I found that quite mesmerising and hilarious! Didn’t understand a thing!
Open Thread – Tues 4 April 2023
- Bumtree #17
- Bumtree #16
- Open Thread – Mon 20 May 2024
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
Another Sky ‘seeking balance’ disaster. Just put all your lefties in one single show and permit your audience to decide…
HZ, Uhlmann made sense on the energy stuff, then the turd blamed the Hamas atrocity on Netanyahu. Stated that the…
Alright, after the latest surreal grotesqueries in the Trump stormy hush what ever the fuk trial and merchan’s amazing outburst…
Chris Uhlmann on Sky with Peta Credlin talking immense sense re energy right now, speaking with clarity and eloquence.
Only technically, since Hillary and Joe have done far worse. If Agent Smith goes big on Trump then it will look like another corrupt political ham sandwich indictment.
Too many of those and it might add up to Ft Sumter 2.0, which the Dems are desperately trying to avoid.
You’d think that Smith would be more cautious, but there’s obviously a plan of some sort that the Left is actioning. Like Bragg he would have to follow it on pain of infinite retribution by the Dem power people.
Editor’s Column
Truth-Telling in Oceania
Keith Windschuttle – Editor-in-chief – Editor, Quadrant Magazine
In George Orwell’s now-classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates. One of them, Oceania, encompasses the continents of North and South America, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles. The government of Oceania is comprised of four major ministries who derive their objectives from the ruling ideology of Doublethink. The Ministry of Truth is dedicated to telling lies; the Ministry of Peace provokes war against the other superstates; the Ministry of Plenty rations food and generates poverty, scarcity and debt; and the Ministry of Love tortures and brainwashes its citizens into accepting all this and loving only the ruling tyrant, Big Brother.
It was telling that at Uluru in 2017, when the advocates of the Voice laid down their agenda for Aboriginal self-determination, one of their non-negotiable demands was that Australia should undergo a process of “truth-telling”.
I was reminded of Orwell’s scenario at a musical performance last year at a high school in Sydney in which one of my dear offspring had a role. The school was once known for instilling good manners in its students but, at the start of this show, after the now compulsory ordeal of acknowledging Aboriginal country and the wisdom of its elders, the lights went down and a deep-throated female voice turned up the amplifiers and roared in the dark: “and First Nations never ceded their sovereignty”. To me, this sounded like a message from Big Brother. Other concert-goers told me later that this outburst and its authoritarian milieu were nothing new, at either this school or any other in Sydney’s inner suburbs. In Teal territory, it was now the norm.
The claim that Aborigines have always retained their sovereignty over the continent is a statement that implicitly asserts that British colonisation in 1788, and ever since, has been illegal, and that most of us are therefore living on stolen land.
For a start, “sovereignty” is a term from early modern Europe that bears no relationship to the laws of hunter-gatherer Aborigines in pre-1788 Australia or any other place where the same form of land use still existed. When the continent of Australia was first colonised by the British, international law followed the model derived from the treaty of Westphalia in 1648 which held that European states had exclusive sovereignty over their territory, and that external powers had no right to interfere in their domestic arrangements. This was part of the meaning of the term “civilised”, which emerged in the eighteenth century in the European Enlightenment.
But to gain such status, a state had to be a genuine nation. In 1750, the most authoritative European legal scholar of international law, Christian Wolff, author of The Law of Nations According to the Scientific Method, said that for a society to be a nation it must have civil sovereignty and, as a corollary, only nations can be genuine sovereigns.
Wolff argued that “separate families” or clans based on kinship who “wander through uncultivated places” can have rights of land ownership, which sovereigns should respect. But he emphasised that this did not turn these extended families into nations or give them sovereignty over their territory.
He wrote:
The name nation … denotes a number of men who have united into a civil society, so that therefore no nation can be conceived of without a civil sovereignty. For groups of men dwelling together in certain limits but without civil sovereignty are not nations, except that through carelessness of speech they may be wrongly so called.
The continuation of public acceptance of the persistent and ubiquitous acknowledgments of country and other rituals and catchphrases which our education systems now use to indoctrinate young people, coming on top of a win for the Yes case in the proposed referendum, would create a climate that could persuade even the most traditionalist judges that Australia is ripe for sweeping reform.
If the referendum for the Voice does get up, some of the early demands we could expect to arise from the new Aboriginal chamber would not only be to eliminate Australia Day on January 26 but also to imitate New Zealand and give the Commonwealth of Australia a new name to suit its new status. I would nominate George Orwell’s choice, Oceania. We would deserve it.
Re
I was reminded of Orwell’s scenario at a musical performance last year at a high school in Sydney in which one of my dear offspring had a role. The school was once known for instilling good manners in its students but, at the start of this show, after the now compulsory ordeal of acknowledging Aboriginal country and the wisdom of its elders, the lights went down and a deep-throated female voice turned up the amplifiers and roared in the dark: “and First Nations never ceded their sovereignty”.
I attended Saturday Afternoon week and a bit back, School Musical – Excellently done Musical in Intimate Theatre & stunned by how well Audio, Lighting & Visual had progressed from when my Son was at same school, however, it was grating when the now compulsory ordeal of acknowledging Aboriginal country and the wisdom of its elders at the start, went on and on, how we were interlopers to Australia – left a sour taste.
Anecdote:
Yesss……
Not necessarily. You can still take ownership.
For the three years my idiot ex removed the son and heir – to Quenthland, of all places – and because during a phone conversation with said heir he indicated that Mumsy continued to have zero interest in helping him with homework, I tutored him – via phone and email – over all of that time.
It was drawn-out and required a LOT of email exchanges and explanatory phone calls, but it can be done – as long as said child retains an interest in that parent.
I might add that this was in the face of quite a bit of character assassination on the part of Ex-Mrs KD, aka The Skank. When son and heir returned of his own volition, and because The Skank had completely lost interest in him at 16 years of age three years ago, the assistance continued in person until he’d completed Year 12 last year.
They’re your children. You can’t just say it’s someone else’s job or fault, especially when you have an avenue to retain contact – any contact.
When seeking intercession from one’s favourite saints, ‘Saint George Cardinal Pell pray for us’ (or variants) can be included, can’t they?
Don’t need to wait for official recognition?
Incidentally my understanding is that the path to recognition may include miraculous events attributed to prayers for intercession directed to deceased saintly persons.
Kamala has been visiting the heart of darkness this week, and illuminating it with her wisdom.
It’s been just as hilarious as you might expect. Hence no coverage on the MSM.
I see Richard Cranium KC, LLB, Chief Justice of the World Court, advising us on the law in relation to Trump, in his usual, unbiased, leftard-supporting style.
Plasmamortar:
The only thing faster than cubic inches is rectangular dollars.
Ms Jiang is one of the thousands of Chinese international students who had to rush back to Australia or risk losing their qualifications under a new Chinese government policy.
One can just imagine the Machiavellian conversations that went on between the CCP and their useful idiot in Victoria.
I’m only a bush lawyer but I think the point of these charges against Trump is to interrupt his run. I should take Hendo’s advice and try and not predict the future but…
I believe a gag order will be placed on Trump. Even if not, I believe they will then set a future date for the case to hang over his head – the same with the “classified docs” hearings… it’ll be a Jan 6 “hearing” all over again. They’ll take their sweet time calling witnesses, looking for maximum impact, fake news stories and to delay his 2024 campaign as long as possible.
I don’t think they’ll win and I don’t think they think they can win so its just interruption lotto. It is so bleedingly obvious this is being coordinated.
Couldn’t help clicking the don’t click this link link.
Gotta say I’ve seen worse.
Mind you it was in a US Army Forward Aid Station training film.
Some poor GI had lost the just-a-flesh-wound lottery.
Kamala has been visiting the heart of darkness this week, and illuminating it with her wisdom.
I reckon Africans look at blacks in the USA and go WTF?!
I met a bloke in Cote D’Ivoire who was a refugee from Liberia to the USA as a kid, University educated and did military service there. Returning to Liberia with his family. I reckon he was onto something.
Indeed and it can be quite a long process. I knew someone personally (not well but fairly well) who is now being investigated for Sainthood and it has taken 7 years of investigation so far (including a full team of theologians, doctors, priests and a bishop).
Although, then there was Joan of Arc and her beatification took 500 years… But the Church doesn’t work in “Earthly timings,” so I wouldn’t be surprised if Pell eventually got Sainthood (pending the evidence of course) in 100 years or so…
Grid Girls are now fat blokes in leotards.
https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1642256941933101059 (via Instapundit)
Warning: you can’t unsee the photo.
132andBushsays:
April 4, 2023 at 10:10 am
We need to return our society to some sanity on these issues.
According to the “camp guard” this is nothing but hate.
The Heinrich Himmler wannabe.
Dr Roose said councils needed to be aware of the group’s aims.
“What we’re seeing here is a movement that is quite politically extreme in its outlook,” he said.
“What we’re seeing here is a manifestation of the freedom movement, albeit in a more formal manner.”
Is anyone surprised that the fascist left thinks that freedom is extreme? Or that Roose is too stupid or arrogant to think anyone might disagree with him/her/it?
