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Australian taxpayers in the grips of a cost of living crisis have been left fuming after learning Olympic breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn received government funding to study the artform.
Raygun’s failed routine at the 2024 Paris Olympics has been pilloried after she failed to score a single point and was mocked globally on social media.
The Sydneysider took up the sport in 2012 and obtained a PhD in ‘breaking culture’ prior to her highly ridiculed routine at the Games.
Raygun is a lecturer at Sydney’s Macquarie University in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature.
Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick quoted Raygun’s official Macquarie University profile in a Facebook post after she went viral, pointing out that she received taxpayer subsidies to study breakdancing at the institution.
‘Lots of discussion about the Australian breakdancing representative at the Olympics,’ Senator Rennick posted.
‘I’m more interested in her actual profession. She attended Macquarie University for her bachelor’s degree in contemporary music, graduating in 2009, and for her PhD in cultural studies, graduating in 2017.
Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn (pictured) has been competing in breaking since 2012 and holds a PhD on the topic from Macquarie University
Gunn received widespread criticism for her breaking routine at the Olympics and became a worldwide viral sensation
‘Raygun’s PhD thesis focused on ‘the intersection of gender and Sydney’s breaking culture’ … her publications include:
The ‘systems of relay’ in doing cultural studies: experimenting with the ‘Body without Organs’ in b-girling practice
Nocturnal Paradox: How Breakdancing Reveals the Potentials of the Night
Where the #bgirls at? politics of (in)visibility in breaking culture
‘In the same way breakdancing doesn’t belong in the Olympics it’s fair to say taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidising Universities to study or teach it,’ he continued.
‘Nothing against break dancing by the way. By all means it’s a fair recreational activity, but that’s it. It shouldn’t be subsidised.
‘It also begs the question – just how many obscure and pointless courses do Universities offer that are subsidised by the taxpayer?
‘It also goes to show just because you have a PhD in something doesn’t mean you are any good at it.’
Daily Mail
For chuck’s steak, there are veterans, in this part of the world, living in a shipping container, a tent, and their cars….
100% correct.
@robinmonotti
@SimonElmer2022
Just watched Firebrand, the new movie about Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife.
Beautifully filmed, and the lighting designer is worthy of an Oscar. But don’t bother with the rest (spoiler alert)…
Of course there have to be a few black people in it, but the worst feature is the manipulation of history. Katherine is of course a feminist/Marxist type. In the end due to Bishop Gardiner’s plotting she is locked up in the Tower (didn’t happen), but is out in time to help Henry’s death along. Which also is totally without foundation.
I simply cannot stand this deliberate distortion of history. It make me physically sick, like having a black actress play Anne Boleyn and Queen Charlotte, the long suffering wife of George III. I want to throw bricks at the television.
Hear this, there were no black people at Henry’s court, NADA, ZILCH, NONE. There were one or two Marrano Jews. There are no historical records to say there were black people, such a person would have stood out like a sore thumb.
As for Katherine Parr being a feminist/Marxist….LOL. She married Henry when she actually wanted to marry Thomas Seymour (Jane’s brother). Katherine wanted more than anything to be a traditional wife and have children. Thomas and Seymour and Katherine Parr were in love but Henry wanted her, because he wanted a woman to look after him. She was considered safe, except whilst not a feminist (there was no such), rather she was into what Henry, Gardiner and Norfolk regarded as suspect and dodgy “religious reform’.
She didn’t help Henry’s death along, she nursed him.
I will not watch such garbage.
Cassie: I agree with you about the current fad in Britain for having black or coloured actors and actresses playing historical figures who were white. The first instance that I remember was in a docu-drama, produced about ten years ago on the Norman conquest of 1066, when one of Duke William’s staffers was played by a black African. At that time there were NO blacks in France or England, and certainly none who was working for William. In more recent years it has become a fetish, as you say, it is ridiculous to have Anne Boleyn played by a black actress.
Some academics claim that there was a black presence in England as far back as Tudor times, for instance see Gretchen Gerzina, an American black professor of English literature, in her book Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History (1995, revised edition 2022). She quotes a fair amount of evidence, but I contend that she is exaggerating the size of the black population.
@MikeBenzCyber
Notice how the UK police don’t ask you to consider whether the info is actually true — just whether it’s a good guy or a bad guy you’re retweeting
But you don’t know if the info is actually true. That’s why you’re relying on some other party to bring you news (tv, mainstream web, twitter etc).
There’s also confirmation bias where you’ll go back to (follow) sources that confirmed your suspicions regardless of truth.
The police advice is hardly much better. They assume you have become familiar enough with an account to judge their motives and credibility before deciding whether to trust them about a post. Without that vetting phase determining the poster’s intent borders on mind-reading.
There just is no perfect answer here. In essence there is a breakdown in the chain of trust of messengers with no easy way to rebuild it. There is also frequently a vacuum of information which is filled by bad actors because the nominally good actors refuse to fill it or arrive too late.
Good tribe. Bad tribe. Simple.
@mirandadevine
Unreal. Rats.
Anne Aly (PhD) is another useful rube, lecturer in the “Literature” of… deconstructing Islamic extremism, which of course is concentrated on right-wing nabobs.
¡Afuera!
@MikeBenzCyber
@MikeBenzCyber
@BGatesIsaPyscho
Britain in 2026 this shit is real.
I really despise the pommy establishment- again I where’s the ‘king’?
The Gimp is becoming increasingly hysterical. He has taken to bombing Melbourne with “Harris 2024” leaflets hoping to sway opinion the cackler’s way. The fact that we can’t vote in US elections matters not to the Gimp.
Here is the latest NPC leaflet.
U.K. Riots – Why I Left For BETTER Life In Russia
If it wasn’t for their awful weather, I’d be tempted. He makes a very good and interesting case.
105-Year-Old Poem Describes EXACTLY Where the World Is Today
Thanks for that, Indolent – though I couldn’t stand the narrator’s explanations and went to the text instead. Have always loved Kipling and his insights were truer than most. No wonder the woke can’t abide him.
Lay down Sally makes way for net zero Raygun
My response to Blackball’s 4:14pm post:
Note the lack of adjectives such as ‘unprovoked’. Not even the garden-variety ‘controversial.’
Mysteriously, ambiguously ‘left’ people dead.
Again, a large number of whom were unarmed citizens, including foreigners. Aside from Israeli efforts, there has been a deeply disturbing conspicuous silence from other major governments and international organisations regarding the fate and wellbeing of these hostages. The media, by and large, has assigned these hostages – of whom an unknown number have been subsequently murdered – a value considerably less than the average Gazan terrozen (terrorist-citizen).
I will continue stating this until people scream into their Weetbix for me to stop: The majority of the legacy/dinosaur media are willing enablers and active supporters of/for these h@m@nimals. They are international proxies and should be seen as … hmmm, I need to watch my language here, don’t I?
These media enablers/proxies are NOT the neutral observers they claim to be. Their deceit by either omission or commission contributes measurably to the overall aims of the subhuman vermin. Without this support network, the crisis would have remained largely local or regional.
The self-professed ‘gatekeepers’ have benefited enormously from this human misery and trauma; psychopaths live and breath among us, smug in the knowledge we won’t identify them as what they truly are.
Excellent article in Conservative Woman (see Johanna’s comment mentioning it at 5pm) on Ozempic, the new weight-loss drug so popular these days. It is restricted to pre-diabetic and diabetic people but is sought after and often prescribed for simple weight loss without diabetes or anything incipient. I think it is a series of class action lawsuits in the making – they have already started.
Most drugs have problems and Ozempic may be ok for some people who are very obese, but its problems are too many for comfort or wide use. They include gastrointestinal disorders causing nausea or constipation, gallstones, pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer risks, thyroid cancer risks, diabetic retinopathy, loss of sexual function, psychiatric depression and suicidal ideation, loss of lean muscle mass as well as fat (bad for the elderly) and general dehydration. OK, some of these things are exacerbated by full blown diabetes, and some of these things seem trivial and like many side-effects lists, they don’t affect most people or if they do they are controllable effects.
What is not trivial are those effects that are irreversible, and this is where the lawsuits are beginning. Number one is due to the way Ozempic works, i.e. it removes insulin spikes and slows up digestive processes while removing appetite – all good you may think. But, a major irreversible effect is that Ozempic can cause a gastroparesis (stomach paralysis, also called ‘frozen’ stomach) where the stomach will never again empty properly and thus it will cause dietary problems for life, requiring surgical intervention and in some cases causing death. Another irreversible effect is optic nerve damage, which can cause blindness. You don’t have to be diabetic to get this.
This game is not worth the candle. Do not take this drug unless your obesity is so bad you will die from that first.
Try a glucose-limited carb-limited diet instead. Spend the money on steak (red meats and chicken) and salads and some fruits and other vegies. Good results are obtained by a sensible diabetic diet limiting carbs.
Bowel obstructions can also be part and parcel of the slowing down digestive processes, a slow down which everyone gets on Ozempic to some extent.
Johanna is right re that article – that it recognises only lightly the problems with Ozempic, neglects other weight loss measures, and doesn’t do much searching re the deleterious effects and Ozempic lawsuits that are now on the way.
I continue to lose weight from 110kg down to 97.8 this morning by cutting down on bread. 2 slices home made bread/day is the limit.
It works.
*shrug*
97.3kg today.
‘Zero points on purpose’: Megan Davis slams Raygun’s Olympic displayMohammad Alfares
2 hours ago.
Updated 1 hours ago
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Megan Davis, right, has slammed Raygun’s performance in Paris.
Indigenous leader and sports administrator Megan Davis has blasted viral Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachel Gunn as a “disgrace” and claimed she got “zero points on purpose”.
Dr Gunn became an internet sensation over the weekend for her bizarre performance in Paris as Australia’s representative in the divisive breaking category.
Professor Davis – an NRL commissioner and a key architect of the Uluru Statement from the Heart – said the attempt by her academic fellow was a “disgrace”.
“Getting zero points on purpose in three rounds for an academic study subsidised by the taxpayer both at a university and Olympic level isn’t funny and isn’t ‘having a go’,” Dr Davis said on social media. “(It’s) disrespectful to other competitors.
“I’m glad most Aussies aren’t buying the Kool-Aid.
Can we see Megan Davis breakdancing?
Talking about movies. There’s a really good French movie on Prime called The Wrong Victim. Without going into much detail, it’s about a rape and a murder and how the two crimes are intertwined.
French criminal law is very interesting. A judge also acts as the prosecutor.
Battle of the Doctors for doctors they are
Liz, there was a report on the drug this morning, on a podcast. It’s supposed to increase libido, especially for octogenarians. True.
Good Lord, JC. You would have me on it and poor old Hairy would suffer even more than now from my importunings. You naughty lad. 🙂
It does nothing of the sort, btw. Quite the opposite, as my outline of Ozempic above says. Just for those who might believe JC.
John Pike’s book tells the story of one Herbert Bleyer – veteran of Stalingrad, with the German Army, served with the Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu, wounded three times during the final fighting at the hill strong points, and was spared the death marches and the P.O.W. camps by being one of those repatriated from the battlefield after the French surrender..
Herbert Bleyer supposedly with Grossdeutschland at Stalingrad? Grossdeutschland was thoroughly involved in the Rzhev Salient and didn’t take part in either the assault or the relief attempt.
re: https://nitter.poast.org/XSpaces/status/1822813953942040585#m
The conversation between Trump and Musk is at 10am AEST tomorrow, supposedly on twitter on @realDonaldTrump account.
