Open Thread – Mon 14 Aug 2023


An Iron Forge, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1772

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Jorge
Jorge
August 16, 2023 4:38 pm

Lydia oh Lydia…….. interviewed this morning referred to ABC host Patricia Karvelas as PK. It was all very cosy. No probing questions, more like ‘What can we do to help ?’

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 4:43 pm

they know the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page, not hundreds of pages,” Mr Albanese said.

Debating 101: The Straw Man

1) take a factual component of the opposing argument: “the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page“;

2) attach it to an untrue/hyperbolic statement of your own making“not hundreds of pages”;

3) wave it up and down jeering loudly;

4) refuse to touch the substantive argument on the grounds that ‘I’ve already blown that out of the water’.

Team Dutton stuffed this one up on the floor of Parliament by trying to score a gotcha on the semantic issue of number of pages and what constitutes the Statement – rather than the substance.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 4:44 pm

‘What can we do to help ?’

I prescribe a straitjacket and medication*.

* after she’s clean of whatever she’s on

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 4:45 pm

Maui Suffers from America-Last Policies

“The fires in Maui claimed the lives of at least 99 people. Over a thousand people are still missing as crews rush to identify remains. This was the deadliest wildfire on US soil in over 100 years. There is a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the fires, but one proven conspiracy is that the US government is putting America last.

On Sunday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was too soon to calculate the damages, but a low estimate is $6 billion. The President of the United States made sure to address his main priority by sending a $200 million aid package to Ukraine this week. “Air defense, anti-armor, and munitions will keep the Ukrainian armed forces in the fight to defend their country’s sovereignty, territory, and people,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Monday as search teams continued to search Maui for any survivors. This is chump change for Ukraine as the White House is seeking hundreds of billions in extra funds.

Joe Biden was spotted on the beaches of Delaware this weekend as Hawaii burned down. He refused to comment on the situation and did not let it interrupt his vacation. Biden finally took to X (formerly Twitter) to address the crisis. “We’re laser-focused on getting aid to survivors, including Critical Needs Assistance: a one-time $700 payment per household offering relief during an unimaginable difficult time. We have the staff on the ground dedicated to helping survivors navigate the registration process.”

So Hawaii received $1.8 million in aid. What is $700 going to do for the people who lost everything and perhaps everyone? In comparison, a foreign nation received $200 million this week. We are witnessing what happens when the government pivots from America-First to America-Last policies.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/maui-suffers-from-america-last-policies/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 4:46 pm

Luigi did the old Woman Sawn in Half trick did he, Faustus?

Ta dah!

JC
JC
August 16, 2023 4:47 pm

Other than picking up the trash on Tuesdays and sending out rate notices, which compounds at a healthy rate of 5% a year, what exactly does local government do? Oh yeah, I forgot, they hire new arrivals to issue parking tickets.

GOLDSTEIN NEWS
At last night’s Council meeting, the City of Glen Eira endorsed supporting the Voice to Parliament. Their statement of support can be found here.
https://gleneira.vic.gov.au/about-council/

Speedbox
August 16, 2023 4:47 pm

Vicki
Aug 16, 2023 4:29 PM

All good Vicki. I have every confidence that Civil Liberties Australia will be all over this. After all, they have a stellar record of fighting for our rights.

What’s more, the AG dept says that “The right to freedom of opinion is the right to hold opinions without interference, and cannot be subject to any exception or restriction. The right to freedom of expression extends to any medium, including written and oral communications, the media, public protest, broadcasting, artistic works and commercial advertising.

Oh wait…..they also say “The right is not absolute. It carries with it special responsibilities, and may be restricted on several grounds. For example, restrictions could relate to filtering access to certain internet sites, the urging of violence or the classification of artistic material.

Anyway, don’t worry. Top men are in charge here and if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Government is your friend and works for the betterment of all of us.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 4:49 pm

Correction – it was the Woman Sawn in 1/26th Trick.

Was it her head or her feet?

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 16, 2023 4:55 pm

The government has a big contract with us – it’s absolutely no different.”

Uh huh.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 4:58 pm

Luigi did the old Woman Sawn in Half trick did he, Faustus?

It sounds like gargling, but Luigi is attempting to sing Advance Australia Fair while drinking a glass of water.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 5:00 pm

As an aside – On This Day (1977):

Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)

Died.

Overpaid, overadulated and overrated.

I’d be thankful, but his eventual demise while trying to back one out left behind a cornucopia of nuffers and mimics who continue to keep his estate’s coffers full to this very day.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 5:03 pm

As an aside – On This Day (1977):

Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)

Another one to chalk up to the Pfizer vaccine?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 5:06 pm

Another one to chalk up to the Pfizer vaccine?

Don’t be ridiculous.

Everyone knows the Lizard People elites are immune to that stuff.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 5:07 pm

Luigi did the old Woman Sawn in Half trick did he, Faustus?

Very tragic.

Her last words before her own blood squirted from her mouth and leaked from the box onto the table were:

“What does “Thtay Thtill” mean?”

Oh, and “Aaaargh! Aaaargh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!”

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 5:09 pm

“GOLDSTEIN NEWS
At last night’s Council meeting, the City of Glen Eira endorsed supporting the Voice to Parliament. Their statement of support can be found here.
https://gleneira.vic.gov.au/about-council/

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, conservative, libertarian and other political parties of the right should start running in local elections.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:12 pm

Mother Lode
Aug 16, 2023 4:24 PM

they know the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page, not hundreds of pages,” Mr Albanese said.

I don’t think anyone has said it was hundreds of pages, but I have heard red faced spittle-spluttering runt say it is one. I have heard Dutton refer to 25 or 26 pages but the runt does not dare contradict that.

Mother Lode,

Actually 112 Pageshttps://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-log/foi-2223-016.pdf

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 16, 2023 5:12 pm

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, conservative, libertarian and other political parties of the right should start running in local elections.

Bags not first.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:13 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 5:15 pm

“GOLDSTEIN NEWS
At last night’s Council meeting, the City of Glen Eira endorsed supporting the Voice to Parliament. Their statement of support can be found here.
https://gleneira.vic.gov.au/about-council/“

We live in especially strange and disturbing times when Goldstein AND Big Brother find common cause.

But when I look at Europe where we can see where this madness leads, I think to myself (and write in my little note book) “If there is any hope it must lie in the Poles.”

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 5:17 pm

On this day in 2018, the 16th of August, Aretha Franklin passed away.

A Legend.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aretha-Franklin

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 5:17 pm

Wow. Breaking news on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show, Taiwan’s first female president Tsai Ing-wen wanted to attend tonight’s soccer world cup seni-final in Sydney and support Australia’s Matildas against Spain.

But the president says cryptically through an embassy spokesman that the Australian government knows why Tsai Ing-wen won’t be attending.

In other words, the Albanese regime has caved into pressure from the Chinese Communist party to snub the Taiwanese president because Elbow wants to be best mates with Emperor Xi.

Disgraceful.

And a great get by Markson, which will be front page news in tomorrow’s papers.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 5:19 pm

He’s already made 23 international trips since election

Lol! Yes23!

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 5:20 pm

““If there is any hope it must lie in the Poles.””

And the Hungarians.

Although oddly enough there’s some hope in, of all places, Argentina. The “libertarian candidate” Javier Milei, is quite interesting. However, he’s being smeared by the usual suspects, from the NYT to The Malchurian Guardian, as “far-right”.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:21 pm

– Wonder if he will give more of our taxpayer money to another country. This Albo has no shame. Showing he is still a houso at heart.

