The pond was full of remorse for not having congratulated the reptiles on their weekend front page, a triumph of triumphalism and hagiography, with the manly man strutting his stuff (and reminding the pond of Marina Hyde's talk of Coriolanus in the Graudian).
Things are going so well in Donald land, in an Epstein way, that the pond was immediately filled with the desire to run a few cartoons to celebrate the land the Murdochians helped turn into a mega-swamp:
But the pond had saved Dame Slap up for a Sunday meditation, and dammit, Dame Slap it was going to be …
But then the pond realised that Dame Slap was actually a MAGA cap devotee, and what more of an excuse was needed for a few more cartoons, before getting down to the important business of considering her never-ending suffering and victimhood?
But all good cartoon things must end, because it was time to do the hard yards with Dame Slap, grind it out like a US soccer player seeking equal pay …
Andy Ngo? That name rings a bell …
Right-wing media widely claimed that Ngo had had a brain hemorrhage. If so, he improved remarkably quickly -- Ngo was discharged and appeared on Fox News the next day. Right-wing media also widely claimed that Ngo had been attacked by a "cement milkshake", including Fox News [14] (who later backtracked their coverage)[15] and Ted Cruz. This is physically impossible, as mixtures with more than 1% sugar prevent cement from settling. [16] (Footnotes and more on his trolling ways here).
But the pond takes Dame Slap's point.
Only yesterday the pond was astonished and alarmed at the sight of harmless Xians being denied their freedom to speak, and being assaulted by a band of raving, ratbag secularists and atheists outside Broadway …
Look at this troubling, deeply disturbing incident, as captured by the pond …
Right-wing media widely claimed that Ngo had had a brain hemorrhage. If so, he improved remarkably quickly -- Ngo was discharged and appeared on Fox News the next day. Right-wing media also widely claimed that Ngo had been attacked by a "cement milkshake", including Fox News [14] (who later backtracked their coverage)[15] and Ted Cruz. This is physically impossible, as mixtures with more than 1% sugar prevent cement from settling. [16] (Footnotes and more on his trolling ways here).
But the pond takes Dame Slap's point.
Only yesterday the pond was astonished and alarmed at the sight of harmless Xians being denied their freedom to speak, and being assaulted by a band of raving, ratbag secularists and atheists outside Broadway …
Look at this troubling, deeply disturbing incident, as captured by the pond …
Hmm, strange, the trouble-makers seem to have slipped out of shot …perhaps a little wider Mr Toland, as you did for Mr Welles ...
Nope? Never mind, it's on with the next gobbet, where Dame Slap will unveil terrifying stories …
Ah, it seems Dame Slap has gone Xian in a shared victimhood and suffering…
No doubt she would have enjoyed this cartoon in the lizard Oz, though the pond does wonder how Kudelka survives amongst the reptiles …
Here's the thing. Whenever in doubt, Dame Slap and a lot of the other reptiles always reduce the discussion to religion.
If it's climate science, no it isn't, it's a new religion. If it's a way of behaving politely to other people, no it isn't, it's a new religion. The reptiles seem to have religion on the brain, suggesting to the pond that fundamentalism is about all they've got to offer … and when it comes to fundamentalism, you don't get much more fundamental than the Dame …
How soon before she's sobbing over Folau and sharing his victimhood?
People who presume to speak about moral issues for others?
But that's all Dame Slap does. When she's not being bigoted and snappy, she's instructing all on sundry on the way that other people should behave, berating them for hypocrisy, urging them to encourage a particular form of Slapian diversity, when in the Dame's monomaniacal world, no diversity is allowed or tolerated.
Would she even allow her self a flicker of a smile at this Kudelka?
She's always angry, she's always in a lather, she's always suffering a bout of indignation worse than the pond's indigestion … and yes, for the zillionth time, "virtue-signallers" gets another work-out, a sure sign that Slapian virtue-signalling is about to occur ...
Remember that blather about "People who presume to speak about moral issues for others"?
Cue "Here's my advice - and it's free,"which is to say, please allow me to presume to speak about moral issues for others ...
Well no, for starters, it isn't free.
You have to fork over shekels to Chairman Rupert if you want Dame Slap's advice, unless you have a way of getting past the paywall … and what do you get when you pay?
Old-fashioned rabble-rousing, and moralising … mixed with peculiar arrogance, with Dame Slap casting herself as a new Martin Luther …..
Martin Luther? Why in terms of moral import, she might get a job as Luther's bootlace ...
You have to fork over shekels to Chairman Rupert if you want Dame Slap's advice, unless you have a way of getting past the paywall … and what do you get when you pay?
Old-fashioned rabble-rousing, and moralising … mixed with peculiar arrogance, with Dame Slap casting herself as a new Martin Luther …..
