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Lovely evening in Perth. Missus watched MAFS (no idea why)> I copied my CDs to an SSD. Slowly decluttering.
No argument here. However, I think the Trump effect may have more of a say than the old, discredited apologetic,…
Something equivalent but less crass.
Can’t help himself.
Boo.
Interesting picture. High contrast to the white horse and trees like green living ogres. A bit too spooky for my living room though.
Boo! Hoo!
The problem here is not with the gun, its hitting a target more or less 100 metres away with an optical device that centres a red dot with where the bullet should go. He’s getting no magnification from the optical device at all. It just helps his aiming somewhat.
rifle.
Those saying it is an relatively “easy” shot are saying it because you don’t have to account too much for the trajectory of a 5.56 round inside 200 metres,
There might be 2” difference between height at 130 metres and at the distance the rifle was zeroed for. Which is why he wanted to measure the distance with the range finder. He fancied himself as a marksman. But the reality is, an average shot would have greater errors than adjusting aim correctly for range, whatever sights were used.
He was at the rifle range the day before and probably on other occasions. He was intelligent, he may have gone to the rifle range to make the adjustments you are referring too.
“This my rifle, that is my gun. This is for killing, that is for fun.”
Look at it another way.
He was spraying bullets in Trump’s general direction. One happened to strike Trump’s ear.
The rest killed one man, critically injured two and the balance missed.
Yes, a red dot makes a head shot much harder at that range and would *NOT* be your choice for the job. This further dichotomises the event into 1) Isolated loner having a crack with what he had 2) Patsy for real shooter who was likely in the building adjacent. Given all the other convenient security lapses and indirect evidence others knew (eg stock market activity), I favour the latter.
According to the piece, the gun used can be reasonably accurate even at 200 maters because of adjustments that can be made to the sight. Says it’s a very accurate gun.
A decent marksman hitting a 10 inch target at 200 meters even with iron sights is not a particularly great accomplishment.
I see Sportsbet has chickened out and suspended betting on Hilldog as the next Democrap presidential nominee
JD Vance is 101:1, worth a punt given the deep state will keep trying to ping DJT.
You have a point – FD.
OK – $50 on JDV @ 90:1
I put $50 @ 51:1 on the Hildebeast on Blue Bet,
Michael Obama $59 @ 15:1 on Sportsbet,
Gavin Newsome $50 @23:1 also on Sportsbet,
and got in early with the Hildebeast on Sportsbet $50 @ 71:1
…more for shits and giggles than anything else.
Worth it for the entertainment value.
I’ve got money on Gretchen Whitmer. Probably can kiss it goodbye at this stage.
Will the FBI stage another “kidnap” attempt to get some favourable publicity for her?
I still have hope for my Michelle money. The Light Bringer won’t give up.
But what a dream. Trump getting in and J D going after Obama. Unfortunately Republicans continue to believe in the moral order and will not engage.
All hail from Budapest, capital city of sensible Hungary. Our river cruiser hosts us on board for one night, and then tomorrow into an Airbnb for two days.
Did a city walk around. No graffiti; happy guide; no weirdo’s on the streets either. In Victory Square they have two life-size statues: George Bush and Ronald Reagan, both placed there by a citizenry grateful for US efforts in getting them out from under the Communist boot.
Went to see “The House of Horror” in Budapest – the former Headquaters of the secret police. There is a vooking great T 54 TANK in the foyer.
Makes you damned glad you were born in Australia.
Read what I said. I’m didn’t say that the gun is inaccurate. I’m said that given what the shooter used (a lower-end AR variant without magnification that just had a red dot optical device) that he was an inch or two away from a bullseye. Note gain, the shooter did not have a scope with which to make an adjustments.
Read what I said. The right gun can mitigate the need for a scope for 100 meter shot.
I shoot regularly at various ranges …. your sight picture at even 100m with Iron sights is pretty vague for a headshot, same same with a red dot. This is due to the lack of magnfication. A 100m torso shot is dead easy, a head shot not so much.
Sure, but we aren’t talking about a hypothetical, we are talking about the gun he had, the optical he had, in the situation he had.
Zippster
July 21, 2024 10:35 pm
We used to, see the pic. It is not exactly neat and tidy but did the job.
From records, they could pour up to 15 tons in one go.
Then there was Perry engineering in Adelaide that was gutted by repeated sales and mergers.
And finally by lack of orders.
But we still have a few like Hofmann Engineering Pty. Ltd. Since 1969 still going strong in Perth.
They have a large gear cutter, going out to 15 meters diameter and with a face width of 2.5 metres.
There are more mysteries under the sun.
Why did they build it and who paid for it?
We were lead to believe that the Tibetans were poor people eking out a subsistence living herding yaks and drinking tea with yak butter.
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They’re estimated to have been constructed between the 14th and 15th centuries and attributed to local Tibetan communities.
The exact purpose of these towers is still debated, with theories ranging from their use as defense structures, status symbols, storage facilities, or even watchtowers for trade routes.
They are typically found in clusters within valleys, strategically positioned to oversee vast areas.
They are built using dry-stone masonry, a technique involving the stacking of stones without the use of mortar. The towers vary in height, typically ranging from 20 to 60 meters, and are characterized by their square, star, pentagonal, or octagonal bases.
The structures taper as they rise, with multiple levels often connected by narrow, winding staircases.
#HimalayanTowers
There is no rifle, sight or piece of gear that will make a shit marksman into a competent marksman.
I got a “marksman” score once at Kapooka. I remain of the belief that the bloke on the next lane was also shooting at my target.
Personal factchek – true
Postcard.
I liked Dublin a little better today, skirted the city centre and walked through and along a couple of the parks. Lots of artists plying their wares along the railings and I’ve picked out one I liked and taken her card for when I circle back to Dublin.
Visited the National Gallery, not cover to cover, two and a half hours was enough.
They have a lot of great works including Irish arts and craft period stained glass, all enhanced with decent panels of information about each artist, their style and the subject matter.
I particularly liked the late 19th early 20th century stuff, especially those works that gave some sense of Irish history and how people lived.
There was a beautiful picture of a young priest saying mass inside a family home, a practice rooted in the penal laws.
https://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACustom/Stations.html
Graham Lineham. Very interesting.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1815051575628308851?t=rynPfzJKP_zXXJsMJB0BUw&s=09
+10000000
That piece linked at the end of the old thread is complete bullshit.
How could that dude have even written it with a straight face.
He obviously is an imaginary pub owner.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
More Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Make of this what you will.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/joe-biden-drops-race/
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
It seems to be fair dinkum.
Sorry Tom.
US president withdraws from White House race after declining Democrat support
Over the weekend, mUntyfa was adamant that Biden was in to the end.
His perfect record of wrongology continues.
The Next News Network:
BREAKING LIVE! BIDEN OFFICIALLY DROPS OUT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcMS66Gqkw
The Sydney Morning Herald is the only major Australian newspaper carrying the breaking news about Biden withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.
News Corp papers (The Australian, Melbourne Herald Sun etc) have nothing. They apparently have no “late stop” journos on duty.
The Oz posted a story about 30 mins ago in the latest news section.
Sorry, I should have linked.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/biden-drops-out-of-2024-election-race/news-story/47b78c7263375e09b1f1bb7c21080a6a
Biden endorses Kamala.
As predicted, the ‘entitled black chick’ rationale won out. There was no way the party was going to dump on one of its biggest voting blocks no matter how ridiculous the pandering.
He doesn’t endorse Kamala. He thanks her, that’s all.
Unless there is something other than his full statement to go on.
Top Ender
July 22, 2024 1:13 am
In Victory Square they have two life-size statues: George Bush and Ronald Reagan, both placed there by a citizenry grateful for US efforts in getting them out from under the Communist boot.
