The way Murdoch has pressed the fear and outrage button to polarise society and destroy communities has to go down as one of the great bastard acts in all of human history. This shithead has delayed action on civilisation-threatening crises from climate change to inequality, and undermined the best political system we've yet devised with endless lies, just to line his pockets. He is truly Lord Palpatine to our feckless Senate of the Republic.
For a laugh, I have a "would not piss on if on fire" list, and Sith Lord Murdoch has been #1 for at least two decades. #2 is Wrecker Abbott. And Moronic Mal Roberts comes in at #3.
My "wouldn't piss on it if was on fire list" has MerdeOch at #1 too, but The Little Digger comes in at #2 for bringing on the beginning of the end of democracy in Australia. He created the playbook that his acolyte Abbott followed; #3 is Morriscum, for outright crimes against humanity in deliberately using first Robodebt, & then Covid, to cull the undeserving poors, the aged, and ppl with chronic illness. They were never going to get on the Mothership when the Great Awakening happens anyway, so why give a fuck!
My list is even longer than the IPA Wishlist, and I'll happily stand by whe they (hopefully) self combust. My aging "excitable bladder" (yes, this is a medical diagnosis) will suddenly get very bored & unexcited! It will refuse to empty itself, or even let out a dribble, despite me laughing hard enuf for it to burst forth like a fucking river, as it would if I drank a keg of beer. And I will definitely do that in celebration of that particular bonfire of the vainglorious!
Speaking as someone who’s a bit of a fan of democracy and fairness, I’m pretty bloody stoked that people are finally seeing that the emperor has been stark bollocky naked from the beginning. Not so much power by consensus but power by a mass case of Stockholm syndrome which, given the decades of terrible damage he and his company has wrought on the planet, needs to vanish sharpish and completely. Hopefully the settlement with Crikey will chip away at the crumbling facade even further.
And a nice va funculo delivered by the ABC, I note, with them planning on rescreening Fox And The Big Lie early next week.
Oh, that Crikey suit could not go on. Really, did the old man have to TELL Lachy that?
The King Lear potential of it all, it just gets juicier.
I'm a bit worried about the two oldest offspring trying to quieten things down When The Time Comes. but the two youngest ones might not be that happy about the trust that Queen Anna demanded, and refuse to be "spares". A Lachlan James sandwich male heir sandwich, woo hoo!
Musical accompaniment: The Old Man's Back Again" by Scott Walker.
"The Horde has no face but millions of mouths. It has no eyes, but it sees all"... great now I am going to have Harlan Ellisonesque nightmares ala I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
You have a brilliant way of putting my fear and loathing and despair into words, and then making me laugh at it. So much better than just letting it weigh me down and down. Thank you!
"It’s good to be the King, even if your subjects’ vows of loyalty are a chorus of screeches, hisses, and grunts demanding that, having put out their eyes, you do nothing which might threaten them with ever seeing clearly again."
... is art, profound, poetic, thought provoking, and spot on. (no bullshit this is really good)
The emperor has no clothes, and he has finally been told he has no clothes. I'm loathe to apply the description of Alan, I'm flabbergasted Jones, but I think it applies to Murdoch, in that he is an unelected politician and his electorate is his audience, in the case of Fox the audience consists mostly of old, angry, white men.
Lord protect us if, as is rumoured, Carlson may run for president!
Will the reign of the rabble rouser begin to wain? Hopefully the members of his kitchen cabinet will convince him to retire to one of his estates, or as another megalomaniac, Lafayette Ron Hubbard did and take up residence on his royal yacht and sail into the sunset, whilst sticking pins into his Dominion doll.
Now is a good time to pass the helm onto the princeling, to give the impression that a new man will bring a fresh approach and be rebranded as a benign megalomaniac.
Of course many an enlightened country won’t allow the Murdoch cancer to trespass on their shores..to think how much different the US, UK and Oz would be without this scourge..
Very persuasive, but I wonder if he's just frightened of mortality! Maybe only got round to thinking about it 70 or 80 years later than the average person.
All that meeting popes and getting annulments, buying Church of Rome insurance, while not actually "converting", but the bleak old family religion offers no guarantees, so why not marry an American evangelical because surely there's some way to keep on being Rupert. But then one of the trust daughters got antsy about that idea and Rupert's as materialist as Karl Marx. Whoops.
Going gordian knot on some law suits will give him a bit of a boost for a bit. He himself probably doesn't care much about the Horde, but some of the trust kids will. Legacy. Mortality.
Brilliant as always JB. Best pitch for a killer video game I've heard in years. It has it all. Forget TV and movies, (so 20th Century!). MPG is the way to go. ;-)
He kind of reminds me of Ozymandias: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair". Hopefully the "lone and level sands" of the Murdoch empire - and The Hordes to whom they cater - will "stretch far away" sooner than later, preferably before they bring the rest of the world to the same devastation.
The way Murdoch has pressed the fear and outrage button to polarise society and destroy communities has to go down as one of the great bastard acts in all of human history. This shithead has delayed action on civilisation-threatening crises from climate change to inequality, and undermined the best political system we've yet devised with endless lies, just to line his pockets. He is truly Lord Palpatine to our feckless Senate of the Republic.
