What’s the real size of China’s economy?
Open Thread – Weekend 26 Oct 2024
- Destroying Trust
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- The Holistic Rewards of Christianity
Poilievre is showing definite JD proclivities. MSM. “People are claiming that you …… blah blah. How do you respond”? Poilievre.…
The UNiparty continues Australia’s population ponzi. An example of why all moslem immigration must cease and deportations started. Once moslems…
They are “churnalists, alright: Just not “fearless reporters. I have posted elsewhere: General William Tecumseh Sherman had some thoughts on…
RFK jr is seriously considering banning mRNA “vaccines”. That kills their new preferred mRNA fluvax model dead. Given the mode…
I’d call past tomorrow but it’s the one day he’s not open.
Encouraging any cats who can to call in to Brunswick East Wine Bar and brighten up this poor man’s day.
Will make an effort to get there though.
Thanks Rosie. There’s a follow up posting on Insta. The original video was Thurs night and apparently he’s been absolutely overwhelmed with patrons and shoppers in the 48 hours since, including many making a trip up from the bagel belt to show support.
Personally I think he should make a police report of a hate crime and keep following up. Hopefully there’s cctv images of the blue haired harpy.
I’m so glad about that, Perfidious. Tried to find some way of sending him a message of support, but not on any of those platforms.
@catturd2
The same exact cringe speech with the same exact hand gestures. You are witnessing a rehearsed empty airhead on full display.
LNP won’t act on Labor’s ‘blatant mistruths’: Crisafulli
Queensland Premier-Elect David Crisafulli has held his first press conference since winning the state…
David Crisafulli has declared the Liberal National Party had secured a “good majority” and insisted the vote “exceeded our expectations”.
Mr Crisafulli said overturning the Labor government after nearly a decade in office had been a “big hurdle to overcome”.
“It was like climbing a mountain weighed down with a backpack and in the sleeting snow,” he said.
The LNP leader said he would remind the Labor party in future years about the scare campaigns and “blatant mistruths” that had run during the past four weeks.
“There’s robust debate and conflicts of ideas, and then there’s just out and out blatant mistruths, and the latter can’t become part of modern politics,” he said.
He pointed to the abortion debate, and allegations the LNP would privatise hospitals, as examples of the “mistruths”.
“We won’t do what the former government alleged we were going to, and that’s important,” he said.
Gee, like ‘blatant mistruths’ (we used to call them lies) have never featured in any political campaign before Queensland 2024.
What a maroon.
Net zero strategy for defence? Are they really that fuking stooped? Yes because they are canbra pubes.
It is hilarious when you see Democrat supporters saying Kamala should go on Rogan.
Rogan won’t allow a teleprompter in the room and she would be hopeless in a 2-3 hour conversation.
She has more chance of picking up votes if she goes and “works” in a MacDonalds for 16 minutes.
Oh dear oh bloody dear. I despair. Going the full Liebor Lite. From the Oz.
Yes as we feared. Time for advance to get to work.
“The wife of Max Chandler Mather (leader of the Queensland Greens) celebrated Hamas rape and slaughter on October 7 as “amazing and inspiring.” ”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1850354056688254978?t=q99IgM_evA5j4xtI8tsZ4A&s=19
Lest anyone misunderstand the ‘like’, I meant ‘like’ as ‘well done for exposing these sociopathic Stalininst pervert terrorist vermin for what they are.’
Good heavens. I didn’t know about this murderous bitvh. It is not safe for her to walk amongst us – a camp guard level monster.
Yet, if she were a male who looked at his watch while a female was speaking … The reason this was not front-page news is because the media and elites approve of her – she is one of them and will therefore be defended by them, regardless of the content of her speech. It’s not what the person says or does, it’s the individual themselves that matters. Insiders – Outsiders.
Tommy Robinson: London Freedom Rally Triumph!
It’s meaningless.
He knows he has to keep the coal and gas running indefinitely.
QLDers will not be forgiving if he breaks his promises on youth crime though.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping for a backbencher to introduce an abortion reform bill.
Referendum – we need a Binding Referendum.
The only reason we aren’t getting one is that it empowers the electorate, and depowers the Politicians. (From Whom All Wisdom Flows Because They Are The Smartest Men in the Room.)
Biden’s apology to native Americans has been interrupted by a Gazan protester. Our grievances are more grievous than yours!
Not exactly the best way to win friends and influence people.
Delaware should apologise to Americans for the old perv.
Australian Defence Force Announces Net Zero Strategy
Zero emissions explosives and propellants.
Do you buy the certificates in advance, or after the battle? And how do you account for the emissions from your burning enemy?
LNP’s youth crime policy to be law by Christmas: Crisafulli
Premier-elect David Crisafulli has refused to say whether his shadow cabinet ministers would remain in the same positions in his new Liberal National Party government, as he had promised during the campaign.
Mr Crisafulli said he wanted “the opportunity to speak directly” to future ministers.
“I think that’s important to do that,” he said.
He said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had been very generous with his time on Sunday morning and they had a 20 minute conversation. Mr Crisafulli said he had already brought up the federal government increasing its funding for infrastructure projects to 80-20, rather than the current 50-50 split.
Mr Crisafulli said there would be two parliamentary sittings before the end of the year, and said the LNP’s youth crime policy – including “adult time adult crime” – would be law by Christmas.
Roger, I think it will be Robbie Katter. He put a ch 7 reporter in her place by the looks of the article below:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14004279/Queensland-election-results-exit-polls-Crisafulli-Miles-live-updates.html
So by the bints logic being pregnant is code for shut you don’t have a say. He rightly asserts his opinion is different to hers and he’s allowed to have that.
I’d rather someone in the LNP put Crisafulli on the spot for once.
Oh dear, the work experience kiddies are it … formerly vs formally
Stupid, vicious and heartless.
I fear the upbringing their baby will receive.
And stupid female lefties pretend the US is going to go full handmaid’s tale under Trump.
https://x.com/WRNAfghanistan/status/1850281005229441044?t=poWkv2vlSDSCY3HLLnPzxA&s=19
Stating the obvious.
https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1850107076720148670?t=4XEi2lek_ph1VJk1kPLKXA&s=19
So cute. I remember my youngest wanted vestments for Christmas when he was five. Absolutely no place to buy them.
https://x.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1850113049233146192?t=8kP8LN1QIBRrg0KRbpVLzg&s=19
Monty level predicting by Mike Carlton.
https://x.com/SimonSperling/status/1850306764081885263?t=l-VLcuEcAeUqVIJJfqiErw&s=19
“Advance” have been running a campaign against the Greens for some time now. Slogan is “The Greens are not who they used to be.”.
I didn’t think much of it, but maybe the idea is getting some traction.
I still prefer “Greens – as insane as they always were” and maybe some voters are recognising the fact.
They have always been insane but have got worse. The Rhiannon Stalinists, who have the upper hand, dismiss Bob Brown and his like as ‘Tree Tories’ – i.e. not far enough to the left.
Yes. Slogan should be ‘more insane than ever’
Far more dangerous too.
Completely off thread.
I was just chatting on the phone to a friend with whom I undertook the joys of National service. He reminded me of an incident that would have someone jailed these days.
We had been deployed to Canungra to do the pre-deployment course – the name escapes me but it wasn’t much fun.
As part of the Government’s failed attempt to convince the Indonedians to love us, a bunch of Indon generals were invited to tour Canungra. As their three limos filed through the main gate it was noted that the prefix of each of the three numberplates was ‘NOG’.
We almost forgot that we were not enjoying ourselves.
Battle Efficiency Course is the 3 weeks long torture course we did in 1970…
So many plans and projects but none of it seems to work. Idiots in charge.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/agreement-finally-reached-to-switch-on-broken-hill-battery-10-days-after-storm-blows-down-power-lines/
Top men…
The People involved in this farce need to be propped against a wall and shot.
This is incompetence on such a scale as to be worthy of the ultimate sanction.
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The reports so far are that the IAF fired their missiles over US-controlled airspace in Iraq.
Don’t know if this has been posted or commented on before, but here is an AI generated ad where Trump runs Sea World and Kamala is trying to steal and sell off their prize Orca, Freedom.
lol. Even if he doesn’t win, we’ll always have something to remember him by.
It’s been a good trip. Onya, Donald.
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/10/iran-tehran-mural-shows-blood-spattered-photos-of-hostages-with-hebrew-caption-no-hostage-will-be-released
Two can play at that game, messy as it may be. “No terrorist sympathizer will have a home left when we are finished with Gaza. Scorched earth retribution is underway.” The majority of Gazans are complicit. Eff them.
And wasn’t Sinwar released to get Schalit back? Bad deal Mr. Baskin, hang your head in shame.
Don’t forget that Israel has many thousands of their Jihadi prisoners.
Stick them in a tunnel and blow it out of the ground.
Chris Rufo doesn’t stop.
How DEI ruined the NIH
Trump faces a huge task of cleaning out the Augean stables if elected.
I think he will have a lot of volunteers to help him out with that.
Fair dinkum the Herald Sun in Melbourne has a negative Trump story every day.Silent on Kamala.
J also see the Oz has a story by Nikki Gemmel on a new type of politician Tim Bloody Waltz fmd.
This is why Australians who are normally sensible can get entirely the wrong idea about US politics. Most of the Australian media are either left leaning or ignorant themselves.
Nothing about tampons, stolen valour and being a knucklehead in that lot of bilge.
Lidia Thorpe should be asked to “give back the money she stole from the taxpayer” on false pretences. She’s not even a kosher abo. Just a nutter.
Certainly not value as a senator. Thanks Greens, you idiots.
Yep. Just another nutter.
Queensland is off to a good start!
Crisafulli sacked Mike Kaiser this morning. (He was head of the Qld public service)
Heh.
until they slash spending by 80% its mere deck chair shuffling
Im a big fan of heads on sticks. Although it could have waited till Monday.
Great start, corrupt POS will be picked up elsewhere though.
That’s how you do it, get rid of the top dogs and put in your own boss. If there are mutinies then get rid of those. No need to get rid of everyone. Freeze hiring as well and thus stop empire building.
Jacinta Allan Victoria is open for business.
In your dreams
I’m pretty sure that isn’t the case. Iran on Oct 1 demonstrated its capability to target Israel’s most important military assets and overwhelm their layered AD such that the they felt 2 THAAD systems became necessary. Back in April, Israel demonstrated it has the capability of hitting Iran with air-launched standoff missiles but yesterday we learned that there are limitations to this capability.
Knuckle Dragger
Why not do both?
What sort of sandwiches? Cheese and Vegemite?
Lock the little horrors up in the Great Sandy Desert Vegemite Mines, and make ’em provide their own vegemite.
Honestly I couldn’t despise that party more, including anyone who bothers to remain in it (with one or two honourable exceptions who aren’t able to effect any change and remain in it for old time’s sake or whatever). There are always those who talk a good game but they ultimately and uniformly end up Blairites when they’re in a position to put those big words into action. They are chameleons, quislings. Just flush the whole stinking turd. It is beyond saving and is a political and ideological enemy of conservatives and conservatism.
Worth keeping an eye on just the same.
Starmer doesn’t look like a two termer.
As has been noted, NT showing the way. By a leader with balls.
Minor parties go backwards in surprise election shockAll three of Queensland’s bigger minor parties have gone backwards in a shock result few saw coming, with One Nation’s future as a political force now in question.
Courier Mail – Katter’s Australia Party, One Nation and the vooking Greens..
Does the LNP still preference the ALP above PHON?
Pauline should retire when her senate stint is over. Become a commentator or retire somewhere quiet.
Her policies were probably more suitable to conservatives voters but they obviously don’t care.
Hence, we get the flip side of the coin every few terms.
The ALP will probably be back in QLD within two terms.
Well stupid is as stupid does. The non labor/greens voters had the opportunity through preferential voting to give first preference to PHON a sensible centre right party then LNP second a centre left party. You get what you vote for. Just don’t expect tooany changes to Labor policies.
More like
Australian Defence Force Announces Net Zero Lethality Strategy
As in the number of planes they can get in the sky at any time they want?
Morsie at 3:00
This is the real problem. Investment and private construction dead for as far as the eye can see. Negative net migration. It will be ugly.
I finally finished watching the 3 hr Rogan/Trump interview. It was worth it. I have now a better “handle” on the man than before. Of course he changes his demeanour and methodology with each interviewer he encounters. But he clearly respects Rogan, and vice versa. I heard details of Trump’s modus operandi during his Presidency that I had not heard before. His revelations about friends and foes were fascinating. Recommended for all those who do not trust the mass media, and still have enough of a faculty for critical thinking to be able to use this interview to further critique The Donald.
I’m 1/2 through, it feels perfectly sincere to me, he does not pretend. It would be fascinating to hear a similar kind of interview with many others. I listened to Tucker interview Paul Maniforte during the week too, similarly the long form interview reveals a better idea of personality and motivation. Trump wants the best for people.
Say what you like about Candace Owens but she has been putting out some very interesting stuff about Kamala Harris’s heritage recently. She’s presented credible evidence that Kamala isn’t black, as in has no Afro-Jamaican heritage at all. The woman Kamala claims as being her grandmother was actually the lifelong family help. Her daddy’s Irish-Indian (and I think there is some Jewish heritage in the mix too) who can pass as black, appearance wise. Candace brings receipts for all of this – there are substantial genealogical records and other historical records from Jamaica that support these claims.
More circumstantially, it seems her mother was born into a very elite and exclusive caste that would be extremely unlikely to permit a daughter to marry a black man.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/the-disgrace-that-was-stephen-miles.html
One Nation’s future as a political force now in question.
