There are far too many amongst the twitterati seeking to do harm, by resorting to the likes of the Wayback Machine, as if bloggers are incapable of prophecy, and divining the future from the runes.
Poor old Dom was held up for ridicule by one such hack, and yet the pond itself, way back when it was about to take a break, was a prophet who both foresaw Dom's capacity for prophecy, and was a prophet itself in the matter of a pandemic still some time off in the future ... (doubting Thomas types should go here and learn humility in the face of visionaries …oh it was tossed off as an aside, and is right at the bottom of the page, and was doubtless ignored at the time, but have no doubt of its truth, please, trust the pond, and none of your smart arse Wayback Machine tricks please ...).
And so to the reptile stew, always richest on a Monday … and what better way to start off than with the man who is undoubtedly the maddest reptile of them all …
Yes, the dog botherer is a full Donald sort of type ...
Did you get that? "Clearly, these are reasonable concerns…"
Clearly there are good reasons why the dog botherer, as well as being an expert in dog fucking, is the pond's favourite loon ...
Did you get that? "The RussiaGate confection"?
Did you get that? "Trump's clever response"?
So anyone might sue the Donald for his wacky, zany conspiracy theories of the Morning Joe king … but do go on, because the pond enjoys the smell of napalm and a prize loon on a Monday morning ...
Did you get that? "But he is right."
Whenever anyone asks the pond about the United States these days, the pond has a simple answer. "It's fucked." And when asked to expand, the pond will go so far as to say "it's totally, comprehensively fucked." When asked for a reason, the pond would usually say "look no further than the Donald", but this day, it might add, look no further than the dog botherer, the Chairman and all the servile forelock-tugging reptiles at his command …
Meanwhile, other pet reptile peeves were on parade …
So predictable, and yet so little time, and naturally the pond had to go with the bromancer in mourning …
The bromancer was bolstered by a couple of video clips, but when the first was stripped way, he had the decency to be short ...
Did you see that? The Donald made powerful statements. Nevertheless, the import and meaning of these powerful statements and what the Donald will actually do remain unclear. Talk about powerful bewilderment for the bromancer.
Such are the troubled times for the Donald whisperers ...
Far worse race riots? Actually the Rodney King race riots were largely confined to LA … it's a pity they don't have wikis to hand for reptile use …but a larger point is this.
Never mind the death, never mind the racism and the inequalities, encouraged by the Chairman and the Murdochians and the Donald, never mind the pious blather about civility … when the dog botherer has just been uncivil … it seems the only meaning to be attached to it all is that a man's death is a temporary inconvenience, and has ruined the role the Donald might play strutting the world stage, as if he's ever done anything other than comprehensively and totally fuck things up …
And there in a nutshell are the reptile priorities, and there is the reason the inequalities, the bigotry and the murders will continue ...
And so to an even greater pond dilemma this day …
Look, there was Daniel Wild of the IPA talking about listening to Quiet Aussies, but surely the headline should have read "PM should listen to loud Gina".
And there was Tim Smith, "contributor", going on about comrade Dan, and there was babbling Babbage explaining how dinkum Aussies were nimble, and there was the lizard Oz editorialist solving US problems in a short editorial - oh how easy it is - and yet, like beacons of light and hope, there too were the Major and the Oreo …
Yet the pond had already run overtime. Could it scoff another Oreo or two?
It had already missed out on the Angelic one on the weekend …and a bout of prime tyke paranoia …and was still living with regret at the loss ...
On and on she'd blathered, full of tyke paranoia and a persecution complex, and the pond had been out and about on the weekend, and even picked up a bit of street art to go with it … a reminder of past, lost times …
Dammit, the pond wasn't going to make the same mistake again. The pond might not have room for a full bout of the Angelic one, but damned if it was going to miss out on the Major or the Oreo …
Where would the pond be without the Major railing at the ABC, as he's done ever since he's been put out to pasture?
Yes, never mind it being a gigantic fuck-up, a remarkable mistake. Feel the splendid fun in being a grinch discovering a ha'penny under the carpet, or perhaps 60 billion ha'pennies …
What joy, what fun … and it goes without saying that the ABC failed to understand the sublime cleverness of this form of accounting (the pond invites anyone to make a mistake with their tax return and see how the government and the reptiles forgive them, or enjoy a bout with robodebt, here no apology, no apology here …)
The pond is with the Major of course. Lazy reporting is a terrible thing. What we need is lazy hagiography, and worship of SloMo, and perhaps then an idle stroll down the lane to the shrine of the Donald, to do a little Donald worship ...
Why the media focus on Donald Trump? Did déjà vu just knock on the pond's door?
