Warren is truly evil and psychopathic. A foul old phony.
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And deserves huge applause for plowing that delicious field!
I had to scroll halfway down the main page to a link entitled The week in pictures: two days to…
Sigh!
Reporting claims that the Dems are going nuts today trying to figure out what to do next. Replace (if they can) or press on with Biden.
After a bit of consideration, I think there may be some validity to the theory that the debate was to some degree a setup by the realistic faction of the party to get rid of Biden .
The power of the Biden mob relative to the party was such that even if the party didn’t want to nominate him there was no way to deny it to the incumbent president and presumed leader of the party without tearing the party apart. So they let him destroy himself on live TV as they must have known he likely would.
This would also answer the question of why the Dems pushed for this debate so unusually early in the campaign season, to give them time to reorganize if he drops out.
Keep the popcorn handy because this is going to get interesting.
Surely they could remove Him on Medical grounds , in a nice way ?.
If the President doesn’t step down voluntarily the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet have to declare the President unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Harris might go for that for obvious reasons but it’s very unlikely that a majority of Biden’s hand-picked cabinet will vote to kill their golden goose, unless of course the Dem party coerces them somehow.
No. That means they will be caught out on the last 3 years worth of bullshit excuses. He’ll have a heart attack, or fall and break his hip and die of post surgical complications. Or his helicopter will fall out of the sky while Jill is aboard and that will solve 2 problems.
Whatever happens, Joe will not be breathing on his own by swearing in.
I posted a short comment at about 1.00 this morning . never mind .
2nd! Hi there from sunny Malta. If we moved to the Mediterranean it would be a good candidate for best place to live.
Does the Luftwaffe still do overflights, TE?
Genuine warning, DO NOT click!
Definitely not cute owls but they are happy to pose. Why?
God only knows.
Johannes Leak.
Absolutely priceless.
Leak never fails, and so clever so quickly after the event too.
Sorry to interrupt so early, but he’s made my day already.
Ditto!
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Maybe they’ll arkancide the old perv and say it was a MAGA nutjob. No evil, no dirty trick is too great for the DNC and their coconspirators in the FBI and CIA. Then parachute the lesbian bitch in.
Which Lesbian Bitch, Milton? There are several.
The original and the worst- HRC
No need – just withdraw his meds.
Lol
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1801975652892975318/video/1
During, and the aftermath of the debate, has been like the exploding head scene from “Kingsman”. An example;
When the media lies and lies and lies to you and then you see the truth.
I put this up at the end of the auld threade, but Sancho’s point is worth elaborating on for further discussion:
“In Groupthink, suspected disbelief lasts until someone breaks and goes, nah, fackit, no really, this is crap…”
Good observation, Sancho. It is the same as the Emperor’s Clothes syndrome, except that the realisation comes from within the group rather than external to it, as with the innocence of the little boy re the Emperor.
Once the dam bursts though, suddenly they are all seeing it.
With this debate, it’s really hard to tell whether the puppet-masters put poor old Joe (I’m not sorry for him though) up for deliberate demolition or whether they too were in enough of a bubble to believe they could fake it once again with him. As for the general Democrat-voters, it might be hard for us to believe but as Hairy points out to me, they have probably never really seen from within their bubble the sorts of video clips we’ve been seeing regularly. So they are in shock.
Once the dam bursts though, suddenly they are all seeing it.
AKA the Overton Window
Re that picture on our current threade header, she’s looking relaxed and every ‘tired businessman’s delight’ in the days when such Victorian art was produced for admiration long before internet porn, but gee, she must have been very uncomfortable in that tight-laced corset around the waist that was so sexy back then (think Chinese-ladies crippled feet, for similar fetishes in the male gaze, ugh). I do have a pic of me at sixteen with a similarly constrained 22 inch waist – but by the 1950’s not the 18 inches that Scarlett O’Hara had to have and not with whalebone corsetry thank goodness; and only worn for special occasions, not daily like the poor soul in the pic above.
We women are our own worst enemies though, for we go along with the ‘looks’ decreed by fashion. Can’t blame men for it all.
As someone who, by your own admission, traded on your looks for decades, suggest you stop being a hypocrite.
As usual, self-awareness is not your strong suit.
Most women trade on their looks if they have them, Jo. I’m sure you did too, for you’ve said you were a looker in your yoof. ‘Trading’ in the context of being young and attractive is merely a term for enjoying the ease of getting boyfriends. And looks without some brains, decency and and amiability won’t get you very far if you are looking for genuine love and a satisfying marriage; so more than appearance comes into the equation for that.
The nature of what we as women trade on may differ though according to era, and men do have something to do with that – for instance in the Victorian Era’s Gilded Age 1870-1899, elite women were designated as frail corseted status objects who displayed the wealth of their husbands by their dress and other consumption. They also had to engage in competitive social climbing. See Anne De Courcy “The Husband Hunters” for a good social history of this era in New York as the wealthy exchanged US cash for British coronets (my review is in Quadrant), Quite a good TV series called The Gilded Age dramatises this period. It was put together by Julian Fellowes, creator of the Downton Abbey and Belgravia TV series. He’s made a specialty of ‘marriage market’ eras. I believe he’s working on something to do with the Titanic disaster now.
It looks like another catfight is starting up.
Enjoy, lads.
Nah. With my busted coccyx and her arthritis, we have other things to worry us.
According to TheirABC, the weather runs on rails:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-29/australia-weather-strongest-cold-front-of-2024/104037418
The headline says ‘Australia’s weather heading off the rails.’
It turns out that some coldth is coming along, and the fact that it is winter should not distract us from being scared. Also, these are the people who falsely claim that we are in the middle of the hottest year evah.
Also, last week they were telling us that the snowfields were doomed because of you-know-what. I look forward to the reports of the devastation caused by heavy snowfall in the next few days.
Paraphrasing from memory, in Le Carre’s ‘Tinker, Tailor’ etc, there is a passage of dialogue between Smiley and roughneck superbrain Roy Bland:
B: You’re an educated kind of cove. Who was it who said that the definition of ***** was the ability to hold two opposing points of view and remain sane?
S: It was Scott Fitzgerald.
B: Well, he knew a thing or two.
Cognitive dissonance.
I am preparing to take my busted coccyx to its first dance class since getting the spinal injection on Monday. It’s an improvement but not a cure yet.
My philosophy of aging is that you keep moving, whatever happens.
I am the same age as Biden, which is a terrifying thought.
Neither dementing nor shuffling, thanks to what?
The Grace of God, as my old mum used to say.
Lizzie its called survival of the fittest. Nature as it was meant to be. Making the most of what ever assets you have. Thursday, down here in the Shoalhaven was a lot of birdies getting it on. They have no shame. I was sitting there right in front of them. I figure they know its after the winter solstice and spring was on the way. The plovers already have chicks.
The fortune waiting for me at the bookmakers is calling to me.
C’mon you Dem morons, nominate Michelle now. I have fantasies to service..
“Big Mike” will be appearing in Chicago, I believe.
Why does it seem to be colder when it is dark?
As a smoker who has to step outside to enjoy a cig in these totalitarian days, all sorts of new experiences have come about. But, this one has me puzzled.
Where I live is cold at night, below zero is common in winter. I sometimes put on an overcoat to go out and have a smoke.
What I notice is that it ‘feels’ colder when it is dark than when it is even a bit light. I’ve checked it with temperature readings, yup, same temp, I feel chilled or just mid-fridge, dependent on the light.
Why is that?
It is just a global warming cold during the day. Of course you feel warm.
From our humble beginnings Johanna. Dark, the body knows it needs to keep warm and safe from predators, light, the body knows it can flee from predators and is ready to do so. Heart rate is up.
C’mon you Dem morons, nominate Michelle now. I have fantasies to service..
For a terrifying moment i thought that read “A Michelle to service”….
Thanks a lot, Frollicking Moll. I won’t have nightmares tonight, instead I’ll have them now.
Is it too early for whisky?
Looks like the Dems have decided.
Hillary Clinton Doubles Down on Biden Support (28 Jun)
CNN: Biden Not Planning to Step Aside (28 Jun)
Obama Urges Voters to Stick With Biden Despite ‘Bad Debate’ (28 Jun)
That’s a multiple ROFL right there.
So Obummer is supporting Donald John Trump, the best President they’ve ever had.
The rules don’t matter. They’ll do whatever they want.
BREAKING: Democrat Party Insider Doug Kass Reports Biden, Klain, and Obama are Having Critical Meeting Today — Harris Furious that She is Not Being Considered as a Replacement
The impartial press
Amazing.
Ladbrokes cover betting on Masterchef, but not the US election.
They are not a serious site.
This probably has something to do with that:
Biden Administration Orders Ban on Election Betting Markets (21 May)
Everyone knows how vindictive Biden and the Democrats are, so excessive caution would be understandable.
Yeah, that might have worked before SCOTUS slammed the Chevron deference doctrine this morning.
The executive branch (that’s you Joe) and its myriad unaccountable agencies don’t get to make their own laws anymore.
“Masterchef less “bent” than US elections?
Quelle surprise!
I cannot understand why Biden persists with the “suckers and losers” accusation, when it has been debunked over and over again.
Biden often makes the mistake of believing the propaganda his team produces.
While he’s not the target audience of that propaganda let’s just say his anti-virus is out of date. Way out of date.
Now his lack of cognitive function prevents updating his hard drive and reboots aren’t helping.
Disgraced former special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been welcomed into Western Australia’s Government House to receive a special honour from King Charles III, a year after a federal court judge concluded the ex-corporal had executed and brutalised Afghan prisoners and disgraced the nation’s military
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Lizzie at 6:50 …
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 29, 2024 6:28 am
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As I said, one of us is having a Biden episode, because I don’t remember saying that.
Probably me. It was on the end of the old thread. A comment on a comment sort of thing. Thought it was you. I’d just got up and probably not too attentive, sorting out my dance gear etc.
Shame. Apologies if you are offended.
Other Cats have raised the million-dollar question: what did the faceless men who’ve been running the White House for the past four years think would happen when they wheeled out a frail Joe Biden against an aggressive Donald Trump on the debate stage?