As for trying to take back control of councils, the Liars and the Slime started this technique, and (as usual) complain when someone else takes it up.
Menzies Before the Liberal Party
Ross Fitzgerald
After a brilliant career at the Melbourne bar in the 1920s and a period as Victoria’s Attorney-General, Robert Gordon Menzies eventually became the most towering federal parliamentarian ever seen in Australian politics. But until now, few books, even including Allan Martin’s magisterial two-volume biography (1993, 1999), have dealt in any length or clarity with Menzies’s childhood, personality and early adulthood.
The Young Menzies explores the formative period of Menzies’s life, when his personal and political beliefs, which helped make modern Australia, were being moulded. A number of contributors to this fine collection examine the context and origins of the ideas and principles that Menzies later put into powerful political practice when he returned to the prime ministership in 1949. It was these principles, Menzies claimed, to which he attempted to adhere for his sixteen more years leading Australia’s governing Liberal-Country Party coalition.
The Young Menzies also deals with the many difficulties Menzies faced when, as leader of the United Australia Party, he first attained our highest office in 1939. This prime ministership occurred at a time when the nation’s primary focus was on survival. It was only after he ignominiously lost power in 1941 that Menzies was given the impetus and capacity for self-reflection to develop a detailed vision for post-war Australia. This led him to establish the Liberal Party of Australia in the mid-1940s, and then to become our longest-serving prime minister. Menzies’s record of slightly over eighteen years in office seems unlikely to be equalled, let alone surpassed.
In a foreword to The Young Menzies, Geoffrey Blainey points out that Menzies’s rural hometown, Jeparit, about 350 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, had “few cultural amenities except the churches. Even the town library—in the year when he was learning to talk—held a mere 247 volumes.”
Could you seriously imagine any PM winning 6 straight elections today or ever again? Nada.
My bad… 7 straight.
“thefrollickingmolesays:
April 4, 2023 at 11:16 am
In tragic news there is one less set of ladyballs in the world.
In unsurprising news the world has gained a new festering groin hole in their place.
The original ladyballs- taken too soon…
https://theothermccain.com/2023/04/03/waxmyballs-update/”
mole,
having seen a few “gaping axe wounds” in my time, including self-inflicted with a genuine axe, I took Stacy McCain’s advice and did NOT click on the link provided.
Thanks for the “waxmyballs” update though. I did not believe he would ever go “the chop”. Sounds as though he thought it would be a good money making exercise. Being Canada, it probably is.
Yes, I see that KD. Your young man is a lucky fellow. And mum retracted the claws long enough for him to escape.
Some children are poisoned, so isolated and used and used as useful vengeance tools. One of our regular commenters told us long ago of a terrible story resulting in the dad’s suicide. I’ve never forgotten it.
IMO Dutton expects the voice proposal will self distruct due to its inherent defects with him making the occasional skeptical comment from the sidelines. He maybe figures that a full on assault by the Libs would open them to a charge of lacking empathy (the worst crime ever!) outright racism and reconciliation wreckers.
Dutton should know they will be charged with all of this anyway.
Dot:
Never heard it before dot, but I think it’s a damn good idea.
Perhaps Kirk has something to say about it.
🙂
THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION
To Everyone Celebrating Trump’s Indictment
Politicized prosecutions never stop with one person or one party.
The news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury has been greeted with unabashed glee by Democrats, corporate media outlets, talking heads, and late-night “comedians.”
These people clearly have no idea where this kind of politicized prosecution always leads.
Once a ruling regime convinces the citizenry to accept the criminalization of political opposition, the inevitable result is a one-party state that systematically eliminates individual rights.
That’s what Trump means when he says: “They’re not after me. They’re after you.”
Those who applaud Trump’s indictment, or the other spurious attempts to prosecute him, are cheering for the demise of their own right to democratically choose their elected leaders. Like the ridiculous Russia collusion hoax, the two unconstitutional impeachments, and the absurd antics of the Jan. 6 Committee, the “hush money” indictment has little or no legal merit. Its purpose is to deprive the voters of the chance to cast ballots for Donald Trump in the next presidential election. His political opponents are afraid he will defeat President Joe Biden in 2024. As longtime Democrat Julian Epstein writes in the Wall Street Journal:
Polls show most Democratic voters don’t want Mr. Biden to run again, but Democratic elites apparently believe that any dissent from party leadership or independent thinking—even in the name of an obvious truth—is dangerous to their job security.…
[Biden]’s always been a gaffe machine, but the condition is worsening. The president seems frequently confused on stage, unable to identify public officials and even calling on a deceased official. None of us can imagine him surviving a press grilling without countless mistakes.
Nonetheless, Biden is obviously gearing up for a reelection campaign, and that means Trump must somehow be prevented from running.
Meanwhile, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and outlined the only crime thus far revealed by the Manhattan district attorney and his grand jury: “The only felony of which we can be certain to come out of this Alvin Bragg prosecution in New York is the felony committed either by DA Bragg himself or someone on the grand jury.… Leaking grand jury information is a felony.” Neither the defendant nor his attorneys have seen this indictment yet because it is sealed. Yet, somehow, every major news outlet knows that it contains 34 counts.
So, a few words of caution to everyone celebrating the latest travesty of justice committed in the name of getting the Bad Orange Man.
First,
you will end up just as disappointed as you were after the Mueller probe and the various other attempts to destroy him.
Second,
while you clap your flippers and bark like so many trained seals, the real bad guys have their eyes on you too.
The moment you step out of line, you will get a visit from an IRS goon — or worse — just as Matt Taibbi did on the day of his congressional testimony.
Finally, the beast you are feeding has an insatiable appetite. It will still be hungry after it eats your ideological enemies.
The Great Society didn’t exactly turn out as expected.
As Reagan said, “In 1965 we declared war on poverty. Poverty won.”
Disintegration of the black family followed swiftly thereafter.
“In tragic news there is one less set of ladyballs in the world.”
Striking how unattractive he/she was as either male or female. One ugly looking bastard, no wonder there was so much fruity behaviour involved.
“Free and fair” elections fled the States long ago. Even the semblance of them.
And no Pogria, I didn’t look either. Imagination is more than enough. Won’t change the shape of the pelvic girdle though.
“What we’re seeing here is a manifestation of the freedom movement, albeit in a more formal manner.”
Such a terrible thing when you’re a dirty stinking communist.
Munty’s been very quiet today, axe wound infection?
There’s a reason for that. The Bill is a series of cryptic amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 – not everyone’s bedtime reading. The amending Bill is unintelligible itself and it’s a tiresome trudge linking the amendments back to the subject Act and regulations.
When you do however, it becomes apparent that nobody in parliament has properly considered the practical issues – particularly the use and availability of Australian Carbon Credit Units. As passed, the Albanese/Bowen Government has shunted Australia down a siding which guarantees:
– Massive cost increases of essential services and manufactures (steel, cement, aluminium, building materials) due to the scarcity of ACCU’s;
– Shortages of services/manufactures due to criminal penalties in the event that producers continue to produce without being able to surrender scarce ACCU’s;
– Shitweasel Bowen (or similar) will be obliged to fudge the system to avoid being accused of collapsing the Australian productive economy – and thereby introduce more distortion to a distorted ‘market’.
Oddly, there is very limited media discussion about these fun features.
Top Men.
duncanm
What’s interesting in that article.. are the Chicoms manufacturing our capital city rental ‘crisis’ ?
No, our governments are, though the Chinese might be taking advantage of their stupidity (and cupidity).
calli says: April 4, 2023 at 6:57 am
Steady on. Given the analogy you seem to be making there, that’s the exact opposite of TDS; Trump worshipping syndrome.
Please don’t feed m0nty.
Also the T-man would be more likely to feed 5000 men with McDonalds than 5 loaves of bread… okay with maybe 2 Fillet-o-Fish.
Pastrami on “WHY????” Johnny shows off what looks like a zombie crotch. Pieces are falling off. It’s as bad as you are imagining. He wanted an anime coin purse and he got a deflated vintage Sherrin That Sherrin is bloodied, butchered and has an additional gash that he has just noticed. Hence his tweet. His fat paws are holding apart the gates of hell.
No. It cannot be unseen.
…and the Fillet ‘O Fish….it’s really, really, really good, believe me!
Tucker.
Bit on Manhattan crime, bit on Trump arrest…
JUSTICE
In Trump case, experts see echoes of failed case against Sen. John Edwards
A politician hiding a dark secret, even as he sought the nation’s highest job. Hush money slipped to a woman to secure her silence. Criminal charges filed years later.
The storyline is now familiar to those following the indictment of former president Donald Trump in New York, in a case seemingly related to Trump’s payoff to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
But in 2008, it was Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) who arranged payments to a mistress to keep her quiet as he sought the Democratic nomination for president. Three years later, Edwards was charged with federal campaign finance violations, accused of hiding the affair using money from donors that should have been reported to the Federal Election Commission. After a six-week trial, a North Carolina jury balked at the case, acquitting Edwards of one count and failing to come to a verdict on five others, leading the Justice Department to drop the matter.
