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Will-o’-the-wisp, Arnold Böcklin, 1862

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Bill From The Bush
Bill From The Bush
November 18, 2024 12:23 am

Gidday

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 18, 2024 12:38 am

Second!

Muddy
Muddy
November 18, 2024 12:38 am

Is it within Pres.-Elect Trump’s authority to pardon say … Derek Chauvin?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 18, 2024 12:46 am

Mark Dice has been on fire of late. He continues just knocking balls out of the park.

Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman Has Worst Case of TDS Yet?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 18, 2024 1:41 am

No. 5. Not too bad.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 18, 2024 1:52 am

A nice drive down Ventura Highway.

Audio quality is good.

America – Ventura Highway

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 18, 2024 2:18 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:02 am

Brett Lethbridge.

Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:04 am

Michael Ramirez Matt Gaetz derangement.
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Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:06 am

Michael Ramirez #2.

Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 4:08 am
JC
JC
November 18, 2024 4:42 am

How innovative.
An American friend told me that some cruise liner is advertising a four year around the world cruise for those Americans who won’t be able to tolerate Orange Hitler for four years.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 18, 2024 4:47 am

A professor specialising in “inhuman geography” at a British university has declared the subject of geology as racist, claiming it has been unduly influenced by colonisation.
Kathryn Yusoff, who lectures at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London, condemned geology as a subject was “riven by systematic racism”

Professor is a dirty word.

Academic Claims Geology Is Racist and ‘Linked to White Supremacy’

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
November 18, 2024 6:31 am

The incurable TDS is the subject of an in depth analysis by Deborah Tyler at American Thinker. Here’s an extract, but the whole thing is essential reading. As Harold Ford Jr. Is fond of saying, I don’t agree with everything she says, and the comments below the piece are as fascinating as the article itself, which has a historical perspective on the indoctrinations visited on us since the 1960s.
This obsessive hatred, popularly called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), is not a free-standing mental disorder.  Rather, it is a delusional symptom cluster at the terminal stage of a sixty-year vast, progressively insane attempt by the left wing, especially the cultural, educational and political elites, to entrain the American people to despise their nation, their laws, and themselves in order to break their self-respect and mentally enslave them to government control.  Few people can stand against indoctrination and brainwashing that they have been exposed to all their lives.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/the_incurable_tds.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 6:36 am

Load shedding will be coming here too.

Rota Load Disconnections- aka Power Cuts–Coming To Your Street (17 Nov)

How would rota disconnections work?

If needed, customers would lose power for around three hours per day during the emergency, on an area-by-area basis. This would ensure power supplies are shared fairly with customers, and everyone has power for most of the day. … Rota disconnections would only be used after all other options, such as turning down industrial demand and voltage reduction, have failed to restore stability to the power system.

If required, the electricity system operator National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) would legally instruct distribution network operators to disconnect power supplies. They would follow established procedures set out by the government in the Electricity Supply Emergency Code.

That is in the UK, which already has the highest retail electricity prices in the world. Someone in the media might want to ask Chris Bowen if he’ll rule out such practices here.

calli
calli
November 18, 2024 6:44 am

Move over Kamalala! Here’s another saladeer. Mz Yusoff-

Profile

I am a transdisciplinary geographer focused on inhuman geographies. I understand the inhuman as a place from which to think about earthly relations and inhumane histories. Theoretically, I engage historical, geophilosophical and black feminist methods to speak to issues of environmental change, empires of geologic practices and the politics of planetary states. 

Specifically, I am interested in the role of inhuman epistemologies in race, gender, and subjectivity for more equitable environmental world-building.

Errrr…okay.

Is she a geographer, geologist, historian, environmentalist, astronomer or gender theorist? Or a jack of all trades and master of none?

One thing. She has a bag of big words and convoluted sentences and she’s ready and willing to use ‘em!

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 18, 2024 6:49 am

Geology is racist

The university needs the Rabz treatment.

calli
calli
November 18, 2024 6:49 am

Is it my imagination or has it suddenly gone very quiet in ME and Ukraine?

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 18, 2024 6:49 am

Following on from the TDS article, the current mass-hysteria indoctrination using misinformation is of course the all-encompassing climate alarmism. It could only work with the complicity of the corrupto-crats in parliaments, business, the PS and the MSM. All should (one day maybe?) be held accountable for the damage being done.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 6:59 am

Is it my imagination or has it suddenly gone very quiet in ME and Ukraine?