It seems to me that, in the past month, the faceless men, led by Barack Obama, have decided it is time to end the façade of their puppet president and replace him with a candidate who has a hope in hell of winning an election in four months’ time.
Or maybe they’re confident they can keep using mail-in ballots to steal presidential elections.
?
In any case, the jig is up. The most disgraceful episode in American history is drawing to a close – but with half the political establishment still campaigning to destroy the United States.
Tom – Hammer and Scorecard. Boss Tweed would be jealous.
Two days ago, Finland become the first country to roll out the new vaccine.
It’s for Climate flu, or Racism flu I don’t recall which.
Looking forward, it will obviously have a terrible effect in the US and regrettably, (even though the Dem’s would love to have in person voting), to ensure safety and Democracy, (of course), mail-in and electronic voting must be used.
If you had the flu shots, ……, sorry Covid shots, in 2021, get ready to roll up your sleeves again.
If you are already dead, ……, job done!
I smell a Clinton Plot.
Therefore, $50 on Hillary as the next President @ 51.00
It seems to me that, in the past month, the faceless men, led by Barack Obama, have decided it is time to end the façade of their puppet president and replace him with a candidate who has a hope in hell of winning an election in four months’ time.
If they really wanted to prevent the end of days due to a second (literally hitler) Trump Presidency, they would be running RFKJ, the only Democrat with a show of beating him.
Just in case nobody undertands why TheirABC has no comprehension of the real world:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-29/reform-uk-nigel-farage-uk-election-2024-clacton/104033158
It’s a balmy British evening and Nigel Farage is holding court in the beer garden of a small, seaside pub in the east coast town of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.
He’s wearing a three-piece suit, but the former commodities trader tries to be the everyman — downing pints with the locals and talking football ahead of England’s latest match at the Euro 2024 tournament.
Leaving aside the ‘It’s a balmy etc’ that is now apparently mandatory in introductions to news reports (because they are all wasted at TheirABC and should be writing Great Novels) – wow. Just wow.
He’s wearing a suit and faking it as Everyman – how does she manage to get dressed in the morning?
Farage sometimes wears suits and drinks in pubs, been doing it for decades.Sometimes he does one or the other. His immense political achievements mean nothing to this airhead.
She knows nothing about Farage, except what she’s read on social media.
Hand-picked by TheirABC, the kind of person they want to employ.
I confess to “upticking” Leak’s toon before even checking it out. He never fails.
I sometimes do that because I have already seen it in the Oz.
@BNODesk
New York Times editorial board calls on Joe Biden to drop out of the race
Lizzie, the body failing is an inevitable part of aging, and we generally accept it. The real tragedy is when the mind fails. I am, I think, slightly older than you, and I’ve seen both sides. Mum died at 90.
Mum, a stroke at 69. Dad, a sudden rhythm disturbance at 71. Brother Fred same at 50. Other brother, infarct at 30, but still chugging.
The two girls are chugging along at 74 and 76.
Me… 8th anniversary of transplant at 64, from cardiomyopathy.
I should have picked better parents.
It’s all luck really Bob, provided you get good medical attention. My mum died at 90, which doesn’t seem so far away for me now. She’d hoped for 92 in spite of her lung cancer.
I am so cheered by the twenty or more wonderful women I dance with, aged between 55 and 84. The five in our 80s are all still high kicking and my fracture on the ice is the only bone injury amongst us; plus the instructor is amazingly fit. She is 81 soon, a year younger than me, as I’m 82 in July. My daughter when she was 35( she’s now 42) came to one of our classes, piece of cake, she said, just sill old mum etc. Phew, she said afterwards, because she had to admit she could sustain half of the moves we managed to keep doing, in spite of her Pilates.
When I turned up today they were all so pleased that I’d recovered well enough to dance again so soon. I did take what I call my gee-up pills – two x 500mg Panadol Xtra. The Xtra is 65mg of caffeine in every 500mg, giving the equivalent of two concentrated strong cups of coffee (I don’t drink much coffee). They work wonders improving one’s outlook as much as for any pain. Soothing yet invigorating.
OK, no rush, there are plenty in pharmacies. So far.
silly, couldn’t – last part of typing often gets lost.
format fail – meh.
Get rid of this stupid setup and things might improve,
I have to admit it sucks – it’s ruined the flow of the conversations, and going back to search for replies means much of the repartee has been lost.
I like it. I hated trying to search back to the end of page comment box to make a reply.
Old Cat was like CL’s blog still is, with the comment box at the end where it goes straight up. Scrolling all over the place as here is simply irritating.
Also, reply function means lots of people won’t read what you’ve said, and using function f to search for a name doesn’t bring up those using the reply system.
It’s sad that we’ve reached the point where this can even be estimated. I don’t think you need to be a doctor to see that it’s self-evident. If you pump yourself full of drugs to achieve your self-vision what do you expect.
Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Cancer Survivors Have Higher Odds of Most Conditions
What is becoming evident is that most – if not all – of the transgender sufferers AND the ‘carers’ are mentally disturbed far beyond the average.
We’ve had the bulemics and anorexics, the transgenders and the weird family circumstances behind them – Munchausen syndrome by proxy, the whole Gay phenomenon.
All of them affecting several generations of women – mostly young ones.
Is this some sort of mental phenomenon that is wrecking their lives?
Has our society allowed a mass insanity to form?
And was it somehow deliberate by some collective?
I asked if there was a function that could be used to open all the replies when the page was opened, but sadly, there appears to not be one. It would go a long way to help the searchability of the blog.
Thomas Jefferson
Doh
University study: ‘vast DEI bureaucracy’ negatively impacting U.S. Armed Forces
Yes. DEI is killing our institutions – which is precisely what it was designed to do.
It emphasises the differences that separate us – not the similarities that bind us together.
We are becoming a tribalist society and that does not end well.
White House Abandons ‘Cheap Fake’ Claim; Admits ‘He’s Not As Smooth as He Used to Be’
A Canadian trend we should follow:
A Canadian “Pretendian” woman has been sentenced to three years jail for defrauding the government of C$150 000 by falsely claiming benefits for her Inuit daughters…who were not indigenous.
Better yet…just pull the brakes on the whole gravy train.
This is unbelievable. Not only has no one ever gone to jail over this, but the Attorney General of the U.S. has done exactly the same thing he is charged with with NO repercussions.
Supreme Court Denies Steve Bannon’s Request To Stay Out Of Jail
If there’s not a three piece suit, a set of overalls and wellies, and a dreadlocked Belgian girl in cheesecloth, and standing room only at 5 on a Tuesday, then it’s just not an English Pub
Dr. John Campbell
Dementia awareness
Interesting day to raise this.
See also:
There are several of these “Captain Pike” images out there now.
The “memes” just seem to make themselves.
Like this:
In news thats probably more significant than Joes brainworm problems the Supremes in the US may have just gutted the administrative state.
The Chevron ruling enabling agencies to create “law” out of thin air has been overturned.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/28/politics/chevron-precedent-supreme-court/index.html
The decision overturns the Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council precedent that required courts to give deference to federal agencies when creating regulations based on an ambiguous law. Congress routinely enacts open-ended laws that give latitude to agencies to work out — and adjust — the details to new circumstances.
“Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion. “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch, the son of a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, wrote separately to call Chevron Deference “a grave anomaly when viewed against the sweep of historic judicial practice.”
The 1984 decision, he said, “undermines core rule-of-law values ranging from the promise of fair notice to the promise of a fair hearing,” adding that it “operated to undermine rather than advance reliance interests, often to the detriment of ordinary Americans.”
Disarm the Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy?
Try that in Australia and you’ll find out just how powerful they are, sonny.
Those ‘agencies’ by the way, include the President.
You listening Joe?
What irritates me about this artwork is that at least two of the paintings on the wall are hanging crooked.
I’ll take your word for it, damon. But then you are talking to a bloke whose artwork is always hanging crooked by design.
Why?
Because it amuses me, and no other reason.
I’ll take your word for it, damon. But then you are talking to a bloke whose artwork is always hanging crooked by design.
Why?
Because it amuses me, and no other reason.
For the same reason that Elsie the cat shares her feeding tray with a stuffed dinosaur and a mouse.
Because it amuses me. I have no idea what Elsie thinks of it.
And here’s me thinking I’d been into the plonk too early.
Experts, corrupted institutions, and what to do in a dark age (Bret Weinstein & Phil Harper)
JC at 6:06.
That is hilarious but it does pose the question … why did the media go from not only “nothing to see here” but spruiking “Joe is at the top of his game” (despite the mounting evidence of a marble deficit) to unanimously declaring yesterday that Joe had lost it?
The stuttering, bumbling vacant shell of the crook he once was hasn’t changed.
Orders from the DNC?
Michael Malice – What People Misunderstand Most About Evil
That’s an interesting point – would you want to know who turned you in to the Stasi?
My oath I would.
Why?
That’s an easy one. Revenge.
People were betrayed because the betrayers thought they could get away with it. They need to learn that they ‘can’t get away with it’.
I’ll see your Nigel Farage and raise you a property portfolio multi-millionaire who “fights Tories.”
A member of a Party, whose members live in waterfront mansions, collect French clocks, and possess multi million dollar investment portfolios, in the name of the “redistribution of wealth.”
They’re certainly getting their share…and all while on the public purse.
Commodities traders are one step removed from real estate salesman. Some not even that.
was there ever really any debate?
Arthur Sinodinos will be along any minute now to vouch for Joe Biden.
he’s waiting for his wife’s opinion .. “her indoors” rulez the roost in that household .. LOL!
Even the most vampirish Democrats realise that they must let their host recover a little replenish it’s blood supply rather than sipping until it is stark dead.
Thanks for posting that, johanna, Lord above it was hard reading.
Describing the standard winter weather pattern with a positive Southern Annular Mode in play as something akin to the end of days sure takes some doing.
This weather system has been on the long range cards for weeks now, in fact we had a meeting of the heads yesterday to make sure we don’t get surprised if conditions quickly become too wet to move.
