Why did the pond start with assorted images this day of doctors giving out sage advice?
Well, it wanted to start on a scientific basis, and instill confidence, exactly the sort of thing needed each day when confronted by the loons of lizard Oz (and besides, a correspondent reminded the pond of the fun to be had).
First item on the agenda proving the need for confidence and science is that loon from the bush, John Anderson ...
Fuck the pond dead, just that juxtaposition of a snap of Anderson and some football players taking the knee would be enough to send the pond into a frenzy, but the reptiles were just getting started ...
Okay, at this point, we should note that at this point the reptiles paused for a promo for Anderson, who was plugging a book, which of course immediately led to a loss of faith in the pond in our culture and its institutions, and the hostile social divisions between floggers of horse shit and those who like the quiet life.
In lieu of such plugging, why not a few more images designed to instill a love of science and a confident approach to life?
Okay, that gag has probably gone past its use by date, now for some genuine stupidity ...
The pond invites passing correspondents to examine the contradictions involved in those last three monumentally stupid paragraphs, before passing by or stepping around them... namely postmodernism being something of a Marxist offshoot, but somehow rejecting Marxism ... along with science and reason ... because the pond would like to admire a recent attempt by the coalition to endorse and support scientific thinking, and provide confidence in the future ...
That's in Crikey here for those who can avoid the paywall. There's your science, and your confidence in the future right there in a nutshell, thanks to nutter George ... but back to the lizard Oz loons ...
Fuck it, talk of Bella and easygoing culture, and victim culture being inherently socially divisive, and all, as if the treatment of Aboriginal deaths in custody, or treatment of Aboriginal people in general has been like sunlight shining out of our arses ...
Sorry, the pond doesn't really get roused that often these days, but a gigantic fuckwit of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory Andersonian tribal squatter kind can still get the juices flowing ...
Speaking of the IPA and science and such like, what about the rest of that Crikey story?
Indeed, indeed, but meanwhile, that Andersonian loon is still blathering away ... and what should turn up but the war on China ...
You know, once upon a time, there used to be talk of the benefits of diversity, and of different intellectual traditions, even an acknowledgment of how much Xianity ripped off the pagans of Rome and Greece ... and how there might even be something to learn from Chinese efforts, not least paper, printing and pasta, but your average authoritarian, crypto-fascist loon thinks that we must all think the same way so that we can defeat the authoritarianism currently on view in China.
The only way, it seems, to beat the autocrats, is to join them in autocracy, or at least to join the group think encouraged by Anderson and the reptiles ... talk of Orwell and herd the sheeple into the paddock and give them a lecture about the evils of autocracy ...
They never get tired of the billy goat buttisms, do they? And never mind the stupidity and hypocrisy inherent in the contradictions, the talk of the dangers of taking the knee while marvelling at the abolition of slavery while overlooking the sex workers down the road slaving away, not far from where the pond types and the owner poses in his truly vulgar car, bought by an abundance of blow jobs ...
The pond supposes it's harmless enough. Just another loon on the net, or on YouTube blathering into the void, much like the pond blathering about the reptiles and Andersonian loons, but at least with a screen cap that renders that link to more Anderson nonsense inert and useless ... but how irritating it is to waste an infallible Pope, mangled as usual, so early in the day on this sort of tripe ...
And so, as usually happens on a Thursday, to the savvy Savva. Look, there she is, jostling with news of the war on China, and the fiends on the left blocking a dinkum love of decent, pure, clean, innocent, virginal Oz coal ...
The way this plays out is always simple. The Savva berates SloMo and his minions for assorted stupidities and follies, but is a determined team coach, and points out sensible plays and ploys that they should have followed.
The pond meanwhile sits back and marvels at it all ...
Ah, there you see, a stumble, right at the get go ... though perhaps not so comic as walking up to a plane's front door with toilet paper stuck on the shoe, or tossing an umbrella aside because it's too hard to handle ...
Oh the pond will miss the Donald, but still we have our local loons ...
You see? No great love. A better bolter than Usain. Brilliant at talking the talk. The doing not so much. Misgivings creep in. Climate change ... etc etc ...
And that reminded the pond that the Herald had updated news of that latest folly...
The pond left that pointer to a related article in ... sure, it's a screen cap, so punters will have to google, but as it juxtaposes Josh with Gorgeous George, it reckons it has its own distilled essence of loonatic news value.
Sorry, where were we? That savvy Savva talk of climate distracted the pond ...
A procession of the mute, the halt and the lame!
And that's from the team coach!
Meanwhile, the pond felt the need to finish off that Herald story ...
Wilful blindness?
Sorry, not a patch on the mute, the halt and the lame. Not that the pond means to be politically incorrect on any kind of disability, but golly, sometimes it's hard going, especially with that desire to retain confidence in science and the future of western civilization, or at least as much as will survive climate change ...
But back to the Savva now, for a final gobbet, and, at last, an encouraging word from the team coach ...
Yes Minister. Seize the opportunities. You can do better ... you can do it! Explore another way to fuck climate science. It's the only way to show an Andersonian belief in reason and science as the way forward ...
And just think of the rewards stocking up at Xmas time from someone not afraid to wish you a Merry Xmas ...
Well yes, how thoughtful, how kind, how considerate, because we know how much he loves coal, dinkum, sweet, pure, innocent, sweet, clean, virginal Oz coal ...
Oh my, DP, my once favoured brand: the cigarette with a picture of its factory on the pack. And with a few 'hidden' pictures in the camel:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=camel+cigarette+pack+hidden+pictures&client=firefox-b-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFju3st9PtAhXIcn0KHbIpAoQQjJkEegQIAhAB
And if you look real hard, you can see the lion reclining on the camel's hindquarters. Oh joyous days.
Anderson: "It's critical the West recovers its self-belief"
ReplyDeleteOh yeah "the West" ... the one and only "the West" forever blessed by the likes of Anderson and that pair of pale Sokal imitators, Pluckrose and Lindsay. Kinda puts me in mind of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA: the same complete uncomprehending and incomprehensible inanity and vacuity. Just like Kirk's co-founder, William Montgomery:
"Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its co-founder died of the coronavirus"
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tpusa-deletes-tweet-mocking-masks-after-montgomery-coronavirus-death-2020-7?r=US&IR=T
But if you'd like a better picture of *scholarly publishing stings" there's a long list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_stings
Apart from the expected absence of illustrative talent, the infant Leak’s latest attempt at commentoonery for that Will Glasgow piece is even more peurile, tasteless, disgustingly racist and inflammatory than his usual vomitous fare.
ReplyDeleteJinping looks like a cross between WC Fields and Lou Costello, and for some totally wacky but decidedly uncomical reason has the diction of Tweety Pie. And the superfluous Mao cap signifier is a flat out insult to our intelligence.
The addition of the large bloodied spike on Xi’s baseball bat is particularly disturbing as it would have inflicted considerably more damage to Birmingham than a lumpy noggin and bloody snoz – a fatal cranial puncture would have been a more realistic outcome.
Whenever I see a Leak Jr craptoon I get a little schadenfruedian tingle at the pain he must go through racking his nasty little non-artist brain to come up with an iota of an idea only to find it inevitably culminating in a hack doodle travesty such as this. Further malicious glee is elicited from the fact that The Australian publishes his stuff thereby confirming their desperation. Their need for a lackey illustrator to lampoon Andrews, Palaczuk, Albanese et al means they have had to settle for yet another Leak whose work not only displays low level drafting and conceptual skills but is totally bereft of wit or nuance.
I reckon that without his surname this lacklustre caricaturist would have been consigned to the cartoon world scrap heap long ago.
So you don't reckon that just being a hapless fill-in for Lobbecke isn't "the cartoon world scrap heap", Kez ?
DeleteI would if he wasn’t getting paid for it GB!
DeleteSavvy Sav: "We know this [doubts about SloMo and his "government"] because every time the story changes from COVID-19 to politics as usual. however briefly, the government flounders or falls short or character traits emerge that make people question his capacity as well as his sincerity."
ReplyDeleteNow I was quite taken by this clear piece of perspicacity by the Sav - obvious enough from day one to the average semi-intelligent adult, but completely opaque to reptiles, winguts and indeed the great majority of Australians. So I was kinda seeking a bit of inspiration as to what to say about the guy for whom "Scotty from Marketing sticks" when I encountered a couple of prime contributions published in the Graudian:
John Howard: Trump 'penned political suicide note' at every Covid press conference, former Australian PM says
and
George Pell: Trump is a barbarian, but 'in some important ways' he's our barbarian
Therein, it's easy to see why "the West" will never ever "recover its self-belief".
Consider little "Honest" Johnny: "If Donald Trump had handled the pandemic half-decently he would have won the election,” Howard said. He was headed towards a victory until the pandemic hit. It was his mishandling of that because, in the end, the public, when threatened, want their leaders to defend them against the threat.”
