FOAD, turd.
Open Thread – Tues 4 April 2023
- Bumtree #17
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- Open Thread – Mon 20 May 2024
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
Defence Minister Richard Marles accused of stalling on Richard Norden’s Victoria Cross honour ‘for political gain’EXCLUSIVE By ben packham Foreign…
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An Australia scientist worked with Fauci to cover up the origins of Covid. Why? – Senate 14.2.24 Senator Gerard Rennick
The phrase of the day is “felony enhancement”. LOL at those who whined that it was all going to be misdemeanours. I told you to wait for the charge sheet.
Was the sexual assault of women more or less prevalent prior to the “sexual revolution?”
The Trump grand jury cases ranked by order of hazard for Trump:
3. NY, business fraud
2. DC, January 6
1. GA, election interference
AstraZeneca is no longer available in Australia
There was a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare but serious side effect called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS).
TTS was very rare. In Australia, the rate of AstraZeneca-related TTS was estimated to be:
about 2 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca aged 60 years or older
about 2 to 3 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca under 60 years of age.
Symptoms typically occurred between 4 and 42 days after a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
AstraZeneca is no longer available as of 20 March 2023, so no further cases of AstraZeneca-related TTS can occur in Australia.
On 8 April 2021, the Australian Government received advice and recommendations from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) about the Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) vaccine and a syndrome called Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS).
On 17 June 2021, ATAGI issued a statement recommending an alternative to AstraZeneca for those aged under 60 years.
I LOLed.
After everything the rats have done, it’s time to prosecute the lesbian bitch.
Mind the rakes, won’t you.
The path you’re on is littered with them.
The AFR View
Global energy shock is still the inflation wildcard
OPEC shows the central bank may have more work to do.
After being badly caught out by the global inflation breakout, it is not unreasonable for the Reserve Bank to catch its breath on its monetary policy tightening.
While it started with its policy interest rate at a record low 0.1 per cent in May last year, there is no harm in taking a pause after 10 cash rate increases in as many board meetings to assess how the variable lags of monetary policy are making their mark this time round, even if the cash rate remains below the corresponding rate in countries including the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand.
Hence, as Governor Philip Lowe said in announcing the April pause, the central bank still expects that “some further tightening of policy may well be needed” to return inflation to its 2 per cent to 3 per cent target in more than two years’ time.
While banking crises in the US and Europe and a string of house builder collapses in Australia may give a central banker pause for thought, this week’s inflationary production cuts by the OPEC+ oil exporting nations – including Saudi Arabia and Russia – suggests that the global energy crisis is still far from over and that geo-politics remains the global inflation wildcard.
Moreover, the Reserve Bank has still only lifted its cash rate to 3.6 per cent, amounting to a negative real interest rate after accounting for prices growth. Inflation most likely has peaked at 8 per cent.
But it will be more than two years before it returns to target according to the Reserve Bank’s forecasts, prompting National Australia Bank chief executive Ross McEwan to tip another two cash rate increases.
As Mr McEwan told editors, columnists and reporters at The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday, the economy retains considerable momentum from mining and energy, agriculture and returning foreign students – Australia’s three big sources of export income.
Dr Lowe notes that wages growth continues to accelerate amid the tightest labour market in 50 years and catch-up claims for inflation.
He warns that aggregate wages growth is still consistent with the central bank’s inflation forecasts but only “provided that productivity growth picks up” and that the board “remains alert to the risk of a prices-wages spiral”.
Sure, there is not a big danger of a 1970s-style wage explosion that would end up throwing the economy into a deep recession. But state Labor governments in NSW and Victoria are now lifting their pay caps for public sector workers.
And the Albanese government is urging the Fair Work Commission to index the economy’s wage floor to the inflation breakout, as it did last year. If granted, that could increase one of the world’s highest minimum wages by more than 11 per cent in little more than a year.
That would set up pressure for pay increases up the award pay scales for millions of other workers earning up to $100,000 or more. The labour movement can push to reset that whole formal wages floor above inflation, or it can ease pressure on interest rates. But it cannot have both.
The Reserve Bank’s policy tightening to date has sharply increased borrowing costs for the one-third or so of households servicing a mortgage. Along with cost-of-living pressures from higher inflation and falling house prices, Dr Lowe says this is leading to a “substantial slowing in household spending”.
There is still a reasonable chance that this can be kept to a soft landing that limits any labour market shakeout. Yet, during the first OPEC oil shock of the 1970s, Australia similarly acted as if its mining and energy exports would spare it the worst of the global downturn.
Amid the failures of the Whitlam and Fraser eras, it took three recessions to return Australia to the ranks of a low inflation economy.
This time, Australia risks making things worse by restricting the supply of gas needed to ease the global energy crisis, to defend Europe and Ukraine against Russia, to keep the lights on at home and to reduce the costs of decarbonising the economy.
Rita Panahi:
Pat Cummins has his fair share of fanboys in the Australian media thanks in part to his overt leftist activism, whether it’s taking a knee for neo-Marxist group BLM or railing against fossil fuels.
But many cricket fans feel differently.
Look at any Cricket Australia post concerning the test captain and the comments are invariably mocking Cummins and his hypocritical and sometimes incoherent grandstanding.
Cummins is learning an important lesson about actions and consequences: not only are fans sick of politics intruding into sport, but corporates are waking up to the risk activist athletes pose to their brands.
Cricket Australia should be hot property, but right now it doesn’t have a major sponsor to replace energy provider Alinta, which will end its $40m sponsorship deal prematurely in June. Alinta made the decision after it was revealed that Cummins had voiced objections to the deal.
Why would any sponsor spend millions to have its brand trashed?
But Cummins claims his global warming crusade – which doesn’t seem to extend to his lavish lifestyle and gigantic carbon footprint – had nothing to do with the sponsorship.
Cummins also claims he doesn’t care about fans calling out his political posturing. In a puff piece in the Nine papers this year, he whined about being called woke. “I don’t even know what ‘woke’ means. If anything, some people would say it’s a good thing. It’s a label, it means nothing,” Cummins said.
So, Pat doesn’t know what “woke” means but it’s a good thing but it also means nothing? Just like his activism, Cummins’ understanding of the word is comically clueless. Let’s help him out and provide a few definitions.
This one is succinct and accurate, describing being woke as “a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behaviour”.
Author and mathematician James Lindsay has a more technical description: “Wokeness is a fusion of the critical theory school of neo-Marxism, which is a form of identity politics and radical activism that has a very particular worldview that separates the world into the oppressed and oppressors.”
But perhaps the most eloquent definition comes from Elon Musk: “Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armoured in false virtue.”
Trump was the victim of a shakedown, not Blackmail.
He coulda told her to publish and be damned, but instead he bribed her with campaign funds.
It didn’t work.
STFU crotchless. Stormy is an extorting slut. Trump never rooted her so she’s a liar as well. Bragg committed the felony by releasing the Grand Jury results. Commercial fu.k off payments like Trump did are a dime a dozen. They’re like trolls like you.
I understand he’s the first Australian cricket captain to have graduated from university.
Liberty quote:
Alvin Bragg: I have writtten the flimsiest most idiotc document you will ever see!!
The gruinaid: Hold my beer.
Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?
a sample of pure distilled aged-in-the-barrel idiocy here..
Artwork commissioned for the show from Queer Kernow comes with this caption: “Pirates existed in the shadows, in the margins of society – overthrowing societal conventions and creating their own counterculture.” Such figures as Anne Bonny, Mary Read and John “Calico Jack” Rackham have, as the note puts it, “queer resonances”. We project on this piratical other, in lieu of historical fact, our ever-changing fantasies. “In the 1970s, women pirates were seized on by feminists. Now they’ve become part of a different LGBTI+ discourse,” says Slade.
Liberty quote, dover!
Monty’s like a kid at Christmas opening presents.
Tearing through the Trump charge sheet hoping the next one will be the best ever.
Childish thinking is the mark of a socialist layabout.
Excellent.
I would add “raging” as in “raging awareness”. From what I have observed, it isn’t an inner discontent, it forces its way outwards in acts of violence and cruelty.
If it was only and inward change, normal people could rest easy, pat them on the head, and assure them that they will eventually grow out of it.
EPIC! President Trump is Selling Historic “NOT GUILTY” T-Shirts
That was quick! The Trump Campaign announced this afternoon they are selling historic “NOT GUILTY” T-Shirts on the campaign website.
Now you know why this man is a billionaire!
Within hours of President Trump’s junk indictment by the New York Communists the Trump Team announced their new “NOT GUILTY” T-shirts.
Stormy is an extorting slut. Trump never rooted her so she’s a liar as well.
In her heyday, Stormy was way hotter than any of Trump’s Plastic Surgery wives.
Course he rooted her, then he lied about it, then he paid her not to talk about it during the 2016 campaign, with money that wasn’t his.
So, as well as being cheap, and a bullshitter, he’s a chiseler.
James Morrow:
Pity poor Peter Dutton’s media team. In the 72-plus hours since last Saturday’s Aston by-election, they will have been hit with an absolute tsunami of news clippings and video grabs of pundits, experts, consultants and columnists telling their boss what to do if he wants to “save the Liberal Party”.
Which would be lovely except almost all of this commentary — which boils down to “be less Liberal!” — is about as helpful and well intentioned as a “free bird seed!” sign stuck up by Wile E. Coyote for the Road Runner.
One newspaper even said that the Liberals’ twin losses in Aston and NSW were due to their “ultra conservative ideology”, (don’t laugh) without listing a single policy that exemplified the problem.
This is not to say that the right in Australia is not in serious electoral trouble.
It is, but not because it has not tacked far enough to the left of the de facto Labor-Greens coalition on net zero or the Uluru Statement or trans issues.
If the Liberals really were unpalatably “too far right” then Chris Minns would have handily won a majority government in NSW two weeks ago.