Here’s hoping it is copied to other places where you won’t need a twitter account to watch it.
Drive-by post. Apologies if you’ve already seen it.
Elon memes.
We might laugh while we can – we’re next.
Blind Freddie could have seen this coming:
Share hire e-scooters are set to be booted from Melbourne’s CBD following a surge in complaints from city residents and businesses, who called for the scheme to be scrapped.
The Herald Sun understands that Lord Mayor Nick Reece will on Tuesday move an amended motion at a Future Melbourne committee meeting to cancel the contracts with e-scooter providers Lime and Neuron, which operate in the City of Melbourne.
The motion is expected to be carried with the support of a majority of councillors.
Then again, it is Nick Reece who we’re talking about:
Last week, Mr Reece said that while the scheme had been popular in Melbourne, there had also been “serious issues”.
“I admit I was a supporter of the e-scooters when they when first started, but I am fed up with the rule breaking and seeing the scooters strewn all over the city like rubbish, cluttering our footpaths and creating a trip hazard and mobility challenges,” he said on Friday.
“Riders continue to break the law, endangering others and themselves, creating a nuisance on our streets.”
He added: “Most riders do the right thing — but some continue to break the law. They endanger themselves and others by riding on footpaths, riding without helmets, double-dinking and leaving e-scooters thrown across the city like rubbish.”
The comments beneath the Herald-Sun article are amusing.
I found the comment that e- scooters were banned in Holland the most interesting..
The privately owned ones are the real issue. If there are more of them, it means more being charged inside premises. Seeing as people take the cheap, dodgy way out, there will probably be more fires.
At least the public ones are speed limited.
On the subject of the weight loss drug and increased libido. I reckon that’s science in reverse. If a 200 kilo slob loses say 100 kilos by using the weight loss drug, of course libido should rise. It’s not the drug itself causing the tingle, it’s as a result of the weight loss.
French criminal law is very interesting.
Yep, very different to our criminal law.
Very much so – the notion of the judge being one of the best and brightest, chosen by ability, rather then seniority, and there to discover the truth, rather then umpire between the prosecution and defence, does have a certain appeal.
The accuser has to face the accused in the Judges chambers first, then in open court if the Judge thinks there is enough evidence.
Share hire e-scooters are set to be booted from Melbourne’s CBD following a surge in complaints from city residents and businesses, who called for the scheme to be scrapped.
They’re dangerous. A few months ago, I nearly got knocked over by a share bike.
“Can we see Megan Davis breakdancing?”
Why?
She’s absolutely on the money that Gunn deliberately performed a rubbish routine.
Have a look at her winning a local competition.
Still rubbish but not as rubbish as Paris.
Further to Tudor England and ‘blacks’, almost two years ago I saw a very good Danish movie called Margrete, Queen of the North. It was based on a true story, about Denmark’s last Queen to reign in her own right in the early 1400s. Her reign was marked by considerable bloodshed, war and succession turbulence, and after her reign ended Denmark then introduced salic law which remained in place for the next six hundred years, until the 1950s when the law was finally changed so Fred’s mum (and our Mary’s mother-in-law) Queen Margrethe could ascend the throne in her own right (she was one of three sisters born to King Frederick).
I love history, and this historical film was truly excellent. What was even more excellent was that the script writers, director and producers etc did not play with history to suit modern wank tastes. They didn’t woke wash the film, there were no black actors used because it would have been ridiculous, ludicrous and grotesque. Medieval records, particularly royal, aristocratic and church records, actually provide us with some deep and penetrating insights into the medieval world. I can assure all there were no black men and women in medieval 1400s Denmark nor were there any black people in Tudor England.
Cassie: see my comment on your post (7.15 p.m.)
Just seen it, thanks Arthur.
It was more like a weird interpretive dance.
Comrade Montgomery is an educated person and thus knows of such things, he can tell us what it was about.
JC watch Spiral series on SBS on demand. Cop and French legal system on display. We loved it.
The first series was brilliant, But a decline set in.
Yeah Ranga. It was a really good series. We really liked it.
I think it was also a BBC coproduction with the Frogs.
They also had the frog personality trait to a T. Out of 10, frogs can go from zero to 15 if they anger. There’s no in-between.
It’s not just putting black people into situations where they never were, it’s inserting modern woke ideas into historical situations. I wrote here recently on giving up on the movie Lady Jane for that reason. Lady Jane Grey and her husband were depicted as campaigners for more dosh for the peasants etc.
Then again that was a 1986 movie, so before the Woke period was supposedly upon us.
But not before the ‘arts sector’ was irretrievably leftist in its sympathies.
Just keep well away from what they’ve done to Jane Austin’s ‘Persuasion’. Black, rom-com woke.
Andrew Lawrence has just uploaded this….
Message from the Archbishop of Sanctimony…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLchhyYRO3Y
Cassie of Sydney
Share hire e-scooters are set to be booted from Melbourne’s CBD following a surge in complaints from city residents and businesses……
They’re dangerous. A few months ago, I nearly got knocked over by a share bike.
I’ve mentioned on the Cat previously that I own/use an e-scooter and regret to confirm that many ‘casual’ riders of the rental scoters, in particular, are a menace. I think scooters have a place in the broader context of personal transportation but the current free-for-all doesn’t work.
Sooner or later, I won’t be surprised if other cities follow suit.
Paris banned e scooters last September.
Rosie
August 12, 2024 9:22 pm
And, more to the point, Davis knows that there are scores of black kids who would have smashed it out of the park but got excluded because they didn’t know their way around the Olympic selection scam.
A scam that Gunn was a part of.
Gunn actually drank her own bathwater to the point where she thought she would meet with universal acclaim for her bunny hop routine.
However, she made a massive miscalculation and she is now going to cop the “cultural misappropriation” whack.
“but got excluded because they didn’t know their way around the Olympic selection scam”
Exactly
She went so far as to include the ‘sprinkler’ in her routine, that’s how far her up yours went.
Great description of what that bastard starmer and the other relites are doing in Britain:
Dhimmi Britain Sinks into Authoritarianism, Death to Free Speech
They are doing this for 3 reasons:
1 The left have classified muzzies as downtrodden victims so they must get special treatment to prove the lefties are virtuous
2 The muzzies are vote herds for the left. But we see the folly of this in tony burqa’s seat where a muzzie dr is now running against him
3 They are scared of muzzies:
And, more to the point, Davis knows that there are scores of black kids who would have smashed it out of the park but got excluded because they didn’t know their way around the Olympic selection scam.
A scam that Gunn was a part of.
100%.
Nicholas Reece …
No shit, Sherlock?
This is about the third incarnation of similar schemes in Melbourne, and all have ended in disaster. A lot of bikes/scooters ended up in trees or the Yarra.
This latest round was the brain-fart of former Mayor Sally Capp. Reece sees it as a good chance to break from the stupidity of Capp. But more likely the scooter companies are losing money and want to withdraw.
It is interesting that left wing governments love regulating everything to death but when it comes to ideas they want to push (e.g. scooters, injecting rooms), the regulatory process is out the window.
They call it a trial (like they have an open mind) which apparently gives them cover to ignore existing laws, design rules, local by-laws, whatever.
Every time I come across one laying on the footpath, I trip on it and unfortunately the scooter invariably suffers damage.
When I was about 30, I got sick of kids just dropping their bikes in front of a particular shop in a small shopping centre in Brisbane. One day I just started picking them up and throwing them off the footpath into the parking area. Then a couple of others started helping.
The kids got the message.
Everything on my Irish list to do now done.
Finally managed to tick off seeing forty something year old bald man with Downs syndrome, sporting a nose ring and wearing a long skirt and blouse.
And another thing, Irish female drug addicts look exactly like the ones that used to hang around near my shop, even down to the hair tree up on the top of their heads.
“Who Elected YOU Boss of This Outfit?”
Someone else is having my nightmare:
The Wider Middle East War That Only Hamas Wants
Indolent, Iran wants a wider ME war – it just doesn’t want the killing of its leaders and destruction of its infrastructure that such a move will cost them.
The rest is pretty much spot on.
Mark Steyn
Bullet Points
Victor Davis Hanson
Our Three Silent Mice
@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING – An 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman have been stabbed in London’s Leicester Square, police say
From 2021
@LozzaFox
Prophets exist.
Elon Musk meme
New York Post cover
Stabbing in Leicester square. Police not given out details of arrested person. Choices :
Somebody who knew the victims ie. Some sort of domestic violence.
Or total stranger.
Police saying not terrorist but if known or unknown to victims they should say so.
I am going with culprit is person of colour as of was white would have said so.
“A witness, who performs as Darth Vader, said he saw a young, white, skinny male dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans putting the girl in a headlock and stabbing her.”
Thanks for that Rosie. Daily Mail when I looked had no details on culprit.
Stevo is the fourth owner of Cash.
Drop his leash, no problem.
—-
Woof Bark Growl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ere5yTxx6OM
Nothing a few months in a Russian prison won’t cure.
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1822738530189123735?t=DqDEaTMsj6c2j9drTF7L1A&s=19
Leicester Square attacker is reported to be an East European.
Video of Plod slapping the bracelets on him would support him being white race, lean, straight hair, albeit cropped.
Another Monet.
Beautiful. I couldn’t even draw one of the tiles on the floor. It reminds me of every old grandma kitchen on a farm, that I’ve ever seen.
Another screen saver.
Pencil it in.
————–
The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The magic material that was so appropriate for the purpose was the form of pure carbon that we call graphite.
It was first discovered in Europe, in Bavaria at the start of the fifteenth century; although the Aztecs had used it as a marker several hundred years earlier.
Initially it was believed to be a form of lead and was called ‘plumbago’ or black lead (hence the ‘plumbers’ who mend our lead water-carrying pipes), a misnomer that still echoes in our talk of pencil ‘leads’.
It was called graphite only in 1789, using the Greek word ‘graphein’ meaning ‘to write’. Pencil is an older word, derived from the Latin ‘pencillus’, meaning ‘little tail’, to describe the small ink brushes used for writing in the Middle Ages.
Conte’s original process for manufacturing pencils involved roasting a mixture of water, clay and graphite in a kiln at 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit before encasing the resulting soft solid in a wooden surround.
The shape of that surround can be square, polygonal or round, depending on the pencil’s intended use — Carpenters don’t want round pencils that are going to roll off the workbench.
The hardness or softness of the final pencil ‘lead’ can be determined by adjusting the relative fractions of clay and graphite in the roasting mixture.
Commercial pencil manufacturers typically market 20 grades of pencil, from the softest, 9B, to the hardest 9H, with the most popular intermediate value, HB, lying midway between H and B. ‘H’ means hard and ‘B’ means black.
The higher the B number, the more graphite gets left on the paper. There is also an ‘F’, or Fine point, which is a hard pencil for writing rather than drawing.
So nearly 24 hours now, and kamikaze helo pilot in Cairns not yet identified…
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Oh dear. Michael Ramirez has J.D. Vance derangement.
You suspected that was only a matter of time.
Clearly he’s always been a registered Democrat. Managed to disguise his partisanship until now. A terminal case of Tangerine Terror which he has expanded to cover his running mate.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel. Brilliant.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Tina Norton.
So many memes
https://x.com/Joeinblack/status/1823031185930416188?t=k-gvpkc4NvNUZz0RHckr7w&s=19
The best one yet.
