Being deeply conservative, the pond was once a place of ritual, as indeed the reptiles were too. There was the savvy Savva on a Thursday, Dame Slap was reliably on a Wednesday, and the Caterist never ever turned up on a Thursday.
Oh sure, he's been wandering and lost and turning up any day of the week of late, forlornly clutching his government cash in the paw, but once upon a time, the pond could reliably rely on a herd mentality as the way forward, with even the possibility of herd immunity...
The Caterist, meanwhile, proves himself as tone deaf as he's ever been ... apparently unaware of the need to rake the forest leaves ...
Yes it's tough times on the US west coast, and serious questions are being asked, and then there's the infinite stupidity of the tone-deaf Caterist ...
What the fuck? He's picked this time, this moment, for some piece of stupid ideological, government cash in paw ranting? Hasn't he heard?
Apparently not ... on and on he rants, in a way that's completely oblivious to what's been going down ... his only use a chance to act for the pond as a coat-hanger, for the decorative hanging of a few cartoons ...
He's still banging on about COVID in a sublime Donald way? And citing the hole in the bucket man as convincing proof of his deep stupidity? So this is the way forward, and herd mentality is the solution?
Meanwhile, the oblivious Caterist keeps carrying on ...
Oh fucketty fuck, he didn't just make an Eagles joke, did he? The man who runs a research centre that's programmed to receive?
In honour of the bloated gas mentality and climate science denialism, that's got to be worth a Wilcox ...
And in turn that's got to be worth a few more cartoons ...
Yes, yes, the pond was just trying to avoid its inevitable encounter with a bout of bromancer triumphalism ...
Just as the pond might have spent the entire Caterist piece avoiding cartoons, and asking "why is the west coast burning, cash in the paw man?", the pond might just as easily spend the entire bromancer piece asking "yes, but what about the Palestinians, and the two state solution, and all that?"
"Yes, but what about the Palestinians, and the two state solution, and all that?"
Oh fuck it, just have a cartoon ...
Now back to the triumphalism ...
"Yes, but what about the Palestinians, and the two state solution, and all that?"
Oh fuck it, just have another cartoon ...
And so to a final gobbet of mindless bromancer triumphalism ...
"Yes, but what about the Palestinians, and the two state solution, and all that?"
Oh fuck it, just have an immortal Rowe, with more Rowe here ...
Is it possible for a single cartoon image to make the pond instantly forget everything that the bromancer just scribbled?
What a relief that the answer is yes, oh yes, oh yes, yes, yes ... and while you're at it, carve up the Palestinians, the two state solution, and all that ...
And so to the bonus for the day, which, given the poor condition of the herd mentality these days, is left overs from yesterday ... a sampling of the venerable Sexton ...
It turns out that the venerable Sexton is as clueless as the Caterist and the bromancer ...
For a starter, Sky News (the non-Murdochian one) has been full of news of parliament and Boris gung ho to break international law, and so on and so forth, but the venerable Sexton lives the dream of the immune herd reptile mentality ...
A fanciful proposition? Anyone with half a clue is terrified by it, just as anyone who cares about the union is terrified by the notion of the Scots going rogue, and taking their parritch home ... and in recent times, thanks to Cummings and the puppet Boris, they've been dropping like flies ...
And you can read there ...
The former shadow attorney general Lady Chakrabarti, who faced Keen across the dispatch box in the House of Lords, said: “All true Conservativeswill be searching their souls today. Governments of both sides have broken domestic and international law this century; sometimes catastrophically.
“But never before have they bragged about it in advance. There aren’t enough police officers on the planet to achieve the rule of law by force. If there were, who would protect us from them and their paymasters? This is not Conservatism in action, it is something far more terrifying. It has reared its head before in Europe and it doesn’t end well.”
“But never before have they bragged about it in advance. There aren’t enough police officers on the planet to achieve the rule of law by force. If there were, who would protect us from them and their paymasters? This is not Conservatism in action, it is something far more terrifying. It has reared its head before in Europe and it doesn’t end well.”
And so on ... and on ... and on ... because truth to tell Cummings has always wanted a hard exit, and likely as not, his puppet will manage it one way or another, either as sublime incompetence or arrogant stupidity ...
Confronted by all these fires on the home front, what on earth could the EU make of all these internal ructions and deep divisions?
Not bloody much ...which means that the venerable Sexton, sounding clueless, has to stretch things a little to blame it all on the EU ...
It is "not very useful?" The pond must remember that should it ever happen to fall into a contract with the venerable Sexton, and when the contract gets a little tricky, just tell him to fuck off, and for that matter, take his useless fucking legal talk of a court action with him, because the pond is a sovereign individual and can do what it likes, and damned if it's going to honour the contract, because the pond says so, nyah nyah, and if the pond happens to want to jaywalk the streets of Newtown, well fuck the cops too, because the pond walks with a Long John Silver piratical swagger, and heave to, Jim me lad, we have some suckers and losers standing by, ready to walk the plank ...
Well you can find more Rowson here ...
