Open Thread – Weekend 13 July 2024


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Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 8:14 pm

diversity hire

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JC
JC
July 14, 2024 8:17 pm

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

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This is going to be a BAD day for the Secret Service

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@Breaking911

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REPORTER: Why was the roof near the Trump rally not secured? FBI: “The Secret Service needs to answer that question.”

In the age of incompetence, don’t look for conspiracies when incompetence looks to be the likely answer.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 8:22 pm

cohenite

 July 14, 2024 8:09 pm

Danica and James asking the real question: how the fuk did the bastard get into position in a space readily identifiable as a perfect sniper location 

The thing I find most odd is the lack of drones to scan and film the area. Had one been in the air it would have picked up the shooter the moment he got up on that roof.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 8:24 pm
Reply to  Crossie

It just occurred to me, it will be claimed that all drones have been sent to Ukraine.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 8:24 pm

Beau Davidson sums it up: the constant attacks on Trump, the lawfare, the lies by the msm and the demorats, comparing him to Hitler and twisting the SCOTUS Judgment about immunity into a right of the old pervert to take him out, the actuals cries to shoot him by hollywood arsecracks etc, have all caused this happen.

Beau Davidson:

The Beau Show | NTD

Good looking fella; a bit leftie looking he’s so pretty but cuts through the bullshit.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 8:29 pm

Batya Ungar-Sargon: The approach of the scabrous msm will be that This was a mostly peaceful assassination attempt.

dopey
dopey
July 14, 2024 9:15 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Or mostly accurate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 8:32 pm

The thing I find most odd is the lack of drones to scan and film the area. 

Two sides to that question.

Yes drones can be used for surveillance.

But drones are also a threat.

So I suspect the SS and suchlike suited peoples banned drones within a certain radius. No fly exclusion zones are routine around such events for similar reasons.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 14, 2024 8:44 pm

Might be difficult to tell whether a drone is friend or foe. A ban means anything aloft can be assumed bad guy immediately.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2024 8:32 pm

Jo Cox was a UK Labour pollie, murdered by a UK Labour member.
Her widower is an idiot, trying to tell us that the violence been fomented by Trump himself.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2024 8:33 pm

And, off topic hotness, but what is that in the standing picnicker’s left hand?

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 8:35 pm

The nephew of former White House doctor, Ronnie Jackson, was slightly wounded also.
Another lucky escape. The man who was killed, was a few rows behind.

https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2024/07/14/nephew-of-rep-and-former-trump-physician-ronnie-jackson-wounded-in-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump-n2176826

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 8:43 pm

Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan, leads the way in reminding people that Melania and Barron almost lost a husband and father today.

Class act, like his dad. Michael Reagan would have real and genuine empathy for what the Trump family are going through right now.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/07/14/trump-assassination-attempt-prompts-calls-from-michael-reagan-lauren-boebert-to-embrace-melania-n2176819

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 8:44 pm

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? I’m assuming the snipers, wearing “Police” flak jackets, are, in fact police snipers. Would they have to have permission from high up to fire at someone with a rifle?

cohenite
July 14, 2024 8:48 pm

Good point.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 8:46 pm

REPORTER: Why was the roof near the Trump rally not secured? FBI: “The Secret Service needs to answer that question.”

Look out for the bus!
Oops.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 8:47 pm

Lance Pigeon regularly rebuts the AGW idiocy of the MSM. This is a good example:

