Open Thread – Thursday 12 August 2021

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  1. Crankie of Sydney says:

    “C.L. says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:13 am”
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    I think you’ve said best C.L.


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  2. egg_ says:

    Lord, there are a lot of flies here.

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    Yup, Birdie attracts the flies.


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  3. For all those who weren’t aware of what a Birdstrike is, you’re soaking in it!


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  4. egg_ says:

    All hail Gladys !!

    Clear the streets as Gladys our great & benevolent supreme leader heads to her 11.00am date with your destiny

    With the question on every voter’s mind…

    Which Freedom(s) will we lose today ??

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    Which Indigenous community is at risk today?


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  5. A Suggestion says:

    It’s pretty simple.
    1. Remove the free for all comment box.
    2. Require commenters to register and login to comment.
    3. Delete any commenter that has three or more strikes against them – according to the site rules.
    4. Tighten the site rules to prohibit commenter abuse. Do not allow commenters to be cursed or vilified – only the contents of their comments or posts.
    5. Delete posts that break the site rules and replace them with note containing the number of strikes against the commenter.


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  6. mh says:

    If Mark Moron in WA gets overthrown in a decades time, and the new leadership fully opens up the borders, I wonder how the immune systems of Sandgropers will cope with the new world they are interacting with.


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  7. miltonf says:

    We’re at the stage of unfettered state power and rule by decree from the Premiers; all the past dictators would have been proud.

    Yes in the space of 18 months. The China bug is the left’s reischtag fire. Remember they had a go at taking over completely in 2010 or whenever their shitty ‘hopenhagen’ COP was. Now they’re having another go.


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  8. min says:

    According to michaelsmithnews planet disaster was predicted just on 50 years ago by Maurice Strong and UN with all UN leaders reinforcing this nonsense every year after.
    So folks THE END IS NIGH not long to go now so they keep telling us.
    Just wondering who has a goldfish memory, those putting out the same nonsense over 50 years or those who have not remembered . But I guess UN think there will be enough newby gullible out there that they might get a few more useful idiots .


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  9. feelthebern says:

    Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.


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  10. feelthebern says:

    If you haven’t read it already, Matt Taibbi on the fraud of Obama.

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-vanishing-legacy-of-barack-obama-147?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMzA2NTMsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM5OTE5NzQyLCJfIjoiRjJVRkkiLCJpYXQiOjE2Mjg5ODc0MDIsImV4cCI6MTYyODk5MTAwMiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEwNDIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.cmaCOGyvrgA7cYdRdbNPuqG2FT7jPr9qgxfgrCvRBLY

    It says it’s behind his paywall, but I’ve forwarded to others who don’t subscribe to his Substack & they’ve been able to read it.


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  11. feelthebern says:

    The DNC doesn’t give a shit about the GOP, Fox or Tucker.
    They are scared shitless of the Taibbi’s, Greenwald’s & especially the likes of Jimmy Dore.
    Dore is now openly calling “The Squad” the “Fraud Squad”.
    The DNC thought the squad would be a great recruitment tool.
    Not if the pot smoking, hard leftie Dore has anything to do with it.


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  12. calli says:

    That’s unfortunate, C.L. You will be missed.

    Make it a short Sabbatical, please.

    I think everyone’s getting frayed by the assault in freedom. Not everyone has the ability or even the desire to exercise self-control, nor do they see the ability to discuss events freely as a privilege, hard won but easily taken away.


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  13. Dot says:

    Adam D

    Please obliterate the avian pest.


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  14. mh says:

    ‘PM pleads with NSW residents: stay at home’

    vs Brad Hazzard

    “Right now the most dangerous place is actually our homes,” Mr Hazzard said on Sunday.


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  15. Roger says:

    Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.

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    I’d suggest it’s just another snafu by our betters.

    They underestimated the Taliban and overestimated the Afghan government and its forces.

    Even Biden has no appetite to stay in Afghanistan any longer.

    Otoh, the Dept of Homeland Security has issued an alert stating that al Qaeda is active again, no doubt operating under the Taliban’s cloak. But I think they’re really Russia & China’s problem now.


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  16. feelthebern says:

    It’s just like the GOP doesn’t give a shit about the DNC, CNN or a range of others.
    They are scared shitless of the fake Libertarian party & the likes of Malice etc.
    People who are saying I don’t accept your binary DNC/GOP mantra.
    Dave Smith is a bit of dick, but if he’s successful with his tilt at running the Libertarian Party, it will shake up it’s fake, organised resistance to the GOP.


