Happy holydays, and how pathetic is that truly despicable, deplorable and gutless lickspittle lackey ACMA?

 

So the time has finally arrived and the pond is heading off into the Victorian wilderness, where even Elon's magical connectivity is but a dream, and so the pond will be laying off the herpetological studies until the new year ...

Time then to thank and offer season's greetings to the regulars, and occasional irregulars, who offer comments on the daily offerings and now are the only reason the pond bothers with its clipping service ...

You know who you are, and whether you fancy the greetings are for Saturnalia or the Xian silly season, the pond wishes you all the best for happy holydays, or a merry Xmas, or whatever ... (and remember an X is a very Xian way of doing things ... as you can read at Vox here).

The pond, in its dreaming and delusion, had hoped for some fantastic reptile outing this day, with a column that might offer reptile folly well into the new year. You know, a top notch piece of climate science denialism or even just a jolly good groaning. 

Sadly, our Henry, if he bothers, will be a day late, and the pond will never know if the pond's dream was just a day out of reach ...

Speaking of Elon, the pond should note a great portrait by the immortal Rowe ...

And he also offered a splendid picture of Mr Potty Mouth, scribbling away on behalf of Chairman Rupert...

So that's the last the pond need make any mention of that ...

As for that dream reptile column, among those who have gone missing, the pond should mention it's not just the Oreo, but also Lloydie of the Amazon, who took a powder back in late November and hasn't been heard of since. 

This was his last outing ... or at least the beginning of it ...

And then he was gone ... and few knew, and even fewer cared ...

And what of this day's reptile offerings? Well at the top of the digital page came this ...

And all simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simon's report of the bleeding obvious is good for is a Moir ...

Why a cartoon start to the pond's last note for the year? 

Well look at this day's offerings ...

The tedious Trinca pretending that the reptiles are on a long trek, when in reality it's just on a long march through the institutions, and black bashing is the current reptile ritual ...

The only reptile of long standing at work during the holyday season has been Dame Slap, out and about on her usual obsessions in the last few days, with black bashing and the Higgins matter all she writes about...

She was at it again today, there in the middle of the reptile triptych of terror ...

The pond has banned Dame Slap, ever since she ignored the judge's request to shut up about the trial, and because her black bashing has become almost Clarkson tedious, and the only consolation came with the sight of that MAGA cap wearer posturing and preening next to her one-time love, that supreme con artist and snake oil salesman, and as it eventually turned out, tax dodger nonpareil...

The pond can never forget or forgive Dame Slap for celebrating that con artist, even as ...

“Tonight we learned the IRS failed to follow the law and did not audit donald trump for years,” said one of the committee members, Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), on Twitter. “Oh yeah and trump was lying when he said he was under audit.”

And ...

Trump’s federal income tax payments dropped to absolute zilch in his final year as president, according to a report from the House Joint Committee on Taxation released Tuesday evening. In 2018 and 2019, the former president paid $1.1 million in federal income tax, but that dropped to $0 in 2020, according to the report released after the committee finally obtained six years worth of tax returns. Trump allegedly finagled his way out of his tax bracket by claiming massive annual losses on properties, as high as $32 million in both 2015 and 2016, effectively zeroing out his tax liabilities despite reporting millions in taxable income. (Beast)

What a contemptible scribbler she was ... and is ...

But the pond must fill the final column with something, it can't go fully Seinfeldian, even though each day with the reptiles feels like a nothingburger, and so the pond can at least note that at the top of the digital page the lizard Oz editorialist strutted and crowed ...

How pathetic is that truly despicable, deplorable and gutless lickspittle lackey ACMA?

The pond rarely watches the ABC, but the one time it gathered its metaphorical balls together, and struck back at the endless abuse offered up by the reptiles on a daily basis, ACMA decided to hand whatever constituted its balls to Chairman Rupert ...

