Sound familiar?
For decades, conservative media has thrived on a business model that monetizes outrage and distrust. The more outrageous the claim, the greater the engagement. The more distrust sowed toward institutions — universities, media, elections, public health, the FBI — the more loyal the audience becomes.
That's in a piece about a particular brand of conspiratorial fallout Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens.
... In December, even as Owens was deep into Charlie Kirk assassination trutherism, Erika Kirk was urging TPUSA audiences to be tolerant of disagreeable views. By the time the right decided Owens had gone too far, she had already built a fully independent operation. The movement that once shielded Owens is now discovering that monsters raised on grievance do not recognize fences. The conservative movement no longer has credible gatekeepers. Right-wing media’s fragmentation means that condemnation from established outlets often strengthens, rather than weakens, insurgent figures like Owens.
But that's true not just of far right American loons.
It's also true of the lizard Oz, diligently cultivating all sorts of phobias, then wondering why the likes of Barners and Pauline are in now momentum mode.
And yet they remain determinedly clueless about this simple insight: if you hang out with fundamentalist Xians, at some point or another, you're going to end up in Crusader mode ...
An unnamed noncommissioned officer wrote in an email to MRFF that a commander had urged officers “to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”...
...The officer claimed the commander had told the unit that Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”.
Next thing you know we've got some weirdo in the ALP seeking attention by enrolling himself in this new holy roller war (see yesterday's pond).
They're everywhere, and there are a couple of prime examples in this day's lizard Oz.
But before going there, a quick check of the lizard Oz headlines to see what absurdities are being peddled by the reptiles ...
Sure enough, the will of the Iranian people has been miraculously translated into the will of King Donald, who will decide who can rule, while sending in the Kurds just to make sure there's an even greater unholy mess going down ...
At the bottom of the King Donald yarns came news of him taking Ice Barbie out to a quarry and putting her down like a collagen-saturated puppy dog.
The pond has been told, but can't confirm, that the collagen splatter was enough to keep a thousand beauty shops busy for a thousand years. (Long live the Reich)
No complaints, apparently all this was on the ballot ...
It was left to Joe, lesser member of the Kelly gang, to bring news of the war spiralling out into the world ...
Sheesh, it must be serious, that's the bromancer looking haggard, unshaven and solemn...
Cameron spent time brooding about the Kurds ...
CIA-backed Kurds begin ground war against Iran amid US air attacks
CIA-backed Iranian Kurdish fighters have entered northwestern Iran to launch the first ground offensive against the regime as US and Israeli forces clear their way with bombs
By Cameron Stewart
No saucy doubts or fears for triumphalist Cameron, cavorting in glee ...
The US is now pressuring the Iraqi Kurds to join forces with the Iranian Kurds against the Iranian regime. But the Iraqi government is opposed to this, fearing retribution from Tehran and from Iran-aligned militia in Iraq.
US military support for the Iranian Kurds is also likely to alarm Recep Erdogan’s government in Turkey and Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government in Syria given that both countries have sizeable Kurdish minorities which they try to keep in check.
Critics say the US backing of the Kurds increases the chances of sectarian civil war or even a regional war.
The US has an uneven relationship with Kurds across the Middle East, allying with them against common enemies such as ISIS, and then abandoning them when circumstances change.
The US has this year ended its former anti-ISIS alliance with the Kurds in northern Syria because it has backed the attempts of the new pro-US al-Sharaa regime to unify the fractured country, ending hopes for a Kurdish homeland.
But in such a hot war with Iran, Washington seems determined to take whatever options it has to help topple the Iranian regime.
The timely alignment of the US and the Iranian Kurds in the common cause of defeating the regime is another blow to the Mullahs in Tehran.
What could possibly go wrong with this "timely alignment"?
Meanwhile, grating Gemma decided that King Donald must be an Iranian woman, and that Iranian women are full Kurd because she suggested asking them if it's worth it (are we asking Saudi Arabian women at the same time?)...
The West looked away while Iran’s Women burned. Now, it lectures them on peace
The barbaric reality of Iran’s regime makes an absolute mockery of comfortable Western activists demanding ‘peace’ over liberation.
By Gemma Tognini
Columnist
Speak for yourself garrulous Gemma.
Besides, if King Donald anoints the new ruler, and the Kurds create chaos, the pond bets that Iranian women have a fair chance of becoming Afghani women clones, savouring the charms of being grabbed by the pussy.
Good luck to those unfortunate women, caught between frying pan and fire, and delusional Gemma.
If anyone else were doing the displacing of the mad Mullahs, the pond would live in hope, but this is a mob who turned over Venezuela not to change the regime, but to loot oil and gold.
And so to the hive mind pièce de résistances for the day.