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  17. struth says:

    Bloody hell.
    How dopey are some of the old cats pissing their pants regards “anti semitism”
    The bloody media and lefties ARE anti-semetic.
    CL, you and I are more likely to get this blog shut down than bloody one insane anti-semetic.
    Who the fuck do you think is in charge of Australia at the moment?
    I feel the cowards are attempting to distance themselves from the blog, more than they are from bloody one insane bird.
    Off you go…….


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  18. Dot says:

    You know what, I am highly suspicious of Bird.

    1. Foreign heritage.
    2. La Rouche supporter.
    3. Has picked fights with libertarians from the day sir.
    4. Has always believed in silly conspiracies that make us all look bad.
    5. Very sympathetic to tyranny, socialism and our enemies – as long as they’re not a certain ethnicity.

    He’s almost the perfect deep state dirty bomb.

    This is why secret societies were formed.

    To prevent complete nutjobs from ever getting in power and to prevent them from fucking things up.

    We’re things really that bad when the cops were masons and the water board was all Catholics?


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  19. Eyrie says:

    A Suggestion has it right. Register and log in to comment. No abuse of other commenters.


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  20. Rockdoctor says:

    ftb, yup my BS meter spiking too. Apparently Embassy closed and consular services transferred to visiting teams in May, last troops withdrawn in June so why we sending troops back? We have very little skin in the game, dual citizens could be dealt with by arrangements through allied nations as happen many times in the past unless our footprint is much larger especially with the do-gooder crowd than the Government has let on…


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  21. JC says:

    Pay that one Rones.


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  22. cohenite says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2021 at 11:57 pm
    A champ.

    When a professional musician sits down at a public piano

    All those that have never seen this before…lucky you.

    Great stuff. Try this one of Henri as well:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86nJUHrJ1E


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  23. Dot says:

    Bern

    The LP has glowies all through it.

    That makes bloke at the convention…?

    Big surprise, despite all of the nutters on the DNC, this lunacy is contained.

    The DNC and RNC have a compromise.

    Give us the front of house and electoral credibility and you get the back room and security apparatus.

    We make them happy, they give us power. 🤫

    There’s a reason why the Church Commission didn’t go all the way and shut down the criminal CIA.


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  24. calli says:

    Mater, thanks for that Swine flu comparison. As egg_ says, it’s conforming to Farr’s law.

    So…the reason for persisting with the “measures” must be something different. Something they’re either too proud, too stupid, too corrupt or too afraid to tell us.


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  25. johanna says:

    feelthebern says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:28 am

    Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.
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    Too right, Bern.

    Why would any sentient being stay there, given ample warning of the pullout and what would happen afterwards? And if they did, why should we risk the lives of our soldiers to ‘rescue’ them.

    Something not right in this story, for sure.


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  26. lotocoti says:

    Yesterday: US out of Afghanistan!
    Tomorrow: Somebody should do something!


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  27. srr says:

    “woolfe says:
    August 15, 2021 at 9:51 am
    Kangaroo Court is near the top on Duck Duck Go. Google is a disinformation search engine. Don’t use Google.”
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    Funny thing is that one of the first things actual paid to post, professional propagandists attacked me with were cries of, “Conspiracy Nut!”, when I pointed out how Google hid specifically searched for information when building a case to expose propagandists, how Wikipedia kept hiding & changing info when you were putting two & two together against control freaks and how Snopes was a, ‘How can we spin this truth that hurts the agenda, to declare it a lie?’

    That was a very long time ago, when those things were new and people still wanted to believe that Govts wanted us all hooked up to the World Wide WEB of Deception for our individual edification rather than their enhanced programming of us, that TV & Radio were losing the power to do.


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  28. Knuckle Dragger says:

    This is really interesting.

    In a past time and place, there was a poster on a blog who would bombard the joint with all manner of offensive rubbish. Anyone who dared to engage this elderly, name-tag-wearing muppet would be castigated by tut-tutters.

    ‘Don’t engage it’, they said.
    ‘If you ignore it, it will go away’, they said.
    ‘It just wants attention’, they said.
    ‘Don’t give it oxygen’, they said.

    And even despite personally putting shit on the blog owner, this cretin was allowed free rein. From observations, and only observations, it would appear this pancake was allowed to post what it wanted because the previous blog owner had an aversion to something said pancake was forced to undertake* 50 years ago.

    The only effective solution was sustained parody and ridicule, which the oh-so-serious types loathe.

