Ben Garrison.
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Lisa Benson.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez.
Thanks John
Skimmed it. Appears that the plea agreement is voided if Assange is convicted of any criminal act in the future. Suggests he can’t go anywhere near Wikileaks again.
Jessica Fletcher would be horrified – Good heavens – what has happened to the state of Maine?
File under – You learn something new everyday
Not just lobster rolls.
Do not want to know.
JC
June 27, 2024 8:15 pm
Thanks John
I wonder if they have a couple of spare charges up their sleeve to play if he misbehaves.
Just a hunch he’s going to try and move into politics.
Assange is so far out of Oz politics it isn’t funny – my guess is NO CHANCE
The digital revolution and the ability to make videos of ourselves has given us the means to be described for ever more as the dumbest and clumsiest generation ever.
The only question is how much alcohol did it take to do this?
That’s a new keyboard and a large single malt you owe me!
Message for elderly male Cats:
If you are elderly but think you are still spiritedly enough to get up a roof, have a good hard think about it, then another one, then don’t do it.
A 70-year-old retired ex-principal who keeps his hand in doing relief teaching at our kids’ school came a-cropper this afternoon and fell off the roof looking for sports balls. He is in critical condition in hospital. From what I saw of the efforts by the paramedics to revive him, he came close to popping clogs, and isn’t out of the woods yet.
Too many old blokes falling off ladders. Just don’t do it.
You’re safe then. You couldn’t climb up one to start with.
Bummer, sad to hear that Monty.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t want to rebuild the salubrious Cafe penthouse, which fell off the tree a few weeks ago, when the attachment plate rotted. I’d have to climb up a ladder to do that, and, well, age sucks. Gravity also sucks.
That would also apply to fatsos, Fatboy.
Fatima Payman has ‘strengthened’ Labor movement: unionsSarah Ison
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Unions are backing the right of Labor MPs to cross the floor and vote against a caucus position, rebuffing claims that Labor senator Fatima Payman weakened the labour movement by breaking a 130-year-old tradition.
Senator Payman joined the Greens this week to vote for Palestine to be recognised as a state, with senior Labor figures including Foreign Minister Penny Wong declaring that the decision of Anthony Albanese not to expel or suspend her showed remarkable “restraint”.
Instead of serving her with an ongoing suspension from caucus, the Prime Minister barred Senator Payman from attending just one scheduled caucus meeting next week, before parliament rises for the winter break.
Former Labor MPs Mike Kelly and Michael Danby both argued Senator Payman should be expelled if she did not bind herself publicly to voting with the party from here on in but CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith admonished those “decrying her stand” on the issue of Palestine.
“Senator Payman’s principled stand on Palestine this week undoubtedly strengthened the labour movement. Any suggestion we are weaker because someone stood up for peace, justice and equality makes no sense,” he said.
“Senator Payman made a hugely courageous decision to take a stand on a conflict that has seen tens of thousands of innocent people die. She is 100 per cent in line with our movement’s values, and true Labor people should be applauding, rather than anonymously decrying her stand.”
“Unmitigated malarkey” are two words that spring to mind.
So rooftop solar is a killer, eh, m0nster?
Maybe he climbs up on the roof to clean his solar panels?
We are on a slope, that is my main reason when the door knockers spruik- hubby is too old for me to allow him on the roof, will you come by and clean the panels every year?
For M0nty,
It is the 70th year anniversary of the first nuclear reactor since it started operation in the then USSR 5MW, small but it was the first.
AM-1 called “Peace Atom”
It was decommissioned in 2002 after 48 years of trouble free operation, 18 years passed its predicted operational lifespan.
Why do people mention only the accidents, caused mostly by human errors or acts outside human power and not the overwhelming numbers of trouble free reactors?
It’s like the newspapers and car accidents, never the millions who got home safe, but the few who didn’t.
FMD:
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden admin’s censorship collusion with Big Tech – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
Barrett and Kavanaugh sided with the 3 demorats and said this:
“[W]ithout proof of an ongoing pressure campaign, it is entirely speculative that the platforms’ future moderation decisions will be attributable, even in part, to the defendants,”
Spacechook had admitted it liaised with biden in such matters as the laptop so I don’t know what proof the SC needed.
Anyway that puts paid to the demorat’s argument the SC is Trumpian.
Donald Trump DEMANDS ‘crooked’ Joe Biden take a drug test before the presidential debate: ‘I would also immediately agree to one’ | Daily Mail Online
This is idiotic. For decades people have been looking to nootropics for that magical lift and it hasn’t happened. The use of ACHe inhibitors has a very low benefit in Alz even though Ach crashes in Alz. The idea that someone with mild cognitive impairment can be given a cocktail of drugs that will enable him to challenge a self-proclaimed very stable genius is stupid.
The test is dumb because they need to know what to look for. There are so many different drugs that impact on neurotransmitter, growth factors, and genetic activity. Although etanercept might be interesting but that requires an epidural.
Its like lawfare – the demand deprives the enemy of the initiative.
lol. We both know what you are.
I wish I had the power to convince my father, late eighties and he still uses ladders, thanks heaven he is not going on the roof.
John H
Would Adderall offer the pedo any temporary respite for a couple of hours?
The idea that someone with mild cognitive impairment can be given a cocktail of drugs that will enable him to challenge a self-proclaimed very stable genius is stupid.
We know you don’t like Trump which reflects on you not him but saying the perverted corpse has mild cognitive impairment is a bit rich. The later stages of dementia feature:
Which of these does the old bastard not exhibit? I’ll put head prefect’s money on the corrupt old shit being on risperidone or haloperidol.
The Brothers Sun
non- woke and quite the comedy
… heart this
A 12 year old Jewish boy at a school in London said he wanted Hamas to be obliterated.
The school reported the boy to the police. The London Plod have subsequently visited the boy’s home to ‘question him’.
LOL, except it isn’t funny, is it?
Cassie,
there’s a lot shit in everybody’s heads at the moment
God save us all
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
— Charles MacKay
Whilst Trump has spent this week on the electoral hustings, the Sniffer has been holed up for days at Camp David ‘preparing for the debate’. I think we can be certain that this ‘preparation’ doesn’t just involve debating practice, it also involves medical intervention.
I think tomorrow we’ll see an unusually alert Sniffer.
Count how often he blinks – another potential indicator of what I’ve always thought might be Parkinson’s, or the cocktail being taken to hide it.
MCI is more typical because outright dementia would make the SOTU address impossible. I’m not going to quibble over diagnoses with someone who thinks giving a demented person such powerful DRD2 antagonist sedatives is nuts. You don’t know what you are talking about.
At least you’re in the ballpark, a dopamine hit is a good approach but Biden’s cognition has declined so much I doubt it would have any significant benefit and it could do more harm than good. Adderall will boost attention and alertness, it won’t improve his memory but it may have a marginal benefit for working memory. For decades people have been trying to find ways to improve cognition and the results are at best marginal and mostly imaginary. I’d use an entirely different approach and one that would be very difficult to detect with tests.
We can’t redeem broken brains. Drugs at best slow the decline.
At least you ask the question but there are people here who wouldn’t know a D1 and from a D2 and have blindly accepted the proposition that Biden can be given a magic pill and boost is IQ and cognition into the superior range.
Because ‘not being a complete drooling mess’ is the same as “cognition into the superior range”.
Riiiiiiight. You are willing to scarf down ***MUSHROOM*** ***GUMMIES*** from some company called Uncle ***FROG*** that cost ***$50 for 8*** that you bought ***ONLINE*** and oh no you aren’t one of those hippy types from Byron Bay even though you live in Perth ffs and no one here talks about Byron Bay hippies except perhaps those who know their habits first hand…but of course you have anxiety because you have young children – doesn’t everyone with young children have anxiety, right? Totally normal for someone with anxiety due to their young kids to be running to the internet to buy mushroom gummies from Uncle Frog. No wonder she was surprised when she got something that did what it says on the tin. Just a health-conscious couple buying their non-hallucinogenic gummies at $50 for a pack of 8 and expecting them to be non-hallucinogenic..yeah, okay, totally believe you.