Speaking of religious loons, who should bob up like a bad apple this day but the onion muncher?
The header: Carney’s ‘middle-power diplomacy’ is a rhetorical cop-out; The so-called ‘global rules-based order’ only exists to the extent that America and its allies have successfully intimidated predator nations from challenging it.
The caption: Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney (L) listens to Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 5, 2026. Picture: David Gray, AFP.
Elbows up Canada, if you've put the mad monk's nose out of joint you're doing something right.
The pond realises that correspondents will flee at the presence of the sycophantic, lickspittle Orbán fellow traveller and worshipper, but that's the way it goes.
The pond knew from the get go that five minutes in the company of a war-mongering white Catholic nationalist would be certain to induce nausea, but forget it Jake, it's part of the job description.
Nausea is your friend, nausea is your sign that you retain some connection to a more pleasant world:
Australia was always there for America – in Korea, in Vietnam, in the first and second Gulf wars, and in Afghanistan – not America’s most important ally but it’s most dependable one – because successive Australian governments realised the leader of the free world had to be supported if freedom were to flourish.
Australia was there when Islamic State burst out of the Syrian desert in mid-2014 and reached the gates of Baghdad: air-dropping supplies to the Yazidis besieged on Mt Sinjar, running guns to the Kurds in Erbil, helping to co-ordinate the liberation of Mosul, rebuilding the Iraqi army at Taji, and flying strike missions across the Middle Eastern war zone.
More recently, following America’s lead, Australia has made modest contributions to arming Ukraine. Yet in all probability, a few tepid words will be Australia’s sole part in the current action against a regime so evil that it routinely slaughters tens of thousands of its own citizens, has manically sought the nuclear weapons needed to annihilate both Israel and America, and has even funded terrorist attacks on our own soil.
The reptiles interrupted with a reminder that there was no point in being too cosy with Canucks who didn't know how to puck, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese as they arrive for a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 5, 2026. Picture: David Gray, AFP
Inevitably the onion muncher was in war monger mode. There's never been a war he hasn't liked, and many will recall his exceptional service (as a student, as a student!, as an "aggressive terrier", always ready to face charges for common and indecent assault).
But the pond digresses, we're on a war footing ...
Eventually, the Prime Minister said Australia “supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon”, but stressed that Australia had no notice of the attack and “Washington has not requested Australian assistance”, nor did he “anticipate such a request”. Compared to its studied even-handedness between the liberal democratic government of Israel and the Hamas death cult, this was at least belated moral clarity; but it’s typical of the Albanese government that while eventually in favour of the right thing, it won’t lift a finger to bring it about.
It’s hardly surprising that Washington failed to consult Australia given the Albanese government’s ostentatious refusal to use our armed forces for anything other than disaster relief and its reluctance to call out Islamist extremism.
In December 2023, the government’s refusal to send a frigate to help enforce freedom of navigation in the Red Sea was the first time since the ANZUS alliance was forged in 1951 that Australia has turned down an American request for military help. At the time, there were five frigates and destroyers docked at Sydney’s Garden Island naval base. Either they could not safely be deployed, lacked crew, or – more likely – the government did not want to upset the Islamist lobby here in Australia by deploying them against Iran’s Houthi allies.
That we were neither asked for help nor advised of what was coming speaks volumes for Australia’s shrinking stature in the wider world. This of the country that sent 330,000 men overseas in the Great War and then put almost a million into uniform 25 years on, in order to help preserve democratic freedoms.
At this point the pond introduced a distraction from the war mongering, and who could blame them.
It came in this form ... The Front: Can Iran really close the Persian Gulf?
Instead of making the hive mind listen, the reptiles decided to provide a transcript. (The number of clicks must have been diabolical):
The pond can understand why the reptiles would want to distract from the onion muncher, but it's in the intermittent archive, and the pond must return to the low road ...
Our government had enough inkling of what was about to happen to remove non-essential staff from our Middle Eastern embassies and to issue travel warnings – but not enough gumption to call the Americans to offer the assistance that a decent ally should have been ready to provide.
The same command-and-control aircraft, aerial refuellers and strike fighters that did so much to defeat Islamic State should have been volunteered again.
Quite apart from the fact that they would have been engaged in making the world safer for free peoples everywhere, they would have been acquiring priceless operational experience, and cementing Australia’s value as a friend and ally. Donald Trump’s scornful gibe at Britain’s PM that “he’s no Winston Churchill”, so far, might equally be deployed against our own, who’s no Billy Hughes.