Three white police officers win discrimination claim after judge rules they were unfairly passed over for promotion due to their race
Daily Mail
And that Indolent, is called entryism. A fine Marxist concept which explains why the Police Force in GB is supporting the invader against their own people.
Sam Clench at News displaying his best TDS by trying to nit pick over Walz stolen valour scandal:
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/he-is-a-fraud-new-controversy-erupts-over-military-service-of-kamala-harriss-vice-presidential-nominee/news-story/0a5ed7d8eef5281b5f94d2cd950e718f
Sammy as normal not allowing comments.
First, Europe wasn’t part of the designated Enduring Freedom area of operations. His National Guard unit was sent there to free up an active Army unit to actually go to war. Service in Italy rated him no hostile fire or imminent danger pay. He may as well have been guarding a supply dump in Iowa.
Second, senior Staff NCOs do not carry rifles, they carry sidearms. So he wasn’t carrying the “assault rifle” in question even in his tour in Italy.
Walz is a sacrificial place holder to allow a place for Hillary as the VP, where she will be one heartbeat away from being the President.
If that happens, no one will insure Harris from a tragic fall down the steps of AF1.
(Hey, I like long odds – they often pay off. 🙂 )
Exactly Clench is being cute but that’s his schtick when one of the left is under fire and he passes for a serious journalist here in Oz, no wonder we’re stuffed…
EU Sends Letter To Musk Demanding That X Censor President Trump’s Interview Tonight
Sooo, the EU passes a Digital Services Act and every digital platform has to bow down to them regarding censorship? Yeah, it doesn’t work like that folks.
If they want to grow a ball and try to block X from the EU they better be ready for the backlash from their own people. Then they better send out the Gestapo to round up all the Starlink receivers because those satellites will still be there.
Exactly since I got Starlink I can access overseas sites without a VPN the local carriers have shadow banned.
I just knew that kangaroo-hopping routine was cultural appropriation somehow.
That stupid Raygun woman, eviscerated by the worst possible combination of person – a) female, b) indig and c) a fellow academic (the Hun):
Oho.
That was Professor Davis just clearing her throat.
Whack. Right on the tracksuit.
Whack.
Nailed it, Professor. A perfect 10.
Trougher disparages trougher hopeful from the pinnacle of the trougher podium.
Funny as.
If true, that would seem to indicate that Ozzers and Kiwis suck at break dancing.
In which case we are back to the question of why the powers that be keep spending all this taxpayer dosh on it (both in the Olympics and academia). Is it merely another excuse to funnel funds to the progressive knuckleheads?
Of course it is.
He left out “advertised to only the in-group”; “with an entry fee and little to no prize money” and “over a few days so add the cost of accommodation and travel”.
Shouldn’t that be a “fun Aussie sheila”?
Anyway…Have a nice day!
I’d never heard of Prof Megan Davis before. Whatever she’s said in the past gets a well maybe from me due to being spot on about the World’s Worst Breaking Sad Dancer. I’d like to know is Interpretive Breaking Sad Dancing a hands on thing so even the blind can get to laugh at someone else’s misfortune. I’d like to apologise to the blind in the manner of the Scottish Police Commissioer apologies. Look it up on upyoutube.
Safely ensconced in the Aboriginal Industry. Probably the equivalent of a private sector director with a seat on the Board.
Musk found the perfect meme in response to the EU
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114
I’ll pay back Rayguns flight costs to Paris myself ( fukn chump change) if it means all the grifters of digiknee handouts and NDIS spives give back their fraudulent gains.
Why blame Raygun , look at the criteria for Lympic enterance and if you think the black kids were disadvantaged why aren’t people like Prof Davis going into bat for them.
Prof Megan Davis declares a turf war with Raygun.
The academic grants pie must be getting smaller.
Is Ol’ Joe still alive?
Who knows? Who cares? Barry and Jill will take it from here.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
“An Irish lady walks the surrounding woodlands of Thornton Hall and is aggressively approached by two physically imposing foreign males who ask her where she is from and demand she leave the area.”
These men aren’t migrants – they’re soldiers. It’s an invasion. And the British government supports it.
So the question remains – are there many of these little encampments in Ireland?
And where else? In Australia?
And how did they get there. Yes, they probably flew in via commercial airlines, on student visas.
See how easy it is?
Possibly not Gez. Here’s Davis’ grants, from her Sydney University bio:
A leading advocate of Teh Voice where she would have commanded top billing at the table of 20 Aboriginal ‘advisors’.
Not having read these papers of which she and other people received great sums of money to do, I can only assume but would government act on what was written? If so, I think what would be in those papers, particularly to incarceration of sex offenders written close to a decade ago, would be littered with hand patting approaches to them.
Davis might be spot on about Ms Gunn (let’s not use RayGun, only giving her more gravitas) but don’t get too excited.
Cairns Airport CEO – “We have conducted a review this morning and initial findings show there has been no compromise of the airport security program or processes”.
…. other than a missing helicopter?
“Not my problem.” As someone who generally got whatever issue didn’t fit nicely into any one else’s job description, a very satisfactory outcome.
Then again that was a 1986 movie, so before the Woke period was supposedly upon us.
TE, “woke” has been around a lot longer than that. Late 1960s and really got going in the 1970’s.
For example, Murdoch University in Perth got going in 1975. The Humanities department was called ” The School of Social Inquiry”.
Whn you read these sort of gummint “economy” stories I wonder how many folk, actual voters, are aware the your average, very average, Oz politicians get a minimum of $250 a day, tax free allowances/freebies 365 dayz a year add to that the “joke” $310 a night sleep-over allowance and that’s not adding in all the extras for additional to electorate lerks on, two bob watch, commitees or “assisting” ministers ……. You start to realise why there are NO poor pollies when their retirement rort/jerbs fer the boyz turn comes around .. Their entire time in Parliament comes down to NOT having to put their own hands in their pockets … to get thru a normal day ……! https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/rubbish-lambie-s-cost-of-living-spray/ar-AA1oGcIE?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=f3d54b726b7c49d3b35c2fe95ca0077c&ei=23
Maybe should be tied to the OAP. The same amount. Costs on receipt of payment as per ATO.
I unequivocally withdraw my previous comment about Prof Megan Davis. Yes she was right about Gunnnñ. Wrong about everything else. I’m sorry, does anyone have ammo for a Webley. I seem to have run out after all the previous times I’ve been wrong.
Ranga the Grey,
Breaking Sad was named “Sportsperson of the year”, last June by Pedestrian Magazine. Very appropriate.
The Pirate also loves her. If nothing else gives you the “kiss of death”, Pirate Pete’s adoration will.
Don’t sweat it, GRR.
It takes courage to make a stand, and quite often the people who laugh at our mistakes have never made a stand for something in their entire pathetic lives.
Webley ammo? Sorry only got shotty or .308.
First they came for Tommy Robinson, and people shrugged their shoulders and looked the other way.
Then they came for Katie Hopkins, and people shrugged their shoulders and looked the other way.
Now they’re coming for Nigel Farage, Matt Goodwin, Mahyar Tousi, Douglas Murray, Lozza Fox, Calvin Robinson, Dan Wootton, Carl Benjamin, Leo Kearse, Andrew Doyle, David Starkey, Peter Whittle, Emma Webb, Neil Oliver, Rafe Heydel Mankoo, Patrick Christys, Andy Ngo, Richard Tice, Mark Dolan, Amy Gallagher, Dr Philip Kiszely and many, many others.
And next? They’ll come for you and me
One of my favourite UK commentators is Professor Matt Goodwin. I subscribe to his substack. He uploaded this a few hours ago…..
Matt Goodwin
I need to clarify a few things about my work
In recent days, a combination of left-wing journalists and disgruntled left-wing former colleagues have been trying to imply I’ve been forced out of academic life because of my political views
This is completely false
They are bad actors
The truth is that my university, the University of Kent, like many other universities, is massively in debt, and has been for a while
It has been shutting courses and offering academics voluntary severance to cut costs
About 50 – 100 academics have taken this
I am one of them
The deal was negotiated about six months ago. It has nothing to do with my political views or recent events
The two are being linked by shoddy, resentful, and politically-motivated journalists like James Ball, who did not bother to call me to confirm basic facts …
.. and disgruntled, left-wing, former academic colleagues, many of whom I have not socialised with for more than a decade and who, as is instantly obvious on here, resent my success and/or oppose my politics
Personally, I don’t feel like I need to justify myself but after multiple academic books with Oxford, Cambridge, dozens of articles, awards, grants, a professorship at 33, two Sunday Times bestselling books, I feel like I’ve done all the things I wanted to do
For me, after 20 years of studying and teaching in the legacy universities, the time was right to take the money
Life is short. I am 42. I want to do something else.
So, for now, I am Honorary Professor at Kent and write the 2nd biggest Substack in the UK and the 5th biggest politics Substack in the world (http://mattgoodwin.org)
I am delighted this is giving voice to many people who feel they’ve been shut out of the national conversation and the legacy institutions.
I will never stop speaking for them
I will be announcing other (academic) affiliations and projects next month, which are all very exciting
Lastly, if visibly bitter, resentful, and typically unsuccessful academics and journalists want to frame this as something it is not then, well, good luck to you
I wish you the best
Matt
Some people on the right, even here, refuse to acknowledge just how unrelenting the left are and instead prefer to tiptoe around so as to not make ripples and waves. They refuse to understand that the left will not stop until people like us are cancelled, silenced and destroyed.
So, it is time for us to be as unrelenting, it is time for us to stand up, it is time for us to make not just waves but…….tsunamis.
Subscribed to Mr Goodwins Substack. Interesting site. His article on what the Brits are REALLY thinking is quite revelatory.
Thanks Cassie.
I understand it very well.
Also a fan of, and subscriber to, Matt Goodwin’s substack. Great response to the pathetic never-weres* that delight in attacking those who outshine them intellectually and make them look like the morons they are.
The new Australian nonsense strategy is out.
Australian science strategy centres on defence, Indigenous knowledge (Paywallian)
If those are the headline objectives I hate to think what the rest of this tome says.
This is the text of a tweet from an account called Autism Capital.
If verified, Ms Gunn should be fired.
Sydney Morning Herald added context at the bottom saying that the Gunn’s didn’t found the breaking association, rather someone called Lowe Napalan.
I’d be checking, considering Peter FitzSimian was effusive in his praise for this non performance by Ms Gunn.
Excellent detective work BB!
Now lets see the accountant’s version of this farce. How much has her break dancing scam cost the taxpayer, and who kept authorizing it?
WOW!!!
Great find, thanks.
Pogria it was Ace Of Spades who linked it. I thought you might have beat me to the punch lol
Correct.
Australia is the scams capital of the world.
This fat-arsed academic is a scammer.
What else has she stolen or misappropriated from its rightful owner?
BTW, excellent detective work by Black Ball.
I think Raygun lost to generate material to publish to keep her on the academic gravy train. Plus whitey bad.
I think its pretty obvious by now that Fitz has become a paid shill.
Surprised?
Australia does legalised corruption so well.
The whole thing stinks, so who authorised the payments from City of Sydney council?
B-girl Ray Gunnn for sure, from now ’til her epitaph.
We have an obligation- nay, responsibility- to refer to everyone by their most ridiculous handle, and if it’s self-inflicted, all the better.
