(Post script: The West’s treatment of Putin has been duplicitous to put it kindly)
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I’m not sure who the US should support in UKR Vs RUS. Do you support the “less bad guy?” Zelensky…
Oops. Amazing what misallocating a few tens of billions of dollars can do.
Could be a long summer for Captain Carbon and the rest of them. Bumrah was practically unplayable on Friday. Pitch…
Sorry, this site now seems defunct – says ‘for sale’. Taken over by a telemedicine group.
Indolent says:
May 10, 2023 at 10:01 am
The Harm Caused by Masks
A new study suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers can have major health consequences.
Mask-wearers breathe in greater amounts of air that should have been expelled from their bodies and released out into the open. “[A] significant rise in carbon dioxide occurring while wearing a mask is scientifically proven in many studies,” write the German authors. “Fresh air has around 0.04% CO2,” they observe, while chronic exposure at CO2 levels of 0.3 percent is “toxic.” How much CO2 do mask-wearers breathe in? The authors write that “masks bear a possible chronic exposure to low level carbon dioxide of 1.41–3.2% CO2 of the inhaled air in reliable human experiments.”
In other words, while eight times the normal level of carbon dioxide is toxic, research suggests that mask-wearers (specifically those who wear masks for more than 5 minutes at a time) are breathing in 35 to 80 times normal levels.
That is why I hate wearing masks & it was always obvious you were breathing in exhaled stale air
Trump’s strategy in the Carroll case is weird. He essentially played dead. No wonder he lost, he barely contested it.
I guess he figures he has better uses of his time, and he can lie to you lot that it was a WITCH HUNT!!!! and you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
It should read “Indolent pastes a link although he will not answer for its content’s reliability but may be just posting it because – look a squirrel!” For all his flurry of posts he rarely actually says anything.
I suppose the ‘says’ is just ‘the imprecision of the templates’.
Calli:
I had a look at these gadgets a month or so ago, and came to the conclusion they were not really for me.
There were some from Amazon which were priced at just below $100. They waited for you to not put in a password every 24 hours, then if they weren’t contacted they would contact the nearest mobile phone with instructions on how to input a new password. I couldn’t see any sense in that if it was stolen property. If it was car keys in your house, it would get bloody annoying after a week.
But I think you’re after a device to put in your luggage so you can tell literally where in the world it is, yes? I’ve forgotten the prices but they were $200+ with reliability issues. Being still connected to the intarwebs during plane take off and landings, there were safety issues.
I prefer cogito ergo tutti fruiti.
“Albo…”
“Yes, Jim?”
“I’d like to put the middle class on the bracket creep rack and see how much we can wring out of them.”
“You know I love fighting Tories, Jim!”
Budget night should be seen as light entertainment like the Logies or something. Sure, the tax and spend churn is important but most stuff is already baked in. Treasury forecasts give most headline numbers the air of a Tarot card reading.
Monty it was a stitch up, that was obvious from day one. Since it was always going to go up the ladder it wasn’t worth giving the MSM lots of fake headlines and photo ops. It’s so like the Get Pell stitch up.
Given that Carroll was caught blatantly lying during the proceedings it would seem the verdict is just a tad shaky.
Dont know if mentioned here yet but i was saying it all night on twaddle…
Houso has complained every-single-day about all the crap he inherited from Scomo, but last night I hear no thanks for the budget surplus.
Mother Lodesays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:08 am
The correct quote is “Cogito ergo sum”, not “Cogito ergo est”, Grandpa.
Maybe he wants to say “I think, therefore it is” as in any figment that slips through a crack in his subconscious (where terrors, older than words or thought, from our ancient past huddled in burrows or clinging to trees at night) and stumbles blindly into what passes for his consciousness is, in fact, true.
Indeed. Read any of Grandpa Ed Simpson’s comments, and there is never, ever, any actual evidence. He is master of “I think, therefore it is”, and his latest brain fart, no matter how incongruent it is with reality, becomes his “truth”. See for example his comment at 0959, or anything by him on the Intriguing Case of Mizzzz Knickerless.
Rogersays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:16 am
But what if the time comes and the surplus somehow survives? Gets larger, even?
“Albo…”
“Yes, Jim?”
“I’d like to put the middle class on the bracket creep rack and see how much we can wring out of them.”
“You know I love fighting Tories, Jim!”
Perhaps they could confine it to only those who married into the upper middle class? Unearned status and all that anti-Tory stuff?
I’ve found myself in Catholic churches during service time and found myself inadvertently giving the responses. The liturgy is almost parallel.
Last time was in Rome. A woman in front of me heard my English, turned around and beamed at me. Afterwards, asking me where I was from. Such is the unity of Christians everywhere.
In a rare piece of useful news ALPBC News gave the estimates for the current budget year surplus over successive Budgets. Unsurprisingly they were not particularly close but varied widely and did not even converge as the current Budget year got closer. Even the BOM generally manages to do that.
Oh Roger, you do so pine for Howard’s middle class welfare.
Trump Loses a Sexual Abuse Suit
A jury finds for E. Jean Carroll but will GOP voters care?
By The WSJ Editorial Board
Does it matter politically now that a jury has found Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation against a woman who said he assaulted her sometime in the 1990s? In a better world it would matter, but in the debased and polarized American politics of 2023, it may not.
It’s impossible to know what really happened in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store when Donald Trump met E. Jean Carroll.
There were no witnesses, Ms. Carroll can’t recall the exact year it happened, and she waited until 2019 to go public with her story. Mr. Trump denies it happened and said Ms. Carroll isn’t his “type.”
We also know Ms. Carroll was coaxed to file a civil lawsuit by longtime opponents of Mr. Trump, including lawyer George Conway. And her suit was financed by another Trump opponent, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. It’s plausible that the former President abused and defamed Ms. Carroll. It’s also plausible that he was falsely accused.
Yet it’s no small matter that the jury sorted the testimony and found against Mr. Trump on the preponderance of evidence standard that applies in civil litigation. (The criminal statute of limitations that requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt has long expired.) The jury rejected Ms. Carroll’s claim that Mr. Trump raped her. But they found it more likely than not that he sexually assaulted her and lied about it. The jury awarded her a more than token civil penalty of $5 million.
Yet if most Republicans dismiss the verdict as one more political assault, Mr. Trump’s opponents and the press have themselves to blame. They also show no restraint.
This lawsuit, like the two impeachments and the recent Alvin Bragg indictment that stretches the law, seems less an attempt to get at the truth than to find some way, any way, to disqualify him from ever becoming President again.
Voters don’t like being told that a man they elected should be disqualified by members of the opposite party or the press.
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:11 am
Trump’s strategy in the Carroll case is weird. He essentially played dead. No wonder he lost, he barely contested it.
I guess he figures he has better uses of his time, and he can lie to you lot that it was a WITCH HUNT!!!! and you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
Perhaps he is setting the scene for Tara Reade to sue Creepy Joe Biden? She at least can nominate a time frame. Then Kathy Sherriff could use the same precedent here against Willy Shortone?
And like a good little German, you will then swap narratives in an instant.
Do you think Trump is really hurt by those headlines among Republican voters? They join in his misogyny, they revel in it.
His video testimony was basically that he couldn’t remember sexually assaulting this particular broad because he grabs women by the pussy all the time, and they usually let him because he’s a star. The Access Hollywood defence.
Jury didn’t seem to like it, but I guess none of them are Republican primary voters.
Marrying into the upper Middle Class is like leasing your Range Rover. It really gets on one’s wick.
Tax cuts, monty, repeat after me…tax cuts.
What a curious take and such low energy trolling. Not much love for The Father of Middle Class welfare here since iampeter disappeared.
‘Grimmest in 45 years’: Building collapses to get worse
Michael Bleby – Senior reporter
Australia’s construction industry is headed for “a lot more pain” as tearaway inflation in materials, labour and rain delays worsen devastating losses on fixed-price contracts, just as the pipeline of new work dries up and competition intensifies.
Builders behind more than 5200 homes, worth at least a collective $2.2 billion, have collapsed since 2021 and the official insolvency figures released on Tuesday show failures in construction have hit a nine-year high, just short of the decade record of 1802.
“It’s the grimmest I’ve ever seen in 45-odd years in the industry,” said veteran home builder Robert Lynch, executive chairman of ASX-listed builder Tamawood.
“It’s going to be a very tough 18 months to two years. We’re going to see a lot more pain. They’ve been so slow to build they’re finishing off a lot of houses now that are going to lose a lot of money. I see that being a huge problem.”
Across the broader construction industry, cost and pricing pressures, even as they moderate from recent extreme levels, are likely to push insolvencies higher still, according to a roundtable of leaders convened by The Australian Financial Review.
“It has been a very challenging couple of years and that has caused significant stress for most businesses, particularly in the supply chain,” said Neil Harding, chief executive of contractor Adco.
“I expect we will continue to see a high level of insolvency in the industry for another 18 months or so.”
Scott Hutchinson, chairman of Brisbane-based Hutchinson Builders, said he expected insolvency numbers to get worse. Matt Bourne of Sydney-based Roberts Co agreed.