Likewise, were the Coalition considered “too far right” last year, Labor would have scooped up more than just a third of the primary vote in a federal election that was in no small part about voters simply being over Scott Morrison at the end of an electoral cycle.
In all the back and forth over whether the Liberals are too moderate or too conservative, they have lost the thread of their story which should be economically aspirational and culturally united.
On economics, as the reality of Labor’s energy policies bite — has any nation successfully crashed through a renewables program like Chris Bowen has in mind without courting disaster? — that story should become obvious enough.
But it will not be enough to just quote the Prime Minister’s broken $275 energy bill promise back at him.
He must also point out the very real costs of renewables, whether in the price of new poles and wires or the environmental damage caused by wind farms and giving farmland over to solar panels.
The same goes for housing, which is an even more existential issue both for the nation and its conservative party.
Dutton was right to resurrect his Super Home Ownership Scheme in his October mini-Budget reply speech, a worthwhile document for the right to revisit because it outlines more about what the Libs should be thinking than almost anything since.
But he will have to go further and should seize on the issue of the hundreds of thousands of migrants the government is planning to bring into Australia at a time when housing construction is paralysed.
Pointing out the mindless pursuit of Big Australia may also win back some teal voters, who are staring down the barrel of class warfare in concrete and calls to remake their suburbs as high density utopias.
But even though it will make many of Dutton’s biggest free advice givers squeal, he must also take a definitive position opposing the Voice, not solely because it is, as its own backers admit, a legal minefield but because the idea of an elected body based on race cuts against the first principles of liberalism.
When his party room meets on Wednesday, Dutton should not suggest that if only this clause were changed or that power removed there might be a way through for the Liberals to support the Voice.
This is fighting on Albanese’s turf.
And it plays to the government narrative that the Liberals are just being pernickety and oppositional for their own sakes at a time when Labor is trying to sign us all up for a much higher national vision.
The same goes for the emotional blackmail that demands Australians vote “yes” so as to spare the feelings of Aboriginal Australians (as if they were all on the same side of the issue).
The Liberals must also call out the PM’s trickiness in acting like the vote is just about constitutional recognition, with the Voice a secondary bit of the agenda that does not bear thinking too hard about.
Albanese could not have been more disingenuous than when he claimed that at last Saturday’s by-election, locals “voted for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”. (FMD)
Conflating recognition of Australia’s Aboriginal past with the whole agenda of the Uluru Statement — not just a Voice but treaty and “truth telling”, whatever that is — amounts to nothing more than a constitutional bait and switch.
The PM’s claims about the Aston vote could easily, and more accurately, be turned on its head.
It is not that voters there said yes, it’s that they have not been given the opportunity to vote for a party that says no. And that’s the problem.
Because at its heart, the Voice and everything that follows from it is based on a dangerous and deeply illiberal idea that people should be treated differently based on their race or DNA, and the some of us will get an extra avenue to vote and be represented that the rest of us won’t.
Ware is anti-American in general but probably more intensely anti-Trump.
What’s nothing divided by 34?
Looks like Fat Alvin f-cked up.
LOL.
That is ominous but not surprising seeing as who was in charge – Gladys, Perrottet, Kean in the state.
TTS was very rare. In Australia, the rate of AstraZeneca-related TTS was estimated to be:
about 2 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca aged 60 years or older
about 2 to 3 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca under 60 years of age.
So if TTS was very rare, wouldn’t it be reasonable to keep using AZ? No? Because these rates are not “very rare”. The normal expectation for a vaccine would be that there might be one in a million adverse reactions. AZ is pushing 20-30 times that.
This means is that ATAGI COMPLETELY FAILED in their due diligence on AZ. Even worse, this was in an situation where vaccine mandates were in effect in many jurisdictions. People were forced to accept a treatment that was 20 to 30 times more dangerous than what would normally be acceptable.
The heads of ATAGI should be hung. Harsh? Ask the poor bastards dead or injured from this shit.
Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy Notes Trump Indictment Doesn’t Outline any Crime
April 4, 2023 – Sundance
Andrew McCarthy notes the same thing everyone else is noticing, the absence of a violation of a criminal statute. {Direct Rumble Link}
For the first time in United States history a former president has been accused of a crime and indicted, yet the person making the accusation and bringing the charge doesn’t say what crime has been committed. What criminal statute has been violated? Even the leftist media are apoplectic at the weakness of the indictment. WATCH:
Clennell is just a garden variety arsehole, I fail to see how he keeps his job with his anti-intuitive contributions.
The Trump grand jury cases ranked by order of hazard for Trump:
3. NY, business fraud
2. DC, January 6
1. GA, election interference
Speaking of trolls, dickless oozes in leaving a trail of excrement and crack slime.
There is no business fraud. Bragg, who committed the felony by releasing Grand Jury details, has invented a crime which does not exist.
The FBI investigated Trump’s alleged involvement with Jan 6 and found no evidence Trump was involved or any organisation.
The GA election interference was summed up by the idiot head juror. She/it looks like what I imagine you would want to look like after your gender surgery. But seriously Trump HAS TAPE RECORDINGS of the alleged criminal phone call where he makes no demands or threats but expresses a hope for a fair election. Poor bastard. After all this time he still thinks the left scum play fair.
Now FOAD, metaphorically, you slime bag.
In her heyday, Stormy was way hotter than any of Trump’s Plastic Surgery wives.
Better than mummie??
She will be cross skinsuit boy.
Regarding Morrow’s piece. Listening to Tom Elliott who is filling in for Nanny Mitchell, on Monday he posed the question: what do the Liberal Party need to do to be relevant again? Had a few callers in with their view.
Yesterday Elliott led with the idiot UnZed PM and his unwillingness to define a woman, despite his predecessor being one. This should be a big issue that a conservative party can hammer any Leftist over. I can almost guarantee that if Dutton fought this, there would be votes in it.
But then again, we are talking the SFLs.
The Trump Indictment Is Even More Silly Than Anyone Imagined….
April 4, 2023 – Sundance
Some, generally those who recognize a historic context within the moment of its manifest, will say that President Donald Trump carries an anointing – a protection that keeps harm from his purpose.
Others, mainly those who pontificate punditry while exclaiming, “the beginning of the end” and “the walls are closing in”, will likely gnash their horrible teeth and declare the bad man Trump is coated in Teflon. Albeit with a slowly lessening voice, while becoming even smaller than they were.
The indictment of Donald J. Trump IS HERE and the “statement of facts” IS HERE.
The situation, as it is represented within the text, is even more laughable than we could have imagined.
It is no wonder why the FEC, DOJ and Mueller Teams took a pass on the allegations. The entire legal construct collapses on its face.
In the statement of facts, District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Donald Trump intended to, “influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects. In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York“…
However, you will note one key element missing, the statute he supposedly violated.
What is this federal election law Bragg speaks of?
Every single one of the 34 stacked counts are contingent upon some federal violation of election law that the FEC and DOJ refused to pursue. Yet, nothing is cited.
The courts have already determined that campaign funds can be used to avoid potentially embarrassing personal information (John Edwards case). Using personal funds, or campaign funds to avoid potentially embarrassing information, is not a campaign finance violation.
But wait, it gets better…. or worse, if you dislike Trump.
Every single one of the 34 instances when business records were “falsified” to conceal payments to Trump legal counsel, Michael Cohen, happened between February 2017 and October 2017.
Guess what President Trump was NOT doing within the Trump organization in 2017, running it!
When Donald J. Trump won the November 2016 presidential election, he subsequently divested from the Trump organization, handing over control to Eric Trump and the company officers and directors.
Throughout 2017, presumably when these false business records (they are not) were created, President Donald J. Trump was not directing any accounting, disbursements or business record keeping within the organization.
(Via CNN) – The text of the 19-page letter reads: “I, Donald J. Trump, hereby resign from each and every office and position I hold” in more than 400 entities listed on the following pages.
The letter is signed by Trump and dated January 19, the day before he was sworn in.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Monday that Trump’s two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, are “fully in charge of the company.”
At a press conference January 11, Trump pledged to transfer his business holdings to a trust run by the sons. He refused to sell his ownership stake, a step that many ethics lawyers say is critical to avoid conflicts of interest. (read more)
The New York of 2019 that I saw was not American, I did not see a single American at the airport, shops, restaurants, transport, anywhere. It was all recent migrants which leads me to believe that young Americans are no longer coming to New York to seek their fortune. It could be that they are no longer welcome.
Breaking911
@Breaking911
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REPORTER: “The indictment does not specifically say what those crimes were. […] What laws were broken?”
DA BRAGG: “The indictment doesn’t specify because the law does not so require…”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1643380738165710848
mUnty’s a fair dinkum Rake Seeking Missile
In her heyday, Stormy was way hotter than any of Trump’s Plastic Surgery wives.
Course he rooted her, then he lied about it, then he paid her not to talk about it during the 2016 campaign, with money that wasn’t his.
So, as well as being cheap, and a bullshitter, he’s a chiseler.
That’s better piss taking crotchless.
Stormy hasn’t reached her heyday. She’s planning on transitioning. That’s where the real dosh is and Stormy, like all lying whores, is a good business slut.
As for Trump rooting her: were you there; do you have photos. No, of course not. It’s just her lying words against the most honest POTUS ever.
And cheap and bullshitting and chiselling is you looking in the mirror.
Calli, I love middle America and especially the Rockies states. They are a pleasant mixture of modern and the traditional America that had existed since inception. The scenery is also stunning and soul nourishing.
Wow, the indictments are a joke. I thought some other situation was going to be involved but, no.
Twitter Thread Expertly Dissects Millennial/Gen Z Psychology
By Ben Bartee – April 04, 2023
With each successive generation, it seems we get one step closer in Western civilization to peak nihilism.
