in a century.

There is only one watch, befitting a gentleman – A Longines.

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:18 pm

Fukn hell. Is there any state in this country that isnt on a road to ruin?

NO. And the same goes for the Territories. Time to head for the hills and take your guns and ammo with you………………….

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:21 pm

I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.

– Mae West

Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:22 pm

We agreed that Longines offers the best value for money of any of the top Swiss brands

Sacré bleu – I’m not one for huge watch collections – my mates (including jupes, for example) have many more and expensive watches than I do. I have the grand total of four, two TAGs, one Citizen and one Junghans Max Bill, which is the most beautiful of them all.

Zipster
November 12, 2022 11:23 pm

Yes, I am pulling rank on this one. Just trust me. Musk is in the middle of an epic faceplant.

can we pin mutley’s prediction somewhere and come back to it in a year

Razey
Razey
November 12, 2022 11:25 pm
Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:27 pm

With a very seductive voice, a wife asked her husband “Have you ever seen $20 all crumpled up?”

“No” said her husband. She gave him a little smile, unbuttoned the top three buttons, reached into her bra and pulled out a crumpled $20 note.

She then asked “Have you ever seen $50 all crumpled up?” “No, I haven’t” he said with an anxious tone in his voice. She seductively unzipped her skirt and pulled out a crumpled $50 note.

“Now” she said. “Have you ever seen $40,000 all crumpled up?” “No way!” he panted, becoming even more excited,

She said “Well take a look in the garage”.

Louis Litt
November 12, 2022 11:28 pm

Bombarie John 3.25

My fathers country, Lithuania suffered immensely from Lenin to Stalin and until the fall of the disgusting USSR.
In 91/92 the Russian tanks rolled in.
No matter the efforts of Russia the Lithuanians, the Balts dug in deeper. The would not be eradicated.
This is the history of nations.
One thing I could never understand is my father saying the Russian man was better than the German.
He had a visceral hatred of USA.
It only now I begin to understand his view of the world.
Putin, the patriotic Russian V the democrats Zelensky and what he represents.
BT W – the ALP and the universities wanted my parents dead. They did not vote for their idioticy and hyprocicy.something they dress up as intellectualism and egalitarian.

jupes
jupes
November 12, 2022 11:29 pm

We agreed that Longines offers the best value for money of any of the top Swiss brands.

You were about to buy one. Did you end up getting it?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 12, 2022 11:30 pm

NO. And the same goes for the Territories. Time to head for the hills and take your guns and ammo with you…

Take a lesson from the experts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYe2lqQcues

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:31 pm

m0ntysays:
November 12, 2022 at 10:58 pm
I was driving the Hume yesterday

The Highway or the Dam?

Zipster
November 12, 2022 11:32 pm

We agreed that Longines offers the best value for money of any of the top Swiss brands

Had a really nice black and gold IWC. The wife kept pinching it, not like she doesn’t have her own watches. Until one day I asked her where it was and … she couldn’t find it, she figured it was in one of her handbags… somewhere. Never found.

Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:37 pm

I was driving the Hume yesterday and can confirm there were some alarmingly large potholes

One of the many joys of collectivism, mUttley. Pity they didn’t swallow you whole.

Johnny Rotten
November 12, 2022 11:42 pm

Even if everything you say is true, the NBN was worth it as a transitional technology. But you are full of shyte, as usual.

As usual MontyPox Virus, you are deluded. The NBN was never and never has been a transitional technology. Just more Guv’ment waste of Taxpayer and borrowed money. Leave the technology stuff to the Private Sector as the Guv’ment will just fuck it up whenever it tries to do this stuff or pick winners.

Guv’ments are there to provide essential services along with providing the defence of the Realm.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 12, 2022 11:43 pm

Yeah, but your smartwatch will be obsolete and worthless in a few years. The Carrera will still be valuable in a century.

Maybe. If it goes bung, I’ll buy another one that does even more. Only $350 iirc. And your Carrera is only valuable because ppl think it is. Its intrinsic value is determined by what it can do. Not much except tell the time.

And if you have a collection of expensive wrist-watches, you’re still unable to wear them all at once, you’ll run out of wrists.

I collect plastic bags, they’re a lot cheaper than watches and more useful.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 12, 2022 11:44 pm

Losing an IWC is a pretty big stuff up – or a very big stuff up depending on the model.

Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:48 pm

DrBeauGan

The Curmudgeoneeness is strong in this one, I tells ya 😕

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 12, 2022 11:52 pm

The Curmudgeoneeness is strong in this one, I tells ya

Nah. I just don’t like conspicuous consumer articles or jewelry for men. I admit to onyx and silver cufflinks, and that’s as far as it goes.

Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:52 pm
Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:53 pm
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 12, 2022 11:55 pm

Johnny R,
Just to be clear I don’t endorse the vaccines at all.

The interesting point from the Brisbane Times article is that clearly says 4th not recommended for under 30’s. What they never seem to pick up on is that it is exactly same as 1-3 which the media is constantly pushing. It was first mentioned not recommended for under 30’s on 8 July but many of the most aggressive pro Vax experts have still been pushing it for all ages. Those experts should be locked up together with the bosses of media outlets that constantly publish their opinions.

Rabz
November 12, 2022 11:57 pm

I just don’t like conspicuous consumer articles or jewellery for men. I admit to onyx and silver cufflinks

The vanity known as “pragmatism”.

Beaugs, trying to exist without jewellery is like trying to exist with out water.

Especially when you are a fish.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
November 13, 2022 12:01 am

Everyone to their own taste, but I have a nice looking dress watch in the Ball Engineer Magnalite.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2022 12:04 am

Beaugs, trying to exist without jewellery is like trying to exist with out water.

What’s wrong with champagne? Or Drambuie?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2022 12:06 am

And don’t tell me they contain water, I won’t believe you. I’ve tasted water, once, a long time ago, and it’s horrible stuff.

jupes
jupes
November 13, 2022 12:06 am

Nah. I just don’t like conspicuous consumer articles or jewelry for men. I admit to onyx and silver cufflinks, and that’s as far as it goes.

Onyx and silver cufflinks have less utility than a watch but you still enjoy them to some extent no doubt. A watch is a combination of form and function. Little pieces of art on the wrist combined with mechanical wizardry. We should discuss it next week over a coffee.

areff
areff
November 13, 2022 12:07 am

Wireless is not and has never been a mainstream viable

I have been using a mobile 4G modem for five years with no problems whatsoever. Never had an issue streaming movies or keeping the laptop connected. Total cost: $75 a month, and I can slip the modem in my pocket and use it anywhere.

The NBN, why would you?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2022 12:11 am

Onyx and silver cufflinks have less utility than a watch but you still enjoy them to some extent no doubt.

They stop my cuffs flapping in the breeze.

A coffeehouse meet up would be great, as long as they let me drink diet coke. Phone me next week with a place and time. Any day except Thursday is good for me.

JC
JC
November 13, 2022 12:19 am

jupes says:
November 12, 2022 at 11:29 pm
We agreed that Longines offers the best value for money of any of the top Swiss brands.
You were about to buy one. Did you end up getting it?

I will for Christmas.

Rabz
November 13, 2022 12:29 am

Little pieces of art on the wrist combined with mechanical wizardree

That’s what gives them a pass.

Rabz
November 13, 2022 12:35 am

The National Brontosaurus Network, why would you?

Because you believe that wearing red underpants on your bonce is rebelling against tyranny.

DaFisk
DaFisk
November 13, 2022 12:41 am

Thread including many of the greatest hits of Putler’s supporters.

https://twitter.com/StarskyUA/status/1591290659952070657

Operator Starsky
@StarskyUA
“russia didn’t even start fighting yet” ?

