The head of the World Health Organisation narrowly escaped death Unfortunately. Evil arsehole.
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It looks like a plan to kill off the asthmatics.
Which is why you won’t read it in the MSM. The religious right can be an issue for the Lieborals…
Climate realist Tony Heller took to X to highlight the climate misinformation and disinformation campaigns waged by far-left corporate media on the global…
May be too late? Inside the Gates (of Vienna?).
Filling out the Trump Assassination bingo card.
So far I’ve got:
My missing bit is how the dweeb found his way onto an unfamiliar roof top.
Have to agree with Arky re the DEI employment of the girlies in Trump’s security unit. I don’t doubt their endeavour to do their job in the face of danger. But, honestly, they are not physically up to scratch, & bumbled with their weaponry in the heat of the engagement.
They will be applauded for their courage – but that is their job. I am disputing their physical (& perhaps mental) ability to protect lives.
No reason
Descent into the maelstrom
Trump officially Black Now
Nick Cater provides a succinct summary of the use of violence on the Left in today’s Paywallian. The home of Barry’s old mentor, the Weather Underground, gets a mention.
“Has anyone considered the possibility that it didn’t matter to the shooter if he hit Trump as long as he shot enough people there? The desired outcome is chaos which is what happened.”
Chaos?
Seems more like it has consolidated the Trump vote.
Crook clearly didn’t care if he also killed spectators otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen a rally to make his attempt.
He wasn’t very good at taking out spectators either tbh.
The chick in front definitely had him covered for width.
And certainly protected him from a knee-capping shot.
“Local police officer came face-to-face with would-be assassin but backed away, sources say”
Well not exactly, according to Fox News source.
As the cop went to investigate reports there was someone on the roof, the cop climbed on the shoulders of a colleague (there was no ladder) and the shooter pointed his rifle at him so he ducked down and fell backwards off the shoulders of the colleague. Then Trump was shot. Wonder how Crooks got on the roof?
BTW apparently Trump’s team has already raised nearly $2million for the dead supporter and the two others injured.
No, my point is all governments have an bureau. The idea that you can operate effectively without one is an ideological illusion. If conservatives don’t recognize these facts and acknowledge them then they are going to get nowhere.
I memed…
I wonder when this assassination attempt will dissappear under a flood of “asking for it” and Trump’s bloodied fist-pumping will be flagged as a provocative violent act in itself.
Dr F at 3:38
Something you may care to add to your Bingo card.
A spate of #metoo pity trolling after the style of Jussie Smullet …
Put the big bucks on Maxine Waters, Occasional Car Sex or the towel heads from Minnesota.
Doesn’t this event now ensure the corpse will be the candidate in November? Who would now run against Trump and in all likelihood get mowed and would result in no chance for the 28 race?
This has piqued my interest too.
He lived an hour away.
Did he make reccy trips or did he just front up on a speculator?
No, it doesn’t.
What it does do is give that small minority of nut jobs very easy access to semi-automatic rifles.
The difference in the US is guns.
JC
July 15, 2024 4:11 pm
Exactly.
With the extra added bonus of Dr Jill and her cronies white-anting from the sidelines.
Contenders the age of, say, Newsome, will just hold their cards and sit out the four years.
Some of his classmates described him as supersmart. He was rejected from the gun club for being a terrible shooter. The idea that the deep state would use such a loser is nuts.
Oh, FFS, more anonymous, unsupported speculation.
Why would the gun club reject him if he was a bad shot? Do golf clubs reject lousy golfers? Bit of a non sequitor, IMHO.
As others have wisely said, we need to wait for a week or so and see what falls out of the trees. Every wannabe famous ‘journalist’ in the US, plus a lot of people with expertise about protection, ballistics etc are crawling all over this event.
Thanks to the internet, the Feds will not be the only source of data. They may well try to engineer a cover-up (if it is needed), but with so many films and photographs, plus witnesses, they are up against it.
It ain’t 1963 any more.
It might also get parties serious about that whole ” one heartbeat from the presidency” thing after the Kamel- toe experiment.
Having a VP who outshines the actual prez might be a nice novelty
He was a huge fan of mRNA technologies, wrote papers advocating the use for pandemics, took out a number of patents that were concepts rather than products for mRNA. I despise patent concepts. Ideas are easy, execution is the imperative.
A few days ago I read a paper which argued that most of the excess deaths are attributable to the vaccines.
Those were quotes from those who knew him. Not my speculations. If you bothered to read carefully you might have noted that I raised questions more than answers. Here everyone is putting up there preferred hypotheses, like it was a deep state operation, or that he must have been a leftie. FFS you can’t even correctly read a comment.
On the Congressman who dismissed the staffer, and further information supplied by Johanna…
I did not know that, Joh and Pogria.
Creep. Hypocrite. Example to other creeps and hypocrites to sack creepy and hypocritical staff members despite their innermost motivations.
If we waited for complete purity of motive, we’d be waiting a hell of a long time.
Just drove 700km home and catching up on events. I may be some time. 😀
You suspect “BBC interview man” becomes the Zapruder film for the attempted Trump assassination. Over to you 4 Chan.
Trump reckons he’s going to deliver a speech of national unity at the GOP convention, now that’s a laugh. After that Tucker comes out with a solemn soliloquy on respecting electoral outcomes, Kimberley Guilfoyle denounces plastic surgery, and MTG professes her love of the Deep State. LOL.
UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, who has just approved several giant solar panel arrays on thousands of acres of farming land with dozens more to come, prompting concerns over food security, defends himself
Now…where have I heard that before?
Anyway, on to
Net ZeroYear Zero!Our betters speaketh:
The authorities in the United States already did their jobs. Thankfully, not well.
Ah blow it out your arse, Karvelas, you sanctimonious dissembling twerp. No way I’m sharing your “facts”.
And ‘sharing’ is the wrong word – she expects me to unquestionably accept what she presents as fact. When we are told we need to inform ourselves solely via “credible news sources”, and this bint is a scribbler for one of those “credible news sources”, what she’s actually saying is that when she tells you something is a fact, you aren’t allowed to disagree. No. Blow it out your arse. And once more again for good measure.
But while we’re speaking of sources of misinformation, who has been the largest peddlers of misinformation and creators of division in recent years? Why, it’s those same “credible media sources” just like the ABC (which is arguably the worst). Think of the countless lies they propagated during the manufactured pandemic. And who was it that went to war against those unwilling to take the experimental death shot, piling endless scorn on, and whipping up hysteria against, anyone who dared not comply with the mandates or refused to bow down to the cult of masking?
She is not wrong, though. Society does need a shared set of facts. Or at least some kind of concord on how one should be arrived at. An excellent start to that would be to agree that whatever people like Karvelas broadcast is not to be regarded as fact. Anything emanating from her and her ilk should be subject to a rebuttable presumption of deceit. If these people tell you the sun will rise tomorrow, get a second opinion.
I mean, just look at how she’s framed the scene of the attempted assassination of Trump:
Gunshots forced him to the ground? Um no HE WAS SHOT! That is why he hit the ground! It wasn’t a nosebleed!
No it wasn’t a disturbing and chilling image – it was a singular image of greatness and brazen fearlessness from a leader of a kind seldom chronicled. Trump is a titan of a man. My respect for him has risen exponentially. Who wouldn’t want a leader with such obvious instinctive physical courage, and who instinctively did what needed to be done, what signals to send to both friends and foes? Here is what I think of that image – it literally makes me question my skepticism of divine intervention. So are we off to a good start with our shared set of facts, Karvelas?
Also, let’s be honest about scum like this. Despite all of the deeply insincere concern coming from her kind at present about all of this division and polarisation (which many of them expressly blame on Trump as they moan about it – at least Karvelas didn’t stoop that low, although one of her ABC colleagues did in an article yesterday), they all privately wish that bullet hit its mark. That is the greatest dishonesty, the greatest hypocrisy, of all from them at this time. But you’d be a fool to expect anything more from the likes of them.
Now, Karvelas. If you’re reading (I’m sure you’re not), you now know how I feel about you and people like you. Perhaps you might tell me how you and I are supposed to have a shared set of facts.
He should stop doing it then.
