Open Thread – Thurs 17 April 2025


Ecce homo, Antonio Ciseri, 1850

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Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 7:31 am

ah, so it’s symbolic

No, it’s not just symbolic, every year for eight days Jews personally relive the exodus from Egypt, we clean our homes, we lock away and sell our chametz and any food with chamatz in it and, we buy special Passover food and and we have two seders where we read the Haggadah in Hebrew. The Haggadah tells the story of the Passover, of the leaving of Egypt, of the plagues, of slavery, of affliction.

For eight days we are those Israelites who fled Egypt. It isn’t just a commemoration, it’s an experience.

For eight days we eat matza, we don’t eat any leavened food plus no grains such as barley or rye, no beans nor peas. Ashkenazi Jews (of which I am one) do not eat rice however Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews do eat rice during Passover. A lot of eggs and potatoes are consumed during Passover amongst Ashkenazi Jews!

Maman
Maman
April 18, 2025 7:42 am

Cassie, Thank you for giving us insight into what it means to be Jewish.

“It isn’t just a commemoration, it’s an experience”, so is the Passover also the time when you live outside in temporary shelter or is that for another time?

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 7:50 am
Reply to  Maman

That’s another festival, at Sukkot when all Jewish males over 13 years of age are commanded to eat and sleep under the Sukkah (a temporary dwelling).

Women are exempted. Biological women that is!

Maman
Maman
April 18, 2025 12:32 pm

🙂 !!

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 12:33 pm

Any of this going on?

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A cut above the rest.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 7:44 am

Cassie,
are potatoes allowed because they have no history with the peoples of that time? Curiosity on my part.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 7:52 am
Reply to  Pogria

Excellent question Pogs. Yes, I suspect it is because the potato was only introduced and became common in Europe (where Ashkenazi Jews lived) in the 1500s and 1600s.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 8:42 am

Thanks Cassie.
It would be interesting to ask around or see if there is any history written about the potato. 😀

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:28 am
Reply to  Pogria

A quick perusal indicates Peru.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 8:11 am

thanks Cassie … I’m starting understand now.

it’s a very very old thing

I’m fascinated that modern humans still honor such ancient memories transmitted over millennia

passover, easter, pharaohs and ancient floods

does my head in

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 7:34 am

Dave Smith is a Jew hating Jew.

132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2025 9:43 am

As opposed to Ami Kozak.
Watched him yesterday on a Jtv podcast. Very impressive and very funny.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 7:34 am

Nazis flee to South America.

Report: Hundreds of Hezbollah Commanders Ordered to Flee Lebanon (17 Apr)

Approximately 400 Hezbollah field commanders have been ordered to leave Lebanon for various South American countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, according to a report on Wednesday.

A Latin American diplomatic source told Saudi outlet Al Hadath that 200 commanders have already reached South America, with the rest expected to depart Lebanon in due course.

With their Iranian supply line cut off by the Sunnis in Syria it looks like they’ve decided they need to get out of Dodge. Hezbollah has an extensive network in South America where their narcotics business is very lucrative.

Crossie
Crossie
April 18, 2025 8:07 am

I noticed that Argentina is not one of their destinations. Bravo Milei.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 3:28 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Not heading towards El Salvador either. lol.

local oaf
April 18, 2025 9:23 am

I wonder if they’ll just wait to outlast Trump, then make their way North and eventually get into the US?

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 18, 2025 7:34 am
Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 7:45 am
Reply to  lotocoti

hahahahahaha

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 12:25 pm
Reply to  lotocoti

Which toilet to use?

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 18, 2025 7:34 am

The Florida State shooter.
Another nut case who got their parents gun(s) and goes on a rampage.
Anti Trumper according to their social media.
Expect the story to be buried like the tranny shooter in Tennessee.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 18, 2025 7:36 am
Reply to  feelthebern

Also wonder what drug cocktail he was on.
Almost 100% SSRI strike rate when it comes to the shooter community.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 18, 2025 9:15 am
Reply to  feelthebern
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 7:44 am

Come On U Spurs – COYS

This a really Good Friday.

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
April 18, 2025 10:38 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

We’re back!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 7:50 am

Nothing says Voting Fail like seeing Zali Steggall (Member for Northern Beaches) pop up on Sky News Daytime every other day. I know not everyone wants to praise Abbott, but really, replacing him with her?

Kim Howard
Kim Howard
April 18, 2025 9:56 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

I notice she and her Family are no longer known as the chicken farming empire that allowed her to become an Olympian

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 10:41 am
Reply to  Kim Howard

Not chickens, turkeys. Also, not the same Steggles. Spelling fail.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
April 18, 2025 12:26 pm
Reply to  Pogria

He’s right in the broader sense, Pogs.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 12:56 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Lol!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 3:26 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Lotsa dosh is going into internet ads in currently-held Teal electorates. In Wenthworth I can’t even watch a Downton Abbey clip without suffering an Allegra one first. Occasional Ro Knox ones also, but Allegra frequency is at least two to one.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 4:40 pm

All funds raised by small donations from concerned voters, of course?

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 7:53 am

Mark Dreyfus has preferenced the Australian Nazi Party aka the Greens second.

I have no words.

Last edited 3 days ago by Cassie of Sydney
MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 7:55 am

at least the prick isn’t my problem any more
they recently shifted us from Isaacs to Dunkley

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 18, 2025 8:01 am

A bad question.
Apparently.

Crossie
Crossie
April 18, 2025 8:11 am
Reply to  lotocoti

It seems UK Supreme Court justices really are biologists, they can tell which people are women.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 1:33 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Cassie’s comment way back thread yesterday nails it. We are a mammalian species, and there are only two sexes in these. I’ve added my approval there today, as I’m still catching up days late.

I’ve been busy. I’ve driven 120km since Tuesday, driving again at four weeks out from spinal op and once more family cab driver and nurse on call, as well as removalist back up.

Yesterday we met up with old friends, where the husband announces he is a friend of Allegra and is helping her to run her campaign. I shock them by saying see you on the hustings, because I’m handing out for Ro Knox. That eased things a lot, because he said he wasn’t talking politics and we had a pleasant lunch with them talking other stuff of mutual interest, like our respective kids and grandkids. Good to catch up in that way.

As we all walked back to ours from the Watsons Bay pub where we met, I notice the corflute of Allegra that had been put up to replace the Ro Knox one had also been torn down for a second time, and lay against the fence yet again. Seems the locals are having a corflute barney in our street. I neglected to point out the Allegra corflute lying against the fence, in case our friend wanted to stop and put it up again.

Not talking politics, after all. Fair’s fair. 🙂

damon
damon
April 19, 2025 1:48 pm
Reply to  Crossie

See my question above.

shatterzzz
April 18, 2025 8:09 am

“Thugby” gotta luv it .. LOL!

Wests
Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 8:14 am

When Dutton loses the coming election, his “I believe in climate change” will be part of that failure. He needs a song to rival Albo’s Not, not, not responsible.

I believe for every drop of rain that falls
The Warming grows,
I believe that even on the darkest night
The planet glows.
I believe for every vote that goes astray, someone will come
To show the way,
And come what may,
I believe!
I believe above the storm the Tunberg girl
Can still be heard;
I believe Net Zero on 3rd of May
Is a polished turd.

(please feel free to add verses)

Crossie
Crossie
April 18, 2025 8:26 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

I love that Helen Shapiro song.

https://youtu.be/e9dHSsXQbhg?si=1vd511G2jqmtlWw-

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2025 8:20 am

I’ve been talking with a good friend of mine about his business frustrations. He’s finding it increasingly difficult to justify staying open. It has been at a point where there’s too much work for one person, but not quite enough to justify the expenses of employing someone.

At the same time, he’s sick of things like getting a tax estimate he HAS to pay, when he’s not generated the income yet, and lately he’s been struggling to get anyone to pay up. All for an after tax income that’s half what he could get working for someone else in his trade. While there’s some advantages like being able to claim vehicles as an expense he’s just fed up with the hoops he’s got to jump through.

With all the reports of small businesses closing, I can understand why. Granted, I’m only hearing his frustrations and I don’t know all the gory details, but I could see much worse economic pain coming whoever is elected.

Last edited 3 days ago by Bluey
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:13 am
Reply to  Bluey

Fold.
Now.
Not only can he not win, he can’t break even.
That’s the Albo Regime – he’s smashing the kulaks.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:30 am
Reply to  Bluey

Doing well in your own business went downhill from about 1986 when Keating was treasurer.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 18, 2025 11:20 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Earned more in those days in straight dollar terms without the red, green and black tape. Far less taxes and charges. Costs were minimal. Even then we moved our office home. From 87 to 25 I see inflation is 167%. We never carried professional indemnity insurance. We were paid by government because they didn’t know what to do. These days they do whatever they want and get consultants to okay it, then blame the consultants.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 9:43 am
Reply to  Bluey

why bother?

you can stay home and go broke

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2025 9:57 am

In a lot of ways he’s worked out he’d be better staying home and “not working”. Couple of cash jobs now and then and he’d be sorted.

Last edited 3 days ago by Bluey
Crossie
Crossie
April 18, 2025 8:22 am

I am having a great time laughing at the arrogance of the “astronaut six” who are so butthurt at everyone taking the piss. If they laughed at themselves first they would have been hailed as heroes. They could have said that their experiment succeeded, it proved that breast implants do not pop in zero gravity.

It seems rich so-called feminists have no sense of humour or the sense of gravity, so to speak, of actual science involved in what they experienced. No sense of gratitude for what went before them to create that opportunity for them. Instead they spouted new age spiritual cap.

To redeem their expensive excursion they could have mentioned Suni Williams and what she had to endure in space for nine months. Those six women are completely self-involved yet completely self-unaware. They are the epitome of elite idiocy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 8:33 am
Reply to  Crossie

I have no problem with the intrepid six feminauts. Would’ve been a fine trip.

What I am amused by though is the green left. They dug up a video by Katy Perry of her screeching that the world is burning because of awful CO2.

Then she got launched into space on a column of burning fossil fuel…

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:10 am

Has there been a new Mile High Club yet?

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 8:43 am
Reply to  Crossie

Without gravity are breast implants actually needed?

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 9:17 am
Reply to  Entropy

The somewhat reduced gravity in Elonus Magna, Capital of Mars, might be helpful, too.
( I am envisioning lurid 1950s science fiction cover art here).

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:19 am
Reply to  Entropy

No.
Once gravity is no longer affecting shape, the ligaments and other connective tissue gives a new shape for the breast.
See breast shape under water where gravity has no effect.
There are some odd shapes created by the dominant forces.

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 11:59 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

More horizontal and pointy?

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 11:02 am
Reply to  Entropy

Hahahaha

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 1:16 pm
Reply to  Entropy

lol

Just stand up straight and stick ’em out more.

Doesn’t deny all gravity but It helps. 🙂

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 2:50 pm

Useful input, all.
Clearly much more research is needed – indeed, years of fruitful work, Minister.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 8:28 am

The other night I had over a fellow Cat for dinner. He doesn’t comment a lot, rather he lurks here. I cooked a nice Italian chicken and capsicum dish and served it with potatoes. Being Pesach (Passover) there was no bread. After the meal, which was delicious, I offered him some matza with some dark chocolate. He tasted the matza and he was not very impressed, saying it was rather dry. I replied that yes it is dry, it’s the bread of affliction which we eat for eight days.

I love matza, I am onto my second box. It’s particularly yummy with jam on top or broken up, dipped in egg and cinnamon and fried in melted sizzling butter!

Bloody delicious.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:21 am

This wasn’t your lawyer friend, was it Cassie?
IIRC, he turned out to be a bit of a no hoper.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 9:43 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Who? This man who came to dinner is not a ‘no hoper’.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 10:44 am

Cassie, a while back you mentioned going out with a bloke who seemed nice. Whilst having a meal with him, he went full TDS on you. That’s the bloke Winston was thinking of. 😀

Rafiki
Rafiki
April 18, 2025 8:33 am

Is this the explanation? The Liberals know that the route to an electoral win is to match Labor’s handouts of OPM, to accept the NDIS eligibility criteria, and such like … but say quietly to one another, “when we get into office we say simply that the books have been cooked and we need austerity”.
Or, alternatively do they accept they’re going to lose and are hoping to cut their losses to survive to fight another 3 years hence?
That as a political organisation they’re hollowed out and gone might be the explanation is something I’d rather not contemplate just now.

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 8:46 am
Reply to  Rafiki

I hope it is option b there.

Had enough of politicians saying they/will do one thi and then do another thing altogether.
anyway, I think the populace needs a another three years to really understand consequences. Then the libs can be upfront about what needs to happen. But the trick will be to ensure the wets don’t get more control no matter how well Dutton does.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Yes, another three years to a doom that is undeniable is what we will all be saying on election nite no doubt, should the Liars win and marry the Greens.

