The pond just knew it … the reptiles are at one with the most extreme form of Anglicanism in the country, a form of angry Sydney Anglicanism that even Anglicans in other parts of the country view as extreme and can't stand …
Why was the pond surprised? Well, with some modesty, it wasn't … because when it comes to Pellism or radical Xian ratbaggery, the reptiles are never a surprise.
Luckily, however, this day there were other reptile fish to fry.
Come on down bromancer and deliver a dose of Donald mania …
Come on down bromancer and deliver a dose of Donald mania …
Occasionally - rarely, it's true - the pond will come across someone who thinks that the bromancer has some connection to reality.
But these are usually people who never actually bother to read him, and so don't understand how he lives in an alternative Donald-powered twilight zone.
But these are usually people who never actually bother to read him, and so don't understand how he lives in an alternative Donald-powered twilight zone.
The pond offers this outing as an educational service for those benighted lost souls, in the hope that they might move back from the bormancer's reality television laden la la land to some semblance of reality ...
Note the false equivalences, the refusal to talk about all the nationalist talk that's been doing the rounds, the refusal to even note Fox News as a hotbed, or cesspit, source of relentless far right propaganda … demonising potential refugees for bringing in non-existent diseases of the smallpox kind … (and yes, those elderly Jews who were shockingly butchered - to have survived the Holocaust and got to 92 and be killed that way - actually took a kindly view on immigrants) …
Now as opposed to the bromancer, there's some interesting reading doing the rounds, as with Christopher R. Browning's The Suffocation of Democracy, at time of writing outside the NYRB paywall …
Browning makes some interesting historical comparisons, and then there's Megan Davis's Free speech has never been 'free' in The Monthly, available to non-subscribers if they haven't used up their visits …
But enough of intelligent writing, the pond specialises in drivel, and the bromancer is always keen to oblige ...
It is of course dissembling, and full of faux comparisons, because in the end the bromancer is a closet Donald man … not as far out from the closet as the MAGA cap-donning Dame Slap, but a fellow traveller, the kind of Lord Haw-Haw that came in handy in other eras …
You can imagine the response from conservatives if ISIS were committing such atrocities like the pipe bomb campaign or the synagogue killings. There would be calls for draconian security measures, racial profiling, surveillance, and more. By contrast, the Trump administration has failed to make countering white nationalism a priority. The budget of a Department of Justice program focused on countering white nationalism has been slashed, though the FBI has found the time to devote some attention to "black identity extremists."
Head here for the links in that piece, but the pond will repeat one, to the Anti-Defamation League … White supremacists committed most extremist killings in 2017 ...
It's a pity to resort to body counts, but if that's what it takes …
It also takes some kind of chutzpah to live out the NRA dream of armed guards in every house of worship, school, home and toilet in a country, but the Donald, and presumably the bromancer, seem intent on living the dream …
It also takes some kind of chutzpah to live out the NRA dream of armed guards in every house of worship, school, home and toilet in a country, but the Donald, and presumably the bromancer, seem intent on living the dream …
Meanwhile …
Oh dear, USA Today, but never mind, our Greg is dumb.
You could body slam him, and he'd think it was just the usual way a reporter of low intelligence should be treated ...
Please allow the pond to pick just one of those examples … that the onion muncher wasn't and isn't a professional hater. Well, he's a professional politician, and over the years he's been a proven hater, adept at sniping, wrecking, undermining, and carrying on like the complete and professional saboteur.
If his act of revenge against Malware wasn't a form of self-mutilating hate, the pond will have to revise its definition of hate, because it went beyond the usual form of politics as an ugly form of ice hockey into a deeply personal form of fear and loathing …
Usually, as a form of relief after a dose of the bromancer, the pond would resort to a cartoon or three …
But it's hard for humour to flourish in a world of hate, violence and death ...
Did you just see that? The bromancer, after doing his forelock tugging, and Donald apologising, and false equivalences, just suggested that people opposed to his views are the most violent, dishonest, uncivil, polarising, emotional and profoundly unfair people doing the rounds.
Talk about a way of lowering the temperature and producing civil discourse …sound off like some ratbag paranoid hysteric on Fox News ...
Talk about a way of lowering the temperature and producing civil discourse …sound off like some ratbag paranoid hysteric on Fox News ...
But our Greg is smart ...by the way never wrestle him. Anybody who can do that sort of verbal body slam, he's the Donald's guy ...
How to respond, how to deal with that Donald-inspired level of abuse without dishing back a similar level of abuse?
Yep, a Rowe cartoon is the only answer, with many more Rowe answers here …
Yep, a Rowe cartoon is the only answer, with many more Rowe answers here …
Just the sort of treat the bromancer loves …bet he's a big fan of the waffen cones …
And now here's one for reptile specialists.
It's a slow burn and will only be of interest to those who want to see the lizard Oz editorial policies at work …
It's a slow burn and will only be of interest to those who want to see the lizard Oz editorial policies at work …
First there came these snippets late yesterday …
Good old Mattie, what a goer, but the real interest is in that outing by Swannie …
You see, at first, in yesterday's outing, it was relatively neutral in the header … richie takes on fair dinkum nonsense, whatever ...
Of course he's everything that the reptiles fear … someone young and filthy rich who doesn't follow the dinkum clean Oz coal oi oi oi line and blathers about renewable energy and new ways of doing things… but the line of attack hadn't yet quite formed ...
Note that "more to come" ...
Uniquely positioned to cover an ecosystem? Relax, that's code for reptile wanker, but at least the pond could feel comfortable running a Pope cartoon celebrating the coalition love of coal, with more papal splendour to be seen here …
And now back to the main game.
Yes, there was "more to come" ...
Yes, there was "more to come" ...
You see, by today, the line of attack had been developed and refined, the angle put in place.
Now it was top of the revolving digital fickle finger of fame … and the header ran 'Fair-dinkum attack a bit rich ...
Now it was top of the revolving digital fickle finger of fame … and the header ran 'Fair-dinkum attack a bit rich ...
The content had also been skewed …
Now we were dealing with indolent fat cats, young, rich and out of touch with the common herd …
These wretches were completely unlike the reptiles, who, in their inner city Surry Hills 'leet eerie, surrounded by state of the art baristas, were much more in touch with ordinary folk ...
These wretches were completely unlike the reptiles, who, in their inner city Surry Hills 'leet eerie, surrounded by state of the art baristas, were much more in touch with ordinary folk ...
Wait for it. Now comes the sob stories about those who are a long drive from the baristas of Surry Hills.
What on earth do they do for a decent coffee in Holmview or Woolaware?
What on earth do they do for a decent coffee in Holmview or Woolaware?
It's such a naked reptile ploy. Don't argue the policies, send up the indolent young yuppie rich, drag out sob stories about the long-suffering poor …
That's how it's done in Surry Hills, and the pond loves the form of this Swannie … he really has drunk the kool aid.
He knows how to STTRS - or as movie lovers recall, Stick to the Reptile Script …
He knows you have to KRSS, or Keep Reptile Shit Simple … or risk harassing our mellows …
Yes, it's time to bag and tag those rich buggers with their indolent attitude to dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi oi ..
Work the grid, STTRS, and everyone can turn power caller, or even be uniquely positioned to explain how dinkum clean coal can fit into Australia's fast growing technology ecosystem, and how that ecosystem need never change, or at least change only enough to allow dinkum clean Oz coal to carry on until the 12th of never, and that's a long, long time ...
Well played, Swannie, and that little line from Angus at the end is much appreciated by lovers of bullshit beef throughout the land …
The pond likes the cut of your jib, given time you could become a real reptile player. You might even make it upstairs and become real power caller. The pond even reckons you know what tardigrade means ...
The pond fervently hopes you never do a cawing Crowe and rush away for the relative sanity of a Fairfax gig …
The pond likes the cut of your jib, given time you could become a real reptile player. You might even make it upstairs and become real power caller. The pond even reckons you know what tardigrade means ...
The pond fervently hopes you never do a cawing Crowe and rush away for the relative sanity of a Fairfax gig …
And now a video clip dedicated to the bromancer so he can keep on enjoying the reality TV show world in which he now lives …
Or maybe not, maybe just a few more cartoons …
Well here's a name that nobody mentions in America these days: Andrew Kehoe. I wonder what motivated him.
ReplyDeleteAnd what "left-wing" act was bigger than Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma bomb ? Unless, of course, the Bro is claiming that McVeigh was "centre left".
Which "left-wing" organisation out-competes the KKK ? Or is the KKK "centre left" too ?
So who are these wierdos who you claim "thinks that the bromancer has some connection to reality." ? Once upon a golden time, the Bromancer was still at least in sight of reality - within Hubble range of it anyway. But I reckon that silly, juvenile god-botherer book he's recently published has given the game away - he's really gone full psycho looney (which is not the same as sane-loony like we all are here).
Notwithstanding any of that, I am really curious as to where the likes of David Swan finds his very cooperative interlocutors (the families Cass and Hall). Just the right amount of ignorance and mental vacancy to fit in with a reptile pack of lies. Where do the reptiles get them ? Are they members of the Liberal Party ? Or what ?
And perhaps someone should try to tell Greg Brown and Matt Canavan that the age of oil (and coal) is over - even though, in obedience to Australian tradition, we are giving our discoveries and inventions away as always - this time to Jemena.
https://blog.csiro.au/hyper-for-hydrogen-our-world-first-carbon-free-fuel/
https://jemena.com.au/about/innovation/project-h2go
But I suppose trying to introduce any of the reptiles and their political fellow travellers (or 'running dog lackeys' as we rude, aggressive, uncivil centre-leftists used to say) is the true definition of 'ultimately futile'.