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Election called this morning. You would think be dominating news. Yeah na. From News.com: 14 articles in their top section,…
Hurry the day, though. Chewing through data, pattern recognition, weighted judgement- AI cannot take over the leeches of barristering and…
Just laughable. Yemen’s per capita income, measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, has experienced significant fluctuations in recent…
Muslim palli matriarch is elated her 4 sprogs are martyrs for the cause and is looking forward to her 2…
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@liz_churchill10
You don’t hate them enough. They literally said there was no evidence of Biological Labs and then admitted there was Biological Labs.
There were known to be US Biological Labs on Ukranian soil.
@ReclaimTheNetHQ
The House Judiciary Committee is ramping up its fight against global censorship. Chairman Jim Jordan just subpoenaed Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Rumble, TikTok, and X; demanding answers on whether they’ve been complicit in foreign censorship regimes that stifle Americans’ free speech.
For years, the focus has been on the US government’s collusion with Big Tech. Now, the Committee is widening the scope: Have foreign governments (Brazil, Canada, Australia, the UK, the EU) strong-armed American tech firms into enforcing speech restrictions that extend beyond their borders?
Jordan’s letters call out specific threats:
Brazil – Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has allegedly issued secret, lawless orders forcing US companies to remove content or face bans and fines.
Australia – Their proposed law would require American platforms to globally remove content deemed “misleading or deceptive” by Australian regulators.
Canada – Bill C-63 (the Online Harms Act) is straight-up Orwellian: It could place people under house arrest preemptively if the government fears they might say something later deemed “hateful.”
The EU – The Digital Services Act (DSA) effectively exports European censorship to the entire internet, as companies often enforce the strictest global standard.
Jordan’s concern? These “unelected regulators” and courts are imposing speech restrictions under the guise of fighting “misinformation.” But the real goal seems to be coercing tech companies with massive fines into compliance.
And because platforms often maintain one global moderation policy, the strictest laws anywhere could set the censorship standard everywhere. A global race to the bottom for free speech.
@robinmonotti
Mark Rutte is to the current mass formation psychosis what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was to the previous one. NATO is the new WHO.
Get a load of this totalitarian bint.
The EU was never meant to cover any aspect of European defense. It was established to enable a free trade zone between its members. Now, she’s pushing for EU defense. And what does she propose? That EU members borrow funds and use them for defense spending. There’s no talk of scaling back parts of the welfare state. Nope, just borrow the money.
Europe is beyond redemption.
Reverse course alright.
Just, freaking, fcking WOW.
The Orange Oaf is really someone to behold. Just an amazing fat dude.
‘Frantic’: Albanese unsuccessful in contacting Trump over trade tariffs
Haha. Albo lurves Zelensky with great fanfare these last few days and now wonders why Trump is not taking his calls…
The spitoon globule has no art and can do no deals — what a total nonentity and yet he is the Prime Minister of this nation — how did that happen? Oh that’s right Greens and Teals keep him there.
Bit like Winston Peters installing old horseface
‘EU PANICS!’ – Orbán & Fico JOIN FORCES to VETO Ukraine Aid, A Shock After US Cuts | Times Now World
More here: Bloomberg
I am having a Windsor rant night.
I was at school with a fella who, to our surprise, joined the RAAF as a pilot. I bumped into him during my nasho when he was flying Hueys.
He must have done OK because he was posted to Staff College Camberley as an exchange air ops instructor.
His fellow air syndicate partner was none other than HRH Prince Andrew. It was a case of hate at first sight. They detested each other. My friend considered him to be an antiquated snob who played upon his priveledge, was rarely st work because he was off doing Royal stuff, and treated my friend as a colonial buffoon.
He had a mean sence of humour and indulged in lots of Andrew baiting. One of his tricks was to send Andrew a carton of front bar plonk with enclosed instructions from his highly respected uncle wine maker demanding thst the two bob red was put down for a minimum of ten years.
I admit that I thought that my friend was paranoid anout Andrew. More fool me.
Straya well on the way to a hiding against the call centre takers.
6/206 after 39 overs.
New opening bat – fail.
Glenn Maxwell, surely in his twilight years – fail.
Over-cautious Labbashagnee – fail.
The big thing is the Aussie bowling attack doesn’t look penetrating. No front line fast bowlers and the spinners aren’t household names either.
I was looking at the Espncricinfo coverage just now.
Espncricinfo. I wonder how long AI would take to work out the meaning of this whereas most cats would pick up on it in a couple of seconds.
Don’t be shy mUnter – help is available (the Hun):
Chin up, champ.
facing a litany of charges including numerous counts of sexual activity directed at another person.
Rather an odd charge given the circumstances…
Never point a gun at someone, even if you think it’s unloaded.
@GuntherEagleman
JUST IN: DOGE canceled a $215,000,000.00 contract for a Texas nonprofit which operated a housing facility for migrants.
Thank you DOGE!
@MarioNawfal
ROMANIA AND EU BACK NGO-LED ONLINE CENSORSHIP AHEAD OF ELECTIONS
The Romanian government, EU officials, and Soros/USAID-funded NGOs just met to coordinate online censorship before the upcoming elections.
NGOs like Expert Forum, ActiveWatch, and Funky Citizens will work with authorities and social media platforms to flag and remove content they label as “disinformation.”
This includes monitoring political ads, tracking “inauthentic behavior,” and enforcing rapid response takedowns.
A new censorship bill is being prepared, and the Censorship Network will officially launch on March 25.
But Trump is the “fascist”!
What DOGE is really learning
@JamesMelville
~ Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy rejects the UK / France recommendation of a coalition of troops in Ukraine.
“This is a very difficult thing to implement, I am not sure about its effectiveness, that is why we said that we will not send Italian soldiers to Ukraine.”
Mole,
Thanks for the recommendation. About a 3rd of the way through it, and will leave it there for the inevitable blackout as a result of Cyclone Alfred.
My interest has always been European theatre, but am becoming more interested in the Pacific campaigns as a result of 2 YouTube channels. I knew Short & Kimmel f’ed up, and the fact there were intelligence failures, but no idea of extent, gob is well and truly smacked!
Amazing Bruce had time to collaborate on this between workouts and movies. Gone too soon.
Seems to be a habit of the yanks – let their intelligence operations disappear up their own fundaments before someone smacks them hard enough to take notice.
The bit about the 2 different intelligence sectors (army/Navy) not clearing each other for information was pretty awful.
The army and navy didnt even tell each other where their “intelligence’ came from, so red hot intel was treated the same as scuttlebut pub rumors.
Also hes a little scathing of the Poms apparent double dealing, but i think thats more down to misunderstanding some of the people they were dealing with.
Haha, the mosque threat came from a 16 year old kid.
16yo boy arrested after Western Sydney mosque threatened with Christchurch-style shooting (4 Mar)
Wow, plod has to dig deep deep these days to find anyone anyone they can finger as violent islamophobes.
I was honestly thinking false flag.
However 16yo, as predicted they nabbed him quickly. Be interesting to see whether he was given the courtesy of appearing at the cop shop in his own time with a lawyer and avoided time in the cells. Bet not.
A 16 year old kid in Eaton, a suburb of Bunbury, WA.
A backwoods hillbilly idiot smart arse skoolkid ffs.
I mentioned Russia playing this role a week or two ago (IIRC a tweet was attached). Russia doesn’t want nuclear proliferation in ME because if Iran goes nuclear KSA will want to also and maybe Turkey too. Don’t think much movement on support for ‘proxies’ possible though without a change in US policy in ME.
Cassie 3/3 @ 7:02am
This is how WW 1 started.
internal social turmoil, the people within their borders fighting with eachother.
the govt at the time deflects the internal conflict to an external conflict. All the countries will gang up on one.
the internal atoms blow out internally to the next country – just like princip and Ferdinand
Ok brains trust . MAFS Annalysis
i thought what is Lauren doing on this show, she’s a babe.
But now , I think she’s this ultra manipulator – great not tolerate fools but I think she’s dangerous.
The Greek – uhhh
I can’t blame the guy put his fist through the wall when his girlfriend told him she slept with Drake.
As a male , it’s allways there she’s out trumped me. How can any man go on in a relationship like this.
Lauren’s perfectly scripted as a podgy little psychopath
Yeah Yeah Yeah Matrix
You on to it , wants to stay at home, have aneuropean holiday each year etc
She’e like that Bette Davis character who caused her husbands heart attack at he top of he stairs.
Amadeus on – the commentators – highlight – I can’t wait to blast my ears at the gym with this.
The German Composers are the best.
No arguement.
I’ve never liked any of them.
https://youtu.be/R0Iv28yYMCc?si=RYzBNGj2PqgTA5W0
enjoy this Mozart and Mendelson are the greatest
Amazing. I haven’t seen Don Giovanni for many years.
I actually enjoy many French and English composers too.
The Brittany Blob rolls on with Mrs Pirate lodging further filings associated with her appeal. Will be interesting to see what the Full Court makes of it all. Meanwhile th WA Supreme Court is still to come. Possibly the trust and the NCCC to have a swing too.
What’s taking so long? Took Justice Lee 3 months to get to a judgement, whoever presided over this one has had 6 so far and clocks still ticking.
Unless of course like the BOM renaming cyclone Anthony to not upset the election, the courts don’t want to release this in the middle of the election as a courtesy to the PM as well.
Crypto will bring Trump down.
The next impeachment cycle, after mid terms, will be over crypto.
It’s not a good look, I’ll say that.
Why? How? Who?
The embrace on the tech was a good idea, but should have been limited to letting the free market run with it. The meme coin thing was stupid and un-necessary. Millei unfortunately went the same way.
What’s it got to do with Trump?
Posted on a previous thread about reading a history of World War 1 on the Western Front, that made the briefest mention of the ANZAC Corps, and none of Sir John Monash.
Reading John Terraine, “To Win A War – 1918, the Year of Victory” . Terraine gives full credit to the ANZAC, and Canadian Corps for their part, and makes the point that the Australian Corps, under Monash was about to preform some amazing prodigies.
“Monash was a type of man some British regular officers found hard to understand – as were his brave, skillful,insubordinate soldiers. He was a Jew, an engineer in civilian life, what some regulars had been inclined to dismiss rather sneeringly as a “Saturday afternoon soldier.- Haig and others who had played significant parts in creating the Territorial Army, and making it fit for war, knew the worth of such men. Monash was one who showed how well they had spent their Saturday afternoons – but, in his case much more time then that: he had studied the military profession in peacetime with a thoroughness few Regulars could match.” Page 85.
Good reading, check it out.
Had Monash been English its likely he’d been made a Lord.
Terraine’s The Smoke and the Fire is excellent reading.
Garn:
Every Real Estate Agent Ever: 2… | Garn.
Re any nuclear deal brokered by Russia with Iran:
What does Russia get out of it beyond non-proliferation? From Iran? US? Other ME states?
What does Iran get out of it beyond, say, reviving of JCPOA? From Russia? US? Etc.
What is Israel’s position going to be here? Etc.
Is it a trap for Iran? For Russia? what does Zarif’s resignation mean so far as any future deal is concerned?
What does it mean to be a penitent?
It means to be struck, suddenly, with the weight of your own sin.
To drop to your knees as the the strength is removed from your legs by divine judgement.
To understand, in full, your fallen state, as literally your bones strike the ground.
I pray to God Almighty that each and every one of you experience, as I have, the full force of penitence.
Today, in this hell we live in, the language of the penitent is no longer heard.
Beyond unfashionable, it is to most, incomprehensible.
It sounds extremely nasty, and equally nasty to wish it on anyone else.
Forget martial arts.
If you want self defence, learn to dance,
My greatest regret in life is that I incorporated into myself the maxim “tough guys don’t dance”.
Young people: learn to dance.
wise words
Dancng is being alive, moving, feeling, and soaring to a drumbeat or music. Dancing is bodily strength. You are never too old to dance.
You are sitting in your chair? Fine. Move your hips from side to side, then rotate your spine around them, lower your shoulders and drop your arms then raise them in soft slow movements extended out up level with your shoulders as your sway from side to side. Hum if you like, or imagine the sounds.
See? You’re dancing!!
Or run.
Jaw dropping
BIDEN PAID SAN ANTONIO NON PROFIT $250 MILLION PER YEAR TO OPERATE AN EMPTY BUILDING. DOJ IS NOW INVESTIGATING.
Money laundering.
Jaw dropping 2
No, the fact that he had been in Ukraine recruiting for them was reported at the time.
I’ve said it before. Attack Stevo ( Owner ) and Cash will snap. The PSI of his jaw is insane!
With that said, he’s so good with kids.
God, I love this dog.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Meet the Horses and Rangers in Oakridge Park (2 of 3)
It is 1994.
I have no money.
I think I’m in love with Downapha.
I go to to Bangkok to meet her.
I take over her cousin S.‘s bedroom.
The house is three stories over the family taxi rank.
On the landing outside S’s room, the family servant girl sleeps on the concrete landing, directly on the green, patterned concrete floor.
That first night, as the choice is between a horrendous roar from an ancient air conditioner, or a sweaty, clammy heat, and I switch between both options, later, choosing hot and quiet, I am soon visited by the demons. They are angular, crow like creatures, I know they are evil, and their significance will stay with me to this day: I know at some point I will meet them again, for sure on the day I die, I feel them waiting for me, still, every time I fall into sleep.
It is 1993. I am standing outside room 304 of the Science Education room of the University of Melbourne, waiting for a Physics lecture. My girlfriend is an incredibly cute girl, who I think is the one, forever and forever.
Suddenly, waiting at the door, I am struck by a revelation: I will have a daughter. I suddenly know who my daughter is, 19 years before she is born, the thought is intense, I remember it exactly to this day. But the cute girl from those university days will not be her mother.