The Twitter thread below starts with a truncated summary of Gen Z psychology (but also, I would argue, applicable to millennials, the generation I belong to): “to be serious is to be ‘cringe’, to be in love is to be a ‘simp’, and to be ambitious is to be a ‘try-hard’.”
The initial diagnosis is followed by greater elaboration deeper into the thread.
The entire thread is worth reading, as it touches on nearly every social illness that grips the younger generations – modern feminism, hookup culture, the rejection of meaning and objective reality itself, and – which I wish to focus on here –
the full-throated embrace of irony as a coping mechanism in a world cleansed of inherent meaning.
The thread concludes on a hopeful, positive note – one that the subject of this discourse, millennials and zoomers, would do well to embrace:
“Gen Z is the generation of nihilism.
Zoomer’s [sic] are incapable of doing something rather than nothing. They are like Zombies, too dead to live and too alive to die.
Don’t abide by their standards. Pursue greatness, live passionately, and do so unapologetically.”
Haven’t we had enough of that topic, over the past couple of days?
Astrazeneca is superseded because it wasn’t designed to be effective against the current variants and we now have a more effective vaccines with less side effects called Novavax, or variant specific mRna vaccines.
But you know, anything to keep the vaccine narrative humming.
Astrazeneca has been on the way out for a long time, it was practically unavailable as a booster through 2022, you had to get special permission to get it.
But you know, anything to keep the vaccine narrative humming
Yes true ?
P says:
April 5, 2023 at 9:53 am
Breaking911
@Breaking911
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1h
REPORTER: “The indictment does not specifically say what those crimes were. […] What laws were broken?”
DA BRAGG: “The indictment doesn’t specify because the law does not so require…”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1643380738165710848
P,
From the Comments
– This is painful to watch as a former prosecutor myself… this is what happens when you mix politics and prosecution. A perversion of the criminal justice system.
– How can he not realize how circular this argument is?
– This is embarrassing! Clown World
– Banana Republic
– Stalin would be proud
– In other words, it’s a politically motivated witch hunt intended to humiliate.
– What he said in fact: “In communist regimes we don’t have to state the crime.”
I have no doubt all the exotic composite armour will work a treat
keeping out kinetic and self-forging rounds in any hot tank on tank action.
How face hardened, rolled steel over-head armour stands up to
plunging artillery fire remains to be seen.
🙂 l meant
Is Bragg affirmation action in motion?
Not a patch on Clarence Thomas.
Yes, Trump brought in ballots after 2 AM in suitcases, not properly date marked etc against himself, by Democrat volunteers.
This whole stinking “indict the Trump leg ham sammich” debacle is electoral interference.
In other shocking news…
All of 2/3 of the people in the US who started watching Amazon’s Rings of Power did not bother sticking with it to the end!
(Slightly better results overseas – where there is less choice in viewing so people watching TV must lower their standards to be able to find something to watch.)
I think I’m sharing my local cafe with a de facto office of an NDIS provider.
Very professional no nonsense on the phone and giving instructions to her assistant tapping away on the lap top.
Pity about the gum chewing, leggings and thongs.
Oh and being in a public cafe.
Don’t watch Sunrise on 7 now. According to talking head, Biden is the adult in the room, therefore wins the next election. FMD
She’s also very skint.
Stormy Daniels Ordered to Pay Trump Another $122,000 in Legal Expenses over Failed Defamation Suit (4 Apr)
Maybe when she is arraigned for contempt of court she can have the cell next to Avenatti, after he transitions.
No. I have reviewed the data and you need coke bottle glasses and a clip over the ears.
The seethe!
The cope!
Rubbish.
Dutton needs to gut The Voice before he announces a position on the Referendum.
If he does that, then the result won’t matter.
If he does it arse about, he’s dealt himself out.
Which shows how smart an operator he is.
By telling Littleproud to oppose the Referendum, he’s cut the National Party out of the negotiations and sidelined Barnaby Joyce.
You don’t hear much about him anymore, do you?
Panahi on Captain Alinta, and as linked by BB:
Whap. Right on the sack.
Cummins and his coven of milquetoasts had the chance to walk everything back after the netty/Rinehart fiasco. But no, apparently doubling down was the way to go.
As far as I’m concerned they can go back to the 70s and get paid $500 per Test, and see how much their additional virtue buys them after that.
Correct.
As usual, the NSW election turned on the swing of the marginal vote – that is, around 18%* of the 80% of the voting population who turned out.
Quite clearly, a fair chunk of them (around ~35% by the look of the 2PP result) weren’t repulsed by the ‘too far rightness’. Given the atrophy of the Coalition Governments it’s a big partisan call to argue anything more specific than ‘it’s time’ for the rest.
* Non ALP, Greens , Coalition.
A totally non provocative and not passive aggressive person here told me I was dumb for taking that to keep my job against my will and I deserve my inevitable, slow, painful and untimely death.
Here’s the thing. There are millions of jabbees who are WAY more pissed than the purebloods realise.
I was jabbed and a mate of mine wasn’t, his verbal judo was astounding, he kept his job. We were both treated like sarin gas in a nursery (even though I buckled after 10 or so months of stalling) so needless to say we’re both pretty damned cynical.
GWGB.
Nolte: Woke Fail – HBO Max and JK Rowling Ready for ‘Harry Potter’ Series (4 Apr)
John Nolte actually likes that Warner is going back to J K Rowling despite her cancellation by the wokerati. However I have great faith in Hollywood to stuff it up so badly that she will jump ship as soon as they get their qwerty gumboots on and ruin the series.
They’re a joke. Then again, so is three trials to get a conviction with majority verdicts. Australia is no better.
Don’t think he’s been told today, phuck off monty
I couldn’t watch Seven for more than a few minutes, Black Ball. Their febrile excitement was almost sexual, and I’m a bit shy in witnessing that sort of stuff.
Must have been an early imprint from 1964 when the Beatles visited. 😀
Send munty the munificence of wrong to Ukeland as a WMDimness. What’s Russkie for ‘incoming rakes’?
Another $2.6 Billion In Defense Aid To Ukraine
WEDNESDAY, APR 05, 2023
The Biden administration announced the next tranche of aid military aid for Ukraine on Tuesday, this time totaling $2.6 billion.
An official White House press release stipulated that $2 billion of this would be for various types of munitions, radar and weapons to defend the country in the future, and just ahead of an expected spring offensive against Russian forces
Below is the full list of what this latest defense package includes, according to the US Dept. of Defense:
The capabilities in this package include:
. Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
. Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
. 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
. 120mm mortar rounds;
. 120mm and 105mm tank ammunition;
. 25mm ammunition;
. Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
. Approximately 400 grenade launchers and 200,000 rounds of ammunition;
. 11 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
. 61 heavy fuel tankers;
. 10 trucks and 10 trailers to transport heavy equipment;
. Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair;
. Spare parts and other field equipment.
Under USAI, the DoD will provide Ukraine with:
. Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
. Nine counter-Unmanned Aerial System 30mm gun trucks;
. 10 mobile c-UAS laser-guided rocket systems;
. Three air surveillance radars;
. 30mm and 23mm anti-aircraft ammunition;
. 130mm and 122mm artillery rounds;
. 122mm GRAD rockets;
. Rocket launchers and ammunition;
. 120mm and 81mm mortar systems;
. 120mm, 81mm, and 60mm mortar rounds;
. 120mm tank ammunition;
. Javelin anti-armor systems;
. Anti-armor rockets;
. Precision aerial munitions;
. Approximately 3,600 small arms and more than 23,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
. Seven tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
. Eight heavy fuel tankers and 105 fuel trailers;
. Armored bridging systems;
. Four logistics support vehicles;
. Trucks and ten trailers to transport heavy equipment;
. Secure communications equipment;
. SATCOM terminals and services;
. Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
From the Comments
– The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon’s short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in the Middle East and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.
Robert F.Kennedy Jr, April 3, 2023
– But,but,but,but
Just a few of the many “Russia running out of ammunition” headlines from last year:
March 25, 2022 “Russia running out of precision munitions” https://www.reuters.com/wor…
April 2, 2022 “Putin running out of missiles” https://metro.co.uk/2022/04…
April 29, 2022 “Russia running short of precision missiles” https://www.ft.com/content/…
May 6, 2022 “Putin running out of missiles” https://www.cityam.com/puti…
May 9, 2022 “Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine” https://dailytrust.com/russ…
June 11, 2022 “Russia running out of precision weapons” https://ukdefencejournal.or…
July 1, 2022 “Russia admits it’s running out of weapons” https://www.newsweek.com/ru…
July 8, 2022 “Vladimir Putin running short of missiles” https://www.mirror.co.uk/ne…
Aug. 13, 2022 “Vladimir Putin humiliated as Russia warned weapons stock running out” https://www.express.co.uk/n…
Oct. 11, 2022 “Russia running out of weapons” https://news.sky.com/story/…
Oct. 15, 2022 “Russia will run out of arms before Ukraine” https://www.benzinga.com/ne…
Oct. 16, 2022 “Ukraine says Russia running out of missiles” https://www.jpost.com/inter…
Oct. 28, 2022 “Russia runs out of missiles” https://kyivindependent.com…
Nov. 9, 2022 “Russia may be running out of missiles to use against Ukraine’s infrastructure” https://www.euronews.com/20…
Nov. 22, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles – Ukraine’s minister of defense” https://www.reddit.com/r/OS…
Nov. 23, 2022 “Russia is running low on ammo” https://foreignpolicy.com/2…
Nov. 26, 2022 “Russia firing old and empty missiles as Putin runs out of weapons” https://headtopics.com/us/r…
Dec. 13, 2022 “US: Russia is running out of ammunition” https://bnn-news.com/us-rus…
Dec. 15, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles, Ukraine security chief says” https://financialpost.com/p…
Dec. 31, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles – Ukraine Ministry of Defense” https://www.jpost.com/inter…
Weird huh,,,Russia is out of Ammo …….BWHahahahahahahahahahaha
“TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR”
Sorry. Not going to happen Bruce.
