Open Thread – 4 Jan 2025


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Harlequin Decline
January 4, 2025 12:23 am

First?

Huck
Huck
January 4, 2025 12:23 am

1sr?

Pogria
Pogria
January 4, 2025 12:42 am

Turd?

Rossini
Rossini
January 4, 2025 12:54 am

As usual nothing happens this early in the morning

mizaris
mizaris
January 4, 2025 1:25 am

It’s not morning here. Cricket’s just finished. Sorrows to drown now.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 1:47 am
Reply to  mizaris

Suck shite. That was a great win by the Thunder.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 1:51 am

By the time this comment loads, I will guess 14th.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 2:08 am

It is 3pm here and we are stuck in a UK traffic jam on the way back to London as the M40 merges with another motorway. London returning home after the New Year up north.

Hairy’s brother and sister in law and his neice and nephew were all in the Lake District in a holiday house while we were in Scotland. What are the odds? Our three cars all arrived at the Birmingham bypass services wirhout any liaison. We saw each other in the line up for coffe amongst a very busy crowd. We let them go ahead then to their place in Richmond so we wouldn’t have to battle with the entry sechrity and central heating if we arrive first.

No further progress in this British notorway queue. Hairy going slowly mad. Fuming about it. I offer him an oatcake but he simply snarls.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 3:00 am

Cheers. You have fully turned me off ever wanting to go to the UK etc.

Got a newish girlfriend. She is half Polack. Top sheila etc. Was talking about a European visit. Told her I would risk Poland on her behalf, but the only other nations there I would willingly visit are Hungary and Serbia.

She thought I was taking the pi55. Yeah nah serious.

Pogria
Pogria
January 4, 2025 6:26 am
Reply to  Zafiro

Slovenia is excellent.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 4, 2025 6:49 am

My family have just returned from the UK.

I underestimated their roads. Not that they were particularly bad but what would be a relatively short trip here you can double or triple the time there. And we were near Portsmouth, not anywhere near London.

Driving on their ‘B’ roads was nice and picturesque but still busy. I guess with a population double Australia’s in a landmass 10x (?) smaller, that is to be expected.

I found the drivers to be quite patient and polite. The caveat is, the further from London you are, the better.

Just don’t get me started on their @#!* roundabouts though. Especially the ones with traffic lights on them.

Looking forward to going back and exploring a bit further.

Emirates good, QANTAS not so good. Thanks for bleeding it dry, Leprechaun. Save the free upgrades for Albo and spend the money on maintenance and cleaning. Also, people could be less like pigs on the planes.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 7:15 am

Back in the eighties there was a town (Hemel Hempstead??) that had a huge roundabout in the middle, around 100 metres diameter at least, with multiple roads connected to it. Each of the connecting roads has its own little roundabout on the major one.

Great fun – not!

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 4, 2025 8:20 am
Reply to  Boambee John.

I found their road markings on roundabouts to be a bit inconsistent. So I took the view that as long as I avoided a collision, I would treat them like ours, which are surprisingly logical in comparison.

The ones with traffic lights on them, I treated as separate stretches of road as lanes would appear and disappear, so you could find yourself in the wrong lane. Changing lanes in the middle of a roundabout is anathema here.

There are lots of roundabouts there.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 9:14 am

Also, people could be less like pigs on the planes.

My pet peeve is passengers in the row in front finishing their meal quickly and inclining their seats while we are still eating.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 9:39 am
Reply to  Crossie

Happened to me once.
Arsehole – without any warning, drops his seat back as I was eating, spilling my OJ over me.
Next time, I brought a couple of cloves of garlic – nothing happened, but on a later flight, it did. So I chewed the damn things up and breathed over the top for half an hour or so. Eventually the miscreant sat his seat up to avoid the fumes.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  Crossie

My pet hate is the small children kicking the back of your seat, and their bogans of parents explaining the behavior away as “Oh, they are bored.” Any more then four hours in the air, these days, I fly business class.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 6:54 pm

We make it seven, often also opting for Premium Economy where the seats are too far apart for the kids to do this. Also, most families with kids tend to fly economy. As we often did, with Hairy up in corporate business class and me with the kids in economy.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 2:16 am

Looking on the bright side, Classic FM, which was all of Elgar’s Pomp but with intermittant Circumstance as the signal battled the Highlands mountains, is playing some sustaining finger-tapping stuff in fine signal through the excellent Bose speakers in this Jap car..

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2025 2:41 am

This clip will probably be banned very soon.

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Danger Dan Reviews:

Good evening all. The original upload has been hit with age restriction, copyright etc etc. I have archived it for members as I don’t want to lose the comments you left. Let’s see how long this one lasts! DD

The greatest video in the history of mankind!

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2025 3:15 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:09 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 9:01 am
Reply to  Tom

No weird beard. Truly a person of no appearance.

Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 4:12 am
Rosie
Rosie
January 4, 2025 5:11 am
Pogria
Pogria
January 4, 2025 6:32 am
Reply to  Rosie

I hope they “touched” him up really well.
What filth.
The blood soaked pic is excellent.

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 6:51 am
Reply to  Rosie

Rosie, I’m not on X. Is it possible for you to link the subsequent pages also? This is a huge story.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 4, 2025 8:25 am
Reply to  calli

same me.

can see one page then it tags me for a log in

vr
vr
January 4, 2025 5:53 am

what’s Leak cartoon getting at this time re the indulgence of the government?

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Bazinga
Bazinga
January 4, 2025 7:47 am
Reply to  vr

Terrorists sharpening their swords while Albotross prepares his wet lettuce leaves.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 9:21 am
Reply to  vr

No matter what atrocities they commit they will only get the wet lettuce leaf treatment from Albo.

KevinM
KevinM
January 4, 2025 6:14 am

What you can do by just walking or running.
And barefoot too.

Australian History..
This is the man known as Koolbiri or ‘Mailman Jimmy’ who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the early days of settlement on the South Australian West Coast.

Following Mailman Jimmy’s death the Saturday Journal reported on 25 August 1923;
 
“He was the Royal Mail between Fowlers Bay and Eucla for many years. He ran with the mail bags every fortnight from the Bay to Eucla, a distance of 280 miles, and returned during the following fortnight.

He could do the journey in faster time than a man on horseback, owing, I presume, to his superior bushcraft, and his knowledge of reliable water supplies….”
This photo is dated 1875. SRSA

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Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 5, 2025 8:14 pm
Reply to  KevinM

Legend

KevinM
KevinM
January 4, 2025 6:16 am

Not my pic. sorry.
One way to beat the housing crises.
But the wife said NO!

no
KevinM
KevinM
January 4, 2025 6:18 am

Hot dogs anyone?
Good marketing.

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Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
January 4, 2025 6:18 am

The USA is constantly being wrecked by having too many bad actors in too many positions. Here is a story that in its compactness summarises what’s wrong with America. One girl poisons another girl’s show goat because she is jealous of its success. There remain many bad actors determined to thwart Trump. Tony Abbott has some misgivings about our own unelected public servants. A bit late, and he had to publish his views in a Canadian journal.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/show-goat-dies-horrifically-teen-competitors-arms-older/

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:01 am
Reply to  Bungonia bee

People who deliberately hurt or kill animals for no reason go on to kill humans.
Aubrey Layne Vanlandingham needs psychiatric help and ten years gaol – it probably won’t help her, but it will provide an object lesson into the minds of potential animal abusers.

KevinM
KevinM
January 4, 2025 6:29 am

Bungonia bee
January 4, 2025 6:18 am

Humans can be the cruelest beasts.
Other than foxes I’m not aware of any other animal that is killing for the sake of it.

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 6:53 am
Reply to  KevinM

Well fed cats play with their prey. They aren’t hungry, it’s just sport.

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 6:57 am

Lethbridge “gets” the snub. Although the recipient of Mar a Lago hospitality is unworthy in my opinion. He was put to the test over many issues and he failed, always taking the easy road.

And we are paying for his failures right now.

Meanwhile, Broelman is caught in a mire of TDS. It’s where ineffective cartoonists go to die.

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Bruce
Bruce
January 4, 2025 7:10 am

In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013

Who ‘da thunk it?

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 7:20 am
Reply to  Bruce

Farage will be having a field day with this one.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:07 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

It wouldn’t be being exposed if Musk hadn’t bought X.
He’s 99% atoned – in my book – for the “Fcuk yourselves in the face” comment.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:05 am
Reply to  Bruce

This is probably the story being covered up by those in the know about a month ago.
I’m sure the refusal over 5 years to charge these animals over their behaviour has legal overtones. He may end up in gaol yet.
I bet he tortured kittens and puppies when he was a child as well.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Bruce

And he didn’t prosecute Jimmy Savile either.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 7:38 am

Sky UK continue their Israel bashing over the latest fighting in Gaza. Anything the IDF says is given the “no evidence provided” suffix!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 7:52 am

If you know any young men who are directionless, before they get sucked into an Andrew Tate types lies, point them in the direction of Marcus Freeman the coach of Notre Dame football.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
January 4, 2025 7:53 am

Spyware is everywhere.

Haunting tales from the unencrypted VW data

Drive an Audi, Seat, Skoda or Volkswagen and been up to funny business? Then you’re in deep doo-doo.

Our friends (freunde) at Germany’s best-selling news mag, Der Spiegel (The Mirror), have explosively revealed that leaked data has shown the precise locations of about 800,000 VW electric vehicles.

“A data volume of several terabytes on around 800,000 electric cars was largely unprotected and accessible for months in an Amazon cloud storage system. Vehicles in Germany, Europe and other parts of the world are affected. And so are many of their owners,” Der Spiegel tells us.

“For instance, blackmailers could have targeted those vehicle owners who regularly drive to the parking lot of the large Berlin brothel Artemis, a prison, the Kensi (Berlin branch) or a drug addiction clinic. Stalkers and jealous ex-partners could have seen where someone was staying and when. Since the movements of vehicles in Ukraine and Israel were also traceable, the data could even have been of military interest!”

Rosie
Rosie
January 4, 2025 7:55 am

How long is the west going to tolerate this kind of preaching (which they put online for the world to see)?
Terror mosques should be razed to the ground and any non citizen imans deported.
https://x.com/AP_from_NY/status/1875198446011039908?t=lqwEOpvekk3cpLIIsZc7PQ&s=19

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  Rosie

How long will they tolerate this?
Right up until the mobs come for them.
Our leaders are cowards in both the physical and moral sense.

johnjjj
johnjjj
January 4, 2025 10:23 am
Reply to  Rosie

Interestingly, the Saudis have no trouble doing this if the ‘preacher’ is creating trouble in the Kingdom.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
January 4, 2025 7:59 am

Extracts from Gemma’s article.

Labor turns a blind eye to facts as details emerge on hostage abuse

Less than a week ago the UN received a report compiled by doctors, specialists and psychologists that spells out in horrific detail the torture and abuse of hostages held by Hamas since October 7, 2023.

You’d be forgiven for missing it, so underwhelming was the response to the initial detail, which was submitted to the UN’s special rapporteur on torture.

So far some of the more graphic information has been withheld and it’s unclear if it will be made public. What we do know is that while held in captivity, many by civilian families, hostages were forced to perform sex acts on each other. They were sexually abused by their captors. Some were branded with hot irons, whipped, starved and subject to other forms of torture. The report was compiled from the testimonies of hostages released in November 2023 as well as those rescued by Israeli forces.

