In which there's a rat in the ranks, and then a plain old rat ...

 

The gift that will likely give on giving for generations...

There was however good news this day. 

The bots had yet again been denied the thoughts of Major Mitchell, still MIA ...

It was back on the 5th May that the Major advised the world that the media opted for propaganda over facts in energy debate, a wondrous headline for a propagandist who routinely ignored facts, and yet he's gone missing and is sorely missed by climate science denialists around the world ...

Down below there were the usual suspects for a Monday ...

For some reason the pond can no longer cop the cackling Claire, and that man from the cloisters was simply risible, sounding off at the notion that hateful opinions should be challenged in open debate. 

The entire point of the News Corp empire is to shut down debate and savage rivals,  hence the fixation with the ABC and the Nine rags this day...

The pond decided it would be more amusing to look at the work of the latest rat to join the reptile ranks. 

The pond has long had a fixation on rats in the ranks, which it can trace back to that excellent documentary about parish pump politics, Conolly and Anderson's 1995 Rats in the Ranks ...

Now it's true that George's outing is minor league rattery, but it's a gentle way into the week ...

For anyone wondering, that link was to a Ted Woodley piece about Snowy 2.0, a Malware white elephant much like the NBN white elephant.

Why would anyone want a parade of Malware white elephants, to which might be added SloMo nuking the submarines and sundry other follies?

Meanwhile, there were copious illustrations to help the rat in the ranks ...

Of course all this is part of George's transformation into one of the lizard Oz's climate denialist rats in the ranks (Martin Ferguson was another classic rat).

The pond really shouldn't be surprised. Back in the day George thought nothing of appealing to the likes of Brian Harradine, Mal Colston and female Coalition MPs for help ...

Here the plea for "transparency" should be taken as a cry from the heart for more ammunition for renewables and climate science denialism ... and what better way to start than with a white elephant, an overpriced alternative to obvious renewable choices designed in a fever dream by Malware's mob after the onion muncher pronounced climate change crap and ordered Malware to destroy the NBN ...

You might as well blather on about the NBN as another Malware/onion muncher white elephant ... but it rarely gets mentioned, because who would want to point out News Corp's role in that disaster?

Meanwhile, something deeply weird has gone on to turn George into a loyal rat.

Apparently it started with letters raging at renewables to the lizard Oz, from her home in Mollymook, and the reptiles so liked the tone soon enough she was a columnist, and a Sky News after dark favourite, including Sharri (disrespect) no less, and so fresh fame was at hand ...

This sort of thing ...

It was a bit like a job application for a woman mired in Mollymook irrelevancy and it worked a treat ... and so ...

As an exercise in FUD News Corp style it's pretty dull, but the case itself is fascinating, the psychology involved being a bit like the fanatical Jesuit that turns Stalinist, or vice versa, a Mao lover turned full Pellist ...

Enough with that brand of rats in the ranks psychology already ... the pond has an even better psychological study to hand, even if it's deeply offensive, and shows how the next election will be fought in the gutter ...

The pond isn't talking about the desire to celebrate the genocide by cloaking it in idle chatter about anti-Semitism...

The immortal Rowe returned and put an end to that ...

Nothing more to be said on that front, unless you happen to like a genocide bulldozing away ...

No, pond is talking about the Caterist, as weird a furriner to ever land in Australia ...

The obvious question is, should a man guilty of a serious defamation be allowed to stay in country? 

Never mind that he's a serial climate science denialist, or that he's been actively guilty in confiscating taxpayers' money via a front to conduct a campaign against renewables and climate science ... do we really need a floodwaters in quarries whisperer in our midst? It might not be the same as actual child molestation, but when you think of the future facing children, it really is a form of criminal activity.

The pond kids, but is only half in jest as it gets the obligatory reptile visuals distractions out of the way ...

As part of the reptile rage about furriners this morning, an offending Tingle was lined up for a serve...

Tingle had, to quote the reptile coverage, merely observed the bleeding obvious, that we were heading deep into the gutter of the "other" ...

