The pond woke to news of the abominable state of women's rights in Mississippi, and wannabe dictator for life Xi backing up the sociopathic Vlad the impaler, and Ukraine's struggle, and inflation rampant, and Geidt giving up, with the pond wondering whether he might have read Crace's Lord Geidt, the ultimate stooge, struggles to maintain the illusion of authority ... and died of shame before stepping out of the tent ...
The pond had gone to bed to watch the low comedy of Jabba the Hutt attending PMQs and had a restless disturbed night ... but at least the pond can make this posting thanks to socialist energy, and decided it should try for a good news vibe by the rare strategy of opening with an immortal Rowe ... (others get their fix here).
The pond had expected the reptiles to be in a tizz and a dither about the news, especially that joke about "the artist formerly known as Angus Taylor", but instead at the top of the digital page there was the usual blather from petulant Peta, trying to muscle in on the bromancer's turf ...
The pond doesn't seek to trivialise genuine survivors and their experiences, but there was something about the line "grow into the leader our country needs" that traumatised the pond ...
Haunting, terrifying images came flooding back ...
Nausea welled up, and the pond reached for a loose review by Loosley of the savvy Savva's tome in the lizard Oz, and there it all was ... how not to grow into the leader the country needs ...
And so the pond won't torment stray readers with any more memories of those ugly days ... but that meant the pond had to turn to someone else for its daily course in reptile studies, and yet again what grim pickings there were to hand...
What a relief.
The pond could ignore the minion Milner, the reptiles' favourite new rat in their ranks, and the Jennings jerking off about the Darwin port contract done by the CLP, with federal coalition indifference, when you could read about that at the ABC in 2019 ... and no demand then by the reptiles on the liar from the Shire to cancel the lease ...
Nope, no need to go anywhere near there, because the Killer was in the house, the Groaner was on hand for a short groaning, and the pond could lighten a grim Thursday with a cartoon-led recovery ...
Apart from the venerable Troy, the Killer is one of the few reptiles to go there ... and a quick read shows why ...
So much for Killer, Faux Noise, and the whole seditionist gang at News Corp, but here, have a couple more cartoons before the groaning begins ...
The pond had expected Dame Groan to be traumatised by socialist energy, but she had other fish to fry - because naturally poor people getting a small wage boost - see how far an extra forty bucks will get you in a capital city - is the sort of thing to induce a deep groan of fiscal anxiety ...
Still the Groaner did make passing reference to socialist energy, which helped with a final segue.
Perhaps it was too soon for a good energy groaning, especially as the mutton Dutton's attempt to shift the blame to a government in power for just a few weeks was patently risible, though the Sky News mob faithfully reported on his efforts ...
Sorry, the pond doesn't link to Murdochian publications, but just enjoy that line "everyone is in favour of renewables ..."
What a maroon, and clearly he needs to catch up on some lizard Oz reading, but for now the pond will sign off with another infallible Pope, relevant to Dame Groan's groaning ...
Dorothy - many thanks for the link to Michigan J Frog. Reading that provides the ballast for one to contemplate the writings of Abbott's booby, and the groanings of the Dame, without capsizing.
ReplyDeleteAs it seems you pay attention to Sky News - a noble duty roughly akin to going over the top in trench warfare - the pond understands that a frog doing a song and dance must be a relief ...
DeleteCredlin trying to move in on the Bromancer’s territory? This could open up a whole new field of reptile studies. The old King Lizard, seemingly secure after decades of droning on at interminable length on defence matters, suddenly in danger of being overpowered by a younger, vicious and more poisonous specimen…… The struggle and outcome will be fascinating.
ReplyDeleteAt the very least it indicates some move away from traditional gender roles amongst the reptiles; it’s usually the blokes who get all excited and worked up when it comes to big items of military hardware.
For the purposes of the study, Credlin can be considered a bloke.
DeleteNow let me see, KillerC propounds that: "[Trump] remains incredulous that Biden ... won not only more votes than Trump did in 2020 [7 million more votes] but more than ... Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Barack Obama in 2012. But he must fail to appreciate how much anger his policies and personality induced." Yes, that's indubitably the deep level of understanding that we could expect to see from a man "who'd made his career out of understanding human nature".