Also I’ll remind the reader that Davis’ official title is “Auntie Professor Davis”, although “Professor Davis, Auntie Megan” is also apcceptable in written correspondence.
Starting to see it?
Oh yes, and I think many of us suspected similar. Sometimes stuff stinks before it even starts to smell.
I’d love Chris Lilley to do a sketch on ‘Raygun’.
That would be exquisite
And I’d love to see Sir Leslie Colin Paterson do a lazarus and pass comment.
May have done it a long time ago Cassie
Thank you, BB. Absolutely wonderful. Mr. Gee in action, Raygun will never be able to surpass this professional.
The new sport to be included at the Brissie games is that Aussie favourite ” Budgie Smuggling”. The French polevaulter has already been awarded the gold.
If you navigate around this site, you will find that Lowe Napalan is president of the organisation. Doesn’t say who founded it
They helpfully provide rankings which Ms Gunn finished top of the pops once in the last 3 years and not anywhere for this year in the top 15.
Obviously training (stifle your laughter) for Paris. But I would have thought still competing against the best is the best training. Not unlike the swimmers who qualify only a couple of weeks before the main gig.
Something isn’t right.
Wow, the left must be REALLY concerned about the Musk/Trump interview coming on soon.
The sic-ed the EU on Musk and now a White House reporter asks:
That would be NONE you jackbooted Stalinist propaganda stenographer.
Meanwhile, in Airstrip One.
At this point it might be easier to list what isn’t
grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
?
Britain continues to polarise itself and the idiots in charge don’t have the wit to understand the consequences of their behaviour.
gatoprediction™ the coming election: cringe vs based
@catturd2
This arsehole needs a heashot to be martyred as an example òf arseholery everywhere.
Two 2024 debut novels currently topping the US summer best seller lists.
Neither of which is about political assassination.
I’d say there’s room for doubt about whatever “it” is.
The only thing it reveals is that Obama is a midwit reader who follows current trends.
Former Immigration Minister Andrew Giles misled to parliament on 15 November when, in response to a question from Dutton, he asserted that all immigration detainees released into the community as a result of the HCA NZYQ decision had bridging visas with strict conditions attached.
Five days previously he had been informed by his department that at least 83 of said detainees did not have bridging visas and were residing in the community as unlawful non-citizens.
The following day, 16 November, Deputy PM Richard Marles repeated the lie in parliament. Presumably he was following Giles’s advice.
Source: The Australian 12 August 2024
Giles should not have been moved to Skills and Training, he should have been sent to the backbench.
Why is he not being censured for misleading Parliament?
The opposition doesn’t have the numbers, although they should try.
@EndWokeness
Same plan. Spot the difference.
The EU threatening Musk.
@ThierryBreton
With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA
As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk
I hope Elon buys Europe and sacks your Fascists arses, you bunch of dickheads.
Another example of old men that look like lesbians.
Rosie
August 12, 2024 10:24 pm
m0nster’s on holidays?
So, it is time for us to be as unrelenting, it is time for us to stand up, it is time for us to make not just waves but…….tsunamis.
“One raindrop might be nothing but no one can stop a wave”
Here’s a nice little anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sooZrJ8f4k
It’s amusing that the fiascos of the “women’s” boxing and the breakdancing have resulted in the collapse of both sports (ok only one is a sport, the other is just weird.)
Two sports set to be axed for next Olympics (News.com.au mainpage headline, 12 Aug)
Great work Olympics people by going woke you just broke one of the longest running sports of the modern Olympic Games.
Reforms would prohibit Youth Parole Board from considering the views of victims of crimeThe Allan government’s controversial Youth Justice Bill is set to explicitly ban victims and their families from having a say over whether young offenders are released on parole
From the Hun.
Shorter Vic Gov statement: “Suck on that, normies.”
I suspect that in a “colour blind” justice system, aboriginals and Sudanese might be 35-40% ? of the prison population.(Occasionally a poorly phrased press release mentions that aboriginals are 10 times over represented in the justice system unfair unfair…)
It is hugely important to Labor and the Aboriginal Industry to bury this inconvenient situation – hence endless bail, “ Koori courts”, non custodial sentences, not guilty as too damaged by Foetal Alcohol Syndrome to realise
what is criminal activity etc,
This is just one more measure to ensure a certain class of crim is not recorded as such – or gets the lightest sentence possible.
Like all good Stalininst, we have to protect the Social Allies, don’t we?
Don’t interfere with our PURGE!
Take your Soma and be mindless.
You complained about the complexity and noise of life;
We made the choice simple for you:
Conform and be accepted.
Dissent and be outlawed.
Love The Parent(TM).
Further Olympic news. Scott Gullan reports on the marathon runner:
So going into the big dance with a plantar fasciitis injury isn’t ideal. But Gullan in partnership with Peter Badel report on Diver’s opinion:
I have left some paragraphs that had no bearing on the tenor of what I believe pertinent to this shitshow.
So you see haterz, wasn’t the foot injury. Those questioning why Diver was included at the expense of Weightman are the real villains of this tale of woe.
Weightman incidentally won the Sunshine Coast half marathon the weekend just gone and had the third fastest qualifying time among the Australian ladies. And a 4 time Olympian.
Er…shouldn’t someone have advised her to stay off social media?
Indeed!
THIS!!!! If the opinions of others wreak havoc on your opinion of yourself, get the f*ck off the platforms.
When I was at school, the victims getting hammered by big-mouth trolls in the playground had to stand their ground, return fire or run out of earshot. Teacher and parent response always began with “Sticks and stones…etc”
The last two generations have had their grit and determination destroyed by an overabundance of participation ribbons.
Skipping by the unfathomable skipping over of Weightman, an experienced athlete would:
Massive failure on the parts of Athletics Australia.
There is something seriously wrong in the selection process of our Olympians.
The best way is to remove the people responsible as they are obviously biased and not worth the money they’re being paid to do the job. Keep the ones who are working, sack the rest.
Exactly old Raygun and now this. I blame Gosper & Coates for building this empire and rarely being scrutinised.
Hopefully someone like Rennick or Antic get a hold of it in Senate estimates.
She wasn’t elected for her public opinions on Gaza or anywhere else outside Oz .. She wa selected to serve the Oz folk on domestic issues ….. FFS! Too many of “our” politicians think their opinions on “everything” are of interest to the rest of us .. They aren’t .. Period ..!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/labor-party-didn-t-want-to-listen-to-fatima-payman-s-opinions-on-gaza/ar-AA1oDZeY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=67c7ede443424d13bef9cc40042596aa&ei=24
Can’t quite believe the level of PAIN I’m going thru over a minor infection..! Yesterday morning a cold sore started forming on my lip by lunchtime it was so large I had to “pop” it .. The, actual, pain level was incredible .. 2 hours of agony and a coupla pain-killers later and down to toothache pain level .. Can’t chew/eat down to sipping soup/water and still taking pain killers .. Lip is about 2 maybe 3 times its normal size and untouchable .. duuuh!
Applied cream but whether it’s doing any good no idea! .. All I can do is dab it on and grit my teeth …..
TV/movie superhero material I definitely ain’t .. LOL!
May be worth going in to the GP to get antibiotics in case it is a bacterial infection.
Tried icing it? Crushed ice in a towel?
Flawless superheroes are unrelatable anyway.
Good luck, mate.
Echo Bruce.
Go see GP.
Double echo – See GP, get oral antivirals if it is a cold sore.
But Bruce is probably right – sounds like a bacterial infection on top of a viral outbreak.
You have my sympathy – fat lot of good it will do, but.
Nurse Bob knows what’s what for humans in need of proper care, mate. Follow his advice. I’ll add my sympathy to his too. Mouth things are painful.
Australian Olympic Committee policy should be to ban social media in the lead up and during the games. Mental preparation is as important as physical.
All of this athletes’ mental health bullshit traces back to the introduction of the AIS. Low average sports grifters and psudo psychs making stuff up to justify thrir unjustified salaries and OS boondoggles.
In the spitit of John Landy – ‘harden up, stop taking yourself so seriously, eat your pie, get out there and f’ken run, or let a true athlete have your slot’.
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that I thought I was living in a Country and Western song… Mum died, sister scammed, robbed, Father-in-Law died. You name it, it happened from mid-March.
I’m now sure of it. Dad died Sunday night… 93. As with Mum, it was short, peaceful and painless. And he now has an eternity to add to those 72 years of marriage.
God Bless, Mark.
thoughts are with you.
Very sorry to hear that, Mark. It doesn’t matter how old they are, their passing brings great sadness.
My sincere condolences, Mark.
WTF these things are only meant to come in threes. Who’d you cross in a previous life.
Condolences anyway.
Condolences, Mark. R.I.P to your father.
Losing a parent, no matter their age, is tough. Condolences to you and your family, Mark.
What can anyone say except condolences? So sorry to hear your news.
Trump is now flying the Lolita Express. He bought Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. You can’t make this stuff up.
I don’t know whether that’s true Monty, seen nothing about it this morning, but Trump has a great nose for an underpriced asset.
It’s true.
So what.
DILLIGAF.
He saw a bargain and grabbed it. Had you passed even Economics 1, you might (even if somewhat vaguely) have grasped the concept.
Or do you think it should have been destroyed?
Thanks for the link Monty. It says the plane was chartered and the campaign didn’t know it was Epstein’s old plane. Trump’s normal plane was down for mechanical problems, so they had to charter one at short notice. So no he hasn’t bought it.
Lots of smearing and insinuation going on in that article, which is par for the MSM.
Luckily he hasn’t scheduled any further campaign events until the Dem convention so it won’t be a problem.
LOL. Only in your feverish mind Monty. Childless Cat Ladies™ with lefty billionaire backing in lefty courts with lefty prosecutors and lefty DAs is not justice, it is tyranny.
Besides I just caught you in a lie. Lift your game son.
Reality has a left-wing bias, it’s true.
Lies are NOT reality.
If it is a lie it isn’t reality. You lied about Trump buying the plane.
He always lies if he sees a lefturd political point to be made.
Hello.
So what, Nazi.
Evidence is you CAN make this stuff up!
How’s the Milko’s kids? Or is it made up.
Lotza angst this morning on “our” ABC relating to the plight of civilians in Southern lebanon as Israel responds to Hezzie rockets .. Of course, its all israel’s fault for not puttung up with the Hezzie “friendly’ overtures……
?Yesterday they (ABC) were bleating on about Gaza casualties and Israel bad for killing civilians & terrorists BUT never any mention, anymore, of casualty figures for Ukraine/Russia ..
?Apparently, Ukraine/Russia a GOOD war so figures acceptable but Israel. Hezzie/Hamas a very BAD war … !
And never, ever, any mention of Israeli casualties from the never ending barrage of rockets from Hamarse and Hezbollocks.
Israel has re-located 60 000 from Northern Israel since October ..
Zatara
August 13, 2024 8:05 am
Cairns Airport CEO – “We have conducted a review this morning and initial findings show there has been no compromise of the airport security program or processes”.
What this probably means is the pilot had a 24 hour access card.
Staffer at Nautilus Aviation, so would have access. Sounds like that person had a big grudge. That or terrorism, though I doubt the latter.
Yes, it would certainly appear that an ASIC card was involved, which is why my suspicions are on a disgruntled employee or flight student.
But the CEO washing his hands of it that way seemed a bit preposterous until they know exactly who the perp was, how they accessed the aircraft, at night, untied/unlocked it, started it up, and flew it away.
