Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Trump is mad

 What sort of person would blame Ukraine for russia invading the country. The same person who claims Ukraine should have an election when it is at war. Guess how many European nations held elections when they were at war. 

That person is an idiot

I should add only a moron would believe that enlargement of NATO 'forced' Russia to invade Ukraine. NATO like most military treaties is a defensive treaty. It cannot be invoked if a member invades another countries. It can ONLY be invoked if they are attacked.

What sort of person would indulge a billionaire to pursue indiscriminate sacking in the public service .Two points

  1.  This policy clearly failed at twitter where cutting costs hit revenues
  2. Indiscriminate sackings simply mean there is no rhyme nor reason involved.We have seen this in USAID, Nuclear Safety and now birdflu
This will clearly fail
If you really wanted to cut costs and root out fraud you would bolter the Inspectors General. Instead Trump fired a lot of them.  Engineers are not skilled at this. forensic accountants are.

Then we had another example of a corrupt DOJ where a highly experienced prosecutor resigned rather than begin gran jury proceedings because they had NO evidence.

The only thing worse than an idiot is one who projects and has authoritarian tendencies.

Be worried, be very worried

Tuesday, 18 February 2025

The RBA cuts rates

 I cannot still believe the RBA is worried about a 'tight' labour market. They claim to be data driven but seem to ignore wages data! the 2020s is vastly different to the 1970s even 1980s! TOLD YA

Inflation is a lagging indicator. It is now falling more than the RBA thought because of the slowing economy. It will continue to fall. If the RBA is data driven and most forecasts are on the money then another rate cut is on the cards depending on Trump and his mad economic program. They could just drop 10 points and wait to see what else occurs out of Trump's mouth and wait.

Let me speculate on politics. I think Albo will go in May. A softerning labour market and falling inflation should all mean everyone will be expecting a cut after the election and this will be as important as an actual cut in rates.

If the ALP cannot tell the story of a goldilocks economy following high inflation then they deserve to lose!

Monday, 17 February 2025

fiscal stability in the USA

 A short but very interesting article on fiscal stability in the USA.

The only way is up under Trump.Whatever happened to those 'fiscal haks' in the republican party.

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Amazing Trump incompetence

 wow so many examples.

Hegseth makes a speech and then has to backtrack ONE day later. competence matters

Vance makes a speech riddles with errors ( I suspect deliberately), meets with neo-nazies in Germany and warnes about democracy in Europe. All this from the bloke who cannot say Biden easily won in 2020! Competence matters

A former Trump defence lawyer who was given a plumb job on the DOJ writes a letter that sure looks like a quid pro quo! This unleashes mass resignations particularly from conservative lawyers. Competence matters

Musk acolytes sack people who are nuclear safety staff.  they then have to try and reinstate them Whoopsy. Competence matters

Trump's poorly written executive orders lead to many court cases.They could lose a lot leading to call to impeach the judges. Competence matters


Notice a pattern here.


Oh can someone tell Trump NATO is a defensive treaty. It can only be enacted if a country is attacked. It is null and void if a country attacks another country so it is impossible for Purin to feel Russia was almost under attack from NATO if Ukraine was to join ( which Germany said it would vote against.).

Thursday, 13 February 2025

Around the Traps 14/2/25

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

OZ climate

Northern America

Europe

Asia

Wonk

General

Climate

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews

Vox Wonk

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

The Bankstown Hospital disgrace

 Yesterday we had two nurses who work at Bankstown hospital say they would not assist if a jew came into their hospital and even kill them.

I hope there is no need to say this was disgraceful more so at present  however I think far too many people are getting ahead of themselves.

They must have known this would go public so what were they thinking of?

In one sense it is nonsensical. No jews would turn up at Bankstown hospital as a patient!

Lastly I am sure I am not the only person who has been in a public hospital. A Nurse who would not attend to any patient would be instantly dismissed. Attempting harm to a patient would be very hard. They would been to be on the roster and ensure other patients could not see what they are doing and remember any problems would show up very fast in terms of their equipment!

These two people will be charged and then find it hard to get a job now.  That is a punishment fitting their crime

Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Racism

 In view of Sam kerr's court case I thought it would be useful to explore what exactly is racism.

to my mind it is when a person says in some way a certain derogatory term is given to a person because of their skin colour. 

Thus asserting people are stupid or smelly because of their skin colour is racist.

On the other hand asserting someone is a black bastard is not because you are not saying they are a bustard because they are black. you are merely saying they are a bastard who happens to be black.