It might be quicker just to re-type your comment, Seza. I’m not sure if Lord Dover is a military history…
Open Thread – Thurs 18 July 2024
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Paywallian lead story: ‘Stain on our national fabric’: Dutton, Marles join chorus of condemnation for dawn service booing ? Dutton:…
At the moment most aircraft carriers cannot use the canal as they are too large to fit in the locks.…
I don’t have that control, Winston! It’s all good, though.
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Should be returned to 21, and the property qualifications restored.
You are saying that the people who are blocked from owning property by government policies, such as immigration and regulation, should not be able to vote against it.
You are also saying that old people in retirement villages/nursing homes, or who live with their families, should not be able to vote, because they are not ‘property owners.’
Ain’t gonna happen, nor should it.
Give yourself an uppercut for a simultaneously bad and unachievable ‘idea’
. 🙂
Bingo!
Authoritarian and thin skinned.
Too quick by far to call for the lawyers when things aren’t on her side.
The uniparty abides…
https://x.com/AmboRudd/status/1813691340238336448
Warning, contains not one, but 2 polly-ticks.
aaaargh! eye bleach!
Victoria is Australia’s capital of thuggery and buggery!
I love the wearing of ear bandages at the RNC. Brilliant. Tim Blair had one tonight on SKY.
I found a clip yesterday of muntsac, when he’d been unzipped from his gimp suit for his one hour a day of vitamin D exposure, decrying the size of the patch on Donald Trump’s ear.
There was no love for the gimp in the comments. haw!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ylWS1ivWg
The young Leak:
But when Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi claimed Leak’s cartoon depiction of her was racist and would cost her votes at the next election, he recognised something else in her accusations.
Not just a politician with a thin skin but a disturbing sign of a growing intolerance to criticism and strong debate about difficult subjects.
“I think there was a big element of deliberate misunderstanding, it’s sort of confected outrage. “They deliberately misunderstand the meaning and the motivation behind a cartoon and they say, well, it’s simply racist, because some people might be offended. The priority for a cartoonist should never be ‘oh dear, I might upset somebody’.
“I think it highlights a very practised sense of victimhood, deeply ingrained and well rehearsed. It’s symptomatic of the sort of woke mindset which is: oppressors/oppressed, victims/oppressors; and she has almost reflexively turned herself the victim of some sort of unfair attack.
“This is the way these games are played these days by people who don’t understand that satire and the tradition of ridiculing politicians, is a way of making robust commentary about the affairs of the day.”
Well said, “a practised sense of victimhood”, yep, see it all the time.
It would be well for our politicians to recognise that and not fall into the trap on tolerating such intolerence or rewarding it
Tony Abbott, and so many Liberal politicians fall for this and end up trying to make them “happy”, make no one happy and let down the very people who elect them to represent their views and not acquiese to the views of manipulators.
Offend them I say, like Leak, good, hard and often!
“Offence” is never “given”; only TAKEN.
Titus Groates
July 18, 2024 1:15 pm
On the first part of the equation there is no choice. The Constitution stipulates that, if the President dies, resigns or is removed, the Veep becomes President.
The party could the select another candidate.
Which would make Kamal-toe the lamest of lame ducks
And “Pincushion Joe’ is now parading the “fact” that he has Kovid!
“Doctor’ Jill might have slipped up.a little.
Ta, Sanch. I just thought it might be a way to salve the ego of the ridiculous woman, rather like Selina Meyer in VEEP.
I suspect he will step down as candidate but not President.Bit of a conundrum there he is either fit to serve or he isn’t.
If not he should step down now.No way is that happening.
Given there is only one company in the world which makes the most advanced chip lithography equipment in the world, one the new fabs being built in the US MUST use, and it is Dutch, this could be a foot meet bullet policy if that company refuses to sell to the US.
I’m OK with the US invading Holland.
Like Germany and Japan?
‘Chills’: Sky News host reacts to computer model showing how close Trump was to death
‘It just sickens me’: Douglas Murray slams the Secret Service’s DEI quota
Nigel Farage delivers his verdict on Labour’s King’s Speech with one damning sentence
As I said I will wait a few days.
I have now read and watched as many references to the Trump assassination attempt as time permitted and came a conclusion.
It was clearly organised by using incompetence, deliberate disorganisation if not outright orders.
That the perp was instructed, encouraged or not is unclear and we will never know, but he was certainly allowed to do the dead.
In time I may be proven wrong.
Zippy, thank you for all the links to the RNC speeches today, I saw a few live but it will be nice to catch up with the rest later. What a day !!!!
They can certainly tax it.
And they will, particularly the middle class.
Hello Vicki and everyone else.
Check this out when you can. Perhaps watch in segments. It goes for over an hour. It’s all about synthetic venoms used in drugs, foods, cosmetics etc.
The reasearch by Ardis is meticulous.
The Dr. Ardis Show | The Venom Industrial Complex | Episode 07.17.2024
In this week’s episode of The Dr. Ardis Show, Dr. Bryan Ardis presents a groundbreaking topic titled “The Venom Industrial Complex.” Dr. Ardis is excited to share this comprehensive presentation, which was previously only partially revealed at the Red Pill Expo in South Dakota alongside G. Edward Griffin. For the first time, he unveils the full extent of his findings to the general audience.
https://rumble.com/v57af99-the-dr.-ardis-show-the-venom-industrial-complex-episode-07.17.2024.html
Vicki
July 18, 2024 4:00 pm
Re: Biden’s obvious cognitive decline –
I habitually check out medical opinion on Covid/vaccines/Long Covid. Although conventional medical research is slowly waking to the serious adverse effects of the mRNA vaccines (slow, because the journals are considerably funded by Big Pharma), more and more articles are appearing identifying cognitive decline caused by the virus. Now, of course, this will very likely be accelerated by the activated spike production in the vaccines.
(although – as an aside – I actually think spikopathy in the unvaccinated, but Covid infected, is quite likely.)
But, to return to old Biden – I imagine that he will have been “jabbed” quite regularly- so that accelerated dementia might likely to have been generated.
One of the saddest events for me has been an old friend whose dementia rocketed after the Covid inoculation. The worst thing was her sad assertion that “it got worse after the vaccine”……
Incidentally, although I remain unvaccinated (as many here know) I have had Covid twice & every time I forget someone’s name I get the shivers!!!!
Thanks Steve. Yes, I am familiar with Ardis’s work.
President Biden trails “nearly every” Democrat tested as an alternative party leader with voters — including Vice President Kamala Harris — in seven critical battleground states, according to a disastrous new poll.
Hmmm. Biden announced that he would quit the race if only he had medical issues and an hour or so later they tell us he has caught covid… somehow.
Wonder if he is petty enough to announce he is dropping out today to try to upstage Trump accepting the nomination tonight.
well well well, if this is true….
Looks like a slight swing in that direction, but probably not seriously taken up. Enough for him to go mental about it though and go for Trump. Family background sounds right for it. Libertarian counsellor dad, teacher mum. Loner child.
If the photograph is real, that is.
@MikeBenzCyber
Alphabet agencies. Definitely part of the problem.
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn
chased Kim Cheatle, the Director of @SecretService
out of the RNC Convention tonight when Cheatle showed up!
What was she doing there anyway?
US Senators screamed at Cheatle and told her “you can run, but you can’t hide!”
The RNC trotting out Kai Trump was in my view wrong in every imaginable way.
There have been enough ‘soapy’ moments during the RNC but a sugary school kid cameo belittles the serious contributions made by others during the event. It is the kind of crap that you would expect from the Dems.
Political dynasties are never acceptable.
Kai Trump will excel. Only 17 right now but already there are the signs.
Americans love schmaltz the way the Poms love pomp and lining up. I think it is cultural.
Doesn’t really worry me tbh
The Australian‘s latest online lead story (they change every few hours during the day) features Johannes Leak’s defence of his brilliant cartoon lampooning precious Green hypocrite Mehreen Faruqi.
But tellingly, reader comments aren’t open because The Australian is at war with its Green-voting journalism school staff, who hate Australia’s democracy and free speech
If the story was open to comments, The Australian‘s junior staff moderators would ban almost all of them because they don’t like the readership they’re supposed to be writing for.
99% of Australian journalists are political radicals who hate Australian voters because they don’t think like them.
I have a different view, bons.
