Category: [Idiots]

Yeah, cos America’s deranged relationship with guns has nothing to do with it in any way shape or form, eh…

Bob Katter threatens to punch Nine journalist over ‘Lebanese heritage’ comment

Bob Katter has threatened to punch a journalist at a press conference where he threw his support behind anti-immigration March for Australia protests planned on the weekend.
The independent MP for Kennedy called the press conference outside Queensland state parliament in Brisbane on Thursday morning, speaking with members of Katter’s Australian Party. […]
“You’ve got Lebanese heritage yourself,” 9News Queensland reporter Josh Bavas said, before Katter cut him off.
“I punch blokes in the mouth for saying that, don’t you dare say that,” Katter said. “My family have been in this country for 140 years …
“I have, on many occasions, punched blokes in the mouth, right? So I’m restraining myself today. Don’t say it!”
Katter then said he refused to take any more questions from Bavas, who continued to ask about his views on migration.
“There are people who have come here from other countries, like yourselves, like your family, that have good values,” Bavas put to him.
Katter then walked up to the Channel Nine reporter and shook his first at him.
“Don’t say that, because you’re a racist. You’re a racist. You cannot say what you just said without being identified as a racist … This man is a racist,” Katter said.
Bavas answered that he had not finished his question.
“If he asks a racist question which implies racism, I’m not going to answer it,” Katter said. “And I don’t consider him a proper Australian, a fair-minded Australian. He sees people as foreign because of their heritage,” Katter said.

Now, the article notes that Katter’s grandfather did move here in 1898 (not quite 140 years ago, Bob, but I’ll overlook that) and links to this fascinating ABC article, in which the story of him doing so and becoming a naturalised Aussie is told and it basically goes like this:

1905: “Hi, I’m Carl Katter from Lebanon and I want to become an Australian.”
“Yeah, well, you’re not white enough, fuck off.”

1907: “Hi, I’m Carlyle Assad Khittar from Turkey and I want to become an Australian.”
“I thought you were Lebanese?”
“Me? No, must be… some other guy. I’m from Turkey.”
“…”
“The bit in Europe.”
“Oh well, that’s fine then. Welcome to Oz, white fella.”

So basically Carl the elder lied about about where he came from in order to be accepted as a proper, i.e. white, Australian as dictated by the laws of the time, whereby a European Turk was considered white but someone from “Assyria” (as it technically was) wasn’t for some reason. What interesting problems that might’ve posed for Jesus if he returned around 1905 and decided to set himself up here… In any case, though the article is fair and understanding to Carl the elder—he would hardly have been the only “Turk” doing that back then—it does seem to have produced the interesting side-effect that Bob now denies actually having Lebanese heritage despite the existence of, you know, written testimony that he does… and I don’t understand why, cos it’s not like old Carl’s going to be deported back to the old town at this point for lying about his past, and neither is Bob, so…

I don’t know, is he just so racist from living in Queensland that mentioning the mere fact that he has an ethnic heritage is enough to send him spiralling into this rage accusing the other person of being racist? What’s his problem with being partly Lebanese? Does he deny the “Turkish” ancestry as well? Cos he clearly has such a problem; this isn’t the first time this has happened, so it’s not just a new thing with him. And I don’t think anyone who’s ever brought that up to him actually did so to be racist themselves towards him, but rather to note that Bob is, frankly, an unspeakable fucking hypocrite when it comes to him opposing immigration (would he have let his own grandfather become naturalised?), and I’ve no doubt that’s what really gets to him more than anything. What a cunt.

Title stolen from someone on Reddit, because it was too good not to.

So the stupidest news story of this week has been that of former DOJ employee Sean Dunn:

Apparently Subway is the Deep State. Who’d have guessed? Not me. Anyway, the only thing sillier than Pam’s response to this situation is that the poor traumatised victims of this monstrous strike against law and order wanted him charged with a felony for doing this:

The encounter happened Sunday night, when Dunn began beefing with CBP officers who were patrolling near a Subway sandwich shop on U Street, prosecutors said in a court filing. The officers appear to have been in the area as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to ramp up law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
Dunn, who was brandishing what appeared to be a wrapped footlong sandwich from the fast food staple, “stood within inches” of one of the officers, and yelled “F— you! You f—–g fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city,” the filing said.
A now-viral video shows the suspect then throwing the sandwich at the chest of the officer, who appeared to be wearing bullet proof vest.
Dunn then “attempted to flee on foot” but was quickly apprehended, the filing said.
It also said Dunn acknowledged what he’d done to a D.C. police officer while his arrest was being processed. “I did it. I threw a sandwich,” the filing quotes him as saying.

