In which the pond is left with the dog botherer, until the Angelic one comes to the rescue with a tykeathon ...

 

Shameful.

But what use is it invoking "shame" when dealing with the brazen and the shameless?

If the reptiles had any sense of shame, they wouldn't have allowed the lizard Oz to decline in to a propaganda sheet of the basest kind.

Why should the pond bother to recycle the reptiles shamelessly recycling Mathias, as if he's a disinterested observer? 

And worse, at the top of the digital "news", draped in a distorted graphic of the Australian flag, what with patriotism being the lowest kind of rhetoric ...

EXCLUSIVE
Quiet drift to economic decline: Cormann’s stark warning
Australia ‘drifting’ towards decline as reform gains are surrendered, Mathias Cormann warns
OECD secretary-general Mathias Cormann has warned Australia risks slow economic decline, saying creeping protectionism and falling productivity are surrendering hard-won gains.
By Simon Benson

Shameful, dragging an ancient political warrior back on to home turf, and dressing it up as economic analysis.

Enough already, simpleton Simon, off to the intermittent archive wit ye ...closely followed by the next item ...

EXCLUSIVE
Rent rises up to 20pc: developer
Rent rises up to 20pc, warns residential property developer Nigel Satterley
Australia’s largest private residential land developer has warned rents could surge up to 20 per cent and first homebuyer inquiries have already dropped 50 per cent following Labor’s budget tax changes.
By Matthew Cranston

Enough already canny Cranston, giving property developers undue respect, when they should be treated in the manner of used car salesmen and journalists.

And just who should appear below the canny Cranston?

Himself, served up again ...

POLITICAL GAMBLE
Labor bets house on tax reform, but may wreck the economy
The jury’s out among economists on the bid to win the political narrative of fixing so-called intergenerational inequality with improved first-home buyer numbers.
By Matthew Cranston

This is how the weekend "news" looked early on the Saturday morning, squeezed up to make a point about the rag being an unrelenting propaganda sheet...

Crude propaganda graphics matching the crude propaganda.

It wasn't just the flag, it was another of those meaningless graphs and punters looking like they'd just stepped out of an Orwellian nightmare...

Enough already, but over on the extreme far right things were no better.

Dame Slap leading off proceedings pleading for Gina's pampered pet?

Pauline Hanson takes free speech fight to the High Court
Her battle with Faruqi has forced Hanson to ask the High Court for ‘permission to talk’, and they should listen on principle alone.
By Janet Albrechtsen

The pond would rather tear out its tongue than give space to the pitiful, sanctimonious verbiage. A link to the intermittent archive is being more than generous ...

The Lynch mob attending a lynching?

The rise of Arday and the death of ideological diversity
The tragic downfall of a disgraced Cambridge professor exposes a crisis at academe’s heart.
By Timothy Lynch
Contributor

Much like when the reptiles decide to get rolling on a transphobia jihad, the pond had resolved to have nothing to do with Arday's persecution and suicide, so the pond can't add to the disgrace of the University of Melbourne each time the Lynch mob appears by adding this piece to the queue. (Speaking of transphobia, there was Parker Molloy urging people not to feed the logarithm, but struggling with the disease).

And there was no way that the pond could cope with"Ned" scribbling away for the Australian Daily Zionist News:

Why a ‘softly-softly’ Commission can’t cure antisemitism

Hopes and fears: The task for Virginia Bell as Royal Commission risks falling short on antisemitism
Denied an extension, the antisemitism inquiry winds down leaving Commissioner Bell with a mammoth task. With key witnesses uncalled does it risk failure because of ‘unfinished business’.
By Paul Kelly
Editor-At-Large

Eleven minutes of "Ned" pandering to the Zionists when there's other news afoot?!

It's deeply offensive ...

And with that winnowing, that's how the pond was left with just the dog botherer ...and if the pond had had its druthers, it would have sent him to the intermittent archive as well.

But needs must - the pond needs a little spacing between cartoons ...