(Snip)

Our government remains weirdly, unhealthily, obsessed with demonising Israel while ignoring the obvious. Are they wilfully ignorant or just a bit dim? 

Worse still, Australian Labor and the Greens have flipped the victim-perpetrator paradigm on its head. The political parties that claim to believe all women (that’s on the off chance they can define what a woman is) tell Israel: you deserved it. Yes, you have a black eye but you shouldn’t have worn that miniskirt.

(Snip)

Hamas has turned hospitals into military bases, hospitals that are run by doctors who also happen to be terrorists. Hamas is embedded in any and every level of Gazan society and community. 

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese fall over themselves at every step to chide and chasten the one country that is doing the world’s heavy lifting on this. Revising history, immediate and past. Continuing to turn a blind eye to the present.

(Snip)

Which brings me back to the start. Revising the past, ignoring the present. Wanting to reward a regime that has shown no capacity to self-govern, that financially rewards suicide attacks, that cannot hold elections, that has no fiscal probity, that subjugates women and minorities, has no capacity to deal with Hamas, that continues to play the victim on the world stage. 

Our government is choosing to reward this sorry mess with statehood and legitimacy, without any requirement for change or reform. It is Chamberlainian appeasement on speed. I am bereft as to the government’s reasoning but one thing I do know is this. History will judge accordingly. It always does.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 9:30 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese fall over themselves at every step to chide and chasten the one country that is doing the world’s heavy lifting on this.

Not only are they doing the heavy lifting but also the heavy suffering.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 8:20 am

The Anal-Wong middle eastern thing is obviously playing to their support base (or to try and hang on to it) . They’re also just following orders from the international left that Israel must be destroyed. They are obedient Marxists.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
January 4, 2025 5:38 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I reckon it’s partly a desire to prove that they’ve remained true to their University era Marxist ideals – never grown up – still trying to fight the same fights.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 8:35 am

Our government remains weirdly, unhealthily, obsessed with demonising Israel while ignoring the obvious. Are they wilfully ignorant or just a bit dim? 

Ignoring human rights abuses of the worst kind for the sake of electoral advantage?

Try malignant.

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Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 8:37 am

Interesting question – how did he shoot himself and then blow the bomb?

@catturd2

I don’t believe a single word the FBI is saying about Matthew Livelsberge and the Cybertruck incident.

The entire narrative makes absolutely ZERO sense to me.

From the paper passport and paper ID miraculously surviving the explosion and a fire so intense, his body was burned beyond recognition?

To him supposedly shooting himself right before he was going blow himself up anyway? Huh?

To what his family is saying about him, to his released recent texts which doesn’t fit the mindset of someone about to do this sort of thing, and on, and on, and on.

My BS meter is off the charts on this one.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 9:32 am
Reply to  Indolent

Definitive proof that it snows in Las Vegas and leaves huge snow banks. Nobody believes these snow jobs any longer.

Last edited 1 month ago by Crossie
Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 11:06 am
Reply to  Crossie

Did the Famous But Incompetent FBI ever solve the problem of the Las Vegas mass shooter from some years ago?

Or did he turn out to be a leftard?

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 8:44 am

We’ve known about this for years. Decades even. His conclusion is absolutely correct. It’s people who did raise their voices about it – Tommy Robinson in particular – who were demonised and punished.

@PeterSweden

This is what happened in Britain

1. Young girls were r*ped again and again by grooming gangs.

2. Media and authorities covered it up.

3. When people complained about this they were called “racist” and and were cancelled.

Britain failed to protect children.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 8:48 am
Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 11:07 am
Reply to  Indolent

Lying Liars lying still.

Lee
Lee
January 4, 2025 1:23 pm
Reply to  Indolent

You’re “far-right” if you want to see children protected and get justice?

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 8:58 am

@BreannaMorello

The FBI left behind critical pieces of evidence like a laptop, the Quran, and books on Islam.

FBI agents tell me these items would have been taken in as evidence.

Another former federal prosecutor says the home would have been sealed off for days because all the forensic teams would be going through it.

Nothing about this is normal.

This isn’t transparency.

This is the FBI intentionally trying to cause distrust, while creating their false narrative.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 9:35 am
Reply to  Indolent

They have a story to tell and are running out of time, 20th January is fast approaching.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 9:02 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 9:29 am
Reply to  Indolent

They’re talking it up as a major health emergency here in the UK too.

They say hospitals are filling and it’s three different nasties all hitting at once. Masks on in hospitals and no doubt they’ll appear in the streets soon.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 5:01 pm

I want to see the pathology results.
“Patient-In-Confidence?”
Bullshit on stilts.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 9:10 am
Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 9:12 am
Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2025 9:19 am

Tony Abbott has some misgivings about our own unelected public servants. A bit late, and he had to publish his views in a Canadian journal.

I read Abbott’s contemplative musings in the Oz last night and I can’t say it impressed me. It just confirmed to me his inability at the time to stand up to the blockers and the destabilisers. I also note that in his musings he says nothing about his capitulation on Section 18C.

I find it interesting how it’s taken Abbott almost 10 years to talk about what many of us always knew to be the case, that his government was hamstrung by unelected bureaucrats, particularly over Section 18C, and how his first budget in 2014 was sabotaged by a coven of unelected bureaucrats, media, independents and so on. But I also recall his disastrous decisions shortly after winning his landslide victory in 2013, one was that he gave that ghastly former senator Natasha Stott Despoja a plum position and secondly he played nice when it came to Bill Shorten’s mother-in-law, who wisely offered her resignation after Shorten was elected leader of Labor but Abbott unwisely refused.

I knew then that it was going to all end in tears….and it did. Abbott tried to be decent. Bad move because nobody was going to be decent to Abbott and we could have warned him at the time. As far as I’m concerned, his musings further damage his credibility. Perhaps I’m being petty but I also remember cringing every time he opened his mouth, there were too many ‘umms’ and ‘ahhhs’….it was like he was happy to be the punching boy.

I remember his inability to handle the knighthood debacle. Faced with a hostile and scurrilous left and MSM, Abbott should have called a press conference and say to the MSM……

‘okay, you don’t like my government’s decision to award Prince Phillip the knighthood (something both New Zealand and Canada had done), fair enough, then hear this, my government will award a knighthood monthly now for the remainder of my government’s term in office’

But he stood there like a wet blanket, and he just got wetter and wetter.

Just further to that first budget in 2014, the last budget in this country that attempted some fiscal repair (now over 10 years ago), do you remember the howls from the the left scum, the MSM scum, the activist scum, and scumbag Fatso Palmer (then the member for Fairfax) and his motley group of senators (remember he gifted us the bush pig from Tasmania) about the ‘Medicare co-payment’, which I recall was set at a piddling $7.00?

Now try finding a GP that bulk bills….LOL.

Abbott should have stared down the senate over 18C and that first budget. He didn’t, instead he retreated. Retreating never works as a tactic, it’s a sign of cowardice and weakness. I haven’t even mentioned his failures to deal with the NDIS, that Royal Commission (designed to attack the Catholic Church and get Pell) and the hideous Gillard 2013 amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act (which removed the definition of ‘woman’), something he should have reversed. That Gillard amendment, along with Section 18C, is a now a sinister boobytrap which is now routinely snaring people, just ask Sall Grover and Pauline Hanson.

But since Abbott has put it out there that he and his government from 2013 to 2015 was hamstrung by unelected bureaucrats, is this the norm? If it is, I genuinely ask how we are expected to vote Coalition knowing that it’s the far-left bureaucrats in charge. It is clear that this has been a problem for many right of centre parties in the Anglosphere, from the Tories to the Coalition, so how can any of us vote for Liberals/Nationals knowing that if they win government they can’t or won’t stand up to the bureaucrats and they can’t or won’t clean out the problem?

I don’t know, perhaps I’m too harsh with Abbott. He’s a fundamentally nice man, a thoroughly decent man, a very good thinker but when I recall his tenure as PM, I get angry. It was such a disappointment.

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WolfmanOz
January 4, 2025 9:36 am

You are 100% spot on Cassie.

And in regards to your last sentence in the 2nd last paragraph it’s why Trump is so revered here because he will fight and take on the swamp whilst most other centre-right parties in the West just cower and do nothing.

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 4, 2025 9:39 am

Had the AEC* not lost 3k senate votes in WA causing a new senate election in WA things could have different.This election effectively became a referendum on his first 100 days. Had he gone in hard, as I suspect he wanted to, he would have faced an even more hostile senate for the rest of his term.

* Unelected bureaucrats

Entropy
Entropy
January 4, 2025 10:30 am

Knighting Prince Phillip and letting Sloppy Joe speculate on raising the GST in the middle of the Qld election campaign was not helpful and contributed to Palaszczuk winning over Newman (the other being Clive Palmer and optional preferences).

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:38 am

Abbott was a negotiator.
The Top Job calls for a Leader.
A General does not negotiate with the officers/troops – he makes decisions and the officers/troops carry out those orders or they get the sack.

Phil
Phil
January 4, 2025 1:27 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Abbott should have sacked all the heads of departments and installed centre right managers to sort the remaining left wing shit then reduce the number of departments.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 4, 2025 12:08 pm

Great Cassie!

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2025 4:31 pm

The culprit for blowing up the 2014 budget was that idiot Stuart Robert, at the time assistant minister for health. The government could have sold the copayment as a budget repair measure – Keating and Costello showed it was possible to make unpopular decisions on principle (i.e. treat the voters like grownups) and survive. But Robert, the epitome of an inane Queensland retail politician, wanted an ‘announceable’ instead, so it was earmarked for a medical research fund; never mind that medical research gets lots of public and private funding anyway. So the public were left wondering what the point was.

I could never understand why they kept Robert on the front bench.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 9:23 am

Whew. That traffic jam turned out to be a burning truck and they’d closed down a whole section of the M40. We were diverted to a junction further down, trailing a line of traffic through the small medieval town of Henley (not the Henley on the Thames) on the way to Shakespeare’s Stratford upon Avon and the forest of Arden. Hairy grumpily finally accepted the offer of an oatcake just to take the boredom away and I tried to help by getting Google maps up on my phone and trying to find out where we were and how to get out of it. Follow those trucks turned out to be the best solution, and in the event we were only two hours late getting back to Richmond. Horrendous drive in the dark back to London once we had managed to get back on the motorway. They do that here; close down whole sections of road and let you fend for yourself getting back on – no signs, no information, no police controlling other traffic.

Megan
Megan
January 4, 2025 12:25 pm

Download Waze…far superior to Google maps and will find the best, and usually the quickest, route to your destination. It also warns you about red light cameras or police on the side of the road.

I’ll never go back to Google maps.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:01 pm
Reply to  Megan

Thanks for the tip, Megan.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 9:26 am

But since Abbott has put it out there that he and his government from 2013 to 2015 was hamstrung by unelected bureaucrats, is this the norm? 

It needn’t be, but the Liberals are hamstrung by divisions within their ranks, which explains why Dutton curbs his own political instincts in order to placate the progressives in the party, who have more in common with the unelected bureaucrats than with conservative voters.

