Not one word about the notion of a "radical centre", as deployed yesterday by bubble-headed booby Claire?
Come on, come on, radical stupidity should always be honoured, even if the pond did but tip the lid as it passed by ...
This is the home of radical centrists, whatever that meaningless blather might be taken to mean ...
Speaking of radical stupidity, as the pond does on a daily basis, both the bromancer and nattering "Ned" were out and about, and that was more than enough, with the dog botherer consigned to the graveyard of the late arvo slot.
Anybody wondering why the world is comprehensively fucked, and will for the foreseeable future be comprehensively fucked, well beyond the time the pond departs the scene, has only to turn to the bromancer, waxing and waning between sheer hysteria and sheer nonsense ...
And what of the mango Mussolini?
Well the bromancer saves his very best shot until last, and as it's a ripper, the pond will defer to his sense of timing, and wade through the rest, including a neutered click bait video the reptiles decided to insert ...
Indeed, indeed, and before proceeding please allow the pond to mention Jimmy Kimmel trolling Sean Hannity trolling Biden trolling himself ...
Well it's a distraction before we get on with the bromancer ...
Indeed, indeed, and Australia's own posture in relation to refugees from Afghanistan has been astonishingly effective ...
Yes, there you go, no wonder the bromancer thinks he can occupy the high moral ground ...
But what of the mango Mussolini?
Has the bromancer been entertaining enough? Maybe, maybe not, who knows, swings and roundabouts, and this and that, and bibs and bobs, and odds and ends, and whatever ...
Oh yes, things will get better if the GOP is in charge, and the likes of MTG and Matt Gaetz and Mitch and all the rest can run wild ... there are gays and trannies to bash and women's rights to trample ... but now at the end of this gobbet, we come at last to the bromancer's winning moment ...
The best judge of politics in Australia is little Johnny, and if he'd had a chance, he would have voted for the mango Mussolini? And that's the best judge of politics in Australia?
The pond reeled about, wondering if hysterical laughter was the right response, or perhaps a copious shedding of tears ...
Of course the bromancer and little Johnny immediately followed up with a but, billy goat, butt moment, but there was no way they could claw back that great comedy moment...
Um, has it escaped the bromancer's attention that the GOP, its base, and Faux Noise remain in thrall to the mango Mussolini?
But at least this Rowe offers the chance for some common ground ... with more Rowe here ...
And so to nattering "Ned", and here the adulterated pleasure is watching "Ned" go into a sheer panic, and go all high and mighty, and make it almost impossible to remember that this is all motivated by his deep love for the abiding reign of the liar from the Shire busy stacking the AAT with mates...
It goes without saying that "Ned" is all for a lower moralism, of the kind offered by the liar from the Shire ...
Here the pond should note "Ned's" role in the lizard Oz's current holy war, thanks to which is dead to the pond except when it isn't ...
On with the holy war ...
Indeed, indeed, how could beefy boofhead prime Angus get on with his job? But back to that holy war. The pond was bemused to read this bleat in the Graudian ...
But that's what they do dearie and as soon as you scribble you have many Jewish friends - a bit like the many black friends the pond allegedly has - you've lost the game.
Just learn to love dinkum clean Oz coal and all will be well and soon you'll be celebrating with the liar from the Shire ...
Now watch an expert do his best imitation of a droog ... here's how to bash indie heads while in high righteous dudgeon ...
What next? Perhaps the pond might revert to the beefy boofhead for a prime example of how to do the people's business ...
Great stuff beefy boofhead, and the pond apologises for putting on notice any further questions, as it returns to "Ned" ...
By golly "Ned" is in top Chicken Little mode this day, but that mention of Sharma reminded the pond what it was all about ... the sheer desperate fear of the reptiles that the liar from the Shire might get taken down, and that Sharma might be the weakest link...
Here the pond should turn to an excerpt from Margot Saville ... (paywall affected) ...
What a hoot and it's easy to see why "Ned" is in such a panic.
The reptiles offered up a benign shot of a smirking Sharma in the final gobbet, but it was one of their own that "Ned" feared so much, daughter of a former Liberal politician and the former head girl of Ascham!
Come on reptiles, what are the odds that a smirking Sharma could match that smile? And think of the suffering eight year olds ...
And that's "Ned's" ultimate criticism? "They are a genuine manifestation of Australian democracy."
Shocking. Surely chairman Rupert is the genuine manifestation of Australian democracy, and that's why the holy war must continue, to ensure that a liar from the Shire remains in power.
How else would the infallible Pope be able to keep the pond supplied with cartoons?
"This is the home of radical centrists, whatever that meaningless blather might be taken to mean..." A home at it's centre for all the free radicals of the universe ? OH-
ReplyDeleteNeddles: "Violating the conservative disposition of their seats, they [Windsor and Oakeshott] put the Gillard government into office..." Edmund Burke: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
ReplyDeleteAt least Windsor and Oakeshott didn't betray their constituents.
Neddy again: "...how do blue-ribbon Liberal electorates feel about being rendered largely impotent in the parliament." Could they possibly feel any worse than many red-ribbon Labor electorates have for quite a while. But then, Labor folk were born to serve; they were never born to rule.
ReplyDeleteAnd onwards: "These are the seats that ... have been represented by the most influential figures in the Liberal Party ... Josh Frydenberg, Joe Hockey, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Peter Costello, Andrew Robb, Julie Bishop, Andrew Peacock, among others." Oh yeah, truly great influencers that lot. But BG butt, no mention whatsoever of that truly great leader of the Libs and of Australia, one John Winston Howard ? Oh no, that's right, Little Johnny so understood the Australian electorates - including blue-ribbon Liberal ones - that when, with control of both houses, he introduced the WorkChoices Act the Libs not only lost government in a landslide, but Johnny also lost his own 'safe' seat, and to Maxine McKew of the ABC of all people.
So it goes.
What a list of champions? The only one who had any potential was Turnbull - but as Keating observed he was "a fizzer".
DeleteNeddy's problem with independents is that they actually want to do things, or worse, bring some ethics to the business of governing. He's quite comfortable with the idea of nothing happening apart from grift and nepotism but the idea of something happening scares the life out of him.
Yair, our Neddy never was a very adventurous chap, so any change, however marginal, to the sacred 'status quo' can only mean that things will get worse.
DeleteReptiles and wingnuts just can't conceive of the idea that there are changes that might be good for everybody - if its good for some, then by definition it must be bad for others. And that's why he can represent that list as "the most influential figures in the Liberal Party".