The pond knew it!
Bolling went on to name other Fox News personalities who have been fired from the network in recent years, calling Lou Dobbs’ exit in 2021 a “clear Murdoch hit job.”
“Take no conservative prisoners. Carry out new-world-order globalist kill list. Next up, was Tucker Carlson. And at this point I can’t think of who they’ve got left there. Be careful, watch your six Sean Hannity,” he concluded. (Rolling Stone)
Now, now, the pond knows what you're thinking, the pond has gone 4 or even 8Chan QAnon, but pause for a nanosecond to reflect. The Murdochians are clearly world order globalists. The chairman has many fingers in many pies around the planet. "New" is perhaps not correct, but they are at least old world order globalists.
And what does this mean? Well the pond has long referred to the chairman's tame house pets as reptiles, but this is just short hand for the lizard people, who are behind this world order globalism.
Right-wing Christians claim to have “prophetic” insight into America’s “spiritual warfare” are declaring Fox News’ decision to sack Tucker Carlson a victory for Lucifer.
The religious clamor around the ousting of the conservative prime-time host has provided further fuel as our divided country hurtles toward another combustible presidential election.
Lance Wallnau — promoter of a seven-part plan for Christians to capture America — filmed a live video late Tuesday night in which he denounced demonic mischief behind Carlson’s departure from the network. “The devil hates [him],” Wallnau said, because Carlson has “the voice of the populace.”
Wallnau insisted that “Tucker is a casualty of war,” and added, “I don’t like it when the devil wins.” (Rolling Stone)
The pond did toy for some time with the notion that Chairman Rupert was Satan, or if not Satan, then at least one of Satan's fallen angels, but ruled it out because the pond suspected the Chairman had never been an angel, risen or fallen.
The Beezlebub, Baalzebub if you will, thesis, didn't stack up and seemed full of arrant Xian superstitious nonsense. As Colbert noted the other night, Chairman Rupert has good reason not to believe in hell, and that's why he had no time for his newly beloved thinking Tuckyo was a messenger from god, as opposed to an obsequious pawn for Vlad the impaler.
But world order globalists? Fits like a glove, and if the glove fits, you can't acquit.
And why has the pond gone there? Why because that's where the Murdochians have taken the world, into a twilight zone of disinformation, downright lies and weird conspiracy theories.
So what's on today at old world order globalist HQ in 'leet Surry Hills?
First up the reptiles seem deeply concerned about King Chuck ... in both the tree killer and digital editions.
Always deeply solicitous, the pond thought the best thing to do, in a laconic Tamworth way, was to tell the silly old bugger to fuck off.
On the other hand, the pond always has time for stylish, extravagant frock wearers and urges King Chuck to visit, and as a temptation, here's a Wilcox to put on the invite ...
What else? Turned out that below the fold there was a grim bunch, with the beefy boofhead with an office in Goulburn to hand in the reptile ruck and maul ...
It goes without saying that the pond wasn't tempted by the boofy boofhead, and as for the rest of the pack, nope, nothing there, but the reptiles did provide a tempting splash for Dame Slap ... along with a chance for the reptiles to flash a bit of tit ...
It was a fitting juxtaposition, as if the pond should give a flying fuck what Lagerfeld either loathed or loved, given his desire to marry his cat ...
During a discussion with CNN's Alina Cho on an episode of Fashion Week: Backstage Pass, airing tonight, the Chanel designer discusses the depth of his love for Choupette—a white Siamese cat he spoils with personal maids, private-jet rides, iPads, her own chauffeur, and four-piece silver table settings. “There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals,” Lagerfeld laments. “I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.” Lagerfeld's affection for Choupette is well documented, thanks to multiple interviews in which he raves about the feline's entitled disposition and declares her the most famous cat in the world. (Vanity Fair for all the hot links)
Still, it was a fitting juxtaposition, and the pond is pleased that Lagerfeld hasn't been cancelled and that Jenna is celebrating furries and furry love and cat fucking and so on and so forth...
