RFK jr is seriously considering banning mRNA “vaccines”. That kills their new preferred mRNA fluvax model dead. Given the mode…
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Watched it yesterday. He is considered and careful. The above meme is nowhere close to correct.
@themarketswork The Left didn’t just take our money, they used our money to build an entire political infrastructure that was…
Still a great painting. Everybody hates Stephen King and with good reason; this ugly bitter man is seriously deranged. His…
@BreannaMorello The CDC has killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots. The agency has also canceled a major conference with…
Hahahaha.. the Liberal Party of Australia (or “SFL”) are copping a hiding with their post supporting the social media censorship.
It may be the greatest ratioing of all time on Twitter.
Currenty: 148 likes, 2800 comments, from 490,000 views.
The SFL can usually be relied on to do the right thing after everything else has failed. Spud seems to follow this approach.
If the wind doesn’t pick up this evening, we may just be in strife with power.
https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
Fortunately it’s Saturday, so there won’t be a problem.
The wind picked up and old mates plastic bottle collection is all over his, mine, and Johns backyard.
OMG! The runner-up for greatest ratioing of all time may be Qld’s new Premier, Christwhatafool.
His Twitter post supporting Albo’s censorship is currently;
212 likes, 1500 comments, from 103,000 views.
What needs to happen is all the political parties incumbents are packed into buses and sent into the countryside to wrestle with cattle, weed crops by hand, and get themselves dirty – just to drag them out of their fantasy world of politics.
Compare Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, sending city based “educated” people “down to the countryside”, to work alongside the peasants.
What leftard could oppose something done by Mao?
EU Commission President Congratulates President Trump, Proposes Additional Purchases of American LNGNovember 8, 2024 | Sundance
**** LIKE THIS IS WHY I WON
Breaking news …
Granny foiled by child lock!
🙂
Not this one. Not foiled, simply a modern granny who heads to the internet for de-foiling.
Child locks are an invention of modern times anyway.
Grannies grew up in times when children did touch things they shouldn’t.
We had Edward Scissor Hands as our mentor. You should see the dreadful fates that eventuated for recalcitrant chldren back in my day
didn’t touch, not did.
My typing powers these days can disintegrate at the end of some words.
Something other than politics and other mayhem…
I noticed a Willie Wagtail hanging around my workroom window a few days ago. I thought it was eating up some insects that I was going to dispatch and then forgot about. Wrong.
Pleased to report that I have a tiny nest, the size of a demitasse in my Lipstick brugmansia. It is a perfect cup, almost the same colour as the gnarled branches that I have carefully pruned and shaped into a candelabra form. It sits like a candleholder awaiting its candle.
Hopefully some chicks will escape all the local predators.
Last year Willie made a beautiful nest in my daughter’s Japanese maple, she thought wow swallows at the front Willies at rear. Two days later the nest was gone and so was Willie. Apparently this is what they do until they find the perfect spot.
The swifts build their little mud huts in a structure closer to the lake. Not long and I’ll see their graceful arabesques over the water as they catch insects on the wing. It’s their sunset activity.
I had a closer look and Mr and Mrs Willie’s nest…it is dry fibre held together with cobwebs! They have been raiding all around the house, and possibly gobblingup the resident spiders as well.
The little snipe was disturbed by my garden gallumphing yesterday. They’re back from wherever they went also. I believe it was Japan.
Nothing is as lovely as seeing two birds come together and build a nest for their little babies to live in. We have been fortunate in having a Currawong nest high in a tree but only a metre from where we sat our on our terrace. The babies reared there still visit us, with babies of their own somewhere nearby.
cohenite
November 9, 2024 1:36 pm
Even though the overall vote in many of those demographics still favours the Dimocrats, the trend is your friend, my friend.
Someone put up a graphic on election night comparing the 2020 vote with 2024, slicing and dicing by age, gender, race whatever.
Of the some two dozen cohorts analysed, only about 2-3 showed Trump going backwards. White women over 65 was one … JD was right about the cat ladies.
I have spent this afternoon listening to an inspiring conversation between Tucker Carlson and Vivek Ramaswamy in the wake of the Trump landslide about what lies ahead — specifically the downsizing of the Swamp (a.k.a. the Deep State, a.k.a. the American civil service). Runs just on 1.5 hours.
Tucker is well worth the subscription.
How to stay neighbourly.
We live in a narrow street in Inner-West Sydney. Neighbours who are of South American extraction have five cars and many weekend visitors to their adult senòritas. They keep parking over our driveway. Admittedly, we don’t always use our driveway because of a dog that is kept behind a gate. I’ve left a note asking to respect their neighbours’ space but to no avail.
Can you dob illegal parking to the local council? Or is that not sporting? I like to think I am patient and courteous but they drive me nuts.
I’m sure there’s an excellent place to put the product of your dog.
Dover’s doesn’t allow emojis sadly.
That’s a thought! Doesn’t have to be a dog’s business I guess. My tummy has been sour for a while, BoN.
Buy four besser blocks
Jack up corner 1 – insert block
Repeat x 3
Take jack home. Make popcorn. Watch.
Thanks, TE. Need to find some Besser blocks.
I am pretty sure you can and it’s entirely sporting
Yep. Parking is a human right in inner-Sydney.
If someone parks six inches over the gutter dip in the entrance to our garage we can’t get the car out as our small 1930’s garage is a pretty tight straight drive into it. We’ve warned our neighbours and soon I’m going to paint a white line on the edge of the gutter over which people must not cross.
I would take matters into my own hand if they do.
I don’t believe in shopping people to rotten councils full of greenies.
You’ve asked politely.
Now you’re being tested. They want to indulge in a pissing contest. Honestly, they are testing you.
Next time smash a windscreen.
It’s all some arseholes understand.
They will never respect you until you piss higher than them.
Or you can just leave notes and they will brag to the senoritas they are visiting “Hahaha! He left another note! The weak bastard.”
AC/DC
TNT….Dynamite
That’ll fcuk ’em.
Rosie
November 9, 2024 3:05 pm
What is funny is when junior says “I’m not going to work tomorrow”* and Dad responds with “No. And I’m not doing any interviews.”
Umm, Pops, I think you may not be in demand for any interviews after this.
…
* Work is optional. So very Dimocrat.
BREAKING NEWS: Martin Armstrong’s computer has just predicted a Trump victory!
And an earthquake.
sam altman called he wants his source code back
Tom
November 9, 2024 3:46 pm
Landslide you say?
Really funny watching the ABC the day after the election. Their election analyst said “landslide” a couple of times, but quickly corrected himself.
Obviously the directive had gone out to avoid the “L” word.
It’s now public record. Now he is f*cked. D*ckhead.
BREAKING: Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s Deposition Transcript Shows Desire to “Make Life Hell for Kari Lake,” Calls Himself “Anti-MAGA” in Text Messages – Now He’s Counting The Votes in Lake’s Senate Race!
Nothing like having “fair and impartial” electoral officials.
//Sarc// for mUntard’s benefit.
Bruce. I have a young currawong that has moved in. Besides letting him continue to gobble my tomatoes, what should I do?
Heh! Depends upon what you want to do.
If you take the blue pill, you get out your garden hose.
If you take the red pill you offer him small lump of mince…
Take the red pill, take the red pill.
They are beautiful birds.
I suggest a dose of .22LR.
Hugh
November 9, 2024 4:00 pm
He’s just predicted the winner of the Melbourne Cup as well.
A Quinella!
How does he do it Sancho? That’s what I want to know!
It takes some nerve to bounce back after being beclowned.
Sadly not enough nerve to allow comments.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R61LPhJqmT0
Somebody wasted 40 years paying this Karen to analyse politics.
From Chris Uhlmann’s article in the Oz:-
That’s only if you start from a position of leaving all the infrastructure and regulatory powers in place, and looking to reduce the number of people doing it. What if you ditched entire departments and agencies? At last count there was something like 400-500 separate Federal agencies.
And there is this on tariffs:-
Err, Chris.
Again, think outside the box mate.
What if you didn’t give a shit about solar power?
Gut it.
Gut everything.
Abolish Education, EPA, FBI. Everything.
If it turns out some of it was actually required, you can always put a small amount back in.
Educational standards have collapsed alarmingly since the United States Department of Education was established in 1979.
They can easily do without that.
we desperately need the same here
Uhlmann is still steeped in the Left.
I would say $2 trillion would be a good start.
Ohhhhhh Tommy Tommy, Tommy Tommy Tommy Robinson!
Utter the words Trump. Help get him out.
A few weeks ago I had my hair done at a toffy hair salon here in Sydney’s east. I’ve been going to this salon now for years, I like how they do my hair but it’s always a tedious exercise, it takes at least two hours. Upon arrival, whilst my colour is being prepared, it only takes me about three minutes to peruse the trashy women’s magazines and then I settle in to read my book and do a crossword or Sudoko.
That day I sat next to an American woman. Pretending to read, I listened intently to her vacuous musings and whining about Donald Trump, he was worse than the devil. I heard her tell the hairdresser how she now does not speak to her parents about politics, as they are they’re Republicans. I was intrigued, she didn’t even say they were MAGA Republicans, just ordinary right of centre/conservative American voters who intend to vote for Trump, and she made clear her hostility and disapproval and how her parent’s political opinions ‘smelt’.
As I listened to her pious drivel, I laughed inside, and since the spectacular electoral result this week, I can’t help thinking of this stupid female and I hope, I truly really hope, that her head exploded and she’s struggling to put it back together.
Wonderful punchline to your anecdote Cassie, I hope her head exploded! 🙂
Next time Cassie wear your hobnailed boots and go for the Derek & Clive kicking in the k..t record
Gut it.
Gut everything.
Abolish Education, EPA, FBI. Everything.
If it turns out some of it was actually required, you can always put a small amount back in.
As Musk says, “the best part is no part”, it weighs nothing, costs nothing and doesn’t need maintenance. Also “If you don’t have to put some stuff back, you didn’t cut out enough”.
Sometimes this is good advice…
A wise old owl sat on an oak
The more he saw, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?
I generally avoid discussing politics at work except with guys I’m close to. Exception- someone says something patently absurd which can be put down shortly and sharply.
Very sound. I got a couple of never Trump texts on Wed from Teal voting doctors wives, which a large number of female Uni friends have morphed into. Dispatched with one reply. Couple of pro Donald ones on Thurs, including one saying my cap is on the way.
Hey Lizzie,
I reckon you’ll find this funny. 😀
Yep, it was good for a laugh, thanks Pogria.
😀
Completely agree if talking about actual autism.