Why does mUntyfa exclude inner city gangbangers, who are responsible for most of the shooting deaths in the US, from his “small minority of nut jobs”? Is it because he is happy to ignore the majority of shooting deaths they don’t suit the lefturd “narrative”?
PS, most of the gangbangers use illegally purchased or stolen guns, is it too hard (or waysssissst) for lefturds to enforce gun control on ethnic minorities?
Some of the billionaires appear to be moving from the liability side to the asset side of Trump’s balance sheet.
m0nty
July 15, 2024 4:59 pm
A reminder of your accuracy in predicting the future, or the present for that matter.
You said this;
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“m0nty says:
November 12, 2022 at 7:01 pm
JC, I know you are not into tech so you don’t get this, but Musk has already killed Twitter. It is dead. The only chance for the company is if he sells it soon for about 20 cents in the dollar. Otherwise everyone loses their shirt.”
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I think twitter/X is still going and making a profit.
mUnter, inevitably falling into the Liability Bob playbook:
Making the same mistakes as well.
I got me a Trump Assassination bingo card too.
So, this socially inept loser is approached by baddies (I like Deep State, but feel free to speculate) and the baddies go, “Hey, kid, wanna make some money and be famous and have everyone go, ‘Ooh-ah, Loser is one cool dude!’ and be famous forever?
And Loser goes, “Meh…”
So the baddies help him on the roof and hand him a big gun thingy. “Aim in that general direction and pop off a few shots (remember, it has been stated that the shots were sprayed) and one of our guys will take out Orange Man, and we’ll come and get you off the roof later.” The latter bit, you will agree, they actually did.
So Trump’s talking to the crowd and the baddie sniper gets real excited because he has a perfect head shot lined up and then Dammit! Trump looks to the right and gets a pierced ear. In the ensuing chaos, the baddies take out poor, dumb Loser, according to plan, and all else is forgotten when Trump rises triumphant, pumping the air and impressing (if only momentarily) 97.3% of the universe.
I’m Delta A and that’s my theory.
The difference in the US is the security state is out of control and likes it that way very much and will do whatever it takes to remain out of control.
Kevin
According to the latest from the spaceman, Musk, X is now cash flow positive.
Okay, if they can keep the cheating down to a minimum, Trumpster could win NY and NJ.
I can’t congratulate him because the circumstances are so awful, but credit where credit is due. Cronkite made the prediction that Trump would be assassinated this year. He was wrong by literally an inch or less.
Oh yes. Yes they do.
I saw that on other faces besides the media. The downward inflection, the sad lament…”he lives”.
The foul infection has gone well beyond the States. It has metastasised into our own culture. There are people here who want him dead. And they will laugh about it.
m0nty
July 15, 2024 4:59 pm
He could discover a cure for cancer and you lot would be complaining he was putting oncologists out of work.
No surprises there.
But providing he sets the right tone – and he is a peerless political speaker – he will swing enough votes to make this one virtually uncheatable.
Sad for you lot, but that’s where we are.
Your man Crook had one chance and he blew it … like brains all over a tin roof on a warm Pennsylvania night.
Off topic, but since we’re talking about facts:
Chromosomes determine sex. That’s a fact. Share it around.
Great! Now that everyone at the ABC is down with that, let’s move on…
JC
July 15, 2024 5:09 pm
Guys like Bezos eventually reach a level of wealth where money becomes largely meaningless, except for those playing “most toys at the end wins”.
Their attention turns to their legacy.
One thing the smart ones realise is that the place is now a tinder box, and they do not want their legacy tarnished by association with those who would flick lighted matches.
Last week it was possible association with a President who has clearly lost his remaining marbles.
But this week the stakes are exponentially higher.
Fatboy
It’s a private company so it’s none of your donut business if it’s making a profit or losing money.
However:
m0nty
July 15, 2024 5:29 pm
Reply to KevinM
I assume you have access to the books, to know that.
Or just an other fantasy wishful thinking.
That’s an alternate fact that fails to account for XXY, XYY, SOX-9,SRY.
X, Twitter, bonds maturing in 2030 appear to be trading okay at 90 cents. I don’t know what the yield on these things are, but the price shows no distress.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds/twitter_incdl-notes_202222-30_regs-bond-2030-usu8882pab32
STFU fatboy.
Ich bin ein Jacksonian!
America’s Jacksonian Turn
The assassination attempt gives new power to an old political tendency.By Walter Russell Mead
Donald Trump was only glancingly wounded on Saturday, but the effects of the attack and of his courageous response will be profound. His chance of victory substantially increased, and the movement he represents will continue to be a powerful force in American policy regardless of November’s result.
Mr. Trump is part of a strain of American politics that Andrew Jackson brought to power in 1828. In domestic politics, Jacksonians are skeptical of big business, hate the political and social establishment, and demand “common sense” solutions to complex problems. They support the military but not an officer class seen as distant from the values and folkways of the nation—West Point stuffed shirts in the 19th century, “woke generals” today. They assume the political class is deeply and irreformably corrupt.
In foreign policy Jacksonians feel no need to spread democracy around the world. Instinctively realist, they view the United Nations and international law that would bind the U.S. with fear and contempt. Absent serious threats against America, Jacksonians have little interest in foreign affairs. But when the U.S. is attacked, they believe every measure is justified in its defense. Jacksonians don’t regret assaults on civilian targets during World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Relentless warfare against terrorists is justified; most Jacksonians support Israel’s war in Gaza and believe the U.S. should respond to terror with the same vigor.
Sept. 11 was one of the moments in history, like Pearl Harbor, or the British attacks on Lexington and Concord in 1775, that ignited a Jacksonian firestorm across the U.S. and mobilized previously isolationist and almost pacifist Americans for war. Other such moments are the publication of the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram (in which Imperial Germany offered to help Mexico regain the territories lost in the Mexican-American War if it joined Germany’s side in World War I) and the destruction of the Maine in Havana (allegedly by Spain) in 1898.
What Jacksonians regard as the unsatisfactory outcomes of the “endless” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan led them to sour on the U.S. military presence in the Middle East. That didn’t change their attitude toward international politics and the need for a strong defense. In recent years, China has replaced jihadist terror as the prime enemy, but new terror attacks in the U.S. could easily reignite the fires.
For most Democratic policymakers, the presence and power of Jacksonian America is a national liability and a political danger. At home, Jacksonian hatred of educated elites and contempt for their policy preferences is a potent source of opposition to Democratic cultural and social policies. Abroad, Jacksonians’ skepticism about international organizations and law, their resistance to global climate policy, and their indifference to ideological crusades threatens essential elements of what most Democratic policymakers believe are sensible policies required to save the world.
Jacksonian America likes strong leaders, even those like George Washington and the two Roosevelts who come from elite backgrounds and whose policy preferences don’t always align perfectly with Jacksonian ideas. Jacksonians are deeply skeptical of most politicians; Jacksonian faith and loyalty, once given, can be enduring. This gives Jacksonian leaders flexibility on policies; the base will often follow where they lead.
Saturday’s events made America more Jacksonian and gave Mr. Trump an unbreakable hold on Jacksonian America. On the one hand, the assassination attempt reinforced the sense that Jacksonian America is under siege. On the other, Mr. Trump’s fist-waving defiance and determination quieted any doubt about his personal courage. Attacks on him from the political and journalistic establishments will only boost his standing with his followers and inflame Jacksonian hatred of elites.
The more Jacksonian America becomes, the harder it is for Democrats to win elections and to govern. Team Biden sought to tamp down the Jacksonian fires, but the most important fact about American politics in 2024, even before Saturday, was that these efforts have fallen short.
Democrats hoped that the superior wisdom of elite-guided policies would generate results that would convince the peasants to lay down their pitchforks and torches. Bidenomics would make Americans feel more prosperous at home as an enlightened foreign policy—wise, focused on alliances—would make the world safe again. In that atmosphere, Team Biden hoped, Mr. Trump’s rhetoric and promise of disruption would resonate with fewer voters and alarm more. The strategy was failing even before the debate. Bidenomics isn’t having the desired effect. Inflation and the high interest rates required to suppress it have infuriated voters, as have the administration’s controversial stands on immigration, gender, crime and climate change. The sense of growing international danger has made Mr. Trump’s attacks on the administration weakness resonate with worried voters who don’t see a world returning to stable normalcy.
