The reptiles have been in a sublime state of shock and indignation these last 24 hours, so much so the pond has found it impossible to keep up, though a few headlines indicate the kind of rage that's infected them …
Adani and the ABC has a ring to it, and that pursed-lipped fiendish crow-eating carrion, harrion, harpie from ABC hell figured in photos up against the benign, saintly, persecuted St SloMo …though the news.com.au site varied the formula just a little
The treacherous comrade Bill's attitude to Adani was also in play on an almost hourly basis, though the reptiles were also tortured by the return of Clive, and SloMo's ambivalence about the phenomenon…
The reptile fury reached a kind of ripe trifecta with this splash …
And in a perverse way that set the scene for this day's outing, with freedom of speech joining the mix, but what a difficult day it turned out to be …
You see, for years, the reptiles have mocked the ABC and Tony Jones for their dalliance on late night TV with Clive Palmer, and rightly so, since Jones used the buffoon for easy fodder and entertainment, at the same time as Palmer was right royally screwing anybody who came within cooee of him …
It was a disgraceful performance and the reptiles were rightly indignant and mocking, with this sort of headline …
… and this sort of regional Murdochian grumpiness recalling the long-standing grudge …
And so came the need for the reptiles to do a huge backflip, as SloMo is no longer dodging on the Palmer deal, and does cynical dance with the buffoon from the north, perhaps even more cynical than the cavortings with Hanson …
Who drew the short straw to make some sense of this dance with the buffoon devil? Well another updated digital edition told the sorry story ...
Yep, it was nattering "Ned", and the Folau matter had been bubbling along nicely too …
… so it was way past time for Dame Slap to have a rant, and after that exceptionally long intro, that constituted the pond's reading this morning …
First to "Ned", explaining why it had to be so and thus, and why SloMo doing a Tony Jones was right and just and true …
Yes, Clive is currently the cockroach of YouTube, ineradicable and one of the most irritating pests there is, and in the next gobbet our nattering "Ned" recalls the ABC ...
Uh huh, so in this hour of need, in this moment of crisis, in this chaos as we head with the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the end of the world and the rapture, what is to be done? Does SloMo do a deal with the devil, or does he show a modicum of integrity? Oh woe, the wringing of the hands, and the worrying, the sighing and the sobbing, as only "Ned" can manage ...
Yes, he's a great, huggable, loveable guy, a devoted friend of coal and a speaker in tongues to imaginary friends in the sky, and so there is no other option … for frankly not doing the dance with the buffoon Clive would be electoral suicide ...
It might be helped a little by telling Clive Palmer to get fucked, because he's irredeemable and shouldn't be rewarded with a seat in the Senate by a desperate, pitiful attempt to win seats in Queensland.
The reptiles should recall their attitude to the ABC and Tony Jones, but sadly when it comes to craven hypocrisy, the reptiles and nattering "Ned" always know how to deliver …
And so to the Dame Slap rant of the day, and right from the get go, the pond was pleased …
You see? The fearless Dame led with a breach of Godwin's Law, east German sub-section, and so the pond immediately put a penny on the prospect of a pound for "Orwellian" to turn up at some point in the diatribe …
Being on a roll, the pond also decided to put sixpence to a quid on "virtue-signalling" turning up in the text ...
The pond loves a reference to fascists, Nazis, Communists, and by implication the Stasi in an opening flourish, because it guarantees the necessary level of hysteria the pond requires for any discussion of freedom of speech. Why, within a nanosecond, people can be reduced to shouting at each other subtle nuanced thoughts like "you goddam Commie pinko pervert", or "you Orwellian neo-fascist troglodyte" … so take it way Dame Slap …
Too easy really, with the pond scoring both "virtue-signalling" and "Orwellian" in the first gobbet. But how did the pond fail to lay a bet on "political correctness"? What a doofus!
Oh the pond could use the excuse that it was too short odds, but in truth, you shouldn't win all the time …and winning with Dame Slap can be too easy …
The pond might also have bet on the chance of a mind-numbing Kudelka turning up to assure the pond that it was reading a Dame Slap cult classic, but should days be spent shooting fish in Kudelka barrels?
