IF / THEN
Because ideas have consequences ...
IF …
Mark Zuckerberg announces a cull of more than 3000 non-performing staff, just days after announcing that Meta will scrap DEI policies that mandated hiring people based on diversity characteristics rather than on merit …
THEN …
A lot of people whose primary talent was their skin tone, or sexuality, or pronouns, are about to be looking for another sucker to take them on.
IF …
The cost of putting a child through public school has gone from an average of $92,710 to $123,294 in just 12 months …
THEN …
Imagine what another three years of Albanese would do. Costs are going through the roof everywhere. Not just in education. The Australian Open Tennis now charge you $15 for a beer. Albanese does love the tennis. He can afford it.
IF …
Electric Vehicle sales were down 3 percent across Europe in 2024 after the removal of generous tax breaks for EV buyers - sales fell by a whopping 70 percent in Germany and 33 percent in France after government incentives were removed.
And if EV sales in the US rose by 9 percent thanks to Joe Biden’s subsidies, conveniently branded as the “Inflation Reduction Act”. It’s amazing how pumping free money into the economy is supposed to reduce inflation. But whatever.
And if in the UK, EV sales are up 24.5 percent, but largely on the back of the government’s Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate which required manufacturers’s sales to be 22 percent electric.
THEN …
The obvious conclusion is that the popularity (or otherwise) of electric vehicles is entirely dependent on the actions of government. If left to the free market, no-one would buy them.
IF …
Coles has banned the sale of kitchen knives in response to one being used by a 13-year-old boy to stab a staff member in Queensland earlier this week …
THEN …
I get it. They want to be seen to be doing something. But don’t you think it’s a bit of an over-reaction? Because of one tragic, but ultra rate event, Australians will now have to find speciality knife shops to get basic kitchen tools. And will armed guards patrol the speciality knife shops?
The problem is the coarsening of culture, not kitchen knives at the supermarket. Of course, it’s easier to blame kitchen knives than to have a serious conversation about where the hell we are headed as a society and why our kids are acting up.
IF …
A Queensland GP was fined $5000 for smacking an unruly toddler who repeatedly flicked lights on and off in his office despite repeated warnings not to …
THEN …
Maybe the mother should have been fined as well. If parents refuse to discipline their own children, why should everybody else be subject to their poor behaviour.
Moreover, it’s precisely this lack of discipline in the most formative years that is contributing to the youth crime crisis we are now seeing.
The youth crime crisis did not happen overnight, or in a vacuum. It is the consequence of parents either being too lazy or too woke to actually parent their own children. Children need a parent, not a mate. What was it the ancients said? Spare the rod, spoil the child.
And don’t talk to me about abuse. Only a moron claims not to know the difference between discipline and abuse.
IF …
Anthony Albanese appoints a Special Envoy on Antisemitism to show his commitment to stamping out the harassment of Jews. And then ignores her recommendations for tougher sentencing and a national cabinet to address the crisis …
THEN …
Jillian Segal’s appointment was exactly as we suspected - window dressing.
A sop to those upset about what is happening to our country.
A token gesture.
A gimmick to make it appear as though the Labor Government actually cared about Jews in this country.
The appointment has been revealed to be a sham. An insult to Jews and a waste of public money.
Do you think Albo would ignore recommendations from his Special Envoy on Islamophobia?
Albanese never misses a chance to shrink in office.
IF …
A woman identifying as a bloke underwent a CT scan when she (identifying as ‘he’) was unknowingly pregnant, potentially harming the baby …
THEN …
The answer is not to now ask everyone aged 12-55, regardless of gender, whether or not they are pregnant before giving them an x-ray.
And yet that’s exactly what radiographers are now doing in the UK.
James Barber, Chair of the Society of Radiographers LGBTQI and Equalise Workers Group, says we now live in an age where we “cannot assume someone’s biological ability to become pregnant based on the gender they present as.”
Huh?
Imagine the confusion of a 12-year-old boy being asked if he could be pregnant, without his parents present. And God help the radiographer if that question was asked of my 12-year-old son whilst I was present!
The West has become a total clown show!
I’m just spitballing here, but hear me out. Instead of creating a nonsense fairyland in which everyone is compelled to live, why don’t we simply stop allowing people to pretend that their sex is a matter of choice.
IF …
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio fled the LA fires in his private jet …
THEN …
Isn’t that the greatest example of climate hypocrisy we’ve yet seen. On the one hand, DiCaprio bangs on about how fossil fuels are creating cataclysmic climate change resulting in, oh I don’t know, FIRES ….
And then he’s escaping those events in a private jet despite the fact it is five to 14 times more polluting per passenger than a commercial flight.
What are we to conclude?
The fire is on you Leo.
My own :
IF Chris Bowen can freely flick the lights off, and we pay the costs for his incompetence,
THEN little Johnny, should not be penalised for his wanting to see what living in the dark will be like.
IF sales of EV's in Germany and France are dramatically falling due to removal of Government subsidies,
THEN why does Blackout Bowen insist on importing over-produced EV's from China, flooding our market with cheap unknowns, imposing extra taxes on my choice of diesel 4x4, then when the lights do go out, EV owners will wonder where to plug into, to recharge batteries?
IF criminal minds want to get knives freely,
THEN I'm going to have to put all sharp knives out of sight in case they come a looking! (Looks like I'll have to settle on minced meat and forgo the steaks from now!)
That person is going to get tough with Russia ? When not a squeak from him when the Chinese navy blasted a group of Aussie clearance divers working on their ships propellers . An ASDIC pulse is a very powerful sound wave that could cause serious damage to a mans health .I can see an election loss looming here as he has suddenly become very interested in Aussie welfare both at home and abroad Never mind, the tennis is on now, so we wont be inflicted with sight or sound of him at least for a while anyway