The pond wondered when fear-mongering would be trotted out, and the reptiles were standing by for a 'Saturday special' … as the obsession with comrade Bill continued, and blotted out almost everything, even the sun.
All hands were on the 'Saturday special' deck, guns blazing away at comrade Bill, the leets and the filthy Commie swine …
Ah our Gracie, that mention of apparatchiks was particularly touching, and so apparently we are now licensed to call the reptiles neo-fascists …with Godwin's Law just a distant memory in reptile la la land.
But the pond was particularly disturbed by the continuing reptile desire to feature their polling, as all around it the reptiles rant on, while the poll numbers suggest their valiant, noble efforts might still be in vain …
What a roll call - carping Caroline, Dame Groan in full moan and conspiracy theory, the dog botherer in full climate science denialist mode, and little Johnny still campaigning on, but sounding and looking more like a doddering, irrelevant, verging on senility old fart (being one, the pond can recognise the breed).
It's desperate times and all hands must rally to the cause.
It's desperate times and all hands must rally to the cause.
The pond had hoped for some distraction from the politics, and the march of Clive on Canberra, and it's true Polonius offered one, but the pond has selfishly held him back for the usual Sunday meditation.
And then there was Dame Slap, but she had gone GOT barking mad …
The only fun to be hard there was this very same day Shanners of the Angels called the show "tacky" and deplored the need to sit down with SloMo to watch it …
No, there was nothing for it, but to turn to nattering "Ned" to generate the required sense of ennui and tedium, which might in turn lead to a relaxed, laid-back weekend …
First the pond must issue it's now standard warning.
Whenever "Ned" comes down from the attic, there's no stopping the old goat when he gets to shouting at clouds. It's always interminable, but the pond is a Freudian, and believes that "Ned" reveals, in his prating, the deepest and richest reptile fears and anxieties.
Whenever "Ned" comes down from the attic, there's no stopping the old goat when he gets to shouting at clouds. It's always interminable, but the pond is a Freudian, and believes that "Ned" reveals, in his prating, the deepest and richest reptile fears and anxieties.
Here for example, "Ned" purports some balance, berating Clive and GetUp together, along with the Americans, but actually Clive goes largely MIA, while GetUp cops the full "Ned" fear and loathing …but then "Ned" also cops a Lobbecke illustration, so he remains in reptile cult heaven ...
Is there a rich irony here?
Well yes, from the very get go in the headline, with "Ned" bleating about symptoms of Americanisation in a newspaper owned by an American, who has in all in his papers led the charge towards tabloid Americanisation, and who is currently, with the aid of his family, doing the very best possible to turn Sky into a feeble imitation of Fox News. The fact that few people want to follow chairman Rupert down this path and pay for this particular form of insanity is one of the few redeeming features of politics in this country …
Chairman Rupert is determined is minions will do their very best to ensure the speaker in tongues and welcomer of the rapture triumphs over comrade Bill, so there's Americanisation for you.
Well yes, from the very get go in the headline, with "Ned" bleating about symptoms of Americanisation in a newspaper owned by an American, who has in all in his papers led the charge towards tabloid Americanisation, and who is currently, with the aid of his family, doing the very best possible to turn Sky into a feeble imitation of Fox News. The fact that few people want to follow chairman Rupert down this path and pay for this particular form of insanity is one of the few redeeming features of politics in this country …
Chairman Rupert is determined is minions will do their very best to ensure the speaker in tongues and welcomer of the rapture triumphs over comrade Bill, so there's Americanisation for you.
But wait, there's even more Americanisation irony to hand, as "Ned" is now fully cranked up and ready to let loose with both barrels …
So what deep neuroses and anxieties and fears does this gobbet reveal? Well it hints at one of the deepest reptile worries … the loss of the onion muncher, the mutton Dutton and other noble warriors …
And yet the reptiles and their readers are doing their very best for the onion muncher. Look at his stern, brave visage as he sets out to save the children from the under toad …
But what, as little Tommy once suggested, you can't kill the Boogeyman? What then? Wheel in some more "Ned" perhaps might be your only chance ...
Yes, the fear is deep for the onion muncher, and "Ned" is spooked, and perhaps even more spooked for good old Kev.