And so to Dame Slap. It's been a long time, she's earned so many red cards from the pond she could wallpaper a room with them, but this day's outing was such a sublime dose of projection, reptile style, that the pond couldn't resist ..
The great irony of emoters?
Has there ever been a greater or even a grater emoter than Dame Slap? Admittedly the emotions have inclined towards the bitter and the twisted and the warped, but here, have an infallible Pope, just for the fun of it ...
And so to the bonus, and the pond couldn't resist a serve of nattering "Ned".
The aging Jeremiah's impressions of Chicken Little have become more intermittent of late, and his sense of impending doom is possibly a deeply personal projection of the fate looming for people who get old, so the pond must take its moments when it can ... and today was a classic jeremaid, though for fancy types who can toss around words like lemniscate (aka λημνίσκος) - dammit the pond had to look it up, only to be reminded of reptiles and Lagerfeld tits - there's no need to explain that we're in for a long, mournful complaint and lamentation, a lengthy list of woes ...
Eek, a strategy on climate? Surely not. Has "Ned" failed to pay attention to the entire reptile oeuvre these past few decades?
And as for a sound strategy on China, the pond understands there'll be a few submarines to hand no later than 2050.
And as for those other dragons, there's always an immortal Rowe ... though he seems to prefer old school to cherry red vape ...
How wonderful to welcome back Dame Slap, doubtless taking only a brief break from spreading poison regarding the Voice and interfering in legal proceedings. Still, it was a refreshing dose of vintage bile from the Dame, even if it boils down to nothing more than “Fuck you and your feelings”.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note in that vintage article on Malcolm Fraser that he habitually wore “three piece suites”. Either he liked extremely cumbersome clothing or by 2015 the Fin Review was as bereft of subbies as the Lizard Oz.
Indeed, Anon. And when I checked, "life wasn't meant to be easy" was only six words, not seven as Dame Slap claims.
DeleteAre you sure she wasn't counting 'wasn't' as 'was not' which of course makes it seven ?
DeleteBut hey, three piece suite: one large and comfy leather-bound sofa and two very comfy leather-bound chairs* - that's a three piece suite isn't it ?
Delete* they might even have been 'incliner chairs' like I've got: recliner chairs fold backwards and have to be situated our away from a wall or furniture at the back, but incliner chairs slide forwards which means they can be positioned against a wall or whatever at the back, and still incline forwards so you can relax with legs level (as the medicos do recommend).
Then she was counting wrong, GB. Wouldn't be the first time.
DeleteOh GB - next you'll be saying there really was a dust storm in the Western Districts circa 1976.
DeleteI dunno one way or t'other Anony, I was blinded by all the dust in my eyes. But there certainly was one in Melbourne in 1983.
DeleteGawd, you wonder what the cat thought of it all.....
ReplyDeleteNo 'thoughts' Anony, only feelings.
DeleteAs a self-funded retiree with a paid-off mortgage, I couldn't agree more with Dame Slap. She states the facts. Inflation makes me poorer, as I scrimp and save to pay all the extra money at the supermarket checkout each week. And I say a little prayer to Phil and The Boys for raising interest rates yet again, so the young 'uns will have to come up with a few thou' extra for their mortgages each month. That should keep a lid on things getting out of hand.
ReplyDeleteAh, life is sublime! Off on my next overseas jaunt in a few weeks. Can't wait!
Not taking a three-year sea cruise, are we ? I believe some people have taken that up.
Delete"this day's outing was such a sublime dose of projection, reptile style..." Oh yes indeed, a wondrous piece of classical reptile attributed projection by Dame Slap. They just can't even begin to help themselves, can they? And as usual they're the ones who somehow 'feel' that it's us who need help.
ReplyDeleteOk here goes the Slappy: "His [Pill's] observations are facts. Inflation makes us poorer." Oh no it doesn't: we've had varying rates of inflation for quite a few centuries now - it greatly predates the termination of the gold standard - and it always only makes us richer. Just consider how incredibly well off hoi poloi were back in, say, 1850 compared to now. Or even 1950 compared with now. How many families had their own (albeit mortgaged) home and at least one car (now at least two) back in 1950 ?
