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Greg Gutfeld Gives the most impressive & precise definition of President Donald Trump
China is our adversary, and pretending this risk doesn’t exist is sticking one’s head in the sand. They can never be trusted as they believe South Asia and the Pacific is their zone of interest and everyone should obey the CCP or else.
Wrong? The only one who’s wrong is you because you have this everlasting belief that Putin and Russia have a right to attack other sovereign nations and anyone aligned to Russia must be on the good side.
The entire region is wary of China, which you’re mischaracterizing. And when has appeasement ever worked?
Of course, it’s America’s fault. How Leftwing 1960s. That’s 50 years past expiry date.
Wrong. The Philippines is firmly aligned with the US.
LOL. Russia has nothing to do with it, does it.
Friends try to corrupt friends’ political system through subterfuge.
Opera House forum’s secret links to Beijing
CCP is a c..t of a party as it attempts to screw everyone, with whatever means possible for its own ends. Let’s do away with our long lasting alliances and go it alone with this monstrosity hanging around.
Musk has been getting a lot of shit for supporting free speech in the UK and being a free speech absolutist.
He’s baiting them and appears to love it.
The UK appears to be the wokiest place on earth.
Lots of funny stuff on twitter atm
https://x.com/Sandford_Police/status/1821917506195337240?t=j2KNF_D8Q0r6qEqIt18CJg&s=19
Memories can play strange tricks on you.
I haven’t been to the movies since drive ins.
No TV in the house for don’t know how long.
Anyway to cut it short, I had to sneeze and it reminded me of a scene in a long forgotten movie starring Clark Gable and Gene Tierney, where he was disguised as Russian military doctor in a theater and called to help a general who had trouble seeing or something and he made him sneeze or hold his nose and blow, not quite clear now.
Why would that be, psychologists?
Yes, the movie was “Never Let Me Go”
Had to search for the title.
For the cat ladies.
Kevin,
I have a ginger boy who looks just like that. He also sings. He’s getting old now, almost eighteen. Can still put the dogs in their place though when they are too cheeky.
What is something that almost nobody knows about nuclear submarines?
Where they are.
About the two way communication, I’m not too sure, the sub can receive/send and all it has to do is acknowledge with a beep a while later, no need to have a long dinner talk.
Ultra long and ELF frequency radio waves can be detected under water, and this is one means of communication with subs. I would be surprised if there weren’t other systems we don’t know about.
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Generally, there’s no two-way communication with a nuclear submarine on patrol, so the Commanding Officers are expected to be independent within the broad parameters of their mission orders. No micro-management from the Admiralty is possible.
On patrol, the boat is expected to go to a certain area and, well, patrol. A nuclear missile-equipped submarine — an SSBN, or ‘boomer’ in US Navy parlance — is supposed to stay within launch distance of its assigned targets — that’s 12,000 km for a Trident missile-equipped boat — and otherwise stay away from any surface or submarine contacts.
A nuclear attack submarine (SSN) on patrol will be trying not to be detected, generally, but also be expected to track, identify, and possibly follow any interesting contacts, with ‘interesting’ being up to the skipper, based on any intelligence briefings he’s had before the patrol. If the passive sonar picks up what sounds like an adversary submarine not in the database, for example, the skipper will be expected to follow it long enough to record its signature so that Naval Intelligence can add it to the database. If it is identified, it may be followed just build up an idea of what that particular submarine gets up to on its patrols or special missions.
An SSN will be given special missions occasionally, like going to a certain point, go to periscope depth, put up the electronic intelligence masts, and see what they can pick up. Or go to within a few miles of another point, and listen for and record expected underwater salvage activity. Or proceed to such-and-such an area to take part in naval exercises with a friendly nation where they will be expected to find and track the friendly fleet, avoid detection, and come to periscope depth occasionally to take pictures of the flagship (or any other ship) to prove that they could have sunk it if it was a shooting war.
So, in general, nuclear submarines’ positions are unknown. On patrol they might be (made-up examples) “in the North Atlantic, east of the GIUK line” or “west Pacific, at least 3000 km from the Chinese coast, and within 12,000 km of the Yumen missile silos” and no-one on Earth except the CO and navigation officers and technicians knowing any more than that. Even on missions with strict parameters, no-one but the crew should know the exact location of the submarine at any particular time. If the crew have done their jobs properly.
https://secure.boeingimages.com/archive/TACOMO-on-Tarmac-at-Boeing-Field-2F3XC5OPA_U.html
VLF reception for submarines. Involves a mile long antenna streamed behind the sub and is only capable of a couple of characters/minute.
The VLF link above will give you a better and more technical explanation.
Talking to a mate who crewed on a Brit sub ,the crew don’t know where they are only the captain and comms know
I think North West Cape is a Submarine communications site. I remember my old Uni history lecturer Joe Siracusa saying in his dramatic but subtle way, “They will receive a single word, Unload!”
Week In Pictures.
Thanks, Tom. Always look forward to these.
Wow. Home designed and hand built. He’s not only the first kid on his block to get one, he’s probably the first in the world!
Respect!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Australian+made+IV+fluids&source=desktop&summary=1&summary_og=5f3e70599f662e7fde2156Australian made iv fluidsBased on the search results, there are a few Australian companies that manufacture IV fluids:
It’s worth noting that the current shortage of IV fluids in Australia is primarily affecting saline and compound sodium lactate (Hartmann’s solution), which are manufactured by overseas companies. The Australian government has approved multiple overseas-registered alternative saline brands to address the shortage, but these may not be manufactured in Australia.
Key Points:
It’s finally come to this: we can’t even make salty water.
Competitive advantage, old man.
No, it’s a refusal to stump up funds to maintain adequate stocks of supplies. Our systems have, for years, had all the fat cut out of them to feed the voracious appetite of the bureaucracy.
It’s as simple as that – the growth of government and its parasitic arms are now threatening the health of the people.
And notice that the steps taken will not add one bag of Normal Saline/Hartmanns to the system it just adds to the demand on the OS suppliers.
Because of its isolation and dependency on easily interdicted shipping, Australia needs a Strategic Stockpile of commonly used goods, as well as a stockpile of goods that can be traded for them – e.g. steel plate, corn, wood, munitions, medications, fuel…
Didn’t the Evergreen/Suez Canal incident give us any idea?
Look you’re probably as sick of me stating it as I am of doing it yet again.
So I’ll give it a miss.
Youse can all figure out what happens when – for whatever reason – shipping insurance rates triple.
In Latest Bond Film, 007 Tasked With Taking Down 83-Year-Old British Grandma Who Shared Inaccurate Meme
JC & Arky on fire last night.
A great WIP, Tom. Too many good ones to pick a favourite.
Being Sunday, perhaps the comparative Bible translations – I love the Peterson one at the end.
AI Jesus was good also.
😀
Speaking of commenters on fire, C.L. has an excellent Sunday morning piece. His final sentence sums up the UK’s woes.
https://thecurrencylad.com/2024/08/11/on-media-hyenas-and-the-boudica-backlash/#comments
Worth a look.
That is an excellent read Cassie.
I read it before I let the chooks out. 😀
Looks like another beautiful day in the neighbourhood today. 😀
Thank you to Bob the Boozer re info on Aussie companies producing IV supplies. Good grief, this company is going down the gurgler if he is right that the government is simply not prepared to cough up the money for adequate supplies. Yet an ever growing fat bureaucracy starves government coffers,
Dont know what is the truth here – but sure as hell this country is stuffed.
I meant “the country is going down the gurgler” – sure hope the company isn’t!
Remember Morrison investing heavily in vaccine production? Why can’t this plant be repurposed to produce something simple like saline, even as a profitable sideline?
Does the facility even exist, or was the money simply trousered and forgotten about?
JC
August 10, 2024 11:11 pm
That article is about the best explanation I’ve read so far for what’s happening.
One thing is obvious, they called for a debate because they knew it would sink him (Biden).
The UK appears to be the wokiest place on earth.
The UK is fast sinking into sinister totalitarianism. It’s been on this trajectory for years now, aided and abetted by do nothing, supine, cowardly and quisling conservative governments. Der Sturmer da Fuhrer and his jolly Marxist and Islamist comrades are simply arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
There’s also been an increase in demand for IV fluids.
The reason why would be good to know.
I’m curious about that too.
I’ll ask around today and see what the Nursing/Pharmacy Mafia have to say.
Re the escapades of Elon:
The Australian Spectator had some interesting articles on him recently.
Personally, I think he is a much needed warrior against the increasing attacks on free speech by – of all entities – contemporary democracies in the ‘free world’. I am not interested in his motivation, I am just grateful that someone with his reach is an ally in this struggle.
BTW the vaccine war has also inspired Robert Malone to write a book on the attacks on free speech.. He has also become an impassioned defender of our most precious asset. I will post his latest discussion of the threats of the big international organisations of our way of life in the West.
Is V for Vendetta the only way out or has WanKeir worked out how to avoid the inevitable?
WanKeir, LOL I’m definitely using that.
Any British Cats want a job?
Nigel Farage launches recruitment drive for 2,500 candidates in threat to overtake Tories (10 Aug)
Good pay too, if you can get in.
Yeah but it’s in roubles.
Piss off, Nazi grub.
Go play with your Hamas buddies.
https://richardsonpost.com/david-hilton/36976/breaking-the-cringe-ceiling/
Weep! How have we got here?
