As of August, industrial production expanded by 4.5% year-over-year, indicating steady but not extraordinary growth.OK, so how does that wash…
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Only one thing I want to see on Inauguration Day-ZZ Topp playing an eighteen-minute medley from the foredeck of the…
Bother! I thought you left out “to”. With Kevni it has to be total surrender with penalties.
want -> won’t
we stopped using ANZ systems are archaic garbage
Boo. Again.
Could a pill provide the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise? A study in mice raises the possibility
No, because exercise does much more than just provide compounds from muscles, irisin being a prominent one. Exercise, with resistance exercise being an important component, will help but by how much? On the weekend I read trials on humans with simple interventions which stalled neurodegeneration. There’s no single approach but there is enough research out there now to construct interventions that should markedly decrease the risk of dementia. This type of research only took off this century and is still in development. It is promising.
You know, this election result appears to be more of a counter revolution to the decadence of the Western left.
With God’s help we will see this occurring in Europe.
Aussie dollar pole vaulting on a cliff edge. Now 64.80 cents.
Bear:
Those morons in Canberra have no idea—a semi is hurtling toward them on their side of the road.
This is potentially very true.
Bill Ackman.
We had one little part of Australia that could be doing well, and that’s gold mining seeing where the gold price is. That Croation shitforbrains closed it down. It wasn’t much, but it’s certainly a signal to anyone else. But hey, at least we’ll reach net zero by 2035 (?).
Around 70% of my net worth has always been in in the US. The only thing I recommend is putting some money over here because this place is going motor along like a Musk rocket.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Abbott praising that spiteful nincompoop is up there with Howard’s embrace of Trumble. A pair of uniparty frauds.
Bugger.
RINOs Keep Senate As Thune Beats Rick Scott To Replace McConnell (14 Nov)
So Rick Scott didn’t even come second. A couple of X polls I’ve seen made it clear that righties overwhelmingly wanted Scott. Well all we can hope for is the RINOs get primaried to oblivion.
Interesting story from the Oz……….
Albany candidate ‘harassed, threatened’ after LGBTQI+ commentsPAUL GARVEY
12 hours ago
A West Australian Liberal candidate who made controversial comments linking pedophilia to the LGBTQI+ community has secured a restraining order against a woman behind repeated alleged threats and harassment of him and his family.
Thomas Brough, who is running for the seat of Albany in WA’s southwest, secured the court order on Monday after going to police with details of multiple instances of disturbing behaviour towards him by a fellow resident.
Dr Brough’s police statement details a series of incidents in which the woman entered the emergency department where he works and repeatedly hurled abuse at him. According to Dr Brough’s statement, the woman at one point allegedly said words to the effect of “I know where you live and I’m going to make sure you f..king die”. She also allegedly said, “you and your woman and kid out there, year I f..king know where you are”.
He claimed in the statement that a psychiatrist colleague who had interacted with the woman had told him that she had described her intent to inflict physical violence on him and that the psychiatrist believed the threats were credible.
Last week, after visiting the Albany Court House to collect a violence restraining order application, Dr Brough was in his car preparing to leave when the woman parked her car across the front of his vehicle and blocked him in.
According to Dr Brough’s statement, she stepped out of her car while holding a large glass jar that he feared could be used as a weapon. A passer-by stepped between the pair and another man called the police.
The woman had also posted a photo of Dr Brough’s driveway on social media, in which she said “I’m ya neighbour ya sly dog see ya at Nanarup real soon for a nice neighbourly how ya ‘garn we’re both farmers after all”.
Dr Brough’s statement also detailed vandalism to his car, which is covered in political branding, that occurred around the time of their emergency room incidents. The woman posted photographs of the vandalism on her Facebook page, under the caption “For my Gays and They’s”.
Dr Brough, who sits on the City of Albany council, led a successful push to sever Albany’s sister city relationship with the Chinese city of Linyi after arguing that the arrangement could be a vehicle for Chinese Communist Party’s influence and interference.
He has also been criticised over comments made at a council meeting in which he argued that the plus symbol in LGBTQI+ could include “people who identify as minor-attracted persons”.
Those comments, and Dr Brough’s support for a group seeking to have two sex education books removed from the Albany library, saw him labelled a “dickhead” in the WA parliament by Culture and Arts Minister David Templeman. The minister ultimately withdrew the comment.
Dr Brough and his wife, who is 36 weeks pregnant, are upgrading their home security in the wake of the incidents.
“She hasn’t been sleeping, she’s been hyper vigilant. It’s just been extremely unpleasant, and that’s not what you expect when your husband wants to have a crack at being a representative,” he told The Australian.
