Open Thread – Weekend 20 July 2024


On the Banks of the Seine, Claude Monet, 1868

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JC
JC
July 20, 2024 8:54 pm

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

132andBush
132andBush
July 20, 2024 9:55 pm
Reply to  JC

Exactly

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 20, 2024 8:56 pm

My thinking as well. If the patsy was being engaged then a number of dei hires would have died

cohenite
July 20, 2024 8:59 pm
JC
JC
July 20, 2024 9:03 pm

We really are in the age of incompetence especially in the US. A guy with a target on his back can’t be protected by the very entity that’s supposed to prevent this type of assassination

. The internet almost went down.

I reckon the reason for this is DEI.

And no one ever seems to get fired.

JC
JC
July 20, 2024 9:10 pm

War could be over soon

Former President Donald Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and unlike their last controversial phone call, both sides claimed to be satisfied with how the conversation went.

Trump said that it was a “very good call” and that he will work to negotiate a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. A person close to Zelenskyy who requested anonymity to discuss the private conversation said it went “exceedingly well” and that Trump pledged to “achieve a just peace in Ukraine” if he wins back the White House.

Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X that he and Trump agreed to schedule a “personal meeting” to discuss “what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting.”

Trump has pledged to swiftly end the war in Ukraine if reelected in November, going so far as to state he would negotiate peace before he assumes office in January

bons
bons
July 20, 2024 9:16 pm

It has been intriguing oversighting the communications between our once close English upper class and elite friends who are realising that their mindless pursuit of BDS (Brexit Derangement Syndrone) has actually destroyed the future for their precious grand children.

There is much agitation around the village box for the Sunday morning shoot. “But, but, Kier is not like Tony, he actually wants to destroy us”.

They destroyed the Party in the arrogant belief that the little people of the Left would respect their betters and permit them to preserve their privilege.

Morons.

billie
billie
July 20, 2024 9:26 pm

JC
We really are in the age of incompetence”

Do all the investors in windmills and solar farms continually hold their breath, waiting for someone to say, “Nope, that just doesn’t work, defund it!”

They must live in fear that the rubes will finally wake up and pull the funding carpet away.

Ever seen the Simpsons episode of the Monorail guy?

That’s the Labor party, CSIRO, our universities, all in a conga line behind our version of the Monorail guy .. the solar and windmill guy. (also the Green Hydrogen guy and the electrical cable to Singapore guys)

You know, a town with money’s a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!”
?Lyle Lanley
Lillard Lewis “Lyle” Lanley (possible full name) is a con artist and shyster who sold faulty monorails to several towns, including Springfield

That’s us in Australia, fools with money.

I love Leak’s money hose that Albo uses, so appropriate.

mem
mem
July 20, 2024 10:10 pm
Reply to  billie

I like the approach. Might take that on board. But from my experience so far once they have committed to the Green machine there is very little chance of bringing them back. It’s a death cult. Jonestown next.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 6:18 pm
Reply to  billie

I may be incorrect in attributing this to The Simpsons, but I recall an episode where an enormous escalator is built that goes to nowhere; it simply ends in the air. Because it’s the ‘hip, new, thing,’ everyone lines up to ride it, even though it is obvious that all those who rode before them dropped to their death. I guess it’s an allusion to the behaviour of lemmings.

Regardless of attribution or may admittedly dodgy memory, to me, that escalator to nowhere sums up the present state of humanity (or we First Worlders anyway. Maybe if we didn’t have so much leisure time and affluence? Oooooh…. hang on! What if The Simpsons’ Itchy and Scratchy were two sides of the one personality, meaning they were performing those acts of insane violence on themselves? Now that – in a less visceral sense – is First World humanity).

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 20, 2024 9:46 pm

Here is the transcript (according to NYT) of Trump’s RNC speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/trump-rnc-speech-transcript.html

I suggest it is evidence that the assassination attempt succeeded.
Can you guess why?

MatrixTransform
July 20, 2024 10:09 pm

because elephants have flat feet?

mem
mem
July 20, 2024 10:14 pm

Because NYT needs click bait as it is losing audience at the rate of knots.

Crossie
Crossie
July 20, 2024 10:33 pm

It scared him enough to change tactics and possibly policy?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 21, 2024 10:32 am
Reply to  Crossie

Yes. wrt the swamp.

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:46 am

nope

Gabor
Gabor
July 20, 2024 10:14 pm

Colonel Crispin Berka
July 20, 2024 9:46 pm

I suggest it is evidence that the assassination attempt succeeded.

Can you guess why?

You have to help me out here.
Why do you think that?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 21, 2024 10:33 am
Reply to  Gabor

I searched for references to the swamp, the deep state and regime and bureaucracy and couldn’t find any in that speech. Draining did not seem to be on the agenda any more.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 20, 2024 10:30 pm

( :

—-

Steve Inman:

Cornfed Fred Compilation
https://rumble.com/v57oe5p-cornfed-fred-compilation.html

Crossie
Crossie
July 20, 2024 10:37 pm

bons

 July 20, 2024 9:16 pm

It has been intriguing oversighting the communications between our once close English upper class and elite friends who are realising that their mindless pursuit of BDS (Brexit Derangement Syndrone) has actually destroyed the future for their precious grand children.

Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly, all the worst human traits. Now that the hoi polloi can see their uselessness the only unknown is how long they will be tolerated.

KevinM
KevinM
July 20, 2024 10:42 pm

And believe it not, that is how we got the original railway gauge.

Or so the tale goes.
True or not?

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 20, 2024 11:12 pm
Reply to  KevinM

Sadly, not (although the starting point was a rational size of horse drawn vehicle).

The ‘standard gauge’ was set by the UK 1848 Gauge Act, which recognised the success of Robert Stevenson’s adaption of the 5’ Killingworth rollyway to allow his steam locomotive to run around corners fitted with iron plates without binding.

Rosie
Rosie
July 20, 2024 10:42 pm

Trump said shoot me in the ear and kill and injure a couple of people so I can win the election?

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 21, 2024 12:02 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Makes sense … he needed something, being so far behind in the polls (sarc)

KevinM
KevinM
July 20, 2024 10:47 pm

Crossie
July 20, 2024 10:37 pm

Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly, all the worst human traits. Now that the hoi polloi can see their uselessness the only unknown is how long they will be tolerated.

I don’t know how to knit or crochet, but would be willing to learn and sit in the front row to see them marched up for a decent flogging.

MatrixTransform
July 20, 2024 11:09 pm

Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly

they may control local, state and federal govt
they may be the politicians, union leaders, judiciary and lobbyists
they might be the media, the police, the armed forces or school teachers
they may have a monopoly on violence

but…

“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on.
We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep.
We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.
We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t.
And we’re just learning this fact.
So don’t fuck with us.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 20, 2024 11:17 pm

The stage production is off the charts. So good to watch on the big screen!

I’ll repeat, this music is not for everyone …. understandable. Half of the fun is watching the crowd.

People that suffer from epilepsy, be careful.

—-

Paul van Dyk – Live from Transmission Prague 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WRX64uOrk

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:20 pm

Says the man who raced over there three months after it started to make sure it didn’t end.
BORIS JOHNSON: Why I am more convinced than ever that Trump has the strength and bravery to save Ukraine and end this appalling war

m0nty
m0nty
July 20, 2024 11:25 pm

Betcha Biden’s off the ticket by the election, M0nts.

He’ll be kept upright until then, but won’t be the candidate.

Who won’t be Kamala either. New young blood coming in.

Can’t imagine how awful that will be, ‘woke’ central on puerile display.

That is not happening, Lizzie. And happy birthday! You don’t look a day over 67.

There is no mechanism for the party to roll Biden at this point. He has the primary votes, the funding, and the power of incumbency. I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.

August 5 is apparently the date after which Biden has the nomination officially, which should be the end of the current silliness. But probably won’t.

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2024 11:31 pm
Reply to  m0nty

PISS OFF, NAZI. GO PLAY WITH YOUR HAMAS FRIENDS.

MatrixTransform
July 21, 2024 12:56 am
Reply to  m0nty

“and the power of incumbency”

yeah stfu mUnty … gawd you talk crap

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 7:33 am
Reply to  m0nty

Lefturd talking points arrived early today.

Still, it’s good to see them “fortifying” the corpse and his bride as the sacrificial goats.

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Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:26 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:27 pm
Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2024 11:28 pm

Tonight I rewatched The Searchers. It’s a film I like to watch every 2 or 3 years. There are some movies, all classics, that I like to sit down and rewatch every few years, classics such as The Wizard of Oz, The Great Escape, Rear Window, North by Northwest and a few others. They are the great American films of the last eighty years, and The Searchers, as far as I am concerned, is the greatest Western, and a highly allegorical one at that. It’s themes have not dated at all.

I’ve written here before how the main character in The Searchers, ‘Ethan’, played by John Wayne, reminds me of Donald Trump. ‘Ethan’ is a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, a tough and intelligent man, plain speaking, hardened by battle in war, embittered, unforgiving, prejudiced, not a likeable character. But he’s filled with ‘true grit’, and he embodies something unique in American culture, he’s a rugged and brave individual but he ain’t perfect, far from it….like Donald J Trump.

You might not know this but when The Searchers was released in 1956 and was a success on its release, it was watched by a young musical genius by the name of Buddy Holly who was inspired to write a song using words spoken by ‘Ethan’ in the film. That song was called….’That’ll be the Day’.

There’s a scene in the film where the young Jeffrey Hunter, who plays Marty, furiously confronts Ethan on his prejudice and he says to Ethan….

‘I hope you die’

To which Ethan replies…

‘That’ll be the day’.

Over the last eight years so many have wished Donald Trump would die and go away, and last week they very nearly succeeded in killing Donald Trump. And whilst Trump, standing on that podium in Pennsylvania, didn’t utter the same words as ‘Ethan’ in The Searchers, you can see the same character traits and Trump’s message to the shooter, to the elites, to the MSM, to all of those who’ve spent years disparaging him, smearing him, ridiculing him, demonising him, silencing him, lying about him, trying to jail him and lastly, last Sunday morning (Oz time), trying to kill him, the sentiment was exactly the same as what Wayne’s character ‘Ethan’ said in The Searchers….

‘That’ll be the day’.

Last edited 5 months ago by Cassie of Sydney
Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 8:54 am

Buddy Holly was also a Texan.

But you knew that 😀

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:54 pm

Great comment Cassie. Must now catch up with the movie.

Hope you’ve seen Hillbilly Elegy. If not, it’s a must see.

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:29 pm
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 21, 2024 12:14 am

Agree with JC when he said.

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

I have watched many experts (former Seals, snipers, Secret Service etc) in past few days.

If there were two shooters then Crooks would be the “patsy” and the 2nd shooter would be the better shot. However the timing had to be exactly right. You would think the 2nd shooter would also have a better specialist sniper weapon which would ensure he hit target.

Former SEAL Tim Kennedy made an interesting point. That was that the Government via Homeland Security (Mayorkas) and Secret Service had ensured that Trump had a week security team. The many errors support the conclusion that he did not have his A team on duty that day.

Plus you have the constant flood of comments from Democrat side that Trump was Hitler and a danger to democracy. They created the atmosphere that would make attempts more likely.

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 7:12 am
Reply to  Bourne1879

Stochastic terrorism.

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 21, 2024 11:31 am
Reply to  Bourne1879

Or the Secret Service sniper was below the patsy in the building. They had direct line of sight to Trump and would know exactly when to fire. Robert Barnes

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 12:22 am

Wokester: “Trump is wearing that huge bandage for theatrical effect.”

Normie: “What? I couldn’t understand you through that mask you’re wearing.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 21, 2024 1:07 am

Postcard 3 from Romania
 
Romania features the interesting capital of Bucharest. Ravaged by successive competing ideas of government, enough remains to capture attention in a walk around. There are small old churches with painted panels; stately buildings in a Romanesque style, and fountains as a feature. Intermixed with all of this are horrible communist-build blockhouses of “apartments” and offices: featureless concrete everywhere.
 
The temperature however was getting into the 40s by mid-afternoon so one had to be a bit careful walking around. We toured the Parliament House – the world’s second largest building, and you might wonder why a country that’s not that rich with a population of 20 million builds such a thing. The answer was that under Nicolae Ceau?escu the general secretary of the Communist Party he wanted to and they complied. It is now 70% empty and a tourist attraction – magnificently built out of all-Romanian products.
 
One interesting aspect of where we were staying right in the middle of town was in the evening – when it had cooled down a bit – was the Romanians coming out to play. A major occupation in a closed off main street was walking up the length of it – about five blocks – and then back down again. Lots of street cafes. The Romanian idea of a diet is smoked meat so we were able to help out a bit.
 
This narrative is jumping around a bit but we are on a river cruise for the next 10 days.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:06 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Very interesting. Quite a big country by European standards I think. A lot of western countries seem to be like Romania in the late 80s.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:55 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Love the travelogues, TE. Interesting places.

We did a Danube river cruise, might consider another river cruise soon.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 7:28 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Thank you for your travelogue, TE.

I’m in Bucharest next year following in your footsteps, including Vlad’s castle and a Viking cruise up to Vienna. I promise not to maraud too much.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
July 21, 2024 8:17 am
Reply to  Top Ender

TE.

Isn’t the building you described the largest marble building in the world? Top Gear is my reference for that. The boys raced sports cars underneath it to see who could make the loudest noise.

Romania. Christmas Day 1989, when the people finally rose up and overthrew the tyrant and executed him and his missus in the street.

Should be more of it.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 21, 2024 7:24 pm

Yes, i should have mentioned the tunnels – we watched that Top Gear episode. They are only occasionally opened to the public.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
July 21, 2024 11:33 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

A rich country – the cakes are the richest in the world.
it could be the most country in the world.

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 2:05 am

Small footsteps but, at least, a beginning .. shoud be lotz more of it .. Welfare cut-back if you don’t want to work …..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/german-state-cuts-benefits-for-lazy-migrants/ar-BB1qglaW?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=932a8cb5b0834649ac172be9a6cdb242&ei=27

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 21, 2024 7:39 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Should be the same here.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 9:55 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

This comes as Germany struggles to manage migration and assist asylum seekers while also appeasing a growing proportion of voters who are being enticed by Right-wing politicians pushing anti-migrant rhetoric – a stark contrast from former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migration policy, through which she allowed one million refugees enter Germany in 2015.

I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 3:22 am

I’m going to postcard too.
A miserable day in Dublin, I went to mass at the Carmelite monastery in the morning. They first arrived in Ireland at the end of the 1200s, got booted by Henry the 8th, went into hiding for 200 years, then got a small section of their Dublin land back and started rebuilding in the early 19th century. One priest found an old Madonna and Child (probably from a dissolved Cisterian monastery on the north bank of the Liffey) in a second hand shop and she is now ‘Our Lady of Dublin’.
My cultural activity was the emmigration museum, €23, in former underground warehouses on the north side.
Also had to do a bit of eye rolling there and move on, it’s entirely modern and interactive but interesting in parts, some stuff I knew well enough.
I don’t know why the Magdalene laundries needed two mentions. Is it possible that Catholic nuns also did good things in Ireland?
Ireland until at least the 1950s was mostly poor and life was harsh for many, it’s why so many people left.
Missed the regular palli rally by that much, saw a few walking back as I made my way home.
The Spar supermarket on one city corner was ‘Gay Spar’.
Really?
All in all I don’t like the city centre, crowded, grubby, with homeless encampments and other flotsam begging.

Tom
Tom
July 21, 2024 4:00 am
Beertruk
July 21, 2024 6:42 am
Reply to  Tom

Some of the stuff in the comments section is bloody hilarious as well.

Thank you Tom.

Ricky Gervais meme:

You found that offensive?
I found it funny.
That’s why I am happier than you.

Last edited 5 months ago by Beertruk
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 10:32 am
Reply to  Beertruk

My favourite:

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Maman
Maman
July 21, 2024 11:56 am
Reply to  Tom

And Leake’s cartoon with Biden in the hospital bed and Obama at his bedside is in the Comments!

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 6:48 am

Houthi drone strike in Tel Aviv. One civilian dead and ten reported wounded.

IDF responds.

According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.”

“Around” 10-12 F-35s are reported to have carried out the response.

Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 7:22 am
Reply to  Zatara

About time.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
July 21, 2024 8:13 am
Reply to  Zatara

There are a few international borders Israel had to cross to get at them. I suspect there are a few Arab nations that were not unhappy to have them pass through on their way to say hi to the Houthis.

That may have also had the effect of letting Iran know that they still care.

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 8:33 am

If the IDF coasted out at Eilat they could have stayed over water the whole way. Or crossed through Saudi, who has no love for the Houthis (and would likely have granted permission).

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 9:14 am
Reply to  Zatara

Some of these “terrorist” organizations are slow on the uptake, aren’t they? .. Time after time they get demonstrations of the Israeli reaction and still they think, “Let’s try again, this time it might be different” …. furglewitz …….!

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 7:00 am

What fun watching some MSNBC teeth and hair airhead intoning today’s criticisms of the RNC. My favourites:

“They couldn’t even attract a single celebrity”.
“They had ordinary working people on stage”.
“These people are white surpremacists, how dare they insult people of colour by having token minority preachers on stage”.

I realise it is all just a scripted production but geez, Goebbles they ain’t!

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 21, 2024 7:23 am

I still have nightmares about trying to colour grade
a faded 16mm print of The Searchers on the fly.
Back in the days of the Cintel Flying Spot Scanner,
there was nothing racist about the technical term
crushing the blacks.

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Mak Siccar
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

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:48 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

Oh Lord. A ‘doctor’ from Macquarie uni. That tenth rate intellectual cesspit.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:25 am
Reply to  Miltonf

The PhD has been devalued everywhere in the past twenty years, with some ridiculous efforts being awarded the honour. However, Macquarie has always veered more to the left than elsewhere, especially in its law school. I taught at Macquarie on a part-time sessional basis for a while in the mid 70’s while pregnant with my second child. I never liked the place, coming from a Teaching Fellowship, tutorship and Commonwealth post-graduate scholarship at Sydney University. Things were still bearable at Sydney Uni, scholarly and measured, even during those heady anti-Vietnam and then Whitlam years. Macquarie didn’t excite with any originality of thought.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:49 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

The Parkinson humourless mediocrity is VC there. Very appropriate.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
July 21, 2024 9:27 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

They don’t like it up ‘em…

Bazinga
Bazinga
July 21, 2024 1:27 pm
Reply to  Mak Siccar

Deport, problem solved.

Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 7:42 am

Whilst the UK is quickly descending into a sectarian & tribal ethno-religious state, it’s far easier for the UK to blame one of their devils for the Leeds riots……Nigel Farage.

LOL

Meanwhile, whilst sections of the UK media are now blaming Farage, all because of a tweet he put out, the same UK media are now lauding a Leeds based Islamist pin-up boy for his spurious attempts at ‘social cohesion’, even though this same Islamist was just recently elected as a ‘Greens’ candidate in Leeds, and he wasn’t elected on much of a ‘social cohesion’ platform because when he won he shouted, screamed and screeched…….

‘Allah Akbar’

and

‘Free Palestine’

Hmm, forget about ‘social cohesion’ in the UK (and coming here), it’s now ‘Islam cohesion’.

The UK is crumbling before our eyes.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 7:53 am

Having learned exactly zero from the past week in the States, the UK media and their prog masters are now putting Farage in the bullseye.

And being the UK, he will have very little protection.

Farage isn’t a stupid man. He knows the burley is in the water and the stage is being set.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:28 am
Reply to  calli

Better start praying for him now, those who pray.

Maybe I could try it too. I think there is some unusual power in prayerful thoughts.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 21, 2024 8:14 pm

Remember Chesterton: “We are the people of England and we have not spoken yet.”

duncanm
duncanm
July 21, 2024 7:46 am

Oil facilities in Yemen’s largest port are on fire.

FAFO.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1814710537324011561

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:02 am
Reply to  duncanm

Boo Yah!!!

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 21, 2024 8:52 am
Reply to  duncanm

Muslims never learn. You don’t fcuk with Israel.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 7:49 am

Thanks Tom.

My favourite isn’t funny at all, but a reflection of a broken voting system.

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Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 7:49 am

Israel has attacked Yemen.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:30 am

Hmm. Still looking at cruising in the Arabian Sea in December.

I’m hoping things will have settled down by then.
Glad this came now not later.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:53 am

Yes I’m afraid so Cassie. The insane green policies have shades of Romania in the late 80s too. The despicable establishment seems to have fully quashed all the excitement and optimism of 2016.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 21, 2024 8:00 am

FFS.

The Theros was a wind and solar-powered vessel piloted by the pair to show how travel can be done without using fossil fuels.

Considering how many millennia mariners have managed to
sail the seven seas without the added benefit of fossil fuels,
it must’ve been the solar power wot done it.

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:03 am

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Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:03 am
Reply to  Pogria

Bugger, won’t link.

132andBush
132andBush
July 21, 2024 8:06 am

The Theros was a wind and solar-powered vessel piloted by the pair to show how travel can be done without using fossil fuels.

Solar powered bilge pumps would only go for so long if you spring a leak.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 10:28 am
Reply to  132andBush

Hand powered, just like the old days?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 10:38 am
Reply to  Boambee John

Solar powered – legislation being passed that ships only get leaks during cloudless days and not at night.
Yeah. I’m being sarcastic yet again.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:31 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

I wonder if they are going to have masts and carry sails as back up?

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:06 am
Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:32 am
Reply to  Zippster

There are FOUR Great Men in the world at this time.
Benyamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump.
Victor Orban.
Javier Milei.

God, I hope more have the nads to step up.

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 8:37 am
Reply to  Pogria

Add Pierre Poilievre to that list. He’ll be booting out Trudeau sooner than later I think and the man takes no BS from anyone.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:32 am
Reply to  Zatara

And JD Vance? Coming up.

Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 8:53 am
Reply to  Pogria

Add Elon Musk to the list, even though he is not a politician he can see and express what is happening.

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 9:03 am
Reply to  Crossie

The center has shifted so far to the left, that a progressive like Musk is now far right!

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 9:59 am
Reply to  Zippster

Thanks to all of you for the extra names.
It’s a great start.
Perhaps Dover could run a side bar with the names of the Good ones, which we could add to as we find them.
With a short bio of each.

cohenite
July 21, 2024 10:14 am
Reply to  Crossie

And even the alien who owns space chook said he was moved to tears by Trump’s reaction to being shot.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 21, 2024 1:39 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Modi.

