The pond wanted to start with that screen cap because it shows where the reptiles are heading.
With Gladys having monumentally fucked up, not to mention SloMo having monumentally fucked up the vaccine roll out, there will be increasing talk of freedumb and the benefits to the economy of people dying ... and above all, outrage at those secessionist sandgropers, wandering wild and free ... they must be brought down a notch or two, and given a good reptile spanking, and that will be the theme for the day ...
With a sigh of relief, the pond turned away from talk of gold standard Gladys, to the Major doing what he knows best ... a bit of ABC bashing ...
It's inherently comical when the reptiles, especially the Major, talk of group think. It's impossible to imagine a better bunch of sheeple than the reptiles doing a murmuration ...
It's even funnier when they have to deal with the apostates, the black sheep in the larger family, the turncoats, the traitors, the quislings, the ones that have fled the scene of the crime, left the family, abjured the consigliere aka the Major, and donned a cardigan to become the victim of a cult ...
Oh it's too much for a reptile to bear.
Take Speersie, go on, someone take him, for the love of the absent lord, and spare the reptiles more suffering.
Like a duck to water, he's taken to the ABC, simpering away at Huw Parkinson, casting the poor old hold the hose, it's not a race man as "In Chinos Man" in response to SloMo evoking The Croods, and never mind that the ABC then stuck it up on YouTube and presumably collected a share of the ad revenue! It's a Google conspiracy, though Twitter is also certainly involved somehow...
Oh sainted aunts, fainting under the wisteria on the verandahs of Adelaide, it's enough to make a reptile weep ... or at least whine, and how good is the Major at whining?
You will note in there the loyal Major's keen awareness of the reptile group think, and the shocking, wretched attitude of those secessionist sandgropers, romping wild and free, but the source of the rot must be exposed ... the lazy ABC ... though heaven knows, the pond expects an apocalyptic explosion of reptile brains after the next Four Corners tonight, up there with the exploding brains in Mars Attacks!
Oh it's only the Major today, but what an explosion of group think there will be on the morrow ...
You see, once upon a time those cardigan wearing converts were happy in the fields of Elysium, drinking from the Surry Hills supply of kool aid, and then suddenly things went wrong ... they stepped out of the field of dreams.
How rich can this get? The pond defies anyway not to melt like a chocolate soldier, or cackle like an apple-bearing witch at the Major's invocation of the lizard Oz's mission statement of 1964!
1964!!
Truly, there's nothing like an old reptile walking down nostalgia lane in the grip of sundry delusions to provide a spark of relief on a Monday ...
Ah there you go, Speersie's treachery explained. At last the pond understands, because who else has the wisdom of the Major? It's all the fault of the ABC's Twitter followers, what with Twitter having a direct connection to Satan ...
A quick look at Twitter and the next thing you know, an epic tragedy unfolds, he dons a cardie and begins chortling at Parkinson ...
Well there's just time for the Major to berate a few remaining cardie wearers, and why not, because after tonight, the reptiles will have to scrape together their brains ... because even if the show's a typically dull Four Corners outing, like the first episode, it will have the effect on the reptiles of country music blaring out into the world ... or even worse, Slim Whitman doing his Indian Love Call ... (sorry, watch out for exploding brains) ...
Easy assumptions about the innate superiority of the Major and the Murdochians would also be a good place to start, but where would that end?
As the duly appointed correspondents for Pravda down under, it wouldn't be good for the reptiles to start checking out the mote in the eye, or the fluff in the belly button ...
And so to the rest for the day, and the pond was startled early by this assembly of reptile rogues and thieves ...
Sure, there's resident columnist Josh, who occasionally moonlights for the government, and simplistic Simon sharing his concern for SloMo's rough times, and Cameron continues his strong form, with his yearning for freedumb ...
Ah the price of freedumb, and the pond does appreciate the reptiles' offer to do volunteer work in the medical system and hospitals, as the price of freedumb, though it also understands why medical workers might want to tell the reptiles to just piss off ...
But back to the bigger point. Sure there was the Oreo, a Caterist lite form of reformed, recovering feminism, but where was the flood waters, government cash in the paw man himself?
The pond knew it couldn't even begin thinking on a Monday without a hearty swig of Caterism ... and so it went in search, and luckily all was well ... he'd just been misplaced, or overlooked or slighted, or what you will, but have not the slightest doubt, he will turn up like the proverbial bad penny later in the day, ready to read the runes and look at the entrails and pronounce sternly on the movement of flood waters, viruses and vaccines ...
Good old "Compass Polling." Try googling that mob and see what you get ... Mount Compass polling, and talk of an error with Compass polling in Windows 7. Indeed, indeed, and if that were the only problem with Windows 7.
But the pond digresses, albeit pleased that federal government cash in the paw to the Menzies Research Centre is being put to such good use, and worth every penny ... especially as our gold standard Gladys is an early convert to freedumb.
