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But, but, but, Creepy Joe was governing effectively! H/t mUntard.
Apple’s margin is 40%. Other computer companies would be long gone before Apple. Their margins are negligible in comparison.
They’re socialists, they don’t intend to deliver on freedom of speech, except for themselves and their maaaates.
The civil war is underway- in the courts. Which court? Why the district court of D.C. of course! The same…
Thirst!
Not a good look.
Ha ha.
CNN.
Dover, I suppose it’s unnamed sauces again, yeah?
What actually happened was the Chunk Commerce Minister started making overtures and was told Trump would talk to the organ-grinder, not the monkey.
A bit of leg-spin from CNN there.
Sure, sure, that’s why they increased tariffs further.
Not so sure, sure
What Sanchez says is in the link to the CNN report on the story.
Unnamed sources is the admin talking to CNN and getting them to signal to the markets.
Olives are f*cked,
Who invented these fruits?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Don’t talk to me.
I just spent an entire evening trying to wring oil out of buckets of olives.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
I think I’m going to have to buy a centrifuge.
Shit.
The entire kitchen is now coated in olive oil.
The vessel which is supposed to have oil in it?
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
F*ck.
Damn.
Damn, damn, damn,
Skill issue.
Pilgrims, if you ever have visions of producing oil from your olives…
Think again, there is nothing here for you.
Nothing.
Its a dream, a myth, an illusion.
You will never have oil from your trees.
Never,
Never, ever, ever.
How did you know? My olive trees have not had olives for several years! Am I a bad farmer? Probably. My fruit trees have not been producing either. Would help to fertilise them, I guess.
olives need a cold winter to flower and fruit
if your seasons are too mild, that’ll do it
depends on the type of olive too
Coles big jar 1.4kg of Kalamatas keeps us in olives for a few weeks.
As my father used to say about fishing, give a man a fish … no, that wasn’t it. He said don’t be a fool, use a silver hook.
Stop down ticking me JC.
You don’t always have to be a prick.
I’m not downticking, upticking or sidesways ticking you. So, don’t you be a “prick” and make assumptions because you believe you’re a clairvoyant.
No Tom?
Here is a pic. there is tall and there is tall!
He could have the problem I had yesterday, where the Cat was unreachable until I cleared my cache and/or cookies.
Dover may have to email him.
Snap ..Someone else had the problem .. kept getting a “buy this domain” site ………
Me too!
That happened to me once too, site I was trying was listed as for sale – but it wasn’t.
Me too! Started to get withdrawal symptoms – like having the horrors after getting off the piss.
Just saw this re the site downtime.
Min emailed me re it, but I didn’t know about it and so had no answers, except keep trying.
She is about the size of Goliath in the new Prime show House of David.
I thought it was AI enhanced.
Cute ??
Owl
Why spelling and space is important.
I like this Open Thread’s painting. Never heard of Carl Larsson before this.
His brother Gary is pretty good too. Boom tsch.
Is the dawg sleep walking or lying down??
The Rogan episode that was released yesterday with Dave Smith & Douglas Murray has generated a lot of commentary from people who either didn’t watch it all or who are one of the population who Israel/Gaza/Middle East makes them lose their minds.
In the three hours they rarely directly engaged on a single issue and in a lot of those cases Smith said “you’re right” or Murray said you’re right but in his usual erudite way.
Ie, they agreed on a lot.
Murray was right on the key point he came out of the gates on, that Darryl Cooper is wrong and Joe & Dave were both wrong when they said Cooper just had a different point of view.
Cooper is a Hitler apologist and is objectively wrong on the economic history of the time.
Murray was wrong when he kept referring to “experts” & “authority figures”.
And he kept trying to win cheap debating points saying “Smith no regard for authority figures at the same time Smith would use authority figures to buttress his arguments” (I’ve tried to paraphrase what Murray say and have probably butchered it).
TBH it was a waste of time.
But I was glad I watched it to see the jackals who are all over my twitter, YouTube and TikTok posting about it who clearly didn’t watch it.
I do like self selection exercises.
You see these “What colour is the boathouse at Hereford” moments all the time and they are useful.
Just a reminder for Vegans.
We were banned from paradise for eating a fruit not a steak.
Haw!
Look squirrel!
PETA slams Jeremy Clarkson for adding squirrel to his Farmer’s Dog pub menu (11 Apr)
Compassionate plant-based cuisine is pretty unfair on plants. Plants have feelings too. And as for squirrels being industrious, clever and sentient that makes them far superior to Greens and PETA people.
never seen a”big” squirrel .. you’d need several, in the pot, to get a decent feed …
methinx, as an additive to stew would be the way to go …..
This was common fare in the rural US southern states. Particularly among subsistence farmers and during the great depression.
Squirrel and Dumplings
Oh, so it’s going to be popular again.
Done in aspic. Quite tasty I expect.
Yes beef stew with squirrel garnish.
aaand the publicity stunt has worked a treat.
PETA?
People Eating Tasty Animals, apparently.
NOTE:
“There are two species of squirrel living wild in Britain today – the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Unfortunately, the introduced American grey squirrel is replacing the native red squirrel at an alarming rate with local and regional extinctions in large areas of England and Wales, and some areas of Scotland. It is estimated that Scotland supports three quarters of the 160,000 red squirrels thought to be living in Britain today,” ( from: https://www.red-squirrels.org.uk/Squirrels_in_the_UK.pdf)
Context is actually important.
If Jeremy and his associates are serving up the feral “Grey Squirrels”, the eco-nazis should be cheering him on..
But, as usual, that is NOT their “real game”.
Grey squirrels are an imported nuisance vermin in the UK. They have brought disease to the native red squirrel whose numbers have been diminishing. The reds are still around in parts of The Lake District though I never managed to spot one.
I think it a great use of the greys by Jeremy Ckarkson to reduce the vermin and produce food at the same time.
” An immigration judge has approved the Trump administration’s deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, an Islamist terrorist supporter from Columbia University.”
Slowly leaning up America’s universities, grand if true.
https://x.com/Awesome_Jew_/status/1910791806683402637?t=KfazWn6HoRQgYBlLPuDjPg&s=19
Teal whores. Of course includes the financial backer. Hun:
Well yes it is darling.
I think Cassie (pbuh) is correct. A few of these slags will lose their seats. Mirroring the Greens.
And again they are not independent.
They may not accept funding from Climate 200 during the campaign but I bet they have a deal to be re-imbursed afterwards.
We have one of these grifting slags running in Groom.
And in Deakin, Vic. Her name is Jess Ness.
I take it Zoe Daniel is still saying that Israel is to blame for what Hamas is doing, only some local Jews are not. Good to know.
Further I Was Taken Out Of Context news from Daily Telegraph:
You’d think an intrepid journalist would confront this arsehole and ask him full on what he really means by his words.
I’d like to know who is funding the Muslim Votes Matter turds.
NDIS ?
Name spelling should be OAF.
This bit doesn’t pass the pub test as a “spiritual and symbolic” statement ..!
“7th of October gave the brothers and sisters in Palestine a few hours of freedom from the concentration camp they were in for years”.
Who’d a thunk it!.. overtime on CentreLink payments .. LOL!
Dr Basyouny has a similar view. He also believes you should be able to keep more of what you earn in overtime..
Come on, Albo, lead the way, sell your investment properties to the poor and needy, at prices they can afford.
Don’t they claim that everything they do is spiritual?
So why aren’t they voting for the party that promises to do something about it, the Liberals? And should they even win they certainly will not vote with LNP but will support Labor in exchange for special favours for their coreligionists.
Is that why the “leaders” of Hamas live in luxury in Qatar and are international aid millionaires/billionaires?
Warringah MP Zali Steggall and Senator David Pocock have publicly said they will not accept Climate 200 funding during the election campaign while Ms Spender has previously said they will contribute less to her campaign.
Priceless, the Whore of Wentworth is a comedian!
“My views on the conflict overseas and my support for the Jewish community are very clear and on the record,” Ms Spender said.
The Whore of Wentworth’s views were very clear when she signed the UNRWA letter in February last year that advocated for the resumption of Australian taxpayer dosh to an organisation that is explicitly anti-Semitic and employs rapists and murderers of Jewish men, women and children.
“Climate 200 and their staff have no influence over my policies.
The Whore of Wentworth is a bald-faced liar.
Her corflute says ‘Your Values, Your Voice’ but it is not, is it?
It’s her values, her voice. Votted with the Greens for 66% of the time.
Do you ever worry that because you seem the only sane person in the world, you must actually be the mad one ?
NPWS has decided to do a massive backburn on the mountains around our valley. But….…they have ignited the burn half way up this massive range…..and, of course, it is burning upwards, trapping all wildlife above the fire!
I would have thought that the purpose of the bloody burn was to protect the farmland below. But they have ignored the actual dangerous zone adjacent to our farmland and burnt the higher reaches of the mountain!
A local vineyard is outraged because the heavy smoke can destroy a vintage still on the vines. Apparently this happened in the NSW southern highlands 5 weeks ago. All of us were only notified a few days ago of the burn, not allowing them to harvest.
We are scratching our heads. But it was a spectacular sight last night.
National Parks, a close cousin of Teachers. Neither one have a clue what their job actually involves.
NSW SPARKS AND WILDFIRE SERVICE.
Even when the NPWS are dragged kicking and screaming to do hazard reduction they do it in a malicious way.
Another quickie before I piss orf to bowls, Daily Telegraph:
Of course they aren’t. Another arm of the Greens, who are not very good.
Disney waking up .. LOL!
Naturally I don’t like Jew haters, in any of their guises on the left or right however I am uncomfortable with hacking and exposing someone’s private WhatApp messages. From the Oz….
A slew of horrifying anti-Semitic slurs and bizarre conspiracy theories exchanged between two senior lawyers as they plot to leave a prominent Sydney defamation law firm and start their own rival practice has been exposed in a cache of WhatsApp messages.
Messages obtained by The Australian reveal former BlackBay Lawyers partner Justin Carroll and his colleague Yianni van Gelder railing against “more Jew confected antisemitism”; laughing at the ‘Holohoax’ and the ‘Schlomo-caust’; claiming a client will “try to ‘jew’ me” by negotiating better rates; and toying with not using OpenAI because CEO Sam Altman “is a Jew … that can only mean trouble”.
Look, I think both Carroll and van Gelder are hideous grubs but someone’s private WhatsApp messages should remain private, whether they are savoury or not savoury, the only need to expose such messages is if there’s criminal or terrorist malice and intent involved.
These WhatsApp messages have obviously been exposed by someone or some people with an axe to grind against both Carroll and van Gelder but how is this different to the hacking and exposing of the private ‘Jewish Creatives’ WhatsApp group last year? Am I missing something?
I think it’s very concerning Cassie
Yes the messages are in a private conversation but it reveals the true condition of the individual.
If I were Jewish, certainly wouldn’t want these men to represent me.
If the positions were reversed and some conservative leaning lawyers or public figures were caught to be making fun of transgenders or fake indigenous in private it would be read out on every nightly news report. We must fight back as hard as they do.
I think we have an assumption of privacy when using social media, but if they were having this conversation on work equipment then all bets are off.
We regularly scrolled through the work systems to ensure employees were not exposing the company to risk by accessing porn sites for example or browing car sales when they were on the clock for clients.
It’s ugly but my message to staff was that if you didn’t want your mum to know what you were up to in work time then don’t give your employer grounds for dismissal.
