The reptiles are off to a flying start ... take a rise in iron ore prices, gratuitously link it to Donald Trump, and see how the front page soars with joy ...
Well it's important to distract from the top of the page news that if you head by boat to Australia, you get a green card for the United States (while Obama is in power) and Gérard Depardieu misses out ...
Yes, it's movie day at the pond, thanks to the reptiles and major Mitchell ... and while others are busy already with the time wasting exercise of tracking the Donald's lies ... so many, so huuggee ...
Yes, it's movie day at the pond, thanks to the reptiles and major Mitchell ... and while others are busy already with the time wasting exercise of tracking the Donald's lies ... so many, so huuggee ...
... links here ... the pond is busy tracking the reptiles dumping all the blame on Obama ...
Yes, the Republicans in the two houses were totally in favour of it, and chafing at the bit, and the wretched Obama held them back ...
... that at Politico here, but as we're speaking of the wretched Obama, ssshhh, not a word about Obama bailing out Malware, let's all bow in humble pleading to the Donald and beg him to take stock ...
Oh reptiles, reptiles, but enough of these pleasures, because it's time to throw a major Mitchell on the barbie (remember, once the stone is cooked, throw away the galah and eat the stone).
You see, it's movie day, and never you mind that Mr Smith Goes to Washington was made in 1939 and Mr Deeds Goes To Town in 1936, Mr Smith was released in October, and the second world war started in September, and that's good enough for the pond ...
Pedants might brood about It's a Wonderful Life being made in 1946, but damn you pedants, just because it was a box office disappointment, that's because returning vets had other things on their minds ...
When in doubt stretch and conflate iron ore prices, and movie release dates, to make a metaphorical point ...
Yes those damned multi-millionaire music stars alienated the constituency, and dammit, they turned out for a billionaire, billions status uncertain, taxation returns unknown ... and busy using his Trump brand to offshore work for millions so that his cheapskate brands might make millions from gullible, desperate Americans willing to pay for a brand to bolster their failing esteem ...
Yes, a United States united in hopes and dreams ...
Well, the pond will reflect on that ... and reflect on the way that many of the reptiles campaigned relentlessly against the boondoggle designed to buy off discontented voters in relation to the subs ...
And cheered at the closure of the car industry in Australia and egged on the onion muncher and applauded his complete lack of industry in car industry workers ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, was that only last calendar year? How time flies when you're having Popish fun ... (and Pope will return here).
Let them re-train, haven't we suffered enough thanks to the intertubes to show them how it's done? ... and now, and now, oh dear, how to deal with Trumpist rhetoric and Trumpist attacks on all things the reptiles hold dear?
Yes, it's going to get tricky in these post-Trump days for the reptiles as they confront a world turning on its head ...
But fear not, the major Mitchell is a wily bird, and on top of all that, just as he is always on top of everything.
You don't get to spot Orders of Lenin on passing historian traitors without knowing a thing or three ...
Actually - the pond doesn't know how to quite break this news to the major Mitchell - Capra's films are what they call "movies", and they aren't the real world. The "haves" of the Donald and Chairman Rupert kind didn't make squillions by giving suckers an even break, let alone a hands up ...
They cheated, lied, went bankrupt or sold businesses and sacked people with wild abandon, provided the bucks always stayed in the right bank account ...
A good place to start for media professionals would in fact be to look at the business practices of the Chairman ... and then go on to a detailed examination of the Donald's tax returns ...
Oh wait ...
Never mind, much better to blather on about Hollywood fantasies rolled out by the dream factory, now partially owned by the Chairman himself (oh you cunning old fox you, how the pond loves to download your movies).
What next? The major Mitchell rediscovers Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny as proper guides to economic and social settings ... and writes movingly of how Santa Claus gives people a hand up, while the Easter Bunny gives them a grand set of falsies after the choccies have worked their magic on the enamel ...
Give people a hand up?
Well that can't mean wicked welfare. The major Mitchell must mean a stint working in the salt mines, up at 3 am for a 25 hour day, while living on succulent scraps of tar ...
We can all dream of such joys, and there's more David Rowe dreaming here ...
... and there's more LOL Donaldcats than you can shake a ginger stick at ...
Damn you, satirical pussies, damn you to hell ...
Oh wait, we haven't handed out the usual weekly pictures ... well, better late than never ... come on Santa, you earned your Frank Capra gong ...
So when did Capitalism and Globalisation stop being the way that floats all our boats and the way that everyone gets to climb the ladder unless they choose the wrong choice? What happened to that ideology? Have I missed something?
ReplyDeleteYou have missed plenty, Anony. The "rising tide" idea metamorphosed into - in Bertrand Russell's words - a "Sunday truth" during the time of Ronnie Raygun.
DeleteRussell was proclaiming how people could be induced to believe in such "truths", and how they then actually behave. So, proposing that people could be induced to believe that water boils when its frozen, he proclaimed:
"That cold makes water boil would be a Sunday truth, sacred and mystical, to be professed in awed tones, but not to be acted on in daily life. What would happen would be that any verbal denial of the mystic doctrine would be made illegal, and obstinate heretics would be "frozen" at the stake."
And so we can see, in this age of Trumpelstiltskin, how that has come to pass.
Do you think Trump will be able to cope with the requirements of the presidential office though? He won't like having to do all that boring stuff involved in being prez and not having an audience and the pay would be lousy no? So I'm thinking we need to worry about Pence more than that man with his tiny hands and his beady little eyes.
DeleteHe didn't look all that Trumpish when he was in the white house. Perhaps he was bothered by the blandness of the decor and was planning to get Invanka in to do a make over?
And very interesting to hear from Abbort Tony that people do not elect "role models They elect leaders". Well fmd there is another of my fondly held illusions gone cos I had somehow gotten the idea in my head that in our civilized western way of life a leader was a role model.
"He didn't look all that Trumpish when he was in the white house."
DeleteTrump will need support from Democrat votes in the house, and senate, and Wall St support. So it's nice Obomber, nice Killiary, nice Clintons, the wall now a fence, 45% tariffs a misquote, racism bad, violence bad, and on and on. Bearing in mind all that Bob Hawke did for the conservatives, it's not beyond possibility Trump may actually achieve something worthwhile for the 99%.
Been asking the same question of everyone. When did free trade become leftism?
DeleteAh yes... when Trump voters believed America was last 'great':
ReplyDeletehttps://www.indy100.com/article/trump-supporters-were-asked-when-america-was-last-great-their-answers-were-terrifying--Zyw9dryw8W
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/25/a-majority-of-donald-trump-supporters-think-everything-has-been-terrible-since-the-1950s/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/make-the-sixties-great-again/481167/
All depends who you ask, doesn't it?
So should we completely regress social progress back to the 50's to keep the baby boomers happy?
It wins elections, don't it?
As for those 'deplorables' with their 'unfashionable opinions', it's time to bring them into the fold, cabinet if you will, so that the new economic policies and decisions will pass the magistrates court test (formerly known as the pub test).
While those filthy rich Wall St elite types (such wording not being used a term of abuse in this instance) who keep on getting richer should be allowed to continue to do so as it is up to governments to stimulate growth and reform taxation and welfare to pull up the less skilled.
And this will be done by CUTTING taxes for the rich and DECREASING welfare support.
Yeah, that'll stop those leftists from protesting after the election result (as if the Trump fans wouldn't have done the same if Trump lost following the 'rigging' accusations).