In which dashing Donners is called in to cover for the pond's deep south junket ...

 

As previously advised, the pond is off to Melbourne for a few days, and so daily updates on the doings of the reptiles at the lizard Oz aren't feasible.

But this month, the pond's clicks have reached c. 990k, and the pond wondered whether it might be able to reach a cool million.

Relax, they aren't real. The Google bot counter is delusional and fastidiously tracks all the other bots, as well as the AI harvesters dropping into scrape the site, and the only comfort in the figure is that it means assorted AI bots are being eternally corrupted by being exposed to the reptiles.

The real pond traffic runs in the hundreds, and the site is known only to expert herpetologists.

All the same, how to keep the site alive to keep the bots and punters entertained, while not being able to look at the reptiles, as the pond risks life and limb to move amongst the pinko prevert socialists and commie swine of the south?

A casual, passing remark by a correspondent reminded the pond of the existence of dashing Donners.

Once upon a time, he was reliably present on the lizard Oz, and so on the pond, but then he reverted to a trashy tabloid existence at the Daily Terror and other Murdochian tabloids.

The pond decided it would be entertaining to look him up, inspired by Matt McManus's observation in The Bulwark ...

This Far-Right Thought Leader Is Embarrassingly Vacuous
Auron MacIntyre’s world of resentment, decline, and perpetual emergency.
Matt McManus

...It's a curious time to be watching the far right. In days gone by, the far-right milieu produced intellectuals of the caliber of Carl Schmitt or Martin Heidegger. These intense critics of liberalism argued that the inauthentic nullity brought about by liberal metaphysics could only end in civilizational collapse. By contrast, the best that today’s far-right provocateurs seem to be able to muster is tirelessly repeating how casting black and gay people in Disney remakes can only end in civilizational collapse. 

Could dashing Donners live down to that call?

Of course he could ...

You want someone to get agitated about Disney? Hold dashing Donners beer ...

The header: Kevin Donnelly: Woke re-write of Snow White is a Dopey move; The controversy surrounding Disney’s latest rendition of the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs highlights how cultural-left woke ideology is still all pervasive., writes Kevin Donnelly. (The Daily Terror's style is to repeat the name of the scribbler several times so that it can sink in to the noggins of the thugby league-addled hive mind).

The caption for the AV distraction conveniently provided for Terrorists who don't want to read on:

Disney’s live-action remake of ‘Snow White’ has been brutally roasted online amid its weak opening weekend box office. Earning $US43 million on its opening weekend, the film's budget cost Disney $US209 million. Critic reviews have been mixed to negative, with many citing the live-action film fails to live up to the animated classic. The film had received vast criticism regarding its lead, Rachel Zegler, who had touted the film would have a more woke approach. Zegler’s continuous comments bashing the original 1937 animated movie sparked outrage online, with her politics also dividing viewers. Following US President Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, the actress went on a tirade against those who voted for him. Rachel Zegler has since backflipped on many comments surrounding the film.

Truth to tell, the pond had almost completely forgotten the fuss surrounding this outing - there have been any number of turkeys since then - but bear with the pond because this is a parade, neigh a cavalcade of dashing Donners' hits ...

The controversy surrounding Disney’s latest rendition of the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs highlights how cultural-left woke ideology is still all pervasive.

Oh dear, the woke word not just in the header, but at the very start, and with much more woke to come, and so the pond had best slip in its reminder whenever the word slips on ...

Now on with dashing Donners, frothing and foaming in an anti-woke fit ...

The actor playing Snow White, Rachel Zegler, describes the original 1937 version as “weird” and in a 2022 interview said the new version would give women a more assertive role.
Unlike the original film, Zegler states: “She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love … She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”

Bloody feministas! Enough to make a Donners faint, but it gets worse ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is not alone in being rewritten by woke activists.
Classic myths, fairy tales and childhood stories have long been targeted by the cultural-left. Sleeping Beauty is condemned as the sleeping princess fails to give consent when kissed by the prince.
Woke activists argue Thomas the Tank Engine reinforces capitalism as there is a hierarchy starting with the Fat Controller.

