Open Thread – Weekend 27 May 2023
1,626 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 27 May 2023”
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dover0beach says:
May 27, 2023 at 4:32 pmDeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
He may not get more than 20% but even that would make him a decent contender in 28.
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a black north farce puffie jacket
I try to stick to just one brand (as some of us here would know) but seriously, how on earth did the brand in the quote survive the toxic touch of the grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile?
300* bat flu press conferences in a row hyping the hysteria (with his pet poofter), while clad in a black north farce puffie jacket, as if that made the execution worthy imbecile any more remotely like an actual human.
There should have been a mulvaney type reaction. But we are talking Disasterstan here. North Farce’s sales are no doubt higher there than anywhere else in Oz.
*If not that many, then it certainly seemd like it.
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I’ve posited previously that a reasonable tactical option would be for Trump and DeSantis to catfight up until just prior to the election (‘Yes! Our plan is working,’ think the Dems), then reveal that DeSantis had been Trump’s VP pick all along, and they both actually had a lot of common ground. A subterfuge to blunt their enemy’s attack, in other words.
Of course, getting the timing right would be vital, and explaining the reason for the deception to loyalists also important. The benefit would be that at least their opponents’ tactics would be known (create division in Repub ranks, as others have noted above).
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Fatty Trump can live in NY to avoid the necessity to have the candidates living in different States
While being subjected to many, many preposterous civil lawsuits.
“Fatty Trump had sexual relationships with me on more than one occasion in the Bergdorf Goodman lingerie changing rooms, I tells ya! Except I can’t remember the day, or the month, or even the year”
“Just decree me many millions of his ill gotten munni, I demands ya!”
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In my thinly disguised Mrs Olthwaite-ness this morning I described the rivetting progress of my (proposed) day.
*dusts off hands*
All complete, including a Thai green curry for the Beloved as a reward for being my garden slave. He did talk back a bit, but. Good slaves are thin on the ground these days, so I guess I’ll keep him.
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Rabz, little boys wore dresses up until they were “breeched” at around four years of age.
It was a rite of passage to get that first pair of trousers.
Along with old fashioned swaddling, it has gone by the wayside with the introduction of washing machines and nappies and laundry detergents. Practically speaking, it was all about poo control.
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will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today.
It’s all insultingly patronising. I don’t have any reason to suppose that aboriginal men in those days were any less brave or competent than any others. I’d take it for granted. And from what I know of white Australians of the time, the aboriginal men would not have been treated any differently from anyone else.
I get fed up with the crypto-racism and piety of the collectivists who insist on dividing us by race, when the obvious differences between groups is cultural and frequently bogus.
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Also, don’t lose focus on what the left are doing on the legal front against Trump. There are several legal entanglements that could put Trump in jail. Do underestimate the length they will go to, in order to destroy the Trumpster and take him out of the race.
I heard a podcast today that very worrying. A very large number of Americans aren’t even aware that wussiagate was a Clinton setup. And the reason is that they just watch legacy media for news. The MSM never mentions Wussiagate was a universe bigger than Watergate.
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While being subjected to many, many preposterous civil lawsuits.
Okay, I didn’t see it, but I was referring to criminal investigations and potential indictments.
The NY Leftwing AG is now demanding documents to see if the Trump Organization was doing any overseas business dealings during his presidency. This is an obvious ploy to blunt the very successful GOP house investigation into a Hiden crime family influence peddling.
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DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
Correct. Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about. Trump is doing this too but he will have to waste time fighting against the GOP some of whom like all conservatives think there are still rules while the rest will simply oppose Trump because he is blunt and hurts their feelings.
DeSantis running now is a huge mistake.
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G’day Muddy, yes know Michael Claringbould well – he was round at mine last night for a wargame.
Mike has done several covers for my books The Empire Strikes South, Eagles over Darwin, and Bombers North, also from Avonmore, as are his. His work is impeccable, and he pays enormous attention to getting the wartime colours right.