UnFreakingBelievable. Oxygen thief. Not only her but the enablers along the way.
Not only a toilet paper degree that should be abolished a PhD to add faecal matter to said degree.
The AIS funded this tosh? Well seems there plenty of fat to cut there as well…
The US printed $5 Trillion in ‘quantative easing’ and that’s where the inflation is coming from. Wage demands are a symptom of inflation, not a cause.
A $1 Trillion coin is no different.
Or perhaps the smuggest.
Anyone who has the gall to suggest it’s all a bit shit outside her comfortable I-have-an-Albanian-dressmaker Islington bubble is some grubby working class far right Reform supporting racist.
Probably.
Captured in 1936 near the Tennessee River, this poignant image shows a Depression-era mother in a flour sack dress, cradling her baby. They were part of a large family of nine, living in a field along U.S. Route 70.
We think we’re immune to this state of affairs.
We’re not.
My grandmother had a way of bleaching flour sacks to remove the label, before making clothing from them…
When I was four, just arrived in Australia, and was told to bring a sugar-sack mat to school for class, mum had no idea what was meant. Mrs. Thompson over the road made me one, with green material trimming all around the edge and a little green rabbit applique’d upon the middle of it. Sacks of various sorts were never thrown out. Too useful.
Lizzie, the flour sack manufacturers in the US realised that their bags were being used for clothing by the poor, started printing their bags with water soluble ink so the makers label washed out – and they used permanent ink for the flowers and stuff decorating the fabric. I’ve seen a couple of photos.
Even during really tough times, there are those who try to help.
That was four years into FDR’s time as president.
I’m from a family of 10 (parents included) our father was a printer, sole wage earner for our family, we were never in that sort of poverty. However, we had cousins who lived in a nearby valley town, aunt and uncle and six cousins in a two-bedroom cottage. Even they were never reduced to such clothing because our mothers passed everything around.
Those depression-era images are a message of how dire things could possibly be.
Australia’s interpretive break dancer Raygun’s day job:
University lecturer.
Edgy.
She lectures on Break dancing. sigh…
At university?? How has the value of edumakation fallen.
But if you believe mUnturd, at least she won’t be racist or sexist.
It’s worse than I thought.
Interesting that your comment follows Bob’s depression picture, Roger.
Too many National resources squandered on self satisfied academic “ breakdancers” who sure didn’t get to the Olympics on merit, and we end up reliving the New Deal.
,
Those who can’t do, teach.
C.L. has an excellent Sunday morning piece. His final sentence sums up the UK’s woes.
Everyone needs to read C.L.’s piece.
The Trump campaign had their emails hacked by Iran and sent to the media, lol. Wheels on fire, rolling down the road.
Piss off, Nazi.
No one cares, dickhead.
So you are saying Monty that Iran is supporting Kamala to win?
Because they fear Trump.
I thought the lefturds were against hacking and leaking political parties’ internal correspondence.
Clearly, in the case of DemonRat party emails supposedly hacked and leaked by Wussia, eeeevilll. In the case of Republican party emails hacked and leaked by the Mad Mullahs, goooood.
mUnturd clearly lurrrrves the Islamist fanatics ruling Iran.
I see from Bruce’s link that Farage has plummeted in netsat, particularly with Tory voters with his rating dropping from -10 to -27. He is even in the negatives now with Leave voters.
Seems like that “two-tier policing” line is falling flat. Turns out British people don’t like fascists.
Piss off Nazi. Go play with your Hamas buddies, I’m sure there’s a weekly Sunday Jew hating festival you can join in Melbourne’s CBD. You’ll be right at home there.
Turns out that the MSM lie like rugs you mean.
Accusations of racism is the usual lefty shtick. Oddly no one has much said anything about the actually racist counter protesters shouting antisemitic Pali slogans.
‘What the hell?’ Nigel Farage fumes over ‘free Palestine’ chants filmed in counter protest (9 Aug)
Au contraire, clearly they lurrrrve Islamist and lefturd fascists.
From bons’ link on Raygun*.
They’re everywhere, like a disease. He sums it up well.
*why, oh why do I immediately think of King Lear? And how aided and abetted she was by Cornwall? Yes, there is a surfeit of stupid, overconfident Karens. And there is also a bevy of opportunistic, cruel enablers hiding in the wings.
We don’t need any more communication, gender study, interpretive dance, political study and so on graduates. How about trade apprentices are paid the same way HECS fees are. The employer doesn’t pay. That way the apprentice once qualified or drops out pays the money back at the same rate. At the very least the country gets something out of it thats useful. No more importing labour or bum wipers, we already have enough. Why do we hear about people that are working, paying tax, supporting their families getting turfed out yet keep the scum of the planet for free?
Are you suggesting that gainfully employed apprentices pay a HECS fee to work for an employer. Apprentice wages have traditionally been extremely low especially in the initial years. The term slave labour comes to mind .
You are either a contributor to the cause, or a sacrifice.
And no, YOU don’t get to make that choice.
I’ve made only rare comments on this case, but it seems clear – at least to the public – that NONE of this has been about the all-inclusive ‘women.’
What an absolutely scandalous affair this has been; one in which very, very few come away with clean hands. (The Liberals will always prefer cowardice to courage. Feck them. They care only about themselves).
So, let’s get this right, our resident Nazi thinks it’s funny that the Jew hating totalitarian theocratic state of Iran, the same Iran that weekly executes homosexuals and pesky women who take off their chadors, hacks into a presidential candidate’s emails.
Our Nazi stands with the mad mullahs. I think it is pretty obvious that our Nazi has no moral compass but Nazis never do, never have and never will.
Monty hates freedom so much he stands with anyone who opposes it.
mUnty can’t stand for anything without crutches
LOL yes it is hilarious that Trump, who won an election on the back of a massive media feeding frenzy over Hillary’s hacked emails fed to Wikileaks by Russian GRU operatives, has now had his emails hacked by Iran. That is funny every way you look at it.
Our resident Nazi roots for the mullahs.
Roger and I were talking about Australia’s potential enemies since WW2. I was suggesting that Australia was capable of defending its approaches from potential peer enemies; that didn’t include USSR or China.
Not sure how Russia is relevant here but still, anyone waving their poms poms for the US shouldn’t be speaking about sovereignty.
Sure sure.
I’m not blaming anyone. I’m arguing that the Phillipines doesn’t want to be dragged into a regional war because the US wants to contain China.
These Russians, are they in the room with us right now?
Our Nazi stands with Iran.
No wonder he’s always been silent about October 7. He stands with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Is anyone surprised?
Not me. He always was, and always will be, on the side of fascism and dictatorships.
‘He, the People’ – from Bushie’s very interesting link re the role of Obama and his decades of power as President and then behind the scenes with Biden and now Kamala.
This article makes much of Obama’s particular interest in assisting Iran and combatting ‘islamophobia’. Barrak Hussein Obama – pehaps some early childhood influences still linger?
Also from bons’ link, which is – as mentioned earlier – excellent:
Everyone criticising this D Grade Peter Garrett impersonator is a roaring misogynist, and just doesn’t get it to boot.
Nigel Farage asks…
What the hell?’ Nigel Farage fumes over ‘free Palestine’ chants
?
So, our Nazi supports “Free Palestine” chants?
If we were in a proper country, ‘Raygun’ would be held in the same regard and attract the same public adulation as alleged rower ‘Lay Down Sally’ Robbins.
Back in the early to mid 70’s we were working in northern Kashmir.
We became friends with people from the UK High Commission. Not with folks from the Australian HC who were arrogant stupid ANU twats.
The Brits invited us to accompany them to view the Consulate hall.
It was a typical Pakistani scene with men climbing over each other, poking papers through the counter windows and yelling insanely
Our hosts explained that these were Brit Pakis who had come to collect a wife from the village and were demanding UK visas for the girls.
“WE WILL NEVER PERMIT THESE PEOPLE TO INVADE THE UK”.
Outsiders laying into the raygun right now …
Obviously caused by climate change.
WEF: Climate Change Causes Pakistani Men to Beat up Their Wives (10 Aug)
Is there anything that it can’t do?
Sorry can’t link. WIP has the same thing. Broken shoelace, everyone blames Trump but he knows its really climate change.
Missed it, Rabz.
The tv was set on Seven (grrr) when I fired it up.
However….
They are covering the City to Surf and guess what? Runners are warming up to a Raygun parody routine.
Exquisite. And very, very Australian.
Rita on Outsiders beautifully extracting the micturition on Ray-Ban.
Ray-Ban.
?
er Raygun
I reckon Ray-BAN, is more truthful. 😀
“WE WILL NEVER PERMIT THESE PEOPLE TO INVADE THE UK”.
Except they did.
Question.
Is it possible to parody a parody?
Our successive governments have led the way.
They were Pakistanis with British passports.
The Brit HC staff were evidently as arrogant and stupid as the Australians.
The girls had no Brit papers. Marriage was not a valid claim for residential visas.
If I were a betting man I’d wager every one of those wives got a visa eventually. Hence the vigorous growth of the UK Pakistani population since.
But my point was that the men already had British passports thanks to the UK government being slow to close that loophole, either because they welcomed the abundant cheap labour to fill jobs Brits wouldn’t touch in the post-war period or because they wanted to change the complexion of the country or both.
Meanwhile, Fraser’s Cabinet was planning the Lebanese Concession.