Not Thomas, anyone but Thomas...

Everyone knows that Thomas was a libertarian anarchist who refused to work for the Man ...

But it didn't stop there ...

Classic myths, fairy tales and childhood stories have long been targeted by the cultural-left. Sleeping Beauty is condemned as the sleeping princess fails to give consent when kissed by the prince.
Woke activists argue Thomas the Tank Engine reinforces capitalism as there is a hierarchy starting with the Fat Controller.

How could that be? He just wants to be a Really Useful Engine and run over any woke loon in his way ...

Just to make sure everyone knew the topic at hand ... Rachel Zegler attends the World Premiere of Disney's Snow White at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. Picture: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney

Dashing Donners was now in full litany of horrors mode, with poor old Shakspere among the victims...

According to one American academic the children’s story unfairly prioritises hard work.

Even Shakespeare is not immune. The trust responsible for overseeing the Bard’s manuscripts and memorabilia is working to “ensure that stories of trans people are recorded, celebrated and preserved as contributions to achieving gender equality”.
On the basis visitors “may encounter language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful”, the trust is also committed to “explore the process of decolonising our collections and our organisational practice, helping to create a more inclusive museum experience”.
Underlying the concept of decolonisation is the belief the reason why Shakespeare’s works are held in such high esteem, instead of being inherently significant and worthwhile, is because they are the products of British imperialism and white supremacy.
So much for acknowledging and celebrating Shakespeare as a universally admired playwright and poet whose works are considered the most insightful, profound, superbly crafted and enduring among the greats of the English language.

Damn you Baz. How dare you slip firearms into the text. 

And why didn't you show Juliet's real age, fit and proper for the times of King Donald and his friend Epstein ...

Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she, God rest all Christian souls
Were of an age

The reptiles slipped in a snap to evoke the full horror...Andrew Burnap, left, and Rachel Zegler in a scene from "Snow White." (Disney via AP)

At last dashing Donners was in his Harold Bloom element, and could rant and rage long into the night...

Also, so much for valuing plays like King Lear and The Tempest that reveal so much about the dangers of hubris, the trauma associated with loss and suffering, the importance of forgiveness and redemption and what constitutes truth, fulfilment and human flourishing.
Decolonising Shakespeare to rid his works of white privilege and Eurocentrism is not the only example of how Western culture’s literary heritage is being redefined in terms of woke mind control and group think.
In America classics like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn are cancelled and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird because it promotes a white saviour narrative.
One American academic goes as far as justifying a “queer gender reading” of Jane Austen’s novels by arguing the author “promotes the progressive notion of homosexuality as a universal state through her subtle depictions of same-sex intimacies in her famously heteronormative novels”.
Judging children’s stories and classic novels and plays written and performed countless years ago by today’s misplaced woke standards might make activists feel morally superior but it is wrong to judge the past in light of today’s beliefs. It’s also wrong to criticise films and literature in terms of power relationships involving gender, sexuality, race and class. To reduce everything to such a nihilistic and bleak interpretation ignores what is most vital about literature that has stood the test of time.
As argued by English poet William Blake, literature at its best, as well as being aesthetically pleasing, transcends the mundane everyday world to reveal a wondrous, inspiring and spiritual reality that gives pleasure and understanding.
Appreciating and valuing literature is also critical to the health and wellbeing of society. Stories, plays, novels, poems and narratives are an ongoing gift that passes from one generation to the next and that gives culture its richness and meaning.
There’s no doubt, as a result of US president Donald Trump signing executive orders stopping Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, stating that there are two sexes, male and female, and banning transwomen from female sports, that woke ideology in America is on the retreat.
Unfortunately, judged by how the West’s literary classics and films are being destroyed woke ideology is still all powerful and it’s too early to say common sense, sanity and reason will prevail. Those hoping the tide has turned against cultural-left mind control need to think again.
Dr Kevin Donnelly is a conservative author and commentator, his latest book is Wake Up To Woke: It’s Time, Australia

Are you not entertained?

