Talk about a trifecta, a perfect storm …
And not a bad piece of juxtapositional irony on the part of the reptiles, given that nattering "Ned" is put alongside the MAG cap wearer, Dame Slap, doing a standard reptile ABC follies routine …
Sadly, it seems that "Ned" isn't inclined to don the MAGA cap with the Dame, and instead goes for one of his wringing of hands routines, but sssh, whatever you do, don't mention Fox News or the Chairman ...
Well there's a missed opportunity for starters … no Donald clutching the bible, just the Donald walking away from the scene of the crime? Someone in Surry Hills must have it in for "Ned" ...
And then, true to his hand-wringing form, as a way of avoiding blaming the Donald too much, "Ned" produces multiple "triggers" ...
Ah, at last the Bible …
But that's to be found elsewhere and outside the paywall for the moment …
For now, as his people pleaded for leadership, a President with no personal understanding of strength or spirit offered a crude simulation of them. He assembled a pageant of symbols that he knows have power over others—the Bible, the gun, and the shield. And he tossed them together in a cruel jumble of nonsense.
Can "Ned" match it?
Not really, because it's not just a fantasy … the Donald really is a strong man, he really does know how to take the knee …
Now have we - which is to say "Ned's" natter - mentioned the Trumpists yet? You know, Fox News, Hannity, Carlson, Laura, the rest of the Trumpian cheerleading mob, and the Chairman's role in all this? Nope ...
Yes, yes, "Ned" but didn't the Donald ring Vlad to get his orders in the middle of the crisis?
The pond left those times in just to be sure …
And now what about Fox News? Will it ever get a mention?
The ultimate meaning falls on Biden? No, you useless loon, the ultimate meaning falls on the Dame Slaps of the world, who donned the MAGA cap, and the fawning fools and follies at Fox News, your kissing cousins, "Ned", still doing their very best to get the Donald elected in November, should it turn out that an election is needed, when a coup might be the best way for the Donald to carry on …
Why can't you mention the bleeding obvious? Why must you do the tap dance of avoidance? Do you think the both siderism style of a New York Times will get you out of jail down under?
Oh go tell it to Fox News … they know the real truth …
And so to a quick detour to the lizard Oz editorialist, who was at least given the right photo opportunity to start things off ...
The lizard Oz editorialist also has the painful duty of not mentioning Fox News or the Chairman's role in rampant Trumpism ...
Allies with the Donald? The pond wants that kool aid they have on tap in News Corp, but will settle for a cartoon …
And so to a sort of absolving of the Donald by way of Andrew Yang, and the blaming of the Democrats ...
Ah, forget it, America's completely and comprehensively fucked, and by golly, isn't it a cause for pride that the Dirty Digger and Fox News helped do the fucking, and not one of the reptiles down under has the guts to mention it … because you know, "majestic heights" is just the bullshit you scribble about while reaching for your pay check …
And so to a little light comedy with the MAGA cap wearer herself … and what joy, because her land above the faraway tree has been visited by the cult master himself ...
The pond doesn't know what to make of those awe-struck bystanders or the significance of the weights, but doubtless the text will make it clear … or at least the ongoing delusions of grandeur of Dame Slap will provide some entertainment ...
David Williamson is an easy target - too easy really, because he's strived to be a silly ponce his entire life as a scribbler - but then Dame Slap proves that she too is in the Williamson class ...
But the pond is all for gender fluidity, and if Dame Slap prefers to think of herself as a butch man with balls and her paws on the tiller, it's a never no mind with the pond … she can have a dick too if she likes, so the pond's TG friends advise ...
What is fun is the delusional grandiosity of Dame Slap, thinking she might make a grand fist of being the chair of the ABC, having been a completely useless lickspittle lackey on the board, barely remembered for turning up and collecting her remuneration perk (and what a tidy perk it was and is) …
Somehow the pond was reminded of the man that Dame Slap had donned that MAGA cap for …
Just substitute remarkably silly columns for tweets, and you're there ...
But is this all not comedy, is this all not fun? Is this not the right time for a little nonsense about racism, and being one with the workers?
Ah fuck, privileged Dame Slap blathering about Longreach and Dandenong. You see, David Williamson, if you'd just taken a few scribbling lessons from Dame Slap, you could have been a lot funnier playwright.
Never mind, the pond grew up in a racist household in a racist town - oh Tamworth, it's true, let us not talk of Coledale - but it helped in developing a bullshit detector, especially bullshit peddled by a well-off, privileged member of the elite pandering to Gina's mob and as far from an ordinary day's hard yakka as a princess pounding on a keyboard… but it also helped the pond develop a taste for cartoons …
* Here the pond must do an update, having only just read Anne Applebaum's relatively lengthy History Will Judge the Complicit, in which she looks at assorted forms of collaboration. It's currently outside the paywall, and you may judge which form of collaboration best suits, evokes and describes nattering "Ned", Dame Slap and the Sexton who follows.
Yes, now for hardened pond readers only, that third but always appreciated member of the trifecta, the venerable Sexton ...
Yes, now for hardened pond readers only, that third but always appreciated member of the trifecta, the venerable Sexton ...
Of course it's true … the west can't impose its will on all unappealing states, especially a state as unappealing as this one …
Well the pond just had to catch up with the infallible Pope … and so to the venerable Sexton suggesting the best solution … do nothing, forget about it, just walk away ...