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Wrong. If he gets smashed this primary he’ll be done. Same as Cruz, Jeb, and Rubio were in ’16. You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
Wrong as in 1 + 1 =3?
If De Santis gets around 20% of the primary it means he’s doing reasonably well. Also there’s a lot of fluid stuff that’s going to occur that can’t be discounted. Trump is the current front runner by a country mile. Do can’t “wrong” in something that’s just starting and can’t be predicted.
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Robert Sewell
Family member bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee and after 107?km, it blew a hole in the engine and lost all the coolant. About 4 years old. Engine cooked, needs whole new engine. Sold for scrap => $4k. Insurance refused cover.
Very tough.
A neighbour bought a Jeep for his daughter. When it needed significant parts (maybe headlights?), he went and bought another the same model and just on the headlights it paid for itself. -
Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about. Trump is doing this too but he will have to waste time fighting against the GOP some of whom like all conservatives think there are still rules while the rest will simply oppose Trump because he is blunt and hurts their feelings.
Yeah, the GOP should adopt Politburo election rules and procedures.
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If De Santis gets around 20% of the primary it means he’s doing reasonably well. Also there’s a lot of fluid stuff that’s going to occur that can’t be discounted. Trump is the current front runner by a country mile. Do can’t “wrong” in something that’s just starting and can’t be predicted.
I can’t remember the last time we had a primary when one of the contenders already had a majority and was firming. DeSantis is counting on the ‘fluid stuff’ but he’s going to turn away about 20% of those that currently support Trump. If he just managed to win, that rump would stay home in the general and he’ll lose to Biden by 8-10. Disaster.
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Rabz:
calli – your downdicker is still at large.
What is his problem?I dunno, but I got a leetle suspicious when out of four posts, the JC/Sancho Bobbsey twins got 9,9,9,7. upticks in about ten minutes, while the pattern around them was in the 3 – 5 mark.
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I’ve seen articles suggesting that the GOP can’t win another election again because of the cheating. That’s true, but only to a limited extent. There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out. I’d say the limit is around 3 to 4 %. If a GOP candidate gets around 10%, and it isn’t impossible, the left is shot. Cheating in the US can only occur if if the election is reasonably close.
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Let’s hope he’s not the godfather to someone:
A man who dropped a horse head on the doorstep of a National Parks and Wildlife Service office concedes his approach could be seen as “excessive” but says he was fed up with being ignored.
“Maybe this was a little too dramatic but the normal pathways to get people to care just got an arrogant zero,” Rocky Harvey told The Sunday Telegraph.
The avid horse rider has never entered into the debate about brumby culling and resents being labelled an “activist”.
“I’m not taking issue with the culling management plan in the park, I have never got involved in that debate, I’m taking issue with the poor outcome. It’s just not acceptable to leave 67 carcasses laying around near a public camping ground,” he said.
“I went and did the right thing, reported it to the EPA, who then referred it to the Wild Horse Management Unit, no response. Penny Sharpe, no response.”
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I can’t remember the last time we had a primary when one of the contenders already had a majority and was firming. DeSantis is counting on the ‘fluid stuff’ but he’s going to turn away about 20% of those that currently support Trump. If he just managed to win that rump would stay home in the general and he’ll lose to Biden by 8-10. Disaster.
Why are you still selling after the sale? I said I agree Trump is the likely winner within reason. Within reason, meaning the left doesn’t slam him in jail. This is a very different election in the sense that Trump is the elephant in the room this time with a huge core voting bloc. If De Santis gets around 20% of the vote or more he’s looking good. Stop comparing this time around to the 16 primary, which is a different universe.
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JMH:
If only that were true. I think Americans and American society has been irreparably destroyed. I see no coming back. I see the 2024 election as yet another steal. How can the Repubs. win if they don’t reduce themselves to the fetid level of the Dems?
While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
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Rabz says:
May 27, 2023 at 5:24 pmThe Rethuglicans
Here I am, planning a furious, slightly unhinged rant which probably isn’t fit for publication, when a gorgeous cherubic creation slip effortlessly from Rabz’s birthing canal. Rethuglicans. It’s shame the Catictionary is rigormortised.
