Back in the land of the reptiles? Might as well be singing Back in the U.S.S.R.
Been away so long, hardly knew the place? Good to be back home?
Not bloody likely, all is drearily the same, all is predictable, while esteemed pond correspondents can run wild and free and report on the Blot and bootiful Daisy, and it's just not fair ...
The pond is once again reduced to just mentioning that Marina Hyde is out and about with Why is British politics a raging bin-fire? Don’t ask the misunderstood heroes who held the torches. Omelette!
So the pond started the weekend in a vengeful and bloody-minded way. and immediately began to hand out red cards.
First to be sent packing from the field was Dame Slap ...
What the incroyable fuck?
This is the woman from Planet Janet, above the faraway tree, who hates the UN, and international agreements and all that jazz, and even warned that the UN would use climate science to introduce world government by Xmas and now she's appealing to international law to sustain her confected, ongoing, endless display of hate to pesky, difficult, uppity blacks wanting a voice?
Don't ask the pond to go anywhere near that level of crap.
No, it's simply too much for a bear, and the pond, to bear ... and while in the mood, a couple more red cards followed ...
That pompous portentous blowhard, nattering "Ned", talking about credibility?
And Shanners blathering about a bureaucratic limbo? They could both fuck right off, and leave the pond alone ...
But look at the line-up as presented to the pond early on a Saturday morning ... see the alternatives ...
They dragged a moth-eaten, bedraggled Adams out of the closet to fill in the gap? The greatest faux lefty, the worst of the Murdochian lickspittle lackeys, the most loyal servant of the Chairman the rag has on its books? Even Juan Williams couldn't manage to be such a perfectly disingenuous flunkey ... (yes the pond knows it's defaming liveried footmen).
There was nothing for it ... the pond had to go back to the dog botherer for another serve of confected hate, even if he did pretend he was up on Sam Beckett, Adamov and Ionesco ...
Oh fucketty fuck, still on with the climate science denialism and a warning, if the dog botherer actually uses the words "virtue signalling", the pond is likely to run screaming from the room ...
Even a mention of 'leets would be likely to jangle the nerves, much like a dentist hitting a nerve and asking in a mild voice if that hurt ...
What an unendurable scribbler he is, but there is some good news.
When last visiting the reptiles, all the click bait videos would show up, and the pond was left with a dilemma ... keep them in, or hide them from view, what with the pond using screen caps and so with deceptively neutered videos on view ...
In the new form of access, these have been reduced to "media links", with just a description of the contents ...
What a grand compromise ... and what a splendid outcome ...
Ah, there you go. Goon show style sound effects of pounding footsteps, if you please Master Wallace Greenslade, as the pond runs screaming from the room ...
And that's all the commentary the pond is going to offer on the dog botherer this day.
Really. If you want to head off to the U.S.S.R. for blather about Greta and teen spirits and virtue signalling and all that crap, don't expect the pond to indulge in an argument. You'll have to do the hard yards yourself in the comments section ...
The pond might be serving up this brand of shit sandwich, but the pond doesn't have to take it seriously ... nor get into a discussion of climate science with a prize maroon ...
And there you have it, a fuckwit monomaniacally scribbling in an obsessive compulsive way about all the same things as when the pond last bumped into him in the lizard Oz ...
Oh to be running wild and free, but instead the reptiles served up a great pile of steaming bromancer ...
Now the pond has abandoned any pretence at pacifist principles and is all in on Ukraine serving the sociopathic Vlad the impaler a tidy upper cut, followed by a right hook to the temple and a bloody knock out.
That was back in September last year, but if anything Tuckyo Rose and his lickspittle lackey fellow travellers at Faux Noise has become even louder and more insufferable, as have the quislings and treasonous sell-outs in the GOP.
Why does the bromancer never mention this? Okay, okay, the pond understands that wearing blinkers is a natural condition for the man who loved the onion muncher and does his best to be a fundamentalist bigoted tyke ... and who finds shutting up and impossible act of self-control, which might explain the hairs on the palms of his hands ...