Guys, which were the funniest comments from the russki bots? Let’s have a laugh.

JC
JC
November 13, 2022 1:00 am

The mouse ate woke poison and look at its performance.

House of Mouse
Shares of Disney (DIS) slipped 6.8% AH to $93.10 on Tuesday following a fiscal fourth quarter where it missed revenue and profit expectations. Stellar revenue results from its “Parks, Experiences and Products” division (+36% Y/Y to $7.4B) were weighed down by sales on its “Media and Entertainment” side (-3% Y/Y to $12.7B). CFO Christine McCarthy also dented expectations for the new fiscal year, predicting revenue growth of less than 10% (compared to 22% in fiscal 2022).

Armadillo
Armadillo
November 13, 2022 1:28 am

This is not a cunning plan.

I’m shocked that theLiberals in VIC actually have a plan.

Gotta give them some credit. A mass suicide of the party has garnered some press.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 13, 2022 2:32 am

Plus, it has a presence. One of the few watches that can be identified across the room.

Jupes really has an eye for watches. He identified my tiny gold Omega wind-up from across a large BBQ table. You need glasses to read the name on it, but Jupes quickly honed in. A true expert.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 13, 2022 2:47 am

The Hilton in Tallahassie has a coffee maker that doesn’t work (I know how to use this type, Rabz) and an antediluvian house phone likewise. Hairy had to get up and go down to the lobby to get his hit this morning. First world problem, I tell him. As is getting the shower system working properly.

Today we are heading for Tampa, to an area known as St.Petersburg, near a beach.

I am reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an insight into the early South and the dismayed North. Eliza has just fled with her little boy, leaping over ice on a river chased by slave hunters. The style is sentimental Victorian in the extreme; but it has pace and a certain didactic and strongly Christian flourishing. People wrote more eloquently in those days, which I can admire more than some do.
Beecher Stowe is into accents, as I am. You have to mindfully sing-a-long with the text. Treated as a Creole, I don’t find her use of Negro intonation as insulting as recent commentary does. Her characterisations are fair enough for the times, although they must rile the CRT crowd enormously.
Her intent is really to shock and create a Christian humanistic swell of reform.

pete of perth
pete of perth
November 13, 2022 3:00 am

The Week n Pictures up at Powerline

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2022 3:16 am

The Week n Pictures up at Powerline

I’ll wait for Tom. He’s a very reliable man.

Gabor
Gabor
November 13, 2022 3:28 am

DrBeauGan says:
November 13, 2022 at 3:16 am

The Week n Pictures up at Powerline

I’ll wait for Tom. He’s a very reliable man.

Why upstage Tom? Interesting.
Off to work so ‘you lot’ can have your croissants for breakfast.

Tom
Tom
November 13, 2022 4:00 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2022 4:34 am

Thanx again Tom.

rosie
rosie
November 13, 2022 5:11 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
November 13, 2022 6:17 am

From what I’m reading at American Thinker there’s no longer any point commenting or agonising over politics in the USA.
The rot is too deep.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 13, 2022 6:29 am

As Tim Blair notes:

“In a stunning move, a magazine for rich white women has named as its women of the year a bunch of rich white women.”

He’s referring to this crapola where you must scroll down to the ‘Changemakers Of The Year’. The Powerhouse Of The Year’ is an interesting choice.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 6:40 am

Victorian Liberals are preferencing the Greens over Labor. “As a result of this decision, Labor will lose up to three seats to the Greens, boosting our election chances,” the party’s campaign headquarters says.

‘Liberals’ are dead ducks. How is this going to help get rid of Hunchback?

Here’s how it works, redwing:
The Greens operate as a Kindy for Labor.
First time voters go Green, after a coupla Election cycles, realise that nothing good ever comes out of Greens leadership, and switch to Labor and stay there forever.
Up until now, the Liberal Party have been electing Labor by preferencing them over the Greens.
That’s nuts, since Liberal voters have nothing in common with Labor voters, but some things in common with Greens voters.

sfw
sfw
November 13, 2022 6:58 am

I have no problem if the Libs preference Labor last and Greens second last, however if they put the Greens above any freedom parties then they can go to hell and it wouldn’t surprise me if they do. They hate other conservative/libertarian parties more than they hate Labor/Greens.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 13, 2022 7:00 am

I’m confused.

Alarmists: Nine Years to Avoid ‘Critical Climate Change Threshold’ (12 Nov)

Climate change alarmists are pressing for faster transition away from affordable fossil fuels, insisting that the world has only nine years to avoid a “critical climate change threshold.”

That would be 108 months. Here is why I’m confused:

Prince Charles: ‘We have less than 100 months to stop climate change disaster’ (Mar 2009)

So sometime in 2018 we all died. I don’t feel dead, but maybe I’m just imagining that I’m still alive.

miltonf
miltonf
November 13, 2022 7:22 am

“In a stunning move, a magazine for rich white women has named as its women of the year a bunch of rich white women.”

who seek to impoverish us

Mater
November 13, 2022 7:24 am

currently only 64,000 Victorians catch the train to work?

I was only being slightly facetious when I said yesterday that “V/Line has more Customer Assistance attendants (running around in pink vests) than they have customers”. To the naked eye, it certainly gives that impression.

They must be haemorrhaging tax payers money by running the services, without the appropriate patronage.

Dan created this work-from-home boondoggle, now it is firmly entrenched. Yet he wants to build more infrastructure to service a (now) non-exist clientele. Why? Because it keeps the CFMEU, and other unions, farting through silk, and loyal. It’s also a proven election winner. People sitting at their desks at home actually think everyone else is using this stranded capital.

It’s all going to have to come to a head at some point. It’s unsustainable for those who don’t believe in the magic pudding. Reality doesn’t.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 7:25 am

They hate other conservative/libertarian parties more than they hate Labor/Greens.
What did Family First, One Nation, Katter’s Party, LDP ever do for the Liberal Party?
Fuck all, 24/7/365.
And, the Liberal Party is not a conservative Party and never has been.

P
P
November 13, 2022 7:29 am

8 billion and counting
By Casey Briggs -Published 13 Nov 2022, 5:45am
This week, the world’s population ticks over a historic milestone. But in the next century, society will be reshaped dramatically — and soon we’ll hit a decline we’ll never reverse.

calli
calli
November 13, 2022 7:34 am

Thanks guys for your comments and clarifications on the Speccie article. Some sort of self-replicating substance, you say? Sounds far more plausible than the Speccie’s “little machines with arms”, which I presume was a direct quote from the scientist.

Something crystalline, perhaps? They can form rods and other shapes.

As it stood, the idiotic article had one imagining cogs and wheels and such. Or perhaps that arose in my mind from the parallel discussion of Jupes’ new wristwatch. 😀

Mater
November 13, 2022 7:35 am

A little bit of reminiscing last night about the early Covid days.
Ahhhhhh…those were the days.

One of my favourites from our freedom loving wrongologist:

m0nty
#3377575, posted on March 26, 2020 at 5:34 pm

I wonder though how long this would take. If you lock down for 6 weeks, and when everything is unlocked – the virus could re-invigorate because perhaps it would be there lurking in the sense there is not much community immunity, and only a few flights in from say China would set it all off again.
A lockdown like IT says would have to be extended – perhaps 12 months even, to let the immunity take hold.

This is nonsense too, candy. Numbers plucked out of the air by the CMO to scare us into his flawed methodology.
Wuhan’s lockdown took nine weeks. They had the largest breakout of anyone so far, with NY possibly set to overtake it. Ours isn’t nearly as big. We should be over it in four to six weeks max, if we stick to it.