I mean, this sounds like one of those exceedingly rare occasions when purchasers of a presumably legal version of an illegal substance which purports to deliver the benefits of said illegal substance without the whole illegality thing actually does deliver the goods (although maybe overdelivers a tad). I’m sure most of the other purchasers were pleasantly surprised.
From ABC frog’s bollocks article
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking, D1?”
“I think that I am, D2!”
I walked past some big boxes on the shelf in Coles the last time I was unfortunate enough to be in Coles- “Depends”, nappies for adults, which Louder With Crowder had edumicated me on.
How has our culture deteriorated so badly, so quickly? This is Fall Of Rome stuff, complete with Pride Badges on the aposematically obese staff and meek customers pecking at the touchscreens like so many battery hens, h/t here.
Go easy on the poor Perthons, OCO. Not every WIFO can find time to go to Bali between hubby’s swings to get on the ‘shrooms with the Book Group, some have to rely on Uber Edibles.
Real jobs and wealth creation seldom comes from government initiative.
It can happen no doubt, there are examples, but few.
Takes an entrepreneur, or someone in a need of a new or different device to do that.
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Peterman’s innovative spirit led to the creation of Peterbilt, a name inspired by a line of wood doors produced at his lumber facilities.
The first Peterbilt trucks were modified Fageol models, and in the same year of the company’s founding, the Model 260 and Model 334 were released. These trucks marked the beginning of a new era in the industry, setting the standard for quality and performance.
Peterbilt quickly established itself as a key player in the truck manufacturing sector. However, the company faced a significant challenge when Peterman passed away unexpectedly in 1944. In a decisive move, his wife Ida sold the rights to produce Peterbilt trucks to the company’s management team in 1947 for $450,000, while retaining the real estate.
This sale ensured that Peterbilt would continue to thrive under new leadership.
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Have been seeing plenty of references to Tucker Carlson in the Clive Palmer Freedom conference but no mentions or pictures of the other speakers Dinesh D Souza and Dr Melissa McCann who is leading the Vaccine Injury Class Action.
Any Cats go to any of the events ?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
So.. Luigi, with an eye on the Qld election, gifts lotza “our” loot to chasing, future, Olympic gold medals but can’t find anything to save kiddies lives .. sad..!
?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-28/desperate-families-seeking-help-to-access-rare-cancer-treatment/103991314
Looking through the story the photo of mum and child, I see the mother almost in tears as she faces the loss of her child and huge smile on the face of the child probably not understanding her plight but happy to be alive. Heartbreaking. But hey lets give millions to effin mooslimes in gaza to build rockets to fire into Israel. You know it makes sense to the far left.
Thanks Tom, Leak is as essential as the cup of coffee I’ve just had. Hard to tell which bit is best, the hat or the Y fronts, but maybe its everything, the complete package or in Luigi’s case no package. Bet he hates it.
On London streets leftist and Muslim scum scream ‘obliterate the Jews’ whilst UK Law enforcement do nothing, in fact some Plod will argue about ‘context’.
At a UK school a 12 year old Jewish boy will mouth how he wants to ‘obliterate Hamas’ and UK Law enforcement will visit the boy’s home to talk to the boy.
The UK is no longer a ‘crown’, it’s a ‘clown’. And the above is a classic example as to why, after fourteen years of so called useless, craven, supine and cowardly Conservative governments, the Tories will find themselves ‘obliterated’ into dust.
Yes Mrs Thatcher did some silly things as we all have but she was one hell of a PM. Look at the rubbish that came after her.
Saw the oncologist yesterday and best news I could have got under the circumstances .. so fairly happy ..!
PET results in & Cancer is in the early stages, hasn’t spread and benign, at the moment and cos the Prostate is on it’s last legs he agrees with the urologist that my best option is a double whammy .. both out at the same time ..
My choice, of course, but as I was hoping for the non-spread result to deal with it all at once .. Great! ..
would have preferred to be without either problem but ……. duuuuuuh! ….
Also if I come thru it I am, apparently, joining a unique club I’d rather not have been eligible for …… surviving two different types of Cancer …..
Urologist next Tuesday and then, hopefully, the next step getz a date ..!
All the best, shatterzzz.
And keep us updated.
Best wishes.
Best wishes for a full recovery Shatterzzz. I have a relative who has survived two entirely different cancers, twenty years apart. Ten years since the last cancer encounter.
It’s certainly possible
My Non Hodgins Lymphoma was 12 years ago ..
All the best, shatterzzz.
Best wishes Shatz.
All the best, you’ve already been to the pits of dispair and clawed your way back. You can do it again. Giving up is not an option.
Sometimes I’m happy to be poor .. I don’t have a “super” problem cos cashed it in years before I retired to fund one of my kids, who needed a non medicare covered operation …
?Anywayz, these folks who whinge and whine when they get their “super” ripped off .. It ain’t someone else’s fault it’s yours .. FFS!
?No one , but, no one promises/gives you lotza money for nuttin’ .. there is alwayz a catch but, of course, GREED rears it ugly head .. you jump down its throat and ..! it’s someone else’s fault isn’t it .. !
?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/superannuation-scam-hostplus-fraud-afca-court-cryptocurrency/103962762
To be replaced by something much worse.
One of Starmer’s key policies is to revoke tax exemptions on private schools (i.e. mostly independent Christian schools) and apply the 20% VAT to school fees.
Meanwhile, Britian’s peak Muslim lobby has issued an election manifesto calling for increased funding for their schools.
Keep an eye on what eventuates.
The demands for special treatment because ‘Islam’ never stop and anyone who thinks it will is a fool.
Just as with leftards, but the leftards are too stupid to see when their own tactic is being used against them.
So many people getting mad about this x account.
https://x.com/realrabbilinda/status/1806320943200866535?t=ZBAejtHgn4EuE20aHqVtNQ&s=19
I work with some fairly ‘woke’ and progressive youngsters, that is young men and women in their mid to late 20s and early 30s. I’ll caveat this by saying that the young women are usually much more woke than the young men. I’ve noticed how it is almost always young women who put their pronouns in their sign offs, it isn’t young men. Yesterday we discussed Julian Assange. Now, I don’t usually like talking politics at work, it’s way too contentious. I think our grandparents had the right attitude, politics and religion are best not spoken in the workplace, it’s too fraught. But yesterday, with some circumspection, I did offer my two bob’s worth, and I was very surprised to hear that these young men and women don’t think much of Assange Listening to them speak yesterday, it is clear they don’t regard Julian Assange as a hero or a journalist, which is good because Assange is neither. They were also aware that Wikileaks’ dumping of data had compromised the national security of various countries and people had died because of it.
If the Trot thinks freeing Assange will win him a few votes, he’s mistaken, because any gloss from this will have faded by tomorrow.
I reminded them how, back in 2016, it was a Wikileaks dump that helped Donald Trump. One of the young men agreed with me, and then this morphed into a discussion about ‘will Trump win in November’. And this surprised me even more, these young men and women, no lovers of Donald Trump, said he will win the election bigtime. Whilst they hate Donald Trump, they also hate Joe Biden. I was staggered because not even I am sure he will win bigtime in November.
Cassie, we live in very strange times. I have just noted Canavan’s support for Assange. It is bewildering.
Re the the world view of young people: possibly this very storm of world events produces often surprising views.
He then predicted what a grim future would look like for the Greens – veering wildly off-message to claim Labor will think it can ‘get away with bombing Gaza if his party doesn’t win.