There's a full report on the report in The Graudian here, wherein the pandering Nerida O'Loughlin managed to find a couple of omissions, when even blind Freddy knows that Faux Noise has been full of orange Jeebus bullshit for the past five years ...

A couple of tedious nitpicks and you get the lizard Oz editorialist gloating in a most unseemly way ...

Note bene how those couple of nitpicks have been transformed by the art of the lizard Oz editorialist into falling "far short of the ABC's code" ...

If that's far, the pond has a lizard Oz code to sell you ...

"Withering"? The day that ACMA is withering, the pond will read Withering Heights again ...

Meanwhile, the lizard Oz falls short in laughable ways on a daily basis, and that pathetic lickspittle lackey ACMA never bothers to offer a spanking, even with a warm lettuce leaf, and if it did, what then?

Nothing, it's a toothless tiger, a pathetic straw dog, who does absolutely nothing about the notorious cavortings on Sky After Dark, until the drunken carry-ons get so problematic there and at the lizard Oz, that even the reptiles feel the need to do something about them ...

It turns out that ACMA is on the side of that notorious drunk Jeanine Pirro and that fawning piece of vile toadyism, Sean Hannity, and a piece of window dressing put out by Faux Noise, while that network kept on doing what it's always done, playing along with the mango Mussolini, and whenever challenged offering a display of hurt feelings and outraged, righteous indignation ...

But if you note the bleeding obvious, you get a technical ACMA spanking ... and instead of a couple of nitpicks, by the magic of the lizard Oz editorialist's art, "the failings identified by ACMA were manifold and basic".

Will ACMA do anything about that wilful, gobsmacking misrepresentation of its findings? 

Of course they won't ... that's the way of the lickspittle lackey, full of humbug, and what's worse, slowly delivered humbug and in such small portions ...

Beyond the valley of the pathetic, with a couple of nitpicks turned into a grand flourish, "this is how the ABC usually does things, with poor journalism."

That's usually called projection, but will that kind of blatant propaganda and basic distortion be noted by ACMA? 

Will they pick up their warm lettuce leaf? Of course not ... but here, have an infallible Pope from yesterday, because the former chairman is now on the job ...

And so to another lizard Oz offering, and the pond only does so with great reluctance, because the pond has studiously ignored the matter, first when it was before the courts and now because it's the subject of an inquiry ...

Not so the reptiles who have blathered on every day in the manner of a Clarkson hurling excrement into the void ... and the pond only reproduces this to note a great irony, of the kind that seems to elude ACMA on a daily basis ...

You see? The lizard Oz editorialist recycling Dame Slap, who has been relentlessly attempting to interfere in the matter since the day charges were first laid, which leads to the greatest bit of nonsense imaginable in the final lizard Oz editorialist gobbet ...

Without a blink of the shameless eye, without a nod to its own wickedness, without a hint that the reptiles might be doing a Godiva, there it is ... after the many, manifold and manifest attempts by Dame Slap to put her thumb on the scales and tilt the system - together with other reptiles of the meretricious Merritt kind - you get that cat that ate the cream line "if the inquiry is to stem the trend towards political and media interference in the justice system ..."

It'd be vastly comic if the implications weren't so tragic, given the trend in the lizard Oz towards media interference in the justice system, and the pond feels well shod of the reptiles until the new year ...

In the meantime, remember not to over-indulge in Saturnalia, though a regular diet of reptiles might provoke the desire ...

Finally, as well as a big thank you to all the correspondents who have helped the pond with links, advice, sound commentary that the pond is now too lazy to supply, and good humour, with lashings of sly irony, the pond would also like to thank the cartoonists who have done their very best to make the pond feel a little happier as the pond endures its miserable reptile studies, without any prospect of scoring a B.A. (reptiliano), even from the mango Mussolini's mail order university ...

They know who they are, and apologies to their publishers, though the pond only offers its homages with a reminder that the supporters of fine cartoonists deserve support ...

Now come on down, infallible Pope, for the last time this year ...