    TBC.

    *He wasn’t actually forced to do anything, but it’s a long story.


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  29. cohenite says:

    And one New Yorker doesn’t mince words when he encounters that sack of shit De Blasio:

    https://saltmustflow.com/this-is-how-nyc-is-greeting-their-commie-mayor/?ml_subscriber=1752268097395366096&ml_subscriber_hash=f1d3

    Short and very salty; and amusing. De Blasio’s minders didn’t know what to do; maybe they’re used to it.


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  30. Roger says:

    ftb, yup my BS meter spiking too.

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    What is the military objective then, if not as stated?

    We’re (the US included) certainly not sending enough manpower to take on the Taliban in any kind of offensive.


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  31. caveman says:

    Shits made in Belgium ,delivered to Poland and we beggin Poland for some, like wtf? how much is this going to cost.
    We are a nation lead by dumbfuks.


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  32. H B Bear says:

    We’re things really that bad when the cops were masons and the water board was all Catholics?<

    If you were fitted up by a couple of bent coppers, yes.


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  33. Vicki says:

    C.L. @ 10.13am:

    Sadly, you are right.


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  34. johanna says:

    Rabz, any update on your proposed head post on a cost/benefit analysis of the COVID madness?

    Adam, if you are reading, I know from personal experience that Rabz is a bona fide economist with an excellent brain. I, for one, would very much like to read the results of his research.

    Please make it happen.


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  35. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Switch to today. There is a poster on a blog who bombards the joint with all sorts of offensive rubbish.

    No calls of ‘do not engage’ and the like. Just a symphony of entreaties for teacher to bring out the metre-ruler and smite instead.

    Yet the only apparent solution – given that this particular pancake is also allowed free rein, and also that much like the previous entity we are in someone else’s lounge room and therefore bound by the lounge room owner’s rules – still appears to be not taking this Radio Rental peanut seriously and subjecting it to parody.

    So I will.


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  36. johanna says:

    cohenite, Noo Yokuh not holding back, and in an accent that actors can only dream of.

    Hilarious!


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  37. lotocoti says:

    Such mealy-mouthed pabulum got them where they are today.

    our urgent diplomatic and political efforts to reduce violence.


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  38. Old School Conservative says:

    We’re things really that bad when the cops were masons and the water board was all Catholics?

    IIRC, wasn’t there an unofficial policy of swapping leadership roles between Masons and Catholics at every turnover of top dog?
    Back “in the day” of course.


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  39. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Why would any sentient being stay there, given ample warning of the pullout and what would happen afterwards? And if they did, why should we risk the lives of our soldiers to ‘rescue’ them.

    Something not right in this story, for sure.

    In this case I think incompetence and wishful thinking is the root cause. Unfortunately to understand appropriate approaches to managing Islam, and Islamists, goes in the exact opposite direction of woke orthodoxy. Especially when the woke left think they’re allied with the muslims. So it is very hard for the military thinkers to grasp that the nation building approach just does not work. And the only other approach that does work is the Russian policy in Chechnya. Rightly they reject that horrible Tacitan option.

    I’ve said many times on the old Cat that the approach which works is the retribution model. The Israelis have learned it. Whenever an islamic kiddie does something you dislike you go in with B-52s and flatten all their stuff. Especially the houses and heroin labs of the elites. Do this several times and the elites start to find excuses why flying planes into buildings isn’t auspicious next week. Or any week. The boss guys like their stuff, and dislike it being blown up.

    Daniel Greenfield has a blog post from Friday which says the same as this, which makes me a little chuffed.

    There Was Never a Solution to Afghanistan (13 Aug)

    The temptation to stabilize a source of instability is geopolitically rational, but doomed by culture. The nation-builders were right that failing to stabilize Iraq or Afghanistan meant that we would get dragged back in. It already happened in Iraq, the odds of it happening at some point in Afghanistan are pretty good.

    But that means we’ll have to learn to live with an Israeli model of occasional brief interventions with low casualties rather than extended engagements. We are done with trying to replicate WW2 or Vietnam all over again. Or at least we should be.

    He then acknowledges the short term fix nature of this policy, in light of islamists getting ahold of really dangerous stuff, like nukes. But the only, and I mean only, real answer is one which democratic nations cannot do without losing their souls. So the only available practical option we have is whack-a-mole and blowing up the leaders’ stuff, and hope they find innovative ways of keeping their kiddies from misbehaving too much. So far Israel has been successful at that, but what will happen when Iran gets nukes I have no idea.