Bloody hell! .. If Labor bombed Gaza we’d end up at war with Israel cos you can bet yer bottom dollar they’d miss Gaza & hit Israel .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13566281/Adam-Bandt-leaked-audio.html
A couple places on this list I still haven’t visited.
https://x.com/CultureExploreX/status/1806022645110251593?t=iUGopTC-KJNDIHcFATPQmA&s=19
“The UAE and Egypt are prepared to participate in the postwar security force in Gaza”.
https://x.com/MosabHasanYOSEF/status/1806313987224785306?t=YtgKFeeJvvZvKo6cijHguQ&s=19
No arrest warrants for Bibi after all.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1806436145846206652?t=JdJmSQKoxCFSiFgvfaBisw&s=19
I hope President Trump has been practicing ‘gotcha’ words and phrases to make the Old Pedo unmask himself with a rage attack.
If the Left plays dirty, so should we.
Bring ’em in from anywhwere .. ya knoze they’ll adapt/asimulate/become dinki di Oz .. ?cos “our” gummint tellz ya sooo! .. LOL!
?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13574891/Husband-abandons-wife-overseas-argument-MUM.html
How long before he or his family member kill her, coz muzzie.
Hadn’t thought of that .. definite possibility .. hope she has plod protection ..
Invading Rafah not so bad after all.
Eyes on Rafah!
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1806430490674753667?t=wkq6yuryw9dt_tmJ3B45AQ&s=19
Israel has sent a stark warning to Hezbollah that it could ‘take Lebanon back to the Stone Age’ if border clashes erupt into a wider regional war.
Not before time ..! using simple wordz that even terrorist neanderthals can understand …….!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13574959/israel-lebanon-stone-age-gallant-gaza-clashes.html
I am staggered to hear that Matt Canavan is a huge supporter of Assange. What is he thinking ?? Does my head in as I thought Matt was a great patriot & a very clear thinker.
Assange is Canavan’s goat.
Que?
Regarding giving in to Muslims leading to further demands, no shit sherlock!
Via Michael Smith comes this great clip of how an Indian Policeman deals with the scum.
https://x.com/Salwan_Momika1/status/1806063874418102613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1806063874418102613%7Ctwgr%5Ef772f1959bfd67039aad3b732a1587c5abbe08d4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
From the comments:
If you behave in a passive/aggressive manner in India, you won’t be tolerated.
In Australia, we don’t have the guts to stop this bullshit.
Well done that man!
It helps knowing your higher-ups will “have your back” …….
Unwra deletes it’s aid dashboard, won’t stop hamaspals shrieking about famines though.
https://x.com/EylonALevy/status/1805974063543685395?t=lg3qwOL0aw0KkJb9aW1oTA&s=19
Lebanon is a hostage state.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1806345718333936021?t=6C6I13jL7Egos_QWKpX3Hg&s=19
Gotta luv the lad .. LOL! ..
Billionaire Hamas “leader” domiciled in Qatar applauds the
“up-side” of Gaza being destroyed …….
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/06/27/billionaire-hamas-official-gaza-is-destroyed-but-that-is-a-step-toward-liberation/
MCI is more typical because outright dementia would make the SOTU address impossible. I’m not going to quibble over diagnoses with someone who thinks giving a demented person such powerful DRD2 antagonist sedatives is nuts. You don’t know what you are talking about.
I agree its nuts and I may not know what I’m talking about but if you think the demorats won’t do anything to keep Trump out of the WH then you are a special type of naive.
Some people need investigating into their past treatment of animals in their care. Things like this DO NOT happen in isolation.
I hope the RSPCA are following up that fine – inadequate at least – with unannounced inspections and, if not up to scratch, loss of breeders licence.
Actually, I feel quite sorry for the dog – she’s lost her 8 puppies and will be quite distressed when her owner gets her back.
They were also aware that Wikileaks’ dumping of data had compromised the national security of various countries and people had died because of it.
Not according to the US judge at the hearing on his way home.
BP pauses offshore wind to focus on fossil fuels after investor backlash
The Telegraph (UK)
They just want to kill Jews. No price is too much.
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/1806216341189451899?t=KH_a4WVMUqouyCbqhKxeSg&s=19
I am staggered to hear that Matt Canavan is a huge supporter of Assange. What is he thinking ?? Does my head in as I thought Matt was a great patriot & a very clear thinker.
Clearly he thinks better than you who has bought into the GAE bullshit.
Mmm…I’ll just leave this here:
I particularly respect the opinion of Augusta Zimmermann on most issues. This is not one of them. I think it will be a tragedy is someone like Assange further fractures a society that is already under pressure in this country in respect to many issues. Conservatism, especially, is an endangered philosophy. It does not need further fissures.
Tolerance (to a point) is also a conservative virtue, Vicki.
Unlike the Left, conservatives don’t need to present a united front on every issue; there is room for argument, principled disagreement and tolerance.
As for Assange, I don’t think he’s a hero and I don’t
“celebrate” his return. However, I believe he has “served his time” and that’s the end of the matter.
There is a place for breaking the law for the sake of conscience and the greater good, provided one accepts there will be a penalty. To the extent that Assange seemed to believe he was exempt from penalty, he was either naive or narcissistic – take your pick.
Moens & Zimmerman make excellent points about free speech. I suspect most Australians don’t realise how severely curtailed free speech is in this country. That’s the context for the above piece.
He brought it all on himself by avoiding the Swedish charges .. He used the excuse that USA is out to get me .. Maybe true but so what ..? .. He still thumbed his nose and fled legitimate charges .. No different to anyone who skips bail or goes on the lam …….
Notice not too much mention of the fact that if he returns to his “old wayz” the “get out of gaol free” card is revoked …….!
The Swedish allegation was very likely confected. So what you say? Because lawfare is only used against regime enemies. It’s one of the most useful arrows in their quiver.
Judge ye the man by his enemies. Assange was treated appallingly, just like under the old communism, just like we could all be treated if people like him didn’t pull back the curtain.
If you are having trouble sleeping, try Bidenica.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112686156652032011
You’ll enjoy this.
@catturd2
Australian Karen meets MTG
This is just like the female “ journalist” who challenged Tucker in the second half of the video posted yesterday. If you ever swatted a fly on the windowsill, you must have committed genocide.
I did and I loved Ferguson getting her face rubbed in it.
Supreme Court strikes serious blow against the administrative state
Americans Suddenly Cut Back Spending
This might have something to do with it.
Americans Are Carrying Record Household Debt into 2024
Australians should celebrate the return of Assange
Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann
+1000?
Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s McPlant burger failed, customers shunned non-meat option
+1000?
Sorry, +1000, no question mark.
We dance on’: Emotional photos show survivors of October 7 massacre meeting up at Tel Aviv festival for the first time
Daily Mail.
Well let’s hope they’re suitably armed this time.
Call me pedantic, but I still bristle when media outlets use the word ‘killed’ instead of ‘murdered.’ The former is a non-emotional word and can imply that the death was unintentional, such as an accident, a natural disaster, etc. It also implies that there was no intent; no planning. This is a means by which the media reduces the heinous nature of the crime, despite still (grudgingly) acknowledging h@m@s’s responsibility. They may as well have written ‘some members of h@m@s were present in the vicinity of the Nova Festival when a number of humans mysteriously died.’
I LOATHE the majority of the feral media.
This is what the lunatics dream of and would happily sacrifice us all for.
FUTURIST PREDICTS HUMANS WILL SOON LIVE 1,000 YEARS, THANKS TO NANOBOTS AND AI
Why would we want to?
For CS Lewis’s “Hideous Strength?”
I expect that the outcome of the Presidential debate will be that Biden supporters will claim he won (and, doubtless, the MSM), and Trump supporters will claim he won.
I don’t think anyone is actually a Biden supporter, they are just implacably opposed to Trump and Biden is not-Trump. Well, there is a small class of grifters who want Biden to win because they have positioned themselves to feed directly from the rotting carcass of Biden’s administration, but it is only family members and close conspirators who need it to be Biden and not some other Democrat leader.
I personally prefer the idea of Biden surviving to the extent that the Dem’s feel they can’t replace him. I want the Democrat leader to go to the election with all that baggage – all the personal, moral, administrative, and constitutional failings of which Biden is the very quintessence. The sight of that mumbling, shambling, crumbling husk is enough to infuriate any goodly burgher.
Bringing in a cleanskin who makes new ‘promises’ and says they will now clean up problems Joe has obstinately allowed to fester might actually appeal to some people who are voting Trump because he is not Biden.
I hope BobTheBuilder is right and that Trump makes a point of focussing on Biden’s prickliness – when Biden is hopped up on his meds he gets very nasty. He was never a clever man, but his dotage has taken away any check on his temper. He repeats the old discredited lies like saying dead servicemen and women are ‘suckers and losers’ with abrupt flashes of anger (and also overlooking the truth of how he has treated troops). He finishes off such claims with a squinty-eyed “How dare he? How dare he?” Or the lie about Charlottesville, now recognised as a lie even by woefully partisan Snopes.
Perhaps even mention how his own criminality is now known to the public thanks to his ratfink drug-forked son.
While Biden supporters will claim that Biden is merely shaking with righteous anger at the outrages levelled at him, Trump supporters will enjoy watching Orange Hitler playing with the mean creep like a cat toying with a mouse.
A good analysis. It would be better if Biden stays on rather than a Newsome or even one of the faux females from the demorats like shrillary or obama’s hubbie taking his place. I feel Trump has to focus on the myriad successes of his term as POTUS while calmly rebutting the lies the biden will cough up. It should be interesting. Despite John H’s conclusion above that the old pervert only has MCI I think based on the medical advice of my son, that biden is in the late stages of dementia and if the drugs/hypnosis/conditioning wears off then it’s gonna be a horror show.
I hope BobTheBuilder…
BobtheBoozer please Mother Load. It comes not from my drinking expertise, but from a T shirt with a sozzled, beer gutted, cartoon character. I was walking with the child bride in a Colesworth and a little boy looked at me and asked – pointing at my Tshirt – “Are you REALLY Bob The Builder?”
His mum said “NO. It’s just a funny shirt”.
“Drat,” I said. “I would have given him my autograph.”
Former CIA Chief reveals in great detail how they use full face masks to ‘walk around as someone else’…
Instagram ‘Accidentally’ Limits ALL Political Content Just In Time for Debate
Tractor Supply Co. backs off ‘woke’ policies after backlash: ‘We have taken this feedback to heart’
This was after their market value took a $2B dive.
How to Stop the “Far Right” – Konstantin Kisin
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John Langoulant: Agent General spends more than $120,000 on travel last year, including six weeks in PerthDylan CapornThe West Australian
Fri, 28 June 2024 2:00AM
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WA’s high-flying man in London, John Langoulant, had taxpayers pay more than $120,000 for international travel last year, including a business class airfare to Perth for a month.
Analysis of travel reports show Mr Langoulant — the only senior overseas bureaucrat entitled to business class — wracked up a travel bill of more than $124,000 — including two flights to Perth.
Despite taxpayers forking out more than $300,000 in rental assistance for a London apartment, the Agent-General billed taxpayers for a $17,000 business class flight to Perth for the month-long reprieve from England’s bitter winter in November and December.
A Departmental spokesman said the figure was in accordance with relevant guidelines and processes.
All animals are equal, it’s just that some are more equal then others…
If Trump does attack the old pervert he should do so on safe ground and use these 2 points:
1 The laptop hoax where now even pro-demorat media is calling it crap:
House probe finds ‘blatant political operation’ to discredit Hunter Biden laptop story – Washington Times
2 The very fine people hoax where Snopes after 7 years finally admitted it was crap noting this was said by biden, when he was sane, as the reason he ran against Trump
When the old turd also brings up Jan 6 and the 34 convictions Trump should also have ready but steady replies such as I told people to be peaceful and offered the National Guard. I did my bit. And in regard to the 34 offences he should say there was only one and that he will appeal it because he believes in the rule of law.
Matthew Goodwin: Why you should vote Reform
Cass – a certain blogger profoundly disagrees with this observation.
The assange imbroglio has certainly left me feeling rather conflicted. The guy is a detestable narcissistic nobody who suddenly found himself way out of his depth after engaging in an act of foolhardy bravado that he presumed would have no adverse consequences. Languishing in a broom closet in a banana republic’s Londinium embassy for a decade was cruel and unusual punishment, even for a vainglorious idiot like assange – yet it struck me as a quite fitting consequence of his actions.
However, I stopped giving a rodent’s backside many years ago about the “security concerns” of stupid evil incompetent and utterly destructive western governments and the lackeys in their employ. If assange did embarrass preposterous warmongering turkeys like the Bushes and Shrillary, then that redeems him somewhat in view.
Anyway, if the clown knows what’s good for him, he’ll shut up, adopt a low profile and hope that he doesn’t end up being Arkancided any time soon. I for one would be very happy if I never read or heard anything about the idiot ever again in my life.
As for knobheads like albansleazy and ruff attempting to bask in some reflected glory from assange’s release, give me a break.
If we were to do a quick survey of the man in the street on their opinion of Assange, 90% would say “Who gives a shit?”
Good luck with the phosphate problem Shatterzzz.
Maybe I should post this (edited) reply to Vicki in the main section:
I don’t think Assange is a hero and I don’t “celebrate” his return. However, I believe he has “served his time” and that’s the end of the matter.
There is a place for breaking the law for the sake of conscience and the greater good, provided one accepts there will be a penalty. To the extent that Assange seemed to believe he was exempt from penalty, he was either naive or narcissistic – or both, some will aver.
Moens & Zimmerman make excellent points about free speech. I suspect most Australians don’t realise how severely curtailed free speech is in this country. That’s the context for their above piece.
OK Roger. I think we agree on most points.
From Frontpage:
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out
Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism
Supreme Court: You Can’t Sue the Government for Censoring You
Why Did the FBI Turn Off Cameras During Trump Raid?
This is just a short TikTok clip, but he nails it.
Elon Musk says George Soros is DESTROYING HUMANITY
The Scottish Covid Enquiry.
END OF LIFE ‘Treatment’ Protocols in Care Homes
My 2c on Assange. I share his concerns about the US justice system.
Most thirty years olds and under really have little knowledge or interest in Assange. Like the military actions in question, it’s relegated to history in their minds.
I’ve asked youngsters in my circle and it just doesn’t rate as an issue. Their media feeds won’t be featuring the pasty messiah.
Don’t know if it has been noted before, but there is a mock ad for a sleeping medication called Bidenica.
It is being attributed to the Trump campaign but I think it was actually produced by a person called Jimmy Fallia, who is a radio host. There is no reference at the end to it being a part of the Trump campaign, at least.
Failla sometimes appears on Gutfeld.
ML,
its only connection to Trump, is that it is on Truth Social. I linked to it earlier.
Bloody hilarious. Doesn’t hurt to link again, in case any Cats missed it upthread. Cheers.
The Beanie reckons Trump should exploit the mic-muting thing in the debate. When his mic is muted he can say things to needle Biden that only he will hear.
At home people will see Biden launch into a prepared response and suddenly turn to Trump and angrily shout, with uncontrolled rage, fragments of unrelated sentences.
Tactics! Love it. That makes sense.
The Don just getz better .. Bidenica .. sleep aid .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1806319900190974411
Love it!
Far right surges in polls days before France vote • FRANCE 24 English
FRANCE 24 English
Anything not looney left is far right.
If this workz out it’ll leave Macaroon with 2 years as a “lame duck” prez ..
The prez of France does make the major decisions but he has to get a French parliamentary majority to enforce them ……
From Real Clear Energy, a greenie source but which still calls out bullshit:
Five Questions for a Real Presidential Debate on Energy Amanda Eversole, RCEnergy
EV Mandates: Burden on Minority Communities Shay Hawkins, RCEnergy
Biden’s Energy Policies Based on Fantasies, Fairy Tales Emily Arthun, RCEnergy
RealClearEnergy – Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls
From Real Clear Energy, a greenie source but which still calls out bullshit:
Five Questions for a Real Presidential Debate on Energy Amanda Eversole, RCEnergy
EV Mandates: Burden on Minority Communities Shay Hawkins, RCEnergy
Biden’s Energy Policies Based on Fantasies, Fairy Tales Emily Arthun, RCEnergy
RealClearEnergy – Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls
Daniel Greenfield
Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism
(see cohenite’s link above.)
I think this is spot on.
I’ve written before about how David Riesman’s description of the other-directed personality type (The Lonely Crowd, 1950) predicted the progressive leftist.
This explains, I believe, why so much prog-left activism – from throwing paint on artworks to gluing oneself to a busy road – is performative (and always filmed). The goal is not so much to effect change, but to be seen to be calling for change. The reward is basking in the admiration of their prog-left peers, which validates their pitiful existence in a one-dimensional world with no future but also no past and hence no tradition from which an identity is received.
US Presidential debate is on a couple of FTA channels (Nein and Ten) at 11 am.
Liberty quote:
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Russians Prank UK Minister; David Cameron ‘Spills Ukraine Secrets’ | ‘Annoying Americans…’
High Levels of Lead Found in Fake Chinese Goods | China In Focus
Roger
June 28, 2024 8:11 am
It occurred to me last night.
I remember when Geothermal was the Next Big Thing.
I think Flummery was even spruiking it.
Wha’ happen?
Carried forward tax losses.
Anyone who’s owned a bike (or house) in a beachside suburb knows the obvious problem here.
Rotorua should be raking it in ?
House That! Ben Wyatt moving on from Nedlands mansion only a couple of years after buying it for $3.69m
Kim MacdonaldThe West Australian
Fri, 28 June 2024
Former State treasurer Ben Wyatt must have got used to a week being a long time back when he was in politics, considering he is selling his Nedlands home only two years after buying it.
The first two years at a new home feels like the honeymoon stage for most buyers, but Wyatt is already set to move on, seeking offers on the four-bedroom home he bought for $3.69 million home in May 2022.
It is a surprising move given it took him a year to find the home after an exhaustive search across Perth.
House That! does not know if he, wife Vivianne and their children are preparing to move on to bigger and better things, or seeking to downsize from the four-bedroom property.
Today’s Labor Party – living in mansions for the good of the working class – it’s a long way from Ben Chifely’s Bathurst cottage..
Wyatt was the big winner from Rio blowing up the Juukan gorge.
THANX to everyone over their well wishes about my health issues ..
When I was 3 years old a gypsy fortune teller told me I’d be around for my 82nd birthday .. so still, at least, 6 years left ..!
Unfortunately, she never mentioned what condition I would be in ……. LOL!
Notes from the Cess Pit:
General election live: Nigel Farage ‘dismayed’ after Reform activist filmed making racist comments
Interesting insight #1: the UK media as active player in the political imbroglio.
The actual ‘racist’ comment in question:
In febrile UK public culture, any accusation of racism is an absolutely red hot, bite the carpet, call the police (literally), moral panic, trigger issue.
Calling Rishi Sunak a “forking prick” becomes racist simply because, well, because…
Interesting insight #2: Reform sufferers from dim-witted indiscipline – not dissimilar to what we see in minor-party Australia.
Stupid, stupid stuff when you are trying to launch an Extreme Far Right Literally Nazi Populist party in a controversial setting.
No.
”Racist! Racist! Racist!” Doesn’t work anymore. No one cares, only the media idiots.
This is happening in the UK, wobbling around on the brink of street riots, where high profile police involvement in identity politics and racism is a front and centre daily issue.
Still a lot of “football” brawling gangs out there .. “insight #2” will definitely appeal to them ……
I actually like it .. brings out the “houso” in me .. LOL!
Good rioting weather atm.
One of my emails to a Pommy mate bagging yet another loss got impounded because “Pakis”. They might even be worse than the US.
Some might aver that if Nigel’s party had a branch structure beyond head office
knuckleheadspotentially problematic candidates like this would be weeded out in the selection process.Or maybe not.
Blowjob economy news…
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/ndis-to-cost-100b-exceeding-the-pension-budget-watchdog-20240614-p5jltf
The National Disability Insurance Scheme is on track to overtake the age pension as the most expensive area of government spending within three years if it remains stuck on its current growth trajectory.
Even if Labor successfully reins in the rapidly growing $42 billion social program, it will still overtake the pension in terms of cost within a decade, according to projections by the independent budget watchdog, published on Thursday.
…
Outside the NDIS, the fastest-growing expense over the next decade will be debt interest payments, which are projected to increase to 1.3 per cent of gross domestic product by 2034-35, up from 0.9 per cent
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Hard to believe ..! After all, “Billy Mushrooms” and his “top men” are working on the solution(s) …….
Darebin City Council taking considerable leave of their senses. Going vegan apparently. Good Lord
Someone should start a Facebook group “ Carnivores for Darebin “
shatterzzz
June 28, 2024 10:31 am
Very few of us get to the finish line without a few dented panels and a bit of paint off.
This morning’s presidential debate telecast on Sky News Australia is being hosted by Fluffy Analise Nielsen and Laura Jayes — the twin Karens that male daytime Sky unwatchable. FMD.
US presidential debate is about to start.
Time to make the popcorn!
Dementia Joe up first – incoherent.
The Donald can be understood.
Trump’s strategy is correct: let Biden speak. Biden sounds like a nervous wannabe, not the White House incumbent.
I can’t believe Biden brought up Afghanistan like it was a win for him
Queer and Atrophied Reborn.
Thank you in advance to those about to suffer psychological distress so the rest of us don’t have to.
If Biden has been jacked up with pharmaceuticals, the net result is a convincing image of an old sick man, struggling to stay upright and awake.
Now Biden brings up a girl raped by an illegal immigrant to try and make a case for abortion?
Who prepped this guy?
Biden on tax reform:
There’s a message for all of us there…
Do more drugs?
Not whatever he’s having.
Trump sounded silly when he described the US southern border as the “most dangerous place in the word”. Really? Not eastern Ukraine? Not the favelas of Rio de Janeiro?
He does himself no favours when he spouts superlatives off the cuff like that.
to most in the US, nothing exists outside the US
It’s not exactly Sanctuary Cove.
https://www.borderlandbeat.com/?m=1
HA!
Daily Mail leads with,
BIDEN MALFUNCTIONS!
“Call the Police, Trump Is Committing Elder Abuse the Likes of Which We Have Never Before Seen—Disinformation Expert Ace”
😀 😀 😀
The contempt the current elite have for the average punter is off the charts if they’re prepared to stand Biden for reelection. Just incredible. Until there is a circulation of elites, though, nothing will change.
just like all the old soviet ‘Leaders’ the party wheeled out – just an empty suit and the real powerbrokers behind the scenes like it that way
At least Biden stopped short of formally declaring war on Russia. Tough shit for Poland and the NATO countries though; Putin’s coming for them. That’s why we’re strong.
Apparently.
Trump sounded silly when he described the US southern border as the “most dangerous place in the word”. Really? Not eastern Ukraine? Not the favelas of Rio de Janeiro?
