The pond had every intention of standing proud and keeping the culture wars going all the way to Oz day, and the Nine mob helped with this happy juxtaposition ...
Naturally the pond was wildly excited about what the reptiles might erect this day, stretch the tat, so to speak, especially given that there are only a few days left to excite the passion of the reptile readership before this Oz day comes ... and all that's left afterwards are drowsy summer days, perhaps with a chance of afternoon delights...
How did that song's lyrics go, Monday, Monday, can't trust that day, Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way ... Monday, Monday, the Major's back today, hey hey, oh boy, time to put another hole in Liverpool or Gaza...
But before celebrating the Major - always a thoroughly nasty piece of work - who else was on hand to stand proud? (Even the Pope has a kind word for carnal pleasure).
It will be remembered by Caterist devotees that he was in the vanguard of the Oz day culture wars, Woollies variant ...
It must be the shortest culture war on record, because this day the Caterist turns to what he does well ... black bashing ...
Some might think the Caterist is in a goodly position to take out the Patronising Championship, but the pond reckons that being the promoter of the shortest lived culture war on record is a sufficient prize. Ad as for bashing difficult, uppity blacks? Nothing to see there. The Poms have been doing that long before Vesteys set the pace ...
Moving along, who else was out and about?
The pond was delighted. A visit from JC himself, still railing at the 1960s, because that can never get old for the reptile demographic ... and let the long absent lord celebrate, JC was fighting fit ... in a way that meant the pond could walk on by that plethora of """ contributors ...
Yep, this JC loves himself a genocide ...
And so at last to the Major, back in his usual far right perch in the digital edition ...
What happens when that happens is that the reptiles go hunting in packs, and so this ...
How bad did it get? Well it was pretty pathetic ...
Honey? For FFS, "honey", and "tone deaf" in the one sentence? Honey, that's one piece of tone deaf use of the word, and an insult to bees ...
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by that bit of patronising, the Major staked his own claim in the patronising championship...
Oh dear sweet long absent lord, not the Bolsheviks, or we might have to go off on a hunt for that still missing, almost forgotten, Order of Lenin medal.
And why rabbit on about the numbers when it's clear that it's not just about getting Hamas, it's about getting revenge and it's about making Gaza uninhabitable, it's about destroying buildings, institutions, history, memories, everything...
The pond is tired of doing a bomb and body count ... leave it to a couple of pictures ...
And then in closing the Major makes a final lunge for the Patronising Championship cup ...
And now with the Major back, and nothing changed, some might appreciate this cartoon for a closer ...
To the Proprietor,
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am appreciative of this august pamphlets daily slog through the sewer of reprile corpses, the lack of anti-emetics (cartoons) throughout this and yesterday's offerings has forced me to uae up my cache of sick bags.
This is intolerable.
Please inform the Editor to resume a fullsome and regular interspersing of said anti-emetics.
Yours...
Sick'd up.
Please GB and Chadwick come to my rescue as what murdochracy has stooped to is beyond what I can respond to how low can they go in their denial of facts and history.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - GB may have sufficient brave pills to predict how low the reptiles can go; I cannot decide between their penchant for repeating themselves, so remaining at a particular stratum (or, if allusions to the 'Divine Comedy are more appropriate - within a particular circle) of imagined history, or if their drawing only on their own impressions of history might not take them deeper into the sludge.
DeleteJust in the last couple of days we have had Nyunggai Mundine sorting out his version of the history of the eastern Mediterranean. I was going to add 'at least to his own satisfaction', but he had time on 'Sky' yesterday supposedly to enlarge on what he had written, and, as much as I could unravel from his high 'you know' quotient - he was confused about any conclusion he was supposed to have reached. Could some one, or some AI, have contributed to his column?
The sociologist from Billericay shows us this day the likelihood of endless repetition and cross-reference. I am moderately sure we will see (not necessarily read - life is too short) more such from the Cater - everything being 'done for' indigenous folks is so wrong as to be counterproductive, while costing $McDuckillions, but on no account should 'we' think there is ever likely to be another way that might improve their lives. After all, if there were such alternatives - they would have been put in place by Bob Menzies, and the world now would be applying those processes to all other languishing indigenous groups.
