In which the pond contemplates nepotism, religious freedom and stale, day-old Oreos ...

 

Of all the stupid responses that might have been made to the Victorian election result, a war cry that "it's personal" is possibly the silliest ('possibly' because the pond never underestimates the capacity of the reptiles to devise new levels of silliness).

The day that politics gets to be "between you and me" rather than between competing policies and prescriptions is the day a certain nadir has been reached …as if Australia needed to go the full Trumpian.

What then to make of the bouffant one scribbling at the top of the digital opinion section?

Cooler heads must prevail? 

What, shouting war cries, and it's personal, and come on out the back so we can go the biff, and roll up your sleeves, it's between you and me? While Dame Groan blathers on about Labor hating heavy industry?

Welcome to the reptile Twilight Zone, the back of the toilet block at Tamworth High School, a strange world in which this is considered a useful splash …

Erica accuses the ABC of bias? So the sun will rise this morning, what a relief… and quite possibly the Victorian electorate is also full of bias ...

But now it's back to the grindstone, and stray readers might have overlooked the lesser Kelly's effort, mentioned in despatches, or at least splashes, up above, as the reptiles continue their religious crusade.

Luckily the lesser Kelly's appearance gives the pond a chance to mention a recent piece in Crikey (behind the paywall, so no link) …

Finally, someone thought to summarise the reptile House of Nepotism … and Guy Rundle seemed to think it was a passing strange state of affairs …

And now, bearing all that in mind should we encounter any strange talk of media/political 'leets down the page,  it's back to the family business of Catholic political 'apocalyticism', as practised by the crusading Kelly gang…

 

Uh huh … but hang on, polling always depends on the questions asked, and the reptile polls are routinely suss, and the pond wouldn't trust Kelly minor to get the right end of the stick…

You see, not so long ago at Fairfax, there was an entirely different poll, with an entirely different conclusion …

As usual, it all depends which end of the telescope you look through … and the reptiles like the narrow, pointy end so they can zoom in on bigotry and prejudice …

The reptiles are still banging on about "religious freedom" - they'll never give up - but that Fairfax story here had a different set of figures …

Of course the lesser nattering "Ned" junior blathered on about the need to maintain the discrimination, the bigotry and the prejudice …

So is it just a wedge issue, a political ploy to appeal to fundamentalist Islamics and such like in western Sydney?  Back to Fairfax to ask a poignant question …

At what age does discrimination become good for adults?

Well there's an easy answer to that question in the Kelly gang's crusading … 

Discrimination is great for adults at any age …and if you don't agree, it's personal and we'll go out the back of the toilet shed and sort it out Tamworth style …this is a war, nay, it's a crusade, and after all that blather about Victoria being a progressive state, what better time to continue the culture wars, and perhaps slip in a mention of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and how it has been unfairly discriminated against …

Never mind, the pond should probably slip in a last gobbet from Fairfax …

And so, because bigotry and prejudice never goes out of favour in reptile la la land, the pond will return to yesterday's vomit, like a Tamworth dog that's chewed a little too much Oreo-flavoured grass …

You see, it's pretty much in the same arena, as the culture wars go on … (and did the pond mention that Erica thought the ABC was biassed?) The pond could feel a meme coming on …

 

And now to that soft cloud-cake melt …that stale taste of yesterday's Oreo that covers the tongue in a luscious sense of mouldy thoughts and rampant prejudice ...

Yes, it's the Oreo story the pond overlooked, simply because it couldn't get past that amazingly stupid, pink and blue, simple-minded graphic … even if it's a fair reflection of the Oreo's depth of thought … here, the pond can't get enough of it ...

Now here the pond should declare an interest, knowing a number of TG people well, and knowing what a struggle it can be to get birth certificates altered, or passports obtained … and knowing the sort of instant discrimination, the sniggering and the shaming, that the likes of the Oreo routinely deliver when encountering a trans person, as in the next gobbet ...

Actually the Oreo is insulting the intelligence of trans people … 

The pond sometimes wonders if the reptiles have ever met a trans person, incest and nepotism being more their in-house style. 

The pond's TG friends like to stay low and avoid attracting attention because coming out generates unwelcome bigotry and prejudice and discrimination, but Catherine McGregor did show the dangers of trying to engage with fundamentalist Catholic bigots of the onion munching kind, resulting in a public break up …

Actually the pond's TG friends have very little time for McGregor - there's all that blather about boring cricket for starters, the only comedy there being Foxtel's hope that it would boost its subscriptions base with an exciting summer of Australians losing at cricket, for a modest price of $700 for six months viewing, with a free, and eventually useless box thrown in …

But the use of trans people for a whipping, and the refusal to understand or acknowledge the reality of gender dysphoria (Greg Hunters avoid the walri by going here), is typical. 

Oh they might pretend, onion muncher style, but in the end, good old fashioned prejudice and bigotry of the Oreo kind is possibly more honest, if also more pathetic … because the onion muncher only used the whipping post in the matter of SSM, whereas the Oreo manages to drag trans folk and blame them for undermining public trust in government and democratic institutions (such a heavy burden for such an Oreo-certified minority to bear) ...

Stifling orthodoxy? If you happen to be TG, then the spiteful, odious prejudice and bigotry of the Oreo is a prime example of stifling. 

TG folk aren't  a matter of being "state-anointed", more a matter of avoiding institutionalised state bigotry and prejudice … just ask Catherine McGregor, expecting a sliver of understanding from the onion muncher …

After the recent Victorian state election showed how a swing to the barking mad Laura N'Order right worked out terribly well, it seems that the reptiles are going to maintain the culture wars and the rage, and fundamentalist "Catholic political 'apocalyticism'" (whatever that spelling might be) is going to carry on carrying on … which is why the pond can't resist a final treat, the lizard Oz editorial today …

Oh dear, how shocking. Poor deluded Scott Ryan, and even worse, speaking on their ABC …

Scotty, Scotty old chum, of course you have to have a view of climate change to curry favour with the reptiles - dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and all that - and of course you have to have a particular view on religious freedom - hate teh gays, and while you're at it mock the TG folk in proper Oreo style …

But it was when the lizard Oz, home of the Surry Hills media/political elite, only a quick step away from the world's best baristas, and blessed by rampant nepotism, slipped in that talk of 'leets that the pond knew its 'trundle with Rundle' day was almost done ...

Yes, Scott Ryan, like it or lump it, you will have to learn to lump a little coal if you want to grow a collective spine, and remember the mantra of clean dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and religious freedom, reptile symbol of the right to be bigoted and prejudiced, and as discriminatory as only fundamentalist Catholic apocalyptic thought will allow ... 

The way to victory is clear, onward comrade, yours in theological and ideological purity, and the stifling orthodoxy that permits entry into the reptile Valhalla of pure crusading, with overtones of essence of nepotism …please get on the bus, or be left behind.

And after all that there must be at least one stray reader ready to enjoy the Rowe of the day, with more Rowe on hand here ...