Duffy and Nonsense

Posted on January 8, 2009 by bobpiper

Duffy, over at Duff and Nonsense is in love. I know, you probably think the daft old sod ought to know better, but despite everything, he is stricken. Unfortunately for him, everyone else thinks the object of his affections is, how should we put this, not the full ticket, not the sharpest knife in the draw, a little lacking in the grey matter department, or just a daddy’s boy with some rich friends. You see, Duffy is in love with… George W. Bush!
Duffy’s view is that W’s greatest achievements were to ignore global warning (Duffy thinks it’s a myth) and to embark on the war for oil. W. and the damage done attempts a slightly more in depth assessment of the moron’s eight years of destruction.
But I’m not sure we shouldn’t take a kinder view of Duffy’s approach on this one. As someone said to me last night, for decades now people have been saying Marx’s analysis about the inevitability of the failure of the capitalist economic system was as dead as the dodo. Now, in just two terms of office an American President has presided over a near total collapse of international capitalism, and it has had to be propped up by… the State. So, maybe Dubya is really part of the international communist conspiracy after all.
Perhaps he’s just been misunderestimated!

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9 Responses to Duffy and Nonsense

  1. David says:
    January 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Please Bob, don’t pick a fight with that man. There is precious little to be gained from it.

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  2. David Duff says:
    January 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Well, Councillor, in the finest traditions of Marxist agit-prop you have succeeded in mis-representing me, and as usual your view of the world is through the pink-tinted specs you probably claimed off the NHS which should guarantee early blindness. Never mind, as ‘ur wee Gordie Broon’ (another example of blindness, er, politically and economically, that is) stumbles towards the execration of his countrymen followed by the oblivion he richly deserves, allow me to remind you that the current market correction is part and parcel of what makes capitalism work, and indeed, it was mainly the misplaced meddling of politicians who permitted and encouraged the conditions that made this one far more painful that it need have been (see, for example: G. Brown and G. Bush [as I pointed out in my assessment of his record but which you failed to mention], passim).
    Of course, in socialist countries you don’t have market corrections because you don’t have markets; instead you have slow, steady, grinding impoverishment, usually with state slavery, with absolutely no escape – unless, of course, you ditch it and go capitalist (see, for example: China, passim). The difference between the two systems is that with capitalism you have renewal, er, assuming that is, that the politicians understand economics and act accordingly which, in almost every case, they are not (see, for example, G. Brown, A. Darling, G. Bush and any minute now, ‘Oprah’ Obama.)
    And, oh dear me, Councillor, you’re not still peddling that old example of politics by slogan (well, it beats thinking) to the effect that the Iraq war was about oil! If the USA had wanted Iraqi oil it could have given in to the Russians and the French who were owed zillions by the Iraqi government (the former for all the military weaponry they had sold on tick!) and lifted UN sanctions. Then they could have bought all the oil they wanted at the, then, very low market price. So, whatever the reason, oil was not it! Still, never let a fact get in teh way of a good slogan, eh?
    Even so, don’t think I haven’t enjoyed your knockabout stuff, and God knows, I need the laughs these days. Thus, it’s only fair that I give you something to chuckle over in return, so perhaps you would like to revisit my place (pinching your nostrils, of course) and have a laugh at this very excellent cartoon:
    http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2009/01/one-picture-worth-a-thousand-words.html
    By the way, Happy New Year (he muttered through gritted teeth!)

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  3. Bob says:
    January 8, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    David (the first)… a fight? Nooooo. Just a bit of gentle leg yanking… as I know Duffy has a repution as a bit of a yanker himself.
    Duffy, I did visit your place (always willing to assist a struggling blogger with visitor numbers) but the cartoon lacked that essential quality for a good cartoonist. Humour. It reminded me of one of those dull things Smithson flogs to death over at Political Betting.
    And a Happy New Year to you… and my ungritted teeth are all my own too.

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  4. Bob Gom says:
    January 8, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Even more idiotic then normal global warming deniers are those that trot out every year with the shocking revelation that in winter it is cold as if it made any difference to the very well established case for anthropogenic climate change.

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  5. iain ker says:
    January 9, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Even more idiotic then normal global warming nazis are those that trot out every year with the shocking revelation that in summer it is hot as if it made any difference to the very well established myth of anthropogenic climate change.

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  6. David Duff says:
    January 9, 2009 at 10:36 am

    David, David, David, I’m hurt and bewildered by your ‘anti-Davidism’, don’t you realise that we Davids must stick, David to David and shoulder to shoulder, in complete Davidist unity lest, ‘quelle horreur’, we turn into ‘Bobs’, either a Piper or, shudder, a Gom!
    Mr. Gom, your, er, “well-established case for anthropogenic climate change” might have been more persuasive if your No. 1 proponent and publicist, Dr. Hansen of NASA, had been anywhere near correct in the alarming predictions he provided to the US Congress 20 years ago. To say that he missed by a mile would be taking politeness to extremes. Also, a recent (up-dated Nov 2008) synthesis of 2x surface and 2x satellite temperature anomaly data-sets indicate that in the last 10 years the temperature trend has been on a slight but definite decline, despite the fact that CO2 emissions have increased. Who ‘da thunk it?

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  7. David says:
    January 9, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Duff:
    Shoulder to shoulder? with you? If I saw you coming towards me, I would cross the road; I would even step into the path of an oncoming bus to avoid you.
    You know who I am and would probably give me a helping in hand in meeting the bus head on, If you thought you could get away with it.

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  8. David Duff says:
    January 10, 2009 at 12:48 am

    Certainly not, David, that would amount to criminal damage to a perfectly innocent bus!

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  9. David says:
    January 10, 2009 at 1:58 am

    Business as usual and all is right with the world.

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