Watching the Ray-Gun fun on Outsiders. I would not have thought it possible that there were an even more deluded woman than Ray-Gun, BUT, Anna Meares snatched that crown from Breaking Sad.
Has she filed a complaint about the misogyny of the judges?
Don’t give her ideas!
No…really; I’d like to see her idiocy slapped down.
Before I spend valuable time on google, help me out pls.
Who is this Raygun and what it do?
Gabor,
she was our entrant in the Break dancing at the Olympics. You tube it and see for yourself. It is both screamingly funny and cringeworthy at the same time.
No. You must immerse yourself in the experience and suffer as we do.
I love Rita, like me she also mops up the swill into a bucket and throws the bucket of swill back at the hypocritical, verminous, racist, left.
Simply divine.
Opinion: A Harris-Walz administration would be a nightmare for free speech
That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.
@LivePDDave1
This dude in Kamala Harris’ DEEP FAKE audience has 4 arms, including 2 mini alien arms.
That’s the Gimp in his Gimp suit.
The rest of the “crowd” are fun also. The tee-shirt slogans are in some strange alien script. Weird eyes. It looks like something from a Men in Black movie.
Now look at the eyes…
When you have to make AI crowds, it’s a very loud admission that it’s all lies.
Heh.
EXCLUSIVE PICS: Kamala’s Las Vegas Event Is Half Empty – Crowd Is Filled with Weirdos and Freaks (10 Aug, via Lucianne)
And unlike that deep fake these weirdos and freaks were real weirdos and freaks…
With Ezra Levant
EXCLUSIVE: UK’s ‘Enemy of the State’ Tommy Robinson on the breakdown of British civil liberty
Apparently it was carrying lithium batteries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/major-chinese-port-reports-blast-cargo-ship-cctv-says-2024-08-09/
But they’re perfectly safe to have in your garage. And, as I found out at Heathrow just recently, stowed in the hold.
I’m astonished no single person was hurt – is the whole port robotic?
as if a hold full of Lithium batteries sound bad
all that peroxy-stuff makes it sound awfully bomb-ish
Especially when it shouldn’t be anywhere near a spark or open flame.
Probably all packed in the shipping container next door.
All good. Safe as.
In Well, Obviously news:
It’s Room 101 for you lot.
Doc, see my comment at 9.52. 😀
Raygun’s performance is not the hilltop on which you want to take that stand, Anna Meares.
“But Anna, the emperor has no clothes.”
When you think about it Ray Gun is a genius for being able to turn breaking into a PhD and a good paying Uni career.
She will have plenty of lecture material after her success at the Olympics.
File under ‘The revolution will be subsidised.’
Pogria
August 11, 2024 9:59 am
Thanks.
Break dancing at the Olympics?
You are joshing me, haven’t watched a minute of the whole thing so I take your word for it.
Gabor,
fortunately, it will NOT be at the 2028 Olympics.
The whole drama is like watching the Marx Brothers.
It seems the Olympics and jismists can’t even get the name right. It is simply called Breaking. Apparently back in the day, a journalist mistakenly called it Break Dancing and it sort of stuck.
B Boys means Break Boys or Breaking Boys.
Either way, there are some awesome Breakers out there who pull off insane moves. Maybe next Olympics they can have Dub Step instead?
LOL love it, via Michael Smith, someone has doctored a WanKeir speech:
https://x.com/LittleBoats2020/status/1821786631805841557
“WE WILL NEVER PERMIT THESE PEOPLE TO INVADE THE UK”.
Invade? They have been waved in, welcomed by the traitorous state. When the citizens start to complain and protest, the state beats and imprisons them. At least the humble Brit is rebelling at this treason. In mainland Europe the Frogs, Scandies and Chermans have long rolled over, letting their women bear the brunt of catastrophe.
rant.
Double rant.
One might call this the most primal, animalistic form of misogyny: Using their women as human shields.
I got sent an article from a Kiwi paper about their electickery market.
Link is here, but essentially the generators and retailers are making super profits with the wholesale price the highest in the developed world.
How could this be possible with all the gaia approved hydro and geothermal stuff being used?
Should we send blackout Bowen over the ditch, one way ticket of course, so that he can work his magic and make the prices even higher?
Awesome quote in the article
“There has been canary loudly squawking in the mine for several years – but no one was listening. Finally the canary has carked it.”
If they cannot get us to Year Zero, a neo-feudalism will do in the meantime.
Don’t get caught up in the leftist “blame the bankers (and we know what that’s code for)” shtick.
The total increase in EBIT over 2 years is 19%, which is about what inflation has been.
The reason energy prices in NZ are expensive is because there’s a gas shortage.
Now, that doesn’t meant that there aren’t structural issues with the market – structural issues that arise from too much government interference.
But playing the “blame the bankers” game is just silly, and will just lead to moar gubermint to fix the gubermint that’s already there.
Didn’t go well for our other breakdancer either.
French breaking star’s vulgar act on Australian teenager in Paris (11 Aug)
Getting pantsed and mocked for size by a Frenchman really would hurt…
LOL all I could think of there was Zoolander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMer1HnluU
It’s uncanny! 😀
The French are known for vulgar acts on their own teenagers. Ask M Macron.
On the bright side, these donkeys are doing their absolute best to ensure that this ridiculous travesty of pretentious garbage never sees an Olympic stage ever, ever again.
The Trump campaign had their emails hacked by Iran and sent to the media, lol. Wheels on fire, rolling down the road.
There it is: dickless supports the mullahs.
bons, thanks for that link, now I know what this Raygun is all about.
Pogria, the Marx brothers were fun, this is embarrasing.
I thought break-dancing was a fad by young African-Americans.
Have to crawl out from under my rock or the world passes me by.
On the other hand, it’s comfy there so I stay.
Nah, you were right, it’s a fad.
I’ll give odds that it doesn’t make the cut for the next Olympics… wait, that’s in LA. Never mind.
Zaara,
the IOC has already said Breaking will NOT be at 2028. whew.
‘Raygun’.
‘J-Attack’.
End of days. This must be the cultural cringe everyone was going on about years ago.
C’mon man!
We’ve had Luigi the Unbelievable as PM for two years. And his sidekick Wallet Wizard.
And the Turtlehead.
And the Mean Girls*.
We are truly blessed.
*one might be a bloke
Apart from the swamp and left billionaires there appear to be 2 types of people who will vote for cackles: supercilious, useless dickheads and walking vegetables.
Who are the people that go to a Kamala Harris rally? Johnny went to find out – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
supercilious, useless dickheads and walking vegetables.
They can be both.
Just watched Ben Stiller spruiking for Cackles, First Woman President. His reasons – he’s Jewish, he’s Irish and he wishes he was black.
Zoolander (mentioned above) is his straight man alter ego.
aarhg! One of the “females”, in the first few seconds was a dead ringer for Magda Szubanski. Bleach, need eye bleach.
I’ve been trying to work out why the hoi polloi of Europe have been accepting of the Muslim invasion.
Here’s my latest thinkings:
They believe Islam is the way of the future and that under Islam, they will keep their status and wealth. While they don’t believe in anything about Islam itself, they see the current structures in the ME and believe they can remain on top with a religion they only have to pay lip service to.
In their own compounds they will have the right to do as they wish, but keep a pious face on in public.
The alcohol will remain in their private bars, the bacon will remain in the fridge, and their women will remain in their kitchens and bedrooms. And like most of the ME the men at the bottom of the rung will be sent off on useless wars to keep their numbers down and provide a useful pool of women who will never get married unless they accept 4th wife status.
The ugly and stupid ones will have to put up with the dregs of the man market.
Impose this with a feudal culture, and it looks like something from the barbaric past.
I wonder what their wives and daughters think of their future?
I don’t think they have thought that far ahead.
I think the current situation might be mostly the product of ideology.
Specifically, if you institute a doctrine of “non discrimination” on the grounds of religion, and another doctrine of anti- racism as the ultimate virtue, these things automatically follow.
I’m not sure they ever back away from it, even once they realise it’s the death of all of us, them included.
Arky I fear that a substantial proportion HAVE thought that far ahead, and they want to be first adopters.
I thought the alien who ran space chook was now a Trump supporter; apparently his minions have not got the message:
Scientist and author Richard Dawkins announced that Facebook deleted his account after he posted–on a different platform–that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has XY chromosomes, should not compete against women in the Olympics. He believes the account deletion is a form of censorship.
Dawkins clarified he had not posted about Khelif on Facebook but only on X, formerly known as Twitter. Despite this, Facebook appears to have removed his account. On July 29, Dawkins tweeted criticism over genetically male athletes competing in women’s events.
Richard Dawkins Says Facebook Deleted His Entire Page for Calling Male Olympics Boxer ‘Male.’ (thenationalpulse.com)
The crisis in the UK is exactly what the establishment elites have been hoping for for over a decade starting with Blair. Provoking civil unrest with the free admission of shitholer voteherds, looking for the opportunity to roll out the anti- freedom apparatus and state stasi forces to effectively move the country under total state control. The same idiots who cheered on the covid tyranny, now backing this horrid state monster for more “law and order”. The dhimmis.
The fix is on: US polls swing markedly to cackles but are they rigged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UCtFLsFzJo
The world is becoming extremely stupid, dangerous and generally irritating.
Time for some truly wicked dergs to balance things up.