Like a good watch timepiece, it never gets old.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 7:36 am

Yes, I am pulling rank on this one. Just trust me. Musk is in the middle of an epic faceplant.

He has taken control of a speedboat and has had the wheel tied to his old fella, and is now doing the Macarena with dual-wielding flamethrowers as the boat steers itself into an ammo dump.

I bet you 10k of sterling silver coins that Twitter will succeed. You choose a date you think it will fail by.

Mater
November 13, 2022 7:46 am

Ours isn’t nearly as big. We should be over it in four to six weeks max, if we stick to it

I remember being smacked around with this catch cry; “Don’t you understand what EXPONENTIAL means?”.

These very same (mathematically and scientifically illiterate arseholes) then went on to espouse the theory of “Two week to flatten the curve”.

Anyone who ACTUALLY understands exponentials, always knew that the two arguments were diametrically opposed, and the two weeks (or any lockdown measures) were complete bullshit.

calli
calli
November 13, 2022 7:47 am

Mater, my personal favourite (with the passage of time) was m0nty warning me that I would kill my elderly parents if I didn’t get the AZ dose immediately.

Still aliiiiiive!

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 13, 2022 7:47 am

What a despicable creep

calli
calli
November 13, 2022 7:49 am

From WIP

For Rambler

Because it’s Sunday

I’m off to a café brekkie with the kids. I love birthdays (not my own this time).

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 7:51 am

More updates on the war:

https://twitter.com/armchaircopelrd

Mater
November 13, 2022 7:56 am

Mater, my personal favourite (with the passage of time) was m0nty warning me that I would kill my elderly parents if I didn’t get the AZ dose immediately.

Tapping into Monty’s 2020 comments is a rich vein of stupidity, mixed with ample doses of evil.

He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.

Johnny Rotten
November 13, 2022 7:58 am

On the first day, God created the dog and said “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years”. The dog said “That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?”

And God saw it was good.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span”. The monkey said “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?”

And God, again saw it was good.

On the third day, God created the cow and said “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years”. The cow said “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?”

And God agreed it was good.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said “Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years”. But the human said “Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?”

“Okay” said God “You asked for it”.

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves.
For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family.
For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Johnny Rotten
November 13, 2022 7:59 am

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

– Lana Turner

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 8:02 am

“I have no problem if the Libs preference Labor last and Greens second last, however if they put the Greens above any freedom parties then they can go to hell and it wouldn’t surprise me if they do. They hate other conservative/libertarian parties more than they hate Labor/Greens.”

Yep. If the party’s preferencing here in Wentworth in May was any guide, they’ll put the Greens above One Nation.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 8:03 am

“He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.”

Yep.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 13, 2022 8:06 am

Not the NBN, but a landline based communication system is essential for a nation, unless of course one believes that there never be a calamity interrupting wireless.
The copper wire based POTS we had could be run very low tech with electro-mechanical switches and people as operators. A fiber optic cable is dependent on advanced electronics which would be just as vulnerable to EMP or Carrington Event as wireless.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 13, 2022 8:08 am

thanks calli

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 13, 2022 8:12 am

Neil Oliver knocks it out of the park…

Does Britain still exist? ‘Today’s leaders have no loyalty to Britain or the British’

Relevant for the the rest of us, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnxyvcNm4LA (11:35)

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 8:15 am

m0ntysays:
November 12, 2022 at 10:13 pm
5G is immensely suitable for most people

It was never going to be rolled out for most people. It is for rich people like you. No wonder you like it.

m0nty-fa decides that he is again a pleb.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 8:17 am

The fat fascist fuckwit’s coup de grace was last week when he quite openly admitted that he regards and equates the one sole Jewish state on the planet, the state of Israel, with oppression. Note, he doesn’t equate Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or North Korea, or China, or Syria with oppression, only Israel.

By the way, he’s a coward but we all know that. He comes here to rub salt into the wound, like the cartoon character Mutley, be it with Labor’s win in May, the Dobbs decision, when the fat fuckwit fuckwit suddenly became an expert on abortion, Russia/Ukraine and last week with the midterms. When things aren’t going very well for “his side”, he disappears like the rat he is.

What I find rather interesting, and there’s no way he would have treated Sinclair like this, is his nasty attacks on our blog host, Dover.

Some good news overnight, the Nevada governorship was won by the GOP. They’re still counting in Arizona, they’ll probably still be counting in October 2024.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 8:17 am

m0ntysays:
November 12, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Good point Arky. db has not had a fun time of it lately. I would feel sorry for him, but he is so arrogant about his wrongness that I don’t really.

LOL!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:21 am

This Headline sums up the World today

At Climate Summit, Elites Chow Down on Gourmet Meats While Telling Us to Eat Bugs

As Jo points out above America is worse than a 3rd World Country – Afghanistan at least tried the ink finger test

If only the US could afford to use paper and pens instead of machines, it would all have been finished. Welcome to Dystopia-World, where the real battle is the struggle to get legal votes counted in the richest nation on Earth. The Arizona slow-roll debacle should have the people in the streets…

Sundance sums up the GOP Swamp Dwellers in this post

President Trump Fires Back Against Ron DeSantis, Con Inc and Coordinated Narrative Midterm Effort

November 10, 2022 – Sundance

President Trump can see and hear the same things everyone else can see and hear, including the coordinated media and GOPe effort to diminish him and the MAGA movement within the Republican club.

The Democrats and professional Republican class both want to see the populist movement destroyed for the same reason Mitch McConnell wanted the Tea Party destroyed in 2010. The assembly of the united middle-class and blue-collar base inside the Republican Party, essentially the broad MAGA movement, represents a Main Street threat to Wall Street control of the GOPe.

There are trillions at stake.

As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ megadonor and Citadel hedge fund billionaire, Ken Griffin, openly admitted recently the Wall Street goals are (1) stop the populist movement and (2) get the Republican Party back in alignment with the multinational “corporate world.” These are the same goals of the Republican leadership in Washington DC and the same goals as the corporate media who serve as the public relations firms for Wall Street.

The collaborative group, which includes the entirety of the funding mechanism and management behind Ron DeSantis, viewed the 2022 midterm election as an opportunity to reset the Republican Party away from the populist MAGA influence. The strategy was to roll out of the August DOJ Mar-a-Lago targeting, directly into a nationally rebranded DeSantis operation and then lead up to the 2022 midterm election.

Anything that can cast Donald Trump as a negative would be enhanced, and anything that would cast the MAGA movement as a positive would be diminished. In part, this is the intent behind the delayed positive election results from key MAGA races in CO, WA, NV and AZ, combined with emphasis on the negative -albeit controlled- election ballot outcomes from Michigan and Pennsylvania.

At the 30,000-foot level the attacks against President Trump are, quite frankly, attacks against the MAGA populist movement represented by President Trump.

The professional political class, both DNC and RNC club members, politicians and donors, want to get back to normal political business operations in Washington DC. The key element at the core of their concern is financial and economic control. Again, there are trillions at stake.

Just like we can see this coordinated effort, so too can President Trump see the construct of the narrative as it is being engineered and delivered. We can see the Paul Ryan wing, the Mitch McConnell wing and the corporate media division all working in concert. The entities described genuinely do not think the larger Republican base can see it, but they underestimate us at their own peril.

Things are never going to return to normal for them, but they refuse to accept that. The most adamant of the professional Republican apparatus, in concert with the multinational financial world, would rather see the GOP lose every election – if that’s what it takes to stop the MAGA movement. They view this as a zero-sum game, and they have planted proactive seeds for exactly this purpose.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:22 am

Copper can theoretically give 10 gbps and is quite capable of 300 mbps in real world conditions.