The trick to fending off the wets will then be up to us, by joining the Libs and making sure the true nature of the problem is front and centre, not muddied by wishy-washy wishings. If that should happen, a third Party called, let me see now, how about Reform?, might arise.

Morsie
Morsie
April 18, 2025 1:44 pm
Reply to  Entropy

I think it’s why Trump upsets people.The populace is so conditioned to politicians saying one thing or doing another or pulling policies never mentioned out of their arse that Trump doing exactly what he said he would do,blows their minds.

Petros
Petros
April 18, 2025 8:47 am
Reply to  Rafiki

That has been the case for years. They could get in and then say that the ALP have cooked the books, but they don’t say it or do anything about it. Weak men. They just try to not rock the boat too much and then get offered a high-paying job in the private sector eg Mike Baird. They have neither principles nor conviction. Jacinta Price would be better.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:23 am
Reply to  Petros

 Jacinta Price would be better.

Elsie the Cat would be better.
Either Elsie or the Drovers Dog.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2025 9:31 am
Reply to  Petros

That’s pretty much what I sent back to an unsolicited email. God knows where they pulled my address from, but in my reasons for unsubscribing I put, effectively, they are gutless as a party and don’t stand for anything, let alone Australians.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 9:19 am
Reply to  Rafiki

Mentioned the other day the broad church isn’t working. They need to come out as conservative or a soft left leaning centrist party. Could be argued the latter is pretty well much where we are at.

I lean mostly conservative and I see nothing that attracts me as a party with their policies. I’m also not keen on these single personality entities on the right of centre, their structure doesn’t allow for expansion or exceptionalism when one personality is like Gollum with the Ring.

I have a very good local member in Phil Thompson otherwise my ballot would be spoiled in the lower house.

Senate I’m trying to find ways of not voting any for the majors.

Have family in NSW with the same exacerbated frustration.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:33 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

90% of the media wants them to be a soft wet broad church bunch of eaybeats, and will punish them for doing or saying anything that indicates conservative common sense getting a look in.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 1:07 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Dutton’s response yesterday to the question about what is a woman was a very poor piece of politics. He still hummed and haa’d with the not wanting to offend scenario, when he could so easily have said that he agreed with Albanese on this – that a woman is an adult human female. For this is what ‘Albo’ did say, with no hesitation, knowing that he would be given a free ride on it by the left.

Dutton should simply have coat-tailed that.

Zippster
Zippster
April 18, 2025 8:37 am

In the interview with Gordon Chang on “American Thought Leaders” from The Epoch Times, Chang discusses the ongoing U.S.-China trade war and the broader geopolitical implications. He argues that this is more than just a trade conflict, describing it as an existential struggle where winning is crucial for the U.S. Chang critiques the long-standing U.S. approach toward China, emphasizing that prior policies have led to negative consequences such as the hollowing out of U.S. industry and the creation of the “rust belt.” Chang asserts that past U.S. administrations failed to hold China accountable to its World Trade Organization commitments, which led to American manufacturing shifting to China. He praises Trump’s tariff strategy as a necessary correction to these past missteps, suggesting that Trump’s efforts to negotiate new trade deals globally are reshaping international trade dynamics. The conversation also touches upon the internal challenges within China, particularly in relation to Xi Jinping’s leadership. Chang notes unexplained military disappearances and challenges to Xi’s control, suggesting potential instability in the Chinese Communist Party. On the topic of global geopolitics, he describes a shifting world order, moving away from globalization, and points to tensions with an assertive China as a major challenge. Chang warns about China’s potential for malicious actions, stating that the U.S. must be vigilant and prepared. Overall, Chang presents a dire view of U.S.-China relations, emphasizing the need for the U.S. to adopt a resolute stance against China to protect its interests and maintain global stability. He underscores the importance of acknowledging and addressing the complex challenges posed by China’s political and economic strategies.

person
person
April 18, 2025 8:54 am

I’m sorry, I admit I find the anti-Muslim stuff a bit much, but it’s not my blog and understand people have strong views – don’t want to inflame. Happy Easter all.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:08 am
Reply to  person

There wouldn’t be so much “anti-muslim stuff” if they’d pull their heads in and stop being total pricks. Their religion cannot be reformed, so what are you going to do about it?

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 9:14 am
Reply to  person

You said all that yesterday. Why bring it up again today?
You’ve been here before, using the same routine.
Not long now Cats.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:26 am
Reply to  person

Perhaps you might like to think of the consequences of failing to become inflamed when you have a raging infection?
…and a Happy Easter to you too, person – for as long as you’re allowed to have one.

Bruce in WA
April 18, 2025 10:30 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Gotta get this cataract surgery done; I read that as “raging erection”.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 10:50 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest….

(Apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)

dopey
dopey
April 18, 2025 4:30 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

Hears what he wants to hear.

cohenite
April 18, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  person

So, you find the anti-muslim stuff a bit much. How do you find the muslims; read this site and report back:

Islam: The Politically Incorrect Truth

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 1:33 pm
Reply to  person

I have no time for Muslims nor the people who support them.

The latter are turkeys for Christmas.

Last edited 2 days ago by Lee
Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 8:55 am

@JackPosobiec

If you’ve had COVID or the vaccine, you need to hear this. The danger from the spike protein is no longer speculation — it’s backed by undeniable data. We’re talking blood clots, vascular damage, and even links to cancer. Dr. Peter McCullough breaks it all down:

Vicki
Vicki
April 18, 2025 10:18 am
Reply to  Indolent

There is a great deal of research still to be done on the nature of the Covid virus, and the spike protein in particular. It does my head in that some respected research scientists – such as Mike Yeodan and Norman Fenton – still want to insist that the Covid virus does not exist – even after it has been sequenced by many virologists!

While the outcome of innoculating with a vaccine that is programmed to keep producing the antigen is concerning, there is evidence that continuing post viral problems can occur after a Covid infection, whether you have been vaccinated or not. I myself (unvaccinated) had a continuing problem with a Eustachian Tube Disorder in one ear for some time after a bout of Covid.

That spike protein is a bastard.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 1:01 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Yes, an engineered bastard at that.

Gain of function research is hideous and hopefully with Kennedy on track will be banned as it should be.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 8:58 am

Bring it on! Let them use their own money if they want to continue abusing us.

@LeadingReport

BREAKING: President Trump has proposed cutting foreign aid by 75%, slashing the State Department’s budget by 50%, and eliminating funding for the United Nations, NATO, and over 20 international organizations.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:29 am
Reply to  Indolent

Yairs!
Make The West Great Again!

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 8:58 am

@AmericaPapaBear

This is Dominique Alexander.

The man advocating for Karmelo Anthony.

Take a look at his rap sheet.

Birds of a feather flock together right?

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 9:00 am

Looking forward to my Good Friday ritual: Ben Hur.
on new LG big screen OLED with home theatre system.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 9:15 am
Reply to  Entropy

Noice!

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 9:17 am
Reply to  Pogria

A little bit of movie trivia for you Entropy, the four “Arabian”, horses that raced Ben Hur’s chariot, were actually Lippizaners. 😀

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 12:06 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Get home alright?
yes it is a bit weird to imply arabs would be competitive pulling chariots.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 9:19 am
Reply to  Pogria

haha, I was down ticked! woo hoo.
Calli is on holiday so I am happy to keep her seat warm. 😀

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 9:24 am
Reply to  Entropy

Original version, not the recent crappy re-make, I hope.

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 12:05 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

there were couple of silent versions before the 1959 version, and the there is some eurotrash mini series that practically forgot all about the religious understory, and then the more recent travesty. But the only real version is 1959.
I did a morning test of the sound system with Dolby Atmos, even at 10% volume it a) awesome and b) woke up all the younger entropys. Suckers!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 9:01 am

Keith Windschuttle and the continuing battle for historyThe Great Australian Silence of the 1960s, which glossed over the realities of the settler-Indigenous encounter, has given way to a new Great Australian Silence which, for fear of offending progressive sensitivities, refuses to address that encounter in a frank and balanced way.

Henry Ergas
Columnist

Interesting reading, indeed.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 9:25 am

Growing up / going to school in the 1960s, I don’t recall a vast right wing conspiracy of silence over aboriginal culture and history – it just wasn’t a mainstream interest. And…. it still isn’t.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 18, 2025 9:39 am
Reply to  Foxbody

Ditto – it was treated sensibly, not the way things are now with ideological surrender like “coming to you from Gadigal lands” that the ABC and SBS vomit up all the time. I’ll respect their culture when it is reformed enough for Jacinta to respect it.

shatterzzz
April 18, 2025 9:44 am
Reply to  Foxbody

Playing on memory .. 251-ism didn’t occupy overmuch public/media interest until the “white” 251s led by Michael Mansell started mouthing off which led to that “squalor” on the grass outside Parliament House .. and the failure of gummint/plod to “deal” with it .. immediately …..!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 9:58 am
Reply to  Foxbody

Yes – it’s an obsession with the intellectuals of the Left.
There’s no rational reason as to why it reigns supreme in their list of grievances against an economic system that gives them a life of luxury, health and length that no other system has ever provided.
But they want to go back to a system that only ever produced mounds of skulls. And as soon as they get it, they will be demanding it be overthrown.
Either that, or demanding positions of power within it.

“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.”

George Orwell, 1984

John Brumble
John Brumble
April 18, 2025 12:06 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

I am always contemptuous of the groups who, having not paid much attention throughout their schooling and who now are still the sort of people who claim that the things their poor teachers tried to drill into what passes for their brains, claim that “it wasn’t taught in schools”.

Yes it damn well was. They just didn’t pay attention.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 12:03 pm

I am extremely grateful to Keith for encouraging me in my historically challenging and contoversial research getting to the truth of the mythology of King Arthur in British history. I demonstrate with linguistic and content analysis of primary texts that this was a mythology about a man who never was, simply an ancient god turned human being. His mythology, drawn from an earlier religious cosmos, changed form and was used for many political purposes, including those of ethnicity, in the two thousand or more years since the disintegrating Roman Empire left or ‘lost’ Britain. So pervasive was the mythos of this ‘High King’ that Arthurian legends were pictured in images on the walls of the Robing Room in Queen Victoria’s Houses of Parliament and his signal ravens never departed the Tower of London..

Keith never wavered in his support for my daring challenge and his approval of the matters I was uncovering. He saw that I would be fighting an uphill battle on several fronts – the ‘true’ believers front, and the ‘celtic history studies’ front, for starters – and so published my long article. We finally met after he had published more of my writings on other topics, and he encouraged me to continue work in the Arthurian arena in particular.

His passing grieves me deeply. I have lost a friend-in-arms as well as a supporter of my recent musings, for we discovered we had shared a hidden past in the same institution. He knew my first husband very well and unbenownst to Keith I had acted as a publisher’s reader for one of Keith’s books on journalism. Noone else in my faculty would take that task on, such was the deplatforming Keith was receiving for leaving the left. My report was very positive. It put me even further on the outer with the Marxist faculty’s stalwarts.

P
P
April 18, 2025 9:12 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2025 9:47 am

132andBush

 April 18, 2025 6:07 am

“Trumpet of Patriots” ?

How much of a bender must they have been on to come up with that name?

My estimate is 4:00 – 4:30 pm.
That is about the time during a long Friday lunch where that idea would come up.
Laughable.

Tom
Tom
April 18, 2025 9:56 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I’m tipping there were no marketing/branding experts involved in that farce. It was the Fat Bastard and three or four bottles of red over a long lunch.

“Trump is a patriot. I know — Trumpet of Patriots! Lovely shiraz.” FMD

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 10:16 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Oddly enough, I first saw the slogan as I was driving through an area on the Warrego Highway that seems to have multiple religious signs, about two weeks ago.
It seemed to fit with the other signs.
My reaction was literally “WTF?”
I didn’t realise it later until I saw the news – of course it was the ABC – I was trying to read and Older sister was laughing at something so I looked up.
That was thirty seconds of suspended rationality I’ll never get back.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 10:22 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Trump’s Economic Agenda Sparks $7 Trillion in Investment (16 Apr)

Yes there’ll be a significant delay, but the stampede to get under the tariff barrier is quite enthusiastic.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 10:24 am
Reply to  dover0beach

That’s a bit harsh, DB.
President Trump has only been in for what, 3 months?
Do we know what resistance there is for his program in the Democrat planning departments?
God knows the Green dominance of our local councils and getting permission from them for new housing estates is a major factor in the failure of building construction to ramp up.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 10:59 am
Reply to  dover0beach

No shit, Sherlock. We’ve never seen a tariff wall of this magnitude since Smoot Hawley. In any event, this turnaround in sentiment could very well end up as a bullish indicator down the road.