All strongly suggestive of insider knowledge and failure of security protocols.
That the person targeted a busy hotel is the key thing. Seems to have been on purpose.
I fixes it !
I think we can assume he’s still on the front bench because:
The R-G-R deadwood still occupying senior Cabinet roles (looking at you Tony Burqa) suggests Albo has not got talent knocking the door down. To see a deadset plodder like Murray Watt on 7:30, at least till you can find the remote, is actually quite disheartening.
Mark from Melbourne
August 13, 2024 9:55 am
Marc sincere condolences, you certainly have sustained a barrage since March, I’m sure you want to see the back of 2024. Kind regards
Some years are better than others, but every year brings changes, inevitable as we ourselves are not immune to the passage of time.
There. Now I sound like Kamala. Forget the passage of time.
Some good scotch and an OD on Fawlty Towers is now due. If that can’t still make you smile, time to see a doc.
Trump’s livestream with Musk on Twitter is not happening. Technical difficulties.
Enemy action you mean.
The Nazi is obsessed.
My son was here earlier this arvo and was playing it to me M0nty, so what are you on about. He has swung from being an unthinking left-winger to the Trump train, as have so many others in his public housing block, so he tells me. Worms are turning.
Gosh, a UK politician blames Israel (translation…..Jews) for the ‘far-right’ riots in the UK over the last two weeks.
Hmm, you might ask, what is the name of this UK politician? You might ask, what is the party affiliation of this UK politician? Well, I can inform you all that it wasn’t Nigel Farage, it wasn’t Lee Anderson, it wasn’t Richard Tice, it wasn’t Tommy Robinson, it wasn’t Lozza Fox, it wasn’t David Starkey, it wasn’t Darren Grimes, it wasn’t Douglas Murray, it wasn’t Leo Kearse, it wasn’t Suella Braverman, it wasn’t Jacob Rees-Mogg, and it wasn’t some very white skinned yob from Rotherham or Southport or Sunderland, NO, NO, NO, the person who made these anti-Semitic comments doesn’t come from the ‘right’ of UK politics or commentary, rather this person who is blaming Israel (code….Jews) for the ‘far-right’ riots in the UK is a UK Labour politician by the name of Clive Lewis.
Let’s wait to see if Mr Lewis is charged for ‘incitement’. I warn you though, don’t hold ya breath!
What’s in a name? A lot I think. Every Clive I’ve ever met is a dead set dropkick. I’ve met more than a few.
Come to think of it they’re all English.
Yeah, they are scared.
Massive DDOS attack on the Musk/Trump interview. Live feed down as of 8:13 US Eastern time.
X is working on getting it cleared.
Hahahaha. As usual, the lefturds oppose the concept of anyone but themselves having freedom of speech (or any other freedoms).
Fascist pigs, and that includes our very own fat fascist fool.
This article about Weirdo Walz by Bloomberg, could have been written by the Gimp.
It is hysterically wrong in every way. 😀
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/12/bloomberg-tim-walzs-traditional-masculine-traits-are-terrifying-to-republicans/
Muscular traits like running away and abandoning your unit just as they’re about to be deployed…
Muscular traits like putting tampon dispensers in the boys’ toilets.
Perfect Gimp traits. 😀
Daytime Sky seem quite pleased that the Trump/Musk interview on X is not going well, having “technical difficulties”, most probably in the form of DDOS attack.
Strangely, in all the years that Joe was President and Kamala was VP, I never heard any of the Daytime Sky people give any inkling that either the Prez or the VP were “not-fully-functional”, which quite obviously they were.
Lord Dover.
With respect, might I suggest that Monty’s 10:23 a.m. reply to his own 9:57 a.m. comment be reviewed as potentially edging toward bringing the blog into disrepute? (Yes, that’s my long-winded way of saying ‘Could this be potentially defamatory?’).
A court has ruled that Trump committed a rape. Truth is a defence.
You went beyond that ruling.
This is a privately-owned blog subject to new ‘online safety’ laws.
Fatso could also post the comment on his own blog, to demonstrate his confidence.
Show me the specific law I have broken, Muddy.
Did I give you permission to address me directly?
Repeating a lie over and over won’t make it true.
Trump was found liable for battery, not rape.
Why is the Nazi here?
Because he has no-one else to talk to. Not a friend in the world.
Dickless goes full retard again:
Trump is now flying the Lolita Express. He bought Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. You can’t make this stuff up.
Even the shit rag, the NYT, is not flying with this miasmic vomit:
Trump Flew on Charter Jet Previously Owned by Jeffrey EpsteinA Trump campaign official said that the aircraft was provided by a charter jet service after his own jet had a mechanical failure, and that the campaign had been unaware of the plane’s previous ownership.
Trump Flew on Charter Jet Previously Owned by Jeffrey Epstein – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
So, Trump did NOT buy the plane. It was simply a charter.
The Gimp is becoming increasingly hysterical.
You can smell the fear. Not just the Gimp, also the DemonRats.
According to monster, even charter planes are kiddy fidlers.
Olympic Boxer gold medalist welcomed back to Taiwan:
“Go you good yu-ting!”
703 “migrants” crossed the channel to England on Sunday, a record since Starmer came to office.
Little wonder the Home Office is asking local councils to identify tens of thousands of new beds for these putative asylum seekers.
Meanwhile, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has scrapped Tory plans to prioritise long term British residents over recent migrants on social housing wait lists.
Showing the indigenous where Labour places them on the social priority list. Riiiiight down the bottom.
Also known as a Battalion.
The Trump livestream on X is now underway, finally. They are faffing on and on and on about immigrants. Yawn.
Haha. The immigrant invasion in UK, US and Australia is the left’s key to eternal political power.
No wonder their useful idiots online hate anyone pointing that out.
Musk is doing a Herculean effort to sound less lucid than Trump.
You do it effortlessly.
Phew! Lucky you never faff on about anything.
Trump is the most investigated and examined candidate in history.
The absolute gargantuan stupidity you would need to think that at this point anyone is swayed by random mentions of Epstein and Trump in the same sentence. Colossal idiocy.
Like those thumbnails to every mainstream media Epstein news vid at that time, that always, always, included Trump’s image, even though the content of the vid has nothing about Trump.
It’s called click bait Monty.
And at this point in history everyone over the age of eight knows about it and compensates their viewing to take it into account.
Basically, you are responding to something that relies on children and morons to gain clicks.
He fits into the second category.
So you are saying that everyone knows Trump is a rock spider, but you like him anyway so don’t go on about it?
Yeah nah, there has not been nearly enough attention paid to Trump’s history with Epstein.
The Oberon Class submarines had a service life of about 30 years. The Collins Class are nearing their end of service life, but in view of the uncertainties about the new Nukes, they will need to be progressively refitted and life extended – which they would be anyway given the long lead times for the new ones.
The “opt-out” clause that’s in the news now might indicate that the USA and UK are worried about WW3, and that they will need every sub they can get or hold on to.
Yep – several capital ships were almost complete in British shipyards for South American clients when WW1 started – taken over for the Royal Navy.
They also withheld delivery of a completed warship bought and paid for by Turkey who were neutral at that point.
Germany then leveraged that to sign Turkey on as an ally. Hence, much of the resulting slaughter at Gallipoli was a consequence of English bastardry.
But he has even you listening.
The man is a genius.
The full monty.
Trump chartered/purchased an aeroplane which has previous owners, one of those previous owners was Jeffrey Epstein.
And…………. ???????
Finish the story, please.
Trump is lisping and slurring all over the place. Spittle all over his phone. He should probably stop talking to wipe his mouth, but that would mean Musk talking and he has nothing at all to say.
Exactly the way you sound with your favourite ball gag in your gob.
Kamal-toe stayed in a hotel where the Boston Strangler worked.
This golden arse nugget of dribbling simplicity deserves a thread of its own.
So the FBI, every Democrat prosecutor in the country, the entire mainstream media and all the other three letter agencies, as well as the US congress, the Justice department, after unceasing investigation after unceasing investigation, impeachment and searching the entire world for evidence, including other countries intelligence agencies, have prosecuted the man for… over pricing an asset.
But you know for sure he’s a ped because he was once, among all the thousands of celebrities he has met, photographed with Epstein.
Wow.
Apologies for being a pedant, but it was overvaluing an asset for a loan to an international banking entity that uses independent valuers to assess loan risks including valuations and the loan was paid in full and on time. Until said asset is sold, all valuations, especially the one used by the court to supposedly establish a crime, are pure speculation.
Okay this is just boring. It’s all whining and victimhood by a couple of billionaire dickheads. A snapshot of our Second Gilded Age.
Thankfully, Trump is getting smashed in the polls. Six point swing in three weeks, no signs of slowing down either. The poll averages are out past the point where the Electoral College gerrymander can deliver office to Trump.
LOL, “polls”…
They exist only to justify the steal. It was amusing that N8 found the “polls” accurately reflected the 16 million fake votes Biden received in the 2020 “election”.
LOL, Trump claims bacon has gone up in price by 400% in the last few years, and mentions “shhticker shhhock” with a terrible lisp, like the Twelfth Man as Kenny Callender backing home Shhilver Shhovereign.
Maybe ask some shoppers Monty. There’s a lot of pain out in voterland right now.
Enough of the attacks on those with a speech impediment.
Does this need to be explained yet again?
The President of the United States is not elected by popular vote. He represents the vote of the individual states that make up the United States.
He is elected by electors selected by the states under the rules those states legislate.
The USA has other branches of government that reflect the popular vote. It also has separation of powers.
Reg: He is elected by electors selected by the states under the rules those states legislate.
Stan: Or she.
Reg: Why are you always on about women Stan?
Or she
..
Never happened, and by the grace of God, never will.
Arky at 11.20am on Trump:
Trump has a personality that makes him mesmerising for lefties:
a) He’s an alpha male, which gives him a large ego.
b) He’s exceptionally intelligent, which makes him immune to lefty politics, which is aimed at children.
Because of a) and b), he doesn’t take sh*t from idiots — i.e lefty trolls.
Lefties are used to intimidating people with threats and bullying, which don’t work on Trump.
So lefties are mesmerised by him because they can’t control him.
Trump Derangement Syndrome explained.
Daytime Sky has a story on the importance of forests in absorbing CO2. Where were they when Tony Abbott was advocating forestation as a sensible way to go, as part of a soundly based approach?
The media was simply anti-Abbott.
Scroll the Troll.
Correct
Sancho Panzer
August 13, 2024 11:37 am
Kamal-toe stayed in a hotel where the Boston Strangler worked.
Obuma is rooted by a bloke.
Monty, Epstein is one of your lot. Accept it, move on.
Dickless oozing about polls favouring cackles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSELbFezT8
Summary of the Trump/Elon discussion:
Donald Trump recounts assassination attempt in glitch-marred Elon Musk interview – Washington Times
Killer cop update:
So charges downgraded I assume reading this article.
Obviously it’s not a murder when indeed it was? I’m confused
I think we can assume the cocktail of charges has had the flavour adjusted to improve the likelihood of success, based on available evidence.
Like Chris says, not enough evidence to go straight murder, well it wouldn’t be anyway coz they’re poofters. I reckon if hadn’t been a poofter it would have been murder not DV murder as if there is a difference.
Ah that takes me back, at 13 walking in to the school bog asking my mate what’s a poofter?’ and someone was there to laugh at me.