The NBN was a massive lie. Sure, fibre optic is faster. We didn’t need to build/duplicate our landlines which were slowly being replaced.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 8:23 am

“DanielAndrewsMP
? heckled at Melbourne synagogue

“we will not forget what you did to us last year””

Thanks for that Rosie, there are many in the Melbourne Jewish community who remember Dicktator Dan and his government last year singling those who attended a Jewish Orthodox engagement party yet at the same time covering up and making excuses for the activities undertaken during lockdown by another religious persuasion, who happen to live in other parts of Melbourne.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 13, 2022 8:28 am

Rabz do you wear jewellery so the chicks don’t look at your face? The last watch I bought was in in 1987, a Casio to go diving. Haven’t worn one for over 30 years and even then I kept it in my pocket when the strap broke.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 8:28 am

J Rotten

Guv’ments are there to provide essential services along with providing the defence of the Realm.

But that is sooooo boring. It is much more fun to LARP re-constructing society (on suitably high remuneration, of course).

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 13, 2022 8:29 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:30 am

DeSantis 2024? Think Again.

It should be clear by this time that popularity has nothing to do with electability. Trump filled rally after rally in state after state with countless, full-house, full-stadium crowds, and such numbers do not lie. There really was a red wave in the midterms, but it was macro-engineered to a trickle, as should have been expected. The scam of “malfunctioning” voting machines, the shortage of paper ballots, the tsunami of mail-in and late ballots, the temporary closing and slow-downs of polling stations, and so on would have been sufficient to determine an electoral result. 2020 was an early run for 2022, which in turn should be regarded as a template for 2024.

I am absolutely sure that the Dems are now, even as we speak, preparing favorable ground for the next presidential election. As Stalin is reputed to have said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” To make Trump responsible for Democrat malfeasance is wholly misguided.

DeSantis is now the favorite among many Republican voters and almost all conservative commentators for the Party presidential nomination. Such passionate advocates seem to have missed two essential points:

. In a rigged electoral system, no Republican candidate, not even DeSantis, can be expected to win a national election. DeSantis cruised to victory in Florida because, as governor of the state, he had the means and the authority to ensure a clean election. But he would be helpless against a massive crime organization, aka the Democrat Party, which effectively controls the electoral infrastructure, the physical apparatus, the paid loyalty of election workers, and the federal agencies that oversee the process.

If the system is not repaired and made answerable to the people, there will never be a Republican president again.

. Should DeSantis run in 2024 and lose — which is increasingly likely in the current adulterated circumstances — the sequel would be devastating. Florida would be at the mercy of the next gubernatorial race since DeSantis is a unique political figure and could not be readily replaced. Additionally, DeSantis himself would have become a kind of displaced person, neither an American president nor a state governor. An invaluable political talent would have been sacrificed to the untutored enthusiasm of his supporters.

If the American republican experiment is now in dire straits, it would then be expeditiously destroyed. A slim hope will have become an utter disaster.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 8:30 am

I like to see men wearing watches, but I don’t regard a watch as jewellery.

The only “jewellery” I like to see a man wear is, if he’s married, a wedding ring.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 8:30 am

So, it’s agreed that Labor is finished in Victoria on November 26?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:32 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 13, 2022 8:33 am

I’ve got NBN to the node. I run my PC and Laptop using Ethernet cable to the modem. Over 1 gbps.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 8:34 am

I agree with Sundance. DeSantis is a beta cuck, and the Republican base should definitely double down on Trump. That will fix it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:36 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
November 13, 2022 at 8:30 am
I like to see men wearing watches, but I don’t regard a watch as jewellery.

The only “jewellery” I like to see a man wear is, if he’s married, a wedding ring.

I lost mine in Army Bush Maneuvers Puckapunyal the year of our Marriage – My Wife felt a replacement would not be same as original

Mater
November 13, 2022 8:36 am

One of my favourites from Monty:

b) Domestic restrictions or fines should probably be confined to health services, because unvaccinated COVID sufferers will be an unwarranted burden on the health system and anti-vaxxers should have to pay their way given they are being deliberately stupid about it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:40 am

GreyRangasays:
November 13, 2022 at 8:33 am
I’ve got NBN to the node. I run my PC and Laptop using Ethernet cable to the modem. Over 1 gbps.

Unfortunately I am still on Old Telstra HFC Cable for NBN, but at least now have been able to upgrade with Aussie Broadband to 256 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up – easily saw 260 Mbps yesterday bringing Microsoft Flight Simulator up to date for Microsoft 40th Anniversary Flight Simulator

Indolent
Indolent
November 13, 2022 8:41 am
Mater
November 13, 2022 8:42 am

I lost mine in Army Bush Maneuvers Puckapunyal the year of our Marriage – My Wife felt a replacement would not be same as original

I hope you were wearing it around your neck, or anywhere but on your finger.
An otherwise great way to de-glove a finger whilst jumping out of the back of a truck (or other such military activities). It’s an ugly sight.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:44 am

You try chumming some of this shit!

https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/netflixs-love-is-blind-shows-why-so-many-men-are-single-today-ebb48a8841ee

Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” Shows Why So Many Men Are Single Today

Almost the entire male cast are walking red flags

You go grrrl.

Not “I have very high standards, no thank you” but “these are all garbage humans who deserve suffering”.

Indolent
Indolent
November 13, 2022 8:46 am
Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:46 am

Billy Ocean and Angry Anderson are in the clot shots.

Indolent
Indolent
November 13, 2022 8:50 am
m0nty
November 13, 2022 8:50 am

It is so great we have Dot here to give us a genuine incel perspective.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:51 am

I have my doubts if she understands cointegration, principal components analysis or partial least squares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Kianni

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 8:54 am

Indolentsays:
November 13, 2022 at 8:46 am
2 young athletes the latest to ‘die suddenly’

Baffling.

Mater
November 13, 2022 8:54 am

Mater, my personal favourite (with the passage of time) was m0nty warning me that I would kill my elderly parents if I didn’t get the AZ dose immediately.

Isn’t it interesting that whilst ostensibly trying to save grannies, he was concurrently trying to deny them healthcare services.

These little gems will eventually be lost to the tides of time…unfortunately.
But for now…I see you, Monty.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:55 am

Jordan Peterson got called an incel and he has adult children.

The insult has lost all meaning.

What’s your BMI today?

The real insult, Einstein, is that you are a clueless low IQ blowhard with no courage in your convictions.

You won’t take a bet.

You are a coward and a squib.

Everyone who sees you in public sees a shambles of a man who is a coward.

Even old nuns have a punt.

How unAustralian of you.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 8:57 am

Also monty (and Homer Simpson):

“Women will like what I tell them to like. Those who disagree are not real women. I’m totally not gaslighting them or being a creepy psycho at all…”

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 8:59 am

Nelson_Kidd-Playerssays:
November 13, 2022 at 8:12 am
Neil Oliver knocks it out of the park…

Does Britain still exist? ‘Today’s leaders have no loyalty to Britain or the British’

Relevant for the the rest of us, too.