A major repair job to one of the spray booms has been cut to a “just enough to have it going” level in order that all in crop spraying is a whisker ahead of assigned dates.
More urea being stockpiled so we can spread everything in one hit if need be.
First sown canola paddock just starting to run up.
I watched the debate yesterday on Shapiro’s “Daily Wire” channel.
(Thats 90 mins of my life I will not get back.)
Two things surprised me.
I was hoping that after DJT briefly mentioned the sacking of the Ukraine prosecutor, that the “fondler in chief” would return with:
“Well, why did you threaten to sack that CDC official if he didn’t release the “vaccines” into the arms of the great unwashed?”
Of course the official did and now millions are dead.
(I just cannot understand the mentality of people, lining up for their own execution, like in Jonestown.)
I guess that would require him to be a sentient being and also of course, that would affect his continuing income stream.
By far the best part of the broadcast, was an advert, made by Daily Wire, for “Jeremy’s razors”. (I don’t know if that is an actual product, or a piss take.)
It went for 2 mins and was the best ad I’ve seen for decades.
Several of the Daily Wire staff took the mickey out of themselves, including Shapiro and they explained why “white people” do not appear in ads any more.
Well worth a look.
CSIRO CEO Dr Doug Hilton says Peter Dutton’s comments on the GenCost report corrode the public’s trust in science. No, Mr Hilton, The CSIRO’s flawed report has corroded public trust in what was once a reputable scientific body. Mr Hilton goes on to try and explain away why the GenCost report failed, without admitting it failed. Sorry mate, I’m no scientist, but your excuses don’t pass the pub test .https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-29/csiro-chief-executive-peter-dutton-comments-corrode-public-trust/104038696
Roger
June 29, 2024 9:22 am
Greg Sheridan had to write a “Trump wins debate” article through gritted teeth.
He glossed over the debate and started quacking on about the various policy development think-tanks the Dimocrats have, and how the debate rules helped Trump … rules set by the Biden camp and CNN.
He doesn’t think the debate will determine the election. He regards Biden’s performance as “stumbles” like mispronouncing the name of a Russian diplomat, or forgetting the date of some event from the distant past. He doesn’t see it as evidence of catastrophic and irreversible cognitive decline and what that means if he is elected for another four years to the most powerful office in the world.
Sheridan’s support for Biden/the Democrats has a tribal element to it. Such loyalties die hard.
Yes, Roger. Greg Sheridan is just another tribal leftist in a conservative’s suit and bowtie.
Like every Never Trumper ever born, he’s threatened by the fact that Trump is an alpha male.
Tom, before he became a journalist Sheridan, who hails from a devout Catholic family, was a union organiser for the Shoppies. There have always been strong ideological links between the ALP Right & the right wing of the Democrats. I’d wager that at some point Kennedy was a hero for Sheridan and Biden is endorsed by the Kennedys and so on. This stuff still matters for some.
Rufus, Jeremy’s razors is a genuine product. Created by Jeremy Boring CEO Daily Wire after a razor company who advertised with DW went woke and cancelled their advertising. They did not like something Michael Knowles (in the ad the one who Jeremy refuses to hi five with) said on another podcast. However they made the huge mistake of having a go at DW. Jeremy’s Razors was the not so subtle but brilliant response.
Agree one of the best ads made.
They don’t mail to Australia! Does anyone have a reshipper that’s trustworthy?
Some inconvenient truths to point out to any renewables enthusiasts in your sphere of influence.
When the underlying presumption is that ANY cost is justifiable to ‘save the planet,’ this type of truth-telling will be dismissed as irrelevant scaremongering. It’s not irrelevant, of course, but it’s also ineffective as a tip-of-the-spear tactic.
I wonder if the key to opening a gap in their defences is to utilise emotion, just like they do. As much as we decry it, it obviously works. The fact that should the current trajectory continue, electrickery will only be affordable to the elites, is a topic that I think must be emphasised. The article you published touches on this soon-to-be-luxury, but doesn’t push it as hard as it could be. Australians don’t like snobs, and they especially will resent neo-feudal energy lords.
Here it is in a Webcast: Nearly 2 hours, but probably worth the effort.
And here’s a link to the PDF copy.
Thanks Roger.
No wonder he had to leave the ABC!
Week in Pictures, the Debate, one to look forward to tonight.
The media will have a brief panic attack and then go on doing what they have been doing for a long time. Both Nixon and Reagan won elections with huge majorities, but that didn’t stop the media from attacking them relentlessly. They have done much the same to every Republican candidate or President for the past sixty years.
The salvage operation today looks like (i) BBC Newshour letting their TDS hang out bigly with “Joe tells the truth badly while Trump lies competently”.
(ii) Joe fronting a crowd with better juice and saying that while he doesn’t do some things as well as he used to he still tells the truth!
(iii) Harold Ford on The Five saying that while the performance by Joe was poor, there’s nothing poor about his policies! Really? Open Border, importing democrat voters, selling the petroleum reserves, running down the military in more ways than one, wokifying so many aspects of society and ruining the future for kids, jailing the political opponents and innocent attendees at Capitol on Jan6th? Great policies.
“Biden tells the truth” says the media who have lied for 4+ years about his condition. Sure, sure.
Coal, oil, gas are free too. Just lying there underground for aeons. The cost is turning them into energy. Fossil fuels have the added benefit of not ceasing to exist for days at a time.
You can also pile up coal in a nice big pile. Which is like a big battery only cheaper.
At the risk of repeating myself, I’m a bit disappointed that after a quarter century of the internet, the legacy meja is still with us. Nice in a way though to see the Sydney Morning Vomit and Aged still limping along like zombies sans rivers of gold and losing money bigly for their stupid owners.
Redundancy costs are the only thing keeping the lights on. FTA is unwatchable, radio in some sort of equilibrium. The legacy media is irrelevant – the Voice proved that.
Yes good point Bear- and didn’t they go to town on the Voice- playing shittie Australia hating songs by Midnight Oil and Goanna non stop. Vile, despicable people.
ABC radio this morning wrote Biden off.
Someone else needs to step up and save the world from another Trump presidency was the line.
Article by by Peter Jennings, The Australian 29 June 2024
Forget the media circus, Julian Assange put our brave soldiers’ lives in danger
PETER JENNINGS
Now that he is out of His Majesty’s Belmarsh Prison, we will come to know the real Julian, not the figure managed so artfully over the past decade by the Assange fan club.
Julian Assange has returned to Australia and into the arms of his family after reaching a plea deal with the United States.
Anthony Albanese is, as usual, describing the situation rather than defining it. “Look, I think that there will continue to be different views about Julian Assange and his activity,” he told a media gaggle on Thursday. The Prime Minister is just relieved that “this saga is over”.
Albanese should be worried that the next phase of the saga is about to begin. Whatever Assange has in mind for his future, it won’t involve being obliging to Albo.Could the Prime Minister even articulate the “different views” that people are supposed to have about Assange? We are unlikely to find out.Albanese had the sense to stay away from Canberra airport although the instinct must surely have run deep to jump into C1 with Toto and charge for a photo opportunity. The challenge for the PM will be to milk what credit he can from facilitating the return of a driven, deeply idiosyncratic individual with the potential to become a deep headache for the political left.
Assange’s WikiLeaks shot to global prominence on July 25, 2010, when it released online what it called the Afghanistan War Diary – 91,000 reports “written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, (and including) intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details”.
This act flung Canberra into a panic. What if these reports gave targetable details of Australian military operations, or named Afghans working with Defence or intelligence? I was deputy secretary for strategy in Defence and was tasked to lead a process reviewing the leaked material. The context is important. We were fighting a bloody counter-terrorism war at the time.
On June 7, 2010, sapper Jacob Moerland, 21, was killed by an improvised explosive device in the Mirabad Valley of Uruzgan province. Injured in the same explosion was sapper Darren Smith, 25. He was evacuated by helicopter and later died of his wounds. On June 21, privates Scott Palmer, 27, Timothy Aplin, 38, and Benjamin Chuck, 27, all serving with the special forces, were killed on operations in a Blackhawk helicopter crash. Then on July 9, private Nathan Bewes, 23, was killed and another soldier wounded by an IED in Uruzgan’s Chora Valley.
A fortnight later, Assange’s WikiLeaks release of uncensored battlefield reports put our forces, indeed the whole of the international coalition in Afghanistan, and the many brave Afghans fighting with us, under serious risk.
The only group that could benefit from this tactical information was the Taliban.
I mention the names of these fine soldiers to help the Prime Minister understand how it is that some people may have “different views” about Assange. Many more ADF deaths and woundings followed. The essence of political leadership is to separate the spin from what truly matters rather than pretend that different views are just happy celebrations of diversity.
On Sky News on Wednesday, The Australian’s Washington correspondent Adam Creighton argued that “in the 14 years this stuff’s been out there, you know, there has basically been no damage at all”. “Those who attack Assange, they claim that, you know, he has caused enormous danger to various people but I just don’t see that has been borne out in reality. And frankly, even if it is true then that’s the price of, you know, knowing the truth.”“The truth” looks different looking backward from, you know, the safety of a television studio.
At the time, in the middle of Australia’s most serious combat operations since the Vietnam War, Assange threw a bomb into the middle of the ADF.
No one was taking this risk more seriously than Stephen Smith, then foreign minister, soon to become defence minister, and Kevin Rudd, who in June 2010 had just lost the prime ministership, but would become foreign minister in September of that year. WikiLeaks kept throwing bombs. In October 2010, 391,832 combat reports from Iraq were put online, again uncensored. And beginning in November 2010, tens of thousands of State Department cables started to be released.
The Australian Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton discusses whether Julian Assange’s publishing of classified material on Wikileaks was justified.One of those cables, marked secret, reported that in 2009, then prime minister Rudd told the US embassy that Afghanistan “scared the hell out of him”. He was right to be so worried.
It is by no means clear that the material put online by Assange did not cause deaths. After President Joe Biden’s disastrous decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in August 2021, we know that the Taliban targeted Afghans who worked for the International Security Assistance Force. The combat reports have never been taken off the WikiLeaks site. The release of the State Department cables caused significant disruption to Western intelligence operations globally, including the urgent withdrawal of exposed agents. Some of Assange’s supporters may celebrate that as a dismantling of an evil state apparatus, but that would be a case of not “knowing the truth” so much as just being unable to handle it.