Tom
Tom
July 21, 2024 8:08 am

Haha. Sly News Australia has been live-casting Donald Trump’s Michigan rally speech, including his allegation of medlia “lies and disinformation”.

Thankfully, the rally is indoors so it’s harder for the Secret Service to get him killed.

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:11 am

All in all I don’t like the city centre, crowded, grubby, with homeless encampments and other flotsam begging.

cheerful squalor, the left’s favourite environment

Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 8:56 am
Reply to  Zippster

Gives you an idea of how the elites think of our cities. These are no longer showcases of the best we have to offer but illustrate the capitulation of our leaders to urban terrorists.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 9:01 am
Reply to  Zippster

Fearful squalor.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 10:46 am
Reply to  calli

Chaos – the Lefts favourite environment.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
July 21, 2024 8:11 am

If only we had here in Oz pollies with the gonads to pursue and implement these four strategic objectives. I can but live in hope ….

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/project_2025_the_video_that_refutes_the_leftist_lies.html

Whenever confronted by the truth, leftists will always fall back on their one true talent; lying through their teeth.

Consider the contrast: While President Trump has shown he’s an exceptional leader, the “Democrats” are down to the level of demonizing his movement by bringing up Project 2025. What it shows is that they have nothing to offer the country but lies, projection, and fear.

They have all decided – as one – to demonize Project 2025, the plans to shrink the size of our behemoth bureaucratic state. 

This is a short excerpt of the forward of the supposedly ‘fascist’ plan:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely — what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”

This is what the head of the intellectuals over on ‘The View’ refers to as ‘fascism.’ 

For reference, this is the most accurate definition of fascism

“As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer.”

By this definition, fascism is what we have here in abundance, particularly in Sicktoria, NSW and Qld.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 8:19 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

You forgot WA, SA and Tasmania along with the NT.

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:22 am
132andBush
132andBush
July 21, 2024 8:22 am

Comrade Montgomery upthread;

There is no mechanism for the party to roll Biden at this point. He has the primary votes, the funding, and the power of incumbency. I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.

August 5 is apparently the date after which Biden has the nomination officially, which should be the end of the current silliness. But probably won’t.

Fervently hoping necromancy is not dead.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:36 am
Reply to  132andBush

lol, Bush.

I don’t think Biden will be the candidate but that they’ll keep him breathing and upright just long enough to open up the Convention to a new candidate. That said, Biden may upset this applecart by simply being stubborn and staying put. With all the money.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 8:23 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:45 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Eyrie, Burmese are expensive but I think you are ensuring their future if anything happens you. If you can afford it and cope with two, then two cats are a wonderful team. They get to love each other so much, and you equally as much. They don’t get lonely especially if you are out much during the day. In the 60’s we always had ‘two cats in the yard’ in our group house. One was a Siamese, the other a rescue tabby. In the turmoil of bringing home my first baby to the group house, and in the utter chaos of its disintegration after one of the members was having it off with my husband. This led to my departure with the baby, as I was taken in during my great distress by other kindly academics, and the cats disappeared in all the shouting and side-taking. I don’t know what happened to either of them, but I knew the Siamese would have found another home. There were rumours of that. The tabby, I fear not. I suspect she ended up as roadkill, but no body was ever found. People told me later they did search for them both.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 8:26 am

Every day both here and in the US, the meja continue to reveal themselves to be the idiotic, spiteful and condescending, blinked liars that they are. Agree there are some good writers in the Oz but the muck served up by Kelly, Sheridan and Ullmann to name but three mean that I cannot in good conscience let any of my hard earned go their way.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 8:42 am
Reply to  Miltonf

I cancelled when I lost my job; its not like there are professional job ads any more.
Now I often want to resubscribe because I want to read some articles from behind the paywall. But I KNOW I will be enraged, and waste time commenting only to see the nasty mods leave my comments in purgatory until its too late to have others read them.

So blow it, no subscription for them!

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 9:00 am
Reply to  Chris

I stopped buying it after they made krudd Australian of the year but that’s ancient history now

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
July 21, 2024 9:38 am
Reply to  Miltonf

I was disappointed Ullmann shat the bed as well, albeit he was only ever ‘relatively’ sensible to begin with.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:47 am
Reply to  Miltonf

This weekend’s edition was well worth throwing them a few dollars to read in hard copy. That might be the best solution for those not wanting to subscribe.

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:26 am

Cassie,
your comment on the UK led to comparing what is happening there, to the film “28 Days Later”.
UK is the Lab experimenting with Rage Virus on Chimps. Muslims were nick named Rage Monkeys years ago. Coincidence?

Do gooders release the poor little chimps from the lab in the the “name of freedom”, doncha know.

This is equivalent to flooding the UK with rag heads because, “poor little things”, will be different in a “free” country.

But, it doesn’t work out the way the do gooders had planned. The Rage Monkeys attack and kill without remorse or any sort of human feeling whatever. The worst part is, the rage is contagious. It is Rabies like in it’s effect.

The Government has no way of dealing with the problem because it has become weak and dissipated over the years. The ordinary person tries their hardest to avoid the contagion but, they are stymied because they are not allowed to defend themselves.

The decision is made to abandon the UK for six months. It is an island. Hopefully, the contagion will have killed itself by then. If there are survivors, they will most likely be imprisoned upon discovery and quarantined, “for their own good”.

And never heard of again.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 8:32 am

Seeing the discredited old Chills and his old slag regurgitating lawyer Starmer’s Marxist poison made me feel quite ill. The British establishment.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 9:13 am
Reply to  Miltonf

He doesn’t get any choice, despite probably agreeing with much of it.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 9:46 am
Reply to  H B Bear

I reckon he would agree with most of it

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 8:33 am

Thanks for your travel notes Rosie!

I don’t know why the Magdalene laundries needed two mentions. Is it possible that Catholic nuns also did good things in Ireland?

About 15 years ago when I was commenting at Butterflies and Wheels, a lady there was describing sitting in the gallery of court hearings at that time, making rosaries as a visible show of the way they as child inmates were forced to work.
It sounded pretty harsh.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:49 am
Reply to  Chris

The times in general were pretty harsh, especially in Ireland.

Dare I mention ‘Angela’s Ashes’. Why yes, I think I can.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:40 am

Never bought a cat in my life.
Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?”
What can you say to that?

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 9:23 am
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Same here, never bought a cat tho it’s been at least 25 years since there wasn’t one living here .. at one stage I had 7 but, thankfully, ageing has them down to 2 now .. Both will, probably, outlast me .. LOL!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 11:05 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Fatso was gift from the Child Bride and she was very cagey about where he came from, Buddy was a stroll in who adopted us.
Elsie is just a loan.
I think she will be my last cat.
I gave her a bit of a brush down a week ago. The lacerations have mostly healed but I think some scarring will be evidence of her enthusiasm for the process. I got quite a lot of fur from her – enough, I think, to knit another cat if I want a small one.
I’m looking for a dog – more as a bit of protection and company than anything else, if anyone has a spare they don’t need any more, I’m after a middle aged mid size derg. My block is 2000 square meters so plenty of room for hole digging etc.
Apparently I have a good home.
🙂

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 8:41 am

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).

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Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 10:34 am
Reply to  Roger

The true haters are lefturds.

Take one step off the plantation…

Rabz
July 21, 2024 8:47 am

Romania. Christmas Day 1989, when the people finally rose up and overthrew the tyrant and executed him and his missus in the street.

Should be more of it.

The Ceausescu’s ignominious demise is one of the most heart warming tales of the last forty years.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:47 am

Trump is worth bottling.
He just said in Michigan that Kamala is crazy, not Nancy Pelosi crazy, but she’s crazy.
He’s Baaack!

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 8:49 am

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.

Our Muslima friends seem to have difficulty grasping the truth defence and fair comment.

Why is that, I wonder?

Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?

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Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:08 am
Reply to  Roger

Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?

Yes.

Takiyya says that they are permitted to lie to the infidels. The whole of their code of ethics is summed up in one word, depends.

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 10:03 am
Reply to  Crossie

Depends.
Yes, they are full of piss and shit. 😀

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 11:16 am
Reply to  Crossie

I’d think “Lies” is a better descriptor, but yours is OK.
“These people lie.” IDF Spokesheila.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 10:36 am
Reply to  Roger

Isn’t it waaycissst to have different words for men and women?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 11:13 am
Reply to  Roger

Wodger:

Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?

Actually, they do. They are steeped into the beliefs of their cult from day one. They honestly believe they are Allahs Chosen People and are genuinely perplexed by our refusal to acknowledge this.
I’m not being disingenuous about this – their entire world view centres on them being special – and they genuinely do not understand how we cannot see the validity of their religious viewpoint. Of course this position leads them to the supposition that we are servants of Satan and must be destroyed, which is where kitman and taqiyya become necessary.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 12:11 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Another reason for the popularity in the Arab nations is the automatic superiority of men over women. If you are a male with an IQ of 70, you are automatically superior to every woman in the world. It must be a great relief to know when you get out of bed in the morning that you are better than Marie Curie, Golda Meir, Amelia Earhart, and Indira Gandhi. So now he can go about herding his goats with a clear understanding of his greatness in the Islamic world.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 21, 2024 1:51 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

herding? Is that what they call it. Procreating with goats to produce more little mo’s.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 21, 2024 1:48 pm
Reply to  Roger

And yet it is only the males that are special, the females are the workhorses and chattels.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 8:50 am

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

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 9:28 am

Amazing ..! I had to look it up cos wondered how at that age he could fly a Spitfire .. saw the pix and its been modified with a 2nd seat .. Incredible ..!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 11:38 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

IIRC, the Spitfire is an original trainer, “The Duchess of Somewhere or other”.
Going on memory here – I’ll look for a link and post it – see how well the memory is working.
OK. Can’t find it. Bugger.

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Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:50 am

Australian economy in ‘recovery phase’ following major IT outage: Clare O’Neil

what would we do without these bozos?

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 8:51 am

Gotta hand it to West Yorkshire plod .. ensuring the streets are safe for “peaceable” rioting ……..!
https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1814559045576982627

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 21, 2024 8:52 am

Mutt of the week– $100 is as close to Free To A Good Home as it gets these days.

Tom
Tom
July 21, 2024 9:00 am
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Yep. My brother’s beautiful purebred young kelpie, a cattle dog rescued from a box in a paddock on Victoria’s western plains, cost $1000.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 11:52 am
Reply to  Wally Dalí

They don’t seem to have the ability to match an owners requirements up to a specific list of dogs.
Am I missing something here?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 21, 2024 8:57 am

Tom @08:08am…

Thankfully, the rally is indoors so it’s harder for the Secret Service to get him killed.

Haha – nice one centurion.

Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:19 am
Reply to  Barking Toad

So they have managed to limit his rally numbers. I would call it a win for Cheatle.

Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 9:03 am

It’s more important for the Arabs of ‘Palestine’ to not ever have a Jewish state than it is for them to have a ‘Palestinian’ state alongside a Jewish state.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 9:26 am

The Arabs of “Palestine” have had a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 9:42 am

And they tried to murder its king, kill its soldiers and take it over.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 21, 2024 9:06 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 11:56 am
Reply to  Black Ball

My friend has reached out back to me and we are agreeing to disagree.
There is more that unites us than separates us, we both know that.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 12:17 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Can I shorten her message somewhat?
“An Aboriginal Enlightenment.”
… or “How we forced Aboriginal Australia into growing the Fark up by cutting off all subsidies and racial legal empowerment which turned out to be velvet chains.”

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Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:15 am

Is God having a laugh at us or is it humour from hell? The boss of the Secret Service is called Cheatle while the assassin is a Crooks.

Beertruk
July 21, 2024 9:20 am

For anyone that is interested in Army Aviation:

Australian Army Flying Museum | Oakey 2024

It goes for 1:10:08 minutes
Ive booked marked it to watch the rest later when I have time.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 9:33 am
Reply to  Beertruk

You could just go there.

Beertruk
July 21, 2024 10:33 am
Reply to  Eyrie

I do Eyrie.
I do volunteer work in the imaging section at the museum workshop on the Army Aviation Training Centre base most Wednesdays.
Wednesday last week marked 50 years of the CH47 Chinook being in service with the ADF. The function was held at the display area where Scott is doing the interview.
Next week the conversation is going to be ‘Did ya see Scotty’s interview???’… ‘Yair…hope he is putting up a couple of cartons for us’…’didn’t think he would scrub up so well’…etc etc etc… 🙂
Scott was also an Army loadie on the Iroquois.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 2:21 pm
Reply to  Beertruk

Very interesting and very informative.
I was surprised at the level of enthusiasm for the Pilatus Porter – wasn’t it supposed to be a deathtrap with doors falling off and similar?
Also the Eurocopter being well thought of or am I mixing up the Tiger and the Eurocopter?
Damn. I’ve driven past the place many many times on the way to Brisbane but have never had the time to stop.
I should make the time….

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 9:25 am

Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:40 am

Never bought a cat in my life.
Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?”
What can you say to that?

Good stuff, Gez.

The cat I just buried was born in the wall cavity of mum’s laundary. She lasted 20+ years.

Crossie
Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:29 am

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.

Any other consideration is either racism or classism, it is like telling people you will never be able to look after yourselves or your families because you are black, brown or even poor white*.

*JD Vance is a shining example of a poor white person rising to the top purely due to his own determination and actions. The left hates him because he undercuts their message, he wants to deprive the left of their dependent voters.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 9:29 am

Indolent
 July 20, 2024 11:26 pm
Why They Hate
Let me see if I have this right from the article:
Considering that Allah has left the world to Islam, there can never be peace. All lands not occupied by Islam belong to Islam – they are occupied by the Infidel. Therefore they must be liberated and any Muslim who treats with the enemy – unless it is under the auspices of Kitman deception – as an apostate who must be killed for his apostasy.

Hamas must be defeated, unequivocally, and following the end of the present wars against Hamas, a multi-generational effort by the civilized world will be required to reeducate the Middle East to renounce Jew hatred among the Muslims of Gaza, Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon, and Judea and Samaria.

That leaves us with little choice. Either we submit or we die.
?There is the third option. We kill every Muslim who fails to convert to Christianity, destroy every Mosque and burn out of existence every trace of Islam.
Those are the choices that Islam presents us with – they are certainly not mine, but they are theirs.
Choices, choices, choices.

Bazinga
Bazinga
July 21, 2024 1:34 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

I accept your counter offer

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 21, 2024 1:57 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Its not a choice, its us or them.

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 9:32 am

Australian economy in ‘recovery phase’ following major IT outage: Clare O’Neil

what would we do without these bozos?

Oz economy is on Elon’s space rocket flights level .. gotta be cos Luigi is throwing $600 million taxpayer funds at PNG to create their very own NRL “thugby” team ……

Morsie
Morsie
July 21, 2024 9:34 am

Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding a huge payout and an apology after it was revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants.
Havent looked but I wouldnt be surprised if its Marque lawyers again.

Morsie
Morsie
July 21, 2024 9:40 am

James Clyburn will go apeshit if Kamala is booted and replaced by a non black.

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 10:25 am
Reply to  Morsie

How about another dark skinned Indian, which is what Kamala is if we are going to play the race game? (1/2 Indian, 1/4 black, 1/4 white)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 9:45 am

via Instapundit:

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Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
July 21, 2024 11:40 am

Stanley Kubrick really nailed the lighting and angles for that shot. Good thing he was such a stickler for details and insisted on filming on location!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:34 pm

It was my 26th birthday. I remember it well, sitting watching it in Manning House at Sydney University, shadowy figures on the TV in the cafeteria.

DavidH
DavidH
July 21, 2024 6:50 pm

I see Buzz’s hashtag is “TheRealBuzz”. What a lost opportunity when it could have been “TheRealBuzzLightyear”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 11:30 am
Reply to  Zippster

Somebody is behind Biden. If not Barry,who?

Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 9:49 am

And just to show, yet again, how utterly depraved and repulsive the MSM is, it’s worth watching Nigel Farage demolish the excrement called Emily Mateless……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIqeQzc1t8&t=9s

That’s how you deal with the scum.

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 10:32 am

He would have been better off walking past and ignoring her entirely.

Politicians need to learn that all microphones are not good microphones, but I suppose that’s too much to ask of most of them.

cohenite
July 21, 2024 9:51 am

Clown’s world:

https://x.com/RealMacReport/status/1814491691874955710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1814491691874955710%7Ctwgr%5Ec127b9c1d1ac4bcfd1bfc71a8c7973ab7f7ab0e4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F07%2Fcover-up-senator-josh-hawley-told-fbi-leave%2F

Sen. Josh Hawley: “Today when I went to that sight, the FBI has got more security on that sight now than they did the night Trump was shot out. FBI trying to totally control the information. They try to kick me off of the sight. They said ‘Get Outta here ! You shouldn’t be on the sight’. I had the permission from the local, the FBI came out and said you have got to leave, we don’t want you here.”

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 9:55 am

Hillary Clinton is reportedly considering a run for president in 2024 against Donald Trump, according to various sources and social media discussions. This potential candidacy has sparked a range of reactions, with some expressing skepticism and others supporting the idea. The discussions also touch on the implications of such a run, including the potential impact on the Democratic Party and the dynamics of a rematch with Trump. There is also speculation about the role of other prominent figures, such as Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election. (Test)

bwahhahahahahaha

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 10:19 am
Reply to  Zippster

Oh, I do hope that the putrid creature does run.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:47 am
Reply to  bons

She’ll have to arkancide Joe first.

I have the feeling the more pressure they apply to him the more the stubborn old man is inclined to stay put.

But if he does go, he’ll hand the baton to Harris.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 11:05 am
Reply to  Roger

Btw, I had a laugh this morning when ABC reported that Biden’s doctor told the press his covid patient’s vital signs were “absolutely normal.”

Not just normal, but absolutely normal!

Chuckle.

Zatara
Zatara
July 21, 2024 10:36 am
Reply to  Zippster

Well, Clinton is totally unelectable and isn’t risking a thing to run. So there’s that.

On the other hand the Dems would have to pitch hard to get their core voters over the whole ‘ignoring the entitled “black” woman’ thing and that’s not going to happen.

Too many of them remember bitterly when Bernie got shafted/bribed by the party to end his run for the party preferred candidate.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 9:55 am

shatterzzz
 July 21, 2024 2:05 am

This comes as Germany struggles to manage migration and assist asylum seekers while also appeasing a growing proportion of voters who are being enticed by Right-wing politicians pushing anti-migrant rhetoric – a stark contrast from former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migration policy, through which she allowed one million refugees enter Germany in 2015.

I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?
And what will they do about it?

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 11:35 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Thanx, excellent link article ……..!

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:01 am

First Trump rally since the assassination attempt in blue state Michigan.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:26 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Not a spare seat in the house either.

cohenite
July 21, 2024 10:02 am

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.

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 11:40 am
Reply to  cohenite

Methinx the “musso” political hardliners have seen the advantages of pushing their women to the front, after the very soft Labor & Coalition response to Senator “Fat Paycheque’s” defection …..
It wil last as long as it furthers the ‘we is victims” cause ……!

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:03 am

I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?

And what will they do about it?

Ban any opposition.

The German ruling caste is attempting to do this.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 10:08 am
Reply to  Roger

Again.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:16 am

And they don’t see the irony.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 3:31 pm
Reply to  Roger

Even though there aren’t many remaining from the ones who fought the last war, they have an institutionalised memory of the chaos and death that was visited on them.

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:09 am

@HawleyMO

The disgraced and inept Alejandro Mayorkas has time to comment at length on things said by random people on Twitter – but no time to appear before Congress & the people to ANSWER QUESTIONS about how his Dept nearly allowed Trump to be assassinated

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 10:16 am
Reply to  Indolent

It’s a cover up. And when there’s a cover up there’s something to cover up.

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:12 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:23 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Interesting free floating article.

Before I could get my exact question right, Vance launched. “Israel is a country and a nation that doesn’t hate its own fucking people,” he said. “I really admire that.”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:25 pm
Reply to  Indolent

aargh. Sorry I forgot the asterisk in ‘f*ck’ and comment on Vance is in moderation. Shame when we can’t quote others using the f word. it’s pretty common in parlance today. I loved it btw when at his Conference speech, and as the movie showed, Vance said his Mamaw used the f word freely.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:15 am

‘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.

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MatrixTransform
July 21, 2024 12:07 pm
Reply to  Roger

time to quit mucking around

just put the plantation to work on some decent pyramids

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 10:18 am

One benefit of reading the swill on Twit er X is that among the swine and NPCs are some real legends.

Larry Correia

@monsterhunter45

I come from an honor culture and was taught to be a man of honesty, unafraid to stand up against liars and manipulators, which is why I will proudly tell a mealy-mouthed lukewarm quisling f ck like you to take your sanctimonious shame attempt and shove it up your a ss.

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Bluey
Bluey
July 21, 2024 10:31 am
Reply to  Chris

Larry is great, even before the sad puppies saga he was unafraid to fight back and say what he means.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 10:35 am
Reply to  Chris

I’ve been meaning to try his SF books. Must do so, although I’m still working through the various novels I’ve bought.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 10:46 am

I enjoyed a few Monster Hunter books, but Son of the Black Sword series is RIVETING.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 11:39 am
Reply to  Chris

Keynesianism always leads to malinvestment, misallocation of capital, …

Maybe talk to FMG minority shareholders or Victorian taxpayers about misallocation of capital.

Makka
Makka
July 21, 2024 10:28 am

The disgraced and inept Alejandro Mayorkas

……… is playing his part trying to cover up the inside job he and the Biden Administration has orchestrated- the (attempted) assassination of DJT.

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 10:32 am
Arky
July 21, 2024 10:35 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:13 pm
Reply to  Arky

Yes, I think you are right there, Arky. Certainly not in open field territory anyway.

Arky
July 21, 2024 10:39 am

Maybe a lot of commie traitors will be tuning into Trump rallies live hoping for a repeat, but accidentally getting a lecture on reality instead.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 21, 2024 11:09 am

Interesting comment on an Oz article. Says he was on a Finnish plane with Finnish pilots designated as a Qantas flight. Cabin crew Singaporean. Flying Singapore to Sydney and Singaporean crew welcoming them to country!
Just proves how ridiculous it has become.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 21, 2024 11:19 am

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.