I thought she was lovely, especially the talk about golf. She also touched on the court cases, the details of which were as sordid as you can get. Then I put my cynical thinking cap on and started comparing Trump’s granddaughter to the unacknowledged Biden one. Which led to a comparison of the two families.
And there’s no comparison at all. They’re chalk and cheese.
Therein lies the usefulness of family, especially a wholesome, articulate, united one.
Fair nuff. We disagree.
I know somewhere in my cache of coding is the recipe to blow you a kiss, bons! We’ll shake hands instead.
Stay clear of sloping roofs!
Why wasn’t the old filthbot wearing a mask?
Surely Dr Fauci told him to wear one once he tested positive. 😀
I doubt he would have got up those stairs to the plane had he been wearing one!
What “good” would wearing a mask do?
Perhaps, as Fauci suggested, he should wear two, or three, or …….
good boy. fight fight fight joe
I don’t claim to be a prophet…but I’m getting a vision of our young would-be journalists’ futures…and in this vision, the line “Would you like to upgrade that to a meal deal” features repeatedly.
Unlikely. The first words that AI learned were “fries with that?”
I thought the essays of Chris Uhlmann & Paul Kelly in the special 60 years Edition of the Australian were outstanding.
Kai might be filler- but it was worth it to see unguarded contentment on the God Emperor’s face. All the tension melted away, he looked twenty years younger- i’d believe her appearance was unknown to P45.
Don’t know if anyone heard Twiggy Forrest speaking to Sarah Ferguson tonight about his abandonment of the Green Hydrogen project. Honestly, his speech was garbled. Didn’t make sense. Weird.
Twiggy needs to gather up the true believers and relocate to a South American jungle.
Because the previous try, in Paraguay, went so well.
Exactly.
Did it touch on “I’ve had to give up on OPM, you don’t know how hard it is”.
I don’t live in Victoria, relatives do and sent me a note about water reservoirs, knowing I’m interested.
Removing or destroying them is criminal in my mind, unless they pose danger.
Beaconsfield-reservoir
These are no danger to anyone.
Contrary, they are useful reserves of water and recreational assets.
We knew who J.D. Vance is.
So many didn’t, because they were not really paying attention, or not watching the news sources that tell something approximating the truth.
The Cafe was today blessed by the installation of a Smart Meter.
So tradie with ute turned up. I looked into the back of his ute and there were a bunch of old electricity meters so I went to say hi. But he was on his phone. So withdrew.
Couple minutes he emerges. “You have a new meter for me?” says I. “Yes” says he.
At this point in our conversation a rainbow lorikeet lands on my left shoulder. I did not say “arrr”.
“They’re very friendly”, he observes. I agreed, and I says “it’s my hobby”. Several other Cafe birdies are watching this as well, from the fence and the trees. Then we go and see my meter box. He gets to work.
That was a great time for me to decamp and buy Coles mince and bread, so that’s what I did. When I returned the new Smart Meter was in place and humming happily to itself, and the tradie had gone. I decided I would submit to this indignity rather than flag myself as a recalcitrant. I can afford it. And maybe the tradie had a nice encounter.
Smart meter will save you money – right up until it doesn’t. Within 5 years electricity pricing will be about as comparable as mobile phone plans.
Trouble is Bruce that now they have your measure, literally. How much you are using and how easily then can cut you off if they are so minded. Anyway, done now, so I hope for a while it helps with your bills.
Why the Fooking hell did you allow it?
All set for your brownouts and rationing then? After all, we are all in this together right?
I’ve been watching shorts of the RNC. I liked the appearance of Kai Trump, I thought her very pretty, sweet and eloquent. It’s America, they love da schmaltz. And why shouldn’t President Trump’s children and grandchildren speak? They’re clean cut and decent, unlike the Sniffer’s sprog, who’s a crack head and who impregnated a woman and has refused to acknowledge the child.
The appearance of Omer Neutra’s parents made me cry.
BRING THEM HOME.
Faarkin funny.
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Kill Tony:
Shane Gillis, Adam Ray, William Montgomery, Casey Rocket, Kam Patterson, Hans Kim, D Madness, Michael A. Gonzales, Jon Deas, Matthew Muehling, Joe White, Kristie Nova, Yoni, Kino Loasis, Tony Hinchcliffe, Brian Redban – 07/08/2024
DONALD TRUMP (SHANE GILLIS) + JOE BIDEN (ADAM RAY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHR4ug866Q
RNC speech: Jewish Harvard student Shabbos Kestenbaum on antisemitism on campus, support for Trump
Does Joe the Sniffer have Covid?
Maybe, maybe not. I think he wants to be in hiding, like he was in 2020. It worked a treat then, but I’m not sure it’s gonna work in 2024.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/well-done-on-the-donkey.html
Spared the most intelligent member of the Hamas cell…
I’m fairly sure the donkey didn’t break stride. Is that a second donkey in front? It’s a bit difficult to tell with the white out and shadows.
A thing of beauty, was that Senator Farque on the back left, couldn’t quite tell?
Don’t read much fiction these days, but Robert Harris’s novel “Munich” would be the best I’ve read in some time.\
Munich, 1938.Hitler is determined to start a war- Neville Chamberlain is desperate to keep the peace. There was an anti – Hitler resistance… good reading.
Postcard from Romania
Mrs TE writes:
“We’re going on a Bear Hunt”…
The Transf?g?r??an or DN7C is a paved mountain road crossing the southern section of the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. The second-highest paved road in the county up to 2000m, it was built in the early 1970s as a strategic military route by the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, the former communist leader of Romania, who feared the Russians after their invasion of Czechoslavakia.
A great driving road according to the TV program Top Gear. They liked the hundreds of corners, scintillating views as you ascend or descend, the remote location – slap, bang in the middle of nowhere. They brought in three supercars a few years back to test it out: a Ferrari, a Lamborgini, and an Aston Martin. We found the program online and watched it – very good.
We found the drive however to be a hard, bumpy road in the back of a 9-seater van, some experiencing queasiness. Apparently it is only recommended in July and August, when there is no avalanche risk. At a brisk pace, it takes 4-5 hours. Unfortunately, our tour day was school holidays and a Sunday – it was chock-a-block.
However, it is THE place to see brown bears and their cubs. 6000 in the country. We saw 6 on our drive, just on the side of the road. Their appearance led to chaos – cars stopping anywhere on the road to see. They can be dangerous – even a recent pair of human fatalities. There were “bear alerts” coming through on all our phones constantly.
At the end of the road there are some beautiful lakes – lovely reflections. Also gorgeous wild flowers. Lots of people were camping – I think above the forest line, otherwise you’d be worried about bears. There were also thousands of locals and tourists lolling about in the grass, picnicking, kids running up and down mountains, hundreds of stalls selling meat and cheese, the hotels/restaurants making a fortune charging you to use their toilets (no public), car parks jammed full etc. We were told to get out in the middle of a tunnel and walk through because there was a traffic jam.
We also saw the REAL Dracula castle belonging to Vlad the Impaler – no it is not Bram Castle in Transylvania (long story – look it up), waterfalls, an impressive dam, lovely pyramid haystacks, old farmhouses, productive farmland (wheat, sunflowers, crops). It was a 12 hour tour.
Another country I’d like to see, TE, so thanks to your both for your update on it. Walking out of a tunnel – my nightmare. Glad it was you not me. And old-fashioned haystacks. That sounds nice.
That is the difference.
Particularly when comparing the Bidens with someone like Vance.
He genuinely embraces his upbringing as something which has made him what he is. He doesn’t manufacture or re-invent his past. He owns it. Great to see his mother there, having been off the juice for ten years.
Anyone who has had challenges in their life (almost everyone) can identify with that unsanitised truth.
I’ve been watching too much rnc today. It’s given me the ‘God bless America ‘ earworm.
Could be a lot worse.
Senior NSW cop committed ‘serious misconduct’ in ditching crashed car after alleged 20-drink sessionBlair Jackson and Aisling BrennanNewsWire
Thu, 18 July 2024 4:59PM
A NSW police inspector deliberately left the scene after crashing his work car in an alleged high-range drink driving incident which amounts to ‘serious misconduct’, the police watchdog has found.
The inspector had crashed their unmarked car into a concrete barrier in Sydney’s NorthConnex tunnel in May 2023.
Prior to the crash, he was allegedly seen on CCTV drinking at least 13 beers and eight spirit drinks and dancing drunk in a McDonald’s, a report released by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) found.
The officer holds a “prestigious” posting in the force’s leadership team, and allegedly ditched the badly damaged car in a nearby street.
The watchdog commission report says AB “deliberately left the scene” of the crash “to avoid being breath tested”.
AB was also “deliberately dishonest in his answers on the insurance claim form for the car he crashed”, the report found.
This used to be part of the qualifications for promotion in the police force, what happened?
Should have been ‘God bless the USA’. Can hear it in my head on rotation.
Eric Trump: Shooting changed dad’s ‘outlook on life, message’ | RNC Night 3
Talking to one of the pack of hyenas that has created the dehumanisation and atmosphere of hatred around President Trump. He should have reminded the slug of his part in that.
@Tom Agree that the moderator decisions at the Oz are often outrageous
However RE the Faruqi item, I noticed that the paper never allows reader comments when the story is about some legal matter
Anecdote O clock
Chatting with a pom on site today and he mentioned he met 3 Ukranian chaps on the train and asked them why they weren’t fighting for their country as a wind up…
They were scornfully of the idea.
Apparently they saw no reason to fight for a country where, as they put it, pretty well everything was owned by foreigners and they would be lucky to be on $150 a month working full time.
No idea how self serving or accurate that is, but he was convinced they were quite genuine in their despising of their ruling class over there.
Ukraine is a brothel for wealthy Russians
“We can’t do our jobs because it might help Trump”
“Dangerous” to who exactly?
DemonRats and the MSM (BIRM).
From the Oz …
Never underestimate the wrath of career Congressman who are about to be unseated.
We are now in ‘save the furniture’ mode.
They have pretty much given up on the Presidential race because Biden is cactus, and no-one with half decent claims on the candidacy (e.g. Newsome) is going to throw their hat in the ring this time around.
Objective 1 – Try to hold the Senate at 50:50.
Objective 2 – stem the bleeding in the House.
Ann Coulter born again moist for Trump due to Veep pick and fist pump assassination reaction.
Hell, even Cenk Uyghur got a little moist over Trump these last few days.
Thanks for the purgative Arky…
I’m prouder of the above combination of words than anything I have ever written in the past.
Other reports have made clear his anti-Trumpism.
I sense a “narrative” being crafted.
I know there are some here who don’t believe in the divine. I respect that.
However I do believe in the divine. Tonight I again watched footage of the assassination attempt on President Trump and I am convinced he was spared death because of divine intervention. It is a miracle.
You’ve definitely got a case.
I respectfully disagree, a divine being would not kill an innocent to save someone else. Either he/she/it is incompetent or doesn’t care.
Bad dude that one.
Ah the old ‘why does god let bad things happen to the innocent’ connundrum
I’m having trouble hanging onto my ‘Agnostic’ label.
While we are dithering about nuclear, other places are racing ahead.
Takes time sure, but if you don’t start you never finish
Hungary already has a working plant, don’t know how long they had it, but now expanding it twofold.
reminds me of the big shorts on airlines before 9/11
someone knew
They have put out a release saying the 12 million was a typo.More like 200.
Jim Rickards writes about this sort of ‘Financial intelligence’ as a pointer to future events
if the shooter was really trans they it will be buried faster than hunters laptop
This incident has sparked widespread speculation and discussion on social media, with many users questioning the timing and motives behind the alleged short position.
I hope they lost their shirts. Also their pants.
Anyone shorting $DJT last week has their nostrils well under the waterline.
Bumping along at around $30 last week.
Jumped to about $36 on Monday and holding.
Then there was a mensch.
Hope we have them today.
IIRC, Astor’s valet also chose not to board a lifeboat.
Not only the millionaires had moral principles and courage.
Interestingly, four extremely wealthy passengers aboard Titanic, were strongly opposed to the creation of the US Federal Reserve Bank.
Just saying, …..
Damn!
Out for dinner tonight with a bunch of people when someone over the other side of the table trotted out “Trump will make himself President for life”.
I say, “No, two term limit in the Constitution” but then realised I had no idea what the mechanism is to amend the Constitution.
Cheat sheet for future such discussions …
So, with numbers split roughly 50:50 in both houses, the Democrats would have to lose bigly for the 2/3 congressional majority to come into play, nor allowing that many Republicans wouldn’t support the change anyway. And then you have to roll up 38 of the 50 state legislatures.
The punchline … if Constitutional amendments were such a walk in the park, why didn’t Obama or Clinton bin the Second Amendment?
Lead story on ALPBC News was Twiggy’s green hydrogen fairy tale and 700 redundancies. Used a stock photo of Blackout Bowen and a one para lift from the media release. The entire clown Cabinet has been put in the deep freeze. Anyone remember the last media from Plibbers, Burqa – any of them? It’s no accident.
JILL BIDEN IS BEHIND IT ALL ?? MattWallace
Trump not out of the woods yet
Veep Speech – like watching a young Bobby Kennedy in the making.
Extraordinary and powerful stuff. Ask not what your country can do for you etc… implied, by the heroic life story of this representative of a rising generation.
Rags to riches? Yes, that plays well with me. And will with so many others.
ooops. I meant John F Kennedy not Bobby.
Polish MEP Flames Von Der Liar in the European Parliament.
“You should be in jail”
Oooooh. She’s quite the package.
Look at the smirk on dopey von der leyen’s face. What an evil imbecile.
Nein Ai headline writebot has also lamented that carbon climate atonement is “threated” by something something run out of money something.
Wow! I don’t know what else to say.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/04/triggering-thoughts-of-tyranny-in-wa/
Beyond this, Bruce, the rules can only mean one thing – the Government is determined to disarm and make defenceless, the people.
Zippster
July 18, 2024 11:23 pm
The bl…y lot of them should be and they know it.
That’s why they never relinquish power willingly, same as as the Dems in the US.
Bruce in WA
July 18, 2024 11:46 pm
Sobering thoughts, but naught we can do about it.
The mindset of the WA police is a strange one.
Wonder where it’s coming from?
Ideology, Kevin. Those that wish to enslave their citizens must first disarm them.
Unfortunately this leaves the people one source of supply. The criminal one.
So as usual, regulation only benefits the criminal class and the criminal politicians – BIRM.
Another bit of trivia I don’t understand;
“Although there aren’t many of them, there are tribes of people around the world (such as those found deep in the Amazon forest) that are considered “anumeric”. They don’t have words for numeric concepts beyond things like “one,” “a few,” or “some,” and, as a result, they struggle to differentiate and recall quantities as low as four.”
How come?
They should be able to count at least to the number of digits on their hands and feet..
Johannes Leak.
I am awed.
Bill must be smiling proudly.
For those who may be unaware of the references:
Firstly to the explosion of the Hindenburg zeppelin.
In 1937, the Hindenburg zeppelin, which had a layer of hydrogen inside its outer skin, caught fire and blew up while landing in New Jersey. About a third of its 97 passengers died, and many were injured.
Second reference, the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1969 debut album. They used a tone drop out (polarising the tones into black and white) of a famous image of the explosion as the cover of the album, which became one of the best selling records of all time.
The name ‘Led Zeppelin’ is a play on the lightest and heavy metals. Very apposite of the music.
So now you know. Looks like Bill had the album is his collection, and clever son took notice.
I thought the name came from Keith Moon proclaiming the band would go down like a lead balloon?
Oh, the humanity!
Leak Jr. just gets better and better.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
Paywallion:
Johannes Leak returns fire over Mehreen Faruqi defamation threat
Steven Rice
18 Jul 2024
The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.
Extracts from a letter The Australian’s lawyers sent to Senator Faruqi’s lawyer on Wednesday
Our client is surprised and bemused that your client is threatening legal action given her comments can only be understood to mean that the barbaric Hamas regime, a listed terrorist group and the perpetrators of the October 7 atrocity, has some legitimacy if it is supported by the Palestinian people.
Your client is a sitting Senator and deputy leader of a major political party. She has positioned herself as a spokesperson on issues relating to the Israel / Palestine conflict. She has wilfully put herself at the centre of debate on these issues and she has courted media attention in order to engage in that debate.
Your client must be aware that her views are controversial and that they will elicit strong responses from people and organisations who hold opposing views.
In any event, our client has unimpeachable defences to the publication of the cartoon your client complains about.