The biggest geopolitical beneficiaries of WikiLeaks were Russia and China. They don’t indulge quirky libertarians like Assange. By contrast, the democracies, particularly the US, suffered. Reading through the combat reports and the cables, the picture that emerges is not one of the Deep State malignly plotting, or that of a war machine endlessly committing war crimes. These are fantasy views, animating fringe-dwellers on the hard left and right of politics.What is revealed is flawed democracies fighting confused wars with barely coherent strategic planning, imperfect knowledge and limited resources. Mistakes get made. The benefit of the US and Australian systems is that we will regularly admit to the fault.
A fair reading of the State Department cables would judge that American diplomats are, very often, savvy judges of character and political processes.
Is it news to anyone that the US embassy thought Rudd was a “control freak”?As a Defence official closely engaged with a variety of different governments, I can reveal that the heart of modern democracy is not an all-knowing, all-controlling “Deep State” – you will find that only in China. What we have is the Shallow State – something that looks more like a sweaty and short-sighted clown troop riding the dodgem cars.
Based Politics Podcast Co-host and Journalist Brad Polumbo says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acted “reckless” and in a “haphazard way” to leak sensitive US documents.That is what WikiLeaks reveals. Spare me the nonsense about fearlessly exposing the truth.
What happens next? Assange could turn his gaze towards how successive Australian governments have increasingly misused national security classifications to cover up political stupidity.It has been a long time since the security classifications of “confidential”, “secret” and “top secret” have been used, as intended, to control information of genuine national security significance.
The government failed to release a recent report by David Peever on innovation and the Defence Strategic Review by Stephen Smith and Sir Angus Houston, and they did so on spurious national security grounds.
Albanese has created a new role for himself as the bringer-home of incarcerated Australians. He does not mention the Islamic State jihadi brides and children returned in October 2022 in his roll call of success.
The good news for Albanese is that DFAT reports 318 cases of Australians imprisoned overseas in 2022-23, including 49 in China, 47 in the US and 30 in Vietnam. Will they all get a phone call from the Prime Minister upon return? How about a private jet with Rudd and Smith in attendance? One hopes both these gentlemen are profoundly embarrassed by having to accompany Assange. That could only have been a prime ministerial call and was completely unnecessary.On Thursday morning ABC Radio, Stella Assange asked only for privacy for her family in comments reminiscent of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, surely the only close competitors for such media attention. But I can’t see Julian marketing his own brand of dog biscuits.
Instead, he may consider politics. In an election for half the Senate, a 14.3 per cent vote – a “quota” – lands a Senate position. With global name recognition, Assange will threaten the Greens for a Senate spot in any state in the country. Assange previously ran for a Senate position for the WikiLeaks Party in 2013. An early disturber of Assange’s privacy might be a call from Adam Bandt who, presumably, would rather have Assange in the Greens tent than out of it. Bandt could see Assange as a political threat. There are plenty of inner metropolitan seats in Sydney and Melbourne where Assange would stand a solid chance off knocking off a Labor or Greens incumbent.
For the rest of us, including the thousands who maintain onerous security clearances, the image of Albanese’s grinning phone call welcoming Assange home will linger. Given the government’s obsession with secrecy and information control, common decency and a touch of political astuteness would suggest the PM should give Assange a wide berth. Assange was found guilty by our closest ally of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. The man is no hero. The same action would put any Defence official in prison. Albanese should acknowledge that, out of respect for the thousands of loyal Australians who uphold our national security.
Peter Jennings is director of Strategic Analysis Australia and was executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2012 to 2022. He is a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Defence Department (2009-12).
The salient point for me – a person who hasn’t followed this media circus – is that the security clearances given to political blunders has apparently degraded and made almost useless a system that should have been left alone, and for that, Canberra is as usual, responsible.
The Regime obviously wanted Biden in 2020 which is why they organized/permitted Trump’s hounding from 2016-20, the 2020 election ‘fortification’, and blocked all legal means of election review. The conundrum for the Regime now is that removing Biden from the ticket because of his present condition is that he still is the President, he’s not merely a candidate, so removing him also would demand his replacement as President now. Given this, and given how poor a replacement Harris would be, they are stuck with Biden. Their next play is a deal with Trump, and here, the signals from people like Ackman suggests that the Regime has made their peace and is preparing for a Trump presidency.
No swamp draining then?
Biden’s FB page.
“Folks I may not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.
I might not debate as well as I used to.
But what I do know is how to tell the truth”.
FMD.
“I am a sandwich short of a picnic but I will tell the truth … if I can remember it”.
So Biden did beat Medicare?
“Err….Ummm……anyway……”
Biden is and always was a lying, amoral, immoral PoS. Filthy both figuratively and literally.
News that the fire services in SA,Vic and NSW are meeting to discuss the fire safety issues involved with the renewable overbuild in the bush.
It takes time but we’ve finally got through to senior officers that there is definitely a problem looming.
…and their answer is 42?
Kudos to you and your determined colleagues. It’s astounding that CFS/CFA had not already realised the threat of high voltage power lines. In SA, they’re quick to turn off power on high risk days. Keep up the good work, Gez.
Branco nails it. The only ones missing were the alphabet agencies.
That’s not all Ackman said. Obviously, it’s a low probability bet. Ackman suggested the Demons beg (anoint) Jamie Dimon for the candidacy, He would win, I suspect with less cheating.
Furgle me ..! End of June, into winter and the bloody “park” out back needed a haircut ..
Another 90 minutes of my life .. wasted ..!
Good to see you are out and about and up to doing it, Mr. S.
Taped conversation in the DNC conference room late last evening, after the debate.
Imagine printing millions of fake ballots and then having to change candidates and having to reprint them all again.
Why the Democrats lied about Joe Biden’s frailty
@_johnnymaga
Trump’s crowd today in Virginia was massive
As mentioned above:
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I can attest that they are excellent blades as well as excellent ads.
They don’t ship to Australia.
Gez – This one doesn’t pertain to the fire issue, but it is extremely relevant to residents and also animal husbandry. Wildlife also.
People Living Near Wind Turbines Vacate Their Homes Due To Harm To Pets, Livestock, Water Supply (27 Jun)
I’ve seen a lot of such reports over the last 10 or so years, all of which get buried by the usual suspects. The infrasound issue is real and has significant effects that no one in high castles want to know about.
I have certainly heard testimony of cattlemen whose cows have reduced fertility rates when in paddocks adjacent to turbines.
I despise the modern avian macerating eyesores but many rural properties have/had windmill driven pumps for a century or more and didn’t seem to suffer the problems listed.
Perhaps this is a size matters situation? Or are high tension power transmission lines possibly involved?
Old water pumping windmills were much smaller and had many blades. No infrasound of any consequence. The higher the frequency the greater the attenuation in the atmosphere. You can see this when there’s a party in the neigbourhood and all you hear is the doof doof sounds of the bass notes.
The usual suspects are silent on each of the problems mentioned.
From OOT:
As Adam Curtis would say: This was a fantasy/illusion. All the groupings that are deemed Iranian ‘proxies’ are literally at war with Al Qaeda/ ISIS in their respective locations, whether in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, and there were the attacks in the last six months in Iran itself. It’s amusing and instructive that Al Qaeda/ ISIS never appears to be conducting operations in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar or the UAE.
Would Iran care? Very likely because the alphabet agencies would be blaming Iran which is very convenient. It would be a reprise of 9/11 where they have some of the Al Qaeda members on their books and under surveillance, knowledge of Saudi agents operating in the months leading up scouting locations which they hide, and then post-9/11, they blame….Iraq.
Biden is a professional corruptocrat and grifter and he will never step aside, Asking him to take one for the party is like asking a mafia boss to take one for his men. He will need to be battered around the head with a baseball bat and only then can they cart the corpse out of the door.
Juice him up harder, nothing some meth or amphetamines cant fix for 90 minutes.
Kamala Harris Has Tense Post-Debate Interview With CNN’s Anderson Cooper
Post-Debate 2024 Election Map Projection
A good site but concerned only with the massive swing to President Trump.
It will look quite different if The Hildebeast gets the pick. I’d guess she’d claw back 5%, but I wouldn’t know – I’m not a psephologist.
Oddly, the map didn’t change that much pre and post the debate.
The projected states were the same but the confidence in the lean and toss-ups is much higher now.
Roger at 10:28
Something similar on ABC TV last night.
“Biden fumbled the ball and let Trump off the hook for his multiple lies!”
Interesting to look at that Hannity link someone put up on the old thread.
Biden was at some post debate rally mumbling “Don’t worry, the fact checkers will be on to him tomorrow”.
Still clinging to the belief that, no matter what you say or do, the faithful media will go into Trump bashing mode, so all good.
Again, there is something suspicious about the way a previously compliant media executed a perfect 180 degree turn in unison yesterday.
Yes very suspicious. They have all the morals of an alley cat on heat.
There are some realities just too big to be buried.
Certain Regime candidate. JP Morgan, Chase background. But would Dem voters turnout?
McEnany calls out Biden White House: This is a cover-up of epic proportions
Lots of contributors here have health issues as the years pass. So here is an encouraging remark from Edith Wharton:
“In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways”.
Watching Biden made me grab a handful of B1 and B12.
Can’t be too careful. Positivity has its limits, but I’m clutching at that too.
Just realised , yesterday June 28 .. 57 years in Oz ……..
Do you think you’re going to like it or is it too early to tell?
Mike Lee Calls To Invoke 25th Amendment On Biden After Presidential Debate ‘Meltdown’
no no no biden must run, more speed or crack
Larry Kudlow: Biden imploded before our eyes
Still can’t believe Monty ran the ‘He had a cold’ talking point yesterday.
Not mUnty’s greatest hour. Even by his standards.
Of course he didn’t know the media was going to give up on the joke.
Biden sounded exactly the same as he has in all of the videos I’ve seen of him so far in the past year or so. No change. No ‘cold’.
