Cope!I never said ….A few days ago, you incorrectly hit me with the accusation that I’m recycling phrases. Meanwhile, you’re…
Open Thread – Weekend 12 Aug 2023
- Hydrocarbons are not dispensable
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- Report on Russia and Ukraine
- Open Thread – Mon 2 Sept 2024
That is a very concise travelogue!
Probably fearful that people with red-green colour blindness would mistake green for red. Which would be understandable of course.
The Houthis still got the Saudis to the negotiating table because .. The Saudi’s haven’the stomache or inclination for a…
If the Houthis tried this on Israel , hundreds of planes would appear over Yemen inside 24 hours to carpet…
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob.
I’m punishing the single malt, and reading “Operation Thunderbolt- Flight 139 and the raid on Entebbe Airport.”
Don’t ever fvck with the Joos….
We shouldn’t discuss that here.
It’s not safe.
They aren’t like they used to be. Then it was like each soldier was a commando or something. Not like now. Netanyahu’s elder brother cocked up the raid by being inhumane in a way that messed up the tactical logic of the operation . Still they pulled it off despite his stupidity. This interpretation of what happened courtesy of Mookie Betser.
My soshuls from France tell me that the Australian goalie was ‘off her line’ all evening.
Not sure, but I take it that means nous avons été cambriolés.
Awaiting industrial scale whinging from the Pom brigade after the penalty shootout on Wednesday.
They are on the way out these guys. People seem all powerful for a long time. Like the Venetian Empire. These things can last a long time, not for all time. They are getting closed up from all sides and the Americans are now too dysfunctional to stop them going down in a catastrophe.
But you still are, Graeme.
And the first thing I would like to say is …
I’m sorry, would you be good enough to post coherently, and in the English language? Thank you, in anticipation.
but what about the mongols?
Bird – if you’re going to blunder on in under a new identity (again) try to restructure your sentences so they are not so easy to detect.
For goodness’ sake.
However, don’t be afraid to overlook my upcoming economics posts.
Fractional reserve banking will not be covered until much later.
Tell zulu why my wording is so crap tonight. They were supposed to sail in and salute the guard and just keep going. He fixed a silencer to his pistol with an impromptu decision to kill the guard outside of the logic of the plan. So as the guard fell he shot off his machine gun which alerted the hostage takers to the raid. Totally idiotic action. They pulled it off and the fool was killed. It would gone easier without him.
Genghis was a white guy. The Mongols were weaponised herders, likely financed through the Venetian Empire. We at least must suspect such a thing when these types suddenly form a united force. LIke the Arabs or the Huns. That has to be the first presumption.
You’ve proven your own point. Thanks for playing,. Good night.
Willem Birdkamp:
Surely the Yamnya would have sorted them out.
Or the Black Prince.
The 6 part series with Sir Alec Guinness as Smiley is the best – ever. Tinker Tailor comes to life, with all the egos and betrayals. Epic acting.
So hard to type with a broken keyboard. Tomorrow I will get a new one.
I did not see the flick yet surely it would come as a disappointment after the fantastic tele series.
Casting Peter Guillam as a homo (Cumberbatch) was a disgrace to the novel.
Midazolam Murders: NICE guideline NG163 was used to cull the elderly
Anyone who had random Bird strike on their weekend multi looking pretty good right now. How’s your Dad?
Pelham
@Resist_05
Googles new censorship tool has been enabled so the WEF/UN can control what you see… anything against Covid-19, vaccines, climate change… will be wiped from the servers.
Jack Straw
@JackStr42679640
Notice the flashes in this #MauiFire Clip…this is not normal!
Its those pesky Amish that control Google. Always getting in our shit.
An Amish wife will make you 7 kids …. put a phone in the house that drops to 5.
That flash in the smoke is a power line shorting.
Wait till we have thousands and thousands of new lines for renewables. What could possibly go wrong.
Indolent at 11:22 pm.
I have read about thunderstorms happening in the wake of bushfires. Too late at night to find any links.
Farmer Gez at 11:32 pm:
That too…
The ending of this clip evokes memories. A rave at the Gnangara pine plantation in Perth. We were all standing at the front of His Majesty’s Theatre and got the directions for the event when a chick jumped out of taxi and handed out flyers. Very well dressed people exiting the joint were asking us what is all the fuss about.
Join us! They didn’t. The traffic entering the joint the was like this scene at the end. We spent a good portion of the night pushing out bogged drivers.
Field of Dreams – Playing Catch (High Quality)
I look forward to these with great anticipation. See if you can get me a special license to comment on your series.
Paul Wallee and the Yams, Cats:
Willem Pasterkamp
What should be done with the Russian Orthodox Church?
Life is good.
Got my one year old puppy snoring on my feet.
Collingwood won.
Albo is gay.
Voice is Alboed. Which means ferrked.
As I said. Life is good!
Bird – to you it will be just econ 101.
The posts will examine the basics of two economic hypotheses.
Heaven or Las Vegas
Willem Pasterkamp
The Dutch crushed the English back then.
Tell the good people.
Calli
We’re going round the eastern Med, in September next year.
As for cabins or staterooms, I think ours is called … what is it now … oh, yes — steerage.
Loved Onslow complaining about having dinner at the Captain’s Table.
“Ten thousand quid for tickets — and we’ve still got to eat with the crew!”
Barking Toad,
I’ll see your “life is good” and raise you a “Free at Last, Free at Last, God Almighty, Free at Last!”
I have been waiting to say that for months.
