Many of the reptiles are employed this day doing dutiful and appropriate Murdochian tasks … celebrating dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and skilfully finding many very unique* (*licensed from News 24) ways to avoid mentioning that Malware just lost another Newspoll …
Ever since the onion muncher faded into the distance, or at least on to 2GB so he and the parrot could console each other, the reptiles have learnt the art of spinning in ways that would shame your average crazy redback spider web … and today they're in overdrive.
The dreaded 30th Newspoll loss landed on 9th April, and here we are on 2nd July, and the reptiles long ago stopped counting, and now triumphalism rends the air …but for the record and for what it's worth, Malware is up to 35 straight losses ...
The dreaded 30th Newspoll loss landed on 9th April, and here we are on 2nd July, and the reptiles long ago stopped counting, and now triumphalism rends the air …but for the record and for what it's worth, Malware is up to 35 straight losses ...
Luckily, the pond has become rat cunning over the years and knows Monday morning is not the time for this sort of reptile trolling … it's Oreo day!
Hmm, should the pond break the news now? You know, the way the Chinese have taken over the Oreo and made it their own, with flavours even weirder than your average Oreo …
But in a way a banana Oreo is quite metaphorical for what follows today …
Look, banana Oreo, don't talk to the pond, talk to the hand, or at least talk to your very favourite President, the Donald …
Oh it's just too sublime. Week in, week out, the Oreo attempts bizarre defences in relation to the Donald and then the sleepwalker awakes and suddenly scribbles furiously about the Chinese dragon …
It's just too silly for words, but it does help explain why Xi is doing the Donald and the United States slowly … and the pond now tries to curry favour by eating at the local Chinese takeaway at least once a week ...
Again… please don't aim the hysterics at the pond, go talk to the hand or the Donald …
Oh okay the pond has run that one before … but if repetition dulls the mind, speaking of Xi and North Korea, what to make of the Graudian's Trump: 'possible' North Korea nuclear deal may not 'work out' …
A day after it was reported that Pyongyang has increased its production of enriched uranium at secret sites, Fox Business broadcast an interview with the president. Trump was pressed on whether he trusted Kim Jong-un, whom he met last month in Singapore and with whom he said he had “a great chemistry”, to make good on promises to destroy Pyongyang’s nuclear program. “I made a deal with him, I shook hands with him, I really believe he means it,” said Trump. “Now, is it possible? Have I been in deals, have you been in things where, people didn’t work out? It’s possible.”
Trump’s words reversed his declaration upon his return from Singapore that North Korea had ended its nuclear ambitons. “Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” the president tweeted on 13 June. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”
Speaking to Fox, Trump also sought to shrink the perceived cost of the declared agreement falling through, seeking to frame his negotiations with North Korea as having been achieved without concessions. “We gave nothing,” he said. “Think of this. What did I do, really, when you think of it? I went there. So the papers say, ‘He went’, oh, meaning I went to Singapore. So we had a meeting. We didn’t do anything.”
In fact, Trump agreed to end a range of joint military exercises with South Korea, meant to act as a deterrent against the North. In the interview with Fox, he said the exercises, “which I call war games”, were too expensive.
And so on. Talk about a patsy, and now an Oreo of the patsy kind wants to imagine the pond has forgotten all the nonsense and stupidities she's scribbled about the Donald as a master politician and deal-maker?
Sometimes the pond would dig back through old files and organise a shame parade, but there's still a large gobbet of current Oreo paranoia to go ...
Sometimes the pond would dig back through old files and organise a shame parade, but there's still a large gobbet of current Oreo paranoia to go ...
Yes, there's an elephant in the room alright …
Here, have a few more cartoons and try to remember what you wrote about the Donald last week, or last month, or last year, you banana Oreo goose you …
Oreo: "[China] It is a thoroughly modern nation using indirect methods to derive advantages from weaker states. The euphemistic term for the strategy is soft power."
ReplyDeleteAnd the technical term for the "strategy" is suzerainty, as exercised and practised via Admiral Zheng He's pacific fleet back in 1405 to 1433. There was no confusion as to who owned the South Pacific Sea back then.
Oreo again: "There was once hope that China's political system would become more open as it embraced a greater degree of economic liberalism, but this has not happened."
"There was once hope" ? No, there was once absolute ideological certainty that once capitalism came to China, liberal democracy would inevitably, and rapidly, follow. But all that followed was capitalistic excess with China now a leader (along with Australia and others) in the worldwide race to greater economic and social inequity. Hooray for idealism.
An alternate title for this piece would be "the Chinese are smarter than we are". Australia is aligned with a nation that thinks you win hearts and minds by dropping bombs. It's just a dumb way of exercising power unless your objective is to exploit the ongoing chaos. Aid is cheaper than super-carriers (or F35's if your the snotty little kid that just tags along).
ReplyDeleteI suspect the biscuit has lead a sheltered enough life not to understand to what degree neoliberalism has failed people. If she cannot understand it in the context of a wealthy nation she can never understand how it would be viewed in developing nations. They want something that improves lives not history lessons.
We are losing, but not because the voter is asleep, rather because the government's default position is "I'm with stupid".
Don't forget that Australia has effectively been a vassal of our suzerain the USA ever since we capitulated to it in WWII. Ostensibly to save ourselves from a Japanese invasion that had most likely been abandoned as unprofitable anyway.
DeleteBut then I guess that's how the suzerain/vassal state is established: if we bow down to you, will you save us from them.