He said his appetite to pursue a political career had not been affected by the incidents. “It just reaffirms the fact that we need people of courage and conviction and character to participate in the public arena,” he said.
Liberal MP Rick Wilson, whose federal electorate of O’Connor includes Albany, said the threats towards Dr Brough were some of the most egregious he’d ever seen.
“When you’ve got a wife at home on a small block just out of town with a two-year-old toddler and a baby due in two weeks, and you’re at work at the hospital where you’re getting constantly harassed by this person who’s (allegedly) threatened to kill you, and has posted on Facebook a photo of his front driveway saying, ‘I know where you live’, it’s really concerning,” Mr Wilson said.
“And quite frankly the pile-on, which was led by Rebecca Stevens, the member for Albany, and jumped on by David Templeman, calling Tom Brough a dickhead and hoeing into him in the parliament, I don’t think it reflects well on them.
“People in senior roles need to take some responsibility for their words.”
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam said Labor had used the cloak of parliamentary privilege to incite the harassment of Dr Brough.
“Political candidates of all stripes do an enormous service to our democracy when they choose to run for office, and they should be able to do that without needing a VRO,” she said.
“It is typical of Roger Cook’s WA that people are having their families threatened because they stand for election.”
Mr Templeman said no one should be harassing or attacking anyone for their beliefs.
“Violence and threats against anyone are not acceptable and I urge everyone in the Albany community to treat each other with respect and tolerance,” he said.
“As I said at the time, libraries should be safe spaces for all people, no matter their age, gender, race, religion, disability, cultural identity, sexuality, language, educational attainment, socio-economic status, political allegiance or social viewpoint.”
Good on Dr Brough, I hope he wins. Two points here…..firstly, the left constantly use threats, intimidation and violence against people who have opinions they don’t like. The left are rarely called out for it and they never incur any consequences.
Secondly, Dr Brough is 100% right about the ‘plus symbol in LGBTQI+’. As far as I am concerned it is an pointer, an interference to those who ‘identify as minor-attracted persons”, or in plain English to those people who are PEDOPHILES.
Couple of interesting MENA stories:
Report: Iran ‘Postpones’ 3rd Attack on Israel in Hope of Deal with Trump (13 Nov)
Saudi Royals Ask Trump to ‘Finish What You Started’ in Middle East (12 Nov)
Reagan sank half of the Iranian fleet in a day, and Trump is cut from similar cloth. But the carrot that comes with the stick is the Abraham Accords, and Saudi are keen for that process to continue it appears. And as Dover reported Saudi and Iran have been having meetings lately, so maybe that will also help cool things down.
Brough’s treatment is a classic rule from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The woke progressive left just love to dish it out but they hate it when it’s thrown back, just like here when we saw Monty complaining about being called a ‘Nazi’ despite the fact that for years he’s come on here throwing the smear Nazi around with gay abandon.
I guess that’s why I’ve adopted the following Alinsky rule….
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Just one day for Remembrance of our fallen, but a whole week for trains awareness?
Oh, hang on…
As you were.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Exactly what was done to me on Monday. They do it automatically, this playing of the man not the ball. Obsessive and childish and very dangerous to relationships.
The Beloved was watching Paul Murray last night and I caught a short segment on the cancelling of family members who may have different political opinions (this was in reference to that insane psychiatrist on the View recommending cutting off of Trump voters at Christmas).
What ever happened to changing the subject? And when they persist, changing the subject again and again? They have no interest in your views, just their own. Keeping the peace has always been difficult, this type of thing isn’t new. Like toddlers, they need diversion.
Which will work just fine until they pick up the meat cleaver.
Always have an escape plan. As Faustus would say, this is an Iron Law.
Always remember…
Could a pill provide the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise? A study in mice raises the possibility
I take lotza these medical “discoveries” with a large pinch of salt! .. read, earlier in the week ( ABC), that folks who have had Cancer are, more likely to be, immune to Dementia .. As someone who’s had, & recovered from, 2 different types of Cancer over the past 15 years I’m guessin’ I’m guaranteed to go out full compus mentis .. LOL! …
Slight setback for the “Don” .. one of McConnell’s maaate’s elected Senate leader ……
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/13/john-thune-elected-senate-republican-leader-in-tight-race/
Bankruptcy of book publisher provides lessons for unwary authors https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/shawline-publishing-collapse-authors-money-liquidation/104565730
Is anyone watching the use of public money?
In a last ditch attempt to get landowner consent to build the VNI West inter connector, AEMO’s mongrel pup TCV is throwing money around in a vain attempt to bribe farmers.
-$100,000 just to do on ground surveys.
-We’ll pay for a new house.
