Women abandoned me at the polls: Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton has accused women of abandoning her in the 2016 presidential election and claims female voters were more willing to take a risk on Donald Trump.

Ms Clinton, 76, was the favourite in the presidential election eight years ago after winning the Democratic Party’s nomination, and many pollsters predicted she would ease to victory.

Then Mr Trump pulled off one of history’s most shocking political upsets by winning the White House, despite losing the popular vote.

Ms Clinton’s campaign has since been pored over in minute detail by commentators seeking an explanation for the defeat.

In an interview for a new book, the former secretary of state blamed former FBI director James Comey for his last-minute decision to reopen an investigation into her use of a private email server before the election, saying this led women to desert her.

“Once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me, were women,” she said, according to The New York Times. “They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect.

“They were willing to take a risk on Trump – who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws … because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander-in-chief.”

While Ms Clinton pointed the finger of blame at Mr Comey, other commentators have found many faults with the former first lady’s campaign. Critics accused her of neglecting battleground states and of having a sense of entitlement towards the presidency.

It’s always someone else’s fault!

Meanwhile according to the Oz Mark Scott at Sydney Uni capitulates to the protesters.

It is not much of a fight, Lizzie. One side has stones, drones, small arms and the odd missile, the other has helicopter gunships, bombers with complete air superiority, tanks and all the modern urban combat gear US money can buy.

Yes, that is right. If the side with all the weapons advantages used them there would be no movement in Gaza, the war would be over and peace for the first time in centuries would ensue…

only one side is playing by the rules and it isn’t the sub human low IQ barbarians who live in GAZA…

I would encourage them wholeheartedly to use those weapons without reservation…

Bedtime in the wild SW, to rolling thunder and cold washes of rain.
Probably have a few dead lambs to gather up in the morning, but many more tenacious tykes too. Sheep are quite amazing, really. Come to think of it, it’s very still between squalls, at least for the meantime. I’ve heard a few limbs dragged off the marris, low hangers where the black cockies don’t thrash off the gumnuts- a good sign of soaking rain which bears heavy on the surface area of the leaves without getting blown off.

Zulu, if you are around, what is the name of the tribe with the longest living culture in Africa, that you mentioned?

My total recall and infallible memory failed me on this one.
Anyone else is welcome to help.

*Deathrow*

Chortle.

Headline of the day (the Tele):

Dignity in tact: No rear access for proposed sex shop

Judge Merchan jury instructions in Trump trial

At publishing time, Judge Merchan had reportedly informed bailiffs to be ready to handcuff Trump and escort him to jail regardless of whether or not the jury found him guilty.

She’s not a medical doctor, does she even speak Arabic?
What is this peculiar symptom of starvation?
its amazing to me they can fly in psychologists for gazan children but not ensure proper nutrition.
Though I’m sure for those not high up on the pecking order, there are inadequate food days.
https://x.com/SBSNews/status/1795550701516402929?t=2fE_BY63RQaSLJXfL0ofMA&s=19

I have to say I don’t quite get this meme, maybe better I don’t?
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It is said that after Mrs Craddock had finished a television cooking session, someone gushed to the viewers: “And may all your doughnuts come out like Fanny’s. “

Trump is once again making the Republican (and SFL) mistake of not having his administration nominated and engaging in serious policy development and importantly, debate to identify dissent.

It is too late to wait until the convention to make show pony appointments.

His last administration was crippeled by nominations who revealed themselves to be traitors or at best uncooperative, and of course his huge mistake of leaving Left thugs in public posts.

Labor could show him how. In only two years they have implemented massively complex programs. How? By working with the suborned Public Service throughout the years of SFL Government. All they had to do upon taking office was to say GO.

In many ways, Australia’s administrative state is far more threatening than the Swamp, because it is invisible.

My son was just in Tbilisi. The streets are full of stray dogs. Not mangy mongrels but huge steppe huskies or something like that. If you eat on the street they will stand politely in front of you expecting a morsel. Google tells me that Georgia is the most dog friendly place for tourists too.

Oh…dear.

A perfesser tries to get a grovel from a Jewish author.
It doesnt go well.
Final lines here, but its a RTWT.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/jewish-author-delivers-blistering-response-when-asked-where/

Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go f**k themselves.
— Dina Rubina

O’Neil and Giles are digging their hole even deeper. Perhaps we should put them to work on Snowy 2.0.

Why a ‘foolish’ tribunal allowed Sudanese serial criminal who faked being Indigenous to keep his visa (Sky News, 29 May)

Fiery exchange as O’Neil defends Giles over immigration bungle (Sky mainpage headline, 29 May)

Anyone want some more popcorn?

WA Police have power to issue 72-hour restraining order even if there is not enough evidence to charge person

There absolutely could have been a balls-up by the cops here. I still want to know why this was required when the daughter had almost two months to alert the authorities about the armed and violent man whose home she claims she fled in fear of her safety. It’s a reasonable question, but it couldn’t be asked because “she didn’t want to be drawn on the details”.

