Nooooooh, nooooooh, not the poodle …anyone but the poodle. Take the first born child, take the heart, take the soul, but spare the poodle ...
What's the pond done to deserve this? And now the poodle, somehow, like a hero in Apuleius, is transformed from golden poodle to hideous rat, and the ship is sinking …
Well it does seem as if someone is trying to outdo Oscar Wilde in regard to misfortune and carelessness … and no wonder the pond and the reptiles are on high alert regarding the onion muncher, as stories scurry to and fro, and occupy the digital top of the page …
The oscillating fan says it's going to be alright?
Phew, the pond can relax. But wait, is that call coming from inside the house?
Clearly what was needed was obvious enough.
A goodly dose of 'harden the fuck up' from Dame Slap … and why not, because Polonius had been driven mad and thought it wasn't just the ABC, it was all Hadders fault …
But there's an appeal brewing, so an angry Dame Slap it had to be … though strangely it too was a Ginsbergian howl of pain and despair, an unedifying shriek …
Good old Dame Slap … and note to self, if you're on the bottom, you're sure to be a winner …
Dame Slap tells you so, and enjoy all that winning, so much winning, how can you stand all the winning?
And while in a winning frame of mind, the pond loves a Dame Slap litany full of outrage, because outrage is surest way to truth and reason ...
Why indeed, but in the pond's world, there's also another wonder.
Why select that particular dropkick loser?
Why not another?
The answer's simple enough.
Any Dame Slap 'harden the fuck up' message always has a particular skew … and the pond regrets to advise that there's a deeply Freudian reason for it …and all will become clear in the next gobbet when the shame of wearing a MAGA hat is mentioned ...
Did you notice that reference to the MAGA cap? Of course Dame Slap had to sound a tad defensive. You see, way back when, she too donned the cap ...
And there's the rub, there's the mortifying truth with which Dame Slap still has to grapple …
This isn't about politics. The pond isn't a Republican or a Democrat, this isn't to do with left or right.
This is about the ability to spot a grifter, a snake oil salesman, a New York real estate developer with a mob mentality, surrounded by shills and aluminium siding salesmen …a bunch of tin men always talking about closing, but only able to close on dropkick losers like Dame Slap ...
Dame Slap still can't come to terms with it, though the pond thinks that talk of beer and pizza explains a lot. Has she never heard of pizza and a good wine? What's the odds she thinks a cheese-sodden pile of crap is actually a pizza? The pond doesn't want to sound snobby about Australian pizza, but when it thinks of all that cheese, it has an overwhelming sense of nausea and a yearning to be in Rome ...
But the pond digresses, and as there's been talk of AOC, how about a couple more cartoons?
It's funny how someone young, Latino and able to dance has got to the top of the hate and fear list, and they even have to put her dancing footage in black and white to make it look more sinister ... but now the pond must return to Dame Slap for the obligatory lecture about Jordan … sheesh, and there was the pond thinking a three way between Jordan, Caroline and John Anderson was going to be enough.
Make room in the bed …
No, not that bed, this bed ...
Indeed, indeed, Christianity is a genuine spiritual values system …
Sheesh, the pond keeps trying to pay attention to Dame Slap's important lessons - don't get the pond started on the way Christ spouted all those socialist words about rich people and heaven - and the bloody cartoonists keep getting in the way.
Please, give the MAGA-cap wearer a little room ...
But here's the sadness of it all. You see, for all her blather, Dame Slap is just another stooge who fell into line …
And what was the point of it?
And where did it get the world?
Well if nothing else, the pond can always hope for a cartoon led recovery, because remarkably in all this spiel, Dame Slap has had very little to say about her pride and joy, the Donald, or the Hanoi saga, or Michael Cohen, and yet she has only one gobbet to go in which she might rectify her many omissions ...
Actually welcome to the world of Freud where Dame Slap has never managed the strength, the heart, perhaps even the moral integrity, required to admit that in donning the MAGA hat, she joined with a grifter and a snake oil salesman …
It shouldn't be so hard to admit … why it might even help her and us to understand the brave new world wherein she lives, and where the retreat from reason and truth into a maelstrom of lies continues apace …
But how to admit you're wrong, when you're deep into distraction and filled with a sense of rage?
And how we all remember the suffering of Christians …
But still Dame Slap stays loyal, even as the poodle and other rats depart ...
Well the pond has strayed all over the place, but it should also mention the sweet-smelling Rowe, with more Rowe here, and the infallible Pope, with more papal follies here … as a capper for Dame Slap's rage ...
Dame Slap: "Welcome to our brave new world where the retreat from reason and truth continues apace."