Let’s hope he might yet emulate John Curtin, the World War I pacifist who eventually mobilised the whole country to fight against Germany and Japan. And while Sir Keir Starmer has shamefully run down Britain’s armed forces, at least Royal Air Force jets have now engaged Iranian drones in the Gulf, a Royal Navy ship is being deployed to the Mediterranean, and British bases are finally being made available to US forces.
How weird did it get? The reptiles flung in a snap of the man whom the onion muncher thought constituted some sort of clever jibe... Former PM William “Billy” Hughes
Well might it be said that the onion muncher is no Archbishop Daniel Mannix ...
And so to the war with China, preferably by Xmas ...
The Albanese government is fond of flagging defence initiatives but almost all of them are spending money in the far distant future or supposedly creating jobs in Australia rather than actually boosting our fighting strength now. Other than three air warfare destroyers we have no serious anti-missile defences plus almost no drone or counter-drone capability, even though the Ukraine conflict has made it obvious how central this is to modern war-fighting. Everything is about political management rather than real national security
It’s crystal clear where this is leading. When the US eventually asks us – as it inevitably will – to join in contingency planning against a Communist Chinese assault on democratic Taiwan, the Albanese government wants to be able to say that we’d like to help but can’t. Or that we could and would but only in a decade’s time when, or if, we finally get the AUKUS subs. It’s pacifism disguised as forward planning. Even though becoming an economic colony of Beijing would be the ultimate fate of an Australia without solid alliances. Perhaps that’s what some in the Albanese government would actually prefer to any readiness to fight for ourselves and our like-minded partners.
Or we could position ourselves well ...
Next came a snap of the puppet master with his puppet, Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Time for a final bout of triumphalism, with echoes of Afghanistan ringing in the pond's ears:
After all, any rule of law worthy of the name requires a democratic parliament to make it, impartial judges to administer it, and – most importantly – honest police to enforce it. The so-called “global rules-based order” only exists to the extent that America and its allies have successfully intimidated predator nations from challenging it. Notwithstanding his mockery of Canada as the 51st state, and verbal bullying of Denmark over Greenland, Trump is actually doing far more to uphold it than any recent president. In an imperfect world, better a flawed man doing good things than better ones doing nothing.
The current attempt to destroy forever the Iranian theocracy’s nuclear cravings will make the world safer, fairer and better – yet the shameful, humiliating reality is that Australia is doing nothing practical to bring it about.
Ah yes ...
And so to the hole in bucket man, offering a variation on same:
The header: Starmer’s betrayal of US dismantles Churchill’s legacy; On the eightieth anniversary of Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech that proposed the ‘special relationship’, Starmer’s grubby politics are an insult to the memory of Britain’s greatest prime minister.
The caption: Winston Churchill giving his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Missouri in 1946. Picture: Supplied
Interesting factoid ... "iron curtain" had a long history, way back to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium in 1914, before that artful rip off merchant made it his own ...
As for the rest, another five minutes of wasted life, and yet it's the pond's duty, though the pond does think it should provide a link to Our Henry's ranting in the intermittent archive.
Why? Well second par into the piece Our Henry makes reference to the way that Churchill was struggling with exhaustion.
Any sensible reader might think clicking on the link would lead to some further insight into Churchill's struggles.
Instead it led to another bog standard reptile outing, which began this way ...
You see? Nothing to do with Churchill's struggles, all to do with keeping punters inside the hive mind.
Once you've booked into the Hotel Emeritus Chairman, you can never leave.
In much the same way, this week Henry cultists can forget references to ancient Roman and Greek times, and Thucydides and all that jazz.
This week it's the British Empire Times.
Now read on, but feel free to leave at any time ...
At the time, Churchill was struggling with exhaustion and the shock of electoral defeat. Yet the prospect of speaking before, and thus directly to, the president of the United States – an occasion certain to attract the world’s press – proved irresistible.
In the event, Churchill’s lecture lived up to his ambition of “starting some thinking that would make history” – thinking he believed was desperately needed. The war had accelerated a longer-term shift toward a bipolar world order. By its end, the United States and the Soviet Union each had between 11 and 12 million men and women under arms; the collapse of Germany, together with the devastation of most of Europe, had brought these vast forces into direct confrontation on the continent itself.
The reptiles interrupted with a snap of that man, Keir Starmer speaking during prime minister's questions in the House of Commons in London on March 4, 2026. Picture: Jessica Taylor, AFP.
Churchill, however, had long harboured serious doubts about the USSR’s intentions. In a little-known episode, he had, in May 1945, instructed his military planners to draw up plans for “Operation Unthinkable”, which would “impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British empire” so as to secure “a square deal for Poland”: a deal that respected Stalin’s commitments at Yalta.