Yes, it's worth remembering that climate science is a rough equivalent to creationism in the minds of reptiles everywhere, except when the foreign editor of the lizard Oz opines on the wondrous truth of miracles and the turning of wafers into human flesh and wine into human blood, for the cannibalistic consuming thereof … and so after a few more pars, it's on to defending a footballing boofhead fundamentalist caught up in the constraints of creationism ...
Well that says something about Dame Slap's YouTube interests, because the pond would rather have its eyes gouged out, and its ears filled with distilled essence of mercury than watch Joe Rogan talk about anything with anyone, though the deeply perverse can find that chat here …
But there's a simple problem with Dame Slap's argument. Just because Joe Rogan is deeply offensive, and others might have said or done offensive things, none of that applies to or has any relevance regarding the specific matter of Folau's behaviour in relation to his employer.
He'd already been warned, and agreed to toe the line, having apparently settled for mammon over his heavenly issues, but then he decided yet again that there was no problem breaking a promise, and having both mammon and heaven … and so he stepped out again to a predictable reaction…
An honourable Xian fundamentalist would have done the walk, without the need of a rant from the likes of Dame Slap, and forsaken mammon for heaven, without need of arbitration or argument ...
And here's a question the pond would love Dame Slap to answer …
Would Dame Slap be cheering him on if he was preaching homophobia as part of a general enthusiasm for Sharia Law and the fundamentalist atrocities that might bring in all sorts of areas?
Would she be blathering on about virtue-signalling, political correctness and "Orwellian" claptrap if he'd been coming at the matter from a fundamentalist Islamic perspective, and rugby union had decided they didn't want to know about it?
Probably not, but she has a last chance to play that card in a final gobbet …
Well, it's not termination "at will", what with court cases and adjudications in train, and recourse available, but it seems that when it comes to dangerously vague virtue-signalling instruments with a nasty kick to them, Dame Slap and the reptiles will now staunchly defend any employee who crosses a code of conduct line by proposing the stoning to death of women or homosexuals, or perhaps the cutting off of a hand for thieving … because where's the harm in being a devotee of fundamentalist Sharia law, of a kind not so far from old testament biblical injunctions …and who knows what other freedom to speak, attack, assault and condemn they might celebrate when it comes to the "Orwellian" crunch?
After all, if somebody can turn on a dime from deploring creationism in the name of science to celebrating fundamentalism in the name of homophobia, why they might themselves not be so far from the double-speak of the east Germans they allegedly deplored at the start of it all ...
Meanwhile, the pond will simply continue to insist on the right of Barners to speak freely so that cartoonists of the Rowe kind can have a pleasurable day in the office, and viewers can flush with pleasure, with more Roweian work to be found here …
"the benign, saintly, persecuted St SloMo"?
ReplyDeleteI just can't take seriously a person who smiles with only one side of his face.
Did Dame Slap comment when Steve McIntyre was sacked from SBS for his tweet about ANZAC? Freedom Boy did, all OK, he'd broken his contract.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think so, Joe, but IIRC she, and a lot of the low-end reptiles, really went to town when Abdel-Magied made a fairly innocuous tweet about Anzac.
DeleteNow strangely the old blunderpuss, Neddy Kelly picked up on a point that I haven't actually seen or heard anybody else mention: the "split" of protest votes - for One Nation or Palmer's lot: "The frightening data point for the Coalition is that in 2013, Palmer preferences split only 54-46 for the government." Thus, as Neddy informs us, they "steal votes from the Coalition that are not sufficiently returned via preferences." and hence they favour Labor in every electorate.
ReplyDeleteWell, hucoodanode, eh ? But Neddy's analysis is based on the idea that virtually all of the "protest votes" (Palmer and Hanson) come from the Coalition and I haven't seen any strong supporting evidence for that. So if, in fact, the "protest votes" come from the Coalition and Labor roughly 54-46 in the first place, then all that has happened is that the preferences essentially return the votes whence they came and thus the overall impact is about zero.
This only applies to the Reps, of course, Palmer and Hanson preferences could well determine a few seats in the senate.