In which the pond disrespects the Oz editorialist and the Donald ...

Every so often the pond is forced to take a stand and apply a taste and discretion filter.

The mindless stupidity of that splash from Ridders, with its statement of the bleeding obvious, no doubt as a precursor to yet another bout of mindless Ridders' climate denialism, was a trolling step too far for the pond ...

Ditto this provocation by Erica, designed by the reptiles to bolster the clicks yesterday on a slow afternoon ...

It's the same nonsense as infected the US thanks to the GOP and the Trump, but if the reptiles here are so worried about media elites, why do they claim that they're the elitest of the 'leet?

If you don't want to cop a pounding from Erica, and if you want to keep on importing climate denialism from The Times, shouldn't the banner say "worst newspaper of the year ... for the uninformed or perhaps disinformed Australian" ...

And there were other case studies the pond has stepped around these past few days ...

As usual, the Terror has been at its cesspit best ...

Mark Latham, a man feared by Sydney taxi-drivers, scribbling about leftist militants? Pass ...

The Bolter screeching in rage? Pass ...

There's only so many anti-nausea pills that can be popped with safety, and yet when the reptile editorialist popped up today, the pond broke its rule and stepped into the gutter ...

Demands respect? Vulgarity's a problem?

What, calling people fascists isn't a problem, and isn't vulgar and demeaning?

The pond has now been around the reptiles so long that it's filled to overflowing countless Godwin Law's swear jars ... all the usual insults trip off the tongue, and the fines accumulate like a thugby leaguer talking about the refs ...

What can you do when a useless, smug, so up him or herself they never seen an ironical sun shine, Oz editorialist talks of hypocrisy and demands respect?

These were the same geniuses who lined up to praise the contemptible Leak when he was at his most contemptible ...

That's not the only one of course, the references to the gay fascist brigade are endless in the Murdoch press ...

The reptiles are so used to dishing out homophobia and gay hate that they probably don't think evoking the SS or fascism is in any way disrespectful or vulgar ... and never  mind that it's such an inversion and perversion of history ... (more to Greg Hunt at wikiwand here).

Yet with "fascist" tossed around like confetti, or like pink triangles in a Nazi concentration camp, the reptiles want respect?

Fuck, if there's one thing to get the pond going, it's this sort of hypocritical fuckwitted shit ... and yet it's all of a one with the reptiles attempts to encourage saucy doubts and fears, and get on the right side of little Johnny and all the bigots and homophobes they know constitute their readership (just read any bunch of comments on any of the stories and columns on the issue to see how right they are).

Well the stench of hypocrisy emanating from the publishers of crude and hateful cartoons is good for nausea, a fart joke or a Sideshow Bob gag ...

... but it left the pond wanting a little more ... and there came Cameron Stewart ...

Now it probably comes as news to the reptiles, trapped in the Fox bubble, that a considerable number of US conservatives are anti-Trump.

In this context, talk of an anti-Trump 'ALP crowd' goes beyond the valley of the stupid, into the valley of the weird ... but it does give the pond the chance to provide another link to the Graudian's piece The Wall Street Journal's Trump problem ... which inter alia included:

Murdoch bought the newspaper in 2007, but initially it was thought to be one of the few outlets in his portfolio impervious to his political influence. 
In the Trump era, some staff fear that seems to be changing fast. Murdoch and Trump have known each other for years on the New York scene, but what started out as a reportedly slightly chilly relationship has warmed considerably in recent years. As recently as April, the two were said to be talking “almost every day” (the White House has denied this). Murdoch’s Fox News played a crucial cheerleading role in Trump’s election and before that, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were known to go on double-dates with Murdoch and his ex-wife Wendi Deng, the two women remaining close even after Murdoch split with Deng. Throughout the campaign, Ivanka was a trustee of the $300m fortune allocated to Murdoch’s daughters with Deng, stepping down only after the financial connection became public. 
With Trump in the White House, he and the Australian-born media mogul have grown closer than ever, with Murdoch topping the New York Times’ list of the president’s outside advisers.

It's a useful lens through which to view any story in the lizard Oz about Trump ...

Well there's a profound degree of intellectual dishonesty right there,  in pretending that it's only about personality, and not about policy ...

It's hard to tout a country as a bastion of democracy when it's profoundly corrupt at the highest levels ... (make sure to catch John Oliver on Sheriff Joe).

Meanwhile, what have the Romans done for us lately, apart from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? And apart from suggesting we join in bunging on a do with North Korea?

The reality is that Stewart and Richardson have the difficult job of putting lipstick on a pig, or if you will, pushing shit uphill ... 

It's not as if it's just a few in the Labor party, as opposed to a wide range of conservatives in the US, and leaders and punters around the world ...

 

That was in June - more at Pew here - but it hasn't got any better, and thanks to Trump's behaviour, and the kowtowing of his minions, it'll probably take until the twelfth of never to change ...

It'll take a lot more work by Stewart, Richardson and the rest of the mob to explain why ROW should line up behind the hardcore dropkick losers that constitute the Donald's base. That's the United States' problem, and they're welcome to it ...

The reality is that Chairman Rupert backed a singular dud, a right royal loser, and the only winners thus far have been late night comics and their audiences, and the cartoonists' union ...