For the US, with all the ramifications it is. Ukraine, Brazil don’t even rate.
The filthy crook is literally decomposing in front of the camera.
Is it possible the bloke in the UK said “forkin Paki”?
Good point.
just got every Indian vote in the UK
Monty will call it a win for Biden.
He drafted the comment last night.
Dover is right. Especially after today, it is beyond belief that the DNC will continue with the Biden candidacy.
That tells me the DNC strategy is simply to double down on the electoral cheating.
“No major war in Europe has ever been able to be contained to just Europe” – Biden.
Sounded like a fair point. And relevant to Trump’s remark about USA being separated by an ocean. Joe’s on some good drugs today.
Oh ffs, Joe bringing up the Charlottesville “fine people on both sides” quote again. It’s busted.
Anyone here reckon Biden is wearing a very well hidden ear piece?
Or an implant. He’s had lots of work done inside that skull over the years.
Suggest that the reason microphones are muted is that Biden is receiving messages during his muting and there would have been risk of hearing this if mic was on.
Yep, constant fiddling with his ear
Biden appears to be attempting to recite a word salad of DNC talking points about Trump, who, as you know, is Literally Hitler. Monty will be along shortly to attempt a translation.
Tom, don’t underestimate Annaleise Nielsen like Albanese did….
He’s starting to mumble! The I Pad on his podium is confusing him also.
He isn’t looking down to check his fly.
Well, not only to check his fly.
A rerun of the 2020 election debate on offer.
I think a lot of people would switch off. It’s only highlighted the desperate need for new blood on both sides.
Dementia Joe………”we created thousands of millions of jobs….”
WTF!
Just watching the debate in the background: biden is pathetic; he has been rehearsed to an inch of his IQ of 25 and you can see the conditioning ooze out of the old bastard; they have anticipated most of the responses. I like the way Trump looks at him: like a controlled cat looking at a sick rat.
Excellent deflection on the ridiculous Climate Action question.
Go the Donald!
Brilliant ! Emphasise pollution which we all care about, ignore the weather shit.
Am reading the comments over at Ace, between reading here.
Some classics. There is a suggestion that Biden is receiving Rectal Morse Code. heheheheh
Worthy of a LOL – first of the day.
Just turned on the debate. Trump is ignoring questions and delivering a stream of pathetic lies. Biden sounds quiet and passive. So I guess it’s a wash.
That wasn’t the debate, it was the DNC talking points about the debate, pre-written.
Does anyone actually think Joe is running the show? Stretching the idea of a democracy to the limit.
There it is!!!
Trump was asked question on childcare and didn’t answer it. Preferred to fight over the “worst president ever” award. Probably strategic as the POTUS is decided at least as much by personality as policy, and the accusation was taken as a personal insult.
Childcare doesn’t even make the top 20 concerns of US voters according to the polls. It was a lame question obviously meant to put Trump on the spot in front of the mom voter demographic.
Since when is it the governments job to look after children … thats for the parents
Gotta feel for poor old Jake Tapper. He keeps asking these substantial questions on important issues. Trump faffs on about everything except the subject of the question. Biden gives stock standard answers in a low mumble.
Alternate reality from Dimension Monty.
Geriatric Joe looks like he’s in ga-ga land …
The age issue! It’s a direct question.
Joe deflects and talks about the achievements of his administration.
Instead, Trump addresses the issue about himself directly.
Oh last minute save. Joe had a golf handicap of 6 when VP. Well it’s something.
Best comment on X:
ok if you don’t live in the US, please turn the debate off. This is our private family humiliation, and we’d all prefer you not stare.
wins the internet today
more:
“Close the blinds the neighbors can see you!”
“I swear, my grandpas aren’t this bad usually.”
Me watching the debate:
Prime time version of a YouTube bum fight.
Biden slavering for WW3.
“We must fight everywhere all the time”…
“We must defend the world”… which is why we DEI-ed our military effectiveness out of existence and have the smallest US fleet since before WWII.
Apart from the compulsory religious incantation about the “climate crisis”, the CNN debate hosts have been tolerable.
But FFS, what sort of a name is Dana Bash? Was her dad a dirt bike racer who changed his name by deed poll?
The compares seemed really sedated and rote reading – not happy Jan!
Dana Bash used to be a reasonable looker.
Should have spent more on the surgeon.
Trump has kept Biden in the game. Should have put him away early and often. But chose to ramble on with some inane side issues. Lets see how they wrap up.
A random pause in the proceedings.
We are not learning anything. Trump is an authoritarian a-hole and is so old he literally has dementia. Biden is competent and boring, but has a speech impediment and is also old.
I doubt this debate shifts the needle.
Biden, and his fascist kiddies, are the authoritarian a-holes Monty.
Have you been shadowbanned yet? Lost your bank account?
Jailed without trial for four years?
None of this matters, the Dems are going to steal the election again. It’s obvious.
Watch the debate, not the DNC talking points.
mUnty has an Econs 101 flashback.
Neither closing statement was good.
Biden lost for feebleness.
Disappointing debate. Critics given it to Trump but geez Trump should have done way better.
CNN compares saying Biden should step down because he looked so bad…
Monty, youve lost CNN..
Apparently Biden had a cold. Obviously the high-powered superdrugs that the Trump campaign were bleating about for weeks didn’t work. Not even Codral.
Haha, good one.
LET THE SPIN BEGIN (27 Jun)
Suurrrre Dr mUntyfa.
The sniffing was either 1) long established perversion 2) cocaine … take your pick
I have a bridge to sell you.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions (with a verge constructed of virtue signals).
Some time ago a First Nations woman “died in custody” after being picked up blithering drunk on a train in Bendigo. There was zero evidence that her death was in any way caused by her being detained.
However, the politburo in Afdanistan decided that public drunkenness should be removed as an offence, because racist (how we arrive at the conclusion that a law is racist when it doesn’t mention race is another question altogether).
So the offence was scrubbed and a 20 bed “drying out centre” opened in Collingwood*. Police could no longer arrest drunks but could merely recommend they present to the drying out facility.
Fast forward to this morning. Plod come across a 10/10 drunk in the course of their duties. They suggest he should probably go to the drunk tank. He refuses. Some time later he is struck by a car and killed.
What is telling is that this story popped up on 3AW very quickly. I am betting it didn’t come from Police Command or Police Meeja. It came from cops in the station who are pissed off that an eminently sensible and well applied law has been removed. I am no fan of VikPlod, and there are always exceptions, but generally I think the “lock up to dry out” process was effective and applied fairly.
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* Again, an interesting choice of location. It seems this is run by maaates and has a very low patronage. Initial butcher’s paper calculations indicate that the number of drunks in Melbourne, even at 10:00 a.m., may exceed the capacity of the dry out centre. Some cynics might suggest it is a policy fig-leaf with the added advantage of wealth transfer to a maaate.
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Kieran on Sky: “Biden has done well on the numbers …”
WTF?
Biden hasn’t done well on anything since he was shoehorned into being President Puppet Placeholder.
I didn’t want to say this earlier, but thought that he may have been set up to fail today so that replacing him with Newsom would go more smoothly despite it being a radical move.
Monty coping very hard.
Harder than the milkman?
Q: Fatty Trump, will you accept the result of the election?
A: A lengthy dissertation on Geriatric Joe being played by the Pute.
Admittedly, it was the second time the Bash bint had asked that exact question.
Was that asked again because he deflected the first time?
Eventually he said he’d accept it conditional on the election being free/fair, legal, and “good”.
And why didn’t ask the same question of Biden?
The Democrats have loudly questioned the validity of every Republican presidential victory since Nixon at least.
Q: Fatty Trump, will you accept the result of the election?
Do you mean the actual result – as per valid votes cast by the people, or the ‘adjusted rate’ after the Ds fraud is included?
