The bromancer today delivered an epic rant in favour of the Donald which made the pond feel that not even a rabid dog would stand a chance against him, and his love of the narcissist emperor king ...
The bromancer usually tries on a figleaf of objectivity, but he didn't bother much with that sort of pious nonsense today, and amazingly managed to start off by critiquing Joe as the most verbally and intellectually challenged president to take office ...
The pond took that as a profound insult to the Donald, but even worse was the notion inherent in the sentence "will ... take office".
Was that defeatism in the air, was that running up the white flag of surrender? Well, don't expect the bromancer to go down without a fight for his emperor king ...
The pond hopes that readers noted that figleaf - everyone of goodwill, including this writer ... as opposed to say, the pond, which entirely lacks goodwill, and thinks the bromancer is, if not barking mad, then at least showing signs of desperation, what with Carmelia landing on the scene, even if she is a furriner of the most despicable kind ...
Of course the bromancer can't quite work out how to do over Carmelia, so it's Joe that cops the whack job.
What are amongst Joe's worst thought crimes? Why imagining that climate science is real, and wanting to do something about it. How senile and shocking is that!
Uh huh, because Donald has been very hard on China, no one's been harder, except the way the Donald's been harder than anyone on Russia, and if you go with that, the pond has a Brooklyn Bridge to sell you, though it might be a tad hard to get it home...
Lordy, long absent lordy, this Carmelia seems to have put the wind up the reptiles, and all the more so as the bromancer dare not attack her head on, but instead save all his venom for Joe ...
But is the pond being too cynical? Not really, the pond will leave the rich, heady mix of cynicism and stupidity to the bromancer ...
Biden gets lost in his own verbiage, but the Donald doesn't?
Oh it's true, as his former hit man noted recently in his teaser for his book. The Donald knows the art of speaking in the indirect way of the Mafia don, so that the hit might then be executed with timely savagery ...
But back to the bromancer's whack job, as he keeps whacking away like it's snake-bashing season in the Simpsons ...
It goes without saying?
Of course, that's why the bromancer hasn't bothered saying any of it. Who wants a fair and balanced comparison? Who is remotely interested in all that's been managed under the Donald by way of corruption, cronyism and nepotism?
How could the bromancer throw mud on his emperor king's finest clothes, when it's such fun sending up Joe? How could he be bothered dealing with the Donald's multiple failings and fuck-ups? Though there might be others not so kindly or caring ...
That said, of course the bromancer has got a word for Carmelia too ... apparently she's gone way too far to the left, though the pond has also heard that she was almost a fascist as a prosecutor, and is way too far to the right ...
Oh and the wicked hussy had unkind words for loving, fundamentalist, beer-swilling boofhead and bigot Brett, but fundamentalist Catholics must stick together, it's the only way ...
Thank the long absent lord that the bromancer didn't bother offering any evidence how the Donald might handle it. Thanks to his astonishing record we already know - and what an expert at playing footsy and patsy with dictators he is ...
Well after that wondrous rant, the pond felt the immediate need for a Rowe, and luckily one was to hand here ...
How is it that a cartoonist can pack more sense into a single image than the bromancer can in a torrential blather of words? Who knows, but thank the long absent lord it can be done ...
And so to the bonus for the day, and Dame Slap held up her hand, and how could the pond resist?
You see, the fascist desire to punish and persecute is strong in this one ...
It just so happens that the pond knows the reason for Dame Slap's latest surge towards a punitive world ... and the answer came to it via way of Crikey ...
Yes, the IPA and Dame Slap are still brooding about their poster boy Ridd, and the way he came up short, and ever since they've been howling into the ether.
The thirst for revenge, the desire to punish is growing stronger, and the wanna be Saurons of the tribe desire to rule university land with an iron fist, meting out punishments, thus and so at the first whiff of heresy and a failure to tug the forelock to the IPA way...
The pond can't quote all the Crikey piece, but it should at least note some of the high comedy at work in the proceedings thus far ...
The pond will leave others to marvel at those definitions of science, and Bob Katter as an internationally acclaimed scientist (there's nothing like studying law then dropping out without graduating to set you off on a rigorous academic career).
Instead the pond must now return, with the right tone set, to the high comedy of Dame Slap in action ...
The pond will, out of kindness, ignore Dame Slap's bold suggestion that the Australian Catholic University not be called a university, and be denied taxpayer funds ... after all, you can talk about many things at taxpayer's expense, but please not the virgin birth ...