The Butler, Pa., attack exposed another problem with the Biden strategy. Making Mr. Trump toxic has been the core theme of Democratic campaign rhetoric all year. Comparing him to Hitler and calling him a coward, a traitor and an existential threat to democracy have been Democratic talking points. This strategy boomeranged in spectacular fashion as, post-Butler, Democratic anti-Trump rhetoric looks like irresponsible demagoguery recklessly pushing the nation into crisis to serve President Biden’s political ambition.After Butler, America has suddenly become a more Jacksonian nation. The shadow of Old Hickory looms larger than ever, and Donald Trump stands taller as his undisputed heir.
Dickless oozes:
The difference in the US is guns.
This was the proffered reason in the 2 brain cell media today with the cacked consensus that guns were the cause and the problem. Like everything else the media and their dickless useful idiots vomit, this is wrong.
1 If you take out black and hispanic gun crime the gun crime rate in the US is the same as Australia’s: The Geek in Pictures: Contra-Grabber Edition | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
2 Gun crimes are concentrated in demorat areas which have the tightest gun controls: Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders (crimeresearch.org) Murders in US Are Very Concentrated, and They Are Becoming Even More So by John R. Lott :: SSRN
3 Cities which the least gun control have the lowest gun crime.
Another black man telling it how it is.
@WallStreetApes
The Donald Trump Assassination Attempt Just Woke Up The World, This Video Is Already Approaching Almost A Quarter Of A Million Likes
Liz
In the past few days, Musk asked folks if they wanted to keep X as the name or change it back to Twitter.
The poor CEO. I can’t imagine what she’s dealing with. 🙂
I could imagine Musk would be great to work with/for on the engineering side because it’s a pretty definite field. But FMD, he would be a nightmare outside of that.
Jackson was the first populist president.
Opinion: Democrats are staging a coup by the elite’s elite
Trump changing GOP convention speech to stress importance of unity after Pennsylvania rally shooting
In Australia the gun situation is even more striking. Since Port Arthur gun ownership went up but gun crime went down:
Declining firearm violence: Stats disprove Greens’ political ammo – The Big Smoke
That is apart from suburbs which have a muzzie concentration.
Biology professor is slammed over sick joke about Trump’s assassination attempt
NEW: Secret Service Identified Rooftop Next to Trump Pennsylvania Event as Security Vulnerability Days Before Rally – But Still Didn’t Secure It
Report: Senior House Democrat Tells Axios, ‘We’ve All Resigned Ourselves to a Second Trump Presidency’
A different take on history to expand minds and hearts for NAIDOC WeekClaudette RizziBunbury Herald
Mon, 15 July 2024 12:00PM
An opportunity to rethink history for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through thought and discussion opened minds and warmed hearts during the premiere of The Visitors at the weekend.
Playwright Jane Harrison set the production when the First Fleet of colonisers arrived in Australia, inviting audiences to reimagine those events with a twist — and consider how that could have changed the course of history.
The visual set was an uncolonised sea shore, with a group of Indigenous elders and community members dressed in suits instead of traditional dress, looking out and awaiting the arrival of the first ships to arrive at Sydney Cove in 1788.
Powerful dialogue began in Indigenous language and was then presented in English.
It suggested a conversation should be had about culture, tradition and lore. It questions whether if it was seen and celebrated by the visitors, and welcomed at the arrival of settlers, would things be different?
What would Australia be like if roles were reversed and settlers themselves were welcomed without conflict?
After the show, a poignant and insightful Q&A session was had with the cast and director, facilitated by BREC executive director Fiona de Garis.
Audience members asked the actors if they felt they carried the weight of the events of history, and the recent referendum, and if it was difficult portraying the story or learning the script.
The actors said they used their platform with a sense of pride and purpose, and didn’t feel like they had to carry a particular historical weight.
Questions were also asked about the end of the play, during which cast members removed their suit jackets to reveal symbolic Indigenous art in the lining.
These questions provoked thought about what things would be like if it was Indigenous emblems and symbolism at the core of government and culture today.
A heartwarming takeaway was a reminder that welcome to country ceremonies were part of Aboriginal law and society years before current society even existed, let alone committed to utilising them.
We left the show feeling as though there was an opportunity to forge better relationships with attitudes that better reflect those traditions, and our current connection to them.
Audience members of all different backgrounds were welcomed to think and feel differently about issues of race and Australian identity and to help create a better future.
Why is “Malarkey” a word that springs readily to mind?
This is a new one. The Jerusalem Post
‘Jews try to assassinate Trump!’ Antisemitic theories and calls for violence surge
Why Was Trump’s Dedicated Secret Service Detail On Break During PA Rally?
That’s the best thing about the miserable last few weeks. It makes it impossible for the Dems to steal the election without starting a civil war.
They will go to plan B which is to do like 2016-2020 which is to undermine and stonewall and stymie using corrupt courts and the deep state.
I’ve raised the following on other forums and people there understood the obvious. Without a written history people can make up stuff. Even with written history debates can continue for centuries yet we are expected to accept their accounts of tradition and must not challenge it.
Evidence is a useful thing. During the first years of settlement are there any accounts of being welcomed to country?
Just found the family cat under the house. She’s curled up into a ball and died. 20 years + was a good innings.
Mum grabbed a pillow case for me to wrap her in. Dug a hole in the backyard and buried. Garden nursery tomorrow to pick a plant to put on top of her.
Losing a pet certainly can smack you around. I’ll get mum a rescue pet in a months time.
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Cathy Warren@ 5:00.
“Big boys don’t cry”
Well, I did.
The Making of 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxe4mlsQos
As each hour passes since Saturday night, it’s looking more like a leadership failure in the Secret Service — from the diversity hire who runs the agency down to the local soy boys on the ground who left it to a local police marksman to take down the Trump shooter only after he started unloading his clip in Trump’s direction.
Off topic trivia.
BoN, you are man of science, maybe you can answer this.
Has gravity or the density of gravel or both increased in the last 15 odd years?
I know others are in the same boat and understand the reason I’m asking.
Andrew Jackson, eh. Hmm.
But but… he was a Democrat! And as Bruce points out, Democrats have always been evil communists of the Confederacy, and still are to this very day!!
My boxing trainer, who is a good guy, doesn’t like Trump I found out today.
In fact he thought it would have been good if the bullet had done the job.
Now, when others on here describe similar situations, I think “blooming hell, why would you tolerate comments like that and not just cut that idiot away”.
Conversation ensued, wherein it became apparent he didn’t know someone was killed.
Maybe I need to take more into account that everyone isn’t as plugged into politics, don’t always know what we know or have the political junky experiences to put everything in context. And even we who do can end up in violent disagreement about minor bullshit.
What hope do most people who are just concerned with their everyday lives and listening to the news bulletins on Rock FM on the hour?
So I still like the bloke as much as before, and our conversations remain interesting given everything else he is well informed about.
It’s complicated, monty.
And very interesting history.
The biography of Jackson I have in my library. Recommended.
And I suspect you are verballing Bruce, but I’ll let him deal with that.
My boxing trainer, who is a good guy, doesn’t like Trump I found out today.
Let’s face it, most people get their impressions from the MSM, so their dislike of Trump has been germinated and fostered for years. They just aren’t sufficiently informed.
Doc Faustus:
The ladder can be seen propped against the street side of the building. How did it get there? Even if it was collapsible, it’s too long for a normal vehicle. What sort of vehicle did he have?
How many of the Cat contributors believe Lone Gunman?
How many believe Three Letter Organisation?
I don’t know about you lot, but I’m wrestling with denying an Act of God.
According to some sources, Americans have to be registered in order to vote. Que? then why the kerfuffle about ID? I mean, if you are registered to vote you already have ID when you go to the voting booth.
And if you are registered as Republican, in the privacy of the voting booth can you not vote for anyone, regardless?
Can registration be used as a smokescreen?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 15, 2024 6:33 pm
Thanks Liz.
“Pub test” results are in:
All day yesterday, all last night, & all day today the opinion of the patrons in my pub on the Trump assassination attempt are:
Nothing.
