I loathe the smarmy leftist clennel.
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Depends if it is smoked, or not. Hickory -smoked camel is pretty good stuff, Roast it low and slow, basting…
Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though. Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world…
Clennell is no loss.
If they don’t get them all, start razing Gaza to the ground.
A Substack is a subscription-based platform for short-ish essays.
Stephen Spartacus, Bob Malone, Eugyppius, Bad Cattitude, Dan Wootton, JB Peterson. I seem to get emailed a lot of content without having to actually put any money in…
A couple of good Aussie Substacks are Dr Phillip Altman and Rebekah Barnett if you are interested in Covid related matters not covered by mainstream.
Some authors have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and apparently make big money from subscriptions. Matt Taibbi and Alex Berenson probably two of the most well known.
Beer,
GDP is an income measure, it’s not a consumption measure.
True or not, an other side of the man.
Since he passed away, there have been many stories about how kind and generous he was. There was a banquet in his honor and Richard Burton was The M.C. I couldn’t believe how many people Mr. Sinatra helped over the years and how he never mentioned a thing.
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Barbara Sinatra: “We were at a dinner party one night with Bennett Cerf and Betty Bacall when Frank wandered into a guest room to collect a pack of cigarettes from his overcoat.
There he found the producer Arthur Hornblow finishing up a telephone call to a woman. ‘I hope she’s pretty,’ Frank said softly. Arthur replied that she was; it was his mother, Susie, who was in poor health in Florida but still excited about the latest Yankee scores.
‘What I wouldn’t give for one more telephone call with my mom,’ Frank told him wistfully.
At his suggestion, they called Arthur’s mother back and put Frank on the line. ‘Is this really Frank Sinatra?’ she asked. ‘You sound too much like him not to be. I love your voice.’
‘Well, I love your voice too, Susie,’ Frank said. ‘Tell you what—I’m going to call you every Saturday night at six o’clock, and we’ll chew over the Yankees’ performance, okay?’
He kept his promise and never missed a Saturday evening call to Susie Hornblow until the day she died. For good measure, he sent flowers to her on Mother’s Day and to other widowed mothers in the same hospital. Frank added her name to his list of lonely women he’d call on a regular basis.
They included a relative of Freeman Gosden’s and several single mothers. Few believed them when they claimed that Ol’ Blue Eyes was a frequent caller, but they knew the truth and that was all that mattered.”
Global warming anyone?
When police didn’t beat up the public but provided service.
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In the winter of 1963, a Liverpool policeman would have braved one of the coldest winters on record in the UK, known as the “Big Freeze of 1963.”
The police uniform of the time would typically include a heavy wool overcoat, a sturdy hat, and perhaps even a scarf to ward off the bitter cold.
These officers were not only responsible for maintaining law and order but also played a crucial role in providing a sense of security during the severe weather that disrupted daily life.
The city of Liverpool during this era was vibrant with the burgeoning fame of the Beatles and the flourishing Merseybeat scene, adding a dynamic cultural backdrop to the policeman’s everyday duties.
The policeman’s presence on snowy streets, navigating through thick fogs and icy conditions, symbolizes the resilience and commitment of public servants to ensure safety and maintain normalcy in challenging times.
Aaaaah! .. Winter 1963, remember it well .. I was 15 years old .. bloody cold and snowy in County Durham ……!
I’m loving your posts, Kevin.
Please continue.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a bit disappointing to see Trump indulge himself a bit with that stuff again. He has been extremely successful without it and needs to tighten up the self-discipline.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
This is interesting.
I’ve heard of Crypto Jews in muslim countries but not Crypto Christians.
https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1820524661999862171?t=6M_nYQZuHEcOktIZcCEnJw&s=19
That foul little grub Waltz reminds me of the horrible little man that was the lesbian bitch’s running mate. Bad, bad people.
As inspiring as a turd in a swimming pool.
If you want more background on Kamala VP pick the guys at Powerline blog have written up some comments as he is their Governor.
mUnturd reckons that the Powerline writers are the dumbest people on the internet.
Clearly, mUnturd has never looked in a mirror while he is transcribing the DNC talking points.
KevinM,
Am enjoying your early morning contributions. Keep them coming.
As Greg Gutfeld said the other day “The media is spinning faster than the dial on Jerry Nadler’s bathroom scales”. The spin being applied to Tim Walz is extraordinary, painting him as virtually a MAGA Republican when he is widely regarded as extreme left.
Our court appeal against the ALP socialist takeover of country Victoria for the renewables swindle is heard today.
Oh good luck, let us know what is happening.
All the best, mate.
Best wishes for a good outcome – Victoria needs some righteous wins.
If in doubt, Lock the Gate. It worked for rabid anti-gas campaigners in NSW.
Very best of luck, Gez. May the force be with you all.
Wishing you the very best of luck. Thanks for all your effort and involvement to prevent these wicked proposals.
Melanie Phillips has a good article about causes of UK riots at her Substack. Plenty of examples given. However she is not a Tommy Robinson fan.
In the last few hours Nigel Farage has issued a statement about the riots and even in his opening words Farage dumps on Tommy Robinson.
Robinson is the whipping boy, the lad from Luton who speaks plain unfashionable language about the death cult that is Islam and the social collapse happening in the UK due to out of control immigration. Robinson has been warning about this for years. He was one who, when everyone else, including Farage and Phillips, had their big heads stuck in concrete, exposed and publicly spoke about the Muslim rape gangs. So, you might might ask this question, why is there this seething animus from people like Farage and Phillips towards Tommy Robinson and his ilk?
Well, ya see, it’s a class thing.
Compare and contrast the treatment of Douglas Murray and Tommy Robinson, one man (Murray) comes from an upper middle class family and attended Eton College, the other man (Robinson) grew up in a working class family in Luton (north of London), once a fairly normal English working class town, now an Islamist stronghold. Yet both Murray and Robinson speak the same words about Islam and social cohesion however one of these men speaks in ‘acceptable’ dulcet tones whereas the other speaks in unacceptable ‘yob’ tones. Tut tut, tut. The bottom line is that according to ‘respectable’ people like Phillips and Farage, Tommy Robinson should know his place, well actually, they would prefer that Robinson has NO place in civil society.
The English class system is alive and well. It remains ruthless.
To be fair to Murray, unlike the likes of Farage and Phillips, he doesn’t join in the disparagement and persecution of Robinson. I think Murray has long recognised the genius of Robinson and I think there is a grudging respect there.
I’ve long thought of Tommy as this century’s Wat Tyler, and like Wat Tyler, Robinson will be destroyed by the establishment. And when that happens I will also blame the likes of Phillips, Farage et al, for their complicity and cowardice. And of course, once Der Sturmer da Fuhrer is done with Robinson, he’ll come for Farage, he’ll come for Phillips, in fact UK Labour and their comrades in the MSM make no secret of the fact they want to silence and destroy Farage, by any means necessary.
Just think, England once had a ‘Dad’s Army’, now England has a ‘Standing Army’, courtesy of Der Sturmer da Fuhrer.
As Rod Dreher wrote a few days ago, this sceptred isle is now ‘this Machete’d Isle’.
Agree Cassie. Tommy has always been passionate & this can be misconstrued as incitement to violence. His enemies accuse him of this all the time – but excuse the actions of “the protected” Islamics. And yes, he does “push the envelope” & has done time for his actions. But history will portray Robinson as a man of the downtrodden who risked everything to defend the way of life he was born into.
Thank you, Cassie. That is the most important thing I have read today.
Tommy Robinson reminds me of the world I grew up in 1950s/60s County Durham, 98% “white”, family-minded, , hard-working, mostly, miners and a wonderful, tho poverty-stricken childhood ……. plus a full-on aversion to “that Southern gummint” ..LOL!
And, like the Northerners who migrated to Australia, a belief in the dignity of work that became the object of ridicule from the bourgeois New Left in the 60s.
Katie Hopkins warned about some high profile conservatives who, when the crunch comes, would ditch others of like mind if they thought they had to do so to keep their media profile.
I just posted a similar thing downthread around elevenses about Tommy and his accent vs that of the silver-tongued southerners. Reading up thread here now.
Thoroughly agree with you. England has always been fractured on the class line known as the north-south divide. We love the north and have lived there for periods of six months at a time. Hairy’s friends from Cambridge/Oxford find this very strange of us. Even Farage, who has a ‘moderate’ but ‘untoned’ English businessman’s accent is made suspect because of it.
As I’ve written elsewhere, as a promising kid from a poor school but bound for Oxford my headmistress made me stop my Aussie accent pronto and speak ‘county’. It has helped in Britain, less so in Australia, but ‘educated English’ is still spoken here in elite suburbs. Liz Storer has none of it (though she can modulate the Aussie when required), and I love her for that.
Nothing new, however. The Cambridge spies such as Guy Francis de Money Burgess escaped prosecution, while an army sergeant from a working-class area in the North who spied for the Soviet Union got 42 years. I have no complaint about his sentence – he deserved it – but the double standard is odious.
The remarkable – and cheering – thing is, given the hardships of the Great Depression, how few of the working classes spied for Stalin compared to their privileged ‘betters’ such as Burgess, Blunt, Philby and McLean.
Thanks Tom-
On the theme of climate, how believable is Junk science?
According to them
“hottest year ever?”
But arctic sea ice extent is greater in July 2024 than July 2007
And I’ve had the gas fire on every, bloody, night since early June & a hot water bottle to bed .. 1st time I can recall it being on every night .. Gonna be one hell of a bill due soon .. thanx Luigi … Duuuuuuh!
UK Sky News provides continuously updated coverage of the UK riots.
Fairly neutral, but documenting the UK administrative state flexing its muscles. An interesting resource.
I’m shocked.
Wong has cancelled her reception for the olympic champion Fox sisters.
What could it be about these women that Wong dislikes?
Yeah, sarc.
What was the Wongs excuse?
Their gorgeous girl girls. Wong like the labor and green encourage females to look unkept and behave like that creature in Clint Eastwood sudden impact
Pity climate isn’t listed on the stock exchange.