This invariable Iron Law invariably gets lost in what passes for public discussion.

The unraveling hydrogen economy is a classic case in point: the central plank of the Government’s Net Zero strategy has been kicked away by a single actor in a sea of spivs and mainchancers (for masochists and tragic energy wonks: a listing of Australian hydrogen projects – mostly feasting on OPM).

After a day of media gasping and sniggering, it’s a forgotten non-issue, too hard or too uninteresting to unpick and reflect upon.

But the basis of the figleaf Renewable Superpower Masterplan has been gutshot – leaving behind the skeleton of a ruined energy economy.

Unremarked, for all to see.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 11:32 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Over to you, Peter Dutton.

Arky
July 21, 2024 11:47 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society

True, however this is not the same as saying there is NO role for governments in industry.
All levels of government are required to respond to changes in the economy brought about by new technologies.
The problem today is that governments driven by an insane religious fervour have tried to be the initial driver of a technological change which the general public does not want, instead of responding to technological changes readily adopted by the public.
The process should be:

New technology invented.Private investors speculate on public uptake of technology.Public embraces technology.Companies invest in the successful speculative activities.Public begins using new technology at increasing levels.All levels of government develop policies to help production of new technology.Like the way railroads were built. Some towns were built around stations, Whereas cities had to accomodate themselves to get stations. If cities hadn’t planned for stations and tracks, railroads might not have been so successful, but if governments had tried to pick a successful technology to do what rail did after the steam engine was invented, they would have chosen something stupid and killed off the whole thing.

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 21, 2024 12:11 pm
Reply to  Arky

Wouldn’t disagree (and I believe there can be a place for government investment to lower the cost of supply of certain goods and services).

However, the Albanese Government is working on a wholly different basis:

…we must recognise there is a new and widespread willingness to make economic interventions on the basis of national interest and national sovereignty.

And – critically – none of this is being left solely to market forces or trusted to the invisible hand.

The heavy lifting of economic transition and industrial transformation is not being done by individuals, companies or communities on their own.

It is being facilitated, enabled and empowered by national Governments from every point on the political spectrum.

This model has government inventing and attempting to impose ‘transition’ and ‘transformation’ for political purposes – and then being ambushed by the fact that market forces have different information and don’t agree.

Arky
July 21, 2024 12:24 pm
Reply to  Arky

Editing a post seems to lose some formatting.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 12:39 pm
Reply to  Arky

governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society

True, however this is not the same as saying there is NO role for governments in industry.

It’s another way of saying that governments are bad at picking winners. The role of government in the economy is basically to establish the legal framework for business at all levels of investment, be it small, medium or large, to be able to operate and succeed, providing the public with goods and services, employment and tax revenue for essential public services and so on.

There is a case to be made for governments building infrastructure that genuinely increases productivity where private capital is not immediately attracted to directly invest to a sufficient level, eg. roads. railways and ports in the 19th C. But even then, the governments that did so were borrowing private funds from overseas on reasonable terms and the cost was spread over a long period of time.

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cohenite
July 21, 2024 11:24 am

I cant remember last week’s WIP so I’ll link to it because it’s so good:

The Week in Pictures: Anyway. . . | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

The EV and the milk girl are great.

johanna
johanna
July 21, 2024 11:31 am

An article at TheirABC about the Twiggy implosion quotes these figures for the efficiency of energy storage:

There are some simple dynamics working against hydrogen as a fuel.
It might be more efficient than petrol but it doesn’t rate against a battery-driven vehicle.

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.

I don’t understand these figures, and no citation is provided.

Can anyone shed any light? TIA.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/green-hydrogen-forrest-fortescue/104120492

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 11:47 am
Reply to  johanna

I suspect it is all about the efficiency of the conversion of one source to another. As usual the ALPBC are being economical with the truth, BoN has noted hydrocarbons are very energy dense (by weight, volume whatever). Given the choice between a truck load of coal and a few windy days I know what I’m choosing.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 11:55 am
Reply to  johanna

Yeah. The problem with water electrolysis is that it takes an overvoltage to start the production of hydrogen. About a volt. That extra overvoltage translates directly to heat, which is wasted. There’re overvoltages on both the positive and negative electrodes.

Vast amounts of effort have gone into reducing these overvoltages, with very limited success.

Overall it takes about 50 kWh of electricity per kg of hydrogen. The theoretical minimum is 40 kWh/kg. All you need to know is that hydrogen has an energy content of 0.142 GJ/kg, thus one GJ is 7 kg of hydrogen.

The price of one GJ of natural gas is about US$2.10 at today’s price. So you can only equal that in hydrogen by producing it at 30c/kg. Which means, since it takes 50 kWh per kg that the electricity price has to be 0.6c/kWh.

Which is ludicrous.

And that’s even before the capital cost, interest, depreciation and manning costs.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 12:08 pm

Vast amounts of effort have gone into reducing these overvoltages, with very limited success

None of these problems are new. People have been looking to store grid levels of electricity since it was invented. Ditto vaccines for viruses.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 21, 2024 12:22 pm
Reply to  johanna

Ian Verrender has done Google and come up with numbers he likes, but probably doesn’t understand.

This looks like a mix of different efficiency measures, for different technologies, incompletely described – certainly not comparable.

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 21, 2024 11:33 am

The thoughts of Robert Barnes – a fascinating discussion on the attempted assassination. 60 minute Youtube.

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 21, 2024 11:42 am

Just thought on the ‘outage’. As A.I. rapidly takes over, there will be no guarantee of the veracity of any information delivered digitally. A.I. can subtly change everything digital and people will not pick it up. Each issue will be fixed by digital repairs which will create more issues. It is an IT circle. My guess is five years before the A.I. destroys the trust. Noting will happen much for a few years. Issues- patches- security, a coverup whirlwind until a sudden the panic. Everything: your bank, your contracts, your history can be changed in a second. Even me and this statement may be fake. You will never know.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 11:44 am
Reply to  johnjjj

I know.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 12:10 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

Clippy didn’t help.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 4:34 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

I recently bought a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for about $800. When I explained why, my family looked puzzled.
“Because they can’t change this copy from the internet.”
I expect the blokes from the Fire Department to turn up any day now.*
*Gratuitous reference to Fahrenheit 451.
🙂

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 21, 2024 10:17 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

there is a theory that Google and Microsoft have archived all the information now (pre AI) as the future information will be untrustworthy and the two companies will be the only ones with the truth. So you are on the right track.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 11:47 am

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%.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 12:00 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Also hydrogen is a total bitch on equipment.
1) Atoms are small and treat containment like a dry airborne virus particle going through an N95 mask. Expect storage to be expensive and not lossless.
2) Hydrogen damages steel, reducing its strength. When I went parachuting years ago, one of the articles we had to read explained hydrogen embrittlement as it applied to harness buckles. TLDR: electroplating puts hydrogen into the steel, eventually making it liable to snap. A long bake in a furnace after plating is necessary to prevent embrittlement.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  Chris

Yep, even rocket engineers avoid hydrogen as fuel unless it is absolutely required for performance reasons.
Musk and others have chosen methane which is liquid at temperatures not too different from liquid oxygen and doesn’t screw the stainless steel tanks in Musk’s case.
Best way to use hydrogen is by attaching the atoms to little nano sized chains of carbon atoms aka natural gas, petrol, diesel etc.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 12:24 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Best way to use hydrogen 

🙂

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 12:08 pm
Reply to  Chris

You can also attach the hydrogen to a nitrogen atom and make hydrazine (NH2) or Ammonia (NH3). The former is good as rocket fuel as it stores at room temperature and with N2)4 is hypergolic (doesn’t need an igniter, just mix) .
AFAIK the last use of ammonia in a rocket engine was in the X-15 and I gather that it was so horrible nobody will do that again.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 12:11 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

So it is rocket science?

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 12:22 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Lol
Rocket engineering isn’t rocket science.

Beertruk
July 21, 2024 1:42 pm
Reply to  Chris

So it is rocket science?

Lol

Rocket engineering isn’t rocket science.

I have no idea what I just read.
I am/was but a ‘humble RAAOC Clerk Tech.’

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:06 pm

*JD Vance is a shining example of a poor white person rising to the top purely due to his own determination and actions. The left hates him because he undercuts their message, he wants to deprive the left of their dependent voters.

Last nite we hunkered down in the warmth of the fire and watched the movie of JC Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’. We both thought it was a total knockout, one of the best movies of recent years and wondered how we had missed it so far. We’re also ordering the book.

There was a point when Mamaw, his Appalachian grandma, asked by Vance as a teen why she helped him, reflected that without her, what would happen to ‘family’? For family is foundational, always, such a great truth. At that point I admit I lost it, heaving sobs, and Hairy came over to put his hand on my shoulder. This is a great story of poverty and the cultures of poverty, of the honest, proud and God-fearing Hillbilly familial past and of the druggie present in the wilds of the American rust belts. Bloody marvellous.

It ended in 2016. Never, says Hairy then, was it truer said that ‘and the rest is history’.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:07 pm

I think it was one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had, to watch it and feel it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:09 pm

Typo – JD Vance, not JC

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 12:18 pm

No surprise Marxists have had the family in their sights from the get go. Still one of the strangest indicators for long term success is a traditional 2 parent family, despite what the ALPBC would have you believe.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 4:39 pm

 At that point I admit I lost it, heaving sobs, and Hairy came over to put his hand on my shoulder. 

And that is why they invented three seat lounges, Lizzie. He would have been close enough that he didn’t need to get up and walk over to you.
Greatest labor saving device known to man, the 3 seater lounge.

(OK, I’m joking. 🙂 )

JC
JC
July 21, 2024 12:18 pm

Liz

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

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:41 pm
Reply to  JC

One uptick for you from me, JC. Nuffink from Charlie, and wouldn’t really want it prematurely. lol. Still 18 good years to go. Hanging out perhaps for King Willie.

JC
JC
July 21, 2024 12:45 pm
Reply to  JC

And even, hopefully, Will’s heir.

Makka
Makka
July 21, 2024 12:23 pm

johnjjj
 July 21, 2024 11:33 am

Fascinating indeed- thanks!

Great comments at 31 mins.

The incessant lawfare and assassination attempt on Trump were all Deep State ops but all efforts have failed because they have been planned and carried out by actors who are a combo of wokism, natural leftard ineptitude and DEI. Something like a Zoolander operation!

Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 21, 2024 12:25 pm

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2024 8:35 am

I’m a big fan of the Youtube channel of Lancashire man, Charles Veitch. He’s a local, he knows Yorkshire and Lancashire and other parts of the North of England. Overnight (our time) he’s ventured into Harehills, the area in Leeds where the riots are happening. It’s over fifty percent Muslim with a large population of Romany Romanians. Harehills proudly fly the Nazi Pallie flag

Ah, I thought the ‘Romanian’ reference as a flashpoint was curious when I first heard but add ‘Romani’ as a descriptor and it makes more sense. Can definitely behave in menacing ways.

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 2:03 pm

I watched the whole thing & thought the narrator had a Yank accent .. LOL!
Couldn’t work out the reference to him being Lancashire …

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johanna
johanna
July 21, 2024 12:26 pm

Thanks for answers on energy conversion.

