Conceived on a Ministerial desk with Jan Murray in 1987. A good start to a useless activist career.
Open Thread – Mon 28 Oct 2024
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Gave up on the SMH in 2013. I used to love reading the letters and had the odd one published.…
The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
The worst elements of the Muesli society are laughing at the police. I am sure they see the appeasement from…
‘Censorship is about power and control’: Government’s misinformation bill ‘not the solution’
According to Sky News, since 2010 the Prime Minister has also received the following from Qantas: an iPad, cookbook, travel wallet, model aircraft, bar cart, NRL tickets, cricket tickets, Midwinter Ball tickets, flight upgrades, accommodation, Chairman’s Lounge membership, Lifetime Platinum status and a luggage tag.
Did you bother even reading what you post? It seems it’s another one of those will to power things.
Okay. But then 80% is conducted in other currencies with the lions share being the dollar.
That specifically tells you how much is done in local currencies. 20%
You appear to be very expert in this. Can you please explain how any of those BRICS currencies would be accumulated without convertibility on the free market?
You’re basically peddling a story which is no more than hope and cope.
The last bit is funny. These countries are going to massively sell down their US dollar reserves to buy what exactly – the Iranian Rial? The rubble? The Yuan?
If so, explain how any accumulated reserves could be liquidated without seeking permission?
It’s not the countries that run balance of payments deficits that have to worry. it would those running surpluses. In which BRICS currency are they going to he held? Ethiopia?
The retard is unburdened again. She’s unburdening.
Journalist: Trump leads with men by 16 points. Why is that? Kamala — Look at this audience. Men are supporting me. Voters can be ‘unburdened by who they may have voted for in the past.’
Kamala Harris – what an empty vessel – when is her sit-down with Joe Rogan?
@hodgetwins
Never seen a nazi rally with jews, blacks, and hindus as speakers
Kevin has a poll open on who is the next leader to go (down the sidebar):
Dr Kevin Bonham: Not-A-Poll Reset 2 of 2024: Miles Defeated
Go on Cats.. vote often!!
(Albanese is leading!!!)
Dr. Phil Makes The Case For Why Trump Is Not A ‘Bully’ At Madison Square Garden Campaign Rally
A Channel 7 reporter just now called Israeli hostages in Gaza as captives. As if they were not innocents grabbed by the Palestinian terrorists but somehow responsible for their fate. I thought Channel 7 reporters were a little better than the others but I obviously gave them more credit than they deserve.
‘Dark Gothic MAGA’ Elon Musk Says He Can Cut At Least $2T From Federal Budget At Trump’s MSG Rally
The Power of Satire – The Humorless Kamala Harris Hacks (THE SAAD TRUTH_1747)
Vivek Ramaswamy Sends Blunt Messages To Illegal Immigrants, Gen Z, And More At Trump’s MSG Rally
JD Vance Makes Madison Square Garden Crowd Laugh By Quoting Kamala Harris Directly | Trump Rally
Spot the difference.
Radical US media figure visa ban (Paywallian, today)
Jewish leaders take radical cleric to court amid inaction (Paywallian, today)
We’ll see if Mr Burke is consistent and deports his arse. Somehow I doubt it because he’s special.
Anthony Albanese – the incredible shrinking grifter – and Adam Bandt – another small Marxist borer eating away at the body politic of our nation. I suppose the name The Greens really suits – the Strangler Fig of politics
Tucker Carlson Goes Absolutely Insane at Madison Square Garden Trump Rally
Tucker Carlson Goes Absolutely !nsane at Madison Square Garden Trump Rally #trending #trump #rnc
Elbows veneer of respectability is about as convincing as the veneers covering his snaggle toothed, lying gob.
Pity the poor dentist having to prostitute himself to that unholy orofice
Rudy Giuliani Speaks At Former President Trump’s Madison Squar eGarden Rally In NYC
Death Row Records Co-Founder Michael ‘Harry O’ Harris Slams Kamala Harris Agenda At Trump MSG Rally
Alina Habba Goes Nuclear On Kamala Harris At Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally In NYC
The Midwinter Ball is a parliamentary charity event.
Too cheap to buy his own tickets.
Tulsi Gabbard Says A Vote For Kamala Harris Is ‘Likely’ A Vote For WWIII At MSG Rally
RFK Jr. Absolutely Eviscerates The Democratic Party At Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally
Tucker’s speech is truly from the heart.
I don’t want to go full Indolent&, but who fed Aston the story on Elbow?
It’d have to have come from inside the Liebor Party, surely?
*apologies as always to Indolent
Er, Tim…Dimbo’s been leaking against Albo for at least six months.
Chis Kenny had some dick called Kaplan, on the show this evening. This dork said that Kamel would be the best choice to run the US as she is “methodical”, experienced in what is needed to run the country, and other crap.
WTF?
I don’t want Luigi to quit.
I want him to face the electorate like a … toad.
Watch the bugger slosh about, slush his speech and slough off his amphibian exterior to reveal the gormless, corrupt tadpole that he is.
https://youtu.be/YTJZhsGmWi8?si=u3K-wDBLolUbqjnG
This review by Peterson is well worth the effort to watch.
He reviews Trump’s inner circle. Certainly superior picks than his last gang. Vance, Ramaswamy, Gabbard, Rfk Jr, Musk.
He mentions Carlson but does not analyse him.
If there is anyone who he is most passionate about, it is RFK Jr.
With this level of intellect, passion, agression and loyalty onboard you can believe that Trump will survive the armageddon that the terrified communists, cronies and legal fakers will unleash during his critical first three months.
“You may have heard about the picture being put about purporting to be Kamala in a McDonalds uniform.”
Bonus points for photoshopping on a dead white women’s body.
‘It’s Going To Be So High’: Trump Touts Tariffs ‘On Every Single Car That’s Made In Mexico’
Chrisafulli signed into premiership in QLD by the newish governor, former “health authority” during the awful Covid period.
All of those health authorities were not just wrong, but disastrously wrong and aided and abetted some of the worst impositions on our rights since WW2 – when impositions and restrictions were a lot more understandable.
My artwork for this arvo… 😛
‘When I Hear Kamala Speak…’: Hulk Hogan Roasts ‘Bad Actress’ Kamala Harris At Trump’s MSG Rally
And they remain unapologetic.
Because they’d do it all over again & the enabling legislation remains in place.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Speaks At Trump’s Rally At Madison Square Garden In NYC
Donald Trump Jr. Castigates Kamala Harris At Madison Square Garden Rally In NYC
Mark Levin did a demolition job on the Demonrats today. His summary in detail was devastating. Their history isn’t one of integrity or responsibility. Quite the opposite, and now they plumb new depths.
