It's such an obvious troll, a cry for attention, but if the pond was going to do Jordan Peterson, it might start with The profound sadness of the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, and perhaps move on to Jordan Peterson's Flimsy Philosophy of Life, and perhaps wash it all down with I was Jordan Peterson's strongest supporter. Now I think he's dangerous …
But that's what the reptiles and Peterson want - any controversy is good for an attention-seeking narcissist planing a tour of the provinces. So the pond moved on yet again to the old reliables …
Now there's trolling at its reptilian finest …
There's been a great deal of agitation of late in the reptile pages about coal and climate science and the like …
Lloydie has been up there with the best of them, quoting well known climate science denialist Judith Currie to whip himself up into a state of indignation …
Lloydie loves the false equivalence routine …
There's a lot more of it, but it's best taken with a dose of Skeptical Science … though the data is now a little aged …
Why keep on quoting denialists.
Well it's what the reptiles and Lloydie in particular love to do - just love that outlier, outsider art, that false equivalence - and for the pond, it's all part of the scene setting for the epic arrival of the dog botherer …
But why have the reptiles got so agitated? Well that came with a story about the fate of a coal mine …
That set off Richo …
Yes, Swiss-bank account keeping, ostensibly left are just as in love with coal as barking-mad minor war criminal, dog bothering reptiles …
Such a poignant plea for coal …and so to the dog botherer, a minor war criminal and therefore in the perfect position to speak of patriotism …
Oh the pond almost forgot to run the story that put the reptiles in a tizz ...
You can imagine how that went down in 'leet Surry Hills headquarters between lattes from the finest baristas in the world.
So Lloydie was out and about, and the dog botherer was doing his best minor war criminal scoundrel impression ...
Actually mindless Donald lovers and mindless Brexiteers who produced a case based on lies, and stupid people who organised a war in Iraq spring to the pond's mind as causing something of a crisis of confidence in Western liberal democracies, tending as this does to align with the stars and the current crop of Putin lovers and climate science denialists …
Never mind, the pond should have reminded the stray reader that when the dog botherer goes off, he goes off in style and at a length which can sometimes keep pace with nattering "Ned" ...
Perhaps the world is experiencing a climate crisis, and the ideological crusade by the reptiles in favour of coal has something to do with it?
Who let that heretic into the room, asking rhetorical questions? Please, allow the coal lover to finish his crusade ...
Yep, there you go … for those sceptics and deniers, who doubted the pond, right at the end, the dog botherer came clean … the fear was palpable …
Jude Brian Preston, you are unAustralian, you are not a patriot, you are a treacherous traitor …at least in the eyes of a minor war criminal and climate science denialist ...
Should we value the opinions and insights of a notorious minor war criminal and a climate scientist denialist?
Who let that simple-minded rhetorician into the room to ask mindless rhetorical questions? The answer is blindingly obvious.
Why in the reptiles' eyes, the dog botherer's an eminent climate scientist, with many peer reviewed publications and much field work to his credit, and a dinkum true blue, a patriot, an Australian's sort of Australian, worthy of leading the reptiles and the ageing readership in shouting at clouds and in their favourite chant, "dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi …" (and Mexico will pay for it).
And so to Dame Slap.
The pond promised the Dame, but time is short and the pond is running over length, so there's no need to comment much … though the delicious delight in a headline which promotes outrage as a response to a decline in reason is so irrational, illogical and unreasonable, of course the pond had to dance with glee ...
Irresistible. Try hard not to offend. Try harder not to be offended. ???!!!
Oh the whimsy, oh the joy.
That's the entire Dame Slap business model. She routinely tries hard to offend - that's why she went out into the streets of New York to celebrate the election of a pussy grabber, and as it turned out, a family of con artists, criminals and snake oil salespeople…
And she never tries hard not to be offended.
She's always offended. This column is yet another example of how she's offended … and just like the dog botherer, she spends an endless number of words explaining the many ways she's been offended, and if she can be offensive about being offended, so much the better ...
Had enough of Dame Slap being offended? Well you might, but the Dame is just getting started with being offensive …
How about comparing getting dressed up as a KKK klan member with dressing up as Agnetha from ABBA?
Yep, it's classic, vintage Dame Slap …oh and don't forget to mention the Stasi ...
A crude, highly competitive marketplace of outrage? What are we talking about here, the lizards of Oz, the Murdochian tabloids and Fox and Friends?
But why is the Dame so offended, why is she so determined to be offended, and offensive?
