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Open Thread – Thurs 27 July 2023
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
- Bumtree #15
- Bumtree #14
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 May 2024
There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…
I am not happy that you should post this at this time when I’m in the process of sorting out…
Jeez Louise.
Caught staten island ferry during first trip to NY. 2 hours after my ride a guy took out several people…
You are teasing your audience with different opening times.
Andy Capp would not be pleased if pubs would do the same.
What is wrong with current physics
At least they are finally fessing up to the problems. They were warned long ago:
Freeman Dyson
“As one of the inventors of QED[Quantum Electrodynamics], I remember that we thought of QED in 1949 as a temporary and jerry-built structure, with mathematical inconsistencies and renormalized infinities swept under the rug. We did not expect it to last more than 10 years before some more solidly built theory would replace it. Now, 57 years have gone by and that ramshackle structure still stands.”
How long must I wait before evolutionists admit the problems with their theory?
Kevin Spacey trial – innocent:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12334455/Kevin-Spacey-cleared-House-Cards-star-not-guilty-sexual-assault-trial-labelling-claims-against-madness-stab-back.html
4th!
Sorry, no ‘toons today on account of a dead laptop. Tom
Sorry, no ‘toons today on account of a dead laptop. Tom
Thanks Tom and I hope you manage to revive the laptop. No more laptop dancing then?
Don’t worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
– W. C. Fields
Singer Sinead O’Connor has died aged 56.
Must admit l heard about her but knew nothing of her music, or her life.
Read a few links I got with the newsfeed and she really had a hard life, ‘traumatic’ as she describes. On drugs for most of her life.
Converted to Islam in 2018, maybe looking for spiritual relief?
She was one of the most ardent anti Trumpers, which I don’t understand her being Irish, what did trump ever do to her or Ireland?
Sinead O’Connor has died. Her demons can no longer torment her.
Snap, Gabor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
This is how most of us remember her.
Great song Pogria.
Cheers
Not sure Meangin is a great choice of name.
Veteran journalist cannot in good conscience ignore the obvious link between Elon Musk’s X and the Nazis
On other news, EV caused fire on ship.
The Dutch coast guard says a fire caused by an EV is behind an inferno on the Panama-registered RORO Freemantle Highway.
Down near Gibraltar.
Tomorrow plan to climb up to the top of the Rock and unfurl a 20×30 metre Union Jack.
That’ll keep the Spanish quiet for another decade or so.
The veteran “journalist” is getting torched in comments.
A case of Musk Derangement Syndrome.
RORO Freemantle Highway.
A bit of poetic justice?
The memes are funny, Bush.
This one is a keeper.
They are indeed. It’s been good for a laugh.
Pointing out the truth to this “journalist” will be called hate speech. (of course)
Hopefully Musk joins in.
The memes are funny, Bush.
This one is a keeper.
I think this one is accurate and to the point.
I’m home! First plane in this morning, and extra good news…my tins of foie gras passed muster at quarantine!
Good times ahead.
No toons? Would you like a versatile meme to tide you over?
And my personal favourite.
What is foie gras? Some sort of laxative?
I’ve put on so much weight…if I have foie gras on lettuce…surely that’s slimming.
Scrolled back…Winston!
Welcome back Calli.
Is there enough Foie Gras to share? I used to work in Quality Control. You need to make sure it’s authentic. I could help you. 😀
foie gras
Had to look it up to see what it was.
Good to see the Beagle Doggos and quarantine gave you a pass.
Last time I was in Un Zud I brought back some chilli chutney and asked a customs bloke if I had to declare it or not. Words to the effect of, ‘just declare it as its a lot easier all round on everyone invoved when you are upfront.’
Quarantine ‘your good mate…see ya later.’
It is bloody nice chutney.
Sitting in Sydney airport waiting for the New Broom to pick us up – he insisted, otherwise we would have caught the train. Then off to Zombie Grandparents’ Day at granddaughter’s school.
Forty eight hours in transit, the LHR-SYD leg in a broken PE seat sitting bolt upright. British Airways. Never the same since they crashed in Die Hard 2.
The sun will be up soon time for work.
Have a great day!
Also…nice to see people in actual clothes as the thread topper. Herc was making me all goose-pimply.
bespoke, is it frosty in your neck of the woods? Six frozen mornings in a row here, but the days have been heavenly, sunny and clear.
Did anyone here take one for Team Cat and watch Black Anne Boleyn last night?
Interested in your thoughts. Perhaps a review?
blood’s thicker than water.
… its redder too
“Did anyone here take one for Team Cat and watch Black Anne Boleyn last night? Interested in your thoughts. Perhaps a review?”
I scrolled through my television listings last night and saw the picture of the “black Anne Boleyn”. My first reaction was to feel sick in the stomach, and then I thought, nup, no thank you. I’m an avid Tudor fan, particularly of Henry VIII and his wives. My first introduction to Tudor history was when I was about 8 years old, when I started reading Jean Plaidy’s excellent novels (I might add that her novels were historically accurate, she just fictionalised dialogue etc).
So, no, I didn’t watch it and had no desire to. Watching such contrived ahistorical crap just gives legitimacy to the current fashion to deliberately “blackwash” European history”. The progressive fashion is to now insist that that Europeans history was “multiracial, with lots of Sub-Saharan Africans living in Europe, in fact they invented everything in Europe (perhaps they invented the Atlantic slave trade)! It’s laughable, but I also think it’s insidious. Using a black actress to play Anne Boleyn is deeply, deeply offensive, just like it’s deeply offensive to use a black actress to portray George III’s long suffering wife, Queen Charlotte.
It’s funny comparing the reactions, and it shows just how the West has fallen and now cowers and capitulates to fabrications, because it’s now so insecure, so scared of “waaaacissm”. This insecurity about race doesn’t bother other cultures. When it was revealed that Cleopatra was going to be portrayed by a black actress of clearly sub-Saharan lineage, Egypt, North Africa and most of the Arab world rightly erupted in vocal fury. The result was that Netflix’s Cleopatra didn’t do particularly well, and is now an ahistorical joke. Yet when it was revealed that Anne Boleyn, the quintessential English woman, was going to be played by a black actress, apart from the usual suspects on the left who thought it was “brave”, most people silently muttered their objections, too scared to be smeared as waaaacist, waaaacist,waaaacist. Well, I don’t care if someone calls me waaaacist!
NPC News reports:
Is it time for the aliens? Yep, it is. Time for the aliens you guys.
And yea, verily, the outdoor dining and floor covering staff rose up against their bedding overlords, and there was much second-guessing and gnashing of teeth.
And those who chiselled messages into the living rock undertook a subterfuge, as though they were others, and 150 IP addresses were cast from the city into the desert where they knew not spicy food, and where the Saints eschewed them.
And garments were rent throughout the open warehouse-style setting, and righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in sanctimonious fire.
– The Book of St. Ruth, 25:17
Here endeth the lesson.
– Sean Connery, The Untouchables
Put 3,000 electric cars in a ship and bounce them around at sea…
One dead after a cargo ship catches fire off Dutch coast (27 Jul)
How many car carriers are going to go up like this before the insurers won’t insure them, and the freight lines refuse to carry them?
That’s ok Bruce. We’ll just manufacture them here locally. Should easily come in under $300k per vehicle.
Inspirational KD.
Truly ruly inspirational.
Bruce of N,
there were only fifteen electric cars on the ship, and only one caught fire to begin with. But, and it’s a BIG but, that one EV was all that was needed to kill one man and injure many others before spreading throughout the ship.
No way will I ever own one or even ride in one.
Twas bullying.
The first female CEO of NatWest wouldn’t have been forced to resign over
blabbing about a client to the BBC if she wasn’t the first female CEO of NatWest.
Presumably.
File under climate change. Freight liners have to carry them or they racisit.
Had a really beautiful Hoar frost this morning. Ventured out to let the poultry out and bash the ice on the ponds. Every bit of wire netting in the yard looked like mesh curtains. Even dangling skeins of spiderweb had tiny icicles pointing sideways at right angles.
Unlike a blanket of snow, where everything looks like it’s asleep, the Hoar frost looks like a teenager has heavily applied glitter eyeshadow in prep for a night at the disco.
Should be another glorious midwinter day.
Rather Oversized Amish Females? on a Shopping (Shoplifting) Spree in California
You mean people lie for money?
I’m shocked.
Something that Cats like Dr Faustus point out, but which isn’t widely known:
Britain doesn’t have the power to charge electric cars as network falters (26 Jul)
Massive current flows to fast chargers means very significant feeder requirements, especially for a bank of them. Which have to be put somewhere, necessitating extensive construction work. And all that has to be fed by substations, which in turn have to be fed by HVAC lines. Petrol stations don’t have this problem because you just drive up in a tanker truck and fill up the underground tanks.
CASH IS KING OF THE THIEVES IN THE UKRAINE, ACCORDING TO THE IMF, CHIEF ACCOUNTANT TO THE THIEVES’ DEN
President Vladimir Zelensky has enough fingers to count that $115 billion is worth almost three times more than $41.3 billion.
The first number is the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) calculation of “external support over 2023–27 involving sizable official financing in the form of grants and concessional loans, as well as debt relief.”
This includes “SDR [Special Drawing Rights] 11.608 billion (577.01 percent of quota, about US$15.6 billion).” No IMF member state has ever been allowed to take a six-times multiple of its borrowing quota at this money volume except for the Ukraine.
Nor has any IMF member state ever been authorised by the IMF board of directors to stop new domestic bank lending and postpone all borrowing obligations (“current debt standstill”) for at least another three years from this Christmas.
The resulting money pile the IMF calls “the wartime liquidity surplus”.
Converting this into the Ukrainian banks’ profit line and diverting that into individual cash and assets, Kiev officials have told Reuters to report as the “Ukraine banks’ robust health.” “Across the banking sector,” the New York-based propaganda agency reports,
“deposits are as abundant as they’ve ever been, and the country’s lenders have found ways to remain profitable.” This is being done, they explain, by borrowing more and more in government bonds at a 25% interest rate guaranteed by more IMF money flowing into the central bank; lending less and less to zero for customers; and ignoring the increasing pile-up of defaulted, non-performing, or fraud loans.
This is Zelensky’s pyramid, even Reuters and its Ukrainian banker sources imply, though the IMF staff cannot bring themselves to say so. “In the current context, Ukrainian bankers note, the choice makes sense. “’We will only survive if the government survives,’ [Privatbank chief executive Gerhard] Boesch sums up.”
The big money number dwarfs the Pentagon’s most recent estimate that “the Biden administration has committed more than $41.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s invasion in February 2022.”
The new July 7 number includes deliveries of Patriot missiles, HIMARS rockets, cluster bombs, and “dual-purpose improved conventional munitions, or DPICM”.
Using the banker’s term, the Pentagon announcement declared “the Ukrainian forces have effectively leveraged assistance…So we will continue to provide Ukraine with the urgent capabilities that it needs to meet the moment, as well as what it needs to keep itself secure for the long term from Russian aggression.”
When President Zelensky’s hands reach for his pockets, the calculation of “leverage” applies a liquidity risk discount for goods compared to cash; arms and ammunition cannot be diverted with the same profitability as cash.
This is also because Pentagon delivery controls are more closely enforced on the ground than the IMF can follow the cashflow once it leaves the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and enters the oligarch banks now nominally nationalised.
It is thus clear that Zelensky’s pyramid is much more lucrative than the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and General Staff pyramid.
This is why the war on the battlefields of the east is also a war of the two pyramids in Kiev.
To manage this war, the IMF uses its hands to pull the other leg. In the current IMF staff report it calls the war of the pyramids “progress in governance, anti-corruption, and rule of law reforms.”
The IMF staff report was issued on March 24, 2023, and can be studied here.
The principal author is a Gavin Gray who served as the IMF’s chief functionary in Iraq between 2018 and 2020.
The IMF record for facilitating multi-billion dollar transfers of cash into Ukrainian bank and then individual oligarch pockets, has been documented in this archive.
Under US control at the Fund’s board of directors, the chief executives, country directors, and Kiev residential representatives of the IMF began practising their blind-eye reporting on the Ukraine with the Igor Kolomoisky pyramid (Privatbank) and the Victor Pinchuk pyramid (Credit Dnepr).
KD
BoM girlie doing the district forecasts tackled Warracknabeal pronunciation.
Whar-rack-nah-beal.
Can’t wait for her Rupanyup styling.
FT – Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns Ukraine officials over corruption after two arrests
Military recruitment chief held on embezzlement charges while an MP is accused of collaborating with Russia
Ukraine’s president has warned government officials and lawmakers that “personal enrichment” and “betrayal” will not be tolerated, after the arrest of a military recruitment chief on embezzlement charges and an MP accused of collaborating with Russia.
“No one will forgive MPs, judges, ‘military commissars’ or any other officials for putting themselves in opposition to the state,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly TV address on Tuesday. “Any internal betrayal?.?.?.?or any personal enrichment?.?.?. triggers fury at the very least.”
His comments came after the arrest on Monday of Yevhen Borysov, head of the military recruitment office in Odesa, by Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and Prosecutor General’s Office. The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption said he had illegally acquired more than $5mn through elaborate business schemes.
A Kyiv district court ordered that Borysov be held in pre-trial detention and set bail at about $4mn. He has not commented on the charges.
Ukraine has taken measures in recent months to show its western backers that it is responding to demands to stamp out deep-rooted corruption as it steps up efforts to join the EU.
Brussels granted the country formal membership candidate status last year. But its bid to join the bloc will depend largely on credible rule of law and anti-corruption reforms.
Brussels said last month that Kyiv had fully met two of the seven conditions established by the EU as part of Ukraine’s candidacy that must be fulfilled before starting membership negotiations, which Zelenskyy hopes to begin by the end of the year.
In Tuesday night’s address, Zelenskyy told lawmakers: “Every law that is needed to strengthen the position of our troops must be adopted. Every law that is necessary for Ukraine to start negotiations with the EU on accession must be adopted.”
Oleksandr Ponomaryov, a lawmaker from a now-banned pro-Russia party, has meanwhile been accused of collaborating with Moscow and its invasion forces.
On Wednesday, the SBI and state prosecutors accused the party’s founder, Vadim Rabinovych, of treason, claiming he “distributed anti-Ukrainian propaganda information among the population and the political leadership of the countries of the European Union”.
Investigators also searched the home of Yuriy Aristov, a lawmaker in Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party and deputy chair of the parliamentary committee on national security, defence and intelligence, for allegedly forging health documents that allowed him to leave Ukraine despite a ban on officials travelling abroad during the war. The SBI said he had gone on vacation to the Maldives with his family.
“Unfortunately, some people think that the war is somewhere far away from them. As if the dome of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] or the walls of some offices, or a list of some powers can shield from reality,” Zelenskyy said.
Kyiv says it has increased oversight of the billions of dollars worth in military and financial assistance provided by the west since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, with Zelenskyy last month ordering an audit of military recruitment offices and procedures to identify and quash any corruption.
The president said on Tuesday night that the results were “disappointing”.
Prosecutors claim Ponomaryov’s commercial interests in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk in south-eastern Ukraine have been supporting Russian forces with fuel, food and other supplies. They allege he struck the deal in the first days of the all-out invasion in February last year, before returning to the government-controlled territory.
Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court ordered Ponomaryov to be held in pre-trial detention for 60 days without bail. Ponomaryov has not commented on the charges but he has denied collaborating with Russia in the past.
Hehe, nice rant!
NatWest board like rats in a sack this morning desperate to save own skins – Paul Baldwin (26 Jul)
Putting the size twelves in with gusto!
Very verily, KD.
Fed lifts rates to 22-year high – and leaves door open for more
Howard Schneider and Michael S. Derby
Washington DC | The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, citing still elevated inflation as a rationale for what is now the highest US central bank policy rate in 16 years.
The rate hike, the Fed’s 11th in its last 12 meetings, set the benchmark overnight interest rate in the 5.25 per cent -5.50 per cent range, and the accompanying policy statement left the door open to another increase.
“The (Federal Open Market) Committee will continue to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy,” the Fed said in language that was little changed from its June statement and left the central bank’s policy options open as it searches for a stopping point to the current tightening cycle.