And age 14 using a public toilet by Perth station, and its got these guys in there and the atmosphere is a bit weird. One of them followed me asking me to come for a drink with him. I said I was underage, he said that doesn’t matter to him. I headed up for Forrest Place because there was usually a cop on foot there, and he bailed.
Trump should have asked for someone other than Musk to do the interview.
Musk comes off as a monorail salesman attempting to cover his bases in case Trump wins.
If Trump doesn’t win, Musk will just as happily continue with the Democrats and building stupid things to mitigate a global warming problem that doesn’t exist.
It’s not the best spectacle, a billionaire carbon scammer floating all his worser ideas like f***ing tunnels to the main candidate. Smells bad.
Just stick with drill baby, drill, Donald.
Musk has that ADHD spergy aspect that makes him a bad fit to interview Trump.
Still, interesting and kind of historic interview.
Musk is the best of a bad lot out of all those tech billionaires, all of whom would happily instigate the same surveillance police state on us that they happily go along with to do business with the CCP.
I’d call Musk a used car salesman except Teslas are worth next to nothing in the secondhand market.
Lucky for Musk there’s a sucker born every minute. He has made his fortune selling lemons to gullible fashion-conscious idiots, so you can see why he feels uneasy about interviewing Trump, who can detect a bullsh*t artist from a mile away (in between attempted assassinations).
Arky, you have not paid much attention to Musk over the last couple of years have you? He’s been severely red pilled.
I doubt he’d still be on the global warming bandwagon if he didn’t have the large investment in the cars now. At that, while electric cars are stupid he’s managed to make them a mass market commodity and producible. Tells you something about how gullible the public are. In fact I haven’t heard him say much about global warming lately. In a mature industry, he’s actually brought great innovation in how to make cars which can be applied to IC ones. He probably realises he made a mistake on global warming but made billions in the meantime. Wish all our mistakes were as successful.
Then there is the unique and magnificent SpaceX. He’s eaten everyone else’s lunch in the space launch business. Compare with ULA, Roscosmos the Euroweenies, the Chinese (who have said even they can’t compete with SpaceX in price) and Jeff Bezos’s hobby space program that he’s spent a billion dollars a year on the 24 years which is yet to launch a single gram into orbit. Have you heard him speak on why he’s going to Mars?
http://www.transterrestrial.com/2024/08/11/elon-evangelizes/
I think most SpaceX employees would share the vision. It is clear that the incomparable Gywnn Shotwell (SpaceXemployee #6 or 7) does. She’s a lesson for all the women who complain about the glass ceiling.
Electric vehicles grift.
”Free speech” grift (if you are a free speech absolutist, why would you partner with the CCP surveillance state to manufacture your grift mobiles?)
Social media platform grift (is it a platform or a publisher- just because you are the best of a bad lot doesn’t let you entirely off the hook of using the loopholes legislated into use of the internet whereby owners of social media tech get to be exempt from liability for slander and obscenity while also censoring public debate).
But having said all that, I think Musk is overall a net positive.
You really are ignorant, willfully so.
Nobody had a gun held to their head to buy an electric car. Turns out there was a market and he filled the demand.
F*ck off idiot.
including $7500 per vehicle.
There was no market for any of this shit you ignoramous.
The wreckage of a Nautilus Aviation helicopter has been removed from the rooftop of a Cairns hotel after an early morning crash that killed the sole occupant of the chopper on Monday.
A number of items have been retrieved from the R44 Robinson helicopter, which will be used to help inform the Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation.
Nautilus Aviation confirmed a camera or go-pro was not fitted to this particular chopper.
The ATSB appealed for any eyewitnesses or people with video or photographs of the helicopter flying prior to the crash, to contact the bureau via their website.
The sole victim of the crash, who is yet to be named by police, was believed to be a current or former employee of Nautilus Aviation with access to the hangar at Cairns Airport.
Nautilus Aviation owner Chris Morris said the company was co-operating with the investigation, and was unable to comment further.
On Monday, chief executive Aaron Finn said all of Nautilus Aviation’s pilots were “safe and accounted for” but was unable to rule out if another employee of the company was responsible.
He revealed the flight was “unplanned and unauthorised” and said it appeared there had been no forced entry to the area in which the helicopter was stored.
A review of the area in question by Cairns Airport also found no compromise of airport security processes.
It remained unclear if the collision with the top floor of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel on the Cairns Esplanade was deliberate or accidental.
The ATSB confirmed the helicopter had flown for just 4 to 5 minutes prior to impact, with witnesses suggesting the flight appeared “low and erratic”.
After taking off from Cairns Airport about 1.48am, the chopper flew over the metropolitan area then out to sea before returning and crashing into the hotel.
Cairns Esplanade is a “no-fly zone” and no flight plan was submitted for the early morning outing.
Locals said it was raining at the time and visibility would likely have been poor.
Authorities remained incredulous that no-one else was killed or badly injured in the incident, with police suggesting it could have had a much worse outcome.
Oz
You idiots. The pilot had a security pass he obviously shouldn’t have had. Security “wasn’t compromised” only arse-covering doublespeak.
Lots of people who work in aviation at Cairns airport do not have a security pass. They come & go unhindered.
The “security wasn’t compromised” is the biggest laugh alright.
Too early to tell.
By that I mean;
The entire Cairns esplanade is high rise hotels. He pretty much couldn’t miss hitting one of them.
Left-wingers are quite emotional when someone makes fun of them or one of their own. They will stop at nothing to punish Trump because of this.
Due to the efforts of Newsom and the Democratic state representatives to devastate California, people are fleeing the state.
Trump summarizing Newsom during the conversation with Musk.
The Monty perspective on the Trump rental:
Seriously, how do you beat this? LOL
He’s such a NY motor mouth.
He once claimed that only Pell and the choir boys knew what really happened in that room after Mass. The evidence shows beyond any doubt that there was no six minute period when they could have been alone in the Sacristy. The idiot has never acknowledged this truth.
Stephen Green has a nice article today addressing the mission yesterday.
SpaceX Ties Another World Record Set by… Yeah, SpaceX (12 Aug)
Twenty two times. And the Starlink mission they launched earlier that same day was a 21 timer. Really is amazing what they’ve managed to do.
I can’t wait for the day they go public and start selling shares.
L.A. Mayor Already Promising to Ruin 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
British Labour MPs Boycott Elon Musk’s X in Protest Against Lack of Censorship
I’m shocked.
Not.
RIGHT ON CUE: Britain’s Crazed Leftists Demand Government Shuts Down X, Prosecute Elon Musk and Even Compare Platform to Nazi Germany
hahaha. They’ll be straight back under assumed names. X is a drug to these morons.
Elon’s next service, free vpn.
Speedbox’s Report from Kislovodsk now on the main page.
Mark from Melbourne
August 13, 2024 9:55 am
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that I thought I was living in a Country and Western song… Mum died, sister scammed, robbed, Father-in-Law died. You name it, it happened from mid-March.
I’m now sure of it. Dad died Sunday night… 93. As with Mum, it was short, peaceful and painless. And he now has an eternity to add to those 72 years of marriage.
Mark, my sympathies. I know this is probably small comfort and will sound trite but I know what you’re going through. I have had a tumultuous year, it began last year with my stepfather’s fall, and his subsequent hospitalisation and then his placement in a nursing home, this was followed by my oldest nephew and his wife losing their unborn child, followed by my mother’s serious health issues, then my brother-in-law’s father passed away (with his own mother placed into care, she has severe dementia), then my mother’s serious fall, her subsequent hospitalisation for 5 weeks, then my stepfather’s death in late June, and now I’m dealing with a grief stricken mother who’s emotionally and physically fragile and who, at times, doesn’t know whether she’s Arthur or Martha, rambling on about things that happened in the mid 1940s and the mid 1960s. Last week my sister and I took her for lunch at a trendy inner-city restaurant, it came on the heels of the Haniyeh assassination by Israel and Mum was babbling on about the killing over lunch, how marvellous it was, how wonderful Israel is, both of which we were in full agreement with but then the corker, she started talking about how handsome Haniyeh was. Whilst I laughed out loud, my sister was not amused, her face went white and she verbally slapped Mum down by saying that if she said similar again she’ll find herself in a nursing home!
But thankfully the wheel of life keeps turning, and after all the bad news we finally had some good news on the weekend when my younger nephew and his wife told us they were expecting a child. The tree of lie keeps growing, as it should, as it must.
Yes, Cassie, thankfully that wheel does indeed keep on turning.
Also, not to be in any way mean, having seen pics of Haniyeh, your Mum lacks, errm, taste.
I often wondered how much his, trademark, “designer ” stubble was costing .Probably, had any “barber” who messed it up up shot ….. as a lesson to les autres .. LOL!
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Mad leftists try and get Douglas Murray sent to JAIL for telling truth about UK’s immigration crisis
They Really Are Shameless
Cassie – it is indeed the wheel of life. Things can trundle along very well, then it all collapses in a heap. The latter almost always involves the health or trials of relatives – & sometimes friends. Our grandchildren have caused us great angst over the last few years. The granddaughter has finally emerged in control of her life and is on top of her game. Grandson is still recovering (emotionally) from the awful attack (bloke now in gaol) which resulted in jaw broken in two places and resultant intricate microsurgery. And so it goes….
When it happens it feels like you’re the only one that it’s happening to. This blog in particular is great in that respect. People we have never met in most occasions virtually holding your hand coz they’ve been in the same place going through similar if not the same thing. My life has changed very recently with more medical issues. They’re nothing in comparison to some here. My wife txts me often as she is taking it worse than me. I say “checking to see if I’m still alive”. She hardly sees a doctor and doesn’t handle medical stuff well at all. I should have looked after myself better and got run over by a bus 40 years ago.
Yep ..! I, occasionally, have that “Why did I give up drinking” way back when feeling ……..!
Yes but you’d be dead and not see your beautiful grandchildren.
Vicki, am so happy things have settled.
Now that is defamatory.
Douglas Murray Gets It Right on Why Things Are Going Wrong in the West | Real Talk
Maybe, maybe not….
https://www.afr.com/world/middle-east/us-ready-for-iran-attack-on-israel-as-soon-as-this-week-20240813-p5k1vu
“our” ABC will be very happy .. they’ve been egging it on for a fortnight & starting to get toey ……!
Poor little petals **rolls eyes**
Sonic booms – the psychological warfare Israel uses to sow fear in Lebanon | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
Poor diddums. Let pali’s into your country and expect something different. Wonder how Northern Israel is fairing after many rocket attacks.
The Beanie is very pessimistic regarding Orange Hitler’s prospects in the face of surging support for The Cackler – which I think is far exaggerated and people are currently responding to the fact she is not Biden.
I think the debates are the key. The MSM can fawn and paw over her as much as they wish (and so they have) but the debates are a testing ground that saw Joe dispatched. She will doubtless be prepped, probably coached on answers to questions that have been quietly slipped to her team, so she may have answers prepared, but Trump will raise issues she is not prepared for. She cannot think on her feet. I suppose she did not advance her career on her feet so why the surprise.
Even if they give her an earpiece she will receive an answer but she will still stumble trying to listen and speak at the same time and garble it – then cackle.
At present she is coasting along with a Praetorian press ringed around her for protection but I think in even the least one-on-one contest with Trump she will disintegrate.
And once again the MSM will be revealed to have been covering for the Democrats rather than informing the people.