– 23rd, the Air Jordan of travel. That’s a lot of selfies. People he’s leaving cannot afford to turn their heating on or pay for petrol. Hasn’t he cost the taxpayers enough, get off the teat Airbus!

– UP UP AND AWAY, WITH TAA (Trans Anthony Airhead)

it’s like he absolutely has to be up there help him survive a medical condition. Thinks Zoom is contagious maybe.

Anthony Albanese reveals he would ban social media and abolish the state if he ever became dictator

. Anthony Albanese says it would be ‘handy’ to ban social media
. The Prime Minister also declared that the states are inefficient
. He said he would not have sold off the Commonwealth Bank

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 5:23 pm

Oh, bugger.

It is the Hungarians who have the other nations clutching their pearls getting the vapours.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 5:23 pm

Woulda been funny but.

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 5:24 pm

“And a great get by Markson, which will be front page news in tomorrow’s papers.”

I have to say, Sharri is good, very good.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 5:25 pm

Actually 112 Pages – https://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-log/foi-2223-016.pdf

Actually the 112 pages released by NIAA under FOI made up 14 separate documents – each with their own header and document ID.

The document identified in the bundle as the Uluru Statement from the Heart is described as Document 14 and is 26 pages long.

JC
JC
August 16, 2023 5:27 pm

Although oddly enough there’s some hope in, of all places, Argentina. The “libertarian candidate” Javier Milei, is quite interesting. However, he’s being smeared by the usual suspects, from the NYT to The Malchurian Guardian, as “far-right”.

He’s the nation’s only hope.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:30 pm

Lesbian speed-dating event canceled for ‘transphobia’

A venue manager suggested the meet-up group fell short on “inclusivity”

A weekly speed-dating event created by and for lesbians in the UK has been axed after organizers were accused of transphobia, with activists insisting transgender women should be allowed to participate.

The row erupted last week after event organizer Jenny Watson shared rules for the get-togethers online, saying the meetings were limited to “adult human females” only, as was first reported by the Daily Mail.

“If you are male, please refrain from coming to the events, you are not a lesbian,” she added.

Members of a local activist group in London proceeded to report Watson’s comments to her employer, deeming them “transphobic,” according to the Mail.

In an interview with GB News Pundit Andrew Doyle, organizers also said a manager for a pub that hosted the speed-dating events worked with opponents to have them terminate

The manager was eventually added to an activist group chat, where they vowed to do all in their power to have the gatherings canceled. In one message shared by Watson, they went on to propose “replacing it with an in-house speed set of dating nights with inclusivity at its heart.”

Another organizer, Kate Barker of LGB Alliance – a group which claims to “promote the rights of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men, as recognised by biological sex” – said she was told the move was a “commercial decision,” but argued the chat messages suggest otherwise.

“To find out that somebody from the organization that actually owns the pub is in that group, making it their mission to shut down an event held by their own employer, it’s a really peculiar situation,” Barker added. “To be a lesbian and have a women-only event is seen to be bigoted and exclusionary.”

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 5:32 pm

“He’s the nation’s only hope.”

My impression too, I like him, I’d vote for him. Apparently, like Meloni in Italy, he’s popular among the young.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:37 pm

Western Weapons Captured in Ukraine Displayed at Army-2023 Military Expo in Russia

A number of Western armored vehicles that were provided to the Kiev regime by its foreign sponsors have managed to make it through the Russian defensive lines all the way to Moscow, though probably not the way NATO military strategists hoped.

Over 800 types of Western and Ukrainian weaponry and military vehicles captured by Russian forces in the Ukrainian conflict zone have been put on display during the ARMY-2023 military expo that launched in Kubinka, Moscow Region, this week.

The trophies featured at this exhibition, which takes place at Patriot Park, include pieces of military hardware such as an AMX-10RCR armored fighting vehicle from France, a CV90 infantry combat vehicle from Sweden, a Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle from Australia and even a XA-180 Pasi armored personnel carrier from Finland.

These weapons were originally supplied to Kiev by its foreign backers, who hoped that the Ukrainian troops would use these weapons to defeat Russian forces. Instead, all this gear does now is help satisfy the curiosity of the people visiting the exhibition.

Feel free to peruse this photo gallery by Sputnik that contains images of some of these exhibits.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 5:39 pm

Anthony Albanese reveals he would ban social media and abolish the state if he ever became dictator

I’d abolish the Labor Party and the Greens.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 5:42 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Aug 16, 2023 4:34 PM
Oh and further, Thorpe the ignoramus got up in the senate last week and launched into a vicious anti-Israel diatribe. I think David Adler’s rebuttal was best on Outsiders on Sunday morning when he said…”the Jewish people are indigenous to the Land of Israel and that Senator Thorpe should advocate for Jews in Israel because “sovereignty was never ceded by the Jews“.

Quite so Dr Adler.

Righteous!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:42 pm

Dr Faustus
Aug 16, 2023 5:25 PM

Actually 112 Pages – https://www.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-log/foi-2223-016.pdf

Actually the 112 pages released by NIAA under FOI made up 14 separate documents – each with their own header and document ID.

The document identified in the bundle as the Uluru Statement from the Heart is described as Document 14 and is 26 pages long.

Dr Faustus,

Apologies forgot to mention that

Uluru Statement from the Heart is described as Document 14 – Pages 87-112

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 5:46 pm

FMD. I can’t believe it. Former AFL champion Adam Goodes, cavorting with Qantas’s poove-in-chief Alan Joyce yesterday in a pro-Voice publicity stunt, has a frigging man bun like some discarded millenial adman — except he’s now so old he has grey hair.

Joyce, in my opinion, is one of the world’s best airline CEOs, but he’s rapidly torching his corporate credibility by trying to pick winners in politics.

Joyce needs to be careful or he’ll wind up being just another unemployable corporate smartarse.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 5:46 pm

Statue of former Tasmanian premier William Crowther to fall, after heritage body rules ‘acceptable impact’

By matthew denholm
Tasmania Correspondent
@MatthewRDenholm
Updated 5:30PM August 16, 2023, First published at 5:02PM August 16, 2023
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Tasmania’s Heritage Council has approved the toppling of a statue of former premier William Crowther, removing the last barrier to it being torn down.

Heritage council members on Wednesday decided the heritage impacts of removing the statue from Franklin Square were “acceptable”.

“The Heritage Council, after careful deliberation, has determined by majority decision that the impacts on the historic cultural significance of the Franklin Square that would result from removal the statue are acceptable,” said chair Brett Torossi.
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A final decision will rest with the Hobart City Council, which has already backed its removal and changed the relevant heritage document to downplay the heritage value of the statue.

Crowther, a surgeon noted for his work for the poor but also his penchant for bone hunting, was in 1869 accused of removing and stealing the skull of Aboriginal man William Lanne – a claim he denied.

Removal of his statue is supported by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and most city councillors, as a means of acknowledging the past theft of Aboriginal remains in the pursuit of now discredited scientific theories.

It would be the first removal of the statue of a premier in Australia, amid fierce debate about whether statues of historical figures with chequered records should be toppled, reinterpreted or maintained.

Some city councillors, Indigenous groups and historians oppose the statue’s removal move, arguing Crowther was never proven to have removed or stolen Lanne’s skull, the whereabouts of which remains a mystery.

“This decision is so disrespectful to the wishes of the many people who paid for this statue,” said councillor Louise Elliot. “The statue belongs to the community of the 1800s who loved Dr Crowther dearly.

“Some community members have said they‘re offended by the statue given Dr Crowther’s association with collecting the bones of Aboriginal people. Historians have clearly stated that this was normalised behaviour of the 1800s and that Dr Crowther was actually the least culpable in this.