How low? The Machine knows know bounds, it will do anything to frustrate the will of the people because there is so much at stake for them – they’ve done it so many times
Yes I did. I’m just finding it hard to believe that a potential decline in the use of the USD in global trade doesn’t diminish its value somewhat for the reasons outlined. Further, why would countries with surpluses park it in USD if the value of the USD is falling?
Not sure what this will to power thingy is about though.
Well, I’ve watched the Madison Square Garden videos of Trump’s ralley there today and they have been fabulous. He’s on a huge roll.
He’s made the right choice with JD Vance too – such a good debater, especially in this so-called CNN interview where he wipes the floor with the interviewer who is chasing him with debating points.
Can’t seem to get anything done right now, as the internet is too exciting to leave. 🙂
So you’re changing the subject. Righto,
Since 2020, the assumption behind this idea is that there will be a decline in the use of the dollar. However, I posted an article a few weeks ago indicating that the use of the dollar has actually increased—not decreased.
There was a slight decline in the use of the euro and also a slight dip for the yuan.
Consequently, you’re basically relying on hope and cope.
Don’t walk away from the question I asked you about this. Every single one of the BRICS currencies has a restricted capital account—i.e., a roach motel.
The Europeans had high hopes for the euro, but it didn’t pan out. Now, you’re touting that bald frog idiot who’s eagerly implying the dollar’s downfall. Yet, neither you nor anyone else getting giddy over this has explained how the BRICS nations will manage their reserves.
By the way, there have been times when the dollar was very weak—and yet, here we are, with the dollar still preeminent.
Looking back thread I see I could have stayed on the Cat and picked up a lot of what I’ve seen today.
Well done Indolent and others for bring the rally clips here for all to see.
thefrollickingmole at 6:34
Thats why so many of them suicide. Literally could not pay me enough money to do that job.
“It’s not as clear-cut as you think. China has sold about $1 trillion in dollar reserves over the past few years, and it has had a negligible impact on the dollar, the U.S. bond market, and general sentiment toward the U.S. dollar.
It’s one thing to hope the dollar falls off its perch, but it’s also important to be to cope with the likely possibility that it doesn’t.
The dollar will eventually fall away for something else, but not even in my kid’s lifetime.
Tory Leadership: Jenrick v Badenoch. Labour Has USURPED Democracy and Broken How We’re Governed
Good fun, great remix. I reckon Vangelis upstairs would agree.
Vangelis – Blade Runner End Titles (Moreno J Remix)
Anyways, the BRICS meeting felt more like a Halloween party gone wrong—mostly just a bunch of ghouls in full costume! What a sad and unappealing crew.
New Zealand’s indigenous treaty has failed Maori, future deputy PM saysPaul Garvey
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The New Zealand minister leading the dismantling of many of the nation’s dedicated Maori initiatives and the restructure of its public service says New Zealand’s 50-year indigenous treaty experiment has failed to deliver better outcomes for the Maori people.
New Zealand Minister for Regulation David Seymour – who in May will become deputy prime minister under the agreement struck last year to form government between Christopher Luxon’s National Party, Winston Peters’ New Zealand First and Mr Seymour’s ACT – told The Australian the greater significance attached to the Treaty of Waitangi since the 1970s had proved “inherently divisive” and had not succeeded in improving the way of life for Maori.
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 by British Captain William Hobson and Maori chiefs when the British Crown was establishing colonies in New Zealand, has in recent decades seen Maori perspectives offered greater consideration in a wide array of public policy matters.
But the Luxon government has looked to reverse that trend since coming to power in late 2023. Most notably, it moved to disband the Maori Health Authority, triggering protests across the country as the government was accused of dismantling Maori rights.
Mr Seymour said his government’s efforts were focused on correcting the “inherently divisive” interpretation of principles under the treaty.
“One thing that is clear is that we haven’t made major progress in improving outcomes for Maori by going down that divisive path,” he said.
“Even if you were someone who said, ‘Okay, I don’t like dividing people by race, but I think it might be worth it if it works out’, well, the answer is it hasn’t.”
Mr Seymour’s comments come amid ongoing debate in Australia about a potential Indigenous treaty, with former Greens senator Lidia Thorpe last week calling for a treaty during her protest in front of King Charles. The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for the Indigenous voice to be followed by a treaty, and many Indigenous leaders still want the government to pursue the next stage despite last year’s defeat of the voice referendum.
Mr Seymour said Australia’s rejection of the voice showed Australians intuitively understood the risks of ascribing rights based on race.
“As soon as you say people could have different political rights based on their ancestry, then you go to a very bad place. New Zealand’s been on that path for 50 years,” Mr Seymour said.
“I am, dare I say, the main person who is either brave or stupid enough to try and reverse that.”
Lidia Thorpe was unavailable for comment.
Desperate Vladie has to rely on NK crap while the world has a valuable new source of military hardware from South Korea. Poland hopes to purchase 1,000 K2 tanks which are rated as world class and probably superior to anything Russia has, which is a low standard.
Korea Gears Up to Arm the West Against Russia (and China) | @VisualPolitikEN
John H. October 28, 2024 12:30 pm
How does one apportion blame between, say, colonialists and ancestors’ actions? Presumably a poofteenth of qualification is enough for the spoils, similar to the strength of the bloodline…
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/devastated-north-carolina-i-witnessed-master-class-most-powerful-force-universe
Is there an Ozzie equivalent of Arkancide? Joe Aston may be about to experience it.
Dynamite speech by the Ramaswamy at the Fatty Trump MSG extravaganza. Now for the Tucker speech.
calli
October 28, 2024 2:32 pm
Merry Christmas Mr President.
Blam!
Blam! Blam! Blam!
Elise Stefanik Does Hold Hold Back Ripping Kamala Harris At Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally
Melania Trump Speaks Urges Voters To Back Her Husband At Madison Square Garden Rally
‘Kamala Harris Is Calling Him Hitler!’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Torches VP For Attacks On Trump
FULL SPEECH: Trump Rails Against VP Harris, Promises New Golden Age At Madison Square Garden Rally
Just on who snitched to Aston about Albo: a lot of people in this story are light on the loafers and nature’s bachelors can be terribly bitchy. Media types know exactly where it came from and why. Good yarn though.
JC
October 28, 2024 4:04 pm
Let them eat cake.
Haha so the altercation at.the MCG was a slag fight. Like the scene in the 70s movie Caddie in the “ladies” lounge.
