tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8568631286176321993..comments2024-03-28T16:48:18.088+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond dallies with the pasty Hastie and nattering "Ned" Kelly ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28322459332684532802016-11-24T21:37:07.092+11:002016-11-24T21:37:07.092+11:00Hastie is a member of a government which implement...Hastie is a member of a government which implements the neoliberal policies which are designed forget the "forgotten people"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13467071669624321286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73330901623473126132016-11-24T10:02:24.564+11:002016-11-24T10:02:24.564+11:00The Christian Parenti article was a very valuable ...The Christian Parenti article was a very valuable pointer, Anony, especially in explaining the attraction of Trump - he comes across as Earth Mother, Venus and Father Xmas all rolled into one.<br /><br />But I thought his observation of HRC was quite acute and largely accurate:<br /><br />"Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, constrained by sexist double standards and lawyerly calculation, too often came across as bloodless. At her best moments, like facing down the vainglorious Trey Gowdy, she exuded impressive competence, brains, and steely self-control. She bested Trump in the debates. But more often, Clinton came across like a scripted and dissembling Human Resources manager."<br /><br />Bingo.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17122602666440747672016-11-24T07:53:38.569+11:002016-11-24T07:53:38.569+11:00Fuckity fuck Anon, the pond had missed that one ab...Fuckity fuck Anon, the pond had missed that one about the vandals and the visigoths at the architectural gatesdorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35807456778385086732016-11-24T05:18:01.512+11:002016-11-24T05:18:01.512+11:00Feel the nostalgia.Feel the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/trump-files-when-donald-destroyed-priceless-art-build-trump-tower" rel="nofollow">nostalgia</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-19483405000650385982016-11-23T22:03:15.999+11:002016-11-23T22:03:15.999+11:00Why Many People Love Trump - Ian Welsh
Ian Welsh ...<a href="http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-many-people-love-trump/" rel="nofollow">Why Many People Love Trump</a> - Ian Welsh<br /><br />Ian Welsh pasted those four paragraphs from:<br /><a href="http://nonsite.org/editorial/listening-to-trump" rel="nofollow">Listening to Trump By Christian Parenti (New York University)</a> - nonsite.org<br /><br /><a href="http://nonsite.org/about-nonsite" rel="nofollow">About nonsite.org</a><br /><i>...Today, the various theoretical forms of neoliberalism – from the postmodern to the posthuman, from the new historicism to the new pluralism – have become so pervasive that <b>they are nearly invisible.</b> nonsite.org seeks first to make them visible and then to make them less pervasive. Our goal is to criticize what is and replace it with what we think ought to be.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35982095398712684262016-11-23T21:49:37.733+11:002016-11-23T21:49:37.733+11:00Dan P. McAdams chooses his words carefully there c...Dan P. McAdams chooses his words carefully there cognisant that both he and <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/psychiatrists-cant-tell-us-what-they-think-about-trump/" rel="nofollow">Psychiatrists Can't Tell Us What They Think About Trump</a> due to:<br /><br /><a href="http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176%2Fpn.42.10.0002" rel="nofollow">The Goldwater Rule,</a> aka Section 7.3 of the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry:<br /><br /><i>On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44538240192810737832016-11-23T21:48:08.618+11:002016-11-23T21:48:08.618+11:00It's the Anthropocene. Already the Great Dying...It's the Anthropocene. Already the Great Dying. <br /><br />It's Ragnarok.<br /><br />It's <a href="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2016/11/photos-of-the-week-11121118/w01_RTX2TWH2/main_1500.jpg?1479490757" rel="nofollow">Trump:</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/" rel="nofollow">The Mind of Donald Trump</a> by psychology professor <a href="http://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/dan-mcadams.html" rel="nofollow">Dan P. McAdams</a> - The Atlantic, June, 2016.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/05/donald-trump-psychology-personality-republicans-election" rel="nofollow">Donald Trump - A psychological trap: making sense of Donald Trump’s life and personality</a> - Dan P. McAdams, Guardian US, August, 2016. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_P._McAdams" rel="nofollow">Dan P. McAdams - Wikipedia</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55695556895974646452016-11-23T21:46:08.417+11:002016-11-23T21:46:08.417+11:00Dorothy, is it Götterdämmerung?