My boy genius found this out the most embarrassing way when he critiqued the fashion choices of his class teacher in an email which he failed to notice was set to Reply All. Even the staff at the school’s remote outdoor ed camp received it.
Much humiliation for a 14 year old lad, but a lesson clearly learned. He is a technical systems manager these days.
Think about the email exposure between Barry Spur and his mate, which rumbled them exchanging some egdy content. Cost him his Prof tenure and no doubt the was struck from the lists of a lot of societies.
I don’t think the content for them was a sackable offense- nor do I think that the “grab them by the pussy” tape was that damning- so I’d have to put these lawyers into the same presumption of no malice.
Not that I don’t hate lefty grub lawyers, of course.
I can’t make up my mind about all of this.
I’m taking it on a case by case basis.
On Climate200.
Firstly funding of candidates.
Our local Teal (Alex Dyson) has been handed $250k from Scam200, but doesn’t know what he thinks about a proposed offshore windfarm. He will “consult the electorate if he wins”.
He also copped $90k from Scam200 last election which arrived very late and was “a pleasant surprise”.
They love to use a standard phrase … “donations from ordinary people at the kitchen table who want to see change”. I suspect those Teal candidates “not taking Scam200” money are simply laundering it using names of campaign volunteers. The reasons are twofold:-
1. To make the Teals look less like the Political Party it is; and
2. To create brand differentiation where the views of Holmes a Court or other Teals might be damaging in that particular electorate.
Secondly on any backlash against odious stuff emanating from their campaign. This is invariably brushed off as “an enthusiastic volunteer expressing their own views”, and the candidate is never pressured to either own it or reject it.
But if it were to be a Coalition candidate ….
Loud denunciations would be demanded.
never vote for a woman, nothing good can come out of it
Would never vote for a Teal anyway, but I certainly wouldn’t vote for any candidate who lacks the moral courage to say where he/she stands on an important issue before the election.
I wouldn’t mind having that hanging on my wall. Charming.
@LauraLoomer
CALL TO ACTION FOR MAGA
STOP SUPPORTING THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
Did you know that the “New Civil Liberties Alliance”, a so called “Conservative libertarian group” with ties to the @FedSoc Federalist Society filed a lawsuit earlier this month to kneecap President Trump from being able to impose tariffs and negotiate reciprocal trade agreements with foreign countries?
They are arguing that Trump’s tariffs are unlawful and unconstitutional.
Who funds the New Civil Liberties Alliance?
Leonard Leo, the co-chairman of the Federalist Society, & Trump hater Charles Koch: Two very pro China donors! The Koch brothers also donated heavily to Club for Growth, which President Trump likes to call “Club for China Growth”.
Perhaps MAGA need to stop supporting the Federalist Society, since their record of supporting Donald Trump is far from impressive:
Let’s examine the Federalist Society’s record:
– They didn’t financially support President Trump in 2024.
– Advised Trump to pick Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS, who works overtime to obstruct the Trump admin.
– Ran PR to stop @RobertKennedyJr’s confirmation as HHS Secretary
– Suing Trump to stop his tariffs on the grounds that they’re “unconstitutional”
– Their Co-founder Steven Calabresi called Trump’s attempts to delay the 2020 election “fascistic” in a NY Times Op Ed and said he should be impeached and convicted for J6. Calabresi also called on every congressional Republican to tell Trump he cannot postpone the election and added that those who say otherwise “should never be elected to Congress again.”
Why is anyone who works for @FedSoc Federalist Society allowed to get near President Trump? And please, for the love of God, can we please not take any more SCOTUS justice recommendations from these Federalist Society Trump haters?
Screw these people!!!
RECEIPTS
Canadian PM Mark Carney vows to allow minors to undergo sex changes if he wins April 28 election
I think he needs a sex change. Blow his balls off, if he has any.
Evil prick.
And then when they become deeply depressed at the outcome they will offer them euthanasia.
There is no sugarcoating this this is demonic.
Groomer
@joma_gc
The verdict is in. Professional agitator Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. GOOD RIDDANCE!
But has been given to 23 April to appeal which of course he will as a delaying tactic
Yeah, he’s appealing from his jail cell in Louisiana.
I think I’d take the deportation.
He’s appealing, an appealing feature of a good system of adjudication. Most unappealing is a notion that lower court judges and magistrates can make the final decision.
@mazemoore
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has some terrible news.
Donald Trump is rapidly turning America into an oligarchy.
Oh dear.
@EricLDaugh
China just posted this
Chicoms aren’t exactly top drawer when it comes to memes .. LOL!
From the Chinese embassy in the US no less.
Now, imagine the result of a foreign embassy posting a similar meme regarding China from Beijing.
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: A Butler, PA man has been charged for threatening to KlLL President Trump, Elon Musk, and other US officials, per DOJ
The Democrats CONTINUE to incite violence against this administration.
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF THIS LOSER, @AGPamBondi
Will ANY Democrats condemn this?!
I wonder why.
Massive spike in pregnancy-related death in the US — here’s which states fare the worst
@BreannaMorello
JUST IN
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was deemed mentally unfit for trial on sex-trafficking charges due to severe dementia, including Alzheimer’s, according to a court filing.
Arrested in October, he allegedly coerced male models into sexual acts at sex parties.
His attorney says Jeffries now needs constant care.
“coerced into sex acts” at a “sex party”. right. ok.
@amuse
UKRAINE: President Trump is quickly losing patience with both Putin and Zelensky. He sees both sides escalating the bloodshed—civilians and soldiers alike—without achieving any meaningful military progress. Meanwhile, the European Union appears content to see the war drag on.
Then leave them to it though no more funding, let the Europeans spend their dough.
Yep .. can’t see any way Dudzy can lift 22 seats ……FFS!
The U.K. has gone full communist.
@OliLondonTV
British mother arrested and held in prison cell for 7 hours for ‘confiscating child’s iPad.’
Vanessa Brown, who works as a history teacher, spent over 7 hours in a prison cell after she confiscated her children’s iPads to encourage them to focus on their school work.
The mother of 2 was arrested by Surrey Police for removing her child’s iPads and storing them in her 80 year old mother’s house so her children could focus on their studies.
Surrey Police said a search operation for the devices started after a man in his 40s reported a possible theft, having already been called out to a “concern for safety.”
The full story .. UK plod .. leg-ends when it comes to heavy-handing “mums” not so good at “real” crims tho .. !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14600307/Disputes-mother-arrested-confiscated-childrens-iPads.html
I had my first night of decent sleep in three months. Too much to think about. I feel exhausted but this is only the beginning. I seem to do my best work at night. Everything becomes clearer. The biggest problem I have is I follow every thought until my thoughts head off on another direction. Hence only a little bit gets done overall.
Sleep is the best remedy for most foggy feelings.
Apologies for the lack of ‘toons at 0400. My software was telling me the Cat was being migrated to a new webhost — then suddenly the Cat reappeared as if nothing had happened.
‘Toons follow.
From elsewhere but worth the share .. LOL!
Albo called the local planet saviour , Chris Bowen , into his office one day and said, ‘Chris, I have a really great idea — a vote winner’. We’ll take a trip outback and have a yarn with the yokels, they’ll love us.’
‘Good idea Albo, how shall we go about it?’ asked Chris.
‘Well,’ said Albo, ( ever the style- conscious Pollie) ……
’We’ll get ourselves one of those Driz-a-Bone coats, some RM Williams boots, a stick and an Akubra hat…….Oh, !!! ….and a blue heeler cattle dog. We’ll really look the part.
First we find a typical old country pub and show ’em we really enjoy the bush.’
‘Yeah,’ said Chrisso ( already thinking about selling the locals on his next belt of Chinese made Solar Power Banks and hoping that the pub was in a windy area to accommodate his notion of a wave of Chinese manufactured Wind Towers stretching to the horizon .
Days later, all kitted out, in Kharki and brown, their tax payer funded blue heeler on a leash, they set off from Canberra.
Eventually they found just the right place, a typical outback pub.
They walked in with the dog and breasted the bar.
’G’day mate,’ said Albo to the bartender, ‘two schooners of your best beer.’
‘Good afternoon Albo,’ said the bartender, ‘two schooners of our best coming up.’
Albo and Bowen stood leaning on the bar drinking their beer and bullshitting, nodding now and then to whoever came into the bar. The dog lay quietly at their feet.
All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a grizzled old stockman with a bloody big stockwhip on his shoulder.
He walked up to the cattle dog, lifted its tail with the whip handle and looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the other bar.
A few moments later, there came another stockman with his whip. He also went to the dog and lifted its tail, looked underneath, scratched his head and went back to the other bar.
Over the course of the next hour or so four or five stockmen came in, lifted the dog’s tail and went away looking puzzled.
Eventually, Albo and Bowen could stand it no longer and called the barman over.
‘Tell me,’ said Bowen, ‘why did all those stockmen come in and look under the dog’s tail like that?
Is it an old outback custom?’
‘Strewth no,’ said the barman. ‘Someone told ’em there was a cattle dog in the bar with two arseholes.’
Johannes Leak.
And I believe Mr. Ouf, who in his own words was “given life” by the events of 7 October, is a pharmacist.
One could mention others who are presently before the courts.
It’s rather disturbing that these types are attracted to the caring professions.
Counting chickens before they hatch? Shirley Not.
Yes…but the numbers will be “interesting.”
Mark Knight.
And still nothing has been done about it.
FBI knew all about Joe and Hunter’s business dealings, laptop authenticity — and did nothing: files
Mark Knight #2.
Brillo !!!
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne.
Payne has nailed it in both his toons.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Lisa Benson.
Election 2025: ‘I’m happy to kick off our feminist movement’, says Jacinta Nampijinpa PricePaige Taylor
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she will kick off a feminist movement of Indigenous women in a Coalition government.
The NT senator and Coalition spokeswoman for Indigenous affairs was campaigning in the West Australian city of Bunbury on Friday when she said her policies would be about lifting the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
“My lived experience as an Indigenous woman in this country under traditional culture (is that) I am a second-rate citizen, that I don’t have the same rights as Indigenous men,” she said.
“We haven’t had our feminist movement as Indigenous women in this country. It’s probably high time we did and I’m happy to kick that off.”
Senator Nampijinpa Price was ushered in the side door of a Bunbury golf club at 12.30pm on Friday as police watched about 30 Noongar protesters at the front of the building. The protesters held signs reading “Dutton’s puppet” and “Unwelcome on country” and chanted “Jacinta has to go”. Noongar leader Robert Eggington travelled from Perth to protest against the visit, saying she did not represent Aboriginal views.
While some Noongar people had claimed the senator should have sought permission to travel to traditional lands of the Noongar people in southwest WA, respected Noongar pastor Dennis Jetta said this was not necessary.
Mr Jetta, 83, is chairman of the Bunbury elders group and said it was courteous practice for politicians from all parties to notify his group when a prominent Indigenous person was coming to town.
“I don’t think anyone needs permission to come to Bunbury but it’s just polite to let us know what’s going on,” he said.
Senator Nampijinpa Price, West Australian senator Michaelia Cash and Liberal candidate for Forrest Ben Small held a private question and answer session with about 100 people who had paid $25 each to attend.
One Indigenous mother said since the voice defeat her children had been asking how to cope with racism. Choking back tears, she said: “This is not news, this is not fun for votes, this is actually our kids they are suffering and I want you to be more responsible.”