I am a FF and haven’t had an upgrade (Outside a cancelled flight upgrade sweetener to taking one for the team) for about 20 years now. Best I get now is upgrade to emergency exit rows, seems the unpaid upgrade is as common as hens teeth these days.
There’s no way there isn’t some pressure behind the scenes going on, even if it isn’t the heavy Belinda Neal “do you know who I am” in your face type.
‘They Are Now Full-On To Marxism’: Speaker Johnson Rips Democrats At Trump’s MSG Rally In NYC
You still marvel at how completely degenerate the Vic gubment is when you hear about magistrates being told to go easy on foreign pedos and drug dealers so they won’t be deported. They really do hate Australia.
So much for the social contract.
Not at all. I’m wondering how this new system will work prospectively. As to your example of the EU, how does the experience of the EU/ euro have anything to tell us here given the fact that EU trade as a proportion of global trade has declined over those years.
I don’t know. They will park their surpluses in a variety of currencies in and out of BRICS, incl. USD as well as in gold or the like. We are going to find out.
I don’t now if Jacques is bald.
Now can you answer how a potential decline in the use of the USD in global trade doesn’t diminish its value?
FULL REMARKS: JD Vance Gives Blunt Take On Kamala Harris At Trump’s NYC Madison Square Garden Rally
CNN has a list Fonte t 25 Holloween outfits this year. Number one is Bob from Beetlegoise, whereas number two outfit has resulted in very high demand for green and gold tracksuits.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/24/style/halloween-costumes-google-trends-2024/index.html
Byron Donalds Mocks Kamala Harris At Trump’s Rally At Madison Square Garden In NYC
Roger
October 28, 2024 6:39 pm
Thanks for the confirmation.
I thought it was.
What a grub.
Can’t put his hand in his own pocket even for charity.
Not suggesting that isn’t high on the list of probabilities, but it could have come from anywhere.
The word which comes to mind is “shameless”.
He’s been at it for a very long time to the point where it becomes second nature. in fact, he is the type who would like to flaunt it. He would make it known to all and sundry that he could click his fingers and a First Class boarding pass just appears out of thin air.
It could have come from Qantas staff, public servants or (ahem) “trusted comrades”.
Over half of our trading partners.
Genetic Low IQ news (the CM):
‘That’s not mine!’
$500. Half a gorilla for driving around and stooking over half a billion worth of go-bickies.
And:
Brilliant.
Geez, back in 2013 Fatty O’Farrell, then premier of NSW, was forced to resign over a bottle of plonk.
There are 67 unsolved cases of missing women on the mid and north case of NSW:
‘Serial killer’ may have abducted missing NSW women, politician says | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
This vermin was allowed to die of natural causes in 2019:
Ivan Milat’s chilling serial backpacker murders still haunt Australia | Crime – Australia | The Guardian
This bastard was never tortured to reveal what was evident: that several of these murders could be directly linked to him. Torture can be justified:
Torture Report: Former CIA Directors Say Interrogation Program ‘Saved Thousands of Lives’ – ABC News
In milat’s case, where it is believed he did not murder alone, it would have been more than justified. But in a woke society where judges are trained to consider the accused more than the victim this would not happen.
Back in Brissie after three day drive Cooktown to Ingham to Rocky to Brissie. Cooktown and surrounds is just so wild frontier. Love it. Coloured sands, Point Archer, Lion’s den hotel. Visited two Aboriginal reserves- interesting but a little tense. Here’s to the great state of Queensland and a good result on Saturday night. Pick up the ball and run with it Dave.
Bloody hell, driving up to Point Archer lighthouse was on one way gravel track. No safety fence with sheer drop. Sure glad we didn’t meet anyone and have to reverse.
Any, “Sliante” to all on the Cat – a couple of single malts, and Simon Heffer’s monumental biography of Enoch Powell, “Rivers of Blood.”
Powell tutored Gough Whitlam at Sydney University in 1938, and he commented that “Whitlam had a very second rate mind.”
Powell’s daughter, Susan, born in 1954, was “put down” for Eton, before she was even born….
Point Archer
Powell’s daughter, Susan, born in 1954, was “put down” for Eton, before she was even born….
Eton doesn’t admit girls.
More modern is the use of the laser which has the benefit of being capable of burning tooth material as well. Not a smell you much enjoy, nor forget.
In his last bid, for re-election, in 1987, Powell was defeated. When asked, somewhat fatuously, by a BBC reporter, to explain his defeat., Powell replied “My opponent polled more votes than me.”
It was Anal’s new dark rimmed spectacles that bugged me for some reason. As if changing his glasses would somehow make him more appealing. Shallow cynicism.
Full BRICS members
Australia top 10 trading partners.
China – .
Japan –
United States –
South Korea –
Singapore –
India – .
Taiwan
Malaysia
New Zealand
Germany
In other words, China ranks as Australia’s top trading partner, with Malaysia in 8th position. India has indicated it plans to participate but maintains a somewhat divided stance. Saying ‘over half’ could be misleading, as Australia conducts trade with numerous countries.
Your question is hypothetical, and in my view, it’s unlikely the dollar will lose its standing in the foreseeable future.
Europe has declined in relative terms, but not in absolute terms, which is something you should have considered before posting the comment. The US has also declined in relative terms due to the growth of China etc, but the dollar has maintained its status.
@MikeBenzCyber
If Trump wins the electoral college next week, get ready for 2 months of street riots, a media onslaught the vote was illegitimate, crisis gov’t pressure on social platforms, followed at the end by an attempt by Congress to nullify the election on January 6, 2025.
@MikeBenzCyber
JC is a poofta from Melbourne who looks through devious publications.
Sue me you slimy shit.
It appears the last rats are jumping from the Furniture Shop ship.
There are other photos doing the rounds of different sites that are similarly inconclusive or indicative of limited damage and by limited I mean the damage looks more like that of a drone than a ballistic missile.
NFA
Calm down please. As I said, I didn’t post the luxuriant pic. All I’ve done is mention it and you’re throwing a tantrum. The gals who commented suggested your shoulder length hair is gorgeous and would look great in buns.
Why wouldn’t one totalitarian support another.
UK Starmer goes all in for Harris
Seems like JC and KD are not the only ones ‘Barkin Mad’!
Actress Ellen Barkin Pushes Boycott of Madison Square Garden over ‘Nazi Rally’ as New York Jews Celebrate Trump
Traumatised teachers reveal schoolboy rape threats and pornography abuseNatasha Bita
2 hours ago
Kindergarten kids are sharing pornography and molesting classmates while teenage boys threaten female teachers with rape, a disturbing new study shows.