“The bar is now set dangerously low in terms of what is under threat by cancel culture. We can expect more deletions of our heritage to come.”

However, the decision was welcomed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. “We know for sure that William Crowther was responsible for the mutilation of William Lanne because of his race,” said centre campaign manager Nala Mansell.

“We know that he had a collection of Aboriginal bones. What he did was evil and he certainly is not someone who should be celebrated. His statue is a continual reminder of the injustices committed against Aboriginal people.”

The city council is now expected on August 23 to approve its own development application for the statue to be removed to storage. However, the decision is certain to be appealed to the state’s planning court

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 5:47 pm

Jorge
Aug 16, 2023 4:38 PM
Lydia oh Lydia…….. interviewed this morning referred to ABC host Patricia Karvelas as PK. It was all very cosy. No probing questions, more like ‘What can we do to help ?’

When I was a kid PK meant a chewing gum, this one has lost its flavour and needs to be spat out.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 5:47 pm

Elbowsleezy gives away Australian Goods/Money to Ukraine – Russia Thanks Him

Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobilty Vehicle

Slightly Used!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 5:51 pm

Crowther, a surgeon noted for his work for the poor but also his penchant for bone hunting

If they don’t replace that statue with one of David Boon, there will be unbelievable drama.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 5:53 pm

Dr Faustus,
Apologies forgot to mention that

No need for apologies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 16, 2023 5:54 pm

Joyce, in my opinion, is one of the world’s best airline CEOs, but he’s rapidly torching his corporate credibility by trying to pick winners in politics.

Arguably he’s mining the QANTAS brand and has been for some time now. Be interesting to see what sort of shape it’s in when he finally hands it over. Anyone who got through Covid deserves some credit though.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 5:55 pm

Daily Tele.

Jacinta Price: Albo ‘doesn’t understand his own referendum’ after shocking Voice admission

Jacinta Price has accused Anthony Albanese of initiating “a referendum about something he doesn’t understand” after the prime minister conceded he had not read a controversial longer form of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 5:56 pm

If they don’t replace that statue with one of David Boon, there will be unbelievable drama.

Michael Mansell, surely?

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 5:59 pm

Tom
Aug 16, 2023 5:17 PM
Wow. Breaking news on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show, Taiwan’s first female president Tsai Ing-wen wanted to attend tonight’s soccer world cup seni-final in Sydney and support Australia’s Matildas against Spain.

Errrrrrrrr. The semi-final is Australia v England. Spain are already in the Final.

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 6:02 pm

Woops. Thanks, JR, for pointing out my error.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 6:02 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 16, 2023 5:39 PM
Anthony Albanese reveals he would ban social media and abolish the state if he ever became dictator

I’d abolish the Labor Party and the Greens.

That would be doing the nation a favour.

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 6:03 pm

Let’s not stuff around. The left has learned nothing in the past 30 years.

The 2023 Voice referendum, like he 1999 republic referendum, is a naked power grab where a new self-appointed ruling class tries to torpedo our one-vote-one-value democracy — only this time it’s Elbow ALP gang replacing Lord Turnbull’s crony capitalists.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 6:03 pm

Is It Time to Ban Electric Vehicles?

The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13.

According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs and other devices.

A fire ignited at an e-bike shop and killed four people near midnight on the morning of June 20. Two individuals were left in critical condition. The fire commissioner has warned New Yorkers that such devices could be very dangerous and typically explode in such a way that renders escape impossible.

FDNY also reports that in just three years, lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires in New York City.

It’s happening all over the country as these blazes have become commonplace. Cars and e-bikes are randomly blowing up in driveways and garages.

Now let’s be honest: 13 deaths in a city the size of New York with some 8 million people is hardly an epidemic.

Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit calculation, or there would be no cars at all.

And yet the same scaremongers on the left who have zero tolerance and want bans for small risks when it comes to everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from “green” electric battery fires.

Or consider this:

In 1965, Ralph Nader almost single-handedly helped ban the popular Chevrolet Corvair — famous for its engine placed in the back trunk of the car. Nader’s bestselling shock book “Unsafe at Any Speed” declared the car was deadly. But there was no real evidence of that claim, and to this day there are no reliable statistics on how many passengers — if any — died in Corvairs from rear-end accidents.

What is indisputable is that EVs will cause far more deaths than Corvairs ever did.

One other example: There have been more fatalities in just one city in a single year from lithium-ion batteries in cars than all the people who died from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident — which was zero.

Yet, after the accident, thanks to the environmentalists’ fear campaign (with the help of the blockbuster anti-nuke movie “The China Syndrome”), no domestic nuclear plants were built for three decades. That is despite the fact that nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases.

But with EVs, the greens are pushing aside any concerns about the collateral damage of deaths and injuries. Biden wants to mandate that nearly ALL new cars sold in the U.S. be EVs by 2032. If that happens, many thousands of Americans may die or will be inured from electric vehicle fires.

All this is especially hypocritical because once upon a time the left’s mantra was “no trading blood for oil.”

Now they are willing to trade blood in exchange for getting Americans to stop using oil.

An irony of all this is that because of all the energy needed to produce windmills, solar panels and electric batteries, new studies are showing that the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to this “net zero” transition is close to zero.

It turns out, green energy causes some pollution, too.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 6:05 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 16, 2023 5:56 PM
If they don’t replace that statue with one of David Boon, there will be unbelievable drama.

Michael Mansell, surely?

I wouldn’t be surprised but it may be Marx though not Groucho.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 6:08 pm

Tom
Aug 16, 2023 6:03 PM
Let’s not stuff around. The left has learned nothing in the past 30 years.

The 2023 Voice referendum, like he 1999 republic referendum, is a naked power grab where a new self-appointed ruling class tries to torpedo our one-vote-one-value democracy — only this time it’s Elbow ALP gang replacing Lord Turnbull’s crony capitalists.

Don’t rule out the crony capitalists just yet as I suspect most of them will eventually find out that they have aboriginal ancestry.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 6:11 pm

Democrats Denied Election Results 150+ Times Before Trump Was Indicted for Challenging Election

Although a Georgia grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on Monday for challenging the 2020 election result, Democrats have refused to accept the results of elections they lost for decades.

As Breitbart News reported, more than 150 examples show Democrats denying election results, including President Joe Biden; two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY); Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

MUST WATCH: 10 minutes of Democrats denying election results. pic.twitter.com/bJRbzEcIO2

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 23, 2022

In fact, every single Democrat president since 1977 has questioned the legitimacy of U.S. elections, according to the Republican National Committee.

In both 2013 and 2016, Biden claimed that Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election. In May 2019, Biden said he “absolutely agrees” that Trump was an “illegitimate president.” Biden cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 midterms this year.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 6:11 pm

Transgender ‘Muslim Woman’ Demands Ex-Boyfriend Return His Frozen Testicles

I thought that was the Bee.

Christian satirists overtaken by reality. Had to happen eventually.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 6:15 pm

The Prime Minister also declared that the states are inefficient
. He said he would not have sold off the Commonwealth Bank

And what about Quaint Arse and CSL? Is Tennis Elbow now an Investment Guru or Gnu?

He’s Big mates with Quaint Arse BTW.

Just go away Tennis Elbow. You are killing Australia you are the one that is inefficient.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 16, 2023 6:17 pm

Looking at m0nty’s “contributions”(if they can be called that) over the last few days, my mind was drawn to the adage that “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different result”. On that basis, the fat fascist fool seems to be insane.