The two puppies I have are THE most destructive pups I’ve had in my many years of owning dogs. Gawd, nothing is safe. They are particularly bloodthirsty with their beds. I look out to the front yard, and it’s a complete massacre. Shredded fabric and stuffing everywhere. I have bought at least a dozen different beds that are supposed to be puppy proof. ha.
They now have a sturdy metal frame with a mesh that, so far, has been indestructible. I place blankets on it for them. Of course, the blankets are full of holes, and it is cute watching them play tug-o-war all round the yard.
Screaming “I hate you! why do you do this”, dissipates to “aaaw, sweeties”.
They are brother and sister. They are a quarter Pug, quarter English Cocker Spaniel and half Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. They come complete with the adorable, melting eyes and smiley faces that stop anger dead in its tracks. sigh… Little buggers.
Knuckle Dragger
August 11, 2024 9:22 am
Mmmyes.
And no doubt Raygun tut-tuts about white privilege whilst simultaneously taking a spot which could have been better filled by any number of blak kids from Redfern.
Eric the Eel – without any of the charm.
Ooops, just misogynised myself…
Mine closure ’21st century colonialism’: McKenzie
James Dowling
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has called the closure and protected status of the Jabiluka uranium mine a “classic case of twenty-first century colonialism”.
At the NSW Labor Conference in July, Anthony Albanese announced Jabiluka, the world’s biggest untapped uranium source, will be closed off and made part of Kakadu National Park. Mining had been opposed for decades by traditional owners due to the cultural significance of the area.
“We want to see economic empowerment, particularly for marginalised Indigenous Australians and that means all options on the table to actually grow well-paying jobs in the Northern Territory,” Senator McKenzie said on Sky News.
“The government is now wanting to shut those opportunities down.
“It should be a bright future for Jabiluka and the Territory’s uranium deposits, instead once again Albo is picking ideology over practical solutions.”
Senator McKenzie said the Albanese government was also moving towards a blanket ban on livestock farming.
“No matter where you look, we’re seeing agriculture under attack,” she said. “The endgame, I think, really is the end of livestock production more generally in this country.”
Good luck with a ban on livestock farming – that will have the peasants rioting in the streets..
Very courageous, Prime Minister.
Apparently Breakdancing is a one-off as an Olympic “event” for 2024 only.
As Harry Richardson says….
As you might be aware by now, Australia sent an overweight, overconfident, uncoordinated Millennial female to represent the nation in Paris.
It was bad. Really bad.
Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn is not a loveable Aussie underdog. She’s the exact opposite. The 36-year-old thinks she’s amazing, and she’s been able to live in that delusion until yesterday when the whole world saw the reality at the same time.
Rachael has done the world a favour by ensuring that this “sport” will never be part of the Olympics again.
I’m still chortling at the attempt to do a Garrett.
Outstanding WIP.
There are some crackers in the comments section of TWiP!
Edit: Sorry. Didn’t notice cohenite’s comment before I posted.
To be fair to this Raygun person, she may well be the best female…um…breaker* in Australia. No obvious reason why whoever makes these decisions wouldn’t choose the best. Perhaps there isn’t a lot of competition out there.
And perhaps, because I know bugger all about breaking, scoring zero points across all of your performances isn’t as laughably humiliating as it sounds. Maybe scoring a point is particularly difficult, but once you meet that high threshold, you can then score many. Hence her opponents collectively scoring 54 to her 0. I don’t know, and I don’t care enough to find out, in all honesty.
Although the ABC is going into bat for her, and that is usually a good indication of someone being worthy of ridicule.
*Is that the right word? So stupid. Why can’t they just be called break dancers? I suppose that might prompt the question as to why break dancing is an Olympic sport. Although ‘breaker’ sounds like a position a scrapyard owner would advertise. Alternatively, my 2 year old nephew is a world class breaker. Breaks all kinds of things, he does.
I got sent an article from a Kiwi paper about their electickery market.
As many here will know, husband has been having an ongoing battle with our electricity provider over a sudden and unexplained increase in our electricity bill at our farm where we have a 10kw solar system. Since the dispute involves not simply the increased cost of energy, but the figures for consumption claimed, he has been obsessively examining the very precise figures he has been able to access through their App. He is convinced they are in error and the provider has agreed to send a technician to check the meter.
Meanwhile we accessed a fascinating technical paper on the internet from a Kiwi technician who explained how the smart meters could be manipulated by the companies. We now don’t believe that an examination of the meter itself will uncover anything favourable to us! I now understand the material I read about the problems the installation of smart meters brought in the UK.
I am becoming deeply concerned about the ability of the average citizen to maintain an equitable position in the midst of both government and commercial practices in the modern world.
Raygun is actually Rachael Gunn, born in Hornsby, New South Wales.
She is a lecturer at Macquarie University with a PhD in cultural studies.
That tenth rate intellectual cesspit again. Always was always will be unless it’s shut down as it deserves to be.
So where does the yank accent come from?
dunno- I only read about these people thank goodness
Position available: apprentice breaker at busy scrapyard. Must be willing to work Saturdays (and to work, generally). 36 year old PhD candidate wine mums with chips on their shoulders need not apply.
It is amazing how threatened you lot are by the sight of a woman with confidence.
Wot, like Cassie?
Touche, BoN!
A.K.A: confidence trickster. LOL.
A bit of projection going on here.
Confidence? Perhaps.
Talent? Zilch.
Threatened? Not one iota. Not even a jot or tittle.
She would be more threatening if she had some ability to go with the(over) confidence.
Jimmy Failla: A pole vaulter guy was disqualified when his weaner dislodged the bar. These days we expect this sort of issue in the women’s pole vaulting.
Fake News: an assistant imam advised his flock that a “used” couch should only be sold to the next village.
piss off Karen
It is amazing how threatened you lot are by the sight of a woman with confidence.
The entire left/demonrat mob were threatened by Tulsi Gabbard becoming more like a Republican and she and her husband have been harassed as if they were a terrorist threat whenever they fly.
Eff off, scumbag.
Hillary Clinton has tried a lot of things over the years. Becoming president. Trying to join both NASA and the Marines. Landing at an airport while under fire. But mostly lying a lot.
ha ha…read on
Hillary Clinton Gets Religion – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
From Sunday Telegraph: Dominic Perrottet reveals what he thinks of his predecessors in a high steaks interview.
He had a beef? That’s rare.
Do they have sub-editors worthy of the name any more?
I think it’s meant to be a (poor) pun. It’s one of this “lunch with” interview formats that were designed for hacks to pad their expenses in 1981.
The photos in the ABC article of Raygun’s…er…performance tell you all you need to know. Awkward.
So we have the likes of this fossil cutting a rug. And our male competitor is 16. Maybe it’s a grandparent-grandchild event or something?
Lol
It is sounding more and more insufferable.
Being awarded zero points for doing an emu impression. I guess that is making a mark of sorts.
Is it, though? Is it really athletic? I mean, Raygun isn’t obese but she doesn’t have the figure of an athlete. And the US competitor who Raygun was squaring off against had a flabby midriff exposed. Again, not exactly athletic. Professional ballroom dancers are in much better shape.
Do you get to choose what you wear as an Olympic competitor? Anyhoo, I suspect it wasn’t her outfit they were mocking.
Mmm nah I think they haven’t given it a second thought, for the same reason as to why they wouldn’t give a suggestion that thumb wrestling be included as an event a second thought. And if countries are putting up 36yos and fatties as their champions, I’d say they made the right call.
Also. She had a chance to “show it” and scored zero. She may not be the best advocate to spruik the excellence of the competitors of this event.
Umm, that would be a “no”.
That could be written today, about almost any DFAT staff.
It is amazing how threatened you lot are by the sight of a woman with confidence.
Dickless, I’m not threatened by Kari Lake, Tulsi Gabbard, Judge Janine, Dana Perino, Liz Storer etc.
He assumes you are, because he is.
m0nty is right! In fact, I think there should be an event for women’s confidence. Just go out there and be confident. Nothing else.
Actually, all minority and disadvantaged groups should be able to compete as well. No white males of course.
I’m going to take a wild guess that she isn’t too confident now.
Revealed: How Mossad kills its enemies – from paralysing injections and electrocution to poison toothpaste and AI machine guns, DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals the secrets of the world’s deadliest assassins
Daily Mail.
I was listening to VDH earlier about where the Trump campaign could go now to win in November.
He reckons they should go absolutely ruthless, as Lee Atwater did for Bush snr. Atwater took over the campaign in the final stages of the 1988 election. I recall the 1988 campaign very clearly. VDH reminded us how Snr was around 17 points behind Dukakis and ended up winning by 8 points, all done within 90 days of the election. Atwater painted Dukakis as an out-of-field dangerous leftwinger, and ads came out about the famous Willie Horton incident. Horton was a black criminal who was let out of jail early and straightaway murdered someone. It was big news then.
I don’t know; perhaps it’s just my perception. Trump appears to me to have slowed down since the assassination attempt and has lost his verve.
He’s 78.
And over the last 4 years he’s been through hell.
And then the assassination attempt…it must all have an effect on even the most combative personality.
I suspect the attempted publicity shot of Dukakis in the tank that Atwater turned into a Bush add was a big
Remember that one? Dukakis was trying to look like a hardcore dude and come off like a freaking dork. And you’d recall, there was Willie Horton.
Argh. It posted before I could finish or edit it.