Well, you see, the trouble is, too many have abandoned their belief in imaginary friends, not enough have embraced Joel Peterson, and look at the trouble that has caused ...
Yes, you too can don a MAGA cap and head out into the streets to celebrate the elevation of a family of grifters, con artists and snake oil salespeople …
And then just to overload the irony meter, blather on about fear and fracturing, and then join in the chant of 'build the wall, Mexico will pay for it' …and retreat into mindless nationalism and fear of the other, and scribble furiously about being offended, while doing as much as you can to be offensive to all those outside the shrinking, paranoid, fearful world of the Oz readership ...
Yes, you too can be a faithful follower of Dame Slap, and become an evangelical for a culture in ascent, and celebrate climate science denialism and talk of UN conspiracies … yes, you too can become a certified Murdochian patriot, with Lachlan your new fearless leader … just remember the chant, and never stop chanting it: 'dinkum true blue Oz coal, oi, oi, oi' ...
And so to a cartoon to celebrate what truly matters …
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteI’m surprised Janet hasn’t highlighted the latest dangerous ideology brainwashing the kiddies at school.
https://www.gq.com/story/fox-news-tax-poll-fairness
Won’t someone spare a thought for the real victims here.
Pity the rich.
DiddyWrote
Well I'm shocked I have to say, DW. That's not "fairness" the schools are teaching, that's really "the politics of envy".
DeleteI thought every reptile knew that. Maybe Murdoch just can't hire good help in America, now that Trump has recruited them all to fill the White House and the senior Administration positions.
I’ve always wondered what the difference is between the politics of envy and the politics of aspiration. The former (bad) wants what others have and the latter (good) wants what others have. Trying to sort out the contradictions and stupidities of the typical loon is a mighty task. Just as well Dorothy is on the case.
DeleteNah, Anony, mate; that one's so simple even I can get it: "aspiration" is anything the reptiles approve of, "envy" is everything they disapprove of.
DeleteWell, not much can be said about the Dog Boverer can it: he can't even find a real cloud, but he shouts at it anyway. Though I do like his argument that "I might as well commit murder because if I don't somebody else will anyway". Now that is a genuine minor war criminal's winning argument every time.
ReplyDeleteAh, but Dame Slap gives us this gem: "Try hard not to offend. Try harder not to be offended."
Now excuse my confusion, but if I try really hard not to offend, how will people know if their strenuous efforts to not be offended have worked ? And pardon if I ask a naive question, but how will I know how to not offend people unless they tell me what offends them.
Maybe we should have a smartphone app where their phone can automatically send my phone their list of things that offend them, and my phone can send my list to them. And then we can wander about for a while reading the lists before we get to talk to each other. If indeed there's anything remaining that we can say to each other.
"But why is the Dame so offended, why is she so determined to be offended, and offensive?"
Now we see, DP, that she's just doing her Xtian best to help us out by trying to give us lots of practice in being not offended. "Trying" being the keyword, I guess, since surely nobody with an IQ above 'imbecile' could actually be offended by the Slap's colluded delusions.
But then she confesses: "...identity politics on the Left and more recently the Right"
Ooops, identity politics on the Right ? What are you saying, Dame Slap - apart from lying that it's recent - that even "the Right" is fully invested into identity politics ? Oh, the shame, the shame.
I remember reading years ago when Florida adopted "open carry" for firearms - one could, "strap one on" as it were a local sherif was interviewed with words to the effect - we have just become the state where everyone is going to be very polite to each other.
DeleteI think that's how Janet would have it.
None of this we're respectful of each other because we resect each other, but rather - Wanna be rude to me punk? Go ahead.
Hi Anon,
DeleteAs Robert A. Heinlein described it;
“An armed society is a polite society.”
DW
It isn't just 'open carry', it also needs a very broad 'stand your ground' law too. And it's worked a charm so far, asn't it.
DeleteAnd talking about reptiles and whatever "offence" they might feel, here's an interesting observation:
ReplyDeleteThe political anatomy of disgust
By Paul Campos, February 9, 2019
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/02/political-anatomy-disgust
Yassmin Abdel-Magied would have been a much better case study for Janet to make her point than Liam Neeson....
ReplyDeleteDame Slap obviously cant even begin to see how completely irrational her much vaunted "reason" has become. So too with all of the other reptilian bloviators.
ReplyDeleteThey all belong in the toxic sludge is good for you mud pit.
The topic is discussed with great style and learning by John Elsted in his book Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality.