Whenever the glories of Western Civilisation get a mention in the lizard Oz these days, in whatever context, the pond harks back to David Dukes rabbiting on about the blessings of Western Civilisation in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman …
The pond should really dig out the quote, but never mind, the upshot is that the reptiles really need a local chapter of the Klan in the newsroom … and amongst the first to don the robes might well be Dame Groan …
Ah, go the full Donald, play the migrant card …and of course it's not racism talking, even if the denial makes it immediately obvious that it's racism talking …
Yes, they're coming from the north, and who knows what insidious diseases these young, tough men might bring?
Yes, they're coming from the north, and who knows what insidious diseases these young, tough men might bring?
But it's such an obvious troll, and besides, when it comes to Spike Lee, the pond preferred the comedy of Get Out …
Lee seems to have turned into Stanley Kramer, though it's also fair to say that the likes of the Donald and Dame Groan are impervious to satire …
Lee seems to have turned into Stanley Kramer, though it's also fair to say that the likes of the Donald and Dame Groan are impervious to satire …
So the pond retreated from contemplating the wonders of Western Civilisation to the latest wonder from prattling Polonius …
Why should this be more fun than a Spike Lee joint?
Well Polonius simply can't stand Malware, a truly dreadful man and an epic failure, but at the same time, by pointing out the obvious, the prattle is guaranteed to keep the civil war running …you know, the same civil war that nervous nellie nattering "Ned" was wringing his hands about, and doing the usual patented "Ned" worry warts routine, in today's edition …
Perhaps that distilled essence of gloom is best on a Sunday, so go at it Polonius, flay Malware alive.
The pond knows you won't mention his failures in relation to climate science - how pleasantly warm it's been these last few days - or the disaster known as the NBN - but please, feel free to piss inside and outside and all over the tent ...
The pond knows you won't mention his failures in relation to climate science - how pleasantly warm it's been these last few days - or the disaster known as the NBN - but please, feel free to piss inside and outside and all over the tent ...
Of course it goes without saying that it's all the fault of the ABC, and Polonius takes the chance to have yet another go at the ABC.
Frankly if the pond had a penny for each time that Polonius mentioned that the ABC is a conservative-free zone, the pond would be a billionaire, and would have plenty of free time to join Polonius in berating the joint as the enemy of the people.
Frankly if the pond had a penny for each time that Polonius mentioned that the ABC is a conservative-free zone, the pond would be a billionaire, and would have plenty of free time to join Polonius in berating the joint as the enemy of the people.
Yep, Polonius is very much a Donald man, and should easily fit into the reptile chapter ...
It's such an unfashionable fact that Polonius dare not speak the name of the onion muncher, that tremendous termite, surely the very best underminer, sniper, wrecker, saboteur and land mine layer of the era.
Oh what fun it is, to see the civil war continue, with Polonius prattling away, and Malware at odds with ScoMo, and nattering "Ned" fretting and fuming …
Oh what fun it is, to see the civil war continue, with Polonius prattling away, and Malware at odds with ScoMo, and nattering "Ned" fretting and fuming …
It's better than a circus, it's all the fault of the ABC, please don't say an unkind word about the splendidly discreet onion muncher, and so on and so forth …
But at the heart of it? The thing that can't be mentioned? The anguish that fuels Polonius's bitterness?
A dud replaced a dud, and now ScoMo's a dud, he's already shown in a few short months that he's a dud, and the chapter must now circle the wagons if Western Civilisation is to be saved in a few months time …
But at the heart of it? The thing that can't be mentioned? The anguish that fuels Polonius's bitterness?
A dud replaced a dud, and now ScoMo's a dud, he's already shown in a few short months that he's a dud, and the chapter must now circle the wagons if Western Civilisation is to be saved in a few months time …
Trust Rowe to offer the pond an after dinner mint to celebrate …
Well there's more Rowe after dinner mints here, and no need to apologise to the Pythons, they'd love it, but the pond isn't full, it can munch on the reptiles all day …
And so to the bonus … because this day Dame Slap is also in a state of high agitation …
Whenever the MAGA-hat-wearing, foundation member of the local reptile chapter gets going, the pond must pay attention ...
Now Dame Slap simply had to mention Western Civilisation and remind the pond of David Dukes talking about its wonders in that Spike Lee film …
But moving on, she has a simple, compelling argument. You see bigots and fundamentalists currently have the right to be bigoted in a fundamentalist way, so why do they want more?
Doing an end run around democracy? Is that what the Dame calls donning the Donald's MAGA hat these days?
But it's all too delicious, because you see in the weft and weave and weird warp of Dame Slap's argument, she's somehow got herself into a war with the Xians and Islamics while at the same time waging a war on the secularists and the legal system …
Why, it's right up there with Polonius feuding with Malware and the ABC and yearning for the onion muncher …
Why, it's right up there with Polonius feuding with Malware and the ABC and yearning for the onion muncher …
Naturally it's all the fault of the Fairfaxians, those bloody enemies of the people ...
What a terrifying vision, and what a splendid display of Dame Slap logic - that talk of abortion just about made the pond's day. No doubt Dame Slap was thinking of the good sense of Australian Christians in the 1950s, where good sense dictated that women die in assorted backyards or send the child off to the Catholic Ponzi scheme, to be indoctrinated and/or abused …
The pond could go on endlessly celebrating MAGA hat logic, but sadly this day the immortal Pope has drawn an even more alarming cartoon, an even more disturbing vision.