The Horton thing was bad, but I suspect the attempted publicity shot of Dukakis in the tank that Atwater turned into a Bush add and the infamous Dukakis Yeehaw video came in right behind his incredibly bad debate performance to sink him.
The SNL skit about him didn’t help.
I was just randomly reading stuff across the interwebs and came across a page where a historian decided to do one of those “Great Opening Lines” lists but of ancient historical texts instead of just English texts of the last few centuries.
This is the opening of an ancient Sumerian poem called Inanna and Ebih.
Inanna (known as Ishtar in Akkadian and Babylonian civilisations) was Godess of sex, fertility, procreation, sensuality and, most to the point of the piece below, of war.
Creates an overwhelming and terrible impression. Around 4,000 years old, too.
Pommy cops in action;
https://x.com/barrystantonGBP/status/1822335478885908819
Wow, where in GB was this?
Dunno. But that black dude had them scared shitless.
Christ that’s embarrassing.
It looks like the police have tasers.
Why didn’t they use them? Not allowed?
How freaking embarrassing.
The thing about the Pommy establishment is that they are arrogant as if Britain were still a force to be reckoned with.
Even as a fully transitioned fat lesbian, you don’t threaten anyone, Fatboy.
Stop devouring so much food.
The fat khunt actually said this.
No it’s the other way around dickhead. You lot are threatened by women being actual woman. Like Kean, Moira Deeming. Riley Gaines. Our Cassie.
Monty, go phuck yourself.
… seconded
Report: Harris running mate donated 100k to neo-Nazis
These days supporting a film praising Hitler may be seen as a positive for the left. But perhaps only for those whose forebears weren’t caught up in WW2. I can’t imagine the bent mindset that that sees this as acceptable.
New Yorker reporter urges media to ask Harris actual questions: ‘Job of the press’ to be ‘demanding answers’
America under Kamala Harris would be unsafe and unaffordable for women
To give m0nty his due, Marcia Langton is pretty scary. I’m far from certain that her scowl isn’t able to turn people to stone.
The Bee reaching new heights.
Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There
love it
Last nite, for wont of anything better to watch, we settled on Netflix’s TV movie of Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’. We didn’t make it all the way through. Incredulous at first at how the story was presented, with the heroine turned into an all-knowing you-to-girl, totally counter to the book’s intent, we winced in pain at this destruction of Austen’s perceptions. To say nothing of the casting of about 50/50 black vs indigenous Britishers, which was also a major draw-back. All was turned into a Brigerton Rom-Com with today’s Rom-Com dialects also translating Austen’s crisp assessements.
Aha, says Hairy, sitting at the dining table over his tablet gadget, idley only glancing at it while sharing this movie with me across our open plan rooms, where I sit properly on a sofa taking it all in. Here’s the review, he announces. I thought I’d seen it, he says. Deborah Ross in The Spectator. Headlined ‘Everyone involved in this production should be in prison’. Yep. So we went click on it towards the end. Just couldn’t stand it any longer.
that’s you-go-girl not you-to
I can recommend the series “Lillie” from some time ago. It has everything!
All about Lillie Langtry and London Society, and then some American for a change.
From the first week after the 16 election they’ve put him through absolute hell and back.
Trump is indeed one tough SOB.
The left, and the RINOs, are going to regret not burying the hatchet with him during his first term rather than trying to bury the hatchet IN him for the last 8 years.
I truly hope so.
Tucker Carlson has a former White House lawyer detailing how the Watergate affair was also a Deep State hit job. Not that he needed the whistleblower, but it added another level of cred.
UK Police Commish Threatens to ‘Come After’ Even US Citizens Like Elon Musk for Exercising Free Speech
Kamala Harris Promises Amnesty for Millions of Illegal Aliens, Nationwide Mail-In Voting
She says the immigration system is broken.
She should know – the Biden/Harris/Obama Team broke it.
Kiss Trump’s chances at re-election goodbye now in that case.
Team Obama is on a roll.
Who Is Directing the War On Agriculture and Nutrition?
This really bothers me. I’m not carnivore but I read a lot of their stuff on the interwebs and have certainly changed our food habits in the last year. I happen to think that domestic animal farming is essential to soil health. The vegans seem to hate monocropping so as well as deleting animals, we must also stop fields of wheat and corn and carrots. Seems the only thing left then are insect factories, run without coal oil or gas. Funnily enough, the prepper types who are escaping city life firstly seem to want a cow or a sheep!
Some 12 years ago I travelled on a light plane up to Food Bowl Victoria on Murray for Ag meeting. Next to me very top bureaucrat for state gov. She wasn’t aware that I worked in the industry, anyway she blabbed on about her view that Aus should get out of agriculture, that the area we were flying to wasn’t a priority, in fact a waste of time. She was originally WHO trained and clearly hated Australian farmers. I was shocked at the time. But not anymore.
Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints
Just had one of those moments of complete revelatory joy, like in the Great Gatsby when Nick bathes in the sunshine of Gatsby modestly overturning that bozo’s accusations of false claims to Oxford…
Went to K-mart with the eldest. I hate K-mart- the piles of clothes slipped of the rack, the cheap plastic everything, the low energy Karen staff, the battery hen check-out, the dill with the scanner at the door checking that you’re not shoplifting $3 worth of tat, the gay rainbow everything- but youngster was printing photos, needed a cash card, etc, so in we go, me having a minor amount of fun impersonating a bitter and confused old man-
Got done, got to the exit where said authority-lite adolescent is tazering receipts without eye contact, all the cattle club members filing through for compliance-
Three kids just stand in single file, a yard in between, receipts in one hand and goods in the other, palm outwards at shoulder height, staring straight ahead. Young staffer was filthy, blushing, I assume the pisstaking shoppers were his classmates, riffing with hilarious “K-mart Club Member 6079, Smith, W!” and “No Fruit! Two Weeks!” while staring at the exits, a brilliant mash-up of Ivan Denisovich and malicious compliance.
Made my day, restored my faith that the kids are alright and paying attention too.
Great, Walli!!!
Nolte: Kamala’s Antisemitism, Bad Judgment Created Stolen Valor Catastrophe
Walz’s Eagleton connection
I don’t know; perhaps it’s just my perception. Trump appears to me to have slowed down since the assassination attempt and has lost his verve.
Trump’s recent 1 hour long news conference, taking dozens of questions from the scumbags, was as good as you’ll get.
Would that be the conference that my mUnturd said was such a rambling disaster?
@joma_gc
“Packed house” for Kamala in Vegas today. Bring out the giant black curtains!
Nothing to do with me. I’ve been responding to your “what’s wrong” comment.
Russia is relevant because you appear to have the hots for anyone aligned with the Klepto.
Your basically nit picking. All international relationships have issues here and there that doesn’t impact the substance nor the reasons for the alliance. As a matter of fact, a new US base has been approved by the Philippine government.
You’ve really thrown out the kid with the dirty water. There’s a lot to criticize the US for, but to openly side with the Klepto, the CCP, Iran and recently North Korea.. that’s like sinking into the Mariana Trench with lead weights. Please snap out of it and write more things like the Oakeshott opinions you once posted. They were really good.
Prominent Islam scholar doubles down on existential necessity of Israeli victory in Gaza
Israel needs to totally destroy the Islamicists who threaten it. In the same way we destroyed Germany and Japan.
Destroy their cities, smash their government into the earth, and enslave their men and women. Visit ruin on their temples, and slaughter their priests. Treat them in the same way the Muslims treat the peoples they subjugate. Make them suffer the tears of abject defeat.
Otherwise the war will just continue.
Harsh?
Not in my view. But then, I want to end the war, not have to have another go in twenty years time. You don’t negotiate a surrender on an existential enemy – you defeat him. And you make him bend the knee to you and your Gods.
Mass Migration Is Destroying Britain Yet Politicians and Media Refuse to Discuss the Cause of Riots
Dr. John Campbell
Global excess deaths
Elon Musk Destroys Keir Starmer
Brits ‘ROUNDED UP’ as Starmer launches ALL-OUT ATTACK on free speech over social media comments
I think it’s become obvious since 2016 that the legacy meja is evil, dishonest and deserves to die. Even more so apparent in Britain over the last 2 or 3 weeks.
Cernovich reckons (on Twitter) the stolen valor stuff along with the tons of vid showing Walz lying his arse off about himself is really beginning to hurt the campaign. And there’s more to come.
Great!
University of Tasmania lecturer Adel Yousif outrages Jewish community over ‘Hamas is legitimate’ claimMatthew Denholm
6 minutes ago
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A senior university lecturer has repeatedly described Hamas as a “legitimate resistance movement” and denied Israel’s right to exist “in its current form”, sparking complaints from the Jewish community.
University of Tasmania food scientist Adel Yousif, who has Palestinian heritage, has been a guest speaker at multiple pro-Palestinian events in recent months, expressing views described by some as “Hamas propaganda”.
Complaints to UTAS have so far met with a defence of Dr Yousif, on free speech grounds, while he told The Australian he was “not a Hamas supporter“ and opposed only the “current Israeli model of incessant violent colonisation”.
Concerns within the Jewish community focus in part on information authored by Dr Yousif and shown on a projector screen at an “Educators for Peace” event in Hobart on June 26.
It lists “misconceptions”, including that “Israel has a right to exist”. “It does not have the right to exist in its current form of bigotry, racism and apartheid,” Dr Yousif’s projection says.