Those plans were quietly shelved as unrealistic. But by early 1946, when the Fulton speech was drafted, the United States had acquiesced in a Polish government entirely subject to Soviet control. At the same time, the American army was rapidly demobilising, creating a vacuum the Soviets were certain to exploit. Plainly, a reality check was required.
The statement that earned the speech its enduring fame – “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” – sprang directly from those concerns. Churchill had in fact used “iron curtain” several times before, both in the House of Commons and in a telegram to Truman; the Fulton speech vaulted it to world attention.
But no less important, in Churchill’s mind, was the accompanying warning: that when confronted by an ideology virulently hostile to Western civilisation, it was moral cowardice to respond “by a policy of appeasement”. He had seen the danger before: “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.” The result was that “we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool”. “We surely must not let that happen again.”
Any thoughts about Vlad the Sociopath, Ukraine, and King Donald wanting to feed Ukrainians to the little fishes so he can make out like a Vlad-loving bandit? Any mention of state Russian media suddenly getting antsy about the way things are heading?Any note on the way they've now got the cheek to ask the Ukrainians for help!?
Nah, not a single word!
Instead, just have a period snap ...Copy pic of the handshake between Winston Churchill (L), Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin (R) infront of Churchill's residence in Potsdam, Germany 23/07/1945.
Amazing in a way that Our Henry could ignore Ukraine's current predicament, and yet, also entirely typical, a man so clueless all he can do is revert to blathering about Gladstone...
Like “iron curtain”, Churchill had already invoked the need for a post-war “special relationship”; the novelty lay less in the proposal than in its implication that the United Nations would not suffice to assure the freedoms for which millions had died.
“There is,” he said, “nothing (the Russians) admire more than strength, and nothing for which they have less respect than weakness.” Peace had to rest on a credible threat of force, which the proposed trans-Atlantic alliance would provide.
Unsurprisingly, Joseph Stalin, in a rare Pravda interview, immediately denounced the speech as a “call to war”. As for what he called its “racist” premise – that the English-speaking peoples, “being the only valuable nations, should rule over the remaining nations of the world” – it “reminded (him) remarkably of Hitler”.
And unsurprisingly too, the “progressive” wing of the Democrats, along with the Soviet-aligned “peace movement”, echoed Stalin’s criticisms, and ensured that Churchill was greeted in New York by angry demonstrators chanting “Winnie, Winnie, go away – UNO is here to stay”.
However, Churchill had fully absorbed Gladstone’s six “right principles of foreign policy”. Central among them was the proposition that when fundamental moral principles were at stake “we shall look to the co-operation of the Powers of civilised Europe. But if every chance of obtaining co-operation is exhausted, the work will be undertaken by the single power of England”.
It is therefore hard to fault Donald Trump’s remark that Sir Keir Starmer is “no Winston Churchill”. The refusal to allow the United States to use Diego Garcia is not merely unprecedented; it is perhaps the most serious blow to the “special relationship” in its long history.
The pond hopes that Ukraine feels full as a goog on Gladstone, because that's about all they're going to get from Our Henry and King Donald, US President Donald Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026. Picture: Kenny Holston, AFP.
Our Henry decided he'd end with a full flourish of war monger ...
Together with Spain’s similar refusal, Starmer’s gesture will only deepen Washington’s conviction that strategic bases cannot depend on allied goodwill but must be sited on territories the United States owns and controls – Greenland among them.
This is, in other words, a political calculation as grubby as it is reckless. Yes, Donald Trump may be no Harry Truman. But that cannot excuse betraying a partnership that, despite every disagreement and strain, has helped form “the sinews of peace” – exactly as Churchill had hoped, when he warned the West against appeasing its implacable enemies, eighty years ago.
Donald Trump may be no Harry Truman?
Amen to that ...
That doesn't explain why we should get in to bed with a narcissistic man child off on assorted ventures as a way of avoiding any Trumpstein files fallout.
On the other hand, speaking of implacable enemies, we must never give up the chance to murder a few schoolkids by sending hellfire down on them.
It's the Our Henry, onion munching way ...
Good news for Iranian girls, eh, grating Gemma? Talk about liberation, a full on liberation from the land of the living.
And so to a final note on the way the hive mind works to keep everyone inside the hotel for ever ...
At the very end of Our Henry's piece, he proposed by way of aside and link, that "Donald Trump may be no Harry Truman."
Click on the link , and you'll end up here, in a singularity ...
What's so singular about that distraction, that link?
There's not a single mention of Harry Truman! Let alone him not being a pathetic wannabe King.
Go on, do a word search. See if you can find a reference to Truman.
It's fraud, plain and simple, all designed to keep gormless punters inside the hive mind.
What a relief to turn to the infallible Pope for a jolly way to end this early morning outing ...
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