Why not start the day with a joke?
Meanwhile, the reptiles, especially simplistic Simon, are this very day in the grip of a nightmare ...
Gee, it's hard yards being a simplistic Simon, but give him credit, there's plenty for a Bensonite to blather about... while others help the joke trend ...
As for that Maxie riff about pretending to be Hawke and pretending to be John Howard, the lizard Oz's contribution was adequately covered in Media Watch ... so the pond can get on with the Tuesday business of watching the Groaner groan with delight at the ruination of the planet ...
Anyone giving this a casual read might think that the Groaner is groaning about the state of the planet, and climate science and all that malarkey, but herpetology students who have paid their dues will recall that Dame Groan has featured many times on the pond as a denialist and coal and fossil fuel devotee ... so this is just a re-run of that Blake poem ...
O world thou art sick.
The visible denialist,
That flies in the lizard oz
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of black fossil fuel:
And her dark secret love
Does thy life destroy
Well it ain't Kez, but it's just to settle the nerves for the next gobbet of unholy delight ...
Indeed, indeed, but why does Dame Groan care? She's delighted the world is fucked, and cheerfully dances on its grave ...
A completely foreseeable nightmare?
Well perhaps foreseeable back in 2020 when the Science Show gave the Groaner an honourable mention ...
Robyn Williams: When Rupert Murdoch gave the ABC's Boyer Lecture in 2008 he said, 'We should give the planet the benefit of the doubt,' implying we should act on environmental matters in a precautionary way. 'Have you told your journalists to act on that principle,' I asked him. Rupert Murdoch mumbled a reply. It was inaudible and he walked away. This is The Science Show number 2,263.
In The Australian newspaper last week, Judith Sloan took pains to write about the uncertainties of science. On Monday of this week in the Telegraph, Alan Jones took a whole page to echo her denigration of climate research. Both newspapers often use words such as 'alarmism', 'hoax' and 'religion' in connection with the topic.
So full of denialist bullshit, and yet the pond admits that the Groaner's delight in the current nightmare was completely foreseeable ...
And so to the main piece of the day, though the pond will stray from time to time ...
Indeed, indeed, yet the Faux Noise response has been strong, clear and fully productive ...
... but the pond, having placed it on the neutered record, would prefer to slip in a New Yorker moment ... (outside the paywall for the moment as far as the pond can tell) ...
And now back to the bromancer for another bout of the blame game ...
Indeed, indeed, meanwhile, in stout-hearted patriotic Faux Noise, the strength continued to emanate, as readers of The Bulwark would know, thanks to Amanda Carpenter's Russia Doesn't Need Trolls This Time ... (it's got Tuckyo Rose) ...
A couple of clippings, the first in relation to the usual Tuckyo Rose conduct ...
And this ...
And so on, but the bromancer is apparently completely unaware of what's been happening back at head office, and all he's picked up is the vibe that it's all Biden's fault ...
How amazingly discreet the bromancer is when it comes to certain matters, and yet the pond keeps getting drawn back to head office ... you know, Tuckyo Rose leads rightwing charge to blame everyone but Vlad the sociopath ...
Ah yes, it's a perfect storm of groaning, bromancing and Tuckyo Rose ... and so to the last short gobbet ...
That weakness is entirely the opposite to the strength that Faux News exudes ... no vacillation, lack of resolution, uncertainty or incoherence when it comes to its love of Vlad the sociopath ...
And now since the immortal Rowe and infallible Pope seem to have gone missing this day, is it wrong for the bromancer to yearn for a new Ides of March with Rowson?
"Scott Morrison remains the least trusted PM in more than a decade but Anthony Albanese is running a very close second."
ReplyDeleteSomebody should let poor simplistic Simon know that Anthony Albanese has never been PM.
Oh but he will be, Merc, he will be.
DeleteI really don't understand who the Bromancer thinks he's talking too and to what purpose when he writes wiffle piffle about Biden like that. It can't be to Australians, because we don't get a vote in American elections. But maybe he just wants to denigrate Joe so that his good mate Tukyo Rose wins over all those sad, disappointed Democratics to vote for Trump.
ReplyDeleteAnd it'll work too, won't it. Has worked every single time to date.
But hey: "It's undeniable that Biden was ineffective in deterring Putin from invading Ukraine." Is that undeniable ? I'd bet that Tukyo Rose could deny it if he wanted to. But the Bro tells us that "Before the invasion, Biden reduced the flow of weapons to Ukraine." Now when was that again ? And what were the weapons ? Biden, and America, apparently weren't sure that Putin would invade until about mid-February, so what happened to the 'weapons flow' then ?
And once again in puzzlement: what is the Bro's intent and purpose in all this ?
Here's a post that explains quite a lot that the Bromancer just doesn't understand. For instance:
Delete“Fundamentally, both Russia and NATO are trying to scare each other with the risk of escalation of war with the other, if certain lines are crossed,” Oliker said. “Neither wants that war, but both are willing to have it under certain conditions. It makes for a rather complicated dance.”
