In which the pond does a Weisser ...

The pond can never understand why, when it sees a Weisser on the loose, that it reaches for a life-saving grant ...

The memory might be jogged if there's some mention of cutting waste,  ending the debt and  deficit, and talk of long-suffering taxpayers threatened by a banana republic and the ruling 'leet of rent-seekers ...

Ah well, there are always deep, ineluctable mysteries, and instead perhaps the pond should focus on how the Weisser came to attention this day in the lizard Oz - rather than worrying about the way that she nauseates viewers of The Drum and ensures it achieves the status of "must flick the off button now" viewing ...

You see, at one time Malware was a fervent republican, and Paul Keating dared to point this out. But then Malware was once a fervent futurist, and embraced agile and innovative interactivity ... and then ...

And that's how the Weisser ended up with this in the lizard Oz ...

... which turned out to be at the bottom of this chain of pivots ...

The funny thing is, no one outside the reptiles has paid much attention to Keating. Everyone knows that under Malware the notion of a republic is a dead duck, a useless goose ...

Malware is notoriously a forelock-tugging, sycophantic, pandering gutless wonder, ruling at the behest of the mutton Dutton and others who see him as a willing tool as well as a useless fool, and at any time he can be brought to heel with a crack of the whip ... especially when he wanders off the plantation and begins to talk about another voluntary postal survey ...

That 'thought bubble' quickly disappeared into the post-new year ether ...though assorted pundits dived back into the past to produce yet another example of the Malware follies, a quisling willing to salute whatever flag happens to be up the pole ...

This isn’t the first time Turnbull has spoken about a postal vote in relation to the republican question. In an op-ed for The Australian back in 1997, Turnbull wrote that voluntary postal voting “flies in the face of Australian democratic values” and that such a process would likely disenfranchise large sections of the community. So yes, he does appear to have softened his position ~ever so slightly~. (Junkee here).

But enough of our very own smirking Janus, because the pond started off by thinking of the Weisser ...

The Weisser always strikes the pond as fundamentally stupid, inherently and blatantly so, and to run an argument about migration as a measure of republics v monarchies is deeply silly.

The pond has to only mention one economic migrant as a counter-thrust ...

(to be found under the delightful header The Madness of King Murdoch).

Now the pond doesn't mind if the Weisser wants to mock and denigrate the United States, and contend that it's failed republic and agree that the Donald poses a singular presidential catastrophe ... 

After all ...

...but logic would come in handy ...

That's simply bizarre. You see, under the monarchist model, Gough Whitlam appointed John Kerr Governor-General and everything went to hell in a handbasket, so what on earth is her point?

It's not as if monarchies don't have their moments, just as any republic would have its constitutional moments.

Did Kerr feel bound by weight of convention or precedent, and feel constrained when he contrived and conspired to do Fraser's bidding? What are we to make of Ms. Simpson? Que King George II? Whither Cromwell?

It's a monumentally silly argument, and it gets worse when the Weisser carries on with a history lesson that got too much even for a pond devoted to reptile silliness ...

So who fucked up Latin America and Africa? Sure there was the occasional republic involved, but didn't all those glorious imperialistic colonial monarchies have something to do with it? And who ensured that the Weimar Republic was a loser from the get go? Oh sure the perfidious French had something to do with it, but so did hard-nosed monarchist England ...

You see, arguing this way is the sort of thing you might expect in a playground when children get to talking about the sex lives of their parents.

Everyone has a tarnished past. 

But if the Weisser wants to insist that in the Donald, the US has quickly succumbed to a narcissist demagogue with racist, authoritarian, white nationalist and fascist tendencies, she should feel free ... provided she mentions one of the Donald's chief enablers, owner of the very rag for which she's scribbling, voter with his feet and his corporate wealth, and so American citizen of the republic.

In reality, all this is just an idle distraction, though Weisser is so inept that the tell is too easy to pick.

A more interesting question is rather how a country remote from Britain might feel about having a Prince Chuck as its monarch?

It seems Weisser thinks that King Chuck is the way to go ...

Given half a chance, the pond can never resist a montage of the Weisser-anointed possible future King Chuck, with and without his consort ...

      

The pond delights in the notion that around the land, federal and state governments will have to hang on the wall a portrait of King Chuck, symbol of subservience to a foreign power ...

Naturally it's all the fault of the Irish ...

Or even worse, we might end up like the United States, a third rate democracy, a Donald republic ... amen to the chairman ...

(here)

And now, thanks to the returning Rowe, the pond must indulge in one last scatological republican outburst for the day, taking Dr Strangelove into a very strange place, with more, sometimes less scatological, Rowe here ...

Phew, who'd have thought Slim Pickens was a more normal and sane image?