excuse me everyone, i am just a kitten so please forgive me if this is a newbie question to which everyone already knows the answer, but how do you say “streisand effect” in australian?
I saw how lots of people now don't want to go see the tennis. Good thing. I hope he stand on his point and does not subject himself to the jabs. There must be lots of pressure on him. A true hero for the cause !
I hope Germany gets better. I love so much of that country and the people and want to be back. In 2/2020 sang in a crazy crowded concert in Berlin (Berlinale event) and the memory has kept me smiling.
Me too, I'm a brit and I love Germany, and Germans. I once travelled around on my own for 3 weeks whilst reading a pretty hefty book on the social, political and economic history from post war to about 2005 I think it was, so I was thinking quite deep about things and I'd often think how amazed I was that Germany had gone from fascism to being the most peaceful, polite, friendly and down right civilised place I've ever been (and I've travelled a lot around europe former west and east).
I've been keeping an eye on what's been happening over there and am quite shocked by the situation now. I genuinely expected Germany to have been more like Sweden, and with it's clout, set an example to the rest of the world. Merkel was one of the few politicians that I would actually say I respected and then strange words started coming out of her mouth when she normally spoke with reason (as it seemed to me from her words that were reported in the British press at least).
I'd often thought about moving to Berlin and had made tentative plans to do so which never came to fruition, so in a parallel universe I'm there, and have tried to imagine what it would be like. I hope to be back there sometime soon and remember the good times
I think every citizen of every country should demand no association by any politician or influential figure (media-business-entertainment) to have relationship with WEF. But I am afraid it is a working pyramidal scheme so they have no problem whatsoever recruiting.
I was just going to point out this same thing. She is a graduate of Klaus Schwab's Young Global Leaders program (in its first iteration) in 1992. She and the other YGL alums have been at the forefront of all this covid nonsense - Adern, Macron, Merkel, Putin, along with Zuckerberg, Brin, Page, Bezos, Gates, and more.
Germany felt like a dead end in autumn. At that time I visited London for a week and it felt like a free country with normal people - apart from some very odd and woke folks nobody seemed to really buy the narrative. Fell in love with Britain!
Germany is moving now - people are going to the streets and the protests are gaining traction - I hope we will win this one. El Gato is right - those f*****s tried too hard too fast and blew it bigly. It's beyond repair and the only question is if we will manage to walk them back where this thing started or will they manage to keep parts of the newly gained powers.
El Gato, Dr Malone, Dr Mike Yeadon, Steve Kirsch, Alex Berenson, Dr McCullough - not sure if we'd have this hope for winning it without you!
If you are not following the vaccine - NoCovid narrative, you probably will not really recognize Berlin right now. So many people toe the Covid line. The kind of people who go to the Berlinale above all, I am afraid.
I fear that. It was so cool being there. Berlin has such a great reputation for supporting all kinds of music. It was crazy fun for days. I was told by so many to come back in Summer and see what it is like then, alas.
But the Berlinale types are probably just like Hollywood with the Branch Covidian attitude. Though for a while there, so many popular musicians were quietly not getting vaccinated, esp. with what happened to Clapton.
(sang bg in a concert in support of a film that was being premiered at the Berlinale. Am part of a band a popular director has.
I have fond memories of Germany. Spent four summers in Berlin and its neighboring Laende, when I was a teenager, living with a Wessie family. Then I found out the father was big in the "Man Made Climate Change" nonsense, flying all over the world to spout BS about his BS book to a load of charlatans and crooks. Then his son came out as a Champagne Communist and I fell out with him, big time. Now with my own family, we have been back to Germany several times, but in 2020 and 2021 it was DEAD. Streets dead, shops dead, anyone that was out and about was completely vacant and braindead, would not interact at all... slavish interpretation of rules, policing each other like crazy. So sad. But we met a brilliant German family while travelling in France. Travel is as wonderful as it always was! The Free still roam this world.
You're correct about the "successful Berliner". The son is exactly one of those, totally unaware of how the normal people pay for his virtue-signalling ways, while telling them how to live their lives... he's super "progressive".
He was always very patronising to his Ossie peers at the Oberschule. And a sycophant to his fellow Wessies. I know which ones I prefered.
Interesting to hear that. I have always thought that Germany can look a bit grubby at times, and what’s with all the graffiti everywhere (worse over here though!). But everything seems to work and I used to laugh to myself about that famous German efficiency. Is there an east west difference in this way the states have responded or is it pretty much the same all over?
It is not that bad. We have (still) a strong social system, so the poor do not get as desperate as in the US, and we also do not have that much of a drug crisis. And in Berlin we were always strangely proud of some kind of creative sleaze. Maybe like NYC was in the 70ies.
But we have areas now where you do not go, and knife crimes, and even the occasional shooting. These things were unthinkable 15 years ago.
It is still mostly ok, though,and we still have a middle class and money, so you still can have the superior morals of the modern left.
But if you extrapolate the same developments to 2030, it looks dire, at least for the big cities.
Believe it or not, antifa in Germany is engaging in counter-demonstrations against anti-mandate protests. Clown world indeed ... Can't make this shit up
In fairness, the Soviet Union was always opposed to fascism, at least after June 22, 1941. No questions, please, about events before that date. 😈 We have always been at war with Eurasia, or was it East Asia?
I say it slightly differently - the battle is between those on one side who do truly useful things to care for themselves and those closest to them, and those on the other side who tell everyone how to do things. It seems to align with the introvert-extrovert distribution of society.
And also: those who believe everything they are told, and those who are willing to think for themselves.
The depressing thing is to see how many people are just followers of authority, the NPC meme come to life.
And it is even worse when they are not even willing to trust their own experience, but see the world though the lense of what is allowable to perceive.
I agree. If he really wanted to take a stand he would have boycotted and refused to compete in countries like this. Looks like France said they will welcome him with open arms for the French Open regardless of his vax status. But didn’t Macron just say he intentionally wants to make the lives of the unvaccinated as inconvenient as possible? Will Novak still compete in the French Open? We’ll see.
You are not up to date. France just passed a vaccination pass law which includes sporting events. Therefore, as of yesterday, Novak Djokovic cannot play in French Open. They say they will have no exemptions. Now, end of May is a long time away, so a lot can happen until then.
One of the ironies about this is that last year during French Open, there was a match between Nadal and Djokovic. It was an epic match that went long. There was a curfew in France at the time, so the rules stipulated for the match to stop so that people can empty the stadium. The match would then resume. (This happened in other matches before).
But Macron was watching the match and personally allowed the crowd to stay (therefore violating the curfew) and watch the rest of the match.
You are totally right, I wasn’t up to date. I just saw the information you mention. Hard to keep up with it all…my apologies. I will try to make sure I am current before commenting in the future.
I am curious for that too. But Macron better shut up, I don't think he will get a second term if he keeps on spewing stuff like that. Just like old Joe.
