Month: February 2026

Who rules over you, etc

“THEIR head of state”? Oh Albo. What an interesting phrase, and an unfortunate one too. I can see those words being repeated throught racist and antisemitic propaganda of the sort spread by The Noticer (and, as the article notes, further spread by certain far-right characters in our so-called government), questioning whether Australian Jews place their loyalties with Israel ahead of Australia… cos if I, er, noticed the potential implications of that choice of words, I’ve no doubt the cunt behind that “news” site did so too. Not exactly what our Jewish friends need right now.

I think I’ll be sticking to surreal food

Kennedy’s going to be furious that someone at the HHS department put this out without including Ivermectin… but I must say this poster is interestingly time after this one appeared last month:

This… thing was posted by the White House itself, as you may see. Who knew there even was a war on protein? I presume it’s one of those wars Trump keeps insisting he ended…

This, incidentally, is George Eastman in Joe D’Amato’s Anthropophagus. If you know why Kennedy in the above photo is lit to look someone from a bad Italian cannibal movie, well, you’re doing better than me, cos damned if I understand it…

THIS bullshit again?

Premier Chris Minns says Newcastle Writers Festival ‘crazy’ to invite author Randa Abdel-Fattah

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says the Newcastle Writers Festival is “crazy” to invite Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah to speak, after she was removed from a similar event in Adelaide.
Dr Abdel-Fattah was uninvited from Adelaide Writers’ Week, part of the Adelaide Festival, last month after pressure from the South Australian government.
That decision set off a chain of events resulting in the resignation of the Adelaide Festival’s entire board, and the writing event being cancelled.
Mr Minns said on Friday he did not agree with the Newcastle Writers Festival’s decision to book the author, but he would not intervene.
“I don’t know why these organisations do it,” he said.
“I think they are crazy to invite that author when you think about how divisive it is, and how difficult it would be for the organisation as a result of the notoriety.”

To give him credit, Minns does seem to be handling the situation differently to Peter Malinauskas, at least insofar as I can see he hasn’t mentioned Bondi yet. And, to be sure, the event organiser has also said that Minns hasn’t put pressure on them to cancel Abdel-Fattah’s invitation and that they wouldn’t be doing so… but whatever, apart from that, it shows that not many lessons have been learned from the Adelaide debacle, especially when it comes to, frankly, not looking like you’re specifically targeting this individual AGAIN for the heinous crime of having a Palestinian background (I mean, I don’t know that Randa Abdel-Fattah is necessarily a great or even good person as such, but her ancestry does seem to be the problem people have with her as much as anything she’s actually said)… and the timing could’ve been better given that Israel’s president Isaac Herzog—who holds all Gazans responsible for the October 7 attack and said it was their fault for not overthrowing Hamas—is coming to town, though whether or not that’s the work of the festival or of Minns I don’t know. Either way, nice to see we’re still “avoiding” divisive debates in this country…

Oh no, we made Edolf sad

I’m in an admittedly odd situation for a pensioner, in that I am actually reasonably comfortably off thanks to my parents, whose decades of hard work and effort basically, you know, paid off for me as much as them… I inherited the house I live in with no mortgage, plus their various investments, so that even though the pension leaves a fair bit to be desired I’m still fairly secure that way. I’ve got a housemate who covers quite a few expenses, so I don’t actually have a lot of expenditure in that area either. Basically, I’ve got enough, and I’m relatively happy with that. Unlike some people:

Oh, BABY, that’s tragic. Richest man on Earth and he’s still miserable. And he wants sympathy, apparently, and he can fuck the fuck off with that. You don’t want happiness, anyway; what money does buy is power, and that’s what you want more than anything (with the possible exception of love, and money won’t buy you that either, not the real thing anyway. You have to be capable of it yourself first to deserve it from others, and Edolf has frankly demonstrated his lack of ability there).

I can’t imagine having as much money as this individual and still not being happy with that… I mean, money doesn’t buy me happiness per se either, but it covers the costs of the things that do… I’ve got enough, like I said, to make me happy, and this cunt doesn’t despite having about 400,000 times my wealth. Maybe it’s just that I’ve never really wanted a lot, whereas he clearly does and has the proportionately greater wherewithal to achieve those things, and he’s still not happy. And I’m kind of glad about that somehow.

Well there’s a shock

Melania film earns $7m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade

Remarkably, Melania seems to have actually done some business after all, even better than predicted (remember, $5m was the most optimistic amount forecasters expected before it came out), and still little enough to be believable; if this were White House propaganda, Mushroom Cock would be calling it the best opening weekend for any film ever and we would all know it was a lie… but $7m feels honest and plausible. From the article:

A statement from the head of Amazon MGM Studios’ domestic theatrical distribution, Kevin Wilson, said the company was “very encouraged by the strong start and positive audience response” and reiterated the early box office results had exceeded expectations.
Referred to a planned follow-up documentary series about the first lady, Wilson’s statement also said: “This momentum is an important first step in what we see as a long-tail lifecycle for both the film and the forthcoming docu-series, extending well beyond the theatrical window and into what we believe will be a significant run for both on our service.”
Amazon says it operates on a different economic system to a traditional film studio, offsetting the costs of a theatrical release and promotion for distribution to 200 million subscribers to its Prime Video service.

Yeah, but 200 million people aren’t going to watch this shit, and $7m still isn’t that much better than the forecast $5m. If they were expecting a $50m opening weekend and got $70m instead, that would be rather more notable. This additional series alluded to above has been mentioned before but for some reason it’s not being hyped nearly as much as the film has been, and I somehow doubt this long-tail lifecycle for the film and the series will actually come about… the buzz around the “documentary” has been amusing, but I expect people will have lost interest within a few weeks at most.

The article also talks about Brett Ratner:

Ratner, the director – who had otherwise largely retreated from Hollywood after numerous sexual misconduct allegations during the #MeToo movement – was pointedly asked at the Melania premiere if he felt he was part of a larger quid pro quo.
“That’s ridiculous, but it’s OK, I’ll answer,” he said. “I can tell you right now, if we were audited and they said, ‘How much was spent on this movie?’ This movie is one of the most expensive movies – documentaries – in the genre ever made.”
“It wasn’t about getting rich. I mean, I think the Trumps are wealthy and successful enough. This is about giving me the ability to hire the best crew in the world, to not only score the film with the best composer … I mean, when you see the movie, you’ll go, ‘Oh, we see where the money went now.’ This wasn’t about corruption. Melania only cared about one thing – making a great movie for audiences.”

The question of why she didn’t pay for it herself if she cared so much about it was clearly left unasked or otherwise ignored.

Oh it’s capable, all right

Spotted this on Bluesky, where someone in the ensuing comments noted this nonsense could only have been written by someone with a name like “Barton Swaim”. I can only assume brother Barton has never heard of the “business plot” nor indeed studied much history in general, else he might have known better than this. America put a fascist into the White House, then it did it a second time. Sinclair Lewis probably didn’t make the famous statement credited to him about fascism coming to America wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross, but he or whoever did wasn’t far off: