Amid the desolation and the isolation, the pond gave a huge sigh of self-isolated relief … at least the reptiles knew how to keep on giving …
Give money to pensioners? Eek, how shocking, how shameful …
But Alan Moran, that name somehow sounded eerily familiar … never mind, on the pond plunged …
Hang on, hang on, that talk of chairman Rudd and his crimes against humanity and the economy jogged the pond's memory.
Moran was famous in his lunchtime for his contribution to assorted other analyses …
And what happened there? The pond recalled this Crikey tidbit ...
Ah yes, that Alan Moran … please, do go on … the pond's brain has sprung a leak …
Uh huh, but wait, there's more … because this Moran gets around to all the important places …
Yes, once again the reptiles have managed to look like Spectator-lite …
Well anyone with time on their hands and a deep perversity can have fun tracking down more Moran musings, but the pond will only provide a link to this history of his contributions to humanity … and then quickly move on to the final gobbet …
And why did the pond find Moran's contribution so compelling, it being just another variation on "let the peasants make do with breadcrumbs"?
Well adjacent to him in the reptile opinion section came this lizard Oz editorialist effort …
Say what? But the reptiles have shown the true Australian spirit by giving space to Alan Moran … and a goodly burst of 'boomer remover' thinking …
How could the lizard Oz editorialist come back from that denialist precipice, and strike the right note?
Uh huh, but what about those damned useless pensioners, and the grasping elderly, with their paws in the government till?
Surely the reptiles won't start shedding crocodile tears? You guessed it, they did, they did ...
What can you do for your country, your local community, your fellow Australian?
Why publish a columnist too rich for the IPA, beloved of the Heartland Institute, the Speccie mob, the Bolter and sundry others, and that'll see the right thing done by pensioners and the elderly …
So much for reptile blather about the duty to protect the most vulnerable …
Why it would have been more honest to promote a policy of herding the sick into the Coliseum so that they might have some pleasant company as they drop off the perch, with valuable savings made to government money in the process …so that by end of year, we can at last have a balanced budget, and if a few die in the process, where's the harm in that? Remember the 300 and all will be well ...
And with that cheerful thought, David Rowe was still out and about, and shedding a tear here …
Moran would no doubt agree with the British Tory Jeremy Warner who wrote for the Daily Telegraph on 3 March:
ReplyDelete"In the First World War outbreak there was thus a lasting impact on supply, with many families suffering the loss of the primary bread-winner. This is quite unlikely to occur this time around. Not to put too fine a point on it, from an entirely disinterested economic perspective, the Covid-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by disproportionately culling elderly dependents." (from the LRB blog)
Just casting off the societal burden of sustaining the aged, Joe:
Deletehttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/theres-something-we-can-do-to-ease-the-burden-of-an-ageing-population
“From an entirely disinterested economic perspective”
DeleteIt has always worried me Joe, that there are many that walk among us with this disinterested perspective, but I try not to think about it as much as I can.
The reptiles are wheeling out the big guns with Moran......trying to buck up the converted, as their portfolios fall of a cliff. Oh, the tears!
@GB. You really are a contrarian, with all that anti-libertarian common sense. An excellent link.Ta.
Like to add that I, probably like everyone else, come to the pond for those occasional Zinger openings(Brilliant Dorothy) and classic catch phrases of the day.......””Boomer Remover”” ������ plus a priceless cartoon.....and the comment thread. My isolation is complete!
Have posted before, but feels appropriate. How to stay sane and fit during curfews. Cheers.
the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHNwBbkSj4
Hi Anon,
DeleteExcellent soundtrack for the times and a David Byrne workout for the self isolated to boot (keeps you thin).
I've also seen our new friend COVID-19 described as the new 'Boomer Broom'.
Apologies for the gallows humour please watch this Government Announcement instead;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hks6Nq7g6P4
DW
Very good DW. To die laughing is a positive option I guess.
DeleteI’m currently channeling all my spare lockdown time harassing politicians and their staffers via phone and email for exceeding their shitfuckery quota.
The hardest one to get to is the Minister for Comms.,Cyber Security and Arts. Paul Fletcher.
Should Be called the Ministry of merry-go-round shitfuckery rather than the Machinery of Govt...To quote:
As a result of the Administrative Arrangement Order introduced on 5 December 2019, the functions that were previously the responsibility of the Department of Communications and the Arts have been transferred to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications as of 1 February 2020.
Do not attempt ......will drive you spare! Cheers.
Thanks, Anony and DW, most entertaining. Homo sapiens has always been able to be humorous about the effects of its own highly developed dumbfvckery.
DeleteBut the real question is: why dig Molan up out of the hole he's been festering in, now ? Have the reptiles really run out of their personal stock of lies to repeat, finally ?
ReplyDeleteAnd what, pray tell, is this Regulation Economics website ? Has anybody ever visited it ?
Oops, "Molan" ? The man who doesn't rely on evidence ? How did he sneak on here. It was Moran, folks, Moran (a slight mispronunciation of a different word that describes him vety well).
DeleteThe Gizzards of Oz
ReplyDeleteIt’s schadenfreude bliss to watch reptiles hiss
As they writhe in their moral paralysis
And they’re scraping the can
To pull out Moran
Then publish his crap as analysis
No Second Coming…
Turning and churning in the virulent mire
The hacktiles cannot hear their editor;
Things are falling apart; the far right cannot hold;
Fear and whackery is loosed upon the Oz,
Their blood-dimmed minds are lost, and everywhere
Sanctimony and incompetence are found;
These beasts lack all restriction, while at best
Are full of passionless inanity.
Poignant as always, Kez
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