In my view the Cater is not in the final group for Patronising Prat of the year; to be properly patronising, one should be able to show SOME self awareness.
I think we have to take into account that proposition about sales-persons: they believe everything they say for just as long as it takes them to say it. And they are all practising sale-persons.
DeleteSo it's not even so much that they really believe what they spout, it's just that whatever they spout is true for them while they are spouting it.
Now some (particularly Cater, Maj. Mitch, Killer C etc) have no functioning recall of anything they've ever espoused, so every day is a new, clear adventure for them and they never repeat themselves because they never remember having said something many times before. As for those who may have a faint recall of what they've previously espoused, they work on that well know reptile formula: if I don't ever mention it again, then it never really happened. Dame Slap is a very religious practitioner of that.
Thank you GB and Chadwick. I have come to a conclusion that the greatest threat we have to this country is the murdoch organisation we have been driven by this mob into not controlling our relationship with other countries by their support of and direct interference in government policies by pumping up rightwing members of the liberal party who with murdoch support have encouraged prime minister to be a party to the invasion of Korea,Vietnam,Iraq and also supporting today Israel who should be guilty of war crimes against the Palesitian people. I would add that to me America is guilty of being the largest terrorist organisation in the world today as they know they cannot be held accountable for all the crimes they have committed, I do remember Ronny Raygun stating that Russia was the evil empire well if Russia was the evil empire what does that make America.
DeleteSo, Anony, you reckon that right on from the America-Spain war of 1898 (in which America claimed colonial ownership of the Philippines) that America has been the 'evil agent' of the 20th and 21st centuries. Well, those yanks have sure been engaged in a lot of wars and military actions, haven't they.
DeleteFouteen years is the longest period that America have not been at war since their civil war. Their economy is run on being at war.
DeleteFor all his research at the Menzies Research Centre, what does Cater offer as the solution to his claim of “the failure of Indigenous policy stretching back years”? Nothing, except cutting funding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples’ programs. Cutting funding should start with the Menzies research Centre which has added nothing of value to the taxpayer.
ReplyDeleteDespite claiming policy relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples has failed for years, he offers up the Morrison Government’s actions as some sort of model. That’s the Morrison who secretly took on joint administration of portfolios of other ministers, whose government caused the taxpayer to fork out compensation for the awful Robo debt and of whom the Royal Commission Report said that he had misled Cabinet and had given false evidence to the commission, whose government allocated $18m to the Australian Future Leaders Foundation without proper approval and who was accused by the French president of lying. And that’s some ugly reality on the ground.
Whenever Cater has a whinge about “wasteful government spending”, I think back fondly to those Budget Papers extracts that DP used to run, showing the annual grant to the Menzies Research Centre.
DeleteNow that the Voice is done and dusted, the Reptiles, along with the Liberal Party, are free to return to their traditional Indigenous obsessions - crime and sexual abuse. I notice that while Cater details a few examples of juvenile crime in Alice Springs, he fails to cite any evidence that - distressing those these incidents may be - they represent an actual increase in the crime rate. But of course, statistical analysis is only useful when it supports your claims.
There was Polonius, in his January 20th article, claiming:
ReplyDelete“The likes of Thorpe and her green left/ socialist left supporters focus on the disadvantages experienced by many Aboriginal people … But they tendt o overlook the continuing success of Indigenous Australians in the professions, trades, business and the like.”
Thank you to Gerard for pointing out that Cater, who focuses on how bad things are in Alice Springs, is a covert Thorpe green left/ socialist left supporter.
The thing is that our pollies are essentially treating "the Indigenes" as two separate groups: the Europeanised indigenes and the Indigenous indigenes.
DeleteSo there has been at least some "well intentioned" approach of letting the Indigenous indigenes live, at least to some extent, like they did before fleets of prison ships delivered British (and Irish) convicts into Australia - and recall that it wasn't until the gold-rush era that 'free settlers' in Australia finally outnumbered convicts.
But just because the Indigenous indigenes are allowed fairly free roaming rights in the north of Australia doesn't mean they fit in to the world we have made for them. They don't and most likely never will. So we might just have to 'assimilate' them as has been done with Europeanised indigenes, many of whom are essentially indistinguishable from us 'Europeans'.