While there are some key differences between the Edwards and Trump cases, legal experts — and the foreman of the jury in the Edwards matter — said the failed federal prosecution in North Carolina offers a note of caution for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as he prepares to try Trump on a case stemming from the Daniels’ payment.
Without more details of the case against Trump, comparing the Trump and Edwards matters is difficult. But people familiar with the case have said Bragg was exploring the possibility of charging Trump with falsifying business records related to the Daniels’ payment, a misdemeanor.
In New York, the charge could be elevated to a felony if records are falsified to cover up or commit another crime. In this case, Bragg’s office appears to be investigating if the business records were falsified to conceal a payment that amounted to an undisclosed campaign contribution to benefit Trump’s 2016 bid for president, bringing the comparison to Edwards into play.
Already Trump’s lawyers have signaled that they might look to the Edwards case to help shape a defense.
“Remember that case, where a third party paid for John Edwards’s mistress who was pregnant with his baby and all that stuff?” said Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina in a recent appearance on MSNBC. “He was acquitted. And the DOJ dropped all charges on the hung counts on that.”
After Edwards’ trial concluded, Recchion and other jurors cited weaknesses in the case that could crop up in the case against Trump as well, including confusion over the exact requirements of campaign finance law, discomfort with using the law in an unusual way to punish a candidates’ personal misdeeds and concerns with the credibility of a key witness.
But experts said differences between the two cases could also mean prosecutors are playing a stronger hand in the Trump case than they were during Edwards’ six week long trial in 2012.
On the surface, the two cases seem similar, involving hush money paid to a woman.
This just reminds me of how he claimed to be intersex because he thought intersex meant “literally male and female” and claimed he menstruated as a kid (and had Miriam back him up). This just seems like that same kind of eye rolling attention ploy, one that gets his rocks off if even just a few people can fall for it.
“What am I missing here?”
Orange Man Bad.
I’m no Trump groupie. And everyone here knows it.
But the significance of the date and event didn’t escape me. Was it done on purpose? Who knows?
If I’ve detected the bleedin’ obvious, then yes, it was. Which makes me wonder why.
Maybe he’s away getting his balls waxed.
“rickwsays:
April 4, 2023 at 12:10 pm
Munty’s been very quiet today, axe wound infection?”
Visiting the family.
Yes, this seems to have been the strategy to date – and probably his smartest option.
Unfortunately, it looks like the Liberal are having a ‘hair on fire’ moment following NSW/Aston debacles and are now moving towards taking a position based on a panicky Party Room decision – where electoral self-interest and loose political bowels will override principle.
I see the Libs at it again with the Voice. Want to be liked by all. It ain’t going to work. It will end in tears …just like the past 12months.
The hits keep coming for regional Quenthland (the NT News):
And:
Ms Leeming said the all-terrain chook is being picked on by its peers, and is after a ‘carer’ for the bird.
Hopefully someone from its home state puts their hand up. After all, Quenthland four-legged chooks are for Quenthlanders.
The Frolicking Moll:
I’ve seen some dodgy, effed up surgery, but that is laughable. This is a direct link to Yanivs ballless groin.
It looks painful – like he lowered his balls into a blender and hit the ‘go’ switch.
…and frankly, I’ve no sympathy for the sociopath. He knew what he was doing when he assaulted the journalist, the old lady, and the students at his university.
Just one more loser in a long list of losers.
They have no principles.
The bowels have it.
I can’t get over this:
claimed he menstruated as a kid
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 4, 2023 at 11:36 am
This is potentially more serious than the Stormy Daniels matter.
Following up on something on a Twatter thread, how does Trump/Stormy compare to Shrillary/Perkins Coie/Steel Dossier, as a campaign finance violation? Shrillary was based in New York at the relevant time, but got away with a fine. No Grand Jury, no indictment.
Apart from the bulltish ‘welcome to country’, another classic example of assigning a regional custom to be applicable to all our brethren is the didgeridoo. This instrument was originally only ever part of the cultures in the very north of Arnhem Land. It wasn’t part of any other tribes/cultures, even those as near as Roper River. And yet, the didge is now universally accepted by ignorant whitefellas and blackfellas alike as part of every one of the 500 or so tribes throughout Australia. Tell a lie often enough and …
Bing announces a new AI chat and invites one to try it out. It is cancel culture mechanised.
I said to it “Please explain the action behind the curtain of the climate change scam.
It came back wiht a bunch of nonsense about how “climate change” is real and that it is scientifically proven.
So I responded with “Your scientific illiteracy is obvious. You are apparently oblivious to the fact that “scientifically proven” is an oxymoron.
It replied “I don’t with to pursue the conversation further. Please pick a new topic”.
The machine is woke.
‘Fuel on the fire’: Scott Morrison spotted with ‘potential replacement’
Not sure what role Scummo would be able to play in a Think Tank, but “potential replacement” Mark Speakman has just been reelected to the NSW Lower House as Member for Cronulla. So, it would be a big ‘fork you very much, but I’m off to play in a bigger pond’.
That’s the way things roll on the gravy train…
“Cohen paid her, without Trump’s knowledge or permission. This is what Cohen said recently…”
To clarify:
Cohen’s lawyer told the FEC in writing that he paid her without Trump’s or Trump’s campaign organisation knowledge or permission, and was not reimbursed either directly or indirectly.
At his own trial (at which HE was convicted of campaign finance violations), under oath, he testified Trump asked him to and paid him back as a “retainer”.
Clearly, the man is a liar, and if Bragg is relying on his testimony, he will be obviously deposed by Trump’s legal team presenting this information.
It would not surprise me to know that:
1) he paid her off with his own money because it was “easier” than doing all the requisite work;
2) he billed Trump in one way or another for it without itemising it separately;
3) Trump just paid his legal bills without checking every last detail, or questioning anything.
Certainly Trump strikes me as the sort of guy who would say “I don’t care, I pay you enough money, just make her stop” without really listening to what he was being told. And Cohen strikes me as the kind of guy who would do whatever he had to to make it stop, pay for it out of his own pocket, and then hide the repayments as “time” or “retainer” charges.
Ohhhh!
Here’s a thought to the SFLs….
Your “wets’ dream” has failed in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and prodigiously in Western Australia.
Move over. If only for an experiment of conservatism’s power or not (it’s not like you’re going to win any next election anyhow)
Old Ozzie:
This piece of legislation now puts the entire legal basis of the Nation into the “irrecoverable” basket.
The framework is now so damaged and mutilated that the entire lot must be binned and a new framework created.
This time, we’ll start with a Bill of Rights that has teeth.
Cohen is going to get charged with perjury at this rate.
Popcorn time.
Democrats are above the law in NYC. I remember reading years ago about how the Clinton Foundation (headquartered in NY) had broken numerous laws regarding the administration of ‘charitable’ foundations. It was fact – proven and out in the open, thanks to some digging by real journalists. So, what happened?
Nothing.
I had a look at it. Axe wound is a good descriptor. The body will always try to close it up, which I believe is an issue for this operative procedure. It doesn’t at all resemble a normal female vulva and vaginal introitus. Reminds of the woman with half her breast chopped into by a machete whom I helped take to hospital in the outer New Guinea highlands in the 1960’s. She recovered well, stitched up and given antibiotics. Men who have allowed themselves to be neutered in this way have been deluded. They have not changed their sex at all.
I think the “not mentioning the name of the deceased” really existed because it’s in some the early pioneers literature but I doubt it was nationwide. Since then I feel it’s become just another stick to whack us with, highlighting our racism and insensitivity. Likewise a photo capturing people’ spirit. Pretty much all the books highlight native’ fascination with mirrors, they having never seen their image before. Same thing when cameras came along – their very own image, to keep. So it was with other optical instruments, magnifying glasses, telescopes, binoculars, spectacles. Fascinating to see so many stars previously invisible, scary to see an ant under a microscope, spot game from where you are standing and to use any lens to start a fire! Could easily be interpreted as magic or witchcraft by native peoples but easier than rubbing sticks together. New and better was quickly adopted.
Yah. Costello gave evidence that nails Cohen.
You can be resentful all you like but if the evidence doesn’t support you you either have to suck it up or go down in an abject faceplant. The faceplant seems to be go for Mr Cohen.
LOL
The Trump-supporting lawyer said he has hundreds of emails that potentially show Cohen lying, but Bragg has only allowed jurors to see six of them, declaring the rest to be hearsay.
Indict a ham sandwich indeed.
UK have changed their military records search to on line and have removed the 30 pounds charge.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Sends Message of Support for President Donald Trump
April 3, 2023 | Sundance
The aligned interests of the geopolitical world are always visible, even when the corporatist media ignore them.
Hungary, a nation proud of its heritage, has been under assault from the U.S. State Department, the EU collective and the western NATO alliance for their refusal to acquiesce to the World Economic Forum and western globalist ideology. {background here} Today Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sends his official message of support for President Donald Trump.
It is time to revive the word “eunuch.”
Can that claim be…corroboreeted?