Uh huh, so is he going to mention Tuckyo Rose and Faux Noise at last?
Tuckyo has been at it hard these last few days, ever since the news of the tanks landed, warning of nuclear war and doing his level best to fear monger in an hysterical way ....
The pond isn't going to provide a link, it's just going to provide a sighting just to prove the point ...
Even worse, Tuckyo borrowed the bromancer's favourite phrase "this is nuts" and likely didn't even pay a token sum for the shameless appropriation ...
Meanwhile the bromancer was happily blathering on ...
And that's why the bromancer is an insufferable twerp. Blather about cultural change, existential purpose, atomised ennui, destructive identity politics, glib talk of 'leets.
And he was still at it a day ago with Fox News host Tucker Carlson unpacks NATO’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine, and no, the pond won't be providing a link, but it will note that Tuckyo outburst produced these sorts of comments ...
Yes, Tuckyo asks the right question for isolationists and Vlad the Terrible lovers.
There's the work of the bromancer's kissing cousin in a nutshell ... while the bromancer has the gall and the cheek to blather on about concerned conservative voices.
Fuck him, and fuck the lickspittle fellow travelling gravy train he rode in on ... with not once a note about the role that his kissing American conservative cousins are playing ...
The capacity for drivel is endless, the wearing of blinkers essential for any outing ... but the pond is tired of mentioning Tuckyo and now will do anything just to make it end ...
The pond knows that the bromancer loves to be an armchair general, but when will he take the fight up to chairman Rupert and his array of quislings and fellow travellers?
If the final gobbet is any clue, the pond will be a long time waiting ... and meanwhile, it's only right and proper that the bromancer should end up doing a Kissinger ...
And meanwhile, the bromancer is fighting for the right of the chairman to make a buck or three out of.a man obsessed with candy and with a deep love for Vlad the Impaler ...
And so to a bonus, and a further whinge from the pond, because on a weekend the reptiles are once again full of it, and who fuller than the lesser half of the Shanners' tribe, the Angelic one, and so the pond has no time to roam, but must offer up this, and it's not any form of compensation ...
The pond only offers this because it knows that there are some Freudians in the house, and there were some Freudians who thought that Jacindaphobia was only a feature of reptiles fearing being deballed ...
It turns out that it's a deeper psychological condition, in which women, climate science denialism, terror of chup-eating Kiwis and Ardernaphobia can afflict any gender ... and especially women who have been taught to know their place by the Catholic church ...
Poor Angelic one. She's never really got over being turned into a breeding machine to feed the Ponzi scheme known as the Catholic church, and her alternatives show the skill with which brain-washing techniques can be made to work on women without the strength to resist ...
And there you have it, pretty stupid, pretty vacuous, pretty predictable, pretty Margie, pretty Angela (is it the sharing of names that makes it work?), but above all, extremely Freudian, and extremely weird, and no chance for the pond to do a Tootle and leave the tracks and wander wild and free, and instead there's just time for an immortal Rowe, showing another with balls in his hand ...
It's always the detail ...
The "out and about" Marina: "Let’s face it, if newspaper commentary of any type were remotely market-moving, the columns warning people off Johnson – from left and right – might have effected something other than a massive majority in his favour in 2019."
ReplyDeleteHmmm. So the 'raging bin-fire of politics' is really all due to the voters ignoring the wisdom of "the press". Yeah, got that: just think Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison.
Or as Pill Adams might have it: we're all as happy as a bastard on Father's Day
DeleteNow I didn't know that January 26 is 'Republic Day' in India - the day that celebrates India's freedom from British domination. Clearly as more Indians migrate to Australia (just 721,000 so far but increasing rapidly) then we can switch January 26 to become Republic Day (even though Australia isn't one) and pick some other day (3rd, or maybe 15th, of March ?) as Great South Land Day (the name change to dissociate it from colonialism).