He appears here at irregular intervals, and each time posts slabs of DemonRat talking points, while rejecting any criticism of the substance of those points. His other reaction is to post variations on the same talking points more frequently. There is no attempt to debate, only to harangue.

It seems rational to assume that he intends his actions to influence others here to “Believe, brothers and sisters, believe”. Yet, since the departure of Dick Ed, he seems to have made no converts.

Perhaps his time would be better spent trying to breathe some life into his own moribund blog? Or eating even more donuts.

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 6:19 pm

Don’t rule out the crony capitalists just yet as I suspect most of them will eventually find out that they have aboriginal ancestry.

Of course, Crossie. What was I thinking? The Elbow regime is being propped up by an army of corrupt crony capitalist subsidy miners running a hippie renewable energy investment scam that wouldn’t exist without taxpayer dollars being sprayed around like confetti.

Pull the subsidies and the scam ceases to exist.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 16, 2023 6:21 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Aug 16, 2023 5:09 PM
“GOLDSTEIN NEWS
At last night’s Council meeting, the City of Glen Eira endorsed supporting the Voice to Parliament. Their statement of support can be found here.
https://gleneira.vic.gov.au/about-council/“

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, conservative, libertarian and other political parties of the right should start running in local elections.

And the suburban parliamentary seats now held by Labor, where aspirational workers and trades people live. Labor has essentially abandoned those people, they are ripe for harvesting with sane politics.

P
P
August 16, 2023 6:23 pm

Crossie
Aug 16, 2023 5:47 PM

When I was a kid PK meant a chewing gum, this one has lost its flavour and needs to be spat out.

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 16, 2023 6:25 pm

But the president says cryptically through an embassy spokesman that the Australian government knows why Tsai Ing-wen won’t be attending.

In other words, the Albanese regime has caved into pressure from the Chinese Communist party to snub the Taiwanese president because Elbow wants to be best mates with Emperor Xi.

Been fun watching the cavorting contortions.

Last week Wong-chap was rejoicing in China lowering tariffs on barley.
This week Turtle announced swingeing tariffs on China because Gaia.
Now the Tai Won On prez isn’t allowed to watch lezzball because Xi’d be unhappy.

I’m getting confused, will we be in good odour in Beijing next week or not?

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 6:30 pm

He is, Dover. The piece was so perfect I felt too shy to make a comment.

But a gazillion upticks for the Christian Elephant.

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 6:36 pm

“Labor has essentially abandoned those people, they are ripe for harvesting with sane politics.”

I agree, but the stupid effing Liberals are too busy trying to get the Teal seats back.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 6:41 pm

Those seats are no longer conservative constituencies. In many ways they haven’t been for a long time. All it took was an alternative.

I grew up in one, and it was being soft gentrified even then. Leaning Left but not daring to vote Labor en masse.

Go West Libs! That’s where the votes are. And ditch the pretenders on the way…the b/s meters are strong out there.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 6:46 pm

Of course, Crossie. What was I thinking? The Elbow regime is being propped up by an army of corrupt crony capitalist subsidy miners running a hippie renewable energy investment scam that wouldn’t exist without taxpayer dollars being sprayed around like confetti.

Pull the subsidies and the scam ceases to exist.

I find it so hard to understand how any business journalist or commentator who can’t work out that an industry that still needs subsidies decades after inception to make money is not for the long haul.

It seems every good idea or product only needs startup money to get going and then success follows yet here we have renewables that can never be profitable on their own. I can see it even if my degree is not in economics so why can’t our leaders? Stupidity or corruption on the part of our politicians?

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 6:48 pm

Just on Taiwan, we effectively abandoned Taiwan decades ago, and then we stood back and did nothing whilst the Chinese tightened the screws on Hong Kong. All we’ve done is fawn and kowtow to China, we’ve sat back and watched whilst premiers such as the unlamented thin lipped Maggot McGowan and the smirking Dan Xi Man prostrate themselves to China, and we’ve watched billionaires such as Andrew Forrest prostrate themselves. We in the west created the monster that is China, no wonder they’re emboldened.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 6:50 pm

Girded my loins and commented at CL’s blogue d’exellence.

It seems that the one time SU Trot is now a running derg.

Luigi is very flexible.

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 6:50 pm

“Go West Libs! That’s where the votes are. And ditch the pretenders on the way…the b/s meters are strong out there.”

Agree, although I strongly suspect many of those Teal seats will revert back into Liberal hands. Big Spenders’ silence on this Jew hating government’s treatment of Israel has been noted.

Tom
Tom
August 16, 2023 6:51 pm

Breaking news: Sam Kerr is in the starting 11 for tonight’s Australia V England soccer World Cup semi-final.

Bushkid
Bushkid
August 16, 2023 6:56 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 16, 2023 5:39 PM
Anthony Albanese reveals he would ban social media and abolish the state if he ever became dictator

I’d abolish the Labor Party and the Greens.

A thousand and one up-ticks!

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 6:58 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 7:00 pm

Ahhhh…..it’s good to see others call the subs deal the stinker it always was.
When I said that here on the day it was announced, one chicken hawk shrieked at me.
“How will we protect our shipping lanes” he cried !

Many…many lols.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 7:03 pm

dover0beach
Aug 16, 2023 6:25 PM
C.L.. on fire over at his place.

Australia is a Vassal State of the USA along with the UK and many others. So, what to do about it if anything? Let’s have a Referendum.

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:05 pm

We in the west created the monster that is China…

And sold out our working class to do so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 7:05 pm

tonight’s Australia V England soccer World Cup semi-final

The what?

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 7:05 pm

“C.L.. on fire over at his place.”

Yes, although he is on fire everyday at his blog. He is an amazing writer and thinker.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 16, 2023 7:07 pm

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe says future treaties between the commonwealth and Aboriginal people must be negotiated in a way that avoids the country going broke, declaring there is “a lot of money owed to First Peoples”.

(The Oz)
So what you are saying Lidia is that future reparations are a done deal, it’s only the amount you are assessing.
I hope this message is circulated far and wide. Pay up, just don’t go quite broke in doing so.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 16, 2023 7:08 pm

Just stumbled upon this passage in the Wiki article on Reagan.

Historians and scholars have ranked Reagan among the middle to upper tier of American presidents, and he is often viewed favorably among the general public.

Middle?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 7:10 pm

Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to cancel voice referendum

By jess malcolm
Reporter
@jessmalcolm1
6:32PM August 16, 2023
1 Comment

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe says future treaties between the commonwealth and Aboriginal people must be negotiated in a way that avoids the country going broke, declaring there is “a lot of money owed to First Peoples”.

In an address to the National Press Club in Canberra, Senator Thorpe said reparations must be paid to Indigenous people ­because of colonisation, but ­acknowledged governments did not have enough money to pay for what was “stolen”.

The Indigenous senator, who described herself as part of the “progressive No” campaign, also called on Anthony Albanese to cancel the referendum on a proposed voice to parliament, which she labelled as “window-dressing for constitutional recognition”.

Senator Thorpe laid out a five-point plan for Labor to pursue ­instead of the voice to parliament: truth telling; adopting all recommendations of two government reports; adopting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People; and treaty.

“We should call off the referendum,” she said. “It has caused nothing but harm and division. And for what? There won’t be change until this society changes.

“Until this society’s thinking, values, attitudes and systems have been revolutionised in order to ensure real self-determination, we cannot continue the legacy of the Australian colony.”

Labor has adopted all three ­elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which includes voice, truth telling and treaty, but the Prime Minister has sought to distance himself from treaty making before the referendum is held.