In the process, lost are fond memories of Kevin Andrews, Natural Family Man of the Year (The Monthly in 2014) …
In the process, lost are fond memories of Kevin Andrews, Natural Family Man of the Year (The Monthly in 2014) …
Ah wonderful, just a few of the greatest his … and what about what was then the Fairfaxians cruelly mocking the Father of the House, hinting that he might have hung around a little too long and been infested with delusions of grandeur and feelings of being ignored?
Ah the glory days of delusion and natural families, but Kev was right about that - Malware was a mere blip, a momentary bug who nonetheless managed to fuck up the NBN for all eternity, but what if Kev himself was going to turn into a blip?
Oh sainted father, could this be the end of little Kev?
Be still beating heart, send out to "Ned" for some more natter about the wicked boogeyman … why, in the sequel Jamie Lee did seem to manage to take the beast out, so maybe there's still hope for the ancients protecting their lawns and their turf ...
Dear sainted long absent lord, sorry for the pause, but the pond just fainted. Did "Ned" just praise Jon Faine and the ABC? Did he realise he was risking pariah status with this sort of odious heresy?
Even worse, in the next gobbet, "Ned" dangerously veers in the direction of suggesting that perhaps GetUp and the ALP are not as one, and perhaps they don't always think and act in consort together? How much heresy can a koala or the pond bear?
Ah, Stephen "let's censor everything" Conroy, it's been such a long time apart …
But enough of lifesavers, because it turns out that the real thought crime has to do with climate change, and the mocking of the onion muncher's wondrous climate science expertise, and for that the reptiles offered up an illustration of the deviants at work with their scandalous satire and vicious pleading ...
How unfair they are, when everyone knows and appreciates that the onion muncher has just been illustrating the four seasons with his changes of position … they come, they go, and they change, and so does the climate, and there will be a season for growing and there will be a season for stunting, and there will be time for more "Ned" ...
Sound familiar? Well the pond knows what sounds familiar and is never tired of running it, thanks to the efforts of the Angry Goddess, sounding off on Sky News here, and elsewhere…
Ah great days indeed, but here's the real rub.
You see, nattering "Ned" spent an inordinate amount of time, defending the indefensible, such as doddering Kev and time-warped, let's have a 'knight on the barbie', 'have I got a dose of climate science denialism for you' onion muncher, but what has been the single most indefensible action of the campaign to date?
That's right, almost guaranteeing a notorious, corrupt robber baron a seat in the Senate, where he might rabbit on about everything, and become an unendurable bore, even worse than when in company with the ABC's Tony Jones, two bores boring the world, making a mockery of the brand, until the late night show eventually sailed off into the irrelevant sunset.
What's that indefensible preference deal worth in "Ned's" la la land? Why a couple of pars at the end ...
Oh fucketty fuck, how pathetic a defence is that? May as well go with Clive because what the hell, if we don't, we'd only get more Pauline …
And that's why the deplorables will turn to any politician in a storm. The sublime contempt that runs underneath the reptile ramblings of "Ned" tosses off lightly SloMo's fully sick attempt to win power by doing the beast with two backs with Clive …
If it turns out as expected, that might mean offering scraps, tokens, gifts and deals to a man who has spent years fucking over his workers, but it seems that monumental form of corruption is a never no mind
...because Pauline …
How contemptible is the mindset, which has nothing to do with Americanisation, and all to do with the cynicism of domestic conservative politics? A cynicism on parade in the one-eyed ramblings of "Ned" …
… because not a word about Advance Australia, and Moorice and his mob. How unfair is that, how unjust? Not even a word for Captain GetUp?
… because not a word about Advance Australia, and Moorice and his mob. How unfair is that, how unjust? Not even a word for Captain GetUp?
Is the caped crusader a flop? How cruel, how unkind, to the brightest marketing minds of a generation of coal lovers ...
Meanwhile, it wasn't just "Ned" who know how to balance the cynical ledger.
Little Johnny was out and about defending the deal …
Yes, yes, we know that SloMo and his mob are quite happy to gift the robber baron, whose main skill is fucking his workers, a seat in the Senate.
What's the excuse this time?