Left-wingers are quite emotional when someone makes fun of them or one of their own. They will stop at nothing to punish Trump because of this.
They are remarkably humourless and take ridicule badly. And being accused of “intellectual dishonesty” sends many of them into a rage.
Not the Bee
Brits are setting up “decoy” protests to lure in Islamist counterprotesters that the police then have to deal with
Things are heating up in the UK, and some clever Brits have come up with a new tactic: Setting up fake “far-right” protests to lure in Islamic counter-protesters, causing some heated interactions with police.
…
This week, a large crowd of leftist and Muslim protesters gathered in North Finchley, London, after hearing rumors of a protest against an immigration business. However, when the police arrived, they found no sign of the alleged evil “fascist,” “racist,” and “zionist” protesters.
Instead, they were met with an angry and armed Islamist mob, ready to confront the non-existent threat.
The mob, clearly frustrated that their supposed opponents didn’t show up, ended up taking out their anger on the Metropolitan Police. The officers had to deal with abuse and harassment while trying to manage the chaos, all because of a setup designed to get these Islamist protesters all riled up.
And, I,m Guessin” NO arrests …….. !
Interesting. I am sure the Poms dealt with these situation when they ruled the Empire. After all they had India to contend with: Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Deobandis, Buddhists, Jains…. and that was just the swamp that was Bombay. I guess the two world wars wiped out most of the smart action thinkers.
Musk has that ADHD spergy aspect that makes him a bad fit to interview Trump.
I like him. I didn’t expect to.. and I hate EVs….but Musk just has that weirdness and super intelligence that just could make a difference as this world descends into darkness.
It is one of the more galling postures of the ABC that they take our coin, pose as speaking on behalf of the Australian people and to the benefit of the Australian people, yet all their ‘news’ on YouTube has the comments turned off – protecting them from Australians who may have something to say about what is done in their name.
We know the reason why of course. The ABC is a laughable sheltered workshop. It is a gaslighting operation. The last thing they could bear is for people – the great unwashed – to point out the intellectual pretensions, the twisted tortured tendentious logic, or for a comment to reveal that most Australians disagree with the ABC’s take.
If politicians are not going to step in and bring the rogue media behemoth to heel, they could at least pressure them to allow comments – the the normies could put them in their place.
Meme
Random but… they used to tell me not to fall for the “God-of-the-gaps” argument.
Until I recently discovered that we have only seen 4% of the entire universe. The remaining 96% is “dark energy” and “dark matter” (of which, literally, nobody has any idea what that actually is)…
And is likely 100% bullshit and non existent. There are other explanations.
Yes. I explained about the “theory” of Dark Matter to my 10 yo grandson and why it was “needed” to support existing theory of cosmology.
His response was to ask why they didn’t consider that their existing theory was probably wrong if it needed such an unlikely add-on.
It matters not. Deal with what you know about.
On POTUS, I also think (FWIW), the less Kharmala talks, the less votes she loses.
Perhaps they’ll lock her up in a basement?
The Musk conversation. It was delayed because of a severe DDOD attack. Meme
Donald J. Trump’s Space
Eyrie
August 13, 2024 2:39 pm
Good way to introduce insults into what was until then a reasonable discussion.
Arky
August 13, 2024 3:05 pm
Reply to Eyrie
There was no market for electric vehicles before governments introduced subsidies for them and penalised ICE vehicles with increasingly ridiculous emissions regulations, increasing both the cost and complexity to ludicrous levels, all along the life of the vehicle, from manufacture, purchase and servicing.
No one wanted electric cars because they’re shit.
Yes, but in the words of Michael Mann, they want to “hide the decline”
Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX, plus The Boring Company, are designed for colonizing Mars.
That makes me a lot more sanguine about the first two than otherwise I would be. And as everyone knows I detest the climate scam.
You cannot drive internal combustion cars around Mars, not practically anyway.
It’s actually a fine joke that he is using climate subsidies to build an off-world colony. Better use of them than anyone else is doing.
Bruce I despise these electric cars more than the woke idiocy.
The damage done to the national fleet by introducing these things will become obvious in years to come if we continue down this path,
It could well be the end of private car ownership for a lot of people.
It’s one thing to own these things for the first few years of their life, it’s entirely another for the second hand market, which is where most people go for cars.
Battery replacement, increased insurance costs, serviceability, charging and range issues. It could get really bad if the proportion of the national fleet that is electric gets above a third.
The used car market is twice the size of the new car market.
Imagine 600,000 used electric cars with decaying electronics, failing batteries and worn tires sitting around used car yards.
I can’t wait to see the havoc caused by idiots planting their foot in a car with the torque and weight of a Tesla, but with worn out brakes and bald tires, and failing traction control.
It’s going to be really, really interesting.
A fire risk too. Not many Ice cars spontaneously combust.
Not too sure about that.
Of course, you could have a point about the “spontaneous” bit …
I suspect the numbers.
Half the worlds electric vehicles (20 million) are in China.
That would be 3000/20,000,000
Which is 0.015% per year.
Not 0.0012% with no time specified.
Given the assumption that most electric vehicles in China are still relatively new, and guessing that old EVs explode randomly at twice the rate of new ones (but who the hell knows) call it 0.03% per year.
So if you keep your Chinese EV for ten years and charge it at home, you have a 0.3% chance (3 in 1000) of a catastrophic fire that can’t easily be put out raging in your home.
Or if their are 300 homes in your town or suburb, the inhabitants of one of them can expect a good chance of being incinerated by Chinese EV before the year 2034.
if my maths is correct.
Given a 100% penetration by Chinese EVs which by Gods will won’t happen.
The Mandy Rice-Davies response would be appropriate here.
One bizarre thing about the MSM is that they seem not to have realised that a Trump Presidency will, just like last time, provide them with endless occasions of faux shock, umbrage, incredulity, and other verbal suppurations, to beam out to their audiences (such as they are).
With Cackles and Mao Tse Tim they will cluster about shivering outside the White House press briefing room hoping for some small crumb of carefully calibrated copy to be dropped among them.
Turkeys voting for Christmas.
Trump is working his arse off to offset the cheat.
He is leaving no stone unturned, reaching out to every possible group.
Black journalists.
Crypto idiots,
Libertarians.
Musk fanboys.
RFK supporters.
He is scraping up every possible vote.
His work rate and energy is incredible.
He’s actually working for us as well. Our useless bunch of losers will go with whatever harebrained scheme thats fashionable.
Sickening
Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support
SpaceX bid for and was awarded contracts for services by the government, on a fixed price basis with milestones to be made before payment. They have saved the US Government BILLIONS. Just look at the Boeing Stayliner currently docked at the ISS. Boeing got 4.2 billion for that fixed price contract and hasn’t delivered an operational spacecraft. SpaceX got 2.6 billion and has been flying for years. Not only that but the US has a space capability it hasn’t had before and wouldn’t have because the rest of the industry was incapable of doing it. That capability is about to be VASTLY increased with Starship
Tesla got a few hundred million as a loan after 2008, like a lot of the auto industry but paid it back in full, early. Subsidies for electric cars was a government initiative. You expect him to leave the money when it is offered? The money went to the buyers anyway. Subsidies for solar were available to any players. Solindra anyone?
Stayliner…snort!
Did you make the same arguments about subsidies for the Australian car industry?
I get it, You’re a musk fan.
Calm the f*ck down.
It can be true the man has done overall good AND done things worth criticism.
Teachers are one of the main advocate groups for alarmism:
Many teachers fear climate change ‘too controversial’ to tackle amid calls for more climate education (msn.com)
Look at the moron media idiot doing the reporting.
It’s getting to Bernard Gaynor. Poor guy, he is dealing with a system stacked against him and up the rancid arses of the perverts:
Bernie’s Bad Book Bash #12 – Govt agency wants to legalise porn depicting minors, NSW govt officially comes after me, more library battles – and wins! (mailchi.mp)
You cannot drive internal combustion cars around Mars, not practically anyway.
They are going to be making rocket fuel anyway (liquid methane and liquid oxygen). A properly set up IC engine should run just fine on those. I suspect the larger longer range exploration vehicles will use that. Mars gravity is 38% of Earth’s so you’ll be able to carry the weight of oxygen required.
However I think you are correct about the overall plan. Electric will work on the Moon also. I can see Cyber trucks running around there and on Mars.
How long before they have traffic lights?
That is true, but I suspect on Mars the engineering and financial equation flips – electric via solar panels or nuclear probably makes better sense for small scale travel and transport. Keep in mind that on Mars with an ICE engine you are throwing away the combustion products – which you need. On Earth that isn’t important. If you have to include a way to collect and recover the CO2 and H2O for regeneration it all gets very complicated. Much easier to just do electric.
About the only thing Elon hasn’t been doing is pushing into the nuclear space. But a lot of other people are already doing that so it isn’t a fatal flaw.
Sonic booms over Lebanon .. You’d have to laff if they weren’t sooo serious .. LOL! .. These folk give the impression they have never heard of Oct 7 before .. FFS!
“We are concerned about the reported use of sonic booms by Israeli aircrafts over Lebanon that has caused great fear among the civilian population,” said Ramzi Kaiss, a Lebanon researcher for Human Rights Watch. “Parties in armed conflict should not use methods of intimidation against a civilian population.”
“Parties in armed conflict should not use methods of intimidation against a civilian population.”
Like launching rockets across the border at the civilian population with a view to killing or maiming them? That type of intimidation?
What a dick.
Boy Ramzi Kaiss has a sense of humour really made me laugh — This Human Rights Watch is full of rich busy-body Karens and their noodle-armed soyboy husbands/partners/friends — I know some of them at arms-length — they have nothing better to do and think they’re saviours of humanity — indeed a bunch of dickless dicks and dickettes.
JC earlier:-
No doubt the fact checkers will be all over that one.
“Fact-check – False. Newsom has never worked for U-haul, does not own U-haul stock and has no commercial relationships with U-haul.”
lol. Yep, that’s how they see anything said by Trump, as in this brilliant take on everyone moving out of California.
No idea about a joke or a metaphor.
Reynolds not pressed for apology over ‘lying cow’ remark
Paul Garvey
Scott Morrison says Linda Reynolds’ description of Brittany Higgins as a “lying cow” was “absolutely outrageous” and “out of character” for the senator, but said it played no part in his decision to remove her from the Defence portfolio.
Ms Higgins’ lawyer Rachael Young SC is asking Mr Morrison about the incident, which drew a public rebuke from the then-prime minister at the time they were made in 2021.
“That wasn’t appropriate language to be using about a member of your staff, let alone in these circumstances,” Mr Morrison said.
“That was very out of character or Senator Reynolds, extremely out of character, and so I saw that as quite an exception to her normal behaviour.”
He said he did not recall ever asking Senator Reynolds to apologise for the slur.
He denied the incident had any influence on his decision to replace her with Peter Dutton as defence minister soon after.
“It played no part whatsoever in her ongoing performance in that role,” he said.
Truth not a defence, then?
Chinese Firm Accused of Illegally Sourcing Bodies | China in Focus
I like him. I didn’t expect to.. and I hate EVs….but Musk just has that weirdness and super intelligence that just could make a difference as this world descends into darkness.
The UK under Da Fuhrer Sturmer is leading the way into this black abyss.
If Kamaltoe wins, and I suspect she will, it will be lights out across the West.
