With the Oreo, Kev and sundry other reptiles busy with the crusade against Islamics, the pond made the mistake of looking at the Caterist …
And instantly regretted the way it had failed to pay attention to the government grant man in recent weeks …
By golly the dinkum Australian taxpayer is still getting a huge bang for its buck.
What other member of the 'leet lizard commentariat could bring back Prohibition and compare binge drinking and the six o'clock swill with a love of coal?
Truly the man's a genuine, totally unique (thanks ABC) genius, and the pond should never have forsaken its desire to chug down a keg of Kater brand koal.
Skol away ...
The timing is also singularly appropriate. Just as they're announcing that the fire season in California is now running eleven months of the year, the Caterist wants everyone to get on cheap coal piss and get as drunk as a skunk … and never mind the mixing of metaphors, because after all, everyone likes to mix their vodkas and gins ...
Why, it's crazy brave stuff, up there with the black knight. Who else in these troubled times could come up with a line like "not only may it be more ethical to invest in coal than renewables"?
Of course the "may" is the clue to the trolling, as in "it may be more ethical to drink so much piss that you fuck your kidneys, your liver and possibly the planet" …
Heaven forfend that anyone without an understanding of the visionary Caterist should dare to suggest "it may not be…"
Australian taxpayers must be jubilant at this level of analysis, a fair reward for the cash in the paw given to the Caterist, and up there with his stunning analysis of the movement of water in Queensland quarries ...
Okay, the pond is mortified and deeply apologetic.
It really must go dry in terms of its addiction to Oreos and learn to get on the piss with the Caterist.
Pink elephants in the hallway, and staggering about blind drunk are just a few of the endless possibilities, and as for the planet, blotto on coal …
Meanwhile, to fill in the rest of the day, the pond turned to another much ignored old hero, the Major, always at hand to explain what's wrong with the ABC, and completely unable to check the mote in his own eye … which might explain why that hunt for the missing Order of Lenin medal has taken so long and proven so fruitless ...
Oh okay, the pond only went with this bit of ABC bashing because prattling Polonius had dropped the ball on the weekend while being vague about Haig, and besides, the pond had a few spare cartoons hanging about …
Yes, there was something of a pink wave in the end, but the real business of the reptiles down under is to normalise the situation.
Nothing to see here, runs the line, everything is fine under the Donald, substantial statesman that he is ...
Yes, the swing was only a humble eight per cent, the largest since 1948, and never mind the gerrymanders, and a couple of Muslim women and a couple of native Americans and an openly gay man, the first to win a gubernatorial race, and other remarkable sights, but the whole point for the Major is to pretend that it's business as normal …
Well when it comes to a choice, you can bet which side the Major will be on …
There's something about the MAGA cap, the dangling Xian chain, the pitchfork and the neogothic that charms and attracts the reptiles …
Did anyone check their laugh-o-meter during that gobbet?
The pond's began to swing wildly around the time that the Major heiled the bromancer turning up to deliver "much-needed balance."
By golly, with that sort of balancing thumb on the scales, the Major could easily find work at the pond's favourite Tamworth butcher (sadly now long gone) …
Meanwhile, sanity has quickly returned to US politics …
And so to the Major's warm embrace in a final gobbet ...
Yes, the important work of fucking the United States can continue apace … just as the entire planet can get pissed as parrots with the Caterists … and the reptiles have done their Monday work, and all is well ...
Oh it's a wondrous vision, of white nationalists and warring nation states … but trust Rowe to hint at a little gloom arising from the Donald's European adventure, with more trusty Rowe always available here …
Dorothy your ability to stay the distance with Murdoch's minions says a lot about your endurance.
ReplyDeleteFor me they are the enemy of democracy and would tell any lie to make the right wing political outcomes succeed.
As an example how the terrorists distorted the facts on negative gearing as well as a multitude of other policy positions taken by Labor.
If only the Maje could have hung on a bit. Sinema just won her race in Az, and it's 32 to Democrats, 10 undecided.
ReplyDelete51.5% Democrat votes
46.7% GOP votes
I think it's easy to see why he's so grumpy, media clearly spinning that epic GOP result into somehow beneficial for the Democrats.
Well Trump's Goppers got about 46% of the vote overall, which is just about exactly what Trump got in the presidential (HRC got about 48%).
DeleteSo it seems that Trump did gee up his 'base' - the 46% that is for him all the time, regardless of anything he says or does - and that was enough to blunt the effect of the 'Blue wave' in terms of seats and offices won.
But nonetheless, it was a 'Blue Wave', being a very big turnaround in both number and percentage of votes for the Democrats from 2016 result.
The funny thing, though, is what just might turn people off Trump in time. I remember reading one of the American journos (name slips my alzheimered memory entirely) whose father proudly supported Richard Nixon right up until the time a 'Nixon tape' was broadcast in which Tricky Dicky swore. Well, it's alright him being a lying, grifting 'criminal', but not if he swears.
Has Trump sworn in public lately ?
The Major quoting the Bromancer: "The grand narrative of the Trump haters ..."
ReplyDeleteSo, the reptiles themselves revolt against being called 'climate denialists' (which they clearly are), but are fine with labelling other people as 'Trump haters' (which most of them aren't). Just another yawn in the daydreams of reptiles.
Is there a narrative for retired editors taking up space in a rarely read newspaper?
DeleteDoes that narrative have an overlay with a failed PM scooting across the harbour on the fast Manly ferry to 2BB to white-ant others of a Monday morning?
So many narratives in Sydney at present. Is there a narrative where those who've been rejected retire gracefully>
The narrative of grace and dignity? The mammoth super-annuated burden on society? The Where in the World is Warringah narrative?
