There was a lot of reptile wreckage by the pond roadside this morning, including simple Simon saying "look Bid, no conflict of interest here ..."
It said it all really, the sublime stupidity of the notion that it could be ignored ... only in reptile la la land would they come up with that sort of header and call it insight ...
And as for the rest there were many valiant contenders ...
The pond had already had the best of them, and could do without poor old Shanners blathering about balkanisation from the comfort of a News Corp bunker, but it couldn't let a serve of the Oreo go to waste (and what of her companion in arms, the cratering Caterist? Perhaps tomorrow?)
Empathy? Was it only a few sleeps ago that the Oreo was furiously scribbling about nihilism and cynicism?
It was, it was, but now we get a serve of empathy with the sugar and the flour ...
Ah,, such empathy for freedumb boy ...
And isn't it wonderful how the reptiles still think that they speak for, know and understand the zeitgeist, and so the woeful Oreo might proclaim "the priority for Australian voters", when only a short time ago, the Oreo was proclaiming that the priority was to return the liar to the Shire to parliament ...
And that's why the pond just had to moisten that Oreo biscuit serve with empathy tears ...
Personalization? How many ways can the English language be fucked? But back to the Oreo for a final serve, and of course she was using a polling fig leaf as cover for her defining of priorities, but if polling is so wise, the pond invites in this polling news, somewhat undercut by the AFR deciding to update it with the current seat allocation ...
Yep, the wonders of polling and focus group research and all that jazz ... you just need to ask the right question ...
And now that promised Oreo poll ...
Or you could just hie yourself to a nunnery ...
Sorry, sorry, the pond is still on something of a high, but in the long run, by tomorrow say, it likely will have worn off ...
And so to a bonus, because the pond is sworn to record as much as possible of the bromancer as it can find ...
The pond is pleased to see that the bromancer has got straight down to business, though it couldn't help remembering nattering "Ned" getting agitated about the desire to fly off to Japan pronto ...
Meanwhile, embedded in the bromancer's back to business spiel was a click bait video showing how the reptiles would be approaching things in the coming months..
Yes, the reptiles are going to double down on the woke wars ... while the bromancer returns to his war with China, with just an Indian fly in the ointment and Ukraine ...
Indeed, indeed, and that talk of woke and Vlad the impaler is surely worth a few closing cartoons ...
I expect to hear a lot more about the indies. Dogger is already running hard on it, but do they have a strategy apart from crude ad hominem attacks on people who are more ethical, more qualified and more intelligent than themselves (OK - Antony Green got there first - “most of the independents are very qualified and intelligent people so this will be an interesting parliament”)?
ReplyDeleteThing is, Murdoch's flying monkeys seem to have failed comprehensively this time around. The gotchas seem to have backfired and the opinion pieces must appear deranged even to folk who don't engage in herpetological studies.
"do they have a strategy apart from crude ad hominem attacks" - have they ever had any alternate strategy, Bef ? But indeed it will be of some passing interest to see how they proceed to attempt to assassinate the indies.
DeleteThe Bro: "New Delhi was driven into Moscow's arms during the Cold War. Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been dependent on Russia for hi-tech military equipment at a reasonable price." And now it has hi-tech military equipment and Modi and a bunch of out-right nutters that would make the Trumpians proud.
ReplyDeleteDunno about the "hi-tech" though, it hasn't done much good in Ukraine - unless smashing some buildings and infrastructure and killing a few locals is considered a "success".
But consider: "Yet many other factors have been at work, among them the success of the Indian diaspora in the US." What does this mean ? Is it just that the Vice-President is half Indian ?
And: "The Indian diaspora is highly successful in Australia too." What does that mean ? And what does an Indian "diaspora" mean ? According to the ABS, 592,000 people in Australia were born in India out of an Indian population of 1,406.6 million still in India. so 592,000/1,406,631,776 = 0.042 per cent. Yeah, some diaspora that one. Let's just wait until 1 per cent of Indians (= about 14 million) get here - now that would be the faint beginnings of a "diaspora".
The original Oreo: "The Liberals no longer hold a capital city after the Greens took Brisbane." Oh, Oreo, you've warmed the cockles of my heart with that one. It is faintly amusing but strange how Queensland is settling down to being a 'Liberal National Party' and Greens mixed state, but then the Libs never amounted to much in Queensland so it made sense for them just to be absorbed by the Nats.
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