loon pond: Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts ...

The pond always tries for inclusivity and diversity, but a second attempt to wade through "Ned" was just too onerous.

Spoiler alert, if you managed to make it to the bitter end, you discovered another reptile attempting to distance himself from his American kissing cousins ...

...“The consequences of failing to do a deal should not be understated. Realistically, it will be at least five, more likely 10 years, before Europe opens the door to Australia again. In the meantime, competitor exporters in Canada, New Zealand, India and Mercosur (South America) will exploit their advantage.
“The sticking point is the deal’s current concessions in relation to labour standards and climate change. On one reading, these provisions reflect our existing obligations under adopted ILO rules and the Paris Agreement – the latter signed by Tony Abbott, ratified by Malcolm Turnbull and written into our own free-trade agreement with Britain by Scott Morrison.
“On another reading, they are a problematic intrusion into a future government’s ability to regulate industrial relations and decarbonisation. It is these provisions which will be highly scrutinised by the Coalition through JSCOT to ensure future governments can make and change policies in the nation’s economic interest.”
The Greens have trailed their coat on the deal. Their trade spokeswomen, Sarah Hanson-Young, has said the deal could help workers and the environment. “I have had constructive talks with Minister Farrell and will continue to engage constructively,” she said. If the Greens decide the climate and environmental provisions are meaningful, they might be tempted, but that would be a leap.
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has been circumspect, saying the Nationals have been too fast to oppose the deal and has suggested its benefits need to be assessed. One question: is Gina Rinehart a likely winner from the FTA?
Finally, there should be no mood in this country for the childish anti-European prejudices of JD Vance when many European nations are increasing their defence budgets. Urgent responses are under way in a number of Eastern European nations against tangible threats from Russia – responses far more serious than anything Australia is doing. The idea we don’t need closer institutional economic and strategic co-operation with individual European nations as well as the EU is absurd.

That's as much as the pond could manage.

The full 15 minute bot read marathon is at the internet archive (in dodgy layout), The Coalition veto on Labor’s free-trade agreement with EU.

The reptiles might like to pretend they had nothing to do with Faux Noise's gift to the world ... but Faux Noise is still trying to herd the faithful MAGA to vote for the GOP, so the mad King can carry on in his patented, verging on the demented, definitely unhinged way ...

And so to an equally onerous burden, Polonius prattling on about the Haines tragedy.

Here you have to remember that the crocodile tears and the faux sympathy conceals past attitudes, as seen in the Jess Malcom and Joe Kelly offering Pro-ALP record sparks warning on ‘fake independents’ Helen Haines, Zali Steggall and Rebekha Sharkie.

Back in April 2022 the reptiles toed the Josh line ...

New analysis shows crossbench MPs Helen Haines, Zali Steggall and Rebekha Sharkie have voted with Labor on two out of every three divisions in the 46th parliament, with the Morrison government using the data to warn Australians against supporting “fake independents”.
Ms Haines voted with Labor 67.92 per cent of the time, Ms Sharkie 64.64 per cent and Ms Steggall 66.04 per cent, according to research from the Parliamentary Library.
All three independents hold former Coalition seats – Indi in rural Victoria by 1.39 per cent, Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches by 7.2 per cent and Mayo in the Adelaide Hills by 5.1 per cent respectively...
...Mr Frydenberg on Wednesday called out the failure of independent candidates to nominate who they would support in a minority government despite campaigning for transparency and accountability in politics.
“Independents are fake independents,” the Treasurer said. “They are being run and organised and are acting as a political party. Their strings are being pulled elsewhere by Climate 200. They’re running on a Labor Party platform.”

Of course the reptiles would argue it was just vigorous discourse, a healthy but polite disagreement, as they went about the business of demonising independents as Labor party stooges, daring to back "the Palestinian agenda", or faux greenies, rabid climate science believers, and some kind of dangerous radicalisation of the body politic.

Naturally they've now seized on the behaviour of a clearly sick puppy to make political capital from a tragic assault on an MP, and naturally Polonius seized the chance to slip in his own politicising of the matter.

Yesterday the pond noted the absurdity of the lizard Oz headline offered to Polonius...