The fashionable self delusion for cold weather among the heavily indoctrinated suicide cultists is to call normal cold weather extreme instead of cold.
Nine says “Getting out the record books, the second coldest temperature ever recorded in Australia was at Liawenee in August 2020, at -14.2 degrees.” Getting books out of your mind or out the window? Here is an incomplete list to contradict that nonsense.
From Charlotte Pass (Kosciusko Chalet) NSW site no 71003
-23.0 29 June 1994,
-20.6 14 August 1968,
-19.6 20 July 2010,
-19.0 16 August 2004,
-19.0 01 July 1994,
-19.0 30 June 1994,
-18.0 12 July 1998,
-17.4 13 July 1997,
-17.4 11 July 1997,
-17.2 13 August 1968,
-17.0 23 July 2007,
-16.7 16 July 1968,
-16.7 17 August 1968,
-16.7 15 August 1968,
-16.6 17 August 1994,
-16.5 25 June 2005
-16.2 18 August 2000,
-16.2 5 August 1994,
-16.1 09 June 1968,
-15.6 14 June 2000,
-15.6 18 June 1968,
Perisher Valley Ski Centre NSW 71072
-18.0 29 June 1994,
-17.0 12 July 1998,
-16.0 11 July 1998,
-15.8 21 July 1982,
-15.5 8 July 1978,
-15.0 20 August 1985,
-14.6 22 July 1982,
Perisher Valley AWS NSW 71075
-14.2 29 August 2018,
Kiandra Chalet NSW 71010
-17.8 21 July 1966,
-17.8 08 July 1960,
-17.8 10 August 1965,
-17.2 13 August 1968,
-16.7 20 July 1966,
-16.7 06 August 1974,
-16.1 30 July 1965,
-15.6 31 July 1965,
-15.6 24 June 1961,
-15.6 23 June 1961,
-15.6 14 July 1968,
-15.0 16 July 1968,
-15.0 12 August 1968,
-15.0 16 July 1966,
-15.0 1 August 1966,
-15.0 1 August 1959,
Our coldest town. The Newcastle Sun Thu 27 Jul 1950 Page 10
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158769700
The nine report.
https://www.9news.com.au/…/206a1104-5e61-4740-b93f…

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 8:52 pm

I firmly believe that Prez Trump had divine help today.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 8:57 pm

He definitely has a guardian Angel.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 8:57 pm

Also, he has unfinished work to see to.

Megan
Megan
July 14, 2024 9:57 pm

Agree.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:08 pm

The reburial of Mathew Flinders.

It is some surprise, to this correspondent at least, that neither Australia’s High Commissioner Stephen Smith nor the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles are in attendance, despite both being in the country on AUKUS submarine business.
The highest-ranking dignitaries from Australia are our Deputy High Commissioner, Elisabeth Bowes, and the Governor of South Australia, Frances Adamson. Former Australian high commissioner George Brandis is also here.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 14, 2024 9:33 pm

I understand that when the High Commissioner or Ambassador is a political appointment, there is always a DFAT deputy to make sure that important non-political matters are not overlooked.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 14, 2024 10:51 pm

Smith is partisan scum.

If there has been anyone to emasculate the ADF more than this bottom feeding grub than I’m all ears.

Not surprised he snubbed it.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:12 pm

agree

Last edited 6 months ago by JC
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:16 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/what-a-great-question-who-should-get-the-ticket.html

Another one for the bush Lawyers on this blog! Who gets the ticket, when a driver less car is puled over? Inquiring minds want to know!

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 14, 2024 9:20 pm

Has there been any a more prissy, effete twot than Stephen Smith? FMD. Just FMD. A ‘labor’ pollimuppett that wouldn’t know the meaning of the word.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 14, 2024 9:21 pm

A lawyer AND a don.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 14, 2024 9:24 pm

So I guess team Trump is going to have to add a few more chapters to Project 2025, eh?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 14, 2024 9:25 pm

A little light relief on the assassination attempt from the Beetoota Advocate:

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-news/biden-puts-politics-aside-and-wishes-reagan-a-full-recovery/

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:30 pm

Just in from GB News, Nigel Farage on the Trump assassination attempt….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2uL1YD7JR0

Nigel speaks the truth.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:31 pm

lusive
Accused Russian spy Kira Korolev starred in Australian Defence Force recruitment videosJames KingThe Nightly
Sun, 14 July 2024 4:00PM

