How can they possibly match their American cousins?
But this being Sunday, and in lieu of a meditation, the pond would like to mention valiant local warriors who try to keep up in their own way ... including Bernard Salt, out of the gates on the weekend, with a spiffing reference to "virtue signalling" ...
The pond was particularly impressed that this mindless, moronic repetition of the reptiles, and therefore the pond's favourite phrase, and current endless talking point, should have sat beneath "have we always been so shallow?"
Salt's capacity for shallow - please, someone strangle him before he gets too deep - is beyond the valley of the superficial ...
Salt's capacity for shallow - please, someone strangle him before he gets too deep - is beyond the valley of the superficial ...
And the pond would like to honour motoring correspondent Philip King for joining in the reptile baying at the moon about electric cars ...
It takes considerable skill to be part of the mindless reptile herd, and King proved to the judges that he's mastered the art ...
And there were other honourable mentions ... did the pond ever expect to see the Terror endorse the tax-evading king of poncedom, Bono?
Well done, Dannielle, so caring and discerning, and men will appreciate your lavish desire to please, and as a result, the pond can rest easy on this Sunday... now have you thought of a supportive piece along the lines "Elton John is right" ...?
And what about the reptiles who struggled to reassure local punters that the US was at the top of its game in its determination to take down Russia and China?
And what about the reptiles who struggled to reassure local punters that the US was at the top of its game in its determination to take down Russia and China?
A watershed moment from Paul Maley, and how pleasing that everything the Donald has said about Vlad the journalist killer can now be safely ignored ...
Strange how the pond thought that the Donald thought Vlad was something of a whizz ...
Strange how the pond thought that the Donald thought Vlad was something of a whizz ...
But now after the entrée must come the meat, and the pond decided to look further afield, to see what was humming at the Speccie table.
What do you know,there was Cory, still basking himself in the sunshine at the success of his rock 'n roll coup, still a hot contender to return to the pond banner, and that battered old shoe, Mark Latham, had washed up on the shore, no doubt to deliver another bile-filled spray, but it was all for naught, because the pond only had eyes for our man Flint.
Flinty, who has a column titled "Aux bien pensants", as a way of establishing his ridgy didge dinkum cobber commonality with your local tradie crew, was in most robust and excellent form ... and he knew how to match it with Hannity and the rest of the mob, and displayed an intimate awareness of all that's best in Trump TV ...
What do you know,there was Cory, still basking himself in the sunshine at the success of his rock 'n roll coup, still a hot contender to return to the pond banner, and that battered old shoe, Mark Latham, had washed up on the shore, no doubt to deliver another bile-filled spray, but it was all for naught, because the pond only had eyes for our man Flint.
Flinty, who has a column titled "Aux bien pensants", as a way of establishing his ridgy didge dinkum cobber commonality with your local tradie crew, was in most robust and excellent form ... and he knew how to match it with Hannity and the rest of the mob, and displayed an intimate awareness of all that's best in Trump TV ...
Now all this is merely the fluffing of feathers, and our Flinty's display of his mental finery, a mere mapping out of the terrain, and a way of establishing his keen capacity for stunning insights and analysis ...
There's little doubt in this opening flurry that Flinty has established that the media consists of knaves and fools, and that Flinty himself is one of the few repositories of real truth ...and with that established, the campaign to expose the fake news can begin ...
Our man Flint, with his usual scintillating wit, raises a whole host of issues here, from Stormy weather to massive voter fraud, to distracting Alex, to the wiretapping, now universally reported as having occurred ...
The pond isn't quite sure the point our man Flinty is making about the Stormy weather, except it seems that it's alleged ... but then the pond always knew that the WSJ was a fake news outlet, owned by a fake news mogul of the worst kind ...
As for the wire-tapping, the pond immediately googled this universal reporting, and sadly came up with old, stale, tepid news, of the Newsweek kind.
Did the pond ever expect to be quoting Newsweek? Well did the pond ever expect to see Bono hailed as being right (oh thank you Dannielle, thank you once again from the bottom of the pond's heart) ...
This was back in September 2017 last year, here, but the pond was filled with awe at Flinty's tremendous ability to ferret through Tucker and Hannity and the like and retrieve a few rotting fishheads and feed them to the squawking gulls ... while making light of the Stormy weather ...
Now Flinty is a little behind the times in some of his other talking points.
He doesn't seem to have caught up on the deep state conspiracy, or the FBI's secret society, or the latest email scandal, but still, he does really solid work, and he shows he listens to the best that the opiate drug craze can produce ... our man Limbaugh ...
Has there been a better parrot than this? Even allowing for the parrot that did such splendid work in I, Tonya?
Sure, it's just stuff regurgitated from abroad, a melange of half-baked and ill-assembled premasticated squid that a penguin might feed its chick, but that's Flinty showing how much he cares for the common folk, the pensant peasant, if you will ...
And in that spirit, the pond thought it should catch up with a recent TT, with a reminder that a new TT will shortly be found here ...
It seems to me that saying that people are 'virtue signalling' is an ad hominem and is one of the logical fallacies that render an argument invalid. And isn't the identification of the mistakes people make when arguing for their preferences rather than thinking logically one of the admirable things about western civilisation?
ReplyDeleteFlinty must scarfing down quaaludes like smarties if he thinks "Trumps considerable achievements" are Trumps, considerable or achievements:
ReplyDeleteeconomic revival - largely due to Obama policy. The US economy is a juggernaut that takes years to show the impact of any given presidential decision.
major tax [reform] - a gift to his rich mates that will punch a big enough hole in the US's financial position the IMF have warned it is one of the three big threats to global prosperity this year.
regulatory reform - removing food quality standards, industrial conditions and protections, protection from financial corruption, clean water measures...
defence - a $200 billion boost to help them pivot towards an unwinnable war with a major modern state (China, Russia etc).
illegal immigration - wall bullshit and racial profiling.
routing of Isis - by the Iraqi and Syrian armies, Peshmerga and Rojava/SDF. US contribution - less than 0.5%.
recognition of Jerusalem - helping to delay any remote possibility of peace for another four years.
And that's the good side of the ledger, Flinty?
Yeah but "Trump has done good ! America is Great again !" is the virtue signal that all of the Right Wingnuts - especially the intellectually deprived such as Our Flinty - are touting now.
DeleteThat it bears about zero connection with reality is irrelevant - just about everything the human race believes most passionately has zero reality connection. Remember Trump himself: “People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you." And he and his many minions are telling them, and they are believing him.
Flinty et al being just the obvious examples.
PS: thank you again FD for that Budj Bim Cultural Landscape link.
DeleteIn return, maybe youll enjoy this:
Australian raptors start fires to flush out prey
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/australian-raptors-start-fires-to-flush-out-prey
No worries GB, glad you checked back on that page (I'm always so late on).
DeleteYeah, I read that story in New Scientist a couple of weeks ago. Mind. Blown.
Lying hypocritical right wing vermin accuse the LEFT of virtue signaling. I suppose it must be difficult for the right as they don’t possess ANY known virtues themselves and thus get embarrassed by displays of conscience and thoughtfulness.
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