Another “misconception”, it states, is that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. “Every colonisation project in history has a legitimate resistance movement,” says the projection, which appeared to have been removed from Facebook after inquiries by The Australian.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry condemned the material. “Hamas (is) a designated terrorist organisation which has butchered, raped, mutilated and kidnapped civilians in Israel,” said Peter Wertheim, the executive council’s co-chief executive.
“It is bad enough that this sort of Orwellian propaganda is being disseminated to teachers … it is truly horrifying to think that this is all in preparation for teachers to indoctrinate their students with the same hateful lies, and with the imprimatur of a university.”
Let me adjust that.
There are “misconceptions”, including that “Gaza/Hamarse has a right to exist”. “It does not have the right to exist in its current form of anti-semitism, terrorism, sexual assault, kidnapping and colonialism”.
Note that Arab colonists arrived in Israel thousands of years after Jews settled there. The Arabs killed, enslaved, raped and exiled the Jewish population.
Waltz even more repulsive than the repulsive Tim Kaine.
The way Wikipedia tells these poisonous mediocrities finished their bludge degrees summa cum laude– big bloody whoop.
Extraordinary.
The Timeless Truth About Tyranny According to Aristotle
Walz lying about having been in Afghanistan. He never set foot in Afghanistan.
The Paradox of Being a Good Person – George Orwell’s Warning to the World
Walz dissing the National Guard.
100% piece of shit.
As Minneapolis was burning his disgusting wife said that she opened the window to breathe the smell of the city was trashed and burnt.
The American left.
Beneath despicable
A teacha – those who can do, those who can’t teach and then become pollimuppetts
Of course, upon Raygun’s return, questions will be asked.
And it won’t be “How did someone who was so obviously shithouse at what she did get a gig in Paris?”
No, no.
Perish the thought.
It will be, “Where is the government funding so that shithouse performers in fringe activities can reach the level of mediocre and get more free taxpayer funded gigs?“
Our systems have, for years, had all the fat cut out of them to feed the voracious appetite of the bureaucracy.
It’s as simple as that – the growth of government and its parasitic arms are now threatening the health of the people.
I am not sure about that:
*Who decides exactly what is stored – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides the level of each items storage – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides where it is stored – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides who owns the storage facilities – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides the manning levels of each facility – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides the rules about restocking and checking such premises – Bureaucrats.
*Who decides what rules, industrial rates awards etc this comes under – Bureaucrats.
The bureaucracy would love to store stuff, what a boondoggle that would be!
The problem, as it is, comes from the JIT (Just In Time) principles of modern manufacturing and production. It can only deal with known forecasts of needs though. If someone decides, without warning, to start storing stuff and buying it in great quantities and the manufacturers are unaware of that, sudden shortages are the result.
Question – Why don’t we make more here? Our governents all believe in competitive tendering for goods, lowest price that meets the requirements wins. That lets in all the overseas suppliers. If we had protectionism, again, the local prices would go ballistic, like they did before tarifs were removed.
BTW – Bureaurocrats are not judged or measured on buying something local to help local industry or the tax payers, they are measured on meeting the requirement at the lowest cost and on time deliveries.
We are our own worst enemies, and usually get what we deserve .. sadly.
He keeps teasing about this more to come on the creep side.
@Cernovich
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Aug 10
What DEI people don’t understand. We don’t see “someone who looks like us” and immediately like them. Race doesn’t matter. Tim Walz’s red flags were obvious. He looked like a blow hard and also creepy. Stranger danger red alert. What else will we learn about the “coach.”
Olympics 100m record smashed!
She’s back, baby!
Labour to LOCK UP innocent onlookers of protests – ‘They’re ignoring GROOMING GANGS and illegals!’
If Raygun is the Oceana champion, just more than a moment, think about how crap the others must have been in the same competition.
Brian D.
54 minutes ago
If October 7th wasn’t an atrocity committed by a terrorist organisisation, I’d like the good professor’s definition what just what a terrorist organisation is.
Dr. Raygun – for Doctor she is (doctor of breakdancing, fhs) a lecturer of Breakdancing – with her memorable Olympic performance, is a textbook example of academia getting involved in industry.
A senior university lecturer has repeatedly described Hamas as a “legitimate resistance movement” and denied Israel’s right to exist “in its current form”, sparking complaints from the Jewish community.
Which means this ‘university professor’ regards rape and murder as legitimate, and when he says Israel has no right to exist in it’s current form, he means Israel has no right to exist at all, meaning the genocide of all Jews living between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.
Hmm, sounds very Nazi to me.
Oh and memo to our resident Nazi, since you’ve spent years here smearing those you don’t ‘ like as “fascists’ and ‘Nazis’, perhaps you could condemn the above words?
Oh sorry, in order to condemn those words, you would first need to disagree with those words, and that you don’t…..do you?
It is amazing how threatened you lot are by the sight of a woman with confidence.
I tell you the women I respect, it’s those confident Iranian women who discard their muzzle aka chador in public, bearing their magnificent hair so they can feel the wind blow through it, and by doing so these women incur the wrath of those same medieval mullahs you support. The punishment metered out to such confident women for their crime of feeling the wind blow through their hair? Imprisonment, whipping and in some circumstances…….execution.
Nazi, don’t you dare ever lecture us about ‘confident women’. I will never forget your chortles of laughter when confident women were bashed and nearly lynched in an Auckland Park. You are a hypocrite
Very well said, Cassie. M0nts is no friend of women.
I’ve just returned from shopping with my elderly and very frail mother at Bondi Junction. We went to Spotlight, a store we both love. Mum’s physique is shrinking by the day, and so I lost her in the store I couldn’t find her and I panicked, eventually finding her surrounded by Manchester.
I have some wonderful news, after months of anxiety and sadness, my nephew and his wife are expecting a baby. So at Spotlight I bought some wool, I’m going to knit a baby blanket!
New life!
Grand.
Cassie – I can see you with the knitting needles! Lovely.
Very happy for you, Cass.
You picked up a comment I made to Roger via Vicki. That was the context in which ‘peer enemy’ was used.
This, again, is your fantasy, not mine.
It’s hardly nitpicking. The Philippines, just as we are, is being forced to choose between the US and China, when it would prefer friendly relations with both. And it’s being made to do that because the former needs to maintain and/or augment those forward bases to contain China and would be punished if it didn’t.
Hardly, I just have come to the conclusion that there will be no possibility of change in the US without a major external shock.
You picked up a comment I made to Roger via Vicki. That was the context in which ‘peer enemy’ was used.
Crikey! I’m in the middle of a row between the heavies!
@MikeBenzCyber
How the US Pentagon organizes racial rent-a-riots
@Slatzism
Almost every judge I’ve identified as being involved in the rapid prosecution and incarceration of individuals who participated in the Southport riots has a history of letting convicted pedophiles walk free with no jail time.
A short thread on “two-tier” justice:
So as I posted below, shaky if one appeals.
I’d wonder at how the appealing judge is appointed.
@PalmerLuckey
Worth noting that our Founding Fathers themselves published anonymous satirical newspapers lampooning English politicians, and the Crown responded by trying to kill them.
Some issues are fairly argued as beyond the intent/understanding of the Founders, this ain’t one of them.
@MikeBenzCyber
I can’t think of a single authoritarian country on earth where the official law of the land is that it’s illegal to be a “curious observer”
@davidkurten
REPUGNANT: Judge makes appalling statement that undermines fundamental human rights.
A person must have committed a crime to be charged and held. It is despotic to incarcerate innocent people for weeks or months for being in the area and observing or recording events.
Taking their cues here from the Jan 6th crack down in the US.
Forget about the rule of law. It’s over.
From Courier Mail. Multiple arrests is 4 and “large” is 40.
“Multiple arrests have been made during a large Brisbane CBD demonstration involving members of a white supremacist group dressed in black and wearing face masks”.
I think this is first time Brisbane had such a walk through.
That doesn’t sound like a white supremacist group (even if such things actually exist these days).
Blackblock is generally identified with Antifa.
You do have to wonder whether her “right side of history” actually killed her.
@ExposeDarkDeeds
Thanks for the pointer to CL’s article- he doesn’t like the Murdochs and nor do I.
DiL off to present a paper at international conference that shows others summations of cause and effect are the complete opposite of what they’ve been saying for years. She’d been doing the study for her Phd when covid came along and couldn’t continue with it. Now she’s had it published and is going to cause ructions in the field. The best thing is her Professor’s thought what she was doing was of not much value so never claimed input of which was zero anyway. Just think, she could have been doing something like breakdancing really badly instead.
Wow! Impressive.
Very best wishes to your DiL. Love the fact that she is having it published in spite of (it seems) zero support from her Prof. Mmmm it was long ago…but I remember well…
So much so Vicki, they denied her a clinical PHD. She had already proved her theory but to no avail. International Academia thought differently. Yahoo.
Further to that Vicki she already had practical evidence but was ignored.
Bravo!! I detest the idea of putting one’s name on other people’s work without having contributed to it. The ones that do this hate being called out on it.
Just returned fron jogging (if I can call it that), the City2surf.
Last year there were lots of ‘Yes’ Voice activists waving thir placards from bridges over the course. This year the first bridge had a bunch of Hamas activists waving Pali flags wearing t-shirts spelling out Free Palestine.