Bit slow and drugged up though.
That vacant stare.
After struggling like a bad actor to remember his lines.
Just watched the video linked above showing interviews post-debate with mainly black Biden supporters. They mostly didn’t even notice his deficits. He’s their man, that’s all they knew.
/Tribal
mUntyfa always follows the DNC talking points. When they change, so will he.
I didn’t for one one minute you were naive dover but I’m not so sure now.
KevinM
June 29, 2024 2:51 am
Genuine warning, DO NOT click!
Definitely not cute owls but they are happy to pose. Why?
God only knows.
You bastard, that’s criminal. The real thing: cute owl.
Very nice caboose.
Biden is not going to give up the nomination: Kevin McCarthy
correct
People with MND and terminal cancers will be pleased to hear that it is a matter of choice.
That’s a very uncharitable comment, Sancho.
Attitude to life and its happinesses does count, Sancho.
Joy in small things. And the hope of peace at the last.
Nancy Mace: This Is ‘One Of Joe Biden’s Most Egregious Lies’ At Presidential Debate With Trump
Not a convincing argument by Jennings. He’s simply arguing that he supported our Afghan adventure, and that the release of this info made this operation more difficult. If you either didn’t support it or at least only conditionally did so, the release of this info is going to be welcomed insofar as it presents a fuller picture of what was going on.
Where’s m0nster?
The standard MO.
Hiding until he gets the new DNC talking points.
Might be a while. They’ve hit the panic button as Roy & HG says.
‘the once-unthinkable now seems an imminent reality’.
Macronism is all but done it seems.
Far right all the way baby!
Age headline says Biden has bounced back today and looks “alive and feisty”. Bless.
amazing what some speed does to your stamina
Or a good body double?
Where there’s life there is hope.
If the demorats bring in obamas hubbie will Trump demand a sex test.
Official Gov’t Docs Expose Michelle Obama’s 14 Year History as a Man (rumble.com)
The Paywallian reporting that Bannon says it must be the Wookie.
First post-debate POTUS poll by MorningConsult: Biden gains a point to lead by one.
Media and DNC frightbats might have underestimated how much voters listened to the content of the answers, rather than just paying superficial attention to style. Trump ranted like a madman.
In what universe do you live Monty?
The Dems are in panic mode right now.
I’m even running out of popcorn.
Who did they pole, the all-important undead constituency?
Don’t know where you have been the last four years, Monty.
Biden rants all the time during his speeches.
LOL, mUntifa still believes that political polls are a measure of opinion, not attempts to influence opinion.
That’s sweet.
Where would we be without Monty to keep the numbers up?
mUnty!
Very sad to hear.
Such a beautiful, loving tribute. sob
Montys talking point.
“Dont vote for the lucid man with energy who was comprehensible”…
sad.
Very low energy.
Brainworms.
From the WSJ editorial board
vr:
He won’t be the nominee if he’s dead. It won’t matter what he dies from, a fall and a broken hip, followed by ‘complications after surgery’, falling out of a helicopter, or just a simple heart attack. The thing is that he’ll be dead, and a spot will open up for the Hildebeast.
Watch her come to prominence over the next couple of days – all dried out and looking 20 years younger.
Current odds are 52/1, and I put $50 on her to get the Presidency.
Well, it is her turn after that bastard trump pushed ahead in the line in 2016.
/sarc.
Somebody tell mUnty san the war’s over.
Funny. People on the right say something and progressives erupt in rage, calling us every bad word they can think of: bigot, white supremacist, misogynist, homophobe, racist, etc, while they themselves strut about with their hollow chests puffed out priding themselves on their intellectual doughtiness.
When, finally, the obvious becomes too much to deny they never acknowledge their opponents were right, much less apologise for the abuse. Instead they just go on, briefly pausing to nurse their egos bruised by having had to change their mind.
Instead they resent the right more, and accuse them even more of being intransigent and narrow minded because they aren’t changing their minds.
This is a real ad.
From a real* state in Australia.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1806825047220519099
*Sicktoria anyway.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Victorian Labor is probably the most evil version of the ALP. In NSW they’re often just crooks where down here they are hard core Marxist ideologues. Possibly due to the DLP splitting off in Vicco.
The frolicking Moll:
I didn’t resist it – I put it in the comments:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell – 1984
They are slashing front-line hospital services because of the Venezuelan levels of debt they have racked up, but can still find the money to pay for this
One thing I’ve not seen anything about is Biden’s physical appearance.
In close ups he looked like a cadaver that had been embalmed by a particularly enthusiastic bunch of ancient Egyptian priests. Like a dessicated glazed ham coated with Gladwrap.
All I can think is the concoction they’ve had him on in the last year or so is doing what ice does to a person.
Polls Post-Debate (fivethirtyeight.com):
Survey USA – Trump 45%, Biden 43% (Trump +2)
The New York Post – Trump 45%, Biden 38% (Trump +7)
Yesterday BEFORE Debate (realclearpolitics.com):
NY Times/Sienna – Trump 48%, Biden 44% (Trump +4)
Direction of Country
Reuters/Ipsos – Right 13%, Wrong 68% (Wrong +55%)
NYT/Sienna – Right 24%, Wrong 66% (Wrong +42%)
26 June
Quinnipiac – Trump 49%, Biden 45% (Trump +4)
I guess this where we can be thankful for the truly venal nature that Jill Biden possesses. No way will the FLOTUS crown be prised from her grip.
So for Biden, he either dies or stays on the ballot. He will not step aside.
“your proposal is acceptable …”
The debate instead has exposed him and their long cover-up of the truth.
The destruction of the USA from within by the embedded people in so many positions has proceeded with the complete connivance of lefty MSM. They have lied to the public and should be held responsible.
Agree- Marxists took over arts, meja and ejucation. All these skin suits need to be abandoned and allowed to die as they deserve to.
they need to be euthanised
To the extent that Trump was lucid and comprehensible, he:
He delivered dozens of lies with confidence, because he is a confidence man. We knew that already.
Monty’s response to his hero, Dementia Joe, humiliating himself and all Democrats is “look over there!”
mUntyfa still hasn’t caught up with the latest Supreme Court decision, which invalidated most of the 6 January convictions.
Still, mUntyfa does deliver ” dozens of lies with confidence”.
Which were the lies, exactly, Monty?
Usually when lefties claim Trump is lying about stuff like climate change he is actually speaking the scientifically verifiable truth.
And yet he blew Biden out of the water to the point where Biden’s party wants to sack him.
Funny that.
“Don’t Know What He Said”- Donald Trump’s MIC DROP Moment At CNN Debate Ends Joe Biden’s Candidacy
The content of what Biden had to say, eh, m0nster.
Let’s go to the CNN transcript …
Makes sense to me.
Oh but it’s so much better with video!
I mean when you lose John Stewart…
Remember, that’s John Stewart’s lefty audience responding.
Biden filth, for filth he is, was actually forced to withdraw from the demonratic nomination in 1988 after being caught lying about being in the top ten in his shitty law skool.
And for being busted, yet again, as a massive plagiarist.
And yet deadshits in Delaware kept voting him in election after election
Message to Monty San – “This is your Emperor. We must surrender. Come out from the dark, dank jungle of the mind you inhabit and hand yourself in to the people in charge. I say this with complete authority for now, even though someone has stolen all my clothes. No, come to think of it, that actually happened years ago but my loyal media kept it quiet.”
He delivered dozens of lies with confidence, because he is a confidence man. We knew that already.
What lies dickless. All the lies were the corpse’s and the demorats.
Another of the devil’s great tricks, apart from the one where he convinces ordinary mortals he doesn’t exist, is to pretend, when he is temporarily defeated or exposed, that his minions all operate on the ‘Left’, that the take over of the arts, education, media, and the like was a bottom-up takeover rather than top-down and involved huge benefactors in government, finance and industry.
Odd that someone of the left so passionately hates someone who is all about opportunities & security for people of modest means.
The leftards long since have abandoned the rural and urban working classes as being beneath their notice.
Dover makes a good point.
To replace Dementia Joe as candidate necessitates replacing him as President – not legally, but politically.
Putting Kamala in the big chair, even with adult supervision, is untenable.
Putting Kamala in the big chair, even with adult supervision, is untenable.
Nurse JIll could handle it!
‘Palace decision’: PM over Ben Roberts-Smith awardNoah Yim
5 minutes ago
Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from an award reportedly in line for disgraced former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.
The ex-SAS soldier was reportedly welcomed to Western Australia’s Government House to receive an honour from King Charles III, the Nine newspapers reported.
This comes after Roberts-Smith was last year found by a Federal Court judge, on the balance of probabilities, to have been involved in the unlawful killings of four detainees while on deployment in Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister told Channel 9 on Saturday morning that “this isn’t a decision of the government”.
“This was the decision of the palace to give all VC (Victoria Cross) recipients a further award.
“There’s ongoing legal action – potentially – on these issues. So given the government’s engagement, it’s important that there not be interference in that.
“But it certainly wasn’t a government decision.”
Of course handsome boy doesn’t agree with a brave man getting an award. Chekists don’t lead from the front, they shoot those in front of them in the back.
I can’t wait for the day BRS is vindicated and perhaps bumps into any of his accusers in the street….
Not really, if you think about it.
A permanent class of poor people – preferably dependent on government – is essential to the Left’s success.
m0nty
June 29, 2024 11:58 am
As your namesake Monty Burns would say … “Exxccellent!”.
The longer Dementia Joe stays in, the better for Trump.
Of course, if Sniffler Joe runs, the focus will be on VP. Yeah, they always talk about “a heartbeat away”, but this time voters will have a high degree of certainty that Crooked Joe won’t make it through the four years.
So it can’t be Kamal-toe.
Newsome won’t risk burning a potential future term by being thrust into the job with a touch over two years to run.
So who can they find who is credible enough with voters to be seen as a backstop, but also stupid enough to be shackled to The Big Guy (10%)?
The Hildebeast.
The expose of Biden as a decrepit old fart has all the appearance of a Hillary operation.