ReplyDeleteYes, Slappy, people do demand higher wages to combat 'inflation' and companies pay them because that's the only way to maintain a level of sales that pays for the executive 'bonuses'. And that's why "He [Pill] is charged with managing the central bank's core mission to bring inflation down to the 2 per cent target because inflation damages our lives." So why still leave a significant level of inflation - 2 to 3 per cent - to go on forever ? If inflation "damages our lives" then why "target" continuing (perpetual ?) life damage ? Why not target zero per cent, or even negative inflation ? Is having inflation forever just something that the Slappy "feels" ? After all "Only a dolt complains about the facts." and that's something she's never, ever done.
So, our deeply thinking reptile tells us: "We know from experience that allowing wage rises to match inflation usually just ensures inflation lasts longer, rises further and hurts more people than if workers accept a short period where inflation outstrips wage growth." Oh, right, so if people's wages fall relative to costs for a while, and inflation never ends - as we have centuries of evidence to show us - then when do wages catch up for that fall behind period ? Because they must catch up either by them rising, or inflation falling to very low levels or we wouldn't actually be any better off now that we were in 1850 or even 1950. Would we ?
"if workers accept a short period where inflation outstrips wage growth"
DeleteWhy could not the wealthy and senior execs accept a short period where inflation outstrips wage (income) growth? Afterall, they will not go short of a meal, but this is never suggested, certainly not by Miss IPA, and most statistics indicate that during recession and boom, their income increases consistently outstrip inflation. Worse, as you indicate, there is no such thing as a short period of falling behind for the workers and the poor. AG.
The Loons!
DeleteHi A,
Janet may no longer be Chairman but she is still a loyal functionary of the IPA and the promotion of “trickle-down economics” is always paramount.
So it’s another round of austerity for the proles and they should just grin and bear it.
Meanwhile the executive class or as Janet would call them “wealth creators” should always be exempt from any belt-tightening.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/02/bp-profits-energy-windfall-tax-oil-gas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/private-jet-sales-likely-to-reach-highest-ever-level-this-year-report-says
After reading these two pieces yesterday I had feelings.
Ah but AG, the "wealthy and senior execs" do accept that, and they once-upon-a-time accepted even more: it's just that unless "the firm" continues to make record profits - either from significantly increased productivity (which is both hard and expensive to achieve) or by charging more for their products (which is both quick and cheap) then the "wealthy and senior execs" won't be able to believe in their own wondrous ability and, even worse, won't get those wonderful, recognition and praise worthy 'achievements', will they.
DeletePS:
‘They can survive just fine’: Bernie Sanders says income over $1bn should be taxed at 100%
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/02/bernie-sanders-interview-chris-wallace-tax-rich
Once upon a time, income over about $400,000 pa got taxed at around 90%. You've just got to ask the CEOs of Ford and GM back in the 40s and 50s (if any are still alive) and they'll tell you. And that, note, was in the grand land of private wealth, the USofA.
'Comments' are shaping as something of a pile-on of Dame Slap, but her intellectual insularity is impressive. Surely there is someone around her, or pacing the deck of the Flagship, who is able to tell her that what she has written, particularly for this day, displays remarkable ignorance of recent thinking in psychology, as it applies to economic behaviour, attitudes to our structures of law and order (how can a sometime ‘Juris doctor’ remain ignorant of that?) and, ultimately, to the whole structure of government and public administration? That is unlikely to come from he who we assume is still her companion in life - his attempts to comment on Sky News are embarrassing at best, and difficult to watch, even for fun, because of his irritating ‘you know’ quotient.
ReplyDeleteThe studies initiated by Kahneman and Tversky, and now taken up by a high proportion of researchers in economics and sociology, demonstrate how much of our behaviour is founded more in emotion than detached reason.
