Thursday is always the cruellest day, and as the pond likes to show its workings, anyone noting who occupies the top far right highly desired 'top of the lizard Oz digital world ma' will understand why the pond must look beyond that slot for its daily serve of reptile gruel ...
The pond has always thought of simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simon as one of the more obvious and pathetic political hacks at the lizard Oz, hacking away on an almost daily basis...
Somebody has to do the hack work for the lizard Oz, but that doesn't mean the pond must pay attention to the hacking...
It's not so much that the pond would like to issue a red card as that the pond doesn't have the interest or strength to reach into pocket to get one ... and the same goes for the latest serving of plain Rice and Dudders down the page telling tales of the latest events, lizard Oz version, in the Lehrmann matter.
Below the fold, it was equally dismal early in the morning, with "Ned" for some tragic reason still a hold over...
There was also petulant Peta doing some standard minority/furriner bashing, and somehow the pond did find the strength to flourish a red card ...
As for the rest, it was like looking at an indistinguishable pack of hounds baying at the government ... Jack the lickspittle fellow traveller, snappy Tom and the lizard Oz editorialist ... and all the pond could think was, "off to the gravel pit with the lot of them and let Kristi to her thing".
But having shown how the pond's rigorous selection criteria works before any reptile can swim wild and free in the pond, what does it say that this left Killer Creighton to enjoy the spotlight?
Thursday is the cruellest day, but may as well get on with the cruelty ...
The pond knew from the get go how it would go, though it hadn't expected that sort of illustration, allegedly showing philosopher Musk in deep prayer, thought, contemplation or narcissistic celebration of Muskian genius ...
The only thing Killer wants to ban are masks, and perhaps the odd vaccine ... and if the pond had only find a mug booktaker to take the pond on, what a killing the pond could have made betting that the Covid pandemic would feature in the very first gobbet ... generations, Killer tells ya, generations! (Yes, you can still get Covid, the pond's partner's mother caught a dose this very week. Thank the long absent lord for vaccines and anti-virals).
Clay Travis as the Killer's radio choice? Of course, if the glove fits, you must submit...
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Travis repeatedly downplayed the severity of the disease, calling it "overrated",claiming that it is less severe than the seasonal flu,projecting that fewer than several hundred would die of the disease in the US, that victims of the disease probably have been "killed a month or two earlier" than they would have been otherwise, and stated that the mortality rate for those under 80 and without pre-existing conditions is "virtually zero". He suggested that some advocates for mitigation measures to slow the spread were "rooting for the virus to triumph".
On October 30, 2020, Travis said that he would be voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election. He said it would be the first time he had ever voted for a Republican for president.
On April 15, 2024, Travis suggested via Twitter that New Yorkers sympathetic to Donald Trump try to be selected for jury service and hide their sympathies during the selection process for the former president's "Hush Money" trial to ensure that he is not convicted; it was pointed out by media observers and others, including Representative Eric Swalwell, that this post could be considered jury tampering.
What a Killer inspiration, and usually at the mention of the woke mind virus, the pond would evoke Godwin or Colin Wilson, but the joke's a bit tired and best get the snaps out of the way ...
It goes without saying that Killer loves to revel in the Muskian cesspit, and the more gruesome the images, the more he loves to dwell on them...
Here's the thing. Killer never gets around to mentioning the proponents of censorship, though they're
easy enough to identify ...
The book ban movement has grown in recent years across the US, particularly in Republican-led states, as religious-political activism gains strength.
Seventeen states saw attempts to ban more than 100 books: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
That came near the end of this story in the Graudian back in March ...
The pond has tried to keep up with Killer's letters from America, but the pond can't recall a Killer rant about
weird moms in America (mums in Australia speak) ...
There was a compelling list in that story, the sort of graph that might score a mention in an ABC finance report ...
What is it with Toni Morrison?
Never mind, time to do Killer's last gobbet, wherein book banning will strictly not be mentioned, while you can bet your bottom dollar Covid will ...
Oh, go cry in your mom's apron ... or wallow in Uncle Elon's cesspit with the other Covid and anti-vax conspiracy theorists ... and here, have a Wilcox to go ...
As for a bonus, never fear, the pond took precautions and laid in supplies.
Once again the reptiles ran a Mein Gott outside the pond's usual hours, but Mein Gott, the pond noticed, and though it's a pretty dull offering, the pond can never get enough ...
Mein Gott, the pond should have realised there was a reason for his absence, he was doing field work in smaller enterprises, but instead of the valiant Gott out in the field, the reptiles decided to offer a generic snap of the NY stock exchange and a dastardly unionist and sidekick ...