Why the US scrapped Polish plans to give Ukraine fighter jets
https://www.vox.com/2022/3/13/22975269/ukraine-poland-us-mig-fighter-jets-military-aid-escalation
And where does Biden fit in all of this ? "The US is walking a careful line in its support for Ukraine." Yeah, it's known as 'nuclear war'. So, are we all convinced that Biden should err on the side of aggressive conflict, or on the side of serious caution ?
The Chesterfield General sounds like he’s on Putin’s side to me so I’ve annexed an old Elvis Costello ditty in his warmongering honour.
ReplyDeleteVladimir’s Army
Don't start me squawking
I’m a hawk alright
My mind goes sleepwalking
When I'm putting the world to right
And for your information
Winning wars is my dream occupation
Vladimir’s army is here to stay
Vladimir’s army are on their way
And I would rather be in Vladimir’s shoes
Than Biden’s today
That Putin is no charlie
He never cracks a smile
But he’s been laughing hearty
Cause he knows Biden is senile
And though Vlad’s got an itchy trigger
I’d say Biden’s Ukraine’s gravedigger
Vladimir’s army is here to stay
Vladimir’s army are on their way
And I would rather be in Vladimir’s shoes
Than Biden’s today
Ukraine is up for grabs
Putin’s called in the Arabs
He’s saying this land is mine
From the Ukraine to the Chinese line
Is the next stop the Mersey or the Thames or the Tyne?
But there's no danger
If I take over from here
I’ll do some real war gaming
With just a word in Mister Putin’s ear
With a little luck I could get some work
And a dacha in St Petersburg
Vladimir’s army is here to stay…
Bravo Kez!
DeleteCheers Merc!
DeleteWhen Dame Groan decides to work the theme of ‘you are doomed without fossil fuels’, much of the content of her column reads like something she has adapted, but loosely, from material prepared by a shill for the fossil fuel fossils.
ReplyDeleteOne would hope that her sources write more coherently than she does, but that is not necessarily a given. It might be easier if she just gave her readers the reference or link - but that would require extra work to fill out the column.
It fits with the Dame we knew of in South Australia, who was not noted for her original work or for finding and dissecting-out data from obscure sources.
Back in the ‘90s, In a seminar of the Economic Society, hosted by Adelaide U, an earnest young grad. started a comment with
‘Professor Sloan has a graph in ‘The Advertiser’ today that . ‘.
The moderator intervened - ‘If Judith had a graph, she probably got it from someone else - does she say who?’
‘No’
‘Mmm - I cannot recall Judith ever constructing a graph for herself - try to find out where it came from.’
The moderator of the seminar had been one of Groan’s supervisors.
Got a bit of a laugh out of Dame Groan painting the IEA as Green/Leftists. Much humour has been derived in recent years from their strange, and clearly wrong, projections of the renewable share of electricity generation.
Deletehttps://xwpxpfefwalgifkr.quora.com/A-modest-proposal-to-the-International-Energy-Authority
"This undercalling is familiar in legacy, dying industries: Kodak had similar curves drawn every year, marked “digital camera market share”. And every year, they looked at each other and moved the curve up a bit. Every year. Until film died."
I felt the Bromancer was in such a pontificating mood he deserved another ditty. Apologies to Bacharach and David.
ReplyDeleteSubs, and Bombs, and Planes
Subs and bombs and planes are what I need
This is my tip for winning the war
In the Ukraine, listen to me
These subs and these bombs and planes
Will win the war, because of me
I’d give Vlad the shove from high above
If I had jets to pummel him with
And maybe tanks, (but not many)
Some tanks, bombs and subs and planes
I’d make him pay, just wait and see
I am on the other side of the world
And I’ve just written up a battle plan
To beat Putin back to Kazakhstan
But I’ll stay here, like generals do
So that I get a better world-view
Subs, tanks, bombs and planes for these I pray
Every night and every day
And if my prayer can cross the sea
My tanks, bombs and subs and planes
Will win this war, believe you me
Yep, need all those subs to sink the warships that are in the Black Sea. And indeed the only way to handle an overly pontificating Bro is to overcome him with superior words.
DeleteNicely done, Kez.
Cheers GB.
DeleteDon't you think you're being just a bit perfectionist, there Chad ? Groany being into the world of Critical Discourse Analysis* surely means she wouldn't be able to document where a graph came from. And she sure isn't paid enough these days to want to learn how.
ReplyDeleteAs Nicholas Gruen would have it: "I’d like to introduce “theorisation” (as opposed to “theorise”). Theorisation dresses some analysis in theory but it turns out the ‘theory’ is just window dressing — a proof of work if you will, locating the piece either within some talking points as with strategisation or within some academic sub-discipline."
Theorisation: Reinventing Orwell and smothering him in verbiage
https://clubtroppo.com.au/2022/03/07/theorisation-reinventing-orwell-and-smothering-him-in-verbiage/
*Critical Discourse Analysis: objective is to perceive language use as social practice. The users of language do not function in isolation but in a set of cultural, social and psychological frameworks.