The New Imperialism: World Bank Denies Uganda Funding Over Homosexuality Law
The Week in Pictures: Penalty Kick Schadenfreude Edition
“What should be done with the Russian Orthodox Church?”
We could join it I suppose.
Willem Pasterkamp
Aug 12, 2023 11:29 PM
Most of them actually do have a phone in the house, some even mobile phones.
Week In Pictures.
Thanks, Zatara @2.15am.
Piers Akerman:
The terrorist coup regime running this war from Washington are out of options. Fascinating to see what these criminals will come up with next.
Vivek Ramaswamy has lost any chance he had at gaining the Republican nomination.
He stated he would Pardon the Biden Crime Family if he were President because, healing the divide etc.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/08/12/vivek-ramaswamy-says-hes-considering-giving-a-pardon-to-hunter-biden-other-biden-family-members-n791734
Good to see him again … he’s also been de-banked.
Paul Weston:
Paul Weston – The West Is Heading Toward Dictatorship
An excellent WIP, no wonder it’s posted twice! Thanks Zat and Tom.
Personal favourite..
– assault stove
Also the reference to my favourite prog rockers. Also, while the study of Daffy may give deep insights into English literature, I attribute my love of classical music to early exposure to Bugs Bunny and Elmer.
For those interested in such things – the next season of Archer hits Netflix on the 25th.
First season without Malory.
I believe we will no longer be manufacturing bog roll in Australia due to ridiculous energy costs.
What happens if we have another plandemic? 🙂
Upside – Daigu Go Home. We have nothing of value for you. Not even something to wipe your bums with.
Another factoid…the Beloved was in Officeworks the other day to buy a box of Reflex bond. None to be had. Apparently the factory has closed down several weeks ago due to proximity to koalas or some such. The result – imported muck that is 70 not 80gsm, sold as “Bond” but no longer actually Bond.
It’s transitioning to “Bank”. A sign of the times. Even paper is dysmorphic.
Greg Craven interests me. Is he a Christian man of good intent caught up in a political web of lies, or is he a bald-faced liar all on his own?
If he is the former, he has to distance himself from the Yes spruikers as far as he can, regardless of his decades of advocacy and work on behalf of the indigenous. Better to lose a lifetime of honest work than to be associated with an almighty swindle.
Otherwise, unfortunately, he falls into the second camp by default.
Who has orchestrated this? Do we know the foreign component of this attempted usurpation? Who are the money men getting this thing off the ground?
Top o’ the mornin’ to you GB!
Those…money men. It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Energy costs are hollowing out our manufacturing, that’s clear from any rational observation but our governments are neither observant or rational.
I believe we will no longer be manufacturing bog roll in Australia due to ridiculous energy costs.
The malicious incompetence of the political class just leaves you speechless.
Friends are booked on that cruise and excitedly looking forward to it.
Thank you to all who responded to my devon question, I will try to look for it in IGA just for nostalgia’s sake.
As it was referenced in WIP, here’s something from the old Carthusians.
Wake up!
Assimilation is a concept that is no longer heard, & certainly not promoted by any government authority, let alone any Aboriginal organisation. Yet it is the one concept that has any real chance of solving the immense challenge of providing Aboriginal youth in remote areas with the opportunities for work and a decent life that urban Aboriginal youth have.
But Assimilation requires the abandonment of the fiction that traditional life is either desirable or even possible in contemporary Australia. This is the “conversation” that needs to be had. But it is forbidden territory in this addled society we live in today.
Greg Craven interests me. Is he a Christian man of good intent caught up in a political web of lies, or is he a bald-faced liar all on his own?”
I think what’s worse about Craven and Leeser is that they are both on record saying they believe Sleazy’s Voice proposal to be too radical and divisive, yet both have said that they will still vote for it. I find that utterly scandalous, but something worse, it’s dangerous.
Who could forget the great bog roll wars of 2020!
On a more serious note, this country is rapidly being deindustrialised.
Manufacturing left long ago
Don’t use google to search. Completely biased and WEF controlled. Use Startpage or Yandex etc
And that is why it is anathema.
Assimilation is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Many must suffer so that some may benefit.
For Cassie.
Seriously though, if we can’t manufacture something as basic as loo paper, we’re done and dusted.
“yet both have said that they will still vote for it.” That reminds me of the gay marriage referendum. People would offer some criticism then quickly add that they will vote for it. Spooky. This was ahead of them ramping up the suite of policies to support child mutilation. We don’t know where these things fit into their Satanic plots. One minute you are pondering their pronouns campaign, not knowing it was all pointing to chopping up children.
The media seems to have confused a semi final with a final.
Offside by a mile.
Why do I watch the ABC???? This morning the announcer referred to the Women’s Soccer match being held at Brisbane Meanjin! Who authorises this ?
Karl Marx.
They are ramping up their efforts for some reason.
You know, if this is true, it confirms two things to me, firstly that the “Voice” isn’t popular, even in so called “wealthy Teal electorates” and secondly, I reckon many if not all of the Teals will be “one hit wonders”. Having said that, here’s my caveat, I don’t trust polls.
Libs research shows strong No vote in teal suburbs
Fears that Peter Dutton’s rejection of a Voice to parliament may have blown up his chances at reclaiming ‘teal’ seats may be unfounded.
Fears that Peter Dutton’s rejection of a Voice to parliament may have blown up his chances at reclaiming “teal” seats at the next federal election may be unfounded, with Liberal Party research showing the No vote ahead in teal seats.