-Name a price per tower.
-Name a price per Km of line.
These are the offers by TCV to farmers I know right now.
How does a company that only exists through government mandate, whose funds are derived from government approved levies on the distribution and retail network, get to behave in this manner?
Call me old fashioned but I think this is wrong.
We had one little part of Australia that could be doing well, and that’s gold mining seeing where the gold price is. That Croation shitforbrains closed it down. It wasn’t much, but it’s certainly a signal to anyone else. But hey, at least we’ll reach net zero by 2035 (?).
And 2 lithium mines have/are in the process of being snowballed cos low market price for product with a lot more job losses than Blayney but a lot less media publicity ..
There’s been a fair bit written this week on the insanity that seems to’ve broken out on the Left after the election result. I read this one yesterday:
The Heartbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome (12 Nov)
Couple all this with the data which suggests that half of young lefty women have been actually diagnosed with mental conditions of one sort or another. I fear that abandoning the family model outlined in the Bible is having a very bad effect on the mental health of women.
On another issue, I just heard Clennell telling me that “Rudd will survive”.
I don’t care about the little sh*t’s “survival”. This loose-lipped nincompoop is currently our representative to our most important ally. With whom he has Net Zero credibility. Why do the Australian people have to suffer this purely political appointment?
The guy has been reduced to going cap in hand to his old political enemies to give him entry into the new administration. Which means he hasn’t been doing his job, his duty to us.
Recall him and replace him with someone who can do the job.
Abbott praising that spiteful nincompoop is up there with Howard’s embrace of Trumble. A pair of uniparty frauds.
Looking after his own self interest .. rumoured to be hoping for an ambassadorial appointment if Dudzy getz up .. sooo no rockin’ the boat! ……
Oz politics 101 .. it’s ALWAYZ about the “money” …!
Ha! Nincompoop is a much under-utilised word!
A good Word For the Day.
Here’s a visual cue.
Liquidators for embattled Victorian publisher Shawline have confirmed hundreds of authors and the tax office are owed more than $800,000.
And if you keep reading you arrive at ……
they had received claims from 51 authors seeking to recover losses of between $5,000 and $8,000.
Lotza “would be” authors on the “books” tho ..
The liquidators said 470 authors were on Shawline’s books ..
Maybe I’m a cynic but one publisher & 470 authors in the Oz book market? ..
I had no idea the “make money out of writing” market is/was booming in OZ .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/shawline-publishing-collapse-authors-money-liquidation/104565730
Kaboom!
Trump Selects Tulsi Gabbard to Serve as Director of National Intelligence (13 Nov)
I hope she cleans the place out very thoroughly, especially the CIA.
Matt Gaetz for AG.
Riting must be a hard row to hoe if you have to knock out 6 to 8 books a year to make minimum wage.
Couple of good pix of The Donald and Biden in a photo-op meeting on the front page of the Oz site – don’t need the sub to see them
The company pays handsome salaries to those at top. Co will be on contract to deliver. Biggest priority is to deliver quickly otherwise flow of taxpayer funds may be jeopardised. Throwing money around to achieve deadlines doesn’t hurt them. If things get tight the top guys will move on but given Trump’s win the writing is on the wall for the big renewable boom.There will be fewer opportunities worldwide and finance will dry up.You would have to be blind Freddy (or Bowen and the Labor/Greens) not to see the end of the scam coming.
A comforting cup of pabulum for the broken hearts of Hartford.
A Cat mentioned Have Spacesuit Will Travel this week. Perhaps it should be compulsory reading for NASA astronauts…
NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: ‘None of our spacesuits are spring chickens’ (13 Nov)
Well yes an emu isn’t a spring chicken, there is that. I’ve linked to the Instapundit entry because they have a tweet about SpaceX’s spacesuits, which were used in the recent spacewalk. NASA are now so far behind they are irrelevant.
An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.
She will carry out Presidents Trumps wishes right up to the point of where she doesn’t – and like Pence, will show her colours when it is most advantageous to the Left.
And with John Thune in as Senate Majority Leader, the Deep State is creeping back into the pivotal positions.
Trump has learned nothing about the Left.
One cancer cell in your organisation is one too many. They always multiply.
But, but Victoria – you love this sort of thing!
A group of climate change protesters have caused traffic chaos for thousands of Melbourne commuters this morning after they blocked off a key road.
A group of around 30 protesters linked to Extinction Rebellion stationed themselves on Punt Road and the CityLink overpass as they held up flags and large banners.
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged, blocked multiple lanes leading to significant traffic delays of at least 20 to 30 minutes for anyone travelling from the St Kilda area toward the Eastern Freeway.
