Carl Menze

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@CampbellNewman Typical leftist bullshit. They want you to be dependant on the state. They are trying everything to discourage family’s looking each other. If the succeed with their latest tax grabs you can bet your life an inheritance tax will be next.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

It’s amazing how many people on this platform have clearly never watched a real negotiation with a terrorist regime or any terrorist entity for that matter. This isn’t sunshine and rainbows. It’s pressure, consequences, and making it unmistakably clear that if the Iranian regime won’t change their ways, they highly risk being ended.

Let’s get something straight, because this keeps getting butchered, the civilization he is talking about ending is the Islamist regime, the assholes that took over 47 years ago and literally ruined the original Persian civilization in Iran that no one in the west seems to ever show empathy for. That distinction shouldn’t be this hard. And no, they shouldn’t be forced to be subservient to terrorists for another 50 years because you with 50,000 followers on some social media echo chamber said so.

While some rush to defend a failed terrorist state, that same regime has been hanging teenagers this whole past week. I’ve seen zero concern over that, they’ve also been sending 12 year olds to be cannon fodder. Spare me the outrage.

And to those immediately spiraling into “this means nuclear war,” please chill and relax a little. All this literally is ending a future nuclear threat. Not every hard-line equals global catastrophe. That’s not how this works. You’ve grown so used to watching terrorist pandering that you don’t even recognize what resolve looks like. The regime are paper tigers let them fold or make a choice that will lead to their ultimate demise.

As Winston Churchill put it, “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

Absolute nothing burger! Thanks for the clarity @AlboMP

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Labor and the Greens teamed up to BLOCK One Nation debating our bill that would establish a 15% domestic gas reserve.

Australian gas should benefit Australians first. Apparently the greens and Labor are too scared to even talk about it.

[Phil Gould @PhilGould15]

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I read up a lot about climate stuff. I don’t profess to be an expert. But neither are those who abuse me for my opinion. For what is worth, here’s my explanation.

The basic philosophy of climate change is the Earth has a heat-trapping blanket of air around it. Climate change activists claim that burning fuel like petrol, coal and gas, are making that blanket thicker. A thicker blanket means the planet gets warmer. They argue that man-made CO2 creates a warmer planet, which causes more severe climate events. The climate argument is that the longer we keep thickening the blanket, the harder it becomes to fix. That’s the theory.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

They exaggerate the speed at which this will be a factor. The vast majority of catastrophic predictions over the past 50 years have simply not occurred. Not even close.

My own children, smart kids, all now in their 20s, educated in Australian schools, were at one time completely convinced, (and panicking), that the planet would end within a decade unless man stop producing CO2. They would get very upset with me, because I would say that this is not going to happen, certainly not in such a ridiculously short time frame they were fearing. Younger people have been educated to think this way.

People are making a fortune, governments are being elected, purely on the fear-mongering premise that humans are changing the climate and the planet is in jeopardy.

Fact - CO2 makes up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human produced CO2 is only a fraction of that small number. Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming a drop of ink for changing the colour of your swimming pool.

The Sun drives our climate far more powerfully than any gas. Exposure to the Sun warms oceans. Warmer oceans release CO2 naturally. Therefore, CO2 may well be a consequence of warming, not the cause.

History backs this up. Earth had warming and cooling cycles long before humans existed.

More CO2 actually makes for a healthier planet. Plants grow faster. Forests and crops thrive. This is happening now. It’s been proven. A slightly warmer, CO2 rich planet, makes for a healthier planet.

Humans think in terms of human survival, rather than accepting the planet has always changed, adapted, and renewed across its 4.5 billion year history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Human existence is in jeopardy in the longer term. Not the health of the planet. The planet will survive much longer than the human race. It will not be global warming that kills the human race. The human race will self destruct long before any climate event removes them.

Human philosophy for changing the climate, is actually leading to economic harm and quality of life deterioration. The costs are greater than the proposed cures. They want to dedicate trillions of dollars and cripple our energy systems chasing Net Zero - a target with no scientific guarantee it will change the climate one degree.

The idea that human industrial policy can influence global temperature, is arguably as arrogant as the belief that humans are powerful enough to destroy the planet in the first place.