Indeed, indeed, the world is full of regimes that are unattractive by any standard …
Sheesh, can the pond help it if the infallible Pope is on a roll … but hey, the best thing is just to lie back and enjoy it all … isn't that right, venerable Sexton ...
Indeed, indeed, this view is certainly not accepted in many parts of the world, and in the GOP and by Rich Mitch, and sundry others, and as demonstrators in the United States have found, it is certainly not accepted by the Donald …
… which naturally brings the pond to a closing Rowe … with more Rowe here …
No apologies needed … just a few reminders …
And perhaps a question ...
Quite a day for a mid-week Wednesday. Starting with Nullius Neddy: "The most powerful nation on Earth is being brought undone from within by its pent-up governance and moral failures." No doubt about it, he's as sharp as two short planks, that Neddy guy. Never, ever happened before in America, has it - it's been the very model of a morally and governmentally ideal state.
ReplyDeleteNever any dissent, never any 'nation wide' public disturbance with riots, looting and over the top militaristic response. Not even once: there never was a Mayor Daly in Chicago was there. And if you believe any of that, have I got some fascinating reading for you:
List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States#1960%E2%80%931969
But even the reptile Editorialist isn't that disingenuous: "The killing of George Floyd on the streets of Minneapolis at the hands of police officers is an American tragedy, of a kind that has played out too many times in the life of the great republic."
There now, that's more like it. So really, folks, despite all the obvious signs, has it actually got anything to do with Rupert and Donald ? No, not at all because it's all down to: "...Congressional Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... fanning the flames of division at every juncture."
I just can't wait for all of those evil people to be arrested, tried and hanged, can you ?
"Has it actually got anything to do with Rupert and Donald?"
DeleteDon't you just love folk that tut tut or claim they have an answer to a problem they have helped create. They act as a cheer squad for the worst people in politics and business then role out mealy-mouthed stuff bemoaning poor governance and moral failure.
Bye the bye, Ketan Joshi, has compiled a list of what passes for satire in News Corp
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1267662464650543104
Sophisticated stuff, eh?
Truly sickening, Bef.
DeleteAh, but Dame Slap rises to the occasion: responding to David Williamson (who ? did he ever write anything worthy of attention ?) "... some sections of the audience are sick of being told they're horrible." Ok, well maybe they should just stop being horrible ? But no, for the Slappy formula is: "Many have had enough of being beaten about the head labelled oppressors of minority groups."
ReplyDeleteNow I don't know about you, but my many, many times repeated experience is that when the message is delivered from the stage that "people are horrible" the universal response is "Yes, indeed. Those awful people over there truly are horrible. Not at all like us nice folk over here." And nobody could possibly be nicer than Dame Slap, of course.
Why, she's even offered to tutor Ita Buttrose in how to run the ABC. Which Ita doesn't actually do, of course; that's why the ABC has a Managing Director. But really, wouldn't it be better to have Ita tutored by that truly great ABC Chairperson, Moorice Newman ? He was Chairperson from 2007 to 2012, so he must really know how to do the job. And in the meantime, Slappy could carry on introducing herself to all those "voices of Middle Australia" that she speaks so highly of.
And if she does listen, then instead of preaching a 'wage freeze' for the ABC, she might hear that "Australians say ABC saved lives during summer bushfires, royal commission told".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/02/australians-say-abc-saved-lives-during-summer-bushfires-royal-commission-told
What was Dame Slap doing back then, we all wonder.
Finally, we get to the Sexton, who has this wonderful observation to make: "The world is full of regimes that are unattractive by Western standards and it is simply impractical to try to influence the internal affairs of them all." So you see, it was wrong, wrong, wrong to have attempted to influence the internal affairs of Germany, Italy and Japan back in 1939 - we should just have shown our splendid indifference by letting them get on with it.
And none of the European nations should have gone and "influenced" the internal affairs of the natives of Africa, or of India, or of north and south America, and especially not of Australia and New Zealand. We should just have left them all to their own devices like we left China - and look what a success China has made of that while all those other places are falling into wrack and ruin.
But an absolutely lovely picture of that "strange fruit", DP. And so very much appreciated by the all-white throng of spectators who would never have oppressed any minority groups, would they.
Slappy pretending to be in touch with middle Australia, good hard-working folk with dirt under their nails, is as funny as it gets. Much like a great oafish orange buffoon holding a bible in front of a boarded up church (lack of lightning a good indication there is no god).
ReplyDeleteSlappy has been avoiding work ever since she's been old enough to recognise it. Apart from a stint at Freehills and the Uni of Sydney it's all been political junkets and short-form waffle.
The younger chino-wearers at the IPA probably haven't worked at all. Uni, maybe a stint at daddy's law firm, Research Fellow at the Institute for Paid Agitprop, political staffer, candidate, politician and pension for life. The real common touch!
Probably best not to sully your ideology with any real-life experience, Dame Slap has certainly avoided that trap.
She could fix it by running a beauty salon in Longreach. Mao had roughly the same idea as a way of dealing with intellectuals.
DeleteIt's called "wingnut welfare" Bef, and boy, do I wish I'd qualified in my younger days.
DeleteSpiffing idea NH, but would Dame Slap qualify as an intellectual? She'd more likely turn William Barr and lickspittle toadie and keep on keeping on.
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