In which the pond cops an elbow to the head from Dame Slap ...

Being deeply conservative, the pond always hesitates when anyone talks of revolution. 

There was certainly a case for things to change in France, but what a pity it involved Robespierre. Ditto Russia in 1917. What a pity that the conservatives, monarchists, Tsarists, call them what you will, managed to produce out of their shameless greed as formidable a beast as Stalin …

See also China and Mao, though Dame Slap is a cheerleader for the Donald, who has cranked the swamp up to eleven, so really the pond shouldn't be too surprised …

All the same, the talk of a need for a revolution in Australia is beyond silly, but all part of the way that extreme rightwing fundamentalists want to import the worse from the United States, a country now so deeply divided and fucked up, in mind and body, that it could well become a basket case in the next few decades, and take the world down with it …and then we'll see where all this idle talk of revolution leads us ...

Now there's something particularly weird and wonderful about Dame Slap finding redemption online, when all the rest of the reptiles week in week out rail about social media and the damage it does, but it gets even richer when she puts Joe Rogan up at the top of the page as someone who should be heeded …

Has she ever watched an MMA match? She probably has, and gets an unseemly excitement, perhaps even a state of arousal, from all the blood, and the sight of unconscious bodies and the thought of all the brain damage that can be done in five minutes …

It's a measure of things, the way this gladiatorial combat, with its deliberate, bloodthirsty echoes of Rome - next stop the thrill of the actual kill - should have marched through the United States and now one of its leading voices - the pond hesitates to say intellectuals - has taken up residence in Dame Slap's mind …

The barbarians aren't at the gate, they're inside the cage, though once again the pond shouldn't be surprised, because Dame Slap's love of punishment and of punishing has always had a strident sense of SM attached to it …

Now the pond only does screen caps but it has left in the images for atmosphere …anyone wanting to find out more about Joe Rogan just has to type in "raging ratbag" and hope that Alex Jones doesn't turn up ...

Actually for a measure of these rebels and atmosphere, the pond should probably have dropped in other images …

There's free thinking for you …a fine form of rebellion against anti-intellectualism ...

Now before proceeding, the pond thought it might be fun to re-write Dame Slap's next par to crank things up a bit …

Adolf Schicklgruber, painter, vegetarian and dog lover, brings his special mix of genius, interspersed with talk of Lebensraum, to the Munich Beer Hall. The Adolf Schicklgruber Experience ambles between two and three hours of commentary about everything from the way white men run faster in the 100 meters to what's wrong with expressionism to the way that the Jews, deformed transgender folk, gypsies, and homosexuals are ruining everything … and has stratospheric audience numbers …because never mind the insights, feel the ratings …

Oh okay, Hitler was never really Schiklgruber, but we're a long way from anything but rabid here ...

Calm, measured and decent is a revolution?

Here, cop a whack of this …

And that's what they love to do to transgender folk and homosexuals and all the other wimps who won't go the elbow …

While supposedly following advice and taking it easy and resting, the pond had a re-look at David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, and was astonished at the male fantasies embedded in it … (spoiler alert).

There's the wimpy son, who transforms himself by beating the shit out of the school bully, and there's the sociopathic dad who's settled down in heartland America, but when called on, can fuck over anyone within cooee, while incidentally delivering a first class barbaric fuck on the stairs … which naturally the wife, hungering for pagan passion and bruising, loves … and then when the psycho dad returns from his final killing spree, he returns to be accepted by the family at the dinner table … and all is well in suburban America (even if it was shot in Canada).

But the pond digresses even if it thinks the movie reveals much about Dame Slap and the state of the United States …the fervent edge of fanatical fundamentalism and intolerance ...

Hey ho, on we go ...

Actually, the pond has sat down with the reptiles for a long time, and played with them, despite their tendency to nip and bite and scratch and claw, but here's the thing.

Routinely the notion of identity politics is peddled as a way of getting agitated and upset by gays or women or TG folk or other minority groups saying they've had a gut full and they're not going to take it anymore … you know, like having a cop blow you away in a traffic stop, or being told how if you have an abortion you're a killing machine from hell ...

If anyone takes the knee, they're immediately labelled as unpatriotic and told to leave the country - so much for the right to silent respectful protest - and if they object to being bashed, or shot at, or otherwise abused, they're told to harden the fuck up, princess ...

Suddenly, it seems verbal or even physical violence has become a respectable form of intellectual theorising …

The pond doesn't much mind if Dame Slap gets aroused by images of blood and violence, but there's a pretty irony to be found in the way that gladiatorial Rome suddenly becomes the way forward for liberalism ...

And there in those last two lines is the essence of Dame Slap's infinite capacity for stupidity. 

Renewed liberalism isn't simply the right to abuse others, especially minorities, and what she's celebrating isn't liberalism … all too often, it's bigotry and fundamentalism and hostility and anger, of the kind which happens when a president rages around calling people animals …

That might be a form of revolution, but as the pond noted at the start, that sort of fucked-up revolution usually leads to the sort of precarious situation the United States currently finds itself in … and now the reptiles want to import the confusion and the chaos and the conflict to Australia …

Well Canada might be dull and earnest and outrageously decorous, but pardon the pond if it prefers a dull life to someone shoving an AR-15 in its face and calling it liberal civilisation …

For this, the pond has returned to play with the reptiles? More fucking jibber jabber about western civilisation? This is western civilisation at work?

Might as well enlist in Daesh. Or might have been better to follow doctors' orders and take another week of sick leave …

Fortunately while the pond was away, the Pope was on fire, and as well as these two cartoons, more real civilised liberalism can be found here ...