As it stated in June, the Fed said it would watch incoming data and study the impact of its rate hikes on the economy “in determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate” to reach its 2 per cent inflation target.
Though inflation data since the Fed’s meeting in June has been weaker than expected, policymakers have been reluctant to alter their hawkish stance until there is more progress in reducing price pressures.
Key measures of inflation remain more than double the Fed’s target, and the economy by many measures, including a low 3.6 per cent unemployment rate, continues to outperform expectations given the rapid increase in interest rates.
Job gains remain “robust,” the Fed said, while it described the economy as growing at a “moderate” pace, a slight upgrade from the “modest” pace seen as of the June meeting. The US government on Thursday is expected to report the economy grew at a 1.8 per cent annual pace in the second quarter, according to economists polled by Reuters.
However, with about eight weeks until the next Fed meeting, a longer-than-usual interlude, continued moderation in the pace of price increases could make this the last rate hike in a process that began with a cautious quarter-percentage-point increase in March of 2022 before accelerating into the most rapid monetary tightening since the 1980s.
In the most recent economic projections from Fed policymakers, 12 of 18 officials expected at least one more quarter-percentage-point increase would be needed by the end of this year.
The AFR View
The inflation news is good, but it’s not time to declare victory
Despite the positive inflation and jobs numbers, and regardless of the coming change at the top, the RBA might have to lift rates at least once more.
The fall in June quarter inflation to 6 per cent from 7 per cent in March – below the official forecast – is a further positive sign that price growth has now peaked and is moving in the right direction.
Price pressures are easing as the sharp interest rate normalisation bites into discretionary consumer spending and as the global supply chains that were disrupted by the pandemic return to normal, as was confirmed by the IMF’s latest world economic update.
This is dovish good news compared to last week’s strikingly hawkish jobs data.
With inflation moderation faster than expected, the economy may be on track for a soft landing from the inflation outbreak without triggering a sharp spike in unemployment.
Yet the one person who lost his job is Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe, whose term has not been extended by the Albanese government.
There is still a long way to go. The wild card might be the sluggish growth in China, the world’s second-biggest economy and Australia’s largest trading partner. Rio Tinto’s half-yearly profit has slumped amid the iron ore price softening off record highs and despite shipping higher volumes, with all eyes now on demand from Chinese steelmakers.
But as it stands, Lowe has been terminated despite the mounting evidence that he has done a good job; doing what needed to be done with interest rates to start to get on top of inflation while avoiding, so far, any painful hard landing.
No claims of early victory
Wednesday’s welcome inflation reading prompted the share market to jump to a five-month-high, the value of the Australian dollar to fall, and the money market to slash its bet on the Reserve Bank ending the two-month pause and resuming lifting interest rates at next Tuesday’s board meeting.
The sharp drop in the peak cash rate forecast to 4.31 per cent is no longer fully pricing in at least one more rise of 0.25 of a percentage point.
But while goods inflation has slowed to 5.8 per cent, the overall level of inflation remains well above the Reserve Bank’s 2 per cent to 3 per cent target.
Fast rising rents due to a shortage of rental properties and the spiralling cost of insurance are still feeding the inflation dragon that’s far from tamed.
Amid the tightest employment market and lowest 3.5 per cent jobless rate in half a century, and a modest pick-up in wages growth, labour-intensive services inflation has accelerated to 6.3 per cent.
Hence, there is little cause for premature declarations of victory in the inflation fight, and that the central bank’s monetary tightening cycle is over. Australia’s consumer price inflation remains 3 per cent higher than in the US.
Yet the one person who has lost his job is Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.
Australia’s 4.1 per cent cash rate is also more than a full percentage point lower than the US Federal Reserve’s equivalent 5.25 per cent funds rate. The Fed is widely tipped to lift rates again early Thursday morning (AEST).
After inflation slowed sharply to 7.9 per cent in June in Britain, the Bank of England is expected to raise its 5 per cent base rate by 0.25 of a percentage point next week.
So despite the good news on both the inflation and jobs front, and regardless of the coming change at the top from September, the Reserve Bank going again and lifting interest rates at least once more before the end of the year remains the monetary policy outlook for Australia.
Donald Trump Raises 4X More Money from Small Donors Than Joe Biden – Meanwhile 83% of DeSantis Money Comes from Big Donors and Corporations
July 26, 2023 | Sundance
DeSantis Campaign Fires Creator of Ron DeSantis Promotional Video Showcasing Pro Ukraine Nazi Support and Symbolism
July 26, 2023 | Sundance
It’s funny in a way, because since mid 2022 CTH has been pointing out the 2021 arrival of registered foreign agent Christina Pushaw in the DeSantis orbit always looked a little, well, ideologically structured.
Someone had to enlist the Ukrainian activist into the DeSantis orbit to become his press secretary.
We wondered if perhaps the similarity between the State Dept World War Reddit fraud and the pretending around the Ron DeSantis 2024 operation was not coincidental.
Regardless of how all of that took place, the reality of Pushaw’s pro-Zelenskyy, pro-Ukraine influence was clearly visible long before the ‘book tour’ pretenses were dropped, and the handlers of Ron DeSantis finally admitted a 2024 nomination effort was underway.
So, here we are. Now we enter this odd phase where campaign branding and images of the DeSantis brand start to represent the ideology of the brand creators.
After it was revealed that an anti-Trump homophobic and violent video was actually created by the campaign and then delivered to Pushaw’s influence group to push it, the DeSantis campaign removed it.
This was the first effort.
Now comes the second instance.
A DeSantis video showing Nazi symbolism, a Sonnenrad or symbol used by Nazis and still used by white supremacists in the Ukrainian military units, surfaces.
Is this just another random occurrence, or really is it an outcome of the people who Pushaw et al helped assemble in the branding phase? The former possibility is pretending, the latter probability is the Occam’s razor likelihood.
‘Sunrise’ reporter tells us ‘the cost of living has finally gone down’ after the inflation rate* drops from 7% to 6%,…
We are surrounded by morons…..
* Official figure – double for real world figure
DOJ Plea Deal With Hunter Biden Falls Apart as Federal Judge Infers DOJ Motive to Structure Immunity for Future Charges as DOJ Admits Ongoing Investigation
July 26, 2023 | Sundance
Speaking about Vegetables running America – Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein – add another to the list
Disturbing Video – Senator Mitch McConnell Appeared to Have Medical Episode During Press Conference
July 26, 2023 | Sundance
Yikes, this is not good. During remarks at the Senate minority press conference, Mitch McConnell appears to have some form of cognitive health episode. The Senate minority leader completely freezes and is eventually led away from the podium.
Should be Sunrise ‘reporter’. Poisonous meja muck.
Yes, thats the point – they dont want people to change to electric cars, they want them to lose their ICE vehicles and have NO cars – whaddaya need a car for in your 15 minute city?
I can see it now!
The Minister for Grandiose Far-Fetched Announcements standing before a pool of press flunkies like baby birds in a nest, craning their necks and beaks open, waiting for mama bird to drop morsels of pre-digested copy into their mouths.
“The Albanese Government is proud to announce today its commitment to creating a new electric car industry in the Northern Territory which will make Australia a world leader and create thousands of much needed jobs in the fields of engineering, design, finance and logistics so sorely needed in the remote communities.”
Hannity Visibly Frustrated As RFK Jr. Dismantles Ukraine Talking Points
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUL 27, 2023 – 06:40 AM
With Tucker Carlson out at Fox, what remains are the usual neocon “talk radio personalities” drawing large viewership at the network, namely Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and some other lesser names. While long advancing conservative domestic policies and fighting the “culture wars”, their foreign policy messaging really hasn’t changed in decades—having more in common with George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Tom Cotton, or even Barack Obama.
So when someone with the ‘outsider’ views of the fiercely independent Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr squares up against someone like Hannity (who for years has donned a CIA pin while on air) in a one-on-one interview, fireworks ensue.
That’s exactly what happened when the issue of Ukraine became a focal point during a town hall event Tuesday. It also didn’t take long for RFK Jr. to win over the crowd.
