Well that's one of the comedy items from yesterday done with today, thanks to the prescient Pope, with more papery for papal lovers here …
The pond likes to fantasise that in the crazed quest for attention, the reptiles will go more and more to extremes, like the narcissist Donald, or perhaps like rampant dinosaurs from ancient times or more recently a terribilius part of the horribilus Spielbergian franchise. Or maybe The Hunger Games would be a better metaphor. There’s always plenty of contenders, and plenty of options.
How hard would it be to whip up a column explaining how rogue killers stalked the Saudi embassy and none of the Saudis had the first clue what was happening?
Oops, maybe not today.
And there were plenty of other losers too …
Sheesh, Dame Slap giving Jocyie a love hug? Has she lost her mojo or what? The pond almost feels like a retrospective award to the bromancer for yesterday's first class scribbling about teh smarts …
Remember this …
It only took a day for the bold, measured and responsible moves to produce a result…
They had to send the bromancer off for some renovation, and sent in a substitute to anxiously ask the question …
D'oh, and the front digital page of the lizard Oz showed what had really been bothering ScoMo and the reptiles …
Oh no, the Donald's on the prowl, which is why the pond's award for dinosaur of the day goes to the lizard Oz editorialist …
Recalibrated? So that's what they call a desperate, dire, cynical, by-election driven, thought bubble these days?
Ain't it grand to see a solemn, self-important reptile attempt to take a pathetic by-election ploy seriously as a grand foreign policy flourish?
Oh yes, just feel the love, killer Saudi thugs ...
How the pond would love to see the Trumpian lizard Oz talk of the significance of a ScoMo brain fart …
And so, with the reptile du jour done and dusted, to a little indulgence. You see, quite nearby in the digital edition, the bouffant one seemed to take a different view …
By this stage, the bouffant one had the pond rolling jaffas and the lizard Oz editorialist down the aisle ...
So that's what "recalibration" really means … the Morrison government's worst white face day …
And the laughs kept coming in a colour piece …
And then came the capper right at the end of the piece ...
It was just a "review" and a decision to move had not been made? So that's what a significant recalibration and love of the Donald means today?
In all that, the pond almost forgot to mention the religious nonsense that is going to drag on as long as a new course in Western Civilisation …
Fundie Xians here, demanding Islamics there, oh it'll be a reptile feast of folly and foolishness ...
But after such a huge amount of fun, immediate and impending, all the pond could think to do was reach for a reliable Rowe, with more reliable Rowe here ...
"Yesterday was Morrison's worst day" - oh Shanners! You've jumped early my son I fear.
ReplyDeleteMorrison's had more bad days than The Oz has had utterly useless opinonistas. I appreciate the urge to just reach out and grab the nearest bad day as a highlight/lowlight.
I suppose they are going through similar feelings in the US since late 2016. "He's called a woman he paid for sex while his wife was coddling his son "horseface" and she's called him "tiny". Yesterday was his worst day".
You get the vibe.
Go Sharkies.
I just love the way SloMo is trying so very hard to play "identity politics" with the Wentworth Jews. And with Trump too, of course - two for the price of one !
DeleteBut of course there has been conservatives and wingnuts and 'alt-rights' for millenia before there ever came to be Lefties and Progressives. So of course the Righties are devoted to "identity": Identity religion, identity wars, even, later on, identity politics - just like the LNP.
"Dictators revive disappearing act" by Nina Khruscheva.
ReplyDeleteAh, so good to see that a Khrushev is still active in world political journalism (Nina is the granddaughter of Nikita Khruschev's eldest son). Of course, everybody enjoys that famous Khruschev joke, don't they. This one:
After taking control of the Poliburo, Kruschev began a tour of Russia to explain to the people just how appallingly awful Joe Stalin had been. After delivering his condemnation of Stalin's evil doings to a 'town hall' audience in outback Siberia, one of the attendees called out:
"So what were you doing while all this was going on ?"
"Who said that !", yelled Khruschev, "Who said that !", he yelled again.
Total dead silence in the hall.
"Now you know what I was doing," said Khruschev.
So, as to the reptile editorialist: "Trump ...was doing what he promised during the election, and fulfilling what Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton had all promised but failed to deliver."
Now there's only one problem with that: Obama never promised any such thing. Sure, Barack did say that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” which isn't quite the same thing, though the "undivided" bit might be considered to be heading that way.
And that's the problem with uncritically copying Trump's pronouncements: you just end up telling all the same lies.