This is beginning to feel like a Friday ritual ...
The hole in the bucket man makes an impassioned plea, full of historical references, much book larnin' and blather about the perils of humiliation ...
And then the pond must remind the hole in the bucket man that the calls are coming from inside the house, and perhaps he should speak to his kissing cousins at Fox about all this ...
It wouldn't be hard for him to find out where the propaganda is coming from ...
Actually they never went away, but heck, the pond is always happy to oblige and fling in a couple of cartoons to help our Henry spot his kissing cousin at work ...
Nope, our Henry remains completely oblivious and unheeding, which is why the ritual must continue ...
The problem with this rhetoric is that there are rats in the ranks ... quislings, lickspittles, fellow travellers ...
Back to FP for another gobbet ...
But how long has this been going on? Well if you look at this tweet ...
... it'll lead you to a Newsweek story - Newsweek of all places! - way back in March 2019, and Tuckyo saying ... "I think we should probably take the side of Russia, if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine."
Of course being a clever propagandist, he tries to pretend he's joking, but then it's no joke, and then there's his own regular rants. The pond doesn't intent to help the cause by too much linking, but it always finds this 22nd September effort great fun ...
... if only because from out of the mouth of babes came that blather about a bankrupt who's been divorced a number of times...
But still our hole in the bucket man remains obdurate, even as there are cartoonists lining up to help Henry ... old pond favourites...
Meanwhile, how do we deal with the quislings, the forelock tuggers, the rats in the ranks, and the lickspittle fellow travellers going forward?
It's easy enough to spot them by their rhetoric, and they're inside the Murdochian house, making money for our Henry's master ...
But enough of Tuckyo, because he and the cartoons don't seem to be helping our hole in the bucket man going forward ...
And so we arrive at the fag end of the ritual,, with the hole in the bucket man still completely oblivious ...
Meanwhile, on another planet ...
And so to a bonus, because out of sheer spite, the pond will always run another reptile piece, even if it has no interest in the matter.
This day the pond was torn.
The bromancer was at the top of the digital edition ravaging Paul Keating...
... but the pond isn't going to be gulled into defending comrade Xi, and so for once the pond passed up a chance to dally with the bromancer ...
But it was Sophie's choice, because the bunch below the fold were a dismal lot ...
Sure the lizard Oz editorialist had delivered the usual reptile serve in aid of climate science denialism ...
But this was just denialism by way of the standard "the vegans are coming for your meat" stuff, and the pond felt the need for genuine eccentricity, which is why the pond ended up with cuckoo nest Claire ...
To be sure, there's always a "to be sure", which to be sure, isn't totally reassuring, though to be sure, it's surely part of cuckoo Claire's inimitable stylings ...
But there was a Wilcox out, so to be sure, the pond needed the spacing ...
Eek, did Vlad-loving Elon finally get hold of it, and unleashed Vlad the impaler, the mango Mussolini and sundry other loons to add to the daily chaos?
Never mind, a valued correspondent sent this in, and you can make of it what you will, because these days instead of shouting "monarchist", it might be wiser to shout "children" and march with Q ...
I suppose we should be thankful that at least Claire didn’t accuse Hilary of running a pedo ring out of a pizza parlour.
ReplyDeleteThe bit of Claire that caught my fancy was: "Boys aged zero to 17 incur almost double the risk of sexual assault than adult women do." Really ? So the reportage for sexual assault is 100% accurate in both cases ? Women don't, as is frequently asserted, make complaints that are simply ignored ? Or just don't make complaints for a variety of reasons including shame, fear and a general belief that complaining is pointless ?
ReplyDeleteAlmost 90% of sexual assault victims do not go to police — this is how we can achieve justice for survivors
https://theconversation.com/almost-90-of-sexual-assault-victims-do-not-go-to-police-this-is-how-we-can-achieve-justice-for-survivors-157601\
"According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in five Australian women and one in 20 men have experienced sexual assault since the age of 15."
Mr Ed stops his head from exploding by not reading the overseas press: NYC Health + Hospitals Put Healthier Plant-Based Meals Front and Center
ReplyDeleteYou don't really think they have any idea what's good for them, us or the planet, do you Joe ? These are functional idiots, mate, who are prime examples of permanent 'availability cascade' because they only ever listen to themselves.
DeleteIf you enjoyed that one, try this one:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.shellydurkee.com/2011/05/14/calvin-and-hobbes-and-his-daughter-bacon/
Not a Watterson, but a fitting 'first and last things'* ending.
* not a genuine HGW either.
"They" do say that there's a time and a place for everything, but does that apply to Holesome Henry ? "Russia's war of aggression [must] not go unpunished" he tells us. And that "The only credible way of achieving that goal is to inflict a decisive defeat on Putin ..."
ReplyDeleteSo now what could he mean by that ? To expel every last 'Russian' from all those territories ? And how long would that take, and how many Ukraini (and Russian) deaths would that require; because certainly Henry isn't proposing that NATO troops actually take part in the fighting, is he ?
But then: "And defeating aggressors remains the only way in which their war crimes can be brought to account..." so surely we can all look forward to a whole bunch of Russian 'Nuremeberg Trials' in Moscow some time real soon now ?