And Trump was right not to take the bait. I noticed that not once was Biden asked the same question.
The “Biden has a cold” meme that sprang out of nowhere is so lame, but in keeping with his presidency so far.
If only the puppet-masters had been incapacitated more often.
Oh, FFS, Nein just had their US correspondent (Allie something) complaining that Biden didn’t ‘call out’ Trump’s lies strongly enough. What’s more, the CNN moderators didn’t do it either.
She knows this because ‘social media is blowing up’ along those lines.
That’s the level of analysis that somebody in a plum job in the MSM proffers to the public these days.
IMHO, they are both too old (and I speak as an old chook) but at least Trump still has his marbles. And, if we are talking about lying, Biden’s whoppers were so numerous that they are well into double figures.
It wasn’t an edifying spectacle. Of course, one would have to vote for Trump against the odious Biden. But, the real tragedy is that there isn’t a Trump-like candidate aged 40-60.
One of the biggest of the whoppers:
Biden – “The truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any, this, this decade, that doesn’t (have) any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did.”
Other than the 13 killed by terrorist bomb during his disgusting Afghanistan rout.
Or the 3 US Army troops killed in Jordan by drone attack less that 4 months ago.
Honorable mention – the critically soldier critically wounded at the Gaza pier during “non-combat” operations.
Actually there are a number, JD Vance, DeSantis, Paxton from Texas, Stefanik from NY, Vivek Ramaswamy. On the other hand, Nikki Haley has ruined her chances in the primaries by carrying on so long after it became obvious she will not get anywhere.
Is this Joe adjusting his earpiece? Because it sure looks like it.
Yup
The financial hole in the head that the Nine Network bought when it acquired Fairfax media is coming come to roost. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are money-losing black holes that can no longer justify the expense of their ABC-like sheltered workshops where managers aren’t allowed to manage and must obey the workers collective (Paywallian):
Exxxcelllent!
I would pay to be in the room when the pink slips are handed over. waaaaah!
Death spiral
Did you mention shifting a needle Monty?
What, like this sort of needle?
Bruce O’Nuke:
Do you know what question was asked when that spike happened?
As Tom says the legacy meja carries on as if the internet hadn’t been invented. The only need for a US correspondent is the need for some connected mediocrity to have a nice non job overseas.
I disagree.
Our personal US correspondent, Roger Franklin, (via Quadrant) is doing valuable work.
Roger can only dream of the money and perks received by the likes of ‘Allie.’
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 28, 2024 11:24 am
Trump sounded silly when he described the US southern border as the “most dangerous place in the word”. Really? Not eastern Ukraine? Not the favelas of Rio de Janeiro?
He does himself no favours when he spouts superlatives off the cuff like that.
Trump’s right. I’ll explain why. The US is the most important Western nation in the world; under the pustule biden it is under attack from the chunks, Russia and the ME. Ukraine is the major proxy but Israel is becoming as important; and perhaps Taiwan will soon as well. But the major battleground is the US/Mexico border. It is beyond dispute that soldiers from all the US enemies are coming across and settling as sleepers. Think 9/11 magnified. Under biden there is no restraint on any of these battlefields. But the US’s own territory must be considered as the prime objective. So Trump is right and biden and his masters are literally threatening the US and the world.
More great news – learn to code, you numpties!
m0nster runs the talking points …
The Biden speech defect (a variation being “childhood stutter”).
And yet no-one can find any footage from the years before 2010 of Biden stuttering or having catatonic brainfreeze moments.
This purely designed to badger any commentator who mentions it as “making fun of a disability” (and also misrepresenting the disability as a mere speech defect when it is dementia).
MSNBC is apparently saying Hiden’s problem was that he was on the right side of the stage.
H/T Bari Weiss
His people chose it so why complain now?
He would have performed better on the wrong side?
Just finished watching the Trump-Biden debate. A complete train wreck that will confirm to the world that Biden is done.
Regardless of what the DNC hierarchy does now, today’s debate tells the party faithful to stay home in November. Turnout will be through the floor.
The DNC will need more than the systematic vote-rigging in swing states to keep Trump out of the White House again.
Even if the DNC judge in New York puts him under some sort of house arrest.
In compounds, palaces, dachas, and caves around the world, people who wish the West harm will be engorged.
They know that the US is on the downslope and the experiment with constitutional democracy is coming to an end. Better yet, they can show it to followers and opponents: which hegemon do you really want?
Doc Faustus:
Tumescent is more accurate, and colourful.
Bin Laden would have enjoyed it if the Pakis hadn’t shopped him.
Not sure who it was the Pakis shopped but it wasn’t Bin Laden that day. He died at Tora Bora in 2002. The Seal raid was theatre.
The slogan behind Biden as he is speaking now says Let’s Go Joe. Very apt, he should go, I give them another slogan from Whitlam’s campaign It’s Time.
Dickless oozes in with the piss take of the day:
Biden sounds quiet and passive.
Most corpses do.
The bar was set low for US President Joe Biden. The leader of the free world simply had to stay awake, string coherent sentences together and appear in control of his faculties for 90 minutes.
The West Australian.
Well, one out of three ain’t bad …
What was off putting about Biden was his open-mouthed look. Then when he did smile it was an evil grin much like that of Dastardly from Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
Big LOL!
Trump is not who he was 8 years
ago. Friday Koffee Klub scenario as follows : Kamala is replaced by Obama soonest, Biden becomes disabled , Obama elevated. Trump will win. Tim Scott for vice. Trump good at delegating, lots of choices and plenty of future talent .
rumblings…
Biden may be toast.
https://x.com/i/status/1806522450207023155
In all honesty though, Trump was not at his sharpest tonight. There were so many opportunities to put Biden away with a kill shot but he didn’t take them. (on purpose?)
For instance, on the issue of the impact of millions of Illegal Aliens on Social Security and Medicare, Trump should have pounded home the concept with two worlds, flood and overload. That would have sent the reaction meters to the peg.
The voters might not have recognized the golbledegook that Biden was spouting about taxing the rich more to “fix” social security, but they know damned well what flood, overload, and illegal alien mean.
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Anyone watch live see this bit?
Biden sundowning while a question was being asked.
https://x.com/JerseyBillz/status/1806513100834656286
Ouch. Good catch.
Beats having her hand up his arse like the puppet he is.
Biden has lost the vital cat lady/ABCcess repoterette demographic.
Dee Madigan
@deemadigan
Not being ageist, but no one over 75 should be running for President. Cognitive decline is real. This debate is a train wreck.
Don’t ever underestimate Demonrats. Ackman is peddling the idea that the Demons should amount the JPMorgan CEO , Jamie Dimon as their candidate.
Why should any Jew want to save the Democrats’ bacon, so to speak, after what they are doing all across the country by allowing and even encouraging anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian demonstrations?
Bodyshot of the night..
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Trump just BODIED Biden
“Did you fire anyone in the military after the disaster in Afghanistan? Did you fire anyone for destroying our border and letting 18 million people in?”
That may now not be possible.
Biden could not be on the Ohio ballot before the DNC under Ohioan state law, as I recall. But now that they’ve “held” their party congress Biden is the candidate. I suspect that means Kamala is also locked in as his running mate.
Jill has been out and about also.
Jill Biden says Donald Trump would be a ‘dictator on day one’ in Virginia visit ahead of Friday’s CNN debate (Sky News, 28 Jun)
Short of Joe actually dying I can’t see Jill allowing him to be replaced without serious consequences for the Democrats. So they appear to be in a cleft stick.
Thanks for the feedback Bruce
memo to Republicans: don’t gloat too much, in 8 years time it will come back on you .
Why would it come back on Tepublicans? Trump is term limited to one more term and if he loses this time I don’t see him running again.
