As you say, it comes up every few years, and is soon again consigned to well deserved oblivion. Much like…
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Trump to kick transgender troops out of the military with 15,000 service members to be ‘medically discharged’ on his first…
Indeed. Yet, his writings on US military reform have usually been worth reading, albeit he went all panzer krieg at…
Even Putin can’t live forever.
And what happens when, as a consequence, things the US cares about explode in turn? Then we will find out…
Ooohhhh and it was a nice plane too!!!
air force f-35a lightning ii
Yes, but I don’t think he can win, which is why I think Trump must run and have a clear run. For R to win, you have to have the candidate who can garner the highest voter turnout, and you have to an operation that gets those votes in and counted. Baris also made a good point re fortification in that video I linked to in the morning and that is the higher the turnout the harder the fortification becomes because the pool of votes is limited. The lower the turnout the easier fortification becomes.
Dot:
Stella Artois!
I hear some persons here drink that slop.
It’s another poofters drop.
Try some XXXX, ya nongs.
Give ya taste buds a treat and a wake up call at the same time!
Like attracts like
Get through the first 30 seconds, you’ve done well
Winston, have you ever been on a flight where people DON’T know how to use a toilet. Every so often I am reminded of the stench of a flight* from New Delhi to Athens, what should have been a 30minute refueling stop in Athens turned into a 5 hour layover while we waited for a new plane to be sent from Frankfurt as cleaning efforts failed to rid the plane of the smell.
*August 8 1972 ( a week before my 11th birthday) . A Lufthansa 707 flying SYD SIN BKK DEL, Athens, Rome, Frankfurt.
ozemail was the sort of thing laurie connell would get up to except with a tad more nuance and polish
offset alpine had all the brash crudity of a last resort laurie scam
Marcia Langton warns of
‘intifada’ in western desert
I have asked the Oz how this is not extremist violent hate speech?
….and…rejected.
perhaps a gently worded “If an intifada was to start up in the western desert then race pimps might be at risk of random right wing death squads throwing them from helicopters”
After all its not a threat, you are being a good citizen like Marcia and just warning of a potential outcome.
might of bin loud
but sonic boom?
i doubt that
Seen such a sign in Jan Smuts Airport unfortunately it didn’t say where.
Deploying once again all that hard won battle experience from the Frontier Wars.
Dot: …Biden is senile and has the launch codes…
I wonder what his access password is?
Do they have a special Captcha for him?
Seriously?
And Mister Xi smiles….
Black Ballsays:
May 3, 2023 at 4:47 pm
Like attracts like
Get through the first 30 seconds, you’ve done well
I glimpsed the title of the vid.
Your people will be hearing from mine.
It wasn’t as though the “intifada” was a rip roaring sucess for the Palestinians?
He seems to have an opinion on their sexual prowess with rodents, so there’s that.
He’s a Top Diplomat don’t you know.
A lot of people who are very susceptible to “messiah” worship.
You do realise if Trump is nominated he will mobilise a massive number of people to come out and vote for Biden?
Marcia’s going to tear up the shopping strip in Alice and terrorise the locals.
Except the “intifada” has started without her.
Select all the squares that have little girl’s hair in them.
He just closes his eyes and puts his nose near the monitor, takes a couple of light sniffs, and BANG BANG BANG – he gets them all.
Biden is only really adapted to one thing – being a pervert. Everywhere else his is a shambling wreck.
Like a seal – clumsy and awkward hauling their bodies over rocky beaches on land, but swift and graceful in his natural element.
Apologies to Kneel. I hadn’t realised he had made a similar comment when I wrote mine.
Tired. Grumpy. But still charismatic.
These are not those people. These are people that hardly ever vote.
Sure he will mobilize a certain number of haters but Trump remains a net positive. His numbers are starting to look better than 2020 in key states and demos as a lot of those actual voters that thought Biden was the status quo ante candidate have changed their minds.