I was a little surprised how many runners/walkers were waving, putting their hands up in support. As I passed under the bridge I caught the eye of a flag waver and rather uncouthly for a gentleman such as myself, flipped him an enormous and cranky bird.
Later on there were quite a few groups waving Israeli flags with lots of posters of missing loved ones asking “Bring them home”. Very happy to give them a smile and thumbs up as I wobbled slowly past.
Bless you, and thanks.
Have a warm Radox bath and a couple of Bourbons.
If I’d thought about it earlier I could have been up at the start of our street barriers waving a Jewish flag – Cassie could have loaned me one I’m sure.
It’s instructive in crowds like this to see how many people are prepared to admit sympathy for Hamas. As Douglas Murray said – it’s the madness of crowds. All in, all together now etc.
They need a bit of pushback. Sorry I wasn’t there to give it.
Would’ve loved to Progs, but we dont have a bath at home. Alas!
Yep. Once you got to Dover Heights and Bondi. Lots of Jewish people live there.
As usual, we were locked down all morning into our few streets so as not to interrupt the runners with our goings in and out of our local area. Keep your heart attack until after twelve, you lot, say the Fuz.
You wuz breathing our local air, Titus.
And clean that air was, Liz! Cleaner than the Inner West, anyway.
That GB news article posted bought up a good point on Starmer’s crackdown.
These courts are supercharged to push people through at an accelerated rate. To the point that due legal process such as consulting with lawyers isn’t feasible. How many of these sentences that go to appeal are going to be slapped down as excessive or denial of natural justice?
They don’t care. The process (including the cost of the appeal) is the punishment.
A lot of working class people will be financially ruined by the “Party of the Workers”.
The fat fascist fool no doubt will approve, just as he approves of Iran interfering in the US election.
Who is going to have the money to appeal? These are ordinary working-class people who are being crushed already by housing and food costs.
Agree in normal times but this is far from normal.
Already some lawyers out there signalling discontent. Pro-bono maybe and that’s if mobs like Rebel News don’t get involved to s%$# stir like they did with COVID.
Most of them.
There will be Lawyers fighting each other to appeal these cases pro bono.
If they are public defender types, these will be lucrative as Hell.
Carlton doing a good impression of a female boxer up against a tranny in the footy. In real trouble.
Blues are racing the Bombers to mad Monday. Fans are furious with them both.
Piss off he bear.
the hawks are thee,bodyment of being indominable
I’m a little surprised to not see the “V” symbol against a few walls.
I’d like to buy a hundred of the masks and hand them around.
Will people see the significance of the masks? Perhaps they’re just a little passe. But the painted V? That resonates.
Shoulda goose-stepped and seig-heiled for the Raghead R*pe Brigade, Titus.
Yes, Wally. I would’ve had to have quickened my pace for that. A little hard at my age.
aygun is actually Rachael Gunn, born in Hornsby, New South Wales.
She is a lecturer at Macquarie University with a PhD in cultural studies.
That tenth rate intellectual cesspit again. Always was always will be unless it’s shut down as it deserves to be.
We have to remember that this intellectual cesspit was a former dairy.
Raygun was what the nuclear disarmament protesters used to call president Reagan during the 80s.
Yes when I was a kid North Ryde – Marsfield was still semi rural.
Ahem….my daughter studies there. Not saying there are not problems at Mac, but not everyone is tenth rate.
Married at nine: the law that adds to child bride agonyA million girls are forcibly wed each month before their 18th birthday. Now Iraq is worsening the pain.
From the Oz.
Tribal societies with tribal mores. That’s Islam for you.
Spent a few days last week on the west coast of Sweden. Seaside towns were teeming with Swedish tourists enjoying the sunny summer weather, jam-packed marinas everywhere. Then came the wind and rain with temperatures of Australian winter.
Swedish people are very lovely but so uptight about separating their rubbish into more and more categories, down to recycling bins for different colour glass bottles and jars.
Lots of Teslas on the road and even saw a charging station with over a dozen chargers with half of them in use.
I saw just one Palestinian flag and that was in the front yard of a house in deep rural west coast.
By the way, electricity is cheap in Sweden and my relatives were horrified when I told them how much I pay for it in Australia.
John Pike’s book “Vietnam and the Cold War 1945 – 1954” contains the account of the German legionnaire, who shot his commanding officer, and deserted to the Viet Minh, to avoid the predatory attentions of said (homosexual) commanding officer..
I can understand that.
Didn’t he know the CO was French.
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Understandable.
In fact, I fully support the man.
I’ve just read the total tongue-bath Nikki Gemmell gave to Kamala Harris in the Weekend Australian magazine. It’s all about the vibe and how great it is, all for women and girls, Harris a ‘lightening rod for all that female rage’, Kamala ‘telling it straight with a twinkle in her eye’. JD Vance, pfft, an ‘easy target’, a ‘woman-hater’. Not a word about any policies and real reasons to vote for this piece of female fluff puppetry in Obama’s pocket.
Makes me wish women had never been given the vote. By Gemmell’s intellectual lights, we don’t deserve it. Guess I’m glad that some women are definitely made of sterner stuff and not so easly led. Too few of us though.
Gemmell gives stupidity a bad name. Always avoid – along with Phatty.
Hydro balanced with nuclear.
The Swedes are not as stupid as they often appear to outsiders.
Sweden just has the same problem we do- a spiteful, detached, contemptuous and stupid political class.
The Swedish authorities didn’t impose lockdowns during covid.
…and an underutilised Trebuchet and Tumbril manufacturing industry.
I have stolen this, unashamedly, from Jo Nova’s site, because it is so important that it be known:
You will be refused bail even if you only watched riots from the sidelines, judge warns
A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”.
District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications.
The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city.
Refusing bail, the judge said: “Anybody involving themselves in this type of behaviour, this type of disorder, as an active participant or a curious observer can expect to be, save for the most exceptional circumstances, remanded into custody, and this defendant is remanded into custody.”
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/09/judge-refuses-bail-riot-bystanders-belfast/
Fascism takes Britain by leftard and Islamic conquest.
Contemptable- back to the middle ages
In the middle ages the King could have the judge hung.
Bear in mind bail can be denied if the judge believes the safety of the community would be under threat. The accused in this particular instance has a criminal record and an intellectual disability.
That being said, this appears to be two-tier justice to complement two tier policing.
Olde English Saying “King John tried that shit on too.”
It didn’t take the Communists long to show their true colours, did it?
And if Charlie doesn’t get his ducks in a row, he just may find himself in the position of getting his fondest wish half granted – the chance to come back from the dead as a tampon.
Caaarrrton flogged by the Hawks – out of the finals.
Makes me feel a bit better after Collingwood were beaten by the umpires last night.
Good news for Craig McLachlan. He is returning to acting. Has signed on for a film. Great to hear. He was almost destroyed by the “Me Too”,crap.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13716307/Craig-McLachlan-Neighbours-Rocky-Horror-comeback-movie.html
A key message for those who’ve had their lives damaged by the fascists of the Western left is that it’s not necessarily permanent.
Time wounds all heals.
McLachan has outlasted the pricks who specialise in wrecking people’s lives. Good on him. His professional work as a performer now has new fans who admire his determination to defeat the fascists who tried to take him down.
Well said Tom.
I have always like Craig.
I wonder where the lying bints are now? Who cares.
I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed the Dr Blake series. Craig went through a terrible ordeal from the lying jealous bitches. Getting back his acting career is the best FU.
I second that…Dr Blake was surprisingly good for an Australian TV production.
Plead guilty and you could be out in two years.
Fight us and you’ll be denied bail, placed on Remand with a court date sometime in 2026 and you’ll serve every day of your sentence with no chance of parole.
Agreed but what happens when groups like Rebel News or pro-bono lawyers step up to the plate and fight as we saw with the COVID over-reach. It will be enough to keep this in the spotlight for a few years.
I just don’t think this is going to be a slam dunk they think it is. Let alone thousands more Tommy Robinsons or worse released on to the streets in 2 years.
I think the Communists have been besotted with their electoral win and think they have no one to answer to for the next five years.
I remember Nikki Gemmell when she was on JJJ reading the news. She would banter with the DJs after the read and she thought she was absolutely hilarious. I mean, I guess it was good she laughed at her own jokes because at least that meant someone did.
No surprise she’s become a garden variety hack.
She has always been a garden variety hack. If she were a pool she would be so shallow the water wouldn’t reach your ankles.
JJJ a Marxist kindergarten. Also gave Frank Elly her start.
Just more proof that the meja is part of the problem and has been for decades.
The media was always a Democratic Societies weak link. If the media is the only way to get information, then you take over the media. And they did.
Long March through the Institutions, anyone?
Gramsci was right.
The Murdochs and the other dinosaur outlets don’t like Musk- shows there is a lot to like about him. I’ll forgive him for his cars.
The Oz (from The Times) has an article up having a big swipe at Musk and Twitter. Comments so far all appear to support Musk.
It was all related anyway.
It’s mind-reading, Dover. Recall, you were very much in support of mind reading when I was critical of anyone doing it, so I’m just following your lead here.
Friendly relations between the Philippines and China? Sure thing, as long as the Philippines accedes to all claims to the South China Sea. When that happens, the CCP would love to have great relations. Until then, it will keep trying to take islands and areas that belong to its neighbors.