It’s 2011. My daughter is on a screen, her form, inside her beautiful mother, bounces up and down, legs kicking, from sonic waves to computational signals, then pixels, to the TV monitor, bouncing up and down. Her face in profile. Her. I know her. I know exactly who this is. Six months before her birth.
She is the same girl who came to me outside room 304 of the Science Education building, 19 years ago.
This is now 32 years ago, and feelings and memories are just as immediate.
Arky old fruit, are you ok?
Will, I think he probably is ok, just having a bit of a memory explosion. He’s writing it out. Best thing to do with it. If it goes on too long, Arky, see a doc and get some stellazine (or modern equivalent).
My sister used to go off like this occasionally and that was what I did for her. It tended to be associated with her diabetes type 1.
She had reflective moments of dancing all the time, unable to stop, as the movements seemed to help. A super smart woman, she made a great success of her medical career, but sometimes had a few demons to conquer of the sort I never had.
I don’t mean to interfere or be obnoxioius, but if you’re dancing too much, Arky, and not in a class, it’s time to get back to politics, Zelensky is going to sign. .
I never dance at all.
One of my biggest, if not the biggest regret of my life.
I wish I had learnt while I still had the knees to do it.
About shadowy demons in foreign lands.
A beautiful family who had never met me before allowed me to stay in their home.
In those days I suffered from Epstein Barr, or glandular fever. So at the time I had a massive fever, and was in a strange land in a room like a furnace.
So the demons were a fevered dream.
But that feeling of those malevolent critters, imaginary as they were, has stayed with me throughout my life. They visit me still.
Just as the thought of this daughter who I had never met but knew almost all my life,
I don’t know what all this means, but I think it means that the millions of souls we send back to the realm of those creatures, imaginary or not, deserve to be seen in an ultrasound, to at least be given a chance of sparking a sign of recognition in the minds of their mothers.
I’m fine.
I was trying to be a bit literary.
But the point I was making was that the first time I saw my daughter in that ultrasound, the emotion was a massive one of recognition.
Indeed, I often flashback to that day outside lecture room 304, when out of nowhere I knew she was out there somewhere, even before I had met her mother, decades before she was born.
It’s an interesting memory, Arky, and thanks for sharing it.
The world is full of things unknown and the human mind is the most incredible thing in it.
That’s why I’m an agnostic.
ACC malfunction. I hope it clears up soon. Arky is a good man.
Do you know a blonde called Lucy?
I have known many blondes called Lucy.
Not always biblically.
I just watched the movie.
It takes a certain something to open yourself up to possible public ridicule, even from anonymous collections of pixels.
I don’t know what that something is, but it’s … something.
John H ,
Your link at 11am with Perun analysing the European defence capability to make up for the US withdrawal was very good.
It also raised the issue of what happens to the current Ukrainian armed forces post conflict.
As he states they (and the Russians) have the most current experience in large scale warfare plus Ukraine has a sizable experienced army positioned on Russia’s doorstep so it would be a great asset for Europe and the opposite for Russia.
Presumably for Putin , Ukrainian neutrality and disarmament becomes even more important in a settlement whereas the Europeans would like to preserve most of the capability of the Ukrainian armed forces and make sure they were not aligned with Russia.
Viktor Orban in his interview with Tucker Carlson seemed to allude to the issue.
You’d suspect most of that army just want to go back to their families and normal lives.
And some will want answers as to where their children are. This should be part of any deal made. I know this issue is fraught, and there is dissention as to whether children were ‘stolen’ or not, but it does seem that some indubitably were. A neutral committee of some sort, agreed to by both sides, should be set up to investigate and do justice and return children where it is necessary.
Best to stay clear of the entire place – hatred and fear runs through that region like a plague, infecting everyone who comes in contact with it.
It’s been like that for centuries even as the nations and political groupings evolved.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Ha! My working life in a nutshell.
Where’s kevni’s massive gut?
Not good enough, Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Brutal-as reality often is
Yes.
One for the lefty vegetarians .
Matt Margolis.
This one really lays into the luvvies’ hypocrisy.
Mark Steyn called it first!
https://www.steynonline.com/15081/give-war-a-chance
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
South Australia importing 50% of its electricity at 5am from Victoria (brown coal generated) but when you look at the AEMO site for the fuel mix used it boldly shows that its using 63% wind and 37% gas because it doesn’t count the imported fuel.
Telling the truth would so disrupt the narrative
Miss Information and Fraud.
Southerners might be in trouble if the interconnectors from Qld get blown down.
I would be lobbying for them not to be rebuilt by the way and exit the NEM. it would be a great move economically through ample supply and lower Qld power prices , although the government itself would lose the revenue
Ash Wednesday today – the beginning of Lent and fasting — I’ve been practising with intermittent fasting between meals
I sneak up on a fast with slowly widening snack gaps.
Pancake Day. Nice thin pancakes with sugar and lemon juice.
That was yesterday and I made a batch which we had after dinner. My granddaughter took the leftovers home.
Whoops. It was yesterday so I will do it today.
Bank On Johnny
Sid Vicious ere
Thanks for that Tinarella
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/04/zelensky-calls-oval-office-meeting-regrettable-says-he-is-ready-negotiate-thanks-trump/
Where does this leave Albo and his willingness to consider offering troops on the ground? Egg on face?
Whoops, live link.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/04/zelensky-calls-oval-office-meeting-regrettable-says-he-is-ready-negotiate-thanks-trump/
It’s often called premature ejaculation. Lol.
Giorgia Meloni was the only talking head who said Nah, not sending Italy’s young men to die for Zelensky.
He reacts to the moment without thinking of consequences.
This is not a good quality in a national leader – it generally leads to disasters.
Anal probably thinks he is adept at thinking on his feet because it’s rare that he suffers the consequences of his Premature Reaction.
We could spare a Mardi Gras Platoon equipped with Smart-Sequins (TM), but not much else.
Here’s a morning thought, you might dislike Putin, you might dislike Zelensky, you might think Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was wrong (it was but it was not without provocation) or you might be neutral, you might support Ukrainian independence and so on, but here’s a plain unfashionable truth, and that is that the real threat to Western Europe is NOT Vladimir Putin, it is NOT Russia, it’s……………
Islam and immigration
Western Europe is dying a slow and agonising death, culturally, socially, demographically, economically and perhaps the most importantly, religiously. Hear this, there is is no Europe without Christianity.
Until Western Europeans grasp this basic reality, the Ukrainian sideshow will continue unabated (which is what the elites want) and Islam and immigration will continue to grow unabated (which is also what the elites want).
Whilst I am no oracle nor am I a Nostradamus figure (whose father was Jewish by the way), I do like a prediction or two (always based on facts) and I predict civil war in the IK (Islamist Kingdom) within the next decade. I hope I will be wrong but the Rubicon has been crossed. Southport was a defining moment in UK history. I also predict Britain’s Jews will leave (the exodus is already happening).
Meanwhile I wake up to this news from The Oz…………
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reassured America he wants peace and supports a prisoner release as well as an immediate truce in the sky and sea, as he strives to “make things right” with Donald Trump after the suspension of US military aid to his nation.
In a statement posted to social media, Mr Zelensky said it was “regrettable” that last Friday’s meeting at the Oval Office with the US President and Vice President JD Vance “did not go the way it was supposed to be” after the talks descended into public acrimony.
Mr Zelensky also made clear that he was thankful for US support over the last three years of bloody fighting in Eastern Europe, signalling his willingness to sign a key deal with Washington granting America access to Ukraine’s vast mineral wealth at “any time and in any convenient format.”
Memo to Vlod, saying ‘Regrettable‘ is a good start but you owe both President Trump and VP Vance an apology for your disgraceful, petulant and very adolescent behaviour on Friday. I recall when I was a teenager and being abusive, petulant and rude to my mother. Mum was never one to say ‘just wait till your father gets home‘, rather she’d get out one of her thick French wooden spoons and I’d then be dealt a harsh dose of corporal reality for my rudeness, petulance and adolescent arrogance. Trump’s suspension of US military aid to Ukraine was a harsh and necessary wooden spoon inflicted on a petulant, angry adolescent Zelensky.
Ya don’t turn the other cheek, good old fashioned discipline works.
Closer to home, a Chinese naval ship is circling this country. Read this word……’Chinese‘, it isn’t a Russian naval ship. Please tell me, just who is the enemy here?
The biggest threat to Europe is its governments.
The Euro-Peons are engaged in the state wide avoidance cope.
Unwilling to grasp the nettle of mass migration they find a ‘bigger” issue to focus on to avoid making any decisions at all.
If it wasnt the Ukie war it would be some other confected crisis they could blame for taking all their mighty, mighty mindpower to “solve”.
Its rank cowardice.
Good observation Mole
Well said Cassie, including your mother’s method of dealing with an obnoxious teenager!
I doubt Trump will be calling Albo until he knows which dumbf##k he will be dealing with after the elections. Im keen to hear his address to congress today, should be around 1pm our time. ( think that will rocketship US markets)
Lot of noise regarding tariffs but trade is what makes a country prosper (which i think Trump is trying to encourage other countries to do) and unfortunately we dont really have any being tied to a stone age culture and moronic politicians who want to argue yesterdays news and with no base load cheap power we are not in the same league to compete competitively.
Modern economists are tied to gaia economics and the left so they dont full understand tariffs. We just have resources but thats not enuff, Ive not included our reserve of barisstas as I believe they are kept ” in case of emergency break glass” we havent got there quite yet.
We don’t have enough troops to defend Australia and he wants to do this…
PM open to deploying peacekeeping troops to Ukraine (Sky News, 5 Mar)
Well Labor has had a long history of being completely off the planet in fantasyland whence it comes to Defence, so I suppose it makes sense that they still are.
Focus on China Albo or else China will ‘fook us’ real good and proper.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is open to Australia sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in a bid to enforce a ceasefire.
Given the combat power of the 2 opposing forces, they might, at best, ‘monitor’ any ceasefire, they wont be doing any enforcing.
Albo couldn’t even send a ship, only photocopiers, to help out with the houthis when the yanks asked.
now we are supposed to be able to send troops. And by the time they get there it will be winter.
Australia – Their proposed law would require American platforms to globally remove content deemed “misleading or deceptive” by Australian regulators.
USA Congressman Jim Jordan is looking at countries curtailing freedom of speech.
Julie Inman Grant that power hungry, dangerous regulator here, needs to be given the White House Zelensky treatment . Are you listening Peter Dutton?
Turn the screws on Albo a lot more please.
5D chess news.
EU caves in to Trump with new £663bn plan to boost defence spending (4 Mar)
Trump since his first term has been trying without success to get Europe to pay for their own defence, and stop leeching off the US. Now suddenly with one dust up in the Oval Office they are running around like headless chickens. It’s fun to watch.
They also know that this time they can’t just expect to wait out Trump and then everything will be back to status quo ante. Their other bête noir JD Vance is waiting in the wings with even ruder policies.
The USA pays 16% of NATO’s costs. I would think a lot of American taxpayers would ask why.
… ReArm Europe strategy.
You know, if you take away the second ‘r’ from ReArm, you get …
Trump Zelensky Parody
Hee hee hee. That is quite a giggle. Hairy did tell me about this, said it was rather NSW (not suitable for women) but very funny and to look out for it. He’s off getting the windscreen replaced on the Sporty Beamer after something fell on it when I was driving on Saturday. Perhaps I should be doing that, I offer, but he just gives me that look.
More 5D chess…
BlackRock Buying Panama Canal Ports for $22.8 Billion (4 Mar)
So after Panama was sprung giving effective control of the canal to China, and Trump threatened to send in the troops, now the Chinese have sold out to Blackrock. Funny how Trump’s “wild rants” and “erratic behaviour” keep on coming up, well, trumps.
Blackrock acquired a Global Infrastructure Partners, a PE firm, last year. GIP was/is a part owner of the Port of Melbourne.
Panamanians are going to be very sorry they pulled that stupid stunt of selling the canals to China. Canal operating staff are the highest paid workers* in Panama but I’m sure Blackrock will scale that down to be in line with other workers of the same skill sets.
*I learned that on a tour during a cruise through the Canal.
Trump and Vance are both well-versed in the structures and ownership of major capital investments world-wide. They know about putting together deals and using leverage. Two like this in the White House is such a bonus.
No much escapes their view.
Good to have Alex back again, Johnny Rotten, thank you.
Predictably (the Hun)”
Aha. Haaahahahaa.
Superb work from Orange Hitler.
Seems Zelensky has realised that American civilians on the ground may provide better security against Russian aggression than British troops (no disrespect to those troops intended on my part).
European troops in Ukraine are a potential threat to Russia, although not much of one. American civilians are not, but a formidable deterrent to Russian aggression
Own goals news.
Tesla Charging Stations Torched in Boston Area (4 Mar)
During the previous administration the car companies agreed to standardize on the Tesla fast charger for their EVs as well as Tesla’s ones. By burning Tesla chargers therefore they have reduced charger availability for all EVs, not just Teslas. Which seems somewhat counterproductive when Greens want to save the planet by getting everyone to drive the wretched things.
Greens are no longer tree hugging gullibles. They are part of the left attack on civilisation.
Greens don’t read the small print .. LOL!
“Biggest cyclone since …” er, well before climate change became an effective means of disassembling/castrating western nations.
Zactly. In 39 years apparently. I was a young boy in Brisbane when one passed in the 1970’s. We were in an old fibro married quarter on Wardell st Enoggera. They happen from time to time.
Very much a hybrid storm this morning, convection is building on the southern quadrants. Unfortunately a lack of reefs off Brisbane with weather stations means I can’t gauge how nasty it is. Looking very much Brisbane and some of the Gold Coast will be protected by the Islands, the exposed southern GC or Sunny Coast are going to need a paint, replenishing of beach sand and massive tree clearing clean up Friday.