I’ll bet she didn’t. It’ll come out at the inquest I suppose, although by then she’ll no doubt have collected her West Australian of the Year award, done the speaking tours etc and no one will notice.

Plenty of precedent for this, ie. Rosie Batty, who is never questioned over her extraordinarily negligent and reckless conduct in allowing her son to approach his father despite the restraining order she’d taken out against him; a man she knew to be violent and mentally unstable.

Gawd almighty Andrew Giles is an insipid wimp of a blame shifter.

If a streak of pelican guano were human it’d be Andrew Giles

on the De Nirogration of Donald Trumped by the has-been I liked this comment on the article by Andrew Creighton in the Oz:

Lucas Heights

6 HOURS AGO

Donald Trump became successful by writing his own script and projecting his acumen and personality on to the public. Robert De Niro become successful by reading other peoples scripts and projecting their acumen and personalities on to the public Which of these two has the most credibility to lead America (and the free world) in the years ahead ?

The Us Army Corps of Engineers ain’t what it used to be:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/gaza-pier-built-to-supply-aid-breaks-apart/103906214

Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh estimated the repair work will take at least over a week, with the structure being anchored back onto the beach afterwards.
Ms Singh said: “From when it was operational, it was working, and we just had sort of an unfortunate confluence of weather storms that made it inoperable for a bit.
“Hopefully just a little over a week, we should be back up and running.”

Since the pier began operations, the United Nations has transported 137 trucks of aid from the pier — the equivalent of 900 metric tonnes — a UN World Food Programme spokesperson said.

and

The setback is the latest for the $490 million pier, which has already had three US service members injured and had four vessels beached due to heavy seas.
Two of the service members received minor injuries but the third is still in critical condition, Ms Singh said.
Deliveries were also halted for two days last week after crowds rushed aid trucks coming from the pier and one Palestinian man was shot dead.
The pier was fully functional as late as Saturday when heavy seas unmoored four of the Army boats that were being used to ferry pallets of aid from commercial vessels to the pier.

Two of the vessels got stuck on the coast of Israel. One has already been recovered and the other will be in the next 24 hours with the help of the Israeli military, Ms Singh said.
The other two boats were stranded on the beach in Gaza and were expected to be recovered in the next two days, she said.

Setback? Fustercluck, more like.

They are blaming ‘heavy seas’ and ‘storms’ – no doubt these unprecedented events will be blamed on the boiling oceans any minute now.

Still, no doubt they all know their pronouns.

Lets not forget, Laura Tingle works for a racist organisation.
What did she know and why did she remain silent..
the standard you walk past etc etc…

Justin Stevens apologises to ABC staff after report finds workplace racismhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/16/justin-stevens-apologises-to-abc-staff-after-report-finds-workplace-racism

$600M for an NRL team in PNG FFS!

A hearts and minds initiative to keep the Chinese at bay.

At the RenewEnergy satire site, Green’s Green, Giles Parkinson, has his knickers in a knot over Florence the immobile tunnel boring machine.

Snowy Hydro insists, however, that despite the cost blowouts – now at $12 billion, up from the original estimate of just $2 billion and twice the first detailed budget – the project is still worth more than it was at the start, with a “net present value” of more than $3 billion according to a new assessment released last week.

That is predicated on an increased capacity – now 2,00 MW – and more generation, operating at up to six to eight hours a day. It depends, some analysts say optimistically, on being able to operate that often, and not having the growing amounts of battery storage eating its lunch and stealing its market share by offering cheaper turnarounds.

The delays in the project – now not expected to be working until the end of the decade – and the cost blowouts have turned Snowy 2.0 into something of an embarrassment for the federal government. Apart from the impact on its own green transition plans, it has caused many other projects to be abandoned, because of its sheer size.

Comrade Parkinson is also full of admiration for Snowy Hydro’s other major initiative:

The one piece of “good news” from Snowy Hydro’s Senate Committee appearance was the assessment that another of its controversial projects, the new 660 MW Kurri Kurri gas power station in the Hunter Valley, will be finished on time by the end of the year. 

But it won’t be running on gas, and certainly not the partial green hydrogen promised in the original plan, at least initially. That’s because the new gas pipeline needed to supply the plant has not been built yet, and the green hydrogen hasn’t been sourced. So the facility will be operating on trucked in diesel until that time. That’s a lot of diesel.

Obviously, I’m not entirely sure myself, but you kind of sense that there may just be a problem with Snowy Hydro (joint proprietors: C. Bowen and K. Gallagher) when RenewEnergy calls it out as a clown show.

Last word on Snowy Hydro’s NPV $3bn ‘estimate’ for Miserable Ghost 2.0:

That is predicated on an increased capacity – now 2,00 MW – and more generation, operating at up to six to eight hours a day.

That is also predicated on 2.0 being able to buy 7.5 to 10 hours of ‘cheap’ off peak power every day – without bidding up the prices for everyone else – to pump water back up the hill.

It’s a far king good job that renewable power will be too cheap to meter by the time this economic dynamo kicks in…