ReplyDeleteBut hey, just notice some real "virtue-signalling" by the Boverer: "the critical role of cheap, reliable energy in lifting people out of poverty". Yeah man, and there's no cheaper, and very reliable, energy available than wind and solar. But as to virtue-signalling, well you just gotta, don't you: nobody can discern your virtue level merely by looking at your face (but they may be just able to discern your level of anti-virtue).
GB - right alongside India there, Pakistan can share the Boverer's enthusiasm for 'cheap reliable energy', as evidenced by yet another almost total 'power down' at the start of this week. Fortunately wind and solar account for barely 5% of generation, so by the Boverer's thinking, consumers in Pakistan should be laughing.
DeleteNo doubt the Angelic one spends a goodly part of each week chanting Latin, but I am guessing she has little understanding of that which she chants. Very likely she thinks the aside that Ms Ardern was 'all status - no quo' was very clever, but - it makes no sense from either classical or idiomatic Latin. 'no quo' would translate, clumsily, as 'no as it is' - ???
ReplyDeleteEven our Henry has a better record of using classical allusions properly in context, even if the context is itself contrived, to align with Rupert's wishes.
Oh, and since we have read the Angelic column - she has also salted it with 'the baby consumes your life and your heart'. Well, in the Angelic's case, she has shared with us her own deep, personal, pain in having to tell one of her sometime babes, now grown up, that he would have to get along with not being considered truly a member of the family because of his choice of partner in life. Her pain, not his, because clearly he turned away from the teaching of the one true faith, and presumably allowed his personal feelings to direct his life.
Oh yeah, the Angie pro quo. The female variety of reptiles are just great on the female-female misogyny, aren't they. But yes, apart from being a fallible breeding machine, what exactly has Angie achieved ? She didn't even get to wander the streets of New York wearing a MAGA cap. And definitely not siding with Lord Monckton against the evil, alien UN.
DeleteWell let's hope, as one correspondent did, that Angie's kids don't follow mum and produce 81 grandchildren (though one might have to do that via IVF). But if Jacinda is really just a "grown-up Greta", can we have more of both, please ?
Though it's wonderful just how the reactionary reptiles all still adore the Iron Lady.
I assume that as a dutiful Catholic wife, Angie Baby ran her article past Dennis for his approval before submitting it to the Lizard Oz editor?
DeleteI know of one achievement by Angie, GB. A couple of decades back she had a regular column in the Saturday “Canberra Times”. A colleague told me that her father purchased each edition solely to rage against whatever guff Angie was scribbling. So if nothing else, for a year or two she managed to bump up the circulation of a second-tier paper by one copy per week.
DeleteWhat the western world and Amerika in particular needs right now is to bring back Captain Midnight and his merry crew - they would very quickly would sort things
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note the two essays and their associated links featured on today's Pearls & Irritations website provide a comprehensive over view of the behind the scenes situation in the Ukraine, which reveal just how pathetic the bromancers anal-ysis is.
DeleteI take it, Ichy, that you meant:
DeleteTanks for Ukraine won’t bring peace negotiations and an end to the war closer by Mike Scratton, and
Ukraine: The ignominious unravelling of the West has begun/b> by Cameron Leckie.
Saying the same thing over and over again, hoping it catches on this time ? Nothing quite like believing that Putin is an honourable, decent man and that Russia is a civilised republic, is there. But then, as Sun Tzu might have put it: "surrender is the noise before even more surrender".
I got to the first line of Kenny’s second paragraph: “Those who claim there is an existential threat to life on this planet bely their own alarm by expressing it through confected theatre sports.”
ReplyDeleteHold on.
It wasn’t the fact that Kenny had shifted from Australia Day protest to climate in one paragraph, but the “bely” instead of “belie”. Kenny needs a sub-editor rather than just using voice recognition technology or perhaps it’s all that lying down that’s got to him. Could be called journalistic slacktivism: appearing to write an article but not actually reading it yourself.
"Kenny needs a sub-editor" Well the reptiles did have 'em once upon a time, mate, but what with having to keep on paying for wage rises and superannuation and holiday pay and what forth, they just became too expensive for Roopie to keep 'em on.
DeleteSo now we know only too well what level of 'education' Roopie's reptiles have achieved.
