Fancy that ...
The pond doesn't expect this sort of report to turn up heavily featured in the reptile pages anytime soon … for links and more, it'd be better to go to The Conversation here … or almost anywhere else which pays attention to climate science ...
And the reptiles didn't seem much interested in news of petulant Peta's recent doings, which curiously involved climate too, as noted in The Graudian's Peta Credlin's preselection could be the spark that blows up the Liberal party …
The Liberal party is suffering an existential crisis. And no other issue defines this crisis like the looming threat to our safety and security caused by inaction on climate change. Credlin understands this and has used her position as a climate change-denying, hard-right mouthpiece of the Murdoch empire to advance her own political interests, and the interests of the coal industry.
Hmm, tricky but likely entertaining stuff, but this day the reptiles resorted to good old-fashioned entertainment from the United States …
The president can’t get his wall. So like a shitty salesman, he’s now trying to pitch you on something else.
Donald Trump has been a political escape artist since the beginnings of his shady, scummy, shiftless life. From his spurious (see what I did there?) evasion of the Vietnam War draft to his serial bankruptcies and business failures, his wrecked marriages, and his current reign of misrule, Donald Trump’s ability to detonate a media IED to distract from his troubles has always served him well. Whenever there’s trouble from some Trump outrage, he never apologizes, never corrects his behavior and never, ever goes forth and sins no more. Instead, he deliberately creates some larger outrage, tossing red meat to a media always eager to chase it.
That was the Trump shutdown from the beginning, and the reason for his manic insistence on “The Wall” scam as its justification.
On Tuesday night, Trump’s flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies, cons, and empty political promises flew off the rails and plunged into a mountain of burning tires in one of his worst public speeches.
After 17 days of a government-shutdown temper tantrum, Trump needed a game-changing home run of a speech to change the political climate in D.C. He failed.
Rick Wilson used to promote himself as a Republican political strategist, but those days seem to have disappeared ...
The bromancer has a different problem. You see, he's kissing cousin to the Murdochians in the United States who relentlessly promote that flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies and empty promises …
It produces a certain ambivalence, and a deep kind of neurosis. A Monty Pythonish ability to look on the bright side. The Donald might be a dud, but there's work to be done polishing the turd, even if a little regret occasionally emerges …
The bromancer struggles with his sinning, but like a good Catholic does his best to find redeeming points in the Donald …
Now the pond never expects anything sensible from the bromancer, but he's stayed loyally at his post through the silly season, and who else could turn up under a splash which begins with the oxymoronic, or simply moronic, notion of "Trump's sense"?
The pond doesn't expect the local reptiles to match the sort of language that the Donald's presence has produced in the US …
For that sort of entertainment, you have to head off to the Daily Beast here to cop a blast …
That was the Trump shutdown from the beginning, and the reason for his manic insistence on “The Wall” scam as its justification.
On Tuesday night, Trump’s flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies, cons, and empty political promises flew off the rails and plunged into a mountain of burning tires in one of his worst public speeches.
After 17 days of a government-shutdown temper tantrum, Trump needed a game-changing home run of a speech to change the political climate in D.C. He failed.
Rick Wilson used to promote himself as a Republican political strategist, but those days seem to have disappeared ...
The bromancer has a different problem. You see, he's kissing cousin to the Murdochians in the United States who relentlessly promote that flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies and empty promises …
It produces a certain ambivalence, and a deep kind of neurosis. A Monty Pythonish ability to look on the bright side. The Donald might be a dud, but there's work to be done polishing the turd, even if a little regret occasionally emerges …
The bromancer struggles with his sinning, but like a good Catholic does his best to find redeeming points in the Donald …
See how valiantly the bromancer struggles to make sense of the Donald and his fellow reptiles at Fox. Who knows, he might even sneak in a viewing of Fox and Friends while pounding away on the keyboard …
Now the bromancer could have spent some quality time with another folly dear to his and the Murdochian heart …
Such a poignant juxtaposition it made this morning …
But that's an even bigger Murdochian disaster, though the pond was amused to watch the meerkats bob up and down in the Commons urgently talking of phantom ferries and convoys of trucks heading nowhere …
Better to stick to the snake oil salesman, even if that deep ambivalence keeps on bobbing to the surface ...
You see? The bromancer was doing so well, what with his talk of the Kenyan socialist - never mind talk of that Muslim being a disreputable illegal immigrant - and his invocation of the many sins of the Democrats, and then out of nowhere comes that little hoppy toad last par where weirdness and opportunism scores a mention …
Well clutch his pearls, the bromancer did his best, and in the final gobbet, rather than talk of wet farts or snake oil salesman, he settles for trapeze artist … though in the pond's day, circus trapeze artists were supposed to fly high, and the aim wasn't to fall either into a net or produce a bloody splat on the sawdust-laden floor of the circus ring ...
Well it does give the pond a chance to run a few more cartoons ...
But then the pond noticed that another reptile had also written about the speech …
Hmm, "overblown claims" didn't sound quite as positive as "Trump's sense" …
Uh huh. This is more of a straight bat - apparently the Australian cricket team no longer understand the meaning of the term, matching the pond's understanding of cricket - which manages to put the Donald and the Dems on the same level of insanity … but credit where credit is due ...
Even Fox did a fact check on the Donald and found him wanting, and so too does Stewart ...
Ah those "valid points" …
So we return to the land of validity … on the basis that a broken clock inclined to howl at the moon will speak the time at least once a day (well the pond is used to 24 hour clocks) … and that occasionally a straight bat might be found in the home of an Australian cricketer …
It's an easy enough position to adopt if chairman Rupert keeps those pay cheques flowing …
Ah, but no one needs the government, and anyway it's full of Democrats ...
It's hard work dealing with the Donald from a vantage point in Murdochian la la land, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Tucker Carlson, Hannity and Laura Ingraham … where all doubts, uncertainties and hesitations are swept aside …
That's a richly weird world the pond usually ignores ...
The pond will continue to do its best to ignore this kind of Murdochian entertainment, which will be on offer through the year.
But this the silly season, and therefore things will be silly …
What, rich people won't be able to build walls around their homes like the Kenyan socialist Muslim did, except that he didn't?
Never mind, already we've seen examples of the dangers of staying on the Donald train. Remember good old Flinty?
Was it only on the 31st December in the year of our long absent lord 2018 that good old Flinty delivered that optimistic wet fart of a column?
Thank the long absent lord that at least the cartoons can keep flowing …
It was noteworthy that the author of that "The Conversation' article managed to avoid using the words 'anthropogenic' [or similar] and 'change' as an explanation of the drastic climate change that was described, even though "The Conversation' promises 'in-depth analysis'.
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The Bromancer: "And the wall or barrier or fence that Trump wants to build would certainly help control illegal immigration."
ReplyDeleteYes but, Billy-Bro, butt - maybe the wall/barrier/fence would control immigration in exactly the wrong way:
"Instead of building a wall to keep illegal immigrants out, perhaps we should construct barriers to prevent their leaving.
A recent study by the Center for Migration Studies indicates a sharp decline in the U.S. undocumented population over a six-year period."
https://www.thepacker.com/article/where-have-all-illegal-immigrants-gone
Trust the Bro to get it all wrong. So, for instance, he avers:
"Illegal immigrants do, however, suppress the wages of low-skilled workers, and that is a real problem."
So somehow it's the "illegal immigrants" who decide how much the employers (which includes Trump) can get away with reducing the wages of the unfortunates who have very few skills ? Yeah, right. But the "illegal immigrants" also significantly increase the GDP, and that is a real benefit, isn't it. At least, that's what we're told about immigration into Australia.