The header: How Pauline’s party of one is powering the protest vote: One Nation’s strength is Pauline Hanson, and may also be its weakness. She holds a power most political leaders could only dream of – and she has no intention of revealing who inherits it.

The caption for the truly awful artwork for which Debbie decided to take credit: Pauline Hanson won’t shed any light on who will succeed her. She smply says she’s not going naywhere (sic, sic) for a while. Pictures: News Corp/iStock. Artwork: Debbie Schipp

Don't take this personally Debbie, but your artwork is smply terrible, though it does prepare the hive mind for what is to follow, as they head off on their journey to naywhere ...

You see, the dog botherer purports to offer a critical examination of Gina's pet, but in the process he offers a hagiographic profile making her as useful as a chess queen ...

One remarkable aspect of One Nation is that one person controls the succession of the party’s leadership, and that person is the one and only Pauline Hanson. So much for internal democracy.
“The President of the Party is Pauline Lee Hanson,” says rule 4.3.2 of the One Nation constitution. Rule 4.3.2.1 says; “Upon resigning from the position of President, Pauline Lee Hanson shall appoint her successor to become the next President of the Party.”
Hanson, 72, is campaigning to form national government, leaving open the option of switching to a lower house seat so she can serve as prime minister. Just who she views as her successor is a pertinent question.
“Oh god, I can’t tell you because I haven’t chosen, Chris, I’m not going anywhere for a while, so just wait and see,” Hanson said when I interviewed her for my upcoming News24 documentary, The Fight for the Right. Then I proffered a couple of names: her daughter Lee and star recruit Barnaby Joyce.
“The media have alluded to my daughter, and I’ll tell you what, that’s not the case,” retorted Hanson. “She has to prove herself, her ability to be able to do it, she’s not even a member of parliament, Chris. Barnaby’s only been with the party for eight months, so why would I say, give it to Barnaby?”
Given the current One Nation leadership caucus has a membership of one, I expect only kindness and light from One Nation politicians and candidates towards their party’s founder. This is the sort of power and deference that Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull craved.
Hanson claims that as the party expands its membership across the country its level of internal democracy will increase (the other direction would take her into Kim Jong-un territory). I suggested Hanson write down her choice to be stored in a safe in case she is hit by a bus, but she declined.

Up came a portrait of a pose llama - alpaca if you will - which pretty much illustrates the aspirations of this cultural 'leet ...Senator Pauline Hanson with One Nation’s lead Senate candidate, her daughter, Lee Hanson on the campaign trail in Tasmania. Picture: Facebook

You didn't have to look far to see how the reptiles were just recycling propaganda ...

Straight from the Zuck's mouth, helping explain why Facebook has ruined a generation or three.

Imagine having that in your daily feed, but then the pond has the lizard Oz in its daily feeding, and has been driven not so quietly insane by the intake of soma ...

There is something vaguely surreal about conducting serious political interviews with Hanson in the current climate. It reminds me of a John Lennon song: “Nobody told me there’d be days like these, strange days indeed.”
In search of explanations over the past few months I have travelled across the electorate of Farrer (where One Nation turned the tables on the Coalition to win its first House of Representatives seat at the May by-election), the South Australian seat of Hammond (an electorate One Nation took from the Liberals in the March state election) and around Melbourne where the Victorian election in November looms as the next big test for the Coalition and One Nation.

Now for the bit where the dog botherer explains to the hive mind why Pauline and her policies are pretty okay, especially as they reflect the positions of the lizard Oz ...

When I spoke to former Coalition voters who already made the switch to One Nation, the core drivers became clear.
While the main policy issues have long been obvious – cost of living, especially driven by immigration and net-zero policies – the recurring theme from voters is that while the Coalition has waxed and waned on immigration and net zero, Hanson has been solid as a rock.
“I think she’s a woman who has stood her ground for 30 years and never wavered and hasn’t flip-flopped on policy,” Griffith citrus grower Joanna Barnard said.
Michael Pfitzner, a dryland farmer north of Griffith, said: “Pauline Hanson hasn’t wavered one iota in the 30 years she’s been in parliament.”
A bloke on the street summed up the mood by saying he voted One Nation because “I’m sick of the other bloody idiots.”
On her family farm in SA’s Eden Valley, the state’s Liberal leader, Ashton Hurn, had a couple of key insights. “I think a part of the reason we are seeing a bit of a rise in One Nation is a sense of complacency that people feel in their politicians,” Hurn said, insisting all major parties had taken voters for granted.