Yes, ever notice how the right-wing bloviators quite often use the words hate or haters when referring to any and everyone who in one way or another quite rightly disagrees with or opposes the right-wing powers that be whether here in the land of Oz or in Amerika - Howard "haters" was a classic instance.
DeleteYet when the right-wing loons dramatized there obvious loathing of Julia Gillard in very dramatic terms they were never called Julia or Gillard haters. Even when they effectively called for her to be murdered.
There is not even a smidgen of a trace of Grace or Dignity in anything that the right-wing bloviators do or propose. Retired or still (self)-serving politicians, right-wing shock-jocks and the benighted ghouls that infest the Murdoch "news"-papers.
"failed to make a dent in Georgia while...Texas and Florida remained Republican."
ReplyDeletePredictably the Major misses the points:
1. Georgia and Florida have not yet been declared. "Dewey Wins!", much?
2. In Georgia, there was a 4% swing to the Democrats, despite Kemp (R) having purged 350,000 (mostly Democrat) voters from the roles on the most specious grounds while Georgia's Secretary of State (Kemp's majority will be in the 60,000 range). It is not guaranteed that he will get the necessary 50% of all votes, and there will be a runoff election.
3. In Florida, there will be a recount, with indications that machine tallying was problematic in one heavily Democrat county (not sure if its Miami-Dade or Broward, but they hold 10% and 8% of Florida's population respectively, and are strongly Democrat). With margins of 30,000 (governor) and 13,000 (senate), these cannot be called until that recount is completed. Fun fact - Malware was notable for having put $1.7 million of his own coin into the Liberal Party. Rick Scott (R), leading the Senate race put $86 million of his own money into his campaign. I'm sure he is not looking for any return on that investment...
4. Also in Florida, the most important vote was not for the Senate or the Governor, but on a proposition to re-enfranchise something like a million ex-prisoners who have served their sentences. Since these people who have been stripped of their rights are disproportionately black, who in turn are disproportionately Democrat voters, this means Florida will go blue at the next elections - probably four Representatives will go R->D, and the state will likely go Democrat. In 2022, Marco Rubio will be in some trouble and Governor Ron de Santis, if he wins this time round, will get binned.
4. The Democrats were never going to take the Governorship of Texas, so I presume he is referring to the Senate race. Sure, Ted Cruz beat Beto O'Rourke, but O'Rourke garnered a swing of around 7% compared to Cruz's last win, and compared to the 2016 Presidential vote. The changing demographics of Texas will put it on a knife edge in the next election.
If the Republicans can't hold both Florida and Texas in 2020, they are in trouble. If they lose both, they are gone.
Finally, it needs to be remembered that in most states, redistricting is done by state governments. The 2010 redistricting created numerous gerrymanders favouring the Republicans by roughly 10 seats. BTW, another important result that nobody has noticed is that 5 states voted to set up independent commissions (to join the 5 who already do that) to determine electoral boundaries. On balance that favours Democrat candidates to the tune of another 2 or 3 seats.
The Democrats have currently secured 34 seats, and could go as high as 44. Counting the inherent advantage the existing gerrymandering gives the Republicans, and the legislative changes that affect future voting, this was on par with the famous Red Waves of 1994 and 2010.
Way too sophisticated for the Major Mitchell to comprehend any of that FD. After all, a nong who can say that "Trump will need to negotiate and be less bellicose." clearly has just about zero comprehension of reality.
DeleteOne thing he has right though: the Repubs own the courts and will continue to pump them full of Right Wingnuts - and the result of that will afflict America for decades.
Maybe, maybe not. Sure, there are currently 5 Republicans to 4 Democrats, and two of thosee latter are in their eighties. But if Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Steven Breyer don't peg out in the next two years (RBG fell in her chambers and broke three ribs the other day) then its not so simple.
DeleteFirstly, there is nothing that says there are only 9 supreme court justices - historically, the number has varied to as high as 15. Early in his presidency, FDR tried to stack the SCOTUS with new Democrat justices, but was blocked by congress (eventually he stayed in office long enough to achieve a Democrat majority anyway).
Secondly, at this election, the GOP picked up Senate seats only because so many Dem's faced reelection. Next round, in 2020, that equation is reversed with a lot more Republicans facing the voters. Being quite conservative, the Dems will pick up at least five seats (AZ, CO, MT, ME, TX likely, IA possible, GA, SC, NC very unlikely but not impossible), which will give them a small Senate majority, and will mostly get the votes of the two independents. That assumes that they do no better than this time, but after two more years of teh Donald...?
Unless Trump has some sort of Damascus moment in the next two years (and assuming world affairs don't tilt the board in strange ways), the Dems will control both houses from 2020-2024. Either Trump is reelected and can't get a nomination through, or Trump loses and the SCOTUS can, theoretically, be reshaped at the will of Bernie Sanders geriatrician, or Beto O'Rourke, or Oprah Winfrey or whoever the winner is.
As a sidebar, I note however that the Dems SC appointments have been bipartisan. The confirmations for the four Dems were 2 virtually unanimous, and 2 with 2/3's approval. The five GOPs were all by narrow margins. Even if 2020 plays as above, its not like the SCOTUS will be infested with those liberal-activist judges the reptiles keep tut-tutting about.
Yes, well when Obama first took office, the Dems had 57 Senate seats (plus two 'independents' in Sanders and Lieberman). But then, there were the problems with Kennedy and Franken. But enough for Obama to get ACA through with the help of three Repub 'rebels' (Snowe, Collins and Specter, apparently).
DeleteBut I don't think there'd be three Repub 'rebels' again now - not in the era of firstly the Tea Party and now Trump.
Expanding the number of the Supreme Court is possible, I guess, but what if Trump and McConnell do an FDR first ? Just how many can be added to SCOTUS, especially if every party changeover of President and Senate adds enough more to give the dominant party a majority ?