Unimpressive, but Rowling has only just fallen foul of the Rainbow Warriors for refusing to believe that certain colours exist on the spectrum.
Trump live now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqCbU4CpKI
Haha, Monty is projecting again. When you’ve even lost CNN you really are hanging by a thread.
Seethe while you can, Monty, and cope.
Hahaha. Thanks, Alvin Bragg! As we speak, Donald Trump is launching his 2024 presidential campaign from Trump Tower in New York City.
The Dems better make sure their election-rigging system is up to the task of holding back the tide.
Another $2.6 Billion In Defense Aid To Ukraine
WEDNESDAY, APR 05, 2023
The Biden administration announced the next tranche of aid military aid for Ukraine on Tuesday, this time totaling $2.6 billion.
An official White House press release stipulated that $2 billion of this would be for various types of munitions, radar and weapons to defend the country in the future, and just ahead of an expected spring offensive against Russian forces
Below is the full list of what this latest defense package includes, according to the US Dept. of Defense:
The capabilities in this package include:
. Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
. Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
. 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
. 120mm mortar rounds;
. 120mm and 105mm tank ammunition;
. 25mm ammunition;
. Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
. Approximately 400 grenade launchers and 200,000 rounds of ammunition;
. 11 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
. 61 heavy fuel tankers;
. 10 trucks and 10 trailers to transport heavy equipment;
. Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair;
. Spare parts and other field equipment.
Under USAI, the DoD will provide Ukraine with:
. Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
. Nine counter-Unmanned Aerial System 30mm gun trucks;
. 10 mobile c-UAS laser-guided rocket systems;
. Three air surveillance radars;
. 30mm and 23mm anti-aircraft ammunition;
. 130mm and 122mm artillery rounds;
. 122mm GRAD rockets;
. Rocket launchers and ammunition;
. 120mm and 81mm mortar systems;
. 120mm, 81mm, and 60mm mortar rounds;
. 120mm tank ammunition;
. Javelin anti-armor systems;
. Anti-armor rockets;
. Precision aerial munitions;
. Approximately 3,600 small arms and more than 23,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
. Seven tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
. Eight heavy fuel tankers and 105 fuel trailers;
. Armored bridging systems;
. Four logistics support vehicles;
. Trucks and ten trailers to transport heavy equipment;
. Secure communications equipment;
. SATCOM terminals and services;
. Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
From the Comments
– The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon’s short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in the Middle East and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.
Robert F.Kennedy Jr, April 3, 2023
– But,but,but,but
Just a few of the many “Russia running out of ammunition” headlines from last year:
March 25, 2022 “Russia running out of precision munitions”
April 2, 2022 “Putin running out of missiles”
April 29, 2022 “Russia running short of precision missiles”
May 6, 2022 “Putin running out of missiles”
May 9, 2022 “Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine”
June 11, 2022 “Russia running out of precision weapons”
July 1, 2022 “Russia admits it’s running out of weapons”
July 8, 2022 “Vladimir Putin running short of missiles”
Aug. 13, 2022 “Vladimir Putin humiliated as Russia warned weapons stock running out”
Oct. 11, 2022 “Russia running out of weapons”
Oct. 15, 2022 “Russia will run out of arms before Ukraine”
Oct. 16, 2022 “Ukraine says Russia running out of missiles”
Oct. 28, 2022 “Russia runs out of missiles”
Nov. 9, 2022 “Russia may be running out of missiles to use against Ukraine’s infrastructure”
Nov. 22, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles – Ukraine’s minister of defense”
Nov. 23, 2022 “Russia is running low on ammo”
Nov. 26, 2022 “Russia firing old and empty missiles as Putin runs out of weapons”
Dec. 13, 2022 “US: Russia is running out of ammunition”
Dec. 15, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles, Ukraine security chief says”
Dec. 31, 2022 “Russia is running out of missiles – Ukraine Ministry of Defense”
Weird huh,,,Russia is out of Ammo …….BWHahahahahahahahahahaha
“TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR”
Their febrile excitement was almost sexual, and I’m a bit shy in witnessing that sort of stuff.
Must have been an early imprint from 1964 when the Beatles visited.
Chortle
I never blamed anyone for getting jabbed Dot. The pressure on many was too much to bear. Not the HBB variety. Long as those remember they were lied to. Leftist won’t mind of course, they thrive on lies. The bigger the better.
BTW, top-rating Fox News is covering the Trump campaign launch live during Tucker Carlson’s top rating 8pm hour.
It will probably be the most watched hour on US TV so far this year — Super Bowl included.
Corporates are waking up to even more peril than that.
SMH: Radio Silence Replaces Greenwashing Claims (3 Apr)
“Australian companies are walking back their public commitments to climate action as part of a growing global trend known as “green hushing”.
With Australian regulators now cracking down on alleged greenwashing, companies have been put on notice that they face an increased risk of legal action for false claims.
The biggest superannuation fund in the country, AustralianSuper, removed its climate report from its website on March 22. The copy on the website where the report used to sit now says: “We are currently updating our climate change report. A new version will be available soon.”
A “net zero by 2050” fact sheet, which included a commitment to active ownership to drive climate action, was removed from AustralianSuper’s website in March.”
Companies have forgotten that Green Marxists are still Marxists, and corporations are their natural prey animal. So it’s amusing that they are caught between a rock and a hard place: they cannot properly do the net zero shtick without faking it (since if they did it for real they’d go bankrupt), and now they’re scared that if they say they are doing it they’ll get hammered by the ACCC for lying. Popcorn anyone?
Robert Barnes
@barnes_law
The indictment is legally insufficient on its face. New York state law does not make it a crime to influence an election. Federal law does not make it a crime either. Maybe that’s why no law is actually cited in the indictment. Nor are the facts sufficient.
Good luck for Trump as he tries not to commit contempt of court.
Dot,
same as GreyRanga above
I totally understand the pressure re needing to make a living and have total sympathy for all involved
I am retired and so no work pressure, but came under non stop intense pressure from Family, but as I was already on Anti-Viral well before Covid, was happy to continue
Did consider Novavax, but by the time it was approved, decided to give it a miss.
What needs to be done is a Complete Investigation into the whole fiasco of mRNA Vaccines and TGA re banning Ivermectin and HCQ
Australia was lied to by Politicians, TGA & the Medical Profession
we now have a more effective vaccines with less side effects called Novavax, or variant specific mRna vaccines.
But you know, anything to keep the vaccine narrative humming.
Less side effects like f’cking dying?
Good.
Maybe they shouldn’t have rubber stamped this shit?
Oh yeah.
Aaaaaaany day now.
What needs to be done is a Complete Investigation into the whole fiasco of mRNA Vaccines and TGA re banning Ivermectin and HCQ
Australia was lied to by Politicians, TGA & the Medical Profession
We don’t need an investigation, we know who they are.
We need public hangings.
They’re not going to leave people alone until this happens.
Trump literally got arrested today.
Candie and Old Stephen vibe:
https://twitter.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/1643324918468079617
MiltonF:
I can’t think of a distinct point at which that happened, Milton.
A hint, please?
Aha! Just noticed the little blue tweety bird has disappeared. The big orange dog must have been hungry.
It has a guilty, side eye look.
I know it’s a bitcoin meme but…nicely timed.
Planes will land at Mascot, then take-off from Badgery’s Creek.
Chris Bowen’s working on a plan.
C.L. posted a great essay last night. Any Menzian rejuvenation would do well beginning by looking at that ad.
Woops! My bad. I said Trump’s speech just concluded was at Trump Tower in NYC. It was, of course, at his home in Florida.
Anchor What:
I don’t think it will crumble, just a replay of Chile as the the US throws off the latest Marxist insurgency and purges itself of the contagion.
As Menzies write ‘the real freedoms are to worship, to think, to speak, to be industrious, to be ambitious, to acquire skill, to seek reward. These are the real freedoms for these are the essence of the nature of man’.
Show me the man I’ll show you the crime, eh Monty?
Someone said that once. I wonder who it was?
Maybe Alvin Bragg in another life.
Their ABC scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard they were startled by the say of sunshine as they broke through the other side of the earths crust.
They had – the lawyer for the creepy lawyer guy who represented Stormy and was convicted of defrauding her offering commentary on the trump case.
After that was Chris Barrie (ex head of the ADF) extolling the virtues of the UN and informing us Australia had already reached 1.5 degrees of warming and fighting climate change should be the defense forces number 1 issue.
He actually rated it as more concerning than a possible war with China…
Their ABCcess- all propaganda, all the time.
That time in the history of Western civilization when a banal old razor commercial contained more wisdom about the human condition than virtually the entirety of the political, ecclesiastical, academic, legal, medical, artistic, and journalistic establishments.
Bloody hell, how far we’ve fallen.
Lots of people get arrested. Lots of those people walk.
Strikes me that many defence oroficers are just Canbra pubes in uniform.
After that was Chris Barrie (ex head of the ADF) extolling the virtues of the UN and informing us Australia had already reached 1.5 degrees of warming and fighting climate change should be the defense forces number 1 issue.
So f’cking gay.
I am sure the judge in Trump’s case will be perusing the transcript of that speech for reasons to lay an official gag order. Calling for the prosecutor to be prosecuted is generally frowned upon in criminal cases.
that was then
Gillete can kiss my hoary R’s now
I must say the “vaccinated” and “boosted” Stossel is looking good for 76 years of age. It’s a shame he screwed up getting the toxic muck injected into him, practically ruining his immune system for the future.