Callie – Probably just local MSM not reporting. Lots of stuff is happening. Israel potted the Hezbie press spox guy overnight. Russia hit Ukraine’s electricity sector with 120 drones. Biden has given permission to Ukraine to now use long range US missiles to hit targets in Russia. The Norks are thinking about sending another 100,000 troops to help Russia. And it’s reported that the remaining Hamas leadership has just bugged out from Qatar to Turkey.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 18, 2024 7:09 am

Let’s hope they are successful, and that the same happens here in Oz.

Citizens demand investigations of hospital COVID deaths

State legislators and other officials and citizens need to strongly support the efforts of hundreds of citizens living in five states who are demanding that their states’ attorneys general conduct a thorough investigation of alleged crimes committed against their lost loved ones during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.  The crimes were allegedly committed by hospital staffs and officials (such as Dr. Anthony Fauci) who promulgated and implemented hospital treatment protocols for COVID patients that included, among other things, the administration of the drug remdesivir.

On behalf of aggrieved, justice-seeking families in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, attorneys have submitted extensive legal briefs supporting requests for the investigations to the attorney general of each state.  Requests for investigation supported by legal briefs soon will be submitted to the Oklahoma and Missouri attorneys general.  The 26-page Texas legal brief can be viewed here along with other aspects of that filing.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 7:15 am

The incurable TDS is the subject of an in depth analysis by Deborah Tyler at American Thinker. 

On the same topic:

The tyranny of the cry-bully (17 Nov)

Do the grown men and women with Trump Derangement Syndrome not feel shame about displaying their emotions in such a way? No, because they’ve grown up believing that acting in a way that would make Chicken Licken seem chillaxed is somehow proof of their ‘authenticity’. You can see them all over the socials, adults wailing like toddlers in need of a nap and a weighted blankie. They’re shaving their heads and swearing off sex. Some are apparently so scared for their lives that they’re seeking out ‘safe houses’, ‘listening circles’ and ‘therapy ducks’. They talk darkly of mass trans suicides and the death of democracy and repeatedly say, ‘no words’ (which is two words).

Whoopi Goldberg has claimed that Trump intends to make interracial marriages illegal, separate non-white wives from their white husbands and forcibly marry the white men to white women. I don’t know how vice-president-elect JD Vance, proudly uxorious husband to a beautiful woman of Indian heritage, missed that memo.

Our Rita gets a mention for her Lefties Losing It story. Well done that Sky News lady!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 18, 2024 7:18 am

Donald Trump is NOT MY PERSIDENT!!!

Rosie
Rosie
November 18, 2024 7:22 am

“Is it my imagination or has it suddenly gone very quiet in ME and Ukraine?”
Don’t know about Ukraine but the wars in Gaza and Lebanon are running hot.
Far too many IDF being killed the last couple of weeks, in both Gaza and Lebanon. A couple more killed in northern Gaza yesterday or the day before.
A synagogue in Haifa was hit by a rocket and Israeli civilians killed too.
https://www.jns.org/six-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-lebanon-firefight-bringing-idf-death-toll-to-793/

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 18, 2024 7:36 am

I spent some time on the weekend looking through ‘X’.

I wouldn’t say that the election of Trump is driving the left crazy, but I would say it has turbocharged their crazy.

One person reported that black people and Latinos were being sent text messages informing them of their imminent deportation. The next sentence melodramatically pondering why MAGA is so full of hate.

Absolutely no connection shown between any such messages but the thread took off from there.

We do know which side of politics loves hoaxes to cause alarm and try to gin up outrage against their enemies. If there are such messages I am pretty sure where they originate based on history.

But my favourite was one where one Twit was flabbergasted that Trump was already choosing his team. There must have been a steal and the election investigated.

132andBush
132andBush
November 18, 2024 7:39 am

That is in the UK, which already has the highest retail electricity prices in the world. Someone in the media might want to ask Chris Bowen if he’ll rule out such practices here.

Or more accurately, when will such practices be implemented here.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 18, 2024 7:43 am

It’s an idea that’s been around for yonks but never got up for wage and salary earners. Income splitting.
Mothers do the best job of looking after their children, but don’t get paid to do it.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 18, 2024 7:45 am

Vote Labor and get drop-kicks like Thistlethwaite banging on about helping people with cost of living pressures, including child care!

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 18, 2024 7:45 am

Which blog and first person was the first to coin the name of the incurable illness know as TDS?