The Australian Defence Force promoted accused Russian spy Kira Korolev as a model soldier in two recruitment videos it erased before intelligence agencies arrested her.
The Nightly has obtained two private Australian Army videos in which the alleged spy speaks of guarding Australian defence networks from attack, working with allied nations, and serving the country she “loves”.
“On a day-to-day basis, I’m administering the system, making sure that the network works well and we don’t have any security breaches”, she said in the September 2021 video.
The Russia-born Australian army private and her husband Igor face up to fifteen years imprisonment after Australia’s counter foreign interference taskforce arrested and charged them with preparing for an espionage offence.
“I can meet new people and I can make friends for life. I like to serve the nation, which I love,” Mrs Korolev declares

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:35 pm

unbelievably lucky

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mem
mem
July 14, 2024 9:41 pm

Watched the 60 minutes so-called exposure on the CFMEU and can’t help but think that if I was John Setka I’d be sitting back and thanking Channel 9 for doing such a wonderful tribute to my time in the game!

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:43 pm

Ben Shapiro….

Ben Shapiro
5 hours ago

A shocking and tragic day for the nation — and an amazing, heroic response from President Trump.

You cannot repeatedly and endlessly label a major party candidate and former president Actual Hitler, a full-scale threat to democracy, without radically increasing the danger of violence in America.

This danger has been obvious for years — and engaged in by nearly everyone on the Left, up to and including the current president.

We are in a hideously ugly new era.

Well said.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 9:51 pm

mem
 July 14, 2024 9:41 pm

Watched the 60 minutes so-called exposure on the CFMEU and can’t help but think that if I was John Setka I’d be sitting back and thanking Channel 9 for doing such a wonderful tribute to my time in the game!

WTF?

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 14, 2024 9:55 pm

Unoriginal from the unfunny Betoota.
They were once primed to become Australia’s Bee or Onion, but the two showrunners are bitter and ugly leftards.

m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 9:56 pm

At this point – albeit still too early – the most likely scenario is that the shooter is a groyper, and today’s events spring from a turf war between Nick Fuentes stans and the Charlie Kirk crowd. Nothing to do with the left at all.

Of course, that won’t stop you thickheads speculating otherwise.

MatrixTransform
July 14, 2024 9:59 pm
Reply to  m0nty

gawd you lot do like to wank don’t you

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 10:11 pm
Reply to  m0nty

PISS OFF, NAZI.

Bruce in WA
July 14, 2024 11:57 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Are you playing with a fucking full deck??

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 15, 2024 7:15 am
Reply to  m0nty

Lefturd talking points finally out?

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:02 pm

How long before Democrats start blaming Trump for the attempted assassination by saying look what you made me do, like an abusive spouse?

Rosie
Rosie
July 14, 2024 10:09 pm

Monty madly speculating.

Bruce in WA
July 14, 2024 11:57 pm
Reply to  Rosie

“Speculating”? Oh … used to be called wanking when I was a kid!

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:10 pm

Pogria

 July 14, 2024 8:43 pm

Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan, leads the way in reminding people that Melania and Barron almost lost a husband and father today.

Class act, like his dad. Michael Reagan would have real and genuine empathy for what the Trump family are going through right now.

Michael is the Reagans’ adopted son yet you would swear he inherited the class from the late president.

In contrast the Reagans’ biological children are very ordinary.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:22 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Thanks Crossie.
I had actually forgotten that.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 10:12 pm

I see the Nazi is still defecating.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 10:13 pm

Monty madly speculating.

Thats pure uncut Feculation Rosie.
Bovine feculation of the first water.

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Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 10:33 pm

Oh, this is good.

Today, Alon Cassuto, of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has said that he will be filing a complaint at the Australian Human Rights Commission against former SBS newsreader and all round Jew hater, Mary Kostakidis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0aEj8S1fl4

The bell tolls for thee, Mary.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:29 pm

I fervently hope the bell smashes her head in.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 14, 2024 10:33 pm

Nigel speaks the truth.

Yes, and that makes him unique in British politics.