The research, commissioned by senior Liberal members, follows separate polling conducted in the teal-held seat of Kooyong last month, which also showed that voters were divided.
The two separate polls conducted in the teal-held Sydney seats of Wentworth and Warringah in July, and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, showed that most voters in the traditionally progressive electorates were preparing to vote against the Voice.
In the seat of Wentworth, held by independent Allegra Spender, a poll of 500 voters conducted on July 1 showed 47 per cent of voters planned to vote No, with 34 per cent indicating that they would support the Voice.
The poll showed the remaining 19 per cent said they did not know how they would vote.
Slightly more men than women indicated they would be voting No, with 48 per cent of male respondents indicating they would reject the proposal compared with 46 per cent of female respondents.
The No vote was strongest in the 55- to 64-year-old age group, with 50 per cent indicating they would reject a Voice to parliament, 40 per cent voting Yes and 10 per cent declaring they did not know.
Over in Warringah, separate research conducted by KJC Research last month as part of a broader questionnaire, but which included two questions about a Voice to parliament, also showed strong support for the No vote.
However, the poll of nearly 700 voters specified they were against a change to the Constitution. Asked whether they supported “recognising Indigenous Australians as Australia’s first peoples”, 55 per cent of voters said “yes”, 37 per cent said “no” and 8 per cent responding “don’t know”.
On the question of whether they approved “altering the Australian Constitution to specifically establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?”, 56 per cent of voters said No, 38 per cent said Yes and 6 per cent said “don’t know”. Comparing men and women, 59 per cent of female respondents said No compared with 53 per cent of male voters.
The Liberals have been desperate to reclaim Warringah since the prized former blue-ribbon seat was snatched from former prime minister Tony Abbott by teal independent Zali Steggall.
Some Liberals have privately raised concerns Mr Dutton’s strong stance against the Voice may deliver him a tactical win against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should it fail, but hamper him strategically in the long-term bid to reclaim some of the “teal” seats lost at the past two elections.
Hmm, I live in Wentworth and nobody has ever asked me for my opinion on da Voice. I’m not surprised to read that polling is showing more men plan to vote no, it confirms my lowly opinion of most women (apart from Cat women, my mother, my sister and some others). Am I being too hard on the female sex? Perhaps, but I think da Voice is sinking even among many Labor voters, I was talking to a member of my family, who’s quite left, and she plans to vote NO.
However, in some more good news, I seem to have frightened away the Voice spruikers from the streets of Paddington and Woollahra. I’m like a street sweeper when it comes to dealing with moronic Vote spruikers, almost all of whom happen to be elderly, well-heeled Wentworth women. Over the last two Saturdays I’ve noticed the Voice spruikers are missing in action from the streets of Paddo and Woollahra. Perhaps the Liberals need to thank Cassie of Sydney!
calli at 7:17
It’s a pretty marginal exercise at the best of times although volume saves a lot of paper and cardboard products. Hence we export wood chips (till that gets shut down as well).
I have to say – last night’s match lived up to the hype. I am not a great soccer fan, & have been quite sceptical about the women’s version. I watched the Sweden v Japan match & was converted by the amazing skill of the players. And last night’s match? What can I say? Stunning! Amazing fitness, great skill ……& what heart!
“Why do I watch the ABC???? “
Vicki, you need to STOP watching the ABC.
Cassie – love the thought that you are terrorising the feeble minded Voice floggers in the streets of Paddo! Go girl!
The apartheid referendum campaign in a nutshell by Piers Akerman:
Thankfully — luckily — the opinion polls are telling us a majority of Australian voters are a wake-up to the attempted swindle — a triumph for democracy, which most of those who rule over us are trying to destroy.
I believe we will no longer be manufacturing bog roll in Australia due to ridiculous energy costs.
Oh dear! .. if true that’s gonna result in lotza jerb losses in Fairfield .. two of Oz’s biggest producers have large manufacturing plants in the Smithfield industriaL estate ..
What Vivek said:
So, after abolishing the FBI, and after cleaning out the DOJ, and after pardoning any victims of political persecution including J6 protestors and Trump, then he would be ready to entertain pardons for Biden (who will likely be dead in a few years) his dissolute son (who will be without means with his father gone and swamp creatures trying to escape notice by a rejuvenated DOJ), and these pardons not for the Biden’s’ sake but American unity.
The headline is misleading.
As President, given the choice between calming divisions within America or pursuing the Biden’s at the risk of inflaming divisions then the former is more important than the latter. And considering a pardon really just means not guaranteeing (at this moment) tossing dotard Dad and slimy debauched crackhead son in the clink.
I detest the Bidens. The mean-spirited child-sniffing geriatric and drug-wrecked leech of a son deserve such punishments as will strike fear even in the hearts of kids thinking to steal a biscuit from the bikkie tin. But this might be Vivek’s idea on how to break an increasingly destructive cycle.
It is not the ‘making peace with the swamp’ the headline hints at.
“a triumph for democracy, which most of those who rule over us are trying to destroy.”
Yep, including many so called stupid f*cking Liberals.
Vicki, when you meet with Tim James, the current state Liberal member for Willoughby, ask him the following question….
“Does he support Mark Sleazeman’s Voice stance? If James says yes, tell him you won’t vote for him, and tell him you know lots of disenchanted Liberals who have no intention of voting for a Labor lite party”.
I’m sorry, but the stupid spineless Liberals need to hear some plain speaking, enough beating around the bush!