Arky
April 18, 2025 10:26 am

War is coming.
What should be done by the USA and her stalwart allies?
The prohibition of the export of machine tools and vital tools of production.
Prepare to mobilise the population. No more welfare in return for laying about.
Secure vital minerals, bypass all permitting and fast track new mines and wells.
Outlaw wrecking, especially at the political level, particularly from political parties and unions.
Expel foreign students from designated hostile states.
Read the riot act to the media. Designated army media units with the specific goal of winning this war to liaise with media companies.
Requisition, buy and take over a dispersed factory network required for the production of vital war material, in conjunction with private companies.
Begin to prepare contracts for the expansion of production of new drones, anti drone tech and cyber security.
Prepare the civilian population morally for hardships to come. win the propaganda war.
Begin in depth monitoring of the enemy and prepare to counter them on in any field. Air, sea, land, space, cyber, economic, trade, information.
Prepare the financial system for the many shocks to come.

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Arky
April 18, 2025 10:35 am
Reply to  Arky

End net zero lunacy. Permanently.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 10:45 am
Reply to  Arky

That is the preparation- in-depth that is needed, Arky, no doubt whatsoever.
Wars are largely won with the boring stuff – freight trains and bore drills and ration packs and damage control teams and explosive factories and IT teams and lathes and tradesmen and fuel and ammunition stockpiles. We are treasonously deficient in this type of asset.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 11:40 am
Reply to  Foxbody

Amateurs talk tactics – professionals talk logistics

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 2:05 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

…and it’s been something I’ve harped on for years. Steel already preformed into rails, stock rail switching points. Metal sheet, cotton, foodstuffs, aviation fuel, munitions filling plants.
And we shoot the bastard wreckers.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 2:01 pm
Reply to  Arky

Requisition, buy and take over a dispersed factory network required for the production of vital war material, in conjunction with private companies.

Dust off the Albert Speer Dispersed Production Plans.
They were still producing aircraft from parts around the country even as the Allies overran the factories.
How many civilian garages have the ability to do press/stamping of parts for machine guns?

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 2:58 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Exactly – bolting jet fighters together under the trees – in a European Winter!

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 11:06 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Dover, do you have stats for Chinese bankruptcies or aren’t they published?
do you know?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 11:22 am
Reply to  dover0beach

I get that it’s Trump-critical, but I’m trying to get my head around this Kobeissi thing.

Is the implication that these large businesses were trucking along nicely under Biden, and then hit the wall and called Chapter 11 in the 2.5 months after POTUS47 took the throne?

Or did they throw the towel in after the November 5 result became clear?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 1:22 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

I don’t think this account is Trump-critical.

Possibly not, but obviously not a big fan of Trump’s trade policies. I’m not a follower, but I find his comments oblique rather than illuminating.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 12:15 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

This comes after 694 large companies went bankrupt last year, the most in 14 years.

Biden was sabotaging Trump?

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Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:37 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

That was sarcasm.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Like unemployment numbers, this just shows one side of the coin without any context.

Business bankruptcies are part of a flow. How many new businesses were started, how many could be considered larger than before, and what is the employment rate looking like along with GDP growth? This number alone is next to useless.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 2:21 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Yes. And their assets are being recycled into more productive enterprises.
It’s called Creative Destruction, and without it new enterprises cannot grow while the assets are stuck in loss making and inefficient factories.
A major reason for the appalling inefficiency of the Soviet economies. No one was able to redistribute the physical/material/human assets locked in inefficient industries.

Steine_klopfen_janczikowsky
cohenite
April 18, 2025 10:34 am

Happy Good Friday

Florida shooting; sheriff’s son. Sheriff is Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil. Sheriffs in Florida can be ratbags:

EXCLUSIVE: Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel To Be Removed Next Week – Big League Politics

And the demorats have gone even batshit crazier over he illegal M-13 gang banger Trump deported. But the public aren’t buying it:

Angel Moms Torch Chris Van Hollen for Flying to El Salvador for Illegal Alien

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 10:43 am
Reply to  cohenite

He’s been IDed as Phoenix Ikner. Who names their son “Phoenix” as a first name?

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 11:02 am

I’m surprised they didn’t spell it “Feenix”.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 10:36 am

This speaks for itself:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/657755393790761
A 3 year old Scottish girls view of Easter…

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 10:49 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

What a precociously bright child! 😀
That was an absolute joy to watch.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 18, 2025 4:13 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

So not all the intelligent people have left Scotland.

I expect she will leave when she’s older.

Lovely kid.

Zippster
Zippster
April 18, 2025 10:45 am

Solo On Ukraine’s Eastern Front

bald and bankrupt

make sure you keep your mouth shut baldy otherwise you might end up like another youtuber, six feet under

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 10:52 am

Dutton pledges no tightening of NDIS eligibility
[Unlinkable OZ]

Peter Dutton will not tighten eligibility to access the NDIS if he becomes prime minister, in a blow to making savings from the $48.5bn program despite the Coalition needing to put the budget in a better structural position to meet its aspiration to index personal income tax scales.

After saying on Wednesday he had no plans to reduce the government’s target to lower spending growth in the NDIS to 8 per cent a year, Mr Dutton on Thursday said he would not tighten the scheme’s eligibility to ensure this funding target would be met or exceeded.

The Albanese government argues it is on track to lower annual growth of the NDIS to 8 per cent by July 2026, with the growth of the scheme forecast to be a better-than-expected 10 per cent this financial year.

Leaving aside Dutton’s shrinking electoral position, the UniParty approach to NDIS as a sacred cow has dreadful long term implications. It’s now an accepted political truism that you can’t interfere with the rivers of cash flowing around the NDIS system.

The corollary is that the bidding pressure is now ‘on’ – and delivering anything less than “better-than-expected 10 per cent” growth rate will be an act of political bastardry.

Add this to Albanese’s universal childcare – and the forthcoming Green free dentistry and universal mental health scheme (understandably, playing to their constituents’ needs) – and Australia will have baked-in something approaching $100bn of inflexible, largely unsupervised recurring budget spending.

A tray of munni left out for all comers.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2025 11:17 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Why am I supposed to vote Liberal? Mouthing a couple of platitudes isn’t cutting it.

Entropy
Entropy
April 18, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Well you could do nothing about eligibility but eliminate whole categories.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
April 18, 2025 12:25 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

the forthcoming Green free dentistry and universal mental health scheme (understandably, playing to their constituents’ needs)
Hats off, great barb there Dr F

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 1:46 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Dutton is too frightened to do anything except throw taxpayers’ money around like Labor.

dopey
dopey
April 18, 2025 4:40 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Dutton would have Rod Marsh open the bowling, with Dennis Lillee as wicket-keeper, just to be nice.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 10:53 am

I see that we will shortly be revisiting Mossad’s nuclear detonations under the WTC.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 18, 2025 11:55 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Briefing from his handler?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 11:03 am

FA

Hamas rejects Israel’s proposal to release 10 hostages in exchange for 45-day ceasefire (JPost, 17 Apr)

FO

IDF blowing up houses in Rafah, explosions can be heard in Negev – report (JPost, 17 Apr)

IDF Combat Engineers are blowing up houses in Rafah, Israeli media reported on Thursday night. Echoes of the explosions can be heard in the western part of the Negev Desert in southern Israel.

The Hezbies have just bugged out to South America, maybe Hamas guys you should do the same. Before a one ton bomb with your name on it lands on you.

Zippster
Zippster
April 18, 2025 11:04 am

The video from Black Pigeon Speaks discusses a contentious proposal in Germany for reintroducing mandatory conscription, as advocated by Stern Magazine. The suggestion is to prepare young Germans for future conflicts, with the intention of defending “freedom and diversity” rather than the nation itself. This has triggered a polarized response among Germans, many of whom are resistant to the idea of militarization. Key points include: 1. **Proposal for Conscription**: Stern Magazine, traditionally left-leaning, is pushing for mandatory military service to prepare German youth for future conflicts, citing a potential decrease in U.S. global defense support. 2. **Public Response**: The proposal has sparked intense backlash online, with many Germans opposing the idea of conscription for various reasons, such as a lack of nationalistic appeal and dissatisfaction with the current state of Germany. 3. **Demographic and Cultural Shifts**: Germany has experienced significant demographic changes, admitting 8.4 million people over 15 years, which has transformed the cultural and political landscape. Stern’s call for native Germans to protect this new diverse population is seen as a hard sell. 4. **National Identity and Trust Issues**: There is an ongoing struggle with national identity and a lack of trust in the government, exacerbated by security concerns and incidents involving migrant-related violence. This has led to increased anti-immigration sentiments. 5. **Criticism of the Establishment**: The video suggests that the elites push for sacrifices from a comfortable distance, eroding trust further. Many young Germans, both conservative and left-leaning, feel disconnected from a nation that doesn’t represent their values or include them in decision-making. 6. **Challenges in Unity**: The video concludes that a lack of a unifying cause and the deep divisions within the country make it difficult for any proposal of conscription to succeed, further illustrating Germany’s struggle with its contemporary identity. Overall, the video portrays a Germany at odds with itself, struggling to find a cohesive path forward amidst demographic changes, security concerns, and a divide between the population and the political elite.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 12:23 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Stern’s call for native Germans to protect this new diverse population is seen as a hard sell.

Just like here? Who would want to be conscripted to defend Islamic “diversity”? Maybe Numbers, but not many others.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 3:06 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Think it through, Germany.
How many Muslims will step forward to get the training and weapons?
You invited the scorpion into your country and now he’s guarding the door?
Which way will the weapons turn?

Vagabond
Vagabond
April 18, 2025 11:16 am

Cassie of Sydney
 April 18, 2025 7:53 am
Mark Dreyfus has preferenced the Australian Nazi Party aka the Greens second.

I have no words.

That’s no surprise in my opinion. I haven’t checked all the liars HTV cards but I would bet that liars central has compelled all their candidates to preference the slime second. Class traitors like Dreyfus would have had no problem with that. There is another non-Jewish liars rep in NSW, whose name escapes me, who was very pro Israel but has preferenced the slime second as well. I’d like to think that the other class traitor, Josh Burns in Macnamara was allowed to run an open ticket only because there are so many Jews in his electorate and he will most likely lose his seat anyway. The battle there will be between the slime and the SFL candidate who is indigenous and has made pro Jewish statements.

I have nothing but extreme contempt for the liars but have to admit they do discipline their members very well. Crossing the floor usually means instant expulsion. If they could get away with overt ultra violence they wouldn’t hesitate to keep them in line that way too.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 11:22 am

From the Oz.

Labor’s most senior Jewish minister, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, will direct his supporters to give their second vote to an anti-Israel Greens candidate in his safe Victorian Labor seat of Isaacs.
Mr Dreyfus, who sits on a comfortable 9.5 per cent margin, has instructed his supporters to preference the Greens candidate despite previously slamming the party for inciting potentially violent anti-Israel protests outside MPs’ offices and failing to condemn terror group Hamas.
But his how-to-vote cards will direct voters to put Greens challenger Matthew Kirwan as their number two pick, despite his backing for the Palestinian Advocacy Network, his attendance at an anti-Israel protest outside a senior ALP minister’s office, and his demands for sanctions on Israel.
The how-to-vote card put up on Mr Dreyfus’s social media only states Mr Kirwan and the other candidate’s names and does not mention their parties.
Mr Dreyfus and the Victorian Labor Party were contacted for comment on the Isaacs preference deal.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 12:30 pm

I fervently hope this happens to Dreyfus, soon.

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PeterM
PeterM
April 18, 2025 11:22 am

No idea why, but I was thinking of Andy Stewart and his “Donald, Where’s your Trousers” song this morning. There’s quite a good article about him and his song here: Donald Where’s Your Troosers? by Andy Stewart – 1961 Hit Song – Vancouver Pop Music Signature Sounds

And was reminded that he also sang “A Scottish Soldier”: Andy stewart A Scottish soldier

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 12:00 pm
Reply to  PeterM

Andy Stewart was huge (in Scotland, anyway) in the 1960’s.

I remember my slightly terrifying Presbyterian aunts becoming quite frisky about the wee fellow. Apparently ‘a breath of fresh air’ after the pervert-driven English light entertainment.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 12:18 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Luckily, Monty Python and others came along.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 18, 2025 12:26 pm
Reply to  PeterM

You’re a mean man Peter. I thought I’d purged both of those from my childhood, having to listen repeatedly. I still know the words. Arrrhhhhh.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  PeterM

I’ve always loved Stewart’s Scottish Solider, and put it up on the Cat occasionally for many years. It is the last song in the CD I supply whenever I have an MRI. When that stirring soldier comes on with the bagpipes coming through the whirringof the machine, I know that I have made it through.

Fond memories now of me and Hairy at Hogmany in Inverlochy Castle under Ben Nevis, being piped into 2025. I wore a red Stewart Tartan fine wool cloak over my sea-green party dress, and Hairy was in full Scottish National tartan kilt and regalia, making our entry to the Great Hall at the base of the stairs that Queen Victoria used during her week-long stay.