A house divided…

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Hugh
Hugh
January 4, 2025 9:28 am

On the Wikipedia page about the alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal, I noticed the following:

“CIA-funded organisations such as LawAsia and the magazine Quadrant”

Does anyone know whether or not Quadrant is (or was) funded by the CIA?

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 9:45 am
Reply to  Hugh

I think it was one step removed through an anti-communist organisation that the CIA distributed funds to.

This is going back to the early days, the late 1950s.

Hugh
Hugh
January 4, 2025 10:20 am
Reply to  Roger

Thanks Roger.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2025 4:38 pm
Reply to  Roger

Exactly. Once, at one remove, in the early days, with no influence on editorial decisions (can you imagine James McAuley being anyone’s patsy?), and completely irrelevant to the dismissal or anything else.

Meanwhile the story of overt and covert Soviet influence and funding in the Australian left (apart from the excellent work of that apostate Communist Mark Aaron’s) remains largely unexplored.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 9:52 am
Reply to  Hugh

I don’t remember anybody from the C.I.A., standing in the voting booth, telling me how to vote, in December 1975.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2025 4:33 pm
Reply to  Hugh

Whitlam himself rejected the CIA theory, but that hasn’t stopped the usual suspects.

ArthurB
ArthurB
January 5, 2025 4:43 pm
Reply to  Hugh

I believe the funding was channelled through an organisation called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, I am sure that the founders of Quadrant were unaware that the ultimate source of the money was the CIA.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 9:50 am

Does anyone know whether or not Quadrant is (or was) funded by the CIA?

They know Quadrant is righty so I suspect usual CIA look, squirrel.
Here’s one today.

Classified CIA Experiment Claims Life Did Exist On Mars And They Built Pyramids (3 Jan)

Lurid rubbish, but the CIA seems prone to this sort of stuff. They backed the Steele Dossier for example. Trump should abolish the CIA completely and assign intelligence to the military agencies like ONI.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 11:15 am
Reply to  Indolent

Fight, fight, fight!

Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2025 9:55 am

The bottom line with Abbott is that he was hamstrung by himself.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 11:39 am

No doubt there were efforts to make Abbott more “Prime Ministerial”after the election. He was always combative on the way up. Remember the serve he gave Nanny Roxon as Opposition Minister of Health.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 9:58 am

@bennyjohnson

BREAKING: On the Shawn Ryan Show, Sam Shoemate revealed the Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber emailed him before the attack.

The bomber claimed the U.S. and China had “gravitic propulsion systems” and alleged FBI surveillance.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 9:59 am

Now Musk is in the firing line for telling the truth.
Musk ‘misinformed’ on grooming gangs, says Streeting

Lee
Lee
January 4, 2025 1:31 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The BBC?

Enough said!

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2025 10:00 am
Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 10:00 am

The bottom line with Abbott is that he was hamstrung by himself.

I fear Dutton will be Abbott redivivus.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 10:05 am
Reply to  Roger

Or Fraser, reincarnated.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 11:40 am

Spud was less than overwhelming on the Voice.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 4, 2025 10:13 am
Reply to  Roger

Same with me.

The party hasn’t changed, especially with the NSW & Vic branches where the left faction rules the roost.

That said Qld isn’t much better.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 10:27 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Conquest’s Second law of politics:

“Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 10:03 am

 I genuinely ask how we are expected to vote Coalition knowing that it’s the far-left bureaucrats in charge.

That’s why I say the enormous task of any half decent Australian government is to take on the permanent gubmint in canbra. Sure, I have an obsessive hatred of canbra and for good reason.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 10:06 am

Abbot just fluffs around now and after praising Rudd has no credibility.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 10:07 am

A review of Sumantra Maitre’s new book:

How far is Russia, bloodstained and defiant, a reactive security-seeker, pushing back against Western encroachment? Or how far is it darker than that: an imperial aggrandizer, greedily expanding less for security than for glory, prestige and the sheer rush of it? Or do these two impulses feed off one another? These questions matter. They inform how we interpret Putin’s disastrous lunge into Ukraine in February 2022, how that war can end and its aftermath be best handled and what our view of what this adversary “is”.

Getting the measure of the Russian bear

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
January 4, 2025 2:51 pm
Reply to  Roger

x 1000. I’ll place an order momentarily. The ‘Western encroachment’ bullshit is just that; bullshit. Mind you many of the strategic/policy mouth breathers I work with in Russell Offices subscribe to it. Thanks for the excerpt Roger.

Tom
Tom
January 4, 2025 10:09 am

The bottom line with Abbott is that he was hamstrung by himself.

Tony Abbott is surrounded by females in his personal life.

In politics, he chose a strong-willed female chief of staff who told him what to do and forbad him from doing anything she didn’t approve.

Though he’s intelligent and a deep thinker, Tony Abbott’s  prime ministership wasn’t his own. He did what the women surrounding him told him to do. Q.E.D.

Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  Tom

Yep.

Helen
Helen
January 4, 2025 10:31 am
Reply to  Tom

Yes, my thoughts, too.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 10:33 am
Reply to  Tom

Dunno – I’ve always thought that it dawned on Tony Abbott that the Left in this country saw his election as some sort of right – wing coup, and his position as being illegitimate.

Phil
Phil
January 4, 2025 1:37 pm

So did more than half the LNP led by the traitor Trumble.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 11:12 am
Reply to  Tom

Are we all now saying that female opinions are no good?

Zippster
Zippster
January 4, 2025 11:41 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

in general yes

helen
helen
January 4, 2025 3:22 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

No, just too much ( as is too much of anything) is a problem. Tough time call for tough people and there aren’t too many Maggie Thatchers about.

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
January 4, 2025 2:54 pm
Reply to  Tom

Credlin is an exceptional journalist – brave and fearless. Her service to Australian in that field has been worthy. However as a COS she was dreadful. Especially her behaviour in NSCC. Abbott was supreme as an Opposition Leader. Just didn’t translate across to being PM.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 10:17 am

and on day 4 of 2025 we have secret gravity defying technology

… don’t tell me it’s solar powered

vr
vr
January 4, 2025 10:19 am

Happy Birthday, Cassie.

(from previous thread)

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 10:19 am

secret gravity defying technology

I appear to have the wrong 2025 bingo card.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 10:26 am
Reply to  calli

I’m going with tech from a 4th dimension

something like Flat-Land , only in 3-D

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 10:22 am

how come we don’t see UAPs over say Bendigo?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:24 am

One way to guarantee a Centre/Right administration victory is to absolve and hide the Lefts crimes.
They are yet to work that out, and are unlikely to.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 10:24 am

Early morning coffee, and John Edward’s biography of John Curtin.

Often, when in the Prime Ministerial car, Curtin would ask his driver, Ray Tracey, to pull over, and give someone a lift. “Longtime Canberra residents would pass on stories of Curtin offering lifts to mothers with small kids and the shopping, or older people waiting at bus stops.”

I can’t imagine Anthony Albanese or Tanya Plibersek doing such a thing?

Jock
Jock
January 4, 2025 10:45 am

You mean the wives and kids of bureaucrats?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 4, 2025 11:37 am

Reads like working-age men were in his blind spot…

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 4, 2025 10:27 am

The USA is constantly being wrecked by having too many bad actors in too many positions. Here is a story that in its compactness summarises what’s wrong with America. One girl poisons another girl’s show goat because she is jealous of its success.

Well it’s been going on for a long time — remember Tonya Harding? In 1994, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, orchestrated an attack on Nancy Kerrigan, a fellow U.S. figure skater and Harding’s main rival:

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 10:28 am

JC, should hold off on the EV purchase and wait it out for a flying car

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 4, 2025 10:29 am

Although the recipient of Mar a Lago hospitality is unworthy in my opinion.

100% Morrison is a evil creature for whom I hope there is another circle of hell wherein he can share what he deserves with others of equal vileness – a blonde, barge-arsed hatchet-faced bint in the Australian Senate comes to mind

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 10:33 am

Happy birthday, Cassie.

Some unsolicited advice…

In my case, it’s plants and fabric, but…meh. 😀

life-is-short-buy-the-shoes-Google-Search-Large
Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 10:34 am

 a blonde, barge-arsed hatchet-faced bint in the Australian Senate comes to mind

Yep a canbra gal with a BA from the ANU too so say no more.

Last edited 1 month ago by Miltonf
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 10:47 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Jeez, Milton.
Have a comma or two and a few full stops, mate.
,.,.”: ;

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:30 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Didn’t think I’d have to put a smiley in to let you know I wasn’t serious…
Here – have a couple:
🙂 🙂

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 10:40 am

Can’t think of any present day ALP politicians I could say something good about but past ones existed. Then there’s Krudd and Trumble. Just beyond the pale.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 11:04 am
Reply to  Miltonf

“Past ones existed.” You’d have to go back to Ben Chifely.

Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 3:20 pm

Kimberley Kitching.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 10:54 am
Reply to  Indolent

Until the pitchforks come out.
Mr Ellison should keep that in mind.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:15 am

It goes to show just how out of touch these idiots are that surround themselves with fellow technocrats who are living in a cocoon of their own manufacture.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:12 am
Reply to  Indolent

“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

Really?
Then you can do a 10 year trial run of the system by having it put in your multiple mansions, and we’ll do the installation. …and the coding of the AI.

Zippster
Zippster
January 4, 2025 11:44 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

AIs are trained, not so much coded

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 10:44 am

100% Morrison is a evil creature

And too dumb to realise it.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 10:52 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 12:36 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

The same people who brought you Clippy.

Phil
Phil
January 4, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

With extreme prejudice

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 4, 2025 11:01 am

Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain

Thanks indolent — just finished listening to that about an hour ago — always interesting to listen to Douglas Murray – his clarity of insight is exceptional. Though Tommy Robinson is being abandoned by people like Douglas Murray, Nigel Farage and others who should be supporting a boy NOT from Oxford or Cambridge

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 11:08 am

Sky News (UK) relayed here – reporting that Trump will be the first sitting president to be a convicted criminal. Not a mention at all of the nasty and illegitimate ways the various cases have been brought against him. They merely mentioned that the majority of them have been dropped for one reason or another.
Shameful spin by Sky.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 11:13 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Said in a supercilious, condescending pommy way no doubt. These poms should look at the state of their own country.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 12:38 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

The US v UK element of all this cannot be underestimated.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 12:39 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

It won’t be Reagan and Thatcher redux.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:08 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I couldn’t agree more.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 11:24 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

They were quite calm about Bill Clinton, credibly accused of rape, and a confirmed abuser of a junior female staff member in his office, as the most powerful man in the world at that time.

Don’t the feminazis babble on perpetually about “power imbalances”? Well, not it the one with the power is a leftard

Last edited 1 month ago by Boambee John.
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 4, 2025 11:34 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

And just like that… criminals were cool, again.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 11:09 am

One for Eyrie: SpaceX have now posted an extensive list of improvements to the Starship/Superheavy they are hoping to launch in a week’s time. Fascinating detail.

Starship’s Seventh Flight Test

They’ve even pulled out one of the Raptor engines from the 5th test launch and installed it into this booster to see how it goes. The 5th booster was the one they caught in the chopsticks.

