Dammit, the pond has had enough of reality. Who wouldn't want to join Senator Mullin in shouting “I don’t want reality!"
Reality is vastly over-rated, especially when you remember that we're all caught in a butterfly's dreaming.
But what if it involves a pastor defending the Uganda death penalty or the hole in the bucket man blathering on about the voice yet again?
Doesn't matter, bring it on, but first the pond must turn to the news of the day, and here the bromancer was on the front line, as he always is ...
Right from the get go, and "it was always a difficult case to understand" the bromancer was in top bewildered form ...
But what's this? Elsewhere in the reptile rag came this ...
The pond has no idea where they find these profs, but find them they do, and of course he's right, in a reptile prof way. He was just a professional killer doing what a professional killer must do, so why not look the other way, turn a blind eye, don't go to the bother, fuss or expense of making a note in the war memorial?
How about a big snap to show the warrior in great pose? Downsized of course ...
Meanwhile, the bromancer was still rabbiting on, but for some strange reason the reptiles refused to run a warrior pose snap, and instead repeated the snap seen at the start of the bro piece, and the repeat of a line suggested a hasty attempt to get out of the gate early ...
"It was insane"? Relax, it's just the usual un-emotive, calm, rational response the bro routinely offers, unlike the ABC ...
Meanwhile, in that other piece, the shame of Tamworth got a mention, a man the pond believes was on active service during the Howard years, if at first as a Kiwi ...
Indeed, indeed, and besides, he's shaken the paw of the Queen, and look at all the chest candy.
That piece tailed off with an ANU Prof, John Blaxland saying that Australia had been too clever by half by too many expecting too much of too few, and blaming both Labor and the Coalition (presumably that includes the shame of Tamworth), while Greens defence spokesman David Shoebridge suggested speeding up compensation for the alleged victims of war crimes, as already recommended in the Brereton report, apparently unaware that it was Australia and the reptiles that were in the throes of a deep grief ... because what's the loss of a life up against the loss of a medal?
So the pond could turn to the bromancer for a closer ... and whaddya know, he too was blaming the government ...
Uh huh, but in the end, if you want to be a warrior, you must expect the odd infallible Pope cartoon ...
And now to show the pond's workings, and how it ended up back with the old relic doddering on about the voice...
Cackling Claire cackling on in the cause of tranny bashing? Sorry, that's a red card. And as for the meretricious Merritt?
The pond could recast that in a trice: "Giving voice to journalist's personal views is fraught. Freedom from bias is not enough. Journalists must also be free from the appearance of bias and the meretricious Merritt's tiresome, constant rabbiting on about the voice would appear to compromise that."
Fixed, and incidentally fixed for many other reptiles at the lizard Oz, and so the pond can move on to our Henry, who isn't much of a journalist, or economist, though he does have grand pretensions to being an historian ...
Spoiler alert. There's a truly great billy goat butt moment coming up, but first there's a lot to endure ... because in due course this mention of Ming will trigger the reptiles and they will feel compelled to show off their ancient Dover white Cinque ports god ...
As best the pond can work out, our Henry seems to be suggesting that something might have gone wrong. Would giving Aboriginal people a voice so that their point of view might be heard - as opposed to that say of a silly old white curmudgeon - be of any help in sundry matters?
Apparently not, though there seems to have been a few problems in the past, though the problems are perceived in the manner of a Colonel Blimp rather than an Aboriginal Australian ...
And at that moment, the reptiles, as foreshadowed, though for no particular reason - apart from the loss of a decent graphics department - decided to insert a huge snap of their great white god, Ming the merciless, the best of all cargo cults ...
Beyond the valley of the reptile caricature really. Want to discuss the voice? Throw in a shot of some fifties relic ...
What would the reptiles do without the great god Ming from the distant past, a figure almost as impressive as Baal ...
Indeed, indeed, so much better to have an old white loon lecturing and hectoring uppity, difficult blacks than to listen to them ... and now, to that great billy goat butt the pond had foreshadowed ...