However, there’s a solid chance what this person means is the attitude that comes with “autism”: the self- or parent-diagnosed condition used to excuse simple bad behaviour and lack of discipline- self or otherwise.
Yes. With actual autism, you have to have good boundaries but they are not always those you’d expect from a normal child.
However what may also be at issue as you say is that some parents use ‘mild autism’ as a cover for bad behaviour in their child which is due to poor parenting. You don’t want your kid to mix with kids who are badly parented because they do then pick up bad habits. Another view is that kids exposed to badly parented kids can tell that something is wrong and become glad their parents give boundaries that provide security. You can’t cosset children too much.
I’m going to go off to watch Elon launch anther rocket, live, in about 15 minutes time.
Then on Sunday he’s launching another rocket.
And on Monday another one…
The guy is amazing.
Very special fireworks.
Makes me recall the old bonfire nite fireworks we had called Skyrockets.
Wondered why there are not many birds around our beachhouse at the moment. Some noisy minor’s have chicks in a nest. Kookaburra arrives to have some tasty lizard. Noisy’s attack mercilessly. Later a Maggie gets the same treatment.
Lots of food around atm. The two nearby Port Jackson fig trees are laden with ripe fruit.
In winter I can get two dozen friendly currawongs, today I’ve had none, zip, zilch. Even the kookas aren’t arriving. I had one of the clan appear earlier but the matriarch hasn’t, and she’s been coming to my Cafe on and off for thirteen years.
Doing well with the magpie kiddies though. They seem to be getting over the horrible disease they have had, which made them look like gargoyles. Great big boils on their beaks and around their eyes. One still has them but the other two are looking less horrible.
Sounds like Fowl Pox.
If the birds are in good health, it will go away on its own.
Aaron
November 9, 2024 4:25 pm
OK.
On Tuesday afternoon she was buying champagne to celebrate Cackle’s big win, and picking a fight with the lowly retail employee into the bargain.
On Wednesday she knows all the reasons the voters did what they did (mostly because they are stupid).
The thing is, she apparently knew all of these “headwinds” Kamal-toe was facing before she bought her champagne on Tuesday, certain in the knowledge of a Kamal-toe victory.
Who is the stupid one again?
These dons think they’re so smart when the opposite is the case. Unis have a lot to answer for BIRM.
Well done Mr Brightside. I have never seen him put in a bad one.
Teh Parywallian reporting Trump administration going ahead with mass deportations. Very Queen Isabella. Might get interesting if it catches on.
H B Bear
November 9, 2024 5:18 pm
Nothing like a bit of advance PR.
The smart ones will be gone by January.
Particularly the ones who might have committed felonies while in the US.
The families of those murdered by illegals should be able to determine the height from which they are dropped back into Mexico.
Via Sistina last 2 runs have been Winx like. In fact has run faster than Winx ever did in the Cox Plate. Is a seven year old with under 20 races. Maybe has a couple of years left.
Speaking of dons, remember those foul wimmin at Macquarie Uni who changed the meaning of misogyny to suit TLS.
Haha. Yes, I remember when Tony Abbott looking at his watch was “misogyny”. As in lefty simpletonia: everyone I don’t like is Hitler. This is what happens when you replace intellect with feelings
Gillard really was hilarious. Back when Ol’ Leathery was running the couches. Now it’s just sad.
Macquarie Dictionary.
There’s some rather weird definitions in there.
The one & only dictionary in Australian courts, used should there be confusion in court over the meaning of a word. (What could possibly go wrong?)
I used to have a 1972 Shorter Oxford- two volumes. Unfortunately I think it got stolen when moving house. Damn good dictionary from when Oxford was a centre of scholarship.
Drew Pavlou just jumped the shark suggesting dems should put up someone like Taylor Swift or LeBron James in 2028
As though merely being famous would get you across the line.
Shaking it off.
President Taylor Swift.
The republic is saved!
To change things up a little. I’ve been watching a show on Disney+, spit, called The Old Man. Finished season 2 this arvo. What started as a good ex spy brought back into the game, has devolved into a soap opera. It stars Jeff Bridges, which is the only reason that I watched it. Disappointed. 🙁
I thought about watching it, but Bridges was one of the moronic “White Dudes for Kamel”. Never wasting time on him ever.
Thanks for the heads up. Was going to start it tonight. Won’t bother.
And, it the show runs true to the “pattern, if it gets to another season, it will be terminally, full-Karen Woke, by the end.
As the old Patrick Cook cartoon goes:
Make ’em laugh,
Make ’em cry.
Set ’em up,
Bleed ’em dry.
Psy-ops “karma” as “entertainment”..
From the Oz deportation article:-
Sure.
Amazing how lefties don’t give a fat rat’s clacker about spending until it is being spent on something they don’t like.
There was an estimated 11,000,000 illegals in ‘Murica in 2022.
So that means the cost is 968,000,000,000/11,000,000 = $88,000 each.
Where does that number come from?
I’ve seen 20m+ estimates. Best guess I guess.
Unfortunately, I suspect there are going to be massive legal challenges once the deportations start. Certainly could get pricey once the lawyers step up to the trough.
“The smart ones will be gone by January.”
If they have any ambition to one day become American citizens that would be wise.
Perhaps all the Indians walking over the Canadian border will now single file back the other way.
Rosie
November 9, 2024 6:02 pm
Barring accidents and assassinations, the two candidates in 2028 will be aged under 50, but LeBron or Tay-Tay won’t feature.
Of course, JDV will run for team Red, and team Blue will look for someone of a similar age.
Mr Pavlou needs to have a good hard look at how celebrity endorsement went down in this election.
Lefties’ biggest recurring blunder is imagining everyone else is just like them, also known as psychotic lack of self-awareness.
Are Team Blue so stupid, I wonder, that they’ll put Occasional Cortex forward as a candidate?
Was he being sarcastic like? Tongue in cheek?
Nooooo.
Funny. Bolted around supermarket this morning, only person wearing lipstick was a troon.
It’s like their stereotypical womanface.
And they always look so pretty.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854638671535751228?t=5HCFdWxnPK16nITNR_BVwA&s=19
Can I assume a Troon is a crossdressing bloke in a dress?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/muslim-savages-in-iraqs-parliament-voting-to-lower-girls-age-of-consent-to-9.html
NINE YEARS OLD,F.F.S!
Just like their prophet.
That’s also the agenda of the far left and their media organs such as the ABC, once they think they have destroyed the moral authority of the churches and synagogues.
My kind of sport!
Make sure you have sound. 😀
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1855014298566697340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1855014298566697340%7Ctwgr%5E83e8b52a8a0d8e2eb834719a318418e99f33a1e1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
That looks like fun!
Went to Ironfest in Lithgow a couple times. The jousting was full on.
I love Ironfest! It’s even better when your take your teenage son and one of his mates.
Goodness. So it really is a thing people do? Still. Men in armour.
Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope, spoke out about the results of the presidential election, stating that the United States “does not deserve” Vice President Kamala Harris.
That’s certainly true. What planet do these poisonous imbeciles live on?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/08/tim-walzs-daughter-speaks-out-about-election-results-u-s-does-not-deserve-kamala-harris/
Bloody Hell! The daughter’s visage is as sour as both her parents. eeeeww
Seems to be a theme. The club foot said Germany did not deserve ze toothbrush mustached one.
What’s the matter with Minnesota? Seems as bad as Massachusetts.
Muslim immigration, particularly from Somalia.
Somalia- the Clintons’ military adventure for no particular reason.
A major reason I had thought the Democratic Party had no intention of fighting the 2024 election on merit and instead planned to steal it was the appointment of radical Minnosota governor Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’s running mate.
Boambee John.
November 9, 2024 6:00 pm
Reply to Sancho Panzer
That’s where they should start.
Once a few well-publicised deportations have been carried out, they will probably provide a small incentive for volunteers to depart of their own accord.
NINE YEARS OLD,F.F.S!
Just following the example of the Prophet.
The Prophet – the Perfect man.
A lot are leaving already – North! Bwahahahahaha!
Safe haven and all that , Justin? Ohhhh Canada! Those Venezuelan crime gangs will just luuurve innocent Canada.
Amazing how quickly things change once a few people do their dough and start phoning home. US border has always been fairly porous and workplace law similarly accommodating. Last few years have been a joke.
Victor Davis Hanson: Kamala Harris ran the worst campaign in history
“Joe Biden was demented.” A generous assessment.
This is epic.6.36 minutes of Trumps plans to destroy the “censorship cartels”.
m0ron’s nemesis back from the dead and taking no prisoners.
https://x.com/StucknDaMid/status/1854939353929105818
Straight off Elon’s feed
President Donald J. Trump — Free Speech Policy InitiativeDecember 15, 2022
(Vid + Transcript)
The history of an interesting past time. haw 😀
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1855014594840084844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1855014594840084844%7Ctwgr%5E83e8b52a8a0d8e2eb834719a318418e99f33a1e1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
A bit raunchy. I look at Icelandic news at RÚV each day, because of all the volcanoes, they’re a tough bunch of people.
Mo the Maniac married Aisha when she was only six years old. He consummated the marriage with her when she was only nine years old.
Aisha was later unable to have children. The reason for her inability to have children is obvious, an adult male who penetrates a prepubescent and undeveloped little girl will permanently damage her reproductive organs.
Child marriage was and remains common in many cultures. However, whilst children are married off, there’s usually a waiting period before any intimacy is allowed to occur.
And, when they develop fistulas, because of being too small for the birth, they constantly leak. Whereupon, they are thrown out of the house, and a new victim is sought.
IIRC, there was a program throughout the Middle East getting surgery to these poor women suffering from vesicovaginal fistula.
Unfortunately it’s not mentioned any more in any google search I’ve done.
I wonder why.
And I wonder how the Women’s Libbers sisters in the ME feel about being abandoned by them.
Dr Catherine Hamlin, Ethiopia
There is a Sydney ferry named after Catherine Hamlin, and her husband, both medical specialists in gynaecology.
She is famous amongst those in the know, but not widely known. She was performing fistula surgery in her third world clinic into her nineties, and like Fred Hollows, the opthalmologist who saved sight, she aimed to train locals in the procedure and set up clinics in poor areas.
I donate to these charities as they do what they say – they do spend money on major promotions but they raise more – and then they spend it on targetted medical procedures that greatly improve lives in the third world. They don’t get political.
The Hamlins
He was taken prisoner by terrorists and Catherine – I’m not sure – both in their 80’s.
Waiting isn’t that common on the Arabian Peninsula.
Makka:
2 hours isn’t a very long waiting period.
I wouldn’t call it intimacy, I’d call it rape.