The fact is, your client willingly participated in an interview on a national political program to answer questions about the Israel / Palestine conflict. She was plainly prepared to answer questions on that topic. During the interview she agreed that Hamas should remain a designated terrorist organisation in Australia. Despite that, she refused to categorically condemn Hamas and say that it should be dismantled.
Nice.
Do NOT apologise and do NOT back down.
I can post the entire piece if anyone is interested.
Ps: It is brilliant to see the employer back up the employee over this sort of garbage.
I can post the entire piece if anyone is interested.
Please!
Beertruk @ 04:28am.
Yep, good to see the Oz backing Leak against the fat Paki.
And in his ‘toon today he beautifully nails the trio – Twiggy, Luigi and Blackout.
Wow, Leak’s cartoon covers all bases, the bailing carpetbagger with his suitcases full of grift, the hose-monster in Y-fronts burning more hard-earned taxpayer money, and helicopter-hated popinjay pedalling his way to nowhere- superb
Everything except the lettuce
Just think of the amount of public money flushed down the toilet going right back to hoWARd’s RET.
Are you trying to make me depressed? Not one cent of benefit. Top men.
It is depressing. Better to be angry but in a focused way
Top Ender
July 19, 2024 5:19 am
Here you go Top Ender:
Paywallion:
Johannes Leak returns fire over Mehreen Faruqi defamation threat
Steven Rice
13 hours ago.
Updated 9 hours ago
Johannes Leak was shocked this week to discover himself, for the first time, on the end of a legal threat to sue for defamation – and a demand to withdraw a cartoon.
Shocked but not entirely surprised.
The cartoonist has skewered many politicians in the past, but when Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi claimed his cartoon depiction of her was racist and would cost her votes at the next election, he recognised something else in her accusations.
Not just a politician with a thin skin but a disturbing sign of a growing intolerance to criticism and strong debate about difficult subjects.
“I think there was a big element of deliberate misunderstanding; it’s sort of confected outrage,” he said.
“They deliberately misunderstand the meaning and motivation behind a cartoon and say, ‘Well, it’s simply racist’, because some people might be offended.
“The priority for a cartoonist should never be ‘Oh dear, I might upset somebody’.
“I think it highlights a very practised sense of victimhood, deeply ingrained and well rehearsed. It’s symptomatic of the sort of woke mindset which is: oppressors/oppressed, victims/oppressors; and she has almost reflexively turned herself into the victim of some unfair attack.
“This is the way these games are played these days by people who don’t understand that satire and the tradition of ridiculing politicians is a way of making robust commentary on affairs of the day.”
Leak’s cartoon portrayed Senator Faruqi wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ”October 7” while saying “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint …”
The cartoon followed her repeated refusals on the ABC’s Insiders program to call for the terror group to be dismantled, saying that was up to the Palestinian people to decide.
The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.
“The mere fact she got her nose out of joint about it means that her impulse is to cry racism and ring the lawyers – that’s the new game,” Leak says.
“I’ve done some really insulting and offensive cartoons about lots of people and they don’t ring the lawyers straightaway. So I think there’s an authoritarian impulse under the surface that says: everything that I don’t like, or that I disagree with, must be basically airbrushed and whitewashed out of existence.”
Senator Faruqi’s claim that the cartoon was “racist” – an allegation for which neither she nor her lawyers provided evidence – has left him even more perplexed.
“I’m just left scratching my head about that because I’ve given her the same kind of caricature, the same treatment, that I give every public figure.
“And she’s given no explanation as to how it was racist – unless she believes that to be portrayed in any negative light amounts to racism.
“She’s a sitting member of the Senate and being a woman of colour does not make her above criticism, and it does not turn every cartoon about her into an act of racism.
“I’m sure there are plenty of people who think that it would be great if the only people that could be lampooned were old, straight, white men, but everybody is on the receiving end of satire now and again if they’re in politics – it’s part of the game. She is a public figure.”
Correspondence between Faruqi and The Australian:
Extracts from a letter Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi’s lawyer sent to The Australian on July 11
Extracts from a letter The Australian’s lawyers sent to Senator Faruqi’s lawyer on Wednesday
The threat of legal action over the cartoon brought back memories for Leak of the time, eight years ago, when his late father, Bill Leak, came under sustained attack from some quarters over a cartoon highlighting parental neglect in Aboriginal communities.
“It’s a sad sort of reflection of where we are now, where the impulse is to silence and censor things that people just don’t like and to throw allegations of racism around so freely and so willingly. Yes, there’s definitely parallels there. But as a cartoonist, you’ve got to stand by what you do.”
And Leak does stand by this cartoon, as his father did in the face of an attempt to bring him before the Human Rights Commission on allegations of racial vilification.
“He didn’t apologise and I don’t think you should, if you’ve done nothing wrong.
“And when you believe, like he did, that he was only doing his job.
“And in the case of that particular cartoon, probe a bit deeper, bring the essential truth to light, no matter how tough and unpalatable that might have been for people, he knew that that’s the job of a cartoonist.
“If I felt that I had really let myself and my standards down and done something I thought deep down was wrong or smacked of any sort of racism or bigotry, then that would be a cause for me of course to apologise.
“But I am careful and I am considered and while it might look like my cartoons are a bit tough, there’s a lot of thought behind them.”
Leak is encouraged by the support he’s received from many fellow cartoonists, but aware others will take a stand against him along culture war lines rather than stand up against an attack on all who practise journalism.
“The cartooning community these days is quite polarised, like everything in the media landscape. I have no doubt there will be cartoonists who will take the absolute opposite side to me on this.”
There’s an obvious danger in that stance, he points out.
“They might be coming for me now, but they could be coming for anybody if suddenly there are restrictions and red lines drawn up around what we can and can’t say or comment on.
“It’s dangerous for free speech, and it’s dangerous for a free press.”
A lot of the veggies in this clip containe nicotine.
Egg plant has a huge concentration. Did you know that? It’s not a fault if you didn’t. Things we learn.
The next time you crunch on Celery… trace amounts.
H/t Dr Ardis.
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Wilderness Cooking:
Cooking Homemade Cured Meat by Ancient Techniques! 1000 Hours Lamb Meat Cured in Salt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSom3_RsRRA
Do NOT apologise and do NOT back down.
Yes, words to live by. Part of the reason we’re in this mess is because too often too many conservatives, right-wingers and libertarians over the last decade have apologised, capitulated and backed down.
We are in a war, either we fight or we don’t.
Johannes Leak watched how the progressive Islamist left went after his late father in order to silence him Johannes is a rock solid conservative, he will not apologise and he will not back down.
Fatso Faruqi the Jew Hater wants to silence Leak because his cartoons hit the target, and she doesn’t like that. The fat Jew hating senator is a sinister Islamist totalitarian with zero sense of humour but there isn’t much humour in Islam, as Ayatollah Khomeini once said…
‘There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.’
The biggest problem is that the kids blow up so young.
I prefer ‘Kooky Faruqi’
Climate denial has infected the Pommy legal system
according to some green grifter.
The NSW branch of the CFMEU is defiant:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-18/nsw-cfmeu-social-media-video-labor-construction/104114762
After more front-page allegations were published in the Nine newspapers on Tuesday, both the premier and prime minister said they would push to have an independent administrator appointed to run the union’s construction division.
However, NSW president of the CFMEU’s construction division, Rita Mallia, said the union would oppose that move and “defend the union’s position”.
“It’s an unjustified, knee-jerk reaction to untested and baseless allegations coming out of a media story.”
Ms Mallia refused to speak about the specifics of the allegations levelled at both Darren and Michael Greenfield, but said the rank-and-file members supported them.
“We have every confidence that our current leaders in New South Wales will be vindicated and that they are innocent of these matters.
“They’ll get their day in court and they ought to be given that opportunity, like every other person in New South Wales, to do so.”
She said the Instagram video was the beginning of a campaign against what she said was an “attack.”
Rita Mallia? Now, there’s a blast from the past.
I seem to remember her from the Royal Commission, where she was one of those who took one for the team. Something to do with a superannuation fund? She was up to her neck in terminalogical inexactitudes and omissions to cover up for da bruvvas.
Thanks to Turnbuckle, who was obsessed with himself rather than good government, numerous potential prosecutions were never followed up. One of his worst stuff-ups, in a big field.
Looks like she has prospered, and the spots have done what leopard spots tend to do.
Dover, comment posted a few minutes ago ‘awaiting for approval’ (ugh!) for no apparent reason.