Whenever anyone asks the pond about the United States these days, the pond has a simple answer. "It's fucked." And when asked to expand, the pond will go so far as to say "it's totally, comprehensively fucked." When asked for a reason, the pond would usually say "look no further than the Donald", but this day, it might add, look no further than the Major, the Chairman and all the servile forelock-tugging reptiles at his command …
All that talk of the virus reminded the pond of a piece of art just down the road …
Sy what you will about the art work …and yet here, thanks to the Major, we still have stupid comparisons with the flu, and shouted arguments about who has managed to kill the most per million, and who gives a fuck about the elderly, because they deserve to die, and no doubt the Major, being in the demographic, is looking to shuffle off in service to humanity and the Doanld ...
Is there any way of avoiding remarking on the way that The Major is a vintage fuckwit?
Sometimes the pond thinks he's even better at it than the dog botherer, though this might strike some as a form of heresy, so beloved is the dog botherer's capacity for inanity, tending towards insanity …
And now for the Oreo, and sure, it makes for far too rich a Monday meal, a bit like those deep fried Oreos the pond discovered a while ago …
….but the pond has its reasons, though they can't be found in the first gobbet, which is just a recycling of things the reptile collective, the hive mind, has been brooding about for months …
And now as the pond has just spoken of art, it's time to unveil the real reason the pond had to go with the Oreo. The cult master materialised, and blessed the war on China …
Now it's true that it's a minor outing for the master… a rough charcoal sketch, even if done in colour, but all works by the master should be treasured and contemplated ...
And with that, the pond thought it had supped deep on the reptiles, and was relieved there was only a short gobbet from the reformed, recovering feminist to go …a cri de coeur, a veritable Edith Piaf, as can only be discovered by recovering feminists, sobbing deep into their third glass of red ...
How the reptiles love their martyrs and saints. It's all so Catholic Boys' Daily, so medievalist, and yet, while the impassioned cries of the persecuted Oreo gave the pond a rich sense that humour was not yet dead, the real laugh of the day came from the immortal Rowe, with immortality always to hand here …
And yet suddenly, after all that reading of the reptiles, the smile on the pond's face froze, much like an Oreo stuffed in a freezer will freeze… with the United States fucked, and the forelock-tugging reptiles down under helping play their part in fucking country and world …
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteThe Oreo is quick to celebrate free speech and martyrdom when it’s focussed on bashing the perfidious CCP but evidently less so when this sort of civil disobedience is trying to stop us cooking the planet;
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/why-is-australia-the-target-of-climate-ecocult/news-story/f32620b9e3de97367418957513afe5ab
DiddyWrote
I ran into the pay wall trying to follow that link, but the general drift of what you are saying is very obvious. The eco-terrorism line is just another defence of vested interest.
ReplyDeleteIn a country with secret trials, security agencies seeking extraordinary powers and detention of refugees we are hardly in a position to lecture about free society.
If we applied the reptile logic for pandemic control to the issue of terrorism we would simply open the borders. The culture of secrecy going back to "on-water" matters is nothing to do with national security and all to do with covering up incompetence and corruption.
The Oreo lecturing about free thinking is also a bit rich. She has always just fitted in with whatever group she happened to land in. At the moment she's working for a reactionary, right wing organisation, so she just parrots their line, but I have no doubt she could grab the handbrake and head back in the other direction if someone else was paying the bills.
Hi BF,
DeleteYou’re right the link runs straight into the Chairman’s firewall but strangely when I just googled ‘Jennifer Oriel Extinction Rebellion’ I walked straight in and feasted for free.
Another example of Googles venality no doubt.
Still evidently the Oreo believes free-speech martyrs good but environmental activist martyrs bad.
“Like all doomsday cults, XR believers frame martyrdom as a high calling. Speaking to The Australian, Melbourne Extinction Rebellion spokesman Kegan Daly predicted arrests would “100 per cent” rise during the week of protests. While not being pleased about the prospect, Daly praised those “willing to sacrifice their freedom for this cause”.
The development of a will to martyrdom is rarely a good sign, but it is especially problematic among members of groups who share the belief in a doomsday scenario. If XR activists think the world will enter a death spiral after 2025, they have nothing to lose. Already, some appear to be suffering the effects of mass hysteria. Footage from protests has shown activists breaking down, weeping and wailing after chaining or gluing themselves to things. Others have spoken about their despair and despondency about the world coming to an end. As the collective’s emotional state deteriorates, its members seem less willing to consider counterintuitive facts. NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance elucidated the problem by questioning why climate activists planned to target the state’s transport system if the rail network is 100 per cent offset.”
DW
Thanks.
DeleteThis demonstrates one more characteristic of the dull witted - the inability to objectively assess risk. If something is familiar like driving a car it is assumed to be safe. If something is unfamiliar like flying it is assumed to be unsafe.