Martin Luther? Why in terms of moral import, she might get a job as Luther's bootlace ...
Dear sweet absent lord, what does she think of the Donald when in full Lutheran flight?
After all, Martin Luther got most agitated about the indulgences ...
After all, Martin Luther got most agitated about the indulgences ...
Will she take off the MAGA cap and do a Luther on the Donald? Why is the pond asking such a stupid question?
Moving right along, the pond wasn't content with Dame Slap, of whom it must be said, repetition and rage can become tedious, and perhaps she should have mixed in a little of Luther's fixation with excrement to make her piece more entertaining …
So the pond turned to the oscillating fan for a different view …
Goliath? Still with the biblical fables? Will this talk of imaginary friends never end in reptile la la land?
But at least OF had scored the Lobbecke of the day and it's been a long time since the pond has sighted the master at work ...
But at least OF had scored the Lobbecke of the day and it's been a long time since the pond has sighted the master at work ...
This is astonishingly unfair of the oscillating fan!
Didn't he pause for a moment to think of the suffering of the Donald and his flying bats? Release the pretties ...
Didn't he pause for a moment to think of the suffering of the Donald and his flying bats? Release the pretties ...
Frankly denying the likes of Dame Slap her victimhood, her virtue-signallting status, seemed mighty unfair to the pond …
Steady, steady … the pond has convincing evidence that denialists are being denied their free speech …
Few play the victim card as effectively as the Donald or the Lutheran Dame Slap …
Oh wait, the pond got that wrong. Let's start again ...
Oh this is really too much, when there's so much suffering and repression on view in the world …
The pond hopes that the oscillating fan wraps up this piece about the persecution and the suffering of the reptiles quickly ...
And there you have it, as if Dame Slap being an irony-free zone was something to mock …
Poor Luther copped the same treatment, and all he did was a little virtue-signalling and moralising, and what on earth is wrong with that?
Poor Luther copped the same treatment, and all he did was a little virtue-signalling and moralising, and what on earth is wrong with that?
Shame on the oscillating fan, and now for a final flourish thanks to the dog botherer, who hasn't graced the pond for yonks …
Yep so much for bunging on a mass and offering symbolism and emotionalism, and even a hearty dose of cannibalism.
The pond will confess that the responses are going to be short here. You see, the moment the dog botherer mentions "practical" what he really means to say is nope, don't want to do anything, zip, nil, nada to look at here, unless a little token flourish can be dressed up as an attempt to do sweet fuck all …
What's remarkable here? Well there's the quintillionth mention of virtue-signalling, and as expected, for practical reasons, nothing should be done, not for the next three years, or possible for the dog botherer's thousand year reich …
It's all too hard, it's all too difficult, and the pond is only hanging in, because Rowe will illustrate what the dog botherer is saying with a single image … meaning anyone actually reading the dog botherer is wasting their time in the same way, as poor deluded Ken is wasting his ...
You see? It's way too hard, the horses are frightened, and nothing should be done, because it's all to tricky - those bloody horses - and, apart from a few difficult, pesky blacks, who will mind, who will care?
Share the ennui, slump on the lounge, zone out, nothing to see here, nothing to do here … but saying it will take a lot of time, unless somehow a token gesture can be dragged out of the dog botherer's fundament ...
Share the ennui, slump on the lounge, zone out, nothing to see here, nothing to do here … but saying it will take a lot of time, unless somehow a token gesture can be dragged out of the dog botherer's fundament ...
Oh wait, the pond got it wrong - a little tokenism might work. You know, feed a few handfuls of corn to the chooks, and they might fly …
Sure the pesky difficult blacks might be disappointed, but isn't that the entire point? They should think themselves lucky that the dog botherer has come up with a solution that won't please anyone, but will require a minimum of work and a minimum of fuss. You know, bring back an advisory council, as if it had never gone away, and what a wondrous solution it is …
Even better, put a time limit on it, and shut it down, because you know blacks have never had it so good, and it's only going to get better, and it would be completely unfair for them to keep on living the life of Riley, like they've done these last few couple of hundred years ...
So there you go, and there the pond goes, off to Rowe here, for a summary in a single image of the dog botherer's heroic efforts …
Dame Slap: "...changing the Australian Constitution to preference one race of people with a special chamber of their own."
ReplyDeleteAre Australian indigenes a "race" ? Is there, in fact, any such thing as "race" ? Maybe Neanderthals were one "race" and homo sapiens (both sapiens and idaltu) are a different "race". That could, apparently, interbreed, since we sapiens sapiens carry some Neanderthal genes. Maybe we could settle for "breeds" rather than "races" ?