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  40. H B Bear says:

    C.L. @ 10.13am:
    Sadly, you are right.

    I think it is probably worth preserving with. The issues here are self-evident and easily solved. Have any of the other “clones” gained any traction? I didn’t make a record of them.


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  41. RacerX says:

    Kerry Chant at todays presser “i understand how hard it is that we’ve been in lockdown for such a long period” … while she is on full pay i’d argue she really doesn’t really understand how hard it is.


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  42. ikamatua says:

    Hey Bird, you raging hamster molester.
    You were amusing when you would make a brief frenzied appearance before getting booted and all your mentally ill crap deleted.
    Familiarity really does breed contempt in your case.
    You are repetitive, dull and really quite stupid.


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  43. mh says:

    NSW presser:

    NSW copper talking as if he is a medical expert. It’s just laughable.


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  44. johanna says:

    H B Bear says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:58 am

    We’re things really that bad when the cops were masons and the water board was all Catholics?<

    If you were fitted up by a couple of bent coppers, yes.
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    Cops were all Masons? Maybe in SA, dunno.

    In NSW, for a long time the Commissioner's job alternated between Catholics and Proddies, in recognition of the need to work together.

    It is true that State and Federal government departments were dominated by one or the other religious group for a while. In the Feds, for example, Health was Proddy and Supply was Catholic. When I worked as a temp at RPA in NSW in the late 1970s, the boss of my section (medical records) openly wore a Masonic ring.

    There is a rich vein of social and political history awaiting an ambitious and hard working researcher to write a book about this topic. I can't understand why it hasn't happened, unless it is that gender studies is easier and more rewarding.


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  45. Eddystone says:

    C.L. says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:13 am

    The Cat is now an allegory for the fall of Kabul.
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    Yep, Tom – and I can’t good conscience go with that flow.

    But a better analogy would be Atlantis. Catallaxy no longer exists, folks. It slipped beneath the waves and currents. As somebody who formerly had access to its posting dashboard, I can assure you of that. It literally doesn’t exist.

    Were this site to be examined by the media, they would find ample proof of Storm Front-like material and would assume – understandably – that I (and everybody else) either endorsed it or dismissed it as so much harmless fare for the scroll-wheel.

    Ergo, adios.

    Hope to see old Cat mates somewhere else in due course.

    I agree.

    Steve Kates’ blog is worth a look.

    https://lawofmarkets.com/

    He has a great set of memes up today.


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  46. feelthebern says:

    Dot, the LP in the US is fake party.
    A lot of people are genuine when they get involved, but most either realise it but stay involved to be part of the club.
    Or you have those who realise it & then bug out.

    Malice gets it.


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  47. mh says:

    Dr Kerry Chant says transmissions are occurring in households.

    Stay home.


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  48. lotocoti says:

    There’s a reason why the Nipponese have taken out
    Best Behaved in Class, every year since 1945.
    *Side-eyes Pakistan.*


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  49. Old School Conservative says:

    You are repetitive, dull and really quite stupid.

    Agreed.
    Those who touted the “brilliant but errant” meme relied on long-gone evidence.
    Now we can see his “quality postings” for ourselves , your analysis is spot on.


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  50. mh says:

    Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.

    W.O.G.


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  51. cohenite says:

    So far Israel has been successful at that, but what will happen when Iran gets nukes I have no idea.

    Start worrying; biden is going gangbusters to arm the mullahs:

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17633/iran-sea-war


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  52. Gab says:

    Andrews conference on now. Outtake: we’re in lockdown until Victorians get vaccinated.


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  53. mh says:

    Gulag Gladys saying “together we can do this”.

    Do what? Destroy?


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  54. Knuckle Dragger says:

    I’m not sure that’s a cough emoji.

    Well it is Ted.

    You see, coughing is caused by a gag reflex.


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  55. egg_ says:

    Kerry Chant at todays presser “i understand how hard it is that we’ve been in lockdown for such a long period” … while she is on full pay i’d argue she really doesn’t really understand how hard it is.

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    Let’s all C(h)ant! seems to have the pressure showing on her face – the importance of being earnest.


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  56. feelthebern says:

    Gladys loves saying, “we”.
    Gladys, you do not speak for me.


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  57. ikamatua says:

    ” Outtake: we’re in lockdown until Victorians get vaccinated.”.
    ..
    Amazeballs. That “the vaccines will never be mandatory” shit didn’t last very long into the complete failure of vaccines to do jack shit.
    “It’s not working”.
    “Make more people take it”.
    “It’s still not working”.
    “Make ’em all take it”.