This one’s for Calli. 😀
Noice…
Albo is in big trouble
Do you recall that, in the aftermath of 2016, the Dims were promoting the idea of Oprah running against Trump the next time – because the only thing they had been able to see – a sort of colourblindness – was that Trump had been a celebrity.
So, you take down one celebrity with a bigger one.
Absolutely no idea as to what motivated the MAGA people. Thought they were sort of starstruck, rather than trying to feed their families and speak their minds in public. The Dims still try to turn star power into electoral power.
Then they buzzed like flies to shit around Michael Avenatti – Stormy Daniel’s lawyer purely because they thought he scored a hit on The Don.
The person with an original idea to take on the Republicans without cheating has likely yet to be born.
“This elitist blather is exactly why people vote for Trump”- Internet reacts to a professor tweeting “educated people vote blue”
On several fronts.
Still, he’s got “Me too” Crisafulli’s backing on that one.
Since we are looking for diverting tidbits, I can tell you that if I drink a six pack without relieving myself in the meantime, I can sign my full name in the snow.
Including Confirmation name.
If snow didn’t melt I imagine that in the future I would have left so marked an impression on the fossil record that I would be recognised as a distinctive species.
As long as the species name did not start with ‘homo’. That would sound so gay.
So, there ya go!
“Educated people vote blue”
which is why ‘doctor’ and ‘professor’ are dirty words to me now. Not scholars but marxist ideologues who cannot think outside their smelly little orthodoxies.
Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope, spoke out about the results of the presidential election, stating that the United States “does not deserve” Vice President Kamala Harris.
Let the late Lady Violet explain…
Cats, I love this, but it so Talking Heads circa ’79. Envisage the Weymouth on vocals.
The yoof currently getting into it have no idea …
They need a crash course in Remain in Light. 🙂
You got nothing!
Big nothing!
Beck – Loser (1994)
The BBC is reporting that Gaza’s leading Islamic scholar, Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, has issued a six page fatwa (judgement) declaring the 7th October attacks unlawful according to Islamic jurisprudence pertaining to jihad.
Among his charges are that Hamas used civilian facilities as shields and hoarded food and supplies rather than distributing them to civilians in need and that by the nature of the attack they provoked Israel’s response, which should have been foreseen.
It will be interesting to read an ET.
ET?
English translation.
If I can get hold of one I might take the trouble to send it to some of our Muslim firebrand preachers.
Courageous. I fear he has just signed his death warrant.
Will his fatwa trump the fatwa calling for his head that will inevitably follow?
He’s the top local scholar, apparently.
I don’t think Hamas are in any position to be asserting their will in such matters presently.
His other daughter, Change, said she was sick of hearing all the puns – like being in weather, or cell block capos passing reluctant Catamite boys around for her.
Or being told that after her older sister she is…spare.
Should transition to No Hope.
NEW: Pentagon Officials Are Already Conspiring Against Donald Trump
Simple, sack them.
How Trump Won the First “Influencer Election”
But intelligent people, smart people, knowledgeable people, and informed people…
Like me!
Sure, I do.
Years too late, I have just been reading Sir Robert Menzies’ letters to his daughter, Heather Henderson. He had a post-retirement gig at the University of Virginia, where he received the warmest reception in 1967, and even got a friendly reception at the various campuses if the University of California. How things have changed in 50 years.
That great advocate for the traditional liberal education would be turning in his grave at the state of Australian universities now.
The letters are worth reading for many reasons, including in US politics and society. And for the delicious observations on his own side of politics: pompous provincial fools in the state governments (especially the Queenslanders and the rent-seeking extortionist Playford, but also Bolte), the NSW branch of the Liberals the fawning sycophants who descend on Government House…. He was nothing like the stolid old fart of leftist mythology.
And with that glorious proclamation, “Stating the bleeding obvious week” did commence.
Something we can all be on board with, Cats. 🙂
For example, “Kevni Ruff looks like a rat peering through a toilet brush”.
You confront the obnoxious inconsiderate imbeciles doing it and tell them in no uncertain terms to cease and desist – warn them as well that you’ll call the pigs and have them fined or have their shitboxes towed away (at their expense).
Also, make sure your courteous warning is conveyed in such a manner that their ears will be ringing for about six months afterwards – this will ensure they’ve received the message “loud and clear” and without any room for “(mis)interpretation”.
Given the several occasions it’s occurred here at the cottage over the last seven and counting years, it seems to work for me.
It might also work for you, Titus.
Battery drill works wonders.
Was thinking forklift myself, put in a place where you know it will be towed by the council legally.
Joy!
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. (2005)
Chrisafooli – Giuseppe Prosciutto less 60 kilos of flab.
Plus the ability to blunder into government thanks to imbeciles even more ridiculous than he is (yes, apparently they do exist).
Menzies was very clear on that: an Opposition is doomed if it doesn’t present a clear alternative.
FANTASY novel by a large tonged Pomgolian isnt sensitive enough for the poor little precious pixie people of Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/jamie-oliver-apologises-after-childrens-book-criticised-for-stereotyping-first-nations-australians-ntwnfb
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation (Natsiec) has described Oliver’s book Billy and the Epic Escape, which has an Australian subplot, as damaging and disrespectful, and has accused the celebrity of contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences”.
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Wokescols, wokescolds everywhere…
Dr Anita Heiss, a Wiradyuri author and publisher-at-large at Simon & Schuster’s First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing, said Oliver’s book confirmed what she had been advocating for over many years.
“First Nations peoples need to be involved at every stage of the process from acquisitions to editorial, to sales and marketing. Only then will our stories be told with the complete respect they deserve,” she said in a statement.
“There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing about.”
Both Heiss and Leavy believe the book should be withdrawn from sale.
Heiss seems to be doing a little appropiating of her own..
https://www.facebook.com/AnitaHeissAuthor/
Aloha!! I’m currently in Hawaii. You can join me on Instagram if you like. @_jaguars_rock
As white as Snow White’s bum…
Poor Jamie. Hard to imagine a greater sin in Islington.
…through a colonial lens…
The word ‘colonial’ is being used in this context as a derogatory and racist term, is it not? ‘Colonials’ being generally understood to be of Caucasian origin, and perceived as homicidally violent towards native peoples. Ms. Heiss is accusing Mr. Oliver and his publisher of promulgating violence?
Surely this must become a legal matter, and an apology from Ms. Heiss demanded?
Correct me if my recollection is faulty – is not Ms Heiss considerably more German than Aboriginal?
My recollection is that she is German, as her surname suggests, but was ‘accepted’ by some group of Aboriginal people and is, ‘therefore’ Aboriginal. She was involved in some scandal years ago, does anyone remember what it was about?
I suspect she was one of the group that sued Andrew Bolt for having the offensive audacity to suggest they proclaimed themselves as aborigines as a matter of choice and profit.
Judge Bromberg intuited that Bolt acted illegally, not because of his written column, but because of his true intent behind the words.
Recently the lead Plaintiff, the late Pat Eatock, a lifelong aboriginal activist, was found to have no aboriginal forbears at all.
I vaguely recall Ms Heiss was one of the Plaintiffs and there was much evidence lead concerning her substantial German ancestry.
I’m so old I remember when the prog-left was against censoring fiction in order to fit a politically correct position approved by the Establishment.
Does the ABC ever produce a report on euthanasia (or abortion) that isn’t overwhelmingly positive?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-09/arts-veteran-announces-death-in-heartfelt-letter/104581494
Hard to speak-up beyond the grave. So no feedback from this customer segment.
oh no another ‘doctor’.
Interestink…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/09/was-racism-at-the-root-of-the-cronulla-riots-not-according-to-two-men-who-led-the-response-ntwtfb
And the response from the great and good is effectively sticking their fingers in their ears and going lalala…
Several academics and researchers declined to comment on the book on the grounds that it might give credence to its claims.
“To be honest, I don’t think it is worth the effort,” said Prof Gregory Noble from Western Sydney University. “[I] feel that it is really just a self-justification of their actions at the time and based on a deep resentment to the way they were treated.”
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Another focus of the book is the retaliatory attacks, which Scully and Goodwin write were much more violent than the riots and could have unleashed a “bloodbath” but for a highly effective police and government response.
They claim police thwarted a planned attack on Cronulla’s Northies Hotel with machine guns and a hand grenade, and a rampage through Miranda Westfield’s shopping centre by “fifty cars full of Middle Eastern men … with baseball bats, iron bars, knives, guns and other weapons”.
Noble, who edited a book on the riots in 2009, says it is possible that he and other researchers of the event “perhaps didn’t give enough coverage to these revenge attacks”, but says Scully and Goodwin’s assessment of their severity was “based on documents that only they had access to”.
Compare and contrast to “stories my nanna told me”…
Isn’t writing and writing in English cultural appropriation by the standards of the modern left?
Dons really are beneath contempt.
The exodus is starting..
And that’s just the blokes.
Guffaw!!!
Commie-la’s campaign poster..
So that’s where the “Form a circle, form a circle!” came from.
Colour me surprised!
Obama’s biographer reveals ex-president fears for his legacy after ‘tone-deaf preaching’ harmed Harris campaign
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have been slammed by his biographer for ‘talking down’ to voters in ‘tone-deaf and clueless’ preaching that harmed Kamala Harris’ ill-fated presidential campaign.
The effect was so bad that – combined with Donald Trump’s victory – it is likely to reduce the 44th president’s political relevance to ‘Bill Clinton levels’, David Garrow said in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
‘People do not want to be talked down to, no matter who they are,’ the 71-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner said.
Daily Mail
Now the Not So Magic Negro it would seem.
So much blame to go around. Some for you Barry?
The BBC is reporting that Gaza’s leading Islamic scholar, Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, has issued a six page fatwa (judgement) declaring the 7th October attacks unlawful according to Islamic jurisprudence pertaining to jihad.
So, why the delay? How long since October 7 2023? That’s right, just 399 days.
Granted.
However, he apparently hasn’t left northern Gaza since hostilities began, which may have hampered his ability to research and write.
His fatwa may also have been written some time ago but has only now made it into the hands of the BBC.
Be that as it may, I’m taking the position that it’s better late than never and it’s likely to prove a useful document vis a vis our local Islamists as it is framed according to their authoritative texts.
Not to mention their fellow travellers on the prog-left.
Slow writer Cassie.
I’m taking the position that its better late than never.
I’m taking the position that what happened on October 7 should never have happened at all I’m taking the position that the cleric should have released this the day after October 7. Small comfort to the families of Shani Louk, Naama Levy, Yarden, Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino, the 1200 Jews butchered that horrible October day, and the 101 Jews who remain held in Gazan tunnels….most of whom are probably dead. Did the cleric order the release of the hostages?