Compare annd contrast to the ungrateful citizenry we have here that deface, graffiti and vandalise statues and memorials and want us under the Communist boot.
J D Vance says and I agree, if he’s not good enough to be a candidate he’s not good enough to remain as President
Kamala now finally been unburdened for what has been, say it enuff times and it comes true.
MSM persists with false news like “Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020” and “everything was fine until that debate performance”.
Their ABCess has snide remarks about Trump’s lies” on high rotation.
Funny, that.
Just proves that Twitter has completely replaced the msm for breaking news.
“- X is absolutely the place for breaking news.
– Biden likely doesn’t even know he dropped out yet”
lol
https://x.com/RedsRepair95/status/1815090027463848430?t=YtwwvEdgdgTMeLCFOKe-9Q&s=19
The bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/jill-biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race
People on twitter pointing out that 15 million democrats chose Biden as nominee but the elites pushed him out.
I guess they’d still vote for him in November if he he’s died of old age in October.
They’re voted for dead men before.
They even had the dead voting.
US Senator Ron Johnson’s preliminary findings of the July 13, 2024 Assassination Attempt
13 pages. Very interesting.
Yes, indeed of interest, especially that the shooter allegedly had an explosive device in his car, which I had not read from other sources. Thanks for posting that.
In lieu of more information, I’m still leaning towards a stuff-up, however. Institutional decay is real.
This guy reckons they just finally worked out the golden handshake.
https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/1815093453056847945?t=UFCybvjka0mx5ekqecGMbQ&s=19
Biden gone, Shirley not.
Monty said it ain’t so.
Yep, I told ya, Munts. Next time listen to Aunty Lizzie.
what a wild ride!
I hope Nancy Pelosi knows what she is doing.
I also hope this turns down the temperature in America, but somehow I doubt it. A black woman nominated for President is going to send the right insane.
Trump would have filled his Depends when he heard.
Whistling past the cemetery?
I’m really disturbed about all those riots that occurred immediately after the Trump assassination attempt.
Those MAGAs sure are volatile!
Trump on Depends? Come on Munts, up your game. Not everyone past 75 is old and feeble. You should know that from the most iconic picture ever taken of a 78 year old blasting to hell his would-be assassin. I’m 82 and I wouldn’t know what a Depends even looks like.
I’m pretty sure President Trump doesn’t either.
I hope Trump doesn’t make the mistake of debating Kamala. It’ll be a gotcha fest looking for any slight against the alphabet of tribes she claims to represent.
Best to treat her as an irrelevance without merit and the gravitas to represent a nation. Beating up on the deranged never looks good.
Couldn’t put up with her awful cackling.
ABC News Radio’s 4am bulletin missed the breaking news, but the Beeb’s Newsroom immediately following had it.
Gosh your up early Monty.
Busy day?
You’re – too early for me too.
Monty can’t handle the truth – there’s nobody that the Dems can select who will beat Trump without the voting irregularities we saw in 2020.
After the cocktail of amphetamines and turpentine they’ve poured into Biden before every public appearance over the last year or so, I reckon he might last six months once he finally decompresses.
There will never, ever be a ranga POTUS.
That’s the real issue here
You’ve disappointed me, I guess I’ll have to find something else to aim for.
Welding fumes in the news being blamed for various heath issues.
I’m not saying that couldn’t be true for blokes that spent most of their working life on an arc welder. I’d think the mig with argon shielding would be less of a problem.
How many weeks has it been since “engineered stone” was the great demon.
As H. L. Mencken put it:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
All the polls up to here are out the window. This is a reset button.
It will take a while for the truth to shake out about what the American public thinks of what happened. Australian voters tend not to like palace intrigues with cynical back room shenanigans resulting in toppled leaders, it’s not nearly as common over there so it’s an unknown quantity.
Harris endorsements are rolling out faster than they can be tweeted.
PISS OFF, NAZI
Go play with your Hamas buddies. I hear there a quite a few in Melbourne….stalking and harassing Jews
Speaking of voting irregularities, Gateway Pundit yesterday had an article by a data analyst which basically says the Dems are already preparing the ground for another 2020 – ish set of voter frauds. He says the numbers of dodgy registrations will allow another run of fake ballots to swing the key states, and that Republicans should not just cruise to November 5 thinking they have it in the bag.
I don’t know how many of you watched the full Mike Lindell symposium after the 2020 election, but the data analysis there was right on the money.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/now-that-rnc-is-republicans-should-not-fool/
Only a month ago, prior to the disastrous ‘great debate’, prior to the bullet last week that nearly bumped off Trump in a Pennsylvania field, we were told, actually we were lectured to, that Biden’s mental acuity and cognitive health was A+++, in fact we were assured that Biden’s mental acuity was sizzling!
We were sneeringly told that our eyes and ears deceive us, that any debate around Old Joe’s apparent mental decline was a hoax, a right-wing conspiracy, actually it was a ‘far-right conspiracy’, brandied about by far-right media outlets such as Fox News.
The gaslighting, the lying, the deceit, the duplicity, and the outright fraud has been obvious, well it’s been obvious for over four years now but that’s the culture we now live in, if we see and hear something, we’re told by our betters that we didn’t see it, we didn’t hear it. Just two night ago we were told here on these pages by our own Nazi that Biden can ‘govern’.
And now I wake up to the news that Biden’s withdrawn from the race and he’s endorsing Cackling Kamala. Kamala Harris, whose only real political achievement over the last four decades was giving Willie Brown head jobs.
May God help us.
As for Old Joe, he was always the devious old dope from Delaware. And his legacy……
A bleeding border
Afghanistan
Ukraine
October 7 and Gaza
Iran on the march
A stagnant economy
A corrupt DoJ, too busy going after President Trump than rounding up illegals
I could go on, you get the message. And how Xi and Putin are laughing. I don’t blame for laughing, I’d laugh if I were them.
But remember this, we were right all along.
Even after the debate there was a fair bit of Biden did as well as Trump, until it became untenable.
that said, it was a tremendous mistake to agree to debating Biden so early. Better to say “let’s leave it until we are both confirmed”.
No, the debate showed how much the MSM lied to the American people. That’s valuable. I hope Trump runs on a strong platform of failures at the border – all due to Kamala’s lack of interest and incompetence.
Gee, if a black woman candidate would “send the right insane” imagine what Kamala, an Indian one with the mental acuity of a Biden, will do. <sarc>
The comedians and meme makers are salivating at doing a ‘Kamala campaigns for president’ season.
Considering Vivek was a strong candidate as nonimee for both president and vice president I think it’s likely its the content of her character that people will object to.
Also lol after the abuse J D Vance’s wife is getting from democrats.
Also didn’t America have an African American president fairly recently?
I think Joe Biden said something racist about him back in the day.
Yep, Vivek needs to come in batting on this one. Also, don’t forget the beautiful Indian wife of JD Vance.
(Is JD what we are all going to call him, as it suits him somehow – his first name is James – or is that Jimmy?)
I see the Nazi has appeared here. Some words for the Nazi….
PISS OFF, NAZI.
God save Kamala because nothing will save Karine Jean-Pierre.
Thanks, Gez. I laughed out loud. In my mind, I even heard Gough Whitlam saying it.
Yep. It will be disassembled and the components returned to the bot factory.
It’s a measure of the duplicity of both the US media and the politicians over there that we all knew for years that Joe was President Placeholder, and that the strings were being pulled by others who we could name but won’t, and that the 2020 election of Joe had so many dodgy aspects that it got a name for itself, the Drop & Roll.
Please make it a Kamala and AOC ticket.
