Thursday, February 09, 2017

In which the pond goes Orwellian and Marxist with the bromancer ...


The reptiles went wild with excitement at the way Malware lashed out, tired as he is of being dubbed Mr. Harbourside Mansion, when in reality he's living near a dangerous sinkhole that threatens to swallow Point Piper whole ...

The reptiles of Oz were dancing with delight in the rain, just before Sydney does an Adelaide with the heat ...


Of course there was an irony in that moment to savour, with its juxtaposition next to Peta.

It was of course Peta who started the class war in the first place ...


The pond refuses to link to the UK snail, but class warfare was everywhere in the headlines ...


The News Corp tribe loved it to bits ...


Never mind, context is everything, and the pond was delighted that as class warfare erupted yet again, comrade bromancer was to hand with a plan ...


A working class plan! Comrade bromancer is going to explain how Mr Harbourside Mansion is going to woo and win the workers!


It's moments like these that the pond realises that little needs to be said, apart from the infinitely wise words of the comrade reptile ...


Now every decent and loving reader of reptiles will be profoundly moved by the bromancer's analysis of dismal world political events, and the turning to correct Marxist analysis for a solution ...

And then as a result of correct Marxist analysis, comrade bromancer comes up with the best answer ... bigotry and jingoism.

Sure fire winners!

Forget about putting jobs on table and cash in paw, demonise minorities and bung on a war!


This of course helps explain why the reptile Oz's business plan is such a smash hit with working class readers and why they're doing so spiffingly well. Working-class people are acutely sensitive to manifest nonsense being spruiked to their children, but also to them ...

It takes an almost sublime act of will to think that 18C and Safe Schools are the things that press anyone's buttons up against whether a visit to the doctor or the dentist can be afforded, whether rent can be paid (the purchase of a house a long-forgotten dream in Sydney), whether the job will be there next week, whether there's a safety net for those disrupted and flung into the snow while the CEO pockets $5.6 million a year, whether it'll be two hours or three on the road to get to a minimum pay job, whether the minimum will be paid or the worker will reimburse the boss for the pleasure of working ...

And so on and on ...

In Orwell's terms, the bromancer doesn't have a fucking clue, such a contented up himself bourgeois swine he is, and he should study a little more Marx if he wants to arrive at a correct analysis, in these discombobulated, difficult, automated, robotic worker times ...

But still, the sublime incapacity, the stubborn refusal to understand, the complete lack of empathy, is entrancing, and the pond rushed to finish off the final gobbet ...


Jobs? Work that puts bread on table, and perhaps allows for a weekend treat?

Weekends, as opposed to working without penalty rates on what used to be days of rest?

Not a clue ... just a dream of the return of the DLP and Petrov affairs and such like so that workers can continue to be exploited, along with dreams of days of coal, and never mind climate change, because deep in heart the bromancer belongs to the 1950s and the 1950s belong to him  ...

Well the robots are everywhere, taking jobs, and according to the Pope, they're even persecuting Cory (more papal insights here) ...


And so to a correcting of the pond record.

David Rowe's cartoons can still be found  here, but also at the AFR here, but yesterday the pond ran a mutilated gallery shot of a recent cartoon, which destroyed both the punchline and the tribute in the bottom right hand corner ...

Rowe remains certainly the best, possibly the only, reason to subscribe to the AFR ... though so long as they persist with the pathetic, ruinous structure of their gallery of delights, they really make it hard for Rowe lovers ...

Never mind, here's the original cartoon restored by Rowe to its proper glory ...


That's better ... Cory's full line and inordinate nude pomposity, and an apology to Oates down the bottom ... 

And thankfully with Rowe restored to proper format - the AFR gallery still cuts it off, insisting on widescreen even though Rowe has filmed in 4:3 - here's one which indirectly says everything there is to be said about the inordinate stupidity of the bromancer, as if the average stiff or working joe doesn't know that the fix is in ...


The bromancer explaining how the working class can be wooed and won? 

You might as well expect Orwellian pigs to fly, rather than tucking into a hearty meal with the farmer ...


7 comments:

  1. We have just witnessed the debut performance of Malcolm Trumpbull with a rapturous chorus by the Backbench Choir and noisy popcorn throwing and cheers by the hacks in the stalls. We 'leets' in the dress circle yawned politely behind our hands.

    Oh the predictability!

    And then Dutton came on my wireless sounding menacing in his Queensland-copper way so I switched him off and listened to Vivaldi instead as a reviled elitist would. Boo, hiss me.

    I suppose they will all be winding themselves up to states of fury in front of the bathroom mirror every morning.

    Miss pp

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  2. Further to above .....
    Pyne said today that the use of personal invective in Parliament did not lose Keating or Costello a single vote.

    Not sure about that but who cares. That observation is reflective of Pyne's limitations as a tribal warrior. Yawn.

    I must say though that the difference between Keating, Costello and President Trumpbull is that the first two were genuinely funny and creative. Malcolm on the other hand was simply brutish.

    In my opinion he is no orator despite his reputation for golden words delivered by a silver tongue. That was clearly on display in the speeches the PM gave in Parliament the other day about the killings in Melbourne and the death of Anne Deveson. Shorten absolutely outshone him.

    Miss pp

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    1. Sad to find out about Anne Deveson (as one gets older, piece by small piece, one's world fades away). I read her book 'Tell Me I'm Here' about 25 years ago, and it was profoundly moving (something I find very seldom). Vale Anne.

      But otherwise: "...the use of personal invective in Parliament did not lose Keating or Costello a single vote." Yes, but did it gain either of them a vote, surely that is the question. Other than keeping some backbenchers' votes, of course. But really, "sycophant" ? Now that is some serious psychological projection, isn't it ? [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_identification ]

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    2. In fact GB, the reptiles at the Catholic Boys' Daily argued long and hard that Keating's aggressive temperament helped pave the path for his downfall, while Costello's carry-on - bluster and a lack of ticker - was always used to explain why he never made it to the top ...

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    3. Seems a bit like poor old Hillary: damned if you don't, damned if you do.

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  3. Now let me see: the Bromancer says "Clinton ... declaring it unacceptable to say that all lives matter"

    But then a brief search of the overflowings, finds me this: 'Hillary Clinton's 3-Word Misstep: 'All Lives Matter'' [ http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/417112956/hillary-clintons-three-word-gaffe-all-lives-matter ]

    So Hillary gets attacked for saying this:

    "Before using the phrase, Clinton was retelling an anecdote about the lessons she learned from her mother.

    "I asked her, 'What kept you going?' Her answer was very simple. Kindness along the way from someone who believed she mattered. All lives matter."
    "

    So what do we say about the Bro: deliberate lie, or just the usual maximally ignorant untruth ? Have the reptiles ever even heard of the word "integriy" ?

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    1. Integrity GB? That only applies to stringent testing of the purity of farm manure ...

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