The 22nd Amendment restricts a candidate from being elected to the presidency for more than two terms. The 12th Amendment dictates that a vice president can not be selected if they are not eligible for president.
She means Michelle.
I actually meant Barak . What does “ restrict” mean ? We are restricted from driving 150 mph, but people do.
I stand corrected. He can’t but Michelle can. And that would do much as with Biden: he’d be pulling the strings behind her. There will be a lot of pressure on Michelle I suspect, but so far she has decided she doesn’t want the job. Which is pretty sensible.
Keep an eye on the Wookie
This is just nuts.
Dover, read Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. Then multiply it by ten or more.
“Kamala is replaced by Obama soonest, Biden becomes disabled , Obama elevated.”
Can’t happen – Obama is NOT eligible to be P or VP under current law.
Yes she is.
As Rabz said, “learn to code”.
It never ceases to amaze how self indulgent these arseholes are. The loss of 70 j’ism jerbs spread across five capital cities will be covered by those that remain behind as a seismic event, whilst the loss of hundreds of timber jobs concentrated on small towns in Gippsland will be greeted with a “meh” at best, or “long overdue Gaia protection” at worst.
Those immortal words of Wodger “the Grocer” Corbett must be ringing in their ears. When warned of the impending threat to print from digital platforms he slammed a copy of Saturday’s Age classifieds on the boardroom table and declared he wouldn’t brook any criticism of the “rivers of gold” the hard copy classifieds brought in.
And here we are.
I guess that the ABC will pick up a lot of ex-Nein media people. After all their online news platform has destroyed Nein- Fairfax comprehensively over the past 15 years.
Redundancy costs are probably the only thing keeping the lights on in the Fauxfacts shell.
What a hoot! Sky News has just run a line under their picture:
“Trump Attacks Joe Biden’s Age During Debate”.
Pretty funny when a more appropriate line might be Joe Fails Miserably In Debate. That’s the consensus we are seeing in the real world.
This is daytime at Sky, not exactly brimming with talent or competence.
Hello twitter police, Id like to report a murder.
https://x.com/i/status/1806508679929430268
How? They need to be independently wealthy enough that they are able to play half a billion dollars in “fines” and their children need to be old enough that they are able to handle attacks as adults.
I only caught a few minutes of debate whilst in the car.
All I heard was Trump being asked his role in Jan 6. First thing he replied about was Biden and the border and a couple of other jabs at Biden. No attempt to answer question which was an obvious one. He should have been well prepared but wasn’t. In my view that is arrogant.
Am a Trump supporter but he needs to listen to advice and prep more based on what he responded in that question.
Hopefully he won overall and Dems now realising Biden is gone.
No, Bourne 1879 – he refused to let the questioning run down a predetermined path that they’d set.
There’s no rule that says he had to allow himself to be put in a situation where he was vulnerable to their malicious agenda.
Quite so, Sancho at 1.39pm. Except that Fairfax’s rivers of gold disappeared 25 years ago when the internet stole them and Fairfax management was too stupid and incompetent to hang onto them while the opposition at News Corp invented online behemoths like realestate.com.au that cleaned up.
The real loser was the Fauxfacts that vended in about $900m of APN.
Someone has to make a supercut of just the facial expressions …
Monty pining for Joe, being the only Jap in the Jungle after everyone else has deserted and gone home.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1806496616842473563
The left media are certainly disciplined.
The plan to kill off Joe in a national debate is in full swing. Newsom is waiting for the call and the scripts are already written.
If Trump had more political savvy he would call the game and show sympathy with poor old Joe being abused and manipulated by the swamp.
Nonsense. Ron DeSantis, 45, will be the Republican nominee in 2028.
He’s making good moves, but I don’t trust him. There have been a few dodgy decisions that the persona he purports to be wouldn’t have made.
Disappointing, train wreck’: Biden’s people lash performanceAnne Barrowclough
Among Democrats who have expressed disappointment in Joe Biden’s performance is his own former communications director, who says he didn’t prove he had the energy to stamina to continue as president.
Kate Bedingfield, who left her post a year ago, said: “It was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden. I don’t think there’s any other way to slice it. His biggest issue was to prove to the American people that he had the energy, the stamina — and he didn’t do that.”
Mr Biden’s performance has prompted some calls from Democrats for someone else to step into his role.
“Look I debated Joe 7 times in 2020. He’s a different guy in 2024,” said 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on social media.
“Guys, the Dems should nominate someone else – before it’s too late,” adding the hashtag #swapJoeout.
Other Democrats described Mr Biden’s performance as a disaster.
“Trump is coming off as reasonable even if he’s lying 60 mph. Biden is unintelligible,” one Democrat told CNN.
Another politician told CNN that Mr Biden’s performance was “getting better but, train wreck.”
If Mr Biden exits the race Democrats will have to choose a new candidate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.
In this case, the already-determined state delegates would be “uncommitted,” and could vote for anyone. These delegates would vote on a new nominee in what would likely be a messy and lengthy process.
Jared Mondschein on Sky:
Joe was able to demonstrate that he was across a lot of policy matters!
Mondschein indeed.
Or Moonshine with a touch of gaslight.
He sounds like Hildebrand.
Mole – You were beaten by the usual suspects…
Trump Indicted For Murdering Elderly Man On CNN (27 Jun)
Bee is gooood!
Bourne1879:
… Trump being asked his role in Jan 6 and didn’t answer!
Bourne says he’s a Trump supporter!
Yeah, right. Like I’m a Sky News Daytime supporter.
How about asking the role of Antifa and FBI and Pelosi etc in Jan 6th?
How about asking about the fake committe about Jan6?
Get outa here.
Elbowsleazy: Waaaaahhhh a person with very limited ability to actually inflict harm on me has been arrested…
Albanese tears up over alleged violent threat to his family
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Sarah Basford Canales
Earlier this morning, Anthony Albanese teared up when asked about an alleged violent threat made against himself and his family by a Newcastle teenager charged with terrorist offences.
Speaking in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport, the prime minister was asked about a manifesto allegedly written by the 19-year-old, found after his arrest on Wednesday during an alleged attempted attack on the NSW Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp.
The 200-page document allegedly contained details of planned attacks against Crakanthorp and plans against Albanese, his family and other Labor MPs, which do not form part of the charges.
Albanese said:
One deranged kid with a knife in Newcastle? The fake waterworks will not go down well in punterland, they have exquisite antenna for such things.
BoN:
I am so fed up with politicians and public figures who turn on the waterworks in public because they’ve been advised that it makes them appear ‘human’ and ‘sensitive’.
I can understand a momentary burst of grief over someone very close to you but this bullshit is an obvious caricature of sensitivity – it’s just bullshit.
Adults have control of their emotions – not the other way around.
Who are they going to replace Biden with? Newsom will be seen as a West Coast fruitloop and Whitmer will have to tell everybody about herself (which won’t work out so well for her). Biden is the least unattractive Democrat candidate – that’s why he was chosen in 2020.
Hillary has a sign out saying “HEY LOOK AT ME, I’M AVAILABLE!”
I could put up all the news stories about her in the last week, but that’s what they distil down to. It’s been entertaining to watch, she’s so obvious.
That’s pretty much it. All their other younger politicians are even worse,
The Dems ran their fake virtual convention 5 days ago to make sure Biden could get on the Ohio ballot.
Unless he drops over dead Biden IS their nominee.
Whatever happened to “mental illness”?
Roger:
That’s right – anyone who takes 200 pages to write down what they’d like to do with the scum running this nation is obviously running their V8 on very light weight oil.
Hell I could do it on one single sided A4 sheet of paper – double spaced.
Have any Australian politicians attended the church where the Bishop was stabbed? Any at all? *crickets*
Same amount as the International Red Cross have visited the Israeli et al hostages, and delivered the medications they were given by the rels.
Farque all.