That detail seems to be missing.
Nailed it.
Remember in 1984 a gaggle of dons put together a book to attack Geofrey Blainey- one criticism was he ‘admired great men’. What a poisoned world these academics live in. Like a Salvadore Dali painting. That was 40 years ago. Unis have been an abomination for decades.
There is that marvellous quote academic infighting is so vicious because the stakes are so small.
Henry K iirc
Envy is such an ugly and destructive emotion.
Envy it is, Crissie. Blainey is a good enough writer to live on his book sales, which is more than anyone could say for his enemies.
“Gaza’s skies are black, but Qatar’s are always sunny …”
Most losers find their actions regrettable.
Bingo!
For the sake of accuracy in reporting, he’s not in Qatar, he’s in Gaza.
He’s also not Hamas.
And he might prove instrumental in any post-war Gazan settlement absent Hamas.
err, Rog, I was implying he was wishing he was in Qatar …
Most of the population of Gaza are not Hamas, but they still joined in the cheering, debasing and defiling of a young, dead woman.
And that is what the cleric has said.
Every turd needs an escape plan.
Taqqiya?
Cats, a missing track from the Trainspotting soundtrack has been unearthed … 😕
Who just so happens to be still engaging in a bit o’ good ol’ gaol languishing. 🙂
Cats, I’m very disappointed that Miss Maggie Dodgers is now relying on her ability to turn up the sexiness to eleventy (again) instead of her music being front and centre. She looks fantastic in this clip, but the song isn’t a patch on her three pop classics I like to post here.
At least she hasn’t had a meltdown about Fatty Trump (I hope).
In the (cost of) living room …
Rabz, whoever styled her for that clip, is a genius.
No lace, no frills, no G-string, no twerking, only the tiniest hint of boob, and nanna panties.
Damn! Sooooooo Sexy.
And yes, decent song. also. 😀
In memory of Peanut and Fred – some classic Sid – being the good li’l Fatty Trump supporter that he is, he can now breathe a bit more easily knowing evil dumbocrat swamp creatures will no longer be able to hunt him down … 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swD2FBytLds
Never a big Cold Chisel fan, but this one puts them up there with the IMMORTAL Creedence..
Great Aussie band. Don’t confuse Cold Chisel with Jimmy Barnes.
I saw Rockpile in ’78, in Sydney. 😀
It’s early days, and basking in a sweet victory is warranted. However, I read an excerpt earlier (above) suggesting that the Democrats might be out of office for a generation or two. This is delusional. Trump’s win was a close one—a point or two here and there in key places made the difference. Moreover, he’ll be gone in four years.
The biggest problem I see for Trump is the rolling debt of around US$33 trillion and a chronic deficit running at approximately US$1.5 trillion per year. This could become a nightmare, especially if he starts implementing some of the policies he campaigned on. The issue is that the deficit hasn’t decreased, even though the economy has been performing reasonably well and employment is near full capacity. If spending cuts don’t come fast enough, Trump may find himself in a bind, needing to justify deficits under his administration, which could alienate both his base and fiscal conservatives alike.
To avoid this, Trump would need to cut spending by at least US$1.5 trillion annually and establish a long-term plan for surpluses.
A potential crack in the bond markets could end up destabilizing his second term, jeopardizing his economic agenda and impacting the broader economy. In other words, this fiscal tightrope could very well define his legacy.
The idea that the demons are donesky for the foreseeable future is laughable. This is the most malignant, but successful political in the world bar none and can never be written off.
Evil neither sleeps, nor does it take a deep breath, for it has no lungs to expand.
Aside from the economic bits that I don’t understand (no surprises there), I agree. As I’ve opined for a few years now, I don’t believe that Trump is the saviour who will put the world right without the rest of us having to chip a fingernail. He’s simply here to help while we get our act together.
God, I hope this clip is legit.
Elon Musk Gives Stranded Woman a Ride, 3 Years Later She Finds Out Who He Really Is
Oh ffs. Will you stop posting this AI crap.
Bill Maher’s brutal message for Democratic ‘brats and snobs’ over Kamala’s defeat
Anyway, Sliante to all you mob.
I’m evicting a mob of tenants, for not paying the rent on a property I happen to own.
They tell me it’s their right to housing…
Bullshit it is!!
Make sure you accomplish the eviction with depraved indifference. 😀
And it’s your right to be paid rent.
EXCLUSIVE Obama’s biographer reveals ex-president fears for his legacy after ‘tone-deaf preaching’ harmed Harris campaign
FEMA is a cesspit of corruption and should be disbanded, just like the FBI.
@realDailyWire
FULL STATEMENT: “FEMA helps all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation and we are deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions. While we believe this is an isolated incident, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again. The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes and we are reaching out to the people who may have not been reached as a result of this incident. This is a matter that we take extremely seriously and we are doing everything we can to make sure all survivors receive support from FEMA. To date, we have helped over 365,000 households impacted by both Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the state of Florida and have provided over $898 million in direct assistance to survivors. We are horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct this situation and have ensured that the matter was addressed at all levels. Helping people is what we do best and our workforce across the agency will continue to serve survivors for as long as it takes.”
@DogRightGirl
This clapping seal is not coping well
GOOD LORD!
I’m sure it did, to some extent.
Did This Pet Squirrel Actually Influence the Election?
Make Peter Navarro Attorney General, Trump.
I just had a strange thought. The people who drew graphs showing how the democrats would win are the same ones drawing graphs predicting climate change.
Mem, nothing strange about that.
Repeat.
Elon Musk Walks Into McDonald’s Full Of First Responders – What He Does Next Is Unexpected
For Rabz in particular, lecherous beast that he is, an ad airing in the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SzKgJTP8s
Thanks, areff …
Areff, you still hanging around the West Side – communist central?
In DC until Monday, then heading to son:s in Connecticut
Back in Oz December 16
Interesting to see, Deckchair War-Minnow and Tiny Serge using stats from the Economist to support their case.
Dover, are you going to stop using these two geniuses as sources now?
Here we go.
The hotline would’ve been a better choice.
Step-mother had to wait in line as they ran out of beds -ha
Has she been offered MAID, it’s the humane thing to do
… on election day, Maricopa County officials sent the wrong-sized paper to the precincts, essentially shutting down voting across the metro areas but especially in deep-red districts. Democrats were somehow able to pick up over 50% of the votes that day despite having only a 17% turnout on Election Day.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/send-us-marshals-arizona-officials-caught-changing-ballot/
Then, following Election Day, 25,000 mysterious and still unexplained ballots were inserted into Maricopa County’s totals. This was never investigated or explained.
Aged sis-in-law raged over the phone at the missus about how horrible Trump was and how his election would cause WW3 and, of course, climate change.
Missus returned serve with a withering winning backhand down the line about Dementia Joe and the Cackler.
I just quietly sent her a snap of me wearing my red 2024 MAGA cap.
Then followed up with a pic of our puppy wearing it (just before he bolted outside chewing the fcuk out of it).
Life is fun in this Trumpian era!
Interesting observation from a rusted on communist acquaintance,
“if the state (USSR we were talking about) left the economy to look after itself instead of the planned one, and kept all the other social policies we would have an international communist society now”
I said, we do actually, mostly anyway.
Turn on the tap I say.
We forget how hard life used to be and still is in some places.
What craftsmanship.
Horse-drawn bus of bygone years, bit drafty on top but.
Grammar matters.
Week In Pictures.
Is this still existing?
I suppose I could look it up.
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Innamincka Hotel South Australia was established in approximately 1885.
Howard Kearns of Farina lodged plans to build the hotel on the banks of the Cooper Creek. It was a welcome refuge for the drovers, pastoralists and shearers who travelled the Strzelecki Track.
This photograph shows the single storey brick building with two men, a lady and small girl standing outside.
A sign on the hotel says “Innamincka Hotel proprietor Albert Healey”. He held this position from 1919-24
It is still there. A great spot that is well patronised by locals and travellers alike.
https://innaminckahotel.com.au
Here is another favourite spot of mine.
https://www.mtdare.com.au
Thanks Tom for a superb Trumpian WIP.
And, Transgender whale – “Maybe Dick”.
Hahaha…..chortle muchly.
My theory that the USA is stuffed, due to too many bad actors in too many places, gets plenty of support from the daily reports by Gateway Pundit. The dirty tricks continue, and a prime example is the guy counting the votes in Kari Lake’s senate race. Self-proclaimed anti MAGA and anti Lake according to the following link story. That and another story about a bomb threat at a vote counting place which was closely followed by some visiting white vans.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-maricopa-county-recorder-stephen-richers-deposition-transcript/
It’s a state-by-state thing with the US, it’s in the name. This simply means that Arizona is stuffed at the moment and will need concerted efforts to change it before the next election. At present Arizona is cursed by the widow and the daughter of the late Senator John McCain who want to ruin the Republican Party for not making him a president.
What I like about this story is that EVs all have their batteries on the underside, so when they hit an especially big pothole they might actually explode.
Victoria’s roads are getting worse with repair work slashed by 95 per cent (Sky News, 9 Nov)
There’s only so much you can skim off essential maintenance before everything falls apart. Jacinta must be scraping up every coin in order to keep her vanity projects going.
Cost a lot to make her look good.
The only road works being done in regional Victoria are those being demanded by the multinationals that own the giant windmills wrecking the countryside who can’t collect their billions in government subsidies without good access roads.
Besides, there are more important things like a statue for Dan Andrews and all those indigenous reparations to mostly white fraudsters.
Thwack!
Mich. Jury Awards Millions to a Woman Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine (8 Nov)
It will be appealed of course, but one of these cases is eventually going to make it all the way to Scotus, and the results of that will be very interesting.
‘Interesting’ is one word for it.
‘Bankrupting the companies who did the punishing’ are others.
JC last evening …
Musk claims he can cut $2 trillion out of the $6 trillion budget.
This was in Chris Uhlmann’s article which I posted a segment of yesterday.
This gets hard if you keep all the functions and regulatory framework of government in place and try to cut headcount.
I think they will do what he did at Twitter. Just scrap entire departments wholesale. The other plan is to decentralise out of DC which will be supported by the pork-barrellers in Congress (which is 93.1% of them).
House prices in DC will tank, of course.
Decentralised DC. Delicious. A great reward for the swamp fascists living there.
All decentralisation should be to reliably “Blue” counties. Sending the swamp to “Red” counties would entrench the DemonRats in power in the future.
“Decentralise” to NYC, LA, San Fran, Detroit, Chicago et al.
This would also make the bureaucrats live in blue shitholes they politically support.