“I get where you are coming from, I have been a single mum of three boys and I’ve had to overcome adversity,” Senator Nampijinpa Price told the woman. “We should be respecting one another regardless of racial heritage in this country. The idea of racism has heightened. And the fact that the referendum was put before us I truly believe it was divisive.”
Later at a press conference, Senator Nampijinpa Price said: “No child in this country should have to feel ashamed of who they are.” She said if the Coalition was elected on May 3 the rights of Indigenous women would be “a huge part of policy going forward”.
She said she recently was invited to an event at which the smoking ceremony was conducted by a man who previously had said she deserved to be shot in the head.
“We have to look at, you know, who our elders are … If these are the sorts of individuals we’re holding in high regard in the Indigenous affairs, yes, there will be a reset,” she said. “The expectations will be lifted. The standard will be lifted on my watch.”
How come nobody has the manners to notify parish priests of their imminent arrival or even the bishop? If we are going to bow down to religious figures then let’s respect all equally.
Indeed.
After all, visiting “prominent indigenous leaders” always check in at the Council Chambers, the local MPs office, all Churches, and the mosque and temple if present, don’t they?
Be quiet, you at the back who muttered “…and the Police Station”.
@ScottPresler
BREAKING: HOLY COW!
We found him!
Through a little detective work, Shawn Monper — who posted on YouTube with the name “Mr. Satan” — was arrested for threatening to assassinate President Trump.
I looked up his Pennsylvania voter registration status & Monper is registered as a democrat — shocker!
Here’s where it gets weird: not only does Shawn Monper live in Butler, PA,
(near the site of the 2024 assassination attempt),
but his birthday is July 13th, the very DAY of the assassination attempt
Thank you to @JondavidRLongo for pointing out this coincidence.
Thank you to the FBI for arresting Shawn Monper.
By the way, Monper also requested a democrat mail-in ballot & we’ll be watching to see if he votes.
A registered democrat w/ the same birthday as the assassination attempt in Butler, PA, was arrested in Butler for threatening to assassinate President Trump.
Brendan O’Neill
The cult of Adolescence is out of control
I dont know if its confirmation bias, but there is a lot appearing on my Youtube feed that I find interesting.
This one makes sense (given all dictatorships in History) Channel is Hoover Institute & sorry if this has been posted before.
Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower | Uncommon Knowledge
Then there is this which seems to follow a pattern of Elevens loyalists being removed Channel is Leis real talk. As I said in another post referencing her I get Falun Gong vibes from her, make of that what you will.
Forced ministerial swap reveals Xi’s fading grip on power
@TrumpWarRoom
Press Secretary @karolineleavitt says TODAY is the deadline for all foreign nationals in the U.S. for over 30 days to register with the federal government. Non-compliance is a crime!
As compared to a “rule violation” – what the left like to call entering the country illegally.
This changes the game big time. And could have been done decades ago.
Today’s Saturday Tele:
BATTERIES FOR WELL-OFF AN INSULT TO THE BATTLERS
Vikki Campion
12 Apr 2025
It was not enough to help Elon Musk sell Teslas, now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is offering a discount on his batteries. What further largesse could he offer the world’s richest person, courtesy of the Australian taxpayer? Looking at the demographic he is pitching to, it could well be knocking a few grand off their SpaceX flight.
In a cost-of-living election, the polls are up for a Labor Party taxing the poor to pamper the rich.
The Albanese Labor Government’s battery policy announced this week shows they are helplessly addicted to welfare for the wealthy and sending billions to their recently fallen angel Mr Musk.
Not only will working-class families be slugged $2.3 billion for the battery subsidy, but they will also have to pay a higher cost for their daily power.
Similarly the EV policy hurts the driver in the 10-year-old, second-hand Holden twice. First with the $1.7bn gift to help the wealthy avoid paying luxury car tax on their brand new Tesla, and again when the EV motorists contribute nothing to road repair by escaping $470m in fuel excise tax.
When Labor Hunter MP Dan Repacholi announced the battery policy on his socials, he posted a photo of two Tesla power walls with a combined value of about $30,000 of which the ALP is offering a $4k discount per home.
This means a Cessnock family must firstly own their own house, then have a lazy $26,000 laying around for the batteries. This doesn’t include the outlay for rooftop solar, for which regional buyers were quoted a minimum of $11,000 this week for an 8kw set up by a reputable installer, which makes the bill to prepurchase power about $31,000.
That’s a very small street in Cessnock with that kind of spare pocket money. This policy is not for mortgagees in Morisset struggling to pay for eggs and bread; this is to shore up votes of wealthy homeowners in inner urban Labor seats who have undergone metamorphosis and are emerging from their voting chrysalis as beautiful Green butterflies.
While the wealthy get luxury cars, battery discounts and untested electricity bill relief, the pensioners and working classes who actually do need help, will see their federal energy bill subsidy halve this year, and then drop to zero in 2026/27, according to the forwards in Jim Chalmers’ March budget.
Renters and apartment owners can’t put a Tesla power wall on their balcony, or solar on their roof, or charge an EV in their private garage.
These are policies that exclusively work for people whom the cost of living crisis has seen them forced from a $80 bottles of Champagne to the $40 bracket.
For the rest of us, the cost of power we draw from the grid will be higher as there will presumably be less usage by all households with batteries, driving up the fixed transmission and generation costs which adds to the price of the bill stack. Those with batteries, unless they have an off-grid set up, will still need mains power.
It’s a good thing Mr Repacholi had heard people screaming about their power bills, but isn’t it a shame people are worried about affording to keep their lights on in an energy-rich region like the Hunter, whose black coal keeps the economy booming in China?
And why? Because of the billions more going into the subsidy mine at Parliament House such as the some $3.6 billion budgeted for this year to Environment and Energy Partnership Payments for projects such as the hydrogen energy supply chain project, carbon capture and storage, the “community banks solar program”, the National Hydrogen Technology skills training centre and the temporary cap on the price of coal.
Or the secret billions going into the Capacity Investment Scheme, which pays wind and solar factories whether they provide energy to the grid or not, the only part of the budget where it is acceptable to replace a dollar figure with a “NFP” (not for publication).
The PM claims you will have saved $1100 per year or $7700 over the life of your battery with the scheme.
Based on a replaced battery in seven years, you will still be out of pocket, and that doesn’t take into account the cost of installing, maintaining and replacing your rooftop solar panels, or the increased cost of electricity you draw from the grid, that you will still need on cloudy days.
Meanwhile, the $470m in fuel excise avoidance, and the $1.795 billion in foregone revenue for the electric car discount over six years from 22/23, combined with the $2.3bn battery subsidy, means the Australian working classes are coughing up nearly $5bn in the near future to subsidise those who own multimillion-dollar homes to collect shiny new toys made by Mr Musk.
LIFTER
David Janetzki, Queensland’s treasurer, for scrapping Labor’s intermittent power targets and extending the life of affordable hydrocarbons.
LEANER
Hordes of Greens staffers and MPs who lecture us on emissions yet happily hopped on the pointy end of the plane to the National Press Club in Canberra to watch dear leader Adam Bandt explain how he would bankrupt the country while feasting on snapper or a vegan option: onion served on a bed of chickpeas.
Middle class welfare is now the Australian way, Vicki.
As with many other symptoms of our present malaise, faux conservative John Howard kicked it off.
Roge – don’t think your reply was to anything I said.
Oh – just realised – your response was to Vikki Campion’s article.
Yes.
Thankyou
Alas, that’s not what he did.
He pushed the target time frame out by 15 years.
And announced new pumped hydro funding.
He’ll have Malcolm Turnbull on the phone on Monday morning hawking a project or two.
Net zero is already dead. It just hasn’t been officially declared as such. Pushing the target out 15 years means you can get on with other priorities without having to deal with the squawking Henny Penny types. It’s actually a very clever move. Also when I read the earlier release by QLD premier earlier this week he was talking about putting in more gas. Also a clever/sound move. The pumped hydro is a smoke screen and may never eventuate past concept.
And yet they’re not planning any more coal plants.
That’s not very clever given the lead time on such projects.
The net zero goal is very much alive in such thinking.
When I walk around my suburb I take note of the houses with solar panels on the roof and conclude that the owners do not have a mortgage problem even in this economy. Money seems not to be a problem.
Solar panels are sold as a no-cash deal. The vendor sets up finance, and the drop in power bills covers repayments.
Correct.
Batteries, gas, electric ..? .. Naaah .. a, portable, “houso” BBQ takes care of all your cooking needs .. LOL!
That’s 157 000+ arriving by boat since 2018.
And only 2995 deportations from that cohort to the end of 2024 [gov.uk].
There will be more and more arrivals over their summer.
At an ever-increasing rate if the present government inaction prevails.
This time last year the Home Office was taking a census of how many beds local councils could provide for the expected summer influx.
They’re going to need more beds again!
Slackers, we fly them in at the rate of half a million per year.
If you mean students, we also get the ones the US & UK reject.
I see Dutton will try to cap the numbers at 240 000 per year.
Which is only 30 000 less p.a. than Labor’s bill which the Coalition voted down in cahoots with the Greens.
So the route to permanent residency via tertiary education enrolment will continue courtesy the uniparty, albeit slightly trimmed.
?
Singing that would get you thrown in prison these days it seems.
He’s not wrong.
Deal between Trump, Zelensky impossible, Medvedchuk believes
Zelensky cannot let the war end, as soon as it’s over he will have to hold an election and then he is gone.
I get the feeling he’d like to be out of there.
Well, Roger, if the stories are correct, he has plenty to set him up comfortably in a European stately home for the rest of his life.
If nothing else he can go on the speaking circuit and make millions.
If he’s actually corrupt I imagine there’d be some parties in any new government that would like to hold him to account.
Thats usually the problem. I guess we can rule out sanctuary in a Moscow apartment.
Vikki Campion cont’d:
RULES WILL GIVE ACTIVISTS THE ARTISTIC LICENSE TO CLOSE OFF AUSTRALIA
Australians overwhelmingly voted No to the Voice, so why does the Canberra bureaucracy behave as if the opposite occurred?
Native Title claims that could change where you live, work, fish or camp, can now be shaped by how a bureaucrat felt about a painting one day.
The Australian Law Reform Commission, in reviewing the future acts regime in the Native Title Act, has opened the way for individuals to send in an “artwork” as a formal submission to its reform discussion paper until December 2025.
How on earth do you identify “aspects of the future acts regime you think work well” with a painting?
How do you provide “ideas about how to reform the future acts regime” or show “what an ideal future acts regime would look like” as the issues paper requests, with what, a still life of an apple?
This move leaves everything open to interpretation, allowing submissions “without answering specific questions”.
How do you form a concrete argument to change a policy as complicated as Native Title, with brushstrokes as subjective as music, and how do you evaluate it with the consistency that Native Title deserves?
Does a biro sketch of a landscape get the same weight as a watercolour or a dot painting?
The Terms of Reference ask the Law Commission to find reform in native title, “as well as ways to make it work more efficiently” and “support native title holders so they can effectively engage with the future acts regime, as well as supporting fair negotiation and collaboration between native title holders and proponent”.
Didn’t we have a referendum that all Australians were equal?
This is the frivolity that has been allowed to thrive in the Albanese government’s public service, where legal bureaucrats will be given more than a year to ingest art, to determine how to create changes to Native Title.
We did but apparently you have to have a non-Labor/Green government that will acknowledge the outcome.