"Napoleon" (I mean Macron) is just hoping that his rivals are too weak and divided, so that he wins by default. It might even work out him. I find it quite sad, actually. I used to love France. :-(
yet, it would have been easier (in some ways) for him to just get the clot shots. He made a stand for his health. thats a stand. I think athletes respect their bodies.
Apparently not the footballers and other sportsmen that are dropping dead on the pitch or otherwise sidelined, for sudden-onset congenital heart or other issues that years of athletic training and physical exams somehow missed.
It was an internal politics play and Djokovic was the perfect scapegoat.
Large majority of Australians wanted him deported. Human nature. People have bottled their resentment for the government and lashed out at a guy who was not vaccinated but got a medical exemption to enter the country.
Yes. They're VERY upset about anyone getting "special treatment"; basically "if I have to deal with this crap then he should too, regardless of being rich and famous"
For someone so rich it would be easy to circumvent the vaccine. Just pay a doctor enough to certify it. especially if you are from that part of Europe, rife with corruption.
He deliberately announced that he is unvaccinated.
He never announced he was unvaccinated! He has always been saying that he would not reveal his vaccination status. People speculated, but nobody knew for sure. The only reason we now know is because the transcript of his interview with Australian Immigration was published and when asked whether he was vaccinated, he said, "No, I am not."
Mexico apparently dropped all covid restrictions. South Africa are going there too. UK, Denmark, Spain are moving that way. Eastern European countries are being pressured by the EU to implement restrictions but in fact barely anybody is enforcing them - population is mostly not vaxxed so the measures are very unpopular. The world is moving beyond this madness and the germans will follow - pretty late as usual, but I hope at least with some real german rigor
My husband is German also and has been watching this go down mostly disgusted with his fellow countrymen. He tells me of how when he was in school the atrocities that occurred were drilled into the heads of students so that they might understand how so many of their parents / grandparents ended up either actively promoting or passively accepting policies that in the end led to horrific crimes against humanity. It was most important to understand why the German people were able to what they did because a lack of this insight could result in it happening again. I often wonder if he was one of the few who stayed awake during these history lessons, it is good to know there are more and by the size of the protests I have been seeing video of there are many more!
I hope you are correct in the places dropping restrictions. I saw an interesting short video on why Mexico has dropped all of it: the guy claims that the government is simply too weak to enforce any of it - the real ruling strength in Mexico is the drug cartels. Then if you move to Mexico you are free from government authoritarianism but subject to Drug cartel authoritarianism, they are both horrible. The difference is that the drug cartels will not force you to take their drugs!
I grew up in Germany, and I agree, the monstrosity of the Nazis were drilled into us from early on. (For me it had a big effect, since many of my family were killed by the Nazis).
No it is crunch time: a new totalitarism is trying to take over.
And it turns out: what we learned is that totalitarism is only wrong if it wears funny mustaches. if it comes with the right buzzwords and looks nice, it is perfectly allright.
Killing people because they qre Jews: obviously wrong, teacher says so.
Killing people because they are unvaccinated: seems about right, teacher says so.
It amazes me how few see the wolves in sheep's clothing. In Canada students can graduate high school without ever learning about WWII and Hitler, or Stalin. Unless you select European history for grade 12 you can avoid this knowledge base altogether. Therefore, is it any wonder we are in this situation in Canada? (I opted to take the course - and studied history on my own as well - was reading Victor Hugo's masterpiece at 13 also - but I was a weird kid).
Why should the state (who runs the school) teach you about how awful the state can be?
I understand my education better now as well: we were never taught that the German state was killing its own citizens, but only Hitler.
This is people still have a childish trust in the state.
Many of my family was killed during the times of the Nazis, and my grandparents emigrated, and when it is over they just came back (a bit later, in the 1960ies). I never understood why you come back to a society that wanted to kill you. I still don't understand it fully, but now I see that this is normal behaviour.
It's Polish. Probably generations ago by now, but it might be enough for him to fit in in Poland. Great country in many ways, but somebody like me could never live there (too German). It's not a dig.
I was disappointed the top players didn't support him and threaten to boycott it. Had they all done that, the government would have backed off immediately knowing the tournament was going to flop miserably. That is the only way to stop these fascists. As it is now, the winner should have an asterisk next to his name, knowing the top player was not allowed to play.
Australia returning to its roots as a penal colony. Who would have thought after all these years, fascism would become so popular again. You can thank our education system for resurrecting it.
I completely agree with this!! They only had to threaten this and all would have been forgiven....if I were him I'd never go back to Australia and probably never talk to any of those top players again.
Ha! My daughter is a wanna-be pro ladies golfer. I told her to just hold out another year or two, and most of the competition will be dead or too sickly to play...
Progressive Wokeness AKA Egalitarianism comes to pro sports: Instead of honest competition with its inevitable winners and losers causing competition and emotional scarring, each participant will receive a "Participation" or "Good Citizenship" award in lieu 🤡
The Australian government should publicly plead insanity and voluntarily feed themselves to a hungry group of Great White Sharks while simultaneously singing Waltzing Matilda backwards in Chinese.
I love tennis and it's been illuminating, just ever so slightly, to see the reactions of Nadal (lots of pronouncements on getting vaxxed) and Federer who staged a recent celebrity game with Gates himself.
I've also been shut out of my own tennis club btw.
And I suspect that there's several at the club who don't actually have vaccine passes to play there. Especially the one who checks the vaccine passes, a cynic on the supposed benefits of all vaccines. Who checks the checkers.
Publicly mocking and ridiculing the Australian government would be better. They are so far off course that taking them seriously isn’t worth anyones time or effort. Support the people. Mock the government.
Why? The Austrian Government have done that quite effectively all by themselves. In the first place, they grant a visa to a visiting alien who (I'm assuming) engaged in no deception. Then, for craven political purposes, they renege on this permission. Yes, they no doubt have that right, but they fail to see how the rest of the world views such a petty, arbitrary action. From a health standpoint, the ban is totally irrational: the vaccines do not protect against the disease, in fact the disease is likely endemic nearly everywhere and/or already waltzing like Matilda through their supposedly Fortress Australia populace.
I'm not sure that I want to chisel Novak's face in stone next to Jackie Robinson's on the Mount Rushmore of courageous sports figures. When he was first granted entry to hell/Australia, he should have shown solidarity with the unvaxxed and refused to set foot in that benighted, malevolent nation.
As it stands now, I hope Rodgers and Green Bay run the table. Rodgers is a highly intelligent, irascible, prickly sort who just might stand up for the great unwashed...er, unvaxxed.
Aaron Rodgers has always been my favorite quarterback due to his calm under pressure and just pure talent. We stopped watching the NFL because of the knee thing and their wokeness until Aaron did his no vax stance. We now just watch the Packers and hope against all hope they go to the Super Bowl. Aaron is now a hero among those that stand up to tyranny. Turns out he’s not just a football pro, he’s an intellectual with a critical thought process! Go AARON!!!