My (amateur) impression of what others have said is that the problems with hydrogen as a fuel are well known and have been for some time.

Why on earth did Twiggy pick this basket to put his eggs in? It seems bizarre.

Did he think he was on the verge of some big breakthrough that would transform everything, or what?

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 12:31 pm
Reply to  johanna

No, he’s just a woke dickhead who can’t do maths or simple physics.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 2:40 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Ex WA insto stockbroker. Well versed in separating people from their money. Apologies to any of them reading. Know a few guys who operate in the added alpha end of the market. Great fun on the beers but keep an eye on your wallet.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 12:33 pm
Reply to  johanna

Twiggy thinks humidity will kill us all.
Obviously he hasn’t spent much time in the tropics/

MatrixTransform
July 21, 2024 12:38 pm
Reply to  johanna

subsidies m’dear … free money

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 21, 2024 12:43 pm
Reply to  johanna

Simply a vanity project that demanded heaps of moola.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 12:58 pm

Specifically, other people’s moola. Ten percent for the (Forrest) trees.

JC
JC
July 21, 2024 12:37 pm

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

vr
vr
July 21, 2024 4:26 pm
Reply to  JC

Agree a 100% on this. Though the downward trend started under the previous editor Murray who is now at WaPo.

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 1:27 pm

This is exciting – for me at least.

I flew up here to the property yesterday. We are in the process of attempting to implement a vendor funded buyout by the property managers. Extraordinary complexity.

When I arrived, the managers who readily qualify as animal lunatics, displayed no interest whatsoever in matters financial. Instead they drove me up behind one of the sorghum paddocks where there was an ocean of brolgas, dancing.

It was mesmerising, and they are there still today.

There has been a few individuals and pairs in the past, but nothing like this.
The managers claimed that it was the benign season that attracted them to the district. But I knew differently.

Bruce has obviously been up here with his magic mince.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 21, 2024 1:37 pm
Reply to  bons

Hope you got some lovely photos, bons.

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 2:00 pm
Reply to  hzhousewife

No, stupid me, I didn’t think of it. I will ask the folks to get out the cameras if the visitors are still there.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 21, 2024 1:55 pm
Reply to  bons

😀

Having had for several years a pair of resident white-faced herons as fanatical mince lovers I suspect brolgas would like it also. Sadly the herons now’ve moved elsewhere, but they were a lot of fun at the time.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 2:43 pm

We have a few resident bin chickens if that helps.

bons
bons
July 21, 2024 3:00 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Ten points. Poor ole bin chooks – universally hated.

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 1:45 pm
Zatara
Zatara
July 22, 2024 4:07 am
Reply to  Indolent

Show up somewhere with an extradition treaty and you will.

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 2:04 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 2:07 pm
calli
calli
July 21, 2024 2:22 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Chortle.

How do you know if you’re having a panic attack? *looks at trousers and grimaces*

😀

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 2:16 pm

Dr. John Campbell

Moderna v Pfizer

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 2:21 pm

To be fair the homeless were on the perimeter, near the bus station, in tents along the river, and you get get beggars in every big city. I’m not one for crowds.
Most of the tourists seemed to be Americans, as expected and Spanish, not so much.
And there were men with carts (not a job relished by Irish feminists?) clearing rubbish and poor people, indigenous and immigrant, collecting refundable bottles, (which mostly involves pawing through rubbish bins which makes the refundable scheme seem redundant.

shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 2:50 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Maybe folk like me .. I don’t drive so collecting the “returnables” isn’t feasible .. I just put ’em all in plastic bags & when full leave ’em by one of the bins in the (next door) shopping centre for the “collectors” .. of whom we seem to have no shortage .. LOL!

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 2:34 pm

“It sounded pretty harsh”.
I did say that, and that life for many Irish even in the fifties and sixties was extraordinarily harsh. One roomed cottages with no electricity or running water, no jobs, a massive slump in agricultural exports, single mothers were a great burden for the Irish.
My point was they could have also shown the great good nuns did in Ireland, in education, hospitals, caring for the elderly etc but they chose not to.
International missionaries got a mention, not all positive either.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 3:21 pm
Reply to  Rosie

That’s the woke view in action in museum staff, I guess.
Christopher Hitchens probably set the tone with his slam of Mother Theresa.

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 4:37 pm
Reply to  Chris

There was a load of woke in the museum. It’s the flavour of Ireland. It’s funny how the church must atone for harshness but the neglect, beatings and abuse that occured in the family home rarely rates a mention.
Hitchens did not understand the charism of Mother Teresa. It was not to found hospitals and cure the sick but to allow those who would otherwise have died in a gutter a place to die in dignity. And yes they took unwanted babies out of rubbish bins too. Hitchens also was too stupid to realise that the people who took family members to Mother Teresa didn’t go for a cure either, they knew it was a hospice for the dying.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 21, 2024 8:29 pm
Reply to  Rosie

And though they try to deny it now, lay people and governments (supposedly the source of all wisdom and virtue) knew that the orphanages and many of the schools were brutal places and took pleasure in it (‘ah to be sure, the bruvvers will give him a good hiding if he acts up’). The Jansenist heresy, with its bleak view of God and humanity, penetrated deep into Ireland and, like all heresy, it was toxic.

damon
damon
July 21, 2024 2:48 pm

If the terrorists were serious, there would be a lot more nervousness among the families. One man died to protect his.

damon
damon
July 21, 2024 2:54 pm

How many secret service agents would you need to protect Biden’s family?

Arky
July 21, 2024 3:04 pm

I’m tired of hearing the words “former president Trump”.
”Former President” Is not a title. There is no such office*.
There is a “former Presidents Act”. Small “f” capital “P”.
Donald Trump is not “Former President Trump”.
He is “Mr. Trump” if referring to the man presently, or “Republican presidential candidate Trump” if referring to his current bid to regain the office, or “President Trump” if referring to his previous or future administrations, or if referring to him as a historical figure after he is gone. He is former President Trump if, and only if, you are talking about his entitlements or office** or responsibilities or pension as a former president.

*office as in a position held.
**office as in a place to do office things.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 3:15 pm

Repeat.

I still can’t believe this run from Tasca and team.

341.68 mph = 549.88 kph.

341 MPH: Bob Tasca III Shatters Own Record At PRO Superstar Shootout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aAYyYvp5v0

Arky
July 21, 2024 3:39 pm

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

Makka
Makka
July 21, 2024 4:00 pm
Reply to  Arky

johnjjj’s link upthread covers this and many more questions arising from that day. Dozen’s of unanswered questions, anomalies, missteps, brazen mistakes, ignored warnings, SS (deliberate?) shortcomings etc…

Taken in entirety, there can be no other conclusion that this was set up for bad actors as an inside job. We’ll never know the full truth of course.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 3:57 pm

Another repeat.

I had a smile on my dial the whole way through. Those billet aluminium engine blocks are works of art …. and expen$ive.

Everyone had a ball here.

A correction to the title of the clip. They are at around 11000 hp … insane!

—-

Cleetus.

1,500 vs 15,000 Horsepower Drag Race!!! Our Turbo Corvette Got DESTROYED By a Top Fuel Dragster!

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

JC
JC
July 21, 2024 4:32 pm

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.

Pogria
Pogria
July 21, 2024 4:35 pm
Reply to  JC

That would mess with the predetermined story fed to the media.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 4:46 pm
Reply to  JC

One former classmate has told reporters Crooks ridiculed him for being a Latino who supported Trump.

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 4:43 pm
JC
JC
July 21, 2024 4:57 pm

Hootie Tooties cop a fireworks display on port city. Giy Fawkes night in Hootie Tootie City.

Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Israel attacks Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah

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Tom
Tom
July 21, 2024 5:12 pm
Reply to  JC

Haha. The Hootie Tooties love the ritual suicide of attacking the biggest military force on earth — a perfectly suitable end for the inbred, low-IQ foot soldiers of militant Islam.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 21, 2024 8:30 pm
Reply to  JC

Good!

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 5:01 pm

“The FBI said on Sunday that Crooks’ social media profile did not contain threatening language and added on Monday that the agency had not yet found evidence of a motive for the shooting.”
He had one.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 5:47 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Lok harder for both the motive and the soshul media presence.

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Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 10:03 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

The FBI have stated he had a social media presence.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 6:14 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Get Crowdflare to investigate.

They’ll come up with the “right” answer.

Makka
Makka
July 21, 2024 5:11 pm

that the agency had not yet found evidence of a motive for the shooting.”

Natch. Same agency spent years trying to find the Russia connection to DJT and came up empty handed. Can’t find Hunters laptop or any evidence of his illegal drug use. Can’t find any evidence of Epstein’s guests at p3do island. Can’t find any evidence of illegal activity with FISA warrants used to illegally surveill DJT.

How about ; he hated Trump. Now, what would make him feel so strongly about that?

cohenite
July 21, 2024 5:12 pm

johanna
 July 21, 2024 11:31 am

An article at Their ABC about the Twiggy implosion quotes these figures for the efficiency of energy storage:

Twiggy has gone nuts; his missus has left him and he is under the thrall of his sprogs who are green loons.

All energy sources must be measured by a number of criteria. The weather ones lose out because of intermittency and unpredictability; just like the weather!

The others are ranked by a variety of criteria including EROEI and density.

EROEI is energy return on energy invested. All energy sources require energy to get up and running = energy invested. If the ER is LESS than the EI then you have a negative return. W&S are EROEI negative but so is H or rather Twiggy’s GREEN H. The usual way of extracting H is from methane, a wonderful gas, CH4. The EROEI is +ve if done this way BUT you also release C or carbon, as much as from a coal power plant. So to GREEN H which is extracted from water, H2O. No carbon is released hence the term GREEN BUT because H2O is a tightly bound molecule the EROEI is -ve. End of story.

Energy density is how much energy you get from a standard unit of the energy source. In MJ/L H has an energy density of 10.044. Anthracite Coal has an energy density of 34–43. Uranium 1,539,842,000.

Energy density – Wikipedia

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 5:21 pm
Reply to  cohenite

I’ve read that you need an EROEI of at least 7 times to be viable.
Even with fusion according to a guy I knew who worked for TRW on some related projects, breakeven isn’t anything to get excited about. Ten times is considered barely viable and more like 100x to be commercial.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 6:15 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

What you measure is what you get.
The energy balance fails to incorporate two injections to the input cycle;
1) Bloviatus, measured in management wank-words expended around promised benefits
2) Inflatus, measured in taxpayer dollars pissed away. Can be standardised against the US dollar.

Albo’s firehose of other people’s money was Leak’s genius move, I hope it gets used a lot more,

cohenite
July 21, 2024 5:19 pm

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.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 5:30 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The first thing is to not let them get under your skin, cohenite.

The second thing is their claims are easily rebutted.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 6:17 pm
Reply to  Roger

And a third is that you can punish them by attacking through the reputation of their institution.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 5:47 pm

Long gone are the days when perfessers where scholars. It’s a dirty word now. Like doctor.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 6:19 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Or ‘face mask.’

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 6:07 pm

Response to cohenite’s 5:19 p.m. post re claims that the Trump assassination attempt was staged:

The first question I ask myself when considering if such a conspiracy theory (an almost meaningless term now?) could be true, is ‘Was/is there a more effective means of achieving the outcome?’