Mein Gott, it's the wages, it's the wages, flying through the air like those cards that assaulted Alice...
Mein Gott, all around dangerously infested waters ...
There was the pond thinking that an SMR in the back yard would sort things out and there'd be a boom, up there with the old iron foundry that used to operate down the road, just opposite the chocolate factory that got turned into flats, but the pond was badly out of touch ...
Hmm, that mention of the housing market at least allows the pond to slip in the infallible Pope of the day ...
And then it was on to the final Mein Gott gobbet ...
Mein Gott, it's a powder keg, though the pond consoles itself by remembering it's not eating grass in Gaza, nor is it gay in Iraq or Uganda (or Kenya or Russia), nor is it in Ukraine being bombed by a sociopath, nor is it part of a Modi hit squad of spies and assassins, nor is it living in Florida or Texas, and nor is in living under Chairman Xi's rule ...
And so to the bonus to the bonus. The pond can't remember the last time that the pond ever took note of Tezza - it might well be never - but any mention of climate change hysteria always catches the eye ...
Climate hysteria? What on earth could he be scribbling about?
Oh, that one ...
What on earth would some scrambled egg dudes know up against the mighty Tezza?
There's no crisis here, here no crisis, and in Tezza's world, it's business as usual ...
The good think about Tezza is that he isn't up to much, and so there's just one short spurt of a gobbet to go ... nothing like a quickie to start the day ...
Ah, the climate boondoggle ... may it rest in peace, with grand ocean views free from rising seas ...
I like how those from murdochracy keep on saying yours and my money as if they own the damn thing when our currency is belongs to treasury and as part of living in Australia you can use the currency but not own as you did not produce it. If you produce some activity that you are rewarded for and are paid in the currency you still do not own the money. So old Rupert might think he owns Australia and has carried on with selecting who should hold the purse strings of government by using his underlings to spread lies and misinformation we do have elections where the people make a choice.
ReplyDeleteSo this is why the reptiles have chosen Hawke and Keating as two of their heroes:
ReplyDelete"The bigger story here is the failure of yet another piece of the neoliberal microeconomic reform program of the 1980s and 1990s. This program, pushed by both the Hawke-Keating and Howard governments, is still viewed with rose-coloured glasses by much of our political class. But most Australians have long since recognised it as a failure, and politicians are beginning to respond."
And this is what it's led to:
"It’s easy enough to list the failures (financial deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing of policy to consulting firms), but much harder to unscramble the mess created by them. However, we are seeing some moves in the right direction. The Minns government’s recent exposure of the disastrous mess created by private toll roads has produced calls for re-nationalisation. The failure of the National Electricity Market and the associated program of privatisation has led state governments to re-enter the business of electricity generation."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/bonza-airline-collapse-australia-neoliberalism
Looks like Chalmers writing articles for The Australian hasn't helped one iota in making McCrann be less hysterical about Labor. But ignoring McCrann's feeble attempts to criticise simply by adding belittling adjectives before any mention of Chalmers, one would think that Chalmers "actually embracing the protectionist dynamic of the entirely non-Labor, 1950s Menzies government" will be welcomed by the likes of Nick Cater and others at the Menzies Institute, so I look forward to the counter argument to McCrann from Cater, praising Chalmers for following in the footsteps of the man Abbott, Howard and others so admire.
ReplyDeleteThe pond is always bemused by Jimbo scribbling for the reptiles, because all that does is feed the beast and help with the paywall. They'll never change, and there's no point trying. Several leopards might have managed to change their spots, but not Tezza of the Oz ... or whatever other Murdochian tabloid rag he hacks out copy for ...still, it was a change of pace, which the pond's mother always said was as good as a holyday.
DeleteOh - was a time, when I resided in Adelaide, and received a daily 'Tiser', that a group of us, including My Source, played a little game around the weekly contribution from McCrann. It was to guess how many lines into his column before he attributed whatever was the supposedly economic evil of the week - to J Paul Keating. Yes, JPK had been out off office for a decade or so, but - Tezza could trace his thread through the skein of circumstances.
ReplyDeleteWe played the game because one of our group had been in the Reserve Bank, and was present at the press occasion, when Keating was treasurer, and Tezza had run a brief polemic and attempt at 'gotcha' question of Keating. The witness account (this was pre-ubiquitous iPhone) was that Keating, from memory, went over much of Tezza's writings for a couple of years, spelling out what Tezza had predicted, and how none of it had happened; more likely that the opposite had happened. Apparently Tezza did attempt to parry the thrusts, but received a 'let me finish' - and a few more pieces of his pathetic history as an economic seer.