I was a huge Packers fan who boycotted the NFL due to Wokeness, like you did. Rodgers has made comments about how shocked he was to have opprobrium directed at him from previously friendly reporters, all due to the sin of being unvaxxed. I am hoping that he would hoist the Lombardi Trophy, then use the platform to call out the unjust treatment against the unvaxxed.
Just last week, in response to some half-wit MVP voter saying he would not vote for Rodgers, #12 punched back saying MVP does not for Most Vaccinated Player. Fingers crossed that he continues hitting back.
Have my yellow bracelet on as I type this. Never cared for the Packers (having grown up in 49er land) nor for Rogers, but he’s on my list of heroes now. I hope he’s able to sue the hell out of the NFL for discrimination.
I know it could/would never happen, but it's still a shame that the entire professional tennis circuit didn't boycott the Australian Open in defense of NOT Novak per se but in defense of free speech and in defense of the free exchange of ideas and in opposition to Soviet-style tyranny and propaganda. I mean, that woulda been somethin'!
(On a separate note, we say "golfer" not "golf player", so why do we say "tennis player" rather than "tenniser"? Or, why *don't* we say "golf player"?)
Australians are drinking the cool aide. Djokovic is better protected against covid than all their vaxxed population who have not had covid. At least that was how science worked in 2019. But what do I know? I get my news from a cat.
It will be somewhat satisfying to see how much Omicron that whole immune-destroyed country experiences after having all their triple-vaxxed international visitors...
Numbers are skyrocketing, and I gleefully think that majority of them are jabbed. Though, chief health minister and gang still recommending the boosters because it will offer protection.
And that’s the reason they deported Djokovic, for fear of inciting anti vax sentiments
I stand corrected. The source I'd seen said boy, but the video didn't show the child directly. And heh, yeah, 80's a summer night. Figure 90 or so on the court in the sun. It is possible it was heat or dehydration, I'm sure that's what they'll say regardless. But there have been a hell of a lot of coincidences recently.
Me, too! It's such a sweet place. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. A nice approach to pointing out the obvious. I'm going to use it with my Covid Cult family. "Excuse me mr. uncle, I am just a little old lady without a college education but how do the itty bitty virus particles get trapped in the woven threads of the cloth masks?"
Fellow wuff... but ignorant ( rough collies hate that!).. of what the difference is betwixt the two? Is it that one is like a "hind foot gut clawing" and the other is more of a " affection aggression" thing?
Excerpt: "But still, like when it comes to a decision like this, it's like, OK, well, where are you going to look in 20 years time? Are you going to look back and be, you know, more upset with yourself that you let your career slip by because of your morals or you let your career slip by because of a decision that maybe you didn't think through enough? Or are you going to look back in 20 years time with how things are potentially going and the way that the state and the authoritarian state seems to be creeping up in Western countries all over the place with how they're implementing these mandates?"
He was one of the main ones to talk Dotcom out of destroying the Key National Government in NZ about 5 years ago. He has his allegiances and they're not the same ones the rest of us have.
What happens to the supposed camaraderie of these tennis players? They boycotted the Chinese when one of their own was silenced? Was that for political theatre? Sad!
Novak was already infected with Covid and thus has natural immunity. He is also one of the fittest people in the planet. He clearly poses no threat to anyone and is at no risk from Covid himself.
Australians went mad over Covid. They descended into a kind of fevered hysteria and deluded themselves into thinking that they could somehow magically eradicate a highly infectious respiratory virus. They couldn’t. Their failure is manifest:
“Australia Faces Deluge Of Omicron Cases And Hospitalizations…”
So they need someone to blame. They need a scapegoat. So it’s Djokavic. They can’t admit they were wrong. They wrecked their country and surrendered their liberty out of irrational fear. And now their fear has turned into irrational anger.
They are rabid and delusional. And they turned on Novak because he never succumbed to their weird, paranoid delusions.
Classic diversionary tactic by the government, and the Australian people fell for it.
Hey, Australia, Djokovic is not a danger to your health. He is not responsible for your failure to advocate for yourselves and your children. You did that.
Novak Djokovic could have lied and gotten fake papers. I pray he holds the line for his own sake. We'll see what the summer brings.
I will choose to think of the freedom loving people there. I still can’t get my head around how they’re being imprisoned and subjugated. God save the anglosphere.
They are making the choice - granted its a hard choice . But here’s the thing. We are each and every one of us (except the poor kids ) responsible for our choices .
They may take my freedom, by force. But I'm not going to willingly hand it over. Disclaimer: such bravado does not prevent it from being pilfered away unnoticed, or mice gnawing it in the middle of the night 😡
Alex Hawke, Immigration minister who cancelled Djokovic's visa, said: "Djokovic’s stance may inspire anti-vaccine sentiment, leading some people to face the pandemic without vaccination, and inspiring anti-vaxxer activists to gather in protests and rallies."
For those who are interested in what has transpired in Melbourne over the past two years, a new documentary, Battleground Melbourne: https://youtu.be/xzfJGC1_yPo
I suppose one of the new and fancy traits of the lefty / Covidian Cult is that there is nothing that these folk can possibly say or do that can be seen as embarrasing or disgraceful or stupid or shameful in their eyes. It seems that the paid up members of the Church of Covidian are having a secret competition to outdoor each other in the race to the bottom. How wonderful it must be to live shame-free; where can I get some of that?
I am a bit off topic here but feel like ranting about Dr Falsie so forgive me here.
“Every time I hear Falsie’s whiny and sniveling voice I cringe and I wouldn’t cry a tear if he disappeared just like Ricardo Montalban in this scene from the Naked Gun movie series
As long as he never goes back and plays an Australian open again - i am 100 percent behind him all the way. And the rest should have up and left too. Can any of the singles or doubles male players think they won this fair and square? When their greatest competition was kicked out?
We could invite him back to Melbourne under some proviso. How about a game of tennis with Dan Andrews, Scott Morrison and Mark MacGowan. Losers get given an 18th Century gun which they have to shoot themselves in the head with. Kind of like a duel.
People wondered what the national socialist australian politicians, health Ghoulru's and basically all round trixaxxed, Fauci Diaper wearing Slave Lemmings of the Covidopalypse were going to do with the Philanthropist Djokovic? Stay and play? Heave and leave?
in regards to a previous gato post re the ronald mcdonald house in canada requiring "vaccinated only" people to stay there, i asked the ronald mcdonald house in the south island in nz if they required vaccine passports (yes, we have them here)--see the communication, with a smiley face no less, below:
As an Australian, i am profoundly angry, upset and ashamed by the unlawful, derogatory, inciting, misinformation, division and open corruption that is being driven by our politicians, government & the main stream media
Australia: Freedom's just another word for no one left to boost
morrison has a terrible evil smile ... as if enjoys torturing people ... this guy is a real nazi
I believe his name is on a suppressed police list of pedophiles.