During the discussion, Tingle voiced her repeated criticism of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and bizarrely accused him of encouraging abuse towards migrants looking to buy or rent property in Australia. “We are a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing,” Tingle told the audience at Sydney’s Carriageworks.

Tingle criticised Mr Dutton, telling attendees she didn’t recall a leader of a major political party “to be saying … everything that is going wrong in this country is because of migrants”.

Tingle said that after listening to Mr Dutton’s budget reply speech earlier this month, where he discussed migration and housing issues, she “had this sudden flash of people turning up to try and rent a property or at an auction and they look a bit different – whatever you define different as – (and) that basically he (Dutton) has given them licence to be abused, and in any circumstance where people feel like they’re missing out”.

The writers festival event, titled Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation, included a panel comprising Tingle, former Liberal staffer and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Niki Savva, Guardian Australia political reporter Amy Remeikis and ABC Indigenous affairs reporter Bridget Brennan.

Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, told the audience the failed voice referendum was fuelled by a “feral, nasty campaign”, and reiterated Tingle’s comments that Australia is a racist nation.

“When there is so much racism embedded in this country … (during the voice) it was really horrible as an Aboriginal person,” Brennan said. “We know what exists in Australian society, we see it every day.”

Put it another way ...

Tingle's self-confessed little rant led to a lizard Oz editorial rant ...

Many media outlets, including this newspaper, have criticised Peter Dutton’s policy to cut the permanent immigration intake by 25 per cent to fix housing, for its likely negative impacts on workforce skills and the economy. Tingle is entitled to critique it but her irrational, illogical claim that the Opposition Leader had given aspiring homeowners the green light to abuse others when they’re on the hunt for a house to rent or buy was incompatible with impartiality. Real estate deals are colourblind. Watching Mr Dutton’s budget reply speech, Tingle said, she felt a “terrible chill”. She had “this sudden flash of people turning up to try and rent a property or at an auction and they look a bit different – whatever you define different as – that basically he (Mr Dutton) has given them licence to be abused and in any circumstance where people feel like they’re missing out”.

In contrast, Tingle’s praise of the Albanese government was sweeping and hollow. “It’s not just about whether they got rid of Scott Morrison, they are actually trying to govern, they are trying to run a government, they are actually trying to do policy,” she said. A government trying to govern and “do policy’’? That is its job.

As Mr Williams says, the ABC is a publicly funded, accountable organisation that should be fair-minded. He is correct. Tingle’s performance has given him and ABC managing director and editor-in-chief David Anderson a challenge. Anthony Albanese has no need to hire her, as he did former Guardian journalist Katharine Murphy. Tingle already spins for Labor, courtesy of the taxpayer.

Meanwhile, News Corp is owned by furriners and they let the worst of the black sheep sent down to the colonies loose on their pages to pick and choose cases as a way of defaming an entirety of "others", to be feared and to feel frightened by ...

It's despicable stuff, and all the more so coming from a man who copped a significant sum against him in a defamation payout ... not the sort of thing you'd want from a respectable citizen, or some bloody Pom seeking refuge, even it it was to dodge military service, and avoid the new nasho blues ...

Ah, if only the reptiles had been paying the slightest bit of attention to the happenings in the mother country ... instead it's back to the nasty, snail slime business of tarnishing furriners by picking out a few for excoriation ...

Will the Caterist ever do the right thing and deport himself for his singularly nasty contributions to the demeaning of the country's polity?

Sure he'd find it hard back home but the cartoons would be a consolation ...

What a nasty, grubby man he is ... and so the pond was relieved that this was the last gobbet of nasty gutter politics ...

... scribbles a man who seriously defamed others, and has made a living out of gouging money out of hard-pressed unelected bureaucrats ... and now seeks to take the lowest path of all in political point scoring ... yet here the pond is, wondering just why his appeal to be allowed to stay in country should be seriously considered by anyone outside the hive mind ...

And with that, the pond ends proceedings for the day, wondering when the reptiles might ever turn their attention to the trial of the century, thus far, and the marvels of the court of the century ... surely there's some sort of flag they could fly, running it up the pole to see how it flaps ...if they could do it for migrants here, surely they could do it for their boss's home country ...