PeterM
PeterM
July 14, 2024 10:36 pm

Todays news brings to mind a quote attributed to Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

Apologies if already posted

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 14, 2024 10:46 pm

At this point – albeit still too early – the most likely scenario is that the shooter is a groyper, and today’s events spring from a turf war between Nick Fuentes stans and the Charlie Kirk crowd. Nothing to do with the left at all.

You poor desperate loon.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 10:48 pm

Former Sec Service explains what could’ve gone wrong.

Tim McMillan

@LtTimMcMillan

Having personally worked several Presidential and Vice Presidential security details, here’s some of my thoughts based on the available info of the assassination attempt on Trump.

https://twitter.com/LtTimMcMillan/status/1812383798740324380

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 10:55 pm

I’ve got a new theory for Monty to moisten it’s pelvis with

Might have been a paid hit on the chap behind Trump who got killed with a head shot!
The perfect cover for the crime to nick Trump in the ear to throw them off the trail.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 14, 2024 10:57 pm

… in the moment when Donald Trump didn’t know whether he would survive or not because he had no idea if there would be more shots fired, he turned to the camera and spoke directly to the American people and told to fight for this country. He wanted to make sure that if this was his last message that it was one of strength and courage.

Campaign staffer & former Trump aide Preston Meyers.

Arky
July 14, 2024 11:17 pm

Forget about blokes competing in girls sports.
The most horrific result of the gender ideology is five foot nothing chicky babes LARPING as secret service men.

Bruce in WA
July 15, 2024 12:01 am
Reply to  Arky

BS. She put her arse on the line along with the best of them!

Arky
July 15, 2024 12:06 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

There was more than one of them.
And they shouldn’t f*ing be there full stop.

Arky
July 15, 2024 12:09 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

And you should check out the weapons handling of one of them as Trump is getting in the limo.
And you should consider if, however she responded, does a five foot chick provide the required cover for six foot something Trump?
And further consider, if Trump had been seriously injured, could that chick have physically done anything to get him to safety under fire?

Arky
July 15, 2024 12:11 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

And further consider this, I counted three of those short chicks.
That’s now. How about if most of them had been females? If I was that height, I would not put myself forward for that role as a bloke. Never mind if I had the strength limitations inherent in females.
I have experienced seeing en masse Vicpol’s female LARPers during a violent engagement with leftist scum. I can assure you they do ZERO to deter shite behaviour from the criminals.

Last edited 6 months ago by Arky
Arky
July 15, 2024 12:38 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

I’ve just been rewatching some of the footage.
That chicky babe you are referring to is nowhere I can see during the shooting. Then their is a cut in the footage of I don’t know how long and at some point another properly sized, male SS bloke appears to usher the tiny chicky babe towards Trump, she takes a position front and centre, only comes up to Trumps armpit while he is fist pumping, and THAT is the only SS individual between Trump and the mass of the crowd to his front for an extended period of time.
It’s dangerous and silly to suppose that is proper personnel for that role.

Bruce in WA
July 15, 2024 12:54 am
Reply to  Arky

Oh, FFS … take your fucking meds … you are totally off the fucking bracket! What the hell has happened to you Arky. I used to love your posts.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 14, 2024 11:23 pm

Scoop of the day has to go to the BBC chap who got that absolutely wild interview with the bloke in the red cap, wild hair & brewery t-shirt, about the shooter climbing onto the roof & the cops/secret service emulating Elmer Fudd, giving the shooter time to leisurely take aim & fire.

The wildest interview of the dayc very well done, information elicited, witness lucidity & knowledge verified, without the interviewer throwing himself into the story.

Totally & completely scooped the entire US newsmedia & press corps.
The BBC has still got it.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:34 pm

Bulk Brittany is in calf.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 14, 2024 11:40 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Is the sire known?

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:52 pm

snork!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 15, 2024 5:52 am

It wasn’t brucie.

Bruce in WA
July 15, 2024 12:02 am
Reply to  Pogria

Please … I’m eating!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 12:30 am
Reply to  Pogria

End of play for Reynolds’ defamation action :

My Truth, +
Sick Grandfather Inspiration, +
Fecunditee.

