In which the pond winds down further as the holyday season approaches, with nuking the country and the choccie wars providing some Onanistic relief...

 

The pond woke to news that the incessant black bashing of the reptiles is paying off handsomely, if you call vile racism a handsome thing ...

More at the ABC here, and there is a teeny weeny upside, because the pond is always looking for a reason to ban petulant Peta, and sure enough, there she was in the triptych of terror having another go at black bashing, in the reptile style ...

It's the usual hysteria that a black voice would be the ruination of Australian democracy and see activist judges loosed on the world, a line that Dame Slap has been peddling with extreme vigour for months and the pond is more than well over it ...

As for the deeply corrupt FIFA, the pond has taken a vow of silence - what's the point of a protest if it's followed by the score? - and besides the infallible Pope used the wretched cup to say as much as needs be said ...

An infallible Pope so early in the piece? Well yes, better than contemplating deeply corrupt FIFA, or the terrorism going down in Ukraine... with Vlad the Terrible daily doing astonishingly disgusting things ...

As for the choccie saga, it seemed like a cheap bit of reptile titillation about the woke, and sure enough the reptiles valued it so highly that they put it at the top of the tree killer page ...

Oh and IR was also featured with simplistic Simon and comrade Dan ...

Call it an over-rich pond imagination, but the pond could imagine the reptiles drooling and gushing over their choccies in an Onanistic way deplored by the long absent lord ...

But all that left the pond short of content and its daily serve of reptile stew, and there was little to excite below the fold ...

Simplistic Simon with his conflict of interest, the minor Milner down from the deep north, and an imported column pointing out the bleeding obvious, that theocracies are deplorable (and never you mind about Israel).

These days the pond seems to spend more time scribbling about the things it's not noticing than what is worth inclusion, and it was by default that the pond declared a winner in the shape of David Gillespie, happily intent on nuking the country.

Of course the pond has tripped down the SMR lane many times recently - it's the latest form of climate science denialism by the reptiles, the embracing of nuclear so that any attempt to do anything meaningful in the interim is kicked down the road like an errant can ...

Could be, would be, should be ... those expecting any decent, number-crunching practicality might get upset by all the starry-eyed optimism, but what else could you expect of this standard assault on renewables and an elevation of a technology still in its early stages?

On the upside, it's not the reptiles carrying on about blacks ruining democracy, or talk of activist judges, or the government ruining IR, with the pond missing out yesterday on the late rising infallible Pope yesterday on. that IR matter ...

Two infallible Popes in one day. Why it's as grand and irresistible as the days of the Avignon Papacy ...

For a moment, a nanosecond, the pond felt the desire to kneel in prayer and beg the long absent lord to exempt the pond from all the reptile talk of wretched renewables and the awesome need to nuke the country to save the planet from a non-existent hoax, but it wasn't to be, the former gastroenterologist still had stomach cramps and the need to get out a last gobbet ...

Yes, in the bye and bye, there'll be nuking pie in the sky for everyone, and meantime, in the next ten years?

Never mind, the immortal Rowe was on hand to remind the pond it had taken a break from the IR bashing that's been going on this past week ...

As for a bonus, being innately perverse, the pond decided to go with the reptile wet dream about the choccie saga ... what with it not featuring comrade Dan and the imminent election and Victoria ruined...

The pond would like to say, "only in Victoria", though in reality the comedy is everywhere.

On a more serious note, running this bonus provides an opportunity for an interstitial ... with Tuckyo at it in a way that explains why the pond hopes that the chairman experiences a deeply painful death ...

There's a story at the Daily Beast, Tucker Guest: Expect More Attacks Like Club Q ‘Until We End This Evil Agenda’, but this was the nub of it in a Huff Post story ... Tucker Carlson Segment Torched After Guest's 'Grotesque' Take On Club Q Shooting ...

And so on, and bigotry that makes for mass shootings - take a bow Chairman Rupert - makes the choccie saga seem a most genteel, dare one say it, Victorian, affair ...

Time for one more interstitial , a little more lighthearted... because as the pond winds down for the holyday season, the war on Xmas is cranking up at Faux Noise and producing some delightful results, with another story in Huff Post showing the Surry Hills kissing cousins in top form... Fox News' Latest Attack On Joe Biden Backfires For The Most Awkward Reason

Again to the nub of it (and how soon will all this tweeting come to a Musky end?)

As for the logic?

Splendid stuff, and this year's war on Xmas is shaping up to be a doozy, but it's time to put the - dare one say it - Victorian matter of the choccie wars to bed, with manly men clutching at a cup of cocoa ... because only loons of the first order could propose that the club is "confident in its heritage and traditions yet enlightened and contemporary in its outlook".

That line of blather is down there with the reptiles announcing that they were going green ...News Corporation goes woke - for a moment, anyway ... it was only back in October, and there was a MID of Major Mitchell, and a cartoon featuring the Chairman ...

But back to that line scribbled by, dare one say it, that sublimely unaware and richly stupid, and deeply Victorian - in the original sense of the word - club ...

The pond doesn't know what's richer. The club's - dare one say it - Victorian ways, or the reptiles of the lizard Oz righteously in pursuit, and never mind what the rest of chairman Rupert's minions get up to by way of black and TG bashing, and foisting anti-choice rhetoric on millions of women, and climate science denialism, and nuking the country  ...

And then?

And then it's time to get on with important things that matter ...