In which the epic failure of the onion muncher's office manager sees a healed nation and the government returned to the people ... line up for your free knighthoods here ...

One of the key reasons the Donald got going was the media's infatuation for click bait novelty ... with added bonus essence of meaningless balance.

It gave him oxygen and oodles of free publicity and the situation's now set in concrete, with endless columns - and endless pond reflections - guaranteed by his new status ...

Of course what happens with reality TV is that it can quickly run off the rails - just as the pond discovered to its considerable distress that in the second episode of the second series, UnReal jumped the shark in a confused jumble of storylines that nuked the fridge (and possibly North Korea) ...

There's OTT clever, and then there's OTT merely silly, and the pond is going to find it very hard to go back to watching the show ... besides, the Donald is now the new reality TV event for the next four years ...

Sadly, in reality, there's no such thing as a pause or stop button, let alone a rewind button ... nor, despite Peta's caution, a half-speed forward button...

Of course in Miranda the Devine's machine there's just hysterical 64x fast forward before driving off the cliff into some la la Roman empire Constantine land, but the pond has done that, and so it's Peta's turn ...

Well it pays to be cautious but the pond is piqued - always finds it piquant - that the person in charge of a PM train wreck should muse about Trumpism.

There's no other way to describe the Trumpist train-wrecking onion muncher's short career in the office, or his subsequent out of office career as in-house train wrecker - does he have orgasms like the notorious Szilveszter Matuska as he watches the results of his wrecking?

Never mind, the pond will go with the alternative metaphor of the tiger with claws, though that puff of orange hair is really defamatory in relation to tigers ...

The reality is that no one has the first clue how the Donald will perform, though if his erratic past is in guide to the erratic present, a train wreck, sans orgasm, is going to be pretty likely. 

Especially if, as promised, he assembles his crony crop of Washington failures, dropkicks, losers, certified useless insiders and mugwump swamp sucking minions of the drunken Sarah Palin kind to run his administration. 

That's not draining the swamp, that's reclaiming the swamp for the Alaskan alligator ... (well you know, if Greg Hunt can find walri in the deep south ...)

One thing's certain. Having served a train wrecker, who walked off with a singular lack of grace or style, and with a string of blatant lies and false promises (no sniping, no undermining and all the rest of the bullshit), Peta is in a peculiarly apt place to talk about the graceful art of being a gracious loser ...

Whether he builds his wall, or not ...whether he gets illegal immigration under control ... whether he placates his white nationalist supporters or whether he drives a stake of fear through the hearts of millions ...

Of course the real concern is how the world is going to cope with well-heeled refugees fleeing from the United States. Build the wall, build the wall!

But it doesn't take long when speaking of the Donald, for the climate denialist in the likes of Peta to come hopping out, confirming what everyone knew about the onion muncher's climate science denialist administration ...

Green evangelism?

Well there goes the planet ... at least if you get your climate science from actual scientists, as opposed to Peta, expert climate scientist who knows how to speak of green evangelism ... as opposed to the onion muncher's old school Catholic bigotry and homophobia...

And as for that line following "let's fuck the planet", which is to say "democracy was the winner," pardon the pond for giving a hollow Treasure of Sierra Madre cynical laugh.

Because it comes along with the usual line about the protestors getting agitated about the Donald, as if the Donald's years long birtherism and denial of Obama's legitimacy is now somehow made legitimate and a proper part of American history ... as if the Donald's attempt to paper over the cracks, that he made Obama solve the non-existent problem, is anything more than a pathetic fig leaf and a denial of the inherent racism of his campaign ...

And yet it's the protestors that cop the Peta abuse ...

And then at the end there's that delicious talk of healing the nation, as if the most divisive, and ugly campaign in recent American political history can somehow be tidied up and swept aside and papered over and everything is going to be hunky dory ... because the Donald is a uniter ...

And as for "give the people back their government", does that include a British knighthood for the key alligators of our time?

In the end, the onion muncher's climate denialist stupidity will out, just as Peta's silly rhetoric can't hide the reality that one speech doesn't make a summer, and it's going to be a very ugly winter in America ...

Naturally the comments section in the Terror was to hand to prove the pond's point ...

Oh yes, it's going to be a glorious winter of discontent ... and already it's started, with the fascist dictators Trump and Putin causing a flutter in the hearts and minds of the UK government ...and the walking back of the wild rhetoric and the impossible to fulfil promises ...

So it's only appropriate to end with a nod to Ethan Coen - great maker of movies, shame about The Ladykillers, check out the Ealing original some time - and his 2016 Election Thank You Notes. A sample as he took up the idea of balance:

How pathetic did the balance get?

It's all been such a distraction that the world and the pond has barely noticed the pounding that the Baird government copped this weekend ... so for a closing image, he pond spotted this on a government building, soon to be demolished, on its way to the planned to be demolished Fish Markets ...