In which the pond refuses, come what may, to sing Do they know it's Christmas?

The pond had aimed to start off sounding all highfalutin' and US Presidential by talking of sundry Horsefaces out and about in the world, but Barners put paid to that with his homely, rustic style, showing hope beats on against the tide …

 

It send the pond into an agony of fits. With the onion muncher now a distant memory, should the resurgent Barners be at the top of the page?

Never mind, once again the reptiles - such an affectionate term, who's heard of newshound, ink slinger, scribe or scrivener these days? - were once again in a Wentworth panic, and were joyous that the Deputy Sheriff had been called back into the fray, and was riding to the rescue, and might stop that enigma dressed as a riddle and posing as a question …

Ah, a shape shifter - possibly reptilian - and an enigma in the sphinx mode - and even worse, a closet Liberal ... the Deputy Sheriff will take care of that sort of nonsense …

But the splash reminded the pond that today was savvy Savva day, and it's been yonks since the pond paid attention or cared, and yet she's been given the authoritative imprimatur of a Lobbecke, so attention had to be paid …

Oh and elsewhere in the rag, the reptiles were joining in, with their usual comedy stylings …

Of course implicit in that comedy is that it really is okay to be white and to sing hideous songs of the Do they know it's Christmas? kind.

… though to be fair, the pond must say if that's the sort of shit that they want to sing in the reptile Xmas party, please count the pond out from attending …

Meanwhile, the ABC actually did a little field research, which took them off to 4Chan, the stormfront of ideas frequently picked up by the reptiles …

Yes, it really is okay to be white and sing Do they know it's Christmas?

There's more here, including this delicious irony trap:

Dr Kaz Ross, a lecturer in global cultures and languages from the University of Tasmania, said the "It's OK to be white" project came directly from the white supremacist playbook. 
 'They're trying to wedge their political opponents. Somebody says, 'It's OK to be white, don't you agree?' If you say, 'No I don't agree', oh well what — so you're against white people? she said."And if you say I do agree, they say, 'Oh OK, then so basically there's no such thing as white privilege and that white people can be treated badly like minorities." 
Dr Ross said the roots of the phrase track back to the Nazi movement. "This phrase goes right back to some key words that were written by David Lane, a notorious American neo-Nazi, and his key words were these 14 words. "And you'll see this around on Nazi sites — 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children'," she said.

You see how it's played? It's okay to be white, because it's okay to sing a really crappy condescending song like Do they know it's Christmas?

And so their Pauline was given a free kick …

"And you'll see this around on Nazi sites — 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children',"

And you'll read in the lizard Oz, valiant defender of Western Civilisation, "if we don't speak up against this, they will actually suppress us. I won't let it happen."

Cue endless reptile blather about Western Civilisation …

But the best trick of all? Why, to link this blather with climate science …

Yes, that's what passes for comedy at the lizard Oz, and while diving in the murky waters of the lizard Oz sewer, the pond almost completely forgot about the savvy Savva, so punch-drunk with recent events, she's decided to go full Royal…

Strange as it may seem, there are worse fates than being compelled to live out your days in the United States, with nary a word about taking the sugar off the table. Has the Donald so debased the country that it's no longer considered sugar?

But on with the worrywarting ...

Sad, the way some reptiles of the softer Liberal kind are now so deep into anxiety …

The pond actually blames the lizard Oz and its endless blather about Western Civilisation for the panic and white-blooded confusion in the Liberal party and the government, but others have a different explanation … (and just how did the oscillating fan come to infest the ABC like a plague of jelly fish?)

Ah, the sound of squishing jelly … but at least it's better than the sound of squishing blood …

Too much detail, and yet where's the lizard Oz, and the MAGA cap wearing Dame Slap and all the other reptile Donald lovers? 

Indeed, if there is any lesson to be learned from this terrible affair, it’s how blind so much of official Washington and the American press were to M.B.S.’s true nature. When the crown prince visited the United States earlier this year, he was fêted in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, on Wall Street, and, of course, by the Trump White House, as a messiah—in the mold of Gorbachev or Gandhi. “Historic night it was,’’ Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson, the actor, wrote, on Instagram, of a dinner with M.B.S. hosted by Rupert Murdoch at his vineyard in Bel Air. (New Yorker here).

Ah, the ever reliable chairman … doing his best for Western Civilisation ...

The Hollywood Reporter: Saudi Prince Dines with Rupert Murdoch and Bob Iger as his entourage takes selfless with stars.

And so on and on ...

Maybe they should be taking in a Rowe cartoon to check on where their jelly politics and Western Civilisation blather has led them, with more Rowe here …