Open Thread – Mon 5 Aug 2024


Deauville, the Harbor, Eugene Boudin, 1897

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 7, 2024 12:21 am

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…

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 12:49 am

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.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 1:05 am

The Beer whisperer

August 6, 2024 11:15 pm

GDP is broadly an income measure

But that’s not how it’s measured, is it. It’s a measure of economic activity and assumes that variables within it even out such that years are highly comparable. If everyone consumes similarly, a 1% pop increase results in 1% more food and other consumption.

Beer,

GDP is an income measure, it’s not a consumption measure.

GDP is the source of income for the factors of production (labour and capital). Total factor income is derived by summing factor incomes (i.e. compensation of employees, gross operating surplus, gross mixed income).

KevinM
KevinM
August 7, 2024 2:13 am

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.

——————-

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.”

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KevinM
KevinM
August 7, 2024 2:19 am

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.

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Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 4:09 am
Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 5:03 am

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

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 7, 2024 5:12 am

That foul little grub Waltz reminds me of the horrible little man that was the lesbian bitch’s running mate. Bad, bad people.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 7, 2024 5:19 am

As inspiring as a turd in a swimming pool.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 6:00 am

If you want more background on Kamala VP pick the guys at Powerline blog have written up some comments as he is their Governor.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 6:02 am

KevinM,
Am enjoying your early morning contributions. Keep them coming.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 6:04 am

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.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 7, 2024 7:11 am

Our court appeal against the ALP socialist takeover of country Victoria for the renewables swindle is heard today.

Cassie of Sydney
August 7, 2024 7:26 am

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’.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 7, 2024 7:27 am

Thanks Tom-

Gabor
Gabor
August 7, 2024 7:58 am

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

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 7, 2024 8:03 am

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.

bons
bons
August 7, 2024 8:09 am

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.

eric hinton
eric hinton
August 7, 2024 8:09 am

According to them

“hottest year ever?”

But arctic sea ice extent is greater in July 2024 than July 2007

Pity climate isn’t listed on the stock exchange.

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Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 8:24 am

What could it be about these women that Wong dislikes?

They.re winners, they love competition, they’re young and healthy and they’re not homosexuals.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 7, 2024 8:30 am

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.

shatterzzz
August 7, 2024 8:35 am

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 …….!

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Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 8:40 am

This is what passes for argument at The Guardian (UK) these days:

Kamala Harris is mixed race, I’m mixed race – and Donald Trump is a dusty old relic

Arwa Mahdawi

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 8:41 am

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)

The biggest European car market, Germany, saw the sales of electric vehicles plummet by 36.8% in July from a year earlier, as EV sales are softening worldwide and as Berlin ended subsidies at the end of 2023. …

While BEV sales plunged, the overall car market held relatively flat. New car registrations of gasoline-powered passenger vehicles rose by 0.1% year-over-year in July, and diesel car sales increased by 1.4%. 

Tesla’s new registrations slumped by 36.7% in July compared to the same month of 2023, and was among the worst-performing foreign brands in Germany last month.

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.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 8:42 am

Walz addressing adoring crowd and telling huge porkies. This is why the USA is going down, down, down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 8:48 am

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

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 8:53 am

@seanmdav

Here’s what we know about Harris’s running mate so far, and it’s none even noon yet on announcement day.

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.

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 7, 2024 8:58 am

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.”

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 9:02 am

From 2018

The Truth About Tim Walz

Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.

We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 7, 2024 9:06 am

Just get the job done Commish:

There is no doubt that Police Commissioner Karen Webb is under attack from within her own organisation and much of it is of her own doing.

There are serious questions about her and deputy Paul ­Pisanos’s entertainment expenses, but more important are the claims of promoting friends to senior positions, which have been raised in parliament by former cop Rod Roberts.

Accusations about police commissioners are nothing new, especially when it comes to promotions, and they often turn out to be nothing more than disaffected cops making complaints out of spite.

But Roberts has gone out on a limb to air these questions publicly which some claim is a fishing expedition with no foundation but he believes have some credibility and feels duty bound to have them examined by the parliament.

It came as no shock to many in the media and the force itself that Webb’s enemies were trying to destabilise her and in fact thought it would have come much earlier after she made a mess of her press conference when one of her officers, Beau Lamarre-Condon was accused of killing two people.

That started the rot and Webb is facing growing disquiet across the force with her public performances and perceived lack of leadership breeding a massive amount of disloyalty in ranks from constable to those higher up.

The information fuelling Roberts’ questions have no doubt come from an insider and now one has leaked and found a voice, the floodgates are likely to open up.