But enough of the academic freedom that Catholics offer the likes of Galileo, because, you see, Dame Slap is about to get on to James Cook and expenses, and before she gets goilng, the pond would like to deploy Crikey to chart a few other expenses ...
Oh it's a pretty list, but it's not over yet ...
Yes, all this expensive shit has been brought you by the IPA, chairmanned by Dame Slap in a manly way, because fucked if she's going to get into nonsense about gender when it comes to bullshitting about university freedom, when really it's all about climate science denialism, love of dinkum clean Oz coal, and all the rest of the reptile/IPA malarkey ...
Such a punitive creature, and yet in a way fitting and revealing of the IPA code.
The Catholic church once had the same sort of system for sorting out heretics, and dishing out punishments to get people to toe the line, and the IPA might yet manage to introduce a brand new Inquisition to the university system, with appropriate punishments and penalties, though the pond was disappointed that Dame Slap failed to mention tar and feathering VCs as a way of guiding them to intellectual freedom ...
Alas and alack, despite the pond's fervid IPA-induced catalogue of cruel and unusual punishments, there seems to be a movement going on, which will require the IPA to do even more ...
Usually the pond would end with a cartoon, but this little item snuck into yesterday's lizard Oz without much of a peep ...
How long before this provokes a new crusade?
How long before the ever vigilant Dame Slap and the IPA must call into being a new Inquisition and persecute these heretics?
A battery in preference to clean dinkum pure virginal Oz coal?
A battery?
Oh saintly Christmas crackers, this smacks of far too much industrial freedom, and must be persecuted and punished, and if Dame Slap isn't the right chairman for the job, then the pond has entirely misjudged her manly abilities ...
Oh there will be blood, or at least some sort of battery acid, as we head on down the IPA/Dame Slap track ...
I am sure Biden is very worried about the writings of some demented, raving lunatic for a Murdoch rag, that next to nobody reads, in far away Australia,
ReplyDeleteThe Murdoch Maggots legends in their own Murdoch ass kissing circle.
And what you've said just about sums it up completely, sully.
DeleteThe bit I can never quite get is who the likes of the Bromancer (and Slappy and all the rest) think they're writing for. Certainly not for you, or me, or any basically sane human being.
Though I recall something that Chad wrote about how there really are people who read "the Flagship" and regard it as somehow sensible commentary that they are pleased to be able to take on board (though strictly he was only referring to writings by Holely Henry). But I guess that somehow has to be true, or the Murdoch rags wouldn't have any readership at all.
Hi SoTH and GB,
DeleteI had always assumed that these type of pieces discussing US or UK politics weren’t actually intended for domestic consumption but were designed to be “picked up” and reproduced by Murdoch’s other rags abroad.
If for example the Wall Street Journal published Sheridan’s hysterical rant about Biden’s unsuitability, the casual US reader would assume this is how Australia thinks about a possible Biden presidency. They wouldn’t realise that Greg is a shameless reptile hack echoing the NewsCorpse International corporate line.
The Sherri Markson “leaked Western Intel Dossier” is another variation on the theme. The so called scoop suggesting that Western Intelligence had discovered coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan was soon being used by the New York Post and then Fox News as confirmation that the Chinese had engaged in a cover-up.
Before you knew it La Sherri was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson as a credible independent source.
DW
Ah, I always had a problem thinking that anybody could ever take Sheridan even marginally seriously - and I still do. But your point about Markson is a good one. I can't take her even as seriously as I might take the Bromancer.
DeleteBut that isn't the point, is it. It's really about how many times you can say something and expect people to hear it or read it. Because, of course, the more times people see or hear it, the stronger their belief.
I guess this is why they all aim for "trending twitter" - because that way there's many apparently "independent" repeats, and so it must really, really be true.
DP - thank you again for trudging through the sludge presented by the Foreign Editor and the Opinion Columnist this day. The Source would not have shared any of this with me - not out of concern for its effect on me, but for what it might do to her reputation.