At first sight – that is a great pity. Hanson has been a courageous and indefatigable advocate for Everyman in Oz. And she has grown wiser and even more courageous with the passing of time.
On the other hand, “keeping the bastards honest” may have had its day. Everyone knows there are a lot of bastards in that House – and we know who they are.
At the end of the day, giving one’s vote to One Nation just takes it away from the LNP who, as a primary Party, is the only chance Oz has got.
God help us if you think a centre left party is the salvation for Australia
I saw a clip on YouTube labelled ‘Beyonce Endorses Kamala Harris as Candidates Descend on Texas’. It was an ABC clip.
Against my natural aversion to anything ABC I girded my loins (and I bought brand new girdings and loins because I didn’t want to risk ‘loin-fatigue’ – many a man has been undone thus) to see if they were going to gloss over something worth noting: That while Kamala’s team had promoted the idea of a mini-concert at the rally, all Beyonce did was introduce Kamala. No singing. No wiggling her bott. Just introducing Kamala.
The ABC was thereby were able to ignore rally-goers leaving when they realised there was no show.
You would think people would be more circumspect after being duped by the promise that Taylor Swift would perform at a rally and she did not even turn up. But they are Democrat supporters after all, so smart does not really appear anywhere on their resumes – unless it is the name of a font.
They then characterised Trump’s rally as somewhere he was going to try a new tactic to exploit anger at the border crisis.
And absolutely no mention of the fact that more than just a rally, Trump’s sit down with Joe Rogan currently stands at 23.8 million views at just YouTube to this moment, and that is not counting all the videos that legions of commentators have put up containing clips on this bit or other of the whole.
The ABC would have you think Harris is in a good, at least competitive, position making it seem she is attracting excitement and Trump is just trying his same boring tricks.
And, of course, being an ABC story the comments where all this might come out have been turned off.
Damn. Looks like the Greens are going to hold their one seat after all.
On ALP preferences. Looks like the LNP strategy of putting the Greens last had some dividends.
Imams endorse Trump…
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850244882121564580
Nelson_Kidd-Players
Your hypothesis of 200 top level comments per page is one I find hard to reconcile with observation. On that occasion there had only been 1 page of comments before the turn at 412. For the “200” hypothesis to be true each comment on the first page would need on average 1 reply comment under it. We know this is not the case, the vast majority of comments don’t get any nested replies.
I can accept it may be difference of counting top comments and not replies. Just not convinced on the figure of 200.
https://x.com/saras76/status/1850267575906627775
The outright lies of it! Saying Trump is a convicted rapist, for instance. Delibately misreading Trump’s conviction for an accounting issue to do with ‘hush’ money in an old case that was just a beat up in the first place.
This guy is litterally begging for a shooter to try to take Trump out, and is signal to the sort of true derangement that this election and the mass media songsheet has produced.
That too. They have about 270ish aircraft that can perform strike missions but many of these would have to be used as escorts (1:2 respectively), while others would have SEAD role. They are going to have to use refuelers at some stage and they have too few to refuel half of these during a mission.
The one result from the Queensland election that really pleased me was Russell Field winning Capalaba. His son, son’s fiancee and unborn grandson were killed by a teenager in a stolen car and he decided to stand for parliament as an advocate for the rights of victims of crime. The sitting ALP member said words to the effect that Field was an out of area blow-in trading on his tragedy for votes. He walked back on his comment but I suspect the damage was done as Capalaba had one of the largest swings in the state.
This is one take I’ve heard over the last 24 hours. There were three waves of Israeli aircraft. The first wave was a SEAD mission meant to open the way for waves 2 and 3. Wave 1 largely failed and that meant waves 2 and 3 were largely muted.
I wonder if WordPress makes it easy to put in place a reverse-chronological pagination for comments so the first comment posted gets pushed onto the new page rather than the last, then there wouldn’t be the whole issue with comments posted just before the page turn being largely unread, as well as the inevitable slowdown in commenting running up to the new page turning
I thought the US was providing re-fuelers.
I just don’t get it! We’ve got a situation with Israel vs Iran, and Iran’s attack dogs. Between the two options, Kamaltoe would actually throw a slightly warmer smile towards the Arabs than Trump.He’s got a real soft spot for Israel and a serious case of mullah-mania. Sure, I know Iran is Shi’a, but still, it’s a head-scratcher!
Excellent nested comment above by Rugbyskier:
Even the Stupid Frigging Liberals have finally woken up that if you give the Greens votes, including preferences, they win seats.
The Greens have been using preferences as a sneaky backdoor way if getting people who loathe them to vote for them.
Starve them of preferences and you starve them of seats. Kill the parasites and you make the country healthier.
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I’ve recognised the danger of preferences and I always put the Greens last, despite what any how-to-vote card says and have done so since the late 90s.
In the Queensland election it looks like the LNP strategy of formally putting the Greens last on HTV cards resulted in the Greens losing South Brisbane, as the LNP finished third, and not picking up two inner city seats from the ALP where they finished ahead of the LNP. In Maiwar the Greens could retain the seat as the ALP finished third and their decision to preference the Greens ahead of the LNP could well deliver the seat to the Greens.
Just had a look at the preliminary results in Maiwar and it looks like around a third of Labor voters preferenced the LNP ahead of the Greens, despite the HTV cards. It seems that some ALP voters recognise the danger of the Greens.
Like always, taken a while but get there in the end.
Headline from The National Interest:
Amazing.
Wasn’t the main design fault of the T-72 the location of the ammunition carousel under the crew compartment?
Winston Smith
October 27, 2024 2:02 pm
Reply to H B Bear
Which is why my advice is send it back to the States, and have a referendum on the issue with the results binding.
Best way to foil the Left. Just like the Voice Referendum. And do it with Nuclear Power, Immigration, and other contentious issues.
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By a referendum, I presume that you mean something about a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
Amendments to the Constitution can only be about matters for which the Commonwealth is responsible under the existing Constitution. Abortion is not in that category, just as it isn’t in the US. It belongs to the States. So, can’t happen.
I don’t know how the Constitution could be amended in relation to nuclear power either. What did you have in mind?
As for immigration, while it is undoubtedly a Commonwealth responsibility, what would you put into the Constitution about it that had a hope of being passed?
‘Contentious issues’ are matters for the Parliament, not the Constitution.
No, nothing to do with the Constitution.
An act of Parliament that allows the people to demand a course of action by whomever is in power.
Remember the WA Premier who said “I don’t care if 95% of the people want the death penalty brought back, it’s not going to happen?”
An act that allows a certain number of people to demand a referendum on a particular matter and forces the government to convince them otherwise, or resign and call a new election.
At the moment, we have a situation where both parties refuse to carry out the peoples wishes, and are just ignoring them. “The Voice” comes to mind – the States are going ahead with their own agenda of reparations and separate laws for certain people based on the colour of their skin.
This sort of political arrogance has to stop, and the people regain control of the Parliament – something that isn’t happening now.