Some might think she's just a fuck-up, who fucked it up, but no, it's impossible to beat, this variant, and so let the killing fields be saturated in blood to sate the reptile appetite for death ... and so to the ritual reptile abuse of those wretches in the west and to the north ...(but let us not forget comrade Dan as a handy way of distracting from gold standard Gladys) ...
Of course the pond trusts the Caterist's insights with a blind conviction. If the man can calculate with an uncanny Sherlockian skill the movement of flood waters in quarries, he can surely understand the canny ways of the virus ... and SloMo's astonishing skill at combating it, by ensuring a remarkable vaccination roll-out ... (here no irony required, no requiring of irony here) ...
Why the pond thinks it caught its first vaccine ad on the weekend, but then it wouldn't have been too flash to begin advertising earlier, what with people then rushing off and start looking a jab, when there was no bloody jab to be had ...
That bit about the growth in higher education? Well you would say that if you have a minor degree in sociology, and the intellectual ability of a gnat ... but once again, speaking as the Major did of groupthink, how pleasing to see the reptile echo chamber at work with blather about the moral certainties to be found on Twitter ... as opposed to the certainties to be found in the reptiles and the Caterist ...
Yes, don't you dare mock gold standard Gladys, or the I don't hold the hose mate man for saying this is not a race...
As for the public mood, the pond has a feeling quite a few would be happy to see the Caterist die, just so we know how the dictum of freedumb by death neatly captures the public mood ...
Meanwhile, the secessionist sandgropers, the toads to the north, and the croweaters live on wild and free, affronting all right thinking reptiles with their closeted arrogance. What's worse, they spend all their time arguing over who will stage the football grand finals, and where's the justice in that? It's bloody un-Australian ...
And speaking of un-Australian, so to Caterist lite Oreo, because at the end of a hearty main course of reptile stew, the pond always likes to finish off with the reformed, recovering feminist.
Being a sterling example of the echo chamber, there will be not a jot of original or different thinking, but why not a dose of empty calories?
Indeed, indeed, and the pond has to agree. Using a metaphor from a kids movie merely reveals that SloMo thinks as a child, and we already know that because he has an imaginary friend under the bed, who he talks to in tongues ...
Oh the Parkinsons of the world might mock him, but surely lines about not holding hoses and it not being a race have produced better results ...
Sorry, how rude of the pond to interrupt the Oreo with greatest hits and memories ... please, do go on, we need more examples of reptile group think from the duller knives in the drawer blathering about 'roos loose in the top paddock, when everyone knows that up Tamworth way you'll find the 'roos in the back paddock...
Now you might think living in Florida or Texas or some of the US southern states leads to a perfectly rational state of mind, but each day the pond checks out assorted parades of loons and comes up with a new novelty item ...
Ah yes, speaking of shit for brains ... and so to a final gobbet from the Oreo ...
The pond does appreciate that mental health issues are on the rise.
Not to make too light of it, or too much fun of it, it seems to the pond that the reptiles are entering new levels of sociopathic hive mind thinking, full of paranoia and delusion, but luckily Broelman was on hand to reassure them and offer them a light at the end of the tunnel ...
"It's inherently comical when the reptiles, especially the Major, talk of group think"
ReplyDeleteAttribution and projection, and with reptiles, especially the projection. But anyway, it's all wonderful "lived experience", isn't it.
"Good old "Compass Polling." Try googling that mob and see what you get ..."
ReplyDeleteWhat I got would seem to indicate that 'Compass' is intimately connected to 'True North Strategy' which as we know has a compass as its symbol with a red pointer showing "true north".
Keeping track of the 'survey' outfits that the Cater uses to deliver the result he wants is becoming a bit like a version of 'Whack-a-Mole', isn't it? I suppose what was 'True North' might have tried using the other main compass points for subsidiaries, or whatever they are, but I think a Kardashian did that with the children she has been producing, so it might have looked a tad ridiculous.
DeleteFrom what little I could glean the Compass-True North is a bit like 'left hand-right hand' (who know not what each other is doing), but Compass, from its web site, appears even more 'silently reserved' about itself than even True North.
DeleteAnyway, has Nicky the Cater found anybody to pay his court imposed libel damages bill yet ? Nobody has said anything about it, but Cater still walks the streets flouting his wares, apparently.
"several journalists worked happily at this newspaper or Sky News"
ReplyDeleteHe is so sweet. Perish the thought, or heaven forefend that a person could wake one day and realise what they were doing to their credibility and the country by working for a News outlet. And decided they could do better.
Yes, it's true, Chris Kenny has not left - he's just kept sending the same column in for decades - and he's happy. Well, isn't he?
