Could the pond be brave enough to plunge right in and begin the climbing of "Ned" the Everest... right from the get go?
The pond trembled at the edge of the precipice, jumped off, and soared into the wide teal yonder ...
Hang on, hang on, did someone mention climate change? How could the pond have overlooked the latest climate science denialist effort from the reptiles? Why hadn't the pond started with the Bjorn-again one?
Ah yes, it's all the fault of mobile phones, and possibly click bait videos, but already the pond was feeling better, and up for another gobbet of denialism ... "Ned" just a distant dream, or more likely a teal feature wall nightmare ...
Note the glib way that statistics trip off the Bjorn-again one's keyboard, and that's why the pond feels no shame in interrupting one pompous bore by flinging in another disingenuous bore blathering about comprehensive studies without naming, citing or otherwise dealing with the source.
That's how any reptile party can maintain its comprehensive fizz ...
Oh okay, the pond should play fair by "Ned" and carry on bravely, as "Ned" natters away, having a paranoid fit about the deadly effects of climate science and the colour teal ... but be warned, it's a long and deadly trek, without the relief of the click bait videos that the reptiles routinely deploy as a distraction ...
Integrity in action? So that's what the pompous bore rushing to the aid of the liar from the Shire thinks he's showing, when he's just a Murdochian hack of the most pathetic and tedious kind ... (and did the pond mention pompous and portentous?)
Actually you do get something more self-serving than that, at least when you read a droning "Ned" squawking with anxiety ...
The reason's clear enough when you look at what the attack dogs came up with this day ...
No, not the old saw about turbo charged deficits, look over on the far right to see simplistic Simon saying yet again, "no conflict of interest here Bid" ...
What simple Simon is saying becomes a little clearer in the digital edition ... yet again he's confounded, as he consorts with Liberal strategists ...
There you go, flip-flopping voters confounding the reptiles (and the Liberal party), and so nattering "Ned" assigned to the task to sort out the flip-floppers...
Such a sublime parrot, capable of parroting anything that jolly Josh might say ...
Oh indeed, indeed, and now might be the time to finish off that outing with the Bjorn-again one, because the pond forgot to include the coda, with more fully ripe statistics about how to sustain a full life ...
Just 0.008 per cent, and guaranteed reliable because he used his mobile phone calculator.
And so to the last gobbet from "Ned" which naturally begins with a snap of the threatening horde ...
Fuck, he's a tedious, wretched bore, and predictable too, and sometimes the pond only stays in the game of herpetological studies for the cartoons, and what a ripper the infallible Pope delivered on his return ...
That suddenly turned the pond away from the dull pomposity of "Ned" and produced teals of laughter ...
What else? Well the pond can't close without saying that once again it's sent the dog botherer off to a late arvo slot, but never fear, there's always a handy supply of fundamentalist bigotry to hand for a bonus ...
The pond sometimes forgets that the Angelic one is a barking mad Catholic fundamentalist, as far out there as Killer Creighton, the GOP and the Taliban, but this serves as a useful reminder ...
If you were wondering whether gay marriage might be the next target of the bigots, first study the mindset of the Angelic one's bigotry ...
Yes, we're not very far from the handmaiden's tale with this one ... and the sooner we return to the glorious age of the coat hanger in the back alley, the better for the Angelic one ... and you can take your fancy pants talk of marriage and gender and such like with you ...
It's important to be occasionally reminded of just how corrosive, regressive and vile the reptile hit squad is, and the pond reckons this day's trifecta of "Ned", the Born-again one, and the Angelic one have done it nicely ... and as the pond noted earlier, some days it's only in it for the cartoons, and thank the long absent lord that the immortal Rowe is to hand, as he often is here ...
Of course any anti abortion laws that may be enacted will only apply to the poor and disadvantaged
ReplyDeleteThe 'Angelic' at least shows a sliver of understanding of what Roe V Wade was actually about - but there are three generations of women in my family who would take issue with her qualification that 'it was based on the shaky grounds of women's privacy'. The Handmaiden's Tale, right there.
DeleteWe do know the Angelic's take on women's privacy, from the time when she insisted on 'sharing with us' her wholly (or Holy?) self-inflicted pain in telling her gay son that he and his partner were not trooly rooly of their family.
Or Handmaid's, to be strictly correct. Which we try to be.
DeleteHow can the labor party win an election when the whole Murdochracy is in total ante Labor mode. There is a need for a royal commission into the media and their agenda to only have one side of politics in power. If we look at history what the Murdochs have been a party to since the 1940s when they have been a part of the setting up of the liberal party and with the financial support to the IPA and their membership of this dark organisation that is not held to account for its political activities.
ReplyDeleteBjorn: "damage worth $US55 trillion annually. That's more than 5 per cent of global GDP." Actually, it's about 60 per cent (global GDP for 2019 was about $US 87 trillion). What was he saying about dodgy figures? (What does Clare the opinion editor do? Everyone knows that the Australian GDP is about $AU 2 trillion so the US GDP would be about 16 times bigger - $AU 32 trillion - so there is no way you can get near the world GDP of $US1000 trillion that Bjorn is claiming.)
ReplyDeleteRight on, DP, the reptiles are "corrosive, regressive and vile". Consulting my Roget's I would add "hurtful, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, malignant, oppressive, corrupting, deadly, destructive" and so on.
Joe - thank you for the arithmetic, but I still go back to John Quiggin - in 2003 - ‘Lomborg is a hypocrite and a fraud. It’s as simple as that’.
ReplyDeletePerfect qualifications for a regular spot in the reptile media, wouldn't you say, Chad ? But he doesn't rate a mention - at least that I could easily find - in the Hoover's list of 'climate change' fellows. But Niall Ferguson and Condoleeza Rice both do.
Deletehttps://www.hoover.org/fellows?expertise=654
I wonder if Noodled Neddy knows what "preaching only to the converted" means. It seems the whole herpetarium is in a state of ideological panic about the possibility of $loMo losing on May 21st and so must strike out in any way they can. At least Neddy seems to think so: "This election ... is about a sustained revolt within the heartland that may politically decapitate the Liberal Party with long-run consequences for effective government in this country."
ReplyDeleteWau, are we in trouble now ... but fear not Roopie's Regulars will arm up and save us. Ooh I can't wait for the Doggy Bov's contribution this afternoon.
A washed up old has been. living of Murdoch's stipend, and scribbling what he is told, talking about honesty in politics, now that takes the cake,
ReplyDeleteI don't often agree with Malcolm Turnbull, but he nailed Ned the Pompous Fool on Insiders, and the look on the Pompous One's face is etched into my memory for ever, pure gold.
Off Murdoch's stipend, error correction.
Delete"Integrity in action"?
ReplyDeleteFair point - a completely secret slush fund of $1 million to defend Porter, sports rorts, car park rorts, Great Barrier Reef fund, Barnaby's texted and/or lost Drought Czar $700k, Robodebt, missing ministers.
Yeah Neddy, let's stick to the integrity of major parties eh?