All commissioners make enemies, but Karen Webb seems to have made more than her predecessors by sacking 14 senior staff and moving many others sideways. Her detractors say this has created an atmosphere of fear stifling good policing. Her supporters say it shows she is not afraid to make tough decisions.

What is clear is Webb has enemies within who are campaigning behind the scenes to try to get rid of her and have fired the first shot.

Webb needs to kill this in its tracks now by standing up and publicly addressing the questions raised by Roberts to assure her troops and the community she has nothing to hide. Letting it fester will see morale in the force continue to slide and public confidence evaporate.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 9:06 am

Birds of a feather flock together.

@charliekirk11

Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!

Let’s make sure America knows who you are.

You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard’s deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.

Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters “fascists,” egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place.

You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.”

You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support.

On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot.

You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations.

Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in “hero pay” for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased.

In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded.

You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership.

Make this go viral. Ruin their honeymoon. Let’s educate millions because the media will not.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 9:20 am

Apparently all those rocket parts and weapons magically teleported into Gaza.

Egypt comments on documentation of major tunnel near Rafah (6 Aug)

Last night, a senior Egyptian official denied Israeli reports about locating tunnels from Rafah into Egyptian territory, including tunnels that allow the passage of vehicles.

“Israel is spreading claims because of its failure to achieve any achievement in Gaza,” said the Egyptian official. “Israel has not presented any evidence of the existence of active tunnels on the Gaza border and it is using the blocked tunnels in Gaza to spread false claims to achieve political goals.”

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.

Zippster
Zippster
August 7, 2024 9:23 am

Introducing Figure 02

Danger Will Robinson!

Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 9:30 am

[Tim Walz is] a white male version of Kamala Harris.

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 9:35 am

This may be why Iran hasn’t launched the expected attack yet.

Report: Putin asks Khamenei to show restraint after Haniyeh assassination (6 Aug)

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to to exercise restraint as it responds to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, two senior sources in Tehran stated.

According to the report, Putin asked the Iranian leader to avoid causing harm to civilians.

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.

MatrixTransform
August 7, 2024 9:55 am

so Twitter is a sewer heh?

… everybody knows that Twitter is down-stream from The Cat

cohenite
August 7, 2024 10:02 am

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.

local oaf
August 7, 2024 10:09 am

Walz

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Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 10:11 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 10:13 am

We’re saved!

Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat ‘climate change’ (6 Aug)

The Biden administration announced a plan to target plastic pollution, dedicating particular focus to “phase out” single-use plastics – such as kitchen cutlery, cups and straws – across federal departments.

President Biden announced the order taking aim at the “climate crisis” in July which would require an “all-hands-on-deck response” from every federal agency.

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)

After about a month in control of the House of Representatives, Republicans haven’t managed to undo as many deeds of their Democratic predecessors as they’d like. They couldn’t get rid of “Obamacare,” and they haven’t made much headway in slashing the president’s $4-trillion budget. But the GOP has succeeded in short order in one critically important venture: getting rid of the “compostable” cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons that were a universally – and bipartisanly – hated feature of the House cafeteria operation.

The tableware, the color of mucus and as bendable as a pocket watch in a Salvador Dali painting (and thus unable to pierce any foodstuff firmer than the innards of Brie cheese), was the most visible manifestation of recently deposed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Green the Capitol initiative. That was her carbon-cutting effort to use the food-service and other House operations to fight global warming and a host of other perceived environmental, health and social ills. During the lunchtime rush, you could observe dozens of staffers struggling to stab lettuce leaves and poultry pieces with fork tines that appeared to be double-jointed as well as dull.

Back to your bendable spoons congressional staffer peoples!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 10:14 am

See basically Tim Waltz is an ideal VP for Kamala and he is a far leftie like her.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 10:27 am

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.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 10:30 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 10:34 am

Expel them all.

Students push Palestine vote (Paywallian)

A group of anti-Israel student activists at the University of Sydney are calling for one Palestinian state at their upcoming Student General Meeting while affirming ‘the right of Palestinians to armed resistance’.

Then charge them under the anti-terrorism laws for inciting violent action.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 10:42 am

What is clear is Webb has enemies within who are campaigning behind the scenes to try to get rid of her and have fired the first shot.

A bottle of wine worked to get rid of Barry O’Farrell.

State’s top cop defends buying bottles of gin (Tele, paywalled)

NSW top cop Karen Webb has defended her purchase of alcohol after questions were tabled in parliament saying it was a tradition carried over from previous police commissioners.