I may have to go back to buying the Australian.
From memory, they were going to lose 70 jobs. It may have been one plant, but I expect high energy costs will see a flow on effect in others.
It’s all a numbers game – if you can manufacture offshore more cheaply, you will. Sell the factory space and pocket the profits. As for the wokkas – learn to code.
Albo crowing about the Chinese dropping the 80% tariff on our barley.
The Chinese sell us all the solar panels, lots of wind components and are set to become the landlords over great swathes of rural Australia thanks to renewable energy projects.
The sites for renewables are called project areas and are far greater in size than needed for the installations. One site west of Warracknabeal is 26,500 ha but only 1350 ha are needed for actual equipment. The silly buggers who sign these Faustian deals don’t realise that the balance of the land is now under company control and is effectively leased.
They can build more renewables, construct yards, roads, dumps and site other facilities on the land without regulatory recourse for the landholder.
Unhappy?
The land owner can then try their hand at taking a multi billion dollar company to court. The $30,000 per turbine won’t go far.
Energy costs will transform what gets manufactured in Australia. Until recently energy was one of Australia’s comparative advantages. Nobody would say that anymore. You don’t end up with major alumina and aluminium smelting operations unless that is the case.
Oops.
Flying Taxi Suffers “Significant Structural Damage” In Crash (12 Aug)
Fortunately the battery didn’t go up, or they’d’ve had a lot of trouble putting it out. I don’t know how big the battery is, but it’s quite a large aircraft, so for any sort of range there’d have to be many times bigger than a Tesla.
Electric aeroplanes is right up there as one of the stupidest ideas coming out of the climate rubbish.
Flying taxis? They don’t happen until 2263.
Please refer to the handy ready reckoner in this weeks WIP.
“Bloomberg confirmed Vertical Aerospace’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft crashed earlier this week, forcing the startup to suspend test flights until regulators complete an investigation.”
We really should make it an industrial quantity campaign against irrationality as such. In all aspects of society. The irrationality started in physics and colonised the rest of life. We should lose our tolerance of it. To think that “the nothing” (as in the film) has now reached the startup entrepreneur with great engineering skills. We need to cut it off at the root. Or its just mouse utopia for us.
Hawaiian fires were turbo charged by non native grasses that now cover land that was once farmed for plantations and grazing. Farming has declined dramatically in Hawaii over recent decades.
These grasses were introduced to the former farmland as ground cover. Is anyone asking property developers questions about land management?
Investor fires.
Why do I watch the ABC????
good question- we know what they are like and what they are about. They are hostile to Australia and productive people. They are also completely out of control- they do what ever they feel like with a bottomless pit of OPM. I’ve read there are two factions in that contemptible organisation- an ALP faction and a greens faction.
Pogria
He’s just blown any chance of President or even a VP straight out his arse.
The same as De Santis – they think they can win by calling in the middle ground. Unable to read a room outside of the Washington ring road.
“Hawaiian fires were turbo charged by non native grasses that now cover land that was once farmed for plantations and grazing. Farming has declined dramatically in Hawaii over recent decades.”
Look at that. The answer is right there in the same sentence. We need cattle to graze grasses to the ground periodically. They should oxidise the grass inside them. Not letting them oxidise outside and present a fire risk and a soil degradation issue.
I’ve got 400 sheep in the house block grazing the abundant, El Nino defiant, green grass.
I’ve had a fire burn right up to our grazed yard and it lost all kick once it hit that zone and finally died out on my fire ploughed breaks.
Grazed land takes away the explosive energy of a big fire.
It is not just that Meanjin is the name used by indigenous people for the bend in the river when that was all it was, but it was the name used by an amazingly small number of them.
Aborigines from most parts of Australia would not have heard of it. The ones around what is now Perth would not even have known such geography even existed. Same for those in what is now NSW. In fact, most in QLD. Possibly even most within the language group.
So…we have the name known by just about every Australian beginning to be edged out by one used by a few hundred people at a time in the past and even fewer now.
The ABC really is the clubhouse for Australia’s oldest undergrads.
“Grazed land takes away the explosive energy of a big fire.”
When its bankers running the economy you can get this anti-methane idiocy messing us up. People so stupid they think grazing animals aren’t necessary for nature. If the grass is grazed regularly its either short or long and green. Not fire material.
Dunno if it’s been mentioned yet, Malcolm Roberts latest video from last night.
Calli:
It was on the web a month or so ago – the reason was high electricity prices.
Koalas weren’t mentioned then.
Sydney Morning Herald:
It is quite fascinating thinking about Chinese strategy. They are hell bent on encouraging Australia to establish a fragile, expensive (they get the profits) energy system, and buying farmland ( to feed themselves).
Therefore, when they take us over, they will inherit a failing country with no prospects
for manufacturing, no major transport system to get our primary products out of the country back to China where they want them. The Chinese will need to be in charge of our ports ( come on in, Unions), and shipping. Well I suppose they have enough freight shipping. I also expect the wharf Unions will be happy to be paid off, they are not on the side of Australia in the main. We will not be able to provide to the Chinese very much petroleum for their activities, and by the time they “invade” or take over, there will be no aluminium production. I could go on, just idly imagining various scenarios.
Heh. Don’t believe everything you’re told at Officeworks.
Or…the koalas make an interesting environmental distraction. Either way, we’ve lost a quality manufacturer.
Translation: Some Bob Hawke folksey goodness might rub off on my loathsome little carcass.