It's a cracking Monday isn't it? All of them following PMO's line that w're "vaxxing our way out of lockdown and state government facism" . Ah yes, the saviour is with us, and his name is Scott. Sadly, there are screenshots. Lots and lots of screenshots. One circulating today from Jan 2/3 2021 features a large heading in SMH that states "Vaccine can wait says PM".
Yes he did say that didn't he? And so we waited. And we waited....and then the lockdowns came. In Denmark, they've hit 72% fully vaxxed, and on Sept 10th will roll back all domestic restrictions.
How's Australia going by comparison? https://twitter.com/MettaBhavana1/status/1432133471938363392?s=20
It would still be misleading for most of Oz readers as that's 72% of the whole population, not just eligible adults. The difference will be even higher by the end of the year as Danish 12-15 year olds are next up.
Deletehttps://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=AUS~DNK
Looks a bit stark in a chart, doesn't it?
There's some pretty transparent misrepresentations being dutifully reported in both the Murdoch press and the ABC. Last night Aunty ran a Covid summary along the lines of "Victoria deals with stubbornly high cases - - - NSW looking forward to easing restrictions as vaccination rates go up".
WTF? If Victoria is like a pot about to boil over NSW is like a fire in the kitchen, in fact, its more like the entire house is alight.
So sayeth the Cater: "The adoption of the Sino-Kiwi zero-Covid plan ..." And what about Taiwan ? But anyway, continuing: "In Denmark, where 80 per cent of residents aged over 12 have been vaccinated, Covid-19 is about to be delisted as a 'socially critical disease'."
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to that heroic place Sweden ? Isn't Sweden the 'gold standard' for "living with it" ? Anyway, let's see: Denmark: Population 5.8million; Total 344,679 confirmed cases, 2,580 deaths.
Sweden: Population 10.2 million; Total 1,123,413 confirmed cases, 14,685 deaths. Bingo!
Oops, yes I can see why not Sweden "If I don't ever say it again, then it never really happened." So, let's compare with Australia: Population 25.8 million; Total 51,256 cases, 999 deaths. Well, well what a bunch of squibs we Aussies are, eh ? Can't even handle a few hundred thousand cases and a few tens of thousand deaths.
Denmark ? Well: "Denmark has not seen more than five coronavirus-related deaths per day since February." and "Denmark's health officials will lift all of the country's Covid restrictions by September 10, as they believe the virus no longer poses 'a critical threat to society'." However: "... 'the epidemic is not over' and the government 'will not hesitate to act quickly if the pandemic once again threatens the essential functioning of society.'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9932767/Denmark-scrap-Covid-restrictions-two-weeks-virus-no-longer-critical-threat-society.html?fr=operanews
So that's how you do it folks: deaths down to 5 a day (= max 1825 per year or twice Australia's current grand total) and you just stop calling it a pandemic and call it an epidemic instead.
Just one last observation from Nick: "The relatively small number of fatalities from the 20,000 or so cases since then has deeply disappointed the lockdown-happy brigade ..." And therein lies a compelling demonstration of the simple-minded idiocy of the reptiles: they will never, ever understand that the "relatively small number of fatalities" is precisely because of the lockdown - there is such a thing as cause and effect, guys, it isn't just all quantum randomness. Because that is what we did that only the few others with some control over the pandemic also did. And thankfully, before we can copy Denmark, we'll have a chance to see if things work out any better there than most everywhere else - and particularly the US and the UK.
They sort of live in a mirror world where cause and effect are transposed. It often seems like dealing with kids - "OK, let's get this pandemic under control then we can talk about easing restrictions". "But, but, but - - - "
DeleteIt's all arse about. By the time we get to the threshold vaccination levels the data should show if the actual results are likely to conform to the modelled results. But no, we have to have a target graven in stone that never changes.
Mind you, it fits with the neoliberal approach to ignore the facts and run with the theory.
The Oreo: "Premier Mark McGowan is sowing discord by luring voters into the false belief that Covid will be eliminated if state borders are closed long enough." But, BG, butt, Covid has been eliminated in WA so long as McGowan keeps his state borders closed. And it had been eliminated in Victoria until some people from the 'gold-standard' state were allowed in. Ditto NZ. It really is that simple.
ReplyDeleteFurther on from Oreo: "In March, the American psychological Association reported findings that nearly half of Americans felt uneasy about returning to in-person interaction, once the pandemic ends, regardless of vaccination status." It's like, no matter what the visible evidence to the contrary, Oreo and the killer reptiles (and Crood Slomo) act as though the vaccine actually prevents infection. Of course it doesn't, it just reduces the chances and generally reduces the effects. But fully vaccinated people still catch Covid and still suffer significantly and even die from it.
They just can't in any way grasp it: the best that the vaccines can do is to indeed reduce the 'pandemic' to an 'epidemic' that, like flu, will return every year and still afflict and even kill fully vaccinated people. There are no magic wands, and AZ, Pfizer, Moderna et al are not ones. Covid is with us forever now.