Hillary, as I recall, was falling about a lot already in 2016. I doubt if this has improved, although her plastic surgery has got better – they’ve removed the rabbit pouches from her cheeks.
She and Pelosi are both too old.
I’d be too old as well, but at least I recognise that.
Sleep isn’t as good, acuity can be lacking sometimes, memory in the short term is getting worse. This is normal, btw. I’m better than most.
FMD. Nick Shirley goes out and asks folks, mainly black, before and after the debate who they’re going to vote for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyXHQHqJpEs
don’t underestimate the number of ppl that depend on gov directly or indirectly and are quite happy with that status quo. they would vote for epstein with kids on his lap, isnt that right smutley?
A permanent class of poor people – preferably dependent on government – is essential to the Left’s success.
Like what Johnson did. What vile creature he was.
Agreed Monst. Biden performed superbly. Ignore betting markets
Miltonf
June 29, 2024 12:54 pm
The Dimocrats never forget.
They saw that and thought they could do the same to Dubya in 2004.
Documents surfaced purporting to be unfavourable internal assessments of Dubya’s performance in the Air National Guard in 1972/73.
Dan Rather (pronounced “Wather”) eagerly wan the weport on CBS, only to find that the documents had been produced on Microsoft Word, which wasn’t around until well after 1973.
We await Wussiagate 2.0.
Biden’s latest slogan …
“Sure, I’m shithouse.
But I’m the best we got.”
Working for Albo?
A really good thread from the energy expert at CIS explaining all that is wrong with CSIRO’s gencost report.
https://x.com/QuixoticQuant/status/1794977505344184510
I seem to recall during the 2016 Dimocrat primaries, the fix was in for the Gin-soaked Scrag. No matter how rank and file voted in primaries, there were “super delegates” who held a majority of convention votes.
So clearly the party has centralised mechanisms to determine candidates.
Yeah, I know, as declared candidate, Joe could hang on, but the party could change that with the stroke of a pen.
This “Weekend at Biden’s” will be all about a negotiated settlement, which will probably involve Joe getting a Purple Heart for falling off his bike, and Jill being appointed to some plum role.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports that American celebrities are peeling away from Biden & calling their NZ real estate agents.
Chuckle.
Interesting.
Does it mean they all get set free?
It should, but the DemonRats are the DemonRats, so perhaps not.
Unfortunately, only a few were charged with only this non-offense. The system covered its bets with more trumped up charges against them.
Roger @ 0958. Great article but chasing up the research is turning out to be problematic.
Googled “Ruinous cost of free energy” and got zero on Stephens research except a link to Ulhman article and useless white noise unrelated to my search but at a stretch semi related. I did try multiple permutations & even look through IPA.
Hmmm. Seems Goolag is getting smart with subjects it wants to hide from your perusal.
Montys moist for Kamel-toe.
Because no-one expects Joe to survice another 4 years as anything other than a desiccated brain in a jar.
The corpse and the demon party are like a modern version of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
Biden has been facelifted and botoxed to the Max.
I remember someone claimed body double back in the day except the ‘after’ was a photo of his brother.
How many hours is he putting in a day?
4?
I was unlucky enough to see a couple of minutes of some ABC pale blue jacket wearing pundit last night.
Apparently Trump is a danger to democracy because if he gets in he’ll make himself ‘president for life’.
If only he’d had the forethought to do that last time.
Not to mention he’s already an old man.
No wonder no-one watches the ABC.
What IS noticeable – and sinister – is the ‘about face’ by the media. They could put a team in the Olympic Games Synchronised Swimming event, not practice, get on the booze the night before, and still take the gold medal.
These 2 appear to have the perfect marriage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR3uPr1hXhQ
winter is coming
Who knew communists couldn’t successfully oversee a capitalist economy?
Apple lost a lot of money when the CCP closed factories during China’s last lockdown in 2022. No product for Christmas sales. I think that’s when they decided to pull the plug on China.
“tax probe”
I can’t get my head around a company factory complex employing over 300k folk in the one area … incredible …..
Googled “Ruinous cost of free energy” and got zero on Stephens research except a link to Ulhman article and useless white noise
Ditto, RD.
Will have to have a look around the IPA site.
Several other links to his work, though.
I was after it so I could bookmark it. I have a sizable trove now, thanks all Cats
Does anybody know what the medal is that the King has awarded to Ben Roberts Smith and other VC recipients? Perhaps Kings Coronation medal where Coronation and Jubilee medals are traditionally given to all living VC holders. Either way his pending legal issues have nothing to do with the medal.
July is when the current Chief of Defence steps down and I am betting shortly after there will be some announcement about medals for Afghanistan. Better he is no longer in post when that is done and it will be a Navy guy in charge.
Delaying the awarding of medals defeats one of the primary purposes they exist in the first place, to inspire others.
Awards should be made in front of a formation of the unit in which the awardee served and soon enough after the award period to be relevant.
Intentionally handing them out essentially in private 5-10 years after is something much darker.
Back in D-Town.
There was a billboard at Mascot (early, very early) this morning explaining that Time magazine put out their latest edition, and apropos of the appalling display Biden put forward in the first debate.
The cover is all red. There is only one word on the cover aside from ‘Time’, and that word was:
‘Panic’.
Insta had it. Was funny!
They forgot to have Jill guiding him off stage but.
Tommy sprung from immigration purgatory in Canada:
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/06/28/free-tommy-robinson-4/
Via SDA, click on the video hyperlink.
Bugger me: 2019 Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare (J: B. Egan; T: D.O’Brien) has just won his second Tattersalls Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm — as an eight-year-old gelding.
PS: I was on him five years ago on the Cup. What a war horse.
FMD monty give it up you silly khunt.
You are a turd like Biden and the rest, true enemies of the West and all it stands for.
As many have said, most of us knew that the old perv was off with pixies but why has the meja, in lockstep (monty didn’t get memo), swung 180 degrees?
They got another memo?
Borne
Related, the present RSM(A) another you go girlzzz type from Signals Corps (Must have changed as I remember as a kid all the RSM’s I saw were cranky Viet vets with an ICB or similar equally cranky Armoured Corp types). Apparently Signals Corp was fairly prominent in the Kings Birthday honours for……. You guessed it doing their job.
The honours and awards system is broken at all levels.
For my money, the rot set in just after the battle of Long Tan, when the Task Force Commander, and the battalion commander were decorated for “the leadership they had demonstrated”, despite neither of them being anywhere near the battlefield.
I think Angus Campbell personifies that. 2 Sqn sanctioned, loss of commendations for all lower ranks but higher keep those. Nice leadership there not!
I remember my father who got a GOC commendation (Dunno what they are called these days) stating on a number of occasions the buck stops with you at the top, you run the show and their failings are your failings.
Seems that doesn’t apply to some these days.
Wally Thompson the first RSM(A) was our RSM when I enlisted at UNSWR. The night I was promoted to LCPL-a quiet yet penetrating voice, “Pte Diogenes, to me” came across the parade ground. “Sir” , march across to him. “Colonels office, left right left right etc” Colonel congratulates me and hands me a pair of single hooks. “My office , left right etc”. Sat me down and gave me the most impressive talk on what it means to be an NCO I have ever heard. He was not known as the Grey Ghost for nothing, and was the single most impressive RSM/ soldier I had ever met.
The first time I ever saw my one time R.S.M., Keith Davidson, in civvies, I was surprised about his modest stature. I was convinced he was seven feet tall, and could eat three lance corporals, without salt, before breakfast.
This Is How Biden’s Debate Performance Will Affect Down-Ballot Races: House GOP Whip Tom Emmer
forbes
Hitler reacts to the Biden-Trump presidential debate
the hitler rant starts half way through
Hitler: “Biden is too old. When he was born, I was still alive.”
Magnificent!
Must-watch entertainment.
Excellent. A must watch.
COL MACGREGOR: POST DEBATE CONCERNS
Somehow the Colonel found the time to trash the US relationship with Israel and blame it for drawing down on US military resources but couldn’t bring himself to mention Ukraine.
Then, apparently not having learned the recent lessons of what happens when you start arbitrarily screwing with the voting laws to suit your agenda, he wants to arbitrarily violate the constitution by moving up the election date.
His heart may be in the right place but his judgement sucks.
m0nty appears to be the only person in the entire world who, after watching the debate, thinks everything is just peachy over at Team Biden and there was nothing amiss with Biden’s debate performance at all.
But m0ron, CNN has Fact Checked Biden and found that he lied his arse off in the debate. Here are at least 11 big lies told by Biden that CNN has easily exposed.
It was a Demorat debacle. And I’m concerned about the actions the deviant left will take.
https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1806659354290008093
Is it a fact till it’s been checked?
Muntsac today, after yesterday’s debate.
LMAO!
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Warren.jfif
Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull novels are fun, except for keeping on coming true. That’s been a real bummer.
Wildfire came true (Covid). Plus a perfect description of woke fascism, which we’re currently living in. The other ones came true in as much as he predicted a Alzheimers’ affected decrepit President. But he chose Warren for his novels, not Biden…
Boy did he get that right, except for the actual person.
His latest one is looking likely to get up also, but I haven’t read it yet. It’s about a massive attack from infiltrating kiddies who came over the Mexican border.
Vermeule’s Chevron By Any Other Name:
RTWT.
And it’s with great sadness that I must announce I’m bringing my home “baking” career to a close .. After several years of never not having a home baked cake sitting on the kitchen bench … I’m thru! .. Woolworths have been upping the price of Green’s ready mix cake ingredients for the past 2 years from a modest $1.50 to a now $4.75 and it just isn’t economical to bother with once you buy some extra filling and add the egg(s) ..
Thankfully, I don’t have a “sweet” tooth so the cakes were a treat rather than a staple and life will go on ……..
F**K You .. WOOLWORTHS ……….!
Shatterzzz,
have you tried the home brand cake mix? Also, give Aldi mixes a try.
I’ve never baked. Once made a cake-mix cake for some school function, but it was flat and sticky in the middle so I didn’t take it. Cakes for purchase are fairly cheap if you look for the discount ones in Coles and Woollies, those that have only a few days to go before they are out of date. Don’t get the cream ones, especially for kids as you risk stomach bugs, but the plain ones are a good buy. $5 will often buy a good short-dated plain round cake from the refrigerated section.
