Good old Barners remains top of the news cycle in the Terror and the lizard Oz in big and small 45 min ways, but the rustic one has committed a great crime and perhaps also a mortal sin, by talking to Fairfax …
But credit where credit is due, this was all thanks to the Northern Daily Bleeder …
The tide will turn? By talking to Fairfax?
It's an outrageous, unforgivable thought crime, and the reptiles will have their revenge …at that moment, the pond had a sinking feeling that Barners was gone. Oh he might get on the phone, and try to rally the troops, but he'd talked to Fairfax ...
Meanwhile, the commentariat at the lizard Oz began to get back to normal …
Dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi … but there was something wrong here.
Why was it that trusty Alan Moran was leading the charge, and not the leading conservative in the land, the man the pond has stayed loyal to through thick and thin?
Why was Mad as Hell's very sensible suggestion ignored by Malware's mob?
After all, there was a handy, experienced replacement for Barners standing by and at the ready to step into the acting position at a moment's notice...
And here the pond must report the sorriest news of all …
Et tu bromancer?
Say what?
Misguided? The onion muncher's push is dead?
Why the next thing you know, reading the bromancer might feel like reading the Graudian, as the vindictive, cardigan-wearing English imports gleefully reported on Scottie and the others having a go at the man who would still be king ...
But the unkindest cut of all came from the bromancer ...
A hundred per cent wrong? A populist panderer? A wannabe Harry Hardheart looking for a populist corner of resentment?
The very things that Moorice himself celebrated yesterday in the lizard Oz, and yet today the bromancer stabs Moorice and the onion muncher in the heart with talk of increasingly negative forces and puny tactical accomplishments?
Could it get any worse? Could the bromancer talk of the onion muncher's "almost cartoonishly simplistic economic arguments"?
The pond's heart sank ...
Wretched populism?
The man who would be king again a wretched, failed, loser, drop-kick populist?
Could it get any worse?
Well the pond is now seriously reviewing the onion muncher's prized position in the pond's banner, but be fair, at least no one is yet comparing the onion muncher to a scuttling rat, while Barners stays in the naughty corner …
Oh scrub that, someone has, and there's more scuttling rats at Rowe here ...
Bromancer: "...immigration makes the economy bigger and makes, over time, everybody more affluent"
ReplyDeleteOk then why not double, or treble, or more, the migrant intake ? There is, for instance, many tens of millions of Indians, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshis (amongst many others) who could migrate to Australia. Why not take in at least a million per year - pretty quick we'd all be very rich and Australia would be up in the top five economies of the world (instead of kinda sharing 12th and 13th places with South Korea and occasionally Russia).
Oh, but, butt: "...provided it's a well-run program."
Damn, there's always a catch, isn't there.
Why not let in the most entrepreneurial and brave, who can afford a ride on a leaky boat, and don't mind risking all? They'd be sure to make a go of it …you know, natural selection, Darwin, and all that stuff ...
DeleteOh wait, the pond always gets it wrong … understanding the reptile mind, GB, is a century-long task, and the pond has barely begun ...
If you work in engineering or health you certainly bump into a lot of people that came as kids on those leaky boats - Nguyens & Ngs who attended to their homework instead of goofing off like the people around them.
DeleteIt makes you wonder why conservatives cannot learn from their own experience, from the repeated angst that accompanied each wave of migration and just dissipated with time.
Yair but, DP, they might make a real success of it - like Frank Lowy, Harry Triguboff, Richard Pratt or even Sam Chong - and take over and kick the reptiles out of their earthly paradise. I don't think they'd favour that.
DeleteBut good luck with attempting to understand the reptile mind: to me it's like a quantum phenomena - the moment you look at it, it changes into something else and then tunnels away into indeterminacy.