This epitomises Australian government decision-making. A wild ‘plucked-out-of-my-arse’ airswing – covered by OPM and someone else taking delivery responsibility.
Another reason why you should never buy an EV.
California Moves to Confiscate Power from Your Electric Car Battery (12 Aug)
It’d be slightly difficult for the government, by comparison, to sneak into your garage and siphon petrol out of your ICE car. And I’d bet they’d find a way to pay you less for the electricity they’ve extracted than it cost you to put in it in the first place. Even if the price was exactly the same, efficiency losses at the very least would eat into your pocket a fair bit.
Superb.
Craven is a papal knight terrified of being seen as Not Nice in Catholic circles.
Unless you are talking about isolated pockets of very inhospitable country all land has been transformed in some way by human actions. Whether periodic burning to create grasslands from scrub, seasonal hunting of animals, grazing or more intensive agriculture. All ecosystems, given enough time and freedom from human influence, would reach some form of equilibrium state. By definition humans could not live in most of them.
Albanese: I issue you a challenge!
If a public holiday is a win for small business, I challenge you to make small business into really big winners. Declare that every year there shall be 365 public holidays.
The winning! The activity it would spur! The sunlit uplands of prosperity that would follow!
Electrical cars are fundamentally anti-social. Good if it retreats to an enthusiast only product.
John Howard would reach for the khaki and look for a nearby Hercules. Albo has found the Bob Hawke dress up box but the media aren’t playing along.
Pride month had some weird ads.
A bisexual Gecko telling gays to run red lights and get into accidents with cops.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WcPDnEPYFhg?feature=share
hzhousewife you reminded of a an old mate who worked, if that can be what it was called, in the union at the local port. He used to be a semi skilled labourer. His old man worked at the port. My mate was waiting for a position to come available, filling dead mens shoes. When his father retired he would take over his job. Someone else retired and didn’t have a son to fill the position and he was next in line. We would catch up occasionally. He told me about one time when they slept in. Such was the influence of the union the local council bus pulled up outside to pick them up. Not for his or his father’s benefit. His mother cooked in the union facility and the place would close down if no meals available.
Who invited Hunter Biden into the business world of the Ukraine somwhere around 2014?
Was it the Bidens themselves who tried to enter the gas business or what?
For the then vice president of the US’ son to go so far away to try and get rich, is strange.
What would an ordinary US guy know about the economy of a smallish country thataway.
The connection with the president of the US is a strange one.
There must be much more to it.
Some $100 billion has been spent with only only death as a sad result?
Meanwhile
Burisma was told to remove picture of Joe Biden and Devon Archer from its website, emails show
Residents of Melbourne’s leafy suburbs and their councils are to be blocked from lodging objections to medium density housing.
A harbinger of what’s to come at the National Cabinet’s housing summit?
Tucker Carlson Interviews Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund About January 6th – Remarkable Revelations About DHS, FBI and DoD Proactive Intent
August 12, 2023 | Sundance
I was most disappointed the superannuated boomer hippy screeech spruikers weren’t out the front of the train station on Friday morning.
Giving collectivists a piece of your mind is a very enjoyable way to start the day.
Ron DeSantis Heckled So Much at Iowa Fair Gov Kim Reynolds Had to Ask People to be Nice to Him
August 12, 2023 | Sundance
Today was a not very good, horrible day for the DeMeatball in Iowa. While President Trump was swamped with people cheering and trying to get an autograph, the absentee governor from the Sunshine state was running the gauntlet through crowds shouting, “we love Trump” and calling the lying liar who lies, “pudding fingers.” lol ?
The optics were so bad, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a DeSantis supporter and campaign advocate, had to beg people in attendance to stop yelling at the sensitive guy from Florida, and be “Iowa nice.” However, while the GOP may define “Iowa nice” as the powdered wig sensibility of country club republicanism and given the nature of our national crisis driven by the ‘reach-across-the aisle’ mannerism it represents, the attending audiences were a little more deliberate in disregarding the instructions.
Yes, this is a new era of MAGA republicanism, where the base voter understands the stakes and fights like the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s ark.
“Residents of Melbourne’s leafy suburbs and their councils are to be blocked from lodging objections to medium density housing.
A harbinger of what’s to come at the National Cabinet’s housing summit?”
Could those “leafy suburbs” be in electorates named Goldstein and Kooyong?
If so, zero sympathy. Bring it here to NSW, to North Sydney, Mackellar, Wentworth and Warringah.
Fun Facts – Answer “So True”
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Your housing minister has already indicated she has eyes on the lower North Shore.
Gee, why was I completely unsurprised to hear this irredeemable imbecile is in favour of the screeech?
Trigger warning: Stupid forking gliberal
I predict that well to do residents of these suburbs who are reflexively pro-refugee and pro-mass migration will soon have cause to reevaluate their assumptions.
“Your housing minister has already indicated she has eyes on the lower North Shore.”
I’m aware of that, she can widen her eyes to Double Bay, Rose Bay, Woollahra, Point Piper, Darling point, Dover Heights, Bronte, Coogee, Willoughby, St Ives, Killara, Lindfield, Crows Nest, and all the other leafy suburbs that pepper Teal electorates.
Not just medium density posing a problem to trees in ring suburbs. Plot ratios area an issue too. I’ve got 5 “trees” around my place but all of them are small to medium by necessity. A couple have received haircuts from neighbours who don’t share my approach (admittedly it was over his roof as well).
This might push my outer SE suburb house into the cool $1mill range as these people flee the unwashed hordes moving in. Bring it on baby!