I only enjoyed both date & sultana .. don’t come in homebrand ..
Shatterzzz,
if you have an IGA nearby, they have ten percent off for Seniors on Wednesdays.
$4.75 for Mostly Flour. Add egg and extra dates for the Date Loaf.
Never again. The only time-saver was not having to sift the flour.
I used to use Greens Smooth Lemon Cake on the yacht – it being the one that I could cook in a microwave and a Pyrex bowl. Always turned out really well, and icing it was, well, just icing.
In fact I’ve still got one in the cupboard – it’s out of date by 4 years, I just kept it for the memories.
I think I’ll cook it now just for the Hell of it.
Shows how the wonderful economic policies of the Useless Effin Liars and that jug eared treasurer on training wheels is. Every year for for last 8 years we’ve had the beach house rented to a group that stay between 4 and six weeks. This year 2 1/2 weeks. Noticed other places only seem to have a merc, beemer, audi or lexus parked outside. Place that used to be rented often at the cheap end of the market is up for sale. Rarely see anyone there.
Chalmers reworking of Capitalism isn’t going so well. The ghosts of Whitlam echo round Canberra..
It’s very difficult to not believe they’re doing it on purpose. Especially when you consider the trillions of dollars thet’ve pissed away over the years. NBN, The NDIS, Snowy 2, the AGW scam.
Countless others.
I’d like to make a Great Big List but it’s too frigging disheartening for words.
From Daily Mail article about Ben Roberts Smith medal.
“Australian Defence Force Chief Angus Taylor (should be Campbell) has recommended to Defence Minister Richard Marles that a group of special forces commanders be stripped of their medals over the misconduct of the units”.
As I indicated earlier today this can only be done after CDF Campbell is gone. Reason being he is one of the commanders himself. I guess it depends how high up the accountability goes? Maximum LtCol in the field ? That way Campbell not having to surrender his Distinguished Service Cross.
New CDF technically “clean” as Navy. Recent articles also suggest a belated Victoria Cross for Vietnam might also be announced at same time to lessen the blow from the Afghan medals announcement.
Watch this space as Defence fuck up morale even more.
Uh oh I used a bad word and have post waiting for approval.
F@@k!
There is an explanation for mUntyfa’s ignorance of the latest DNC talking points.
After observing his recent output, the DNC has decided he is too stupid to be useful.
I find that difficult to believe, John. Even the dumb and stupid are useful for something – like giving them a big boot and using them for mine clearance.
You must have an expensive Woolies Shatterzzz.
The RRP at Victorian Woolworths is $3.50 and on special this week for $2.80.
$3.50 was a month ago & $2.80 was 3 months ago here .. Like everything else they up .. bit of sublety on pricing is long gone ……!
And you know you can get woolies gift cards for 5% off if you are the holder of a senior’s card?
https://www.nsw.gov.au/community-services/seniors-card/deals-discounts/woolworths-seniors-discount
Pity we are still boycotting woolies
I am too, but finding virtue in necessity – the nearest Woolworths is 307km away in Emerald. A round trip for the mathematically challenged of 614 km.
That’s about 3/4 a tank of diesel at about $190 a tank.
Even I can work out that’s not a cheap option – unless I buy 100+ cake mixes.
(Yes the sums are dodgy but I’ve factored in hitting/not hitting a headwind or a roo.)
https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/rba-forced-into-a-humiliating-rate-raising-cycle-20240624-p5jo4f
Governed by fkg morons.
Elections have financial consequences. So does the subversion of formerly independent institutions like the RBA.
Now that superannuation is paying the ALP’s bills, it is free to devote its existence to implementing radical political ideology.
And the infuriating thing about this is a very significant portion of Australia wants this train wreck to roll on.It’s astounding how dumb so many people are – clueless to the disaster we are running into.
The crazy thing is, the Filth will be running scared about a recession and will increase their spending, fueling more inflation.
Damn Makka – you deciphered their Cunning Plan VI. And of course, it will deliver another disaster just like the last 5 Plans.
Inflation is caused by gubmint malfeasance eg wrecking the electricity supply, spending money it does not have, confiscatory taxation. Raising interest rates just stuffs people up even more.
The Bullock obviously lives on another planet when she said people were ‘doing fine’. No effing idea. To think we poke fun at medieval theologians.
We have a major supply side problem. Not enough residential land is being released and developed. No where near enough. We are being forced to use subsidized EXPENSIVE ruinable energy, instead of abundant coal and gas fired.Just 2 supply issues.Out of control migration adds to the disaster.
That’s because housing is the best investment you can get in Australia. Not in shares, or starting a business, or any of the other ways that wukkas got into the Middle Classes.
The problem is that the people who make the decisions are aware of that as well* – and so they enact Laws/regulations and other market interfering measures to enhance THEIR assets.
That’s why there’s not enough land, not enough tradies, raw materials such as wood, concrete, brick and mortar are so expensive.
It’s deliberate.
*Does anyone know the average house ownership of Greens voters? I would bet it’s well above the norm, and yet they are behind just about every price increase the market suffers.
its a mystery
Nothing humiliating about it. More low grade j’ism being sprayed around.
The writer manages a multi- billion bond fund. He’s predicted this situation for nearly a year..
Burqa busy delivering for the bruvvas. Productivity worse than usual (which is shot globally anyway). Put the blame where it lies. Whitlamesque.
“Thursday, down here in the Shoalhaven was a lot of birdies getting it on.”
Ranga, life is always busy looking after itself.
How lovely today it was to see some young girls aged around eight dressed in their football gear stand at the wide open entrance to the hall where we older girls were going through our paces. Then they started to follow us in our jazz ballet steps – second position, plies, four quick chasses, heel-toe-heel and lunge and arabesque, and turn and same on the other side, and turn and circle and jump-land into a modified fifth position, arms just so, etc, all done to a very heavy bass beat. This little group were so serious, and so cute, and so very feminine in spite of the footie strip, desperately wanting to do what the older ladies were doing, and the older ladies shaped up well for them, no slacking in front of this audience.
I think the desire to dance, to take the beat up, is inherent in all humans, as is music. These artifacts show were the earliest forms of human sociality in groups. We note dance’s absence, as when Biden was the only one who wasn’t bopping along in that video. Clearly, something was very wrong with him then.
Picked up an interesting read recently: -Douglas Murray, ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam’
“The definitive discourse on European replacement migration, the powers that drive it, and its devastating social, economic, and political consequences.”
Jan Sobieski wouldn’t call it “strange”.
He’d call it stupid. Dumb. Imbecilic. Bonkers.
You’d think people might learn from history.
They have to know the history first.
And not just their own but that of Islam.
Not available in Australia on Kindle.
Shit.
I’m pretty sure it is Bob
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam – Kindle Edition
What could have possibly caused a spike in inflation it’s a complete mystery?!?
Liny don’t work…
FFS Linky
In a huge embarrassment for the central bank, its next move in interest rates should be higher, not lower.The Reserve Bank of Australia is truly screwed.
Why is this embarrassing for the RBA? The political masters cause this by spending money we don’t have.
Because they should be independent and exert their independence.Rates were kept too low for too long.
Interest rates have possibly never been less effective. Boomers out spending like there’s no tomorrow (because for them there isn’t). Families geared to the eyeballs being squeezed till the pips squeak. RBA got it wrong with their crystal ball work through Covid. I’m not sure they’re still to blame for not tightening quicker.
So once again they will bankrupt young families, small business and tradies while the unaffected public service, who are responsible for the crisis, cruise along on their massive salaries and perks.
Of all the reasons to despise Morrisson, his refusal to force the PS to share in the COVID hurt is a list topper. That decision is responsible for the balance of wealth shifting in favour of the non-productive elements of our society.
Intetest rates are a primitive mechanism that do not substitute for corrective policy measures. ‘Independant’ central banks are crony marxism writ large.
But at least interest rate attacks have the advantage of leaving the elite completely unaffected while the pesky little prople are driven into the clutches of the banks.
Tranny kills tranny. Tranny is housed in women’s prison.
Media describe killing as Trans Activist murdered by “Woman”.
https://thepostmillennial.com/just-in-male-trans-suspect-in-murder-of-trans-activist-held-in-minnesota-womens-prison?utm_campaign=64470
Pogria, I started reading it and gave up. Just couldn’t be bothered. Scratch a Trans and you will find a very disturbed individual with no self control and a head full of hate and anger.
Years ago these people would have been locked up in Institutions for the Criminally Insane, and if they were violent, medicated to the point where they were no longer a danger to themselves and everyone around them.
Now they are free to wander through society, in a perpetual rage about whatever takes their fancy and taking it out on anyone unfortunate enough to get in their sights.
And I think that policy is deliberate – to terrorise with the blessing of the ideological morons who refuse to enact legislation to lock them up because ‘inhumane’ and they get to feel good about their virtuous attitude towards these ‘unfortunate’ people.
RBA should have gone 1% x 5 times.
These ghey 0.25% increases just indicate that they’re not serious.
They should have gone hard and telegraphed that they were going to crush inflation.
They actually telegraphed that they are weak.
So yes, 100% RBA fault and they should be condemned.
If we didn’t have Frydenberg’s covid stimulus we wouldn’t have stubborn domestic inflation.
I don’t disagree, but price stability is the RBAs remit. So it’s on them. 11% M2 yoy increases for the past 15 years indicate that it’s not only Frydenbuggers fault.
Representative Nancy Mace ROCKS!
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1806394297379414307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1806394297379414307%7Ctwgr%5E48f86debe9f3a3cf8bebf6eecd56c6c9aa82bdc1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F410285
Forget the media circus, Julian Assange put our brave soldiers’ lives in dangerPeter Jennings
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Julian Assange emerged from his charter jet in Canberra on Wednesday night in a dark suit, white shirt and thin tie, raising his right arm in a clenched-fist salute. Perhaps Assange wanted to echo the image of Nelson Mandela walking out of the Victor Verster prison on February 11, 1990.
