The pond thought long and hard as to whether to give the bigoted Caterist an airing this day.
There are many other important things going down in the world, with Vlad the impaler attempting a different kind of victory by splitting a country in half, and not minding who gets in his way ...
But the Caterist did offer an exemplary example of how dirty, grubby and vile this election campaign is going to get, what with the Caterist showing how to do a tranny bashing to aid a fundamentalist liar intent on a rapture (speaking in tongues to an imaginary friend will surely help) ...
It had already started ....
So the pond dragged in a few cartoons to help make it through the late arvo slot ...
The pond is already running the risk of alienating its tranny friends, and can't be bothered trying to explain matters to a bigot, so instead hared off to the Getty for this reminder ...
That should confuse the Caterist, he wasn't expecting to see a cock on that body, and perhaps we can deal with his unresolved sexual issues at another time ...
Of course that mention of Vlad the impaler should have reminded the pond that the Caterist and the butcher were of like mind ...
It was just a reminder of the wiki, but the pond found it at The Bulwark ...
Meanwhile, the pond had promised a few cartoons ...
Well yes, but it's not just in Florida, you can find it in the Caterist and the Menzies Research Centre, with bigotry sustained by federal government funding ...
Fucketty fuck, he really is a bigot, and he'll do anything with his bigotry to help get the liar from the Shire over the line, and never mind the bodies that pile up along the way ...
Meanwhile, The Bulwark was heading back in time to when even Ronnie Raygun wasn't a bigot of the Caterist kind ...
Imagine that. Ronnie Raygun more practical and less bigoted than a Caterist ...
A few cartoons hardly answer that level of bigotry ...
And so with a sigh of relief to the end of the bigot's parade of bigotry ...
Yep, the bigots are going to be in full cry in the next few weeks, but if the Caterist is going to go there, complete with government cash in paw to sustain his bigotry, then the pond can go here ...
And here too ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteWell that was quick.
Barely 10 seconds into the election and the LNP/MRC/NewsCorp Coalition (the IPA will be along in a minute) have taken the political discourse straight into the gutter.
They are desperate to find anything to wedge Labor and particularly Albanese on and the old favourites are unfortunately all unavailable.
The Economy: a somewhat sensitive area when you’ve just suddenly found there is a magic money tree and you have given it the hardest of hard shakes in order that the likes of Qantas and Hardly Normal don’t go broke. Also how much is a weekly shop nowadays and don’t you think it’s getting pricey to fill up the 4-wheel drive?
Refugees/Illegals: An old favourite but with 4.5 million ‘pretty white’ people streaming out of the Ukraine and mumble mumble our supposed commitments to all those Afghans who trusted us to look after them if the Taliban got back in, it’s probably not a great one to go hard on.
The Economy (part 2), Fossil Fuels what’s not to love?: Again unfortunate timing as even the least discerning have noticed there is something up with the weather at the moment especially on the East Coast. Still we can all fondle a lump of coal in parliament, that’s not embarrassing.
Family Values: To lose one cabinet minister may be regarded as a misfortune but to lose two looks like carelessness. Also hardly an issue you can hope the Deputy PM to campaign on. (As an aside has anybody seen Barnaby recently? He is deafeningly quite at the moment.)
Religious Freedoms: Jesus! Everybody already thinks Morrison is a hypocritical religious nutter from a particualy odd Christian sub-cult that is already under close scrutiny for its financial and sexual mores.
The Status Quo i.e. Everything is fine under Scotty: Mmm. “Don’t hold a hose, mate”, Pandemic response, Vaccine Stroll-out, “what do you mean we should have ordered millions of Rapid Antigen Tests?”, “I’ll have to ask Jen about women and sexual assault”.
So with Aboriginals, Furriners, Gays and Non-white people becoming ever more difficult to vilify (Damn you political correctness and the general population not being as bigoted as before) the last gasp was Transphobia and the minuscule issue of Trans-Folk in Sport.
Pathetic. But if that is what Morrison and Co. start off with, where will be in six weeks time?
DiddyWrote
That sums it all up DW comprehensively and in six weeks time, we'll have shifted from the gutter deep into the sewer. What was it the Caterist said? Some of us are looking at the stars, but I prefer to be in the gutter ...
DeleteHi Dorothy,
DeleteThere are still standards of conduct and even shame;
One evening in October, when I was one-third sober,
An’ taking home a load’ with manly pride;
My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter,
And a pig came up an’ lay down by my side;
Then we sang ‘It’s all fair weather when good fellows get together,’
Till a lady passing by was heard to say:
‘You can tell a man who “boozes” by the company he chooses’
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
DW
Delightfully done, DW.
DeleteI think Cater is simply confirming a kind of principle (no other word comes to me) that applies to several contributors - that what you write for Rupert tends to be the antithesis of the study in which you have formal qualifications/academic publication.
ReplyDeleteThus - the Henry, an economist versed in ‘development’ and ‘infrastructure’ spent several years scraping up specious arguments against an effective NBN for Australia. Had to stop doing that when it transpired that Rupert’s mass movie business was actually doing better through the NBN than its dedicated (?) cable lines.
Dame Groan - academic work in labour economics - quite unable to explain why unemployment is so low coming out of Covid, and otherwise spouting 19th century Tory attitudes that ‘workers’ should be damn’ grateful to have a job of any kind, so just knuckle down and know your place.
And Cater - his words of this day reflect an honours degree in sociology? Really? It is not even of the dismal level of Rita Panahi who continues to babble on Sky that she knows what a woman is, when all sorts of lawyers and administrators say they are not able to give brief answers to highly contrived questions in parliamentary or congressional hearings.
Is that "honours degree" anything like the Oxbridge honours degrees about which I remember it being said that: 'a first class honours was basically just a pass degree and a second class honours was really a fail'.
DeleteGB - I think the Oxbridge comment is correct. I recall J Malcolm Fraser initially claimed an Oxford degree, until jealous detractors pointed out that what he had was regarded as the equivalent of those 'Participation Certificates' that the Righteous Right now see as such a blight on primary education. I just checked and find in Fraser's 'Wiki' - 'Fraser was raised on his father's sheep stations, and after studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, returned to Australia to take over the family property in the Western District of Victoria.'
DeleteYep - pretty much yer landed gentry of the time.
Yair, but at least Malcolm was born in the right place: Toorak. Robert Gordon, for comparison, was born in the mid-Wimmera town of Jeparit. No Oxbridge for him, just the good old Melbourne Uni Law School.
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