Labor don’t seem to realise that their half a million per year importation of new voters will come to bite them one day soon. When the new voters achieve a critical mass they will vote to nullify Native Title and all its provisions to make sure that true equality reign again. The many various and diverse immigrant groups may not agree on much but I can imagine they will vote to cancel the partition of the continent.
A sanguine Government will call for a referendum on Native Title.
The only change to Native title I support is individual title and as land owners pay all rates, taxes, levies and charges as all of us do and as if it has value over a certain amount or land area, no payments by government made to the owner. The owner should be able to sell the land..
Exactly – the value of an individuals holding in a native corporation or native title or tribal mineral royalties be allowed for in calculating entitlement to all welfare.
The unrealised capital gains tax would be epic.
Rep Jasmine Crockett under FEC investigation over ActBlue campaign donations
When Fiction Predicts Reality: Preparing for the Coming Global System
Fired Minnesota professor sues ‘tyrannical’ Walz over COVID vax mandate
Jacinta has belled the cat!
It will be a shame and a loss to Australia if Jacinta Price is confined to the politics of aboriginal issues. Her clarity in thinking is missing in action across the whole spectrum of policy areas.
A smart political party would have a career path mapped out for her which allowed her freedom and resources to develop herself – and it. The risk is that she becomes entrapped in the ‘Yes, but what you don’t understand…’ thinking of the professional political advisory class.
As I said the other day DrF, she’s put the frighteners through her own party. Can’t have anyone that thinks.
I hope I didn’t put the “mocker” on her when I told Littleproud at an event to look after her, “because she’s the best you’ve got” !!!
I believe she’s been promoted to the inner circle of Dutton’s shadow cabinet.
Shirley, to qualify as an ‘elder” all that is required is a, passing, mention in some form of media ..?
@JamesOKeefeIII
This is Matthew Tyrmand. He is the board member who fired me from Project Veritas.
While few may know who he is, that’s about to change soon.
We’ve obtained new evidence about what happened. He knows what he did.
That’s why he sends pornographic, unhinged messages to me on a weekly basis. That’s why one message was a picture of me nailed to a Crucifix. That’s why he posted private medical records and intimate texts of employees loved ones who he wanted to harm. The messages were obtained from devices of employees.
That’s why he said he wanted to “carve out James heart and eat it in front of him.”
This man is afraid because he has been subpoenaed. He has much to hide. He will be brought to justice, so help me God.
Stay tuned. @MatthewTyrmand
Did I say the U.K. was full communist –
German Journalist Given Seven Month Sentence for Meme Mocking Government’s ‘Hatred’ of Free Speech
It was seven months on probation.
Bad enough, yes, but let’s get the facts right.
The government/judiciary’s actions prove his point.
It’s a bit analogous to the Mueslis who proclaim that “If you don’t stop calling us violent we’re going to kill you.”
Republicans Probe Secret Biden-Era Settlement With Green Groups To Shut Down Family Ranches
@MikeBenzCyber
Stunning. The FBI paid British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $75K for dirt on Donald Trump, while Steele openly told the FBI Donald Trump was his “Main Opponent” because Trump’s foreign policy negatively impacted British interests
Why is this stunning? We’ve known this for years and that MI6 was involved in trying to crucify the Orange Oaf. There’s nothing new in this latest release stream.
Apologies if this has been posted previously but I can’t resist — been dancing in the kitchen to it on replay: https://x.com/Grill2246/status/1909803128741896558
Saw a yacht yesterday when I was out in the kayak, called Tinterella. It was painted red.
Red??? Tinta won’t like that.
ooooh yes I do red is my favourite colour –and black white and red (sono i miei colori di battaglia) are my battle colours — my concerns are black and white and red is for the revolution
They’re also the colours of the St Kilda Football Club which I’ve hated since 1966:)
Tintarella. Your nom de plume is bugging me as I have a vague recollection of it being derived from a ballet dance, legend, fairy tale or similar but despite searching have not found an answer. Can you advise as it will plague me .
sun tan name of a song
mem this will explain it — sung by the legendary Mina
About a girl like all the other girls who bake their bods in the sun Tintarella is tinted by the light of the moon
Could it be a tarantella, with the fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees?
Or the wine that tasted of the tar?
So no! Refresh button is my friend.
Chinese Trump
Nice painting but that dog is going to wake up and eat the furniture.
Saul Eastlake on with brent bultitude, the weird looking dj on 2SM. Eastlake’s TDS is if possible worse than the stick figure sheridan’s. Trump was chaos, the world is in ruins and the chunks are the heros.
Eastlake obviously regards himself as one of the elites who are threatened by Trump so as is typical with TDS sufferers nothing Trump does is good and in fact will produce armageddon.
Bultitude, who also has TDS, lapped it up.
Can anyone post this in full:
Trump shock: is there method behind the madness? | The Spectator Australia
I thought the painting insipid.
The dog was ok.
I put Estlake in the same basket as the Kook. A very left wing basket.
In my youth I thought free trade was great. But then I realised there is no free trade. Tarriffs and non-tariff imposts still abound all across the world.
It has a real Glasgow School feel to it – part painting, part illustration. I like it.
The Glasgow School? Is that where they saved money by putting very little colour into the painting.
It’s where, if you don’t like the art, they go, “Och, Jimmy!” and headbutt you without warning
An observation that I’ve not seen so keenly expressed. I will save that for future use.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/04/trump-shock-is-there-method-behind-the-madness/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UNFI%20%2020250411%20%20GK&utm_content=UNFI%20%2020250411%20%20GK+CID_aa08bf32c4fcf05a31b57deb0851ad93&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Trump%20shock%20is%20there%20method%20behind%20the%20madness
I’m trying to get my head around Tasmania – of which Eslake is a proud denizen – having an elite.
Anyone who can afford their own meth.
Janet Albrechtsen has an op-ed in the Weekend Oz on Dyson Heydon:
How one of our finest legal scholars was cancelled in the court of #MeToo
If anyone is interested I can post it here.
Yes, I read it too. The judge fell foul of the Left when he presided over the Gillard/Bruce Wilson matter in 2014. I attended some of that hearing in the gallery. He didn’t take kindly, as I recall, to the evidence of Bill Shorten.
OK does anyone know who “Australians for Prosperity ” are? Ive now received two emails . The first was from Jason Falinsky the ex Pres of the NSW Libs and a wet sopping moderate. Is it another Advance? A wet version thereof? Any ideas?
Jock, the idea is, you do the work, they get the prosperity.
Liberals opposed to Dutton’s nuclear plan.
RAAFA emergency accommodation for veterans approved in Cannington
Veterans who have found themselves sleeping rough on the streets will soon have temporary housing available in Cannington after a $7.5 million emergency accommodation building to tackle the unique crisis was approved.
The green light from the Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel allows the Royal Australian Air Force Association to start building the Andrew Russell Veterans Living Centre — WA’s first emergency housing solution dedicated to veterans at risk of homelessness — which is tipped to be operating late next year.
Sergeant Andrew Russell — an Australian SAS soldier from Perth who was killed in Afghanistan in 2002 — is remembered as a veteran who was “all about taking care of his mates”.
Bureaucratic sabotage?
Dover
That’s a pretty rock bottom story. You can do better than that.
The story is illustrative.
I am over airlines. Delayed yet again, miss connection in Brisbane spending 5hrs longer there than originally planned. Airport parking will click over an extra day… Wont be home till 10pm.
Check in counter staff deliberately lied, said aircraft left 5 min late. Nope flight radar 24 tells me 1h17m late leaving.
Red roo customer service about to cop a blast in next few days.
Sitting in Indonesia awaiting a night flight with the red kangaroo…touch wood!
Over at the West Australia, comments on the articles about Senator Price, visiting Bunbury, have suddenly gone down the memory hole..
It’s a very good piece by Janet on Dyson Heydon.
Heydon’s ‘crime’ was that at times he was perhaps a little ‘handsy’ with some women.
After Alan Jones’ arrest last November Josh Szeps bravely said the same about Jones’ supposed crimes.
Conservative and right of centre men are fair game to be brought down.
Left-wing males can visit Thai whores, rape women and so on and nothing happens. No wonder the left like Hamas.
Heydon’s “crime” was to head the royal commission into the unions. The Left hates his guts for that.
Yes.
The pattern is that a “conservative white male” who has successfully and publicly defenestrated some lefty con or other is subject within a relatively short time thereafter to allegations of sexual misbehaviour – as an example to others.
I watched most of that particular Commission through its’ open website. It afforded very many belly laughs.
Rub and tug went to a brothel. Tits shorten allegedly raped a young girl.
And say “Smash her!” of a female Coalition MP in parliament.
I don’t know if he ever apologised.
I wonder if he was given an upgrade?
Off to the dreaded seat of government next week – Canberra – to see the Pompeii exhibition in its final days. I did a solo trip to Pompei (& also Herculaneum) many years ago when husband went on a bike trip with buddies in Oz. It was wonderful. But even then, only about a third of Pompeii had been excavated. I believe that some recently excavated artefacts are on display in the museum.
Incidentally, I also recommend the Macchu Picchu exhibition currently at the Museum in Sydney. The gold artefacts simply stunning. But it was a sombre and strangely dark culture, although the artistry and metallurgy was masterful. I was very taken with how very non European the culture was.
Vicki,
I saw the Pompeii exhibit with my adopted family on Thursday.
We all loved it. The kids had a real buzz from the Volcano erupting. I won’t describe it too much as there is an element of surprise which I don’t want to ruin for you.
The displays are great, not as many relics as at the Egypt exhibit, but more information. It’s amusing to see how some every day items have not changed in almost 2 thousand years. The tweezers are almost identical to a pair I use.
You will enjoy it, Vicki.
Saw Macchu Picchu the other day when we were in Sydney – excellent although Mrs TE nearly had the conniptions with the “flying” VR experience…
If you have time in Canberra, Vicki, come to ours for a morning or afternoon tea – Dover or Lizzie can give you my email
Just come in from the paddock, TE. Thank you very much. We would enjoy that & I will contact Lizzie for your email & let you know of our whereabouts.
Done now, by both text and email.
The Perpetual Passover Feast
Passover this year begins at sundown on April 12, the eve of Palm Sunday.
The longest-continuously-celebrated feast in human history, it began some 3,300 years ago, on the eve of the Hebrew’s flight from slavery to freedom, and its celebration continues to the present day.
I wonder who’s paying for all these pizzas.
@BreannaMorello
SWATTING UPDATE
Judge Esther Salas says pizza deliveries are being sent to judges and their families in the name of her dead son.
The Judge’s son was shot and killed at their New Jersey home in 2020.
Numerous conservative influencers are facing harassment via unsolicited pizza deliveries.
@GuntherEagleman recently had 4 dozen delivery orders sent to random people nationwide, linked to his phone number.
The FBI is investigating connections between these pizza deliveries and swatting calls targeting conservatives.
BoN – I am always in dread of it – though I expect it will be more likely in the event of a takeover by Xi.
Most of the pizza deliveries are COD.
Very unfair to businesses and drivers.
@laurel_libby
BREAKING NEWS Maine’s AG has sent a letter to the Trump administration confirming that Maine will NOT comply with Title IX, and will continue to discriminate against Maine women and girls.
Another leftoid woman looking after young girls.
If they are defying federal law when will the arrests start?
Australia Sells $29B In Beef In America, Won’t Allow ‘One Hamburger’ In From U.S.
I’m alright again.