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That’s a bunny boiler all right. Yikes.
Thanks , calli – you’ve had me trawling through the figurative junkyard that is my mind in an effort to identify the doppelganger of E. Jean Carroll.
Well, here she is*.
*Trigger warning: Hideously uglee ol’ Hollyweird dinobore
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Linda Burney urges Voice ‘yes’ vote in referendum, 66 years after Indigenous Australians counted in population
Rudi Maxwell, AAP & Isabel McMillan, NCAAAP
Sat, 27 May 2023 4:02PMMinister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney was in Uluru on Saturday for the 66th anniversary of the referendum that saw Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted as part of the population.
On the anniversary of the 1967 referendum, the government has called for Australians to vote yes for an Indigenous Voice to parliament, amid opposition claims it could set back reconciliation.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney was in Uluru on Saturday for the 66th anniversary of the referendum that saw Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted as part of the population.
She called for new constitutional recognition, and urged Australians to vote yes in a 2023 referendum that will see an Indigenous voice enshrined in the Constitution.
“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
“A day when Australians came together, to vote to change the constitution, so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be counted as part of the population.
I don’t know how Linda Burney is allowed to get away with this flagrant bullsh!t.
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There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out.
But it doesn’t matter how many when it’s, fairly, obvious, that no one running the election(s) actually cares ..
How many videos/statements have there been in the last two years exposing the blatant vote cheating and no one, authorities or media cares .. we’ve gotten that used to seeing/hearing about the fraud(s) that most of us just blink and move on ………..
The USA is at the stage that if the next Presidential election is squeaky clean very few will believe it anyway!… Honesty in USA elections is sooooo pre BAT FLU-ish …… -
Bluddee hell – that E Jean Carroll experience was so monstrous that I’ve had to find a picture of an aesthetically pleasing young womanage to enable some offsetting … 🙂
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I dunno, but I got a leetle suspicious when out of four posts, the JC/Sancho Bobbsey twins got 9,9,9,7. upticks in about ten minutes, while the pattern around them was in the 3 – 5 mark.
Is there something you want to confess to, sancho?Oh look, the Turtlehead can’t believe it’s possible that 8 to 10 people think he’s a mentally disturbed, hyperbolic loser. What, with Razey believing in him, how could think otherwise.
He has no life other than refreshing the Cat page to see the uptick count. Lord almighty.
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Watch out for the Skin Deep, Cats …
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“Rethuglicans” has been around for a long time. I used it a few days ago here in relation to De Santis.
Speaking of whom: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248888
Extract:
We all know the situation with the pandemic. Not one Governor actually said “No!” and meant it. People claim DeSantis did but they’re lying. I lived in Florida when this started; I was in the process of moving to Tennessee but was a Florida resident and had to put up with all of it during the process of moving. My daughter lived in Florida, as an independent adult, and lost her job because the place she worked was forced closed by the Governor.
Others I know ran establishments that were forced closed, in one case by cops showing up and forcibly ejecting the patrons; the cops were all, of course, armed. Do not tell me that this didn’t happen: It did happen, it occurred to varying degrees everywhere and not one of said 50 governors has apologized, said they were wrong and most-importantly passed iron-clad law to prevent it from ever being done again.
How about illegal immigration? Florida has some of the highest premiums for car insurance in the United States. One reason is that Florida has done little or nothing about illegal aliens driving without insurance thus there is a very good chance that if you get hit and it is their fault they’ll have no insurance — and suing someone without anything is a waste of time. Thus you are forced to pay for the risk of said person hitting you and that price falls on every driver licensed in Florida in their uninsured motorist coverage. Over my 20 years of living there this cost me thousands of dollars, directly, for which I got not a nickel of actual benefit.