Hannity wasn’t happy that RFK was “blaming America’s role in this” for the Ukraine crisis…
Kennedy Jr. focused his comments on exposing NATO’s role in pushing Moscow into a corner, given its historic expansion east and turning Ukraine into a proxy, but Hannity sought to interrupt him multiple times
“Because of our pushing the Ukraine into the war—” RFK had begun, before the Fox host interrupted with, “We pushed them into it or did Putin invade?”
According to the response:
“Well, let me answer your question,” replied Kennedy Jr., who then accused the U.S. of sabotaging the Minsk agreements in 2014 and 2015, which aimed to end the Donbas war yet largely failed to stop the fighting between Russian separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces.
“Putin, in good faith, began withdrawing troops from the Ukraine. What happened? We sent Boris Johnson over there to torpedo it because we don’t want peace. We want the war with Russia,” he argued, drawing applause from the audience.
Kennedy then harped on the clearly documented history of NATO expansion east, and further highlighted that Ukraine is undergoing NATO militarization right on Russia’s border.
There was also this moment:
Hannity: “Do you trust Putin? Why are you blaming America’s role in this? Putin to me is an evil murdering dictator thug.”
RFK Jr: “On two occasions the Russians tried to sign a peace agreement. You do not need to make an enemy out of Russia. We won the Cold War.”
He also emphasized that Russia is going to do anything not to lose. “It would be like us losing a war to Mexico,” RFK Jr. said. “They are not going to lose the war.”
Hannity is not used to handling foreign policy arguments which break free of the narrow MSM parameters and establishment group think dialectic.
John Spooner
‘Sunrise’ reporter tells us ‘the cost of living has finally gone down’ after the inflation rate* drops from 7% to 6%,…
Moronic.
Well unless she is going to argue that all female CEO’s of NaffWest will naturally slander customers they does not agree with and bend the bank to prosecute their own political agenda against enemies then the claim does not hold water.
Any other women vying for the job might like to make that public and clear.
The braindead lamestream meeja in a nutshell. No lie is blatant or preposterous enough.
Incidentally, Dim Chambers was banging on about this yesterday in almost exactly the same terms, so it’s heartening to see and hear the braindead lamestream meeja toeing the pardee line.
Despicable hypocritical dishonest collectivist scum.
Now this is a protest I can get behind.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1683592221457563650
An absolutely awesome disruptive mechanism they used, too. So simple, yet so hard to defeat.
The term (if could be dignified as such) has been stripped of all meaning, especially since collectivists started screeching that anything and everything is waaacist. Some recent examples:
Maths
Gardening
National Parks
Correct use of punctuation, grammar and spelling
And on and on and on and on ad nauseum …
The Kissinger Report: US government’s policy to depopulate the world
It’s fun trolling Mike Carlton on twitter – what a cockhead.
What happens when an EV catches fire? ACT firies say it’s ‘sobering’
The ACT firefighters union has raised “sobering” concerns over what happens when an electric vehicle (EV) catches alight as the ACT Government looks at ways of speeding up the uptake of zero-emission transport.
The government heard from a variety of stakeholders last week as part of the Inquiry into EV Adoption in the ACT, as it looks to ban the sale of new fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2035.
In its recently published submission, the ACT Branch of the United Firefighters Union of Australia (UFU ACT Branch) created a hypothetical scenario with many questions that have yet to be answered by policy or precedent.
Here’s the scenario: An EV collides with a safety barrier on Parkes Way at the foot of Black Mountain and adjacent to Lake Burley Griffin. The battery is damaged, leading to a jet of flame from the battery.
Given that it’s a lithium-ion battery fire, the firefighters must figure out how they can get hold of up to 60,000 litres of water they might need to put out (and there are no hydrants on Parkes Way). How can it be transported fast enough? And how can it be deployed without causing significant erosion and environmental damage to the land around it? What about the fumes? How long would traffic be disrupted?
An unlikely scenario? Maybe not.
Something like it happened on 30 May 2021 at the Fyshwick recharging station for the Beam e-scooters.
The fire was extinguished, but emergency services stayed on site for another two days in case the fire reignited.
One battery did, on 1 June, and then again six weeks later on 14 July.
Worksafe ACT launched an investigation and closed the warehouse. It’s still under investigation.
‘Drowning’ the fire seems to be the only current option. Typically, this requires a deluge of 1125 litres of water per minute and between 2000 and 60,000 litres of water in total.
For perspective, the average Canberra home uses 200,000 litres per year, while the average conventional car fire uses less than 1400 litres.
This is where it gets tricky because the pumper trucks in ACT Fire & Rescue’s fleet can only hold about 1400 litres of water.
This means around 43 truckloads of water could be required to put out an EV fire where there’s no access to a hydrant.
It’s not over then, either.
Once the battery is cool, emergency services must wait 45 minutes and retest for heat. And the vehicle has to be stored at least 15 metres from other objects to avoid a domino-effect fire. And all this without the firies being “effectively electrocuted while trying to manage the fire”.
On pronunciation og Aboriginal place names I saw on the All Bulls hit Communication, some white sheila earnestly saying War gar War gar for Wagga Wagga. I imagine when white fellas wrote down the names of places they spelt them phonetically. What would I know, I’m only a stale pale old male. Furriner too.
the cold facts about heat deaths
more adventures in chart crime
I found Jean Plaidy’s novels filled me in on a lot of European history though my needlework subject in high school was even more useful. History of costume provided a timeline of all the dynasties and their fashions. Ever since I could tell the era a film is covering by the costumes of the actors.
From 2017.
Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide
Fox News reportedly scrubs satanic group from charitable donation list after investigative report
Daily Tele.
Mmmyes.
I saw another of these “interpretative dramatisations” a while back, focussed on Catherine of Aragon.
Included in her entourage was a Muesli couple who, of course, were eminently trustworthy, wise beyond belief and totally above the scheming and back-biting engaged in by other courtiers.
Yes, Mueslis did “visit” Spain from time-to-time, but the idea that a devoutly Catholic Spanish Royal would have a Muesli in their inner circle is preposterous.
Western Sydney University have a facility near their Richmond campus where they are running an experiment of pumping carbon dioxide into tents with plants to accelerate growth. At the same time the university is promoting the net zero crap.
Err, wut?
“zero-emission transport”? The ACT Town Council has found a way to make burning EVs not emit “carbins”?
Isn’t it awful how truth is racist?
Catturd ™
@catturd2
We tried and tried to warn you – and you turned around and called us anti-science, grandma killing, horse paste eaters.
– and now you’re all dead silent. You have no shame.
Shocking ONS Report: COVID Vaccinated 18-39 Age Group at 91% Higher Death Risk than Unvaccinated Peers in UK
I was astounded last night to see SBS refer to the 6% inflation rate as being 3x higher than (I think) 2001.
It was a brief mention, not repeated or elaborated, but mentioned all the same.
Perhaps the script writer has a mortgage.
Nigel Farage truly is a giant killer. He’s done everyone a huge service by bringing this issue front and centre.
NatWest CEO resigns after ‘serious error’ in Farage fiasco
These stupid Aboriginal place names will be the death of someone, mark my words.
Although I have heard ABC types pronounce Stawell as “Stay-Well” and Moe as simply “Mo”.
No country has the power supply to run new electric cars, all of them, except China, barely have enough for current needs.
My sister studied communications at Uni.
She said their ones aiming for televisual were the most vain, vacuous airheads you could ever dread to meet.
And they would probably need to be. They would be able to hear the most arrant nonsense spoken with duplicitous cunning, or read from a scrolling teleprompter obvious absurdities, without betraying the least suspicion that someone is playing all of us for fools.
Dr. John Campbell
One in 35 Myocardial Injury after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination
OldOzzie
Jul 27, 2023 8:05 AM
The AFR View
The inflation news is good, but it’s not time to declare victory
Despite the positive inflation and jobs numbers, and regardless of the coming change at the top, the RBA might have to lift rates at least once more.
It will be interesting to see the impact on the CPI from the energy (mainly electricity) price rises effective the 1st of July in the September quarterly CPI figure to be announced in late October. Let alone any rental and wage rise increases flowing through.
UK
Schools are storing your Child’s Biometric Data without Consent
Headline from The Guardian’s alternative universe:
‘Electricity prices down almost 60% a year on from Australia’s short-lived energy crisis’
The official inflation (CPI) figures at 30 June for the last five financial years:
2019 1.6%
2020 -0.3%
2021 3.8%
2022 6.1%
2023 6.0%
The figures for the 12 months to 31 December 2022 and 31 March 2023 were 7.8% and 7.0% respectively.