Not one person has commented. Almost certainly this is because none of them know about it.
We sometimes forget just how many people who are not only unplugged, they in fact follow zero news & current affairs.
If it wasn’t for Monty, this place would be broke from no contributors.
At least he’s worth just for that alone…
🙂
Truth Social stock DJT is up 70% in pre-market.
Our troll likes to imagine himself as a thought leader in the leftwing ruling class, but he’s just a useful online idiot parroting the commands of the high priests.
Leftards portray themselves as freedom-fighting insurgents, but in Australia they are, in fact, wealthy property-owning, Green-voting fat cats who control all of our institutions, from government to business to education.
Our troll is increasingly desperate as the Trump Republicans are now in the box seat to depose Obama’s puppet president in November — even though the DNC will still control the federal government and the bureaucracy in perpetuity by tribal osmosis.
I thank the troll for providing up-to-date daily information on what the enemies of Australian families, the middle class and wider society are thinking.
Trump has a very elegant wedge at his disposal …
What can they say?
The Officer Tatum ran a segment on women in the Secret Service.
He pulled up images of security for Elon Musk, Zuckerberg and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Not one woman on bodyguard duty.
Yet the female head of SS wants 30% female by 2030.
Aaaahahahaaa.
Oh yes.
pretty sure the evidence points to him being a paid up member of the Retard Party
and congrats mUnty on becoming the new Numbers Bob
if anybody could seriously challenge Numbers with their depth sheer idiocy and power of dogmatic gibber
only you could
do a victory lap
you’ve earned it
… retard
Look on the bright side, everyone.
While monty’s here he’s not out watching kids play sport.
Monty is having one of the all time great trouser experiences* over the Trump assassination attempt.
*h/t Jeremy Clarkson
Is it just me, or did m0nster sound a bit whiny-desparate today?
Former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis ‘spread anti-Semitic hate’Stephen Rice
20 minutes ago
Australia’s racial vilification laws will be put to the test in a complaint against former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis, who is facing allegations she posted anti-Semitic hate speech on social media to her 30,000 followers, including reposting a video of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in which he said there was no place for Jews in Israel.
The complaint, filed with the Australian Human Rights Commission, claimed Ms Kostakidis engaged in a “campaign of vilification” that has caused harm to members of Jewish and Israeli communities in Australia.
On Monday, she denied ever inciting hatred against Jewish people, saying the legal action was an attempt to silence her and an attack on free speech.
Zionist Federation of Australia chief executive Alon Cassuto, a dual Australian-Israeli citizen, alleged Ms Kostakidis had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it unlawful to publicly offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate a person or group on the basis of race, colour or national or ethnic origin.
Law firm Arnold Bloch Liebler said in a letter to Ms Kostakidis that she had engaged in “dishonest descriptions” of the events of October 7, including a post three days later suggesting Israel knowingly allowed the Hamas attack to occur to justify a retaliatory war; and she had denied Israeli women were raped in the attack.
“As the face of SBS for many years, you were entrusted by Australians nationwide as a symbol of truth and integrity,” the letter said. “Since 7 October, you have regrettably misused your considerable profile to spread hateful and antiSemitic rhetoric.”
The letter notes Ms Kostakidis reposted a video of former weapons inspector Scott Ritter in which he supports Hamas and says: “Do I condemn Hamas? Hell no!”
Ms Kostakidis had also reposted tweets claiming pedophile Jeffery Epstein was an agent of Israel who “ran a honeypot for Mossad” and in June shared a theory that Israel was responsible for the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, asking “Why has Israel been avoided when discussing the Kennedy assassinations?”
The letter cites the Nasrallah video as an “unlawful’ post under section 18C, saying the Hezbollah leader advocated “the ethnic cleansing of Jewish Israelis in Israel” and that the posts were “threatening, offensive, insulting and intimidating to those of Jewish or Israeli national or ethnic origin”.
Arnold Bloch Liebler gave Ms Kostakidis until last Friday to agree to publish an apology and undertake not to repeat the comments but filed the complaint with the Human Rights Commission on Monday after she failed to comply.
For Cats with pay TV, exclusive interview with Ruperdink Mudrock starting now on Sky News.
Daily Telegraph
ANALYSIS SHOWS THREE WEAPONS FIREDAccording to CNN, forensic analysis suggests as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally. The FBI has said the shooter acted alone.
CNN is reporting that the first three shots were “consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final acoustic impulse was emitted by a possible weapon C”.
The outlet done reports the audio analysis was done by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution.
Daily Telegraph:
Daily Telegraph
A report on one of the sites I’ve looked at says it was a “finishing shot” into the shooter. In other words they had detected some movement.
A bit like the order given to Apache gunners in Iraq and Afghanistan, shoot until limb separation is observed.
Has anyone heard this before?
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There is a very good article at Red State about using women in the Secret Service. They CAN play an excellent role, just not as flak jackets.
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/07/14/about-those-female-secret-service-agents-protecting-trump-n2176834
BobtheBoozer
July 15, 2024 8:10 pm
Fake noos, Betty.
JC
July 15, 2024 6:52 pm
Are we tired of winning, folks?
It’s mischief. Pathetic stuff.
Watching Rupert Murdoch interview. An excellent trip down memory lane, and some interesting insights and opinions. Particularly on Taiwan and the US.
In this case the key part of that paragraph is the definite article … “a”, is in “a rooftop”.
One.
As I said the other day, this wasn’t a motorcade in a convertible through highrise residential blocks with a gazillion possible concealed shooting spots.
There was one single rooftop to cover, which was the only possible elevated shooting spot within cooee of the stage.
I am a Zionist, I come from a proud Zionist family. Apparently, because I am a Zionist I am now a Satanist and my family are Satanists.
I should laugh but the truth is, the reality is, that none of this is funny. And let me tell you why, because whilst they use the word…”Zionist”, they mean ‘Jew”.
Less than 24 hours old. Yeah righto.
Hardly the raising of the flag over Iwo Jima.
‘I came here to commit Arkancide’.
Rest in Peace Dr. Ruth – Sex Therapist and Israeli Sniper (13 Jul, via Instapundit)
What a life! Vale.
Via Ace,
“Since the day the first Democrat vice-president (and co-founder of Tammany Hall), Aaron Burr, killed one of the Founding Fathers, they’ve always been this way. Consider: between 1865 and 1901, three presidents were assassinated, all Republicans. Three of the first six elected GOP presidents were murdered, by Southern sympathizers, anarchist leftists, and sexual weirdos. JFK, the lone Dem, was shot and killed by a Communist. In addition, there were attempts on the life of Teddy Roosevelt (shot), Ronald Reagan (shot), and Gerald Ford (shot at twice). Within just the past few years, senator Rand Paul was violently assaulted, congressman Steve Scalise was shot by a Trump-hating Bernie Bro, and a Leftist psycho traveled across the country to try and assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit.
To this day, Bernie Sanders and Dick Durbin have yet to answer for what they know and how they knew James Hodgkinson. Given the state of play, they likely will never have to answer for their involvement with the would be mass assassin who nearly mowed down a slew of GOP congressmen on a softball field.”
However, applying the old “given a choice between a conspiracy and a f-ck up …” rule, there is one possible scenario which makes sense.
From failed Mafia cases in the 70’s and 80’s through to security failures leading up to 9/11, law enforcement in the US has been plagued by fragmentation.
Different Federal, State and local agencies all jealously guarding their patch and competing for kudos and funding.
I can envisage a situation where assignment of coverage might fall through the cracks.
Awesome especially the very end.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1812747277007454328?t=bafJL01bgSJCuqLvyi20SQ&s=19
ABC never give up.4 CORNERS running another Trump expose.Same old cast.They are really just talking to themselves.
How about an expose of the Biden Whitehouse?
Mrs P just flicks the TeeVee to the ABC.
Fork Orners.
Whose head should pop up but Peter Strzok (he of the Wussia, Wussia, Wussia hoax)?
I refuse to watch, but I did see the promo on ABC News.