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
April 4, 2023 at 10:00 am
Not only that, the GG was complicit. He should have told ScoMo “You’ve got seven days to announce this or I shall.”
Unfortunately, courageous Govenor Generalling has not been a thing since 1975.
“Trump paid Daniels off with Campaign Funds, that’s his problem.”
The issue is proving that – if the itemised invoice doesn’t show it, then you need to prove that Trump collaborated with Cohen to “hide” the money as something else. If Trump say “No” and Cohen says “Yes”, it’s a classic “he said/she said”, and given Cohen’s documented history of changing his story, why should anyone believe him this time?
And that’s assuming that it even gets to trial – defense may motion for dismissal, and appeal a “denied” response. There are many reason for such a motion, and until it happens, we won’t know the grounds (likely plural) they are using.
Then even assuming it gets to trial, the NYC state needs to show a federal campaign finance violation that both the FEC an DoJ declined to prosecute at the time, and that the intent of payment was to help Trump’s election prospects, rather than, say, reduce the stress on his wife, reduce the chances of his business reputation being tarnished and so on. Crimes of intent are VERY hard to prove, and Trump’s standing as a public figure in the media (“The Apprentice” etc) and business (his real estate deals) is well known and it is certainly not beyond a reasonable doubt that his run for political office was his only, or even main, reason for paying “hush money”. If it turns on what his intent was, how do you prove beyond a reasonable doubt what was going through his mind at the time?
Remember back in the, I think, TA days the idea was floated of offering the GGship to Prince Harry? Could have well changed the course of history in hindsight! 😀
And in that one sentence is the BS (not what you said Kneel but the State… pursuing a Federal “crime”)
CAUTION – Language warning!
Oh Bravo!
“in the aftermath of unruly protests by far-left activists at Stanford Law School, two federal judges have now publicly declared that they will not hire clerks from the law school.
According to the Daily Caller, U.S. Circuit Court judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch said that they have imposed hiring moratoriums on law clerks from Stanford, after a protest in March saw law students and several faculty members shout down and ultimately chase out Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump-appointed judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, at a Federalist Society event.
“We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future,” said Judge Ho on Saturday evening.
In the aftermath of the protest, both Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martínez ultimately were forced to issue apologies to Judge Duncan. The event on March 9th saw protesters swarm the stage and shout down Judge Duncan’s attempted speech, calling him a “scumbag and a liar.” Far-left groups on campus also distributed fliers ahead of the event falsely accusing Judge Duncan of “denying black Americans the right to vote.”
Judges Ho and Branch had previously announced a similar hiring moratorium on law clerks from Yale Law, where conservative speakers have also faced “cancellations and disruptions” by far-left activists.“
Most vets would be ashamed of work like that, a small goods manufacturer is my guess.
NZ PM Chris Hipkins struggles to define ‘women’
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has failed to define “woman”, the latest of a number of world leaders who have struggled to comment on the term.
Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, refused to define the term “woman,” arguing that “people define themselves” when pressed by a reporter.
During a press conference on Sunday, New Zealand media company
The Platform asked Mr Hipkins how he and the New Zealand government define what a woman is
Fox News reported.
“To be honest, that question has come out of left field for me. The biology, sex, gender,” he said, before taking a long pause. “People define themselves, people define their own genders.”
When asked about the term again, Mr Hipkins diverted the question and said that “people identity for themselves”.
“I wasn’t expecting that question, so it wasn’t something I pre-formulated an answer on. But in terms of gender identity, people identify for themselves,” he said.
Despite being unable to define the term woman, Mr Hipkins replaced female prime minister Jacinda Ardern in January 2023.
Mr Hipkins’ press conference gaffe comes after a similar incident with the Biden administration in April 2022, when Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Biden nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination hearing if she could provide a definition for the word woman.
Justice Jackson answered, “I cannot.”`
“Men and women are already equal under the law, but they have real biological differences that we must respect and celebrate …” Senator Blackburn told Fox News Digital after International Women’s Day.
“By insisting that men can become women, the left is destroying what it means to be a woman and is pushing women and girls out of sports, public life, and positions of leadership.
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson showcased this absurdity for the American people and proved how far the left will go to promote their anti-women agenda.”
Despite celebrating International Women’s Day this year, the US Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Heath was unable to define the term when previously asked by Fox.
Outspoken Women on how j’ism treats the truth and facts in articles about Women.
Well worth the 1.46 seconds.
“Most vets would be ashamed of work like that, a small goods manufacturer is my guess.”
Apprentice Shearer’s first day on the job? TAR!!!!
Ahem.
“Convicted Felons can’t run for president.”
As far as I know, that is untested (in the courts).
Certainly felons are not prohibited by the constitution from running for President – there are several conditions, all of which Trump met to become 45, but being a convicted felon is not listed as prohibitive.
There may be federal law that prohibits it, however I’m not aware that a felon has attempted to run, been barred and taken it to court. Certainly public officials have run (although not for president) and even won from prison (not gaol, prison!) previously.
So at this point, even if a federal law exists as you assert, then the US Supreme Court may need to rule on the constitutionality of such a law. That would be “interesting”, and IMO, likely to cause an major lefty meltdown if the SC were to say that the congress cannot add conditions to requirements as listed in the constitution – which they may do with the logic that, since explicit conditions exist in the constitution, adding or removing conditions requires a change to the constitution.
“Don’t Talk About Nord Stream”: WaPo Report Further Demolishes Official Narrative
German investigators are now expressing severe doubts about the official Nord Stream sabotage narrative that was pushed hard in the aftermath the bombshell Seymour Hersh report which pointed the finger at a joint CIA-US Navy covert operation, with help from Norway. Last month, Hersh published an article on Substack that said the CIA planted a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit. Likely this was in direct reaction to Hersh’s findings. A source within the US intelligence community told the famed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, “It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story.”
The favored narrative became one that said pro-Ukraine partisans did it in a rogue op. Hersh has maintained this was by design concocted in order to shield the US and Biden administration for ordering the operation. The Die Zeit report cited German officials to assert that the pipeline sabotage bombings were carried out by six people using a yacht rented in Poland that was owned by two Ukrainians. In the days that followed, several Western media outlets seized on that narrative and published similar articles reinforcing the cover story.
But now a fresh, lengthy investigative Washington Post story published Monday is actually confirming many of Hersh’s conclusions. Indeed the ‘cover story’ is already fast unraveling. What’s more is that the WaPo article bluntly states Western officials are not at all eager to talk about the Nord Stream sabotage, suggesting a continued cover-up in progress, or in effect a limited hangout. Also very telling is that Western accusations directed at Russia have long ago quieted down.
Crucially, the WaPo report features a very telling subheading: ‘Don’t talk about Nord Stream’:
For all the intrigue around who bombed the pipeline, some Western officials are not so eager to find out.
At gatherings of European and NATO policymakers, officials have settled into a rhythm, said one senior European diplomat: “Don’t talk about Nord Stream.” Leaders see little benefit from digging too deeply and finding an uncomfortable answer, the diplomat said, echoing sentiments of several peers in other countries who said they would rather not have to deal with the possibility that Ukraine or allies were involved.
Incentives not to “talk” as well as self-willed ignorance:
Since no country is yet ruled out from having carried out the attack, officials said they were loath to share suspicions that could accidentally anger a friendly government that might have had a hand in bombing Nord Stream.
In the absence of concrete clues, an awkward silence has prevailed.
“It’s like a corpse at a family gathering,” the European diplomat said, reaching for a grim analogy. Everyone can see there’s a body lying there, but pretends things are normal. “It’s better not to know.”
Once again, all of the above is more in line with what Hersh has reported from the beginning – and yet his detractors have remained just as fierce in their attacks and denunciations, despite his legendary track record of getting things right, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Syria.
I liked her traditional attire, Zulu.
Cultural appropriation!
It matched her skin colour though. That shade of green doesn’t really suit darker complexions.
Nelson_Kidd-Players says: April 4, 2023 at 1:06 pm
While the scamdemic makes April 2019 seem like a lifetime ago, it was well after the TA era.
Not sure which major aspect of history you expected this to change even if it had been in 2014.
Possibly you’ve mixed this up with an earlier event where TA greeted Harry in Sydney, about 2.5years before the She-devil had gotten her talons into the Spare.
If a beautiful house on Vancouver Island wasn’t good enough, I doubt Yarralumla would cut it.
Can you imaging the howls of protest?
Crotchless has been flat out explaining why Trump’s conviction is a lay down misère. Something to do with campaign fund being a felony or stormy having nice tits.
This case has already been adjudicated. Stormy and Avennati alleged criminality by Trump in forcing stormy to sign the hush agreement. The 9th Circuit disagreed.
Cohen has also disavowed he was instructed by Trump to pay Stormy to protect Trump’s campaign. Thereafter Bragg must prove Trump did not pay Stormy to shut her knob sucking mouth to save him embarrassment but to aid his campaign and that Trump did not account for the payment as campaign funds.
Both cohen and avanneti have done time so the only definite conclusion to come out of this is that lawyers should stay away from stormy. Bragg did not learn this lesson.