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  58. mh says:

    Gladys says it’s not possible to eliminate the Delta Variant.

    She has reaffirmed this fact: “Impossible” to eliminate the virus. Must learn to live with it.


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  59. cohenite says:

    Yep, Tom – and I can’t good conscience go with that flow.

    But a better analogy would be Atlantis. Catallaxy no longer exists, folks. It slipped beneath the waves and currents. As somebody who formerly had access to its posting dashboard, I can assure you of that. It literally doesn’t exist.

    Were this site to be examined by the media, they would find ample proof of Storm Front-like material and would assume – understandably – that I (and everybody else) either endorsed it or dismissed it as so much harmless fare for the scroll-wheel.

    Ergo, adios.

    Hope to see old Cat mates somewhere else in due course.

    I agree.

    No better statement encapsulating why the West is fucked. I have spoke before and often about the conservatives or at least the non-left’s approach to the left: basically pretending there are rules and the left play by them and subscribing to decorum and bowties, tut-tuts and convoluted arguments about the meaning of civilization expecting these would win the day.

    The West was won hard and brutal. And running away don’t cut the mustard, or making elegant, mealy mouthed fare fucking wells.

    Bird is a scabrous dickhead and/or a plant. So you curl your lip and depart. Those safe spaces are getting smaller. The Cat has been cut and diced. I like this version because as pathetic as it is, venting and dealing with the issues and the trolls relatively uncensored is still something.

    Ask Christensen, Kelly or the other ostracised how they feel after they merely raised valid points rather then screeched and ranted.

    If you’re not prepared to get down and dirty you’re part of the fucking problem.


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  60. Boambee John says:

    m0nty says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:10 am
    Lord, there are a lot of flies here.

    Must be quiet over at PhatPussy, munty has come here to find some action!


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  61. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Chant keeps mentioning Whole Of Government.

    Are you sure she doesn’t mean hole of government?
    As in black hole?
    Sucking in everything and everyone?


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  62. mh says:

    Gladys now falling back on vaccination rates as per “Doherty report”.

    Listen big nose, the vaccines do very little, if anything. Look at Israel.


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  63. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    feelthebern says:
    August 15, 2021 at 11:35 am

    ftb, she speaks for no-one.

    Pity, not one journalist will ask her how she feels about summarily removing democracy in NSW.


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  64. struth says:

    For all you who wish to silence your enemies.

    if you are indeed the righteous, letting them speak is the best thing you can do.

    I remember people saying bird was bright.
    In fact many said he was quite switched on, but his anti-semitism was abhorrent.
    Which it certainly is.
    So was commo Bob’s foul ideologies.
    Never did anyone threaten to leave because of commo Bob.
    Now you see Graeme for all he is…….you can see there is no brilliance there at all.
    He’s the actual conspiracy theorist.
    Like Gladys, Sco Mo, and all the other evils of this world, the more they speak the more they shoot themselves in the foot.
    As long as you speak longer, more forcefully and with truth on your side, and they don’t stop your speech, you’ll win.
    Every time.
    So withdrawing voluntarily is gutless, and submitting.
    It’s just what they want.
    Good onya.
    Having a dummy spit and saying “I’m leaving and taking my free speech with me” helps who?
    Fight them where you find them.
    I’m not against having Bird smoted, as he is a nutjob, but be fucked if I want to be on a blog a nutjob like that will get me to stop.
    I haven’t read his last four or five posts, just scrolled them.
    But I support what Adam has done here and won’t let his good work be owned by one anti semetic loon.
    When they do stop your speech….they do it with physical coersion which is violence and begets violence.


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  65. Lizzie of Sydney says:

    Intra-nasal vaccines may be required to curtail the Delta spread.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haG1yKJVVAw

    Copy and past. I’ve lost my HTML prompt sheet somewhere on my desk. 🙂


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  66. egg_ says:

    Insiders:
    Speers: The Taliban!!11! have now invaded even Tarin Kowt, the Oz tards military training ground for local Afghans.

    Will they call in Kevin07, the Tarin Kowt scout?

    https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/taliban-captures-former-australian-base-tarin-kowt-reports-20210813-p58iow.html

    ME: The gift that keeps on giving to Daddy Warbucks.