They.re winners, they love competition, they’re young and healthy and they’re not homosexuals.
And one other thing…
Definitely not Presbyterians.
I just can’t put my finger on it….
And I thought I couldn’t despise Wong much more. She’s the stench that keeps on stenching.
Geez ..! If I wuz a woman & looked like “plenty wrong” I’d hate most women too ….!
Face like a sucked melon, flat-chested and that whole “I am man hear me roar ” dress sense & attitude tends to be a “slight” turn-off ……. FFS!
Well, what happened to the end of the world? It was supposed to go up with an Earth shattering ‘Boom!’
And here’s me trying to stir it along with a prediction of Europe In Flames, and I get up this morning to the sounds of birdies.
How disappointing.
I expected the crackle of flames from piles of corpses and burning cities, and get the bloody magpie standing at the side door, waiting for a bit of bread. Not even one Jihadist demanding I repent and make donations to his “Our God Is Greater Beer Fund.”
Even gold is down on yesterday. Had it gone to $50k/oz, I’d have been the richest corpse in the Barcy mass grave.
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
UK Sky News provides continuously updated coverage of the UK riots.
I read in the local Geordie newspaper, yesterday, that they are clearing out the northern prisons to make way for the “far right” influx .. Any prisoner who qualifies thru good behavior and has served, at least, 40% of their sentence (including murder ect) is being assessed for early release ..
Comments were running 100% against the policy, lotza victims families up in arms ……
Not much gummint support being, publically, voiced over the “riots” in the North East …….!
That doesn’t seem like a real good idea – letting out the criminals and locking up the defenders.
I’ve a feeling it won’t go down well. Is that the intention? To create mass unrest so the army can be called in to ‘settle the restive natives down’?
It’s a bit late to complain about a policy that was announced before the election…the election at which a majority of Tynesiders who bothered to turn out dutifully voted for Labour MPs.
Tyneside has alwayz voted, block, Labour it’s coal country .. Same, as here, in Fairfield, doesn’t matter what your opinion you’ll get Labor .
Except last election Fairfield voted for an independent, Dai Le.
Nope .. Dai Le is Liverpool ( Fowler) .. still the “turtle” in Fairfield (McMahon)
This is what passes for argument at The Guardian (UK) these days:
I shouldn’t bother linking these stories which Cats all know already, but watching such a gigantic disaster slowly unfold in real time is fascinating.
Germany’s EV Sales Sink 37% As Subsidies End (6 Aug)
This is with one of the greenest governments in the world. If they’re cutting such green subsidies things must be very shaky indeed in Germany.
and they burn!
Can’t convince my Woke daughter & son-in-law who are pressing ahead in buying an EV. But then in his job son-in-law has OK’d the purchase of a fleet of EVs for his company!
My son has just bought a Tesla .. tho, to be fair, living in a waterside Gosford suburb he, mainly, drives to the station and trains into the city for work ………
The family “van” is still petrol tho ……..!
Nothing wrong with a small golf cart but keep your big one running on proper fuel and with a fair bit of grunt.
finally, some dis-inflationary news
Walz addressing adoring crowd and telling huge porkies. This is why the USA is going down, down, down.
Nothing like addressing your “home” crowds .. They made him governor so I’m guessing, potential, VP would go down well …. LOL!
A burning excoriation.
@billysandytodd
I lived through the Waltz BLM/Antifa terrorism, and I watched Kamala bail out the terrorists.
Kamala/Waltz are a cancer and they will destroy the USA.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
Very good. Sheeting it home to things people can recall and dislike.
Daily Mail
One in three Brits SUPPORT this week’s anti-immigration protests – and one person in 14 backs the rioting too, shock poll reveals: A quarter of people say Muslims are at least ‘somewhat responsible’ for the unrest
@seanmdav
Tim Walz:
Let BLM rioters burn his state downForced schools to put tampons in boys bathroomsWants to give ladders to illegals to climb the border wallAbandoned his military unitGave driver’s licenses to illegalsClaimed socialism was “neighborly”Tried to get out of a DUI by lying to cops and claiming he was deafSet up a COVID snitch line to narc on non-maskersTampon Tim is trending at #1 in America.
And yet the Minnesota voters made him Governor. Says more about the voters than the gov.
Tampon Tim. Love it. These smart nicknames have a place, but they have to be backed up by hard hitting bullet points about his failures. Never rely on a nickname alone to win the fight.
@WarlordDilley
You might be wondering who Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz is?
Well, here is a picture of Minneapolis Minnesota on fire because Tim Walz refused to deploy the National Guard to save American lives and businesses.
Come on man. They were peaceful fiery riots. By pure of heart black people who needed new runners and a tv.
Indolent, get thee to the Meme Maker!
-Principal Skinner peering through the wreckage
panel 1 – “Could M*slim Immunity be fueling this carnage?”
panel 2 – “No, it must be lack of prison space for the gammon.”
From 2018
The Truth About Tim Walz
Sounds just like someone we all know and love, currently sitting on her fat arse in the Senate.
Harris Releases a Video of a ‘Phone Call’ With Tim Walz That Is So Bad, People Thought It Was Parody
Sadly, low info voters are so used to seeing reality scripted on TV that they don’t care, and some simply can’t tell the difference.
This sort of ‘let’s get this thing done’ folksiness is very very dangerous.
It may be all that she is going to run on and it may convince many.
Get some hard hitting ads out soon, about the state of the economy, about the border and about needing someone at the helm who is not simply a puppet for leftist interests. ‘This thing’ has to be fought hard, for a win.
Use her ‘we must all be woke’ clip to front the ads saying she has done nothing but harm.
We can laugh at her fake phone calls, but many won’t.
Just get the job done Commish:
Birds of a feather flock together.
@charliekirk11
Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!
Let’s make sure America knows who you are.
I’ve no time for a man who abandons his troops when his unit gets warning orders for a combat assignment – just so he can run for a political position.
The man is a self serving coward.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/minnesota-national-guard-leaders-expose-tim-walz-stolen/
Absolute unspeakable filth. A teacha too.
Apparently all those rocket parts and weapons magically teleported into Gaza.
Egypt comments on documentation of major tunnel near Rafah (6 Aug)
At least these po-faced taqiyya merchants are going to have a lot less spending money, since they won’t now be able to get bribes or tolls from Hamas. Israel is certainly not going to relinquish control of the Egyptian border.
Introducing Figure 02
Danger Will Robinson!
It’s doing nothing more than a 10 year old could be trained to do in 10 minutes. And the kid could do it faster, more accurately, and cheaper than the bot.
I know breakthroughs and that’s no breakthrough. Come back in a decade.
in a decade? try 3-5 years
The word from within Harris’s camp is that she picked him because of the vibe at his interview, which she didn’t feel with Shapiro.
Must have been a lot of mirroring going on.
Better set of “pearly whites” .. LOL!
Another bit of rumour is that she was worried about Shapiro outshining her so to speak.
Shapiro is Jewish and has some good policies on Israel.
Kamala is counting on the Muslim vote in swing states.
There’s nothing like a bit of institutionalised DNC racism affecting your pick for VP
This may be why Iran hasn’t launched the expected attack yet.
Report: Putin asks Khamenei to show restraint after Haniyeh assassination (6 Aug)
Very rare for Putin to do something like this, especially given how much stuff he gets from Iran. On the other hand anything that Iran shoots at Israel won’t then be available to be exported to Russia.
Putin is playing at being Russia the Saintly.
He has a bit of catch up to do there.
so Twitter is a sewer heh?
… everybody knows that Twitter is down-stream from The Cat
I really don’t get this:
Trump Wins New York Jewish Vote | Frontpage Mag
Trump wins the Jewish vote by 50/49. Which means 49% of Jews still support cackles and a party which is working for iran and the destruction of Israel. It’s almost as bad as 80% of blacks still voting for cackles and a party which views them as nothing more than slaves.
Take into account it’s NY and Democrat votes are counted x4.
Previous Jewish vote for Demorats was probably 80%, so its huge news.
And cackles is capitalising on having a Jewish husband.
He’s an adulterous rat, but she doesn’t care, she is too.
Walz
He has tiny hands. Didn’t lefturds criticise Trump’s hands for being small?
I am hearing around the public housing traps some truly awful things sexual that Trump is supposed to have done with thirteen year old girls. Total lies, but obviously circulating on the internet somewhere. So many people can’t tell a lie from a truth and have no idea of questionning sources.
Only a little bit weird. Vote One Kamala.
No arrests as yet after 200 Muslim men, some openly brandishing weapons, paraded through Birmingham streets looking for non-existent far-right demonstrators and assaulted a lone white male they chanced upon at a pub.
Even the chair of the district police association, representing rank and file officers, admits it’s a bad look, ““You look at these videos and it does look bad. You see a load of thugs in balaclavas waving knives around and you don’t see any police.”
Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.
Or it will be seen as a textbook case on how to foment civil strife with the aim to declare a State of Emergency, and start arresting his political opponents.
In which case, Nigel Farage is looking to be in an awkward position.
Ease off on the painkillers, Bob.
The UK is not becoming a one-party state just yet.
Roger:
No codeine for two days. (Why did autocorrect try to change it to cocaine?)
There’s very little holding the Starmbannfuhrer back from a State of Emergency equivalent.
Elections are due 5 years time and then vote the bastards out?
I’d not be too casual about what these bastards are up to.
We’re saved!
Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat ‘climate change’ (6 Aug)
This gives me an excuse to link one of the most entertaining news stories I ever read, which happened to’ve been in the LA Times of all places:
Stick a fork in it, we’re done (2011)
Back to your bendable spoons congressional staffer peoples!
Biden is the lamest of lame ducks. He, and more probably Jill, are desperate for anything that will hint they are still relevant.
A few months from now those utensils will be slowly decomposing in the landfill.
See basically Tim Waltz is an ideal VP for Kamala and he is a far leftie like her.
You forgot, as stupid as she is also.
I do not believe any of the stories about her being “super-intelligent”, and just biding her time.