“We are aware that many parts of the industry are operating under duress and are very concerned that there will be further insolvencies in the supply chain,” Mr Bourne said.
Costs growing faster than prices
Home builders were caught unaware by tearaway inflation that ripped through their sector in the wake of both the Morrison government’s HomeBuilder payments and the global surge in demand for goods and services as pandemic restrictions eased.
Costs surged faster than the price rises builders could make in 2021, and the industry spent most of 2022 raising prices faster to restore margins.
They’ve restored profitability – on new sales. But increasingly onerous serviceability ratios mean banks will lend less to new customers than they would before, even as prices of new homes have reset at higher levels to reflect costs that are now baked into the construction process.
Cashflow is crucial to the low-margin home-building industry, which relies on high volumes and a constant flow of work. Even if they can charge more, builders will struggle to make the sales that will bring in new deposits.
The Housing Industry Association expects new work to slow. The number of detached housing starts will drop to 96,300 next year, the lowest number in a decade and a 35 per cent slump from the 2021 peak of 149,000, its February report predicts.
“Any time between September and November it’s going to hit a cliff,” Mr Lynch said. “There will be no work out there, and it’s going to stop.”
The cancellation of contracts by customers no longer able to borrow enough to build houses they had undertaken to buy would make the problem worse, he said.
Across construction, suppliers and trades are being squeezed by rising costs and the inability to raise their own prices to offset those.
The home-building landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies, with a string of names that includes Queensland-based Privium, Condev, Pivotal Homes and Solido Builders.
The list includes Delco Building Group, Hallbury Homes and Langford Jones Homes in Victoria, as well as Hotondo Homes’ Horsham and Hobart franchises and Tasmania’s Inside Out Constructions.
The failure of Hotondo Homes’ Hobart franchise hit customer Nathan Meyers, who said he was forced to sell off his unfinished “dream home” to buy an apartment to avoid risking homelessness.
Many builders failed to raise their selling prices fast enough to maintain margins as unprecedented inflation tore through their sector. After the start of the $25,000 HomeBuilder incentive payments in June 2020, builders were slow to anticipate the surge in demand that would push up costs.
Companies such as ASX-listed Simonds Group – twice so far – and privately owned Dennis Family Homes and home building giant Metricon have also been cutting headcount to reduce costs.
Said one former home-building employee: “The problem with this industry is that there’s a frighteningly high level of incompetency and lack of understanding of how this whole thing works, and sadly, a lot of it is concentrated at the very top of these companies.
“The bottom line is that the government had a knee-jerk reaction to the market slowing down after the start of the virus, assuming that the industry is robust and competent enough, but they were sadly mistaken. The result, overpriced homes, and yet to come, massive default rate on mortgages.”
Metricon, which almost doubled its yearly housing starts from 604 to 1177 in 2021 in Queensland alone – faster than the total 65 per cent increase in total starts in the Sunshine State – was one of a number of companies that then went back to customers asking them to pay more.
Logan-based Oracle expanded its workbook from 76 home contracts in FY20 to 316 in FY21 before going into liquidation last year.
At a conservative average cost of $415,200 per new house since November 2021, the more than 5200 homes affected by builders going under gives a value close to $2.2 billion worth in a year and a half.
Fixed-price contracts lock in losses
The problem is not only market conditions and company management. Regulation and bank policies matter, too.
Victoria and Western Australia don’t allow so-called rise and fall clauses in fixed-price contracts for home-building work worth less than $500,000 and even in NSW, Queensland, ACT, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory where rules do allow them, lenders won’t, the HIA says.
“Some builders didn’t put prices up at all for the best part of 18 months and by that time they were selling houses at below their construction cost,” Mr Lynch said.
“What’s coming home to roost ever since is every time they’ve been finishing a house they’ve been forced to recognise the loss on the house and that’s where a lot of it has gone. That’s the single biggest cause of the bankruptcies.”
Mr Lynch said Tamawood started raising prices in mid-2020, at the time it was criticising calls by industry groups such as Master Builders Australia and the Property Council of Australia for a cash incentive to encourage purchases of new homes, which was realised with the HomeBuilder scheme.
“We were doing very small raisings,” he said.
Mr Lynch declined to say how much his company had raised prices, but said they were frequent.
“For part of the time we were doing them every couple of weeks; a lot of raising, but very small amounts at a time,” he said.
Official producer prices data comparing cost input growth for home building with sales price growth of builders show costs leaped briefly over the rate of price gain in mid-2020, before builders raised prices.
But by June 2021, cost growth had surged ahead, and it then took a year for builders to be raising prices sufficiently well over cost growth.
It was necessary to be raising prices constantly to keep up with the big cost hikes, Mr Lynch said.
“One time the steel price went up 67 per cent in one hit with no notice,” he said. “If you’re not going up a little bit at a time, stuff like that kills you.”
But even though costs are still rising, albeit more slowly than at their peak, lower levels of work are prompting builders to put a brake on price rises. In the December quarter, cost growth overtook price growth again for the first time in a year and a half.
That points to even more pain as sales volumes fall.
“Builders increased prices after costs went up and kept increasing at the point prices caught up,” HIA chief economist Tim Reardon said.
“Now they’re reducing prices faster than prices are coming off, because competition is forcing them to.”
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
you will gobble it up like good little Germans.
Let me see…
Science is settled.
Transwomen are women.
Stolen generations.
Invasion.
I came, I saw, he died.
Investment in welfare.
The three years of budget surpluses I announce tonight
Insurrection
Trump is a Russian stooge
Comey will indict any day now.
“They join in his misogyny, they revel in it.”
Yeah, much like you lot joined in the Pell lies, in fact you revelled in it.
The structure of the liturgy, based around word and sacrament, goes back to the very earliest days of the church. In fact, the liturgy of the word has its origins in the synagogue, while the sacrament obviously has it sorigins in the upper room and the passover liturgy. When it came to the Reformation, Cranmer et. al. excised the parts they regarded as representing doctrinally unacceptable accretions and kept the rest.
“Australian officers are the highest paid military leaders in the Western World. The nominal salary for the Chief of the Defence Force is A$800,000. The position also carries additional benefits, such as a car, driver,caterers for social events plus travel and away from home allowances that potentially elevate this salary to over $1 million. The size of the Australian Defence force (Army, Navy and Air Force) is approximately 58,200 uniformed personnel.
As a comparison, in 2018, General Joseph Durnford, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was paid just over US $245,000 (about A$320,000) topped up with a personal allowance of $5172 (About A$6760.) The size of the US Armed Forces is over 20 times that of the ADF. (“Failures of Command,” Hugh Poate, Page 305.)”
ABC and SBS
The ABC will get a massive $6billion investment over five years while SBS walks away with an additional $1.8billion.
That includes $52million in funding to support local ABC news operations.
The arts sector
Some $286million has been set aside to ‘renew and revive Australia’s arts, entertainment and cultural sector’.
The government has also vowed to boost incentives for the film industry in an attempt to lure more international productions to Australia and create more jobs.
I grant the Episcopalians can often be worse. But you have to wonder what the appeal of this stuff is, since woke lefties are usually atheists as far as I can tell. Not a demographic you’d expect to fill churches.
U.S. Bishops’ Immigration Czar Slams Secure the Border Act as ‘Beyond Justification’ (9 May)
In 2019, Seitz denounced President Trump’s border wall as a “monument to hate” and a symbol of exclusion, xenophobia, and racism.
You Knew This Was Coming: NYC Catholic Church Hosts ‘God Is Trans’ Exhibit (8 May)
Well, this was inevitable. It was only a matter of time before Leftist Christians, marinating in the relentless insanity of their pet causes, would fashion gods in their own image: trans, queer, woke, and whatever else the Left is idolizing. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, a Roman Catholic parish on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has shown itself to be only too happy to forsake the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the Left’s idols of the moment, so it was the perfect place for a recent exhibit celebrating everything the Left cherishes most: narcissism, perversion, delusion, and madness. The church has put up an exhibit entitled “God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.”
Doubt these guys would be on the FBI’s radar, that only ever seems to apply to Latin Mass attendees. And rather ironic the latter one is in a church named for St Paul. He was a tad critical about such things in the letter to the Romans. I wonder what Rod Bower of Gosford Anglican church thinks of the latter story?
shatterzzzsays:
May 10, 2023 at 8:50 am
Excellent to see that Woolworths are in step with Dr. Jim’s budget and inflation killer methods .. !
“home brand” peanut butter, 375g jar .. last week $2.40 this week $2.90 …..
Aldi’s Bramwell brand peanut butter, $2.91 for 500g. Made in Argentina and tastes great.
There you go , Zat & Cronkite.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.
Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her defamation claim for Trump, 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations.
Trust me , I’m not happy I was right. Quite the opposite in fact.
I did say NY is bizarro land head prefect. In her testimony the skank would not say the date, the year or the time of the interaction which she maintained was a rape. With no time and date Trump could not prove he was elsewhere and could not possibly be at the place. The matter should have been directed by the Judge (?) not to proceed on that basis and will be the main grounds for the appeal. The jury seems to be a special bunch where they could not accept he skank’s claim of rape but still managed to convict on a sexual assault basis which the skank did not allege. Again another ground for appeal.