Just to back that up, the reptiles wheeled in a snap of Tamworth's enduring, ineradicable shame ...One Nation’s star recruit, Barnaby Joyce. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

See how the dog botherer keeps pumping up the volume for Gina's pet and her policies ...

She's a bloody feenomin ...

The Liberals in SA now have five lower house MPs, a single seat more than One Nation. Going back a few months, Hurn was the first person I heard focus on the Bondi Beach terror attack as a turning point.
“I think that really was the first event that was a catalyst, I suppose, to really accelerate the surge of One Nation,” the SA Opposition Leader said. “It really put in focus the concern that Australians, including South Australians, had on immigration.”
Like most observers, Hurn reckons the issue driving Hanson’s rise, “above all else”, is immigration.
Back in Griffith, a town built on immigration and still reliant on immigrant labour, this still rings true. Local baker John Bertoldo helps run a proud migrant family business employing many immigrants, yet he cites immigration as the main reason he voted One Nation: “I think it’s because there’s too many coming in and I think it’s putting the pressure on everyone.”
I have seen Asian Australians, Indigenous Australians and even a Sikh Australian resplendent in a One Nation-orange turban mob Hanson or sing her praises. This is more than a political realignment; it is a phenomenon.
Voters did not leave the Coalition, the Coalition left them. By adopting net zero, going soft on immigration and failing to resist the overwhelming reach of big government and the woke agenda, the Coalition left the mainstream right-of-centre field vacant, and One Nation did not need to march in, it was just left standing there, where it had always been.

There you go, there's the dog botherer approving Gina's pet and her policies, blathering on about climate change and the woke agenda in a way worthy of Malcolm Roberts.

Now compound the adoration with another snap ...The Paulinbe (sic) factor: Hanson signs seven-year-old Noah Reynolds’ t-shirt at the One Nation South Australian election night event earlier this week. Picture: NewsWire/ Emma Brasier

Diminish the beefy boofhead? Rabbit on about a lack of trust for a man who looks shifty from the moment he gets out of bed?

An easy task on any day of the week ...

Making corrections under Angus Taylor, the Coalition has ditched net zero and toughened up on immigration. But as Mannum Baptist pastor Colin Nieass warns, after switching from the Coalition to One Nation: “Trust is easily lost, it’s very had to get back again.”

At long last the dog botherer decided to throw in a crumb of doubt, offer up a morsel of a billy goat butt, dressed up as an "all the same", as some kind of pathetic attempt at balance ...

All the same, the critical question of the moment is whether the One Nation surge has peaked. As I discovered when I asked new member for Hammond Robert Roylance about his policy prescription (“I’m fumbling for words here, if you would just give me a moment”), some One Nation candidates and politicians face a steep learning curve.
Even Hanson failed to name the President of Indonesia or Prime Minister of Japan, connections that are second nature for any politician abreast of our regional priorities. With at least 128 candidates to be run in the Victorian election and 160 or more federally, the One Nation talent pool soon may suffer from water restrictions – or see some painful belly-flops.
Victoria will tell us much in November. If the Coalition wins a majority it will tell us One Nation has peaked, but if a change of government relies on support from Hanson’s team, the surge may have some way to go.
Many voters want the Coalition and One Nation to work collaboratively against Labor. When I challenged De Bortoli Wines managing director Darren De Bortoli on whether the shift to One Nation might keep Labor in power, he said: “Well, if they keep going at each other’s throats it will – they’ve both gotta get their acts sorted out.”
The fight for the right-of-centre vote is a high-stakes battle being fought in different ways by a variety of players.
Thirty years after being disendorsed by the Liberals Hanson is forcing them to re-examine their core principles and, ironically, this may help them reform and revive.
There can be no question that the red-headed firebrand from Ipswich has proven to be a durable and consistent lightning rod for voter dissatisfaction. But beyond that, what is One Nation’s function? And beyond Hanson, what is its future?

