A culture of grievance? Grievance politics? Wretches donning sackcloth and ashes and wailing and sighing and moaning and groaning, and grieving, oh so deeply grieving?
Why nattering "Ned" must be talking about the reptiles, furiously scribbling in their Surry Hills bunker, and who better at grievance politics than the grieving Dame Slap?
Yes, the wheels have turned, and if we step carefully past Dame Washalot, we'll arrive at Dame Slap, at the top of the grieving tree ...
Well the alternative would be to spend quality time with the bromancer howling at the moon, petulantly demanding a system that most likely wouldn't work, but would surely cost a motza.
Perhaps he has in mind the missile defence system deployed yesterday by Japan and the United States in relation to the North Korean missile that travelled over Japanese air space ... by golly, having all the US military doing exercises really taught the North Koreans a lesson. So it's on with the drums of war ...
But back to Dame Slap, because in its own way, it's astonishing news.
The diabolical unrepresentative pig swill known as the Senate is ostensibly the main concern of Dame Slap, but the real story is the abjuring of that notorious onion-munching drunk ...
Put it how you will - renounce, foreswear, recant, retract - the Dame puts a few elbows into the onion muncher's noggin along the way ... strange days indeed, most peculiar mama ...
It's easy to see why the lizard Oz sub devised the splash that pointed to Dame Slap's piece.
If the column had been headed "Abbott and his dysfunctional and arrogant office delivered broken promises and poor leadership", it might have created rioting in the Surry Hills bunker.
What would the notorious onion munching drunk have made of that kind of splash? The welcome mat is still out for him at the lizard Oz, and that would be no way to treat a treasured reactionary bigoted guest ...
There's another story in today's lizard Oz which helps understand why Dame Slap has taken a view on the onion muncher ...
Phew, Cory is still determined to unseat the onion muncher and regain his proper place at the top of the pond's page.
Luckily for the notoriously heavy tippling onion muncher, Dame Slap lightens up on the abuse in the second gobbet, and lashes out at a goodly number of other targets for refusing to adopt her simplistic paranoid climate denialist conspiracy theorist view of the world ...
Dear sweet long absent Jesus, it's come to this.
The notoriously free swilling onion muncher has reduced Dame Slap to quoting Bertolt Brecht ... as she blames the onion muncher for the breach of trust between politicians and the people ...
Bertolt Brecht!?
So many questions indeed. Has Dame Slap turned pinko revolutionary anarchist alienated commie Marxist socialist? Wasn't there an Ayn Rand quote to hand to cover the situation? Well there's more Brecht poems for her here if she wants more inspiration ...including the one that seems to have sent Dame Slap off on her onion muncher tirade ...
Never mind, speaking of great men, the inspired Rowe recently offered this up, with more Rowe here ...
Whenever the pond sees that weird gnarled figure, it thinks of that poem by Shelley ...
I can see why the Reptiles are such fun for you, DP. A wailer wailing about wailers; a deceiver deceiving about deceivers; a warmonger mongering about warmongers (ok, that needs work). Hypocrites and scoundrels do put on a good act, it has to be said. Is it just me or does Cory look like Jim Carrey?
ReplyDelete"As opposition leader, Abbott campaigned as a genuine defender of free speech. As prime minister he fled the scene of battle when politics beckoned him into retreat. And now Abbott says the time is right for reforming speech in Australia. What happens when the politics gets tough again?"
ReplyDeleteIt's a little too wordy for a headstone, but a wonderful tribute to the actual value of the onion muncher from Dame Slap. Succint, thoughtful, and an indication of the dead end the muncher offers now, and always will.
Delicious too, that the onion muncher is writing for a Liberal journal titled "The Contributor" the day after he's been busted dipping deep into entitlements again.
ReplyDelete"As a busy ex-Prime Minister....."
Poor haunted Henry, not worthy of a Loon guernsey today, DP? He admits, with penetrating insight, to being " stuck between the past and the future," a choice nugget of loon wisdom if I ever read one. Surely, surely, he deserves a Loonpond koala stamp for that economically crafted objet?
ReplyDeleteI reckon that the obvious solution to the hysterical threat from North Korea is that we should all be given fridge magnets fitted with the latest state of the art app so it automatically kicks in to create a zooper-dooper force field to vaporize any incoming missiles.
ReplyDeleteIt would of course be much much cheaper that all the high tech shields proposed by the bromancer and all the other strutting pointy heads (with their heads up their butts)