Month: March 2023

RIP uncle Doug

Doug Mulray has left us. I was one of those who actually watched the infamous Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos show when it half-aired, and I still remember it going to an ad break around the halfway point, and then we got the Channel 9 station ID, an apology about a “technical problem” and an episode of Cheers suddenly coming on instead… I mean, the program was hardly subtle but neither was Kerry Packer’s response to it; to be honest I remember almost nothing of the program, but I remember what happened to it, Kerry ensured its immortality… and despite giving an order to hide the tape so it would never be seen again, it was in fact found in the Nine archive about fifteen years later and actually broadcast in full, except they edited some of Doug’s comments rather than the animals fucking; remarkable how that was considered OK by 2008 but Doug’s jokes weren’t…

We begin bomba in five minutes

In other Trump news…

DONALD TRUMP IS asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to him.
As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has been asking policy advisers for a range of military options aimed at taking on Mexican drug cartels, including strikes that are not sanctioned by Mexico’s government, according to two sources familiar with the situation.“‘Attacking Mexico,’ or whatever you’d like to call it, is something that President Trump has said he wants ‘battle plans’ drawn for,” says one of the sources. “He’s complained about missed opportunities of his first term, and there are a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities in a second Trump presidency.”
Trump lieutenants have briefed him on several options that include unilateral military strikes and troop deployments on a sovereign U.S. partner and neighbor, the sources say. One such proposal that Trump has been briefed on this year is an October white paper from the Center for Renewing America, an increasingly influential think tank staffed largely by Trumpist wonks, MAGA loyalists, and veterans of his administration.
The policy paper — titled “It’s Time to Wage War on Transnational Drug Cartels” — outlines possible justifications and procedures for the next Republican commander-in-chief to “formally” declare “war against the cartels,” in response to “the mounting bodies of dead Americans from fentanyl poisonings.”
In a nod to Mexico’s status as a sovereign nation, the paper calls on the U.S. to “conduct specific military operations to destroy the cartels and enlist the Mexican government in joint operations to target cartel-networked infrastructure, including affiliated factions and enablers with direct action.”
However, that “enlistment” of the Mexican government comes with a massive caveat: “It is vital that Mexico not be led to believe that they have veto power to prevent the US from taking the actions necessary to secure its borders and people,” the paper reads.

How very DARE a sovereign nation think it can tell the United States not to interfere in their business, eh… In saying which, I don’t know that the Mexican government would necessarily refuse such an offer. Depends on whether Trump expected them to pay for it, like his fucking wall…

Indict to excite

OK, I wasn’t expecting this news today, indeed I’m not sure I was expecting it at all…

A grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump in New York over a hush money payment made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
No former US president has ever been criminally indicted. The news is set to shake the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in which Trump leads most polls.
“This evening we contacted Mr Trump’s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan DA’s Office for arraignment on a supreme court indictment, which remains under seal,” said a statement from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s spokesperson. “Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected.”
Trump was expected to appear in court for his arraignment on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles said. At that point he would enter a plea on the charges. New York’s police have been told to all report for duty on Friday and be prepared to deal with “unusual disorder”, according to a memo seen by NBC.

Well. After Trump’s prediction about being arrested failed to pan out last week on the day he claimed it would, I suspect more than a few of us were thinking “well, so much for all of that” and wondering if anything would come of it after all; turns out Bragg and co were just waiting for us to think that and then carry out the plan when we’d stopped expecting it… As for “unusual disorder”, well, that’s already started by the look of it…

A Donald Trump supporter protesting the Manhattan district attorney’s probe of the former president pulled a knife on a family with two small children Tuesday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, according to a court official.
The man and woman with two children in strollers accidentally bumped into the Trump supporter while crossing the intersection of Hogan Place and Centre Street just after 4:00 p.m., three bystanders told POLITICO. The female protester, who held a sign that read “I support Trump, do you?” began arguing with the couple before she pulled out a blade approximately 6 inches long and waved it at the family, according to the eye-witnesses.
“Angelica Rucker pulled a knife from her right side belt hip area and began menacing one of the complainants with the knife as the verbal confrontation pursued,” a court spokesperson said.
Court officers, who were standing outside the building, rushed over, pulled out their guns and ordered the woman to drop the knife, the bystanders said. She was arrested without incident.