TIA
The Magic Negro has tapped the Sniffer on the shoulder and told him it’s time to go.
You gotta laugh.
oopa. Comparator I suggested for JD Vance is John F Kennedy, not Bobby Kennedy. And not in political affiliation of course but in youthfulness and intensity of patriotism.
she is being vilified because she is an *sshole
we are in war with pure evil
Imagine if he mistook the nuclear launch button on his desk for the “I want more ice cream and a child to sniff” one.
Sentenced to 5 years? Now that’s more like it considering the damage those people have done. D’ya suppose our courts might get around to doing the same with the people obstructing ships and trains here in Newcastle? They’ve cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.
That arsehole Senator David Poocock. Judge got out the limp lettuce leaf. Luigi the Unbelievable saw how effective it was and commandeered it for himself.
Ahahaha! Johannes read my mind (and likely many others)!
Yesterday I was going to make a meme of the iconic disaster photo, but time got away.
Young Master Leak has added Bowen and Forrest and bags of money, so he wins by a country mile. 😀
Johanna in a nested comment on the Leak cartoon:
It is a brilliant cartoon, but my first thought was: one-term Albo.
Yep. Just can’t see how he can survive, even as a minority government.
Twiggy is now an object of ridicule – which he probably always should have been. FMG was Twiggy’s Ozemail. Having sprayed hundreds of millions around the planet, even the rump will be a sizeable lump.
Humphrey, I love the Ozemail analogy.
Twiggy Forrest is a grifter who got rich quick as a Perth stockbroker who founded — and was ousted — as Anaconda Nickel CEO before he realised he could get rich quicker selling iron ore to the communist Chinese by building a railway from his Pilbara mine to Port Hedland via Fortescue Metals Group.
But that wasn’t enough for Twiggy: he wanted to be King of the Cool Kids and sold the dumbos of the Australian left the fantasy of “Green hydrogen”, which they lapped up like zombies.
Like Musk’s electric cars, it was always destined to go out of fashion with the cool kids when the realised he was just another get-rich-quick capitalist who sucked them in — which is where we’re at now.
I’m at a bit of a loss, here.
So, I know what a “short” is, now I’m ejucatin’ meself about what a “put option” is-
-but do “shorts” even exist without a “put option”? Is there another legal contract underwriting a short position? Surely the issuer of a put option contract is the party with a share price fall in mind?
-I haven’t seen the Margot Robbie bath thing, but I have seen the Ryan Gosling routine. File under Hollywood Propaganda, disingenuous at best.
You can borrow shares and sell them to create the short position.
Bob Newhart: Legendary Comedian Dies Age 94
Professor Proton!
One of my favourites. Vale.
Leak Senior was not only lawfared by disgruntled muslims, but also by Gillian Triggs and the Human Rights Commission. The buggers hounded him to death.
All over a cartoon depicting an indigenous policeman questioning a delinquent parent about his child. In other words, Leak’s cartoon resonated with the truth of much of indigenous youth crime, a truth no one wanted to acknowledge.
He returned fire with this…
Summed it up perfectly calli.
Bob Newhart.
Smart humour from a most unlikely comedian. Lots of Irish blood and it shows in his highlighting the absurd in normal life.
Cultural enrichment news.
Leeds streets in flames after violent thugs spark chaos and hurl bricks at police (18 Jul)
I don’t know what it was that set them off, but it is something that Minns, Albo and Burke should be very cautious about. The people of no describable ethnicity are particularly volatile right now.
I brought some car parts from Mohammed from Leeds years ago on Ebay. They didn’t fit. Mo had used generic advertising in the description. I asked to send them back as they were the wrong thing. Mo says ok. You pay freight, I say no, you advertised them incorrectly. Mo cracks the shiites. I contact ebay, they refund me all the money and I still have the parts as they won’t pay the freight.
“Summer” in the UK. So called ethnic riots come around as regularly as Wimbledon. The whole place is a dump but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Peter Broelman!
That’s up to eight years on the taxpayer’s dime.
Yes, they’ll be supported by the Red Cross while here if they can’t find work, but the Red Cross’s asylum seeker funding is provided by the government.
And then there’s the lawyers…
Do you suppose the government bills them when they leave?
Good morning all!
Be careful of those slooping roofs our there!
Rocky: “We’re in trouble Bullwinkle, we’ve gotta think!”
Bullwinkle:”This is no time to take up a hobby Rock”
Jewish members abandon Greens over anti-SemitismAlexi Demetriadi
10 hours ago.
Updated 10 hours ago
162 comments
The Greens’ anti-racism mantra doesn’t extend to protecting Jewish people, members have claimed, saying they have quit or been abandoned by the party after a failure to properly acknowledge or condemn anti-Semitism since October 7.
Veteran members have left while young Jewish Greens supporters said they had been left “exhausted” after pushing back against “extreme elements”.
Jewish Greens working group co-founder Daniel Coleman knew his decade-long party membership was “untenable” when he realised its anti-racism values seemingly didn’t extend to anti-Semitism after October 7.
“The party (often) stands up for oppressed people, and not just with lip service,” he said.
“But there wasn’t even lip service amid rising anti-Semitism and the slaughter of Jewish people (on October 7).”
Mr Coleman said the Greens failed to properly consider a policy on anti-Semitism proposed by the working group and late last year he quit, ending a 40-year association that began before his immigration from the US.
“Everyone in the Jewish Greens spent years trying to build awareness about anti-Semitism, but it became clear it was all for nothing,” he said.
Mr Coleman claimed the party would only, if ever, respond to anti-Semitism as opposed to proactively rooting it out.
“There’s no incorporation (of protective mechanisms) in the party against anti-Semitism, it’s just ‘oh yeah, sorry’,” he said.
A spokesman for leader Adam Bandt said the party condemned anti-Semitism and racism “in all its forms”, and was composed of a “wide range of voices” from the Jewish and Palestinian communities, whose external and internal reference groups it consults.
“We’ve been clear that our criticism is directed at (Benjamin) Netanyahu’s government, not Israelis or the Jewish community,” he said, adding the party’s position was based on “international law and human rights”, and its anti-Semitism policy was updated last year.
But one Jewish member – speaking on the condition of anonymity – said he was concerned with emerging extremism and “false narratives”, vowing to remain in the party to “moderate” those views.
“There’s a culture in which people are willing to put aside party values (anti-racism) and move to a point of spreading hatred,” he said, saying the Greens were “picking and choosing” voices and views to elevate.
He said many saw the conflict in “black and white”, peddling the “demonisation of Zionism”.
“I’ve thought of myself as a ‘pro-Palestine Zionist’,” he said. “Adam has said he’s supportive of an Israel state, that’s Zionism, and yet many Greens demonise it.”
He said there was little solidarity towards the Jewish community and the party’s opposition to anti-Semitism was lip service.
“It’s hollow to say we stand against it but then take no action or enact no policies to prevent it,” he said, believing the party’s hard-line stance was to court votes.
It took FORTY years to realise the Greens are scum?!?
Yep, this guy is denying reality – bet his analyst/therapist is buying a beachouse!
The Mocker on John Setkas diary is good.
@charliekirk11
Another scalp for the Trumpster?
He’s gonna need a bigger belt.
If you have to speak anonymously for fear of backlash from your own party, JUST LEAVE.
These people have battered wife syndrome.
Perhaps he should make better use of his time behind enemy lines and become an ASIO informant.
Trump’s message on the death of Lou Dobbs
And in other unhappy news
Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94
Not quite…he hasn’t spoken to Biden in two weeks.
He’s told Pelosi & Co. that he shares their concerns but it’s Biden’s decision to make. Which it is. They can’t roll him like a Prime Minister.
Obama should go and see Joe in Delaware and apply his renowned powers of persuasion.
And don’t forget the teleprompter…
Or a windsurfer.
Snap Chris – I hadn’t refreshed before posting below
Or the paddleboard.
I haven’t been posting things from the Bee lately because it’s simply been too close to the bone. But this one really hits the bell.
New White House Doctor Sadly Informs Biden Only Cure For COVID Is Euthanasia
Chortle!
I enjoyed the report from the Valley of Elah also.
https://babylonbee.com/news/goliath-claims-he-only-lost-because-he-was-fighting-david-on-slightly-sloped-surface
What sets Johannes Leak apart from the mainstream ‘journalists’ who are inflicted on us daily is that he has a grasp of history.