Crossie
Crossie
November 18, 2024 7:50 am

132andBush

 November 18, 2024 7:39 am

That is in the UK, which already has the highest retail electricity prices in the world. Someone in the media might want to ask Chris Bowen if he’ll rule out such practices here.

Or more accurately, when will such practices be implemented here.

Politicians tend to make sure such measures are not inflicted on their particular electorate as they want to be re-elected. Living in Bowen’s electorate then I might be at less risk of suffering the effects of his decisions. Or does he think he will get enough votes no matter what, his is a safe seat after all?

Crossie
Crossie
November 18, 2024 7:57 am

Bungonia Bee

 November 18, 2024 7:43 am

It’s an idea that’s been around for yonks but never got up for wage and salary earners. Income splitting.

Mothers do the best job of looking after their children, but don’t get paid to do it.

That would make far too much economical sense and too many families would no longer be reliant on government “services” such as childcare. It suits politician far better to have whole families on welfare and safely voting for the those who promise them more “benefits”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 18, 2024 7:59 am

Actually, there are a lot of lefties on X who are adamant there must have been a steal in the US elections.

When Trump’s supporters claimed fraudulent behaviour in the 2020 election they had evidence such as the late-night drops of extra ballots when there were no Republican observers, or said observers being told the count was done for the night only for it to resume when they left, the real-time transferral of votes from Trump’s tally to Biden’s (Trump losing thousands of votes and Biden’s leaping by the same amount), the boarding up of Windows so people could not see what was going on, and impossible instantaneous addition of thousands of votes creating vertical lines on the graphs tracking tallies, and so on.

As far as I can tell there is absolutely no evidence available for this election. The Democrat vote sunk back to where it had always been before (no extra 15 million which made the basement hiding lacklustre Biden more popular than the near numinous charisma-geyser Obama – such was the feeling of the Dems at the time).

But, by golly they are full of unfounded theories.

It is cathartic, I suppose.

Slightly less destructive than sitting down pulling the wings off birds* while tearfully screaming “Look what you are making me do, Trumpf!”

*They would not pull the wings off flies. Call it a professional courtesy.

bons
bons
November 18, 2024 8:04 am

I had my usual Sunday night call with my Kent based farmer daughter.

She was not he usual placid self. Apparently the landholders in her district have been receiving emails, calls and in some cases visits from the Chief Constable’s people announcing that it has been declared illegal to operate farm machinery on the roads even if registered.

This thuggish outrage is of course focused on preventing Tuesday’s farmer protest.

She said that her frustratingly passive neighbours are finally recognising the risks that they are facing are are at least beginning to talk about organising.

You have to wonder if there will be enough telephone poles to accommodate UK fascist constabulary.

bons
bons
November 18, 2024 8:09 am

And in “not my SFL” news:

Littleproud is making pronouncements distancing the SFL from Trump.

Have these morons ever spoken to an Australian conservative?

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
November 18, 2024 8:13 am

Which blog and first person was the first to coin the name of the incurable illness know as TDS?

From wiki:

The origin of the term is traced to Charles Krauthammer, a conservative political columnist, commentator, and psychiatrist, who coined the phrase Bush derangement syndrome in 2003 during the presidency of George W. Bush. That “syndrome” was defined by Krauthammer as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush”.[10][11][12][13] The first use of the term Trump derangement syndrome may have been by Esther Goldberg in an August 2015 op-ed in The American Spectator; she applied the term to “Ruling Class Republicans” who are dismissive or contemptuous of Trump.

Frequency chart

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 18, 2024 8:16 am

New Miss Universe tiara’d, First Of Her Name.
Proud of her heritage, her country, even her continent.
Mentions the workload she put in, but in passing, mainly thanks her own team, ballboys and umpires.
Genuinely chuffed, no tears or ermigerd carry-on, just shouldered the sash like the prize it is.
DO NOT look at the pictures.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 18, 2024 8:22 am

There’s only one sensible thing for the home county farmers to do now.
Get together in the barn and draw lots as to who is going to lead the convoy, and make sure they’ve got 150 bhp and a third-function bucket on the front to clear the cop cars out of the way as they go.
They have to resolve to protest, all-out, like Belgium and France, or roll over like… Australia*.
Which way, oo ar? Holland, or New Holland?

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 18, 2024 8:24 am

You have to wonder if there will be enough telephone poles to accommodate UK fascist constabulary.

Constabulary first, then the politicians.