Seems Tezza never quite recovered from that mauling, and it coloured his writing for - well, until now, on the evidence of what you have set out for us this day, Dorothy. I won't bother trying to resume the game of Keating bingo from Tezza's writings, because that would require wasting good coffee money on one or other of Rupert's publications.
That's a poignant tale, Chadders, reading Tezza in Adelaide. It was in Adelaide that the pond formed its fear and loathing of the Murdoch empire, though the rag that formed the basis of the empire was a tattered, wretched thing, seemingly designed to burnish memories of The Daily Mirror ...
DeleteThe pond would love to have been a fly on the cheek of Tezza during that press conference, just to sup on the tears ...
Well thanks for that, Chad and DP; I won't have to rack my brains trying to say anything minimally meaningful about a Tezza rave. Read and forget - that's the way.
DeleteSomething I never quite adjusted to when I had to sit in the 'Advisors' Box' in SA Parliament was to see that each sitting actually opened a few minutes before 2 PM, with one of the 'messengers' walking around the benches putting copies - on which the ink may not have completely dried - of the 'News', in front of each MP. Then came prayers, petitions and the rest of the procedures as set out in the rules of the House. But members had to be aware of the thoughts of Chairman Rupert before giving attention to the interests of the good folk who elected them.
DeleteI was just sitting here not thinking much when I remembered one of those trivial factoids that fill our lives: Emma Alberici started in journalism working for the Melbourne Herald Sun and was, in effect, apprenticed to Tezza.
DeleteNow, hasn't it improved your life to know that ?
Not sure about that one GB, though any tidbit about the reptiles is worth savouring ...such an incestuous tribe, with newsrooms full of interbreeding, nepo babies and blood rivalries...
DeleteKillerC: "...the country's gross mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic that caused immense socio-economic and health damage, the full extent of which won't be understood for generations." Right, now "generations" is a minimum of 50 years, so will KillerC still be compos mentis then ? Will any of the current mob of reptiles and wingnuts still be around to own up ?
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the way KillerC blames "the country's gross mismanagement" without having to credit who did the mismanaging. And apart from being one half of a weekly radio show replacement for Rush Limbaugh (remember him ?), who the hell is Clay Travis and why would anything he had to say be of any interest to Australians ? Oh, ok, he's an attempted jury tamperer for Trump - thanks for turning that up DP.
Anyhow it's easy to see KillerC's motivation in railing against "censorship":
Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/far-right-open-source-technology-censorship
If we insist on censoring mis/dis/mal-information, who would be first in line ?
The hot-take time-machinist's first amendments' first amendment?
Deletehttps://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/how-did-it-happen
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
So, Gotty: "US and Australian sharemarkets both fear the same danger - wages are breaking out and this will be reflected in prices and inflation." Ok then, when the poor old 'wage earners' try to lift their wages in order to catch up with the inflationary price rises imposed by the wealthy, then it's them who are causing inflation.
ReplyDeleteRight, so that makes it a never ending cycle of price rises causing wage hikes which cause inflation which cause price hikes which ...
And is that why the Melbourne Age, which back when I was a paper boy cost all of 1/- now costs $4.40. And that is the triumph of free market capitalism.
GB - 'wage inflation' was a recent contribution to Foxnomics from Maria Bartiromo. A few weeks back on her weekend show she was faced, yet again, with the problem of how to throw shade on an array of steadily improving economic indicators arising out of Bidenomics. She found a talking head, apparently tenured at a recognisable university, but otherwise not widely known to the profession of economics, who sallied forth on the peculiar dangers of 'wage inflation'. Wages were rising steadily for Americans in what most of us would recognise as actual jobs, but her informant told her listeners that not all inflation was equal in its effect, and wages inflation was particularly bad. Maria, as usual, cut in on him before he had to explain why it had to be uniquely bad.
DeleteBut it seems that reptile contributors have picked-up on this new aspect of inflation, with the advantage that, if pressed for explanation, they can attribute it to 'leading American economists'.
Thanks, Chad, I'd never otherwise have caught up with that. It is a perfect example, though, of the "say anything and your followers will attribute great wisdom to it" syndrome, isn't it, which Trump practises always.
DeleteWhat is a stronger word than cesspit?
ReplyDeleteX.
"It goes without saying that Killer loves to revel in the Muskian cesspit" ... "the pond would evoke Godwin or Colin Wilson, but the joke's a bit tired" yet Elon, the buck's butt gland, has no such qualms as "Elon Musk Says He'll Reinstate Twitter Account Of Hitler-Loving White Supremacist"
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Mien Gotte! Groan.