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:29 am
“I’d like to put the middle class on the bracket creep rack and see how much we can wring out of them.”
Oh Roger, you do so pine for Howard’s middle class welfare.
Can we assume that, as a matter of principle, you refused to accept the Howard middle class welfare, instead writing a cheque to the Treasury?
If don’t believe her when said it was rape how can you believe the lesser crime which was on same occassion?
Answer. NY Jury.
The jury rejected Ms. Carroll’s claim that Mr. Trump raped her. But they found it more likely than not that he sexually assaulted her and lied about it.
“A NYC jury can. They have a time machine that goes back that far allowing them to look right into the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. FMD”
The facts of the case are irrelevant in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF, Portland etc – every jurist knows that if they do not give the far-left raging mob that appears outside the courthouse every day the verdict they want, said jurists will be doxxed and their life become a living hell unless and until they move interstate. If the mob says “Guilty!”, then you will return “Guilty” or have your life ruined. Mob justice, driven and decided by the militant arm of the Democrat party. Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And the Voice will improve this How?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au › nation › the-latest-riot-at-banksia-hill-juvenile-detention-centre-has-rendered-the-facility-unusable › news-story › 7d066cda9ef0fcc737c7f8ace0b9509b
Juvenile detainees riot at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in …
Today – The juvenile detainees broke out of their cells on Tuesday night and began damaging buildings and lighting fires about 8.30pm. The Australian has been told the riot began when a juvenile detainee “got keys and they basically went around and unlocked every cell in the centre”.
Juvenile detention centre set alight after inmate stole keys
Children and adolescents have destroyed most of WA’s juvenile detention centre overnight after an inmate ‘unlocked every cell’.
Get out your tiny violins!
Tucker Laughs While the Bloodbath Continues at Fox News (9 May)
Ooh, hurty. Mr Green seems to think that Fox will eventually recover since righties have nowhere else to go. I’m not so sure about that.
With what is coming out about Drumgold, and now that Twitter is not just a stinking pond of thick left-wing sludge, all those reporters and politicians who ginned up the Lehrmann case, condemned him (and the Liberal Party – the real target) for his obvious guilt (and the Liberal party’s) can now be challenged as to what they say now.
It would not be a bad thing to remind reporters and others of their ilk that they can no longer just let fly with baseless accusations and calumnies presented as fact, and never have to worry about answering for it. They will doubtless block people from their threads but that becomes a story in itself. That becomes what they are known for.
reposted without the profanity…
Munted proves he’s a moron yet again as the Cat is no JWH Fan Club. I’ll also just point out that the Commonwealth public service never grew quicker under any other PM than JWH.
And yes Roger, it’s not “middle class welfare” if the f-cking money came from the middle class in the first place.
Haven’t we heard that before? How’s that working out for them?
tax to GDP ratio to guide him, with the Morrison-era target of 23.9 per cent already breached; if non-tax receipts are included it is heading for 26 per cent
1/4 of a nations wealth sucked into the swamp.
It would not be a bad thing to remind reporters and others of their ilk that they can no longer just let fly with baseless accusations and calumnies presented as fact, and never have to worry about answering for it. They will doubtless block people from their threads but that becomes a story in itself. That becomes what they are known for.
I’ll wait patiently for some Liberal Party MP to remind various media outlets and their ilk of their complicity in this lynching. The problem is, I’ll be waiting an eternity.
One of the fat turd’s major problems is never having had a real job.
Just for JR, oldie but funny!
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “Ugh, that’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!” The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”
Six years after exposing the appalling treatment of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory’s Dondale prison, ABC’s Four Corners has revealed similarly terrible conditions in Western Australia’s Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.
The report, which aired on 14 November, opens with disturbing images of children held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day being held down by prison officers, who “fold” the children into positions which carry a risk of suffocation and death. Reporter Grace Tobin outlines that “state governments are ignoring the evidence from the experts and their own departments. Politicians know that detaining children as young as 10 [and] traumatising them makes them more likely to reoffend”.
Between 2020 and 2021, around 4,695 children aged between 10 and 17 years were incarcerated in youth detention facilities nationally per day, according to a March 2022 Australian Institute for Health and Welfare report.
Over the course of the year, a total of 9,352 children spent time in detention. Of the children incarcerated, nearly half (49 percent) were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, despite Indigenous kids making up just 5.8 percent of the total child population in Australia. Nearly three-quarters of children in detention were “unsentenced”, according to the report.
The number of Indigenous children in prison has increased dramatically over the last decade.
Looks like Fox has decided to play total hardball. That will crater their ratings even more.
Report: Tucker Carlson Accuses Fox News of Fraud, Contract Breach (9 May)
Righties will take careful note of them doing this. On the other hand maybe it’s just a tactic to get to a settlement. But I would not be surprised if Fox goes to the mat given how powerful a supporter of Trump he has been, even if in private he might not like him.
Georgia Gov Brian Kemp Organizes Billionaire Bush Clan on Sea Island to Plot State for DeSantis, While GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Meets With Zuckerberg CEIR Election Manipulation Group
May 9, 2023 – Sundance
The Bush clan is always in the background, like the stench of a rotting whale carcass just over the horizon.
With Georgia on their mind for 2024, Governor Brian Kemp hosts a stop Trump confab at their infamous and preferred Sea Island retreat.
Meanwhile, thanks to the intrepid boots-on-ground reporting of Laura Loomer, we discover that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is meeting with Zuckerberg’s far-left Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), in Washington DC.
Why would state election officials be meeting with far-left election manipulation groups.
Well, put those two datapoints together, and once again the strings on the election official marionettes start glowing. As we have said from the outset of the DeSantis construct in early 2022, watch the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) closely.
We are about to see exactly how the billionaire corporate funders control the Red State operations and manufacture the ‘illusion of choice‘.
The difference between now and the Romney era of 2012, through the Bush era of 2016, is that the American electorate are eyes-wide-open.
We are watching the assembly in real time, and once again at CTH we have no financial affiliation to influence our sunlight. The gang might be getting back together, but The Truth Has No Agenda.
New York Jury Finds Trump Not Guilty of Rape, But Guilty of Defaming His Accuser by Denying It
May 9, 2023 – Sundance
The nature of our politically corrupt justice system takes on new clarity today as a jury in New York City decided President Trump did not rape E. Jean Carroll, the crazy moonbat funded by political operatives, but President Trump did defame her in his denial of the accusation.
Thus, the jury awards damages to the false accuser, while finding the accused not guilty.
Presumably the position of the jury was that something ‘may have happened‘ because this was not a criminal trial outcome which would be based on “beyond a reasonable doubt” as the standard.
Instead, this verdict was based on the possibility that something ‘may have happened,’ albeit not proven, and President Donald Trump was defamatory toward the accuser in his strong denials of the accusation.
The jury awarded $2million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for the battery allegation. The jury awarded $1 million in compensatory damages for the defamation and $1.7million for the repair of her reputation. They awarded another $280,000 in punitive damages for the defamation. (read more)
Keep in mind that New York wrote a new law specifically to provide E Jean Carroll a pathway to file a lawsuit over the allegation that something might have happened sometime in the past, though the accuser could not identify what year President Trump assaulted her.
The accuser, a woman of notoriously odd behavior and remarkably unstable mindset, was funded by billionaire LinkedIn founder and very vocal Trump critic, Reid Hoffman.
New York created the new law for Ms. Carroll, Reid Hoffman paid for the legal costs, and Ms. Carroll made her sketchy accusations of something, from sometime, that wasn’t certain to have happened.
There were no witnesses to the claimed events, there was no evidence the event took place, there was nothing to indicate Ms. Carroll or Mr. Trump were even in the same place at the same time.
However, the judge in the case permitted the presentation of possibility, then blocked President Trump from speaking about the case, and then instructed the jury to consider that Ms Carroll’s claims may have indeed taken place, at some point – although no evidence exists and no one knows when, not even Ms Carroll.
In any other situation this case would have been thrown out of court for being ridiculous.
However, in the modern era where justice is metered by regional public opinion that is based on Lawfare and political motivation, we get this situation.
President Trump responded below:
sneaky Houso budget notes immigration of 1,500,000 over four years…
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Keep in mind that New York wrote a new law specifically to provide E Jean Carroll a pathway to file a lawsuit over the allegation that something might have happened sometime in the past, though the accuser could not identify what year President Trump assaulted her.
Awesome and brave new system of justice there.
Youd think narrowing down the year might have been a bridge too far.
Lysandersays:
May 10, 2023 at 11:34 am
But they pinky promise it will go down after that.
Scoop: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach
The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson’s contract with Fox, but his lawyers’ letter effectively holds that Fox breached the contract first.
Sources told Axios that Carlson’s lawyers sent their letter before he took to Twitter to announce his new show.
The details: The letter
— from Carlson lawyer Bryan Freedman to Fox officials Viet Dinh and Irena Briganti — said Fox employees, including “Rupert Murdoch himself,” broke promises to Carlson “intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth.”