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:31 am

@DefiyantlyFree

@dbongino makes the case for future AG Matt Gaetz.

You have to realize that the only people that are having a meltdown about this appointment are the ones who have betrayed the American people for the past eight years.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 18, 2024 8:34 am

That is in the UK, which already has the highest retail electricity prices in the world

They’re fourth, according to this analysis:

https://www.comparethemarket.com.au/energy/features/changes-in-electricity-prices-globally/

Cheapest is Turkey followed by Hungary.

Australia proudly comes in at 13th most expensive, despite having the biggest coal and uranium deposits in the world.

Onya Chris Bowen!

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:36 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:39 am

BREAKING: President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia, according to AP sources.

and

@BreannaMorello

BREAKING

Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia.

The regime claim it’s in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of soldiers.

This comes at a time when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he would like to end the war with Russia next year.

The regime is trying to escalate the war because they know Trump is ending it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 18, 2024 8:42 am

https://youtu.be/ciNllUwS-PY
Is there a link between Starmer and the Southport killings?

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:43 am

@mazemoore

Remember when the joyful warriors tried the “weird” attack? And when it didn’t work, they went back to Hitler thing?

It is WILD how the memo gets sent out and all these frauds immediately start parroting the talking points.

Cassie of Sydney
November 18, 2024 8:47 am

Alan Jones has been arrested.

What a joke.

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:49 am
Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 18, 2024 8:56 am

The Alan Jones haters have struck again.

Oz

Veteran broadcaster Alan Jones has been arrested by NSW Police over allegations he indecently assaulted, groped or inappropriately touched multiple young men.

Detectives from Strike Force Bonnefin arrested the former Wallabies coach after media allegations that the 83-year-old had preyed on a number of young men over several decades.

Mr Jones was arrested by detectives on Monday morning and taken to Day Street police station in central Sydney. 

Police released a statement on Monday morning confirming that “Child Abuse Squad detectives have arrested a man following an investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades”

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 18, 2024 8:59 am

Alan Jones has been arrested.

Charged with what?

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 8:59 am
shatterzzz
November 18, 2024 8:59 am

BREAKING: President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia, according to AP sources.

Strange ..? .. I have always been under the impression that once the Prez election was decided the incumbent Prez maintains the status quo (no serious biggie decisions) until the changeover ..
This by Brandon is way above “status quo” level …… FFS!

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 9:01 am

@TimRunsHisMouth

Americans voted in a mandate to rid the country of Biden…

It is treasonous to try to start a war when you’re a lame duck president.

These people need to be removed from office NOW.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 18, 2024 9:01 am

Ironic of course it was where all three countries had some mighty fights in WWII:

Japan, Australia and USA alliance

Australia has increased security ties with Japan amid fears over China’s military might. Annual deployments of hundreds of Japanese troops will now rotate to Darwin, with a new alliance-style agreement with Tokyo and Washington to counter regional threats.

Up to 600 Japanese amphibious force personnel will join annual US Marine Corps deployments to the Top End from next year.

Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles announced the measures with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japanese Defence Minister Nakatani Gen in mid-November, saying a new formal commitment to consult on regional contingencies would provide “substance and a structure” to the trilateral security partnership.

Speaking at the naval base HMAS Coonawarra, the commitments came as Mr Austin declared he was confident the US could deliver on its promise to provide Virginia-class submarines to Australia, while Mr Marles confirmed Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was one of two remaining contenders to build Australia’s $10bn general purpose frigates.

US submarine production is languishing at around 1.4 boats a year – well short of the 2.3 per year needed for it to meet its AUKUS commitments without eating into its own requirements. But Mr Austin said investments in production, including a $5bn funding injection by Australia, would “get this done”.

Japan’s Mogami frigate is up against Germany’s MEKO design, proposed by TKMS, in the race to build 11 new warships for the navy after South Korean and Spanish rivals were knocked out of the running.

Mr Marles said Australia was “very impressed” with the Japanese ship and would make a decision next year, with the first three vessels to be built overseas and the remaining eight to be constructed in Perth. The US Marine Corps rotational deployments have been under way for the past 13 years. About 2000 marines exercised in the Darwin area this year.

Oz

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 9:04 am

It really is time for him to wander off into irrelevancy. Like Biden in the Amazon

@EndWokeness

Bill Gates: To slow climate change, we can stick metal in cows to stop their farting

shatterzzz
November 18, 2024 9:06 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 9:11 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 18, 2024 9:11 am

Up to 600 Japanese amphibious force personnel will join annual US Marine Corps deployments to the Top End

They are expected to provide instruction to US and Australian troops on a) using captured and/or wounded enemy for bayonet practice, and b) cannibalism.