That was ancient, but in its own way, timeless dashing Donners.

Those wondering about the book and where they could rush to buy the tome, please be advised that it's self-published and so you have to head off to dashing Donners' website to plunk your thirty bucks down... or pick it up second hand or for free in a street library, should you happen to find someone careless with their cash ...

Moving right along, just to round out this outing with Donners, it's important to note that he's not just a one trick woke pony.

He's also on top of political trends ...

As Matt McManus contended ...

..Historically, the far right has been described as the ideological playground of the “lesser intelligentsia.” Today’s far right seems determined to prove that their standards can be lower still—or even that their standards can be broken faster than they can be lowered.
One far-right staple is to fantasize that the world runs on mystical cycles. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Oswald Spengler hypothesized that civilizations went through life cycles much as biological organisms do. He fretted that the Western world was entering a winter in which it would be overtaken by a vengeful Global South. A decade later, the Italian reactionary mystic Julius Evola hypothesized that egalitarian modernity was a regression from a deeper aristocratic tradition, and augured a vital return to the latter in the form of a super-fascist SS. This cyclical thinking is celebrated by some of those on the far right who call themselves “traditionalists,” including, supposedly, Steve Bannon.

Speaking of lower still standards, how about devotion to Pauline?

Please allow the pond to cheat a little by moving past the AV distraction, and the splendid uncredited collage which suggests that the lizard Oz graphics department might be moonlighting for the Daily Terrorists ...

You see?

Pauline is a roll call of all the policies favoured by the lizard Oz and the Daily Terrorists, as they watched the once proud party of Robert Menzies mirroring centre-left policies, including climate alarmism, indiscriminate ­immigration, multiculturalism and government statism.

Who could stop this slump, this blight? 

Why a redhead devoted to Gina, climate science denialism, incessant racist furriner bashing, monotone multiculturalism and chaotic, incompetent anarchy ...

Please, infallible Pope, a little visual inspiration to set Donners on firer.

No wonder dashing Donners was infatuated ...

Unlike the previous leader of the Liberal Party, Sussan Ley, who failed to realise being Labor-Lite spelt ­political doom, her replacement Angus Taylor and the newly elected Liberal Party president Tony Abbott understand what must be done to regain voters’ confidence. Taylor’s budget reply speech, in addition to denouncing the ALP’s deceit by misleading voters about negative gearing and capital gains tax, promises to stop ­unrestricted mass immigration and scrap the Albanese government’s destructive and senseless drive to net zero.
In his speech at the Liberal Party’s federal conference, Tony Abbott, in opposition to cultural-left activists condemning the nation’s institutions and history, said: “We are the freedom party, the tradition party, but above all else we are the patriot party, which is why, at our best, we should be absolutely unbeatable.”
After years of the Liberal Party being dominated by the likes of the former prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, it’s clear the party is now being led by those committed to centre-right political beliefs and values.

The feisty redhead brought out the warrior in Donners and how excited was he and the Terrorists.. Pauline Hanson and One Nation have launched a new attack ad aimed at Anthony Albanese and the Labor party.

Then there came a remarkable typo, which skilled pond correspondents will note immediately ...

Taylor and Abbott embracing conservative policies should not surprise. Whether the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, President Trump’s return to power, the rise of centre-right parties in Europe or the overwhelming vote against the ­Indigenous Voice to Parliament, the political pendulum is moving to the centre-right.

Dammit, the reptiles in the lizard Oz wouldn't stand for it. They know there's no capital "V' in voice.

Never mind, dashing Donners turned to the inscrutable Scruton for help in his cause ...

