There was one shooter. If there were more Trumpster would be deadsky.

Lizzie, thanks for the pointer on getting a good looking Burmese(or two). I’m feeling the need for a couple of cats since the little black and white female cat from over the corner back fence got moved to Wagga for a year. It took a while but she became very friendly. I called her “Taxi” (Black and White) and found her early one morning sleeping on our front steps. It may have been a hint.

Apropos yesterday’s discussion of prog-lefties defriending normies, I see Usha Vance, previously a liberal darling as a high-profile lawyer at a progressive firm, has been targeted by left-leaning media outlets in the US with borderline racist jokes, including deportation memes (note: she is US born).

Hero of the skies again… at the grand old age of 94! Scots Dambuster fulfils his life dream to fly in iconic Spitfire
Daily Mail

Joe Hildebrand must have had an interview with Jacinta Price.

Indigenous leader Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has declared that her first act if she was made prime minister would be to tackle disadvantage without focusing on race and instil a sense of national pride in ­Aboriginal Australians.

The firebrand campaigner also said that a new “enlightenment” is needed to advance First Nations people.

Senator Price said she believed Australia needed to tackle disadvantage without regard to race.

“First things first, I would want to focus on supporting Australians on the basis of need, not race. Because one thing that I absolutely understand is that being Indigenous doesn’t automatically make you disadvantaged. It’s your circumstances. And then we could focus our efforts on supporting our most disadvantaged,” she said.

And she said she would promote a more rounded understanding of history that would encourage Aboriginal people to be proud of being Australian as well as Indigenous.

“I would push to understand our nation’s history in its entirety and work on being proud to call ourselves Australian,” she said. “If our children don’t have pride in who they are, how are they going to be the future leaders who want to resolve some of our tough problems and recognise what it is that makes us a wonderful country?”

Senator Price, whose profile soared after her work for the No campaign for the Voice, said that just as the West had rejected its historical misogyny, so too did Indigenous communities need to move on from some outdated traditional beliefs instead of “romanticism” about them.

She cited a traditional belief that mothers should be punished or ostracised following the death of a child, because premature deaths were attributed to sorcery and a scapegoat was needed.

“We don’t burn women at the stake and accuse them of being witches anymore. So why should we suggest that sorcery is the cause of any premature death or illness?” she asked.

“We’ve got to have our enlightenment stages as well. But we’re continually told this romanticism about being the world’s oldest living culture. Yeah, that’s great. But what does that mean for trying to establish ourselves in a modern Australia? And not just survive, but thrive?”

Senator Price said her family were once dyed-in-the-wool Labor voters but that she felt the left had worsened the plight of Aboriginal people by treating them as victims and denying them personal responsibility.

“I think like a lot of people, I feel like Labor have abandoned the working class,” she said. “And for Aboriginal people there’s such a dependency, it’s ridiculous. It’s what’s destroying Aboriginal people out in communities … telling Aboriginal people it’s not your fault you’re in this takes away their agency.”

And yet by becoming more conservative and coming out against the Voice she is now treated as a traitor or an apostate by many of her old friends.

“The expectation of activism, activism, activism; just fight for everything to be handed to you. Well, actually, where’s it gonna get you? Where do you stand on your own two feet as a human being?” she said.

“You need to be able to have the opportunity to provide for yourself and your family. That’s the ultimate freedom but that’s not what the left encourages. And growing up in a place like Alice Springs, surrounded by lefty friends and family, all of a sudden there’s all these people that don’t want to know me, don’t want to have anything to do with me. And it’s like: Wow. I’ve known you since I was a kid. The tolerance of them? There’s no such thing as ­tolerance.”

This might be extracts of a book of Price’s actually. Matters Of The Heart
Whatever, they are sage words.

Mak Siccar
 July 21, 2024 7:38 am

The unbelievable gall of these precious ‘victims’.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/randa-abdelfattah-wants-300000-over-antisemite-claims/news-story/39fdf3dbefc30f257df1ae5d4c2ebe73

Pro-Palestinian activist Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding $300,000 and an apology from The Australian after the newspaper revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants. 

The Australian has categorically rejected Dr Abdel-Fattah’s defamation claim, pointing out that she led children in chants that were widely understood to be anti-Semitic.

Lawyer Adam Houda, for Dr Abdel-Fattah, said The Australian’s articles contained false imputations that the Macquarie University academic “compelled children to chant in ­support of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed and maimed thousands of Israeli civilians, … groomed children for violence and indoctrinated them into ­extremism”.

The defamation threat from Dr Abdel-Fattah comes as Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi threatens to sue The Australian over a Johannes Leak cartoon she claimed was racist

To which we can add that ghastly thing Fatima Payman.

Why is that muizzie sheilas are at the forefront in promoting muzzie values in the West when it is the West which gives them the freedom to act like hezron loons; and if they were still in their muzzie shithole from whence they came they would have a burqa stapled to their mugs and be perpetually preggers. They personify cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.

‘Net zero’ and Keynesian ‘stimulus’ are making us poorer

Daniel Lacalle Mises Institute 07/20/2024

If you read the latest OECD publication, “Employment Outlook 2024: The Net Zero Transition and the Labour Market,” you would imagine that the world has not gone through the largest monetary and fiscal stimulus in decades.