I’ll admit I went mad due to the olives.
Temporary case of insanity, but I’m alright now.
Really, I’m fine.
I mean, it isn’t as if the olives are deliberately withholding their oil. Oil that they produced under the same method the day before at small scale.
There has to be a reason, a good, logical reason why it failed yesterday at scale.
I’ll keep calm and think my way through it.
The olives aren’t laughing at me, taunting and mocking me.
Stay relaxed, regulate my breathing. It’s going to be fine.
Fine, fine, finey fine fine,
Olives can’t be deliberately malicious. They’re just fruit.
Don’t take it personally.
There are buckets full of them in the kitchen, not sitting there in their thousands plotting, not pointing and giggling among themselves. There are trees full of them outside, not mocking me.
Bastards. Bastard f*cking things.
I’ll get you.
I’ll get every single damn last one of you.
I’ll smash your little faces in. I’ll, wring your f*cking necks. I’ll, I’ll, I’ll…
Goddamn you. Goddamn your black olive hearts.
Die. Die. Die. DIE.
Die olive scum.
Look what fruit has done to vegans, raving mad.
Giant stone wheels pulled around a circle by a hard-working camel do the trick. Is it possible your wheels are to light or your camel too weak?
I built a hydraulic press. By choosing a small diameter piston and cylinder I worked out the areas and ratios and using a hand scale made for weighing luggage I estimated the squashing power to be roughly that required to get four elephants into a Mini Minor.
Reminded of a sight to behold many years ago. Three extremely obese women with their shopping in a mini. Talk about getting more into a container than it holds. Literally could not see anything of the inside of the car below window level.
What method of extraction are you using?
You do know that dancing around in a tub as per the Grape/Wine method is not interchangeable with olives, don’t you? 😀 😀 😀
Very amusing, Arky. My trees, as I have mentioned before, have gone on strike – that’s how much they hate me. Too bad, the effort to even preserve the olives they once delivered, was a pain in the proverbial.
The olive trees of my Italian friends in the Hunter Valley, on the other hand, deliver big, luscious fruit which my friends preserve in a far more efficient way.
As for making oil – other friends in Mudgee imported a press from Italy to do the job, though admittedly, they made money from the oil they sold. No one I know attempts to do it with a small machine or by hand – although not sure what you are using.
Send this to Quadrant to publish (I’m serious). Best bit of prose I’ve read in years. I love it for so many reasons. Bless you Arky.
No one is immune to leftoidism, even Jews. Leftoid Jews are using this version of the old “First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist” slogan. Now it’s:
‘First They Came for Hamas. Then They Came for the Jews.’ | Frontpage Mag
All to justify their support of the pallis.
First they came for the Communists
and gave them helicopter rides
First Hamarse came for the Jews, then leftard Jews joined Hamarse in the pogrom?
The man i trust the most when it comes to aviation incidents. More informative than most.
Juan Browne – Blancolirio
Bell 206L Crash Hudson River New York
A salesman drove into a small town where a circus was playing. A sign read:
“Don’t Miss The Amazing Italian”. The salesman bought a ticket and sat down. There, under The Big Top, in the centre ring, was a table with three walnuts on it. Standing next to it was an old Italian.
Suddenly, the old man dropped his pants, whipped out his huge male member and smashed all the walnuts with three mighty swings! The crowd erupted in applause and the elderly Italian was carried off on their shoulders.
Fifteen years later the salesman visited the same little town, found the same circus and saw the same faded sign that read, “Don’t Miss The Amazing Italian”. He couldn’t believe the old guy was still alive, much less still doing his act!
He bought a ticket. Again, the center ring was illuminated. This time, however, instead of walnuts, three coconuts were placed on the table. The Italian stood before them, then suddenly dropped his pants and smashed the coconuts with three swings of his amazing member.
?The crowd went wild! Flabbergasted, the salesman requested a meeting with him after the show. “You’re incredible!” he told the Italian, “but I have to know something. I saw your act 15 years ago and you were using walnuts. Why the switch from walnuts to coconuts?”
“Well,” said the Italian, “My eyes aren’t what they used to be”
BJ is punching above his weight with Vicki Campion. She wrote this about rich brat holmes acourt and his gaggle of green kunts: sorry about the length but worth it:
Climate 200 Founder Holmes a Courts story
TEALS GODFATHER RAISED ON RICHES OF COAL, OIL & GAS
IF NOT FOR A FAMILY FORTUNE BUILT ON FOSSIL FUELS, THE YOUNG HOLMES A COURT WOULD JUST BE ANOTHER STRUGGLING ECO WARRIOR, WRITES VIKKI CAMPION
It’s funny how if his father hadn’t made so many millions from coal, oil and gas, we wouldn’t know the name of the son trying to stop them now.
Long before the existence of Climate 200, the Mr Holmes a Court written about in the media was a classic-car and art collector, champion racehorse breeder, media baron and investor tycoon, remembered undeniably as a genius, Robert Holmes a Court.
He was a tall Johannesburg-born, West Australian, part of the British aristocracy, with his cousin being the sixth baron of Heytesbury, who began with a law practice “that gave fast service to mine operators” and worked his way to the rich list buying 1500 shares in a coal mining company.
It became Bell Group, which included “a portfolio of investments in minerals and petroleum”, reported in an interview in Forbes as growing 16-fold to $767 million in a mere 18 months.
Coal, oil, petroleum and gas investments helped power a growing collection of Rolls Royce cars and Monet paintings.
This immense resource wealth paved the way for interactions with global superstars.
It allowed his wife Janet to gift An Aboriginal Dreaming to Yoko Ono, whom she met when her husband was negotiating sales of the rights to all the Beatles music. Michael Jackson received Aboriginal art from Janet, an avid art collector and theatre landlord.
Prime Ministers and opposition leaders alike would run to Robert’s call. He was not just a wealthy magnate; he was the original influencer.
As Robert acquired racehorses, cars, houses and art, “The circle of acquaintances became more elite, and Janet had less time to mix with ordinary people”, Janet’s friend and official biographer Patricia Edgar wrote.
“In three days they bought $35 million (of art), including works by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Berthe Morrissey, Maurice de Vlaminck and Vincent van Gogh.”
I found Janet’s biography at a Lions Club Book Sale in Tamworth for 50 cents, while picking up a haul of historical and political books for when I need to file my column from the heart of the New England Renewable Energy Zone when the power goes out, as it does now despite being surrounded by wind and solar, which Climate 200 says we can power the nation on.
As others have been informed by a traineeship at McDonalds, Climate 200 convenor Simon Holmes a Court has been informed by an esoteric exclusion of the rituals of a regular upbringing.
Today, the son of Australia’s first billionaire is a mass influencer on Australian politics. When he isn’t asking for donations to his third-party fundraising vehicle, he is writing books about it, appearing on podcasts, the National Press Club and the ABC.
In one experiment, on the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast, he talks about building an off-grid house in regional Victoria and deciding not to bring powerlines because “they would have gone across our view”.
Yet, unashamedly, his promotion of the country’s transition to wind and solar imposes hundreds of thousands of kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines from wind and solar developments on farms.
This is an opinion shared by the MPs he directs funding to, such as Warringah MP Zali Steggal who decries the suggestion of wind turbines in her electorate but lauds it when they are out of sight.
He funds inner-city MPs who fight gas projects hundreds of kilometres from their seats but advocate for worse environmental destruction by supporting those who build wind and solar farms, the new developer de jour.
It is the essence of the politics of the elite.
‘don’t be a dick’
Last week Simon Holmes a Court was in the front row of a Brisbane theatre, addressing a coterie of loyal Climate 200 listeners, some toting a glass of champagne, oblivious to the panorama they were painting.
A 24-year-old Barclay McGain asks why, if renewables are so cheap, the cost of power keeps going up.
“We are here tonight in a luxury cinema with our champagne flutes,” he points out.
His clip posted by @Chriscoveries goes viral after his ejection, not so much because of McGain’s persistent questioning, but Holmes a Court’s response: “Don’t be a dick.”
The Climate 200 fundraiser, who soared to mass influence following the 2022 election, relishes strangers who agree with him and is quick to pile on the pejorative when they don’t.
Those who believe in hydrocarbons for affordable power are “delusional” or “trolls”. Nuclear advocates are “living in fantasy”. Those trying to tell him our side of the story are a “liar” or “corrupt”.
Those who do not believe 100 per cent renewables in Australia will work are “gadflies”, “geese”, and “cockroaches”.
Some commentators are shut down with legal threats, a weapon favoured by the wealthy.
At the same time other rich-listers, even those deeply invested in coal and mining seem to be spared the same character assassination.
Physicist Aiden Morrison, who warns of blackouts or bill shocks, was labelled a “troll” working for a “junk tank” (CIS) and blocked on X by Holmes a Court, while carbon-emitting private jet owners like Mike Cannon-Brookes is a “rock star”.
Others, like engineer Rob Parker, were cancelled after Holmes a Court posted: “seriously @EngAustralia? you’re hosting an anti-renewables event for @nukeforclimate?”.
But Holmes a Court rejects
accusations of online bullying.
Instead, he repeatedly refers to being bullied himself by nuclear experts, physicists, and conservative commentators employed by News Corp, like he was bullied at his exclusive private school Geelong Grammar, where his nickname was “BHP”.
beaten repeatedly
After growing up near the beach in a mansion in one of Cottesloe’s prestigious addresses in their early life, Simon was sent to the most exclusive private school in Australia, Geelong Grammar.
This coincided with a period where BHP was labelling Robert a “greenmailer”, an investor who buys up shares in a company to threaten a hostile takeover, forcing the target to repurchase its shares at a premium.
According to Edgar’s biography, Simon hated his BHP nickname at school.
Ms Edgar details the horrific bullying of the young Simon, “beaten repeatedly”, whipped with an inner tube from a bike tyre, “and if he moved, the whipping would continue”.
It’s not fair when the big kids pick on the little guys, like with this energy “transition” plan in which Climate 200 proposes tax incentives that effectively disadvantage the most financially disadvantaged seats in Australia, where cement suburbs tell us we must cut down our bush and industrialise our farms to fix the environment, where people who started from nothing and worked to own a small block are pulverised.
The transition Climate 200 proposes would have the effect of tying regional Australia to the whipping chair because we cannot fight back. And if we move we get hit again.
In his posse are politicians, media outlets and a glamour set of wealthy individuals with idle time. A cause that comes from a club few can afford membership to.
craved dad’s attention
While commentators in the media so often call him the billionaire’s son, Robert Holmes a Court died without a will when Simon was just 18 years old.
It would not be too much of a stretch to suggest Simon’s politics are more influenced by Janet than Robert, or that it’s a reaction against Robert.
It’s challenging to read Janet’s story and not empathise with her and her young children, especially young Simon, left in the mansion at Cottesloe “with carers” while his mother bent to his father’s every whim.
“Simon and Paul would remain in Perth with carers … without structure or discipline”, Edgar wrote.
The portrait offers vignettes of a child craving attention from a father like most children would.
Young Simon wanted a go-kart for the local race. Instead of his dad, it was a Bell Group “employee named Jimmy” who helped Simon “build the go-kart to beat all go-karts.”
“But when it came time to take it to school, he felt really embarrassed.”
In an excerpt in the book, Simon said: ”Because everyone else had fruit boxes they had knocked together with their fathers, and in a way, my father had helped me knock mine together, but in a very indirect way, he gave me the run of the Bell Group odd jobs man and his resources.”
