grumpy Gramps

Old bloke. Widowed, three kids, Likes: books, music,movies. Tweets. Formerly SCampbell on X Moved. Old phone with twitter mates broke. Please contact again

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@BobBurn97207272 No

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@GaryDeTuis @LauraAboli_X I admire your optimism. Do you really think the world, as we know it, will still exist in 50 years time? I have serious doubts about that.

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@LauraAboli_X Just asking - did the Federal Bureau of Investigations really withhold the Epstein files for SEVEN YEARS?

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

Albanese is torching Australia’s history

[van00sa @van00sa]

Can someone make sense of this deal for me?

Eraring cost $1.5 billion to build. Our government sold it to Origin for $50 million (thats 3 cents on the dollar). Now they own the biggest power station in the country, we subsidise them, and we pay 2-3x more for electricity.

If Eraring doesn’t make enough profit our government is on the hook for $450m. If closure or blackouts are even hinted at the government bails them out.

Origin pulled in $1.5B in profit and still demands taxpayer support . How is that a free market when we are being held hostage with zero leverage?

Politicians dont care about the consequences of their actions because selling our most important resources makes deficits look better without raising taxes.

They claimed they were “transferring risk” but the second the plant threatens to shut we step in and cover the “risk” anyway.

And when prices are up 3x they get to say “it’s not us it’s the market.”

Those same politicians then went on to work for the same energy companies they helped create policy for.

💸 We built it
💸 They sold it for 3%
💸 They lost control
💸 We pay higher bills
💸 We pay their subsidies

So they keep the upside and then threaten blackouts and job cuts to secure bailouts, literal blackmail.

I’m still trying to make sense of how they got to $50m in the first place.

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@OccupyDemocrats The USA and the UK are off my bucket list. So is India. Russia, China and any Middle East countries ditto. Europe - nah. Canada is looking dodgy. Guess my travel dollars will be spent in Australia or New Zealand. So much to see and do in our own backyard. Both safer and cheaper.

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@swirlpotbelly @ABridgen No. So many people refuse to believe the evil going on in our Western "civilisation" not because it's "better", but because it's more acceptable. We close our minds to documented evil because the depth and breadth of it is so overwhelming that we can't fully grasp bitter truths.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

The same people who are trafficking ,r@ping and murdering children are calling themselves ‘elites’. They are the same people who told us that the Covid 19 gene therapies were ‘safe and effective’ , same people telling us we have to all have a ‘digital ID ‘, same people pushing the man-made climate change hoax and the Net Zero fraud. They are the people profiting from all of these policies and also those personally unaffected by them. Why is anyone still believing them ?

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

If Albanese had a slither of decency, he'd call a press conference and announce his departure. The damage he's done is unforgivable. Furthermore, parliament needs to strip him of his 450 thousand per year pension.

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@MischenJadaril @trad_west_ Have you not heard or read about the Holy Inquisition? Burning alive Roman Catholics who dared to question their faith? Never heard of Saint Joan of Arc? The Inquisition had a firm rule: only one torture before confession. It did not state how the torture could be prolonged.

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@Old_But_Gold50s Discipline of both mind and body is how this is achieved. Making the body do things it was never meant to do. It's a harsh art. Classical training begins at the age of 6 or 7. Baryshnikov didn't start training until he was 10, he was an "old beginner" he said in an interview.

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@jaded61 @arbsmichael Multiculturalism mate! Just getting ready for the Chinese takeover. Number Two Son just gave me a book titled "The Silent Invasion'. It's happening. He's a fully-accredited Teacher of English as a Second Language at a university. He sees it in his student numbers.

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@SandyHorne61 Love the lorries. At Burleigh Heads, a few years ago, they'd feed on the sun-fermented berries of umbrella trees and get drunk. Like human drunks, they got noisy. So much that you had to shut windows and doors to stop the racket.

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@ler913 @bluhue123 Heaven knows that "Just following orders" cut no ice in the Nazi war crimes tribunal held at Nurmberg in 1946.

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@RCdeWinter To an outsider, the current state of the US of A reminds me of the lyrics of an old song: "You've got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea". Right now, I'd rather take my chances with the deep blue sea, bull and white sharks taken into consideration.

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@NetZeroWatch There is no such thing as "net zero" unless we go back to the feudal system of government. No mechanisatuon. Peasants or serfs working for Lords on the barter economic system. Tenant farmers. Tithes to whichever Church held political power. Free the country? No. Feed the people.

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@lesstenny I'd nod in acceptance of his political views, and later, think of why he held them. Being born when Menzies and Country Parties really mattered, I'm basically conservative. To quote my (very) late Dad: "Those city bastards don't understand what life's like in the bush".

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@MrPitbull07 Of course, being aged 70+, I remember the milkman, postmen, the Post Office telegram boys on their bikes, and old-fashioned grocers, bakers, and butchers. My parents bought my school uniforms from the town draper. We even had a dressmaker, and a local newspaper.

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@RositaDaz48 Yes. Politicians should be at least second-generation Australian-born. Haven't we seen enough in overseas news to convince us that some people will never accept the "Australian" way of life that other immigrants gladly took on. Some so-called "cultures" refuse assimilation.