Professional photograph is here now in my study.
A memory worth bottling.

I’m Scottish enough. I was born in the slums of Glasgow in1942.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 11:22 am

Anyway, I’m not so much voting for Dutton- more voting against AnAl.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 18, 2025 11:26 am

132andBush
April 18, 2025 6:07 am

“Trumpet of Patriots” ?

How much of a bender must they have been on to come up with that name?

It’s so obviously a gimmick to get the word Trump onto the ballot.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 11:50 am

“Crumpet of Patriots” ?

Fat Cloive has been tacking another word on at the end in their most recent ads – can’t remember what it is or be bothered checking.

His ads are the epitome of the artform of spouting bullshit. If you have zero chance of winning any seats or senate spots, you can promise anything.

Massive fatal coronary time for this loathsome shyster is way overdue.

Maman
Maman
April 18, 2025 2:15 pm
Reply to  Rabz

“Strumpet of Patriots”?

Rabz
April 18, 2025 7:26 pm
Reply to  Maman

LOL

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 1:52 pm

Long past time the grifter pissed off for good.

132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2025 3:51 pm

It’s so obviously a sad and embittered exercise in onanism from Australia’s version of Mr Creosote.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 11:41 am

Of course- and where does that leave the UAP? What about Ralph Babet?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 18, 2025 12:15 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Like a 19th century philanderer, Fat Bastard leaves disinherited love children all over the place.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 11:46 am

Dr Mutton pledges no tightening of NDIS eligibility

This is about as unsurprising as the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening.

The bald headed flog seems to be doing everything he can to gift the electorate a labore/greenfilth (or worse) kakistocracy.

Some of the gliberal ads are quite effective, as much as I hate to admit it (the $14 beer is a nice touch), but this lacklustre clown seems determined to sabotage his campaign – the “pledge” above and the bureaucrats bludging from home backflip being two signal examples of this.

An effective disciplined campaign that emphasised logical policy differentiation – dumping year zero and subsidised roonables, building more coal fired power stations, lower taxes, reduced regulation, mass public serpent sackings, massively reduced immigration, ending the foreign student idiocy, etc, etc, would have meant they had a more than even chance of winning.

If we do end up with a labore/greenfilth goat circus, as far as I’m concerned, Dr Mutton will be largely responsible.

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hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 18, 2025 12:29 pm
Reply to  Rabz

That’s it. I cannot vote Liberals #1. Is the NDIS our biggest industry yet?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 3:11 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Perhaps I won’t even need to vote Greens to show Australia what happens when you don’t take politics seriously?
Stay at home and quaff a few XXXX Bitters.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
April 18, 2025 3:51 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Can’t even afford them.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 11:47 am

Why did we need a court of law to tell us what a woman is?

No man, whether it’s a 6”5 bloke called Dave or a genderfluid lad who’s taken estrogen, will be legally treated as a woman in the UK. I’m glad this ruling has been made, but I’m bemused – and kind of scared – that we needed it.

Brendan O’Neill

There was a time when every babbling toddler knew there were men and women and that they were different.

Even our Neanderthal forebears understood sex difference. They didn’t know much but they knew half the tribe was made up of grunting blokes who were good with spears, and the other half of females who might get pregnant.

Ever since our kind came down from the trees we’ve known we are sexually dimorphic – even if we didn’t use words like that for a few more million years.

And yet in 2025 we apparently need five judges to explain what a woman is.

Our is an age of such dazzling tech that you can ask an app on your phone to explain the War of the Roses and traverse entire continents in mere hours.

And yet when it comes to that simplest of queries – “What is a woman?” – people erm and ahh and say: “I don’t know. Shall we defer to the courts?”

That has been my overriding emotion following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling this week that essentially says trans women are not women. I’m glad the ruling has been made but I’m bemused – and kind of scared – that we needed it.

The judges at the highest court in our land were asked to settle a long-running spat between the Scottish government and a band of brilliant troublemaking feminists called For Women Scotland.

Scotland’s arrogant ruling class, who’ve been drunk on wokeness for years, argued that the women’s rights outlined in the UK Equality Act extend to trans women, too.

If you have a gender recognition certificate saying you’re a woman, then you’re entitled to the sex-based protections provided in law, they said.

In layman’s terms, this meant that dudes who claim to be ladies could potentially waltz into any women-only space that took their fancy.

All these fellas would require is a piece of paper from the government and – boom – they could demand entry to women’s bathrooms, women’s refuges, women’s rape-crisis centres.

For those of us who think a government document no more makes a man a woman than Rachel Dolezal’s fake tan makes her black, it was an untenable situation.

It is a death blow to women’s freedom of association, to their hard-won rights of privacy and dignity, when males are given dominion in the spaces they’ve carved out for themselves.

And so women fought back. For Women Scotland is part of Britain’s burgeoning movement of freethinking feminists who flat-out reject the idea a man can become a woman. They locked horns with the Scottish government.

They argued that the protections promised to women in the Equality Act are for biological women only. Or what we used to just call “women”, for thousands of years, before the unhinged, post-truth left decided any Tom, Dick or Harry could become a woman simply by declaring himself to be one.

And they won. The judges came down on their side, hugely. The ruling says that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, woman means woman. The End. No man, regardless of how he identifies, is entitled to women’s rights.

“The concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man,” it says. And this means that legal protections for women “necessarily exclude men”.

It’s a stirring defence not only of women’s rights but of scientific truth itself.

The repercussions will be huge. And they’ll be good. Women’s bathrooms, sports, clinics and every other zone they want for themselves alone might soon be male-free.

No man, whether it’s a 6”5 bloke called Dave or a genderfluid lad who’s taken estrogen, will be legally treated as a woman. And that’s how it should be. It is not “transphobia” to exclude males from female spaces – it’s women’s rights.

Men who identify as women should wear whatever they like and call themselves whatever they please and be as free as everyone else to pursue happiness.

Indeed, the ruling makes it crystal clear that trans people must be protected from discrimination. No institution, it says, is permitted to mistreat a trans person. Quite right.

But – and it’s an essential but – trans women cannot go into women’s spaces. Just as I can’t.

If that makes them feel bad, then I’m sorry but that’s life. Women’s freedom matters more than men’s feelings. And we now have that written in law.

All the ruling does is restate what we knew for centuries. Sex is binary. Men are not women. This was common sense about 15 years ago. Now it’s “bigotry”.

We now have the extraordinary spectacle of newspaper front pages saying “Trans women are not women”.

Imagine trying to explain to your 2010 self that it would one day be breaking news that men are not women.

It is a testament to the lunacy of our times, to the wild contagion of woke nonsense, that the truth of sex can be emblazoned across the papers as if it were some new and shocking discovery.

For me, that’s the most telling thing about the Supreme Court ruling: it confirms how close Britain got to the cliff edge of moral derangement before these five judges pulled us back.

That we needed a court to remind us that sex is real and women don’t have penises tells us a bigger story about the march of unreason.

It reminds us how speedily mania can spread. For years now we’ve been ruled by politicians who chanted the slogan “Trans women are women” like a neo-religious mantra. And by leaders like Keir Starmer who insisted some women have penises. And by cultural influencers who damned women like JK Rowling as bigots simply for saying men are men.

Truth itself became tantamount to a crime under this woke tyranny. Dissent was demonised. Even stating scientific facts was a risky business. Women literally lost their jobs for the thoughtcrime of saying people with penises are male.

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, dissenters are compelled upon pain of torture to say: “2+2=5”. In our world we were compelled upon pain of cancellation to say: “Men are women.”

And the consequences were dire. Rapists were put in women’s prisons in Scotland. Girls lost sporting medals to boys who identified as female. Women who dissented from the trans ideology were shamed online, threatened with violence, sacked.

“The sleep of reason produces monsters,” said Goya. Our sleep of reason certainly did that. It brought forth the monster of post-scientific delirium and the ruthless censure of anyone who dared to question it.

We now know what happens when the powerful uncritically imbibe fashionable nonsense and the powerless are prevented from speaking out – we end up in a world where unreason rules and it takes judges to jolt us back to reality.

That’s the lesson here: no good ever comes from conformism or censorship. As the “TERFs” say: “Let women speak.” If we’d done that sooner, we might not be in this mess.

Oz

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 12:22 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Stan: I want to have babies.

Reg: You want to have babies?!

Stan: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.

Reg: But you can’t HAVE babies!

Stan: Don’t you oppress me!

Reg: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?

[Stan starts to cry as Reg rolls his eyes]

Judith: Look, I have an idea. Let’s just say that Stan can’t have have babies, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans, but that he can have the right to have babies.

Francis: Agreed. We shall fight for your right to have babies, brother! Sister, sorry.

Reg: What’s the point?!

Francis: What?

Reg: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!

Francis[thinking] It is symbolic of our struggle against repression!

Reg[quietly] Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

The Pythons got it in 1979…

Sean
Sean
April 18, 2025 4:41 pm

I assume that Judith bringing up the idea in the first place was part of the joke.

damon
damon
April 18, 2025 4:44 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

One can only hope the Australian High Court takes notice and rules in favour of Sal Grover.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 12:23 pm

Six Days now on SBS World Movies. Go the SAS.

Again.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 12:31 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

SBS has some quirks. I recall a couple times Marc Fennell played The 5th Element on SBS 2 for 24 hours straight. I like his taste in movies.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 12:54 pm

I remember that day. I have The Fifth Element on DVD, yet I still watched it a couple of times that day whilst it was showing. 😀

alwaysright
alwaysright
April 18, 2025 1:40 pm
Reply to  Pogria

The art of negotiation.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 7:54 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 1:30 pm

How much your power bill will swell once Labor’s energy rebate expires at the end of the year

Anthony Albanese has repeatedly refused to answer one key question this election campaign. Today, we reveal the truth the PM won’t address.

The end of Labor’s $150 energy rebate in December will send the average power bill up by about 15 per cent overnight as pressure mounts on Anthony Albanese to continue the temporary relief or offer an alternate plan.

The Prime Minister has repeatedly dodged when asked if Australians can expect prices to come down after the government’s $75-a-quarter subsidy expires, with welfare advocates calling on both Labor and the Coalition to reveal what they will do to reduce costs for households “permanently”.

The average typical east coast household power bill based on the Default Market Offer for 2025-26 is expected to be about $428 a quarter for the first half of the financial year thanks to Labor’s subsidy, but this would jump to $503 from January.

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) chief Cassandra Goldie said ahead of the election all parties needed to demonstrate what they would do to “permanently reduce energy bills for those in financial stress”.

“Even with the energy rebate many people are continuing to struggle because their homes aren’t energy efficient, and their incomes are simply too low,” she said.

Ms Goldie said the $6.8 billion spent on rebates by Labor to date could have instead funded energy upgrades for every social housing property in Australia, reducing bills by thousands of dollars each year.

AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said it would be “politically difficult” for Labor not to extend the rebate if it can’t provide an alternate solution.

“The problem with these sorts of subsidies … is once you start doing them, unless the circumstances dramatically change, it’s hard to remove them,” he said.

Multiple Labor sources were not yet concerned about the looming funding cliff however, with several noting household budgets would hopefully get relief through multiple interest rate cuts and expecting the government to take a more structural approach to bringing down energy prices if granted a second term.

Redbridge Group strategy and analytics director Kos Samaras said if Labor ended the subsidies as is currently the plan, the party would have to replace them with something else.

“They have to give people confidence this transition is going to be done quickly and that the energy market is going to stabilise,” he said.

Mr Samaras said this election Labor was benefiting from being the “least worst option” on energy.

Coalition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said the accumulative impact of power price rises under Labor without subsidies was $18.6bn, and warned the pain was “only going to get worse”.

Rather than offer rebates, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has claimed households would see a reduction in electricity prices under the Coalition as a result of his gas policy “this calendar year”.

But the Coalition’s modelling produced by Frontier Economics warned of a “lag” in retail price drops under the gas plan, and Mr O’Brien has also said it would take about 12 months for the savings of about three per cent on electricity to hit household bills.

A Labor campaign spokeswoman said the government’s social housing energy upgrades, improving renters’ access to solar panels and home battery subsidies would further lower bills. “We will always look for ways to provide relief where it’s responsible and affordable,” she said.

Herald-Sun

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 1:37 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

LOL. Wot’ Social Housing? There are nearly 3 million people now on the breadline. About to lose their accommodation.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

ahead of the election all parties needed to demonstrate what they would do to “permanently reduce energy bills for those in financial stress”.

Dump Net Zero, refurbish existing coal fired generators, and build new HELE generators would be a useful start.

And abolish all subsidies to all types of generator.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 1:55 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

How do you know when Albo is lying or dodging the question?