The left have been banging on about democracy, their style, and now I am with you Cassie, if Kamaltoe and the mob win then given the state of Britain too, even Canada, the Anglosphere is seeing some dark days ahead for real democracy. If this vapid female puppet is in place and the Democrats take yet another term, I can’t see democracy being at all possible after that, when the ten million border-crossing and more voteherds get their Democrat vote.
Goodbye forever then to any Republican win, democracy has died.
MR.BEAN (Rowan Atkinson) – Communist Britain?! Freedom of Speech?!
From the Oz
“Scott Morrison says Linda Reynolds’ description of Brittany Higgins as a “lying cow” was “absolutely outrageous” and “out of character” for the senator, but said it played no part in his decision to remove her from the Defence portfolio”.
Actually it was not outrageous if you are Reynolds and she has just been falsely maligned on national TV. Too me it was always obvious that this was a major sign that there was something wrong with Higgins account and her motivation.
The staffer who reported the outburst is a low level scum bag.
It is sad to hear Reynolds may lose her home due to the costs involved in the case. I hope she gets the justice she seeks.
Hahahahahaha
Snopes will be onto it first thing in the morning.
Poor old lefties: they don’t irony or analogies — too brain-hurty.
You want to know how to deal with screaming, screeching, baying progressive, leftist, Marxist, Nazi, feral lynch mobs? Well, overnight Spectator columnist Fraser Nelson has penned this for the UK Spectator….
In defence of Douglas Murray
Even by its own standards, Twitter has been an asylum of late, with a lynch mob going after our associate editor Douglas Murray. An interview he gave months ago has been selectively edited and republished to misrepresent him and, in effect, make out that he was encouraging riots. This is how Twitter works. I don’t follow Alastair Campbell, but it seems he has been telling me that unless I condemn Douglas then I myself would apparently ‘stand condemned’. By no less a moral authority, it seems, then Campbell himself.
Andrew Neil has rightly pointed out that hell really will freeze over before a Twitterstorm makes The Spectator turn on a star columnist who has brought so much to the magazine over so many years. The idea that we would do so now, at Campbell’s behest, or that of his fellow trolls, is laughable.
Andrew has also banned advertisers who complain about our columnists.
Hopefully the message has gone out by now that The Spectator isn’t edited by Twitter.
The Spectator will not be bowing to the mob. Not now, not ever.
I never normally refer to Twitter madness in articles here: acting on the advice of Douglas himself. ‘Never waste time bouncing off the effluent of morons’, he wrote in one of his superb Spectator columns. ‘So, for instance, it is a rule among British columnists never to use the term “Owen Jones” in an article. It is too easy. Every couple of hours there will be another gaseous eruption.’ We have a house rule in The Spectator: not to run articles on people who live on Twitter: Katie Hopkins, Campbell, Jones, etc.
But this time is different. When I went through my inbox this morning, I found emails from many readers who could see a character assassination attempt in the offing and who wanted to defend Murray. We only print letters in the magazine in response to articles, but we had so many here that I thought I should publish one. It is from Justin Stebbing, a renowned oncologist, and resonated with me because it sums up my own feelings – and, I suspect, a great many of our readers.
I am writing to express my unwavering support for Douglas Murray, whose insightful and articulate commentary has been a beacon of clarity and reason in today’s complex political landscape. His contributions to The Spectator have consistently demonstrated a profound understanding of global issues, particularly the intricacies of Middle Eastern politics and the defence of Israel.
His steadfast support for Israel is not only commendable but also essential in an era where misinformation and bias often cloud public discourse. His writings provide a balanced perspective that champions truth and moral clarity, qualities that are increasingly rare yet desperately needed. His ability to dissect and articulate the nuances of geopolitical conflicts with precision and empathy is a testament to his intellectual rigor and commitment to justice.
In his recent works, including his speeches and articles, he has eloquently defended Israel’s right to exist and protect its citizens against terrorism. His stance is rooted in a deep understanding of historical and contemporary contexts, which he conveys with both passion and reason. As he aptly stated, ‘It’s moral hygiene to try and clean some of this up. When 99 lies are being told and one truth, the truth will eventually win.’
This commitment to truth is what sets him apart as a commentator and public intellectual.
His broader contributions to political commentary, such as his critiques of western self-laceration and his defence of western values, highlight his role as a crucial voice in contemporary debates. His ability to engage with a wide range of topics, from the rise of extremism to the cultural and political challenges facing the West, underscores his versatility and depth as a thinker.
The attempts by political figures like Campbell to silence him not only undermine the principles of free speech and open debate but also seek to deprive the public of a valuable perspective that challenges prevailing narratives.
It is imperative that we stand by commentators like Murray, who courageously speak the truth, even when it is unpopular. His brilliance, clarity of thought, and unwavering commitment to truth make him an indispensable asset to your publications and to the broader conversation on critical global issues.
Amen to all that. Douglas wrote the definitive piece about Twitter lynch mobs when he exonerated Roger Scruton by securing the raw footage of the interview that had been so egregiously misrepresented by George Eaton. His scoop and cover piece changed the debate: it was the high water mark of Twitter character assassination because Murray had calmly taken this madness apart and it stood exposed. So did those who get sucked into them. We saw how partial quotes can be maliciously assembled to smear – and how easily a mob is assembled to condemn.
His column last week, incidentally looking at the deprivation levels and local economic dysfunction in rioting areas was thoughtful, original and generated more new subscriptions than any other article we published this year. That’s proof of just how utterly detached these pointless Twitterstorms are from the real world.
It’s almost exactly 15 years since I first became editor and was told about Douglas by the writer Ruth Dudley Edwards who said he was one of the best young essayists thrown up by our country for quite some time. I’d remove ‘one of’. So, sorry, Alastair Campbell et al: The Spectator will not be bowing to the mob. Not now, not ever.
Amen.
Firstly, I second everything Andrew Neil, Fraser Nelson and Justin Stebbing say in the piece above about Douglas Murray
Secondly, once again this is what you do when the leftist mobs start baying for flesh, you don’t quiver, you don’t tremble, you don’t stumble, you stand up, you straighten up, you stare the scum in the face and you say to the scum, politely of course…….
F*CK OFF
As I’ve said before Cassie, you’ve a way with words.
Greg Sheridan referenced the above-mentioned piece favourably in The Australian on the weekend, introducing some new readers to Murray, one hopes.
@goddeketal
Hang the bastard from the nearest lampost.
Normal Saline vaccinated? I’d like to see the blood work on this bastard and all his cronies so we can see just who got the ‘vaccine’.
@MikeBenzCyber
My final words to @TuckerCarlson were explaining the “Transatlantic Flank Attack 2.0,” the Dirty Diplomats’ Censorship Roadshow in Europe in 2017, and how the US Blob has been driving what just manifested as the EU’s threat letter to Elon Musk and X today:
Pulling this reply to Bruce out of the embedded answers so people can inspect the maths.
Have I errored anywhere?
Arky
August 13, 2024 5:15 pm
Reply to Bruce in WA
I suspect the numbers.
Half the worlds electric vehicles (20 million) are in China.
That would be 3000/20,000,000
Which is 0.015% per year.
Not 0.0012% with no time specified.
Given the assumption that most electric vehicles in China are still relatively new, and guessing that old EVs explode randomly at twice the rate of new ones (but who the hell knows) call it 0.03% per year.
So if you keep your Chinese EV for ten years and charge it at home, you have a 0.3% chance (3 in 1000) of a catastrophic fire that can’t easily be put out raging in your home.
Or if their are 300 homes in your town or suburb, the inhabitants of one of them can expect a good chance of being incinerated by Chinese EV before the year 2034.
if my maths is correct and there were 100% Chinese EV penetration.
Arky – four things. First most of the Chinese push for EVs, including EV buses, is to reduce the terrible pollution in their megalopolises.
Second, those EVs are overwhelmingly powered by coal. But that fits the first imperative since by transferring the combustion outside of the limits of the cities it keeps the air of the cities reasonably clean.
Thirdly the Chinese don’t much mind a few proles being sacrificed for the cause. By fire, if need be.
And fourthly there is a cause: which is to destroy their perceived enemies the West. Which they have been efficiently doing by getting us to be scared of mythical climate fairies. The Chinese have been holding a grudge since the Opium Wars. Now is the time for the payday.
Elon Musk Takes Down GARM and Why It Matters
That’s a particularly strong result – the organisation folding as soon as they’re asked WTF? about their conduct.
Very odd. You celebrate further after your send off and promotion by stealing one of your employer’s helicopters:
The man killed when the helicopter he was flying without authorisation crashed into a Cairns hotel, was a ground crew employee at Nautilus Aviation who had recently been promoted.
In a statement released late Tuesday, the helicopter tour company said the man aged in his 20s, joined Nautilus about four months ago.
Although he held a New Zealand commercial pilot’s licence he had never flown in Australia or for Nautilus, and was not authorised to fly their helicopters.
In a tragic twist, Nautilus confirmed there had been a gathering of some employees on Sunday night, including off-duty pilots to “send-off the individual involved in Monday morning’s incident”.
It was revealed he had recently been promoted to a ground crew position at another of Nautilus Aviation’s bases, on Long Island in the Whitsundays.
“This was not a work event and was co-ordinated by friends,” said the statement.
“We offer our heartfelt condolences to the individual’s family and all who have been affected by this tragedy and continue to offer our support to our employees during this very challenging period.”
The function attended by the victim ended about 11.30pm, and was not held at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel where the crash occurred.
The statement went on to say the company had provided his details to police, and had completed interviews with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Nautilus Aviation CEO Aaron Finn said the young worker was a “great employee” who was excited about his future.
“We are all devastated,” Mr Finn added.
Oz
There’s something we’re not being told about.
The three obvious aspects apart from his name are his ethnicity, his religion and his appearance.
That the authorities are doing Sgt Schultz impressions is revealing.
Mmm…I predicted a drunken joy flight.
It’s Cairns, not SW Sydney.
Pilot identified as an Anglo NZer.
That puts the time I rode my motorbike home from an EOFY dinner in perspective. It went fine except when I forgot to put my feet down when I stopped.
They use the pretence of foreign involvement to enable turning the full weight of Britain’s spy agencies inwards against domestic political enemies. Which is exactly what happened in the U.S. with Russiagate.
@gc22gc
UK Government “RussiaGate-ing” Nigel Farage’s Political Movement And Tommy Robinson’s Street Movement
That is true, but I suspect on Mars the engineering and financial equation flips – electric via solar panels or nuclear probably makes better sense for small scale travel and transport. Keep in mind that on Mars with an ICE engine you are throwing away the combustion products – which you need. On Earth that isn’t important. If you have to include a way to collect and recover the CO2 and H2O for regeneration it all gets very complicated. Much easier to just do electric.
Musk has acknowledged the need for nuclear on Mars and on Earth.
Umm, Bruce as the combustion products are CO2 and water, just return the CO2 to the Martian atmosphere from whence it came. That’s how they are making the rocket fuel, from Martian atmospheric CO2 and water ice deposits + solar or nuclear electricity. Should not be too hard to condense the water from the exhaust and store it for reuse including drinking on board.
Yeah, but getting them back out of the atmosphere again is a non trivial chemical engineering problem.
It’s quite thin. Besides which the water vapour would freeze and be distributed over the Martian terrain in a microscopic layer.
Oddly enough Mars might be the only place where a hydrogen ICE would make sense – for exactly the reason you say. They could at least condense the exhaust and recover the water.
@MikeBenzCyber