Bob, when are you you getting expensive Miles Fuel or has Dick put the kibosh on it. Either way you’ll be getting Miles of Dick if the Liars get back in or Limp Chrisifool if the SFL’S don’t manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory. I can’t see much of a future for Queensland with either.
Grey Ranga – are you talking about fuel from Miles, or just expensive fuel?
I’m a bit confused this morning – the world was supposed to end a couple of days ago and I’m still not sure it hasn’t.
Which time was the world supposed to end. No doubt it has for a lot of people, not us unless you’ve gone for a walk and might be some time. I was talking about Miles fuel but it could be called Chrissyfuel as he seems to have embrassed most of the Liars policies.
The fuel thing won’t happen. Dumb idea, endorsed this morning by Dim Chalmers.
Crisafulli and the LNP have to be given a gallop as government. The current lot are awful and driving our lovely state into… a very bad place.
Daily Mail UK seems to be doing daily hit jobs on Tommy Robinson. However the comments are overwhelmingly supportive of him.
One of the common clips going around was of BBC interviewing former Detective Chief Superintendent of Metropolitan police. She cuts him off as he is trying to explain context and mentions stabbing of the LTCOL and another incident. She simply does not want to hear it. That will only further inflame people as confirms media is not reporting all sides of story.
Expel them all.
Students push Palestine vote (Paywallian)
Then charge them under the anti-terrorism laws for inciting violent action.
There’s been a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”
A bottle of wine worked to get rid of Barry O’Farrell.
State’s top cop defends buying bottles of gin (Tele, paywalled)
The first shot seems to be gin…
Re Starmer
Maybe a starmbannfuhrer ?
Middle ranking officer only IRC
Major equivalent in SA, SS, and NSFK units.
Yes I know it’s “sturm”
I posted this before I finished viewing. It’s an absolute must watch. It truly explains what’s going on.
With Avi Yemini
Tommy Robinson SPEAKS OUT amidst UK unrest
Thanks indo
tommy explains the situation the most clearly.
Hehe – just as I predicted yesterday…
FORCED BACK INTO THE OFFICE: Workers’ three-word reply to WFH order (News.com.au mainpage headline, 7 Aug)
Sounds great to me. The more PSA denizens who move to Yarragrad the better.
I’m going to slightly modify calli’s name for Starmer’s police thugs:
“Starmtruppen”
Remember when Sarah Palin was selected as V-P candidate alongside McCain, and the oh-so-“progressive” lefturds babbled on about the not well known college she attended? Check out the college Walz attended. It sure ain’t part of the Ivy League.
Walz is a real charmer.
X-rated Vance rumour referenced by VP pick (7 Aug)
Lying lefty liars lie, news at 6
AOC says the choosing of Walz is a “watershed moment”.
Looks more like a water closet moment to me. If he and she get elected, the USA is going down the s-bend.
Fellow squad member Ilhan Omar is elated!
Which says everything you need to know.
Just watched Tommy. He is righteously angry and covers all of the issues that have led to these riots; he compehends and explains the great anger of poor and working class British people (of all colours and creeds, if you identify as British you are IN) who feel so ignored and abused. He outlines how and why these rioters are distressed by insecurity in their streets due to constant uncontrolled Palestinian protesters and are highly anxious for their children who have been under attack in all major industrial cities from Muslim rape gangs. The media and the response of the elite classes is very responsible for this ‘two-tier’ approach to both explanation and to policing.
If Tommy had Douglas Murray’s accent they would listen more. That is sad. The northern accent in Britain is a pleasure to hear, but it signifies poverty and a ‘lack’ of education, when it often should not. Northerner’s pride is strong and they have a long history of rioting due to their treatment by the south. This may eventually split Britain. However, even those in the south are now increasingly concerned about the illegal male migrants flooding in.
Some yellow lifeboats redirected back to France may be the only immediate solution right now. This should be followed by withdrawing from the outdated refugee convention and creating a temporarily place (tented army camps) for those who have already arrived.
Placing these people temporarily on small British island far away might be necessary in the interim. A plane leaves Luton Airfield for the Falklands once a week. Make it daily. Just sayin’
Reports that Sinwar has been selected to head the political bureau of Hamas as well.
Hamas’s Steven Bradbury…
A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Regarding “All S.Miles”(tm) proposal to run government petrol stations in Queensland.
The last time this idea was democratically tested was 1973.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Australian_price_control_referendum
Result: 56% No.
I dread to think how such a question would be answered today.
Putting Walz on the Dems ticket can only be explained by Solzhenitzyn’s observation that the underlying edict of commie propaganda is to humiliate.
Kamala should have done a cover version of “I just Love Being Here With You”.
Unfortunately, spot on.
The problems working out on the streets of Britain have been many (50+) years in the making and what appear to be the root causes – ghettoisation, displacement, and lack of assimilation – (in fact, forceful rejection of the host culture) – cannot safely be discussed in public debate.
Starmer’s response is mainstream establishment. Set up an easy to label ‘enemy’; in this case, ‘Far Right Thugs’, and go strong on lauranorder.
As a marginal political leader, he probably has little choice.
Fair enough when dealing with violent yobs – soccer warriors and the Brit equivalent of Gay Grampian Nasties – who loves them? But that’s clearly not the full package.
His problem is that the ‘standing armies of judicial officers’, 24/7 courts, emptying jails, police s.34 dispersal orders, crimbos, and threats of massive criminal prosecution will greatly alarm the full spectrum of the Brit population that regularly comes into direct or indirect contact with the constabulary and the justice system.
And these folk are by no means Far Right extremists. Just normal, struggle-street, disengaged, pissed off and fearful (and probably lo-info) punters – now demonised by the great and good as Literally Nazis.
Add to that, official denial of ‘two tier policing’ when official policy and the visible evidence is otherwise, and the distrust reaches choking point.
This will not play well.
you guys haven’t cottoned on yet, normal is now the far right
It won’t play well. Immigration is a shambles, why they allowed this situation to unfold is beyond my comprehension. Not entirely Britain’s fault, those immigrants had to travel through European countries which gladly nudged them to move on but arriving in Britain is the end of the journey.
Making immigrants the scapegoats for Britain’s current woes ignores a set of wider problems that are destroying Britain. There are vloggers on youtube demonstrating how many British towns are becoming wastelands. The elites have created an economy that suits them, the result being Britain has the most marked wealth distribution skew in Europe. London flourishes while the north languishes. People have lost hope and I don’t blame them because there is no obvious solution. The traditional employment opportunities are gone, the towns are in decay, the NHS is an ongoing disaster, and idiot Starmer has turned this into a far right Us vs Britain scenario. It should be the People vs Elites.
I think the choice of Walz is a huge mistake. Harris should have chosen someone like Shapiro, a centrist and moderate Democrat who is also a governor of an important swing state. The Dems don’t need to win Minnesota (they’ll win it anyway) however they do need to win Pennsylvania (and there’s no guarantee of that). But the unhinged, rabid, Jew hating progressive far left of the party could not and would not countenance Shapiro, all because he’s a Jew and a pro-Israel Jew at that.
Despite many in the MSM trying to paint Walz as though he’s similar to a character from a 1970s Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, he is not some cuddly, convivial, mid-west type. NO, he’s a rabid far-leftist, who sat back and encouraged the Georgina Floyddina riots of 2020. There’s lots of manna here for the GOP to work on.
Anyway, fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride to that first Tuesday in November. I still think Harris might win, only because of stupid young women.
Disagree, cheating on a massive scale is their only path to victory, and you can bet they’ll pull out all the stops.
Reynolds cross-examined over handling of Higgins rape claimPaul Garvey
The cross-examination of Linda Reynolds is set to begin later this morning Perth time, with Brittany Higgins’ star lawyer, Rachael Young SC, set to grill the senator over her handling of Ms Higgins’ Parliament House rape allegation.
Senator Reynolds will resume her evidence in chief at 10.30am Perth time, with her lawyer, Martin Bennett, indicating that he expected to spend another hour questioning his client.
It will then be over to Ms Young – a decorated silk who has worked with a variety of Perth billionaires, ranging from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest to the Paspaley pearling family – to begin her cross examination. Ms Young’s CV includes assisting in the prosecution of three former ministers of the Khmer Rouge for crimes against humanity, as well as acting as the counsel assisting in the recent inquest into the fatal police shooting of an Indigenous woman in the Western Australian town of Geraldton.
It follows an eventful first two days in the stand for Senator Reynolds, who yesterday linked the Brittany Higgins rape saga to the death of Labor senator Kimberley Kitching and who described social media posts by Ms Higgins’ husband David Sharaz as “creepy” and “stalky”.
Senator Reynolds, who has developed a number of health conditions which she says are the result of the Higgins scandal, was yesterday forced to ask for an unscheduled break after experiencing issues with her blood pressure. She also detailed her 2021 breakdown in Parliament House, and her multiple hospitalisations since Ms Higgins first went public with her accusations.
Ms Higgins was a junior staffer in Senator Reynolds’ ministerial office when she was allegedly raped by then-colleague Bruce Lehrmann in 2019. The Federal Court last year found that, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, Mr Lehrmann did rape Ms Higgins but Mr Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence and is appealing that decision.
Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz for defamation over a series of social media posts made by the pair which she says conveyed the imputation that the senator engaged in a campaign of harrasment of Ms Higgins and mishandled the staffer’s rape allegation.
If you like spring and autumn you’re a communist.
Study finds seasonal shifts in moral values (Phys.org, 6 Aug)
I like hot weather a lot more than cold weather, so I suppose that explains my rejection of Marxism.
I much prefer Spring and Autumn to Summer and Winter but I am very definitely no communist. So much for that little bit of ‘research’!
That would be where the neighbour is the HOA, one of those things that have become so ubiquitous, odious, and the manifest sword of Karen-esque tyranny in the US.
Two exceptions however.
The HOA is presently restricted to what can be seen, smelled, or heard from outside the house. What you read in your living room, what you mutter over the breakfast table, what you watch on the intertubes (with the sound low) is denied them by the caprices of the laws of physics. Once they get cameras, microphones, and web-tracking software installed in your home they can truly flex their muscles – for the common good you understand.The HOA does not have the right to imprison or execute those they describe as being in opposition to the common good. Yet.
But the do have the right to seize your house if you have any unpaid “fines”.
Help me out here please.
What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?
I’m guessing that it is just that the former was made famous by the movie “Hot Fuzz”.
Cassie Shapiro looks to be as bad as the rest. I believe there are no moderate Democrats, like there is no moderate Hamas. Tweet via Ace Of Spades:
Needs verification but if true, well they are truly scraping the bottom of Satan’s sweaty arsecrack for a running mate to the Gobbler In Chief
Instapundit:
RON COLEMAN WINS THE INTERNET TODAY
I shouldn’t LOL, really I shouldn’t. 😀
“Help me out here please.
What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”
The “greater good” is the tyranny of the majority, where 50%+1 defines what is “good”. The “common good” is what makes sense for both you and your ideological enemies.
The greater good pushes for ever more interference in your life “for your own good”, while the common good pushes for the least possible intrusion that everyone can accept as required (Thou shall not kill, eg)
Context is everything, but as a rule of thumb:
The greater good, however defined, generally comes with a cost to someone or some group.
The common good benefits all.
I say context is everything because it is and because some people may, wittingly or unwittingly, use the one term when they mean the other one.
Correct. Many moderate Democrats will be feeling disenfranchised.
Isn’t that excellent, some of them will vote for Trump ( I know, I’m a deplorable optimist).
I think they’d rather cut their right arm off!
😀
The question is, will they just stay home?
None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.
In that context Walz is perfect.
Kamala’s Walz VP Pick Puts the Left in Charge (Daniel Greenfield, 6 Aug)
Harris Picks VP Climate Clone in Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – Walz supports solar & wind mandates, carbon tax, EV mandates (6 Aug)
MN Governor Tim Walz is a net-zero zealot (6 Aug)
By removing the need for electability the Dems can pick for ideology. And Walz fits the Bernie Bro agenda like a glove.
A steal is only plausible if a critical number of voters turn out in the first place.
And the Democrats are facing a similar problem to the ALP and British Labour… the further left they move, the more voters they shed at the centre.
That’s why they did the switcheroo. Kamala is the firstest blak woman Prez!!!!!!!! The thuzing is epic! Walz is a bland but ideologically safe veep pick. He’ll stay in the background but will effectively be President when they get in. Kamala will be the face but not the brain of the Administration.
They will play games with the polls to keep Kamala “neck and neck” with Trump, hype her skin colour and ovaries and historicalness, and then try for even more than the 16 million fake ballots they stuffed last time.
Note how they aren’t allowing Kamala anywhere near a microphone. It’s fun to watch this machination stuff.
Re the British class structure and accent, we watched together on Saturday night on Netflix a film Hairy had seen before on a plane. It is called Saltburn and is about the pecularities of the class divide we’re now noticing at its extreme with Tommy Robinson’s accent. On might think at first we’re headed towards Hillbilly Elegy, the US’s own conteporaneous class divide, or perhaps some inflection back to Brideshead Revisited, but we’re not. I hadn’t seen or heard of this movie and Hairy thought I’d hate it, because it is fairly recent Noveaux Crazy in style. Hard to get into at first, it’s a truly weird take on aristocratic life, cynical and done rather as the Luhrmann’s party days of Gatsby or harking back to Fellini’s Satyricon. Unlikeable and unlovable people clinging to they-know-not-what apart from their wealth and grand heritage castle. Reminds me of one of Hairy’s old aristo Cambridge friends who is busy ‘re-wilding’ her castellated estate and otherwise known as ‘bonkers’.
What this movie does have, however, is a theme of non-redemptive evil which plays out well in the last scenes. In order to reach that we have to be schooled in the hoo-haa caused when a lonely poorly-spoken scholarship boy, arrived to Oxford College life from a shockingly squalid and deprived background, is befriended by this aristocratic family’s young scion and introduced to the castle for the summer. As ever, aristos like to think of themselves as bestowing noblesse oblige upon the unwashed downtrodden and they take him to their bosoms and their sexual dystopias while the servants remain impassive. We feel the family’s stilted emotional flatness and some enjoy some full-blown British eccentricity, accompanied by occasional breathtakingly cruel and dismissive one-liners. These are not nice people.
The scenarios progress like a play in four acts: act one is Oxford and a man-on-man hero-worshipping bromance; act 2 is summer life posturing around the pool while various juices flow (now when you see it don’t blame me that I put it that way), and a birthday party is prepared for the protege; act 3 is where the likeable young scion tries to do a good turn for his downtrodden protegee, which reveals much of how the scion feels about the middle order of things British; and act 4 is where the protegee exacts a certain sort of revenge.
Not a movie for the faint hearted, to be sure. A savage satire of sorts on British life, written and directed by a young thirty-nine year old woman.
The Republicans did their homework and were ready for Walz. He gave them plenty to work with.
Flashback: VP Pick Tim Walz Smiles for Cameras as He Signs Bill That Gives Illegal Immigrants Drivers Licenses
What a Nutcase! Radical Far-Left Wife of Tim Walz Admitted She Left the Windows Open to Enjoy the Smell of Burning Tires During 2020 Riots
The Democrats Go Full Antifa With Kamala Veep Pick
Kamala Harris ‘Kneecapped Her Campaign’ by Picking Tim Walz
Marginal…
Beholden to a certain voting bloc…
Cynically exploiting an opportunity to implement plans already in hand…
Several angles to consider it from, none of them particularly flattering to Starmer, as the polls reveal.
Can’t wait to see the mix of terror and bemusement on der Stürmer’s stupid face when he’s finally Ceausescued. Priceless, it will be.
‘He was seeking to silence me’: Reynolds slams DreyfusPaul Garvey
An angry Linda Reynolds has used her Supreme Court testimony to slam the conduct of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during his handling of Brittany Higgins’ Commonwealth compensation claim.
Senator Reynolds criticised the Attorney-General over his decision to freeze her out of the process, saying that the process had shaped as the senator’s opportunity to finally address Ms Higgins’ criticism of the senator’s handling of her rape allegations.
“I was utterly outraged because this was going to be finally my opportunity to defend against these allegations … which in my mind were utterly defendable.
“To be told my defence would be no defence, as you can see here, I was not to attend the mediation and not to make public comment about the mediation or the civil claims against me … I was outraged.”
Citing a letter from Mr Dreyfus, she said she believed Mr Dreyfus had deliberately excluded her from the process in an effort to keep her silent.
“I could see immediately what the Attorney-General was trying to do, which is why I referred it to the National Anti Corruption Commission. It says it there, he was seeking to silence me … They were seeking to deny me the opportunity to finally defend these claims.”
Ms Higgins would later receive $2.445m from the Commonwealth as a result of that compensation claim.
Dreyfus is in the firing line.
Deservedly so.
Yep, he will be lucky to survive this by the time it’s all over. A few at the AGs department too.
Mark Steyn was onto Farage early in the piece, and he has been proved right.
Farage is an empty vessel, loud and without any useful content.
I don’t agree. Farage has been very helpful in showing just how much dissent there is about the Conservatives and their policies. Just because someone isn’t 100% for your views doesn’t mean you should diss them completely. The world doesn’t work like that. You end up going up your own fundament if you are not careful by being so blinkered.
Youtuber Rev Simon Sideways was warning about Farage before the election.
Thinks similar, loves the trappings of the halls of power.
I didn’t get fooled with C-19. Let’s see how this plays out.
The Dr. Ardis Show
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Dr. Ardis Show, hosted by Dr. Bryan Ardis. In this informative and eye-opening presentation, Dr. Ardis delves into the widespread concerns surrounding the bird flu, which has been a hot topic in mainstream media. Titled “Why I Am So Scared of the Bird Flu and What You Need to Know,” this episode aims to alleviate fears and provide crucial information to keep you and your loved ones informed and at ease.
https://rumble.com/v56bj6m-the-dr.-ardis-show-why-dr.-ardis-is-scared-of-the-bird-flu-episode-07.10.20.html
No no bird flu is so last week.
WHO considers declaring international health emergency over deadlier strain of mpox (6 Aug)
Bend over comrades here it comes again…
173 cpl in Miles,189 cpl in the Gabba at the mo, G-ranga.
I paid 178.7cpl at costco today in Conberra.
It’s like Whitlam is in the room with them.
“None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.”
They just need it to be marginally plausible that the Kamel won, that’s all.
But they may get it wrong, and DJT may be able to turn out the vote for Gen Z, which is trending distinctly R at this time – at least the males. Ditto the black vote and the hispanic vote. If those three “blocks” have high turnout for R voters and low turnout for D voters, they might not be able to cheat enough to get over the line (as per Hillary in 2016).
Considering that the Crowdstrike event has proven the internet isn’t safe at all, and we KNOW the vote counter computers were connected, what actually gets counted is irrelevant.
If the Democrooks are half as clever as they think they are, the counts will come in with plausible losses, plausible wins and just enough random additions over the entire countings to hand the elections over to them – all generated in real time without any dodgy jumps and stutters, and with no connection to the real count.
And you’ll have a rerun of 2020, with a Hard Left back in power.
Higgin’s social media post ‘gross and unfair’
Paul Garvey
A social media post made by Brittany Higgins during mediation talks with Linda Reynolds earlier this year has been slammed by the senator.
Ms Higgins back in March posted an image bearing the words “I won’t stay silent so you can stay comfortable” just as she, her husband David Sharaz and Senator Reynolds were in mediation talks in an attempt to settle the defamation actions the senator had brought against the pair.
Giving her evidence in chief to her lawyer Martin Bennett, Senator Reynolds also flagged the financial toll of bringing the defamation against her former staffer.
“It was just another allegation that I was trying to silence her, I was trying to bully her, that I subjected her to a conspiracy. It was another reminder to the Australian media, to people on line, that I was a bully and that I was trying to silence her,” she said.