When his mouth opens.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 1:33 pm

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cohenite
April 18, 2025 1:49 pm

This is a Christian day. On another Christian day this:

Over 50 Christians Slaughtered in Nigeria on Palm Sunday

The West is based on Christian principles. It is time those in the West who are destroying those principles be marginalised and Islam dealt with.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 2:40 pm
Reply to  cohenite

India and China will sort them out. The West has lost it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 3:18 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Preach it, Brother.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 1:54 pm

Jose Ramos Horta: Timor Leste president open to joining Chinese military drillsNicola SmithThe Nightly
Fri, 18 April 2025 11:14AM

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The president of Timor Leste has said his country would be willing to join Chinese-led military exercises in the latest signpost of the growing great power competition on Australia’s doorstep.
President Jose Ramos Horta told Timorese broadcaster RTTL that participation would be on the condition the drills were not aimed at “any perceived hostile entity,” reported the ABC.
But his statement will likely raise alarm bells in Canberra which has been closely tracking its near neighbour’s tightening relationship with Beijing, particularly since China and Timor Leste adopted a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2023.
The president said his country had already taken part in joint military drills with Australia and China, arguing the same principle should apply to China.
He has previously insisted Dili has no intention of intensifying security ties with China and Timor Leste – located just 650km from northern Australia – has stressed it does not want to be drawn into the deepening strategic rivalry between Beijing and Washington.
Timor Leste is the latest of Australia’s neighbours to appear to be recalibrating its foreign policy to adjust to the current geopolitical churn and to avoid being caught in the crosshairs of great power jostling.
This week national security was thrust to the frontlines of the Federal election campaign after reports that Russia had requested to station war planes at an Indonesian air base 1,200 km from Darwin.
Jakarta assured the Government no such request had been granted, but Moscow has stepped up efforts to establish itself as a major player in the Indo-Pacific and experts warn the prospect of future Russian assets being deployed to Indonesia remains a potential security threat.
For Australia, the risk has been intensifying since Russia and China declared a “no limits” partnership in 2022.
Earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was dispatched to Moscow to send a “strong signal of enhancing strategic coordination to the world” during a “turbulent international situation,” according to China’s foreign ministry.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 2:04 pm

This is the thanks we get for saving the bloke’s life when he got shot up by rebels in 2008.

He got hit about three times, with damage to a lung. He was treated locally before being airlifted to Darwin. From memory he was in Oz about four hours after getting hit. As Darwin Hospital is good at treating wounds – thanks countrymen – he was saved.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 2:39 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Australia saved Timor from the Indonesians. Little Johnny sent in the Diggers. What a piece of shit Ramos is.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 18, 2025 3:28 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Another piss poor decision by the shit.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 18, 2025 3:27 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Why did they bother with the commie?

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 18, 2025 3:06 pm

Fear not – Abalone has someone (not Defence, no , can’t startle the children ) monitoring the situation for a few days ie until the media forgets about it.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 1:57 pm

China reported GDP growth of 5.4% for the first quarter. This is an incredible result, given that the CPI was negative for the second consecutive month and the Producer Price Index declined for the 30th straight month. In other words, the GDP figure is questionable, and the economy is likely contracting.
Approximately 40% of China’s economy relies on domestic consumption and exports 60%, with about 16% of exports destined for the US before the tariffs. This implies that the rest of the world must absorb a 20% increase in Chinese exports at a standstill on short notice in order for there to be no contraction as a result of the American tariffs. Good luck.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 2:36 pm
Reply to  JC

If anyone believes Chinese numbers then they are crackers.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:20 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Like those who thought the Soviet Union was an economic superpower.

Until it collapsed.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 2:02 pm

Earlier this morning there was a news story of a car on fire in Beverly Hills. A body had been found in the back seat.
Update, the body belonged to a woman kidnapped from her home in Bankstown by five intruders. They beat her and her eight year old son with a baseball bat. The child is in a coma in hospital.
Husband/father is interstate.
It is tragic, especially for the child however, after the last few years, until names are released, my reaction is hmmmm?

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 2:03 pm
Reply to  Pogria
P
P
April 18, 2025 2:30 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Pogria, it’s good to see you spell Beverly Hills correctly.
A pity Daily Mail couldn’t.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 2:37 pm
Reply to  P

Thank you P.
Does your left eye start to twitch when you spot a glaring spelling error in a mainstream media piece? Mine does. 😀
I hope your morning went well. Was it beautiful?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 2:33 pm

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Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 3:49 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Haw!

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:30 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I thought that David Brooks was supposed to be the “conservative” voice in the leftard MSM. If so, what are the radicals saying?

Election denialists. As the sainted O’Bummer once said, “Elections have consequences”. Time for them to accept reality.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 3:39 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

If Jan. 6 was an “insurgency” how much more so is this?

Democrats: “It’s okay when we do it!”

This is very serious sedition.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 18, 2025 2:47 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Mein Fuhrer. He has’nt strayed.

cohenite
April 18, 2025 2:57 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Inbred cretin.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 3:33 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Perhaps the rumours are true that he converted to Islam?
Crazy, but there’s a lot of spoken evidence there’s something in it.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 3:42 pm
Reply to  Indolent

If Islam takes over there is no way the monarchy will survive.

Even if Chuckie is head of the CoE in name only.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 5:03 pm
Reply to  Lee

The fate of Charles I awaits. And beheading is the Islamic tradition. I wonder will they do it at the Banqueting Hall?

Sean
Sean
April 18, 2025 5:32 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Is there a Stuart claimant still floating around?

Diogenes
Diogenes
April 18, 2025 2:59 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Hmmmm, not sure how stable China is

Unlike previous state visits Mrs Eleven is not accompanying him.

Unlike other occasions, he had to read from notes in his “boilerplate” speech at dinner with Malaysian king ( this went viral on Chinese social media).

His former top trade rep ( and a vice minister) has disappeared from the Commerce Ministry website, and public view.

HT Lei’s real talk

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 2:42 pm
Zippster
Zippster
April 18, 2025 6:27 pm
Reply to  Indolent

didums!

cohenite
April 18, 2025 2:59 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It is one of the great injustices that this terrible harridan is not in jail.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 3:56 pm
Reply to  Indolent

For this truly vile POS to talk of “conscience” is vomit-inducing.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 2:47 pm

@ada_lluch

Italians are so lucky they have a strong leader who doesn’t bow down to the European Union!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2025 2:55 pm

Cassie of Sydney

 April 18, 2025 8:28 am

The other night I had over a fellow Cat for dinner. 

m0nster?

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:32 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

There isn’t even a commercial oven big enough for him to fit in.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 3:07 pm

Wot’ a piece of work.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 3:04 pm

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Bill From The Bush
Bill From The Bush
April 18, 2025 3:12 pm

A commenter “Ian” on the OZ article about underlying resentment of pollies used these magnificent words

Labor – full of poltroons, dandiprats and varlets. Olde English perfectly describes these incompetent clowns. Followed closely by their greens and teals goatalition partners. ‘Bankruptcy Is Us’. 

I hadn’t heard of Dandiprat before, however it superbly describes many pollicreatures with blackout being a fine example.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
April 18, 2025 4:07 pm

Well, Yeah!… Australian F-wits are for Australians, and only the laws of Australia matter… or something.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 3:13 pm

It is a testament to the lunacy of our times, to the wild contagion of woke nonsense, that the truth of sex can be emblazoned across the papers as if it were some new and shocking discovery.

And yet, with the weight of that SC decision, Dutton could not even summon up the backbone to state that which is now not only obvious but LEGALLY mandated (in the UK).

When asked about the decision and that one’s gender can not be changed merely by whim and that there are only 2 genders, Dutton’s response?

“Australian aren’t worried about that. Our concerns are the COL Crisis”

You stupid fkg idiot Peter Dutton. You cringing coward.

Dutton and the SFL’s are going to lose this election. No conviction, no spine. I don’t even pay attention to him now , he’s so woefully pathetic.

Albo was dead right when he said the SFL’s wasted 10 years in Govt. The Liars wasted not a minute.

Until we have a genuine Right Party in this country we’ll stay fkd.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 3:24 pm
Reply to  Makka

I think you’ve said it best, they are just woeful.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 3:48 pm
Reply to  Makka

That’s up there with Morrison’s brushing aside free speech as of no concern when asked about it.

Menzies would be spinning in his grave at the lack of conviction and principles of modern day Liberal leaders.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 18, 2025 6:15 pm
Reply to  Makka

So don’t vote for them. Write on your ballot paper:
‘I’ll vote when you give me someone worth voting for. Sod the lot of them.’

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 3:13 pm
Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 3:21 pm

Just back from a long walk into the CBD and back again along Oxford Street. It’s just a gorgeous day here in Sydney. Between Taylor square and Paddo Town Hall an intrepid person has put up posters with the words…..

Don’t be tricked by the Teals

Alongside the above words are photos of the Teal whores together with their Svengali, Simon da Pimp.

I noticed that many of the posters had been vandalised and pulled down.

The air is getting nasty here in Wentworth.

I wonder who our Wentworth Whore will preference second?

cohenite
April 18, 2025 3:26 pm

2 outstanding videos by Liberal Hivemind; firstly, on the black punk who stabbed the outstanding white kid and the black punk’s grifter family:

It’s much worse than you think.

Secondly on that black, fat monstrosity letitia james who faces charges identical to what she charged Trump with, except there is genuine and overwhelming evidence against her. The irony of some of her grotesque, arrogant emails during Trump’s trial now coming back to bite her slidunked arse are amazing:

Her social media is coming back to HAUNT HER.

vr
vr
April 18, 2025 3:37 pm

When the Libs lose the election next month, will they re-elect Dutton to lead them again? Is there anyone that can lead them from oblivion? Jacinta Price is an obvious candidate, I suppose.

cohenite
April 18, 2025 3:40 pm
Reply to  vr

She can’t, she’s a senator.

vr
vr
April 18, 2025 3:42 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Urgh. I forgot about that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 3:57 pm
Reply to  cohenite

John Gorton made the transition from the Senate – it has been done.

Vicki
Vicki
April 18, 2025 4:18 pm

Somebody told me the other day that Gorton had to leave the Senate and take up a seat in Reps. Don’t know if that is true. Long time ago.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 6:03 pm
Reply to  Vicki

IIRC, he was sworn in as P.M. while still in the Senate, but moved to the Lower House, and picked up Harold Holt’s former seat.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2025 6:49 pm

I suppose it’s too late to determine if he was anywhere in the vicinity of Cheviot beach on 17 December, 1967…

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 5:06 pm

Then got screwed by Fraser.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2025 6:48 pm
Reply to  cohenite

She’d also have to switch parties and the Liberal backroom would do everything they could to obstruct her.

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Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 3:38 pm

I repeat, splintering right of centre parties are a disaster for this country, something Robert Menzies knew back in the early 1940s which is why he created the Liberal Party of Australia.

For those of us who want change then we must join the Liberal Party or National Party and then push for change in administration and policy. We cannot have the scenario where we have numerous minor right of centre parties proliferating like mushrooms with the result that these minor parties take votes away from the Coalition because what happens is that those votes go no where. They’re lost.

I cannot believe anybody in their right mind would cast a vote for that buffoon, Clive Palmer, he who gifted us that bush pig from Tasmania. I remember his deliberate obstructions and antics between 2013 and 2016. I now see how he’s piously blabbering on about free speech in 2025 after cuddling up to his new bestie, Tucker Carlson, but I recall very vividly how he stymied the Abbott government’s attempt to amend Section 18C, and I recall very vividly how he stymied the Abbott government’s attempt with its first budget to introduce some minor fiscal responsibility such as introducing a small co-payment when you visit the GP.

The answer is reforming the Liberal Party, which is what is being done in South Australia where Senator Antic has been successful in defenestrating the state party of mint green moderates and he and his factional allies have installed quite a few conservatives. That’s how it’s done.

cohenite
April 18, 2025 3:42 pm

Correct. One of the many reasons the right can rarely beat the left is they have no tribalised unity; they spend as much time fighting each other as they do fighting the liars and the filth.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 3:54 pm
Reply to  cohenite

It’s not a cult. That’s a bad thing?

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 4:35 pm
Reply to  JC

No, but a level of collective discipline is essential for success.

Once the Howard/Peacock matter was settled, the Libs worked together and then had a long run of electoral success.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 4:37 pm
Reply to  JC

True, the left would vote for Charles Manson or Ivan Milat. However I do think the right needs to exhibit more unity than it does. The only worthwhile minor party is the Libertarian Party and I’ll be voting for them in the senate.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 3:44 pm

he who gifted us that bush pig from Tasmania.

For shame, don’t you know she was a traffic management specialist in the elephant trackers – I beg your pardon, the Military Police? She wore the big reflective gauntlets, and made sure all the trucks in the convoy went the same way?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 3:51 pm

Apparently she likes big dicks.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
April 18, 2025 4:12 pm

And probably failed in that endeavor IMHO, how do you get a back injury from waving flags?,

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 3:53 pm

Clive Palmer, he who gifted us that bush pig from Tasmania.