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  67. srr says:

    “feelthebern says:
    August 15, 2021 at 9:49 am
    One day, I’m going to rip up a few hundred grand funding a professional documentary into Mulkearns so every shit stain that was part of his cabal is named & shamed.”
    ______________________________________

    Interesting how the ‘Get Pell’ mobsters put so many other’s safely into the forgetory, isn’t it.


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  68. ikamatua says:

    “If you’re not prepared to get down and dirty you’re part of the fucking problem.”
    ..
    Damn right.


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  69. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Listen big nose, the vaccines do very little, if anything. Look at Israel.

    Who are seriously considering a lockdown again.

    Decision on lockdown – one week before holidays (15 Aug)

    A senior Health Ministry official said that at the current rate of infection, Israel has approximately two weeks before it will reach a critical point where it must decide on restrictions and a possible lockdown over the upcoming holiday season, Kan 11 News reported.

    According to the official, if 80% of Israelis aged 50 and up receive a third dose of the vaccine, this may, according to estimates, put a stop to the rise in morbidity.

    So lockdown unless the filthy proles get a third shot. Says everything you need to about the effectiveness of the double shot programme. It ain’t working Gladys. Try something else like ivermectin/HCQ multitherapy.


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  70. struth says:

    Fucking right wing bed wetters.
    Boo hoo, it’ll get the blog closed down,,……”the left will come for us if we hang around where bird is?
    Bird is hanging around us, will eventually get smited anyway, so what’s your concern again?
    The government are more on his side than ours, and so is google.
    You lie by claiming he’ll get the blog closed down.
    You just lie.
    This isn’t 1985.
    It’s 2021 and the anti semetics are in government funding Palestine with our taxes.

    It’s like claiming a communist will get the blog closed down.
    Really?


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  71. egg_ says:

    Listen big nose, the vaccines do very little, if anything. Look at Israel.

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    Isn’t Israel proof that the Frankenvax doesn’t work on big noses?


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  72. Boambee John says:

    Bruce of N

    Whenever an islamic kiddie does something you dislike you go in with B-52s and flatten all their stuff. Especially the houses and heroin labs of the elites. Do this several times and the elites start to find excuses why flying planes into buildings isn’t auspicious next week. Or any week. The boss guys like their stuff, and dislike it being blown up.

    In other words, revert to the days of gunboat diplomacy combined with punitive expeditions and 1920s “air control”, as practised in Iraq and other such sh1th0les.


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  73. ikamatua says:

    “I’m not against having Bird smoted, as he is a nutjob”.
    ..
    The smotings and eradication of his comments gave him a mystery and strange but sad allure that he does not warrant.
    How to deal with the problem that he’ll be used to discredit and maybe shut down this site?
    Dunno. It happens, it happens.
    It’s why one Catallaxy now isn’t enough.
    There needs to be a whole suite of Catallaxies, with movement and loose co-operation between them.


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  74. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    cohenite says:
    August 15, 2021 at 11:37 am

    +1

    Maybe I’ll make Douglas Fairbanks my gravatar to your lovely Miss – did they ever act together?


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  75. cohenite says:

    An analysis of the applicability of Farrs Law to the chunk virus; this analysis was before the Delta, Lambda and foot up the arse strains:

    https://blog.trillianthealth.com/farrs-law-a-retrospective-analysis

    A 5 minute read with some interesting graphs.


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  76. Knuckle Dragger says:

    cohenite:

    If you’re not prepared to get down and dirty you’re part of the fucking problem.

    Exactomundo. Take what you consider to be the moral high ground, turn your nose up and turn your back on the ‘truth by assertion’ doctrine favoured by these cockheads, you are indeed part of the problem.

    Civilisations are not built by being nice. Example:

    The infantry sword today is a ceremonial piece used in parades and so on. It is not used in battle.

    The sword, as described in the Land Warfare Manual has a grip still covered in sharkskin. The reason it is covered in sharkskin, as it was when the West was being won, is that it allowed the user to keep his grip when his hands and the weapons were covered in blood.

    Never tear down a wall until you understand the reason it was put there.


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  77. mh says:

    ‘According to the official, if 80% of Israelis aged 50 and up receive a third dose of the vaccine, this may, according to estimates, put a stop to the rise in morbidity.’
    ***
    #Boosterswillsaveus

    Pfizer will be laughing their billion dollar cocks off.


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  78. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Jerome Weimer is on the teev. He is wearing a fleecy jacket.

    It would appear that North Face have quietly dropped their sponsorhip of this calamitous cesspit of a government.