Nearly half of teachers reported sexual harassment from boys in class, in a survey of 1012 teachers conducted by Collective Shout, a charity that campaigns against the sexualisation of children and objectification of girls.
Teenage boys in years 9 and 10 were responsible for most of the harmful sexual behaviours, Collective Shout warns in its first report on the sexual harassment of teachers.
Teachers said male students had propositioned them for sex, threatened them with rape, mimicked sex acts, asked for nude photos or sexually moaned, groaned or grunted at them in class.
Don’t they use the cane in schools any more? Six of the ripest and juiciest with a cane that bit like a scorpion would have instilled reverence and respect for lady teachers…
Oh stop. We’re jealous sick.
Tips please, on shampoo, conditioner and color, and also if those products are environmentally safe.
It isn’t misleading when you incl. the partners, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.
You’re dodging.
A decline in relative terms is still a decline. If world trade is increasing but Euro trade is increasing more slowly or not at all, thus declining in relative terms, that is consequential.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/true.html
Numbers Bob, getting his arze booted on Michael Smith…
Antisemitism in NYC schools fueled by foreign actors, activist educators: report
From Micheal Smith. Numbers Bob shaking his Pom-poms for the Teals…
1735099 said…
The TEALs are the future of Australian politics, independent candidates untrammelled by party affiliation and organised lobbyists.
They’re smart and they’re successful.
JC
Like all ‘traders’ I’ve ever audited, you are full of shit!
New footage of hamas returning to Al shifa with their ‘trophies’ on 7 October.
No Hannibals in sight.
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1850716400739918332?t=k-2dCf636CnM24LiQJ17Aw&s=19
Even Foreign Media Sees the Harris-Walz Campaign Is Imploding
They aren’t members. They’re partners in the same way India is a partner. That’s just one foot in the door making sure the escape route is easy.
There’s nothing to dodge, when dealing with a hypothetical.
Over the past 30 years, global trade has skyrocketed. While Europe may have seen a decline in its relative share, its absolute trade volume has still grown. So, I’m not quite sure what point you’re trying to make here.
And as for the BRICS setup—how’s that supposed to function when none of these currencies are freely convertible, and each has its own set of capital controls? It’s honestly a nightmare for anyone involved.
Do you use hairpins when auditing traders?
Cool.
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Lockdown Version) wW extended
Kennedy the Republican, Nixon the Democrat
Ukrainian Front Continues to Implode
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2024 10:19 pm
Oh no!
I’ll have to get the Canecutter’s Gazette delivered now if I want to read the letters to the editor.
And chemtrails.
How will we find out about the chemtrails?
Does their partner status make any difference to the point? No, it doesn’t. Re India, it is a founding member. It’s right there in the acronym.
Oh, but there is. You don’t want to answer, how a potential decline in the use of the USD in global trade doesn’t diminish its value, because it may incriminate your overall argument.
It’s related to what you are dodging above.
I’m sure the people that will be dealing with the system will be able to work it out.
Why do Australian men of a certain age go to live in SE Asia?
I’ll tell you why.
It’s so they can [we’ll have none of that here thank you … Dover].
US has completely stuffed Europe. Absolute shit show. But they let them do it so they can’t complain.
Why ask a question and then answer it yourself? And yes, it most certainly does make a difference as it means those who are partners aren’t fully embracing this thing.
There’s nothing to dodge, as there’s no point in dealing with hypotheticals. India has not fully bought into this thing. That was the point.
That’s just sad. Cheap point scoring is just sad.
Your problem is that you’ve now appear to have shifted to full-blown statism, and it seems the only difference between your views and those on the left is that you believe your version of statism is superior. But, at the end of the day, it’s still statism.
The point you fail to grasp is that America’s capital markets grew organically. Everything—from private equity to the depth of the bond and public equity markets—evolved naturally, even reserve status and the use of the dollar to service trade flows. You seem to believe that a bunch of statists can now create markets and trade blocs that will rival a system developed from the ground up. Hope and cope.
America told Germany to close their nuclear reactors and move swiftly to renewballs? Coal plants to be closed in 6 years?
America told Germany to become one of the leading countries pushing gerbil warming alarmism?
This anti-America thing is now becoming a uninteresting obsession.
This bint is “stranded” in Fiji eh? Riiiggghht.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nrl/article-14009917/Aliti-Namoce-Fiji-Australia-NRLW.html
Watch now for the NRL to lean on people and the judge to give he a suspended sentence so he visa isn’t cancelled.
I note overnight too a story dropped in DM as well of another Chinese student going off the rails. Killed 2 Chinese sex workers.
It’s quiet here. Too quiet…
Tom, did you sleep in, or has your computer carked it again?
I thought it was my iPad that was the problem when nobody showed up since last night.
The Cat was offline overnight. ‘Toon to follow shortly.
Sky News is right onto the Shock Horror! joke about Puerto Rico at the MSG Trump rally. All the Trump is Hitler stuff passes muster though. The Harris campaign is in free-fall, but Sky won’t report that. Swing States Still On a Knife Edge! is their cry.
Fluffy Annalise thankfully confined herself to talking about the long lines of people waiting to vote early. Looks like the electoral people are “slow walking” all those Republican voters.
Stand by for Sky’s climate alarmism “CO2 being added to the atmosphere at a faster rate than any time in history” as per BBC latest.
The end of October approaches, so I thought I’d drop in a little Community Service Announcement.
Deserve?
It’s what they voted for.
Given how many people of no allowable description are in gaol I don’t like his chances.
Tommy Robinson Jailed for 18 Months for Repeating Allegations About Syrian Refugee (28 Oct)
Price of a Krautwagen Golf has about doubled in the past 5 years. They need to get back to making cars for the common volk, not the IGMetall elite
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom, wonderful as always.
What is the Woke Right?