Grate job, labore. Keep up the excellent work.
And yes, you do own the inflation figures (both real and imaginary) for the last two years, you incompetent imbeciles. Every staggeringly stupid collectivist brainfart of a “policy” you foist on the populace drives up inflation, not to mention the incessant running of the printing presses, which Phil “I dun a grate jerb” Lowey was of course, very fond of.
Wishing that these monstrous clowns would just FOAD is being way too kind.
JPMorgan Chase Debanks Dr. Mercola’s Healthcare Business
Did the movie end with the blak Anne B being be-headed, or was that considered to be too sexist, racist and Islamophobic?
Mmmyes.
I am waiting for the first accusation of waaacism to be cast at me over da Voice.
I am going to simply shrug and say, “Hey, if mis-using the word ‘racist’ makes you feel better, go for it.”
Mitch McConnell, passing on his infinite wisdom.
Easily the smartest speech, this brain dead, corrupt buffon has ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8X3V95YPUg
How will the US ever survive, without the intellect of Biden, Fetterman and this clown?
Sancho Panzer
Jul 27, 2023 9:01 AM
Farmer Gez
Jul 27, 2023 7:51 AM
I once heard one pronounce Waikerie as Why-keary.
What else can we expect from a media where legitimacy is conferred by the number of their social media followers?
I recently walked past the fire station in Castlereagh St as a blonde televisual airhead (BIRM) was doing a piece to camera out the front.
Her face looked as though at had been caked in several inches of a wax like substance. She looked ridiculous. Which of course, they all are.
Lynched?
Tarred and feathered?
Crossie
Jul 27, 2023 8:55 AM
Yet when it was revealed that Anne Boleyn, the quintessential English woman, was going to be played by a black actress, apart from the usual suspects on the left who thought it was “brave”, most people silently muttered their objections, too scared to be smeared as waaaacist, waaaacist,waaaacist. Well, I don’t care if someone calls me waaaacist!
Isn’t it awful how truth is racist?
How about a black Jesus. Or even non-white.
Can I steal that one? I’ve been branded a “racist” over my “Don’t welcome me to my own country” bumper sticker.
Bad Things 101:
1) Naming sites with European place names.
2) Retaining aboriginal named places but not pronouncing them the way we ( ABC, SBS et al.,) say.
3) Knowing the true history of Europe – which includes everyone of high office, in every kingdom, city, town, village and outhouse were either black and/or of the religion of pieces.
4)…
A bit of respect please, these vegetables are running not just America but the world. Even the younger congress members are empty vessels like the recent one where the crazy eyed staffer was behind her and mouthing the speech being read out and corrected the rep when she got it wrong.
I need to make a correction, the world is actually run by twenty-something crazy eyed staffers in Washington and knickerless ones in Canberra.
“How about a black Jesus. Or even non-white.”
Jesus is Palestinian now.
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
– W. C. Fields
I just watched that Mitch McConnell “speech”. Highly recommended, Cats, true laugh out loud stuff.
Entirely unsurprisingly, about the first ten comments under the video all make the same observations – term and age limits for these corruptocrats, please, now.
I’ve watched that video – about the only logical explanation is the congresscritter was miked to the crazy eyed bint. Or am I missing something here, e.g. these morons have mastered telepathy?
As someone on Twitter noted, we are in the Breznev era politically in the US.
Last night NBN 9 showed what they described as ‘chilling’ footage of the Greek bush-fires.
Hunter Biden’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card revoked.
JR, they will simply change the parameters and hey presto, no rate rise.
I wouldn’t even bother opening that link because my latest electricity bill tells me this is a lie of gargantuan proportions.
Where do they get these brain dead composers of such magnificent nonsense? Oh yes…journo skools.
Ok, I’m not worried now, it was the same distress gauge they used when reporting the ice not growing as usual in Antartica, last week.
I have no idea what happened to the black Anne Boleyn, I don’t watch the “let’s rewrite history” rubbish. Life is too short. I didn’t watch the Bridgeton shows either.
With the current racialist drive I wonder how long it will be before Downton Abbey will have to be refilmed to make it multiracial.
Funny how things work out. Years ago, a reporter on Today Tonight asked a visiting Saffie politician “how could he” bear the opprobrium when world opinion was so stacked against his government. He replied, “After you have been out in the rain for a while you can’t get any wetter.”
You don’t call Wagga Wagga Wagga.
They wish!
Actually, I do and nobody has corrected me yet.
Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Implodes
A wrist slap that was supposed to end the scandal backfires in federal court.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
The plea deal between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden has always looked fishy, and on Wednesday it was exposed in court. The legal fireworks make it harder to ignore fundamental questions about the integrity of the five-year investigation.
Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika didn’t reject the wrist-slap plea bargain outright, but she asked prosecutors and defense attorneys to clarify the terms of the deal on gun and tax charges. It says something that the deal collapsed under the most basic questions.
The June 20 plea never made sense except as a way to disguise and bury the political embarrassment of Hunter’s business shenanigans. The two misdemeanor tax charges and the deferred felony gun count could have been brought in the first few months of the investigation. Judge Noreika zeroed in on the diversion agreement on the gun count, which spared Mr. Biden jail time and would mean he would not be charged if he met certain conditions.
The critical point came when the judge asked if the deal meant Hunter could still be prosecuted on other charges, such as violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Prosecutor Leo Wise said he could. Defense attorney Chris Clark said that wasn’t his understanding. If the plea didn’t give his client such immunity, then there’s no deal, said Mr. Clark.
The hearing featured multiple recesses in which the prosecution and defense tried to clarify the terms of a revised deal. Judge Noreika said she felt that “you are telling me to rubber stamp the agreement.” In the end Hunter pleaded not guilty to the tax charges, and the judge gave the lawyers 30 days to provide further briefings before she reaches a decision.
Courtroom drama aside, the big issue isn’t whether any plea deal is too tough or lenient. The question hovering over the plea is whether Joe Biden was also in on his son’s sleazy influence-peddling. Is the President the “big guy” famously mentioned in an email to Hunter from one of his business partners?
The press has given the President a pass on his repeated claims that he knew nothing about Hunter’s business, and the White House continues to stonewall. Shortly after the hearing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to clarify whether her new official line—that “the President was never in business with his son”—was a change from his many previous public claims that he never even discussed his son’s overseas business dealings with him.
No doubt the change in the official line reflects White House recognition of the growing evidence that contradicts Mr. Biden’s earlier statements. Americans may learn even more next week, when his son’s former business associate, Devon Archer, is scheduled to testify behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee about then-Vice President Biden’s attendance at dinners and talks on speakerphone with Hunter’s foreign business associates.
Voters may not care much about the shady dealings of a dissolute son.
But they will care if President Biden is shown to have lied about his knowledge of his son’s multi-million-dollar payments to Biden family members—and if Mr. Biden’s Justice Department blocked IRS and FBI investigators from learning the truth.
“I saw another of these “interpretative dramatisations” a while back, focussed on Catherine of Aragon.
Included in her entourage was a Muesli couple who, of course, were eminently trustworthy, wise beyond belief and totally above the scheming and back-biting engaged in by other courtiers.
Yes, Mueslis did “visit” Spain from time-to-time, but the idea that a devoutly Catholic Spanish Royal would have a Muesli in their inner circle is preposterous.”
Indeed, and this is another ahistorical fabrication which makes enrages me. There were NO Muesli couples in Catherine’s entourage. Jews and Mueslis had been expelled in 1492. Almost all Moors went to North Africa, primarily Morocco. There may have been one or two Marrano Jews, that is secret Jews, in Catherine’s entourage but they would have most certainly kept their Jewish rites to themselves whilst pretending to be Christians, or they possibly believed both in Judaism and Christianity (not uncommon among Marrano Jews, for example, they’d eschew eating pork or shellfish whilst professing belief in Jesus). Catherine herself had fairly close Jewish ancestry through her father Ferdinand, whose mother, a woman by the name of Juana Enriquez was, most historians agree, halachically Jewish.