His cartoon today demonstrates that he is aware of events in 1937 and 1969 (see my comment below the cartoon).
OTOH, the airheads glued to tik tok and instagram who infest the MSM firmly believe that nothing important ever happened before they were able to use an electronic device.
On another note, I was watching ‘Million Dollar Listing LA’ this morning – I love watching these sharks devouring each other. One of the sellers was a couple who are ‘human rights lawyers’ who allegedly spend a lot of time in ‘war torn countries.’ The want to sell their house for US$2M. They want to upgrade because they need some serenity away from their working lives.
UN employees, most likely, exempt from income tax.Fashionably dressed to the nines, brown, no doubt a big hit on the cocktail party circuit.
Maybe there’s someone here who can explain why Twiggy is focussing on green hydrogen for export.
Surely, as an iron ore guy who thinks we’ll have plenty of spare electricity generation capacity, his focus should be green steel production? ie: use all that power for steel smelting with hydrogen (and sans coking coal).
What am I missing?
120 years of Australian smelting history. Its bloody hard work and not subsidised; plus trying to do it as a condition of the mining licences has resulted in spectacular losses.
Same thing as “Twiggy” ……… SUBSIDIES ……..LOL!
Nothing except the scamming.
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: Federal Snipers Overlooked Rooftop Sniper from 40 FEET AWAY could have just WALKED OVER TO STOP HIM
Notably, the Tartarians were careful to avoid roofing gradients.
We must learn from history.
Dover, comment at 7.14 am still blocked.
Pretty please?
Investment Firm That Allegedly “Put Options” on 12 Million Trump Stocks Day Before Assassination Attempt Blames Filing Error — Rothschild, BlackRock, Vanguard, Meta, George Bush, and Cheney Family Among Top Investors
Investment Firm That Allegedly “Put Options” on 12 Million Trump Stocks Day Before Assassination Attempt Blames Filing Error
I hope they’re not in New York.
That sort of mistake could have them up in front of a judge. /sarc
Bridge for sale.
Impressive ..!
https://youtu.be/bdplwqp-E24
The division division…
https://x.com/i/status/1814048212665475168
Re Leak Jnr cartoon. Twiggy has the cash stuffed in Gladstone bags. Isn’t that where he was going to build the hydrogen plant?
Good spying, eric! I suspect they’re “carpet bags” which has a whole other resonance, but it works both ways.
@unusual_whales
Donald Trump has said he’ll bring down prices by opening up the US to more oil and gas drilling, per Bloomberg.
“We have more liquid gold than anybody,” he says.
I’ll hazard a guess…
It’s where the fattest subsidies are found.
That’s what my cynical mind says, too.. which means he has no, and has never had, a plan to implement anything.
I think he overreached…bigly!
Maybe some sort of mid-life crisis.
Newhart was on a tonight show with Carson relating how he bombed on an Australian tour. Hilarious.
Bob Newhart on Carson – German Humor & The Bombing of Australia 1983
“I’m 1/4 German and 3/4 Irish, which makes me a very meticulous drunk.”
That’s it
Thanks
Hare Krishnas for Trump. This is an extract.
@RadharamnDas
Yes, for sure it’s a divine intervention.
Saffron Man Good! 🙂
@RWMaloneMD
The corruption is deep and wide.
I just reviewed the new WA Firearms Act.
250-odd pages.
Its a shitshow.
A thousand little niggles and prejudices of the WA Police have been codified as black-letter law.
And we can’t even sell our guns outside the state to get out with some of our money; my 1875 collected gun worth maybe $3000 would get $475 and be destroyed.
So I put in applications for additions to my collectors licence, $400 application fee, bought another safe $450 and am going back and forth with the licencing plod, because they insist as a student of arms I have to be a member of WA Arms and Armour Society, when I have a 2019 letter from the Police saying the firearms research association of which I am a member is an accredited society of collectors.
I bought three flintlocks, you see…
And I can expect a demand for a psychiatric assessment, and a letter from a farmer for every gun, and another inspection of my home and maybe a search for all the chargeable offences they can find after a lifetime in the sport/interest.
Holy shitcakes, Batman! I would sooner go to the range and burn out the barrels on mine than hand them back to be destroyed.
I had kept a couple I had been considering handing in as they were junk; I turned them in for cash that paid for two hand-built flintlocks from a fellow club member that didn’t want to have them destroyed!
Then I was considering another one, bought cheap for a match a bit outside my main interests, but blow me down! I topped the match with it on Sunday. Bugger it; lets see what they throw at me.
Why do police states thrive under leftardism?
I’m sitting here cleaning a 1943 M1911 pistol as I read this. Wondering what the soldier who carried it in WWII would think of what became of the relatively sane and safe world he and his mates suffered to give us.
A collectors licence under the new Act cannot be granted for a handgun manufactured in the last 50 years.
rewarding the deep state
Pure desperation.
The dribbling zombie’s handlers don’t think the rest of the taxpayers recognize exactly who will be paying that debt. For paid it will be.
Trump Rally: “How and Why”
High cost of Kevin Rudd’s company for return of Julian AssangeGreg Brown
14 hours ago.
Updated 33 minutes ago
Taxpayers forked out more than $100,000 to return Julian Assange home, with the bill blowing out by nearly 30 per cent because Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd accompanied the convicted criminal on his flight into Canberra.
Documents provided to the Senate reveal the charter flight from Britain to Australia, via a court hearing in a US territory in an island in the Western Pacific, cost a total of $781,480.
This was paid for by the Wau Holland Foundation, but taxpayers were left to fund additional travel costs from Assange being accompanied by Mr Rudd and Australia’s high commissioner to Britain, Stephen Smith.
Mr Rudd’s “additional commercial travel costs” were $29,268 while Mr Smith’s were $17,807. Travel costs amounted to $55,403 for other officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Liberal senator Dave Sharma said Assange’s flight home “must be one of the most expensive staged photo ops ever undertaken”.
“There is serious work for our heads of mission in Washington and London to perform,” Senator Sharma said.
“Escorting someone convicted of espionage against one of our closest allies, at vast expense to the taxpayer, should never have happened. It’s a complete failure of foreign policy priorities by the Albanese government.”
A susccinct and thoughtful commentary on the New Right and the philosophy of J D Vance.
Moderate expression. Brain the size of a football field.
https://youtu.be/WuKDboLUZM0?si=41b6pZPUrLyAciwY
Bob Newhart was magnificent: A comedic genius.
Here is his first skit with Daryl and Daryl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xj_jeviwKQ
Still gets me yukking after many viewings, if you like it there are follow-ups on the sidebar.
RIP
He’s been pinged.
US Appeals Court Blocks All of Biden Student Debt Relief Plan (18 Jul)
Hello from Dublin.
I’m staying in Harold’s Cross on the south of the river.
Caught the local bus from the airport which dropped me 250 metres from my front door. It rained the whole way and I was feeling pleased about my ponchos (and the €2.60 bus ticket. It was 48 stops but no slower than catching the express Dublin bus and switching to a local one).
North of the Liffey looked pretty iffy with lots of gimmegrants wandering around. Here is mostly indigenous.
I enquired my stop from the bus driver and he was very nice, asked a local to confirm the best stop, then called me back, asked if I was a visitor and told me to be very careful of pickpockets especially on public transport.
I mildly mentioned Dublin had changed a little from when I was here in 2015 and he angrily said it was now a ‘sh**hole’ which made me feel downcast.
Still the sky cleared, the mini supermarket across the road did a roaring trade in sandwiches so I joined the queue then took myself to the park, lots of flowers blooming, the local pub had massive hanging pots of petunias, I thought they were fake but no sweet perfume said otherwise.
Billboards told me that free contraception had been extended to 32 to 35 year olds and the local pharmacy was proudly advertising the morning after pill in the front window.
The government plan to replace the indigenous population is still full steam ahead.
The first time we ever visited Dublin, a young lady at the bus stop picked the Aussie accent – she’d worked in the accountants office, in our local town, backpacking through Western Australia….
We have a similar situation in QLD.
The ruling caste.
And now this toadeater is cosying up to Trump after years of blistering attacks in carefully curated audiences.
I hope the Yanks boot him at the first opportunity.
Although our shores would be a little cleaner without him, it’s better than having the creature at large and shaming us.
Scott Ritter on JD Vance, Donald Trump and the Assassination Attempt
Early careers …… !
