The pond doesn't like to start a Monday with the dog botherer, but what are you going to do?
This particular reptile is such a sea of neuroses, such a foaming mass of rabid paranoia and hysteria and venomous thoughts, that he demands attention be paid … even, as the saying used to go, this outing is a classic beat-up, which enables the wretched creature to do yet another standard reptile beat up of the ABC …
A lower global population? Can the pond volunteer for the dog botherer to depart the planet first, all in the cause of following Michael Moore's prescription?
As usual for the reptiles, they're keen to promote the film, as if the ABC alone should show it, and as if there's no such thing as three FTA networks and the SBS and Foxtel, though even Michael Moore might wonder at the use of screening a film on a cable network that is deeply fucked.
Well luckily, what follows are screen caps, so we're left alone with the dog botherer's neuroses ...
Will Foxtel run it? Stay tuned, if you haven't learned the noble. eminently sensible art of cable cutting …
What gets the pond in this is the moronic level of repetition. It came with that talk of 'virtue signalling' - is that its zillionth outing? - and sure enough in the next gobbet there came another lazy bit of dog botherer blather, with "groupthink" being trotted out for the umpteenth time ...
Groupthink? It's actually called projection, given the way that News Corp loves the Donald, and the Donald is prone to saying things like this ...
… which is as close to George as anyone could hope to get …
But really, the whole beat-up is just so that the neurotic dog botherer could get agitated by his favourite bête noire, the triple horned beast known as Barry …
After it was revealed that the bromancer had a glass jaw, the pond thought of renaming him Greg "Glass Jaw" Sheridan, because who remembers his long lost deep, passionate, wildly infatuated romance with the onion muncher?
But it turns out they all have glass jaws, and the term would have to be applied indiscriminately, as in Chris "glass jaw" Kenny, because they don't like it up 'em, no siree, they don't like it up 'em at all. But what's the point of pointing out the bleeding obvious glass jaw syndrome, when even in the Czech in their glory days, made a better brand of glass ...
Defensive, weird, paranoid … but why would anyone bother to go on air with the dog botherer to debate climate science, given he's a fuckwit, not a climate scientist and without a clue on the subject? It would result in one of those useless arguments familiar to anyone who avoids Q and A, with a lot of hot air, and no purpose or meaning beyond the blather, and right now the planet could do without more hot air …
Update courtesy Crikey:
Update courtesy Crikey:
Problem solved. Barry and the dog botherer could discuss the virtues of injecting disinfectant, in a non-sarcastic way … fair enough? Fucketty fuck, tricked by Trump? The snake oil salesman can spot a moronic mark a mile off ...
As for The Insiders, it's now dead to the pond. Not because Speers is trying to introduce News Corp ideology, but because he's deadly dull and a poor host, and when given a chance to shine under a bigger spotlight, he's failed miserably …
And so to the next reptile instalment, and the pond confesses it has been ignoring the Major and his hunt for the Order of Lenin medal for too long …
Yes, it's a classic example of News Corp/lizard of Oz pile on, with everybody, including the dog botherer and his molested dog, dishing it out to Malware these past few weeks, just as they did when the onion muncher was doing his wrecking, sniping and undermining on daily basis in the lizard Oz.
But what choice did the pond have? Go with another example of reptile group think, which bobbed up yet again this day?
No, not the Pellists, better the briar patch than the Pellists, so it had to be the Major, tormented by the monstrous Malware …
The mutton Dutton a good minister? The usual sensible reaction would be to stop at that point, knowing this was yet another delusional bout of the Major howling at the moon, driven mad by his failure to find that tricky Order of Lenin Medal …
This stuff is about as anal retentive as it gets, and is riddled with the same defensive posturing as offered by the dog botherer, and the pond, with its expertise in crowd behaviour, can only think of it as an example of crowd pathology ...
Alternatively, perhaps it fits into the study of primates, and their bum-sniffing habits, with the Major doing a lot of sniffing of the bums of familiar News Corp illuminati …
Everybody, including the dog botherer's molested dog, knew that News Corp was gunning for Malware, with a few personal exceptions that could act as deflective window dressing. Why bother to pretend otherwise? Why protest so loudly? Why attempt feeble, pathetic defences?
The pond didn't mind. After all, Malware had fucked the NBN, and for that he deserved a tar and feathering and a trip out of town on a donkey.
Why do the reptiles carry on so, why is the Major so agitated? Because they're guilty, guilty as hell, and they know it … and the Major knows it too ...
And speaking of group think, as one must when dealing with the reptiles, imagine the horror of Malware putting up money for the Graudian, when instead he might have invested in shitty News Corp, as a subordinated investor with no say in what La Famiglia might get up to …even Malware's not as thick as that.
But enough of the Major because what a wealth of other opportunities there were this day beneath the fold …
There was simple Simon assigned SloMo arse-licking duties for the day, and Gra Gra wandering back past his Swiss bank accounts to Jim Cairns and Vietnam war protest days, and the war on China cranking up … but the pond could do only one more reptile, and surely it had to be the Oreo, a familiar feature in China …
Now it so happened that that tale of Antarctica, and the terrible pun about floes, handily set the scene for the Oreo's paranoid outburst …
Yes, Bergin and Press scored the elusive cult master this day … and what an introduction to the Oreo … because the recovering, reformed feminist was in great form, set upon by alien forces worse than the pack of cards that attacked Alice ...