You see? Gina's pet is there to help the beefy boofhead's mob reform and revive by making them even more extreme far right, more in line with the dog botherer and the lizard Oz hive mind.

And that is Gina's pet's function, and her future for some considerable time in this wretched, tawdry rag ... in much the same way that Faux Noise has helped make the world safer for authoritarian dictators ...

For a bonus, the pond could have wheeled out Our Henry ...but it's just another contribution to the Australian Daily Zionist News ...

Court’s ruling gives antisemitism a free pass
A Supreme Court ruling on a young Sydney vandal reveals how judicial overreach, selective context, and faulty definitions threaten the fight against antisemitism.
By Henry Ergas

Even worse, the references were very low rent, e.g. ...

The “bad man”, as American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said, cares only for where the line falls: draw that boundary too precisely and the Jew-hater will simply operate immediately inside it. 

St Paul distinguished the true Jew from the merely outward one. Joseph Stalin and his successors relied on cringing statements by anti-Zionist Jews to shield the Soviet empire’s vicious antisemitism from criticism. 

He really is off his oats ...

Luckily the pond did a deep dive, and discovered the Angelic one trying to cope with mad king Donald and his minions:

The header: Trump’s men put faith in America’s Christian nationalism revivalThe US President’s three most influential offsiders are expressing different views about Christianity in secular political life.

The caption for the snap of mad king Donald and some of his supine courtiers: US President Donald Trump is flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. Picture: AFP

Now it would be optimistic to expect the Angelic one to entertain as much as the stories about troubles in Tyke town that are to be found in other places ...

Catholic Schools NSW CEO Dallas McInerney sacked after fronting anti-corruption commission

But the pond must make do with what's at hand ...

What is Christian nationalism? This ill-defined term loosely refers to the identification of Christianity with the American sense of identity. Three members of the Trump administration personify the idea to greater or lesser degrees: Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and liberally tattooed and bellicose Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Initially Hegseth set out to rid the military of “woke” and to reinstate a warrior ethic. Vance and Rubio have a larger project of civilisational renewal but for Vance, as a convert, Catholicism is paramount and of a different character to Rubio’s.
Vance has been described as “suspiciously devout”, but in the MAGA movement he was given a free pass as a Catholic because he is one of them, and in some intellectual circles Vance’s conversion has given him a philosophical credibility the rest of the movement doesn’t have.
Vance and Rubio convey the Trump administration’s conviction that the West suffers from civilisational malaise. Restoring confidence in our shared Western inheritance is of foundational importance.

Suspiciously devout? JD is both amoral and barking mad:

JD Vance Is the Loyal Convert in Chief
Vice president JD Vance is everywhere—and he’s the highest point of contact, Trumpworld sources say, for tech billionaires who went all-in on Donald Trump.

And again ...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

And that sort of guff is supposed to restore confidence in our shared Western inheritance is of foundational importance?

But the reptiles insisted on "suspiciously devout": Mr Vance has been described as “suspiciously devout”. Picture: Getty Images via AFP

The Angelic one did her best to cope, but was way out of her depth.

Not those 'leets, oh not the bloody European 'leets again...

Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in February was about civilisational renewal: to reindustrialise, enforce borders and place the international order on a more modest and realistic foundation.
But the most important element of civilisational renewal was the aspect European elites won’t, or can’t, acknowledge.
Rubio emphasised that the central element of Western civilisation was the “sacred inheritance” of “Christian faith”. ­He suggested that we must overcome the animus against engaging in religiously motivated political and civic action. Men did not have faith so they could do great things; they did great things because they had faith. Our civilisational future will depend on those whose eyes are turned toward something greater than restoration of confidence in the West.
The desire to reinstate Christian principles in civic and political life is the form of Christian nationalism that characterises Rubio and Vance. However, Vance’s background and journey to conversion have given him a broader perspective. He is regarded as the flag-bearer for young conservatives and he has more intellectual heft. His was a conversion of the rational mind as well as the heart.
This dovetails into the new conservatism and is reflected in Vance’s politics. He is more interested in the social project than the hardcore individualism of the liberals and Reaganite monetarist conservatives.