Uh huh. So while "Ned" says Pauline is the worry, little Johnny is out and about saying that Clive is a better alternative than the greenies, because after all, fucking the workers is great fun, up there with fucking the planet …
As for offering policies and discussing them? No sign of that in nattering "Ned", it was just a shriek of fear and a howl of pain, and blather about Americanisation, as if he'd come down from the attic with a memory lapse about his American overlord …
And speaking of memory lapses, so to a redeeming Pope, with more infallible Pope here …
Poor Old Janet off the Planet still moaning about the moaning feminists. How embarrassing it would be for her if she had any self-awareness or not.
ReplyDeletePerhaps her brain has turned to concrete - if you stop using neurons to learn new things, they die back and you've lost your plasticity and you get narrow minds and shallow thinking. She needs a new meme to bash us with.
Because this is the story now Janet. Get woke you silly old biddy.
So just in case she is reading - why wouldn't she?
"Feminism never was or has been an homogeneous movement or ideology. How can it be when it traverses enormous cultural, racial, economic, social, sexual and educational differences?
But the one thing feminism is not and never has been is man-hating.
I find this deliberate attempt to misrepresent feminism, to malign its intentions and the objects of its scrutiny puzzling and distressing. There might be some women who loathe men and identify themselves as feminist, but they don’t represent the ideology or practice of the majority and never have.
Describing it this way is simply anti-feminist propaganda, designed to discredit any arguments mounted against discriminatory practices that favour one sex to the detriment of the other. The provocative description is also used to alienate young women from exploring what feminism means, discourage professionals from identifying with it, and maintaining an irrational rage against it."
All that from this article unbelieveably published in the Courier Mail which is behind a paywall but you can use outline to open it.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-why-is-feminism-such-an-uncomfortable-word/news-story/cea0fdb1d7c1661c9dedb34ba5bcb977?nk=ecdce8500af9eaa02291e267c236d172-1556319103
Oh pish tush, Anony, Planet Janet just wants us to know that she never needed or accepted any help from any other female in order to make her fabulous achievements in life.
DeleteAnd that she has only scorn and even hatred for others, and especially for women who espouse "feminism". See also Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers and Germaine Greer. Not to mention Dame Edna Everage (or Ever-rage if you prefer).
I think the difference is that Janet does it for the money pure and simple cos money is the full measure of a man for women like her who as you say don't like other women even if they do meet for coffee accidentally. But things might be changing now that women dont' always have to use a powerful man to get ahead.
DeleteBut the other women you mention although they may espouse ideas that they find difficult to explicate rationally or not even care if their argument is rational.... I would like to think that they would not stoop to work directly with the Murdoch monstrosity. I quite like the way Germaine stirs people up with her mad ideas. So not boring.
But Dame Edna is the most horrible nightmarish woman that a bitter old twisted second rate male 'artist' could possible dredge up from the foul pit of his imagination that was has nurtured hatred for his mother I suppose for his whole life.
I saw and exhibition of his paintings once - so average.
:)
You rate his paintings that highly ? :-)
DeleteI can't quite convince myself that Plan Jan only does it for the money though, I think she has some real emotional commitment in there. Yes, Germs can be funny at times - especially when she appears on 'Would I Lie To You'. But she still has a lot of internal mess and contradictions to resolve - and she's running out of time.
The hypocrisy of the murdoch press is just breath taking when I happen to search for something a little more interesting than North Melbourne being put to the sword by Port Adelaide I reached channel 83 and on my screen came up Hargreaves,a bees nest in the form of Bishop and a couple of other non entities who describe Bill Shorten as shit and after seeing the rest of the mob giggle at this comment I new it was not for me so went to news 24 and was no better off with a abc reporter interviewing a financial so called expert espousing how wonderful the stock market is racing a head, no dark clouds on the horizon.
ReplyDeleteSo for nattering Ned to be critical of Get up is a bit of breath taking hypocrisy and he is so blind and must have a memory block not to remember how Murdoch has been interfering in election results in numerous countries.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteRecently I came across a photograph taken in the White House of a meeting between Ronald Reagan and Roy Cohn.
https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/get-attachment-2.aspx_.jpeg
I was somewhat taken aback when I recognised the third figure sitting quietly in the background. A person well known to us all and one who has claimed that he has never asked a politician for anything.
So it would seem that Roy Cohn not only aided and abetted Joe McCarthy in a witch-hunt for Reds under the beds, kept Mob bosses from going to jail and mentored a short fingered vulgarian in ‘The Art of the Deal’ he also found time to help Rupert Murdoch gain direct access to the US president in order to expand his media empire.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/19/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch-2/
I’m not sure which is Cohn’s greatest crime.