Senator Thorpe said Australia would be confirmed as a racist country if the referendum was unsuccessful, despite advocating for a No vote. “I don’t think a Yes or No result is going to make any difference regardless of what it is. If it is a No, well, we know that the country is racist,” she said.

She added that the Uluru Statement from the Heart was a “romantic, spiritual notion” and suggested it was impossible for one federal representative body to speak for all clan groups.

When discussing reparations for Indigenous people, Senator Thorpe pointed to the extraction of resources over the past 200 years, as well as “stolen” sandstone that had been used during the construction of the Victorian parliament. “It’s up to those clans and ­nations, but there is a lot of money owed to First Peoples,” she said.

Mr Albanese formally ­opposed reparations for Indigenous Australians by arguing there was nothing in the Uluru Statement from the Heart about financial compensation.

Senator Thorpe on Wednesday said Labor must pursue truth telling, implement all recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and institute the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report, which aims to end the separation of First Nations families.

Speaking in Brisbane after a national cabinet meeting, Mr Albanese said he was open to having further discussions with Senator Thorpe about Indigenous issues.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 7:11 pm

LWNJ Marxist Labor logic: Let’s fix house pricing by importing millions of low IQ gimme grants.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 7:13 pm

I find it so hard to understand how any business journalist or commentator who can’t work out that an industry that still needs subsidies decades after inception to make money is not for the long haul.

That was the Car Industry until the Feral Guv’ment finally pulled the plug. The money ran out.

It is only a matter of time before this happens with the ‘Ruinaballs’ as it will drain the Treasury first. If not, and the ‘Pollies’ (Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen and Dim Chalmers) keep going down this road, it will be over the cliff and ‘Crash and Burn’. IMHO.

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:14 pm

When I said that here on the day it was announced, one chicken hawk shrieked at me. “How will we protect our shipping lanes” he cried !

Given that our strategic fuel reserves are located in Texas and Louisiana, it’s a crucial question in the short to medium term.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 7:14 pm

Darth Soros work is done in Europe.

Children in Belgium and Germany are forced to participate in neocolonial submission rituals by islamists and their globalist interlocutors.

https://twitter.com/AntiWhiteWatch1/status/1690764821640384512

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 7:16 pm

Given that our strategic fuel reserves are located in Texas and Louisiana, it’s a crucial question in the short to medium term.

Lucky these subs turn up in the short to medium term…oh that’s right.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 7:20 pm

Mother Lode
Aug 16, 2023 7:08 PM
Just stumbled upon this passage in the Wiki article on Reagan.

Historians and scholars have ranked Reagan among the middle to upper tier of American presidents, and he is often viewed favorably among the general public.

Middle?

Wikipedia is a left wing nut job piece of shite. So what would you expect?

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:21 pm

Lucky these subs turn up in the short to medium term…oh that’s right.

What’s your solution then?

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:21 pm

Relying on the US is not advised.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 7:22 pm

What’s your solution then?

For starters, don’t give 360bill to US contractors.

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:27 pm

Senator Thorpe pointed to the extraction of resources over the past 200 years, as well as “stolen” sandstone that had been used during the construction of the Victorian parliament. “It’s up to those clans and ­nations, but there is a lot of money owed to First Peoples,” she said.

Indigenous people have already benefited from the royalties attached to minerals extraction, both along with the general population and as a result of land rights determinations.

The sandstone would likely have come from a privately owned quarry that paid government for a license to extract. Perhaps she’s just against private property?

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 7:28 pm

Michael Mansell and some other aboriginal statehood activist were on Bolt’s program just now. Both insisted on complete autonomy but when Bolt said that obviously they meant to live the modern life how were they going to afford it without our money they each dodged the question. Grifters, carpetbaggers, power grabbers the lot of them and all on the taxpayers’ money.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 7:29 pm

Senator Thorpe on Wednesday said Labor must pursue truth telling,

Whose truth? Stories my Nanna told me?

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:30 pm

For starters, don’t give 360bill to US contractors.

We’re limited in our choices. Absent a viable local industry, which is difficult for a middle power to sustain independently, that’s the reality.

The first thing we should be working towards is having our strategic oil reserves located on shore. The present arrangement is absurd.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 16, 2023 7:35 pm

Change Is in the Air in Africa

SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER

Under cover of the Ukrainian war, vast sweeping changes are in order for the global architecture which has secured Western hegemony for the past century and a half.

The events currently playing out in Africa and the ‘global south’ dare to eclipse the significance of the Ukrainian war, which acts merely as the frosting to the revolutionary layer cake of anti-imperialist sentiment bursting forth around the world.

Africa has had enough, and is self-assembling along geopolitical lines. The U.S. stooges of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) seek to keep the status quo going while rival blocs are ready to strip the Western powers of their self-proclaimed birthright to the African land—and its resources—once and for all.

This new revolt of the global south follows in the footsteps of previous movements, notably that of Gaddafi, who pushed for pan-Africanism and sought to replace the French Franc with an African currency based on the classical Libyan gold Dinar.

This was revealed in hacked Clinton emails from 2011 (released in 2015). One of them featured Clinton Foundation employee Sydney Blumenthal (a proxy for a CIA agent, it was later learned) telling Hillary the following:

The vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli. This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA).

Blumenthal goes on to intimate that:

“French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began”, and that this “influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya”.

Now, with that in mind, listen to this new report below about the current African developments:

The Economist is in dismay over Nigerien citizens’ support of Russia and the junta in general:

It’s clear that Russia’s David vs. Goliath performance in the Ukrainian war against the combined powers of the West is seen by the world as a reinvigorating and animating inspiration. When African countries see Russia leading the charge with its opening salvo against the West, they feel secure in marching behind their ‘big brother’.

The true war has always been about Europe’s main hegemonic weapon: its currency and banking system, which it uses to enslave lesser countries and control other ‘great powers’. But things are now converging with remarkable synchronicity to wrest back control from the West. In only a little over a week, a historic BRICS summit will take place and is set to become a linchpin in upturning the world order.

As can be seen from these recent reports, everyone in the ‘global south’ is clamoring for a new currency to replace the dollar and other Western units.

The only question is whether there will be enough resolve and gusto to really push the initiative forward.

Just listen to this recent Lula speech regarding the upcoming BRICS summit:

Meanwhile

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to address the military takeover in Niger ought to be an option of last resort, US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Monday.

The U.S. in the meantime expresses dumbfounded puzzlement as to why African countries could possibly side with Russia. Here’s Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller:

The poor, confused colonist has no idea why Africans would want to buy Russian flags. Well, Matthew, why don’t you let them educate you themselves:

The problem with Western/European elites is they think everyone in the global south is stupid. For instance, during the Ukrainian grain deal shenanigans a few weeks back the Euro-technocrats really tried to foist this nonsensical logic onto Africans, thinking they would fall for something so utterly cretinous and nakedly dishonest:

Can you believe it? He really tried to gaslight Africans into believing that Russia is ‘enslaving them’ with free grain! While, conversely, Europe’s theft and gluttinous hoarding of their grain is meant to be some sort of munificence or altruism, one supposes.

This is why Africans now reject the desperate deceit from Europe, which is culminating in a last gasp for control over their erstwhile empires from the age of imperialism.

Meanwhile Putin offers a new and better path to the world.

During yesterday’s security conference as part of the Arms expo, he preached cooperation amongst all the countries under the West’s cudgel.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 7:36 pm

Senator Thorpe pointed to the extraction of resources over the past 200 years, as well as “stolen” sandstone that had been used during the construction of the Victorian parliament. “It’s up to those clans and ­nations, but there is a lot of money owed to First Peoples,” she said.