Good one, Danm!
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Good one...but make it "boot"
*snorts his coffee again* classic reference, you win today's best!
I see what you did there Bobby, made me smile, thank you!
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Wait a minute Janis wasn't the topic! Great line.
I am very grateful to Djokovic. It took guts and determination, and he probably so much money that it hurts even such a successful sportsman.
I hope people will see from this example how ludicrous the Corona dictatorship is, and also take strength for their own lives.
I may have to give up my job and leave my country (Germany) if things continue the way they go, and Djokovic's example strengthen my resolve.
(Also I am not interested in tennis, and I didn't know of him before)
I saw how lots of people now don't want to go see the tennis. Good thing. I hope he stand on his point and does not subject himself to the jabs. There must be lots of pressure on him. A true hero for the cause !
Me too. Never heard of him before but now he gives me hope.
I hope Germany gets better. I love so much of that country and the people and want to be back. In 2/2020 sang in a crazy crowded concert in Berlin (Berlinale event) and the memory has kept me smiling.
Me too, I'm a brit and I love Germany, and Germans. I once travelled around on my own for 3 weeks whilst reading a pretty hefty book on the social, political and economic history from post war to about 2005 I think it was, so I was thinking quite deep about things and I'd often think how amazed I was that Germany had gone from fascism to being the most peaceful, polite, friendly and down right civilised place I've ever been (and I've travelled a lot around europe former west and east).
I've been keeping an eye on what's been happening over there and am quite shocked by the situation now. I genuinely expected Germany to have been more like Sweden, and with it's clout, set an example to the rest of the world. Merkel was one of the few politicians that I would actually say I respected and then strange words started coming out of her mouth when she normally spoke with reason (as it seemed to me from her words that were reported in the British press at least).
I'd often thought about moving to Berlin and had made tentative plans to do so which never came to fruition, so in a parallel universe I'm there, and have tried to imagine what it would be like. I hope to be back there sometime soon and remember the good times
Merkel was an early WEF acolyte. She's a globalist.
I think every citizen of every country should demand no association by any politician or influential figure (media-business-entertainment) to have relationship with WEF. But I am afraid it is a working pyramidal scheme so they have no problem whatsoever recruiting.
Everyone wants to sit at the cool kids table.
Have you seen this?
https://twitter.com/skifflegirl/status/1481682739594076161
That guy has guts! good for him calling out the lies
fabulous. Parliamentarians over the world should follow this example. The lady in the back was laughing but unfortunately it is very serious matter.
Thank you, most satisfying video!
Yes - what a great job calling him out on his bullshit!
We have to stop allowing these politicians to get away with the bold face lies!
Yes, excellent video I watched this morning and showed my husband at lunch! I loved watching the response of the woman in the background too. 😄
Absolutely excellent.
I saw that a while back❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
This is a marvelous idea! Every one of these globalist prigs should be called out and kicked out!
Excellent idea. It is crystal clear that any association with the WEF is a danger signal for us all. We need to promote and encourage that idea, IMO.
I was just going to point out this same thing. She is a graduate of Klaus Schwab's Young Global Leaders program (in its first iteration) in 1992. She and the other YGL alums have been at the forefront of all this covid nonsense - Adern, Macron, Merkel, Putin, along with Zuckerberg, Brin, Page, Bezos, Gates, and more.
Add Trudeau and his henchwoman to that list
Funny you should say that, I remembered him just after I hit the "post" button and actually contemplated editing my comment to include him.
Germany felt like a dead end in autumn. At that time I visited London for a week and it felt like a free country with normal people - apart from some very odd and woke folks nobody seemed to really buy the narrative. Fell in love with Britain!
Germany is moving now - people are going to the streets and the protests are gaining traction - I hope we will win this one. El Gato is right - those f*****s tried too hard too fast and blew it bigly. It's beyond repair and the only question is if we will manage to walk them back where this thing started or will they manage to keep parts of the newly gained powers.
El Gato, Dr Malone, Dr Mike Yeadon, Steve Kirsch, Alex Berenson, Dr McCullough - not sure if we'd have this hope for winning it without you!
The only question??? I have lots more. When is Nuremberg 2.0 starting and who is invited?
If there is a Nuremberg 2 it will be to convict the unjabbed, just like the first nuremberg.
Lets hope Germany comes back. So many happy memories for me too and countless others who are now locked out and locked in.
Kind of like the wall. Was it to keep them out or to keep them in?
Neither Ossies nor Wessies will ever know the answer, now.
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What did you sing?
If you are not following the vaccine - NoCovid narrative, you probably will not really recognize Berlin right now. So many people toe the Covid line. The kind of people who go to the Berlinale above all, I am afraid.
I fear that. It was so cool being there. Berlin has such a great reputation for supporting all kinds of music. It was crazy fun for days. I was told by so many to come back in Summer and see what it is like then, alas.
But the Berlinale types are probably just like Hollywood with the Branch Covidian attitude. Though for a while there, so many popular musicians were quietly not getting vaccinated, esp. with what happened to Clapton.
(sang bg in a concert in support of a film that was being premiered at the Berlinale. Am part of a band a popular director has.
Rockaway Beach, Runaway, Bad Lieutenant among others.
thank you for updating me. sad.
I had friends in Germany, but one passed and the other now has grandchildren. Have real good memories of Bavaria.
I have fond memories of Germany. Spent four summers in Berlin and its neighboring Laende, when I was a teenager, living with a Wessie family. Then I found out the father was big in the "Man Made Climate Change" nonsense, flying all over the world to spout BS about his BS book to a load of charlatans and crooks. Then his son came out as a Champagne Communist and I fell out with him, big time. Now with my own family, we have been back to Germany several times, but in 2020 and 2021 it was DEAD. Streets dead, shops dead, anyone that was out and about was completely vacant and braindead, would not interact at all... slavish interpretation of rules, policing each other like crazy. So sad. But we met a brilliant German family while travelling in France. Travel is as wonderful as it always was! The Free still roam this world.
Berlin especially has become extremely progressive.
It always has been corrupt, and I hear it is the only capital of any country which has a net negative on GDP (the other parts of Germany pay for it).
It gets more and more dilapidated, less things work. By the end of the decade it will look like the former East Germany.
From what I heard of San Francisco, Berlin is quite similar, but minus the tech companies or entrepreneurs.
A successful Berliner works for the state bureaucracy.
You're correct about the "successful Berliner". The son is exactly one of those, totally unaware of how the normal people pay for his virtue-signalling ways, while telling them how to live their lives... he's super "progressive".
He was always very patronising to his Ossie peers at the Oberschule. And a sycophant to his fellow Wessies. I know which ones I prefered.
