In which Dame Slap drops in from planet Janet, while Lloydie of the Amazon produces a two-minute fizzer ...

 

Remember this? It wasn't so long ago, CPAC, National Harbour Maryland, 20th Feb 2025...

How some reptiles loved to reference the Argentinian economist in his chainsaw heydays...

Now this ...

Trump says he will help Argentina, World Bank to accelerate support

US ready to help with Argentina's fiscal turmoil

Where's a Monk when he's needed?

Where's the Speccie mob, diligently parroting his words about the western world being in danger? In tin pot ribbon-slash dictator mode ...

Better call the World Bank about that Jack ...

Enough already, you get the US taxpayer dollar drift ... and of course there was none of that in the lizard Oz at start of day ...

Instead the reptiles were wildly excited by the prospect of a ritual humiliation by an increasingly demented King Donald.

Donald Trump agrees to meet Anthony Albanese at White House (earlier version archived)
By Geoff Chambers and Joe Kelly

Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump are set to meet in Washington on October 20 in what would be a stand-alone working visit from the Australian Prime Minister.

How the reptiles loved the sight of the demented Don looming like an ogre in the darkness ...

The reptiles in the lizard Oz hive mind are increasingly sounding MAGA and are inclined to take the demented ramblings of an old man seriously ...

Cue Joe, lesser member of the Kelly gang, to transcribe his words ...

Trump UN speech
‘Going to hell’: Trump blasts open borders and climate change at UN
In a blistering address, Donald Trump denounced climate change as the ‘greatest con job ever,’ ridiculed ‘pathetic’ renewables and accused the body of funding an ‘assault’ on Western borders.

By Joe Kelly

Who takes anything the senile old Tylenol denier says seriously?

Why Geoff does, as the foolish fop chambered yet another round ...

Commentary by Geoff Chambers

Trump’s scathing advice to global leaders will have PM squirming
The President’s lacerating UN address outlining his unflinching positions on issues like renewables and Palestine will at least prepare Albanese for a roasting when the two leaders meet.

How they yearn, in their MAGA way for a Zelensky squirming and roasting, perhaps with JD on hand to help out with the insults... though there might be an alternative that would please them. Do what News Corp does on a regular basis, head to where the sun don't shine ...

Meanwhile, there was the usual climate denialist EXCLUSIVE ...

EXCLUSIVE
Go for gas to power green goals: Narrabri’s ‘time has come’, says Malinauskas
Narrabri has long been stalled but a new intervention may provide the political will to deliver a major new gas project to Australia’s east coast.
By Perry Williams and Greg Brown

Nothing like a croweater to help gas the country to save the planet and set the reptiles afire.

Over on the extreme far right there was an abundance, a veritable feast of reptile and so pond regulars ...

Nattering "Ned" was briefly top of the lizard Oz world ma...

PM’s Middle East play may well be an obstacle to peace
The October 7 massacres had a powerful political legacy in Israel – it convinced most of the population that it didn’t have a peace partner in the Palestinians.
By Paul Kelly
Editor-At-Large

What a relief to be able to send "Ned" off to the cornfield ... with just a teaser trailer to offer ...

Here, have an infallible Pope to go with that ...

How the reptiles are devoted to ethnic cleansing and the ongoing genocide ...

Meanwhile, Ted was absolutely shocked, shocked he and the reptiles tells ya...

The shocking true cost of Labor’s climate targets
The Coalition has vowed to fight Labor’s new emissions targets, claiming the government has hidden the true economic cost of its climate agenda from Australians.
By Ted O’Brien

Again all that's needed is a teaser:

Um, Ted, where does the pond send the bill for its still undelivered SMR? What about it Ted? 

The cost of the concrete block in the backyard weighs heavily on the pond ... there it sits, forlornly waiting the SMR's arrival, the pond ever so keen to nuke the country to save the planet ...

And with Ted sampled, by the pond's count that left just two featured reptiles standing ... and naturally the pond was going to go the full hog with Lloydie of the Amazon, resident expert reptile climate science denialist, muted for a long time but now regularly erupting in two minute spurts ...

The header: Pulling the plug on the Climate Change Authority’s EV logic, The trick is to make existing technologies so expensive the renewable energy alternative appears cheap by comparison.

The caption for the image which reeks of AI slop: Fewer than 8 per cent of car sales this year were EVs Picture: Monique Harmer

That EV image set Lloydie right off, though the hapless saviour could only salivate for the regulation two minutes  ...