Joy Reid for Attorney General.
If Kamala really is the candidate then it is clear that just like Joe Biden she is being chosen to be a placeholder.
For another black man of great influence in the Party. Of course.
Senator Ron Johnson is leading the push to find out who was running Crooks, and who in the Admin and FBI did what.
Cheatle will be hauled before congress over the next two days, but might stonewall or simply deny everything.
We were lied to by Biden and co about ‘Covid’. He doesn’t have Covid, that was a convenient excuse to hide away and discuss/debate his future.
We won’t hear another word about Covid.
Biden drops it…interesting.
We were dining with four very well-mannered Americans when one said quietly he had just heard Biden had dropped out.
They all four were ecstatic – drummed the tabletop and whooped it up,
Turns out one was a registered Democrat supporter and one had been a US state MP for 10 years.
Under steady questioning they didn’t know what was ahead but Kamala might be it.
That we are Donald supporters we kept silent.
I know its hard with fellow diners on cruises etc when travelling, but we do try to drop hints of a ‘different perspective taken by many in Australia, many Australians are suspicious about Trump being badly treated … etc etc ..’ then adding that of course American politics is up to Americans. Hairy is sometimes very naughty and leads them on also with stories of what ‘some Americans’ nominating African-Americans, Mexicans and disgruntled white we have come across say about liking Trump, intending to vote for him, putting forward their views, and asking what they think of those. Act innocent, TE. It’s one way of getting at them nicely.
Racism, sexism, classism, the right is going to throw it all at Harris.
Trump’s nickname for her so far is Laughing Kamala. That is some extremely weak sauce. He will have to come up with a new one.
Talking points are out early today.
I hope he keeps it civil or the feminazis will be loud against him.
Let others use the best knickname – ‘cackles’. Trump should refuse to debate her, imho. Say she is still nominally Vice President and let JD Vance go at her, with his Indian wife cheering him on in the audience, sitting next to Vivek. I can imagine it all right now. JD can be polite but visceral.
No. Mostly they are going to throw her sheer stupidity at her, her ineptitude as demonstrated so far, and her lack of knowledge of international events.
That will do for starters. Her views on the border will be interesting. Many black voters feel very threatened by the influx of new cheap workers taking the jobs that are in short supply already due to Biden’s world.
Howzabout ‘Kackling Kamala’?
Biden can not be dropping out, why, only yesterday our greatest wrongologist was here to tell us so.
Given Comrade Monty’s views so far we can be assured Kamala Harris will NOT be the nominee.
Biden did have a cough.
Caused by his days working as a welder in the Brooklyn shipyards during WWII.
Are you serious?
Is that a “Cornpop” thing?
I hear that Kamala Harris has information that will lead to the arrest of Hilary Clinton…
Then we’d better start working on the cacklers epitaph now while she’s still alive.
The Nazi writes this sanctimonious gunk above…..
Racism, sexism, classism, the right is going to throw it all at Harris.
Funny, but the Nazi has said nothing about the racism and classism thrown at Vance and his wife over the last few days.
Could our Nazi be a hypocrite?
Shirley not!!
Bingo.
Comrade Monty,
Who, in your opinion, will definitely NOT be nominated by the Dems?
There’s a few people here who want to place a sure bet.
*There are
Bloody hell. Too early for me too.
‘There’s’ is an OK colloquialism, Bushie. I quite like it.
There’s not enough weed smokers in the US to get Kamala into the White House.
She’s got the giggles down pat though.
The only racism I saw against Usha Vance since her husband was chosen as VP candidate was from the right.
You’re a lunatic Monty.
The Right is very well disposed towards Vivek, Ben Carson and Thomas Sowell.
He’s not a lunatic, he is a simple minded idiot who will believe anything put out by the left, even if it is contradicted both by what the left out out the day before yesterday, and the clear evidence of actual events.
That is, he is a leftard.
Correction;
Comrade Montgomery
The only racism I saw against Usha Vance since her husband was chosen as VP candidate was from the right.
If anyone wants proof that the Nazi here is a rancid liar, the words above attest to it.
Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024 Election Map Projection | BIDEN DROPS OUT!
With Usha and JD most voters will think they’re getting a package deal. JD said much in his acceptance address.
It could cut both ways but definitely not because she has Indian heritage.
Question for the Nazi, if Biden can ‘govern’ why has he pulled out of the race?
Straight to the Pool Room.
He’s good. With stronger academics, you know the Econs 101 thing, mUnty would be a shoe in for the Prof van Wrongselen School of Wrongology.
Rita works Kamala on the ropes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHCCM-OzeM
Biden withdrew from the race because he lost support of the party. He has always tacked to the centre of his party.
Let’s be honest, nothing ever happens in the last six months of a US presidency anyway. He will be a steady hand on the till, which is all that is needed.
Mike Johnson and others calling for him to resign can “pound sand”, as the Yanks like to say. Perhaps MJ can think about achieving a single thing with his House majority (other than giving in to Democrat demands) before he gains the right to criticise.
He will be a steady hand on the till, which is all that is needed.
LOL. Clearly quoting an old Benny Hill gag; when the ship is sinking, ‘All hands to the till!’
Particularly appropriation there.
A till is not the same as a tiller, fvckwit.
Or do you mean that “Ten percent for the Big Guy” will continue to flow into the cash register until January?
I’m admittedly unfamiliar with sailing, but is it common to ‘tack to the centre?’
Biden: A “steady hand on the till”?
More like a shaky hand in the till”
m0nty
July 22, 2024 7:18 am
Where do you get your info, this is pathetic.
He reads and trusts the ever varying lefturd talking points.
So at this stage the old perv is still prez for another five months.
David Goldman | China’s Long March Into the Global South | NatCon 4
SloJo’s endorsement is one thing, the Machine’s cheatable candidate is another.
Make Kamala Own it Video
More like this please, MAGA’s.
Mutley saying “lets be honest”. Ha. The lying liar lies.
Kamala – Ivy League Elegy.
”I was born into a poor but hard working family of immigrant college professors.”
That is awesome! I am so stealing that. 😀
– a steady hand on the till –
Freud slips again.
Hillary & Bill have already endorsed Harris.
One would expect the party machine will now rally behind Kamala.
I doubt they want a contested convention.
Correct.
They have no-one better. No-one else is prepared to sacrifice him/herself. She is not a future leader of the party.
The DNC knows no-one can now beat Trump — even with industrial-level cheating.
So the cackler will be the party’s sacrificial lamb.
?
Kamala will get the Presidency and get shot the very same day – probably on the podium where she’s being sworn in* and the Judge will seamlessly turn to her VP – the Hildebeast – and swear her in as the new President.**
*If she cops the pellet before she finishes the oath, she isn’t the First Woman President and Shrillary is automatically the First Woman President.
**No, I’m not serious, but I’ll put $50 on it if anyone’s running a book.
🙂
Bolta on the Wong Chap in today’s Tele:
IT SHOULD BE SORRY DAY FOR WRONG-AGAIN PENNY WONG
Andrew Bolt
22 Jul 2024
Foreign Minister Penny Wong should apologise for helping to turn Nasser Mashni into Mr Palestine, now that he’s told us what he really thinks of us.
Wong posted a picture of herself with Mashni, president of the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, saying she’d offered him her “deepest condolences … following the devastating explosion at the Gaza City Hospital”.
At the time, Foreign Minister Wong had been implying that the hospital had been attacked by Israel.
It had in fact been hit by a malfunctioning terrorist rocket.
Federal Labor MP Ged Kearney should say sorry, too, for also posting pictures of herself with Mashni, as if endorsing the poison he’s spreading here, especially among radical Aboriginals.