The dire warnings were:-
1. The assembling of “Far-Right” groups trying to get Trump elected (note that they will be called “shadowy” and “problematic”. A mirror push within the Dimocrats would be called “a grassroots, citizens campaign”).
2. Trump will dismantle the public sector and instal his own appointees. Which is precisely what Dr Jill, Obama, Bushes 1 & 2, Clinton etc did.
3. He will … get this … politicise the DoJ to go after his enemies. Now where would he get an idea like that?
Interesting.
“‘You cannot, in broad daylight, get onto a rooftop within, what looked like a couple hundred yards if that [of the president]. You can’t get in that position with a gun when there’s a president speaking.
‘It cannot be done,’ Alexander insisted.
‘Like, you don’t even have to be a sniper – it’s the most f****** obvious thing, most obvious place in the whole world.
‘You could be like a seventh-grader – like “What do we have to do for security?” Well, let’s look at these rooftops that are almost within zeroing range of a rifle,’ he joked.
‘So something happened, and I’m not pointing fingers at anyone. It’s just too obvious that this guy had help getting there.
‘So whether it’s someone turned a blind eye or it was strategically planned, it had to be planned to a certain level, because events like that, security like that, it’s not a small thing – and that is an obvious place to be.’ ”
This is supposed to be from the veteran who holds the record for the longest sniper kill.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13634219/Veteran-longest-confirmed-sniper-kill-Trump-assassination-attempt.html
BobtheBoozer
July 15, 2024 8:10 pm
Can’t imagine anyone stupid enough to say that publicly, even if true or specially not then.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob. I’m reading “Death of a Generation” – how the assassinations of Nho Dinh Diem, and John Kennedy, prolonged the Vietnam War. Interesting reading.
“DJT was not saved by USSS brilliance. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of arriving bullet (supersonic) to the boom of muzzle blast (sonic).”
This is from the guy who founded Blackwater.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/14/erik-prince-near-trump-assassination-caused-by-malice-or-massive-incompetence-by-u-s-secret-service/
Jeebus,
does anyone here remember the stupid bint, Emma Hussar?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/reminder-emma-hussar-is-still-not-quite-right.html
I can’t see this new era of touchy feelie united bipartisan condemnation of hurtie speech lasting more than the day after tomorrow.
They all truly hate the shit of each other now.
The first Trump/ Clinton debate of 2016 they shook hands at the start and the finish. They were at this point still content to do the fake polite thing that politicians have done for time immemorial and allow their paid stooges to do the really nasty stuff.
By the time of the second debate Trump’s team was lining up all of Bill’s alleged victims to greet the Clintons and get a reaction.
Hilliary was still pretending to be all sweetness and nice with “Donald this, and Donald that” but the micro expressions on her face told the real story.
Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump’s speech at the state of the union with a demonstrable utter contempt, and Trump responded a couple of years later by mocking the literal hammering Pelosi’s husband’s skull received “What the hell was all that about”? He asked at the rally.
Trump is a master and a genius, and he ain’t innocent in all this. He has deliberately and for years pursued a campaign to out these fakes, liars and frauds for what they are.
Only Trump could conceive a strategy to return as his party’s candidate after losing the Presidency, defying years of tradition that saw one term presidents slink off into semi- obscurity.
The man is a one in a thousand year phenomenon.
The place where the Trump rally took place (Butler) is a town of 9,000 with a sworn Police force of 16.
Butler itself is geographically tiny, so the location might have been within the broader Morris County. I cannot find details on county police or sheriff’s office numbers. There could have been upwards of five separate agencies policing the site.
Improvised stand-up right after Trump Shot – tyler fischer
It’s a pretty funny Trump impersonation!
“That’s A Bunch Of Bullsh*t!” Tom Homan RIPS Karine Jean-Pierre At Major GOP Event
great speech
Melania Trump speaks
Rosie
July 15, 2024 8:51 pm
That was a ripper slam-dunk.
Using there own DEI bullshit against them:-
“It doesn’t matter what you think your question meant. All that matters is how I perceive that question.”
Brilliant.
While we are all celebrating Trump’s survival—despite the fact that two people are still in critical condition and one died—and this will help propel him to the Oval Office. I’m old enough to recall Gerald Ford who became president after Nixon resigned over Watergate, and Ford assumed the presidency. I remembered something about Ford, and it made me think there was some sort of association with Charles Manson. I also remembered that despite two attempts on his life, he lost the election to Carter.I checked it out – see below. It’s important to remember that last bit (that he lost).
Also keep in mind Ford was threatened freaking twice over a span of two weeks, which suggests there are more than one loon skulking about.
An expert’s view
@catturd2
Wow.
Meme
Gen Z Are A Lost Cause (Gen Z TikToks)
Isaac Butterfield
Our close friend is a councilman for the local government in Southampton, NY. They have a police department funded by the town. It costs the town around US$16 million. I can’t recall the total department head count, but I recall he said there are around 12 detectives on the payroll who basically do nothing, earning $300,000 a year in base salary only (there’s benefits). My pal reckons the last time there was a murder was about 10 to 15 years ago. The chief is a lazy fat fck earning 700K. Local cops in these towns aren’t MIT grads.
Let’s just summarize this. Rasmussen Report, on Twitter, is saying the Secret Service schleps watching over Trump were mostly temporary assignments. Don’t forget this is high summer and high vacation season in the US, which could go some way to explaining the temp assignments. You then have a small police department in Buttfck Pennsylvania, assisting the temps.
What could possibly go wrong?
That’s a recurring comment I’ve come across today as well.
Basically a force not up to or used to dealing with an intense operation such as this, probably used to dealing with a low crime area, called upon to cover holes in an understaffed SS detail. Cracks everywhere.
The Rats knew shit was likely to happen if the Secret Service detail was kept at a minimum.
And another thing, does the corpse have a detail which is 1/3 filled by smallish women?
Bush
I recall that Clinton was always in town collecting cash (donations) when I was living in NY. It was hell because the roads were sealed for several blocks, and the main avenue was also sealed. I’d walk home, as there was no use taking a cab. It was also spooky and really unnerving because of the countless cops and plain clothes dudes with serious looking weaponry. It actually felt like if you stuck your hand in your pocket and looked iffy, they’d shoot and ask questions later.
Jeez Loiusa.
Thanks to all for the kind words regarding the passing of my cat.
I truly appreciate it.
Mark Dice:
More Details Emerge, And More Questions Arise ( Trump )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6U0J6sn4qQ
Mark Steyn, worth a few minutes.
Interesting factoid, although I doubt the claim that bees never sleep.
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Old bees don’t return to the hive in the evening?
They spend the night on flowers, and if they have the chance to see another sunrise, they resume their activity by bringing pollen or nectar to the colony. They do this sensing that the end is near. No bee waits to die in the hive so as not to burden the others.
Bees have cold blood like all insects, yet at the colony level, they are a warm mega-organism.
There are bees that bring pollen and bees that bring nectar, never will a pollen-collecting bee change its task to bring nectar and vice versa.
Although dandelions are yellow, their pollen collected by bees turns orange in the mixing urn with nectar. The record for keeping a bee colony alive during winter was 356 days without them going out for cleansing flights.
Bees can be useful to humans even after they have died, as they are used in the form of poultices to treat joint pain.
Bees never sleep.
Thank you, little bees!!!
Agree or disagree, like or dislike Crowder?, the opening 25 minutes of this clip have been spot on. Will watch the rest tomorrow.
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Steven Crowder:
One shot changed everything, but we won’t back down..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WYGG5kksM
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
EVEN SHOT, TRUMP IS WAY AHEAD OF HIS RIVALS
TIM BLAIR
16 Jul 2024
First up, let’s hear it for Donald Trump.
Accelerated news cycles really don’t allow for proper consideration of such moments, but the former and possibly future US president’s display of strength on the weekend deserves extended appreciation.
Trump copped a bullet through the ear during a rifle attack that killed one of his supporters and critically wounded two others – yet he had the extraordinary presence of mind to rise up, pump the air with his fist and call on his fans to fight.
He then set off for New Jersey in his private jet and subsequently arrived the next day in Milwaukee for a four-day Republican National Convention. Trump barely slowed down. “I cannot allow a ‘shooter,’ or potential assassin, to force change to scheduling, or anything else,” he announced online.