We have a choice of 10% dogshit on our cornflakes, or 50% dogshit, and this is intolerable. We are limited to the choices our rulers allow us.
I don’t know about you, but I want the choice of No Dogshit.
They would have. They must have had all told something like 20-30 in the air.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Sherman Oaks Street Fair 2024 (1 of 14)
it’s kind of odd that Israel hasn’t invested much or at all in medium-range ground-launched (or air launched but within Israel’s borders) cruise missiles capable of carrying conventional payloads. It has been known for many years that the standoff weapons Israel possesses that could strike Iran would need to be delivered by air and relatively close to Iran’s borders, with all of the attendant issues that presents regarding overflight permissions, refueling etc. The later block Tomahawks would do the trick. South Korea would probably sell Israel some of their medium range cruise missiles too.
Leftist nut job “comedian” Billy Eichner has a breakdown on TikTok, saying it’s “time to f*cking panic” for Democrats.
He’s been living in a bubble. I’ve seen kamala talk and I’ve seen trump talk, and Billy Eichmer calls trump racist because it’s a term of abuse, not because it’s true.
Likewise, trump isn’t disintegrating.
Democrat supporters seem astonishingly out of contact with reality. Eichner being an example.
Australians don’t realise that living in America is like living in a fantasy land if you get your information from mainstream media, especially network TV, which is 99% against Trump and the Republican party.
Fox News is the only US cable TV company that caters for the half of America that doesn’t vote Democrat. Most of the US news media long ago ditched the public interest and now simply barracks for the Dems.
Bolt: Lidia Thorpe exposes the fraud of the Welcome to CountryThese race rituals are increasingly preposterous and Lidia Thorpe became the latest to prove it when she abused King Charles.
Senator Lidia Thorpe didn’t just disqualify herself from sitting in Parliament by abusing King Charles. She also exposed the fraud of the Welcome to Country.
Largely overlooked in this furore is that Thorpe advanced on Charles, shouting “You are not my king! … You committed genocide against my people!”, just after he’d been given a Welcome to Country by Violet Sheridan, claiming to represent Canberra’s traditional owners.
Indeed, Charles had just said he’d been touched by the “moving Welcome to Country ceremony” from “the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet, the Ngunnawal people”.
Some welcome. Welcome to another smack in the face, white guy.
Mind you, Sheridan did accuse Thorpe of being “disrespectful”, adding: “Lidia Thorpe does not speak for me and my people, and I’m sure she doesn’t speak for a lot of First Nations people”.
But already I’m wondering: if even an “Aboriginal sovereignty” crusader like Thorpe can’t respect the “Welcome to Country”, why should anyone else?
There’s another embarrassment with this Welcome to what Charles called Ngunnawal country.
Another tribe, the Ngambri, also claims to “own” Canberra and is cranky the ACT government cut it out of this welcoming business, which can be a nice earner.
This brawl got so willing that the ACT last year formally apologised to the Ngambri for the “hurt and distress” in being wrongly excluded.
But it gets even sillier.
One guy doing Welcomes on behalf of the Ngambri has been Shane Mortimer, who’s said he grew up “in a life of privilege” until he was 34 and was told by his wife that one of his aunts in a family photograph looked Aboriginal.
Mortimer said he checked and found one of his 64 great-great-great-great grandparents was an Aboriginal woman who’d married a white pastoralist about 200 years ago. How Aboriginal is that!
Yet Mortimer has had to fight for recognition. He sued Professor Don Aitken, then chairman of the National Capital Authority, for $6m for saying Mortimer “looks about as Aboriginal as I do” after he’d performed a Welcome to Country at Parliament House.
If Lidia Thorpe can’t respect the Welcome to Country, why should anybody else?
Mortimer also refused to take part in an ACT Government Aboriginal genealogy project, denouncing it as racist: “I don’t have to prove who I am.”
He was again in the wars at the launch this year of a political group, Independents for Canberra. Sheridan turned her back on Mortimer as he spoke, claiming he “shares the same heritage” as her.
Which brings me back to Lidia Thorpe.
What of her own ancestry? Her father is white, as are many of her mother’s ancestors, yet she identifies exclusively as Aboriginal. Some may actually wonder: is she the coloniser or the colonised? Should she be the welcomed or welcomer at a Welcome to Country?
No, these race rituals are increasingly preposterous, and Thorpe is just the latest to prove it.
But there remains one urgent thing she must still prove – that she’s lawfully a senator.
When she told Charles “you are not my king” she broke the oath she swore under our Constitution in order to take her seat in parliament – to bear true allegiance to our then Queen and to her “heirs and successors”.
Thorpe last week briefly claimed she didn’t break her oath because she’d deliberately said “hairs” instead – something no one thought much of at the time, apparently assuming she was too thick to know how to pronounce it. Thorpe then admitted she’d mispronounced.
Either way, Charles is also the Queen’s “successor”, so the point remains that Thorpe publicly broke her oath.
Mortimer sounds like another of these race grifters.
The Australian Jewish Association, of which I am a member, has released this in the last hour…
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) criticized the decision, saying that while they did not support Owens’ “bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories,” they saw the ban as a “flawed proposal” and one that went against Jewish values of free speech.
They also added that banning Owens may prove a “counter-productive pyrrhic victory.”
“Sometimes attempting to ban a speaker will an encourage ugly conspiracies that Jews seek to control who can speak, exercising undue power.
The AJA added that they were more concerned with the failure of the [Australian] Labor government to deal with the real antisemitism in the community, such as at universities, calling the Owens’ ban “a false appearance of acting against antisemitism, in effect throwing us a few crumbs while ignoring the big issues.”
Quite so. Thank you AJA. I don’t need to add anything to the AJA release above, it echoes how I feel about this decision. I don’t much care for Owens and her lunatic ravings (some of which make me laugh out loud, particularly her ignorant ravings about Jacob Frank) however I find Owens’ lunatic ravings a lot less threatening to me and other Australian Jews than the dangerous maniacal lunatic ravings being propagated by clerics and their followers in mosques across Western Sydney.
I’m not aware that Owens, for all her faults, has ever incited violence. Please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think so.
Meanwhile, last Sunday, in Sydney’s Hyde Park, a woman incited real violence against ‘Zionists’. I can report that no arrests were made and the NSWaffen Police did what they’re experts at when dealing with those who spruk hatred and violence towards Jews on our streets. They stood by and did nothing.
Exactly so.
Your dude reckons they’re the best tank ever, whereas this dude reckons they’re pretty useless.
Just finished watching The Dirty Dozen on Focks.
Man, those guys never needed to reload.
Russia’s T-72 Is The Best Tank on Earth and Ukraine Knows It
I’m not sure why the article raises the Armata. I don’t think that tank has been combat tested. There haven’t been any credible reports from either side of Armatas being deployed in combat in Ukraine. It’s still a very new platform.
Good for them. The correct (and a refreshing) approach.