Muddysays:
May 3, 2023 at 4:58 pm
Dot: …Biden is senile and has the launch codes…
Yes, but apparently, he does not have sole control over the launch codes thank goodness.
It looks as though the lieberal filth are going to do a Molan on Senator Gerard Rennick!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/lnp-s-rennick-under-pressure-ahead-of-qld-preselection/ar-AA1aF1JS?ocid=Peregrine#comments
Just wow.
Diogenes:
Yes. Coming back from the ME, where they have yet to discover toilet paper and instead wipe shit over the walls, and wash their hands in the basin by trickling water over their shit coated fingers, leaving chunks in the sink. I also did 6 months in Saudi Arabia where wiping your hands on everything around you, was considered the height of hygiene.
But I was talking about the physical act of evacuating ones bowels, not bathroom etiquette.
Classic clips.
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Ozzy Man Reviews:
Ozzy Man Reviews: MEGA COMPILATION #2
Lizzie: I have been thinking of ‘bumper sticker’ sorts of appeals re this Referendum.
Vote YES to Segregate.
How many of the silent will the Voice speak for?
It’s spelled Vise, not Voice. Say NO to poor spelling.
Muddysays:
May 3, 2023 at 4:58 pm
People are forgetting that while he can be stopped from launching, he cannot be stopped from not launching.
calli not only is he a “Top Dopelimat”, he can speak Ratfu….er. So there is that.
Are we still pretending the Liberals are a living, breathing, party?
(They must have some darn good make-up artists).
Stella is one of the great beers of the world. I’ve had half a subbie of xxxx. Enough said.
Another Greens senator butt-hurt when they got back what they dished out.
Dover Beach:
Clown World ™ ?
@ClownWorld_
She’s heartless, plain and simple.
I’m speechless.
Also known as a (Belgian) wife beater.
For that style of beer, the Peroni ads have swayed me.
GreyRangasays:
May 3, 2023 at 5:34 pm
Stella is one of the great beers of the world. I’ve had half a subbie of xxxx. Enough said.
I agree. In fact, half a subbie (stubby) of xxxx rated alleged beer is way too much to take.
Really, if you’re going to drink Pilsner, drink Trumer Pils.
Nikkkkki Gemmel in the Oz is virtue-signalling:
I’ll be thinking of Prince Harry during the gilded royal extravaganza this weekend; thinking of the troubled prince islanded in the midst of his family. For me, the loneliness of that outcast prince will stain the day.
The rest of the complete load of bollocks goes on to taint the Royal Family with anything she can think of. Of course there’s a mention of slavery in there…”It was historically involved in the transatlantic slave trade as well”.
Will see if I can get a comment in there about their work in the Royal Navy.
Sociopath
Diogenes.
One year later living in Pakistan.
Passengers squatting on the dunny seats of PIA flights. Crew would do nothing to clean up. You hung on.
Two years after that in China, they used the hand basin and I was seated in a folding chair in the aisle that was not locked down.
Looking back, we have come a long way but the grubby little Trot is determined to send us back. White hot frustration.
ML he would relish in your description of him thinking you were envious.
Water is wet. On the “always skip” list with Fatty Adams.
I’d already had a belly full of others so disguising the taste, if you can call it taste JR.
I’m here for the Cassie gold. 🙂
Taken a couple of pisses in basins over the years. Never number twos. Viva life in the West.
Dover,
Trump does not lead in any swing state.
Didn’t mind Peroni Red, the blue is a bit insipid. Still better than xxxx.
You think that’s bad – watch the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMHaHwcAPaw
(btw, 3x the limit in Illinois is 0.24!)
Grey Ranga:
This Queenslander thanks you for your consideration by not scoffing all the XXXX Bitter and leaving it for him.
…but you can keep the half consumed stubbie. Thanks. I have no idea where your lips have been, nor do I have an all consuming need to know.
🙂
I don’t know when Alex Antic comes up for preselection – but, mark my words, he will be next to be shafted.