As to the supposed “African” ancestry of Queen Charlotte and Catherine of Aragon, and the reason why some pseudo African American historians insist Charlotte, the northern German Mecklenburger princess, whose skin was whiter than white, had African ancestry, is because her features in some paintings look “African”. This is complete hogwash, offensive hogwash. Poor Charlotte was noted for her plain looks, however she was bright and had an inquiring mind, which is why George liked her, and the most important thing was that she was fertile, very fertile. She went on to have fifteen children! So, where does this blackwashing hogwash come from? Well, it’s based on the almost certain Jewish and Moorish ancestry of both women, note NOT sub-Saharan African ancestry, and this ancestry goes back to a 1300 or something when a Moorish women became the mistress of an Iberian King, and who had some children with him. Moors were not sub-Saharan Africans, their ancestry derives from Berber North Africa and parts of the middle east.
I will not indulge this blackwashing crap.
Wifey and I are having a week off on the NSW Mid-North Coast in a small holiday town. Nice winter weather, good ocean view and feeling quite relaxed after a busy first half of the year.
Two out of the three mornings here I have been woken up at 7.30am by small two-stroke engines of leaf blowers and hedge trimmers. Whatever happened to brooms and clippers?
I know many are looking to the skies for aircraft spreading chemtrails, but I reckon we are looking in the wrong place. I reckon that chem trails are being spread by leaf blowers. That innocuous farting sound of the engine is really speading noxious chemicals at ground level.
We’ve been duped. The leaf blowers are spreading contagion everywhere. You know it makes sense. Either that or I’m reading to much online.
Inflation goes down one way and one way only:
Cut spending
Cut taxes
Pay off the debt
Stop printing money
Accumulate gold & other precious metals
Allow for supply side reform & long term growth
End short term “plans” and “programmes” that distort the market
Surprisingly, these recommendations have been true for all time and proven with precision and accuracy as well as repeatability.
It’s almost as if supply and demand operate as scientific laws!
Hear, hear!
Bloke says he can make superconducting magnets in his backyard shed!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1684044616528453633.html
In passing, St Augustine was a Berber.
Not many people know that.
“Not many people know that.”
I knew.
Amish Girls at Work – Ohio coach speaks out after basketball brawl at Triton Central
From the Comments
– Same people same problems, how much you want to bet the r-word as in racism, is going to be their defense.
– It’s them again.
– Ooga-booga strikes again!
The attack occurred during the Next Level Classic in Fairland, Indiana, in a game between the Dynasty Sports Performance Heat from Owensboro, Kentucky and the Cincinnati Indians Elite.
WLWT-TV reported the coach of the opposing team, Bobby Ewing, said another coach threatened to shoot him in the parking lot (excerpt):
Ewing said it turned even more violent when players stomped on the referee.
“They had her on the ground. She was laying on the ground, and they were kicking her,” Ewing said.
Eventually, Ewing said the Cincinnati players were escorted out of Triton Central High School, where the tournament was held.
What he says he heard at that time was just as disturbing as what he saw.
“I get to the door where they’re getting escorted out, the other team from the ref, and I hear an assistant coach say, ‘I got five shots for you in the parking lot.’ I know what five shots in the parking lot mean. That’s a gun,” Ewing said.
“I saw another of these “interpretative dramatisations” a while back, focussed on Catherine of Aragon. Included in her entourage was a Muesli couple who, of course, were eminently trustworthy, wise beyond belief and totally above the scheming and back-biting engaged in by other courtiers.”
Did they secretly travel by magic carpet?
Chuckle.
Trying too hard. One for FBI Agent Dale Bart Cooper.
https://unwrappingtheplastic.com/2021/10/08/the-meaning-of-garmonbozia/
[I can’t believe only now I realised he was called D B Cooper…FMD! Damn you Lynch!]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Gary Varvel Cartoon – Tue, Jul 25, 2023 pretty good – liked the Barbie one as well
Back to chilly Meanjin from a month in balmy FNQ – and into the loving bosom of my family: “You can get rid of that beard, right now”.
Couple of days of Life Admin, then off with the bride to Unzud for a week’s skiing. (Always assuming that the NZ border is still open to Australians after Uncle Luigi’s historic meeting yesterday with the person who came after Professor Ardern.)
Swiss study: heart injuries from COVID vaccine 3000x higher than thought
It is a small study, but a very disturbing one.
We keep being told that injury to the heart from the COVID vaccine is very rare, but a study done in Basel Switzerland indicates that the rate of subclinical myocarditis after the COVID vaccine is hardly rare at all.
In fact, in a study with only 777 participants with a median age of 37–all medical professionals getting the COVID vaccine–the incidence of elevated cardiac enzymes 3 days after injection was pretty substantial, at almost 3%.
The CDC did a study and from that, they claimed the rate was 0.001%, or one out of 100,000.
2.8% is a lot higher than 0.001%. Another 0.3% had “probable myocarditis,” putting the total at over 3%. That is 3000 times higher than the US government claimed.
In this small study, nobody had serious complications, but with a myocarditis complication rate of 3%, you would have to expect that giving out hundreds of millions of doses is a pretty risky proposition.
I think we all knew that already, but this study seems to put the nail in the coffin of “vaccine injuries are super rare” from COVID-19 shots.
Oops. Who could have guessed?
One oddity was that the rate of myocarditis among the participants was heavily weighted toward women, not men.
That could be an artifact of the sample, or it could indicate that women are more likely to get a complication, but the complications are more likely to be serious among men.
A black Anne Boleyn! That’s nothing! The rats are redoing all of our Jane’s works with dusties in the lead roles. Imagine the howls if a bio of Martin Luther had a whitie in the lead role. End of times; go with the flow folks and keep a well stocked larder, tool shed and ammo and medicine box.
A litany of his failures.
One wonders if NZ can survive much more of him.
The fix was in for Hunter Biden — until a hero judge stepped up
By Andrew C. McCarthy
WHO IS JUDGE NOREIKA?
and
SPEAKING OF PHONY BALONEY
ITER should hire him.
ITER Fusion Energy Project: ‘Record-setting Disaster’ (25 Jul)
Given the vast capital cost even if the fuel is cheap any electricity such a beast could generate would be hopelessly uneconomic. Guys try a few scenic routes to fusion instead, like boron or lithium burning.
Sign of the times:
Tontine has a new quilt which it calls the “Energy Saver”, touting it as “designed to help save money on heating costs.”
Something to do with the fibres used.
It’s made in Australia too. Good for them!
Was Mike Pence a fifth columnist in the White House?
One of my oft-repeated statements is that it’s not the Democrats’ fault that Trump was unable to achieve so many of his goals and then failed to retake the White House.
Instead, it was the Republicans’ fault because so many constantly blocked him.
That’s why it’s easy to believe what Tucker Carlson told his official biographer, which is that one of those Republicans could have been his own Vice President.
It turns out that, during Tucker’s stint at CNN, he often interviewed Mike Pence.
Tucker spoke about that experience during no-holds-barred conversations with Chadwick Moore, his official biographer. Jordan Schachtal, having had access to a preview copy of the book, reports that Tucker intensely dislikes Pence and views him as a turncoat:
In discussing his tenure at CNN, Carlson recalled that Mike Pence was one of the most frequent guests booked on his program. Pence, who was a young, ambitious congressman at the time, was “creepy as hell” even then, Carlson says.
“I’ve been around him a lot, and always felt that he was a totally sinister figure, craven and dishonest,” he tells author Chadwick Moore. “Everything about Pence is false.”
Carlson tells the author that he believes Pence purposely sabotaged the Trump Administration over the entire course of his tenure.
He believes that the Pence insubordination campaign went into overdrive during the covid hysteria era, when he stood up the infamous White House Coronavirus Task Force, and delivered unprecedented power to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
While noting that this does not absolve President Trump from ultimate responsibility for his actions, Carlson perceives Pence’s role as someone deployed into the administration to “undermine Trump and to keep an eye on him.”
Tucker adds, correctly, that Trump is ultimately responsible for his own decision to abdicate responsibility to Pence and Fauci, but one must remember that, in the early months of 2020, there was very limited data, so Fauci’s “I am the science” persona seemed like a reliable policy source.