Sad
Interesting to hear that. I have always thought that Germany can look a bit grubby at times, and what’s with all the graffiti everywhere (worse over here though!). But everything seems to work and I used to laugh to myself about that famous German efficiency. Is there an east west difference in this way the states have responded or is it pretty much the same all over?
not a recipe for a thriving city. Hopefully Berlin doesn't have human excrement all over the street like San Fran.
It is not that bad. We have (still) a strong social system, so the poor do not get as desperate as in the US, and we also do not have that much of a drug crisis. And in Berlin we were always strangely proud of some kind of creative sleaze. Maybe like NYC was in the 70ies.
But we have areas now where you do not go, and knife crimes, and even the occasional shooting. These things were unthinkable 15 years ago.
It is still mostly ok, though,and we still have a middle class and money, so you still can have the superior morals of the modern left.
But if you extrapolate the same developments to 2030, it looks dire, at least for the big cities.
I love the way you boiled that all down into a few sentences. I feel I have a good picture.
I will def go back. Hope my natural status doesn't delay that until 2030.
I want to roam. I'm unjabbed. My natural immunity won't get me overseas.
Where are Antifa in the face of this fascism ? Safely under their duvets in mummy's basement.
Believe it or not, antifa in Germany is engaging in counter-demonstrations against anti-mandate protests. Clown world indeed ... Can't make this shit up
Left and Right have no meaning anymore (if they ever had).
The battle is between the state and the citizens; between collectivists and individual liberty; ideology and reality.
Antifa was founded by supporters of the Soviet Union, thus they are always on the side of the collectivists.
In fairness, the Soviet Union was always opposed to fascism, at least after June 22, 1941. No questions, please, about events before that date. 😈 We have always been at war with Eurasia, or was it East Asia?
This.
I say it slightly differently - the battle is between those on one side who do truly useful things to care for themselves and those closest to them, and those on the other side who tell everyone how to do things. It seems to align with the introvert-extrovert distribution of society.
And also: those who believe everything they are told, and those who are willing to think for themselves.
The depressing thing is to see how many people are just followers of authority, the NPC meme come to life.
And it is even worse when they are not even willing to trust their own experience, but see the world though the lense of what is allowable to perceive.
Yeah. They had violent reactions to anti-mask protests in US. They are truly fascists
As they work for the establishment and undoubtedly get paid for it this is not clown world but exactly as expected.
Burning down Portland and Seattle.
You think he went through this because he wanted to make a stand? No, he wanted to win Australian Open tennis tournament and just wanted to play.
I agree. If he really wanted to take a stand he would have boycotted and refused to compete in countries like this. Looks like France said they will welcome him with open arms for the French Open regardless of his vax status. But didn’t Macron just say he intentionally wants to make the lives of the unvaccinated as inconvenient as possible? Will Novak still compete in the French Open? We’ll see.
You are not up to date. France just passed a vaccination pass law which includes sporting events. Therefore, as of yesterday, Novak Djokovic cannot play in French Open. They say they will have no exemptions. Now, end of May is a long time away, so a lot can happen until then.
One of the ironies about this is that last year during French Open, there was a match between Nadal and Djokovic. It was an epic match that went long. There was a curfew in France at the time, so the rules stipulated for the match to stop so that people can empty the stadium. The match would then resume. (This happened in other matches before).
But Macron was watching the match and personally allowed the crowd to stay (therefore violating the curfew) and watch the rest of the match.
rules for thee but not for me! who won btw?
Last year? Djokovic beat Nadal (the favorite, French Open king) in the semifinal and then won the final as well.
So, he's totally a big deal. cool.
Australia and France don't deserve his 21st Grand Slam Win.
Yeah, but he can't get into the US either at the moment, so US Open is also questionable. Non-citizens need to be vaccinated to get into the US.
As if natural immunity doesn’t exist.
You are totally right, I wasn’t up to date. I just saw the information you mention. Hard to keep up with it all…my apologies. I will try to make sure I am current before commenting in the future.
It's hard to keep track -- I follow tennis so knew about the new rules. Who know what will be tomorrow.
I am curious for that too. But Macron better shut up, I don't think he will get a second term if he keeps on spewing stuff like that. Just like old Joe.
"Napoleon" (I mean Macron) is just hoping that his rivals are too weak and divided, so that he wins by default. It might even work out him. I find it quite sad, actually. I used to love France. :-(
He could have lied and gotten fake papers. I suspect many elite athletes have.
yes. the ones not collapsing during games/matches
yet, it would have been easier (in some ways) for him to just get the clot shots. He made a stand for his health. thats a stand. I think athletes respect their bodies.
For sure -- Djokovic is especially notorious about his diet, etc.
Is he? Must have been a disaster being in detention. Prison food sux, I'm sure.
Apparently he was quite unsatisfied with the quality of the food in his quarantine hotel and demanded a private chef, but was denied: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/novak-djokovic-demands-hotel-melbourne-25891428
I don't blame him. Dude no doubt spent year refining his diet and keeping to an exercise routine, shows up and gets caged and fed maggots. Yikes!
Apparently not the footballers and other sportsmen that are dropping dead on the pitch or otherwise sidelined, for sudden-onset congenital heart or other issues that years of athletic training and physical exams somehow missed.
It’s an obvious problem that all of our govts are hoping the sheeple don’t notice
Regardless of what he "wanted", which one can only speculate, he certainly scored a point.
No, he didn't, but that's the outcome. Australia just shot themselves in the foot.
It was an internal politics play and Djokovic was the perfect scapegoat.
Large majority of Australians wanted him deported. Human nature. People have bottled their resentment for the government and lashed out at a guy who was not vaccinated but got a medical exemption to enter the country.
Yes. They're VERY upset about anyone getting "special treatment"; basically "if I have to deal with this crap then he should too, regardless of being rich and famous"
For someone so rich it would be easy to circumvent the vaccine. Just pay a doctor enough to certify it. especially if you are from that part of Europe, rife with corruption.
He deliberately announced that he is unvaccinated.
He never announced he was unvaccinated! He has always been saying that he would not reveal his vaccination status. People speculated, but nobody knew for sure. The only reason we now know is because the transcript of his interview with Australian Immigration was published and when asked whether he was vaccinated, he said, "No, I am not."
I have family there thinking the same ......but where to go?
Mexico apparently dropped all covid restrictions. South Africa are going there too. UK, Denmark, Spain are moving that way. Eastern European countries are being pressured by the EU to implement restrictions but in fact barely anybody is enforcing them - population is mostly not vaxxed so the measures are very unpopular. The world is moving beyond this madness and the germans will follow - pretty late as usual, but I hope at least with some real german rigor
My husband is German also and has been watching this go down mostly disgusted with his fellow countrymen. He tells me of how when he was in school the atrocities that occurred were drilled into the heads of students so that they might understand how so many of their parents / grandparents ended up either actively promoting or passively accepting policies that in the end led to horrific crimes against humanity. It was most important to understand why the German people were able to what they did because a lack of this insight could result in it happening again. I often wonder if he was one of the few who stayed awake during these history lessons, it is good to know there are more and by the size of the protests I have been seeing video of there are many more!