I’ve warned for months against Mashni, son of a “refugee” who came here falsely claiming to be a Christian fleeing persecution in Muslim Lebanon, but was actually an extremist so close to the Islamist Hamas terrorist group that a message from Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was read at his funeral.
Now I read reports of Mashni’s outburst this month, on an online panel for Ecosocialism 2024 alongside former Palestinian militant Leila Khaled.
Mashni called Khaled a hero, although she’d been jailed for helping to hijack two planes – in 1969 and 1970 – and taking passengers hostage.
Worse was how Mashni praised her, by vilifying Australia for denying her a visa to be here in person. “Our hero Leila was denied the opportunity to come here,” Mashni declared, “because this settler colonial, this racist country denied her a visa.”
It’s not the first time Mashni has expressed a seeming contempt for Australia.
He regularly speaks at anti-Israel protests in Melbourne, of course, where at one such event said he’d objected “for years” to Palestinians flying the Australian flag: “That is the colonisers’ flag. It does not belong here.”
Who does not belong here? The flag, or Mashni?
Mashni has explained his agenda on his 3CR radio show: “Israel is the domino. Israel falls over … the world is a far better place once we destroy Western imperialist control of the world.”
Mashni says Aboriginals face the same enemy as Palestinians.
It’s colonialism; Israel and Australia “are both western European settle colony constructs”.
He’s therefore formed alliances with race-baiting Senator Lidia Thorpe and the extremist Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, selling badges of the Aboriginal and Palestinian flags intertwined.
Imagine just for a moment the hell we’d face if some Aboriginals decided they should “resist” Australian “colonialism” the way Palestinian extremists “resist” Israel.
No, Israel’s fight really is our fight, but not quite like Mashni means. It’s a fight for Western civilisation against barbarians, tribalists and terrorism.
Step one would be for Wong to apologise for giving Mashni the credibility he does not deserve.
And that we can’t afford.
Israel falls over … the world is a far better place once we destroy Western imperialist control of the world.”
And replace it with what?
I am happy with ‘Western imperialist control’ over anything this idiot wants.
If his father came here as a refugee under false pretences, could the son be deported? Interesting question.
Not many choices being offered, are there?
Had to be close enough for the steal to work. It was getting too difficult to bridge the gap with Biden. With Kamala and some well manipulated polling they can make it look like she’s neck and neck with Trump, or a bit behind. Then when she gets a narrow win they can say that was a surprisingly good turnout because she’s a historic first black woman candidate.
We’ll see what Jill and Hunter accepted as the payoff, or if they go for revenge instead. The latter is possible since Jill and Kamala detest each other
Hillary & Bill have already endorsed Harris.
If that doesn’t strike fear in the woman then nothing can.
Wow – the giggling idiot. The dems really have lost it.
No, the Democrats are just showing their contempt for the US.
Let’s be honest, nothing ever happens in the last six months of a US presidency anyway. He will be a steady hand on the till, which is all that is needed.
oops…bit of a freudian slip there old boy.
Hand IN the till more like. But close enough.
Nazis get a free pass, but do something that qwerties don’t like and plod will chase you to the ends of the Earth.
Moment masked vandal takes aim at pavement LGBT flag with spray gun (21 Jul)
Weird how they seem to be less concerned about all those people vandalizing synagogues with paint lately.
Deadman would have a fit at that grammar.
Cackles literally rooted her way to the top. Willie Brown was up her like a rat up a drain pipe.
*I’d suggest a critical review of the claimed 40 000 civilian death toll.
There is no aerial photography of the mass graves of the claimed 40,000 dead.
So, The Donald v The Kackler for the remaining two presidential debates?
Now Vance is unburdened, who does he debut against?
…Bootyjudge?
Re Leak’s cartoon this morning, Dim Chalmers has reassigned responsibility for the collection of national “well being” statistics to the ABS after Treasury used out of date figures this year.
ABS won’t issue a report until 2026.
Which is all a bit academic, as most Australians know their living standards are getting worse. What they don’t realise – being natural optimists – is just how much worse they will get under Chalmer’s economic mismanagement.
Yes, I meant the “hand on the till” pun. Have a look at Trump’s budget plans, he would blow out the deficit – again – with handouts for billionaires. So much for populism.
If the only attacks you have on Harris are that she laughs and she had a boyfriend once, you’ve got nothing.
I doubt that. Most billionaires support the Democrats Monty.
You have noticed that Trump and Vance are carefully angling for working class votes haven’t you? The Teamsters President even addressed the RNC.
It’ll be epic when Kamala gets her word salads going. They’re fun, especially if she does it in a debate with Trump. Whenever she does that she sounds like an idiot.
She is an idiot.
Who cannot string a coherent sentence together. Not important though, in the Gospel According to Resident Wrongologist. I can see her appeal to the likes of other idiots.
The natural constituency for MAGA is small business owners. This was borne out most noticeably on January 6. It delivers nothing for the working class.
The only legislative achievement of Trump 45 was upper class tax cuts.
Trump should not deign to debate her as her candidacy is conflicted by her VP role still applying. Let JD do it.
She laughs at things that are not funny
Not entirely surprising Kamala got the nod. No one else would want to run since their first tilt at the Oval Office will be a defeat.
Kamala, on the other hand, seems to have delusions as to her own genius (she thinks those inextricable tangles of words she utters are brilliant), but also the benefit that might come with the right running mate – if they are popular…
Her target audience are morons, just saying.
Nick Fuentes and his groyper army are all over Usha.
Which Democrats have been racist towards her? Waiting for you to post a link, gabor.
You read some weird sites Monty. I have no idea who Fuentes is although I’ve heard the name – mainly from your comments. I suspect from what you say about him he’s not really a righty. There’re a lot of fakes around these days – usually pushed by the Dems. Amazing how many “ordinary Republicans” interviewed by the MSM turn out to be lefty activists. Happens every election cycle.
Are groypers the same as cookers?
I’m distressed that Biden wasn’t buoyed by my ringing endorsement last night. It was heartfelt encouragement to continue on.
I never thought for one minute that he was cognitively impaired, let alone senile. No Sir!
Like the world’s politicians (including Albo) who have actually seen and talked to him, I believed he was a-okay. That’s because they’re all utterly trustworthy and would never ever tell lies about such a worthy US president.
Today, I’m a shocked and broken woman. Kamala may be smart, but she’ll never be as smart as Biden. It now remains for the Party to endorse her. Biden, that poor man so brutally ousted, must have his preference upheld.
She’s their only hope!
LOL, Calli. My sympathies for the end of your Biden dreams.
/Sarc off for those who can’t read.
Harris is a stupid woman, who by luck and lust slept her way to the top.
Geez, our resident Nazi follows a Nazi called Nick Fuentes.
lol
No one will ever out-Hammy Hammy, but I can attempt to out-m0nty m0nty.
I’m watching the liars in the Party talk him up in real time. It’s amazing how these smooth faces and pumping jaws spew them out.
My suspicion is that he was offered the Tontine or the door.
Gosh. That bad!
But July 13 shows just how big these stakes are to them.
m0nty
July 22, 2024 6:47 am
Harris endorsements are rolling out faster than they can be tweeted.
The leftards endorsing the descendant of slave owners:
The Spectator World
Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?
What do Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Powell, Sidney Poitier and Busta Rhymes have in common? And how are Beyoncé, Ava DuVernay, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris alike?
None of the first set is descended from American slaves. All of the second are descended from slave-owners.
Should those who have never owned slaves, pay compensation to those who have never been slaves? Will any compensation take into account the cost of fighting the Civil War?
Sadly no Zulu.
Doesn’t fit the narrative.
The idea is to make the left live up to it’s ‘standards’ though.