The Abo’s owe the whites groveling gratitude for allowing them to live. In addition, the Abo’s had no clue what money was before their 40,000 years (debatable) degenerate lifestyle was elevated. Screw them I say.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 7:36 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Aug 16, 2023 7:05 PM
tonight’s Australia V England soccer World Cup semi-final

The what?

The ‘what’ is the Women’s Football World Cup being held in Australia. Now, Mr Neanderthal, get back in yer’ cave and stay aware of yer’ surroundings. If you can that is.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 7:36 pm

Roger
Aug 16, 2023 7:05 PM
We in the west created the monster that is China…

And sold out our working class to do so.

Along with our national security and pharmaceuticals safety and availability. Just think what would happen if CCP suddenly decided no medicines for you Australia. All those who think then we will get them from India forget that India get their pharmaceutical raw materials from China. We are in deep trouble and don’t even realise it.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 7:39 pm

feelthebern
Aug 16, 2023 7:22 PM
What’s your solution then?

For starters, don’t give 360bill to US contractors.

And yet we are sinking 360 billion+ into renewables without any qualms from most quarters.

Rosie
Rosie
August 16, 2023 7:40 pm

Speaking of Medicare my local bulk has finally gone to $30 out of pocket for all but certain concession card holders.
Not a peep out of those protesting the Abbott co-payments about the virtual disappearance of bulk billing

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 16, 2023 7:40 pm

Crossie

Stupidity or corruption on the part of our politicians?

Embrace the power of “and”.

Pogria
Pogria
August 16, 2023 7:41 pm

I watched part of Lydia ranting during her Press Club Address.
Lydia has stated most loudly that she will have nothing to do with “Colonialist”, entities, except for her her Pollies wages and Super and perks of course.
Bear with me here fellow Cats. In one of my many employment incarnations over my working life, I was, for a time, a Film Make-up Artist. I can spot facial “help”, no matter how minor, from across a Ballroom floor, let alone on a 65 inch tv screen. Lydia, the Tattooed Lady has gone all “Kamala Harris”.

There is definite Botox and I venture a barrow load of Collagen/Restylane. Her face was unnaturally smooth and puffy. Her eyes were slits.

If the puffiness had been from drinking, her skin would not have been as smooth as it was under the harsh lighting. Alcohol puffiness makes your face look like a bum with bad cellulite.

Bitchiness on my part? Hell yes if it stops the massive shakedown heading our way.

Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 7:41 pm

“Whose truth? Stories my Nanna told me?”

Yeah…like the story that “mermaids took Harold Holt”.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 7:41 pm

The first thing we should be working towards is having our strategic oil reserves located on shore. The present arrangement is absurd.

What is the point if we don’t have the refining capability?

Lee
Lee
August 16, 2023 7:42 pm

Given that our strategic fuel reserves are located in Texas and Louisiana, it’s a crucial question in the short to medium term.

Until the crime kingpin in the White House appropriates it for America under the guise of “climate change.”

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:43 pm

We are in deep trouble and don’t even realise it.

Oh, I think we realise it.

Covid and the subsequent supply chain disruption exposed it.

Western expats in China who facilitated Chinese off-shoring are leaving in droves.

Our chief problem is that some sectors of our economy are too lazy to get off the Chinese teat.

cohenite
August 16, 2023 7:43 pm

Interesting take on the GA indictment of electoral fraud by Trump; courtesy of Judge Janine: the bearded bastard Jack Smith has in his indictment of Trump in DC for electoral fraud used the very same GA statutes as that black skank has used in GA. Since federal indictments supersede state and county indictments where duplication occurs the GA indictment is estopped by the previous federal indictment

These people are so stupid they make dickless look urbane and smart.

Roger
Roger
August 16, 2023 7:44 pm

What is the point if we don’t have the refining capability?

I was getting to that.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 16, 2023 7:45 pm

feelthebern
Aug 16, 2023 7:00 PM
Ahhhh…..it’s good to see others call the subs deal the stinker it always was.
When I said that here on the day it was announced, one chicken hawk shrieked at me.
“How will we protect our shipping lanes” he cried !

Many…many lols.

A small number (three or four, perhaps) would be a valuable means to collect the acoustic signatures of major warships, surface and submarine, of potential enemies, to assist in targeting them with un-crewed submersibles and remotely operated torpedo/mines.

But they would be far too valuable to rush around chasing enemy warships during a real war.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 7:46 pm

The Abo’s owe the whites groveling gratitude for allowing them to live

I could argue they owe the whites grovelling gratitude for defending them against Japanese invasion during World War Two….

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 7:46 pm
calli
calli
August 16, 2023 7:46 pm

as well as “stolen” sandstone

How can you steal something that had no owner?

I could assert that Lidia “stole” western dress.

She’s a moron. That people believe her suggests it’s contagious.

miltonf
miltonf
August 16, 2023 7:48 pm

Didn’t know Bandler was a commo too- thanks Roger

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 7:48 pm

Belay that. She’s a cunning grifter. Appealing to morons.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 7:50 pm

More Lidia.
Every damn day.
She’s the best thing going for the “No” vote out there.

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 7:50 pm

Senator Babet

mRNA For Livestock

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 7:52 pm

Yeah…like the story that “mermaids took Harold Holt”.

“Maybe two, maybe three hundred black fellas shot and burned….

Eight hundred Aborigines murdered, and the river ran red with their blood…..”

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 7:52 pm
Pogria
Pogria
August 16, 2023 7:53 pm

I watched part of Lydia ranting during her Press Club Address.
Lydia has stated most loudly that she will have nothing to do with “Colonialist”, entities, except for her her Pollies wages and Super and perks of course.
Bear with me here fellow Cats. In one of my many employment incarnations over my working life, I was, for a time, a Film Make-up Artist. I can spot facial “help”, no matter how minor, from across a Ballroom floor, let alone on a 65 inch tv screen. Lydia, the Tattooed Lady has gone all “Kamala Harris”.

There is definite Botox and I venture a barrow load of Collagen/Restylane. Her face was unnaturally smooth and puffy. Her eyes were slits.

If the puffiness had been from drinking, her skin would not have been as smooth as it was under the harsh lighting. Alcohol puffiness makes your face look like a bum with bad cellulite.

Bitchiness on my part? Hell yes if it stops the massive shakedown heading our way.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 7:53 pm

I was stupid enough to click on Channel 7 to see the soccer game only to see some Aboriginal “elder” preaching his gospel. Click.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 7:54 pm

We need the ticks back. Im tired of not being able to acknowledge others comments the lazy way.

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 7:56 pm
Cassie of Sydney
August 16, 2023 8:04 pm

“She’s a moron. “

A dangerous moron. The problem with this extremely hideous woman is that well-heeled people vote for her.

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 8:04 pm

Old Ozzie:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/15/newt_gingrich_indictment_is_a_desperate_effort_by_corrupt_machine_to_destroy_their_most_dangerous_opponent.html

The US is now entering a crisis that leads straight to Civil War.
Obama has had his wish granted. And the Right gave him the means to carry it out by electing him.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 8:06 pm

The ‘what’ is the Women’s Football World Cup being held in Australia. Now, Mr Neanderthal, get back in yer’ cave and stay aware of yer’ surroundings. If you can that is.

Tell you what, ‘sirry iriot’.

When the eventual winner of this competition, if it can be called that, is announced – I will gladly fly anywhere to see that team get the bejesus whipped out of them by any regional town’s representative Under 18 side.