I am too old to keep up with all that’s going on with the Voice these days but I reckon there will continue to be articles forwarding the YES vote subtly.
Cross of Christ in the Red Centre
The Cross on Memory Mountain is not a small, insignificant structure. Constructed of core ten steel, it stands 20 metres tall at the summit of Memory Mountain. The Cross will be outlined with solar powered LED lights so it can be seen from afar at night.
Memory Mountain Highlights – Launch of the Forgiveness Cross 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQAlwVUHr_Q
I’m here for the Cassie gold. ?
me too- the lady really does have a way with words
For me, I don’t give a toss.
Have a nice wallow Nikki.
Pee haitch dees might have meant something many decades ago but now the ‘doctor’ schtick just sounds dirty in my mind. I think of the ‘doctors’ in The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury. So many pubic serpents in canbra are ‘doctors’ – sorta says it all.
Today I celebrate my 59th year on Earth. My beverage of choice for this evening is a pleasant Dutch drop by the name of Grolsch. A food group by itself. Cheers.
You’re almost out of warranty, Ranga. Here’s to living dangerously.
Are you sure? The latest Harris-Harvard poll has Trump +5. I’m not sure you get that by being behind in swing states.
Ranga!
Cheers Ranga, many happy returns to you!
I’ll lift a can of Coopers, drinking to the late end of vintage.
Stella LOL, every ubiquitous ten pound pom in the mining game tells me it’s nicknamed wife beater back in the homeland.
I’d prefer our mass produced cats piss to imported mass produced Euro cats piss any day.
The former prime minister instead pointed to 2027 as a crucial turning point, a timeline laid out by US intelligence chiefs and the Taiwanese government based on Mr Xi ordering China’s military to be ready to act by then.
I can hardly believe that senior government advisers actually think that China is telegraphing when they intend to attack.
Sometimes I think I am just having an awful nightmare.
CrazyOldRangasays:
May 3, 2023 at 6:22 pm
Enjoy your night. ( :
yes happy birthday Ranga
Topender ,
If you are still at the keyboard, can you tell me what you thought of the 4 Corners examination of Australia’s decision on subs?
BTW I am still counting on your belief that the Yanks are sending one of their nuclear beauties to Perth (to patrol our coastline) while we speak. I need to sleep well at night!
let me say right up front that i admire tucker carlson and enjoy occasionally watching him
but
even though i think it is a commercially inept move to fire him i have precisely $0 invested in focks and accept that proprietors have hire and fire rights
Hmmm.
There is already an intifada. It’s the Western Desert people all right, but they’re doing it in Alice Springs.
and who exactly will they be intifadaring – in the words of the late broderick smith – way out west where the rain don’t fall
Happy birdy Ranga!
I’d give you one of mine as a birthday present but I don’t think they’d cooperate with that idea.
How lucky is this police officer?
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1653581527291240449?cxt=HHwWgoC91ero2fItAAAA
Snowy 2.0 delayed another two years.
VNI West transmission line hooks into Snowy as the storage component of the national grid renewable system.
AEMO had just lost one rationale for the absurd haste in pushing this project.
I’ll tell you that the anger amongst landholders is rising quickly and big protests may not be far away.
My take is that Langton is giving approval to “intifada” anywhere in the country…I’m not buying the “Western Desert” limitation one little bit.
She’s stirring up a BLM wannabe scenario. Here.
Between KRuddy and US Intelligence I’m upping my Iodine intake.
500 years from now (just in time for the next Mountain Ash controlled burn), history books will be replete with tales of great historical events – including, but not limited to:
Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia and India;
The First and Third Crusades;
The Black Prince’s chevauchee across France;
The Reconquista;
The Renaissance;
World War One; and
The Great Spinifex Intifada.
Thanks for the Birthday wishes, time to dine.
LOL – Rita P going nuclear on the Victoriastani Gliberals.
Warns or threatens?
To be fair, that was a pretty small chicken truck.