Alleged attack on MP Helen Haines highlights rising extremism risks across Australia

Alleged attack? No, the attack was real, but it could be alleged that the vicious assault was done by a deeply disturbed loon.

The pond did appreciate the sentiment in the header for the splash ...

Say that again? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts

Keep it in mind for the rest of this post.

Could Polonius stick to that promise?

Of course he couldn't. What followed was a performative both-siderist tract, followed by a politicising of the attack ...

If Calwell's attempted assassination by Peter Kocan wasn't political, then much the same could be said about the current matter, allowing the caveat, until we know all the facts

But in typical style, Polonius broke into full politicisation, regardless of the facts ...

Did everyone notice?

The most significant acts of political violence in modern Australia's history have been instigated by the extreme left.

To rephrase, the memory hole as far as right wing journalists explains how the Polonial memory hole swallowed Captain Francis de Groot, and all the other far right ratbags who've briefly taken centre stage over the years.

And in the next gobbet Polonius whittered on in the same way ...

Australia remains a relatively peaceful place. Yet there is reason to be concerned about the developing axis between religiously motivated radical Islam and the secular radical left.
So far this combination has been restricted in Australia. But recent developments in France and some other Western European nations demonstrate the potential problem.
This is not the first time the radical left has been a danger to freedom in Australia.

Remember the injunction? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts ...

Forget it Jake, it's Sydney Institute syndrome ...

So glad to see: Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts

Now let's drag 'Nam into it ...

Stop right there. There was a link attached, and it led here ...

Commentary
By Nick Dyrenfurth
Anger is no longer a political by-product. It’s the business model

Well yes, the Murdochians have long made anger, fear, hate, division, and loathing their business model, but expecting them to admit it is a bit like expecting navel gazing would produce some kind of introspection.

Imagining it's all the work of social media is to miss the way that social media finds its sources in the mainstream media - in much the same way as the ABC seems to find many of its stories and attitudes revealed to it by the lizard Oz.

But the pond digresses ...the real point is this ...

Polonius has always had a war monger bee in his bonnet when it comes to 'Nam ...so naturally he was tut-tutting and clutching his pearls ...

The demonstrations in the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s against the Australian commitment to the Vietnam War were frequently violent. For example, it was all but impossible for members of the Coalition government to enter some university campuses at the time. And there were violent street demonstrations aimed at police.

Who wouldn't take to the streets to protest this complacent drivel?

And there's the real rub.

Polonius was always a war hawk and a war monger, a man who believed that the Vietnam War was worth fighting and dying for (just not him, it's much better to wage the war in print than be a mug punter rustic conscripted to head off to the front lines).

There was some pushback to that piece ...

In April 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of prime minister Robert Menzies’s decision to commit Australian combat forces to South Vietnam, political commentator and columnist Gerard Henderson wrote that it was a “correct decision taken in the interests of Australia.” He argued that the 521 Australian soldiers who died there “did not die in vain” because that ten-year war gave Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand time to equip themselves to handle the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975 much more effectively than would have been possible in 1965.
This is a big call, particularly given the fact that, of the 521 Australians who died, 185 were conscripts; surely this must be of some moral relevance to any judgement about the outcome. And it is impossible to judge the “correctness” of the Vietnam war without considering those who came back injured and damaged, unable to lead a functioning life again.

Off to fight in a mindless, meaningless war, all because your marble came up, and Ming the Merciless and Polonius deemed it so and fitting. Moral relevance? Not a reptile concept ...

The Vietnam war is perhaps the best example of extreme far right violence inflicted on hapless conscripted boys in the last hundred years, not that we're the only ones featuring lap dogs of war ...

And then things went completely down hill, because all the reptiles were busy politicising the Haines assault, with the Ughmann joining the conga line ...

Remember that refrain? Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts

The reptiles, accustomed to fear, hate mongering and incessant jihads about grievances, simply couldn't follow that simple injunction ...

Day after day, the reptiles respond to any dissident or disrespectful minority or pesky furriner in a fast, disrespectful and intolerant way, yet none are so blind as those that refuse to gaze at their own navels ...

Now it's beyond time to invoke that mystical entity, "The West"...