Summary: In the podcast episode titled “What is the Woke Right?” James Lindsay discusses the emergence of a radical Right-wing movement, which he describes as the “woke right.” He draws parallels between the woke left and this new phenomenon on the right, explaining how both groups claim to have uncovered hidden truths about society that the mainstream narratives obscure. The woke right, according to Lindsay, is a diffuse coalition that contains elements ranging from paleo-conservatism to more extreme factions that harbor dangerous ideologies, including anti-Semitic views and proto-fascist sentiments. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing this movement’s impact on the conservative landscape and cautions against its divisive nature. ### Key Points by Sections: **Introduction** – James Lindsay welcomes listeners and introduces the topic of the “woke right.” – He contrasts the “woke left” with the lesser-known “woke right,” suggesting a need for clear terminology. **Characteristics of the Woke Right** – The ambiguous but present existence of a radical right-wing coalition. – The difficulty in naming such movements, paralleling past debates on the terminology for the left. – The “woke right” engages in revisionist history and skepticism towards mainstream narratives, including American institutions. **Influential Figures and Movements** – Mention of Tucker Carlson as a representative of paleo-conservatism with traditionalist views and skepticism towards Israel and the state apparatus. – The emergence of the “America First” movement under Nick Fuentes, which includes extremist views, anti-Semitism, and historical inaccuracies. – Awareness of a broader range of ideologies among the “woke right,” from paleo-conservatism to proto-fascism. **Philosophical Underpinnings** – Discussion of Carl Schmitt’s ideas, including the “Unbound executive” and “friend-enemy distinction,” which resonate with some factions of the woke right. – Differing views on liberalism, and skepticism towards it as part of their ideological framework. – Analysis of how members of the woke right perceive themselves as having “woke up” to the true nature of society, echoing the sentiments of the woke left. **Critique of Epistemology** – Critique of the epistemological framework among the woke right, leading to a self-serving narrative that claims hidden truths. – Highlighting the parallels between the woke left’s and right’s claims to knowledge and authority over mainstream narratives. – The suggestion that the emphasis on what is hidden from view affects their understanding of truth and validity. **Warning Against Division** – Lindsay warns that the “woke right” is actively infiltrating and fracturing the conservative movement. – Urges vigilance against divisive tactics and ideologies that can undermine the broader conservative cause. – A call to action to recognize and resist this phenomenon before it solidifies further. **Conclusion** – A final warning about the rapid rise of the “woke right” and its potential impact on conservatism and the political landscape. – Encouragement for listeners to be more discerning and courageous in addressing the issues raised. Lindsay emphasizes the urgency of awareness and action against the divisive and radical elements within the conservative movement that he identifies as the woke right.
Haha
https://x.com/HarmfulOpinion/status/1850614007704756560?t=mjl3obCak9s4b9G2BooWQA&s=19
Please read Brendan O’Neill’s superb piece in today’s Oz as to why banning Candace Owens from this country is a very bad idea.
I think Owens is a moron, a stark raving idiot but banning her? You’ve got to be joking.
Last night I had a dispute with a friend over this. She told me banning Owens was a good thing, I disagreed vehemently for the reasons Brendan writes about in today’s Oz. I told her the Owens ban is just this Jew hating government engaging in selective pieties, a government that has largely remained silent about the explosion in Jew hatred since October 2023.
Despite my explanations, my friend could not understand why the ban is a bad idea, so I asked her the following…..
Firstly, why haven’t the hate clerics in Western Sydney been banned?
Why do those clerics, who’ve said far worse than Owens, remain free to spew their hate and walk the streets that we walk?
Why has the NSWaffen police refused to charge them?
Why haven’t any of them been hauled before our numerous ‘human rights organisation’, organisations that will happily go after any ordinary Australian for suspected speech violations?
I reiterated to her that Owens, for all her faults, for all her idiocies, has never incited violence, she has never said ‘go kill the Jews’, whereas more than one Western Sydney Muslim cleric is on record, is on film, as stating to his followers to go ‘kill the Jews’.
I asked her, why haven’t those who screamed and screeched ‘gas the Jews’, ‘f*ck the Jews’ and ‘where’s the Jews’ on Monday night 9 October 2023 been arrested and charged?
I asked her, why are the Jew hating festivals on our city streets allowed to happen, week after week, where you will hear and see images and words far more offensive and far more dangerous than anything Owens spews?
Why? So many questions and not many answers.
I then said to her, and I think she then began to understand, that this is all cheap politics from a rabid Jew hating government. I asked her ‘who defines ‘far-right’? I told her that many on the left would regard you and me as far-right, they think our speech is extreme and they would happily silence us today.
And finally I said to her, don’t worry, this government will use this Owens ban as a dangerous precedent, and moving forward they will seek to ban those who you and I might want to listen to, men and women who, of course, aren’t morons like Owens but whose speech the left doesn’t like or approve of, such as…..
Douglas Murray
Melanie Phillips
Brendan O’Neill
Gad Saad
Ben Shapiro
Nigel Farage
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
to name just a few.
My friend said, ‘but there’s nothing wrong with those people, to which I responded, ‘of course there’s nothing wrong with them or what they say but that doesn’t matter, they will be banned from entering this country for ‘Islamophobia‘.
Only then did she get the message.
The Owns ban allows Burke to point and say, look what I did! It gives him a fig leaf to cower behind.
Kabuki.
Oh, and it gives Jew hating “fwee speech advocates” another line of hatred – the nassssty Jews made Candace go away.
It’s all a win for Burke and co.
Just looking through catalogues for bedding.
Bamboo sheets I bought two years ago for Queen Bed were about $40 a set.
Now with lots of fancy pictures and superlatives, the very same sheets are $120 a set, and that’s across multiple buyers.
So there’s your inflation problem – to me it looks like price fixing and gouging.
No added value, just added price. Like the appliance manufacturers who sold the brand name, closed down production lines and import shit.
This is a harbinger of what is to come:
The Thin Blue Line: University Professors Are Approaching Near Unanimity As A Democratic Lock (29 Oct)
Increasingly the legal profession is becoming totally captured by the Left. Soon just about all judges will be leftists. And we know that leftist bar associations have been forcing anyone out who has the temerity to represent a righty like Trump, Bannon or Guiliani.
Read this and weep:
A council worker who broke her arm and injured her knee when she tripped over a puppy fence during a coffee break while working from home has won a workers compensation claim.
According to a ruling handed down in the South Australian Employment Tribunal, the City of Charles Sturt employee had erected a temporary 60-centimetre metal pet fence across the doorway to her sunroom, where her home office was set-up, to allow her to babysit a colleague’s puppy while working from home on September 19, 2022.
The fence had been put in place to keep the puppy away from her pet rabbit.
The employee, who was permitted to work from home from time to time with prior notice, tripped and fell when she got up to make a cup of coffee between 9am and 9:30am, after starting work at 8.30am.
She suffered a humerus fracture and injured her right knee when she landed on her right side.
She made the claim against the Local Government Association Workers Compensation Scheme.
No wonder workers’ comp rates are through the roof. This is ridiculous.
If she’d been working at the office there would have been no puppy fence, as it is clearly a trip hazard. For that matter, there would be no puppy either.