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  79. ikamatua says:

    “struth says:
    August 15, 2021 at 11:47 am
    For all you who wish to silence your enemies.”
    ..
    Silencing us has actually worked pretty well for them though, hasn’t it?
    Maybe you should think of it as returning the favour.
    If there’s more of us than of them, then shutting them up means we win.
    I wish someone had of shut up Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot before they weaved their dirty webs.


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  80. mh says:

    Graeme, it was the Lebs that beat you up in the park.

    Deal with it.


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  81. egg_ says:

    It’s like claiming a communist will get the blog closed down.

    ————————————–

    The clown posse?

    Their pile-ons aided and abetted that.

    MV commented on fHUCKwit* at the time.

    *LNP Member?
    Da ironing.


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  82. Dot says:

    *Isn’t Israel proof that the Frankenvax doesn’t work on big noses?*

    Lulz

    Graeme can finally sleep well tonight after harassing this blog for 16 years.


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  83. srr says:

    “feelthebern says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:28 am
    Something stinks about this “mercy dash” by Australia, the US & other countries to assist getting people out of Afghanistan.”
    __________________________________

    Yep, but in this modern age of high tech warfare where even military people couldn’t imagine some of the ‘new toys’ let alone how they’d used & by whom, well, it could be that even these insane global lockdowns are to fund, flush, track & trace the most dangerous of deep cover terror cells.
    After all, the enemy no longer needs tanks & jet fighters to wage a modern war, as the Wu Flu battles have been showing us, and there will always be deep secrets that the public never becomes privy to, well not until That Day.


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  84. cohenite says:

    Maybe I’ll make Douglas Fairbanks my gravatar to your lovely Miss – did they ever act together?

    I don’t think they were acting.

    Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love ride off into the sunset…

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=451612382382683


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  85. egg_ says:

    The Cosmotards are finding there’s very little similarity between the planets, now it’s the stars!
    Oh noes!!!

    Metallic Wobbling Zombie Star Is Moving Really Fast Thru Our Galaxy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO7vrCFhzlg
    Anton Petrov


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  86. Dot says:

    *feelthebern says:
    August 15, 2021 at 11:20 am
    Dot, the LP in the US is fake party.*

    Maybe now, but I don’t reckon the founders were.

    I think after Harry Browne, who made a lot of sense, the deep state got worried.

    Hence the loons like naked monty, Russo etc, bad candidacies of supposed libertarians and former drug war loving LEOs.


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  87. HD says:

    Dot says:
    August 15, 2021 at 10:41 am

    “This is why secret societies were formed.

    To prevent complete nutjobs from ever getting in power and to prevent them from fucking things up.”

    I am not sure everyone agrees “secret” societies aim to prevent nutjobs getting into power. Assuming some of occult, that is to say unseen influence, we seem to be currently living in a world scripted antithetically with regard to your assertion.

    Subject to state sponsored mass psychosis. Where give it a while and should the worst case scenarios evolve, the lyrics from old Slayer songs may be an apt description of what an “unseen hand” seems to intend. At least that it seems that is what the public is apparently steered into thinking.


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  88. MatrixTransform says:

    A 5 minute read with some interesting graphs.

    are car accidents still classed as Covid deaths?


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  89. Dot says:

    *It is true that State and Federal government departments were dominated by one or the other religious group for a while. In the Feds, for example, Health was Proddy and Supply was Catholic. When I worked as a temp at RPA in NSW in the late 1970s, the boss of my section (medical records) openly wore a Masonic ring.

    There is a rich vein of social and political history awaiting an ambitious and hard working researcher to write a book about this topic. I can’t understand why it hasn’t happened, unless it is that gender studies is easier and more rewarding.*

    Have you heard of the theory that all degrees above the first three are fake?

    I know people who are Catholic and Masons.

    They reckon anything above that is actually a Catholic plot, and it was like a silent Counter-Reformation Pt 2.


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  90. Dot says:

    This blog should work with Kates and DB, and hopefully C.L.

    What we want might take time.


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  91. MatrixTransform says:

    wow, things just get better and better.

    Dan Andrew’s iron fist, in a condom, in a velvet glove


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  92. Dot says:

    *Subject to state sponsored mass psychosis. Where give it a while and should the worst case scenarios evolve, the lyrics from old Slayer songs may be an apt description of what an “unseen hand” seems to intend. At least that it seems that is what the public is apparently steered into thinking.*

    Have you read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars?

    [It’s becoming like Joe Rogan asking about DMT!]


