Talk about a tizz. The reptiles were shocked and appalled and wildly excited … no, not about the obvious …
Strange: that might have been headed "Heat stress: climate science denialism hits home", but that wasn't the thing that really got the reptiles going.
It was a chance for a photo op, and star power, and dealing with the pesky, difficult gays, and it was a job that needed a bigot to blather on about virtue-signalling, and naturally the reptiles had a top bigot up to the job …
It was a chance for a photo op, and star power, and dealing with the pesky, difficult gays, and it was a job that needed a bigot to blather on about virtue-signalling, and naturally the reptiles had a top bigot up to the job …
First the dither and the tither …
Shocking stuff, and fancy that treacherous asbestos lady crossing the line, and it will be seen that right away the reptiles reached for their in-house bigot for a comment, but before we can get to the dog botherer, there's a lot more shocking stuff in the tither to do …including a little star-spotting ...
But, but, aren't they all going to hell, because they're hideous people?
Clearly this was a job for a bigot - a bigot big and grand enough to defend bigotry in style - and thank the long absent lord the tither and dither was almost over, so the bigot could step past those Hollywood stars, step up to the plate and get on with the job of defending fundamentalist bigotry ...
Clearly this was a job for a bigot - a bigot big and grand enough to defend bigotry in style - and thank the long absent lord the tither and dither was almost over, so the bigot could step past those Hollywood stars, step up to the plate and get on with the job of defending fundamentalist bigotry ...
Shocking stuff.
Oh sure, the reptiles wheeled out the onion muncher to do his thing … and thereby gratified the pond with yet another moment of high comedy, given the onion muncher's talk of how to behave in strange lands, and the behaviour of the onion muncher in recent years in relation to Brexit, acting as if he was an absentee Pom.
What to reference, where to begin, so many comedy highlights, including just recently this month … but what about this, in the paper once known as Fairfax?
Oh sure, the reptiles wheeled out the onion muncher to do his thing … and thereby gratified the pond with yet another moment of high comedy, given the onion muncher's talk of how to behave in strange lands, and the behaviour of the onion muncher in recent years in relation to Brexit, acting as if he was an absentee Pom.
What to reference, where to begin, so many comedy highlights, including just recently this month … but what about this, in the paper once known as Fairfax?
Steady, steady, he has secret meetings all the time - remember his furtive meeting with the Pellists? And where are the Pellists now?
Not to worry, that strikes a chord, because it's bigotry, not hypocrisy, that's the game here, so it's over to the dog botherer ...
Not to worry, that strikes a chord, because it's bigotry, not hypocrisy, that's the game here, so it's over to the dog botherer ...
Say what? Unfair and uncool? And speaking in tongues is reasonable? It's a strange kind of reason, this reasonable celebration of transubstantiation, cannibalism and such like phenomena, but the dog botherer loves his arcane rituals which allow assorted bodies to be despatched to hell ...
What a shame the reptiles didn't mention "virtue-signalling", what a shame the pond had to turn to the body of the text to see the reptiles' magic hyphenated favourite...
Sssh, no mention of the bullying and the hatred and the cultivation of the fear and loathing … the bigot is on patrol, and in the land of the bigot's rose-coloured bigot glasses, all is well ...
Indeed, indeed, fancy that, the dog bothering berating Wintour, shouting her down, trying to silence her, in defence of a woman who routinely demonises and dehumanises gays and consigns them to hell …
Oh the sweet joy of irony.
Is there any wonder the pond felt no need to turn to the Speccie mob this day, but instead followed that dose of bigotry with a Henry "hole in the bucket" chaser ...
Is there any wonder the pond felt no need to turn to the Speccie mob this day, but instead followed that dose of bigotry with a Henry "hole in the bucket" chaser ...
The pond swears that stray readers will be moved to tears by our Henry ...
And here's the moment that so moved the pond … some grand versifying ...
It was the "thy soil to lave" that moved the pond to humble awe, though the pond acknowledges others might be stricken by the coupling of "plenty crown'd" with "be renowned" …
As for liberalism, the pond has for its sins been reading the NYRB yet again, and liberalism once again proved to be somewhat elusive and vague …though luckily others can find the discussion here, at the moment outside the paywall:
Yes, when it comes to "liberal", the pond used to mistake it for a form of virtue-signalling (to use words the reptiles understand), when it came to considering bigots of the speaking in tongues kind, and useless princelings of the Prince Chuck kind … but now, on to Henry's take on the subject ...
