Saturday, March 24, 2018

In which the pond gets off to a flying start with the dog botherer ...


There's nothing like a frabjous, frumious bird standing by a tumtum tree to get the pond in an uffish mood and turn to the dog botherer, whiffling and burbling away … 

As usual, the gyring and gimbling dog botherer manages to lather himself up into a galumphing rage - outraged indignation and hysteria being the natural resting state of the lizards of Oz ...


That line about the frenzied feeding ground of social media always makes the pond sentimental and nostalgic for the time when the pond was dangerously radicalised by the lizards of Oz.

Something snapped one day, the pond opened the window and shouted that it was as mad as hell and it wasn't going to take it anymore, and all the filling up the intertubes with useless bits of reptile arcana is all the fault of the lizards of Oz and assorted reptiles of the dog botherer kind…

These are the worst of the worst, the most offensive and divisive, the sort that helped fuck over Iraq, for example, and never said sorry, but still maintain that it was all for the best ...

Never a backward step. Never give an inch. Day after day they ranted, hurling abuse at anyone they disliked, and never afraid to throw in a reference to fascism when it suited, or shouted out with joy and rapture when it suited Bill Leak …


What was the pond going to do? Lie back and take it? Imagine that references to Nazis were all just part of sitcom good humour?


Well if that's the case, may as well have some fun …


But the pond will cede a point to the dog botherer.

It's outrageous to compare the mutton Dutton to the Nazis. Frankly when it comes to bringing about a 1984 world, the Nazis were rank amateurs.

Forget Facebook. Border Force is beavering away with biometrics, facial recognition and the like which will make "Ihre papiere bitte" seem like an old Hollywood meme ...

The federal government is greatly expanding the use of facial recognition in immigration and law enforcement. Last October it announced the $18.5 million National Facial Biometric Matching Capability, which will pull state and territory databases of citizen identification to be matched against CCTV footage. Earlier this month two bills were introduced into Parliament allowing for the creation of this system and its use by law enforcement agencies. (here)

These days they can run a camera over a crowd at a football match, spot persons of interest, and match them up to a database that's growing by the day …

It's all dressed up in the name of national security, but how your old-fashioned fascist would yearn to have such potent tools at their command …how it would delight an old Queensland plod with a black and white view of the world, and please, remember to shed a tear for the white ...

Never mind, you won't find the dog botherer carrying on about any of that, you'll find him carrying on about the mutton Dutton going about his crusader business ...



Uh huh … but speaking of criticising wretched, cynical, outrageous behaviour, has the dog botherer taken the time and the trouble to speak out against the Mocker's recent racist bout of black-bashing?

Mocked the Mocker, so to speak, in the inimitable dog botherer ranting way?

Not really, the dog botherer loves that sort of ugly righteous "high time they got lost" sanctimony when it suits …and he bitterly resents being reminded that he's just an old-fashioned one-eyed cheerleader of the worst kind, about as balanced as a two-legged stool ...

And so to the pot having a blue with the kettle ...



Never mind, the raging reptiles have long been at the heart of an ugly decline in political debate, using cheap debating tricks involving talk of unspecified hate speech, as if George had never done a Clint Eastwood imitation or Cory had never talked of bestiality … and from the dog botherer? A fierce denunciation, a column full of frothing fury and rage?

Nope, listen to the crickets ...

The best thing that can happen to improve the situation is to ensure that the reptiles remain locked behind a rock solid paywall, and gradually decide to abandon Twitter and Facebook and other forms of social media which they find reprehensible.

If Twitter is such a sewer, what's the dog botherer doing swimming there? He's always out and about, wittering away and duelling with others, cranking the discourse of hate and anger up to 11, because that's the job description, as it is with the rest of the reptiles who depend on getting people agitated … the talk-back shock jocks of print … and television and radio, when they can get a gig ...

A recent example of the level of discourse encouraged and endorsed by the dog botherer?


And that's why he loves to swim in the sewer… he loves the smell of the batshit flung around in the morning … (the afternoon and the evening are just fine too).

Well now his old Iraq war mate is hanging around with the Donald. Time for a column denouncing war mongers and the way they marched off to war on the basis of lies, and saw thousands die and millions displaced?

Not likely … better make do with a few cartoons instead ...








4 comments:

  1. "... the raging reptiles have long been at the heart of an ugly decline in political debate, using cheap debating tricks involving talk of unspecified hate speech,"

    I used to think that the Botherer et al were just indulging in a bit of psychological projection because they were too stupid not to realise what they were doing. You know the pattern:
    Wiki: "...humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others."

    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

    But now the scales have fallen from my eyes and the motes have evaporated in the afternoon sun, and I can see that the Botherer (et al) are just deliberately conducting their usual unremitting campaign of accusations and lies to shift the focus of attention off onto their opponents. And it works, at least amongst their own mindless claque of followers.

    So they keep doing it.

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  2. I realise the Pond and logic have little to do with each other, but I wonder if the dog botherer realises that it is possible to be racist and fascist without being a Nazi. Franco and Mussolini managed it, as did many other lesser dictators.

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    1. True, FD, but nonetheless, we do need to remember that both Franco and Mussolini cuddled up very closely to the all-time number one Nazi.

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  3. Is that the political public commons so graceful as to allow the Opposition Leader Mr TA Abbott, the Minister for Helicopter Transport Mrs B Bishop and other ne'er do wells grin under large images screaming DITCH THE WITH adjacent to images of the then-PM, Ms Gillard?

    Is it that public commons that we all respect?

    If that's the case, let's all all stand arm in arm with Mr Kenny in rightly critiquing Mr McKim.

    If there's anything Mr Kenny likes to do is get it right - whether political discourse or weapons in Iraq, Mr Kenny is loud, and absolutely correct.

    (p.s. it's been an especially bad week for Mr Kenny being humiliated. I do always suggest he takes up volunteering. It will somehow balance out what he achieves in his various day jobs)

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