For a laugh, I have a "would not piss on if on fire" list, and Sith Lord Murdoch has been #1 for at least two decades. #2 is Wrecker Abbott. And Moronic Mal Roberts comes in at #3.
My "wouldn't piss on it if was on fire list" has MerdeOch at #1 too, but The Little Digger comes in at #2 for bringing on the beginning of the end of democracy in Australia. He created the playbook that his acolyte Abbott followed; #3 is Morriscum, for outright crimes against humanity in deliberately using first Robodebt, & then Covid, to cull the undeserving poors, the aged, and ppl with chronic illness. They were never going to get on the Mothership when the Great Awakening happens anyway, so why give a fuck!
My list is even longer than the IPA Wishlist, and I'll happily stand by whe they (hopefully) self combust. My aging "excitable bladder" (yes, this is a medical diagnosis) will suddenly get very bored & unexcited! It will refuse to empty itself, or even let out a dribble, despite me laughing hard enuf for it to burst forth like a fucking river, as it would if I drank a keg of beer. And I will definitely do that in celebration of that particular bonfire of the vainglorious!
Speaking as someone who’s a bit of a fan of democracy and fairness, I’m pretty bloody stoked that people are finally seeing that the emperor has been stark bollocky naked from the beginning. Not so much power by consensus but power by a mass case of Stockholm syndrome which, given the decades of terrible damage he and his company has wrought on the planet, needs to vanish sharpish and completely. Hopefully the settlement with Crikey will chip away at the crumbling facade even further.
And a nice va funculo delivered by the ABC, I note, with them planning on rescreening Fox And The Big Lie early next week.
Oh, that Crikey suit could not go on. Really, did the old man have to TELL Lachy that?
The King Lear potential of it all, it just gets juicier.
I'm a bit worried about the two oldest offspring trying to quieten things down When The Time Comes. but the two youngest ones might not be that happy about the trust that Queen Anna demanded, and refuse to be "spares". A Lachlan James sandwich male heir sandwich, woo hoo!
Musical accompaniment: The Old Man's Back Again" by Scott Walker.
"The Horde has no face but millions of mouths. It has no eyes, but it sees all"... great now I am going to have Harlan Ellisonesque nightmares ala I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
You have a brilliant way of putting my fear and loathing and despair into words, and then making me laugh at it. So much better than just letting it weigh me down and down. Thank you!
This JB... (see below)
"It’s good to be the King, even if your subjects’ vows of loyalty are a chorus of screeches, hisses, and grunts demanding that, having put out their eyes, you do nothing which might threaten them with ever seeing clearly again."
... is art, profound, poetic, thought provoking, and spot on. (no bullshit this is really good)
The emperor has no clothes, and he has finally been told he has no clothes. I'm loathe to apply the description of Alan, I'm flabbergasted Jones, but I think it applies to Murdoch, in that he is an unelected politician and his electorate is his audience, in the case of Fox the audience consists mostly of old, angry, white men.
Lord protect us if, as is rumoured, Carlson may run for president!
Will the reign of the rabble rouser begin to wain? Hopefully the members of his kitchen cabinet will convince him to retire to one of his estates, or as another megalomaniac, Lafayette Ron Hubbard did and take up residence on his royal yacht and sail into the sunset, whilst sticking pins into his Dominion doll.
Now is a good time to pass the helm onto the princeling, to give the impression that a new man will bring a fresh approach and be rebranded as a benign megalomaniac.
Of course many an enlightened country won’t allow the Murdoch cancer to trespass on their shores..to think how much different the US, UK and Oz would be without this scourge..
The other two Five Eyes partners should stand as a shining example of a Murdoch-free media landscape.
Without the collective psychosis that he's fostered unwittingly. The madness is everywhere.
This is one of your best. Thanks.
Thank you, Bruce.
Your best yet Birmo…
Cheers, Dude.
This I enjoyed bigly, many thanks.
Very persuasive, but I wonder if he's just frightened of mortality! Maybe only got round to thinking about it 70 or 80 years later than the average person.
All that meeting popes and getting annulments, buying Church of Rome insurance, while not actually "converting", but the bleak old family religion offers no guarantees, so why not marry an American evangelical because surely there's some way to keep on being Rupert. But then one of the trust daughters got antsy about that idea and Rupert's as materialist as Karl Marx. Whoops.
Going gordian knot on some law suits will give him a bit of a boost for a bit. He himself probably doesn't care much about the Horde, but some of the trust kids will. Legacy. Mortality.
Brilliant as always JB. Best pitch for a killer video game I've heard in years. It has it all. Forget TV and movies, (so 20th Century!). MPG is the way to go. ;-)
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is sent to Guantanamo Bay for daring to suggest there's such a thing as eyesight
He kind of reminds me of Ozymandias: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair". Hopefully the "lone and level sands" of the Murdoch empire - and The Hordes to whom they cater - will "stretch far away" sooner than later, preferably before they bring the rest of the world to the same devastation.