Bad move on his part and he reckons he got covid based on a flawed test. NO John, it’s just a flu and now you are more susceptible to them in the future. Giving your immune system a punch in the guts with mRNA was bad, bad move. I’m actually surprised he got sucked in from Big-Pharma. Most of my family is on that the list…it sucks.
Oh well, too late now, buddy. I used similar words with my father and brother but added, DON’T get anymore f*cking shots for f*ck sake! It worked.
A lot of bewildered people in the clips comment section sticking the boot in.
Should’ve had your twelfth booster. That would’ve prevented it until you needed your thirteenth booster.
I laughed.
Catching Covid Makes Me Resent Big Government Even More”
In elderly love news…
Rupert’s engagement is off.
King Charles decrees that it will be “Queen Camilla,” if you please. “Consort” dropped.
‘the real freedoms are to worship, to think, to speak, to be industrious, to be ambitious, to acquire skill, to seek reward. These are the real freedoms for these are the essence of the nature of man’
ABC Rating: Sovereign Citizen Nutjob
Cricket and Cricket Australia’s natural state is hopelessness. Kerry Packer dragged it into the 20th century of the height of FTA TV which is itself is now dying. Cricket is now wholly dependent on the BCCI who leads it round by the nose to the detriment of every country’s domestic competitions. Arguably there are only 4 countries capable of playing Test cricket at an international level. Cricket won’t die in my lifetime but I’m not sure it will be here in 100 years.
The Trump indictment is an indictment on the millions of voters who voted for Trump in 2016 and in 2020. If the corrupt Democrat Party and its corrupt wing, the DoJ, could indict every Trump voter, they would.
I have long thought that they won’t rest until Donald Trump is dead. I believe that’s the goal.
Copy – don’t forget blackout Bowen will have the reverse process for flying out of oz, except the planes must be electric or using green hydrogen. Such genius cannot fail …
What ever happened to under-promising and over-delivering?
Now, every day is Muellerween; every game changer, Red Square by May Day.
Cats know all this but the article is a good concise and complete summary.
Assault and Battery: Beware Those EVs (4 Apr)
RTWT. It’s factually correct. I wonder if our pollies have ever been told this sort of thing?
Cassie, that last is true and I’ve been saying as much for years now. I hope he has excellent security, and his family also.
I have long thought that they won’t rest until Donald Trump is dead. I believe that’s the goal.
I think Trump realises this as well, but pushes on regardless, to his absolute credit.
Yeah, those are Liberal Virtues.
Conservative values:
Shaddup,
Do as we say,
Be obedient,
Don’t think, we’ll do that for you,
Quotas to keep the peasants in line,
Punitive taxation to keep them poor.
Why pine for a conservative Party when you’ve already got a Labor Party?
So let me get this straight.
Trump is to be accused of interfering in his own election.
While the prosecutor has stated he intends to drag the cases out over the next election cycle on which Trump may be a candidate.
Monty – You’re behind the curve. The official gag order has been discussed in the rightosphere for days now: it’s part of the whole strategy to get him with a Catch 22. I’m sure Trump’s lawyers have their briefs to submit to various appeals courts ready to go, to overturn it.
It’s only the lack of success that makes it possible. We’ve got him this time. And still the believers,mUntylike, fall into line.
“I think Trump realises this as well, but pushes on regardless, to his absolute credit.”
He loves his country, that’s why.
Lakes have feelings too.
Radical enviros want Great Salt Lake given personhood (4 Apr)
Maybe they should import the Rainbow Serpent. That way they could avoid having to make every creek a person, which would be a lot of work.
The attack on Trump is an attack on those things Menzies said and the people he referred to in 1949
Just like Muntard, no ethics, no values, just the side.
Mother Lode:
Good one, ML. People who have the temerity to ask the questions that should be asked are not often treated well here. The questions may not be popular but the amount of vitriol is sometimes surprising.
Some questions just have to be asked.
PJW on why ‘Go Woke Go Broke’ is dead wrong.
rosiesays:
April 5, 2023 at 10:02 am
…anything to keep the vaccine narrative humming.
rosiesays:
April 4, 2023 at 10:39 pm
Daily Mail.
Bombshell as the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is no longer available to Australians
From the link:
AZ was still only being offered to over 60s really right up to the end of November, 2021. People – any people – could only get the Pfizer shot if they hung around the front of the local hospital at the end of the day and the nurses had some unused and would offer it to anyone to finish the vial. A number of people I know went that route, rather than get AZ.
As to her reference to Novavax – that one was rolled out in February, 2022, but she would have us believe that only now, more than 12 months later, it’s a better choice (along, of course, with the shilling for the mRNAs).
BUT some uncomfortable news for Bennett here:
On 22, July, 2021, ‘Scott Morrison has apologised for the nation’s behind-schedule vaccine program and told young people the AstraZeneca jab is “available right now” in a bid to speed up innocculations…’
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fastra-blitz-scotto-morrison-says-get-the-covid19-vaccine-now%2Fnews-story%2F86be0b4fde2c9dce40992e3df06fbdde&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-low-control-score&V21spcbehaviour=append
(Sorry, I can’t open the entire story, but that is the link, if you have an Oz subscription).
That date, June, 2022, is not correct. It was the previous year that those deaths occurred – and were reported just weeks after the roll out began – remembering that the program started very slowly and was a staged rollout from the third week of February, 2021.
‘Particularly when Delta was the dominant strain, we couldn’t have got to where we did in terms of fighting off the virus by relying on the mRNA vaccines alone.’
Now when it that Delta strain arrive in Australia?
Two members of a West Melbourne family who visited New South Wales last month before testing positive for Covid-19 have been found to have the Delta variant of Covid-19.
It’s the second time the variant – first identified in India – has been found in the community in Australia, following a Sydney couple testing positive in May.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/04/where-did-australias-first-cases-of-the-delta-variant-come-from-and-how-infectious-is-it
Not got your facts straight, have you, Prof.
Prof B
ennett said those who had earlier doses of AstraZeneca and then got a later dose of a different brand actually had greater protection.
‘Heterologous vaccination, combining vaccines, is very effective,’ she said.
According to the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), a Covid vaccine booster dose is recommended for everyone aged over 65 in early 2023.
For those aged 18 to 64, a 2023 booster dose is recommended only for those with increased Covid-19 risk.
‘For healthy people, one booster is probably enough, you’re not going to get significantly more protection from another booster,’ Prof Bennett said.
The Department of Health and Aged Care confirmed the phasing out of the vaccine was due to the availability of newer options.
‘This was not a decision based on safety as some people have misrepresented on social media,’ a spokesperson said.
‘As expected, first generation vaccines have been superseded by newer vaccines targeting the strains of the virus now circulating.
‘The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine remains provisionally approved by the TGA, however, the Sponsor made a commercial decision with respect to supply of AstraZeneca vaccine in Australia.’
New poll suggests Voice to parliament would pass major hurdles
So, deeply unifying.
Dutton, wading through Party Room tears and fears, would do well to remember that 38% of Australians are going to be deeply pissed off when the Voice turns into a permanent political institution.
As intended.
was, trying to cut and paste and hit the post button before I completed the comment – but you get the point – all bullshit.
I see Trump and Don Jnr have both posted pics of the judge’s daughter on their socials. I am sure Cats will condemn this contemptible action.
MiltonF:
Excellent idea!
Er. Which Lesbian Bitch?
Monty?
Australia was lied to by Politicians, TGA & the Medical Profession
+MSM
38% of Australians will be even more pissed off when the fair skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired “Aborigines ” start collecting their payments, made in the name of “compensation” and “reparations.”
Did they give out their home addresses so MAGAs can plot to take a taxi to their house to gag, torture and kill them?
“m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 11:32 am
I see Trump and Don Jnr have both posted pics of the judge’s daughter on their socials. I am sure Cats will condemn this contemptible action.”
If true, I do. But what about you pervert apologist, when will you condemn the physical attacks on women in an Auckland Park?
You really are a hypocrite.
Have you told your wife you’re a pervert apologist? Oh and how’s that fecal matter? Scrubbed it off yet?
Did Bragg say (did I hear him right) that Trump used money to “conceal a crime?”
Have been ignoring calls from employees of my former employer.
Now sending questions via text message.
FMD.
have both posted pics of the judge’s daughter on their socials. I am sure Cats will condemn this contemptible action.
That would be the one working as a political consultant to the dems right?
Loren Merchan, the 34-year-old daughter of the Manhattan judge, is partner and president of Authentic Campaigns, a progressive digital firm, and worked on several high-profile Democratic campaigns – including for President Joe Biden.
Gee, its almost like judges should recluse themselves from cases where there are perceptions of bias…
After reading the article in the Daily Mail about inflation and the price of dishwashing tablets, I had a thought. Perhaps people don’t know you can just use a squirt of dishwashing liquid at about 5c a wash, instead of $2?
Or if you have children above 5, you can start them on ‘moving out of home’ lessons and get them to do it by hand?
m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 9:19 am
The phrase of the day is “felony enhancement”. LOL at those who whined that it was all going to be misdemeanours. I told you to wait for the charge sheet.
LOL, you simply waited for the DNC talking points.
Labor’s 2019 Candidate in Aston was Kadira Pethiyagoda, born in Sri Lanka.
He got 40% against Tudge’s 60 %.
Yet the Liberal Party picked a woman born in India to replace Tudge.
Either these people are completely stupid, or Dutton was sabotaged by the Victorian Liberal Party.
Would that be the daughter who worked for Biden and Kamala on their campaign?
Golly, most judges would recuse after something like that became known.
I have an exclusive pic of monty where the case finally dropped on TV
But perhaps the most eloquent definition comes from Elon Musk: “Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armoured in false virtue.”
m0nty=fa and Ed are good examples of this definition.
What wonderful national media exposure the New York Dumocrats have gifted Trump.
They’re so stupid it’s hard to believe.