Watching Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2

very light hearted, but the diversity thing has gone too far

The 2011 Census put Black, Black British, Caribbean or African percentage at just over 3% and 2019 estimated around 3.4% with London having a Black, Black British, Caribbean or African pf 7.9% in 2019

in Enola Holmes 2, we had major Black Female lead opposite Helen Bonham Carter, Professor Moriarty was a Black Female, and Dr Watson was introduced as a Black Man at the end

Same with Midsomer Murders, diversity gone mad – when you get out of London and visit the Villages you see the – In 2019, the most common ethnic group in England and Wales was White (84.8%), decreasing by 1.2 percentage points since the 2011

However suppose I am a bit dumb but found out in Enola Holmes, Enola is Alone – then thought back to Enola Gay

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 9:00 am

One of my favourites from Monty:

b) Domestic restrictions or fines should probably be confined to health services, because unvaccinated COVID sufferers will be an unwarranted burden on the health system and anti-vaxxers should have to pay their way given they are being deliberately stupid about it.

How the tables have turned.

Shouldn’t the clotshotted sheep pay their way given they are the ones going to hospital. These covid cowards are being deliberately stupid by continually getting a poison that doesn’t work and is making it worse.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 9:02 am

It’s okay Dot, you don’t need to get angry. Wear it as a badge of honour! You are among princes, the incel community is brimful of outstanding individuals with impressive lists of achievements. None of them include finding a life partner, but there are other fine things in life than the love of a good woman.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 13, 2022 9:04 am

“He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.”

Parsons from 1984?

Goanna
Goanna
November 13, 2022 9:05 am

OldOzzie.

I lost mine in Army Bush Maneuvers Puckapunyal the year of our Marriage – My Wife felt a replacement would not be same as original

Pucka is gold country.

Fosterville is nearby.

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 9:05 am

save grannies

My 98 year old grand mother said, don’t take the clotshots or lockdown. Her reasoning was that she’s had her life, and didn’t want to ruin the young’s chance at it.

132andBush
132andBush
November 13, 2022 9:06 am

He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.

He lives life insulated from most of the world.

m0nty says:
November 12, 2022 at 10:58 pm

I was driving the Hume yesterday and can confirm there were some alarmingly large potholes.

I mean he seems surprised.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 9:08 am

You lot do know that nasty gossiping behind the shelter shed like ugly schoolgirls doesn’t actually work on an online forum, don’t you?

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 9:09 am

Monty is the very definition of a useless eater.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:09 am

No more deflections monty.

You have until MIDDAY today to accept the bet. I have changed the terms.

Twitter to fail as a business by 12 AM, 2 July 2023 AEST.

I will accept Australian and British half and full gold sovereigns with an aggregate value between 4500 and 5000 AUD as payment (marginally over is okay).

My collateral payable to you will be a mix of silver, gold and other historic coins but chiefly silver and gold, assessed at their retail or market value, but it will equal or slightly exceed 10k.

They must be posted by 15 July through a third party.

I am being extremely generous. Maybe it’s time to admit you’re absolutely clueless.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 9:10 am

Matersays:
November 13, 2022 at 8:42 am
I lost mine in Army Bush Maneuvers Puckapunyal the year of our Marriage – My Wife felt a replacement would not be same as original

I hope you were wearing it around your neck, or anywhere but on your finger.

Nope, on the finger – but that was pointed out later in my Army life by AATTV WO’s during further training and Jungle Training

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 13, 2022 9:11 am

As Orwell described him:
“He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.”

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:14 am

You lot do know that nasty gossiping behind the shelter shed like ugly schoolgirls doesn’t actually work on an online forum, don’t you?

Moments before.

It’s okay Dot, you don’t need to get angry. Wear it as a badge of honour! You are among princes, the incel community is brimful of outstanding individuals with impressive lists of achievements. None of them include finding a life partner, but there are other fine things in life than the love of a good woman.

monty you are off the pace.

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 9:20 am

Slugger is in deep shit.

A public health emergency becomes a full blown government scandal. New Under Investigation, Monday 9.10pm.

https://twitter.com/9Investigation/status/1590917318212694019

MatrixTransform
November 13, 2022 9:21 am

It’s okay Dot, you don’t need to get angry. Wear it as a badge of honour! You are among princes, the incel community is brimful of outstanding individuals with impressive lists of achievements. None of them include finding a life partner, but there are other fine things in life than the love of a good woman.

this would be funny except that mUnty is essentially a Testosterone Pet

you’re awfully prolific this weekend mUnty

what’s the matter … not allowed outside this weekend?

still wearing the cone-collar so you can’t chew on the stitches?

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 13, 2022 9:27 am

I never wear any jewellery, watches nothing like that. My wife wanted me to get a wedding ring, I didn’t want to, but agreed, I told her I’d wear it at the wedding and maybe special occasions. Unfortunately I took it off when we got home and couldn’t find it when I next looked for it. I have no idea where I put it or where it went. I didn’t do it on purpose, she’s never let me forget it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 9:30 am

Matt Kean – the political toddler of the NSW Parliament.

The Premier of the NSW appointed an energy advisor because he’s clearly stopped trusting Boy Minister Matt Kean.

Perrottet will take energy advice from former Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad.

Broad has the advantage, unlike Kean, of having held a job in the real world and made a profit.

Broad also DOESN’T take his advice from Gretta and the gang, unlike Kean.

Kean’s response … thrown the toys out of the cot.

“I was interested to read on Twitter that he had been appointed. He is well placed to advise the premier on one of the greatest risks to the energy transition, the significant delays on the Snowy Hydro project that are threatening energy security on the east coast”.

As reported in the Daily Telegraph : Matt Kean reacts to ex-Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad being hired by Premier – Herald Sun

Kean is embarrassingly naïve.

The reason Broad is there is because no-one in the Government clearly believes Kean is capable of running Energy in NSW, heading into an election.

It’s also because many voters might well have come to the conclusion Matt Kean is a f-wit.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 9:31 am

Six people are feared dead after historic WWII-era B-17 Flying Fortress and Bell P-63 Kingcobra planes collide in mid-air at Dallas airshow

. Six crew members are feared to be dead after two historic planes collided in mid-air at the Wings Over Dallas airshow Saturday afternoon
. Video posted online shows a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber quickly approaching the flight path of a Bell P-63 Kingcobra
. Soon, the bomber completely collides with the Kingcobra, tearing it apart as the larger plane split in half and crashes in a ball of fire nearby
. Witnesses say debris from the planes is strewn over Highway 67
. Footage from the aftermath showed smoke billowing above tents at the festival

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 9:33 am

can confirm there were some alarmingly large potholes

In your arguments, not the road surface.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:38 am

Awful quiet.

Time to talk about the USS Indianapolis.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 9:39 am

I am talking to you directly, Dot. You know, how women don’t.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 9:41 am

Mater at 8.42, and apropos of wedding rings:

An otherwise great way to de-glove a finger whilst jumping out of the back of a truck (or other such military activities). It’s an ugly sight.

Jumping over chainlink fences higher than yourself. I’ve seen them get caught on deadbolt plates on doorframes while the owner is entering a room quite quickly. Engaging in physical contretemps with another or others.

It’s pretty funny, as long as it happens to somebody else.

Take it off or tape it up before you start taking care of business.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:41 am

So do you accept or decline my offer monty?

m0nty
November 13, 2022 9:43 am

As far as a bet goes, I must have missed it if you challenged me earlier.

What do you define as Twitter failing? I am not sure that is going to happen, because there is still time for Musk to flog it off to someone who knows what they are doing.

What I am sure of is that if Musk keeps doubling down with his brain fart method of management, he is going to run out of cash to pay his debtors.

shatterzzz
November 13, 2022 9:44 am

The reason Broad is there is because no-one in the Government clearly believes Kean is capable of running Energy in NSW, heading into an election.
Nothing like OPM for dum parrot-head/gummint to spend without oversight! .. frightened to sack/move-on Kean, cos a Photios favourite, so creates another 6 figure + freebies position to sidetrack him …..