ReplyDeleteLed by the Petersons of this world riding on the backs of their 'identity' followers like the Dame - who, we may remember, showed her unflinching dedication to "reason and truth" by following another leader - 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley no less - into his exposure of the UN conspiracy to have the black helicopter fleet impose a "one world government". And indeed, not to overlook her 'secular' worship of The Donald.
Oh yes, no doubt about it, the Slap is totally committed to "reason and truth".
Gadfly today:
ReplyDeleteThe Jordan Peterson Show has rolled into town with a bag full of nostrums about how to cope with life – stand up straight, clean your teeth, make your bed, don’t pinch the milk money et cetera.
What he’s peddling could be a mixture of Dale Carnegie and Billy Graham with a sprinkle of Miss Piggy. A lot of it feels like wading through suet. He’s also a bit scratchy, getting into a huff with a young woman on Q&A who thought his ideas were “banal”.
Naturally, there was the obligatory buttery interview with him in The Catholic Boys Daily.
No doubt about it, the man is popular and that could be the problem. Popular remedies for complex problems. For instance, he gave a little lecture to the Q&A audience about individual identity and group identity.
“If you’re a proponent, for example, of equality of outcome, of quotas, then you de facto accept the proposition that it’s the group identity that is primary, and there’s all sorts of dangers that are associated with that, that far outweigh whatever good you’re likely to do.”
Hang about. Doesn’t this obscure the complexity of the human experience, that we’re all capable of several iterations, that humans are complex and fluid, within groups and as individuals, and that de facto we aren’t necessarily wedded to the acceptance of anything?
Still, if you’re buying magic potions, complexity is not what you want to hear.
Hi VC,
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I dunno about Dale, Billy and Miss Piggy, vc, he seems a lot more like Wiffle Piffle to me.
DeleteBut then, just peruse the cast list of those who profess to 'admire' him and I reckon that says all that needs to be said.
And just for comparison, I can't see his flatulent blatherings lasting anywhere near as long as 'How To Win Friends And Influence People'.
It could of course be argued that the well-respected-men-about-town who attend Peterson's theatrical presentations consider them selves to be victims too.
ReplyDeleteVictims of the ideological strait jacket of self-loathing left wing political correctness and the supposed marxist march-through-all-of-the-institutions, including the ABC and the Fairfax media too.
But butt Anony, News Corp is an institution too.
DeleteI wonder if Janet has a Jordan Peterson poster on her bedroom wall? A Jordan Peterson hat for certain.
ReplyDeleteNow, apart from reading the Pond's offerings, I don't generally seek out right wing comment but I have seen some snippets of Jordan and I think "banal" just about sums him up. Nothing new or insightful, just keep doing what your doing with some added rudeness and prejudice all dressed up as debate.
It all seems a bit desperate, latching onto anyone who seems to be on your side of an argument and painting them as a great thinker. It reminds me of the sainted Bill Leak. These guys (mainly guys) seem to have a limited shelf life and I wonder when the reptiles will have to find another Great White Hope?
You'd rate Peterson as highly as 'banal' Bef ? Soporific would be my call.
DeleteAs for the Slappy Dame, well of course she's got a big poster of Jordan on her wall; she needs something to cover up the Monckton portrait. But will she be getting a big poster of Kim Jong-Un to cover the Trump picture. Ah, mysteries, mysteries.
And of course, as you say 'Great White Hopes' come and go on a regular basis and interest in them shows the characteristics of 'exponential decay' (qv) whereby an initial high value of interest rapidly decays into total uninterest.
So, for instance, Monckton doesn't get even one single mention by the reptiles nowadays and Milo Yiannopoulos gets barely a mention (and fading fast). So, how long for Peterson ?
Bill Leak. These guys (mainly guys) seem to have a limited shelf life... ouch
DeleteAhem --- well, as a reptile cause célèbre. No need to actually die.
DeleteThe Leaky one is a bit of a special case. But concerning Peterson we should remember that, of course, few of those spouting his "wisdom" have actually read him - otherwise he should already have sold about 30 million books*, yes ? 12 Rules for Life has sold about 2 million so far - which is good, but not outstanding given that the population of the world is about 7.6 billion and the population of the 'Anglo' world (USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) is about 453 million.
DeleteAnd then, most of those who actually turn his pages (dead tree or electronic) aren't actually reading him; they're reading their own interpretation of, and projection onto, the words he's strung together.
A lot like the Holy Bible really: most Christians have never read any of it, and those that have all have their own beliefs as to what it says.
*PS: His main rival for best selling Canadian author, Robert Munsch, has actually sold about 30 million books all together, which is the total for all his 50 separate titles, which are children's books - eg he's sold 8 million copies of "Love You Forever".