There's going to be a lot of sobbing and breast-beating and sacks and ash cloth routines in today's pond, courtesy the reptiles of Oz, and the result will be lengthy, and even then the pond can't fit them all in, sadly not the imports from The Times and the WSJ ...
But cheer up chums, don't be gloomy, always look on the bright side of life, and let's begin by remembering the sweet way things were ... ah memories, and who better to strike up the band than Dame Slap?
Ah yes, that one, it's an old pond favourite, this tune, what a melody line, and this is probably the last chance the pond will have to run it, so why not run it in full ...
Thank you Dame Slap, such sweet memories, and so to a token serve of Miranda the Devine, because that's all the pond can handle before racing out to chew on the grass and then throw up.
The Devine has always been a neo-fascist and oh how she loved the Donald ... as when he mistakenly published her email address and a Devine love letter followed on 7th October 2020 in the Terror, concluding this way ...
Yes, cue gnashing of teeth, so let's begin the gnashing with nattering "Ned" ... and remember amnesia is the word for the day, and nothing will be said about Fox News, the chairman and his assorted enablers, sycophants and Trumpian on staff lickspittle toadies ...
All the pond has to offer are the sweet tears of the reptiles, for the drinking thereof, interrupted only by the occasional cartoon ...
You see? Amnesia is the word for the day, and nothing will be said about Fox News, the chairman and his assorted enablers, sycophants and Trumpian on staff lickspittle toadies ...
Here have a cartoon just to help the bilge water go down smoothly ...
The dog botherer was in a similarly forgetful mood ... and was so dull the reptiles felt the need to stuff him full of videos ... but just note the feeble way he tries to worm in little defences of the indefensible ...
It took a long time, but there, it eventually came ... for all the blather about the Donald's achievements, an acknowledgement that the past four years has been a destructive four-year campaign to tear down the house ...
Here, have a cartoon for having made it this far without running outside to chew on the grass and deliver an epic technicolor yawn ...
And now what of the lizard Oz editorialist, weeping and wailing and gnashing teeth?
Yes, still more blather about the Donald's many achievements ... you know, like burning down the house ...
Another few cartoons to help the digestion?
And so to Stewie, who has been forced to stew in it as the lizard Oz correspondent ...
By golly, that photo reminded the pond of the next neo-fascist on the make ...
Waiter, quick, a cleansing cartoon ...
No, that's not quite what the pond had in mind, better get back to Stewie, in his own juices ...
And so to a final cartoon, which the pond loved because it's a homage to a great American tradition and to a great, if little known, American movie, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, White Heat, one of the pond's favourites, which the pond drags out to watch from time to time, and which ends with Cagney at the end top of the world with his Freudian ma ...
Top of the world, Dame Slap ... top of the world, Miranda the Devine ... top of the world, dog botherer ... top of the world, lizards of Oz ... top of the world, Fox News and Chairman Rupert ...
Oh yes, all you've wanted, all you've scribbled for, all you've worked towards, kissing cousins, consorters, lickspittle fellow travelers and shameless fawning devotees ... top of the fucking world, at least until your love of climate science completes the job ...
Yes, DP - the Dame's contribution of February 2017 is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it? Thank you for curating it with such great care. I wonder that Chairman Rupert has not had it committed to parchment for display in an appropriate public place, for the benefit of posterity. He might have approved a bit of petty cash for the Cult Master to buy some gold leaf to make it a proper illuminated manuscript. Even at today's price of gold, such is its malleability that a few square centimetres do not cost much, and they would be a kind of tribute to the Donald, who apparently thought that plastering gold leaf on the walls of rooms was just the height of good taste.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteI am left uncertain by the reptiles sudden denunciation of the Donald.
Is the abhorrence due to the fact that Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol building and made a mockery of the US as “the shining city on a hill” or is it that his insistence on voter fraud in Georgia screwed the Republicans opportunity to hold onto power in the Senate?
No more leverage for Rupert?
Either way the hypocrisy is gargantuan.
Anyway a little more of a reminder of how Australia played its part in the ongoing decline and fall of the world’s greatest superpower;
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/01/how-australia-helped-pave-the-way-for-the-us-insurrection/
DiddyWrote
Naah, DW, it isn't because "Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol building and made a mockery of the US", it's because his pissweak little mob was too small and too pissant to actually achieve anything.
DeleteBut hey, give Trump a day or two and it will be the totally biggest revolutionary uprising ever staged anywhere in the world, and if he really, really had wanted to, Trump would have "won" the presidency.
But yeah, it's always very amusing to watch the reptiles screwing themselves inside out trying to 'criticise' Trump without ever acknowledging their years of worshipful admiration. Dame Slappy, of course, is trying very hard to not have her 'MAGA cap' idolatry mentioned (nor her Monckton idolatory either) because, well if it never gets mentioned again, then it never, ever really happened.
Bless you for thinking of the Slapper DP!
ReplyDeleteShe was in our minds yesterday as people wearing her red MAGA cap also did "a bit of an up yours" to the unbelievers in the USA. A bit of a shit-stir, a bit of a clever-clogs ironic playfulness - with added deaths!
I share DW's uncertainty at this difficult time as the reptiles all queue up to desert the Trump Train simultaneously - all those beloved names who have held up his virtues, month after month, year after year - POOF! All disappeared like a coward in a crisis.
I do not that Dame Slap's pronouncement has been with-held - poor chook has been wrong about the UN, about global warming, about AJ Abbott - and now her final plank of credibility - the Trump plank - has been pulled.
I fear for her, I fear for her something fierce I does! Bring on the Inquirer :)
You gotta admire the Dame's invariant consistency, vc. Wrong yesterday, wrong today, wrong tomorrow.
DeleteIt's not just the reptiles!
ReplyDeleteTed was never involved yeah? He can't believe the scenes. How could this happen in the USA asks Ted :)
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1347353893471191040
"Now take it away Stewie, finish off the pond's longest post ever... "
ReplyDeleteWell it was sure one helluva long read, DP. But then I guess one really has to be prepared for the marathon just to extract a tiny soupcon of interest out of a bunch of reptiles.
The 'White Heat" cartoon made the long march worthwhile.
DeleteThere's always just a little bean of moonshine, isn't there:
DeleteBig Ed: It ain't safe havin' a crackpot givin' orders. About time somebody took over.
Cotton: Who, for instance?
Big Ed: A very good friend of mine. Me.
Cotton: Where d'ya want the body sent?
When I saw that "White Heat" cartoon in the NY Daily News by the brilliant Bramhall yesterday I thought it was the best comment on the situation and was pleased as punch,
Deleteas Nixon would say, to find it here in Loon Pond.
Figures GB that you too are a fan of that great flick.
Not in the way that DP or perhaps your goodself are, JM but I do like a little bit of smart dialogue, and Americans are the world's best - as a people - at that.
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