After the glories of a Monday, with the finest reptiles parading in their finery - oh how fine the Major, the Oreo and the cratering Caterist look in their togs - Tuesday is always a downer for reptile lovers and other depressives ...
Take the startling news that led both the tree killer and the digital editions...
Yes Slomo, and so the reptiles have suddenly discovered electric vehicles ... the coal clutcher has realised that EV is a thing, and after years of mocking climate scientists as religious zealots on some kind if crusade, without the slightest sense of irony or self-awareness, the reptiles have suddenly started talking about the "road to Damascus" ...
What's the pond to do with that?
Perhaps the pond could note that the reptiles are still, at the bottom of the page, taking Clive's cash in the claw, so the road to Damascus seems to be paved with Clive's gold.
Or perhaps the pond could embark on a lengthy dissertation on how the Damascene conversion involved the most loathsome and reprehensible of Christ's disciples, but the pond doesn't feel like a dose of Pauline misogyny this day ...
Whatever, the pond at least got a cheap chuckle out of the reptiles turning religious zealots in their new found conversion to climate science.
There's a reason of course, as noted by the immortal Rowe ... an election is coming, just as hopefully more Rowe cartoons will always be coming here ...
A Rowe this early in the reptile parade? That's how desperate the pond is ... that's how pitiful the reptiles are on a Tuesday ...
Just look at the wretched rabble, the riff raff offered up below the fold ...
Sheesh, that's grim ... the pond couldn't have devised a more unattractive line-up if given the chance.
And that's why the pond was forced to lead with Claire, the thinking person's Karen ...
Of course readers of the pond are guinea pigs on a Chairman Rupert diet.
The pond occasionally tries to warn stray readers that they're being fed a very thin gruel and tries to lighten the load of a loss of intelligence, intellect, insight, integrity and moral compass with a few jokes ... as in that latest work, its progress tracked here ...
... with this note ...
On Instagram, American art critic Jerry Saltz praised Father and son for highlighting the “worthless legacy and profits of a family that gained the whole world but lost its soul”, adding: “Certainly one of the best works of the year”.
Well yes, that's suitably biblical for those on the road to Damascus, but now it's time for the old game of deducting IQ points, whatever that might mean (no the pond isn't going to get into the debate about IQ, of course it's meaningless, but the debate means dropping further IQ points) ...
It's as pointlessly stupid and depressing as the pond expected ... not the stuff about social media, apart from blogging, the pond doesn't do any form of social media ...
No, it's the mindless stupidity of a scribbler who doesn't realise she's appearing in a walk-on role in an evil empire, ruled by a couple of melting wax figures ...
But how does it happen, how does the pond keep landing on the reptiles?
Well it's the logarithms, as explained by a poster the pond noted in Newtown while doing the rounds with vulgar youffs and hipsters fucking over the Annandale ...
So on we go, without a hint of introspection, insight or acknowledgement of the damage News Corp and its assorted manifestations, such as Faux Noise and Sky after dark, have wrought upon the world ...
Some might attempt to find some kind of token redemption for the Murdochians ... but to be fair, News Corp is entirely fucked, and has done much to damage the world ... the “worthless legacy and profits of a family that gained the whole world but lost its soul”
But at least there was only one short gobbet of navel-gazing to go ...
Oh fucketty fuck, not the tiny changes to variables creating cascading systemic effects ... when the truth is that those exposed to the Murdochians are guinea pigs in a vast, unchecked sociological experiment ... and thus far, the hapless guinea pigs in the United States of America are showing extraordinary signs that the end of empire is nigh ...
For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies.
But enough of the reptiles on their road to Damascus, and so the pond had, just to fill up the space, turn to Killer Creighton ...
The pond has long been over Killer Creighton and the killing fields, but even so it's hard to be surprised by the news that the Killer and Deathsantis are one ...
Uh huh. Killer and the Freudian mask thing yet again.
How goes it in that weird world? The pond had no interest in what the Killer had to say, but did visit the Miami Herald for this 6th November update ...
Fuck, that's impressive. Dodgy record keeping, but still an impressive record in the killing fields, especially if you compare it to the damage down under (which is not the damage that might have been done if Killer had been indulged).
No wonder the Killer and Deathsantis are one, and bear that in mind while damaging your brain reading this final gobbet ...
60,000+ dead? Just another day in the killing fields for our Killer ...
And so to the usual Tuesday feature, a jolly good groaning by Dame Groan ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, say it ain't so ... from death to taxes, and the pond's eyes immediately glazed over ... and didn't open again until the end of the piece ...
Still, the pond realises Dame Groan's inimitable groaning has a powerful following, and if by sheer boredom, the pond can help reduce the number of brain cells in the country, then it has done its reptile duty for the day ...
Say what?
Sorry, the pond was just resting its eyes. All the best do it on the road to Damascus ... are we there yet? Is an infallible Pope just over the horizon?
You promise? Okay, carry on groaning ...
Uh huh ...
And if thy right groaning eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into a groaning, hellish dissertation on taxes.
Well that's enough treatment of taxes and climate science as religion for this day on the reptile road to Damascus, and one last short burst should see the pond arrive at an infallible Pope ...
Well there was much to do about nothing, and thank the long absent lord Sydney's housing bubble will keep on bubbling, because the pond is deep into it and tulips ...