Happy b’day Grange-a. 😛
Trump is ahead of DeSantis but biden is ahead of Trump but biden is behind DeSantis. According to the polls which have been shat out of biden’s arse.
In a fair election Trump beats biden. But the chances of a fair election are the same odds as biden regaining his sanity.
The real issue is people who vote for biden. They are literally fu.ked in the head.
They are literally fu.ked in the head.
too right and what about the deadshites in Delaware giving the old thief a national platform for decades. FMD have you seen the Coons trash that Delaware now sends to DC. What a fuked little state.
I miss monty
And Ed
Monty – he was a boring little tit.
And as previously predicted on the cat earlier today:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/north-america/it-s-not-how-white-men-fight-the-tucker-carlson-text-sent-fox-news-into-a-panic-20230503-p5d5b0.html
Fauxfacts news (or is that Nein) goes full retard on Tucker.
And fat.
Ed – the gypsum still spreads and the mutton is cheap.
I miss monty
His non presence, whilst welcome, has me a little concerned.
With Symes going after, er, hate speech, is he collating our work here ?
What’s become of him?
Nup – because that collection would be littered with his own work.
You are one sick puppy, bespoke.
😀
Polls are meaningless Cohenite, you know that. The Dems generated 16 million votes out of thin air in 2020, they could easily do 20 million or more in 2024. The alphabet agencies are totally locked in so no legal process can stop the steal.
I am amused the goss today is that the Dems told Joe not to run but that Jill talked him into it. She likes being first laydeee and éminence greasy. Lay in popcorn in case Michelle throws her hat in…meowww!
Who cares?
I suspect he ran out of doughnuts in his basement but was too large to get up and out.
That, or he’s finally ceded his stolen land back to the locals.
Snap, CrazyOldRanga!
Today, I am celebrating turning 49.
For drinks, it will be choosing one of a large selection of herbal teas.
It’s been seven weeks without alcohol and I am loving it.
Happy b’day to Luzu also… also congrats on the abstemious lifestyle…
Wow really? Missed that but thanks Bruce!!!
I guess she’s like Mrs Fetterman…
Have a nice evening Cats… the bell tolls and I must run..
Oh…I thought he might have been banned by dover.
Likewise Ed.
Carry on.
Susan Rice left the WH the day after he announced he was running again.
Newt Gingrich thinks she told him not to run, which would make sense.
He also thinks Michelle Obama is shaping up to nominate.
Monty – working?
Spits beer across room.
If you’ve made it to 49 on the grog I wouldn’t risk stopping now.
Vickisays:
May 3, 2023 at 6:45 pm
The former prime minister instead pointed to 2027 as a crucial turning point, a timeline laid out by US intelligence chiefs and the Taiwanese government based on Mr Xi ordering China’s military to be ready to act by then.
I can hardly believe that senior government advisers actually think that China is telegraphing when they intend to attack.
Sometimes I think I am just having an awful nightmare.
Under German pre-war plans, Hitler didn’t plan to start until 1942 0r 43. The best laid plans …
EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms, Ban Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever– trying to cause a famine. Psychopathic.
Under German pre-war plans, Hitler didn’t plan to start until 1942 0r 43. The best laid plans …
I agree having read much on the Chinese demographic problem. I think it will be earlier if they go.
ruddster has decided to help elbow with some unsolicited pontification
coulden happen to two nicer mongs
Rogersays:
May 3, 2023 at 7:24 pm
I miss monty
What’s become of him?
He’s over 18, and has a wife to look after him, I care not.
“Net Zero” and the Transhuman Agenda: Demonic War Against Nature and Humanity
WHY IS THE REFORM MOVEMENT SUPPORTING GROOMING OF CHILDREN?
I generally don’t support vandalism but, in this case, it’s a blow for freedom and I hope an example for every attempted 15 minute city. It’s about time people stood up and said NO.
‘We won’t stop’ Blade Runner activist chopping Ulez cameras down breaks silence
Saw the “Dr” Rudd thing today. WTF, till I searched, Oxford really. Why would they defile themselves like that?