Punt Road, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, was backed up with traffic preventing drivers getting to work, with a few furious commuters getting out of their cars to confront the protesters.
One man ripped a banner away from the group near the Alexandra Avenue intersection and walked off with it, though the protesters simply help up another.
‘I understand the importance of the message, but there must be better ways to protest without angering people,’ one annoyed driver, heading to university for an 8.30am exam, told 7News.
One banner the group help up referred to the COP29 climate summit which is being held in Azerbaijan this week.
Other flags showed the Extinction Rebellion logo, a protest group notorious for their disruptive stunts.
Daily Mail
Good doggie!
The guy is amazing.
He’s launching yet another rocket this arvo, at about 4 o’clock AEDT.
FITTON: The Biden FBI Came to My Home! I WANT JUSTICE!
Judicial Watch
Summary: In the video titled “The Biden FBI Came to My Home! I WANT JUSTICE!” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discusses his personal experiences with the FBI under the Biden administration. He expresses concern about what he perceives as a growing threat of government overreach and corruption, particularly following his four-hour interrogation by the FBI regarding Trump-related documents. Fitton argues that Judicial Watch plays a crucial role in uncovering government corruption and advocates for transparency, election integrity, parental rights in education, and the protection of free speech. — ### Key Points: #### Introduction: – Tom Fitton reports on the visit by the Biden FBI to his home with a subpoena. – He describes his experience of being interrogated for four hours about inquiries related to the 2020 election and alleged corruption. #### Government Accountability: – Judicial Watch is positioned as a watchdog that holds politicians accountable. – Highlights past accomplishments, like uncovering Hillary Clinton’s emails and exposing the Russia investigation as a hoax against Trump. #### Reflection on Political Corruption: – Lists key figures (Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc.) involved in the alleged “worst corruption scandal” in U.S. history. – Critiques the current administration for attempting to jail political opponents. #### The Left’s Agenda: – Argues that the Left is attacking various societal aspects: education, government transparency, courts, the right to life, sovereignty, and free speech. – Advocates for a pushback against these attacks to protect the rule of law and citizen rights. #### Personal Experience with FBI: – Details a traumatic visit from the FBI, likening the experience to media stunts. – Calls the Biden administration’s actions a political abuse of power. #### Judicial Watch’s Role: – Emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of Judicial Watch in fighting government corruption. – Cites successes in election integrity, aiding in the removal of millions of names from voter rolls. #### Election Integrity: – Expresses concern about voter fraud and the Left’s opposition to election security measures (e.g., voter ID). – Warns of the implications of foreign interference in U.S. elections. #### Call to Action: – Encourages Congress to hold corrupt officials accountable, including potential impeachment. – Urges citizens to stand up for their rights and the principles of democracy. #### Conclusion: – Warns of the serious state of the Republic and the need to confront Marxist influences in politics. – Concludes with a message of hope and resolve for the future of America.
they had received claims from 51 authors seeking to recover losses of between $5,000 and $8,000
There’s hundreds of would-be authors out there desperate to get published and companies like this make money from them. (One of my genuine publishers gets about 30-40 unsolicited manuscripts a week. They don’t even reply to them unless a stamped self-addressed envelope is inside in which case they get a slip of paper advising them thanks but no thanks)
Typically the author-to-be pays $5-10k to get “published”, which results in a run of a few hundred books. They sit in the author’s warehouse and don’t get sold much.
The more cunning “publishers” tell the author their books have sold and a new edition needs to be done – for another $4k – and so on.
The “royalties” paid are in fact a portion of the money the punter paid up front.
I recall reading a couple of months ago that some of the big banks had decided not to provide finance to fossil fuel projects even if the projects were financially viable. I have been hoping that someone might take them to court over this as I would have thought it constitutes a form of discriminatory behavior. The CBA was one of the named banks. Last night I received an offer from the CBA encouraging me as a client to swap my energy provider to a so-called green energy company with the hook of a big discount/bonus if I did so. It made my blood boil. The CBA should stick to its knitting and get out of politics as sooner or later it will be up to its neck in litigation again. My intention is to pull all my banking from the CBA as a consequence. Perhaps a journalist out there might investigate and expose what is clearly a marketing racket sopped up by the banks thinking they are virtual signaling.
Because Albanese is a political hack for whom looking to the national interest is far down the list of priorities.
ANZ is into virtue signalling woke meddling too.
In a bookshop recently, can’t remember which one, Australian section, 95% female authors, I’d never heard of most. Jane Harper was not one of them.
Speaking of which, we now have the US, China & India placing their national interest ahead of cutting emissions and what is Albanese’s priority “in this space”?
