Come on down Justin Quill, that notion of "a strategic surrender" is simply too weird, even for the pond ... and so you are awarded a rare distinction, a reptile too out there even for the pond ...
As for the 'embarrassing loss" side of the coin, the digital and tree killer editions told the real story ... if you've got enough money, you can buy justice ...
Meanwhile, tough titty for the refugees languishing in the prison once graced by the Djoker ... if you ain't got the moola or play a sport, languish away ...
As for the rest that might unfold this day, if SloMo were to take any further action, it would brand him mean, spiteful, petty, small-minded and a bad loser, but we already knew that; or he might not take action, which would make him useless, an impotent fool, a twit, and a posturing fuckwit, inclined to tweet rules are rules, except when in the hands of dropkicks supposed to apply the rules, but we already knew that ...
What else this reptile day?
Uh oh once again in this idle reptile January, the lizard Oz editorialist was left to do the heavy lifting, though it was pleasing to see that the reptiles had imported an honorary """ reptile to scribble in support of the current apartheid state in the middle east ...
And Gottliebsen was still there, just like he was yesterday when the pond decided to take a snap of the reptile response to the decision ...
Trust the reptiles to pay attention to the Golden Globes ...
Meanwhile, there was nothing for it but for the pond to pay attention to the Killer ...
The pond should note at the start that it's inclined to think of Killer as the most authoritarian of the reptiles.
Indeed, proto-fascist, or Faux Noise fascist if you will, might be closer to the mark as an indication of where his libertarian tendencies have taken him ... which is why the pond will just observe this day's musings, perhaps with the odd bit of mockery ...
Now seems like a good time for the pond to admit to a taste for Mike Luckovich cartoons, and he can be found at his home at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...
And now on with authoritarian Killer's musings in favour of the Donald and his hair, and of course the best way to do that is to downplay any talk of insurrection and coup ...
Mockery is easy, but while there were clowns, there were also supine lickspittles doing their best to keep the mango Mussolini in power ... kissing cousins to the Killer ...
And the lapdogs are still at work, and by golly, the pond thinks that Killer is something of a lapdog himself ... just admire him at work ...
Wrongly believe? Oh come on Killer, we've all watched Faux Noise, we know the truth of the matter. Please don't try to abjure, renounce, spurn, forswear, disavoe, abnegate and recant your reptile roots ...
And that brings us to the final gobbet of 'nothing to see here or hear', or 'here, nothing to see, see, hear me?!' from the Killer ...
What a splendid apologetics for the radical cause, and with any luck, the mango Mussolini will return to power, or even better a full Trumpian of the Florida Ron kind, and Faux Noise will rule the world ...
And never mind that blather about reasonable people, as if Killer was somehow reasonable. English might be a rich language, but when deployed by fuckwits, it remains as slippery as an eel.
That's why Killer couldn't resist slipping in a Covid reference, could he? And yet just a glance at the headlines this day will do ... with the 'rules' man bending and breaking the rules as quickly as he can to cope with his own catastrophe ...
As for the rest of that Killer komplacency, why not try the Graudian's ‘The Timothy McVeighs are still there’: fears over extremism in US military.
Or perhaps a little Killer komedy ...
And so to the usual Tuesday reptile filler.
Keen eyes would have noticed that the reptiles had, early in the morning, placed Dame Groan at the top of the digital page, and the pond is always ready to go with a good Tuesday groaning ...
Now some will immediately realise that they've heard this kind of Groan before.
In fact, pesky wogs, heck, any kind of furriner, is the bane of the Groaner's life, and she groans about them so much that they take a place in her world roughly akin to the ABC in the life of prattling Polonius.
What can the pond do, but note the psychological issues, and murmur the odd sympathetic Sybil into the phone, "oh, I know, I know" ...
Others might want to have a go at the groaning on whatever basis, but the pond is more interested in where the reptile fixations come from, and why they run so deep ...
There is something to be said for the world staying small and not devouring resources, but at the same time as denouncing pesky furriners, Dame Groan remains a devoted climate science sceptic.
That's not what motivates her, you won't find her brooding about the Siberian wastelands, per The New Yorker ... (outside paywall for the moment)
No, that sort of stuff doesn't motivate the Groaner in her groaning. She might deplore the prospect of a big Australia, but not because of the implications for the climate or the planet.
She simply doesn't much like wogs, or any other kind of pesky furriner ... and so she keeps rabbiting on about them in a way that even a compulsive obsessive of the prattling Polonius kind might admire ...
You see, right there, in the middle, a shot at the Greenies and climate change and environmental responsibility and such like ...