Crossie
Crossie
November 18, 2024 9:15 am

Indolent

 November 18, 2024 8:33 am

@BreannaMorello

People automatically assume you’re a Republican if you’re displaying an American flag.

What does that tell you about Democrats?

It’s same here with Labor and Greens. Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islands flag, rainbow flag, Hamas flag all good. Australian flag? Sign of colonisation, invasion, oppression, blah, blah, blah.

Family at the top of my street have a proper flagpole in their front yard, fly the Australian flag all the time and replace it when it becomes tattered. I have no idea how they vote but do know that the husband is a migrant.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 18, 2024 9:16 am

Shatterzzz

Strange ..? .. I have always been under the impression that once the Prez election was decided the incumbent Prez maintains the status quo (no serious biggie decisions) until the changeover ..

This by Brandon is way above “status quo” level …… FFS!

Not quite a tradition.

Recall John Kerry bleating that the eeeevill Nixon sent him across the border into Cambodia at Christmas 1968? Nixon was elected in November 1968, but Johnson was the DemonRat president who ordered the incursion during the “lame duck” period.

Creepy Joe following established DemonRat tradition, making trouble for his successor.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 9:19 am

Coverage of another SpaceX launch.

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxROVEevgKl

Just gone live!

Zippster
Zippster
November 18, 2024 9:28 am

: RUMOURS LINK KEIR STARMER TO SOUTHPORT KILLERS DAD AS HIS LAWYER IN 2003

Crossie
Crossie
November 18, 2024 9:31 am

Alan Jones has been arrested.

Hmm, why and why now? Could it be that Labor needs a distraction from Albo’s catastrophic poll numbers and to distract from the “Kevin in Washington” disaster?

Alan Jones is high profile to generate a lot of buzz and something like this can drag on for months and months. The other thing, Jones is connected to Liberals, or used to be, so guilt by association.

Another thought, is Alex Greenwich involved in any way?

Roger
Roger
November 18, 2024 9:33 am

A moonbeam from the larger lunacy:

The UK’s $1.5+ billion dollar Advanced Research and Invention Agency, established by Boris Johnson, will fund geoengineering projects to increase cloud cover, thereby blocking sunlight and reducing terrestrial temperatures.

What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile, UK county councils report a 10 year lag on secondary road maintenance due to budgets being shrunk by inflation. And that’s taking into account the recent Labour budget’s increase in funding, which merely remediated cuts made by the Tories under…Boris Johnson.

Can’t fix the roads, can fix the climate.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 18, 2024 9:35 am

Laura Jayes may be eye candy for older men, but she never gives Labor, Greens or Teals the sort of grilling she has just done to Peter Dutton.

m0nty
m0nty
November 18, 2024 9:40 am

Right-wing politics and rock spiders, the tradition continues.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 18, 2024 9:43 am

Our TDS champ has returned!

How did Kackula go in Iowa munts?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 9:48 am

Been following the Diddy story Monty?

Ray J: Frightened Celebs Are Paying Diddy’s Alleged Victims to Stay Quiet (16 Nov)

“Diddy has befriended some of the biggest names in entertainment for decades, yet none of those stars have come out to defend him. Not one. That may say less about Diddy and more about Hollywood,” Levin noted in TMZ’s other documentary, The Downfall of Diddy, released earlier this year.

CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill added, “Hollywood is eerily and noticeably quiet about all of the Diddy controversy right now. And I think it’s a very simple reason for it: people who live in glass houses don’t want to throw stones.”

As we know Hollywood is an absolute hotbed of knuckle dragging righties don’t we Monty? And that’s without even seeing that other little black book.

cohenite
November 18, 2024 10:00 am

Great painting. I had a similar experience.

Right-wing politics and rock spiders, the tradition continues.

Sure dickless. When it comes to sex perversions the leftoids leave the right for dead. Have you booked the milko’s kiddies in for their sex change procedures yet.

Cassie of Sydney
November 18, 2024 10:08 am

I knew the resident Nazi would turn up and vomit a comment. He should go play with his Hamas buddies, I hear there’s quite a few in Melbourne.