Yes the rats and the deep state are capable of anything
What Happens Now That Joe Biden Quit Race? DNC Process Explained
Proof, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Big SARC tag, of course.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2024/07/21/idf-finds-polio-in-gaza-brings-in-vaccines-voluntary-for-soldiers/
The only time I will ever feel sorry for Palestinians.
Paralysis rates have actually increased since that useless concoction and doctors just renamed (ddx to be precise) polio as GBS, MS, transverse myelitis etc.
To put it into perspective, around 1 in 120 Americans have a polio equivalent condition today whereas polio only affected around 1 in 1 in 1000 Americans at the supposed height of the polio epidemic.
That’s not to say that the polio vaccine causes paralysis (although it probably does) but it has been woefully useless at preventing it.
After all, wasn’t JFK going to abolish the CIA so they abolished him?
@stoolpresidente
There is no way Kamala would have been the nominee if Joe Biden dropped out before the Democratic Primary and had to run vs other candidates. The people who control Joe also control Kamala and just subverted democracy with pure election fraud and theft
Indolent:
In the link you provided yesterday – July 21, 2024 10:26 pm
The Energy Transition Ain’t Happening: Hydrogen In Australia – there was a reply from a site where it was claimed:
It’s somewhere in this collection but I’ve gotten confused in the process and only have these links.
Perhaps you or anyone else with some science background could look further and see what he’s on about?
No.
He will be an unsteady hand in the till.
mUntard is confusing “till”, a cash register, and “tiller”, a device for steering small boats.
America’s Albo – overlooked until there was nobody left – can no longer be propped up till November. Echos of Killary propped up on a bollard. America’s voting system and State control of voting, counting and the courts does not suggest this is the end. The number of votes that actually determine an election is surprisingly small.
I’m sure they have more than one loser who like sloping roofs.
Harris had one job.
She failed.
Not taxing billionaires into emigrating is not a handout.
I take it you mean the border?
Yes. Did she have any other responsibilities?
Perhaps there’s a list somewhere.
I do know she never went to Europe. She said so.
A couple of observations following the announcement that illegitimate illiterate innumerate incompetent syphilitic pedophilic ol’ geriatric imbecile (but enough about his good points) won’t contest the next US election (just as I predicted, many moons ago).
The fact the dumbocrats even considered that stupid evil ol’ bastard was some sort of viable candidate up until the fallout from the grate debate is undeniable evidence of the utter contempt in which they hold the electorate.
To replace him with that staggeringly stupid cackling incoherent kamel (who sucked a whole lot o’ cock to get where she is) is an even bigger insult. Not to mention that she’s electoral poison, as the dumbocrats will discover in November.
At this rate Fatty Trump will win in a Reaganesque ’84 style thumping – the dumbocrats won’t even be able to mount a credible steal attempt.
Which is excellent news.
Wasn’t that a Led Zeppelin song?
I’m thinking more the Regurgitator song.
William uses NDIS funding to see sex workers. He says before that, isolation left him in ‘absolute despair’
Wh-wh-whaaaa?
If he wants to visit knock shops, why the hell can’t he pay for it out of the money he earns as a “professional”? Why does he have to use his NDIS funds for it? I thought the debate around using NDIS money to pay for hookers was absolutely absurd, but this guy takes the biscuit. He apparently makes his own money but still insists on using his NDIS slush fund (which is evidently what it is) to pay for his vices.
With that said, the same goes also for people who can’t work and are on a disability pension. This is what that money is for (or whatever else they choose to spend it on – none of anyone else’s business, really). However, their NDIS grant money is not their money as such, in that they are not free to spend it on whatever they please. It is to be spent solely on supports that enable them to lead normal lives. That may mean NDIS money has purchased a particular type of transport that allows them to independently make their way to the brothel. It may mean NDIS money has purchased some kind of communication device that allows them to state whatever services they require when they get there. However, when it comes to paying the actual escort – no, they need to spend their own money for that.
What next – NDIS money is to be spent on lotto? The pokies? A weekend at the high roller’s table at Crown? Why not? Why can’t they have normal lives like you and I?
I call this claim untrue. If it happened, which would be a scandal, why not go to the media?
Nick Fuentes has had dinner with Trump, but he has been unseated by Charlie Kirk in the Trump twink lane. If you aren’t across these details, you are not paying attention. But of course, you lot are intellectually lazy so you are off the pace.
Colour me sceptical. If Trump met someone the Left could use to smear him it’d be all over the MSM endlessly. Which suggests they don’t want this looked into, therefore whoever he is isn’t a safe topic for the Left.
Interesting to see what happens at the virtual DNC zoom hookup thingie.
New York Times Board Wants Kamala Harris Out of the Race (21 Jul)
If you’ve lost the Slimes…
The virtual DNC is still necessary since Ohio requires a nominated candidate by 7 August – two weeks before the scheduled date of the actual convention.
This is highly technical. I didn’t understand much of it.
CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer
One very interesting comment –
Begs the question – why and was it deliberate. It sounds as though they can shut down these systems at will.
Monty:
you lot are intellectually lazy so you are off the pace.
Also monty:
I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.
What a maroon.
?
If you aren’t across these details, you are not paying attention.
Hey Nazi, what happened to ‘Biden can govern”?
I’m going to make a prediction that next week Biden will resign and Kamala will become the president. As a sitting president she would be deemed to have a better chance of winning or at least getting a bump in the polls to justify cheating.
Exactly the opposite would happen. Every American would suddenly see how much of a setup this Democrat crap is and react to it. Not pretty.
Nobody, and I by that I mean nobody not a Democrat party elite, wants to even think about her actually in the oval office.
Gee, really?
Wtf is m0nty babbling about? He made more sense when he was obliviously calling people paedophiles.
You can smell his fear coming through the screen.
That’s the sweat from his unwashed Gimp suit.
When Biden won the primaries I expected that there was a deal struck that due to his age he would only serve one term. Surely the Dems were planning ahead. Does the current turmoil indicate that there was no such deal or that Biden reneged on it?
Is Kamala Brown the ‘Hawk Tuah’ candidate? Just spit on that thang!
Damn it.
So this is what being wrong feels like.
Fairs fair. I got it wrong when I said Biden would likely run for a second term…
although, technically, he did run.
And had to be blasted out of there, half dead, confused and demented.
So, almost right.
mUnty raising spectres again
it’s all angels and demons with this idiot
Rumour is that Susan Rice left the WH 12 months ago because Biden indicated he would run again.
If Kackles gets the gig, that’ll pretty much be it for the U/S as the world’s policeman.
Would any Middle Eastern despot kowtow to a Indo-Carib wahman?
Would Poots, or Xi Jinping?
Biden will not resign the presidency. Apart from many very good political reasons, there are several showstopping practical reasons:
ROFL. You are projecting like Linda Blair. The Republicans stealing the election? Oh wow, that’s a good one even for you!
Biden may step down because it gives Kamala the advantage of incumbency. I don’t think he will because the Dems don’t want Kamala in the limelight where she can be seen in action, as it were. It’s easier to cover up her gaffs and word salads if she isn’t forced to front the cameras every day.
Comrade Montgomery thinks all his “cool kids hip verbiage” doesn’t make him look like a complete fckwit.
Bushie thinks doxxing is cool.
The USN was investigating the ability to remove CO2 from seawater via a membrane. Sea water has 140 times the amount of CO2 than air, and with the nuclear reactor aboard their carriers, they could make jet fuel.
I don’t have the URL but there was a US company which reckoned they had a tested process to do this at a price competitive with delivering jet fuel on board from conventional sources.