The results are so poor, they are embarrassing. Furthermore, the report illustrates the impoverishment of citizens and subtly suggests that achieving the net zero goal will present an even greater challenge. Translation: You will be even poorer.

According to the OECD report, 20% of the global workforce is in jobs that will expand due to the net-zero transition. The report basically tells us that the remaining 80% will face significant challenges.

Furthermore, it highlights that “low-income and rural households usually spend more on goods and services with larger carbon footprints, such as energy and food, because they are typically necessary goods.

Therefore, climate-mitigation policies, by increasing the relative price of carbon-intensive goods, will tend to affect these households as consumers disproportionally, with a strong impact on the real value of their income and wages. Recent carbon pricing reforms in many countries have indeed proved regressive. Recycling the revenue from carbon taxes in the form of transfers to households, however, can make this type of reform progressive. Yet targeting these transfers towards household needs is key to cost efficiency. ” Thus, we are doomed. Just look at the disastrous result of the carbon tax in the European Union, what it has done to price inflation of non-replaceable goods and services and the widespread increase in discontent among citizens.

Why do we know that policymakers will not counteract Keynesian policies’ regressive impact? Because they have never done it. To argue that this time will be different is irresponsible when the same OECD report shows the disastrous results of “inclusive” and redistributive policies since 2019.

The report hails the good news of low unemployment rates. However, this publication fails to acknowledge the ease of manipulating unemployment rates. Indeed, the report does not make that connection but highlights how labour force participation has stagnated or declined and how real wages have fallen while average working hours per employee have slumped in the United States.

If the unemployment rate has fallen but the average hours worked per worker are flat, the labour participation rate has slumped, and real wages have declined, then there is no real improvement in employment.

According to the OECD report, average hours worked per worker have declined in all countries except three of the entire OECD, and real wage growth is negative in the United States as well as many other economies.

Now remember that these dreadful statistics come after the largest so-called “stimulus package” in decades. The largest monetary experiment, combined with an unprecedented level of public debt increase, has left workers poorer. The worst is yet to come.

The OECD report warns that the net zero transition will increase price inflation in essential goods and services as well as generate significant displacement of low-skilled labor. They even warn that low-skilled jobs in high-emission sectors pay better, and this will create challenges for citizens.

There is no way in which one can defend this social engineering. Keynesianism always leads to malinvestment, misallocation of capital, higher indebtedness, and worse outcomes for workers and the middle class for a very simple reason: governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society, and they spend money that comes from somebody else.

Malinvestment does happen in an open economy. However, creative destruction takes care of it. Malinvestment when the government controls the economy is the norm. And instead of creative destruction, we get subsidized misallocation of capital.

The era of constant Keynesian stimulus plans has eroded the middle class and created record levels of public debt. The net zero plan, which is the ultimate Keynesian top-down government-imposed system, will add scarcity, persistent price inflation, and impoverishment.

The only way to achieve net zero is to let technology flourish, allow free competition and open markets to work their way, and create a transition that benefits the majority with cheaper and cleaner goods and services. When governments make decisions with public funds, they ensure a negative result. They will overspend, perpetuate price inflation, and impoverish the same ones they claim to defend. Socialism never works. Climate socialism is bound to fail miserably, resulting in increased poverty.

Leaving aside the question of the desirability of pursuing net zero via the free market floated toward the end of this piece, Lacalle is describing our government’s policy (and that of the UK) – essentially, the malinvestment of public funds – and explaining why it will lead to greater poverty for the majority of the population.

It’s the new economic paradigm, according to Dim Chalmers.

Indolent

 July 21, 2024 10:01 am

First Trump rally since the assassination attempt

They should NOT be putting Trump and JD on the same stage together at the same time.
It isn’t over. We live in a world of drones and more and more state actors with the ability to reach out and touch anyone.

When it comes to batteries, roughly 70 per cent of the original energy produced at the source performs useful work in the vehicle.
With hydrogen, that drops to between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, while internal combustion engines at best deliver 20 per cent efficiency.

Depends exactly what they are talking about.
Lithium batteries may be a bit better than 70% charge discharge efficiency.
Just compressing or liquifying hydrogen gives a round trip efficiency of 35% or so and then depends whether you simply burn it in a internal combustion engine with the usual thermodynamic inefficiencies in which case you get maybe 35 to 40% of that 35% or use a fuel cell.
A good modern IC engine gets a thermodynamic efficiency up in the high thirties percent and Mazda claim they an get over 50%.

Liz

Did you receive the signed letter of congrats from the monarch for reaching the milestone?
A belated happy birthday.

The English bint that the Murdochs appointed as the WSJ editor is destroying the best newspaper in the world.

How the hell does this story belong in the WSJ? Note: says that it’s a 7 minute read too.

The Best Slip-On Sneakers to Keep Up With Your On-the-Go Lifestyle

One wonders if social media companies were subsequently complicit in scrubbing clean the online presence of a certain spotty 20 year old shootist.

Have any journalists bothered to ask the kids he went to school with if the little prick had a social media presence? They would know for certain. Sure, that would require a little effort.

Carnegie Mellon Prof Says Trump Assassination Attempt ‘Was Staged’ (legalinsurrection.com)

This fat black kunt, a nigerian, also wished Queen Betty an excruciating death.

Professor who wished Queen ‘excruciating’ death explains defiant stance on podcast

I am so over these black/muzzie bitches.