It also details how the “left-wing” background of Janet’s family came in handy for Robert’s business deals.
She had grown up in the Cold War when “socialists like her parents were vilified”.
“Janet was there when Robert dealt with the unions. Her background was a useful foil. The unions regarded Robert with great suspicion, but having a wife with a very left-wing political background could not be all bad,” Edgar wrote.
janet for president
In the decades following Robert’s death and carving her own path in the business world, Janet was outspoken on removing our links to the monarchy and passionate about the need for a new flag, including removing the Union Jack.
Not only did she campaign for the Republic, she was supposed to be, according to polls taken at the time, Australia’s first president.
The WA’s Sunday Times ran headlines “Janet Call”, reporting that in Western Australia, she was favoured for Australia’s first president, while a national poll had her in fourth place, under her old friend Paul Keating.
“Janet’s name was floated by supporters as a more appropriate and appealing leader of the Australian Republican Movement than the abrasive Malcolm Turnbull,” the book said, as she travelled Australia arguing for a new nation.
It was not to be. And Janet wrote her own opinion on the issue.
“Too many of the nation’s silent majority allowed the rhetoric of a committed few to wash over them, or accepted without question both of reason and sophistry which played on their natural instincts of conservatism and fear of change,” Janet observed at the time.
lacking scrutiny
While Simon Holmes a Court had initially been a member of Kooyong 200, a subscriber based third-party fundraising vehicle for the former Liberal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Janet Holmes a Court was never a fan of the Coalition.
Prior to the 1996 election, Prime Minister Keating announced she would be made Centenary of Federation Council chair, which failed to eventuate when John Howard was elected Prime Minister instead.
In 1996, when asked about the Howard Government’s election win, Janet said, “If you’re in a democracy, you have to expect government to change. What disappointed me was the success of racists and bigots.”
Her son’s organisation has emerged as the greatest threat to the Coalition, using the third-party fundraising instrument.
The major parties despise it because Climate 200 is not subjected to the same scrutiny as political parties by the electoral commission.
One key difference is that the amount donated to Climate 200 is tax deductible instead of a political donation, which is only tax deductible up to $1500.
Climate 200 discloses where the money comes from but not where they spend it.
There’s no public disclosure or register of interests of a third-party fundraiser convenor like an elected MP, their families, or even senior political staff in a ministerial office.
The Teals say they aren’t centrally controlled in joint press conferences where they call for more wind and solar. Advertisements for a so-called independent in Cowper are identical to that for a different independent in Curtin on the other side of the country, with evidence of consolidating their media buy.
They say they are not a political party but a movement with one influential figure who says he is not an influencer.
Without Robert Holmes a Court’s coal and oil riches, Simon might have ended up just another ecowarrior lost in the crowd. Fossils do fuel flame
Janet Holmes a Court, who declared that a true socialist, such as herself, struggled with the concept of inherited wealth.
I despise that family, I really do.
The more I learn about them the worse they seem to be. I sense an aristocratic contempt for Everyman, facts and science. Norman conquistadors.
..an aristocratic contempt for shareholders rights….
I’d struggle too. Being a Socialist. How could I possibly handle all that dosh. Tell you what, I’ll do it for you to save the you the burden. Oh, the sacrifice.
The previous comment contains no hint of sarcasm.
So why didn’t she give.it all Vinnes then?
Struggled mightily – like Atlassian boy and his private jet.
I have noticed that wealthy people like herself who have made similar statements in the past never divest themselves of their fortune.
Disgusting hypocrisy.
At least Young Warwick Fairfax did that.
A few Fauxfacts have tipped their lot into the family “fortune”. Only to see it disappear.
In that case she could have used that inherited wealth to make it up to all the investors her husband stiffed just before he died. Yeah, I despise them too.
Fun Fact-
I once let go of a door which I was holding open for Janet Holmes o’Court, and it hit her in the face.
It was one of those heavy, slow Art Gallery glass numbers, and she was swanning around on the entry mat like I was some sort of liveried servant. She gave me no eye contact or nothing, so, I thought, f*ck you and f*ck it.
Says a lot about the Republican movement in Australia. Res publica- thing of the people. Def not. Not like the US Republicans (the good ones). As much as I dislike the saxe Coburg gothas , I’ll chose them over likes of trumble and Holmes a court any day.
But they’ll happily use the same third party set up to raise funds for themselves, which is why they’re hamstrung when it comes to doing anything about it.
There are 36 such entities registered with the AEC at last count, btw.
We wear the rags to mourn what we’ve lost. Mostly the attention, and the kick-backs… snork, snicker, bwahahahahahah
https://x.com/ramble_rants/status/1909599045296718234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1909599045296718234%7Ctwgr%5Ea9e6e5792a28d7cd700f991081bd9c783e36d9dc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F414383
Data crazy Americans. There’s a website called Trueflation giving a daily inflation reading and measures, according to some accounts, millions of data points e very day.
Today’s suggests US inflation is around 1.34% annualized. It’s been heading down.
The set up line.
If he doesn’t win there will be howls of “wacist vote wigging” from the Mueslis.
And, of course, their ABC (who thought claims of election fraud in 2020 were High Treason) will go along for the ride.
No doubt “legitimate grievances” will get a run.
A part of me would hate even a Labor MP losing his seat to a Muesli.
But then I think, “Well you asked for it when you allowed these people in for their votes.”
The logical extension of multiculturalism as practiced by the uniparty (let’s not pretend the Liberal Party hasn’t played the ethnic vote buying game as well, though not as well as Labor) is voting based on ethno-religious loyalties rather than party political allegiance.
It’s quite a can of worms they’ve opened up.
Dutton side-by-side with Senator Nampijinpa Price in WAPeter Dutton has been joined by Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at a bowling club in Tangney WA and the pair have delivered passionate speeches in front of a throng of supporters.
The Coalition leader introduced the Senator who said she can’t “be prouder to stand by a man who put’s Australian’s first.”
“He has a proven track record and he is the man for the job as the next Prime Minister.”
I assume you were there, Zulu. She’s good, isn’t she???
PM to spruik $60m ferry spend, gets ‘wonderful’ WA welcome
Anthony Albanese is appearing along WA Premier Roger Cook in Perth to spruik his government’s $60m investment to expand the state’s ferry network.
“We need to represent the whole of Australia, and that means backing WA, and that’s what my government will do,” he said.
Mr Cook said it was “wonderful” to welcome the PM back into the state.
“Albo gets WA,” he said.
Sheep farmers would give Albo a West Australian welcome he would never forget!
Albo gets Perth, and possibly Kimberly. The rest of WA not so much.
Doncha love the word “investment”? “Spend would be more like it. No Abalone it isn’t your government’s money either. It is ours.
The Perth ferry is possibly the most lame public transport I have ever been on in my life. Beyond sad.
I am just an uneducated country boy, but can someone explain to me how Albo can continue travelling around the country committing all his/ our millions when he should be in “caretaker mode”
Exactly – the Campaign has not started yet lest the Party have to pay for the travel and other costs.
The CIA nicknamed him the Baron, a Russian spy chief. The WSJ comes up with some interesting stories at times – just about anything. This one is about the no longer elusive spy chief who handles some of Pukin’s delicate negotiations.
Part excerpt of the story.
Fish out of water.
As it’s said in many spy movies, the Russkies don’t take a dump without a plan.
In Brisbane for 7hr wait. Now down to 6.
I watched the aircraft I meant to be on push away, taxi and take off.
Me level of pissed offness just rise. Just realised no lunch or dinner voucher was offered at NTL.
Allianence need to work on their E190’s. The one up had seats missing!
I have still 2h15m beore I can check luggage on Jetstar (offered a downgrade and took it due saving an hour if I waited for the next red roo & last flight of night).
I’ve been agnostic in the past but now am open to an EU style passenger screw around compo systemnow.
We noticed adverts for compensation on British Rail last year. Their trains were fast, clean and efficient – a lot better than they were 30 years ago.
My personal resolve now is never travel Jetstar, and if it was the only option never travel on their afternoon flights. Their seemingly inevitable delays push their aircraft further along as the days flights progress – or don’t.
and never take baggage through Bris airport.
If it cancelled I’ll be bumped to the 10pm flight. Last one of day. So there’s a method in my madness.
I’ve been delayed heaps in past. Even slept in airports a few times. This would have to rate as one of the longest and least amount of s&%$s given.
My flights to NZ in recent years have all been Jetstar. No problem with them on that service. In fact went out of their way when I missed my flight due to myself not being able to read.
Phhht.
You need to go Perth-Denpasar on Jestar to get the full customer experience.
Umm, pass.
Tick.
The Euro comps system is not all it’s cracked up to be. Last year we were booked to fly on Eurowings between Copenhagen and Berlin but when we rocked up to the airport the flight had been cancelled without letting us know or offering us other flights.
I had to book with another airline to get to Berlin. Calls to their call centre were no help, they acted dumb even though they spoke English. All they could do is offer credit for future flights which we could not use as not going to Europe again for some time if I can help it.
I lost $800 for three tickets in that shemozzle.
Inside The Most Beautiful Church in IRAN!!
Fascinating.
Thankyou.
The Oz reports:
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has stolen the limelight at a press conference in Perth this morning, touching on her plans to cut wasteful spending in the public service and remove the focus on colonisalisation from the history curriculum.
Peter Dutton gave Senator Price the floor, inviting the press pack to direct questions to the Coalition’s efficiency and Indigenous Australians spokeswoman.
Senator Price accused the media of being “obsessed” with US President Donald Trump, and denied that she had intentionally invoked his catchphrase when she said “make Australia great again”.
When asked about where her government efficiency portfolio would sit, Senator Price sought to distance the Coalition from Mr Trump and set out projects she believed constituted wasteful spending.
“Let’s be very, very clear, the media, you’re all obsessed with Donald Trump,” she said.
“We’re not, we’re not obsessed with Donald Trump.
“We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for Australians.
“We’re governing for Australians. We love this country…. We hate the fact that Anthony Albanese has effectively destroyed Australia.
“So we’re not concerned about what you’re concerned with.
“We are concerned with the government efficiency portfolio, which will sit in the Prime Minister and Cabinet, will actually be able to cut red and green tape to ensure projects go ahead in this country.
“Ensure that we’re not providing funds for ridiculous grants like colonising breastfeeding, like treating oral care as a form of colonisation in this country.”
As they walked away, the Opposition Leader quietly told Senator Price “well done”.
A quick search revealed this from last month:
Sky News host Sharri Markson discusses the “absurd” things the Labor government is spending taxpayer dollars on.
“Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could potentially be the next DOGE of Australia, our nation’s answer to Elon Musk and such a role is unfortunately needed,” Ms Markson said.
“Your taxpayer dollars are funding over a million dollars on de-colonising breastfeeding, nearly $900,000 on the mouth as an expression of racial injustice, over $300,000 on subverting souvenir tea towels and $18,000 on a drag experiment.”
Link
If they can get more traction out of it then this will resonate with the taxpayer.
That’s canbra -an obscene place in so many ways
I too detest Brisbane airport, especially on Friday nights when all flights are delayed and the lounge is jam packed.
But on one occasion I was grateful for the delays. The bloody fuel nozzle blew back on me when I was filling the car and soaked me with petrol.
There was no way I coould get on an aircraft smelling like a refinery and it was beginning to burn severely. All the small clothes shops on the concourse were closed.