More battery news.
NYC fire officials probe if e-bike battery is behind latest deadly fire (12 Aug)
You got to wonder when insurance companies start denying coverage to owners who have ebikes on their premises. Or electric cars in the basement. The damage an ebike or electric car fire could do to a tower block would be a very expensive disaster, even aside from all the deaths.
QLD’s LNP leadership supports treaties with the “indigenous”.
State LNP party rooms are now made up of people of who didn’t get into politics early enough to find a niche & a benefactor in the ALP.
(Hi, Malcolm!)_
We’ve already had a couple of planning elections at local government level inside Curtin. Much of the area was subdivided in the 1950s when garden suburbs were a bit of a planning fad. Fertile ground (no pun intended) for NIMBYs. Land values and zoning makes most multi storey uneconomic around here anyway. Building costs are stopping developers around here as well.
What you need is more migrants.
“QLD’s LNP leadership supports treaties with the “indigenous”.”
Then they do not deserve to be elected, not that they would be anyway.
Do you think there’s enough people in your “room” to bring victory, Bob?
Or is it full of “Trump or bust” types?
Which means the dems win.
Which means the dems win.”
Yep, and it’ll be under Gavin Newsom, who makes the Sniffer look positively moderate.
““QLD’s LNP leadership supports treaties with the “indigenous”.””
Just remember that the two motley, lonesome Liberals in WA voted FOR the heritage laws and until a day or two ago supported da Voice, although the female Liberal leader is now backtracking on support for da Voice….she clearly can read the writing on the wall.
Don’t get too many in Curtin. The Chinese slip in under the business migration visa into Dalkeith. And the 2nd generation move in as lawyers, doctors etc. Speaking personally, I’m priced out of Cottesloe and City Beach and not too keen on writing another cheque for stamp duty in any case.
“Do you think there’s enough people in your “room” to bring victory, Bob?
Or is it full of “Trump or bust” types?
Which means the dems win.”
These discussions must contain the context that 2020 was a coup and they now exist under a ruthless coup regime. The actor playing the President lacks the eye colour and signature of the missing fellow. So we can expect them to rig the election again in multiple ways.
I think banning people from railway stations and hospitals is unconstitutional and un-Australian.
There. I said it.
He’ll get the women voting for him because apparently he looks good.
I want Trump to win but more importantly I want the dems to lose.
Governments lose elections.
And Palaszczuk is quite unpopular atm.
In the eyes of QLD voters she is guilty of the unforgivable political sin: Arrogance.
With plenty of irony, the political stunt of the Wellcamp quarantine facility has turned out to be very expensive for her government in more than just dollar terms.
“Anna kept us safe” won’t cut it in 2024.
That’s a political observation, not an endorsement of the QLD LNP, just to be clear.
Most of Goldstein is built up. Walk around Elsternwick station to see the changes.
Gruesome Newsome should be encouraged to speak as much as possible. Ditto AOC, and many others.
Thoughts and prayers news (the Courier-Mail):
Of course the soldier was left there. It’s a formal parade, not a child’s birthday party.
Entirely fair enough. This happens regularly, and for a number of reasons:
1. They are hung over;
2. They are otherwise dehydrated, and/or haven’t eaten; or
3. They are inexperienced, and actually forget to breathe while standing at attention.
There are a number of industry tricks to avoid this circumstance, to maintain blood circulation and to generally avoid making a dill of yourself by falling over. Strangely, one of them is finding something green in the middle or far distance to look at while you’re standing there.
Despite this particular soldier being a ladeeee person, it would appear from the pics accompanying this piece that she has fallen forward, rather than backward or to either side. This is the preferred model, and is known as ‘the regimental fall out’.
In times past you used to be punished for things like this, unless you managed to hit the ground before your rifle. That gets you points from the CSM or RSM, whichever it may be.
He should stand on his record in CA.
So true, Roger.
The Chook has reached that fatal stage of hubris where she should quit now and give her successor time to become known but – nah – she wants just one more triumphant triumph.
Only way Chrisifulli will win is by default and the polls are looking that way atm. My vote because of CPV will be informal again, I will not preference people I wouldn’t even relieve myself on if they are on fire.
I have also told the opposition there’s not a hope in hell I’ll vote for them because of the treaty and Olympics. Both will drain the thimble full of money the regions receive. A side note Burdekin Dam was originally designed to have the wall raised by 18m and like the Hells Gate dam they are tip toeing around it. Latest news is some gobbledegook about sacred sites being flooded blah blah blah. Code we don’t have the money and need to featherbed the Gold Coast region again.
Seriously underwhelmed by the opposition up this way.
Glad we can agree on something, CL.
😀
The Chook has reached that fatal stage of hubris where she should quit now and give her successor time to become known…
Shannon Fentiman; believes a woman can have a penis. Perhaps a bridge too far for most Queenslanders outside of certain SE postcodes.
Paul Murray loves David Crisafulli – which tells you everything you need to know about him.
That sort of view requires a good understanding of your audience.
I agree with you on most things, Roger.
😉
Further to our last couple of day’s findings down the rabbit hole:
1. Movies ( foxtel?) Running on Empty – River Phoenix, found following a Paul Newman unknown film Sometimes a Great Notion- great logging visuals. Both good acting.
2. A Doctor in Africa | Dr. Andrew Browning a John Anderson interview.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony-conservative-country-song-1234805701/3. As mentioned on Outsiders this morning, musician Oliver Anthony.