So there we have it: if Trump just hadn't been quite so careless about killing 300,000+ people, he'd have won easily and honour, and populism, would have triumphed. Never mind that "The former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister [Anderson| did not reflect on Trump’s habitual lying while in office or the scandals that ultimately defined his presidency."
No, never mind any of that.
Then there's Pell: "Cardinal George Pell has praised Donald Trump’s “splendid” supreme court appointments, but questioned his effort to sow doubt in the integrity of the US presidential election." Yep "splendid court appointments" - two of them are Catholic, doncha know. And that justifies everything.
So what can be said about SloMo after that ? He's barely par for the course ?
Oh god, Ando!
ReplyDeleteNever the sharpest tool in the Coalition's shed, barely a tool at all, just a common rent-seeker with nothing of gravity to offer in his time at the top. They've been remodelling him as an "interlectchool".
Hasn't that gone well? I did read a report of him being squeezed onto the Chesterfield at Polonious' gaff. er, I mean (ahem!!!) THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE last week. Honestly, I know the IPA is struggling for cut through of any kind at all, but fucking Ando???
What's he given them? Two fifths of fuck all as one would expect - students are being mainlined Marxism instead of education (tick), Western Civilsations' greatest tropes are fading (tick) - they really don't fear far off the time-honoured road do they? Hard to imagine why young people lose faith isn't it (Banking Commission) (Commission into abuse in the Church) (Gladys had a boyfriend who got lots of public money for projects)(Mathias Cormann is flown around the world on a jet at $4000 for a job he'll never get)(Sports rorts has never been unstitched and no-one has been punished).
Yes, yes, carry on.
Plus c'est la meme chose, vc.
DeleteOf course Anderson also featured an interview with the all American psychotic loon Eric Metaxas in which he essentially promoted Metaxas to be a first class truth-teller. Metaxas claims that almost everyone that does not subscribe to his brand of psychotic fundamentalism is deeply un-churched, and therefore needs to be converted to the one true way (as defined by him).
ReplyDeleteMetaxas recently became very infamous via his hosting of the Jericho march in support of the Trumpen-fuhrer.
Dorothy - thank you for the classic cigarette - I was going to write 'commercials', but really they were gratuitous medical advice, weren't they. Half seriously, they are masterworks of the golden age of print advertising.
ReplyDeleteMy Source tells me that, apart from the item from former National Anderson, this day's flagship included a promo for Bridget McKenzie's hagiography of John McEwen. While it has been released in time for Christmas shopping, The Source points out that it is published by Connor Court, which is a nigh-infallible recommendation to leave it on the shelves, or wherever you happen to see it.
We doubt that it identifies McEwen as the drover's dog who vectored the Country Party away from representing the issues of small primary producers, and rural Australia generally, to reconfigure it as the 'Nationals', representing the issues of - the sons and daughters of previous members, who were, by birth, entitled to a safe seat and all that went with it. Which eventually gave us the most recent Larry Anthony, for example.
Good old 'Black Jack' - and is he more fondly remembered than the man he supposedly kept out of the Prime Ministerial succession lineup for some time ? I can't recall a plethora of Billy 'Big Ears' McMahon happy hagiographies over the years.
DeleteIn some ways McEwen was remarkably naive. I recall an elder of my family returning from the national conference of the Country Party in the late '50s. McEwen had advanced a scheme, of sorts, to rejuvenate the elected arm of the party. They would seek out young chaps, in their thirties, who would be placed in safe seats, with promise of a couple of terms - and, if they showed ministerial mettle - some extra time. After 3-4 terms they would step down, with parliamentary superannuation, to be replaced by the next lot of attractive young chaps.
ReplyDeleteThe first 'crop' included the second Anthony, Sinclair and Nixon. Of course, once 'in', they were not likely to move on for any higher purpose than their own sense of entitlement - personal and financial. About the only member who sought to follow the McEwen scheme was Ralph Hunt - but he was then persuaded to stay on because the second Anthony decided he wanted out - opposition was not nearly as much fun as gummint.
Ah yes, the Anthony Triad. From 1937 (Larry I) to 2004 (ending with Larry II) except for the 12 years 1996-2004 when the seat went to Charles Blunt and then to Labor.
DeleteBut I suspect it was those joyous years as Deputy PM - 1971,72 and then 1975 to 1983 that he enjoyed most of all. Especially as he retired in 1985 while a brash 55yo with, BOC, a full Dep PM's "pension".