DeleteThe Source had asked if I had seen the item from Augusto Zimmermann in the accessible ‘Quad Rant’ 3 days ago. Quad Rant reminds us that
“Dr Augusto Zimmermann PhD, LLM, LLB, DipEd, CertIntArb is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth/WA”
his contribution this week was a discourse, with a pretence of concern over the constitutional implications, on management of Covid-19 in Victoria. Being a tenured Professor at an Institute of Higher Education he drew on learned tomes - authors such as Greg Sheridan and Janet Albrechtsen, with a sprinkling of Rachel Baxendale, James Delingpole (for international balance), and someone whom he identifies, several times, as Dennis Shanaham. Mmm - tempting alternative for the Bouffant One.
Now - what Augusto writes is but a recycling of the Limited News/IPA line, but it is another example of the almost endless recycling of the same old same old. One might argue that it has little effect - the combined readership of Quad Rant and Spectator would have difficulty mustering an allowable group of patrons to that day spa that has stimulated the Dame’s fancy - but it is supposed to show us that these matters are being discussed by persons with long streams of ‘qualifications’. Quad Rant’s potted bio. of Augusto goes on for several more lines that tell you nothing new about him.
Against that - your own sprinkling of cartoons, DP, the links to genuine discussion sites from Befuddled and others, and the introductions to a wide range of music, increasingly make this blog a haven.
Hmm - earlier attempts withered, but that gave me opportunity to also credit GB and others with the interesting words that we share, as they are rediscovered.
Chadwick
Now please tell me, Chad, that your withered "earlier attempts" wasn't due to committing the same foolishness as Cheery Anon: drafting your response live on the loonpond site page and then losing it when you tried to 'Publish' because the page was in 'draft' status ? And that, if so, you promise to draft your comments in a Notepad page in future so that you won't lose them.
DeleteAnyway, I just thought I'd bring to your attention - and Bef's if he's reading - a post on Club Troppo that includes Herbert Simon's one and only "literary" effort: a short story that illustrates the formulation of decision theory (or so he claims):
A short story by Herbert Simon
https://clubtroppo.com.au/2020/08/13/a-short-story-by-herbert-simon/
Couldn't quite manage to read it all, personally; I'll have another go later.
Hmmm: "Coal power to make way for battery" says Perry Williams (who ?)
ReplyDeleteAnd at the same time: "Anthony Albanese rebukes Joel Fitzgibbon over comments on gas-led recovery "
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/15/anthony-albanese-rebukes-joel-fitzgibbon-over-comments-on-gas-led-recovery
Oh my, am I sleep-reading or are the times really a-changin' ?
And who knew about this:
How to turn regular bricks into electricity-storing supercapacitors
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/how-to-turn-regular-bricks-into-electricity-storying-supercapacitors/
My, but Dame Slappy does live in a way out imaginary world, doesn't she. So we have her expounding that:
ReplyDelete"Given that VCs have overseen a decline in academic freedom, there must be continued monitoring."
Oh wau, se we're going to get the formation of the Academic Freedom Monitoring Police (AFMP) who will carefully examine every little interaction between universities and their academics to check whether there is any possible breach of academic freedom that should result in charges laid against the university.
And then once the clearly obvious guilt of the university has been proven: "There could be a sliding scale of penalties depending in the nature of the breaches." Oh dear, I wonder just what "nature of breach" would result in the death penalty (which would have to be reinstituted BOC). ?
And finally: "JCU, for example, would be docked at the top punitive rate if it treats another academic in the manner in which it treated Ridd."
But, butt, JCU treated Ridd in the correct legal way according to the judgement of the Federal Court. Is Slappy saying that the AFMP will simply be able to over-ride the Federal Court ?
But here comes the real matter at issue: "And a future VC of cash-strapped Sydney University might think again about caving into (in to perhaps ?) a small group of vocal, intensely political academics who oppose a course in Western civilisation funded by the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation."
Oh well that's it then. And likewise, a cash strapped University of Sydney might think again about having a Confucius Institute and including many Chinese CCP members as adjunct professors, too.
And while the Ramsayists are teaching "Western Civilsation" they would surely have to ensure that all of their students are well versed in this:
Looted landmarks: how Notre-Dame, Big Ben and St Mark's were stolen from the east
They are beacons of western civilisation. But, says an explosive new book, the designs of Europe’s greatest buildings were plundered from the Islamic world – twin towers, rose windows, vaulted ceilings and all
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/13/looted-landmarks-notre-dame-big-ben-st-marks-east-stealing-from-the-saracens
They wouldn't want to make claims about "Western Civilisation" that aren't rigorously upheld by honest history, would they.