Somehow, I was able to get into the lounge and had no choice but to walk into the shower fully dressed. After a long shower that only partially cancelled the smell, I dried off with paper towel and snuck into a mostly deserted part of the lounge to hide and hopefully dry off.
My flight was continually delayed thankfully and I started to dry off except for my suit coat. I was like a kid caught in his jocks as I edged my way on to the aircraft. I snuck the stinking coat into the overhead an explained myself to the woman next to me expecting her to object violently. Instead, she giggled most of the way to Sydney, bless her.
I did have a couple of trips to the Doc to have the nasty petrol burns treated. Bloody Brisbane!
Be in there in about 30min.
Only problem with Jetstar is 3hr baggage check window. 18m to go.
The building going on at BNE has made the place a mess. Nowhere to sit, I’ve been outside under cover watching the storms come & go.
And giggling at the Chinese trying to get baggage trolleys not realising they need to be paid for.
Tulla at 700 hrs on a winter morning with Virgin slags bellowing at you was intolerable.
Alwayz the same .. when job cuts are “coming” it’s, generally, front-line medicos not back-room bureaucratz .. & for emphasis do it to the Kids Cancer Unit cos that’ll alwayz guarantee your “poor me” whinge getting a media airing …….. !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/royal-childrens-hospital-cancer-centre-job-losses/105169506
Topender – Am trying to contact Lizzie re your email contact.
BTW Lizzie has mine.
I’ve texted and emailed it to you now, Vicki.
Been flat out all day caring for someone who in my view and Hairy’s should have been under clinical care for another night at least. They whisk them out of hospitals so fast these days. She was on a same-day discharge which was ludicrous given her condition due to chemo let alone the heavy wounds she sustained from the op – we turned up the day before yesterday to get her and said so, for it was clear she couldn’t leave care then, and they held her overnight then until this morning.
Weird Dave has really out done himself this week. I can’t choose a meme or clip that is too funny not to share. They all are. So, here’s the link, laugh for yourself. 😀
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=414415
There was a garage sale on this morning nearby.
Went and had a look.
No half-track.
No Hugo Boss suits.
No Zyklon B.
Very disappointing.
How much did you pay for the garage?
Zali Steggall clucks that she’ll be more supportive of Dutton than Albo.
What a piece of work is this woman.
Teals well into their “fool me twice” bag of tricks. Can’t see it working somehow. 3 weeks to go.
Lieborals have the wallet out in Curtin. Can’t see Chaney getting over the line.
a sort of up market lambie
Sure she will.
Before she was elected for the first time she claimed that she’d voted for the LNP before, implying that she wasn’t a Labor sock puppet.
Interesting. She must be getting info that Lower North Shore & Nthern Beaches men are sick of the Gucci Greens, even though their stupid wives still worship Her Tealship, Zali Steggall.
What is the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
One is a scum-sucking, bottom-feeding scavenger. The other is a fish.
And more:
1. What does an attorney who works from home call his office?
A: His legal pad.
2. What’s the difference between a lawyer and a herd of buffalo?
A: The lawyer charges more.
3. A man walked into a lawyer’s office and asked him how much he charged.
The lawyer responded “it’s $100 for three questions.”
“Isn’t that a lot?” asked the man.
“Yes” responded the lawyer….”and what’s your third question?”
4. I busted a mirror the other day. That’s seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
5. What do call a lawyer with an IQ of 50?
A: Your Honor.
6. What did the lawyer name his daughter?
A: Sue. And his son? Bill.
7. Why do they bury lawyers 10 feet under instead of 6?
A: Because deep down, they’re good people
8. What do lawyers use for birth control?
A. Their personalities.
9. What’s the difference between a lawyer and a liar?
A: The pronunciation.
LOL now Jetstar is delayed. Weather alllegedly.
Yeah na been no storms for couple of hours and they weren’t bad. No way it should have stopped too many jets landing/departing. I’ve seen a lot worse.
My sympathies.
I hate airports at the best of times.
Dunno getting the feeling our whole transport system is creaking.
Nothing seems to run smoothly compared to 20 years ago.
We got the upgraded lounge. Small win I’ll take 😀
YouGov 2pp 11 April:
ALP 52.5
LNP 47.5
“The only poll that counts” and all that, but at this rate the Coalition could lose seats.
I agree.
The Libs are offering very little incentive for ex-voters to return to the fold or stay in it if they haven’t left.
Dutton’s “small target” campaigning is a big mistake IMO.
I can already see the post-election review: “We weren’t a small enough target.”
Three weeks to go, but the trend is not good.
On the upside, Dutton & Littleproud could retire to devote more time to their business interests, giving room for Angus Taylor & Jacinta Price to chart a different course.
Not likely, pollies hold on to their positions for dear life.
We’re talking about the Liberal leadership.
And the fallout of a bad result against the worst government since Whitlam would be considerable.
The only thing that might save Dutton would be blaming the Trump factor.
4years more of Albo? Sorry, I just can’t see it.
Redbridge:
Coalition primary vote plummets in key seats, new poll reveals (Sky News, 12 Apr)
I guess the wymminses may be going Teal and the men to PHON. Wymminses didn’t take kindly to Dutton’s no public serpent WFH policy, since they all thought they’d be next.
I was hoping that Ozzies would have the good sense of the US public in ditching the Woke mob of the Left and the Gucci Greens. But no, apparently.
We’re always behind the trend, Vicki.
(Although QLD follows its own lights. We didn’t vote for Albanese or Teals in 2022, although the Greens got up in 3 inner Brisbane seats which are atypical of the state.)
Yes…I wouldn’t write the Teals off just yet.
Although if Labor sustains this polling they won’t need them.
The polling is crock at this point. Why? Only those trying to push the left over the line answer the phone or interview. Like with the Voice the public has made up its mind so it doesn’t need to push poll. Goodbye Elbow!
I think the Voice polling was accurate all along.
As the vote got closer there was a swing to No due to several factors, such as the condescension of the Yes spruikers and the national tour by Jacinta and Warren Mundine sponsored by Advance Australia, which both woke voters up to what was at stake.
Memo to Peter Dutton:
Give Jacinta a bigger role!
Quite so.
Exposed form is a bitch.
Our local Teal (Chipple J refugee Alex Tyson) has a bit of that problem.
Played the “just a local independent” card in 2022, pipped the ALP into third and ended up second on a 2PP of 53:47.
But received a “late surprise” donation of $90k from Scam200.
Got another $350k this time which is being ploughed into high rotation advertising.
So, a lot of media exposure.
But the downside is the exposure has drawn the spotlight to his funding sources and his “just a local battler” schtick is busted.
“Your taxpayer dollars are funding over a million dollars on de-colonising breastfeeding
Using words of three syllables or less, on a single sheet of paper, could someone explain to me how the Hell you “de-colonise breast feeding?”
Pull the tot off the tit.
Or in one word, abort.
Neither would I support.
So how did the local Mobs feed their babies before cow milk and later milk formula and other milks ‘invented’ by the Colonials came along?
Didn’t the Mob Women breast feed?
Saw this morning a truck with Matthew Camenzuli’s ad on both sides, parked near the local shopping centre and soccer fields. It was a very trafficked area and will certainly raise his profile particularly with huge images of his face and name. Camenzuli is going all out to win in McMahon.
Liberals still lead Conservatives 44% to 38% on 338Canada.
Watch over next 2 days to see if this policy announcement boosts Conservatives.
All Poilievre has to do is say “we’ll protect the kids”.
Rabz March 28, 2025 10:22 pm
Reply to Nelson_Kidd-Players
Indeed, although he at least played his role as deputy. If he was there when ScoMo was shamed back from Hawaii, he would have at least seamlessly taken up the reins unlike the deputy who was, at that time, nowhere to be seen.
Doug Anthony used to run the country from a caravan
Hmmm…
Dan Andrews – root the economy and subject people to removal of freedoms – got re-elected
Canada – same and looks like the Liberals will win easily
Australia – root the economy, organise higher power prices, try impose stuff the people don’t want (The Voice), do it anyway and look like getting re-elected with an increased majority.
Conclusion – the electorate comprises of a majority of masochists.
Re Canada & Australia, we’re living in uncertain times and uncertainty always favours the incumbent, a.k.a. the devil you know.
It’s not that long ago (i.e. prior to the Trump effect taking hold) that the Candian Tories were leading the polls and even the Coalition here were looking competitive.
“Conclusion – the electorate comprises of a majority of masochists.”
Could be, but I doubt it.
It’s more like, why bother changing when nothing will change?
There is nothing inspiring about the LNP policy.
Conclusion – the electorate comprises of a majority of masochists.
More like “a majority who are hooked on the modern opium (Guv’ment handouts)”.
And they forget that the handouts are Taxpayer funded along with borrowed money to fund them.
What Australians most care about is their own short, insignificant lives rather than their country and their children’s future. I constantly remind myself that half of humankind is below average.
It’s a small sample YouGov poll (primary margin of error ~2.4%) and the uncertainty on the 2P (sample size error and preference distribution error) will be substantial.
However, the trend in first preference polling tells a solid story*. Coalition polling has been in solid decline since January – leaking out to PHON, Labor, Teals and (lately) Trumpet of Fat Bastard.
The moral of the story is you can’t get by on just ‘not being Team Mollusc’ and having no realistic alternative to offer. No matter how shitful they are, the punters will work you out. Wankers.
Absent some extraordinary event, a betting person would give Dutton something approaching zero chance of being the next PM with a majority.
Nothing to write home about for the Prime Mollusc, either. The 2P fluffs around 50%+ on modelling assumptions – but the trend primary vote is still stuck in the early 30’s. Lube up for Bandt’s Big Moment.
Not sure if this is significant, but the recent poll results suggest that the PHON primary vote will be significantly higher than the 7.5% bandied around by the meeja. The recent YouGov n=10,000 sample has them around 9.3%.
(* Wikipedia – yes, I know, but it’s a useful data source for wonks.)
See also Redbridge, which I hadn’t yet looked at.
There’s a “narrative” unfolding, to be sure.
If so (God help us), gifted to Australia by a timid Coalition
Roger above:
Correct.
Trump is making radical change to the US trading system.
Australia is a country with a lazy national culture that has come to expect American military and economic protection from our major economic threat (China), even though Australia is one of China’s primary suppliers of the raw materials for China’s military and economic global imperialism.
Australia and Australians are addicted to the free ride they get from America while splurging on the cheap s**t they get from China.
As a retail politician, Dutton is correct to appear to oppose Trump — even though Trump’s war on waste is exactly what Australia needs.
Australia is essentially a socialist country, even though its preference since World War II has been to elect LNP governments that nominally stand up for private enterprise.
But when push comes to shove Australians prefer (and vote for) the cocoon of Big Government socialism.
But when push comes to shove Australians prefer (and vote for) the cocoon of Big Government socialism.?
For my money, the enduring legacy of the Whitlam years – he was elected to lead a nation of lifters, and left it a nation of leaners.
I’d agree with that, Tom.
The Libs have accepted the reigning paradigm and never really stood up for the alternative. Fraser’s eight years of basically doing nothing was a crucial failure. As you say, “nominally” pro-private enterprise.
Seems they only nominally supported free speech too.
A “non-core” core belief.
Rick Thorburn, killer of foster child Tiahleigh Palmer, found dead in jail cell
Why do the words “good riddance” suggest themselves?
A revolting scrote.
Looks like he offed himself.