The first shot seems to be gin…

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Bill P
Bill P
August 7, 2024 10:43 am

Re Starmer
Maybe a starmbannfuhrer ?
Middle ranking officer only IRC

Bill P
Bill P
August 7, 2024 10:44 am

Yes I know it’s “sturm”

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 10:47 am

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

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 11:03 am

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)

Workers who have adapted their lifestyles around working from home are furious at a premier who has suddenly ordered them back into the office. …

The sector’s union, Public Service Association of NSW (PSA), said it had “always fought for flexible working arrangements” and encouraged employees to check their department’s policies to find out what is being asked of them as “each agency is different”.

“Any PSA member with issues in flexible working arrangements, including working from home, will receive support from their union,” a statement said.

In the wake of NSW’s return-to-office order, the Victorian government made clear it would not be happening there, and encouraged disgruntled NSW staff to head south.

Sounds great to me. The more PSA denizens who move to Yarragrad the better.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 7, 2024 11:07 am

I’m going to slightly modify calli’s name for Starmer’s police thugs:

“Starmtruppen”

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 7, 2024 11:11 am

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.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 11:30 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 7, 2024 11:33 am

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’

Zatara
Zatara
August 7, 2024 11:49 am

A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:

“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 7, 2024 11:51 am

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

Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled “An Act to alter the Constitution so as to enable the Australian Parliament to control prices”?

Result: 56% No.

I dread to think how such a question would be answered today.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
August 7, 2024 11:57 am

Putting Walz on the Dems ticket can only be explained by Solzhenitzyn’s observation that the underlying edict of commie propaganda is to humiliate.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 11:59 am

Kamala should have done a cover version of “I just Love Being Here With You”.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 7, 2024 12:01 pm

Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.

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.

Cassie of Sydney
August 7, 2024 12:30 pm

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.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 12:31 pm

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 12:37 pm

If you like spring and autumn you’re a communist.

Study finds seasonal shifts in moral values (Phys.org, 6 Aug)

“People’s endorsement of moral values that promote group cohesion and conformity is stronger in the spring and fall than it is in the summer and winter,” said Ian Hohm, the study’s first author and a doctoral student in UBC’s psychology department. …

The researchers found that respondents endorsed the “binding” values more strongly in spring and fall, but not as much in summer and winter—a pattern that was remarkably consistent over 10 years.

They also found evidence that the summer decrease in endorsement of binding moral values was more pronounced in areas with more extreme seasonal climate differences.

I like hot weather a lot more than cold weather, so I suppose that explains my rejection of Marxism.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 7, 2024 12:41 pm

A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:

“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

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.

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alwaysright
alwaysright
August 7, 2024 12:48 pm

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”.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 7, 2024 12:52 pm

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:

Christian @ChristianCamara

Disgraceful: Shapiro scrubbed his Wikipedia page of his @IDF service and is distancing himself from his pro-@Israel past to earn the Harris VP nod.

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

Kneel
Kneel
August 7, 2024 12:55 pm

“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)

Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 1:10 pm

What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”

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.

Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 1:12 pm

I think the choice of Walz is a huge mistake.

Correct. Many moderate Democrats will be feeling disenfranchised.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 7, 2024 1:20 pm

I think the choice of Walz is a huge mistake. …

Correct. Many moderate Democrats will be feeling disenfranchised.

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 7, 2024 1:30 pm

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.

Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 1:35 pm

As a marginal political leader, he probably has little choice.

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.

Rabz
August 7, 2024 1:45 pm

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.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 1:47 pm

‘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.

Gabor
Gabor
August 7, 2024 1:51 pm

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.

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.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 7, 2024 1:59 pm

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

eric hinton
eric hinton
August 7, 2024 2:01 pm

GreyRanga

 August 7, 2024 10:27 am

Bob, when are you you getting expensive Miles Fuel 

173 cpl in Miles,189 cpl in the Gabba at the mo, G-ranga.

Kneel
Kneel
August 7, 2024 2:07 pm

“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).

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 2:30 pm

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.”

m0nty
m0nty
August 7, 2024 2:34 pm

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.

Zatara
Zatara
August 7, 2024 2:39 pm

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.

“I do not think people under 18 should be making such permanent medical decisions”.

Soren Aldaco – suing for pro-trans medical negligence.

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Black Ball
Black Ball
August 7, 2024 2:42 pm

And in waltzes the fat phuck to praise Walz. FMD

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 2:51 pm

No friends Fat Freak just dumped in aisle 23 bay 15.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 7, 2024 2:59 pm

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.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 7, 2024 3:07 pm

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!