Actually, might it not have been better for the Donald to stay in the game, and attempt to exercise some control over, and input into, the WHO? Ah, but logic is never handy when being paranoid …
Yes, it gets hard to talk conspiracy theories and delusions, when you have the CIC of the USA peddling conspiracy theories and undiluted nonsense on a daily basis, to the point where his aides might finally have persuaded him to just shut the fuck up, and cut back the daily showbiz briefings …
But we can't expect the Oreo to shut the fuck up …
If she must keep speaking, given her fear and loathing of WHO, might she not at least do a revision of her CV?
Cited by the WHO? No wonder it's fucked, but back to the next gobbet ...
The wet markets? But everyone knows that the Chinese started it in a lab, as a way to undermine the West …or so the Donald said, quoted here ...
The pond is all for an independent inquiry, since neither can be trusted, and the Donald is a mystery unto himself …
But don't expect any of this ambiguity, nuance or subtlety, or alternative facts to penetrate the smooth sugary outer layer of the delectable Oreo …just expect another blast at Iran, as if the Iranians aren't in the middle of covering up a full-blown pandemic crisis … and trying to head back to work with the virus undefeated, because if a failed state like the US can do it, why not a theocracy?
Um, actually, it's about a reluctance to die a horrible death in the name of the economy.
But the pond urges the Oreo to show us all how it's done, and get out on the front line, and expose herself to the virus, and prove to us all how she can overcome fear, as an example to us all.
Perhaps a week on the front line at the checkout, perhaps a week as a nursing aide in an old folks' home? The possibilities are limitless, and freedom fighters can fight for freedom in many places, while showing that the virus is just like the reptiles, and doesn't like it up 'em …
Of course none of this should be taken as the pond being sarcastic ...
Instead the pond is in tune with the grim spectre featured in the immortal Rowe, with more Rowe here … because we all know what we should say to a sociopathic murderous dictator. as we defend the west, don't we?
In other news, the Donald was quoted as wishing Herr Hitler good luck, with the hope that the Disney cryogenics plant might restore him to life, so that at last Germany could be led by a good leader with whom the Donald might have a very good relationship.
We all wish Herr Hitler well, and good luck, and a dollar in the Godwin's Law swear jar, and now take it away Mr Rowe …
Best not to give them a click as this is probably the objective of this theatre of the absurd - "Sky News host Chris Kenny says US President Donald Trump’s latest COVID-19 update is bizarre, very interesting and one which is certainly “worth a look”."
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He's a real wonder is our Doggy Bov, isn't he. However, I do have to credit him with providing the true definition of 'Trump derangement syndrome' which is actually doing conniptions to present Trump somehow as both sane and "normal", and Doggy Bov does it passionately !
DeleteHowever, since by the courtesy of OA, there was a short interchange on science fiction, I'd like to turn to one of my favourites: Pohl and Kornbluth's 'The Space Merchants' which postulates a world dominated by mega-marketing and advertising corporations of which one, led my a guy named Taunton, has cottoned on to a simple, very obvious fact: that as the human population increases then for every aspect of humanity, the tails if the 'normal distribution curve' grow much thicker and longer. In short, every human attribute - eg heroism and also craziness - have grown greater extremes and more people at those extremes.
Thus the Doggy Bov, and indeed the entire herpetarium, show themselves in the light of being way out on a 'normal curve' tail: crazier and in greater numbers than ever before in human history.
Ooops "led by a guy named Taunton"
DeleteGB - I think now is a good time remind others of Frederick Pohl's writing. Remind? He was writing almost to his last living day, not 7 years ago, but a lot has happened in those 7 years.
DeleteI particularly liked the way he treated consumerism. Not so much mocking it, as showing us where it was taking humanity. When I read contributors to 'news'papers and magazines, writing that we are relearning aspects of a simpler life - even to, horrors, stories of those who have been conditioned to feed coins into poker machines, discovering that there are better ways to (have to use this word) 'spend' a day, and they sleep better for that - I wonder how long such self-revelation will remain with us after Covid.
I note in today's flagship, Ms Westacott is trying another version of 'we must review everything with an open mind, look for new ways, but the minions will have to be prepared to work even harder.' Implicit in her vapourings is that consumption will need the proverbial rocket, because what else contributes to satisfaction in life?
In that, her 'contribution' today fits my preferred version of 'Pohl's Law' - "No one is ever ready for anything"
Other Anonymous
I have to confess OA, that as my interest in scifi faded from around 1960 on and had all but disappeared by about 1965, I completely lost touch with Pohl's writing. I can't remember whether I read 'Drunkard's Walk' though possibly. It was also quite sad that Cyril Kornbluth died in 1958 at age 35.
DeleteBut Pohl was indeed a prolific writer continuing over a long period. It seems, something I did not know, that he wrote a couple of stories in 1950 in collaboration with Isaac Asimov. How strange.