One look at her weird face is very off-putting AFAIC.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 18, 2025 4:21 pm

The collective ignorance suggests a ???????? “?????” – the Bolshevik method of secretly creating an opposition party to ensure they can manipulate them. ( Operation Trust)

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 18, 2025 4:24 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

whoops, I guess Cyrillic ain’t allowed ???=

trust
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 5:19 pm

So. On that thinking, I have in recent months become a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. .

Their general disorganisation at State level means I haven’t received my membership card yet.

Or don’t they have them these days?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 18, 2025 6:45 pm

Don’t they have a digital presence on your smartphone, like your Passport? /sarc

bons
bons
April 18, 2025 6:50 pm

No they don’t, and they will ignore you at the branch meetings. Turnbull and his cronies still rule.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  bons

Ah, but if enough of us join, as per Cassie’s thoughts above, I think we can slowly make ourselves felt.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 7:10 pm

There’s no Leadership, Cassie.
And there’s no hope of getting any.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:47 pm

The latest shooter in the US describes himself as the “Youngest PAC Chairman in Florida with Florida Future Leaders and was the inaugural Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party Youth Council.”

Typical bloody conservative.

That’s sarcasm, for the benefit of mUnturd.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 18, 2025 3:50 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

The comment is via Instapundit.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
April 18, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

That’s sarcasm, for the benefit of mUnturd.

Would have gone straight over his head.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 18, 2025 3:58 pm

dover0beach

 April 18, 2025 10:27 am

The Kobeissi Letter

@KobeissiLetter

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22h

BREAKING: US large bankruptcies jumped 49 year-over-year in Q1 2025, to 188, the highest quarterly count since 2010.

Firstly, if you look at the chart there is no statistical significance in the 2025 numbers over any other year.
Secondly, Trump has thrown a brick in the pond … a “disruptor” as lefty academics like to say.
When you signal a different policy direction in certain areas, particularly those that have been directly dependent upon government patronage, you are going to see people folding their tent.
How many of the bankruptcies are renewballs companies who put it all on a Kamal-toe win and lost?
Or corporatised NGO “charities”/advocacy outfits who have had the USAID spigot turned off?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 4:05 pm

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 5:15 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Go on, break my heart on Good Friday.

That cat is the spitting image of my darling Attapuss.

I still miss him very much.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:47 pm

You can always get another one. This world is full of nice cats.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 7:45 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

My son in public housing has just offered me another one. A ten year old ginger Tom who is being ‘looked after’ by about three different people, none of whom claim him. He previous owner in the flat nearest my son has passed away, as people regularly do in these units. I have said if the tom is happy and has a safe and warm place to sleep (he has) and plenty of food and attention then the current situation can continue and I will revise what to do after our September 8 weeks in Europe.

I’ll bet he is a good ratter, there are plenty of rats around those units. Tom is probably doing sterling work getting a meal or two there.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 4:19 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 18, 2025 4:29 pm

When asked about the decision and that one’s gender can not be changed merely by whim and that there are only 2 genders, Dutton’s response?

“Australian aren’t worried about that. Our concerns are the COL Crisis”

You stupid fkg idiot Peter Dutton. You cringing coward

Yep. This should be a walk-up start, but no.

It’s not about being a weathervane. It’s about reading the room and having principles Joe and Jane Average will relate to.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 18, 2025 4:37 pm

About like how free speech won’t create one job. Nobody cares about that.
Dutton is sinking even lower in my estimation

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:02 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Dudsy is a knob head.

132andBush
132andBush
April 18, 2025 4:37 pm

What would’ve been wrong with “ Absolutely agree, now let’s talk about the cost of living problems”?

Two freaking words!

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JC
JC
April 18, 2025 4:30 pm

My thread on Trump’s tariff strategy went viral for asking: Is this just noise or is there a plan? Since then, I’ve mapped how countries responded. But now begins the real analysis—starting with why pain WILL show up in the U.S. first, and why China won’t break the way people think. The assumption: tariffs = punishment for China. If America feels pain first, it must mean the strategy is failing. But the tariff strategy is different this time. In 2018–20, tariffs were tactical: targeted lists, capped rates, negotiation aims. In 2025, they’re strategic: blanket tariffs, EV choke points, global demand sabotage.

The U.S. system is transparent and fast-moving. Prices adjust in real time. Margins compress. CFOs make calls quickly. In fact, studies show 95–100% of tariff costs are passed directly into prices.

In contrast, China’s economy is wired to buffer shocks. State-owned firms—still a quarter of industrial output—can be instructed to maintain production, even when unprofitable. Policy banks step in with credit. VAT rebates rise overnight.

This is the structural divergence: the U.S. transmits shocks; China absorbs and redistributes them—at least on the surface. And when China does respond, it doesn’t always retaliate head-on.

What looks like escalation is actually a chess match—where one side moves through markets, the other through mandates. So yes, the U.S. feels the pain first. That’s not because the strategy is failing— It’s because our system shows its stress above the surface. China hides it underneath.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 4:57 pm
Reply to  JC

Went viral where? Please give us a link.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:42 pm

So nothing to do with ‘Jer Cough’ then.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 4:44 pm

Time on my hands – reading Robert Dallek’s biography of John F Kennedy.

Seems John Kennedy’s father spent millions during the 1960 campaign to to virtually purchase the West Virginia primaries – his son risked it all by inviting an underage cheerleader to his hotel room..

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 4:47 pm

Can’t believe the Sydney Morning Vomit is still vomiting up Ross Gittins ( who thought it took more energy to make a car go from zero to 10km/h than from 100 to 110).

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Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 4:49 pm

and they stole Texas and Illinois in 1960 iirc.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 5:08 pm
Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  Indolent

There’s a tellie series about that.

I bet the algo doesn’t pic blacks and moslems.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 5:16 pm

@WarClandestine

Did you catch that?

Zelensky admits that if Ukraine gets NATO membership, then he has “fulfilled his mission”.

His mission is not to govern Ukraine. His mission is NATO membership for Ukraine, which would immediately trigger WW3.

The reason his mission is WW3, is because that’s the only scenario where he MIGHT survive. His only way out is if NATO comes in and takes over the fight with Russia directly. That’s his plan, but realistically he would need the US in order to pull it off.

Zelensky, and his Deep State handlers, are literally trying to initiate full-scale WW3, in an effort to cover up the largest money laundering scheme in history, and crimes against humanity for bioweapon development.

That’s what we are witnessing.

This is not about Ukraine’s sovereignty. This is about covering up unfathomable criminality.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:39 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Putin will not allow it. Time for Z to fark off.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 5:50 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Could.

Well then weenies, get on the phone.

Zippster
Zippster
April 18, 2025 6:39 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It’s but a flesh wound…

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 5:22 pm

Was thinking about the Book of Job last night and the King James Bible in general. “I know that my redeemer liveth and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God”. Put to music by Handel. So heavenly and earthy at the same time. Such beauty. How could England trash itself the way it has?

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Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:37 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

God knows.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 5:44 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I find that the old language of KJV gets in the way, so I much prefer the New International Version, which renders the text accurately but in vernacular of the present day. Job had a rough time.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 5:47 pm

They used to push the New English Bible at my church. Prefer KJV. It’s early modern English after all.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I go to the KJV Strong’s Concordance to crosscheck meanings. It’s useful. I have a dead tree edition but the online version is good value (and free!)

https://studybible.info/KJV_Strongs/

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 6:01 pm

Thanks Bruce- that’s some website!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 18, 2025 6:45 pm

The majesty of the KJV is the language. If people only have a vernacular version they are missing something vital.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 7:49 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Yep.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
April 18, 2025 8:15 pm

I agree. There is almost a veneration of the King James english, in some circles, rather than than the meaning of the text itself.

I don’t mind the Christian Standard Bible. Quite similar to NIV, perhaps somewhere between it and the NASB.

It is good though that thanks to the magic of electrons, I have an app on my phone with about 50 different translations. Something for everyone.

Tom
Tom
April 18, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

How could England trash itself the way it has?

Guilt and shame, Miltonf — and not just in England It is the largely untold story of the past 100 years: when the most successful civilisation in human history has made its citizens rich, but they are so ashamed of it they have set about destroying it and returning to the19th and 20th century’s failed ideologies of socialism and communism.

Having disowned their good fortune, the West’s rich brats have started a virtual-signalling charade where they don’t actually renounce their wealth, but instead support New Age communist movements like the Greens and Teals — as long as they don’t have to surrender their million-dollar properties.

It is designed to prevent the aspirational middle class below them from enjoying their wealth

Hence, all the rich people’s replacement religions like “climate change” that don’t exist outside the afluent West.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 6:07 pm
Reply to  Tom

Like Holmes a Court fretting about inherited wealth but not actually giving it away

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 8:48 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

“Lord, give me piety, tomorrow.”

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 8:44 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

England hasn’t trashed itself – the Communists and Muslims have. But they needed the treasonous scum in positions of power to unlock the doors to the Barbarian Hordes.

cohenite
April 18, 2025 5:32 pm

I really worry what will happen to Trump if he loses the mid terms and if JD doesn’t become POTUS after Trump’s term:

Marlow: Method to the Madness: Democrats’ Embrace of MS-13 Designed to Trap Trump

The demorats are scum. They should be exiled to the Moon.

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Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 5:36 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Why worry. Your God will fix everything.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 5:52 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Why not just stfu, Rotten. Rather than spread your bile.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 18, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  Makka

What is your problem? God will fix everything. Have a look at the World right now. Top stuff. So you STFU and prove me wrong.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 6:11 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Methinks his problem is you are loud and obnoxious

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 6:28 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

The state of “The world” is mankind’s responsibility. Not God’s. There, proven wrong numpty.

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 18, 2025 6:31 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Your God, Wodney, is a kipper.

You are in no position to comment with authority on this.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The Republicans will lose the mid terms because the Democrats will steal them. The went very close to doing so in the House and Senate in 2024 despite heroic work from the RNC.

This is why Trump is going at a thousand miles per hour. He has to, since he has only two years to save his nation.

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Tom
Tom
April 18, 2025 6:24 pm

The Republicans will lose the mid terms…

I disagree, BoN. Lara Trump has disabled the Democratic Party’s cheating industrial complex.

However, cheats don’t suddenly stop wanting to cheat. The Dems will be looking for new ways to disenfranchise voters in the next two years.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 6:30 pm
Reply to  Tom

Tom

I think it depends how the economy is performing. For the next 6 months or so, it’s going to be a pretty rough ride. Fed needs to act quickly.

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bons
bons
April 18, 2025 6:58 pm
Reply to  cohenite

He won’t lose the midterms. The current balance in Congress is a combination of overhang and cheating.

The midterms will reflect the dems actual support, and crackdowns on cheating.

Of far more importance is the risk coming from the Bush Rinos. POS AOC is irrelevant in Maga America.

JC
JC
April 18, 2025 10:04 pm
Reply to  bons

He’s already lost two elections – Australia and Canada.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 6:12 pm

I meant to post this a few days ago. Cats who were fans of a certain animated comedy, will get a buzz out of it. 😀

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Zafiro
Zafiro
April 18, 2025 6:17 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I think it was on TWiP last Sunday. Good CGI there.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 7:15 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

In the comments I think, or over at Ace.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 18, 2025 8:26 pm
Reply to  Pogria

comments on TWiP. Which is the best bit.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 6:29 pm

Can the Liberals demand a security briefing on the Bears being based at Baik Is under caretaker provisions directly from ASIO?

I’m curious, from what I saw yesterday on Sky even ex ALP members are saying it should be provided and they are entitled to it.

Dutton should push this harder.

However Dutton was off pandering to Sikh’s in western Sydney today.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
April 18, 2025 6:48 pm

Jeez the stupid yarn that has gone up about a sugeon stealing “Mon” Ryan cornflutes stinks of a false
flag operation. Kooyong, btw, is crawling with creepy women d’un certain age in teals garb hassling people.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 6:51 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

How does a Congressionally created NGO given millions by the US government HQ’d right next to the State Department publicly tell the Taliban to keep 95% of the world’s heroin flowing, get caught simultaneously funding the Taliban, & there’s no DOJ query or mass declass pursued

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 6:53 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

I got banned on TikTok 3 hours after this conversation went live. Someone not happy the censorship funding went snip snip.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2025 6:57 pm

Dutton finally comes up with a winning policy – tax bracket indexation, which would limit both income tax and government spending – and then says it’s “aspirational”, i.e. will never happen.

Btw, his remark that coal mining areas like the Hunter “are done” will not serve the Coalition well in regional QLD.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 7:11 pm
Reply to  Roger

WTF, he actually said that?

Who are the idiots advising him FFS.

All I’m seeing atm is another run of John Hewson.

