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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
I suppose the fundamental problem with the Liberals even at a state level is that they are percieved as a coalition not a party, and that is because they behave like a coalition and not a party, they do not exhibit unity. And the people being offered as alternatives to the right might not be as pure as the general public is lead to believe.

There is quite a bit of irony for the anti-soclialist and anti-union LIberals to be torn apart by obvious factions even if they refuse to call them factions.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: PaulP – on
The tinder that exists within the MAGA movement was always a chance of internally combusting. Trump attracted every known breed of American Fruitcake, with no thought to anything other than power and vote buying. You have The Israel lobby in there with neo Nazi types like Fuentes, you have the tech bros who love skilled labour from overseas (especially India and China) up against the hardcore anti immigration types. It has to go up in flames sooner or later.
India, The Philippines, Bangladesh and Africa should tariff the USA for tech support, Silicone Valley would wither on the vine, showing itself up as more silicone than silicon! ;)
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
The real problem with cricket is on display in Saffie land. The insiders are slamming the pitch, even players involved in the game are out throwing rocks at the curator.

But despite the pitch doing the usual things that aren't expected from a "real wicket", the true problem on display is the loss of will for players to work at the long format game. Both teams have basically give up and turned the game into a 2 x ODI, IPL, BBL, etc., etc., has turned them into sponges, too soft for the tough jobs.

The pitch is ordinary, but it's the sort of pitch a Border or Simpson would scratch out a ton at snail pace, modern players just don't have the will to accumulate big scores in 1s and 2s. The modern players don't want to do it tough, they fly 1st and stay in 5 star, no more tin sheds, wooden benches and cold showers, it's caviar and Krug for then before another early night. More money for less work, it's killing the game!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: DJC – on
And his lawyers, be they personal or DoJ (which is much the same) are incompetent and out of their depth 🙄
I think the lawyers know the risks very well, but he surrounds himself with sycophants that he pays very well.

So they end up with sh1t on their nose and a fat wallet, at least until he fires them. ;D

Although if the rumours are true he is burning those bridges as well, it seems yet again in this term his list of indirect debtors is growing faster than his ego, all of them fearing retribution if they speak out.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Quote from: DJC – on
Webster is more of a bowl a bit and bat a bit all-rounder but, in form, his ability to bowl off spin and medium pace gives him an edge of Green.
Excluding the Wicketkeeper / Batsmen, Webster is as close to a genuine All-Rounder that we have had in decades, 1st Class tons, 1st Class 5 wicket hauls.

Plus to me he has a toughness about how he plays the game, he can easily be as brutal with bat as Green or Marsh, and he won't waste over bowling half-track rubbish or no-spin pies like some of the alternatives.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: DJC – on
You have to wonder why the BBC went down that road.  Taco always provides great material for the news media and satirists without any need for creative editing.
All they had to do was make the cross fade obvious so that the edit wasn't concealed, they do that on other reports all the time.

I doubt he will really sue because it opens him to discovery, yet all he cares about is money and the carrot is big in his mind.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
There seems to be a trend developing with WA's all players, it started with the Marsh boys and now I have noticed it with Green, they only ever seem to perform under the threat of losing their spot. Basically at the death Green is bowling and batting again, yet his spot seems assured.

I'd take Webster ahead of that 100% of the time!

Green appears to be motivated by the cash as that irregular output is how they tend to perform, we see a similar lift from some players around contract time.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2026 Fixture
I thought it's a reasonable draw, not too hard and not easy.

It's bizarre the breadth of opinions you get, beat ups perhaps, bias maybe. I've surveyed the feedback from "specialist commentators" this afternoon and we've been labelled everything from strugglers to the Darlings of the AFL, our draw everything from a brutal baptism of fire to a golden ticket.

The commentary is so last year, you could almost be forgive yourself for thinking it was cut and paste!

I think I wrote it back then, and I'll write it again, you probably find 2 or 3 versions of every commentary, that later in the season will selectively be promoted or erased subject to the likely season outcome, and this time next year they'll tell you they told you so!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
The BBC is stupid for misrepresenting the RedTrump speech using creative editing, the likes of the BBC and ABC must always remain apolitical which hasn't been the case in recent years. btw., The BBC didn't broadcast fake, RedTrump said everything they broadcast, they just edited out the bits that RedTrump always includes to guard his own ar5e! He usually starts off with a something like, "This wasn't me....," or "I tried to stop them ....." followed by his big but!

The likes of the BBC can expose fraud, highlight failings, keep politicians to account, without taking a side or misrepresenting someone, it's not that hard. When the media fall into RedTrump like behaviour they put a noose around their own neck, because the traction only applies in one direction, they look like a goose and RedTrump's MAGA crew spit vitriol.

I'll be surprised if the Epstein stuff amounts to much, and to me it's a media wasted effort against RedTrump, they should be going after his financial dealings which really gets in his head. As a psychopath he can't be upset by telling or highlighting how poorly he has treated people, they are meaningless to him, even perhaps his family, he has no conscience or empathy. When he makes a statement about a sad event it's in his own frame of reference, it's a vacuous statement in regards to others. Attacking his wallet hurts him every time, it's all he cares about!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Pre-game the media was banging on about the NSW Shield Super Team, no shield team has ever before hit the field the equal of it apparently! ::)

Well they hit the field alright, face first inside 3 days!

I watched a fair bit of it, it was only after Abbott and Hazelwood pulled the pin after lunch on Day three that the commentators started talking about Boland returning to The Ashes. Then when the NSW Batsmen started to fold, Boland in one short stint was almost unplayable and he could have had 3 or 4 wickets with a bit of luck, and the NSW commentators starting calling for Boland to be withdrawn from the game "just in case he was needed for test duty!"

Luckily for NSW the Vics hardly used Boland after that devastating spell, without even losing another wicket NSW confidence was shot, but unluckily for NSW Elliott and O'Neill didn't give a rats and cleaned them up easily before stumps on Day 3!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
I listened to some interesting philosophy talk the other day that summarised RedTrump's appeal as a manifestation of self harm. Dissaffected individuals attracted to RedTrump's demeaning ways because it hurts society. So in someway supporting RedTrump is striking out at those around them who at least appear happier, unhappy people seeing those around them dragged down into the mire. If they can't be happy then everybody must suffer, even if they also suffer far more than before.

It's a sad state of affairs if the MAGA crew can't see any happiness in the future to the extreme point they have become sadistic.

Perhaps this sort of explains why MAGA appears indifferent to RedTrump's corruption, but I would think that state of affairs cannot last!

They also made a comment regarding RedTrump's recent round of pardoning, they see it as RedTrump wheeling out the old support crew because he feels insecure suggesting things are not so rosy in the inner circle.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Basketball
The NBA has been weak on travel for decades, anybody involved in NBL here will talk to you about it, they accept it but what is more bothersome is that the USA seems to get extra leeway at events like the Olympics. An associate of mine asserts it's more about lazy officiation and the TV broadcast.

I do get a bit of deja vu about this when I see what the AFL is trying to do.