Well, he got out of his bubble and was “on the streets” and “the vibe was not good.” In fact, “it’s time to panic”. Kamal’s increasingly manic performances bears out the “panic”- so Demorat internal polling is taking it’s toll.
Right, abolishing income tax completely and erecting huge tariffs would be monstrously irresponsible by any sane measure. You say later he might instead do some tariffs and some tax cuts. Agreed, he may do that.
Is there some sort of Laffer Curve equivalent where those two moves in concert would have a positive net effect, rather than what the textbooks say about it being a complete disaster from go to whoa?
I said a few days ago that to the extent that his economic plan was at all coherent or workable, it would tend to sink the world into recession. If there is some theory by which a sudden, jolting return to the American economic lever settings of 1905 would be beneficial, I haven’t heard it yet.
stfu mUnty … it was just some old crap in a Joe Rogan interview
and here you are running around like you’re some sort of economist
do you ever stop wanking?
Quite. Best not to mention the textbooks if I were you.
Yes.
The analysis on tariffs generally shows that the overall loss of “surplus” to suppliers and consumers exceeds the tariff revenue raised.
But income taxes also have disincentive effects, so its possible it could outweigh it. In a sense, all revenue/income taxes are tariffs in some way, so the tariff argument applies to all of them.
To tax efficiently, look at the Georgist Single Tax.
Who needs ‘textbooks’, all the world can see how it played out between 2016 and 2020, and what happened after…
If you type in T-72 to the TNI search bar you get a range of judgements. Hilarious that this is the latest. He’s not ‘my guy’, never heard of this fella before today, but his argument is sound.
BTW, who’s ‘this dude’ in your quotation? Reads like he’s coping re the Challenger 2, Abrams, and Leo 2.
OCO, sounds like he’s saying that bird in the hand is better than two in the bush re the T-72 and the Armata.
m0ron , the gun economist, is in the house!
LOL.
Trump’s comments regarding tariffs are obviously a statement of intent rather than an actual policy outcome Trump is seeking to implement if elected.
It really isn’t difficult to interpret Trump’s exaggerations and marketing speak. In this instance: Trump is saying he will impose tariffs on imports to encourage industrial reshoring.
It’s a good idea, he should do it. The US has a large enough internal market to make it worth global producers currently selling manufactured goods into the US to set up shop or increase their manufacturing in the US. Pity we don’t. Now our industrial base has largely gone, it ain’t coming back.
Interesting that you mentioned Laffer, as he actually commented on what some perceive as the inflationary impact of tariffs.
He argued that inflation isn’t a guaranteed result when considering the complexity of imported goods—unlike basic raw materials, such as steel, where the impact might be more direct.
One reason he cited was that import quantities would likely decrease following a tariff hike, but exports could also drop, leading to an increased supply of goods and services within the economy. He makes a strong point here.
Let’s face it: if any country could operate independently from international trade, it would be the U.S. Over the medium term, the U.S. doesn’t necessarily need to rely on trade with others.
However, the issue I see is that if relations with China deteriorate significantly, we could be in trouble. A serious slowdown in China would negatively impact us, especially given the large trade surplus we currently enjoy with them.
There’s a vid with Laffer actually talking about this.
My honest take is that if Trump wins, he’ll likely implement a broad-based tariff on imports. While there may be some retaliation, it probably won’t be severe. Trump would use the revenue to lower the corporate tax rate to 15% and solidify the previous tax cuts set to expire in 2026.
The savings that figures like Vivek, Musk, and others could generate would then be used to help reduce the deficit. He’s hoping that the economic growth resulting from these changes will also contribute to debt reduction.
Trump isn’t planning to deport 15 million undocumented immigrants and has partially walked back on that. He has stated he’ll build the wall to stem the flow of illegal entry. Additionally, he’s open to allowing those without a criminal record to stay, though they wouldn’t receive citizenship. However, he intends to take a firm stance against undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes. He’s also aware that if the economy becomes more domestically focused, it may pressure the workforce and, in turn, wage rates, given the current low unemployment.
My concern is how Trump’s approach to China might impact us. However, Trump being Trump, there’s a possibility that he could actually achieve a breakthrough in relations, potentially establishing a firmer and more honest foundation.
They have only the experience of Biden-Harris versus Trump and right now the unknown quantity is Trump-Vance, who have made equivocal noises re Iran, etc. Dems have completely blown themselves up re Gaza, etc. and they are getting hardly any love for it.
Who’s your “guy” then? I suspect the only person “coping” here is you because if there’s any slop that’s offered fitting into your bias, you become very giddy with excitement.
Here’s some more analysis on this subject.
But the Russian tank is the best in the world.
I suspect that the Abrams is what a rich country would have as a tank and the T72 is the best that a relatively poor country came up with.
No idea. As I said, first I’ve heard of him. Now tell us who your mystery dude is, can we have a link?
Really, I offer an article from TNI that has previous articles bagging the T-72 and I’m accused of ‘slop’ and ‘giddiness’.
It’s interesting analysis. He’s basically saying that the adaptability, simplicity, reliability, and ease of maintenance make it a better tank overall compared to the Abrams in combat situations where (1) you can improve the weaknesses he identified of the T-72 through upgrades, and (2) other platforms (drones, artillery, and the like) are involved which mitigate the advantages of the Abrams.
Ah…takes me back to the good old days of Trucks v. Trains.
I just want to clarify the point about what I recently heard from Trump about the issue of illegal immigration.
He wants to eliminate the flow of illegal immigration.
He will be very strict toward undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes or have criminal records in their countries of origin.
He’s stated that undocumented immigrants who have settled in, maintained steady jobs, and integrated into society will be given consideration, but they will not be eligible for citizenship.
This guy’s having fun with Mr Carlton.
https://x.com/SimonSperling/status/1850076974179660012?t=4arogVTutxDLBH38iZgKWA&s=19
Not sure if internet view are the room, but it would be nice.
https://x.com/calvinrobinson/status/1850337717281837526?t=2CWRkjH95YZTRTIC7jbwhg&s=19
Great to hear from him.
It would start a trade war. China wasn’t born yesterday. They were playing the long game a thousand years ago.
There is this thing called Congress that would tend to limit Trump’s ability to swing the chainsaw. Even if Republicans hold the Speakership, the current house has shown how weak their majority is.
Cutting G would not result in GDP growth.
I am heartily sick of people assuming Trump won’t use the powers of the Presidency to do what he says he will do in a second term. This is magical thinking, the sort of wishcasting that got those Weimar dummkopfs in the scheisse.
(This statement does not contradict the one above about Congress – the President has the power to deport illegals but does not have direct power over setting the budget.)
Trump is not playing eleven-dimensional chess, JC. Don’t fall into the trap of working overtime to paint his prosaic dementia-fuelled narcissism as genius.
So, you don’t want Trump to behave like Creepy Joe? Why not? Surely imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
he said, while making more idiotic assumptions
Simpler times. Better times.
It’s in a relatively weaker position considering the EU would join in.
Not necessarily on tariffs. The prez has broad powers in this regard.
Stop being an idiot all the time as it’s infuriating and people don’t deserve this level of imbecility to be thrust on them.
Why would the EU join in a trade war? It is not a NATO issue. They would sit back, enjoy the show and smoke a Gauloise.
Re the budget, I was talking a chainsaw to government spending. Trump has not campaigned on any specific cuts, and when Vivek/Elon get specific Congress would get very antsy. They can wave through tax cuts, but spending cuts are not really a Republican thing. Just look at the last forty years.
As for your anti-empirical ideological nonsense, LOL.
Time for a pop up disclaimer or something. “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.”
He has also said that he will go after the violent gangs using the military. The courts are going to go crazy.
I wonder if he will also go after the greatest threat to US prosperity, the cartels.
I imagine that Mexico’s new communist president will be experiencing some robust exchanges with Trump.
No country could or should tolerate having the source of societal breakdown parked just across its borders, and in Democrat Arizona.
More peaceful times.
Russia’s T-72 Is The Best Tank on Earth and Ukraine Knows It | The National Interest
Clickbait.
That’s how you read the piece? Really.
It’s like saying the Abrams is the luxury SUV of tanks, while the Russian one is your old, reliable beater that just won’t die.
The Abrams is the rich man’s tank while the Russian is a poor man’s.
The EU hates Chinese trade.
If the Euroweanies get cold feet or get into dirty dealings, Trump could threaten them he’d walk from NATO.
Great piss taking by dickless:
I am heartily sick of people assuming Trump won’t use the powers of the Presidency to do what he says he will do in a second term. This is magical thinking, the sort of wishcasting that got those Weimar dummkopfs in the scheisse.
What a classy way of saying Trump is Hitler which can’t be right because unlike Hitler and all leftoids Trump has functioning genitalia:
Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim’lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
And:
Don’t fall into the trap of working overtime to paint his prosaic dementia-fuelled narcissism as genius.
You mean what you and every other leftoid did with biden and now cackles. Good old dickless: the self awareness of a fart.
Israel Struck Air Defenses Around Critical Iranian Energy Sites, Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/world/middleeast/israel-air-defenses-iran-energy-sites.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Trump, Musk, and Starmer: Unveiling the FIGHT for Information Control
In Victoriastan, here is the latest edict:
The Victorian Government says it will fast-track the approval of what it deems innovative and sustainable, family-friendly townhouses and apartments in established suburbs.
From 2025, applications for new three-to-six storey residential developments will be assessed against a set of criteria, including the amenities offered in the building, whether its architectural design fits in with or enhances the local streetscape, and affordability.
Projects that meet those benchmarks and are deemed to be environmentally sustainable, are designed for families, are accessible and have communal spaces and gardens, will be fast-tracked through the planning process, reducing the time frame to approval from an average of 12 months to around four months.
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I notice that ‘places people would choose to live’ is not on the list.
Readers will be well aware of the agendas of the architects on the payroll and even more of the town planners – they all dream of socialist fantasies where everyone harmoniously shares common spaces (like the kitchen in the office) and happily sacrifices personal space and privacy for the Greater Good.
Social engineering, land use engineering – they just keep trying to control us. Unfortunately, human preferences continue to spit in their collective faces.
Hey social engineers – how many rich people choose to live in a tiny flat over a railway station because it’s good for the environment?
Pricks.
Was an article in News yesterday about an economist opining people won’t buy apartments and preferred free standing houses.
The comments were savage from 3 angles, shoddy building of apartments & phoenixing building companies, body corporate fees/management and that families want a back yard.
My own experience was with Body Corporate managers just being a money making machine for 2 Bankers SMSF. 2 years and VCAT to get rid of them. I sold before we had the win as I’d had enough but supported the VCAT action to the end. Never again with units unless I own more than 75% of the lots.
Can’t escape the economic reality that buildings depreciate and land appreciates. Town planning can’t do anything about that.
Strata laws are a mess. Nearly everyone has a strata horror story.
Just wait until the ‘Communal Gardens’ become a place to work on the ’75 Holden that needs a new engine, or the place to grow a crop of ‘fruitless tomatoes’ or gets taken over by the new arab family on the fourth floor, who exclude everyone else and turn it into a dump.
He makes points.
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1850371726988771370?t=GJxsE70RRdqJ_W8XJxKgTg&s=19
She swipes her pen.
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1850210241255772667?t=FPKbTqE603FYuXo8q8292A&s=19
Pure evil.
“1) So when I saw the first reports of this last night and read aircraft were used, I knew two things:
A) Aerial refueling was necessary.
B) Air defense suppression was necessary.
But rather than try to be “first” to say it, I decided to wait for more information. Let’s begin”
https://x.com/FluteMagician/status/1850178712467058881?t=IMYUIoqoTFdh0kMtGHwgqg&s=19
Of course you read it that way. But the farmer isn’t looking for luxury, they want the gutsy reliable beater that just won’t die because they can’t afford their vehicle breaking down regularly and spending more time in the workshop than in the field performing the tasks they require.
In other words, I’d say your poor vs rich man’s lens is not the right one. The better lens is Mazda v Jaguar.
Rosie that can’t be true because it is a picture of an F-35 and Dover Beach has declared the F-35 to be a dud.
We’ve just arrived back home from a heartwarming family occasion yesterday in my deceased brother’s son’s project home in Worrigee, in what some say is the less salubrious part of Nowra, where Hairy gets completely lost in the cul-de-sac sameness of it all. We were celebrating my sister’s continuing grasp on life as she fights mesothelioma in her 83rd year. Over 25 family members attended, with the exception of my daughter in Queensland, too busy to fly down, occupied with her husband doing the Saturday sports run for their three young ones. A shame re the big family photo op, the shots taken by the next door neighbour called in specially for the purpose, a huge tradie guy covered in tatts, whose antics for us to call ‘cheese, banana’ had everyone in a good mood. There’s always photoshop, we can put them in, said one of the younger generation re my daughter’s absence.
Even the crew from Newcastle turned up, absent the mother of my great-niece, my sister’s granddaughter, who was visiting Maori family in New Zealand. Everyone knew sis’s grand-daughter ‘Charlene’ was ‘Maori’ in her heritage via her mother, but no-one knew that she was also aboriginal via her father, my sister’s deceased son. I thought people knew and when I let that cat out of the bag, a good half of those present were very surprised. Charlene’s dad was aboriginal? Imagine that, said one, we just thought he was a bit olive skinned.
It was the response of the younger generation that surprised me. We’ve never made a thing about our aboriginal rellies, her father’s people whom I knew back in Mt. Druitt when sis first married into that family. Is she going to claim aboriginality now? they asked me. For her children? (my sis’s two little great-grand-sweeties running around with the dogs and the other kids)?
So this is how ‘aboriginality’ is being constructed these days? Many generations back someone married a dark-skinned aboriginal person who was likely even then to have had some admixture of European ancestry.