DiddyWrote
Well maybe, DW, but Murdoch's major outlet, Fox News, didn't get under way until 1996 - right in the middle of Bill Clinton's 8 years of presidency.
DeleteEven then, it wasn't until 2006 that Johnny WorkChoices and his 77 crooks approved of media empires and foreign ownership in Australia.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/parliament-passes-media-laws-20061018-gdomil.html
So I guess we can't blame Ronny Raygun and Cohn for everything.
So, according to Neddy: "[Palmer's] purpose is to win Senate places and attempt to gain the balance of power on the Senate crossbench. Such a prospect has only one consequence - more dysfunction and chaos in parliament. There is no precedent in Australia for what Palmer is doing."
ReplyDeleteQue ? Neddy hasn't ever heard of the DLP ? Of Brian Harradine ? Of Pauline Hanson ? Of Nick Xenophon ? Of Derryn Hinch ? He really, truly has gone senile and lost his marbles, hasn't he.
Oh alright, maybe there's no precedent for any one person - as opposed to major parties - to spend large sums of money to get elected, I grant, but is that really germain to anything much ? Win, lose or draw, will Palmer spend the same amount again next time ? And every time thereafter ?
"...how pathetic a defence is that? May as well go with Clive because what the hell, if we don't, we'd only get more Pauline …"
But, butt DP, that's the standard reptile defence: if we don't mine and burn coal, somebody else will. That kind of hypocritical self-exoneration is just cemented into the reptile soul.
"... little Johnny is out and about saying that Clive is a better alternative than the greenies, because after all, fucking the workers is great fun,"
Does anybody really need reminding what it was that cost the LNP 22 seats - including Howard's own seat - back in 2007 ? Does "WorkChoices" ring any bells ?
How inbred is the MerdeOfOx scribbling crew?
ReplyDeleteThere's Ma and Pa Shanahan, who both got snippets today. No doubt one or more of their nine offspring will join the merry keyboard-dribbling throng at some point.
Then there's Sascha O'Sullivan. She's Dame Slap's daughter, from a previous pairing with the investment wanker John O'Sullivan.
And I'd be less than shocked if it turned out that Our Katrina, the former Grace Collier, is the lovechild of Paul 'Ned' Kelly and thus the half-sibling of Joe. (She ditched her adoptive family's surname in favour of that of her biological parents'. Though there's no indication that 'Ned' is her dear old dad - yet.)
Dear Lord, it's a good argument for eugenics - we have just got to stop these people breeding!
DeleteThe reptile gene pool is fairly small in any case. They just cycle (or recycle) through the same commentators. The business types are rent seekers, the academic "authorities" are fringe dwellers that don't publish much (or at all) and the opinion scribblers are the type who can clear a room in a minute flat.
Well if you can't recruit 'em, you have to breed 'em, I guess. I wonder if Sascha still believes in Monckton's UN Black Helicopters ? Her esteemed - and totally believable - mother told her about them and insisted that they were real.
DeleteBut have you noticed how old the little photos the reptile press uses for its "contributors" are ? Dennis Shanahan in particular looks quite noticeably older (he started in journalism back in 1971, apparently), but I can't seem to find a current picture of Angela.
Apparently...Angela has a gay son. How did that happen? He just chose to be a bad boy? But it could be interesting if he took to the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteAngela will still be going to heaven despite her poor mothering because God will like it that she told her gay son his marriage was ‘disappointing' and didn't mean as much as the marriage of his sisters and brothers.”
Interesting use of hysterical language by the pontificating grey zombie while pretending to give a sobering assessment of the erection campaign.
ReplyDeleteHe tells us that Getup wants to DESTROY the budgie smuggler and the other right ring dingbats too.
Ned is laying it on a bit thick suggesting politics follows culture. If politics is following it is at quite a distance. Maybe the reactionaries on the far right are representing their community but the community in general is miles ahead of the political class.
ReplyDeleteAlso very funny to suggest social media or GetUp are causing social division when it was John Winston Howard, aided and abetted by the Murdochracy, who pressed the race button.
GetUp has got under their skin to such an extent I think I might fire off another donation.
Watch out for Advance Australia and Captain GetUp, Bef; they'll be coming for you !
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