This is ridiculous on multiple levels, but at least the judge who saw him the day after the event let him go cos he realised the felony thing was stupid… which hasn’t stopped prosecutors from trying again, obviously, cos this sort of thing can’t be tolerated and Sean clearly must be Made An Example Of, and he’s got another court appearance over this assault with a breadly weapon (sorry, I stole that one too) next month. In the meantime I daresay TrumpCorp will be targeting that judge, too, cos they don’t like being thwarted in these things, however minor and foolish…

So this fucking moron moved to Russia to get away from “woke”:

An American named Derek Huffman, along with his three daughters aged 10, 11, and 12, relocated his family to Russia and engaged in the Special Military Operation (SMO).
In 2022, they moved from Arizona to Texas to escape what they perceived as the influence of LGBT propaganda. However, as political changes swept across the country, the Huffmans decided to leave the United States altogether.
Derek shared with RT, “The pivotal moment for us was when we learned that my daughter Sophia had heard about lesbians from a classmate. Even though she didn’t fully grasp the concept, it was enough for us to realize that we needed a change. “

Yeah, apparently the child just heard about lesbians being a thing. Not that she even knew any, necessarily, or there was a chance of her being one herself. Just her knowing that lesbians exist was enough to make daddy move her to a country where they presumably don’t exist.

“I want to contribute and secure our place here by joining the Russian army. Ultimately, our goal is to fully integrate into Russian society, obtain citizenship, and create a bright future here,” Derek stated.

Well, Derek integrated, all right, to the point where he’s now being sent to the front lines of that war with Ukraine…

Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, his wife, DeAnna, said in a recorded plea for prayers, which has since been removed from her YouTube page.
Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested this language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.
“Unfortunately, when you’re taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?” she pondered. “You’re not. So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.” […]
DeAnna, 42, suggested her husband had been misled during the military recruiting process. She added that, after a month of service, her family had yet to receive any pay.
“When he signed up and had all of that done, he was told he would not be training for two weeks and going straight to the front lines,” she said. “But it seems as though he is getting one more week of training, closer to the front lines, and then they are going to put him on the front lines.”

Well, he’s doing what he said he wanted to do. He’s quoted in the article as saying “If I risk myself for our new country, no one will say that I am not a part of it”, and, well, he’s being given that very opportunity. Indeed, he’s at far more risk now than he would’ve been as a correspondent or welder; he’s going to be up the front trying to kill people with weapons he barely knows how to use. Derek’s living the dream, and can go fuck himself.

I really should read Jay Kuo’s Just for Skeets and Giggles series more often than I do; this week he has some amazing stuff on offer regarding things I haven’t written much about because of, you know, reasons, like Edolf’s new political party, the Big Beautiful Bill, the Texas floods, and Grok being fiddled with to make it less “woke” to the point where it went frankly Nazi instead…

But he has a particularly good selection of posts about the Epstein list, some of which I want to preserve here (the Roger Stone freakout I posted myself was in there too, by the way)… I still think Epstein was probably smart enough to keep any such thing (he had a prison record, after all, from having done that sort of thing in the past) in the first place, but if it did exist then it certainly doesn’t now.

I thought the invocation of Dan Bongino in this one was interesting:

In a government full of barely capable misfits, Dan Bongino is particularly notable; he spent a big chunk of his career as a cop and member of the Secret Service, but he seems to be much better known as a media commentator and host on outlets like Faux News, with conspiracy theory bullshit being his stock in trade, and is currently the Deputy Director of the FBI (in which organisation he has never served). I say “currently” because he may not be for much longer, having spoken about resigning over the Epstein debacle… which, if he does that, will result in the most incomprehensible spectacle TrumpCorp can offer, i.e. someone inside the mob refusing to put up with its bullshit. Not that he’ll blame Mushroom Cock for it, of course, even though this bullshit is almost certainly at his instigation, he might leave the job but I don’t see him leaving the cult.

Talking of barely capable misfits:

Oh Oolong, that groot wit mond of yours will get you in trouble one day.

I’ve never trusted Lincoln Project, because, when it comes to the crunch, a bunch of never-Trump Republicans is still a bunch of Republicans. Still, hard to deny when they make good points.

One last one, which isn’t in Jay’s collection but I saw it posted today on BS:

WOOF! Someone’s not interested in holding back, are they? This, of course, is exactly why the Democrats will never let AOC get too far…