The pond had such a splendid response, in the comments section, to the bromancer's last outing, that naturally the pond went back to the well as soon as the opportunity presented itself ...
After all, the pond had the chance to listen to the bromancer attempt a defence of the indefensible, namely good old Barners, on The Drum last night ...
The pond only heard the proceedings from another room, but it seemed that the bromancer managed to pulverise the panel, and reduce the debate to the nonsensical with his taste for drivel ...
Who knows, but those with an enormously strong stomach can revisit the onanistic one doing it in public, or at least on public television, here ...
Naturally the pond thought it might be safer to approach the beast in the more sedate medium of print ...
It looked promising, especially when the bromancer promised that it was complicated.
No doubt the bromancer would offer up a lengthy exegesis explaining everything ... in much the same way as he'd explained that the Vietnam war was a splendid guide to the way to formulate foreign affairs ...
Bummer dude, it was more like a quick piss on the carpet of the kind that so upset the Dude ...
Say what? Meryl Streep and it's complicated ...? Nine short pars and that's it, that's all, he wrote?
And as for the notion that it was all about food security, why in subsequent times, did the Indonesian government feel comfortable with the Graudian running the story Indonesia's 80% cut in cattle imports takes Australian industry by surprise?
Could someone explain how the Indonesian government could directly threaten the food security of a big portion of Indonesia's people in such a blatant way?
It's complicated alright, but how silly of the pond to expect a fuckwit like the bromancer would have the first clue as to the complications ...
It's complicated alright, but how silly of the pond to expect a fuckwit like the bromancer would have the first clue as to the complications ...
Never mind, it reflects a trend at the lizard Oz, this piece ...
Of late the reptiles have been tossing off shorter and shorter pieces, flung in to shore up the numbers on the opinion pages and offer a kind of click bait for those who love to sample delicacies such as the oysterish bromancer ...
Oh well, you win some, and you lose some, and Barners will have to wait for some other white knight to bail him out ...
Meanwhile, those with a hunger for more will find some rich comedy in Climate policy report hailed by Greg Hunt written by former Liberal candidate (with forced video in the Fairfax style).
The pond was especially delighted by the way the walri man pleaded ignorance as a defence ...
"No information was provided to either the department or the minister by the office on the political affiliations of the department's recommended panellist or any other panellist, nor would such a course of action have been appropriate."
And speaking of reports, lo and behold, what hovered in to view than a plethora of reports of the cleansing of a report, at the Graudian with Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report, and at the ABC with Australia references stripped from UN climate change report and at Fairfax with Australia cut from UN report ...
Scrubbed, stripped, cut ... let's not worry about the wording, let's stand by for dark muttering of "Orwellian" from the reptiles of Oz ...
Still waiting ...
Well as we're into movie references, thanks to the bromancer and the dingo stealing Barner's baby, this one springs to mind ...
And as we're on a movie roll this day, and as this interminable election campaign rolls on into Sunday - so the Productivity Commission can spring into action without benefit of penalty rates - even Rowe seemed to be reduced to black hole despair and movie references ...
More Rowe here, but the pond has to draw the line at Event Horizon, surely one of the worst clunkers to feature working actor Sam Neill ...
Shouldn't Malware have had second thoughts about calling his ship, designed to sail smoothly through space to the next election, the "Barners Event Horizon"?
Strangely it reminded the pond of a comical review in The New Yorker by Anthony Lane of the latest comic book dross, Captain America: Civil War, with Lane noting that Thomas Hobbes had said as much as needed to be said about the exercise some 366 years before ...
Poor Hobbes. Little did he understand that the possibility of nature would include the Bromancer, Barners, and Donald Trump and onion munchers and smooth eastern suburbs types who would choke on the notion of speaking truth to power, or even calling the barking mad, genuinely, truly barking mad. (Does Bill Shorten read the pond? Is there some shared synchronicity in a taste for the barking mad?)
Not even half way through assorted election campaigns, and already the "possibility of nature" is rent and torn, much as the planet is, and who knows what horrors wait ahead, in plain sight of the walri man...
Strangely it reminded the pond of a comical review in The New Yorker by Anthony Lane of the latest comic book dross, Captain America: Civil War, with Lane noting that Thomas Hobbes had said as much as needed to be said about the exercise some 366 years before ...
Poor Hobbes. Little did he understand that the possibility of nature would include the Bromancer, Barners, and Donald Trump and onion munchers and smooth eastern suburbs types who would choke on the notion of speaking truth to power, or even calling the barking mad, genuinely, truly barking mad. (Does Bill Shorten read the pond? Is there some shared synchronicity in a taste for the barking mad?)
Not even half way through assorted election campaigns, and already the "possibility of nature" is rent and torn, much as the planet is, and who knows what horrors wait ahead, in plain sight of the walri man...
I thought the Indonesians were pissed off at us because we bugged their president and his wife.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-18/australia-spied-on-indonesian-president,-leaked-documents-reveal/5098860
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ReplyDeleteWe often marvel at your ability to wade through the bile and stupidity, but Sheridan at 12:30 last night was too much for me. I flicked him the bird and turned off the TV and went and did something mre useful with my life. A couple of games of Solitare and off to bed "Other People's Money" called.
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ReplyDeleteThe bloody press have the intelligence and memory of a grain of sand. They swallow the Libs. rubbish about Labor debt without recalling how Labor steered us through the WFC and Hockey doubling the deficit in his 1st few months as Treasurer.
ReplyDeleteLikewise they are all on the bandwagon of this bullshit about Labor and the live exports ban as if it was done on a whim.
It was done after the Australian public were appalled and outraged at the cruelty and abuse suffered by cattle at the hands of sadistic Indonesian abattior workers.
What a Murdoch flunky the bearded on is. On the drum he was name dropping Indonesion ministers and officials as if he is in their inner circle of mates.
I see the Telegraph is keeping it's fair and balanced (apologies to Fox News lol) record on reporting on the election.
Labor should call them out on these slanderous lies every day. Shorten should just hold up the rag and declare it a lie and refuse questions from Murdoch's toadies in the rat pack, oops, I meant press pack.
We're used to Barnaby getting away with saying the first thing entering his head.
ReplyDeleteAnd while the Bromancer sees himself foremost as a (LNP) government apologist, he should at least try for accuracy, even when it requires a greater understanding of language. He repeated the line that the Gillard government cancelled the live meat export trade to Indonesia.
No they didn't. What they did was suspend it pending a through investigation into the trade in the interest of minimising animal cruelty. The difference?
Well, let's pt it in alnguage that Barners would understand. 'Suspended' is when something or someone is put aside until an investigation is made. Arthur Sinodinos is the prime example. He's ready to go back into the thick of things if cleared.
'Cancelled' is somewhat more permanent. Activity is ended. Mal Brough is the example here. He resigned or was sacked from the ministry. He won't be standing for parliament again. So he's cancelled.
Way too sophisticated for Barners and the Bromancer, GD. Try thinking back to when you were in First or Second Grade (err, Years 1 and 2 I think they call it now).
DeleteBut really, it's all just examples of the RWNJ dictum: "Believe the lie !". Just like Donnelly unquestionably believing the Dinesh D'Souza lie about the Stanford students (Hey, hey, ho, ho, ...) which D'Souza personally had to believe too.
And you can't challenge them with facts which they'll rationalize away or simply ignore. It's popularly called 'the backfire effect':
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/