Compare Trump’s resilience to the weakness of his rivals. President Joe Biden routinely needs a nap to recover from waking up.
By his own account, the perpetually disoriented 81-year-old was still suffering from jet lag during his disastrous debate performance – despite returning from abroad nearly two weeks earlier. Lunar astronauts have quicker rebounds.
Effort-wise, Biden’s potential replacements aren’t much better.
California Governor Gavin Newsom couldn’t even be bothered obeying his own state’s Covid lockdown directives – and he didn’t worry much about hiding it, getting busted in 2020 at a posh restaurant while Californian commoners remained at home, waiting for inevitable criminal invasions.
In 2021, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg posted an image of himself and his husband posing with their newborn twins.
The pair were in a hospital bed. This seemed slightly curious, what with both of them being male and the twins being born to a surrogate.
It’s entirely possible that those Democrat non-birthers spent more time in hospital than did a postshooting Donald Trump.
During the early days of the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris was put in charge of repairing her nation’s porous borders. She quickly discovered that this was an actual job that involved work.
So Harris bailed, preferring to offer peculiar musings on the nature of chronology. “The significance of the passage of time, right?” Harris told an audience in 2022. “The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.”
Driving home her point, and perhaps also indicating the availability of hallucinogens at that particular event, Harris concluded: “There is such great significance to the passage of time.“
There sure is.
Thirteen years ago, an armed lunatic killed six people and terribly injured Democrat politician Gabby Giffords. New York Times staffer Paul Krugman blamed “eliminationist rhetoric” for the attack.
“There isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary,” Krugman railed.
“And it’s the saturation of our political discourse – and especially our airwaves – with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence.
“Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretence of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right.”
Despite Krugman’s characteristic bluster, it’s difficult to estimate the effect of eliminationist talk on various unbalanced individuals amid every other potential form of influence.
It is very easy, however, to see that eliminationism has become the left’s preferred Trump-era talking tactic. Here’s Joe Biden just last month: “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. That is not hyperbole. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He is literally a threat to the America that we stand for.”
Going by Biden’s words, Trump isn’t just someone who should be voted down. Being such a literal threat, according to old Joe, it seems he needs to be taken out.
“Trump will destroy democracy,” Biden added, pouring on the elimination juice. “I will defend it.”
And then that deadly shooting happened, and Biden abruptly changed tune. Americans need “to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies,” Biden said yesterday.
“The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down.”
Biden’s soothing tone was widely applauded. But here’s another thing about accelerated news cycles. They erase memories.
Few recall that Biden said exactly the same things in his 2020 election victory speech.
“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again and to make progress,” Biden declared. “We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.”
And then he did. Too bad he can’t remember it.
Trump’s picked Senator Vance. A very good choice.
Now to Tuesday, 5 November 2024.
Bring it on.
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday dismissed Jack Smith’s classified documents case based on unlawful appointment and funding of the special counsel.
Another scalp to the Presidential belt.
VP choice is Vance.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trump-picks-running-mate-vice-presidential-nominee/news-story/aa0449d1b1362c9fa15b4f3dbcfe5eee
When I was talking about the local police forces, it wasn’t just lack of numbers. It was a lack of co-ordination between agencies about who was doing what, and probably a lack of expertise.
She apparently wasn’t burdened by mortgages or children or pets. And yet …
The woman, whose identity has been suppressed by the court, gave evidence on Monday, and described how Mr Geason’s behaviour would change when he drank white wine.
“When he drank too much white wine he could become quite verbally nasty,” she told the court.
“It was like a character change. He would just become very hateful and spiteful towards me.
“Sometimes he would just call me ‘slut’ time and time and time again for no reason at all.”
The woman told the court that he used this insult regularly, and on one occasion she was left crying on a park bench while he continued to yell at her.
She told the court that she was allegedly subjected to verbal abuse by Mr Geason “maybe 20 or 30 times”.
And she kept coming back for more.
Geason is a Tasmanian Supreme Court judge.
I’m not excusing what he did, if it’s true. But by her own testimony, she abetted his behaviour by letting him get away with it dozens of times.
One of my favourite Golden Era crime writers, Gladys Mitchell, had a female psychoanalyst as her lead detective. Dame Beatrice once said:
‘Sadist plus masochist equals happy marriage.’
Something the burgeoning DV bureaucracy and moral entrepreneurs would never consider. There’s a narrative to protect.
But of course.
Ooh dear…meanwhile in other news looks like Grace Tame’s 15 minutes of fame are over.
The Paywallion:
Margin Call
Grace Tame set to step down at charity
Grace Tame will step down as the CEO of her charitable foundation amid a donor backlash over its questionable governance and a half-hearted leadership style that left a scattered strategy and produced few tangible results for sexual abuse survivors.
Grace Tame Foundation director Michael Salter has been making it known around town that Tame will soon cease in the position and recruitment efforts will begin to identify a successor.
Margin Call understands a job listing will be published soon.
Tame’s inexperience was evident to anyone who dealt with the foundation, its dysfunction well-known in philanthropic circles. Largely a side project between a book deal and speaking gigs, it overflowed with donor funding but largely duplicated the work of established peers.
Within two years it had seemingly run out of goals to pursue. Piles of money sat on its books and it had already achieved modest goals in reforming sexual assault legislation around the country. But the board, flush with cash and under pressure to spend it in meaningful ways, took an ill-advised turn and began funding counselling services and legal fees for sexual abuse survivors, cannibalising existing services and drastically diverging from the foundation’s original purpose.
Donors were never told their money would be used in this way – on lawyers and counselling – and we know some benefactors were left furious about the lack of transparency.
More than half of the donated funds for FY23 – about $170,000 – were used to pay for counselling and legal costs, creating manifold problems in the process.
This column would go on to reveal that every dollar spent on legal services ($107,000) had been channelled into Marque Lawyers, whose managing director, Michael Bradley, sits on the Grace Tame Foundation board.
A perceived conflict of interest, this ought to have ended Bradley’s role as a director or seen his firm removed from the panel of legal providers.
We checked, however, and he’s still on the board, and our attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
The foundation didn’t respond when asked about these developments with Tame.
What never seemed to occur to Tame, or the foundation ’s leadership, is that funding survivors on a discretionary basis, in secret, would advantage a tiny group of people fortunate enough to be aware of the money.
Never mind the absolute lack of transparency around the decision-making – those who truly needed it wouldn’t even know it’s available.
All of which makes for a mess of an organisation which lost its way and is in desperate need of a reboot.
It’s a shame, really. With so much money at her disposal, far more than most volunteer organisations would typically receive, Grace Tame could have achieved something genuinely worthwhile in the survivor space.
Instead, her foundation wasted time, money, potentially the goodwill of donors, and it has probably diverted resources from organisations with clearer purposes.
Something for Tame’s successor to consider closely. Whoever takes over has the benefit of starting from an extremely low bar.
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee MSNBC gets a touch up.
I’m really pleased that Trump chose JD Vance as his VP nominee. I wouldn’t be surprised if the shooting was the deciding factor, that Trump realised a good VP may be necessary sooner than the end of his term and that Vance can carry on with the work uninterrupted.
Should Trump win the election the next term is going to be far more significant than his first term and a commitment from the VP will be vital in winning in 2028 to continue with his legacy.
Thanks Tom.
Spooner picked up on the resonance of that image. It’s been swirling around in my mind since I first saw it also.
Sometimes remarkable photo opportunities just happen. This was one of them.
Trump has challenged another debate with The Sniffer.
Will Vance have to have a cackle-off with Kamal-toe?
“The shooter was a registered Republican ….”
The shooter was steeped in MSM Trump hatred for all of his pathetic youthful years. The media are the second row of evil supporting the modern democrats.
I’ll tell you what is worse: two RINOs cooperating as members of the crooked J6 Get Trump Committee.
Lives have been ruined, some have died in prison as a result of the crackdown on attendees that fateful day – which was every bit as faked as the 2020 election.
Watch for head explosions on the left as (i) J.D. Vance says he would do what Pence would not, and (ii) Judge Cannon fires Jack Smith.