Course he rooted her,
Ed had the CCTV footage. Unfortunately, like the Mizzzz Knickerless CCTV footage, he has misplaced it.
Master! Chastise me more for I have sinned against holy first peoples.
Indigenous Voice receives key support from majority of states in latest poll ahead of referendum as Liberals finalise position (5 Apr)
How can a nation with people this gullible survive?
Calli:
“a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behaviour”.
O.K.
“a state of enraged awareness by ideologues who find injustice in all except their own behaviour”.
It can be done better and shorter, I think – but I like the “Enraged Awareness” part. It describes the individual shrieking their virtue at people who think they are nuts.
Black Ball:
The Liberal Party is carrying out its defined role set by the Uniparty – It is occupying a position in the Parliaments of Australia that rightfully belong to the Conservatives, and will not move from there because it will enable the disenfranchised Conservative voters a place in the sun.
monty re-enters the chat with cry-bullying.
Ok groomer.
Australian parents want schools to teach more sex education topics and teach them from an earlier age (Phys.org, 4 Apr)
I won’t quote the stuff she recommends. You can read it if you want. Here’s who this person is:
Jacqueline Hendriks (she/her/they) is based at Curtin University, is Project Lead of the Curtin University RSE Project and is part of the Management Team for SiREN. She receives funding from the WA Department of Health (Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program) and various other Australian government and non-government organisations. They are a founding member of Bloom-ED, a collective action group to promote improved relationships and sexuality education throughout Australia, and is a Board Director of the Australian Association for Adolescent Health.
My woke bingo card just melted with a small whimper.
Ooh, I see Republicans have lost another big election. Well over US$40M dropped on the campaigning for election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Democrat won, swinging control of the court to the pro-choice, pro-democracy side.
I am not tired of all this winning.
m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 10:39 am
Good luck for Trump as he tries not to commit contempt of court.
The 34 “crimes” are not enough?
Did Monty condemn the hacking of Tony Abbott’s daughter’s private details back in 2014? I don’t recall him condemning it.
Did Monty condemn the doxing of Chaya Raichik, who is the person behind Libs of TikTok, by Washington Post bimbo and cry baby Taylor Lorenz? This was only last year. I don’t recall him condemning it.
There are innumerable other examples of people on the right being doxed, harassed and having leftist scum turn up at their homes. A few years ago the home of Scott Morrison and his wife, located in Cronulla, had their home vandalised by two Green activists who broke in and defecated in the Morrison swimming pool. I don’t recall Monty condemning it.
m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 11:05 am
I am sure the judge in Trump’s case will be perusing the transcript of that speech for reasons to lay an official gag order. Calling for the prosecutor to be prosecuted is generally frowned upon in criminal cases.
LOL. Field Marshal m0nty=fa of Kyiv has retired, being replaced by Hizzonour m0nty=fa, KC, Chief Justice of the World Court, saviour of Malmo.
Montypox would have had a good giggle about the incidents described above.
Were you even here?
Your whataboutism is childish.
Shaddup,
Do as we say,
Be obedient,
Don’t think, we’ll do that for you,
Quotas to keep the peasants in line,
Punitive taxation to keep them poor.
Poor, deluded, Grandpa Ed Simpson seriously thinks that genuine conservatives believe this rubbish. Thus proving that his vision of a “liberal” party is closer to the so-called “progressives” of the US DemonRat Party.
Give it up, Grandpa, m0nty=fa is the only one who cares what you post.
Bah-bow. Wrong:
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1643380913814790146
How it works:
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1643434087414112256
57 channels and nothing on.
Australians choose streaming over free TV (TechXplore, 4 Apr)
Free and worth every cent! Maybe SBS should remove the requirement to be anal probed in return for watching their streamed movies. Might bring in more eyeballs.
I think Muntard is referring to the fact that Republicans are on-track to win a super majority this morning in the Wisconsin Senate. For only the 2nd time in US history.
This will allow the Senate to impeach State office holders (including…drum roll….Supreme Court justices!) 😛
“Were you even here?
Your whataboutism is childish.”
Hey pervert apologist, I was here, I was a lurker then. Many, many people lurk here and did on Sinc’s old site.
As for being childish, you can’t handle simple truths, can you? You come on here and make a sanctimonious statement about the Trump and his son posting pics of the judge’s daughter, only to rightly have your sanctimonious guff thrown back in your face. Why? Because you are a hypocrite and every day here you get called out for your hypocrisy.
How can a nation with people this gullible survive?
Push Polling.
It’s all fake.
NewsPoll did the same in 2019, called PeanutHead the winner 5 days out, Morrison went on to a comfortable victory.
10% of people will say No to everything, this referendum has no hope, providing Dutton keeps on doing what’s been working for him so far.
The Wisconsin result for SC will overturn their abortion ban. Another anti-Dobbs result.
Which is of course the issue the left is releasing the squirrels to distract from.
So the daughter of the Judge has significant financial interest in the outcome of the case.
The left is of course flexible regarding their outrage in demanding recusal of conflicted Judges.
I think this chap is a lot more mad/sad than bad and have no idea what a just punishment would be.
Obviously jail time or loony bin for a start, but no idea how they will handle him long term..
Terence Kelly to be sentenced over Cleo Smith kidnapping, with guilty plea likely to cut jail time
After his arrest, an investigation by the ABC, discovered his image on a social media account that posted about loving children’s “Bratz” dolls and claiming to have a partner and children, despite living alone.
The profile included a video of the man in a room with shelves filled with dolls and with a filter on his face giving him larger eyes and love heart emojis in his hair.
Liberals warming to free party room vote on voice, MP says
Speculation, of course.
However, the free vote option would be a political squidge – no winners, other than avoiding a Liberal split on the floor of Parliament.
• The Referendum legislation will get up with Liberal support – so, no whinging entertained on the other side of a Yes vote;
• The Coalition is weakened;
• The Liberals remain a political target for not generously supporting Uncle Luigi’s policy – and every time a Liberal stands up for the ‘no racial preference’ principle;
• Conservative interest in the Liberal Party melts away because it can’t be arsed to take a position on one of the most important constitutional events in Australian history.
Uncle Luigi could ask for no more.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 5, 2023 at 11:17 am
Monty – You’re behind the curve. The official gag order has been discussed in the rightosphere for days now: it’s part of the whole strategy to get him with a Catch 22.
Bruce, in fairness to m0nty=fa, he is unable to think independently. As an NPC, he does not know what he is supposed to say until he receives the DNC/MSM talking points. These were delayed today because the writers had to recover from their hangovers.
The Wisconsin result for SC will overturn their abortion ban. Another anti-Dobbs result.
Nothing better than murdering babies while covered in fecal matter and sporting a new axe wound, while the remains of your penis and testicles float gracefully in a jar of formaldehyde.
I don’t care what shade they are they are not entitled to anything more than I am. They can work most of their lives to feed and house themselves and to provide for their retirement. End of story.
Just a few days prior to my surgery I was asked was I willing to to accept a donor blood transfusion if things went awry. I said yes but placed a strict caveat on it.
Under no circumstances was the blood to be from a person injected with the C-19 mRNA jabs. The staff at the hospital were cool with it, leading me to believe they knew the dodgy nature of the jabs…a guess / hunch on my part with no proof. I reckon it rattled them in some way upon hearing that. As we know, for them to be at work in the hospital they were required to get the shots and probably know of many who left / lost their jobs for refusing to do so.
I was actually hoping for a doctor to confront me on the subject and try and convince me to change my tune, but it never happened. I was ready for a verbal war and would have destroyed ANYONE trying to combat me.
I was geared for it at the time and still am now.
Check this out below. All and sundry should be sued to the hilt. Questions I have is why were people hesitant in the first place? Why did they change their minds listening to clearly, a bunch of Big-Pharma corrupted lying jab pushers. We’ll probably never know.
Faaark me, I’d go to these people just to proverbially rip their F-in heads off. It just goes to show how people can easily be manipulated if they don’t get of their arse and do some basic research.
h/t Daily Insights on sussietube.
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Me: RACGP need a steel cap proverbial boot to their heads. F-in wankers admitting to deceiving people with lies and BS. They admit it right here.
How collaboration can help counteract vaccine fatigue
A program aimed at boosting COVID vaccination among vulnerable populations highlights the role of GP-led teams, writes Dr Ken McCroary.
Being an eternal optimist (or suffering cognitive dissonance, depending on who you speak to), one of the silver linings I found during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the breaking down of silos that we work in and the increased collaboration throughout the primary healthcare system.
Hence, I am always keen to report on innovative and successful programs to help improve the health outcomes of our community.*
* Me: NO, you’ve just screwed people over using deciet. Bastards!
One of these initiatives I recently participated in is the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network (SWSPHN) COVID Small Grants Program, which sought to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates in vulnerable communities in southwest Sydney.
This region, with its significant diversity and low underlying socioeconomic determinants of health outcomes, suffered quite significantly during the pandemic in regards to infection rates and hospitalisations, including the social challenges of living under strict curfews.
The program aimed to support general practices and pharmacies to ensure continuity of COVID-19 vaccinations for vulnerable groups and to increase health literacy among vaccine-hesitant patients.
Funding was directed for the healthcare team and not specifically for face-to-face GP time, which was of particular relevance to our practice as is allowed other team members to spend time discussing COVID vaccines with patients in an attempt to increase vaccination uptake.
As part of the program, participating practices and pharmacies carried out conversations about the benefits of vaccination with patients identified as vaccine hesitant and, where possible, helped them to access the vaccine. We were also supported to spend time identifying a vulnerable population group using clinical software and those who were under-vaccinated, to recall and discuss vaccination and to connect vulnerable populations to COVID-19 vaccine providers.
Ninety practices participated across the seven LGAs and the split was fairly even across general practice and pharmacies, with 42 general practices and 48 pharmacies participating.
