While the pond does appreciate the surge in comments, it's going to be a quiet one for the pond this day ...
Once again the pond missed the debate and is out of the loop and isn't really interested in a parade of domestic politics, even as the reptiles reach a fever pitch ... the pond doesn't tell passing readers what to do with their vote, and doesn't much care for reptile proselytising ...
All the pond needs to note is the reassuring news that the reptiles are still taking Klive's kash in their klaw ...
Simplistic Simon offering some coaching, and the bouffant one acting in his usual rabid one-eyed cheerleader way, and quisling white ant Cameron Milner and a couple of doom and gloomers?
That only left the Killer, and the pond knew at once it should also get to the immortal Rowe quickly, with a quick link to more here ...
Ah, the loose units, and speaking of loose units, with a heavy heart and a complete lack of interest, the pond turned to the Killer ...
Why is the Killer making the pond waste time on a conspiracy theory? Oh wait, there's an upside because the pond can run a few cartoons ...
Speaking of disinformation, it's back to the Killer, spreading the malarkey ...
Something doesn't add up? Killer might have mentioned the recent spate of headlines featuring a grovelling OAN ...
Instead note the cunning road Killer took in that gobbet, moving from a blatantly stupid conspiracy theory to blatantly obvious fear mongering and doubt spreading, with blather about the integrity of US elections being a long-standing problem. What's the bet that won't include suppressing the vote, gerry mandering and all the rest of the patented tricks?
What's that, the pond had promised a cartoon-led recovery? Well as there's only one gobbet of Killer nonsense to go, why not ...
So desperate was the pond that for a nanosecond it thought of turning to the angry Sydney Anglicans ... back in the news again with the usual serve of bigotry ...
And there was this at bigotry central ...
Actually a moment of angry Sydney Anglican bigotry was lost, but speaking of useless bigots, the pond should really kill off the last Killer gobbet ...
Whatever the merits? Provocative film? Well the pond supposes that Chariots of the Gods was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature, so anything is possible ...
What a wanker he is, and the pond could barely rouse a flicker of interest, and then it only came with that Killer mention of the Stalin quote ...
USA Today said it was a fraud ...
And it's true that Politifact had some thoughts on the quote ...
And Snopes did its level best to give the quote credence, amidst a flurry of other quotes ...
What sayeth Politifact to that?
The pond has a simpler test.
Much as with that bullshit about electoral fraud, if it's been quoted by the Killer it's probably apocryphal bullshit, though who knows, maybe aliens did transform life on earth way back when ...
And so to a special cartoon dedicated to the Killer ...
Good one Killer, keep those killing fields going ...
And here's a couple more to help the pond with its cartoon-led recovery ... beginning with a reference to one of the pond's favourite films ...
KillerC: "Trump's star rising..." Most likely because he was kicked off twitter and people have lost touch with what he is. Maybe the best is if Musk drags him back into twitter so people can remind themselves just what he is.
ReplyDeleteHi GB,
DeletePerhaps the Trump fever has broken.
Here in my small town 20 some miles from the City I have
not seen a MAGA hat in at least 2 years, same for
the Trump banners.
I am throwing this in just because -
"I'm Chinese. I'm a stone. I go where I am kicked"
France Nuyen, stoic existential primitive and actress.
Well there are plenty of Americans who weren't on the Trump bandwagon to start with as we remember that both Hillary and Joe won the popular vote by margins of millions. But Trump also scored 46.8% of the popular vote against Biden which is "more votes than any other presidential candidate has ever won, with the exception of Biden." [ https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers ]
DeleteSo it's a bit hard for us foreigners to work out, but with Biden's decline in popularity (down to about 41%), he'd have to be considered vulnerable now. After all, despite winning the popular vote by millions, Hillary still didn't win the presidency.
So I very much hope you're right, JM, but it looks like the USA is now a patchwork quilt of pro and anti Trump, and equally pro and anti Biden and you just happen to live in an anti-Trump patch.