We can be sure then that he holds the view that a human with a penis can not be called a woman.
Sorry to hear about your cat, Steve. Always hard to lose a loved pet. I want another one of these, but the boss says No! Understandable. There can be only one GodEmperor per household.
Failed Tory leadership candidate doesn’t understand why he’s a failed Tory leadership candidate.
Add to that a pile of jockeying between small-town law enforcement agencies as to who was doing what, with all of them demanding they play their own ‘critical’ role, and every bit of it driven by ego rather than demonstrated competence.
It begins.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/australian-government-announces-9-75-million-for-smart-energy-trial-5548590?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=top-news-australia-top-news-0-title-1
I see that Boomer Derangement Syndrome (BDS) is alive and well at the kiddies News website. “Boomers indulge in selfish behaviour” is the sort of heading they love. Many of us grew up in fairly basic circumstances and are still quite careful about our expenditures. Mrs. B and I haven’t spent a cent on silly luxuries or even overseas travel (good luck to those who can) but have some excellent properties and useful cash to pass on to our kids. In the meantime we can pay all our bills and enjoy retirement.
Resolve Poll:
Coalition receives primary vote boost in latest Resolve Strategic poll as majority of Australians say national outlook worsening (15 Jul)
I’m not entirely sure what they mean by “persistent crisis” but the punters don’t seem especially enthused by either of them.
Why a “smart energy trial”, at this stage?
This stuff’s in the bag, surely? The science is settled, we got our Forever Energy, welcome to the sunlit uplands and all that?
Just roll it out, coast to coast. Well done, have an elephant stamp, but enough posing you clever clogs, it’s winter and I’d like to be able to put the heater on without checking my dividend statements.
So, go on, I’ve scanned past the small print and clicked the box, time for youse to get all Smart Energy with my household habits via remote control- what could possibly go wrong!
Mak, nobody in their right mind should have these devices fitted. I notice they are being rolled out in rural communities where more conservative people live, not the inner cities where the luvvies will bitch about how useless the things are and possibly erode the lefty vote.
Beery, many thanks for posting Tim Blair.
That announcement would be like a starter’s pistol for all the women about to come forward rape claims against him. Until the announcement they will have had no idea who had raped them.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/amazing-footage-of-the-trump-shooter-crawling-on-the-roof-in-plain-view.html
I work among vocal far-left progressives, who all possess the rabid, frothing mental disease of TDS.
I think it was Sancho on Sunday who wrote a comment wondering just how quiet various workplaces across the West would be on Monday (yesterday).
Well, I can report that my workplace was unusually quiet yesterday. It was strange, odd, and bizarre just how shtum people were about the assassination attempt. Not a whisper or whimper about Trump, until about 12.30 p.m., and then the dam was broken when one of my colleagues, a male Guardian reading Teal voter but someone who, I’ve noticed, over the last few months is being slightly red-pilled about various issues, spoke up about the iconic picture of a bloodied Trump, surrounded by secret service men and women, his fist in the air, with the backdrop of Old Glory, yelling ‘fight, fight, fight’. My colleague commented about how he ‘didn’t like Trump’ (of course he’d say that) but that he found the scene of Trump, having survived the bullet, amazing.
The dam was broken and others started babbling, all saying how Trump was going to win the election prior to this but now the election is in the bag for him.. One young woman, someone I am pretty sure votes for the Nazi Greens, said….’oh no, how could anyone vote for him” to which I said “lots will vote for him, and I would vote for him if I could”. She went silent after that…and you know what? I felt free.
I think many dams were broken on Sunday, not just the big dam of TDS, but also dams of wokeness, of progressive bullshit, of years of lies, ridicule and smears. For far too long people on the right have remained quiet, shtum, scared in the face of progressive woke hyperbole and lies. Now, we all need to do a Trump, we need get up, find our shoes and speak up…….we need to ‘fight, fight, fight’.
Sky News Daytime is still wondering about “the motive”. What can it possibly be? Some point at the awful language of Biden and others, but they aren’t looking in the mirror and seeing the media’s role in this, which is major. Morning Joe is temporarily suspended, but when will others like Joy Reid get taken off the air. The damage is done.
New thoughts, the morning after the morning after tec-
The security complex around the Trumpster- from the FBI to SS to local police- is under question, rightly so, there will surely be rats in the ranks as Jesse Watters voiced.
But how many more will “quiet quit”? Especially at the lower ranks, ie police, security checkpoint guards- they will surely be thinking, holy cr*p things just got real, there are surely more jilted 20-y-o misfits who have been pushed or pulled into the range where they would be gunning for the ex President, it’s more than my pay grade to stand in their way, especially if I don’t have the protection of the inner circle, and that inner circle could well be working against the proper provision of our services?
And so they’d back off body searches, they’d take more sick days, they’d be mentally primed to duck for cover themselves instead of protecting and serving. They’d start to second-guess their own instincts and ignore their own training drills re intervention, and they’d be loath to draw any weapon for a noble act for fear that they would draw fire themselves- in this world and in the next.
Trump’s astonishing act of kindness for families of man killed and two others injured during Pennsylvania assassination attempt
Daily Mail. The Trump sponsored GoFundMe campaign has raised over four million dollars for the families of the men killed or wounded the other day.
And just like that … Quick as a flash, the MSM is going after J.D. Vance.
There’s a few that need this medication.
https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1812770390009098512?t=x4zOHGzoA_iOe3xlW3f1hw&s=19
Someone above posted a cip of a speech by a former US Border Patrol chief. What struck me was when he told then President Trump that South American countries were refusing to take back illegals like MS 13 gangsters, Trump acted. He phoned up the Presidents or whoever was in charge and told them that unless they took their spawn back, all US aid would be cut off.
Two days later, planeloads of them were on their way home.
Diplomats revel in making things complicated – just imagine the many reasons why they would have told Trump it was a bad idea.
Sometimes you need to put an axe through a Gordian knot.
Joe Hockey barely conceals some TDS. “He hates to lose” says Joe on Sky.
How about hating to lose the country you love?
I guess the planned parenthood/democrat scaremongering is just about the revenue from surgical abortions
https://x.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1812938790748758512?t=JtcINGCkcRILVpBzyxnxTA&s=19
A little factoid in the maelstrom of reaction, fear and violence on that podium.
He didn’t want to be led away in stockinged feet.
This is not just about courage. It’s about presence of mind and preservation of dignity. Acting like a boss.
Another reason to argue with opponents strongly, concisely, with rationality.
Andrew Fox deplores the J D Vance pick because he’s anti Israel.
Jake Shields going off because he’s pro Israel.
I’m sure someone must have mentioned the fact in the space of less than 2 weeks we’ve seen a leader of Australia snivelling about someone attacking him when he wasn’t arround and a hope to be leader once again, being shot, then getting to his feet with his fist raised in defiance. Compare the pair, one has a giant sized pair, the other none to be seen.
Reports last night that the Dimocrats are conceding a likely Trump victory.
What will the effect of Saturday’s events have on voting patterns?
Will it swing already leaning voters? Probably not many.
Will it motivate otherwise ambivalent voters to get out and vote for Trump? In significant numbers I think.
What it does do is throw the Dimocrat campaign strategy into turmoil. They suspended campaign advertising over the weekend “out of respect”.
Bullshit.
It was because the entire campaign was based on “Orange Man literally Hitler must be stopped at any cost”, which is not going to play well now.
What have they got now?
Run on The Sniffer’s record?
Please.
Or attack Trump’s policies?
Which only draws attention to Dementia Joe’s dismal record.
The perennial problem for second term campaigns if they throw in something new is “Well, why haven’t you done it already?”
They’ve got nowhere to go.
MSNBC and NBC pulled Morning Joe this morning too – they could not be sure that Joe or Mika, or one of their guests, would not utter some inanity that would make the network look really bad.
When my father-in-law was nearing the end of his working life he collected 50 cent coins* with which to buy a a beer in a pub in every town he and my mother-in-law would visit once he retired. A few years later he became seriously ill and those plans were never to be fulfilled.
Reflecting on his father’s unrealised dreams my husband decided that we should travel while we were still young and healthy and so we did. We travelled with our kids and when they were too old and too cool to come with us we continued without them.