The lawyers accuse Fox executives — which two sources say are Dinh and Murdoch — of making “material representations,” or promises, to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud.
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson’s private messages “to take any adverse employment action against him.”
Multiple outlets have reported on Carlson’s redacted communications from pre-trial discovery documents and have suggested that they led to his ousting.
The letter also alleges Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems “in a way which would indicate wrongdoing” on the part of Carlson and not to take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson’s reputation.
Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, two sources briefed on a conversation told Axios.
According to a source familiar with Carlson’s position, his lawyers believe that the misrepresentations alleged by Carlson amount to a breach of contract because they created additional terms of Carlson’s employment that were then broken by the company.
“These actions not only breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the Agreement, but give rise to claims for breach of contract, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation,” the letter says.
What’s next:
Carlson is also claiming that Briganti, Fox’s longtime communications and PR chief, attempted to “undermine, embarrass, and interfere” with Carlson’s future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment contract.
“Make no mistake, we intend to subpoena Ms. Briganti’s cell phone records and related documents, which evidence communications with her and all media, including, but not limited to The New York Times,” the letter said.
What to watch:
Carlson’s lawyers added that because Carlson is considering litigation against the network to resolve these disputes, Fox News must take immediate steps “to preserve all existing documents and data” relevant to Fox’s relationship with Carlson, including correspondence between top executives and several media outlets.
Such great news. Tucker Carlson is back and Twitter is aiming to be a huge media platform.
Thank you, Elon Musk.
Bye bye Fox News?
Alexandra socks it to them. Her piece was so well written and observed.
I was deeply ashamed of Sydney, my city, during the Coronation. My apologies, Your Majesty.
Other States did better. It wasn’t hard for them because Sydney did nothing to celebrate.
Chris Minns is a small man, a very small man. Mean-spirited and undeserving of his role.
King Charles III reigns, but Christ rules
Editorial – The Catholic Weekly – May 10, 2023
“Give the king your judgements, O God, and your righteousness to the son of a king. Then shall he judge your people righteously and your poor with justice.”
As these lines from Psalm 72 rang out in Greek chant throughout Westminster Abbey, and the freshly-anointed King Charles III was garbed in robes resembling nothing less than the Byzantine imperial sakkos, any Australian could be forgiven for thinking this pomp and ceremony was a medieval fantasy.
Indeed, the ABC journalist Stan Grant said just that in his coronation coverage, which criticised the monarchy for its role in the dispossession of indigenous people, and has attracted bitter rebukes from the nation’s monarchists.
“This is the real Australia, before we get to the fantasy Australia, the Disneyland Australia, let’s deal with the real Australia,” Mr Grant said.
“Let’s not imagine that we can just look at this ceremony tonight and see this as something that is distant, that is just ceremonial and doesn’t hold weight. It is scars, it is broken bones and it is too many damaged souls and we need to heal.”
Behind Mr Grant’s remarks is the view that tradition, ritual and ceremony serve as a spectacle that conceals the true reality of power: brutal, callous, parasitic and exploitative of the people. Undoubtedly this has been true at many times in history, even (and perhaps especially, given the church’s high calling) in Christian history. But it is also an overly negative view of the relationship between ritual and power.
Power is not obfuscated by ritual but is constituted by it. …
RTWT
For my money, I’ll bet the hope is that the introduction of the “voice” will result in “Culturally appropriate alternatives to detention for Indigenous children.”
“Australian officers are the highest paid military leaders in the Western World. The nominal salary for the Chief of the Defence Force is A$800,000.
Who knew?? Many years ago we rented our (then) beach house to an air force chief who shall remain nameless. Should have charged more????
Just joking. He and his family were very nice people. Unfortunately for them, there was a bushfire emergency requiring an evacuation to the beach. He took his family down as directed ….and they were the only people there! ………………………………
Juvenile detention centre set alight after inmate stole keys
Police with riot gear prepare to enter the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in Perth’s southeast as it burned on Tuesday night. Picture: Supplied
Children and adolescents have destroyed most of Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre overnight after setting buildings on fire then blocking firefighting crews.
The juvenile detainees broke out of their cells on Tuesday night and began damaging buildings and lighting fires about 8.30pm.
The Australian has been told the riot began when a juvenile detainee “got keys and they basically went around and unlocked every cell in the centre”.
Female staff supervising all-male units were heard to radio for help. Male detainees broke into the girls’ unit, called Yeeda, and unlocked three girls who joined the riot. The breach of the girls’ unit is considered a disaster because some of the male youths at Banksia Hill are sex offenders.
The detainees were seen driving around the detention centre in buggies setting fires.
The riot is the most significant since unrest became an almost daily feature at Banksia Hill more than a year ago. The Australian has been told the detention centre is now unfit to hold the juvenile detainees.
Department of Justice media statements issued on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning described the riot as a major disturbance and confirmed most detainees were not under control though some had “begun surrendering to staff”. They had scaled buildings and refused to come down, throwing projectiles at frontline staff. A large contingent of prison and police riot squads, some with police dogs, were sent into the centre. Residents near Banksia Hill in Perth’s southeast saw police helicopters flying with no lights on above the facility.
Rioting at the juvenile detention facility was initially a response to a regime of lockdowns that have since been deemed illegal. The centre was chronically understaffed and it became common to deny children recreation time out of their cells because there was not enough staff to supervise them while they were walking around common areas or playing sport.
One boy at the intensive supervision unit was routinely locked in his cell for 24 hours per day because guards did not have time to supervise him for even short exercise sessions in a small caged yard.
The McGowan Labor government attempted to deal with the near constant rioting by removing the most challenging detainees to a special unit inside a maximum security men’s prison. However, chaos has continued at Banksia Hill. The WA government promised extra staff and regular recreation time but peace has not been restored at the centre. Some advocates for the juvenile detainees claim a punitive regime is set and that managers are counting visits from family in a secure visits room as recreation so they can deduct it from the time they need to spend supervising the juvenile playing basketball or walking in fresh air.
“The detainees breached their cells last night and have been causing extensive damage to the facility over several hours,” according to a Department of Justice media statement.
“The Department of Justice Special Operations Group was supported by a large police contingent and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services.”
The Department of Justice said on Wednesday morning that some of the detainees on the centre’s roof structures had begun surrendering to staff but the incident was ongoing.
Detainees not involved in the violent behaviour were moved to a secure area, remaining under staff supervision.
Oz
Kneelsays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:52 am
“A NYC jury can. They have a time machine that goes back that far allowing them to look right into the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. FMD”
The facts of the case are irrelevant in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF, Portland etc – every jurist knows that if they do not give the far-left raging mob that appears outside the courthouse every day the verdict they want, said jurists will be doxxed and their life become a living hell unless and until they move interstate. If the mob says “Guilty!”, then you will return “Guilty” or have your life ruined. Mob justice, driven and decided by the militant arm of the Democrat party. Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The DemonRats return to their KKK roots, with institutionalised lynching of “undesirables”, that is, non-leftards, or leftards who do not sign up immediately to the latest insanity.
Surprised that the Oz is allowing comments.
Flounce!
CBC leaves Twitter after Elon Musk adds ‘government-funded media’ tag (18 Apr)
Unflounce!
Radio-Canada, CBC returning to Twitter (9 May)
This was quite amusing since CBC like the ABC is a government funded media organization. They just hated being accurately called that. On the other hand checkmarks were a pretty good guarantee of lack of credibility, at least amongst lefties like CBC, so perhaps they intend to turn over a new leaf. Saving $8 per month of taxpayers’ money is no bad thing after all. /s
Some years ago Qantas sent us some sort of electronic luggage tags. We’ve never used them.
Haven’t seen anyone else using them either. Useless if you are not flying Qantas for part of a trip and probably likely to get into some sort of muddle with the tags they attach at the airport on boarding.
On the juvie jail being not nice.
Do sties make pigs?
If i take a bunch of “normal” kids will the outcome be the same?
He talking about the ABC?
Old Ozzie:
Bob’s Reply:
“We have not yet hit terminal velocity. This budget is just more streamlining.”
They wouldn’t allow mine.
Today I give thanks for the existence of Trump, Carlson, Yemini, Panahi, Divine, and Rowan Dean. Christ only knows how far up the deep and dark spout we’d be without them.
But most of all, Elon Musk. Never thought I’d say it, the whole enterprise would be sunk without him.
Lets hope these characters have an informal understanding that no two or three of them should ever spend too much time together in the same location, lest they be rubbed out.
You’d be aware of the complaints from the families that they want a new juvenile detention centre built, in the North West, so they can visit their children, and the children aren’t shamed by being flown to Perth, in handcuffs, under guard?
Nothing says “misogynist” more than someone who doesn’t call out overt violence directed at a woman.
If those are the round ‘Gold’ or ‘Silver’ tags, they are RFID enabled and actually worked fine every time I used them. I preferred the adhesive ones though, and used them anyway. People can read those themselves.
The RFID tag merely replaced the barcode scan. No independent way to tell where they were.