And now all that remains for the pond's usual ritualistic herd mentality day to be complete is to celebrate with an infallible Pope ... with the mutton Dutton perfecting the SloMo art of blaming the states, entirely in keeping with the reptile herd mentality of blaming somebody else for all that's going down ...
As we know, in the preparations for Hate Week, in Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department the machines are taken off writing formula romance novels and set rush out atrocity pamphlets.
ReplyDeleteAll of which pretty much reflects what is happening in that current Fiction Department (a k a ‘The Australian’) for the Hate Week against Danstein. Except that, through a mistake in programming, some of the fiction machines are simply accumulating catch phrases and self-references and stamping that with the names of supposedly real people, like the Executive Director of the Menzies Research Institute.
And - the wayward machine has put that random collection of words up on a THURSDAY, although as Dorothy has noted ‘the Caterist never ever turned up on a Thursday.’
Again - thank you Dorothy, for attempting to understand this ‘contribution’, on our behalf. We do like to see a good return for our taxes.
Somebody needs to get to that fiction machine and give it a good hard correction with a bigger hammer.
Tucked away in my copy of ‘1984’ is a clipping from a speech given by Rupert in 1994, titled ‘Orwell was wrong’. The text starts ‘George Orwell was wrong. Technology will not lead to tyranny.’ So, his current, er - contretemps - with G…le and F…book doesn’t count? Because, as Rupert continued ‘free markets do not lead to monopolies.’ MySpace, anyone?
The crystal ball that he used for those observations also lead him to say, of China ‘it will be not only prosperity that we will catch in our networks, but also order and, ultimately, peace.’ i guess that is a work in progress.
Meanwhile - ‘Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia’.
I sat here - after my 30 minute "exercise walk" to get my large soy late no sugar ($6.70 thank you) - and I couldn't think of a single useful or entertaining thing to say about Goosebumps [tm Gadfly Ackland] Cater. So thanks to DP and your know-how of proximate utility I need not wrack my brains as "Everything that needs to be said has already been said".
DeleteBut oh my, that Rupert is really "a work in retrogress" isn't he.
There's always something to be said about the illuded and deluded Bromancer, though. He proudly informs us that: "It is true [ie the "peace" treaties Israel-UAE-Bahrain] are not as significant as earlier treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but it is a move of transforming, historic importance nonetheless and a tremendous win for Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
ReplyDeleteOh yair wow, "transforming historic importance" to just sign a few pieces of paper that "formalise" the de facto situation that has stood for years. Now let us just see: UAE population 9.61 million, GDP US$375b, Bahrain population 1.7m GDP US$38.2b. Yep that's two really, really important nations that really set matters of "transforming historic importance", don't they.
Just for comparison: Egypt population 102.3m GDP US$220b, Jordan population 10.2m GDP US$43.7b Iran population 84m GDP US$458.5b.
So the Bromancer can announce that: "It ends decades of stale but ubiquitous diplomatic formulations. It normalises Israel, normalises the Middle east and is the most promising regional development in decades." And so would anybody like to project as to whether anyone at all - except perhaps the betrayed Palestinians - will remember it in a year's time ?
But the Bromancer goes on to declare: "If this had happened under anyone but Trump it would be hailed as a magnificent triumph of American statecraft and the relevant president would be on their way to a Nobel Peace Prize." Sure they would, Bro, sure they would.
And then maybe the Bro could read this, and tell us what wonderful accolades Trump deserves:
Trump’s ABC town hall revealed a president disconnected from reality
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/16/21439460/trump-abc-town-hall-stephanopoulos
Yeah, I think so too.
The escape clause is paramount here. When, not if, Israel starts expanding settlements
ReplyDeleteagain,the UAE and Bahrain can void the treaty. Which they will, because right after
Trump loses the Israeli PM will double down on the settlements to cement his base
as criminal charges swirl around him. He also made a huge strategic mistake by
linking Israel's interests to that of the GOP. His own Intel agencies will fuck him over with evidence of his crimes, as Israel can't exist without a pliant US providing support and Bibi has burnt too many bridges with his alliance with Trump and thumbing
his nose at the past American opposition to stealing more Arab land.
Do you think that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump or Greg Sheridan understand any of that, JM ?
DeleteJared is probably even now shifting assets overseas. Don't forget his father
Deleteis a convicted felon and member of the Russian Jewish mafia(which alone would have normally precluded him from a White House job as it left him vulnerable to both Russian and Israeli Intel assets) who was going to flee to Israel so Jared
is certainly aware of that option. Israel will not return it's citizens(which status Jared automatically gets via the Law of the Return)to their country of origin to faces criminal charges except in rare cases, and Bebe "owes" the Trump clan for giving him every card the US had in it's dealing with Israel.
Besides Jared is universally considered a weak punk who will fold under pressure
so it is vital for Trump to have him beyond the FBI's reach for all his upcoming trials. The revenge of the FBI/US Intel services will be savage indeed,they will
go all out after these people. My buddy Dave, ex State Department underling, maintains that purely out of self preservation and patriotism they will make
sure all sorts of Trump dirt will emerge in the two weeks before election.
Does that mean "they" will attempt to do to Trump what Comey did to Hillary ? Oooh I look forward to that.
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