Amazing amount of onboard battery capacity and cameras absolutely everywhere. Thirty of them!

cohenite
January 4, 2025 11:11 am

The merchan sentencing will be a massive backfire legally and in terms of publicity . But the result will depend on whether the demorat law enforcement arm come to arrest Trump after sentencing. Legally merchan has no right to do this but the fact he is doing it shows demorats will do anything to stop Trump. If Trump turns up for the sentencing then I expect there will be another attempt or a confrontation with his security. This is 3rd world stuff and it shows the demorats are tyrants.

Zippster
Zippster
January 4, 2025 11:45 am
Reply to  cohenite

demonrats

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 11:13 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 11:25 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Yes, as I said yesterday it looks like they have squeezed in as many of their indigenously manufactured engines that they could. According to wiki they were still building J-20s with Russian engines in 2019.

Being so new at jet engine manufacturing I suspect they’re underpowered for this duty, so hence the unusual configuration of three engines.

Zippster
Zippster
January 4, 2025 11:13 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 11:15 am

Straya imploding nicely at the crikkit. 4/39.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 11:16 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 11:20 am

Starship’s Seventh Flight Test

I follow this closely. Anyone interested might like to look at Marcus House on Youtube. It is mind blowing when you see the construction of factories to mass produce these spaceships.
Bezos is planning on the first launch of New Glenn rocket in a couple of days.
This is the 21st Century we can like. Pity much of the rest is shit.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 11:20 am

OK, so next time around do we want a Mr. Nice Guy or a Head Kicker?
Dutton’s past as a fairly tough minister is being used by Labor as a possible negative.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 11:22 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

A head kicker with a chainsaw. Borrow Javier Milei’s.
Unfortunately he’ll be a wimp except for reducing our almost non existent liberties yet further.
They are all criminals.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:38 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Who gives a flying farque what Labor do?
Let’s have a head kicker. At least it will be entertaining.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 11:23 am

Dutton’s not a lawyer or a Rhodes scholar so that’s a good start. He does have a BBus from QUT apparently.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:40 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Frankly a High School dropout who became a Tradie would do a better job than these overeducated, hyperinsulated products of the University System.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I have a Bus from ANU. I get off after 23 stops.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 11:43 am

I wasn’t getting too excited about David Crisafulli, but I wanted Miles gone. Similarly, I want Anal and ‘Dr’ Chalmers gone.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 4, 2025 11:54 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Haven’t seen much change other than changing of the guard in key positions.

Criminals still criminal, one of his regional coast cities needs to be dismissed with an administrator appointed but nil move there and the judiciary are still giving slaps with lettuce leaves (e.g. Bronco’s player) that the AG isn’t instructing the DPP to appeal.

All he’s done, has been to tinker at the edges.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 11:44 am

Saving 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The clock is ticking on Biden’s greatest betrayal.

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Biden’s commutation of sentences for mass murderers, rapists and mass fraudsters got a lot of attention, but this administration isn’t done yet.

A major objective for the Biden administration had been closing down Gitmo. Major terrorists have already been freed but a key element is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The 9/11 mastermind can’t simply be ‘freed’ te way other terrorists have. Instead the administration masterminded a plea deal with him and two other 9/11 terrorists. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was disgusted enough by the move that he took the startling step of shutting it down entirely. (He wasn’t the first S of D to block efforts by the White House to free terrorists.) But the engine is still moving forward and figures in the Biden administration are still moving it forward in coordination with their political allies and hirelings inside the Department of Defense.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 12:07 pm
Reply to  cohenite

What a f*cking disgrace.
Transfer him to a mainland super max.
Then see who petitions & funds the legal work to have him released.
Then deport him, making sure he has ample supplies of pagers.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Nah, just tie the fat pig up and apply this once a day:

Crosman AK1 Full Auto 4,5mm air rifle | Balistas.com

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 12:08 pm

The stink of this Biden administration will be hard to wipe off.
The pardons alone will be content for the GOP ad machine for years.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 12:13 pm

Archimedes thinks you can’t buy a flying car.

There’s actually several choices.

Flying Cars You Can Buy

  1. AeroMobil 4.0
  • Price: Around $1.3 million to $1.6 million
  • Features: Transforms from a car to a small aircraft in under 3 minutes. Requires a pilot’s license to fly.
  1. PAL-V Liberty
  • Price: Around $600,000 for the Pioneer Edition
  • Features: A gyroplane that doubles as a car. Road and flight certification are required.
  1. ASKA A5
  • Price: Around $789,000
  • Features: A roadable aircraft designed for short trips and personal use. Deliveries are expected to start in 2026.
  1. Jetson ONE
  • Price: About $92,000

He even has a choice of a 2 or 4 seater to take to the next repair job.

You need pilot certification to operate one.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 12:18 pm

How to not go bankrupt if you are a car company.

Mazda is selling more cars than ever—all without an EV in sight (3 Jan)

While many automakers are racing toward electrification, Mazda is proving that there’s still room for gas-powered success. The Japanese automaker is set to break its U.S. sales record from 1986, with over 420,000 vehicles expected to be sold in 2024—a 16% increase from the previous year.

The lemmings are racing towards the electification cliff. Good to know at least one mass market car company hasn’t been sucked in by the propaganda.

(My venerable Mazda 3 just passed its 17th birthday, and is going great. Aside from normal stuff the only mechanical repair I’ve needed was a thermostat, which cost $150 to replace.)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:14 pm

We are pretty impressed with the new Mazda CX 5 we have hired for this trip around Britain. It’s a little Spartan inside but the Bose speakers can atone for this. It has good power, which my son says the earlier CX 5 did not.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 12:22 pm

End of whitey:

Can We Finally Talk About This Now?

Mark Dice explains how the (white) left have promoted the minoritisation of whites and in doing so the ending of democracy in places like the US. The demorats doing this including biden should be executed with black bullets.

Ceres
Ceres
January 4, 2025 12:23 pm

Seeking fame this clown of a Judge Merchan was handpicked especially for this “non” case. We all know it was/is political lawfare and should never have been brought.
A duly elected President and he wants to sentence him, against the recommendation of the DA, 10 days before his inauguration.
Trump will now be able to pursue his appeals and get this crap overturned. Outrageous.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 12:33 pm
Reply to  Ceres

What if merchan jails him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 12:37 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The resulting civil war would offer the good judge an interesting chance to develop his survival skills.

Ceres
Ceres
January 4, 2025 2:45 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Quoting from USA Today and other sources
Merchan said an “unconditional discharge appears to be the most viable solution,” so that Trump could pursue his appeals. Under New York law that means a sentence without incarceration, fine or probation.”
It will be overturned eventually but Trump certainly doesn’t need this distraction at this momentus time in history.
Karma needs to catch up with crooked Merchan.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 4, 2025 12:35 pm
Reply to  Ceres

The Demonrats would probably be happy for Merchan to get gunned down – it would be fodder for the media mill to declare the right as all worse than deplorable, probably all domestic terrorists.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 12:31 pm

Orcs have feelings too.

Is a Classic Fantasy Game About to be Consigned to the Dungeon of History? (3 Jan)

However, recent trigger warnings and changes introduced by Wizards of the Coast, owned by Hasbro, have fundamentally altered D&D’s essence in an attempt to promote inclusivity. For example, the term “race” has been replaced with “species” and traits associated with certain fantasy races, like the dexterity of elves, have been removed. These changes aim to make the game more inclusive and avoid associations with real-world discrimination. But this begs the question – how exactly can fictional plastic and imaginary characters like orcs or dwarves feel offended? They can’t.

I’m ok with the elves thing, they’ve always been a bit effeminate and suss. But dwarves? That’s heightist! Alright I could be persuaded to play a 6’5″ dwarf if I must. That would be kinda fun.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 12:33 pm

Funny that

The company singularly focused on EVs, has the market capitalization of around 1.3 US$trillion

The total market cap of the largest legacy companies is

Total Market Cap (Excluding Tesla and BYD): $264.41B (Toyota)
$48.26B (Ford)

  • $56.92B (GM)
  • $52.00B (Mercedes-Benz)
  • $49.00B (BMW)
  • $53.93B (Porsche)
  • $77.18B (Ferrari)

= $601.7 billion

In other words Tesla is worth more then double these firms combined and likely more than the entire sector world wide.

Yep, Musk must be doing something wrong focusing on EVs.

What would investors know when to can rely on muftis from regional Australia.

Aaron
Aaron
January 4, 2025 1:13 pm
Reply to  JC

None of those companies make rockets.

Few bombs, though.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 1:18 pm
Reply to  Aaron

Aaron, neither does Tesla make space rockets. Neither SpaceX nor starlink are part of Tesla.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 1:47 pm
Reply to  JC

Does Tesla run the robot development program?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 12:49 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 4, 2025 12:50 pm

I wonder if the plan is for Merchan to sentence Trump and then Biden to pardon him – making Trump complicit in the pardon-palooza.

Further, once pardoned is it possible to appeal the conviction?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:18 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Trump should not turn up to anything to do with Merchan.

Ignore him.

Get some lawyer to put in a holding-operation complaint that must be heard after Jan inauguration.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2025 12:53 pm

Mother Lode

 January 4, 2025 12:50 pm

I wonder if the plan is for Merchan to sentence Trump and then Biden to pardon him – making Trump complicit in the pardon-palooza.

Further, once pardoned is it possible to appeal the conviction?

You can refuse a pardon.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 12:55 pm

But Bowen knows better.

He can’t stand the truth.

‘Not a place for respectful debate’: Chris Bowen quits X (Paywallian)

The Energy Minister says the Elon Musk-owned platform does not allow for informed conversations on issues like climate change.

You can stick your fingers in your ears all you like Mr Bowen but I can disprove your stupid global warming hysteria with two graphs.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 1:44 pm

Blown in the wind. Is there a portfolio he hasn’t made a mess of. How does someone as useless as Chris Bowen get where he’s got.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:04 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Liar machine man and factions.

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 1:28 pm
Reply to  JC

They didn’t have a warrant, did they? 😀

Mak SIccar
Mak SIccar
January 4, 2025 1:19 pm

A read with afternoon ‘tea’. I, on the other hand, have other less charitable advice for this bunch of stinkers.

The Mocker’s 2025 advice for Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers, Penny Wong and Labor

It is an election year, and The Mocker kindly offers feedback and campaigning advice to key members of the Albanese government. 

Energy Minister Chris Bowen

Your reputation as a renewable energy super-poseur is well-deserved. You are foremost in the mind of every householder living from pay to pay, especially given 2025 has kicked in. As you promised three years ago, it means a $275 drop in their annual power bills based on 2021 prices. But inexplicably you, a prolific user of social media, did not remind everyone of this when the new year arrived. In fact you appear to have deleted your X account. Could it be you are too modest? 

Nothing better demonstrates the soundness of your policies than your habit of attacking opponents personally. You inspire confidence by your agitated demeanour and tendency to babble when under pressure. True to your portfolio, you are a man of much wind. 

You will impress undecided voters by refusing to provide detailed costings of your protectionist pipe dream. Simply reply to those asking that you are unable to do so as the laws of numbers cannot cater for the figures.

Keep up the excellent work, and you will prove even more of an influence in this election than you were in 2019. 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers

You believe the election outcome depends on whether the Reserve Bank decides to lower interest rates. But instead of addressing your government’s massive inflation-fuelling spending, you publicly browbeat RBA governor Michele Bullock, accusing the bank of “smashing the economy”. 