Removing CO2 from the sea to make hydrocarbon fuels, which gets replaced by CO2 from the air, is carbon neutral, if you worry about that sort of thing. It means all existing fuel infrastructure and distribution as well as the vehicles that use it are already in place. Forget hydrogen, batteries etc which are all silly attempts at carbon neutrality.
I get that – the unusual thing is that the system appears to be a CO2 mine that when added with energy from a reactor, is a perfect system for Mars colonisation.
The fact the fuel distribution system is already here means that apart from carrier operations, in civil service the need for a distributed energy service isn’t needed. A bit like building reactors in the old coal power stations footprint and using the existing distribution network.
Does he get to pardon his son immediately he leaves?
There is also the issue with pending felony judgements dangling over Hunter – he has to be convicted before he can be pardoned. Now, if he changers his pleas to ‘guilty’ then dad could clear everything up in an afternoon – as long as it is before 4:00.
And Dad has had his “Nanna nap”
I laughed:
You have to direct link the tweet or we can’t see it – those of us not on Twitter. Her feed for us only shows tweets from two years ago.
Gotcha.
Thanks!
The kayfabe of American democracy. As soon as the donor class (oligarchs) ceased to support Biden it was over. Peculiar that this is announced on Twitter and not at a press conference. Having successfully sidelined RFK, Dem Convention will now only have donor-approved candidates with Kamala, post-endorsement, the anointed one.
Seems baguettes and a dank French chateau hasn’t met expectations….
mUnturd has moved seamlessly to the latest DNC/lefturd talking points, the ones he was using on Saturday having been consigned to the Memory Hole as if they had never existed.
The fact that they are cut and pasted in a different size and font is a bit of a dead giveaway.
Not as I understand it as we are way more than half way through the term.
Not that Kamala can win once, let alone twice, as she presides over the smoking wreckage of the former USA.
Ah, so I see. You learn something new every day.
You never learn anything, you just copy/paste lefturd talking points.
The same goes for a future Vance presidency, though for different reasons.
Which, of course, has serious implications for our security.
Would AUKUS survive an isolationist POTUS?
Kamala is so bad she makes Hillary look respectable.
She’s not called Killary for nothing Cassie. I’m not sure Kameltoe ever killed anyone.
Handsome boy praising the old pervert: a great defender of democracy and advocate for climate change says the fukwit. Sure, biden tried everything including assassination to democratically remove Trump and his support of climate change led directly to the hamas invasion of Israel. It did so because the old pervert ended the US’s energy independence created by Trump so ME oil, including from iran flowed again. Consequently iran had the finances to revitalise their proxies and hamas then did what muzzie vermin do.
I’ll add that LBJ was in the running for the 1968 election after winning in 1964 but quit due cowardice, not because of Constitutional reasons.
Harris needs to beware of suicide by a couple of shots to the back of the head.
Nice thought but I don’t think anyone could have so little self-respect. I agree there will be improvement but it will be because she gets the A team behind her and a serious threat of arkancide if she doesn’t do some work.
Stranger things have happened- I just can’t think of any. The fall guy (usually a woman) has plenty of precedents, Carmen Lawrence and KK being recent examples. They are rewarded by the party for taking the hospital handpass. You have to wonder with Harris’s
polling she can make another steal work?
Maybe, Cassie, that wasn’t a great observation to’ve made…
Flailing Democrats Urged to Consider Swapping ‘Young’ Hillary Clinton for Biden (21 Jul)
She’s just waiting for the call up!
She’s endorsed Harris.
So?
If she was waiting for the call up she’d be pushing for a contested convention, or at least keeping shtum and waiting for this week’s polls, like Obama.
Doesn’t work like that Roger. It is all behind-the-scenes and then suddenly announced.
The Slimes editorial against Kamala is pretty significant.
Chuckle.
I don’t think anyone in the US would relish a rerun of 2016.
Except maybe the Donald.
I think it was a very good observation to have made.
Yes certainly Cassie. I agree with you. But I can’t resist a segue, I’m terrible about that. Sorry! It’s a personal failing. On the other hand Hillary could do a great job as a rebooted Terminator:
She can’t be bargained with. She can’t be reasoned with. She doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until she gets what she wants.
works the same way an anti-barking collar does for a dog
The point being that the voting machines were connected to the internet.
Now we know why, and now we know how, the election was rorted.
All the double counting and fake votes were just a back up.
The computers were able to, and allowed to, insert votes in random places wherever they were programmed to do it.
And they’re going to do it again.
They’re not leaving the US many options, are they?
So she does a reverse Joh Bjelke-Petersen (with triple pike)?
Crikey.
Stephen Mayne isn’t happy.
Just a reminder, shes ready and waiting to serve you…
That’s why Mavis wears knee pads.
Headline at News.com.au this morning…
Immediate blow for Kamala Harris 2024 US election campaign (22 Jul)
Got to think the sub ed who wrote the headline did so on purpose…
Still, aside from Twitter, is there any official confirmation of this? I notice no Presidential letter head on the letter.
Biden had an excuse for being demented, he was like a thousand years old.
What’s Kamala’s excuse?
Drugs, man.
And oxygen deprivation.
interesting …
we installed some metering on 2off 7kW EV chargers in a particular building
same building has a 100kW solar array on the roof
I was just looking at some energy logs I have running and
last week the entire energy consumption of the EV chargers was MORE that the total output of the solar
every single day … and that was with the chargers hardly being used
It will not be Hillary. However it still might be Michelle. Cackling Kamala would step aside for Michelle.
At least Michelle is African-American.
Yep.
And if you don’t believe that, just look at how big her cock is.
Arkster…you are better than this.
Yair – I only got a snigger rather than a LOL.
The survey was conducted by the Australian Chamber of Commerce.
That’s the whole idea, Wodger. Those bloody Kulaks need to be put in their place.
Paywallian:
Higgins ‘forced to sell’ house in France to pay defamation bill
What a nice thing to hear on a Monday morning! But the case hasn’t gone to trial yet, so she’ll get to stay in the south of France for at least a while.
Nice.
Hope it gets over the line.
All very premature. Ask anyone who’s tried to enforce a judgment.
The real interest will be around that trust. Zweir established on the day after Dreyfus signed off on the settlement. Should be some interesting affidavits filed around that.
Why ..?
My neighnour who knows everyone and everything local was discussing a building site around the corner. They are putting up a dozen or so townhouses.
The most notable aspect of the site is the two dollybirds who are propped up by stop/go signs. There is no need for traffic control, the street has virtually no traffic and a double width bike path removes any chance of traffic conflict.
Annualised, they earn more than a graduate engineer. But of course their salary cannot be annualised because they take time off to attend their Associate Diploma in IR Studies or whatever fake course, plus there is surfing trips, visits to Mum etc.
But this is an excellent situation: job sharing; more employer funded union site training, and fees. It is a wonder that they don’t work from home.
He claims that the builder told him that he would never be able to start a job if he introduced driver initiated stop lights for traffic control.
On a darker note he claimed that the Council is complicit, and that the young ladies may not have been selected exclusively on the basis of merit and next in the queue priority. Uncles rule OK.
They aren’t training them well either.
Came across one last weer tucked round a blind corner. Saw the lollypop sign at same time as her. Even at 40 I had to hit the anchors fast.
If she had been down the bend by another 100m she would have been more visible and be able to see her offsider. Got her nose out of joint when this pointed out to her.
I just drove away with an attitude of meh. Dawin’s award waiting to happen as I know people speed in that area of road.
Traffic control around building sites has always been a council responsibility.
Montys new favourite video…
Maybe the milkos kiddies can do the evening runs for him and just push the results under the basement door?
https://x.com/i/status/1814909378816061669
Really are palace coup vibes about this situation.