A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
A company rhat hires a gang of neurotic women prone to mass hysteria to run its HR department is inevitably going to have problems.
JC
November 10, 2024 2:32 am
Here we go.
Do it, Ella!
Jump!
Just check there are no expensive cars parked in the splatter zone.
I made this point yesterday.
The Dimocrats have to:-
(a) admit the 2020 steal; or
(b) concede that the vote from 2020 to 2024 has collapsed and change positions accordingly.
Very satisfying WIP this week.
Makes me want to sign up as an Ewok!
love it!
It’s a pretty obvious gag.
Even this bloke made it, days ago:
Arky
November 6, 2024 5:40 pm
Return of the Jedi.
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Another WIP meme had me whistling this. The perfect state!
Indolent
November 9, 2024 10:56 pm
FEMA helps all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation and we are deeply disturbed by this employee’s actions…
we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again…
This is a matter that we take extremely seriously and we are doing everything we can to make sure all survivors receive support from FEMA.
… and the FBI is now all keen on publicising their work on a just uncovered ?3rd, ?4th assassination attempt on Orange God.
Interesting openness.. one wanders what just happened..
BTW, it’s worth downloading all the short clips of OG outlining his utterly, astronomically brilliant agendas, especially the free-speech one, for future reference.. before the evil Blob regains power and unalives his legacy.
I read about the disgraceful neglect by federal workers of householders with Trump banners affected by both the Florida hurricane and the North Carolina disaster. Such evil.
And all they could say is that she is no longer in that position, meaning they have moved her to another role. She should have been dismissed immediately. Someone like that has no business working in an emergency service.
In Hebrew long thread google translate
https://x.com/GalG_IL/status/1855326678236733691?t=Aji6sczhg9nZkcWQeKgkQQ&s=19
Brendan O’Neill in the Paywallian:
The best explanation for why the Democrats lost so badly this week came from Bernie Sanders. Yes, it fell to the independent octogenarian socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, the mitten-wearing meme hero of the online left, to explain why Donald Trump romped to victory.
“It should come as no great surprise,” he said, “that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
In blistering prose, crackling with fury, he wondered if the Dems’ top dogs would learn “any real lessons from this disastrous campaign”. Then his curt reply to his own inquiry: “Probably not.”
He’s right. What happened in the US this week was not rocket science. You don’t need a PhD in political studies to understand why more than 72 million people, many of them working class, took a punt on the man Kamala Harris and her media acolytes madly branded a fascist.
It’s not because they’re dumb. It’s not because they fell under the spell of Trump’s demagogic trickery. It’s not because they are “low information”, as The New Yorker magazine suggested shortly before the election. It sent one of its haughty reporters to mingle “among America’s ‘low-information’ voters”, as a colonial-era anthropologist might have studied a far-flung African tribe.
No, Trump did not steal these voters – the Democrats lost them.
UnHerd Washington DC correspondent Emily Jashinsky claims Kamala Harris’ polling “never recovered” after calling Donald Trump a “fascist”.
The Make America Great Again movement did not hypnotise the uneducated to join its ranks. Rather, the Dems drove these people away.
It let leak its contempt for them and so, like all right-thinking people in toxic relationships, they packed their bags and left.
Trump has done something extraordinary: forged a new multiracial working-class coalition.
He won bigly – as he might say – among the white working class. Around 66 per cent of this key, angry constituency voted for him.
He improved his standing among Latinos, who heavily skew working class. He won 55 per cent of Hispanic men and 38 per cent of Hispanic women. He made some gains among African-African voters, too, especially men.
The bracing realignment in US politics is best captured in the fact that 62 per cent of Americans who never darkened the door of a college voted for Trump, while Harris swept up the votes of the hyper-educated. More than 60 per cent of those with an advanced degree voted for her.
The most Hispanic county in the United States, Starr County in South Texas, flipped red to elect Donald Trump on Tuesday (November 5) – the first time the county has elected a Republican presidential candidate in more than a century. Gabe Singer…
The snobs of the mournful media, because they can’t help themselves, say this shows that educated people make better choices. In truth, it confirms the Dems are now the party of the credentialed elites while MAGA is a solidly working-class movement.
Harris sought the support of the sharp-elbowed classes while Trump connected with the horny-handed classes. It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of this shift. It’s tectonic.
If you went back 50 years and told Joe Blue Collar that one day he’d be more likely to vote for a billionaire real estate magnate with too much fake tan than for the Democratic Party, he’d have thought you mad. Yet here we are.
The divorce of the Democrats and the working class has been brewing for decades. Author Ruy Teixeira calls it “the Democrats’ long goodbye to the working class”.
And now Trump is saying hello to them. He’s saying: “I will listen to you.” And they’re taking a chance on him. Why not? The weirdest thing about the left’s frothing rage over Trump, their branding of him as a lunatic outlier, is that he’s offering working-class voters the kind of thing the left once offered them.
He’s promising to tackle inflation. And polls consistently showed that working people’s top priority in this election was the scourge of soaring prices.
He says he will fix the border and the depressive impact the arrival of these millions of undocumented migrants is having on the wages of working Americans.
He says he will halt wasteful wars. He has staked virtually his entire reputation on ending the war in Ukraine. This pledge is remarkably popular. So many Trump voters I met in the US this week praised The Donald’s peacenik tendencies. Fascists? They sounded more like hippies.
Making the economy work for working people, controlling the flow of cheap labour, ending war – didn’t the left, long ago, agitate for things like this? Now they call it Nazism.
Donald Trump, during his campaign rally in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, told voters he was committed to ending the war in Ukraine.
All that working-class voters have got from the credentialed classes that now dominate the institutions of the left is scolding and sermons. They’re called racist for wanting to fix the porous border. They’re called transphobic if they don’t want a 15-year-old boy on their daughter’s sports team. They’re called “low information” if they question the edicts of the mainstream media.
On and on it goes – a sniffy lecturing of the little people dressed up as activism.
People are sick of it. They’re sick of being told to “take the knee” to the eccentric ideologies of the rich new left.
They’re tired of being called bigots because they are not au fait with the latest woke lingo and don’t wear pronoun badges.
They’ve had enough of politics being dominated by the neuroses of the upper classes rather than by the needs and interests of the working classes.
So they’ve risen up. Their vote for Trump is the biggest “F you” of modern times. It’s the revenge of the deplorables, a revolt of people of all races against the sneering wet leftists of the establishment.
It’s a revolt that will have huge ramifications. Leftists everywhere should quake. For a spectre is haunting the West – the spectre of a working class that is not woke but is certainly wide awake.
Plus 74 million, the number of Trump votes.
Just a point here –
He’s actually saying “Big League”.
The maltranslation was just another Democrat effort to make him look bad.
But now, ‘Bigly’ has become part of the lexicon.
Great article, Thanks Tom
How The Nazis Conquered German Universities | Sir Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals
Summary In this talk, Sir Niall Ferguson discusses the historical and contemporary relationship between academia and extremist political ideologies, focusing particularly on the rise of Nazism in German universities before WWII and drawing parallels to current trends in U.S. higher education. He argues that a troubling shift in academic culture has led to a lack of commitment to free speech and critical inquiry, creating an environment where ideological conformity is enforced and dissent is silenced. Ferguson believes the academic elite of today reflect the dangerous dynamics seen in the past, warning against the institutionalization of political activism within educational settings. ### Key Points by Section #### Introduction – Ferguson introduces the topic as an exploration of the betrayal of intellectuals and the concept of academic liberty. – He references Julien Benda’s 1927 work “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” which criticized intellectuals for succumbing to political passions. – Benda’s view: Intellectuals should uphold justice and truth rather than embracing strong state ideologies. #### German Academia Before WWII – In the 1920s, German universities were the most prestigious globally, with a large portion of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences. – German academics were uniquely predisposed to support charismatic leaders, including Hitler. – Early signs of anti-Semitism in universities, with groups excluding Jews from student fraternities. – The role of German academics in crafting Nazi policy and ideologies, exemplified by eugenics and justifications for the Nazi agenda. #### Decline of German Universities – Hitler’s anti-Semitism caused a mass exodus of Jewish professors, depriving universities of their intellectual capital and leading to a “brain drain.” – Non-Jewish academics often supported Nazi ideologies for career advancement. – The correlation between university degrees and support for Nazism is highlighted by historical anecdotes. #### Modern Political Activism in Academia – Ferguson contrasts historical actions with contemporary situations in U.S. universities, particularly after events like the Hamas attacks and the subsequent responses by student groups. – The growth of cancel culture and the diminishing tolerance for free speech on campuses are explored, supported by statistics on student attitudes toward controversial topics. – Ferguson bemoans the lack of moral courage among university leaders responding to polarization and student pressures. #### Current Academic Climate in the U.S. – Data shows increasing attempts to censor viewpoints across universities, alongside an overwhelming liberal bias among faculty. – Growth of administrative costs and the impact of bureaucratic structures on academic freedom. – Many students experience self-censorship due to fear of reprisal from peers. #### Factors Contributing to Current Trends – Ferguson references the work of authors discussing social media’s influence on intolerance and the deterioration of civil discourse. – He highlights the increasing political skew among academics and discusses how universities have become less tolerant places for dissenting views. #### Potential Solutions – Ferguson argues for the need for new institutions focused on protecting academic liberty, referencing the creation of the University of Austin. – The importance of maintaining a distinct separation between personal political activism and academic responsibilities is emphasized. #### Conclusion – Ferguson expresses concern that if current trends continue, universities in the UK, like those in the U.S., could also slide into the depths of ideological conformity and intolerance. – The Pharos Foundation is mentioned as an initiative aimed at promoting open dialogue and diverse perspectives in academia.
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Bazinga
November 10, 2024 7:15 am
Reply to Sancho Panzer
Decentralised DC. Delicious. A great reward for the swamp fascists living there.
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Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 10, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to Bazinga
All decentralisation should be to reliably “Blue” counties. Sending the swamp to “Red” counties would entrench the DemonRats in power in the future.
@teameffujoe
This is blatant fraud in Arizona.
Somehow as they were counting the votes, 15,000 new ballots magically appeared. This was 3 days after the election. No new ballots should showing up from anywhere!
Yes, it’s fraud, just like they did before, and the time before that.
Republican candidates in Arizona must sue asap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5WZ0b4chU
Girls, can I just say that false eyelashes looked gross first time around?
But now they look like the news anchor has stumbled through a jungle and forgotten to pull the spiders out.
@Jules31415
Absolutely incredible.
Click this and marvel at the changes to the world and to the US in just two days after the annoucement of Trump’s big win.
More to come too. They’ll be ready for Trump’s day one signing fiesta.
