In which the pond has a dream, then returns to chanting 'clean dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi' ...

The pond only wanted to acknowledge that latest folly because of the Pope, with more delicious papery here …

But it did produce a brief if rich fantasy moment in the pond …

You see, the story went right off for the lizards of Oz in social media.

The joint was jumping and there was an endless supply of people tweeting away in the lizard Oz account. The pond had never seen anything like it …this being just three of dozens ...

And so on and on. It was as if the reptiles had persuaded the goose to sound like a fool so their social media could have a moment in the sun …

And that's where the pond's rich fantasy life kicked in.

What if the reptiles actually employed a young person who could mock the fat cats, complacent and self-satisfied with their lot?

They have a mocker, but he just sounds like another tired, aged, unhappy reptile shouting at clouds, or at Tim Whydoesnthehaveananglocelticnamephommasanes, or any of the rest of the usual reptile bête noires …

The pond is always anxious for the reptile business plan, and they seem to imagine that trotting out Richo, the Swiss bank account man on a Friday, or Phillip Adams on the weekend, takes care of the alternative crowd, when all it does is rack the demographic up into senile nursing home turf …

No wonder the young go elsewhere, and the reptile business plan is in peril, and their valiant crusades are mainly of interest to their ABC, and complacent, self-satisfied politicians …

But speaking of the crusades, of late the pond has been terribly distressed at the way the reptiles have been forced to report on the appalling war on dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi …

A couple of days ago this heretic turned up talking about the Chinese hoax as if it was somehow real and credible and as if the Donald wasn't to be believed ...

There was more about the company, but the pond had to stop there, imagining the reptiles donning sackcloth and ashes, and wailing at the way they'd been abandoned …

Then came this today …

It was outrageous stuff, and naturally the reptiles did a splash, lining the forces of cleanliness and wholesomeness up against the forces that had turned to the dark side ...

Good old onion muncher, good old Barners.

Stay true, valiant leaders. The Chinese hoax must be exposed to the world …though following the Chinese model, it wouldn't hurt to embrace Australian capitalism, with agrarian socialist, Stalinist state ownership characteristics ...

Good old Rod Sims. Of course back in 2017 the ABC was quoting him thusly here …

...there was Rod Sims at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday: 
"Forty-one per cent of the increase in electricity prices over the last 10 years has been in network costs and we keep forgetting that." He went on: "Those poles and wires that run down your street are the main reason you are paying too much for your electricity." 
According to Mr Sims, extra retail charges account for 24 per cent of the higher prices while higher generation costs as a result of a failure to invest make up 19 per cent of the price hikes. Green energy initiatives contribute just 16 per cent to the recent price hikes. 
On Thursday in Brisbane, responding to questions, the PM concurred, explaining that "particularly for retail customers, the largest single part of your bill is the network costs." 
"That's the poles and wires basically," he said.

… which of course just confirms that dinkum, clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, is the only solution.

Oh what to do, what to do? Who will join the reptiles in their crusade for clean dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi?

Is there a young libertarian anarchist in the house, ready to mock quaint, musty old agrarian socialists like Barners, and Stalinists of the onion muncher kind, and perhaps hire them so they can make an honest forty buck a day living in the gig economy, or must all the cartoonists work for Fairfax, with more Wilcox here …?