One reason so many people now think the Trump indictment is partisan political rather than seeking criminal justice is because Joe is basically saying that’s what the Dems are trying to do.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1642984137765302272
It’s great when Joe throws his shoulder behind the MAGA cause and helps.
I must confess/gloat..
I may have linked the ex-ladyballs, but i did not click through to view the smashed crab in question.
I don’t think Bragg is very bright — more of a gutless Montyesque blog bot repeating the tribe’s three-word slogans from the safety of the Antifa street mob.
Just saw this from this morning from Frollicking at 10:35 am. He quotes from an article about in teh Gruniad:
It is ironic that the accusation about ‘othering’ (which is apparently worse than ‘dehumanising’) is an example of what they are accusing others of.
The are telling us that there are words which are permitted and others which are not. Now, we don’t know which words carry what new and additional meanings so people who use the words like ‘Aborigines’ are deligitimised: They cannot know quite what they might be communicating to someone when they say it. They are being warned that the language is fraught and they simply do not understand what they are talking about. They cannot take responsibility for what they say so they should say nothing – as if they drove a car without learning how.
So this is actually a way of making we poor rubes ‘others’, with no valid contribution as far as our enlightened betters are concerned.
But the left has a long history of making up buzz words which they know and others do not. You ever seen university Marxists arguing about society? Dripping with jargon impenetrable to a normal person. And they can glibly dismiss people who do not use their elevated terminology as being ignorant in general.
They are able to clump people together into a benighted ‘them’.
I think it was Nietzsche who wrote (in German, natch):
I always make a note of people who labour to bamboozle people as playing a self-conscioulsy defensive, and dishonest, game.
Sporty Beemer ladeeee news (the Courier-Mail):
Goodness me.
Toxic femininity, writ large. A stint inside, one would have thought.
This resulted in wailing from the dock, emanating from the apparent victim of circumstance. But:
Complete horseshit. She got a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years, lost her licence and paid the ex and his new squeeze $5K each.
Believe all women, except the ones that get hit by cars and smacked about.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 4, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Munty’s been very quiet today, axe wound infection?
Maybe he’s away getting his balls waxed.
He has balls? Who knew?
Spitting on someone, and addressing them, in sneering tones as “White count” is acceptable, though?
I’m pretty sure it came up in the Çat annals at the time, Colonel Beiska, and may have been a Çat original idea. It appealed to me from the point of view of strengthening ties to the Old Dart, giving the Spare something worthy to do (before he was driven to Waaagh!) and just for how the left would go apoplectic at the very idea.
I’m blaming autocorrect.
He’s possibly right for all the wrong reasons. Would you want to rate your chances with a NYC AG, a NYC jury and a NYC judge if you were Trump? Don’t forget, Braggs took this to a crown jury and the NYC crown jury said go for him.
whoops, Grand jury, not Crown.
m0nty will be counting down the hours and minutes until the Orange Apprehension.
So looking at it the other way…
It has been 2265 days and 3 hours since Trump became President and he still has not done the perp walk.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/slow-learners-at-stanford.php
The outgoing Provost of Stanford:
They still haven’t got the the message.
The Left cares nothing for the Universities and their place in history. They only care about what they can deliver – gullible young people who because of the power imbalance will say anything and and do anything the Left demands. The fact the students end up believing that which the Left Cult teaches is irrelevant.
The Universities, their Professors and history are tools to an end, and when they no longer serve the Lefts agenda, will be cast aside like every other institution they infest.
After this trans fad finally dies down, and women have had a chance to reflect on how it felt, it might be hoped that they will lay off the long enduring campaign to either infest or destroy any male-only institutions.
Vive la différence, and all that.
Différence, not déviants.
Gillon McLachlan on the big issues:
The AFL knows there are gay male players in the competition but believes the “pressure and weight” of being the first to come out is still too great.
The AFLW has many openly gay female footballers, but there are no current men’s players who have publicly stated or shared on social media that they are gay.
The league has stated that it is “a proud ally to the LGBTQI+ community, and encourages everyone to be their authentic selves while participating, watching, and enjoying our great game”.
However, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said he could understand why no men’s players had come out.
“The first thing I’d say is I am very comfortable there are gay male players and I am very comfortable (in saying) they are known to their teammates,” McLachlan said at a Leadership Matters lunch in Perth on Monday.
“What they are choosing is to not be the first person.
“The female cohort (AFLW) came out at once, they had safety in numbers, there was no first.
“So the pressure and the weight on that person being the first AFL player who comes out and plays as an out gay man, I think that weight, frankly I can understand why they would choose not to have to carry that burden around for ever.
“And I don’t think they need to and I think people should live their lives how they want to live it.”
The AFLW holds a Pride Round, but the AFL does not currently have a similar concept.
Sydney and St Kilda’s men’s teams played a ‘Pride Game’ at the SCG last year, with the Swans having begun such a match in 2015.
Sydney AFLW general manager Kate Mahony said recently that the women’s and men’s programs at the club were very accepting environments.
“It’s just about having an environment where everyone feels really comfortable being themselves,” Mahony said.
“Where women’s football has come from, they already had that before the competition got brought into the semi-professional sphere. At the community level it was a very accepting place where people could come and be themselves. That history has allowed us to continue that.
“Not just in our women’s program but across our whole club, we try to make sure everyone can be their authentic selves. We’ve got a really diverse group of young women in our program and I’m really proud of that.”
In the NRL, former Manly star Ian Roberts became the first rugby league player in the world to come out as gay but no other NRL players have done so since.
Last year, Cronulla prop Toby Rudolf spoke of “fluid” sexuality, saying he was “open to both genders but only attracted to one of them”.
“Love is love, and I love to share it with everyone,” Rudolf said.
“I’ve been out and kissed many gay men, kissed many straight women and kissed many gay women”
So who are the poofs in those teams?
I don’t think it will.
You don’t think trannie encroachment into female sports will ever end? Really?
“I’d buy another Patrol tomorrow if they put a decent bloody engine in the damn thing. A turbo 6 liter would do – if it was a V8.”
I recall many years ago having to drive up Macquarie pass (ie, the road from Wollongong to the top of the escarpment) in a 2.2 diesel econvan loaded up with nearly 2 tons of gear and tools, on more than one occasion.
After realising that it was so under-powered that even revving it to the governor in 2nd and flat changing it to 3rd would result in it slowing down after the change, it just got sat on the governor in 2nd all the way up – at least until it leveled out a bit. On such trips, it wasn’t even particularly more economical than the 5.8 F100 it was meant to replace (which actually held more stuff!) – yes, the F100 used a bit more fuel per trip, but it did the trip a lot more comfortably, more safely, in less time and carried more stuff in the process (so only one trip / one vehicle required, not two). The F100 was just better for that job.
A few more before and after stories like Yaniv’s might serve to cool the rush towards to operating theatre. Since these fads seem to keep getting more extreme with every iteration (tatts are so passé) I’m more afraid of what comes next.
I abandoned the SFLs FOR EVER in the mid 1990s.
They had been comprehensively infiltrated, willingly, it appeared, and were essentially “Labor Lite”
The corporate statists od the “white-shoe brigade” were just a veneer; the real damage cane via the university “educated” legalists who would go on to redefine “liberalism” as neo bolshevism / Corporate statism and take their anointed places in parliament, the Untidy Notions, etc….
NO going back, EVER.
Burn, Baby, BURN!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why human cultures first cottoned on to the idea of exogamy.
It was genetically useful, reduced intra and extra group tensions over access to females and also extended opportunities for trade and social development.
Oh yes, it will.
The one thing you can be sure of is that, even more than designated victims’ groups, the left desperately needs to be fashionable.
So the next leftard fad may well something that doesn’t require a designated victims group at all, just something silly and childish that gets the tick of approval because it is so FASIONABLE.
For example, the current fad, the trans movement, is ultra-trendy because it upsets the adults like the Beatles did in the 1960s. Very cool.
I’m tipping the next leftard fad will have something to do with TikTok (because it’s run by the Chinese Communist Party, which is spying on us and wants to destroy our economy – how cool is that?) and something to do with homosexual nudity, especially if it involves lesbianism — ultra-cool because it shakes its weak little girly fists at the patriarchy – you go, guuurrrl, except we all know girlies need those iPhones designed by the patriarchy because they’re an essential fashion item that allows girls to text and chatter away, while taking nude photos of themselves having lesbian sex on a cheap Optus plan.
So cool. So naughty.
Well, do you see transgenderism slowing down now? Boston Children’s Hospital just came out saying it wants more hospitals to mutilate children. We’ve seen people bashed in public. Kids murdered in school with no spotlight on the trans perpetrator. And so on. Seems to escalating rather than slowing down to me.
From a Vietnam veterans letter in The Oz.
“Harsh to say this but Victorians are to Australians as Californians are to Americans”.
“Call them what you like, it’s nothing to what they’ll call you.” George MacDonald Fraser.
His fat paws are holding apart the gates of hell.
No. It cannot be unseen.
Island of Dr Moreau.
From a Powerline article:
TIME FOR EV CLASS ACTIONS?