Oh and speaking of spiders and how some spiders like to hide behind rocks, something he’s strangely, oddly and weirdly obsessed with, note how he disappeared from view here less than two weeks ago, he scurried away to hide, like some grotesque poisonous spider, no different to how some spiders hide behind rocks.

As for the Jones’ allegations, I regard them as no different to the Pell and McLachlan allegations, all political. Oh but here’s a thought, Jones should convert to Islam, express support for ISIS and Palestine and then the NSWaffen will give him a free pass.

Cassie of Sydney
November 18, 2024 10:16 am

Orkopolous

Indeed, and NSW Labor spend years trying to cover that up and worse, they tried to subvert any investigation.

cohenite
November 18, 2024 10:25 am

Since dickless has raised the topic of perverts:

Gov. JB Pritzker Vows to Boost Sex Changes to Thwart Trump Agenda

Fat, ugly and evil. Not dickless but the mongrel pritzker. Well, dickless too.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 18, 2024 10:27 am

The stink from this Labour Government in Great Britain keeps getting worse.
The Police are in the cover up up to their necks, MI5/6 would have known about the father and the son, and the Parliament must have known just what was going on – there have been rumours of Starmer having a huge secret for months now.
And if the Royal Family don’t behave decisively – i.e. withdraw consent from this government and call for new election, then they’re gone as well.
Which, frankly, would be a bloody good thing.
THE issue, of course is if the splitting of the vote between the uniparty Conservatives and Nigels mob will just deliver the same result – a minority Labour government, and that leaves the people with only one choice – civil disorder.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 18, 2024 10:29 am

Ok, someone made this.
And they are a bad, bad person..

Wait till the rockets fire..

https://x.com/i/status/1858238662594744370

Cassie of Sydney
November 18, 2024 10:30 am

I can’t comment on the allegations, but the timing. He’s 83 and not in good health. Are his opponents hoping he croaks before a trial is finalised so that it will never be disproved? Hmm.

I think you’ve said it best. From what I know Jones’ health is bad so the timing of this is everything.

The left have been out to get Jones for over 30 years, and every time they’ve targeted him they’ve failed. He’ll fight this but the toll on his health? It will be catastrophic.

I note that Jones stood by Pell. I hope people stand by Jones, I certainly will.

It’s similar to what was done to Kevin Spacey.

Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 10:39 am

As for the Jones’ allegations, I regard them as no different to the Pell and McLachlan allegations, all political. 

Correct.

The salient paragraphs in the Paywallian story:

“In March 2024, State Crime Command’s Child Abuse Squad established Strike Force Bonnefin to investigate a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.

“Following extensive inquiries, about 7.45am today (Monday 18 November 2024), strike force detectives executed a search warrant at a unit in Circular Quay where they arrested an 83-year-old man.”

The search warrant is underway, police said.

Mr Jones was the subject of a series of stories in Nine Newspapers alleging that he preyed on young men during his career.

The police “strike force” was established eight months ago to investigate specific historic sexual abuse allegations by Alan Jones’s media enemies.

Why only “sexual touching” (note: assault is not alleged) between 2001 and 2019? Why not prior decades?

This stinks of a media fit-up against Jones.

If I were him, I’d try to get this into court ASAP so the allegations can be tested under cross-examination.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 18, 2024 10:50 am

Re mUnturd and convictions of politicians for child sex abuse.

Two in Queensland, Wright and d’Arcy, both Labor, Orkoupoulous in NSW, Labor, Finnigan in South Australia, Labor Independent, Hayward in Western Australia, National.

Then there was Collins in NT, Labor, killed himself before being charged.

The balance leans leftward

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 18, 2024 10:50 am

Banana republic.

Swedish Minister for Gender Equality Paulina Brandberg Seeks Treatment for ‘Phobia of Bananas’ (16 Nov)

In correspondence with then Speaker of Parliament, an aide insisted there should be ‘no traces of bananas’ in any place where Brandberg would visit.

She told the Expressen newspaper that she had ‘a banana phobia’, described its impact as ‘sort of an allergy’, and said she is getting professional help for it.

“A banana phobia can be triggered by seeing or smelling the fruit, and can cause anxiety and nausea. Some experts suggest that it can develop during childhood.”

As the demands for ‘banana-free zones’ made headlines, other politicians defended her.

She’s actually a righty, sort of. I am amused by her party’s logo.

Tom
Tom
November 18, 2024 10:50 am

I note that NSW Police, who are now alleging Alan Jones “touched” a 2GB employee, are as politicised as Victoria Police and have let anti-semitic demonstrations and hate crimes proceed for the past year without enforcing hate crime laws.

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Muddy
Muddy
November 18, 2024 10:51 am

Response to Knuckles‘ 9:100 a.m. post:

As a result of a long-term interest in military history and an aversion to learning social skills (Friends? Pttthhh!), I’ve read thousands of pages of historical primary documents over the years, including evidence presented in war crimes trials and eye witness statements. There is no denying that inhuman behaviour unacceptable to civilised society featured more frequently in Japanese forces than it did in their enemy’s.

That no significant responsibility for that behaviour was accepted by the post-war Japanese governments – nor insisted upon by submissive Australian authorities – while the responsible generation was still alive, leaves, in my opinion, an asterisk attached to those Japanese (wartime) and Australian (1950s to 80s) generations. The latter I regard as cowards who spat on the sacrifices of their fathers.

Having written the above, I do not believe that the sins of one generation must be borne and paid for, by their descendants. The apparent continued ignorance of that period in Japan is another matter entirely.

This is not a criticism of Knuckles, but a simple statement of opinion, for what that is worth.

Carry on.

Bazl
Bazl
November 18, 2024 10:55 am

Watched the v8 Supercars at Adelaide, Sunday. Chas Mostert led the race up until 5 or so laps from the end. Red bull driver Feeney was on his tail for most of the race. Feeney had amassed 30 seconds of penalty and had no chance of winning. A few laps from the end Feeney, unable to pass the leader, tapped Mostert at a corner and put him into the wall, damaging his leading car and losing precious time, this allowed third placed Red Bull team mate Brown to catch Mostert and win the lollies. Had Feeney been required to serve his penalties during the race , Mostert would have won comfortably. Nice teamwork by Red Bull.
lotta bull to me…..

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 10:58 am

Dr. John Campbell

Right to try new drugs

Indolent
Indolent
November 18, 2024 11:02 am
Top Ender
Top Ender
November 18, 2024 11:02 am

Life as normal in the Top End: 18 months for putting someone in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic for the rest of her life

Katherine mum jailed for stabbing cousin in neck, making her a quadriplegic
A 27-year-old Big Rivers woman who became intoxicated at a family birthday party stabbed her cousin twice with a butter knife, the second blow penetrating into the victim’s spinal cord, a court has heard.

A 27-year-old Big Rivers woman who became intoxicated at a family birthday party stabbed her cousin twice with a butter knife, the second blow penetrating into the victim’s spinal cord, a court has heard.

Katherine woman Jasmine Robbo pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court at Darwin to a charge of unlawfully causing serious harm to her 32-year-old cousin.

The stabbing occurred on June 23 last year at Katherine Low Level Nature Reserve during a booze-soaked family birthday party, Robbo’s sentencing hearing before Justice Judith Kelly on November 14 heard.

Robbo and her cousin, known as AB, became involved in a fist fight about 6pm over “jealousy” issues, but were separated by family members, Justice Kelly told the court.

However, Robbo then picked up a butter knife and stabbed AB in the ribcage, causing a laceration.

A second swing missed, but the third, aimed at the base of AB’s neck, connected flush and “deeply penetrated” towards the spine, causing AB to “slump down in a sitting position”.

Police and paramedics were called, and Robbo was arrested.

The injuries caused to AB by the stab to her neck were catastrophic, Justice Kelly said.

The blow severed the spinal cord at the C5 vertebrae, leading to a subarachnoid haemorrhage and leakage of cerebropinal fluid.

AB spent two months connected to a ventilator and suffered a number of infections, as well as deep vein thrombosis.

Attempts to surgically fuse the damaged spinal cord were unsuccessful, leaving AB, a mother of three, a quadriplegic.

“She is going to need 24-hour treatment and care for the rest of her life,” Justice Kelly said.

“What you did, you did in anger, uncontrolled, while you were intoxicated, but it has had the most devastating effect on this woman’s life.”

In mitigation, the judge told the court Robbo had no criminal history and a “very deprived” childhood.

Born in Alice Springs but growing up between Katherine and Kalkarindji, Robbo was shunted between various family members and experienced “lack of supervision, deprivation… [and witnessed] alcohol abuse and violence in the family,” Justice Jelly said.

The court heard the defendant gave birth to the first of her three children at the tender age of 16, but Robbo suffered “significant domestic violence” at the hands of the children’s father, and also became an alcoholic during the course of the relationship, which ended in 2022.