During the first month of the program, 3722 conversations were undertaken by the participating practices – leading to 1739 extra vaccination doses.
In the second month of the program a further 3494 conversations with vulnerable patients took place and this culminated in an additional 1304 vulnerable and high-risk patients being vaccinated.
There were many good news stories during the primary care program relating to improved health literacy, and these are highlighted by participating practice staff below.
‘Patients didn’t think they needed it, but were vaccinated after discussions.’
‘We were fortunate enough to have a family of anti-vaccinators who were then vaccinated, and we found this very rewarding after two years of trying to convince them.’
‘Patients didn’t know there was a fourth dose [second booster] and were vaccinated after explanation. They were mostly not aware as the media had ceased broadcasting the boosters.’
‘One of our elderly patients was completely unaware that they had to get more than one vaccination to be fully protected. He thought he was doing the right thing, but as he did not have a mobile phone for SMS reminders none of the reception staff at the vaccination clinic followed up with him to book him in for subsequent doses. He was directed to reception and was able to get vaccinated on the same day.’
‘An older gentleman who was severely immunocompromised believed he was fully immunised, but on further conversation it was explained that he wasn’t. The patient really was pleased to be informed and proceeded to getting vaccinated that same day.’
‘A patient was travelling overseas and was not aware they were eligible for a COVID booster dose. Considering they were travelling to a high-risk country, they were happy to be informed and booked in for a booster.’
Further good news stories were highlighted by the following examples showing how vulnerable populations were encouraged to get vaccinated.
‘One conversation resulted in a family of three being vaccinated.’
‘A 16-year-old Aboriginal girl had a third dose following a conversation with her doctor.’
‘A pregnant woman was strongly anti-vax until she gave birth. After having extended discussions with the doctor and practice nurse post-delivery and witnessing COVID symptoms’ impact variations on vaccinated versus non-vaccinated people, she was finally convinced to take the vaccine.’
‘We assisted a young pregnant woman seeking a vaccination before travelling back home to South East Asia.’
‘The GPs played an important role to provide home visits to people with disabilities and special needs who otherwise may not have had a chance to get COVID vaccines and the booster doses.’
‘We had a customer who was the head of the family, and when I was speaking to him in his own language he decided to get vaccinated and was going to speak to the doctor about how safe it was to vaccinate his four children as well.’
‘The good news story that stands out to me was being able to help and vaccinate a patient with mental health issues who lives in an isolated part of our region.’
‘A 73-year-old with prostate and lung cancer was completely against the booster vaccine. However, after a conversation with him about the importance of the booster, I organised with the medical centre next door for him to take the booster.’
Overall, the findings on evaluating programs and the good news stories mentioned, as well as practice reports, indicate that the COVID Small Grants Program had many benefits for both the participating practices and patients.
Noted strengths included:
significant increase in vaccination uptake in vulnerable populations
development of SWSPHN relationships with practices and pharmacies who were previously disengaged
that the program was able to be implemented within the deadlines met.
Limitations of the program were noted as:
limited engagement from general practices in languages other than English
confusion from practices around invoicing and reporting
the fact that not all approved practices participated and were lost to follow up.
While the program had its limitations, overall it was certainly successful in achieving the stated objectives in increasing COVID vaccine boosters in vulnerable members of southwest Sydney’s community. The feedback from GPs and the pharmacists involved, as well as the number of vaccinations administered, indicated that the program had been an effective way to support GPs and practices within the COVID-19 response.
Moving forward, any limitations to the program could be addressed with solutions such as:
directed outreach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse services
invoice templates
more structured interaction with participating practices to attract engagement and give support where needed.
Overall, an extra 3043 southwestern Sydney residents who were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated benefited from this program by obtaining relevant immunisation.
I certainly found the assistance from the SWSPHN a beneficial and innovative way to use the most cost effective and efficient component of our health system – primary care – to deal with overcoming some of the issues relating to pandemic vaccination fatigue.
Certainly, it has highlighted the health benefits shown when adequate general practice funding is available, particularly in relation to the most vulnerable members of our community.
How collaboration can help counteract vaccine fatigue
Me: Sue the f-in lot of them.
m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 11:32 am
I see Trump and Don Jnr have both posted pics of the judge’s daughter on their socials. I am sure Cats will condemn this contemptible action.
It should receive the same level of condemnation as your condemnation of the crimes of communism, which were far worse than posting a photo on-line.
Overall, an extra 3043 southwestern Sydney residents who were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated benefited from this program by obtaining relevant immunisation.
How does the “conversationer” feel when one of their marks has an adverse vaccine outcome?
At least we don’t have to pay for the FTA channels. If only it were also possible to refuse to pay for their ABC.
m0ntysays:
April 5, 2023 at 12:27 pm
Did Monty condemn the hacking of Tony Abbott’s daughter’s private details back in 2014? I don’t recall him condemning it.
Were you even here?
Your whataboutism is childish.
Translation” No, and shutup.
Murphy, a furniture dealer from Dublin, decided to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find .
After arriving in Paris , he visited with some manufacturers and selected a line that he thought would sell well back home. To celebrate the new acquisition, he decided to visit a small bistro and have a glass of wine.
As he sat enjoying his wine, he noticed that the small place was quite crowded, and that the other chair at his table was the only vacant seat in the house.
Before long, a very beautiful young Parisian girl came to his table , asked him something in French (which Murphy could not understand) , so he motioned to the vacant chair and invited her to sit down.
He tried to speak to her in English, but she did not speak his language. After a couple of minutes of trying to communicate with her, he took a napkin and drew a picture of a wine glass and showed it to her. She nodded, so he ordered a glass of wine for her.
After sitting together at the table for a while, he took another napkin, and drew a picture of a plate with food on it, and she nodded. They left the bistro and found a quiet cafe that featured a small group playing romantic music.
They ordered dinner, after which he took another napkin and drew a picture of a couple dancing. She nodded, and they got up to dance. They danced until the cafe closed and the band was packing up.
Back at their table, the young lady took a napkin and drew a picture of a bed.
To this day, Murphy has no idea how she figured out he was in the furniture business.
Trump won Wisconsin over Crooked by 0.77% in 2016.
Basement Brandon “won” Wisconsin over Trump by 0.63% in 2020.
I wouldn’t be gloating for too long Muntard.
Either way, the likely Republican Senate super majority won by Republicans in Wisconsin today means your Demonrat Supreme Court Justice can now be impeached and convicted by the Wisonsin Senate! And why not, when you hold 22 of the 33 voting seats.
Have fun douchebag…
Wisconsin: “Dan Knodl says he would consider impeaching Janet Protasiewicz if he is elected to the Senate”
I have no faith in these idiots. There is literally no point is signing up to “do your bit”.
And yet they didn’t.
Little Cleo Smith’s abductor sentenced to 11 years non-parole.
Wackos of this sort will inevitably be incited to do the same thing he did by the media’s glorification of trannies and draq queens… and their “fantasy world.”
That’s 3 points more than their primary vote last year.
The Democrats have broken a gentleman’s agreement and may live to regret these absurd ham sandwich indictments.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG
She’s going off!
Libs have voted to not endorse the Invoice!!! Propose alternate…
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/australia-news-live-rba-says-inflation-has-peaked-other-apps-under-scrutiny-after-tiktok-ban-20230404-p5cy3a.html
MTG’s “disinformation” is always welcome here Dot 😛
Is that really all there is to the Trump indictment? How pathetic
Michael Goodwin
Now that we’ve seen what District Attorney Alvin Bragg has, the old Peggy Lee song comes to mind.
Is that all there is?
Yes, that’s all there is.
The charges against Donald Trump are almost exactly as predicted.
They are weak and, most important, political.
As such, they are shockingly-blatant punishment for Trump daring to become president.
In this sordid case, the letters D.A. stand for Democrat Attorney.
The charges are the crime.
Shame on Bragg for abusing his authority and turning his office into a partisan outpost.
The prosecutor who thinks most violent criminals are simply misunderstood youths just made history on a legal move that is breathtakingly flimsy.
His case is a pig and all the lipstick in the world can’t make it beautiful or even passable.
Manhattan is a 24-hour crime scene where innocent citizens and visitors are assaulted, raped, robbed and killed, but the city’s most famous and arguably most important law enforcement officer has been focused on weaving a fantasy.
Bad enough that Bragg does so little good.
Now he has done something extremely bad, something that will inevitably pit citizen against citizen and further divide a polarized nation.
It is of course no coincidence that his target is the former president and the leading presidential candidate of the opposition party in 2024.
In fact, this isn’t really a criminal case at all.
It’s a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome acting under the authority of law.
Nor is the timing a coincidence.
Consider that a trial, if it were to happen, would fall just as Republican primary voters would be making their choice for the presidential nomination.
That should count as election meddling.
Meanwhile, Bragg apparently aims to relitigate 2016.
By specifically charging that hush money payments involved falsifying business records and that they become felonies because they were made to improperly “influence the 2016 presidential election,” Bragg aims to slay the Bad Orange monster and play the role of Hillary Clinton’s avenger.
The implication is that she would have won if only Trump had admitted the truth about supposed flings with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal and if he hadn’t allegedly paid off a doorman.
If Bragg believes that, I’ve got a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax to sell him.
And how about that first impeachment over the Ukraine phone call — is that somehow also a New York crime?
Then there’s Clinton’s private server and classified emails.
And the phony Steele dossier she paid for — is Bragg going to prosecute those cases next?
Of course not, and he wouldn’t be prosecuting this case if Trump had he lost to her.
It turns out that Bragg, for all of his elite education and blather about social justice, is just another partisan who can’t accept Trump’s presidency as legitimate.
Take a number, pal.
I am ashamed to admit that I gave him too much credit.