Spruiking the inevitability of an electric car revolution in Australia, Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean chose to highlight the experience of Norway, where he said 98 per cent of new car sales were electric.
Norway is indeed the poster child for EVs in Europe, with more of the vehicles per capita than any other country but it is worth digging a little deeper as to why this is the case.
About 95 per cent of electricity in Norway is generated by hydro electricity and there are strong incentives for consumers to chose EVs.
These include subsidies, cheaper parking and tolls, and the right to use bus and taxi lanes on many roads. But, according to Christina Bu, secretary-general of the Norwegian Electric car association the “strongest incentive may be that we heavily tax the purchase of polluting petrol and diesel cars”.
This, again, is the reality of the decarbonisation story. The trick is to make existing technologies so expensive the renewable energy alternative appears cheap by comparison.
This is why the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries is saying it will not be possible to reach the CCA’s Authority’s electric vehicle target without big subsidies.
It says the simple fact is there is not enough consumer demand to meet the CCA’s goal of 50 per cent of car sales to be EVs between now and 2035.
Fewer than 8 per cent of new car sales this year were EVs, and despite nearly 100 EV models being made available they were being rejected by consumers.
“The supply is coming on stream (but) the demand is not there”, FCAI chief executive Tony Weber said.
The industry says something is needed to change behaviour dramatically across a large portion of the buying public. This presumably includes the adoption of the sort of coercive policies being used in Norway.
And it probably explains why the federal government has been coy about adopting the CCA’s modelling.
The same can be said for the size of the renewable energy deployment under the new decarbonisation targets of between 62 and 70 per cent below 2005 levels, given the difficulties that have been experienced meeting existing targets of 43 per cent.
The government is also silent on what will be required from industry under a revised safeguards mechanism.
And from farmers and foresters who are being called upon to do their bit for climate.
Glossing over the full story about Norway and EVs tells a lot about how the CCA does its business. And it bodes ill for the federal government that is taking its advice, as well as workers, taxpayers and consumers who will eventually have to foot the bill.

That's it, that's the best Lloydie could do? If he's going to save the Amazon, he'll have to do better than that ...

Luckily Dame Slap was also to hand to provide some MAGA comedy ...

The header: Donald Trump delivers acute free-speech lesson to the often deaf left, Kimmel became a martyr when Trump and his crony at the FCC stepped in threatening to punish people who say things they don’t like.

The caption for the shocking image designed to suggest that Kimmel had a part in the Satyricon: Actor Johnny Depp on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The reptiles couldn't even put into words what was actually happening. Men kissing on television. The shame, quelle horreur...

Dame Slap did her very best to be horrified in her own land above the Faraway tree way ...

More than 30 years ago, Daniel Henninger wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal headed “No Guardrails”. It was about the gunning down of an abortion doctor in Florida by a man named Michael Frederick Griffin. The murder showed “how small the barrier has become that separates civilised society from uncivilised behaviour in American life”.
“In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalised people among us who don’t understand the rules, who don’t think that rules of personal or civil conduct apply to them, who have no notion of self-control. We are the country that has a TV commercial on all the time that says: ‘Just do it.’ Michael Frederick Griffin just did it,” wrote Henninger.
The 1993 editorial – which apparently hangs in the conference room where Journal opinion writers meet – explored the lowering, in some cases the removal, of the barriers of acceptable political and personal conduct.
We reached another “no guardrails” milestone these past few weeks. And it’s nothing to celebrate. When civil societies – meaning we, the people – chip away at the norms of behaviour that keep us civilised, something really bad usually follows. Like the murder of Charlie Kirk.
The next thing that happens when self-restraint is no longer regarded as a virtue is that government steps in with a sledgehammer. In this case, Donald Trump is determined to get rid of people in the media who don’t like him. His reaction dam­ages a couple of things that civil society depends on – self-restraint and speaking freely without being censored by a government. The two are not inconsistent.
Given his views about both, Kirk would presumably have been one of Trump’s biggest critics.

Say what?

Kirk would presumably have been one of Trump’s biggest critics.

Only on planet Janet, but then the pond likes to remind correspondents that this Dame has MAGA-cap donning form ...

Carry on Slapping ...

The other thing that happened, this time at least, is that legions of people on the left bloviated about the importance of free speech.
“It’s pretty huge,” ABC journalist Laura Tingle said on Insiders, speaking about the censorship that unfolded this past week.
You don’t say.