We had four in the early 1970s – Feb ’71, Feb ’72 & two in ’74: Jan and March.
I think those discussions are about ones making landfall from the sea.
otherwise recent examples would be Ostwald (Cat 1) which cruised down the coast and foamed all the way to the canals on the Gold Coast, and Debbie coming from inland passing over Brisbane in 2017.
No, he’s not.
I’ve only heard Peter Dutton say good things about her.
And last year he supported giving her more powers through Albanese’s misinformation act.
I don’t mind him not saying much at the moment, no need to scare the voters in teal electorates. After the election he can go nuclear on all the leftie crap.
Prepare to be disappointed, Crossie.
Just not being Malcolm Fraser 2.0 would be a start. Set a low bar.
Well, have my doubts. Of course, Trumpity Trump might go nuclear on him unless he does.
I agree, Crossie, trouble is in some cases he is saying things he doesn’t have to and which will probably not gain the Libs a single vote.
Like supporting the Paris Accord right after Trump said America was pulling out.
Be prepared to be massively disappointed in Dutton, apart from his support for Israel.
My question at the IPA when he released his nuclear plans took the opportunity to tackle him on free speech curtailment.
He went to water on it. Weak as the proverbial.
I think that after Vance’s speech to Europe Dutton might consider changing his mind. If he wins and he doesn’t, then the US won’t be pleased.
If Albo wins, the US might consider throwing us to the Chinese. Or at least scaring us by making it look that way. A Zelensky moment coming up?
They might consider it but regional strategic priorities would save us.
For now, anyway.
Under a President Vance it might be different.
Book launch in Sydney next week:
Book Launch: The Secret Submarine – Dr Tom Lewis Tickets, Thu 13/03/2025 at 2:00 pm | Eventbrite
I saw one mistake in the description in the link. “Tom Lewis, one of Australia’s leading military historians”. That should read, ” Tom Lewis, the World’s leading military historian”.
Ok, Ok, the carton is on the way!
Not 4X thankyou.
All the best Top Ender,.
I wish I could be there.
Now there’s a likely looking lad. Frocked up in his tie an’ all!
Love to be there, TE. Sounds fascinating. At work, unfortunately. Would love to get a book.
@DC_Draino
CitiBank has a lot of explaining to do
They’re caught up in a huge money laundering scam where they hold $20 Billion in taxpayer dollars to be sent to woke friends of the Biden regime
Stacey Abrams works with a “non-profit” that’s slated to receive ~$2 billion even though they previously only had a few hundred dollars in their accounts before
All part of the Green New Scam
The worst part? Biden folks hid this money at Citibank before they left in January
CitiBank is in deep trouble here, especially if they had prior knowledge of this scheme
@Rightanglenews
It is now up to 23 senators!
Musk is offering a Cybertruck to the first person who can identify the source.
Noice.
It wasn’t hidenbiden or drunkameltoe.
I’d be tempted to out myself if I was the perp. Terrible car from many perspectives according to Tim May, who none the less was strangely attracted to it.
James May
As Rog as noted, he isn’t listening (being tone deaf and tin eared), he’s too busy shooting his mouth off about the wondrous work of the stupid yank karen slag.
She should be summarily jobsacked, the e-karen kommissariat shut down and the imbeciles “employed” there unceremoniously turfed out into the street.
But that would require a leader with a spine and there aren’t any in the z-grade goat rodeo that passes for political life in this country.
Next subject – that fat sack of excrement cloive and his ridiculous political play in the upcoming feral erection.
The Fat Bastard has invented a new political party to split the conservative vote even more than it is already. For the Fat Bastard, his revenge against the Stupid Frigging Liberal Party isn’t just a dish best served cold, it’s been a hot mess in the political bain marie for the past decade.
Well and pungently said!
“Splitting the vote” implies votes will be wasted by not backing a major party.
But in optional preferential voting if the first minor conservative party you vote for doesn’t get in, no vote is wasted, it just gets transferred to your 2nd choice conservative party.
So there’s no such thing as “splitting the conservative vote”.
That’s why its better than First Past The Post voting where splitting the vote of a faction is a real problem.
Ash Wednesday – 1983 After a long dry spell the north winds hit. They were hot and dry and full of Mallee dust. Temperatures exceeded 40C degrees. Fires broke out on many fronts in SA and Vic. The fires burnt so hot and fast that there was little that could be done. In Upper Beaconsfield and Cockatoo it turned into a firestorm that was so intense that firefighters were melted in their trucks. The ground was still boiling 5 days later. I was there coordinating the response and recovery in conjunction with local councils and voluntary groups. There was no coordinated DISPLAN at that time and we documented what had happened and recommendations for the future which fed into the development of DISPLAN. https://www.ffm.vic.gov.au/history-and-incidents/ash-wednesday-1983
An uncle was a firie at Cockatoo at the time; I’m unsure if CFA or Metro (whatever it was called back then). I’m not sure if he lost his house.
An excellent way for the pigs (and minnimax’s goat rodeo) to display their incredibly dangerous staggering stupidity, hypocrisy and incompetence to the public (again).
I love the way Islamophobe is thrown around as much as OPM. Its not an irrational fear to frightened of headloppers, people that go splodeybits, post boxes that make up stories of headgear being pulled, imams that preach death and destruction, not just to Jews for being Jews and anyone else that doesn’t see it their way. The time has past for them to pack thier favourite goat and eff off.
Yup arrested within hours & in custody:
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/distressing-major-police-investigation-underway-after-western-sydney-mosque-threatened/news-story/f9c989ded09db8a669493b5433ff1e2d
Maybe they don’t have name sounding like Abu Lebdeh or Nadir and kid he may have got the kiddy glove treatment.*
*I an not condoning the threat but enough is enough on the two tiered nature of enforcement that is glaringly obvious. So how many perps been arrested for actually burning down the Ripponlea Synagogue in Melbourne hey Fed keystone cops?
That Was Quick: Polish PM Confirms US Military Aid to Ukraine Has Been Suspended – Including Supplies Already En Route
@AdrianneCurry
Russia was completely unprovoked. NO ONE could have seen this coming! Totally out of nowhere.
Hey pantihose have you seen this video?
@WarlordDilley
Now is the time to rally around President Trump and his entire administration. It doesn’t mean you have to agree with every single thing they do or how they do it, or when they do it…
But if you can’t see that the Democrats tried to bankrupt America on their way out and that globalists are pushing for World War 3 to stop Trump, you’re blind.
They divide you by attempting to make you all single issue voters. Presenting binary hills to die on and turn on one another. The intelligence community knows what they’re doing and have deployed all assets to slow Trump and Elon down.
The electorate must show a unified front and zero light between us. The trade war has begun, and President Trump is attempting to prevent all out war, using economic leverage to break his enemies, both foreign and domestic.
“Black pilling” is step one to downloading the woke mind virus inadvertently. Don’t believe me? Look at the replies to anyone attempting to bring levity or common sense to the discourse. Unhinged, hyper emotional/irrational hate to people they once supported.
MAGA must be smarter and more discerning to win this fight. Unity around shared values and respect around opposing opinions prevents the woke mind virus and gas lighting from infecting our movement.
Pay attention to anyone attempting to counter message the president during these times… they’re not your friend.
Prominent social justice campaigner Megan Krakouer join’s WA Senator Fatima Payman’s Australia’s Voice partyCaitlyn RintoulThe West Australian
Tue, 4 March 2025 9:01PM
WA Senator Fatima Payman has recruited prominent social justice campaigner Megan Krakouer as a candidate for her break-away political party Australia’s Voice.
As one of WA’s most prominent Aboriginal activists, Ms Krakouer called for inquiry into missing aboriginal men and was a chief organiser of the class action against the scandal-plagued Banksia Hill Detention Centre and Unit 18.
Ahead of the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum, the Noongar woman had initially opposed it but later switched her position and endorsed the ‘Yes’ campaign.
Ms Krakouer said she the platform would allow her to continue her mission to give a voice to the voiceless and stand up for First Nations people and marginalised communities.
“WA is my home. I know its struggles, I know its strengths, and I know its people deserve better. I am ready to take this fight to Canberra and ensure that our voices heard,” she said.
“Whether it’s families grieving the loss of loved ones to suicide, children lost in an out-of-home care system that fails them, or the deep scars of systemic racism, I have seen firsthand the devastation caused by injustice.
“Australia’s Voice is a party about action, not empty promises. We are here to hold governments accountable and fight for real justice.”
It’s understood Ms Krakouer had initially been among a string of names who have nominated for Greens preselection for the WA upper house for the upcoming WA election before plans were discussed for her candidacy for the federal seat of Fremantle.
However, in late January Ms Krakouer announced in a fiery social media post she had formally ended her membership with the Greens and accused them of racism.
“At the appropriate time, I plan to reveal my experiences of racism, bias, power plays, no procedural fairness, discrimination, and unfair practices in The Greens that I endured at the hands of individuals who claim to be advocates for inclusivity,” she wrote.
Ms Payman described Ms Krakouer as “a fighter” who had spent her life advocating for people “the system has left behind”.
“Megan Krakouer is a fighter. I have no doubt she will bring that same relentless passion to the Senate,” she said.
“The major parties have failed Western Australians for too long. They take this state for granted, treating it as nothing more than an economic workhorse while ignoring the deep inequalities our communities face.
“Australia’s Voice is here to change that, and with Megan leading our Senate ticket, WA has a champion who will never back down.”
The Labor-turned-Independent had launched a new political party in October last year, promising to offer “something different” to voters who felt “left behind” by the major parties.
She announced her first candidate, Victorian Muslim community worker Mohamed El Masri, on Saturday who had also been a Greens candidate but spectacularly quit to be the lead on the Australia’s Voice party’s Victorian Senate ticket.
Professional victims….
The electorate is becoming very pissed off with the Aboriginal Industry and its perpetual victimhood and whining about the minor injustices of the past that were rarely – if ever – experienced by the current shit stirrers.
@americasgreat
BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy, Mike Pompeo, Trey Gowdy are all part of Oberheiden, defense contractor consultants. Might explain why Kevin is a Ukraine supporter since he is paid to be a defense contractor promoter. Oh, and there are quite a few former US attorneys in the firm. Where deep state goes to grift.
Gowdy has always been a RINO.
@RetroCoast
Breaking: When a Federal Judge blocked Trump’s attempt to terminate government credit cards, @DOGE set a spending limit of ONE DOLLAR on the cards
🙂
So bloody brilliant!
Absolutely fantastic.
Dopey activist judge walked straight into that one. Rat goes for cheese…slammo!
@ChrisMartzWX
Hey @BillNye.
On CNN this morning, you claimed that hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
So, I accessed the data, put it into an Excel workbook and plotted it with Python.
Can you show me the increase on this graph?
Musk flushed the turd.
@zerohedge
Cory Booker Admits To Orchestrating Dem Propaganda After Musk Floats Free Cybertruck
His real name is Corey Bukkake.
He likes playing Bukkaaarke!
Now now.
Honestly, Washington was nothing but one giant money laundering scheme!
@bariweiss
The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in the spring of 2023, and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund was supposed to be a “first-of-its-kind” program to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered “historically left behind.”
But it appears little of the $27 billion revitalized anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
“The Biden administration used so-called ‘climate equity’ to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their far-left friends,” @leezeldin, the Trump administration’s new EPA administrator, told @TheFP. “It is my utmost priority to get a handle on every dollar that went out the door in this scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds. This rush job operation is riddled with conflicts of interest and corruption.”
A Free Press investigation reveals that of the $27 billion, $20 billion was rushed out the door to eight nonprofit groups after Biden lost the election—but before President Donald Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it on a secretly recorded video, it was akin to “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.”
The eight groups were allocated sums ranging from $400 million to $6.9 billion. Several of them were formed in August of 2023, just one month after the grant applications went live in July of 2023, when it became clear that large nine- and 10-figure grants would be up for grabs. The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors, people with connections to the Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent Democrats like Stacey Abrams.
“These are some of the biggest grants to individual organizations in American history.”
The process is the punishment.
Climate scientist Michael Mann’s $1M defamation judgment over ‘molested data’ slashed to $5,000
Thirteen years.Mann has his costs paid by a benevolent billionaire and Steyn is down millions and had his health ruined.Justice in action.
$5K is still too much
Sheesh the ABC are bigly cheering on Cyclone Alfred.
Can’t work out if it’s because a big one means Climate Change, or AnAl Goes SESing.
I think it’s because they get to play dress-ups in their new rain jackets.
What vulture doesn’t like a corpse of its own, without having to expend any energy to make the kill?
If Freeland gets in (I believe we should know in the next couple of days) then Canada might as well close up shop. It’s done.
Canada Eyeing NATO Ally’s Nukes To Deter Trump ‘Threat’: Candidate
Art of Deception: The Soros Empire Gaslights on Connection to USAID Funding
BREAKING: New Attempt by FBI to Hide Everything Related to Seth Rich Records—March 10 Release Denied
Ace Of Spades has an excellent piece in which he posted thusly:
Ace was talking about the Democrats and their coordination in disrupting President Trump’s address to Congress. But this describes it to a tee. Quasi religious beliefs like Gaia and the environment.
Don’t create, just destroy, like the George Floyd bullshit.
It describes our fat khunt here, especially the bolded part.
This is who you are monty. An evil dickhead who would love nothing more than to kill his political opponents in concert with like minded Brunswick morons, except they can’t do that themselves.
I think that’s what has got the Left panicking like they have been. Trump has managed to build a mass movement through incessant campaign rallies. So he’s been stealing the Left’s lunch.
He had to work so hard to do it because righties are a herd of cats, but he has turned out to be a very efficient cat-wrangler.
I don’t want to kill you, BB. Laugh at you, yes.