Hosting the COP meeting in 2026.
I use comm bank ATM to withdraw cash from my building society free of charge. Their propaganda suggests they don’t want white male customers. Vile people.
Bolt showed a clip of the Azerbajani President at the COP conference.Just delicious as he basically told them all they were fantasists.
Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom.
They have such a lot to work on since the big win.
The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride & Prejudice where Darcy strides down the mist shrouded moor towards Lizzy who is in convulsions watching the big stud come towards her:
Mr. Darcy Confesses To Elizabeth | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Screen Bites
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged
Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
I am glad to see Trump acting early on the chainsaw mechanisms re the bureaucracy, which is clearly bloated and Democrat-leaning.
This means that economic recovery can power away before the 2028 election. I’m bearing in mind what happened to Campbell Newman in Queensland went he went in hard and fast and made a lot of people unemployed with no major economic uplift for them to then get jobs in. Added to this of course is that many of the government teat-suckers were essentially unemployable outside their sheltered workshops.
When you cut you must also build. I think Trump and Vance are aware of this, although in his memoir Vance does place a lot of emphasis on the American dream being realised by ‘college degrees’. That depends what they are in, and how they can transfer to the private sector. A rework of university (aka College) education will also have to be part of Trump’s reforms. Success also depends on turning a significant number of youth away from College as the route to success and good jobs. We have that problem here too, with a lack of good trade skills and no job-readyness.
Harvest, in the Eastern Wheatbelt of the Wild West, yielding wheat at just over two tonnes to the hectare. Pretty damnfine for a crop that was dry seeded……
More pressure on Kevin 07 in the Daily Tele:
New video of Australia’s ambassador to Washington Kevin Rudd exclaiming about the “American predisposition to episodic craziness” has come to light.
The footage shows Dr Rudd giving a lecture in Switzerland for the Asia Society in 2022.
“Never take a backwards step in saying we’re allies with the United States,” Dr Rudd told the audience.
“For all the American predisposition to episodic craziness … Look at Trump: how did that happen? That was a walk on the wild side for all of us.”
The lecture was delivered just nine months before Dr Rudd was appointed as Australia’s ambassador to America.
Winston Smith
November 14, 2024 9:04 am
I’m afraid you are right on both of those bolded observations.
That’s the problem with people who are overly sure, may I say narcissistic, of themselves, they think they can’t go wrong.
And they always do!
His only excellent pick so far is the choice of VP, and I’m not sure how much input he had there?
LOL.
I don’t travel by air unless I have to and then I’m too zonked out to notice.
But would this be an acceptable retaliation?
I think it’s a fake but it could happen, stranger things do.
Trump is going to boot him over the horizon.
Trump ally issues pointed warning over Rudd’s future (Paywallian)
I don’t know who that person is, as I am not a subscriber, but if they’re publicly saying Rudd is persona non grata then I suspect he’ll be given a cheap economy flight ticket and will be bussed to LAX on inauguration day.
To be re-branded as COP THAT!
Curently watching PARIS HAS FALLEN .. Ludicrous plot but quite watchable .. lotz & lotz of shoot-outs .. tho the amusing thing about all the gunfire is the reliability of the uniforms of the numerous special/riot plod .. They keep ending up one-shot dead wearing bulky protective/armour clothing ..
And a coupla dayz ago I slipped in the garden & bruised a coupla ribs .. quite sore for a minor tumble yet here I am watching our 2 “heroes” one male, one female being battered from pillar to post and immediately springing back into the action leaves me a bit .. either I’m a softee or TV isn’t quite as real as they want us to believe .. LOL!
Up to episode 7 of 8 & Paris has still not fallen .. gonna have to get a move on or maybe season 2 is in the workx .. 7/10
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33184638/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_in_0_q_paris
China wants $1.3 trillion from the West for them to worship climate fairies.
Per year.
It’s amusing.
A developing nation with an advanced space program!
They’re having a lend of us.
Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem
Why was Elbridge Colby passed over?
Legendary actor Timothy West, who enjoyed a glittering six-decade career on television and the stage, has died aged 90.
Mr West, who starred in shows Brass, Edward the Seventh, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys with his Fawlty Towers star wife Prunella Scales, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends.
Daily Mail.
Melts easily.
Alan
4 minutes ago
Australia’s worst ever Prime Minister installs Australia’s second worst Prime Minister as ambassador to America, what could possibly go wrong.
From the Oz.
dover0beach
November 14, 2024 10:26 am
Deep state.
His only excellent pick so far is the choice of VP, and I’m not sure how much input he had there?
You’re kidding? The list of Trump’s appointments is outstanding:
Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet nominations, staff appointments
John H.