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 13, 2022 9:45 am

No ring or watch on the farm.
I’d suspect sparkies don’t wear them either. Nothing worse than being scorched around the ring.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:49 am

What do you define as Twitter failing? I am not sure that is going to happen

Yes well. Prior to this monty implied it would financially ruin Musk.

Yes, I am pulling rank on this one. Just trust me. Musk is in the middle of an epic faceplant.

He has taken control of a speedboat and has had the wheel tied to his old fella, and is now doing the Macarena with dual-wielding flamethrowers as the boat steers itself into an ammo dump.

There is still time for him to jump off and save himself. Does he want to, though?

Utter blowharding backpedaling cowardice.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 13, 2022 9:49 am

the bomber completely collides with the King Cobra

They’ve got that the wrong way around.

shatterzzz
November 13, 2022 9:50 am

What I am sure of is that if Musk keeps doubling down with his brain fart method of management, he is going to run out of cash to pay his debtors.

No chance of that happening .. gummint subsidies forever wiv the battery cars and his rocket business sideline … bloke is gonna (if not already) be bigger than Bill & Jeff combined ….. Twitter will either succeed or become a tax write-off but it won’t be a “loser” for him ….. money-wise! ..

m0nty
November 13, 2022 9:52 am

As I said Dot, there is time for Musk to save himself. Can’t you read?

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:53 am

Musk actually said if it doesn’t turn around financially, THEN it would be a failure.

Which is as asinine as saying you need to keep on breathing to live.

“I AM PULLING RANK ON THIS AS SOMEONE WHO ONCE SET UP A WEBSITE FOR A GP, THAT ELON MUSK WILL SHORTLY BE DECEASED!!!”

So much hyperbole…it is almost hyperbowlic.

Bill P
Bill P
November 13, 2022 9:55 am

Sorry Rabz
Reported in error.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 9:55 am

m0nty says:
November 13, 2022 at 9:52 am
As I said Dot, there is time for Musk to save himself. Can’t you read?

CAN YOU MAN UP AND TAKE A BET??!!

Make a counter offer. I am a degenerate gambler and will likely say yes.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 13, 2022 9:56 am

maybe I’m just imagining that I’m still alive.

BoN, you are actually “living” in a simulation.
Or so Laurence Fishburne told me.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 9:56 am

Chomp. Dot’s piece at 8.44:

Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” Shows Why So Many Men Are Single Today

The authoress appears to believe that a Netflix reality TV show is unplanned, unscripted and completely reflective of society. She (I’m assuming her gender here) is also quick to point out that ‘I’m in a relationship‘ and so above this sort of thing. Displaying mUnter-esque cluelessness, she eats everything fed to her:

It was difficult to watch all that male entitlement mixed with a complete lack of self-awareness and overly inflated egos with a sprinkle of misogyny and sexism on top.

Most of the men on ‘Love Is Blind’ latest season — a total of five made it out of the pods — need a therapist, not a wife. (Some of them, like Matt, probably shouldn’t even be allowed around women.)

It. Is. A. Made. Up. TV. Show.

And I really can’t help but feel like the female participants deserved better than those men. Just like many other women today.

It’s fake. It was designed to provoke just that reaction you stupid, stupid woman.

shatterzzz
November 13, 2022 9:57 am

No ring or watch on the farm.
I’d suspect sparkies don’t wear them either. Nothing worse than being scorched around the ring.

Only piece of “man” jewellery I like but you can only wear one piece at a time and it is only for one purpose .. telling the time .. current model, generic, analogue, wind-up, $A1.95 (inc post) from China (Ebay) .. 12 months old, looks good and keeps pretty good time (loses, maybe, a minute a month) .. LOL!

Vagabond
Vagabond
November 13, 2022 9:57 am

I have no problem if the Libs preference Labor last and Greens second last, however if they put the Greens above any freedom parties then they can go to hell and it wouldn’t surprise me if they do. They hate other conservative/libertarian parties more than they hate Labor/Greens.

I’m pretty sure that loathsome little turd Bandt was elected on liberal preferences for just that reason. The libs aren’t called Stupid F***ing for nothing.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 13, 2022 10:00 am

OldAussie, on his flight simulator!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1591552033752256512

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 10:01 am

It’s too late for Dominic Perrottet. The election is in March 23 and the Liberals and Nationals will be annihilated. They deserve it. Perrottet had his chance when he became premier last year. He could have and should have come out swinging, done a DeSantis and basically said that there’s no room for woke ideology in NSW, be it in education, in environmental policy and so on. But no, instead Perrottet allowed the putrid rotting corpses of scum like Matt Kean, Health Hazzard and David Elliott to define him. Now Perrottet is trying to distance himself from Green Kean and others but it’s too late and the NSW Liberals are now completely fucked. The NSW Coalition has, for the last three years, been completely subservient to the the sinister and evil Alex Greenwich.

I hope Kean loses his seat to a Teal. I strongly suspect that seats like Vaucluse, Lane Cove and Manly will all fall to the Teals. Once again I must point out that the Teal movement is all the fault of the Liberals. The Liberals and Nationals, with their refusal, either willingly or unwillingly, to curb the climate con have created a very hungry Teal coloured monster which will, like it did in May federally, gobble them up.

I’ll be voting One Nation in the upper house.

Adios Dominic.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 13, 2022 10:01 am

The only “jewellery” I like to see a man wear is, if he’s married, a wedding ring.

Wedding ring = I’m not available.
Expensive watch = I’m on the market.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 10:01 am

It’s fake. It was designed to provoke just that reaction you stupid, stupid woman.

You don’t have kids. You were never married. Women don’t talk to you. You don’t vote for the correct political party and neither do the man-women in your life who don’t speak to you; hence, this is all your fault!

Also, diversity is our strength.

Contemplate this on the big and tall man friendly tree of woe.

Mater
November 13, 2022 10:02 am

Utter blowharding backpedaling cowardice.

It’s like the Second Battle of Malmo.

Don’t worry, dot, in a years time he’ll be blaming a change in YOUR family circumstance for his unwillingness to take up the bet.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 10:05 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
November 13, 2022 at 10:01 am
It’s too late for Dominic Perrottet. The election is in March 23 and the Liberals and Nationals will be annihilated.

Fatty O Barrel IIRC came close to a double majority solely composed on the Liberal Party members of Macquarie Street Hellfire Club Inc.

Useless parasites.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 13, 2022 10:05 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
November 13, 2022 at 10:01 am

Plus 1000.
Spot on.

Mater
November 13, 2022 10:07 am

Wedding ring = I’m not available.

Not always.
I knew single blokes who wore one in order to attract a certain type of women. It was like bees to honey.

Some want what they shouldn’t have. The brotherhood of womanhood isn’t universal.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 13, 2022 10:10 am

Wedding ring = I’m not available.

My one time wife – now my ex – demanded I wear a wedding ring for exactly that reason.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 10:12 am

First off Dot, I am not going to bet you five large. Get real. It’s a prop bet on a political Web site. A steak lunch is the traditional stake.