Phuck orf.
It’s what you and your lot want.
Indeed it is: the threshold test applies: if you are prominent and influential enough to thwart the leftoid agenda they want you dead; ie Trump. Anonymous commentators spreading truth on blogs they’ll patronisingly tolerate you. Dickless wants Trump dead but will patronise you.
Reminds me of the travesty of “nudge economics”.
Exclusive — Zeldin: EPA Working with DOJ, FBI on NGO Corruption After Eight Groups Tied to ‘Gold Bars’ Scheme
Oh, hmm.
It’s that bad huh? Well I’m not surprised.
I don’t trust Bondi at all & I have doubts about Patel too.
I wish someone would clarify the position with the supposed UK agreement signed before Trump’s inauguration.
So, That’s Why Zelensky Thought He Could Act Like a Spoiled Brat in Front of Trump
Zelenskyyy got suckered into trying to publicly embarrass Trump by people (Two-tier Kier and US Dimocrats) who thought no-one – not even Orange Hitler – could afford to say no to Chicken Kyyiv the war hero.
People who haven’t done their Orange Hitler homework.
Even after the White House shitshow, two-tier thought that Trump would just have to give in. That’s why he made that bizarre announcement over the weekend that the “UK stands four-square behind Chicken Kyyiv … but we can’t do it without Orange Hitler”.
He still believed they could yank Donald’s chain.
At which point Orange Hitler announced that US aid stops … right now!
And … just like that … Chicken Kyyiv managed to find his Biro and is ready to sign on the dotted line
Hey, how about the UN headquarters in New York?
WINNING! Trump Administration Proposes Selling 443 Federal Properties Across 47 States, D.C., and Puerto Rico, Including DOJ and FBI Headquarters, Nancy Pelosi, and Dick Cheney Buildings
All over the shop.
WA election 2025: Tony Burke’s thousands of new WA citizens eligible to vote in State ElectionDylan CapornThe West Australian
Wed, 5 March 2025 2:00AM
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Dylan Caporn
Thousands of new West Australians sworn in as part of Tony Burke’s national pre-election citizenship drive will be eligible to vote in Saturday’s State election, despite not being citizens when the roll closed last month.
Under reforms passed by State Labor in 2023, voters are now able to enrol at the polling place, and cast a provisional ballot in the election, which will be counted once their enrolment has been processed.
While the electoral roll was closed to new voters on February 13 — a standard procedure during elections — the reforms offer a ballot to those who were not able to organise their enrolment, or were not citizens at the time.
A Home Affairs spokesperson said in the past two weeks, since the roll was closed, 3586 people were conferred with Australian citizenship in WA.
It comes after Mr Burke, the Federal Immigration Minister, faced criticism for swearing in thousands of new Australians on the cusp of a Federal poll, due before May 17.
Also allowed to vote will be those young voters who have turned 18 since February.
Electoral Commissioner Robert Kennedy said people looking to enroll on election day needed to bring a form ID to ensure they could vote.
Well, well, well. Who’d a thought it…
That’s going to hurt US farmers.
The soy beans will go on the world market, the chinee will pay over the odds just like for us and iron ore.
China does this from time to time, I can recall them doing the same thing in 2018. The thing was that the soybeans were mostly going into Chinese piggeries.
Vance with the diplomacy.
Haha.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1897002913278648397?t=jjBGl8F8IhKrbXlMxgnD0g&s=19
Allegra Da Big Spenda gets a gig on Daytime sky most days, as does Airhead Steggall.
Why? They are not leaders of a party, they are (hopefully) soon to be replaced “independants”.
Alas both will be re-elected.
Hope not in Wentworth, Cassie. I known the boundaries have changed but surely people can see a fake independent now in Spender.
Don’t forget that the Teals have ‘good heads for television’ and producers always prefer to put a pretty face on instead of solid policies spruiked by a middle aged man complete with gut and jowls.
I don’t think that the audience is sufficient to make any difference, but it is annoying.
Daytime TV was better when they had a test pattern and music
And a bear wearing nothing but a straw boater and a short waist-coat.
There’s always repeats of Diagnosis Murder.
Also night time TV.
There’s a reason why I don’t have a television any more.
Just watching Allegra “Hey Big” Spender on Sky ranting about income tax and talking bullshit
Made the broad statement suggesting that if inflation went up by 2.5% and wages went up by 2.5% you wouldn’t be holding your own but would be worse off because of bracket creep – by $675.
You dissembling, lying, skanky minge. There’s a fair range of rates before you jump to the next bracket.
Of course, Laura Jayes didn’t call her out on it. A soft interview where you could almost see them touching one another in delight.
.Here are the tax brackets for the 2024-2025 financial year in Australia:
Nobody should be paying more than 19%.
Technically there a ton of instances where she is right.
If you are close to a threshold ie 44900 and get a 2.5% increase that will push you over, and you will 11.5c in the $ more above that 45k.
Then there are HECS thresholds – these jump in .5% increments on your whole income
At 100k(single) there is either compulsory health insurance or 2% extra Medicare levy.
At 180k(couple) as above, plus you loose any childcare benefit.
FMD. Herald Sun with a most depressing article:
Coupled with the Victorian Government’s refusal to open new gas, we are standing in a rather deep pile of horseshit.
So the answer according to Infrastructure Victoria is moar renewables moar quickly!
If only Brad Battin read the room across the Pacific…
A wholesale price of 11c per kwh ( in todays dollars ) would see the end of all manufacturing in Viktoristan.
And no gas too.
It’s hilarious that they still pretend that Infrastructure Victoria is independent of this Government, rather than just being it’s highly paid shills laying astroturf as far as the eye can see.
Utopia as an instruction manual.
So if brown coal is replaced by the cheapest form of electricity (as assured to me by Chris Bowen) then electricity prices will double? Oh.
What bullshit!
How could the war in Ukraine possibly have anything but the tiniest effect on our closed electricity generation system?
dark clouds on the horizon affected the solar?
I’ll pay that.
Victoria is screwed, given the suffering all Victorians are enduring I intend to become a bhuddist so that my next life will be sweetness and light
So this morning at 5am 70% of Victoria’s energy was coming from coal allowing Victoria sufficient excess to export to South Australia which imported 50% of its energy from Vic. And additional windfarms would have been sitting idle like the others because very little wind.
Thanks mem – your updates are appreciated.
It’s not a transition – it’s a decline.
Before I away, in Dragging The Chain news, Daily Telegraph:
About phucking time Gin Webb.
Interesting that the female nurse who said she would kill Israeli patients was also charged with Threatening/Advocating Violence against Groups but the male nurse was not – he merely said he had already killed Israeli patients, not that he would kill them. Okay then.
(That really seems like threatening/advocating violence to me, but what would I know.)
Had Monash been English its likely he’d been made a Lord.
Comment up thread.
Wasn’t Monash knighted in the field by the King? Wouldn’t that have made him a Lord? Inquiring minds.
Being knighted does not make you a lord. The term is used to describe those people who have been admitted into the British peerage, which is an ancient part of the government.
The peerage is made up of the ranks of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron – highest to lowest.
From memory once the title is conferred it is hereditary.
Also from memory being knighted gave you nothing but the title of Sir. If you were lucky the monarch tossed you some property to go along with it. This usually came with obligations, such as defending it, and providing a Trained Band when called upon
So if you got a slightly wrecked castle you had to restore it, garrison it, and hold Sunday bowman practise at the butts. As well as acting in a manner and with the accoutrements of being Sir Jasper (and Lady Rachel) and so on.
Made General I believe, Knights are not Lords.
The commentator Eugypius always makes sense to me :
In which the United States suspends military aid to Ukraine and impotent childish Eurotards lose their minds and say a lot of foolish thingsEUGYPPIUS
MAR 4
Last Friday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met for held the most amazing press conference of all time. For 30 minutes, Trump insisted on the importance of a peace deal in Ukraine and Zelensky refused to concede any concrete points that would make a peace deal possible. Tempers flared, and Trump ended the meeting by telling Zelensky that “the problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy,” and that “I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States.” He told Zelensky that “You don’t have the cards” and that “you’re either going to make a deal or we’re out,” in which case the Ukrainians would have to “fight it out” without U.S. support, which “I don’t think is going to be pretty.” Thereafter administration officials sent the Ukrainian delegation packing, their minerals deal unsigned, their lunch uneaten.
The exchange cast the entire European establishment into a psychiatric crisis. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the exchange “took my breath away.” He said, absurdly, that he “would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, meanwhile, deplored this “new era of lawlessness,” emphasising that “For us, it is clear that we stand firmly by the side of sovereign and free Ukraine.” The “enemy,” she said, “sits alone in the Kremlin, not in Kyiv or Brussels. We can never accept a reversal of the roles of perpetrator and victim.” You will note that German political leaders have ceased regarding the United States – the foremost guarantor of their security – as their most central ally. Their primary loyalties have shifted to the Ukraine. More on that below.
On Sunday, Germany’s most tiresome state media talkshow host, Caren Miosga, convened an emergency meeting of very stupid people to have a sad about the breakdown in Ukraine-U.S. relations.
Our Mickey Mouse Club foreign minister Baerbock was there, and she spoke in grave tones about the immorality of it all, insisting that “we Europeans” must show “resolve” in this dark time. Claudia Major, a lunatic political scientist suffering from a surfeit of estrogen and a deficit of neural matter, deplored Trump’s “preference for Russia” and his “preference for autocracy.” She said it was outrageous great powers like the United States and Russia could just sit at a table and “clarify the important questions” while everybody else has no role to play at all and are reduced to the status of mere “bargaining chips.” Perhaps if Germany had more than 150 operational main battle tanks and munitions stores to last us beyond a few days of fighting, we would not be mere bargaining chips. Instead, we have one of the world’s most expensive social welfare systems and a tumorous bureaucracy the likes of which human civilisation has never seen before. Priorities!
Major also said many other crazy things. For example, she said we have to be very clear on the importance of fighting for the Ukraine and against Russia. That means, I guess, that we will fight Russia all by ourselves if we have to. Then a vacant Baerbock said we need to find partners across the world, including in the Golf states, to ensure that Russia, China and the United States don’t just divide up the world among themselves. Apparently Baerbock has no idea that these nations, being great powers, have long since done precisely that. She furthermore explained that the United States aren’t our partners anymore, and then she also said that we have to do everything to ensure the United States continues to be our partner, among other things by explaining to the Americans that there will be “consequences” if they cease being our partners.
Such is the state of political discourse in the insane asylum known as the Federal Republic of Germany, in case you were wondering.
Also on Sunday, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened his farcical Ukraine Summit in London. The event had been scheduled well before Zelensky’s Oval Office beatdown, but it was an opportunity to stand strong with the black jumper man, who was apparently so traumatised by his international humiliation on Friday that he had yet to change his clothes.
At the end of it all the Eurotards and Zelensky, together with a politically disgraced Justin Trudeau and the Turkish Foreign Minister, stood impotently on a staircase for a group photo, flanked by profoundly lame “SECURING OUR FUTURE” signs. It is all about making a statement, saying the right words, and sending the right media message, here in newly independent Europe.
The sharp-eyed among you will notice German Chancellor Olaf Scholz posing in the third row – yet another clue that we have before us a profoundly irrelevant moment. These people are not going to secure anybody’s future. They are just going to light a bunch of money on fire. At a press conference afterwards, they announced their profound achievements, which came primarily in the form of commitments. The Summit attendees are committed to military aid for Ukraine, they are committed to Ukrainian sovereignty, they are committed to Ukraine’s defence and they are committed to developing a cringe “coalition of the willing” to enforce any future peace agreement that Trump might hammer out without consulting them or giving the slightest shit what they think about it.
?
Alas, the degrees of commitment vary drastically among the parties involved. The UK and France are ready to send their soldiers to the contact line next week. Germany and Italy, not so much. The Americans were accordingly unimpressed, if slightly bemused. Afterwards, J.D. Vance gave this statement in an interview with Sean Hannity:
After the London Summit, Zelensky said he believed the United States would continue supplying military aid to his country, because the two countries have a “strong enough partnership.” He also said that any peace deal “is still very, very far away.” The man must have absorbed from the Eurotards in London the uncertain hope that Trump represents a passing anomaly rather than a permanent political shift, and that if we can all just hang on until 2029 a new Bidenesqsue president will take the reins and we can get back to our costly games of brinksmanship on the Eastern Front.
The problem with this thesis is that nobody is remotely sure it is true and also that 2029 is a long way off. Trump responded by saying that “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy,” and then he suspended all military aid to Ukraine. I guess the Ukraine and the United States do not have a “strong enough partnership” after all. The suspension will take some months to affect Ukraine’s prospects on the battlefield, but its consequences for Zelensky’s attitude have been quite immediate. The man has now decidedthat he is ready “to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible” and that he is also ready to “work fast to end the war” and that he is furthermore ready “to move very fast through all the next stages and to work with the US to agree on a strong final deal.” Zelensky is all about fastness now.
Eurotard-in-Chief Ursula von der Leyen responded to the American aid suspension by unveiling a five-point plan to “rearm Europe.” In the CDU they just love five-point plans. The Eurotards want to relax debt rules and incentivise member states to spend more on defence and they’re even going to set up a 150 billion-Euro fund for this purpose. Because it is the EU we are talking about, all of this is going to be extremely cumbersome, stupid, wasteful and the direct archetypal opposite of fast.
Also it turns out that a great many member states don’t want Brussels to be doing this at all:
The EU is an economic union, not a mutual defence league, and it exists in its current form only because the United States has pacified Europe. Should this pacifying force disappear, the Brussels pencil-pushers will not be able to replace it with all the billion-Euro funds in the world, because as European countries rearm and see to their own defence, they will discover that they have divergent interests. They will lose enthusiasm for paying bureaucrats in Belgium to fund the rearmament of rivals and Europe will return to the way it always was before the Americans arrived – a Continent of rivalries and shifting alliances, a Continent of nations rather than currency zones and customs spheres, but perhaps also a Continent that prefers once again to be ruled by adults rather than by the neotenous, moralising hall monitors who presently imagine themselves to be in charge.