November 14, 2024 10:25 am
Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem
Sabine is hit and miss: on nuclear and global boiling she misses.
Dems Claim Pete Hegseth Unqualified to be Secretary of Defense | Frontpage Mag
While at the same time:
Democrats and their media however decided that Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a Pennsylvania health official whose conduct during the pandemic was accused of causing the deaths of many nursing home patients, a transgender man who claims to be a woman, is qualified to be an admiral.
Who would you want running defence: Pete or that fat trannie? Or milley sprouting white supremacy and white rage tropes?
Bezos’ penis rocket attract lesbians, it seems.
“Power Lesbian” Chops Father Up With an Ax In Election Night Meltdown (Ace of Spades, 13 Nov)
The story was posted on the Cat yesterday as I recall. But I didn’t know the perp was a lesbian married to a tranny. And I have to suspect its father voted for Trump, which would explain the violence.
Good luck getting to orbit, Jeff, if this person is typical of your employees.
Fun listening this morning in the car as Tom Elliot revealed Melbourne city’s plans for Christmas this year. There will be a “Koori Christmas” space, and a “Christmas Camp” space. The “camp” does not refer to outdoor stays in the wilderness, oh no, it refers to the woke variety, lets all be gay together. Hasn’t Mayor Nicholas Reece been busy !
Well yeah.
I mean, the guy has got no background in interpretative dance or choreography generally.
The Army entry in the next Mardi Gras could be a complete embarrassment with him in charge.
Trump’s announced appointees:
Deputy CoS (policy): dead spit of Goebbels
Deputy CoS: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
Border czar: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
CIA: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
DNI: Russian asset
EPA: some random NY loser
Homeland: ineffectual lightweight
State: ineffectual lightweight
UN ambassador: ineffectual lightweight
Israel ambassador: maximalist neocon war hawk
National security adviser: maximalist neocon war hawk
Special envoy to Middle East: one of Trump’s rich golf buddies
Defense: richly tattooed white supremacist
Attorney-General: child sex trafficker
Still to be officially given roles, but locked in:
Various anti-vaxx psychos
Various other billionaires
Trump blood relations
JD Vance (what happened to that guy, anyway?)
It’s going to be an even bigger clown show than the last one.
What a shift just in the last two decades.
Monty is not happy.
May he be unhappy for a long time. Your mob lost, dickhead. Bigly. Trump WON! Trump WON! Trump WON!
Now piss off back to your basement you ghastly authoritarian communist.
Brucey at 10:05
The ambassador is not appointed by the host country.
Sure, ambassadors have been expelled before, but that often proves to be a high threshold (see also, Iranian ambassador to Straya).
Kokoda Kev isn’t going to be chucked out by Trump.
That is where this is so delicious.
Luigi can’t yank Kevni’s chain because that would unleash Vindictive Kevni coming up to an election.
And Kevni won’t pull the pin because “most important man in the world at a critical time”.
So the rat will sit peering through the dunny brush at the cobwebs accumulating on the White House hotline.
As for those who cry, “But we will suffer from this” I would say you grossly overestimate the influence an ambassador has over foreign governments.
Luigi is actually hoping that Trump will bag out Kevni so he can use it to rally the faithful in Straya.
Again, sadly mistaken if he thinks people will man the barricades here in defence of the Rat F-cker.
m0nty
November 14, 2024 11:26 am
Trump’s announced appointees:
Your impotent tears of rage are a sweet liquor to me
RUOK m0nster?
You sound a bit out of sorts.
What’s happening?
Being the US’s “most favoured nation” was crucial.
Just listened to a couple of military establishment types on Newsnation opining that Hegseth doesn’t have the connections, experience, blah blah blah to handle such a big and complex organisation.
Basically what they are admitting to is that they have made the entire state apparatus so damn Byzantine that no ordinary, capable human can master it.
Wait and see, pricks.
Like the guy who retires from his long career and imagines his replacement will be phoning him up every day asking questions, only to discover how little he actually mattered, the deep state is going to find out that the new guys are going to run things their way.
Best thing to do, establishment guys, is toddle off to your clubs and golf courses and leave the job of repairing the damage you have done to others.
You. Are. Done.
Timothy West played the police inspector with John Hurt as Raskolnikov in a TV serial adaptation of Crime & Punishment in the 1980s.
Try getting that produced these days.
Oh dear, poor old Elon. He must be devestated.
The Guardian will no longer contribute on X.
Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.