A sport characterised by falling to the ground and pretending your spine is severed at the touch of a shirt, made even worse when played by women because all 22 of them on the field have the shits due to half of them wearing the same outfit.

NB: Mick Jagger is a homo. Confirmed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 8:13 pm

The English gals up front are like the Frog women.
Get it, shoot.
Doesn’t always work.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 8:16 pm

The crowd is awful.
They are squealing whenever Australia moves the ball forward.
TV now on mute.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 16, 2023 8:16 pm

I will gladly fly anywhere to see that team get the bejesus whipped out of them by any regional town’s representative Under 18 side.

In the fair dinkum stakes KD, sporting crowds pay to see drama, entertainment, and an even contest.
No one will pay to watch a horse race between Phar Lap and Mr Ed.
But pit Mr Ed against Ernie’s Trigger, and a cast of thousands will pay to view and bet.
So it is with women’s soccer. Their skill level is debatable but all teams are similar so the contest draws people in.
As does the drama, entertainment, and national pride.

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 8:22 pm

Most controversial Reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/15s3xvt/friend_just_posted_this_and_was_utterly_serious/?sort=new

“Men prefer debt-free virgins without tattoos”

Plenty of cope. So much cope. “I like experienced tattooed women I respect who know what they want because they f**k like crazy”….yeah real respectful buddy.

“You guys are pedos! Why get a virgin, a pro can make you cum SO hard!”

Cope. Cope. Cope Cope. Cope.

Funny how I think the guy who sent it on didn’t realise it was ironic, apparently they’re “adult actors” in the meme image.

A lot of comments are …”welp, the meme ain’t wrong, but beggars can’t be choosers”.

Crossie
Crossie
August 16, 2023 8:27 pm

Indolent
Aug 16, 2023 8:19 PM
Anthony Albanese has NOT read the full Uluru Statement: “Why would I?”

I consider that reply to be on the same level as Pauline Hanson’s “Please explain”.

Chris
Chris
August 16, 2023 8:29 pm

FMD.
Monty, its Muellerween again. Aaaaany day now.

calli
calli
August 16, 2023 8:30 pm

I’m thinking more along the lines of “Let them eat cake”.

Hopefully with s similar result.

miltonf
miltonf
August 16, 2023 8:34 pm

Pauline’s reply was not arrogant dismissal unlike anal.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 8:34 pm

Phrasing?

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 8:35 pm

Rafiki/Speedbox

Anyone who has grasped in general terms what the Voice is about and will vote Yes is unlikely to change their vote, for such people are not rational. This news may solidify the intentions of the No declarants.

The issue, of course, is about who counts the votes. Was there a reply to the claim that:

The last referendum, SSM, the yes vote got 6.5m votes out of 15.5m eligible voters, about 40%. They invalidated 5m votes on spurious grounds such as writing “no” on the envelope. And suddenly there were 6.5m out of 10.5m, about 60%. Yes to SSM.
They’ll do the same again.

Someone else felt the difference between referendum and plebiscite would negate the throwing out of votes on the spurious grounds presented made a difference, but would they?

miltonf
miltonf
August 16, 2023 8:36 pm

Every day in America it becomes more apparent that democracy was just a very thin veneer. Interesting too about the RINOs in Georgia.

cohenite
August 16, 2023 8:38 pm

Indolent
Aug 16, 2023 8:19 PM
Anthony Albanese has NOT read the full Uluru Statement: “Why would I?”

I consider that reply to be on the same level as Pauline Hanson’s “Please explain”.

Nah, poor old Pauline was ignorant; rub and tug is just an arrogant commie bastard.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 16, 2023 8:39 pm

Have the sheila’s soccer on in the background on TV.

So ferrking boring. Men’s soccer is boring but this is mind numbing.

Poms just got a goal. HoHum.

Just go to a penalty shootout and save all the trouble.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 8:40 pm

cohenite, I thought of you today.
I got an uber & the driver was this jacked asian bird in gym gear.
one of your owls.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 8:44 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAsG6UVDpLc

Jacinta Price handed a massive free kick..

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 8:45 pm

The last referendum, SSM, the yes vote got 6.5m votes out of 15.5m eligible voters, about 40%. They invalidated 5m votes on spurious grounds such as writing “no” on the envelope. And suddenly there were 6.5m out of 10.5m, about 60%. Yes to SSM.
They’ll do the same again.

This is bullshit. Please stop posting these ridiculous lies. Where the hell are you getting these stupid ideas about elections in Australia? The other day you and Rufus T Kremlin reckoned 30% of the votes in the last Federal election were put in “vans and burnt” like in the Potato’s Republic of Russiastan.

I didn’t “vote” in the Marriage Law Survey, I refused to “vote” on an envelope with a barcode.

The spurious ground you quote has no legal basis and was not mentioned at all BY ANYONE.

Are you delusional?

Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?
Results

Votes

Yes 7,817,247 61.60%
No 4,873,987 38.40%

Valid votes 12,691,234 99.71%
Invalid or blank votes 36,686 0.29%
Total votes 12,727,920 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 16,006,180 79.52%

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 8:47 pm
Morsie
Morsie
August 16, 2023 8:48 pm

Well unless they pull their collective fingers out,the “dream” appears over.
England looking not great but a class above.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 8:49 pm

Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?
Results

Votes

Yes 7,817,247 61.60%
No 4,873,987 38.40%

Valid votes 12,691,234 99.71%
Invalid or blank votes 36,686 0.29%
Total votes 12,727,920 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 16,006,180 79.52%

Unless I’m mistaken, those figures do not represent votes stained by iodine and therefore discounted.

John
John
August 16, 2023 8:50 pm

This is the first time I’ve seen Samantha Kerr playing. For somebody reputed to be one of the best players in the world she isn’t very dominating in the game. I expected her to be to be more of a threat near goal but she just ambles along.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 8:50 pm

Looks like they got to Dot too.
The deep state claims another chapter brother.

caveman
caveman
August 16, 2023 8:51 pm

The curse of the free holiday.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 8:52 pm

If Sleazy ever became dictator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGM-dY4TzqA

Chris
Chris
August 16, 2023 8:52 pm

I could argue they owe the whites grovelling gratitude for defending them against Japanese invasion during World War Two….

Their own stood up too.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 8:55 pm

Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?

And the slippery slope proved true.

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 8:55 pm

Mother Lode:

But when I look at Europe where we can see where this madness leads, I think to myself (and write in my little note book) “If there is any hope it must lie in the Poles.”

Wonderful – mega upticks.

Razey
Razey
August 16, 2023 8:56 pm

Who knew Dot was a disgusting (heading to Hell) faggot Yes voter?

cohenite
August 16, 2023 8:56 pm

cohenite, I thought of you today.
I got an uber & the driver was this jacked asian bird in gym gear.
one of your owls.

Unless I see photos I’m calling bullshit.

Here is a real cute owl.

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 8:59 pm

Razey
Aug 16, 2023 8:56 PM

Who knew Dot was a disgusting (heading to Hell) faggot Yes voter?

None of that is true.

Indolent
Indolent
August 16, 2023 8:59 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:00 pm

disgusting (heading to Hell) faggot Yes voter?

Razorino-san. Have some sake, watch Kill Bill #1 and chill out.

Okonono.

Pretend you’re a fake magician’s stooge or something.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:02 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Aug 16, 2023 8:06 PM

LOL. Sir Mick Jagger is a ‘what’?

When Sir Mick has sired so many children? Go back to your cave and play with your willy you silly Neanderthal person. ‘Sirry Irriot’ (as Benny Hill would say). FFS.

shatterzzz
August 16, 2023 9:04 pm

Lotza improvement needed in the 2nd half .. they are being outplayed easily ..
Tho with “Toone” playing verrrrry understandable .. LOL!

