The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Time waits for no-one. In the last few weeks, I am not sure when - Da Vinci Rowe - the best cartoonist in the universe has changed his trumpish Twitter icon (which I stole and used for this post) for this new masterpiece. He has also replaced his Twitter banner with the antics of Scomo and other locals

Yes. Just when Joe Biden decided to Make America Boring Again, the pale stale male Old Boy's Club of Oz picked up the trump Wanker baton and ran with it.

The Murdoch rags are now even resorting to bringing Cardinal Pell back into the fold. The creepy crawly got a huge piece of newspaper real estate to write about the real meaning of Easter. My skin crawled just seeing his name. I did read the thing and it was the usual nasty whiny longing for the good old days while bitching about the ABC. I bet the old bugger has got a Louise Milligan voodoo doll somewhere in his Vatican attic

( Weather woes )

I have been on Twitter 3 years now and finally, for the first time, I have the dubious honour of being added to another user's lists
I know this because it turned up in notifications

I do have about 10 lists myself with flattering titles like

Goblin Gossip
Serpent Snacks
Trumpets
Trump Nuts
Wicked Witches

But still I was surprised to end up in a list called

KARENS

Courtesy of Politically Incorrect Puppy



I must say I was quite curious to see the profile of this WOKE social justice warrior who has outed me as a white pointy hat wearing card carrying KKKaren

On the banner was an American flag with a picture of General Flynn with his creepy crocodile smile. I felt like I needed a shower already

But even without reading a single tweet, the 2 hash tags on the profile page gave the game away

#WWG1WGA
#Q

Oh I have heard all about Q and I am quite fond of taking the piss out of them or recycling some of their wacky memes. Especially this one




But I did not know what some of the hashtags meant and it's kind of scary to go searching for that sort of thing on Google because God knows what crazy corner of Cyberia one could end up in

So when I typed in ##WWG1WGA I chose the option "Deutsch Übersetzung" because it looked the least likely to end up in some Alt Reich rabbit hole!
It turns out to stand for "Where we go one, we go all” which does have a suspiciously socialistic ring to it

So of course, now that it's just gotten personal, I figured Wikipedia would be a good place to find out about the Q cult for beginners

So in a tweet length summary - here is the essence of the conspiracy


"There is a worldwide cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who rule the world, essentially, and they control everything. They control politicians, and they control the media. They control Hollywood, and they cover up their existence, essentially. And they would have continued ruling the world, were it not for the election of President Donald Trump"


I don't know whether to laugh or cry because when I think of pedophiles, the FIRST names that come to mind are Cardinal Pell, Malka Laifer, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and the grand daddy of them all - donald j trump

So basically these crack pots are expecting the FOX to LIBERATE the hen house!


It looks like it's time to unleash the character Cassandra Quinn - an investigative reporter on the trail of crazy cults, mobsters and money launderers who keeps getting treated as a secret messenger by a whole bunch of the cultists

Come to think of it, maybe it is time to get her a Twitter account ;)

I'm still ridiculously addicted to the current series of Apprentice President.

While I get to play the curious Martian anthropologist, others are not so lucky and have simply not woken up from this nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue

This week has truly been a case of a firehose of WTF with long term consequences that we can only begin to imagine.

But after this week's shit show on steroids, there are still some trumPets out there in Twitter land ready to come to the defence of their Fearless Leader


I rarely bother taking the bait since there are much more fun things to do on Twitter but this time I got led into temptation and discovered that the same trumPet had been writing snarky replies to at least 5 different people on just one trump tweet


Like the last time I got into a tweeting match, someone had made a reasonable comment only to have a troll come along and snark about it. I put in a few words for the first person only to have the trump troll then snarking at me.


It all started with Racket Man whining about the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.




Oct 17
Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!

( A serpent snark fest )

Last Thursday I got a nasty Howler from Twitter telling me that my account was locked for violating the Twitter Rules.


"Specifically for:
Violating our rules against hateful conduct.

You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. "


So there were 2 choices. Remove the offending tweet immediately in order to be let back in or to appeal their decision

( Kangaroo Court )

Izzie’s been busy being a bright shiny serpent with a fresh set of scales for the new year. So far so good.
Having noticed that so many otherwise wonderful days were totally tainted by returning to the Lair and then attempting unsuccessfully to go slinking in Cyberia, figured that the best way out of a hole is to stop digging.
All Cyberia stuff such as daily Duolingo lessons, reading emails and lurking on Twitter can be done on the phone and the ancient old computer is now only for occasions where proper squiggling is required like replying to emails or posting on Dreamwidth.

Turned this infernal Big Mac computer off on New Year’s Eve and it had stayed that way until earlier this evening. It has been well behaved so far. Maybe the downtime has done it some good.
So the plus side is a refreshing absence of spinning beachballs, but the downside is going for so many days without a proper keyboard.

It was a bad start for the goal of writing 200 words per day every day for this month. Not so much because I wasn’t writing them but because they are on old fashioned pen and paper, then they don’t really count.

