What's astonished the pond in the past few days is the way that the reptiles have ignored the cynical, deeply commercial, ploy by Penguin/Puffin to bowdlerise Roald Dahl, down there with the Victorian rewrites of Willm Shakspere ...
Elsewhere it's been all the go and everyone has put in their tuppence worth ...
Bing at your AI leisure, and all the pond can think is that the reptiles' game is seriously slipping ...
Once upon a time, they would have been all in. Think back to the war on Xmas, think back to yarns of the white Jesus.
In their absence, cartoonists have been having great fun with it ...
It should also go without noting that the reptiles have slumbered through the latest Faux Noise saga ...
And now, given a chance to abjure their American kissing cousins or to stir the fully woke pot, what do they do? They serve up up dross like this ...
What a wretched snowflake crybaby, and the pond can't think of a scribbler more worthy of disrespect. Fie, the pond pisses on your plea for respect from a great height.
But what then? Pickings are, as usual in these end times, slim ...
Two simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simons in a row?
As Marlon, deep in the jungle, might say, la horreur, la atrocité, le dégoût, la épouvante, la abomination ...
The pond was almost tempted to follow dashing Donners over to the Nine rags, as noted by a correspondent. Almost.
Nine and dashing Donners together? La horreur, la atrocité, le dégoût, la épouvante, la abomination ...
And so the pond turned to the bromancer, usually a safe pair of reptile paws, claws if you will ...
Free of historical hang-ups in any direction? Our great friend, little England, is going to save the day, when the last thing the pond read was Tories urge Jeremy Hunt to reverse army cuts in forthcoming budget.
The chancellor has been urged by MPs to ensure the number of troops is held at the current level of about 76,000, instead of reducing it to 73,000 by 2025.
The cut, announced in March 2021, has come under fire from backbenchers and figures in the Ministry of Defence, given the precarity of European peace demonstrated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Further concerns were aired over the weekend. Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, was said to have pushed for an increase of up to £11bn in the MoD’s budget over two years, while a report – dismissed by the UK government – said Nato fears Britain has too few soldiers to take over leadership of its rapid-reaction force from Germany.
It sounded like little England might have trouble saving itself, let alone NATO, let alone its great friend far away, but the pond knows that when the bromancer gets into rhetorical stride, no country is safe from the splendid strategic thinking of our reptile Reichsmarschall ... so the pond kept on watching this space ...
That's it? That's all he wrote? Watch this space very carefully? It's just a weak-kneed trailer for a movie still way off in the future? An encouraging signpost? The bromancer hopefully spitting into the wind? Not even a rant about tanks?
Bitterly disappointed, the pond did something it resolved it would never do ... allow "Ned" to have a go at the voice ...
And there you have it. Between the nattering negativity of "Ned" and the posturing of the onion muncher, not a sliver of difference ...
Whenever the pond thinks of Noel Pearson these days, the pond thinks of the tale of the hapless frog, keeping company with the scorpion, or sundry treacherous reptiles, ready to teach the hapless frog a lesson...
What a relief then to turn to the immortal Rowe of the day, celebrating an entirely different matter ...
"already rising to a crescendo" - already risiing to a rising??
ReplyDeleteNed: "But whose common sense and whose political realities"
ReplyDeleteCan there be more than one common sense? Can there be more than one reality?
Good questions, Bo ... and what do you think the answers are ?
DeleteI think the meaning of "common" is "prevailing" and there can only be one winner.
DeleteI think people may differ in how they see it but there's only one reality out there
What Ned is up to is convincing his dwindling tribe of followers that his reactionary views are common sense and represent political reality. It's pretty cheeky running that line against a former chief justice; the courts hold that there is only one truth and it looks like Fox News is about to see what that can mean.
I dunno, Bo, it seems to me that there's always many different 'prevailings', it just depends a lot on who's doing the prevailing. As to reality, well, by definition there is only one 'real' reality which incorporates everything whether we know it or not, but there are many aspects of reality, and none of us can take in all of them. Which is why, I guess, there's people who believe that the Earth is flat. And people who believe QAnon. And there may even still be people who believe in Newtonian physics despite its inability to get the orbit of Mercury right.
DeleteHmmm. Courtesy of Cathy Young, a new word for my aging vocabulary: copium.
DeleteCopium is a term used to describe the act of convincing oneself of something that is not true. And there's always a whole lot of that going on. Especially in all of the world's herpetariums.