“But what also struck me is ‘so you can stay comfortable’. Well Mr Bennett, I can assure you taking these proceedings, putting my house on the line, everything that I’ve worked for for 40 years, putting everything on the line to be able to be here today and tell the truth, that just took the cake. We’re not doing this to ‘stay comfortable’.”
She said Ms Higgins’ post was “gross and unfair”.
“Robert (Reid, Senator Reynolds’ partner) and I have put everything on the line to be here today to seek some justice, and that ain’t comfortable, Mr Bennett.”
Fairly weak offerings .. getting upset about tweets .. whole show just a she sez, she said waffle-fest .. cos nose out of joint ……!
Never been a fan of Knickerless but Reynolds seems a bit unhinged – revenge wize … coming across as one of those no win, no pay roll-the-dice cases …….!
The Walz pick is his reward for unlocking the perfect American political strategy in 2024: pointing and saying “sheesh, get a load of those weirdoes”.
You lot just can’t help yourselves, even when your one job is not to be weird. You are slavering over nonsense gotcha stories which only serve to highlight his decades-long career of military and public service, and underline his alignment with traditional community values like feeding and teaching children.
Trump is panicking on his socials, making up fantasies about Biden stealing the nomination back. Polls keep swinging to Harris, nearing the margin of error now.
Harris’ rallies are wildly popular and energetic, and she has scheduled at least one every day this week in battleground states.
Meanwhile, Trump has one rally scheduled this week… in Montana. But hey, he now has two smoke machines! Mirrors to be installed later, LOL.
Piss off, Nazi.
One account I read argued Walz is a battleground pick. Walz is an everyman pick to offset Harris as a coastal elite. The ascendency of Harris in the polls is in part because many citizens did not want to vote for Biden or Trump. She does not have a very low IQ and Trump does not have a 150+IQ. I doubt either of them are in the superior range(120-129). Why is Trump scared of debating someone who by his account has an IQ ~80 points lower than him?
You obviously didn’t look at the Week In Pictures this week, did you Monty?
mUntutd clearly hasn’t been looking at all the “weirdos” supporting the DemonRats.
Is he wearing his pussy hat as he types his weirdo opinions?
Oh hai monts.
Good to see Kamala following Biden’s pattern of hiring.
Detransitioner Sues Medical System that Left Her “Permanently Disfigured” – Says Pro-Trans Bias Led to Double Mastectomy
And so it begins. As predicted, the impact of medical abuse of the sexually confused meets the lawsuit.
Soren Aldaco – suing for pro-trans medical negligence.
It’s almost as if some trial lawyers pushed this whole disgusting fiasco to open a new gold mine of litigation fees.
And in waltzes the fat phuck to praise Walz. FMD
Wouldn’t have expected anything else. He’s the world’s leading practitioner of babbling dickwhittery.
No friends Fat Freak just dumped in aisle 23 bay 15.
Walz is sure to drag in those young female voters with his svelte self and rugged good looks, purple haired bean bags excluded of course.
It may be the end of the world – or at least end of the food supply. I just chased 7 frigging juvenile emus out of my front yard as they were having a nosh up of my flowers.
Cheeky buggers!
I just had three noisies sitting on my knees.
Probably good that I don’t have friendly emus…
“the perfect American political strategy in 2024: pointing and saying “sheesh, get a load of those weirdoes”
Going as high as you can possibly go.
You’re weird, M0nty. Harris and Waltz are confected creations of the media, just the right thing for hoodwinking the voters, many of whom are easily led.
They’re hard left loonies and will pull America down even further if they win.
Sorry Rosie, that was meant as a reply to M0nty’s comment not to yours..
I’m tired today, too many blood test at 7.30am have vampired the bounce out of me. There we stood, twenty people waiting in line to be let in to the pathology lab place until the doors opened. I got lucky, was seen quickly, because my tests were time limited.
That’s twenty thirsty and starving people, btw, on an overnite fast, all jealously guarding their position in the line. Unusual experience.
The battle of ideas.
US Officials Sound Alarm Over China’s Robot Production | China in Focus
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/coming-to-your-3rd-world-developing-shit-hole-soon-thanks-to-rampant-immigration.html
I’m in Malmo at present, visiting relatives who live in the city centre. There are Nordic children and their parents everywhere in contrast to October 2019 when the place seemed overrun by middle eastern looking people. Nordic children everywhere makes sense as it’s still the long summer school holidays here.
I take it the reports of the migrants going back to their old shithole countries for the summer are true.
One thing that has not changed is even more bicycle riders everywhere and even fewer car parking spots. On the other hand the place is not that big so it works for them in a way. And for those who can pedal a bicycle they can be a passenger in this sort of sidecar that is in front instead.
That’s (the scarcity of the ME tribe) amazing, because it is not what is often presented.
Always fun how so many people seeking asylum from terrible persecution go back to the old country for their holidays.
Malmo? Where do I know that name from?
Good for you Crossie!
Did you see m0nty there?
Funnily enough a waitress in one bar said she was born in WA but moved back to Sweden with parents as a child. Had lost s of people start conversations when they heard us speak.
No sight of Monty.
Keep an eye out for the Cat Malmo correspondent. Or maybe not.
And I’ll repeat my observation that the Swede’s great mistake is to let them back in.
Say hi to Monty for me! Oh, wait…
The argument for Shapiro was that he would deliver Pennsylvania, which is shaping up as the 2024 bellwether. Choosing Walz is a projection of confidence that things aren’t going to be that tight. Whether that confidence is misplaced or not remains to be seen.
Seriously though, just one event in Montana this week, that is low energy stuff. Is Trump unwell, or just chicken? The GOP should have a serious conversation about replacing him. They won’t, because it’s a cult. Good luck with that.
I dobut if you’d be feeling great with delayed shock after you had missed assassination by a literal inch only weeks prior, M0nty, and then done a big Convention. JD Vance is doing well with the talking points and the Republican Convention is only just over. No point geeing people up again too early. Trump will campaign, never fear. The annointment of Kamala and Walz is coming up soon and after that, all bets are off.
Monty they were never going to pick Shapiro.
There’s something about Shapiro why they would never pick Shapiro.
You wanna guess what that something is…?
And why Walz is the guy that was gonged…?
I wonder which state Walz is governor of…
Damn you can be thick sometimes.
Minnesota is pretty blue these days, she wasn’t losing it.
As for the other thing… remind yourself who she married and give yourself an uppercut, Bruce.
Piss off, Nazi.
She married a far-left progressive Jew. Her husband is irrelevant, Nazi.
That was after she married her brother.
Is”she” Kamala? If so, she would be married to a bloke who screwed and impregnated the babysitter during his first marriage. Clearly a fine, upstanding (in more ways than one) citizen.
You are thick as, Monty.
I know who she married. Her other marriage: the one that Dems don’t like to talk about.
There is a reason why she is elated that Walz not Shapiro got the nod.
It is a tribute to your infinite thickness that you obviously did not get the message I was transmitting to you.
You are being very weird, Bruce.
No, a VP choice is about electoral possibilities not a we’re going to win so it doesn’t matter. Walz demeanor is very different from Harris. He looks like the kindly neighbour next door rather than a high flying elite. The opposite of Vance.
Trump was caught flat footed by the change. Or perhaps his bone spurs are playing up so he is avoiding the battle. It is ludicrous to think the GOP will oust him. Trump is the GOP and that is their millstone.
Vance? Would he be the bloke who worked his way up from poverty? Definitely a “high flying elite”, then.
Whoopee Do. All of my siblings experienced getting kicked out of homes because the gambling father didn’t pay the rent, both my parents were alcoholics that argued late into the night and refused to support me through Uni. We’re all going great guns, month overseas adventures regularly happen, their children with promising careers, and my sister left university to start a company that became a national leader. I went through childhood horrors including extensive surgery at 4 years of age because I was at death’s door. The consequences of that I have lived with all my life, including chronic pain and disability. I don’t set myself up as an exceptional individual.
I admire Vance for what he has done but there is nothing exceptional about it. I’ve been through far worse.
No weird here.
Who wouldn’t shout about standing with the US’s number one abortion mill?
https://x.com/farmingandJesus/status/1820940370311774622?t=02afI0fT5CUJZgxsMMXnqA&s=19
Muslim criticism of the muslim ‘community’
https://x.com/SohailSNAhmed/status/1820731390402453905?t=HsmLjVosQ94B_wyR0dq8rQ&s=19
We know your book – we’ve read it as well.
Adam Creighton in the Oz today…..hope the copy/paste works
Kamala Harris has taken a big gamble in her selection of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate, opting, reportedly, for her personal rapport with the affable 60 year old rather than conventional political wisdom.
In what is expected to be a close presidential election in November, Harris bizarrely passed over the governor of the most critical battleground state, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a popular Jewish centrist Democrat who advocated for school vouchers and abolished university credentials as requirements for most public sector jobs.
Instead, she chose to elevate a man few Americans had even heard of until last week, whose relatively radical political record in office places him firmly on the far left of the Democrat party, handing a gift to Republicans less than three months out from polling day.
Consider Walz’s long list of policy ‘achievements’ and political stances that have already gifted Republicans with the attack slogans ‘Tampon Tim’ and ‘Make America Burn Again’.
As governor, Walz signed laws that required tampons in boys’ bathrooms in Minnesota schools, and supported legislation that would see parents in effect lose custody of their children if they refused to approve gender reassignment surgery. He declared Minnesota a “trans refugee state”.
During the Covid-19 pandemic he oversaw among the most draconian lockdowns and vaccine mandates in the nation, policies which however popular at the time, haven’t aged well. He even set up a hotline for the residents of his state to snitch on anyone who was breaking the rules. Last year he signed state legislation that permitted abortion up until the moment of birth.
He’s on the record supporting the ‘defund the police’ movement which emerged following George Floyd’s death in May 2020 in Minnesota’s biggest city Minneapolis, during which he waited three days before calling in the national guard to stop riots that caused massive damage and destruction.