Perhaps he's been laying, Anon.
DeleteYeah, here goes the burbling Bromancer: "Russia, unlike Ukraine, is a dictatorship and Putin can bear his people going through a great deal of pain." A "great deal of pain" ? Is it worth remebering that unlike a genuine war, Ukraine cannot respond to Russian attacks on civilians by rocket attacks on Russian civilians because the great Western Allies have forborne on supplying long range rockets to the Ukraine and forbidden attacks on Russian civilian locations because otherwise the Putinistas might respond with nukes ?
ReplyDeleteWake up, Bro.
GB - there are contributions of substance, or, at least, real interest, available on the 'net. Over at "Pearls'n'Irritations', Roy Green and Philip Toner put up comments yesterday on an issue that has interested us both from time to time - being Dame Groan cultists (heh heh!)
ReplyDeletehttps://johnmenadue.com/reforming-the-productivity-commission/
I've always had some time for Menadue and his doings, Chad, I'm just not a Pearls'n'Irritations regular (only just so many microseconds in an eternity). But yes, I'm always interested in the Prod Comm and its doings, so I will read that one.
DeleteSo ok: "While few would deny that the extent of protection in post-war boom Australia had begun to stifle industrial innovation,". Can I put up my hands to deny that, please ? Can somebody please show me definitively exactly what ïndustrial innovations"were "stifled"? And then: "[protection's] almost complete elimination paved the way for the destruction of our manufacturing capability and its replacement by a narrower, more precarious commodity-based economy."
DeleteAnd then our brilliant LNP economic managers completely killed our car manufacturing industry. Amongst others.
Anyway, a complete intellectual and functional demolition of the PC which will not be read by anybody of any consequence and so nothing will be done about its complete failure to stop playing 'identity economics'.
Stutchbury would like to think that persons 'of consequence' would have read the article from Gary Banks - first chair of the PC - in the 'Fin' for January 13, in which Banks suggested 'curtailing' the NDIS 'would in itself greatly alleviate the government's fiscal difficulties'. For me, that statement encapsulated the problem with the Productivity Commission, but I don't recall a single comment from persons of consequence in response to that. It probably received nods of approval from the 'Fin's intended readership.
DeleteAn interesting aside from the Green/Toner paper. Amongst other things, Roy Green chairs the Newcastle Ports Corporation - and has been a trenchant critic of the PC's supposed analyses of Australian ports. In the 1990s, I was involved in a series of studies on environmental effects of shipping, which took me to Newcastle to see what the then Corporation was doing there. It was quite remarkable. The CEO was rejuvenating the Newcastle area - not just driving efficiency in operations, but promoting excellent environmental initiatives and putting land and buildings that otherwise would have been unused, to many kinds of community use, which also had positive effects on industrial relations, in great contrast to what Reith was fomenting in at least one port further south. The CEO - Glen Oakley - was an impressive personality, and seemed like the very model of enlightened management.
DeleteAs you may recall - his success was his undoing. A council in Sydney very much wanted to recruit him as their next CEO, and engaged a headhunting firm to find out how to win him over. The headhunters did the initial checks on their target, and found that they could not confirm any of his claimed formal qualifications. That put him before the ICAC. He was dismissed from Newcastle, and has pretty much disappeared from corporate life.
All that that demonstrated was that someone with good basic ideas, and the right personal presentation, could be a highly effective manager, without any of the MBA/ PhD-level 'qualifications'. I had hoped some good biographer might take up his story, but no sign of that.
Our very own George Santos ? :-) There doesn't seem to be much about Oakley on the web though; probably didn't come to notice enough to be worthy of ongoing attention.
DeleteI particularly liked this comment in Marina Hyde’s latest column -
ReplyDelete>> Perhaps betrayal is easier to swallow than the idea that the last thing on earth anyone in the red wall was doing on the doorstep was regurgitating anything some twat like me had written in the Guardian.>>.