I hope you are correct in the places dropping restrictions. I saw an interesting short video on why Mexico has dropped all of it: the guy claims that the government is simply too weak to enforce any of it - the real ruling strength in Mexico is the drug cartels. Then if you move to Mexico you are free from government authoritarianism but subject to Drug cartel authoritarianism, they are both horrible. The difference is that the drug cartels will not force you to take their drugs!
I grew up in Germany, and I agree, the monstrosity of the Nazis were drilled into us from early on. (For me it had a big effect, since many of my family were killed by the Nazis).
No it is crunch time: a new totalitarism is trying to take over.
And it turns out: what we learned is that totalitarism is only wrong if it wears funny mustaches. if it comes with the right buzzwords and looks nice, it is perfectly allright.
Killing people because they qre Jews: obviously wrong, teacher says so.
Killing people because they are unvaccinated: seems about right, teacher says so.
It amazes me how few see the wolves in sheep's clothing. In Canada students can graduate high school without ever learning about WWII and Hitler, or Stalin. Unless you select European history for grade 12 you can avoid this knowledge base altogether. Therefore, is it any wonder we are in this situation in Canada? (I opted to take the course - and studied history on my own as well - was reading Victor Hugo's masterpiece at 13 also - but I was a weird kid).
Why should the state (who runs the school) teach you about how awful the state can be?
I understand my education better now as well: we were never taught that the German state was killing its own citizens, but only Hitler.
This is people still have a childish trust in the state.
Many of my family was killed during the times of the Nazis, and my grandparents emigrated, and when it is over they just came back (a bit later, in the 1960ies). I never understood why you come back to a society that wanted to kill you. I still don't understand it fully, but now I see that this is normal behaviour.
Saw this on Twitter. Not good. In fact, so bad I hope it is not true.
https://twitter.com/johnpecco1/status/1483179850148073474
It is apparently from 2020 - old news - she had health issues due to the bush fires is what the story was.
With a name like that you might enjoy Poland!
Andreas' name is pretty cool imho
It's Polish. Probably generations ago by now, but it might be enough for him to fit in in Poland. Great country in many ways, but somebody like me could never live there (too German). It's not a dig.
You know that Berlin is a slavic name right?
First person to win the Australian Open without playing in the Australian Open.
Australian Closed
THAT is as good as Dave W's comment! Two winners!
All of a sudden I want to see Novak play LOL
THAT!
I was disappointed the top players didn't support him and threaten to boycott it. Had they all done that, the government would have backed off immediately knowing the tournament was going to flop miserably. That is the only way to stop these fascists. As it is now, the winner should have an asterisk next to his name, knowing the top player was not allowed to play.
Even Hitler was less a Nazi, eg., 1936 Berlin Olympics. Congratulations Aussies.
Australia returning to its roots as a penal colony. Who would have thought after all these years, fascism would become so popular again. You can thank our education system for resurrecting it.
Yeah he let Jews and Blacks participate! He even gave Jesse Owens a maskless tour of the Chancellery!
When Owen got home he was snubbed by Roosevelt who feared losing votes by endorsing a black man.
Clown world.
Jesse Owens was accorded more repsect than Novax.
Even by der Furher!
I completely agree with this!! They only had to threaten this and all would have been forgiven....if I were him I'd never go back to Australia and probably never talk to any of those top players again.
and I hope he beats them all another 10 times. Well they might not live that long, all being jabbed
Ha! My daughter is a wanna-be pro ladies golfer. I told her to just hold out another year or two, and most of the competition will be dead or too sickly to play...
a sure win !
Will any of them keel over mid event? In the finals? Exiting the field on a stretcher is kind of becoming a ritual these days...
tempting to hope for that but then I will be evil, too
don't we all have a bit of that ? I was just thinking the same...
Not hoping for it, just won't be surprised.
No accusation meant. Just was going through what I think a lot of people are...
Aw, damn. First collapse at AO: a ball kid. 😟
https://twitter.com/TheJuggernaut88/status/1483018659732029440
I admit, I'm secretly hoping they do...
Shhhh...I won't tell anyone if you don't! 😉
Without him playing they now have a chance to win.
I was thinking that this am... Were they worried about cancel culture. Will the "winner" feel it was legitimate?
It will always be a 'winner without the real winner present' and a minor accomplishment
Progressive Wokeness AKA Egalitarianism comes to pro sports: Instead of honest competition with its inevitable winners and losers causing competition and emotional scarring, each participant will receive a "Participation" or "Good Citizenship" award in lieu 🤡
They better pay tribute, that's all I'm going to say. And then organize the boycott of the French Open.
The Australian government should publicly plead insanity and voluntarily feed themselves to a hungry group of Great White Sharks while simultaneously singing Waltzing Matilda backwards in Chinese.
Salt water crocodiles. Not sharks. Salt water crocodiles!
These comments always make my day
Oh, laughter is the best medicine! Thank you.
Thank you!! Lolol
I've always loathed tennis. But I think I just found my new sports hero.
I love tennis and it's been illuminating, just ever so slightly, to see the reactions of Nadal (lots of pronouncements on getting vaxxed) and Federer who staged a recent celebrity game with Gates himself.
And Novak who's shining a light.
anyone who is friends with Gates gets a black dot from me
Nadal is friends with Gates?
If he is, he probably didn't get the real shot.
It's Federer. Federer played an exhibition match with Gates recently.
I've also been shut out of my own tennis club btw.
And I suspect that there's several at the club who don't actually have vaccine passes to play there. Especially the one who checks the vaccine passes, a cynic on the supposed benefits of all vaccines. Who checks the checkers.
Let's all work to become Icons of Free Choice by standing firm to our convictions. Be like Novak!
Publicly mocking and ridiculing the Australian government would be better. They are so far off course that taking them seriously isn’t worth anyones time or effort. Support the people. Mock the government.
Do both!
This! they are not so divergent that both thoughts cannot be entertained and acted upon!
Why? The Austrian Government have done that quite effectively all by themselves. In the first place, they grant a visa to a visiting alien who (I'm assuming) engaged in no deception. Then, for craven political purposes, they renege on this permission. Yes, they no doubt have that right, but they fail to see how the rest of the world views such a petty, arbitrary action. From a health standpoint, the ban is totally irrational: the vaccines do not protect against the disease, in fact the disease is likely endemic nearly everywhere and/or already waltzing like Matilda through their supposedly Fortress Australia populace.
I'm not sure that I want to chisel Novak's face in stone next to Jackie Robinson's on the Mount Rushmore of courageous sports figures. When he was first granted entry to hell/Australia, he should have shown solidarity with the unvaxxed and refused to set foot in that benighted, malevolent nation.