A psychological report diagnosed Robbo as experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder, which left her with difficulties regulating her emotions and impulsivity, Justice Kelly told the court.

Robbo’s deprived upbringing and complex PTSD lessened her moral culpability (known as the Bugmy principle), Justice Kelly found.

She sentenced Robbo to five years’ imprisonment, backdated to her arrest and remand last June.

Justice Kelly ordered the jail term suspended after 18 months, for an operational period of three and a half years, conditional upon Robbo being under the supervision of a Probation and Parole officer, and abstain from alcohol consumption.

NT News

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 18, 2024 11:05 am

All through Europe, people are getting fed up with their governments who represent themselves and their wishes, not the people.

Arky
November 18, 2024 11:06 am

Just watched a clip from the Sawn Ryan show with an American business / chamber of commerce/ world bank type who has done a bunch of deals in China complaining about the lack of morality of the Chinese.
The thing that strikes me is the astonishing lack of accountability and inability to take responsibility of these types.
What we are going to see is American businesses leave China having learnt nothing, done no reflection on what went wrong and their own part in it.
They went there because that country offered dirt cheap wages and the partnership of a crony, corrupt and despotic communist totalitarian regime.
Was it so hard to predict that those same people would systematically steal IP, run the factories off shift producing knock offs, and change contracts at the last minute?
When you go somewhere because of the lack of standards and safeguards, and then complain you got played, that makes you worse than a mug. It makes you a patsy who helped play yourself.
As stated, these corporations and businesses haven’t learnt a thing, and God alone knows what that will lead to as they withdraw from China, blaming the Chinese and setting themselves up to repeat the same mistakes plus probably a whole bunch of new ones elsewhere.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 18, 2024 11:08 am

Robbo’s deprived upbringing and complex PTSD lessened her moral culpability (known as the Bugmy principle)

An absolute perversion of justice – the Bugmy “principle” is a whitewash of intellectual respectability slapped over a festering pile of shit.
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Roger
Roger
November 18, 2024 11:10 am

QLD Premier David Crisafulli has told the LNP’s state council the party is not a vehicle to “fight the culture wars”, amidst member disquiet over his refusal to canvas changes in policy regarding late term abortion and nuclear power which would have strong grassroots support.

“The LNP is a vehicle for empty suited, milquetoast careerists.”

Wait, no…he didn’t say that. But he might as well have.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 18, 2024 11:13 am

In Turd World news:
Police should concentrate on tackling crime, says Starmer in free speech row over Allison Pearson tweet

Well, that’s not exactly what Starmer had to say in his gush of weasel words when asked ‘whether police should be prioritising free speech over hurt feelings’:

“Firstly, obviously, this is a matter for the police themselves, police force by police force.”

“So they can make their decisions and will obviously be held to account for those decisions.

“There is a review going on of this particular aspect but, you know, I think that as a general principle the police should concentrate on what matters most to their communities.”

In the case of Allison Pearson, The Plod collective is doing exactly that. Looking after its community.

Pearson posted, then withdrew, critical comments on a picture of Greater Manchester police smilingly posing with UK members of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party – a Pakistani grouping, traditionally immersed in anti-semitism, and currently supporting a Hamas-led Palestinian solution.

Following a complaint to the Met, the Sussex and, finally, Essex constabulary have progressively raised the issue to a major crime status (the ‘gold group’ priority investigation into Pearson’s hideous crime is now being run by an Assistant Commissioner).

The escalation probably has nothing at all to do with the Pakistani community outrage over the Manchester fuzz ‘torturing’ peaceful folk at Manchester Airport.

Number 10 sources said that in the PM’s view focusing “on what matters most to communities” equated to “tackling crime”.

Or expected crime yet to be committed by excitable persons.

Out of control.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 18, 2024 11:15 am

Shameless slithering turd is shameless, and a slithering turd news…

https://x.com/bobjcarr/status/1858069053933252854

In Bergamo yesterday at the Donizetti Festival where Australian Jessica Pratt sang as Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux. Donizetti composed 70 operas. Each year they revive one that premiered 200 years ago. Keep me at it till 2048.

Hows his bio look?

https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Bob.Carr

The Honourable Bob Carr is Industry Professor (Business and Climate Change) at UTS, where his deep understanding of the climate change policy landscape, both in Australia and internationally, and his extensive industry networks, are helping translate UTS’s climate change expertise into real world impact.

The Billabong creature abides…..

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