His wife Gwen Walz even recalled savouring the moments in solidarity with the rioters. “I could smell the burning tires … I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,” she later told a journalist when looking back on the incident.
At a time when American concerns about illegal immigration are at an all time high, Walz signed laws as governor that provided free health care, drivers licences and university education for undocumented immigrants. He tried to lift income tax as governor and supported policies to phase out fossil fuels.
Democrats were apparently impressed with his political smarts in coming up last week with the term “weird” to describe Republicans, but his past stances suggest the term might easily be applied to him
For Harris to be successful in November Walz will need to play well in the critical midwestern battle ground states near Minnesota, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, which are considered critical to victory.
Republicans have already started to cast Harris as the ‘most radical candidate ever’, and it’s far from clear her choice of Walz helps to dispel that characterisation.
After all, he’s the creature of the sole state that Ronald Reagan couldn’t win in his 1984 landslide.
Minnesota – San Francisco with Sudanese.
This will be interesting
https://x.com/iamBrianBJ/status/1821027997341605973?t=LXj3a8j8rvfBLIyxn06W1g&s=19
The COVID record with Walz reminds me of Dan Andrews. You lot went ape droppings over his wildly popular governance approach which prioritised saving lives, and are still squealing about it long after he retired with massive majorities still backing him.
Walz is only a “gift” to the right in the sense that its grifters can mine the resentment of losers with lazy content mill nonsense.
Daniel Andrews killed 800 elderly people because he and Sutton refused to transfer them from nursing homes to hospitals for three weeks.
Walz did the same. He is a mass murderer and should be hung from the neck until dead.
You seem to like mass murderers Monty.
He certainly seems to lurrrrve the lefturd ones.
Andrews and Sutton the wonder boy also starved 72 elderly people to death (IIRC on the number) when COVID hit a nursing home. They furlowed the staff out of fear that they would become superspreaders, leaving the poor souls to the the untrained temps that went in as replacement.
They litterally starved them to death.
Not one person has been charged with crimnal neglegence or worplace manslaughter, including Sutton and Andrews.
That did not happen, you moron.
I would treat your claims with seriousness if you weren’t fully on the side of laissez-faire mass deaths due to lack of proper public health precautions. .
I fully support declaring a “pandemic” health emergency wherein all leftists are deemed (by science) to be superspreaders and, as a result, none are allowed to leave their homes without receiving 1000 vaccines.
The ‘greater good’ means it is higher than any individual – and sometimes all of them.
Socialism is championed ‘for the common good’. It actually only benefits a small inbred class, but they are the ones who know what is greater – the benighted proles are to stupid to know. If you ask them then you will come back to democracy!
Winston Churchill got it right, all those years ago.
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, it’s inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
I’ve got a sweatshirt, bearing those words. I wore it down to vote, a few years ago, and nearly got into a fight with one of the true believers.
Oh, I see
battery scooters to save the planet
That’s like the Merc in the carpark – just sitting there then suddenly foof!
Genuine questions, because I missed it.
Why was the world supposed to end last night, and who made this Great Prediction?
Someone was taking the piss over stock market falling 5% and all the panicky talk of economic collapse.
More importantly, did BobtheBoozer get through all his whisky.
Of course not.
But the Red wine took a hammering.
J.D. Vance was born into rural poverty, born to a father who racked off when Vance was a baby and a mother who became a drug addict. Vance was raised by his dirt poor grandmother.
Tim Walz was born into a very comfortable middle class family, to a father who didn’t ‘rack’ off and to a mother who was a housewife.
Vance, like so many of America’s working class ‘trash’ poor, be they white trash, black trash and Hispanic trash, joined the military and it was whilst he was in the military that he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education. He won a scholarship to Yale.
To insinuate Vance is an elite is absurd.
Walz also joined the Army, took all the benefits, and when his unit was given warning orders for Iraq, he quit – leaving a large hole in his units NCO roster – so he could pursue a political career in the Senate, a move he could have made while still remaining in the army if he’d asked permission to do so.
Prick.
Double prick.
He just didn’t want to go to Iraq.
Straw man based on your inference about someone somewhere insinuating something. Could be you more specific about who that someone is?
Aris Roussinos: Has ethnic conflict come to Britain?
‘Completely appalling’: Douglas Murray condemns riots raging across the UK
Nails it.
The selection of radical left Minnesota governor Tim Walz as Kamala’s running mate – an up-yours to the American middle class — tells me the Democrats have no intention winning the 2024 election.
They plan to steal it as they did in 2020 with bogus postal ballots in a handful of swing states.
The only chance Donald Trump has to win in 2024 is a landslide that can’t be undone with bogus ballots in the hours after the polls close.
The story put forward here is that the election will be rigged and despite knowing this years in advance there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.
How did Fox go with those accusations about Dominion? Where was their compelling evidence the software was rigged?
If the GOP\Trump is so hopeless that it can’t prevent this happening then why support them? A useless pack of morons allows that to happen twice. Ya know, the old saying, fool me once … .
Don’t try to make sense of their belief system, John H. They don’t. It’s not meant to be internally consistent. You just gotta belieeeeeve!!
Like commies then.
“None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.”
Yes, that’s what I’m expecting and nothing will be done about it.
The people who run the USA will get what they want since it is not a democracy anymore, and hasn’t been for some time.
Anyone who diesn’t like it, better stay quiet too, or end up with child porn on their PC, or arrested for some other obscure misdemeanor and while being arrested, accidently kill themselves.
There’s going to be a lot of that going around I reckon.
Yes yes Andrews was and remains wildly popular.
Sarcasm I’ll becomes you Rosie.
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That was meant to be a smiley face!
Starmer Does Not Understand Realpolitik
Still in Kenmare though I’m off for a daytrip to Killarney today.
I dunno, I like Ireland, it’s pretty, the people are nice, and the food is good but it doesn’t have the wow factor of Southern Europe.
Too much destruction by Henry 8 then Cromwell and much of what was left destroyed in the 1920s.
It’s got some lovely 18th and 19th century buildings but the nicer churches are all neo gothic and well we have St Pat’s in Melbourne already.
It’s also more expensive than southern Europe which doesn’t suit my stingy soul.
There is a nice gallery here, had a chat to the artist owner and there is a piece I’d like as a souvenir but it’s properly framed and I don’t want to lug it and I don’t want to go to the expense of posting it.
Besides the artist is trained and has chosen to paint in the naive style and my preference is for the genuine naive artist.
So reluctantly passing.
Lots of French in Kenmare, as visitors and local business owners, I’m coffeeing in ‘Maison Gourmet’. LOL
Not much other diversity in the far west.
The lady in the tourist office was proud of Ireland’s progressiveness, said people who came always had a good reason, “so what”? I thought.
Usually I parry those comments by asking is there a point at which even progressives say stop, one million, ten million?
Just said I had a preference for immigration policies where the people of the intaking country had a say in who came.
She didn’t disagree, just said Australia was an island ie we had that luxury.
We don’t really, the government does our thinking on the subject for us too.
I think it’s the border with NI that is porous.
Every second Irishman I met there, had either been to Australia, or knew someone who had..
‘Greater good’ is an aggregate of mere private goods, while the common good is a type of order which is enjoyed by all in society. The difference really emerges in the modern era under the sway of individualism and materialism, although the latter term is used poorly recently.
One is mathematics, the other is ethics.
A reminder of that is halal in islam
https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1820676568940777819?t=QwzVP9AC-eFvWr7dBDe3ww&s=19
Islam is compatible with Western society.
Discuss.
[sarc]
Yep. The simple idea is to procreate. Every male child is a soldier of the sword. Pretty straight forward.
After reading the sohail Ahmed post now following this account
https://x.com/AmateurJew1/status/1820870176180695441?t=yB3WtQ7xRFFJaLif9vCKpQ&s=19
I always thought the greater good was a benefit to the community at the expense of a few compared to the common good as a benenefit to all.
In as much as ‘greater’ is a comparative adjective, that is usually implied, as in “It’s for the greater good, comrades…”.
Under such a rubric, sometimes the few become very many indeed. After all, it’s for the greater good, comrade.
Dover, can you put the last sentence in non-philosophied English?
From the nested comments, and in response to:
This:
Ah. That old, Faulty-esque chestnut. Brings back memories, my wordy lordy it does.
Then I didn’t have to drink all my red wine?
It reminds me of the advice a doc gave to one of his patients:
Reynolds ‘a little catty’ after Higgins spotted wearing her jacketPaige Taylor
Earlier, taking questions from her lawyer Martin Bennett, Linda Reynolds spoke about a black and white striped jacket that Brittany Higgins was seen wearing while leaving Parliament House. Senator Reynolds says it was her jacket.
The court heard how Senator Reynolds had received photographs of Ms Higgins outside court and told the court: “They annoyed me greatly”.
“Miss Higgins had a predilection for expensive clothes, including my jacket,” Senator Reynolds said.
In an exchange with her lawyer on Wednesday about correspondence over the images of Ms Higgins, Senator Reynolds told the court she was “probably a little catty, being a bit overly sensitive” in her remarks at the time, which included that Ms Higgins was “imitating Kate Middleton going into the trial”.
Tampon Tim is a loon; like cackles we know what he is: a rampant, self confessed socialist (being a socialist is just like being neighbourly). Communists call themselves socialists when they’re not in power because it sounds great to the weak minded pustules who vote for them. After they achieve power, showing the extent of their hatred for democracy, they always call themselves democrats.
Cackles and tampon tim will kill the US and therefore the West. To cap it off they’ll oversee iran’s attack on Israel.
Meanwhile that skeletal fukwit sheridan on cretin continues his hostility against Trump and calls JD a right wing extremist.
Peta Credlin must have incriminating photos of Greg Sheridan. That’s the only reason I can think if that she gives Sheridan platform on her Sky News show.
Sheridan is what’s wrong with the Australian right: he’s a craven apologist for the radical Australian left — a mini-me Malcolm Turnbull.