By the end of May, though, when the entire leftist establishment announced that masks, lockdowns, and social distancing didn’t apply to riots, the leftist jig was up, and any further reliance on Fauci and “the science” was foolhardy. But still, if Trump trusted Pence…
But that’s a specific issue. The real point is that Tucker, a man who has met and interacted with every high-profile Republican in America, thinks that Pence was a fifth-column activist.
That’s a very interesting issue.
It was the Vichy Republicans who hated Trump more than they could ever hate the left.
In this regard, sibling rivalries are always the worst. Just look at how Hitler’s fascists and Stalin’s communists, both children of socialism, hated each other and, after Hitler violated the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, sought to destroy each other.
In the first two years of his administration, Trump had a solid majority in Congress. He should have been able to achieve everything he wanted by working with Congress. Instead, the Vichy Republicans shot him down at every turn, from the border wall to ending Obamacare’s healthcare market perversions.
What should have been the most successful, pro-American presidency in modern history lasted only one term, and the Democrats were able to undo every single successful initiative…all because of Republicans.
It’s time to prosecute the prosecutors
A few years ago, the notion of an incumbent American president prosecuting his political opponent for so-called “crimes” involving the opponent’s speech would have shocked America’s conscience.
But no more. Once the shock value wears off, and once the wide gates of banana republicanism are thrown open, there’s no turning back. How ironic that Putin-obsessed Democrats are acting just like him.
Afraid your opponent might beat you at the polls? Is his rhetoric a little too hot to handle? No problem. Just prosecute him. The Russians, Venezuelans, and Cambodians do it. So why not the Democrats? The ends justify the means, say the Marxists.
The Democrats over the last eight years have pushed the envelope ever closer to the unthinkable. Never let a crisis go to waste, as Rahm Emmanuel famously advocated. The Democrats create their crises, and then create their own heavy-handed, unconstitutional solutions to the crises, with the ultimate aim always the same: more power.
In other words, set the fire, and then solve it by pouring on the gasoline.
So now, it’s banana republic prosecutions against the Republican frontrunner, on multiple, coordinated fronts. Note the timing here — not two years ago, but right before the election. What a coincidence!
By bringing these prosecutions, Smith and Garland are breaking federal law by violating the Hatch Act, which states that a federal “employee may not … use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.” But the unfortunate fact remains that few legal tools or weapons exist to hold rogue prosecutors accountable for these wild shenanigans.
Violators of the Hatch Act, for example, face a maximum $1,000 fine and debarment from working for the government for a maximum of five years. But does anybody think a thousand-dollar fine will deter Smith and Garland from their rabid anti-Trump fixation?
Come on.
Without criminal sanctions, the Hatch Act’s slap-on-the-wrist, “fine and ban” approach provides no real deterrent against prosecutors like Smith and Willis and their insatiable thirst for power.
If Dracula were a prosecutor, he’d be Jack Smith — a blood-sucking prosecutor whose goal isn’t just acquiring short-term political power, but the ultimate destruction of the Constitution, which, at least on paper, remains a theoretical barrier to totalitarianism
Smith and his banana republic prosecutions assault our constitutional republic and attack the Constitution itself. Their goal: to first criminalize Trump’s right to free speech, and then to criminalize ours.
No one, not even federal prosecutors, is above the law, and these political prosecutions of Trump based on his words, and nothing more, threaten us all.
Once they succeed in imprisoning Americans for words spoken in the political arena, our Constitution dies. We will have become Russia, Venezuela, and Cambodia.
Garland, Smith, Willis, and Bragg must understand that what goes around might eventually come around. With rogue prosecutor laws in place, a Republican attorney general might review their conduct one day.
To Speaker McCarthy and Republicans in Congress, pass rogue prosecutor laws to stop the lunacy. Do it now.
It’s time to prosecute the prosecutors.
The comments are good about Mike and obuma’s missing chef. Apparently he was giving mike head when obuma walked in and wanted some too. In the ensuing hissy spat the chef got impaled on obuma’s stilettos and they had to float him in the ocean to make it look like a shark attack.
Let’s ignore the fact that it is Bunter van Hiden for a moment.
Why are lenient plea deals entered into by prosecutors?
1. If the defendant can turn evidence against bigger fish in a criminal enterprise; or
2. To avoid costs of a lengthy trial whilst still achieving some penalty for criminal behaviour.
So what is the justification here?
Bunter certainly hasn’t flipped on anyone.
And the evidence is overwhelming so there is no realistic argument that this would be a lengthy trial, or significant risk of not securing a conviction.
Things that make you go ‘hmmmmm’.
Haha, Tom will like the New York Post’s front page today. Excellent work to whoever came up with the headlines!
Maybe Rheinmetall Borsig should’ve offered to build their gadget in the Defence Minister’s electorate.
I guess recent events elsewhere haven’t caused the Pongos to rethink the utility of mechanised infantry.
Sorry about the missing cartoons this morning. I’m now back online with a new laptop purchased this morning after the old one died.
‘Toons back tomorrow morning, working around Twitter which I can no longer use as Elon continues to clean the joint out.
It’s quite fun re-installing the old shortcuts without the rubbish I had been meaning to delete.
What was the mechanism of this …. did they use helium balloons to trigger the fire alarm somehow? … asking for a friend
Roger
Jul 27, 2023 10:06 AM
Moors were not sub-Saharan Africans, their ancestry derives from Berber North Africa and parts of the middle east.
In passing, St Augustine was a Berber.
Not many people know that.
Not many people know that – Sir Michael Caine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFpP_GSCwo
LOL
Behold! The granny blanket.
Thanks, Tom.
Could you imagine if the converse were done? (No, I couldn’t either.)
It wouldn’t happen in this day and age, but a white person playing, say, an historical black or Asian person?
The left would suffer a collective apoplectic fit from outrage.
Sorry if posted earlier, Andrew Bolt:
Dot:
If he can do that, it would be the greatest engineering feat of the last 100 years – but I would like to see some evidence. Real evidence, not Woke evidence.
It looks like it’s impossible nowadays to get a Primary School teaching job in the Catholic School system if you highlight your Catholic practice in your resume. The people making the decisions are not Catholics and they don’t like practicing Catholics.
Maybe ask the Mormons. Ancestry did some of my family, and were right on the money to like 7 generations ago.
@ Cassie of Sydney:
We were in Cirencester (Gloucestershire) a few weeks ago and revisited the Parish Church in the Market Place. On display is the Boleyn Cup, which was given to Queen Anne Boleyn in 1535 by King Henry VIII. It was donated to the Cirencester Parish Church by Dr. Richard Masters, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I.
Ancestry.com can’t do it, Bruce. At best a portion of the result comes back as indeterminate. If you have documentary or other evidence of descent, you can deduce that that is the proportion of your DNA that is possibly inherited from the native Australian population. Iirc, this is the case with Tasma Walton, the actress who pulled out of a nasty court case over a land claim in VIC recently. Her DNA was c. 93% northern European and c. 7% indeterminate.
Winston – the photo at the end is the evidence, if it isn’t fake. Superconductors exclude magnetic fields, which is why they levitate. Of course you can do the same with like to like magnetic poles (eg. N-N) but that is unstable and the magnets flip and stick.
I have an open mind though. There’s marginal superconductivity and then there’s actually industrially useful superconductivity. Still we are now using “high” temperature superconductors of the La-Ba-Cu-O family for real world high power grid applications in certain cases, even though they have to be kept cool with liquid nitrogen.
I remember reading a few years ago of Tony Blair giving a speech in front of an African group – which we know is code for black African.
He spoke of all the great contributions that Africans (black Africans being understood) had made to Europe (or civilisation or something) and cited St Augustine as an example.
I remember thinking “You are either ignorant or dishonest.” It was a false dichotomy, of course. Politicians tend to be both. (In fact there would seem to be third, as yet isolated, element that makes politicians’ promises and opinions more egregious than normal pig-ignorant liars.)
Anyway, the fact that he could not rattle of any sub-Saharans spoke volumes.
He described his methods, what do you want, mail-order superconducting magnets?
You mean the bishops?
[sarc]
I don’t suppose he mentioned facilitating the slave trade.
What was the speechy thingy with the helper mouthing the words in unison?