This is a sound tactic. The many so-called progressive commentators of the Australian media will remain silent as you try to intimidate a female statutory officeholder into capitulating to your demands. You even have the support of Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, a self-professed champion of women who told the ABC that “the language the Treasurer used – and I’ve used it myself – is really stating the facts as they are”.

As you repeatedly claim, you are “planning and preparing for a soft landing in our economy”. This metaphor is all very well, except that all four engines are on fire, the landing gear won’t lower, the rookie pilot never attended flight school, and there is no cabin pressure. 

But fear not, Captain Jim has a big announcement for us passengers. He will supply us with free oxygen right up until the moment we crash.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong

You have mightily impressed yourself. Such is your self-belief you have difficulty understanding how anyone could doubt your genius. Your natural response is to condescend to your critics. You could win additional respect by showing even more contempt for those who do not share your vision. 

The last three years have been exhilarating for you. You have proved fearless in defying convention. On that note, congratulations on being the first sitting female senator to hold the office of prime minister.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke 

You have a remarkable ability to unite disparate sections of Australians. For example, whether it is mainstream Australians or extremist Western Sydney imams, both groups believe you are utterly gutless. 

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek 

Your party increasingly loses ground to the Greens. But by continuing to block industry on spurious grounds in your capacity as Environment Minister, you will woo back traditional Labor voters. 

Resources Minister Madeleine King

Your spray against mining giant BHP last year for “railing against” Labor’s 1970s-like workplace relations legislation was magnificent, but you need to go harder and target all mining companies. Let’s face it, these bludgers contributed only $74 billion in company tax and royalties in the 2022-23 financial year. 

Your doing so will upset many voters in the mining states, but too bad. Anyway, it is not as if Western Australia and Queensland are crucial battlegrounds in the upcoming election.

Transport Minister Catherine King

At last count you had provided half a dozen different reasons as to why you refused Qatar’s application to increase its number of flights to Australia’s capital cities (a decision you made after meeting privately with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce). Unfortunately for you, Australian overseas travellers – who would have benefited from cheaper airfares had the application been approved – are not convinced of your good faith.

You should come up with a reason more believable by comparison. Something like “There was an insufficient number of crayons in Qatar’s on-board entertainment kits for kids” or “The ancient Egyptian hippopotamus goddess Taweret appeared to me in a vision and said she would smite Qatar aeroplanes from the sky if I approved this application,” perhaps? 

Defence Minister Richard Marles

Thanks to your dedication and efficiency, the Royal Australian Navy currently fields one fully operational submarine out of a fleet of six. 

On the hustings you should reinforce to sceptical voters this single deployment is more than sufficient to defend one of the longest coastlines in the world. You have many priorities to consider, and submarines are just one of them, you should add. They are vital to Australia’s security, but it is not as if they ferry your golf clubs. 

Make sure you continue to castigate those impertinent ADF types who address you as ‘Minister for Defence’ instead of ‘Deputy Prime Minister’. By doing so you will be the most respected Labor defence minister since Stephen Smith.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

It was wrong of commentators to claim your performance during the last election campaign was such you should hide behind your ministers in future. Provided that is, the questions are no tougher than “Who has the best sausage sizzle” or “How good is Sam Konstas” or “How tough was it for you as the son of a single mother in public housing”. 

You should highlight your many achievements in office. “I have ensured the release of many Australian drug-traffickers,” you could say. “And how many politicians my age can kowtow to China as well as I do,” you should add. “Believe me, that’s no mean feat when you have the limbs of a 61-year-old”. 

When asked about your government’s response to the horrific rise of antisemitism in this country, you should point out that you acted quickly. It took you only 14 months to establish a joint police-intelligence task force into hate crimes against Jewish-Australians. 

And next time a synagogue is firebombed, you will undertake to visit the scene within three days instead of four. Tennis, anyone?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 1:32 pm
Reply to  Mak SIccar

Delicious and exquisitely placed barbs. With a piquant sauce of sarcasm and irony!

Delta A
Delta A
January 4, 2025 5:02 pm
Reply to  Mak SIccar

Ouch!

Hugh
Hugh
January 4, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Thanks Dover.

I have read next to nothing in that area, which accounts for my ignorance.

Zippster
Zippster
January 4, 2025 1:28 pm

Musk needs to massively increase his security details

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 1:29 pm

You should highlight your many achievements in office. “I have ensured the release of many Australian drug-traffickers,” you could say

Glorious.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
January 4, 2025 1:30 pm

I wonder if the dead grass at the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions is from sabotage or incompetence? They have sent today’s races up to the Sunshine Coast.That is at least a 2.5 hour drive at this time of year. I think they chose the Sunny Coast over Eagle Farm because of lighting. SC and GC have lighting good enough for night. It shows how badly run the Brisbane courses are managed that we have no night racing. It would work a treat from November to February.

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 4, 2025 1:44 pm

2.5 hours, school holidays, Saturday, niceish day , sure at 2am, add at least 2 hours

Kel
Kel
January 4, 2025 2:33 pm

First ever night races this year.
Magic millions draws huge crowds.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2025 1:36 pm

Douglas on point.

I do ask myself, if he wanted to visit here, would the pr*cks in Canberra let him in?

Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2025 1:39 pm

The Tutelar

8 minutes ago
Mocker brilliant as always. I cannot add to your wit however here is a joke for the New Year. Best wishes A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure. In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant. In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant. In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant. In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant. In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant. In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant. And in Canberra they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 2:00 pm

Love it, so cutting.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 1:41 pm

Does anyone know whether or not Quadrant is (or was) funded by the CIA?

The CIA itself may not know.

See “The Invisible Air Force”. The CIA boss one day said to a sidekick, “how many airplanes do we own?”. Sidekick didn’t know but said he would find out. Some weeks later he turned up with a map of the world and started explaining what they owned where and which were front companies, including aircraft factories and how they obfuscated by swapping tail numbers etc. Upshot was they didn’t actually know how many aircraft they owned.

Rosie
Rosie
January 4, 2025 1:49 pm

Bruce I think you have been predicting Tesla’s imminent demise since I first arrived at the Cat in late 2013.

The share price is tanking, etc etc
Meanwhile
https://m.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/stock-price-history

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 2:15 pm
Reply to  Rosie

I didn’t mention Tesla, although there’re storm clouds on the horizon since BYD is now matching their sales (but at a third of the price).

My comment was about the whole EV market, which is confected from propaganda and climate rubbish. Despite that sales of EVs are falling almost everywhere, because the Greens have now all bought one and the proles aren’t interested.

Watching this car crash, if I might term it that, is fascinating. Central planning never works.

(Tesla sales fell in the 4th quarter, first time ever. But I think that is probably the effect of Elon’s backing of Trump, since the natural market for Teslas is lefties.)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 1:58 pm

I was watching the cricket just before lunch, the camera homed in on Capn Carbon. He looked like a bunny in the headlights. This was not a look I’ve ever seen from any Aussie Captain in the last 46 years.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 4, 2025 4:49 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I defended his “Captain Woke” title on a sporting website recently, with examples including the loss of $40m sponsorship from energy company Alinta.

Many, many supporters of Capn Carbon came out of the woodwork.
Strange people.

Delta A
Delta A
January 4, 2025 5:05 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Except maybe blubster Kim Hughes.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 1:59 pm

Bruce I think you have been predicting Tesla’s imminent demise since I first arrived at the Cat in late 2013.

Popular delusions and madness of crowds. Dutch tulip bulbs anyone?
I had to stop reading the book by Charles Mackay about half way through. Human stupidity and greed is too depressing.
Tesla did apply some innovative thinking to how to make cars in an already efficient commodity industry but how is it possible to return a decent dividend on that valuation? You are hoping a bigger fool will pay more for your shares. I’ll believe the robots when I see them, along with full self driving.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 2:19 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Elon primarily wants electric cars for Mars. Tesla is the excuse to develop them. He’s a clever guy!

Same goes for his solar panel business, his Boring Company and of course SpaceX.

I am surprised though he hasn’t invested in SMRs. You’d think that technology would be a perfect fit.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 2:05 pm

Nice website the Aeromobil folk have. Seems they can’t sell you one yet.
Quoted performance in aeroplane mode on 300hp is not startling. Our aircraft does the same on 150hp.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 2:26 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

X. That was the ribbon cutting event.
Brought on by the Poms dissing Musk.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 2:40 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

And don’t forget sir cur starmer was the head of crown prosecutions during the muzzie rape period.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 2:30 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Elon retweeted something from Michael Malice whose tweet was about corporate journalists being dog turds.
The subject matter was the grooming gangs.
It took off from there.
Malice posted how surprised he was on his Locals page.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 4, 2025 4:51 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Don’t forget the sterling work done by Mark Steyn in trying his damdest to get the issue into the media.

Lee
Lee
January 4, 2025 2:11 pm

Mark Steyn relates what happened to one brutally raped child that the British government, police and don’t want you to know about:

The Shame of England :: SteynOnline

Lee
Lee
January 4, 2025 2:29 pm
Reply to  Lee

… police and MSM don’t want you to know about:

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 3:11 pm
Reply to  Lee

Not so politicians of any ilk.

And after the Skaf cases in Sydney, no further investigation seems to have occurred here. The whole system breathed a collective sigh of relief, once that was over.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 2:12 pm

All good Winston. How’s Elsie?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 2:49 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

She’s worked out that the dangers of sitting at my feet and getting trodden on while I’m on the intarwebs is more than compensated by the steady rain of sausage, chunks of salami, vegemite and cheese Saos crumbs that appear in front of her. Does. Not. Like. Onion. Or mustard. Or chocolate.
And distressingly, she does not like XXXX Bitter. I spilled some on the desk and she not only sniffed then ignored it, but sat down in it – leaving it unavailable for me to lap up.

Considering Roger has returned home, I have to start thinking of the handing over ceremony.
I have an appointment with the Transplant Clinic in March and I can’t put it off. It will involve me being in Brisbane for a week while they do the standard battery of yearly tests + Endocrinology, and I don’t have anyone up here I trust with another’s cat.
I’ve been moving the cage around the house and left an old shirt of Rogers in it so she’s no longer leery of it. So there won’t be an issue to get her back in.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2025 3:28 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Good luck anyway. I’ve found you can get quite attached to cats even though I’m more of a dog man.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 5:23 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

One of the reasons I need to get her back to Roger is because I want a dog – but finding one with the right attributes is difficult:
Middle aged to elderly,
Lazy as Hell,
Grumpy and liable to bite with little provocation,
Fat,
Able to sleep long periods during the day and at night,
Incontinent after alcohol,
Farts a lot.

Demanding I know, but if I can do it so can the dog.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 2:14 pm

Crikkit news:

Jasprit Bumrah has been off the field for the past 45 minutes, and vision on the picture wireless shows him leaving the SCG with the team physio and doctor.

Bumrah’s in the back seat. The doc and physio (both Indians as well) are in the front.

Given that at least one Indian is behind the wheel, I sincerely hope Bumrah gets to the hospital in one piece.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 2:49 pm

Ooooh! Waaaascist!
🙂

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 2:16 pm

50 on debut for big Beau Webster.