Cassie
Even though Vance doesn’t behave like an elite, I believe we can still make the case that he is a member of the elite group.
The Ivy League was once a doorway for low-income White people to advance through the ranks, but these days it’s almost closed. The American system of meritocracy is dead, but whether it can be revived again through the recent SCOTUS ruling is an open question.
Vance was admitted to Yale Law right before the whole DEI/etc. frenzy broke out. It would be accurate to characterize Vance as a member of the intellectual elite. He must be a really brilliant guy because of his upbringing and background to have gotten to where he is.
The COVID record with Walz reminds me of Dan Andrews. You lot went ape droppings over his wildly popular governance approach
The hunchback’s approach in 2020,at the height of the chunk virus killed more people than the rest of Australia combined and at one stage was leading the world on a per capita basis.
Sometimes it’s unclear dickless whether you’re taking the piss or just being your usual retarded self. So, indicate at the beginning of your bullshit which it is. That’s a good little dickless dickhead.
Nah, it’s his “usual retarded self”. There is no other there there.
Definitely not bright enough to tske the piss.
Yes, I’m sure employers will be lining up to recruit them. Just what they need. Harvard is ready for the rubbish tip.
Harvard to offer class examining medieval texts through lens of ‘queer theory’
The people who run the USA will get what they want since it is not a democracy anymore, and hasn’t been for some time.
It never was. It is a Republic which uses some democratic principals to select the representatives.
Cutting Off is the New Coming Out, and Parents are the Invisible Casualties
calls JD a right wing extremist.
I’m a far, far right wing extremist. To my surprise. I look at facts, and apply careful reasoning, and similar far, far right wing things.
There’s a lot of us around these days.
You’re a centrist DrB, like me.
All the others are far leftists.
Thats what I am too. Far left and right appear to be the same. Totalitarian.
Vance: We All Know Why Harris Didn’t Pick Shapiro
“We” in this instance does not include Monty.
Monty hasn’t worked it out yet.
Funny as. He made a prediction not only the stock market would crash, but he also chose the actual date of the crash. From memory, it was just around the time when the covid scare got serious in early 2020 and his crash date was like the 30th August that year.. He made the prediction and from that point on the stockmarket began to climb and climb and climb.
WOW: Josh Shapiro Backed Out of the Kamala Veepstakes at the Last Minute
How many skeletons did he have in his closet?
Meanwhile that skeletal fukwit sheridan on cretin continues his hostility against Trump and calls JD a right wing extremist.
Sheridan can be an old lesbian at times.
But then, out of the blue, he’ll pen a couple of very good articles. Such as the ones he wrote about the insipid response of the government on the “protests” about the Hamas animals and Israel and next putting the hobnailed boots into the Tony Burqa appointment.
Then he gets his tits in a tangle about Trump and Vance.
He’s still suffering because he had to eat crow about his shitty wrong call about Trump in 2016.
Plus, wearing a jumper under your suit jacket in a heated studio is gay.
‘Incredibly Evil’: Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s 2023 Executive Order Pushed Child Sex Changes
Geraldton assault: German backpacker was attacked by gang of youths at a public toilet in Bluff Point, WA
Daily Mail.
Fatboy
Things we believe. Do you recall the countless times you came on the old blog telling us Wussigate was real and how “the walls were closing in on Trump”?
The only reason Trump skated temporarily on the very real crimes around his associations with Russia were that Congressional Republican cowards closed ranks on his impeachments.
He is now a convicted felon, with multiple criminal cases still to be resolved, several of them involving Russian influences. The walls closed in already. His only way clear of a long stint in gaol is the steal his operatives are currently organising in swing states to throw the election for him.
Fatboy, special counsel was appointed and it was found there was nothing there there. We later find out that the lesbian funded the entire thing.Lawfare.
The report detailed multiple crimes, and the only reason they weren’t prosecuted was that he was POTUS. This is tiresome JC, it is old news.
What report, Fatboy?
Interesting, that Lotus Eaters 9min podcast before, one of commentators words to the effect just made points below:
Twotierkeir has never argued a case in front of a jury.
All of his cases were procedural before a judge.
A backroom lawyer who took hold of the Labour party and became a backroom manager.
He is trying to use that backroom technicalism to run a country.
He simply doesn’t have the skill with engaging with people.
I didn’t know much about him till the last week, since watching his interviews in the last week and dismissive tone that there may be underlaying issues this is bang on.
He looks and sounds like a man who is arguing the point but hasn’t got a clue about the fact that he’s wrong and can’t fathom out why the argument isn’t going his way.
Like a kid who has grown up and never been told to Shut the Farque Up. It’s finally happened, and he can’t work it out, but all the old ways aren’t working.
Robert Jenrick, who is running to be leader of the Conservatives, has been appearing on Sky News and accused the prime minister of making a “mistake” and not showing “equal treatment” to all people involved in violence over the last few days. He told viewers:
“Sectarian gangs”?
Sounds a little bit squishy and obfuscated.
But in the context of current British mainstream politics this is robust plain speaking, almost heroic.
The Government response will be instructive.
Oh dear. Bolt interviewing Barr.
Nasty, stupid stuff.
Their TDS is despicable.
I follow “Millennial Farmer”, among others, on Youtube for a bit of light relief and to see how and what other people are doing farming wise.
Zac has a good sense of very dry/ironic humour which I relate to and often a lot of it nearly flies under the radar.
He farms in Minnesota and in the post below he has been approached by Tim Walz with the aim of appearing on the channel.
Skip to the 10:40 mark but make sure you watch to the end.
The video was posted four weeks ago, virtually the day after it happened, so maybe Walz already knew. Otherwise why try and promote himself to this particular demographic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMH_bC6iAs
Wrong clip.
I’d like to see the one you’ve mentioned/
Roger, I though more along the lines of the progressive tax system vs flat rate.
I see where you’re coming from, GR.
Well…he is a Tory.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/06/kamala-harriss-vice-president-pick-gov-tim-walz-facing-stolen-valor-accusation/
Sadly, true enough.
Farage Throws Tommy Under The Bus
NY Times in 1922. First piece it published about Hitler. At the time, the Times believed Hitler’s ant-sem was just red meat for the true believers and that he didn’t really believe any of it.
More than ten years later The Times (of London) was taking the same angle.
A charitable interpretation would be that ordinary, decent people -even the journalists among them – can have difficulty conceiving that such evil can not only exist but should be taken seriously.
Hitler made the front cover of Time Magazine in 1939 as their “Man of the Year 1938”.
Zatara
August 7, 2024 11:49 am
As a Kulak I have a rather jaundiced take on this statement,
say… that’s a nice tractor you have there
UK Riots: Keir Starmer Declares War on the British People
Think of private goods and public goods in economics. Private goods are consumed when used but public goods are not. Greater good is like that, simply adding them and saying the higher number wins in what is like a zero-sum game, whereas the common good like a public good, in that it can’t be exhausted in use but it’s unlikely public good because it’s more than say a park or fresh air, it’s also related to a comprehensive political order.
Que?
Which part?
Okay. Got it.
Squawking about commie Satanist pinko Marxism destroying the Western way of life regarding a perfectly normal and boring public servant is just massively weird.
You lot just don’t get it at all. Walz has changed the game. You are so off the pace.
You should stop being a satanical pinko Marxist destroying the Western way of life then Monty.
Walz is a mass murderer, like Whitmer, but then that’s what satanical pinko Marxists usually are.
See, this is what we mean when we call you weird. No normal person speaks this way in public. If you said this stuff on a street corner or in a pub, regular folk would revile you.
Do you have any sense of how you sound exactly like a crazy person?
m0nty quipped:
Hey! You can’t use Custard’s insults like that, not fair!
custard January 4, 2024 11:25 pm
I can and will. 😛
Of course he can and will. Thinking that insult up took original thought. mUntyturd has never in his life had an original thought.
Rather than mocking him for the sake of it, an honest question for Monty. How does Walz help win swing states?
m0nty
August 7, 2024 2:34 pm
Straight off the Young Turks script.
I was wondering where your crap came from.
mUnturd specialises in copying and pasting lefturd talking points from wherever he can find them.
Given how rapidly they appear in his posts one suspects he is on the distribution list of their daily talking points memos.
Ace has a pretty extensive rap sheet on Walz;
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=410941
One I can’t believe is he the equivalent of an RSM of his unit ran out before deployment to Iraq. Sorry as an army brat I can’t get my head round that, even my father chased a couple of UN roles in the 1980’s as a SNCO only to be told you have Vietnam let someone else get a trip.
A couple videos for those interested in learning about Walz.
This one addressed the new “weird” thing the left has invented and includes the new anti-Walz advert.
Details on who he is and what he’s done
Walz ignored (likely even supported) the BLM riots and refused National Guard troops to save Minneapolis from being destroyed. When the rumour got out that the Guard was being deployed his DAUGHTER posted information to the rioters to not worry because her daddy wasn’t going to allow the deployment.
He walked away on short notice from his senior leadership role in a unit deploying to Iraq and continues to lie about the military rank he retired at.. Etc. etc. etc..
His picture should be used to illustrate ‘leadership failure’.
Can’t argue, the most senior enlisted man in the unit who has direct line to the CO. Expected to grip up his Battery Sergeant Majors and mentor subalterns.
Wait till jobs on to resign when he unlike the troops would have had advance knowledge of the rotation. That’s a major leadership lapse there.
I hope JD Vance himself a vet goes to town on this alone.
The troops (reservists by the way) he was responsible for leading didn’t get to resign. They had to put their lives on hold, leaving their jobs and families behind for a 22 month training/combat tour.
He would likely have told them “suck it up and do your job, you signed the contract” if they had come to him with personal issues about the deployment.
Unforgivable. And foolish, because vets and their families vote.
“Suck it up and do your job.”
‘If you can’t handle deployment, you shouldn’t have joined in the first place. You volunteered, nobody conscripted you.”
Tim Walz has fawned over Communist China: Doesn’t have to be ‘adversarial relationship’
Failure to recognise the threat from China is mUnty level not getting it.