Electric vehicles are the South Sea Bubble of the 21st century. They are essentially obsolete, having lost out to the internal combustion engine 100 years ago. Yes, you can make a good car with a battery, like a Tesla. But the cost will always be too high, the environmental consequences are horrific, the drain on natural resources is unconscionable, and charging requirements will always render the vehicle impractical.
This is why EVs need hype to go along with subsidies and mandates.
The London Times reports:
Electric car makers are advertising exaggerated vehicle ranges because the official testing regime does not accurately reflect real-world use, a large-scale study has found.
Independent testing of more than 70 electric vehicles shows that their actual range is nearly 20 per cent less on average than the figures put in manufacturers’ websites. That means an electric car claiming that it can go 240 miles is likely to achieve less than 200 miles before running out of power.
I think it’s worse than that if it is cold out.
The testing, by the consumer group Which?, also found that the average electric car battery needs 15 per cent more power than advertised to become fully charged, meaning vehicles will cost more to run than expected.
I think there is good reason to think that most, or all, electric vehicles manufactured today are being sold on the basis of misrepresentations amounting to consumer fraud. Why shouldn’t this be the basis for class action lawsuits?
Everyone knows there are two systems of justice in the United States, one system for favored people, industries, and organizations, and another system for disfavored people, industries, and organizations. Electric vehicles are the pets of both the federal and many state governments. Still, the plaintiffs’ class action bar goes where the money is. Class actions, filed in courts not dominated by the Left and ultimately decided by juries, could be one way to bring the incipient EV disaster to a screeching halt.
After this trans fad finally dies down,
I don’t think it will.
Why would it? ..
after all the most vocal supporters for trans are folk that aren’t gonna go trans …….!
No, I don’t see it slowing down, nor do I see it picking up. I’ve seen .5% of populations have trannie inclinations, and I don’t see that number moving either way. What I do see is an increasing number of young boys having their nuts cut off and later regretting it.
Comment, from the Oz. Anybody know what “the payment of 5 per cent of the Gross National Product per annum for 195 years” would come to, in dollars?
Read about an American Doctor who treats a lot of Transitioning patients, he says that never once has one of his black male clients raised the topic of surgery with him.
The problem is that many women are Hospital Junkies, they get hysterectomies if they’ve got a dodgy gene, more often than not they get them for no particular reason, they get their Norks removed, enlarged, shrunk [a crime against Nature], piles operations, varicose veins stripped, so by the time they’re 50 they’re The Bionic Man.
So, to them, some kid getting life changing surgery isn’t such a big deal.
It can’t possibly get worse unless it involves more child abuse.
There, I said it.
It just won’t.
Why don’t people just myob?
People don’t have to be known and denominated by their sexuality, unless proposing an exchange of throw cushion recipes it should be of zero interest to everyone/anyone else.
You don’t think being able to defecate normally or have normally working veins is a legitimate medical issue?
This speaks to someone who thinks there is nothing out of the ordinary of the horrid mess male to female sex affirmation surgery almost universally results in.
Dover the continuation of this story.
I don’t think it means your prediction will come true. I’ve read since the trannie bullshit has been going on that some kids go into and come out of inclinations that they’re in the wrong body. Being castrated and going through the other stuff may not change the back and forth, leaving the percentage stable at .5%. We could end up with a bunch of de-balled boys and girls who have their tits cut off and accept themselves as they were born but without the required appendages.
No. We’ve had over the last three decades, ‘fads’ re race, sexuality, refugees and now sex, and in none of them did they just ‘move on’ and the situation return to the status quo ante. What they did was entrench those fads, politically. The same is going to happen re sex/ trans. They will entrench this in various institutions, corporates aren’t going to rescind their current policies re trans in the workplace, same in education and the workplace. Sure, you might get a slight or moderate decrease in social contagion and therefore fewer parents entertaining ‘theybabies’ and the like. However, the idea that this will all go back to normal at some stage because some other fad will appear is a dream.
It might implode if young people persuaded into trans surgery, hormone treatment start sueing and winning in large numbers and the medical professionals doing the mutilating can’t get insurance any more.
This is the way.
From Zulu’s link:
(Aborigines and the Age of Atonement, Colin Tatz, The Australian Quarterly, Spring, 1983, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Spring, 1983), pp. 292 – 293.)”
This Colin Tatz was a First Class scumbag.
On the frontlines of destroying the Apartheid Government, he scuttled over here well before the collapse and started the same shit here, substituting Aborigines for the Bantu as the favoured victim group.
Here’s 17 minutes of Philip Adams remembering him:
I agree with the last part of Eddles comment. It’s actually a white person problem.
Can I just make a point here. Whites are really shitty people. We really are.
Whites used to discriminate and treat people of color like shit in the old days. Whites now discriminate against whites. Whites, particularly American whites are just freaking awful.
Voice debate a conversation about the nation’s soul
4 April 2023 – CathNews
Australians must have their say on Voice to Parliament legislation “respectfully and cautiously” because “we are talking about the nation’s soul”, writes Fr Frank Brennan SJ. Source: The Australian.
“nation’s soul’ brought to mind an article I read earlier this morning in Crisis Magazine.
In the raucous wake of the ending of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) a significant number of the theological bien pensant executed a doctrinal coup d’état. Under the banner of aggiornamento, they masterminded a tectonic shift in the raison d’être of the Roman Catholic Church. No longer was the Church’s mission “saving souls”; respectable Catholics now spoke of “social justice.”
In fact, from the ’60s to this very day, a Catholic would be hard put to find mention of “saving souls” in any sermon or part of the voluminous Catholic mainstream academic literature (used in Catholic colleges, universities, seminaries and various houses of formation) accumulated since Vatican II. So thorough was the revolution that the mere mention of the phrase “saving souls” today in well-heeled circles is met with arched eyebrows or awkward embarrassment.
You don’t think being able to defecate normally or have normally working veins is a legitimate medical issue?
Varicose vein surgery is cosmetic, you weapons grade dropkick.
I think we’re retarded.
IQs are dropping for the first time ever in the west and things like those Standford Law students and the Evergreen College students attempts to cry their way to a degree shows how far we’ve fallen.
You don’t need extreme examples of self destruction like the high proportion of post transition transsexuals self deleting or a spate of anti Christian transsexuals shooting up Christian schools; when the anti-intellectuals insist they can literally dumb their way to the upper echelons of society and they can sit there like a pet rock and it gives them a moral right to an income (at least your typical welfare bum leaves most people alone they can’t get drunk near).
Communist “thinkers” like Marx, Engels, Cloward & Piven never saw the wave of dumb arising out of American progressivism. It might ruin capitalism and freedom forever but it means that full blown communism is a non-starter too.
Imbecile.
Ulcers, blood clots and vascular valves failing to work.
The first thing I’d say is I am very comfortable there are gay male players and I am very comfortable (in saying) they are known to their teammates,
Whoever said this is an idiot.
Sticking a dick up an arse is a vicious assault, and the idiot on the other end of the dick ought to restricted to jobs like working on the shitcart in an Aboriginal Settlement.
Hayne found guilty.
Eddles, some of it isn’t. My father had surgery to redirect blood to both his legs as some veins had packed up. It wasn’t cosmetic for him. Trust me on that.
We’ve been here before, it already has. If I told you 10 or 15 years ago that PMs would pretend they don’t know what a woman is, or that women that wanted only women in their toilets were Nazis, or that people would be allowed to change their sex on public documents, or LARP as men or women at work, or the like, you would have said this would never happen. But it has, and now much worse.
Having said that, we should acknowledge that Back Door Sex is used in the 3rd world as a form of Contraception, explaining all the women in Africa dead of AIDS.
All the African blokes dead of AIDS, they were all on the Down Low, as a matter of fact, they’re notorious for it.
Dot
If average in IQ is 100 for the given population being tested, how could test scores actually drop? It’s you relative to the rest of the population. Also, the tests are different each year they could have been more difficult. I’m not buying the bullshit that IQ has dropped in the US.
Dover
Let’s be clear. What are you predicting? Are you saying that .5% number will increase or something else?
Talking about Trannies, has Fulminating Karen been around today as I haven’t looked upthread?
I think its excesses will likely calm down after some huge class actions by detransitioners, or fear of them. If the ‘name and shame’ is also applied to those who enabled the hospitals, and if administrators, like the enablers subject to legal actions, then the bunnies will start to flee down the any available rabbit hole. The trans beliefs will still be there but they will have far less cultural sway and less of the ‘science says’ to back them up. Currently it is a fashion, a cult and a fad. Risen in five years, gone in five I hope, certainly in ten. Other issues will be far more pressing by then.
Paediatric psychiatrist John Whitehouse has an interesting article on ‘the science of it’ in this month’s Quadrant, about how young people are not capable of making certain life-changing decisions due to their immature brain development. Fingers those in Melbourne who are ignoring peer reviewed data.
Oh FFS! Check this sh*t out from the ABC. The contradictions start with headline.