All that in praise of JD and liddle Marco and JD's "broader perspective"? 

The pond didn't know whether to weep or to laugh, and had a similar reaction to the man who made the Pentagon home for warriors's wives and aircraft carriers the suppliers of bad rations ... Mr Hegseth characterises the militant version of Christian nationalism. Picture: Getty Images via AFP

Vance says Catholicism reflects a broader political spectrum than the old right. From the right he sees the emphasis on personal responsibility but on the left he sees the emphasis on the social good, especially the option for the poor, which means fewer barriers to economic flourishing.

It's easy to see where the Angelic one is going here. JD, as tyke, is inclined to the good, while Hogsbreath, being more evangelical, is a tad weird ...

‘It’s Bonkers’: Jennifer Hegseth’s Hands-On Role in Her Husband’s Pentagon
After an 18-year career at Fox News, she is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job as no Pentagon spouse has before. (*intermittent archive link)

The pond digresses, on with the Angelic one trying to cope by splitting hairs in favour of one crazy over another...

The more extreme aspect of Christian nationalism is the militant version characterised by Hegseth. With Deus Vult and the Jerusalem cross tattooed on his arms, Hegseth seems to fancy himself as a modern-day crusader.
Hence Christian national­ism has taken on a one-dimensional, slightly warped bellicosity under his auspices. Hegseth spent his first nine months as Defence Secretary reshaping the Pentagon, hosting monthly worship ser­vices, overlaying scripture on images of fighter jets and missile systems, and telling assembled troops the country needed to be “on bended knee, recognising the providence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”.
From the beginning of the campaign against Iran the voluble Hegseth and the sense of moral authority provided by his Christianity have been frequently cited.
But what is the value of Hegseth continuously invoking his faith, expressed in the rather narrow terms of his own brand of evangelical Christianity?
At a Pentagon press briefing, Hegseth closed his remarks by reading from the Book of Psalms: “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.” Not a few journalists, here and in the US, are asking: How far does this go? What happens when Christianity isn’t just present in the military, it becomes part of the military? When the pressroom lectern goes from being a podium to a pulpit?

Time to wheel in a figure guaranteed to make the average tyke seem relatively normal and harmless ... Pastor Doug Wilson is at the forefront of the controversial Christian nationalism movement, which is moving mainstream under Trump.

And so to a final tyke take, which pretty much entirely misses the point, because not once did she mention Natalie, as pretty weird an infatuation with an adoring youngling as any mad king has indulged in, making Bill Clinton seem like a rank amateur ...

There have been queries about the constitutionality of Hegseth’s public Christian pronouncements. Some members of congress are calling for a Department of Defence investigation over claims related to military officers allegedly invoking the Bible in pursuit of the Iran war. The question at the centre of this has become unavoidable: What does it mean to anoint the most powerful military on Earth in the language of Christianity and then go to war?
These three important people have different views about Christianity in secular political life. Non-denominational churches of the type that holds Hegseth’s allegiance, though numerous, do not have a unified public voice except for Hegseth. But the most interesting development in the story of Christian cultural revival and nationalism is the input of the two Catholics in a country that for many years did not welcome Catholics in high office.
Matthew Schmitz, in an essay in influential journal First Things, calls it “our strange Catholic moment”. Catholic ideas, terms and figures have increasing prominence in US civil and political life. Never before have three cardinals appeared on TV arguing against Donald Trump’s draconian immigration rules. Catholic terms have come up in discussions of just war. Vance even got people googling Ordo Amoris (the order of love).
Then we got an American Pope, Leo XIV, with whom Trump fought, but people were on the Pope’s side. And not only that, his encyclical was read by people in Silicon Valley. Even in secular terms something of a triumph.

Oh yes, a real triumph ...

And speaking of JD ...