@rallynate
So turns out that Kamala had to pay Oprah $1 Million to get her support.
Her whole campaign was fake.
To cap it all, for that one mlllion she got Oprah saying the most ridiculous thing said in this whole ridiculous campaign, a fear tactic that if Dems didn’t vote now they would never vote again. A very bad deal.
David Pakman Panics as Progressive Influencers face Record Loss of Subscribers
Warren Smith – Secret Scholar Society
@lsferguson
SEND IN THE US MARSHALS: Arizona Officials Caught Changing the Ballot Totals as Counting for US Senate Seat Continues
And they trying to steal the House.
Bomb Threat at Vote Counting Center in Orange County, CA!
He should be in jail.
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray to retire before President Trump’s inauguration.
It won’t save him. He can still be gaoled for corruption and treason.
Looking through the multiple WIPs during the week reminded me of Phatty Adams once pompously claiming that “only the left can do comedy”.
Putting aside the Bob Hopes and Tim Allens and many others of this world whose existence suggests otherwise, how’s that working out for you Phatty?
In fairness, the left are funny but by default not design. They do it without even trying.
Old Lefty
November 9, 2024 9:06 pm
Reply to Cassie of Sydney
In the normal course of politics, people say rude things about each other and it’s soon forgotten if they need each other’s support. But these comments go way past normal.
Correct, which is why there must be, there has to be, some accountability for the obscene use and debasement of the words ‘far-right’, ‘racist’, ‘white supremacist’ and ‘Nazi’.
It is not the right that has debased and degraded political speech and debate over the last decade and a bit. No, no, no, let’s get this straight, it is the left and their useful idiotic comrades in the media. I first noticed this debasement around 2011 to 2012, that something was going very awry in political debate, the ugly insults and inferences directed at then opposition leader Abbott were of a new and vicious level. But it took that monumental year of 2016 for this word debasement to soar to stratospheric levels, with Brexit and the November 2016 election resulting in the first Trump victory. I recall being staggered at the insults thrown by the left that year, be it the ‘deplorables’ comment from Mrs Clinton, be it the insults that all Brexit voters were ‘Nazis’. I recoiled in horror, because the truth was that most Brexit voters were simply middle and working class Englanders who resided in the kind of England once celebrated in Midsomer Murders, in Open all Hours, in Miss Marple, in Porridge, in Dad’s Army and so on. But suddenly, according to the left and the MSM, that indomitable indigenous Englander who liked nothing more than a good cup of tea and a home made scone, the same indomitable indigenous Englander who remained stoic during the blitz, the same indomitable indigenous Englander who held Hitler’s armies at bay, was now a Nazi! WTF! I still shake my head in disbelief.
And this grotesque cheapening of political debate, this smearing of political opponents as ‘faaaaar-riiiiight’ and as ‘Nazis’ became de rigour on the left, particularly here in Oz, where the leftist activists even targeted Sky News Oz for cancelling and silencing, all for the crime of hosting programmes and commentators like Andrew Bolt who were ‘right of centre’ and thus, according to the left here……Nazis. Sky was smeared as the creepy spooky wooky ‘Sky after Dark’.
Some examples….
If you believed George Pell was innocent, you were a Nazi.
If you vote Liberal/National, you’re a Nazi.
If you believe in secure borders, you’re a Nazi.
If you don’t believe Tony Abbott was a misogynist, you were a Nazi.
If you believe a man with a dick is not a woman, you’re a Nazi.
If you believe in free speech, you’re a Nazi.
If you voted no to the Voice, you were a Nazi.
If you don’t want 3000 Gazans living in this country, you’re a Nazi.
If you didn’t believe in SSM, you were a Nazi.
If you thought Covid was an overreach, you were a Nazi.
If you objected to vaccine mandates and lockdows, you were a Nazi.
And of course, most infamously, last year ordinary women attending a Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne were smeared as ‘Nazis’ in a political sting operation of monumental proportions.
I could go on, the examples are legion, I’m sure you get the drift
But hear this, the days of smearing opponents as Nazis are done and dusted, the buck stopped on November 5 2024.
I will add this though, the left over the last decade were helped and frequently given carte blanche for their ugly untrue words and actions by the right. The right, paralysed with fear, supine, craven and cowardly, preferred to stand back and allow themselves to be punched and trampled on. They refused to fight. Now, just imagine if Donald Trump had refused to fight? Where would he be? I tell you where, he would not be president again, he would not have won a thumping victory, winning the popular vote, the electoral college vote, the senate and House. Trump fought, even as a bullet scraped his ear on a podium in PA back in July this year, even when the SS detail picked him up from the floor and despite his palpable shock, he threw his arm up in the air and he said……..
Fight
Fight
Fight
I think it’s time we all started fighting back.
Oh and where’s Monty? Disappeared, I see. Remember Monty’s favourite far-right, white supremacist bogeyman fool called Nick Fuentes, who always turns up at conservative events in stunts designed to try and deliberately embarrass conservative (much like how those Grampian Nazis turned up at the rally in Melbourne in March 2023)? Well, rumours are abounding on social media that all along he’s been DoJ plant and operative. How unsurprising.
Bah, I wrote a reply why I think you’re incorrect here. It’s been eaten by the spam filter. Grrrrrr.
How about that?
I’m a Nazi x 11! Well, according to the Left I am.
I shall break out into song:
“It’s springtime for Hitler and Germany…”
Apparently I am too, although I didn’t know it. Having parents and grandparents who were in the British forces that fought the Nazis and having served myself for a while, it’s a bit of a mystery.
Cassie’s comment is brilliant.
You’re a treasure Cassie in the way you write so passionately and with utter conviction.
The debasement of the language is something Orwell was well and truly onto. The titles of the various Gillard Acts became progressively more absurd, which doesn’t help law students when they sit down and start studying some time after the Grand Final.
@RitaPanahi
To any crazed American Lefties wanting to move to Australia, this is a typical supermarket in Australia. Also we have more than enough crazies here. Try NZ.
Diamond pythons are gorgeous! We used to have one in our street, the kids would pick it up and wander around with it. I had to collect it once from my neighbour’s backyard as he was scared of snakes, it was completely happy with me carrying it off to be released in the bush. Unfortunately in the end it got run over, which was sad.
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Trump is planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement!
Good! The “Climate Crisis” is a HOAX!
If I could uptick this a thousand, I would. The whole thing’s a scam based on bulltish about a 0.04% trace gas. The sooner the better, Donny!
@ChiefTrumpster
@Cobratate
Aragorn to the elf archers at Helm’s Deep: “Show them no mercy, for they will give you none”.
BOM is giving an extreme heat warning, for the sizzling top of 27C
the organisation needs to be gutted and the activists weeded out
WIP brekkie sweetener ..!
Hehe, one for Monty:
Rasmussen Reports Completely Vindicated by 2024 Election Results (9 Nov)
The lefty pollsters were all out buttressing the steal, but 250,000 eagle eyed watchers with speed dial numbers to lawyers mostly prevented the steal from happening. So they’re now looking like shags on a rock.
Maybe you should go back to clean elections and honest polling lefty peoples. And pick candidates that aren’t vapid airheads.
TREASON: Military Brass Holding ‘Informal Discussions’ on How to Override Trump 47’s Orders
fire them all
… out of a cannon.
Left floats a Supreme Court Justice Kamala Harris before Biden leaves office
Yes I read this. But isnt there a slight problem? They need Harris to vote in the Senate to pass things. Can she vote for this given she benefits? You could replce her as VP then get the new VP to dot it. But messy.
Dutch PM: Amsterdam attack on Jews a ‘turning point’
Israel needs to put Mossad/Shin Bet Operatives into Europe and start cleaning out the ‘Top Men of the Intifada.’
Shady Dem lawyer behind Steele Dossier looking to overturn Pennsylvania Senate results
Black Professor Accidentally PROVES “Anti-White” Double Standard
Summary: The video features an interview with economist Roland Fryer, in which he discusses his research on police use of force and the surprising findings that showed a lack of racial bias in police shootings. Fryer shares his journey of conducting significant data analysis while addressing the controversy his results sparked in academia and broader society. He reflects on the difficult nature of police work and the misconceptions surrounding police treatment of different racial groups. The latter part of the video shifts focus to broader societal implications of policing and racial narratives in the media, highlighting issues of crime and the effect of negative publicity on law enforcement. ### Key Points: #### 1. The Intro (0:00 – 0:35) – Introduction to the topic of police bias and racial differences. – Overview of the guest, Roland Fryer, a prominent economist and author. #### 2. Roland Fryer Interview (1:06 – 15:10) – Discusses Fryer’s research on racial bias in police use of force, including his motivation to conduct the study. – Police shootings analysis was perceived differently than expected, revealing no substantial racial bias. – Experienced significant backlash and disbelief from colleagues when publishing findings. – Illustrates the challenges of police work and the realities officers face on the job. – Fryer’s motivations are personal and rooted in his desire to bring about change and acknowledge truth over safety in his career. #### 3. My Final Thoughts (15:10 – end) – Critiques the media for its portrayal of police shootings and crime statistics related to different racial groups. – Highlights the impact of the media’s framing on public perception and law enforcement behavior. – Discusses larger societal issues such as rising crime rates, especially in minority communities, and how police are affected by these narratives. – Concludes with a broader commentary on the consequences of policing policies and public perception, asserting the importance of honest dialogue about crime and policing.
The Deep State Wants to Assassinate Trump and Blame Iran to Start a War
Styxhexenhammer666
The weather in NY has been glorious all week. T-shirt weather, although today was a little chilly. But it sunny and not a cloud in the sky.
Global warming is great.
Great rant, Cassie.
Instead of criticising Fatboy though, he should be applauded. He’s the tubbier version of George Costanza. He’s always wrong, which in a perverse way means he always right in his predictions. He’s quite valuable that way.
LIVE with Matt Goodwin: Explaining Trump’s Historic 2024 Win
“We’re on the road to serfdom. Come on inside.”
Meanwhile, UK county councils report that local road maintenance is down 45% from pre-covid figures as inflation eats away budgets.
Chancellor Reeves promised to deliver funding to fix “an extra 1 million potholes per year.” £500m was allocated, which simply remediated cuts made by the Tories in recent years. However, the LGA’s transport spokesman says councils need £10bn over ten years to address the backlog of jobs. So, local roads aren’t going to improve any time soon.
Reeves also cut funding for new road and rail projects in a budget ironically sold as “rebuilding Britain.”
Madonna worries twin daughters she adopted from Malawi will be ‘considered vermin’ under TrumpDaily Mail.
12 year old children are so worried about the election of Donald Trump…
Let them eat cake.