LOl, made to whom? The bad old US? You’re dreaming. If the Philippines wanted to close down relations with the US, it could do so tomorrow. However, however the US is in middle of constructing another base, so the relationship is as bad as you trying to make out. Furthermore, there would be need, if the CCP wasn’t trying to take over a waterway that doesn’t belong to China.
Sure, but you don’t hope for any external shocks for those arseholes you support, right?
Have you ever considered what a world dominated by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea would be like? You really want to live in that world, or pretending to, but hoping in it never happens, because I tell you, it won’t be fun.
The Pommy establishment’s only tactic is attack your own people (well ones who don’t speak naicly) and shoot the messenger. Dad always told me that Stephen Ward’s treatment was the way said establishment operated.
“Neoliberal capitalism has led to the rise of fascism.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-11/joseph-stiglitz-the-road-to-freedom-neoliberalism-fascism/104210670
This has to be a candidate for peak ABC.
Speaking of dunderheads – where’s propeller head Bowen been recently?
No mention of the no wind/sun ruinables? So cheap.
You can get his propeller cap from China (Temu) for $7.07.
Bowen and the rest of the clowns have been put in the deep freeze. Anyone remember Plibbers last media?
I have been to a few breakdancing competitions. Most are run by the Phillipinos here in Oz.. Fantastic. Quick, rhythmic, innovative. Plenty of girls. Competition is fierce, artistic and in good spirit. Raygun is a complete disgrace. Pathetic display of academic, DEI, fat. entitlement. Her kangaroo bit was called bunny hopping by some. Ha.
If the Raygun was the selected Olympian, what on earth turned up for the selection trials?
There were selection trials, weren’t there?
Good news for Craig McLachlan. He is returning to acting. Has signed on for a film. Great to hear. He was almost destroyed by the “Me Too”,crap.
Yep, agree 100%. McLachlan lost everything, not just his career but tonnes of money. He was ruined financially. And remember, he faced criminal charges, an actual trial, where he was found not guilty. I suspect he’d be the first to take his hat off to his partner, Vanessa Scammell, who’s one strong and classy woman, unlike the nasty mediocrities who accused him.
Nodding furiously in agreement.
I saw it but am still shaking my head, words can’t describe the acute level of cringe involved in that spectacle.
The mere fact this sad excuse for a human thought her performance was good is a sad indictment on Australia’s mental health services but exposes Australian Academia as a sheltered workshop not worthy of the Spastic Society.
That is all – double away smartly
Hi Carpe. Waving with both hands. 😀
If mental health was an issue, perhaps the wrong Olympics?
This weekend’s WSJ opinion piece. Pretty decent article.
I wish someone just once would say ” Mass ILLEGAL immigration”.
It’s not multiculti utopia, it’s an invasion by third World dregs.
From the piece. To highlight the laziness and incompetence of the UK police force.
Failing towards dystopia.
I liked it when she did The Slug … made me chuckle
anyway, not really threatened
more like laughing our arses off along with the rest of the world at
incompetent, incapable, unaccountable, and clearly more than a little bit mental
like we do with you everyday mUnty
I see Luigi the Unflushable is putting in a good word for the worst performance by an Australian. I thought he’d be pissed that she is still better than him. I saw 3 seconds, enough, get off.
I’d like to see mUnty do The Slug
… he’d be a natural
Australian Academia as a sheltered workshop not worthy of the Spastic Society.
Very well said. On a related topic, I know these Grad Cert-Grad Dip-Masters degrees have been for sale since the 90s (at least). I didn’t think so in the case of undergraduate Engineering courses but I’m beginning to wonder.
Danger Reviews:
This is getting silly. I was forced to reedit and unlist the original vid. Full version on X, PAtreon and YTmembers. I am not going to take the knee for these Mike Hunts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5zqyEgqywU
Aww …
do you reckon they’re are they gonna send more convicts over when the prison hulks get filled up?
Hahahahaha, noice.
working with a young Lancastrian fella tomorrow
he’s one witty and funny guy
if the British courts locked them all up and sent them here for talking about stealing a loaf of bread
or cracking a joke about it
Straya would be better off
University of Tasmania lecturer Adel Yousif outrages Jewish community over ‘Hamas is legitimate’ claim
From the Oz.
Commenters cite the old cliche about “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter..”
JC
August 11, 2024 1:31 pm
You get the feeling the should be holding fire on this till closer to Nov?
132andbush, I have this feeling they knew what was going to happen with this goose and that they will have to dump him just before the elections, and guess who will be forced into the VP spot?
Go on, have a guess…
The Hildebeast.
She’s been so overwhelmingly quiet – like a panther lying in ambush – that one has to wonder why.
Add massive cheating and some soap on the steps to the Presidential Jet, and I’d not give you much for the cacklers ascent to the Presidency.
That is just silly. Curdling milk on the other hand…
A lot if discussion on twitter about the cringeworthy Australian ‘break dancer’.
She’s a 36 year old gender studies type Sydney based university lecturer who seems to have had an agenda.
And exactly the demographic that shouts break Dancer.
I’m not sure the dumbocrats have thought this whole waltz thing out properly. Given he’s a bland fat white middle aged collectivist mediocrity and massive fatal coronary waiting to happen, it’s inevitable that all he’ll simply do is make the cackling kamel look like even more of a sideshow alley freak than she already is.
As for the raygun, if she didn’t exist, satirists would have had to invent her. Evidently, she should be grateful she wasn’t awarded a negative score.
Also many many accounts pointing out that a male Muslim would never touch an unrelated female Muslim, let alone hoist them up for a shoulder ride.
Context?
the algerian boxer
The Algerians are Berber. Their on-ground interpretation of Islam is full of this stuff. The Europeans go there for holidays with local ‘boys’.
That’s too cryptic for me
OK – sorry Rosie. This is not a regular Muslim thing. Islam of the boy/girl mix only concerns procreating in a tribal society. The Berber are famous for boys being used as girls ( to put it delicately) so the boxer being a boy/girl is no big deal to the Algerians ( or anyone from the Maghreb).
They would see regarding the boxer as a man as discrimination against the Algerians by the West.
I remember rare occasions when Tharunka was entertaining one being an article where ‘cold toast eaters’ were defended a Macquarie Uni don. I once read a Macquarie Uni Handbook (before the internet had taken off) and it was like a spoof- ‘gender and power’ sort of shite. A poisonous sapphic coven if ever there was one. The worst.
right … I’m calling it …
Iran will get nukes by colonizing the British isles
and Keir Starmer will hand over the launch codes along with a note from his mum
Does Raygun have pronouns?
So the filthy French have wrecked the Olympics.
The only surprise there is they didn’t include their national pass time as an event.
Which is a shame, because Australia might have been a medal contender in pimping. Unless Russia was in the games.
Cassie of Sydney
August 11, 2024 2:33 pm
I wonder if he sounds like Norman Finkelstein as well?
You know? Like a castrated ferret.
“Like a castrated ferret” – quite an apt comparison!
LOL.
I think you’re confusing mind reading with Tourettes.
Where have I argued they want to close down relations? Still, the idea that the US would just give up those bases without penalising the Phillipines, same is true of Korea or Japan, is pure fantasy. Do you see them giving up their bases in Iraq even though the Parliament has told them to leave? Do you see them leaving Syria even though they were never invited? No, and, no. They are not going to just up and leave areas that enable them to project their power globally without resistance.
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None of those countries dominates politics as the US does for the West so there would be no reason to.
I know, we might even be imprisoned for retweeting.
Roger and I were talking about Australia’s potential enemies since WW2. I was suggesting that Australia was capable of defending its approaches from potential peer enemies
Not that Australia was capable of defending its own shores in WWII.
This was a nation that did not have a single Spitfire or Hurricane flying in its defence when the Japanese arrived.
This was a nation that saw clearly marked enemy aircraft overfly its major cities of Sydney and Melbourne to survey the target area – and did not fire a shot in response.
This was a nation that saw ships sunk off its shores by the score by enemy submarines, and sank a meagre four in response.
Not to mention post WWII, which was the topic under discussion.
We’ve never in our history been prepared to independently defend our nation, which fact Keating overlooks in his recent remarks, which otherwise have some value in prompting a discussion about our best future defence policy in light of our national interest.
we were better prepared in WW1
Because we had men who could be turned into soldiers.
Look at the material we would need to use these days.
John Pike describes how some French senior officers must have had a damnfine war, indeed – alcohol at breakfast, wine at lunch, followed by a siesta, and an exclusive, high class sporting house, for senior officers only, close handy…..
At the risk of getting carted off by two-tier Keir: only loser surfers, skateboarders and probably break dancers would be seen dead at the Olympics. Skaters and (proper) surfers despise the commercialisation of both sports. The Torquay surfer robber barons have a lot to answer for. Hope I haven’t committed a crime Keir. But how would you know?
The Olympics are really no worse than the WSL. Surfing has been trying to deal with this since the 70s.
You would imagine, given the U.K. government resources likely being devoted to tracking Mr. Tommy Robinson (phone & email interception, ‘strangers’ approaching him trying to provoke a certain response (which will be recorded), and confidants leaned on heavily), that if the bloke was as evil as claimed, there’d be selective grubbermint leaks and a solid legal case built by now.
Problem is they are at the moment creating thousands of his clones and likely worse than him or the EDL.
They are making a rod for their own backs.
Tommy Robinson escaped, first to Cyprus, then to a destination…elsewhere.
He’s the new Pimpernel.