Amen.
I think the Government Funded Media label is a bit inaccurate. It might give people the impression that it is a mouthpiece for the government, whereas we know in Australia that they shill only for the extreme left. When a party which was right wing (and for all we know might be again) they take them money but defecate on the government.
All Labor knows is that they had better keep upping the ABC’s budget to keep them onside.
In Canada, as in Australia, as in Soviet Russia, state funded media is left wing media.
Call me old-fashioned, but when I hand over my carefully compliance-checked luggage at the airline desk, I don’t expect to carry any responsibility, or extra expense, for finding it in good time at the other end of the flight.
OK, you are old-fashioned.
And late to dinner.
Call me old-fashioned, but after three international flights in a row where my luggage had to be found and then took several days to reach me; independent tracking seems a helpful idea.
Traditional indigenous culture?
thefrollickingmolesays:
On the juvie jail being not nice.
Do sties make pigs?
If i take a bunch of “normal” kids will the outcome be the same?
Let’s put it this way:
Juvenile Institutions benefit from your absence.
An interesting read. Cheers.
Yep. I’m still hearing some of the lyrics rattling around in my head.
Musically reasonable, but lyrically powerful.
As much as we roll our eyes at the younger generations, I wouldn’t want to be a young bloke now. They’re being intentionally traumatised to engineer a new type of human. We are so fire-trucked.
“The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson’s contract with Fox”
Hmm – I think not. I’m pretty sure the “non-compete” clause can’t apply where he is not paid and is simply posting his opinion on social media – Twitter is not a competitor to Fox News, and are not paying Carlson for his content. So he’s not employed (or contacted, or paid) by Twitter, who in any case is not a competitor. Of course, I am not privy to the exact contract, but I’m sure Tucker would have gotten legal advice before doing anything.
And more than a bit truthy, with plenty of straw persons on display:
TV:
John Logie Baird demonstrated practical TV in 1926, a year before Farnsworth, and was demonstrating long distance and colour TV transmission when Zworykin received his patents in 1928. Zworykin’s system didn’t work in practice.
Incandecent Light Bulb:
I’m in the West and I heard that Sir Humphry Davy demonstrated electrically powered incandescent light seventy years before Lodygin’s Russian patent and kick-started the search for electric light. Sealed glass bulbs similar to Lodygin’s design were on sale in the US well before either Lodygin, or Edison got into the act.
Nuclear Electricity Generation:
The US EBR-I was generating electricity (albeit a modest 200kW) three years before Obninsk (a modest 4MW) and five years before the world’s first commercial nuclear power station at Calder Hall (a substantially less modest 240MW). By the way, Calder Hall shut down in 2003, never having suffered a single significant incident in its 47 year life span.
Technical Note: This is more revealing about Trusted Bloggers than a reflection on the significant contribution of Russian scientists to the development of technology.
It has long been regarded that juvies DO make juvenile criminals, by social imitation or behaviour modelling and by knowledge transmission.
132andBushsays:
May 10, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Do you think Trump is really hurt by those headlines among Republican voters? They join in his misogyny, they revel in it.
Nothing says “misogynist” more than someone who doesn’t call out overt violence directed at a woman.
And rejects the idea that women are entitled to privacy in toilets and change rooms.
My take as well. It is just a platform. Carlson will exist there on the same terms and conditions as anyone and Twitter will benefit in the same way they do with any content creators – drawing viewers who might see the ads. He will not be employed by Twitter and and will receive no special consideration.
The non-compete clause cannot expect to be valid for what he might say on a soapbox, or even what might say in a letter to the editor in a newspaper.
“Nothing says “misogynist” more than someone who doesn’t call out overt violence directed at a woman.”
Indeed, and he laughed about the violence here on these pages.
I prefer cogito ergo dai suki da
I suspected there was quite a bit of special pleading going on there.
So, by DPP Drumgold, if the investigating authority needs to clarify information given by the complainant that appears untruthful or incomplete – and that factual deficiency led by the Crown prejudices the interests of the defendant – stiff shit. The defence can sort it out on the hoof.
“Children and adolescents have destroyed most of Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre overnight after setting buildings on fire then blocking firefighting crews.”
What should – but won’t – happen, is that they should now be housed in tents and required to supply the labour for the reconstruction of what they have destroyed. They will, of course, have any future earning they may make (inc GovCo allowance) garnished to the value of the materials needed to reconstruct the centre.
Every last one of them, whether they participated or not – the peer pressure to not destroy things should be high enough that they will self-police such destructive behavior out of existence.
In short: you broke it, you fix it, at your own expense.
I’ll remember to quote this from Stan Grant next time I’m forced to be at a smoking ceremony…
I can’t see how Drumgold’s position is tenable.
I wonder if the Democrats realise this is so obviously a bullshit result, that even the people who were sitting on the fence would be revolted by it?
The only way this makes sense at all is if it is just another step toward removing Trump from the Presidential race, which either will not take place, or that Trump will be gaoled and hence ineligible to run?
There are no words in the English language strong enough to express how I feel about this.
#liblabzero6feetnotdeepenough
Like the initiation ceremony where a boy’s you-know-what is split?
Has Grant been initiated?
If not, can he claim to be a leader?
What is the punishment for claiming the status of leadership without having been initiated?
China is Making Its Very Own Communist ChatGPT
ZK2A:
Perhaps the way out would be to keep the youths in their communities until the community dealt with the problem using their own culture.
Because it’s obvious that White Mans Law has become just another stick to beat us with.
What is coming out in the Sofronoff Inquiry is simply gob-smacking.
By all appearances the ACT DPP was in league with the media and other behind-the-scenes players to totally destroy a man by not permitting his being given a fair trial.
The fact that Ms Frogmouth Amphibian and Ms Potato-nose Moonface were not charged with contempt of court/perverting the course of justice again speaks to a spineless DPP who didn’t take seriously his job as a minister of the court to prevent a miscarriage of justice and to ensure the accused to be given a fair trial.
Tie or no tie he is an utter disgrace, I wonder too the part played by the presiding Judge in this fiasco. Can a Judge in these circumstances issue a bench warrant for the arrest of anyone in contempt of court/perverting the course of justice?
time to double down on the trans shit
Macbeth, thank you for your really nice good wishes to Hairy and me for his birthday.
It is always a pleasure to know that you are still with us here on Catallaxy and keeping a keen eye on our doings, such as they are, aggregating the world’s events and chatting away about all manner of things.
Drop us a line more often if you can, when the mood takes you.
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Ploughing through the Budget, I’m delighted to find that every Federal MP is getting one new staff member for their electoral office. Cost to the Budget = $40 million/pa.
By my rough calculation, that works out at $265,000 per new staffer.
Top Men don’t come cheap.
Has he ever gone bush and survived on half-cooked Goanna guts for a week? Wearing no trousers?
We need to firmly halt the endless romanticisation of this desperate hand-to-mouth culture.
Life, Liberty and Levin is still a great show on Fox but I have unsubscribed from absolutely everything they show on every platform. I’m not giving them one single extra rating – not on Fox, Twitter, Youtube…. nada.
DrF
I saw Gormann was advertising for a staffer in Perth electorate and the pay (not including super) was circa $188K.
Wow. Hundreds more new knickerless young wymynses.
Has anyone counted the hidden costs of that?
“What is coming out in the Sofronoff Inquiry is simply gob-smacking.
Yep, which makes Dumgold’s position untenable.
By all appearances the ACT DPP was in league with the media and other behind-the-scenes players to totally destroy a man by not permitting his being given a fair trial.”
You forget to add “in league with the media, ALP and other behind-the-scenes player”
A young man’s life ruined.
ABC will get a massive $6billion investment
Invested as a newt.
Invested up the wall.
3 sheets to the investment.
Investing like a sailor in a Bangkok brothel
Dear libs – start making noises about how every dollar given to the ABC is a dollar taken from lost kitten orphanages/dogs with polio/or the NDIS.
Hammer, at every opportunity, that “for the money we are spending on the ABC ewe could fund “X” hospital beds/ dams/social housing etc.
Do it every time a spending item comes up.
Delegitimize the bloody thing, its not hard.
Jorge 10/5/23 at 9.04 am
My feelings and sentimetns Jorge. They should have been more pride in what they have done and who they are and where they are going.
Hopefull the RCC will relocate to Nigeria so save us.
Still ploughing through the Budget, I’m delighted to find that I’m about to be paid handsomely for an Energy Incentive for my business to install power-saving devices, rebating me 20% up to a $100,000 spend. Apparently, this is going to turbocharge 3.8 million Australian small/medium business at a very reasonable $314 million over the four years of the Budget estimate.
By my rough calculation, that works out at an average rebate of $20 per year per business.
Saved from the ravages of Bowen’s Year Zero.
Well said, LizzieB. Life in traditional Aboriginal culture was just as “nasty, brutish and short” as any other Stone Age culture.
I can’t see how Drumgold’s position is tenable.
I think there is so much more to this than his position. What can be said regarding perverting the course of justice? That’s a question, not a statement.
Good Lord.