About 4 million Queenslanders contracted COVID-19 at least once in 2022, Chief Health Officer says
Oh really. How many of the 4 million were jabbed you lying flog? Safe and effective. Of course, no specific time stamps over the course of the year are given and it has now been established that the flawed PCR test were a primary cause for the false scamdemic results. Yet, the sheep lined up to get the swab up their nose….Goggle box watchers! Sky news watchers and all in between.
But he said waiting until most people were vaccinated before reopening the state’s borders meant Queensland’s death rate from the pandemic virus in 2022 was about one-tenth that of the US.
Incorrect you bald headed corrupted flog. It was Fauci directed hospital protocols that were responsible for the US deaths. Opioids plus Remdesivir injected in the days before being put on a ventilator. After that course of action…..death! Midazolam was the other. I must check on the rate of this in Victoria for example under the hunchback’s reign.
Dr Gerrard said COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of 1,757 Queenslanders’ deaths by January 31 this year – a death rate of 33.9 per 100,000 population
More BS! Were they people with underlying comorbidities? The answer is yes. Ref the protocols above.
He said that was against estimates of more than 80 per cent of adult Queenslanders being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at least once in 2022 – a figure based on antibody testing of the state’s blood donors.
Proof needed, not provided here. C-19 is a re-branded seasonal flu based on a flawed testing regime.
“COVID-19 has been arguably, probably along with HIV, the biggest natural disaster in 100 years on the planet. It’s inevitable that it would affect Queenslanders in some way.
Absolute wank. Most who tested for positive for HIV were put onto AZT ( Fauci again ) which caused their immune system to fail and led to AIDS….a story for another day.
“I think it probably will affect life expectancy (in this state) but nothing like the effect … in the US. There are very few places in the world that are similar to Queensland.”
I refer again the hospital protocols above.
Fatality rate ‘no higher than seasonal flu’
Dr Gerrard said high population levels of vaccine uptake in Queensland before the borders opened restricted deaths from the virus to fewer than one in 2,000 people infected – a figure he said was similar to “most other respiratory viruses”, such as seasonal flu.
“If you look at the actual infection fatality rate for COVID (in Queensland), it was no higher than seasonal flu,” he said.
Correct in some parts.
Dr Gerrard said his biggest concern moving forward was for people aged over 65 and for immuno-suppressed Queenslanders.
“Most elderly people do OK, particularly if they’re vaccinated,” he said.
“That’s because the vaccines are just so effective.
A blatant lie for MSM watchers. All now proven to be a lie. The jabs did the most harm and continue to do so. The more you get jabbed, the more your immune system takes a hit. If you haven’t figured this out….keep me up to date with AFL scores.
“The one reservation I still have is older people over the age of 65 with waning immunity.
“We still need to push for them to get boosted after six months.”
Another lie. Prepare a noose for the bloke.. That sh*t injected into you does NOT give you immunity. 100% confirmed.
Vaccinate against flu and COVID: CHO
With flu numbers ramping up and COVID-19 hospitalisations starting to rise, Dr Gerrard urged Queenslanders to make sure they were vaccinated against both. “I think if you’re getting one, you should be getting the other,” Dr Gerrard.
“We can give them at the same time.”
I’ve got no sympathy for anyone who follows this advice. Deal with the results- a jab in the left arm and a jab in the right ( reminds me of a song ).
Queensland Health data shows 4,283 people have been diagnosed with flu so far this year, much higher than at the same time in 2022 and 2021, when numbers were affected by fewer people travelling.
No, the flu was magically was disappeared during the scamdemic you flog . What we are seeing is jab reactions.
This reminds me of the two ER doctors from the USA that was banned from sussietube.
*Death via car crash – C-19 victim.
*Death via heart attack- C-19 victim.
* Death by kidney failure – C-19 victim.
* Death via cancer – C-19 victim.
*Death via pneumonia – C-19 victim.
Etc, etc, etc…along with a host of other medical conditions…C-19 victim.
And then we learn learn hospitals were given mega cash pay grants if people succumbed to C-19 deaths…none dare mention ill intent for financial gain there.
All those oblivious to this represent a large portion of the population that will be probably be watching the MSM news tonight.
The hospital protocols in the UK used Midazolam to get the C-19 death numbers up in conjunction with ventilator use.
About 4 million Queenslanders contracted COVID-19 at least once in 2022, Chief Health Officer says”
Agggh. Minor changes have misplaced a few words there. You know what I mean though.
Wow Liz, Whitehouse is a massive genius. Like who would have known kids aren’t capable of making these decisions. We’re in such need of experts.
Colleges and universities are indeed why we are becoming dumber.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajes.12372?af=R
They are too certain of themselves and untested theories, let alone failed ones. Really, we entrust the training of white collar professionals to a solidly Marxist cult that sees nothing wrong with the failures and death toll of communism.
By Hershey Highway Friedman, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 80 (1), 2021, 53-77.
About 4 million Queenslanders contracted COVID-19 at least once in 2022, Chief Health Officer says”
I liked how on Sinc’s Cat you could see a box showing how a comment would look. Somehow minor errors became glaring, just as they do when you post, re-read and go Duh……
Dot
The name has to be a joke, right?
How the F.. do you end up with Highway as a middle name. Turnpike would be better.
They’ll just try you over and over again until they get a guilty verdict.
Bob Carr ruined our criminal justice system with his idiotic majority jury verdicts.
Anyone who approves of them can get on the B Ark with Ray Hadley.
Yeah right.
“Why don’t men approach us anymore!”
What we are in need of are experts like John Whitehall who look at some detailed research on the physiology of hormonal fluctuations during infancy and then again during puberty, showing an actual physiological effect upon myelinisation and some other features of the brain. If you haven’t got the science, you got nothing. You certainly won’t be winning as many compensation cases without it.
I “guessed” his middle name JC.
Not enough people get the B-52 references, (Dirty Back Road) so I have to throw some meat to my zealous fans like KD. He can’t make small goods without prime cuts.
Liz
Psychiatry is junk science. It’s total crap and I can’t imagine the toll this crappy science has had on the population using chemical treatments.
Australia is ‘not far away’ from re-establishing a good relationship with China
The equivalent of Uncle Ernie, suddenly waking up in an armchair after dinner and a few ports, and shouting: “There’s another electric eel in the garden!“.
Here’s the Whitehall article for those interested. Online at Quadrant.
Okay, some varicose vein surgery isn’t cosmetic, my point is that while White people have too much DNA devoted to Intelligence and not enough devoted to survival, Surgery isn’t such a big deal for women.
And this brings us to the Let Women Speak issue.
These Lezzoes and Fruitloops aren’t concerned about children being allowed to make disastrous life choices, or being groomed by Lezzoes and Puffs, no.
They’re only concerned about Women’s Sport, which has always been a Total Joke anyway.
Reading the other day that Jimmy Connors played a match at Caesars Palace against Navratilova when he was way past his prime.
He only had 1 serve and Navratilova could hit into the Doubles Court, yet he still won 6-2; 6-2.
Probly tanked, or he woulda won 6-0; 6-0.
Chris-chan Hipkins doesn’t know what a woman is. The PM of a country. More dial-up modem noises than a lingerie model explaining how a modern nuclear bomb works.
(The less gifted will fail to see the value of such an obscure troll in my closing remark).
It’s paywalled, so you might have to buy the current edition, $11.60, and you get Tim Blair too.
People criticize Eddleston, but who is their right mind could say any of this below is wrong?
Hershey Highway, eh?
His Mutha musta really liked him.
Dot
Really, we entrust the training of white collar professionals to a solidly Marxist cult that sees nothing wrong with the failures and death toll of communism.
m0nty=fa is a university lecturer? J’isming?
Eddleston
The only disagreement I have sheila sports is in boxing and UFC.
Sheila boxing and UFC is great and much more fun to watch than dudes because there’s always a knockout and the downed sheilas are always out cold. If you like watching boxing /UFC for knockouts sheilas rule.
Agree to a great extent, JC. But with the reservation that some psycho-active drugs may have a place, preferably short-term rather than long-term. Studying the biochemistry of the human brain though is a no-brainer. It must be done, so that we understand so much more of our thought processing. Improved imaging and using nuclear markers has been very useful.
The other thing is the legal system. Try gaining compensation for any injury from an insurance company without a litany of expert back ups on the science of a given disability. Same for gender bender freaks working on innocent children; you have to get the back up to snare them and send them to that special place in hell reserved in this morning’s cartoon for them. And give the kids something for the true damage done.
I don’t even know why you keep referring to this number. I said the situation re trans will continue along a number of fronts and gave example for each.
well – that’s about $75B , which is a little more than one third of the total social security spend.
About 20 times the current ~$4B total indigenous spend.
Okay, so lets try another way. Do you believe here will be more trannies in the future than in the past?
I know what you said, but I wasn’t asking you about that and I responded to your Boston hospital link.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: April 4, 2023 at 3:47 pm
Based on apparent currency devaluation plans by the RBA, it’s purchasing power would be about 500 of today’s dollars? 😀
If there is anyone I would definitely trust to fly my passenger airliner, it would be a 1428th generation pilot like Bruce Pascoe.