Really well done. The giant from Tassie played several seasons and some representative stuff in D-Town during the southern off-season, made no enemies whatsoever and kicked arse all the way through.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 2:19 pm

Archimedes thinks …

that JC is a nasty little prick that is more than happy to viciously hound other posters in a very personal and relentless manner

Archimedes wonders …

why JC chucks a week-long spazz when there’s a gently piss-take at JC’s expense

Archimedes might …

return serve and refer to JC as “spazz-boy” henceforth

except that JC’s whining would never stop

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 2:52 pm

Who is Archimedes?
(I assume that you’re not referring to the bloke with the fulcrums and levers, are you?)

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 3:14 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Ah, that infantile clown JC has decided on a new pet-name for me

clearly you don’t bother reading the clown
sensible choice

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 3:43 pm

Actually, I did. But I thought it was in reference to someone else.
My bad.

alwaysright
alwaysright
January 4, 2025 2:25 pm

I’ll believe the robots when I see them, along with full self driving.

Self driving is off the menu.
Cars are being used by loonies as weapons.
Selling the loonies a programmable self driving vehicle is potentially worse.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 3:42 pm
Reply to  alwaysright

No, we had a bit of a ding dong here about 4 years ago when I was roundly ridiculed for suggesting such a thing could happen.
And yes, I let it through to the keeper because it was futile arguing with people who gained their conviction through ‘feels’ rather than extrapolating the information they had in front of them.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 2:26 pm

Lee Fang has released a substack saying Bernie Sanders is looking for a GOP co-sponsor to make amendments to the H1B program.
Key points:
1) Raise minimum salary threshold;
2) Corporations to pay more to access the program;
3) Rules around lay-offs.

Devil in the detail once it’s released if Lee Fang is on the money.

If they’re the changes, there would be a line of GOP senators looking to co-sponsor the bill.
And Vivek & Elon would be pretty supportive.

Wonder why Sanders didn’t demand this in January 2021?
I wonder more why Sanders isn’t on his hind legs over the H2B expansion that directly impacts the lower paid punters.
I wouldn’t be because he doesn’t give a shit about the truck driving class, surely.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 2:29 pm

I wonder if the state-imposed system of incentives and disincentives re EVs and ICEVs is responsible?

Trump said he’s doing away with Federal subsidies for EVs. However, because Tesla is the most efficient producer with the highest margin in the car making business, it would help Tesla rather than hurt. That’s one of the reasons Tesls stock is up.

There’s also this to consider, nearly all legacy makers are struggling and unable to make it while Tesla has by and large been growing.

Of course, you really don’t like Musk, because you’ve said you think he’s only in it for the money. Transactional, you said, and therefore has no real beliefs other than making himself richer that the odd US$400 or $500 billion he is now. Capitalists don’t have principles, only those from authoritarian regimes are pure as bleached white cloth. For instance, Pukin made his $200 billion totally from picking the right stocks in the private equity firm he built before entering politics.

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cohenite
January 4, 2025 2:35 pm

Apparently merchan will allow Trump to appear for sentencing virtually. Merchan has also indicated he would sentence Trump on an unconditional discharge basis meaning no jail time although a fine could apply, suspended for appeal purposes, which merchan states is the purpose of the sentencing, so Trump can pursue his appeal options.

Merchan licking arse?

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 3:14 pm
Reply to  cohenite

I wouldn’t trust the prick.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 3:49 pm
Reply to  Boambee John.

I wouldn’t trust him further than I could spit a dead rat.
HHGTTG.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 2:38 pm

Lol.

Trans’ entire life support system has been one of bullying and mocking other commenters and now he’s suggesting I do that same as he. The reason he originally got upset with me is because he was one of the pack attacking Liz for about a year of concerted trolling and I stopped it. They’re been plenty of others too. An angry, vindictive, petty little prick with serious mental issues.

Barry
Barry
January 4, 2025 2:38 pm

The current over-computerisation of cars is inexorably leading to the mandate of anti-terrorism functionality in all new cars sold.

The car will literally not let you run someone over.

All the functionality already exists, we just need a spate of vehicular terrorism events to get the media begging for cars to be locked down.

Oh, wait…

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 5:28 pm
Reply to  Barry

“The car will literally not let you run someone over.”
Case about ten years ago when young woman brutally pack raped in the US because her car would not start without her seatbelt being on.
By the time she got it on the men had put the car on it’s side and she was unable to escape.
Similar situation.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2025 2:39 pm

Laughing my box off! I’m sure many will find this clip ridiculous.

Fair enough.

——

Whistlin Diesel:

Whistlindiesel Cybertruck Durability Test #2

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feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 2:42 pm

Bloody hell.
I thought when Bumrah went off we were in with a chance.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 2:44 pm

Bern:

feelthebern

January 4, 2025 2:30 pm

Reply to  dover0beach

Elon retweeted something from Michael Malice whose tweet was about corporate journalists being dog turds.

The subject matter was the grooming gangs.

It took off from there.

Malice posted how surprised he was on his Locals page.

Wasn’t there something about the government refusing to lead an inquiry into the entire rape gang thing, or did it come after the Malice and subsequent Musk pick up?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 2:46 pm
Reply to  JC

or did it come after the Malice and subsequent Musk pick up?

The thread on Malice’s Locals was a victory lap but maybe they are all Malice fanboying.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 2:51 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

My question wasn’t rhetorical as I keep reading how the UK liars are refusing to consider an inquiry. I was just wondering if that came up before anything else.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 2:45 pm

India’s all out 185 is looking like a good total…

Nice though that Webster got top scorer on debut.

(I’m assuming last men in Lyon and Boland, neither of whom have gotten a Test half century, will top Webster’s 57.)

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 2:50 pm

Definition of an optimist: Someone who has tickets to day four of the Sydney test.

Kel
Kel
January 4, 2025 2:52 pm
Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 3:16 pm
Reply to  Kel

The woeing of Boeing continues.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 3:56 pm
Reply to  Kel

If that’s true, then Boeing is in a lot of trouble.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 2:56 pm

I have to go for a walk to rescue the Patrol because I got a little cofused after several refreshing XXXX Bitters last night and had to walk home.
It’s taken this long for the knees to settle down to get there.
So if I don’t reappear today, you’ll know I succumbed to the siren call… and will have to walk home again.
And Happy Birthday to Cassie O’Sydney!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 4:02 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I’m back, and with an appalling story to tell you:
Did you know that if a Queensland Publican has a hat rack in the Public Bar, it’s illegal to wear a hat/cap/chapeau while you are in there?
Pauline swears it’s true, but is she just pulling my leg?
Sal?

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 2:59 pm

$9 an hour. You get what you pay for.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgZ7afIWYAAxoN0?format=jpg&name=medium

The problem wasn’t in the code which AFAIK did what it was meant to. The problem was in the design of the system along with lack of exploration of the possible fault tree consequences of hardware failures.
Having said that I guess they figured any crew only had to flip the two switches which are a memory item for any trim runaway. There are about 5 other things that can move the trim.

Kel
Kel
January 4, 2025 4:34 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Oh, I see, you participated in the code review. The code efficiently using resources allocated. Gottya

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 2:59 pm

Someone on Discord explained to others how Trans is manipulating the ticks.

According to a Discord user, he claims to know how they are doing it:

Use an iPhone and go to settings.

Enable flight mode. Take the phone off fixed Wi-Fi and switch to mobile data.

Refresh the page.

Disable flight mode and ensure the home router isn’t connected.

Refresh the page again.

You’re then good to go for more upvotes and downvotes.

I believe the page refers to safari.

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JC
JC
January 4, 2025 3:02 pm

Hallward

. Our aircraft does the same on 150hp.

That sounds more like a pushbike than a plane. Is it remote?

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 3:03 pm

how long is this particular spazz going to go for JC ??

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 3:06 pm

Trans asks how long will this continue when he starts every single low IQ stoush.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 4, 2025 3:11 pm

Happy birthday Cassie

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 3:11 pm

Trans asks …

it’s ok, spazz-boy … you can call me Archimedes

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 3:17 pm

Is he going to remove the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs?

Haven’t heard him speak about it. In any event Tesla is a different category.

Tesla increased sales in China over the last period, totaling about 190 units. Different category to cheap Chinese crap.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 4, 2025 3:19 pm

The Mocker. Absolutely superb.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 5:32 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

BB, no reflection on you, but I’ve always thought the Mocker was a pretentious little wanker with delusions of journalistic humour.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 3:20 pm

Is he going to remove the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs?

Heh.

Trump suggests tariffs higher than 200% on vehicles from Mexico (14 Oct)

I think the answer to your question is “no”. 😀

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 3:27 pm

The U.S. administration announced a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) on May 14, 2024. The Guardian

This measure was part of a broader strategy to counter China’s industrial policies and support domestic manufacturing. The tariff officially took effect on September 27, 2024.

GM stock has moved up slightly since, broadly following the move up in the index while Ford stock has actually fallen.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 3:27 pm

Well.

Young Jaiswal deciding that Sam Konstas isn’t the only opener to take the game to big bowlers with the new rock.

He’s taken 16 off Starc’s first over.

Good viewing awaits.

Frank
Frank
January 4, 2025 3:28 pm

Straya imploding nicely at the crikkit.

That or the Pakistani bookmakers have been busy again.

Makka
Makka
January 4, 2025 3:29 pm

Britain failed to protect children.

UK plod are deep in the merde over this too.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 4:05 pm
Reply to  Makka

Yep.
Where the rubber hits the road is where the problems are made.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 3:36 pm

And yet

Oh just stop, Dover.

No one buying a Tesla wouldn’t be considering buying a BYD. It’s the same fcking thing as someone looking to buy a top of the line Mercedes isn’t exactly stomping around a car yard considering a Corolla.

And the Hiden administration was hardly looking to assist Tesla when it imposed the tariff in May 24. It was looking to help the legacies. If anything, the administration would’ve liked to see Musk in jail and broke.

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Crossie
Crossie
January 4, 2025 3:41 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

 January 4, 2025 9:52 am

 Reply to  Hugh

I don’t remember anybody from the C.I.A., standing in the voting booth, telling me how to vote, in December 1975.

What I do remember is that in 1972 the entire Australian entertainment establishment, television, movies and music, sang a song insisting that it was time. Would that have been a Hollywood influence?

The great thing is that I got to vote for the first time in the election following he Dismissal and did not vote Labor.

calli
calli
January 4, 2025 3:56 pm

The indication of car quality is resale value.

I will be interested to see what my sister in law gets for her BYD.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2025 4:05 pm

JC

 January 4, 2025 1:03 pm

Interaction with cops at one’s home shows how mutual respect and dignity is the best strategy.

It doesn’t seem she was particularly keen to have the officers enter the building.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 4, 2025 4:58 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I note the cops moved away without showing the alleged “warrant”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 4:15 pm

Right. That’s it.

Scott Boland has castled both call centre taker openers, which takes quite a bit of doing.

He’s only got a year or two left at this level, but surely Hazlewood has to be discarded. Yes I am aware that Hazlewood is part of the NSW Clique of Never-Droppables, but still.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 4:25 pm

I like how Boland doesn’t appeal every second delivery, which it feels like the rest do.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 4:27 pm

Was just thinking the same. If Boland isn’t (just got Kohli, again) the best seamer in Aus, tell me who is.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 4:33 pm

And Kholi.