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 3:08 pm

“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.

Crossie
Crossie
August 7, 2024 3:30 pm

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.

m0nty
m0nty
August 7, 2024 3:55 pm

One account I read argued Walz is a battleground pick. 

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.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 3:59 pm

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

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 4:05 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 7, 2024 4:06 pm

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.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 4:15 pm
m0nty
m0nty
August 7, 2024 4:22 pm

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.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 7, 2024 4:23 pm

What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”

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!

local oaf
August 7, 2024 4:26 pm

Oh, I see

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MatrixTransform
August 7, 2024 4:39 pm

battery scooters to save the planet

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 7, 2024 4:56 pm

Genuine questions, because I missed it.

Why was the world supposed to end last night, and who made this Great Prediction?

Cassie of Sydney
August 7, 2024 4:57 pm

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.

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Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 5:12 pm
Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 5:29 pm

Muslim criticism of the muslim ‘community’

Nails it.

Tom
Tom
August 7, 2024 5:30 pm

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.

billie
billie
August 7, 2024 5:31 pm

“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.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 5:33 pm

Yes yes Andrews was and remains wildly popular.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 5:39 pm
Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 5:55 pm

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.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 5:58 pm
Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 6:00 pm

After reading the sohail Ahmed post now following this account
https://x.com/AmateurJew1/status/1820870176180695441?t=yB3WtQ7xRFFJaLif9vCKpQ&s=19

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 6:09 pm

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.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 6:11 pm

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.

Dover, can you put the last sentence in non-philosophied English?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 7, 2024 6:14 pm

From the nested comments, and in response to:

Why was the world supposed to end last night, and who made this Great Prediction?

This:

Someone was taking the piss over stock market falling 5% and all the panicky talk of economic collapse

Ah. That old, Faulty-esque chestnut. Brings back memories, my wordy lordy it does.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 6:24 pm

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”.

cohenite
August 7, 2024 6:28 pm

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.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 6:32 pm

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.

cohenite
August 7, 2024 6:37 pm

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.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 6:38 pm

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’

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 7, 2024 6:38 pm

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.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 7, 2024 6:39 pm

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.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 6:40 pm
JC
JC
August 7, 2024 6:45 pm

Ah. That old, Faulty-esque chestnut. Brings back memories, my wordy lordy it does.

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.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 6:48 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 7, 2024 6:48 pm

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.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 6:53 pm

Geraldton assault: German backpacker was attacked by gang of youths at a public toilet in Bluff Point, WA

  • German backpacker left bloodied and bruised in nasty attack

Daily Mail.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 6:55 pm

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”?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 7, 2024 6:56 pm

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.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 7, 2024 7:08 pm

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:

The prime minister has made a mistake in that he has not shown equal treatment to all forms of violence perpetrated by whoever it is, wherever it is in the country.

I think it’s incredibly important that in this moment we are clear that violent disturbances of this kind, whether they are from the far right, or from sectarian gangs, as we’ve seen more recently, for example, in Birmingham, are equally wrong, and that we call those out and we urge the police to take action without fear or favour.

In his public statements, [the prime minister has] actually spoken primarily, if not exclusively, about the thuggery, the violence, the disturbances caused by the far-right.

And of course, that’s important, because the actions of the far-right for example, the racist ambushes, the attack on a mosque are disgraceful. Let me be absolutely clear on that.

But I don’t think we should be selective or squeamish in the way in which we handle the situation.

Violence is violence.

And we also need to be clear that there are some instances of sectarian gangs attacking other members of our society and that is equally wrong, and it’s only by doing that, that we can ensure that we really meet this moment, that we speak for the nation as political leaders, and we ensure that all forms of violence are stamped out in equal measure.

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.

calli
calli
August 7, 2024 7:09 pm

Oh dear. Bolt interviewing Barr.

Nasty, stupid stuff.

Their TDS is despicable.

132andBush
132andBush
August 7, 2024 7:09 pm

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

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 7:10 pm

Roger, I though more along the lines of the progressive tax system vs flat rate.

Roger
Roger
August 7, 2024 7:11 pm

Sectarian gangs”?

Sounds a little bit squishy and obfuscated.

Well…he is a Tory.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 7, 2024 7:17 pm

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/06/kamala-harriss-vice-president-pick-gov-tim-walz-facing-stolen-valor-accusation/

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — the vice presidential candidate pick of Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris — has listed on his official biography a higher military rank than the one he ultimately retired with, drawing criticism from some veterans and accusations of stolen valor.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 7:25 pm

Sadly, true enough.