As it stands now, I hope Rodgers and Green Bay run the table. Rodgers is a highly intelligent, irascible, prickly sort who just might stand up for the great unwashed...er, unvaxxed.
Aaron Rodgers has always been my favorite quarterback due to his calm under pressure and just pure talent. We stopped watching the NFL because of the knee thing and their wokeness until Aaron did his no vax stance. We now just watch the Packers and hope against all hope they go to the Super Bowl. Aaron is now a hero among those that stand up to tyranny. Turns out he’s not just a football pro, he’s an intellectual with a critical thought process! Go AARON!!!
I was a huge Packers fan who boycotted the NFL due to Wokeness, like you did. Rodgers has made comments about how shocked he was to have opprobrium directed at him from previously friendly reporters, all due to the sin of being unvaxxed. I am hoping that he would hoist the Lombardi Trophy, then use the platform to call out the unjust treatment against the unvaxxed.
Just last week, in response to some half-wit MVP voter saying he would not vote for Rodgers, #12 punched back saying MVP does not for Most Vaccinated Player. Fingers crossed that he continues hitting back.
I loved that he said that! He’s got a spine and I hope he uses all of this attention he’s getting to hit back harder.
Have my yellow bracelet on as I type this. Never cared for the Packers (having grown up in 49er land) nor for Rogers, but he’s on my list of heroes now. I hope he’s able to sue the hell out of the NFL for discrimination.
Hope NFL allows Rodgers to appear.
Props to Canadian tennis player Vasek Pospisil, too, for speaking out in defence of Novak Djokovic.
And American tennis player Tennys (yes, really!) Sandgren, per Glenn Greenwald:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/note-to-readers-live-rumble-show?r=b83le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I know it could/would never happen, but it's still a shame that the entire professional tennis circuit didn't boycott the Australian Open in defense of NOT Novak per se but in defense of free speech and in defense of the free exchange of ideas and in opposition to Soviet-style tyranny and propaganda. I mean, that woulda been somethin'!
(On a separate note, we say "golfer" not "golf player", so why do we say "tennis player" rather than "tenniser"? Or, why *don't* we say "golf player"?)
Sorry, Simulation, I shoulda looked more closely before commenting and duplicating your post.
In related news, ticket refunds are now outpacing sales.
I am not making this up.
Should we call it the Australian Closed?
Susan, above, already did! Great minds, and all?!
I hope that that continues at breakneck speed.
Yay!
Australians are drinking the cool aide. Djokovic is better protected against covid than all their vaxxed population who have not had covid. At least that was how science worked in 2019. But what do I know? I get my news from a cat.
It will be somewhat satisfying to see how much Omicron that whole immune-destroyed country experiences after having all their triple-vaxxed international visitors...
Numbers are skyrocketing, and I gleefully think that majority of them are jabbed. Though, chief health minister and gang still recommending the boosters because it will offer protection.
And that’s the reason they deported Djokovic, for fear of inciting anti vax sentiments
Interesting point! I hear the spread is already really ramped up.
😏
Science in 2019 was wrong as well. We need to go back to about 1860 in medicine and re-choose. This time we go down the terrain route.
A ball-boy collapsed on the court. Just another formerly healthy child, purely coincidental. Nothing to be alarmed about.
A ball-boy? Oh, that sounds rather peasanty. Nothing elites or proper sorts should concern themselves about.
What?!?!??
Ball girl. And it's not hot yet. It was cloudy and 80 degrees. (I live in the South, we don't consider 80 hot.)
I stand corrected. The source I'd seen said boy, but the video didn't show the child directly. And heh, yeah, 80's a summer night. Figure 90 or so on the court in the sun. It is possible it was heat or dehydration, I'm sure that's what they'll say regardless. But there have been a hell of a lot of coincidences recently.
😧
They say ball-kid nowadays - aren't they progressive and civilised
That's a far worse disease. And seemingly untreatable.
I love the kitten corner.
Me, too! It's such a sweet place. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. A nice approach to pointing out the obvious. I'm going to use it with my Covid Cult family. "Excuse me mr. uncle, I am just a little old lady without a college education but how do the itty bitty virus particles get trapped in the woven threads of the cloth masks?"
Hah! I was trying to figure out versus, got it .. & it instantly, magically💥 turned to virus. Aaah, the power of my mind! 😂😂😂
I always proofread, oooopsie missed it. But what luck! They have added an edit feature, yay. That darn Coronaversus 🤔
I’m allergic to cats but this gato for some reason makes me feel awesome. :)
This gato gets rid of my cat allergies. Love gatito bueno!
Fellow wuff... but ignorant ( rough collies hate that!).. of what the difference is betwixt the two? Is it that one is like a "hind foot gut clawing" and the other is more of a " affection aggression" thing?
We wouldn't want that now! That would be horrible!
Glen Greenwald did an awesome interview about this:
https://rumble.com/vseldr-interview-with-tennis-player-tennys-sandgren-on-vaccine-mandates-djokovics-.html
Excerpt: "But still, like when it comes to a decision like this, it's like, OK, well, where are you going to look in 20 years time? Are you going to look back and be, you know, more upset with yourself that you let your career slip by because of your morals or you let your career slip by because of a decision that maybe you didn't think through enough? Or are you going to look back in 20 years time with how things are potentially going and the way that the state and the authoritarian state seems to be creeping up in Western countries all over the place with how they're implementing these mandates?"
I can't stand Greenwald. He's pretending.
He was one of the main ones to talk Dotcom out of destroying the Key National Government in NZ about 5 years ago. He has his allegiances and they're not the same ones the rest of us have.
I just updated the Wikipedia page for Streisand Effect to include our buddy Novak. Any wagers for how long it stays up?
I’m surprised you bothered. 😐 lol
Lol
Wow, they are well and truly fucked!
What happens to the supposed camaraderie of these tennis players? They boycotted the Chinese when one of their own was silenced? Was that for political theatre? Sad!
That was yesterday's intersectional diagram.
Didn’t 4 players just quit during their games due to breathing difficulties yesterday?
Really?
https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/three-players-drop-out-of-australian-open-with-chest-issues-while-djokovic-awaits-his-fate/
Everyone should know these things. You hear nothing about it on American MSM
Incredible.
Wow, I had not heard anything about that!
thank you
Novak was already infected with Covid and thus has natural immunity. He is also one of the fittest people in the planet. He clearly poses no threat to anyone and is at no risk from Covid himself.
Australians went mad over Covid. They descended into a kind of fevered hysteria and deluded themselves into thinking that they could somehow magically eradicate a highly infectious respiratory virus. They couldn’t. Their failure is manifest:
“Australia Faces Deluge Of Omicron Cases And Hospitalizations…”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/01/04/australia-faces-deluge-of-omicron-cases-and-hospitalizations-as-it-sticks-to-living-with-covid-strategy/amp/
So they need someone to blame. They need a scapegoat. So it’s Djokavic. They can’t admit they were wrong. They wrecked their country and surrendered their liberty out of irrational fear. And now their fear has turned into irrational anger.