It’s so refreshing to see an opinion writer who realises and accepts the basic ineffectiveness of their scribblings. Such a contrast to the Murdoch reptiles, who appear to genuinely labour under the delusion that they play a significant role in setting the national agenda and influencing public opinion.
Farrrrk, Philip Adams? Is he still a Murdoch regular, or does he just pop up occasionally when he feels like claiming credit for the Australian film industry or complaining that modern yoof don’t know what a “zac” is? Here’s an old saying you may recognise, Phil - “Taking the Chairman’s shilling” - or something like that……
ReplyDeleteDon't get the pond started on Adams, Anon. He should have stayed in advertising, it would have been a more honest living ... you know...
Deletehttps://news.yahoo.com/11-sleaziest-snake-oil-ads-120000730.html
DP, heads up for next week for Reptiles...
ReplyDelete- Excoritation of Chalmers [fair enough] & Tim Dunlop, and
Exultation of Kroger / Abbott!
- Excoritation.
Jim Chalmers says "With a new, values-based capitalism for Australia"! wtf. Really. Managed by Mark Carney & Michael Traill – "both extraordinary people" said our Treasurer. At 6.7% return and probably at tax deduction as well.
Sane Tim Dunlop who covertly praises DP & Loonpnd:
"Humans are perfectly capable of doing bad journalism without the help of artificial intelligence"
"The case of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament"
- Exultation
3) Michael Kroger (groan!) will be quoted in the Oz trying to resurrect -gulp - Tony Abbott! They wouldn't know a zeitgeist if it hit them where it hurts.
(I sinned. In a moment of weakness and boredom I flicked on RN just as Tom Switzer was incredulous at Kroger spruiking reanimating Abbott!)
1st Tom & Michael & Tony Abbott.
"Jacinda Ardern's legacy, is a Ukrainian victory against Russia inevitable and is there a political future for Tony Abbott?
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/betweenthelines
And Tim Dunlop: "Humans are perfectly capable of doing bad journalism without the help of artificial intelligence"
"The case of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
" As he did so, the media played along, treating his request for detail as sincere and then entering an endless loop of detail-providing stories running parallel with an ongoing request for more details.
"I mean, it is easy copy, so you can see the attraction, and so standard is this approach that it can seem churlish—or naive—to even point out what is happening. But it is precisely the standardness of the media’s response that needs challenging."
[Tim Dunlop covertly praising DP & Loonpnd]
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/humans-are-perfectly-capable-of-doing
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And what to say of Jim Chalmers saying "With a new, values-based capitalism for Australia" drivel! Published in The Monthly as a dog whistle to capital. The Oz has enough deivel here for a year.
"Capitalism after the crises"
By Jim Chalmers
"I was reminded of the growing understanding of the connection between economic growth and democratic stability in two fascinating conversations last year. The first was with Mark Carney, who headed the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, and the second was with the Australian pioneer of impact investing, Michael Traill – both extraordinary people... whose views about investment and value have growing influence even in the traditionally conservative circles of global finance.
[Ed. Extraordinary? !
Carney! "Former BoE governor admits his net zero alliance weakened veto on coal investment because of ‘antitrust concerns’"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/24/mark-carney-denies-big-banks-threatened-to-quit-climate-finance-group
- Michael Traill ex Macquarie 'Bank': "The SIF generated competitive returns (approximately 6.7% IRR per annum since inception) and created meaningful impact, as outlined in the table below.
[Table of products and service the market failed yet now funded by the 'rich who need taxing' at 6.7%IRR]
https://www.socialventures.com.au/work/sva-social-impact-fund/ ]
"With a new, values-based capitalism for Australia, we can understand something the old thinking neglected: that the problems of government – of whole societies – don’t and shouldn’t permit one simple solution set.
"If we could redesign markets for investment in social purposes, based on common metrics of performance, many more well-run “for purpose” organisations could get much more of the growth capital they need.
"Carney wants to restore the basic social contract, and to put values in place of value. Traill wants to bring together capital, talent and evidence. These are the kind of new models that can guide us in future progress.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/february/jim-chalmers/capitalism-after-crises