He, and Korbluth, together and separately, got published quite a lot in Galaxy magazine which was one of my 'most read' publications for about a decade.
Westacott obviously believes you should never let a good crisis go to waste. The NCCC are of the same view - resurrecting the economy with the best technology of the last century.
Deletehttps://medium.com/lobbywatch/a-gas-fired-recovery-seriously-27cee36e8712
Just on the theme of "no one is ever ready", even if things seem to happen again and again.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-pandemic-is-not-a-natural-disaster
Befuddled - my source had a closer look at Ms Westacott’s contribution. The source tells me that the vapourings include a desire for ‘well regulated markets’ followed shortly after by commitment to an ‘open trading economy’.
DeleteBut the real steam is emitted for a ‘competitive tax system that encourages investment here’ and establishes a ‘magnet for capital’.
Now, as we know, ‘competitive’, is code for a tax rate on corporations, and their senior executives, to align with whatever is the lowest rate we can find in other parts of the planet.
The taxes that we never talk about are the resource rent taxes that other mineral-rich countries apply, including parts of the USA. For the most part, these cannot be neutered by supposed investment allowances, or by simply shifting electronic transactions so that they can be made to appear to have happened in some happy little tropical island. They are, literally inescapably, part of the taxes due for that business.
If we had levied RRTs on our mineral exports since the previous minerals boom, we could have had actual reserve funds to see us through the Covid response, and bring us out the other side, still in credit.
And companies would have invested, just as they did in Norway, and Qatar, (to pick a couple of handy examples), where the big operators tried to ignore listings of exploration rights, to show those dreadful socialists what was what - then just about blew the engines on the Gulfstream to get the bids in.
Well, we did talk about RRT for a time, didn’t we. Gina, on the back of a truck, in designer dungarees and Blunnies, almost weeping at the prospect of desperate poverty for her, and her loving family. And, naturally, send the entire country into recession.
No doubt Ms W will look at that with fresh yes, although it is unlikely that the flagship will give her space to make any kind of a case for such arrant communism.
Other Anonymous.
Another 'ooops' - are we getting slack in our isolation? Ms W might claim she was looking at a Resource Rent Tax with fresh 'eyes'. For her to consider, or advocate a 'yes' would imperil her position, and what is life without a position and title?
DeleteOther Anonymous
Since scifi has been in the conversation, perhaps it's worth recalling 'Sturgeon's law': 90% of everything is crap. Actually that is Sturgeon's Revelation, his 'law', as expressed by him was "Nothing is always ever so".
DeleteHowever, as your first link and OA's thesis confirm, "some things are always so" and "99% of everything is crap".
But then, to quote myself: "perhaps you have to recognise your mistakes before you can learn from them" and "if you have no memory, then you have no shame". And perhaps we should all remember 'Einstein's theorem': "doing the same thing over again, hoping it turns out better this time". Though really, we have no idea who first said that, and Einstein's Revelation was actually "Not everything that counts can be counted". But you can look it up here if you want: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/
So really, I guess we are doomed to repeat and repeat and repeat our follies. I liked the thought in your second link that the first 'pandemic' wasn't the bubonic plague(s) of the 1300s - they only affected large swaths of Europe and Asia - but the cholera outbreak of 1832-33 which "reached every inhabited continent by hitching rides on caravans and ships". But now we have lots of very fast jet airliners to do the carrying to everywhere very quickly.
Nonetheless: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose, non ?
Well, Doggy Botherer, Major 'Lenin medal' Mitch and the Oreo: what a fine, downlying triad.
ReplyDeleteFirstly we have Doggy Bov complaining loudly that the ABC is just ignoring that "celebrity, leftist, millionaire filmmaker" Michael Moore and his latest fictional rant: 'Planet of the Humans'. Now I don't know about other people, but I for one am quite happy that the ABC didn't waste any effort on Moore's stuff.
So, passing right along, we come to Maj. Mitch. and his sad little exposition that Malcontent "didn't learn from his mistakes". Well neither has, nor does, Maj. Mitch learn from his so I suppose he is kind off an expert in the topic. For instance, we have this little passage:
"What of Turnbull's assessment that a right-wing political and media cabal has hijacked the party of John Howard and Robert Menzies."
Well, I'd say that the "political and media cabal" has basically just restored the party of Howard and Menzies to its former glories. We are talking about the mob who tried to ban the communist party and staged the Petrov affair and the party that later tried to implement 'Work Choices' which cost it a landslide loss of government together with its leader losing his own seat. Perhaps the point is that you have to actually recognise your mistakes before you can learn from them.
But those righties do like to push the "Scott Morrison's miracle victory" line don't they. I guess then we can blame God for ScottyfromHorizon can't we.
Last, and equally least, we have the Oreo and grand schemes of world revolution organised by China, Russia and Iran, none of which have ever been hostile to "Western democracies" ever before.
But now, we have this: "Those arguing for the continued shutdown of Australia, the US and Europe should question why the enemies of freedom share the same ambition."
Yep, just the kind of deranged nonsense we'd expect from someone who has been cited by the WHO.
Thank you for "gobbet"!
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