day 81 of MUC and day 34 of MOC, and it's time for a 'get real like the Donald' distraction ...

Delimiter is running a fine photo competition and the pond encourages people to flood the site with epic photos ... the one above can be found here ...

And by the way, the pond is just as happy with a space as a tab if that's how you like to code ...

Meanwhile, things are very quiet at the Government Gazette, with the reptiles once again missing the chance to do good work ...

Not the greenies again! 

The story this day will be Labor being parsimonious ... and the tree-killing edition will be out of date more quickly than usual ... which is to say a nanosecond rather than a microsecond ...

The reptiles could have whipped up a fine fear and loathing, but instead parried with the greenie foil, suggesting once again confusion and chaos in the reptile bunker.

As a result, the pond decided to broaden its mind by heading off to the Daily Terrorists. 

Naturally a splendid attempt to engage the female voter attracted the eye ...

The pond readership has complained about a lack of balance at the pond, so a ditzy woman, preferably young, spouting nonsense, provides exactly the sort of equal opportunity balance the pond fervently believes in ...

Where's Trump when you need him?

Put it another way ...

Oh okay, the Daily News didn't actually run that one, changing it to celebrate Hillary getting the nod, but the pond enjoyed it all the same, and getting it yanked probably helped get it noticed.

But back to sweet young Rachel, desperately trying to attract attention to herself by hitching her wagon to the Donald ...

How sweet it was to show that Foxtel ad but as a photo cap make it unclickable, and then leave the useless visual artefact dangling next to Rachel's head shot and headline ...

As for the rest, we've been here before because that's what trolling, Donald style, is all about.

Say something stupid - like where's Donald when you need him - and then spend the rest of the thought bubble walking it back.

Look, the pond understands. It's hard being young, it's hard being young and a woman, trying to make a way forward in the media world, where not being blonde rules out all job opportunities in commercial television, and especially the Nine network.

But there's something ineffably stupid about a sweet young thing saying she's bored and so she wants a distraction. Bring on the Donald, or reality television, or some kind of down under political circus, because it's all about entertainment, and she's restless and needs a distraction, and besides she's already watched Clueless far too many times ... and besides why can't politics be more like Election ... Reece Witherspoon is soooh funny, and she really teaches Jim a lesson for being soooh boring and ...

Well and then the pond thought we may as well wrap up the deep thoughts of Rachel as quickly as possible ...

The pond found that conjunction of ideas enormously stimulating and satisfying ...

"Trust comes from knowing you can rely on someone to tell the truth, no matter how bad it is. That's why Trump has run such a successful campaign ..."

Trump has run such a successful campaign because he's a truth teller?

And then to provide a tremendous capper: "... despite a portfolio of the worst ideas in history."

Boom boom, and tish as well ...

The pond has been here before. It's from the school of get hip daddio, get real, be real, be genuine, and preferably eat cornfed cliches each day of the week ...

Now the pond could sample this sort of bubble-headed booby style nonsense any day of the week in dozens of low rent titles, and wouldn't usually bother.

There's only so much balance anyone should try ... but it's a Friday and anyone in urgent need of a rocket scientist now knows where to find one, and so the pond has done its duty ...

Is this why the pond turns to cartoonists for insight? And more insightful Pope available here ...