This bloke has proven he has the intellect of a shrew.
On to other burning questions…
Is there even one monarchist in our official party to the coronation?
They all appear to be in the press proclaiming their distance from the institution.
Doesn’t speak highly of their integrity.
The German Navy was planning on kicking off, in 1944 or 1945. They would have had ten battleships and four aircraft carriers by then..
Poll results according to latest Ben Shapiro show.
Dr. Suneel Dhand
John Campbell BANNED from YouTube
The PBD offer to Tucker is $20m a year for 5 years with PBD paying for the production. So basically matching Fox.
BLACKROCK, The Largest Asset Holder Of Everything – Ed Dowd
“Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi is suing One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over an allegedly racist tweet calling on the senator to “piss off back to Pakistan””
Nothing the Greens do or say surprises me but the hypocrisy from the verminous and very rancid Faruqi is staggering. This is the same piece of scum who is a rabid Israel hater, who drapes herself in the Palestinian flag in parliament, who shouts the genocidal and very racist cry “from the river to the sea”, which is interesting because when Muslims scream and shout that slogan, they don’t mean a state where Jews and Arabs live side by side, oh no, no, no, that’s a cry, a scream, a call for ethnic cleansing, for Palestine to be Judenfrei. Perhaps someone can tell me who the racist is here, because as far as I’m concerned it isn’t Pauline.
Having said that, only a few weeks ago Pauline Hanson joined in the condemnation of Mark Latham for his tweet about the sinister creep Greenwich. Perhaps Pauline thought that would put her in the good books of people who would never vote for her in a hissy fit. She didn’t need to join in the verbal lynching of Latham, all she had to say was that she disagreed with the tweet but Latham is entitled to his FREE SPEECH. And now, ironically, Pauline Hanson is being sued for her FREE SPEECH. Well Pauline, you chose not to defend a core principle, and now they’re coming after you.
“Luzusays:
May 3, 2023 at 7:27 pm”
Happy Birthday!
EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms, Ban Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever– trying to cause a famine. Psychopathic.
As in Sri Lanka this will not end peacefully.
The Secretive Family that Owns All of Europe
Well said, Cassie.
Maybe he’s finally worked out that being a spiteful, irritating bitch is rather an empty life.
Every. Single. Ad. Break.
“Yes”.
They must have unlimited money. Bludgeoning assent.
FWIW, I’ve been known to point out that there’s been a Palestinian homeland since 1947.
It’s called “Jordan.”
“Bludgeoning assent.”
That’s the idea.
let them go
i think they are going to overcook it
and piss people off
mongs
pauline is a trougher and a grifter
Ranga,
Because there is nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear than a house…
So I shall toast a whiskey in your honour.
Rejected at the Oz:
It’s a great pity Ms Gemmell wants to throw mud at those members of the Royals who have been members of the Royal Navy – the greatest institution on the planet to fight against slavery for over 200 years.
Story: Throne to the wolves: coronation tainted by ostracism of ‘Honest Harry’
Sorry Vicki – haven’t watched 4 Corners in about 20 years. What was their take on the subs?
King George VI served at the battle of Jutland, as a midshipman.
I love the Abo Yes ad with ‘we are not recognised in the constitution’ . Yeah well neither are taxpayers, rate payers, motorists, hetros, skateboarders…so get in line.
Vote Yes to segregation and No for equality!
I raise a Chateau Sulo (earthy aroma, textured palate) to Crazy Old Ranga and Luzu.
Neither is anybody else – the Constitution is a power sharing arrangement between the Commonwealth and States, and an operating manual for the running of Parliament.
Snowy 2.0
They would be saying these people actually built a turd believing they could polish it.
waddya mean built
it won’t be finished
Finished the Obi-Wan series on Disney.
Awful.
Terrible story, terrible fight choreography, plot holes galore.