In this case, where the outcome is Republican unity (apparently), and a whole lot of media attention (presumably having a positive effect on opinion polling), the question would be ‘Was there a simpler, just-as-effective opportunity, (retaining the ‘Trump’s life is threatened scenario’) to achieve the same result?

Hypothetically, let’s say you’re tasked with planning such a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Would you have set things up in exactly the same manner as took place in reality? (Wouldn’t you at least have found a patsy whose political ideology could be more directly connected to opponents?).

Tom
Tom
July 21, 2024 6:41 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Muddy, the answer to your questions is that leftists not only hate democracy, they’re shit at politics and therefore don’t understand how it works.

For example, if you try to assassinate American politics’s most popular candidate, he will become more popular.

The American left doesn’t have a political fixer like Australia’s Graham Richardson who understands this stuff, just radical ideologues like Barack Obama, the leader of the faceless men who has been running the White House since 2020.

Therefore, the Obama/Biden White House is clueless about how to win the 2924 election and will therefore probably decide to cut its losses and put up a loser like Kanala Harris while beginning the planning for 2028.

Zatara
Zatara
July 22, 2024 12:34 am
Reply to  dover0beach

I believe ‘complacent’ is the word. Maybe ‘distracted’ if we are kind.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 21, 2024 8:32 pm
Reply to  Muddy

If it was staged then we are dealing with one of the greatest marksmen in history. William Tell had nothing on him.

Arky
July 21, 2024 6:20 pm

My predictions for the next five years:

  1. Trump wins.
  2. Rapid de-coupling from China and total reorganisation of world trade begins.
  3. Many of the globalists and never Trumpers resign themselves to the new order and position themselves to profit from it.
  4. CCP loses control of all or parts of China as large chunks of the world economy collapse, but not before starting a war.
  5. The war is fairly contained, China loses.
  6. Taiwan re-exports the good parts of Chinese culture to the mainland and the new Chinese century can really begin.
  7. Russia and Ukraine come to some kind of agreement under US and NATO guarantee because the age demographics of both those countries indicate they just aren’t viable without each other.
  8. Putin dies of cancer and everyone wonders WTF all that was about anyway.
Arky
July 21, 2024 6:24 pm
Reply to  Arky

9. The late 2020s, early 2030s begin a glorious new golden age of investment and progress.

Chris
Chris
July 21, 2024 6:51 pm
Reply to  Arky

I hear the leathery rustle of pigs wings overhead

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 6:49 pm
Reply to  Arky

Ukraine is viable without Russia, or at least it was.

That was the problem.

Arky
July 21, 2024 7:28 pm
Reply to  Roger

Their age demographics are catastrophic.
Made even worse by the war, as are Russia’s.
They both had a baby bust after the break up of the Soviet Union, plus men have drunk themselves to early graves, and now the war.
There are so few men aged between 15 to 35 in both countries they are in fact totally stuffed.

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Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 6:56 pm
Reply to  Arky

Rapid de-coupling from China and total reorganisation of world trade begins.

Resulting in deflationary pressure in Australia as Chinese consumer goods are dumped here, resolving the economic and social crisis of home-grown inflation that our ruling caste (in the form of the National Cabinet), in their wisdom, inflicted upon us (Thanks Josh, Scott & assorted ex-state premiers!) .

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Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:02 pm
Reply to  Arky

The war is fairly contained, China loses.

Not sure what fairly contained means.

I am struggling to see how it can avoid going nuclear. The west does not have the industrial base to wage conventional war with china.

Arky
July 21, 2024 10:00 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Fairly contained in that the time it occurs is outside their optimal window.
It all has to come to a head soon.
It could go nuclear.
If so, better sooner than later.
Fairly contained might be they run amuck in the pacific like the Japanese did, but can’t take the Phillipines and down to Australia. They might just take Taiwan and South Korea.
Or it might mean they go for the nukes before they have the clear advantage and get glassed.
Not fairly contained means we’re f***ing all over man.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 8:04 pm
Reply to  Arky

Assuming Trump does win, the biggest concern will not be his presidency – the globalists and other orcs will simply wait it out – but the period that follows. Unless conservatives begin to plan for the post-Trump presidency NOW, anything that he does will be undone.

Repeating what I’ve written previously, I believe that Donald Trump is not a ‘warrior king’ but a ‘berserker’ of Scandinavian myth. He is not here to single-handedly save us all while we recline with a cocktail and work on our tan. My understanding of a berserker is a warrior who holds off the enemy at a pivotal moment, allowing the survivors of the warrior band to regroup. He pays for this with his life and does so willingly.

A Trump presidency will be four years of enemies being held (hopefully) but not defeated.

Complacency will see the man’s exertions wasted. Is that the gratitude we plan to offer?

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 6:27 pm

I love optimism.

Arky
July 21, 2024 6:40 pm
Reply to  calli

You won’t think it is optimism as it unfolds.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 6:52 pm
Reply to  calli

I think you have misread my comment.

A positive view of the future is a good thing.

Arky
July 21, 2024 7:08 pm
Reply to  calli

I’m just saying a lot of people aren’t going to make it to that future as the initial chaos occurs.
My predictions are based on the following:
Trump is likely to win.
Trump will place people determined to do something about the China problem in key positions,
CCP will respond to the challenge.
CCP has f***ed up its timing. Should have played possum a little longer.
China is ripe for political upheaval.
China must be defeated economically and militarily.
These things must resolve themselves and there are limited ways for that to occur.

Arky
July 21, 2024 7:23 pm
Reply to  calli

The J.D.Vance pick is a huge signpost as to how this is going to go.
One can also imagine the frame of mind Trump is in, after he spent four years warning these other countries what he would do if they didn’t stop their activities, be it letting caravans of people traverse their territories and deposit into the USA; or be it the trade shenanigans, only to have all those countries renege once they thought Trump safely out of the way.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 21, 2024 6:53 pm

Are you not enriched??

WACA
@akaWACA

Cops & Melbourne city Council trying on more intimidatory tactics @ #FreePalestine rally today. Attempted to shut down all info & fundraising stalls.
We will not be deterred!
We will not be silent!
March will be meeting freedom for Bangladesh March at Bourke St mall.

Importing sectarian mongs is our strength… comrades…

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:21 pm

Brought to you by Canbra the toxic parasite on the fake lake.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 7:24 pm

I think you’ll find a fair number of home-grown Marxist mongs among that crowd. It is Melbourne.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 21, 2024 8:20 pm

Anecdote from a mate about Bangladesh and their attitudes to women. Another country we should be very discerning accepting aspiring immigrants from.

East Timor under UN mandate his Battalion was on their second tour.

One of the border bases hosted some Bangladeshi troops at late notice for an evening. Kitchen was closed but a female sergeant cook came down and opened the kitchen for self use showed them what food the could take from the fridge as there was plenty but just don’t touch tomorrows prepared food on another shelving rack.

An hour later she came back to see if they needed anything else/help. They had disregarded the instructions and were cooking what she told them not to. She then told them off and was promptly spat on, threatened and told that we don’t take orders from women.

In tears she ran to a detachment of Brazilian MP there and told them what happened. Word spread to the company of Aussie troops there quickly but the CSM was on to it as well. He had the company & Brazilian MP detachment formed up very quickly in the car park while questions were asked.

Turns out cook wasn’t lying and Bangladeshi’s even admitted it. The commander of the Bangladeshi’s was told he had 1 hour to leave with all his troops or the CSM would be instructed to fall the Aussie troops out and they wouldn’t be responsible for what ensues as the our boys were formed up for the Bangladeshi’s safety.

Apparently it didn’t take them an hour to leave and a notice was sent to Dili they weren’t welcome in Australian bases again. A fix was they overnighted at another nation’s base further towards Dili.

calli
calli
July 21, 2024 7:00 pm

On a completely different subject…

NBN news (our local bulletin) just had a segment on the changeover to metric on our roads. Signage was changed across Australia within a month.

Old footage shows guys up ladders, roadside, screwing in the new speed signs with self tappers. No witch’s hats, no warning signs, no lane closures.

Times have changed somewhat.

Roger
Roger
July 21, 2024 7:13 pm
Reply to  calli

1974, I think.

Also a year of petrol shortages due to strikes at refineries.

Good times!

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John Brumble
John Brumble
July 21, 2024 7:01 pm

Prediction: Biden won’t run, but whoever does will make a point of it still being a Biden ticket”.. or a “Biden partnership”… or some other construction to associate it with the Biden name.

Hundreds of thousands to millions of votes will be cast for Biden.

First they will claim this didn’t happen. Then they will claim it was perfectly reasonable given the pre-election statements. No investigation would be countenanced as to why so many of them weren’t just for Biden, but ticks against the pre-printed name, Biden, against Trump.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 7:07 pm

Times have changed somewhat.
We used to just get stuff done.
Not that switching to metric for distances, speeds on the roads, quantities of petrol made any sense at all or saved anyone any money, just cost heaps. Another really stupid Whitlam idea. He even tried to ban the import of any imperial measurement equipment. That was fortunately stopped.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:24 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Gorton McMahon. Not Whitlam.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 7:30 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I was around then and politically aware. I remember it was Whitlam.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 7:38 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

OK this explains it, but most of the nonsense was occurring during the Whitlam years.
Complete boondoggle and waste of money (relatively cheap hand calculators were coming into use) and as we are celebrating 55 years since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, there are two kinds of countries – those that have landed men on the Moon and those that use the metric system.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:47 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Def pre Whitlam. Agree it was a waste of money and I still use imperial at work due to our use of US gear.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 21, 2024 8:25 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Same with drilling. I understand it because I grew up with parents using lb, mph and in.

Feel sorry for the younger gen who don’t.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 7:50 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

The units in civil aviation in Australia are an utter hodge – podge of units, feet for altitudes and cloud bases, knots for airspeed, nautical miles for distance (except for glider pilots who use kilometers, distance from cloud in meters, visibility in kilometers, fuel in litres in small aircraft and kilograms in large ones and don’t forget the Gimli glider in Canada where confusion between pounds and kilos caused a run out of fuel emergency where it was lucky that a bunch of people didn’t die.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:52 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Keeps your mind sharp. American wire gauge vs square mil.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:31 pm

Back in Mildura. Really liked it last month so back for another look. Love the Mediterranean feel. Lotsa Italian names too. Lots of cypresses as well.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 7:52 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Spent a few nights in Mildura, when passing through. Always liked the place and the Riverland in general. Wrecked by the Greenies now.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 21, 2024 7:53 pm

Gorton McMahon. Not Whitlam.

A common confusion, often rooted in the mistaken belief that Centigrade is part of the metric system & Fahrenheit is an imperial measurement.

Fahrenheit to Celsius was switched by Gorton/McMahon. Imperial to Metric by Whitlam.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:58 pm

Our teacher in 3rd grade in 1970 told us we wouldn’t be using feet and inches in the future. Gorton was PM

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 21, 2024 9:41 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Metric had been a legal unit of measure in Australia for more than 20 yrs when the switch was finally made.

IIRC, 1970 was when the enabling legislation was passed. 4 yrs later Whitlam finished the job.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 7:54 pm

Tommy Robinson.
I have to admit that I didn’t know about Tommy’s background, though of course, I’ve heard of him and seen various bits of his on YouTube.