John
John
August 16, 2023 9:07 pm

Why are we passing the ball to their goalkeeper instead of shooting? Don’t we want to win?

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 9:08 pm

cohenite you’re gay. No one cares anymore. I support you my gay Jewish gym rat brother.

Please don’t post this twink porn stuff here. It is sickening to me.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:08 pm

Morsie
Aug 16, 2023 8:48 PM
Well unless they pull their collective fingers out,the “dream” appears over.
England looking not great but a class above.

Spain will win the Final. They look very good.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 16, 2023 9:08 pm

Their own stood up too.

One indigenous soldier – the patriarch of a prominent Noongar Clan – returned to Australia after serving in North Africa. He was refused service in a local pub. His fellow soldiers boycotted the pub and the unit commander organized transport to an establishment that served soldiers, regardless of race…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:09 pm

LOL. Sir Mick Jagger is a ‘what’?

A homo. A pouve. A decliner. A penii enthusiast. An interior decorator.

We’ve been over this, time and again. Just accept that Sir Mick (along with countless other Sirs) are, in fact, knob jockeys.

Go back to your cave and play with your willy

I’m not getting it out unless I’m confident Homo Mick’s far away.

It’s the French influence on the English, you know.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:10 pm

Please don’t post this twink porn stuff here. It is sickening to me.

Just skip over it then. FFS.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:11 pm

Oh, and Mr Rotten:

‘Mick’s kids’ – much like Michael Jackson’s kids – aren’t really his kids.

But you know this.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:12 pm

Is it time for a phone call to the Philippines yet?

‘Of course I love you. Here’s some money.’

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 9:13 pm

What a very uninspiring sporting contest.

The Poms are clearly more structured but, Lord, both sides are given to hacking directionless kicks and giving up on possession.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:13 pm

It’s the French influence on the English, you know.

Yes, and I can just see the french influence on the Rolling Stones music. Lol. FFS. You T.W.A.T. And a bigot to boot.

John
John
August 16, 2023 9:14 pm

It’s very frustrating watching use lose the ball in critical movements.

shatterzzz
August 16, 2023 9:15 pm

This is the first time I’ve seen Samantha Kerr playing. For somebody reputed to be one of the best players in the world she isn’t very dominating in the game.

She’s not fit .. shouldn’t have started except the media got excited and the coach chickened .. time she’s been out a 70/75th minute replacement would be more suitable .. All she is doing is reducing the team to 10 until she’s hooked ..
If they don’t score by 60mins he needs to get her off 1st ….. but he won’t .. duuuh!

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 9:19 pm

Razey:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12410981/Woolworths-trials-new-security-technology-self-serve-checkout-stop-shoplifting.html

I really hope they thought of the person who walks in to buy something then walks out – or attempts to do so – when they don’t find the item they want.

pete of perth
pete of perth
August 16, 2023 9:20 pm

1 all

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 9:21 pm

Well, that wasn’t a directionless kick.
WTF would I know?

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:21 pm

‘Mick’s kids’ – much like Michael Jackson’s kids – aren’t really his kids.

LOL. You are just like Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment. All mouth and no trousers.

So where is your proof? More BS from you which is as expected from another pompous windbag.

John
John
August 16, 2023 9:22 pm

We’ll haven’t I been embarrassed. What a well worked goal.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:22 pm

pete of perth
Aug 16, 2023 9:20 PM
1 all

And a very good goal.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 16, 2023 9:23 pm

Now that was very, very good from Sam Kerr.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:25 pm

So where is your proof?

Please.

Just accept that your hero in both childhood and adult life is a rampant, proven felcher.

cohenite
August 16, 2023 9:28 pm

cohenite you’re gay.

I am not; and if I was it would be head prefect’s fault.

Being sickened by what intimidates you is the first stage to facing and defeating your fears dottie. I will, at great expense, put up regularly a photo of a divine, nubile, muscular young woman. Together we will condition you away from this disturbing phobia which is keeping you from considering the important stuff like the latest advance in super conductors.

The approach we will take is I will post a great photo and direct you to one part of the young lady’s luscious body. In this way we will progress to you being able to view a whole cute owl without fear. Now dottie only focus on this cute owl’s belly-button and nothing else.

pete of perth
pete of perth
August 16, 2023 9:28 pm

back to the drawing board

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 9:30 pm

Indolent

Aug 16, 2023 7:46 PM
Have you ever seen Clots like this? DO NOT WATCH if squeamish!

They look like fibrin plugs, to me. The red cells have all been washed out and it’s just fibrin left.
But I’m no doctor.

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 9:31 pm

I refuse to look any more cohenite but most men would prefer Chelan Simmons or Virginia Madsen in the prime of their beauty to the square-jawed East German “women” you post pics of.

You being condescending towards me with this fetish is hilariously deluded.

John
John
August 16, 2023 9:32 pm

I think we’ve lost it. There lesbian dominas look so much better than ours.

cohenite
August 16, 2023 9:33 pm

You being condescending towards me with this fetish is hilariously deluded.

It is not condescension but wisdom and concern based on my 80 years of hard experience. Together we will get through this. What did you think of her wonderful belly button?

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 9:34 pm

Any other male Cats please:

Adjudicate this debate for cohenite and myself.

Princess Irulan (Dune, 1984)

OR

a “cute OWL”.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 9:34 pm

No. Belay that.

It appears that aimless hacking is the go.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:35 pm

Just accept that your hero in both childhood and adult life is a rampant, proven felcher.

Not my hero at all. Just a part of a very successful British Group. Just like many Groups that came from GB. Like The Beatles, The Who, the Animals, the Kinks, Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and of course the Sex Pistols with Johnny Rotten.

You Muppet.

Robert Sewell
August 16, 2023 9:37 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Aug 16, 2023 8:04 PM

“She’s a moron. “

A dangerous moron. The problem with this extremely hideous woman is that well-heeled people vote for her.

The well heeled people voting for her are the very same emotional types who voted for Obama.

cohenite
August 16, 2023 9:40 pm

Adjudicate this debate for cohenite and myself.

Princess Irulan (Dune, 1984)

OR

a “cute OWL”.

Your links don’t work dottie. I’m pleading with you: go back and look, only, at her belly button.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:41 pm

Like The Beatles, The Who, the Animals, the Kinks, Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and of course the Sex Pistols with Johnny Rotten.

You forgot the Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat and East 17.

Pouves.

Johnny Rotten
August 16, 2023 9:42 pm

Dot
Aug 16, 2023 9:34 PM
Any other male Cats please:

Adjudicate this debate for cohenite and myself.

Dotty Dot of Dottiness. You are not a Cat. You are a Pussy. And stop crying over spilt milk. You seem to be just like KD and Mts Stencho Pantyhose and the Sictorian.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:43 pm

focus on this cute owl’s belly-button

It looks like a barnacle on a worn out merchant trawler.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 16, 2023 9:43 pm

All done.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 16, 2023 9:44 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 16, 2023 9:44 pm

That said – Princess Irulan is a solid 5, so there’s that.

John
John
August 16, 2023 9:46 pm

Anyway, we punched well above our talent. This is the first time Australia have reached a soccer World Cup semi-final. Well done girls!

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 16, 2023 9:46 pm

Here is a real cute owl.

Oh my.

Dot
Dot
August 16, 2023 9:46 pm

Nothing was linked.

Okay, see below.

Chelan Simmons

Princess Irulan

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