The pond felt dreadful. Who would inflict nattering "Ned" on anyone, let alone offer him up as a fit subject for a Sunday meditation?
But the pond had no choice. Like the wedding guest, it was compelled, and clearly the reptiles thought he should be a guest of honour because they'd blessed him with an illustration by cult master Lobbecke.
Funnily enough, the cult master's cartoon says it all. The reptiles know they've done down Labor, and they're cockahoop. They've got the new Kim Beazley in power, talking of kindness and political generosity, when if he'd had the ticker and the numbers he might have taken down comrade Bill when it meant something.
Now for the foreseeable future we're trapped with a salesman who knows all the tricks of the game, including all the "how good is that Trucoat against the rust?" routines, while off speaking in tongues, consorting with cultists at Hillsong, and dreaming of the rapture, when he's not having raptures over coal …
Meanwhile, the reptiles work the old con. Be like us, come over to our side, abandon all ye hold dear, construct an imaginary fictional centre, of no real interest to them, forsake everything, turn into a pale shadow, and you might have electoral success.
Of course they don't really think that, they don't give a toss, it's just a reptile mindfuck, they'll go on undermining and white-anting and sniping, and then they'll back SloMo, until at least the arrival of the rapture ...
It never occurs to the reptiles that climate science isn't about hysteria, it's actually about what's happening on the planet, as observed by people in the field, rather than by the likes of "Ned", nattering away in 'leet Surry Hills.
One things certain, and the pond hates to quote the oscillating fan with approval, but all the recent outings by Labor spokespeople leads to only one conclusion ...
Yes, this is the shouting match the reptiles love, herding the ALP sheep towards domestic oblivion, seizing on talking points to turn the party into a mindless shadow of the ruling party. This is how the reptile overlords work ...
Never mind that rampant growth and buildings that fall down in Sydney aren't exactly what we need more of at the moment … at least if facing up to the actual implications of climate change.
But dear sweet long absent lord, did the pond last this long into a Ned piece without offering a cartoon as light relief?
What a laugh, what a hoot, but luckily the reptiles are from a different planet, and "Ned" is really just an ancient fossil, a climate science denialist from long ago, not brave enough to be a dog botherer and go out on a limb, but always ready to use it as a club ...
Ah yes, big business … we've been there before on a cracked 737 …
Meanwhile, we get the usual "Ned" jibber jabber about the dreaded, dreadful inner city 'leets, where obscenely wealthy and arrogant baristas serve the best coffee in the world to the ruling masters patrolling the streets of Surry Hills …
Oh vainglorious reptiles, if only you'd moved to Parramatta when you had the chance. Instead, you dwell in the inner city, reptilian overlords and masters of the universe ...
Hmm, that photo looks familiar … so that's the reptile way forward ...
Sorry, probably a case of mistaken identity …but as good as a cartoon for laughs ...
And then it's on with the rest of the talking points, degutting the Labor party in the process, though it hardly seems necessary when the Labor party is routinely good at degutting itself … while meanwhile, the reptiles play it hard, determined not to give the other side an inch, or anything else of the filthy French metric kind …
So it goes, and so goes nattering "Ned", urging that the conversation head down into a spiral of gutter talk, abuse of minorities, and all the rest we've come to associate with the age of Chairman Rupert …
Up against this, Albo, just like poor old Kim Beazley, doesn't have a clue. Give them a yard, and they'll steal a kilometre … but at least this is the last gobbet of "Ned" ...
The moment anyone spots the reptiles cheering on Albo, the more likely he's doomed, and as further proof, the pond offers even harder yards … the lizard Oz editorialist, adopting exactly the same set of talking points …
Same old, same old ...
Yes, you can save the planet by keeping the coal mining going … because, let's face it, in reptile la la land, it's all fake news and fake science, and a coal witch hunt …
Does anyone seriously think that the reptiles give a flying fuck about the fortunes of the Labor party? Or that they want it to win the next election? Tell 'em they're dreaming …
We know all this from reptile worship of another leader in a strange land …
And so to yet another serve of exactly the same blather that "Ned" dished up, because the relentless reptiles know no other way ...
Well there's one solution to this, and that wise leader in a strange land showed how it's done …
Expecting more, perhaps endless, blather about the wonders of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, accompanied by climate science denialism? Not if people cancel their subscription ...
Yes, we could end up here …
Or we could end up here …
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteWhat’s this from nattering Ned;
“He is surely aware of the ancient axiom: there is nothing so dangerous for a prince as seeking to alter the existing order.”
The reptiles are now quoting Machiavelli at Labor as a practical guide for dealing with anthropogenic induced climate change. Kelly could at least quote a fuller version as he prefers his waffling to be long and extensive;
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising partly from the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it.”