Yet more of the attitudes embedded in the Australian Daily Zionist News, but who or what is "The West"?

That obsession with bums is deeply weird, for a party always ready to indulge in homophobia, but perhaps that's the new version of "The West".

Now it's time to do a a mini history of political violence, so that ultimately "the left", marching through the institutions, can be labelled the worst offenders (why did all the reptiles leave out the Battle of Broken Hill and the Battle of Brisbane?)

Now for a little both siderism, but please remember the ultimate aim of the mission, of point of the jihad, the relentless politicising of the attack ...

Time now to pin the blame on the left-wing donkey, apparently a strategy approved by all who live inside the lizard Oz hive mind ...

Ah, the old conga line, a favourite routine when it comes to verbal violence, and yet when the pond looks around, much of the current violence in the world seems to have a far right dictatorial hue ...

But apparently it's the left the pond should fear, not the whole pack of rabid reptiles ...

Mobilise?

When the reptiles give up their climate science denialism, their relentless scapegoating of TG folk, furriners and the like, and their daily litany of online rage - the only saving grace the paywall that means you have to pay to be radicalised - then the pond will take seriously this sort of sanctimonious and righteous bleating...

The first step?

Perhaps we should nationalise the Murdochian press ... or face more decades of a circular firing squad, as each day they all line up to announce that, one way or another, they've had a gutful ...

Speaking of having a gutful, the pond always strives to be comprehensive, which means at least noting the dog botherer, also sublimely unaware of the ostensible Polonial mission ... let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts

Did anyone think the dog botherer could follow that call?

A more interesting question is what happens when a hate and fear monger accuses others of hate mongering? What happens when anyone suggests civility?

Damn it, there'll be no civility here, there'll just be a bog standard dog botherer pile on, seizing every chance to politicise the attack ... Hatemongering PM has a nerve to call for civility.

Here no civility, no politeness, no thoughtfulness or graciousness, just the snarling and the exposed gnashing teeth of a slavering hound, down there with that Baskervilles beast ...

At this point, the pond broke.

It was the sight of Sharri, full disrespect, that did the pond's head in.

When the reptiles pause to consider the female Teals and independents, it's only so that their dirt unit can lump them together as a disgrace, a pox on the country.

Remember these sorts of wars?

Teal-linked body hits back at Liberal Party’s fresh attack on community independents

...A new website, called Teals Revealed, which has been authorised by the Liberal Party, claims that a communications company employed by several independent candidates has “deep links to the Labor Party and GetUp”...

...The attack website also attempts to tie independent crossbenchers to the Greens based on shared voting patterns in Parliament.

It mirrors the attack line trotted out by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and conservative lobbyist group Advance in recent months.

“Australians certainly can’t afford three years of a Labor minority government, one in which the green Teals or the extreme Greens hold the balance of power,” Dutton said at a Liberal Party state conference earlier in the month...

...The Australian reported that the website will be backed up by advertising on social media, traditional media and letter drops...

...The Liberal Party – among other dubious accusations levelled at independents – claimed that their success would unleash chaos upon the Australian Parliament.

Now butter wouldn't melt in their Teal and indie bashing mouths?

It was too much, and the pond decided that a top and tailing of the dog botherer would be more than enough.

Genuine masochists could suffer the full experience via the intermittent archive link above.

Truly there was nothing new to see ... because, don't ya kno, it's all the fault of the left, and yet weirdly, the reptiles decided to slip in an example of "Juliar, ditch the witch", with the dog botherer defending the mad monk, because whipping out a chaff bag and dropping Gillard far out to sea is just normal political discourse in the hive mind.

It's beyond the valley of the insufferable, as the dog botherer ended in full "litany of grievances" mode ...

We're so far from Let’s not politicise this attack until we know all the facts that we're deep in another country, a hive mind where any connection to reality is tenuous, but where jihadists and crusaders will use any event to reinforce their world view, will use an assault to conduct assaults on their enemies, to wage wars, jihads and crusades...

Never mind the tragedy, seize the chance to turn it into a baseball bat to bludgeon anyone with a slightly different view of the universe ...

Speaking of world views, why not a riff on The Simpsons, kompleat with a different kind of Krusty Klown ...