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  93. egg_ says:

    Mehtinks there’s car hidden in this video somewhere.
    Smart marketing, Bill & Peter.

    Stunning 1970 Chevelle SS 396 Big Block “Muscle Car” – Cruising Downtown Naples
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnfjHaAH-U


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  94. johanna says:

    No better statement encapsulating why the West is fucked. I have spoke before and often about the conservatives or at least the non-left’s approach to the left: basically pretending there are rules and the left play by them and subscribing to decorum and bowties, tut-tuts and convoluted arguments about the meaning of civilization expecting these would win the day.

    The West was won hard and brutal. And running away don’t cut the mustard, or making elegant, mealy mouthed fare fucking wells.

    Bird is a scabrous dickhead and/or a plant. So you curl your lip and depart. Those safe spaces are getting smaller.
    ———————————————————————

    Hear, hear, cohenite.

    Lifting up our dainty skirts and flouncing is precisely what has caused the demise of robust right wing comment.

    Oh, somebody said something nasty on the internet – I’m out of here! I’m dead against censorship, except when it offends me.

    Give me a break.

    I agree with whoever above pointed out that some here (JC, I’m looking at you) lionised this fruitcake as some sort of important interlecshural with a mental disorder. He’s nothing of the sort, just an obsessed bore of the kind that we all dread being trapped with in a confined space, with a bonus mental disorder.

    We need to harden up both internally and externally, and stop treating politics like croquet. That’s what happened to alleged conservative parties across the English speaking world, they imagined that it was a gentleman’s game with rules that everyone would abide by.

    No matter how many times they were proved wrong, they stubbornly stuck to this belief, including allowing their own parties to be infiltrated.

    As for this site, people who can’t bear annoying or weird contributors should retire to the Senior Common Room and moan about it over the port.


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  95. Dot says:

    *The Cosmotards are finding there’s very little similarity between the planets, now it’s the stars!*

    Yeah but…trillions of stars in trillions of galaxies. Earth like conditions need not be bang on for habitation.

    Plus, we can always terraform, given enough power.

    “Science!” Loving people seem to hate nukes…


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  96. struth says:

    The difference is Arky, that if you believe in free speech, then you can’t have it both ways.
    where the problem lies here, is that right wing bed wetters don’t want to be a ssociated with a blog because a fruit loop is on it BECAUSE they fear retribution from the mythical left who will call them names like right wing Nazi.
    Yes they still are scared of being called a Nazi, which is why they are flouncing.
    Those times are past.
    Why?
    It’s of no value to the left anymore.
    You’ll note no one is being called a right wing Nazi anymore because they now have the upper hand again, since Feb last year.
    That was a tactic now unnecessary , as they start revealing and being confident in exposing their true socialist anti semetic (Nazi) selves.
    Old Bird here is on the government’s side.
    No one is shutting this blog down because he’s antisemetic.
    On the contrary……………….

    So it’s the right squealing because they don’t want to be called Nazis from the people that were the real Nazis all along.
    As I’ve always argued.
    He is sick, he is wrong, and he is racist, and collectivist, and anti-semetic.
    Just like our government and those who control the web.
    We are the ones who will get this blog closed down.
    And that is the real truth of it.
    Hence freedom furniture blog, and all the others being set up are for all of us to be nibble and to have on favourites to jump to.
    The more the merrier. More than one will be closed down, we should expect that.
    And it won’t be because of a sick prick like Bird.


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  97. calli says:

    Gulag Gladys
    ______________

    Perfect! So theft-worthy.

    On the tut-tutting over nasty bird, scroll the bugger or mock him. Your choice.

    The temptation to retreat from the unsavoury barrage may be strong. Tough luck when you walk out your front door and express your views. Going to retreat from the inevitable onslaught there too? Do you think the black helicopters will search you out because…bird is a clown? No, you will be examined for wrongthink – yours, not someone else’s.

    Someone mentioned Giovanni Guareschi (the author of Don Camillo) the other day. He had a great attitude – I will not die even if they kill me.


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  98. Mother Lode says:

    Now, Scott Morrison’s government is under fire to explain the lack of recognition for the men and their role.

    I would expect that Mozart would not have been able to explain his genius. He might talk about notes and motifs and structure – but other people had access to the same tools. Ultimately he would be reduced to saying “I dunno. I just do it.”

    Shakespeare would have been for once lost for words. Michelangelo would have just shrugged his shoulders.

    Same thing asking Scomo to explain his screw ups.


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