"none of that is to recommend returning to the policies Hasluck adopted", which is just a billy goat's way of saying we should return to the policies Hasluck adopted, or at least the Hasnoluckian vision ...
Back to the emotions routine. Right at the moment all this talk of emotional steam baths is really taking it out of the pond ...and yet in that suppurating bath of bigotry, comes the emotional moralising and the offer of a deeply emotional fear mongering, a remarkably paranoid "leap in the dark", which some might remember as the name of a movie ...
What a tiresome, tedious gherkin he is, but having done its traditional leap into the empty bucketvoid, the pond didn't want to end on a downer, and so was pleased to see that the reptiles had another offering from the Lynch mob ...
See how clever this Lynch mob is. By confusing and conflating PwC with diversity and climate science, you can find much to admire, and ways forward, and soon enough we might all end up living in Florida or at least ordering online from Uganda ...
Sorry, the main reason the pond went with the Lynch mob was to have a cartoon-led recovery, though as a bonus, there's more sniping about climate science and other forms of sinister innuendo ... you know, "net zero", as if climate science was some kind of thing a Lynch mob should take seriously.
You name it, he's up for a blather about the bloody woke ... and is there anything more woke than climate science?
Ah, DeSanctimonious, and the pond won't enter into the fuss about how the narcissist wants it pronounced, and at this point the reptiles decided to slip in a huge snap of a sight the pond simply didn't want to see ... downsized, but still pretty intolerable, and all because what was once the reptiles' graphics department sees a word, and is immediately triggered into rushing out a huge snap ...
It's a pity the reptile graphics department is now such a wretched and tattered thing, but please allow the pond to help out with an illustration that's more relevant to the Lynch mob ...
That's better, on with the cruelty and the vindictiveness ... as the Lynch mob mourns the lack of traction for Pauline and her perils ...
Indeed, indeed, we should embrace our inner Rons, and get rid of all that nonsense about climate science ...
As for Victoria and all that woke nonsense, there are many great leaps forward to be made in terms of bigotry, hate, fear and loathing ...
Well it beats the very large image that the reptiles had slipped into the Lynch mob's piece ... naturally downsized by the pond ...
Might there not be a compromise, a way forward?
Nope, there was just the sounds of the baying coming from that Lynch mob, going full DeSanctimonious, and perhaps even raring for a fight with the house of mouse ...
What an incredible loon, what an astonishing effort, and what a tribute to the University of Melbourne. And if Ron DeSanctus is the answer, the long absent lord help anyone asking a question ...
But it did allow for that cartoon recovery ... with the
immortal Rowe to hand to lead off a final flurry, with sundry rats and Lynch mobs in the attic ...
Only a thinker and orator of the Beetrooter’s calibre could complain of a legal case being “mired” in “facts”.
ReplyDelete:)³ You've earned a place in the Tamworth Hall of Fame (just down from the bottled beetroot and fruit section of the show).
DeleteMuch bewilderment and handwringing from the Bromancer today. He appears to be gobsmacked by what can happen when rhetoric meets reality. Still, at least he has an answer - even if he has to fall back on the old “It’s all the government’s fault!” excuse.
ReplyDeleteNaah, Anony, it's just the good old reptile projection: "At some level, Roberts-Smith must believe himself innocent, or either remember or construe his actions differently from the way the court has." Yep, it's just another round of the old "misremembered and misconstrued" that plagues the reptiles all the time. All the way down to "the evidence against him was strong." But never strong enough.
DeleteYes, fancy having handpicked warriors do handpicked work. Talk about a strategic error. Next time send in the fitter and turners (as in the army cooks who fit good food into a pot and turn it into sh*t ...)
DeleteI commented yesterday that it was only a matter of time until some Reptile contributor questioned the benefits of the 1967 referendum, but I was only joking - honest. Still, who better - or worse - than Our Henry to do so? Yes, yes, those Constitutional provisions were only put there by our wise founding fathers to protect the simple natives (as they inevitably passed away into history….). The fact that they completely failed to do so is naturally of no consequence to the Hole in the Bucket man. Still, at least we know who to blame - urban elites! I look forward to Henry applying for the job of Protector of Aborigines when that position is re-established.