First we need to recite the local reptile chapter's pledge, which perhaps isn't what David Dukes might be expecting, but which precedes the daily cross-burning ...
The pond could go on endlessly celebrating MAGA hat logic, but sadly this day the immortal Pope has drawn an even more alarming cartoon, an even more disturbing vision.
First we need to recite the local reptile chapter's pledge, which perhaps isn't what David Dukes might be expecting, but which precedes the daily cross-burning ...
Three Rings for the Murdochian kin under the sky,
Seven for the editors in their halls of stone,
Nine for mortal reptiles doomed to lie,
One for the dark commentariat lords on their dark thrones
In the Land of 'leet Surry Hills where the Shadows and reptile-serving baristas lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Nelson where the Shadows lie...
It's a strange chant, but perhaps the cartoon will make it clear, with more clear Pope here …
Of course it's a pity about those living who've been through hell and who need comfort and aid after the traumas they've faced, but since when has that ever mattered to the chapter?
Desperate or what? It's all hands on deck to save the sinking ship and Sloan is giving advice.
ReplyDeleteThis is the gobbet that interested me: "So my advice to Morrison is to get the real message. Your supporters are calling for a substantial reduction in the migrant intake. You could even pick up some Labor votes. It is not racist to be concerned about the pressures associated with excessive population growth. And forget half-baked proposals to send migrants to the regions — it will never work."
It certainly isn't racist to be concerned with the pressures of 'excessive population growth'; but there is no way that as a Labor left voter I'd would have anything to do with the racists in their excessive and extremist anti-social ranting or change my vote.
Particularly since I live in regional South-east Qld and I see quite clearly that sending migrants to this region *is* working.
A bunch of Iranian blokes called into the little craft shop that I am part of in my small town in regional south east Qld and the two ladies - rusted on liberal voters farmers wives - who were manning the shop on the day, were very impressed by them and what polite and lovely gentlemen they were.
We sell honeycomb straight from the bees and these blokes were very excited to see this and bought all our stock. Sloan needs to get out more and not be such an inner city 'leet.
And what about her Libertarianism? Surely she is going against her deepest philosophy and doesn't understand that we need more people to keep the economy growing?
So, "we need more people to keep the economy growing". And that just continues forever, yes ? So every year the Australian population must keep on substantially growing just so our "economy" grows too.
DeleteGrows by how much ? Population up to 50 million ? Up to 100 million ? Then it must keep on growing, mustn't it - to 200 million ? 500 million ? a billion ?
Does it ever stop ?
I read somewhere and it resonated with me that the Chinese say that the problem with Western ideas and it is reflected in our history, is that we don't conceptualise things in terms of a circle - you could call that a closed system - we see things in terms of straight lines and a determinable start and end point.
DeleteI guess that's because everything we encounter - including our own lives - has a beginning and an end. Though it doesn't always appear to be a straight line in between.
DeleteBut perhaps you could instantiate some genuine 'circles' ? The last one of any consequence that I recall was Fred Hoyle's theory of the 'Steady-State Universe' which fairly quickly collapsed into the 'Big Bang' beginning and the 'Heat Death' end with a more or less straight line in between.
Desperate certainly describes the current reptile dilema. They have worked their way into absurd positions in virtually every policy area so the only thing left is the button marked “racism”. It’s right next to the one marked “bigotry”.
ReplyDeleteExcept that in the reptile world, Bef, 'racism' is spelled 'patriotism' - or maybe 'nationalism' in some cases.
DeleteA Dame Slap column is a lot like an Agatha Christie mystery, as soon as you think about it, it falls apart. So, it's not that 'we have the right to do as we please unless the State says we cannot', it's 'we have the right to do as we please, but if the State says we cannot, then there will be consequences,finally involving a person who after considering the facts and the law, will impose penalties on us'. This person is called a judge.
ReplyDeleteNow, if you have a Bill of Rights, a judge will decide on the facts and the law on a particular situation and make a decision, just as in any other case.
I suspect Dame Slap's concern is that a judge may find her "religious freedoms" are just prejudice and unjustifiable discrimination.
Of course, popular wisdom tells us that: "What isn't forbidden is allowed". Unless perhaps you are German, in which case it is "What isn't expressly allowed is therefore forbidden".
DeleteWhich of those do you think Dame Slap believes ? Oh yes, I know: for her and the reptile cohort it's the first one. For everybody else, it's the German version with the reptiles doing the specification of what's "expressly allowed".
But the bit of Dame Slap's hallucination I most enjoyed was this:
Slap: "And these new rights do not emanate from us as human beings, they are entirely man-made."
Now, can anybody kindly explain what that means ? Perhaps it's a Chinese Circle.
Great truth-telling cartoon.
ReplyDeleteFits in with the scenario in the US described in the Tomdispatch essay The Pentagon's Cunning Plot To Militarize the Economy.
Typical Dame slap horse manure in claiming that "classical" ideas of human behavior (etc) do not emanate from us as human beings, whereas human rights are entirely man made.
Never mind that everything that humans do, say and believe, and all of their institutions, including their tribalistic cultic "religions" and "holy books" too emanate from human beings.
Suave, sophisticated, urbane, Eastern Suburbs Flash Harry, Malcolm Turnbull rang grey, lifeless, humourless, pout faced and man of nil personality Polonius to talk about anything, let alone political moves, yer sure. I call bullshit on you Polonius.
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