At this point the reptiles interrupted with a dancing man nonentity, full stop, Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says Jimmy Kimmel has “never apologised” for spreading “misinformation”, while the ABC has been “complicit” in his show’s removal. “The FCC … have an obligation not to spread misinformation,” Mr Spicer told Sky News host James Macpherson. “When Jimmy Kimmel uses a late-night show to attack the MAGA movement … and lie to the American people about the nature of this heinous crime.”

Dame Slap once again managed to forget her MAGA cap-donning ways...

To Trump’s critics, I say come on in. It’s good to have you on the side of liberalism. The door has always been open to hear from the left when governments try to regulate – translation: censor – what people can say. Alas, not many members of the political left have stepped up. Until now.
It’s easy to get enthusiastic about free speech when a thin-skinned Trump, in his familiar bombastic manner, says that people in the media who say nasty things about him should be kicked off the air. It’s just as easy to get riled up when Trump’s man at the Federal Communications Commission threatens Disney and its affiliates if they fail to punish late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for an inane statement – and Kimmel gets booted off air.
Kimmel, a progressive luvvie of late-night TV, is back on air this week after his on-air shenanigans claiming Kirk’s suspected killer was part of the “MAGA gang”. We were all doing fine, sifting through the drivel, rebutting the factual errors. A thriving and healthy marketplace of ideas made sure that Kimmel, apparently a comedian, was exposed as a fool who wasn’t funny at all. Surely that was enough.
Kimmel became a martyr when Trump and his crony at the FCC stepped in threatening to punish people who say things they don’t like. It’s a far nobler pursuit to defend free speech when you’re not defending one of your own. That exercise requires defending a principle. Not as sexy as defending a fellow traveller who echoes your views, to be sure. Principles are just unwritten norms, ideas that won’t protect us unless enough people defend them. Guardrails, if you like.

What a righteous loon she is, as the reptiles interrupted with an unlovely Rita meter maid moment... ‘Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered’ host Kinsey Schofield says Jimmy Kimmel was “so fired up” by his show being taken off the air by Disney. “The specifics of Kimmel’s opening monologue on Tuesday remain under wraps, and it’s unclear whether he will directly address the suspension,” Ms Schofield told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “One insider said they don’t know exactly how he’ll handle it, but he’s definitely not going to back down. The past week has only made him bolder. “They say that he really didn’t want to come back, that he wanted to quit on principle.”

There have been clues ...

Meanwhile, speaking of clowns and fools, that bastion of bigotry, hate and bile, that routine scolder and reviler, her keyboard dipped in vituperative acid, that assaulter of judges and lawyers, and assiduous fiddler and player in the Lehrmann matter, kept on pretending that she was on the side of the angels ...

When your distaste for Trump or Kirk or any other political warrior drives you to say crazy things, it’s another little dent in the guardrails that keep us civilised. Sadly, there will always be some people who don’t understand why tolerating others is important. When guns are freely available, that’s a recipe for murder. But let’s not pretend that suspect Tyler Robinson’s belief that “some hate you can’t negotiate with” came out of nowhere.
A decision by Robinson allegedly to pick up a gun was steeped in the morality-tinted intolerance of our so-called progressive society. Though not an absolute rule, those on the right disagree by calling their opponent’s ideas stupid or, on occasion, their opponent stupid too. By contrast, those on the left are more inclined to say their opponent is immoral. Cloaking disputes in terms of morality invites and justifies extreme responses. Robinson allegedly killed a man rather than try to defeat his ideas.
Sections of the right are calling for government regulation of “hate speech”. “Hate speech” is a term open to abuse, a weapon that one side uses to shut down ideas and people they hate. Similar calls have gone out for government to crack down on “misinformation”.
Lowering the guardrails of liberty will create an ugly beast common in authoritarian regimes – government censorship. Why did it take the antics of Trump and others on the right for many on the left in the US and here in Australia to wake up to this?

Um, dare the pond say that it was the antics of Dame Slap, donning that MAGA cap and slipping out into the New York night to celebrate the arrival of her king in power that dragged the pond out of its slumber?

How she loved the hound back then ...

 Do go on ...

Some might say we should reserve judgment on the new hyperventilating fans of free speech on the left. Plenty of Democrats have, over the years, called for the FCC to have greater powers to regulate the media. In Australia, the left has shown an equally limp attachment to free speech and a free media.