ReplyDeleteOr he could do a George Augustus Robinson, and round them up for their own good ... and who knows, at the end of a rewarding career presiding over the extermination, a pleasant retirement ...
DeleteThe Port Phillip protectorate was abolished on 31 December 1849 leaving Robinson free to do as he wished. He was well off and had a pension. His wife had died in September 1848; except for his daughter Cecelia his family was grown up. He could afford to live in comfort. In May 1852 he sailed in the Medway for London. There on 4 June 1853 he married Rose, daughter of Thomas Pyne, an accountant; five children of this marriage survived. The Robinsons lived on the Continent, mostly in Rome and Paris, until about June 1858, when they returned to England and next year settled in Bath. The sojourn in Europe and particularly at Bath, brought to Robinson much of what he wanted: comfortable living and social acceptance, as well as a place among the followers of the arts and sciences.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/robinson-george-augustus-2596
Still, you have the pleasure of knowing that Henry must read the pond's comments section and finds in it inspirations and aspirations ...
Perhaps Ergas could integrate into the society that has some empathy with other people. He could also incorporate some factual evidence to support his unsubstantiated premises, but the facts would nullify his conclusions. Cannot see how he can talk of blackmail, moral or otherwise, which involves threatening to harm one or one’s reputation, unless he’s worried about the threat to Dutton’s reputation as Opposition leader if the Voice is successful. Perhaps he cannot think of any other argument and is just regurgitating Sussan Ley’s blather.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - what came through to me from our Henry this day was, yet again, his claiming to reflect on events from 1967, in Australia, show no sign of any personal involvement of engagement by him in those events. On his own biog. he was a student of economics at University of Queensland from around 1970, but seems to have been totally detached from any of the groups at that university who were trying to advance indigenous causes, including student bodies raising funds to support indigenous students to attend that university. Two possibilities - either, looking back, he realises he was on the wrong side of history with whatever affiliations he had, or he was simply apathetic towards anything that did not prepare him to answer each year's examination papers.
DeleteAnonymous - what came through to me from our Henry this day was, yet again, his claiming to reflect on events from 1967, in Australia, show no sign of any personal involvement of engagement by him in those events. On his own biog. he was a student of economics at University of Queensland from around 1970, but seems to have been totally detached from any of the groups at that university who were trying to advance indigenous causes, including student bodies raising funds to support indigenous students to attend that university. Two possibilities - either, looking back, he realises he was on the wrong side of history with whatever affiliations he had, or he was simply apathetic towards anything that did not prepare him to answer each year's examination papers.
DeleteThe Timothy Lynch article is another example of linking PwC with a totally unrelated subject - in this case responsible investment. Is this to be a new Reptile trend.
ReplyDeleteI’d never seen the acronym “ESG” until a few days back when I read of Meatball Ron slamming it - though without bothering to spell it out. I would have assumed that it was a sensible modern business practice, b, but now that I know that it’s yet another instance of the Woke Mind Virus and somehow a harbinger of One Party Rule, so I will be appropriately outraged and terrified.
Former President Donald Trump seemed to admit what normal people have long observed: Right-wing anti-“woke” obsessives can’t actually define what it means. “I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke’—it’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” the twice-impeached ex-president said Thursday during remarks at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa. Trump continued on to deliver a fact-free riff on trans athletes—a common grievance for conservatives in 2023—before calling the concept “woke” and then catching himself: “I guess they define that as ‘woke,’ but that’s all woke. We have to bring common sense back to the country.” Trump’s odd dismissal of the right-wing buzzword could easily be interpreted as a subtle dig at his rival Ron DeSantis, who is notoriously obsessed with all things “woke".
Deletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-right-wingers-cannot-actually-define-woke
Robert Reich provided the following definition of woke in The G this morning.