I’ve written roughly of Vladimir Zelensky and expressed pessimism about Ukraine’s prospects. Some valued readers disagree, and that’s fine. Geopolitical conflicts represent a clash of interests and we do not all live in the same country. Not all of us have the same interests, and we do not all perceive our interests in the same way; there is no objectively correct view of how things ought to be when it comes to world affairs. Here, however, I want to conclude with four points that I think are pretty nearly inarguable, however much the mendacious mandarins of our media prefer to deny or obfuscate them.
1) The United States are still in Europe and still in NATO. Sixty-five thousand active-duty American soldiers are presently stationed across the Continent, and Europeans still enjoy the defensive umbrella of our American allies. The European media like to pretend that Trump’s suspension of aid to Ukraine is tantamount to America leaving Europe, they like to pretend that the Americans are not our allies anymore, but this is not true. Because the Americans are still in Europe, they enjoy massive leverage over European politics. Suspending aid to the Ukraine is merely the first step of escalation available to Trump. He can force European politicians to accept whatever peace deal he happens to conclude by the mere threat of withdrawing the American security umbrella. The Europeans are having a temper tantrum, but in the end they will go along with Trump’s programme if Trump really wants them to.
2) It would be better for everybody, in the longer term, were the Americans to leave Europe. Among other things, their presence here has kicked of a monstrous inflationary ideological spiral. We Europeans don’t have to worry about our own security, so we are free to spend our money on insane things like the energy transition and lavish social entitlement programmes. We get to imagine that we are part of some post-national global order. The resulting deranged ideological refuse then gets played back on to the United States, where our lingering cultural prestige is used to argue that the centre of empire, too, should engage in all manner of political and social folly. In an ideal world, the Americans would gradually draw down their presence on the Continent, allowing European nations like Germany a period of political and cultural realignment. Our entire political class will need some time to grow up. Whether that is in American interests is a totally different question, and still worse, our idiot rulers demonstrate very little awareness of their position in the world. If they cannot contain their outraged moral arrogance and their Amerophobia, they will only undermine the one international relationship that makes their existence possible.
3) Ukraine is presently losing a war of attrition to a stronger adversary. Until now they have been losing this war with European and American support, and they will begin to lose it even faster when the Ukrainians have nothing but Keir Starmer’s “coalition of the willing” and his embarrassing purple “SECURING OUR FUTURE” signs at their backs. The more territory Ukraine loses and the more their army is destroyed, the less incentive the Russians will feel to conclude any kind of peace and the worse the terms of that peace will be when it does come. The Eurotards are presently advocating a course of action that will yield a worse result for the Ukraine, in the name of defending Ukraine.
4) Western support for Ukraine and the campaign to expand NATO that preceded it both proceed from the bureaucratic, media and political juggernaut that Ben Rhodes called the American foreign policy “Blob.” Since the Iraq war, the Blob has become highly interventionist and it has commanded deep support across the American political establishment, directing affairs under both Democratic and Republic presidents. Trump’s second presidency has decapitated the Blob and deprived it of all power, but European politicians remain fierce Blob loyalists nonetheless. This has given rise to a very bizarre situation in Europe, wherein our militarily weak nations are suddenly distancing themselves from all three global powers, including the United States. The only entity left to command their loyalties now is the Ukraine, the defence of which has suddenly become a sacred principle – indeed the highest priority in European politics. This is bizarre and irrational.
@wendyp4545
Breaking News: The IRS is expected to lay off half of its 90,000 employees.
Yes, yes, yes. Suffer you pricks.
Sandbags are the new disaster toilet paper to stock up on.
Saw an old biddie on teev last night in Qld complaining she queued up from 03:00am to get free sandbags and only got two – each half full.
Nearly enough to block up the little door on the budgie cage.
So only 1 sandbag? May need more than that if you live in low lying Brisbane.
Budgies lives matter .. LOL!
No words.
@OliLondonTV
Keir Starmer attends Ramadan event in the British Parliament alongside MP’s.
During the Iftar event, the British PM said it was a “difficult time for Muslims in the UK.”
Bloody sight more difficult for indigenous Poms.
Probably hammering out a deal regarding how many young, white girls the Gov has to tithe to keep the ragheads appeased, for now.
In what way, compared to the average Brit, you disgusting POS and effing appeaser and crawler?
Gavin Newsom & his allies just forced 12 historic family farms & dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore in California.
Sad to see, but communists absolutely hate kulaks. And the green-left hates the dairy industry because vegan. Let them drink almond milk, as Marie-Antoinette never said.
What’s the bet it will become a second Martha’s Vineyard – a retreat solely for the mega rich?
Guess Who Has Ties to USAID
how billy became becky (and parents weren’t told)
Pretty amusing how BlackRock buying the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal is counted as a win. In any war between the two, the US would have controlled the Panama Canal. Two winners here, the seller that just got 26B for the ports, and BlackRock, that used Trump to get the HK firm to sell.
I think the HK firm blinked and decided to take the 26B rather than risk losing everything when the Marines came for a visit.
Trump is an excellent carrot-or-stick dealmaker.
Just wish it wasn’t Blackrock.
BlackRock recently pulled out of climate crap, which is a good sign, and at least they aren’t the Chinese.
Really? I hadn’t heard that. Maybe not so surprising – there are a lot of REALLY smart dudes in Blackrock.
It’s very hard making the claim that you were the anti-Regime candidate when BlackRock is an immediate beneficiary. I was wondering last year what concessions he had to make.
Crisafulli doing a presser.
No North Face jacket, thankfully.
A useless appendage called Albanese attached now repeating the same information.
I suspect Albo is in Brisbane for the duration to do a KRudd.
In which case expect pics of him filling sandbags/carrying someone’s suitcase down a flooded street/popping up wherever he’s not needed or wanted along with his entourage.
Could win Albo the election, said no-one ever.
A drowning man riding a cyclone to oblivion.
With the whole Aussie MSM polishing his boots with their tongues I suspect his chances are better than you believe. Unfortunately.
New poll gives Albanese government ‘a bit of hope’ (Sky News, 4 Mar)
It’s all about feelz, and Albanese filling sandbags is feeding feelz.
It will no doubt interfere with his expected election announcement that would have been on Sunday. He will now want to hang around to next week to get a picture of him wading Ruddesque through the floodwater carrying an empty suitcase over his head to prove he can hold a hose.
And if he isn’t with the GG Monday afternoon he will have to leave it to 16 May, release the budget and campaign over Easter and Anzac Day. I wonder if he can convince her to travel up to Gold Coast?
The Lord works in mysterious ways?
Albo doesn’t hold a shovel. 😀
Victorians applying to be cops might be able to skip the queue if they have ranked high enough in their high school exams as the police attempt to plug the holes in a burned-out workforce.
Applicants who gained an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 65 or above and a minimum VCE study score of 25 in English in the last five years will be exempt from the entrance-exam.
The majority of potential candidates will also be no longer required to have a one-on-one psychologist appointment.
Daily Mail
My cousin got into the Queensland Police without even a school certificate. Left at the end of grade nine.
needless to say, the higher ups don’t like his type, focussed as they are in local policing and knowledge of all the locals, including what some of them do or may get up to, and may prefer more local umm, solutions.
anyway, he will be compulsory retiring this year, no doubt with a nice defined benefit pension.
Australian economy: GDP grew 0.6 per cent in December, strongest in two years | The Nightly
I doubt punters feel any difference.
How did the per capita GDP go?
Apparently, the per capita recession is over with this data.
Subtract the immigration invasion and we’re in recession.
Real recession?
I don’t know the name or the moron on ABC 720 radio “Drive” in Perth but he was lamenting the blackouts (due to dust on poles sparked by light rain) saying:
“There’s all these arguments against renewables because they’re apparently not reliable and yet, with fossil fuels, we have 40,000 homes blacked out.”
It never occurred to the idiot that renewable power would be transported by the very same power lines… fark me.
A lot, lot more of the very same powerlines.
Ex 6PR dude. Got the arse there after a couple of decades. Just another j’ismist.
Why can’t Ronald Reagan be played by a black woman? You have to ask this question.
‘There needs to be a conversation about this policy’: Reagan movie ineligible for Oscars after failing DEI requirements (Sky News, 4 Mar)
After all Anne Boleyn suddenly became black, as did Dr Who and Captain America. Maybe Hollywood has a really good boot polish supplier.
Meaning Nelson Mandela can be played by a white homosexual dwarf?
What’s the definition of “underrepresented?”
Cyclones are so boring. Running around putting evrything away or battening down knowing that if it is a fizzer you get to put it all back.
With the risk of floods I decided to grab some additional essentials. When I actually got into a shopping center, the shelves were bare. No bread, no vegies, a little bit of milk. The women in the delli said that they are selling 100 roasted chooks an hour.
The queue at St Dan’s went around the carpark and the service station could have made a fortune selling burgers to the queue.
Thus chastened I sensibly chose to focus on survival essentials – steak, beer and icecream.
Good luck to fellow stormbirds.
Fortunately my stormbirds (two Eastern Koels) haven’t left the Cafe yet. They were ravenous this morning, stocking up for their migration north. The cyclone will be gone by the time they get to Brissie.
Got a photo of the male. He’d never seen the camera before but he was so keen to top up his tanks he didn’t register it until the flash went off. Flee!
Hate those bastards.
He was completely wild three months ago, until his lady introduced him to the Cafe. Now I’m his bestest buddy. As they say, the way to a man’s (or male birdie’s) heart is via his stomach.
(I can tune out the 2am yodeling, it’s a gift I have.)
Hahaha (Not in a bad way)
I’ve stopped doing it for anything BOM has at a Cat 2 or below. Waste of time.
Tip to any Brisvegas Cats. If you have a Genset have it ready. Ergon since Yasi have changed tactics and shut the grid off before the storm.
Also flooding Gold Coast south looks like a developing issue.
Got the eskies full of ice and umm, other stuff, downloaded a heap of Netflix shows onto the iPhone, and made sure all the powerbanks are fully charged.
currently right under the projected path.
I refreshed my supply of vin ordinaire.
Add in some vin tres ordinaire, and a couple of flagons of vin horrible for any extended emergencies.
People in the village are amping themselves up. Going from sensible precautions ( secure loose furniture, bins in garage, locking the S and SE doors on the country club etc) to completely OTT, reverse into garage in case you need to make a quick getaway* , turn off power to AC and flip the switch for AC at the circuit board).
* Don’t know where we will get away to. If we can’t spare 30 seconds to reverse out we will either already be flooded in (water over all roads out) or trees will be down blocking the roads, at least one tree comes down across an exit every storm
Southerners?
No doubt bloody Victorians bringing their politics with them.
Beautiful 30° in southern Vic today and a lovely sea breeze cooling off the evening, not a cyclone in sight. Plenty of stocks on the shelves no panic. Aah Victoria beautiful one day paradise the next.?
If you need to be looking at emergency measures right now, you’re too late.
Being prepared means you should have been doing this stuff months ago when you had the opportunity.
I had a quick ask around in the pub a month ago – 90% had ‘adequate’ precautions – a storm package of candles/hurricane lamps, extra fuel for the genset, and most had at least a 400 litre freezer with a fortnights supply of tucker and frozen milk etc.
Everyone had at least 4 packs of dunny paper.
But then, we were all a mob of old farts who also had lots of alcohol in various flavours.
Daily Telegraph:
Strike Force Pearl detectives have arrested Ahmad Rashad Nadir, 27, in connection with an anti-Semitic video filmed at Bankstown Hospital and circulated online.
Nadir was arrested at Sutherland Police Station on Tuesday and has been charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass, or offend and possession of a prohibited drug.
He has been granted conditional bail and will appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on March 19.
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Well thanks be to Allah that he handed himself in at the station.
The other one went to Sutherland too. A fair way from Bankstown.
Both Bankstown nurses now charged. No wonder Burka is placating as hard as he can.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/william-delivers-first-st-davids-day-message-in-welsh/news-story/5faa965b3f1fe6b393390237c5de351b?amp=
The spanking continues.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1897087980566884597?t=KWFZ1T5CKKDnmqgRWJVRGg&s=19
Dems just love money, don’t they?
Money tops principles every time with leftards.
Bruce O’Nuke:
I read yesterday that Anal was thinking of bringing in conscription as in what happened for the Vietnam war.
Has anyone else heard anything about this rumour?
🙂
This terrible news needs to be circulated widely. Our youngest voters will be highly invested in this proposal. 😀
It won’t be popular. No normal person wants anything to do with Ukraine.
No, but I am more than happy to spread it far and wide.
My source, Bill, is impeccable.
Me.
DEI conscription I hope. Plus all of our new friends from Gaza to show they are patriots now
Kid Rock was playing golf with President Trump in Florida on Sunday and Elon Musk showed up with his mum Maye.
Musk told Kid Rock and DJT he has a new app that will drive progressives crazy.
Now THAT is political gossip 2025-style
In what world is that not a little bizarre?
Can’t imagine Kevni pulling it off.
Strike Force Pearl detectives have charged a second person in relation to an antisemitic video posted online, involving a 27-year-old man from Bankstown.
Note again different treatment of perp. Charged then given conditional bail. No remand, no waiting days for bail hearing, no ride in paddy wagon with hand cuffs.
The (white boy) 16 year old was found and charged within a day.
One for Monty.
Why are so many people obsessed with fantasy sports? (TechXplore, 4 Mar)
I always preferred real sports myself. Here’s who they are:
I checked the many links in their article but couldn’t see Monty’s website among them. He’ll have to do better.