Enjoy
Seriously underwhelmed by the opposition up this way.
just like Vicco and NSW then. Still there is Moira Deeming down here. As for Speakperson oh lord. More left then Carr.
Speaking of Paul Murray, I’m liking what James Morrow has done with the place.
No more 20 minute lecturettes on how Albo wrecked the Morrison economy.
aaargh, I’ll try again
3. As mentioned on Outsiders thus morning, musician Oliver Anthony.
James Morrow does tend to shout.
I wonder what the generally conservative Christian Torres Strait islanders make of it?
She’s supposed to be their “Ministerial Champion”/special advocate in Cabinet.
I didn’t realize MD was from Melton? Would know a bit about the real world!
And his voice has an unpleasant nasal quality to it, but I can forgive that because as an American he brings an interesting perspective to Australian political commentary.
Combine that with the expanded immigration program, and the Teals and their supporters will have the opportunity to experience the joys of the multi-culti cult!
Yeah, the Sky anchors are all shouty for some reason.
I used to enjoy Morrow’s foodie/politics blog, Prick With a Fork. Even the name made me smile.
There is. Trump brings people that will not vote for another R into the room, that’s how he won in 2016 and increased his vote in 2020 vs 2016 by 10M.
Yeh, I’m not sure Newsom is that popular or has the name recognition that Biden had in 2020, in the mid-West or East Coast.
Dover
Those filling in the bogus ballots will know his name, which will be all that matters.
There is. Trump brings people that will not vote for another R into the room, that’s how he won in 2016 and increased his vote in 2020 vs 2016 by 10M.
agree- De Santis really should stick to Fl
I’ve found the Insiders panel frustrating to watch…they’re all trying to talk over each other. They may think it makes for good television but imv it doesn’t.
Illegal immigration is now a major issue across the whole US political spectrum. Even rustedon Dems are sh*tting themselves over the influx into their cities. And Newsom has been a vocal advocate of waving them in. He won’t be popular enough to get across the line but the issue remains the Steal. How big can the Dems rig it to overcome their stench.
People who can’t converse think everything is an argument.
I really don’t know why Pence bothers. He’s really pissed off both sides I woulda thought- VP the orange man then XXs him
Following on from that bat eared liberal POS speakman’s declaration he is supporting the screech, guess what happens:
Liberal leader Mark Speakman is applauded by Indigenous Minister Linda Burney after revealing he will support the Voice to Parliament
More of little johnnie’s broad church. The libs are fu.ked.
Which is why it’s called the uniparty. As I’ve said before I can name many lieborals that I would consider to be hard left- Falinsky, McPhee, Fraser. The list goes on and on.
I just realised that the “like” button is missing. what happened?
Daily Mail.
Mark Speakman – AFL
Another F…ing Lawyer.
The hamsters went on strike, vr.
Dover had to go to the bargaining table to get them back but the upticks had to go.
(Good to see you here, btw)
Vr, collating and recording may have been using up too much of the database. Or…
it was simply ticked off and left.
Is it possible that a plug-in could do a flounce?
Sure, bogus ballots, GOTV campaigns, are important but you also need to actually motivate a good portion of D voters to fill out the forms or visit a polling station themselves, and this is still about 2/3rds of D voters even in 2020.
The useless opposition prick in Vic.
AFL.
I’m imagining this for our ticked off upticker.
I’m beginning to actively dislike the “MAGA crowd.”
If boastfully burning down a good husband and father, former serviceman, A-grade governor and unequaled destroyer of communism in institutions aren’t the things they’re looking for in a President, they’re not the friends of either reason or reform.
SA – AFL
WA – Farmer, some hope.
Queensland – son of a farmer but a journalist by trade.
Trump’s fans are again walking in to the same delusion as before about “massive crowds.” Huge turnouts don’t signify anything in election campaigns. Often, the size of the stay-at-home demographic is more ominous for what’s coming.
Biden will be dumped and Newsom paired with some largely unknown bird (probably black). Until that happens, polls are largely meaningless.
Roger — I usually lurk apart from upticking Cassie’s thoughful rants.
It’s a nostalgic pleasure watching old episodes of Firing Line.
But Bill Buckley’s 1968 encounters with Gore Vidal in another context are regarded as the beginning of combative shouting matches on American TV current affairs.
Those two genuinely despised each other though, it wasn’t an act.
Yep. unless the GOP candidate does what MAGA voters want they’ll all stay at home and wash their hands of the whole thing.
That’s the dilemma the Republican party has: they can either do what Republican voters want, or they can die. The Republican voters don’t care which, they’re off scale on the feral register right now.
The Great Realignment | Power Line (12 Aug)
Yep. Note the meme at the end of the post. Note also that Trump is so far ahead of anyone in the primary race you’d need a telescope to see the others.
Either the GOP will get with their voters or they will have a dinosaur asteroid fall on them. Myself, I think they’ll pick the asteroid. It’s the elites vs everyone else as Taibbi says, and the RNC is of the same cloth as Malcolm Turnbull.
Sure, crowds and polls can be misleading, but without either how are you going to guess popularity before the election?
The HighWire with Del Bigtree:
Guest host, Dr Jim Meehan, talks to scientific researcher, Kevin McKernan about his groundbreaking discovery of plasmid derived dsDNA contamination in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and lays out the proven dangers of injecting foreign DNA into the body.
ARE COVID VACCINES CONTAMINATED WITH DNA?
Make yourselves useful.
Give me your examples of counter cyclical businesses.