I will have a think about the exact wager.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 13, 2022 10:13 am

Farmer Gez and bushie, diversify your crops! From the Hun:

The triple whammy of Covid, war in Ukraine and climate change means Victoria will have to transform its agriculture industry in the coming years, a leading biotechnology expert has predicted.
Professor Tony Bacic, director of the La Trobe Institute for Agriculture & Food, said external forces meant what crops were grown had to be re-evaluated.
Major changes could include more food grown in greenhouses, turning to legumes for protein instead of meat and finding ways to reduce food waste.
“We need to look at breeding new crops that are climate resilient,’’ he said.
“What we’ve seen with Covid, the Ukraine situation and climate change is that we’re going to have to re-imagine the entire value chain from paddock to gut.
“We really can’t do things the way they were into the future.
“The reason we can’t is that the globe is increasing by 25 per cent the population by 2050. And we need 70 per cent more calories to feed that.
“As we transition from developing countries to developed countries we need more food.’’
Prof Bacic said fuel and fertiliser alternatives needed to be considered as well as new varieties of crops that needed less water.
“But we need to produce quality crops; we need to have the basis there’s got to be quality rather than quantity.’’
Food waste was as high as 30 per cent post-farm gate, he said.
Victorian Farmers Federation president Emma Germano said farmers and the industry in general were already assessing, researching and implementing world-leading practices to grow the best possible food and fibre.
“There’s no doubt our industry is evolving to meet the ever-growing demand for food and adapting for the future,” she said.
Ms Germano also said the need for an Australia-wide plan to ensure food security was vital in the coming years.
“We absolutely must have a serious think about introducing a national food security plan to protect our vital food supply chains.”
Victoria produces about $11.4 billion in food exports every year. The key markets are China, USA, Japan, New Zealand and Indonesia.
Five categories dominate the Victorian agricultural landscape – dairy, beef, sheep meat, grains and fruit and nuts.
Agriculture production employs almost 92,000 Victorians on 22,000 farms. Tens of thousands more work in food manufacturing.

Now correct me if I am wrong, but haven’t boffins around the world developed crops that can be bountiful without a great deal of water, also known as genetically modified?

miltonf
miltonf
November 13, 2022 10:13 am

“He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.”

Parsons from 1984?

ha ha maybe or a wannabe O’Brien

Makka
Makka
November 13, 2022 10:13 am

You lot do know that nasty gossiping behind the shelter shed like ugly schoolgirls doesn’t actually work on an online forum, don’t you?

Looks like the home truths about mOron are hitting a nerve. Aww.

Perhaps we should ly off the sick fat grub.

Nah.

Dot
Dot
November 13, 2022 10:16 am

You’re a cheap piece of shit monty.

You told us you married into money!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 10:17 am

Wedding ring = I’m not available

This actually works in reverse, should one be so inclined.

When out and about in the evenings, usually (but not always) in licensed premises, do a bit of people watching. You will note that the ladeeees, and particularly those in groups will study blokes who are with one or more other blokes.

They will look for height and the head first. If what’s on display is unacceptable, they will visually jog on. If it is acceptable, the next target is the left hand – and they’re not looking at watches.

To these predators, the presence of a wedding ring is proof that this person is acceptable enough to somebody else that the said person has snared that particular bloke. In other words, that bloke has something worth having.

And then the game, as they say in Agatha Christie novels, is afoot.

Should one be in possession of a wedding ring, despite not being married, and should one (on certain occasions, not every time) decide to wear said ring on certain occasions, and should you have both a) a not-too-complicated yet suitable backstory and b) a level of personality above that of a trilobyte, you are generally in a position to turn the tables on these predating women and rack them up.

It’s not about personal awesomeness, it’s about chick psychology.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:17 am

m0ntysays:
November 13, 2022 at 9:43 am
As far as a bet goes, I must have missed it if you challenged me earlier.

What do you define as Twitter failing? I am not sure that is going to happen, because there is still time for Musk to flog it off to someone who knows what they are doing.

What I am sure of is that if Musk keeps doubling down with his brain fart method of management, he is going to run out of cash to pay his debtors.

m0nty-fa wriggling like a worm on a concrete path after heavy rain.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:17 am

m0ntysays:
November 13, 2022 at 9:43 am
As far as a bet goes, I must have missed it if you challenged me earlier.

What do you define as Twitter failing? I am not sure that is going to happen, because there is still time for Musk to flog it off to someone who knows what they are doing.

What I am sure of is that if Musk keeps doubling down with his brain fart method of management, he is going to run out of cash to pay his debtors.

m0nty-fa wriggling like a worm on a concrete path after heavy rain.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 10:19 am

Bloody hell Mater.

Snap.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 10:19 am

I’m pretty sure that loathsome little turd Bandt was elected on liberal preferences for just that reason. The libs aren’t called Stupid F***ing for nothing.
That was 2010.
Now one of the safest seats in the Country, Labor have given up there.
The Liberal Party has finally realised:
Why are we solving the ALP’s problems for them?
LNP preferenced Greens over Labor in South Brisbane in 2020, Greens won easily.
Since then, Labor has lost Griffith [which encompasses South Brisbane] in the recent Federal Election, another seat they’ll never get back.
Plenty of Greens voters work in the Public Hospital System, so they see first hand what Labor do in Government.
It’s a natural Liberal voting bloc, so why not help them out against Labor?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 13, 2022 10:22 am

Virtue signalling is apparently okay when Stoics do it.
https://store.dailystoic.com/products/four-virtues-signet-ring

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 13, 2022 10:24 am

BB
Imagine the triggering that GMO’s would inflict in the minds of those with high emotional intelligence scores.
Stay dumb and eat your bugs.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 13, 2022 10:26 am

He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms

BB, a great get.
That’s never going to the forgettery.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 10:28 am

You told us you married into money!

My wife owned her own house after buying young and paying off the mortgage herself the old fashioned way. My income is much higher than hers, but I didn’t have much in the way of assets. She took five years off having the kids, and is now part time in the modern fashion.

So yeah, as usual you lot have no details right about my life at all, making your insults hilarious to me.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:28 am

m0nty-fa the worm continues to wiggle on the hot concrete.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 10:29 am

Food, said external forces meant what crops were grown had to be re-evaluated.
Major changes could include more food grown in greenhouses, turning to legumes for protein instead of meat and finding ways to reduce food waste.

What he’s saying is
1. that you’re not eating Beef, Butter or Sheepmeat in your future.
2. the push is on to legislate Irradiated “food”.

custard
custard
November 13, 2022 10:29 am

The dude from powerline doesn’t have a clue about Trump and his comments about DeSantis (Outsiders)

jupes
jupes
November 13, 2022 10:32 am

Six people are feared dead after historic WWII-era B-17 Flying Fortress and Bell P-63 Kingcobra planes collide in mid-air at Dallas airshow

FMD did the Kingcobra pilot have his eyes shut? That was horrific.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:32 am

miltonfsays:
November 13, 2022 at 10:13 am
“He’s a real piece of work is our Monty. His disarming appearance and blundering demeanour disguise the underlying malevolence, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.”

Parsons from 1984?

ha ha maybe or a wannabe O’Brien

monty-fa once indicated a desire to head the post-revolutionary CHEKA.

Scratch a leftard, find a fascist.

Vagabond
Vagabond
November 13, 2022 10:32 am

I’m pretty sure that loathsome little turd Bandt was elected on liberal preferences for just that reason. The libs aren’t called Stupid F***ing for nothing.
That was 2010.
Now one of the safest seats in the Country, Labor have given up there.

Yep, it was an unintended consequences situation. The SFLs thought they would shaft the liars by putting them last but all thy did was helped elect Bandt who got the greens a foot in the door of the lower house and that veneer of relevance & respectability helped get other greens elected later on. In retrospect it was obvious how disastrous that would be but the SFLs thought the liars were a more pressing enemy. The greens/teals play the long game. Sooner or later they will hold the balance of power in both houses and we will all really be stuffed. If the so called major parties had any brains they would put the greens/teals last on every HTV card in the country.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 10:33 am

“Food waste” means vegetables and fruits that are thrown away by wholesalers and retailers.
The only way round that is to legislate Irradiation, then that cabbage can sit there for 10 years, if that’s how long it takes to sell it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 13, 2022 10:34 am

My income is much higher than hers, but I didn’t have much in the way of assets.

mUnty’s coping method.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:34 am

miltonf at 10:13 am

monty-fa once indicated a desire to head the post-revolutionary CHEKA.