And if Machiavelli is all the go why not a quote for Scummo and Coalition;
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
DiddyWrote
I don't know just how little of Machiavelli the reptiles might claim to understand, but in dealing with the Murdochian herpetarium, I've always found the wisdom of Greenspan to be apposite:
Delete"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant".
Personally, I'm still trying to deconstruct 'deconstructionism' enough to understand if it is any more than a reptile cliche, but it seems to mean - at least to them - "ignoring what you actually said so that I can reinterpret it to mean what I want it to".
Thank you Dorothy
ReplyDeleteThere's something weird about Ned telling us that Albo doesn't believe in advancing policy through the politics of fear. Fear is the weapon of choice for the Coalition and the reptiles, and has been for as long as I can remember. And I've been around quite a long time. Conservative people in Australia are a fearfully insecure bunch, so creating fears and then playing to them will almost always work for a politician.
ReplyDeleteI will never forget a TV vox pop with an old woman during an election campaign in the Howard years' ramping up of national security: "I need to feel safe," she said. Not to actually be safe, she just needed that feeling, like a soothing balm, that the lying rodent seemed to give her. Howard created the fear, then neatly filled it with his solutions, all delivered with nauseating avuncularity. Loss of individual liberty was a convenient side-effect of his solutions.
I think Ned is correct on one thing: the ALP lost the last election because Shorten helped create the fear of climate change without positioning himself as the white knight who would then ride to the rescue and turn that fear into jobsngrowth. Yet Australians are so stupid most of us cannot see through this.
Yes the Australian electorate is gullible, and your comparison with Beazley is spot on, DP. I can only too well remember the frustration I felt when Bomber - always the nice guy - continually played a straight bat to Howard's fearmongering and rat cunning. I think he would have made a great PM, but Little Johnny was partly right, he didn't have the ticker - to get there. Albo is looking very much like he is cut from the same cloth. It's a sad indictment of Aussie politics that deception is seen as the only effective pathway to power.
Of course SloMo is just a babe on Howard's knee in comparison today, but he is a quick learner, and your prediction about being lumped with him for the foreseeable future is one that fills me with dread. I won't be around when the planet switches from its current slow cook mode; but I fear for the earth, its people and its future. I do, however, harbour just a glint of remorse that I therefore won't be around for the inevitable payback that people like SloMo, Trump, etc. will receive for not acting. And my mind marvels at what form that payback could take.
The Nattering Neddie: "He [Albanese] thinks the transition to clean energy -...- can be tackled while living standards keep rising, jobs are created and lifestyle is enhanced."
ReplyDeleteAh, I just love it when reptiles profess to being mindreaders and claim to have psychoed the opposition. Mind you, I'm not convinced that Albanese isn't noodlenutted enough to actually believe what Neddie ascribes to him.
But then, you see, I'm an Aussie male - the breed of males that lives longest in this world (see https://demography.cass.anu.edu.au/news/australian-men-top-when-it-comes-life-expectancy if you don't believe me) - and so I might yet get to see the world that the reptiles are striving to build around us. Though I have already lived two years longer than the ANU's average, so I'm not altogether sure how much I'll still be around for.
Should still be around for quite a bit of "droughts and flooding rains" though. And so should basically all of the reptiles (even Ned). And Albanese.
But just to try to insert a wee bit of balance, we might note that in Labor's "catastrophic loss", if just 546 votes in Chisholm and 282 votes in Bass had been turned around and gone to Labor instead of the LNP, then SloMo would now have a minority government relying on the support of Bob Katter. Would that have been called enough of a catastrophe to require a 'Centre-Right' remake of Labor from the ground up ?
But then we have Ned quoting Claire O'Neil: "I don't know anyone who ever changed their mind because they got made an example of, or yelled at, or shamed."
So I guess that's why some "big end of town" banks plus some "big end of town" chefs plus the occasional "big end of town" Supermarket chain will just go on robbing and cheating their customers and/or staff regardless of any legal action to stop them. And they'll all have frequent and vocal reptile approval for being "less regulated, lower tax and more productive".
So it goes.
I almost forgot about this "united-Right" gem: Neddie quotinhg O'Neil again: "There is a culture developing in the progressive movement where membership is granted with a box of ideas. And if you don't accept one of the ideas in the box, you do not merely have a different opinion, you are obviously wrong, probably stupid and possibly subhuman."
ReplyDeleteOh wau, those Rabidly Righteous Righties are all the same no matter where they reside; so can somebody tell me how O'Neil even begins to qualify as a Labor person ? Nice bit of projection of wingnuts onto progressives, though.
Neddie himself adds that "The problem for Labor is that dedicated progressives won't change their ideas, their methods or their intolerance."
Oh, I sincerely hope not. Who wants a bunch of progressives that bow and bend with the slightest breeze out of Murdoch's arse ? And who wants so-called 'progressives' that would tolerate anything that the wingnuts want ?