Here doggy, doggy.
Adidas gets their antisemitic boots on, literally.
After backlash: Adidas apologizes for use of anti-Israel model (19 Jul)
Completely unintentionally employing an antisemitic model to promote shoes celebrating the Munich Olympics? That’s just a tad hard to believe.
Meanwhile Bud Light is still crashing.
Year After Ad Debacle, Bud Light Plummets to No. 3 (18 Jul)
Adidas obviously didn’t learn anything from that fiasco.
A less flattering version of the Bud Lite debacle.
Amazing what we can do when we use our market share.
I haven’t bought Bud Lite since that crap decision.
The fact that I had never bought any before is immaterial. *snif*
You have to wonder whether the GOP has made a mistake highlighting Biden’s incompetence to the point where will be removed. Napoleon’s “never interfere” rule comes to mind.
It doesn’t matter who ‘The Light Bringer’ appoints as a replacement, it gives the Dems and the media a fresh start. The new appointee will have access to unlimited resources and historic levels of media propaganda.
Four months may well be enough.
They are making the Dems wear Biden’s incompetence like a mid-forehead tattoo.
And they have nobody to run who isn’t tainted with putting that scam over on the American people.
The less time the better. Remember, they don’t have to win, they just need to make their cheating plausible enough that the rusted-ons won’t questions it. That’s not a high bar. Biden will be replaced at the last possible minute.
Now, why is it that I can’t find a bookie willing to pay on “votes recorded before challenges”?
Normally the Australian ambassador would also attend the DNC and report back. Will be interesting to see how KRudd spins that.
Odds on it will be Kamala.
In which case it really doesn’t matter.
Who else…Newsom? Unpopular even in his own state.
Whitmer? She’s already nominated 2028 as her year.
The Hildebeast.
The shorting company came out with a statement that the 12 million shares was a typo,more like 200.
They have amended their filing.
More Strange Questions About the Trump Shooting
Paul Joseph Watson
DAY4 kicks off
Businesswoman Diane Hendricks Assails Joe Biden, Praises Donald Trump During RNC Speech
‘We Have A Plan’: Heritage Foundation President Discusses Project 2025 At The RNC
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts spoke at ‘Policy Fest’ on Monday.
Today the RNC will hammer the last few nails into Biden’s career coffin.
Barry’s already on the job.
Dublin was a shithole thirty years ago. Saw more blood spilt on the streets of Tallaght than all of Ulster. The ‘Murph was safer than Dolphin’s Barn.
Biden agrees to step down as Democratic nominee: Sources tell Mark Halperin
dont beleive it
Bob Newhart’s submariner sketch:
Captain: Let’s hear it for the cooks … come on men … I have to tell you we won’t surface until we’ve heard it for the cooks!
But it was their shithole.
We import the dregs of the 3rd world for a lifetime of welfare payments .. but be “white” & wukkas then ……….. duuuuuuuh!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13645903/Laura-currie-dante-vendittelli-luca-perth-family-torn-apart-cystic-fibrosis-deportation.html
These cases happen periodically and appear at first glance unfair. They are a useful reminder citizenship is a valuable legal status and there are unforeseen consequences from bouncing around, despite the number of people who do it. No opprobrium for either Scotland or Italy for failing to recognise the other’s spouse which seems more offensive.
1:3000 are affected according to Wiki. So there are 8,000 in Australia. So assume that half need the treatment, 4,000 x $250,000
Surely the government, buying that many doses could squeeze a lot more out of the manufacturers?
Unless of course, the government is lying about the costs?
Perhaps we should look at it in Biloela Equivalents, or the cost of the immigrant sector and draw the obvious conclusions?
Mike Pompeo Absolutely Eviscerates Lloyd Austin, Biden Foreign Policy At The RNC
Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell Absolutely Brings The House Down At RNC Praising Trump
Haha, Slugs & Grubs have been caught being naughty.
Law firm tied to Labor underpaid workers (Paywallian)
Human errors seem to be proliferating like rabbits lately.
More like snakes.
Wage theft? Doesn’t victoriastan have severe penalties for this misbehaviour? It’s great to see the shoe on the other foot and renowned ambulance chasers like slugs & rugs having the blowtorch applied to the belly.
paywalled
They are unmasking bit by bit, like a stripper with seven veils to show us at the end that yes, they are terrorists, not just terrorist sympathisers.
Flaunt it right back. Start burning Hamas flags.
Good for the goose, good for the gander. Tolerance ya know.
RNC Crowd Goes Wild As Trump Makes Arrival To Final Night Of The RNC
ymca?!?!?
If the deep state media complex managed to convince the voting hordes that Biden was compos mentis then they should have no trouble getting Kamala viewed as having an intellect worthy of a Nobel Prize winner.
Biden stepping aside is a negative for the Republicans.
Only if she loses her voice for the entire campaign.
In which case the Republicans can just re-play clips of her speaking…and cackling.
As long as it’s not a swastika it’s OK.
[sarc.]
Lydia Thorpe describes a “selfie” taken, wearing a Hamas headband, as a “lighthearted post.”
She certainly is an adornment to our parliament.
So she views terrorism as a lighthearted pursuit?
We are not amused.
Alina Habba Gets Choked Up Amidst Passionate Remarks Praising Trump At RNC
Biden may agree to remain President but step aside as candidate. This way he sees out his term with a modicum of dignity.
However, his spectre will still do inate the Dem’s campaign. The media can hardly erase a sitting president from his party’s three month long campaign.
I wonder who he will endorse, if anyone. Probably the one who cuts him the best deal.
Not often you see Biden and dignity in the same sentence.
From Stephen Green’s drunk blogging of the final day of the RNC.
Only some ethno-nationalists are bad.
Haha. A yuuge up yours to Ruperdink Mudrock’s kiddies who have set about destroyiing the old man’s media empire: Fox News’s top-rating coverage of the GOP convention is now televising the live speech of the top rating anchor the Mudrock kiddies sacked, Tucker Carlson
Imagine the sort of kudos they would have collected if they still had him as their star.
I wonder if Trump will mention his would-be assassin and pity him. Somebody that age is to be pitied as he had been poisoned by the media and the dominant culture to hate a man he did not even know.
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“a practised sense of victimhood”
This has been Islam’s MO since 600 AD. Always, but ALWAYS the victim, the Crusades card ad nauseam.
The danger for civilised nations now is that the treasonous political elates of all stripes have let these people in one way or another and now they hold voting blocks with enough sway to decide elections. Policies , laws, regs increasingly enacted to pander to them and change this country by doing so. Multiculturalism, the demographic shit burger we never asked for.
As CL has said; moslems are only tolerable until they can hold power. Then they will become tyrants. Even if by proxy as we are now seeing with the Liars. Places like the UK and increasingly here changed and fkd forever by tolerating Islam.
A Modern Colossus: Donald Trump
The flag of terrorist group Hamas has been openly flaunted at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne, where crowds also donned Hamas headbands.
Grampian Nazis?
Haha. Grampian Nazis were an invention of Victoria Police’s disinformation unit to help get Daniel Andrew re-elected in 2022.
Time to start burning a few Hams flags at rallies.
Let the left show the world how tolerant they really are.
Love it, ZZ Top are performing now, La Grange of all things. I expected Legs.
OK, a cover band, not ZZ Top. Pity.
From Mr Green’s drunk blog:
Yes!
His lawyer said in her speech that he was considering “Hold on, I’m Coming”.
I would’ve gone with AC/DC’s Jailbreak given all the lawfare.
Australia has plenty. Much of my working life I’ve lived & worked with such people.
You learn to deal with it – you don’t have any choice.
As with illiteracy, it is usually hidden quite well, until circumstances uncover it.
It’s quite something when it first hits you, that someone you know quite well, has absolutely no concept of numbers.
I’ve known of a supermarket where the best of the cash register operators could reliably count to Seven.
… however that girl was an anomaly & even then took a helluva lot of coaching to become that good., most of her co workers weren’t reliable above Two or Three.
“One, two, big mobs …”
”Hey bloke. Forgot my glasses. How much is dis?”
Tucker’s speech was emotional, but also rational. His description of Antifa baling up his wife in their home was especially pertinent, and cuts to the default position of the Left – violence.
I’ve refrained commenting about the hand of the Almighty in all of this, simply because it’s self evident. It isn’t confined to this circumstance or that. It runs as a golden thread throughout history. He plays the long game – the longest.
