There's a glorious world where Freo play wharfie time because they think they're home, and Brisbane mercilessly mow them down. Thus killing wharfie time and maybe even the Fremantle football club for good.

Since records began in 1959, Australian day to day government spending as a proportion of GDP has only ever been larger in one single quarter than it is now. The absolute height of the government response to the pandemic in Q2 2020 Emergency level stimulus without an emergency

Coming up to 1 year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated and far right wing is getting thrown about a lot more, feels like the definition now includes believe in biology, want a firm immigration policy and cheap energy.

This is the elitist, condescending and arrogant view that is a major part of the problem. That lack of self awareness by the government and people like yourself will only make it worse, they’re the problem, not us. What about answering the simple question has this government made people’s lives easier or harder? Rather than who let the dumb peasant bogan vote, it stinks of 17th century British aristocracy!

Milan Murdock might just be the best Milan to grace the field at Optus Stadium this year!

Labour’s War on Young Producers. The budget is built on a familiar political formula: bribe the present, bill the future, and call the invoice “fairness.” Chalmers has produced a tax system that punishes the productive young to subsidise a state too bloated to restrain itself. The numbers alone are an indictment. Treasury forecasts productivity growth collapsing to 1 per cent next year, then falling even lower after that. Real wage growth for young Australians is expected to crawl along between a quarter and three-quarters of 1 per cent annually. That is not prosperity. It is accelerating decline as inflation and trillion dollar debts rips into people income and wealth. Yet Labor still wants more. Bracket creep will quietly push workers’ tax burdens higher, with income tax swallowing nearly half of wage increases over the next decade. Young Australians already locked out of housing, crushed by inflated university costs, and handed more than a trillion dollars in public debt are now expected to finance the appetites of a government incapable of discipline. This is the moral obscenity at the centre of modern Labor politics: the people who produce the wealth are treated as livestock for the state. Chalmers talks endlessly about “fairness” while defending a system that rewards speculation over production, dependency over enterprise, and bureaucracy over achievement. Productive effort is taxed heavily; asset inflation is protected carefully. The worker building a career is squeezed while governments shower advantages on political clients, protected industries, and property speculation. And beneath the slogans sits the real premise: young Australians do not own the product of their labour. The state does. Labor merely decides how much they are permitted to keep. A serious government would slash the tax burden on productive work, end bracket creep, reward investment, and treat economic growth as something created by free individuals, not dispensed by Treasury priests. Prosperity comes from production, risk, innovation, and voluntary exchange — not from governments recycling diminishing wealth through ever-larger bureaucracies. But Labor cannot reform the system because the system is the point. Dependency is not a policy failure. It is the electoral model. So the country drifts deeper into the same dead arrangement: declining productivity, shrinking incentives, rising taxes, permanent debt, and young workers told to feel grateful for their own exploitation. Australia does not have a revenue problem. It has a government problem.

How come no one has ever pushed to boycott Victoria’s Secret @VictoriasSecret yet there is always a big push to boycott @elonmusk and @Tesla?

You Europeans may not understand the game Trump is playing right now, but it is going to be favorable if he actually gets his way - especially for Europeans. You’re hooked on the old post-WWII setup where America foots the bill for security while lecturing from the sidelines. Steinmeier accuses the US of a “breakdown of values” which is really rich given the EU’s widespread censorship campaigns, the cucking of all your societies thanks to infinity immigration, and the chronic underfunding of defense while your bloated welfare states and anti-business stances drive away prosperity and innovation. And on Maduro, I don’t think preventing a failed state from becoming a permanent narco-hub and platform for the Russia-China-Iran axis is “destroying the world order.” It’s in fact the contrary. It’s using American power and leadership to stabilize regions and cut off bad actors. In other words, he’s pressing reset on a broken world order that was benefitting the “den of robbers.”

Time is a significant element in test match cricket that England have disregarded. #ashes

A left arm quick called Mitch and a good moustache! We know how this goes! 5-0! #ashes

Usman Khawaja is no longer the Australian opener and is no longer ‘The People’s Champ’! He’s just ‘champ’ now! #ashes

It's obvious at this point

Fate loves irony, but hates hypocrisy

Last night I was lucky enough to have a demo of @TeslaAUNZ FSD supervised down under by @gbhall. The technology is unbelievable, it’s witchcraft! It felt so human like and smooth, not too cautious and safe. Genuinely in awe! Thanks Gareth and please Tesla give me my update 🙏

Tesla FSD right on my street! I saw this being filmed. My wife even cuts in front in her model Y right at the start. Can’t wait for FSD on my Model 3P @TeslaAUNZ

(Warning: long rant) My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues. Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly. I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own. Here are the facts: Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over. Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept. Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it. These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements. Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this: These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not. These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened. When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice. They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit. And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety. When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.” They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep. And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes. When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person. And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them. For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit. In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations. In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism. > “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.) > “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.) > “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?) > “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.) In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection. > “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.) > “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.) All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells. You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it. Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do. If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

Causes that are bigger than the individual. Family. Community. Country. The pursuit of God. If you have these things in your life, are proud of them and serve then chances are you are not the problem and pretending to be a victim. Go out and serve something bigger than yourself!

Why is it that people will use their, or better yet other’s, lack of comprehension, or the want to deliberately misinterpret statements to prove someone is racist, misogynistic, islamophobic or transphobic? It is disingenuous and dangerous, yet it is something that has become normal.