In which inquiring minds gather at the lizard Oz for a reading of 'Ned' Kelly and the chairman's ancient tweets ...

As usual, there's a feast for the inquiring mind at the lizard Oz this weekend ...

The dog botherer on the climate of gay marriage - oh yes, let's have another double dissolution, the last one worked so tremendously well - Lomborg on organic ... because Monsanto ... maybe they can replace the Australian government as Lomborgian sponsors ... and the 'leets being roasted yet again and 'leet Niall squawking.

It's all too delicious ... but the pond is perverse, and the lure of a righteous, pompous "Ned" Kelly is always irresistible...

By golly, that's the spirit Ned, and before he fell into Twitter silence - the great void of unknowing - the chairman spoke his mind on this very subject ...

Yes, it would be mad not to unify behind the Trumpster, and that's why the pond was delighted to read Ned.

Let's face it, even then, if you had half a clue, you didn't have to be a groped woman to know that the Donald was a braggart, a bully, and a bankrupt, with suspicious business practices.

That's why the pond was delighted to see Ned calling benighted chairman Rupert a tragic global joke who has betrayed his country his party and ...

Now read on, with the usual caution that it will be a long and turgid read, and the pond assumes no responsibility for any consequent dementia ...

Now it's possibly all true enough, that the Donald shouldn't have become the Republican nominee for president, and his campaign represents the greatest failure of the Republicans and of American conservatism and chairman Rupert conservatism since the second world war, but where was Ned when the chairman was in his salad Twitter days?

Over at Quadrant, they are in a state of shock, but still blindly supporting the groper, and outraged by the yellow coat treachery of the reptiles ...

Indeed, indeed, Steve Yates, well played and more here, where's the harm in a little harmless groping? Sheesh, women, always complaining, and your inspired piece inspired an array of complaints in the comments section ...

I was shocked to read The Australian’s headlines this morning which were rejoicing over Trump now being out of the race for the election over some stupid blokey comments from the past. Such unbridled establishment-driven wishful thinking and partisanship is sickening to behold from the media. I stopped taking The Australian seriously a while ago, but now it has sunk to new depths. 

 ” … stopped taking The Australian seriously a while ago, but now it has sunk to new depths” Been sinking for well over 12 months now. It’s slowly being turned downmarket and PC. I think the slow rate is due to a combination of staff management and an assumption that its’ core audience will not notice. Well, does The Aus matter any more ? Nope … 

There are some particularly good political writers in The Australian: Jennifer Oriel’s Monday columns are excellent, and Janet Albrechtsen’s articles are very good too. So of the others are infuriating, I agree. 

 Newsl limited’s rally behind the Clintons just makes the case that Australia is truly a backwater pond of supplicants still wanting the USA to carry their can of wishy-washy socialism. 

Greg Sheridan is excellent; he’s one of the very few in the mainstream media who has a stone-cold sober and authoritative view of the USA. His comments are usually educated and thoughtful. Then there’s Tom Switzer from the US Studies Centre at Sydney University. Normally excellent, but he has taken too many paul kelly pills lately. Both have proved absolutely worthless on trump,and being blinded by their personal revulsion of trumps style. But both journalists envisage themselves of champions of rational,disinterested observers, and of style over substance. Who is feeding this fire of style over substance that they complain dominates our contemporary culture, so evidenced in this election?

Paul Kelly pills?

Oh that's too cruel, too cruel by far ...

No doubt at some point in the piece Ned will try to compensate and please the alienated lunar loons with a ritual bashing of the Clintons, as a way of displaying balance and showing integrity, as well as pleasing the chairman ...

Not bad, but the trouble is, the reptiles have lost the direct daily Twittering master's voice to tell them what to think.

All that remains in the sands are the tea leaves and the runes of long ago ...

More presidential? Everyone a better option than the Dems? What sayeth the Ned?

Strange. It didn't seem this way not so long ago ...

Ah Roger, a great production, and surely the Trumpster has the winning strategy ...

How things can change within a calendar year ... but thankfully, now Roger the groper is helping Donald the groper better refine his message ...

But enough of the ironies and attempting to understand who facilitated and enabled the Donald, it's time for a last gobbet from the clueless Ned ...safely sidestepping the past few years to do a tour of history ...

That's it? No mention of the Tweeting chairman or his many minions and lickspittles eagerly doing his bidding? Not a single kind world about Sean 'Lumpy' Hannity or Bill Orally?

Thank heavens that things are still ship-shape on the home front and the reptiles' relentless campaign on climate science, SSM and other favourite demons continues to bear fruit...

Ah, that's another story and another reptile triumph ...