Whereupon Pant advances down the wicket and puts the first ball he receives over the boundary for a six.

Are we playing a Test or a T20?

Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2025 4:15 pm

Two Tier Kier Sturmer is a truly wretched and evil man, a totalitarian despot and adulterer whose marriage is a sham.

Within 48 hours of the Southport massacre, where three little girls were stabbed to death in a frenzied attack at a Taylor Swift children’s party and where other little girls and adults were also stabbed and are lucky to be alive, Keir Sturmer and his comrades were informed of the facts around Axel Rudakubana, particularly his sickening vomitous religion……Islam……along with other unsavoury facts pertaining to Rudakubana, including the ISIS manual and discovery of Ricin.

Remember how Blob Johnson was forced to resign over a party during Covid? It kinda pales in comparison compared to this Labour government. The UK partisan media went for Johnson’s jugular but this same media routinely cover up for the Sturmer and his pals. Sturmer and co have lied to the British public over the massacre of three little girls. The cover up was and remains huge and Britons know this, hence the riots back in August. The absolute travesty that the Southport suspect was a Welsh born choir boy and so on was so transparently false and that’s why thousands of working class English men and women hit the streets in righteous fury.

And now it’s been revealed……

“Government source alleges Starmer worked on the Rudakubana asylum case”

Well well well, that explains a lot, of course he did. Sturmer’s sticky fingers don’t just touch other women who aren’t his wife, his sticky fingers are all over several nauseating scandals, such as when he was head of the the UK equivalent of the DPP he declined to investigate Jimmy Savile, just a few days ago he and his government refused to call an inquiry into the Muslim rape gangs because he prefers to kowtow to Islamists, and now a brave UK substacker has revealed what everyone has known about Sturmer, that the Rudakubana family are only in the UK because once upon a time a hard-left hypocritical verminous human rights barrister named Kier Starmer acted for the family and since late July 2024, after Axel Rudakubana murdered three little girls, Kier Sturmer has tried to cover up his connection.

Back in 1858 London experienced a ‘Great Stink’. Due to hot weather and lack of rain combined with the voluminous amounts of animal and human waste that was flushed into the Thames, a shocking stink enveloped the city of London. The pong was hideous but that pong of 1858 has nothing on the pong that now permeates the whole of the UK in 2025.

Jock
Jock
January 4, 2025 4:16 pm

The UK Uniparties. All left wing . Even the supposed Conservatives. Were more concerned that their ridiculous experiment with diversity and multiculturalism was going to implode in the way described by Enoch Powell. Ergo they have played down the grooming gangs and the Islamic fanatics and the welfare sugar that attracts everybody from the Caribbean to Pakistan to live in the UK. The little “bother” over the 3 girls that were killed, really scared the Uniparty and their Fascist bureaucracy. So anything that threatens the current status is forcefully jumped on. Even thought crimes are against the law. I dream of a time when the shoe is on the other foot. But Ill never see it.

cohenite
January 4, 2025 4:19 pm

This graph sums up the global boiling bullshit:

Climate-change-temp-graph
Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 4, 2025 5:02 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Many thanks for this ammo cohenite.

Ceres
Ceres
January 4, 2025 4:20 pm

Having listened to Alan Derkowitz and Greg Jarrett on Hannity, the fact that the Trump case will be eventually overturned is of no interest to the mendacious Merchan.
The big trophy he wants is the legal label of “Convicted felon” before Trump is inaugurated. So ‘considerate’ is this crooked Judge he will allow Trump to appear by zoom on January 10th.
No jail, no fines no says Merchan, but the biggie “convicted felon”.
Can Trump refuse to attend, given the inauguration?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 4:40 pm
Reply to  Ceres

Yes he can. And should.
Merchan is an evil bastard and cannot be trusted.
He would cut his dick off on the gravy stroke if he could exchange it for going down in history as the Judge Who Convicted President Trump.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:30 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I think Trump should ignore Merchan.

Let him do his worst. The whole force of the election should make Merchan worthless.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 4:59 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Tradies here seem to be happily embracing Chinese utes. Price being the key, with reasonable quality (I presume).

The thing though is Chinese ICEs will always be better than Chinese EVs simply because of physics, chemistry and engineering complexity.

So in the end we’ll all be driving SAIC petrol cars but not BYD EVs.

Makka
Makka
January 4, 2025 4:38 pm

I said earlier UK plod were in deep sh*t over the UK rayp gangs. This is how the elites get ahead- over the pain and torment of decent people;

Stories of police arresting girls and their fathers but not the men.

Huge respect to @LordIanAustin

for taking on South Yorkshire’s then Chief Constable David Crompton

He asks about them ARRESTING an 11 year girl in a house for being “drunk & disorderly & NONE of the males arrested”

A 12 year old had sex with 5 Asian men in one night & the police dismissed the case.. “because she had been, quote, ‘100% consensual in very incident.”‘

“Fathers had tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to find THEMSELVES arrested, when police were called to the scene.”

Chief Constable David Crompton retired on a £2,000,000 pension in 2016.

https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1875183570110570666

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 4:51 pm
Reply to  Makka

The Chief Constable needs to be drummed out of every Gentlemans Club he has ever been a member of.
He should then be required to retire to the library with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label and his Webley.

Makka
Makka
January 4, 2025 5:02 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I said on here earlier during this week that the King must step in and disband Parliament for a General Election.

I see yesterday Musk is now tweeting the same.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 4:41 pm

Beau Webster’s first Test pole – Shubman Gill, inside edge and decent take by Carey.

Excellent. As bern indicated upthread, this won’t go the distance.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 4:47 pm

A three day test will suit the typical Sydney-siders attention span.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 4:50 pm

Even if he lives to ninety Mr Webster will cherish this SCG Test methinks. He’s been having a wonderful time.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 5:14 pm

Pant on track for fastest test ton ever here. Bazball McCullum 54 balls I think.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 4:45 pm

And Chinese EV makers haven’t been receiving government largess from the CCP. And I’d bet some of the assistance isn’t used to help exports too.
The CCP is a bastion of classic free market economics.

Direct Financial Subsidies: BYD has benefited from significant direct subsidies, with aid increasing from €220 million in 2020 to €2.1 billion in 2022.

Sales Tax Exemptions: The Chinese government has exempted qualifying new energy vehicles (NEVs) from the 10% sales tax, providing additional financial relief to manufacturers like BYD.

Infrastructure Support: Government funding has been allocated for the development of EV infrastructure, such as charging stations, which benefits manufacturers and consumers alike.

Research and Development (R&D) Funding: BYD has received support for R&D initiatives, fostering innovation within the company.

Government Procurement: The Chinese government has purchased EVs for public use, including BYD vehicles, stimulating demand and supporting the industry.

Regarding export incentives, while specific figures for BYD are not detailed in the available sources, the company’s global expansion has been facilitated by China’s broader export policies and support for clean technologies. This includes favorable trade agreements and financial backing for international ventures.

It’s important to note that these subsidies and incentives have attracted international scrutiny. For instance, in September 2023, the European Commission launched an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese EV manufacturers, including BYD, over concerns that significant state subsidies are distorting the European market.

Oh Hang on, the CCP was caught offering export subsidies. Remarkable. It’s something we wouldn’t have guessed in a million years.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2025 4:46 pm

Jordan Peterson has released it again.

This is a clip from our first interview with Tommy Robinson. In it, he details his personal history with the rise of Islam and grooming gangs in Lutton and how the police carried out a two-tiered system of enforcement.

Tommy Robinson on UK Grooming Gangs – Originally Censored Now Very Relevant

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 4, 2025 5:08 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

believed to have shot himself before igniting fireworks

Yeah riiiiight.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 4:52 pm

Jordan Peterson has released it again.

He’s given a serve to the climate nutters too.

‘I get a kick out of Nigel Farage’: Jordan Peterson on Reform and why net zero is unconservative (3 Jan)

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 4:53 pm

Tesla has been receiving fed and state subsidies for over a decade. And don’t pretend that a tariff on Chinese EVs doesn’t lso help Tesla EVs.

Tesla, like every other carmaker, has received assistance since around 2005. Let’s not sugarcoat it or pretend otherwise. The tariffs were designed to prop up the legacy automakers—the ones clinging to life and crumbling under the weight of cheaper, more efficient models.
Yet, unlike the bloated and stagnant legacy companies, Tesla thrived.
It was a level playing field with respect to government assistance.

Tesla started as a scrappy, underdog startup, facing every obstacle. And guess what dover? It’s the only carmaker since World War II that didn’t collapse into bankruptcy. Normally, people would celebrate such unprecedented success.But hey, look BYD.

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Makka
Makka
January 4, 2025 4:55 pm

The SFL’s in Qld (FMFD);

The new LNP government is going to implement the recommendations of the sham, activist-stacked review of the children’s gender clinic – gender affirming services will be ramped up and expanded across the state.

https://x.com/Jilliantweeting/status/1875343762203013477

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 5:12 pm
Reply to  Makka

“gender affirming”

Orwellian.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 4, 2025 5:56 pm
Reply to  Makka

Cabinet, Nichols is a failed leader, Frecklington even worse, Langbroek another wet who failed, then wannabes like Mander. All these people on the front bench and couldn’t win an election as leaders against incompetent and sometimes corrupt ALP governments.

I said it this morning. Apart from cancelling the treaty and fluffing around the edges especially with crime it regrettably business as usual. He needs to be careful as the the regional seats will only put up with so much and some of the gains will swing back.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 4:55 pm

Sort of curious how the grooming gangs story broke this week after over a decade of being denied any media air.

It goes back to Labour losing control of Oldham council (Greater Manchester) in May and independents subsequently passing a motion in July calling for a Home Office backed inquiry which was denied earlier this week.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:16 pm
Reply to  Roger

Northern England is practically a different country to London and the SW.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 5:28 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

The junior minister who denied an inquiry holds her Birmingham seat by the skin of her teeth.

The dynamics in play are somewhat complex, you might say.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 4, 2025 7:33 pm
Reply to  Roger

I think the real answer to the press sudden interest is called Elon Musk.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 5:03 pm

In any event Dover, you need to get your story straight. “Don’t pretend” you’re not for tariffs and protection. Only now, because the US tariffs don’t assist the CCP, you appear to be against the 100% tariff on BYD. Shouldn’t you be applauding the act by the Hiden administration?

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 5:03 pm

BYD
Burn Your Dreams

Chris
Chris
January 4, 2025 5:21 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

A long time friend (and obsessive glider pilot) just spent an hour saying how much he loves his BYD. Even for 5 hour country drives!

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 4, 2025 5:12 pm

Makka, I just fired off a missive to my local member David Janetzki about this.
This is sick and evil.

Makka
Makka
January 4, 2025 5:15 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Yes, indeed. It’s UN(fkg)believable that the the SFL’s could be so manifestly dumb.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2025 5:36 pm
Reply to  Makka

They’re not dumb; it’s a calculated move to avoid a battle on that front of the culture war that might cost them some votes in four years time.
Crisafulli is a coward.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:13 pm

Sam Konstas needs a few more runs before he runs off at the mouth to avoid being written off as another Greek bullsh1t artist.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 5:35 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

As a 19 year old with 10 first class matches under his belt, he found himself in the right place at the right time, due to a lack of any other stand out options. Could be a blessing, or could be a curse.