And it looked like one of the writers looked at a few Warhammer videos to pinch a few ideas.
The only decent part was Vader killing bystanders indiscriminately, showed just how evil he is.
Wow.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
@EvaVlaar
The EU has given the Dutch government the green light to buy out 3000 #DutchFarmers offering them 120% of the market value, ‘incentivising’ them to sell ‘voluntary’ (if they don’t, they’ll be expropriated later).
Oh, and they won’t be allowed to start over elsewhere in the EU.
I raise a Pepperjack Shiraz to Crazy Old Ranga and Luzu.
The toast is “Money, love and happiness, and the time to enjoy all three.”
no, AI will not “kill 300 million jobs” (sorry media)
because technology never works like that
Don’t let anyone gaslight you on VAERS
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
@EvaVlaar
When I became a Catholic last week, I chose St. Joan of Arc as my Confirmation Saint. I admire her courage and faithfulness immensely and hope to emulate her virtues in my life with the help of God Our Father.
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1652690981756575746
When I became a Catholic last week, I chose St. Joan of Arc as my Confirmation Saint.
[BBCmode]So, what you are really saying is that you hate non-French![/BBCmode]
Snowy cry me a river.
Federal Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said Mr Barnes had informed him on Tuesday of the delays and welcomed the transparency on the project under his leadership, describing the earlier lack of disclosure on the slowing schedule as “inexcusable”.
Why wasn’t I told!
snowy 2
the brainchild of the smartest guy in the room
any room
Music: A flower amidst the ashes.
Two Cellos – With or Without You (instrumental).
(Skip the intro patter; music begins at approx. the 2 min mark. Best with decent headphones or sound, and closed eyes).
Top Ender says: May 3, 2023 at 8:27 pm
The more they see the more they booo!
Having spent the best part of the last two hours listening to music (including various choirs) on YouTube, after a challenging day, I’ve realised that ‘western’ music is one of those human achievements that has been conveniently ignored when comparing indigenous and non-indigenous cultures.
I’m not interested in putting down pre-contact Australian indigenous culture, but when comparing their performance art with the complexity of European musical development, the difference seems immeasurably large. That doesn’t mean I think any less of their means of expression (I don’t see anything to be gained in categorising ‘winners’ and ‘losers’), but I resent more than I can express in words, the sustained assault on the collective history and achievements of my ancestors. In fact, I’m not going to ruin my mood by continuing this train of thought.
Watching with your eyes open reveals the presence of many rather long stemmed young ladies, wearing very brief skirts, in the audience..
I’m sorry, does that mean making pharting noises, blowing down a hollow log, and banging two sticks together are not the equal of a Beethoven symphony?
muddy at 2233
the addition of two cellos and the removal of one pompous irish git makes that song quite acceptable
Generally can’t stand the band, Sancho, but two or three of their songs are acceptable when performed by others.
speaking of musical annoyances
i see gordon lightfoot has bought the farm
agreed muddy
the removal of the pious trumped up little ponce with his rosé sunglasses would improve anything
Zulu: I’m tempted to respond, but I’m having enough trouble getting to sleep without raising my blood pressure venting about parasites identifying as human heroes. Some other time. All the best old chap.
Will be cheaper than your cup of coffee.
Action for Alice 2020
International student in Darwin is declared deceased by the hospital staff.
Flat mates’ account of the incident is around early hours in the morning an Indigenous male broke into the unit through a window and picked up a fire extinguisher and smashed the boy’s head in a way that left him bleeding in his own bed.
By the time the other people in the unit took him to the hospital, doctors declared there was nothing much they could have done to save his life. It was his 3rd month in Australia and he was only in his first semester of studies.
When Michael and Barack visited Sydney recently there were shots of Michael doing a Diana and visiting the zoo alone looking a bit sad and doe eyed. Generated a bit of spec about the state of the union.
If Michelle chases the nomination Barack might not make up a unity ticket.
This bloke has proven he has the intellect of a shrew.