But Assange is no Mandela. He will not go on to lead this country or be a global figure of reconciliation. Assange is and will remain a disrupter. Now that he is out of His Majesty’s Belmarsh Prison, we will come to know the real Julian, not the figure managed so artfully over the past decade by the Assange fan club.
Julian Assange has returned to Australia and into the arms of his family after reaching a plea deal with the United States.
Anthony Albanese is, as usual, describing the situation rather than defining it. “Look, I think that there will continue to be different views about Julian Assange and his activity,” he told a media gaggle on Thursday. The Prime Minister is just relieved that “this saga is over”.
Albanese should be worried that the next phase of the saga is about to begin. Whatever Assange has in mind for his future, it won’t involve being obliging to Albo.
Could the Prime Minister even articulate the “different views” that people are supposed to have about Assange? We are unlikely to find out.
Albanese had the sense to stay away from Canberra airport although the instinct must surely have run deep to jump into C1 with Toto and charge for a photo opportunity. The challenge for the PM will be to milk what credit he can from facilitating the return of a driven, deeply idiosyncratic individual with the potential to become a deep headache for the political left.
Assange’s WikiLeaks shot to global prominence on July 25, 2010, when it released online what it called the Afghanistan War Diary – 91,000 reports “written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, (and including) intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details”.
This act flung Canberra into a panic. What if these reports gave targetable details of Australian military operations, or named Afghans working with Defence or intelligence?
I was deputy secretary for strategy in Defence and was tasked to lead a process reviewing the leaked material. The context is important. We were fighting a bloody counter-terrorism war at the time.
On June 7, 2010, sapper Jacob Moerland, 21, was killed by an improvised explosive device in the Mirabad Valley of Uruzgan province. Injured in the same explosion was sapper Darren Smith, 25. He was evacuated by helicopter and later died of his wounds.
On June 21, privates Scott Palmer, 27, Timothy Aplin, 38, and Benjamin Chuck, 27, all serving with the special forces, were killed on operations in a Blackhawk helicopter crash. Then on July 9, private Nathan Bewes, 23, was killed and another soldier wounded by an IED in Uruzgan’s Chora Valley.
A fortnight later, Assange’s WikiLeaks release of uncensored battlefield reports put our forces, indeed the whole of the international coalition in Afghanistan, and the many brave Afghans fighting with us, under serious risk.
The only group that could benefit from this tactical information was the Taliban.
We had no business being in Afghanistan in 2010. Nasty little live fire exercise by the West, led by the US. Disgusting.
100%. And look at the aftermath. Such a waste of young lives.
What’s next? Aussie lives lost in a brawl over Taiwan?
We’ve always sheltered timidly under the protective wings of empire.
This is the price we pay.
Actually Makka, while I believe Afghanistan was a cluster fark of modest proportions, I think Taiwan is going to be our Nazi/Poland moment, and well worth fighting for.
Vivek Ramaswamy DESTORYS Joe Biden After Debate Performance
He’s right, you know. On reflection he only ‘came alive’ when he was talking about damaging Trump. He just parroted replies to questions that mattered to the electorate.
Vivek looks like good VP material – he’s taking the fight to the Left when few are doing so. The US looks fed up with mealy mouthed politicians who are elected then spend their time backing down from a fight.
Vivek looks and sounds like a fighter.
Why ‘There’s A Giant Roadblock In The Form Of Kamala’ In Biden Dropping Out Post-Debate: Lipson
ASIC is a Cesspool of Corruption and Incompetence!
An alphabet agency is a cesspool of corruption and incompetence?
Well that’s absolutely amazing!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/yasser-crackafat.html
In June, 1964, an Egyptian, on the payroll of the Muslim Brotherhood, held up a Jordanian flag, with the star removed, and began “3,000 years of Palestinian history.”
Three thousand years of losing abjectly?
Three thousand years of the least effective National Liberation Front known to man?
Sounds like our “First Nations. Or, Abos as we knew them.
The range of conditions made me suspicious that this has a genetic component. I had a hunch this is related to SOX 9(SRY) which plays a critical role in testis formation in utero. SOX 9 is involved in a host organ developmental trajectories. I checked. It is. This is a fascinating genetic issue. Another example of why physiology is so frustratingly difficult to model and understand!
Chronic Health Conditions, Disability, and Physical and Cognitive Limitations among LGBTQ+ Cancer Survivors | Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention | American Association for Cancer Research (aacrjournals.org)
Results:
Of 40,990 cancer survivors, 1,715 were LGBTQ+. LGBTQ+ survivors had significantly higher age-adjusted prevalence of all outcomes. The prevalence of all outcomes was the highest among TGNC survivors, except for depressive disorders and cognitive limitations. LGBTQ+ survivors had higher odds of reporting asthma [adjusted OR (aOR): 1.5; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.2–1.9], depressive disorders (aOR: 1.9; 95% CI, 1.6–2.4), kidney disease (aOR: 1.5; 95% CI, 1.1–2.1), stroke (aOR: 1.7; 95% CI, 1.3–2.3), diabetes (aOR: 1.3; 95% CI, 1.0–1.6), vision disability (aOR: 1.6; 95% CI, 1.2–2.2), cognitive limitations (aOR: 2.3; 95% CI, 1.8–2.9), difficulty walking (aOR: 1.7; 95% CI, 1.3–2.0), dressing (aOR: 2.0; 95% CI, 1.5–2.7), and running errands (aOR: 1.6; 95% CI, 1.3–2.1). In TGNC models, TGNC cancer survivors had increased odds of most outcomes in comparison to cisgender survivors.
A song for Joe.
Radiohead – Creep (1992)
Poor old Kamala.
It must be so humiliating that everyone looks at Biden doing his Bill Burr “old person permanent look of horror” face and say “He’s gotta go, we can’t possibly do this”, then they look at Cackles and go “Not her”.
She is literally the person who is supposed to step in.
That’s the problem with those DEI picks.
Yet she ticked at least three boxes!
You mean she USED, at least three boxes. 😀
She should have felt humiliated when she knew that the two attributes she was picked for were being a blackish female.
She was bait for the ignorant sexist and racist votes and an insurance policy to protect Biden from impeachment or forced retirement.
image didnt work heres the links
GDP year on year growth – economy is slowing into recession
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/gdp-growth-annual
M3 growth
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/money-supply-m3
look at max year M3 and extrapolate the growth to where it should be today to where it actually is. The excess money supply has a long way to go to before it is soaked up.
M1 growth – click max
you can see them trying to cut back from aug 22 to june 23 then started growing again. they went absolutely insane from mar 19 to jul 22
extrapolating prior to mar 19 to present M1 should be around $1.3T currently at $1.67T
public admin spending – select max
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/gdp-from-public-administration
is growing without bounds
Mining and manufacturing has flatlined since covid
US presidential candidates now strategically picking VPs based on who is too horrifying to be contemplated as a replacement.
”We can’t impeach: look who the replacement will be”.
In a sane world the rest of that thought would have been “and if we can’t fire them why would we hire them?”.
Maybe a object lesson was learned here regarding hiring/electing people for reasons other than competence and character. But I doubt it.
I’d pick Sarah Palin.
Cthulhu is less pissed off with lefties than she is.
And you should never piss off Cthulhu,
Nixon started that with Spiro T Agnew. As soon as they impeached Agnew, Nixon was a dead man walking.
That was disturbing.
MSM brainwashing/gaslighting is complete. Some of those people can’t say what they know they saw. Their brains won’t allow it.
Behold, the bedpan economy.
At least one third of new jobs are reckoned to be NDIS/aged care related.
No.
And how many of that third are looking after recent arrivals from Asia, who would once have been refused entry as being probably burdens on the budget?
Yeah the canbra blob- attacking productive Australians- confiscatory taxation, mass immigration, irrigation, electricity. No wonder we have inflation. Interest rates are irrelevant or at best a blunt instrument.
Check public servant numbers in Victoriastan and Queensland. Self perpetuating till the money runs out. Any day now in Victoriastan, Queensland may be able to right the ship.
Yes I think the Allen trash is running out of running out of money- stories coming out of hospitals, putting out feelers to banks to sell stuff off. What a mess.
Credit markets will be the first to pull the plug. Feds will have a problem – can’t really let the 2nd largest State go to the wall.
Yeah and the main instigator of this mess has pissed off.
Nigel Farage: “We Need To STOP The Banks!”
Democratic Strategist Reacts To ‘Lying’ From White House About Biden ‘Behind Closed Doors’
This sounds like a bit of fun……
https://www.frv.vic.gov.au/wind-turbine-fire-cape-neilson-road-portland
Oh, and I think it should be Cape Nelson?
I know. We can import aged and infirm and childless Chinese and the necessary Asians to look after them. After they pass away, a sustainable hydrogen cremation, ashes back to ancestral China.
Win, win, win.
Australia: the Departure Lounge Powerhouse.
No, really. No, honestly, listen…
Works for me if the crematoria (rhymes somewhat with Victoria) are nuclear powered.
LOL. Already doing it especially with Indian families.
Might have to sleep in their cars.
Perhaps the most resonant and animated thing the perverted corpse said during the debate was that Trump said soldiers were losers and suckers. Trump denied this and Snopes of all places details the context for this bullshit:
Trump Called Fallen US Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’? | Snopes.com
With the right pitch, we can probably tap into some generous government funding.
Why the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Chevron and limiting federal agencies is so significant
It’s significant in regard to limiting the administrative state to make enforceable laws. And its time it was done here where the Police Minister can just snap his fingers and make a shooters assets illegal with none or only minimal compensation.
SECRETS OF 2000-YEAR-OLD ANALOG COMPUTER REVEALED WITH HELP FROM GRAVITATIONAL WAVE TECHNOLOGY
I was thinking something fairly modest, say $10 million, perhaps $20 million, to workshop and road-test the
slogannarrative reveal.Followed up by a CSIRO study of some sort.
Japan’s Kobayashi Pharmaceutical now probing 80 deaths over possible link to benikoji red yeast supplement
Heh…who says government can’t pick winners?