No, the Groaner isn't groaning to save the country or the planet, she simply doesn't like wogs, or other forms of furriners, and she doesn't want any more of that kind around these here parts ... and week after week, she parades this weird obsession, this pathology, to the world ...
And there you have it, and with the immortal Rowe and the infallible Pope still on holidays, the pond is left to celebrate the planet's future, thanks to the Killer and Dame Groan ...
Yes, the pond can grok that in these vaping times ...
"I spent Insurrection week with Steve Bannon"
ReplyDeleteA very detailed, and deeply disturbing antidote to the Killer's blather - an actual reporter at work here. https://www.thebulwark.com/i-spent-insurrection-week-listening-to-steve-bannon/
Thanks VC, that's an excellent read, and the pond should really have noted it. When he gets going, Tim Miller has a good way with words, and as a non-Trumpist conservative, he knows the breed ... there's much more but this was the opening blast ...
DeleteFor three hours every day, the Republican coup plotters who inspired the domestic terror attack at the U.S. Capitol last year gather to discuss their next move. On their January 6th anniversary program, the Dead Cops Society beseeched their great patriotic listeners to “Seize The Day. We’re ashamed of nothing. We’re proud of the work we did on January 6th.”
Their scheming does not take place in caves in the Hindu Kush mountains. Nor in a vacated Florida flophouse with an acid-filled bathtub. In fact, it doesn’t happen in secret at all.
You can find these enemies of democracy livestreaming across multiple platforms for your convenience. Dish channel 219. Samsung TV Plus Channel 1029. Roku. Apple TV. Pluto TV. Amazon Fire! You can livestream the proceedings on the web at AmericasVoice.com or catch clips on Rumble. Or listen through IHeartRadio.
If you are a regular working American who wants to overthrow the regime but can’t sneak away from your day job, not to worry, Apple Podcasts is platforming daily mutiny discourse for your convenience 24/7. And as it turns out, Insurrection Radio does big numbers. Last I checked it was the #9 News Podcast in America on Apple. According to the hosts—and these guys would never lie, obvi—the show has gotten an eye-popping 125 million downloads.
Insurrection never paid so good.
The host of Forever One Six radio is the former Trump administration chief strategist and twice-indicted “Sloppy” Steve Bannon. His show is called WAR ROOM PANDEMIC. In the week leading up to the first anniversary of Jan. 6th, I dove into the War Room to see how the OG “Stop the Stealers” were processing the fallout from their botched putsch.
What I found was that their effort to overthrow the government has been undeterred by the initial setback of Joe Biden being inaugurated. While Republican elites try to minimize the events of Jan. 6th, the War Room and their minions have continued to take the coup both literally and seriously. In their view the Biden “regime” is illegitimate and the regime’s medical establishment has covered up nearly a half a million deaths from the COVID “vaccines.”
In 2022 they aim to put so many of their people in positions of power throughout state and local governments that next time there will be nothing anyone can do to stop their quest for power. And this crusade is infused with an unmistakable religious fervor and appeal to a quasi-Christian nationalism that calls it devotees into action.
As crazy as their show may sound on its face—and let me tell you it seems very crazy—anyone who cares about American democracy should take that prospect very seriously indeed.
A little daily something just for the 24percenters.
DeleteThank you VC. It seems our 'Killer' Creighton is transmogrifying into Tucker Creighton.
ReplyDeleteIt's truly a joy reading Killer C, isn't it. The only more joyful thing would be reading Robert Gottliebson.
ReplyDeleteSo what inestimable wisdom will the Big C impart to us today: that what happened in Congress on 6th Jan 2021 wasn't insurrection. And we know it wasn't insurrection because none of the 'non-insurrectioners' because none of those caught committing blatantly illegal acts have been charged with insurrection. So, turning up with weapons and threatening to kill the Vice President and the Speaker are just everyday acts of peaceful protesters.
And we have Killer C's assurance on that: "January 6 was a protest gone wrong, and one that former president Donald Trump should have done more to rein in after it spiralled out of control. But that's it." Wonderful, Trump "should have done more to rein in". "More" ? Trump didn't do anything at all to "rein it in".
So, what did Tim Miller say ? Yeah: "the maxim that constant repetition carries conviction" . Now that sounds a whole lot more intellectually convincing than "what I thrice repeat is true" but it means the same. So we can look forward to an endless reptile repetition about all those really nice, peaceful 'protesters' who really just wanted to storm and invade Congress simply to overturn the presidential vote and murder the Vice president and Speaker.
It was a normal day.