Give up now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 1:00 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

The timing would appear to be … umm … fortuitous. Expect some filings to follow.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 2:26 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Unless I’m very wrong, you’ve just outed yourself as Rachel Young SC.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 10:19 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Regrettably my charge out rates never reached those lofty heights.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
July 15, 2024 5:58 am
Reply to  Pogria

9 months later she’ll give birth to a wheelie bin.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 14, 2024 11:45 pm

Regards the BBC’s scoop, here’s Canadian journalist Terry Glavin:

The reporter with the biggest scoop on the Trump shooting so far works for the BBC. His name is Gary O’Donoghue. He is blind. He’s been totally blind since the age of 8. He walks into any press club from now on, you f*cking well stand up.

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 12:24 am

Anyone awake, wanting to watch great tennis, should be on Ch9 Wimbledon.

Djokovic struggling against Alcaraz, but still showing why he is the GOAT. Very high skill from the likely the 21-yo next GOAT.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 15, 2024 12:57 am
KevinM
KevinM
July 15, 2024 1:01 am

Now we have supermarkets for this.

I know a couple of people who still do a lot of preserving, they get most of our pears and gooseberries, for me the berries are too tart.

Not an orchardist or a farmer, why do we have plenty one year and not a lot the next, even tho there were no frosts and we keep up with watering the trees and bushes.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 1:05 am
Reply to  KevinM

A lot of trees have a heavy – light – heavy fruiting pattern, presumably for the health of the tree. Olives, avocados and mangoes all do it so it’s not species specific.

Pogria
Pogria
July 15, 2024 1:49 am
Reply to  KevinM

What Bear said.
Kevin, my pantry looks like that. Or rather, it did. I still have quite a lot of preserves, but running out as I do not have the veg garden and orchard I used to. I am starting from scratch since I moved.
I miss my previous garden.
Still, I like the challenge of starting anew.

KevinM
KevinM
July 15, 2024 1:02 am

Looking at you, LOL

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 15, 2024 1:13 am

Like many others, Alex is spot on.

Sky News Australia:

‘Lack of professionalism’: Alex Stein blasts Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSx08FbOOQ

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 2:16 am

Based on my US Soshuls, whatever the establishment media says, the US is likely going to drown in probably unanswerable conspiracy theories about the Trump assassination attempt.

Unsurprisingly, given the events, this is currently shaping up as: hopeless nutter patsy, set up by the Deep State to fire the convenient fatal shots, and then be conveniently potted into eternal silence.

Apparently the FBI investigation is likely to take many months – which will be toxic sauce on the pudding and guarantee the issue will stay fresh.

The unequivocally and objectively shite behaviour of many, many state actors will be ornaments hung on this framework.

You reap what you sow.

No surprise.

Zatara
Zatara
July 15, 2024 7:05 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Apparently the FBI investigation is likely to take many months – which will be toxic sauce on the pudding and guarantee the issue will stay fresh.

Right on time for the alphabet agency purge.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 2:22 am

Two big surprises from Wimbledon:

Princess Kate has emerged from the grave – slim, but apparently lively.

Nick Kyrgios has emerged as an articulate and interesting commentator.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 10:22 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

The lack of a half Woody and Jim Courier was great. I don’t mind McEnroe either. Kyrgios was a revelation.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 15, 2024 4:55 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

She was rake-thin to start with, probably contributory to the problem.

She was a normal healthy and well-padded girl before they married, but then the clothes-horse phenomenon kicked in and she became far too thin for someone who then produced three children.

I hope she gets well and better-padded soon, as it would be a sign of her body returning to a normal state. Glad to see her out and about.

KevinM
KevinM
July 15, 2024 2:24 am

Dr Faustus
July 15, 2024 2:16 am

Based on my US Soshuls, whatever the establishment media says, the US is likely going to drown in probably unanswerable conspiracy theories about the Trump assassination attempt.