Of course, flying with a major airline is overwhelmingly safer than taking to the road, but understanding this requires some grasp of statistics and it also helps to know how the press filter news.
They also don't seem to to recognise cause and effect if it is not linked in the "finger in light socket" time frame so climate risk is the last thing they could easily grasp.
Funny how the people that complain most about the nanny state are the main beneficiaries of a system designed to protect the stupid from themselves.
One of the joys about being stupid, Bef, is that you never realise that you are being protected from yourself, and you assume your continued existence is all due to your own wonderful endeavours. It's commonly referred to as 'Dunning-Kruger Syndrome'. And the Oreo is a prime exponent.
DeleteBut I was somewhat taken by the post DW included, especially the bit about "The development of a will to martyrdom is rarely a good sign ..." . Indeed it isn't and it wasn't when hordes of religious nutters began spreading their 'invisible friend(s)' nonsense around the planet. Which various and sundry of them have been doing for thousands of years.
Hi BF,
DeleteYou’re right it’s a strange disconnect.
Even though the chance of their house burning down is relatively low, they understand that such an event would leave them homeless and probably destitute so they think nothing of purchasing insurance to offset such a possibility.
In fact if the insurance company refused to offer them insurance because too many houses had burnt down recently they would probably demand the government offer them protection instead.
However when they are informed that Anthropogenic Global Warming will increase the chances of floods, droughts, crop failures and mass movements of peoples seeking shelter and safety worldwide their response is that the cost to mitigate these events is too high.
Maybe it’s a lack of imagination as they can’t see these things ever happening to them.
DW
Bad things never happen to good people, DW.
DeleteOnly to bad people who therefore do not deserve any mitigation or assistance: like the unemployed who could all get a good job if they really tried, so Jobseeker should never, ever be increased so that it becomes even remotely "livable".
There's no doubt that Maj. Mitch. is really keen on being a harbinger of doom in his dotage: "Why no concern about leaving future generations hundreds of billions of dollars in debt ...". And then he repeats it in berating Ross Gittins who he reckons is "A strong advocate of action on climate change to save future generations but he has no qualms about saddling those generations with COVI-19 debt."
ReplyDeleteNow it seems that Maj. Mitch is the last plaintive parrot pushing that particular lie. Even dearest Doggy Bov doesn't mention it now. Maybe, let us be optimistic, that's because Australia's federal debt has increased from Au$175 billion in 2013 (when the LNP got elected) to Au$349.8 billion in the 2018-19 budget. That's just a small increase of 350-175= Au$175 billion ! Whoops what ? Why no reptile qualms about saddling future generations with so much debt ?
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-has-australias-net-debt-doubled-under-the-current-government-100819
The Doggy Bov is right on this day when he spouts that "The digital sewer is as likely to sort fact from falsehood or admonition from abuse as Donald Trump is to lift the tone of public discourse."
ReplyDeleteNow there speaks a long established reptile who just instinctively knows how to distinguish falsehood and abuse from fact and admonition, because he quite intentionally only ever uses the former. It's really quite simple: anything a reptile espouses is just good old wingnut-Right falsehood and abuse.
For instance, this glowing gem: " the President [Trump that is] is right in principle and many in the media have undermined their own interests and principles by instinctively disagreeing with him."
Right in principle ? The President don't know no stinkin' principles. And the only way that so many "in the media" have undermined their own interests and principles is by treating Trump as President and continually covering up his childish, hostile insanity by 'normalising' him. Or indeed by 'worshipping' him, as the Fox Noise lot invariably do.
But then, I really wouldn't expect the Doggy Bov to be able to distinguish - it takes some conscious attachment to reality to be able to do that.
The Major insists that "journalists keep abreast of economic trends". I wonder if he is aware of Modern Monetary Theory? He could start with https://theoutline.com/post/8895/how-will-we-pay-for-it-is-a-stupid-question. A snippet:
ReplyDelete"How will you pay for it?’ We never had a real policy discussion because we got so bogged down in the numbers and the math. It’s all a distraction.”
Why? Because the government doesn’t really pay for stuff with tax revenue. This is one of the central insights of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Instead of raising taxes to pay for government spending, the order of operations is flipped. The government spends money by creating it — in our day and age, with the click of a button — and it taxes it out of circulation."
I would say that it's bleedin' bloody obvious that Maj. Mitch. is only barely aware of his own existence, Joe, much less of something just a tad subtle like: national economies are very different from household economies.
DeleteBut like I say above, Mitch. seems to be the only reptiles still pushing that "imposing debt for generations" rubbish now. Perhaps because of the size of the "generation debt" that has already been imposed by the LNP since 2013.