There will still be money and property for the kids to inherit though not as much as there would have been if we didn’t travel. They have something even more precious than property and that is memories of our travels together which they mention fondly every so often.
*When my father-in-law realised he wouldn’t be able to travel again he wanted to give the 50 cent coin collection to my husband who said let’s spend it on drinks together, and they did.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neill, Monday:
‘Like a virus, populists are replicating at an exponential rate.’
She apparently hasn’t the gumption to ask “Why?”
Vance is pro-Israel. He has prayed at the Wall.
However, as important as USA support for Israel is, the most important thing is that Vance is pro-America. A strong America = a strong Israel = a strong West.
“Was reading comments on another site (*) whereby one commentator was saying that the left quickly repeat and take onboard whatever the party and media feed them, regardless of what they experience or see, when another commentator responded, “The thing about this is that you could piss on them, call it rain and they would believe you!” ‘Think I might hold that one for appropriate future use.
*https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/reminder-emma-hussar-is-still-not-quite-right.html#comments
They speak as if calling someone a populist is disparagement.
D J Trump’s pick of JD Vance is good in the fact of injecting some youth into the high level of government. He is going to be 40 in 2 weeks. How about that. Junior Senator last year. Highly potential VP next year.
the day dem messaging died
Tone deaf Clare O’Neill” “Populism!”
I’m hoping DJ Trump gets Milley out of retirement, strips him of rank and retirement benefits and charges him with treason, which he has already admitted conspiring with v the chinese. He can spend his retirement enjoying holiday camp Leavenworth. Sniffy Joe can’t pardon him for something he hasn’t been charged with. Besides he’s only a useful idiot.
Someone doing what the people want would seem to be what they are supposed to do.
The Dims seem more like a self-appointed elite class that deigns to rule the people because the people are too stupid to govern themselves. Hell, they are going to put that nefarious Trump in office if they aren’t stopped!
That there is also loads of money that comes their way is mere coincidence. It is after all what surely is due to such caring people.
The Only Thing They Have is Fear, and Fear Itself
The damage may have been done but the media still need to be stopped or changed so they don’t infect or damage a new generation coming up. How to do it without widespread censorship is the trick.
‘Slow on the uptake’ is my most notable characteristic, but even for me:
I have struggled twice through ‘Hillbillly Elegy’ without associating J D Vance with THE J D Vance.
Why read it twice. I can’t explain. At every second page you want to ditch it out of frustration at the dysfunctional, depressing characters who dominated his youth. Titillating it ain’t, unless you are a black depressive.
If THE J D Vance survived and thrived after that experience, he’ll do as VP.
Re Ms Rose’s tweet that Rosie linked:
GOP’s Newly Adopted Platform Leaves Abortion to States (Newsmax, 15 Jul)
That may be the general strategy to be pushed by Trump: everything possible be returned to local state authority. That might be an answer to the centralized deep state fascism, as well as being a way to reward states like Florida and Texas by removing stifling Federal regulations.
A read to spot the usual suspects and behold the area of Australia they will scavenge.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/huge-finance-deal-and-off-take-landed-for-one-of-australias-biggest-four-hour-battery-projects/
Now FBI staffer is in hot water over vile posts about Trump’s assassination attempt
Makes a point.
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1812840047923921260?t=2o6GEcWbY37f2hfSLTvH1Q&s=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZSqZ-L7KtI
At 0.26 seconds, behind the group of 4 poplars? lurks a ladder.
He didn’t need a boost from a second man, the height would have taken an acrobatic team to get him up there.
Who put the ladder there is the question to ask.
Yet they wonder why trust in government is so low.
I don’t know why travel is the evil that denies children their rightful inheritance
I don’t drink, smoke, gamble, spend a fortune on clothes, beauty treatments, entertainment or expensive hobbies.
No one wags the finger at parents who do any or all of those things.
I’m flying out tomorrow ?
It is disparagement in their eyes.
The ruling caste regards populists as incompetents without solutions*.
Physician, heal thyself!
*And a threat to their power.
Neocons very unhappy with Vance as VP.
Mother Lode, those voters are too stupid since they keep voting Dem no matter how horrendous the politicians become and the monstrous policies they put forward. Democrat politicians are aware of this as well and can safely despise their voters. The only thing that could change the Democrats is to lose a few election in succession, this would shed the worst of their officials and possibly usher in a saner generation of politicians on their side.
Amazing how things can change literally overnight.
Zelensky Suddenly Reverses, Says Russia Should Attend 2nd Ukraine Summit (16 Jul)
Biden Finally Gives RFK Jr. Secret Service Protection (16 Jul)
It’s a mystery!
Mother Lode
July 16, 2024 8:49 am
I would say some remaining adults have pulled him aside and told him to dial it back a bit.
Being a Proud J’ism Man, he was affronted at the attack on his J’ism independence.
Which he is probably one step away from practicing on his own blog.
As with all these cases, the advertisers will be running scared of a consumer backlash if their advert is wedged in between a Joe lunacy sandwich.
JD Vance is an Appalachian, of Scots-Irish descent. He is a true hillbilly.
The Scots-Irish laid the foundations of the Republic, they were the backbone that built America.
Vance grew up in a highly dysfunctional Appalachian family, a family beset by drug abuse and divorce, he is where he is today because of his grandparents. Vance understands the concerns of the poor, particularly the marginalised rural white poor.
Since the left love to obsess about ‘skin colour’, Vance’s beautiful wife is the dark-skinned daughter of Hindu American immigrants. Like Vance, she is a Yale graduate. Both are Catholic converts.
Vance and his wife represent everything that has made America great.
This is an interview with J.D.Vance from 2021. worth watching to get a feel of the guy. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/29/exclusive-marlow-sits-down-with-j-d-vance-talks-critical-race-theory-the-corporate-oligopoly-funding-maga-country/
Albo and Allan AA undertaking therapy by media for addiction to criminal union funding.
Grace Tame set to step down at charity; Yoni Bashan13 hours ago.
Updated 2 hours ago
Grace Tame will step down as the CEO of her charitable foundation amid a donor backlash over its questionable governance and a half-hearted leadership style that left a scattered strategy and produced few tangible results for sexual abuse survivors.
Grace Tame Foundation director Michael Salter has been making it known around town that Tame will soon cease in the position and recruitment efforts will begin to identify a successor.
Margin Call understands a job listing will be published soon.
Tame’s inexperience was evident to anyone who dealt with the foundation, its dysfunction well-known in philanthropic circles. Largely a side project between a book deal and speaking gigs, it overflowed with donor funding but largely duplicated the work of established peers.
Within two years it had seemingly run out of goals to pursue. Piles of money sat on its books and it had already achieved modest goals in reforming sexual assault legislation around the country. But the board, flush with cash and under pressure to spend it in meaningful ways, took an ill-advised turn and began funding counselling services and legal fees for sexual abuse survivors, cannibalising existing services and drastically diverging from the foundation’s original purpose.
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Donors were never told their money would be used in this way – on lawyers and counselling – and we know some benefactors were left furious about the lack of transparency.
More than half of the donated funds for FY23 – about $170,000 – were used to pay for counselling and legal costs, creating manifold problems in the process.
This column would go on to reveal that every dollar spent on legal services ($107,000) had been channelled into Marque Lawyers, whose managing director, Michael Bradley, sits on the Grace Tame Foundation board.
A perceived conflict of interest, this ought to have ended Bradley’s role as a director or seen his firm removed from the panel of legal providers.
We checked, however, and he’s still on the board, and our attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
The foundation didn’t respond when asked about these developments with Tame.
What never seemed to occur to Tame, or the foundation ’s leadership, is that funding survivors on a discretionary basis, in secret, would advantage a tiny group of people fortunate enough to be aware of the money.
Never mind the absolute lack of transparency around the decision-making – those who truly needed it wouldn’t even know it’s available.
All of which makes for a mess of an organisation which lost its way and is in desperate need of a reboot.
The great level of accurate comment recently is so good. Thankyou dover for allowing us. I hope one day to rise to the level of many of you. I’m too cynical, probably with good reason but my grandsons are changing that. How I love being a granddad. The world looks so much better through their eyes.