It wasn’t even her dog! She volunteered to mind someone else’s dog.
That scheme had better appeal this quick smart, or they will soon be paying for slip and falls in the kitchen where the employee didn’t clean up a floor spill, to pick a random example.
That’s almost as good as the dirty canbra bitch suing the commonwealth for rough sex while away for ‘work’.
Musk’s likely ascendance into government reminds me a lot of Robert McNamara.
Candace used to be a regular on Tucker Carlson’s show, and was reliably conservative. Has she had a head injury?
Of course the current Labor/Green/Teal mob would ban her for being conservative if they had no other peg to hand their marxist hat on.
The Abdallahs get the Royal treatment
James Mathews of Sky UK did a very edited and partisan report from the MSG rally. He’s always annoying and always sounds like he’s auditioning for a job at the BBC.
Well it’s passed with a massive majority.
Knesset passes law barring UNRWA from operating in Israel (28 oct)
Now to see if the lefty Supreme Court wants to precipitate a constitutional crisis by trying to overturn it.
Tom
October 29, 2024 7:09 am
Yes, I missed my time-slot in the silly hours to annoy people with my contribution.
Oh well, there is an other night coming up, funny that, it always is until we run out of them.
Joe de Bruyn ACU Graduation speech
the bonfire of media (and political) vanities
Kamala Harris’ VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China
@unusual_whales
U.S banks are currently sitting on $750 billion in losses on real estate debt, per PiQ.
That is 7 times larger than it was in 2008 when the housing bubble, per PiQ.
Word Salads: Kamala Harris Rambles About ‘Being Able to See What Is’
You can never have too much schadenfreude!
More than 200,000 cancel Washington Post subscriptions over failure to endorse Harris (28 Oct)
I don’t know why Bezos blocked WaPo from endorsing Kamala but the LA Times appears to’ve done so because the owner’s daughter is a rabid antisemite and hates Kamala for supporting Israel, however limply.
LA Times owner’s daughter on why paper refused to endorse 2024 candidate: ‘Genocide is line in the sand’ (28 Oct)
Archbishop Comensoli defends de Bruyn after ACU walkout
A number of ACU graduates and staff walked out on Mr de Bruyn in protest against his comments. ACU later offered to refund the cost of the graduation tickets for those who were upset by the speech.
Serious question. Would they accept it?
Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins?
The wonderful Bee.
Joe Rogan Interviews Former McDonald’s Fry Cook
I see the betas in the MAGA movement have been cucked out of going full cohenite. Apparently they nixed a joke by Tony Hinchcliffe during the MSG Nazi rally calling Harris a C-word, and Musk’s PAC has quietly deleted its ad doing the same. Low energy, sad!
Of course, this government would like to ban their videos on You Tube and perhaps their articles & books as well.
I see our resident and very real Nazi is smearing others as Nazis.
Low energy, sad, pathetic.
Jewish space lasers news.
NIS 2 billion deal to expand Iron Beam laser defense system signed (28 Oct)
You have to think the “extensive series of successful trials” might include more than a few Hamas and Hezbie rockets being shot down, but I have seen no news or video footage to that effect.
Today in Queering the Kids–
University of Sydney gets all hot n steamy after striking a faaaaabulous rainbow seam of… mentally unstable minors. Honestly, if I found out that our school had allowed a survey like this past their gates, I’d be kicking some heads
My phone which according to the little blurb in the top corner(until this morning), specifications & manufacturers website is 4G is this morning DEAD as far as calls & msgs go .. Internet is working as are all the other bits and pieces just no telecom reception …. Email from my provider (Amysim) sez cut off cos 3G ……. duuuuuuuuh!
Humble..!
SFL in Dan’s part of Australia want to impose a 1million $ fine on illegal
fag sellers in an attempt to stop the illegal trade.
All I’m asking is why stop at a million? Can we not add the death penalty as well as any other ridiculous penalty.
Is it not a federal offence……cheating the tax man?
Garbage collection is getting increasingly dangerous…
Electric bin lorry bursts into flames in central London (28 Oct)
Garbage truck catches fire in suburban Sydney after picking up lithium battery (ABC, 28 Oct)
I saw another version of the story yesterday saying that garbage trucks are catching fire 2-3 times a month in Sydney due to lithium batteries getting compacted in them. They have to dump the garbage in the middle of the road so the whole truck doesn’t go up.
Jo Nova has a great post at joannenova.com.au
This I knew. Gangrenes are in denial.
This I did not know. Every day this should be front page news.
That is just nonsensical.
And this demonstrates that your claim above is nonsensical because if founding members can also be characterized as not ’embracing this thing’ the distinction between members and partners is pointless.
I’m sorry, your dodging the question because admitting that the value of X would decline typically if there are fewer trades involving X. You can’t admit that without also admitting that if fewer trades are using USD than all things being equal the value of the USD should also diminish.
Its neither cheap nor point scoring. You could have just answered the question and then raised an objection on the grounds that not all things are equal.
The idea that this occurred organically during the post-WW2 period is an illusion.
The Grauniad is screeching doom, doom…
‘Game over’ for ‘climate action’! UK Guardian: ‘Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate’ – ‘Would restore climate denialism to an Oval Office’ – ‘A purge of science’ (28 Oct)
A purge of science? Still my beating heart! I like him already, you don’t need to sell me on him Guardian peoples.
Entrepreneur Dick Smith has scolded the Labor government’s push for renewables, as far-west New South Wales town Broken Hill endures its second week of blackouts.
A storm which rocked the rural town 10 days ago, destroying aged transmission towers, left the community of almost 20,000 people powerless.
Despite the small town being close to a 200MW wind farm and a 53MW solar farm, Broken Hill residents were not connected and could not tap into the energy reserves.
Sky News
The Age of Reason…sliced and diced.
‘No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark’
Kamala’s campaign is adrift in a sea of trouble, her statements resembling a large floating island of complete rubbish. The straw that they are clinging to is this off-colour joke.
It says a lot about the complicit media that it is getting such a repeated run. They are so disturbed by the success of his rallies to date, particularly the Madison Square Garden one, that they are amplifying a joke into a scandal.
Hard times brings out the best in folks: old queer in NY becomes Trump supporter and is very forthcoming about the shortcomings (sic) of cackles and the demorats:
“Gays for Trump” Take on Woke Protesters in EPIC Confrontation at MSG Rally
It also brings out the worst: entitled brat at dentist doesn’t get her way and goes from outraged to vicious to blubbering when the cops arrive:
Entitled BRAT turns a Dental appointment into felony charges!