Delete'What exactly is “woke”? The term gained popularity at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when many Americans – including white Americans who were seeing the extent of the problem for the first time – awoke to the reality of police brutality against the Black community.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/republicans-fake-crises-five-biggest
By this definition, you can see why many white Americans loathe wokeness - it evokes an unpleasant, and sadly, enduring history. It is nowadays used to cover all manner of sins and bad thoughts by non-right voters - so I agree DP, we might all be better off if we avoid the term.
"Cackling Claire cackling on..." Yep, in the Commentary summary we first have "Our leaders have joined with radical activists..." and then immediately after we have: "Some of our leaders seek to join forces with a fanatical minority..." So which is it: leaders "have joined" or "seek to join" ? Or is there just no difference in the herpetarium ? Or is it merely another case of "misconstrued and/or misremebered" ?
ReplyDeleteAs above ...
DeleteDURING A THURSDAY campaign event in Iowa, former President Donald Trump admitted what we all know: Republicans have no idea what “woke” actually means.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke,” Trump said while answering questions from the audience, “because I hear the term ‘woke woke woke’ — it’s just a term they use, half the people can’t define it, they don’t know what it is.”
The former president then rambled about transgender athletes and claimed that if he were the coach of a girl’s basketball team he “would have the greatest team. I’d say ‘Lebron [James], would you like to become a woman?’ And I would go to another four or five guys and say we will be undefeated for many, many years.’ I will go down as the greatest coach in history.”
“It is so crazy — and that is all woke,” Trump said. “I guess they define that as woke, but that’s all woke.”
For right-wing politicians and pundits, the term “woke” has become an amorphous shorthand for anything deemed too progressive, too inclusive, or too considerate of minorities. It’s intentionally ambiguous because a lack of clarity gives them the freedom to slap the label on literally whatever they want.
Need an example? Earlier this week conservatives urged a boycott against Chick-fil-A, a long-time corporate darling of conservatives who’ve celebrated the fast food chain’s Christian values, for the “woke” crime of having a diversity and inclusion policy.
Trump’s statement, however, is likely a direct response to the anti-”woke” hysteria of his chief 2024 primary opponent Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor has made vanquishing the “woke mind virus” a central tenant of not only his governance of the Sunshine State but of his candidacy for the presidency.
The night he officially announced his entry into the Republican primary, DeSantis appeared on Fox News, where he declared that “the woke mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism,” and an “attack on the truth.”
“We have no choice but to wage a war on woke,” DeSantis said.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NXSgMdFzNeIJ:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-admits-republicans-woke-1234745571/&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
Woke: "a lack of clarity gives them the freedom to slap the label on literally whatever they want." And that, as we used to say, is the be-all and end-all of it. Just like Vlad the Impaler and 'neo-Nazi' - apply it to anything you want people to be against.
DeleteCome to think of it, that's just a bit like "sin", isn't it. And then "I hear the term ‘woke woke woke’ — it’s just a term they use, half the people can’t define it, they don’t know what it is”. That's the same with 'God' and 'Christ' isn't it: they don't know what it is.
What has the world come to when professors sneer at social virtue? Many businesses have adopted ethics and accountability. If this aligns with left-wing values rather than right-wing values, this does not say much for the right-wing of politics. PwC’s problem is not that it adopted some ethical practices, but that it spurned others. According to Lynch it is awful that ordinary shareholders and customers can influence what goes on in the boardrooms, rather than businesses be allowed to be unaccountable and seek only profit. Instead Lynch wants Australia to follow the true Conservative path of putting ethics behind individual advancement and money-making, which is exactly what caused the problems at PwC.
ReplyDeleteClearly Lynch does not consider that he does any work, as he describes workers as “that majority of people who did not go to university..”, so we assume he means the university educated, like himself, are not workers. Tradespeople now earn considerably more than the university educated and, at least in Victoria, often have their courses provided free of charge, unlike Uni students who are incurring increasing debt before they even start work, so perhaps Labor does not need to defend their civil rights in the workplace so much and when did business ever defend pensions? The non-ethical businesses have even been fleecing employees of their wages and super. But then Lynch seems not to have a clue about Australian politics, somehow aligning a candidate for premier of a state in Australia with a candidate for the presidency of the whole of the USA. It seems the right not only want to get rid of the dastardly Dan, but the leader of the Opposition in Victoria, too. Who will be left?