ReplyDeleteHow amazing that KillerC has no more understanding of human nature than Trump.
Touch of appearing to be an economist on the public record for our Dame this day. She follows the adage that ‘a prediction in economics will come true if you stick to it long enough.’ when she offers us
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She even attributes to Treasurer Chalmers an understanding that for higher wages to be sustained, there should be a gain in productivity. Finally, she tells us to watch this space carefully, but does not offer us any insights on how the nation might harvest gains in productivity.
Yet, she should be brimming with such insights, having been an initial, and long serving, Commissioner for Productivity, and, before that, one of the group of researchers across two major universities looking at the factors which delivered gains in worker satisfaction, engagement with the processes of their industry, leading to - measurable increments to productivity, even in, or especially in, the service sectors that were an increasing portion of our economy when she was numbered in those research groups.
Perhaps it is still on floppy discs, and she does not have a slot for them in her current laptop.
Or, never quite believing in ‘worker participation’ - she is holding out for more money to divulge those insights.
So sayeth D'Groany: "...the argument always boils down to the trade-off between meeting worker's needs and the capacity of firms to afford higher wages." Well if it's about failing to meet the workers needs - as opposed to just not satisfying all their wants - then why would "the workers" put up with such a failed society ?
DeleteAnd firms can always afford to pay higher wages; they have done so for centuries now. And that is why things that once sold for a ha-penny now cost $5 or more. And will cost $100 in a few decades more, and will cost $1million in a century or more - assuming that we haven't gone under due to extreme climate change that we brought about trying for "increased productivity".
Don't people ever notice what goes on in their society and their so-called "economy" ?
And what would the Groaner have to say about this, d'you think, Chad:
Delete"Inflation"
A problem at the moment is the conflation of "increases in the Consumer Price Index" with "inflation" and they aren't precisely the same thing. At least, the theoretical concept of "inflation" which economists think about when they are lost in their models is not identical to this, especially over the not-very-long-term.
Supply chains bottlenecks, energy price spikes, and various monopoly power pricing are not "inflation" as imagined by economists. If it isn't essentially "too much money sloshing around" then "less money sloshing around" is not the solution.
Inflation as currently experienced by consumers is not the "inflation" that is solved by jacking up interest rates and driving people out of work, and in fact this solution is likely to exacerbate the problem in addition to creating additional economic misery.
Good job, everyone, as usual. Now you can move on to the next disastrous idea while blaming (spins wheel) trans people.
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2022/06/inflation.html
GB - given that the nearest thing to a conclusion in her typing for today was to 'watch this space', I cannot see her teasing out the subtlety in the entry to 'eschatonblog'. What we might loosely call the financier community is following the standard script - US interest rates go up, US sells (not so much old style financiers, as people pretending to manage funds for others - Warren Buffett is not following the herd - again) and Australia sells the next day, not because of inherent weakness in local resources, but because US sold. Then they see some possible good deals - and buy two days later. Rinse and repeat, especially the ads looking for 'investors' and telling them of all the careful research your firm does in deciding what to buy and when.
DeleteFortunately, one of the benefits we are seeing after the May election is the near total irrelevance of what is written or said on Limited News/Sky/Spectator, and our Dame does not seem to be hearing any call to improve the quality of the content of those media; probably because that is unlikely to attract one new reader/viewer to the bilges.
Oh -and on Sky News, Greenwood, who did have a tad of respect a few years back. now rattles and races on like a second-rate football commentator, only less articulate, so the overall quality of 'economic' opinion declines further.
DeleteOh, this is just so very, very sad:
ReplyDeleteLiberal Eric Abetz to leave parliament as Jacqui Lambie Network claims Tasmanian senate seat
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/16/liberal-eric-abetz-to-leave-parliament-as-jacqui-lambie-network-claims-tasmanian-senate-seat
And Amanda Stoker in Queensland, and Greg Mirabella in Victoria. Oh the humanity, the humanity.
DeleteThe pond simply couldn't bear to mention the loss of Erica. He will be missed by all ...oh the sorrow and the pity, the gnashing of teeth and the wailing in the valley of despair ...
DeleteWhat a frightening photo of Mr Potato
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