Wannabe sycophants and forelock tuggers can head off to Trove here to see how it's done, or they can just stick around and watch the bromancer and Malware in action ...
It's like nothing has changed, and yet the pond has the eerie almost psychic sense of having been here before, in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq ...
A lot of the pond's friends went through hell in Vietnam, and then more hell when they came back, and got bugger all by way of gratitude for being conscripted into a pointless war ... it was the way for working class and country folk to be sent to fight, while the ones that bunged on the do, or cheered it on, sat in their leather seats, shouting rah rah and sipping on a dry sherry ...
And with the war mongers come the cheerleaders, the clowns at the head of the parade banging the drums and honking the trumpets ...
There was no way that the pond could overlook the siren song of the bromancer crooning his love ...
Some might think it all a tad ancient, with long lost cartoons inclined to look a little weird, given the fate of Harold, snatched by the Chinese after a little seaside exercise ...
But everything old is always ready to be made new again, and the bromancer is on hand to polish the turd to a gleaming shine ...
Now the pond wouldn't mind if the first unit to be shipped to South Korea to put some dinkum boots on the ground happened to be the 12th/16th Murdochian Surry Hills Lancers ...
... but the chances of that are pretty slim, about as good as counting the angels dancing on the head of a pin ...
Indeed, don't say boo to a goose, especially when the geese are cackling their way through a Murdochian war monger story ...
Well don't expect a march in the street to stop an adventure in Iraq, and don't expect the Murdochians or Malware to discuss the matter in parliament if the Donald gets his danger up ...
By now it's probably apparent that the pond has nothing to say about the bromancer ...
There's only 57 varieties of contempt the pond can think of ... even as the initial bromancer hysteria settles down to what the bromancer likes to consider a form of considered reflection ...
Actually what will be of historic consequence is if the United States and the Donald take this sort of uxorious forelock tugging from Malware and his Murdochian cheerleaders seriously, and feels emboldened to move from jokes about Guam tourism to proving he's not just a pathetically needy fame and television obsessed reality TV show jackass, who plays a pathetic game of poker with a really obvious tell ...
Never mind, duty has been done, and since it's Sunday, there's just the time for a little religious observance ...
And after yesterday's epic coverage of the civil war by the pond, if anyone's wondering whether David Pope is fighting for the North or the South, he has a pinned tweet here ...
... what a filthy prevert ...
... while Moir manages to cover both wars in the one cartoon, with more Moir here ...
I find Sheridan a pest because he is able to gain access to the ABC on Jon Faine morning show and give his opinion on foreign affairs on Tuesdays why he is given this access is a bloody joke because he has nothing to say with an independent voice because what he preaches is what the Murdoch stable wants to spread.
ReplyDeleteHis version of diplomacy is buying more armaments from America so all we learn from him is how all those foreign countries like China and Indonesia are a threat to the security of Australia.
I find Sheridan a pest because he is able to gain access to the ABC on Jon Faine morning show and give his opinion on foreign affairs on Tuesdays why he is given this access is a bloody joke because he has nothing to say with an independent voice because what he preaches is what the Murdoch stable wants to spread.
ReplyDeleteHis version of diplomacy is buying more armaments from America so all we learn from him is how all those foreign countries like China and Indonesia are a threat to the security of Australia.
Bedrock of our (in)security, eh.
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