While the reporting of this follows the conventions of academic publishing, one would think Dame Slap would recognise those differentiations in what are supposed to be seminal writings for conservatism. What Edmund Burke actually wrote is dripping with appeals to deep emotions, and the writer seeking a quick’n’easy quote of Burke, to firm up their own pretensions to conservatism, cannot avoid that. One which took me just seconds to find now - ‘The passions belonging to self-preservation are the strongest of all the passions.’
Oh - and we don’t have to wait a few hundred years to know what evolutionary biologists and anthropologists might say; they are saying it now, for those who take the trouble to read something with more content than a pop-up on a screen. The Dame has actually got it partly right - that in current society a propensity towards emotional response can have apparently perverse results. Might we cite the obvious manipulations of Fox/Sky?
And that, absolutely, is enough. To anyone who paid the price of a good coffee for this in print - consult Kahneman and Tversky; you did not make a reasoned purchase.
Well gracious me, Chad, what more can be said after that ?
DeleteJust perhaps that amongst all of the other claims to rampant ignorance that Planet Janet the Slap has, understanding that anything involving evolutionary change requires a lot more than just a "few hundred years" - generally it's like a few hundred thousand. Homo sapiens sapiens (after separating from homo sapiens maybe a 100,000 years ago) really hasn't changed much since then.
At one time our Janet seemed to be modelling her media persona on Ann Coulter (who seems to have slipped almost entirely from notice). Coulter was assertively an anti-evolutionist, so perhaps Janet is inclined towards creationism as an explanation of human society.
DeleteWhereas, of course, it is human society that is an explanation for creationism.
DeleteGood one, GB, good one. My - we do have some fun here at times, don't we?
DeleteYeah, our mandated daily quota of the laughing gas of the mind.
DeleteSo, just a little bit more Planet Janet: "The great irony of emoters demanding more and more spending is their obsession with environmental sustainability..." Yeah, well, see we actually live in our environment and we won't manage to do that if our environment ever seriously fails. I'da thought even the Slappy could grasp that. But then: "Natural resources are finite, they point out. Yet they seem to believe that financial resources are infinite." Yeah, money is just exactly as much a limited thing as a wheat crop, isn't it - so despite the renunciation of the gold standard she seems to think there's some non-transgressible fixed lot of money. In the entire world. In total in every currency.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the simple minds of the reptiles just can't comprehend that money is simply an invention of human imagination, and we can create as much of it as we need. And in fact we do, and have been doing for quite a while as the human population exploded over the past 100 or so years (quadrupling from 2 billion to 8 billion) we'd have just very quickly run out of money unless we continued dragging it 'out of the air'. We certainly couldn't have mined that much gold.
And that's why only utter drongheads like Winny Churchill tried to prevent the abandoning of the mythical 'gold standard'; 'mythical' because it already hadn't been applied for a very long time until, for simplicity's sake, it was finally just cancelled.
Yeah sure, if we drag too much money out of the thin air too quickly, we can have problems - eg like a bit of highish inflation - but then we cut back on the money dragging and it all sorts itself out. Though if (when ?) the human population starts to reduce, what will we do with all that extra money that we no longer need ? Will we finally have to declare 100% income tax on earnings over $10billion per annum ?
Then how does she justify currency exchange rates, GB?
DeletePlanet Janet's gripe is that she doesn't control that dragging of money out of thin air. If she did, we'd live in Utopia, wouldn't we?
DeleteI dunno how she justifies currency exchange rates, Anony. I don't know how anybody "justifies" something so completely arbitrary as 'currency exchange rates'.
Delete"When Australia was part of the fixed-exchange sterling area, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$1 = 8 U.K. shillings (A$2.50 = UK£1). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area, when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar and the Australian dollar did not follow. Instead, Australia pegged the Australian dollar to the United States dollar at a rate of A$1 = US$1.12."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australian_currency
See, quite arbitrary valuations. Britain had already abandoned the gold standard in 1931 so up to the time in 1983 when the econorats Hawke and Keating 'floated' the Aussie dollar, we were following the British standard. Now if you can explain to us the various changes and gyrations of the Aussie dollar exchange rate since then, I'd be fascinated to know.