The ever vigilant woke press managed to get a set up photo of two women filling sandbags. Thongs and sandals are my go to footware when handling a shovel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/05/tropical-cyclone-alfred-brisbane-city-council-flood-map-suburbs-at-risk-homes-flooding
Thongs? Weren’t they worked about sunburnt bums?
Thongs
… also known as South Pacific Safety Boots
FMD.
Imagine if they had got elbow to do the promo shot, it would have been an even bigger shiteshow. It would probably dislocate it’s widdle wrists trying to reach up so high to place a teaspoon of sand in the bag.
Having filled more than my share of all sorts of bags, the first thing you learn is bag flat on the ground!
Or get one of these.
Lots of cyclone pron to keep the j’ismists moist at the moment. Lots of “may”, “might” and “modelling” around.
Kirra is firing. Couple of excellent ones on Insta yesterday.
You should watch the vids Winston Smith sometimes post about sub continentals working in foundries and other dangerous workplaces.
It’s fascinating to watch but makes you squirm at the same time. Handling red hot steel being drawn through dies, wearing thongs and sandals, jumping over them as the steel rods sneak about.
Wonder how many get injured?
The lefties are back in Oz comments.I replied to a comment which accused trump of geopolitical ignorance and not supporting a democracy, I repled with I think the undeniable fact that Ukraine is not a democracy.Blocked
Is DJT congress address at 8pm CST USA?
Isn’t that 10am Perf time?
Yup…. looks like its staring now:
Trump speech live updates: When is address to Congress? What channel?
Demonrat women are wearing pink to “highlight the negative impact DJT policies are having on women”
Isn’t it a bit archaic to think pink is for women?
The site of no drunk 103-year old woman behind DJT is refreshing.
For those not watching, some Dems are refusing to sit and are shouting out continually.
Speaker Johnson has called in the Sergeant-at-Arms to restore order and one Demonrat already removed.
Nancy’s crying! Haw!
Do they know what a woman is?
No.
Senate Dems Unanimously Vote to Keep Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports (Breitbart main page headline, 3 Mar)
Sexist, even.
The desperation for natural disasters to support the ‘climate change’ narrative is exemplified at Their ABC’s JustIn.
Every third or fourth ‘story’ is about the potential disasters in store for Qld and northern NSW as a result of the cyclone – if it turns out to be one.
This is supposed to be the premier national news service, but things like people queueing up for sandbags, stripping supermarket shelves (yawn) and endless predictions based on worst case ‘modelling’ are apparently the most important things happening on the planet.
The BoM’s maps have the low pressure system coloured a very angy red – does anyone remember the ‘angry summer’ of a few years ago?
They are so childishly transparent, it’s pathetic.
After the WA one turned out to be a bit of a fizzer, these ghouls are really, really hoping for massive destruction this time around. All the predictions about more and stronger cyclones/hurricanes have proved to be utterly wrong for decades, but they are not giving up.
There is also a story there (not linking) about how, just because MacBank, Blackrock etc are withdrawing from stupid NetZero organisations, it doesn’t mean that they don’t still support them, the good fight goes on, etc.
They are like the Bourbons.
Albanese’s most recent flights in insanity and election destruction have exceeded even his stupidity record.
His little lefty footstamping refusal to sign up to Starlink simply flies in the face of reality. Allegience to his Union thug owners overwhelming his responsibilities to the Nation.
But – even the suggestion that he would send our beautiful young people into the Ukraine cesspit is criminal. The little jerk trying to join Starmer’s big boys club – as the dickhead and Wong see it. Anything to spite Trump. Once again we see a Government that holds the people and their beliefs in contempt.
Come on Dutton, the little turd is handing it to you. Hammer him!
We just received a text warning from Origin Energy: “Reports of a cyclone in your area may impact access to power, gas and internet services…” etc etc.
Not even grammatically written – the reports may impact? Then stop sending them!
Presumably this is because we are in NSW, even though we are over 1,000 k’s away from the cyclone.
These text warning systems seem to be more of a hazard than a help.
IIRC, in California the warnings sent out about the recent fires reached hundreds of thousands of people who were in no danger whatsoever.
Funny how the technocrats can send you ads minutes after you browsed a site with similar products, but government doofi can’t even target people with potentially life and property saving messages.
Watching Trump at the Capitol.
The ugly ape Green, refused to sit, instead was yelling and waving his walking stick around.
He was told that the House demands decorum. Anyone refusing to adhere to the rules, will be thrown out.
Green was thrown out. YEEEHAAAAA! 😀
He’s cracking jokes too!
“Under my administration Presidents will not be able to prosecute their political opponents. How did that work out for you?”
Please, please keep doing that.
It will go down sooo well with swing voters
Prez fatty Trump is killing it in this address. Magnificent stuff. Some random quotes:
“Geriatric Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States”
“I love Alaska!”
“Federal government employees will turn up to their offices in person or they will lose their jerbs”
“Our country will be woke no longer”
“There are only two genders, male and female”
“Every day I’m fighting this damage to make America affordable again”
“It’s called, Drill Bay Drill”
“DOGE – perhaps you’ve heard of it”
“The African nation of Lesotho, which no one has ever heard of”
Elon’s wearing a suit and tie. He knows the gravity of the house.
Hah! Democrats are holding up ping pong paddles with FALSE printed on one side, and MUSK STEALS, on the other.
So low energy, they must be personal friends of the Gimp. 😀
Vance and Johnson having a ball.
He’s listing the outrageous list of elderly SS recipients. Hilarious. Some drips are calling “False”. They got nuffink.
Pocahontas no likim Elon Musk. Heap big wampum go bye bye.
Silly old bat.
She-um low squaw on totem pole now.
Watching and listening to The Donald and observing the sour, prune like looks on Democrat faces (looking at you Pelosi) one cannot help but feel a surge of tumescence.
Despite 2 years of hormone therapy for prostate cancer (chemical castration).
A Donald miracle.I’ve got the Horn. Hahaha!
Outstanding! The Donald really is, a miracle worker. Lol.
The Don woke the dead! Hallelujah!
The Mocker’s headline in the Oz:
China’s navy mission reveals Pacific’s biggest jellyfish: the Albanese
Good point!
Not a single Demonrat dressed in pink voted to take men out of women’s sports.
While the Democrats oppose whatever 80% of the American public supports, as they’re doing now, they can’t win presidential elections — unless they cheat*.
(*as they did in 2020).
The Oz column today on hydrogen should be the biggest news in the country.
But it’s not.
Thank fvck it’s been torched and buried so quickly and didn’t turn into another 100bill black hole like the NBN.
Link
its depressing to see how cavalier governments are when it comes tax payer money.
Started by ScoMo at that COP scam in Scotland.
Turbo charged under Albo.
They have zero skin in the game.
According to the front page of the Worst Australian newspaper this morning, the Chinese navy flotilla [sic] is heading “directly” for Naval Base. Yes, they have to head for it to go past it, morons! Hyper-bowl.
Confident? Good Lord, I’m not.
The three heavily armed ships — a frigate, a missile cruiser and a replenishment vessel
OK, thats 2 ‘heavily armed’, and one carrying, at best, a CIWS and/or point defence missiles.
Canada – still Woke!
A transgender high school track star in California recently obliterated her competition by winning a girls’ triple jump event by a staggering eight feet (2.4 metres).
AB Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School, secured the win with a more than 40-foot (12 metre) jump at the Ontario Relays invitational meet back on Feb. 22, records show.
The runner-up managed to jump just over 32 feet in the category.
Sky
Sorry – it was California! Same thing!
Unfair when you’ve got a middle leg.
Your daily doompill..
https://youtu.be/Gid48FgiHho
Good luck with conscription Starmer, at this rate you will train the first cohort up just in time to force remigration and your own public hanging.
I do podcasts in the car while travelling in and out of Babylon
listened to this one just the other day
imo … this is deffo worth yr time
As far as I’m concerned, that stinking evil illegitimate syphilitic incontinent ol’ geriatric biden is directly (and therefore personally) responsible for Laken Riley’s murder.
I do love the way DJT is handing out places to people who want to go to Westpoint Military Academy (like the high school student in the gallery with an excellent GPA score) or who always wanted to be law officers (like 12yo boy in gallery who has been fighting cancer for six years).
It’s like they’ve won the lottery!
Great TV viewing as well as life changing.
(The 12yo was sworn in on-the-spot!)
Has he gone the full Oprah yet?
“You get a Tesla … and you get a Tesla … everybody gets a Tesla!”
Yes, very hard not to be inspired by it all.
Agree Lysander. Absolutely fabulous stuff. The man is born for the job.
Hairy Festeringpenis’lawyers must be rolling in her cash by now..
Totally not a anti-Semite.
No brainworms eating marys brain!
Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
A lot of Australians are getting fed up with this level of influence by one group.
We have an election very soon.
Make it count.
Vote only for those independents who oppose the genocide. LNP last, Labor second last. It’s Labor’s failure to stand up to a raft of demands and noise that has allowed all this to get out of hand.
?
Who’s she moaning about?
South Sydney supporters ?
As if she ever voted differently.
Counterfeit spins run in the family:
Raygun’s brother Brendan Gunn charged by ASIC for dealing with suspected proceeds of crime money | PerthNow
Look, she’s a shit dancer.
But, thank the Lord, that is not a crime, otherwise I’d be in SuperMax.
Being an academic at a Dawkins university should get you a one way ticket to the gulags.
@catturd2
“To every child, you’re perfect exactly the way God made you.”
– President Trump
Yes, that was a truly beautiful moment.
Attitude Adjustment
Trump Calls Out Democrats for the Horrible People They Are: ‘Absolutely Nothing I Can Say to Make Them Happy or to Make Them Stand or Smile or Applaud’
He could personally find a 100% effective cure for all cancers, with no side effects, that cost $5 dose. They would attack him for trying to reduce health expenditure and make nurses unemployed.
The Democrats and the legacy MSM are essentially irrelevant at this point in the cycle. Trump is bypassing them both.
I’m enjoying the commentary around Meghan Markle’s newest Netflix show. It doesn’t appear to be going well…
Meghan Markle Netflix Show Debuts to Widespread Mockery: ‘Next-Level Derangement and Narcissism’ (Breitbart, 4 Mar)
‘Impossible to watch’: Moment Meghan’s Netflix show goes off the rails (News.com.au, 5 Mar)
Both articles are great fun with levels of snark rarely seen in the wild. But the second one is best, just magnificent.
The whole Megs and Hazza thing is sort of mega-weird. What have they really go to tell the rest of the human race about, apart from how to play passable polo and how to act in a B grade TV series?
Huffing their own farts.
It’s such an obvious lesson in how an evil and manipulative woman can destroy a stupid and weak man.
I use the relationship as an object lesson in dealing with my nephews.
Harry has married his mother. Paging Dr Freud …
Mum used to always tell me before getting too interested in a girl check out what her family is like, particularly her mother because that is what you will end up with.
Di was dead, and she, including Charles of course, were not the kind of persons to go seeking such advice
One thing lefties on the Soshuls are trying to comfort themselves with is “Orange Hitler is pretty old.”
I take great delight in reminding them that, if Donald shuffles off, Vance will take his place.
And probably appoint Musk as VP.
Sadly Vance could not do that since Elon is Seth Efrican, and therefore not native born.
I’m not sure the Kamel is either.
I’d want to see the wording about VP.
Didn’t seem to slow down Barry S much.
Tulsi currently paying 26 bucks.
Whilst I’m comfortable having an administration thats heavily influenced by Peter Thiel, I don’t know about having a Peter Thiel puppet as president.
I would rather Musk concentrate on SpaceX and yes, Tesla.
Elon Musk’s D.O.G.E finds answers to where the Pentagon’s missing $800B went last year
Victor Davis Hanson: Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump, Hegseth DEBUNKED
Trump Declares an End to Weaponized Government Used Against Him, Gestures to Democrats: ‘How Did That Work Out’
Despite the fact that Zelia only recorded at 120km hour wind gust at Port Hedland (which was, admittedly a little far away but the Pilbara has very sparesely populated wind radars), the climate crazy I’m still arguing with is telling me some CYGNSS and DVORAK satellite systems had wind up at 280kms.
I find this hard to believe as (???) aint CYGNSS and DVORAK both marine wind speed measuring instruments?
This site backs me up as does the BoM report on the cyclone:
Tropical Cyclone Zelia – A storm that defied expectations – Pilbara Coast of Western Australia – 11 to 14 February 2025 – Extreme Storms
It may have crossed as a Cat 4 but it degraded extremely quickly so I am saying 120kms is the highest recorded, it may have been higher, but you can’t actually tell me what is was.
Thoughts?
They had the Carlindie (?) station homestead on TV. It wasn’t in great shape. Long way between anything capable of being destroyed in that part of the world.
Keir Starmer CAUGHT In Free Speech Lie By JD Vance – ‘We Can’t Let Them Take Our Voice!’
I’m not big on speeches, but Trump is a master.
Just watched Trump’s address to Congress. Simply amazing. He is unstoppable. He effectively reiterated all his latest triumphs, with invited recipients of his support, and rubbed the noses of all the Democrats into all of it. His supporters were ecstatic. Only Rubrio, I thought, seemed a little petulant. Think he would have at least liked to have been been in JD’s seat.
Agree with that, Rubio and Vance head butt it out for President. Trump just uplifts the spirits and hope of the people. America is on such a tear with him, the investment hes cultivating for their future will be mind blowing. Compare that with us welcoming to country from a stone age people, what a downer.
Yes. Stunning stuff – see my comment on it below too.
Rubio – Trump compemented him on the ‘number of votes’ he got (that’s for confirmation to position I assumed). Said any more and he’d be worried.