Of course, Ned’s concerns regarding these uppity blacks is nothing new -
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Still more of Ned’s worst nightmares -
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I’m surprised the Oz just doesn’t dispense with the likes of Leak and reprint this sort of stuff. Surely such action could contribute towards the desired $20 Million cost savings?
Certainly better drafting and drawing skills than the current Leak displays.
DeleteThat one's particularly rich thanks to the tag ... "The Government is considering appointing an aboriginal member to the House of Representatives, who would be allowed to speak, but not to vote.
DeleteJacky, M.P.: My word, mine bringit along you fellas plenty subsidy witchetty grub and goanna."
It helps give a precise date to "Ned's" world and mindset ... 19th January 1938.
Bromancer: "Ït serves the national interest that the government is so clear on the need to substantially improve our military capabilities ...". Now let's be quite clear about this: Australia has a population of about 26 million, China has 1400 million. So let us also be clear headed about this: if China ever seriously wants to make war on Australia, then it won't matter a tit or a tat what "military capabilities" Australia mounts; unless the USA comes in with all drones and missiles blaring, we're simply done for.
ReplyDeleteBut the warmongering reptiles will never understand or acknowledge that, we Aussies can surely defend ourselves against an enemy of about 53.8 times our population and maybe hundreds of times more military capability. Anzac heroism will always triumph.
GB .But these characters do not want consider that.
DeleteI seem to remember a time when the armchair warriors were obsessed with Indonesia. Not sure where the 3 billion dollar submarine fits into that type of conflict, though I suspect a greater number of cheaper assets would be more useful.
DeleteWell, Nodoff Neddy is certainly having a great time: it's like a 2 minute hate every 2 minutes for 24 hours every day. None of the reptiles, and especially not Neddy, are actually being truthful, I think. Sure I know they're a bunch of racist, misogynistic agitproppers at heart, nonetheless is it that all they're really trying to do is convince their masters that, despite the recent Fed and Vic State elections, they still have the power to deliver power ?
ReplyDeleteWhile I recognise that it was a completely different issue, I can’t help but recall Ned’s outrage when the Gillard Government announced the RC into institutionalised child abuse. It was outrageous, thundered Ned; it was clearly a cynical, partisan political decision, being undertaken by the government for base gain; and of course it was completely unjustified, would career out of control, have unforeseen consequences and wreak havoc upon the innocent. In time of course, Ned was revealed to have been a blathering fool on that issue. History repeats… and repeats… and repeats.
ReplyDeleteThere is no completely different issue when it comes to the reptiles, Anon, there is just the hive mind and there it was ...
DeleteCommission on child sex abuse a depressing example of populist politics ... By PAUL KELLY and EDITOR-AT-LARGE THE AUSTRALIAN 12:00AM NOVEMBER 17, 2012
THE dismal, populist and doomed quality of Australian governance has been on display this week with Julia Gillard announcing an in-principle royal commission into child sexual abuse, a panicked Tony Abbott falling into line and an ignorant media offering cheer upon cheer.
Rarely has an Australian goverment (sic) embarked on such a sensitive and vast project in profound ignorance of what it was doing, with virtually no serious policy consideration and driven entirely by politics.
This is the way Australia now works. The quest is for popular approval, moral legitimacy and gesture politics. Labor took this decision flying completely blind. Gillard's media conference last Monday was a serial exercise in populist politics and policy ignorance. She knew next to nothing about the royal commission she was announcing. What counted was framing herself as the arch opponent of this "incredibly evil thing" determined to expose those who have "averted their eyes" and allow victims to "tell their story".
Gillard's decision is classic shoot now and pass the mess to others to sort out, in this case, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. This decision has plunged Australia into a multi-jurisdictional, multi-institutional, state-church, high-cost shambles where nobody knows how the massive expectations of victims can be satisfied.
It is, however, a perfect fit into Gillard's political strategy. For Labor, that's what counts. The media loved it - the combination of a moral crusade, a cast of victims and coming systemic dismantling of the Catholic Church.
And so on and on and on, and it might be a different branch of the reptile hive mind, but in the end, it's all the same ...a reminder that beneath the pompous portentous blowhard is a genuinely contemptible reptile ...
"...nobody knows how the massive expectations of victims can be satisfied" Yeah, says it all about the reptiles and their grasp of 'reality' doesn't it. But then, Nuzzlepants Ned would have been totally in support of the 'Melbourne Response' which was set up in 1996 - just a mere 14 years before Juliar became PM.
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