Though I assumed the charges would ultimately be political, given that other prosecutors had passed on them, I did believe Bragg would spring a few surprises.
Nope, nada, nothing.
Just the ridiculous claim that 2016 voters were cheated, and that both federal and state election laws were violated as a result.
Though Bragg never said so, the implied suggestion was that if only voters had known, America would never had to suffer through the indignity of a Trump presidency.
The case is so far out there in crazy land that it forces the question of where are all the supposed moderate Democrats?
Surely they can’t be comfortable having a former president and the Republican’s leading candidate facing an openly biased prosecutor pushing a weak case.
While it’s too early to say how much real jeopardy Trump is in, the immediate fact is that Bragg has made a huge contribution to Trump 2024.
By making the former president look like a victim of a crooked prosecutor and a partisan system, the DA confirms for millions of Americans that Trump is all that stands between them and the authoritarian left that will stop at nothing to get and hold power.
I want them to be wrong, but on days like this, I fear they are right.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene??
@RepMTG
If President Trump can be charged for “falsifying business records” and hiding relevant information from voters in the 2016 election, then 51 people from the Intel community, who signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop is fake, CAN BE CHARGED for hiding relevant information from voters in the 2020 election!
Or hey how about EVERYONE ELSE who suppressed and lied about the Hunter laptop story which withheld information from voters in the 2020 election!
Or what about charging Hillary Clinton, who paid for the FAKE Steele Dossier with her campaign funds, that the Deep State and MSM used to create Witch Hunt #1 with!
Once Lawfare starts it can be aimed back the other direction..
Dutton has partially redeemed himself, it seems.
Yeah the Democrat dickless losers who troll her call her a “Confederate”.
Brrring brrring! “Hello, this is Grand Kleagle Senator Robert C Byrd (D) (WV), (Ret). calling from hell!”
An actual disloyal racist traitor who secretly supported domestic terrorism.
Bragg’s case is a legal mess — what is he even charging Trump with?
By Jonathan Turley
“We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump.
Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
After all, he insisted, our “business integrity” is at stake.
After all, as Bragg intoned with no sense of self-awareness, he has always believed that “the bedrock of the basis for business integrity and a well-functioning business marketplace is accurate record-keeping.”
It is all about a well-functioning business marketplace — not his campaign pledge to bag Trump on some (unnamed) crime.
When people think Bragg, they think business.
The first indictment of a former American president was a historical moment and Bragg failed to rise to that moment.
Bragg released an indictment that was so vague on key elements that it is unclear what the grand jury thought it was voting on. He vaguely referenced state and federal election laws and later refused to add any details on how they relate to the prosecution.
The result is an indictment with the substance of a legal Slurpee: it was immediately satisfying for many with virtually no legal substance.
Bragg solved the problem over his uncertain authority by avoiding any specificity on that authority. He could have put “details to follow” in the caption of the indictment.
We may learn more from the bill of particulars, but this indictment is unintelligible for a legal perspective in understanding the basis for the prosecution.
After the arraignment, Bragg made sweeping references to state and federal election laws before saying that he didn’t have to give such details. He just filed the first charges against a former president and refused to specify the basis for the felonies.
He then held a press conference and refused to answer questions about this basis because he “doesn’t have to.”
What is particularly maddening is that, while Bragg refused to explain the basis for the indictment, he did undermine his own case . . . whatever it may prove to be.
He insisted that Trump could not be allowed to use “fictitious legal services” for political purposes.
As with his claimed intolerance for criminal conduct, Bragg’s professed outrage was bizarre given analogous conduct by Democrats like Hillary Clinton on campaign-finance allegations.
The Clinton campaign had previously denied funding the dossier, which was used to push false Russia collusion claims against Trump in 2016, and it buried the funding in the campaign’s legal budget through former Clinton campaign General Counsel Marc Elias.
Last year, the Federal Election Commission fined the Clinton campaign for funding the Steele dossier as a legal expense.
Those fictitious legal services did not produce the same revulsion in Bragg or other prosecutors.
This is no time for the niceties of reason in an age of rage. Bragg showed that the only important thing was the name on the indictment caption rather than its basis.
John Connor II
April 5, 2023 at 12:54 pm · Reply
Thursday open? ?
Salt water and EV’s don’t mix
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rrn7g9t1dJ1zlxqpx.mp4
Has anyone considered places where they salt the roads (like a lot of northern states in the USSA) and it rusts out vehicle chassis in a few years.
Well…
As per his previous history, everything Trumpf is involved with gets soiled and ruined e.g. his businesses, the GOP, electoral process, legal system. Its good that charges have been listed and process can go ahead – if convicted, that’s fine and if not also fine.
Just a shame that USA used to be considered a good version of democracy to be emulated … now its a clown-show with no winners.
Peggy Lee — Is That All There Is?
Would that be Hillary Clinton’s “friend and mentor” Robert Byrd?
The Liberals say NO to the Voice.
A m e n.
By the way, I don’t believe the Newspoll this morning about the Voice. I’m not saying it won’t get up but I’m suspicious of the poll.
Trump must come forward and speak out against the clot shot.
HA! It’s all to with pride. He genuinely believes ‘Operation Warp Speed’ was an achievement when in reality the mRNA shots were prepped, patented and ready years beforehand. All he has to do come out and admit he was lied to from the people around him. It’s his biggest f*ck up along with saying the jabs help save millions of lives. That was 100% absolute bullshit.
Just admit it, ask for forgiveness and then go scorched earth on the deceivers….he should have stayed in Florida and let the pressure heap on Ronnie. JC is right with him placing faith in the
DEM controlled justice system in New York. Bad move from Trump, however, as other have said, he’ll likely get off with the appeals process.
As for the rest if the clip, the USA as it stands is broken. Anyone suggesting it is a bastion of freedom for the West is a deluded imbecile.
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Stew Peters Show:
The doctors at HeroicDoctors.com can help you protect your family from the spike protein and also know the truth about how the fake pandemic was used to steal the election from President Trump.
Anti-Trump bias will guarantee that President Trump will not get a fair trial in New York City.
Dr. Paul Alexander is back to talk about the multi-year scheme to take down an American President.
Political speech has been criminalized under Biden’s totalitarian regime.
The judge will try to silence Trump with a gag order.
Biden is doing all of this for the expressed purpose of interfering in future elections.
The Covid pandemic was used to damage Trump and steal the election.
These bogus charges and show trial will be used in the same way.
If the Deep State succeeds in convicting and jailing a former President of the United States it will mean the end of America as we know it.
Trump must come forward and speak out against the clot shot.
The Never Ending Quest To Take Down Trump: TREASONOUS Deep State ATTACKS Trump With 30 Bogus Charges
Pride? F*ck pride! Trump needs to take note of this with his BS, OWS, so called jab roll out.
Pulp Fiction – F*ck Pride
SMH via DM:
So they oppose the Voice but will still work to make it more likely to be approved.
Mmm.
I think we need to shut down the ALP till they deal with the child molesters in their own ranks..
Former MP Milton Orkopoulos guilty of child sex abuse and drugs charges
Thier proven track record of cover ups and intimidation of witnesses is abhorrent to all outside the party.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/mps-exstaffer-to-show-the-bastards/news-story/71ccf26f6b4c55c95ce8952529f67321
Giving evidence in the NSW Supreme Court on today, Gillian Sneddon said she felt “traumatised by the ordeal” of mediation talks last October over her battle for compensation.
“In the days that followed I just thought, ‘I will show the bastards’,” she said.
Ms Sneddon was explaining what prompted her decision to nominate as an independent candidate in this month’s NSW election in Orkopoulos’s old seat of Swansea in Newcastle.
She is suing NSW Legislative Assembly Speaker Richard Torbay, who was effectively her employer, and the state of NSW.
She says she was harassed, bullied and victimized in the Swansea electorate office for almost a year after she reported an October 2005 phone call from a man who said he had been sexually abused by Orkopoulos since he was 15.
Impeach and convict for what? Oh right, that’s doesn’t matter.
The Wisconsin Democrat judge won her SC election by 10 points. Perhaps they should convict her of being a Democrat. Might as well make it official.
Speaking of cry-bullying, here’s the losing Republican candidate for Wisconsin SC having a big old tear-stained tantrum, LOL. What a loser.
The crosstabs from the Newspoll on the Voice are brutal. The only demographic who opposes it are uneducated retirees. It’s not a class thing, even men and Christians are in favour overall. People who oppose the Voice are mostly dumbarses who don’t have a stake in the future and want to burn it all down. Cats, in other words.
The Libs throwing their hat in with you lot is laughable. Welcome to electoral oblivion, losers.
Wise words, m0nst.
They’d have been laughed at only a decade ago, but now they’re spot on. If they are going down the route of political charges – and it sure does seem that way – then at least a bit of honesty is in order…
I don’t believe any of the polls, not even the exit polls. People have got into the habit of lying to the pollsters just to make them go away.
You’re very excited today, monty.
Be prepared for the inevitable downer.
I see, they want to be half virgin and half pregnant. What else could we expect from those idiots.
I see no problem with this given Demonrats’ precedence upon many others.
Newspoll may have been one of the better ones once but didn’t they say that the slf was going to be pm in 2019?
Bombs away. Right over target.
“The Libs throwing their hat in with you lot is laughable. Welcome to electoral oblivion, losers.”
Hmmm, I don’t so. Odd that you seem to like to spend a lot time here with us “losers”.
Oh and have you told your wife that you’re a pervert apologist? She might need to know.
And Minns was headed for a “thumping” win, rather than minority government.
Yep. Fed by media “every parents worst nightmare” reporting. Clearly many Aboriginal accused are not the full quid, not helped by ALS raising FAS at every sentencing hearing.
“Bombs away. Right over target.”
The blackshirt doesn’t like truth.