The reptiles are spooked … though the pond can't imagine why …
Oh wait …
News Corp Australia staff expressed shock at receiving an email about 9am on Wednesday, detailing "the redundancy summary" for employees "over 200K".
The email reveals a redundancy entitlement of nearly $210,000 to The Australian's contributing economics editor Judith Sloan and details her $357,000 salary. (L'Age here).Oh wait …
Dear sweet long absent lord, $375k a year for the thoughts of Dame Groan?
Talk about the pond's fatal mistake. There it was thinking that climate science was a devious plot by scientists to line their pockets, when the real game was lining Dame Groan's purse with climate science denialist riches …(relax, she's still with the reptiles, there's no job vacancy at the moment. At the moment).
But back to the rats in the ranks, the ghost that haunts the castle, that dreadful apparition, the invisible hand striking terror in all those who sense it …
...Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to the pond, or at least the savvy Savva:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to us,
Speak to us:
(Cock crows, reptiles writhe in anxiety)
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!
Will the NBN ever work?
Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
And therein haunt the Liberal party and the reptiles
Speak of it: stay, and speak!
Sorry, the pond got it wrong, here's the invisible hand …
But enough of Western Civilisation, and the invisible hand, and full-blown rampant reptile paranoia and hysteria, because it's time to gloat along with the savvy Savva …
How now Horatio? It's not all Malware's fault?
Perhaps it might even be the fault of those wretches who in their self-indulgent folly, killed the king, and now he stalks the battlements, haunting the reptiles with his dread and bloodied visage… about to speak, until the cock did crew ...
...And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
And now, with the ghost safely in Wentworth, it's left for the savvy Savva to pour mercury into the ear of anyone listening … and to do the tricky deed for, quite possibly, a handsome stipend ...
Speaking of Banks, the reptiles this morning were deep in a sense of betrayal and loss …
What an EXCLUSIVE. Look how the hussies hug each other, while devoted members are moved to tears and shattered by the betrayal … and yet, surely the reptiles would have scored more clicks if they'd stayed the course with yesterday's late arvo featured splash?
Ah reptiles, torn between Reddit and 375k a year … but speaking of cows and emissions and onion munching ...
As always, after the savvy Savva has had her way, and talked of the grim task of rebuilding and reshaping and remoulding and reviving and revitalising and so on and so forth, the pond always likes to turn to her fellow reptiles for an alternative … for keeping things the way they are.
What sayeth the brightest, most expensive minds at the top of the digital opinion page?
That's not good …someone daring to point out the monstrous stupidity of the mutton Dutton, and a reptile worried about ScoMo's big stick?
How lucky for the pond that wedged into between was the brightest reptile of them all, yet again guaranteed cult status with a Lobbecke ...
The most capable, the best-known and the most impressive backbench senator in Australia?
By golly, they work hard for the money in reptile la la land …
Absolutely fabulous climate science denialism? Did the pond catch the wrong TV show?
Here at Fairfax for the active links… and here's the Absolutely Fabulous bromancer ...
He's a professional political journalist, and he didn't hear of Hollie Hughes? Say, back in November 2017, as in the ABC's Hollie Hughes not eligible to replace Fiona Nash in Parliament due to government job …
But the pond has lived for years with this reptile prejudice against the north-west of New South Wales … you see, Hughes is from Moree, which is way too extreme even for someone from Tamworth, centre of the known universe, though she did make it into the Northern Daily Bleeder a few days ago. In that story, it was noted noted she'd finished ahead of arch-looon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells back in 2016 …but what would a professional political journalist know or care about any of that ancient political history?
Let's face it, the reptiles get nose-bleed the moment they go too far from their 'leet eerie in Surry Hills and the baristas that fuel their non-stop rage, and besides, Hughes is a woman, say no more, and Molan is a top-notch political adept never making a coal-loving far right false step…
Their ABC here ...
Good old Jim …how the bromancer will miss his luddite ways …
What was it the savvy Savva said?
How about calling Bragg and Hughes identikit nonentities, and satirically propose they're names to conjure with? By golly, the bromancer's the unifying spirit you need for that job, no doubt doing the job for a modest stipend ...
By the way, for those who have no memory of Andrew Bragg, their ABC had this story, with more of it here …
He pulled out for a woman? He made a noble sacrifice and a gesture?
By golly, he deserves all the contempt the reptiles and the bromancer heap on him. He's not a manly man of the Molan kind, he's a pathetic wimp …
And as for that nonsense about women running for preselection, what's the point? The treacherous hussies will only line up together and cause the reptiles EXCLUSIVE pain and suffering.
You have to harden the fuck up and be a manly man, if you want a place on the ScoMo bus, as celebrated by Rowe here today ...
That's more like it, and now the pond supposes it must finish off the last gobbet of essence of bromancer …
And there you have it … undiluted bromancer logic.
Australian generals have generally had nothing to do with politics and what a good thing that is. Which general would want to sully their reputation with politics?
Jim Molan has blundered about like a luddite dinosaur in Australian politics, embracing the likes of Craig Kelly and climate science denialism and Britain First, and sullied his reputation with politics, and what a good thing that is …
No wonder they fork out handsome stipends so the reptiles can go about their business ...
Meanwhile, the ghost in the machine, the invisible hand, the monkey's paw, continues to haunt the reptiles and the government, and there's only one response left, as charted by Wilcox here …
The reptiles have no conscious of the hundreds of thousands that were killed by the invasion of Iraq and they then claim heroism when the poor bloody citizens of Iraq were slaughtered by superior firepower.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's the real Eddie and Pats, DP.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Bromancer spiels re Molin: "What would the Liberal party want with a man like that ?"
ReplyDeleteWell I dunno, but I hope the Libs want absolutely nothing to do with a man like that. I certainly don't want anything to do with a man like that.
But, butt, do we have to add little Jimmy Mole'm to the Bromancer's growing list of paramours ? That would bring it to at least 4 big main squeezes: Abbott, Trump, Morrison and Molin. And who knows how many others ? Is the Bromancer living the Oreo dream of his right to "sexual pleasure" ?
And then we have this kinky self-love re the Bromancer and Hughes and Bragg: "Until the recent preselection controversies came up, I had never heard of either of them. And I am a professional political journalist."
Yes indeed, Bro matey, but you are a very bad "professional political journalist" - definitely not worth $375,000pa. How many "professional political journalists" knew about Robert Menzies (except for the few that might have known him as a lawyer) until he was first elected ? And you can bet that there was a very first time for Menzies to get elected.
See, Bro, the point is not who or what Hughes and Bragg are now, but what they might become. But we know only too well what Molin is, and his very limited possibility for change, and we don't want a bar of him as a politician.
Oh, and just a small point for some out there in the herpetarium: the Australian Constitution doesn't anywhere mention the existence of political parties. Political parties are self-serving inventions of bunches of politicians that have no official existence. Therefore, claim not that Banks was "elected as a Liberal", she can't have been; she was elected as Julie Banks.
Ooops, ... as Julia Banks.
DeleteThe Bromancer even missed the mark on imaginative names. The Nationals hold the trophy on that, once having a leader and deputy known as Sharpe and Blunt.
ReplyDeleteBlunt appears to have been just a tad too sharply Liberal for the regionals. He didn't last long. Completely the political and social opposite of Barners as far as I can see.
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