You flatter the cretonic moron…
John Spooner.
David Rowe.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Patrick Blower #2.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Matt Margolis #2.
Terry McCrann on Andrews lashing the RBA:
Thank you, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, for explicitly reminding us why politicians should never be let near the ‘interest rate lever’ – a reminder, that was seconded so to speak by newboy premier, NSW’s Chris Minns.
As Andrews explained – and Minns echoed, ‘hear, hear’– politicians will always, and I mean always, choose the popular vote-winning option over the more generalised and often unpopular public (and indeed, actual people) interest.
So, there was Andrews attacking the Reserve Bank for supposedly “smashing voters” – sorry, correction, families – with Tuesday’s rate rise and the other ten before it.
While Minns piped up with his query whether the RBA was “actually fulfilling its remit”; that he also was “very concerned” about the impact on voters. Sorry again, families.
I liked the bit about Minns opining on the RBA’s ‘remit’, as it showed him faithfully ‘doing an Albo’ – that’s to say, not having a clue.
Just as the PM was unable to nominate the RBA’s absolutely fundamental and these days almost in your face cash rate, Minns clearly hasn’t a clue what the RBA’s remit is.
For future reference for the trainee NSW premier, the RBA’s remit is explicitly to keep inflation in the 2-3 per cent band; and when it’s dramatically above that band as is today’s 7 per cent inflation, to get it back down there.
Doing so, with the one – and experience has shown, the only effective – weapon it has: raising that cash rate.
A cash rate that, by the bye for the benefit of the premier – and indeed the PM – is now 3.85 per cent. Repeat after me, premier and PM: three point eight five per cent, 3.85. 3.85.
This predilection for the populist over the public interest is almost hardwired into the political brain, mostly on an entirely bipartisan basis.
In over 30 years in public political life, while being overall our second-best ever PM, John Howard nevertheless never saw an interest rate cut that he didn’t like and never saw an interest rate hike that he didn’t hate.
Except of course when he was sitting on the opposition benches, and the exact reverse applied.
Howard met what might be called his ‘interest rate – or RBA – Karma’ , when the RBA lifted its cash rate smack in the middle of the 2007 election campaign and Howard lost his premiership and indeed his seat.
The two critical things about keeping rate decisions out of the hands of politicians is both the basic willingness to raise rates, sometimes punishingly – which is not the case today; at least not yet – and to do it on a timely basis, which is to say early.
Yes, I’ve criticised the RBA for being too slow to start, and for then raising more timidly than the RBNZ.
But at the end of the day, Governor Philip Lowe, like all his modern-day predecessors, has been prepared to ‘do his job’. He was always going to break that ‘promise’ if he had to.
As both Andrews and Minns have so publicly announced: they simply could not be trusted; and the consequences would be far, far more pain and serious harm to those very voters – there I go again, families – they so pathetically claim to worry about.
If Andrews and Minns had their hands on the ‘rate lever’, the consequence would be much higher, much more entrenched inflation and much higher and more long-lasting punitive interest rates.
But they would be long gone by then; it would be someone else’s problem.
I should note in closing there are exceptions to what I might dub my ‘pusillanimous populist polly rule’ – most notably Labor Paul’s Keating who urged the RBA to go-a-hiking in the 1989-90 period.
But also more quietly the Coalition’s Peter Costello.
Thank you Tom and thank you Black Ball – with some relief I notice the Premiers have dropped the adjective so beloved of Julia Gillard — i.e “werking” families
Drones hit Kremlin, targeting Putin. Russia warns retaliation. Elensky hiding out in Helsinki. U/2
Alex Christoforou
International students back to 48 hour a fortnight working cap.
wife on student visa? husband on spouse visa (must be working full time as she’s paying $140 a day for childcare)
another school shooting
Russia’s Medvedev Calls for ‘Elimination’ Of Zelensky & ‘His Clique’ After Drone Attack
“CitizenGO, founded in Madrid in 2013, describes itself as a ‘community of active citizens who work together to defend and promote life, family, and liberty’.”