Weirdo is too mild a word for him. Evil might do it.
@xxclusionary
Tim Walz Signed a Bill Redefining the Term “Sexual Orientation” to INCLUDE PEDOPHILES.
Tim Walz’s Wife Said She Wanted To Smell Fires Of 2020 BLM Riots Because It Was A ‘Touchstone’ Moment
Just as well I opted for a day trip to Killarney.
The mist is rolling in from the Atlantic and everyone is hauling out their wet weather gear.
Indoor pursuits looking good.
Harris’ rallies are wildly popular and energetic, and she has scheduled at least one every day this week in battleground states.
Of course Harris rallies are going to be “energetic and popular”. That is the nature of political rallies – particularly in the USA. The Dems were put into a bit of a spin as Biden’s condition deteriorated. They have put a big bet on Harris snaring the female vote – maybe even amongst the undecided. I think we are seeing the first flush of this excitement.
But the woman has a goddam awful record and glorifies in every unflattering giggle that diminishes the image of her official position. I am tempted to say “You have to be kidding, Monty”…..but it goes without saying, surely.
‘Harris’ rallies are wildly popular and energetic”
Total horseshit. Her campaign had to hire a hip hop artist to perform at her rally in Atlanta. They even recruited off the streets and bussed people in for the “free concert”. Little did they know they were getting a free word salad to go with it, so they left when she started to speak.
Squawking about commie Satanist pinko Marxism destroying the Western way of life regarding a perfectly normal and boring public servant is just massively weird.
You lot just don’t get it at all. Walz has changed the game. You are so off the pace.
Ok, got it, taking the piss. It is humanly impossible to say something like that and believe it to be true. Well done dickless.
ABCess news was tonight very calmly and matter-of-factly telling me that false claims had been made about the gender of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif which “she” didn’t deserve. News story then went on to interview someone from the IBA who said a genetic test of Khelif had returned XY chromosomes as the answer last year! I’m sure I did not mishear this.
The Poynter Institute said:
The IBA said Khelif has XY and the IOC have not released any genetic test of their own, preferring to believe whatever Algeria said on the passport!
So there you go, up is down, Y is X, and Khelif has always been a woman, comrades. Let the Two Minutes Hate against JK Rowling begin. (Yes the ABCess singled her out for derision.)
All it would take to change my mind is for test to be done again by credible lab and the result published being XX. That hasn’t happened.
I was only saying yesterday that the ABCess can’t stand competition in the misinformation game and here they are proving me right.
Has anyone found someone in the demonrat party who isn’t a total scumbag? It looks like membership demands it.
Try again for Millennial Farmer clip (Thanks Pogria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t_-HPKquko&t=10s
Such dumb talking points you lot are running.
Walz did his twenty years and was out of the system when 9/11 happened. He went back for four years and left again. He didn’t owe anyone anything. He had repaid investment made in him, and did so again in his political career in his House committee leadership.
As for “stolen valour”, the details of his service are open to all, he’s not hiding anything. You have nothing on him. You only make yourself look more weird every time you attack him.
Piss off, Nazi
What is really weird is the way you regurgitate every lefturd talking point that is fed to you. Not long ago, you were adamant that Creepy Joe would be the candidate.
At a moment’s notice that went down the Memory Hole, and Kamala was the bees knees.
And that is just one glaring example.
Walking away from a senior role, when the unit is on the verge of deployment?
The mildly alcoholic gang of heavily armed sex maniacs that comprised the A.D.F had a number of expressions to describe such conduct – none of them particularly charitable.
Monty has no idea what a member of the armed forces feels when a senior NCO walks away from his job.
30 years later I still remember with disgust a Sergeant leaving us in the field because it was raining and frigging cold, and he wanted to go back to the tent where it was warm. A Corporal who stayed behind and used the occasion as a teaching lesson on how to find dry wood in a rainstorm and get a fire going, got more respect than the instructors.
It’s about being there when others are depending on you.
You don’t ever forget that sort of rotten leadership, do you. I’m remembering being left in the field by both the officer and sergeant, because the transport was late, and they wanted to go back to their respective messes for lunch and a shower…There was a discussion on leadership on a promotion course a couple of years later, and I cited such conduct as a poor example…forty years ago.
https://nitter.poast.org/DC_Draino/status/1820878400157884631#m
Memo to the late starters.
‘Weird’ was last week’s word.
This week’s word is: Coccygeal.
Next week’s is: Lorica Segmentata.
As in: “You rightwingers are so lorica segmentata!”
That is all.
For Cats with an interest in military history, I’d recommend Tim Travers’ book “Gallipoli 1915.” It’s the first account of that campaign to incorporate research done in the Ottoman Turkish archives.. Good reading, check it out.
Thanks for the tip ZK2A. Will check it out.
Grandfather and his older brother were there.
Grandfather came back, his brother didn’t. Lost at Quinns Post.
Tim Travers mentions his great uncle – Major Hugh Price Travers – reported missing on 9th August 1915 at Suvla, “Late in the afternoon, we finally found his grave.”
I seem to recall around four years ago, no-one who was anyone cared about rallies.
Now it’s all about the rally.
It seems that things are happening again in Syria. SAA moves against SDF on the Euphrates.
Seems like Walz did the wrong thing to further his political ambitions.
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1820880326853275875?t=K8mMF0uvGn6SdQH2_bt5gA&s=19
Allegra not toeing the palli line.
Getting mauled by terror apologists in the replies.
https://x.com/spenderallegra/status/1821026530690228477?t=zBawin2zjmZrT9Wr-Trfdw&s=19
Walz all class, it’s a reference to a particularly scurrilous and false claim about Vance.
Monty will be all over it.
https://x.com/emzanotti/status/1820963834003386637?t=O5iMJVNghjRT9SCpNTnTIg&s=19
Much ado about something
https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/there-is-no-cope
Like a Fatboi over a Krispy Kreme.
I don’t watch the Olympics. Not interested that much, but I look at the medal tally in the Oz, and Australia is in third place. For a country of 26 million people, it’s a freaking extraordinary achievement.
Just like the hollywood skanks will leave the US if Trump wins:
Scotland’s Muslim Former First Minister Threatens to Leave Britain Amid ‘Islamophobic’ Protests. (thenationalpulse.com)
Promises, promises …
Paris pauses to remember Munich and the Olympics’ darkest day, and condemn anti-Zionism
By Chip Le Grand
Comment awaiting approval.
Walz administration threatened voters for not masking up; critics tear apart new mask study
The Union Of The Left And Islam… A Marriage Joined By Common Hatred Of Christianity
Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture
Kamala Harris was afraid Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro would steal the ‘spotlight,’ alienate anti-Israel progressives: sources
From her own mouth.
@elonmusk
Kamala is quite literally a communist.
She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes.
Start by reducing the pay of all federal employees, including Congress critters, to the national average, and removing the Congressional exemption from insider trading laws.
“Community leader” where Rolfe action took place reveals agenda while rejecting NT chief copper apology:
Mr Hargraves said if Mr Murphy was serious about wanting partnerships with Aboriginal communities, they should be “between equals who share power, share resources, share respect”, repeating his demands for “karrinjarla muwajarri” or “ceasefire”.
“Napargi napargi, you give, I give, equal,” he said.
“The Commissioner said he will apologise to Yuendumu when Kumanjayi Walker’s inquest is finished, but he can take action before then.
“The police can agree now that they will not carry guns in Yuendumu, they can support our own Law and Justice Group.
“They can use some of the hundreds of millions of dollars the NT government gives them, to fund community-led ideas about working to keep everyone safe and happy.”
Translation: give us munnee while allowing people like the departed to continue to bash women and do what they like. Two-tier policing is doing well!
NT News with no comments allowed
Didn’t Kumanjayi Walker have a long record of domestic violence?
Enormous. See https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/the-unwanted-baby-who-became-a-violent-abuser-kumanjayi-walkers-tragic-life-before-he-was-shot-by-nt-cop-zachary-rolfe/news-story/df0b18829ac21cefc1c0e23b6c533a0a
The Commish will apologise for being a Flog for not supporting his officers.
There’s an interview at the link.
@ImMeme0
HOLY SH*T!
Meme
Harris campaign doing some astroturfing.
https://nitter.poast.org/DC_Draino/status/1820971351819104403#m
ROFLMAO.
Mark Dice:
Meet Democrat Clown Show’s New Costar – Tampon Tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIvHaenD0E
We just watched FDR on Foxtel
I found it riveting and quite moving
Highly recommended
Thanks for that Viva – interesting bloke; I will chase the series down.
My God.
I just watched Kamalala introducing her VP pick.
I was instantaneously transported back a decade and a half to staff meetings chaired by a brain dead principal and his coterie of giggling moron supporters.
Every insipid remark punctuated by inane, meaningless laughter, as if the unremarkable was somehow the most witty and clever observations.
I didn’t at that time understand what I was witnessing, but I do now.
It was power without wit.
The observations were simple and bordering on moronic, because the individual wasn’t particularly clever. The response from his little clique was laughter because they were signalling support.
It was and is infuriating.
You keep a group of fifty or sixty people trapped in a meeting. You make a series of insipid, stupid remarks and your little group titters away while everyone else groans inwardly.
America is f*cked if it’s facing four years of that.
A case of two-tiered media reporting in Australia.
Channel 7 news reported today that a teacher at Lurnea High School was arrested at the school and charged with having sexual relations with a student.
The ABC also had a report, but it didn’t mention either the name of the school or the fact that it was a state school. That is reserved for those evil Christian and Jewish schools. And didn’t Commissioner McClellan assure us that none.of the leftist comrades from the public-sector teachers’ unions could even think of doing such a thing?
Laughter without wit or humour is madness.
Kamalala’s rise is a descent into insanity.
It frightens me more than anything else that has occurred this decade.
Zulu and Bob reminiscing about that one good old night when their COs engaged in a bit of light bastardisation, and they spent the next four decades reliving the trauma of being left out in the rain without daddy.
Harden up, princesses.
New thread cockface.
LOL.
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