Oh look, our resident Nazi appears. Where’s our Nazi been over the last seven days? He suddenly disappeared, vanished into thin air. It was quite odd, strange and weird! Perhaps he was hiding behind a rock like a spider does or perhaps he was out frolicking with his Jew hating Hamas buddies, I hear there’s quite a few in Melbourne.
Just for the record, here are two of our Nazi’s pearler predictions in the lead up to Tuesday November 5 2024…..
Back in June our Nazi insisted that….’Biden can govern’.
Two days before the November 5 election, our Nazi maintained that Harris was on track to win Iowa.
“Gabbard a Russian asset.”
Monty borrowing his talking points from Hillary.
Chuckle.
Today in the front has not moved much news:
It’s marketing bullshit to suggest it’s a red hot product. Everyone does it. You need to see the buyers before this is confirmed.
Turnbull backs Rudd to remain in Washington: narcissists of the world unite!
Monty having his “I’m a little teapot” moment.
JC
November 14, 2024 12:03 pm
The pinnacle of marketing hype can be found at Apple product launches and airshows.
Aerospace companies rival politicians for “re-heated leftover repeat announcements” or “vapourware announcements”. If you added up all the airshow sales announcements as new, unique sales, Boeing would have sold about a trillion jets by now.
“Inked deals” at airshows have a habit of not materialising as firm orders.
Really hold it up to the light and take a good look at it if they don’t disclose who the “customer” is, citing “National Security” or “commercial-in-confidence”.
Good news from the Netherlands?
https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19
Thanks for the UN report, Dover, but I stopped reading it when I got to these sorts of comments.
UN projections is okay with you, right?
2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct about everything and you lot were dead wrong, every time. You were particularly wrong about 2020, and you were also demonstrably wrong about The Steal, which never happened.
I got 2024 wrong as well. It appears there was a residual groundswell of disappointment over how Biden handled the aftermath of COVID, specifically inflation caused by supply chain problems. This has been the case across every single Western democracy, putting every incumbent at the time out of office (Canada is next). Harris did the least worst of these leaders both in ameliorating the effects of the inflation spike and in minimising the swing against her government, but the inexorable effect was still enough to put her out of office.
The Biden/Harris economic strategy was based on the IRA to restart manufacturing, embracing fracking to build energy independence, and raising wages for the lower classes. These were all wildly successful to the extent that Congress allowed them to be, watered down as they were. However, the middle classes got left behind somewhat, as they tend to do during times of economic upheaval, and that was a cardinal sin for politicians to ignore.
Harris would have been well-served to take a leaf out of John Howard’s playbook. What the middle classes in America were screaming for was some Howard-style welfare to ease cost of living pressures. Cheques with her name on them, just like Trump did during COVID, would have been advisable.
It’s all very well to say that in retrospect, of course, and it would have been very hard to get that through Congress. Running against the Republican Congress for being obstructionist against the Democratic agenda and hurting their constituents as a consequence would have given Harris much more lucrative areas. Sadly, there were too many veteran centrist losers in her campaign.
Trump didn’t have anywhere near as big a victory as Nixon did for his second term. Let us see if his administration can last as long as Nixon’s did.
Winston Smith
November 14, 2024 9:04 am
An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.
Her relaxed, overwhelming facial stunning-ness made it easy for someone with a XY genotype to keep watching her YT videos, both pre and post-defection from the Dems.
What became obvious was how polished and consistent the delivery and content of her messaging both are.
Yes.. a bit too polished and consistent, from someone who’s not trying to avoid all-too-close scrutiny.
So, yes, I have also suspected guile that goes beyond that which is endemic to female-ness.
As with my pessimistic Election prediction, I’m also hoping to be utterly, totally wrong here.
Orange God deserves better than to be so easily fooled.
m0nty
November 14, 2024 11:26 am
Trump’s announced appointees:
Outstanding piss taking dickless.
The list of candidates for Kamal-toe’s cabinet has been leaked (had she been elected):-
Beyoncé.
Bruce Springsteen.
Robert de Niro.
Arnie.
Anna Wintour.
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Admiral).
Jimmy Kimmel.
Taylor Swift.
Madonna.
Michael Moore.
m0nty
November 14, 2024 12:25 pm
2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct about everything and you lot were dead wrong, every time. You were particularly wrong about 2020, and you were also demonstrably wrong about The Steal, which never happened.
Dickless is on a piss taking roll; or something.
How far off can they be 6 years out? China and the US would already be largely where they are going to be in 2030.
Orange God deserves better than to be so easily fooled.
Melania won’t be: she’s picked dr jill as the kunt behind the Mar-a-Lago raid; and Tulsi has spent a lot of time at Mar-a-Lago with Melania; and Tulsi now knows who the demorats are and what the Republicans under Trump have become (with a few hold outs such as cocaine mitch).
cohenite
November 14, 2024 12:41 pm
Orange God deserves better than to be so easily fooled.
