Open Thread – Thurs 13 March 2025


Ramon Subercaseaux in a gondola, John Singer Sargent, 1880

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Barking Toad
Barking Toad
March 13, 2025 12:08 am

First!

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
March 13, 2025 12:13 am

Twixt!

Bruce in WA
March 13, 2025 12:39 am

Heard today that the Feral Government collects $1.40 in tax from smokers … per cigarette! Rsoles.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 4:59 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

It’s for your own good, peasant.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 13, 2025 12:58 am

Short late bookshop-bonehead anecdote time.
Local bootique bookshop, specializing in eco-catastrophe, coffee table glossy and misery memoir. Hip DINK behind the counter had the cliche red Guevara shirt on. I don’t know why- cos I’m usually unfailingly polite and honest- but I said, “You know, as a gay man, I find that Guevara shirt pretty hard to put up with.”
Slightly baffled metrosexual tw*t starts up with some pinko commie drivel about “Erm well acksherly Che Guevara is seen as a liberating hero for all indigenous peoples and against the greed and cruelty of the Catholic Church-”
I cut him off- with my eyes! I have what my (loving but otherwise too damn cheeky) kids call “Dad Voice Resting Face”- and just said
“You. Don’t know jack. About Ernesto Guevara.”
Held his gaze for a beat and a half, turned and left.
I don’t imagine he was in any way shamed into looking critically into Guevara. Given the shirt routine is junior-high shallow in the first place.
*I’m careful not to ape the “My mate Che” bullsh*t. See also terrorist bombing mastermind Nelson “Mandiba” Mandela and rabid racist Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi, more recently kleptocrat “Doctor” Mandarlwuy Yunupingu and junta shotcaller “Mamasan” Suu Kyi.
*I’m also not gay.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 13, 2025 3:39 am
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Lefties have some horrible people as heroes.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 5:01 am
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Arseholes tend to congregate together.

John H.
John H.
March 13, 2025 1:49 am
Reply to  dover0beach

He’s doing a lousy job of it.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 13, 2025 3:30 am
Reply to  dover0beach

I’m not going to subscribe to The Age just to read one article. Particularly one that tells me what Russia wants.

Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
March 13, 2025 4:11 am

Ben Garrison. Spot on!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 4:57 am

 FURIOUS row in Commons as ‘TWO-TIER’ justice to become LAW under Labour: ‘SHAMELESS!’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrtw3D1H_Vo

A furious exchange erupted between Robert Jenrick and Shabana Mahmood in the Commons as hundreds of years of the tradition of equal treatment before the law looks set to come to an end.

“Aux armes, citoyens!”

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 5:03 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Great Britain has just broken the sound barrier as it plumets into the depths of Marxist Hell.
Look back a year. Could anyone have predicted this social catastrophe hanging over Britains head?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 13, 2025 5:14 am

Thanks Tom.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 5:15 am

Up to 17,000 Slaughtered in Syria as World Remains Silent

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-up-17000-slaughtered-syria-as-world/

The genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria continues as the mainstream media continues to downplay the thousands of dead. Death toll estimates range between 7,000 and 17,000.

More than 7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria, according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March, Greek City Times reports.

Some fairly graphic pictures in the links.
Meanwhile the West continues to harbour the crocodile hoping it will get eaten last, but eaten it will be.

caveman
caveman
March 13, 2025 6:18 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Thats hard to stomach, sick to watch. Like the slaughter of christians in Africa. Nuke the lot.

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
March 13, 2025 6:31 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Tony Abbott was rubbished by the mostly left media for saying that in the ME it tended to be bad guys versus more bad guys.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 5:20 am

Yemeni Houthi Rebels Warn ‘Any Israeli Vessel’ Is Now a Target for Their Terror Campaign in the Red Sea

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/yemeni-houthi-rebels-warns-any-israeli-vessel-is/

The Houthis warned shipping companies today (12) that ‘any Israeli vessel’ is again a target. Their attack campaign, from November 2023 until January 2025, saw over 100 merchant vessels targeted with missiles and drones.

They managed to sink two vessels and killed four sailors during their attacks.

What’s the point of having trillions of dollars worth of ships aircraft and armies if we don’t use them against our enemies?

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Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 13, 2025 5:48 am

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 13, 2025 5:52 am

As Germany Debates Conscription, ‘Gender Equality’ Means Women Should Be Drafted To Fight (& Die) For Their Country

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/germany-debates-conscription-gender-equality-means-women-should-be-drafted-fight-die-their

As women demand the benefits of equality, equal pay for instance, they mostly have no desire to experience the negatives of equality, especially when it comes to combat operations.

I certainly don’t want them in the ranks, I’d prefer them in the factories. However there’s a nasty little voice in my head saying “This is the flip side of invading our men’s clubs and public bars.”
🙂

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DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 13, 2025 6:18 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

There aren’t enough women in prisons, either.

The insane proposition that males and females are indistinguishable isn’t really believed by anyone, it’s just convenient rhetoric for justifying encroachment by women on male turf. So taking it seriously by sending women off to war is what the feminist loons deserve.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 13, 2025 6:30 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

The IDF has no problem with females in the Military.

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
March 13, 2025 6:26 am

Democrat polling shows their reputation and standing are in the gutter. Bill Maher laments that there may never be another Democrat President.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/democrats-internal-polling-shows-their-political-brand-gutter/
But right on cue, Stephen Sackur gives a soft interview to former French PM Dominique de Villepin, who says that the American people “will wake up” and realise that they must take back their democracy. Que?

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
March 13, 2025 6:28 am
Reply to  Bungonia bee

That’s the often misnamed Hard Talk show on BBC. It’s hard on conservatives, soft on liberals.

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
March 13, 2025 6:37 am

There was a good poster in The Week In Pictures not long ago that showed pictures of GWB, Clinton, Obama, and Hillary, all talking to Putin on separate occasions. No problem there. But if Trump does it, it’s bad. Another cartoon by Gary Varvel reflected that Clinton and Obama both at least claimed to be trying to curb wasteful expenditures, but when Trump does the same he gets called a horrible dictator.
John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance went down a treat with the chattering leftist classes, and others, but when Trump says it the usual suspects give it the thumbs down.

  1. Democrat polling shows their reputation and standing are in the gutter. Bill Maher laments that there may never be another…

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