Scratch a leftard, find a fascist.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 10:35 am

Sounds like the House is coming down to six toss-ups. Democrats would retain the Speakership if they win all six, LOL!

Much more likely is a complete shitshow as Republicans flop around for two years like beached whales, with Nancy picking off squishes for key votes to get Biden stuff done.

Zipster
November 13, 2022 10:36 am

Xi Jinping leaves Albanese off list of leaders’ meetings

even a communist can smell a houso a mile away

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 10:36 am

My wife owned her own house after buying young

Uh huh.

and paying off the mortgage herself the old fashioned way.

Sure.

My income is much higher than hers

Mmmm. Go on.

but I didn’t have much in the way of assets

Possibly the only correct sentence here, and typical of your failed first year economics student and fantasy football devotee.

miltonf
miltonf
November 13, 2022 10:36 am

I had to look CHEKA up- not much caring and sharing with that lot

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:38 am

Dotsays:
November 13, 2022 at 10:16 am
You’re a cheap piece of shit monty.

You told us you married into money!

I guess we can see who controls the purse strings there?

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 13, 2022 10:39 am

Yep, it was an unintended consequences situation. The SFLs thought they would shaft the liars by putting them last but all thy did was helped elect Bandt who got the greens a foot in the door of the lower house

No unintended consequences there.
Labor had held the seat for 104 years, lately on Liberal Preferences.
The move has been a success, a Green member cancels out another Labor member, destroys Labor’s organisation in the seat, and eventually, when the Greens voters wake up that the Greens Leadership are all Labor stooges, the Liberal Party are waiting with clean hands.

JC
JC
November 13, 2022 10:40 am

Unconditional love, Custard. It’s beautiful to watch.

Who receive unconditional love?
Women, kids, dogs and now Trump.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 13, 2022 10:40 am

The young man with a baby is irresistible to the chicks.
I remember carting around my nephew in Myers while the sister went to catch up on essential buys.
It was like fishing when they’re on the bite. When I added that I was an Uncle and single girls did the big baby eyes at me.
Good times.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 13, 2022 10:41 am

The Wallabies lost to easy-beats Italy last night, leading to a C.L. level headline:

It’s pasta joke!!!

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2022 10:41 am

Let’s dissect some of this turgid shit…

“My wife owned her own house after buying young”

How young? I bet she received help from her parents in order to cough up the initial mortgage.

and paying off the mortgage herself the old fashioned way.

Oh right, how quaint. You mean the “conservative way”, the “way” most people do. There’s nothing “old fashioned” about paying off a mortgage.

She took five years off having the kids,

Not very “progressive”. The sisterhood would not like that, they decry women who take years off to have and rear children. However, good on your wife, a lot of women would like such a choice to spend more time at home with their children, particularly in the early years.

“and is now part time in the modern fashion.”

What’s “the modern fashion“…….did you omit the word “industry”?

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 13, 2022 10:43 am

Ed, you mentioned irradiated food. What is the process undertaken to do that? First I have heard of it

Zipster
November 13, 2022 10:44 am

from above

‘My Carbon’: An approach for inclusive and sustainable cities
While transport and buildings are the major drivers for emissions in cities, the share of individual emissions is significant.
Personal carbon allowance programs have had limited success due to a lack of awareness and fair mechanism for tracking emissions.
Yet there have been major developments in recent years that could help realise “My Carbon” initiatives.

1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.

2. Fourth Industrial Revolution technology breakthroughs – Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, raise awareness and also provide individual advisories on lower carbon and ethical choices for consumption of product and services.

The levers of Cognitive Enablement and Social Norms will be much more impactful through citizen engagement programs and learnings from the above-mentioned trends need to be captured to design these programs. Innovative AI and machine-learning capabilities would help capture embedded emissions in goods and services, and could help in providing individuals with tailored and timely advice on how to reduce their lifestyle emissions.

Finally, it is significant that all stakeholders across the value chain come together and contribute towards achieving a net-zero future by leaving no one behind.

m0nty
November 13, 2022 10:44 am

Steve Kornacki @stevekornacki

The NBC News House model has just been revised. Our new estimate is that Republicans will finish with 219 seats, +\- 4.

They keep revising that number down, LOL.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 13, 2022 10:44 am

m0nty-fa

So yeah, as usual you lot have no details right about my life at all, making your insults hilarious to me.

We only have the details you post here, namely that you were poor (after various failed attempts at life), and married into the “upper middle class”. Feel free to give us the full details, including your income levels for the last five years, so we can get the facts correct when insulting you.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 13, 2022 10:44 am

The man with a baby routine also attracts the good girls and not the wedding ring vipers.

JC
JC
November 13, 2022 10:44 am

On the subject of Trump. Watch the DNC’s DOJ now indict him- going for the kill shot.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 13, 2022 10:45 am

Big_Nambassays:
November 13, 2022 at 10:00 am
OldAussie, on his flight simulator!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1591552033752256512

Definitely – based on my performance on Flight Simulator yesterday

Sobering thing is the first job I applied for after Leaving Certificate was Cadet Pilot with Qantas – as badly colour blind, no way!

But it frightens me how bad I am on Flight Simulator vs 16 Year Old Grandson, currently flying Solo on way to Pilot’s Licence, so definitely good I did not become a Pilot, but have enjoyed flying on many planes around the world

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 13, 2022 10:47 am

Lots of imported fresh food gets irradiated to kill zee bugs.
It’s harmless.

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 10:47 am

Professor Tony Bacic,

I suggest Tones should kill himself and make one less eater. Do the world a big favor.

“Just enough of me, but too much of you”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 13, 2022 10:47 am

mUnter, head of the Cheka. ‘Punch a Nazi’ mUnter. It reminds me of this:

certainly not a man of violence … Under a brow of average height, two grey-blue eyes looked at me, behind glittering pince-nez.

The trimmed moustache below the straight, well-shaped nose traced a dark line on his unhealthy, pale features. The lips were colourless and very thin. Only the conspicuous receding chin surprised me. The skin of his neck was flaccid and wrinkled. With a broadening of his constant set smile, faintly mocking and sometimes contemptuous about the corners of the mouth, two rows of excellent white teeth appeared between the thin lips.

His slender, pale, almost girlishly soft hands, covered with veins, lay motionless on the table throughout our conversation.

This is a description of Heinrich Himmler by Walter Dornberger in 1933.

Zipster
November 13, 2022 10:48 am

“and is now part time in the modern fashion.”

mutley is a such a good earner his poor wife still needs to work so they can make ends meet

m0nty
November 13, 2022 10:48 am

Cranky, you evidently don’t have much contact with regular people in your doctor’s wife existence. I don’t have the patience to explain modern life to you. You wouldn’t get it anyway.

Razey
Razey
November 13, 2022 10:48 am

@DanielAndrewsMP
? heckled at Melbourne synagogue

“we will not forget what you did to us last year”

“it is taxpayers money; it is not your money to be splashing around”

https://twitter.com/MenachemV/status/1591400437285933056

  1. I have all my aircons on. A few widespread blackouts – while bloody inconvenient – are a damn sight less…

  2. I don’t think your heart is in the right place that the idiots in Canberra have put us in. 🙂

  3. Well, the zap didn’t correct my AFib, so off for a pacemaker. I’m expecting to feel 200% in three hours…

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