Now DeSantis has asked for and gotten an “E-Verify” bill passed. But did he also get an Amendment proposed and passed that bars illegal aliens from access to state-funded taxpayer services? No. And is there a mandate that the State actually guarantee compliance — by, for example, requiring that employers document said compliance via a state-operated system at the time of hiring? No. That wasn’t part of it. Further, the law exempts employers with fewer than 25 employees so the crew of illegals roofing houses will not be impacted. It is trivial to get around these rules in the contracting industry by setting up parallel LLCs and keeping each subcontractor under 25 employees.De Santis is a bullshitter.
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“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
Bearing in mind that I studied vege maths in school, can someone tell me what 33 plus 23 is please?
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Rabz:
Bobby – ultimately, we do not give a rodent’s about our ticks, real or imagined.
As you say, but Rabz, some here take them very seriously.
(Rabz – please, the diminutive of Robert is not Bobby. It’s Bob. I trained with a bloke called Bobbie – he was a screaming faggot and gave us all the shits with his carryings on.)
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While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
Robert. It’s a done deal. The Dems have control. Modus operandi is to destroy the US. (See Clinton/Obama) The fix is in.
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Linda Burney urges Voice ‘yes’ vote in referendum, 66 years after Indigenous Australians counted in population
The Gucci clad BB continues the trend of everything about the screech and black history is a lie. 3rd nations were counted in the first census in 1911; professor Helen Irving:
following the 1967 referendum, section 127 of the Constitution was removed. This section said: In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.
It is a common myth that the section excluded Aboriginal people from being counted in the census, and that the 1967 referendum meant that they would henceforth be counted. It did not. The Aboriginal people have always been counted, from the very first Commonwealth census in 1911. In fact, census statistics specifically recorded the populations of Aboriginal Australians. “Half-blood” Aborigines were considered to be white and were included in the general census.
The purpose of section 127 (admittedly, not obvious from its words) was to guide the calculation of the numbers of parliamentary representatives per State and also to determine certain State financial entitlements and obligations, based on State populations. When these calculations were made, the numbers of Aboriginal people, as counted, were excluded.
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Vicki:
I like him. He was the only governor with any guts to face the Covid and Covid vaccine mafia.
In the beginning he looked really good. I also cheered for him, but there seemed to me after a couple of minor blunders that he was trying too hard. As if he was acting out not a script, but following a recipe to get a desired result.
It’s just the vibe, and I’m quite uncertain about him and just the general feeling of the man.
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Bruce of Newcastle says May 27, 2023 at 6:17 pm
LOL, BoN, back in the day, it occasionally was.
How I emerged from the eighties bodily intact remains a mystery. My peer group (and occasionally myself) used to engage in ultra violence just for the sheer hell of it.
It is not a chapter in my life that I’m proud of. Hence the subsequent retreat into economic hypotheses and trying to live a normal existence.
Young men will do what they do. Any society that tries to resist this inevitability will collapse in on itself.
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I do love the Stranglers and the first one has an awesome sax solo, which made me think of this one which has an even awesomer sax solo!
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (1978)
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Top Ender:
“I’m not taking issue with the culling management plan in the park, I have never got involved in that debate, I’m taking issue with the poor outcome. It’s just not acceptable to leave 67 carcasses laying around near a public camping ground,” he said.
He’s quite right, IMHO. Leaving the carcases there as food for wild dogs and pigs is wrong. There’s already a problem with ferals and leaving food out for them is counterproductive. The carcases should have been removed or deep buried or burnt. Or was funding an issue?
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The Gucci clad BB continues the trend of everything about the screech and black history is a lie. 3rd nations were counted in the first census in 1911; professor Helen Irving:
I contacted my local member’s office, regarding this issue, on a previous occasion, only to be told “Well, we don’t want to give Linda Burney a chance to play the race card.”
Words fail me, they honestly do.
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JMH:
While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
I meant “While it’s looking grim for the US, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.”
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I now have to do the following track since I took this photo since my last comment. She’s golden brown, a fine temptress. Haven’t seen her for a couple weeks so it’s an auspicious evening.
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