Sort of incredible how people have forgotten that the leading proponent of GW alarmism since the 1980s has been the USG, US MSM, etc. Setting that aside, the principal means by which the US has stuffed Europe has been by setting it against Russia. And since the cheap gas has stopped, German industry has been floundering. The worst of it is that they are so pathetic, politically, they have, over the last decade or more, offered little to no resistance nor sought ways of mitigating the disaster before them.
Two things, firstly, I’m not anti-American, I’m anti-GAE. Secondly, I’m feel no need to disguise my criticisms of US policy in partisan garb. Often, the dumb, impractical, or reprehensible things done by the USG are bipartisan.
Fuk that Starmer is a a spiteful poisonous waste of space. Jeez I’m sick of these parasites decreeing that electors deserve punitive treatment.
Rafiki
October 29, 2024 9:43 am
Reply to johanna
It looks straightforward, given that her home was the place where she was working. She was thus injured in the course of her employment. Taking a break for refreshment is accepted as incidental to her job. It doesn’t matter that the work was doing did not contribute it’s simply a temporal relationship.
There might have been a question whether her erecting the fence materially contributed to her injury. Being only careless won’t suffice.
Thus is a consequence of allowing work from home.
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AFAIK people working from home have to comply with OHS requirements – employers are supposed to check this before granting permission to WFH.
The puppy fence was a temporary structure presumably only recently erected.
My point above was that neither puppy or fence would be permitted to block a walkway in her office for OHS reasons. Unless her employer approved it, it should be on her.
I was still at school when Time magazine was going on about CO2. Geography Teacher photocopied article for us.
The lies from the demorats are coming thick and fast: I’m waiting for some leftoid to claim Trump is an alien. In the meantime here is whoopi claiming:
Whoopi Goldberg Claims Trump Will Dismantle Interracial Marriages, Redistribute White Spouses
Whoopi won’t have to worry: she is a seriously ugly woman even for a demorat. Only a blind, deaf guy would be married to her.
Olde Germanic proverb…
‘Never put all your eggs in one basket.’
They were warned at the time when they started decommissioning the nuclear reactors, as I recall.
Yep.
The simple way to resolve this is to issue voluminous OHS guidelines to those wishing to work from home.
Get them to sign that they fully understand the requirements and accept that they are the person responsible for maintaining a safe workplace.
Don’t sign up, return to the office.
January 1, 1950
New Years Day should be devoted to good resolutions. It is more often spent in regretting New Year’s Eve.”
“The Duff Cooper Diaries,” page 476.
Awk the magpie is the best father.
He is such a hard working little bloke. And I have never seen him lose his shit despite how demanding the chicks are.
It’s fascinating observing the sex differences in these critters.
Awk is kinda cool. He was the first one to come down and check me out, purely out of curiosity apparently.
Only once she saw food was on offer did the other fat bitch of a stupid seagull follow suit. (Magpie, seagull, same thing).
Awk won’t get as close as Quardle, but he will hang out more. He’ll stalk about the yard, (they can hear grubs and beetles at surprising distances and are terrifyingly effective predators) occasionally cocking an eye in my direction and you can see the gears whirring in his little bird brain, figuring me out.
So what you are saying is awk has better reasoning skills than Elbow, Chris Bowen or Hamarse?
Something I just thought of – if Trump wins, Kamala’s going to have to preside over his certification in Congress. Just like Biden had to in 2016 (although he wasn’t the losing candidate in the election then like, say, Gore was back in 2001). This will have never happened before – the President and VP from the same administration will have both presided over the certification of the same President. From the opposing party. And Trump, no less! She’ll be certifying Hitler, who just beat her. Watching her do that would definitely be worth the price of admission. I wonder if she’ll be able to do it. Maybe she’ll do a Hillary and phone in sick. Perhaps try and get Tampon Tim to do it? Or maybe she’ll just get drunk off her arse and do it. Well, she’d be drunk off her arse anyway – that’s pretty much the default, it seems. Let’s see.
As DumbAss, Nobollocks and the Tooties start to lose more bigly, sadly, this is going to occur more often???
Gunman shoots Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago, then shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ in police shootout: report
I have a completely unfounded theory that, as these groups have noticed that a large swathe of useless morons have been supporting them, they’ve held back on terror attacks so as to not swing this support away. However, as they start to lose more and more, I think we’ll see an upswing in this shite.
But I’ll take Hendo’s advice and say: One should never make predictions, particularly about the future…
Green-prog Labor elites are losing the blue collar base.
‘Big swings’: Queensland Labor lost support in ‘working-class’ seats (Sky News, 29 Oct)
Woke crap does not chime in blue collar electorates. I think the rusted-ons are increasingly going to be less rusted on.
Three cheers for the democratic Republic of Iran.
https://x.com/USEnvoyIran/status/1850984964113977468?t=s6OztaMvjaXjPVcPOltJCw&s=19
If at first you don’t succeed. Even now the little boy is curling and unfurling his fingers.
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1850991714564976993?t=RXWVVqFDohiR3pJN3aP0JQ&s=19
The majority of discussion concerning Trump’s accession relates to the ME and how he will deal with Iran.
Far more consequential will be how he deals with the EU maniacs. The apalling Merkel is no longer there with her smug arrogance, and even if she still controls von der Leyen, both of their world views are increasingly irrelevant to Europeans.
So as Trump unleashes US wealth and the EU continues to implode economically it is arguable that Europeans will no
longer tolerate mandated and expensive anti-Americanism.
Starmer is an accident, not a movement. He is incredibly stupid and will not be able to resist grandstanding by attacking Trump. When Brits realise the extent to which this Stalinist bullshit is damaging their welfare and values, Starmer will be gone.
Trump is Europe’s best hope for a return to democracy.
Unwrahamas banned in Israel.
https://x.com/LiquidFaerie/status/1851001067485741501?t=xijLRc-tOzieowLXJI9NnA&s=19
No they’re not. Internally displaced now though.
https://x.com/jconricus/status/1719884248767742119?t=tBQiaGo4AXHdKGKr81gWDQ&s=19
Two Democrats walk into a bar – Gretchen Whitmer and Kamala Harris.
Sorry, it’s no joke, not even a viable connect with real people.
It just supports Trump’s joke about Harris not attending the Al Smith Dinner because she was taking communion from Whitmer!
Sancho
I have one team member who works from home two days per week. She’s got a lot to juggle being back in the workforce after having kids. And, she’s an absolute star; always kicking goals for the team (despite working early to late with a few breaks for school runs). She comes in on those days if absolutely needed.