Lucky someone’s awake.
By my rough calculation, 151 knickerless nubiles at $3 million a pop (as it were) works out at $453 million. It’s not immediately clear if that’s recurrent, or whether there’s a cap on that.
That pic has been doing the rounds for a few days now.
Tucker Starting on Twitter – Yes He Was Fired Probably for Jan 6th Clips
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/tucker-starter-on-twitter-yes-he-was-fired-probably-for-jan-6th-clips/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Gee, I wonder why?
Hint – zero evidence, that’s why.
Jeffrey A Tucker
@jeffreyatucker
These Covid kits made their way from India to the US when basic meds were practically banned here. You could get these if you had a connection but it wasn’t easy. It’s beyond belief really. India saved so many lives with early treatment.
Sneakers not waiting for the focus groups over Banksia Hill. The gilded codpiece wielded as a sword. SOGGIESv a few skinny natives on the roof would have been over before you found a park for the Bearcat.
New Evidence Reveals Deep State Behind “Hispanic Nazi Mass Shooter” Conspiracy – Photos Came from Previously Unrelated NY Post Article – COMPLETE LIES!
Science is imploding
I firmly believe that WWIII is on their wish list. I’ve mentioned the Obama/Clinton 16 year plan meme several times before and it was certainly on that. I wish someone could find it. I don’t have a link.
Dennis Kucinich: WWIII on the Installment Plan
You can probably guess what US interests in Taiwan are largely about.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1655828931725934592
IIRC, wasn’t this girl Ukrainian?
***********
I checked and she was.
She will now be written out of the history books…
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CREEPY: Chelsea Clinton wants to vaccinate your baby
This is part of the Canadian Liberals’ election platform
Mandatory Vaccination
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Lyon, France – May 9, 2023
A gallery of adverse effects and deaths from the C19 vax.
Certainly whiffy. You can see the reasoning behind such suspicions.
1. There’s been a rash of incidents from ‘special people’ lately, including the Nashville tranny and the other one that was arrested before doing a shooting. Noteworthy that they’re still sitting on the manifestos.
2. If the guy’s tatts are visible in the footage, as a Cat mentioned, then they need to make sure the logical connection to MS-13 is NOT made. That would be bad for border politics.
3. If the guy and/or his non-English fluent parents are in the country illegally that would also be bad for the narrative.
4. Russian links are default option for anything the alphabet agencies want to invent these days.
5. If he wasn’t on the DHS radar (or even worse was an informer) that would be another downcheck.
Over all I can see why someone might’ve said ‘we can’t afford another one right now’ especially with the Hispanic SUV terrorist as well. A bit of ‘legend’-making would therefore seem plausible.
On the other hand the MS-13 and cartel guys are into a lot of kooky stuff, like Satanism. Would not be altogether surprising if some were into Nazis as well.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/man-unleashes-deadly-fury-seeing-intruders-holding-son-gunpoint-tasing-dog-police/
Good. Should be more of this ‘stand your ground’ and ‘castle doctrine’.
When I first landed in NYC, circa 1980, I enjoyed for a while the company of a young black woman. She worked in fashion, had money, dressed sharp and was in no way ghetto trash. So one day we’re at Bergies and she points out that we’re being followed by the store detectives. When she went into the change room two of them waited outside.
The very idea that a man, Trump, could enter the ladies dressing room, especially in the filmy undies department, without those same store dicks converging is soooooo improbable.
Yet a New York jury whose members know very well how department stores work concluded it was possible.
Always worth bearing in mind: Manhattan voted 92% for Hillary in ’16. Not difficult to find a panel of Trump haters.
Lot of Republican politicians getting indicted these days.
This Economic Crisis Is A Global Financial War – Jim Rickards
Get back to us when it happens outside New York fat boy.
Recall the grand jury leader in the Georgia case is a complete whacko who was very openly hostile to Trump. Which begged the question that if she was the foreperson what were the others like? NYC would be even worse than Georgia.
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time to double down on the trans shit”
Oh no! – the “trans community” has decided to boycott Bud Light as well. Because they “dumped” Dylan Mulvaney instead of “supporting” him.
I wonder if they’ll even notice the sales slump from such a boycott.
Lot of Republican politicians getting
indictedlawfared these days.I fixes it Monty. All those DAs that Uncle George got appointed aren’t there for just playing Donkey Kong on their phones. He expects results, for the Planet.
Or the sales staff on commissions, areff.
Dr. John Campbell
WHO New Health Regulations
Apologies if posted: Live feed of the Sofronoff hearing for future reference:
https://www.cjsinquiry.act.gov.au/public-hearings/livestream
Not online at the moment
So we’ve joined the tin foil brigade as my wife now makes me wrap my car button key in tinfoil when I get home (apparently thieves can buy a $200 device that can hack your car button from outside the house…
Tucker tells it all about those Trucker Farkers………………………. Except that they will lose BIG TIME.
https://youtu.be/ysu46h8_7fY
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 2:45 pm
WASHINGTON — US Representative George Santos, who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Pocahontas next? Then Rachel Dolezal?
DemonRats should be careful what they wish for, there are many skeletons in their cupboards.
https://twitter.com/Sheckyi/status/1656011313762508838/photo/1
Get an older car where you have to use the key to get in 🙂
Either that or a kill switch.
I have an inline fuse in the engine bay on my older car as a kill switch.
Remove the fuse, it no go.
Streaming again
https://www.cjsinquiry.act.gov.au/public-hearings/livestream
who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree
Paging Elizabeth Warren to big teepee phone
Paging Joe “My son died in Iraq” Biden (among many… many… others)
or is that different?
If so how?
AEMO announcement on VNI West due next week when a recommendation is made to the Vic state Minister.
Cold called by a Phillipines company who wondered if I was interested in having wind turbines on my farm. They’re in the area and dropping in on farms.
“It can be quite lucrative” they said.
Don’t think I’d touch this mob with a barge pole.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
= Margaret Mead
Youths burning a prison is domestic terrorism, but illegal immigrants burning their facilities (granted, years ago now) wasn’t?
Good to get these things cleared up.
So .. Langtonian arson sprees: yea or nay?
Monty’s not wrong.
Jesse Kelly warned about this at least a couple of years ago.
It will snowball.
Game the situation out and ask how the US can survive this.
Every election now leads to the loser going to jail. It’s too late for the Democrats to pull back – and they’re too evil and excitable to anyway (look at Monty). Obviously the Republicans are going to retaliate the moment they’re given the chance and the Democrats know this (they’re evil but not stupid) so they will hysterically cling to power.
No country can survive this kind of lawfare.
Bring back asylums…but better
I’m tempted to look for an over-ride switch that will immediately lock all doors from the outside and make it impossible for the thieves to get out. When that happened to me in the beast of an Audi 5 hire car in Britain, it was horrible to be locked inside like that. It would also pen these thieves ready for the cops. They’d be glad to see the cops as rescuers.
When we got home I checked the manual for our BMW and noted in the smaller print they have severe warnings about getting inadvertently locked inside the vehicle with the key elsewhere. They acknowledge that ‘people have died’ from this. Forewarning against a claim, no doubt. It’s made me extra wary about modern locking devices.
thefrollickingmolesays:
May 10, 2023 at 3:23 pm
who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree
Paging Elizabeth Warren to big teepee phone
Paging Joe “My son died in Iraq” Biden (among many… many… others)
or is that different?
If so how?
They’re DemonRats, NY is a DemonRat state, m0nty=fa thinks that DemonRat shit doesn’t stink.
Occurred to me that public AEMO planning documents are a basically a prospectus for investors.
Renewable energy zones REZ are purely speculative without any ground work attached.
Just received an automated call from Pay Pal wanting me to press one regarding what seems to be an unauthorised purchase.
I don’t even have a Pay Pal account. Clearly a scam. There are so many of them lately.
I think Dumbgold adorning the indigen tie is a sign of where he’s at.
If you think Russia not having tanks in the Parade means that they’re running low or are out you are huffing the most intense Copium/Hopium hybrid.
We literally saw this yesterday…
That pic has been doing the rounds for a few days now.
Yes Dover, but those tanks need hard ground to be able to hurtle west. That ground is still quite wet and boggy right now. Apparently, the Gerbil Warming is late on the Parade for some reason so the ground will not dry out until the end of June 2023.
So, the Russian Pincer Movement will probably get going around then.
No sign of a UKR Spring offensive yet. And I wonder why. Z is now on his way to the Cayman Islands and that obscene bank account. Smartly followed by his tart of a wife who wants to stop in Paris for a bit of shopping and a new Clown’s outfit for the hubby.
Not much wind around today and those that are installed are mostly standing still. It wouldn’t make any difference if there were three times as many, because when it doesn’t blow they just don’t go. In total just 2% of all eastern states (Qld, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas ) electricity is currently being provided by wind. And not much solar either, a mere 20%, which will disappear at sunset. Coal power is providing 61%, hydro 10% and gas 8%. There will be some interesting gyrations after sunset as extra electricity will have to be generated to make up for the shortfalls in renewables.