They are rabid and delusional. And they turned on Novak because he never succumbed to their weird, paranoid delusions.
Australia should change its motto from "G'Day, mate" to "G'Way, mate"
The Australian nOpe
For me Djokovic is currently one of the few people with character. Regarding his way to handle this awful Covid politics, he is my hero.
Classic diversionary tactic by the government, and the Australian people fell for it.
Hey, Australia, Djokovic is not a danger to your health. He is not responsible for your failure to advocate for yourselves and your children. You did that.
Novak Djokovic could have lied and gotten fake papers. I pray he holds the line for his own sake. We'll see what the summer brings.
It’s not like they are setting daily infection records despite almost 99% vaccination.
Wow, Kitten! Your kittengarten teachers are on the ball! I had to look up “Streisand Effect”, and I got all the way through a four year degree!
Granted, I live as an almost hermit these days…
But you’d say it “Stroyznd Iffict” I think.
And, yeah. Thet bloke’s an oycon feh libbedy now. Noice gaoin, yeh bloody toirant dingos.
How long til that delightful Aussie accent becomes associated with tyranny as things like this actually get covered in mainstream media?
I will choose to think of the freedom loving people there. I still can’t get my head around how they’re being imprisoned and subjugated. God save the anglosphere.
They are making the choice - granted its a hard choice . But here’s the thing. We are each and every one of us (except the poor kids ) responsible for our choices .
Stand up and say NO
They may take my freedom, by force. But I'm not going to willingly hand it over. Disclaimer: such bravado does not prevent it from being pilfered away unnoticed, or mice gnawing it in the middle of the night 😡
I'm hoping the freedom gets taken back
You and me both.
Djokovic Effect = Streisand Effect + Distortion of Reality by institutions/countries to save face
Heaven forbid! 🤦🏻♀️ What will it take for the citizens of Australia to wake up?!
Kittens are adorable fast and enthusiastic balls of fur with razor blades on their toes.
We wuffs call them as we see them : murder mittens
ha! so apt. but, what's a wuff?
a puppy maybe?
I wish I were a puppy! Now I'm happy to watch h the property, the republic, and occasionally get to lay in the sun. Wuff! ;)
( that picture is my hearts content, my rough collie mix. She's 14. )
Come a gutser, mate! Buckley’s chance it’ll cark it.
Translation? Please.
come a gutser = a bad mistake
Buckley’s chance = no chance
cark it = to die
Thank you.🤪
MAA, you continue to amaze me. You got skillz :-)
On an entirely different note, have you read this essay: https://meredithmiller.substack.com/p/exiting-the-mass-formation-and-abusive
I think she's on to something, and I think I agree with her that this abuse is not over yet.
Haha, thank you, Dana! And I’m not familiar with that Stack (oh no, another one to tempt me 😆), but that article looks great! Thanks for sharing.
Kangaroo court:1 Tennis court:0
😆
Remember when "Silence = Violence"? Like every diktat from the Left, the answer is "it depends".
Alex Hawke, Immigration minister who cancelled Djokovic's visa, said: "Djokovic’s stance may inspire anti-vaccine sentiment, leading some people to face the pandemic without vaccination, and inspiring anti-vaxxer activists to gather in protests and rallies."
One can only hope.
Aussie Land has gone outer limits, the twilight zone! Just do not know what else to say.
Let's hope this disgusting deportation backfires. Have there been any protests at the Australian Open?
The Australian what?
(snort)
Already forgotten the AO.
If I were him I’d leave quickly and publicly rip the entire government a new one for being so incredibly stupid.
Go, Novax! I'd join a go fund me to finance a 'pro-choice' tennis tournament. maybe in Mexico or South Africa :)
Must not be bound to a location actually - always going to a place that honours the inalienable human rights.
For those who are interested in what has transpired in Melbourne over the past two years, a new documentary, Battleground Melbourne: https://youtu.be/xzfJGC1_yPo
🤡🌎
indeed
Hero.
I suppose one of the new and fancy traits of the lefty / Covidian Cult is that there is nothing that these folk can possibly say or do that can be seen as embarrasing or disgraceful or stupid or shameful in their eyes. It seems that the paid up members of the Church of Covidian are having a secret competition to outdoor each other in the race to the bottom. How wonderful it must be to live shame-free; where can I get some of that?
sociopaths have that. So successful because theirs is a conscience free life.
We need more athletes like him!!!
we need more gatitos too
I am a bit off topic here but feel like ranting about Dr Falsie so forgive me here.
“Every time I hear Falsie’s whiny and sniveling voice I cringe and I wouldn’t cry a tear if he disappeared just like Ricardo Montalban in this scene from the Naked Gun movie series
https://youtu.be/jQts7E1FvrE
My problem now is I cannot get the song “Louie Louie” out of my mind.
As long as he never goes back and plays an Australian open again - i am 100 percent behind him all the way. And the rest should have up and left too. Can any of the singles or doubles male players think they won this fair and square? When their greatest competition was kicked out?
We could invite him back to Melbourne under some proviso. How about a game of tennis with Dan Andrews, Scott Morrison and Mark MacGowan. Losers get given an 18th Century gun which they have to shoot themselves in the head with. Kind of like a duel.
It seems clear that Novak won the Australian Open despite being deported.
Djokovic, the proud winner of the 2022 Australian Open!
We should be able to ban criminals from getting tourist visas to the US from the UK. No brainer
Heart of a champion and let's hope he overcomes this adverse event. His tennis strokes should be all the better for it.
and he won't have a stroke on the court. (couldn't resist)
Fascism, or rather faucixm hs triumphedf Down Under
People wondered what the national socialist australian politicians, health Ghoulru's and basically all round trixaxxed, Fauci Diaper wearing Slave Lemmings of the Covidopalypse were going to do with the Philanthropist Djokovic? Stay and play? Heave and leave?
What would Mao/Stalin/Hitler etc, do?
let's hope it has the Streisand effect!
in regards to a previous gato post re the ronald mcdonald house in canada requiring "vaccinated only" people to stay there, i asked the ronald mcdonald house in the south island in nz if they required vaccine passports (yes, we have them here)--see the communication, with a smiley face no less, below:
Hi Lorraine,
Thank you so much!
Yes we do 😊
Warm Regards,
Tamara
From: geraldine@rmhsi.org.nz <geraldine@rmhsi.org.nz>
Sent: Sunday, 16 January 2022 9:49 PM
To: Communications <communications@rmhsi.org.nz>
Subject: New submission from Contact us
Name
Lorraine Fullmer
First, let me say I admire the work you do. I'm wondering if you require a vaccine [passport for families staying there.
No surprise there.
As an Australian, i am profoundly angry, upset and ashamed by the unlawful, derogatory, inciting, misinformation, division and open corruption that is being driven by our politicians, government & the main stream media