Hang on, hang on, our Henry quoting Brecht? Oh the Gramsci march is long and slow and ponderous, but what strange marchers it attracts ...
Why the future of liberalism is assured. It calls itself Liberal, is led by a speaker in tongues, and demonises gay people, with religious fundamentalism treasured and adored by bigots of the dog botherer kind in the pages of the lizard Oz …
And after all this, the shedding of the tears at the sounds of noble versifying, offering liberalism as a cornucopia of materialism, while mocking a passing liberal as a "virtue-signaller," some stray readers might enjoy a sorbet of bromancer contemplating the deeds of the Donald ...
Now it should come as no surprise that the bromancer does the "two sides" routine … after all, it was all he had when he scribbled about his best buddy, the eater of onions … but it takes a huge effort to do the "both sides" routine with the Donald, and to be frank, the bromancer struggled at the bigly task ...
Say what? After all that about the Democrats, a hint that the Donald might be a polarising figure? What strangeness is this? And sure enough, the bromancer turned even glummer …
That's almost as good as Rudy Giuliani, who has been in astonishingly good form of late …
"… there is not an immediate emergency …"
Therefore …
"… his obvious way out is to declare a state of emergency …"
Another day, another trip down the rabbit hole with Alice.
Talk about peak backhand and gobbledegook at the reptile rag.
Sorry Speccie mob, in a state of hysteria about the threatening vegans and leftist wonderlands and such like, there's no room at the inn. The pond is full, and barely has room for a resonating Rowe, an echo of the bromancer's emergency, with more Rowe resonating here ...
Ah yes, good old Whistler … and remember you can whistle up climate science denialism and a bigot any day of the week at the lizard Oz …
I've often mused on the cognitive dissonance that so plagues the pond, and manifests itself through their obvious mental distress about...well, everything really, and oddly contradictory behaviours. If there's one thing the reptiles know about, it's "liberalism", at least insofar as that means standing up for individual rights like tolerance of intolerance, virtue-signalling about the evils of virtue-signalling, shouting down people who might be shouting down people and so on.
ReplyDeleteBut the Bucketman has given us some insight into the roots of that today.
"It was that liberalism, forged from England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688..."
Eyescales-be-gone! The reptilian view of liberalism is of something gifted to us by the last successful invasion of England. A military coup which deposed a legitimate, if divided, government, led by a group of serial plotters from whom, today, Peter Dutton would be itching to strip citizenship, replacing tolerance with bigotry, legitimacy with expediency, sublimating domestic British interests to European concerns and committing them to decades of foreign wars, oppressing millions of their citizens to protect the interests of a small elite...
If that is, to reptiles, the forge of "liberalism", then a lot about the oozing ulcer that has been right-wing thought in Australia since the 1990's starts to become crystal clear. Thanks, Henery!
"When I use a word," [insert name of favourite reptile here] said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
DeleteThey really are so very good at those private, in-group, identity-politics, virtue-signalling word usages aren't they. And we thought the likes of Sarah Palin set the standard.
But mostly, they are past-masters at psychological projection and emotive transference. Especially the Doggy Boverer who never misses a single opportunity.
Wow, they rounded up the fashion editor, the political editor and the roaming dickhead Kenny at large to prove once again the Murdoch Press are the great defenders of free speech, free that is if they agree with it, or I should say Rupert agrees with it, its a given that the craven dog turds that pass themselves of as Journalists will agree with whatever Rupert agrees with.
ReplyDeleteGreggie O'Sirideain: "...the Democrats will be completely partisan and feral in their approach to Trump..."
ReplyDeleteEzra Klein (Vox): "Second, Pelosi correctly read Trump’s personality and had the steel to act on that read. For years now, members of Congress have divided on whether Trump is strong or weak, whether his political success shows an intuitive tactical genius that needs to be respected or a hollow showman who connects to conservatives but is easily flummoxed. Pelosi has long held that Trump is weak, easily confused, and easily baited. That informed her strategy."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/25/18197685/nancy-pelosi-trump-shutdown-over
Yep, I'd say that shows that Pelosi is completely partisan and feral, don't you ? And that's something that Republicans would never, ever be, yes ?
PS: Trump has folded unconditionally, at least for now.