I think Trump has JD quite firmly in his sights for a Presidential run in 2028. Rubio doesn’t strike me as having the same wheeling and dealing background that JD has. Rubio is diplomatic but doesn’t seize the jugular when necessary, which Vance does. That video I put up about his work post Yale was quite informative about that. Note that like Trump, Vance is also a good persuader, but it’s a persuasive iron hand in a velvet glove.
Roger, earlier:
Please, please let Elbow be photographed carrying an unfortunate out of a flooded tent.
Along with eight other people, and gripping said unfortunate by the ankle with thumb and forefinger.
I will also accept an image of him carrying an empty suitcase over his head, and with his trousers rolled up.
When did Albanese start to wear long pants.
Oh noes. Ive been way to casual in preparation. Karl Stepanovic is in the region. Major disaster looms!
Once Venezuela & Cuba make their way to the top of the administrations to do list, Rubio will be worth his weight in gold.
No point sending him to Europe when Trump has some NY Jewish mates who are real bone breakers to send.
Rubio knows his place in the team.
Katie Hopkins: it is hard for many Brits to hear, but UKRAINE NEEDS TRUMP. An explainer.
With Trump steaming ahead, wokeness is looking more and more like a temporary loony fad which is dying as we watch. I wonder how long it will be for our local ‘elites’ to catch on.
We’re always 15 years behind everyone else.
Do these people know what they’re doing?
The latest forecast predicts the Category-2 system will cross the coast between Brisbane and the Gold Coast between midnight Thursday and the early hours of Friday morning, possibly coinciding with one of the highest tides of the year, worsening the risk of potentially deadly storm surges and flash flooding.
About 20,000 properties in Brisbane, 4600 on the Sunshine Coast, and 6000 on the Gold Coast are at risk of inundation, and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli said it was now time to seek shelter with friends, relatives or a hotel – or in a worst-case scenario, an evacuation centre.
At maybe 3-4 people per property, that’s around 100,000 people he’s telling to hit the road.
Oz
WTF, it will be around a Cat 1 on landfall FFS. Brisbane storms are sometimes as bad as this. We are now truly into a clown show.
I think there is some context missing there. He was talking about homeless and people on their own.
And probably appoint Musk as VP.
No, no, no. I serious doubt Elon is interested. He’s only in politics because of the way he saw the country was going, didn’t like it, got attacked for saying so got pissed off and is helping fix it.
He’s not running for VP, he’ll be the Elon of Mars, the Man Who Owns The Sky.
There’s a little known Wehrner von Braun SF story about an expedition to Mars. They find a dying civilisation whose political leader is called the Elon.
?There’s actually a credible back story about how that may have come about which doesn’t involve spooky coincidences.
Reading the Musk biography (still). He was initially anti Trump but strongly opposed to the whole woke agenda it seems.
Reading the Musk biography (still). He was initially anti Trump but strongly opposed to the whole woke agenda it seems.
He lost at least one kid to the trans cult IIRR
Need some help from some technical Cats…
Got a quote for $2,400 to install solar on the roof:
Details are:
Does this sound fair? Apparently the Feds kick in $2,160 so total cost is only $2400… (we’re not getting a battery… too expensive and Perf has lots of sunny days)… Our quarterly electricity bill is about $500…
I realise that technology has changed, but that is an incredibly cheap quote. Good luck to you.
Thanks Bons. I’ve searched around and they’re reputable.
We typically use around 1200kwh per year so 15 panels would suffice as with average amount of sunny days in Perth, would generate over 12000kwhs… (that’s including up to 150 cloudy days per year in Perth)…
They don’t work at night! So much depends on your daily consumption pattern.
Agree. Most of our “heavy duty” washing and drying is done during the day but our kids burn up a fair bit of electrictiy when they come home from school and into the evening…
So it won’t cover everything but it will pay itself off in a year.
And Ranga, it is cheap but the gubbermint’s paying for half of it! (And I don’t mind a govt subsidy especially when I pay shitloads of tax every fricking year!!!)
Too cheap.
Extremely cheap
This is with you selling the electricity to the government, seeing as you can’t store it, yes?
At what price?
Then they sell it back to you at how much?
I did an estimate and we’d get about $200 per year back…
(That’s based on around 150 cloudy days per year in Perth and average daytime consumption for a few people at home during the day and not counting any savings at night with no battery)
Didn’t the Gov say they were phasing out paying you for any extra power you produce?
Also, once the rebates are gone, you will be charged if you send extra power into the grid. That is why they are planning on forcing everyone with solar, to install batteries.
Also, if you install solar, you cannot say no to a smart meter.
Once the smart meter is installed, they can/will, shut you down when the grid is struggling.
Witness the “free” air-cons in Qld.
In WA Pogria, they can shut down your solar panels if the feed back in is exceeding what the system can handle. They don’t shut off the mains.
For now. 😀
the rule of thumb for 20 years has been $1 per watt
you quote sounds cheap though not insanely cheap and if the subsidy drops it to $2400 I’d say its a bargain
cost of 440W panel is about $100
and 5kW inverter is probs less than $1500
also don’t forget that the installer will get something like 30% back from selling your RETs on the market so they aren’t doing it for cost
the inverter is on the small side so I’m guessing that the 6.6kW is split over two roofs
make sure there’s no shading from trees and neighbors
they may not work at night but even on an overcast day they’ll still provide 500W or so
reckon this will null your elec bills for most of the year
simple ROI … 2 years (maybe)
And you trust that the manufacturers will still be around in 24.5 years when you want/need to make a warranty claim.
The Tele:
‘Brutally shot’. As opposed to the alternatives:
I carefully shot my housemate.
I enthusiastically shot my housemate.
I compassionately shot my housemate.
I delicately shot my housemate.
I regrettably shot my housemate.
I considerably shot my housemate.
I flamboyantly shot my housemate.
Cessnock is pretty feral, except for all the wineries.
Man guilty of murder over housemate shot in head, dumped on property outside Cessnock (Ncl Herald, 5 Mar)
Agreed, lots of people sport 6 fingers round there. Cessnock was only about the same distance as Maitland but with better shopping than Singleton when we were living Singo. Easier to get to than Maitland, we only ever visited twice.
Take it easy, the gaol is pretty good.
I can only assume that whiteness of murderer =< whiteness of victim, or else it might have been a Hate Shooting.
Imagine how bad it would have been if the shooter had said mean words.
If I were to shoot a house mate, I would only ever do it flamboyantly.
Trump’s superpower is getting the Dimocrats to oppose even his most reasonable ideas just because they are his.
Losing their minds over the Trannie-ban is the perfect example.
Polling had shown common-sense making steady gains on this issue.
Once the brakes were released on November 5th and people realised they weren’t going to be fired or un-personed because “transphobia”, the polling in favour of a ban jumped to 70-80%.
After years of drinking their own bathwater the Dimocrats simply can’t believe it, and reflexively oppose it because Donald.
lol. Yes, he said as much during his speech. He’s no-win with them.
Ain’t nothing I can do to get them to love me, was his theme re the Dems.
Some Trump criticism:
Tariffs:
Tariffs instead of income taxes is good. Creating massive uncertainty around what is being tariffed and starting a tit for tat trade war with the entire world, not so good.
DOGE:
Doing good work. But it is unnecessary to have a billionaire savant maniac as the frontman. Leave his team, put him back to work with the spacecrafts.
Ukraine:
Cementing yet again in the minds of the world that the one thing the USA does is start wars and then leave their allies with a massive disaster after pulling out when it gets inconvenient? Korea. Vietnam. Iraq, Afghanistan. And now Ukraine. Isolationism won’t be an American choice in future, it will be imposed reality because no one will want to work with the bastards. US arms firms about to forgo billions as these policies create competition from previously small foreign players.
There is more, but this should generate sufficient down ticks for now.
I’m in the position wrt Trump, of a man who was so much looking forward to the hunting trip his friend invited him on, only to find the journey become a nightmare as the friend tortures and murders every living creature in a ten mile radius, and completes the day by taking a shit on Bambi’s cooling corpse.
To end on a positive: inducing the massive recession required to reset the system early in the term: probably totally necessary.
Just don’t pull a Keating and start smirking about “the recession we had to have”.
Its Bambys’ mothers corpse you philistine.
And the woodland creatures are Democrat ones – so these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hulS6xlnvNA
Why I stopped pig shooting.
Agree 100% on the unreliable ally bit.
Doge: Yes Id rather see musk attacking space rather than the swamp personally.
Tarriffs: Dont know – but they cant continue to let China coast along with “oh we are a poor country needing special rules” while they hollow out the USAs manufacturing even more.
Not so sure on the arms firms bit.
They dont (as far as I know) have the Frogs bad habit of deciding to stop spare parts/ shipments mid way through wars.
The Poms will be too busy supplying the Caliphate in 10 years so unless you want to suck up to Putler!! or Little Rocket man where do you go?
I gave an uptick because it’s reasonable analysis.
But there’s really no other option than to wind up the war in Ukraine.
A 16-year-old in WA arrested and charged literally five minutes after making alleged threat to mosque nearly 4000 km away.
After three months still no charges or even progress (as far as we know) in investigation into Ripponlea synagogue bombing in Melbourne.
Interesting.
Yes and the kid, arrested put in a paddy wagon, charged, held on remand till bail court.
Contrast with two nurses treatment.
4000 km away. That may help his defence.
Who negotiated these horrible trade deals with Canada and Mexico? – Jon Stewart
She’s a babe.
Donald Trump makes ‘incredible’ offer to volleyball player left with brain damage by trans rival (5 Mar, via Lucianne)
The Dems voted unanimously yesterday to allow men to maim women like her in sports.
The Dems voted unanimously yesterday to allow men to maim women like her in sports.
Watching the daft buggers destroy themselves is pure pleasure.
I really want to see exploding heads.
We just watched the whole of Trump’s Presidential Address to the House and the Nation, which went for over two hours which Hairy had videod. It was stunning. I haven’t heard a thing that I didn’t totally like and admire, says Hairy to me, and I agree. The Democrats looked diminished and rather stupid, the women for some reason wearing pink just after they’d voted for men in women’s sports, and the men looking weak and subdued. They refused to clap and there was a certain amount of turmoil bercoming theatening at the beginning. Some of them held up auctioneers’ paddles saying ‘fake’ and similar nonsenses. They looked, and were, pathetic. Trump was riding a huge wave of support and achievement, and held the audience in thrall with occasional humorous one-liners keeping the atmosphere light.
We didn’t watch the Democrat response, tho’ it is easy to guess it featured ‘fairness’ and ‘climate’ ad nauseum. Tell me if we missed anything.
Elon Musk was in the gallery looking smart in a suit.
After Zelinski, being well dressed for ‘occasions’ is the mode du jour.
Hugo Boss?
Piss off, Nazi.
Polling in the U.S. shows 80% are opposed to males in female sports.
Democrats are on a real winner there …
And among Democrat supporters it was 67% opposed.
Aussie kids still do it. 😀
Reminds me of 21 Jump St: the school kids were so straight they even wore their backpacks with both straps, which meant the undercover losers with their bag slouched on one side wer looked at like they were weird (didn’t see anything beyond that, assumed it would be the same gag over and over right through combined with a little bit of Lolita).
The latest forecast predicts the Category-2 system will cross the coast between Brisbane and the Gold Coast between midnight Thursday and the
Looked at the track map a few minutes ago, it’s wandered north a tad. Looks like it is going to hit around Redcliffe
I see the annual “Why are women shit at work” review has started.
Malcolm demolished it.
https://www.instagram.com/senatormalcolmroberts/reel/C7s1nhINm8h/
I grit me teeth me when people finish every sentence on an upward inflexion.
Is it legal to point a finger at the woke and laugh heartily?
Prolly not in Oz.
Big Serge on Lessons from Ukraine in IM 1776:
To celebrate Trump imminently signing mineral deal with the malignant dwarf here is a cute owl, with Tintin! What a combination!
….and only the puppy has a giant bone?
( I don’t recall that Tintin at he school library, either)
Just got around to translating the title – many years since I failed French, but I think it says “ Kevin Rudd at the Gentleman’s Club”
Looking at the trump comments etc I can only agree, about 90 %. Which is god enough. Oops, typo?.
Back to ‘Strayla, let’s all hold our noses and get a LNP government in. Yes, they suck, but they suck less than the rest. People like Cassie and Rabz can then influence the incumbent.
On an off beat comment, my elder brother died today. Only 63 and riddled with numerous cancers. Yes, he was vaxed to the wahoo, but was also a smoker in early life. Apparently his body managed to beat the lung cancer but it had already spread to other parts, particularly the brain. So yes, he was fooked.
Make every minute count cats and kittehs, because you never know.
Peace, out.
Ranga, I am very sorry to hear of the passing of your brother. I wish you long life.
And yes, you’re 100% right, the LNP suck but they suck less than the rest!
Deepest sympathy, remember you’re not alone.
My sincere condolences, Ranga. And comfort in your sadness. I can’t imagine saying goodbye to my brother.
These things come to us all.
Sorry to hear that Ranga.
I know what it is like.
I have lost both my brothers in the last eight years; the younger one in a stupid cycling accident (not his fault though) at 53 and my older one last year at 71, virtually identically to your brother.
At least I still have my three sisters who are all 7-13 years older than me.
I’m very sorry to hear it, cancer is a beast.
I have a sibling battling cancer still. Was told it was beaten, announced cancer free in late 2020 but some cancer cells had snuck into the brain.
On and on it goes.
What every other Cat has added x 100’s.
God Bless.
At least my brother got ten years more, till 73. Heartfelt condolences Nother Ranga, because a brother is someone you grew up with, close family, and nothing can replace that. And yes, everyday is a gift with our loved ones.
sad news
raise a glass for him while you can
and raise him another for me
My condolences. We power through the three score and then the ten hits us all. Anything after that is with the blessing of God. Ma’shallah as my Arab mates say. “God has allowed it”
Sorry to hear it, AR. 63 is way too young.
Sympathies indeed….
Not much older than me- sorry about your loss Ranga.
let’s all hold our noses and get a LNP government in. Yes, they suck, but they suck less than the rest.
Agree
More on Trump:
(16) George on X: “President Trump, with a beautiful MIC DROP: “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.” ? https://t.co/Ih4Q8fSukw” / X
Trump’s timing of one liners is impeccable.
It may have crossed as a Cat 4 but it degraded extremely quickly so I am saying 120kms is the highest recorded, it may have been higher, but you can’t actually tell me what is was.
Thoughts?
Dvorak has limitations like inaccuracies. However till someone comes up with something better we’re stuck with it. Personally am unsure of whether BOM’s inputs are the ones causing higher categorisations than what’s felt on the ground i.e. Kirralee but I have noticed more and more of it in recent years.
Yanks fly old P3’s and C130’s into the eye chock a block full of monitoring in equipment as well as using the above methods.
Thanks RD!!!
Now that the war in Ukraine will be over, hows that supply chain looking , that should fix it now , what do you say Luigi.
I’ve been told that some of the main drags of Brooklyn NY are all decorated to celebrate Ramadan.
Obviously all the libtard women who live in the area are observing the laws of the ROP during this holy time.
I passed an Anglican church yesterday that was celebrating Ramadan.
Ncl Diocese is pretty fruity.
Did they have an Ash Wednesday service or celebate the beginning of Lent today?
As if!
Watched the entire address while packing for home. Trump in his element – funny, entertaining, cutting, compelling, and essentially humane.
He appeared to have a real affinity with those ones from the community who attended, of course by invitation.
The contrast with the fossil (no, not the ones with their low energy paddles) of the past four years of horror could not be more stark. Wickedness is not a spent force by any means, but oh it’s so insipid. Flavourless, withered, uninspiring and so very malignant.
Evocative writing, Calli. Lovely.
Ramadamadingdong is on. Pro tip: don’t catch a taxi or Uber in the afternoon.
Hunger makes them grumpy?
And no water. Short tempered. The heavy duty ones, with the beard one fist long and sandals, can’t swallow their own saliva. There is lots more, but that’ll do for now.
Sounds like hydrophobia*.
*The victim cannot drink because the throat muscles go into a very painful spasm when water is consumed.
Hydrophobia…aka rabies.
Is Britain’s Decline Unstoppable? People are Fleeing the UK and It’s Becoming a Museum. Jeremy Black
Some of the demorat scum thrown out during Trump’s majestic, witty and brilliant address:
Democrats CRASH & BURN at Trump Address!! Congressman physically REMOVED for disorderly conduct.
Look at the ugly, stupid, demorat bastard.
The words “ugly”, “stupid” and “bastard” are redundant.
I include them for texture and flavour.
Green is seriously ugly. Inside and out.
Al Green is from Texas. He looks and behaves like a gangster from Venezuela.
Queensland cyclones are for Queenslanders.
Big news from Europe overnight.
The EU through something they are calling ReArm Europe, with little subtlety, is clearing away fiscal hurdles to Euro countries contributing funding to arms production.
Also, Germany’s new coalition govt has found a way to get past its debt brake laws as part of a huge stimulus package to restart its economy after years of sluggishness: 12 to 20% of GDP. Defence and infrastructure the core of spending package. Merz still has to get the Greens to sign on, but one would think they would not stand in the way.
Trump is getting his way: Europe is standing up for itself, preparing for him to exit the US from NATO without loss of security.
However, he will find that he is increasingly irrelevant in world affairs. Why would Zelenskyy sign a mineral deal with the US after it abandons Ukraine and takes Russia’s side? Trump is dealing himself out of the game.
Piss off Nazi
You idiot. Zelensky today effectively apologised to Trump and said he’s now prepared to sign the minerals deal under Trump’s “strong leadership”.
LOL Tom, you are a gullible fool.
And you are a dickless POS.
Zelensky issued a written statement, Monty. Read it and watch what happens next, you gullible Twitter parrot.
I read the statement, Tom. It mentioned security guarantees multiple times. And yet, Trump is not willing to give them.
Diplomacy is a complicated thing. Obviously beyond your Ken.
Since you are here upthread I posted a science news item you might find interesting, Monty, as it’s about fantasy footy.
Mutley looks in the mirror, see’s a gullible fool.
gagging for WW3 because peace at any cost ?
don’t be like mUnty … mUnty’s an idiot
Piss off, Nazi.
I think Monty like most lefties is terrified at the thought of Trump brokering a peace deal in Ukraine.
Umm, I think you may have missed the boat on this one, M0nty.
Zalensky is going to sign the mining agreement.
Last I heard anyway.
The US will never be irrelevant in world affairs.
Even though he failed Economics 1, mUntard remains committed to the idiot Keynes.
What is pleasure chook up to these days?
She is still working on her speech for the opening of the olympics.
The chook is not for turning! Queensland is not a rotisserie. Sorry Bear- it still makes me laugh
mUnter, just now:
Also mUnter:
‘Kamala will win Iowa’
‘Trump will get a hiding in the election’
‘Jeremy Corbyn will win the UK election’
‘Zelensky worked Trump over at the White House’
‘Fantasy football is a growth industry’
In the words of Charles Darwin:
I don’t know why but watching that rancorous dirtbag al green get ejected from the Trump address reminded me of this:
The Dirdy Birdy (HD)
The cat symbolises the demorat cat ladies.
Unicorn flatus.
Albanese government’s green hydrogen ‘pipe dream’ faces reality check as more than 60 projects archived (Sky News, 5 Mar)
If you’ve lost the deep green CSIRO you’ve really hit the basement. (I have direct experience with CSIRO in this field and I can attest they’re off with the fairies. But it brings in lots of dosh and CSIRO has been scratching for dosh as long as I’ve been in the business.)
Sheesh! They’re almost as wrong as often as Munted!
**almost**
CSIRO is a sheltered workshop.
As is the ABC
ABC staff swap to CSIR0 and run its communications, marketing and PR. They are one and the same beast. If you were a scientist there your paper and conclusions would then go upstairs and be massaged into the agreed narrative.
The bloke who was the CHO under Dan during Covid in Vic was transferred at a high salary to CSIRO, my guess so he was off limits to later accountability and rewarded for taking orders from Dan and keeping schtum. The chap had a UN work background that didn’t stack up in my view. Brett somebody if I recall.
A 16-year-old in WA arrested and charged literally five minutes after making alleged threat to mosque nearly 4000 km away.
Let me guess, he used his own phone.
Re dress codes.
Late last year we went to the graduation ceremony of the daughter of friends.
She went to this alternative high school focussing on the yartz so there were a few eye-rolling moments (but generally I am OK with it all because I would rather they are in school of some sort than weilding machetes around shopping centres).
Anyway, a lot of the kids wore some really out there “look at me” attire. One wore an outfit which looked like an amalgam of the wardrobes of Zsa Zsa Gabor and a Greek Orthodox Bishop.
But the one who stood out was the Sri Lankan kid wearing a neat suit and tie.
And even on the retrospective slide show he had a tie and/or jacket on in every shot.
In the context he was the non-conformist.
Absolutely he was.
A good preparation for adulthood for him.
Outstanding.
My young bloke went to his Year 12 finish-up presentation in 2022.
While he (like me) will never split the atom, he took it upon himself to turn up in a waistcoat along with nicely matching accoutrements. I have no idea where he got the waistcoat from – I wore the full suit/tie arrangement, but was the only one among several hundred parental types.
His idea to dress appropriately for the occasion, not mine – although it must be said there were hints.
Mind you, this afternoon and evening he’s hunting pigs this evening with dogs and knives, so there’s that. No waistcoat.
Apparently.
Strange, check again. There are standards.
No idea if true.
Funny if it is.
Retro Coast
@RetroCoast
Breaking: When a Federal Judge blocked Trump’s attempt to terminate government credit cards, @DOGE set a spending limit of ONE DOLLAR on the cards
https://x.com/RetroCoast/status/1896903257420898810
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.
In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans.
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1897039724822315489
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ABC RN’s US correspondent & “global affairs editor” John Lyons’s take on Trump’s speech:
Divisive as he didn’t reach across the aisle like Reagan.
Memo to Lyons: It’s not the Democratic Party of the 1980s anymore.
Divisive as he didn’t reach across the aisle like Reagan.
How cretinous. None of the dems showed any interest in rapprochement. You can’t reach across to people who behave as antagonistically as they did.
A Republican bloke reached across and ripped a stupid sign out of the hands of a Democrat minge.
Is that close? 😀
@robinmonotti
MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM ASSOCIATION:
“Andrew Wakefield was a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was the lead author (one of 13) of a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 that raised concerns about an increase in gastrointestinal symptoms in children with a new regressive form of Autism. Andrew Wakefield recommended further studies to investigate the root cause, but as there was an association with the MMR vaccine he recommended a return to single vaccines based on precautionary principle to reduce risk. What then ensued was something Andrew never imagined. His career was cut short, funding for his research dried up, he was forced to leave the NHS and move to the US. But it didn’t end there with further accusations of fraud, hoax and referral to the GMC. After several years Andrew was struck off. For years the name Andrew Wakefield has been synonymous with “quack”, “ant-vaxxer”, “fraud”, “dangerous doctor”, “negligent doctor” and more. But was he, is he? Or is he possibly the truest form of ethical doctor?”
Interesting report I saw today:
Children with autism may see speech improvements with off-label prescription drug (22 Feb)
I put this up in case any Cats are in need of ideas.
Yeah, he’s a quack.
Wakefield was treated disgracefully and he was wrong. Gut issues are common in ASD and relate to an immunological imbalance that is strongly associated with gut inflammation and autoimmunity(IL 17). Intriguingly some autists develop better social skills when they have a fever, yet another example of how integrated the brain is with the body.
It is surprising that people who are so skeptical of modern biomedicine(and with good reason) then embrace biomedical findings that accord with their beliefs.
Another ridiculous vacuous fact free “analysis” by Sky bimbecile neilsen.
A pathetic uninteresting uninsightful airhead peddling z-grade dumbocrat horse manure.
Not good enough, Sky (again).
Would I “reach across the aisle” to people who had been “punching down on me from the bench” for eight years?
Probably not.
Where did Lyons sit with Obumbi’s “elections have consequences” line?
That wasn’t really a reaching across the aisle thing, was it?
Your taxes hard at work, comrade.
Clearly didn’t watch it. Trump literally asked the Dems to work with Republicans for the benefit of the country – Pelosi almost vomitted at the thought apparently.
Two articles from the Michael West weekly email.
First, Rex Patrick on AUKUS in relation to the recent visit by the Chinese.
Everyone knows my thoughts, from the second it was announced I called it a massive turd.
https://michaelwest.com.au/chinese-warships-sailing-the-tasman-sea-expose-aukus-folly/
The second one has this headline.
Israel activists infiltrate Labor Party in ‘grassroots’ putsch to hit Greens
co-authored by Wendy Bacon, so you know the angle this is coming from.
What’s interesting is I wonder the wargaming that went on that came up with the strategy of getting Labor to whack the Greens (which in turn would benefit the LNP).
Big if accurate.
Warning, some parts of the column are pretty ripe.
https://michaelwest.com.au/israel-activists-infiltrate-labor-party-in-grassroots-putsch-to-hit-greens/
Bacon is an evil, malignant kunt.
Hence my warnings.
Much has been made of Zelenskyyyy’s cos-play and some might say, “why does it matter?”
As far as it showing respeck for the Donald, I really don’t care, Margaret.
I think what they were trying to encourage him to do was drop the camo t-shirts and wear a suit as a symbolic gesture that this had moved to a new phase.
Mem predicted that sales of suits would surge post Oval Office contretemps. Even if Zelensky doesn’t accede there will be a lot of young ambitious guys out there in the world saving up for a decent suit. I was out and about on public transport in Melbourne yesterday and spotted four expensively suited gentlemen, quite remarkable, as I haven’t seen suits except on lawyers and undertakers lately.
m0nty
March 5, 2025 6:08 pm
Big news from Europe overnight.
Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again.
Hi Carpe.
I like the Edward Scissorhands avatar. Noice.
Hmmmm.
Setting m0nster straight.
Zelenskyyy’s own words (my emphasis added) …
Sounds like the middle finger is back in the holster.
Among several observations that could be made…
The UK deal some here were peddling never existed, at least not as stated.
Caveat lector, Cats.
100%.
Whatever deal that gets announced/signed/implemented in public will have components that are all done behind closed doors.
I suspect that Two-tier Kier and the Dimocrats thought they could tag team Trump, with the toxic dwarf firing the bullets.
Even if there was an agreement, two-tier then needed to decide whether he hangs on to that agreement and carries the can for the entire Ukraine shit-show, or tears it up and tries to get Orange Hitler back in the tent.
The one scenario they didn’t wargame – and it was the most likely – was that Trump would tell Zelenskyyyy to shove it up his arse.
I think you have nailed it. They still haven’t got his mettle. Trump is clear on his objectives. He is not for moving.( Shades of Maggie Thatcher).
That’s Volodyyyyyymyyyyyyyr Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyyy to you, peasant!
I think that empties out the y bin.
The bits about security are the tell, Sancho. Zelenskyy won’t sign anything without security guarantees (read: significant US troops and/or materiel on Russia’s border) that Trump and Putin wouldn’t accept.
This is diplomatic posturing, nothing more. There will be no agreement signed on terms favourable to Trump.
Piss off, Nazi.
The Australian MSM seems to have missed Trumps disemboweling of the Democrats.