I’m all for reducing pollution, cleaning up our environment, protecting our water supplies. That’s common sense. I’m against the economic and social damage we are inflicting on ourselves through ridiculous energy policies, which will have zero effect on the climate in the long run.

That’s my opinion. It seems to upset climate change believers. I don’t care. Not for one minute do I think my opinion matters, or that it will change anything. But I do think the world thinking is slowly turning back the other way. I’m hoping so, anyway.

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@WillKingston Not as easy as it sounds. What would happen to their own families back in Iran if the did not return? They would likely face terrible repercussions as a deterrent to other athletes abroad.

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

Cost of living pain, real household incomes tanked, mortgages and rents through the roof, and their so called relief like tax tweaks and rebates barely touch the sides while inflation keeps biting. Housing is a total disaster thanks to their demand pumping schemes like the expanded home guarantee that just inflates price further without fixing the supply shortage, all while migration stays cranked up and building lags badly.

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@StephenKing Trump has been involved in some 500 companies, of which only six have filed for bankruptcy. All six documented cases were Chapter 11 reorganizations.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

The only people who believe Trump is implicated, are the people who don’t know the Trump/Epstein timeline:

2005: Trump bans Epstein from all Trump properties for hitting on underaged girl.

2006: Epstein arrested in FL after Trump helped victims go after Epstein.

2008: Epstein convicted on minimal charges and 18 month sentence from Bush-appointed judge and let off the hook by Clinton-allied FBI.

2008-2016: Obama and the Dems did absolutely nothing about Epstein. The media didn’t touch it. It was a “conspiracy theory”.

2017: Less than 3 weeks after inauguration, Trump signs EO 13773, targeting “Transnational criminal organizations and preventing criminal trafficking”. It was one of the first things Trump did as POTUS. Trump targeted not just Epstein’s operation, but others like it around the world.

2019: Trump’s DOJ arrests Epstein, seizes his island, throws him in jail for crimes against children.

2020: Trump’s DOJ arrests Maxwell, throws her in jail for crimes against children.

2021-2024: Dems under Biden don’t say a word about Epstein.

Anyone who is spreading that Trump is implicated in crimes related to Epstein, is simply proving they are ignorant to the entire situation and timeline. Trump is not Epstein’s buddy. Trump used the full force of the US government to take Epstein out, shut down his operation, seized his island, and threw his ass and jail.

Trump has been after Epstein for 20 years. After Trump found out the monster that he was, Trump knew what he had to do.

Trump is Epstein’s #1 enemy.

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@SenatorWong What about your own backyard???

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Congratulations, the Multipolar World You Ordered Is Here. And Now We All Get to Suffer the Consequences

For several years now, there has been much talk about the end of the post-war order and the coming of a multipolar world. The desirability of this wonderful new arrangement has been pushed by three groups: naive woke leftists, similarly naive isolationists and, of course and above all, our enemies.

Each had their reasons.

Western progressives view the world through a simple, warped but powerful lens. Their approach to global politics is exactly the same as their view of domestic politics, and is based on the appealing but misguided idea that success is always and everywhere the product of unearned, ill-gotten privilege. Their antipathy towards the West, white people, men, Jews and “the rich” stems from this basic formula: whoever is doing well must be doing so at the expense of others. To them, any imbalance in wealth, income, influence and so forth is necessarily bad and to be corrected.

At the domestic level, the culmination of this worldview is their demand for “social justice”, a forced redistribution of wealth, influence and opportunity from the “oppressors” to the “oppressed”. You don’t need to be a Robin DiAngelo acolyte to see how this Marxist dynamic extends to global affairs: “social justice” at home becomes “global justice” abroad. If the world is unequal, which it is, then that must be corrected. Their extraordinary ignorance of the world beyond the borders of the safe, peaceful, civilised countries they live in is extremely helpful, because it prevents them from seeing that peace, stability and prosperity are the products of culture, science and innovation. Instead, they argue that the West’s recent dominance is the product of colonialism, racism and imperialism. They hate the West for being successful and want a multipolar world as both a punishment and a corrective.

The isolationists are primarily an American phenomenon, albeit one which has spread to other parts of the West along with every other aspect of American culture. I have some sympathy for their instincts, even though they are, in my view, as misguided as the woke left about the way the world actually works. Having travelled extensively around America, I understand the feeling of a man living a comfortable life in rural Ohio being asked to care about events happening half way around the world. When I sit on the porch of my AirBnB somewhere in America I find it much harder to care about those events too.