If it continues half of Australia will be aboriginals of the Lidia Thorpe type.
Anyone whose ancestors (any of them) lived outside the major cities in the 1800s has a high probability of Aboriginal ancestry of some degree. Up until the 1970s, this probably constituted more than half of all Australians.
Now do non-Aboriginal Australians of the same era.
Take the sugar off the table.
Good post, Elizabeth.
Wilders delivering. Will be interesting to see.
https://x.com/real_eire/status/1850098260448313498?t=uEfuVUexV0w7ys38uflAgw&s=19
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2024/10/25/dutch-to-tighten-border-and-rules-for-asylum-seekers/
I’ll believe it when I see a stream of the bludgers getting off planes in their own countries.
The Gimp’s view of Economics.
A modest amount of bread kills mosquitos.
First you feed the bread to noisy miners.
Then the noisy miners breed more noisy miners.
After a while there are no mosquitos.
All the extra noisy miners have eaten them.
This is an empirical scientific finding, n=1.
I’m sure there was a Dog, the Bounty Hunter episode using a scaled-up version of this.
The trade war risk is highest if he doesn’t negotiate peace with Russia first; he doesn’t want BRICSpay to succeed.
Haha
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1850185377123877375?t=gOHFWOQSm0ngrR3OWdwHuA&s=19
Bloody Brilliant!
Best scriptwriters evah! 😀
Every European leader is Wilders now.
Except Starmer.
Albo to compete with Keir Starmer over freebies?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14006483/Anthony-Albanese-Qantas-question.html
Isn’t that the way Tories behave?
Blood, Soil and Land AcknowledgementsThe Nazi origins of the latest woke trend.
October 25, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
Panicking liberals urge Kamala Harris to appear with Rogan as Trump’s staggering ratings on podcast revealed
I would pay to see that in real time. 😀
I so need a haha response to this.
Hopefully voters elsewhere around Oz are thinking the same way:
Voters in Queensland’s most crime-riddled suburbs made up their minds about ousting Labor well before election day, with a massive surge against them in pre-polling and postal votes.
The LNP’s hard on crime policies, including “Adult Crime, Adult Time” played a pivotal part in the party’s win of crucial seats statewide, including all three of Townsville’s marginal electorates – Thuringowa, Mundingburra and Townsville.
Thousands of residents in other areas impacted by juvenile crime, including Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay and Mount Isa, also voted early against Labor.
LNP also gained the seat of Capalaba with candidate Russell Field, whose son, partner, and their unborn child were killed by a teenager in a stolen car in 2021.
Courier-Mail
Looks like corrective services is going to be the new growth industry in QLD.
I would think the recidivism rate amongst those young people is going to be close to 100% with longer and longer stays at His Majesty’s pleasure.
Stand by for the first complaints that most of the young offenders are Indigenous..
That’d be fun. A three hour epic word salad!
The argument about which is the better tank is silly.
It depends on the terrain, the way the weapon is used, the opposing forces, so many factors that trying to make comparisons is a waste of time.
Horses for courses.
Justin let’s them in to Canada then they hike to the US.
https://vtdigger.org/2024/10/25/newport-center-familys-game-cameras-document-border-security-concerns/
Our family gathering was organised by ‘Rosalie’, my sister’s Sinhalese daughter, adopted forty years ago in Sri Lanka from the town where I lived for nearly a year with my first husband and my first born child. This beautiful woman looks Sinhalese but speaks and acts pure Australian, having been adopted at six weeks old by my sister and the third of her five husbands. She attended Canberra Girls Grammar and is on occasion bemused at who we all are. Our family, aunty, she says to me, especially with sis’s marriages, is like no other family.
I tell her we are like every other family, because we stick together. Sure, we’re diverse in ethnicity and lots of other things, but family is family.
We were all discussing how various people in the family had features similar to the older generations, some now deceased, and my nephew’s wife, who was catering for the whole show (with contributions from us and others) missed out – no-one said anyone, even her own kids, looked like her, or her side of the family.
No one looks like me, she lamented.
Me neither, said the Sinhalese Rosalie, laughing.
Yes, but you’ve got an excuse, said my nephew’s wife. In my case, my weak-kneed genes just haven’t made the cut.
They linked arms in their common cause.
Still no sighting of C.L I do hope he’s okay.
Look how differently the Regime pivots from the last election. Then it was all laches and standing now it tightens the electoral rules.
This seems to be a daily event.
Mercedes EQA BURNS to ground – MGUY EV News 27 October 2024 | MGUY Australia
There’s a follow up posting on Insta. The original video was Thurs night and apparently he’s been absolutely overwhelmed with patrons and shoppers in the 48 hours since, including many making a trip up from the bagel belt to show support.
Personally I think he should make a police report of a hate crime and keep following up. Hopefully there’s cctv images of the blue haired harpy.
Similar to Avner’s Jewish bakery here in Sydney’s Surry Hills receiving overwhelming support since it’s targeting two weeks ago by leftist//Muslim Nazi scum. Having said that, I know of Jewish businesses across Sydney that are receiving abusive phone calls and are being targeted online. It’s leaving a very bad taste in our mouths. Yesterday, in Shul, I ran into a member of Lewis family, who own Lewis Continental Kitchen. Last Sunday, Lewis Kitchen was targeted by arson in suspicious circumstances and completely gutted.
I hope people support Jewish business when they can. It helps Jews feel that they are not alone. For Sydney Cats there are wonderful bakeries and eateries, Avner’s, Grandma Moses, Kepos Kitchen (scrumptious Israeli food), Lewis Kitchen, Shuk, Sweet Chick (which makes the best chiffon cake around) and others.
https://mileswmathis.com/kamala.pdf
Kamala Harris pedigree. The usual suspects.
Perhaps Premier Minns could lead the way…
With reporters & cameras in tow.
Best thing Minns could do would be to personally migrate to Yemen.
Rudd patronised the Jewish chocolate group that was target by BDS whackos when Rudd was PM.
From NFA’s 7:14 p.m. link:
[My emphasis].
Exactly.
My house is around a hundred years old. The land has been used for everything from Potato farming to growing Berries.
It’s mine now, and I am putting my own stamp on it.
A lesson in certainty for Monty.
How they would have laughed in the 70’s if you said you could have strong GDP growth with low interest rates and low inflation.
Comedy Gold
WATCH: Morning Joe Melts Down Over Trump’s Transgender Ad
Armies have to choose a tank that will fight in different terrain, against different enemies, and under varying conditions. Not a tank for a tourney.
Correct – design follows function demand which is always changing.
Differing roles, differing protocols for use.
Dogs, I’m not certain that would work this time around. The Demons have been blaming Russia for everything through hoaxes mostly. If Trump gets in, he’s only going to be there for four years and then what? Russia is more comfortable with the friends its chosen now – friends out of necessity.