Like Jacinta and Warren.
I’ll give some extremely faint praise to the Caterist for today’s offering as it sticks closely to good old-fashioned black-bashing, rather than veering into condemnation of those who fail to fully support Bibi’s attempt to remain in power and destroy the concept of the two state solution once and for all. Today’s JC’s Sermon on the Mount follows the recent pattern of so much Reptile commentary; start off with a whinge on one of the regular hobbyhorses - in his case the ruin our 1960s - and then swing into a ringing endorsement of current Israel Government policies and a condemnation of those who question that approach. Don’t bother trying to look for any logical progression, because there won’t be any.
ReplyDeleteAs for JC’s odd citing of “The Graduate “ - well, I suppose it’s possible that’s the most recent film he’s seen.
Is Carroll on some 1960s’ halucinogenic trip?
ReplyDeleteCarroll: “A Melbourne Council that flies the Palestinian flag, like a Greens party that urges schoolchildren to strike for a free Palestine are...giving symbolic support to the destruction of Israel.”
So we must assume then that when if a Council flies the Israeli flag or a political party urges protests to free Israel from terrorists that they would be giving symbolic support to the destruction of Palestine, which members of the Israeli government have advocated.
It’s no longer Gramsci or Marxism marching through the institutions but 1960s student ideology?
Then Carroll says flower power was fantasy politics which repressed the horror reality of war. What?! It was done as a protest against the horrors of the war in Vietnam. But of course the rancour towards Commies was so great that it took some time for the anti-war views to take effect:-
“1967….In October, with ever-increasing public protests against the war, Johnson engaged the FBI and the CIA to investigate, monitor, and undermine anti-war activists. In mid-October, there was a demonstration of 100,000 at the Pentagon; Johnson and Dean Rusk were convinced that foreign communist sources were behind the demonstration, but that was refuted in the CIA's findings.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson.
We end up with the usual reptile dribble about elites, the silent majority and polarisation and apparently Carroll and the rest of the reptiles are above ideological feuds.
Pst: that's Rudi Dutschke not Gramsci.
DeleteBut hey, JC is just a total believer in the myths, fantasies and lies he was taught when too young to realise he was being ruthlessly conned. And he's still too simple minded to realise that other people - maybe as many as about 40% of 'western canon' folk - are simply discarding the old lies for a bunch of new ones.
Maj. Mitch: "Why do journalists ignore that Palestinians are still being used as human shields by Hamas ?" Well, does that mean that the IDF killing "human shields" is all ok ? Nobody really cares a hoot about 'human shields' do they ?
ReplyDeleteAnd: "... and let him [Kenneth Roth] claim for 12 minutes and 56 seconds [he counted them] that Gazans are being starved by the IDF." Well, if not the IDF, then who is starving them ? Or is Maj. Mitch. telling us that they're all eating fine kosher dinners ?
Also: "Hamas says 23,000 mainly women and children have been killed. The IDF says it has killed 9000 Hamas fighters plus 1500 inside Israel after October 7". Alright, so who has actually verified the IDF claims ?
JC in his article "quotes" from an article by George Orwell, but rather misses the point of the article (Notes on Nationalism ) Orwell was writing about Nationalism (Jingoism) and its malign influences, and some parts of his article are perhaps relevant to the reptiles:
ReplyDelete"As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his allegiance. The smallest slur upon his own unit, or any implied praise of a rival organization, fills him with uneasiness which he can only relieve by making some sharp retort. If the chosen unit is an actual country, such as Ireland or India, he will generally claim superiority for it not only in military power and political virtue, but in art, literature, sport, structure of the language, the physical beauty of the inhabitants, and perhaps even in climate, scenery and cooking.
Orwell wrote this article for a magazine titled 'Polemic' so he doesn't have to justify his assertions with any evidence. And of course it is the fate of any polemical writer that their opponents will try to use their words against them, and their opponents will make stuff up if they can't find what they want.
Yesterday was the 74th anniversary of the death of Eric Blair. If he could have foreseen the manner in which modern reactionaries misuse and distort his words, he’d probably have tossed in the writing game much earlier than he did.
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