For this reason, among others, isolationism has always existed in American history and was particularly powerful in the 1930s. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president who orchestrated America’s support for Britain during WWII and his country’s eventual full involvement in the conflict, had to tread extremely carefully around this faction until Pearl Harbour.

The outcome of that war - an overwhelming moral and military victory over indisputable evil - kept isolationists quiet for some time. But the horrors of Vietnam, compounded by the trillion-dollar disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, have understandably produced a powerful backlash against interventionism. “America can’t be the world’s policeman,” went the cry.

Unfortunately, simple slogans are rarely true and inevitably leave out much-needed context. America accounts for 5% of the world’s population but 25% of its GDP. Much of this is due to geography, natural resource wealth and the ingenuity and drive of her people. But much of it also stems from the fact that America is the world’s most powerful country, an advantage she uses with great skill to get the best deals, secure access to resources and shape global affairs in a way that benefits her and her allies. To pretend that Americans can continue to enjoy unprecedented prosperity, security and peace as their country completely withdraws from global affairs is to misunderstand the way the world works.

There is a strange irony here. The two groups that have most celebrated the coming multipolar world are now also the ones complaining the most about its consequences. And that is because, despite their good intentions, woke leftists and neoisolationists have served as useful idiots to the people who are actually driving the multipolarity narrative: hostile foreign powers that feel it is their moment to end American hegemony.

China’s economic growth and Russia’s recovery from the collapse of the USSR occurred at precisely the same time as the collapse of the West’s moral, economic and military authority. The shifting balance of power naturally produced a hunger for a different arrangement. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the terrorist attack of October 7 and China’s increasingly open coveting of Taiwan are all signs of a deeper geopolitical realignment. For the moment, the demographic and economic tide has swung powerfully against the West. Our enemies are emboldened by their growing strength, encouraged by our weakness and no longer constrained by international law—which was only ever worth the paper it was written on while the US was willing to act as the world’s policeman.

Europe, and Britain especially, are particularly responsible for this sorry state of affairs...

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

All the bleating about "international law" shows just how completely deluded some of our elites have become.

International law was a pleasant fiction that lasted for a few decades. It was never real and now the world has reverted to its default setting: Great Power politics.

This is why, as a strong Ukraine supporter, I have never talked about international law or called Putin's attack an "illegal invasion".

Laws are based on submission to an overarching authority backed by force. There is no such international authority and even if you view the UN as one, it does not have the ability to use force against those who violate "international law" other than against small countries with weak militaries.

When the US attacked Iraq, the UN did nothing.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the UN did nothing.
If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, the UN will do nothing.

If you cannot enforce a law, it's not a law.

I do not support Ukraine because naughty Vlad broke the rules. I support Ukraine because it's not in OUR interest in the West to have Russia marauding its way through friendly countries on the borders of Europe. It's in our interest for us to be as strong as possible and for our adversaries to be as weak as possible.

President Trump is a realist and a pragmatist. He sees through the fictions other "leaders" cling to.

A good leader advances the national interests of his country. If more Western leaders did this, our civilisation would be in a much better place.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

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[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes. Now, over 5 years later, they admit 315,000 votes in Georgia were actually counted illegally.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

Typical labour spin and bullshit. If the land is subject to a planning overlay (such as heritage, flood, environmental, or landscape overlays), the fast-track benefits are limited. Developments must still fully address any permit triggers and decision guidelines from those overlays, in addition to meeting the new code's standardized rules. This means the overall process may not achieve the full time savings, as overlay-specific assessments and potential appeals or referrals (e.g., to heritage experts or flood authorities) can extend timelines.

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@AOC When are you going to get a real job?

[Carl Menze @MenzeCarl]

@AlboMP Yes we do, it called Uranium. Unfortunately you refuse to utilise it due to your green religion.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

You don’t have a right not to be offended. Charlie offended some people, I offend some people. So what? You didn’t like what he said - and then what happened? “He’s influencing people!!” So what, influence them back. In America, we don’t shut down opinions we don’t like. Period.