Daniel 2 would give a clue to those who are wondering. And don’t forget the context – the dream was given to the cruellest of tyrants, as was its astonishing interpretation.
Rosanne seems a little red pilled…
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It’s amazing that the most popular ticket in American history is considering stepping down both candidates for someone new months before the next election. I mean when you get more votes than any other ticket in the history of America it would be kind of hard to start over 4 years later.
If only there was a logical explanation as to how this is even possible. We all know that the election was the safest in history because the people who won told us that so it’s got to be something else.
I’m guessing whoever steps in next will get the most votes ever even more with zero campaign because that is entirely possible.
And my revenge for Arkys awful brain images last night.
Dover: please ban mole for posting this distressing image.
That’s how Big Willy remembers her.
Tom
July 19, 2024 7:55 am
A genuinely brilliant comedian.
Peerless when it comes to delivery and timing.
I know my post is quality when there are more upticks on the appeal to ban me than the post itself.
She’s not one of Cohenite’s cute owls, at least.
She’s not one of Cohenite’s cute owls,
atin the least.Willie Brown was not available for comment
On the Trump assassination attempt; There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that this was an inside job. Specifically, the SS were tasked to offer only the minimal level of protection under very restrictive operating procedures to enable the success of any assassination attempt . From the DEI appointed bint at the top to the clumsy female agents chosen for DJT’s protection detail. Only minimum superficial protection was offered. That was the Mayorkas Plan. He should be up on treason charges facing the death penalty.
Simultaneously and for years, the Pervert in Chief in the WH and his freakshow or deviants using MSM, lawfare , the Administration, the USG and all their loyal weirdos in US society , entertainment and Hollyweird have been shrieking to their faithful how the tyrant Trump will destroy mankind, eat all their babies and burn them out of their houses. Basically imploring someone, anyone to take him out. Because the left know nothing else will stop him.
THIS is the left of today. m0ron’s lot. And that is why they must be treated like any other vermin infestation or serious disease.
Add in the fact that the ‘lone wolf’ shooter just miraculously managed to luck onto a ladder and a shooting spot out of view of BOTH counter sniper teams…. see Malones Substack.
Makka
July 19, 2024 10:49 am
“a practised sense of victimhood”
This has been Islam’s MO since 600 AD. Always, but ALWAYS the victim, the Crusades card ad nauseam.
Mo’s armies were accepting the surrender of Jerusalem within six years of his death.
It took three hundred years from the death of Christ for Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Conversion by the sword is the quicker method.
I’ve refrained commenting about the hand of the Almighty in all of this, simply because it’s self evident.
Last Saturday night (Pennsylvania time) the angels of Hashem were on the podium protecting Donald J Trump, of that I have no doubt.
I agree. Prayers for DJT’s safety were resoundingly answered. And only fools and the evil among us would not take note.
Can you say “We instigated an investigation to arrive at a conclusion we had already decided upon”//?
I knew you could.,
And its backed by SCI$ENCE!! and evidences!!
Just not the same science the Poms used in the cass report…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/jul/19/australia-news-live-offshore-detainees-energy-ministers-meet-renewables-transition-heath-housing-cost-of-living
Queensland children’s gender service ‘safe’ and should be expanded, report finds
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An inquiry into the Queensland children’s hospital’s gender service – called to investigate allegations by a staff psychiatrist – has found the service is “safe” and should be expanded statewide.
Dr Jillian Spencer, a senior staff specialist who was stood down from the hospital in 2023, alleged that the hospital prescribed treatment like hormone blockers too rapidly.
The report, authored by Associate Prof John Allan, found that the hospital provided safe, evidence-based care consistent with national and international guidelines.
There was no evidence of children, adolescents or their families being hurried or coerced into making decisions about medical interventions, the inquiry found. Allan said the panel had considered the UK review of children’s services conducted by British paediatrician Hilary Cass:
It made 25 recommendations, including that the state government should establish a network of centres outside Brisbane, with the Queensland children’s hospital serving as a referral hospital. About 40% of patients come from regional areas, the inquiry found. It also recommended an increase in staff.
The evaluation included clinical representatives from across Australia from disciplines such as psychology, general practice, child and adolescent psychiatry and paediatric endocrinology. It also included representatives of from the queensland paediatric quality council and a representative with lived experience.
The clinic’s budget has been doubled to $5.2m.
Evil kid mutilating perverts.
What did the Cass review find??
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/gender-dysphoria-cass-review-medical-treatment-children/103700476
We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of [puberty blockers] to make the treatment routinely available at this time,” the NHS England wrote in March.
?
Never start an enquiry until you know what the answer will be?
Tucker Carlson Reacts To Assassination Attempt On Trump During RNC Speech
Hulk Hogan Makes RNC Crowd Roar In Barn-Burner Speech Praising Trump
That’s not exactly the plot of Idiocracy but it does have that flavour to it.
Wow! Melania looks a million bucks!
Melania is walking on to the stage.
She looks ravishing.
Melania arriving now – that’s a classy broad!
I am sure all these youtube links would be great. However I don’t open them because they take so much time, and often have irritating adverts/random images/ loud noises.
Text is my thing; fast and quiet to assess and maybe RTWT.
Yep, the baud rate for information content of videos is far too low.
Record five-year jail term for Just Stop Oil’s founderAli Mitib and Jonathan Ames
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The founder of Just Stop Oil has received the longest-ever jail sentence for nonviolent protest under new laws designed to crack down on public disruption.
Roger Hallam, 58, was jailed for five years for co-ordinating the protests that disrupted the M25 in London over four days in 2022. Forty-Five protesters climbed gantries on the motorway, forcing police to stop the traffic.
Daniel Shaw, 38, from Northampton, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, from Derby, Louise Lancaster, 58, from Cambridge, and Cressida Gethin, 22, from Hereford, were each sentenced to four years after being found guilty of conspiring to cause a public nuisance.
The sentences, handed down at Southwark crown court in London, were longer than those given to Just Stop Oil activists who scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Dartford Crossing in October 2022. They were condemned as a “gross miscarriage of justice” by environmental campaigners last night (Thursday).
The group were sentenced under controversial legislation introduced by the previous government to get tougher on disruptive tactics used by environmental protesters, including blockading roads and attacks on sporting events. A 13-week campaign by Just Stop Oil (JSO) last summer cost the Metropolitan Police more than pounds 7.7 million, the equivalent cost of 23,500 officer shifts.
Should have been twenty years, with hard labor and bread and water.
The tide is turning.
On the AP live stream it sounds like this Dana guy is giving the introduction to Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A_gdjHRE4k
Band is playing “Proud to be an American”.
Yes, DJT is taking the stage now.
Chris
July 19, 2024 12:12 pm
I am sure all these youtube links would be great. However I don’t open them because they take so much time, and often have irritating adverts/random images/ loud noises.
Text is my thing; fast and quiet to assess and maybe RTWT.
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Download uBlock.
Brave browser automatically blocks YT ads.
Haven’t seen one in years.
Ex-Teacher At RNC: This Is Why For ‘First Time In My Life’ I Will Vote Republican
Dana White Introduces Donald Trump At The RNC
Trump Takes To The RNC Stage As Lee Greenwood Sings ‘God Bless The USA’
Donald Trump Accepts The Republican Nomination To Be President At The RNC
Bruce of Newcastle
July 19, 2024 12:36 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Brave browser automatically blocks YT ads.
Haven’t seen one in years.
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I do turn it off from time to time so good content creators get some add $
Kid Rock Performs At The RNC: ‘Fight! Fight!’
Melania Trump Gets Standing Ovation As She Arrives At The RNC
Not a dry seat in the house!
Salvatore – Iron Publican
July 19, 2024 10:58 am
It became obvious to me many years ago that a significant slice of people, having gone through the education system, have problems with filling out paperwork, government forms etc.
Yet now everyone is expected to be able to use MyGov to interact with the government. I suspect that the numbers of people who are not computer savvy must be huge and that a lot are not coping.
I spent 45 minutes this morning with a supposedly literate retired secondary teacher helping her cope with a new smartphone. Didn’t know how to use caps lock on the keyboard or remove an app. Eye-opening.
That’s different, Megan. I haven’t got a smartphone because I can’t navigate the multiple apps, and frankly, I haven’t got a clue as to what one third of the keys are for on my desktop.