At "one minu...Dorothy, is it <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung" rel="nofollow">Götterdämmerung</a>?<br /><br />At "one minute to midnight as it is now.." it's certainly past such a twighlight, Ragnarökkr. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-65377391083169819012016-11-23T20:07:56.229+11:002016-11-23T20:07:56.229+11:00The inevitable collateral damage of the soon to be...The inevitable collateral damage of the soon to be ramped up plunderfest of the new repugnant administration.<br />www.tomdispatch.com/post/1116<br />Which is to say that the future of life on earth may be well and truly TRUMPED.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41571619127797239012016-11-23T17:12:00.245+11:002016-11-23T17:12:00.245+11:00Kelly is right to see Trump as a reactionary, full...Kelly is right to see Trump as a reactionary, full of nostalgia for a past which we might describe as an old "political correctness" in economic, military and migration matters. There is this great irony that globalisation and liberal economics have supposedly lifted billions out of poverty across the world while at the same time destroying the lives of millions of Americans. Trump cannot hope to unravel all that and retreat to the 1920s where the same things he advocates were the issues of the day. Kelly seems to be uncertain of the likely success of Trump's rise, as are so many of us - not so impressed with the euphoria of the Right.<br /><br />Then there is the matter of the writing of opinionistas in the Murdoch press, how they become entangled in contradictions and paradoxes through their repetition day after day of bits and pieces which make up the pot-pourri of their collective propaganda. They rave about "freedom of speech" but pillory those who question them; they vilify "identity politics' yet use it to attack others; they criticise 18c but forget about 18d and the success of AHRC in sorting out the thousands of cases proposed. They seize upon particular cases and drag them in at every opportunity, with out details but simply to anchor their argument.<br /><br />Take the case of Leak's cartoon, redeemed by 18d. Yet the cartoon is clearly using stereotypes to make a point which is a side issue to the main topic, the mistreatment of juveniles in detention. The father is Aboriginal, drunk and ignorant of the name of the boy before him. The policeman is Aboriginal (not white) - it is not clear how many detention centre staff are Aboriginal. Yet we are led to believe in this cartoon this is a comment about all (or a vast majority of Aboriginal parents, especially fathers, apparently). So, it is a cartoon - and a very poor one in my opinion. Leak has a history of poor cartoons. Yet the Murdochians support him - a "lovely man" - no matter what.<br /><br />Had a visitor from the UK recently who cannot believe the poverty of the press here in Oz, same in the UK - with one or two exceptions, Murdoch not one of them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29297862181740496382016-11-23T16:09:23.671+11:002016-11-23T16:09:23.671+11:00Dorothy, is it Götterdämmerung?
At "one minu...Dorothy, is it <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung" rel="nofollow">Götterdämmerung</a>?<br /><br />At "one minute to midnight as it is now.." it's certainly past any such twighlight then, Ragnarökkr. <br /><br />It's the Anthropocene. Already the Great Dying. <br /><br />It's Ragnarǫk.<br /><br />It's Trump:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/" rel="nofollow">The Mind of Donald Trump</a> by psychology professor <a href="http://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/dan-mcadams.html" rel="nofollow">Dan P. McAdams</a> - The Atlantic, June, 2016.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/05/donald-trump-psychology-personality-republicans-election" rel="nofollow">Donald Trump - A psychological trap: making sense of Donald Trump’s life and personality</a> - Dan P. McAdams, Guardian US, August, 2016.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_P._McAdams" rel="nofollow">Dan P. McAdams - Wikipedia</a><br /><br />Dan P. McAdams chooses his words carefully there cognisant that both he and <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/psychiatrists-cant-tell-us-what-they-think-about-trump/" rel="nofollow">Psychiatrists Can't Tell Us What They Think About Trump</a> due to:<br /><a href="http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176%2Fpn.42.10.0002" rel="nofollow">The Goldwater Rule,</a> aka Section 7.3 of the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry:<br /><i>On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41527879583925926822016-11-23T15:44:34.336+11:002016-11-23T15:44:34.336+11:00I recommend a book to Andrew Hastie who appears to...I recommend a book to Andrew Hastie who appears to be under the illusion that nobody saw the likes of Donald Trump coming.<br /><br />That book is Friendly Fascism by Bertram Myron Gross. When was it published? Long ago in 1980. It was a bit of a sensation I believe.<br /><br />But Gross was an optimist. He thought the US would avert totalitarianism because its institutions were strong. Present day scholars believe present day circumstances would have diluted Gross's optimism.<br /><br />I too am pessimistic. The sight of those young banker types in the US giving a Nazi salute and the Klu Klux Klan's adoption of Trump as Big Daddy is enough to give anyone the willies.<br /><br />But hey Christmas is coming and the long summer break. She'll be right. Isn't that how it goes?<br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com