Rethinking that about the key, I don’t want to accidentally lock myself in! Never again.
I think a silver foil wrap is a good solution.
Like the Russian solution to a biro that works in zero gravity.
That cost the Americans a lot of research. The Ruski’s used a lead pencil.
Just received an automated call from Pay Pal wanting me to press one regarding what seems to be an unauthorised purchase.
I don’t even have a Pay Pal account. Clearly a scam. There are so many of them lately.
Just received an automated phone call from some mob called the Feral Guv’ment. Is this legit? Just asking for a friend.
Terry McCrann:
Not going to scroll up either, but I trust the fat lesbian has been throwing orgasms around like confetti today?
Will a silver foil wrap affect the battery if it is always used? Anyone know?
I’m not sure when this was recorded but it’s very, very interesting.
The Difference Is? Words Of Tucker
“Cold called by a Phillipines company who wondered if I was interested in having wind turbines on my farm. They’re in the area and dropping in on farms.
“It can be quite lucrative” they said.”
Run away!
Bastards will pull all the profits from it and leave you with several tonnes of concrete foundations buried just under the surface per tower, plus the cost of removing the tower and turbine blades (the blades are not recyclable either!). The amount they pay you will not cover the costs of getting the place back to what it was before they started, and they certainly won’t be doing that for you – even if they have to “go broke” to avoid it. All pain and very little, if any, gain. Not worth it.
How on God’s earth did a dummy like Drumgold ever get a gig more demanding than being able to say ‘Want fries with that?’.
Sofronoff began by saying the news reporting (and social media) had taken comments out of context to blacken Knickerless’ good name.
Anyone know what he’s talking about? Crikey, Daily Mail — the obvious suspects — both look OK to me. Likewise Age/SMH.
I agree about the failure to celebrate the Coronation with just a projection on the Opera House sails, considering all the other marginal interest events blazoned upon its publicly funded sides.
Minns is a small, petty man.
A true representative of our political class.
That won’t save him.
It’s a tie, not a parachute.
Why not just slip it into your passport sleeve? Or a credit card sleeve?
Tin foil seems a little…extreme. Unless you fashion a pointy end on it. For liaising with aliens.
We have helicopters?
I don’t get it… Dumbgold is trying to say dark political forces were at play to make Britnah’s issue go away (inferring it was the Libs)??
Lysander says:
May 10, 2023 at 3:42 pm
I think Dumbgold adorning the indigen tie is a sign of where he’s at.
Immediately beneath
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the ACT and recognise any other people or families with connection to the lands of the ACT and region. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
Most of AEMO’s projections are based on models built from averages. Averages don’t allow for outages caused by wind droughts or low solar days. And taking the minimums and maximums for the past two years and projecting forward is fraught with difficulties, especially given the huge increase in wind and solar power which are weather dependent. But this is all glossed over in their documents which, as you say, read like a prospectus for investors.
That thing is still in the roof space. I think it’s a rat and not a stray politician looking for preselection.
Time to get out the ratsack. I don’t like doing it but enough is enough. It sounded like it was doing Riverdance a while ago. And I definitely don’t want it inviting any of its friends in to party.
“Will a silver foil wrap affect the battery if it is always used? Anyone know?”
I’m assuming their “hack” is to broadcast the same signal as the car does, and that key then transmits to the car to give you keyless door unlock and keyless start. In that case, the idea is the foil blocks the signal, so no receive means key doesn’t transmit, means no effect on battery life (except perhaps to extend it!)
Lot of Republican politicians getting indicted these days.
You are a piece of vomitous shit (see what I did there) dickless. The double standards in the US legal system, soon to be duplicated here, are manifest. That Trump is charged for anything when creatures like biden and his foul offspring, or the clintons or particularly obuma creep around is testimony to that.
Anyway, how are the milko’s kiddies.
Melania Trump breaks her silence, endorses husband’s presidential bid
Was there any doubt? Just as water is wet and the sun will rise tomorrow, Melania Trump supports her husband’s run for re-election.
Not only is she speaking out in support of his run for president again, but she’s also talking about how much she enjoyed living in the White House and how much she likes Washington, D.C. Hmm.
During Trump’s first run for president in 2015, it was frequently reported that Melania was the one who told him that if he ran for president, he would win. She was his silent but solid cheerleader.
Melania isn’t the kind of political wife that acts like her husband’s job is her job – like Jill Biden or Hillary Clinton – so she wasn’t big on getting out on the campaign trail. So, it isn’t surprising that she is only now speaking out in an interview about 2024. Nonetheless, there has been media speculation for weeks that Melania is not happy about Trump running again and that she is angry about his legal difficulties.
Fake news. It’s just as fake as the reports that Melania is supposedly looking into divorcing Donald. Please.
“He has my support, and we look forward to restoring hope for the future and leading America with love and strength,” Melania Trump told Fox News in an interview published Tuesday.
“My husband achieved tremendous success in his first administration, and he can lead us toward greatness and prosperity once again,” Melania Trump told Fox News.
Melania Trump told Fox News that if her husband is elected in 2024, she, as first lady, would “prioritize the well-being and development of children as I have always done.”
“My focus would continue to be creating a safe and nurturing space for children to learn, grow, and thrive,” she said. “If additional problems arise, I will take the time to study them and understand their root causes.”
Hegseth didn’t ask about her husband’s current legal problems but he did ask about the media’s double standard.
“They’re biased, and they have likes and dislikes, and it’s so obvious, and I think [the] American people and everyone see it, and I have much more important things to do . . . than being on the cover of Vogue,”
Melania said when Hegseth asked about what he described as a “double standard” by Vogue magazine for featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama on the cover, but not Melania.
Good answer. She was a good first lady and we could use her quiet dignity again if she ends up in the White House for a second term with her husband.
Your car is always listening. Not for your voice, like the Amazon Echo or Siri, but for an electronic signal, such as the coded “unlock” signal from your electronic key fob.
If it’s a newer car model, you might not have to press any buttons; just approach your car and the doors will unlock automatically. In some cars, the engine will even turn on.
Wirelessly unlocking your car is convenient, but it comes at a price. Specifically, the key fob’s signal is easy for criminals to intercept. That lets them open your car without setting off any alarms.
If you have a true keyless car model, they might be able to just drive away. Let’s look at how criminals pull this off and what you can do to keep your car safe.
https://www.komando.com/privacy/why-you-should-wrap-your-car-keys-in-aluminum-foil-2/471933/
Johnny Rottensays:
May 10, 2023 at 3:44 pm
If you think Russia not having tanks in the Parade means that they’re running low or are out you are huffing the most intense Copium/Hopium hybrid.
We literally saw this yesterday…
That pic has been doing the rounds for a few days now.
Yes Dover, but those tanks need hard ground to be able to hurtle west. That ground is still quite wet and boggy right now. Apparently, the Gerbil Warming is late on the Parade for some reason so the ground will not dry out until the end of June 2023.
The German invasion in 1942 was delayed until 22 June, at least in part because the ground had not dried out. Roll on 81 years …
Also on suspect Democrat backstories there is Danang Dick Blumenthal.
calli says:
May 10, 2023 at 4:04 pm
That thing is still in the roof space. I think it’s a rat and not a stray politician looking for preselection.
Time to get out the ratsack. I don’t like doing it but enough is enough. It sounded like it was doing Riverdance a while ago. And I definitely don’t want it inviting any of its friends in to party.
calii,
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I’d like to send a cheery hello to Simon, the new ASIO work experience agent in the Conservative Extremist Section.
Don’t be intimidated by this virile bunch of bed-wetters, Simon. Only those with more than one vowel in their screen name are potentially dangerous.
Oops, sorry!
That was meant to be ‘go-getters’ not bed wetters. Huh. It’s funny how autocarrot comes up with things.
Does anyone have any idea how this is enforced/checked or whatever ?..
the return of a cap on the hours international students can work, but increased by eight hours to 48 hours per fortnight
Daily Mail.
What Does Senile Dribbling Pooping American President Hiden Biden mean “Would”?
Biden fears for US reputation
The United States would become a “Deadbeat Nation” if it defaulted on its massive $31-trillion debt, the president said
US President Joe Biden has said America’s reputation would be “damaged in the extreme” if the government were unable to pay its bills, insisting a default on the national debt is simply not an option.
Addressing reporters after a meeting with congressional leaders on Tuesday, Biden said the sit-down was “productive,” noting that all sides agreed to find a “path forward to make sure America does not default” on its world-historic debt.
“Our economy would fall into a significant recession. It would devastate retirement accounts, increase borrowing cost[s],” he said of a potential default, adding that “nearly eight million Americans would lose their jobs” and “our international reputation would be damaged in the extreme.”
Calling the debt “the single most important thing that’s on the agenda,” the president went on to claim that “America is not a deadbeat nation,” arguing that it is the “duty” of Congress to raise the debt ceiling in order to avoid a default.
Biden’s comments came amid fierce debate between the two major parties over the national debt, with Republicans calling for major cuts to federal spending before they will agree to raise the government’s borrowing limit. While the president said he would be willing to discuss the budget, he added he would not do so “under the threat of default.”