As to why this is happening, look no further than what the English philosopher Roger Scruton describes as the inherently conservative nature of most people. Scruton says “the conservative attitude is instinctive” and “being conservative is a distinct way of being human, and in every sphere of life the conservative temperament has staked its claim”. For the majority of people, their lives and aspirations centre on family, kinship, community and a sense of place and patriotism.

At this point, the pond went in to a state of toxic shock.

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Tell 'em they're dreaming.The pond is perfectly content for dashing Donners to show how he's Our Henry lite...

In his book Where We Are, Scruton uses the Greek term oikophilia to describe this love and affection for what Robert Menzies terms in his Forgotten People speech hearth and home. In opposition to oikophilia, Scruton uses the word oikophobia to describe those embracing a “culture of repudiation”.
Instead of identifying with family, community and nation, those committed to oikophobia are globalist in perspective, dismissive of the traditional family and critical of those expressing patriotism and valuing what is best about the past.

Those committed to oikophobia are also committed to grandiose, utopian causes such as stopping global warming and unrestricted immigration and multiculturalism.

Hang on, hang on, in amongst those ponce words,did the inscrutable Scruton and Donners (Our Henry lite) deploy the word "globalist"?

They did, they did ...and what fine company they keep ...

Globalist has been used as a pejorative in right-wing and far-right politics, and in various conspiracy theories, notably antisemitic tropes. In a 2014 YouTube video, far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones described the concept of globalism as a "global digital panopticon control system" which he considered to be "the total form of slavery".
Among the Christian right, particularly the Protestant right, globalism is an umbrella term which includes perceived secular aspects such as environmentalism, feminism, and socialism; globalism is believed to underlie the expansion of the New World Order – a prophesied enemy attempting to thwart Christianity – through organizations such as the European Union, United Nations, and World Trade Organization. Globalist values, promoted by the UN as a whole and the World Health Organization, among others, are perceived to be at odds with Christian values. UN conventions on discrimination against women and children's rights have thus been fiercely opposed by organizations and leading figures on the Christian right, such as Concerned Women for America, as methods to weaken parental rights, destroy the traditional family, and separate children from their religious and familial settings. The UN as satanic enemy is a theme in apocalyptic Christian media, such as the 1990s–2000s series Left Behind, in which the UN is run by the Antichrist, as well as Pat Robertson's 1991 New World Order and Hal Lindsey's 1994 book Planet Earth 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive?.
During the 2016 US election and presidency of United States president Donald Trump, he and members of his administration used the term globalist on multiple occasions. The administration was accused of using the term as an antisemitic dog whistle, and to associate their critics with a Jewish conspiracy. 
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory refer to what they term "the Cabal" as a secret worldwide elite organisation who wish to undermine democracy and freedom, and implement their own globalist agendas. Hungary's former prime minister Viktor Orbán has used antisemitic tropes in accusations against globalists, espousing a conspiracy theory of a world network controlled by Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros. (wiki for the footnotes and much more)

Dashing Donners didn't quite get into the Jewish banker 'leets, but what joy that Pauline had risen and would smite and smote them ...

Such elites also condemn any who disagree as racist, xenophobic, ignorant and guilty of supporting populist political parties.
While commentators dismiss One Nation as a party of opposition and explain its success by arguing that voters are reacting against Australia’s Uniparty system, the reality proves otherwise.
Hanson is welcomed as authentic and One Nation is seen as the antidote to those undermining social cohesion and stability, bankrupting the nation and turning Australia into what the eminent historian Geoffrey Blainey describes as a nation of tribes.
Dr Kevin Donnelly is the author of Wake Up To Woke Why Pauline Hanson’s Party Is So Popular.

Splendid stuff, and the pond does hope that correspondents enjoyed this wander down memory lane with dashing Donners.

In keeping with his spirit, the pond dug up a few old cartoons to help in the celebrations...