Farage Throws Tommy Under The Bus

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 7:27 pm

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.

132andBush
132andBush
August 7, 2024 7:29 pm

Zatara
August 7, 2024 11:49 am

A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:

“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

As a Kulak I have a rather jaundiced take on this statement,

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 7:29 pm
m0nty
m0nty
August 7, 2024 7:31 pm

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.

132andBush
132andBush
August 7, 2024 7:36 pm

m0nty
August 7, 2024 2:34 pm

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.

Straight off the Young Turks script.
I was wondering where your crap came from.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 7, 2024 7:36 pm

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.

Zatara
Zatara
August 7, 2024 7:37 pm

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’.

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Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 7:44 pm
Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 7:49 pm

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.

Vicki
Vicki
August 7, 2024 7:52 pm

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.

cohenite
August 7, 2024 7:53 pm

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.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 7, 2024 8:00 pm

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:

In an Aug. 1 statement, the International Olympic Committee reiterated that the gender and age of athletes competing in boxing are based on their passports, as it has been with previous Olympics and with tournaments during the qualification period during 2023 and 2024.

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.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 8:00 pm

Has anyone found someone in the demonrat party who isn’t a total scumbag? It looks like membership demands it.

@Cernovich

Tim Walz dodged a deployment and then lied about his military rank. This is a big deal. Minnesota media was able to cover it up. It flew totally under the radar. It’s out there now, and it’s real scum bag shit.

132andBush
132andBush
August 7, 2024 8:13 pm

Try again for Millennial Farmer clip (Thanks Pogria)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t_-HPKquko&t=10s

m0nty
m0nty
August 7, 2024 8:58 pm

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.

Muddy
Muddy
August 7, 2024 9:13 pm

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.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 9:13 pm

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.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 9:26 pm

I seem to recall around four years ago, no-one who was anyone cared about rallies.
Now it’s all about the rally.

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 9:31 pm

Seems like Walz did the wrong thing to further his political ambitions.
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1820880326853275875?t=K8mMF0uvGn6SdQH2_bt5gA&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 9:34 pm

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

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 9:39 pm

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

Rosie
Rosie
August 7, 2024 9:48 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 9:49 pm

Like a Fatboi over a Krispy Kreme.

JC
JC
August 7, 2024 9:57 pm

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.

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cohenite
August 7, 2024 10:05 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 10:09 pm

Paris pauses to remember Munich and the Olympics’ darkest day, and condemn anti-Zionism
By Chip Le Grand

Comment awaiting approval.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 10:21 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 10:28 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
August 7, 2024 10:29 pm

“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

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 10:32 pm

There’s an interview at the link.

@ImMeme0

HOLY SH*T!

Minnesota National Guard Leaders Expose Tim Walz for Stolen Valor, Lying About His Rank, and Quitting When His Unit Was Deployed to Iraq.

“As soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his hat up and quit,” said Tom Behrends, a retired command sergeant major who replaced Gov. Tim Walz on a deployment to Iraq.

When he was a congressman, you know, he bragged that he was a retired command sergeant major: “I’m the highest-ranking person ever in the House,” and, you know, all this lie that he was telling the state of Minnesota came out after 2018. After this was exposed, they said, “Well, he can say that he served as a command sergeant major, but he can’t say he’s a retired one because he’s not.”

Just tooting his own horn, hanging on the coattails of people that actually are command sergeant majors, who went through all the process and put all the time in.

It’s stolen valor, really, what it is.

If he went to Iraq, he’d still be hiding under his desk over there, ’cause that’s just the cowardice that I saw portrayed with him.

Indolent
Indolent
August 7, 2024 10:35 pm
Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 7, 2024 10:40 pm

Harris campaign doing some astroturfing.
https://nitter.poast.org/DC_Draino/status/1820971351819104403#m
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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 7, 2024 10:41 pm

Mark Dice:

Meet Democrat Clown Show’s New Costar – Tampon Tim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIvHaenD0E

Viva
Viva
August 7, 2024 10:41 pm

We just watched FDR on Foxtel

I found it riveting and quite moving

Highly recommended

Arky
August 7, 2024 11:20 pm

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.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
August 7, 2024 11:20 pm

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?

Arky
August 7, 2024 11:28 pm

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.

m0nty
m0nty
August 8, 2024 12:58 am

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.

Zatara
Zatara
August 8, 2024 5:32 am

test

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  1. She is not silly – knows it will be used to erase many inconvenient groups from the public space. Christians,…

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