I wonder what Dame Slap thinks of the NZ Treaty of Waitangi and the reserving of seven seats in parliament specifically for Maoris ? Isn't that racial discrimination ? And compared with that, doesn't a "special chamber" with zero voting rights in the Parliament seem very ordinary.
But if you want to know why there isn't an Australian Treaty, you can read this:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-new-zealands-maori-got-a-treaty-and-australias-indigenous-peoples-didnt-20170601-gwhysd.html
Anyway, maybe the Queensland Parliament could offer aboriginals a few reserved seats in place of all the money the Queenslanders stole from them and are still mostly refusing to pay back.
Later on: "... the hypocrisy of Billie Jean King in sport."
Que ? What did poor old BJK do to inflame the Dame ?
But then, DP: "She's always angry, she's always in a lather, she's always suffering a bout of indignation worse than the pond's indigestion …"
And now we know exactly why Planet Janet has been appointed to replace Rod Kemp as Chairman of the IPA (well "chairman" is a unisex title, isn't it ?).
But just one go of the Osc Fanny (oops): "Shorten's failure to sell his reforms and bring voters with him was the reason for his downfall"
Sure, OF, sure, and nothing at all about the constant raging against him of those "powerful vested interests in the media and business" - the Murdoch press, for instance - had even the slightest bit to do with that "failure", did it. Sure, Bill and Chris "Don't vote for us" Bowen did a bad job, but still what about all the scaremongering and those blatant lies told about them and Labor ? Did that really play no part ?
"Here's my advice - and it's free". Rather like copies of the Oz at the airport - free is still too much to pay for this type of drivel.
ReplyDeleteShe really is that type of nutter who only takes a few words to reveal her level of delusion and stupidity. A modern day Luther? Well she would side with the nobility against the peasants but that would be the limit. Oppose any established orthodoxy? Week in, week out she is just screaming at anyone that questions what she sees as norms (I don't have to point out the world isn't really as she sees it).
Like I've said many times, Bef, she exhibits gross psychological projection: she ascribes her own failings to everybody else. "Identity politics" ? She's an addict. Preaching her "morality" to them while claiming that's what they do ? She does it all the time.
DeleteAnd so on and so on, forever and ever amen.
Do you get the feeling that a high achieving female like Sandra Harding would be an automatic target of someone like Dame Slap? I mean, how does having a successful academic career and leading a major public institution compare to scribbling a rather tedious and formulaic column for Lord Moloch?
DeleteThe only real differences from week to week are the crooks, ratbags and trolls inserted between the standard references to "liberalism", "free speech", "virtue signalling" etc etc etc . . . I sometimes wonder if Janet Albrechtsen is one of those AI programs that writes essays based on some random inputs. Insert Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes or Donald J Trump and it produces a string of meaningless text with the names scattered through at strategic points.
Now be careful in what you say, Bef. After all, Dame Slap is herself one of the very most high achieving women in Australia. She has been appointed as Chairman of the IPA you know, and that's something that Sandra Harding will never achieve.
DeleteBut anyway, let's just quickly review what Dame Slap said:
"At James Cook University, vice-chancellor Sandra Harding used the university's code of conduct to remove physics professor Peter Ridd from his job."
Hmm, well that's what a "code of conduct" is for, isn't it ? If you willfully breach it, then you get sacked, surely.
"Ridd taught at JCU for decades."
Fabulous for him, but what has it got to do with the case ?
"Students adored him"
Did they ? Is she going to provide any evidence for that claim ? After all, she is a highly qualified lawyer so she must surely know about the need to provide evidence for any such claim. Besides, once again, what has that got to do with the case.
"His sin was to challenge the quality of research by some JCU colleagues about the state of the Great Barrier Reef."
Was it ? I thought his sin was to "challenge" in a particularly offensive and unqualified way - as a physicist in matters of biological expertise. Of course Ridd claims that just living near the Reef gives him all the biological expertise he needs to criticise more highly qualified colleagues.
So, not quite as egregious a case as the 'Porteous Lie' but not far off. As is usual for reptiles, Dame Slap is just doing her usual "he's with us so he must be right" pronouncement - yep, the way that reptiles always go to claim righteousness. And the less said about the so-called 'judge' who heard the case, the better.
If you'd like to read more, there's this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-23/peter-ridd-reef-science-climate-change/11026540
Someone who had a passing acquaintance with Ridd described him as "on the spectrum".
DeletePeople like this are useful to vested interests who can tap into their sense of resentment. They think they are underappreciated and you get a sort of attention seeking behaviour. The IPA will certainly say "come this way" if they find a useful idiot.
He is less useful to them now than when he was a "victim".
Engadine Maccas comes to Washington?
ReplyDeleteOh cute. I'd never heard of that one before.
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