So, it’s only a viscous rumour that there were half a dozen warders, in his cell, chanting “Yo heave ho, and up he goes?”
There are lessons here for Australia
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-enemy-of-us-industry
I read that earlier today and agree with what he says. As you say there are lessons here as well and most of our recent problems began with the RGR disaster followed by the cowardice of the so called conservative govts. that followed.
Combine all that he talks of the red and green tape with our own self inflicted black tape and we are indeed fcuked.
Bribing the electorate with their own money has been a winner for polly critters of all ilks for a long time as well.
So now vowing to Make Australia Great Again is a faux pas, a grievous mistake. Jacinta Price should not have disavowed it, she should have said “Which part of it is offensive?” I hope voters think differently to the media.
Hope so too
stats with cats: assessing NAFTA
What happened with the website
It didn’t exist for 2 days ???
It did, but you didn’t clear your cache and cookies.
(I only worked that out by accident, so I’m not much better.)
Well done
I shall remedy that
Yep .. I went into Brave settings & reset the cache & cookies too, as a last resort, plus needed a restart to get rid of the “buy this site” re-direction .. LOL!
If This Is What It Looks Like, NY AG Letitia James Is In a World of Trouble
Yep !!
@JimFergusonUK
MARK CARNEY JUST DECLARED WAR ON FREE SPEECH IN CANADA
The mask is off.
Mark Carney — the unelected WEF-backed Prime Minister — just vowed to push through NEW internet censorship laws.
This will be the THIRD attempt by the Liberal regime to crush dissent online.
They failed with Bill C-36.
They failed with the Online Harms Act.
But now?
Carney says if re-elected — FREE SPEECH IS DONE.
This isn’t about “hate speech.”
This isn’t about “protecting people.”
This is about SILENCING YOU.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f4e2.svg WHAT THIS MEANS:
? Criticize immigration policy? Censored.
? Question Big Pharma? Censored.
? Oppose the globalist agenda? Censored.
Meanwhile…
? Grooming gangs are protected.
? CCP influence is ignored.
? Crime explodes across Canadian cities.
But speaking TRUTH online?
THAT is what Carney wants to criminalize.
CANADIANS — WAKE UP.
This is not just about Canada.
This is the Globalist Blueprint.
? Control the media.
? Control the banks.
? Control the internet.
Control YOU.
If they control speech — they control THOUGHT.
And Mark Carney is coming for it ALL.
THE FINAL BATTLE FOR FREE SPEECH IN CANADA HAS BEGUN.
And if its an ‘Albo/Rant’ Minority Guv’ment that gets in, then there goes Australia.
Here is something Pierre Poilievre can latch onto and ride it to victory.
Memo to Sky.
The US Report is redundant.
By the time that Friday rolls around, everyone with any interest knows what has occurred.
The true weakness is that the show is presentational. There is no in depth backgrounding.
A shame. I like Morrow but his show is simply a ‘Sunrise’ level soapie.
‘Irreversible Harm’: CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Tells State Medicaid Directors No Funding for Gender Reassignment Surgeries, Hormone Treatments for Minors
Fannie Mae Fires Over 100 Federal Agency Employees for Facilitating Housing Loan Fraud
I’m guessing that the amount of “fraud” uncovered by DOGE that the gummint depts responsible for dealing with it are overwhelmed and still to come up with a coherent plan on how to prosecute individuals .. By now these must number in the 1 000s ……!
So starting with sacking and then ……………………….?
No favouritism when it comes to “thugby” reporting .. Shame about the final score tho ……… LOL!
72nd min: Gray has kept South Sydney’s hopes alive after passing to Mitchell and performing a run around to receive a flick pass from the superstar playmaker before scoring.
80 min: Cowboys 22 Rabbitohs 16
Cats – May 3 will produce a 2019 gliberal style victory, such as it might be … 😕
Hope you are right sir
Regarding Carney and Canada:
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/a-ghoul-in-a-suit-with-the-ethics
British townships
Barber Shops Get the Chop
Money laundering operations by illegal immigrants.
Still in Brisbane. Aircraft is here apparently.
Delayed again. Been assured cancellation hammers not coming down.
Wait & see.
Airport goat rodeo is why I no longer do airport goat rodeo…
Otherwise, it’s off to Florida to open Rabz’ ‘gator farm, which will be fun for all the family, I tells ya! 🙂
@MikeBenzCyber
Great convo today with @WillCain on Fox News covering a tornado of topics:
0:00 China Trade War & Re-Ordering Global Trade
4:00 The Professional Class Of Color Revolution Specialists
27:00 Ryan Routh’s Government Network
39:00 Revisiting Event 201
Cats, this is existence in our wondrous new woild …
1978.
Yet how soon is now, I asks ya?
Brillo !!
Starting to look at the policies of the minor parties in the Senate to see how I should vote.
Folks, if you want free speech, here is the party for you. Fusion Party. They are the only party I’ve found so far that will:
Sounds too good to be true?
Yep.
It’s a package deal. You will also have to accept a Universal Basic Income, saving the planet from the climate crisis by any means necessary, the InVoice, and changing the Australia Day date.
They’re socialists.
So it depends on how badly you want that freedom of expression.
Nine times out of ten you would have no idea where your Senate vote ends up voting below the line.
I cannot think of anything more harmful to the people than a UBI.
Maybe being forced to sleep with a taipan would be worse.
Do people actually have to work for an income now. Seems optional.
They are socialists, hence liars. Helo ride material.
They’re socialists, they don’t intend to deliver on freedom of speech, except for themselves and their maaaates.
IDF still doing God’s work:
Israel Eliminates Hamas Terror Commander Responsible for Nahal Oz Massacre on October 7
Another senior office in HAMAS doesn’t live to go on long service leave..
Pearly dewdrops drops … 🙂
All this Prez Fatty Trump incoherence, Cats – it will not be televisualised – until it is … 🙂
Goils 4 Prez Fatty Trump … 🙂
Electric Light Orchestra – Here Is the News (1981)
They were prophets, the MSM is entirely this.
I had a couple ELO albums on vinyl. At the end of my degree in 86 I moved out of our shared house and gave the few dozen LPs and my ancient second hand turntable to one of my flatmates. He was skint and grateful.
Then to cassette tapes, CDs and now Youtubes. Time flies.
Cats – some Saturday night Rock ‘n’ Roll … 🙂
Dr Feelgood – Live At The Southend Kursaal (15 minutes of magic in the 4 songs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzF0AETdRF8
Gladiator – Now We Are Free Super Theme Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOZEiHLuVU
Quite Haunting Music.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true Emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
For when the gettin’ on down needs to happen, Cats …
You an’ me
I feel lerve … 🙂
Meme
I happened to watch the weather after Channel 9 News this evening and they displayed a vermillion map of Australia to show us what a hot winter we’re going to have. They just can’t let it go.
@lsferguson
This is from my deck. This is what spring looks like here in Worcester Massachusetts
The Left’s Marxist Resistance
Senate confirms Trump’s pick for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
For those times an English Rose goes Crazee:
I feel your heat …
I never want to ley you go …
More than a feeling …
ChatGPT calls for a suspension of the COVID vaccine
@ElectionWiz
FOX NEWS: Trump answers nearly 20x more press questions at 3 Cabinet meetings than Biden did in 4 years
Sleepy Joe took his media strategy from the Wizard of Oz. Media water carriers were happy to play along until the lie became too much even for them.
But, but, but, Creepy Joe was governing effectively! H/t mUntard.
Bill Maher dishes on Trump dinner and reveals what the president gifted him: ‘Liberal sphincters just tightened’
Yesterday we picked up my de facto daughter-in-law after her breast cancer operation from the very swank new cancer centre building of nine glamorous stories attached to RPA hospital; everything new and very high med-tech and first world.
And then around mid-day the you-beau new grid that Bowen is spruiking had a localised wobble. Two of the three lifts went out. It happened yesterday too, said the technician standing nearby, and that’s what he said it was due to; ‘a wobble in the grid’. I expect (hope) the in-patient lift system to the operating theatres has some sort of generator back up. But now we had feeble chemo-striken out-patients having to wait for one lift to service the nine floors of this major hospital building.
Everyone made jolly of it all, but I muttered ‘get used to it’ and ‘your renewables future at work’. They probably thought I was some sort of sourpuss. This hospital is situated in Albanese’s electoral heartland.
Looks like that cheap shit is impossible to do without.
It would’ve destroyed Apple.
Not just Apple.
Apple’s margin is 40%. Other computer companies would be long gone before Apple. Their margins are negligible in comparison.
I’ve been watching several reviews of a canticle for Leibowitz on YouTube recently and then the Book of Eli was on tonight. Until now I thought it was just a good Fallout movie. Silly me.
Here’s the official website:
Alaska Volcano Observatory
I’m assuming that the volcano in the Mail story is Spurr, which has a yellow advisory. I’ve been keeping an eye on it for a while. Doesn’t look ready to blow yet, but Alaskan volcanos in that area, like Trident and Novarupta tend not to give much warning.
Get A Look At These HORRIFYING Pictures Of What Happens When You Don’t Have An Abortion
No stopping China now.//
More on floods.
River levels along Cooper Creek at Cullyamurra Waterhole are currently above the 1974 flood level (11.85 metres) and are expected to remain elevated for an extended period.
Please avoid traveling to affected areas over the Easter holidays.
Yea, but Rabz believes that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK!
Talk about a conspiracy theory! What a nutter.
Well that was interesting. Just in and walked into the garage to be met with an escaping snake.
Crowbar handy now dead snake.
JC
April 12, 2025 11:36 pm
Get A Look At These HORRIFYING Pictures Of What Happens When You Don’t Have An Abortion
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Plenty of images that would be perfect prints for t-shirts with the same headline.
Week In Pictures.
Thanks Tom.
The screeching from the usual suspects is going to be epic…
Memo Details NOAA Climate Research Cuts, Shift to Fossil Fuels (11 Apr)
Fun that “woke” is now a term used in official Administration memos! While NOAA does some good stuff they are also infested with climate activists. A good clean out like this is just what is needed.
I wonder if Scripps is also in Trump’s sights? They have a few research vessels which included the now retired Flip platform. I know a few chemists working at scripps. They maybe considering their options.
Still more flood porn.
Is this good or bad for China?
Thinking what I would do if Albo wins cash in all my super and buy a cabin on a cruise ship and sail from port to port . Would I be able to avoid the horror and would other Cats care to join me ?
At fleast we could have fun.
That would be one of my definitions of Hell.
Living on a cruise ship would be my ideal retirement plan except for a couple of things. Not being able to see family whenever I like or have the grandkids drop in on a moment’s notice. The other is not being able to go to church, the Sunday services on board can never replace the Mass.
Apologies writing in bed so spelling mistakes when I hit wrong button
I know people do live on cruise ships but I think the novelty would wear off after a few months
The lack of flora and fauna onboard adds to the psychological impact of living longterm in such an artificial environment.
Sure, I wouldn’t do it, but if you think about it, what’s the difference, living in the same neighbourhood for many years with annoying neighbors?
At least this way you have a diversity of company and maybe your costs are the same or only slightly more and no lawn to mow.
But given all that, it’s not for me. You can’t just get up and move or even get off.
The civil war is underway- in the courts.
Which court? Why the district court of D.C. of course!
The same firm that secured the $787m judgement against Fox plus the sacking of Tucker Carlson is after the entire Trump admin this time.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-law-firm-that-secured/