Melania won’t be
A good point.. a VERY good point.
Stunners know what stunners do.. and think.
I see Timothy West has gone to the dear departed but his wife Prunella Scales – aka Sybil Fawlty – is still with us. She’s 92 and he was 90. Married since the 1960s IIRR.
Saw both of them in Great Canal Journeys. In the second series (?) she was getting dementia and he was pondering whether she could handle the lock gates by herself – he was steering the boat through and that was their previous allocation of skills. But she managed it OK. From what I hear they gave the series away later.
The problem for monty is that his descriptions of Trump’s Cabinet picks could have also been used for Biden’s Cabinet. Maximalist neocon warhawks (Nuland), lightweights (Blinken), nobodies (Buttigeg), same person that didn’t get it done last time (Burns), and so on.
Lefties are nuts science news.
Only certain paranormal beliefs may be linked with more stress and distress, research reveals (Phys.org, 13 Nov)
Ohkaay…
There’s a thing called the “Rasch purified Revised Paranormal Belief Scale”. And they use it on lefties. Well there you go.
Ok witches are stressed atm, I can understand that, since they’ve been casting spells on Trump every new moon for like forever and it obviously hasn’t worked. So it’s understandable that they’re feeling stressed right now.
Ah I get it now. It’s actually righties who are stressed out by paranormal beliefs. Now where did I misplace my alien anal probe?
So many drones.
dover0beach
November 14, 2024 12:40 pm
You’re not familiar with climate and economic modelling, are you?
I presume that WW3 has been postponed until Jan 6.
monty, where did almost 10M of Biden’s 2020 vote go in 2024? Trump actually improved his numbers this time by almost 2M. A 12M turnaround from 2020 to 2024.
Top Ender, 10:20am
Deputy Chief of Staff.
https://nitter.poast.org/realDonaldTrump/status/1856809593432612949#m
Two things I want to see on Inauguration Day* of Hey, Mr Tangerine Man:-
1. A scowling Kamal-toe pulling some Pelosi-style paper tearing stunt;
2. Another row of sad-faced White House staff lining up outside to give Donald the cold shoulder.
Three – a line up of US generals who were involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal outside the Oval Office, resignation letters in hand.
Which was just what The Donald said he wanted.
Dan Scavino Deputy Chief of Staff
Rudd, you are so gornnnn…
hzhousewife
November 14, 2024 10:45 am
Not at the moment but looking at them.
I feel for example, that a joint leadership of Musk and the other guy is wrong.
There is a reason for a sole CEO for private companies and a chain of command in the military.
I know of the saying ‘if you want something done ask a busy man’ but Musk has many interest that may not fit in with Trump’s policy in the long run.
Use him as a private advisor for sure, he is one of the brightest man of our times, but I wouldn’t take all his advice.
His defense secretary I like.
Give it time and we shall see, the senate leadership decision was a crucial one, may decide his success or lack of it in his term. Is he strong enough?
Never underestimate the uniparty, they have been around a long time and the tentacles are long reaching.
I am not bright enough or know enough to make predictions, specially about the future, just go on feelz.
Quite a lot even with everything being equal. At a stand still rate this would mean (approximate calculations) that the Chinese growth rate for industrial production would have to grow at almost 8% per year compounded over and above the rest of the world for 6 years.That’s assuming the rest of the world is at a stand still. If it’s not it has to be higher.
What’s that rate up against?
Only one thing I want to see on Inauguration Day-
ZZ Topp playing an eighteen-minute medley from the foredeck of the USS Missouri, floated on the Reflection Pool. With a red-white-n-blue flyover from some B29 stratofortresses.
‘Concerning’: Dai Le examines Kevin Rudd’s tenability as ambassador
Independent MP Dai Le has urged the government to “reassess” who they appoint as Australian Ambassador to the US.
Mr Rudd has come under intense scrutiny over his comments about President-elect Donald Trump including calling the US leader a “traitor to the West” and “village idiot”.
“To have an ambassador who cannot have that diplomatic relationship with the president of the day – it is concerning,” Ms Le told Sky News Australia.
Sky
What I would like to see:
Kevin,
We have the embassy surrounded!
Come out with your hands up and your mouth shut and you want get hurt.
OK, so how does that wash out re China constituting 45% of the world’s industrial production by 2030 (its now about 32%), vs 11% for US (about 16% now)?
I like your thinking!
I want to see Trump arrive by elephant like Aladdin with dancing girls and a menagerie of cats, dogs, squirrels and racoons.