Rather than an assortment of grand goals that end up in the bin before the first week of the year is over, figured that it would be better to have a couple of small ones and stick to them and to then piggy back some new habits on the back of old ones.

Sorting out the serpent sack has been on the To Do list for a long time. So by making a tiny tweak so that every time before leaving the room, I need to sort 3 things - either toss them or put them where they belong AND also doing the same before hitting Twitter, this tiny change has proved more productive than any number of grand plans

Of course the goal of spending lots less time lurking on Twitter has failed miserably.

It seemed so easily doable until the visit to an old historical graveyard on New Year’s Eve which pretty much coincided with the story blowing up about Mr Fishnet Stockings Downer and his drunken adventures in a bar with Pappy Tadpoles (also known as George Papadopolous)
Then there was the button measuring contest followed by a very nasty divorce with Boozer Bannon.
And now they are all going nuclear with the lawyers.

Had been thinking that Racket Man would have at most 6 months before the Greedy Oligarch Party would get pissed off with him. Now they got their Swamp Fill Bill signed, sealed and delivered, once they get custody of this tax baby, they can happily file for divorce because Don the Con has pretty much outlived his usefulness.
The way the shit show on steroids has blown up in just the last few days, six months is looking like a very long time indeed

It’s popcorn and champagne time as the Shit Show on steroids hits the road. Managed to be very good though and be in bed before midnight every day this week except Tuesday when the temptation proved to be too unbearable

So Sybil Serpent now says that Donald is going to get Trumped by the Tower Card this year. The house of cards will blow up like a bubble of bitcoins and they will all be eating tulips.
All the chaos and sowing of division and distrust is going to blow up in his fat orange face.

While the wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, the Zeitgeist can move in an instant.
And a horde of rampaging rats abandoning the sinking ship move even faster still.

Let the Twitter Games begin!

Promises to be the best Reality TV show since that inauguration

Politics really is Hollywood for ugly people

It's been a strange and crazy time in Dursleyville. After a sizzling stinking 42.4 celsius last Wednesday for the solstice, today it never got above 24 and at times was even cold due to the wind.
Slowly making progress on the quarterly ritual of 1 year and 5 year plans and tidying up all sorts of loose ends to mark the end of an eventful year.

Christmas was quiet and uneventful and most of the serpent amusement and entertainment was to be found in Cyberia.

They do say that when choosing an enemy, be very careful lest you become like them.
I just could not help but think of that while finding myself not once but several times reading or making snarky replies to Trump Tweets at 3 in the morning. So sad.
Now aside from the odd sack full of loot and a double chin or two, the thought of resembling that pestilential orange beast in any way is just too dreadful to contemplate.

Yesss. This ancient serpent got tired of stalking from a distance and sitting on the sidelines and figured it is finally time to get a front row seat in the circus. The other advantage to signing up to Twitter is the ability to like tweets so that it is possible to come back later and easily find the odd needle in a very giant haystack.

So I signed up a few weeks ago only to make the strange discovery that in most cases it was more user friendly as an outsider. Unlike Livejournal and other such ancient sites, it's only the folks who are logged in who have to endure all the adverts and endless notifications. Learnt quickly to nuke most of those and keep them out of the inbox.

It's a handy place for sharing snippets of stuff especially since nearly every web page these days provides a quick fix Twitter button so there's no need to even cut or paste let alone squiggle snippets of HTML code. It's all too easy but also frustrating.

While brevity is the soul of wit, there is bugger all you can do with 140 characters. Unless your name is Donald Trump. But it his unpredictability combined with access to power that is the real cause of interest in his Twitter storms.


It sure beats Presidential debates or holding press conferences where nosy reporters can ask nasty questions and he can make a total idiot of himself which he is always more likely to do when under pressure.



Of course another adage springs to mind - Don't think of pink pythons. Getting involved in the drama is just giving the narcissistic orange turd yet more of the attention that he desperately desires and definitely does not need. After all, he has played the media with his rat cunning manner and predatory instinct knowing that no publicity is bad publicity and free publicity is the best kind of all.
Paying attention to and retweeting his rants even with the Snark on Steroids - It's like providing crack to an addict.

But maybe Izzie is an addict too.
To quote the words of Michael Arntzen
"Only Trouble is interesting"

But give him time and he will make enough twitter rope to hang himself with. And with some 18 million followers, at least one of them will have a copy somewhere of any incriminating evidence he cares to delete. The internet is forever and it will be most amusing indeed to see the Tweet Storm that will be Exhibit A in some fraud or treason trial - or at least some psychiatric diagnosis.

In the near future there will be Phd and Masters theses written on this theme.

Must be off. There's a Twitter Trump Train Wreck to attend to.

No need to invoke malice or conspiracy when simple stupidity will suffice

This serpent has been a bit of a Trump junkie in recent months. Dusted off “The Art of the Deal” and also snaffled “Crippled America” from the local library. Riveting reading and utterly hilarious but for all the wrong reasons. No need for Cliff’s Notes to work out that this is definitely a case of the unreliable first person narrator. All Big League preening and self aggrandisement on steroids.

( The Beast 66 Unleashed )