In this interview – truncated, unfortunately, the full episode is here – with Jordan Peterson, he lays out how and why he became an activist (a term I usually despise, given its hijacking). At only a touch over 10 minutes in length, it’s a great introduction for anyone wanting to know of his motivations and begin to cut through the anti-Tommy propaganda.

Recommended.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 7:56 pm

Come fly with me come fly let’s fly away.

Merika!

LMAO!

1320 video.

4th of July 300ft CAR LAUNCH – So Much DESTRUCTION! (2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1nA7GGj_Y

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 8:52 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

I watch it every year.
It’s a hoot!

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 8:04 pm

Metric conversion board started in 1971. Gorton McMahon.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 8:05 pm

Tajikistan Builds World’s Highest Dam and Sells Electricity to Pakistan and afghanistan
Tajikistan for 50 years has struggled to establish the largest hydroelectric power plant in Central Asia. This largest dam is also the highest dam in the world. Tajikistan’s power generation is a legacy of the Soviet Union’s projects. With the establishment of the Rogun Hydroelectric Power Plant (PPH ROGUN), Tajikistan is not only able to meet the electricity needs of its population, but is also able to export electricity to neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 8:06 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Some interesting scenes of the work done in what is one of the worlds most inhospitable terrain.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 9:07 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

So what you’re suggesting, Bob, is that if Australia builds a mountain higher than Mt. Everest, and pumps water to the peak, we can create the best evah supah-electrickery hydro scheme and sell the excess Luxury-Energy(TM) to Tasmania?

*Keypad tones*
Hullo? Minister Bowen?

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Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 8:26 pm

Tommy Robinson is a truth teller. Tommy Robinson is a hero.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 8:27 pm

Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob.

Mme Zulu has retreated into her boudoir, with her laptop, and is planning the next holiday.

I’m reading William F Buckingham’s book “Arnhem 1944” – for my money, one of the three best books written about Operation Market Garden and the battle of Arnhem.

Buckingham is savage about the part played by Major General “Boy ‘ Browning – the commander of the British 1st Airborne Division – “Browning’s culpability for the failure at Arnhem is the most extensive of any individual concerned….
were the story of Arnhem an Alistair Maclean novel, Browning would have to have been the German spy in the Allied command.” Page 201.

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 9:10 pm

The After the Battle series did a superb (as usual) Then and Now pictorial comparison of Market Garden.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 9:21 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Mme Zulu allows me my hobby of visiting old battlefields.
Standing where the Reconnaissance Squadron jeeps were ambushed on the first day of the battle, and looking onto the high ground, where the German weapons pits were, is an experience best described as sobering.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 21, 2024 9:40 pm

Urquhart commanded the 1st Airborne Division, Browning commanded the operation Ridgeway commanded the 18th US Airborne Corps, and unlike Browning had actual experience of airborne operations. He should have commanded the operation.

Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 8:30 pm

@robinmonotti

“Several institutions and companies deeply tied to the US National Security State, are part of GCA as are some of the most controversial and intelligence-connected cybersecurity companies, such as Crowdstrike…”

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 21, 2024 8:37 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Did Barry inhale?

Cassie of Sydney
July 21, 2024 8:41 pm

Joe Biden, who is still in Covid isolation, is said to be ‘seething’ about being betrayed by senior Democrat leaders, especially party elder Nancy Pelosi and ex-president Barack Obama.

Gotta laugh.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 8:41 pm

Randwick Council ramps-up security after mayor’s ‘inflammatory’ anti-Israel speechAlexi Demetriadi
6 minutes ago

One of Sydney’s biggest councils will ramp up security at its next meeting after its Greens Mayor accused Israel and its supporters of “murdering babies” in an ­“inflammatory”speech that left a Jewish councillor and com­munity members fearing for their safety.
The Australian can reveal extra guards and council rangers will attend Randwick council’s Tuesday session after Mayor Philipa Veitch’s fellow councillors and the wider Jewish community claimed they had been “intimidated” and left worried about pro-Palestine activists ­descending on the chamber.
Ms Veitch, one of the nation’s few Greens mayors, said the views expressed “were her own” and that she had always ensured meetings were conducted in a “safe and respectful manner”.
During a pro-Palestine speech to about 30 students at the University of NSW last week, Ms Veitch claimed Israel was “brutally murdering babies” and it had “completely destroyed every single” Gazan university.
“We need to keep up the pressure … coming out (to) these protests,” she said, claiming she and activists had been “silenced”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 8:57 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 21, 2024 9:07 pm

She’s not there due to brains.

Probably the worst FM this country’s seen in my lifetime, to beat Rudd that’s saying something!!!

John H.
John H.
July 21, 2024 9:05 pm

Why is Ukraine attacking S-400 SAM sites? And why can’t the S-400 defend itself against ATACMS? – YouTube

The video doesn’t tell the full story. Ukraine also sent decoy drones. Serious damage to the Crimea air defense network.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 21, 2024 9:18 pm

Chris Mitchell

5 comments
More than nine months into Israel’s war in Gaza, much of the world’s media still has not understood Gazan civilians are the deliberate victims of Hamas’s tactics and continue to report without scepticism everything coming from journalists inside the city, who are largely Hamas members or sympathisers.
Of course the death toll of 40,000 Palestinians – 2 per cent of Gaza’s population – is far too high. So too is the destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques and private homes.
Yet journalists have known for decades that Hamas fights all its Gaza campaigns from tunnels deliberately hidden under civilian facilities. The more tragic the circumstances of the dead the better for the terrorist death cult to boost support in the West.
Former IDF spokesman Peter Lerner told Patricia Karvelas on RN Breakfast last Wednesday that the IDF had killed or captured 14,000 fighters. Yet in much of the Arab and Iranian media the war is covered as if Hamas is winning. Odd, since the IDF has lost 350 soldiers. 
The calculation in the Islamic world is about damage to the image of Israel. It is a foolish misreading of Israeli public opinion, military power and economic strength. As this column argued on June 16: “Much of the media, many university leaders and some of our politicians … (are) allowing themselves to be used in an Iranian-sponsored propaganda war to entrench Islamic fundamentalism.”
Closer to the truth about Hamas’s prospects was former Palestinian Authority Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs Ashraf Al-Ajrami, who wrote in the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Ayyam on July 3 that Hamas was deluded. He argued October 7 would not liberate Palestinians “but cause them harm that will last for generations’’.
Hamas would precipitate “a new Nakba greater than that of 1948”. While Israel was undoubtedly being damaged by the global peace movement it was not going to collapse and the real price for Hamas’s ill-considered actions on October 7 would be paid by Palestinian civilians for years to come.

DavidH
DavidH
July 21, 2024 9:36 pm

I’m probably behind the times (sorry, not 100% focus on following social/media sites) … but I came across this good rundown on the Trump shooting. Just a good (I think) analysis of what happened that day.
https://youtu.be/3UBS2ds4Ogc

Muddy
Muddy
July 21, 2024 9:37 pm

Let’s say the Israeli Government announced that the entire population of Israel had agreed to up-sticks and leave all infrastructure and resources in place to the ‘Palestinians,’ unconditionally. (I have no idea where they’d move to, but this is a hypothetical, so humour me for a moment).

What might then happen?

Those organisations and individuals whose identities are that of martyrs … what would they do? (If you move the chooks from the chookhouse, and leave the door open – is it still a place of interest to the foxes or wild dogs?).

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 21, 2024 10:23 pm
Reply to  Muddy

They did that in the Sinai. The Israelis had built houses, good hotels and infrastructure from 1967 to 82. Now the Egyptian are back and it is a rubbish dump again.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 22, 2024 7:02 am
Reply to  dover0beach

And destroy everything “polluted” with the stain of Zionism, as they did when the Israelis left Gaza.

iggie
iggie
July 22, 2024 4:53 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Didn’t that happen before but under different circumstances – like 637AD.

Arky
July 21, 2024 9:47 pm

Got the missus to buy me Peter Navarro’s latest book for me birthday.

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CZ5DLXY8/ref=cbw_us_au_dp_ags?smid=A4XRJ8S0WXSO0
..
Any man willing to go to prison like this man did under those circumstances deserves our $

Zippster
Zippster
July 21, 2024 9:51 pm

English Woman ARRESTED In Leeds For Criticising Migrant Rioters

we had how many years of tories????? conservatives are not merely spineless they have betrayed the people

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 10:10 pm

“Of course the death toll of 40,000 Palestinians – 2 per cent of Gaza’s population”
If at least 14,000 were terrorists then why point out 2% of the population.
Not to mention you are relying on the same terrorists death toll numbers.

Rosie
Rosie
July 21, 2024 10:16 pm

A recommendation for Dublin visitors.
Latin mass at St Kevin’s on Harrington St.
There is also an English mass which is ad orientium. (The only option in this beautiful new gothic church)
The English mass was clearly going to be a sung mass, not sure if that is every week because they mentioned that a young man was going to be ordained deacon today.
I probably mentioned this nine years ago but there are no old Catholic churches in Dublin that I know of, confiscated and now church of Ireland, or destroyed.
Oh and lunch, got a sandwich, gentleman in front of me ordered spicy chicken, black pudding and brown sauce on brown bread. I think the gent sitting near me went for just the black pudding with brown sauce.
I was tempted.

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Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:18 pm

Remove

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Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:20 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 21, 2024 10:26 pm
KevinM
KevinM
July 21, 2024 10:32 pm

Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:21 pm

MEETING WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban on Peace Negotiations and Ukraine War

That was very interesting, took a few minutes to get accents sorted out.
(forget about subtitles, they only got half of it right)

That German twit tried to trip Orban up with baited, leading questions, the old fox was wise to him.

KevinM
KevinM
July 21, 2024 10:35 pm

Lovely, LOL.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 22, 2024 9:21 am
Reply to  Zippster

He’s saying precisely what I have been saying for the last 7 years.
It’s quite possible to ignore me, but we can’t ignore what he has pointed out – not if we want to remain a free people.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 22, 2024 9:37 am
Reply to  Zippster

Probably they do. Of course when they get their wish and get to sample their wonderful Multicultural Paradise, they will be aghast at their naivety but it will be a little late.

Arky
July 22, 2024 12:31 am
Reply to  dover0beach

There is an assumption he was trying a head shot.
Just been looking back at my shooting log from Kapooka.
From memory, I was pretty average shot. Some much, much better than me, some much, much worse.
At 100 metres, 1.5 magnification scope, I could have hit an ear or his cock, while aiming at the chest.

Arky
July 22, 2024 12:51 am
Reply to  Arky

I think the “It’s an easy shot” thing might be coming from competitive shooters or specialist types, for whom it might well be. For an average person with some training, nope.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 11:03 pm

Cassie of Sydney
 July 21, 2024 8:26 pm

Tommy Robinson is a truth teller. Tommy Robinson is a hero.

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One bloke I’d like to have few beers with at the pub.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 11:28 pm

Good commentary from Stevo.

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Steve Inman:

Classic Riot Compilation
https://rumble.com/v57rapp-classic-riot-compilation.html

JC
JC
July 22, 2024 12:33 am

At roughly 100 metres away he was lucky to actual hit that close with the first shot.

Nope, not according to this guy.

Was Thomas Crooks a Good Shot? He Didn’t Need to Be.In the military, I used a gun similar to that of Trump’s shooter. I’m not surprised his shot came so close.

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