Just because your Stocklands, Dexus, Mirvacs, Goodmans and Charter Halls etc… want everyone back in the city so they can push up their rents is not a good enough excuse for me to have to let my best team member go.
(And yes, I’ve dealt with the heads or many of these companies and I know their couldn’t give a shit attitude).
These companies used to wield a lot of power but the world is changing, and choice is a huge driver now. I know two middle Execs in the mining industry who deal with engineers and they’ve said: By letting some of them work from home, they end up working an extra couple of hours a day that would normally be spent in traffic.
Anyway, I couldn’t care less if she, or anyone. decided to work out of their 1.5m x 1.5m dunny, as long as they’re performing.
Lysander
October 29, 2024 11:38 am
As DumbAss, Nobollocks and the Tooties start to lose more bigly, sadly, this is going to occur more often???
Gunman shoots Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago, then shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ in police shootout: report
At the end of the article this bullshit:
Authorities said the investigation remains ongoing, with the motive in the attack not yet clear.
Sickening, the hypocrisy and cowardice of the MSM and political class.
Email from my provider (Amysim) sez cut off cos 3G ……. duuuuuuuuh!
Amaysim has been nagging me for months to get a VoLTE phone because my 4G LTE Xiaomi Mi Max 3 wouldn’t handle the Vo part. Curse them.
So I bought a new Motorola and a real pain it is transferring apps. It’s my spare phone and almost always switched off anyway.
From The Oz. Fatty Clive is right…
Billionaire Clive Palmer has called for Qantas to abolish its controversial invitation-only Chairman’s Lounge saying it’s a “disgraceful perk used to reward or punish politicians”.
Mr Palmer’s own membership for the Chairman’s Lounge was rescinded in 2014, after he used his Senate power to block a bill seeking to end Qantas’ foreign ownership restrictions.
“At the time Alan Joyce was lobbying all sides of government, looking to sell off Qantas to his Irish private equity mates,” said Mr Palmer.
“Politicians were more interested in a free lunch than the interests of Australians.”
His demands follow fresh controversy about The Chairman’s Lounge in the wake of a new book by journalist Joe Aston.
Mr Palmer said the lounge proved that Australian politicians could be bought cheaply.
“The Chairman’s Lounge was used to reward or punish politicians based on vested interests,” he said.
“If the Qantas chairman is serious about restoring the airline’s reputation, he needs to abolish the Chairman’s Lounge.”
Virgin Australia has its own version of the Chairman’s Lounge, known as Beyond, which is also an invitation only lounge.
I remember how, after Cardinal George Pell wrongful conviction back in 2019, Qantas were very quick to dump him from its Chairman’s Lounge membership.
However in April 2020, when the HC upheld Pell’s appeal, and squashed his conviction 7-0, I fail to recall Qantas rushing to reinstate George Pell’s Chairman’s Lounge membership.
Bowen has come out to defend upgrade Albo. He’s in more trouble than I thought.
There seems to me to be a major difference between the far left and the far right.
A distinction that I have never heard anyone make.
That is: fascist regimes, while as capable of the same extreme depths of atrocity as communism, frequently, eventually self correct.
Whereas the communist regimes are often irreversible without external intervention.
North Korea seems locked in an eternal hell. Communist parties remain in power unopposed in China, Vietnam and the collapse in Eastern Europe was only after tremendous external pressure from the Cold War.
Whereas in Spain the Nationalists did not long outlive Franco.
Same is true in South America.
The fascists seem more like the the dictators from the classical world, temporarily both taking advantage of a situation, and stopping the leftist faction in their tracks for the life of the dictator.
How Woke Culture is Crippling Society with Professor Gad Saad
Summary In the episode “How Woke Culture is Crippling Society,” Jillian Michaels hosts Professor Gad Saad to discuss the impact of “woke culture” and its implications on reason, science, and societal norms. Saad elaborates on his concept of “suicidal empathy,” which critiques the way empathy is often leveraged to overlook objective truths, leading to irrational decision-making and negative societal outcomes. The conversation also touches on pressing issues like gender identity, immigration, and the importance of maintaining a balance between empathy and rationality. — ### Key Points **Introduction and Context** – Gad Saad discusses the consequences of extreme progressive ideology. – The theme of “woke culture” and its impact on society is introduced. – Mention of Saad’s books, particularly “The Parasitic Mind” and the upcoming “Suicidal Empathy.” **The Parasitic Mind** – Saad explains “The Parasitic Mind” and the concept of “ideological brainworms” that distort thinking. – He argues these ideas, which originated in academia, have spread throughout society. – Saad offers “mind vaccines” as tools to combat these distorted ideologies. **War on Reason, Science, and Logic** – Saad states there’s a rising war against reason and logic in society. – He compares ideologies to cancer, arguing they start with noble objectives but deviate into irrational justifications. – Example: Radical feminism’s claim that gender differences are socially constructed. **Consequentialism vs Deontology** – Discussion on the difference between consequentialist ethics (permitting lies for ‘greater good’) and deontological ethics (truth as a foundational principle). – Saad emphasizes the importance of not sacrificing truth, reason, and logic for social objectives. **Emotionally Driven Politics** – Discussion on how politically driven emotions can cloud rational decision-making. – Saad criticizes emotional appeals in politics and the consequences of appointing leaders based on emotion rather than rationale. – He draws parallels with past historical figures and movements that utilized emotional manipulation. **Empathy and Disregulated Emotions** – Saad introduces “suicidal empathy,” which misapplies empathy leading to societal chaos. – Challenges the audience to consider the consequences of prioritizing one group’s rights over others. – He discusses the evolutionary roots of empathy and its role in human social interactions. **Critical Thinking and Political Engagement** – Saad urges listeners to cultivate critical thinking skills and diversify sources of information. – He emphasizes the need to recognize biases in media narratives and political discourse. – The conversation concludes with calls for voters to think critically before making decisions in elections. **Recommendations for Further Reading** – Saad suggests his other books for further insight, particularly “The Consuming Instinct” and “The Sad Truth About Happiness,” while encouraging pre-orders for “Suicidal Empathy.” **Closing Remarks** – Michaels expresses gratitude for Saad’s insights and the importance of addressing current societal issues rationally. – A reminder for listeners to stay informed and engage critically with prevailing cultural narratives.
The way things are going…Hindenburg.
Now we await the earth shattering kaboom.
It appears the poll workers want everyone to mail their votes in.
The sad part is the police are enforcing it – which means they are politicised as well.