“Without incident” indeed. Only surprising that she had a knife rather than a gun; I feel she may have done more than just wave the latter around if she’d had one. The next few days could be interesting, depending on whether or not the people who think Trump doesn’t have the support he used to have are right about that, certainly at least one person was willing to cause trouble in the name of Glorious Leader today; I suppose it depends on how willing the rest of the cult is to do the same… Either way, I can’t see Trump surrendering himself like some commentators think he will; he’s made such a racket about the injustice of it all that I simply can’t envisage him going quietly or willingly. Which means they’ll probably have to take him, and I fear that’s where the real fun might happen. Interesting times, etc…

There’s saying the quiet part out loud…

…And then there’s screaming it at the top of your fucking lungs:


OOF. That’s apparently the latest front page of The Irish Light, which is the Ireland version of this thing:

The Light is a self-published, monthly British conspiracy theory newspaper founded by Darren Nesbitt (frequently under the pseudonym Darren Smith) on 27 September 2020, which claims the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax. The paper has a sister publication named The Irish Light.
The paper has been criticised for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. It regularly prints articles written by conspiracy theorist Vernon Coleman, and according to a review from Harvard Kennedy School “includes content that is aimed at prompting participation and activism amongst adherents of conspiracy theories, rather than simply presenting information”.
The company behind the paper was dissolved on 15 February 2021; despite this, it still continues to publish. […]
In November 2022, The Irish Light ran a headline with the phrase ‘Died Suddenly’ connected to marketing efforts around the release of an independent anti-vaccine film of the same name. In this issue, the paper used the images of 42 deceased individuals, claiming they had died suddenly in Ireland due to being vaccinated. Upon investigation, none of the deaths were found to be due to vaccines and were instead found to be caused by incidents such as drowning, long-term illness, car accidents and other random events.

Well I’m sure those car accidents would never have happened WITHOUT the vaccine… you can’t quite read the other headlines cos I shrunk the image down, but they go like this:

NEWS Muhammed tops baby names in Galway
LGBT MAFIA Irish libraries push pornography on children
VACCINE CULL Kilkenny sudden deaths fall of deaf ears
HEALTH Healing cancer naturally without poisonous chemo

Urlacan!

Mind you, I’ll give this Nesbitt/Smith character some credit for actually doing this as a print publication in this modern age where most dickheads of his ilk would just do this sort of thing on Gab or something. I suppose this just goes to show what a special dickhead he is…

Matt Walsh is right for once! (sort of)

In the wake of the latest US school shooting, self-described theocratic fascist Matt Walsh actually got it kind of right:

Cherish this stopped-clock moment, for it may never come again

I for one couldn’t agree more. There is a demonic evil in the US, and it’s made up of the NRA, the politicians who’ve sold their souls to them, and America’s general psychotic gun culture… oh, wait, that’s not what Matt meant? Of course not, this is Matt Walsh we’re talking about, a man who hates… well, pretty much everything the Daily Wire will pay him to hate (he had a recent headscratcher of a video about asexuality, which is one of those things that I just don’t understand why some people find so objectionable), but he has a particular hard-on for transphobia. And, by all indications, the shooter this time was a trans person. So when Matt Walsh talks about demonic evil, he’s not talking about the gun that ended the lives of those kids and their teachers, he’s talking about the trans person wielding the gun. An entire piece of shit. I don’t wish death upon people as a rule, but Matt Walsh is on record saying he would rather kill himself than be the parent of a trans child, and frankly I want one of his kids to turn out trans just to see whether or not he carries that out…

Good luck with that

KIIS FM’s Kyle Sandilands forced into sensitivity training after offensive comments about Paralympians

Oh THAT’ll work.

Radio station KIIS FM has had to employ a second censor and provide sensitivity training to Kyle Sandilands after the shock jock described watching the Tokyo Paralympics as “horrific”. […]
The latest breach follows an incident in October when Sandilands, who reportedly earns $5m a year, and ARN apologised for using a slur against people with disability.
“Have you been watching the special Olympics (sic), it is horrific some of the things,” Sandilands said live on air.
“Some poor bloke ran for the high jump and then veered right ’cause he was blind and landed on his arse on the ground.”
The report found that while the presenters expressed some admiration for the “spirit of the contest”, it would have been clear to the audience that “the Paralympians in question were being mocked by Mr Sandilands, and that they were mocked for the techniques used to participate and compete in their particular sport”.Sandilands implied that participants in the Paralympics were “a generic group of people that were somehow intrinsically inferior and were in need of special treatment or ‘lifting up’”, the report found. […]
Sandilands has been a divisive figure in Australian media for decades. Thirteen years ago he was dropped by Australian Idol (then on Channel Ten) after a public backlash over a lie-detector stunt on his radio show in which a 14-year-old girl revealed she had been raped. Both Sandilands and his co-host apologised on air at the time, saying they did not know the girl had been raped.
Although Sandilands apologised in October for “using filthy language and some derogatory archaic terms”, he said: “I’m never going to change. I’m still not changing [for] the woke world.”

I don’t know how Vile’s whole career didn’t end after that debacle with the 14 year old girl. All that’ll come out of this “sensitivity training” is a bunch of shitty jokes for content on his show before he goes on being a cunt as usual.