Glenn Reynolds asks the question…
😀 Joe wouldn’t remember either way of course. Jill would though.
Did I not hear this morning of a local council in NSW being asked to show cause within the week by the state government because of just such corrupt practices?
Why, yes…I did.
But surely these are isolated cases.
Cough.
Fox News has the big hitters in for overtime. Jesse Watters is on now.
Jesse Watters is one of the reasons Fox News’s ratings have halved since it sacked Tucker Carlson — the ultimate lightweight.
I watch Fox News’s coverage of the RNC convention last week — the first time I had tuned in since the Carlson sacking.
It really is lightweight city without him.
Shaun Hannity is still a loudmouth knowall.
I can watch Laura Ingraham with the sound down if there’s something interest in the subtitles.
But 8pm weeknights with Jesse Watters is a great big black hole.
Dunny Brush,
I read the article. Bwahahahahahahah
Coles sells cheap mince and bread, which my Cafe birdies love. Woolies by contrast loves to sniff unicorn farts.
‘A pleasure’: EV utes to service Woolies supermarkets in Sydney’s west (21 Jul)
Glad that you are so happy and inspired Ms Frewan, but I will not be shopping in your supermarkets. GWGB.
(This is from the Tele, and is weirdly unpaywalled. It’s a mystery.)
Luv it .. 9 vehicles and we’ze talking exhuming the auto manufacturing sector .. gotta luv the optimism ..!
I’m sure “Twiggy” will be chatting to Luigi about his plans for an electric ute plant .. LOL!
I think we will hear a lot of mischaracterisation of Trump- Vance as isolationist.
Which they aren’t.
They are for intervention on American terms and in American’s interests.
They are also characterised as being against trade.
They aren’t. They are for trade to be more in American terms.
And in both cases, willing to follow through with threats if other states don’t play the game.
Arky:
That’s what they are getting shitty about – the new team are refusing to play the Kabuki Theatre that lets them get away with destroying the US infrastructure.
Michelle Obama’s oft quoted reluctance to get into top level politics is … how you say … Taqiyya.
Certainly fits with the Wizard of Oz theme.
Big Mike is about to put his/her/its foot in the door.
The Kenyan sees his opportunity.
Stand by for some “doings”.
Any conformation of the cackler, by the Clinton gang, is through gritted teeth.
All three groups are using this hiatus, to stack up on ammo and machetes.
“Doctor” Jill must have received the Mother of all Payouts.
If not, the Biden syndicate will be out for revenge as well.
This will be terrific television.
The power of global markets is awesome.
I’m not sure any one part of it can stand up against it.
I remember going into a car wreckers yard I had in past years used. There were almost no cars in the yard.
They parted them out as soon as they came in.
Global supply chains changed that business completely.
It’s a global market. You can buy a second hand bit from any car anywhere in the world from any other part of the world and it arrives in the mail at your door.
Wreckers don’t keep many cars whole in the yard waiting for a customer to come to the door so they can send a kid out the back and wrench it off the car,
They break the cars down and put them up online to a whole world full of customers.
The parts don’t have to sit so long.
It is a much bigger change than it seems on the surface.
It means that anything in your country no longer really belongs to that country. There isn’t an Australian car parts market anymore. It a global market.
Then there was the covid times.
And masks were being smurfed from stores and sent to China. Just because goods have been landed in your country doesn’t mean they are going to be used by your citizens. The same happened to the baby formula for some time before the cov.
A bigger market has to be more efficient because there are so, so many more buyers and sellers.
I reckon there’d be a good market just buying new cars and disassemble them. New parts are 8-10 times the cost of a complete car.
I’ve always wondered about that.
Dealers massively gouge on parts.
In “The Wages of Destruction” Adam Tooze describes how in pre war Germany, under the price and manufacturing controls, if a business owned a truck and the tyres needed replacing, it was cheaper to buy a new truck, sell it for parts, and put the new tyres on the old truck.
We aren’t quite at that point, but I wonder how far off it is.
Desktop computers, up until 5 years ago, were in that category .. Sight cheaper to cannabalize a “newie/2nd” than buy individual parts ……..
Now , not so much, parts prices haven’t changed much but the, whole, desktops are a lot cheaper as folk have turned to laptops/tablets ………
This is why China loves freight.
And so do I luv China freight! .. TEMU .. 10 days from order to door turnaround and free delivery …….
2) Patsy for real shooter who was likely in the building adjacent. Given all the other convenient security lapses and indirect evidence others knew (eg stock market activity), I favour the latter.
One audio analysis I saw yesterday had two shots after the first that were at about the same measured interval (the second pro shooter), followed by five that sounded fairly wild, fired as fast as possible (the patsy), followed by one more shot that likely was the one that killed the patsy.
I’m with Flying Duk on this one.
Cackles:
“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country.”
and illegal immigration:
Kamala Harris, the truth: – Whatfinger Clips and Vids
Kamala reminds me of The Sphinx in Mystery Men.
Maybe she learned to do word salads from Wes Studi.
The ABC engages in more dishonest blame-shifting:
No, Joe’s inner circle knew full well he was mentally incapacitated but ran a Weekend at Bernie’s presidency, with total (and necessary) complicity of media scoundrels like this hack. They almost pulled it off as well.
Presumably this hack counts herself as one of “those who have been paying attention”. Did she report that Biden’s “verbal stumbles and jumbled thoughts” couldn’t be “[shrugged off] as Joe being Joe”, which is what a journalist (cf. stenographer) would do? Hell no! Far easier to run with the pack and smugly report way too long after the fact something that has been obvious to those who have genuinely been paying attention – that Joe has been mentally incapacitated and unfit for office since before his first term commenced. That would have been a real story. But no, it’s Biden’s inner circle’s fault.
Although if you accept this, you must also accept that this dopey broad doesn’t have eyes, ears or a brain that would allow her to deduce something so obvious.
Alternatively, she could have knowingly been covering for Biden just like the rest of her morally degenerate ilk until they were no longer able to plausibly deny reality.
Monty said:
Even if that scenario doesn’t play out, Harris would be limited to one full term.
What an idiot!! Harris would not be restricted to one term. For one who thinks he knows a lot about politics you just proved you know stuff all.
If that were true how do you explain Lyndon Johnson going for a second term only to withdraw for “personal reasons”.
The Vice President can serve out the previous President’s term and 2 further terms provided he/she has served less than half the predecessor’s term. In the case of LBJ he served just about 12 months of JFK’s four year term.
Monty gives himself another upper cut.
The only thing the fat fascist fool knows about politics is what he sees in leftard talking points or on lefturd websites. He lacks the intellect to notice the changes to the “narrative”, and follows the changes faithfully.
Josh Shapiro is apparently the fave (betting markets) for VP…
Makes sense.
Stage one of our predictions from the start of the year has come to pass.
As the US always has been, at least until George H. W. Bush imprudently (to be charitable) embarked on his vision of a new world order, which his son later doubled down on.
But that doesn’t preclude a review of how AUKUS fits into those interests if a future American president has a more restrained view of foreign policy.
And we don’t have a Plan B.
Vassal of the Han empire is plan B.
That’s not a plan.
That’s perfidy.
We don’t even have a Plan A.
Remembering the federal Labor government is controlled by the socialist left faction, Australia’s ideological defence posture is surrender to communist China while pretending to be an American ally.
Note: the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Glyn Davis is a plant* for the Chinese Communist Party.
*We used to call them spies.
Snap
Where’s the DLP when you need them?
We don’t even have a Plan A.
But we do have ….. drum roll, pleeeze! …….. LUIGI, “houso” extrordinaire ..!