Obviously talented as per the shots he played at the MCG in his first innings, but Test cricket requires more than that.

I don’t mind him mouthing off and what not.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 5:19 pm

Mr Pant is having a day out.

Gets his fifty off 29 balls with a six then hits the next one for six also. Off Starc too.

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 5:22 pm

Hallward:
Tesla is doing this to gather more information to apply to its research in driverless and assist the driver when in self -drive mode. It can be turned off at the the push of a button.

As one of the world’s aviation pioneers, i would’ve thought you’d understand that. Such a lowrent slimeball.

Tesla vehicles use cameras primarily for features like Autopilot, Full Self-Driving (FSD), and security systems like Sentry Mode. While the cameras can capture video, Tesla emphasizes privacy and provides ways to control what is recorded, uploaded, or shared. Here’s a breakdown of how you can manage this:
1. Interior Camera Recording

Purpose: The interior camera (near the rearview mirror) is primarily used to monitor driver attentiveness during FSD or Autopilot.Control: Tesla claims that any footage from the interior camera remains within the car unless you choose to share it for troubleshooting.To disable interior camera sharing:Go to Controls > Safety > Data Sharing.Toggle off options related to sharing camera footage.2. Sentry Mode Recording

Purpose: Sentry Mode uses exterior cameras to record activity around the vehicle when it’s parked for security.Control: Sentry Mode recordings are stored locally on a USB drive in your vehicle unless manually shared.To disable Sentry Mode:Go to Controls > Safety > Sentry Mode and turn it off.3. Data Upload for Tesla Diagnostics

Purpose: Tesla might upload some video clips to improve Autopilot and FSD performance.Control: Tesla makes this optional, and you can decline data sharing.To disable this:Go to Controls > Safety > Data Sharing and uncheck the box for “Allow Tesla to collect video clips.”4. Privacy Settings in the App

Review Tesla’s Privacy Notice (accessible via the app or their website) to understand what data is collected and how to manage permissions.Important Notes:

Tesla anonymizes shared data, removing identifiable information.In most cases, no footage is shared unless you explicitly allow it.If you’re concerned about privacy, turning off data sharing and using features like Sentry Mode selectively are good steps.

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 5:23 pm

Sam Konstas needs a few more runs before he runs off at the mouth to avoid being written off as another Greek bullsh1t artist

Yes he does.

Until the kid starts posting tons – and big tons, routinely – as refreshing as this is, he has a credibility issue which will only be solved by putting runs on the board, because runs cannot be argued with or otherwise disputed.

I also note that nobody yet has put a 150kph screamer on his grill.

Bumrah, as good as he is, is not scary. He doesn’t give the impression that as a batsman, he’s going to physically hurt you. There are two Saffies and at least one Kiwi that do.

If you want to chat in the field, that’s fine – to a point. However, as every batsman knows, the bowlers will always get you in the end so it’s wise to keep your trap shut while you have a bat in your hand.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:30 pm

Bumrah, as good as he is, is not scary.

Not sure about that. I watched from side on at Optus on Day 1. No batsman had his measure.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 5:54 pm

he has a credibility issue 

A 19 year old thrown into the deep end. No credibility issue from my end.

Interesting to see how he goes in Sri Lanka. Spinners and so forth.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:23 pm

Sydney Test should be a big hit with the ADHD crew.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2025 5:24 pm

Purpose: The interior camera (near the rearview mirror) is primarily used to monitor driver attentiveness during FSD or Autopilot

BingBong!

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 5:28 pm

You need to ask the resident aviation pioneer though.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 5:28 pm

What a crap ball Pant got himself out to.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 4, 2025 5:29 pm

I’m back, and with an appalling story to tell you:
Did you know that if a Queensland Publican has a hat rack in the Public Bar, it’s illegal to wear a hat/cap/chapeau while you are in there?
Pauline swears it’s true, but is she just pulling my leg?
Sal?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2025 5:33 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Headwear inside a definite no no at any respectable golf club.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2025 5:56 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Except MAGA caps.

Rafiki
Rafiki
January 4, 2025 5:41 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I suspect that slipping in words of French is also deprecated, perhaps forcefully and without warning.

Chris
Chris
January 4, 2025 7:51 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

Tais-toi, quelle imbecile dit comme ça!

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 5:59 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Did you know that if a Queensland Publican has a hat rack in the Public Bar, it’s illegal to wear a hat/cap/chapeau while you are in there?

As it should be. I was in the Army and know all about that etiquette.

Play it safe until otherwise confirmed.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 4, 2025 6:12 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

What about bald flogs with a rug?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 4, 2025 5:34 pm

Sam Konstas needs a few more runs before he runs off at the mouth

He’s a Cranbrook boy.
It’s part of the curriculum.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 6:44 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Is that the private school in Sydney that Four Corners tried to “expose”? What a nothingburger that was.

Some hot young maths teacher got given a pair of fluffy handcuffs as a present by her graduating Year 12 class. ROFL. Cranbrookers are alright IMHO.

Rafiki
Rafiki
January 4, 2025 5:38 pm

Konstas’ 23 is not looking too bad now. Only 2 Australians did better, and half way through the IndIan XI only 1.
It won’t stop the tutt-tutting from Aystralian wassahs though.

Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2025 5:39 pm

Just further to the partisan MSM, whether it’s here or in the US or in the UK, I’m more than happy for politicians of all political persuasions to be kept honest but the problem with the MSM over the last 20 years is that it has become both a mouthpiece and a Praetorian Guard for leftwing politicians whilst going after and bringing down rightwing politicians. A male Labor/Labour/Demonrat politician could rape a six year old and the MSM would cover it up, or at least try to. Most journalists don’t even hide their biases bias anymore. The thing is, once upon a time journalists of old, whilst mostly leftwing or as I prefer to say…..’old Labor’ loved the smell of a good story and didn’t care whether it targeted right or left. But not now, journalism is dominated by elite and smug progressives who usually come from effluent families and they see their role as simply a funnel to further progressive politics and causes. They are activists. We see it here, be it Mrs Jones or the utterly hideous hag, Laura Shingle. We saw how the US MSM ran Praetorian Guard for the Sniffer, their bias was jaw dropping but worse, they lied and gaslighted to the public despite the Sniffer’s obvious declining mental state. It took that first debate back in June 2024 to expose the MSM’s lies and gaslighting, because when Biden went up against Trump during that debate, Biden had no clothes on, his mental state stripped bare for the world to see. It wasn’t pretty

I was more than happy for Blob Johnson to be exposed for ‘party gate’ shenanigans but creepy Sturmer is guilty of far worse, whether its the expenses scandal, adultery and the Southport cover up. Yet the mainstream UK MSM, even publications supposedly of the right, remain shtum. And here the MSM kept shtum on the Shorten rape allegations but went all jugular for Laming, Tudge, Porter and so on.

I don’t know what the answer is, I suppose more independent journalists. It’s nice to see the likes of Andy Ngo, Avi Yemeni, Rebel media and so on be finally accorded some respect and legitimacy, after years of being taunted, smeared and ridiculed as ‘far-right’. Yes, Andy, Avi, Rebel, Rushkan, Tommy etc are ‘far-right’ insofar as they’ve been ‘right so far about everything‘!

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 6:15 pm

I suppose more independent journalists.

?All the Gen Z crew I work with consume no newspapers or watch TV. They are way more onto shit than you think. Working class type kids, not Uni indoctrinated.

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Boambee John.
Boambee John.
January 4, 2025 6:38 pm

The US MSM remained either silent or played down credible rape allegations against both Clinton and Biden, but had screaming headlines about the woman who alleged that Trump raped her in a dressing room of a major department store, though she couldn’t even remember the year of the alleged assault.

Lee
Lee
January 4, 2025 7:11 pm

Biden went up against Trump during that debate, Biden had no clothes on, his mental state stripped bare for the world to see. It wasn’t pretty

I remember someone here (no it wasn’t Monty, Head Case or Numbers!) declared that Biden won that debate!

LOL.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2025 5:42 pm

Yet, unlike the bloated and stagnant legacy companies, Tesla thrived.

It was a level playing field with respect to government assistance.

total unmitigated frog-shit

Q1 2024: Tesla reported 442 million in income from carbon credit sales, representing 38.6% of its 1,144 million net income for that quarter.

Tesla sells carbon credits to other automakers who haven’t met emissions regulations, allowing them to comply with environmental standards.

which is a polite way of saying Tesla’s competitors are compelled to buy the carbon credits

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 5:45 pm

As demonstrated above, Tesla has been lobbying to make it harder and harder for the ICE manufactures to operate as well as receiving regulatory credits it sells to existing manufactures relating to emissions targets. And you want to pretend this system exists to prop up the ‘legacy’ manufacturers.

That’s the American system. You lobby for everything you can get because others are doing the same thing. Don’t like it, then blame the government for allowing this to go too far. Every decent sized firm in America is either part of a lobby association or lobby individually. So don’t “pretend” otherwise. It’s hardball.

“Don’t pretend” you’re not for tariffs and protection.

Sure I’m for them, but I only highlighted the nonsense claim that Tesla’s current position has nothing to do with a regulatory framework that favour EVs/ renewables and actively penalises existing manufacturers of ICE vehicles.

Then stop being selective about which tariffs and good or reflect something darker. As I said, you should be applauding Hiden’s action . As for your proposition that the Hiden administration initiated those tariffs to assist Tesla. That’s just absurd on so many levels.

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caveman
caveman
January 4, 2025 5:51 pm

Konstas needs to get rid of the lip fungus, he reminds me of Lex Marinos from Kingswood Country.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 4, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  caveman

Heh, yeah he’s a dorky looking unit. But if you can ramp Bumrah as a 19 year old in your first Test innings it’s all good.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
January 4, 2025 5:53 pm

[Drive-by posting; apologies if a repost.]

Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain [The Spectator] 324,235 views; Jan 4, 2025

Douglas Murray, Spectator columnist, joins Americano host and Spectator deputy editor Freddy Gray. This week, Home Office Minister Jess Phillips rejected Oldham Council’s request for a government-led inquiry into the horrific scandal of grooming gangs in dozens of UK cities. Her decision has led to real backlash – with X owner Elon Musk calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed, and for the King to dissolve parliament. Have politicians underestimated the strength of public feeling in the UK and the US? They also discuss the Southport riots, and ask why some politicians are unwilling to confront societal problems in the name of political correctness.

Probably nothing new to Çats, but a great recap of the grooming scandal, Tommy Robinson and the US MAGA focus on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDh85cohwms [36:06]

JC
JC
January 4, 2025 6:03 pm

Trans

Question, why did you choose the first quarter of 24?

If you mosey through their 10Q, you’ll see a line that says Net Income. Net income for Tesla runs at around US$ 2 billion per quarter from opertaions, which is quite a decent result for a carmaker that’s been in business for around 20 years and doing the hard scrabble for about 10 years. Compare that to the terrible results from the legacies.

Here, feast your eyes.

As a newbie, you ought to be demonstrating a little humility instead of bumbling in with “horse shit”.

I’m actually trying to help you here, so try the nice approach and be thankful.

Look, you could be right and the market place is grossly overvaluing tesla stock twice over the legacies as I showed, in which case you should short it massively.

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