“shatterzzzsays:
April 4, 2023 at 3:46 pm
After this trans fad finally dies down,
I don’t think it will.
Why would it? ..
after all the most vocal supporters for trans are folk that aren’t gonna go trans …….!”
I believe shatterzzz nails it. The greatest problem are the supporters and extremely vocal hangers on who have expropriated the platform for themselves. These people don’t give a rat’s for trannies or the kids that have been swept up in this evil. It is the platform that is their all consuming hunger.
JC has found new employment as a trannie speculator.
He is resisting the push to go short on trannie futures, but he doesn’t seem to have backed a long position in the trannie market either. Look, he’s thought about it a lot, and he’s just not buy-sexual, okay!
Fragile people will always find a suitable predator to take advantage of them. If dollars and fame are involved, so much the better.
This is how I see the tranny craze. And there is another, even more toxic development that goes beyond simple, base exploitation. It has been politicised and it has given advantage to adopters.
Until the returns on investment reduce to negligible levels, it will continue.
Look out for your children and your grandchildren and protect them from harm. That’s the best advice I can offer to outride the storm.
Poggsie, you nail who’s nails it. Keep the hammer and nails handy.
Yes.
I think he may have a BA in Bludging. High Distinction in Indoctrination, Giving and Taking It.
Special electives Gymping 101 and Antifa for Beginners.
He attempted Economics, where his only success was in Keynes for Dummies, proceeding then to a Major in Advanced Internet Trolling, which he failed.
So he’s stuck on doing work experience here till he improves.
No sign of that yet. He’s wasting his time doing Junior Black Shirt work.
Berka
I believe it’s a flat trade. Trannie numbers as a proportion of the population are going to remain stable and there’s no trade other than selling puts and calls to gain premium income.
I do too, Dover. It’s the ultimate self-mutilation and delusion (apart from identifying as a house brick) and it’s been lionised by politicians and media and activists to the point of not only changing the language to describe it, but by demonising those who object.
Everyone pushing it is on a winner apart from the mutilated souls who wake up one morning and think “what the hell have I done?”.
I’ll go one step further, as our minds turn towards Easter and possibly to things spiritual. It is being fuelled by a hatred of human beings, a real, burning, unquenchable hatred. It has an aspect that I don’t expect many here to identify, but that’s okay. There’s a real sense of deja vu as I type that. Perhaps I said something similar on Sinc’s blog. After twelve years of watching all kinds of lunacy blossom and fruit, it doesn’t surprise me. 😀
And thanks Zero the Hero.
I knew my comment would draw you out like a moth to a flame. You are nothing but predictable.
I knew four flowers when I was a child: daisies, buttercups,dandelions and roses. I list them in order of increasing vulgarity.
As an adult, I have learnt six more: oleander, jacaranda, callistemon, bouganvillaea, hibiscus and strelitzia. Again, listed in order of increasing vulgarity.
Another few millennia and I may catch up with calli. Who I suspect named herself after the bottlebrush.
NZ PM Chris Hipkins struggles to define ‘women’
it probably has an anus and nipples
It means “beautiful stamens” Beau.
But no. My name is an attempt at wry humour. I have a face only a mother could love…I take after my father. 😀
Two generations and you can see speciation.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/new-species-evolve-in-just-two-generations/
The big black cats people see and shoot in Australia may be several newly evolved species of cats, arising from feral cats, interbreeding and getting new external DNA to avoid inbreeding from recently feral cats or undifferentiated feral cats.
Some reports are they get up to 20 kg, which is about as big as the (female) smallest sub species of leopards.
https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/03/04/australias-new-feral-mega-cats
Keep in mind feral cats in Australia have had hundreds of generations, cats reach sexual maturity at 4 months. White settlement goes back 235 years.
Firstly, I don’t care whether there’s one tranny on the planet or one million trannies. They are NOT women, and they have NO right to women’s spaces such as change rooms, toilets, and prisons, and they have no right competing in sport against biological women.
Secondly, the dangers to women and children by allowing self ID, where autogynephiles and various perverts who simply “identify as women”, and then demand access to female only spaces, are self evident and need no elaboration to any woman. There have already been assaults and rapes from males identifying as women in so called female only spaces. And for those who say, oh most transgender “women” don’t do this and aren’t dangerous, I say EFF OFF, because I am not willing to risk myself or any other female, be they young, middle aged or old, having to be exposed to any risk of violence by allowing males into our private spaces.
Most here have seen the scenes from the park in Auckland. Most of these perverts are dangerous, extremely dangerous, most of them hate women and want to cause us harm, why do you think they want access to women only spaces? It isn’t rocket science.
Read my lips…transwomen are not women.
Sorry about the rant.
BTW, transgenderism isn’t just about mutilating the body, it also involves people that like to larp as the opposite sex without surgery, people that want to be neither, anything ‘beyond’ existing sex/ gender boundaries.
If I was to pick my favourite flower, it would always be the one that’s flowering right now. Today I’ve been getting some materials ready for small quilts for the children’s ward – the little ones get to take them home. They are covered with Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, so my favourite flower today has to be gum blossom.
In the year 2000, I drove from Perth to Melbourne, sleeping every night in my car along the road. On my final night I stayed in a Victorian (single house) town called Dartmoor. I was awoken around 2am by a loud, low growling/snarling outside the car – whatever it was pushed up against my car and it shook way more than a tabby would’ve done!!!
Poor Jarryd.
Dover, I was just alluding to it in its most extreme form – surgery not all the stations in between which are also handy for exploitation.
Has there been anything the site left out about trannies over the past three months?
Trump lawyers win fight to keep cameras and recording equipment out of the courtroom:
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How about those muslim trannies.
Whites used to discriminate and treat people of color like shit in the old days. Whites now discriminate against whites. Whites, particularly American whites are just freaking awful.
The same clever people who were stating that the negro just needed the tender touch of government welfare to become successful (welfare being poison to EVERY group its poured upon) assure me that actively committing injustice against “whites” today will cancel out the previous injustices done to darkies in the past.
And if it doesnt work the answer is to PAINT IT RED
That’s an interesting topic for the next several weeks.
I don’t find the current insanity disturbing. I’ve known for a long time that human beans have, in the main, the propensity to believe whatever they want to believe. Or as Feynman put it, the easiest person to fool is yourself. It’s a fundamental flaw in the design of the human brain, and takes a lot of work to overcome. Most don’t even try.
Given that fatal flaw together with the human need to belong to a gang, and to be approved of by the rest of the gang, sanity is rare and always has been. Even the briefest study of history confirms this.
So it’s one loony fad after another until we become extinct. The wealthier you are, the easier it is to deny reality, but as Feynman also pointed out, you can’t fool the universe.
It doesn’t matter how passionately you believe you are superman and can fly, nor how many faithful believers you have. If you throw yourself off a tall building, then notwithstanding the strength of your belief, you will come down at 981 cm per second per second, less air resistance, until you splat on the pavement. Unless you really are superman. The universe will respect your belief only if it is true, otherwise it will quite dispassionately kill you for holding it. Nothing personal, but your belief was false.
It may kill you in a few seconds, or it may kill your gang over generations. But if your belief disagrees with reality, that belief will be destroyed. We may gang together to reinforce each other’s folly, but folly gets you killed. The universe, at least the non-human part of it, does not suffer fools gladly, or indeed at all.
Kipling said it better, the gods of the copybook headings are on the way.
If they’re wearing a letterbox, how could you tell?
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“It’s not his fault that he’s basically a bit stupid – it’s not his fault.”
We’ve seen people bashed in public. Kids murdered in school with no spotlight on the trans perpetrator. And so on. Seems to escalating rather than slowing down to me.
It seems to me like doctors, scientists and politicians collaborate every couple of decades on a collective insanity project.
Three houses there now, Lysander. 🙂
We stopped by one rainy day to look at the tree carvings. Cute nursery rhyme characters carved with a chainsaw from dead and dying trees. Was about to leave when a woman scurried up waving a piece of paper – the Dartmoor tourist brochure – and, after several minutes acclaiming the all the delights of Dartmoor, she invited us to inspect*, with her, the brand new public toilets.
It was one of those days you never forget.
*We did, of course. I suspect we were the first tourists to the town since plans for the public loos were submitted to Council.
The frisky little minxes always manage to find a way to let on.
Has there been anything the site left out about trannies over the past three months?
Yes.
The fact that the overwhelming number of teenage Trannies are Female to Male.
Do I have any issues about an F to M trannie using the same dunnies as me?
It’s hard to get excited over it, that’s for sure.
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I do because I have grandchildren, a couple of whom are entering puberty. Not panicking, as their parents are switched on. But they’ve already been exposed to the type of pornography that was unimaginable when I was raising my lot. All courtesy of mates with older siblings.
It’s hideous and it’s real and very sad. It robs them of their innocence.
If it was a salami, maybe.
Okay, but just try sitting at an assigned wedding table with a bloke sporting a bob-cut hair style, polka dot dress and high heals with a 5 o’clock shadow and pretend all is well and there’s nothing unusual going on. I dare you. It happened to us about 5 years ago.