Margaret Sullivan was writing about the US when she deployed the words "Sane-washing, sanitizing, pussy-footing and soft-pedaling", but they pretty much apply to the lizard Oz scribblers down under. (‘Reborn in the USA’)
And Parker Molloy thought "everyone’s doing a fair bit of cherry-picking to get to the conclusions they want to reach" in relation to the recent US elections (Everybody Wants Credit for the Blue Wave, Just a friendly reminder that the people pumping out post-election analysis pieces usually have their own agendas and vested interests - paywall)
And speaking of weird agendas, naturally "Ned" of the Everest climb brought his own interpretation to the results:
The pond suspects there was more to the midterms than Musk and AI, but whatever, the pond will accept this shift in reptile thinking, perhaps part of a general News Corporation realignment as they realise they backed a bunch of dropkick losers ... and Faux Noise itself has found itself in the category of a dropkick loser.
Even as the reptiles keep offering a totally useless version of AI, "Ned" decided big tech and the bros were a nice, safe, juicy target, and even invoked an alleged veygan ...
How could the pond resist asking the caps hating hive mind AI?
Glad that's sorted, on to the final "Ned" gobbet, more a base camp than an Everest climb this day, as somehow the Pope got dragged into the mix ...
Right ho, soul brother AI.
Now, what else?
The reptiles were at it again when it came to the climate.
Three reptiles were tag teamed to produce the usual doom and gloom scenario at the top of the digital "news", ma (all the usual abuse that's unfit to print):
Wholesale hell: power prices to double by 2029, modelling shows
The startling forecasts lump further pressure on Climate Minister Chris Bowen after he conceded Labor had ‘more work to do’ to deliver household bill relief while at COP31 this week.
By Perry Williams, Ben Packham and Jacquelin Magnay
When will the reptiles assemble a team to scribble about planetary hell as the worst impacts of climate change unfold around us?
The malignant Magnay doubled down with her own entry:
Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has conceded Australia is ‘not declaring victory’ on electricity prices while urging the world to rapidly increase electrification at COP31.
By Jacquelin Magnay
For no particular reason the echo Chambers tagged along ...
Voters hot under the collar over a frosty Albo
The PM is seeking to justify successive trips by linking them to efforts to ease the financial burden of those Australian families who can only dream of overseas travel right now.
Was "frosty" enough reason to include the echo Chambers in the climate action?
Nah, he was just helping out with the familiar reptile litany ...
Closer to home, the slow rollout of renewables, accelerated shutdown of coal-fired power stations, failure to build-up adequate gas infrastructure and refusal to consider nuclear has put Australia on course for skyrocketing energy prices by 2029.
Ah, the suffering of poor old innocent, virginal, clean, dinkum coal.
What about climate science? Don't you worry about that ...
Albanese would argue his government is proud champions of climate action and that Labor and Greens voters who put them in office would expect strong advocacy. That thinking ignores millions of Australians who are more worried about the cost of living and housing crises than global climate change summits.
Yeah, don't you worry about all those tall stories of catastrophes and disasters related to climate change.
The pond stuck figures in ears and consigned them all to the archive so that it could find the space to run the infallible Pope's response.
What else?
Well Jennifer went west ...
The new airport is open – now comes the difficult par
Stop right there, that exceeded the pond's capacity for boredom in a bigly way. Off to the archive with you.
Perforce, the pond reluctantly turned to Dame Slap for its filler, as the Dame valiantly battled for the faux, bottle styled ranga ...
"This is untenable"?
Whatever, as the immortal George once remarked, bigots gotta do what bigots gotta do ... (I will always defend the right to be a bigot. It’s hypocrisy that annoys me more, *intermittent archive link)
Inter alia:
By golly, he and Dame Slap are on the same team.
Sorry, the pond hadn't meant to distract from Dame Slap's closing thoughts, aka the rage machine raging away ...
But will Dame Slap put herself back in her MAGA cap donning box? Will she ever reconsider her folly and repent?
Will she ever be brave enough to ask herself whey she frequently ends up sounding incredibly stupid, and holding the wrong end of the donkey?
The pond has been waiting a terribly long time for that moment, as the consequences of being a MAGAt continue to unfold ...
As a bonus to that bonus, Jack was on hand, wondering ...
Who’s responsible for Russell Brand’s right-wash?
Now there's a thought, what with Brand having insinuated himself into the fundie Xian evangelical circuit, and just as deeply into RFK Jr and the GOP ...
That's the snap they went with?
The dumb as a stick piss drinking Bear Grylls?
This was a WSJ pick up, and the pond wondered by Jack simply didn't assemble a few different, much more revealing snaps ...
They were all at it ...
And what about these?
Would Jack ping all those lickspittle fellow travellers?
He did give a dishonourable mention to DT Jr, but managed to deflect from all the GOP and US Xian devotion by dragging in that silly Pom Bear, the equally silly Tucker, and the deeply weird Musk ...
Credit where credit is also due ...
So it goes Jack, what with the mad King already pedalling his pet "stolen election" lies ...and Kegsbreath valiantly invoking the Nuremberg defence.
And so to close with the immortal Rowe, and imagine the pond's surprise and pleasure to see that he too went the cricket ball/sandpaper riff ...
How are the reptiles not pleased? In their eyes the planet could do with a little more roughing up ...
And now, recorded as it happened ...
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