Unsurprisingly, given the events, this is currently shaping up as: hopeless nutter patsy, set up by the Deep State to fire the convenient fatal shots, and then be conveniently potted into eternal silence.

The way the SS and police reacted to reports on a gunman on the roof reinforces that opinion, Watched the report on a link provided by a few here,

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 15, 2024 2:25 am

Pogria
 July 14, 2024 11:34 pm

Bulk Brittany is in calf.

To whom?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 15, 2024 2:52 am

Going back 7 months with this interview. It was Dice who played a large part putting Alex Stein on the map. Stein has aknowleged that.

It was good to revisit this interview.

55 minutes.

Prime Time with Alex Stein.

Culture Jamming with Mark Dice | Ep 130

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gId-S0Ux_Y

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 15, 2024 7:12 am

I see that mUnturd is still spreading disinformation and misinformation about the Trump shooting.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 15, 2024 7:56 am

Greens tell Muslim Vote to ‘leave Wills, Senate alone’Alexi Demetriadi
11 hours ago

215 comments

Panicked Greens senators and MPs fear the burgeoning The Muslim Vote movement could cost them the prized target seat of Wills and upper house votes, pleading with the campaign to leave it and the Senate race alone.
A potential split in the pro-­Palestine vote came as Muslim leaders said the Greens’ policy slate would be a “deal-breaker” for the community, regardless of its pro-Palestine stance.
The revelations are part of an investigation by The Australian into the Greens’ policies and electoral strategy as it seeks to win the balance of power in the upcoming Queensland and federal elections.
Amid the five days that saw senator Fatima Payman resign and the emergence of The Muslim Vote, the Greens realised the wedge they drove into the ALP may have been two-edged.
Multiple figures in the progressive party picked up the phone to “preference whisperer” and political strategist Glenn Druery, who had reportedly been advising Senator Payman and, separately and informally, The Muslim Vote campaign.
Mr Druery didn’t respond to questions from The Australian, but insiders said Greens figures, including NSW senator David Shoebridge, quickly contacted the strategist concerned with how an organised Muslim campaign could affect them, particularly in Wills and the Senate.
Sources said some pleaded to Mr Druery that he tell The Muslim Vote to focus solely on the lower house, leaving the Senate alone so as to not take potential votes and spots from the party.
The party had been “caught out” by the The Muslim Vote’s sudden mobilisation and was concerned whether its desire to oust Labor extended to the Senate, and how or if Senator Payman would lead a form of upper house ticket.

Thieves falling out?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 10:24 am

“Please Mr Crocodile. Don’t eat me.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 15, 2024 7:57 am

‘Beyond excited’: Brittany Higgins, David Sharaz expecting their first childJames Dowling
9 hours ago

Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins is expecting her first child with husband David Sharaz.
Announcing the pregnancy on Instagram, Ms Higgins said she was “beyond excited” and paired the announcement with a picture of knitted childrens’ overalls and two blue socks on a washing line.
“Can’t wait to meet you,” Ms Higgins said on Instagram on Sunday.
“Beyond excited to welcome a new member to our little family.
“Your parents are already obsessed with you and you aren’t even here yet.”
The image is tagged with a location: Bergerac, France. In December, Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz bought a home in the southwestern town of Lunas near the Bergerac and Bordeaux regions.
While Ms Higgins, who made the announcement late on Sunday, did not specify the baby’s gender, the blue socks in her post hint at a baby boy.
The announcement follows the pair’s Gold Coast wedding in June, held behind a strict wall of security in the Currumbin Valley. The event had a strict guest list confined to friends and family.
Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz met in Canberra in 2020 before announcing their engagement on New Year’s Eve in 2022.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 10:25 am

Exuding panic.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 15, 2024 10:45 am

i should know but does the WA Supreme Court have creche facilities?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 15, 2024 1:53 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

My bet is that kid will be breast fed until she falls pregnant in a years time after the delivery.
And there will be a medical reason she can’t attend.

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