‘IT WAS THE JEWS!’ Screams Candace Owens On First Round Of ‘Clue’

U.S. — Candace Owens was eliminated during the first round of the classic “whodunit” board game Clue when she immediately accused the Jews during the first round of play.

“IT WAS THE JEWS!” Owens cried. “The Jews, in the Conservatory, with the Space Laser!”

Honestly, at this point, I’m not as outraged as you might expect.
The United States Was Just Called a “Plague” by Mahmoud Abbas. Now what?

The federal government has offered political staffers the maximum pay rise allowed under government rules, along with new travel allowances, leave for cultural activities and extra pay for staff who speak multiple languages.

The proposed enterprise agreement, which was put to a vote on Monday and is widely expected to be approved, will give approximately 2,000 political, ministerial and electorate staff a pay rise of 11.2 per cent over three years. Four per cent will come in the first year, with 3.8 per cent and 3.4 per cent in the subsequent two years, respectively.

It is the first agreement negotiated under a federal Labor government in over a decade and includes a flurry of new conditions, many of them mirroring the government’s economy-wide industrial relations priorities including expanded parental leave, new rules for casuals and family and domestic violence leave.

Sources said the agreement had strong support from staff, especially those from the offices of Labor, Greens and independent MPs, but several Liberal staffers told the ABC they believed the deal was “totally ridiculous” in a broader economy in which “people are doing it tough”.

A new allowance of up to $40,000 a year will be available to electorate staff nominated to travel with their parliamentarian, in addition to the usual Canberra travel allowance for advisers.

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Another pathological liar.

@tomselliott

THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF.

Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”

Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘FBI Investigation into Trump Shooting Is Jaw-Dropping, Everything They Are Doing Is Wrong’

Konstantin Kisin vs. NBC Journalist on Elon, UK Riots and Civil War

Speaking if which, the government is proving slow to appoint its “Islamophobia Envoy.”

Could it be that “the Muslim community” is itself divided over whether such a position is necessary, and, if so, who should fill the role?

One suggestion – the government would be well advised to avoid QLD blowhard Ali Kadri, who has humbly nominated himself for the position.

It’s a sad fact but falling living standards won’t be fixed by what happens in Gaza

Simon Benson, The Australian 20 August, 2024

Peter Dutton is like a greyhound chasing a rabbit. His pursuit of Anthony Albanese in parliament over visas for Gazans is instinctive. Politically primeval. The Liberal leader simply doesn’t know how not to do it. And why would or should he? He can smell blood in the water and his attack plan has so far been devastatingly effective. This is now an issue of the Prime Minister’s character.

And at the moment it is being decimated.

Few would expect the Coalition to let Labor off the hook, considering the bizarre cloak of secrecy and obfuscation Albanese and his new Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke, have thrown over the issue.

This is Dutton’s ecology and he is terraforming the national security space.

At some point, if Dutton is serious about wanting to be prime minister, he will have to return to the top three issues that concern the average soft voter. Cost of living, cost of living and cost of living.

There is more than a sliver of daylight between this and the next issue. It has become a chasm, of the likes that both Labor and Liberal strategists admit is unrivalled outside the pandemic as a single-issue concern.

Yet Dutton appears intent on trying to drag out the politics of Gaza for as long as the parliamentary session allows, which is Thursday.

He may well turn his attention back to the economy at some point, if his advisers allow him to.

But this current brawl, which will end with most voters remembering little of it, defines more than anything the disconnect between the political class and everybody else.

While Dutton sees this issue as part of a broader strategy to undermine confidence in Albanese’s ability to manage anything, Dutton himself has yet to establish a beachhead on economic management.

Not a single question was asked on Tuesday from the Coalition on cost of living.

One thing is certain, the next election will be a contest defined by which side has the better and more believable economic story.

Some polls suggest this equity remains in the Coalition’s favour, as it has traditionally, but Dutton will have to do more than he has to establish this as an election winning formula. He needs to work out how to turn these equities into votes.

The Coalition cannot descend into complacency or false assumptions about it.

If the minutes from the central bank’s last board meeting prove anything, its this: the inflation problem is unrelenting and more persistent than all but two economists predicted.

Forget about rate cuts. The risk of further interest rate rises has been slapped down on the table. We know the board had its finger hovering over the rate rise button two weeks ago.

A collective pessimism still prevails. This means a more protracted and sharper political contest over the fundamental question that hinges on which side is believed to offer a credible pathway to prosperity.

There is also a redefining of the notion of prosperity.

Labor offers the levers of state as its remedy. The Coalition offers little other than opposition to this.

For Dutton to win the political argument, he must not only establish in voters’ minds that the government is to blame for the dramatic fall in living standards, he must convince them there is more substance to his leadership than national security.

There is no evidence that he has been able to establish this.

Economics is not his comfort zone but retail politics should be. And an opposition leader should be able to retail the hell out of this crisis.