Which brings me to Ron being the answer given he recently told Fox News he would destroy leftism in the USA and I did wonder if he planned to abort those he thinks might grow up to be leftist. Again, who will be left?
Not to mention that Lynch is a “Professor of American Politics”. Not only does it make one wonder about his course content, but the relevance of his professional role to the investment decisions of contemporary big business are a mite vague.
DeleteOh, that’s right - he’s happy to scribble an article that’s consistent with the ideological crusade of the Lizard Oz. Therefore he’s perfectly qualified.
"Throw in a shot of some fifties relic ...". Yeah. I happened to watch a few minutes of one of those tv quiz things - The Chase (waiting for the 6pm News) and the 'chaser' missed on the question "who was the next Australian PM after Chifley." The contestant team of two thought about it, and discussed it a bit: "That was after the War, wasn't it ? Ummm. Fraser ? Yes, Fraser, we'll go with that."
ReplyDeleteThey were not teenagers, probably late 50s or early 60s, and that's the answer they came up with: Fraser was the PM that came straight after Chifley. But then, who in Australia has ever heard of Holt, Gorton or McMahon ? And as for Whitlam, he was Labor so obviously he couldn't have been the PM. So that means it must have been Fraser. Or to put it more succinctly, Fraser was the onlt PM they'd ever heard of.
Amanda Meade’s latest “Daily Beast” column features - amongst over topics - a look back at News Corp’s support for Ben Roberts-Smith over the last few years -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2023/jun/02/kerry-stokes-ben-roberts-smith-seven-spotlight-program-bruce-lehrmann-weekly-beast
Re Holely Hen. and "the voice": "the Yes camp is resorting to cheap moralising whose purpose is not to convince but to silence." Can't help 'emselves can they: attribute then project, every single time. Including the attribution that there is but one single unified "Yes camp". Well, of course there is, every reptile can see that quite clearly.
ReplyDeleteMoving on: "it [the one and only Yes 'camp'] seems to believe moral blackmail can induce Australians into repeating the error of pursuing political equality by entrenching political inequality." Yeah, right, that's what it is: "entrenching political inequality"! And where exactly is the "blackmail"?
And that's exactly the point with the reptile 'dormancy' - no logic, no sense, no reason, just a lifetime of over-emotional self indulgence.
And the meretricious Merritt, declaring that an eminent legal scholar finding favour with 'the Voice' is simply showing sentimental bias, devoid of legal underpinning. By inference then, legal scholars who promote the 'no' vote only do so because they have projected horrible hypothetical possibilities, that could, if you squint hard enough, see our sacred constitution spontaneously combust - but all based absolutely on long-accepted legal principle. No personal bias there - even though it is difficult to find any two of the legal 'no'sayers who agree on just which part of the proposal will ignite the constitution. Actually, it is not easy to find two who are prepared to spell out the specific wording that justifies their reasoning.
ReplyDeleteBy further implication - legal 'no'sayers are a version of the silent majority within the legal profession; sentimentally biased mountebanks are of no account.
Looking at the mawkish version of patriotism that our Bromancer is emitting this day, reflected in interviews on 'Sky', and ranting from 'Jonesy' - I got to thinking that the reptile media is verging on creating its own versions of Comrade Ogilvy (save readers seeking out that memory cell - a character created by Winston Smith). That would be so much neater than boosting enthusiasm for battle by awarding gongs to actual humans, whose personalities do not necessarily fit the profile earnestly sought by defence services PR.
ReplyDeleteJonesy is still ranting away happily, then - don't hear much of him these days (never did really hear all that much of him south of the Mexican-proof fence anyway).
DeleteHis apparent lack of 'popularity' nowadays indicates that he probably always was a 'reflector' and not really a 'leader'.
Yeah, the creative works of Winston Smith: there are aspects to his actual work that show he would have been a very effective reptile.