Madonna Struggles to Cope with Kamala Losing, Stuffs Her Face with ‘F*ck Trump’ Cake (8 Nov)
She’s not handling this well.
Lucky she’s not in Australia where they would be flora.
A dirty woman that’s now a dirty old woman.
What a horrible mother she is.
the democratic joe rogan
and other hilarities of the leftist speedwobbles
McConnell, FOAD!
@TuckerCarlson
Who says you can’t call another spill and another and another until you weed out the slimy senators?
Why do they hate Trump so much?
I think it’s because he refused to fall for a thing that the left media has done for 50+ years and which almost every right centrist fell for, the Australian liberals in particular.
Which was to think every second day they had to make a big show of condemning the “homophobic” “racist” “sexist” bogeymen. Or else people would think they were that,
Trump just never engaged in this.
Because doing so is stupid.
The media knew what it was doing when it drew these sort of comments out of their political enemies.
“Do you condemn these racist/ homophobic/ islamophobic/ sexist things/ people”?
”There is no place in our party/ country / state / club / sauna for these things. I just want to take this moment to say blah blah blah”.
And they never put their political allies in that same spot. Which left the mug punters going “Oh, they have to deny it. You don’t have to keep going out of your way to keep denying it if there isn’t something to it”.
The media, or at least those who write for it, aren’t stupid. They know the effect of asking these people every day “Have you stopped beating your wife yet”?
Trump just didn’t play that game. He was confident he wasn’t racist, homophobic or misosorryist. He just brushed that crap away, time after time and it infuriated them that he wasn’t following the script they had for him.
The other thing he did was he harvested their antipathy towards him and used it to gain publicity.
His “inability to speak properly without putting his foot in his mouth” you know, that thing about him that early on was so off putting for the traditional Republicans and conservative punters, was actually a series of carefully baited traps into which the left media stick their heads time after time after time. So he did to them what they had done to conservatives with the “have you stopped beating your wife” routine, he put out “gaffes” that they just couldn’t resist. But when placed in context, the “gaffes” always pointed at some truth the voters actually cared about. And the media found that they had just given him and his MAGA agenda more free publicity. Publicity that over the last nine years has added up to billions of dollars of coverage.
And these people aren’t stupid. They just tripped over a once in a century master of their own art, and their methods and thought processes had not caught up to it.
Most Trump haters are young females rebelling against their daddies.
Or elderly cat ladies (see the voting spreads).
They hated Trump because he refused to accept his designated role in their ‘game’ as a reactor and defender; a subservient species. Instead, he seized and largely maintained the initiative, rather than meekly submitting to their rules. They weren’t prepared for that (initially) because it was unexpected. His wealth, business experience and status certainly help, but in simplistic terms, that is one change organised conservatives need to make: Seize and maintain the initiative. Will it be easy? Of course not. But change is required. President-Elect Trump can be an inspiration, but he is NOT a universal saviour. Motivation is internal.
STRAW POWER Did the Amish win it for Trump? How tiny sect in key swing state proved VITAL for Don’s reelection
Further to Faustus’s warning yesterday, I’ve worked out how we can avoid the perfidious Albanese’s misinformation laws:
We all need to identify as journalists.
Journalists, you see, being disinterested seekers of the truth wherever it may lead them, are exempt.
I recognize you(Roger) as a journalist and a traditional journalist.
That’s not as silly an idea as it may first read; ditto with the independent journalist alwaysright’s acknowledgement.
Why would I stop using them when they are ahead of the curve? It only makes your complaints about them look even worse, BTW.
Hmm, if I put this one up the New Cat will go completely silent for like half an hour…
Then The Winged Memes Arrived! (9 Nov)
Favourite:
Correct!
It’s pretty clear to me that a good number of US corp execs fully support open border hordes from Latim America, because they have access to abundant cheap labour. Murderers, rapists, drug cartels – it’s all good as long as my bonuses keep coming.
Good interview on Chinese economy.
Dover.
Thank you for all your insightful links.
More brilliance from 47.
He wants the resignations of every single senior military officer who ‘touched the Afghanistan disaster’, and wants them on his desk in the Oval Office at midday on his inauguration day.
So good. So, so good.
Trump has been President elect for just 2 Days.
2 Days… and all of this..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gb9GtcZXcAAdLqF?format=jpg&name=large
Woke up this morning and felt like this, the way it’s been ever since Wednesday. So many good things are there to cheer us up as we watch the beginning of a new administration unfold in the US.
Even the Sydney weather has complied, getting sunny by 10am if misty, if not before.
A council has spent more than $100,000 of ratepayer money on Welcome to Country ceremonies in the last two years.
Brisbane City Council has shelled out $135,000 while other councils within Queensland have forked out tens of thousands of dollars.
The ratepayers have no say in the matter, though, as it’s the councils they pay their fees to that have decided to spend big on the ceremonies.
Daily Mail
BCC’s Lord Mayor & Treasurer is LNP along with a majority of councillors.
As bad as it is, if you knew the LGA opposition of ALP and Greens, it would have had another zero on the end.
the missus is doing yesterdays crossword
I’m swearing at the chessboard
she goes, “what’s an expensive but useless object?”
easy, I says … Tesla
Every level of government in Oz?
This is from the link BON put up earlier.
Awesome, share it far and wide
There are two possibilities:
A. They handed Western manufacturing to China in the hope that it would transform China into a democracy. This is the best possible spin on what they did.
or:
B. They knew damn well the CCP wasn’t going anywhere, but they liked the idea of cooperating with a tyrannical, communist surveillance state which held a billion people in total control.
Note: even in case A this isn’t a good thing. You shouldn’t destroy your own working and middle classes and industrial base in order to try to win some ephemeral ideological, geopolitical struggle.
Those who wrote the seminal works on free trade and markets never envisaged that there would exist a cabal of idiots in charge who would do such a thing.
This is m0ron’s crew. His team. Everything that is ugly, dumb and despicable with the left in one tweet.
And somehow , in some way they are actually still mind numbingly stupid enough to wonder.. “how did we lose?”
https://x.com/SebGorka/status/1855106902583120360
Brenda O’Neil states;
Bernie Sanders is of the old school marxist/socialist variety. He has been very quick to come out and label the divide between Trump and Democrat voters as being a result of a class divide between working class and “others”. Given the gap in analysis directly after the election, journalists and other commentators have eagerly gobbled up Bernie’s “wisdom”. Beware it maybe a red herring thrown out to capture the media headlines, lead the narrative and prevent deeper analysis.
What if ? The big differences between Trump voters and Kamala voters related to factors such as:
Trump voters
Don’t accept the climate change scam
Don’t believe men can be women and visa versa
Don’t like government waste
Think the Dems handling of the economy has been disastrous
Think people should be equal before the law and treated equally
Have a strong sense of self and principles and don’t fall easily to propaganda
Don’t agree with open borders and its impact on their lives
Have twigged that wherever Biden and Dems have gone trouble/war has developed
Don’t like to be labelled fascists, racist, misogynist when they clearly aren’t
etc
I’d be interested in what other Cats think?
Maybe too early to tell yet but maybe there has been a tipping point reached with the MSM saturation effectiveness. I surely hope so. The reach of non-MSM material and info may now have reached a point where the MSM has lost it’s stranglehold on US public opinion.
A couple of years ago I saw a post from one of the major US networks, a panel of political leftard talking heads (Maddow was there?) when one piped up and said words to the effect that it’s terrible that so much media is available now competing with “them” – “it’s our job to tell people what to think!”. Words actually spoken.
Hopefully, Trump can put the MSM in it’s grave this term. Where they so belong.
I think concerns about the economy were paramount, but there was also a rejection of the agenda of the social liberalism/progressivism/new leftism (or whatever you wish to label it) that Biden had pursued and which Harris would have doubled down on.
Too warm in Australian for mittens.
The WH Press Secretary only needs to release briefs to Truth Social and X. MSM made redundant overnight.
All of the above.
It’s the way that young women and to a lesser extent, men have become radicalised in sociopolitical terms.
I think – and it is probably overblown – but if a woman started abusing me in the street over a trivial detail like calling them the wrong sex, or even if I just bumped into them, I could find myself in court or gaol very quickly and have to prove my innocence at great cost. I find myself shying away from personal contact with people because as an older white man, I am at the bottom of the victim totem pole.
I feel very unsafe with the younger generation, especially the girls. They are undisciplined, neurotic and vengeful. To the point that whenever I leave my home and mix with others, I have my phone/voice recorder on until I come back home.
Paranoid? Perhaps. But how many of us drive with a drive camera “Just in case”?
There you go mem. That’s how I feel.
Hello…
Qatar to expel Hamas.
While the Biden administration had requested this, analysts suggest the emirate is repositioning itself ahead of Trump’s inauguration after being isolated during his first term.
How would they like Adelaide?
I laughed harder at that than I should.
Trump says No to Haley and Pompeo. Good news.
I hope this is true. They are the worst.
Re Indolent’s link at 8.29 showing a very arrogant young man. More importantly, note the anger. This is what the lying MSM have done. They have warped the minds of vulnerable people. This young man’s language and style suggests he’s unemployed and using drugs, and has limited capacity for rational and nuanced thought.
I am not speaking from ignorance here. I know this ongoing behaviour and diatribe well. This outraged youth is a double for my second son, mentally vulnerable due to bipolar disorder, fixated and full of anger, who’s grown up in this Marxist culture, encouraged by my ex, his Marxist father, and now at 50 after a life of chaos is using heroin, his life destroyed by a destructive ideology and divorced leftist parents, for which mea culpa, though I had little choice in that matter and have changed since. Many are the children of ‘progressive’ people, and in America today far too many of them are dying from the permissive attitudes towards recreational drug use. What’s changed bigly is that when it comes to fentanyl, one dose and they can be done for. Dead. Don’t forget how significant the fentanyl epidemic has been in bringing many affected families in to the Trump camp in this election.
I’ve been watching/listening to the Joe Rogan podcast with DJT off and on for the last day.
An amazing interview that is utterly compelling.
Hitler reacts to Trump winning the election
Drive through the Eastern Freeway around Heidelberg and you will see the fascist state of Victoria in full blown ideological warfare in roadworks form.
The CFMEU flags fly high. There are more cranes than I have seen in my entire life. Mile after mile of it. Sad, out of context homes and small businesses are dwarfed by the scale of it. The sheer disregard for normal human life and activity is mind boggling.
These projects, and there has been a ceaseless, endless, infinite series of them since Andrews won power, have transformed Melbourne into a nightmare.