Losing the unlosable election, no wonder Sleazy is cocky.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
April 18, 2025 7:21 pm
Reply to  Roger

He said …… whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 18, 2025 7:43 pm
Reply to  Roger

No government ever will index the tax brackets ever.

Take that to the bank.

Crossie
Crossie
April 18, 2025 8:37 pm
Reply to  Roger

I think Dutton is trying to lose the election. He doesn’t seem to want to be the PM. He is not stupid so I’m convinced he is doing it on purpose.

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Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 18, 2025 6:57 pm

Hi brains trust
from the previous Thread there was a debate if Zelinsky started the war.
The question unanswered was who started the shooting in the donbass.
my understanding it was the ukes from weapons supplied by nato after signing the Minsk accord.
love to get to the truth of the matter.

Roger
Roger
April 18, 2025 6:59 pm
Reply to  Louis Litt

The Russian separatists in cahoots with covert Russian military.

Both times (i.e. they broke the Minsk I & II ceasefire agreements).

Next!

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Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 18, 2025 6:59 pm

Cassie

great writing about trannies being a caricature.
thats the reply.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 7:02 pm

Btw, his remark that coal mining areas like the Hunter “are done” will not serve the Coalition well in regional QLD.

WTF?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 7:12 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Zactly. See me as an exploration coal geologist comments above…

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 18, 2025 7:24 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

There’s no way I’ll do anything to help Dutton get into power. The argument that albo is even worse doesn’t cut it. They are both appalling.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
April 18, 2025 7:26 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

“If you look at an area like the Hunter, or really any coal mining area, their jobs and that industry, that town is done,” he told Sunrise on April 4.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/dutton-blunder-damages-coalition-election-chances/105184990

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 8:54 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

They must be trying to lose.
There’s no other explanation.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 10:12 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I can only assume that Dutton is captured by his advisors, none of whom have had a job outside student activism, and are yet to have a mortgage and a family or have had to manage a restrictive budget.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 7:10 pm

Vigil for man shot dead by police after witness questions why Taser, pepper spray weren’t usedBy Alexander Darling and Marta Pascual JuanolaUpdated April 18, 2025 — 6.41pmfirst published at 5.31am

Listen to this article
7 min
Footscray residents are questioning why officers didn’t use Tasers or pepper spray before fatally shooting a man who police say charged at them with a knife in Melbourne’s inner west overnight.
Officers were called to Footscray Plaza about 9pm on Thursday as they responded to reports of a man armed with a knife, police say.

Couldn’t they have just shot the knife out of his hand?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 18, 2025 7:30 pm

There’s footage of the bloke running at the jacks, bladed up and good to go.

Nevertheless, what they should have used were their words. De-escalation, as recommended by people who’ve never seen an angry man intent on carving up someone, anyone.

Either that, or some type of Spiderman-style sticky net arrangement.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
April 18, 2025 7:32 pm

Even if they had to resort to firearms, the cops shoulda just shot the knife out of his hands.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 8:42 pm

Thought something was off. From article by the jismists:

African community leader Berhan Ahmed, who heads the nearby youth and community services organisation Africause, confirmed the man who was shot was a member of the African community.

Mate tells me 7m is the absolute min distance to draw and snap shoot at a moving target if shooter is proficient. Most cops aren’t like soldiers from what I’m told, not enough time on tools the reason.

As for the knifeman, no loss, good riddance. I couldn’t care less if it were some white trash meth head being dispatched but I’m curious now whether this guy is another product of judicial over reach at a higher level especially immigration or just more bog standard judicial softness at a magistrate level.

I would be very surprised to find that he has no priors or history of misbehaviour.

Knuck’s you got any links of the raw footage? Google cone of silence directing to jismists talking smack.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 7:31 pm

yeah, why can’t they just use their Wonder Woman magic lasso ?

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 7:53 pm

Police are trained to shoot at the largest body mass, i.e. the torso.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 8:03 pm
Reply to  Lee

A feeble attempt at humour on my part.

Lee
Lee
April 18, 2025 8:07 pm

Sarcasm doesn’t always come across well on the printed page or message board.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 8:41 pm

I got it ZK
thought it quite funny
but then, sarcasm is my first language

Salvatore - Iron Publican
April 18, 2025 11:01 pm

There would not be even one catallaxian who believes it is viable to try to shoot a knife/gun out of someone’s hand.

MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 11:16 pm

a ninja could easily take the knife and replace it with a Big Mac before plod could pull out their taser

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 18, 2025 7:54 pm

In the psst they could have used the Police “Force”, but now the Police Service the can only use guns.

Sean
Sean
April 18, 2025 8:58 pm

The Age’s spin on that story was weird.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 7:14 pm

Hope for the future?

Australian males aged 15-24 now hold more traditional beliefs about gender roles, backing males earning more, and women caring for children, than any other age group apart from men over 65, new research finds.

A sharp turnaround in young men’s views on gender norms began in 2018, the data reveals, leading to fresh questions about the role social media and the likes of influencers such as Andrew Tate are playing in their belief systems.

An analysis by policy think tank e61 Institute shows that while Australians, male and female, have generally become more progressive on gender roles over the past 25 years, there has been a move back to traditional views among 15 to 24-year-olds for both genders, but most strongly for males.

The e61 research used Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data since 2001 to determine the level of support for traditional gender norms.

More at the Oz article

Diogenes
Diogenes
April 18, 2025 7:21 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Matches what I was hearing in classrooms over the last 3 years

Gabor
Gabor
April 18, 2025 7:25 pm

BoN you would have to change to Costco for the mince to feed this bird.

eag
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 18, 2025 7:40 pm
Reply to  Gabor

Heh, I have a photo of my old boss visiting a mine in Chile with one of these on his arm. I won’t post it though. He’s a tragic birdie, worse even than me.

Broke a record today. Four noisy miners on my knees simultaneously, while I was sitting on my porch. Accepting bits of bread and mince.

Gabor
Gabor
April 18, 2025 7:27 pm

Typical John Cleese if true, I hope it is.

jcls
Gabor
Gabor
April 18, 2025 7:30 pm

Is it a myth and propaganda?

Others have a different opinion.

————-
Designed by Hugo Schmeisser as an iterative improvement of his own StG44. Kalashnikov was just in charge of the bureau. Since Russians would never give a name of the Nazi designer working for them to their main rifle – they simply attributed it to a suit in charge.
—————

Hugo Schmeisser worked in the same building as Kalashnikov. What do you think is more likely? A world renowned firearms designer improving upon his design or a farmer with zero engineering and metal working experience developing a new firearm without the assistance of one of the greatest firearm designers of all time who happened to be in the same building. Hugo even said that the optimal round would be something around 7-7.62mm x 39-41mm. Which is why the original prototype was chambered in 7.62x41mm.

kal
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 7:42 pm
Reply to  Gabor

Story goes that a former Rhodesian operative, in the Selous Scouts, was introduced to Mikhail Kalashnikov at an arms fair, in South Africa, after the bush war. He told Kalashnikov that he didn’t think much of the AK – 47.

“I’ve been shot seven times with one of your rifles. If it was any good, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Gabor
Gabor
April 18, 2025 7:35 pm

Louis Litt
April 18, 2025 6:57 pm

Hi brains trust

from the previous Thread there was a debate if Zelinsky started the war.

May not answer your question, but gives a hint of how seriously Zelensky and co treated Russia and peace.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 18, 2025 10:26 pm
Reply to  Gabor

Remember that while Russia and The Ukraine were Fraternal Comrades in Arms against the Fascists, they nevertheless have hated each other for centuries.

Gabor
Gabor
April 18, 2025 11:12 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I’ve read it somewhere that the Ukrainians welcomed the Germans with the traditional bread and salt when they invaded in WWII, but the Germans treated them like an underclass and lost a valuable ally.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 18, 2025 7:38 pm

Noted earlier by Roger:

Btw, his remark that coal mining areas like the Hunter “are done” will not serve the Coalition well in regional QLD

Uh.

Has Dutton put the Bob Brown Greens convoy into central QLD into the forgettory?

As an aside, yet still potentially relevant, a lot of people (and Dutton himself) have put great stock in his former employment – as though that would give the punters comfort that the joint was in ‘safe hands’.

That has nothing to do with it, in my humble view. Former employment has to be relevant.

A copper can be a copper for 30 years, and still be shit at it. Or they could be awesome. The point is, just being in that role doesn’t necessarily make you good.

From memory, I think Dutton resigned after ten years or less which gives the impression that the line of work wasn’t for him, and that politics was.

Because I used to work for Picture magazine and also worked the door of army pubs in the Ville doesn’t mean I would be a brilliant accountant.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 18, 2025 8:59 pm

Picture was the best mag ever. Cheers bro

Patralfster
Patralfster
April 18, 2025 9:14 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Good grief, reader’s wives.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 18, 2025 9:14 pm

Who came up with “Smoo”? We are still using it.

P
P
April 18, 2025 7:48 pm
Muddy
Muddy
April 18, 2025 7:50 pm

In 1788, an attempt was made to diversify our continent’s homogenous population. That was apparently an awful thing to do, because it threatened racial purity.

Two hundred and thirty-odd years later, forced diversity (invasion) is a necessity.

Barry
Barry
April 18, 2025 8:01 pm

Relevant meme.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 8:12 pm

Don’t mind Dutton going on about being a cop in a past life, beats being an apparatchik.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 8:34 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I remember reading somewhere about injuries sustained during a high speed car chase?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 8:30 pm

Anyway, Sliante to all you mob.

The lifestyle of a grumpy old man, in a self funded retirement.

Some rather excellent tempranillo over the dinner table, a large single malt – or three – and Charles Moore’s authorized biography of the Blessed Saint Hilda.

I wonder what the poor are doing?

calli
calli
April 18, 2025 8:37 pm

And now for something completely different…

Flew into Haneda a couple of hours ago. The sun dropping towards sunset, a table top of cloud hanging above Tokyo.

There, silhouetted and tall above the mist, was Fujisan. The rays made a golden and silver aura around the peak. Rather lovely.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 8:44 pm
Reply to  calli

Sounds lovely.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 9:45 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Ryan Peterson’s business model of setting up businesses by off shoring from the US just got nuked. He made a killing over decades , now it’s the turn for US workers to get a bigger slice of the US consumers spend. Now he’s experiencing what millions in the US have had to deal with since China joined the WTO, since the 90’s.

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Rabz
April 18, 2025 8:40 pm

Johnny – now that you’re at UNSW and out of the international school and your sister Jess’s spoken Italian makes you sound like a heathen, you are there for a reason – and you are allowed to look at and engage with goils – and they will be exquisite – just don’t let them pile on the distraction factor. 😕

Which they will, without even realising it. 🙂

calli
calli
April 18, 2025 8:42 pm

I heard the most ridiculous thing today.

Americans have taken to writing letters because their phones may be searched at the border because bad things written about Trump might be found.

No explanation about what might happen to said Americans, or the logistics of searching all incoming phones.

There’s some bizarre crap doing the TDS circuit.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 18, 2025 8:52 pm
Reply to  calli

But can’t their letters be intercepted? Dumb as dogshit.

Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 8:46 pm

I remember a person writing here that Trump and the GOP would lose the November 2024 election because the Democrats will steal it. But here’s what happened……….

Trump won both the electoral college and the popular vote.
The GOP won the Senate.
The GOP won the House.

I think our oracle should stick to feeding birds.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 9:04 pm

I didn’t vote in the Cat poll for the 2024 US election because I was resigned to a 2020 result – again … 🙁

But, Prez Fatty Trump’s Revolution will put you in the driver’s seat! 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 19, 2025 7:22 am

Cassie – The Democrats did manage to steal at least half a dozen House seats and several Senate seats. That is well known.

What saved the election for the Republicans is Ms Trump as head of the RNC. She mobilized an army of scrutineers and lawyers in the six battleground states to watch the election people like hawks.

Even with that the GOP only ended up with a one or two seat majority in the House despite the landslide.

Yes I was wrong. But they tried their damnedest to steal it. And nearly did.

Cassie of Sydney
April 19, 2025 7:25 am

As I wrote above, I don’t think being a psephologist on US elections is your shtick.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 19, 2025 7:32 am

I can probably find the sources if you want. It won’t be easy since the stories were on righty websites, which search engines don’t like to provide.

Recall though the four house seats in California where the counting went on and on and on for weeks and weeks until finally the Dems “won” the seats by small margins. There were also a couple like that in Arizona.

Gateway Pundit is probably the best source if you want to check for yourself.

Cassie of Sydney
April 19, 2025 8:03 am

Stick to feeding birds.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 18, 2025 8:52 pm

AK47 assault rifle designer Kalashnikov dies at 94

  • Published
  • 23 December 2013

The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged 94, Russian officials say.
The automatic rifle he designed became one of the world’s most familiar and widely used weapons.
Its comparative simplicity made it cheap to manufacture, as well as reliable and easy to maintain.
Although honoured by the state, Kalashnikov made little money from his gun. He once said he would have been better off designing a lawn mower.
Kalashnikov was admitted to hospital with internal bleeding in November.
He died on Monday in Izhevsk, the city where he lived 600 miles east of Moscow, an official there said.