BTW, JM, any thoughts on this:
Deletehttps://jabberwocking.com/heres-why-the-russian-army-sucks-so-badly/
GB,
DeleteIt sounds exactly as if it was written by my amigo Dave, longtime 82nd NCO.
He shared with me a You Tube of an abandoned Russian artillery position.
Every mistake that could possibly be made was made, starting with it's
willy nilly emplacement.
There was garbage everywhere,no attempt at concealment, sandbags
using bright white bags, things any NCO in a Western army would
immediately be relieved for.
To top it off they left a comrade's corpse behind! as well as equipment.
If you watch the videos of a given armored Russian column rolling into
a ambush,the last and first vehicles taken out first to create a logjam
and panic, they do everything wrong in response.
They should all out attack the ambush as any corporal would know.
Instead they sit in place or abandon their tanks and keep getting lit up.
There is no infantry support which is insanity, armor can't survive without
it in built up areas. This should be a combined arms operation, where
are their attack helicopters and fixed wing support?
Worse for the Russians, they can't support these losses long term, they have
the longest border in the world to defend, with enemies wherever they look
noting how bad their army actually is.
Patriotic senior officers of command rank such as colonels - it's ALWAYS
the colonels that make coups(Greece, famously), the generals in a thugocracy
are all co-opted - will remove Putin the moment the defense of the Motherland
is strategically fucked. In their minds they can't let down the ghosts of the 20
million dead in WW2, which would include members of every family.
Heck, 6 of them were from my family.
The clock is ticking for Putin, though my friend Dave thinks the nation
is so morally bankrupt they will support him no matter what.
Damn, I didn't mean to ramble so, time to go.
You've certainly supported the comment on Drum's site, so thanks for that. Now I wonder if the Russians were like that back in WWI and especially WWII or is it a more recent situation.
DeleteRe Putin though, I wonder if it isn't just a case of "What do we do after we've gotten rid of him ?" There simply doesn't appear to be lots of possible successors waiting in the wings.
Holely Henry quoting Stalin: "Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, comrade officers, generals and admirals, I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!" Yep, looks like the Russkis had a full complement of NCOs back in WWII, or at least claimed to have.
DeleteIs that Michaelia Cash in the FWC Box? There, in the left hand pocket. What's she doing there?
ReplyDeleteSure looks like her, doesn't it:
Deletehttps://ministers.ag.gov.au/senator-hon-michaelia-cash
Today's KillerC is a fine example of reptilism* - how to pick an infantile wingnut "conspiracy" and by ignoring any real or sensible commentary about it, pretend that it makes some kind of sense.
ReplyDeleteOk, Dinesh D'Souza we all know (or should by now) so let's look at 'True the Vote':
"Fact-checking ‘2000 Mules,’ the movie alleging ballot fraud
True the Vote makes false assumptions based on phone-tracking data"
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/05/fact-checking-2000-mules-the-movie-alleging-ballot-fraud/
And as for Catherine Engelbrecht et al::
"True the Vote is an offshoot of the King Street Patriots, a nonprofit Tea Party organization founded by Engelbrecht and active mostly in Texas. Several members of the King Street Patriots, including Engelbrecht, its president, were dissatisfied with the voting process in Harris County, Texas, during the 2008 election..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_the_Vote
But then, good old 'frightening stories' always outweigh any attempt at truth, don't they. Especially any truth that shows Goppers for what they are. So KillerC just sneaks in a bit of bothsiderism: "Some democrats claim that the 2000 presidential election was stolen by George W Bush."
Don't you just love it: "Some Democrats claim ..." Sure, Killer, sure.
So there we have it.
*reptilism - "Reptilian nature or character; especially underhandedness, baseness."
Another fine example of reptilism:
ReplyDeleteThe Australian Editor: "Final showdown: our experts hand slight edge to Morrison ... the Prime Minister looked comfortable on the economy and boat turnbacks."
Sarah Martin of the Graudian: "Albanese wins final election debate over Morrison, according to Seven’s undecided voters"
Well I guess we'll find out all about it after Sat 21st.