As to how Dame Slap "justifies" anything, I confess to total failure of understanding.
And I kinda think Slappy is living in a Utopia of her own construction, Anony, and always has.
Dorothy, thank you for distracting from the Janet, and the slough of despond which is 'Ned', with 'Joy to the world.' And to Jersey Mike - we can still name 'Three Dog Night', and salute a band that took its name from Australian folk lore.
ReplyDeleteAh well, "such is life". But did Ned really say "Sullivan said the false assumption of the previous order was 'that markets always allocate capital productively and efficiently, no matter what our competitors did', but the consequence was that 'entire supply chains of strategic goods - along with the industries and jobs that made them - moved overseas'."
DeleteBut, BG, butt, isn't that just the basic definition of 'productivity and efficiency'? Getting your key survival necessary stuff manufactured fast and cheap by your main enemy ? Nobody is going to provoke the mighty power of the USA are they ?
Hi Chadwick,
DeleteI had no idea 'Three Dog Night' was an Aborigine Australian term, rating the
coldness of a night by how many dogs it took to keep warm.
I forgot where I ran across it but an old fella was asked how much
longer he would live and he replied
"I reckon I got 2 more dogs left in me."
I thought that was rather lyrical.
Well dogs live somewhere between 10 and 13 years on average, JM, so that's about 20 to 26 years and personally I don't reckon I'll make even 1 dog.
DeleteCats, on the other hand, because of all that recuperative sleeping of between 16 and 20 hours a day, now last a bit longer. Mine has already made 14 and is still going strong - I think I must just outlast her, though, if she doesn't make it to 20.
Bill Mitchell "IMF demonstrates mainstream economics has ossified but remains dominant" https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=60782
ReplyDelete"been that way for all my time", Joe. But yes, particularly now, I think, when the best it can do is the likes of Milton Friedman.
DeleteTo rein Janet in, put her in the CART - "Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking; Stanovich, 2016" ..."
ReplyDelete"... It is often not recognized that rationality and intelligence (as traditionally defined) are two different things conceptually and empirically. Distinguishing between rationality and intelligence helps explain how people can be, at the same time, intelligent and irrational."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292946123_The_Comprehensive_Assessment_of_Rational_Thinking
"Tversky and Kahneman’s Cognitive Illusions: Who Can Solve Them, and Why?"
"... in Stanovich’s words: “Now, that we have the CART, we could, in theory, begin to assess rationality as systematically as we do IQ.” (Stanovich, 2016, p. 32).
"For instance, Stanovich and West (2000) developed the framework CART (Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking; e.g., Stanovich, 2016), which describes different types of tasks and aims to comprehensively assess rational thinking as clearly distinct from intelligence or corresponding established constructs."
"In the present study we empirically examine the internal structure of some prominent cognitive illusions (i.e., the most famous ones) when they are considered and implemented simultaneously in one study. The tasks chosen for the present study (see Figure 1) furthermore have the advantage of representing a wide range of problem types and thus entailing a variety of aspects of statistical thinking and logical reasoning."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584689/full
"Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate
Authors:
Keith E Stanovich
Richard F. West
"... computational limitations underlie non-normative responding on several tasks, particularly those that involve some type of cognitive decontextualization."
...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12031890_Individual_Differences_in_Reasoning_Implications_for_the_Rationality_Debate
Almost let it slip by: "people can be, at the same time, intelligent and irrational". Actually, all people are, at the same time, intelligent and irrational, because they need to have some intelligence in order to be able to be capable of irrationality.
DeleteThe fun is when people are both rational and irrational about the same thing, because, as we all know, 'compartmentalisation' allows us to hold contradictory beliefs about the same thing at the same time. But then that requires that we have some kind of collection of many different beliefs acquired at many different times under many different circumstances so that 'belief perseverance' occurs.
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0258.xml
Oh my, but the god(s) who designed and constructed this species were fiendishly devilish.