Even in completion these projects are horrible and disorientating. While they are underway, for the endless years they exist, they reduce traffic to a crawl, make planning journeys a trial, and do God knows what to the poor inhabitants of the suburbs they disrupt.
Liberals: should you ever return to government in this state, end the endless works.
For that to happen they’d need a federal Coalition government prepared to turn the immigration tap off. That’s unlikely to happen short of a major disruption to business as usual (i.e. a war). Melbourne’s fate is sealed.
Yes. Totally oppressive and destructive to small business. And there is more to come with 20 storey tower blocks to be built
and local planning laws trashed. Leafy suburbs are being gutted and the Melbourne of old destroyed and replaced by a Chinese concrete vision paid for by mind-boggling debt.
Saw a Chinese lady interviewed – said she didn’t emigrate 20 years ago to live in a Chinese style city.
Quite a few Europeans I’ve met same.
The State government effectively annexed the Scarborough beachfront here in Perth through its redevelopment agency. Summer trading was affected for two summers with large numbers of small businesses going to the wall. Local councils are often their own worst enemies in these situations and end up being bypassed altogether.
Went through there back in April, Greensborough/Rosanna/Buleen rd is a nightmare. Apart from the CMFEU wonder who else is making a quid off the route?
Inappropriate IMO when if they had of extended the Ring rd past Greensborough round Eltham and Templestowe to the east coming onto the E Fwy neat that Tunnel with the abo name they could have avoided such a scale of destruction of housing businesses that I saw.
A succession of Liars governments, with the occasional hapless SFL interlude, mixed up with unlimited Turd World immigration have destroyed Melbourne.
Melbourne is doomed. In twenty years it will be another Chicago or Detroit, with an overlay of wealthy leftards “governing” a vast voteherd living in vertical slums.
And when electricity is intermittent, and the lifts don’t work, the riots will be on.
The dissent will be managed by localising any unrest: Ceasing public transport (too bad if you have to work) and either rationing petrol purchases for private travel, or a ‘kill’ chip in the engines of new cars. We don’t need to be transported to the neo-gulags – we live in them already, but seldom realise it.
A lot of the values that differentiate current Democrats from Republicans are the commonsense values of the traditional working classes in Britain and in America. As Brendan O’Neill points out, Bernie Sanders is correct in seeing why the working classes have left the Democrats. I’d say we need to be suspicious of Sander’s incorrect solution, the socialism that he offers to their problems. Sanders favours a socialist system wherea rapacious bureaucracy will reinforce many of the ‘progressive’ values, for which read ‘permissive’values, of the New Left which emerged with the petulant baby boom generation of the 60’s and 70’s. They were so different to my teenage values, formed in the 50’s. It is these New Age values that still dominate the Democrat discourses, part of their DNA now.
Read Emmett Grogan’s inventive but basically illustrative biography in his book ‘Ringolevio’ for an inside take on how crazy, and convoluted in its swampy morality, those two decades of the 60’s and 70’s were. Hairy, recalling his old lefty days of the 70’s, purchased it for me, saying due to our 10 year difference in age, I was there in the 60’s, he wasn’t, was a child then. I found Ringolevio appalling, horrifying. And yes, true to some extent of the way we all thought back then in the heyday of the hippies.
These ideas still swirl around in Democrat culture, and some of the argot is still prevalent in US general culture today.
It’s no accident that both old leftie Joe Biden and new young Republican Turk JD Vance both use the talk-to term of ‘man’, as in ‘man, you know what? etc’ It’s old drug culture lingo but belongs in working class bars and chat shows everywhere now as a sign of ease and friendliness. JD manages to stride working class and middle class culture, sifting both well into his new Republicanism.
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok…
Chopperoos secure fifth consecutive Timbersports Team World Championship (Sky News, 10 Nov)
Well done Aussie axe guys! I have fond memories of watching the chopping competitions at the local show when I was a kid. Their axes were like razors.
Aussie Axe Men were raised on hardwood, not the Northern Hemisphere soft stuff. That is why they RULE!
https://www.onenation.org.au/free-speech-now
$473k so far.
CEO for Austrade is up for grabs. In the ad they include Net Zero and First Nations. And there was I thinking it was about economics and trade. A mate said that about 60% of the wording in Government product supply contracts has nothing to do with the product.
And our grubby state Govts issue licences (for sports events and such) that mandate compliance with welcome to country bullshit. No compliance, no more licences for you.
It’s that kind of flummery that gives Musk the confidence to reduce the US Federal budget by close to a third.
Melbourne was one of the best laid out cities in the world.
It had defined East- West and North- South major roads that ran the full length of the suburban sprawl, plus a system of highways that ran out from the centre like a spiderweb.
Three years after arriving here I worked nights driving taxis. If I ever got a bit turned about after dropping off a fare, no matter where I was, or how far out, it didn’t require picking up the Melways to get back. You just did a series of alternate left then right turns, and very soon you would hit either a major East -West or North- South road and know immediately how to get on a freeway back.
This is no longer the case.
Generation after generation of planners had kept the basic navigability of Melbourne’s road system intact while the place grew and grew.
Not these ones.
Is it that they think GPS allows the driver to make his way regardless of the atrocity they have committed to basic navigability?
Or is it part of their anti- commuter ideology?
Even that stupid bastard Kennett kept the basic structure intact.
I think you’ll find that to get a grant from Austrade a business has to have a net zero plan and an aboriginal employment program, or at least those that do go to the top of the application pile.
A NEW DEEP STATE Plot Against Trump — And Trump Finds Out!! – His Response!
WIP – Do not drink and derive.
Calculus would send lefties mad.
Milei at the UN.
https://x.com/HeadWarriorTWM/status/1855372163273863674?t=gfBBNr2UNH4yZmr0nowBYQ&s=19
So many elements of hilarious.
https://x.com/Sadie_NC/status/1855060556509597941?t=hrykcyV3I7XKPIP5hYyy3w&s=19
How did she have a kid? Pinball Wizard, deaf dumb and blind kid fell on top of her.
This bloke called Destiny is seriously f*cked in the head.
Gavin McInnes HUMILIATES Destiny! (Absolutely BRUTAL)
Over at the ABC, they’re at full hair-on-fire mode and have been since Thursday. And it’s a thing of beauty. Here’s an excerpt from one piece about how all the women are on sex strike or some shit:
ABC with the scoop! Don Jr has been arrested for assaulting Hillary and Kamala! But it isn’t over for the wimminz, oh no, the nightmare is just beginning:
No humanity for you! Slap slap slap!
And another that spouts all the usual tropes, but adds an extra tidbit:
Based. May he do it.
LOL! Someone hasn’t been paying attention for the past four years. But I guess it’s okay when they do it.
Anyway, onto another from the ABC’s resident ‘Christian’, Julia Baird:
Well, Julia had a rush of blood to the head there, especially with that last sentence. But it’s hard to consider that assassination attempt and not regard divine intervention as a live possibility.
I thought I’d add this slightly tangential note. Alleged Christian Julia Baird goes on:
Fancy the state closing the churches instilling a sense of persecution in parishioners! What kind of extremist Christians are these? Probably those fundamentalist types who, like, believe in God and stuff. No doubt Julia is more of a progressive in this regard.
And onto another. This one is all about trying to understand Trump’s victory, which is necessary given the ABC spent the campaign downplaying Trump’s chances and hyping Kamala, so its audience must be mighty confused at present. How could these maniacs vote for him?
Ah the 60 judges again. The oldies are always the goodies.
Smart woman. A lot smarter than this hack.
Now this one – yet another attempt to grapple with the totally unforeseen reality of a Trump victory by also doing a bit of a vox pop – ran under the headline (on the ABC News app) ‘I don’t care that he’s racist’. Anyway, here’s the quote in full:
Anyway that’s a sample.
You know what’s missing from this salt stream? A sTan Grant undergraduate essay on the philosophical and geopolitical implications of Trump’s victory. Remember them? It’s just a disgrace that the ABC’s audience are a bunch of disgusting racists who forced him to resign.
A billion plus per year to be lectured and insulted by highly paid mediocrities. And they’ll do a hit job on you if you’re high profile enough and ideologically unsound (in their poisonous marxist minds). Fuk off ABC.
The only person I have ever known to be adulating Trump as some sort of God anointed saviour was our old friend SSR.
I haven’t seen a single comment on twitter recently that has come even close.
Lots of hope that there’s a great team being assembled that will do wonderful things for America (and the world).
Gosh I wonder how the cabal on anti Semitic cat are getting on.
Making tear water tea with Monty and numbers no doubt.
“Making tear water tea”
I am SOOOOOO stealing that!
Inspired.
There was a lot of breathlessness in the local media over interviews this week with ‘Trump insider’ and ‘likely to have a senior role in a Trump administration’ Mike Pompeo. LOL.
I wonder if the US Media has forgotten that they are subject to the Federal Communications Commission, and that the government can suspend their ability to broadcast their lies/misinformation etc?
Bernie Sanders:
The Labor Party fits the description well.
The members of today’s Labor party wouldn’t recognize a member of the the working class, if they fell over one in the street!
The Tele is running a provocative heading to the tune of Arthur Sinodinos telling all about the “Trump circus”. Has Arthur had anything to say about the rampant corruption, particularly of the DOJ, during Biden’s empty suit tenure? Or anything about any of the awful abuses in that period?
Sinodinos should be wearing a striped suntan.
Up to his neck in the corruption of the NSW party.
Lucky not to get a set of pajamas out of his dealings with that water company. The very worst of the political class.
Sino, Chika, Richo and Red Underpants Man just don’t go away.
We need a better class of talking head.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Ventura 4th of July Street Fair 2024 (8 of 9)
Hypothetically, one might speculate that the same (and only) three commenters have spent the last three days not on DJT, which appears to have become a memory hole, but blaming Israeli soccer fans for ripping up Amsterdam.
Seriously.
I don’t think little Johnnie hoWARd can expect any invites to the Whitehouse, What a horrid little man he’s revealed himself to be.
Wow is there anything that works anymore? This last minute supply chain is becoming tiresome.
Just told one of my cholesterol meds they can’t get, no idea when it will be rectified and have to go see a doctor to get an alternative. The whole stinking edifice that is public health & TGA needs a effing clean out.
Hey but an untested completely new vaccine we’ll order an oversupply and help you build factories in Melbourne. How ’bout one for common medications geniuses?
All the creeps over here and in pommyland who have burnt their bridges (I hope)- rather good.
What’s the anti Semitic cat? The furniture store?
The dash cat run by Adam D
Ah yes – understand. Thanks.
Bill Maher Blasts the Left — ‘You’re Brats, and You’re Snobs, and People Don’t Like That!’