In the U.S., to qualify for certain benefits available only to native Americans, among other things you must pass a DNA test.
It doesn’t seem to be a problem there.
Is the left afraid of exposing faux-aborigines as frauds, in it for the money or other benefits?
Roger – Must be an issue with aboriginal DNA matching then, because they picked up my old mum’s slight African heritage at about 3%. Which we knew from family tree stuff.
Hugh Thomas’ monumental work on the slave trade makes the point that not a single slave would ever have left Africa without the active connivance of the African kings and tribal chiefs who were prepared to sell their own subjects into slavery.
Russian advance, Combat Veteran Reacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W05Ln5qqZ1k
Yes…the database is too small & the DNA sequence is a long way from being mapped.
It’s interesting to do these analyses but why the assumption that a person’s identity is in their genes? I’d prefer a behavioral analysis. How often do they go to a corroboree? Do they perform welcome to country every time someone enters their property and how much to they charge the visitors? When was the last time they killed a kangaroo? Can they do knapping and thus create microliths? Does their boomerang come back?
The pussyfooting around all this is rather funny, especially since the Dems actually impeached Trump based a verifiedly fake MSM story, in WaPo I think.
McCarthy: Biden case will ‘rise to impeachment’ as 16 Romanian payments allegedly went to ‘shell companies’ (25 Jul)
Which led to a nice opening for the Bee…
McCarthy Says 783rd Impeachable Offense By Biden Will Be The Last Straw (25 Jul)
They’re awesome! Must be nice to be an elite lefty, you can get away with absolutely anything.
These people are taking the piss.
Michael Caine in “Dressed to kill” springs to mind.
KLee
Yes, as most of them are firmly of the left..
PS, political power is one of the greatest benefits being sought.
And the “whiter” activists will move heaven and earth to make sure it is never mapped accurately.
Have they been initiated? In some cases, the evidence is easy to display. Cicatrices or sub-incision, or both.
Here’s the thing…at 3% that African DNA* will probably drop out of your mum’s descendants’ DNA profile, leaving only the family tree documentation to prove it.
* I.e. DNA markers linking your mum to certain populations that originated in Africa.
Transgender Women’s Soccer Player Outed On Free Kick
Saddened but not surprised by news of Sinead O’Connor’s suicide. She fairly clearly had severe and recurring mental health issues and inner demons, which I think are a better explanation for much of her controversial public conduct (relative to the ‘she’s only doing it for the publicity/ shock value’).
In addition, it’s a reasonable inference to make that people who frequently change religions are likely to be unfulfilled at a fundamental level.
I’ve always wanted to do something like the Ancestry.com DNA test but I don’t trust any of those companies with my genetic information.
Daily Mail.
Roger – I’ve got the Ancestry report somewhere. I think it was 1% each Senegal, Benin and Ghana from memory. My gt^5 granny was a slave who bore 8 kids to the Scots sugar plantation owner. As you do. They were basically married, except you couldn’t do that then.
End Democrats starting a second civil war before it begins
Liberals prosecute, persecute Trump and his advisers
Roughly half of Republicans and over one-third of Democrats believe our country is on the brink of civil war. If such an unthinkable war breaks out, it will be the Democrats’ fault.
In their quest for power, radical elements within the Democratic Party have abandoned any pretense of fairness, tolerance and justice. In their “woke” new world, Democratic strategists use unscrupulous tactics to skew our election system even as weaponized bureaucracies like the Department of Justice, FBI, and National Archives now under Democratic control seek to destroy the Republican Party and its de facto leader, former President Donald Trump.
For more than 200 years, Americans lived in a world of paper ballots with strict ID and signature match procedures where only legal votes counted.
Today, through bends in the law and sleight of hand by Democratic secretaries of state, Democrats have created a “stuff the ballot box” world where absentee and mail-in voting, universal voting, automatic voter registration, drop boxes, ballot harvesting and relaxed signature match procedures have blown open the doors to fraud.
The Democrats’ persecution and prosecutions of Mr. Trump and his advisers are equally toxic to our democracy. Never did I imagine in January 2017, when I entered the White House to serve my country, that virtually everyone I would share a foxhole with — along with the president himself — would be assaulted with indictment after indictment and subpoena after subpoena, not just by DOJ but also by big-city prosecutors and blue state attorneys general.
The Democrats’ lawfare goal is to convict Mr. Trump of anything that will prevent him from running for president or serving if he wins.
As Stalin’s deputy premier Beria once boasted: “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
Barring such a conviction, President Biden’s hit men, with names like Merrick Garland and Jack Smith, hope to bury Mr. Trump in enough mud to sour the electorate on him.
This withering assault on my former boss constitutes unlawful election interference at best and seditious conspiracy at worst.
In the case of Mr. Trump’s advisers and closest aides, some are being pressured with threats of prison to turn on Mr. Trump.
Some are facing threats to their livelihood: For example, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Jeff Clark all face disbarment by Democratic-controlled bar associations.
All of us are being buried in massive legal fees, with this burden cynically designed to silence us in the public arena and siphon money from Republican donors that might otherwise be spent on winning back Congress and the White House.
Meanwhile, to put an exclamation point on this unprecedented use of America’s now dual system of injustice, the gun-toting, foreign influence-peddling Hunter Biden, along with a long list of Democrats involved in the Russia hoax and other efforts to overthrow the Trump presidency, remain free of legal scrutiny.
Of course, none of this unprecedented political violence is really about Mr. Trump or his advisers.
As Mr. Trump himself has rightly said, the Democrats are really coming for you — we Trump folks are just in the way.
Peter Navarro served as former President Donald Trump’s manufacturing czar and chief China strategist
Gez, earlier:
That assembled muppetry fails to comprehend that full 75% or more place names in this country are indig-derived.
They seem to have no problem mispronouncing place names like ‘Malvern’, ‘Toorak’ or ‘Camberwell’ though.
They should be kept at hard labor, in chains, on the Burrup, for the rest of their lives.
Julie Bishop, a towering intellect of Australian politics, opines:
Smart lady; you’d have to get up pretty early in the afternoon to pull the wool over her eyes.
Couple of questions:
1) Unless you know something different, the Voice is designed to “make representations to parliament” – and expressly not “make decisions” or “implement policies“. So what sort of franchise do you think you are advocating?
2) If you disenfranchise politicians from “coming up with policies“, how is the machinery of government going to operate?
3) As you probably know, the National Agreement on Closing the Gap is informed by 80 indigenous peak groups, representing some 800 indigenous organizations. How have they failed and exactly how will a Voice, drawn from the same ranks, do any better?
Thank you.
Yes.
They turn themselves inside out giving us the correct pronunciation of Kyyy-yeeev (capital of Ukraine) or Turky-yeyeye or some Muesli war-lord, yet they butcher Aboriginal place names.
Why are they so racist?
I can remember when rogue hardware trader Frank Penhalluriack was in the news for … gasp … opening on Sundays.
Their ABC came up with more and more slurping and gurgling sounds in the pronunciation every day, imagining it to be some sort of exotic European name.
It is English, and pretty much pronounced phonetically.
Always choose to live honourably. Great thread.
SpaceX Super Heavy due to launch in 10 minutes. Live feed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_CJtncLBU
The Kursk was a good one for bringing out the cosmopolitan sophisticates among the talking haircuts when they added in the faux Russian accent. The accent that probably makes them sound to a native Russian speaker like a Greek fruiterer hawking bananas does to us.
Drat, launch aborted at t minus one minute.
Tasmin should get retested, seeing as her test was done in 2018.
AncestryDNA® has updated its ethnicity estimate reference panel so customers will now have the ability to see a possible genetic connection with the Indigenous communities of Australia.
English or Cornish?
But not Noel Pearson, obviously.
He’s had millions and millions for the Aurukan and achieved what?
Tim Mathieson – so what’s the story? Victim details seem extremely hush hush, destined for the forgettory.
Craig Kelly defeats AEC lawsuit over election posters
I’m not a huge fan of Kelly’s love affair with fat Bastard, but I wholly agree with him on this issue (no doubt an enormous relief to him):
Behaving unreasonably and wasting OPM clearly doesn’t matter a jot or tittle to the bastards of the Administrative State. So personal career damage is the only effective remaining sanction to control future bastardry.