So far I have: Pawn brokers/ Cash Converters; Repossessions; Bargain shops of the NQR type; car parts/ wreckers; and yesterday I learnt that those shops that sell lawn mowers and chainsaws etc can do well as people stop contracting out lawn care and buy or fix their own gear instead.
If so, zero sympathy. Bring it here to NSW, to North Sydney, Mackellar, Wentworth and Warringah.
Your housing minister has already indicated she has eyes on the lower North Shore
This is all weird to me……the lower North Shore already has a multitude of medium (& even high density) developments. Nothing new there. New developments are particularly focussing on the spine of retail development on Military Rd, for example, where magnificent harbour views can be obtained by redeveloping said developments.
A certain developer, known for his high rise and low cost development has already cornered the market for development close to busy roads and railway corridors. Proximity to the city etc does not mean this is “low cost” either, but new citizens from Asian countries seem to be eager to snap them up.
Bruce, the stay-at-homes I was referring to are the swing voters and independents without whom Trump cannot win. They don’t go to MAGA rallies. It doesn’t matter how big his crowds are or how angry.
I alternate between seeing a single Trump term as a necessary reckoning in and of itself – regardless of what he does in those four years – and seeing an eight-year DeSantis term as the triumph of reason over emotions.
Anyone who can mend stuff – boot makers, tailoring/alterations/mending, refurbishment and resurfacing furniture, plus anyone who can run hands-on classes/demonstrations, i.e. workshops.
Salvatore:
Do I notice a little bit of sarcasm?
LGBTQ+ friendly gigolo.
It’s nothing to do with the political brand being discusssed. It’s about the medium. Those who push to the front in delivering TV opinion shows tend to have giant egos and all three Outsiders on Sky — James Morrow, Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean — fit that bill.
So they constantly talk over one another.
The only thing worse is listening to Andrew Blot, whose regard for his own opinions is such that he talks over most of the guests he invites onto his show.
Leftwingers are just as bad. Ego doesn’t have an ideology.
Heaven.
I used to think he’s too old to be prez, but not now. This is personal and I bet everyone with a Republican bent or a fair minded independent would think the same. This is personal now and the GOP turnout could be enormous, over-riding all the cheating the Demons will try on.
I wouldn’t mind it if he stayed on for a year and then allowed his VP pick to take over.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: “Rich Men North Of Richmond” is the NUMBER ONE song in America
But wait, there’s more!
Oliver Anthony — a rural Farmer unknown just 48 hours ago — has THREE SONGS (!!!) in the Top 10.
The most famous musicians on earth often never achieve this.
Culture is Power:
DeSantis should do the job he was elected for. There’s plenty of time for him to stand for president later.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
I’ve had 5 home insurances cancel me for no reason in Florida over the past 4 years and my Governor is in Iowa serving people fried battered egg sticks.
EXCLUSIVE: Vaccinated Outbreak at CDC Conference Bigger Than Reported
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The VAX doesn’t work: true.
The VAX sheds: true
VAX has 1,200 side effects: true.
VAX starts turbo cancer: true.
VAX gives kids myocarditis: true.
VAX starts huge blood clots: true
VAX contains SV40: true.
VAX makes spike protein: true
VAX has no safety studies: true.
I’m not thick CL. My equation stands. Either the GOP goes MAGA or it dies, just like the Liberal Party. DeSantis and Pence were loudly booed and heckled in Iowa this week. Both are ‘way too close to the establishment.
Vivek faceplanted too. There is no one but Trump.
Romney showed the problem. Unless the GOP candidate represents his voters they will stay home and leave it to God to sort out. It’s a very Christian way of looking at politics. And right now the only candidate representing the vast majority of right wing voters if Trump.
DeSantis, who has pretty good political antenna, tried to go MAGA but was reined in a couple weeks ago by his elite donors. You can see the result of that in the primary polls. Same issue. It’s us vs them, and he chose them.
Of course the 2024 election is meaningless anyway since the Dems will steal it no matter who the GOP candidate is. But Trump’s aim isn’t to win that unwinnable election, it is to wrest control of the Republican Party from the elites. Has a chance of doing so. That would provide a base for 2028. But realistically right now I can’t think of a political answer to the woes of the US except in the Clausewitzian sense, the country is too far gone.
All-Cause Mortality Up a Whopping 45% in 0-24 Age Group Since COVID Vax Rollout, CDC Data Shows
LOL. That would actually be pretty cool.
Impeach Trump for a phone call and pardon the whole criminal Biden family. Seems fair. Not that I think that he had any real chance of success, at least this time, but he’s just cut his own throat trying to cosy up to the Dems.
Vivek Ramaswamy Says He’s Considering Giving a Pardon to Hunter Biden, Other Biden Family Members
A thousand ticks!
The latest Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones had the same budget: $290 mill; MI because covid delayed production IJ because Disney is a woke shitheap. MI now has returns of $500 mill, IJ 370 mill. When will these fu.kers ever learn: go woke and your arse explodes.
Seems that Our Brinny has been drinking her own bath water.
Despite hand-patting by Team Mean Girls and a few $millies as an ALP sling, she’s fooling herself if she thinks that the Liberals were given the arse because of her – and not because Scummo was running a hopeless, failing government.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 13, 2023 12:58 PM
Good analysis I’d add one thing. I still think Trump has a target on his back. And if he falls over, unlike that vermin biden, he won’t get up.
She should’ve read up on Benedict Arnold before listening to her new boyfriend.