With Dame Groan and nattering "Ned" doing quality work on the inequality front - how the rich and chairman Rupert and the boys must be grateful for their diligence - it might seem perverse of the pond to head off below with old Nick, but what a splash and what a reference ...
Who but Nick could think that the Donald was a really good reference point these days? And better still, it meant that the pond could start off with a cartoon ...
Yes, it's never mind the result, it's never mind if you're a flim-flam tin man, a huckster, a booster or a snake oil salesman, if you can make the con work, fool the punters and the johns with your tricks, that's all that matters ...
So what's the game plan? Well it seems it's to tell as many porkies as possible, in as simple-minded a set of slogans as possible, with no heed for tomorrow …
Chant "build the wall", "lock her up" and other inane, mindless stupidities over and over again, and victory will be theirs ...
Hang on, hang on. Say what?
Labor will no doubt run another campaign of lies, scares and personality attacks?
But the Donald ran a campaign of lies, scares and personality attacks …
What the fuck is old Nick talking about? First he urges the coalition to do a Donald, then he doesn't have the first clue what the Donald did, and then he accuses the Labor party of stealing his idea to imitate the Donald …
Talk about clueless … and speaking of the clueless, how could the pond ignore Dame Slap for old Nick's cheap, meretricious trinkets?
Now the pond had to honour Dame Slap simply because she had been blessed by the cult status of a Krygsman …
It's true she's been banging on for weeks about the dangers of having a conscience - something which has never troubled Dame Slap - but the pond is compelled to note it because Krygsman's Trojan Horse makes it so ...
Indeed, indeed, and human rights is something that really shouldn't be talked about … unless of course it's loud Murdochian activists shouting at minorities and their outrageous demands for pesky things like a "living wage" …
Have these minorities no dignity, no sense of shame, at the way their burdensome demands mean that loud Murdochian activists have to spend valuable time pointing out that the most basic of human rights is the right to starve, followed by the right to suffer ...
And so on and on blathers the Murdochian activist, agitated by other activists, so that there's a veritable hotbed of activism … and suddenly, what do you know, with a flourish Dame Slap manages to find a legitimate reason for activism ...
Phew, what a relief. So the butlers at KPMG may go on serving their early morning coffees, and directors might still measure their status in the Chairman's Lounge, because charity should begin at home, or preferably in the board room …
But here's the real sting in the tail. After all that, and after old Nick, Dame Slap surely wouldn't want to remind the pond of her Trumpian agenda ...
Talking of ruses to fleece the suckers, the GOP got that one right, and who was there to don the cap and cheer them on? Which social engineer was on hand to cheer on the fleecing of mum and dad suckers who saw the latest tax break trickle up to the filthy rich and an astonishing deficit?
Yep, the pond, being deeply conservative, has its traditions, and trotting this out regularly as a reminder is one of them ...
And as always the upside to that noble tradition is the way the pond can end with a couple of cartoons ...
A hint to the old Nick: running against Labor on "its appalling record in office from 2007 to 2013" might not be such a smart move. Comparisons are odious, but if you invite people to make them....
ReplyDeleteYeah, Old Nick, like so many of his fellow 'believers' simply can't grasp the actual difference between "winning" and "losing". It's a long established truism that "Oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them."
DeleteSo Abbott did not "win a landslide", Gillard had already lost a landslide in which Rudd merely managed to save a few seats (including his own). Sure Abbott had worked very hard, pre-election, to demonise Gillard, but it's still a moot point whether he was all that successful, or whether people had just rejected Gillard anyway.
Certainly in many of the elections "won" by Howard that Nicky-boi mentions, in fact Labor had cruelled its own prospects (eg by picking on Latham amongst others as leader). When finally Labor held itself together, the LNP not only lost in a landslide, but that wondrously amazing politician and Prime Minister, John Winston Howard got very unceremoniously thrown out of his own safe Liberal seat. But of course, that never, ever gets mentioned, does it.
I try to distinguish between "agency" and "occupancy": "agency" describes those who had some causative and/or driving effect on events and changes; "occupancy" describes those who just happened to be sitting in the chair when events and changes happened.
Most claimed political "victories" are actually instances of occupancy, not agency. Fraser, for example, did take out the 1980 election, but he clearly lost the "drover's dog" election of 1983. Where was his "agency" then ?
"...the most basic of human rights is the right to starve, followed by the right to suffer "
ReplyDeleteBut, butt DP, isn't Anatole correct when he states: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
But then Dame Snap: "...to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens"
Does any sensible, decent and maybe even intelligent person actually "paraphrase Christopher Hitchens" nowadays ? That the Snap does is surely immediate and sufficient reason to condemn Hitchens and all who "paraphrase" him, to condign outer darkness.
Enough of this PC talk of Snap GB. She slaps in a nasty, vindictive way, and that's no Snap.
DeleteFairy nuff, DP. I guess Dearest Janet is back to her 'Dame Slap' worst now.
DeleteIf I remember didn't Howard and Fraser promise a fist full of dollars in the nineteen eighty election and once they won they brought down the budget and took back all they promised.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember The Muncher doing much the same - though more about promises of continuing funding that when elected he savagely cut back on. Just a bunch of thoughtless copycats, those wingnuts.
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