I’ll Take Manhatten
Exclusive – Donald Trump Says He Can ‘Win New York’ in Tele-Rally with Elise Stefanik
It toock some digging to find it again. Posted on Sinc’s years back.
Great remix and clip.
The Cars – Drive (New 2022 Extended Version + Teri Garr Tribute)
God, I miss the eighties.
14,000 Reasons to Doubt
America’s democracy is the envy of the world, according to Hillary Clinton. Pity about the way they run their elections
Roger Franklin
Oct 27 2024
It’s likely someone has already posted this, so the usual apology … but via the RedState blog comes this anti-Kamala Harris ad. It’s a beauty:
From American Men to Kamala Harris: ‘It’s Not Us, It’s You.’
It’s worth repeating, over and over and over.
Took….
Looks like Georgian Dream has broken NATO hearts. Oh no! Anyway
Messy area right now. Lots of fun biff going on on the other side of the Carpathians. Grudges at ten paces!
Students Are SO PROUD Of Kamala Harris For… Well… They Don’t Know
young women and voting is an unmitigated disaster
FMD. The West is stuffed.
“I wanna be a whale psychiatrist.” – Donald J Trump.
https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY?t=4293 @ 1:11:33
Looks like we are going to get Operation True Promise 3.
Zippster, I watched the clip in your link, then I clicked on another link. Too damn good not to share.
Groucho Marx dealing with a Crazy-eyed contestant. Brilliant, if a little creepy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnnLs0v9_s
Spent the last week wrestling with a leak in the Model A petrol tank. Which given the tank sits above your groin, requires some attention.
Items required to disassemble or remove to repair a Model A petrol tank:
Instrument cluster.
Terminal box.
Engine bay bulkhead.
Top of gearbox.
Fuel lines.
Steering wheel.
Steering column.
Steering box.
Exhaust bolts.
Distributor linkages.
Choke rod.
Dashboard.
Throttle linkages.
Tank support brackets.
Procedure to fix petrol tank leak:
Pour litre of degreaser and two metres of chain into tank.
Attach tank to missus or cement mixer.
Agitate missus/ cement mixer/ tank combination until interior of tank is free of rust and grime.
Flush tank.
Dry tank.
Seal inside of tank.
Pacify missus,
Reassemble car.
.
Bloody good thing it was a simple job eh Arky?
Well, apart from the missus.
Diamonds work. Or if you’re a bit skint, a bottle of wine – or maybe a flagon.
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Biden is telling advisors the election is “dead and buried” and called Kamala an “innate sucker” – per WH official
Trump’s secret weapon may tip the election
Real world experience. Can’t be beaten.
Unless they cheat or Americans are dumber than we think.
Megyn Kelly leaves audience stunned as she describes horror of transgender surgeries to Bill Maher
I have a lot of time for Megyn Kelly. She is speaking truth about the whole transgender movement.
And one day these abused children will be grown up and the reality of their lives that have been ruined will become apparent.
They will wreak a horrible vengeance on the adults that abused their trust and their bodies.
No respect for Numbers Bob, over on Michael Smith…
Robert Wells said in reply to 1735099…
Total of 34.
Total, we don’t know who you are but sure as He’ll your not the guy that served under the service number you use to postal the errors and crsp you do.
There was no platoon commander name of Doug Gibbons in Vietnam. Only Doug Gibbons was in RAN
No sergeant name of Graham Collins
And what’s the go about 1971? Guy whose name fits service number you stole was in Vietnam Feb 70 to Dec 70.
Drop off, Total, you are a poser of worst kind.
Doug was a platoon commander in Vietnam, and an accomplished man in a number of fields.
Unfortunately, Doug died early, some say as a consequence of his service.
I knew Doug Gibbons and Graham Collins personally so Robert Wells is wrong there. They both appear in the Vietnam Veterans roll. Drop off Robert Wells, you are a researcher of the worst kind
The ever shrinking blog.
@VigilantFox
This is the best thing you will see on the internet all day.
A Trump hater infiltrated Elon Musk’s rally, but Musk gracefully schooled him with an epic mic drop moment.
TRUMP HATER: “Trump did not and has not accepted the results of the 2020 election, one which has been called the most secure in the nation’s history by the former president’s own Department of Homeland Security. Similarly, I saw the violent disruption of the electoral vote count on the news during January 6th.
“So, I ask this as a first-time voter who wants to discern the truth. What would you say to comfort the concerns of young voters like me who are worried that voting for a second Trump presidency will lead to democratic backsliding?
@ElonMusk: “The media tries to characterize January 6th as some sort of violent insurrection, which is simply not the case. That is false … There have to be a lot of guns for it to be a violent insurrection.”
“It’s not as though the January 6th protesters had no merit. They had some merit. I disagree with the magnitude of what they did. But it’s not as though there were no issues [with the election].”
“Almost every country on Earth has voter ID requirements, but we don’t. Why? And why do the same people who demanded vaccine IDs for you to do anything say no ID for voting? Something doesn’t add up. It doesn’t add up. My firm opinion is that those who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.”
Pick of WIP:
@TuckerCarlson
When Amaryllis Fox Kennedy says the intel agencies are a threat to our country, she’s not guessing. She spent ten years as a CIA officer before running Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign. She’s now campaigning for Trump.
(0:00) The Ukraine War Scam
(9:50) Why Washington Doesn’t Care About Domestic Policy
(14:13) Intel Agencies Operating Within the Media
(19:48) How America’s War on Iraq Caused the Fall of Europe
(27:43) The Classified Documents About 9/11
(33:20) The Kennedy Assassinations
(36:21) Intel Agencies Working with Drug Cartels
(43:49) Our Politicians Are Controlled by the Intel Agencies
(57:12) The Impending EMP Crisis
(1:14:20) Why Biden Reversed Trump’s EMP Preparedness Measures
(1:26:31) The Media Blackout of Kennedy’s Campaign
(1:37:41) Bobby Kennedy Endorsing Trump
“He Decided to Screw the Democratic Party” – Joe Biden’s Final Gift to Trump
RFK Jr.: This Is How Much The Democratic Party Has Changed So That I’m No Longer A Part Of It
The Tucker interview with Amaryllis Fox Kennedy is not to be missed.
Hitler phones Kamala Harris
Response to Pogria’s 9:15 p.m. post (for those who don’t like nesting comments):
Any compensation to indigenous people* should be based on the unimproved value of the land as at 1788. Every improvement to the land – including the land and facilities that surround it, and the technology to excavate underground resources – has been provided courtesy of ‘European’ civilisation.
*I’m NOT in favour of ANY compensation, but should such be necessary, it seems dishonest to apply to the valuation later improvements that the original inhabitants could not possibly have delivered.
*I’m NOT in favour of ANY compensation, but should such be necessary, it seems dishonest to apply to the valuation later improvements that the original inhabitants could not possibly have delivered.
We should be charging them for the myriad benefits we have so far given them gratis.
Not those who have joined us and are now just Australians, but those who are demanding reparations.They owe us a lot more than we owe them.