Faced with an un-spinnable shift in numbers, as Malware scrabbled for a toehold by promising dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, for all, the reptiles resorted to a desperate distraction strategy - feed the pond a multitude of favourites, including but not limited to …
What to do? There was the Oreo pretending she gave a flying fuck about liberal democracy and liberalism, and there was Moorice in doomsayer mode, sifting through the entrails to predict the end of the world …
The funny thing with Moorice is that he routinely decries the hysteria and alarmists devoted to the hoax of the climate cult, yet on any other day, his paranoid shrieks reverberate in the ears of the reptiles as they hit up with a barista-approved coffee in Surry Hills …
As for the Oreo, how could she reconcile her love for the Donald with her anxiety about liberal democracy? Would it be a case of another Oreo mystery?
How could Moorice resolve his love of the Donald with his fear of debt, seeing as how the Donald has sent US debt into the stratosphere?
Talk about mysteries as divine and deep as transubstantiation ...
Never mind, the solution is simply to gorge on the cannibalistic feast, and do both the Oreo and Moorice in a single hit …
Ah indeed, indeed, we can have far too much liberalism. Don't blame the Oreo and her love of the Donald, blame the liberal 'leets who keep on blathering on about 'live and let live' …
Already this is a column that's shaping up nicely and would have found a natural home in Germany in the 1930s …
Oh okay, the pond gave Adolf a few lines from the Oreo and could have added more, purely for the fun of feeding the Godwin's Law swear jar …
But now to add some sauce to the recipe, it will be necessary to invoke that dreadful man Soros and supranational institutions designed to weaken the will of the volk ...
But now to add some sauce to the recipe, it will be necessary to invoke that dreadful man Soros and supranational institutions designed to weaken the will of the volk ...
It's remarkable how the IPA never turns up in these rants, but the pond can't spend more time with the Oreo, it has Moorice standing by, waiting to announce the end of the world …
The Oreo's a supporter of principled liberalism? Well it gave the pond a good laugh for a Monday, and so to Moorice, and the good news is that there will be no climate science jokes ...
Sometimes Moorice must forget his role as one of the world's greatest climate scientists and must don the garb of a Chicken Little, and walk amongst ordinary people, perhaps ordering a glass of milk at the bar as he contemplates the problems of the world …
We must forget that he's Donald lover, as the Donald cranks up trade wars, tariffs, and huge debt …
Instead Moorice must excoriate Malware, but presumably not for spending taxpayer money on dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi …
Never mind, Moorice has been blessed with the cult status of the Lobbecke for the day - how the Oreo must squirm at being treated as a second class demagogue - and we're all sinking into the abyss ...
Hmm, what about the Donald? Will Moorice be able to reconcile his love of the Donald with his fear of debt?
Probably not … after all, there's fear of debt, but let no one stand in the way of Moorice's love of the Donald ...
Hmm, will Moorice mention the elephant in the room?
You know, the one he was celebrating not so long ago for sticking it to the Europeans? The pond went through the archives to dig up this bit of wild-eyed love for the Donald's maverick ways ...
Gee, the pond feels like pausing for a drink …
And so to a final gobbet ...
Indeed, indeed, and in the meantime, we must put our trust in Moorice's bizarre analysis, hoping that somehow this time it will be different …
It won't … we will pay the price for his Donald love, and possibly sooner than even Moorice is willing to let on … but that doesn't mean the pond can't end with a cartoon from the reliable Rowe, with more excellent fun here ...
"Liberal democracy needs help"
ReplyDeleteJesus, Murdoch gave them Fox News - what more can a person do to assist??
Quite right, vc. When you already have the Messiah on board, what else can you possibly need ?
Delete"an excerpt from 19th Century historian Lord Macaulay’s History of England, on hundreds of years of unwarranted panic about government debt" - https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/worrying-deficit-17th-century.html
ReplyDeleteAh yes, well "debt" like the underlying "money" that it's measured in, is just a world-wide "collusion" to believe in a mental construct that has no objective reality.
DeleteBut anyway, here's a t'rrific list of "sovereign debt crises" to contemplate. You may notice one amusing thing: there is no list for "Pacific" and no entry for "Australia".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises
But there's no Australian appearance because back in Great Depression days we ultra-patriotic colonials agreed to pay back the Bank of England, despite that meaning, in Jack Lang's words:
"If we spent three and a half million pounds overseas to meet interest payments we would have to stop issuing dole tickets. It was simply a question of whether the unemployed would be left to starve or whether the bond holders went unpaid."
But that's how international austerity economics works, I guess.
There was movement at the station
ReplyDeleteFor the word had got around
That the Bolt from all regret had run away.
(Maybe someone could add to this?)
And had joined the wild Trump forces - he was worth a Foxy mound,
DeleteSo all the crooks had gathered to the play.
All the tried and guilty loonies from the blogs both near and far,
Had mustered at the White House overnight.
Oh well, I tried ...
What a treat is the Oriel! No wonder you won't be ignoring her DP! As is my habit from time to time, I imagine that the published works by the reptiles have been submitted to an editor. Having just had a young essay writer complete her VCE at our place, applying a teacher's marking template will always bring results that can only help. Here we go, J Oriel, para 4:
ReplyDelete"The popular backlash against liberalism is producing widespread anxiety. ( citation required). Political elites are desperately seeking legitimacy as their grip on power is forcibly relaxed by free-willed citizens who prefer grassroots movement to supranational authority (citation required). In reaction to the resurgence of the democratic spirit, liberal elites are tossing Newspeak at the plebs (citation like REALLY required here dude). Thus far they have turned patriots into xenophobes, democrats into populists..." and on it goes. You're making this shit up JO, surely??
No wonder teachers turn to grog.
Now what does the Wikipedia content criteria specification say ? "Wikipedia: Verifiability, which explains that it must be possible for readers to verify all content against credible external sources." Aah, just a tiny touch of innocent idealism there.
DeleteBut I don't know that it's JO making this up, vc. Frankly, I don't think she has the wit. But assuredly somebody is making it up - probably in some "think tank" in the USA. Apart from stuff that is uniquely specific to Australia, the more general stuff - eg "In reaction to the resurgence of the democratic spirit, liberal elites are tossing Newspeak at the plebs" - seems to emerge in America and then flow on into our local reptile press a few days, or occasionally a week or so, later. An obvious example is casting Soros as some kind of universal Leftist revolutionary - that's now making an appearance in local reptile rants.
But we don't seem to have acquired our own QAnon yet. :-)