OMG, these people must be stopped! sarc/
Premiers and Albo printing money, massive massive infrastructure projects with huge cost over-runs + distorting the construction industry and effectively breaking it, renewable horseshit energy policies, redlining immigration.. all driving up prices and thereby inflation. All by their hand. …but no lets have a crack at the RBA for attempting to put out the fire they DIRECTLY caused. When Dan opens his mouth let the shit come forth.
It’s not the RBA’s job to make decisions based on the consequences for people with variable rate mortgages. With inflation still running at 7%, well above the target rate of between 2 and 3, it’s no surprise that rate hikes will continue.
Left leaning politicians will, with the help of their complicit media cadres, continue to use RBA bashing as a distraction.
That drone attack at da Kremlin looks as fake as Erdogan’s false flag “attempted coup” – which gave him cover for another round of purging the military.
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Citizen Go Website that is
Reid Hoffman was the part of the big three funding the Zuck Bucks programs that impacted the 2020 election results in Michigan, Wisconsin & Minnesota.
Reid Hoffman is funding the Jean Carroll lawsuit against Trump.
Today, the NY Post & WSJ report that he visited Epstein island in 2014.
Whoever has access to the Epstein collateral has these all those who participated under their control.
Attention handpatters:
The child is 13, the same age as the piece of shit that killed three people while driving a stolen car in Bundaberg.
I wonder what sort of sentence he’ll get? Let’s check the Serbian law:
Oh. They raised the age of criminal responsibility to 14. This muppet who shot and killed nine people will receive no criminal punishment whatsoever.
Elbow, here’s your chance to back out of this stupid doe-eyed UN agreement the country signed up to.
Who in the media will keep the alp clown show in check? The RBA’s remit might be to keep inflation within the 2-3%, but it’s only mechanism to act is pretty much interest rates, all the other possible actions sit with government. So 10 interest rate rises suggests a government that flat out refuses to take actions that sit within its remit. Given the spending already announced in the upcoming budget, it’s hard to see how the alp clown show expects any other result.
bern at 0659
things what make you go hmmmm
anyhoo good moaning mongs
and its a loverly day here in kent st deakin as we get set for another day of blog wrecking
A Charles of England can never have too many crowns.
King Charles to be ‘crowned’ in special service two days ahead of official Coronation (3 May)
Crown of Peas? Ok why aren’t our first nations in there too with a possum skin cloak? Lidia, Marcia, Ken, where are you?
Bahahaaaaaaa hahahaa.
Stay away from number 109. It’s haunted.
Morning Fawlty!
hq langley have issued untraceable sims and burner phones
so no more tracing me into the back entrance of the exchange in hampden place
Not my work but worth repeating .. !
Why was the transgender man a vegetarian?
Because it was a her before.
Rum, sodomy and the lash.
Navy Confirms Using Drag Queen Influencer as a ‘Digital Ambassador’ to Attract Recruits (3 Apr)
Ok maybe not rum. How about Bud Lite, sodomy and the lash instead?
Just to demonstrate your point about the renewable horseshit at 7.45am this morning, South Australia, the lead state in getting rid of coal was only producing 1% wind and 0% solar. It was fueled by 75% gas,19% liquid fuel (kero?) and 6% battery. And wait for it, the price to keep the lights on was a stunning $12,922.49 per MW.
The Royal Air Farce honouring the Gods of the Reciprocal.
standby
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I can foresee US taxpayers funding an awful lot of gender reassignment surgery.
Australia’s gift to Charlie on his coronation is a $10,000 donation to conserve the Western Ground Parrot.
Underwhelming.
Though it’s likely the Palace set a limit on the value of gifts.
Daniel Greenfield thinks the US Navy might miss its recruitment goals.
Sounds about right.
Is that the one that’s pining for the fjords?
in the navy
you can sail the seven seas
in the navy
you can catch a bad disease
in the navy