Potential VP Josh Shapiro sounds a bit like an American Juliar Gillard:
WHAT JOSH SHAPIRO DID TO PRIESTS WAS DISGRACEFUL – Catholic League
Goes after dead or defrocked priests and totally ignores abuse in State-run institutions (and sexual abuse in his own Governor’s office).
Not a chance.
He and his wife are of a certain ethnicity that would cause chain-linked head explosions right across the Democrat Party, especially in Dearborn MI.
Perhaps Bruce.
But as the Archbishop of Canterbury must be an atheist, a liberal Jew is hardly a Jew…
Dearborners don’t care.
I wonder what sportsbet does if the candidate drops out…. do u lose your stake or do they refund it?
Interestingly, this is a re-release of a release released more than a year ago:
With word saladry that Kamala herself would be proud of:
Which appears to be Pollywaffle for Winnah!!!
Sadly, the international roll out of Australia’s Supermarket Trolly SuperPower has been stymied by Evil Murdoch and the Climate Deniers:
A sustained flushing of distortions and mistruths about renewables and EV’s.
There’s a message in there for all of us.
Not sure Rupe would even know what a shopping trolley looks like. Murdoch Derangement Syndrome approaching KRuddy levels.
BobtheBoozer
Thanks for this link.
http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Nuclear.html#hydrocarbons
It would repay all Cats to read in full. It isn’t all that long and has links to other sources for more detail.
It is clear we do not have any kind of energy problem, even if you worry about CO2 and there is no case for solar and wind except in isolated off grid circumstances.
I’ve been talking about nuclear methanol for a long time. Porsche and VW have also fairly recently started to invoke “e-fuel” (which is methanol.)
Good get from lotocoti upthread and worth repeating:-
Less than 48 hours before that rake hit him in the flared snout.
Are we talking about the same party here?
The Dems are terrified that their Dearborn wing, and their Bernie bro wing, will sit the election out, due to a certain unpleasantness going on in the ME right now.
Mr Shapiro is of course on the wrong side for that particular unpleasantness on account of his ethnicity and religion (I don’t know if he is observant but the Dearborners probably don’t care.)
This is exactly why Wong has been prostituting herself recently.
I think the Dems have written off the Dearborn wing already.
Watching the Peter Schiff show,
He just proposed a 20% across the board tariff.
”I’d rather see that than income tax”, he said,
”We were much better off in the past with tariffs than with income taxes, and we’d be much better off in the future with tariffs than with income taxes”.
Yes Peter, you are 100% correct.
For Chuck’s steak, don’t suggest to to Elbow – we’ll have both – increased tariffs AND income tax.
Peter Schiff proposes 20% across the board tariffs to replace income tax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHyWqco1abI
But that does not allow targeted, public punishment of class enemies… they would get out of paying their fair share.
Isn’t that on us?
The US security guarantee is a mirage. Sure, it is there when we don’t need it, but if we ever do, well…we’ll sure wish we had a Plan B. Fact is that when the US can’t defend us without incurring a certain level of losses (which is likely far lower than what might be expected, given the amount we have paid in blood and treasure to maintain the arrangement over the decades), it won’t.
Furthermore, the circumstances in which we might need to rely upon the US security guarantee are likely to be the same circumstances that preclude the US from performing its obligations to us. This is eminently foreseeable, yet we persist with the fantasy that we can rely on a great power on the other side of a vast ocean to be the ultimate guarantor of our security.
We haven’t learnt anything since 1941, it seems.
In Pro Bono news:
In the family way, and a sick grandfather, then:
As everyone knows, online attacks can’t be heard in the Dordogne.
Shirley, with facts like these, no court in Australia could find against Aussie Brinny.
Ben Weingarten | The Islamic Supremacist Challenge to America | NatCon 4
Thomas Cole works are usually pretty large, and detailed.
The Journey of Life is my favourite series of his works, and I go to see it every time I visit Washington D.C. in the USA, National Gallery – all 4 works are there in the same room on the 4 walls of the small room, just amazing.
They were my favourites when I visited the Met. Robert Hughes loved them too.
X.ai
m0nty
July 22, 2024 9:29 am
Ring your bookie people.
Get your money on “Biden Gone by Smoko Tuesday”.
California Governor Gavin Newsom endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination shortly after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race. Harris has received endorsements from various political figures and organizations, including former presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s voters PAC, which shifted its support to Harris. Other notable endorsements for Harris include those from President Biden, former Presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton, and several senators and governors. The endorsements highlight a significant consolidation of support behind Harris within the Democratic Party.
These endorsements mean nothing. They know it’s a poisoned chalice.
I cannot believe Cackling Harris, the Queen of the Head Job, can make much if any political headways in middle America. The old Sniffer could, which is why he was anointed back in 2020.
This doesn’t mean I think Trump/Vance will win. Whilst I hope they win, such is the Demonrat Industrial Cheating complex that it’s very possible the Demonrats can cheat their way to electoral victory.
If the Queen of the Head Job wins the presidency, America and the West is finished.
Zinger of the day award!
Steve Forbes, who has long predicted that President Biden will not be the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, reacts to the end of his campaign, and predicts what he’ll do should Michelle Obama enter the contest.
M0nty: “Harris endorsements are rolling out faster than they can be tweeted.”
Of course – she out-smarted herself this time.
Now the Dem candidacy is a poison pill, all the other Dems who want to be prez can say “I support Kamala!” and avoid being a losing candidate and therefore unlikely to be selected again.
The presidency is pretty much already gone now and they all know it.
So now, Kamala’s “advantage” of being the “next in line” is a disadvantage but she can’t really avoid it and come back at a later date like the others can.
The real question is: how many house and senate candidates will want someone else – anyone else! – to help bolster their own chances, and will the DNC force any change? I doubt they can manage it, given the kerfuffle if they ousted the cackler-in-chief, together with other potential candidates now refusing to play.
Ungrit your teeth and unclench your sphincters, people: Rachel Madcow is on the case!
She has discovered that JD Vance co-founded a company called Narya, a name chosen from The Lord of the Rings – that well known haunt of the ‘far right’.
Take the name, Narya. It is something to do with elves, right? But what else do you notice? If you take the initial ‘N’ and move it to the end of the word you get ‘Aryan’.
Let us forget for the moment that Tolkien was a philologist and invented who languages with their own rules because he would instinctively expect a connection between languages, histories, and cultures. Nah, he was looking for ways to sneak in words like ‘Aryan’.
Let us also forget Tolkien’s famous correspondence with Goebbels where he denounces the bigotry and racism of the Nazi regime.
Nup. The Madcow has found JF Vance out.
Hmph. He probably thought he would get away with it too, but no one gets past MSNPC.
Albo praises the worst US President in 250 years.
PM praises Joe Biden’s ‘extraordinary record’ following the President’s campaign withdrawal (Sky News, 22 Jul)
Hail the Sniffer in Chief!
m0nster at 9:29
You idiot m0nster.
The term limits apply where you serve more than half the term of another elected President.
The reasons why Joe isn’t standing down as President is that Jill wants her swansong and they need to sort out immunity for Bunter.
Trump backs out of debate with Harris.
Coward.
Fake news.
Nothing about that on three search engines I checked just now, including Goolag.
m0nty
July 20, 2024 11:25 pm
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.
PISS OFF, NAZI.
M0nty:“If the only attacks you have on Harris are that she laughs and she had a boyfriend once, you’ve got nothing.”
Biden made her the “border czar”, remember? So she’s responsible for that, isn’t she? All those illegals causing issues in NY, Chicago et al.
What’s that? She didn’t do anything, didn’t even go down for a look? That’s worse, innit – she could have fixed it, but didn’t even look to see what was going on.
Don’t think Trump and the Repubs are not aware of it.