During a separate briefing after the meeting with Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, said he “asked the president this simple question: Does he not believe there’s any place we could find savings?” The speaker added that the discussions would continue this week, and that he would meet with Biden again on Friday.
A default on America’s debt would mean the government is unable to meet its outstanding obligations, including welfare payments, interest on the existing debt and even paychecks for members of the military.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal spending currently exceeds revenues by around $1.4 trillion, a large deficit that will have to be covered by borrowing.
Time is running out for Congress and the White House, however, as the government may be unable to pay its bills as soon as next month should lawmakers fail to strike a deal on the debt limit, which now sits at $31.4 trillion.
My little Yaris has an auto unlocking feature, you just move close, pull the door handle and it unlocks. Handy if you have arms full of shopping.
You have to pull the handle though. There’s another feature with the boot that unlocks and raises if you have the key in your purse – you wave your foot under the tail and presto-change-o! Up she comes! Nice little, well behaved car.
On funny things happening with radio signals…we have those automatic awning/blinds that slide down runners to keep out mozzies on summer evenings. They started going up-down-up doing the tarantella one afternoon like something possessed. We must have had a visitor nearby locking and unlocking their car or using some other device, as it hasn’t happened since.
The resident birds were unimpressed, as the raising of the blinds was the signal for food.
The wall-to-wall whingey whiney tv ads tell the story. They want to bludgeon a “yes” out of people.
Worse than a nagging woman. Or a hideous toddler at the checkout.
The West risks creating a ‘Snow ISIS’ in Europe with extremists going to fight in Ukraine
A neo-Nazi terrorist threat could emerge from the fog of war as radicals return from the frontlines
The security threat that the US and its allies are fomenting in Europe is reminiscent of their actions in Syria. They trained and equipped “moderate” Syrian rebels in a failed attempt to overthrow President Bashar Assad, and many of these fighters ended up joining al-Qaeda.
Furthermore, Western-supplied weapons ultimately ended up in the hands of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and al-Nusra. A resounding success for a counter-terrorism operation.
The West risks creating an international terrorist Disneyland in Ukraine like it did in Syria. Back in 2018, French intelligence services worried about the return of French jihadists from Syria and the impact of retuning fighters on French and European domestic security. Do they have the same fears about returning fighters from Ukraine?
Just last month, a couple of French men, reportedly in their 20s, got off a bus in Paris from Lviv, Ukraine, were arrested, went straight to court, and have already been sentenced to 15 months in prison (with nine of those being a suspended sentence).
In French justice terms, that means they were caught red handed. All this happened so whiplash fast that if you blinked you would have missed it. So who are these guys exactly? Well, French intelligence certainly knows. They’ve reportedly been tracking these two specifically for a while now. One is identified unofficially in French mainstream media as “Alain V” and was previously featured in a press report on neo-Nazis in the French army. He was in the military’s alpine hunter division, so he’s probably a great skier. Maybe he was just over in Ukraine for some skiing with the “Snow ISIS” neo-Nazis mentored by the West.
The suspect reportedly also has a tattoo in German of the Schutzstaffel loyalty pledge to Adolf Hitler and is said to have written on Facebook in 2018 that migrants should get a “good bullet in the back of the head.”
So he was already on the authorities’ naughty list even before he allegedly went to Ukraine with his pal, whom we know little about, but whose identity in various French sources has been unofficially floated as “Guillaume A.”
After arriving back in Paris, these two were promptly arrested for what’s being described as prior admission of guilt for transport and possession of weapons, some of which they also seem to have managed to get onto the bus, having been allegedly caught outright with assault rifle magazines.
Is this just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger threat to Europe? According to France’s domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, about 400 French citizens are fighting in Ukraine, including an estimated 30 known neo-Nazis.
All this might come as a real shock to the Western establishment that keeps arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special military operation objective of denazification is nothing but fake news, and issuing fact checks to that effect, saying that the notion of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is just Russian propaganda.
They’d just better hope that with all the weapons and training that the West has dumped into Ukraine, any potential blowback on Europe also stays nothing more than a mere figment of the imagination. But whether they’re ignorant, naive, or reckless, you’d think that this incident would serve as a wake up call.
A goodly collection of SCs and KCs. If Mrs Pirate Pete was feeling poor at Channel 9 you wonder how she will be at Channel 10 after legals.
How on God’s earth did a dummy like Drumgold ever get a gig more demanding than being able to say ‘Want fries with that?’.
How dumb is he?
Sofronoff is sposeta be the smartest guy in the room but he hasn’t been able to wrongfoot Shane so far.
Enjoy the surplus. It might be the last we ever see.
There is NO Budget Surplus ever. It is Feral Guv’ment Cash Accounting 101.
There are so many Unfunded Liabilities as far as the eye can see. ‘Pollies’ Unfunded Retirement Pensions (keep paying those taxes you Taxpayers) for just ONE example. And the First Class airplane free travel, Offices, Cars, Jollies, etc, etc, etc. There are many, many more.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul is how the Feral Guv’ment slush fund accounting works.
If an Australian Business Corporation like BHP or RIO reported their accounting like the Feral Guv’ment, the Direcors would all end up in ‘Slammer’ and the Amubulace Chasers like ‘Sluter and Gordon’ would have a field day on behalf of the Shareholders.
Get down to Specsavers to get yer’ eyes tested. ‘Pollies’ just tell porkies. FFS.
If someone could organise some parking at the Halls Gap pub for the weekend it would be appreciated. I won’t be taking the half track.
I thought it was the Conservatives Underwatch Network Team?
Welcome Simon, anyway 😛
HB, take cat food:
https://www.melbourneonthemove.com.au/blog/investigating-the-grampians-puma-a-victorian-legend/
They’d just better hope that with all the weapons and training that the West has dumped into Ukraine, any potential blowback on Europe also stays nothing more than a mere figment of the imagination. But whether they’re ignorant, naive, or reckless, you’d think that this incident would serve as a wake up call.
Most of that equipment has likely been sold off on the ‘Black Market’. Corruption rules in the UKR.
Follow The Moneeeeeeeeee.
…from Russia Today. LOL. They’re fun sometimes!
I was interested that the suppose neo-nazi Hispanic shooter had his social media site with all those swastikas on a Russian app. You’d think if it was real he’d’ve used a Ukrainian app…
The signal to noise ratio on such things is getting worse. No wonder the kids get taken in by the propaganda, it takes serious competency to detect fake vs real, and they don’t get taught that competency. As an example of what they’re suffering under (without understanding) is this story today:
After Students Can’t Read, NYC Goes Back to “Right-Wing” Phonics (9 May)
There you go, teaching kids how to actually read is unfair, right-wing and linked to those dastardly fundamentalist Christians. The poor children are so miseducated they can’t read properly and can’t understand arithmetic. So how can they see through leftist lies? I suppose that’s the whole idea.
Worse than a nagging woman. Or a hideous toddler at the checkout.
Or a moaning ‘Pollie’ lining up at the Gravy Train trough. Oink, oink, oink………………………….
Has he met Bill Shorten yet?
Title 42 to End – Border Crisis is About to Explode
“Donald Trump noted in his interview with Nigel Farage that the US is expected to receive as many illegal immigrants as the population of NYC. The immigration problem is out of control and there is absolutely no way that the current economy can host such a large influx of undocumented people. Trump implemented Title 42 in March 2020 to curb “mass uncontrolled cross-border movement,” that allowed the government to expel migrants to prevent the spread of COVID.
The CDC and other agencies agreed to Title 42 and it was accepted by both parties. Between March 2020 and January 2023, over 2.7 million migrants were expelled from the US under this temporary law. Trump expelled 69% of migrant families who entered between March 2020 to January 2021. Biden expelled only 20% of migrant families under his term. Millions of people have entered America illegally under Biden, and thousands have died trying to enter America under the false promise that they can seek asylum here. These people cannot simply return to Mexico since millions are not even Mexican citizens. Certain countries, such as Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, refuse to accept the deportations of their own citizens. Simply put, these people are stuck with nowhere to go.
Title 42 is set to end on May 11 as COVID is no longer a public health emergency. Vice President Harris is in charge of overseeing the border crisis but has not offered any potential solutions. In fact, she insists that the border is safe and secure whenever she’s questioned. Reports state that tens of thousands of migrants are waiting at the US-Mexico border and plan to enter after May 11. Troy Miller of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) anticipates 10,000 illegal crossings per day once Title 42 ends, but others are predicting a larger influx. Biden stationed an additional 1,500 troops along the 2,000-mile border, but they’re completely outnumbered. The situation is unmanageable and there will be consequences in the coming weeks as towns are overrun with undocumented illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration has focused all of its resources on securing Ukraine’s border and has abandoned the crisis at home.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/migration/article-42-to-end-border-crisis-is-about-to-explode/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Right wing phonics? Those alt-right readers!
Yeah!
Get your conservatives off my ovaries!
Incidentally, I am the only true conservative here.
Well, I’m the only real conservative here. The fact that I sometimes lie is a fault I carry.