Sorry, once again the reptiles paused for a serve of unlovely Rita, sometime meter maid ... ‘Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered’ host Kinsey Schofield discusses some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities having a meltdown over Jimmy Kimmel being temporarily taken off the air. Jennifer Anniston, Ben Affleck, and Cynthia Nixon are some of the celebrities who have come out in full force. “The idea that these celebrities are complaining about free speech by the government, this was Disney’s decision, it was a business decision,” Ms Schofield told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “The fact that they can’t comprehend that it’s a little concerning that these people are influencing our culture.”

That Kinsey sounds like a right royal loon, and so she is, with impeccable credentials for fame in these influencer days ...Schofield was a contestant on the E! television reality show, Party Monsters Cabo, where she was the runner-up in an event planning competition. (it's in her wiki)

Apologies for the interruption by yet another US wannabe wandering down under to find a home with the reptiles, carry on Slapping...

In 2011, the Gillard government and communications minister Stephen Conroy were eager to regulate the media, with a de facto licensing scheme that would have invited government pressure. Facing an intense period of criticism for its incompetence, the Gillard government responded after Greens leader Bob Brown dubbed this newspaper the “hate media”.
Trump says what he thinks: he says he wants his critics muzzled. Though prime minister Julia Gillard and her ministers were more circumspect, some might say crafty, the outcome of muzzling critics would have been the same.
But hang on, where were the ardent opponents of government censorship on the left back then? Do they really require Trumpian directness to spot an attack on media freedom?
There was no impassioned defence of free speech when the Albanese government introduced a bill to prohibit “misinformation”. Lies and misinformation may be bad for us, but what’s far, far worse for us is allowing people in power to control the flow of information using a subjective weapon like “misinformation”.
The lesson here for the left is obvious. You might enjoy handing government the power to regulate “misinformation” when it’s a left-wing government doing the regulating.
But once you arm any government with the power to censor speech, you can’t control where it ends. If you give this power to an Albanese, you can’t then complain if it ends up being wielded by an Australian version of Trump.
Alas, Americans are more likely to work this out ahead of us because they’re having a serious debate about it. One might even call this a culture war that will land them in a more sensible place. Unlike the more precious types over at The Sydney Morning Herald and elsewhere who bemoan the culture wars and wring their hands whenever those with consistent and genuinely liberal ideas fight back.

What a fine finishing flourish, a deploring of those bemoaning the culture wars, those inclined to wringing their hands, with Dame Slap invoking her own culture war and wringing her hands about those incapable of understanding her consistent, genuinely liberal ideas ... best shown by donning a MAGA cap and slipping out into the New York night to celebrate the installation of your new King.

It's stating the bleeding obvious to say that yet again Dame Slap has entirely missed the point. There's a veritable industry, that, just like the lizard Oz this day, scores countless hits tracking the rambling stupidities of King Donald ...

TACO Trump Reveals Humiliating About Face on ‘Paper Tiger’ Russia
I'M OUT!
The surprise shift came after Trump met Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Every day there's a comedy item ...

Leavitt Busted Telling Untruths About Homan’s $50K Sting
WHOOPSIE
Administration officials have given conflicting accounts of whether Trump’s border czar accepted a $50,000 payment.

... or three, with Faux Noise folk always on hand to help out ...

Trump Goon, 25, Fired From Group Organizing America’s 250th Birthday for Going Rogue
OUSTED PUPPET
Ariel Abergel said he was let go for posting a tribute to Charlie Kirk without permission.

A former Fox News producer handpicked by Donald Trump to organize the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations has been fired over an Instagram post about Charlie Kirk.
Ariel Abergel, 25, parachuted into the executive director role at America250, was removed from his position by the bipartisan Semiquincentennial Commission, which oversees planning for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year.
Abergel was fired after he “initiated a security breach of a commission social-media account, attempted to procure the resignations of multiple commissioners by misrepresenting himself as acting on behalf of congressional leadership, and engaged in multiple other serious and repeated breaches of authority and trust,” a spokesperson for America250 told The Wall Street Journal.

And so on and on, from Tylenol Tuesday to wild-eyed Dame Slap Wednesday ... each day a reminder of what the MAGA cap wearer wished on the world, each day a cartoonist's delight ...

Come on down immortal Rowe, wrap up proceedings...

So many details, it's always in the brain worm details ...