The lure of the Donald continues apace, but it's the pond's duty to tend to the reptiles resident in fortress Oz, always on the look out for threats … and who better to have as an armed-to-the-teeth teacher than Dame Slap?
Oh she's at the top of the heap, and she's been blessed with a Lobbecke cartoon … say no more, it's time to enter the classroom and learn more about the vile, filthy pinko pervert commie socialist greenies that threaten doom for all …
What follows is a sublime example of Dame Slap at her very best …
Around this point the pond's brain began to hurt, as it usually does when reading Dame Slap.
Is this the very same Dame that slipped out onto the streets of New York at night wearing a MAGA cap and ready to celebrate the elevation of the Donald?
Is this how a straight-talking Donald makes sense?
The Donald a straight-talking straight-shooter?
Is it any wonder that Rowson is getting more surreal by the day?
As always, the pond suggests dropping in on the Graudian cartoon section here on a regular basis … it's all that's needed to keep in touch with an island state gradually slipping into irrelevance, incapable even of working out what to do with the Irish border and with the Europeans determined to extract a little pleasure from the process ...
Ah dear, there we go again, talking about boons for the rich and hits for the low-income taxpayer, while at the very same time celebrating Uber …
… while Uber goes about its business of transferring current obligations, such as superannuation, and other parts of conventional pay packets, off into the future, there to be paid by taxpayers and the government should anyone in old age want some kind of pension or means of living …
Don't look at the pond, it'll be dead by then, and in the meantime the bill for the whole gig economy, the Deliveroos and the Ubers and all the rest of them will finally come home to roost, as the young 'uns finally realise that everyone finally does get old, and either you've got some money tucked away somewhere, leftovers from your generous Uber or Deliveroo stipend ... or an obliging government that remembers what a welfare state was like …
... or it's out on the street for you … and if Dame Slap has anything to say about it, you'll be out on the street, while she Ubers around in grand style …
... or it's out on the street for you … and if Dame Slap has anything to say about it, you'll be out on the street, while she Ubers around in grand style …
As for the British economy, the pond turned to that notoriously leftist news organisation Reuters, for an update here …
Hmm, a bit like the splendid temperatures in the Arctic, speaking of that devious UN plot to introduce world government by Xmas ...
Oh dear, it must be time for a Bell, who can also be found in abundance at the Graudian archive ...
But really we all know what this is ultimately about.
It's just been an elaborate feather dance, with the real point to warn us all of the dangers of Comrade Bill, and the risk of that notorious condition - "Zinger fallout" - likely to occur on Mad as Hell tonight ...
Come the revolution?
That'll likely come when young members of the gig economy go looking for their pensions.
The pond hopes they'll remember to thank Dame Slap, enamoured as she is with Uber and Hayek … and no doubt, with a passing tip of the hat to Ayn Rand, happy to bank a little welfare in retirement while she could …
Of course in the US, plans continue to cull the herd so that retirement won't be a problem for many, as Rowe noted in his cartoon here ...
And as the Kushner catches the Kelly security clearance kiss of doom, here's another one for MAGA cap wearers ...
My brain also aches when I try to read this. You have this crazy woman running around affixing labels to everything in sight as if a bit of name calling constitutes a logical argument. Is she trying to call Shorten a radical socialist? I really cannot bring myself to read it again.
ReplyDeleteThe real problem in the UK or here is not weak Tory leadership or failure to sell the message, it's the failure of neoliberalism. You can throw Hayek on the table all you like, if people are worse off you are only helping them establish who is to blame.
I'll save you the trouble, B - yes that is exactly what she is saying. Shorten is a radical socialist. Just like Malware is soft-cock leftie. Tones is a traditional, slightly right of centre Liberal.
DeleteDame Snap and the reptiles have dragged the Overton window so far to the right they are teetering on the window sill of insanity.
The Snap: "...it will take at least a decade for people to feel the full, dismal results of left-wing leaders who have taken power"
ReplyDeleteIs that so ? Oh well, with any luck me and my just turned 9yo moggy will both be insensible, one way or another by then. And yes, we do have to congratulate the fast-acting Right Wingnuts when it only took months - certainly less than a year - for their citizens to feel the full fury of rampant 'austerity economics'. And, happily, they are still feeling its full effects.
But sadly I think Dame Snap has gotten very 'mulberry' (as in 'round and round and round the bush'). But then I guess that's the way of all reptiles.