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on 10 November 1919 in western Siberia, one of 18 children.
In 1938, he was called up by the Red Army and his design skills were used to improve the effectiveness of weapons and equipment used by Soviet tank regiments.
He designed the machine gun after being asked by a fellow soldier why the Russians could not come up with a gun that would match the ones used by the Germans.
Work on the AK47 was completed in 1947, and two years later the gun was adopted by the Soviet army.
Kalashnikov continued working into his late 80s as chief designer at the Izhevsk firm that first built the AK-47.
He received many state honours, including the Order of Lenin and the Hero of Socialist Labour.
Kalashnikov refused to accept responsibility for the many people killed by his weapon, blaming the policies of other countries that acquired it.
However, pride in his invention was tempered with sadness at its use by criminals and child soldiers.
“It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon,” Kalashnikov said in 2008.

Vagabond
Vagabond
April 18, 2025 9:23 pm

calli
 April 18, 2025 8:42 pm
I heard the most ridiculous thing today.

Americans have taken to writing letters because their phones may be searched at the border because bad things written about Trump might be found.

Dunno about that but I’m becoming increasingly aware that smartphones pick up conversations and other data without the user’s knowledge which are then sent off to be used for advertising or more nefarious purposes. In recent times I have held conversations on several occasions with people while the phone was in my pocket and subsequently seen adverts and other links to things that we were talking about.

I know the best way to deal with paranoia is to ignore others’ foolish plots against me <grin> but this seems like more than a coincidence.

Apparently there’s quite a bit posted on the internet about this but of course that doesn’t prove it is actually happening. So if people are worried about their phone being searched maybe they should think about what they are saying in its presence.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 19, 2025 8:29 am
Reply to  Vagabond

So if people are worried about their phone being searched maybe they should think about what they are saying in its presence.

NO! this is a version of the old ‘if you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?’

The problem is twofold:

1) Our wise rulers may deem things we say to be unacceptable when we believe they are not only acceptable to say, but necessary (think culturally incompatible immigration, the safety of certain medical ‘products’, transmania etc)

2) Our wise rulers may retrospectively decide your speech was unacceptable.

Rafiki
Rafiki
April 18, 2025 9:29 pm

Like some others here, I will identify with the Liberals, to the extent now of handing out HTVs. From there, it will be easier to join up (in Bowral). But on my own, this will achieve little. Those of us who wish for a move to the right need some connection with a ginger group that will link us together. This requires a person of some stature who might, for example, offer a lecture that would attract new joiners and existing sympathisers so that an informal group might be formed.
Something like all this anyway.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 18, 2025 10:47 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

To some extent, the Cat can do this Rafiki.

People can say if and when the join and get int touch with each other, if Dover is kind enough to swap emails for us.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 9:30 pm
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MatrixTransform
April 18, 2025 9:48 pm
Reply to  Rabz
Its Remarkable
Its Remarkable
April 18, 2025 9:44 pm

So, here we are on the Gold Coast for a few days. Quietly walking with the dog in the evening. Of course it is school holidays and so al manner of people are also here.
Quietly wanting to take the pooch for a final toilet opportunity, we go to the public park.
Yes it is twilight but here we have a ‘family’ of fat adults and 3 early teens riding the these ‘Lime’ bikes at breakneck speeds all over the place. F’ing dangerous I reckon.
So I call out to these idiots that this might be dangerous and potentially could injure some one, and get responded to with abuse and the finger.
What a neanderthal culture we now have.
Sad

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 9:55 pm
Reply to  Its Remarkable

Time to unleash your inner Neanderthal?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 18, 2025 10:12 pm
Reply to  Its Remarkable

Trail bikes in the fringes of the ‘ville are the same.

I may have done a letterbox drop about some teens recently being very problematic especially when the d$#%heads think removing baffles from the exhaust make the bike go faster.

Where I live we have square kilometres of bush trails away from the housing estates they can use but they were using open areas near houses, feet off back fences.

Explosion of entitlement on local facebook thread (Screenshots sent to me by mate) was illuminating. Luckily the self appointed “mayor or whatever she thought she was” was flogged mercilessly. The thread was deleted…

Point being 2 people had had polite words to go ride on the tracks in the bush not near peoples houses. Yet the kids returned, we just started lodging police complaints. Funny problem disappeared after.

It’s everywhere unfortunately.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 9:46 pm

Cats – “The Studio

I have been enjoying it.

The pratfalls are magnificent. You’ll need to brush up on your Hollyweird trivia and knowledge of various cinema classics to truly enjoy it.

It could just become the Farty Towels of the Twenty-first Century … 😕

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 18, 2025 9:56 pm

Trans celebrities and activists vow to defy Supreme Court gender ruling and continue to use single sex toilets as they claim to be victims of ‘blatant discrimination’
Daily Mail – worth a look for the exploding heads

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 18, 2025 10:03 pm

Hi Shatezzz
newcastle ripping it up – the two games in hand and the won – Bigly – esp against the perennial relegation threatened team Man Utd.
Newcastle third Forrest fourth – hopefully these two stay in the top 4.
Wolves are a form team – staying up.
Ange win tonight is huge. Hilarious if they won the championship.
Lazio lost to the Norwegian team – those short Italian legs could not keep up with a team full of Rutgers Heauter.

shatterzzz
April 19, 2025 7:43 am
Reply to  Louis Litt

If Toon beat Aston Villa, this weekend, it’s CL time again .. LOL!
Yep .. Wolves are on a roll, pulled themselves well clear of the relegation zone …….!

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Cassie of Sydney
April 18, 2025 10:05 pm

Daily Mail – worth a look for the exploding heads

A veritable freak show of creepy perverts, fetishists, autogynephiles and weirdos.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 10:06 pm

“Liberal demons” is right.

@UltraDane

250,000 WHITE British girls have been raped in the last 25 years, OVER 90% by Muslims – Lord Pearson in the House of Lords.

The numbers are staggering, an absolutely Satanic presence overshadows all of the West, fueled by literal demons.

Its Remarkable
Its Remarkable
April 18, 2025 10:08 pm

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I suppose these people vote (well they are required to anyway), and goes to helping understand how this country is in such a mess.
When one considers average intelligence and how that manifests, then that half of the population are below that level, one despairs.

Makka
Makka
April 18, 2025 10:09 pm

I’m sorry, I admit I find the anti-Muslim stuff a bit much,

Far too many apologists like this. Primarily because you are ignorant, person. Educate yourself about a violent cult that reveres a barbaric pedo. Then reconcile your need to be sympathetic with the grief families of the brutally murdered and tortured in Israel have to live with. Islam has never been compatible in the west, never will be.

Pogria
Pogria
April 18, 2025 10:43 pm
Reply to  Makka

Makka,
that particular commenter is a repeat offender. He/she has done this a few times. New name, same shtick. Starts by commenting nicely, then in creeps the “poor mussies, I don’t understand”, before long, full blown derangement and abuse.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 19, 2025 5:37 am
Reply to  Pogria

Bird

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 19, 2025 7:50 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Indeed.

Its Remarkable
Its Remarkable
April 18, 2025 10:15 pm

And while I am on a roll…
I kep seeing favourable reviews of ‘The Saints’, Scorsege’s series of supposedly good viewing.
But how does one actually get to watch it? Is it on Fox, or another platform. Cannot seem to find anything other that the trailer.

Indolent
Indolent
April 18, 2025 10:33 pm

@EricLDaugh

Let me break down the trolling for everyone:
1. Bukele + Trump admin now prove Kilmar Garcia is bodily fine. Not mistreated.
2. A sitting Democratic senator is now on camera having margaritas with an illegal alien declared to be a member of MS-13.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 18, 2025 10:50 pm

Roger 06:59pm
thanks – I need time to process this as my reading had it was the ukes who started this.

what was the motivation for the Russians doing this ?

Roger
Roger
April 19, 2025 9:06 am
Reply to  Louis Litt

Putin’s chief justification is that Ukraine has no historical, cultural, political or legal right to a separate existence outside of Russian control.

Obviously, the Ukrainians have a problem with this.

You can find Putin’s speeches on the subject on-line, you know.

Get it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

Bluey
Bluey
April 18, 2025 10:52 pm

After seeing Dutton’s remarks about the coal industry I can’t help wondering if the coalition don’t actually end up losing seats overall.

FFS.

John H.
John H.
April 18, 2025 11:07 pm

Those uncreative Chinese scientists have done it again …

2D Chip Breakthrough: 6,000 Transistors, 3 Atoms Thick – IEEE Spectrum

Arky
April 18, 2025 11:08 pm

Talking about predictions… how are mine going?

Arky

July 21, 2024 6:20 pm

My predictions for the next five years:

Trump wins.

Rapid de-coupling from China and total reorganisation of world trade begins.

Many of the globalists and never Trumpers resign themselves to the new order and position themselves to profit from it.

CCP loses control of all or parts of China as large chunks of the world economy collapse, but not before starting a war.

The war is fairly contained, China loses.

Vicki
Vicki
April 19, 2025 7:32 am
Reply to  Arky

Don’t like the last bit, Arky. Like the result – but don’t like the prelude.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 19, 2025 7:54 am
Reply to  Arky

Impressive predicting so far – the conclusion is concerning.
Can only imagine how many Chinese refugees, real and fake, we would get.
Neither party would stand for Australian interests in such a situation, of course.

Rabz
April 18, 2025 11:43 pm
Rabz
April 18, 2025 11:53 pm

The sweetest goil in the woild
Could be the meanest goil in the woild
If you make her that way … 😕

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 19, 2025 7:57 am

Breaking news: here it comes
The white house just declared war on the covid conspirators.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/breaking-news-here-it-comes

I had been wondering about the odd uptick in “claims the covid vaxx saved lives” and the “we did the best we could with what we knew” justification over the last week or two.
Now we know.

https://youtu.be/Gt9BNBSMW3U

The white house just blew the war trumpets on the covid conspirators.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 19, 2025 8:03 am

I’m sorry, I admit I find the anti-Muslim stuff a bit much,

Don’t be sorry, be ashamed at your abject ignorance and moral cowardice about Islam and its aims.

Roger
Roger
April 19, 2025 8:42 am

CCP loses control of all or parts of China

They’re certainly getting more paranoid and authoritarian.

In a move obviously aimed at the spread of Christianity, China has banned foreigners

“residing in the country from establishing religious preaching without authorisation, founding religious schools, producing or selling religious books, accepting religious donations, or recruiting Chinese citizens as religious followers.” 

In a statement on the Chinese messaging app and social media platform WeChat, China’s Ministry of Public Security boasted of increased spending on technology and manpower to combat independent religious organizations.

Persecution.org

It’s never been widely reported in the Western media, but the collapse of the Berlin Wall had its origins in prayer meetings that began in St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig in 1982 and culminated in 300 000 marching peacefully on the Augustplatz on the evening of 9 October, 1989, praying and chanting “No violence.”. The chief of police, under orders to quell the protest, told a journalist he had no answer to prayers and candles. Four weeks later, 500 000+ gathered to protest in the Alexanderplatz in East Berlin and began to dismantle the Wall.

Xi’s desire to keep churches in China under strict CCP control stems from fear of the subversive potential of a faith which places the state under the authority of God.

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Roger
Roger
April 19, 2025 9:31 am

‘Any critical review of the COVID-19 response cannot but conclude that most of it was inappropriate – in that it was not based on firm evidence or experience, nor did it seek to balance risk from the disease with the benefits and potential harms from interventions at both a population and individual level, making informed consent impossible. Furthermore, as the IFR estimates before the first lockdown were below 1%, the response was also disproportionate. The enormous and widespread harms that would result from such an inappropriate and disproportionate response should have been clear to those advocating it.

…our governments and authorities should have treated the public as adults and let them make their own decisions, rather than taking a coercive and authoritarian approach. In other words our governments and their advisors should have followed standard public health practice and existing codes on medical ethics and informed consent.’

The COVID-19 Tsunami – Fact or Fiction?

The Response – Appropriate and Proportionate?

Alan Mordue

Dr Alan Mordue is a retired consultant in public health medicine.

Possibly the best short analysis of the covid response I’ve read.

The question that remains unanswered is “Why?”

It may simply have been incompetence and groupthink among our scientific experts (meaning they weren’t being very scientific or expert at all!) and cowardice on the part of our politicians.

Without proper inquiries we’ll never know for sure and such behaviours (and the people who exhibited them, thus failing in their duty to the public) remain unrebuked and hence likely to be repeated in the future.

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damon
damon
April 19, 2025 1:43 pm

Anyone have any ideas how (or whether) the UK decision will influence Sal Grover’s court battle?

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