And so to the much delayed reward for enduring the groaning ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteAs Morrison is moving on to the Hi-Vis part of his role as PM, maybe it’s time for a change in the marketing strategy.
As it seems criticism of the Prime Liar is considered tantamount to attacking the whole of Australia, so how about a new slogan for Scotty?
'L'etat c'est moi'
The French would understand and Morrison can rebrand himself as the “Scum King”.
Win Win
DiddyWrote
Gagner gagner indeed, DW. I'd be sure DP got it instantly and Chad only took a moment or two, but I was a little slower. Verily Versailles.
DeleteNope, the pond gagged on the gagner winning, and besides the pond prefers "roi de l'écume" ... each day is an education for the pond courtesy the comments.
DeleteOur Dame - well, she is showing a degree of consistency. Taxes are for the little people to pay, so the entitled don’t have to. The latter are doing their bit by ‘creating wealth’. What can you tax of the little people? Well, their wages, and things they buy. What must we not tax of the entitled? Obvious - property of all kinds, including ingenious new kinds - stuff that doesn’t actually exist - so there’s a good reason not to tax it. For those for whom governments have conveniently aggregated mineral prospects so that the resource rent created by those governments can be taken up in its entirety - definitely no tax on resource rents. Think of all those years Gina was out there in the desert, cracking rocks with a sledgehammer, trying to get her inheritance out of bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteWhile we are on Inheritance - oh dear - force people to allow the great unwashed into the stately homes their parents worked so hard to leave to them?
What about that GST thing? Particularly the ’S’ word - services? Well, if it is the ‘service’ you need when your drainpipes fracture - we do keep a little cash in the household safe to avoid that ridiculous surcharge. Remember what Kerry Packer said about what the government did with money? Financial services? - be reasonable - besides, most of that is done now by us tapping keys, so how could any government slap a tax on our moving our very own money around?
But, yes, with all the profligate spending this pinko federal government is announcing - we are going to have to look at that GST - the ‘goods’ part, anyway. If the little people can pay 10% - surely 15% is not too much of a stretch.
Yes, just think, if we had a wealth tax, an estate tax, a land tax, a capital gins tax (not adjusted for inflation) and a financial services tax, we could have income tax with the tax-free threshold at maybe $100,000.
DeleteI still have this persistent memory, Chad, of times back in the 1950s when GM paid its CEO an annual salary of US$500,000 just for the boasting rights of claiming "half a $million". The CEO of Ford got paid less but because of the USA's supertax on very large salaries, his actual 'take home' pay was greater than the GM CEO's.
DeleteBut that was then, and this is now, and my, haven't times, and taxation, changed.
Oh - DW - Nice one - the Scum King indeed.
ReplyDeleteI love how the immortal Rowe has morphed Scomo into the Aussie Trump!
ReplyDeleteMs Quillette sayeth: "One study, conducted in the UK with a sample of 10,000 adolescents [how chosen ?], found heavy social media use corresponded with increased experiences of online harassment, poor sleep, low self-esteem, poor body image and depressive symptoms." Now that's really funny, because back in my day, adolescence was very much associated with face-to-face harassment and bullying, poor sleep, low self-esteem, poor body image and depressive symptoms. But back then we blamed it on tv, the rise of rock'n'roll and growing awareness of "sexuality".
ReplyDeleteMy, how times have changed, eh ? Especially Quillette's bits about boys using social media for more than 5 hours per day and thereby being "twice as likely to be depressed as boys who used social media less than one hour per day." And girls were "three times more likely to be depressed." Now do we think that Quillette has any sort of grasp at all of the difference between cause and effect ? So, do depressed kids use social media more than 5 hours a day, or does using social media more than 5 hours a day cause depression ? Besides, who doesn't remember hours spent talking on telephones ? Girls more than boys, I think I recall, but boys too.
Just as you say, DP: "it's the mindless stupidity of a scribbler who doesn't realise she's appearing in a walk-on role in an evil empire..." Quite. So returning to the little Quill: "Some have also argued increased focus on social media's downsides is a Trojan horse that will lead to more policing of political speech on Facebook, to the detriment of conservatives."
Que ? Only of "conservatives" ? What does this mean - that only conservatives are the nasty, bullying types who increase the incidence of that non-existent psychobabble, "rapid onset gender dysphoria" which is "not yet recognised in DSM" (and hopefully never will be) ?
"60,000+ dead? Just another day in the killing fields for our Killer ..." Yes, Killer C is such a happy little chappy, isn't he. Been though the great Sweden adventure and look how stunningly well that turned out: only 1.18 million infection cases out of a population of about 10.35 million and only 15,057 official Covid deaths (which we all know is an under-estimate). Now moving tight along to Florida and its population of about 21.48 million and just 3,659,255 confirmed Covid cases and a mere 60,300 official Covid deaths.
ReplyDeleteSo Florida's population is just a shade more than twice Sweden's for just over 3 times the number of infections, and 4 times the number of official deaths. Who could complain about that ? Not any right-thinking patriotic American, that's for sure. And clearly not Killer C either - but then he's young and fit and handsome so he's at no risk at all.
Just for comparison: Australia's population is 25.5 million for about 130,000 confirmed infections and 1,448 official deaths. Who'd want to live in a boring place like that ?